History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 482.
[Bourbon County]  [Paris City and Precinct]

W. W. MASSIE, retired merchant; P. O. Paris.  As one of the descendants
of Bourbon County's early settlers he is the eldest living child of
Jonathan and Mary McCormick Massie, natives of Virginia.  The paternal
grandsire was Thomas Massie, whose ancestors came from the old country,
as did the McCormicks.  Jonathan Massie emigrated to Kentucky from
Virginia when young, riding behind his elder brother on horseback, and
located first in Montgomery County.  He afterward moved to Bourbon
County, where he married, and engaged in tanning--conducting several
tanneries, manufacturing, also, boots and shoes.  He owned and operated on
Stoner, six miles from Paris, the flour mill known as Massie's mill. He
was successful business man, and having accumulated a competency, retired
from business in early life.  He was a man highly respected in social
life, of regular and simple habits, never extravagant in his tastes,
taking no special interest in politics, being eminently a peaceful man
and opposed to strife in any form, social, political or religious, but
was a substantial member of the Commonwealth.  In 1828 he united with the
Baptist Church, under the preaching of Jeremiah Vardeman, but subsequently
connected himself with the Reformed Christian Church, remaining a member
of the same until the time of his death.  Eight children were born to him,
of this number five reached maturity; two sons and three daughters.
William, whose name heads this page, on reaching manhood went to
Philadelphia, where he learned the dry-goods business. In 1846 he returned
to Paris, engaged in merchandising, which he made a success; in 1871 he
retired from active business, having acquired a handsome competence, and
having an elegant and tasteful home, he lives in comparative retirement at
Hidaway, using a portion of his capital in commercial pursuits as a means
of investment.  In 1857 he married Miss Anna E. Dougherty, who was born in
Bath County, in this State, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Jones)
Dougherty.  Mr. Massie has had two sons born to him: Wallace and William
Charlton.  Wallace died Feb. 5, 1879, at Fawkhill Place, Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., while attending a Commercial College.  He was a bright and promising
youth; educated at Michigan University, but death marked him for his
own, leaving a grievous wound from which they cannot recover.  Franklin
Massie, the second son, married Lizzie Kenney, only daughter of Silas
Kenney, of Fayette, and granddaughter of Robert Clark, of Bourbon.  He
settled in Paris, and was for several years associated with his brother
William in business; after a successful career he moved to a farm near
Paris; he made other changes, and finally died at a farm near Muir's
Station, in 1878.  He left two sons; Robert the older, now in business
in Rich Hill, Mo.; William, the younger, a student at Center College,
both being fine young men of bright promise.  Eliza, the eldest
daughter, married Benjamin Ogden, a nephew of Governor Metcalfe, who was
known as the old "Sledge Hammer.:  Mrs. Ogden has three sons and two
daughters: Virgil, Frank, Harry, Belle and Bettie.  Virgil, the elder
son, married Miss Ella Offutt, of Bourbon County, and lives at present
ear Marietta, Ga.  Bettie, the second daughter, married to William
Donney, son of Major Donney, former Prosecuting Attorney for this
district.  Bettie Massie, the second daughter, married Dr. Edward Ingels,
of Paris, who died, leaving one son: Edward Hodge, now a merchant clerk
in Cincinnati.   Mary Gates Massie, youngest daughter of the family,
married B. F. Williams, son of Major G. W. Williams, she also being
dead, leaving two sons: Roger and George, young men of fine business
and social traits, living now in Lexington, Ky.

Massie McCormick Vardeman Dougherty Jones Kenney Clark Ogden
Metcalfe Offutt Donney Ingels William
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Montgomery-KY Bath-KY Fayette-KY OH NY PA VA

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