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