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

Robert W. Lampton was born in Winchester, Clark County, Ky., August 15,
1810, a son of James and Susan (Ryon) Lampton, of Kentucky and Maryland.
The Lampton family originated from the house of Durham, of England, the
grandfather of our subject having been one of two brothers of that house who
came from that country in the Colonial days.  The maternal grandfather was
John Ryon, a farmer of Maryland, who early settled in Kentucky.  Robert W.
Lampton was but nine years of age when he left Clark County and settled in
that part of Greenup now known as Carter County.  James Lampton was a
magistrate and Postmaster at Argillite, Greenup County, and died in 1864, at
the age of seventy-four years.  Robert W. Lampton learned the saddlers'
trade when young, but abandoned it in 1845, and for four or five years
clerked at the Old Union Furnace, when he went to the Star Furnace.  These
furnaces had been built by a brother of our subject and his father, and by
them were managed about twenty years, when they were sold.  Robert W. was
appointed Postmaster at Ashland in 1874, and held the office until the
second year of the administration of Cleveland.  He was married in 1850 to
Margaret A. Ellison, and has a family of four children, viz: Andrew E.,
(engaged in the drug business), Hugh, John and Sarah.  Mr. Lampton is a
Republican in politics, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church; he is
also own cousin to the mother of "Mark Twain."

Lampton Ryon Ellison Durham
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Clark-KY MD Carter-KY Greenup-KY England

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