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Markham (CHARLES EDWIN an American poet)

(CHARLES) EDWIN, an American poet; born in Oregon City, Ore., April 23, 1852; settled in California in 1857, and worked there during hood principally as a blacksmith. He worked his way through the San José Normal School and Santa Rosa College; became a writer of verse and stories for papers and magazines, and principal and superintendent of California schools. He was the author of "The Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems" (1899); "The Man with the Hoe, with Notes by the Author" (1900); "The End of the Century" (poem 1899); "Lincoln, the Great Commoner" (1900); "The Mighty Hundred Years"; "Lincoln and Other Poems" (1901); "The Poetry of Jesus" (essays) (1909); "The Shoes of Happiness and Other Poems" (1914); "California the Wonderful" (1914).