We speculate this author might be Reverend E. A. Danmont from Germantown, Kentucky, who was listed as a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, Alpha Chapter of Indiana, Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Indiana, in 1873, per the Grand Catalogue of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity (Easton, Pennsylvania: Hilburn & West, Printers, 1880), page 178.
King in Zion was published in Chicago, Illinois, in 1878.
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