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I noticed that in the last thirty pages of Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters uses the names of many famous people in the world as the last names for people from spoon river. Columbus Cheney, he could be using Christopher Columbus’s name and if you’re like me think he’s using Cheney for Dick Cheney. Alfonso Churchill, he could be using Winston Churchill’s name in this. Isaiah Beethoven, Edgar Lee Masters could be using the famous musician Beethoven’s name in this particular poem. And the last name that stood out to me with this pattern was Webster Ford, ofcourse he could be using the name Ford from the inventor of Ford General Motors. This was the first time that I noticed Edgar Lee Masters may have been using famous people in his poems.