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Title: A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, E. Polk, 1844- Lewis Publishing Company
Subjects: Kentucky -- History Kentucky -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rice, wife of T. M. Rus-sell, also of Maysville, Kentucky. Mr. and)\Irs. Holmes have no children of their own,but have brought up since she was twoyears ofage the daughter of Mrs. Holmes brother,Elizabeth Johnson Pollitt. Affiliated during his entire life with the Re-publican party, Mr. Holmes invariably sup-ports its principles at the polls. Fraternallyhe is a member of Daugherty Lodge, No. 65,A. F. & A. M.; of Nicholas Chapter, No. 41,R. A. M.; and of Carlisle Commandery, No.18, K. T. , Robert Walter Switzer is engaged in thegreat basic industry of agriculture in Harrisoncounty, Kentucky, where he operates a finefarm of one hundred and seventy acres, eligiblylocated on Leesburg pike, two and one-halfmiles distant from the village of Leesburg. Mr.Switzer was born in Scott county, Kentucky,in the vicinity of Georgetown, on the 12th ofDecember, 1856. He is a son of Nathaniel andSusan (Shropshire) Switzer, the former ofwhom is deceased and the latter of whom is If ubuc -J^^ #k»T«R
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//J^^^n^ CyLn^iy^i^9 HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS 1417 now residing with her son, the subject of thisreview. Nathaniel Switzer was a native ofIreland, where his birth occurred on the i6thof August, 1814, and whence he came toAmerica, alone, when a youth of sixteen yearsof age. He proceeded immediately to Bour-bon county, Kentucky, where he entered uponan apprenticeship at the saddlery trade. Hewas married on the i8th of September. 1838,to Miss Susan Shropshire, who was born inBourbon county, Kentucky, on the 21st ofOctober, 1816. Nathaniel Switzer removed toScott county, Kentucky, where he purchased afarm and where he passed the residue of hislife, his death having occurred on the 14th otJuly, 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Switzer became theparents of eight children, and of the numberbut two are now living,—Howard, of Norfolk,Virginia, and Robert Vv., of this sketch. Mrs.Switzer is a daughter of Abner and Susan(Foster) Shropshire, both of whom were bornand reared in Bath county, Virgini

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