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Renaker, John Garner
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Gordon, Mary
"Mary Gordon was born in Hampstead, New Hampshire and attended a local school where her future husband, Silas, taught in the 1790s. The couple married in 1806 but she remained in New Hampshire to give birth to their eldest child while Silas prepared a home for his family in Mississippi. The couple eventually had seven children, though only two sons survived to adults. Following the vicissitudes of her husband's career, she was very pleased when James and Martha Dinsmore became her neighbors in 1842." --Cathy Callopy
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Ferguson, Martha Munro
"Martha was born in New York, the daughter of Isabella Selmes and Robert H. M. Ferguson. Much of her childhood was spent in the mountains of southwestern New Mexico. A very outgoing and well-traveled young lady, Martha married Charles Breasted, the son of Egyptologist James H. Breasted. The couple had four children. It was Martha who made the decision to turn the Dinsmore home over to the Dinsmore Homestead Foundation as a museum. Upon her death she chose to have her body cremated and have the ashes buried with Julia Farley Loving, who took care of her when she was young." --Cathy Callopy
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Greenway, Isabella Selmes
"Like her mother before her, Isabella was born on the Dinsmore farm. Although educated in St. Paul and New York, she often returned to Boone County to spend her summers. At the age of nineteen, Isabella married Robert H. Munro Ferguson, nineteen years her senior. They had two children, Martha and Bobby. One year after Robert died of tuberculosis, Isabella married his good friend, John C. Greenway and the couple had one son, Jack. Following Greenway’s death, Isabella started her own furniture company, the Arizona Hut, and then designed a hotel on the edge of Tucson, Arizona, called the Arizona Inn. It is a historic inn and is still owned and managed by her descendants. " --Cathy Callopy
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Flandrau, Sarah Gibson
"Sally was the daughter of Isabella Dinsmore and Charles Flandrau. She was born at the farm in Boone County and was named for Isabella’s close childhood friend, Sarah Gibson Humphreys. Raised by her Aunt Julia, Sally attended Miss Porter’s school in Connecticut and in 1891 she married Frank Cutcheon. The childless couple had homes in Santa Barbara and Long Island and then inherited the Boone County farm when Julia Dinsmore died in 1926. " --Cathy Callopy
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Selmes, Tilden Russell
"Tilden was born in Hannibal, Missouri, to Tilden and Sarah Benton Selmes. A graduate of Yale, he moved to St. Paul to practice law. It was there that he met and married Patty Flandrau. The couple moved to Tilden’s ranch near Mandan, Dakota Territory, where they befriended Teddy Roosevelt. Tilden was diagnosed with stomach cancer at the age of forty-one and died at the Dinsmore farm. " --Cathy Callopy
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Flandrau, Martha Macomb
"The eldest daughter of Charles and Isabella Dinsmore Flandrau, Patty, as she was called, was born on the Dinsmore farm. After her mother’s death in 1867, she came to Boone County to live with her grandpa and Aunt Julia. She attended Miss Nourse’s school in Cincinnati where her interest in writing and drawing was encouraged. At the age of twenty-one Patty married Tilden Selmes and the couple had one child, Isabella. After Tilden’s early passing, Patty ran a ham business on the farm. Her intelligence and wit attracted men like Teddy Roosevelt and Gutzon Borglum. " --Cathy Callopy
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Dinsmore, Isabella Ramsay
"Isabella was the eldest child of James and Martha Dinsmore and was the only one of the three to marry. She wed her first cousin, Charles Flandrau, in the parlor of the main house in 1859. The couple made their home in Minnesota where Flandrau was a respected lawyer and one-time judge. When she was pregnant, first in 1861 and then in 1866, she returned to Boone County to give birth in her father's house. When the youngest was seven months old, Isabella died - likely from complications from the birth. Julia brought the children, Patty and Sally, back to Boone County to raise them." --Cathy Callopy
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Dinsmore, Susan Bell
"Susan was the youngest of James and Martha Dinsmore's three daughters. Her early death at the age of fifteen was a great tragedy for the faily. On a boating excursion on Lake Erie, she and her cousin, Mary Ann Goodrich drowned when the boat sprang a leak. Already interested in the popular movement of Spiritualism, James Dinsmore became a committed practitioner after his daughter's death. " --Cathy Callopy
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Funk, Charles William
Charles William “Bill” Funk was born October 29, 1928, in Covington, Kentucky. He graduated from St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1946 and served in the U.S. Navy from 1946-1948. He then attended St. Mary's College & Seminary, initially studying for the Catholic priesthood before deciding his future would be in law. He graduated from the Salmon P. Chase School of Law (then in Cincinnati, Ohio) in June 1960. In July of that year, he was admitted by the Kentucky Bar Association to practice law in the state.
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Fitzgerald, William
William Fitzgerald was Mayor of Florence during the 1950s. He also helped create Big Bone Lick State Park and was President of the Kentucky Historical Society. He took most of the photographs of Florence from the 1950s and 1960s in the Boone County Library's digital collection.
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Hudson, William E.
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Hudson, Samuel W.
Samuel's farm was located on the north side of Chambers Road.
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Hudson, Margaret J.
After her husband's death in the 1870s, Margaret moved in with her brother Newton and his family. She is recorded in their home in the 1880 census.
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Hudson, Newton G.
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Rice, Shirley
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Rice, Abe Stansifer
According to his draft registration card, Abe was of medium height, stoutly built, with red hair and brown eyes.
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Rice, Benjamin Lewis
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Ferguson, Bruce S.
Bruce Ferguson was born in Covington, KY in 1929, son of Walter and Shirley Rice Ferguson. Bruce studied law and Agriculture at the University of Kentucky from 1947-1951. In 1967, Bruce earned a BA in history and political science from Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, KY.
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Douglas, Alexander Jackson
Alexander Jackson Douglas, the son of William Douglas and Margaret Edgington, was born in March 1827 in Richland County, Ohio. He first married Mary Jenner. After her death he married Sarah Jane Cassell on July 20, 1876 in Noble County, Indiana. They had three children together.
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Roberts, Thomas Zane
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Roberts, Thomas [1]
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Utz, Abel
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Utz, James Madison
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Utz, Kittie Ella