Edward Pollock
ABOUT EDWARD POLLOCK
American poet remembered for his 1857 work The Parting Hour. He was also a frequent contributor to Pioneer magazine.
He worked in a cotton factory during his childhood and later learned to paint signs.
A lawyer as well as a poet, he began serving on the California Supreme Court in 1856.
He was born in Philadelphia and later moved to San Francisco.
He was a literary contemporary of Helen Jackson .
