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Title: A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, E. Polk, 1844- Lewis Publishing Company
Subjects: Kentucky -- History Kentucky -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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en sixteen Educated in the splendid private school of the years of age he severed .the ties that bound late B. B. Sayre at Frankfort, he at first en- him to home and fatherland and courageously gaged in banking as cashier of a bank at Ver- set forth to seek his fortunes in America. The sailles, Kentucky, going later to Lexington immigrant boy made the voyage to the United where, in company with others, he conducted States on a sailing ship and after a long and a private banking institution. During the war, weary trip covering a period of six weeks he he turned his active mind to other business in- disembarked in the city of New Orleans, terests, the condition of the country not being whence he made his way up the Mississippi conducive to the peace of mind of bankers, and Ohio rivers to Covington. He came to The war ended, he found himself the possessor this city as a stranger in a strange land and of a young wife, a fine education, some busi- at that time there were few who could pre-
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