Author: John Frederick Dorman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 592
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John Preston (d.1748) married Elizabeth Patton, and immigrated in 1738 from Ireland to Augusta County, Virginia. Descendants lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, California and elsewhere.
Author: Robert Somerville Radford Yates Publisher: ISBN: Category : Virginia Languages : en Pages : 548
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The descendents of John and Sarah Radford were found in Maryland in 1677. Evidence shows that they probably came from England. Descendants lived in Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, and elsewhere.
Author: John E. Kleber Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813121000 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 1033
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This ultimate reference to Kentucky's first chartered city is "an absolute must for anyone interested in Kentucky, regional, or urban history" (James C. Klotter). Readers learn about the inspiration for the city's name (King Louie XVI of France), its former famous residents (John James Audubon and Muhammad Ali), facts about the Kentucky Derby, and much more. 306 photos. 79 maps.
Author: Frank Hopkins Heck Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 9780813102177 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 420
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Biography of John Cabell Breckinridge: "a lawyer, U.S. Representative, Senator from Kentucky, the 14th Vice President of the United States, Southern Democratic candidate for President in 1860, a Confederate general in the American Civil War, and the last Confederate Secretary of War. To date, Breckinridge is the youngest vice president in U.S. history, inaugurated at age 36. He is also remembered as the Confederate commander at the Battle of New Market, where young VMI cadets participated in the battle on the Confederate side."-Wikipedia.
Author: Michael J. Puglisi Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press ISBN: 9780870499692 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 328
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The contributors to this collection argue that traditional views - of ethnic and cultural isolation, of German clannishness and Scots-Irish individualism - contain a kernel of truth but are far too restrictive and simplistic.
Author: James C. Klotter Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813189470 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 611
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Across more than six generations—beginning before the Revolutionary War—the Breckinridge family has produced a series of notable leaders. These often controversial men and women included a presidential candidate, a U.S. vice president, cabinet members, generals, women's rights advocates, congressmen, editors, reformers, authors, and church leaders. Along with success, the Breckinridges, like other Americans, faced hardship and war, contended with race, lived through difficult family situations—including a sex scandal—and encountered personal and political failure. An articulate, opinionated, and frank family, the Breckinridges have left a detailed record that allows us a vivid recreation of the range of American history and society.
Author: Susanna Delfino Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 081315488X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 214
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Class, race, and gender collide in this insightful examination of the life of Susanna (Susan) Preston Shelby Grigsby (1830–1891)—a white plantation mistress and slaveholder who struggled to participate in the economic modernization of antebellum Kentucky. Drawing on Grigsby's correspondence, author Susanna Delfino uses Grigsby's story to explore the complex cultural and social issues at play in the state's economy before, during, and after the Civil War. Delfino demonstrates that Grigsby engaged in certain kinds of antislavery activism, such as hiring white servants as a way of conveying her support for free labor and avoiding ever selling a slave. Despite her beliefs, however, Grigsby failed to hold to her moral compass when faced with her husband's patriarchal authority or when she experienced serious economic trouble. This compelling study not only illuminates how white women participated in the South's nineteenth-century economy, but also offers new perspectives on their complicity in slavery.
Author: John Frederick Dorman
Author: Robert Somerville Radford Yates
Author: Patricia Givens Johnson
Author: John E. Kleber
Author: Frank Hopkins Heck
Author: Howard McKnight Wilson
Author: Michael J. Puglisi
Author: Lewis Preston Summers
Author: James C. Klotter
Author: Susanna Delfino