Warren-Simpson-Larue County KyArchives Biographies.....LaRue, Thomas April 12, 1821 - 
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Author: W. H. Perrin - History of Kentucky

THOMAS B. LARUE, M.D., one of the leading physicians of Warren Co., KY., and of 
Huguenot stock, was born April 12,1821 near Hodgensville, LaRue Co., Ky., and 
is the fourth of three sons and three daughters (of whom three sons and one 
daughter lived to be grown) born to James and Phebe (LaRue) LaRue, who were 
born and reared in Virginia and LaRue county, Ky., respecitvely, James Larue, 
with his parents entered Kentucky and settled in what is now LaRue County, 
about 1782.  In his early life he engaged in mercantile business--first, in 
Elizabethtown, Hodgensville and Munfordville.  When he first entered business 
he went on horseback to Philadelphia to purchase his goods.  He was a large 
slave holder, and his later life was spent in farming.  He died in 1857.  The 
mother of Thomas B. Larue was born in 1788, and was a daughter of John LaRue, 
who married Mary Brooks.  They came to Kentucky about 1782.  Thomas B. 
purchased several thousand acres of land which had been located by Daniel Boone 
a part of which land is where Louisville now stands.  LaRue County was named in 
his honor.  Thomas B. Larue was reared on a farm till ten years of age, when 
his father located in Hodgensville, and engaged in the tanning business;  he 
also carried on farming.  Dr. LaRue was educated in the common schools, and 
worked with his father at tanning and farming till he was twenty, when he 
taught school one session;  then went to Elizabethtown, where he was engaged as 
salesman for W.J. LaRue.  When but eighteen he commenced the study of 
medicine.  In 1842 he located in Franklin, KY., and commenced the study of law 
with B.L. Clark, after a short career in a drug store.  He pursued the study 
and practive of law for three years, when he quit law and engaged in mercantile 
business.  After eighteen months' experience he had lost his small fortune, and 
concluded he was not calculated or fitted for mercantile life, and resumed his 
medical studies.  In 1850 he entered the medical department of the Louisville 
University, and graduated from the Nashville Medical College in 1852.  He then 
located at Franklin.  In 1855 he located near Smith's Grove, Warren County, 
where he has successfully practiced his profession since.  Here he accumulated 
little by little till he was the prossessor of 400 acres of fine land.  In 1877 
he sold his land and located in Smith's Grove, where he owns a fine property.  
In November, 1844, he was united in marriage to Mary E. Finn, a daughter of 
John and Frances (Bigger) Finn, who were born in Ireland and Logan County, KY., 
respectively.  Dr. LaRue and wife had born to them two children, one living, 
now Mary E. Shobe.  Mrs. LaRue died in April, 1850, a member of the Baptist 
Church.  In 1853 the Doctor married Sarah A. Shobe, of Warren County, a 
daughter of Absalom and Jane (Dunn) Shobe, the former a native of Virginia, and 
the latter of Warren County.  Mr. Shobe was born in 1803, and is still living,  
His wife, Jane (Dunn) Shobe, was born in 1811, and is a daughter of Lewis Dunn, 
who came from Virginia in the early settlment of Warren County.  The Doctor is 
a member of the Baptist and his wife of the Christian Church.  He has been a 
member of the Masonic fraternity since 1852, and cast his first presidential 
vote for Henry Clay; since the war he has been a Democrat.

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