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Thomas A. Montgomery

THOS. A. MONTGOMERY, farmer, P. O. Claysville; was born Feb. 15, 1850, and is the son of James Montgomery, a native of Dauphin County, Pa., who was the owner and successful manager of a leading woolen-mill; he was born in…

Elijah Moore

ELIJAH MOORE, farmer and miller, P. O. Claysville, a native of Bracken County, Ky., was born 1809. His father, Levi Moore, was born in Pennsylvania; he was a farmer and died aged eighty-two years; he was a Whig, and in…

Robert F. Miller

ROBERT F. MILLER, farmer, P. O. Claysville, is a native of Wabash County, Ind., and son of Adam S. Miller; he was born in 1849. His father was born in Indiana in 1820; he was always a farmer to the…

George V. Northcutt

GEO. V. NORTHCUTT, farmer and tobacco dealer; P. O. Trickum; was born in Harrison County, Ky., near Rutland, June 5, 1837; son of John and Agnes (Knox) Northcutt; he, born in 1806, in Harrison County, a farmer and son of…

James L. Patterson

JAMES L. PATTERSON, farmer, P. O. Cynthiana. Among the leading and successful farmers of Leesburg Precinct, none are better or more popularly known than him whose name heads this sketch. He was born in Harrison County in the year 1815.…

Edward D. McAdams

E. D. McADAMS, farmer, Cynthiana. The subject of this sketch was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, in 1814; a son of Armstrong McAdams, who died in 1857, and grandson of John McAdams, who was of Scotch birth. His mother was…

William H. Routt

WILLIAM H. ROUTT, farmer, P. O. Claysville, is a native of Bracken County, Ky., and son of Nimrod and Elizabeth (Howard) Routt. He was born Dec. 10, 1817. His father was born in Virginia in 1786, and died in 1860,…

Higgins C. Smith

HIGGINS C. SMITH, M.D., P. O. Leesburg, son of F. C. and Agnes (Chinn) Smith, born in 1847. His father, Frances C., was born in 1814, and he and wife are still living. She being the daughter of John Chinn…

James H. Shropshire

JAMES H. SHROPSHIRE, Jr., farmer, P. O. Leesburg, a native of Bourbon, having been born in that county in the year 1850. His father, James H. Shropshire, Sr., is an active and energetic farmer of Bourbon, and his grandfather was…

Thomas D. Urmston

THOMAS D. URMSTON, farmer, P. O. Cynthiana, born in the State of Ohio on the 12th of February 1801. His father, Benjamin Urmston, was one of the founders of the now thriving city of Chillicothe, Ohio. He spent his life…