Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

FRANK M. SCRIMSHER was born in Oldham County, Ky., and is a son of Thomas
J. and Cassandra (Booker) Scrimsher, and a grandson of John Scrimsher, who
emigrated from Wales when but twelve years of age and came to Virginia.
About 1797 he settled in Owen County, Ky.  Thomas J. is a millwright and
is still living in Oldham County.  He worked at his trade in Louisville as
early as 1821, and helped to build the first saw-mill in the city.  He
also followed flat-boating and keel-boating a good deal on the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers.  He has two sons and one daughter living: Jasper W.,
of Indianapolis; Frank M. and Mrs. Julia Doane in Iowa.  The subject of
this sketch was brought up in the country and received but a common school
education.  In 1861 he entered the First Kentucky (Confederate) Cavalry,
commanded by Col. Ben Hardin Helm, in which he served two and a half years.
In 1865 he married Miss Julia Eddins, of Oldham County.  After the close
of the war he followed railroading on the L.F. and L. railroad, when he
accepted the position he now holds, that of "superintendent of pipe laying"
for the Louisville Water Company, which position he has held since 1868.

Scrimsher Booker Doane Eddins
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Oldham-KY VA IN IA Wales

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