Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 4th ed., 
1887 Madison Co.

LINDSAY HUGHES BLANTON, D.D.,  chancellor of Central University, Ky.,
was born in Cumberland Co., Va., January 29, 1832, and is the second 
son of Joseph and Susan (Walker) Blanton. Joseph Blanton was born in 
Cumberland Co., Va., in 1805.  He was educated in Virginia and became a 
large and prosperous planter.  He was an active Whig before the war, 
but afterward affiliated with the Democratic party. He died in 1881. He 
was a son of David Blanton, a native of Caroline County, Va., and of 
English extraction and died when yet a young man.  He had married Lucy 
Johns, a native of Cumberland County, Va.  She was an intelligent and 
well informed lady and lived to be over ninety years old.  Her 
ancestors came from England in the early settlement of Virginia.  Susan
(Walker) Blanton was born in Cumberland County, Va., in 1814, and was 
a daughter of John W. Walker, who married Susan Berryman.  John Walker
was a substantial planter and died young, leaving a son and a daughter. 
His father was William Walker, a native of Virginia, who distinguished 
himself under Gen. George Washington, in the war of Independence. He is 
the great-grandfather also of Judge Thomas H. Hines, of Kentucky, and 
was of Scotch extraction.  Dr. Blanton was educated at Hampden Sidney 
College, Virginia, from which institution he was graduated in the class 
of 1853.  His theological training was received at the Union Theological
Seminary and at Danville Theological Seminary, from which latter 
institution he was graduated in 1857.  He was soon after licensed to 
preach, and ordained and installed as pastor of the Presbyterian Church 
of Versailles, Ky., in 1858, where he continued in the performance of 
successful pastoral work until the fall of 1861, when, owing to his 
warm sympathy for the South in the prevailing civil contest between
the States, he resigned his pastorate and returned to Virginia and was
settled as pastor of the church in Salem, Roanoke County, and continued
such until 1868.  In the spring of 1863 the Doctor entered the army and
became chaplain of the Fifty-fourth Virginia Regiment of Infantry,
serving under Gen. S.B. Buckner, in his East Tennessee campaign.  The 
next year he joined the Twenty-sixth Battalion of Gen. Echols' brigade 
and went through the great campaign of 1864, under Gen. John C. 
Breckinridge, first in the valley and then with Gen. Lee in his 
struggle with Grant, his battalion taking a prominent part in the 
bloody battle of Cold Harbor.  In the fall of 1868 he returned to 
Kentucky and was installed as pastor of the Paris Presbyterian Church, 
and continued in that relation until July, 1880, when he was chosen 
chancellor of Central University, and removed to Richmond, Madison 
County. It is due to Dr. Blanton to say that he brought to the
administration of the affairs of Central University a degree of energy,
skill, and executive ability that have resulted in placing that
institution on a sound footing and in a most favorable state of 
development as an institution for the higher education of young men.  
The number of students in attendance has increased from forty in 1880 
to nearly 200 in 1887, and the amount of money raised during that 
period for permanent endowment, and other purposes, aggregates 
$180,000.  The Doctor is known and respected throughout the State as a 
man of intense earnestness in his chosen work of building up the 
university, and his success is due not less to his wide reputation for 
integrity and his high Christian character, than to the energy and 
executive capacity which he has manifested in the development of
its interests.  As an educator of youth he stands in the foremost rank
in the State; and to his success as a pastor the prosperity of the 
churches over which he presided as pastor, bear ample evidence.  In 
October, 1857, he was united in marriage to Lizzie M. Irvine, of Boyle 
County, Ky., a daughter of Abraham D. and Mary P. (Irvine) Irvine, of 
Fayette County. They are of Scotch-Irish descent and their ancestors 
came to America in the same vessel with the McDowells.  To the Doctor 
and Mrs. Blanton have been born six children: Mary, the wife of E.M. 
Dickson. Esq., a prominent young lawyer of Paris, KY.; Irvine, also an 
attorney at Cynthiana, Ky,; Rutherford, Edgar, Katie and Harry.

Blanton  Walker  Johns  Berryman  Washington  Hines  Buckner  Echols
Breckinridge  Lee  Grant  Irvine  McDowell  Dickson
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Boyle-Ky  Fayette-Ky Cumberland-VA Caroline-VA Salem-Roanoke-VA
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