Holman Day
{{Short description|American poet (1865–1935)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Holman Day
| birth_name = Holman Francis Day
| image = Holman Day - Jun 1921 EH.jpg
| caption = Holman Day in 1921
| birth_date = {{birth date|1865|11|6}}
| birth_place = Vassalboro, Maine, US
| death_date = {{death date and age|1935|2|19|1865|11|6}}
| death_place = Mill Valley, California, US
| nationality =
| occupation = Author
| spouse =
| children =
| signature = Signature of Holman Francis Day (1865–1935).png
}}
Holman Francis Day (November 6, 1865 – February 19, 1935)[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1250676.Holman_Day GoodReads] was an American author, born at Vassalboro, Maine. The Holman Day House, his home in Auburn, Maine, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. His book The Rider of the King Log was adapted into the 1921 film The Rider of the King Log. His play Along Came Ruth was adapted into the 1924 film Along Came Ruth.
Personal life
Day married Helen Gerald, the only daughter of railroad engineer Amos F. Gerald and Caroline W. Rowell. She died in 1902 at the age of 32, and was interred in Maplewood Cemetery in her father's home town of Fairfield, Maine. Day died at his home in Mill Valley, California on February 19, 1935, and was buried in Nichols Cemetery in his hometown of Vassalboro, Maine.{{Cite book |last=Heseltine |first=Charles D. |title=The Illustrated Atlas of Maine's Street & Electric Railways: 1863–1946 |date=9 March 2015 |publisher=PWM |isbn=978-1502406224}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/biddeford-saco-journal-holman-f-day-ma/154704374/ |title=Holman F. Day, Maine-Born Author, Dead |newspaper=Biddeford Daily Journal |place=Mill Valley, California |agency=AP |pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/biddeford-saco-journal-holman-f-day-ma/154704425/ 7] |date=1935-02-21 |access-date=2024-09-05 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Career
File:Along Came Ruth 1.jpg's song "Along Came Ruth", from Day's 1914 play starring Irene Fenwick]]
He graduated from Colby College (class of 1887) and in 1889-90 he was managing editor of the publications of the Union Publishing Company in Bangor, Maine. He was also editor and proprietor of the Gazette in Dexter, Maine, a special writer for the Journal in Lewiston, Maine, representative of the Boston Herald, and managing editor of the Daily Sun in Lewiston. From 1901 until 1904 he was military secretary to Gov. John F. Hill of Maine.
He came to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California in the 1920s.
{{blockquote|The main poet of Maine and no small man in Carmel! Much too busy to do much visiting but when he does it's a tonic to listen to him. His many novels contain adventures in the big woods and sturdy outdoor life. He says the first 'pome' he ever wrote for the Lewiston Journal brought a libel suit on the paper and put a blackhand value on his three stanza gem to the extent of a sum never received by the great Longfellow in his palmiest days. "Started right out as a high priced poet," he says.|Carmel Pine Cone{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/ccarm_001733/page/n5/mode/2up?q=%22Heron%22|title=Who's Who-and Here|author=|work=Carmel Pine Cone|place=Carmel-by-the-Sea, California|date=1928-12-14|pages=9–15|access-date=2022-10-17}}}}
== Works ==
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- Up in Maine (1901), verse
- Kin O'Ktaadn (1904)
- The Bye-Bye Chair[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112064410787&view=1up&seq=667&skin=2021&q1=holman The Bye-Bye Chair] (1904), excerpts from this poem were used by Congressman James Thomas Heflin in his May 1914 Mother's Day speech
- Squire Phin (1905; 1913), a novel dramatized as The Circus Man and produced in Chicago in 1909
- Rainy Day Railroad War[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22666 The Rainy Day Railroad War by Holman Day] (1906; 1913)
- The Eagle Badge (1908)
- King Spruce[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34948 King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day] (1908)
- The Ramrodders[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15278 The Ramrodders: A Novel by Holman Day] (1910)
- The Skipper and the Skipped[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16631 The Skipper and the Skipped: Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day] (1911)
- The Red Lane: A Romance of the Border (1912)
- The Landloper[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4712 The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot by Holman Day] (1915)
- Along Came Ruth play produced in New York, (1914)
- Blow the Man Down[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24793 Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast by Holman Day] (1916)
- Where Your Treasure Is (1917)
- Pine Tree Ballads[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/55342/55342-h/55342-h.htm Pine Tree Ballads - Rhymed Stories of Unplaned Human Natur' up in Maine] (1917)
- Kavanagh's Clare (1917)
- The Rider of the King Log (1919)
- When Egypt Went Broke[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4733 When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel by Holman Day] (1920)
- All Wool Morrison[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7931 All-Wool Morrison by Holman Day] (1921)
- Joan of Arc of the North Woods (1922)[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22667 Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day]
- The Ship of Joy (1931) Schwabacher-Frey Company: San Francisco
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