Halsey. (Women.)
Harkins. (Women.)
Overton.
Am. M. 70 ('10): 748 (portrait).
Bookm. 20 ('04): 276 (portrait).
Cur. Lit. 37 ('04): 321 (portrait).
Good Housekeeping, 74 ('22): Feb., p. 27 (portrait).
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915-1917.
+John Burroughs+--Nature writer, essayist, poet.
Born at Roxbury, New York, 1837. Academy education with honorary higher
degrees. Taught for about eight years; clerk in the Treasury, 1864-73;
national bank examiner, 1873-84. From 1874 lived on a farm, after 1884
dividing his time between market gardening and literature. He died in
1921.
Mr. Burroughs' cottage in the woods not far from West Park, New York,
appropriately called "Slabsides," has become famous and an effort is
being made to keep it for the nation.
Mr. Burroughs continued to write and publish to the time of his death.