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Clarence Augustus Buskirk
Thos. W. Herringshaw (ed.) , Local and National Poets of America 341 "Born at Friendship, Allegany County, N.Y., on Nov. 8, 1842, Clarence A. Buskirk was the youngest of four sons of Andrew C. Buskirk, tailor and merchant. As a boy he attended the public schools and Friendship Academy and then taught for a time before going to Kalamazoo, Mich., where an older brother lived. In Michigan he farmed, taught, and read law, subsequently enrolling in law school at Ann Arbor. He was admitted to the bar in 1865, and in June of 1866 he came to Princeton, Ind., where he practiced law for the remainder of his life. Mr. Buskirk was a civic leader in Princeton. In 1872 he was elected Gibson County representative in the State Legislature and in 1874 was elected Attorney General of Indiana." [R. E. Banta, Indiana Authors and Their Books 1816-1916: Biographical Sketches of Authors Who Published During the First Century of Indiana Statehood with Lists of Their Books 48 (Crawfordsville, Indiana: Wabash College, 1949)] "Mr. Buskirk served two terms, from 1874 to 1878, as attorney general, the first term under Governor Hendricks, and the last term under Governor Williams." [Benjamin S. Parker & Enos B. Heiney (eds.), Poets and Poetry of Indiana 423 (New York: Silver, Burdett and Company, 1900)] Clarence A. Buskirk Poetry Clarence Augustus Buskirk, Fragments of Essays: And Other Verses (Princeton, Indiana: Printed for the author by W.H. Evans, 1880) _____________________, A Cavern for a Hermitage (New York: John B. Alden, Publisher, 1889) Writings Clarence Augustus Buskirk, Christian Science—Its Religious Philosophy: A Lecture (Boston: Christian Science Publishing Society, 1909) _____________________, The Great Interrogations (Princeton, Indiana, 1897) |
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