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Born in Lexington. Ed McClanahan (1932–2021) Novelist, essayist, professor. Born in Brooksville; lives in Lexington. Tony Moore (born 1978) Comic book illustrator, co-creator of The Walking Dead [11] Born and raised in Cynthiana, Kentucky. Gurney Norman (born 1937) Novelist, documentarian, professor.
Daniel Boone (November 2 [O.S. October 22], 1734 – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies.
June 1, 1792 • Kentucky became the fifteenth state to be admitted to the union and Isaac Shelby, a military veteran from Virginia, was elected the first Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 1795 • Free Frank McWorter builds and manages a farming settlement in Pulaski County, Kentucky while enslaved by his father, George McWhorter; his ...
Stephen Bishop (c. 1821 – 1857) was an American cave explorer and self-taught geologist known for being one of the first people to explore and map Mammoth Cave in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Mammoth Cave is regarded as the longest cave system in the world and Bishop's map of the cave, hand-drawn from memory off-site in 1842, was included in a ...
Thomas Dionysius Clark (July 14, 1903 – June 28, 2005) was an American historian. Clark saved from destruction a large portion of Kentucky's printed history, which later became a core body of documents in the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Often referred to as the "Dean of Historians" Clark is best known for his 1937 work, A ...
More: Rajon Rondo, former guard for Kentucky basketball, inducted into UK Athletics Hall of Fame This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Famous people from Kentucky you may ...
Trevor Gott. Major League Baseball pitcher. Andy Green. Bench coach of the Chicago Cubs. James Baker Hall. Poet, photographer, novelist, teacher. Joe B. Hall. Hall of Fame basketball coach for University of Kentucky, 1972–1985 [27] Tom Hammond.
In 1777, Harrod became a justice in Kentucky County, and was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1779. [5] [10] Throughout the 1780s, he served as a trustee for the settlement that bore his name. [2] In 1784, he attended the first of a series of meetings in Danville that eventually led to Kentucky's petition for statehood. [5]