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

ROBERT CHILDERS is the second son of Robert H. and Sarah Elizabeth
(Conrad) Childers, and was born near Downingsville, November 13, 1875.  
He comes of prolific stock, there being eight girls and three boys in 
his father's family, all of whom are living.  His father is one of the 
largest land owners in his neighborhood, having several hundred acres 
of good farm land, and Bob, as he is familiarly called, was reared on 
his father's farm and followed farming until of age.  He received a 
good common school education at the Childers' school house, and later 
took a business course in Wilbur R. Smith's Commercial College, 
Lexington, after which he came home and for several months was Deputy 
County Court Clerk, and had positions in various other business 
establishments in Williamstown.  His paternal grandfather was the late 
Judge Henry Childers, and he is a nephew of Hon. J. C. B. Conrad, 
present member of the lower branch of the Kentucky Legislature, and the 
Democratic nominee for the second term.  Bob is a "dyed in the wool" 
Democrat, and has been a worker in the ranks since he was grown.  In 
May of last year he was appointed Deputy Sheriff of Grant County by 
Sheriff G. S. Webb, which position he has filled very creditably and 
satisfactorily since.  While he has never held an elective office, and 
never been a candidate for one, it is by no means improbable that he 
will some day come before the people as a candidate, and if he does, 
will be a man hard to beat.  He is of good moral character, strictly
sober, and of a genial, sociable turn.  He is a member of the Oswego
Tribe of Red Men, and is an honored member in their councils.

Childers Conrad Webb Smith
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