Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp 491-493 [Caldwell] CHARLES SOUTHERN MOREHEAD. The subject of this sketch was born in Cadiz, Kentucky, in June, 1869, and removed with his parents to Princeton in 1874. He attended Professor Blanton's high school for about eight years, and entered Georgetown College in 1886 at the age of seventeen, at once taking rank with the brightest minds of the institution. In 1889, after a brilliant contest with a number of other students, he was chosen as Georgetown's representative in the state intercollegiate oratorical contest, and bore off first honors over prize orators from five other colleges. He graduated in 1890 with the degree of Master of Arts, and afterwards taught school in Georgia. He was granted license to practice law in 1896, but abandoned law when he undertook the editorship and publication of the Princeton Banner in 1900. The paper is straight Democratic in politics, and has been established thirty-two years. Mr. Morehead is owner of the plant. As a paragrapher [sic] and editorial writer he has few equals and no superiors among the younger journalists of the state. A portion of his time since his college days he has always devoted to literature, and, though he has made no ambitious efforts, some of his works have been widely read and praised, and his poems have appeared in the leading periodical of the country. In 1893 the Pollard Publishing Company, of New York, accepted and brought out his first novel, printing ten thousand copies in the first edition. Three years ago he published a short novel, of which the Illustrated South, a monthly magazine, published at Louisville, has to say: "Charles Southern Morehead, the brilliant and versatile young poet-journalist, makes a masterful claim to literary distinction in an ambitious little volume entitled ‘The Remarkable Story of Conrad Johnston.' We rarely find such a combination of quaint thought and quiet tenderness, of lofty yet terse description, of reverence and love, of noble and subtle character vividly drawn, as is revealed yet concealed in the story of Marie Roche and Virginia Linderton, Conrad Johnston and John Godfrey Ware. The interest is fastened from the first page, and the strange plot is worked out and the mystery solved in the sepulchral silence of Mammoth Cave. By readers to whom fine literary construction is a keen pleasure, the story will be perused with much enjoyment. In this story, as in Mr. Morehead's poems, every sentence is as perfect and polished as a jewel." Speaking of him further, the Illustrated South says: "In his veins flows the best blood of the state. In his paternal ancestry he names three governors of Kentucky, James T. Morehead, Charles S. Morehead and Simon Bolivar Buckner, and Governor John Morehead, an ante-bellum governor of North Carolina. His maternal grandmother was a first cousin of Richard W. Thompson, secretary of the navy under President Hayes, and his mother is a sister of Hon. James B. Garnett, a criminal lawyer without a peer in a state noted for its forensic orators." He is the second son of Rev. Dr. R. W. and Mrs. Helen Garnett Morehead, both of whom are living. In 1900 he was married to Miss Mattie Bond, of Caldwell county, and one child, Helen Frances, has blessed the union. Morehead Buckner Thompson Garnett Bond = GA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/caldwell/morehead.cs.txt