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Edmund Bacon (1785–1866)
Edmund Bacon (1785–1866), was the business manager and primary overseer for 20 years for Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, at Monticello. Among some of his other business duties, Bacon supervised the daily chores and activities of farming and ranching at Monticello along with Jefferson's nail forge. His duties included supervising and providing supplies and other needs for Jefferson's slaves. When he retired, Bacon moved to Kentucky and was discovered by the author Rev. Hamilton Pierson, who made use of his memoirs and letters to write a book about Jefferson's personal life and character. The memoirs of Bacon's life at Monticello has given much insight into the daily activities there, as well as into Jefferson's life and personality. Biography Edmund Bacon was born March 28, 1785, within a couple of miles of Monticello. He recalled memories of "Mr. Jefferson" as far back as he could remember. Bacon's father and Jefferson were raised together and attended the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Bacon
Edmund Bacon may refer to: * Sir Edmund Bacon, 2nd Baronet, of Redgrave (c. 1570–1649), English MP for Eye and for Norfolk in 1593 and 1625 * Sir Edmund Bacon, 2nd Baronet, of Gillingham (c. 1660–1683), see Bacon baronets * Sir Edmund Bacon, 4th Baronet, of Mildenhall (1672–1721), British MP for Orford *Sir Edmund Bacon, 4th Baronet, of Redgrave (died 1685), father in law of Sir Edmund Bacon, 5th Baronet * Sir Edmund Bacon, 5th Baronet (1693–1738), British MP for Thetford, 1722–1738 * Sir Edmund Bacon, 6th Baronet, of Mildenhall (1725–1750), see Bacon baronets * Sir Edmund Bacon, 6th Baronet, of Redgrave (c. 1680–1755), British MP for Thetford, 1710–1713, and for Norfolk, 1713–1715 and 1728–1741 * Edmund Bacon (1785–1866), business manager and overseer for Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States * Sir Edmund Bacon, 13th Baronet (1903–1982), Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk *Edmund Bacon (architect) Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910October 14, 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Hemings
Sarah "Sally" Hemings ( 1773 – 1835) was a Black people, black woman Slavery in the United States, enslaved to the third President of the United States Thomas Jefferson, inherited among many others from his father-in-law, John Wayles. Hemings' mother was Betty Hemings, Elizabeth "Betty" Hemings. Hemings' father was John Wayles, the enslaver of Elizabeth Hemings who owned her from the time of her birth. Wayles was also the father of Jefferson's wife, Martha Jefferson, Martha, making Hemings the half-sister to Jefferson's wife. Hemings' maternal grandmother was an enslaved African woman whose name is not recorded. Hemings' maternal grandfather was John Hemings, an English captain. Therefore, Hemings was of 3/4 European and 1/4 African descent, making her both black and a quadroon according to contemporary American racial classification. This also means Hemings was the third generation of women in her family to be impregnated by a free man during her enslavement and the secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 Deaths
Events January * January 1 ** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee. ** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published. * January 6 – Ottoman troops clash with supporters of Maronite leader Youssef Bey Karam, at St. Doumit in Lebanon; the Ottomans are defeated. * January 12 ** The '' Royal Aeronautical Society'' is formed as ''The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain'' in London, the world's oldest such society. ** British auxiliary steamer sinks in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, on passage from the Thames to Australia, with the loss of 244 people, and only 19 survivors. * January 18 – Wesley College, Melbourne, is established. * January 26 – Volcanic eruption in the Santorini caldera begins. February * February 7 – Battle of Abtao: A Spanish naval squadron fights a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao, in the Chiloé Archipelago of southern Chile. * February 13 � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1785 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** The Burmese Konbaung Dynasty annexes the Mrauk U Kingdom of Arakan. ** The first issue of the ''Daily Universal Register'', later known as ''The Times'', is published in London. * January 7 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a hydrogen gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air. * January 11 – Richard Henry Lee is elected as President of the U.S. Congress of the Confederation.''Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909'', ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p167 * January 20 – Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút: Invading Siamese forces, attempting to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tây Sơn. * January 27 – The University of Georgia in the United States is chartered by the Georgia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betts
Betts is an English Patronymic surname, deriving from the medieval personal name Bett, a short form of Bartholomew, Beatrice, or Elizabeth. It is also the americanized spelling of German Betz. The surname may refer to * Alejandro Jacobo Betts (1947–2020), Argentine air-traffic controller * Alison Betts (PhD 1986), Scottish archaeologist and academic * Arnie F. Betts (1909–1993), American politician * Blair Betts (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player * Charles Betts (born 1986), American wrestler better known as Chad Gable * Clive James Charles Betts (born 1950), British politician * Connor Stephen Betts, (1995-2019), American mass murderer, perpetrator of the 2019 Dayton shooting * Daisy Betts Miller, Australian actress * Daniel Betts (born 1971), British actor * Denis Betts (born 1969), English rugby player * Dickey Betts (1943–2024), American guitarist, singer, and songwriter * Edward Ladd Betts (1815–1872), English railway contractor * Frederick Betts (1859–194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyland09
Hyland may refer to: * Hyland Goodrich, child actor on the Hallmark TV series ''When Calls the Heart,'' portraying ‘Little Jack Thornton’ * Hyland (band), an American Christian rock band * Hyland Airport, in Yukon, Canada * Hyland Bay and Moyle Floodplain, Northern Territory of Australia * Hyland Software, an enterprise content management software provider People with the surname *Angus Hyland (born 1963), British designer and art director *Bernard Hyland (born 1937), Australian botanist *Brian Hyland (born 1943), American musician *Davy Hyland (born 1955), Northern Irish politician *Diana Hyland (1936–1977), American actress *Drew Hyland (born 1939), American academic and philosopher *Frances Hyland (1927–2004), Canadian actress *Grace Hyland, Australian social media influencer *Greg Hyland, author of the comic strip Lethargic Lad *Hank Nelson (Hank) (1937–2012), Australian historian of the Pacific *Harry Hyland (1889–1969), Canadian ice hockey player *Herbert Hyland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dunne Books
