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James Johnson

James Johnson (January 1, 1774 – August 13, 1826) was a U.S. Congressman.

Elected as a Jacksonian to represent Kentucky's 5th District in the Nineteenth Congress, he served from 1825 until his death.

Johnson was born in Orange County, Virginia. He moved with his father to Kentucky at age five. His first political office was as a member of the Kentucky State Senate (1808).

Johnson served as a Lieutenant Colonel during the War of 1812 and was later an independent contractor furnishing supplies to army troops on the western frontier. In 1820 he was a presidential elector on the Monroe-Tompkins ticket.

He died in Washington DC, six months shy of completing his first term in the House of Representatives; there is a cenotaph in his memory at the capital's Congressional Cemetery.

Johnson was the older brother of Richard Mentor Johnson, who was US Vice President under Martin Van Buren, and US Congressman John Telemachus Johnson. His nephew, Robert Ward Johnson, served first in the US Senate and then as a Confederate Senator during the Civil War.

Johnson is buried in the Johnson Family Cemetery in Scott County, Kentucky.
John W. Menzies

John William Menzies (April 12, 1819 – October 3, 1897) was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer and judge from Kentucky.

Born April 12, 1819 in Bryan Station, Kentucky, Menzies attended the common schools as a child and later graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Covington, Kentucky in 1841. He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1848 and 1855 before being elected a Unionist to the United States House of Representatives in 1860, serving from 1861 to 1863. Afterwards, he resumed practicing law in Covington, Kentucky and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1864. Menzies served as a judge of the chancery court from 1873 to 1893 and afterwards resumed practicing law until his death in Falmouth, Kentucky on October 3, 1897. He was buried in Linden Grove Cemetery in Covington, Kentucky.
Jim and the Films

Jim and the Films is a novel written by Rudy Rucker. It was first published in 2011.

## Description

Jim and the Flims is a novel set in Santa Cruz, CA... and the afterlife. Acclaimed cyberpunk/singularity author Rudy Rucker explores themes of death and destruction, in the wry, quirky style he is famous for. Jim Oster ruptures the membrane between our world and afterworld (AKA, The Flimsy), creating a two-way tunnel between them. Jim's wife Val is killed in the process, and Jim finds himself battling his personal grief, and an invasion of the Flims. The process of battling the invading Flims leads him to the center of the afterworld, where the ghost of his wife just might be. Can Jim save earth with the help of a posse of Santa Cruz punks, and at the same time bring his wife back to life?
John C. Breckinridge Memorial

The John C. Breckinridge Memorial was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS. It commemorates John C. Breckinridge, who had been born and died in Lexington. He was Vice President for James Buchanan and ran against Abraham Lincoln in the United States presidential election, 1860, winning nine Southern states. He served in the Confederate States Army, and was the last Confederate States Secretary of War, fleeing the country after the South lost.

The memorial was done by New York's Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company. The pedestal is made of granite, with the statue done in bronze. Breckinridge is seen standing contraposto The state government of Kentucky funded the construction of the monument.

Breckinridge's memorial was built in 1887, 24 years before the John Hunt Morgan Memorial, also part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS.

The Fayette County Courthouse has been moved, the building is now under renovation and will serve as an tourism, entertainment, and office hub.

In 2010 the monument was moved about 50 feet to a new location facing Main Street. This was done as part of the Cheapside pavilion construction project.

In November 2015, a committee, the Urban County Arts Review Board’s, voted to recommend removal of both the Breckinridge statue and the Morgan statue. In February 2016 Lexington mayor Jim Gray announced the statues would stay, but later advocated to remove them after receiving pressure from local grassroots organizing. The monuments were removed October 17, 2017. After a city council vote in November of 2017, the city voted in favor or relocating the statues of Breckinridge and Morgan to the Lexington Cemetery.
James Neville Blakemore

James Neville Blakemore (February 27, 1837 - November 5, 1898) was a farmer and a bourbon distiller.

Blakemore was born February 27, 1837. He married Mary Lillard and had two daughters.

He was a successful farmer in Franklin County. Enough so that he was wealthy enough to start up the Arnold's Spring Distillery. It was large enough to merit 5 warehouses.

He died November 5, 1898 in Frankfort, Franklin County. Among his honorary pall-bearers was Colonel E. H. Taylor. Blakemore was buried in Frankfort Cemetery.

After Blakemore's death, his distillery was bought out and dismantled.
John Milton Elliott Statue

The John Milton Elliott Statue is located on the Courthouse lawn in Catlettsburg, Boyd County.

It was erected in his memory after he was murdered in Frankfort by Henry County Judge, Colonel Thomas Buford. Buford asked Elliott whether he wanted to go on a snipe hunt, then shot him point-blank with a double-barreled shotgun filled with twelve buckshot, as he had sworn on his sister's grave he would do. Buford's late sister had lost her land to pay back a debt of $20,000; Elliott had ruled against her in a court proceeding in which she had attempted to save the property.

