from Hancock County, Kentucky – Biographies David T. Beauchamp, Hancock County, was born in this county January 26, 1835, and is a son of Robert C. and Sarah A. B. (Stowers) Beauchamp. The father was born in the fort at Georgetown, Harrison County, Kentucky, in 1800. His father, […]
Cheston Hutchinson. The village of Morrisville can boast of no worthier nor more dutiful citizen than the gentleman whose name appears above, who was for many years a prominent contractor and builder in that community, but who has recently been living in retirement owing to ill health. He […]
This is a rather long read, but I was entranced – and became more so the further I read! I do so love the biographies that I find! I hope you do, too! from Leading Events In Johnson County Iowa History That branch of the Turner family, of […]
from Mercer County, Kentucky – Biographies William Logan Reed was born May 19, 1819, in Lexington, Kentucky, where he was reared until 1835, when he was sent to Kelley’s High School, at Harrodsburg. In 1836 he commenced to learn the tanner’s trade with his brothers and spent two and […]
from History of Kentucky Illustrated, Edition 3 Hart County, Kentucky Captain Isaac R. H. Caldwell was born in Green County, Kentucky, at Mount Gilead, on Skinhouse Branch, October 28, 1839, and is one of six children, only two of whom are living, born to Robert H. and Elizabeth […]
from History of Clayton County, Iowa Embert Bergemeyer, the present efficient and popular sheriff of Clayton County is a Norwegian by birth, but a thorough American at heart. He was born in the city of Christiania, Norway, June 8th, 1877, the son of Elias Bergemeyer. He came to […]
from Clayton County, Iowa, History and Biography David G. Griffith was a resident of Clayton County for about thirty years and gained prestige as one of the able and successful representatives of the newspaper business in the Hawkeye state. At the time of his death he was associated […]
from History of Clayton County, Iowa, Volume 2 Peter B. Green was born on the 5th of June, 1853, and passed his entire life in the State of Iowa, where he rose to prominence and large prosperity as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of Clayton county […]
from Mercer County, Kentucky – Biographies George Bohon, a native of Wayne County, Kentucky, was born July 4, 1849. His father, William F. Bohon, a merchant in Wayne and Mercer Counties, was born in November, 1810, in Mercer County. He began the battle of life with no property, […]
from History of Kentucky, Illustrated, Volume 3 Walter W. Evans Walter W. Evans was born on the 25th of January, 1815, in Barren County, Kentucky, and was the eighth of nine children born to Alexander and Nancy (Warder) Evans, the former of whom was a native of Culpeper […]
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