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Author: Mack, Robert

Biography:

MACK, Robert (1773-1865: findagrave.com)

The son of John and Sarah (Burnett) Mack, he was born in Pittsylvania County VA. The family appears to have moved to Kentucky and Mack himself, eventually, to Tennessee. In the preface to his one volume of poetry, he describes himself as having "very little learning" but a love of literature, and says his brothers could bear witness to his not having imitated Byron's Spenserian stanza but to have taken Burns as his model as early as 1806. (The poems are listed in chronological order in the table of contents, from 1801 to 1834.) He made his living as a lawyer; from 1821 to 1826 he was a circuit judge in Tennessee. About 1816 he married Sarah Milton Brown (1800-77), whose brother Aaron V. Brown was a law partner of James K. Polk in 1818 and became State Governor in 1845-7. The Macks had at least one son. Mack was the founder and editor of a religious monthly magazine, The Highway of Holiness, that survived just one year 1838-9. He is said to have become a preacher in later life but of what denomination is not clear. He died in Columbia TN and is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery. (findagrave.com 28 Apr. 2021; ancestry.com 28 Apr. 2021; WorldCat)

 

Books written (1):

Columbia T[N]: printed for the author by Felix K. Zollicoffer, 1834