BIO: BONAR, Perry Forman, Pendleton Co., KY ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contributed for use in US GenWeb Archives by the Kentucky Biography Project Date: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 Subject: BIO: BONAR, Perry Forman, Pendleton Co., KY ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***************************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************************** Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., Pendleton Co. PERRY FORMAN BONAR, a native of Pendleton County, KY., was born August 11, 1842, and is a son of James I. and Sarah (Bennett) Bonar. James I. Bonar was born in Pendleton County, Ky., June 11, 1805, and his wife was born in Mason County, Ky., January 25, 1803; they were married May 3, 1832. James I. Bonar was one of the pioneer farmers of Kentucky as well as a school teacher and magistrate; he died in Pendleton County, July 11, 1887, at the age of eighty-two years, one month and eleven days, having survived his first wife twenty-five years, and raised ten children out of a family of eleven. In 1804 he married Ann E. Maddox, who still lives at the age of forty-eight. The paternal grandfather of Perry F. Bonar was a native of Pennsylvania and died at the age of seventy-nine, and his great-grandfather, who was a Revolutionary soldier, died at the advanced age of one hundred. Perry F. Bonar was reared and educated in Pendleton County, Ky., and afterward attended the academy at Maysville, Ky. He then read law, and graduated at the Cincinnati Law School in 1871; beginning the practice of his profession at Falmouth the same year. In 1878 he was elected county attorney and re-elected in 1884, succeeding J. T. Simon. In 1871 Mr. Bonar married Miss Ella L. McLachlan, and six children have been born to their union: Winnie Lula (now deceased), Boyd B., Ralph C., Rob Morris, Harley F. and Norma E. Mr. Bonar is the owner of fine farming lands in Pendleton County, and town property in Falmouth. He is a Mason, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a Democrat. *****************************************************************************