Buford offered a defense of not guilty by reason of insanity during his trial. The jury did indeed find him insane, after an initial 6–6 deadlock. Buford was sent to the Central Kentucky Insane Asylum in Anchorage, Kentucky, but would eventually escape in 1882 to Indiana, where he was unable to be extradited. He voluntarily returned to the asylum in 1884 and died on February 12, 1885.
James A. Williamson

James A. Williamson (February 8, 1829 – September 7, 1902) was a politician, and lawyer who served in the Union army during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of brigadier general. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou.

Williamson was born in Columbia, Kentucky on February 8, 1829. When he was fifteen years old his family moved to Iowa, where he worked as a farmer, before studying law and being admitted to the bar. In the years prior to the Civil War he served as the chairman of the Iowa State Democratic Committee.

When the Civil War began Williamson volunteered in the 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Serving as a first lieutenant he fought at the battle of Pea Ridge where he was wounded on the first day of fighting there. On March 4, 1862 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and then on July 21, 1862 to colonel of the 4th Iowa. Colonel Williamson and his regiment spent the fall of 1862 on garrison duty at Helena, Arkansas. In December Williamson was part of William T. Sherman's force which attacked the Confederate forces at the Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs. Williamson was again wounded and for his services here was eventually awarded the Medal of Honor in 1895.

Williamson recovered in time to take part in the Vicksburg Campaign and the following Siege of Vicksburg. After the fall of the city, he assumed command of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, XV Corps until September, 1863 then commanded the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XV Corps at the Battle of Chattanooga. Williamson's division, commanded by Peter J. Osterhaus was temporarily attached to the forces under Joseph Hooker and took part in the Battle of Lookout Mountain. The division was returned to the Army of the Tennessee and Williamson led the 2nd Brigade during the Atlanta Campaign. At the Battle of Jonesborough he was wounded in the hand. On December 19, 1864 he received a brevet promotion to brigadier general of U.S. Volunteers, on January 13, 1865 a full promotion to brigadier general and on March 13, 1865 a brevet promotion to major general of volunteers. Briefly during the summer of 1865 he commanded the District of St. Louis and was mustered out of the volunteer service on August 24, 1865, but was on an inspection tour of army posts in the West and did not find out until he returned in October 1865.

In 1864 Williamson had been elected chairman of the Iowa delegation to the National Republican Convention in Baltimore, but did not attend due to duty to the army. After the War he resumed his law practice in Iowa. He served as Commissioner of the General Land Office from 1876 to 1881. During this time he served as chairman of the Public Land Commission, which was created by Congress in 1879. He later became President of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad. He was in Jamestown, Rhode Island when he died on September 7, 1902.
James Harlan

James Harlan (June 22, 1800 – February 18, 1863) was an attorney and politician, a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. He also served as US Attorney for Kentucky and, prior to that, as Kentucky Secretary of State and Attorney General, the first to be elected to the latter office statewide.

Born in Mercer County, Kentucky, Harlan attended school before working as a clerk in a dry goods store from 1817 to 1821. Deciding to embark upon a legal career, he read law under the guidance of a local judge before gaining admission to the bar in 1823. Harlan commenced practice in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and enjoyed a busy but not especially remunerative legal career. He served as a Commonwealth's Attorney from 1829 until 1835.

A follower of Henry Clay, Harlan was soon involved in local and state politics. In 1833, he managed the reelection campaign of Congressman Robert P. Letcher. When Letcher decided not to run for another term, Harlan ran successfully to replace him. Harlan was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (serving March 4, 1835 – March 4, 1839).

In 1840, Letcher, who had won election as governor of Kentucky, appointed Harlan as Secretary of State of Kentucky, an office he held for the duration of Letcher's term. In 1845, Harlan was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives, serving three terms until 1851. He was elected Attorney General of Kentucky in 1850, the first man elected statewide as attorney general. He served until 1859 as the state's attorney general (during which time he wrote The Code of Practice in Civil and Criminal Cases). Two years later, Harlan was appointed U.S. Attorney for Kentucky by President Abraham Lincoln, and he served in that capacity until his death in Frankfort on February 18, 1863.

James Harlan married Eliza Shannon Davenport (1805–70) on December 23, 1822. The couple had six sons and three daughters. One of their sons, John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911), followed his father into the law, becoming an attorney and a judge. Ultimately he was appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, where he dissented in the important Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) civil rights case, standing up for equal rights under the law. He was also a great-grandfather of another Supreme Court justice, John Marshall Harlan II (1899–1971).

In addition, Harlan may have had a relationship with a mulatto slave and a son by her, Robert James Harlan, born in 1816. He raised the mixed-race boy in his household, where Robert was tutored by two older half-brothers. After having a successful businesses in Harrodsburg and Lexington, Robert went to California during the Gold Rush and earned a fortune of $90,000. He returned to the Midwest, settling in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1851 and investing in real estate. He was elected as a state legislator in 1886.

Harlan was buried in Frankfort Cemetery.
James Doss

James Daniel "Danny" Doss (1939 - May 17, 2012) is an author.

He was the creator of the popular fictional Ute detective/rancher Charlie Moon, of whom he wrote 17 mystery novels.

