NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11062 UNKNOWN CO – E MUNSILL – Munsill, Schuyler, Phillips #11062: History of Mahaska County, Iowa, Des Moines: Union Historical Company, 1878. MUNSILL, E., farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. New Sharon; born in Licking county, Ohio, 1821; came to this State in 1841, and to this county in 1843; he owns 320 acres of land; he has served as school director and as member of the city council; he married Miss R. Schuyler, in 1842; she was born in Kentucky, and died in 1850; he afterward married M. Phillips in 1852; she was born in New York; has seven children, Elizabeth, Mary, Ephraim, Corydon, Cary, Albert, and 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

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11061 UNKNOWN CO – EDWARD GILLAM ARCHER – Archer, Thomas, Talbott, Williams, McDonald, Ivey #11061: Portrait and Biographical Album of Des Moines County, Iowa. Chicago: Acme Publishing, 1888. Edward Gillam Archer, a prominent farmer and breeder of fine stock, residing on section 32, Yellow Spring Township, Des Moines Co., Iowa, is the owner of about 1,000 acres of land, all under his own management. He is a son of Hezekiah and Mary (Black) Archer, the former a native of North Carolina, and the latter of Tennessee. In early life they removed to Bond County, Ill., where the husband entered lands and improved several farms. In 1835 they again emigrated to a new country, settling on section 6, Franklin Township, Des Moines Co., Iowa, where Mr. Archer purchased a claim, upon which he made many improvements, and there spent the remainder of his days, his death occurring June 9, 1872, at the ripe old age of eighty years. His wife, the mother of our subject, departed this life in 1855, at the age of fifty-six. They were both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. An adherent of the Whig party, and strongly in favor of the abolition of slavery, Mr. Archer, at the organization of that body, joined the Republican party and advocated its principles during the remainder of his days. A friend to education, he was always ready to advance its interests. A man of good business ability, he accumulated quite a fortune, though he was always liberal with his children. Mr. and Mrs. Archer were the parents of eight children, all of whom are highly respected people, namely: George, a farmer of Salinas County, Cal.; William, also a farmer of that county; Nancy, wife of E. I. Thomas, a farmer of Yellow Spring Township; E. G., our subject; Dewitt T., now of California; John, a farmer of Stockton, Cal.; Elisha, a real-estate agent of Salinas, Cal.; and Elizabeth, wife of Milton Thomas, a resident of Los Angeles. Edward G. Archer, our subject, was born in Bond County, Ill., Aug. 10, 1823, was reared on a farm and remained with his parents until the age of twenty-one, when his father gave him 160 acres of raw land on section 32, Yellow Spring Township. At once he began its improvement, and on this land he yet resides, though he is now the owner of 1,000 acres. In February, 1851, Mr. Archer was united in marriage with Nancy E. Talbott, a native of Kentucky, and by this union twelve children have been born--James M., a farmer of Mills County, Iowa; George H., now residing with his father; Charles, who is engaged in farming in Barton County, Kan.; Emma E., wife of John Williams, a resident of Portland, Ore.; John, a farmer of Yellow Spring Township; Thomas E., a farmer of Johnson County, Neb.; Samuel, residing in Ness County, Kan., where he is engaged in farming; Nancy A. became the wife of William McDonald, of Decatur, Kan.; William, Jennie and Ida yet live with their parents; Hezekiah died at the age of seven years. Mr. Archer has held various township offices. In politics is a Republican, and strongly advocates the enforcement of the prohibition laws. He and his wife are both members of the Presbyterian Church. In business Mr. Archer has been a remarkably successful man. Having commenced with an unimproved farm of 160 acres, he has, by his diligent labor and intelligent enterprise gained a position as a farmer and stock-raiser second to none in Des Moines County, and to but few, if any, in the State of Iowa. He is believed to be the oldest settler now living in Yellow Spring Township, and it is with pleasure that we present his sketch to the people of Des Moines County. Mr. Archer commenced the breeding of short-horn cattle in 1870, when he purchased his first thoroughbreds, three in number, of Mr. Miller, of West Liberty, Iowa, and has continued the business until the present time, now owning twelve head, besides a large number of high grades. The past few years he has turned his attention to the breeding of thoroughbred horses, his first purchase being made in Kentucky in 1879. He has continued the purchase of Kentucky horses ever since, and has sold stock worth an average of $5,000 per year. Though he has never trained any horses for the track himself, some of his stock have made good records on the track, one especially, named Easter, now owned by J. Ivey, of Illinois, made a half mile in fifty-one seconds, when two years old. Mr. Archer now has from 90 to 100 head of horses on his farm, and sells from forty to fifty head of cattle per annum. 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. 11060 CHRISTIAN CO – ADDISON C. CATLETT – Catlett, Senseney, Lunderman, Oliver, Davis #11060: County of Christian, Kentucky. Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Illustrated. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., Chicago and Louisville. 1884. Pembroke Division. Addison C. Catlett was born August 3, 1853, in Christian County, Ky., which has been his place of residence to the present time. He is a son of John A. Catlett, who was born in Virginia in 1801, and died in this county in 1867. The Catletts are an old Virginia family. Subject’s mother, Allie A., daughter of Peter Senseney, M. D., of Virginia, was born in 1815, and died in this county; her children are; Anna L (Lunderman), Cornelia C. (Oliver), Alexander C., John C. and subject. Mr. Catlett is a farmer by profession, having 400 acres of good land, which he cultivates in wheat, corn, tobacco, and raises stock. This is a part of the immense tract of land entered as Seminary Land, near to Davis, the pioneer, upon which on the West Fork of Red River are to be seen remnants of the old Davis Mill-dam, which was built at a period so remote that no one now living can tell the date of its construction. Here, also, are the Cedar Bluffs. Mr. Catlett is a member of the Salem Baptist Church, and in politics is a Democrat. 