1. Edwin Markham was born in Oregon City, Oregon, and was the youngest of 10 children; his parents divorced shortly after his birth.
14 Facts About Edwin Markham
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Edwin Markham obtained a teaching certificate in 1870 from Pacific Methodist College in Vacaville.
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Edwin Markham taught literature in El Dorado County until 1879, when he became education superintendent of the county.
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Edwin Markham accepted a job as principal of Tompkins Observation School in Oakland, California, in 1890.
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Edwin Markham's main inspiration was a French painting of the same name by Jean-Francois Millet.
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Edwin Markham's poem was published, and it became quite popular very soon.
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Edwin Markham's edited works included several collections of British and American poetry.
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An accomplished and popular lecturer, Edwin Markham wrote essays, popular articles that discussed his own compositional approaches, and introductions to the works of others.
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Edwin Markham gave much of his time to organizations such as the Poetry Society of America, which he established in 1910.
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American etiquette expert Amy Vanderbilt has said that Edwin Markham's single verse poem "Circles of Love" was written while Edwin Markham was a guest at her family home on Staten Island.
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In 1898, Edwin Markham married his third wife, Anna Catherine Murphy, and in 1899 their son Virgil Edwin Markham was born.
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Edwin Markham's correspondents included Franklin D Roosevelt, Ambrose Bierce, Aleister Crowley, Jack and Charmian London, Zoe Anderson Norris, Carl Sandburg, Florence Earle Coates and Amy Lowell.
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The Liberty Ship Edwin Markham was launched on May 5,1942.
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The Edwin Markham Houses is a complex on Staten Island, as is a street there.