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Author: Bennett H. Young

Letcher Saunders.

   Mr. Saunders was born in Nicholasville on October 29, 1864. His father, C. B.
Saunders, died in Nicholasville in 1874. Mr. Saunders was educated in the common
schools of Nicholasville. He is one of the most expert penmen and careful clerks
that have ever served the people of Jessamine. He was a pupil of Prof. A. N.
Gordon, while principal of Bethel Academy, and when sixteen years of age, he
entered the Circuit Court Clerk's office as deputy of Lewis D. Baldwin.
Subsequently he became clerk in the general freight offices of the Louisville &
Nashville R. R. Co., at Louisville. He returned to Nicholasville in 1885, and
one month after his return he was nominated for Circuit Clerk at the Democratic
primary, defeating his competitor by a handsome majority. His conduct of the
office was such that he was nominated without opposition for a second term. As
Circuit Clerk he took the front rank in Kentucky. He married the daughter of
Jas. W. Glass, of Garrard county, January 1, 1887. His grandfather, Austin
Smithers, during the epidemic of cholera in 1855 went through the tents visiting
the sick and caring for the dead and dying. White and black alike received his
attention, and he never wearied in waiting on those who needed his services
during that terrible scourge. Mr. Saunders comes of an ancestry full of humane
and noble characteristics, and his popularity is undoubtedly the result of these
inherited qualities.


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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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