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