KENTUCKY 



3231 



KEOKUK 



Confederate armies invaded the state, and it 

 was the scene of important battles, including 

 those of Mill Spring, Richmond and Perry- 

 ville. This latter, a Federal victory, saved the 

 state for the Union. The state furnished about 

 40,000 to the Confederate army and double 

 that number to the Union army. Kentucky 

 escaped from the military regime of other 

 Southern states, civil government having been 

 reestablished in October, 1865. Since the War 

 of Secession the Democratic party has ruled 

 the state, except in 1895 and 1907, when the 

 governor was Republican. O.B. 



Consult Shaler's Kentucky, in American Com- 

 monwealths Series ; Eubank's Story of Kentucky ; 

 Johnson's History of Kentucky and Kentuckians. 



Related Subjects. The reader who is inter- 

 ested in Kentucky is referred to the following 

 articles in these volumes: 



CITIES 



Lexington 



Louisville 



Newport 



Owensboro 



Paducah 



Ashland 



Bowling Green 



Covington 



Frankfort 



Henderson 



Hopkinsville 



HISTORY 



Boone, Daniel Virginia, subhead 



Cherokee History 



War of Secession 



LEADING PRODUCTS 



Cattle Horse 



Coal Sorghum 



Corn Tobacco 



Hemp Whisky 



RIVERS 



Cumberland Mississippi 



Green Ohio 



Kentucky Tennessee 



UNCLASSIFIED 



Alleghany Mountains Cumberland Mountains 

 Blue Grass Mammoth Cave 



KENTUCKY, UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational 

 institution, located at Lexington, which has 

 been under the control of the state of Ken- 

 tucky since 1878. It was founded in 1865 as 

 a part of Kentucky University, which is now 

 known as Trans}dvania College, and was reor- 

 ganized in 1878 under the name of the Agri- 

 cultural and Mechanical College. The institu- 

 tion at the present time owns buildings and 

 equipment valued at $1,100,000, including a cam- 

 pus of fifty-two acres, an agricultural experi- 

 ment station and farm and a library of about 

 30,000 volumes. The university is organized 

 into the colleges of arts and sciences, agricul- 

 ture, civil engineering, mechanical and electrical 

 engineering, mines and metallurgy, law and a 

 graduate school. The income is derived both 



from state and national appropriations. There 

 are about one hundred instructors and profes- 

 sors, and the student attendance is over 1,450. 



E.L.G. 



KENTUCKY AND VIRGINIA RESOLU- 

 TIONS, a series of bills passed by the legisla- 

 tures of Kentucky and Virginia in 1798 and 

 1799, directed against the Alien and Sedition 

 Laws (which see). Those adopted by Ken- 

 tucky were written by Thomas Jefferson, pro- 

 testing against the Federal government as- 

 suming powers which belonged rightfully to 

 the states. The legislature passed a resolution 

 in 1799 giving the state the right to render 

 void any Federal law which it considered un- 

 constitutional. The Virginia Resolutions were 

 probably written by James Madison; they 

 contained the same principles as those put 

 forward by Kentucky. Copies of the resolu- 

 tions were sent to the other state legislatures, 

 only seven of which replied, and these con- 

 demned them. See STATES' RIGHTS; JEFFER- 

 SON, THOMAS. 



KENTUCKY RIVER, a river which rises in 

 several headstreams in the Cumberland Moun- 

 tains, and flows northwest for 260 miles through 

 the most beautiful section of Kentucky, empty- 

 ing into the Ohio River at Carrollton. Part 

 of its course is between limestone cliffs. The 

 Kentucky is navigable for sixty miles, to 

 Frankfort, owing to a system of locks and 

 dams, and for flatboats, 100 miles farther. 

 Frankfort, the capital of the state, is situated 

 on the river. 



KENTVILLE, the county town of King's 

 County, Nova Scotia, the commercial center 

 of the Cornwallis and Annapolis valleys. It is 

 on the Cornwallis River and the Dominion At- 

 lantic Railway, seventy-one miles by rail 

 northwest of Halifax. About ten miles east of 

 Kentville is the village of Grand Pre, made 

 famous by Longfellow's Evangeline, and about 

 fifty-five miles southwest is Annapolis, also of 

 historical interest. Kentville has a Dominion 

 experimental farm, a provincial sanitarium and 

 a militia camp, and is the seat of a county 

 academy. Among its manufactures are car- 

 riages, gasoline engines and milling machinery. 

 Population in 1911, 2,304; in 1916, about 2,500. 



KE'OKUK, IOWA, the county seat of Lee 

 County, is a city in the extreme southeastern 

 part of the state, at the junction of the Des 

 Moines and the Mississippi rivers. Burlington 

 is forty-three miles north, Saint Louis 145 miles 

 south, and Des Moines 161 miles northwest. 

 The city is served by the Chicago, Burlington 



