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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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LESLIE T. APPLEGATE, a native of Pendleton County, Ky., was born June 14, 1854, and is a son of James T. and Mary C. (Colvin) Applegate, natives, respectively, of Mason and Pendleton Counties. His maternal grandfather, Birkett Colvin, came from Culpeper County, Va., in the latter part of the last century, and settled on Blankett Creek, Kentucky; he served in the war of 1812, and also as a justice of the peace under the old constitution. James T. Applegate was born in 1819, was for four years sheriff of Pendleton County, and during the recent war served as lieutenant in the Eighteenth Kentucky Infantry. His present residence is a short distance southeast of Falmouth. Leslie T. Applegate was reared on the home farm, was educated at Falmouth and at Danville, and read law under A. R. Clark in 1875, was admitted to the bar in June, 1876, and has been in successful practice ever since. June 15, 1887, he married Miss Sally Menzies, daughter of Judge John Menzies, chancellor of the Twelfth Judicial District of Kentucky. Mr. Applegate is a Democrat in politics, and in 1884 was a presidential elector from the Sixth Kentucky Congressional District. In religion he is a Methodist.

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This family biography is one of 27 biographies included in the Pendleton 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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