History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 678.
[Harrison County]   [Cynthiana City and Precinct]

HENRY E. SHAWHAN, deceased.  Henry E. Shawhan, late president of the
National Bank of Cynthiana, farmer, and prominent business man of Harrison
County, was born Nov. 20, 1805, and died at his residence, on mile west of
Cynthiana, March 4, 1882.  His parents were Joseph and Sallie (Ewalt)
Shawhan.  His grandfathers, Daniel Shawhan and Henry Ewalt, were both from
Alleghany County, Pa.  His father, Joseph Shawhan, was born in that County,
and emigrated to the State with his parents in 1788 and settled in Bourbon
County.  In 1816 he removed to Harrison, where he died on Sept. 15. 1871.
He was a soldier of the war of 1812; was for several terms a member of the
Kentucky Legislature; followed agricultural pursuits; was of Scotch-Irish
extraction; and was one of the most influential and valuable men in his
county. At the time of his death he owned and had interest in several of
the largest distilleries in the country, and owned more land than any man
in Harrison County.  He was married in the year 1800 to Sallie, daughter
of Henry and Elizabeth Ewalt, of Bourbon County.  The result of his union
was seven children, only one now living, Mrs. Margaret Miller, who lives
with her son, William Miller, in Bourbon County.  She is well stricken in
years.  Sallie Ewalt, our subject's mother, was of German origin, but was a
Bourbon County woman by birth, and also belonged to one of the old pioneer
families of the State.  Her son, Henry E., of whom we write was raised on
the farm, his education being confined to the country schools as organized
in his boyhood days.  He was actively engaged on the farm till [sic] 1869,
in connection with his farming interests, he continued distilling and
buying and selling whiskey of various distillers in the county.  In 1864 he
took an interest in the grocery house of Shawhan & Jewett, of Cynthiana;
the following year formed a partnership with J. Shawhan in the same
business; in the following year bought the interest of his partner, and has
since been sole proprietor of one of the largest grocery businesses in
Cynthiana.  In 1874 he became one of a number of capitalists who undertook
to build a narrow gauge railroad from Mount Sterling to the Mountains, or
the coal and iron region of Eastern Kentucky.  Several miles of this road
are in actual operation and its great local importance is now largely felt.
It is the ultimate purpose of the originators of the valuable enterprise to
terminate the road at Cynthiana.  Mr. Shawhan was for several years one of
the directors of this road and was largely interest in the stock and the
future success of the road.  In 1871 he was elected president of the
National Bank of Cynthiana, which position he ably filled to the time of
his death.  He has always been a Democrat, and during the rebellion his
sympathies were strongly with the cause of the South.  He was a man of
sterling qualities, unmarred by deep prejudices; of plain, unaffected,
honest manners; moved through life without show or pretense; was of
irreproachable integrity of character; and was a man of great physical
endurance.  Mr. Shawhan was three times married: Oct. 20, 1835, to Mary
Varnon, daughter of John Varnon, a Bourbon County farmer; she died in 1842.
Two years afterward he was married to Mrs. Sallie Pugh (nee Cantrill), who
died in 1857.  In 1859 he was married to Mrs. Sallie Cult, a native of
Bourbon County, and daughter of John Ravenscraft, a farmer of that county.
He is the father of eight children by these marriages.

Shawhan Ewalt Miller Varnon Pugh Cantrill Cult Ravenscraft
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Bourbon-KY Alleghany-PA

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