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Carl was born in a three room cottage at 313 East Third Street in Galesburg.
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Carl quit school after graduating 8th grade to continue working.
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Some of the Jobs that Carl did after school included delivering milk, laying bricks, and shined shoes in a hotel before becoming a hobo and traveling wherever.
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His time working and traveling majorly influenced his writing.
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The Spanish War was going on and Sandburg volunteered his time at age 20.
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Later that year he entered Lombard College and supported himself as a fire man.
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Sandburg began to take “The Writers Club at school. “ "In Reckless Ecstasy" was published in 1904.
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Sandburg also published “incidentals” in 1907. This was his second book.
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Carl got married to his wife of 3 kids, Lillian Steichen.
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Daughter Margaret born June 3.
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"Fog The fog comes
on little cat feet. It sits looking
over harbor and city,
on silent haunches
and then moves on." -
The follwing is the first stansa of "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders: -
