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Prior to the 1890-1 Convention-Constitutional Convention Proceedings- Constitution of Kentucky
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CHAPTER LX
Injurious Taxing System-Kentucky and Pennsylvania Systems Compared- Burden on Widows and Orphans-Prevents Practical Development. ... 493
CHAPTER LXI
The Real Kentucky Mountaineer-Kentucky Speech, the Purest English- - Regal Men and Women. 498
CHAPTER LXII
Burley and Dark Tobacco Districts-Tobacco Trusts and Growers-The Farmers Combine-Suits Against the Burley Tobacco Society-Outrages of "Night Riders" . 503
CHAPTER LXIII
First Democratic Defeat Since the War-Goebel to the Front-His Guberna- torial Opponents-The Unsavory "Music Hall Convention"-Taylor Offi- cially Declared Elected-Goebel Contests the Election-Intimidation ( ?) of Voters-Goebel Assassinated-Assembly Declares Him Elected-Death of Goebel-The Murder's Aftermath-Election Only Partially Void. ... 508
CHAPTER LXIV
Kentucky, Mother of Governors-Governors of Missouri-Illinois and In- diana Governors-Noted Kentuckians of Ohio-Western Governors- Tennessee, Texas and Virginia-Territorial Governors. 516
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CHAPTER LXV
The Topography-The River Systems-The Soils-The Geology -- Geological Scale and Economic Values-Quarternary-Tertiary-Cretaceous-Penn- sylvanian (Upper Carboniferous)-The Coal Fields-Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous )-Devonian-Silurian-Ordovician ( Lower Silu- rian ) 521
CHAPTER LXVI
Three Representative Kentuckians-John Marshall Harlan-Some Notable Opinions-Simon Bolivar Buckner-Non-partisan Resolutions-J. Proc- tor Knott-His Administration. 535
CHAPTER LXVII
The Press of Kentucky-The Gazette-John Bradford-Louisville's First Papers-First Daily in Kentucky-George D. Prentice-Louisville Jour- nal-Louisville Democrat-Walter Newman Haldeman-The Courier- Journal-Henry Watterson-Emmett Logan-Louisville Times-Other Newspapers 555
CHAPTER LXVIII
History of Medicine in Kentucky-Medical Journalism in Kentucky-Dr. Ephraim McDowell-Other Well-Known Physicians. 571
CHAPTER LXIX
"Bones of Our Ancestors"-Society of The Cincinnati-Virginia Ancestors -Forefathers of Central Kentucky Settlers-Derivation of Surnames- Origin of the Name Quisenberry 583
APPENDIX 589
Index
Abell, Rev. Robert A., 462 Act Against Dueling, 200 Action of other states, 162 Active war at last, 304 Adair, General, 234, 240 Adams-Jefferson campaign, 142 Address to the people, 94
Address to the people of New Orleans, 221 Address to the Spanish Intendant, 112 Address to the legislature of Virginia, 91 Admission again postponed, 107 Adopted resolutions, text of, 153 Advance message to Vincennes, 53
Adventures of Simon Kenton, 83 Adverse claims, triple layer of, 143 Advice of Kentucky, 293 Agent of Destiny, Boone, 10 Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, 428
Alien and Sedition Aets, 289 Alien and Sedition Laws, 186, 159, 153, 146, 162 Alien law unll and void, 154 "Alumni Association of Central University," 413 Ambush at Blue Lick, 72 Americans cannonaded and cannonade, 223
&American Colonization Society, 173 American love for France, 129 American ministers rejected by France, 166 American naval victory, 168 " American Practitioner,"' 572 American ront at Raisin River, 207 American Shipping, French depredations upon, 167 American Society of Equity, 504 American System, 194, 195 American Tobacco Company, 503
American Vessels shelled, 223 American Volunteer vs. British Regular, 226 Anderson, Major Robert, 298 Anniversary of Kentucky, 35 Another appeal to Mother Virginia, 76 Another Kentucky plea for admission, 105 Another Neutrality Conference, 316 Anti-Kuklux Law, 463 Anti-Relief parties, 239 Anti-Slavery meetings, 176 Anti-Slavery men banished, 179 Appearance of plains of Kentucky in 1775, 20 Appendix, 589 Arbiters Conference, 309
