Background
Visscher, William Lightfoot was born on November 25, 1842 in Owingsville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Frederick and Betty Walker (Lightfoot) Visscher.
Visscher, William Lightfoot was born on November 25, 1842 in Owingsville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Frederick and Betty Walker (Lightfoot) Visscher.
Educated Bath Seminary, Owingsville, Kentucky. Bachelor of Laws, University of Louisville, 1868. Admitted to bar, 1868, but never practiced.
Served 4 years as a soldier in Civil War. Long engaged in newspaper work. Wrote over 1,000 poems, public in many newspapers and magazines
On lecture platform for several seasons.
Later acting in drama. Author: (novels) Carlisle of Colorado.
Way Out Yonder. Thou Art Peter. Fetch Over the Canoe.
Ten Wise Men and Some More.
Amos Hudson’s Motto. The Pony Express. How They Came to Be Statues (verse). Black Mammy; Harp of the South.
Blue Grass Ballads.
Chicago, an Epic. Poems of the South. Stars of Our Country. Portraits and Pen-Pictures.
Etc.
Home: Chicago, Illinois.
Served 4 years as a soldier in Civil War. Long engaged in newspaper work.
Married Emma Mason, March 16, 1876 (died 1896).