Kilmer was innate around New Brunswick, New Jersey and attended Rutgers College and Columbia (B.A., 1908). His married woman was Aline Murray. He was the soldier in the United States Army 165th Infantry, Rainbow Section & was flushed inside action by the sniper during World War I. His immune system is buried in the Oise-Aisne Cemetery, Fere-en-Tardenois, France.

A Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest which is approximately 3,800 acres (15 km²) of old growth forest is located in the Nantahala National Forest under the management of the USDA Forest Service in Graham County, North Carolina. This woods was purchased per U.s. government sequentially to prevent extensive on top-logging in the area and dedicated to Kilmer's memory in July 10, 1936. It has occasionally of a big trees east of the Mississippi, & includes the Slickrock Woods Locality.

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