Edgar Wilson Nye (1850 - 1896)

Born 25 Aug 1850 in Shirley, Piscataquis, Maine, United States

Died 22 Feb 1896 at age 45 in Arden, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Edgar Wilson Nye AKA Bill Nye was a humorist and author.

Obit Excerpt

Edgar Nye, better known as "Bill" Nye, now deceased, was for some time a newspaper man in Hudson. In American literature he ranks among the greatest humorists, having a place with Josh Billings and Eli Perkins as a writer of a certain kind of humor, very popular in his day.

Research Notes

birth

August 25, 1850,

Shirley, ME

Died

February 22, 1896

Buck Shoals, North Carolina, USA ("near Asheville")

Arden, North Carolina, USA

Henderson County, North Carolina, USA

Asheville, North Carolina, USA ("His home near Asheville")

The place of death is clearly "the greater Asheville area" in Western NC, USA, but sources differ as to the specific place.

Spouse

He married at Larimee City, March 7, 1877, Miss Clara Frances Smith. She died in the fall of 1906.

AKA Fanny

Sources

• The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.), 23 March 1906. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025620/1906-03-23/ed-1/seq-6/>
• "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q53X-MD4B : 27 July 2020), Edgar Wilson Nye in entry for Bill Nye, 1896. (paywalled)

See Also:

• Wikidata: Item Q5337523
• FamilySearch Person: KHYR-TWP
• Find A Grave: Memorial #16482670