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Joseph James Poynton Joseph James Poynton i(A8818 works by) (a.k.a. J. J. Poynton)
Also writes as: Dargo
Born: Established: 7 May 1870 Illabarook, Enfield - Rokewood area, Rokewood - Linton - Lake Bolac area, Geelong - Terang - Lake Bolac area, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 1938
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Poynton was the eleventh child in a family of fourteen. He was born at Illabrook, a mining township near Ballarat, where his parents had initially searched for gold but later took up land. Poynton moved to Melbourne at the age of fifteen where he became manager of the Midland Railway Company. Moving to Western Australia, he was Lord Mayor of Perth for several years. Poynton's first wife, Minnie Teather, died in 1934; later, he married Nina Jackson, thirty years his junior, the daughter of the chairman of West Australian Newspapers. He published six short stories in the Bulletin in 1898 and 1899, some under the pseudonym of 'Dargo'. The biographical note in The Bulletin Story Book (1901) describes him as an unmarried railway clerk 'of Australian race' with an English father and a Northern Irish mother.

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