William Henry Venable

William Henry Venable (April 29, 1836 – 1920) was an American author and educator.

Biography

He was born in Warren County, Ohio. He began to teach at seventeen years of age, and during his vacations attended teachers' institutes in Oxford, Ohio, being one of the first teachers in the state upon whom the Ohio board of examiners conferred a life certificate. He was graduated at the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and in 1862, became professor of natural science in Chickering Classical and Scientific Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, in the same year, was its principal and proprietor in 1881, organized and was first president of the Cincinnati Society of Political Education, and in 1882 founded and conducted in that city the African School of Popular Science and History.

Beginning in 1886, he spent three years on literary work and lecturing. He was an editor of the

His son Emerson Venable also taught English at Walnut Hills. His granddaughter Evelyn Venable attended Walnut Hills and went on to become a noted actress.

Notable works

He published 22 books, including:

• "June on the Miami, and other Poems" (Cincinnati, 1871)
• "A School History of the United States" (1872)
• "The School Stage, 's a collection of juvenile acting plays, original and adapted (1873)
• "The Teacher's Dream," a poem (New York, 1880)
• "Melodies of the Heart, and other Poems" (Cincinnati, 1884)
• "Melodies of the heart, songs of freedom, and other poems" (1885);
• "Footprints of the Pioneers in the Ohio Valley" (1888)
• "Biography of William D. Gallagher" (1888)
• "Historical Sketch of Western Periodical Literature" (1888)
• "Early periodical literature of the Ohio Valley" (1888)
• "Down South before the war" (1889)
• "Beginnings of literary culture in the Ohio valley, historical and biographical sketches" (1891)
• "Let him first be a man, and other essays chiefly relating to education and culture" (1893)
• "Saga of the oak, and other poems" (1904)
• "Dream of empire, or, The house of Blennerhassett" (1901)
• "Floridian sonnets" (1909)
• "Buckeye boyhood" (1911)

He also published several pamphlets, addresses, etc., and edited "The Dramatic Actor," a collection of plays (1873) and "Dramatic Scenes from the Best Authors" (1874).

Notes

References

• Library of Congress Online Catalog
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1891). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• Works by William Henry Venable at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about William Henry Venable at Internet Archive
• Works by William Henry Venable at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Waynesville, Ohio ~ Connections with the Past