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

HON. DAVID POOLE, Butler County, was born in Muhlenburgh [sic] County, 
Ky., May 12, 1835.  His early life was passed amid the scenes and labors 
incident to farm life.  He received a fair common school education, and 
at the age of twenty-one years engaged as a clerk in the dry goods house 
of H. B. Wiggins, of Rochester, Butler County, where he remained for 
three or four years.  His next step was to join the Federal army.  On 
the 12th of October, 1861, he enlisted in the Eleventh Regiment Kentucky 
Volunteers, and was commissioned second lieutenant of Company F, of that 
regiment.  He was subsequently promoted to first lieutenant, and rose 
through merit to the rank of captain, in which rank he served until the 
14th of December, 1864, when he received an honorable discharge.  He 
then returned to his house in Rochester, where he engaged in the dry 
goods business, which he continued four years; then entered the drug and 
grocery trade, which he has followed successfully up to the present time 
(1885).  On the 16th of October, 1866, Mr. Poole married Margaret B. 
Rhoads, of Muhlenburgh County, Ky.  Mrs. Poole died April 14, 1883, 
leaving six children.  In the year 1875 Mr. Poole's friends placed him 
in nomination for election to a seat in the ligislature of Kentucky.  
With his opponent (Hon. J. Monroe Cook) he made a canvass of the 
counties of Edmonson and Butler, but in the election was defeated by two 
votes.  He quietly submitted to his defeat, and again turned his 
attention to merchandising.  In 1880 he was nominated for State senator 
for the Eighth Senatorial District of Kentucky, consisting of the 
counties of Muhlenburgh, Ohio and Butler.  He received a unanimous 
nomination by the Republican party in his district, was elected by a 
majority of 480 votes, and has served two sessions in the general 
assembly of his State.  Mr. Poole is a man of liberal views, and bears 
a good record as a public spirited citizen and as a man of strict 
business principles.  In religious matters he is a liberal thinker, 
believing in honesty to his neighbors, charity to mankind and the 
sacred fulfillment of personal obligations.  March 4, 1885, Mr. Poole 
married Miss M. Etna Prather.  Her conduct toward the orphaned children 
of Mr. Poole's family is marked with firm rule and great kindness.  She 
commands the love and esteem of all who know her.  Mr. Poole's father, 
Joseph R. Poole, was of English descent and a native of Maryland, from 
which State he emigrated to Kentucky in 1825, and settled at Harlan 
Lake, in Union County, where he followed farming.  His death occurred 
in 1847.  He was married to Elizabeth Guiler in 1815.  She died in 1855, 
aged fifty-four years.

Poole Wiggins Rhoads Cook Prather Guiler
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Muhlenberg-KY MD Union-KY

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