Living together before marriage is one of America's most significant and unexpected family trends. By simple definition, living together-or. unmarried cohabitation--is the status of couples who are sexual partners, not married to each other, and sharing a household.
(1/16/1874 - 9/11/1958). Robert W. Service was born in 1874 in Preston, Lancashire, England and was the eldest child of 10. He composed his first poem at the age of 6 while living with his paternal grandfather and maiden aunts in Scotland. A mischievous youth, Robert always dreamt of adventure and going to sea.
Service entertained the locals with poetry recitations and, with the encouragement of a newspaper editor, began reciting his own poems specifically about life in the Yukon. Robert Service put his poems together and published them as Songs of a Sourdough in 1907. The collection that made him a rich man, thanks especially to The Shooting of Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee.. These humorous tales in verse were considered doggerel by the literary set, yet remain extremely popular to this day.