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==Early life and education== Field was born in [[St. Louis, Missouri]] at 634 S. Broadway where today his boyhood home is open to the public as The [[Eugene Field House (St. Louis)|Eugene Field House]] and St. Louis Toy Museum.<ref name=":0" /> After the death of his mother in 1856, he was raised by an aunt, Mary Field French, in [[Amherst, Massachusetts]].<ref>Below, Ida Comstock (1898). ''Eugene Field in His Home''. E.P. Dutton & Co., p. 19.</ref> Field's father, attorney [[Roswell Martin Field]], was the lawyer who filed [[Dred Scott]]'s case. Field attended [[Williams College]] in Williamstown, Massachusetts. His father died when Eugene turned 19, and he subsequently dropped out of Williams after eight months. He then went to [[Knox College, Illinois|Knox College]] in [[Galesburg, Illinois]], but dropped out after a year, followed by the [[University of Missouri]] in [[Columbia, Missouri]], where his brother Roswell was also attending. Field was not a serious student and spent much of his time at school playing practical jokes. He led raids on the president's wine cellar, painted the president's house school colors, and fired the school's landmark cannons at midnight.<ref name=":0" /> Field tried [[acting]], studied law with little success, and also wrote for the student newspaper. He then set off for a trip through Europe but returned to the United States six months later, penniless.
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