James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley was born on October 7, 1849 in a log cabin in the little village of Greenfield and lived there, but in his early childhood, it was replaced by a two-storied house and it was now Greenfield’s Riley Old Home, it was open to people throughout the world. Riley’s best poems recollect his childhood in Greenfield. He was a singer in the words of these subjects. He was hooked to characters such as the The Raggedy Man. Riley went to study law and become a lawyer as his father wished, but Riley could not apply himself to law books, He focused on the activities of the youth of his hometown and his mind was a flutter of romance with Nellie Millikan then after that he wandered the American Middle West as a sign painter. Riley also