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  William Goebel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William J. Goebel (January 4, 1856 – February 3, 1900) was a controversial American politician who served as Governor of Kentucky for a few days in 1900.
Goebel was born in 1856 in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, the son of German immigrants William and Augusta Goebel.
Goebel was buried in the Frankfort, Kentucky cemetery near the grave of Daniel Boone.
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 Peter William Goebel - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
Goebel is a native of the village of Langhecke, province of Hesse, Nassau, Prussia, Germany, where he was born, March 18, 1859.
Goebel is now president of one bank, vice-president of another, and besides is still a director of the Bank of Louisburg.
Goebel is a fine example of a self-made man, who with worthy ambitions and a strong character, has attained a great measure of success.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1912/g3/goebel_peter_william.html   (763 words)

  
 WGoebel.html
William Goebel was born on January 4, 1856 in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania.
Before the committee had reached their conclusion, Goebel was fatally wounded by an assassin's rifle shot, as he approached the statehouse.
William Goebel is buried in the Frankfort Cemetery, section A-Addition
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 Franz & William Goebel, Franciscan Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, child figures, figurines
Goebel attracted some of Europe’s finest sculptors and contemporary artists and a succession of sons took the company forward into the world markets.
In the 1930's the artwork of Franciscan Sister, Maria Innocentia Hummel, came to the attention of Franz Goebel and from this came the famous partnership of M I Hummel and Goebel.
The name of Goebel is synonymous with that of M I Hummel and her child figures which are amongst the world’s most beloved figurines.
www.piggybankpage.co.uk /goebel_hummel.htm   (260 words)

  
 The O   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
According to Dr. William Goebel, a professor at the SIU School of Dental Medicine at Alton, the need for dental care among the severely mentally disabled in Southern Illinois is an “unending” phenomenon.
Goebel directs the hospital component of the SIU/SDM’s Advanced Education in General Dentistry curriculum in which dentists are being trained to provide dental care in a hospital operating room environment.
Goebel explained that a patient who qualifies under the program is brought to the SDM for an evaluation, but the actual dental care is done at St. Anthony’s with SIU/SDM dentists.
www.siue.edu /O/ARCHIVE_91-100/issue92/SDM92.htm   (479 words)

  
 Kentucky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The election of William S. Taylor as Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky on the Republican Party ticket in 1899 was an unexpected turn of events.
Though mortally wounded, Goebel was sworn in as Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky the next day.
William Goebel became the only governor of a US state to be assassinated when he was shot by a sniper as he walked to the State Capitol in Frankfort.
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 Old Capitol was setting for tale of two governors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Goebel's election as governor was as intriguing and nearly as mysterious as his death.
Goebel pushed for expanded civil rights for women and fls, tighter controls on railroads, fewer toll roads in the state and the abolition of pool halls and lotteries.
Goebel, and a statue of him stands near the entrance to the Old Capitol in Frankfort, which was replaced by the existing state Capitol in 1910.
www.enquirer.com /editions/1999/12/07/loc_old_capitol_was.html   (468 words)

  
 Peter W. Goebel
Goebel had attained his first position in the banking world, as cashier of the bank of Louisburg in Kansas.
Peter William Goebel was born March 18, 1859, near Langebecke in Hesse Nassau, Germany, a son of Peter and Anna Mary (Mueller) Goebel.
Goebel was elected as a democrat to represent Miami County in the State Legislature, having been elected in 1903 and re-elected in 1905.
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 John Hodgkinson - pafg38.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William married (2) May Gelana HOSKINS "Gelana" daughter of John Crittenden HOSKINS and Sarah C. May was born about 1866 in Harlan County, Kentucky.
William Frank HOSKINS (William HOSKINS, Levi HOSKINS, HOSKINS, Thomas HOSKINSON, Thomas HOSKINSON, John, John) was born on 21 Feb 1853 in, Harlan County, Kentucky.
William married America STEWART daughter of James STEWART and Elizabeth COLSON on 10 Mar 1872 in, Bell County, Kentucky.
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 John Hodgkinson - pafg69.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William Goebel HOSKINS (James HOSKINS, James B. Levi HOSKINS, HOSKINS, Thomas HOSKINSON, Thomas HOSKINSON, John, John) was born on 4 Feb 1899 in Bell County, Kentucky.
William married Lectra WILDER "Leeta" daughter of Sylvanus Marcellus WILDER and Mary TAYLOR on 25 Oct 1919 in Cumberland Gap, Claiborne County, Tennessee.
William married Lessie Genevieve HAILEY daughter of William Hartwell HAILEY and Ella Gray HUNT on 20 Sep 1905.
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 M.I. Hummel
At first, Franz and William Goebel made slate pencils and children's marbles, since they lacked the money and means to produce porcelain.
Goebel was determined to appeal to the taste and income of a new working class.
It was determined that earthenware, pioneered by Goebel in the 1920's, was the proper medium for the new line.
www.mihummel.com /wgoebel.asp   (1179 words)

