Edwin de Leon

Edwin's father Mordecai De Leon, a physician, removed from Philadelphia to Columbia, South Carolina, and was mayor of that city for several years.

)[4] De Leon graduated from South Carolina College, where he was a member of the Euphradian Society, and studied law, but soon turned to literature and politics.

The Greeks in Egypt appealed to De Leon, who took them under the protection of the American flag, guaranteed their good behavior, and insisted that they should not be interfered with.

De Leon rendered conspicuous services in protecting American missionaries at Jaffa, and for this he received for the second time the thanks of the State Department.

As a diplomatic agent he was received in the highest circles, both in England and in France, and personally pleaded the cause of the Confederacy with Lord Palmerston and Napoleon III.

Through his friend William Makepeace Thackeray, De Leon became a member of the Garrick Club and a contributor to the Cornhill Magazine.

Among his works are: Thirty Years of My Life on Three Continents; The Khedive's Egypt; Under the Star and Under the Crescent; and Askaros Kassis, the Copt, a novel, republished in England.