Carl August Sandburg was born the son of Swedish immigrants August and Clara Anderson sandburg. “The elder Sandburg, a blacksmith’s helper for the nearby Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, purchased the cottage in 1873.” “Carl, called “Charlie” by the family”, was born the second of seven children in 1878. A year later the sandburgs sold the small cottage in favor of a large house in Galesburg. (Reynolds 21) Carl Sandburg worked from the time he was a …showed first 75 words of 695 total…

…showed last 75 words of 695 total…goats and thousands of books to Flat Rock, North Carolina.” (81) “Sanburg’s Complete Poems, won him a second Pulitzer Prize in 1951.” (93) “Sandburg died at his North Carolina hone July22nd, 1967”(114). “His ashes were returned, as he had requested to his Galesburg birthplace, in the small Carl Sandburg Park behind the house, his ashes were placed beneath Remembrance Rock, a red granite boulder. Ten years later the ashes of his wife were placed there.” (116) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**