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The Eugene Field House & St. Louis Toy Museum was the boyhood home of Eugene Field, who is beloved to this day as the Children's Poet and widely known as the "Father of the Personal Newspaper Column".

Eugene Field was born in St. Louis at 634 South Broadway, on September 3, 1850. His father, Roswell Martin Field, was a well-known attorney. In 1853 he served as the attorney for the slaves Dred and Harriet Scott and their daughters, Eliza and Lizzy, when they brought action in federal court for their freedom. The Scotts were denied their freedom on the grounds that African-Americans were not citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court. The refusal of the United States Supreme Court to treat Dred and Harriet as citizens is believed by many to be a factor that precipitated the Civil War.

In November 1856, Frances Field, Eugene's mother, died and the next year Eugene and his brother, Roswell, were sent to Amherst, Massachusetts, to attend school and live with their paternal aunt, Mary, and their cousin, Mary Field French, until they entered college.

While a student at the University of Missouri, Eugene was co-founder and literary editor of The Mis-sourian, the campus newspaper. In May 1873, Mr. Field joined the staff of the St. Louis Journal and the following October married Julia Sutherland Comstock in St. Joseph, Missouri. His first published children's poem, "Christmas Treasures" was written in St. Louis. His career was to take him to St. Joseph, Missouri, back to St. Louis, and then to Kansas City and Denver, and finally to Chicago, where the Chicago Daily News hired him to write "exactly what I please on any subject I please".

Eugene Field died in his sleep on November 4, 1895, 62 days after his 45th birthday, a young man at the height of his career, famous for both his poetry and his column, and the father of five surviving children. He is buried in the churchyard of the Church of the Holy Comforter in Kenilworth, Illinois.

St. Louis, MO 13 March 2011-

Deputy US Marshal Kyle Shirley delivers remarks during a memorial service this morning for Deputy U.S. Marshal John B. Perry. The service, at Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis, celebrated the life of Perry, 48, who died Tuesday from gunshot wounds received while serving an arrest warrant on a residence in St. Louis. Shirley was among a number of speakers at the service, which included U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Marshals Service Director Stacia Hylton, U.S. Marshal for the District of Eastern Missouri William Sibert as well as St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay and Chief of Police Daniel Isom.

Deputy Perry had been assigned to the U.S. Marshals Eastern District of Missouri in St. Louis since July, 2005, where he served as a team leader on the fugitive task force and was the district’s firearms instructor. He had been with the U.S. Marshals Service since graduating from the U.S. Marshals Academy in 2001.


Photo by: Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals