Jessamine County KyArchives Biographies.....Shanklin, George S. 
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Author: Bennett H. Young

Prolific of Statesmen.

   In one corner of Jessamine county there were six neighborhood boys, living
almost in sight of each other, all of whom played together and attended the same
school. Four of these—George S. Shanklin, Otho R. Singleton, Sam'l H. Woodson
and A. G. Talbott—became members of Congress; the fifth—Jos. B. Crockett— became
one of the most distinguished state judges in America, and was for many years
Chief Justice of California; while the sixth— Richard K. Call—was elected to
Congress from Florida, in 1823. He was Governor of Florida from 1836 to 1839,
and again from 1841 to 1844. Such a record of distinguished services from one
neighborhood is certainly rare in this or any other county.

George S. Shanklin.
   Hon. G. S. Shanklin was the youngest son of John Shanklin, who was one of the
early pioneers, emigrating from Pennsylvania to Kentucky. He settled in
Jessamine county in 1785. He early attended the celebrated school of Joshua Fry.
He was not a politician or time-server. He was a man of a high sense of
integrity, modesty, courtesy and of retiring disposition. He was an able and
successful practitioner of law, a man of most incorruptible honor. He was
elected to Congress in 1865, and represented Jessamine county in the lower house
in 1838, and was Presidential Elector in 1864. The latter years of his life were
spent upon his farm, about three miles from Nicholasville, on the Versailles
turnpike. He died April 1st, 1883, seventy-five years of age.


Additional Comments:

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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