Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Jessamine Co.

JAMES DENMAN, a native of Jessamine County, was born March 4, 1804.  He
was a son of David Denman who came from South Carolina.  William J.
Denman is the second son of James Denman and Martha Davis, the latter a
native of Virginia, daughter of William C. Davis, who was born in 1772,
a British subject, and came to Jessamine County about 1796.  The wife of
David Denman was Mary Arnold, a native of South Carolina.  James Denman
went to Decatur County, Ind., in 1828, in the early settlement of that
State.  There William J. Denman was born November 22, 1831.  W. J. Denman
remained in Decatur County until 1855, when he came to Jessamine County,
Ky., and taught school for eight months.  In 1856 he began to sell goods
in Nicholasville; in 1866 he was appointed postmaster at that place
under President Johnson.  In 1868, on refusing to aid the Republican
campaign for Grant, he was removed.  He was married, September 18, 1856,
to Mary A. Burch, daughter of Ezekial G. Burch, who was born in Jessamine
County, and was a son of Samuel Burch, born in King and Queen County, Va.,
in 1769.  Seven children have been born to the union of WIlliam J. and
Mary A. Denman: William C., Edward E., George B., James E., Charles F.,
Minnie S. and Robert M.  Mr. Denman is a Royal Arch Mason, and a member
of the Christian Church.  On March 3, 1887, he was appointed postmaster
at Nicholasville, Ky., by President Grover Cleveland, the office, the
intervening nineteen years, having been filled by Republicans.

Denman Davis Arnold Burch
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Decatur-IN King_and_Queen-VA SC

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