Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Barren County.

THOMAS F. BOTTOMLEY was born in Simpson County, Ky., August 22, 1851,
and is the eldest of three children born to John and Maranda M. (West)
Bottomley. John Bottomley was born in Yorkshire, England, March 26,
1826, and when about five or six years old came with his mother to the
United States, whither his father, Thomas, had preceded them to
Baltimore some two or three years. Thomas Bottomley is yet living, and
resides at Hopkinsville, Ky., for more than sixty years he has been an
itinerant Methodist minister, and forty-five years of that time have
been spent in Kentucky. For twenty-five years he filled various pulpits
in Louisville, and was for several terms presiding elder in that
district. In early life, John Bottomley learned the harness-maker and
saddler's trade which he has since successfully followed, and now owns
and operates a large shop at Franklin, Ky; he has been repeatedly
solicited by his friends to become a candidate for office, but has
always declined. Since his youth he has been a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church; for more than thirty years has been Sunday-school
superintendent, and also held other official positions in the church; he
is also a member of the Masonic fraternity.  During the war he was a
firm Union man (and after the death of his wife, Maranda, he liberated
all his slaves, they having been her inheritance), but now a Democrat.
Mrs. Maranda M. Bottomley was of Scotch-Irish descent, born in Simpson
County in 1836, and died June 21, 1861, a devoted member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.  Her father, Fielding West, a native of
Virginia, was one of the pioneers of Simpson County, Ky. Thomas F.
Bottomley, at the age of ten or twelve years, began to learn the
saddler's trade with his father, and thus remained until he was
seventeen.  He then went to Louisville, where he learned the art of
crayon drawing, which he followed successfully for four or five years.
He then opened a saddler's shop at Scottsville, which he operated for
eighteen months, when he again took up crayon drawing, and practiced it
successfully for five years through the Southern States. In 1880 he
opened a studio at Glasgow, Ky., where he has met with unprecedented
success.  As a photographer and crayon artist, Mr. Bottomley has no
superior and but a few equals.  His appliances are among the best and
most complete in the State.  Mr. Bottomley is yet unmarried; in politics
he is a Democrat.

Bottomley West
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Baltimore-MD Franklin-Simpson Glasgow-Barren Hopkinsville-Christian
Louisville-Jefferson Scottsville-Allen Yorkshire-ENGLAND

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