Description 

Henry Stowe (1/7/1864 - Present) is an American entrepreneur and newspaper publisher best known as the owner and editor of the Saint Denis Times Tribune in New Alexandria. Preceded by a reputation for antagonism, belligerence and alcoholism, he has found moderate use for the worst of his personality traits in pursuit of reviving the influence of the fourth estate, and his dogged insistence on following a story no matter the personal or professional cost.

Mr. Stowe's present whereabouts are unknown.

Early Life 

Born just outside the stinking swamps of Lagras in the back of a mule cart halfway to an ancient midwife, Henry Stowe came into the world under what witch-women call a bad sign. Born breech, bright blue and with a caul over his eyes, he was almost put to the gators by his father, the brutal preacher Hagen Stowe.

Little is known of his mother, other than he keeps her identity a well-guarded secret. More is known of his father, who was a touring tent minister traveling across the deep south in a campaign of “old-time religion” in the late years after the civil war. Some unknown benefactor is rumored to have funded an Ivy League education in the northern state of Connecticut for young Henry, spurred by witnessing him give an impassioned and powerful speech castigating the tenets of Anselm’s ontological argument at the age of fifteen.

Receiving a double major in pre-law and journalism, he returned home at twenty apparently intending to tell his father that he was leaving to make his own fortune far away from Lemoyne. Less than a day later he would watch as his father’s corpse was eaten by those self-same alligators that Henry had been threatened with all his life.

A few hours after sunrise, and a few hours after his very first bottle of whiskey, he would join the United States Army, lasting roughly three weeks before assaulting and attempting to kill a commanding officer on Christmas Day for repeatedly antagonizing a sickly recruit too weak to fight back. At the conclusion of his court-martial, he admitted to the murder of his father during a lull in proceedings.

Two days after Christmas he was dishonorably discharged. On January 23rd, 1884 he was sentenced to thirty years of hard labor at Sisika Penitentiary for his crimes. On January 23rd, 1894 he was released for “good behavior,” coincidentally after coming into possession of compromising information on the incoming warden.

Mr. Stowe then left the prison island and promptly climbed back into the bottle he had put down a decade before, only to spend the next six years drowning in it.

Present Life 

Affiliations 

Saint Denis Times Tribune
Saint Denis Lottery Commission

Quotes 

"If one person tells you it’s raining and another person tells you it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. It’s your job to look out the window and check the fucking weather."

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