Edwin Evans Ewing (9 January 1824 – 20 August 1901) was a writer, poet, and newspaperman from Cecil County, Maryland.
[1] His first published novel, "The Hag of the Wallowish," originally appeared as a serial in The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper beginning on October 10, 1849.
Ewing based the characters in his novel off of his neighbors, and the "Wallowish" represented the Octoraro Creek.
After a trip to Texas in 1856, Ewing wrote about his travel experiences in a series of letters published in the Cecil Whig of Elkton, Maryland.
In 1882 he moved briefly to Macon County, North Carolina and established the Blue Ridge Enterprise, and then in 1885 finally returned to Maryland, where he purchased the Rising Sun Journal, which still publishes today under the name The Midland Journal.