Word: markham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Bailey Millard, 81, oldtime editor of Cosmopolitan and Munsey's magazine who as literary editor of the San Francisco Examiner first published Edwin Markham's Man With the Hoe (1899), helped introduce the writings of Poet Joaquin Miller; in Los Angeles...
Died. Poet Edwin Markham, 87, author of The Man with the Hoe; of pneumonia; in Staten Island, N. Y. Sheepherder, farmer, blacksmith, cowboy, schoolteacher and obscure dabbler in verse until he was 47, he Byroned into fame in 1899 when the San Francisco Examiner published his blank-verse masterpiece, inspired by Millet's painting, The Man with the Hoe. That one poem brought him an estimated $250,000 in 33 years...
...square miles of suburb off the starboard beam of the Statue of Liberty. It is dotted with Dutch names like New Dorp, Kill van Kull, factories, and about 100 real farms. At least one of its 160,000 residents is nationally famed. He is hoary, old Poet Edwin Markham (The Man with the Hoe, Lincoln, the Man of the People), now an enfeebled, house-ridden codger...
...Lincoln's Birthday the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce brought New Yorkers the voice of old Poet Markham, on a two-year-old recording, reciting Lincoln, the Man of the People. As a further treat it presented nine Markham poems about Lincoln, which Markham wrote in 1925, never before published or broadcast. On the air they were read by Virgil Markham, the poet's fictioneer...