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Westcott, Edward Noyes

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Westcott, Edward Noyes (1846–98), after a successful career as a banker in Syracuse, N.Y., wrote the posthumously published David Harum, A Story of American Life (1898), a popular novel built around the character of a shrewd, humorous country banker in upstate New York. A short story was posthumously published with his letters in The Teller (1901).

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Edward Noyes Westcott

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Edward Noyes Westcott 1846–98, American novelist and banker, b. Syracuse, N.Y. He is known for his popular novel, David Harum (pub. posthumously, 1898), which concerns a shrewd, humorous country banker.

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