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Wilbur Dick Nesbit, son of John Harvey and Isabel Fichthorne Nesbit,
was born in Xenia, O., on Sept. 16, 1871, and was educated in the public schools of Cedarville, O.
He became a printer and in 1889 located in
Anderson, Ind., where he became editor of
the ANDERSON TIMES. He subsequently moved to
Muncie, Ind., then to Indianapolis and, while in the
latter city, engaged in advertising work. His contributions also appeared in many
issues of the INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. After a period in the
East as a feature writer for the BALTIMORE AMERICAN, he went
to Chicago as a member of the staff of the CHICAGO
TRIBUNE–for which he conducted the column "A Line
o' Type or Two" for many years–and later the CHICAGO EVENING POST. Before his death, on Aug. 20, 1927, he was vice- president and director of
the copy staff of the William H. Rankin advertising agency of
Chicago.
Mr. Nesbit was nationally known as a toastmaster and
after-dinner speaker and was in great demand as such. He wrote, in addition to his
published books, the book of "The Girl of My Dreams," a successful
musical comedy, and other theatrical features. He sometimes worked in collaboration
with C. A. Briggs, well-known cartoonist.
In 1899 he married Mary Lou Jenkins,
daughter of Dr. J. H. Jenkins of Shelbyville.
Information from Dunn–Indiana and Indianans, Who Was Who
in America; and the INDIANAPOLIS STAR, Aug. 21, 1927.
- Little Henry's Slate.
Evanston, 1903.
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Close X - The Trail to Boyland and Other Poems.
Indianapolis, 1904.
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Close X - An Alphabet of History. San
Francisco, 1905.
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Close X - The Gentleman Ragman. New York,
1906.
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Close X - A Book of Poems. Chicago, 1906.
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Close X - The Land of Make-Believe and Other Christmas Poems.
New York, 1907.
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Close X - Baby: a Little Book of Big Thoughts About Little
Ones. Chicago, 1910.
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Close X - A Friend or Two. Chicago [1910].
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Close X - Masklets. Chicago, n.d.
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Close X - If the Heart Be Young. Chicago,
1911.
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Close X - My Company of Friends. Chicago,
1911.
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Close X - Old, Old Wish Christmas Book.
Chicago, 1911.
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Close X - Who's Hoosier.
Indianapolis, 1912. 2
vols.
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Close X - Always Christmas. Chicago, 1912.
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Close X - Friend O' Mine.
Chicago, 1912.
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Close X - Jolly Kid Book. Chicago, 1912.
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Close X - Your Best Friend. Chicago, 1912.
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Close X - God Bless You. Chicago, 1913.
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Close X - Oh Skin-Nay [The Days of Real Sport, by Briggs; Verses by W.
D. Nesbit. Chicago, 1913.
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Close X - Our Good Old World. Chicago,
1913.
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Close X - To All Good Fellows Like You.
Chicago, 1913.
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Close X - Value of a Smile. Chicago, 1913.
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Close X - All to Myself. Chicago, n.d.
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Close X - Sayin' Goodbye.
Chicago, n.d.
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Close X - When a Feller Needs a Friend; Cartoons by C. A.
Briggs. Chicago, 1914.
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Briggs" by NESBIT, WILBUR DICK: 1871-1927. in:
Close X - I Sat in Lodge with You.
Chicago, 1916.
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Close X - First Principles of Advertising. New
York, 1922.
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Close X - In Tumbledown Town. Chicago,
1926. (9th ed.)
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Close X - The Paths of Long Ago; with a Foreword by George Ade.
Chicago, 1926.
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Close X - After-Dinner Speeches and How to Make Them.
Chicago, 1927.
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Close X - Sermons in Song; Poems of Homely Philosophy.
Chicago, 1929.
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Close X - As Children Do; Poems of Childhood.
Chicago, 1929.
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Close X - Just Because of You. Chicago,
n.d.
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Close X - Yesterdays with You. Chicago,
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