John Henry Boner

John Henry Boner (1845–1903) was an American poet born in Salem, North Carolina, of the Moravian community there. He worked as a printer and journalist and later held a post in the Library of Congress in Washington.

His collection Whispering Pines appeared in 1883 and a later volume of poems in 1903; he is remembered for his North Carolina verse and for “Poe’s Cottage at Fordham.”