History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 769.
[Nicholas County]  [Carlisle City and Precinct]

P. T. THROOP, lawyer, Carlisle, was born in Carlisle, Oct. 19, 1854.  His
father was Phares Throop, born in Alexandria, Va., in the year 1809; died
in March 1860; he was a son of Rev. Phares Throop a native of the above
named place, and for long years a prominent divine in the States of
Kentucky and Virginia.  The children of Rev. Phares Throop were: Susie
wife of Judge R. H. Stanton, of Maysville; Mary, deceased wife of Hon.
Thomas P. Throop of Covington; Hannah, wife of Hon. D. K. Weis of Ashland,
Ky., Hon. Thomas Throop of Flemingsburg, who died ten days before the
election for Representative to Congress, for which he was making the race;
Judge French, who was nominated in his stead, being overwhelmingly elected
on ten days' notice by the popularity of Mr. Throop; Dr. Benjamin T., who
died in Texas soon after the war; Joseph, a merchant at Poplar Plains,
Fleming Co., Ky., and the father of our subject, who came to Flemingsburg
in 1832, where he engaged in mercantile business; subsequently studied
medicine, and graduated at the medical college in Cincinnati about 1835.
While there he was married and had five children, all of whom died in
infancy.  After graduation he located at Mays Lick, where he plied his
profession for several years.  His second marriage occurred in Missouri to
Arabella Williams, daughter of Thaddeus Williams, a brother of General
Samuel and Dr. Charles Williams, two prominent men in the country.  She
died in 1856 at the age of about 30 years, being the mother of seven
children, three of whom are now living: Abbie T., wife of Judge A. E.
Cole, Circuit Judge of the 14th Dist.; Mary A., a maiden; and the subject
of this sketch.  Phares Throop, Sr., located in Carlisle in about 1842,
where he plied his profession until in 1857, when he located at North
Middletown, where occurred his third marriage to Amanda Harris, daughter
of Charles Harris of Bourbon.  By her he had one chid, Myrtle V., who
resides with her mother, now a Mrs. W. R. Gorham; he a merchant of
Louisville.  The Throops are descendants of one Earl Adrian Scroope, one
of the Regicides, who came to this country and changed his name to Throop.
The subject of this sketch was raised by his uncle, Joseph, until about
13 years of age, when he went to live with his sister, Mrs. Cole.  In
1869 he entered the Kentucky University where he remained until March,
1872, when he (without seeking it) received the appointment from the 10th
Congressional Dist. as a cadet to West Point, but was rejected in the
examination on account of physical debility.  He then engaged in teaching
at which he continued until April 1881.  During that time he acted as
School Commissioner of Fleming Co. for three years, and read law with
Judge Cole and was admitted to the practice of the profession at Maysville,
Jan. 14, 1881; he located at Carlisle in Oct. of the same year.  He was
married Nov. 6, 1875, to Miss Maria B. Kenner of Flemingsburg, daughter
of L. L. and Mary H. (Bell) Kenner; by her he has one child, Abbie
Holten, born May 5, 1880.  He is a member of the I.O.O.F. at Flemingsburg
and of the Grand Lodge of the State.  He and wife are members of the
M. E. Church.

Throop Stanton Weis French Williams Cole Harris Gorham Scroope
Cole Kenner Bell
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Bourbon-KY Mason-KY Kenton-KY Boyd-KY Fleming-KY Jefferson-KY
Fayette-KY Hamilton-OH MO TX VA

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