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. 11059 SIMPSON CO – PROF. BENJAMIN F CABELL – Cabell, Cox, Patteson #11059: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume IV, Battle-Perrin-Kniffen, 3rd ed., 1886. Simpson Co. Prof. Benjamin F. Cabell was born at Mannsville, Taylor Co., Ky., June 6, 1850. He is the fourth of three sons and three daughters born to Thomas Jefferson and Lucy Ann (Cox) Cabell. Prof. Cabell at the age of four sustained the loss of his father – an affliction which falls with double grief and weight upon a family of small children. But the mother being a woman of remarkable strength of mind, and of an unusual practical turn in business matters, the children were as carefully looked after and provided for as the circumstances under which they were left admitted. The children were kept at school, such as could be had on the breaking out of the war. Having attended these schools until he was fifteen years old, and feeling the need of a change to complete his literary course, Prof. Cabell attended the schools at Bedford, Ind., for four years, and there taught his first school. The schools at Bedford not offering the highest course of instruction, Prof. Cabell spent two years at the Ohio Wesleyan University in the study of languages. He was connected with Warren College, Bowling Green, Ky., from September, 1875, to June, 1877 at which time he accepted the position which he is now filling – presidency of Cedar Bluff Female College. Under his management the school has constantly grown in character and permanency. The school at the time that he took charge of it had a patronage confined almost if not entirely to Kentucky and Tennessee, but under his active management it now draws a large patronage from southern and western Texas, Arkansas and Indian Territory. The school enjoys an enviable reputation at home and abroad, and if it continues to increase as it has for the past few years, it will have a reputation of which its managers may well be proud. Prof. Cabell was married to Ellen D. Patteson, daughter of Charles and Ellen (Allen) Patteson. To them have been born John Vivion, Ellen, Nora and Thomas Breckinridge Cabell. 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. 11058 HOPKINS CO – GEORGE M DAVIS – Davis, Woodruff #11058: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume IV, Battle-Perrin-Kniffen, 3rd ed., 1886. Hopkins Co. George M. Davis, Hopkins County, was born February 5, 1847, in Madisonville, Ky. He is a son of Israel and Dicey (Woodruff) Davis, both natives of Hopkins County. The father died in April, 1880, aged sixty-six. The mother now lives with her son at Morton’s Gap. Our subject received a good common school education in youth, and at the age of twenty-one commenced for himself at farming, and continued seven years. In 1865 he came to Morton’s Gap, and engaged in general merchandising; this business he has successfully carried on ever since, and is now doing a business of about $12,000 a year. Mr. Davis is also agent for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad and Southern Express Company at this point, having been agent for the railroad company for the past five years. He was married in 1867 to Mary J. Davis of Hopkins County; this union has been blessed with two children – one son and one daughter. Mr. Davis is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 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. 11057 JEFFERSON CO – LEWIS BUTLER HERRINGTON – Herrington, Ogletree, Parry, Englehart, Hume #11057: History of Kentucky, The Blue Grass State, volume IV Illustrated. S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago-Louisville, 1928. Jefferson Co. Electric power enters vitally into the life of many progressive communities of the United States and among the men who have achieved prominence in this important field of activity is numbered Lewis Butler Herrington [photo] president of the Kentucky Utilities Company and a commanding figure in business circles of Louisville. He has contributed in notable measure toward the development of the south and has also aided in framing the laws of the Blue Grass State. He as born April 8, 1880, in Albany, Georgia, and is a son of Alexander P. and Camilla (Ogletree) Herrington. The father is also a native of Georgia and represents one of the pioneer families of that state. He has long been numbered among the foremost realtors of Atlanta; also handles farm loans, and although he has reached the age of seventy-six years still directs the business, enjoying both physical and mental vigor. The mother was a native of Georgetown, Georgia, and passed away in 1891. The father has been married twice and had eight children, six of whom survive: A. P. Jr., vice president of the Midland National Bank of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Carrie, who died young; H. S. whose home is in Atlanta, Georgia; Jettie May, the wife of Albert Parry, of Huntington, West Virginia; Ruth, now Mrs. A. L. Englehart, of Akron, Ohio; Paul Herrington, who is engaged in the insurance business in Atlanta, Georgia, and Lewis Butler. The last named completed a course in the Boys’ High School of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1897, and received the A. B. degree from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, in 1901. He was graduated from the law department of Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, in 1902 and after his admission to the bar located in Richmond, Kentucky where he followed his profession for fourteen years. In 1915 Mr. Herrington became vice president and since April 1, 1927, has been president of the Kentucky Utilities Company, one of the largest operating public utility companies in the south, serving a large section of Kentucky and southwestern Virginia, and his well directed labors have been essential to the upbuilding of the business. The company, through economy, efficiency and good management, is able to maintain electric rates lower than they were in 1914, when the general cost of living was sixty-five per cent less than