Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
Kenton Co.

JAMES W. BRYAN, of Covington, Ky., is of Irish parentage, and was born near
Millersburg, Bourbon Co., Ky., June 9, 1852.  He was educated at the
Kentucky Wesleyan College, where he graduated in 1873, and the following
year removed to Covington, where he began the study of law in the office
of ex-Governor, then United States Senator, John W. Stevenson and Judge
James O'Hara.  He was admitted to the bar in 1875, and shortly afterward
became a partner of his preceptors.  He is now a member of the firm of
O'Hara & Bryan, a firm deservedly ranking as one of the ablest in the
State.  In 1880 Mr. Bryan was the Democratic presidential elector for the
Sixth Kentucky Congressional District, and in 1885 he was unanimously
elected to the State Senate of Kentucky from the Twenty-fourth Senatorial
District, serving in the session 1885-86.  At the Democratic State
Convention held in Louisville on May 5, 1887, he was unanimously nominated
as its candidate at the ensuing August election for lieutenant-governor,
Gen. S. B. Buckner having been nominated for governor.  At the election,
August 1, 1887, the whole ticket was elected, Mr. Bryan receiving the
largest number of votes cast for any candidate.  He is the youngest man
ever elected lieutenant-governor of Kentucky, the constitutional age being
thirty-five years. In 1880 Mr. Bryan married Miss Virginia Ellis Martin,
the youngest daughter of Judge J. B. Martin, of Owen County, Ky.

Bryan Stevenson O'Hara Buckner Martin
=
Bourbon Owen

http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/kenton/bryan.jw.txt