Edward rowland sill biography of abraham
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Edward Rowland Sill
19th-century American poet and educator
Edward Rowland Sill (April 29, 1841 – February 27, 1887) was an Americanpoet and educator.
Biography
Born in Windsor, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale in 1861, where he was Class Poet and a member of Skull and Bones.[1]: 112 He engaged in business in California, and entered the Harvard Divinity School in 1867 but soon left for a position on the staff of the New York Evening Mail.
After teaching at Wadsworth and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (1868–1871), he became principal of Oakland High School in Oakland, California.[2]
From 1874 to 1882, Sill was professor of English literature at the University of California.
His health failing, he returned to Cuyahoga Falls in 1883. He devoted himself to literary work, abundant and largely anonymous, until his death in 1887 in Cleveland, Ohio.[2]
In 1904 Mount Sill, a peak in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Ca