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Brindley Sisco Period 5 John Burroughs was an American naturalist whose essays contributed to ...Burroughs was the seventh child born to Chauncy and Amy Burrough’s on April 3,1837. He grew up along with nine other brothers and sisters on his family's farm in the Catskill Mountains. While he worked on the family’s farm as a young boy he was always captivated by the birds, wildlife, and frogs who returned each spring. Burrough loved to learn as a child and was frequently reading, but his dad did no support Johns interest in attending college. So, at the young age of seventeen John left home in hopes of raising enough money to pay for college. To earn his money for school he mainly taught at a school in Olive, New York. Burroughs eventually attended Cooperstown Seminary. While there he read the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Wordsworth who became two of his lifelong influences. It was not until the summer of 1860 when John Burroughs essay Expression was picked up by Atlantic Monthly. Which was later published in November of that same year. In 1864 John took a job as a c...