Kinloch Falconer

Kinloch Falconer
c. 1867
24th Secretary of State of Mississippi
In office January 1, 1878 – September 23, 1878
Governor	John M. Stone
Preceded by	James Hill
Succeeded by	D. P. Porter
Personal details
Born	(1838-10-28)October 28, 1838
Died	September 23, 1878(1878-09-23) (aged 39) Holly Springs, Mississippi
Political party	Democrat

Kinloch Falconer (October 28, 1838 - September 23, 1878) was a newspaper editor, officer in the Confederate Army, lawyer, and the 24th Mississippi Secretary of State.

Biography

Troops of Company B, 9th Mississippi Infantry in camp at Pensacola,Florida 1861. Left to right:James Pequio;Kinlock Falconer; John Fennel; JAmes Cunningham; Thomas W Falconer; James Sims; John I Smith

Falconer was born on October 28, 1838.[1] He was the son of Colonel Thomas A. Falconer.[2] He had a brother, Howard, who later became a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.[2] He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1860 and was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.[2][3] He worked at his father Thomas Falconer's newspaper the Southern Herald in Holly Springs.[2] Enlisting in the 9th Mississippi as a private, he later became an officer in the Confederate Army in the Civil War.[2][1] Then, Falconer and his brother Howard set up a law practice in Holly Springs, Mississippi, the town in which they resided.[4] His home was known as White Pillars and a postcard was made of it. A carte-de-visite was made of Falconer around 1867.[5] The University of Mississippi Libraries have a collection of his papers.[6]

Political career

On November 6, 1877, Falconer was elected as a Democrat to the position of Secretary of State of Mississippi.[7][8] He assumed the position on January 1, 1878.[9][10] During the Mississippi yellow fever epidemic of 1878, Falconer returned to Holly Springs to nurse his father and brother.[7][4] He then buried them after they died of the fever.[4] Soon after, Falconer died of the fever in Holly Springs as well, on September 23, 1878.[7][4][1][11]

References

1. Hood, Stephen (2014-06-19). The Lost Papers of Confederate General John Bell Hood. Savas Beatie. p. 129. ISBN 978-1-61121-183-2.
2. Nelson, William Cowper (May 3, 2007). The Hour of Our Nation's Agony: The Civil War Letters of Lt. William Cowper Nelson of Mississippi. Univ. of Tennessee Press. ISBN 9781572335677 – via Google Books.
3. Mississippi, University of (1910). Historical Catalogue of the University of Mississippi: 1849-1909. Marshall & Bruce Company. p. 133.
4. Nuwer, Deanne Stephens (2015-10-15). Plague Among the Magnolias: The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi. University of Alabama Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-8173-5850-1.
5. "Kinloch Falconer carte-de-visite". teva.contentdm.oclc.org.
6. Falconer, Kinloch; Dorn, Earl Van (February 26, 1863). "Kinloch Falconer to Maj. Gen. Van Dorn (26 February 1863)". Correspondence.
7. Mississippi (1900). Department Reports. p. 179.
8. Lowry, Robert; McCardle, William H. (1891). A History of Mississippi: From the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando DeSoto, Including the Earliest Settlement Made by the French Under Iberville, to the Death of Jefferson Davis. R.H. Henry & Company. p. 379. ISBN 978-0-7884-4821-8.
9. Rowland, Dunbar (1908). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Department of Archives and History. p. 29.
10. Senate, Mississippi Legislature (1878). Journal.
11. Power, John Logan (1879). The Epidemic of 1878, in Mississippi: Report of the Yellow Fever Relief Work Through J.L. Power; a Practical Demonstration of the Generosity and Gratitude of the American People. Clarion Steam Publishing House. p. 134.

External links

• Findagrave entry