Biography of: Rufus E. Wade  McCracken County, Kentucky

Source; Biographical Sketches from, "Kentucky, History of the State"
Main Author; William Henry Perrin 1887
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Submitted by: Vera Burnham vburnham@metrocast.net
Date: May 28, 2002

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Rufus E. Wade was born in 1847 in Henry County, Tenn. His parents who are
still living and highly respected citizens of Marshall County, Ky. are
Robert A. Wade and Mary Wade, nee Hardy; the former a native of North 
Carolina, and the latter of Kentucky. They settled in the county in which 
they now live in 1854, and reared two children; Rufus E. and Mary, the wife
of S. A. Wade of Marshall County. Rufus E. in his boyhood worked upon his 
father's farm, and meantime attended the schools of the country, completing
his studies in the school of Murray, Calloway Co., Ky. His first occupation
was that of a school teacher, first in Marshall and Livingston Counties, and
later in Texas. Returning from Texas, he went to Paris, Tenn. and learned
the art of photographing which occupied his attention from 1870 to 1876,
principally in Paducah. In 1877 he embarked in his present business that of
tobacco rehandler. Mr. Wade is a man of pleasing address and of fine business
qualifications; as a tobacco trader he does a very extensive business. As an
artist he was attended with marked success, which is so rarely attained by
men of that profession; while as a teacher he proved himself particularly 
efficent. He is ardent advocate of popular edcucation, and for seven years
has been a member of the Paducah board of education and is now president of
that body. In 1871 Mr. Wade contracted a marriage with Miss Mary Johnson, 
daughter of Col. Alfred Johnson, who was Lieutenant- Colonel of the third 
Kentucky Regiment, Confederate Army. Mr. Wade is a member of the Masonic order
and of the Baptist Church. His children are Mary Lela and Frederick Wade.