Area of Kentucky, 521 Area of Virginia gift, $6 Areas of the coal fields, 529 Army, Regular, 589 Army nnder General Harrison, 204
Army veterans as office holders, 185 Arrest of Southern sympathizers, 322 Articles of capitulation, 54
Artillery Regiments of Mexican War, 590 Asbury, Bishop, 455 Asks to come into the Union, 97
Assembly declares Goebel elected, 513 Assembly, first Kentucky legislative, 26
Assembly resolutions, 96
Assemblymen from fonr counties, 89 Assessment of slaves, 382
At Harrodsburg, 37 Attack on Boonesborough, 59
Attack on Saltville, 374 Attack upon Bryan's Station, 72 Attempt to discipline judges, 141 Atticullaculla, 19
Badin, Rev. Stephen, 458
Badin's, Father, first assistant, 459
Bailey, Dr. William, 579
Balls given to Burr and his prosecutor, 192
Band of Nation Builders, 53
Banks, forty incorporated, 233
Bank, first of Kentucky, 198
Bank of Kentucky, 196, 250, 233
Bank of Louisville, 250
Bank of Northern Kentucky, 250
Banks, Wildeat, 250 Banquet to Justice Harlan on Twenty-fifth Anni- versary, 544 Baptist Church, 452
Baptist Church, first organized, 454
Baptists oppose slavery, 172 Barbecue on Col. Emmett G. Logan's Farm, 568
Barker, Henry S., 403
Battle after Peace Treaty, 229
Battle between Red and White Men, 16
Battle of Blue Lick, 72 Battle of Bull Run, 317
Battle of Frenchtown, 207
Battle of Lake Erie, 215, 598 Battle of Perryville, 344 Battle of Point Pleasant, 22
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Batts, Captain Thomas, tracing a pathway, 2 Bayless, Dr. George Wood, 576 Bayou Bienville, British attacked at, 222 Bearers of the address, 93 Beattie, Ormond, 417
Beckham, Governor, 514
Berea College, 178, 441 Bethel College, 440 Pethel Female College, Hopkinsville, 441 Bethel High School, 440
Big Sandy, 521
"Big Spring,"' 438 Birdseye View of Middlesborough, 286 Birney, James G., 173; his mission, 173 Birthplace of Jefferson Davis, 390 Bishop David and See of Louisville, 461 Bitterness after the Convention, 116
Bivouac of the Dead, 596
Blending of State and Church control, 406 Bloodless capture of Kaskaskia, 50
Bloomfield Church, 453
"Blue Grass," 523
Blue Grass Land, 503 Blue Grass, Harvesting, 524 Blue Lick, Battle of, 72 Boiling Springs, 24
"Bones of Our Ancestors, "' 583
Boone, Daniel, 6, 7, 11, 17, 24, 80; deposition of, 82; adopted by Indians, 57; and John Stewart proceed to the Louisa River, 9; and Party enters Kentucky, 7; again starts Kentucky-ward, 14; at ninety, 81; captured by Indians, 9, 56; cabin on Kentucky River, 8; colonizing agent, 18; court-martial of, 63; depressed, 78; early life, 7; escape, 58; first expedition into Kentucky, 7; goes Indian hunting, 59; joined by brother, 10; last years of, SO; last plea of, 201; left alone in the Kentucky wilderness, 11; letter to Col. Hender- son, 19; monument, 200; not illiterate, 81; "nu- merously" born, 7; plea for restitution, 201; reaches Boonesborough, 55; "'Savior of Kentucky, "' 6
Boone, Squire, 10 Boonesborough, 40, 43 Boonesborough attacked, 42
Boonesborough fort erected, 18 Border Slave State Convention, 313
Bourbon County, 135 Bowling Green, Old Fort, Reservoir Park, 434 Bowling Green from Reservoir Park, 436 Boyle, Chief Justice John, 236 Boyle, Gen. Jere T., 338, 366
Boyle, Judge, 245 Boyle and his trials, 338 Bradford, John, 555 Bragg, General, 340 Bragg and Morgan disagree, 358 Bragg not a Kentucky favorite, 346 Brave Pioneer Women of Kentucky, 71 Breaks of Sandy, 521 Breathitt, John, 256 Breathitt's "Jacksonian Administration,"' 256 Breckinridge family, 121, 303 Breckinridge, Desha, 497, 569 Breckinridge, John, 121, 141, 147. 162; death of, 191
