History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 788.
[Nicholas County]  [Union Precinct]

JOHN B. DURHAM, farmer, P. O. Moorefield, was born in Boyle County, Ky.,
March 9, 1818, to Benjamin and Margaret (Robertson) Durham.  Mr. Durham
Sr., was a native of Virginia, a farmer and blacksmith by occupation,
and died in 1847.  His wife, Margaret, was also a native of Virginia, and
died Feb. 26, 1855.  She was the mother of ten children, of whom John B.,
our subject, was the eighth.  He received a common school education in
Boyle County, and entered upon the life of a farmer.  He was married in
Nicholas County Dec. 7, 1840, to Miss Jane Wilson, who was born in the
same county, March 27, 1820; she has borne to him three children, viz:
Charles W., William A. and Emma W.  Mr. and Mrs. Durham are members of the
Methodist Church.  He is a member of the Masonic Order at Bethel. By his
persistent energy he has amassed a goodly amount of this world's goods, and
now owns 285 acres of choice farm land, to which he has given the name of
Cedar Grove.  He is an ambitious and prosperous farmer, always first in
every public enterprise, fair and honorable in all his dealings with his
fellow men, and prominent for his sterling business qualifications.  His
political sympathies are Democratic.

Durham Robertson Wilson
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Boyle-KY VA

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