Spencer County, KY - Biographies, Stout, H. H.
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3524 SPENCER CO - STOUT, H H - Stout Bennett Carolin Cooper Collings

#3534: Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th
ed.,1887, Spencer Co.
DR. H. H. STOUT was born February 5, 1829, near Elk Creek, Spencer County.  
His grandfather, Peter Stout, came to Spencer from Jessamine County in 1807, 
with his son, Elijah, father of our subject.  The Stouts moved from Virginia 
to Jessamine County, Ky., and are of German origin.  Elijah was a farmer and 
mechanic, a devoted member of the Baptist Church, and died in 1867.  
He married Lucy, daughter of Daniel Bennett, of Spencer County, whose father 
came from New Jersey to Kentucky, when there was but a mere shanty at 
Louisville.  Daniel Bennett died in 1850.  The Bennetts were of Scotch origin.  
Mrs. Lucy Stout was a member of the Baptist Church; she died in 1874, in the 
seventy-first year of her age.  The Doctor is the eldest of three children, 
Nancy R. and Lucy being the other two.  He was born and reared on a farm, and 
engaged in merchandising six years.  He received his literary training in the 
common schools and academies of the county, and at the age of nineteen began 
reading medicine.  In 1850 he entered the Louisville University, the Transyl-
vania University in 1853, and graduated at the Kentucky School of Medicine in 
1854.  After graduation he located in Shelby County, and then moved to Elk 
Creek, where he has resided for twenty years.  He is a member of the Baptist 
Church, also of the Masonic fraternity, of which he was a charter Master, and 
served in that capacity ten years.  In 1848 he married Miss Emily Carolin, 
daughter of Matthias Carolin, and who died five months later.  In 1857 he 
married Sallie, daughter of Eliab Cooper, of Spencer County.  She became the 
mother of three children: Leonora, Lucy J. and Mariam K., and died in 1864.  
The Doctor's third marriage occurred in 1874 with Miss Florence Collings,
daughter of Samuel Collings, of Spencer County, a farmer and leading citizen
of that county.  Two children have blessed their union - Zella and Homer H.
Mrs. Stout is a member of the Baptist Church.
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