Clark County KyArchives Biographies.....Bright, Ralph January 17, 1817 - 
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Source: Kentucky: A History of the State
Author: WIlliam H. Perrin

RALPH BRIGHT, a native of Clark Couniy, Ky., was born January 17, 1817. His 
father, James Bright, a native of Princess Anne County, Va., was born in 
September, 1776, and was a farmer by occupation. He settled near Winchester, 
Clark County, in an early day, lived for a brief period in Boone County, but 
died in Gallatin County in March, 1865. He married Sidney Gilphin, of 
Wilmington, Del., daughter of Joseph (bom in Pennsylvania) and Elizabeth (born 
in Liverpool, England) (Giles) Gilphin. Five sons and one daughter were born to 
their union, the subject of this sketch being the third child. Ralph Bright was 
educated in the common schools of Gallatin County, in which county he settled 
in 1827. He was reared on a farm, and for some time engaged in merchandising at 
Jackson Landing, in Gallatin County, on the Ohio River. He was magistrate for 
several years, and owns twenty-eight acres of land. He is a Republican in 
politics, a Master Mason, and a member of the Baptist Church.

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