History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 502.
[Bourbon County]  [Millersburg Precinct]

GEORGE W. BRYAN, lawyer and Police Judge of Millersburg, P. O.
Millersburg.  The Bryan family, as settlers of Bryan's Station, and from
their close connection by marriage with Daniel Boone, bore no unimportant
part in the early history of Kentucky.  Daniel Boone, in 1755, when about
twenty years of age, married Rebecca Bryan, whose family, as well as
Boone's, were living at that time near Wilkesboro, N. C.  On Sept. 25,
1774, Boone with his family emigrated to the country which he had
previously (in 1769) explored as far as the Kentucky River, and thither
Morgan, James, William and Joseph bryan, brothers of Boone's wife, shortly
followed with their families.  They shared with the other adventurous
spirits all the dangers and hardships to which they were subject.  In
1779, with emigrants principally from North Carolina, those four brothers
settled the Bryan Station neighborhood, and built the fort that is now
historic.  It would require much space to recount the narrow escapes of
these families from the murderous tomahawks of the lurking, skulking
savages, or the personal deeds of prowess and heroism and the struggles
and privations of those brave men and women.  From Joseph Bryan are
descended the family now residing in Fayette County.  This branch spell
their name with a "t", and in the way Bryan's Station has been and is
improperly called Bryant's Station.  From Morgan Bryan are the Bourbon
County family; he was born May 20, 1729, and married Mary Forbes.  From
this marriage sprang George Bryan, Sr. who fought in the Revolutionary
war, and at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.  He emigrated with
his father from North Carolina, and was married in the fort at Bryan's
Station to Elizabeth Neal Rogers, in May, 1780, being the first marriage
solemnized in the State of Kentucky.  Roasted corn was handed around to
the wedding guests in lieu of cake, and mush and milk took the place of
ices on this and similar occasions.  He was married a second time fifty
years later, to Mrs. Cassandra Miller, and died upon the 22d day of
November, 1845, in Springfield, Ill.  A singular incident concerning Mr.
Bryan's life, is the fact that he suffered from a severe attack of
whooping cough when over eighty years of age.  To his wife, Mary, was
born William S., March 17, 1785, at Bryan's Station.  He was one of the
first settlers of the City of Paris, where he spent the greater part of
his life.  He was by occupation a saddler and harness-maker, and
amassed quite a fortune by strict attention to business.  "Uncle Billy"
as he was familiarly called by his acquaintances, was always ready to
assist a friend in need, and at his death the majority of his estate had
gone to pay surety debts.  He married Judith Field, Jan. 25, 1811, and to
them were born three sons: William H., Geo. W. and Robt. T., and a
daughter, Eliza; Wm. H., the eldest son, married a Miss Bartlett, of
Louisville, Ky.; by her he had two daughters--Blanche and Florence.  He
was a merchant in New York, Millersburg, Louisville and Chicago, where
he now resides with his family; Eliza became the wife of Frank Tucker, of
Bourbon County, and died without issue shortly after marriage; Robt. T.,
the youngest son, graduated in the classical department of Bethany
College, Va., in 1844, and in the medical department of the University
of New York in 1848.  He married a Miss Kenney, of Bourbon County, in
1849; by her he had one son, Robert. K., a dentist by profession, in
Georgetown; he married a second time in 1853, to a Miss Mary E. Offutt,
of Fayette County; by her he had three children: Frank, who is associated
with his father in the practice of medicine at Georgetown, Ky.; George and
Ella, who married Wm. S. Rogers, of Fayette County; George W. Bryan, the
second son of Wm. S. Bryan, was born Aug. 23, 1815, and married Elizabeth
A. W. Miller, Jan. 15, 1839; he was a merchant in New York and
Millersburg, principally in the latter place; he identified himself and
his interests with the house of his adoption, and after a useful and an
honorable career, died of Asiatic cholera on the 8th of Aug., 1849.  He
had three children; the two older died young; Geo. W., the youngest, was
born July 19, 1848; he graduated in the classical department of the
Kentucky Wesleyan College, in 1869, and the law department of Columbia
College, New York, in 1872; he is a lawyer by profession; has been
elected Police Judge of his native town (Millersburg) three consecutive
terms.  He has twice traveled over European countries.  He and family are
the only representatives of their branch of the Bryan family in Bourbon
County.  He was married to Miss Mary E. Owens, daughter of Charles and
Eliza J. Owens, on the 13th day of October, 1868.

Bryan Boone Bryant Rogers Miller Field Bartlett Tucker Owens Kenney 
Offutt Miller Forbes
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