KY-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest 2 Feb 2000 Volume 00 : Issue 30 ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 19:19:08 -0700 From: "Linda Katherine Jenkins-Wensel" Subject: BIO: John D. Simpson, M.D. born Owen Co., Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. Monroe County Biographical Sketches, Clear Creek Township, p.663-664 John D. SIMPSON, M.D., was born in Owen County, Ky., April 23, 1846, is the son of W.G. and Ann (DU VALL) SIMPSON, and is of English ancestry. His parents are of Kentucky nativity. His paternal grandfather was James SIMPSON, a Virginian by birth. He died in Owen County, Ky., in 1868. The literary education of Dr. SIMPSON is far beyond the average, the major part of which he gained at Eminence College, Kentucky. In 1864, he went to Louisville, Ky., and for one year clerked in a wholesale commission house. In that city, in 1866, he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. J.A. BRADY, a leading physician. In 1868, he graduated at the University of Louisville. This same year he came to Heltonsville, Lawrence County, Ind., and began practice. In 1869, he went to Bellevue Hospital, New York, from which he graduated in 1870, and then went to Bedford, Lawrence County, and resumed practice. In 1880, Dr. SIMPSON came to Harrodsburg and continued practice, and engaged in the drug business. The marriage of Dr. SIMPSON took place in 1869, to Miss Mattie MITCHELL, of Bedford, Ind., daughter of Jesse A. MITCHELL. They have one child - James. Dr. SIMPSON is a stanch Democrat and a Mason. Data Entry Volunteer - Linda Jenkins Wensel ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 14:56:02 -0700 From: "Linda Katherine Jenkins-Wensel" Subject:BIO: Jonathan Trisler - born Jessamine Co. Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. Monroe County Biographical Sketches, Clear Creek Township, p. 664 Jonathan TRISLER, including WAGGAMEIER, SILVESTER Jonathan TRISLER, section master at Smithville, was born in Jessamine County, Ky., in 1830, his parents being John and Sarah (WAGGAMEIER) TRISLER; the former a native of Germany, the latter of Kentucky. John TRISLER was a farmer; and when Jonathan was ten years of age, moved to Monroe County, this State, and settled about two miles from Smithville. He and wife were parents of seven children. They are both deceased - he died in 1881, she about 1859. Jonathan was twenty-one when he began supporting himself by working on a railroad, and then farmed for four years, since which time he has devoted his whole time to railroad work, having been a foreman for thirteen years, and has, by his labor, acquired a good and valuable property. Mr. TRISLER is married, his wife being Eliza SILVESTER; they are parents of five living children. Mr. TRISLER is a Democrat, and a liberal, enlightened citizen. Mrs. TRISLER is a conscientious member of the Christian Church. Data Entry Volunteer - Linda Jenkins Wensel ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:10:46 -0700 From: "Linda Katherine Jenkins-Wensel" Subject:BIO: Elijah A. Knight (son of Elijah KNIGHT native of KY) Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. Monroe County Biographical Sketches, Clear Creek Township, p. 666 Elijah A. KNIGHT is a native of Marion County, Ind., was born March 2, 1839, and is one of the eight children of Elijah and Nancy (NORTHERN) KNIGHT; the former a native of Kentucky, and born about 1800. After marriage, he moved to Morgan County, Ind., where he lived until 1838 or 1839, and then became one of the contractors, building the Wabash & Erie Canal, after completing which contract he settled in Boone County, and died in 1845. Elijah A. KNIGHT obtained his education in the primitive schools of the time, and afterward studied at home by the firelight. His father died when he was six years old, and he remained with his mother until his majority, and then purchased the farm of 110 acres, most of which he has retained. In August, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Thirty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in which he served eleven months; then returned, and in September, 1864, entered an unassigned company of the Thirty-third Indiana Regiment, and served therein until the end of the war. February 22, 1871, he married Sarah E. MATLOCK, a native of this county, and to this union have been bestowed five children - four being yet alive - Anna E., Elijah E., John P. and Clarence F. Mr. Knight is a Democrat, has held several civil offices, and is one of the most prominent men of his township. Data Entry Volunteer - Linda Jenkins Wensel End of ky-footsteps-digest V00 #30 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.