Kenton County, KY - Bios:  McGlasson, Benjamin F.
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Benjamin F. McGLASSON 2849, Kenton Co. 

Surname: McGlasson, Barton, Tupman, Davidson

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887, Kenton Co.

BENJAMIN F. McGLASSON was born in Kenton County, Ky., March 24, 1836, and is the second 
of four children born to William and Alice (Barton) McGlasson. William McGlasson was 
born in Boone County, near Florence, June 11, 1813. He was a son of William McGlasson, 
a native of Virginia, who came to Kentucky and settled in Boone County about 1808, where 
he lived and died. William McGlasson, Jr., was also a farmer, and followed that occupation 
all his life. He lived and died in Kenton County. Alice Barton was born in Boone County 
May 1, 1811, was married in 1830, and had four children: Missouri, Benjamin F., Virginia 
and Laura. Benjamin F. McGlasson was brought up on the farm, and received a common-school 
education. He has followed farming from boyhood, and in 1857 he moved to Missouri and 
remained there until 1860, when he returned to his native county in Kentucky, and settled 
where he now resides in 1877. He has 150 acres of land. September 17, 1867, he married 
Anna E. Tupman, a daughter of Francis S. and Margaret (Davidson) Tupman, of Kenton County. 
For the past twenty years Mr. McGlasson has devoted the most of his time to the dairy 
business. He is a member of the Christian Church. Politically he is a Democrat.