Edward Pollock
Edward Pollock was an American poet best known for writing "The Parting Hour" in 1857.
Life
He worked as a child in a cotton factory. He apprenticed with a sign-painter. In 1852, he moved to San Francisco, California, and became a contributor to the Pioneer magazine. He studied law and was admitted as an attorney at the California Supreme Court in 1866. He died in 1865In his book A First Book of Jurisprudence for Students of the Common Law he wrote: