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Below is a family biography from the book, History of Kentucky, Edition 1 by J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin and G. C. Kniffin and published by F. A. Battey Publishing Company in 1885.  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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JOHN S. LINDERMAN, a prominent farmer of Ballard County, was born in Spencer County, Ky., October 8, 1836, and is the fifth of ten children born to Samuel and Margery (Goodwin) Linderman, natives of Kentucky, and of German and Irish descent respectively. Subject’s father was the son of Abe Linderman, a farmer; his mother, a daughter of John Goodwin, also a farmer, who was eighty-one or eighty-two years old at his death. Our subject was reared on a farm and received an ordinary education; he came to Ballard County in 1805 and settled, where he now resides, on 350 acres of land, 175 of which are improved and in a good state of cultivation. He is the architect of his own fortunes, having started in life without a dollar. He was married in February, 1873, to Ellen Boland, of Ballard County, a native of Alabama and a daughter of John and Elizabeth Boland. There were born to this union two children : Eveleen and Rosco. Mrs. Linderman is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Linderman cast his first presidential vote for Stephen A. Douglas and has always voted with the Democratic party.

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This family biography is one of 186 biographies included in the Ballard County, Kentucky section of the book, The History of Kentucky, Edition 1 published in 1885 by F. A. Battey Publishing Company.  For the complete description, click here: History of Kentucky, Edition 1

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