In 1922 this poet & Lincoln biographer wrote "Rootabaga Stories" to entertain his 3 daughters
... poet and Lincoln biographer, was born in a three-room cottage adjacent to the 
site ... His book Rootabaga Stories was written for his three daughters, and The... [DOC] [TLE] June | 2008 | poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground ... [PAR] It may even be a very old fashioned way to write a poem about provincial life, 
though .... M. Jenkins, the daughter of a lawyer in Chicago, and had three 
children