HISTORY OF HENDERSON COUNTY, KY.



by whom he had two children, Alexander and Virginia. Alexander
married in London, England, Miss Emma Allen Chunnock, and some
years afterward died. His widow and children are now residents of
Washington City; Virginia is the wife of Major Theodore K. Gibbs,
son of Ex-Governor Gibbs, of Rhode Island, and resides in the City
of New York. Mr. Barret's second wife was Miss Black, of Dublin
Ireland, who died several years since, without issue.

     DAVID REDMAN BURBANK was born March 4th, 1806, in
 Belgrade, Maine. His mother's father was killed at the head of his
 company, at the battle of Bunker Hill, and his father and paternal
 grandfather were officers under General Washington, and served
 throughout the Revolution- His mother was Mary Bracket, a woman
 of superior qualities of mind and heart. His parents, being highly re-
 fined and intelligent themselves, placed great value on the education
 of their children. David R. Burbank was educated at Waterbury
 College, in his native State. He was a constant student and took
 every opportunity throughout his long business career to increase his
 knowledge. therefore, was one of the most thoroughly informed men
 of the country. He came to Kentucky in the fall of 1828, at a time
 when the river was extraordinary low. The steamer upon which he
 was a passenger, grounded at Scuffletown bar, and, from thence to his
 destination, the young man footed it through the wild woods. He
 commenced his business career clerking for Atkinson  Co., but sub-
 sequently turned his attention to tobacco, and became, in the course
 of time, one of the heaviest Western buyers, which resulted in his
 amassing a very large fortune. He was a remarkably successful bus-
 iness man, yet he did not permit one branch of business to absorb all
 of his energies. He opened the first coal shaft; built the first distil-
 lery, one of the largest and most complete in the State; undertook
 the manufacture of salt-in fact, he strove earnestly to develop the
 resources of the region where he lived, encouraged every worthy bus-
 iness undertaking, liberally aided all schemes for the common com-
 mercial advancement, studied the condition of the mineral wealth of
 the State and led in its practical development. He appreciated and
 sought the society of cultivated men, and, but for the multitude of his
 business cares, would have given himself largely to literary pursuits.
 He made several trips to Europe, and, in 1867, in company with Gen-
 eral John C. Breckenridge, made an extended tour through Egypt,
 Syria and the Holy Land, viewing the wreck and ruin of famous cit-
 ies of antiquity. Of all the qualities that endeared Mr. Burbank to
his associates, the one for which he will be the longest and most grate-



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