Desha Breckinridge-Samuel Wilson letters, 1930.
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Wilson, Samuel M.
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The Dudley Oil and Gas Company was first incorporated in 1903 with its main headquarters located in Wilmington, Delaware. According to its minutes, the company's purpose was to transact business "...relating to the production and sale of oil land or leases, petroleum oil or gas..." Within Kentucky, Dudley Oil and Gas focused much of its activity in Lee County and established an office in the city of Lexington. Judge Samuel M. Wilson of Lexington served as secretary to the company and collected t...
Breckinridge, Desha, 1867-1935
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Desha Breckinridge, born in 1867 to W.C.P. and Issa (Desha) Breckinridge in Lexington, Kentucky, was a newspaper editor, horseman, and leader of the Progressive movement in Kentucky. Samuel MacKay Wilson, lawyer and historian, was born in 1871 in Louisville. He was a meticulous scholar who assembled a major collection of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, newspapers, and public documents relating to the westward movement in American history, especially the Ohio Valley and Kentucky. From ...
Preston, William C. (William Campbell), 1794-1860
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Lawyer and college adminstrator of South Carolina; member of S.C. House of Representatives, 1828-1834, and the U.S. Senate, 1833-1842; president of South Carolina College, Columbia, S.C., 1845-1851, and trustee, 1851-1857; an 1812 graduate of South Carolina College; studied law at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; practiced law in Virginia and S.C.; formed law partnership with David J. McCord, 1832; founded the Columbia Antheneum; husband of Maria Coalter and Penelope Davis. Fro...
