Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

HENRY K. PUSEY, M.D., Superintendent of the Anchorage Insane Asylum, was
born in Meade County, Ky., January 2, 1827, and is a son of Joel and Ann
(Roope) Pusey, natives of Maryland.  He was reared on a farm and educated
in the schools of Meade County.  He read medicine, and graduated from the
Medical Department of the University of Louisville in 1849.  He commenced
the practice of medicine at Garrettsville, Meade County, and successfully
practiced there until 1882, when he went to Louisville remaining there
until 1844, when he was appointed by Gov. Knott superintendent of the
Insane Asylum at Anchorage, which position he still holds.  He was married
in 1851, to Miss Sarah McCarty, of Marion County.  The Pusey family is of
English origin, and can be traced back eight and a half centures [sic] in
Berkshire, England.  Running through all these years, the name has
undergone many changes of orthography, having been spelled Pesey, Pesie,
Pesye, Pose, Pusye, Pyssey, Pusey, Pewte, Pewsey and Pecote.  In the
celebration Doomesday Book, completed in 1086, and embodying the results of
the survey ordered by William the Conqueror, the name is registered "Pesie"
or "Pesei."  Here the family have resided from the time of the Danish King
Canute, fifty years before the Norman Conquest.  From this family, Dr.
Pusey, the subject of this sketch, traces directly his lineage.

Pusey Roope McCarty
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Meade-KY Marion-KY MD

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