it is today. The corporation is supplying one hundred and sixty cities, towns and villages and numerous railways, coal mines and productive industries with electricity with a connected load of over one hundred and seventy-five thousand horsepower over fourteen hundred miles of interconnected transmission lines. The power is generated by super power steam stations located in the coal fields and a large hydro-electric plant on the Dix river in central Kentucky. The Kentucky Hydro-Electric Company of which Mr. Herrington is also president, built and owns the Dix river dam, which was visited by more than one hundred thousand sightseers during 1926. The power dam is the highest east of the Rocky mountains, the distance from the river bed to the top of the dam being two hundred and seventy-five feet. Herrington Lake, formed by backing the water for the dam, is thirty-five miles in length and has been named in honor of the subject of this sketch. The Pineville unit, situated on the Cumberland river, about five miles from the town of Pineville, is the pride of the Kentucky Utilities Company. This is a forty-five thousand horsepower plant and represents an expenditure of four million dollars. It is a model of cleanliness and in equipment and efficiency is unsurpassed by any electric generation station in the United States. The general offices of the company are located in Louisville, and the record of its development constitutes one of the most important chapters in the history of the progress of the south. On October 8, 1902, Mr. Herrington married Miss Susan Hume, a daughter of William Hume and a member of one of the prominent families of Richmond, Kentucky. They have become the parents of six children: Lewis B., Jr., who was born November 7, 1903, and is now an ensign of the United States navy, being stationed on the battleship New York; Eugenia, who was born in 1905 and was graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1926; Alexander P. (III), who was born in 1908 and is a student at the University of Kentucky; Hume, who was born in 1912 and is attending high school; Susan, born in 1914 and also a high school pupil; and Mary, whose natal year was 1920. She was born in Louisville and the other children are natives of Richmond, Kentucky. Mr. Herrington is a member of the Kentucky, Louisville Country and Pendennis Clubs. He has taken the thirty-second degree in Masonry and is identified with both the York and Scottish Rites. He is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Improved Order of Red Men, the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was elected to the Kentucky legislature 1912, making a highly creditable record as a legislator. Mr. Herrington has directed his talents into those channels through which flows the greatest and most permanent good to the largest number and receives the homage which the world ever pays to the man of superior ability and high ideals. 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. 11056 ADAIR CO – W J HOLLOWAY – Holloway, Allison, Hoop, Thorp. #11056: 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

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11055 UNKNOWN CO – HENRY J HAMMOND – Hammond, Copeland #11055: Biographical and Genealogical History of Appanoose and Monroe Counties, Iowa. New York: Lewis Pub. Co., 1903. Henry J. Hammond. This gentleman was born in Muskingum county, Ohio , near Zanesville , February 6, 1833 , the son of Jacob and Elizabeth Hammond. Grandfather Hammond came to Ohio at an early day; he was a farmer, a Republican in politics and a Methodist, and his death occurred in Marion county, Ohio . His son Jacob was a native of Pennsylvania , and he and his wife came to Iowa in 1854, where he died in February, 1882, at the age of seventy-two, and his wife died in 1876. The children were: Henry J., Daniel W., Greenville C., who died in the army of Illinois ; Butler , deceased; James, Emeline, Catheryn, Nancy Hattie, and Elizabeth, deceased. Henry J. Hammond remained in Ohio till he was twenty-one years old, where he received a fair education and also became acquainted with farming, which was the principal occupation of his life. In 1862 he enlisted for the war at Knoxville , Iowa , and served through the struggle in Company A, Thirty-third Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered out at New Orleans and discharged at Davenport , Iowa , and is now a pensioner. In 1860 Mr. Hammond was married to Mary M. Copeland, the daughter of James and Jane Copeland, the former from Kentucky and the latter of Indiana . The children of this union were Samuel B., Joseph F., John C., Elizabeth, deceased, Josephine C., Clayton, deceased, and Mary Emeline, deceased. Mrs. Hammond died in April, 1882, and is buried in Marion county; she was a member of the Methodist church. Mr. Hammond is a Republican, has been a Mason since 1862 and is a member of the Methodist church. His son, Joseph F., assists him in carrying on the home place. 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. 11054 CARTER CO – BENJAMIN FRANKLIN THOMPSON – Thompson, Walters, Woods, Cunningham, Newman #11054: History of Kentucky, The Blue Grass State, volume IV Illustrated. S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago-Louisville, 1928. Carter Co. Benjamin Franklin Thompson is engaged in the practice of law at Olive Hill, and studiousness, combined with the habit of thoroughness, has brought him to the fore in his profession. He was born January 3, 1873, in Richmond, Virginia, and is a son of Joshua Howell and Phobe (Walters) Thompson, who migrated to Pennsylvania in 1880, settling in Pittsburgh. They are still residents of that city, and the father is a retired contractor. Benjamin F. Thompson was a boy of seven when the family left the Old Dominion, and his public school education was acquired in the Smoky city. Subsequently he came to the south and began the study of law under the supervision of Judge Henry L. Woods, of Olive Hill. Mr. Thompson was admitted to the bar in 1914 and has since practiced in Olive Hill. He is well versed in the minutiae of the law and correctly applies his knowledge to the points in litigation. He enjoys a large and lucrative clientele and presents his arguments with clearness, logic and force. Mr. Thompson was married, in 1910, to Miss Kate Cunningham, a daughter of George and Susan (Newman) Cunningham, of Carter County. