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Source:
COLLINS' HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF KENTUCKY.
HISTORY
of
KENTUCKY:
By the Late Lewis Collins,
Judge of the Mason County Court.
REVISED, ENLARGED FOUR-FOLD, AND BROUGHT
DOWN TO THE YEAR 1874,
BY HIS SON.
RICHARD H. COLLINS, A. M., LL. B.
Embracing
Pre-Historic, Annals for 331 years, Outline, and by Counties, Statistics,
Antiquities and Natural Curiosities, Geographical and Geological
Descriptions, Sketches of the Court of Appeals, The Churches,
Freemasonry, Odd Fellowship, and Internal Improvements,
Incidents of Pioneer Life, and Nearly Five Hundred
Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Pioneers,
Soldiers, Statesmen, Jurists, Lawyers, Sur-
geons, Devines, Merchants, Historians,
Editors, Artists, Etc., Etc.
VOL I.
Illustrated by 84 Portraits, a Map of Kentucky, and 70 other Engravings.
Covington, Ky.:
Published by Collins & Co.
1882
ILLUSTRATIONS
| |
Vol |
Page |
| Revolutionary Soldiers in
Kentucky |
1 |
5 |
| The County of Kentucky -
Names of its Soldiers |
1 |
10 |
| - Pioneer Soldiers,
1778 to 1781 |
1 |
11 |
| - Captain Benjamin
Logan's Company |
1 |
12 |
| - Captain Wm.
Harrod's Company |
1 |
12 |
| - Captain John Boyles
Company |
1 |
12 |
| - Captain John
Holder's Company, June 10, 1779 |
1 |
13 |
| - Captain Isaac
Ruddle's Company |
1 |
13 |
| - Captain Squire
Boone's Company, Jne 23, 1780 - Partial list |
1 |
13 |
| ANNALS OF KENTUCKY, or
Important Events in the History of Kentucky, 1539-1874 |
1 |
14 |
| THE FIRST SMALL CURRENCY IN
KENTUCKY |
1 |
246x |
| OUTLINE HISTORY |
1 |
247 |
| CHAPTER II - |
1 |
247 |
| CHAPTER II - |
1 |
258 |
| CHAPTER III - |
1 |
273 |
| CHAPTER IV - |
1 |
286 |
| CHAPTER V - |
1 |
309 |
| CHAPTER VI - |
1 |
317 |
| CHAPTER VII - |
1 |
330 |
| MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS |
1 |
350 |
| - Governors,
Lieutenant Governors and Secretaries of the Commonwealth |
1 |
350 |
| - List of Senators in
U. S. Congress, from Kentucky, From 1792 to 1873 |
1 |
351 |
| - List of
Representatives in U. S. Congress, from Kentucky, From
1792 to 1873 |
1 |
351 |
| PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT of
KENTUCKY, From 1861 to 1865 |
1 |
353 |
| - Members of Council |
1 |
353 |
| - Members of the
Provisional Congress of the Confederate States,
Assembled at Richmond, Va., Feb. 18, 1862. |
1 |
353 |
| - Members of the
First Regular Confederate States Congress - First
Session, Jan. 19, 1863 - Second Session, Dec. 1, 1863 |
1 |
353 |
| - Members of the
Second Regular Confederate States Congress - First
Session, May 2, 1864 - Second Session, Jan. 4, 1865. |
1 |
353 |
| - Members of the
Convention Held in Danville, on the 23d Day of May, 1785
(or 1786?) |
1 |
354 |
| - Members of the
Convention Which Assembled at Danville, in August, 1786 |
1 |
354 |
| - Members of the
Convention in 1787, Held in Danville |
1 |
354 |
| - Members of the
Convention in 1788, Held in Same Place |
1 |
354 |
| - Names of teh
Kentucky Members of the Virginia Convention Which
Ratified the Present Constitution of the United States |
1 |
355 |
| - Members of the
Convention of 1792, Which Formed the First Constitution
of Kentucky; Held in Danville |
1 |
355 |
| - Members of the
Convention Which Framed the Second Constitution of
Kentucky; Assembled at Frankfort, Aug. 17, 1799 |
1 |
356 |
| - Names of
Representatives and Electors of Senate for 1792, Under
the First Constitution |
1 |
356 |
| - Senators Elected by
the Electors in 1792. |
1 |
357 |
| - A list of
Distinguished Citizens of Kentucky, who have Filled High
and Responsible Stations Under the United States
Government, or Under the Confederate States Government,
or Under the Government of Other States. |
1 |
357 |
| -- Presidents of the
United States |
1 |
357 |
| -- President of the
Confederate States |
1 |
357 |
| -- Vice-Presidents of
the United States |
1 |
357 |
| -- Governors and
Lieutenant-Governors of States |
1 |
357 |
| -- Ambassadors,
Foreign Ministers, Etc. |
1 |
358 |
| - Heads of
Departments, Etc. |
1 |
359 |
| - Heads of
Departments and Officers U. S. Government |
1 |
359 |
| - Judges of United
States or Other High Courts |
1 |
359 |
| - Presiding Officers
of Congress |
1 |
360 |
| - United States
Senators |
1 |
360 |
| - Members of Congress
- House of Representatives |
1 |
361 |
| - High Military
Officers |
1 |
362 |
| - Speakers of the
Kentucky Legislature, 1792 - 1873 |
1 |
363 |
| GOVERNMENTAL STATISTICS of
KENTUCKY BEFORE SHE BECAME A STATE |
1 |
365 |
| - Governors of
Virginia, While Kentucky was a Part of it. |
1 |
365 |
| - Member of the U. S.