James "Danny" Doss was born and raised in Kentucky and died in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He was also an electrical engineer who worked on particle accelerators and biomedical technology for the University of California's Los Alamos National Laboratory, while writing his novels. After retirement from Los Alamos National Laboratory, he continued to write his popular novels while living in Taos, New Mexico and Los Alamos, New Mexico.
John D. Craddock

John Durrett Craddock (October 26, 1881 – May 20, 1942) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, USA.

Born October 26, 1881 in Munfordville, Kentucky, Craddock attended the public schools of Hart County. During the Philippine Insurrection and also during the Boxer Uprising in China served as a corporal and sergeant in Troop F, Third United States Cavalry. He was employed as a railroad engineer with the Isthmian Canal Commission, Panama Canal Zone from 1904 to 1910. He returned to Munfordville, Kentucky, in 1910 and engaged in banking and agricultural pursuits. He served as member of the board of trustees of Munfordville 1910-1925. Assisted in organizing the Burley Tobacco Growers Association in 1922 and served as director from 1922 to 1941. He served as member of the Kentucky Mammoth Cave National Park Commission 1922-1928.

Craddock was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929 – March 3, 1931). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress. Field man, Federal Farm Board, Washington, D.C., in 1931 and 1932. Agent of the Kentucky Blue Grass Cooperative Association, Winchester, Kentucky, in 1933 and 1934. Treasurer of Hart County at Munfordville, Kentucky, in 1934 and 1935. He resumed his former pursuits. He served as a member of the State Agricultural Adjustment Administration Committee from 1939 until his death. He died in Louisville, Kentucky, May 20, 1942. He was interred in Munfordville Municipal Cemetery, Munfordville, Kentucky.
John Clagett Bibliography

## Novels

* 1952 – Cradle of the Sun
* 1954 – Buckskin Cavalier
* 1955 – Captain Whitecap
* 1956 – Wilderness Virgin
* 1958 – The Slot
* 1963 – Jack Darby, Able Seaman
* 1965 – Gunpowder for Boonesborough
* 1967 – The Island of Dragons
* 1968 – Surprise Attack!
* 1968 – These Hallowed Grounds
* 1969 – Torpedo Run on Iron Bottomed Bay
* 1970 – Typhoon 1944
* 1975 – A World Unknown
* 1978 – The Orange R
* 1982 – Papa Tango
* 2002 – A World Unknown
* 2002 – Rebel
James Brown Clay

James Brown Clay (November 9, 1817 – January 26, 1864) was a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky.

Born November 9, 1817 in Washington, D.C., while his father, Henry Clay, was serving in the United States Congress, James Brown Clay was named for the husband of his maternal aunt, James Brown. His brothers were Henry Clay, Jr. and John Morrison Clay. Clay attended a boys' school associated with Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio (founded by family friend Bishop Philander Chase). Later, Clay attended Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky. He worked at a countinghouse in Boston from 1832 to 1834 before studying law and being admitted to the bar. He practiced law with his father in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1843, Clay married Susan Maria Jacob, the daughter of Louisville's first millionaire and sister of its later mayor, Charles Donald Jacob. The couple eventually had ten children.

Clay served as Chargé d'Affaires to Portugal from August 1, 1849, to July 19, 1850. He farmed in Missouri in 1851 and 1852 before returning to Lexington. Clay had been a lifelong member of the Whig Party — the party of his father. But when the Whig Party disintegrated following Henry Clay's death, and due to the controversy surrounding the Kansas-Nebraska Act, James B. Clay joined the Democratic Party. He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1859). Clay did not run for renomination in 1858 and declined an appointment by President James Buchanan to a mission to Germany. Clay served as a member of the Peace Conference of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., an attempt to prevent the impending American Civil War. During the Civil War Clay supported the Confederacy and was commissioned to raise a regiment. His ill-health from tuberculosis prevented him from doing so. Clay died in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he had gone for his health. He is interred at his family plot in Lexington Cemetery.
James B. Beck

James Burnie Beck (February 13, 1822 – May 3, 1890) was a United States Representative and Senator from Kentucky.

Born February 13, 1822 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Beck immigrated to the United States in 1838 and settled in Wyoming County, New York. He moved to Lexington, Kentucky in 1843 and graduated from Transylvania University in 1846. Beck was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Lexington. Until shortly before the Civil War, he was law partner of John C. Breckinridge, the U.S. Vice President who became a Confederate general; during the Civil War, Beck was interrogated by a military commission about his knowledge of his former partner's activities.

After the war Beck was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives serving Kentucky's district 7. He was appointed to the Committee on Reconstruction where it was expected that as a newcomer and an immigrant he would be no obstacle to Republican intentions, but he immediately became a tenacious advocate of the rights of the defeated states. He was elected to the Fortieth and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving in all from March 4, 1867 to March 3, 1875.

In 1876, Beck was appointed a member of the commission to define the boundary line between Maryland and Virginia. He was then elected to the United States Senate in 1876, being reelected twice and serving in all from March 4, 1877, until his death in Washington, D.C., on May 3, 1890. While in the Senate, Beck was the Democratic Conference Chairman from 1885 to 1890, and the chairman of the Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard. He was prominent in the discussion of tariff and currency questions.

