"Harney Update" Family Newsletter |
HU Issue No. 49 (Jan-Mar 1999)
Articles:
Father of Ragtime - Black or White? Benjamin Robertson Harney.
| Quote: For a time Ben R. Harney was among the highest paid headliners in vaudeville. According to a newspaper article, he had a husky voice which he could "sustain certain notes for special effect to extravagant, breathtaking lengths; others he would break in a way that he alone could manage." |
Harney Historian Visits Sites of General William Selby Harney's Career - by Ben Brown, historian and teacher.
| Quote: Ben Brown reports that in spite of the illustrious career of General Harney, when he asks the personnel at the historical sites about General Harney, he is likely to receive a blank stare, or receive that famous word "who?". He advises, after this moment of disappointment, do not forget the reason you came, and enjoy every moment at the various historical sites. |
Ireland Trip - by Thomas A. Harney, of California (includes photos of Harneys of Drum
parish, Co. Roscommon).
From Wexford to Wexford - Irish exodus from Co. Wexford, Ireland, to Wexford, Iowa
(& Harneys in both).
Kissing the Blarney Stone.
Irish Gleanings - by John D. Bowen.
Overseas:
Irish Place Names - with the name Harney ( Derryharney, Tullyharney,
etc. etc.)
Announcements:
Birth: Thomas Edward St. Aubyn Harney, 21 Aug 1998, Nairobi, Kenya
Marriage: Oliver Harney and Daniela Schnase, 21 October 1998,
Ludwigsburg, Germany
Book: The Priest and the King, by Desmond St. Aubyn Harney,
about the Iranian revolution.
Friends of General Harney House, P.O. Box 398, Sullivan, MO. - Their aim
is to see the old Harney Mansion, summer home of General William Selby Harney, restored.
(More in upcoming issues).
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