Introduction

Biography

Eugene was the son of Ros­well Mar­tin Field and Fran­ces Ma­ria Reed Field, and hus­band of Ju­lia Su­ther­land Coms­tock. His fa­ther was an at­torney in the Dred Scott court case.

A jou­rnal­ist, he was edu­cat­ed at Will­iams Col­lege, Will­iams­town, Mas­sa­chu­setts, and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mis­sou­ri, and wrote most­ly for child­ren.

Works

Specimens of his hymns are in Hor­der’s Trea­su­ry of Am­er­ican Sac­red Song, 1900.

He pub­lished:

• Echoes from the Sa­bine Farm, with Ros­well Mar­tin Field
• The Ho­ly Cross and Oth­er Tales
• The House: An Ep­i­sode in the Lives of Reu­ben Bak­er, As­tro­no­mer, and of His Wife, Al­ice
• John Smith, U.S.A.
• A Lit­tle Book of Pro­fit­a­ble Tales
• The Love Af­fairs of a Bib­li­o­ma­ni­ac
• The Mouse and the Moon­beam
• Selected Lul­la­bies
• Songs and Oth­er Verse
• Little Book of West­ern Verse, 1889
• Second Book of Tales
• Second Book of Verse, 1891
• Love Songs of Child­hood, 1894
• Christmas Tales and Christ­mas Verse (New York: Charles Scrib­ner’s Sons, 1912)