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Isaac Shelby (1750-1826) —
Born in Frederick County (part now in Washington
County), Md., December
11, 1750.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1779; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1782; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1792; Governor of
Kentucky, 1792-96, 1812-16; general in the U.S. Army during the
War of 1812.
Welsh
and English
ancestry.
Died of a broken blood
vessel in the head, in Lincoln
County, Ky., July 18,
1826 (age 75 years, 219
days).
Interment at Shelby Traveller's Rest Burying Ground, Stanford, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Evan Shelby and Letitia 'Leddy' (Cox) Shelby; married, April
19, 1783, to Susannah Hart; father of Susanna Hart Shelby (who
married James
Shannon); grandfather of Anna Nelson Shelby (who married Beriah
Magoffin) and Thomas
Hart Shelby; great-grandfather of Beriah
Magoffin Jr.. |
|  | Political families: Shelby-Bullock-Magoffin
family of Kentucky; Shannon
family of Washington County, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | Shelby counties in Ala., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mo., Ohio, Tenn. and Tex. are
named for him. |
|  | The town
of Shelby,
New York, is named for
him. — The city
of Shelbyville,
Illinois, is named for
him. — The city
of Shelbyville,
Indiana, is named for
him. — The city
of Shelbyville,
Missouri, is named for
him. — The city
of Shelbyville,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Isaac Shelby (built 1944 at Brunswick,
Georgia; mined and wrecked in the Tyrrhenian
Sea, 1945) was named for
him. |
|  | See also National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Edmund Bullock (1763-1852) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., 1763.
Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1793-98; Speaker of
the Kentucky State House of Representatives, 1796-98; member of
Kentucky
state senate, 1805-17.
Died in Fayette
County, Ky., July 16,
1852 (age about 89
years).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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James Shannon (c.1791-1832) —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Claysville, Washington
County, Pa., about 1791.
Lawyer;
U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Central America, 1832, died in office 1832.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of yellow
fever, 1832
(age about
41 years).
Interment somewhere
in Frankfort, Ky.
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William Fontaine Bullock (1807-1889) —
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., January
16, 1807.
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1837-38, 1840-41; circuit judge
in Kentucky, 1846-55; law
professor; Presidential Elector for Kentucky, 1864.
Died in Hemp Ridge, Shelby
County, Ky., August
9, 1889 (age 82 years, 205
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Beriah Magoffin (1815-1885) —
of Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky.
Born in Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky., April
18, 1815.
Democrat. State court judge in Kentucky, 1840; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1850; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Kentucky, 1856;
Governor
of Kentucky, 1859-62; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1867.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky., February
28, 1885 (age 69 years, 316
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Ky.
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Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882) —
also known as Mary Ann Todd —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., December
13, 1818.
First
Lady of the United States, 1861-65.
Female.
Died in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., July 16,
1882 (age 63 years, 215
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.
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Thomas Hart Shelby (1829-1895) —
also known as Thomas H. Shelby —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Fayette
County, Ky., February
28, 1829.
Democrat. U.S.
Collector of Internal Revenue at Lexington, Kentucky, 1893-95;
died in office 1895.
Presbyterian.
Died, from disease
of the throat, in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., February
19, 1895 (age 65 years, 356
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Beriah Magoffin Jr. (1843-1932) —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.; McAlester, Pittsburg
County, Okla.
Born in Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky., March
13, 1843.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; farmer;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 24, 1877.
Presbyterian.
Died in McAlester, Pittsburg
County, Okla., August
29, 1932 (age 89 years, 169
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Ky.
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