Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887,
Carroll Co.

CORNELIUS DEWEESE, a prominent farmer and stock grower of Carroll County,
Ky., was born in Mercer County, Ky., October 23, 1809, and is the sixth of
a family of nine children born to Matthew and Susannah (Newton) Deweese;
the former, a farmer, died in 1819, and his wife died in 1852.  Cornelius
Deweese now owns 909 acres of fine land in Hunter's Bottom, on the Ohio
River, and is sole owner of the Farmers' Tobacco Warehouse, of Louisville,
Ky., and owns the Arlington Hotel.  He began as a clerk with Parmele of
Louisville, was in the clothing business in 1833 with Forster & Co.,
and from 1834 until 1839 he kept a hotel on Fourth Avenue, Louisville, Ky.,
known as the Wall Street House, after which he was in the commission
business, and has been very successful.  Retiring from business he bought
a farm in Carroll County, which is carried on by his son.  Mr. Deweese
married Miss Hannah Grushon, daughter of John and Annie (Grushon)
Grushon, of Frederick County, Md., and to this union thirteen children
have been born, viz: Elizabeth, Cordelia, Cornelius, Virginia, Hannah,
Florence, Theodore, Arthur, Ella, Katie and James, and two deceased. Mrs.
Deweese died March 28, 1884.  Mr. Deweese is a member of the I.O.O.F.
Politically he is a Democrat.

Deweese Newton Grushon
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Mercer-KY Frederick-MD
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