Danville is a home rule-class city in Boyle County,Kentucky,United States. It is the seat of its county. The population was 17,236 at the 2020 Census. Danville is the principal city of the Danville Micropolitan Statistical Area,which includes all of the Boyle and Lincoln counties. In 2001,Danville received a Great American Main Street Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In 2011,Money magazine placed Danville as the fourth-best place to retire in the United States. Centre College in Danville was selected to host U.S. vice-presidential debates in 2000 and 2012.
Nathan Lynn Bachman was a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1933 until his death. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Thomas Arthur Spragens was an American administrator who was the 17th president of Centre College in Danville,Kentucky. A graduate of the University of Kentucky,Spragens worked for the state and federal government early in his career,before joining the staff at Stanford University as a presidential advisor. He was the president of Stephens College in Columbia,Missouri,for a five-year term,and left Stephens to go to Centre in 1957.
Jesse Bledsoe was a slave owner and Senator from Kentucky.
Constitution Square Historic Site is a 3-acre (0.012 km2) park and open-air museum in Danville,Kentucky. From 1937 to 2012,it was a part of the Kentucky state park system and operated by the Kentucky Department of Parks. When dedicated in 1942,it was known as John G. Weisiger Memorial State Park,honoring the brother of Emma Weisiger,who donated the land for the park. Later,it was known as Constitution Square State Shrine and then Constitution Square State Historic Site. On March 6,2012,the Department of Parks ceded control of the site to the county government of Boyle County,Kentucky,and its name was then changed to Constitution Square Historic Site.
Robert Jefferson Breckinridge was a politician and Presbyterian minister. He was a member of the Breckinridge family of Kentucky,the son of Senator John Breckinridge.
Andrew Wylie was an American academic and theologian,who was president of Jefferson College (1811–1816) and Washington College (1816–1828) before becoming the first president of Indiana University (1829–1851).
Peyton Short was a land speculator and politician in Kentucky. He was a member of the first Kentucky Senate. He was the brother of William Short;he married the daughter of John Cleves Symmes,and was a brother-in-law of future President William Henry Harrison.
The following is a timeline of the history of Lexington,Kentucky,United States.
Lewis Warner Green was an American Presbyterian minister,educator,and academic administrator who was the president of Hampden–Sydney College,Transylvania University,and Centre College for various periods from 1849 to 1863. Born in Danville,Kentucky,baptized in Versailles,and educated in Woodford County,Green enrolled at Transylvania University but transferred to Centre College to complete his education. He graduated in 1824 and in doing so became one of two members of the school's first graduating class. After short periods studying medicine and law,he enrolled at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1831 but returned to Kentucky in 1832 before graduating. The occasion of his return was his election as professor of political economy and belles-lettres;he taught for two years,and became licensed as a preacher during that span,before taking a two-year leave of absence to travel to Europe. Some time after returning,he was elected by the Synod of Kentucky to be professor of oriental and biblical literature at Hanover College,though he stayed there for only one academic year before returning to Centre in 1839 to resume his prior teaching positions and take the office of vice president.
Edward William Cornelius Humphrey,also known as "Alphabet Humphrey" and "Judge Humphrey",was a theological and legal scholar and influential member of the National Presbyterian General Assembly. A Harvard graduate with an honorary degree from Amherst,he was also an 1864 graduate of Centre College,of which he became a trustee in 1885. He was a trustee of the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and for forty-four successive terms was elected Director of the Louisville Law Library Company. He was a key figure in a long discussion and eventual acceptance of a Presbyterian creed revision held in May 1902 in New York City by the national Presbyterian General Assembly.
Edward Porter Humphrey (1809–1886) was an American Presbyterian minister,orator,writer,and moderator of the national Presbyterian General Assembly. He was a planner and co-founder of Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville,Kentucky.
