SHIVELL, PAUL: 1874-
Born in Indianapolis on Sept. 25, 1874, Paul Shivell was educated in the public schools of Dayton and Springfield, O., and at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. During the Columbian Exposition in 1893 he acted as special guide and lecturer on fine arts criticism. He was lay pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Broad Cove, Me., in 1901-02 and spent the years 1903-15 in farming at Pleasant Hill, O. He was known as a lecturer, a reader and interpreter of poetry, and a designer and maker of handmade books.
Information from Who's Who in America and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Poems and Fragments. Springfield,
0., 1896.
- Ashes of Roses. Dayton, 0.,
1898.
- Stillwater Valley Pastorals. Pleasant Hill,
0., 1908.
- Stillwater Pastorals, and Other Poems.
Boston, 1915.
- By the Banks of Stillwater. Dayton,
0., 1919.
- The Little Valley. 1930.
- The Spring–Brook in the Dell. 1940.