Breckinridge, Maj. Gen. John C., 122, 191, 270, 292, 303, 317, 374
Breckinridge, Robert J., 122, 177, 191, 303 Breckinridge, W. C. P., 122, 191
Breckinridge resolutions, 153 Bred in Old Kentucky, 363
Bringing powder to Kentucky, 37
British Emissary, 119 British Promise, 208
Brown, Hon. John, 105
Brown, John Mason, 75
Brown, Hon. John Young, 396, 508; elected con- gressman before reaching eligible age, 397 Brown, Jos. Emerson, 422
Brown's Letter, 108
Bryan's Station Spring, 70
Bnekner, Gen. Simon B., 306, 314, 317, 464, 508, 545; conduct at Chickamauga, 550; Hero of Fort Don- elson, 550; military career, 545; term as governor, 549
Buckner-McClellan Conference, 314
Buell, Gen. Don C., 327
Buena Vista, Battle of, 264
Bullitt, Alexander C., 166
Bullitt, Alexander Scott, 121
Bullitt, Capt. Thomas, 14
Bullitt Family, 121
Bull Run, Battle, 317
Burbridge, Gen. Stephen G., 366, 369
Burbridge, Kentucky's dishonored son, 369
Burdens of taxation in Kentucky, 493
Burley Tobacco, 503
Burley and dark tobacco districts, 503
Burley Tobacco Society, 504
Burr, Aaron, 192; his ambitions, 192 Bursting of Speculative Bubble, 257 '. Bushwhackers, 1' 321
Byrd, Colonel, 267
Byron, Lord, on Boone, 11
Cahokia and Vincennes also Americanized, 51 Caldwell College, 444
Call upon the Co-States, 157 Camp Dick Robinson, 320
Campaign against the Indians, 126; against the Pottawattomies, 218; against the Maumees, 127
Campaign North of the Ohio, 79
Campbell, Alexander, 177
Canal Construction, 254
Canal Zone, 520 Capitulation of Vincennes, 54
Captain Thomas Batts tracing a pathway, 2 Capture of Monterey, 263
Capture of three Kentucky girls, 40
Carnegie Library for Kentucky State College, 402
Carnegie Library, Shelbyville, 449 ('arondolet, Governor, 138 Catholic Church in Kentucky, 457 "Catholic Advocate, '' 462
Cause of the Civil War, 169
Cavalry lessons to the world, 362
Cavalry "Pirooting, "' 352 Census of the counties, 601 Census of 1810, 196
Census returns of 1910, 601 Census returns from 1790 to 1860, 170
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Central University, 415
Centre College, 409; first president, 409; presidents, 410 Ceremony of Indian adoption, 57
"Cerro Gordo" Williams, 374
Chamberlin, Rev. Jeremiah, 409 Charges against Wilkinson, 118 Charges of treason, 116
Charleston Convention of 1860, 290 "Chattanooga Rebel,'' 564
Chenault, Prof., 409 Chenoweth, Dr. Henry, 578 Cherokees deed land, 17 Chester Group, 531
Chester-St. Louis Group, 532
"Chickamauga," Meaning of, 361 Child Labor Committee, 446
Chimney Rock, 526
Chinn Mineral Company, 526
Christian County High School, 445
Christian, Col. William, 98 Christian Woman's Board of Missions, 448 Christmas, 1778, 65 "Christmas Raid, " 350 Churches, 452
Cincinnati founded, 119 Cincinnatian Group, 533 Circuit Courts, 476
Circular letter to people of Kentucky, 102
City Hall, Louisville, 231
Civil War, 304; cause of, 169; Confederate loss in, 357; Union loss in, 357 Clark County, 135 Clark, Rev. Francis, 455
Clark, James, Governor, 257
Clark. George Rogers, 11, 32, 33, 45, 79, 99, 214. 288; arrives at the Falls of the Ohio, 48; at Kas- kaskia, 50; erects Fort Jefferson, 67; expedition of, 49; first visit to Kentucky, 33; gets reliable information, 45; in command of militia, 33; in- vading army of, 52; invasion of the Indians' country, 67; large plans of, 84; leaves the Falls for Kaskaskia, 49; march to Vincennes, 53; re- fuses British military commission, 33; the Man of the Hour, 38; two sets of instructions, 45; un- appreciated by Virginia, 80
Clay, Cassius M., 174, 177, 268
Clay, Gen. Green, 211
