Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Woodford Co.

JOSEPH ALEXANDER HUMPHREYS (deceased) was a member of one of the most
distinguished families of Kentucky.  He was born in Woodford County July
29, 1826, and was the eldest son of David C. and Sarah (Scott) Humphreys,
natives respectively of Staunton, Va., and Chillicothe, Ohio.  David C.
Humphrey was one of the earliest settlers of Woodford County, and one of
its most influential and substantial farmers.  He was the son of Alexander
Humphreys, a native of Ireland, a polished gentleman, and a graduate of
the Edinburgh University, Scotland.  He married Miss Mary, daughter of John
Brown.  She was a native of Virginia, of Scotch extraction, a sister of
John Brown, Jr., and was born in Rockbridge County, Va., in 1856; came to
Kentucky in 1782; became a member of Congress under the old confederation;
was in 1792 elected the first United States senator from Kentucky, and was
twice re-elected.  He died in Frankfort in 1836.  His two sons, Mason and
Olando Brown, was also prominent and influential men.  Mason Brown was
born in 1799, was a law graduate of Yale, and was secretary of State under
Gov. Morehead.  His son, B. Gratz Brown, was governor of the State of
Missouri, was a United States senator, and was the candidate for the Vice
President of the United States on the Democratic ticket with Horace
Greeley in 1872.  Olando Brown was born in Franklin County, Ky., in 1801,
graduated from Princeton College in 1820, and for many years was editor
and proprietor of the Frankfort COmmonwealth; he was secretary of State
under Gov. Crittenden, and commissioner of Indian affairs under President
Taylor.  Both these brothers died in 1867.  Joseph A. Humphreys, whose name
heads this sketch, was educated at Centre College, Danville, then attended
Yale College, and finished his medical studies in Europe; but he never
practiced medicine, his inclination being for agriculture, a vocation he
never abandoned.  June 21, 1853, he married Miss Sarah T. Gibson, a native
of the Parish of Terre Boone, La., a daughter of Hon. Tobias Gibson, and
sister of United States Senator, Gibson, of that State.  She is highly
intelligent and of fine literary attainments.  She was left a widow in 1863
and is the mother of three children: Lucy A. (married Lewis S. Johnstone,
of South Carolina, February 12, 1884), Salle and Joseph A. Humphreys.  The
Humphreys are also connected with the Harts, another prominent Kentucky
family.  Nathaniel Hart was born in North Carolina; was an associate of
Daniel Boone, and his sister, Chenoe, was probably the first white child
born in Kentucky.  Gov. Shelby married Nathaniel Hart's sister, and Henry
Clay also married into the family.  Mr. Hart was also the owner of the
first negro born in the State.

Humphreys Scott Brown Gibson Johnstone Boone Hart
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Danville-Boyle-KY Rockbridge-VA OH MO SC NC Ireland Scotland

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