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Spencer Wallace Cone


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(Born: May 25, 1819 - Died: September 19, 1888)

American journalist, author and poet. His parents were Sally Wallace Morrell and Spencer Houghton Cone. His father was a Baptist minister. Spencer W. Cone married Josephine Martinez on October 9, 1843. During the Civil War, he commanded the New-York Sixty-first Regiment, attaining the rank of colonel. A collection of Spencer Wallace Cone’s papers, including a number of letters and sermons by his father, may be found in the Zach S. Henderson Library in Statesboro, GA.

 

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Bibliography:

  • “Obituary [of Wallace Spencer Cone]”, New York Times, January 23, 1888  (a very brief obituary)
  • “Obituary [of Spencer H. Cone]”, New York Times, August 29, 1855
  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
  • Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.

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