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John Elton Wayland

(1860-1932)
New York

"WAYLAND, John Elton, "Idas," lawyer, b. Waterbury, Conn., 1860. Graduated at Yale, 1883, and at the Columbia Law School, 1895. He was admitted to the New York bar the same year, and has since practised in that city. His poem 'An Epilogue at Wallack's' appeared in the 'Yale Courant' for 1882, and in W. Winter's 'John Gilbert,' published by the Dunlap Society, 1890." [Edmund Clarence Stedman (ed.), An American Anthology 1787-1899 829 (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900)]

Poem

An Epilogue at Wallack's

Writings

John Elton Wayland, The Emperor's Diamond. A comedietta ... [Act I] ([New Haven]: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1883)

________________, The Emperor's Diamond. Act. II ([New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor]: 1883)

_______________, Mellow Memories. 1886-1926 (New Haven, 1926)