Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1914 — Canada's Influence on Crockett. [ARTICLE]

Canada's Influence on Crockett.

The late S. R. Crockett had struggles In his early life as many other poets and authors did. He began to work on the farm at an early age, as even a child’s hands were useful to the straggling household. He was up at five o’clock, and all through his life he continued to rise at this hour, for early rising was a habit with pleasant memories. One /of his cousins was a farmerplowman who had been to Canada and acquired larger Ideas than the rest of the family, and, finding in the boy an unusual play of mind, he used to take him In the Helds before the day's labors began, «hd make him read fine Poetry.