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HENRY W. HAND was born in Calloway County, Ky., in the year 1838. His father, Henry Hand, was one of the most extensively and favorably known of all the citizens of the Purchase. He was a native of Smithland, Ky., and afterward removed to Marshall County, where he became the first clerk of the county and Circuit Courts, a position he occupied about sixteen years. He married Miss Felicia Bogard, who is now living and by whom he had four children, Henry W. being the eldest. The father died in August, 1883. Henry W. attended the common schools, early became a deputy under his father, and after acquiring a practical business education, he went to Paducah, Ky., and engaged as a salesman in the mercantile business. On the breaking out of the war, in 1861, he entered the Third Kentucky Regiment, under the Confederate general, Tilghman; he was wounded at the battle of Shiloh; then became clerk for Gen. Preston; next became adjutant, and when surrendered at the close of the war, was a member of Gen. Roane’s staff. After the war, Mr. Hand returned to Paducah and engaged for Ashbrook, Ryan & Co., in the wholesale grocery business. In 1881, he formed a partnership with T. J. Atkins, in the wholesale grocery trade, which connection existed until May, 1884, when the present firm of Bogard & Hand succeeded the firm of Atkins & Hand. Mr. Hand is a member of the Masonic order, Knights of Honor, A. O. U. W., I. O. O. F., and of the Methodist Church. He was married in New Albany, Ind., in 1874, to Miss Hallie Carson.