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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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EUSEBIUS C. BAINBRIDGE, physician and surgeon, was born in Owen County, Ky., November 14, 1828. He is the son of Erastus B. and Sarah M. (Foster) Bainbridge. Erastus Bainbridge was born in Fayette County, near Lexington, December 1, 1801. He came to Owen County in 1826, and located on the farm where the subject of this sketch now lives. He was married in 1823, and was the father of three children. He gave his attention to general farming and stock raising. Absalom Bainbridge, paternal grandfather of our subject, was a native of Virginia, and settled in Kentucky at an early day. He was a physician, and a preacher of the Baptist denomination. Isaac Foster, the maternal grandfather of Eusebius C. Bainbridge, was a native of Maryland and a pioneer of Kentucky. He was a farmer by occupation. E. C. Bainbridge was reared in Owen County, where he received his primary education, receiving his literary education at Transylvania University, at Lexington, Ky. In 1846 he began the study of medicine under Drs. Turnbull and Brooks, at Philadelphia, Penn., and attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College, where he graduated in 1850. He then engaged in the practice of his profession in Cincinnati, Ohio, five years, when he married Miss Sarah A. Doxon, of Newport, Ky. He then returned to Owenton and settled on the old homestead farm of 600 acres, where he now lives. He still practices medicine, but devotes a part of his time to raising fine stock. Ho has three children: Hattie, Erastus and Paul. Politically, Dr. Bainbridge is a Democrat, and represented his county in the State Legislature in the session of 1877-78.

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This family biography is one of 55 biographies included in the Owen 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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