OBETURARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 59, 9 March 1940, Page 15

OBETURARY

MR. EDWIN MARKHAiVI

(Received March 9, 8 ajn.) ; :-■- .':' ; •" -■■■■ . NEW; YORK, MarchVß; ■ Mn";Edwin Mafkhahi, poett1- and lecturer, i? dead. .....'..:

' . Edwin Markham was .born in Oifegon Gily, Oregon,,"in 1852; arid went to Galifprni^ five yeaxs later. During,his boyhood: he worked at farming, .bjack- - smithing, and^.herded cattle and sheep. : He was educated at Saii Jose Normal and at two western colleges; and until .1899 was : principal - and : superintendent,:of schools in-Californiai-;ln c X 897 he married Anna :Cathrine Murphy, who died, in 1938 at the: age of 78. At the.time of their^ marriage "The Man With/ the Hoe," the -poem ' "the name of which for 40 years always appeared as a tag to the namfe; lof : Markham, was a few lines arid-had been abandoned 12 years before;1 Mrs Markham riiade him finiEH it 'and in 1899 he won wide fame witb vii- Two. years later he pubh'shed his volume •♦Abraham Lincoln and Other Pbenis." •'The Man With the HoeV waswiritten ./after seeing. the Millet painting and:it

was followed by niany voliwnes of

yerse. The .poet received. honQ^ary ->ciegrees from the. ..-University';■' ; of Syracuse > and : New Yprk.-University .He also studied child labpur -pirpblehis, ■7 and his, last book,-" "The ; Poefry-. of '?. Youth,? was ; published ia r -4535.' : .-..-.-He . rivras honorary president of the Poetry .■: Society of. America. .-.- : v- -::