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Sam Walter Foss !

featured work:
House by the
Side of the Road


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BIO: A poet, journalist, and humorist, Sam Walter Foss is best known for his inspirational poem, The House By the Side of the Road. Sam was born into a rural New England farm family June 19, 1858. When Sam was four years old his mother died, and young Sam had to mature quickly and do his share of chores. He graduated from Portsmouth (New Hampshire) High School, and obtained a bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1882. As owner and editor of the Lynn, Massachsetts Saturday Union newspaper, Mr. Foss produced a humor column once a week. He became skilled at cranking out his popular homespun verse and his poetry was soon being published across the country. In 1891 moved to Boston where he wrote first for the Yankee Blade and later the Boston Globe. Sam Foss was also a regular contributor to the Christian Science Monitor until his death in 1911. For more about poet Sam Walter Foss, see this page from the Ethical Society of St. Louis. For a print of an original portrait of Sam Foss, click this Amazon.com link .


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