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James Preservation Trust Gets Historic New Digs


The James Preservation Trust soon will occupy the historic, 200 year old building built by Jonathon Nichols in Danville, Kentucky. The structure sits on the Wilderness Road, the entry road from the Cumberland Gap into central Kentucky, pioneered by Daniel Boone with his ax-man Johannes Vardeman. Vardeman is the father of Rev. Jeremiah Vardeman who married Betsy James, the daughter… (more…)

When a Younger Rode to Defeat Arizona-style Nativism


Born in Liberty, Missouri, Charles Bruce Younger Sr. was only twenty-three when he took a stab at killing the political campaign of his older cousin, Fontaine Talbott Fox. Their cousins in the future Younger Gang were yet in their teens. Fox was a politically savvy old codger. Already in his fifties, he had been a lawyer, judge, and attorney general… (more…)

Attn. Spinsters – Marry, or Go to Jail


The James family has a number of spinsters and bachelors who have never married. While researching recently, I came across a newspaper item in the Harrodsburg (Ky.) Herald from 1909. A line of the James family lived in and around Harrodsburg at the time, and some still do today. The paper editorialized that the town’s spinsters and bachelors should marry… (more…)

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