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MATTHEWS, JAMES NEWTON: 1852-1910.
Born in New Castle, Ind., in 1852, James Newton Matthews left the state while young but returned to attend and graduate from De Pauw University. He then practiced medicine in Mason, Ill. He has been called "The Poet of the Prairies."
Information from Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana.
