Boone County, KY - Bios:  Duncan, Edward William

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Edward William DUNCAN 2825, Boone Co. 



Surname: Duncan, Graves, Furnish, Kennedy



Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887, Boone Co.



EDWIN WILLIAM DUNCAN, M. D., a practicing physician of Walton, Ky., was born in Boone 

County, Ky., December 30, 1860, and is the second of a family of four children born to 

James W. and Louann (Graves) Duncan. He was reared on a farm and received a collegiate 

education at Georgetown. James W. Duncan, a farmer, was elected circuit court clerk in 

1874, served until 1880, and our subject was deputy clerk under him. Edwin W. began the 

study of medicine in 1882 under Dr. Joseph G. Furnish, of Burlington, Ky., and attended 

the medical lectures of the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, where he graduated in 

1885, March 6. He settled at Belleview, Ky., but remained there only six months, and 

then went to Walton, Ky., where he still continues to practice. Dr. Duncan is a member 

of the Baptist Church; politically he is a Democrat. June 15, 1887, he married Miss 

Lizzie Jane Kennedy, of near Walton, Ky.