Henry Throop Stanton

Henry Throop Stanton

Henry Throop Stanton (1834 – 1899) was an American poet, best known for his poem "The Moneyless Man".

He was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and educated in Maysville, Kentucky. He attended West Point for a time, but eventually quit the school. He later made a living as an editor and later as a lawyer. During the American Civil War, Stanton served as the adjutant general of the Confederate States of America. Afterward, he returned to his editing. Stanton died in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1899.

References

* Kent, Charles William, ed. (1997). " [http://docsouth.unc.edu/kent/kent.html Southern Poems. Selected, Arranged and Edited with Biographical Notes] " Electronic ed. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Accessed 13 December 2005.


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