Background
Kerlin, Robert Thomas was born on March 22, 1866 in Newcastle, Missouri, United States. Son of Thomas L. and Nancy (Jeffries) Kerlin.
Kerlin, Robert Thomas was born on March 22, 1866 in Newcastle, Missouri, United States. Son of Thomas L. and Nancy (Jeffries) Kerlin.
A.M., Central College, Fayette, Missouri, 1890. Studied Johns Hopkins, 1889-1890, University of Chicago, Harvard. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale, 1906.
Professor English, Missouri Valley College, 1890-1894. In active ministry Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1895-1898. Chaplain 3d Missouri Volunteers in Spanish-American War.
Professor of English, Missouri Valley College, 1901-1902, Southwestern U., 1902-1903, State Normal, Warrensburg, Missouri, 1903-1906. Instructor English, Yale, 1906-1907. Professor literature, State Normal School, Farmville, Virginia, 1908-1910, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, 1910-1921, State Normal School, West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1922-1927.
Associate editor of Arena, 1905-1910. Lecturer on English literature, U. Vermont Summer School, 1911-1917. Instructor Advertising Educational Foundation U., Beaune, France, 1919.
Lecturer in literature, Philadelphia Labor College, 1925-1927. At Lincoln U., 1927; Professor of English, Potomac State College, Keyser, West Virginia, 1927-1933. Lecturer in English literature and European history, Western Maryland.
College, 1933-1940. Author: Mainly for Myself (poems), 1897. The Camp Life of the Third Regiment, 1898. The Church of the Fathers, 1901.
Theocritus in English Literature, 1909. The Voice of the Negro, 1920. Negro Poets and Their Poems, 1923.
Editor of Miltons Minor Poems in Johnson’s English Classics. Home: 615 Memorial Avenue, Cumberland, Maryland.
Married Adeline K. Koster, July 10, 1907. Children: Katharine Elizabeth, Elsa Adeline, Constance Lee.