Eugene Field

Eugene Field Sr. (September 2, 1850 – November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. He was known as the "poet of childhood".

Field was born in St. Louis, Missouri, at 634 S. Broadway, where today his boyhood home is open to the public as The Eugene Field House and St. Louis Toy Museum. After the death of his mother in 1856, he was raised by an aunt, Mary Field French, in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Field's father, attorney Roswell Martin Field, was the lawyer who filed Dred Scott's case.