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* William Owsley ( 1782 – 1862 ) was an American politician and jurist who became the sixteenth Governor of Kentucky.
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The county is named for William Owsley ( 1782 – 1862 ), the judge of the KY Court of Appeals and Governor of Kentucky ( 1844 – 48 ).
Owsley County was formed in 1843 from portions of Clay, Breathitt, and Estill Counties and was named for Governor William Owsley.
County officials hope to recreate the slave cabin on the grounds of the Governor William Owsley House.
* William Owsley ( 1782 – 1862 ) was an American politician and jurist who became the sixteenth Governor of Kentucky.
William J. Graves, out of politics since his fatal shooting of Representative Cilley, had the backing of sitting Whig governor William Owsley, while Archibald Dixon had secured support from former Whig governor Robert P. Letcher.
Described as the most formidable candidate that the Democrats had ever nominated for governor, Butler ’ s race against Whig candidate William Owsley was close.
* William Owsley ( 1782 – 1862 ), Kentucky politician in the mid-19th century ; ancestor of Owsley / Bear
William Owsley ( March 24, 1782 – December 9, 1862 ) was an associate justice on the Kentucky Court of Appeals and the 16th Governor of Kentucky.
William Owsley was born March 24, 1782 in Virginia.
He was the third of thirteen children born to William and Catherine ( Bolin ) Owsley.
In 1844, Owsley was elected governor on the Whig ticket, defeating Democrat William O. Butler by a vote of 59, 792 to 55, 089.
* Find-A-Grave profile for William Owsley
* William Owsley at The Political Graveyard
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* William Reese " Will " Owsley III-Musician known as Owsley.
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* 1782 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician ( b. 1710 )
William Cowper's poem, Boadicea, an ode ( 1782 ) popularised an alternate version of the name.
William Cowper wrote a popular poem, " Boadicea, an ode ," in 1782.
* October 22 – William Miller, American Baptist preacher ( b. 1782 )
** William Crawford, American soldier and surveyor ( d. 1782 )
* May 16 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician ( d. 1782 )
* May 14 – William Emerson, English mathematician ( d. 1782 )
He worked for a time in Edinburgh and in 1782 he moved to London where ( after meeting architects Robert Adam and Sir William Chambers ) he was involved in building additions to Somerset House there.
A fact important to the later development of the steam locomotive by others was that, in 1797 and 1798, Richard Trevithick came to live in Redruth next door to the house where William Murdoch lived ( 1782 to 1798 ).
The County is named for Col. William Crawford, a Revolutionary War soldier killed in 1782 while fighting Native Americans in Ohio.
Others say it was named for Col. William Crawford, who fought in the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War, and who was burned and scalped by Indians in 1782 in what is now Wyandot County, Ohio.
The county was named for William Jones Lowndes ( 1782 – 1822 ), a prominent South Carolina lawyer and Congressman whose father, South Carolina Governor Rawlins Lowndes, had been a Revolutionary War leader.
* William Darlington ( 1782 – 1863 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
All of them were published in 1782 under the title Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq ..
William Emerson ( 14 May 1701 – 20 May 1782 ), English mathematician, was born at Hurworth, near Darlington, where his father, Dudley Emerson, also a mathematician, taught a school.
Here is an example from William Cowper's " Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk " ( 1782 ), composed in anapaestic trimeter:
The obverse scene is derived from Randolph Caldecott's front cover illustration for The Diverting History of John Gilpin ( based on a 1782 poem by William Cowper ), in which Gilpin is astride a runaway horse.
William Cowper addressed the artificiality of the fast paced city life in his poems Retirement ( 1782 ) and The Winter Nosegay ( 1782 ).
However, at William ’ s insistence, Caroline began to make observations on her own in 1782.
In 1782, William accepted the office of King's Astronomer to George III and moved to Datchet and subsequently to Observatory House near Slough ( then in Buckinghamshire, now in Berkshire ).
A Roman Monument at Igel in the Dutchy of Luxemburgh, coloured engraving published by John Boydell, London ( 1783 ) from a painting by Edward Rooker ( 1712 ?- 1774 ) after William Pars ( 1742 – 1782 )
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* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )
* 1864 – William Bate Hardy, British biochemist ( d. 1934 )
* 1909 – William M. Branham, American evangelist ( d. 1965 )
* 1705 – William Cookworthy, English chemist ( d. 1780 )
* 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )
* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )
* 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a " long belt " of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
* 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author
* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
* 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist ( d. 1828 )
* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )
* 1722 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia ( d. 1758 )
* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )
* 1666 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )
* 1790 – William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician ( d. 1872 )
* 1877 – William Brennaugh, Canadian lacrosse player ( d. 1934 )
* 1911 – William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founder of DDB Worldwide ( d. 1982 )
* 1872 – William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer ( b. 1843 )
* Sir William Buell Richards ( Chief Justice ) – September 30, 1875
* William Alexander Henry – September 30, 1875
* Sir William Johnstone Ritchie – September 30, 1875
* 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician ( d. 1838 )
* 1809 – William B. Travis, American lawyer and soldier ( d. 1836 )
* 1770 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( d. 1840 )
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