History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr, American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. 5, p. 220, Pendleton County HOWARD E. DUCKER. An active business man of Pendleton County for many years, Howard E. Ducker has a number of interest that require his active supervision at Butler, chief among them being his partnership in the leading lumber, coal and feed establishment of the city. Mr. Ducker was born at Butler September 22, 1877. His grandfather, Jackson Ducker, was a life-long resident of Pendleton County, a farmer and distiller, born at Boston Station in 1827, and died at Butler in 1911. He married Sallie Ellis, who was born in 1830 and died in 1891, also a life-long resident of Butler. They had three children: Perry, the oldest, a farmer still living at Butler; William; and Nora, who died as a young woman. William Ducker was born near Butler in 1854, and practically his entire life has been spent in that vicinity. His interests and vocation have been those of a farmer, and in 1893- 4 he was county sheriff. He is a stanch democrat. William Ducker married Mary J. Caldwell, who was born at Butler in 1855. Howard E. is the oldest of their four children; Thomas and Clara both died when young; and Charles W. is a farmer at Butler. Howard E. is the oldest of their four children: Thomas and Clara both died when young; and Charles W. is a farmer at Butler. Howard E. Ducker lived on his father's farm until he was twenty-three years of age. In the meantime he attended rural schools and also the public schools at Falmouth. From 1906 until 1916 he was in the distillery business at Butler, and since then has been a member of the firm Owen & Ducker in the lumber coal and feed business. His partner is H. M. Owen. Their yards and offices are on Mill Street, and they own all the grounds and buildings and have a very prosperous trade. Mr. Ducker since 1916 has been secretary and treasurer of the Butler Creamery Company, an organization dating from 1908, and conducting a creamery half a mile east of Butler. Mr. Ducker is a director in the Butler Deposit Bank. His home is in the country, two miles east of Butler, where he has a thoroughly equipped and valuable farm of 250 acres. He gave loyal aid in all the war campaigns in the Butler community. He is a democrat, a member of the Christian Church and is affiliated with Osage Tribe of Improved Order of Red Men at Lenoxburg. In 1903, at Portsmouth, Ohio, he married Miss Florence Ryder, daughter of F. M. and Elizabeth (Manning) Ryder, now residents of Butler. Her father is a painter and decorator. Mr. and Mrs. Ducker have three children: Aril, born February 26, 1904; Clifford, born October 5, 1906, and Mary, born August 19, 1910. The oldest is in the Butler High School and the other two are attending grammar school. Caldwell Ducker Ellis Manning Ryder = OH http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/pendleton/ducker.he.txt