Burroughs

Burroughs, JOHN, a popular author on both sides of the Atlantic, born in Roxbury, New York, April 3, 1837. He was brought up on a farm, and after some years of teaching, journalism, and clerking in the treasury department at Washington, he settled down in 1874 on a farm in New York, to divide his time between literature, fruit-culture, and periodic duties as a bank-examiner. His books mostly deal with country life, and show great sympathetic insight into the life of nature. The chief are Wake Robin (1871), Winter Sunshine (1875), Birds and Poets (1877), Locusts and Wild Honey (1879), Peapackon (1881), Fresh Fields (1884), and Signs and Seasons (1886).