Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
Harrison Co.

JAMES W. CHOWNING, son of John Chowning, was born in Harrison County, Ky.,
in 1838.  John Chowning was born in Virginia, and came to Kentucky at an
early day, settled in Harrison County, followed farming and trading, and
at one time was a representative of that county in the State Legislature,
and later was a director in the Kentucky Central Railroad Company.  He
moved to Pendleton County about 1854, where he died in 1876, being nearly
eighty years of age.  James W. Chowning was reared in Covington, Ky.,
where he received the most of his education.  He has devoted almost all of
his life to the mercantile business, having moved to Pendleton County, in
1865, where, in 1876, he engaged in mercantile pursuits at Morgan,
remaining at the latter place until 1887, when he moved to Harrison County,
Ky., leaving his business in Morgan in charge of his son, John R. Chowning.
James W. Chowning has dealt largely in tobacco for many years, and is now
engaged in farming and stock raising near Cynthiana, Harrison County.  He
was a representative of Pendleton County in the Legislature in 1875.  In
1863 he married Miss Ella Grant, a daughter of Robert and Agnes Grant of
Kenton County.  To this union seven children have been born, all sons, viz:
John R., James L., Armand, Richard S., William G., Risk and Charles C.  Mr.
and Mrs. Chowning are members of the Christian Church.  Politically Mr.
Chowning is a Democrat.

Chowning, Grant
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Pendleton, VA, Kenton

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