A Buckeye Baron - Story of a Buckeye Boy Paxson SIGNED Memoir Ohio Vintage 1901

Description: A Buckeye Baron - A Rural Story of a Buckeye Boy WA Paxson SIGNED by author in 1902Memoir of growing up in Ohio Vintage 1901Robert Clarke Co - Cincinnati OH5.5" x 7.75"375 pageshard coverillustrated by HH Walker - Dorothy Cole & W Mockgood used conditionsplit along the spine on inside front coverpages are yellowed from ageinscription reads like a poem: "For Mrs TA Thomas - Chalkley(?) Thomas was my friend; for him earthly sorrows have their end, oft within fraternal halls we've met, and his friendly greetings I will never forget, friendship love and truth to him were all so real they never grow dim, we who are left, to each other greet, can only hope, our friend to meet - fraternally in FL&T - WA Paxson 2-7-1902"Paxson, William Alpha (July 6, 1850-Jan. 16, 1933), lawyer and farmer, was born near Jamestown, Greene County. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University for two years, taught school, read law in Xenia, spent one year at Cincinnati Law College, and was admitted to the bar in 1874. He practiced law in Washington Court House, 1874-76, and in Jamestown from 1876 until his death. He also operated extensive farms. He wrote many poems on rural themes. He was, according to "Au Revoir," a document located in the Greene County Archives, known as the "poet laureate" of the Greene County Bar.

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