Known For
Writing
Gender
Not specified
Birthday
September 2, 1850
Died
November 4, 1895
Age
45
Place of Birth
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Eugene Field, Sr.
Writing
Biography
Field was born in St. Louis, Missouri where today his boyhood home is open to the public as The Eugene Field House and St. Louis Toy Museum. After the death of his mother in 1856, he was raised by a cousin, Mary Field French, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Field's father, attorney Roswell Martin Field, was famous for his representation of Dred Scott, the slave who sued for his freedom. Field filed the complaint in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case (sometimes referred to as "the lawsuit that started the Civil War") on behalf of Scott in the federal court in St. Louis, Missouri, from whence it progres…
