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Owsley County was formed in 1843 from portions of Clay, Breathitt, and Estill Counties and was named for Governor William Owsley.
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* Owsley County ( north )
Among counties whose population contains a non-Hispanic white majority, it is the poorest by per-capita income and second to another county in the same Kentucky region, Owsley County, by median household income.
Wolfe County was formed on March 5, 1860 from portions of Breathitt County, Morgan County, Owsley County and Powell County.
* Clay County & Owsley County ( northwest )
Owsley County is a county located in the Eastern Mountain Coal Fields region of Kentucky.
According to the 2010 Census reports, Owsley County is the " poorest county in the United States '" Its county seat is Booneville and it is a dry county.
Owsley County was Kentucky's 96th county.
Parts of Owsley County were used to form Jackson County in 1858 and Lee County in 1870.
The first settlers in Owsley County were John Renty Baker and John Abner.
In 1858, Owsley County lost some of its territory to Jackson County and in 1860 to Wolfe County.
In 1870, when Lee County was formed, again Owsley County lost some of its territory.
Even though Owsley County was formed only 19 years before the Civil War ( see Kentucky in the American Civil War ), it led all counties in the U. S. in the percentage of white population who enrolled in the Union Army.
Except for a handful who sided with the rebels, all who enlisted from Owsley County sympathized with the Union cause as did most of the citizens.
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This was particularly true in San Francisco, due in part to the first major underground LSD factory, established there by Owsley Stanley.
Called " The Trips Festival ", it took place on January 21 – January 23, 1966, and was organized by Stewart Brand, Ken Kesey, Owsley Stanley and others.
The Owsley Court House Post Office opened in 1844 and was renamed Booneville in 1846.
The story is told of an Owsley County man who later became Judge Brandenburg who was heard to remark “ I ’ m going out and shoot me a nigger !” and did.
When Bill Abner was high sheriff of Owsley County during the mid 19th century he put the rope around the neck of a black man, hung supposedly for assault on a white woman, wife of a Dr. Hundley.
* ELIHU REYNOLDS, Owsley County, was the only one of the five Confederates who went from Owsley that served through and returned.
* WILLIAM ZION, Owsley County, took part in all the operations and engagements of his company, including Dallas, at which place he was killed.
Earle Bryan Combs, born May 13, 1899 at Pebworth in Owsley County, played baseball for the New York Yankees from 1924 to 1935 and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1970.
* William Owsley ( 1782 – 1862 ) was an American politician and jurist who became the sixteenth Governor of Kentucky.
* William Owsley ( 1782 – 1862 ) was an American politician and jurist who became the sixteenth Governor of Kentucky.
The town, consisting at the time of little more than a temporary log courthouse, became the county seat when Owsley County was formed on May 20, 1844.
Interviews and articles written by various writers, most notably Tom DeFalco and Peter David, artist Ron Frenz and editor James Owsley ( now known as Christopher Priest ) are all somewhat at odds with one another over many details about the course of events and what was agreed.
) Owsley then wrote the one-shot Spider-Man vs Wolverine in which Ned Leeds was killed off ( though the actual death was not shown ), fully intending that Leeds not be the Hobgoblin.
The term " Wall of Sound " was also used to describe the enormous public address system designed by Owsley Stanley specifically for the Grateful Dead's live performances circa 1974.
Combs was born in Pebworth, Owsley County, Kentucky.
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In 1843, Owsley retired from the practice of law and purchased a farm in Boyle County.
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B. Gilbert, state representative from Owsley County cast the deciding vote in the general assembly as to whether or not Kentucky would remain with the Union.
Others from Owsley County listed in the Orphan Brigade were Sgt Cornelius Frost, Co. K, 10th Mtd lnf.
According to Joyce Wilson's book, " A Romantic History of Owsley County ", Daniel Boone made his way to Owsley County on a two-year hunt from 1769-1771.
* Profile of life in Owsley County, from The American Prospect
A few scenes from the movie A League of Their Own ( 1992 ) were shot in Henderson, including boarding house scenes filmed at 612 North Main St., once the home of Augustus Owsley Stanley, a governor of Kentucky and U. S. senator.
Sound engineer ( and infamous LSD chemist ) Owsley Stanley regularly recorded concerts at major San Francisco venues during this period, and his archive includes many QMS live performances from 1966 – 67, which were released on his Bear Recordings label in 2008-2009.
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.
Category: People from Owsley County, Kentucky
Category: People from Owsley County, Kentucky
Owsley resigned from the Court of Appeals two years later.
Owsley returned to the state House in 1831, and served in the state senate from 1832 to 1834.
When James Turner Morehead ascended to the governorship upon the death of John Breathitt, he appointed Owsley Secretary of State for his shortened term from 1834 to 1836.
On September 1, 1846, Owsley removed Hardin from his cabinet, charging that Hardin had abandoned his duties because he did not reside in Frankfort.
* Biography of Owsley from the Kentucky Secretary of State website
Shortly afterward, he changed his name from " Jim Owsley " to " Christopher Priest " for reasons he has not discussed publicly other than in one interview's seemingly glib remark about becoming a priest if his marriage, which later ended in divorce, did not last.
The historian Frank L. Owsley, Jr. suggests that the state-sponsored military activity in the area likely prevented the British from occupying an undefended Gulf Coast in 1814.
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