Day, John Franklin, 1884-1972

John Franklin Day was born in 1884 in Wesley, Maine, the son of Joel and Catherine Breen Day. He attended the East Maine Conference Seminary in Bucksport, Maine, and graduated in 1914 from Wesleyan University. He spent his career in the insurance industry, working as an agent and then as director of sales for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Boston. He was also an author and a poet, publishing a novel, East of Katahdin, in 1949, and Facets of the Mind, a privately printed book of poetry, in 1957. He was involved in various literary activities in Boston and served as president of the Boston Authors Club and the Boston Shakespeare Club. He was also a member of the New England Poetry Society, the Browning Society of Boston, the Lake Placid Club, the Longwood Cricket Club and the Bostonian Society. He married Helen (Moore) Day in 1948; they lived in Boston and had homes in Ashby, Mass., and Seal Cove in Tremont, Maine. Along with his brothers, Day also started a hunting camp, Tomah Stream Hunters Club, in Princeton, Maine, remaining involved in the club until 1970. John Day died on July 3, 1972.