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

THOMAS P. RENDER, Butler County, is the son of Christopher and Lucinda E. 
Render, both natives of Ohio county.  The father, born in 1816, followed 
the business of agriculture and was a magistrate for many years, an 
honored member of the Baptist Church, and died in 1882.  His mother, an 
earnest Christian lady, member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
departed this life in 1876.  Their children are John C., born in 1845; 
William L., born in 1849; Thomas P. (subject), born in July 8, 1855.  
Received a good common school education and commenced business for 
himself at the age of fifteen, or in 1870; removed to Coffee County, 
Kas., where he engaged in farming, and in the spring of 1877 removed to 
Texas and engaged in stock raising; in 1882 returned to Kentucky where 
he owns a part interest in 189 acres of fine land in Butler County.  He 
is a young man of enterprise, and is a member of the Democratic party.

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