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This article is about the novelist. For the record producer, see Diamond D. For the 19th-century New York politician, see Joseph Kirkland (congressman).
Joseph Kirkland, 1884

Joseph Kirkland (January 7, 1830 - April 29, 1894)[1] was an American novelist. Born in Geneva, New York, he was a businessman in Chicago, then served in the Union Army during the Civil War, reaching the rank of major. After the war he became a lawyer while also pursuing writing. He is remembered as the author of two realistic novels of pioneer life in the Far West, Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County and The McVeys. Other works are The Captain of Company K and The Story of Chicago. He was also the literary editor of the Chicago Tribune. Kirkland died in Chicago in 1894, at the age of 64.

References

  1. ^ "News and Notes (obituary)". The Literary World. XXV (15). Boston: 237. July 28, 1894. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.

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