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| Augusta City Officials, 1897 |
Prominent Augusta Citizens, 1897 |
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Dr. T. S. Bradford |
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| Mr. Joseph Armer | J. L. Ammer |
Carl L. Sidell and friend “Lizzie,” 1919
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Miss Harkison's Class, Christian Sunday School. “Our Chautauqua (Wikipedia) starts June 24.” |
WWI Enlistees from Bracken County. Names here. |
Bracken Equalization Board. Key to men in the pic is here |
Terre Haute (IN) Gazette, April 7, 1871
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John Fee
(September 9, 1816 – January 11, 1901)
Fee was born in Bracken County, but was run out of the county because of his anti-slavery views.
He went on to found Berea College.
| His Wikipedia entry is here, and his autobiography can be read at this site. | Fee's account of his Bracken County days. |
| Fee was also involved in the story of the enslaved Juliet Miles, here and here. | |
| Meetings in Orangeburg and Germantown create “organized mob” to run abolitionists, including Berea College founder Rev. John Fee, out of Bracken County. Details here. | An 1860 version of Fee's expulsion is here. |
| Ohio and Kentucky Governors both get involved over John Fee in a Falmouth slave case. | His home near Germantown is on the National Register of Historic Places. (pdf) |
| You can read the Rev. John Fee's version of the events in a section of his autobiography. Pages relating to his Bracken County experience are excerpted here. | Fee's Wikipedia page is here, and his entire autobiography is on line here. |
“Abram Williams, of Bracken county, Ky., died on Monday, the 1st instant. Mr. Williams was born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, on the 13th of January, 1742. He served in the Revolutionary War, and drew a pension at Lexington, Ky. He has been a resident of this State for upwards of fifty years, and enjoyed tolerably good health up to his death. He was in the one hundred and sixth year of his age when he died, and was much respected by his acquaintances. He remarked on the day before his death, that he felt quite singular, but complained of no illness.” Maysville Eagle, May 23, 1848, as cited in the Draper Papers, 29CC101. |
Stephen A. Douglas Rigdon, Germantown
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| Bracken County's Francis M. McMillen is Bracken County's only soldier to have received the US Medal of Honor. Born on March 25, 1832, he got his medal by capturing the enemy flag in a Civil War Battle in Petersburg, Virginia on April 2, 1865. He's buried in Washington Courthouse, Ohio. His Civil War diary, not online, is in the the manuscript collection of the J.Y. Joyner Library at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. |
John Bradley
“Tom Tweed, recently an attache of the Bracken County Chronicle, was among those who fell with Custer.”
Courier-Journal, July 31, 1876
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| Madame Devere at the Dime Museum | |
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| Brooksville's Madame Jane (sometimes cited as Janet) Devere The Kentucky Bearded Lady, more here. That's her husband Bill in the center image. |
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| John Wood, goes to war in 1812, taken prisoner by the British, impressed on a British ship, sent to India, and eventually makes it back to New York, headed back to his home, Augusta, Kentucky. | ||
| Bartholomew Taylor came to Kentucky in 1796 | James Armstrong obituary, (1785-1824) | Hook Vs. Hook |
| Obituary of Wm. C. Marshall, 1869. | From the memoirs of A. W. Doniphan. | The Jetts. |
“Miss Eliza A. Dupuy, of Augusta, Ky., has a new novel in the press. This lady is the authoress of The Conspirator, a Tale of Blennerhassett's Island, a novel which had an extensive circulation some two years since.” Godey's Lady's Book, September, 1845 |
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| Mr. J. O. Stroube | Dr. J. L. Yelton | Maurice Hook |
Noted author Ed McClanahan, a.k.a. “Captain Kentucky,” is from Brooksville. See his Wikipedia entry here,
Two Major League Baseball Players came from Bracken County:
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| Brooksville's Herb Moford played for Tigers/Cardinals/Mets/Red Sox 1955-1962. His record is at this site. He started the first game the Mets ever played. | Germantown's Carl Edward Bouldin played for the Washington Senators, and a number of minor league teams. His record is at this site. | ||