John Clarke Young was an American educator and pastor who was the fourth president of Centre College in Danville,Kentucky. A graduate of Dickinson College and Princeton Theological Seminary,he entered the ministry in Lexington,Kentucky,in 1828. He accepted the presidency of Centre College in 1830,holding the position until his death in 1857,making him the longest-serving president in the college's history. He is regarded as one of the college's best presidents,as he increased the endowment of the college more than five-fold during his term and increased the graduating class size from two students in his first year to forty-seven in his final year.
Ormond Beatty was an American educator and academic administrator. He was the seventh president of Centre College in Danville,Kentucky. An 1835 graduate of Centre,Beatty became a professor the following year and taught chemistry,natural philosophy,mathematics,metaphysics,biblical history,and church history over the course of his career. He was selected to fill the position of president pro tempore following the resignation of William L. Breckinridge in 1868 and was unanimously elected president by the board of trustees in 1870. He was Centre's first president who was not a Christian minister,and he led the school until his resignation in 1888,at which point he taught for two additional years before his death in 1890. Beatty also involved himself in religious affairs,serving as a ruling elder in the First and Second Presbyterian Churches in Danville,as a commissioner to three Presbyterian Church General Assemblies,and as a trustee of the Danville Theological Seminary.
William Clarke Young was an American minister,educator,and academic administrator who was the eighth president of Centre College in Danville,Kentucky,from 1888 until his death in 1896. The son of Centre's fourth president,John C. Young,William attended Centre and the Danville Theological Seminary,graduating in 1859 and 1865,respectively. He had a 23-year career in the ministry,serving congregations in Kentucky,Indiana,and Illinois,before returning to Centre to accept the presidency following the resignation of Ormond Beatty. During Young's eight-year presidency,the college established a law school,constructed numerous buildings,and retroactively conferred degrees upon some of its first female graduates. Young was also the moderator of the Presbyterian Church General Assembly in 1892,as his father had done some thirty-nine years earlier.
David Hervey Maxwell was an American physician and Whig legislator. He is known as the "Father of Indiana University" because of his successful efforts in lobbying to have the State Seminary located in Bloomington. Throughout his life he served on the Indiana University Board of Trustees and various political offices.
William Lewis Breckinridge was an American pastor and educator. The son of Senator John Breckinridge,he was born near Lexington,Kentucky,and attended college at Transylvania University. Early in his career,he became an emancipationist,and he entered academia in 1831 when he began teaching ancient languages at Centre College in Danville,Kentucky. He was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Louisville,Kentucky,from 1836 to 1858,and was moderator of the 1859 Presbyterian Church General Assembly. He was president of Oakland College near Rodney,Mississippi,for one year prior to the outbreak of the Civil War,and afterwards he spent five years as president of Centre College.
Walter Alexander Groves was an American missionary,minister,educator,and academic administrator who was the 16th president of Centre College in Danville,Kentucky. He was born in Philadelphia and graduated from Central High School before enrolling at Lafayette College in Easton,Pennsylvania. He spent three years there before leaving to enlist in the army during World War I. After the war's conclusion,he returned to Lafayette and graduated in July 1919. He spent the following three years studying at Princeton Theological Seminary but came one class shy of meeting the requirements for his degree. He returned to Lafayette to teach in 1922 and was ordained as a minister the following year;in 1925,he left the United States for missionary work in Tehran and spent the majority of the next fifteen years there.
Richmond Ames Montgomery was an American pastor and academic administrator. Ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1896 following his graduation from McCormick Theological Seminary,he held pastorates in Minnesota,Ohio,Iowa,and Missouri,before being elected president of Parsons College,a private liberal arts college in Fairfield,Iowa,in 1917. He spent five years at Parsons before resigning to accept the presidency of Centre College,similarly a private liberal arts school,in Danville,Kentucky. He came to Centre in the midst of major popularity surrounding the school's football team,who had defeated Harvard in a major upset some months prior;this attention caused concern from some that the school was placing undue priority on football at the expense of academics. Montgomery aimed to change this and introduced measures that would restore Centre's emphasis on athletics,though these changes were unpopular with students,who signed a petition to remove him from office. He resigned in June 1926 and afterward was president of Lane Theological Seminary and held a faculty position at McCormick in his later career.
