History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 600.
[Scott County]  [Georgetown City and Precinct]

A. K. LAIR, Georgetown; was born in Harrison County, Kentucky, in April,
1833, and was educated there.  He was a farmer and merchant before the
war.  In 1861 he enlisted in Col. Hanson's 2d Kentucky Infantry, and
participated in all the battles of the 1st Kentucky Brigade, except
Pittsburg Landing and Mission Ridge; he served until the close of the war,
after his return in 1866 he bought a mill at Lair's Station, Harrison
County, Kentucky, and for four years conducted in with fair success; he
was then engaged in merchandising at the same point; in October, 1877, he
came to Georgetown and leased the Georgetown Mills, which he has conducted
ever since; in July, 1880, he bought the mill and property; he employs
five hands, and does a custom and merchant business; there are four run of
buhrs, and the capacity is sixteen bushels of wheat per hour, patent
process; he makes two brands, the "Pure Gold" and "Silver Dust;" the
products of the mill are consumed largely by local demands; he built a
stone addition for the storage of grain, at a cost of $4,000 and overhauled
the entire mill, putting in the patent process in 1881; the new addition is
35x55 feet, and three stories high; the mill is run by water and steam, the
engine being eighty-horse power.

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