  
 eBay View About Me for goebel
Goebel has blazed ahead with many industry-wide management and marketing traits, such as annual ceramic plate programs.
Throughout the years, Goebel has been recognized as a leader in maintaining the highest quality of craftsmanship and artistic integrity in highly competitive markets.
Goebel of North America, is located in Pennington, NJ and distributes Goebel esteemed collectibles and home décor pieces in the U.S. and Canada.
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 Goebel at Replacements
Goebel’s factory was situated beneath the Coburg Castle in Bavaria.
The international success of Goebel’s figurines caused the Goebel family to introduce the concept that figurines could be associated with emotion and not just be decorative objects.
The Goebel Company remains successful and continues to produce many beautiful lines of figurines and china including “Red Heads” and “Co-Boys.” Goebel Porzellanfabrik is still owned by the Goebel family whose leadership of the company is in its fifth generation.
www.replacements.com /mfghist/goebel.htm?s1=blog&1&   (495 words)

  
 hicks011400
A Covington resident, Goebel was shot from ambush on Jan. 30, 1900, as he walked to the former state Capitol in downtown Frankfort.
Goebel was never prosecuted, but his image was stained as a man who killed a political opponent.
It was amid this chaos that Goebel was shot, with the assassin apparently firing from a first floor window of the state office building, adjacent to the old capitol.
www.kypost.com /news/hicks011400.html   (619 words)

  
 Goebel of North America : Heritage
It is a dream that continues today under the guidance of the Goebel family and the source of consistent innovation in the ceramics industry.
William Goebel was largely responsible for the artistic direction of the company.
Following the death of Franz Goebel in 1969, leadership of the company was assumed by a fifth generation of management, Wilhelm Goebel and Ulrich Stocke.
www.egoebel.com /heritage.asp   (1233 words)

  
 Frankfort, Kentucky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On February 3, 1900 Governor-elect William Goebel was assassinated in Frankfort while walking to the capitol to be inaugurated.
Former-Secretary of State Caleb Powers was later found guilty in a conspiracy to kill Goebel.
There may be comments on what is required on the requests for expansion page or on this article's talk page.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frankfort,_Kentucky   (576 words)

  
 Exit laughing, ch. 16: Wm. Goebel: he kept trying (1941) by Irvin S. Cobb
Even so, there is no doubt but that Goebel aimed at the ultimate betterment of plain people; the trouble was that his good motives and his clear reasonings were cankered by a lust for authority which gnawed at the man day and night, making him a malignant and a menacing force.
The new attorney general was one William Sylvester Taylor, a well-meaning but a poor enough creature; and born, for trouble as the sparks fly upward.
Goebel contested the result before the General Assembly and, having coerced and conquered it, was about to be seated when a hired mercenary shot him down from a window of the Executive Building on the old Statehouse Square at Frankfort.
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Crumpacker's attack on the State of Kentucky aroused John Sharp Williams, (Dem., Miss.,) who made a speech which aroused the Democratic side to a pitch of the wildest enthusiasm and excitement.
Williams, "but the gentleman from Indiana can teach him how to do it, and to do it by innuendoes and hints gathered from newspaper reports." Indiana and Kentucky were separated by a river, he said, and Mr.
When Goebel was picked up there was a bullet through his own body.
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 Trafford Publishing: Goebel: The Life and Times of a Faith Healer
Goebel was a preacher and faith healer living in eastern Kentucky during the 1930s through the 1950s.
Goebel (pronounced like 'noble') is the life story of William Goebel Rothwell, named after a governor of Kentucky who was assassinated on the day Goebel was born in 1900.
As Goebel began to die, the fl and white picture began turning to silver and gold colors, and continued to change in color from top to bottom until Goebel passed away, at which time the changing of colors stopped.
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 NEW FIRE CHIEF SHAKES UP DEPARTMENT FIREFIGHTERS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Goebel was governor-elect of Kentucky in January of 1900, or at least that’s what he and his Democratic supporters claimed.
So as Goebel walked across the Capitol grounds in Frankfort on a winter afternoon, he had every reason to be confident that he would soon be taking the oath of office.
Whatever one thought of Goebel, his assassination was a terrifying event, raising the specter of anarchy and mob violence in an American state government.
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 Goebel
The Goebel Company opened its doors over a century ago in 1871 at the foot of the Coburg Castle in Oeslau.
Then known simply as F&W Goebel, after its co-founders Franz Detleff and William Goebel, the first items produced were slates, slate pencils and marbles.
After the deaths of Franz and William, the company was to be led by the creative minds of Max Louis and later Franz Goebel.
www.goebel.com /aboutGoebel.asp   (257 words)

