NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. #11099 MERCER CO – J. Y.LEAVELL – Leavell, Miller, Hawkins, Yancy, Boone, Morgan #11099: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume 5. Battle- Perrin – Kniffin. 3rd ed., 1886 Mercer Co. J. Y. LEAVELL was born March 21, 1817, in Garrard County. He received a liberal education, and became one of the leading farmers of Garrard. He accumulated considerable property, and assisted in organizing the First National Bank of Lancaster, and was its president from 1870 to 1872, afterward a director. In 1883 he removed to Mercer County, and in March, 1885, he was the first man to receive an appointment as storekeeper. He was a son of Benjamin and Isabella (Miller) Leavell, to whom five sons and five daughters were born and reared. Benjamin Leavell was born in Virginia in 1772; he settled in Garrard County in 1795, was a farmer and a slave owner; he was a son of Edward and Elizabeth (Hawkins) Leavell, who reared a family of five sons and four daughters. Edward Leavell was a soldier in the war for independence, and was an early pioneer of Garrard County. Isabella (Miller) Leavell was born in Fort Paint Lick, November, 1781; she was the first of four children born to William and Nancy (Yancy) Miller. William Miller was born in Virginia, in 1747. The Legislature of Virginia provided and requested Daniel Boone to mark a road or trail, from Virginia to Boonesborough, Ky. William Miller, with several others, was employed to mark a route for guiding emigrants over the mountains to the rich and fertile lands of Kentucky. This company of men worked unmolested until they reached the head waters of Silver Creek, when they were attacked by the Indians, and two of their party killed. When they reached the head waters of Taylor’s Fork of Silver Creek, they were again attacked, and one more of their number killed. After completing the enterprise, William Miller returned to Virginia, and was married, January, 1781, and soon after started for his new home, which he had selected before returning to Virginia. He occupied Fort Paint Lick where all his children, four in number, were born. He was with Gen. Morgan on his northern campaign in 1794-5. He is supposed to be of Scotch-Irish parents.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11098 MARION CO – JOHN W MOUSER – Mouser, Riley, Hardgrove, Sparrow, Brown #11098: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume 5. Battle- Perrin – Kniffin. 3rd ed., 1886. Marion Co. JOHN W. MOUSER was born January 12, 1840; his father, John Mouser, in 1811, and now resides on the old homestead near Riley’s in Marion County. His life has been spent in the pursuits of the farm, but he retired from active work in 1870. His wife, to whom he was married in 1833, was a Miss Nancy Hardgrove of Boyle County; nine children blessed this union; six of the number are living, namely: Frederick, of Dallas County, Tex., John W., Mary E. (Sparrow) of Marion County; Edward G. of Lynn County, Mo.; Gabriel T. of Madison County, Tex., and Redford M. of Marion County. Nancy (Hardgrove) Mouser was born in the State of Kentucky, in 1812; she was reared in Boyle County, Ky., and is yet living, aged seventy-four years. Her parents were of English descent and by birth Virginians. Frederick Mouser, the father of John, was born in North Carolina, and came to Kentucky when a boy and located in Nelson (now Marion) County, he was a farmer and came from German descent, and died prior to 1850; his grandfather, a native of Germany, came to America and settled in the Virginia colony as early as 1750. John W. Mouser was born on a farm in Marion County, and at the age of nineteen visited the State of Texas, where he remained until the beginning of the civil war, when he returned to Kentucky, and soon after joined the Federal Army, enlisting in Company D, of the Tenth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, in November, 1861; during the three years and two months that he served participated in the engagements at Mill Springs, was wounded at Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Tunnel Hill, Resaca, Atlanta, Kenesaw, and Jonesboro, and may minor engagements. He was discharged from the service at Louisville, Ky., in November, 1864, and on the 10th of October, 1865, was united in marriage to Miss Sallie A. Brown. To this marriage have been born three sons: Otis U., Zerias A. and Edward B. Sallie (Brown) was born October 16, 1837. Her father, Alexander Brown, was descended from English ancestors; he was born in Nelson (now Marion) County, Ky.; his wife was a Miss Margaret Mouser, whose parents were of German extraction. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Mouser are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which they united in 1876. Mr. Mouser’s political views are Republican. He held the office of the United States Internal Revenue storekeeper from May, 1860, t September, 1885; since that time he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits on the farm that he owns, lying near Riley’s Station.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11097 MADISON CO – ASAHEL WILKES SMITH – Smith, Lang, Britton, Elliiott, O’Donnell, Miller, Poe #11097: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume 5. Battle- Perrin – Kniffin. 3rd ed., 1886. Madison Co. ASAHEL WILKES SMITH, M. D., D. D. S., was born September 12, 1844, in Champaign County, Ohio, and is the second son of James and Mary (Lang) Smith. Jams Smith was born in 1817, in New York City, and when a child removed with his parents to Kentucky, where later he became a merchant. After his marriage he moved to New Albany, Ind., where he was engaged in the mercantile business until his death in 1882. The epitaph upon his tombstone that marks his grave tells the history of his life: “A kind father, a Christian gentleman.” He was the son of John Smith, a native of Yorkshire, England, who came to the United States as early at 1790; settled in New York City and served in the war of 1812. He married Martha Britton, of New Jersey, and about 1818 moved to Kentucky where he was engaged as a merchant. He died at the advance aged of ninety years. Mary (Lang) Smith was born in 1819 in Martinsburg, Va., and was the daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Elliott) Lang, to whom one son and four daughters were born. Mr. Lang was an officer in the war of 1812, and was a substantial planter. Sarah 9Elliott) Lang was the daughter of Robert Elliott, who distinguished himself in the war of independence. Mrs. Mary Smith lost her parents in Virginia and immigrated to Kentucky with an uncle who was appointed her guardian. She is still living. The Smiths were Baptist in religion, and Whigs in politics; the Langs Presbyterians and Democrats. Dr. Asahel Wilkes Smith was thrown upon his own resources early in life, owning to the financial reverses occurring to his father at that time. He received an early education at a district school in his native county, but it was to his father, who was a scholarly gentleman and applied himself with earnestness and devotion to instructing his son in the higher branches, especially as to a knowledge of the English language and of history, that he is indebted for the substantial foundation for all his success in life. At the age of nineteen he began the study of medicine and dentistry in Ohio, and after becoming of age studied the languages and sciences. He began the practice of dentistry in 1870 and in 1872 graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery; in 1884 graduated from the Hospital College of Medicine in Louisville. He located in Richmond, Ky., in May, 1871, where he has since been successfully engaged in practice. