Field, Eugene. American poet and journalist. Born at St. Louis, MO, 1850. He entered journalism at the age of 23, ten years later becoming editor of the "Sharps and Flats" column of the "Chicago Daily News." Eugene Field's humorous sayings therein during the following decade established his reputation in newspaper work. He was an author and poet of rare sympathy, his poems of childhood exhibiting fine qualities of appreciation and power of expression, and gaining for him the title, "The Child's Poet." Among his works are: "The Denver Tribune Primer," "Culture's Garland," "Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac," "Little Book of Western Verse," "With Trumpet and Drum." He died in 1895.

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