Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1915-03-13

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| founded the town OF louisville IN
1889 t?). The Willard Hotel was
originally the Croghan House and
Mammoth Cave belonged to the
Croghan family.
President Wilson. few days ago,
in an address delivered In Con-
tinental Memorial Hall. Washin gton
City. In aid of an educational fund
for Berea College. said "The noun
taineers OF the Appalachian distric
are as fine stock as any in our land.
Il is filled With people hungry -
learn. The only thing worth while
in life is to wake some one up. pro-
vided there is something worth while
10 show them when they are awak-
ened What America has indicated
above all things else Is that native
ability has nothing to do with social
origin The world could dispense
with high society and never miss H.
High society is for those who stop
working and no longer have any.
thing important to do When one
thinks of that old stock IN storage
there ia the mountains for over 100
years. untapped, some of the original
stuff OF the nation. waiting to be
used. one ought TO bid Godspeed
70 those men who are going there
and using this old capital that has
not even been put out at interest
that has been. as il were kept In a
chimneypiece until we shall go to it
and use II"
There are 100000 OF these
mountain people, not All In Ken
lucky to be sure. but in the APP
palachian district. mostly of Irish
ancestry, and they don't know IT.
Like Congressman Fitzpatrick they
never took time to inquire
their granddaddies came from. But
DR. Thomas Dunn English. who
wrote "Ben Bolt. took time 10 in
quire about their ancestry and went
among them several years ago. Many
OF them used the expression, Il
heayed a dornick at him." and like
expressions which came from Ire
land.
These mountaineers will be
great people when they are awak-
ened and told who they are. and as
the President truly says they are the
salt OF the earth when an opportu-
nifty is given them to do something.
They are of the same stock as the
President himself
Kentucky was admitted into the
Union February 4 1871 Twenty
years before that time Simon
Kenton, whose father was born in
the County Donegal, came to Ken
iucky and was the companion of
Boone At that time the population
OF the United States was about
1000, 900.
The first settlers of the Common
wealth came from Tennessee. Mary
land. North Carolina Virginia and
particularly from the latter State.
They We're mostly OF Irish descent.
This accounts for the beauty of the
women, the fleetness Of its horses and
the superior quality OF the whisky.
Usquebangh or mountain dew" has
been made in the Bluegrass from the
earliest time and probably will con-
tinue TO be made so long as the sun
shines over my Old Kentucky
Home
William logan. it is claimed. was
the first white man born in Ken
lucky. This is one of Kentucky's
great names. Logan county was
named for Gen. BENJAMIN Logan. His
parents came from ireland.
When Gen. Zachary Taylor was on
his way to Washington to be in
angurated President of the United
States he departed from his line of
travel in order 10 visit his old
school teacher This teacher was
none other than Kane O'Hara. who
came to Kentucky in the latter part
of the eighteenth century and taught
school at Frankfort Says the his
torian. ut was an affecting scene
when The Rreat soldier (Gen. Tay-
lori. then an old man. bowed himself
in grateful homage before the ven
cradle preceptor (Kane OHara) Of
bis youth. and in few but earnest
words thanked him for the care be-
slowed on his early education. to
which he attributed all the achieve
mems 81 his after life"
At the entrance Of every Federal
soldiers cemetery in the Emitted
States is written
The muffled drums sad roll has
beat
'ihe soldiers last tattoo
No more on life's parade shall meet
The brave and fallen few.
On fame's eternal amping-ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And Glory guards with solemn round
The bivouae OF the dead
The author OF this immortal poem.
only one sIanza OF which Is quoted,
wasiCol. Theodore O'Hara. educated
by his father with the greatest care
Others who went to school TO Kane
O'Hara We're the Marshalls and the
Browns. who afterward became
famous IN Kentecky's history These
were the kind OF school teachers Ire
land sent 10 Kentucky in the early
days
Sixteen Kentucky counties bear
Irish names Adair, Butler. Dayiess.
Logan. Hai1. Knox Montgomery.
Mccmcken. Boyle. Carroll. Rowan,
Kenton, Lyon. Campbell. Casey and
Wayne. Many towns have Irish
names and numerous streets in
Louisville. for instance Preston,
Ormsby and Breckenridge. Originally
the latter name was spelled Brackin-
ridge and the family early came
from Ireland to Virginia. Kentucky
was at that time one OF The counties
Of Virginia
Matthew Lyon. born In County
Wicklow. ireland in 1915. was one
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