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is a Past Commander of Richmond Commandery, No. 19, K. T. Dr. Smith fills the chair as professor of physiology in Central University, and is dean of the Louisville College of Dentistry. He is a member of the Kentucky State Medical Society, the American Dental Association and the Kentucky State Dental Association, of which he has served as president. He is editor of the dental department of Progress, a medical journal, published at Louisville, Ky. November 8, 1881, Dr. Smith was united in marriage to Bertha Cecil O’Donnell Miller, of Louisville, a native of Virginia. She is the daughter of James and Mary (Poe) Miller, also natives of Virginia. Mr. Miller is a scientist, of English descent, and an Episcopalian in religion. The Doctor and wife have one bright boy to bless their home, Elliott Poe. They are members of the Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches respectively.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11096 BOYLE CO – DR.LOUIS S. McMURTRY – McMurtry, Jackson, Ball #11096: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume 5. Battle- Perrin – Kniffin. 3rd ed., 1886 Boyle Co. DR. LOUIS S. McMURTRY, of Danville, who is widely known in the State as a skillful and accomplished physician, was born in Harrodsburg, Ky., September 14, 1850. His youth was spent in Garrard County until he was sixteen years of age, when he entered Centre College at Danville, from which institution he graduated in 1870. He at once entered the office of the late Dr. John D. Jackson, of Danville, as his pupil. He received the degree of M. D. from the University of Louisiana in New Orleans in March, 1873. He then spent a year in that city as assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the university, and was attached to the staff of the great Charity Hospital. In July, 1874, he began the practice of his profession in Danville, and quickly worked his way into the confidence of the community. He spent the winter of 1877-78 in New York City pursuing advanced studies in the medical schools and hospitals of that city. In 1882 he accepted the chair of anatomy, tendered him by the Kentucky School of Medicine in Louisville. The following year he discharged the duties of demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer on clinical surgery in the University of Louisville. He was at the same time associate editor of the Louisville Medical News. He discharged the duties of these exacting public positions most acceptably, but preferring the active duties of general practice, he resigned these positions and resumed his practice in Danville. In 1879 he married Miss Mary E. Ball, of Covington, Ky., who died a year later, leaving a daughter. Dr. McMurtry has made numerous and valuable contributions to medical literature upon practical subjects, mostly relating to surgery and gynecology. He has successfully performed some of the most difficult and heroic operations in surgery, among which may be mentioned the successful ligation of the subclavian artery for aneurism, ovariotomy, etc. He is a member of the Kentucky State Medical Society and of the American Medical Association; an honorary member of the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Association. Three years ago he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Medicine at its annual meeting in Baltimore. He is thoroughly devoted to his profession, and is an earnest student of medical science. He is a man of broad general culture, and a graceful and forcible writer. SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html Sandi's website: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/index.html

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11095 ADAIR CO – SIMON P. TAYLOR – Taylor, Jones, Hurt, McClain, Vigus, Strange, Morris, Harris, Selby, King Conner #11095: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume 5. Battle- Perrin – Kniffin. 3rd ed., 1886. Adair Co. SIMON P. TAYLOR, a native of the county of Adair, and one of its leading farmers, was born March 20, 1822. He is the son of Rev. George W. and Frances T. (Jones) Taylor. In youth Simon P. Taylor availed himself of every opportunity to gain and education, but owning to the pioneer school system of Kentucky, was only able to obtain a moderate English education, but in his eighteenth year he attended a neighboring school, and perfected his education in the English branches. Since arriving at years of maturity he has been a considerable reader, and is well versed in the current topics of the times. In boyhood days Mr. Taylor commenced farming which has since been his life-long occupation. He remained at home, working with and for his father, until twenty years of age. He then taught a six months’ session at Canton, Ky., where he married, in 1844, Miss Sarah M. McClain, a daughter of Joseph and Susan (Hurt) McClain, both natives of Adair County, and members of prominent families. Joseph McClain died about fifty years ago in the prime of life, leaving a family of three children. His widow married James Vigus and died in Missouri in 1885. By her last marriage Susan Vigus became the mother of seven children, all of whom live in the West, and one of whom, William E. Vigus, is a man of prominence in Chicago, the author of a very fine political map of the United States, and for years superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph system. After his marriage, Mr. Taylor returned to his native county, and purchased a farm of forty-five acres adjoining a sixty-acre tract belonging to his wife, which was partially improved. This tract he cultivated, built on, improved and added to by various purchases, until he owned the entire tract of 150 acres. Besides this tract he at present owns four other tracts of land, in all 427 acres, and in the course of his life has built three different residences; all of them, except the first, were frame. He also was a trader in tobacco and stock, and sold a line of general merchandise two years in Columbia, where, in 1863, he was robbed of $6,000 in goods by guerrillas. He was also a merchant at Montpelier and Glenn’s Fork two years and carried stocks, during his mercantile career, of from $5,000 to $10,000. Mrs. Taylor, a consistent Christian, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, departed this life in 1856 in the twenty-eighth year of her age, leaving six children, viz.” Joseph E., Eliza F, wife of John Strange; Laura S., wife of M. Morris; George C.; Mary E., wife of J. F. Strange and James Thomas, of whom Eliza and Laura are dead. Mr. Taylor, in 1857, was married to Miss Mary J. Harris, the second of the twelve children of Josiah Harris. Josiah Harris was one of the prominent merchants in Columbia, and was twice married; first to Miss Mary J Selby, daughter of Hon. Benj. Selby, auditor of the State of Kentucky; by this marriage he had two children: George L. and Mary J. His second marriage was to Miss Sally King, a daughter of Milton King and a sister of Hon. J. Q. A. King, well known in Kentucky politics of twenty years ago. By this last marriage Josiah Harris became the father of the following named children: Hon. Josiah Harris of Paducah; Milton, John V., Alfred L., Edward, Elwood, Richard H., Paul J., Maud Ellen, wife of Joseph Harris, and Overton. Only three are dead – George, John and Edward. By his second marriage Mr. Taylor has seven living children: Henry W., William L., Sarah E., wife of Clay Conner; Mattie C., Emma L., Annie M. and Samuel R. One child, and the eldest, Matilda Prentiss, died in infancy. Mr. Taylor is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a Democrat in politics and a prohibitionist in sentiment, while Mrs. Taylor, though not a church member, believes in the doctrines of the Christian Church. Mr. Taylor began the battle of life without a dollar, and his estate of $5,000 is the result of his own industry, economy and management. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch Sandi's website: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/index.html

