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Thomas William Herringshaw (ed.), Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography 191 (Chicago: American Publishers' Assoc., 1905)(vol. 2) "Dail, Charles C., lawyer, author, poet, was born Jan. 5, 1851, in Kentucky. Being an orphan, at the age of seven he found himself a bootblack in Cincinnati, Ohio; and he never had the opportunity to attend school. However he overcame every obstacle; was admitted to the bar; and attained prominence as one of the brightest men in Kansas. He was one of the class of lawyers that is known as anti-corporation lawyers; and was also know as the poor man's lawyer, always defending the poor and unfortunate. He had a successful practice; maintained a fine home in Quindaro; and was well-known and prominent throughout Ksansas City. . . . He died April 27, 1902, in Sansas City, Kan." [Thomas William Herringshaw (ed.), Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography 191 (Chicago: American Publishers' Assoc., 1905)(vol. 2)][online text] [source: obituary, The Nebraska State Journal, April 28, 1902, p. 3] [For biographical entries, see Peter Nicholls (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (London: Granada Publish, 1979); John Clute & Peter Nicholls (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993). See also: Brian Moline & M.H. Hoeflich, Some Kansas Lawyer-Poets, 55 U. Kan. L. Rev. 971, 980-983 (2007) ] Poetry C.C. Dail, Adam Answered (Kansas City, Kansas: [s.n.] 1899) _______, Sunlight and Shadows: Poems (Kansas City, Missouri: Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., 1901) Writings C.C. Dail, Willmoth the Wanderer; or, The Man from Saturn ([Atchison, Kansas], Haskell Print. Co., 1890) ________, The Stone Giant: A Tale of the Mammoth Cave (London/New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1898) |
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