Samuel E. Kiser (1862 - 1942)

Samuel Ellsworth Kiser (2 February 1872 - 30 January 1942) was an American writer, editor, and poet. He started his career as a newspaperman in Cleveland, Ohio. From 1900 to 1914, he was an editorial and special writer for the Chicago “Record-Herald,” the paper in which his regular column “Whimwhams and Sentiment” appeared. He made regular written contributions to “Harper’s Magazine” and was the author of the children’s storybook, “The Happy Duck-Lucks” (1911). Much of his writing and poetry was either whimsical or inspirational in nature.