My postings will still be hit and miss for a time. My daughter is home from the hospital but will be undergoing dialysis for many years. Thank you so much for your sweet notes and prayers. NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11094 CHRISTIAN CO – WILLIAM W EDDINGS – Eddings, Moodie, Downer McRae, Allen, Slaughter, Dicken, Behymer, #11094: County of Christian, Kentucky, Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Illustrated. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., Chicago and Louisville, 1884. WILLIAM W. EDDINGS was born in Todd County, Ky., May 21, 1843, where he grew to manhood and resided until 1870, when he came to Christian County, and finally settled in 1883 on his present place, which is known as the Moodie farm. He is the son of Dulany Eddings, who was born in Orange County, Va., in 1800, where he married, leaving one daughter there, and removed to Todd County, Ky., about 1828, where he died in 1864. The family are of old Virginia extraction, and of Scotch descent. Subject’s mother, Susan S., daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Downer, Sr., of Todd County, was born in 1806, and died in 1872. Her children were: Emily F. (McRae), Mildred A. (Allen), Columbus G, Ellen E., Benjamin D. and subject. His maternal grandfather, Slaughter, was a Colonel in the Revolutionary war. On March 22, 1882, William W. was married to Mrs. Dora, widow of Benjamin Behymer, and a daughter of Joseph H. and Elizabeth Dicken an old Virginia family of Pendleton County, Ky. Subject secured a good English education at the common schools of the community where he was reared, and is well supplied with good books and papers. He is a farmer by profession, having 240 acres of good land which he is successfully cultivating in wheat, corn and tobacco. He is a member of the Bethel Baptist Church, and in politics is a Democrat. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch Sandi's website: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/index.html

After recovering from a computer crash and starting to get back to normal ... I was hit with a hard blow. My oldest daughter was rushed to the Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown KY last week with kidney failure, age 34. She has been under daily dialysis and today will have a kidney biopsy to see if she has an infection or a chonic condition. I have been driving 106 miles round trip a day since Thursday and am totally out of it I fear - wish I was in my 30's again! So, please bear with me; I won't be posting for a time while her husband and I are by her side. I think you will understand. Sandi KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch Sandi's website: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/index.html

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11093 JEFFERSON CO – WILLIAM THOMAS BAKER – Baker, Harbison, Gathright, Griffith, Morgan, Johnson, Clark, Nelson, Baker, Solomon, Williams, Cochrane, Will, Wright, Morris, Wright, Horine #11093 History of Kentucky, The Blue Grass State, Volume IV, Illustrated. S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago – Louisville, 1928. WILLIAM THOMAS BAKER is a prominent factor in Louisville’s industrial circles as president of the firm of Harbison & Gathright, Inc., manufacturers of saddlery, automobile and radio supplies, with which he has been continuously identified since the beginning of his business career, rising from a minor position to one of the executive control. His birth occurred in Carroll county, Kentucky, on the 27th of December, 1882, his parents being A. M. and Mary A. (Griffith) Baker, the former a native of Gallatin county, Kentucky, while the latter was born in Carroll county, this state. They have always resided within the borders of Kentucky, and A. M. Baker is still active and successful in business as a salesman. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Baker are the parents of four sons and a daughter, namely: J. B.; Rev. W. L. Baker, Dr. M. C. Baker, a practicing physician; Julia; and William T. The last named acquired his education in grade and high schools of Campbellsburg, Henry county, this state, and after putting aside his text books made his way to Louisville, where he obtained employment with the firm of Harbison & Gathright in a minor capacity. Promotions came to him from time to time as he demonstrated his ability and trustworthiness, and eventually he became an official of the concern, while in June, 1926, he was elected to the presidency thereof. The following interesting history of the firm of Harbison & Gathright is copied from “Louisville Fifty Years Ago” published in 1923: “Josiah B. Gathright laid the foundation for the business in 1863, while in the Confederate army. He was first lieutenant, Eighth Kentucky Cavalry, VC. S. A., of General John H. Morgan’s command. Later he (then acting captain) was assigned an acting brigade quartermaster on the staff of General Adam R. Johnson, and detailed his mechanics for the manufacture of saddlery. He established in 1865 in Louisville, Kentucky, a business for the manufacture of the celebrated Morgan Saddle-Tree. The next year, 1866, he formed a partnership with his cousin, John T. Gathright, a Civil War veteran of the Federal army, for the manufacture of a general line of saddlery, under the style of Gathright & Company, located next door to the Louisville Hotel. John T. Gathright was captain of Company H, Twenty-second Kentucky Infantry, U. S. V. After the attack on Vicksburg, he resigned his commission on account of ill health, but after returning to Louisville was appointed colonel of the Sixty-fourth Kentucky Infantry. The Civil war records of the two cousins – one in the Confederate and the other in the Federal army – were singularly alike in many respects, and were illustrations of family experiences along the border between the north and the south. Both volunteered as privates, and were promoted for service. In March, 1869, John J. Harbison succeeded John T. Gathright in the business, and the firm name became Harbison & Gathright, under which style it has continued for fifty-four years, or a total of fifty-nine years since its foundation. This record, without change of style, is not matched by any in the same line in the country and probably not by any manufacturing house in Louisville. Owen Gathright (then Jr.) entered the service of Gathright & Company in January, 1869; became a partner in Harbison & Gathright in January, 1876, and is the only surviving partner of the old firm prior to its incorporation in 1900. John J Harbison and Josiah B. Gathright remained at the head of the corporation until the death of the former in 1906 and of the latter in1 919. John J. Harabison