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This is a list of people from the Louisville metropolitan area which consists of the Kentucky county of Jefferson and the Indiana counties of Clark and Floyd in the United States. Included are notable people who were either born or raised there, or have maintained residency for a significant period.
A Kentucky judge whom authorities said was fatally shot by a sheriff last week was remembered Sunday as a pioneer who fought against opioid addiction and favored treatment over jail for low-level ...
The Louisville Journal was an organ of the Whig Party and was founded and edited by George D. Prentice, a New Englander who initially came to Kentucky to write a biography of Henry Clay. [5] Prentice edited the Journal for more than 40 years. In 1844, another newspaper, the Louisville Morning Courier, was founded in Louisville by Walter Newman ...
In 1780, Helm's grandfather, Thomas Helm, emigrated to Kentucky from Prince William County, Virginia, and founded the settlement of Helm Station near Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in Hardin County, where John L. Helm was born on July 4, 1802.
Helm during his Kentucky State Guard service, 1860. The son of lawyer and politician John L. Helm and Lucinda Barbour Hardin, Benjamin Hardin Helm was born in Bardstown, Kentucky on June 2, 1831. [3] In the winter of 1846, at age 15, Helm enrolled at the Kentucky Military Institute, where he remained for three months.
Cave Hill Cemetery is a 296-acre (1.20 km 2) Victorian era National Cemetery and arboretum located at Louisville, Kentucky. Its main entrance is on Baxter Avenue and there is a secondary one on Grinstead Drive. It is the largest cemetery by area and number of burials in Louisville. Cave Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic ...
1978 – Kentucky State Data Center headquartered in Louisville [20] 1981 – Sewer explosions occur in the center of the city. 1982 – Democrat Harvey I. Sloane was elected mayor for the second time.
With the new Congress, Helms and Robert K. Dornan again proposed an amendment banning abortion in all circumstances, [166] and also proposed a bill defining fetuses as human beings, thereby taking it out of the hands of the federal courts, [167] along with Illinois Republican Henry Hyde and Kentucky Democrat Romano Mazzoli. [168]