Benjamin Jesse Gunn

(1865-1939)
Illinois & Kansas

Thomas W. Herringshaw (ed.), Poets and Poetry of Kansas 42 (Chicago:
American Publishers' Association, 1894)]

Benjamin J. Gunn "attended the Illinois State Normal University, taught several years, but is now a lawyer. In 1883 he removed to Coalville, Kansas; and in 1891 married Louise Gunn of Alabama. He has one son, John Walker, born in 1993. He is an orator of great ability . . . ." [Thomas W. Herringshaw (ed.), Poets and Poetry of Kansas 43 (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1894)]

Benjamin J. Gunn

Poem

"Stop and Think"

Poetry

Benjamin Jesse Gunn, Life of Abraham Lincoln in Verse ([Pittsburg, Kansas]: Pittsburg Daily Headlight Print., 1893)([Great Bend, Kansas, Gunn's print shop], 1914)

________________, Life of George Washington in Verse ([Girard, Kansas: B.J. Gunn], 1917)

Writings

Benjamin Jesse Gunn, Gunn: Arms of the Chief (Fort Scott, Kansas: Monitor Pub. House and Book Bindery, 1891)

________________, The Son of a Gunn: His Productions as a Poet, Speaker, Writer, and Tourist: A Public Speaker in Boyhood (Fort Scott, Kansas: Monitor Book & Print. Co., 1893)