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, 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, 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,…

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, 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, 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…

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…

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, 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…

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…