Owen Magruder

[from Cozy Cat Press website]
Owen Magruder is the nom de plume of a retired college professor. He has authored three professional books and a small volume of remembrances of the American Civil War. In addition, he and his wife have co-authored a brief biography of a little known abolitionist from upstate New York for the National Abolition Hall of Fame. From 1989 to 2005, the couple ran a small publishing house that specialized in original letters and journals from the American Civil War. Magruder's ancestral home is in the Scottish highlands, hence the Scottish link to his mystery novels. The Feud at Glencoe and Other Adventures is the third of the John and Mary Braemhor Mysteries. Owen Magruder resides in upstate New York.

[from Amazon website]
Owen Magruder (aka William E. Edmonston, Jr.) is a retired college professor who writes the John Braemhor mystery/adventure series. After years of teaching and professional scientific writing, Magruder took on the cozy mystery genre.

[from Colgate University website]
William E. Edmonston, Jr. came to Colgate in 1964 as an assistant professor of psyschology and went on to become the founder of Colgate's program in neuroscience. He conducted research and published in the field of hypnosis, and his professional accomplishments included being awarded a Fulbright Grant in 1981 and being named New York State professor of the year in 1988. He was also active in the Hamilton community, where his activities included maintaining an alcohol abuse hotline for students and founding a local theater company and publishing house. Edmonston was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1931 and attended Johns Hopkins University (BA 1952), the University of Alabama (MA 1956), and the University of Kentucky (PhD 1960).