History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 490.
[Bourbon County]  [Paris City and Precinct]

CAPT. E. F. SPEARS, milling; was born 1840 in Paris, the third son of
Abram Spears and Rebecca Ford.  At the age of thirteen he began to do for
himself, being early in life trained to provide for his own necessities.
At the outbreak of the war, he espoused the cause of the South, and in
June volunteered his services in the Second Kentucky Infantry as private,
he was, however, soon after elected First Lieutenant in Co. "G" and for
effective service rendered, he was promoted to a captaincy and led his
company until the close of the war.  During this time he participated in
all the heavy battles in which his command was engaged, except Shiloh,
he was three times wounded, and once taken prisoner, yet through all,
he acquitted himself as a true and gallant soldier; upon his return to
Paris, at the termination to the war, he engaged in the grocery trade for
about two years with his brother Henry; in 1867, he engaged in company
with others in the distillery and mill business, under the firm name of
Woodford, Spears & Clay, which association lasted about nine years, at
which time the firm dissolved, Mr. Spears purchasing the mill-site, and
the warehouse near by, and engaged in milling exclusively in 1876; his
mill is situated in the southern part of the precinct, on the Stoner
River; under his management the mill is doing an excellent business; the
mill has five run of stone, and the arrangement of the manufacturing
portion was with a view to make the "New Process" flour.  The mill runs
regularly, having steam power attached when the water is low, and with
his grading appliances for his wheat, he is enabled to make a straight
and regular grade of flour, which is in demand in the market, from the
regularity of the brand; in 1866, he married Sallie Woodford, eldest
daughter of John T. Woodford, one of the prominent farmers of the
precinct.  To Mr. Spears have been born five children, whose names are:
Mary, John W., Lizzie, Catesby, and Keith Young.

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