History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 762. [Nicholas County] [Carlisle City and Precinct] ZACH. TAYLOR PIPER, farmer, P. O. Carlisle, was born in Nicholas Co., Ky., March 27, 1848, and is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Smith) Piper. He was born in Nicholas Co., Sept. 6, 1806; was a farmer by occupation, and died Aug. 31, 1876; his wife, Eliza, was born in Bourbon Co., May 6, 1807, and died May 22, 1866. They had ten children, of whom Zach, the subject of our sketch, was next to the youngest. He obtained his education in the common schools of Nicholas Co., and at the Wesleyan College at Millersburg. He has followed farming and trading all his life with the exception of two years, when he was engaged in merchandising at Carlisle. He was married in Bourbon Co., Feb. 22, 1872, to Miss Ida Steele, who was born in Bourbon Co., April 5, 1849; they have two children, viz: Samuel and Steele; Mrs. Piper was daughter of William and Julia (Wood) Steele. He was born in Bourbon Co., in Oct. 1808, and died Jan. 15, 1882. Julia, his wife, was born in Nicholas Co., in 1828, and is still living. Mr. Piper is a model farmer and one of the most enterprising men in the county; he is liberal in all public improvements and enterprises. In connection with his wife he is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Carlisle. He owns 200 acres of choice farm land and deals in all kinds of stock. In politics he is a Democrat. Piper Smith Steele Wood = Bourbon-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/nicholas/piper.zt.txt