Grant County, KY - Bios:  Littell, James A.

Posted by Sandi Gorin on Tue, 14 Sep 1999

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James A. LITTELL 3594, Grant Co. 



Surname: Littell, Sipple, Gough



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

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



JAMES A. LITTELL is a son of James M. and Sarah (Sipple) Littell, and was born in Grant County, 

June 18, 1849. His grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His father was a 

Missourian, while his mother was a native Kentuckian. There were eight children in his father's 

family, three boys and five girls, four of whom are yet living. He was born and reared to 

manhood on his father's farm. He went to school in the winter and assisted in the manifold 

duties incumbent on a farmer in the summer. His education was limited to the common schools. 

For a number of years he owned and operated a distillery a short distance from Williamstown, 

but later sold out his distilling interests and embarked in the retail liquor business near 

Williamstown. He was married June 16, 1869, to Miss Barbara Gouge, daughter of the old war 

horse of Democracy. T. J. Gouge. To this union five children have been born, only two of whom 

are now living, Zadah, a very handsome young lady, and Tol, and handsome and intelligent 

youngster of ten or twelve years. In politics Mr. Littell is a Democrat, and has never voted 

anything else than the Democratic ticket. He is kind-hearted and a man of good impulses.