2000 Population:
91,545 County Seat: Owensboror
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From History
of Kentucky by Kerr, 1922
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Daviess County was named in honor of Joseph
Hamilton Daviess, who was born in Bedford County, Virginia, March 4,
1774. He came to Kentucky in 1792 on a military expedition. He studied
law in the office of George Nicholas. When admitted to practice he settled
in Danville, bt later removed to Frankfort. He was given a command of troops
with the rank of major in the campaign of Gen. William Henry Harrison against
the Indians on the Wabash, and was killed in the battle of Tippecanoe,
November 7, 1811.
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History from
Collins' History of Kentucky, 1877
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Daviess county, formed in 1815, out
of part of Ohio county, was the 58th erected in the state. It was
named in honor of the brilliant and brave Joseph Hamilton Daveiss,
although by some oversight not spelled as he spelled his name; just as
the orthography of several other counties was changed, apparently without
design - Green county being named after Gen. Greene, Muhlenburg after Rev.
and Gen. Muhlenberg, Calloway after Col. Callawy, and Menifee after Hon.
Richard H. Menefee. It is bounded N by the Ohio river, E by Hancock and
Ohio, S by Ohio and McLean, and W by Henderson county; contains 420 square
miles, and is the 7th county in the state in population. The soil is a
strong clay and rich loam, peculiarly adapted to tobacco, making Daviess,
next to Christian, the most extensive tobacco-growing county in the state.
It is well watered by the Ohio river, which forms its northern boundary,
by the Green river its western boundary (navigable all the year, by locks
and dams), and by their tributaries, Panther, North and South, Blackford,
Puppy, Rhodes Nos. 1 and 2, Yellow, Two-Mile, Knob Lick, Green and Delaware
creeks. It is traversed, from north to south, by the Owensboro and Russellville
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