Grant County, KY - Bios:  Menefee, B. F.

Saturday, April 8, 2000



Submitted by;  sgoring@glasgow-ky.com  (Sandi Gorin)

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B. F. MENEFEE 4273, Grant Co. 



Posted by Sandi Gorin on Sat, 08 Apr 2000



Surname: Menefee, Simmons, Hogan, Ranton



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

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



HON. B. F. MENEFEE came into the world in 1857, and is now in his 45th year. He is a brother of 

the two Drs. Menefee, being the second child in a family of seven, six boys and one girl, all of 

whom are living, save William, the oldest. B. F. Menefee is the son of S. G. Menefee, of near 

Crittenden. He went to school at Crittenden till [sic] he had secured a fair common school 

education and then went to school at the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, where he 

graduated. He came back to Grant and began teaching. He taught several terms in the schools of 

the county, among them being Crittenden and Williamstown, and was eminently successful in his 

profession. But he was not satisfied to spend his life as a school teacher, and he began the 

study of law with the firm of Simmons & Hogan and was admitted to the bar in 1882 and immediately 

began the practice of his profession. He was town attorney of Williamstown for one term and 

served the town of Crittenden several years as Police Judge. Though of a Republican family, Ben, 

as he is familiarly called, is a Democrat and has never voted any other ticket in his life. He 

has been a candidate for a county office on more than one occasion, but always withdrew before 

the election, and just as his friends believed he had the fight won. He is a member of the 

Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a most honored one. His law practice in Crittenden has of 

late years reached large proportions, extending throughout Boone, Kenton and Grant. At the last 

term of the Grant Circuit Court he was elected by the members of the Grant County bar as special 

judge for the term and served throughout the continuance of the court with much credit to himself 

and honor to the county. He is possessed of a ready fund of wit, is a capital story teller and a 

perfect mimic, and always has a crowd around him during court to listen to his anecdotes. No 

member of the bar has more friends than he and fewer enemies. Ben was marred in November, 1887, 

to Miss Mary Ranton, a handsome and highly esteemed lady of Crittenden. To their union two 

children have been born, a boy and a girl.

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