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Daniel Boone
By: Will
Daniel Boone was born in 1734, and died in 1820. He was a "Long Hunter," a hunter that would hunt for a year or longer, without returning to home. He explored the Kentucky frontier. Did you know that he built "Fort Boonesborough" in 1775, and blazed a trail that started in Virginia and ended in Central Kentucky called Wilderness Road.
From:
www.earlyamerica.com/lives/boone/portrait.html
After building Fort Boonesborough, he brought his family to live there. He was captured by Indians several times. Once he had to hike 160 miles to escape from the Shawnee Indians. His men had to fight Indian attacks without him. The best gift that he gave us was the Wilderness Road, because hundreds of thousands of pioneers used it to travel west. Daniel Boone also lived in West Virginia and Missouri. After his death, his body was moved from Missouri to Kentucky, where you can visit his gravesite high on a hill in Frankfort.
Zachary Taylor
He was born in 1784, and he died in 1850. He was born in Virginia, and he grew up in Louisville. He fought in the War of 1812, the Black Hawk War and the Mexican War. That is how he got his nickname "Old Rough and Ready." He was the President of the United States from 1849-1850.
Henry Clay
He was born in 1777, and he died in 1852. He was born in Virginia and grew up to be a Kentuckian lawmaker. People called him the "Great Composer". He liked to say, "I'd rather be right than be the President."
Abraham Lincoln
From:
www.historyplace.com/lincoln/lincpix/visit2.jpg
Born in 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, he died in 1865, in Washington, D.C. He was born about 100 miles away from Jefferson Davis's birth place. He lived in Kentucky for 7 years, and moved to Indiana with his family when he was a boy. As an adult, he moved to Illinois and became a lawyer and served in Congress from 1847-1849. He was the 16th President of the United States.
Jefferson Davis
He was the third President born in Kentucky, but he was not the President of the United States. He was the President of the Confederacy. He was the President of the Confederate States during the Civil War. Like Zachary Taylor, he served in the army. Like Abraham Lincoln, he served in the House of Representatives. He left his seat in the Senate when the southern states withdrew from the Union. At the end of the Civil War he was put into prison for 2 years because he was the leader of the southern states. When he was released he moved to Canada. He later returned and lived in Mississippi until his death in 1889. He lived to be 81 years old, and that was a long time in those days.
Alben Barkley
He was born in 1877, and he died in 1956. He was born in Graves County. He served in both the United States Senate and The House of Representatives for over 30 years. In 1948, Alben Barkley was elected the Vice President of the United States under President Harry S. Truman.
Resources: Pioneers, Kentucky, www.earlyamerica.com/lives/boone/portriot.html
and www.historyplace.com/lincoln/lincpix/visit2.jpg