Charles Caldwell

Charles Caldwell

 
DATE OF BIRTH: May 14, 1772
DATE OF DEATH: July 9, 1853

PLACE OF BIRTH: Caswell County
PLACE OF DEATH: Nashville, Tennessee

FIELD OF ACTIVITY: Medicine

ASSOCIATED GROUPS: Graduated University of Pennsylvania with M.D. (1796), Taught at Medical School at Transylvania Lexington, Kentucky (1819), Taught at University of Louisville and created the Louisville Medical Institute

OCCUPATION: Physician, Medical Educator
                       
RACE: Caucasian                                
GENDER: MALE                           
LANGUAGE: English
LABELS: 18th century
                                                        
TITLES:
An Attempt to establish the original sameness of three phenomena of fever (1796)
A semi-annual oration, on the origin of pestilential diseases (1799)
An eulogium to the memory of Dr. Samuel Cooper (1799)
An oration on the causes of the difference, in point of frequency and force, between the endemic diseases of the United States of American, and those of the countries of Europe (1802)
An eulogium to the memory of Mr. George Lee (1802)
An essay on the pestilential or yellow fever: as it prevailed in Philadelphia in the year eighteen hundred and five (1807)
An Anniversary oration on the subject of quarantines (1807)
An Eulogium on Caspar Wistar, M.D., professor of anatomy (1818)
Outlines of a course of lectures on the institutes of medicine (1823)
Elements of phrenology (1824)
Introductory address on independence of intellect (1825)
Thoughts on the spirit of improvement, the slection of its objects, and its proper direction (1835)
Autobiography of Charles Caldwell, M.D. (1855)

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

DATE OF BIRTH:June 23,1876
DATE OF DEATH: March 11, 1944

PLACE OF BIRTH: Paducah, Kentucky
PLACE OF DEATH: New York City, New York

RESIDENCE: New York City, New York

FIELD OF ACTIVITY: Journalism

ASSOCIATED GROUPS: Journalism with the Paducah Daily News (Age 17); Louisville Evening Post (Worked here for a year and a half); Evening Sun Company (1904); Sunday Evening Post (1911)

OCCUPATION: American Author, humorist, editor and columnist  
                        
RACE: Caucasian                                    
GENDER: MALE      
                          
TITLES:
Cobb's Anatomy (1912)
Cobb's Bill of Fare (1913)
Roughing It Deluxe (1914)
Europe Revised (1914)
Paths of Glory: Impression of War Written at and Near the Front (expanded as The Red Glutton) (1915)
Speaking of Operations (1915)
Speaking of Prussians (1917)
The Thunders of Silence (1918)
The Glory of the Coming: What Mine Eyes Have Seen of Americans in Action in This Year of Grace and Allied Endeavor (1919)
Eating in Two or Three Languages (1919)
The Life of the Party (1919)
A Plea for Old Cap Collier (1921)
One Third Off (1921)
J. Poindexter, Colored (1922)
Goin' to Fourteen: Being Cross-sections Out of a Year in the Life of an Average Boy (1924)
Indiana: Cobb's America Guyed Books (1924)
Kansas: Cobb's America Guyed Books (1924)
Kentucky: Cobb's American Guyed Books (1924)
Maine: Cobb's American Guyed Books (1924)
New York: Cobb's America Guyed Books (1924)
North Carolina: Cobb's America Guyed books (1924)
Alias Ben Alibi (1925)
Here Comes the Bride- and So Forth (1925)
On an island That cost $24.00 (1926)
Prose and Cons (1926)
Some United States: A Series of Stops in Various Part of This Nation with One Excursion Across the Line (1926)
All Aboard: A Saga of stops in Various Part of This Nation with One Excursion Across the Line (1926)
Ladies and Gentlemen (1927)
Chivalry Peak (1927)
Red Likker (1929)
To Be Taken Before Sailing (1930)
Murder Day by Day (1933)
One Way to Stop a Panic (1933)
Who's who plus Here's How! (1934)
Irvin S. Cobb's Own Recipe Book (1936)
Judge Priest Turns Detective (1936)
Azam: The Story of An Arabian Colt and His Friends (1937 children's book)
Four Useful Pups (1940 children's book)
Exit Laughing (1941)
The Governors of Kentucky (1947)
Piano Jim and the Impotent Pumpkin Vine (1950)

 

 

 

