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"John Milton Harney, poet, born in Sussex county, Delaware, 9 March, 1789; died in Bardstown, Kentucky, 15 January, 1825.
He was a son of Thomas Harney, an officer in the war of the Revolution.
In 1791 the family emigrated to Tennessee, and subsequently removed to Louisiana.
Young Harney studied medicine and settled at Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky While on a visit to Europe he received a naval appointment, and spent several years in Buenos Ayres.
In his return to the United States he edited a paper at Savannah, G a., for a time, but, being seized with a violent fever in consequence of his exertions at a fire, he returned to Bardstown in broken health and died there. Before his death he had become a Roman Catholic and joined the order of Dominican monks, entering a monastery at Bardstown. With the exception of "Crystalina," a fairy tale in six cantos, published anonymously (1816), Mr. Harney's poems were not printed until after his death, and then appeared only in magazines. The lines "To a Valued Friend," "Echo and the Lover," "The Whippoorwill," and "The Fever Dream" have been the most admired."
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Thanks to Yvonne for the following information:
"Brother of General Harney.
He became a Catholic Priest, but was allowed special dispensation, and died and was buried by the side of his wife."
"John Milton Harney, poet, born in Sussex county, Delaware, 9 March, 1789; died in Bardstown, Kentucky, 15 January, 1825.
He was a son of Thomas Harney, an officer in the war of the Revolution.
In 1791 the family emigrated to Tennessee, and subsequently removed to Louisiana.
Young Harney studied medicine and settled at Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky While on a visit to Europe he received a naval appointment, and spent several years in Buenos Ayres.
In his return to the United States he edited a paper at Savannah, G a., for a time, but, being seized with a violent fever in consequence of his exertions at a fire, he returned to Bardstown in broken health and died there. Before his death he had become a Roman Catholic and joined the order of Dominican monks, entering a monastery at Bardstown. With the exception of "Crystalina," a fairy tale in six cantos, published anonymously (1816), Mr. Harney's poems were not printed until after his death, and then appeared only in magazines. The lines "To a Valued Friend," "Echo and the Lover," "The Whippoorwill," and "The Fever Dream" have been the most admired."
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Thanks to Yvonne for the following information:
"Brother of General Harney.
He became a Catholic Priest, but was allowed special dispensation, and died and was buried by the side of his wife."
Thanks to BAH for the following obit:
"John Milton Harney, poet, born in Sussex county, Delaware, 9 March, 1789; died in Bardstown, Kentucky, 15 January, 1825.
He was a son of Thomas Harney, an officer in the war of the Revolution.
In 1791 the family emigrated to Tennessee, and subsequently removed to Louisiana.
Young Harney studied medicine and settled at Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky While on a visit to Europe he received a naval appointment, and spent several years in Buenos Ayres.
In his return to the United States he edited a paper at Savannah, G a., for a time, but, being seized with a violent fever in consequence of his exertions at a fire, he returned to Bardstown in broken health and died there. Before his death he had become a Roman Catholic and joined the order of Dominican monks, entering a monastery at Bardstown. With the exception of "Crystalina," a fairy tale in six cantos, published anonymously (1816), Mr. Harney's poems were not printed until after his death, and then appeared only in magazines. The lines "To a Valued Friend," "Echo and the Lover," "The Whippoorwill," and "The Fever Dream" have been the most admired."
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Thanks to Yvonne for the following information:
"Brother of General Harney.
He became a Catholic Priest, but was allowed special dispensation, and died and was buried by the side of his wife."
"John Milton Harney, poet, born in Sussex county, Delaware, 9 March, 1789; died in Bardstown, Kentucky, 15 January, 1825.
He was a son of Thomas Harney, an officer in the war of the Revolution.
In 1791 the family emigrated to Tennessee, and subsequently removed to Louisiana.
Young Harney studied medicine and settled at Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky While on a visit to Europe he received a naval appointment, and spent several years in Buenos Ayres.
In his return to the United States he edited a paper at Savannah, G a., for a time, but, being seized with a violent fever in consequence of his exertions at a fire, he returned to Bardstown in broken health and died there. Before his death he had become a Roman Catholic and joined the order of Dominican monks, entering a monastery at Bardstown. With the exception of "Crystalina," a fairy tale in six cantos, published anonymously (1816), Mr. Harney's poems were not printed until after his death, and then appeared only in magazines. The lines "To a Valued Friend," "Echo and the Lover," "The Whippoorwill," and "The Fever Dream" have been the most admired."
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Thanks to Yvonne for the following information:
"Brother of General Harney.
He became a Catholic Priest, but was allowed special dispensation, and died and was buried by the side of his wife."
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