Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885, Butler Co. WILLIAM WAND, attorney at law, Morgantown. The ancestors of Mr. Wand have been among the celebrities of the Kentucky bar; his great-grandfather, Thomas Wand, having been one of the first associate judges of Butler County, and his father, Thomas P. Wand, born in Woodbury, Ky., January 27, 1820, is an eminent lawyer, and has also been judge of the county and honorably filled many other important offices. He is a gentlemen [sic] of large experience, and influence. Our subject was born near Woodbury, Ky., August 11, 1847, and was educated in the schools of that town. He remained on the farm where he was born until he was twenty-three years of age, at which time he went to Bowling Green, and was engaged as deputy clerk of circuit court for three months, returned home and rand for circuit clerk but was defeated. He was admitted to the bar in December, 1871, and has since resided and practiced his profession at Morgantown. He held the office of school commissioner from 1874 to 1878, and was county attorney from 1878 until 1882, having been elected as a Greenback candidate. Mr. Wand was married on the 30th of September, 1875, to Miss Sally Waddle, daughter of John H. Waddle, Esq., of Morgantown. They have five children, Finley Clyde, Mattie Agnes, Mamie, Effie, and Thomas P. Wand Waddle = none http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/butler/wand.w.txt