PREFACE.



BEGUN as a paper to be read at a meeting of
      The Filson Club, this history has reached such
proportions that it may be termed a book.  For more
than three years it has been in hand -not worked upon
constantly, but never out of sight. Much time has been
consumed in making research after small details which
add to the completeness of the work.
   It is with great pleasure the names of the following
friends are mentioned, who have assisted the author
by affording opportunities for securing family histories:
Messrs. John J. Harbison, Henry D. Robb, and James
Henry Funk, of Louisville; Honorable John Geiger, of
Morganfield, Kentucky; Judge B. B. Douglas and WV. C.
Wilson, Esquire, of Corydon, Indiana; Judge Charles P.
Ferguson and Colonel John Keigwin, of Jeffersonville,
Indiana, and Mrs. Susan E. Ragsdale, of Bowling Green,