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Will Cuppy
William Jacob "Will" Cuppy (August 23, 1884 – September 19, 1949) was an American humorist and literary critic, known for his satirical books about nature and historical figures.
==Early life==
Cuppy was born in Auburn, Indiana. He was named "Will" in memory of an older brother of his father's who died of wounds he received as a Union officer at the Civil War Battle of Fort Donelson.〔R.E. Banta (ed.), ''Indiana Authors and Their Books, 1816–1916'', Crawfordsville, IN: Wabash College, 1949, p. 80. Captain William H. Cuppy, 44th Regiment Indiana Infantry, was sent home to South Whitley, where he died July 15, 1862, age 26.〕〔Another relative, Cuppy's great-great uncle John Cuppy, Jr., an "Indian scout," is reported to have encountered John "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman in eastern Ohio in 1801. Chapman reportedly warned John Cuppy and three of his companions of hostile Delaware Indians in the vicinity. Howard Means, ''Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story'', New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011, p. 137. ISBN 978-1-4391-7825-6〕 Cuppy's father, Thomas Jefferson Cuppy (1844–1912), was at different times a grain dealer, a seller of farm implements and a lumber buyer for the Eel River branch of the Wabash Railroad. His mother, Frances Stahl Cuppy (1855–1927), was a seamstress and worked in a small shop located next to the family home in Auburn.〔Cuppy described his mother as "a singer of great talent." While she sang in the choir of the Auburn Presbyterian Church, Will pumped the old-fashioned pipe organ, an experience that he said led to his membership in the "Guild of Former Pipe Organ
Pumpers." (Stanley Kunitz, Howard Haycraft and Wilbur Crane Hadden (eds.), ''Authors Today and Yesterday'', New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1933, p. 182. ) The Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers was a real organization. Cuppy's framed certificate of membership, dated 1929, is among his papers at the University of Chicago Library. See (''Guide to the Will Cuppy Papers'' ).〕 Young Cuppy spent summers at a farm belonging to his grandmother, Sarah Collins Cuppy (1813–1900), on the banks of the Eel River near South Whitley, Indiana. He later said that this was where he acquired his early knowledge of the natural world which he satirized in his writings.〔Stanley Kunitz and Howard Haycraft (eds.), ''Twentieth Century Authors'', New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1942, p.341.〕
Cuppy graduated from Auburn High School in 1902 and went on to the University of Chicago, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1907. As an undergraduate, he belonged to Phi Gamma Delta, acted in amateur theater and worked as campus reporter for several Chicago newspapers, notably the ''Record Herald'' and the ''Daily News''. He lingered at Chicago seven more years as a graduate student in English literature. He did not show much interest in his studies, but in 1910 produced his first book, ''Maroon Tales'', a collection of short stories about university life. In 1914 he pulled together a short master's thesis,〔65 pages titled ''The Elizabethan Conception of Prose Style''.〕 took his degree and left for New York.
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