Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B
Lawrence County

HENRY WISE FERGUSON, a native of Wayne County, W.Va., was born June 24,
1855, and is a son of Milton J. Ferguson, who was born in November, 1833, in
the same county, and was a son of Milton Ferguson, a merchant at Wayne Court
House.  Milton J. Ferguson educated himself for the practice of the law, and
when barely twenty-one years of age was admitted to the bar.  He was
subsequently elected prosecuting attorney, practiced his profession until
1861, when at the outbreak of the war he raised the Sixteenth Virginia
Regiment of Cavalry, of which he was the Colonel until 1863, when Brig. Gen.
Jenkins was killed, and Col. Ferguson assumed command of the brigade.  At
the battle of Winchester he was wounded.  At the close of the war he removed
to Louisa, Lawrence County, Ky., resumed his profession and practiced both
in the civil and criminal courts until 1868, when he was elected on the
Democratic ticket of the Sixteenth Judicial District of Kentucky, which
office he held six years, after which he resumed practice, but also engaged 
in other business.  In 1854 he married Martha Wellman, of West Virginia and 
of the children born to this union three are living, Henry W. being the 
eldest.  The death of Milton J. Ferguson occurred April 22, 1881.  Henry W. 
Ferguson received his literary education at the University of Virginia, 
read law under this father, and was admitted to the bar in 1878.  He 
practiced until August. 1886, when he was elected police judge of Louisa. 
In November, 1878, he married Miss Kate, daughter of Roland T. Burns.

Ferguson Jenkins Wellman Burns
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Wayne-WV WV

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