He is interred at Lexington Cemetery. His son, George T. Beck, was a noted politician and entrepreneur in the state of Wyoming.
Jeremiah Boyle

Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (May 22, 1818 – July 28, 1871) was a successful lawyer and noted abolitionist. He served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Boyle was born May 22, 1818 and raised in Mercer County (now Boyle County, Kentucky), and graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1838. He was the son of Judge and Chief Justice John Boyle, for whom Boyle County was named. He then studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. He became a successful lawyer in Harrodsburg and Danville. Although a slave-owning Whig politically, he argued for a gradual emancipation of slaves as a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1849.

He married Elizabeth Owsley Anderson of Garrard County and raised seven children. For a number of years, he was engaged in business with his brother-in-law, William Clayton Anderson, a former United States Congressman. Boyle supported the Constitutional Union Party in the election of 1860.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Boyle raised a brigade of infantry for service in the Union Army. He was commissioned as a brigadier general on November 19, 1861. After wintering his troops in Tennessee, he joined Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell's Army of the Ohio and participated in the Battle of Shiloh.

In May 1862, he was appointed Military Governor of Kentucky by President Abraham Lincoln, and at times served in command of both the District of Kentucky and District of Western Kentucky. Curiously, the Official Records refer to Boyle's command as the "District of Western Kentucky", although at that time it included all of Kentucky except Western Kentucky, which was assigned to the District of Columbus. Boyle dispatched troops several times to combat incursions and cavalry raids by John Hunt Morgan.

He resigned in 1864 after his son, the Union Army's youngest colonel, Col. William O. Boyle, was killed in action at the Battle of Marion in Tennessee. He had been affectionately known as "the Boy Major."

Following his return home, Boyle speculated in land and became interested in street railways and urged Louisville officials to establish such service. In 1865, he became the president of the Louisville City Railway Company and oversaw the creation of the first mass transportation system in the commonwealth.

He was president of the Evansville, Henderson and Nashville Railroad from 1866 until his death in 1871. He traveled to Europe and secured French investors to back a project to expand narrow-gauge rail service in Kentucky.

Boyle died on July 28, 1871, in Louisville and was buried in Bellevue Cemetery in Danville.
Images of America: Kentucky's Horse-Drawn Era

Images of America: Kentucky's Horse-Drawn Era is a book written by Berkeley and Jeanine Scott. It was first published in 2014.

## Description

Images of America: Kentucky's Horse-Drawn Era takes a look at the days when animals--mostly horses and mules--supplied the "horsepower" for daily life in Kentucky. The animals' work included hauling buggies, carriages, wagons, hearses, circus wagons, parade floats, bookmobiles, coal cars, school buses, and everything and everyone in between. This book even has a photograph of a mule team pulling a two-story house down the street of a small town in Kentucky; other unusual images feature a "high-diving" horse and the winners of the Mule Derby. These vintage photographs highlight horses and mules in some of the many roles they filled before the advent of the automobile, the pickup truck, and the tractor.
Jesse Bledsoe

Jesse Bledsoe (April 6, 1776 – June 25, 1836) was a Senator from Kentucky.

Bledsoe was born in Culpeper County, Virginia in 1776. When he was very young, his family migrated with a Baptist congregation through Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. Many of the adults in this traveling congregation were property: Negro slaves. Jesse attended Transylvania Seminary and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar about 1800 and commenced practice.

In 1808, Bledsoe was appointed Secretary of State. He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1812. Afterwards he was elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1813 until his resignation on December 24, 1814. He then became a member of the Kentucky State Senate in 1817, serving until 1820.

Bledsoe was judge of the Lexington circuit in 1822. He settled in Lexington and was professor of law in Transylvania University. He then became minister in the Disciples Church. He moved to Mississippi in 1833 and to Texas in 1835. He died near Nacogdoches, Texas under circumstances his contemporaries and kinfolk could only describe as a significant fall from grace.

Sometimes a volatile being, he earned the sobriquet "Hot headed" Jesse Bledsoe. Besides being a brilliant jurist he was a fascinating maternal uncle to 1) Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor, who studied law with him, 2) Thomas Chilton who likewise represented Kentucky in Congress, and 3) William Parish Chilton who would rise to political prominence in Alabama and the Confederacy.
January 6

**January 6th**

* 1807 – Joseph Holt born.
* 1810 – John J. Hardin born.
* 1810 – Burwell C. Ritter born.
* 1819 – Robert C. Wickliffe born.
* 1855 – Tunstall Quarles died, aged ~85.
* 1879 – Effie Waller Smith born.
* 1931 – Tom Marshall born.
* 1951 – Shug McGaughey born.
* 1969 – Jim Viox died, aged 78.
* 1976 – The Stanford Abduction occurred.
John Speed Smith

John Speed Smith (July 1, 1792 – June 6, 1854) was an attorney and politician, a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, and a state representative for several terms, as well as state senator. He served for four years as a US District Attorney. He was the father of Green Clay Smith, who also served as a state representative and US Congressman.

Born near Nicholasville, Kentucky in Jessamine County, Smith attended a private school in Mercer County. After that, he "read the law" with an established firm. He was admitted to the bar in 1812 and commenced practice in Richmond, Kentucky.

