Holman Day

Holman Francis Day (1865-1935) was an American author, born at Vassalboro, Me., and a graduate of Colby College (class of 1887). In 1889-90 he was managing editor of the publications of the Union Publishing Company, Bangor, Me. He was also editor and proprietor of the Dexter, (Me.) Gazette, a special writer for the Lewiston, (Me.) Journal, Maine representative of the Boston Herald , and managing editor of the Lewiston Daily Sun. In 1901-04 he was military secretary to Gov. John F. Hill of Maine. His writings include:

• Up in Maine (1901), verse
• Pine Tree Ballads (1902)
• Kin O'Ktaadn (1904)
• Squire Phin (1905; 1913), a novel dramatized as The Circus Man and produced in Chicago in 1909
• Rainy Day Railroad War (1906; 1913)
• The Eagle Badge (1908)
• King Spruce (1908)
• The Ramrodders (1910)
• The Skipper and the Skipped (1911)
• The Red Lane: A Romance of the Border (1912)
• The Landloper (1915)
• Along Came Ruth (play produced in New York, 1914)
• Blow the Man Down (1916)
• Where Your Treasure Is (1917)
• Kavanagh's Clare (1917)
• The Rider of the King Log (1919)
• When Egypt Went Broke (1920)
• All Wool Morrison (1921)