Harrison County Biographies
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John Harmon Smiser
J. H. SMISER, M.D., P. O. Cynthiana; was born in Harrison County, Ky., July 27, 1638 [sic], and is the son of Denos Smiser, who was born in Harrison County, July 4, 1814, and is now a farmer in Bates…
James K. Megibben
JAMES K. MEGIBBEN, distiller and farmer, P. O. Lair’s Station, was born Clermont County, Ohio, May 15, 1844, to Wm. and Emily (Gelvin) McGibben. His father died when he was but an infant; was taken care of and supported by…
Matthias Lair, Sr.
MATTHIAS LAIR, Sr., farmer, P. O. Lair’s Station; is a native of Harrison County, and son of Charles and Sallie (Anderson) Lair. He was born Sep. 5, 1813. He lived his earlier life with his parents, receiving his education from…
John Lair
JOHN LAIR, farmer, P. O. Lair’s Station, native of Harrison County, and son of Charles and Sallie (Anderson) Lair. He was born in 1825. His father was a native of Virginia, and son of Matthias and Sallie (Rush) Lair. He…
John M. Lair
JOHN M. LAIR, farmer, P. O. Cynthiana, is a native of Harrison County, Ky., son of Matthias C. and Jane (Anderson) Lair. He was born on South Licking, near Lair’s Station, Oct. 7, 1820. His grandparents John A. and Sarah…
Charles Lail
CHARLES LAIL, farmer, P. O. Berry, was born in Harrison County, Ky., Nov. 23, 1846, and is the son of Charles and Louisa (Douglas) Lail. He is descended from one of Harrison County’s old pioneers. His grandfather, John Lail, was…
Mortimer D. Martin
MORTIMER D. MARTIN, farmer, P. O. Robertson’s Station, was born on the farm where he now lives Dec. 5, 1822, and is a son of William and Catherine (Perrin) Martin. He was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, Jan. 4, 1790, was…
Louis M. Martin
LOUIS M. MARTIN, attorney, P. O. Cynthiana. The ancestors of this gentleman on the maternal side came from Maryland. His grandfather, William Martin, reached Harrison County at an early day and settled down to farming. His father, M. D. Martin,…
Andrew Harrison Ward
ANDREW HARRISON WARD, lawyer, P. O. Cynthiana; was born Jan. 3, 1815, in Harrison County, near Cynthiana; his parents were Andrew and Elizabeth (Heddington) Ward. His father was a Virginian and came to Kentucky when a boy with his parents,…
Washington Lafeyette Whitley
W. L. WHITLEY, an illustration of whose farm appears in this work, was born in Harrison county, Kentucky, March eighth, 1844. His father, James Whitley, was born in the year 1809, in Fairfax county, Virginia, and when a small boy…
John Trimble
JOHN TRIMBLE, judge of the “new” court of appeals, was born December 4, 1793, in Clark county, and died July 9, 1852, at Cynthiana, Kentucky. He was a brother of Robert Trimble, judge of the United States district court of…
Christian T. Delling
CHRISTIAN T. DELLING, clothing and furnishing goods; P. O. Cynthiana; was born in Saxony, Oct. 10, 1823, and came to the United States in 1848. He is the only son of Christian A. and Ernestine W. Schneider, both natives of…