Carleton

Carleton, WILL, American author, was born in Hudson, Michigan, 21st October 1845. He graduated at Hillsdale College in that state; and soon after completing his studenthood, he began to lecture in various parts of the United States and Canada. He has more than once visited Europe. His best-known works are ballads of domestic life. His fresh and striking Farm Ballads (1873), Farm Legends (1875), Farm Festivals (1881), City Ballads (1885), and other poems, possess both vigour and pathos, and have attained a wide popularity on both sides of the Atlantic.