Clay, Henry, 175, 193, 277, 446, 557; again de- feated, 257; averts Civil War, 280; death of, 281; home of, 195; political blunder of, 247; political career of, 194; presidential hopes of, 247; protector of American system, 279; return to the senate, 2$1; supposed retirement, 281 Clinton of Ohio Group, 532 Coal Fields, 529, 531 Coal Measures, 528 Cochran, Admiral, 223 Colored Troops, enrollment of, 366 Colonel Wolford's speech, 379 Columbian Formation, 527
"Committee of Correspondence from Western Penn- sylvania," 101
"Committee of Thirteen, 297 Committee of the Whole reports, 89 Committee on Federal Relations Resolutions, 309
Compromise rejected, 297
Conditions of those troublous times, 19
Confederates at Bowling Green, 326
Confederates Evacuate Frankfort, 343 Confederate Forces, 327
Confederate loss in Civil War, 357
Confederate Monument at Louisville, 347
Confederate Movements, 326
Confederate Troops in Battle of Missionary Ridge, 364
Conglomerate Sandstone Measures, 528
College of the Bible, 428
Colony of Transylvania, 34
Comparative losses and strength, 357
Congress uuresponsive, 97
Congressman Brown to the front, 112
Connolly, Dr., 119
Constitution of Kentucky, 465
Constitutional amendments made operative, 398
Constitution's guardian, Supreme Court, 164
Consumers' League, 446
Contest committee. 512
Convention of 1890-1, prior to, 463
Cook, Dr. John Lay, 580 Co-operation of Senators and Representatives, 402 Corniferous Group, 532
Corn Island settlement, 64
Corn Island stockade, 49
Corn Islanders removed to mainland, 64
Cornstalk, 15, 17
Corporations, 484 Convention, fourth Danville, 99
Convention proceedings, 464
Counties and County Seats, 471
Counties created, 135
Counties in State, 135
County Courts, 477
County Medical Society, 572
Country Party, 111
"Courant, ' 567
"Courier," 55S
"Conrier-Journal,"' 557, 558, 560, 561, 566, 567 "'Court Day" in Glasgow, 189
Court House, Louisville, 464
Court House, Maysville, 253
Court of Appeals, 475 Court party, 111; in power, 113
"Crab Orchard Salts, " 533
Creation of counties, 135
Creation of Kentucky, 79
Cretaceous Period, 528
Crittenden, John J., 274
Crittenden, Thomas L., 270
Crittenden Compromise, 297
Crittenden Compromise rejected, 297
('rittenden's proposed compromise, 295 Croghan, Major, 214 Cruel masters, the exception, 171 Cullom, Shelby M., 517
Cumberland Gap, 2, 13, 14 Cumberland Mountain, 521, 525, 529
Current of the Mississippi River, 198
Custom House and Post Office at Louisville, 91 Cuttawa or Kentucky River, 3
Cutting off of West Virginia, 87
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"Daily Messenger," 569 Daniel Boone Monument, 6 Daniel Boone Monument, Cherokee Park, 200 Danville Convention, 88 "Dark and Bloody Ground, " The, 4 "Dark Tobacco District, "' 503 Daveiss, Joseph Hamilton, 192, 197 David, Rt. Rev. John B., 461
Davis, Jefferson, 268, 390; birthplace of, 390
Death of John Breckinridge, 191 Death of Colonel Christian, 98
Death of Goebel, 514
Death of Governor Helm, 397
Death of Tecumseh, 217 Debt Clause, objection to, 120 Debt to Sir William Johnson, 5
Decline in value of slaves, 378 Defeat of Indians and Allies, 127
Defeat and Surrender of Hull, 204
Defects of Union Records, 388
Delegate to Virginia Assembly, 34
Democratic Party, 508
Democratic Defeat, first since the war, 508
Democratic Societies of Kentucky, 129
Democratic Societies dissolved, 134
Deportation of "True American, " 175
Depositiou of Daniel Boone, 82 Derivation of surnames, 585
Desha, Joseph, 162
Devilish massacre, 209
Devonian, 532 " Dime, "' The, 560 Dinwiddie, Robert, 3
Dinwiddie balts the French, 3
Disciplining the teacher, 408
Distribution of the powers of government, 467
Doctrine of States Rights, 158, 290
Dominican Sisters, 462
Double Victory, 35 Douglas, James, 15
Douglas, Stephen A., 291
Downfall of Know Nothing Party, 276
