Squire Phin in Bloomington, MN

Day (1865-1935) was an American author born in Vassalboro, Maine. In addition to a number of novels published in the first quarter of the 20th century, he edited and wrote for several newspapers and journals in Maine and served as military secretary to Governor John F Hill of Maine from 1901-04. This novel first published in 1905 and reissued in 1913 was dramatized as The Circus Man and produced in Chicago in 1909.