{"id":1762,"date":"2018-12-03T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T17:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2018-12-03T10:46:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T17:46:21","slug":"mckinney-kate-slaughter-1859-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1762","title":{"rendered":"McKINNEY, KATE SLAUGHTER, 1859-1939"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer. Born&#8211; February 6, 1859, London, Ky. Parents&#8211; James Love and Lucinda Jane Price\u00a0Slaughter. Married&#8211; James\u00a0Isaac McKinney, May 7, 1878. Lived in Montgomery, where her husband was superintendent of the L &amp; N Railroad. Education&#8211; Daughters&#8217; College, a private girls&#8217; school in\u00a0Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Began writing poems in her teens; published in local and national newspapers and journals. Used pen name &#8220;Katydid.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0Elected Poet Laureate, State of Alabama, 1931. Died 1939.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who of North American Authors and \u00a0American Literary Yearbook.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Katydid&#8217;s Poems. Louisville, Ky.; Courier-Journal Printing Co., 1887.<\/p>\n<p>Palace of Silver (poems). New York; H. Vinal, Ltd., 1927.<\/p>\n<p>The Silent Witness; a Tale of a Kentucky Tragedy. New York; Neale, 1906.<\/p>\n<p>The Weed by the Wall. Boston; R. G. Badger, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer. Born&#8211; February 6, 1859, London, Ky. Parents&#8211; James Love and Lucinda Jane Price\u00a0Slaughter. Married&#8211; James\u00a0Isaac McKinney, May 7, 1878. Lived in Montgomery, where her husband was superintendent of the L &amp; N Railroad. Education&#8211; Daughters&#8217; College, a private girls&#8217; school in\u00a0Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Began writing poems in her teens; published in local and national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9113,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/9113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}