Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Franklin Co.

JOHN W. RODMAN is the eldest son of Gen. John and Ann E. (Russell) Rodman,
and was born in LaGrange, Oldham Co., Ky., March 4, 1845.  To the same
parents were also born Thomas Rodman, a grocery merchant, and G. R. Rodman,
postmaster at Frankfort, and these three were the only children born to
that marriage.  In 1855 John W. moved to Frankfort with his parents.  He
was educated by Prof. B. B. Sayre; studied law under his father; attended
the Louisville law school, graduated in March, 1866, and at once returned
to Frankfort and was a partner with his father up to his death.  He
married, June 10, 1868, and had three children, one living, Harry G., born
April 25, 1869, who at the age of seventeen graduated from the Kentucky
Military institute, and is now reading law with his father.  Mr. Rodman was
city attorney of Frankfort and a member of the board of councilmen of said
city.  John W. Rodman's second marriage was February 9, 1887, to Mrs.
Jannie Sale (Murphy), of Franklin County, a daughter of Mrs. Maria Murphy.
Mr. Rodman has his residence at the homestead of his late father.  He is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was a delegate to the
general conference of said church held at Atlanta, Ga., in May, 1878, is a
Master Mason, and is held in universal esteem.  Gen. John Rodman, father of
John W., was born in New Castle, Ky., August 1, 1820, and was a son of Col.
John Rodman, a soldier of the war of 1812, and for several years a member
of the Kentucky Senate.  Col. Rodman died in 1833 in early manhood.  His
widow survived him until a few years ago, when she passed away at the
advanced age of eighty-six years.  Gen. John Rodman studied law under
Judge Nuttall, assisted by Judge Pryor, of Covington, and in less than a
year after beginning his studies was admitted to the bar.  In 1842 he
removed from New Castle to LaGrange, opened an office, and in 1855 moved
permanently to Frankfort.  He entered in politics in 1850 and was that
year elected to the Legislature from Oldham County.  In 1852 he was chosen
Whig elector in the presidential contest between Pierce and Scott, and in
1859 represented Franklin in the Kentucky Legislature, serving until the
opening of the war, when, being in strong sympathy with the Confederacy,
and being unable to get South he went to Canada and remained until peace
was declared.  In 1867 he was elected attorney general of Kentucky,
re-elected in 1871, but declined the nomination in 1875.  In 1879 he was
elected reporter of the court of appeals which office he held at the time
of his death, which occurred October 24, 1886, a member of the Methodist
Church.  Gen. Rodman married Miss A. E. Russell in 1844.  This lady lived
only a few years, and in 1851, the General married Miss Harriet V. Russell,
a sister of his deceased wife.  He was the father of ten children, all of
whom are living and all grown, except one, a daughter, aged thirteen years.

Rodman Russell Sale Murphy Nuttall Pryor
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