Dreaded "Patter Rollers," The, 182
Dudley, Dr. Benjamin W., 575
Duke, Gen. Basil W., 180, 318, 332
Dunmore, Governor, 15 Dunmore vs. Henderson, 24
Durrett, Col. Reuben T., 1, 7, 25, 27, 48, 119, 162
Earlier country schools, 407 Early schools in the state, 404
Earthquake of 1811, 198
Eastern Coal Field, 522, 529
Eastern Normal, 434
Eastern View of Indian Question, 126
Economic Materials, 528, 529, 531, 532, 533 Editor, first of Kentucky, 555 Education, 483 Education of females, 409 Educational Improvement Commission, 435 Eighth Convention, 120 Eightv-five years' increase, 284 Election of Jefferson and Burr, 187 Election only partly void, 514 Elections of 1856-8, 281 Elections after the war, 392
Elementary instruction, 408 "Emancipators,"' 172 Emancipation Proclamation, 335 Empire of the Mississippi, 134
"Emporium and Commercial Advertiser," 556 End of the war, 374
English agents blamable, 33 Enlistment of slaves discontinued, 382
Enrollment of Colored Troops, 366
Enrollment of Colored Troops continued, 379
Enrollment of Colored Troops denounced, 366 Entrance to Mammoth Cave, 432
Episcopalians, 456 Equal Rights Association, 447 Errors regarding authorship of resolutions, 145 Escape of Boone, 58
Establishment of State University, 436
"Estill's Defeat,"' 171
"Evening Leader,"' 569 " Evening Post,"' 569 Executive Department of Kentucky, 471
Exhibits Indian Deed, 28
Expedition, Boone's first into Kentucky, 7
Expedition's objects made known by Clark, 49
Extraordinary Kentucky Legislature, 300 Extraordinary Session of 1861, 300
Fall of the New Court, 245
Falls of the Ohio, 1, 15, 48, 453, 45S
Famous Resolutions of young Kentucky, 145 "Farmer's Library, "' 556 Farmers Tobacco Combine, 504
Fate of the prisoners, 74
Fayette County, 135
Fayette County Court House, 278
Fear of vassalage arises, 29
Federal interference and official outrages, 368
Federal Hill, Bardstown, where Home" was written, 596
"Old Kentucky
Federal Troops in Battle of Missionary Ridge, 364 Federation of Women's Clubs, 435
Females, education of, 409
Fighting on Kentucky Soil, 338
Fighting Taylor Family, 204
Filson, Jolin, 4, 7, 9, 10, 18, 119, 405 Filson Club, 119 Financial depression, 233
First annual Methodist Conference, 455
First assistant to Father Badin, 459
First bank of Kentucky, 188
First botanical garden in this country. 572
First cabin in Kentucky, 25
First citizen of Louisville, 562
First constitution of Kentucky, 165
First daily paper in Kentucky, 556
First delegate from Kentucky, 105
First Democratie defeat since the war, 508 First Dragoons, 589 First dwelling in Kentucky, 2 First editor of Kentucky, 555 First Episcopal Church, 456 First gun in Civil War, 304
First log cabin in Louisville, 47
First Kentucky Assembly, 88
First Kentucky Cavalry, 353
First Kentucky Congressman, 105
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First Kentucky at Lee & Gordon's Mill, 362 First Kentucky Legislative Assembly, 26 First marriage in Kentucky, 42 First naval fight at New Orleans, 220 First Negro Freeman, 170
First permanent settlement of Kentucky, 170 First railroad in Kentucky, 254
First railroad constructed in the United States, 254 First resident Catholic Pastor of Louisville, 462 First seminary for girls, 409 First state government, 121
First settlers of Louisville, 64 Fiscal Courts, 478
Fitch, John, 230 MIaget, Rt. Rev. Benedict Joseph, 461 Floyd, John, 68 Floyd's disaster of Long Run, 85
"Focus, '' 557 For and against Slavery, 175 Forestry preservation, 450 Forrest, Gen. N. B., 564
Fort of Boonesborongh erected, 18 Fort Donelson, 328 Fort Jefferson, 67 Fort Massac, 138 Fort Meigs, 212
Fort Stephenson, heroic defense, 214 Fort Wayne, relief of, 205 Forty banks incorporated, 233 Fourth act of separation, 120
