Grant County, KY - Bios:  Blackburn Family

Posted by Sandi Gorin on Thu, 18 May 2000



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BLACKBURN Family 4427, Grant Co. 



Surname: Blackburn, Points



Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 1901, 

reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical Society.



THE BLACKBURN BROTHERS. We doubt very much if there is another instance on record in the state 

of four brothers all in one family and two of them being twin brothers at that, all cashiers of 

first class local banking institutions. They are the sons of the late Robert J. Blackburn, in 

his day one of the county's leading citizens. Each of them were sent to the best country schools 

and later in life graduated at some first-class school of learning and started in life well 

equipped for the work that has since fallen to the lot of each. The eldest of the boys is W.T.S. 

Blackburn, the popular and affable cashier of the Dry Ridge Deposit Bank. He was elected cashier 

of that bank at its organization now more than ten years ago and has held his position to this 

day, and it has been largely through his efforts that the bank has grown to its present splendid 

proportions. He is today the oldest cashier in this part of the state and has been prominently 

connected with the organization of half a dozen other banking institutions, and it was largely 

through his efforts that his other brothers were placed in similar positions. Jake Blackburn is 

the cashier of the new bank recently organized at Germantown, in Bracken county, this state, and 

is proving his worth as a cashier and good business man in that institution. The other two boys 

are the twins, Everett R. and E. E. Blackburn. They look so much alike that their best friends 

can hardly distinguish them apart. Edwin is the eldest in the banking business of any of the 

group excepting W.T.S., having been made the cashier of the Jonesville Deposit Bank some half 

dozen years ago. He was married two years ago to the charming and cultured daughter of Dr. J. T.

Points, of Sherman, this county, Miss Edna. One child has bless this union. Everett E. is the 

cashier of the Berry Deposit Bank in Harrison county and was elected to that position some four 

years ago when the bank was first organized. The bank has flourished from the day of its opening 

and is today one of the strongest country banks in the state. Everett is very popular with his 

people and a substantial business man. He was married to Miss Vevie Points, daughter of Dr. J. T. 

Points, and sister to the wife of his twin brother, in 1896, and two children have gladden their 

home. He is the only Democrat in the Blackburn family, all of the other boys being staunch 

Republicans. What a great pity it is that Robert J. Blackburn, the father of all these boys could 

not have lived to this good day and had the pleasure of seeing his boys each doing well.

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