Charles Follen Adams biography
Date of birth : 1842-04-21
Date of death : 1918-03-08
Birthplace : Dorchester, Massachusetts
Nationality : American
Category : Famous Figures
Last modified : 2011-05-05
Credited as : Poet, ,
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Charles Follen Adams was an American poet. During the American Civil War, Adams was a soldier. He was wounded in action at Gettysburg, and taken as a prisoner of war. In 1872, he began writing humorous verses for periodicals and newspapers in a Pennsylvania German dialect.
Executive summary: Leedle Yawcob Strauss
Author of books:
Cut, Cut Behind! (1886)
Leedle Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems (1877, poetry)
Dialect Ballads (1887, poetry)
Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems (1910, poetry)
