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Robert Quillen
Verni Robert Quillen (March 25, 1887 - December 9, 1948) was an American journalist and humorist who for more than a quarter century was "one of the leading purveyors of village nostalgia" from his home in Fountain Inn, South Carolina.〔John Hammond Moore, ed., ''The Voice of Small-Town America: The Selected Writings of Robert Quillen, 1920-1948'' (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008), xi.〕 In 2012, his office and library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
==Youth and early career==
Quillen was born in Syracuse, Kansas, near the Colorado border, and was reared in Overbrook, Kansas, a hamlet south of Topeka, where his father, J. D. Quillen, published the local newspaper.〔Moore, xi. According to Quillen, his paternal grandfather was a "dour, hard man, who made wonderful wagons and once took me by the seat of the pants and threw me into a watering trough because I had not obeyed him and remained away from it." (83)〕 Robert early learned to set type and as a teenager sold pen-and-ink drawings and published a monthly magazine.〔Moore, 84.〕 In 1904, shortly before his seventeenth birthday, Quillen joined the U.S. Army under an assumed name (swearing he was 21), but by mid-1905, he had been released from military service. He then spent a few months working for newspapers in the northeastern United States where he had been discharged.〔Moore, xii. Quillen published an autobiographical essay, "Concerning Me" on October 17, 1929 (Moore, 82-86). He did not mention his military service.〕
In 1906, he answered an ad seeking an editor for a weekly that a publisher hoped to establish in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. Although after his first encounter he remained in Fountain Inn only three months, Quillen there met and married Donnie Cox, a milliner, five years his senior. He moved on to Americus, Georgia, and then took his new bride to Washington State, where Quillen joined forces with his father and worked at publishing newspapers and magazines in Winlock, Anacortes, and Port Orchard.〔Moore, xii-xiii.〕 Quillen later wrote that he had gone "busted" in the West.〔Moore, xiii.〕
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