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Owsley returned to the state House in 1831, and served in the state senate from 1832 to 1834.
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Owsley and returned
* ELIHU REYNOLDS, Owsley County, was the only one of the five Confederates who went from Owsley that served through and returned.
In 1831, Owsley returned to the state legislature, where he served until Governor Morehead appointed him secretary of state in 1834.
Owsley returned to his legal practice, and his case load soon compelled him to move to Frankfort.
Owsley and state
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.
A fiscal conservative, Owsley reduced the state's deficit slightly, and was reluctant to rebuild the state penitentiary, which was damaged by fire.
Owsley all but refused the request, but when word of Marcy's request reached the citizens of the state, they volunteered in great numbers and rushed to reinforce Taylor.
However, postal workers in the state opened Marcy's letter before delivering it to Owsley and had spread the word that the federal government had once again requested troops.
Hardin challenged this premise for his removal, and when Owsley nominated George B. Kinkead to replace Hardin, the state senate voted 30 — 8 that no vacancy existed.
Owsley and House
The Owsley Court House Post Office opened in 1844 and was renamed Booneville in 1846.
County officials hope to recreate the slave cabin on the grounds of the Governor William Owsley House.
Owsley and served
Bands of lawless men ( many times claiming to be Union or Confederate — whichever served their goals ) rode into the county, and in reprisal, Owsley men led similar raids into Breathitt and Wolfe Counties.
Owsley and from
Wolfe County was formed on March 5, 1860 from portions of Breathitt County, Morgan County, Owsley County and Powell County.
Owsley County was formed in 1843 from portions of Clay, Breathitt, and Estill Counties and was named for Governor William Owsley.
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.
Others from Owsley County listed in the Orphan Brigade were Sgt Cornelius Frost, Co. K, 10th Mtd lnf.
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.
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.
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.
In 1843, Owsley retired from the practice of law and purchased a farm in Boyle County.
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.
Owsley and .
This was particularly true in San Francisco, due in part to the first major underground LSD factory, established there by Owsley Stanley.
* Douglas W. Owsley
LSD manufacturer Owsley Stanley lived in Berkeley during 1965 and provided much of the LSD that became a seminal part of the " Red Dog Experience ", the early evolution of psychedelic rock and budding hippie culture.
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.
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.
Douglas W. Owsley, Smithsonian anthropologist, presented findings in 2006 in Seattle.
:" Claims for the Remains ": Robson Bonnichsen ; Brace ; Gill, Vance Haynes, Richard Jantz, Owsley, Dennis Stanford, Gentry Steele spoke about suit against the U. S. government ;
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.
Though the county majority were Union sympathizers Owsley Countians, in general, had little regard for the life of a blacks.
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