was one of the group of peace-loving Christians who gathered at the old Second Presbyterian church on Third street in 1853 and organized the first Young Men’s Christian Association for religious and social work amongst the federal troops. This building continued as the firm’s factory until its removal to the north side of Main street, between Seventh and Eighth, in 1877. The next factory building purchased by the firm – for the manufacture of horse collars – was the oldest Methodist church building now standing in Louisville, located east side of Eighth street, between Main and Market. The present office and main buildings of Harbison & Gathright at the Seventh and Main, occupied by them for more than forty years, are on most historic ground – the site of old Fort Nelson, erected under the direction of General George Rogers Clark in 1782. A history of the Ohio Falls Cities states in part: “Fort Nelson, named in honor of the third governor of Virginia, was the second bank of the river. The gate was placed opposite Clark’s headquarters, on the line where Seventh street approaches the river.” The Colonial Dames of America, in the state of Kentucky, in 1912, erected at the corner of Seventh and Main streets, close by Harbison & Gathright’s buildings, a rough stone column, with the following inscription on a bronze tablet: “On this site stood Fort Nelson, built 1782, under the direction of George Rogers Clark, after the expedition which gave to the country the great northwest.” “In 1914 the house added a department of automobile tires and motor car accessories on an extensive scale. The present officers are: Owen Gathright, chairman of the board of directors; William T. Baker, president; H. K. Solomon, first vice president and treasurer; J. G. Williams, second vice president and sales manager; and W. A. Cochrane, secretary. Horse collar factory and warehouses, Nos. 115-121 South Eights street and 718-722 West Pike street.” William T. Baker is an active factor in civic as well as in business circles of his adopted city. He is a director of the Louisville Young Men’s Christian Association, a director of the Methodist Orphans Home of Louisville and president of the Kavanaugh Camp Grounds. He is also serving on the directorate of the Chicago National Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Baker was a candidate for mayor of Louisville on the democratic ticket in 1925 and was defeated by a very small margin by Arthur A. Will, new mayor of the city. He is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church and his course in every relation of life has been such as to commend him to the confidence and esteem of all with whom he has been associated. On the 15th of April, 1902, in Louisville, Mr. Baker was united in marriage to Miss Mary Elizabeth Wright, daughter of Alfred and Mahala (Morris) Wright of Lebanon, Kentucky. They are the parents of two daughters and a son, recorded below. Dr. E. H. Baker, who was born in Louisville in 1903, is a graduate of Vanderbilt University of Nashville, Tennessee, and further prepared for a professional career as a student in the medical department of the University of Louisville. He is now successfully engaged in the practice of medicine in his native city. His wife was Miss Louise Horine of Louisville. Edith Baker, whose birth occurred in Louisville in 1905, is a high school graduate of the city. Virginia Baker (now Mrs. James A Horine) was born in Louisville in 1906. One granddaughter, Virginia Ruth Horine, was born in Louisville, January 9, 1927. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch Sandi's website: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/index.html

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11092 CHRISTIAN CO - ROBERT H DUDLEY – Dudley, Jackson, Taylor, Morrison, Ross #11092: County of Christian, Kentucky, Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Illustrated. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., Chicago and Louisville, 1884. Pembroke Precinct. ROBERT H. DUDLEY was born in Kentucky in 1829, and removed with his parents to Montgomery County, Tenn., where he remained until he arrived at manhood. He then settled in Christian County, Ky., in 1867, where he is at present located, enjoying the confidence and esteem of all who know him. His father, William Dudley, was a South Carolinian, born in 1794, and died in Montgomery County, Tenn., in 1869. He was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and was also a valiant soldier under Gen. Andrew Jackson. Subject’s grandfather, Ambrose Dudley, of South Carolina, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, settled in Todd County, Ky., in 1805, and died in Carroll County, Tenn., in 1840. To her and husband were born: Joseph M., Needham B., John B., Elizabeth M. (Taylor), Robert H. and William G. Subject was married in 1860, to Miss Mildred E., daughter of John Morrison, of Christian County, Ky., and grand-daughter of Rev. Mr. Ross, a celebrated Baptist minister of this State. To husband and herself were born: Rebecca R., Nannie E. and William A. Our subject received a good English education at a select school taught by James Ross, Author of “Life and Times of Elder Reuben Ross,” and has supplied himself with choice boos and newspapers, by the perusal of which, though modes and unassuming, he has become a man of good information. He is a farmer by profession, owning over 400 acres of good land, which he cultivates in corn, wheat, tobacco and fruit. In religion he is connected with the Primitive Baptist Church, and in politics is a Democrat. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch Sandi's website: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/index.html

I finally have my full system back so will be regular in my posts again... NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11091 SIMPSON CO – BENNETT CAUDILL – Caudill, Woods, Chisolm, Pendleton, Meguiar, Pond, Hester, Hutchison, Corkran, Nimmo #11091: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume IV. Battle- Perrin – Kniffin. 3rd ed., 1886. Simpson Co. Bennett Caudill, was born May 10, 1830, in Robertson County, Tenn., where he grew to manhood, an din 1851 he removed to Simpson County, Ky., where he has since resided. His father, Moses Caudill, a native of South Carolina, was born in 1796; removed with his parents in 1805 to Logan (now Simpson) County, Ky., and is still living. He is the son of Thomas Caudill, of South Carolina, who died in 1847. Moses was twice married; first to Polly, daughter of Bennett Woods, of Simpson County, died in 1848, and their offspring are Sallie (Chisholm), Nancy (Pendleton), Aaron C., Mary Thomas and Eliza (Meguiar), He afterward married Sally Pond, and their children are Margaret (Hester), Elizabeth (Hutchison), John W., Millie and James. On the 1st of January, 1851, Bennett Caudill married Phoebe J., daughter of Henry and Polly (Corkran) Nimmo, of Robertson County, Tenn., born October 18, 1833, and to them have been born Mary F., Moses S. (dead), and William V. Mr. Caudill had an even start in life, but by industry, economy and close attention to business has secured a competency. He is a successful farmer and leaf tobacco dealer, owning 235 acres of productive land, well improved and in a good state of cultivation. He is a member of the Baptist Church and in politics is a Democrat. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch Sandi's website: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/index.html

