Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950
Edgar Lee Masters (August 23, 1868 – March 5, 1950); Born in Garnett, Kansas; 1880 they moved to Lewistown, Illinois, where he attended high school and had his first publication in the Chicago Daily News; attended Knox Academy in 1889–90, a now defunct preparatory program run by Knox College, but was forced to leave due to his family's inability to finance his education; admitted to the Illinois bar and moved to Chicago, where he established a law partnership in 1893 with the law firm of Kickham Scanlan; In 1898 he married Helen M. Jenkins, the daughter of Robert Edwin Jenkins, a lawyer in Chicago, and had three children; During his law partnership with Clarence Darrow from 1903 to 1908, Masters defended the poor. In 1911 he started his own law firm, despite three years of unrest (1908–11) caused by extramarital affairs and an argument with Darrow; His daughter Marcia pursued poetry, while his son Hilary Masters became a novelist; ied at a nursing home on March 5, 1950, in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, age 81; Edgar's father was Hardin Wallace Masters, whose father was Squire Davis Masters, whose father was Thomas Masters, whose father was Hillery Masters, the son of Robert Masters (born c. 1715, Prince George's County, Maryland, the son of William W. Masters and wife Mary Veatch Masters); Masters first published his early poems and essays under the pseudonym Dexter Wallace;
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Name Entry: Wallace, Dexter, 1868-1950
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Name Entry: Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950
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Name Entry: Ford, Webster, 1868-1950
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Name Entry: マスターズ, エドガー リー, 1868-1950
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