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William Kemper
William Goodwin
Legal Name: William Ingram Goodwin Date of Death: December 11, 1940 Member of Kentucky’s first basketball team. Also played football in 1903 and 1904. Member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Born at Somerset Ky., June 14, 1884, he was a son of Mrs. W.J. Goodwin, now of Lexington, and the late W.J. Goodwin, wholesale groceryman and…
Henry Wurtele
Legal Name: Henry Joseph Wurtele Date of Death: September 15, 1973 Member of Kentucky’s first basketball team. Member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Henry Joseph Wurtele was a Louisville, Kentucky native and graduated from the University of Kentucky with a degree in Civil Engineering in 1904. Married Ida Reid Huey on January 5, 1910. At…
J White Guyn
Legal Name: Joel White Guyn Date of Death: April 15, 1953 Member of Kentucky’s first basketball team. Member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Former Sergeant, University of Kentucky Military Dept. Was captain of the university’s football team in 1904. He was coach from 1906 through 1908. J. White Guyn was one of 4 children born to Joel…
Charles Wright
Charles Wright was born Charles Roy Wright on April 11, 1883, in Danville, Kentucky, to James A. Wright and Mary Marple Wright. He grew up in Stanford, Kentucky, and graduated from the Stanford Male Academy in 1901. Wright enrolled at Kentucky for the fall semester in 1901. He played in one game for Kentucky in…
Richard Arnett
Legal Name: Richard Hood Arnett Date of Death: January 9, 1955 Member of Kentucky’s first basketball team as a junior. College nickname was “Dick.” Member of the Patterson Literary Society. Graduated in June of 1904 with a Bachelor of Pedagogy (teaching). Married Bertha Duerfeldt in Riverside, California in May 1924. They owned and published a weekly…
Claire St John
Claire St. John was born Claire Porter St. John on December 24, 1882, in Brooklyn, New York to Joseph Lancaster and Jessie (Porter) St. John. He attended Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania then transferred to Kentucky where he received a degree in mechanical engineering on June 9, 1904. He played for Kentucky’s football, baseball, and basketball…
Don Branson
George Montgomery
George Montgomery was born George Carter Montgomery in Adair County, Kentucky on October 11, 1881, to Nannie McFerren Epperson and Joel Quitman Montgomery. His father was a prominent minister of the Christian Church in Adair and Casey County. His family moved to Liberty, Kentucky in 1894. He left home to attend Kentucky University, which is…