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Harry James Allington (1872-1934) —
also known as Harry J. Allington —
of Newport, Campbell
County, Ky.
Born in Knightsville, Clay
County, Ind., October
3, 1872.
Advertising
business; delegate
to Kentucky convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
English ancestry.
Died in Newport, Campbell
County, Ky., October
25, 1934 (age 62 years, 22
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Allington and Anna Allington; married 1896 to
Lillian Maud Lineback. |
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William Kyle Anderson (b. 1847) —
also known as William K. Anderson —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born near Owensboro, Daviess
County, Ky., March
24, 1847.
Republican. U.S. Consul in Hanover, 1897-98.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
and English ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Daniel Boone (1734-1820) —
Born in Berks
County, Pa., November
2, 1734.
Explorer and frontiersman; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1781, 1787.
English and Welsh
ancestry.
Died in St. Charles
County, Mo., September
26, 1820 (age 85 years, 329
days).
Original interment at a private or family graveyard, St. Charles County, Mo.;
reinterment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Relatives:
Married to Rebecca Ann Bryan; father of Jessie
Bryan Boone and Nathan
Boone; grandfather of Harriett Morgan Boone (who married Hiram
Howell Baber); granduncle of Levi
Day Boone; second great-grandfather of Elmer
Charless Henderson. |
| | | Political families: Thomas-Smith-Irwin
family of Pennsylvania; Boone
family of St. Charles County, Missouri (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Boone counties in Ark., Ill., Ind., Ky., Mo., Neb. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The Daniel Boone National
Forest (established 1937 as Cumberland National Forest; renamed
1966), in Bath,
Clay,
Estill,
Harlan,
Jackson,
Knox,
Laurel,
Lee,
Leslie,
McCreary,
Menifee,
Morgan,
Owsley,
Perry,
Powell,
Pulaski,
Rockcastle,
Rowan,
Wayne,
Whitley,
and Wolfe
counties, Kentucky, is named for
him. — Boone Dam
(built 1950-52), on the South Fork Holston River, in Sullivan
and Washington
counties, Tennessee, and the Boone Lake
reservoir behind the dam, are named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Buford, Sr. (1779-1848) —
of Versailles, Woodford
County, Ky.; Rock Island, Rock
Island County, Ill.
Born in Barren
County, Ky., 1779.
Farmer;
merchant;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1824-27; member of Illinois
state senate, 1843-47; postmaster at Rock
Island, Ill., 1843-47.
Presbyterian.
French
and English ancestry.
Died in Rock Island, Rock Island
County, Ill., March
25, 1848 (age about 68
years).
Interment at Chippiannock
Cemetery, Rock Island, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of Margaret (Kirtley) Buford and Simeon
Buford, Sr.; married, September
6, 1799, to Nancy Hickman; married, January
4, 1825, to Ann Bannister (Howe) Watson; father of John Buford,
Jr., Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, Thomas
Jefferson Buford and James
Monroe Buford. |
| | | Political family: Buford
family of Rock Island, Illinois. |
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Simeon Buford, Sr. (1756-1835) —
of Barren
County, Ky.; Warren
County, Ky.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., December
19, 1756.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; farmer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1801-03; a founder of the
Kentucky horse
racing industry.
French
and English ancestry.
Died in 1835
(age about
78 years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Barren County, Ky.
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William Christian (c.1743-1786) —
Born in Staunton,
Va., about 1743.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1773-75; colonel in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War.
Manx ancestry.
Killed
while fighting Indians in what is now Clark
County, Ind., April 9,
1786 (age about 43
years).
Interment at Bullitt Family Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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William Hopkinson Cox (1856-1950) —
also known as William H. Cox —
of Maysville, Mason
County, Ky.
Born in Maysville, Mason
County, Ky., October
22, 1856.
Republican. Merchant;
banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1892
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee); mayor
of Maysville, Ky., 1893-97; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1900-07; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1907-11.
English ancestry. Member, Odd
Fellows; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Died in 1950
(age about
93 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William H. Cox and Elizabeth R. (Newman) Cox; married to Susan E.
Farrow. |
| | | Image source: Legislative History &
Capitol Souvenir of Kentucky (1910) |
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Richard Dickerson Gholson (1802-1861) —
Born in Culpeper, Culpeper
County, Va., January
3, 1802.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1851-55; Governor
of Washington Territory, 1859-61.
English and Cherokee
Indian ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Tennessee, August
28, 1861 (age 59 years, 237
days).
Interment somewhere
in Troy, Tenn.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) —
also known as "Honest Abe"; "Old
Abe"; "The Rail-Splitter"; "The
Illinois Baboon" —
of New Salem, Menard
County, Ill.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in a log
cabin, Hardin County (part now in Larue
County), Ky., February
12, 1809.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; postmaster;
lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1834-41; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1847-49; candidate for
Republican nomination for Vice President, 1856;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1858; President
of the United States, 1861-65; died in office 1865; His election
as president in 1860 precipitated the Civil War; determined to
preserve the Union, he led the North to victory on the battlefield,
freed the slaves in the conquered states, and in doing this,
redefined American nationhood. He was.
English ancestry.
