| Edward Pollock "Pollock, Edward, b. Philadelphia, Penn., 1823; d. San Francisco, Cal., 1858. When a child he worked in a cotton factory, and at fourteen became a sign-painter's apprentice. In 1852 he went to California, where he was admitted to the bar. He wrote for the 'San Francisco Pioneer,' and in 1876 his poems were collected posthumously." [Edmund Clarence Stedman (ed.), An American Anthology 1787-1899 816 (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900)] Poem Poetry Edward Pollock, |
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