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Field, Eugene

journalist, author, poet, was born in 1850 in Maine. He was a journalist and author of Chicago whose writing has received much undiscriminating and damaging praise. He was the author of The Denver Tribune Primer; Culture's Garland; A Little Book of Profitable Tales; A Little Book of Western Verse; Second Book of Verse; Love Songs of Childhood; With Trumpet and Drum (verse); Echoes from the Sabine Farm (with R. M. Field); Songs and Other Verse; A Second Book of Verse; and The Holy Cross, and Other Tales. He died in 1895 in Chicago, Ill.

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