Historic Families of Kentucky by Thomas Marshall Green, Cincinnati, 
1889, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1959. pp. 75-76. 
[Mercer county].

JOHN ADAIR McDOWELL, their oldest son [Samuel McDowell, of Mercer], was 
born in Mercer county, May 26, 1789; was well educated at the best 
schools in the state; studied law in Mason county under Alexander K. 
Marshall, who had married one of his aunts, and who was one of the 
ablest lawyers in the state, as well as one of the most intellectual 
members of that extensive family.  John Adair McDowell was with General 
Samuel Hopkins in his expeditions against the Illinois Indians in the 
fall of 1812, rendering valuable services to that officer.  When 
Governor Shelby called upon the men of Kentucky to meet him at the mouth 
of the Licking with their rifles, with the inspiring promise, "I will 
lead you," his old friends, the McDowells, were of the earliest to 
respond, and John Adair McDowell again went into the field.  Shelby at 
once placed him on his confidential staff, and as an aide he was with 
the hardy, brave old soldier at the Thames, and throughout all the 
arduous campaign.  When very young, he had married Lucy Todd Starling, a 
daughter of William Starling and Susannah Lyne, who were then residents 
of Mercer county.  After the close of the war, Major McDowell was 
induced by Lucas Sullivant, who had married a sister of his wife, to 
remove to Columbus, Ohio, whither he went, in 1815, immediately 
entering upon a successful career as a lawyer.  In 1819, he was 
appointed attorney for that state; he was a member of the Ohio 
Legislature in 1820, '21; his abilities and attainments received 
appropriate recognition in his appointment as Judge of the Circuit Court 
for the Columbus District, a position to which he gave dignity, and held 
at the time of his death, in the prime of a vigorous manhood, in 1823.  
Handsome in person, of graceful manner, amiable temper, and decided 
character, he won affection and respect from all; death alone interfered 
between him and the highest honors of his adopted state. 1.  His 
daughter, Anne, born in 1810, married John Winston Price, of Hillsboro.  
Her husband was a descendant of the second William Randolph, of Turkey 
Island, whose wife was a Miss Beverly; also of the gifted Winstons, from 
whom came Patrick Henry, the Prestons, of South Carolina, and General 
Joseph E. Johnston, of the Confederate army. Mr. Price had been a law 
student under his relative, Chief Justice Marshall, and was for many 
years Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the Hillsboro District. 
They had many children. 2.  Another daughter of Major John Adair 
McDowell married Hon. John A. Smith, a lawyer of Hillsboro, who was 
honored by the people among whom he lived by election several times to 
the state legislature to two constitutional conventions, and as 
congressman for the district several terms.  They also have a large 
family. 

McDowell Marshall Hopkins Shelby Starling Lyne Sullivant Price Randolph 
Beverly Henry Preston Johnston
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Mason-KY IL OH SC

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