House of Representatives, 1789-92 |
1 |
365 |
| - Members of the
Virginia Convention of 1788, From the Counties Now in
the State of Kentucky |
1 |
365 |
| - Members of the
Legislature of Virginia, From 1775 to 1791 Inclusive,
From Counties Formed, in 1792, Into the State of
Kentucky. |
1 |
365 |
| - Members of the
Convention Which Framed the Present Constitution of
Kentucky; Assembled at Frankfort, Oct. 1, 1849. |
1 |
366 |
| - Presidential
electors from Kentucky |
1 |
367 |
| GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS OF
KENTUCKY |
1 |
372 |
| - Second Formation -
The Gray Limestone, or Cliff Limestone |
1 |
373 |
| - Third Formation -
Back Lingula shale. - Black Slate or Shale. - Devonian
Shale |
1 |
374 |
| - Fourth Formation -
Knob Sandstone |
1 |
375 |
| - Fifth Formation -
Cavernous Limestone. - Sub-Carboniferous Limestone. -
Mountain Limestone |
1 |
375 |
| - Sixth Formation -
The Carboniferous; or the Coal Measures |
1 |
376 |
| - Seventh Formation -
The Quaternary Deposits |
1 |
376 |
| - Metals and Other
Useful Minerals |
1 |
377 |
| -- Lead |
1 |
377 |
| -- Salt |
1 |
377 |
| -- Hydraulic
Limestone |
1 |
378 |
| -- The Mineral
Springs |
1 |
378 |
| -- Organic Remains |
1 |
378 |
| -- Soils |
1 |
378 |
| -- Geological Survey
of Kentucky |
1 |
378 |
| - Blue Grass Soil of
Kentucky - Causes of its Great Fertility and Durability |
1 |
379 |
| - Composition of
Four Limestones from Fayette County, Kentucky |
1 |
379 |
| THE PRE-HISTORIC
INHABITANTS OF KENTUCKY * |
1 |
380 |
| - Enumeraton of the
Sites of Ancient Towns and Monuments of Kentucky |
1 |
392 |
| -- Counties in which
located in 1824 |
1 |
392 |
| HISTORICAL SKETCH of the
CLIMATE OF KENTUCKY |
1 |
394 |
| - Heat and Rain-Fall
at Louisville |
1 |
397 |
| - Weather Record -
Coldest and Hottest Days From 1841 to 1871 |
|
398 |
| KENTUCKY RESOLUTIONS OF
1798 AND 1799 |
1 |
401 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY |
1 |
407 |
| -- Gen. George B.
Crittenden |
1 |
408 |
| -- Gen. Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden |
1 |
408 |
| -- Judge Thomas Bell
Monroe |
1 |
409 |
| -- Kean O'Hara |
1 |
410 |
| -- Col. Theodore
O'Hara |
1 |
410 |
| -- John Harvie |
1 |
411 |
| -- William Littell |
1 |
412 |
| -- Lieut. Gen. Simon
Bolivar Buckner |
1 |
413 |
| -- Maj.Gen. Thomas
Jefferson Wood |
1 |
414 |
| - The Autor of the
Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 |
1 |
415 |
| HISTORICAL SKETCH of the
BAPTIST CHURCH |
1 |
416 |
| -- William Hickman |
1 |
420 |
| -- John Taylor |
1 |
421 |
| -- John Gano |
1 |
421 |
| -- Rev. John
Lightfoot Waller, LL.D |
1 |
423 |
| -- Rev. Duncan R.
