Truth and Poetry

San Diego: Frank & May Marcy, 1940. First Impression. Hardcover. In quite good condition./No dust jacket. Demy octavo, [19cm/7.5inches], full gilt-embossed emerald-green cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 76, indexed. Illustrated with bpen and ink vignettes by, Hedden Johnson Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Daniel L. Cady was, born in Vermont, graduated from the University of Vermont-Montpelier in 1886, studied law and set up a practice in New York City in 1894. Cady then retired to Burlington in 1912, where he wrote his volumes of "sentimental dialect verse" for which he was awarded a doctor of letters from Norwich University and from the University of Vermont. [Source: Deb Barnum, Bygone Books, Burlington, Vermont]. Horace Dunbar wrtote Marcy's Mill and the Men Who Winnowed the Facts, (San Diego, 1944). Evidentally Frank Marcy was the son of Frank E Marcy, inventor of mining equipment and, in particular, a milling machine. A bit of snooping around the intrnet brought up this: "In 1904, oilman Joseph Seep of Titusville, PA bought out Eben Smith's portion of the Mine and Smelter Supply Company. By 1905, he had purchased the remaining shares of Frank Smith and the Cary brothers as well. After Seep’s death in 1928, his heirs retained control of the company for many years. Arthur R. Wilfley and Frank E. Marcy invented some of the ore handling machinery which was manufactured and marketed by the Mine and Smelter Supply Company during Seep’s management. . In 1958, the Mine and Smelter Supply Company bought the Colorado Iron Works Company, which had begun in 1860 and been incorporated in 1876. In 1975, the Mine and Smelter Supply Company to the Mine and Smelter Corporation. [-Their Catalogue]. We assume that the publisher Frank Marcy. was one of the legions of millionaires who settled in San Diego & Coronado and dabbled in "letters." The 1931 telephone directory lists the Marcy home in Mission Hills as being at 3910 Henry St. a perfectly lovely little six bedroom red-brick mansion.