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Everard Jack Appleton
1872–1931
A Cincinnati newspaperman who wrote under the pen name Everard Jack Appleton, he blended journalism, poetry, and popular writing in a lively early-20th-century voice. His surviving books include patriotic verse and inspirational poems that helped keep his name in print long after his lifetime.
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With the Colors Songs of the American Service
by Everard Jack Appleton
About the author
Born in 1872 and died in 1931, Everard John Appleton published as Everard Jack Appleton. Reliable records identify him as a journalist as well as an author, and contemporary library and public-domain listings preserve several of his books and poems.
Appleton began writing young: the American Antiquarian Society notes that he published short fiction at eighteen and later became a professional journalist in Cincinnati. His work ranged from light verse and magazine pieces to poetry collections such as The Quiet Courage, and Other Songs of the Unafraid and With the Colors: Songs of the American Service.
Today he is mostly remembered through archival collections and public-domain editions rather than a large modern biography. Even so, his writing offers a clear glimpse of the period's newspaper humor, patriotic feeling, and taste for accessible, memorable verse.