Isaac Shelby, the first governor of Kentucky, was an ancestor of this Civil War historian
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Historian, author captured essence of U.S. Civil War | The San ...  Jun 29, 2005 ... 1916 SHELBY FOOTE 2005. Historian, author captured essence of U.S. Civil War ... Among Foote's ancestors was Isaac Shelby, a frontier leader in the Revolution and the first governor of Kentucky. At the University of North...
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Shelby Foote, Historian and Novelist, Dies at 88 - The New York Times  Jun 29, 2005 ... Among the Shelby-Foote direct ancestors was Isaac Shelby, a frontier leader in the Revolution and the first governor of Kentucky. .... and he was admitted to a distinguished company of Civil War historians that included Bruce...
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Governor Isaac Shelby - the Trolinger Home Page  Isaac Shelby, First Governor of Kentucky, Fifth Governor (1812) of Kentucky, and my ... He fought in the Revolutionary war at the famous Battle of King's Mountain .... The Shelby Net (North Carolina Civil War Era) ... One Signer of the Constitution from Virginia: John Blair , that I am researching here as a quite possible ancestor.
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Isaac Shelby - Wikipedia  With this prospect looming, Isaac Shelby's name began ... 1812 the United States declared war on Great Britain, ... When he took the oath of office, Shelby became the first Kentucky governor to serve...
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Shelby Foote Facts - Biography - YourDictionary  One of his ancestors, Isaac Shelby, was a frontier leader during the American Revolution and the first governor of Kentucky. ... Foote did not begin writing about the Civil War until 1954, when he was about 37 years old. .... Phillips, Robert L., Shelby Foote: Novelist and Historian, University Press of Mississippi, 1992. Tolson...
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The History Book Club - PRESIDENTIAL SERIES: #11 (US) JAMES ...  Bentley said: Often referred to as the first dark horse President, James K. Polk ... He served as Speaker between 1835 and 1839, leaving to become Governor of Tennessee. ..... Historians generally consider James K. Polk one of the most effective ... In the nineteenth century only Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln matched his...
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Jefferson Davis - Wikipedia  Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808  December 6, 1889) was an American politician who was a U.S. Representative and Senator from Mississippi, the 23rd U.S. Secretary of War, and the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. ... Before the war, he operated a large cotton plantation in Mississippi and...
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William Wyatt Bibb - National Governors Association  Office Dates: Nov 09, 1819 - Jul 10, 1820 ... WILLIAM WYATT BIBB, Alabama's first governor, was born on October 2, 1781, in Amelia County, Virginia.
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BEFORE THOMASVILLE, WHAT - Social Security Online  Christina married, first, Philip Mock of Abbotts Creek area and after his death, Joseph Spurgeon, who as State Senator had introduced the bill to form Davidson County. Charles Hoover after marriage lived on his plantation near Abbotts Creek. ..... Charles M. and Marshall had a chair factory there and later in Lexington.
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FCS1-323: Famous Kentucky Women - UK College of Agriculture  Every family could name a female member who ... Ann McGinty,. Kentucky's first clothing manufac- ... born on the border between Virginia and Kentucky. .... was the first woman admitted to the. Kentucky bar. .... speak through the sense of touch. A child, by ..... 1812 to 1818. The Shelby ... She spoke fluent French and contrib-.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate general, first white ...  Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate cavalry commander .... He served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a secret vigilante organization .... who was a racist on public property, said City Council member Myron Lowery. ...... Klan was formed as a social club by a group of ex-Confederate sodiers in Pulaski TN.
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"I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My pa by ...  Lincoln was born February 12th, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky. His parents originated from Virginia of average families. His family moved to Indiana when he...
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Daniel Boone - Wikipedia  Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier .... His son, Nathan Boone, was the first white man born in Kentucky. ... In 1762, Boone, his wife and four children moved back to the Yadkin River ..... In 1845, the Boones' remains were supposedly disinterred and reburied in a...
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Marble Springs - Wikipedia  Marble Springs, also known as the Gov. John Sevier Home, is a state historic site in south Knox County, Tennessee, ... frontier militia commander and later the first governor of Tennessee from 1790 until his death in 1815. ... Sevier served as the only governor of the short-lived State of Franklin (17851788) and later as...
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Shelby Foote, Historian and Novelist, Dies at 88 - The New York Times  Jun 29, 2005 ... Among the Shelby-Foote direct ancestors was Isaac Shelby, a frontier leader in the Revolution and the first governor of Kentucky. ... Under the influence of William Alexander Percy, a local author and the uncle of young Shelby's ... three-volume, 1.5 million-word military history, "The Civil War: A Narrative.
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Abraham Lincoln's Autobiographies of 1858-60  Born, February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. Education defective. Profession, a lawyer. Have been a captain of volunteers in Black Hawk war.
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Free Flashcards about CIVIL WAR - StudyStack  THE ONLY FIRST LADY IT EVER HAD WAS A MISSISSIPPI ARISTOCRAT NAMED VARINA, CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. FOR HIS ROLE IN...
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Doug Wilder, America's first elected black governor, inducted into ...  May 19, 2016 ... Douglas Wilder, the nation's first elected black governor, now joins other ... He's working on a plan for the museum to be housed in the First...
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Kentucky History | Local and Family History  Jul 3, 2014 ... You may have even seen a rendering of it on Paducah's flood wall. ... The idea for a horse drinking fountain was first proposed for the city of Paducah by .... Yet, when the Paducah Sun article said that the ice cream cone was in the ... been introduced to a wide audience at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.
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Timeline: The State traces biggest headlines of its first 125 years ...  In 2016, The State celebrates 125 years of covering the Midlands and the Palmetto State. ... Ben Tillman, a former slave owner born in Edgefield County in 1847. .... education superintendent, state senator, judge, governor and U.S. senator. ... He later would be instrumental in forging the sounds of then-unknowns Miles...
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L. Douglas Wilder - Virginia Historical Society  He served in the army during the Korean War, during which he won the Bronze Star for heroism in combat. After the war, Wilder returned to ... He was the first elected African American governor in United States history. During his administration...