Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 
1885, Butler Co.

JOHN W. CORDER, Butler County, was born in Allen County, Ky., March 26,
1834, and is the eldest of four children born to Benjamin R. and Malinda
(Durham) Corder, both of whom were natives of Virginia and of Scotch and
German descent, respectively.  When only an infant, Benjamin R. Corder's
parents removed from Virginia to Allen County, Ky., then almost an
unbroken wilderness.  There Benjamin R. received his early education;
married and engaged in agricultural pursuits all his life; in early life
he learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed in connection with
farming for many years.  His death occurred in March, 1867, in his
fifty-sixth year.  He and wife were life-long church members, he of the
Missionary Baptist, and she of the Methodist Episcopal.  His father,
Thomas Corder, the grandfather of our subject, was a veteran of the war
of 1812; was slain at the battle of New Orleans; his father, William
Corder, the great-grandfather of our subject, attained to the remarkable
age of one hundred and fifteen years.  Mrs. Malinda Corder departed this
life in 1841.  Her father, John Durham, was a veteran of the
Revolutionary war, serving through the entire struggle of seven years.  
John W. Corder received a good common school education in youth, and 
after attaining manhood, attended a high school for a time.  He was 
employed on his father's farm and in his blacksmith shop until he was 
twenty-three years old; was then appointed constable to fill a vacancy, 
and afterward elected to the same office, serving about two years and a 
half; after that he taught school some five years.  In 1864 he went to 
Bowling Green, where he was employed as a salesman in a dry-goods house 
for two years.  In February, 1866, he removed to Reedyville, Butler 
County, where he engaged in general merchandising, continuing the same 
some fourteen years.  During a part of that time he was also engaged in 
the tobacco trade, and was postmaster at that place for the whole 
fourteen years.  In 1880, he removed to Brooklyn, Butler County, where 
he was engaged in merchandising for two years and then at Welch's Creek,
same county, and is still so employed in connection with farming.  He is
also assistant postmaster at that place.  In 1871, he was the Republican
candidate for representative in the legislature from Butler and Edmonson
Counties.  In 1875 he was elected magistrate and re-elected to the same 
office in 1879, but soon after resigned.  He was married in February 27,
1867, to Josephine Hamill, a native of Barren County, Ky.; born December
25, 1847, a daughter of James and Sarah A. (Tisdale) Hamill.  Five 
children - three daughters and two sons - have blessed their union, all
of whom are living.  Their names are as follows: Mattie B., Mary I., 
Lester C., Willie and Ada F.  Mr. Corder has been from early life a 
member of the Missionary Baptist Church; also a member of the Masonic 
fraternity, having served as W. M. of his lodge at Reedyville for a 
number of years; in politics he is a Republican.  Mrs. Josephine Corder 
departed this life May 19, 1883; she was a life-long and devoted member 
of the Christian Church.

Corder Durham Hamill Tisdale
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Allen-KY VA New_Orleans-LA Bowling_Green-Warren Edmonson-KY Barren-KY

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