During the War of 1812, Smith enlisted as a private. He was subsequently promoted and commissioned as a major. He served as aide-de-camp, with the rank of colonel, to General William Henry Harrison, later president of the United States.

In 1815 at the age of 23, Smith married Elizabeth Lewis Clay (1798-1887), then 17, the daughter of Green Clay, considered one of the wealthiest men in Kentucky, and Sally (Lewis) Clay. Their several children included Sally Ann Lewis Smith (1818-1875), named for her maternal grandmother; Curran Cassius Smith, Green Clay Smith, named for his maternal grandfather; Pauline Green Smith, Junius Brutus Smith (never married), Mary Spencer Smith(never married), and John Speed Smith, Jr.

Curran Cassius Smith became a doctor. He also managed his father's estate after his mother was widowed, making his home with her and his family. Green Clay Smith followed his father and maternal uncles into law and politics, serving at both the state and federal levels.

John Speed Smith was elected to the state house of representatives in 1819, serving one term.

Smith was elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George Robertson and served from August 6, 1821, to March 3, 1823. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1822.

He was elected again as a member of the state house of representatives in 1827, when he was also elected as speaker of the Kentucky House. He was appointed as United States district attorney for Kentucky, serving 1828-1832.

He was elected again to the state house in 1839, 1841, and 1845. He was elected as a member of the state senate, serving 1846-1850.

Smith died in Richmond, Kentucky, June 6, 1854, and was interred in Richmond Cemetery.
John White

John White (February 14, 1802 – September 22, 1845) was a prominent US politician during the 1840s.

White was a native of Kentucky and practiced law there. White was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1832. He served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1841 to 1843, and was a member of the United States Congress from 1835 to 1845.

On April 23, 1844, White was involved in a physical confrontation on the House floor with Democratic Congressman George O. Rathbun of New York. White was delivering a speech in defense of Senator Henry Clay, the Whig nominee for President in that year's presidential election, and objected to a ruling from the Speaker denying him time to conclude his remarks. When Rathbun told White to be quiet, White confronted him and their disagreement lead to a fistfight between the two with dozens of their colleagues rushing to break up the fight. During the disturbance, an unknown visitor fired a pistol into the crowd, wounding a police officer. Both White and Rathbun subsequently apologized for their actions.

White was appointed judge of the nineteenth judicial district of Kentucky and served in that capacity from February 8, 1845, until his death in Richmond, Kentucky on September 22, 1845. His nephew, John Daugherty White would go on to represent Kentucky's 9th district in the late 1870s.

White is buried in the State Cemetery at Frankfort, Kentucky.
James D. Breckinridge

James Douglas Breckinridge (1781 – May 6, 1849) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. He was a member of the noted Breckinridge family.

Breckinridge was born in Woodville, Kentucky in 1781. He attended Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia, from 1800 to 1803, where he studied law. After completing his studies, he was admitted to the bar and opened a law practice in Louisville, Kentucky.

Breckinridge served as member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1809 to 1811. He was appointed judge by Governor Joseph Holmes Desha in April 1826, but declined to serve.

Breckinridge was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 17th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Wingfield Bullock (November 21, 1821 – March 4, 1823). His campaign in 1822, at the end of that term, for election in his own election to the 18th Congress was unsuccessful. Following his leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law.

Breckinridge died in Louisville, Kentucky on May 6, 1849 and was interred in St. John's Cemetery. His remains were later re-interred in Saint Louis Cemetery, Louisville in 1867.
Jason Sizemore

Jason Sizemore (March 16, 1974) is an American writer and editor based in Lexington, Kentucky. He is the owner and managing editor of Apex Publications. He was born in Big Creek, KY. He was the editor and publisher of Apex Digest, a quarterly science fiction and horror digest that ran for 12 issues between 2005 and 2008. As the publisher/managing editor of Apex Magazine, he was nominated for the Hugo Award in the semi-pro zine category in 2012, 2013 and 2014. As a writer he has published several stories in genre magazines. His first short story collection, Irredeemable, was published in April, 2014.
Jack Bellman

John Hutchins "Happy Jack" Bellman (March 4, 1864 – December 8, 1931) was an American major league baseball catcher. He played professionally for the St. Louis Browns.

Bellman was born March 4, 1864 in Taylorsville, Kentucky. He played one game for the St. Louis Browns, on April 23, 1889. He had one hit in two at-bats and scored a run.

Bellman died on December 8, 1931 in Louisville, Kentucky and is interred at Calvary Cemetery in Louisville.
January 26

**January 26th**

* 1848 – Alexander Pope Humphrey born.
* 1864 – James Brown Clay died, aged 46.
* 1886 – Andrew Rechmond Boone died, aged 54.
* 1923 – Asbury Harpending died, aged 83.
* 1994 – Richard Ballard born.
* 2002 – Milt Ticco died, aged 79.
* 2014 – Rusty York died, aged 78.
* 2019 – Dale Barnstable died, aged 93.
John Hunt Morgan Memorial

The John Hunt Morgan Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky, is a monument created as a tribute to Confederate General John Hunt Morgan, who was from Lexington and is buried in nearby Lexington Cemetery.

