Louis Evan Shipman

[1] His books included The Curious Courtship of Kate Poins, D'Arcy of the Guards, Urban Dialogues, Predicaments, and The Quality of Youth, published in 1904.

He was married to the noted landscape architect, Ellen Biddle Shipman.

During World War I he was a member of the New Hampshire state committee for public safety (Committee of One Hundred), was the state director of the so-called "Four Minute Men", and was a local food administrator.

[1] Louis Shipman lived in Plainfield, New Hampshire, for 25 years, but later settled in France.

[1] He died aged 64 at his home in Boury-en-Vexin, Oise Department, France, on August 2, 1933, after an intestinal illness of five months.