Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Death Of A Poet

W. W. Fosdick, “the poet laureate of the West,” died suddenly at Cincinnati on Sunday last of disease of the heart.  Mr. Fosdick was about 42 years of age, a true poet and a much esteemed gentleman.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, March 13, 1862, p. 2

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