History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. IV, p. 137,
Fayette Co.

     THOMAS M. OWSLEY is a lawyer by education and by several years of
experience in his early career, but for many years his chief business at
Lexington was a large printing industry and more recently he has been in
the brokerage business as president of Owsley, Fairleigh & Company,
brokers in stocks, bonds, grains, provisions and cotton.
     Mr. Owsley was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky, April 2, 1875, and
spent his boyhood on his father's farm.  He is a son of John S. and
Malinda (Miller) Owsley.  His father was born in Lincoln County and died
in January, 1916, at the age of seventy-two, while the mother was a
native of Madison County and died at the age of fifty years in 1888. 
John S. Owsley acquired a very substantial education in public schools
and in Centre College, but after leaving school took up farming and
devoted the best years of his life to that occupation.  He retired in
1906, and his last days were spent in Lexington.  He was at one time a
member of the State Legislature, was a democrat in politics, and a
member of the Presbyterian Church.  He and his wife had eight children:
Mary, wife of Will R. Manier; John S., who married Ella McElwain;
Mattie, widow of W. P. Walton; Margaret, wife of John S. Wells; Malinda;
Thomas M.; Emma, wife of James R. Bush; and Mike.
     Thomas M. Owsley while a boy received most of his scholastic
advantages in the Stanford private school in Lincoln County.  Later he
attended Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, and in that
splendid institution of learning pursued both the literary and
professional courses, graduating with the A. B. degree in 1893 and from
the law department in 1895.  He was admitted to the bars of Tennessee
and of Kentucky in 1895, and the following year began a general practice
at Bowling Green.  However, during 1897 he moved to Lexington, and soon
afterward bought the business of the Transylvania Printing Company, and
gave almost his undivided time and energies to that enterprise until
1919.  Since then he has been most active as a member of the brokerage
firm of Owsley, Fairleigh & Company, with offices in the Ben Ali Theater
Building.
     Mr. Owsley is a republican voter and a member of the Presbyterian
Church.  January 15, 1901, he married Katherine McGoodwin, who was born
at Bowling Green, a daughter of Isaac D. and Virginia (Wooten)
McGoodwin.  Her parents were native Kentuckians and her father is still
living, a retired business man.  Mrs. Owsley was the second in a family
of four children.  She and Mr. Owsley have two children, Virginia and
Thomas M., Jr.

Bush McElwain Manier Miller Owsley Walton Wells Fairleigh Wooten McGoodwin
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Lincoln-KY Madison-KY

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