Henry Holcomb Bennett (December 5, 1863 – April 30, 1924) was an American writer, journalist, and poet.
Bennett was the author of poems such as "A Desert Love Song" (Munsey's Aug. 1902) and "Gangway!
1901) and the short stories "The Face of Ompah" (National Magazine June 1900) and "A Glorious Privilege", (National Magazine Nov. 1900) but remains best known as the author of the popular patriotic poem, "Hats Off – The Flag Goes By".
The poem was also published in The Young and Field Reader, Book Five, Boston, Ginn and Company, c. 1915, submitted by Ross I. Morrison, Sr and Woman's World in July 1919.
[2] Bennett is buried in Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, US.