John Milton Harney (1789–1825) was an American physician and poet.
Life
He was born in Delaware on 9 March 1789. He studied medicine and settled in Kentucky. After the death of his wife in childbirth, he took work with the New York Enquirer.[1]
He then travelled to Europe, accepted a naval appointment, and spent several years in South America.
On his return he edited a paper, the Savannah Georgian.[1] He became a Catholic, joined the Dominicans, then beginning their mission in Kentucky.
He died at Somerset, Kentucky, on 15 January 1825.[2]
Works
He was the author of a number of poems printed in various magazines. In 1816 he published anonymously Crystallina; a Fairy Tale, in Six Cantos.[3] Works published posthumously were The Fever Dream, from his time in Savannah, Georgia, and "Echo and the Lover".[1]
Family
He was the elder brother of William Selby Harney;[4] their father, Thomas Harney, was an officer in the Revolutionary War.[2]
He married Eliza Cooper, daughter of Judge John Rowan. She died in 1815.[5]
Notes
- 1 2 3 "Descendants of Thomas Harney 3rd - Chart".
- 1 2 Meehan, Thomas Francis (1910). . Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7.
see para (2) John Milton Harney, Brother of....
- ↑ http://198.82.142.160/spenser/BiographyRecord.php?action=GET&bioid=35403%5B%5D
- ↑ Meehan, Thomas Francis (1910). . Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7.
see para (1) William Selby Harney; Soldier, convert....
- ↑ The Papers of Henry Clay. Volume 4: Secretary of State, 1825 (1972), p.491.
References
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Harney". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.