Oliver Optic

July 30, 1822 – March 27, 1897

Oliver Optic was a pseudonym of William Taylor Adams, academic, author, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

• ... On the staff
• An undivided union
• Haste and Waste
• Hope and Have
• In school and out
• Lake breezes
• Lightning express
• Little by little
• Ready about, or, Sailing the boat
• Sea and shore, or, The tramps of a traveller
• Stand by the Union
• Taken by the enemy