Biography: Holman F. Day

Holman F. Day is a Maine poet and author near and dear to the hearts of my mother's mother's side of the family. She and her siblings grew up listening to his poetry, amongst others, read aloud and recited.

This site is dedicated to Nana (Kathleen Grant Watts) and Uncle Mort & Aunt Millie... Uncle Mort and Nana being siblings... And Aunt Millie being dear to us all.

This first entry is simply about the author.

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 the Union 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 in Chicago 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)

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holman_Day)