Tribute to Simeon S. Willis, 1949.

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Tribute to Simeon S. Willis, 1949.

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Tribute to Simeon S. Willis, dated 7 June 1949, Frankfort, Ky., presented to Willis on the occasion of the presentation of the portrait of Governor Willis to the Kentucky Historical Society.

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Historical Society

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These cards were created by staff of the Kentucky Historical Society. From the description of Kentucky General Assembly biography cards, 1792-1960s. (Kentucky Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 671373485 ...

Willis, Simeon S., 1879-1965

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Simeon Willis, governor of Kentucky during 1943-47, was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1879, to John H. and Abigail Slavens Wills. His family moved to Greenup County, Kentucky, around 1889. Willis studied law under private tutors and eventually becam a lawyer and opened a practice in Ashland at the turn of the century. He married Idah Lee Millis of Cattlesburg, Kentucky on April 14, 1920. They had one daughter, Sally Lesley Willis, who married Lt. Henry Meigs II on December 30, 1944 and had o...