An overview of the early days of Mercer County, Kentucky, and biographies of some of the county's prominent residents from the late 1800s, are combined with a brief history of the state in this new 62-page book.
The spiral-bound book includes biographies from the 1880's book, Kentucky: A History of the State by J.H. Battle, W.H. Perrin and G.C. Kniffin, excerpts from Kentucky, a Guide to the Bluegrass State, a 1939 product of the WPA Writer's Program, and information from various internet sources.
The tri-color front cover is printed on 80# card stock and has been protected with a vinyl sheet. The text is printed on 60# opaque 8.5" x 11" paper.
This is our second book on Mercer County, Kentucky. The other one is more concerned with the history of the county, and is in combination with Boyle County. For the most part the books contain different material, although some information from the WPA book is in both.
The individual biographies often shed light on the area and the times, including the Civil War era, as well as providing specific genealogical data. Listings for Mercer Grain and Coal Co. and Mercer National Bank are among the biographies, which include: Benjamin C. Allin, George Bohon, Edmund Burrus, F. P. Burrus, L.D. Cardwell, Dr. William A. Carry, John Hawkins Champion, Larkin C. Chumley, J.E. Cogar, George D. Coleman, Robert E. Coleman, William Grant Cooke, Samuel L. Curry, Samuel P. Debaun, Samuel Demaree, W.D. Finnell, the Forsythe family, Dr. M. Leander Forsythe, Dr. Nathan Gaither, Charles Webb Gaitskill, Charles Peyton Graham, Dr. Stephen Hanna Grooms, John G. Handy, Smith Hansford, Judge Charles A. Hardin, Dr. J.E. Hawkins, James Weathers Hawkins, W.A. Holman, Judge John W. Hughes, Jacob Huguely, W. L. Jarvis, Bryant Owsley Jones, James Milton Jones, Welch Jones, Judge John Glover Kyle, J. Y. Leavell, Charles Alexander Lillard, Ezekiel William Lyen, James J. McAfee, James McGarvey, the Willis-McGee family , John Beverly Mann, J.H. Matheny, Daniel Lawson Moore (picture), Dr. James Harrison Moore (picture), James Lewis Neal, Dr. W.C. Nelson, Lewis T. Payne, Rev. Bernet Johnson Pinkerton, Dr. Henry Plummer, Dr. John West Powell, Dr. John Lewis Price, William Logan Reed, William H. Riker, Dr. W.H. Roach, John S. Robinson, Zack Robinson, Jefferson Robards Jr., Dr. William Otho Robards, G.M. Slaughter, John Kemper Slaughter, Dr. Charles Harvey Spilman (picture), Dr. Andrew Tribble Stephenson, W.M. Stine, Charles Blount Sullivan, Rev. B.F. Taylor, Samuel Taylor, George W. Vanarsdall, John Wesley Vanarsdall, Jackson Vanarsdell, William Alfred Vanarsdall, J.B. Van Cleave, William Bush Vivian, Atterson Lewis Walden, John Auguston Williams, Henry Clinton Willis, James Wood, and H.T. Young.
The WPA excerpt includes a small map of the area and a stop at Harrodsburg with Pioneer Memorial State Park, Graham Springs, Morgan Row, and several other points of interest.
Wouldn't this make a unique gift?
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