- Holman Day
Holman Francis Day (1865-1935) was an American author, born at Vassalboro, Me., and a graduate of
Colby College (class of 1887). In 1889-90 he was managing editor of the publications of theUnion Publishing Company , Bangor, Me. He was also editor and proprietor of the Dexter, (Me.) "Gazette", a special writer for the Lewiston, (Me.) "Journal", Maine representative of the Boston "Herald" , and managing editor of the Lewiston "Daily Sun". In 1901-04 he was military secretary to Gov. John F. Hill of Maine. His writings include:
* "Up in Maine" (1901), verse
* "Pine Tree Ballads" (1902)
* "Kin O'Ktaadn" (1904)
* "Squire Phin " (1905; 1913), a novel dramatized as "The Circus Man " and produced inChicago in 1909
* "Rainy Day Railroad War" (1906; 1913)
* "The Eagle Badge" (1908)
* "King Spruce" (1908)
* "The Ramrodders" (1910)
* "The Skipper and the Skipped" (1911)
* "The Red Lane: A Romance of the Border" (1912)
* "The Landloper" (1915)
* "Along Came Ruth" (play produced in New York, 1914)
* "Blow the Man Down" (1916)
* "Where Your Treasure Is" (1917)
* "Kavanagh's Clare" (1917)
* "The Rider of the King Log" (1919)
* "When Egypt Went Broke" (1920)
* "All Wool Morrison" (1921)External links
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