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

J. W. LANCASTER was born in a humble farm cottage near Richwood, Boone
County, Kentucky in December, 1861, and worked on his father's farm,
after he reached the period of young manhood, until 1883-1884, when he 
went to Lebanon, Ohio, where he took a business course in a college to 
thoroughly qualify himself for an active business life.  In 1885 Mr. 
Lancaster was united in marriage to Miss Sallie A. Snow.  He engaged 
again in farming, which pursuit he followed until 1893, when a desire 
to enter the business world grew upon him, and he moved to Richwood, 
where he opened a general store, which he conducted successfully for 
one year.  March 1894, found him a resident of Williamstown.  He rented
the store-room he still occupies and opened to the public a grocery and
meat market.  Prosperity joined hands with him in the venture and his 
business increased right along.  When the store-room was sold to settle
an estate Mr. Lancaster bought it, thus laying the cornerstone of a 
foundation of success.  Shortly afterward he purchased a lot in the 
rear of the court house and erected a handsome six-room cottage.  The 
people began to ask, "What will the man Lancaster do next" and it was 
not long until their interrogation was answered, for he bought the lot 
adjoining his first purchase, and soon had constructed the framework 
for a large building, which, when completed, was 30 by 80 feet and 
three stories high.  He soon filled the new structure with farming
implements of all kinds, garden tools, buggies, wagons, feed,
fertilizers and a vast amount of other articles necessary for the farm 
and home, and conducting this in connection with his meat market and 
grocery, has built up an enormous business that keeps him on the move 
about fourteen hours each business day in the week.  Mr. Lancaster is a 
member of the Methodist Church, an accommodating gentleman, a 
first-class business man, and a number one citizen, who is always ready 
to lend a helping hand to any worthy enterprise of the town.  He is 
also an energetic man and looks after his business interests in a 
systematic way, working like a trooper whenever it become necessary.  
He is the father of three bright and pretty children, and in their 
pretty home on Blaine Avenue, this happy little family are as 
comfortably situated as heart could wish, surrounded by plenty of the
necessaries that go a long way toward making life worth living.  In
short, Mr. Lancaster is just the kind of a man to aid in building a 
good town and "Keep pushing along a good thing".

Lancaster Snow
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Boone-KY OH

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