TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia

November 7, 1795, Benjamin J. Bradford established the Kentucky Journal in Frankfort, the Commonwealth’s 3^rd newspaper. Kentucky in Retrospect by Lila Jones Kingston pg: 34.

November 7, 1825, around two o’clock in the morning, Jereboam Orville Beauchamp, a young southern Kentucky lawyer, knocked on Colonel Solomon P. Sharp’s door in downtown Frankfort and plunged a dagger deep into Sharp’s chest. The murder becomes known as the Kentucky Tragedy or Beauchamp-Sharp Tragedy. Anna Cooke Beauchamp directed the chain of events. Anna had been an admirer of Sharp until Sharp denied being the father of her stillborn child. Later, Anna begins a relationship with Cooke and agrees to marry him on the condition that he kills Sharp to avenge her honor. Anna and Jereboam married in June 1824, and 17 months later, the tragedy occurred. Sharpe played a prominent figure in Kentucky politics as a Representative, Congressman, and Attorney General. On the morning of the scheduled execution, Anna and Jereboam attempted suicide in his cell with a knife. Anna survived, and jailers loaded Jereboam on a cart to be taken to the gallows and hanged before he bled to death.

November 7, 1833, Lexington hosted the Kentucky Educational Convention, where leaders such as the Rev. Ben O. Peers advocated for a statewide standard school system. Kentucky in Retrospect 1792-1967 by Lila Jones Kingston pg: 63

November 7, 1852, Madison County native Joshua H. Bean passed away. Bean served with Zachary Taylor in the Mexican–American War and went to California in 1849 and San Diego in 1850, where he traded and owned saloons. The California state legislature incorporated San Diego in 1850 and Bean became their 1^st mayor until 1851. As mayor, he illegally “sold” City Hall and city pueblo land to himself and a friend. Bean later died in an ambush just outside Mission San Gabriel in 1852 during an argument over a woman.

November 7, 1886, the Kentucky State College (UK) football team beat Central University (EKU) 62-0.

November 7, 1899, Kentuckians voted in one of America’s most hotly contested gubernatorial elections, William S. Taylor (R) vs. William Goebel (D). Governor William O. Bradley (R) stepped down due to term limits.

November 7, 1912, Deputy Sheriff Edward Neece, Bell County Sheriff’s Department, died from a gunshot at Brownet’s Creek near Pineville on a Sunday morning while attempting to serve a warrant for selling illegal liquor.

November 7, 1928, Constable Samuel Newton Fannin, Boyd County Constable’s Office, died from a gunshot on 15^th Street in Ashland, quelling an argument on election night. Constable Fannin intervened as two men from different political parties argued about the day’s election.

November 7, 1928, Chief of Police Fred E. Stanley, Floyd County Police Department, died from a gunshot by the father of a boy he had arrested. When the Chief refused to return the boy’s gun to the father, he shot him.

November 7, 1929, Patrolman Poley Lloyd Faulkner, Winchester Police Department, died when he and two officers attempted to arrest a man for drunk and disorderly conduct after the suspect left a saloon.

November 7, 1932, Deputy Constable Booker Van Buren Wright, Letcher County Constable’s Office, died when he went to a house to arrest a suspect on a warrant. When Deputy Wright arrived at the suspect’s home, near Haymond, the suspect opened fire.

November 7, 1944, Alben W. Barkley won re-election to his Class III Senate seat with 54% of the vote, to stay Senate Majority Leader.

November 7, 1949, Lexington native Vertner Woodson Tandy passed away in Manhattan. In 1906, he and six others founded the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at Cornell University. The seven men are affectionally known as The Seven Jewels. He served as the 1^st treasurer and designed the fraternity pin. He also became the 1^st African American registered architect in New York State.