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson became the parents of six children, but Francis Lee died in infancy. The others are; Virginia, whose birth occurred on the 20th of February 1911; Mildred, born January 27, 1912; Benjamin Franklin, Jr., who was born June 4, 1913; George Howell, whose natal day was January 2, 1920; and Sue Elizabeth, born July 10, 1922. Mr. Thompson is a member of the Carter County, Kentucky State and American Bar Association. He is affiliated with the Christian church and gives his political allegiance to the democratic party. He reserves his energies for his profession and is regarded as one of the leading attorneys of the county. He lends the weight of his support to worthy public projects and is highly esteemed in the community with which he has allied his interest.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11053 UNKNOWN CO – RANSDALL BAYLOR – Baylor #11053: History of Fremont County, Iowa Des Moines: Iowa Hist. Co., 1881. Scott Township. BAYLOR, RANSDALL, farmer, section 12, P. O. Plum Hollow; born on the 8th day of April, 1850, and now lives on the place of his birth. He was educated in Sidney and in Tabor College. He is the oldest son of John and Nancy Baylor, who came to this county, from Kentucky, at an early day in its history. They lived to witness the development and growth of the county in a way it has been the privilege of but few to do. His father died September 2, 1871, and his mother in December of 1880. There were 1120 acres of land divided among the surviving children at his death. The subject of this sketch is an enterprising farmer, and holds the highest place in the esteem of his fellow citizens.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11052 OWEN CO – JOHN McMAINS – McMains, Chidester #11052: History of Mahaska County, Iowa, Des Moines: Union Historical Company, 1878. McMAINS, JOHN, farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Union Mills; born in Owen county, Ky., January 18, 1815; in 1825 he removed to Indiana, where he remained until 1836, when he came to Cedar county, Iowa, where he remained eight years; he then returned to Indiana, remaining three years, and came to this county in 1847; he settled on the land he now owns, and has lived there ever since that time; he owns 676 acres of land; has held offices of township trustee and school director; married Jane Goddard in 1837; she was born in Kentucky, and died in 1858; he afterward married Rachel Chidester, Jan. 1, 1861; she was born in New York; has eight children, Elizabeth, Ann, Mary E., Isaiah, William, Oliver, Ida and Erastus; one son, Robert, enlisted in the 8th Iowa Infantry, and was killed at Corinth. 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. 11051 NELSON CO – ETHELBERT B. LANGSFORD – Langsford, Sgallard, Nichols, Stoner, Smith, Johnson, Harned #11051: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume V, Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 4th Edition. Nelson Co. Ethelbert B. Langsford was born January 26, 1845, on the place where he now resides. His father, Daniel Langsford, a successful farmer and stock raiser, was a native of Nelson County, was born September 4, 1808, and died in 1876. He was the son of Nicholas, who left England when a lad, and located in Kentucky when a young man, where he died about 1832. Daniel Langsford was married, November 15, 1836, to Rebecca, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Stone) Stallard, of Nelson County, born August 18, 1821, and their offspring are Nicholas B., Saah F. (Nichols), Ethelbert B., Anna U. (Stoner), Lizzie L. (Smith), Cathie B. and James H. On May 15, 1873, Ethelbert B. was married to Miss Mary L., daughter of Henry and Charlotte (Johnson) Harned, of Nelson County, born February 27, 1851, and to them have been born Walter, Earnest B., Lottie Ree and Daniel H. Mr. Langsford is a farmer, owning 3650 acres of productive land in his native county of Nelson. He is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and votes the Democratic party. 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. 11050 MERCER CO – WELCH JONES – Jones, Helm, Lillard, Shy, Owsley, Jones #11050: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume V, Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 4th Edition. Mercer Co. Welch Jones was born April 24, 1835. In 1861 he enlisted in Company E, First Kentucky Confederate Cavalry (Col., Ben Hardin Helm), and in 1863 was captured in Mercer County, remaining a prisoner at Camp Chase and Rock Island until near the close of the war. His father, William O. Jones, a native of Mercer County, was born in 1808, was a farmer and a slave-owner, a member of the Christian Church, a Whig and died in 1859. He was the son of David Jones, born in North Carolina, but brought by his parents, at the age of seven years, to Mercer County, Ky. He was early a magistrate and member of the court of claims and also high sheriff; was a member of the first constitutional convention, and died in 1855 at an advanced age. He married Susan, daughter of Capt. John Lillard, of Mercer County. She died in 1852, at the age of eighty-two years. To David Jones were born Christopher L., Patsy (Shy), Boriah M., Samuel M. and William C. William C. married Mary, daughter of William Owsley, of Lincoln county (born in 1818), and from their union sprang Welch, Bryant O., William C., Beriah M., Samuel H. and Lizzie C. (Jones). Welch married, December 15, 1872, Miss Amanda, daughter of Mason H. and Anna Owsley, of Platte County, Mo. (born December 29, 1843), and to them have been born Anna M., William M., Sarah C., Pearl A. and Mary. Mr. Jones, a native of Mercer County, is a farmer, and owns 102 acres of productive land near Harrodsburg. In politics he is identified with the Democratic party. 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. 