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/
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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:
Gender: male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
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
- 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
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
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
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
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