Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg was a man of many talents. ... Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois on January 6, 1878 to August Sandburg and Clara Anderson. ... Carl on the other hand learned the alphabet when he was in primer school. ... For Sandburg, clothes were never more than a practical necessity. ... Thats why when Sandburg was thirteen he dropped out of school to work. Carl had a variety of short term jobs including delivering milk, cutting ice, assisting carpenters, painters, plumbers, druggists, etc. None of these jobs held interest in Carl for very long so when he turned eighteen he decided to travel the wheat fields of Kansas as a hobo. After a couple of months, Sandburg got bored once again and returned home and enlisted in the Sixth Infantry Regiment of the Illinois volunteers. ... One good thing Sandburg did get out of the war, though, was admittance to Lombard College without a high school diploma or entrance exam, as a "war veteran." While in college, Carl participated in many activities but left the spring of his senior year. ... One of the reasons Sandburg most likely because he had failed to take some of the required courses to graduate like mathematics. ... Later, when World War I began, Sandburg sided with the Social Democrats and supported President Wilson, which would eventually end up costing him his relationship with Robert Frost. On a happier note, one day in 1908, at the Milwaukee Socialist headquarters, Sandburg met Lilian Steichen, a school teacher from Illinois. She and Sandburg immediately hit it off and were married several months later, a very happy marriage which would last until his death.