Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B Bracken County DR. J.H. HOLTON was born near Germantown, Bracken County, Ky., August 15, 1830, and is the eldest of six children born to James H. Holton. James H. Holton, a son of John Holton, was born in 1798, and was a farmer and a school teacher for twenty-five years. John Holton, a son of William and Ann (Fee) Holton, was born near Minerva, Mason County, Ky. Mrs. Ann Holton was a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Bradford) Fee, of Scotch-Irish descent. The Holtons are of English descent, and came to Kentucky from Virginia. John Holton was a member of the Christian Church, of which church his wife was also a member, though she formerly affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. Dr. J.H. Holton, subject of his sketch, was born and reared on the farm where he lived until twenty-two years of age, receiving his education in the schools of his native county, and at the age of twenty-two he began the study of medicine under Drs. Fisk and Doughty, of Germantown, and subsequently attended the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, O., where he graduated in 1855. He began practice at Germantown, where he lived twenty-seven years, removing to Maysville, Ky., in 1882. In December, 1855, the Doctor married Miss Ann Harrod, of Bracken County, a daughter of W.S. Harrod, a farmer of that county, member of the family who founded Harrodsburg, Mercer County. To Dr. and Mrs. Holton has been born one child, Garrette, who is a graduate of Hahnemann College, Chicago, and is in partnership with his father in Maysville. Dr. Holton is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and also of the Christian Church. Holton Fee Bradford Harrod Fisk Doughty = Mason-KY Mercer-KY VA OH http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bracken/holton.jh.txt