Author: John Rhinehart
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794886346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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The book traces the progenitors of the Harlan County, Kentucky, Cobb, Pope, and Ball families from their known North American origins in colonial Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina to their eventual settlement in eastern Tennessee, western Virginia, and southeastern Kentucky. Substantial national, state, and local history is included in the narrative for the purpose of setting the people discussed in the context of their times. Issues such as the Methodist Church and the slavery issue, and Kentucky and the secession crisis are considered, as is Harlan County and the Civil War. Much attention is given to Harlan County's political history, from its Democratic-Whig beginnings to the Radical Republicanism of the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877. The narrative ends about 1900. Roughly 100 of the 500 pages of the book are exhibits.
Author: John Paul Rhinehart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781794816541
Category : Harlan County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Author: John Paul Rhinehart
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365790584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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This is Part I of a two-part work concerning the family of Benjamin D. Asberry (1822-1902), an descendant of Henry (1630-1682) and Martha Durrant Asbury (1650-1709) of Maryland and Virginia. Part II concerns the Cobb, Pope and Ball families of Harlan County, Kentucky.
Author: Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Author: Huntington Family Association
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
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Author: Ben Casseday
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Category : Louisville (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Author: Homer T. Fort
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Elias Fort was born before 1646 and died in 1677/1678.
Author: G. C. Jones
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813143500
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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This classic memoir is “an absorbing tale” of life in Appalachian Kentucky during the Great Depression (The Washington Post). G.C. “Red” Jones’s classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of “Bloody Harlan,” and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history. “An absorbing tale told in the vernacular language of the teamsters, farmers and miners in rural, mountainous Kentucky in the early decades of this century. The narrative flows with the symmetry that comes naturally to the accomplished storyteller.” —TheWashington Post “Draws the reader into a sometimes frightening world of survival.” —Lexington Herald-Leader “He bears witness to Harlan County—first as a community of self-sufficient farmers, then as a mining area and finally in the 1930s as ‘bloody Harlan’ . . . Mr. Jones celebrates horses and mules, the bounty of the hillside farms and woods and the rough ingenuity, honor and sweetness of the mountain people.” —The New York Times “Jones shows all of us that fierce determination, lived day by day, can lead to a satisfying life, even though it might be hard.” —Kentucky Monthly
Author: George Sabo
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Author: Lowell H. Harrison
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813163080
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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The Filson Club History Quarterly, first published in 1926, has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the nation's finest regional historical journals. Over the years it has published excellent essays on virtually every aspect of Kentucky history. Gathered together here for the first time are twenty-eight selections, chosen from the first fifty years of the journal's publication. These essays span the range of Kentucky history and culture from frontier criminals to best sellers by Kentucky women writers, and from Indian place names to twentieth century bank failures. Included among the essayists are Thomas D. Clark, J. Winston Coleman, Jr., Robert E. McDowell, Lowell Harrison, Hambleton Tapp, Julia Neal, Allan M. Trout, and many other well-known authorities on Kentucky history. The editors have arranged these essays into five chronological periods, which include the pioneer era, the antebellum years, the Civil War, the late nineteenth century, and the twentieth century. They have carefully chosen essays that provide a topical diversity within each category. Included in this volume are two brief introductory essays sketching the history of The Filson Club and The Filson Club History Quarterly.
