Harrison County Biographies

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Joseph Muntz

JOSEPH MUNTZ, Jr., farmer, P. O. Oddville, born in Harrison County, Oct. 1, 1842. His grandfather, Jacob Muntz, was a native of Prussia, and served in the Austrian Lancers against Napoleon. His father, Joseph Muntz, Sr., is a native of…

Thomas T. Garnett

COL. THOMAS T. GARNETT, farmer and trader, P. O. Cynthiana. Among the early emigrants to Kentucky was Larkin Garnett, who was born in Virginia about 1782, and came to this State in 1807 and settled near Cynthiana, Harrison County, where…

Marcus L. Broadwell

MARCUS L. BROADWELL, deceased; was born in Cynthiana, Feb. 22, 1829, and died July 4, 1870. His father, Asbury Broadwell, was a native of Harrison County, and was born May 29, 1791, and died Dec. 11, 1843. Asbury began merchandising…

Thomas Albert Robertson

T. A. ROBERTSON, farmer, P. O. Smitsonville, is the son of Richard H. and Mary T. (Samuels) Robertson, and was born June 9, 1832, in Shelby County, Ky.; his father was a native of Richmond, Va., and came to Kentucky…

John B. Crouch

J. B. CROUCH, merchant, P. O. Berry, is a descendant of Harrison County’s old pioneers. He being of the third generation of his people who have been residents of the county. He was born Sept. 20, 1829, and is the…

Elon Ward Bramble

E. W. BRAMBLE, distiller; P. O. Lair’s Station; was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1842, to A. L. and Deborah (Stiles) Bramble. His father was born in Pennsylvania, and floated down the Ohio River in a flat boat…

James A. Brown

PROF. JAMES A. BROWN, teacher; P. O. Cynthiana, was born near Millersburg, Bourbon County, Ky., Dec. 9, 1843, and is the youngest of four children, born to Abel and Elizabeth (Pollock) Brown; the former was born March 2, 1801; the…

Johnathan S. Scott

JNO. S. SCOTT, farmer, was born in Sussex County, Del., May 8, 1821, his grandfather, William Scott, was one of five brothers who emigrated from Ireland and settled in Virginia; in 1781, he came from Virginia and settled on Boyd’s…

Peter Puryear Wyles

P. P. WYLES, farmer, P. O. Oddville; born in Mecklenburg County, Va., April 7, 1844. His grandfather Hebbon Wyles, was Scotch-Irish descent and married an English lady. His maternal grandfather, Peter Puryear, for whom our subject was named, was a…

Hervey McDowell

MAJOR HERVEY McDOWELL. Another son of Captain John Lyle McDowell is Major Hervey McDowell, of Cynthiana. With a large, well-formed head, a high, square forehead and prominent brow; a very large, clear, pale blue eye, that looks squarely at you,…

George C. Martin

GEORGE C. MARTIN. For one of the oldest families of the Cynthiana locality and one of the most ancient landmarks of Harrison County, the residents of this region point to the family now represented by George C. Martin and the…

Henry E. Shawhan

HENRY E. SHAWHAN, deceased. Henry E. Shawhan, late president of the National Bank of Cynthiana, farmer, and prominent business man of Harrison County, was born Nov. 20, 1805, and died at his residence, on mile west of Cynthiana, March 4,…