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20 unusual facts about Frankfort


Alexander Keith Marshall

Marshall was a member of the Kentucky constitutional convention held in Frankfort, Kentucky in 1849.

Brass Hat

Bred and raced by Fred F. Bradley of Frankfort, Kentucky, Brass Hat is trained by his son William "Buff" Bradley.

Charles Augustus Hilton

He was married on April 21, 1872 in Frankfort, Illinois to Sarah Adelaide Carpenter, the daughter of Josiah and Frances (Haradon) Carpenter.

In his first year, he was a pastor in nearby Ross Corner (Shapleigh), Maine, but then removed to Frankfort, Illinois.

Cornell Burbage

He was named the 27th head football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for the 2004 season.

Frankfort, Illinois

Originally, the area was part of the Virginia Territory before the French signed a treaty with Manitoqua, the Potawatomi chief, for land in the Prestwick area.

Comedian Bernie Mac, Bishop singer Paulette Bertrand, and Styx singer Dennis DeYoung had homes and lived in Frankfort for a good portion of their lives.

George E. Edwards

George E. Edwards was the 11th head college football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for six seasons, from 1951 until 1956.

George James, Jr.

for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky

Judi Patton

In December 1995, Judi and her husband Paul Patton (59th Governor of Kentucky) entered the Governor’s Office in Frankfort, Kentucky.

Kendall County, Illinois

Kendall was the editor of the Frankfort, Kentucky newspaper, and went on to be an important advisor to President Andrew Jackson.

Kentucky Colonels

In preseason play, on September 23, 1972, the Colonels hosted the NBA's Atlanta Hawks for an exhibition game in Frankfort, Kentucky.

Larry Kirksey

Kirksey was the 18th head football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for the 1983 season.

LeRoy Smith

After his success at Tuskegee, Smith was the 16th head coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for twelve seasons, from 1970 until 1981.

Maurice Hunt

Hunt was the 24th head football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for three seasons, from 1992 until 1994.

Mel Whedbee

Melville F. Whedbee was the 14th head football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for five seasons, from 1963 until 1967.

Norman Passmore

was the seventh head college football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for the 1944 season.

Notes on the melody of things

Notes on the melody of things is a little book written by the German author Rainer Maria Rilke in 1898 and published in the fifth volume of his collected works, between 1955 and 1966 in Frankfort and Wiesbaden.

Return J. Meigs, Jr.

The first of these - called Return J. Meigs III - passed the bar in Frankfort, Kentucky, commenced law practice in Athens, Tennessee, and became prominent in Tennessee state affairs before the Civil War.

William K. Head

William K. Head (born November 15, 1947) was the 22nd head football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for three seasons, from 1987 until 1989.


Amar Quartet

From c1914 Paul Hindemith, a graduate of Hoch Conservatory at Frankfort-am-Main, had taken the second violin desk in the Rebner Quartet of Frankfort, led by his violin teacher Adolf Rebner.

Confessio Catholica

Confessio catholica, in qua doctrina catholica et evangelica, quam ecclesiae Augustanae confessioni addictae profilentur, ex Romano-catholicorum scriptorum suffragiis confirmatur (4 parts, Frankfort and Leipsic, 1634–37), is based upon the Catalogus testium veritatis of Flacius.

Edson Bradley

(May 9, 1852 – June 20, 1935) was president of Kentucky whiskey distiller W.A. Gaines and Company of Frankfort, Kentucky.

Elisha Warfield

Active in community development, in 1830 Elisha Warfield was a founding shareholder of the Lexington & Ohio Railway Company which in 1834 connected Lexington to Frankfort, Kentucky.

Frankfurt plane

The Frankfort plane (also called the auriculo-orbital plane) was established at the World Congress on Anthropology in Frankfurt, Germany in 1884, and decreed as the anatomical position of the human skull.

Georgia Davis Powers

In 1964, she was one of the organizers of a march on the state capitol at Frankfort in support of equity in public accommodations, an event in which Dr. Martin Luther King and baseball legend Jackie Robinson participated.

Jackson Township, Clinton County, Indiana

A CSX rail line (originally laid down by the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Railroad) runs south from Frankfort through the middle of the township.

