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ENGLISH 368 ENTRIKIN "Don't }'OU remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile. And trembled vith fear at your frown?" He wrote to Willis, "If you don't like this stuff, burn it, and I shall send you something when I am more in the vein," but Willis saw the appeal in the words, and the poem was printed, only the word "blushed" in the third line got printed as "wept." English sprang into fame wherever the language was spoken, the song was set to music, and was first sung in a Pittsburgh theatre to a German melody, when the audience went wild. It was dedicated to Charles Benjamin Bolt, a friend of English's, and the name "Ben Bolt" became known everywhere ; it was given to a ship, to a steamboat, and to a racehorse. English said : "The ship was wrecked, the steamboat blown up, and the horse turned out to be a 'plater,' and never won anything. The song met a second popularity when given promi- nence in Du Maurier's novel, "Trilby" (1894), when, again it was revived as the song of the hour. When Edgar Allan Poe wrote his article on the "litererati" of New York, in "Godey's Lady's Book" (1846), there was a "passage at arms" between Poe and English, said to be "the most exciting which had been witnessed since Cobbett's famous assault on Dr. Rush. (Oberlitzer.) Poe was severe, said English's grammar was bad, that he wrote "lay" for "lie" and needed "private instruction"; English "attacked the character of his critic. Poe in a rejoinder called English "Thomas Dunn Brown" ; Oberlitzer says that "English was indeed 'done' so 'brown' that he must have re- gretted ever having offered himself for a bak- ing at the hands of such an artist in cookery." English wrote plays, poems, and novels, al- ways with a great rapidity ; his play "The Mormons" is said to have been written in three- days and nights, while he would dash off sev- eral poems at a time. Although so prolific a writer, literature was not his only profession. He added law to medicine, and was admitted to the bar in Phila- delphia, in 1842; the same year he took a lively interest in politics, and advocated the annexa- tion of Texas ; in the presidential contest of 1844 he was sent on a confidential mission to secure Polk's election ; in 1855 he opposed the Know-Nothing party; he served in the New Jersey Legislature in 1854-1865 ; and was elect- ed representative to the United States Con- gress from New Jersey in 1890 and in 1892. He was one of the founders of the American Archeological and Numismatic Society, was vice-president of the Society of American Au- thors, and a member of the American-Irish Historical Society. At the sixteenth anniver- sary of his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania he addressed three al'umni societies of the University, receiving a hearty welcome from each. William and Mary Col- lege gave him an LL. D. on July 4, 1876. He wrote: "Walter Woolfe" (1842); "1844,. or The Power of the S. F." (1847) ; "Poems" (1855); "Ambrose Fecit" (1869); "American Ballads" (1879); "The Boy's Book of Battle Lyrics" (1885); "Jacob Schuyler's Millions"^ (1886), besides many other works. Dr. English married Annie Maxwell Meade,, daughter of John Maxwell and widow of the Rev. S. R. Meade of Philadelphia. They had four children, Edgar, Arthur, Florence^ and Alice. His wife died in 1899. He survived her three years, dying in Newark, N. J., April Howard A. Kelly. The Alumni Register, University of Pennsylvania, 1900, vol. iv, 1-2. Universities and Tiieir Sons, J. L. Chamber- lain, Boston, 1902. Literary History of Philadelphia, E. P. Ober- litzer, Philadelphia, 1906. Entrikin, Franklin Wayne (1830-1897). The son of Emmor and Susanna Bennett Entrikin, Quakers, he was born at West Ches- ter, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1830. His parents removed with him to New Lisbon, Ohio, in the fall of 1831, and settled on a farm in Hanover .township and here he attended the country schools. They removed to a farm, two miles south of Salem, Ohio, in 1840, where he at- tended the Salem Quaker Academy, working on the farm during vacations. He studied' anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and materia medica under Dr. John Harris, of Salem, and also learned practical dentistry. In the sum- mer of 1848 he worked under Drs. Robertson- and Kuhn, at Hanover, Ohio. In July, 1855, he removed to Findlay. He attended lectures at the Medical College of Ohio and graduated in the spring of 1873. During the first twenty years of his profes- sional career. Dr. Entrikin accumulated an anatomical cabinet, the work of his own hands, to which was added by purchase, many of Azieus' best models in paper mache, and a large number of pathological specimens obtain- ed in operations and postmortems. Dr. Entri- kin had charge of the Green Springs Medical and Surgical Sanatorium, 1881-82. He re- turned to Findlay in 1883; was elected profes-