Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887, Boyle County. WOODFORD G. DUNLAP was born March 26, 1860. He is a son of George W. Dunlap and Nancy E. Jennings, to whom eleven children were born: Eugenia (Potts), Mary D. (Denny), John J. (deceased), George W., Jr., Victor (deceased), Woodford G., Frank H. (deceased), Alfred V. (Deceased) and Nannie (deceased), and tow who died in infancy. George W. Dunlap, a lawyer and politician, was born in Fayette County, Ky., February 22, 1813, and was a son of George Dunlap, who was a native and farmer of Fayette County. He filled various official positions in this county and died in 1851; his parents came from Virginia and were of Scotch descent. Mary (Downton) Dunlap, wife of George Dunlap, was a daughter of Richard Downton, an early pioneer of Fayette County. George W. Dunlap graduated at Transylvania University, Lexington, in 1834; began the study of law, and, by teaching school, secured means to enable him to attend law school and graduated in 1837; located at Lancaster in 1838 and at once secured a good practice. In 1843 was appointed master commissioner of the Garrard Circuit Court and held the office until 1874; was elected to the Legislature in 1853; in May, 1861, was a member of the Border State Convention at Frankfort; in the same year was elected to Congress and served through the XXXVII Congress; was chairman of the committee on the navy department and member of the committee on finances. He had been a strong advocate of the Whig doctrine, but during his latter life was independent in politics. He educated his family by sending them to the best colleges of the country. His wife was a daughter of John Jennings, a farmer of Garrard County. She was also a granddaughter of William Jennings, an early pioneer of Garrard County. G. W. Dunlap died of paralysis of the heart June 6, 1880. Woodford G. Dunlap graduated at Centre College, Danville in 1879. He then established and edited an independent paper called the Lancaster Enterprise for one year; afterward moved to Chicago, where he was engaged in managing a large printing establishment until 1884. He is now editor of the Danville Tribune, an influential Republican newspaper, published at Danville, Ky. In politics he is a Republican and bends all of his energies and talents toward the advancement of his party. He is considered to be one of the foremost Republican editors of the State. He was married to Ella B., daughter of Gen. W. J. Landram, on October 26, 1880. The issue from this union is two children: Eugenia P. and George W. His sister, Eugenia (Dunlap) Potts, is the authoress of a work called "Song of Lancaster," containing the early pioneer history and brought down to 1874. Her husband, Richard Potts, was a surgeon in the Confederate Army. Dunlap Potts Denny Downton Jennings Landram = Fayette-KY Garrard-KY VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/boyle/dunlap.wg.txt