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  MARKHAM, Edwin: Writer, lecturer and reader. Born Oregon City, Oregon, April
23, 1852. His father died when he was about four years of age, and in 1857 he
went with his mother who settled on a cattle range in the Suisun Hills, midway
between San Francisco and Sacramento. Here his boyhood was spent herding his
mother's sheep and cattle, and a few months each year he attended the country
school. At eighteen he entered the State Normal School at San Jose, and later
finished his school work at Santa Rosa Academy, California. He was principal of
the Observation School of the State University, a school at that time located in
Oakland. It was here he completed his poem, "The Man With the Hoe." a poem that
took its early form in San Jose. This poem was printed in the San Francisco
"Examiner" in 1899, translated into many languages and reproduced in more than
ten thousand newspapers and magazines. Among his early writings are "A Dream of
Chaos," "Mendocino Memory," "The Joy of Life in the Hills." He has published
four volumes of verse: "The Man With the Hoe and Other Poems," "Lincoln and
Other Poems," "The Shoes of Happiness and Other Poems," "The Gates of Paradise
and Other Poems." He is the author of ""California, the Wonderful." "Virgilia,"
"Homing Heart," "Peace Over Africa," "Semiramis" and others. His book "Lincoln
and Other Poems" is dedicated to his wife in these terms: "To Catherine Markham,
the touch of whose fine spirit is on many of these pages." He is a member of the
Masons, American Institute of Arts and Letters, honorary President Poetry
Society of America, Was married in 1897 to Anne Catherine Murphy. They reside at
92 Waters Avenue, West New Brighton, Staten Island. New York.

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Men of California
Western Personalities and their Affiliations
With Club Memberships and Civic Associations

ILLUSTRATED RECORD OF MEN
With Biographs of their Activities

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