Thomas Dunne Books was an imprint of St. Martin's Press, which is a division of Macmillan Publishers. From 1986 until April 2020, it published popular trade fiction and nonfiction. History The imprint signed David Irving, a scholar, for a Joseph Goebbels biography in 1996 but had to drop the book when it was found out that Irving was a Holocaust denier for having links to Institute for Historical Review, "the literary center of the United States Holocaust-denial movement." In October 1999, St. Martin's Press recalled a Dunne book, ''Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President'', and destroyed them after various incidents about the author, J. H. Hatfield, surfaced. The incidents were that he had served prison time for a car-bombing attempt on his former boss's life and that he included an anonymous accusation about Bush. A St. Martin's executive editor resigned in protest over the publication. In November, Dunne editors stopped attending St. Martin edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibliography Of Thomas Jefferson
The bibliography of Thomas Jefferson refers to published works about Thomas Jefferson, the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States. Biographical and political accounts for Jefferson now span across three centuries. Up until 1851, virtually all biographical accounts for Jefferson relied on general and common knowledge gained from official records and public writings and newspapers. Henry S. Randall—the first historian allowed to interview Jefferson's family, giving him access to family letters and records—did biographies of Jefferson take on a more intimate perspective. Randall wrote an 1858 three-volume biography which set the premise for many biographies that followed. Before Randall, George Tucker produced his two-volume 1837 account of Jefferson which offered a glint of insight into Jefferson's personal life. Following Jefferson's death he was roundly criticized by the Christian Clergy for his Bible and other writin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princeton, Kentucky
Princeton is a list of Kentucky cities, home rule-class city in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the county seat, seat of its county. The population was 6,329 during the 2010 U.S. Census. Princeton is home to several notable attractions such as Adsmore Museum, Champion-Shepherdson House (home of the Princeton Art Guild), University of Kentucky Research and Education Center Botanical Garden, and the Annual Black Patch Festival. History The community at the head of Eddy Creek was first called Eddy Grove for the creek's source at a large whirling spring. of surrounding land was granted to the Virginian William Prince for his service during the American Revolution. He settled there in what was then Livingston County, Kentucky, Livingston County in 1799 and erected Shandy Hall, a brick home and tavern. Prince's heirs and another local landowner named Thomas Frazier granted around Eddy Grove and Prince's Place towards the establishment of a new town in 1817, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumberland College (Princeton, Kentucky)
Cumberland College in Princeton, Kentucky, was founded in 1826 and operated until 1861. It was the first college affiliated with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In 1842, the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination withdrew its support from Cumberland College in favor of Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. In doing so, the denomination intended to simply relocate the school from Princeton to Lebanon, but Cumberland College remained open without denominational support until the Civil War. Founding and early years On October 22, 1825, Cumberland Synod, the ruling judicatory of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, resolved to establish a college somewhere in southwestern Kentucky. The school's primary purpose was to educate young men who wanted to become ministers, but the school would be open to all. The school would also require students to perform manual labor for two to three hours a day. The synod appointed a commission to determine a site for the college. The commission c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trigg County, Kentucky
Trigg County is a county located on the far southwest border of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,061. Its county seat is Cadiz. Formed in 1820, the county was named for Stephen Trigg, an officer in the American Revolutionary War who was killed at the Battle of Blue Licks, now in Robertson County, Kentucky. It was a victory for British and allied troops. Following the Prohibition era, Trigg continued as a prohibition or dry county until 2009. That year the county's voters narrowly approved a referendum to repeal the prohibition on alcohol sales for off-premises consumption. Trigg County is part of the Clarksville, TN–KY Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Trigg County was formed in 1820 from portions of Christian County and Caldwell counties, as its population had increased. Trigg County was named in honor of Lt. Col. Stephen Trigg, of Virginia. Trigg had settled near Harrodsburg, Kentucky; during the American Revolution ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Monroe
James Monroe ( ; April 28, 1758July 4, 1831) was an American Founding Father of the United States, Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. He was the last Founding Father to serve as president as well as the last president of the Virginia dynasty. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, and Presidency of James Monroe, his presidency coincided with the Era of Good Feelings, concluding the First Party System era of American politics. He issued the Monroe Doctrine, a policy of limiting European colonialism in the Americas. Monroe previously served as Governor of Virginia, a member of the United States Senate, U.S. ambassador to France and Britain, the seventh secretary of state, and the eighth secretary of war. During the American Revolutionary War, he served in the Continental Army. Monroe studied law under Thomas Jefferson from 1780 to 1783 and subsequently served as a List of delegates to the Continental Congress, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
