Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, Boyd County Rev. John R. Eads was born near Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., January 20, 1820, and is a son of John Eads, who came from Virginia when quite young, settled in Harrison County, and died when the subject of this sketch was a boy. Mrs. Ellen Eads, mother of our subject, was a daughter of Major Robert McMillen, a Revolutionary soldier and an early settler of Clark County, Ky. John R. Eads was reared to farming in Harrison and Bourbon Counties; was educated at College Hill, Ohio, and elsewhere, and was graduated from the Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington, Ill. In 1852 he became a member of the Kentucky Conference of the Methodist Church. February 27, 1862, he was appointed Chaplain of the Fourth Kentucky Infantry, but resigned in June, 1863, on account of ill-health, and returned to Danville and re-entered upon the ministerial work. For several years while in the ministry he was an irregular student in the Theological Seminary at Danville, Ky. From 1863 to 1865 he was presiding elder of the Harrodsburg district; later his field of labor was for three years in Illinois, two years in East Tennessee, seven years in Colorado, and one year in Kansas City. In 1881 he was stationed in Augusta, Ky., and was also employed as a teacher in Augusta Collegiate Institute. In 1884 he was stationed at Ashland, Ky., where, in September, 1887, he founded the Ashland Collegiate Institute, of which he is the president. Mr. Eads was married, in 1854, to Miss Georgia Proctor, of Garrard County, Ky. This lady died August 3, 1868, the mother of four children. The next marriage of Mr. Eads was to Miss Maria Louisa Ross, of Danville, Ky., in 1870, who is the mother of one child. Mr. Eads is a Knight Templar and an Odd Fellow. Eads McMillen Proctor Ross = Garrard-KY Harrison-KY Clark-KY Bourbon-KY OH IL TN KS VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/boyd/eads.jr.txt