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

GEORGE DONIPHAN, a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Ward) Doniphan, was born in
Augusta, Ky., January 23, 1861.  Joseph Doniphan was a lawyer by profession,
and a leading member of the Bracken County bar.  He enlisted at the opening
of the war in the Sixteenth Kentucky Infantry, where he attained the rank of
Colonel.  George Doniphan was reared in Bracken County, and was educated at
the University of Rochester, at Rochester, N.Y., where he graduated in 1880.
He then attended the Cincinnati Law School, where he graduated in 1884 and
began his practice in Augusta.  Mr. Doniphan is a Democrat politically, and
was elected Mayor of the city of Augusta on that ticket in 1886.

Doniphan Ward 
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NY KY

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