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