Ray, H. Cordelia (Henrietta Cordelia), 1852?-1916

found: The poetry of Henrietta Cordelia Ray, 1995:Database of African-American poetry, 1760-1900 : bibliography (Henrietta Cordelia Ray; b. 1852?; d. 1916)

found: OCLC, 12/22/95(hdg.: Ray, H. Cordelia (Henriette Cordelia), d. 1916; usage: Ray, H. Cordelia)

found: Afro-American poetry and drama, 1760-1975, 1979:p. 73 (Henrietta Cordelia Ray; b. 1852?; d. 1916)

found: Sherman, J. Invisible poets, 1974:p. 129 (Henrietta Cordelia Ray; b. 1852?; d. 1916; preferred to be called H. Cordelia Ray)

found: Dict. cat. of the Schomburg Coll.(hdg.: Ray, Henrietta Cordelia; Ray, Henriette Cornelia, d. 1916)

found: African American National Biography, accessed March 18, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Ray, Henrietta Cordelia; H. Cordelia Ray; poet, educator; born c.1850 in New York; master's degree in Pedagogy from New York University; exhibited exquisite manners in mastering music, mathematics, Latin, Greek, French, and English literature well enough to teach; taught in New York public schools for thirty years; achieved national literary attention when she was invited to write a poem to commemorate Abraham Lincoln on the anniversary of his death, at the unveiling of Lincoln's statue in Washington DC by President Ulysses S. Grant (1876); published 147 poems in her final book, Poems (1910); died 05 January 1916 in Brooklyn, New York, United States)