Hiram Powers Dilworth

Hiram Powers Dilworth (May 19, 1878 – November 26, 1975) was an American poet, pianist, and music teacher.

He was the director of music at Nebraska Normal College and was also a guard at the Art Institute of Chicago for more than fifty years.

[1] He then attended and graduated from the College of Music of Cincinnati, where he studied with Albino Gorno.

[1] This job allowed Dilworth to focus on writing poetry, as he "disdained the idea of being a poet-for-profit".

[2] He also self-published more than twenty poetry books, including The Year (1908), Seven Sonnets and Ode to the Merry Moment (1916), Harry Butters: a Monody (1917), Songs of Autumn (1922), Ode on the Pure Art and the Great Achievement and the Enduring Name of Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler (1928), and The Cup of Joy (1937).

[1][16] Winston Churchill, David Lloyd Geroge, and Jack London praised Dilworth's work.

[3] During the 1920s, Dilworth dabbled in the stock market and became affluent; earnig the nickname "the millionaire guard".