Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 1901,
reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical Society.

JAMES G. BLACKBURN was born February 26, 1868.  He is the second son of
Robert J. Blackburn, who was a recognized leader of the Republican party
during his life, and frequently the nominee of that party for
Representative from Grant County.  James G. was reared on a farm, and
followed pastoral pursuits until he was twenty-one years old.  In 1889 he
entered National University at Lebanon, O., [sic], and graduated therefrom
in 1891.  On the fifteenth of October, 1893, he was married to Miss
Emma Franks, the handsome and cultured daughter of I. R. Franks, of Mt.
Zion.  He followed school teaching for two or three years, and was very
successful in that calling.  In 1894 he entered the Cincinnati Law School,
and was graduated from that institution with honors in 1896, and
immediately entered into the practice of his profession at Covington, in
Kenton County, but only remained there about a year, when he removed to
Dry Ridge and has continued the practice of his profession ever since
with great success, having lost but one cause in all these years of
practice.  He is also a representative of a number of fire insurance
companies, and is doing a considerable amount of business in that line.
He is secretary of the Grant City Savings Association and secretary of
the Oswego Tribe of Red Men.

Blackburn Franks
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Kenton-KY OH

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