Lilian steichen sandburg biography

Lilian listened, believed, and rebelled against her father's insistence that she quit school and work for her mother in the milliner's shop.
Born May 1, 1883, in Hancock Michigan, to immigrant parents, Lilian Steichen Sandburg graduated in 1903 from the University of Chicago with a Bachelor of.
She was born in 1883 to parents who came to America from Luxembourg.

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Sandburg, Lillian Steichen (1883-1977)

“To My Wife and Pal, Lilian Steichen Sandburg‚” was the dedication line in Carl Sandburg’s first published book, Chicago Poems. Carl and Lilian’s very souls were dedicated to each other in lifelong creative union. One symbol of this fact is the Sandburg Hall of the flourishing Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville, North Carolina, where she was a generous contributor.
The following narrative of this romance is abridged from an unpublished presentation to the Madison Literary Club in Wisconsin on November 13, 2000.

On December 29, 1907, Carl Sandburg, then calling himself Charles, checked in at 344 N. Sixth Street in Milwaukee to report for work as an organizer for the Wisconsin Social-Democratic Party. On that same day, party member Lilian Steichen, younger sister of Edward Steichen, was ending her Christmas visit with her parents near Menomonee Falls and returning to her teaching position in Princeton, Illinois. She stopped in at party headquarters to say good-bye to her socialist friends and met, by chanc

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Connemara Farm, 1961

Photo courtesy of Carl Sandburg State Historic Site

Written by Bryan Engelbrecht, IDNR Site Services Specialist II

Born May 1, 1883, in Hancock Michigan, to immigrant parents, Lilian Steichen Sandburg graduated in 1903 from the University of Chicago with a Bachelor of Philosophy. While enrolled there, she became active in the Socialist Party. Her work in the Socialist Movement led her to meet Carl Sandburg, who worked as an organizer for the party in 1907. They began exchanging letters and poetry, which she encouraged Carl to continue writing. On June 21, 1908, they married.

After successfully helping her husband launch his writing career and raising three daughters, Sandburg began to focus on her pursuits. In 1935, she established the Chikaming Goat Farm at her residence in Harbert, Michigan. She began breeding and dairying Toggenburg, Saanen, and Nubian goats. As her dairy operation expanded, she became a national expert on the subject. While her husband traveled the country performing poetry and songs, she traveled separately speaking to farme

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The Great Hunt
I never knew any more beautiful than you:
I have hunted you under my thoughts,
I have broken down under the wind
And into the roses looking for you.
I shall never find any greater than you.
Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems, 1916

Carl Sandburg wrote these words about his wife, Lilian Steichen Sandburg, whom he met in 1907.

Lilian was born in Hancock, Michigan on May 1, 1883. She was the daughter of John Pierre and Mary Kemp Steichen of Luxembourg, and sister to Edward Steichen.

The first-generation American graduated Phi-Beta Kappa from the University of Chicago in 1903. Lilian then taught high school in North Dakota and Illinois for the next four years. Lilian's own mother had set an example of a strong woman for her children. After the Steichen family immigrated to the U.S. Lilian's father passed away. Mary opened a millinery shop to support herself and her children. Such determination in Mary transferred to her children. Lilian was politically active before women were allowed to exercise their right to vote. An argument often made in the women's suffrage moveme