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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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PERRY FORMAN BONAR, lawyer, a native of Pendleton County, Ky., was born August 11, 1842, and is a son of James I. and Sarah (Bennett) Bonar. James I. Bonar was born in Pendleton County, Ky., June 11, 1805, and his wife was born in Mason County, Ky., January 25, 1803; they were married May 3, 1832. James I. Bonar was one of the pioneer farmers of Kentucky as well as a school teacher and magistrate; he died in Pendleton County, July 11, 1887, at the age of eighty-two years, one month and eleven days, having survived his first wife twenty-five years, and raised ten children out of a family of eleven. In 1864 he married Ann E. Maddox, who still lives at the age of forty-eight. The paternal grandfather of Perry F. Bonar was a native of Pennsylvania, and died at the age of seventy-nine, and his great grandfather, who was a Revolutionary soldier, died at the advanced age of one hundred. Perry F. Bonar was reared and educated in Pendleton County, Ky., and afterward attended the academy at Maysville, Ky. He then read law, and graduated at the Cincinnati Law School in 1871; beginning the practice of his profession at Falmouth the same year. In 1878 he was elected county attorney and re-elected in 1884, succeeding J. T. Simon. In 1871 Mr. Bonar married Miss Ella L. McLachlan, and six children have been born to their union, viz.: Winnie Lulu (now deceased), Boyd B., Ralph C., Rob Morris, Harley F. and Norma E. Mr. Bonar is the owner of fine farming lands in Pendleton County, and town property in Falmouth. He is a Mason, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically he is a Democrat.

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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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