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Respess, Jerome B., Sr.
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Fry, E.E.
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Utz, Thomas Adams
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Utz, Harvey F.
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Moore, Mary
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Terrill, Alta
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Chambers, C. Scott
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Carpenter, Benjamin L.
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Tanner, John, Rev.
Reverend John Tanner was the first known settler in Boone County, Kentucky. He settled in Petersburg, Kentucky where it gets the historic name “Tanner's Station” in 1791.
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Milburn, Frank S.
Frank Milburn was an inventor and machinist in Burlington, Kentucky. He worked for the military during World War II, quietly manufacturing parts for the top-secret Norden bombsight, as well as consulting on numerous engineering issues.
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Hempfling, Adam
Adam Hempfling was a carpenter/builder and truck farmer in Constance in the early 1900s. He constructed several houses in the area, including his own.
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Herndon, Eliza Ann
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Allen, Lucy Mosby
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Glackin, William
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Early, Jane
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Sperti, George, Dr.
Dr. George Sperti was born in nearby Covington, Ky. He was the founder of the basic science laboratory of the University of Cincinnati and the founder and head of the Institutum Divi Tomae (Institute of the Divine Thomas).
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Nicholson, George P.
Nicholson owned a contracting firm that built many churches, schools, and residences in Boone County and Northern Kentucky during the early 20th century.
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Tupman, Sarah Ann
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Kay, Tabitha
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Kay, Juliet
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Stephens, Jane Kendall
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Wilson, James Alexander
James Wilson was an early settler in the Carlton District, the first proprietor of the Rabbit Hash General Store, and the first operator of the Rabbit Hash Ferry.
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Tomlin, John G.
"J.G. Tomlin was born in Grant County this State 39 years ago. He received a good public school education, and afterwards attended the Vincennes Indiana, High School, of which he is a graduate, and attended four years without missing a day. He studied under a private teacher at Terre Haute, Ind., one year and was one year in college at Atlanta, Ga. He taught school in Gallatin County in 1884, and began at that time the study of law under the late J.J. Landrum. After teaching 4 ½ years in this county, he served twenty-two months as Deputy Revenue Collector under Col. Landrum.
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Williams, Glenrose
Following the sudden death of her father, Sheriff J.T. Williams in 1944, Glenrose Williams was appointed to be the first female Sheriff in Boone County history.
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Percival, Ira
Perhaps the most well-known of Orrin and Eliza Percival’s children was their third son, Ira, born in 1839. Ira married Susan Jones, daughter of Sam Jones of Walton, in 1859 and began his own family. He was a farmer and businessman, eventually buying the old Farmers Hotel on Main Street in Walton in 1870. Renamed the Percival Hotel, the building burned in a tragic fire in 1871. Soon after the fire, Ira sold the property and moved his family to Union, where he bought another hotel.