11049 UNKNOWN CO – SIDNEY FOWLER – Fowler, Dunning, Hughes, Terry #11049: History of Fremont and Mills County, Iowa Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1901. David L. Foster Sidney Fowler is a prominent Mason of Hamburg, Iowa, and a well-known railroad man, having been in railroad service in this portion of the state for a quarter of a century. A native of Illinois, he was born in Schuyler county, February 3, 1849, his parents being Josiah and Misniah (Dunning) Fowler, both of whom were natives of Kentucky. The father belonged to one of the old families of that state, while the mother's people were from South Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Fowler became well-known residents of Schuyler county, Illinois, and as people of sterling worth they are held in high esteem. The father gave his time and attention to agricultural pursuits and in that manner provided a livelihood for his family. His death occurred in 1876, and his wife passed away in 1865. Sidney Fowler, the immediate subject of this sketch, was reared in Illinois and in Kansas. When twenty years of age he entered the railroad service, with which he has been connected for thirty years, this long period being characterized by the utmost fidelity to duty. He is well known in railroad circles in southwestern Iowa and northwestern Missouri and for eighteen years has been the foreman on section 29 of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad at Hamburg, Iowa. During this time he has never met with an accident, owing to his capable management, his close application and his thorough understanding of the work entrusted to him. In the year 1875 Mr. Fowler was united in marriage in Doniphan, Kansas, to Miss Martha Hughes, who to him has been a faithful companion on the journey of life. She is a native of Missouri but was reared and educated in Miami county, Kansas, her parents being William and Martha (Terry) Hughes. The father is still living in southern Missouri, but the mother died at the age of sixty-two years. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Fowler have been born two children, Roy Eddie and Nondas Frances, aged respectively thirteen and seven years. Mr. Fowler exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Democracy, and for eight years has served as a councilman of Hamburg county. He keeps well-informed on the issues of the day and is thus enabled to support his political position by intelligent argument. He is well known and deservedly prominent in Masonic circles, for his life exemplifies the beneficent principles of the fraternity. He is now serving as the master of Jerusalem Lodge, No. 253, F. & A.M., of Hamburg, with which he has been identified for thirteen years. He was made a Master Mason in Rushville, Missouri, in 1880. He also belongs to Olive Council, has taken the chapter degrees, and both he and his wife are members of the Order of the Eastern Star. 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. 11048 UNKNOWN CO – JOHN ROBERTS – Roberts, Dickens, McDonald, Beeman #11048: History of Adair county, Iowa, and Its People. Lucian M. Kilburn, supervising editor. Chicago: The Pioneer Publishing Company, 1915. 2v. John Roberts. Farming interests in Harrison township find a well known and worthy representative in John Roberts, who is living on section 26. He was born in Indiana on the 11th of May, 1836, his parents being James and Nancy (Dickens) Roberts, both of whom were natives of Kentucky. They were probably married in that state and subsequently removed to Indiana, where they remained until 1854, when they started across the country with two yoke of oxen and a two horse team, with Kansas as their destination. On reaching Nodaway county, Missouri, however, the wife and mother died and the emigrant train, consisting of the father and his family, three uncles and a brother-in-law, with their families, diverted their course and came north into Iowa with the intention of going to Boone county. On reaching Adair county, however, they decided to locate here and the five families took up their abode in Harrison township, where James Roberts spent his remaining days, passing away at the ripe old age of eighty-two years. John Roberts was a youth of eighteen years when the family came to Adair county. He had attended the district schools of Indiana and he had not only learned from books but had also gained many valuable lessons from the school of experience. After coming to Iowa he assisted in the development and improvement of the home farm, remaining with his father up to the time of his marriage, which was celebrated September 20, 1860, Miss Emily McDonald becoming his wife. The young couple began their domestic life upon a tract of rented land and for about five years he cultivated the farm upon which he now resides. At the end of that time he bought eighty acres in Grand River township, on which he continued to make his home for nineteen years and which he still owns, having in the meantime brought it to a high state of development and improvement. In 1888 he removed to his present place in Harrison township. This farm of two hundred acres belongs to his wife and was entered from the government by her father, William McDonald, who came to Adair county from Missouri in 1851, being the first settler in this section of the country, his nearest neighbor at that time being ten miles distant. William McDonald lived and died in the home which is now occupied by Mr. Roberts, passing away in his eighty-third year. This house is the original log cabin build by Mr. McDonald when he came to the county and is the oldest residence in the county. It bears little resemblance to the original building, however, for it has been weather boarded and various additions have been made, transforming it into a more modern home. Mrs. Roberts is probably the oldest resident in the county in point of continuous residence here. To Mr. and Mrs. Roberts have been born seven children: James W., who follows farming in Grand River township; Charles F., of Clay county, South Dakota; Leonard, who farms in Grand River township; Mary Almina, the wife of Elmer Beeman, of Harrison township; Thomas A., a resident of Morton county, North Dakota; Josiah B., who lives in Guthrie county, Iowa; and John I., at home. Mr. Roberts votes with the republican party. He came to his majority about the time the party was formed and he has always been an advocate of its principles. He served for several years as township trustee and at an early period was school director. He and is wife are of the Christian faith but advanced age has made it almost impossible for them to drive to town to attend worship. They have long been highly esteemed residents of the community – people of genuine worth whose good qualities of heart and mind have endeared them to many. Mr. Roberts is now in the eightieth year of his age and such has been the course that he has followed that he can look back over the past without regret and forward to the future without fear. 