Background
Boner, John Henry was born on January 31, 1845 in Salem, North Carolina, United States. Son of Thomas Jacob and Phoebe Elizabeth Boner.
Boner, John Henry was born on January 31, 1845 in Salem, North Carolina, United States. Son of Thomas Jacob and Phoebe Elizabeth Boner.
Academic education; learned printer’s trade.
Edited papers in Salem and Asheville, North Carolina. Reading-clerk North Carolina constitutional convention, 1868. Chief clerk North Carolina House Representatives, 1869-1870.
In civil service, Washington, 1871-1887.
Removed to New York, 1887. Became member of staffs of Century Dictionary, Library of America Literature, and Standard Dictionary.
Literary editor New York World, and Literary Digest, and was on staff Appleton’s Cyclopedia. Is now again in civil service at Washington.
Author: Whispering Pines (1883).
Etc. Has written (poetry) almost exclusively for the Century Magazine, “Poe’s Cottage at Fordham,” November 1889, being notable.
Member of staffs of Century Dictionary, Library of America Literature, and Standard Dictionary.
Married Lottie Smith, 1870.