Note: US author, primarily of non-SF stories. Also published "The Novelty Circus Company" (1907), a juvenile non-SF novel, as by "Oliver Olney". According to a biographical note published in "The Writer: A Monthly Magazine for Literary Workers, Volumes 19-21" (1907), p. 138, he was "of French-Swiss extraction, going as far back as his great-grandfather, Peter des Voignes, who was a Swiss matchmaker. A grandfather, who was an admirer of Jules Verne, insisted on completing his French surname... Mr. Des Voignes obtained his A. M. degree at the University of Michigan this year". This account is confirmed in the article about L. Burget Des Voignes in "Portrait and biographical record of Berrien and Cass Counties, Michigan" (1893), p. 472, which includes matching biographical information about the history of the Des Voignes family in Switzerland and then in Michigan, USA. It mentions that L. Burget Des Voignes married Miss Allie M. Clapp in 1880 and that "[o]ne child has been born to our subject and wife, Jules Verne Des Voignes". Years of birth and death from a photo of the gravestone on findagrave.com. An obituary in "Orrville Courier", March 24, 1911 reads: "The funeral of Jules Verne Des Voignes of New York city aged 25 years, married, a son of L. B. Des Voignes of Cassopolis, Mich., was held at the latter place Wednesday. Mr. Des Voignes had gained a reputation as an author having contributed frequently to magazines."