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. 11047 MARION CO – PHIL T. DEDMAN, D.D.S. – Dedman, Timberlake, Duke, Adams, Henderson, Stone #11047: Ken Phil T. Dedman, D.D.S., is a native of Virginia, born in Washington, Rappahannock County, August 27, 1850; his father, Robert Dedman, was also a Virginian, born in 1781. He married Miss Elizabeth Timberlake, of Spottsylvania County, and to them were born ten sons and two daughters, of which number Phil T. is the youngest. Five of this family are yet living: Annie M. (Duke), Wm. D., Samuel L., James O. and Phil T. The mother died in 1854; the father, Robert, survived until 1870. He was, during the greater part of his life, a merchant of Fredericksburg, Va.; from there he removed to Rappahannock and carried on business until the beginning of the war in 1861, when he retired to a farm in Loudoun County near Leesburg, where he remained until his death. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and also of the Masonic fraternity, and held the office of postmaster for many years. His father of Scotch and English extraction. Phil. T. Dedman was reared in the town of Washington, Va., where he received a good common English education, and in 1867-68 was a student in Westminister College of Fulton, Missouri. He returned to Virginia, where he was two years in the merchandise trade with G. W. and W. H. Adams of Middleburg, after which he was in the same business with Henderson, Stone & Co., of Fulton, Mo., until 1872, when he came to Harrodsburg, Ky., and began the study of dentistry. He remained here two years, then after two years’ residence in Springfield, Ky., in 1876 entered the Pennsylvania dental College of Philadelphia, from which institution he graduated in 1877, and in the following year located in Lebanon, where he has for eight years been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession. The Doctor is unmarried. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and vice-president of the State Dental Association; also a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a K. T., of Marion Commandery, No. 24; also a member of the I. O. O. F. Politically he is Democrat, and takes a lively interest in political affairs. 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. 11046 MADISON CO – THOMAS PHELPS – Phelps, Todd, Jones, Chenault, Morgan, Boone, Brashears, Simmons, Deatherage, Williams, Winburn, Crossthwaite, Park, Cobb, Oldham, Bell #11046: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume V, Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 4th Edition. Madison Co. Thomas Phelps was born April 9, 1838, two miles north of Richmond, and is a son of Samuel and Tabitha (Taylor) Phelps, to whom seven sons and four daughters were born, eight of whom reached maturity: George W. (deceased), Peer T., Samuel B., Anthony (deceased), Marcus A., Thomas, Josiah, Nancy B. (Jones), Pollie (deceased), Tabitha A. (Todd) and Isabella (deceased). Tabitha A. was first married to Col. D. Waller Chenault, who distinguished himself in the war between the States, and who fell at the battle of Green River bridge, in 1863, during the famous Morgan rain through Kentucky and Ohio. Samuel Phelps, the father, was born October 13, 1788, four miles north of Richmond; he was a prosperous farmer, and succeeded in accumulating an estate of about 2,000 acres of blue-grass land, and more than a hundred slaves. He was the first to improve the famous blue-grass of Kentucky, and was the first man in the county to handle jack stock. He was a liberal, useful, public-spirited man, a member of the Christian Church, a Democrat in politics, and died in April, 1852. His father, George Phelps, was born in Virginia and came with his father, Thomas Phelps, and family to Kentucky, as early as 1775, and were with Boone in the fort at Boonesborough during the stormy days of that period. Lucy Phelps (Brashears), daughter of Thomas Phelps, was in the fort at Boonesborough, and was afterward married in Louisville, being the first white woman who was married in that city. They all moved to Bullitt County, where George Phelps married Tabitha Simmons and then came to Madison County. The issues of this marriage was eight children: Samuel, Anthony, Sallie (Deatherage), Verlinda (Williams), Lucy (Winburn), wife of Capt. Winburn, who distinguished himself in the war of 1812. The next children were William, Edwin, and Patsie (now Simmons). Sallie Deatherage is yet living, aged ninety-three. Mrs. Tabitha (Taylor) Phelps, wife of Samuel Phelps, and mother of Thomas Phelps, subject of this sketch, belonged to an old and aristocratic family, and was the daughter of Peter W. and Nancy (Crossthwaite) Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor came to Madison County as early as 1785, and settled three miles west of Richmond. They reared a family of five sons and three daughters – the daughters all marrying prominent men, and the sons reaching distinction in the different professions. Thomas Phelps, our subject, was reared on a farm and attended the common schools until 1854, when he entered Georgetown College and graduated from that institution in 1857, at the age of nineteen, after which he engaged in farming on his own account. June 15, 1865, he was married to Miss Sallie W Cobb, of Lincoln County., a daughter of Richard and Minerva (Park) Cobb, who were born respectively in Estill and Madison Counties. Mr. Cobb was born in March, 1818, is a prosperous and influential farmer, and he and wife are yet living in Lincoln County. Richard is the son of Jesse and Edith (Oldham) Cobb, who came from North Carolina and settled in Estill County as early as 1785, and ranked among the prominent and wealthy families of the county, Jesse Cobb representing his county in the Legislature a number of terms. Mr. Phelps is the owner of three farms containing in all about 800 acres, and is a large dealer in cattle and swine. He owns and lives on what is known as the Dreaming Creek Heights, one and a half miles north of Richmond. He is a member of the Baptist Church, a member of the F. & A. M., and in politics a Democrat. Formerly he was a Whig, and cast his first presidential vote for Bell. 