History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 729.
[Harrison County]  [Claysville Precinct]

CORNELIUS McLEOD, farmer, P. O. Claysville, is a native of North Carolina
and son of Duncan and Barbara McLeod.  He was born June 12, 1821, in Moore
County, his grandparents were both natives of Scotland, and emigrated to
North Carolina before the Revolutionary War.  The father of our subject was
born in North Carolina in 1799, and in 1826 removed to Knox County, Ky.,
where he followed the occupation of farming to the time of his death,
which occurred in December 1861. Cornelius, our subject, spent his earlier
days with his parents in Knox County, Ky., where he received his education
and assisted in tilling the soil of his father's farm.  In 1842, he removed
to Estill County where he engaged in the manufacture of salt until 1844,
when he removed to Harrison County, where he took contracts for sinking
walls for salt.  In 1846, he engaged in the lumber business, buying and
shipping to Cincinnati.  In 1847, he married Miss Martha J. Kinney, a
native of Harrison County, and daughter of Wyander and Sarah Kinney.  In
the same year, he removed to Clay County, where he followed the occupation
of farming.  In 1852, he removed to Harrison County, again farming until
1861, when he enlisted in the Federal Army, 20th Reg., Co. I., K. V.  He
was discharged from the army Jan. 17, 1865, when he returned home to
Harrison County, and engaged in the mercantile business at Claysville,
which he continued until 1867, when he kept hotel, remaining in the same
until 1873, when he was appointed by U. S. Commissioner of Internal
Revenue as U. S. Gauger, which office he held until 1878, when he again
resumed farming and has followed it since.  He has the following children,
viz: John, Mary M., William A., Belle, Harry and Winder.  He is a
Republican.

McLeod Kinney
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Knox-KY Estill-KY Clay-KY NC Scotland

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