Joaquin Miller
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Miller circa 1870-1880
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| Born | Cincinnatus Hiner Miller September 8, 1837 Union County, Indiana |
| Died | February 17, 1913 (aged 75) Oakland, California |
Cincinnatus Heine Miller/ˌsɪnsᵻˈneɪtəs ˈhaɪnə ˈmɪlər/ (September 8, 1837 – February 17, 1913), better known by his pen name Joaquin Miller /ˌhwɑːˈkiːn/, was a colorful American poet and frontiersman. He is nicknamed the "Poet of the Sierras" after the Sierra Nevada, about which he wrote in his Songs of the Sierras (1871).
Joaquin Miller's parents were Hulings Miller and Margaret (née Witt), who married January 3, 1836, in Union County, Indiana. Their second son, Cincinnatus Hiner Miller, was born about 1839 near Fulton County, Indiana. For unknown reasons, Miller later claimed his birth date was November 10, 1841. He said he was born in Millersville, Indiana, a town he claimed was founded by his father, while on a wagon heading west. Besides adopting the pen name "Joaquin," he later changed his middle name from Hiner to Heine to evoke the German poet Heinrich Heine.
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