Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

By: John M. Gresham, Orig. Pub. 1896, reprinted 2019, 738 pages, NEW INDEX, ISBN #0-89308-192-2. This excellent volume contains some 1104 Biographical sketches of Kentuckians and their families with over 10,000 persons listed in the NEW Index. Also to be found are 32 finely executed steel engravings of some of the biographees. Many of the biographies take the families back into the mid 1700's.