Hart-Barren County KyArchives Biographies.....Garnett, Richard E. September 17, 1855 - 
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Author: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume II, Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, 3th ed., 1886

DR. RICHARD E. GARNETT was born September 17, 1855, in Barren County, Ky., 
where he grew up and resided until 1885; he then removed to Hart County, where 
he now resides; his father, Joseph R. Garnett, was born September 20, 1817, 
also in Barren County. He bean life as a farmer, and afterward engaged in 
keeping hotel in Glasgow, Louisville and Richmond, Ky. While in Louisville he 
was proprietor of the old United States Hotel. Joseph R. was a son of Richard 
Garnett, who was born in Virginia in 1775, and was the first clerk of the 
circuit court of his circuit, which office he held until the adoption of the 
new constitution. He, Richard, was a devoted and earnest member of the Baptist 
Church, and held the position of chief clerk of all the associations. He was 
one of the largest land owners of his county, and died in his ninety-eighth 
year, highly respected, by all who knew him. He, Joseph R., married in June, 
1838, Lucinda Clark, and took a weeding trip to Indiana on horseback. To them 
were born Everard (deceased), Clara (deceased), Lee (deceased), Nellie 
(Shirley), Reuben (deceased), Katie (deceased), Eugenia (Murray),  Richard E., 
Alice and Theodocia H. Richard E. married June 17, 1880, Mattie, daughter of 
John M. and Emily (Owens) Wilson, of Hart County.
>From this union sprang Lucinda C. and John W. After finishing his 
>common
school education, Richard E. attended for one year \the University of Chicago, 
and two years at the University of Virginia, and afterward took a medical 
course at the University of Louisville, from which he graduated in the class 
of 1880, and immediately commended the practice of his profession at 
Hardyville. After two years' practice Dr. Garnett removed to Barren County, 
where he remained two years; he has recently returned to Hardyville, where he 
has a drug store, to which he attends as well as to his practice; he is a 
member of the Baptist Church, and in politics a Democrat. 


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