Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Warren County.

A. P. DURHAM was born in Allen County, Ky., December 15, 1839, and is a 
son of Rev. John G. and Caroline (Thacker) Durham.  John G. Durham was 
born in Halifax County, Va., in 1813; his wife in North Carolina in 
1813.  The paternal grandfather of A. P. Durham was John Durham, a 
native of Halifax County, Va., born in 1760; he was a soldier of the 
Revolutionary war and had two brothers in that conflict.  They were 
taken prisoners and never heard from afterward.  The great-grand-father 
was John Durham, a native of Maryland.  The Durham family came to 
Kentucky in 1818, and settled in Allen County, in what was known as the 
Carolina District.  There the grandfather of Mr. Durham died in 1842.  
The mother of our subject died March 24, 1870.  John G. Durham joined 
the Baptist Church in 1838; was ordained as a minister in that 
denomination June 30, 1846, and since that time has been in the active 
minstry.  He has baptized more than 2,000 people in that church.  A. P. 
Durham came to this county with his parents in 1856, and settled three 
miles east of Bowling Green.  He was reared on the farm, and obtained 
his education at the country schools.  In the spring of 1868 he came to 
this city, and in the fall of the same year began general merchandising, 
which he continued until 1870, when he began the grocery business which 
he continued until 1880, when he sold his stock of goods and for four 
years was in the employ of the Adams and Southern Express Companies.  At 
the time of his resignation he received a most complimentary letter from 
his employers, and has the assurance of a reinstatement at any time that 
he may desire it.  In January, 1884, he resumed the grocery business in 
Bowling Green and is now doing a good business.  The marriage of Mr. 
Durham occurred in April, 1862, with Phoebe A. Gardner, a native of 
Edmonson County.  To this union was born one child, viz.: John W., 
deceased.  Mrs. Durham died September 5, 1864.  In 1869 Mr. Durham 
married Sallie C. Billingsly, of Allen County, this State.  They have 
one child, viz.; Alfred D.  Mr. Durham is a Democrat.  In December, 
1884, he was elected to the city council.  He became a Mason in 1867.  
He and wife are members of the Baptist Church.

Durham Thacker Adams Gardner Billingsly
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Halifax-VA NC MD Allen-KY Edmonson-KY

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