NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11304 MERCER CO - HENRY PLUMMER, M.D. – Plummer, Seever, Myers, Evans, Montgomery, Crain, Cash, Wilkinson, Matthews, Samuel, Desha, Kelly, Johnston, Mills, O’Conner, Brown 11304 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 4th ed. Mercer Co. HENRY PLUMMER, M. D., practicing physician and surgeon, was born May 14, 1837, in Fleming County, Ky. His father, Benjamin Plummer, a native of Maryland and born June 15, 1793, was a farmer and miller. He was brought by his father to what is now Mason County, Ky., when only eighteen months old, and when about ten years old to Fleming County. The early part of his life was spent in agricultural pursuits, afterward in the saw and grist-milling business; and during the war he lost most of his property, his water wheel, worth $5,000, being destroyed by fire, the work of Federal troops. On August 15, 1816, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary M. Seever, a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Myers) Seever, natives of Pennsylvania. By this marriage Benjamin Plummer became the father of nine children: Matilda, wife of W. B. Evans, a farmer of Fleming County; James, who died in Holt County, Mo.; Julia A. (died in 1860 in the State of Ohio), wife of Rev. W. G. Montgomery, minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who lives in Putnam County, Ohio; John, who died in Navarro County, Tex., in 1883; Amanda, wife of Thomas J. Crain, of Missouri (died in 1870); William, county judge of Fleming County and a practicing attorney (died in 1878); Henry, and Franklin, a master mechanic of the railroad shops in Springfield, Mo., of whom only Dr. Plummer and Franklin are now living. Benjamin Plummer, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died January 6, 1866, and his wife, who was also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died May 22, 1867. James Plummer, the grandfather of Dr. Plummer, was born in Maryland, likewise his wife, who before marriage was Miss Dorcas Cash. He immigrated to Mason County, Ky., in 1795, and his almost sole occupation was hunting. As the country became settled he moved farther away in the pursuit of his favorite sport, so he soon removed to Fleming County, where he and his wife are buried. The Plummer family are of English origin and Dr. Plummer’s father, Benjamin Plummer, was a veteran of the war of 1812, serving under General Wilkinson in his campaign and in Capt. Matthew’s company, receiving a wound at Dayton, Ohio (which then contained but one house), which kept him confined to his bed an entire winter. Dr. Plummer received an ordinary school education, and in his twenty-first year began the study of medicine under Dr. R. P. Samuel, of Poplar Plains, Fleming County, and in the fall of 1859 attended his first course of lectures at the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati. He graduated from that institution in the spring of 1861, and enlisted in Capt. Ben Desha’s company (Confederate Infantry). He was the medical officer of the company and remained in the hospital at Bowling Green until February, 1862, when, on retreat, he was assigned to Maj. Kelly’s Arkansas battalion as assistant surgeon. He held this position until after the battle of Shiloh, when he became assistant surgeon of the Eighth Arkansas Regiment, and after the battle of Perryville was promoted to surgeon of the Twenty-third Tennessee, until the battle of Chickamauga, when he was transferred to the Thirty-second and Fifty-eighth Consolidated Alabama Regiments, remaining with them until the surrender of Gen. J. E. Johnston. He then located at Brandon, Warren Co., Miss., and practiced medicine two years. Dr. Plummer then returned to Kentucky, locating at Eldorado, Mercer County, where he practiced three years, removing to Harrodsburg. On October 3, 1867, he married Miss Elizabeth Mills, the daughter of Benjamin Mills and Jane (O’Conner) Mills, the former a native of New York, the latter of Dunda, Ireland. Maj. Mills was in command of Harper’s Ferry as chief armory officer, when it was captured by the notorious John Brown. Three years after his marriage Dr. Plummer removed to Poplar Plains, in Fleming County, where he practiced three years, returning again to Harrodsburg, which since has been his home. To the marriage of Dr. and Mrs. Plummer have been born six children: William, died in infancy; Virginia Morton, died at the age of six months; Lutie Mills, died age two years; Jennie Mae, now living in her twelfth year; Bessie Moore, in her eighth year, and Benjamin Dawson, in his sixth year. Dr. and Mrs. Plummer are members of the Southern Presbyterian Church, and Dr. Plummer is a Democrat. In 1883 he was president of the Central Kentucky Medical Association. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx