John Ballou Newbrough (born in Springfield, Ohio, June 5, 1828; died in 1891), wrote several books of religious philosophy from the 1880s until his death, most notably Oahspe published in 1882. By trade, he was a dentist in the Boston, Massachusetts area. He claimed that his work was a product of automatic writing - that he was divinely inspired, and perhaps even a mere vessel of a divine force.