Fourth Convention at Danville, 99
Fourth Danville Assembly, 99 Fourteenth and fifteenth amendments operative, 398 France rejects American Ministers, 166
"Frankfort Commonwealth,"' 569
Frankfort, site of surveyed, 15
Free Libraries, 449 Free Navigation of Mississippi, 102 Freed Slaves sent to Liberia, 173
Freedom of speech violated, 154
French-American Expedition under Clark, 131 French and Indian War, 3
French attempt deception, 60
French depredations upon American shipping, 167 Frenchtown, Battle of, 207
"Friends of Humanity, "' 172
Fugitive Slave Law, 296 Fulton, Robert, 230
Fulton or Fitch, 230 Further action by churches, 173 Futile attempt to keep war issues alive, 390
Gaines, John P., 268 Gallant charge of Johnson's Cavalry, 216 Gallant women of Bryan's Station, 71 Garrard, Governor James, 142 Garrard succeeds Shelby, 142 Garrison dwindles, 29 Gateway to the South, 2 Gathering of fugitives, 73 Gayosa, Colonel, 137 General assembly of 1908, 432 General Buckner report, 314 General Jackson, 219 General Land Agent created, 29 General provisions of Constitution, 487
General Zachary Taylor monument, 273 Genet recalled, 134 Geology of Kentucky, 521-534
Geological scale and economic values, 527
Georgetown College, 438
Gilbert's Creek Church, 454
Girty, Simon, 68 Gist, Christopher, 2, 3 Gist's report, 3
Ghent, Treaty of, 229
Glen Lily, Home of Gen. S. B. Buckner, 548
Goebel, William, 509; assassinated, 512; to the front, 509; gubernatorial opponents, 509; contests elec- tion, 511 Gold medals for Kentucky volunteers, 599
"Good Roads System," 199 Governor Carondolet, 138
Governor Shelby the Federal secretary, 132
Governors of Missouri from Kentucky, 516
Governors of Tennessee, Texas and Virginia from Kentucky, 518
Governmental wheels start, 122
Grand results of Clark's expedition, 54
Great Britain, threatened war with, 196
"Great Commoner,"' 175, 277, 446
Greatness of Clay, 277
Greatest field of coal in the State, 525
Greeley, Horace, advice of, 293
Green connty, 135
Gubernatorial election of 1899, 511
" Guerrillas, " 321
Guerrilla warfare, 367
Haldeman, Walter, 559
IIamilton, Alexander, 186
Hamilton, Clark's opponent, 40
Hamilton College, 444
Hamilton, Henry, 40, 52
Hamilton, the hair buyer, 52
Hancock, Stephen, 57
Hanson, Roger W., 317
"Happiest of Mortals Anywhere," 12 Happy hunting ground of Indians, 3 Hard winter of 1779-80, 66
Hardin, Colonel John, 125
Hardin county, 135
Harlan, James, 24
Harlan, Justice John M., 24, 535, 537; some notable opinions of, 540 Harlan's service on the bench, 539
Harrison county, 135
Harrison, General William Henry, 196, 257; at Tip- pecanoe, 196; conceives idea of Lake Erie Fleet, 206; elected president, 257
Harrod, James, 14, 21, 26
Harrodsburg, 28, 40; attacked, 42; convention of 1776, 34; marked for destruction, 42
Harvesting blue grass, 524 Heart of Lexington, 278
"Hedge Row" schools, 405 Helm, Gen. Ben Hardin, 318, 356
Helm, Governor, death of, 397 Helm Family, 356
Helm-Stevenson administration, 397
Henderson, Col. Richard, 17, 21; appeals to congress, 29; founds new settlement, 26; proprietary govern- ment of, 27; royal reception of, 22
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"Herald," The, 556, 569 Heroic Defense of Fort Stephenson, 214 "He was a Breckiuridge, " 121 Higher education first, 406 Highlands of Kentucky, in the, 49S Hinitt, F. W., 417 Historie "Comrades-in-arms, " 273 Historic five hundred pounds of powder, 34 "History of Morgan's Cavalry," extract from, 346 Hocker Female College, 444
Hocker, James M., 444 Home of Henry Clay, 195
Honest state legislators needed, 123 Honor to Shelby and others, 218
"Hoola" Song, 182
