RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB.  Born at Greenfield, Ind., 1849; died at Indianapolis,
  Ind., July 22, 1916.  Public school education; received honorary degree
  of M.A. from Yale 1902; Litt.D. from Wabash College 1903 and from the
  University of Pennsylvania 1904, and LL.D. from Indiana University
  1907.  Began contributing poems to Indiana papers 1873; known as the
  “Hoosier Poet,” and much of his verse in the middle Western and
  Hoosier dialect.  Among his books are “The Old Swimmin’ Hole,”
  “Afterwhiles,” “Old Fashioned Roses,” “Pipes o’ Pan at Zekesbury,”
  “Neighborly Poems,” “Green Fields and Running Brooks,” “Poems Here at
  Home,” “Child-Rhymes,” “Love Lyrics,” “Home Folks,” “Farm-Rhymes,” “An
  Old Sweetheart of Mine,” “Out to Old Aunt Mary’s,” “A Defective Santa
  Claus,” “Songs o’ Cheer,” “Boys of the Old Glee Club,” “Raggedy Man,”
  “Little Orphan Annie,” “Songs of Home,” “When the Frost Is on the
  Punkin,” “All the Year Round,” “Knee-Deep in June,” “A Song of Long
  Ago,” and “Songs of Summer.”  His complete works are issued by the
  Bobbs-Merrill Company in the “Biographical Edition of James Whitcomh
  Riley” 1913. Just Be Glad, 14; My Philosophy, 57.

RITTENHOUSE, JESSIE BELLE.  Born at Mt.  Morris, N.Y.  Graduate of Genesee
  Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, N.Y.; teacher of Latin and English in a
  private school at Cairo, Ill., and at Ackley Institute for Girls,
  Grand Haven, Mich., 1893-4; active newspaper work and reviewer until
  1900; contributor to New York Times Review of Books and The
  Bookman; lecturer on modern poetry in extension courses of Columbia
  University.  Her books are “The Little Book of Modern Verse,” “The
  Little Book of Modern American Verse,” “Second Book of Modern Verse,”
  “The Younger American Poets,” and “The Door of Dreams.” My Wage,
  183.

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SERVICE, ROBERT WILLIAM.  Born at Preston, Eng., Jan. 10, 1874.  Educated
  at Hillhead Public School, Glasgow; served apprenticeship with the
  Commercial Bank of Scotland, Glasgow; emigrated to Canada and settled
  on Vancouver Island; for a while engaged in farming, and later
  traveled up and down the Pacific coast, following many occupations;
  finally joined the staff of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Victoria,
  B.C., 1905; was later transferred to White Horse, Yukon Territory, and
  then to Dawson; he spent eight years in the Yukon, much of it in
  travel.  In Europe during the Great War; in Paris 1921.  Among his books
  are “The Spell of the Yukon,” “Ballads of a Cheerchako,” “Rhymes of a
  Rolling Stone,” “Rhymes of a Red Cross Man,” and “Ballads of a
  Bohemian.” The Quitter, 8.