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The "Plan of Cincinnati" from the 1878 Encyclopaedia Britannica, showing the layout of downtown Covington and Newport to the south. In 1814, John Gano, Richard Gano, and Thomas Carneal purchased 150 acres (0.6 km 2) on the west side of the Licking River at its confluence with the Ohio River, referred to as "the Point," from Thomas Kennedy for $50,000.
On November 18, 1944, Mulloy was appointed the sixth Bishop of Covington, Kentucky, by Pope Pius XII. [3] He received his episcopal consecration on January 10, 1945, from Bishop Aloisius Joseph Muench, with Bishops Vincent James Ryan and Peter William Bartholome serving as co-consecrators, at St. Mary's Cathedral. [3]
James E Simpson-Jr commissioner photo, city of Covington, 1994. James Simpson Jr (1928–1999) was the first African American to win a city commission election in the history of Covington, Kentucky. Simpson was one of nearly 30 people who filed to run for the City Commission in 1971.
On September 8, 2006, the Kentucky Governor's Office of Local Development announced a grant of $23,863.00, to be combined with $44,000.00 from the City of Covington, $22,000.00 from the Kenton County Fiscal Court and $5,500.00 from the Cemetery. These monies will be used for new fencing on West 13th Street and Linden Avenue.
He was later named the seventh Bishop of Covington in Kentucky by Pope John XXIII on April 4, 1960, and installed at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption on the following May 17. [3] From 1962 to 1965, he attended the Second Vatican Council, where he was a member of the conservative Coetus Internationalis Patrum. [4]
Covington is a home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. Located at the confluence of the Ohio and Licking rivers, it lies south of Cincinnati, Ohio , across the Ohio and west of Newport, Kentucky , across the Licking.
Justus Goebel, Sr. (July 21, 1858 – March 11, 1919) of Covington, Kentucky, was a Kentucky delegate to the 1912 Democratic National Convention [1] and a tax-reform advocate. He was president of Lowry & Goebel. [2]
Holmes' obituary ran on the front page of The Kentucky Post on July 4, 1898. The article termed Holmes the "retail king of New Orleans" and !one of the richest people in Covington." [1] In 1915 the Holmes family sold the Holmesdale mansion to the Covington Board of Education for $50,538.36.