Pendleton County KyArchives Biographies.....Lightfoot, George Colvin January 15, 1804 - unknown
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Author: Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky, J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878

George Colvin Lightfoot, Retired Merchant, was born January 15, 1804 in 
Pendleton County, Kentucky. He is the fourth son in a family of thirteen 
children, who parents were William Lightfoot and Leannah Colvin Lightfoot, both 
natives of Culpeper County, Virgina. His father was a farmer; emigrated to 
Kentucky as early as 1793; first settled at Washington, Mason County, Kentucky, 
but shortly after located in Pendleton County, where his father, John B. 
Lightfoot, perhaps taught the first school ever taught in Pendleton County. In 
1833, William Lightfoot removed to Rush County, Indiana, where he resided until 
a few years before his death. The Lightfoots emigrated from Staffordshire,
England, at a very early day, and were related to the celebrated Dr.
Lightfoot, who gained some celebrity in connection with the revision of the
Scriptures. They settled in Virginia, and intermarried largely with the
Lees, one of the old and distinguished families of the State. His mother was
the daughter of John Colvin, of Culpeper County, Virginia, who was a
substantial farmer. The subject of this sketch was raised on a farm near
Falmouth, Pendleton County, Kentucky, acquired a limited education is such
schools as the county then supplied; at the age of twenty years, took up his
residence in Falmouth, and after a few years began merchandising; in 1847,
removed to Covington, Kentucky, took charge of the Madison House in that
city; remained there five years, and then, returning to Falmouth took charge
of his hotel (The Jefferson House) in that place, and also resumed the
mercantile business. After having spent thirty years as a merchant, he
chiefly retired from business about the close of the rebellion, now only
superintending the management of his hotel. He was for many years a
magistrate in Falmouth, and has held various positions in the regulation of
the affairs of the town; and has, for a half century or more, been
intimately and favorably identified with the various interests of the
community. He was originally a Whig, but, after the dissolution of that
party, became a Democrat; and during the war of the rebellion, his
sympathies and principles placed him on the side of the South. He has been,
for thirty years, a Mason in good standing, and for the same length of time,
a member of the Christian Church; and has always been noted for his
integrity of character, his fine personal and business habits, and his
unassuming social manners; and now, at his advanced age, few men exhibit
such general elasticity and vigor and show such high perservation,
physically and mentally. Mr. Lightfoot was married, June 10, 1830, to Miss
Malinda O. Holton, daughter of Elijah Holton of Falmouth, Kentucky. He has
but one child living, Laura H. Lightfoot, who married John H. Bass of Fort
Wayne, Indiana.
 


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