Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

SAMUEL J. READ, JR., is a native Kentuckian, born April 7, 1858, in 
Allen County, on the farm where he now resides, on the middle branch of 
Bay's Fork Creek.  His early life was spent principally in agricultural 
pursuits.  His early education was obtained in the common schools of his 
district.  This he supplemented with one year's study in the Scottsville 
Seminary, where he became proficient in the higher mathematics, and well 
versed in the English classics, after which he followed the profession 
of a teacher for some years with marked success.  His travels have been 
for profit as well as for pleasure.  In 1880 he made a trip through 
Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Canada, visiting Niagara Falls and 
Toronto; his second tour was through Indiana, Illinois and Iowa; a third 
trip took him through the Southern States of Tennessee, Mississippi, 
Alabama and Florida to the Gulf of Mexico, visiting New Orleans and 
other cities by the way.  Since then he has, with the assistance of his 
brother, had charge of his father's farm of 450 acres, which is managed 
very successfully.  Mr. Read is a Democrat, and takes a lively interest 
in the political issues of the day.  He has for the past three years 
held the appointment of deputy county court clerk.  He is an active and 
consistent member of the Baptist Church.  He still retains a state of 
single blessedness.  As a young man of enterprise and ability he 
commands the respect and esteem of all who know him.  For ancestral 
history see sketch of William H. Read.

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