7. Alfred Joyce Kilmer
American journalist
poet
literary critic
lecturer
A sergeant in the 165th U.S. Infantry
Regiment during W.W.1
Born :December 6, 1886 in New
Brunswick, New Jersey
Died: July 30, 1918
8. Family
Parents
Father: Dr. Frederick Barnett Kilmer
Mother: Annie Ellen Kilburn- Kilmer
Wife : Aline Murray
Children: Kenton Sinclair Kilmer
Michael Barry Kilmer
Clanton Kilmer
Rose Kilburn Kilmer
Christopher Kilmer
9. Rutgers College Grammar School - 1895
Rutgers College-After his graduation but
transferred to…
Columbia College of Columbia
University- He completed his Bachelor of
Arts degree.
10. Academic
( Rutgers College)
Associate editor of The Targum, the campus
newspaper ( Rutgers College)
a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity
(Columbia College of Columbia University)
Kilmer was vice-president of the Philolexian
Society
Associate editor of Columbia Spectator
A member of the Debating Union
11. Work experiences
Taught Latin at Morristown High School in
Morristown, New Jersey-1908
submitted essays to Red Cross Notes (including
his first published piece, an essay on the
Psychology of Advertising
wrote book reviews for The Literary
Digest, Town & Country, The Nation, and The
New York Times.
employed by Funk and Wagnalls ( which was
preparing an edition of The Standard Dictionary)
12. Enlisted in the Seventh Regiment of the New
York National Guard.
assigned as a statistician with the U.S. 69th
Infantry Regiment.
