This is a biography and will be posted soon on the KYBIOGRAPHIES list, but it gives so much extra information that I thought some of you might be itnerested in it. HAIDEN TRIGG CURD. History of the Ohio Falls Cities and Their Counties: General history ... By Williams, L. A., & Co., Cleveland, 1882 Daniel Curd, the father of H. T. Curd, was born October 14. 1774, in Albemarle county, Virginia. His father, John Curd, emigrated to Kentucky before it was a State, and settled on the Kentucky river at the mouth of Dick's river. In 1786 the Legislature of Virginia, by an act of the General Assembly, granted to him a right or privilege of a ferry across the Kentucky river at the mouth of Dick's river, (it was one of the eight ferries established in Kentucky by Virginia before Kentucky was a State,) allowing the grantee to charge three shillings for crossing a man from one side to the other, and the same for a horse. These were the emoluments allowed to the keeper, his heirs and assigns, so long as he or they should keep the same (ferry) according to the directions of the act. John Curd, the father of Daniel, married Lucy Brent, in Virginia, before he removed to Kentucky. Young Daniel was a small boy when he, with his father's family, reached their new home on the banks of the Kentucky river. All was new to him. All the luxuries of life had been given up by his parents. They had a few slaves and horses and not much else, save strong wills, honest hearts and minds capable of meeting every trial and emergency, and enduring the vicissitudes of a wilderness life. He received but a limited education, though as good as the country afforded, and he saw much of practical surveying. He was quick and anxious to learn, and was taught to depend upon his own exertions. His mother, as well as his father, was sensible, and their example was followed, and their advice received and acted upon without hesitation, consequently he grew up a self-reliant man. When still a young man he went to Bowling Green, and entered into the office of William Chapline, clerk of the Warren circuit and county courts. He remained with Mr. Chapline until this county was established. He was present at its organization, was a candidate for surveyor and was elected. He held the office, giving general satisfaction, until his death, which happened April 18, 1843. Soon after his election he married Fanny S. Trigg, daughter of Haiden Trigg, Esq., one of the first justices of peace of Barren county. She was born in Bedford county, Virginia. He was a remarkable man in every respect. He possessed untiring industry, and was as brave as he was forgiving. He was liberal to a fault; he never deserted a friend, and the poor and hungry never left his door without their wants having been relieved. Being surveyor of the county he soon knew nearly all the vacant land, and had it in his power to appropriate the finest and best for himself. Instead of doing so he would go to a friend and urge him to take it up for his own use. A few years before his death he united himself to the Methodist church, lived a quiet and good member, and died in the faith. Notwithstanding he was born and lived on a farm nearly all his life he was not a farmer. After his marriage he always lived and carried on a farm. He had a trusty colored servant, Powel, who was his main manager. Some yet living, besides Mr. Curd's children, can bear witness to Powel's faithful character in all relations. Mrs. Curd survived her husband many years, instilling in her children industrious and honest habits. They had nine children. The second son, Haiden Trigg Cuid, was born April 26, 1804, on his father's farm in Barren county, Kentucky, near Glasgow, the county seat, and died in Louisville from the effects of an accident bv which he lost his left hand, February 24,1858. He had the limited advantages of an education procurable in those days, and, as his career shows, he made the most of them. When quite a young man he removed to Scottville, Allen county, Kentucky, and started in business as a general merchant. This was the commencement of his mercantile life. After a few years he removed to Glasgow and started the same business with his brother, A. T. Curd, and James Murrell. This firm bought or traded largely in tobacco, which they "rafted" to New Orleans from a point on Green river, near Glasgow. In 1830 he was married to Miss Martha A. Edmunds, the daughter of Captain William Edmunds, who came from Henry county, Virginia, during the latter part of the eighteenth century and located in Barren county, near Glasgow. In 1834, finding Glasgow too small a field for operations he dissolved partnership with Mr. Murrell and his brother, and removed to Louisville, where he immediately formed a partnership for the purpose of conducting a wholesale dry goods business with James Trabue and the late William Jarvis, and located at the corner of Third and Main streets. This proved a successful venture, and at the expiration of the partnership he engaged in the wholesale grocery business, and did perhaps the largest business of the kind ever conducted in Louisville. This business he conducted until his death. The twenty-five years of Mr. Curd's life in Louisville was usefully and charitably spent. He devoted himself at all times, not only to business enterprises which would redound to the credit of the city, but also to all worthy charitable objects, and notwithstanding the large amount of labor he had to perform, he always had plenty of leisure to listen to and answer a worthy appeal for assistance. Mr. Curd was a member of the first board of directors of the American printing house for the blind, and contributed largely to its success and present standing. He was also treasurer for many years of the American Bible society, and in addition was connected with several other charitable institutions. As a business man he was very successful and carried on several enterprises besides the grocery business. He was one of the oldest directors of the Louisville & Nashville railroad, and also of the Bank of Kentucky, owned and operated the only cotton mill that had ever been built in Kentucky; at the time he was also largely interested in the manufacture and export of tobacco, and at time of his death was operating probably the largest manufactory in Kentucky. He died in 1858, as he had always lived, a worthy and consistent Christian, loved, honored, and respected by all who knew him Sandi Sandi's Puzzlers: http://www.gensoup.org/gorinpuzzles/index.php Sandi's site: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky