Harrison County Biographies

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John Quincy Adams Ward

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…

William Anderson Webber

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…

Tandy Wiglesworth

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.…

James W. Wregg

JAMES W. WREGG, farmer, P. O. Leesburg, was born in Scott County, September 20, 1818. His father, Samuel Ray, an Englishman by birth, came to America when eleven years old. Both of his parents died six months after he came…

W. T. Asbury

W. T. ASBURY, farmer and merchant, P. O. Claysville, son of Obannon Asbury, a native of Nicholas County, Ky., was born in Robinson County, [sic] Ky., in 1832, where he received his education and then commenced his work in life…

John Conner

JOHN CONNER was one of the early preachers in Licking Association. He probably began his ministry in Virginia, when he moved to Kentucky, and settled in Harrison county, not far from 1811. He gave his membership to Mill Creek church…

Lewis B. Furnish

LEWIS B. FURNISH. One of the most popular and efficient sheriffs Harrison County ever had is Lewis B. Furnish who since retiring from that office some eight or nine years ago has been profitably and pleasantly engaged in the business…

Harry Hicks

HARRY HICKS is a prosperous and enterprising young farmer of Harrison County, and is giving a capable management to his place of large acreage and complete equipment six miles south of Cynthiana. The house in which he lives today is…

Thomas B. Arnett

THOS. B. ARNETT, farmer, P. O. Connersville. Born in Bourbon County in 1825, his father, James Arnett, came from Virginia and died young, being only forty-seven years old. His grandfather was Zachariah Arnett, a soldier in the war of 1812.…