Young E. Allison

Young Ewing Allison (December 23, 1853 – July 7, 1932) was an American writer and newspaper editor.

[1] Born in Henderson, Kentucky, Allison was partially deaf from an early age and became a voracious reader.

Allison was a writer of prose and verse and is best remembered for his poem the "Derelict," written to complete the famous verse fragment by Robert Louis Stevenson in Treasure Island, "Fifteen Men on the Dead Man's Chest."

He maintained a long correspondence with Eugene Field and James Whitcomb Riley, the latter of whom dedicated several volumes of poetry to Allison.

The last years of his life were spent exploring Kentucky's rich history, often with his close friend J. Christian Bay of Chicago.