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4 unusual facts about Eugene Field


Booches

Booches received its name when its original owner, Paul Blucher Venable, was nicknamed "Booch" as a child by writer Eugene Field.

Field, Minneapolis

The neighborhood takes its name from a local school, which in turn was named for Eugene Field, a writer of children's poetry.

Gold Hill, Colorado

The Mines was immortalized in verse by poet Eugene Field, who stayed at the hotel while working as a newspaper man in Denver.

John Northern Hilliard

Through Eugene Field he obtained his first job as a reporter on the Chicago Press at the age of 17.


J. R. Williams

A newspaper promotion of 1930 compared him to poets Eugene Field and James Whitcomb Riley.


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