Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1885,
Larue Co.

PROF. J. C. FRIEND was born November 7, 1851, in Elizabethtown, and is the
fourth of five boys and two girls (six of whom lived to be grown) born of
Fielding and Elizabeth S. (Culley) Friend.  Fielding Friend was born in
Hardin County, Ky.  In his early life he was a stage-driver; later became a
merchant in Elizabethtown and Louisville, Ky., and also kept the Exchange
Hotel in Louisville for three years.  His last days were spent at West
Point, where he was actively engaged in mercantile business, when he was
taken sick with cholera and died in 1852.  He was a very active man during
his life; was an active worker for the Whig party, and a devoted member of
the Christian Church.  His father, Charles Friend, married Sarah Huss; both
are natives of Pennsylvania, of German descent, and came to Hardin County
as early as 1795.  He was a farmer and owner of slave property.  Mrs.
Elizabeth Friend was born in Pennsylvania, and was a daughter of Capt. John
S. Culley, who was an early pioneer of Hardin County, was a contractor for
public and other works, conducted a hotel for many years in Elizabethtown,
and located in Hardin County about 1825, where he soon became one of its
leading and representative citizens, and was elected to the Legislature
from Hardin County four terms.  Prof. Friend was reared and educated in
Elizabethtown, Louisville and West Point.  At the age of fourteen years he
went to Cloverport and entered the printing office of the "Cloverport
Journal;" one year later he went to Rockport, Ind., as salesman in a
grocery, and the next year to Elizabethtown, where he clerked in Hill's
Hotel for a number of years.  In 1867 he took charge of the school at
Hodgensville, Ky., and has been actively engaged in the schools of La Rue
[sic] County ever since, except two years as editor of the "Washington
County Watchman." He has been officially connected with the board of
examiners of La Rue County for a number of years, and has been a constant
contributor to the metropolitan and local press since a boy.  He takes an
active interest in politics, was chairman of the Democratic County
Committee for some time, and cast his first presidential vote for Horace
Greeley.

Friend Culley Huss
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Hardin-KY Jefferson-KY PA IN

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