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

JOHN W. PRUETT, a native of Frankfort, was born June 24, 1848, and is the
second and only living son of John W. and Amy A. (Conover) Pruett, natives
of Frankfort and Lexington, Ky.  His grandfather, Robert Pruett, was a
native of Virginia, and of French extraction.  His ancestors first settled
in New Amsterdam, N. Y., but after the Revolution moved to Maryland and
Virginia.  John W. Pruett, Sr., was a printer, and for several years editor
and proprietor, jointly with A. G. Hodges and Thomas Todd, of the Frankfort
Commonwealth.  He died in 1863 at the age of forty-eight years. Mrs. Pruett
was a daughter of James Conover, of Lexington, but a native of New Jersey.
John W. Pruett, Jr., was reared in Frankfort.  His first start in life was
as page in the Kentucky Senate in 1863.  His father at the time of his
death was sergeant-at-arms, when our subject succeeded him and served
three terms, and then went into the State auditor's office under W. T.
Samuel; he had charge of the revenue department and remained three years.
In 1869 he went to Cincinnati, and entered the auditor's office of the
Adams Express Company; remained there until 1870, when he returned to
Frankfort and became runner in the Branch Bank.  He is now teller, to which
position he was promoted successively.  He was also the first United States
storekeeper in the Seventh Revenue District, stationed at Frankfort, and
had charge of several important distilleries under Johnson.  Mr. Pruett was
married October 10, 1878, to Miss Lina Blanton, of Frankfort, daughter of
Alexander Blanton (deceased).  To this marriage one child, John W. Jr.,
was born October 19, 1879.  Mr. Pruett is a Mason, and an officer in the
Grand Commandery of Kentucky.

Pruett Conover Samuel Blanton Hodges Todd
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Lexington-Fayette-KY Cincinnati-Hamilton-OH VA NY MD

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