HARNEY, WILLIAM WALLACE: 1831-1912.
William Wallace Harney , son of John H. and Martha Wallace Harney, was born in Bloomington, Ind., on June 20, 1831, and moved with his family to Kentucky when he was a child. He received his preparatory education under private tutors.
Following his graduation from Louisville College in 1855 he became principal of the Louisville High School for one year, then from 1856 to 1858 he was professor of belles-lettres at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky. From 1858 to 1869 he was associate editor of the LOUISVILLE DEMOCRAT. He spent the latter part of his life in Florida , where from 1883 to 1886 he edited a paper in Kissimmee and later contributed verse and prose to magazines and newspapers. Mr. Harney married Mary St. Mayer Randolph in 1868; she died in 1869, he in 1912.
Information from Who's Who in America and Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana .
- Spirit of the South. Boston,
1909.
