Edward Gay Hill, Kentucky Poet Laureate

Edward Gay Hill

DATE OF BIRTH:   Aug. 17, 1883

DATE OF DEATH:   Nov. 8, 1937                         

PLACE OF BIRTH:   Ocean Springs, Mississippi

PLACE OF DEATH:   Jacksonville, FL

RESIDENCE(s): Louisville, Ky.

FIELD OF ACTIVITY: Lawyer

 

 

 

ASSOCIATED GROUPS WITH DATE IF KNOWN:

·       University of Louisville Law School (1903)

·       United States Navy, WWII, 19?-1937
·       Pendennis Club, Louisville, KY
·       The American Red Man, editor

OCCUPATION:   Lawyer

GENDER:   Male                                            

FULL NAME: Edward Gay Hill

OTHER INFORMATION: married to Effie Nuttall, daughter Marjorie

TITLES and PUBLICATION DATE:

·       The Home of Aegeus, (1920)
·       The Shadow Voice, (1928)

RESOURCES

http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/ref/collection/heraldpost/id/2197

http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/hill_edward.html

James Thomas Cotton Noe

Noe, James Thomas Cotton

DATE OF BIRTH: May 2, 1864

DATE OF DEATH: November, 9 1953

PLACE OF BIRTH: Thompsonville, Washington County, Kentucky

PLACE OF DEATH: Beverly Hills, California

RESIDENCE(S): Beverly Hills, California (1934-1953)

FIELD OF ACTIVITY: Lawyer, Poet, Education

ASSOCIATED GROUPS:

      Franklin College, Indiana (student)
      Cornell University, New York (student)
      University of Chicago, Illinois (student)
      Cumberland College, Williamsburg, Kentucky (faculty)
      Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennessee (faculty)
      University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (faculty)

RESOURCES

http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/noe.html  Redpath Chautauqua Collection, Special Collections Department, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa

http://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt712j683g27/guide James Thomas Cotton Noe Papers, University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections

http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3979&context=dlsc_mss_fin_aid Noe, James Thomas Cotton, 1864-1953 (SC 1021), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky University

http://www.kyenc.org/entry/n/NOEJA01.html Kentucky Encyclopedia Online, Noe, James Thomas Cotton, 1864-1953

TITLES and PUBLICATION DATE

The loom of life (1912)

The blood of Rachel: a dramatization of Esther and other poems (1916)

Leaves of holly (192?)

Lincoln and twenty other poems (1922)

Tip Sams of Kentucky and other poems and dramas (1926)

Uplift: a poetic fantasy (1926)

Dawn: a poem (1930)

The legend of the silver band: a tale of Kentucky in the eighties (1932)

Lincoln and the mother of Lincoln (1932)

The valleys of Parnassus: a selection from the poetry of J. T. Cotton Noe (1935)

Oolooloon, called Fleeting Doe: a romance of pioneer Kentucky (1938)

In Kentucky (1940)

The years that swiftly sped (1943)

Tip Sams again: a selection of poems (1947)

Banquet in Elysium and other poems (1951)

 

 

OTHER INFORMATION: married to Sydney Stanfill, two sons and one daughter, buried in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Kentucky

AWARDS/HONORS: Kentucky Poet Laureate, 1926

OCCUPATION: Lawyer, College professor

GENDER: Male

ETHNIC BACKGROUND: Not Hispanic or Latino

RACE: White

FULL NAME   James Thomas Cotton Noe

OTHER NAME(S)   J.T. Cotton Noe

CENTURY 19^th century