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

HON. JAMES MONROE FORGY is the second of eight children born to Samuel C. 
and Elizabeth C. (Scott) Forgy, who were natives of Logan County, married 
in 1818, and who are both deceased.  Both paternal and maternal 
grandfathers came from South Carolina.  His grandfather, James Forgy, was 
married in Fort Sumter, and was a soldier in the patriot army in the war 
of Independence.  He married Rebecca Haws, and in 1792, removed to the 
northern part of Logan County, then a wilderness.  There he reared a 
large family, and there he is buried.  Hon. J. M. Forgy was born in the 
southwest part of Butler County, June 23, 1820, where he received his 
early education, and remained until the age of sixteen, when, his father 
dying, he removed with his mother to Coles County, Ill., where he 
completed his education in the public schools and in Lane Seminary near 
Quincy.  At the completion of his studies he commenced teaching, in 1847, 
in the public schools of Illinois; soon after this, however, he returned 
to Butler County, where he resumed the profession of teaching, which he 
followed with marked success, teaching in public and private schools, 
and was the first principal of the Butler County Seminary at Morgantown.  
In 1862, he was elected county school superintendent, and with an 
interval of two terms continued in the same office fourteen years.  In 
1874 he was elected to the office of county judge, which position he 
retained four years.  Subsequently he has been examiner for the county, 
and has also been devoting much time to the business of pension agent.  
Soon after his return to Kentucky, the Judge was united in marriage with 
Mary Ann, the daughter of Clement Read, of Butler County, by whom he had 
eight children: James R., residing in Texas; Elizabeth; Alice, wife of 
Francis Read, also in Texas; Moses Alexander, in Texas; Clarence; 
William A., a druggist; Finis M., a teacher; Minnie E., now in Texas.  
Judge Forgy has been closely identified with the history of Butler 
County, both in educational and political affairs, since 1848, and has 
always been a Republican in politics.  He and his family are connected 
with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Forgy Scott Read
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Logan-KY SC Coles-IL TX

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