  
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William concentrated on the export market, and the demand for Goebel products throughout the world proved him astute in doing so.
It was also in 1929 that Franz Goebel, with his mother Frida and his brother-In-law, Dr. Eugen Stocke, began their successful direction of the firm.
The growth of W. Goebel Porzellanfabrik was hardly disturbed in the wartime and postwar years.
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 William Goebel
Goebel was given bodyguards but on 30th January, 1900, while Goebel was entering the State House, a gun was fired from the window of the Secretary of State's office.
Goebel was taken to hospital and while receiving treatment it was announced that as a result of the investigation he was now the governor of Kentucky.
William Sylvester Taylor fled to Indiana and refused to return to face charges of conspiring to murder Goebel.
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 goebel
In brief, the election of William S. Taylor as Governor of Kentucky on the Republican ticket in 1899, an unexpected turn of events, did not prevent the supporters of William Goebel, his Democratic opponent, from contesting his election.
It afterward developed that had Goebel not turned as he neared the fountain he probably would have been shot through the heart and been killed instantly instead of living four days and being sworn in as governor in place of Taylor.
The decision of the packed legislative committee that Goebel and not Taylor was the duly elected Governor of Kentucky resulted in the Legislature issuing the commission to Goebel.
kentuckyexplorer.com /nonmembers/3-goebel.html   (1419 words)

  
 FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
That thereafter, on the 3d of February, 1900, William Goebel died, and by law said Beckham was required to discharge the duties of the office of governor, and accordingly on that day he took the oath prescribed by law, and immediately entered on the discharge of the duties of said office.
Said William Goebel died on the 3d day of February, at 6.45 P. M., and shortly thereafter upon said day J. Beckham as lieutenant governor was sworn, as required by law, to discharge the duties of the office of governor of the commonwealth.'
(2) That William Goebel having died on February 3, the contest for the office of governor thereby abated, and the action of the legislature on February 19 and 20 was therefore void.
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 Hummel Figurines
The letters WG below the crown in the mark are the initials of William Goebel, one of the founders of the company.
Actually developed and occasionally used as early as 1970, this major change is known by some collectors as the last Last Bee mark because the next change in the trademark no longer incorporated any form of the V and the bee.
Goebel's 125th anniversary was in 1996, and all figures produced in that year bear the special Anniversary backstamp.
www.onlinecollectibles.com /hummelmarks.htm   (1185 words)

  
 Stories of Goble History by Evelyn Goble Steen
William Goebel was one of the most controversial men to have ever run for office in the State of Kentucky.
Goebel was not a strong orator and he was aloof and cold in public, uneasy when mixing with crowds.
Goebel attacked, and on election day the count was too close to call.
homepages.rootsweb.com /~goble/homepage/stories/governor.htm   (995 words)

  
 01-01014
Goebel, like Sharpe, had attained distinction as a lawyer, and like Sharpe, had won recognition as a party organizer.
Here, Goebel died a few days ago, and here, within five weeks three men were killed and four wounded in the desperate pistol duel between ex-Congressman David Colson and Lieut.
The grave of Sharpe, the Attorney General; Elliot, the Chief Justice; and Goebel, the State Senator and contestant for governor, all Democratic leaders and all victims of assassination, are close together in the historic State Cemetery overlooking Frankfort and the Kentucky River, which winds along 200 feet below.
kentuckyexplorer.com /nonmembers/01-01014.html   (1727 words)

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