Adelbert Farrington Caldwell

Adelbert Farrington Caldwell was an American writer and educator born in Oxford, Maine, on May 18, 1867. Available records indicate that he later died in Greencastle, Indiana, on June 6, 1931.

He is associated with The Barefoot Time, a collection of children’s verses and poems that reflects on youth, nature, and everyday rural experience. The tone of his surviving work suggests a fondness for memory, simple pleasures, and the emotional world of childhood.

Some source material also identifies him as a professor of English literature, which fits the literary and thoughtful character of his writing. Clear biographical details appear to be limited, so much of his life remains less documented than his published work.