Harby, Lee Cohen, 1849-1918

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Lee Cohen Harby (1849-1918) was the fifth child of Marx E. and Armida Harby Cohen. In 1869, she married her cousin, John de la Motta Harby. Shortly after their marriage, the couple moved to Galveston, Texas, and then to Houston in 1879. During this time, Harby published several essays on historical and social topics, including Christmas Before the War in a Galveston newspaper (1873), On Women and their Possibilities (1883), Texas Types and Contrasts in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (1890), and The Earliest Texas in the American Historical Association Annual Report (1892). In addition, Harby published poetry and short stories in several magazines and newspapers, including Ladies’ Home Journal and Neale’s Monthly . An active member of several state historical associations, Harby was also a member of the American Historical Association, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Source:

Jones, Nancy Baker. Harby, Lee Cohen. Handbook of Texas Online . Accessed January 14, 2011. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhaem .

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Lee Cohen Harby (1849-1918) was the fifth child of Marx E. and Armida Harby Cohen.

In 1869, she married her cousin, John de la Motta Harby. Shortly after their marriage, the couple moved to Galveston, Texas, and then to Houston in 1879. During this time, Harby published several essays on historical and social topics, including Christmas Before the War in a Galveston newspaper (1873), On Women and their Possibilities (1883), Texas Types and Contrasts in Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1890), and The Earliest Texas in the American Historical Association Annual Report (1892). In addition, Harby published poetry and short stories in several magazines and newspapers, including Ladies' Home Journal and Neale's Monthly. An active member of several state historical associations, Harby was also a member of the American Historical Association, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Poet and author, Lee Cohen Harby (1849-1918) was born and died in Charleston, SC. She was the daughter of South Carolina rice and cotton planter, Marx Edwin Cohen (1810-1882), and granddaughter of Isaac Harby (1788-1828), leader of the American Jewish Reform movement. She married (1869) Jacob DeLaMotta Harby (1848-1916) and had two children, Marx E. Harby (1871-1958) and Lily Lee Harby (1870-1921).

During her married life Harby resided in several cities including Galveston and Houston (TX), New York (NY) and Charleston (SC). She published many essays, short stories and poems in newspapers and magazines such as Godey's Magazine, Ladies' Home Journal and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper.