James Arthur Edgerton, born at Plantsville, Ohio, January 30, 1869.
Graduated at the Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio, in 1887. One year's
post-graduate work, Marietta, Ohio, College. Editor county and state
papers several years; on editorial staff of _Denver News_, 1899-1903;
American Press Association, New York, 1904; _Watson's Magazine_, 1905.
Editorial writer _New York American_, 1907; Secretary State Labor
Bureau of Nebraska, 1895-9; received party vote for clerk United
States House of Representatives. Author, _Poems_, 1889; _A Better
Day_, 1890; _Populist Hand-book for 1894_; _Populist Hand-book for
Nebraska_, 1895; _Voices of the Morning_, 1898; _Songs of the People_,
1902; _Glimpses of the Real_, 1903; _In the Gardens of God_, 1904.