A Biography on Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg was a great man. His life was one of fame, once he began writing. He inspired many people. He also became an American Marvel. His works still remain read even today, 30 years after his death.
His life was an interesting one. His parents immigrated to the US from
Sweden. His parents moved to Galesburg, Illinois. He attended public schools.
At the age of thirteen, he had to give up public school and go to work to help earn money for his family. First, he drove a milk truck. Next he worked in a barber shop Then he went on to change sets in theater, operated a brick kiln, and worked as a carpenter, house painter and dishwasher. When he
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Afterwards , he went on to work as an organizer for the Social-Democratic Party in Wisconsin, during 1907 through 1908. That was also the year he got married.
He also wrote for the Leader, a newspaper in Milwaukee. He then went on to the city of Chicago. There, he wrote for the two newspapers, the Daily News and the
Daybook. He liked writing for newspapers some, but his true passion was poetry.
Some of his early poems were published in the Chicago newspapers he worked for.
With his love for poetry grew, the demand for his poetry also grew. In the year 1916, at the age of thirty eight, he published the book, Chicago poems.
Two years later, at the age of forty, he published Cornhuskers. The public loved these two marvelous books. Other poets accepted them as wonderful. In the
1920's he became so popular, that he quit journalism to write full-time as a career. He also moved away from the black ink to write songs. Some were accepted into songbooks, such as The Songbag, and The New American Songbag.
Sandburg was then transformed into an American Marvel. he was very interested in the Ideas of Democracy and Liberty. He was inspired by great men, such as Abraham Lincoln, who was shot eighteen years before Sandburg's birth.
He was so inspired that he wrote a book about the man's life. It was called
Abraham Lincoln: The war years volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4. These were published in the year 1939, at the late age of 61. The series was so
young boy when he started working as a clerk in a telegraph company. He then worked for the
only 7, and he left home when he was only 14. He went from town to town doing
Then, he was a curb boy at Gibson's Drive Inn and at Britt's Drive Inn. He worked at Christopher's Grocery driving a delivery truck, and his junior year he worked in the parts department of a Mercury dealership. His first job after graduation was selling produce for a banana company. December 8, 1958, he started his first full-time job at Coker Trading Post, and he worked there for exactly three years, quitting on December 8, 1961. On December 12, 1961, he started working at Dufour International, selling trucks, but on December 19, 1973, he quit his job and started working full-time for the Air National Guard.
leading up to and surrounding President Abraham Lincoln’s death. The purpose of this book is to
1. In his teen years, he began working. He floated lumber to market and started traded for a few years by the bayou boeuf.
went to work to support his family. He was hired as a apprentice to a bookseller were he
O'Reilly, Bill, and Dwight Jon Zimmerman. Lincoln's Last Days. New York: Square Fish, 2014. 213-15. Print.
worked driving a grocery wagon at the age thirteen to help support his family. He had eight
“Abraham Lincoln and The Second American Revolution”, written by James M. McPherson, one of America’s historians. McPherson has also written,” Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era”, “Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief”, “Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam” and many other history related books. “Abraham Lincoln and The Second American Revolution” consists of seven essays throughout on important themes in American history and unusual standpoints on the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln.
sold his stock and implements and turned to selling real estate in St. Louis. He failed again
Around the same time Jimmy started grade school, the Great Depression started. The depression caused his family's grocery store to close down. With all the money he had saved up, he was able to buy more land and was able to get a job at a insurance and
Afterwards he graduated he went to Marshal University for Hotel Management. Once he graduated from college he got a good paying job and moved to Greensboro, North Carolina. Not long after moving to North Carolina he acquired a job welding at highland tank. Soon after that at age 22 he met what he thought was his dream girl and later decided to get married after dating for two years. Later down the road he watched his wife go through college as she worked to get her PHD. He also decided that it was time to take a change of pace and decided to jump into a new pond. During this time he ended up traveling all over the country and several parts of this world. A year or two after he started welding he decided to change jobs and got hired on at Red Oak Brewing. This is one of the biggest craft beer brewery’s in the state. as one of the beer salesman. After a few years he ended up becoming the top beer salesman in North Carolina. A short time later life decided to throw him a monkey wrench and him and his wife decided to get divorced. This was a huge turning point in his life. A short time later he ended up meeting the woman of his dreams.
Carl Sandburg may be one of our most influential poets in American history, he knew the American working man and his necessities. Sandburg used his poetry to explicate to the economy how life is, can, and could be. Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois January 6, 1878 to Swedish immigrant parents with the names of August and Clara Johnson. His family was extremely poor. Carl left school at the age of thirteen to work odd jobs from bricklaying to dish washing to earn money to support the family. At seventeen, he left home to travel to Kansas as a hobo, there he turned to the army for help. He served eight months in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American war.
He went to work when he was sixteen, and for the next forty years he worked in a coal factory. Then he worked in a steel mill for another twenty years. He stopped working only because the steel mill closed and he was too old to find another job.
He worked as a keeper of a market. Then he was a farm worker who took care of parks and farm