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Gideon's father was a builder allowing for Gideon to be equipped with practical knowledge of the field. Gideon shows a great enthusiasm and appreciation for architecture in the letters he writes to his parents. Following the year Gideon was in Philadelphia, he moved back to Lexington. At the age of 22, he opened his architecture office in ...
Clarence Earl Gideon (August 30, 1910 – January 18, 1972) was an impoverished American drifter accused in a Florida state court of felony breaking and entering.While in prison, he appealed his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, resulting in the landmark 1963 decision Gideon v.
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William Justus Goebel (January 4, 1856 – February 3, 1900) was an American Democratic politician who served as the 34th governor of Kentucky for four days, having been sworn in on his deathbed a day after being shot by an assassin.
A rapist who was the target of a six-day manhunt after allegedly shooting a Tennessee cop was killed by police early Friday in what officials described as a "scary" conclusion. Floyd Ray Cook, 62 ...
The building was designed in the Greek Revival style by Gideon Shryock, an early Lexington, Kentucky architect. The Old State Capitol was his first building and he was only twenty-five years old. Shryock chose the Greek Revival style to symbolically link Kentucky, a young republic, with ancient Greece, the prototype of popular democratic ...
Another execution of note in Kentucky was that of Rainey Bethea. Bethea was executed by hanging on 14 August 1936 for the rape of 70-year-old Lischia Edwards. He had also confessed to her murder by strangling but the Commonwealth indicted him only on the rape charge since that was the only capital crime for which the penalty was public hanging.