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

J. W. SHIELDS.  The Oak Ridge country has produced many good men who
have made their impression on the people of Grant County and have won
honor and distinction in the political and business world.  Of all of
the deserving men who have come from that section of the county none 
have been and are more deserving than J. W. Shields.  Born on his 
father's farm, on which he still resides, on the 30th day of April, 
1858, and being the oldest son in a large family of children, his 
opportunity in life for education and a start in the world was none of 
the best.  But these obstacles did not deter him.  The common schools 
of the neighborhood were open to his ambitious mind at least three 
months in the year, and when he came to his majority he had a fairly 
good education and was possessed of abundant industry and plunk.  He 
began life as a farmer and has continued a tiller of the soil to this 
day.  In 1881, on June the 30th, he was united in marriage to Miss Lucy 
A. Burroughs, daughter of L. E. Burroughs, and to them three children 
have been born.  Mr. Shields is a Republican in politics, and for many 
years has stood high in the councils of his party.  One term he served 
his party and the people of this magisterial district as their member 
of the Fiscal Court, and for three years was a gauger and store-keeper 
in the revenue service under Harrison's administration.  He is a working
member of the Oak Ridge Baptist Church, and for a number of years has 
been one of its deacons, and has done as much as any other one member 
to build up and make it the prosperous church that is has grown to be 
in these later years.  He is a working member of the Knights of Pythias 
and belongs to the Uniformed Rank Old Kentucky Home Company.  It has 
been whispered around lately that Mr. Shields may be the nominee of the 
Republican party for County Judge next November.  He is very popular 
with his party and the people in the vicinity where he resides.

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