College graduates--Relocation; Educational attainment; Migration, Internal--United States
As state policymakers draw clearer connections between the college-level attainment of their residents and the corresponding economic and social benefits, there is great need for more data and information regarding the production and migration of...
Lincoln Institute (Simpsonville, Ky.); Berea College--History; African Americans--Education--Kentucky
This dissertation examines the history of Berea College in Kentucky. Founded before the Civil War, it was a small, private southern college that educated blacks, whites, women and men equally, an early model of cooperation and social harmony. Its...
This thesis is an investigation into the world of sixteenth-century Venice, encompassing a group of female portraits by artist Palma Vecchio. I utilized many primary and secondary sources concerning Renaissance society, including several which...
Donne, John, 1572-1631--Criticism and interpretation; Donne, John, 1572-1631--Knowledge--Mathematics
John Donne wanted to live the leisurely life of a
gentleman undisturbed by financial difficulties, devoting
his life to entertaining his audience with his
witty insights into life and, especially, love. However,
his marriage, which was frowned upon...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Musicians; Jazz musicians
Portrait of Clyde McCoy, jazz trumpet player and orchestra leader of Ashland, Kentucky, wearing a suit and striped tie. The photograph has been marred with discolorations. Handwritten on back of image: Musician; Born Ashland, Ky. -Dec. 29-1903;...
Eli H. Brown was born in Meade County, Kentucky, in 1841. He was educated at the academy of Hawesville, Kentucky, in Hancock County, He read law with George W. Williams and in 1862 joined the Hancock County bar. Brown was soon elected City Judge...
Thomas Speed was born in Bardstown, Kentucky, in 1841, and was educated at Centre and Hanover Colleges. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War. After the war Captain Speed studied law at the University of Michigan, and practiced in...
Frank William Morancy was born in Madison Parish, Louisiana, in 1858. His father Francis E. Morancy was a prosperous cotton planter who was also learned in both law and medicine. The family was descended from French settlers to the island of...
William P. D. Bush was born in 1823 on his father's farm in Hardin County, Kentucky. He was educated at the Hardin Seminary in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. After reading law, in 1846 he was admitted to the bar and was appointed deputy clerk of the...
St. John Boyle was born in Danville, Kentucky, in 1847, son of General Jeremiah T. Boyle and grandson of Judge John Boyle, chief justice of Kentucky. He was educated in law at Harvard University, returning to Kentucky to practice law. He was a...
Emmet Field was born in Louisville in 1841. He was educated in Missouri, at Westminster College, and served in the 2d Missouri Cavalry of the Confederate army. He returned to Louisville in 1864, and the next year graduated from the law department...
Archibald Dixon was born in Caswell County, North Carolina, in 1802. He moved with his parents to Henderson, Kentucky, in 1805. Educated in the local schools, he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1824. He established a practice in Henderson....
Quintus Quincy Quigley was born in Paris, Tennessee, in 1828. He was educated by tutors before entering Cumberland College in Princeton, Kentucky. He read law, was admitted to the bar in 1850, and established a thriving legal practice in Paducah....
Richard T. Petree was born in Todd County, Kentucky, in 1822. He was educated at an academy in Elkhorn, Kentucky, and read law under F.M. Bristow. He was admitted to the bar in 1848 and became a leading member of the Hopkinsville, Kentucky, bar. He...
Franklin Wyatt Darby was born in 1837 in Caldwell County. He was educated in Cumberland College in Princeton, Kentucky, and read law under E.P. Caldwell. He was admitted to the bar in 1862. In 1866, he was elected county judge in Caldwell County....
Thomas P. Hill was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky, in 1828. He was educated at St. Mary's College, near Lebanon, Kentucky, studied law with John Kincaid and was admitted to the bar in 1849. He centered his practice in Stanford, Kentucky, where he...
W. C. P. Breckinridge was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1837. He was educated at Pisgah Academy in Woodford County, Kentucky, before attending Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, where he graduated in 1855. He received a law degree from the...
William Henry Wadsworth was born in Maysville, Kentucky, on July 4, 1821. He was educated at the Maysville Seminary, becoming a lifelong friend of Ulysses S. Grant, After study in Augusta College, he read law in the office of Payne & Waller and...
John Franklin Hager was born in Floyd County, Kentucky, on March 16, 1853. His family moved to Ashland, Kentucky, in 1864, and he was educated in the public schools and at Ashlands Beech Grove Academy. He was admitted to the bar in 1873 and...
George Gilpin Perkins was born in Burlington, Kentucky, in 1839. His family moved to Covington, and he was educated in the city schools, at Shelby College, and at Belmont, Ohio. He studied law and was admitted to practice in 1863. In 1867, he...
