Abel Gray: A Romance of the National Road
| Title | Abel Gray: A Romance of the National Road |
| Year of Publication | 1876 |
| Publication Type | Novel |
| Number of Pages or Episodes | 135 p. |
| Language | English |
| Authors | Hill, A. F. [Ashbel Fairchild] |
| Publisher | The Genius of Liberty |
| City | Uniontown, PA |
| Keywords | bars; National Road |
| Abstract | A romance the National Road, on which Uniontown’s Old White Swan Tavern served travelers in the 18th and 19th centuries. |
| Notes | “Abel Gray made its first appearance as a serial run,” writes the Fayette County Historical Society in its 1998 paperback reprint edition, “from April 6 to July 13, 1876, in the Uniontown newspaper The Genius of Liberty. The author's plan to bring it out in book form was prevented by his untimely death only months later.” |
| Author Biography | A. F. Hill (1842-76), born near the Monongahela River in German Twp., Fayette County, served in the 37th Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War and lost a leg at the Battle of Antietam. After the war, he wrote professionally for newspapers in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Uniontown, Fayette County. He also wrote poetry and several books, of which the best known is a black comedy about his post-traumatic stress: John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch, or The Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-Legged Soldier after the War (1869). Hill married in San Francisco and returned with his wife to Uniontown, where he died November 7, 1876. He is buried at the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery in Masontown, Fayette County. |
| Time | 1800s |
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