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11090 MONTGOMERY CO – L B POWER – Power, Beard, Boone, Dennett, Morrison, Ross, McIntire, Lincoln, Murray, McArthur, Rice #11090: Portrait and Biographical Album of Des Moines County, Iowa Chicago: Acme Publishing, 1888. L. B. Power, M. D., of Mediapolis, Iowa, is a native of Mt. Vernon, Knox Co., Ohio, born Jan. 14, 1838, and is a son of Rev. John H. and Mary Neil (Beard) Power, the former a native of Montgomery County, Ky., born March 15, 1798, and the latter of Leesburg, Loudoun Co., Va., born April 28, 1806. The Powers were among the early settlers of Kentucky, the grandfather of our subject being a companion of Daniel Boone. When quite young John H. Power united with the Methodist Church, and by that body was licensed as a minister of the Gospel. While yet a young man he moved to Northern Ohio, and united with the Northern Ohio Conference, with which he remained until 1848, when he was appointed agent of the Methodist Book Concern, and removed to Cincinnati. In the latter place he resided until 1856, when he removed to Iowa, united with the Iowa Conference, and was appointed Presiding Elder of the Burlington district. With the Iowa Conference he remained until his death, which occurred at Burlington, Jan. 26, 1873. His wife survived him nearly three years, dying Jan. 1, 1876. They reared a family of ten children: George N. is Presiding Elder of the Keokuk district of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Sarah E. died July 3, 1849, aged nineteen years; Ann H. is the wife of Wesley Dennett, now Presiding Elder of the San Francisco (Cal.) district of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Mary L. wedded E. L. Morrison, and died in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1881; Martha J. is the wife of Rev. Ross, a Methodist Episcopal minister in California; Lewis B. is our subject; John C. resides in Burlington, and is an ex-Judge of the Circuit Court; Lydia E. is the wife of R. S. McIntire, of Topeka, Kan.; Edward R. and Cornelia A. died in infancy. The early life of our subject was spent in his Northern Ohio home, and in Cincinnati. At Woodward College, in the latter place, his literary education was principally received. Coming with his parents to Burlington in 1856, he soon afterward went to Dodgeville, read medicine in the office of F. G. Pollock, M. D., and in company with his preceptor engaged in practice until September, 1860, when he entered the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, graduating from there in March, 1861. For some years, and especially during his attendance at the Medical College, threats of Civil War were made, and preparations looking toward that end were made by some of the Southern States. Resolutions of secession were passed by representatives of seven of the Southern States, before he received his diploma, and he anxiously awaited the final outcome, determining if war should come to offer his services to the General Government. The war did come, and the ink was scarcely dry upon the paper on which President Lincoln issued his call for volunteers, before Dr. Power offered his services, and was appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army. He was soon afterward appointed Surgeon of United States Volunteers, and was on duty at the battle of Shiloh. From exposure during that engagement he was taken sick, and was off duty until October, 1862, when he was assigned to the United States Marine Hospital, at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained during the winter, and in the spring of 1863 was placed in charge of Hospital No. 2, at Camp Dennison, near Cincinnati, where he remained during the summer of 1863. In the fall of that year he was assigned to duty with the 9th Army Corps, in Kentucky and Tennessee, participating in the various campaigns in those States, and also having charge of the general hospital at Camp Nelson, near Lexington, Ky., remaining there until July, 1864, when he was transferred to the staff of Gen. E. H. Murray, as medical director of the district of Central Kentucky. With Gen. Murray he remained until early in 1865, when he was again transferred, to the staff of Gen. McArthur, as medical director of the district of Western Kentucky, remaining in that connection until January, 1866, when he took charge of the Military Prison Hospital at Louisville, remaining there until mustered out April 24, 1866. For five long years he was in Government service, during which time he became familiar with almost every disease and every form of surgery. The experience thus gained was greater than could have been obtained in many more years of general practice. On receiving his discharge Dr. Power returned to Iowa, and located at Muscatine, engaging in the practice of his profession. Not being satisfied with the place, at the expiration of a year's time he moved to Burlington, Iowa, and here resumed practice, but on account of failing health, the result of exposure while in service, he had to abandon it for some two years. After measurably recovering his health he removed to Mediapolis, and again engaged in practice. In his chosen profession he has been successful, being a physician of experience and skill, one who ever endeavors to keep abreast with the times. Dr. Power was united in marriage, at Burlington, Iowa, with Miss Mary E. Rice, the ceremony taking place March 28, 1866. She is a daughter of David and Levara Rice, the former a native of Washington County, Pa., and the latter of Morgantown, Va. David Rice came with his family to Burlington, Iowa, in 1836, and was therefore truly a pioneer. For many years he was engaged in merchandising, in which he was reasonably successful. He built the first two-story residence ever erected in Burlington. It stood on the site of Drake's hardware store, on Main, between Valley and Market streets. In the early days of Burlington he was one of its leading citizens, and did much to advance its interests. A member of the First Presbyterian Church, of Burlington, he was quite active in the work, assisting in the erection of the first church building. For many years he was one of its Ruling Elders. At different times he was a member of the City Council, and held other local offices. In every work in which he engaged he was conscientious, and whatever he undertook he did with all his might. Father Rice died March 14, 1876, at the age of seventy-four years. His widow is yet living, and resides in Waverly, Iowa, with one of her sons. To Dr. and Mrs. Power five children have been born: David L. died in 1882, at the age of fifteen years; Alma M. resides at home; George R. died at the age of two years, and Cora L. when five; Nellie M. is at home. Since 1875 Dr. Power had been local surgeon of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railroad Company, a position he is well qualified to fill, his long experience in the army fitting him for any service. As a citizen he is well esteemed, and has been called upon to fill various local offices, the duties of which he discharged with conscientious fidelity. At present he is health officer of town and township. Religiously, the Doctor is identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which body his wife is also a member, and in the cause of their Master both take special delight. Socially, the Doctor is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and of Sheppard Post No. 157, G. A. R., of which latter body he is the present Commander. The patriotic ardor of his youth has never been allowed to grow cold, and believing the G. A. R. a means to foster a spirit of patriotism, he takes great interest in the success of the order. KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx KYBIOGRAPHIES: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.bios/mb.ashx

