Simpson County KyArchives Biographies.....Adsit, John H. November 24, 1842 - unknown
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Author: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, Volume 4, 3rd edition, 1886

JOHN H. ADSIT was born November 24, 1842, in Ontario, Canada. His is the fifth
of three sons and five daughters born to Silas and Ann (Pursel) Adsit, who were
born respectively in New York and Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Silas Adsit was a
clothier of German descent, and immigrated to Canada about 1837, where he lived
until his death in 1850, at the age of fifty-one years. John H. As raised in
Toronto, Canada, where he received a common school education, and by
self-allocation he has succeeded in acquiring a large fund of general
information. When a lad of eleven years he left his mother and commenced the
trade of carriage-making with Owens & Williams, of Toronto, and remained for six
years. He then enlisted in the One Hundredth Regiment and went to England, where
he remained two years; then returned to Canada. About six months after his
return, at the age of twenty-one, he went to Detroit, where he engaged at his
trade, thence to Cincinnati and later Murphysborough, Ill. In the spring of 1808
he located in Franklin, Ky., where he has since been engaged in the manufacture
of carriages, etc., and sale of his own and other makes. He owns the only
establishment of the kind in Franklin. He married, in January, 1868, Amy N.
Yarbrough, of Russellville, Logan Co., Ky., a daughter of Benjamin B. And Nancy
(Graham) Yarbrough, of Virginia and Logan County, Ky., respectively, and early
settlers of Kentucky. To Mr. and Mrs. Adsit one child, Benjamin S., as born. Mr.
Adsit and wife are members of the Baptist Church. He is one of the best informed
Masons in the county. Is also a member of the K. of H. In politics is a Democrat
and cast his first presidential vote for Tilden.


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