Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Anderson Co.

H. F. TROUTMAN, son of Michael and Sophia (Hoagland) Troutman, was born in
Bullitt County March 29, 1844.  Michael Troutman, the paternal grandfather,
was a native of Pennsylvania and settled in Louisville, subsequently making
Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, his home.  H. F. Troutman was reared and
educated in Bullitt County, and at the age of nineteen in 1861 enlisted in
Company A, Twenty-eighth Kentucky Federal Infantry, under Col. W. P. Boone,
and served until the close of the war.  He participated in all the
engagements under Gen. Sherman in the campaign from Atlanta to the sea. In
1865 he engaged in the hotel business at Shepherdsville, conducting the
business there for five years.  He then accepted a position as telegraph
operator with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, and remained
with them three years.  In 1873 he was appointed United States revenue
storekeeper for the Fifth District of Kentucky.  In 1879 was appointed
United States gauger for the same district and filled the position until
1885.  He then accepted a position as general manager for T. B. Ripy,
distiller of Lawrenceburg.  Mr. Troutman is also the principal partner in
the firm of Troutman Bros., dry goods and grocery merchants of
Shepherdsville.

Troutman Hoagland Ripy
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Shepherdsville-Bullitt-KY Louisville-Jefferson-KY PA

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