The complete online text of John Smith, U.S.A. by Eugene Field.

Termed "the first of the columnists," Eugene Field is best known today as the poet of children. However, his poems and stories originally appeared in print in columns written for newspapers in St. Louis, St. Joseph, and Kansas City, Missouri; Denver; and...

Highly regarded by his contemporaries as a poet, journalist, humorist, and raconteur, Eugene Field also built a reputation for himself as a bibliophile--although he did not accumulate a notable collection of books or establish a great library. His signif...

Eugene Field was a popular humorist and newspaperman often called the "Poet of Childhood." Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Roswell M. and Frances Reed Field, both of New England ancestry, Field claimed two birthdates--2 and 3 September 1850--in later yea...

John Lewis Smith Jr., 79, a retired chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and former chief judge of the D.C. Court of General Sessions, died Sept. 4 at George Washington University Hospital. He had pneumonia. In 1956,...

For those within the American swimming community, the truth about Ireland's Michelle Smith was always in the numbers. The international swimming federation (FINA) yesterday hit the 28-year-old Smith with a four-year suspension for tampering with a urine sample submitted to test her...