Editing Allen Tate (section)

===Early years===
Tate was born near [[Winchester, Kentucky]], to John Orley Tate, a Kentucky businessman and Eleanor Parke Custis Varnell from Virginia.  On the Bogan side of her grandmother's family, Eleanor Varnell was a distant relative of [[George Washington]]; she left Tate a copper luster pitcher that Washington had ordered from London for his sister.

In 1916 and 1917 Tate studied the violin at the [[Cincinnati Conservatory of Music]].