Nothing yet on computer - but retrieved one more for you! Sandi 11089 HOPKINS CO – EPHRAIM R DILLINGHAM – Dillingham, Oates, Earle, Yeargin, Bennett #11089: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume IV. Battle- Perrin – Kniffin. 3rd ed., 1886. Hopkins Co. Ephraim R. Dillingham was born in Muhlenburgh County, Ky., December 11, 1833, and is a son of Vachel L and Elizabeth (Oates) Dillingham, natives of South and North Carolina, of English and Irish descent, respectively. When only a small boy, in the latter part of the last century, Vachel L. Dillingham was brought by his parents to Christian County. Here his father, Jesse M. Dillingham, located military land and subsequently improved a farm, upon a part of which the town of Hopkinsville was afterwards built. He was for several years surveyor of Christian County; after his wife’s death he lived with his children and relatives in Kentucky and Illinois until his death, which occurred at the home of his son Vachel L., near Greenville, Muhlenburgh Co., Ky., n about his eighty-seventh year. Vacel L. Dillingham, after his mother’s death, which occurred when he as only six or eight years old, lived with his uncle, Jackson Earle, who resided at the Pond River Ferry, in Muhlenburgh County. He remained with his uncle until his marriage when he bought a farm near Greenville, where he resided until his death, in August, 1852, in his fifty-eighth year; he was sheriff of Muhlenburgh County eight years. Ephraim R. Dillingham was employed on his father’s farm until the latter’s death, after which he came to Hopkins County, and bought wild land near White Plains, moved into a log-cabin and subsequently improved the farm on which he now resides, and which is one of the best improved farms in the neighborhood. He has added to his original purchase from time to time, now owning 230 acres. After his father’s death his mother made her home with our subject until her death, July 25, 1884, in her eighty-fourth year. She as for over fifty years a devoted member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Dillingham was married, April 30, 1858, to Miss Mary J. Yeargin, native of DeKalb County, Tenn., and a daughter of John and Judy (Bennett) Yekgin, natives of Virginia and North Carolina respectively, and of English descent. To Mr. and Mrs. Dillingham have been born six children, five of whom – three sons and two daughters – are living. Mr. Dillingham and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; the children, all except one, belong to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mr. Dillingham is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, and has held various official positions in his lodge. In politics, he is a Democrat.

I am awaiting the arrival of a new computer; still working off a laptop. But I was able to get to a few of my bios - don't want you to forget me!!! Thanks for your patience! NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11088 MONTGOMERY CO – MILO W PHILLIPS – Phillips, Wells, Combs, Clayton, Hawkins #11088: Portrait and Biographical Album of Des Moines County, Iowa. Chicago: Acme Publishing, 1888. Milo W. Phillips, of Burlington, Iowa, is a native of Jennings County, Ind., born Dec. 11, 1834. His parents, Brannock and Eliza (Wells) Phillips, went to Indiana from Mt. Sterling, Ky., being originally from Dorchester, Md., though of English and German descent. His father was a merchant, and trained his son in the same profession. In 1856 Mr. M. W. Phillips came to Iowa and worked on a salary as salesman for two years, and in 1859 started a general store at Moravia, Iowa. On the 4th of January, 1860, he wedded Miss Elizabeth J. Combs, a daughter of Rev. Michael Combs, of Albia, Iowa. Mrs. Phillips was born near Terre Haute, Ind. She died Oct 4, 1874, leaving three sons--Grant V., Cyrus C. and Paul H. Mr. Phillips enlisted in the late was as a private, in Company G, 46th Iowa Infantry, in May, 1864, and served until March, 1865. While in the service Mr. Phillips continued his business in Moravia, leaving it in the care of his family and employees. On his return from the South he resumed charge of his store, continuing the business until 1866, when he sold out and engaged in his present business at Burlington, which is that of a wholesale dealer in hats, caps, furs, gloves, etc., the only wholesale house in this line in the city. They occupy the handsome brick structure at the southeast corner of Third and Jefferson streets. The three sons of Mr. Phillips, now aged respectively twenty-four, twenty-two and sixteen years, are employed with their father in his business at Burlington. Mr. Phillips is a Master Mason, a member of Burlington Lodge No. 1, A. F. & A. M.; is also a member of Flint Hills Lodge No. 29, K. of P.; of Phoenix Lodge, A. O. U. W.; and of the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Phillips is an active but conservative business man, of broad views, self-reliant and earnest in whatever he undertakes, enterprising and reliable in all matters of business, and is justly classed among the leading citizens of Burlington. In politics he is a Republican. The business carried on by M. W. Phillips & Co. is deserving of more extended notice. They are the only wholesale dealers in hats, caps, furs, gloves, etc., in Burlington. The large brick structure occupied by them is four stories high, with a basement, and is forty-five feet front on Jefferson street, and eighty feet deep on Third. The entire building, except a portion of the ground floor, is occupied by this house. The business was established by M. W. Phillips in 1866, and in 1867 S. S. Hawkins bought into it, and maintained his connection for a term of ten years. In 1871 they opened a retail store in addition to the wholesale business, and in 1877 Mr. Philips bought out his partner, and for one year operated both stores alone. The existing partnership with J. B. Clayton was formed in 1878 in the wholesale trade, under the firm name of M. W. Phillips & Co. This is the largest store of its kind in the State. They do an annual business of $150,000, and their trade extends through Iowa and into Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Dakota. They employ six traveling salesmen, and from six to eight local employees. In 1887 Mr. Phillips admitted A. B. Hawkins as a partner in the retail store, under the firm name of Phillips & Hawkins. They do an annual trade of $30,000, and have one of the best stocked establishments in the line of hats, caps, furs and furnishing goods in the city, and also in the State, and are known as a thoroughly reliable house. Mr. Phillips has, during his more than twenty years' business in Burlington, acquired and sustained the reputation of an honest, trustworthy business man. KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx KYBIOGRAPHIES: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.bios/mb.ashx

Just a note to let you know that for a time, I won't be making posts to the bios list. My main computer is in the "sickie shop" and is in bad shape. All the bios are on that system and I can't get to them right now. In the meantime, if you'll click on the URL in my signature line, you can search through the thousands of bios I've posted over the years and check to see if your ancestor has been posted during the past 10 years or so. Thanks for your patience! Sandi KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx KYBIOGRAPHIES: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.bios/mb.ashx