Jacob Frankfort

Jacob Frankfort (born 1801, date of death unknown) was the first Jew to come to Los Angeles.

John C. Watson

Watson was born in Frankfort, Kentucky on August 24, 1842, the grandson of renowned Kentucky politician John J. Crittenden.

John McKinley

In that state he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1800, practicing in Frankfort and Louisville from 1800 to 1819 before moving to Huntsville, Alabama.

Joseph Albo

The Ikkarim was translated into German by Dr. W. Schlesinger, rabbi of Sulzbach, and his brother, L. Schlesinger, wrote an introduction to the same, Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1844.

Keith A. Hall

Judge Amul Thapar, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky at Frankfort dismissed Hall as a defendant in 2009, citing the absence of any evidence of wrongdoing.

KYW

WKYW, a radio station (1490 AM) licensed to Frankfort, Kentucky, United States, which has carried the WKYW callsign since December 2007

Legal history of the Catholic Church

A private individual, Pierre Mathieu of Lyons, also wrote a "Liber Septimus Decretalium", inserted in the appendix to the Frankfort (1590) edition of the "Corpus Juris Canonici".

Lewis Frankfort

Lewis "Lew" Frankfort is the Chairman and CEO of Coach, Inc..

Lincoln-Way East High School

Lincoln-Way East High School or LWE, is a four-year public high school located approximately three miles south of Interstate 80 near the intersection of La Grange Road and Lincoln Highway in Frankfort, Illinois, a southern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.

Lincoln-Way North High School

Lincoln-Way North High School or LWN, is a public four-year high school located approximately one mile south of Interstate 80 near the intersection of Harlem Avenue and Vollmer Road in Frankfort, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, in the United States.

Mattithiah Ahrweiler

Mattithiah officiated as rabbi at Bingen (Jacob Popper, "Responsa," ii., No. 8, Frankfort, 1742), and subsequently at Mannheim, where he taught in the college (see Klaus) founded by Lemle Moses.

Midrash Maaseh Torah

A similar collection, probably more ancient in origin, was edited by Horowitz in the Kebod Ḥuppah, Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1888, the work being based on a codex of De Rossi of the year 1290.

Old Fitzgerald

Beginning in 1870, Old Fitzgerald was first produced for rail and steamship lines and private clubs primarily located in the south by John E. Fitzgerald in Frankfort, Kentucky.

South Trimble

Born near Hazel Green, Kentucky, Trimble attended the public schools of Frankfort and Excelsior Institute.

SS Spartan

In spring 1980 she was steamed up again to run as part of a lease agreement with the Ann Arbor Railroad out of Frankfort, Michigan, but was abandoned after it was discovered Frankfort harbor was too shallow for the Spartan.

Tell Asmar Hoard

Between 1930 and 1937 Frankfort and his team conducted extensive horizontal and vertical excavations on four mounds: Khafajah, Tell Asmar (ancient Eshnunna), Tell Agrab, and Ishchali.

Thomas Scudder Page

He lived his the remaining 10 years of his life in destitution in Frankfort, and was buried in Frankfort Cemetery.

U.S. Route 460

Between St. Louis and Frankfort, it was a major highway in the pre-Interstate era, passing through Evansville, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky.

Will Chase

He graduated from Western Hills High School and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied conducting with Robert Spano and majored in percussion.

William Candidus

Subsequently he studied under Rouchetti (Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti?), of Milan, and in 1880 became a member of the opera at Frankfort am Main, where he remained until the autumn of 1885, when he joined the American Opera Company.

William Harding Carter

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, he received both public and private schooling as a child and later attended the Kentucky Military Institute in Frankfort, Kentucky later acting as a mounted messenger during the American Civil War.

William Johnson Stone

He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1895): chairman, Committee on War Claims (Fiftieth Congress) He engaged in mercantile pursuits in Kuttawa, Lyon County; Confederate pension commissioner of Kentucky in 1912 and served until his death in Frankfort, Kentucky, March 12, 1923; interment in New Bethel Cemetery, Lyon County, Kentucky.