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Shoemaker, Michael Myers

author, was born in 1853 in Kentucky. He is a writer of travels, and the author of Eastward to the Land of Morning; The Kingdom of the White Woman, a volume of Mexican travel; and Trans-Caspia: the Sealed Provinces of the Czar. :846 SHOEMAKER, WILLIAM LUKEN, physician, philologist, poet, was born July 19, 1823, in Georgetown, D. C. His poems, bird songs, translations from the German of Heine and others, are distinguished by rare perfection of form and melody. He is best known for his Sweetheart Bird Song, set to music by Balfe, the English composer. As a linguist and poet he holds a masterly rank.