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Below is a family biography from the book, History of Kentucky, Edition 7 by J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin and G. C. Kniffin and published by F. A. Battey Publishing Company in 1887.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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JAMES W. BRYAN, of Covington, Ky., is of Irish parentage, and was born near Millersburg, Bourbon Co., Ky., June 9, 1852. He was educated at the Kentucky Wesleyan College, where he graduated in 1873, and the following year removed to Covington, where he began the study of law in the office of ex-Governor, then United States Senator, John W. Stevenson and Judge James O’Hara. He was admitted to the bar in 1875, and shortly afterward became a partner of his preceptors. He is now a member of the firm of O’Hara & Bryan, a firm deservedly ranking as one of the ablest in the State. In 1880 Mr. Bryan was the Democratic presidential elector for the Sixth Kentucky Congressional District, and in 1885 he was unanimously elected to the State Senate of Kentucky from the Twenty-fourth Senatorial District, serving in the session of 1885-86. At the Democratic State Convention held in Louisville on May 5, 1887, he was unanimously nominated as its candidate at the ensuing August election for lieutenant-governor, Gen. S. B. Buckner having been nominated for governor. At the election, August 1, 1887, the whole ticket was elected, Mr. Bryan receiving the largest number of votes cast for any candidate. He is the youngest man ever elected lieutenant-governor of Kentucky, the constitutional age being thirty-five years. In 1880 Mr. Bryan married Miss Virginia Ellis Martin, the youngest daughter of Judge J. B. Martin, of Owen County, Ky., one of Kentucky’s most beautiful and accomplished women.

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This family biography is one of 150 biographies included in the Kenton County, Kentucky section of the book, The History of Kentucky, Edition 7 published in 1887 by F. A. Battey Publishing Company.  For the complete description, click here: History of Kentucky, Edition 7

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