Franklin County, KY - Bios:  Pruett, John W.
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John W. PRUETT 4803, Franklin Co. 

Surname: Pruett, Conover, Samuel, Blanton, Hodges, Todd

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

JOHN W. PRUETT, a native of Frankfort, was born June 24, 1848, and is the second and only 
living son of John W. and Amy A. (Conover) Pruett, natives of Frankfort and Lexington, Ky. 
His grandfather, Robert Pruett, was a native of Virginia, and of French extraction. His 
ancestors first settled in New Amsterdam, N. Y., but after the Revolution moved to Maryland 
and Virginia. John W. Pruett, Sr., was a printer, and for several years editor and proprietor, 
jointly with A. G. Hodges and Thomas Todd, of the Frankfort Commonwealth. He died in 1863 at 
the age of forty-eight years. Mrs. Pruett was a daughter of James Conover, of Lexington, but 
a native of New Jersey. John W. Pruett, Jr., was reared in Frankfort. His first start in 
life was as page in the Kentucky Senate in 1863. His father at the time of his death was 
sergeant-at-arms, when our subject succeeded him and served three terms, and then went into 
the State auditor's office under W. T. Samuel; he had charge of the revenue department and 
remained three years. In 1869 he went to Cincinnati, and entered the auditor's office of the 
Adams Express Company; remained there until 1870, when he returned to Frankfort and became 
runner in the Branch Bank. He is now teller, to which position he was promoted successively. 
He was also the first United States storekeeper in the Seventh Revenue District, stationed at 
Frankfort, and had charge of several important distilleries under Johnson. Mr. Pruett was 
married October 10, 1878, to Miss Lina Blanton, of Frankfort, daughter of Alexander Blanton 
(deceased). To this marriage one child, John W. Jr., was born October 19, 1879. Mr. Pruett is 
a Mason, and an officer in the Grand Commandery of Kentucky.