History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 614.
[Scott County]  [Georgetown City and Precinct]

ROBERT SOPER, merchant, Georgetown; was born in Bourbon County, Ky., in
1834.  He was educated at Sharpsburg Academy and Georgetown College, which
he left in 1854, and taught a country school until in 1855, and then
entered upon a clerkship at Flat Rock, Bourbon County, which he continued
two years.  In 1857 he opened a general store at Centreville, Bourbon
County, continuing nine years, after which he spent a year in Paris, Ky.,
and in 1867 he came to Georgetown, where he opened a dry goods store,
buying the business of F. A. Lyon.  In 1874, he moved to his present site,
where he made many improvements, and conducted the business until the fall
of 1876, when the building and part of the stock burned.  In June, 1877,
he completed his present three-story iron front building (108x32) which
is fire proof.  He occupies the entire building, with his residence, first
floor sales room and basement carpet room.  He employs in all five
gentleman and one lady, and conducts a most flourishing business in dry
goods, furnishing foods and carpets, having also a merchant tailoring
department.  His business reaches to $75,000 per year.  His business rooms
are not surpassed by any in the county, being replete with all modern
conveniences, and as a business manager he has no superior.  His father,
Lawrence Soper, was born in Maryland, in 1800, and came with his parents
to Bourbon in about 1803, settling on Cane Ridge, where he followed
farming until his death, which occurred in 1879.  He left six sons, all
but the subject of these lines being farmers.

Soper Lyon
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Bourbon-KY MD

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