With the help of the state government of Kentucky, the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected the monument on October 18, 1911 on what was then the courthouse lawn. The bronze statue was cast in Brooklyn, New York, at a cost of $15,000. The state of Kentucky contributed $7,500 of the cost because the UDC was unable to raise all of the funds promised. The ceremony included a parade of 400 veterans. The pedestal is of granite. The monument was dedicated by Morgan's brother-in-law Basil W. Duke, master of ceremonies, and keynote speaker Dr. Guy Carleton Lee, a third cousin of Robert E. Lee. Also in attendance were John Castleman, and Morgan's brothers Charlton and Dick. Of the monuments of the American Civil War in Kentucky, it is the only one with a soldier on horseback.

Morgan's horse, Black Bess, was a mare, but sculptor Pompeo Coppini thought a stallion was more appropriate. Coppini said, "No hero should bestride a mare!". Therefore, Coppini added the necessary testicles. Undergraduates from nearby University of Kentucky have been known to paint the testicles of the horse in the school colors of blue and white. An anonymous author wrote the "Ballad of Black Bess", which ended with:

*So darkness comes to Bluegrass men —*
*Like darkness o'er them falls —*
*For well we know gentlemen should show*
*Respect for a lady's balls.*

The memorial was one of 60 different Civil War properties in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places on the same day, July 17, 1997. Three other properties listed that day are also located in Lexington: the John C. Breckinridge Memorial, which is on the other side of the same block as the Morgan Memorial, and the Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington and the Ladies' Confederate Memorial, both in nearby Lexington Cemetery.

In November 2015, a committee, the Urban County Arts Review Board's, voted to recommend removal of the Morgan and Breckinridge memorials. After receiving pressure from local grassroots organizing, Mayor Jim Gray re-announced plans to relocate the memorial to Veterans Park in south Lexington. The monuments were removed October 17, 2017. Both the Morgan and Breckinridge memorials will be relocated to the Lexington Cemetery in 2018.
Jeff Hughes

Jeff Hughes (born August 20, 1984 in Covington, Kentucky) is an American professional soccer player.

Growing up in Northern Kentucky, Hughes set several area records for goals scored while playing at Holmes High School. During his senior season, he set the Region record for goals scored in a season and was voted 2001 Northern Kentucky Player of the Year. After high school Hughes chose to play soccer for NCAA Division I Western Michigan University, and then later transferred to the University of Cincinnati at the end of his sophomore year.

Hughes left the college ranks after just one season with the UC Bearcats, forfeiting his remaining NCAA eligibility to play professionally. Originally he signed with the Second Bundesliga club TSV 1860 München, but soon after, he returned to the US and found a home with the USL Second Division team Cincinnati Kings. During the 2006 season, the Kings traded Hughes to the North Carolina-based Wilmington Hammerheads. After just over a year with Wilmington, he left to join the Pittsburgh Riverhounds for the 2008 season.

After the close of the 2008 season, he signed with 1790 Cincinnati in the Professional Arena Soccer League, where he was named 2nd team PASL. He returned to the Riverhounds for 2009, but was released from his contract at the end of the season.

Having been unable to secure a professional contract elsewhere, Hughes returned to play for the Cincinnati Kings in the USL Premier Development League in 2010.

Jeff signed for the Major Indoor Soccer League club, the Syracuse Silver Knights in 2011.

Hughes signed on to be a midfielder and the head coach of the Cincinnati Kings of the Professional Arena Soccer League for the 2012–13 season. Although he led the Kings to qualify for the postseason and was the team's leading scorer, he was released on January 25, 2013. Hughes signed with the Missouri Comets of the Major Indoor Soccer League the same day.
James William Moore

James William Moore (February 12, 1818 – September 17, 1877) was a Confederate politician during the American Civil War.

Moore was born February 12, 1818 in Montgomery County, Kentucky, and served as a state court judge from 1851 to 1858.

He represented the state in the First Confederate Congress and the Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1865.

Moore died September 17, 1877 in Mount Sterling, Montgomery County at the age of 59. He was buried in Machpelah Cemetery.
Jim McDaniels

James Ronald McDaniels (April 2, 1948 – September 6, 2017) was born April 2, 1948 in Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky. He was an American professional basketball player.

A 6'11" power forward/center, McDaniels averaged nearly 40 points per game as a senior at Allen County High School in Scottsville, Kentucky. From 1967 to 1971, he played at Western Kentucky University, leading his team to a third-place finish in the 1971 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. (The NCAA later voided Western Kentucky's participation in the tournament, accusing McDaniels of signing with an agent while still in college.) He also set WKU school records with 2,238 career points (now tied with Courtney Lee) and 1,118 career rebounds.

McDaniels was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics in the second round of the 1971 NBA draft and by the Utah Stars in the ABA Draft, but he began his professional career with the Carolina Cougars of the American Basketball Association, who offered him a $1.35 million contract to be paid over twenty-five years. Reportedly, the Cougars first approached McDaniels during November 1970, while he was still playing for Western Kentucky. McDaniels averaged 26.8 points and 14 rebounds in 58 games with the Cougars during the 1971–72 season and scored 24 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in the 1972 ABA All-Star Game. However, he feuded with the Cougars while trying to renegotiate his contract – he wanted his salary to be spread over fifteen years, rather than twenty-five – and near the end of his rookie season he decided to leave the Cougars for the SuperSonics.

