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The book: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Vol. II
Subtitle: Sketches From Allen, Monroe, Metcalfe, Barren, and Warren Ê
Counties
ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊReprinted From:
ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊKENTUCKY: A HISTORY OF THE STATE
ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊBy
ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊBATTLE - PERRIN - KNIFFIN
ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ[3rd. ed.] 1886
Edited by Thomas W Westerfield
page 204
JOHN L. ROW, Son of Ovel and Hannah (Perry) Row, was born in Robertson Ê
County, Tenn., May 17 1824. His parents were natives of King and Queen County, Va., and had a family of one son and three daughters. Ovel Row was a millwright, immigrated to Kentucky and settled near Harrodsburgh about 1814. He is said to have built the first cottom factory in Kentucky, near Danville; he built another factory in Logan County; later moved to Robertson County, Tenn.; and finally returned to Logan County, Ky., where he spent his last days at farming; he was also a slave owner, and died in 1842, aged sixty-nine years; he was a son of Richard Row, a native of England, and an extensive farmer and slave holder. Mrs. Hannah (Perry) Row was born in Ireland, and was brought to the United States when a child of three years by her father, Joseph Perry, who married a Miss McGoffin.
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