Carroll County, KY - Bios:  Dr. Conn, James V., 1810
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Surname: Conn, Keene, Garnett

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

DR. JAMES V. CONN, a native of Bourbon County, Ky., was born August 11,1810, the son of John M. 
and Mary (Keene) Conn, natives of Virginia, and of English extraction. He graduated from the 
medical department of Transylvania University in March, 1834, and settled in the practice of 
medicine and surgery in Burlington, Boone Co., Ky. He successfully and profitably pursued his 
profession for twelve years, resigning the practice of medicine in April, 1840, and moving to 
Carrollton, where he now resides, and has ever since been engaged extensively in banking and 
speculating in real estate. He was requested by many business men of the town to use his 
influence in having a bank located at this point, which he promptly managed (with the assistance
of others) to have done, by getting a branch of the Southern Bank of Kentucky organized and 
placed in successful operation, he being appointed president of the institution by the board of 
directors in 1852. The bank was managed with skill and profit to the stockholders, as was shown 
by winding up its affairs at the close of the war. He also assisted in organizing the First 
National Bank of Carrollton, in 1881, and became its vice-president, resigning these positions 
in each instance for the purpose of pursuing his private business. On the 15th of May, 1839, he 
married Mary E. Garnett, a member of an old and prominent family of Boone County, and now the 
mother of five children living: Henry L. (who served with the Confederates in the recent war, 
located in St. Louis, Mo., and now traveling in Europe with his family), Mary E., Nora B., 
Fannie C. and Susie G. The daughters are all happily married and settled near him. The Doctor 
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.