Anderson County, KY - Bios:  Troutman, H. F.
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H. F. TROUTMAN 3018, Anderson Co. 

Surname: Troutman, Hoagland, Ripy

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, Anderson Co.

H. F. TROUTMAN, son of Michael and Sophia (Hoagland) Troutman, was born in Bullitt County 
March 29, 1844. Michael Troutman, the paternal grandfather, was a native of Pennsylvania 
and settled in Louisville, subsequently making Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, his home. 
H. F. Troutman was reared and educated in Bullitt County, and at the age of nineteen in 1861 
enlisted in Company A, Twenty-eighth Kentucky Federal Infantry, under Col. W. P. Boone, and 
served until the close of the war. He participated in all the engagements under Gen. Sherman 
in the campaign from Atlanta to the sea. In 1865 he engaged in the hotel business at Shepherds-
ville, conducting the business there for five years. He then accepted a position as telegraph 
operator with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, and remained with them three years. 
In 1873 he was appointed United States revenue storekeeper for the Fifth District of Kentucky. 
In 1879 was appointed United States gauger for the same district and filled the position until 
1885. He then accepted a position as general manager for T. B. Ripy, distiller of Lawrenceburg. 
Mr. Troutman is also the principal partner in the firm of Troutman Bros., dry goods and grocery 
merchants of Shepherdsville.