Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Shelby Co.

JAMES W. HEAD was born in Oldham County, Ky., April 21, 1850, and is the
eldest son of B. M. Head and Sarah (Barrickman) Head, also natives of
Oldham County.  B. M. Head, a son of James Head, was born in 1820, was
of Scotch descent, and died in 1861, in the county of his birth.  His
mother, Susan (Oglesby) Head, was an aunt of Richard J. Oglesby, now
governor of Illinois.  Jonathan Barrickman, the maternal grandfather of
James W. Head, was also born in Kentucky, and was of English extraction.
James W. Head, between the ages of ten and twelve years, entered the
Masonic College at LaGrange, Ky., under the instruction of John Trimble,
as president, and ex-Chief Justice Hines, of Kentucky, as one of the
professors.  Here he remained until sixteen.  He then taught school until
twenty, when he entered the State University of Indiana, at Bloomington,
in February, 1870, from which he graduated in a regular classical course
in 1874, and then entered the law department, studying for one year.  He
returned to Kentucky, and in February, 1876, located in Shelbyville, Ky.,
and read law with Hon. C. M. Harwood and Hon. J. L. Caldwell, and began
practice in September of the same year.  In 1878 he was elected
prosecuting attorney, served four years, and then resumed practice.
December 14, 1880, he married Miss Annie Lou Ross, daughter of Dr. Samuel
Ross (deceased) and Agnes M. Ross, of Shelbyville, Ky.  Mrs. Annie Lou
Head died March 8, 1884, leaving one child, Annie Ross Head.  Judge Head
is a member of the Sigma Chi Association, of his alma mater, and is now
a successful lawyer.

Head Barrickman Oglesby Harwood Caldwell Ross Trimble Hines
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LaGrange-Oldham-KY Bloomington-Monroe-IL

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