Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . THE AUTHOR OF BEN BOLT. Do you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, .Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown; Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembled with fear at your frown? In the old churchyard in the valley, Ben Bolt,In a corner obscure and alone,They have fitted a slab of the granite so grey,And Alice lies under the 7/ Thomas Dunn English, at the Age of Seventy.(Courtesy of the Midland Monthly, Des Moines, Iowa.) Among the many physicians who have wooed and won the muses, a nichemust be accorded Thomas Dunn English, the ta
Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . THE AUTHOR OF BEN BOLT. Do you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, .Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown; Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembled with fear at your frown? In the old churchyard in the valley, Ben Bolt,In a corner obscure and alone,They have fitted a slab of the granite so grey,And Alice lies under the 7/ Thomas Dunn English, at the Age of Seventy.(Courtesy of the Midland Monthly, Des Moines, Iowa.) Among the many physicians who have wooed and won the muses, a nichemust be accorded Thomas Dunn English, the talented author of the sweetsong, Ben Bolt. By the courtesy of the Midland Monthly we present 184 Tri-State News. his portrait. Doctor English won his medical degree at the University ofPennsylvania in 1839, and studied law and was admitted to the bar in to a throat trouble, he was obliged to give up the law and resumedthe practice of medicine. His taste for literature began while he was still in his teens. It was inthe New York Mirror of September 25, 1843, that Ben Bolt immediately gained popularity and was copied into many American andEnglish papers, the latter failing to give credit. The authorship of thesong has been claimed for others, notably for a German singer namedKneass, who heard it rendered by an English barn-stormer about 1846. Ben Bolt was onl
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