Hopkinsville High School, 445 Hospital College of Medicine, 572 Houston, Sam, 259 How Kentucky slaves were freed, 377 Hull's surrender, 203 "Humane" Proctor rewarded, 210 Humiliated at Hull's surrender, 203
Hundredth anniversary of Transylvania University, 428
Illinois and Indiana governors from Kentucky, 517 Impeachments, 471
Impressmeut of slaves, 378 Improvement of rural schools, 449 In the Kentucky Highlands, 498 Incident of Bryan Station siege, 71
Incidents of siege of Boonesborough, 61
Indians, attack, 19; attacks renewed, 98; campaign against, 126; confederation of, 68; defeated, 38, 127; depredations, 38; in battle, 16; power for- ever broken, 85; reject peace proposal, 126; rise against settlers, 15; surprise Bryan's Station, 69; treaties by, 16, 17, 136; tribes aroused, 15; under Girty defeated, 70; warfare of, 64; warfare re- newed, 31
"Indian Old Fields," 407 Indians' "happy hunting ground, " 3
Indian Peace Commissioners murdered, 125 Industrial and commercial advancement, 285 Infantry regiments in Mexican War, 590-1 lniquitous rule of General Burbridge, 373 Injurious taxing system, 493 Injustice righted, 143
Innes, Judge, 137 Internal improvements, 252, 253 Intimidation (?) of voters, 511 Investment of Fort Meigs, 212 Investigation of slanderous reports, 384 Ireland, Dr. Josiah, 581
Jackson, Andrew, Gen., 247; admonishes South Car- olina, 278; proclaims martial law, 220 "Jackson's Day,"' 226 Jackson. Dr. John Davies, 578 Jacob, R. T., 302 Jefferson county, 135 Jefferson letter, 147 Jefferson resolutions, 148 Jefferson resolutions, text of, 148 Jefferson School of Law, 419 "Jeffersonian Democrats," 256
"Jessamine Dome, " 525 Jessamine Female Institute, 445
Johnson Brothers, 217
Johnson, George W., 318, 325 Johnson, Sir William, 5 Johnson's Kentucky Cavalry. 214
Johnston, Albert Sidney, 259; death of, 331 Johnston, Colonel J. Stoddard, 556 "Journal, "' 557 Journey down the Mississippi, 13
Judge Clark's decision, 234 Judge Innes, 137; drops a hint, 110
Judicial department of Kentucky, 475 Justices Courts, 477
Kenton, Simon, 37, 51, 59, 82, 83
Kentucky, anniversary of, 35; area of, 521; accepts Thirteenth Amendment, 384; almost deserted, 44; appeal to congress by, 97; admitted to the Con- federacy, 325; anti-slavery sentiment of, 172; as mediator, 310; an armed camp, 327; at Chicka- mauga, 354; born, 35; between I850-60, 283; be- tween two fires. 98; dilemma of, 290; divided in sentiment, 167; efforts for peace, 298; factories, total output of all, 495; first bank of, 188; first cabin in, 25; first constitution, 165; first dwelling, in, 2; first fort, 43; first organized effort to locate lands in, 2; for Union and Constitution, 288; fully protects Catholics, 457; gave 105 governors to other states, 516; governor of between two fires. 306; Houses disagree, 310; invaded, 320; legisla- tion in, 196; members of the Fortieth Congress, 396; "Mother of Governors," 516; motto of, 323; neutrality of, 314; officers in the Mexican war, 589; officers in the various wars, 386; origin of name, 4; part in the contest of 1800 by, 186; pasturage land in, 524; permanent settlement of, SI; poli- ties after the war, 391; population of, 601; quick reconciliation of, 395; reinforcements, 126; season of "Inflation,"' 233; secedes, 311; second assem- bly of, 88; stanch Unionism of, 299; status in the Union, 307; steamboat inventor of, 230; soldiers at Missionary Ridge, 364; soldiers in the Mexican War, 262; soldiers from Arkansas, 595; soldiers from Illinois, 595; soldiers from Indiana, 595; sol- diers from Maryland, 595; soldiers from Missis- sippi, 595; soldiers from Missouri, 595; soldiers from Texas, 596; troops excelled those of other States, 387; troops at Shiloh, 332; wants self government, 87; women in polities in, 446
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