![]() ![]() ![]() When Simon Haley completed his degree, he joined the family in Tennessee and taught as a professor of agriculture at various southern universities. For the first five years of his life, Haley lived with his mother and grandparents in Henning, Tennessee, while his father finished his studies. At the time of his birth, Haley’s father, Simon Haley, a World War I veteran, was a graduate student in agriculture at Cornell University, and his mother, Bertha Palmer Haley, was a teacher his parents met at Lane College in Jackson. Alex Haley was born Alexander Murray Palmer Haley on August 11, 1921, in Ithaca, New York. ![]()
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