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11087 WASHINGTON CO – WILLIAM J ROBERTSON – Robertson, Wright, Jones, Freeman, Cunningham, Davison, Smith, Parrolt, Robertson, Thomas, McChord, Knott, Selecman, Booker, Mayes #11087: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, 4th ed Washington Co. (note, this bio also included George D Robertson, which was posted earlier). William J. and George D. Robertson were born respectively November 9, 1818, and February 14, 1834, in Springfield, Ky. Of a family of six children born to Dudley and Catherine (Wright Jones) Robertson, they were the eldest and youngest. At the time of the death of the father, in 1833, of cholera, William J. for a time, as the eldest son, became the head of the family. Mrs. Robertson, a native of the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, in 1837 became the wife of John Freeman, who reared the younger children by her marriage with Mr. Robertson. William J. commenced life for himself, at the age of fifteen years, as a clerk in the store of James H. Cunningham, with whom he continued three years. He then engaged as clerk with the firm of Davison & Smith. In 1840 he, in partnership with Geo. W. Parrolt, embarked in the mercantile trade. Two years later they met with the misfortune of losing their stock by fire. In 1843 he formed a copartnership with William S Daivison and again engaged in the mercantile business, which he continued until the death of Mr. Davison in 1856. He then took charge of and operated the stage lines carrying the mail until 1862. In 1864 he went into the wholesale grocery trade at Louisville. Two years later he returned to Springfield and, as a member of the firm of Robertson, Thomas & Co., again engaged in operating the stage lines. In 1870 they dissolved, and he took charge of the Lebanon & Springfield route, which he continued until 1883. In 1880, in company with A. H. McChord, he established a dry goods store at Springfield, and in 1884 transferred his interest in the same to his son William. He had in 1869 purchased a fine farm of 170 acres, situated on the Lebanon and Springfield pike, about three miles from the latter place, to which he removed, and where he has since lived. June 27, 1848, he was united in marriage with Lucy A. H. Knott. To their union eight children have been born, of whom seven are now living: Sarah C., wife of Judge W. E. Selecman; George R.; Marion T., now Mrs. W. H. Booker, Mary, consort of E. F. Mayes, William K., Maggie and Charles D. Susan, the deceased child, died in 1865. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch Sandi's website: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/index.html

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11086 UNKNOWN CO – SARAH (STREET) LANKFORD – Lankford, Street, Henderson, Clark #11086: Biographical and Historical Record of Wayne and Appanoose Counties, Iowa Chicago: Inter-State Pub. Co., 1886 JOHN LANKFORD, undertaker and furniture dealer, Centerville, Iowa, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, March 27, 1827, a son of Robert and Sarah (Street) Lankford, the former a native of Virginia, and the latter of Kentucky, both of English ancestry. When eighteen years of age he began working at the carpenter's trade, and served an apprenticeship of three years. In May, 1850, he came to Iowa and lived at Ottumwa six months, thence removing to Centerville, where he worked at this trade until 1865, when he became established in his present business. Mr. Lankford is a member of the Masonic fraternity, lodge, chapter and commandery, and also of the lodge and encampment of the Odd Fellows order. He is in politics a Republican. He was married in September, 1852, to Nancy J. Henderson, of Centerville. They have eight children: William, Sarah (wife of W. G. Clark), Heber H., Beatrice, Grace, Carl, Roy and Leona. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch Sandi's website: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/index.html

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11085 NELSON CO – FINIS E. LONG – Long, Crutcher, Dunlap, Lawler, Lee, Rooney, Ahull, Harvey, Wheeler, Forrest, Bell #11085: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, 4th ed Nelson Co. Finis E. Long was born October 31, 1836, south of Hardinsburg, Breckinridge Co., Ky., and is the sixth of three sons and five daughters born to William C. and Elizabeth (Crutcher) Long. William C. Long as born in North Carolina, April 30, 1796, was a Presbyterian minister, settled in Ohio County, Ky., about 1820, and afterward moved to Missouri, where he lived five years. His first wife was Martha J. Dunlap, of Missouri; one child – a daughter – was born to this marriage. He moved from Missouri to Kentucky, continuing in the ministry. He married his second wife in Breckinridge County, November 23, 1824; then lived two years in Ohio County, when he finally located in Breckinridge County. He was a soldier of 1812, participated in the battle of New Orleans, and died March 28, 1842. His wife survives him and is living in Louisville, eighty-two years of age in August, 1886. William C. was a son of John Long, of English descent, who married Jane Lawler, natives of Maryland and South Carolina respectively. From South Carolina he moved to Tennessee, thence to Breckinridge County, Ky., was a substantial farmer and slave owner, raised a family of ten children, and died in 1842. Mrs. Elizabeth Long was born in Jessamine County, Ky., and was a daughter of James Crutcher, who was one of the early settlers; from there he moved to Hardin County, about 1810, where he was the owner of a tract of land near Cecilian Junction; was also a large slave owner; he served as magistrate for many years, and was a soldier in the war for independence; he purchased his land for 12 ½ cents per acre. He died about 1835, at an advanced age, and was of German origin. Finis E. Long received a good academic education at Princeton, Ky., and Paris, Tenn.; he entered and worked in a planning-mill for a few years, when he again attended school for two years, after which he taught. At the age of twenty-four he engaged in the commission business in Owensboro; in the fall of 1860 he went to Louisville; April, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, First Kentucky Confederate Volunteers, was a sergeant and was captured at Dranesville in December, 1861. In the spring of 1862 he was elected captain of his company. About the close of the war was on his way home on furlough, but surrendered at Fort Donelson; after the final surrender of Lee he returned to Louisville, and became a leading contractor and builder. He has built nearly all of the buildings, including distillery and storehouses, at New Hope, at which place he located in 1880. He was united in marriage October 31, 1867, to Mary Rooney, a daughter of Peter Rooney and Sarah Ahull, natives of Belfast, Ireland, and Lexington, Ky., respectively. Mr. Rooney came to the United States when a young man and engaged in the mercantile business, first in Baltimore at then in Louisville. He died in 1856 at the age of eighty years. Mr. Long had born to him seven children: William C., Robert E., Allen D., Charles E., John W., Mary Ruter, deceased, and Elizabeth G. Mr. and Mrs. Long are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Long owns 700 acres in Marion and LaRue Counties, on which he has a store eight miles south of New Hope; is also the owner of a good house and lot. Mr. Long, after being captured and held a prisoner about six months at Washington, D. C.; was among the first prisoners ever exchanged, after which he and Capt. Harvey raised a company at Richmond, Va.; after the Murfreesboro fight was commissioned Captain. He served under Wheeler and Forrest. Mr. Long is an active member of the F. & A. M., and also of the I. O. O. F. In politics he is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Bell in 1860. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch Sandi's website: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/index.html

