Garland (Hamlin) arrives in Boston.

(Nov.) Born in West Salem, Wisconsin, on September 14, 1860, Hamlin Garland graduated from Cedar Valley Seminary in Iowa, and comes to Boston to begin a literary career, living initially in a rooming house on Boylston Place. Unable to enroll at Boston University, Garland studies at the Boston Public Library, teaches at the Boston School of Oratory, and moves into an attic room in the home of Dr. Hiram Cross at 21 Seaverns Avenue in spring 1887 and writes the stories that make up his first book. After moving to Roxbury in 1890, Garland writes stories for his second book. He leaves Boston for Chicago in 1893, and dies on March 4, 1940.