Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Jefferson Co. ADAM GIVEN, M.D., was born in Bath County, Va., October 15, 1829, and is a son of Henry and Nancy (Mustoe) Given, natives of Virginia, and the former a soldier in the war of 1812. The Mustoe family is of England origin, Anthony Mustoe, subject's grandfather, having emigrated from England to Virginia in an early day. Dorothea Chambers, wife of Anthony, was of German descent. The Givens are Scotch-Irish. The grandmother (Miss Bratton) was Scotch. The subject was reared on a farm, and educated at Little Levels Academy in Virginia, where he took a regular course. He read medicine, and coming West, attended his first course of lectures at Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1858-59, and practiced there until 1865, when he came to Louisville. At the close of the war he was acting assistant surgeon, U.S.A. Since 1879 he has taken up the practice of homoepathy, and is a member of the American Institute of Homoepathy. He was married July 19, 1853, to Miss Caroline Benson, of Highland County, Va. They have two children--Mustoe Bratton and Elmer Bratton. Given Mustoe Chambers Bratton Benson = Bath-VA Highland-VA IL England http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jefferson/given.a.txt