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JESSE R. ALLPHIN, a native of Gallatin County, was born December 30, 1857. His father, James D. Allphin, a native of Boone County, Ky., was born in 1827, and was a farmer by occupation. He settled on the farm in Gallatin County, where our subject now resides, and where he lived until his death, which occurred in 1886. He enlisted in the Confederate Army, in George Terrell’s company. Fifth Kentucky Cavalry, under command of Col. D. H. Smith, Gen. Buford’s division, but after the battle of Stone River he was transferred to Gen. Morgan’s command, was captured at Buffington Island, imprisoned at Camp Douglas, Chicago, and discharged in January, 1865; he took part in the battle of Murfreesboro and others. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a Knight Templar; he married Elizabeth Roberts, a native of Boone County, and a daughter of Jesse and Sarah (Bowman) Roberts, who bore him three sons and one daughter, the subject of this sketch being the eldest. Ransom Allphin, the grandfather of Jesse R., a native of Virginia, settled in Boone County, Ky., and was an active participant in the war of 1812. He took part in the battles of the Thames, River Raisin and others, and died in Boone County in 1852 at the age of sixty-five. Jesse R. Allphin was reared on the farm, and entered Lebanon College, at Lebanon, Ohio, in 1878, from which institution he graduated with high honors in 1882, having taken a classical and scientific course. In 1885 he began the study of law, with a view to making it a life-long profession, under John E. Smith, of Lebanon, Ohio; he taught school at Collirene, Ala., and also in Gallatin County, Ky., since which time he has confined his attention to reading law. Mr. Allphin owns 210 acres of good land. Mr. Allphin has but one brother living, Ransom Allphin, born February 12, 1866, who resides with his mother, at their home in Gallatin County.