[1][2] He graduated from the Clinton Liberal Institute in 1877 and Hamilton College in 1881,[2] and in 1881–1883 attended Harvard University,[3] where his friends included poets Bliss Carman and Frank Dempster Sherman.

[4] Except for a further year in the English Department at Hamilton College in 1911, he devoted the rest of his life to creative writing.

[7] Oley Speaks composed the song "Sylvia" to lyrics by Scollard.

[1] "On March 20, 1924, Scollard married fellow poet Jessie Belle Rittenhouse in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.

His verse delights in the natural world, in small incidents that are honed to perfection.