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Author: Bennett H. Young

S. M. Duncan.

   Mr. S. M. Duncan, who has been one of the most diligent, and faithful of all
the antiquarians in Kentucky, was a son of Alexander Crockett Duncan and Hannah
N. Williams, the latter being; a native of Mecklenburg county North Carolina.
She was born March 8, 1793, and died in 1861. Mr. Duncan's father was born in
Fort Blackamore, Russell county, Virginia, and came to Jessamine county in 1788.
He was an infant when his father, James Duncan, settled within the limits of
Jessamine county. S. M. Duncan was born in Pulaski county, in 1830. He enjoyed
limited advantages of education, but most wonderfully improved them-he only had
three months' schooling. He worked for thirty years at his trade as carpenter,
and learned cabinet-making, which he followed five years, but afterwards gave
that up and returned to his original calling. He has gathered together an
immense amount of material concerning not only the earliest history of Jessamine
county and its people, but in regard to the early history of Kentucky. He has
always had a passion for acquiring old letters and documents, and, but for his
patience and care and labor; not only in the finding, but in the preservation,
of materials, it would have been impossible for any one to write a history of
Jessamine county. Mr. Duncan began this collection of material when quite a
young man. He talked with men who had been in the Revolutionary War, and to
those who had in their minds fresh recollections of the struggles, trials and
dangers of pioneer life in Kentucky. He has written a great deal on the subject,
and deserves the thanks of the people, not only of Jessamine county, but of
Central Kentucky.


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Extracted from:

A HISTORY OF JESSAMINE COUNTY, KENTUCKY,
FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO 1898.
By BENNETT H. YOUNG,
PRESIDENT POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; MEMBER FILSON CLUB; MEMBER CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION, 1890; AUTHOR HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF KENTUCKY, OF "BATTLE OF
BLUE LICKS, ETC, ETC.

S. M. DUNCAN, ASSOCIATE AUTHOR.

Every brave and good life out of the past is a treasure which cannot  be
measured in money, and should be preserved with faithfullest care.

LOUISVILLE, KY.: COURIER-JOURNAL JOB PRINTING CO., 1898.


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