Background
Malloch, Douglas was born on May 5, 1877 in Muskegon, Michigan, United States. Son of Charles Frederick and Sarah Elizabeth (Baum) Malloch.
Malloch, Douglas was born on May 5, 1877 in Muskegon, Michigan, United States. Son of Charles Frederick and Sarah Elizabeth (Baum) Malloch.
Common school education.
He became known as a "Lumberman"s poet" both locally and nationally. He is noted for writing Round River Drive and "Be the Best of Whatever You Are" in addition to many other creations. He was commissioned to write the Michigan State Song.
Brother Malloch, as he was called, was born in Muskegon, Michigan which was known as a center of the lumbering industry.
He grew up amidst the forest, logging camps, sawmills and lumber yards. Books
In Forest Land (1906)
The Woods (1913 )
Tote-Road and Trail: Ballads of the Lumberjack (1917)
Come on Home (1923)
Someone to Care (1925)
The Heart Content (1927)
Live Life Today (1938)
Poems
"Ain"t lieutenant Fine Today?"
"Always A Mason"
"Be the Best of Whatever You Are" (also cited as "If")
"Building"
"Chaudière"
"Christmas"
"Connecticut Drive"
"Echoes"
"Father"s Lodge"
"Good Timber"
"The Little Lodge Of Long Ago"
"The Love of a Botanist"
"Make Maine Mellow"
"The Masonry Of Spring"
"Members Or Masons"
"The Road of Masonry"
"To-day" (also cited as "lieutenant"s Fine Today")
"The Way Home"
"You Have to Believe"
"The Happy Days".
Member editorial staff American Lumberman, since 1903, associate editor, since 1910.
Married Bertha Keillor, May 5, 1898. Children: Dorothy May (Mistress Vilas Matheson Swan), Douglas Keillor (deceased), Donald Herbert, Amy Jean.