Biography:

Writer. Born– February 6, 1859, London, Ky. Parents– James Love and Lucinda Jane Price Slaughter. Married– James Isaac McKinney, May 7, 1878. Lived in Montgomery, where her husband was superintendent of the L & N Railroad. Education– Daughters’ College, a private girls’ school in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Began writing poems in her teens; published in local and national newspapers and journals. Used pen name “Katydid.”  Elected Poet Laureate, State of Alabama, 1931. Died 1939.

Source:

Who’s Who of North American Authors and  American Literary Yearbook.

Publication(s):

Katydid’s Poems. Louisville, Ky.; Courier-Journal Printing Co., 1887.

Palace of Silver (poems). New York; H. Vinal, Ltd., 1927.

The Silent Witness; a Tale of a Kentucky Tragedy. New York; Neale, 1906.

The Weed by the Wall. Boston; R. G. Badger, 1911.