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From: "Philip A. Naff" <>
Subject: [KYHARRIS-L] Harrison County (Ky.) Man Goes West.
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:51:49 -0500


Hi,

In today's on-line issue of the Kentucky Post is an article by Jim Reis
about two men who went west to seek their fame & fortune. One was a man
from Harrison County, Kentucky, and his name was William Tell Coleman,
son of Napoleon Coleman. Of course, some of you may know that one of
the most famous Harrisonites to go west who got his fame and fortune was
"Death Valley Scotty."

The address of the site is:

http://www.kypost.com/opinion/pieces083099.html

Every Monday a new article by Jim Reis is published on-line (as well as
in the hard copy), almost all having something to do with Northern
Kentucky history or genealogy, much more with the former than the
latter. I check it every week to see what I can find, and most are
pretty interesting, more so if you are interested in the northernmost
counties of Kentucky, viz: Boone, Kenton, & Campbell.

You can obtain a list of past articles by Jim Reis using the Kenton
County Newspaper Index which is online and has a telnet address
(plch.lib.oh.us). Or if you want, just change the date which appears
after "pieces" by a week to go back to previous articles. "083099" is
for Aug. 30, 1999 (today), for the numerically-challenged. Last week's
was 082399, and so on. The on-line issues go back a couple of years.
Before that you have to go to the actual paper, "The Kentucky Post"
which is available on microfilm at the Kenton County Public Library in
Covington. The Kentucky Post has also published the articles in book
form over the years, which are also available at the Kenton County
Public Library, but that series of books doesn't include the photographs
which accompanied the original articles in newsprint. I do not now if
any of those books are still available for purchase.

Hope this is of help to someone!

Philip Naff.

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