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Pleasant Retreat was the home of William Owsley and his son-in-law Simeon Anderson and was built about 1815. Owsley, who lived from 1782 to 1862, served in the State House of Representatives and Senate, on the Court of Appeals, and as Kentucky Secretary of State and Governor of Kentucky from 1844 to 1848; Owsley County was named for him. Anderson, who was born in 1802, served in the State House of Representatives and entered the U.S. Congress in 1839; he died in office in 1840.
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