There are few people today who have not, at some time or other, heard of Walt Mason. For the benefit of those few it might be well to explain that Walt Mason, familiarly known as "Uncle Walt," is the Emporia, Kan., poet, whose inimitable wit has brought him national reputation. 

So said a 1912 compendium of famous Kansans. This excerpt of his bio might have had Walt's hand in its making:

In 1907 he was brought to Emporia Kansas by publisher William Allen White to write for the Emporia Gazette. It was not long after his arrival in Emporia in a broken-down Phaeton horse buggy with his typewriter desk made from discarded sewing machine parts that his rhyming columns would be picked up by the George Matthew Adams Newspaper Syndicate Service. "Rippling Rhymes" would eventually gain the largest daily readership of any newspaper column in North America.

Today? Utterly forgotten. Let's mend that situation.