Arthur Talmage Abernethy
October 10, 1872 – May 15, 1956
Place of Birth:
Rutherford College, NC
Place of Death:
Asheville, North Carolina
Arthur Talmage Abernethy (October 10, 1872 – May 15, 1956) was a journalist, scholar, theologian and poet. He pastored several churches, contributed articles and poems to newspapers around the United States, and was named by Governor R. Gregg Cherry as the first North Carolina Poet Laureate in 1948.