Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1885,
Hardin Co.

HENRY A. SOMMERS, editor of the Elizabethtown News, was born November 3,
1853, in Montgomery County, Md., and is a son of Judge A. H. Sommers (for
many years judge of the probate court in this county) and Virginia (Veirs)
Sommers.  Henry A. received the advantages of a thorough education,
graduating from the Rockville Academy in 1871 with the first honors of his
class.  For four years next following the completion of his education, he
was in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company in the capacity
of civil engineer.  He then went to Illinois, and engaged for a time as a
traveling salesman for Moses Warren & Co., of Chicago, but in 1878 returned
to the scenes of his childhood.  After a brief stay, and in the same year,
he removed to Kentucky in 1878 and established the Hart County Democrat,
which he successfully conducted until 1881, when he sold this paper, and in
connection with W. W. Anderson bought the Elizabethtown News.  Mr. Sommers
became the proprietor of the paper in December, 1885.  In his various
business enterprises he has been attended with success--from serving as a
page in the Constitutional Convention at Maryland at the age of thirteen,
to the present responsible position of editor of a newspaper.  He also
enjoys the honor of being a colonel in Gen. Knott's Staff.  Mr. Sommers was
married, in 1885, to Miss Elizabeth R., daughter of Col. J. B. Payne, and
granddaughter of the late Hon. Samuel Thomas.

Sommers Veirs Warren Anderson Knott Payne Thomas
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Montgomery-MD IL Hart-KY

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