| Paul Kester | |
|---|---|
| Born | ca. 1870 Delaware, Ohio |
| Died | June 21, 1933 Lake Mohegan, New York |
| Occupation | Playwright |
| Spouse | none |
| Children | none |
| Parents | Franklin Cooley Kester and Harriet Watkins Kester (cofounder of Cleveland School of Art, died 1926) |
Paul Kester (ca. 1870 - June 21, 1933) was a U.S. playwright.
He was the younger brother of Vaughan Kester and a cousin of William Dean Howells.
In 1902, with his brother, he purchased and renovated Woodlawn Plantation.[1] In 1907, he bought Gunston Hall, where he lived until he sold it in 1913.[2] He moved to live with hs mother, at Belmont.[3]
Kester died at the age of 63 from thrombosis.
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The Race problem is always with us, and as my story deals in a serious way with its more serious aspects, I do not think it can be untimely. New phases of this great problem come up form day to day -- but the problem itself is as old as history -- very likely it will remain a problem to the end of history. Racial differences and the prejudices resulting from them have always confronted practical statesmen. The old method of dealing with them was by conquest, subjugation, or extermination. Such methods are now obsolete. Better ones must be found. Understanding must precede intelligent action along any lines, and my reason -- perhaps I would better say my justification -- for writing His Own Country has been my hope and belief that it would bring some little considered phases of this menacing and mighty problem more clearly before the minds of readers who live remote from it, yet whose consent is necessary, as it should be in a democracy, to any adjustment of settlement of living conditions where the races are existing side by side.[3]