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Joaquin (Cincinnatus Hiner) Miller (1837–1913)
Miller, Cincinnatus Heine, better known as Joaquin Miller. An American poet; born in Wabash district, IN, 1837; died on Feb. 17, 1913. He was variously a California gold-miner, editor of an Oregon newspaper, an Oregon lawyer and judge, a social lion in London, journalist at Washington, DC, etc. The name of “Joaquin” he took from Joaquin Murietta, a Mexican brigand, whom he had once legally defended. His ‘Collected Poems’ appeared in 1882 (revised 1902). Following these he published ‘Songs of Mexican Seas’ (1887); and ‘Songs of the Soul’ (1896). He wrote also in prose ‘The Baroness of New York’ (1877); ‘’49, or The Gold Seekers of the Sierras’ (1884); ‘The Danites’ (1881); ‘The Silent Man’; etc. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).