History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 604.
[Scott County]  [Georgetown City and Precinct]

LEWIS B. OFFUTT, auctioneer; Georgetown; was born near Georgetown, Scott
Co., Ky., in the year 1817; he received a common-school education and
removed with his parents in 1828 to Harrison County, Ky., where he
resided until 1851.  In 1841 Mr. Offutt began his auctioneer, first selling
stock and farm implements; he soon won a reputation that brought under his
hammer a large business in both lands and negroes.  About 1855 Mr. Offutt
became the principal auctioneer for the whole northeastern counties of the
"Blue Grass Region" his services commanding as high as $250 per day.  He
returned to Scott County in 1851, and since 1864 has been a resident of
Georgetown.  In politics Mr. Offutt is a Democrat and during the late war
was twice taken by the Federal soldiers and escaped, and was exiled from
his home and family for two months, although he had committed no offense.
Mr. Offutt perhaps the oldest auctioneer in the county and still does a
good business as auctioneer and real-estate agent.  He has been married
three times: first, to Miss Davis in 1837, and of this marriage there is
one son, Capt. Nathaniel S. Offutt, of Georgetown, one of the most
successful auctioneers in the county; his second wife was Miss Lucy A.
George, of Bourbon County, who died in less than a year after marriage; he
married for his third wife Mrs. Causey, daughter of John Masterson, one
of the pioneers of this county.  After years of hard work Mr. Offutt
secured a competence for his declining years, and this was largely swept
away to the debts of so-called friends for whom he had become surety, yet
he cheerfully gave up and paid every dollar even after he was legally
released.  His father, Archibald Offutt, was born in Maryland, about
1766, and came to Scott County, Ky., in 1816; he died in Harrison County
in the cholera epidemic of 1833; he was the father of nine children, five
of whom are still living.

Offutt Davis Causey Masterson George
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Harrison-KY Bourbon-KY MD

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