Douglas Dobbins

(1860-1927)
Indiana

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Douglas Dobbins, Heart Echoes from Old Shelby and Other Poems
(Franklin, Indiana: The Author, 1916)

"Doublas Dobbins, teacher, attorney and writer, was born in Shelby County, Ind., in 1860. After attending Franklin College he taught school, was superintendent of Shelby County schools from 1883 to 1887, and for a time edited the Greenwood News. He later took up the practice of law. He wrote under the name of Stephen Arnold Douglas. Mr. Dobbins died in 1927." [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 89 (Crawfordsville, Indiana: Wabash College, 1949)]

Poetry

Douglas Dobbins, Heart Echoes from Old Shelby and Other Poems (Franklin, Indiana: The Author, 1916)

_____________, When the Old Flag Came and Other Poems (Shelbyville, Indiana: The Author, 1917)

Writings

Douglas Dobbins (compiler), Shelbyville City Directory and Shelby County Gazetteer (Shelbyville [Indiana]: W.A. Powell, 1892)

_____________, Quarrytown (Westerville, Ohio: American Issue Publishing Company, 1915)(fiction)