Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, Jessamine Co. GEORGE S. SHANKLIN was born in Jessamine County December 13, 1807, and was descended from a worthy ancestry, who emigrated from Ireland and settled in Pennsylvania in 1718. George S. Shanklin was educated at Bethel Academy, the first Methodist school established west of the Allegheny Mountains, by Bishop Asbury, in 1790. The academy was located eight miles west of Nicholasville, on the Kentucky River, and in 1804 was broken up and re-established at Nicholasville. In early life Mr. Shanklin studied law under John M. Hewitt, and began practice at an early day under the constitution of 1799. He was appointed by Gov. Owsley as commonwealth's attorney in the judicial district, of which Jessamine then formed a part. He was regarded as one of the most faithful and efficient prosecutors in the State. In 1852 he formed a partnership with J. S. Bronaugh, and for six or eight years the firm of Shanklin & Bronaugh had the leading practice at the Nicholasville bar; later he formed, from time to time, other small partnerships, one with John A. Willis which was continued only eighteen months. He became more deeply interested in his farm, and his attention been more or less turned to farming. He determined, in 1867, to give up the practice of law. He had often represented Jessamine County in the Legislature of Kentucky. In 1840 and after, and during the civil war, he was three times elected to the Kentucky Legislature. About the close of the war he was elected over Gen. Fry to a seat in the Congress of the United States. His majority in the Ashland District was 7,000; but he had no taste for political life. After the close of his congressional term he was solicited to become a candidate for the second term, this he refused, and no inducements could be brought to influence him to become a candidate for re-election. Mr. Shanklin died on the 2nd of April, 1883, aged seventy-six years. He was married three times. His first wife was Miss Martha West, daughter of Thomas E. West; his second wife was a daughter of Maj. Thomas H. Shelby, and granddaughter of Gov. Isaac Shelby; his third wife was the youngest daughter of Maj. Daniel B. and Eliza (Crockett) Price. His third wife was first married to Dr. James H. Taylor, and she has one son by her first marriage, Dr. James B. Taylor, of Bloomington, Ill. The names of Mr. Shanklin's children are George S., born in 1860; Elliott W., born in 1862; Mattie and Mary. Shanklin Hewitt Bronaugh West Shelby Crockett Price Taylor Willis = Bloomington-Monroe-IL PA Ireland http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jessamine/shanklin.gs.txt