City: Memphis
MALONE, Walter, public official; born DeSoto Co., Miss., Feb. 10, 1866; Irish and Welsh descent; son of Franklin Jefferson and Mary Louisa (Hardin) MALONE; father’s occupation, physician; paternal grandparents Thomas and Elizabeth (Tucker) MALONE, maternal grandparents John and Martha (Yarbrough) HARDIN; graduated from University of Miss., Bachelor of Philosophy degree, 1887; in 1888 was city editor of the Memphis (Tenn.) Ledger; member of Authors’ Club of New York, Poetry Society of N. Y. and Business Men’s Club, Memphis, Tenn.; Democrat; Judge of the 2d Circuit Court of Shelby Co., Tenn.; author of “Claribel and Other Poems,” 1882, “The Outcast and Other Poems,” 1885; “Narcissus and Other Poems,” 1892, “Songs of Dusk and Dawn,” 1894, “Songs of December and June,” 1896, “The Coming of the King,” 1907, “Songs of North and South,” 1900, “Poems,” 1904, and “Songs of East and West” 1906.
