Whipple, H. George S., b. ca. 1822. Letters. 1859-1880.

Whipple, H. George S., b. ca. 1822.

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H. George Whipple was born ca. 1822 in Massachusetts. He married Mary Josselyn (b. ca. 1830) in 1859 and they had one child, Kittie, born in 1861. Whipple established a musical career in Louisville, KY, where he taught music privately, as well as in public schools. He also was employed as an organist/choirmaster by several local churches in Louisville. From the description of Whipple, H. George S., b. ca. 1822. Letters. 1859-1880. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id:...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914

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Simon Bolivar Buckner, governor of Kentucky during 1887-91, was born near Munfordville, Kentucky, in 1823, to Aytell Hartswell and Elizabeth Ann Buckner. He entered West Point in 1840 and saw active duty in the Mexican War after graduation. He later became head of Kentucky's state militia, then joined the Confederate Army as brigadier general at the start of the Civil War. After the war, Buckner was a journalist and businessman in New Orleans until he was allowed to return to Kentucky in 1868. I...

Lorimer, George C. (George Claude), 1838-1904

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Cary, S. F. (Samuel Fenton), 1814-1900

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American soldier and politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : College Hill [Ohio], to Horace Greeley, 1872 Apr. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133357 ...

Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894

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Joseph Holt, 1807-94, American public official, judge advocate general of the U.S. army (1862-75). A native of Kentucky, he became a well-known lawyer and prominent Democratic politician. In 1857, President Buchanan appointed him commissioner of patents in 1857, and in 1859 he became Postmaster General. In the beginning of 1861, before the outbreak of the Civil War, he was Secretary of War. A staunch opponent of the secession movement, Holt was instrumental in preventing Kentucky from seceding. ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...