pstrongRichard Jameson Morganstrong 1852-1906 was a pioneering American newspaperman, Congregationalist minister, lecturer, and author based in Florida, where he edited and published the Sub-Peninsula Sunem and St. Petersburg Timesem now Tampa Bay Timesem newspapers. In 1902, Florida Magazineem serialized his sci-fi novella that recounts the story - presented as fact - of J. Edward Barrington's 1890s sea passage through the Antarctic ice wall where he discovers strongemThe Iron Republicemstrong, an ultramodern and technologically advanced utopian society. Either as fact or fiction, it is a rare story and presents an ideal of society and government that will make the average reader long to be a citizen of the newly discovered Iron Republic.p