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John Milton Harney

Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A. & U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968. Nelson County. The Poets and Poetry of Kentucky, page 554.

DR. JOHN MILTON HARNEY was a native of Delaware, born March 9, 1789, died at his home in Bardstown, Ky., Jan. 15, 1825, in his 36th year. He was the son of Maj. Thomas Harney, and an elder brother of the famous Gen. Wm. S. Harney of the U. S. Army.

After settling in Bardstown, he married, in 1814, a daughter of Judge John Rowan, who died four years after. "Chrystalina, a Fairy Tale," in six cantos, was written by Dr. H. when only twenty-three years old, but not published until 1816. To his sensitive mind, the unfavorable criticisms far outweighed the kindly words and interest manifested in it, and he suppressed the volume. But few of his pieces have been preserved.

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