Campbell, D.D., LL. D. |
1 |
424 |
| HISTORICAL SKETCH of the
CHRISTIAN CHURCH. |
1 |
425 |
| BARTON WARREN STONE |
1 |
428 |
| -- Elder John T.
Johnson |
1 |
431 |
| -- Elder John Smith |
1 |
431 |
| CENSUS STATISTICS of
CHURCHES in KENTUCKY |
1 |
432 |
| HISTORICAL SKETCH of the
CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. |
1 |
433 |
| - James McGready |
1 |
433 |
| - Finis Ewing |
1 |
435 |
| - Francemay R.
Cassitt |
1 |
435 |
| - Alexander Chapman |
1 |
435 |
| - William Harris |
1 |
435 |
| - Henry F. Delany |
1 |
435 |
| - The Barnetts |
1 |
435 |
| - Milton Bird |
1 |
436 |
| - A. M. Bryan, D. D.,
& H. S. Porter, D. D. |
1 |
436 |
| - David Lowry |
1 |
436 |
| - Hiram A. Hunter |
1 |
436 |
| HISTORICAL SKETCH of the
EPISCOPAL CHURCH, in KENTUCKY |
1 |
437 |
| - Rev. James Moore |
1 |
442 |
| - Rev. Benjamin Orr
Peers |
1 |
442 |
| - Rev. William
Jackson |
1 |
443 |
| - Right Rev. Benjamin
Bosworth Smith, D. D. |
1 |
443 |
| - Right Rev. George
D. Cummins, D. D. |
1 |
443 |
| - Rev. James Craik,
D. D. |
1 |
444 |
| - Rev. John N. Norton |
1 |
444 |
| HISTORICAL SKETCH of the
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. |
1 |
445 |
| - James Haw |
1 |
446 |
| - Benjamin Ogden |
1 |
447 |
| - Thomas Williamson |
1 |
447 |
| - Wilson Lee |
1 |
447 |
| - Francis Poythress |
1 |
448 |
| - Peter Massie |
1 |
448 |
| - Benjamin Snelling |
1 |
448 |
|
| - Stephen Brooks |
1 |
448 |
| - Joseph Lillard |
1 |
448 |
| - Barnabus McHenry |
1 |
449 |
| - Henry Birchett |
1 |
449 |
| - David Haggard |
1 |
450 |
| - Samuel Tucker |
1 |
450 |
| - Benjamin Northcott |
1 |
450 |
| - William Burke |
1 |
450 |
| - William McKendree |
1 |
452 |
| - Hubbard Hinde
Kavanaugh |
1 |
456 |
| HISTORICAL SKETCH of the
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH |
1 |
457 |
| - Rev. David Rice |
1 |
460 |
| - Rev. James Crawford |
1 |
460 |
| - Rev. Terah Templin |
1 |
460 |
| - Rev. Andrw McClure |
1 |
461 |
| - Rev.Robert Marshall |
1 |
461 |
| - Rev. Carey H. Allen |
1 |
462 |
| - Rev. John Poage
Campbell, M. D. |
1 |
462 |
| - Rev. Samuel
Rannells |
1 |
462 |
| - Rev. James Blythe,
D. D. |
1 |
463 |
| - Rev. Joseph P. Howe |
1 |
463 |
| - Rev. James Welch |
1 |
463 |
| - Rev. Archibald
Cameron |
1 |
463 |
| - Revs. Matthew
Houston, John Dunlavy, and Richard McNemar |
1 |
465 |
| - Rev. John
Breckinridge, D. D. |
1 |
465 |
| - Danville
Theological Seminary |
1 |
466 |
| - Presbyterian Synod
of Kentucky (Northern) |
1 |
473 |
| - Rev. William L.
McCalla |
1 |
474 |
| - Rev. Robert Stuart |
1 |
474 |
| - Rev. John Howe |
1 |
474 |
| - Rev. Nathan H.
Hall, D. D. |
1 |
474 |
| - Rev. John Todd
Edgar, D. D. |
1 |
475 |
| - Rev. John Clarke
Young, D. D. |
1 |
475 |
| - Rev. John Thomson |
1 |
476 |
| - Rev. James Kerr
Burch |
1 |
476 |
| - Rev. Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge, D. D., LL. D. |
1 |
477 |
| - Rev. Nathan L.