McDaniels remained with Seattle for the next two full seasons. However, he struggled to maintain the same level of production he had achieved in the ABA, and by the 1973–74 NBA season, McDaniels was averaging just 5.5 points per game. During that time, McDaniels was dogged by off-court troubles as the Cougars questioned the legality of his jump to the NBA. He later admitted in an interview, "I should have stayed in the ABA for a couple of years. I was just young and things started going bad for me there and I didn't know how to handle them." SuperSonics coach and general manager Bill Russell ultimately released McDaniels in fall 1974. For the next four years, McDaniels bounced from team to team, playing for the Los Angeles Lakers and Buffalo Braves of the NBA, the Kentucky Colonels of the ABA, and Snaidero Udine of Italy. He finally decided to retire from basketball in 1978.

McDaniels had two sons (Eskias McDaniels, Shannon Martin). McDaniels died September 6, 2017 in Bowling Green, Kentucky at the age of 69 due to complications from diabetes.

The 1971 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball team was the first Kentucky collegiate basketball team to start five African-American players. Coach John Oldham started McDaniels, Jim Rose, Clarence Glover, Jerry Dunn and Rex Bailey. McDaniels had recruited Rose and the others after signing at WKU. Oldam was pressured not to start all five together, but said "they are my best five players."

McDaniels' #44 jersey was retired by Western Kentucky in January 2000.
John Kerr Hendrick

John Kerr Hendrick (October 10, 1849 – June 20, 1921) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.

Born October 10, 1849 in Caswell County, North Carolina, Hendrick moved with his parents to Logan County and later to Todd County, Kentucky, attended private schools and Bethel College, Russellville, Kentucky, moved to Crittenden County, Kentucky, in 1869 and engaged in teaching school. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in Smithland, Kentucky. He served as prosecuting attorney of Livingston County from 1878 to 1886. He served as member of the State Senate from 1887 to 1891. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1888.

Hendrick was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1896. He resumed the practice of law in Paducah, Kentucky, where he died June 20, 1921. He was interred in Maplelawn Park Cemetery.
J. Paul Hogan

John Paul Hogan (August 7, 1919 – February 19, 2012) was an American research chemist. Along with Robert Banks he discovered methods of producing polypropylene and high-density polyethylene.

Hogan was born on August 7, 1919 in Lowes, Kentucky to Charles Franklin and Alma (Wyman) Hogan and earned B.S. degrees in both Chemistry and Physics at Murray State University of Kentucky in 1942. He taught at both the high school and college level before going to work in research at the Phillips Petroleum Company in 1944.

His work was primarily in the area of plastics and catalysts. In 1951, he invented crystalline polypropylene and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) with his fellow research chemist Robert Banks. These plastics were initially known by the name Marlex. He held (jointly) a number of important patents and authored research papers before he left Phillips in 1985.

After a few years as an independent consultant, he fully retired in 1993.

In 1987, he and Robert Banks together received the Perkin Medal Award and both were given a Heroes of Chemistry award by the American Chemical Society in 1989. In 2001, they were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Hogan died in Wichita, Kansas on February 19, 2012.
Jim Richards

Jim Richards is the former men's basketball head coach at Western Kentucky University, coaching the team for seven seasons from 1971 to 1978. He was inducted into the Western Kentucky University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005.

Richards was born in rural Adair County, Kentucky, and played basketball for one year at Adair County High School. He was recruited to play baseball at Western by Coach E. A. Diddle (better known as the basketball coach). Diddle got Richards into officiating high school basketball. After graduation, Richards was hired as head basketball coach at Auburn High School. He went from there to Glasgow High, where he coached the Scotties to a state championship in 1968.

Richards returned to Western as an assistant the following year, when an opening occurred on John Oldham's staff after Gene Rhodes left to coach the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association. When Oldham left the sidelines to become athletic director, Richards became head coach for the 1971-1972 season.

His overall record at Western was 102-84. His Hilltopper teams won two regular season Ohio Valley Conference championships, plus two tournament championships. The Toppers made the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament twice, with an overall record of one win and two losses.

After stepping down as head basketball coach, Richards coached the men's golf team. One of his recruits was Kenny Perry from nearby Franklin, Kentucky. Perry went on to play on the PGA Tour.
Images of America: Bourbon County 1860-1940

Images of America: Bourbon County 1860-1940 is a book written by Berkeley and Jeanine Scott. It was first published in 2001.

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Original thinking is a hallmark of the people of Bourbon County, Kentucky, and evident in those who have made an impact on American life. The list includes Jacob Spears, who gave the name “bourbon” in honor of his county to the aged whiskey he sold in New Orleans; Barton Stone, who was involved in the creation of the Christian Church at the Cane Ridge Meeting House; and Garrett Morgan, who was born in 1877 to former slaves and went on to invent the gas mask and the tri-color traffic signal.

