Will Hubbard Kernan

(1845-1905)
Tennessee

frontispiece

Will Hubbard Kernan, The Flaming Meteor: Poetical Works of Will Hubbard-Kernan (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Co., 1892)

"Kernan, Will Hubbard, poet, was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, November 5, 1845, and died in Memphis, Tenn., January 28, 1905. He was educated for the Bar but relinquished law to enter journalism. For years he was connected with Southern newspapers and considered Memphis his home."

[Source: Edwin Anderson Alderman & Joel Chandler Harris (eds.), Library of Southern Literature 237, 238 (New Orleans: Martin & Hoyt Co., 1910)(1907)(Vol. 15, Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors, 1929, Lucian Lamar Knight ed.)] [Kernan sometimes wrote under the pen-name Kenneth Lamar.]

Poetry

Will Hubbard Kernan, The Flaming Meteor: Poetical Works of Will Hubbard-Kernan (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Co., 1892) [online text]