Rice, D. D. |
1 |
479 |
| - Rev. Robert Wilson |
1 |
483 |
| - Rev. John Lyle |
1 |
483 |
| - Rev. James McChord |
1 |
483 |
| - Rev. Thomas
Cleland, D. D. |
1 |
484 |
| - Rev. Joshua Lacey
Wilson, D. D. |
1 |
484 |
| - Rev. Gideon
Blackburn |
1 |
485 |
| - Rev. John McFarland
& the Rev. David Nelson |
1 |
485 |
| HISTORICAL SKETCH of the
EARLY ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, IN KENTUCKY with Brief
Biographical Notices of the Principal Catholic
Missionaries, who have Successively Labored in this
State. |
1 |
485 |
| - Rev. Mr. David |
1 |
489 |
| - Rev. William Byrne |
1 |
489 |
| - Right Rev. Benedict
Joseph Flaget |
1 |
490 |
| - Right Rev. John
McGlil, D. D. |
1 |
490 |
| - Most Rev. Martin
John Spalding |
1 |
490 |
| HISTORICAL SKETCH of BIBLE
SOCIETIES in KENTUCKY |
1 |
491 |
| HISTORICAL SKETCH of the
COURT of APPEALS |
1 |
493 |
| - Chief Justices |
1 |
498 |
| - Judges |
1 |
498 |
| - Reports and
Reporters of Kentucky |
1 |
501 |
| HISTORICAL SKETCH of PUBLIC
EDUCATION in KENTUCKY |
1 |
502 |
| A CHAPTER of FIRST THINGS
in KENTUCKY |
1 |
508 |
| CONDENSED GENERAL
HISTORICAL SKETCH of FREEMASONRY, WITH BRIEF DETAILS as
to KENTUCKY. By Charles Eginton, P. G. M. |
1 |
521 |
| HISTORICAL SKETCH of the
INDEPENDENT ORDER of ODD-FELLOWSHIPM, in the State of
Kentucky. By Rev. Howard A. M. Henderson, D. D. |
1 |
530 |
| HISTORICAL SKETCH of
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS in KENTUCKY |
1 |
537 |
| - OHIO CANAL COMPANY
FROM LOUISVILLE TO PORTLAND |
1 |
551 |
| - Abstract of the
Boats that have passed, and Tolls received on the
Louisville and Portland Canal |
1 |
552 |
| THE POETS AND POETRY of
KENTUCKY |
1 |
554 |
| - Dr. John Milton
Harney |
1 |
554 |
| - George Denison
Printice |
1 |
556 |
| - Fortunatus Cosby,
Jr. |
1 |
559 |
| - Thomas h. Shreve |
1 |
560 |
| - William Davis
Gallagher |
1 |
561 |
| - Noble Butler |
1 |
563 |
| - James Birney
Marshall |
1 |
563 |
| - James G. Drake |
1 |
564 |
| - George Washington
Cutte |
1 |
564 |
| - Mrs. Amelia B.
Welby |
1 |
567 |
| - Mrs. Laura M.
Thurston |
1 |
570 |
| - Mrs. Sophia Helen
Oliver |
1 |
571 |
| - Mrs. Rebecca S.
Nichols |
1 |
572 |
| - Mrs. Catharine Ann
Warfield |
1 |
574 |
| - Mrs. Lois Bryan
Adams |
1 |
575 |
| - Mrs. Sarah J. Howe |
1 |
576 |
| - Mrs. Sarah T.
