Harrison County KyArchives Biographies.....Crosthwait, William P. October 20, 1814 - unknown
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Author: History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882

WM. P. CROSTHWAIT, farmer, P. O. Rutland, was born in Harrison County, Oct. 20,
1814; his grandfather died in Virginia under the old British law, hence all the
property was inherited by his oldest brother, Shelton. The brother was a
wholesale merchant, and very wealthy; upon one occasion he gave a dinner to some
of his friends and was accidentally shot by one of his guests. Wm. Crosthwait,
the father of our subject, was born in Virginia and came to Kentucky about 1793,
being then about twenty-one years of age; he settled on Mill Creek, about two
and one-half miles west of Cynthiana, where he engaged in farming and working at
the carpenter's trade; he was a soldier of the war of 1812-15; he died in 1833,
aged about sixty years. W. P. Crosthwait, for whom this sketch was prepared,
married first, Jane, daughter of Ellen (Robinson) Faulconer, of Harrison County,
whose birth occurred the same date of his own; they had four children, named
respectively, Louisa, Mary E., Wm. T., and Susan; his wife died April 24, 1842;
and July 7 of the same year, he was married to Emily, daughter of John and
Elizabeth (Rodgers) Hutcherson, of Harrison County; by this wife he had six
children named, respectively; Sarah, Elizabeth, Lizaett, Jno. P., James M.,
Henry F. On the 9th of April, 1860, he was afflicted with the loss of his second
wife, and on the 3rd of Oct. of the same year, he married Maria Trimble, of
Virginia, who bore him two children: Louisa E. and Maggie M,; he is now a
widower for the third time; he has had thirty-nine grandchildren, thirty-six of
whom are living; he was elected to the Magistracy of his precinct in 1850; he
resigned in 1861; he is a Democrat, also a member of the Baird Presbyterian
Church of Scott County. 


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