Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp 795-796 [Lyon] DR. C. H. LINN, one of the leading physicians of Kuttawa, Kentucky, where he has gained a large practice and made himself a well known figure in professional circles, was born in Coles county, Illinois, near the city of Mattoon, June 30, 1862. His father, Cyrus C. Linn, was a native of Coles county, Illinois, and a farmer by occupation. During the Civil war he entered the service of his country and lost his life when he was but twenty-eight years old. His wife was Susan E. Means, a native of Paris, Illinois, and she died at the age of forty-one years. Dr. Linn was the younger of the two sons in the family, and was educated in the common schools of Illinois. He came to Kentucky in 1878, and in 1886 took up the study of medicine with Dr. E. Purdy, of Kuttawa. He had taken a literary course in Princeton in 1881, and later attended the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York city, from which he was graduated in 1891. He then located at Grand Rivers, Livingston county, Kentucky, and after two years located in Kuttawa, where he has been a successful practitioner. He was a physician by state appointment at Eddyville for two years, from 1896 to 1898, and then resumed his practice in Kuttawa. He has been prominent in public affairs, and is one of the best known and most popular citizens of Lyon county. Linn Means Purdy = Coles-IL Livingston-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/lyon/linn.ch.txt