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The State of Kentucky is situated between 36 degrees 30 minutes, and 39 degrees 10 minutes, north latitude; and between 81 degrees 50 minutes, and 89 degrees 26 minutes, west longitude — and includes all that portion of territory which lies south and westward of a line, beginning on the Ohio river, at the mouth of the Great Sandy river, and running up the same, and the main and north-easterly branch thereof, to the great Laurel ridge or Cumberland mountains; thence south-west along said mountains, to a line of North Carolina. It is bounded north by Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio; east by Virginia; south by Tennessee; and west by the Mississippi river and State of Missouri. It is three hundred miles in length from east to west, and one hundred and fifty miles in mean breadth; and contains 42,600 square miles, or about twenty-seven million acres.
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Biography of Thomas Wright
Thomas Wright of Clark County, Kentucky, has been described in Genealogies and Sketches of Some Old Families, by Benjamin F. VanMeter, 1901, pp. 34-35. This and some other material may be found in the family file in the Clark County Library. I am taking the liberty of copying some of that material (in quotes) and adding other information that I have found. “Thomas Wright removed from Virginia to Clark County about the year 1780, and settled on Prettyrun Creek, on a part of the remaining one half of the Gist land–a part of the military survey of which Thomas Lewis…
Biography of R. S. Scobee
R. S. Scobee, a native of Clark County, KY., was born December 10, 1854, and is the youngest of a family of five children born to Robert and Lucy (Pendleton) Scobee. Robert Scobee, also a native of Clark County, was an enterprising farmer who devoted the whole of his life to agricultural pursuits; he was a son of Robert Scobee, who was a miller, distiller and farmer. Mrs. Lucy Scobee was born in Clark County, KY., a daughter of Rice Pendleton. R. S. Scobee was reared on a farm and received a common school education; he chose farming for an…