Charles Melvin Hudson

Charles Melvin Hudson



DATE OF BIRTH: December 24, 1932
DATE OF DEATH: June 8, 2013

PLACE OF BIRTH: Farm on the Kentucky River near Monterey, Kentucky

PLACE OF DEATH: Frankfort, Kentucky

RESIDENCE: Georgia

FIELD OF ACTIVITY: Education

ASSOCIATED GROUPS: U.S. Air Force during the Korean War; Bachelor's degree in Anthropology (1958); Graduate studies in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill earning an M.A. (1962) and a Ph.D. (1965); Became faculty member in the Anthropology Department at the University of Georgia (1965-2000)

OCCUPATION: Professor of Anthropology  
                            
RACE: Caucasian                                     
GENDER: MALE                                                                                                              

TITLES:
A history of interscholastic athletics at Washington High School, Germantown, Wisconsin (1969)
The Catawba Nation (1970)
Symposium on Indians in the Old South, Athens, Ga. 1970 (1971)
Red, White, and Black: symposium on Indians in the old south (1971)
Four centuries of Southern Indians (1975)
The Southeastern Indians (1976)
Black drink: a native American Tea (1979)
Elements of southeastern Indian religion (1984)
Ethnology of the southeastern Indians: a source book (1985)
The uses of evidence in reconstructing the route of the Hernando de Soto expedition (1987) and many other titles.

John Fox, Jr.

John Fox, Jr.                                       

Date of birth: Dec. 16, 1862                                                 
Date of death:  July 8, 1919

Birthplace:  Stony Point, Bourbon County, Kentucky
Place of death: Big Stone Gap, Virginia
Place of burial: Paris, Kentucky


Life Events: Married Fritzi Scheff in 1908
Education:  Harvard University
Employment:  New York Times, New York Sun, Harper’s Weekly, Scribner’s magazine.
   
Publications:
A Cumberland Vendetta and Other Stories (1895)
Hell-fer-Sartain and Other Stories (1897)
The Kentuckians (1898)
A Mountain Europa (serialized 1892, published 1899)
Crittenden (1900)
Blue-grass and Rhododendron: Outdoors in Old Kentucky (1901)
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903)
Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories (1904)
Following the Sun Flag: A Vain Pursuit Through Manchuria (1905)
A Knight of the Cumberland (1906)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908)
The Heart of the Hills (1913)
In Happy Valley (1917)
Erskin Dale (1920)
A Purple Rhododendron and Other Stories (1967)

Other Resources

John Fox, Jr. at Wikipedia

 

John Fox, Jr. House

 

John Fox, Jr. at The Literature Network

 

John Fox, Jr. at Virginia Encyclopedia

 

John Fox, Jr. Museum

 

List of movies based on John Fox, Jr. books at IMDB

Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian

James Still

James Still                                                                  

Date of birth:  July 16, 1906                                                                         
Date of death:  April, 28, 2001
Birthplace:  LaFayette, Alabama
Place of death/burial:  Hazard, Kentucky
Residence:  Knott County, Kentucky

Education:  Lincoln Memorial University (B.A.1929), Vanderbilt University (M.A. 1930), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne

Employment: Civil Service Corps, U.S. Army, salesman, librarian, professor

Awards: Southern Author's Award - River of Earth        

Publications:
Hounds on the Mountain (1937)
River of Earth (1940)
On Troublesome Creek (1941)
Way Down Yonder on Troublesome Creek: Appalachian Riddles and Rusties (1974)
The Wolfpen Rusties: Appalachian Riddles and Gee-Haw Whimmy-Diddles (1975)
Pattern of a Man (1976)
Jack and the Wonder Beans (1977)
Sporty Creek: A Novel about an Appalachian Boyhood (1977)
The Run for the Elbertas (1980)
The Wolfpen Poems (1986)
From the Mountain, From the Valley: New and Collected Poems (2001)
Chinaberry (2011)
The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still (2012)

Other Resources
James Still at Ashville Poetry Review, article by Carol Boggess, Oct. 25, 2003

James Still at Kentucky.com
                     
James Still at Wikipedia

James Still Collection at Berea College                         

 

James Still Papers at the University of Kentucky Libraries                         

 

James Still's River of Earth at KET              

 

 

Gender: Male

Ethnicity: Caucasian                 

James Gillespie Birney, Jr.

