History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 462.
[Bourbon County]  [Paris City and Precinct]

ROBERT P. DOW, grocer; P. O. Paris.  Among the enterprising young business
men of this city, who are doing a thriving business, the result of their
own industry and close application to business, is Mr. Dow, who was born
in 1843, in the Parish of Catheart, Lancastershire, Scotland; son of
Andrew Dow, whose wife was Jane Pollock, a relative of Pollock, the poet.
Early in life Robert was thrown upon his own resources, and earned money
to enable him to embark for this country, which he did when a lad of
fifteen, landing in New York city, where he worked some time at one dollar
per week, in a cigar shop; afterward hired to a farmer at $5 per month;
then was engaged in a printing office some time; subsequently he removed
to Greene County, Ind., where he remained one year and a half, working on
a farm; afterward went to Cincinnati, where he worked one year in the
plumbing business.  At the outbreak of the war he volunteered his services;
enlisted May, 1861, in the 5th O.V.I., Co. D., and during he term of
service was engaged in the following battles, viz: Winchester, Kernstown,
Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, 2nd Battle of Bull Run, Antictam,
Chancellorsville, South Mountain, Gettysburg and Wahatchie Valley.  Came
West with the 12th Army Corps and participated at Lookout Mountain, Mission
Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, Rasaca and Dallas, where he was shot in the arm,
which resulted in the loss of same, and was discharged in August, 1864; he
subsequently graduated at the Commercial College at Cincinnati.  In the
spring of 1865, he came to Paris, and in June of the same year, set up in
the grocery line in a small way, and continued thirteen years in the same
building; in 1878, he removed to the store adjoining, where he has since
continued and has a thriving and prosperous trade.  In 1868 he married
Susan H. Rion, daughter of Stockley T. and Martha U. (Rucker) Rion.  He
has three children, viz: Robert, Rion and Ellsworth.  Is a member of the
Presbyterian Church.

Dow Pollock Rion Rucker
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Cincinnati-Hamilton-OH Greene-IN NY Scotland

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