Robert Haviland

ELIZABETH MARTIN, P. O. Cynthiana. The grandfather of Elizabeth Martin, Richard Waits, emigrated from Pennsylvania to Harrison County, Ky., at an early date, her father, John Waits, born May 1778, remained in Harrison County, Ky.; his father, Richard Waits, and…

W. W. LONGMOOR, Clerk of the Circuit, Chancery and Criminal Courts of Harrison County; was born June 21, 1840, in Kenton County, Ky., near the city of Covington. His father, George Longmoor, was a farmer, born in Bourbon County, but…

JOSEPH E. WELLS, M.D.–Since 1896 has Dr. Joseph E. Wells been an active practitioner in the medical profession at Cynthiana. He has gained wide recognition as a skilled physician and surgeon and stands in the front rank in the medical…

JAMES C. DEDMAN, commonwealth attorney for the eighteenth judicial district, is one of the leading members of the legal fraternity in his part of Kentucky and in every department of life, one of the most valued factors in the citizenship…

B. T. RIGGS–As manager of the Crown Jewel Milling Company, at Cynthiana, Kentucky, Capt. B. T. Riggs holds prestige as one of the leading business men in Harrison county, having resided in this city for nearly two score years. He…

G. H. PERRIN, retired physician, P. O. Cynthiana; whose portrait appears in this book, was born near Crab Orchard, Lincoln County, Ky., Nov, 9, 1794, and is the son of Josephus and Elizabeth Perrin. They were the parents of twelve…

HON. T. J. MEGIBBEN, capitalist, P. O. Cynthiana, who portrait and a view of whose residence and distillery appears in this history, is undoubtedly the most public-spirited citizen that ever figured in his history of Harrison County. Kentucky does not…

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD, of Paris, ex-judge of the superior court of Kentucky, was born in Oxford, Scott county, this state, August 29, 1838. Of Scotch-Irish ancestry, the predominant traits of the two nations have characterized the representatives of the…

HON. W. A. WEBBER, farmer, P. O. Rutland, whose portrait appears in this work, is a native of Jessamine County, Ky., where he was born March 4, 1817; his paternal grandfather came from Virginia to this State about 1795, and…

T. WIGLESWORTH, farmer, P. O. Poindexter, was born near Poindexter Station, Harrison County, Oct. 10, 1830. His father John Wiglesworth, was born in Spotsylvania County, Va.; was by occupation a farmer and died in 1846, at the age of 64.…