Day married Helen Gerald, the only daughter of railroad engineer Amos F. Gerald and Caroline W. Rowell. She died in 1902 at the age of 32, and was interred in Maplewood Cemetery in her father's home town of Fairfield, Maine. Day died at his home in Mill Valley, California on February 19, 1935, and was buried in Nichols Cemetery in his hometown of Vassalboro, Maine.[2][3]
Career
He graduated from Colby College (class of 1887) and in 1889-90 he was managing editor of the publications of the Union Publishing Company in Bangor, Maine. He was also editor and proprietor of the Gazette in Dexter, Maine, a special writer for the Journal in Lewiston, Maine, representative of the Boston Herald, and managing editor of the Daily Sun in Lewiston. From 1901 until 1904 he was military secretary to Gov. John F. Hill of Maine.
The main poet of Maine and no small man in Carmel! Much too busy to do much visiting but when he does it's a tonic to listen to him. His many novels contain adventures in the big woods and sturdy outdoor life. He says the first 'pome' he ever wrote for the Lewiston Journal brought a libel suit on the paper and put a blackhand value on his three stanza gem to the extent of a sum never received by the great Longfellow in his palmiest days. "Started right out as a high priced poet," he says.
^Heseltine, Charles D. (March 9, 2015). The Illustrated Atlas of Maine's Street & Electric Railways: 1863–1946. PWM. ISBN978-1502406224.
^"Holman F. Day, Maine-Born Author, Dead". Biddeford Daily Journal. Mill Valley, California. AP. February 21, 1935. pp. 1, 7. Retrieved September 5, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^"Who's Who-and Here". Carmel Pine Cone. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. December 14, 1928. pp. 9–15. Retrieved October 17, 2022.