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

J. ROLAND MADISON is a native Kentuckian, born in Warren County on the 9th
of January, 1847.  His father, Joel R. Madison, was born in Lynchburg,
Culpeper County, Va., May 1, 1815, and came to Kentucky with his parents
when a boy.  He married a Miss Mary Herrington, a daughter of John
Herrington, of Simpson County.  To this marriage were born six sons and
five daughters, all of whom lived to be grown.  Their names are Nancy R.,
John W., Mary A., James R., Lucretia C., J. Roland., William F., Milton
B., Eliza E., Finis E and Letitia A.  Joel Madison was one of the
successful farmers of Warren County.  He was also the proprietor of
Madison's Mills, situated on the middle fork of Drake's Creek, where he
located at an early day.  He was, in his day, a man of remarkable strength
and endurance; was a successful hunter, and paraticipated largely in the
hardships which the first settlers had necessarily to encounter.  He was a
captain of the militia, and held the office of magistrate in Warren County
for many years.  His original name was Alcock, and by special act of
Legislature was granted that of Madison.  His brothers reside in Virginia,
and retain the family name.  They are lineal descendants of President
James Madison.  Joseph Alcock, the father of Joel Madison, was by birth a
Virginian.  He came to Kentucky at an early day, and located in Logan (now
Warren) County, where he reared a large family.  His vocation was that of
a farmer.  J. Roland Madison, at the age of seventeen, became a student in
Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky., from which institution he
graduated in English literature, mathematics, civil engineering and the
collateral sciences, in 1870.  In the following year he took up the
profession of teaching, which he abandoned later on account of poor
health, and took a tour through the Northwest, and for a time was employed
as a civil engineer on the Chigago & North-Western Railroad; then engaged
in bridge building for the King Bridge Company, of Cleveland, Ohio. He
aftrward taught school in Illinois for a short time, aftr which he
returned to Kentucky, arriving only in time to attend the funeral of his
father.  For the next nine or ten years he was engaged in teaching in
Logan and Warren Counties.  He has also developed considerable talent as
an artist, his crayon sketches and portraits being scarcely inferior to
the works of the best artists in that line.  In 1883 Mr. Madison turned
his attention to agricultural pursuits, though he practices his art as a
recreation.  He was married, on the 24th of December, 1884, to Josie E.,
daughter of G. W. and Hester Campbell, of Warren County, Ky.  Mrs. Madison
is a member of the Baptist faith.  Mr. Madison is a ruling elder in the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of which he has been a member many years. 
He is a patron of schools.  Politically he is a Democrat, but only takes
an interest in politics in behalf of his friends.

Madison Herrington Alcock Campbell
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Lynchburg-Culpeper-VA Simpson-KY Logan-KY Lexington-Fayette-KY OH IL

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