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

Editor and proprietor of the Owen News.

     EMMETT ORR was born in Carroll County, Ky., August 11, 1858.  He is
the son of J. J. Orr and Rowena (Saunders) Orr.  J. J. Orr is a native
of Carroll County, Ky., is a lawyer by profession, and is a graduate of
the Kentucky Law School at Louisville.  He was admitted to the bar in 1857,
and began practice at Carrollton, Ky.  In 1863 he was elected county
attorney for Carroll County, and was re-elected to the same office.  In
1875 he removed to Owenton where he is still engaged in the practice of
his profession.  J. B. Orr, the grandfather of Emmett Orr, was a native
of Culpeper County, Va., and came to Kentucky at an early day.  In 1827
he married Eliza Scott, daughter of John Scott, the noted Baptist divine.
He died in 1830.  The maternal grandfather of our subject, Samuel
Saunders, was born in Virginia, and was one of the pioneer settlers of
Carroll County, Ky., which county he afterward represented in the State
Legislature.  Emmett Orr was reared in Carroll County, and educated at
Carrollton and Ghent; was deputy clerk from 1876 to 1878, and in 1880,
in connection with George S. Lee, Jr., bought the Owen News.  He went to
Dakota in 1882, however, and after conducting a newspaper there until
1887, returned to Owenton and resumed his place on the News.  Mr. Orr is
a Democrat, and an active factor in the politics of this part of
Kentucky.

Orr Saunders Scott
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Carroll-KY Culpeper-VA Ramsey-ND NY

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