The industrious spirit of Bourbon County’s citizens is celebrated in this volume, a visual record of the county featuring the once-thriving bourbon industry, rarely seen photographs of early churches, and glimpses of African-American life in the community. Other photos show the transformation of Main Street in Paris as this thoroughfare prospered and changed and the courthouses built in the county over the years; early “action” photos show the third courthouse ablaze in 1901.

Hundreds of familiar faces are captured in this engaging collection, some even pictured in front of the one-room schoolhouses of yesteryear. Photos from the 1898 celebration marking the end of the Spanish-American War show a joyous, patriotic community, coming together in a spirit of celebration.
J. Campbell Cantrill

James Campbell Cantrill (July 9, 1870 – September 2, 1923) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.

Born July 9, 1870 in Georgetown, Kentucky, Cantrill attended the common schools, Georgetown (Kentucky) College, and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. He engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death. He served as chairman of the Scott County Democratic committee in 1895.

Cantrill was elected a member of the State house of representatives in 1897, and again in 1899. He served in the State senate 1901-1905. He was nominated for Congress in 1904, but declined. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1904.

Cantrill was elected president of the American Society of Equity for Kentucky, an organization of farmers, in 1908.

Cantrill was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, until his death during his campaign as the Democratic nominee for Governor of Kentucky. He served as chairman of the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses). He died in Louisville, Kentucky September 2, 1923. He was interred in Georgetown Cemetery, in Georgetown, Kentucky.
James Higdon

James Higdon has worked for the Courier-Journal in Louisville and the New York Times, contributed to The Prairie Home Companion, researched the NYPD counter-terrorism and intelligence divisions for the new CBS series NYC 22 (produced by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal), and is currently a contributing editor with PBS Frontline’s Tehran Bureau.
John McMurtry

John McMurtry (September 13, 1812 – March 3, 1890) was a 19th-century American builder and architect who worked in Lexington, Kentucky designing a number of notable buildings, several of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

According to Clay Lancaster, McMurtry is the "man whose work is most representative of the nineteenth century architecture of central Kentucky", and among his works are some "meriting careful consideration".

McMurtry "produced" (as architect and/or builder) more than 200 buildings in the Bluegrass area of Kentucky, and is credited for the popularity of Gothic Revival architecture in the Bluegrass area, as exemplified by Loudoun House (built by McMurtry; designed by nationally renowned architect Alexander Jackson Davis.

McMurtry died March 3, 1890 and was buried in Lexington Cemetery, of which he designed the entry gates for.

Some of McMurtry's notable building and architectural projects include:

* T. D. Basye House, 3501 Georgetown Rd., Lexington, Kentucky (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
* Botherum, (1850), 341 Madison Pl., Lexington, Kentucky (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
* Buenna Hill, also known as Cythiana Hall, Greek Revival off Ferguson Rd., Lexington, Kentucky (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
* Christ Church Episcopal, Church and Market Sts., Lexington, Kentucky (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
* Clark County Court House, (1855), Main St., Winchester, Kentucky (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
* Elley Villa, 320 Linden Walk, Lexington, Kentucky (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
* Episcopal Burying Ground Chapel, Lexington, Kentucky, contributing item in NRHP listing
* Fairlawn, 6 mi. NE of Lexington on U.S. 68, Lexington, Kentucky (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
* Floral Hall, 847 S. Broadway, Lexington, Kentucky (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
* Higgins Block, 145–151 W. Main St., Lexington, Kentucky, (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
* Jacobs Hall, Kentucky School for the Deaf, S. 3rd St., Danville, Kentucky (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
* Thomas January House, 437 W. 2nd St., Lexington, Kentucky (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
* Lexington Cemetery entrance gates
* Loudoun House, (1851) corner of Bryan Avenue and Castlewood Drive, Lexington, Kentucky, NRHP-listed.
* Benjamin McCann House, Old Richmond Pike, Lexington, Kentucky (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
* McFarland House, 510 Fountain Ave., Georgetown, Kentucky (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
* Paris Cemetery Gatehouse, U.S. 68, Paris, Kentucky (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
* Levi Prewitt House, S of Georgetown off I-64, Georgetown, Kentucky, (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
* Sayre Female Institute, 194 N. Limestone St., Lexington, Kentucky, (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
* Thomas B. Watkins House, 1008 S. Broadway, Lexington, Kentucky (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
* Worley, Allen, and Foushee Houses, 355, 361, and 367 S. Broadway, Lexington, Kentucky (McMurtry, John), NRHP-listed
Irv Jeffries

Irvine Franklin Jeffries (September 10, 1905 – June 8, 1982) was born in Louisville June 8, 1982. He was an infielder in Major League Baseball. He played for the Chicago White Sox and Philadelphia Phillies.

he reserve infielder saw action in 72 games at third base, 58 at second base and 18 at shortstop during a three-year big-league career. He was with the Chicago White Sox in 1930 and 1931 and the Philadelphia Phillies in 1934. The right-handed hitter had a .234 lifetime batting average with eight homers and 46 runs batted in.

Jeffries died in Louisville on September 10, 1905 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Louisville.