A daughter of Stephen Bosworth Pound and sister of Roscoe Pound and Louise Pound. Miss Pound was an educator in the public schools in Lincoln, NE. Pound Middle School in Lincoln was named for her. Stephen B. Pound (1833 - 1911) was a pioneer lawyer, senator, and judge in Nebraska. ... Roscoe Pound (1870 - 1964) born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Botanist, lawyer law professor, theorist, dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law, dean of Harvard University Law School and was a distinguished legal scholar and educator. ... Louise Pound (1872-1958) was a distinguished American folklorist and educator. ... Pound Middle School is a public school in Lincoln, NE. Pound Middle School was named for Olivia Pound a longtime teacher in the Lincoln Public Schools. ...
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Pound was born in Idaho shortly before his family moved to Philadelphia where his father was employed in the Government Mint.
Pound's long poem 'The Cantos' was begun in 1915 and the writing of it stretched out over many years, appearing sporadically during the First World War and his first twenty years in Italy and continued almost to the end of the poet's life.
Pound urged Americans to read their own Constitution and not be bamboozled by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and London capitalists and Levantine usurers who promote wars in order to sell munitions.