CONTENTS REGISTER OF THE KENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Listed below are the contents of the Register from the first issue in 1903 to the current issue in a searchable PDF format. VOLUME 1 Number One, January 1903 A New Light on Daniel Boone’s Ancestry Mrs. Jennie C. Morton ...................................................................... 11 Kentucky’s First Railroad, which was the First One West of the Allegheny Mountains ........................................................................ 18 Fort Hill ........................................................................................... 26 Address of Hon. John A. Steele, Vice President, before Kentucky Historical Society, February 11, 1899 ............................... 27 The Seal of Kentucky ........................................................................ 31 Before Unpublished Copy of a Letter from Gen. Ben Logan to Governor Isaac Shelby Benjamin Logan ............................................................................... 33 Counties in Kentucky and Origin of their Names Published by Courtesy of the Geographer of the Smithsonian Institute ........................................................................................... 34 Paragraphs ....................................................................................... 38 The Kentucky River and Its Islands Resident of Frankfort, Kentucky ....................................................... 40 Department of Genealogy and History Averill............................................................................................... 42 Bibb ................................................................................................. 43 Crockett ........................................................................................... 45 Dudley Mrs. Mary Dudley Aldridge ............................................................... 51 Reunion of the Alves Tribe ................................................................ 54 1 Book and Magazine Notices .............................................................. 56 Fine Showing of State Finances ........................................................ 57 Reports from the Kentucky State Historical Society From Its Reorganization, October 6, 1896, to October 4, 1902 Mrs. Jennie C. Morton, Secretary, Frankfort, Kentucky .................... 59 Number Two, May 1903 Governor Isaac Shelby ...................................................................... 9 The Last Message ............................................................................. 13 John J. Audubon ............................................................................. 17 The Attack on the Spanish Gunboats at Cardenas A Kentuckian, Comr. Chap. Todd ..................................................... 21 Historical Sketches of Banners Used by Kentucky Troops During the Spanish War, 1899 Capt. Ed. Porter Thompson, compiler of Confederate Records ........... 26 A Beautiful Compliment ................................................................... 27 The Migration of Trade Centers Dr. Robert E. Jones, President of Hobart College .............................. 28 Historical Information and How Obtained ......................................... 37 A Journalistic Anniversary ............................................................... 40 A Few Historic Homes and Places in the Capitol of the State ............. 41 A History of the First Presbyterian Church of Frankfort, Kentucky, Etc. W. A. Averill ..................................................................................... 42 Compliment to a Former Frankfort Boy, Rev. William L. McEwan, D. D. ......................................................... 43 Romance of Mary Ball—The Love Story of the Mother of Washington Woman’s Home Companion ............................................................... 44 The First School Taught in Kentucky ................................................ 45 2 Paragraphs ....................................................................................... 46 Treasurers of the State of Kentucky .................................................. 46 Department of Genealogy and History Edmonsons—James Mrs. Sarah Ellen James Chesney ..................................................... 47 Fall His daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Fall Taylor ........................................... 54 Governor James Garrard .................................................................. 61 Governor Christopher Greenup......................................................... 69 Design for Goebel Monument is Selected on Certain Conditions Work of Sculptor Marreitti, of New York, is Preferred by Committee .. 71 Inquiries........................................................................................... 72 List of Portraits, Pictures, Etc., in the Kentucky State Historical Society’s Rooms ................................................................................ 73 Necrology Capt. Ed Porter Thompson ............................................................... 75 Richard P. Stoll ................................................................................ 76 Report of Kentucky State Historical Society ...................................... 77 Report from Kentucky State Historical Society since February .......... 78 Proceedings at the Dedication of the Hall in the State Capitol, June 7, 1769-1881 From Kentucky Yeoman Report ......................................................... 79 Number Three, September 1903 Biographical Sketch of General, afterward Governor, Charles S. Scott His Great-Granddaughter, Miss Pattie Burnley, with Supplemental Extracts from History, by the Editor of The Register .... 7 Brief Sketch of Governor George Madison Elected August 16th; Died October 14th, 1816. Genealogical Chart of the Madison Family, prepared for The Register by a Great-Grandson of Governor Madison, Frank P. Blair, Chicago, Illinois ................................................................................ 19 Sketch of Governor Gabriel Slaughter, with Photograph from his Portrait............................................................................................. 25 3 “The Blockade of Southern Cuba” By request of a Historian, “The Southern Blockade of Cuba” was written by Commander Chapman Coleman Todd, a native of Frankfort, Kentucky. Copied for the Historical Society of Kentucky by Harry Innes Todd, 1899 ............................................................... 32 Lost Island Mrs. Jennie C. Morton ...................................................................... 43 Biographical Sketch of the Life and Writings of Theodore O’Hara, author of The Bivouac of the Dead Mrs. Jennie C. Morton ...................................................................... 47 The Bivouac of the Dead Theodore O’Hara .............................................................................. 57 “The Old Pioneer” ............................................................................. 58 The Old Pioneer, Daniel Boone Theodore O’Hara .............................................................................. 59 Theodore O’Hara as an Orator .......................................................... 60 Department of History and Genealogy Johnson and Arnold Families ........................................................... 63 James Arnold and his Descendants .................................................. 64 The Strother Family.......................................................................... 67 The Keiths Mrs. Annie H. Miles .......................................................................... 71 History of the Lee Family Mrs. Mary Willis Woodson ................................................................ 73 History of the Lee Family, of Kentucky—Continued General Henry Lee His Granddaughter, Lucy C. Lee, of Maysville, Kentucky, with Supplement by the Editor of The Register .................................. 82 Paragraphs ....................................................................................... 89 Just a Word About the Lost Cause ................................................... 91 Bryan’s Views of Immortality ............................................................ 92 Inquiries........................................................................................... 93 Inquiries Answered ........................................................................... 93 4 A Woman’s 20th–Century Enterprise in Louisville ............................. 94 The Battle of the Thames .................................................................. 96 Report of the Meeting of the Kentucky State Historical Society, 6th of June, 1903, at the Historical Rooms ....................................... 97 Report from Kentucky State Historical Society by the Secretary ........ 98 Donations to the Historical Rooms .................................................... 99 A few Opinions of the Press and Letters of Distinguished Writers of The Register Since its First Appearance ......................................... 103 Historical Notes Worth Preserving ..................................................... 108 VOLUME 2 Number Four, January 1904 Biographical Sketch of Governor John Adair Governor of the State of Kentucky from 1820 to 1824, with Wm. T. Barry for Lieutenant Governor Mrs. Jennie C. Morton ...................................................................... 11 Governor Joseph Desha of Distinguished Huguenot Ancestry