Bolton |
1 |
577 |
| - Edmnd Flagg |
1 |
578 |
| - Lewis F. Thomas |
1 |
578 |
| - William Ross
Wallace |
1 |
579 |
| - Rev. Sidney Dyer |
1 |
581 |
| - Austin T. Earle |
1 |
582 |
| - William Whiteman
Fosdick |
1 |
582 |
| - Mrs. Mary Eulalie
Fee Shannon |
1 |
583 |
| - Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
Nealy |
1 |
583 |
| - Mrs. Mary E. Wilson
Betts |
1 |
584 |
| - Mrs. Helen
Truesdell |
1 |
585 |
| - Mrs. Mary Rootes
Thornton McAboy |
1 |
585 |
| - Joel T. Hart |
1 |
587 |
| - James Russell
Barrick |
1 |
587 |
| - Mrs. Rosa Vertner
(Johnson) Jeffrey |
1 |
588 |
| - Theodore O'Hara |
1 |
590 |
| - William Wallace
Harney |
1 |
592 |
| - Granville Mellen
Ballard |
1 |
593 |
| - Mrs. Mary L. Cady |
1 |
594 |
| - Mrs. Alice McClure
Griffin |
1 |
596 |
| - Major Henry Thomas
Stanton |
1 |
597 |
| - Mrs. Nely Marshall
McAfee |
1 |
600 |
| - Mrs. Florence
Anderson Clark |
1 |
602 |
| - Mrs. Annie Chambers
Ketchum |
1 |
603 |
| - Thomas Johnson,
Jun. |
1 |
606 |
| - Rev. Jouett Vernon
Cosby |
1 |
607 |
| - Mrs. Alice Smith
Winston |
1 |
610 |
| - Miss Laura
Catharine Ford |
1 |
613 |
| - Mrs. Sallie M. B.
Piatt |
1 |
615 |
| ARTISTS of KENTUCKY |
1 |
619 |
| - Matthew Harris
Jouett |
1 |
619 |
| - Mr. Beck |
1 |
621 |
| - John Neagle |
1 |
621 |
| - Chester Hardin |
1 |
621 |
| - Louis Morgan |
1 |
621 |
| - Oliver Frazer |
1 |
621 |
| - Mr. Alexander |
1 |
621 |
| - James H. Beard |
1 |
622 |
| - William Ver Bryck |
1 |
622 |
| - B. F. Rhineheart |
1 |
622 |
| - E. Troye |
1 |
622 |
| - Gen. Samuel W.
Price |
1 |
622 |
| - Mrs. Eliza Brown |
1 |
622 |
| - Mr.Stuart |
1 |
622 |
| - Aaron H. Corwine |
1 |
622 |
| - Nevill Cain |
1 |
622 |
| - Thomas S. Noble |
1 |
623 |
| - Charles Bullett |
1 |
624 |
| - Frank Duveneck |
1 |
624 |
| - Joseph H. Bush |
1 |
625 |
| TABLES of DISTANCES on
RIVER, RAILROAD, and Other Routes of Travel in Kentucky |
1 |
627 |
| - Ohio River |
1 |
627 |
| - Water Gauges |
1 |
627 |
| - Distances Along the
Ohio River |
1 |
628 |
| LIST of POST OFFICES in
KENTUCKY |
1 |
635 |
| HISTORIANS of KENTUCKY |
1 |
639 |
| - John Filson |
1 |
640 |
| - William Littell |
1 |
640 |
| - Humphrey Marshall |
1 |
640 |
| - Mann Butler |
1 |
641 |
| - Judge Lewis Collins |
1 |
642 |
| - Col. William B.
Allen |
1 |
642 |
| - Richard H. Collins |
1 |
642 |
| - OTHER WORKS UPON
the HISTORY of KENTUCKY |
1 |
642 |
| - GENERAL INDEX |
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Entered according to Act of Congress in the year
1874, by
RICHARD H. COLLINS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
TO HIS FATHER
JUDGE LEWIS COLLINS
WHOSE LABORS, IN 1846-7, AS A HISTORIAN OF KENTUCKY, WERE MOST
APPRECIATED AFTER HIS DEATH, IN 1870;
TO THE
KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE of 1869-71,
WHICH, BY CONTRACTING FOR COPIES OF IT AS A FOUNDATION FOR
PUBLIC SCHOOL.
LIBRARIES THROUGHOUT THE STATE, GENEROUSLY AND CONFIDINGLY
ENCOURAGED ITS PUBLICATION;
TO THOSE MEMBERS OF THE
KENTUCKY LEGISLATURES of 1871-73 and 1873-75,
WHOSE JUSTICE AND LIBERALITY SUSTAINED THE ACTION OF THAT OF
1869-71;
AND TO THE
Hon. FRANCIS FORD, of Covington, and other noble Friends,
WHOSE GENEROUS AND HEARTY APPROVAL AND KIND WORDS ENCOURAGED
HIM,
AMID UNWORTHY OPPOSITION AND UNFORSEEN OBSTACLES, DURING
THE FOUR YEASR OF ITS PREPARATION;
THIS WORK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY
THE AUTHOR.
See the PREFACE, in Vol. II, pp. 4 - 10.
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