James Gillespie Birney, Jr.
                                                
Date of birth: Feb. 4, 1792                         
Date of death:  Nov. 25, 1857

Birthplace: Danville, Kentucky
Place of death/burial: Perth Amboy, New Jersey / Williamsburg Cemetery, Groveland, New York

Hometown: Danville, KY

Residence: 1814-1818 Danville, KY; 1818-1832 Alabama; 1832-1835 Danville, KY; 1835-1837 Cincinnati, OH; 1837-1841 New York; 1841-1855; 1855-1857 New York

Life Events: 1816-1818 Kentucky House of Representatives
Married Agatha McDowell, Feb. 1, 1816; Married Elizabeth Potts Fitzhugh, 1840.

Education:  Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.; College of New Jersey (Princeton University), graduated 1810;\

Employment:  1814-1818, lawyer, Danville, KY; 1818-1832, lawyer, Alabama
 
Gender: male

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Publications:
published The Philanthropist, abolitionist weekly publication, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1836-

A Collection of valuable documents : being Birney's vindication of abolitionists - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 1836

Correspondence, between the Hon. F. H. Elmore, one of the South Carolina delegation in Congress, and James G. Birney, one of the secretaries of the American anti-slavery society - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 1838

Examination of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Strader, Gorman and Armstrong vs. Christopher Graham, delivered at its December term, 1850 : concluding with an address to the free colored people, advising them to remo - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 1852

Letter on colonization, addressed to the Rev. Thornton J. Mills, corresponding secretary of the Kentucky Colonization Society - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 1834

Letters of James Gillespie Birney, 1831-1857 - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 1938

Mr. Birney's second letter. To the ministers and elders of the Presbyterian church in Kentucky. - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 1834

The American churches the bulwarks of American slavery - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 1885

3rd American edition

Marie Bradby

Marie Bradby

Birthplace: Virginia

Residence: Louisville, KY

Education:  Hampton University

Employment: Staff writer for National Geographic Magazine, Washington, DC;
Reporter for Providence Journal, Providence RI; Lexington Herald, Lexington, KY and Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY

Awards: 
Best Book of 1995 - Book Link, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times  
Best Book of 2002 - Los Angeles Times,

Publications:

"MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE," (Richard Jackson/​Orchard Books, 1995) ALA, IRA Children's Book Award, PBS story time Feature, Teacher's Choice, starred review School Library Journal, Best Book of 1995 by Book Links, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times.

"THE LONGEST WAIT," (Orchard Books, 1998) Kansas State Reading Circle Recommended List.

"MOMMA, WHERE ARE YOU FROM?" (Orchard Books, 2002) Golden Kite Honor Award, Nest Literary Classic.

"ONCE UPON A FARM," (Orchard Books/​Scholastic, 2002) Best Book of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times, Kentucky Public Librarians "Choice Award" Nominee, 2003.

"SOME FRIEND," (Richard Jackson/​Atheneum, 2004) West Virginia Children's Book Award Master List, 2006-2007

Click here to visit author's website

Gender: female

Ethnicity: African American

 

David W. Maurer

David W. Maurer                                          

Date of birth: April 12, 1906                                                           
Date of death: ca. June 11, 1981

Residence: Louisville, KY

Employment:  University of Louisville, professor of Linguistics, 1937-1972
   
Publications:

The Big Con, 1940

Narcotics and Narcotic Addiction, 1954

Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot Of Pickpockets With Their Behavior Pattern, 1955

Kentucky Moonshine, 1974

Language Of The Underworld, 1981

Gender: male

Ethnicity:  Caucasian

Willard Rouse Jillson

Willard Rouse Jillson                                                            

Date of birth: May 28, 1890                                    
Date of death: October 4, 1975

Birthplace: Syracuse, NY
Place of death/burial: Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, KY

Education:  Syracuse University

Employment:  Transylvania University, 1947-1951; Kentucky State Geologist; University of Kentucky

Selected Publications:  
A glimpse of old Bridgeport and its environs in the Bluegrass of Kentucky, 1774-1899, 1956

Abraham Lincoln in Kentucky literature, 1859-1949;  an annotated bibliography for students and collectors of Lincolniana, 1951

An historical bibliography of Lexington, Kentucky : 1774-1946 (with annotations), 1947

Books on Kentucky books and writers;  a bibliography, 1784-1950, 1951

Early Clark County, Kentucky;  a history, 1674-1824, 1966

Early Frankfort and Franklin county, Kentucky;  a chronology of historical sketches covering the century 1750-1850, 1936

