History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. V. p. 88,
Taylor County

     JAMES R. SANDERS, who resides at Campbellsville, county seat of
Taylor County, is a native son of this county and is the efficient
incumbent of the office of deputy collector of internal revenue for the
Kentucky revenue district in which he resides.
     Mr. Sanders was born on a farm five miles southeast of
Campbellsville, on the 21st of August 1866, and he is a representative
of one of the old and well known families of this section of the state. 
His father, Lafayette Sanders was born at Clay Hill, Taylor County, in
1841, and he passed his entire life in his native county, his death
having occurred on his home farm in 1886.  He established his residence
on this farm in 1869, and gained precedence as one of the extensive and
successful exponents of agricultural and livestock enterprise in Taylor
County.  He was a man of fine mentality and in his youth had prepared
himself for the legal profession, though he never engaged in active
practice.  He was graduated in a college at Hanover, Indiana.  Mr.
Sanders was a democrat in politics, was influential in the directing of
community affairs of public order, was affiliated with the Masonic
Fraternity, and he and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian
Church.  During the Civil war he gave evidence of his loyalty to the
cause of the Confederacy by serving in the command of Gen. John Morgan,
the famed Confederate raider, for whom he acted as a scout.  He was
wounded by guerrillas in an engagement of Little Muldrough Hill, Taylor
County, and as the shot struck hi[gh] in the forehead, the wound was a
severe one and caused him trouble during the remainder of his life,
which was undoubtedly shortened by this injury.  Mrs. Sanders whose
maiden name was Ann Mary Patterson, was born in Green County, Kentucky,
in 1846, and she passed the closing period of her life at
Campbellsville, where she died in 1907.  Of the children, the first
born, Nora, died in infancy; James R. of this review, was the next in
order of birth; C. P., who died at Jonesboro, Arkansas at the age of
forty-six years, was a traveling salesman for the Belknap Hardware
Company of Louisville, Kentucky, and was the organizer of the Farmers
Deposit Bank at Campbellsville, though he sold his interest in this
institution some time prior to his death; Dr. H. G. is a representative
physician and surgeon at Campbellsvile; Dr. R. A. is successfully
established in the practice of dentistry in Campbellsville; Mary M. died
in infancy; W. B. is a farmer near Glasgow, Montana; S. M. is engaged in
the hardware business at Campbellsville; Cary, who died at the age of
forty-five years, was the wife of J. D. Edwards, who still resides on
his farm in Taylor County; Nellie is the wife of George Barbee, a
druggist at Syracuse, Nebraska; and Bettie is the wife of Harry T.
Edwards, who conducts a feed store at Campbellsville.
     James R. Sanders undoubtedly has his share of protest against the
study and confinement that attended his boyhood application in the rural
school near his home but he profited duly by the advantages there
afforded and later was graduated from the high school at Campbellsville
as a member of the class of 1886.  By this time he was fully alive to
the value of education and had so advanced himself as to prove eligible
for pedagogic honors, in connection with which he gave one year of
effective service as principal of the high school of Campbellsville.  In
1890 he was graduated in Central University at Richmond, Kentucky, from
which institution he received his well earned degree of Bachelor of
Arts, and in which he became affiliated with the Phi Delta Theta
fraternity.  It was after his graduation that he held the position of
principal of the Campbellsville High School, and he had initiated his
second year of effective service in this capacity when the work was
interrupted by the burning of the high school building.  In this
emergency he accepted the position of teacher of mathematics in Pike
College, Bowling Green, Missouri, where he remained thus engaged for
three years and where also he studied law, under the preceptorship of
the firm of Clark & Dempsey, the senior member of which was the
distinguished Missourian, Hon. Champ Clark, later member of Congress
from that state.  Mr. Sanders was admitted to the Missouri bar at
Bowling Green in 1895, and soon afterward he assumed academic and
executive charge of the S. W. Buchanan Collegiate Institute at
Campbellsville, Kentucky, which had been recently established under the
auspices of the Presbyterian Church.  He retained this incumbency two
years and did excellent work in building up the institution.  In 1897 he
was made master commissioner of the Taylor Circuit Court, and in this
capacity he continued his service until 1910.  Re-election continued
him in office after the expiration of his first term, of four years, but
after seeing about six months of his second term he resigned the office,
in July, 1914, to assume that of deputy collector of internal revenue,
to which position he had been appointed by Scott Mayes, the United
States collector for the Fifth Revenue District of Kentucky.  He
continued his effective service under such jurisdiction until July,
1919, when the various revenue districts were consolidated into one,
known as the District of Kentucky, and he then received appointment as
deputy collector of the state district, with headquarters in the City of
Louisville.
     Though is official headquarters are in the metropolis of Kentucky,
as noted above, Mr. Sanders still maintains his home at Campbellsville,
where his fine suburban residence occupies a tract of thirty-four acres
and constitutes one of the attractive home of his native county.  In
addition to this fine property, he owns a one-third interest in a farm
of 110 acres, four miles south of Campbellsville.
     Mr. Sanders is a stalwart in the ranks of the democratic party.  He
is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Campbellsville, and his wife
is a member of the Baptist Church.  In his home city he is affiliated
with Pitman Lodge No. 124, Free and Accepted Masons, besides which he
retains membership in Quiver Lodge No. 242, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, at Bowling green, Missouri.  Mr. Sanders played a loyal and
vigorous part in furthering the various campaigns for subscriptions to
the Government loans and Savings Stamps in connection with the nation's
participation in the World war, and he personally subscribed to the
limit of his means.
     In 1896 Mr Sanders wedded Miss Minnie Graves, who likewise was born
and reared in Taylor County and in their home her father now resides,
the loved wife and mother having passed to the life eternal.  Mr. Graves
is a retired farmer and is one of the highly esteemed citizens of Taylor
County. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders have three children: Ellen, was graduated
from the University of Louisville with the degree of Bachelor of Arts,
and is, in 1921, taking a post-graduate course in that institution;
Fayette, who remains at the parental home, is a student in the Russell
Creek Academy at Campbellsville, and the same conditions apply to
Elizabeth, the youngest of the children.
     Henry Sanders, great-grandfather of the subject of this review, was
born and reared in Virginia and became a pioneer farmer and distiller in
Taylor County, Kentucky, where he was a prominent and influential
citizen of the early days and where he and his wife continued to reside
until their deaths, their son James, grandfather of James R. of this
review, having been born in this county, though the same had not been
organized under this name at that time.  He devoted his entire active
career to farm industry in his native county, and his death occurred in
the Muldrough Hill district of the county prior to the birth of his
grandson, James R.  He married Mary Griffin, who was born in Adair
County, this state, and who survived him by several years.

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