Part 1

Spoon River Anthology

by Edgar Lee Masters

Contents

Altman, Herman Armstrong, Hannah Arnett, Harold Arnett, Justice Atheist, The Village Atherton, Lucius

Ballard, John Barker, Amanda Barrett, Pauline Bartlett, Ezra Bateson, Marie Beatty, Tom Beethoven, Isaiah Bennett, Hon. Henry Bindle, Nicholas Bliss, Mrs. Charles Blood, A. D. Bloyd, Wendell P. Bone, Richard Branson, Caroline Brown, Jim Brown, Sarah Browning, Elijah Burke, Robert Southey Burleson, John Horace Butler, Roy

Cabanis, Flossie Cabanis, John Calhoun, Granville Calhoun, Henry C. Campbell, Calvin Carlisle, Jeremy Carman, Eugene Cheney, Columbus Chicken, Ida Childers, Elizabeth Church, John M. Churchill, Alfonso Clapp, Homer Clark, Nellie Clute, Aner Compton, Seth Conant, Edith Culbertson, E. C.

Davidson, Robert Dement, Silas Dippold the Optician Dixon, Joseph Dobyns, Batterton Drummer, Frank Drummer, Hare Dunlap, Enoch Dye, Shack

Ehrenhardt, Imanuel Epilogue

Fallas, State’s Attorney Fawcett, Clarence Ferguson, Wallace Findlay, Anthony Fluke, Willard Foote, Searcy Ford, Webster Fraser, Benjamin Fraser, Daisy French, Charlie Frickey, Ida

Garber, James Gardner, Samuel Garrick, Amelia Godbey, Jacob Goldman, Le Roy Goode, William Goodhue, Harry Carey Goodpasture, Jacob Graham, Magrady Gray, George Green, Ami Greene, Hamilton Griffy, The Cooper Gustine, Dorcas

Hainsfeather, Barney Hamblin, Carl Hately, Constance Hatfield, Aaron Hawkins, Elliott Hawley, Jeduthan Henry, Chase Herndon, William H. Heston, Roger Higbie, Archibald Hill, Doc Hill, The Hoheimer, Knowlt Holden, Barry Hookey, Sam Houghton, Jonathan Howard, Jefferson Hueffer, Cassius Hummel, Oscar Humphrey, Lydia Hurley, Scholfield Hutchins, Lambert Hyde, Ernest

Iseman, Dr. Siegfried

Jack, Blind James, Godwin Joe, Plymouth Rock Johnson, Voltaire Jones, Fiddler Jones, Franklin Jones, Indignation Jones, Minerva Jones, William Judge, The Circuit

Karr, Elmer Keene, Jonas Kessler, Bert Kessler, Mrs. Killion, Captain Orlando Kincaid, Russell King, Lyman Keene, Kinsey Knapp, Nancy Konovaloff, Ippolit Kritt, Dow

Layton, Henry Lively, Judge Selah

M’Cumber, Daniel McDowell, Rutherford McFarlane, Widow McGee, Fletcher McGee, Ollie M’Grew, Jennie M’Grew, Mickey McGuire, Jack McNeely, Mary McNeely, Paul McNeely, Washington Malloy, Father Marsh, Zilpha Marshal, The Town Marshall, Herbert Mason, Serepta Matheny, Faith Matlock, Davis Matlock, Lucinda Melveny, Abel Merritt, Mrs. Merritt, Tom Metcalf, Willie Meyers, Doctor Meyers, Mrs. Micure, Hamlet Miles, J. Milton Miller, Julia Miner, Georgine Sand Moir, Alfred

Newcomer, Professor Night-Watch, Andy The Nutter, Isa

Osborne, Mabel Otis, John Hancock

Pantier, Benjamin Pantier, Mrs. Benjamin Pantier, Reuben Peet, Rev. Abner Pennington, Willie Penniwit, the Artist Petit, the Poet Phipps, Henry Poague, Peleg Pollard, Edmund Potter, Cooney Puckett, Lydia Purkapile, Mrs. Purkapile, Roscoe Putt, Hod

Reece, Mrs. George Rhodes, Ralph Rhodes, Thomas Richter, Gustav Robbins, Hortense Roberts, Rosie Ross, Thomas, Jr. Russian Sonia Rutledge, Anne

Sayre, Johnnie Scates, Hiram Schirding, Albert Schmidt, Felix Schrœder The Fisherman Scott, Julian Sersmith the Dentist Sewall, Harlan Sharp, Percival Shaw, “Ace” Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shope, Tennessee Claflin Sibley, Amos Sibley, Mrs. Siever, Conrad Simmons, Walter Sissman, Dillard Slack, Margaret Fuller Smith, Louise Soldiers, Many Somers, Jonathan Swift Somers, Judge Sparks, Emily Spears, Lois Spooniad, The Standard, W. Lloyd Garrison Stewart, Lillian Stoddard, Judson

Tanner, Robert Fulton Taylor, Deacon Theodore, The Poet Thornton, English Throckmorton, Alexander Todd, Eugenia Tompkins, Josiah Trainor, the Druggist Trevelyan, Thomas Trimble, George Tripp, Henry Tubbs, Hildrup Turner, Francis Tutt, Oaks

Unknown, The

Wasson, John Wasson, Rebecca Webster, Charles Weirauch, Adam Weldy, “Butch” Wertman, Elsa Whedon, Editor Whitney, Harmon Wiley, Rev. Lemuel Will, Arlo William and Emily Williams, Dora Williams, Mrs. Wilmans, Harry Witt, Zenas

Yee Bow

Zoll, Perry

The Hill

_Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter? All, all are sleeping on the hill.