History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
643.

MICHAEL FERRELL was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1818.  He came to 
America in 1851, landing in New York.  He went to Cincinnati, and worked 
in a brush manufactory nine months.  From there he came to Louisville, 
Ky., and worked in a pork-house three and a half years.  He then, in 
1855, came to Daviess County, and now has a nice home a mile west of 
Owensboro.  He was married in Ireland, in 1850, to Catharine Ryne, a 
native of that country, born in 1827.  They have two children--Katie, 
born in August, 1855, in Louisville, and Annie, born in 1860 in 
Owensboro.  The family are members of the Catholic church.  Mr. Ferrell 
votes the Democratic ticket.

Ferrell Ryne 
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