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. 11045 UNKNOWN CO – ASBURY DENHAM RATER – Rater, Franklin, Covert, Smith, Staggs, #11045: History of Adair county, Iowa, and Its People. Lucian M. Kilburn, supervising editor. Chicago: The Pioneer Publishing Company, 1915. 2v. Asbury Denham Rater. The home farm of Asbury Denham Rater is on section 26, Walnut township. He was born in Marion County, Iowa, August 16, 1863, a son of Daniel and Sarah Anthus (Romans) Rater. The father was born in Indiana and was of German lineage, while the mother, who was born in Kentucky, represented an old American family. Daniel Rater was reared to the occupation of farming and prior to the Civil war removed westward to Marion county, Iowa, where he began the work of tilling the soil, there residing until 1865, when he went to Jasper county, Iowa, where he purchased land and carried on farming ntil he retired from active business. At that date he removed to Reasnor, Iowa, where he continued to make his home until he was called to his final rest on the 6th of June, 1904. His widow also passed away there on the 10th of May, 1910. Asbury Denham Rater was reared as a farm boy, attending the district schools and assisting in the work of the home place. Ambition led him to start out in the world for himself and he made his way to Rawlins county, Kansas, where he homesteaded a farm and resided thereon for five years. He then returned to Jasper county, Iowa, where he rented land for two years, after which he spent a similar period in the Sunflower state. He next went to Oklahoma, where he lived for six years, engaged in the cultivation of school land which he leased. In 1900 he again became a resident of Jasper county, but in 1901 established his home in Adair county. For two years he rented a farm in Summit township and then went to Guthrie county, Iowa, where he rented for a year. In 1905 he became a resident of Walnut township, Adair county, and in 1911 purchased the eighty acre tract of land whereon he now makes his home, the place being situated on section 26, Walnut township. He devotes all of his time to farming and stock-raising and breeds a good grade of stock. On the 28th of January, 1885, Mr. Rater married Miss Ida Elizabeth Franklin, a daughter of Andrew J. and Catharine (Covert) Franklin. The father was born in Van Buren county, Iowa, and is of French descent. The mother’s ancestry was strictly American through several generations. She died when Mrs. Rater, the oldest of the four children, was but seven years of age. Mr. Franklin was a farmer and for years engaged in the tilling of the soil in Iowa and Nebraska, but now makes his home upon a farm in Oklahoma. To Mr. and Mrs. Rater have been born seven children, but the eldest, Jessie Pearl, who was born January 28, 1886, died on the 7th of February of that year. The second daughter, Ethel Victoria, born April 14, 1887, is the wife of Elmer Sherman Smith, a resident farmer of Walnut township, and they have two children, Howard Leslie and Verle Elsworth. Lulu Anthus, born April 10, 1889, is the wife of George Franklin Smith, a resident farmer of Walnut township, and they have one child, Boyd Franklin. Ollie Alvin, born August 5, 1891, married Alma Staggs, and is a resident farmer of Walnut township. Virgil Asbury, born December 26, 1895, Daniel Arthur, born March 24, 1902, and Ida Evelyn, born June 16, 1904, are at home. Mr. Rater operates the home place with the aid of his sons and is one of the highly respected farmers of Walnut township. He has ever placed character above success and yet in his business affairs has been actuated by a laudable ambition that has stimulated him to put forth his best efforts to secure advancement. 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. 11044 WARREN CO – SAMUEL P. RICKETTS – Ricketts, Platte, Lambert, Lehman, Copeland, Blanchard, Clift, Acord #10444: History of Fremont and Mills County, Iowa. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1901. Samuel P. Ricketts, who is engaged in farming on section 12, Benton township, Fremont county, was born on the 28th of March, 1851, in Lorain county, Ohio, and is a representative of one of the old families of the south. His paternal grandfather was a native of Baltimore, but died before the birth of his son, Richard R. Ricketts, the father of our subject. He had one brother who became the father of General Ricketts, a distinguished officer of the Civil war. Richard R. Ricketts was born in Baltimore on the 6th of February, 1802 and when he was six years of age his mother died. He then went to live with his uncle, who had charge of the estate and remained with him until eighteen years of age, when he left Baltimore, his cash capital being a twenty dollar gold coin. He started on foot to Kentucky and resided for some time in the vicinity of Maysville and Bowling Green. He served a five years apprenticeship at the cabinet trade, following that pursuit both in Kentucky and New Orleans. At the time of the cholera scourge in the latter city he was the only white man left in the shop. For four years he remained there and then returned to Kentucky, where he was married to Miss Betsey Platte, of New Haven, Connecticut. She was born January 7, 1816, and was a daughter of Alanson Platte, a farmer of New York, who resided for three years west of Buffalo and in Lorain county, Ohio, prior to 1840. Mrs. Ricketts was engaged in teaching in Kentucky at the time she became acquainted with her future husband. They were married in the Blue Grass state and soon afterward went to Ohio, locating on a farm of eighty acres which was given them by her father. Until the summer of 1855 they remained upon that land and then drove across the country in a double-seated buggy to Fremont county, Iowa, that vehicle being the first of the kind ever seen in this locality. Having sold their property in Ohio, Mr. Ricketts purchased nine head of horses, driving three double teams to Iowa. He possessed a very comfortable competence for those times, having twenty-five hundred dollars, and a portion of this money he invested in a tract of one hundred and eighty-two acres of land. His brother-in-law, L. W. Platte, had come to this state several years before and had made arrangements for the transfer of the property of which the father of our subject became the owner. The house was a