Lloyd Mifflin (1846 - 1921)

Lloyd Mifflin, a poet and painter, was born in 1846 in Columbia, Pennsylvania. Mifflin received art instruction first from his father and then at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He then studied in Germany and became a talented painter, and later in life he developed into a good photographer. Mifflin believed that paint fumes damaged his health, causing him to stop painting and concentrate on writing poetry, specifically sonnets. He eventually published over 500 sonnets. Mifflin died in 1921.