John Brisco Bolling August 25 1825 - unknown
Mercer-Boyle County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin

DR. JOHN BRISCO BOLLING was born August 25, 1825, seven miles west of Danville, 
Ky., and he has always retained his residence in that part of Mercer now known 
as Boyle County. His father, Dread Bolling, a native of Albemarle County, Va., 
was brought in childhood by his parents, to Mercer County, Ky., where they 
located on Shawnee Rum. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, a major in the 
militia, represented Mercer County in the Legislature six times as a Democrat, 
was a farmer and slave owner, and died in 1847, at the age of fifty-eight 
years. He was the son of William Bolling, a Virginian, a farmer and correct 
business man, who died in 1835, at the age of seventy-eight years. He married 
Mary White (cousin to Hon. Hugh L. White, of Tennessee), and from their union 
sprang Dread, Mary (Wilson), Knight, Glover and Howell. Dread was twice 
married, first to Miss Mary, daughter of Thomas Davis, of Mercer County (died 
in 1832), and to them were born Elizabeth (Greenwood), Nancy (Curry), Silas, 
John Brisco, and Jeremiah (deceased). William's second wife was Mary 
Kimberlain, of Washington County, and their offspring were Thomas M. 
(deceased), George (deceased), Mary E. (Dorsey), and Rachael (Bottom). John 
Briscoe was first married in 1847, to Miss Susan, daughter of Dr. Nelson and 
Jane Crane, of Perryville (born in 1823, died April 10, 1876), but from this 
union there was no issue. May 15, 1877, he espoused Miss Lucy J., daughter of 
David and Lucy (Kirk) Cleaver of Lebanon, Ky. (born May 31, 1842). In 1843 Mr. 
Bolling commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Nelson Crane, and in 1850 
graduated at the medical department of the University of Louisville, and since 
that time has been successfully engaged in the practice of his chosen 
profession at Perryville. After the disastrous battle of Perryville, Dr. 
Bolling, though entertaining Southern sentiments, was for several months 
employed by the General Government as a surgeon in the hospitals in the 
vicinity, and received ample compensation for such service. Dr. Bolling is a 
member of the I.O.O.F., and of the Baptist Church, is an aggressive 
prohibitionist and a Democrat.


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