Author: Conwell, Columbus C.
Biography:
CONWELL, Columbus C. (fl 1830)
Conwell graduated as MD from the University of Philadelphia in 1829 with a thesis on "phytochemia" which was then published as A Dissertation on Vegetable Chemistry. With James Swain, he wrote a History of the French Revolution (1830). According to a report in the Boston Traveller, the real author of The Religion of the Sun (1826), which purported to be by Thomas Paine, was in fact "Columbus C. Conwell, of Philadelphia, a gentleman of brilliant talents and very fond of practical jokes." (Bulletin of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Vols. 14-29, accessed online 7 May 2018) HJ
Books written (2):
Philadelphia: for the booksellers, 1826
Philadelphia: printed by Mifflin and Parry, 1830