Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

W. T. S. BLACKBURN, cashier of the Dry Ridge Deposit Bank, was born in
Grant County, near Eagle Creek, September 6, 1865.  He is the eldest 
son of the late R. J. and Nancy J. (Hedger) Blackburn, in the family 
there were six boys and three girls, of whom five of the boys and two 
of the girls are still living.  He was reared on the farm of his father,
on Eagle Creek, and learned to till the soil and do all work pertaining 
to farm life.  He went to school at the common schools of the county in 
the neighborhood in which he was reared and secured the rudiments of an 
education.  At the age of 21 he secured a teacher's certificate and 
began teaching.  For several years he taught in the common schools of 
Grant County five months in the year, and went to college the remainder 
of the time at the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio.  He 
graduated there and came home and taught another term at Mount Zion.  
When the Dry Ridge Deposit Bank was organized he was a candidate for 
cashier, and was selected to fill the position from a field of twenty, 
and has continued to serve in that position for nine years.  He has 
been in the employ of the bank longer than any cashier in northern 
Kentucky.  During his term in office he has handed more than 
$25,000,000, has assisted in the establishing of three other banks, 
over each of which one of his younger brothers preside.  Mr. Blackburn 
was married to Miss Danny Beach February 22, 1893.  They have three 
living children and one dead.  Mrs. Blackburn is herself a business 
woman.  She has assisted her husband in the bank as cashier for the 
past five or six years.  She is an expert bookkeeper and knows all 
about the banking business.  She was the only daughter of Daniel Beach 
and Martha (Franks) Beach.  In politics Mr. Blackburn is a Republican.  
His father was a Republican before him, and was frequently the nominee 
of the Republican party for representative, and to his credit it can be 
said, came as near being elected as any Republican who ever ran for 
that office in the county for more than thirty years.  But while Mr. 
Blackburn is a Republican, he rarely takes any prominent part in 
politics, save to vote, but attends strictly to business.

Blackburn Hedger Beach Franks
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OH

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