cottonwood shanty and only twenty acres of the land had been cleared. This work was done in 1842, being the first clearing in that portion of the county. For two years after his arrival in Iowa Richard Ricketts remained in his cottonwood home and then built a part of the present residence, erecting a structure sixteen by twenty-four feet of logs hewed by McKinney Lambert. The frame part of the house was erected in 1869 and the log structure was then weatherboarded. Mr. Ricketts provided well for his family and at his death owned his fertile farm, which was well improved and well stocked. He had six children, of whom four are living, namely: Charlotte Elizabeth, the wife of George Lehman, of Columbus, Nebraska, by whom she had eight children, of whom four are living; Richard R., who died in 1857, when about thirteen years of age; Mary H., who died December 28, 1860, at the age of thirteen years; Samuel, of this review; A. E., who is living on the south half of the home farm, on one hundred and sixty acres, with his wife and nine children; and Myra Grace, the wife of James H. Copeland, of Benton township, by whom she has two children. The mother died April 28, 1894, in her seventy-eighth year, and was laid to rest by the side of her husband in the Blanchard burial ground. He was a Baptist in his religious faith and she a Congregationalist, and both were consistent Christian people whose teachings and admonitions did much to shape the career of their children. Samuel P. Ricketts, a well-known and esteemed farmer of Benton township, accompanied his parents on their emigration to Iowa and in the district schools here acquired his education. He displayed a special aptitude for mathematics and always stood well in every study to which he gave his attention. With the exception of four years spent upon other farms in the neighborhood he has always resided on the homestead. He was married in 1876, on his twenty fifth birthday to Miss Mahala Clift, of Kentucky, who was born October 14, 1854, and is a daughter of John D. Clift. By this marriage there were eleven children, five sons and six daughters, but they lost an infant son. Those still living are as follows: Roscoe R., born December 24, 1876, is living in Nebraska City where he follows carpentering; Ida C., is with her parents; Augusta C. is the wife of Robert Acord of Benton township, Fremont county, by whom she has two children, Walter R., a young man of twenty years, and George R., now eighteen years old, assisting in the cultivation of the home farm; Elizabeth is with her parents; Nellie M. is attending school; Grace L.; Clara L.; and Richard Henry, aged respectively, eleven, nine and four years, are with their parents. The son who died in infancy was named Carl. Mr. Ricketts carries on general farming and raises about seven thousand bushels of corn annually. He also keeps a few head of cattle and he has on hand from six to twelve head of horses. His father was a fine workman in the cabinet manufacture and house-finishing in the early days, when the large black walnut trees were peeled and placed on high skidways, where they were sawed into thick planks by two men, one under the log and the other on top, which method is called whipsawing. Timber was abundant at that time, so that little veneering was used, but Mr. Ricketts was especially expert in executing that line of work. When the family first came to Iowa deer roamed over the prairie and through the forests and wild turkeys would frequently come into their yard. On one occasion a wild cat made its way down the mud and stick chimney and into the cottonwood shanty in which they lived. Several times the mysterious visitor appeared at night and robbed them of poultry although a watch dog was on guard. Finally Mr. Ricketts remained awake one night and struck a light just in time to see the animal make its escape. The cat persisted in its visits for some time and he was unable to capture it. The name of Ricketts is inseparably interwoven with the pioneer history of the county and from the earliest development of this portion of the state the members of the family have borne their part in the work of public progress and improvement. 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. 11043 GARRARD CO – JOHN WILLIAM POOR – Poor, Legin, Ford, Wilds, West, Hancock, Withers, Kemper, Ison, Burnside, Smith, Davis, Feathers, Boulden #11043: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume V, Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 4th Edition. John William Poor was born November 20, 1822, on the bluffs of Kentucky River, three miles above the mouth of Dick’s River in Garrard County, and in 1826 with his parents located near Boone’s Knob, on the Garrard side, where he was reared to manhood, and has since resided. His father, William L. Poor, a native of the same place with subject, was born February 17, 1791, was a soldier in the war of 1812, a farmer, a Whig, a Methodist, and died of cholera, July 26, 1833. He was the son of John Poor, a native of Virginia, a soldier in the Revolutionary war and an early settler in Garrard County, Ky. He married Jane Legin, and their offspring were William L., Robert C., Thomas, Sally (Ford), Hopie Wilds), Lucy (West) and Mrs. Hancock. William L. married May 25, 1820, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Withers) Kemper, of Garrard County (born July 21, 1798, died May 23, 1870), and from their union sprang John W., Elizabeth, Frances A. (Ison) and James G. May 1, 1845, John W married Miss Martha A., daughter of Murrell and Hannah (Burnside) Smith, of Garrard County, born December 5, 1829, and to them have been born Hannah E (Davis), Mary B (Feathers), William M. (deceased) and Maggie L. (Boulden). In the commencement of his business career Mr. Poor had an even start with the world, having, literally, to rely upon his own efforts, but by diligence and careful attention to business, he is now possessed of an ample competency, although he has had to settle $40,000 in security debts. He is a farmer and trader, owning over 1,100 acres of good land, devoted largely to stock grazing. Mr. Poor is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, a Mason, an Ancient Odd Fellow; was formerly an old line Whig, but is now a Democrat. He has established his children all on good farms. 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