Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 
1887, Owen Co.

JAMES H. DORMAN was born in Gallatin County, Ky., November 7, 1831, and
is a son of Peter and Lucy (Kemper) Dorman.  Peter Dorman was born in
Accomack County, Va., September 3, 1803.  He was a farmer, and at the
age of eighteen located in Bourbon, where he remained three years, and
then moved to Gallatin County.  In 1830 he married Lucy Kemper,
daughter of Jonathan Kemper, of Owen County; she was born March 17,
1814; eleven children were born to this union.  Peter Dorman was elected
to the Legislature of Kentucky, on the Democratic ticket, in 1853, he
died January 3, 1873.  Matthew Dorman, paternal grandfather of our
subject, a native of Accomack County, Va., was born in 1771; he was a
farmer, immigrated to Bourbon County, Ky., in 1825, and died in 1852,
at the age of eighty-one years.  James H. Dorman settled in Owen County
in 1861; he read law with Hiram Kelso in Owen County, in 1859, was
admitted to the bar in 1861, and then located in Owenton.  In 1862, he
enlisted in the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry, Confederate Army, under
Gen. Humphrey Marshall, and was in many engagements; at the siege of
Knoxville, under Longstreet, at the battle of Blue Springs, under Cerro
Gordo Williams, and in battles at Cynthiana, under John Morgan.  At
the close of the war he returned to Owen County, where, in 1869, he was
elected to the State Senate, and in 1874 was elected county judge, for
four years.  In 1864 he married Lizzie Gaines, of Sullivan County,
Tenn.  Four children have been born to his union: William G., Fanny,
Virginia L. and James H.  In politics Mr. Dorman is a Democrat; he is
a member of the Baptist Church.

Dorman Kemper Kelso Gaines
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Gallatin-KY Bourbon-KY Accomack-VA Sullivan-TN

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