Fitzgerald, William

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Title
Fitzgerald, William
Alias
Fitzgerald, William Albert
Gender
Male
Biography
William Fitzgerald was Mayor of Florence during the 1950s. He also helped create Big Bone Lick State Park and was President of the Kentucky Historical Society. He took most of the photographs of Florence from the 1950s and 1960s in the Boone County Library's digital collection.
He attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He is listed in the 1919 yearbook as a sophomore in the School of Engineering, and a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
Birth date
30 Oct 1899
Place of birth
Nashville (Tenn.)
Father
Fitzgerald, William Horace
Mother
McClanahan, Eleanor Caldwell
Life event(s)
Marriage: 1940; location unknown
Spouse(s)
Walker, Anna LeGrand
Death date
6 Mar 1969
Place of death
Florence (Ky.)
Death and burial information
Riverside Cemetery (Hopkinsville, Ky.)
Occupation(s)
Printer
Teacher
Mayor (Florence, Ky.)
Bibliographic citation(s)
FindAGrave.com, memorial #88564109
'The Commodore', Vanderbilt University, 1919, pages 70, 161