Edwin Scribner papers (MS.2012.005)

Biographical Note

Edwin Scribner was born in Logansport, IN on 15 February 1879, the son of Charles H. Scribner (1849-1886) and Arletta Ann “Lettie” Hunt (1850-1933). On 27 July 1898, he quit his job in the Master Mechanics office of the Pan Handle Railroad in Logansport and, as he states in the first volume of his diary, "From that date the theater has been my interest and occupation in life.” He attended Edmund Mortimer's School of Dramatic Art and Elocution in Chicago, IL starting on 28 July 1898. He spent his life as an itinerant actor and a playwright, writing at least 50 plays many of which were published. He died in Waterville, ME on 23 Sep 1964.