Nixon Waterman

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Nixon Waterman (November 12, 1859 – September 1, 1944) was an American newspaper writer, poet, and Chautauqua lecturer. He was connected with Newark, Illinois, but was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Creston, Iowa, where he started in journalism on a small weekly paper. He later worked for newspapers in Denver, Omaha, Chicago, and Boston. Waterman wrote poems and essays that were popular nationwide and collaborated with humorist Opie Read on some of Read’s best-known works. He rose to prominence in the 1890s and spent many years as a public speaker. He died at his Fair Acres farm in Canton, Massachusetts, after a brief illness, at age 84.