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11084: UNKNOWN – THOMAS FOSTER – Foster, Wylie, Drumm, Allbritton #11084: History of Fremont and Mills County, Iowa Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1901. David L. Foster . A very prominent and progressive farmer residing in Fremont County, Iowa, is David L. Foster, the subject of this sketch. He was born in Nodaway county, Missouri, October 11, 1860, and was a son of Thomas A. Foster, who was born in Kentucky in 1837, and died in Missouri in 1863, leaving a widow and two children, one of whom is Rosetta, the wife of Charles Wylie, a resident of this township. Mrs. Foster married Jacob Drumm still living in Scott township. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Henry Foster, who emigrated from Kentucky to Nodaway county, Missouri, at an early day and became possessed of much land, dying there in 1896, at the age of eighty-three. Our subject was reared by his grandfather from the age of five years until he was fourteen, going then to the home of his uncle Thomas, where he remained until he had attained his majority. He then started to gain his own livelihood, his capital consisting of a healthy body, strong hands and a stout heart. His first attempt was upon a farm and later he went to Omaha, where employment was secured in a mineral water factory for over three years. This was not easy work, but it was the best he could then find. These years were not idle ones, for he saved enough out of his small salary to purchase his first fifty acres of land, which is a part of his present beautiful farm. This was in 1882, and the cash required was three hundred and fifty dollars; and it is safe to say that no money ever seemed so precious to our subject as this which he had saved with so much self denial. The marriage of Mr. Foster took place May 26, 1889, to Miss Elizabeth Allbritton, a daughter of Thomas Allbritton, a farmer who now resides in Washington. Our subject began domestic life at this location, where his wife had lived, and began general farming and the raising of fine stock. Mr. Foster has a fine farm of one hundred and twenty acres, having added to the original tract, and is now very successfully carrying on an extensive business. He owns Poland China hogs, many horses and different grades of cattle, although he is pleased with the Hereford cattle, which he is engaged in breeding now, proposing to make this his leading strain. The home life of Mr. Foster is a very pleasant one, his baby, a bright child, not yet having attained the first anniversary of its birthday, and the others being Ernest, May and Hazel, all intelligent and interesting children. In his political opinions Mr. Foster favors the Democratic party, but is a just man and disputes with no one, believing everybody is entitled to his own opinion. He is also connected with the K. of P., where he is an active member. One of the principles upon which our subject has depended is that anything that is worth doing at all deserves to be well done; hence his success and prosperity. Colonel Sandi Gorin: sgorin@glasgow-ky.com KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11083 MERCER CO – JOHN GLOVER KYLE – Kyle, Washington, Rush, Sargeant, Nourse, Gover, Letcher, Smedley, Grant #11083: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, 4th ed. Mercer Co. Judge John Glover Kyle was born April 2, 1840, at the ancestral home where he now resides, three and one-half miles south of Harrodsburg, Ky. His father, Andrew Galbriath Kyle, was born in 1796, in Washington County, Ky., removed with his parents to Mercer County in 1798; he was a farmer and slave-holder, president of the Savings Institution of Harrodsburg, a successful business man, was colonel of the State militia, an old line Whig, a Union man, and latteraly [sic] a Republican; lost thirty slaves during the late war, and died September 8, 1872. He was the son of Rev. Thomas Kyle, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1757, who once sat with Gen. Washington in the Masonic lodge, was a soldier several years in the Revolutionary war and carried a saber mark on his head, inflicted by a British officer. He studied medicine with Dr. Benjamin Rush, of Philadelphia, removed to Washington County, Ky., in 1790, was a dignified and very active local minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church for sixty-five years, and died at his residence, the present home of Judge Kyle, June 29, 1846. His offspring were John, Matthew, Andrew G., Jane (Sargeant) and Rebecca (Nourse). Andrew G. married Jane, daughter of John Glover, of Mercer County, late of Missouri (born August 29, 1809, died June 30, 1882), and from their union sprang John G and Thomas A. November 24, 1869, John G. married Miss Marian, daughter of Dr. John L and Patsy O (Letcher) Smedley of Mercer County, and to them have been born Overton G (deceased), Jennie Fay, Andrew G. and William Riker. Judge Kyle attended at Transylvania University and Centre College, and graduated from the Louisville Law School in 1862. He practiced for several years in Mercer and adjoining counties, and frequently sat on the bench by the election of the bar in the absence of the judge. December 12, 1875, he received a paralytic stroke, from the effects of which he has not fully recovered. He is now engaged in farming, having 700 acres of well improved land, which he is grazing. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and a Republican. He was chosen elector for the Ashland District during Gen. Grant’s campaign for the presidency in 1868, and in 1874 was the Republican candidate in his district for circuit judge; he was defeated by only 211 votes, although the district was Democratic by several thousand majority. Colonel Sandi Gorin: sgorin@glasgow-ky.com KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11082 ADAIR CO – W J HOLLOWAY – Holloway, Allison, Hoope, Thorp #11082: History of Fremont County, Iowa Des Moines: Iowa Hist. Co., 1881. Scott Township HOLLOWAY, W. J., farmer, P. O. Plum Hollow; born in Adair county, Kentucky, November 2, 1821. In 1841 moved to Carroll county, Missouri, residing in that county, and Holt and Buchanan counties until 1852 when he came to Fremont county, Iowa. He was married in 1849 to Miss Mary E. Allison, of Holt county, Missouri, who died in 1870, leaving seven out of nine children: Flora J., John M., William J., Sarah E., M. M., Thomas S. and Lewis E. He was married to Mrs. Nancy Hoop, formerly Miss Thorp, in 1873. This wife died December 25, 1876, leaving one child, Charles. Colonel Sandi Gorin: sgorin@glasgow-ky.com KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch