Nixon Waterman (12 November 1859 – 1 September 1944)[1] [2] [3] was an American newspaper writer, poet and Chautauqua lecturer from Newark, Kendall County, Illinois, who rose to prominence in the 1890s.[4]
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Waterman was raised in Creston, Iowa, where he was introduced to journalism working on a small weekly paper.[1] He thereafter worked for various times for newspapers in Denver, Omaha, Chicago, and Boston.[1]
He began writing poems and essays, which "were popular with magazine and newspaper readers across the country", and "collaborated with Opie Read on some of that humorist's best known works".[2]
Waterman "died at his Fair Acres farm" in Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, following a brief illness, at the age of 84.[2]