History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 770. [Nicholas County] [Carlisle City and Precinct] S. M. WAUGH, dry goods merchant, Carlisle, born Nov. 28, 1838; his father was Archer S. Waugh, born in Nicholas county in the year 1801, and died Jan. 5, 1871; he was a man held in high esteem by the citizens of the county, which was manifested by conferring upon him the honors connected with the offices of Sheriff, Coroner, Constable and other positions of trust, all of which he held about thirty years. The mother of our subject, who is still living, was, as maiden lady, Miss Matilda Piper, born in Nicholas County in September 1803, to James R. Piper, Sr., an early and prominent farmer of said county. Archer S. Waugh by this marriage had eight children, who grew to maturity; four are now living, viz: Eliza, wife of John Wright of Nicholas County; Wm. H. (see history), James H., a banker in Columbia, Mo.; Samuel who received a limited district school education, beginning in the mercantile business early in life as a clerk in the dry goods house of Chappell, Bruce & McIntyre, where he remained four years; he then formed a partnership in business under the firm name of Campbell, Waugh & Metcalf, thence into the firm of W. P. Bruce & Co.; then became a member of the firm of Adair, Waugh & Ewing, from which he returned to the firm of Chappell & Co., now with the business house of Peale & Chappell. He is Democratic, politically and a member of the Presbyterian Church. Waugh Piper Wright = MO http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/nicholas/waugh.sm.txt