Background
Venable, William Henry was born on April 29, 1836 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. Son of William and Hannah (Baird) Venable.
Venable, William Henry was born on April 29, 1836 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. Son of William and Hannah (Baird) Venable.
Graduate South-Western State Normad School, Lebanon, O., 1860. A.M., DePauw University, 1864. Doctor of Laws, Ohio U., 1886.
Doctor of Literature, University of Cincinnati, 1917.
Father of William Mayo and Emerson V. Professor natural sciences, 1862-1881, principal and proprietor, 1881-1886, Chickering Institute, Cincinnati. Organizer and first president Cincinnati Society for Political Education, 1880. First president Teachers’ Club of Cincinnati, 1891.
President Western Association of Writers, 1895. Author: Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley, 1891. John Hancock, Educator, 1892.
Let Him First Be a Man, and Other Essays, 1894. The Last Flight (verse), 1894. Tales from Ohio History, 1896.
Santa Claus and the Black Cat, 1898. A Dream of Empire, 1901. Tom Tad, 1902; Ohio Literary Men and Women, 1903.
Saga of the Oak, and Other Poems, 1904. Cincinnati—A Civic Ode, 1907. Floridian Sonnets, 1909.
A Buckeye Boyhood, 1911. History of Christ Church, Cincinnati, 1917. Editor: Poems of William Haines Lytle (with memoir), 1894.
Selections from the Poems of Robert Burns, 1898. Selections from the Poems of Lord Byron, 1898. Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth, 1898.
Home: Cincinnati, O.
Author: Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley, 1891. John Hancock, Educator, 1892. Let Him First Be a Man, and Other Essays, 1894.
The Last Flight (verse), 1894. Tales from Ohio History, 1896. Santa Claus and the Black Cat, 1898.
A Dream of Empire, 1901. Tom Tad, 1902
Ohio Literary Men and Women, 1903. Saga of the Oak, and Other Poems, 1904.
Cincinnati—A Civic Ode, 1907. Floridian Sonnets, 1909. A Buckeye Boyhood, 1911.
History of Christ Church, Cincinnati, 1917. Editor: Poems of William Haines Lytle (with memoir), 1894. Selections from the Poems of Robert Burns, 1898.
Selections from the Poems of Lord Byron, 1898. Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth, 1898.
Married Mary Ann Vater, December 30, 1861.