Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A.
& U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968.  Nelson County.
The Poets and Poetry of Kentucky, page 607.

REV. JOUETT VERNON COSBY,
A citizen of Bardstown, Ky., since 1847, but a native of Staunton, Va.,
was born July 8, 1816 - son of Dabney Cosby, and grandson of two
revolutionary soldiers.  He was educated at Hampden Sidney College; read a
thorough course of law, but abandoned it for theology; pursued his studies
for the ministry at Union Seminary, Va., and at Princeton, J. J.; preached
for three years in North Carolina and Virginia, and in 1847 was called to
Bardstown, where he still lives (April, 1874).  Mr. Cosby has written many
fugitive pieces, but only one poem of any considerable length,
"Consecration," published in pamphlet form, 55 pp., 12mo., in April, 1874,
from which we give several extracts: [Note: Poems shown: "Song" and
"Consecration:  A Poem."]

Cosby Sidney
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VA NC NJ

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