-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 6:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: {not a subscriber} Joseph S. Boggs of Madison County Kentucky I recently came across this bio of Joseph S. Boggs. I transcribed it as best I could, but had some trouble reading the dates in the last paragraph. I thought it might help someone. Caroline History of Kentucky page 468 Joseph S. Boggs: Public improvements are the outcome of intelligent and concerted effort on the part of progressive citizens who recognize the debt the community has as a whole owes to the people, and thus endeavors to discharge it in a way that will benefit the majority. One of the most important phases of the work of public improvement is that which deals with the installing and maintenance of good roads, something vital to economic life. It is to this connection that Joseph S. Boggs has rendered great and valuable services to the people of Kentucky for a number of years and in various positions, but principally in his present capacity of state highway engineer. A man of broad experience and high ability in his profession, Mr. Boggs is also prominent in financial and business circles, being president of the Southern National Bank of Richmond, Kentucky, and president of the firm of Boggs, Burton & Company, operating a railroad ballast quarry in Lee County, this state. Mr. Boggs was born on a farm two miles southeast of Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky, December 10, 1878, a son of Joseph S. and Mary (Turley) Boggs. The Boggs and Turley families are of Scotch-Irish descent and the former family was founded during Colonial time in Pennsylvania where was born Joseph S. Boggs, the grandfather of Joseph S. of this review. From the Keystone State he came as a pioneer into Madison County, Kentucky, during the time of Daniel Boone, and here rounded out a long successful and honorable career, dying when ninety-six years of age prior to the birth of his grandson. Several of his brothers fought as soldiers during the War of the Revolution, and the family has always been noted for patriotism and good citizenship. The first Joseph S. Boggs married Elizabeth Plough, who was born in Pennsylvania and died in Madison County, Kentucky, and they had a family of eleven children, of whom Joseph S. was the youngest. Joseph S. Boggs, father of Joseph S. of this notice was born June 16, 1819, in Madison County, Kentucky and was reared and educated in that county, where he was married and became the owner of several farms. In 1878 he moved to the farm upon which his son Joseph S. was born, and there spent the remainder of his life as a successful agriculturist and extensive owner of land. His death occurred on his farm February 22, 1899. During the Civil War he served in the Home Guards, and throughout his life he was a republican of the old school. He was a stout churchman and belonged to the Christian faith. For his second wife Mr. Boggs married Mary Turley, who was born and spent her whole life in Madison County, where she died at the age of seventy-two years. They were the parents of four children: Bettie, of Richmond, Kentucky, the widow of James F. Slunher, who was a lawyer and capitalist of Middlesboro, Kentucky; James T., a civil engineer of Richmond whose death occurred in 1903; Mary, the wife of W. L. Arnold of Richmond, a member of the firm of Arnold, Hamilton & Luxon, wholesale grocers, and Joseph S. Joseph S. Boggs of this notice received his early education in the rural schools of Madison County, following which he was sent to Central University, Richmond, and was duly graduated therefrom in 1897, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Two years later he received his Master's degree from the same institution and at that time became associated with his elder brother, James T. Boggs, in the private practice of engineering. This partnership was terminated by the death of his brother in 1903, and from then until 1913 Mr. Boggs was engaged in a private practice of his own account, being also a member of the firm of Boggs & Farleys, with their headquarters at Richmond. This firm installed the water works system at Richmond, did railroad works in Clay County, Kentucky, surveyed the Dixie Highway from Danville to Corbin, Kentucky, constructed the Masonic Temple at Richmond, and carried through numerous other projects of importance.