Daniel Carter Beard Autographed Photograph

This photograph of Daniel Carter Beard, subject of my latest column on KyForward.com.

The photograph is autographed "Your Uncle Dan Beard."

Beard was one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America, and was known as "Uncle Dan" by generations of Scouts and Scouters. In the column, I discuss the concept of muscular Christianity, as practiced in late 19th Century America, which saw not only the rise of Scouting organizations, such as Beard's Sons of Daniel Boone, but of Eastern prep schools such as Groton, which emphasized athletics to a degree earlier schools had not done.

Kentucky's Statehood at 150

In 1942, the Post Office issued a stamp honoring the "sesquicentennial," the one hundred fiftieth anniversary, of the formation of Kentucky in 1792. The stamp shows an engraving showing Daniel Boone on a hill eerily reminiscent of that of his grave site in Frankfort Cemetery, looking over toward the site of today's Kentucky State Capitol.

Daniel Carter Beard House

This is the Daniel Carter Beard House, in Covington, Kentucky.

Who was Daniel Carter Beard, and what modern organization did he influence?