Monongalia County, West Virginia    Biography of Waitman BARBE

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Source:  The South in the Building of the Nation, Volume XI.  
Richmond, Va.: The Southern Historical Publication Society, 1909.
Volume XI, page 41

Transcribed and submitted by Valerie F. Crook, <vfcrook@trellis.net>, 1999.

BARBE, Waitman, poet and educator: b. Monongalia county, W. Va., Nov. 19, 1864.  
He was educated at West Virginia University and at Harvard.  He became city 
editor and managing editor of the State Journal, Parkersburg, W. Va., and in 
1895 became assitant to the president and associate professor of English in 
the West Virginia University.  Dr. Barbe is a practical business man as well 
as a poet, and his interest in education led to his founding the West Virginia 
School Improvement League.  He is also an editor and part owner of the West 
Virginia School Journal.  His poems are of hope, joy, tranquility and beauty,
and includes Ashes and Incense (1892); At the Wood's Edge, and The Beatitudes. 
Among his prose works are Going to College and The Study of Poetry.


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