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

J. H. HUMLONG, while not "to the manor born" is a Grant county citizen who
has the highest regard of his neighbors and friends.  He comes of sturdy
stock and was born in Bracken county, Kentucky, October 4, 1848. Like so
many other men who have made their mark in the world, he was born and
raised on a farm.  He secured his education by attending school in the
winter time.  During the summer months his labor was needed on the farm to
assist in the planting and harvesting of the crops.  He attended the
college at Augusta one year and then spent one year in the Kentucky
University.  After completing his education he spent four years in the
County and Circuit Court Clerk's office of Bracken county.  Mr. Humlong
in his early life caught the Western fever, which was then so prevalent,
and "went West".  He spent nine years in the western part of Nebraska and
Kansas, homesteading a claim.  There his children were born, and his
first wife, a daughter of the late Judge Willis, of Bracken county, and a
sister of Mr. R. H. Elliston, died.  That part of the West was not as
attractive in those early days as it has gotten to be since.  With his
two lovely little girls he came back to Kentucky in 1889 and located in
Williamstown, the next January taking a position as assistant cashier with
the Bank of Williamstown.  That position he held until the resignation of
Tim Needham, July 1, 1897, when he was elected cashier, and that position
he has held until this day.  Both as assistant cashier and as cashier he
has proven himself to be a very popular official, and has the good will
and the highest regard of the management of the bank and all of the many
who have to do with it.
     Mr. Humlong became a member of the Christian Church in 1869 and has
been an active church worker with that denomination ever since.  He has
been a friend to popular education and his oldest daughter is now a
teacher in the Williamstown Graded Free School.  Some years ago he united
in marriage with Miss Lizzie Stratton, daughter of the late lamented
H. D. Stratton, and together with his wife and two daughters, who are
both about grown, live an ideal life at their cottage on Cynthiana street.

Humlong Willis Elliston Stratton Needham
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Bracken-KY KS NE

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