Byron Forceythe Willson was a nineteenthcentury American poet. He was the brother of Kentucky governor Augustus E. Willson.
Byron Forceythe Willson was born April 10, 1837 in Little Genesee, Allegany County, New York. He was the eldest son of Hiram and Ann Colvin Willson. Though his parents addressed him as Byron, he developed a dislike for the name, and eventually dropped it during his early manhood. In 1846, his father loaded the family and their belongings on a raft and floated down the Allegany and Ohio Rivers to Maysville, Kentucky. A year later, the family moved again, this time to Covington, Kentucky, where they lived for six years, before removing to New Albany, Indiana. This would be the last move of Hiram Willsons life. He died in 1859, and was preceded in death by his wife in 1853.
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