Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Monroe County.

MANLIUS THOMPSON FLIPPIN, judge of the Monroe County Court, was born
near the forks of Indian Creek, in Monroe County, Ky., on the 29th day
of July, 1841; acquired the rudiments of an education at the common
schools of the time; evinced a fondness for books at an early age;
studied several branches without the aid of teachers; taught schools a
few years; studied law and was admitted to the bar in September, 1865;
was a candidate for the Legislature in 1865, as a Republican, and was
first in the county to advocate, in speeches, the adoption of the
Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, but before the
election, yielded the race to Capt. J. B. Riggs, another Republican, who
was elected. In 1867 he was the Republican candidate in his native
county for a seat in the House of the General Assembly, and was elected,
serving throughout the regular and the adjourned sessions; was again
elected to the same position in 1871, and served two sessions; was
elected County Judge in 1874, and again in 1878, without opposition.  He
was nominated by the Republican convention at Glasgow on the 10th of
September, 1880, as the Republican candidate for the Congress in the
Third District; was engaged for six weeks in an active canvass of the
district. He received a considerably larger vote than the Republican
electoral ticket in his own and several other counties of the district,
but was defeated by Hon. J. W. Caldwell, the Democratic nominee, the
district being then as now largely Democratic.  In 1883 he was again
elected to the lower branch of the Kentucky Legislature from the
district composed of Monroe and Metcalfe Counties, and served in that
body during the session.  In the presidential campaign of 1884, on
account of the resignation of Judge Evans, he was chosen by the
magistrates of the county to fill the position till the next regular
election.  He married, in 1871, Miss Susan Maxey, eldest daughter of
Radford J. Maxey, who was a cousin to Senator S. B. Maxey, of Texas, and
was a prominent and popular citizen of his county in his lifetime,
having served several terms as surveyor of his county.  Notwithstanding
his active official and business life, Judge Flippin has found time to
indulge his well know literary tastes, and has pursued a varied and
extensive course of reading.  His library is large and well chosen for
his section of the country.  He is an eloquent speaker at the bar or on
the hustings, and has delivered numerous lectures and addresses before
literary and other societies.  He has fine taste and aptness for poetry,
and among his most popular pieces may be mentioned "The Southland," "A
Dream," and "Evening Star."  Judge Flippin is descended from two of the
oldest families in the county.  His paternal grandfather was a Virginian
of English descent and served as a volunteer in the Colonial army during
the war of the Revolution.  After the close of the war he married Rhoda
McAdoo, and settled on the Holston River in east Tennessee.  About the
year 1787 he immigrated to Kentucky and settled first at Blue Springs,
in Barren County, and a few years later at Pikeville, in what is now
Monroe County, being one of the pioneers in that section.  Of his
numerous family James Flippin was one of his sons, and was born on the
26th of November, 1783.  It may be justly said that Col. James Flippin
was one of the most promiment men of his county in his time.  He was
sheriff several terms and was colonel of the militia under the military
system in the State.  He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and served
against the British and Indians in the Northwest.  He was a man of
polished and agreeable manners, and evinced in his gait, bearing and
conversation, even in his old age, his military training and tastes.  He
owned a large body of fine land and was a successful farmer and stock
raiser.  His home was the abode of the largest and fullest hospitality
for more than forty years.  His wife was Isabella Brown, sister of Col.
Hugh Brown, of Allen County; she was of Irish extraction, and was
married in 1807.  Of Col. James Flippin's nine children - six sons and
three daughters - James McAdoo Flippin, the father of the subject of
this sketch, was born on the 25th of December, 1816.  He still lives on
a part of the old homestead, engaged in agricultural pursuits, and is
esteemed and respected by all who know him.  In 1840 he married Phoebe
Sanders Wood, daughter of William Wood, who emigrated from one of the
Carolinas, and settled in what is now Monroe County, about the year
1805.  Of their three children, Manlius T. is the eldest.  The second
son, Dr. J. A. Flippin, was born August 18, 1843, and is now engaged in
the practice of medicine in the town of Tompkinsville.  The youngest
brother, William S. Flippin, was born May, 1846, and died in 1873.

Brown Caldwell Evans Flippin Maxey McAdoo Riggs Wood
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Allen Glasgow-Barren Metcalfe TN TX

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