Wilbur Dick Nesbit was born at Xenia, Ohio, September 16, 1871.
Educated in the public schools at Cedarville, Ohio. Was printer and
reporter on various Ohio and Indiana papers until 1898; verse writer
and paragrapher _Baltimore American_, 1899-1902; since that year
writer of verse and humor _Chicago Evening Post_ and other newspapers,
contributor of stories and poems to magazines and periodicals. Author
of _Little Henry's Slate_, 1903; _The Trail to Boyland and Other
Poems_, 1904; _An Alphabet of History_, 1905; _The Gentleman Ragman_,
1906; _A Book of Poems_, 1906; _The Land of Make-Believe and Other
Christmas Poems_, 1907; _A Friend or Two_, 1908; _The Loving Cup_
(compilation), 1909; _The Old, Old Wish_, 1911; _My Company of
Friends_, 1911; _If the Heart be Glad_, 1911; co-author with Otto
Hauerbach of _The Girl of My Dreams_, a musical comedy, 1910.