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LAST POEMS
By Horace P. Biddle
Vintage 1882 SIGNED by Author!!
last poems
by horace p. biddle
SIGNED BY AUTHOR!!
Hardcover, published by Robert Clarke Co., Cincinnati, 1882; Measures approximately 5 3/4 x 8 inches, 435 pages.
Book is in overall acceptable to not quite good condition. Deep olive/forest green boards have some scuff marks, edge scraping and slight tattering; Handsome illustrated endpapers; clear thin tissue paper page in between author picture and title page, slightly creased and tiny margin tear at bottom. Binding is somewhat loose, all intact. Pages show age discoloration/yellowing, some minor scuff marks, and creasing. Has owner name written inside of what appears to be Mrs. A. W. Knopp. PLEASE NOTE: APPEARS TO BE AN ORIGINAL WRITTEN INSCRIPTION THAT STATES: TRULY YOURS HORACE P. BIDDLE. THIS SIGNATURE IS NOT GUARANTEED TO BE AN ORIGINAL BUT CERTAINLY APPEARS TO BE!
About the author: “Horace P. Biddle was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1811. He was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati in 1839 and moved to Logansport, Indiana to practice law. He served as a judge (1846-1852) and was a member of the Indiana constitutional convention in 1850. He contributed poetry to the Southern Literary Messenger, Ladies Repository, and other periodicals.”
"An active and prosperous professional life has not prevented Mr. Biddle from being drawn into the political arena. On the nomination of Henry Clay for the presidency, he advocated his election, and was placed upon the electoral ticket. In 1845 he became a candidate for the Legislature, but was defeated. He was elected Presiding Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court in December, 1846, in which office he continued until 1852. He was a member of the Indiana Constitutional Convention, which assembled in 1850. Although the district was against his party, he received a majority of over two hundred votes. In 1852 he was nominated for Congress, but failed to receive the election. He was elected Supreme Judge in 1857, by a large majority, but the Governor, Ashbel P. Willard, refused to commission him, for the reason that no vacancy in the office existed. The Republican party again, in 1858, brought him forward as a candidate for the same position, but the ticket was not successful."
A true original piece of Americana!
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