History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 704.
[Harrison County]  [Berry's Station Precinct]

B. M. SWINFORD, farmer, P. O. Berry, was born in Harrison County, Ky.
June 7, 1815, and is the son of H. H. and Mickie (Perrin) Swinford.  His
father was a native of Harrison County and born in 1789; he worked for
many years at the blacksmithing business and then engaged in farming, in
which he was interested at the time of his death, which occurred in 1840;
politically he was a Democrat.  The mother of B. M. died in 1847; both
his parents were members of the Christian Church; Mr. Swinford lived with
his parents until he was 20 years of age, and then learned the trade of
a carpenter and millwright; he followed this business until 1848, and then
began farming on Sycamore Creek, near Cynthiana; he remained there until
1853, and then removed to Lair's Station where he resumed farm business,
and continued the same for two years, when he removed to Covington, Ky.;
there he began merchandising and did some carpenter work; he continued a
resident of Covington until 1859, and then returned to Harrison County,
resumed mill building, which he followed until 1862.  He then went to
Bourbon County for three years and then became a resident of Cynthiana for
about seven years; in 1871 he made his final move and settled on the farm
he now owns of 140 acres.  In 1845, Mr. Swinford was married to Miss Polly
Young, who bore him six children, one of whom now lives, James H.; his wife
died in 1851, aged thirty-nine years, and in 1871 he married a Mrs. Emily
Blair, who was the mother of two living children by her former husband,
viz: Joseph and Edward.  Both the parents and children are members of the
Christian Church, and Mr. Swinford is a Democrat.

Swinford Perrin Young Blair
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Covington-Kenton-KY Bourbon-KY

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