Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Franklin Co.

WILLIAM H. PHYTHIAN, a native of Johnstown, Penn., was born November 3,
1842, and is a son of Charles G. and Eliza (Linton) Phythian, natives of
Gloucestershire, England, and Johnstown, Penn.  Charles Phythian was born
about 1800, came to Frankfort in 1842, and was a practitioner of medicine
until his death in the spring of 1860.  William H. Phythian was educated
in the B. B. Sayre School and Kentucky Military Institute, and began to
read medicine in 1862 under his brother, Dr. John L. Phythian, of Newport,
Ky., and was graduated from the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati in the
spring of 1865.  He began to practice at Frankfort with his brother, who
went to Newport about 1877, since which he has been alone. He was married
in October, 1867, to Miss Mary E. Taylor, a daughter of Edmund Taylor, of
Franklin County, and has had four children: Taylor McClure, Robert Lees,
Lucy C. and James Saffell. The Doctor was elected coroner in 1886, and is
the present incumbent.  He is a member of the Kentucky State Medical
Association, and also of the county association, and also of the county,
and is a Knight Templar.

Phythian Linton Taylor
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Newport-Campbell-KY OH PA England

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