Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B,
Boyd County

Millard F. Hampton, circuit clerk of Boyd County, Ky., was born in
Catlettsburg, June 15, 1849, and is the only son of Levi J. and Elizabeth
(Henderson) Hampton, natives of Virginia.  Levi J. Hampton settled in Boyd
County about 1835.  In the recent war he was Adjutant of the Thirty-ninth
Kentucky Infantry (Federal), and while in command of three or four companies
was killed near Prestonburg, in December, 1862.  M.F. Hampton was reared in
Catlettsburg, but was educated at the Asbury University, Indiana, which he
attended from 1865 to 1867.  In the latter year he returned to Boyd County,
Ky., and began the study of law under John W. Hampton, at Ashland.  In 1868
he entered the circuit clerk's office under Oliver Hampton, under whom he
served as deputy six years, and in 1874 was elected to the office of clerk,
the third term of which he is now filling.  January 20, 1873, Mr. Hampton
married Miss Kate, eldest daughter of Capt. Wash Houshell, and to this union
one child has been born, Augustus, in 1874.  Mr. Hampton is an efficient
officer, and is an honored member of the I.O.O.F.

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