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At the Graveside of Walt Whitman: Harleigh, Camden, New Jersey, March 30th, and Sprigs of Lilac
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Horace L. Traubel was an American essayist, poet, magazine publisher, author, and Georgist.
Background
Horace was born on December 19, 1858 in Camden, N. J. He was the fifth of the seven children of Maurice Henry and Katherine (Grunder) Traubel. He sometimes referred to himself as a "half-breed": his mother, whose home was in Philadelphia, came of Christian parents; his father was a German Jew who had emigrated to the United States in early manhood and was by trade a printer, engraver, and lithographer. As a boy Horace was shy, puny, and studious.
Education
He left school when he was twelve years old.
Career
For the next thirty-two years was successively a newsboy, errand boy, printer's devil, helper in his father's stationery shop, compositor, lithographer, newspaperman, factory paymaster, and bank clerk.
After 1902 he was a free-lance journalist. His family became acquainted with Walt Whitman a short time after the poet came to live in Camden in 1873. As Horace grew to manhood he became Whitman's close friend, visiting him every day during his last years and ministering in innumerable ways and with complete fidelity to the old man's comfort and contentment. Whitman made Traubel one of his literary executors, the other two being Richard Maurice Bucke, a Canadian alienist, and Thomas B. Harned, a Camden lawyer, who had married Traubel's sister Augusta.
Meanwhile, Traubel had founded a monthly paper in Philadelphia, the Conservator, the first number of which was issued in March 1890. He continued to edit and publish his paper until June 1919. It yielded him a scanty and uncertain income, which he eked out with miscellaneous journalism. All his life he endured poverty heroically that he might be able to say his say about men, books, and ideas.
His separate publications were Chants Communal (1904), translated into German by Otto Eduard Lessing as Weckrufe (1907); With Walt Whitman in Camden (3 vols. , 1906 - 14); Optimos (1910); Collects (1915). He edited, also, various writings by or about Whitman and The Dollar or the Man? (1900), a volume of cartoons by Homer Calvin Davenport.
During the latter years of his life he was praised extravagantly by a coterie of disciples, but outside that group his writings were little read.
His With Walt Whitman in Camden, a diary--beginning March 28, 1888--of his visits to Whitman, is neither dull nor unimportant, but it exasperates at times by its merciless record of Whitman's every remark, however casual or common-place. About three-fifths of the manuscript remains unpublished, though excerpts from it have been printed in various periodicals.
During the last months of his life he made his home with his friend David Karsner in New York. He died at Bon Echo, Ontario, of a heart ailment that had afflicted him for several years, and was buried in Camden.
Profoundly influenced by Whitman, he went beyond Whitman in his social thinking, becoming a Marxian socialist and an ardent supporter of Eugene V. Debs. He never took an active part in politics, and his communism was more religious, at bottom, than political or economic.
He was the platitudinizer of the American Socialist movement, performing for it a literary function such as Frank Crane was performing for more orthodox Americans.
Views
Quotations:
"If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires. "
Personality
In person Traubel was short and stocky, with blue eyes, mobile, sensitive features, and a great shock of wavy hair. He radiated kindliness and good cheer; to know him was to love him and to wish that he were as great a poet and prophet as his adorers believed.
Connections
On May 28, 1891, he married Anne Montgomerie of Philadelphia. He and his wife Anne had two children — a daughter who survived him and a son who died at the age of 5.