Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 796-797 [Hopkins]

     JOHN B. BRASHER, county clerk of Hopkins county and residing at
Madisonville, was born in Christian county, Kentucky, December 29,
1853.  His father, Dr. A. W. Brasher, was also a native of Christian
county and was physician for the penitentiary at Eddyville.  He
married E. S. Causler, a native of Christian county and a daughter
of Jack and Matilda Causler and a sister of Judge Polk Causler of
that county.  They were the parents of three children, and two are
living; John B. Brasher and Mrs. Dick Bacon, the wife of the
postmaster of Madisonville.
     John B. Brasher, the eldest child, was reared in Christian
county and was educated in the schools of the county, remaining at
home until he was twenty-two years old.  At the age of fifteen years
he began learning the drug business, and was engaged in that line of
enterprise until he was elected county clerk of Hopkins county in
1897.  He took up his residence in Hopkins county in 1875, and was
in the drug business at Dawson Springs for a number of years.  In
his election to the office of county clerk Mr. Brasher has broken
two precedents of Hopkins county.  He is the first man elected to
that office whose previous residence had been outside the city of
Madisonville, and never before did the Democratic party renominate a
man for that office without opposition.  He is now serving with
ability and credit his second term in the office, and enjoys the
esteem and good will of all citizens of the county.

Brasher Causler Bacon
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Christian-KY

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