Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
1887, Carroll Co.

ALLEN DONALDSON was born in Georgetown, Brown Co., Ohio, February 4,
1822, and is a son of Andrew and Catherine (Baxter) Donaldson, natives
of Ohio and Virginia respectively.  Andrew Donaldson was one of the 
early pioneers of Brown County, Ohio; he owned the land upon which 
Georgetown now stands, and himself laid the land off in lots for the
town; he took part in the war of 1812, and in 1827 moved to Boone 
County, Kentucky, where he remained until 1852, when he went to 
Illinois; he died in 1855.  The great-grandfather of our subject was
a large estate owner, having owned most of Charleston, and was the 
first man to bore for salt in the State.  The maternal grandfather of 
Allen Donaldson, Allen Baxter, was a native of Virginia, and was one 
hundred and four years old at the time of his death.  Allen Donaldson 
was reared and educated in Boone County, and when a boy learned the 
cooper's trade, which he followed until thirty-five years of age.  In 
1848 he settled in Carrollton, where he engaged extensively in farming;
he owns two farms in Carroll County of 270 acres.  He was elected 
captain of a company raised for the Mexican war, from Boone County, but
the company was not accepted.  In February, 1846, he married Miss 
Amanda Foster, of Boone County, daughter of Samuel Foster, deceased.
Seven children were born to this union: J. A. (county judge), John W.,
Alice A., Allen B., Susan, Mollie and Carrie (deceased).

Donaldson Baxter Foster
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Boone-KY Georgetown-Brown-OH VA IL

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