BIOGRAPHICA L SKETCHES.



ent occupation being that of an insurance agent. From time to time
he continues to write verses of a high order, and gives readings from
his poems to popular audiences. Personally he is of pleasing address,
vivacious in conversation, happy in his family relations, and esteemed
by a circle of friends co-extensive with the State.  J. s. J.

                  MISS JEANNETTE SWING.
   She is the niece of Rev. David Swing, of Chicago, so well known
in literary circles. Was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, but removed during
her childhood to Dayton, Kentucky, where she was graduated from the
High School in i886. At an early age she gave evidence of literary
talent, and at the age of eighteen her first story appeared in a large
Cincinnati daily. Since then she has contributed both prose and
poetry to many of the papers, and has been unusually successful.

                 MICHAEL MOORES TEAGER
   Was born in Bath County, Kentucky, May i, i833. His father, Jacob
Teager, was of German extraction, but a native of Mason County, Ken-
tucky. His mother, Louisa (Moores) Teager, was born in Bath County,
Kentucky, and daughter of Michael Moores, who came to Kentucky
soon after the Revolutionary War, in which he participated. He was
admitted to the bar in i86o, and entered upon the practice of law at
Flemingsburg, Kentucky, where he now resides. In i862 he enlisted
in the Confederate service with the 2d Battalion, Kentucky Mounted
Rifles, and served during the war, after which, on the iith May, i871,
he was married to Miss Irene Emma Stealy, of Jeffersonville, Indiana.

           SARAH CAMPBELL HARRIS-THORNTON.

   Born in Mason County, Kentucky, i825. Her poem, "Beyond the
Grave," was written at the age of fifteen, and appeared in the Lexing-
ton Intelligencer. Some time after marriage moved to Texas, where
she died in i88o.
                  CATHERINE A. WARFIELD.
  Catherine Ann Ware was born in the State of Mississippi, but edu-
cated in Philadelphia. She was married to Elisha Warfield, of Lexing-
ton, Kentucky, in 1833, and after several years' travel abroad, and a
protracted residence in Texas, they finally settled in Lexington, where
Mrs. Warfield became one of the chief ornaments to the refined and
intellectual circle of that section of Kentucky society. In i846 a vol-
ume of poems, entitled " Poems by two Sisters of the West," from the
pen of Mrs. Warfield, and her sister, Mrs. Eleanor Percy Lee, was pub-
lished and quite favorably received, but Mrs. Warfield's best poems
were contributed singly to the Louisville Journal.    



325