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Date Posted: Monday, July 30, 2012, 02:59:30pm
Alfred Joyce Kilmer born December 6, 1886, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, was an American journalist and poet, ¹ born to Frederick Barnett Kilmer and Annie Ellen Kilburn.
His best known work is "Trees".
Educated at Rutgers College and Columbia University. He had worked briefly as a teacher before he chose journalism as his vocation. He was on the staff of the New Standard Dictionary, as well as various periodicals. ¹ Kilmer was married to Aline Murray, who gave birth to five children.
His lyric poem "Trees," in the collection Trees and Other Poems (1914), won him popular recognition. His other works are Summer of Love (1911) and Main Street and Other Poems (1915).
He was a soldier in the United States Army 165th Infantry, Rainbow Division and was killed in action by a sniper during World War I, on a French battlefield on July 30, 1918 at the age of 31. His body was buried in the Oise-Aisne Cemetery, Fere-en-Tardenois, France.
His poetry has and underlying religous tone.
The Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, dedicated July 30, 1936 is now one of the largest stand of old growth trees in the eastern United States, has some of the largest trees in the United States east of the Mississippi with numerous trails, is located about 15 miles from Robbinsville in the western part of Graham County. A 2 mile national recreation trail of primeval forest.
Huge poplars, some 20 feet in circumference, tower 125 feet or more toward the sky. Giant red oaks, magnificent hemlocks, and many other varieties of trees stand as proud neighbors to the mammoth poplars.
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