History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 661.
[Harrison County]   [Cynthiana City and Precinct]

W. W. LONGMOOR, Clerk of the Circuit, Chancery and Criminal Courts of
Harrison County; was born June 21, 1840, in Kenton County, Ky., near the
city of Covington.  His father, George Longmoor, was a farmer, born in
Bourbon County, but moved to Kenton County, where he resided till [sic]
death in 1847.  His mother, Amanda Hammett Longmoor, was a native of Mason
County, and daughter of Samuel Hammett, a farmer of that county.  His
grandfather, Hugh Longmoor, was born in Scotland, and in early infancy
moved with his parents to Ireland.  Hugh Longmoor always called himself an
Irishman.  In early manhood he emigrated to America and settled in Bourbon
County, Ky.  He returned to Ireland once, on business, after he had
settled in this country.  He was married in Bourbon County to Miss Sarah
Elizabeth Eaton, who was a native of New Jersey.  He died in 1810, a rigid
Puritan.  George Longmoor, father of W. W. Longmoor, was born in Bourbon
County, Ky., July 30, 1803.  He married Miss Amanda Hammett, daughter of
Samuel Hammett, in Kenton County, then call Campbell County, on the 18th
of March 1830.  Samuel Hammett was born in Virginia, came to Kentucky when
young and settled in Mason County; married Mary Adamson in that county,
where his daughter, Amanda, was born on the 15th of March, 1813.  He
subsequently moved to Kenton County.  Mrs. Amanda Hammett Longmoor died in
1856.  Mary Adamson, her mother, was also a native of Mason County, but
her last residence was in Kenton County.  W. W. Longmoor, the subject of
our sketch, left the farm in 1854 to attend school in Cincinnati, where
he remained three years, and two more were spent at the Farmers' College
at College Hill, Hamilton County, Ohio.  In 1859 he took a course of
instruction at Bartlett's Business College, in Cincinnati, and afterward
spent some time in the office of Haven & Co's foundry, of that city, the
senior member of which firm was his brother-in-law.  In 1861 he enlisted
in Company H. 2d Kentucky C. S. Infantry, but remained in the regiment
only three months, being compelled to return home by injuries received in
a fall.  After his recovery he assisted in organizing two companies under
the command of Captain Corbin, of Boone County, and accompanied them as far
as Mount Sterling, when they were routed and several of the number killed
by the Federals, who were concealed in the Court House and in the dwellings
of the town.  In attempting to escape he was captured by the Winchester
Home Guards and confined in the Clark County jail; thence he was sent the
next day to Lexington, afterward to Covington and Cincinnati, and then
removed to Camp Chase, and finally to Johnson's Island; and after several
months' imprisonment was exchanged, in the fall of 1862, at Vicksburg.  He
then made his way to Murfreesboro, Tenn., and reported to Colonel Hanson,
of the old Second Infantry; thence proceeded to Alexandria, Tenn., and
joined Company B., Second Cavalry, Colonel Basil Duke commanding, and
remained with that regiment till [sic] the battle of Cynthiana, June 11,
1864, when he was permanently disabled. Up to this time he had participated
in all the raids and engagements of the regiment, was captured in the Ohio
raid, and after one month's imprisonment at Camp Chase, and then three
month's at Camp Douglas, he mad his escape and joined his regiment at
Wytheville, Virginia, after a most dangerous trip through Ohio and
Kentucky.  On the 11th of June, 1864, however, at the battle of Cynthiana,
his career as a soldier came to an end, unless long and severe suffering
may be reckoned a part of the soldier's professional life.  He was wounded
in the thigh in such a manner that amputation at the hip joint became
necessary.  For about two years he was unable to leave his bed, and so
critical was his condition that the Federal post commander of Cynthiana,
by request of General Morgan a few days after the battle, received orders
from his superiors at Lexington to permit Mr. Longmoor to be removed to a
private residence at Cynthiana for more careful treatment.  He was taken
to the house of Dr. Abram Addams, then living near the Methodist Church,
and all that skill, kindness, and unwearied attention could do was put in
requisition.  About four weeks after this arrangement was made a drunken
Federal captain, on his own authority, intruded upon this private
residence, and with a posse of negroes, carried the desperately wounded
man, under a July sun, to the extemporized hospital, situated where the
Christian Church now stands.  On learning the facts of this outrage all
parties were indignant, none said to be more than the Northern officers'
themselves.  But a month elapsed before it was thought safe to move the
wounded man back to the hospitable mansion of Dr. Addams.   Six months
thereafter he was paroled, through the influence of Colonel Robert Kelley,
now of Louisville, and removed, still on his back, to the residence of
his brother-in-law, Mr. Augustus Haven, about six miles from Covington,
Ky.  Eight or nine months after this removal it was found unavoidable to
amputate the wounded limb at the hip joint, an ordeal the peril of which
all surgeons well know.  The operation was performed by Dr. George C.
Blackman, of Cincinnati, assisted by Dr. John Dulaney, of Kenton County.
Four months after this operation, to the surprise of of everybody, Mr.
Longmoor was able to move about on crutches.  At the battle of Cynthiana
Mr. Longmoor was the advanced vidette, and received his injury when in the
act of charging the Rankin House, in which a Federal regiment had taken
refuge.  The Federal colonel was fatally wounded, the regiment captured,
and the Rankin House, now the Smith House, was taken.  In 1866 Mr. Longmoor
actively engaged in the dry goods business at Burlington; after eight
months came to Cynthiana and embarked in the hardware business with his
brother; and in 1868 he went into the furniture trade, in which he
continued until 1874.  In that year he was elected Clerk of the Circuit and
Criminal Courts of Harrison County, a position which he still holds.  Mr.
Longmoor was married on Feb. 5, 1887, to Miss Louisa Addams, daughter of
Dr. Abram Addams, deceased, of Cynthiana, and granddaughter of Major
William K. Wall.  One son, a bright boy, ten or twelve years old, cheers
their pretty residence on Main Street.

Longmoor Hammett Eaton Adamson Addams Haven Blackman Dulaney
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Kenton-KY Mason-KY Bourbon-KY Jefferson-KY Hamilton-OH
Scotland Ireland

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