Henry Throop Stanton
Henry Throop Stanton (1834–1899) was an American poet, best known for his poem "The Moneyless Man".[1]
Stanton was born in Alexandria, Virginia and educated in Maysville, Kentucky. He attended West Point for a time, but did not graduate. He later made a living as an editor and as a lawyer. During the American Civil War, Stanton served as an officer of the Confederate States Army. Afterward, he returned to editing. Stanton died in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1899.
References
- Johnston, J. Stoddard (1916). "Biographical Sketch OF Major Henry T. Stanton". Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society. JESTOR. 14 (41): 7–18. JSTOR 23368557.
External links
- Kent, Charles William, ed. (1997). Southern Poems. Selected, Arranged and Edited with Biographical Notes Electronic ed. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Accessed 13 December 2005.
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