[2] He had a brother, Findley McDowell Torrence, who attended Harvard University and married a hometown woman, Patricia Broadstone.

[5] During his early year in New York, he became part of a circle of poets that included E. A. Robinson, William Vaughn Moody, and Robert Frost.

[6] In 1900, he published The House of a Hundred Lights,[7] which Edmund Clarence Stedman helped him revise.

[7] In 1938, he was poet in residence at Antioch College and in 1941 to 1942, he was Fellow in Creative Writing at Miami University.

He chose works that reflected his values, compassion for others, sense of injustice among people, and a faith in mankind.

[1] I trust the people as I trust the stars.And if they lose the reckoning they will find it, For they must learn and by their griefs they will,Must learn to steer themselves, steer or be steered.In 1914, he married author Olivia Howard Dunbar,[13] who was a magazine writer, novelist, and reporter for the New York World.