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Daviess County has long had a reputation as the leading center of the production of distilled spirits, chiefly Kentucky bourbon, since the early 1880s.
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LDS Apostle Orson Pratt declared that " Ahman ", part of the name of the settlement " Adam-ondi-Ahman " in Daviess County, Missouri, was the name of God in the Adamic language.
Atchison's law practice flourished, and his best-known client was Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr .. Atchison represented Smith in land disputes with non-Mormon settlers in Caldwell County and Daviess County.
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For other counties with similar names, see Daviess County ( disambiguation ).
Daviess County is a county located in Northwest Missouri in the United States.
The county was organized December 29, 1836, from Ray County and named for Major Joseph H. Daviess, a soldier from Kentucky who was killed in 1811 at the Battle of Tippecanoe in the War of 1812.
Daviess County played a major role in the history of the outlaw James-Younger Gang.
The first confirmed bank robbery involving Jesse James occurred on December 7, 1869 at the Daviess County Savings Association in Gallatin.
After Jesse James was murdered in St. Joseph, Frank James surrendered in 1882 to face Daviess County charges in connection with the train robbery / murder as well as murder charges in the 1869 robbery.
The Daviess County Savings Association and the Gallatin Opera House have since been torn down although the Winston Rock Island Line train station still stands and is used by the historical society.
Daviess County has one of only three Rotary Jails still in existence.
Mormon settlers moved further north into Daviess County, particularly at Adam-ondi-Ahman after Smith proclaimed that it was the Biblical place where Adam and Eve were banished after leaving the Garden of Eden.
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It was named for the Ohio River, which originally formed its northern boundary, but lost its northern portions in 1829, when Daviess County and Hancock County were formed.
McLean County, with Daviess and Hancock Counties, is part of the Owensboro Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ), which has a population of some 110, 314 ( 2002 estimate ).
The county was formed by act of the Kentucky legislature on February 6, 1854 from portions of surrounding Daviess, Ohio, and Muhlenberg Counties, and was named for Judge Alney McLean, founder of Greenville, the county seat of Muhlenberg County.
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But the severe global recession has slowed plans for starting bourbon production in Daviess County for the first time since 1992.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of, all of it land. Hanover, Illinois, is located in Jo Daviess County in the northwest corner of Illinois, within five miles of the Mississippi River.
The Ohio River region of western Kentucky, namely Daviess, Henderson and Union counties ( the area centering on Owensboro and Henderson ) has developed a unique style of pit barbecue, featuring a heavy dose of vinegar-based sauces, often served with pickles, onions, potato salad and coleslaw.
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Some years later Thomas Jefferson convinced Clay that Daviess had been right in his charges.
Mormons had already begun buying land in the proposed Caldwell County, including areas that were carved off to become parts of Ray and Daviess counties.
Boggs issued Executive Order # 44 to General John Clark, whom he had appointed to head up the state militia forces being assembled to reinstate citizens of Daviess County ( north of Caldwell ) who had been allegedly driven from their homes by renegade Mormons.
These included their contention that the Mormons had organized into a company known as the Danites, " who have taken an oath to support the heads of the church in all things that they say or do, whether right or wrong " and that Mormon and Danite vigilantes had burned and looted non-Mormon settlements in Daviess County.
John Hardin married Jane Daviess, and together they had seven children, with future Kentucky senator, Martin D. Hardin, their youngest.
Joseph Smith taught the Latter-day Saints that the Garden of Eden had been in Jackson County and when Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden, they moved to the Caldwell County and Daviess County areas of Missouri.
This unease reached a bursting point when Thomas B. Marsh and Orson Hyde of the Mormon Quorum of the Twelve Apostles arrived in Richmond and reported that the Mormons had invaded Daviess County and sacked the county seat of Gallatin.
Exaggerated reports of the Mormon incursion into Daviess County and the battle ( some claiming that half of Bogart's men had been lost ) made their way to Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs, who responded by calling out 2, 500 state militiamen to put down what he perceived to be open rebellion by the Mormons.
Daviess and Kentucky
Daviess County ( pronounced /' deɪvɨs /, sometimes incorrectly /' deɪviz /), is a county in the U. S. state of Kentucky.
Daviess County is part of the Western Coal Fields region of Kentucky.
Green Coal Company was a staple mining company in Daviess County and was based nearby in Henderson, Kentucky.
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Daviess County, Kentucky
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He was placed under the command of Kentucky Maj. Joseph Hamilton Daviess.
* Daviess County, Kentucky ( south )
It was named for Maj. Joseph Hamilton Daviess, U. S. District Attorney for Kentucky, killed at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.
Daviess County shares its namesake with another nearby Daviess County of Kentucky.
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