Early Kentucky distillers, 1783-1800, 1940

Early Kentucky literature, 1750-1840, 1932

Early times;  the story of Westley Hardin, with some account of his taverns on the Big Road in
Franklin and Shelby Counties, Kentucky, 1788-1821, 1952

First American gusher,  notes on the history, geology and production of the Stockton oil well drilled in Cumberland County, Kentucky, in 1829, 1950

In those days;  a retrospective glance across the vanished years of the Class of 1912 at Syracuse University, 1968

Kentucky history,  a check and finding list of the principal published and manuscript sources of the general, regional, and county history of the commonwealth, 1729-1936, 1936

Kentucky literature :  a retrospective glance across half a century, 1900-1950, 1956

Lincoln back home,  two episodes in the career of the great Civil War president mirrored in the daily Kentucky press, 1860-1865, 1932

Literary haunts and personalities of old Frankfort, 1791-1941, 1941

Old Kentucky entries and deeds;  a complete index to all of the earliest land entries, military warrants, deeds and wills of the commonwealth of Kentucky, 1926

Paul Sawyier: American artist (1865-1917) a brief biographical sketch, 1961

Pioneer Kentucky :  an outline of its exploration and settlement, its early cartography and primitive geography, coupled with a brief presentation of the principal trails, traces, forts, stations, springs, licks, fords and ferries used prior to the year 1800, 1934

Rambo Flats;  a sketch of the life, military service, and literary achievements of James Tandy Ellis (1868-1942), 1957

Rare Kentucky books, 1776 - 1926:  a check and finding list of scarce, fugitive, curious and interesting books and pamphlets with annotations and price current appended, 1939

Tales of the dark and bloody ground;  a group of fifteen original papers on the early history of Kentucky, 1930

The Big Sandy Valley :  a regional history prior to the year 1850, 1994

The first landowners of Frankfort, Kentucky, 1774-1790, 1945

The first printing in Kentucky;  some account of Thomas Parvin and John Bradford and the establishment of the Kentucky gazette in Lexington in the year 1787, with a bibliography of seventy titles, 1936

The flowering of Kentucky history;  a chronology of the life and times of Reuben Thomas Durrett, 1824-1913, 1946

The great flood of 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky, 1937

The Kentucky land grants;  a systematic index to all of the land grants recorded in the State Land Office at Frankfort, Kentucky, 1782-1924, 1971

The land adventures of George Washington, 1934

The memoirs of Willard Rouse Jillson, 1971

The newspapers and periodicals of Frankfort, Kentucky, 1795-1945, 1945

Gender: male

Ethnicity: Caucasian

James Gillespie Birney, Jr.

James Gillespie Birney, Jr.

                                                  
Date of birth: Feb. 4, 1792                          
Date of death: Nov. 25, 1857

Birthplace: Danville, Kentucky
Place of death/burial: Perth Amboy, New Jersey / Williamsburg Cemetery, Groveland, New York

Hometown: Danville, KY

Residence: 1814-1818 Danville, KY; 1818-1832 Alabama; 1832-1835 Danville, KY; 1835-1837 Cincinnati, OH; 1837-1841 New York; 1841-1855; 1855-1857 New York

Life Events: 1816-1818 Kentucky House of Representatives
Married Agatha McDowell, Feb. 1, 1816; Married Elizabeth Potts Fitzhugh, 1840.

Education:  Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.; College of New Jersey (Princeton University), graduated 1810;\

Employment:  1814-1818, lawyer, Danville, KY; 1818-1832, lawyer, Alabama
  
Publications: published The Philanthropist, abolitionist weekly publication, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1836-

Letter on colonization, addressed to the Rev. Thornton J. Mills, corresponding secretary of the Kentucky Colonization Society, 1834

Mr. Birney's second letter. To the ministers and elders of the Presbyterian church in Kentucky, 1834

A Collection of valuable documents: being Birney's vindication of abolitionists, 1836

Correspondence, between the Hon. F. H. Elmore, one of the South Carolina delegation in Congress, and James G. Birney, one of the secretaries of the American anti-slavery society, 1838

Examination of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Strader, Gorman and Armstrong vs. Christopher Graham, delivered at its December term, 1850: concluding with an address to the free colored people, advising them to remove to Liberia, 1852

The American churches the bulwarks of American slavery, 1885

Letters of James Gillespie Birney, 1831-1857, 1938

Gender: male
Ethnicity: Caucasian

John Taylor

John Taylor       
                                        
Date of birth: 1752                                                 
Date of death: (1833-1835)
Birthplace: Fauquier County, Virginia
Place of death/burial: Franklin County, KY

