Letter 1921 September 30, Staten Island, N.Y. [to] Edwin Wheelock, Unknown / [Edwin Markham]. 1921.
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Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940
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California poet. Raised near Vacaville, became a schoolteacher in Coloma and later in Oakland. Became famous overnight with publication of "The Man with a Hoe," his protest against brutalization of labor, in "San Francisco Examiner" (January 15, 1899). Following this success Markham moved to New York where he scored another triumph with "Lincoln and Other Poems" (1901). He became a well-known reader of his own poems and lecturer of idealistic views, but his creative output for remainder of life ...
Wheelock, Edwin M. (Edwin Miller), 1829-1901
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Born in New York City in 1829, Wheelock earned law and divinity degrees from Harvard University prior to serving with the New Hampshire volunteers during the Civil War. While on active duty in New Orleans, he worked for the Board of Education for Freedmen, Department of the Gulf. After the war, Wheelock held several posts with the Reconstruction government in Texas including state superintendent of public instruction. In 1887, he organized a Unitarian society in Spokane, Washington Territory, an...
