Who is Samuel Minturn Peck

Samuel Minturn Peck (November 4, 1854 – May 3, 1938) was an American poet, named first poet laureate of the state of Alabama.BiographySamuel Minturn Peck was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on November 4, 1854, the youngest of nine children of Elisha Wolsey Peck and Lucy Lamb Randall. In 1865, the family moved to Illinois before returning to Tuscaloosa two years later, where his father became a justice for the state Supreme Court. Peck earned a master's degree from the University of Alabama in 1871 and went on to get a medical degree in 1879 from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in order to please his parents, despite his literary ambitions.It was while he was a medical student that, in 1878, he published his first poem, "The Orange Tree", in the New York Post. His first book, Cap and Bells...
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Samuel Minturn Peck Poems

• Kiss In The Rain, A
  One stormy morn I chanced to meet
  A lassie in the town;
  Her locks were like the ripened wheat,
  Her laughing eyes were brown. ...

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