Residence:
1783-1795 Woodford County, Kentucky
1795-1802 Boone County, KY
1802-1815 Gallatin County, KY
1815-1833  Franklin County, KY     

Life Events: Married Elizabeth Cavanaugh

Employment:  Minister
Clear Creek Baptist Church
Great Crossing Baptist Church
Bullittsburg Baptist Church
Corn Creek Baptist Church
Buck Run Baptist Church

Publications:
A History of Ten Baptist Churches, Frankfort, KY: (np), 1823; reprint, Cincinnati, OH: Art Guild Reprints, Inc., 1968
Baptist Churches on the American Frontier, reprint with ed. Chester R. Young, Macon, GA: Mercer University Press: 1995
A History of Clear Creek Church: and Campbellism Exposed, Frankfort, KY, Printed by A. G. Hodges, Commentator Office, 1830
         
Gender: male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
VIAF number and link:   https://viaf.org/viaf/65288200/

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan
                                    
Date of birth: September 25, 1866         
Date of death:  December 4, 1945
Birthplace: Lexington, KY
Place of death/burial: Pasadena, CA

Hometown: Lexington, KY
Life Events: son of Charlton Hunt Morgan and Ellen Key Howard Morgan; married Lilian Vaughan Sampson, June 4, 1904; four children
Education:  BS, University of Kentucky, 1886, valedctorian; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1890

Awards:    

• Johns Hopkins awarded Morgan an honorary LL.D. and the University of Kentucky awarded him an honorary Ph.D.
• He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and made a foreign member of the Royal Society.
• In 1924 Morgan received the Darwin Medal.
• The Genetics Society of America annually awards the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal, named in his honor, to one of its members who has made a significant contribution to the science of genetics.
• Thomas Hunt Morgan's discovery was illustrated on a 1989 stamp issued in Sweden, showing the discoveries of eight Nobel Prize-winning geneticists.
• Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1933

 Publications:

• The Development of the Frog's Egg: An Introduction to Experimental Embryology, 1897.
• Regeneration,Columbia University Biological Series, 1901.
• Evolution and Adaptation, 1903.
• Experimental Zoology, 1907
• Heredity and Sex, 1913. 
• The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity, with A.H. Sturtevant, H.J. Muller and C.B. Bridges, 1915..
• A Critique of the Theory of Evolution, 1916.
• Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila, with C.B. Bridges, 1916.
• The Genetic and the Operative Evidence of Relating to Secondary Sexual Characteristics, 1919.
• The Physical Basis of Heredity, Monographs on Experimental Biology, 1919.
• Contributions to the Genetics of Drosophila Melanogaster, with A.H.Sturtevant and C.B.Bridges: 1919.
• Some Possible Bearings of Genetics on Pathology, 1922.
• The Third-Chromosome Group of Mutant Characters of Drosophila melanogaster, with C.B. Bridges, 1923.
• Laboratory Directions for and Elementary Course in Genetics, with H.J. Muller, A.H. Sturtevant and C.B. Bridges, 1923.
• Human Inheritance, 1924.
• Evolution and Genetics, 1925.
• The Theory of the Gene, 1926.
• Genetics and the Physiology of Development, 1926.
• Experimental Embryology, 1927.
• What is Darwinism?, 1929.
• The Scientific Basis of Evolution, 1932.
• Embryology and Genetics, 1934.

Gender: male
Ethnicity: Caucasian

Charles Bracelen Flood

Charles Bracelen Flood                                       

Date of birth: 1929                               
Date of death: August 15, 2014
Birthplace: Manhattan, NY

Residence: Richmond, KY and Brooksville, ME
Life Events: Married Katherine Phelps Burnam,
Education:  Harvard University

Publications: 
Love Is A Bridge, 1953
A Distant Drum, 1957
Tell Me, Stranger, 1959
Monmouth: A Novel, 1961
More Lives Than One, 1967
The War Of The Innocents, 1970
Trouble At The Top, 1972
Rise And Fight Again, 1976
Lee: The Last Years, 1981
Hitler: The Path To Power, 1989
Grant And Sherman: The Friendship That Won The Civil War, 2005
1864: Lincoln At The Gates Of History, 2009
Grant’s Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant’s Heroic Last Year, 2011
First to Fly: The Story Of The Lafayette Escadrille, (planned for 2015)
     
Gender: male
Ethnicity: Caucasian