Elected in 1900 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
Shot
by the assassin
John Wilkes Booth, during a play at
Ford's Theater,
in Washington,
D.C., April 14, 1865; died at Peterson's Boarding
House, across the street, the following day, April
15, 1865 (age 56 years, 62
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; memorial monument at National
Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1868 at Judiciary
Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln; married, November
4, 1842, to Mary
Ann Todd (sister-in-law of Ninian
Wirt Edwards; half-sister-in-law of Nathaniel
Henry Rhodes Dawson and Benjamin
Hardin Helm; half-sister of Emilie
Pariet Todd; aunt of Martha
Dee Todd; grandniece of David
Rittenhouse Porter); father of Robert
Todd Lincoln; second cousin four times removed of Richard
Henry Lee, Francis
Lightfoot Lee and Arthur
Lee; third cousin twice removed of Levi
Lincoln; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Sim Lee, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee and Zachary
Taylor; fourth cousin once removed of Levi
Lincoln Jr. and Enoch
Lincoln. |
| | | Political families: Lincoln-Lee
family; Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown
family of Kentucky; Edwards-Cook
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Clement
Claiborne Clay, Jr. — Isham
N. Haynie — William
M. Stone — John
Pitcher — Stephen
Miller — John
T. Stuart — William
H. Seward — Henry
L. Burnett — Judah
P. Benjamin — Robert
Toombs — Richard
Taylor Jacob — George
W. Jones — James
Adams — John
G. Nicolay — Edward
Everett — Stephen
T. Logan — Francis
P. Blair — John
Hay — Henry
Reed Rathbone — James
A. Ekin — Frederick
W. Seward — John
H. Surratt — John
H. Surratt, Jr. — James
Shields — Emily
T. Helm — John
A. Campbell — John
Merryman — Barnes
Compton |
| | | Lincoln counties in Ark., Colo., Idaho, Kan., La., Minn., Miss., Mont., Neb., Nev., N.M., Okla., Ore., Wash., W.Va., Wis. and Wyo. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Lincoln,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — Lincoln Memorial University,
in Harrogate,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — Lincoln University,
in Jefferson
City, Missouri, is named for
him. — Lincoln University,
near Oxford,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Abraham
L. Keister
— Abraham
L. Tucker
— Abraham
L. Brick
— Abraham
L. Kellogg
— Abraham
Lincoln Bernstein
— A.
Lincoln Reiley
— A.
L. Helmick
— Abraham
L. Sutton
— A.
Lincoln Acker
— Abraham
L. Osgood
— Abraham
L. Witmer
— Abraham
L. Phillips
— Abraham
L. Payton
— A.
L. Auth
— A.
Lincoln Moore
— A.
Lincoln Niditch
— Abraham
L. Rubenstein
— Abraham
L. Davis, Jr.
— Abraham
L. Freedman
— A.
L. Marovitz
— Lincoln
Gordon
— Abraham
L. Banner
— Abraham
Lincoln Tosti
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
has appeared on the U.S. penny (one cent coin) since 1909, and on
the $5 bill since 1913. From the 1860s until 1927, his portrait
also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $1 to $500. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Abraham Lincoln: David
Herbert Donald, Lincoln —
George Anastaplo, Abraham
Lincoln : A Constitutional Biography — G. S. Boritt,
ed., The
Lincoln Enigma : The Changing Faces of an American
Icon — Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham
Lincoln 1809-1858 — Geoffrey Perret, Lincoln's
War : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander
in Chief — David Herbert Donald, We
Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends —
Edward Steers, Jr., Blood
on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln —
Mario Cuomo, Why
Lincoln Matters : Today More Than Ever — Michael W.
Kauffman, American
Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln
Conspiracies — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln's
Melancholy : How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His
Greatness — John Channing Briggs, Lincoln's
Speeches Reconsidered — Ronald C. White, Jr., The
Eloquent President : A Portrait of Lincoln Through His
Words — Harold Holzer, Lincoln
at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Linco ln
President — Michael Lind, What
Lincoln Believed : The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest
President — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Michael Burlingame, ed., Abraham
Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John
Hay — Thomas J. Craughwell, Stealing
Lincoln's Body — Roy Morris, Jr., The
Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen
Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America — John
Stauffer, Giants:
The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham
Lincoln — Karen Judson, Abraham
Lincoln (for young readers) — Maira Kalman, Looking
at Lincoln (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Abraham Lincoln:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The
Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an
Unnecessary War |
| | | Fiction about Abraham Lincoln: Gore
Vidal, Lincoln:
A Novel |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Edward P. Meany (1854-1938) —
of Morristown, Morris
County, N.J.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., May 13,
1854.
Democrat. Lawyer;
vice-president, New Mexico Central and Southern Railway;
one of the organizers of the American Bell
Telephone Company, and counsel to American Telephone and
Telegraph Company; director, Colonial Life
Insurance Company of America; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New Jersey, 1896,
1900;
chair
of Morris County Democratic Party, 1914.
Irish
and English ancestry.
Died in Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., November
24, 1938 (age 84 years, 195
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward Augustine Meany and Maria Lavina (Shannon) Meany; married
to Rosalie Behr; married 1923 to Andrie
Chesnal. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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George H. Proffit (1807-1847) —
of Petersburg, Pike
County, Ind.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., September
7, 1807.
Merchant;
lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1831-33, 1836-39; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1839-43; U.S. Minister
to Brazil, 1843-44.
French
and English ancestry.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., September
7, 1847 (age 40 years, 0
days).
Interment at Walnut
Hills Cemetery, Petersburg, Ind.
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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); great-grandfather of Beriah
Magoffin Jr.. |
| | | Political family: Shannon-Shelby
family. |
| | | 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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William Swift (b. 1794) —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Massachusetts, 1794.
Candle
manufacturer; librarian;
mayor
of Lexington, Ky., 1855-58.
English ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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George S. Wilson (b. 1876) —
Born in Caseyville, Union
County, Ky., November
11, 1876.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1906-10; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Kentucky, 1908.
English and Dutch
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Wilson and Martha (Collins) Wilson; married 1901 to
Virginia L. McGill. |
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