History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 461.
[Bourbon County]  [Paris City and Precinct]

WILLIAM DAVIE, distiller; P. O. Paris; is a native of St. Louis, Mo.,
where he was born June, 1838; son of James Davie, who was born in Scotland
about 1793, and came to this country and located in St. Louis in 1832,
and remained here until his death, which occurred in 1869.  The mother of
our subject was Ellen Shields, who was born in Scotland, daughter of James
Shields, who located in St. Louis in 1834; she is yet living.  Mr. Davie
is a self-made man; his father was poor and had nothing in the way of
worldly goods to bequeath to his son, who began upon his own resources,
and for five years engaged in the retail drug business, which he finally
merged into the wholesale trade, continuing in the same for fifteen years
in the city, and did a large and lucrative business. In January, 1867, he
married Kittie Ford, a native of Newport, Kentucky, daughter of Thomas D.
Ford and Matilda T. Helm, the later being a daughter of Major Francis
T. Helm, of Newport.  Mr. Davie came to this county in 1871, and located
in Paris, where he has since resided; during this time he has been
engaged in the wholesale whisky [sic] trade.  In May, 1881, he began the
erection of his large distillery at Millersburg, which was completed in
February, 1882, and which has a capacity of five hundred bushels and is
built with all the modern improvements for the manufacture of sour-mash
whisky [sic] at the lowest possible cost.  James Marshall was a great
uncle of Mr. Davie, who came to Lexington, Ky., in 1798, and settled there,
and for several years was engaged in farming and distilling, sending the
product of his distillery by flat boat to new Orleans, and upon one
occasion sent a large consignment in this manner in charge of a man, who
was never seen or heard of afterward by Mr. Marshall, who became
disheartened and sold his interests there and removed to Bardstown, Ills.,
on the Illinois River, where he spent the remainder of his days.  Mr.
Davie has three children: Kittie F., William F. and James A.

Davie Shields Ford Helm Marshall
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Newport-Campbell-KY Lexington-Fayette-KY MO IL Scotland

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