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From: Sandi Gorin <>
Subject: BIOS 4271 THRU 4275 - GRANT CO - CRAM, HUMLONG, MENEFEE, RENAKER, SNOW
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 06:47:08 -0500


Here are the last bios for this week out of Grant Co. Wishing you a
wonderful weekend of discovery of your family. See you again Monday! Sandi

4271 CRAM, EDWARD T - Cram McDonald Grace
4272 HUMLONG, J H - Humlong Willis Elliston Stratton Needham
4273 MENIFEE, B F - Menefee Simmons Hogan Ranton
4274 RENAKER, PAUL J - Renaker Lemon Boyers Hutchinson
4275 SNOW, W R - Snow Lancaster

#4271: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th
ed.,Grant Co. EDWARD T. CRAM was born in Pendleton County, Ky., October
1, 1853, and is the third son of Willard G. and Maria (McDonald) Cram,
natives of Niagara County, N. Y., and Kenton County, Ky. Willard G. Cram
came to Kentucky with his father, Ambrose Cram, also a native of New York,
about 1825, and settled in Kenton County. Willard G. Cram was born in
1819. Jabez McDonald, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was a
native of Kenton County, Ky., and of Scotch-Irish extraction. Edward T.
Cram was reared in Pendleton County, and for several years was engaged in
farming and teaching school. About 1880 he went to Williamstown, and took
charge of the Williamstown Courier, the leading journal of the county,
which was established September 4, 1879, by C. C. Cram, his brother, and
now has a
circulation of about 800. Edward T. Cram was married December 26, 1874, to
Miss Margaret Grace, of New Orleans. Three children have blessed this
union, viz: Willard G., Matthew A., and Cora O. Mr. Cram is a member
of the Baptist Church, and a Democrat.

#4272: Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May
30, 1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical
Society. J. H. HUMLONG, while not "to the manor born" is a Grant county
citizen who has the highest regard of his neighbors and friends. He comes
of sturdy stock and was born in Bracken county, Kentucky, October 4, 1848.
Like so many other men who have made their mark in the world, he was born
and raised on a farm. He secured his education by attending school in the
winter time. During the summer months his labor was needed on the farm to
assist in the planting and harvesting of the crops. He attended the
college at Augusta one year and then spent one year in the Kentucky
University. After completing his education he spent four years in the
County and Circuit Court Clerk's office of Bracken county. Mr. Humlong in
his early life caught the Western fever, which was then so prevalent, and
"went West". He spent nine years in the western part of Nebraska and
Kansas, homesteading a claim. There his children were born, and his first
wife, a daughter of the late Judge Willis, of Bracken county, and a sister
of Mr. R. H. Elliston, died. That part of the West was not as
attractive in those early days as it has gotten to be since. With his two
lovely little girls he came back to Kentucky in 1889 and located in
Williamstown, the next January taking a position as assistant cashier with
the Bank of Williamstown. That position he held until the resignation of
Tim Needham, July 1, 1897, when he was elected cashier, and that position
he has held until this day. Both as assistant cashier and as cashier he
has proven himself to be a very popular official, and has the good will and
the highest regard of the management of the bank and all of the many who
have to do with it. Mr. Humlong became a member of the Christian Church in
1869 and has been an active church worker with that denomination ever
since. He has been a friend to popular education and his oldest daughter
is now a teacher in the Williamstown Graded Free School. Some years ago he
united in marriage with Miss Lizzie Stratton, daughter of the late lamented
H. D. Stratton, and together with his wife and two daughters, who are both
about grown, live an ideal life at their cottage on Cynthiana street.

#4273: Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May
30, 1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical
Society. HON. B. F. MENEFEE came into the world in 1857, and is now in
his 45th year. He is a brother of the two Drs. Menefee, being the second
child in a family of seven, six boys and one girl, all of whom are living,
save William, the oldest. B. F. Menefee is the son of S. G. Menefee, of
near Crittenden. He went to school at Crittenden till [sic] he had
secured a fair common school education and then went to school at the
National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, where he graduated. He came
back to Grant and began teaching. He taught several terms in the schools
of the county, among them being Crittenden and Williamstown, and was
eminently successful in his profession. But he was not satisfied to spend
his life as a school teacher, and he began the study of law with the firm
of Simmons & Hogan and was admitted to the bar in 1882 and immediately
began the practice of his profession. He was town attorney of Williamstown
for one term and served the town of Crittenden several years as Police
Judge. Though of a Republican family, Ben, as he is familiarly called, is
a Democrat and has never voted any other ticket in his life. He has been a
candidate for a county office on
more than one occasion, but always withdrew before the election, and just
as his friends believed he had the fight won. He is a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a most honored one. His law practice
in Crittenden has of late years reached large proportions, extending
throughout Boone, Kenton and Grant. At the last term of the Grant Circuit
Court he was elected by the members of the Grant County bar as special
judge for the term and served throughout the continuance of the court with
much credit to himself and honor to the county. He
is possessed of a ready fund of wit, is a capital story teller and a
perfect mimic, and always has a crowd around him during court to listen to
his anecdotes. No member of the bar has more friends than he and fewer
enemies. Ben was marred in November, 1887, to Miss Mary Ranton, a handsome
and highly esteemed lady of Crittenden. To their union two children have
been born, a boy and a girl.

#4274: Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May
30, 1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical
Society. P. J. RENAKER. There are many successful tillers of the soil in
Grant County, men who have planted and sowed and reaped the fruits of their
industry, and who have grown independent as a result of years of toil. But
within her borders there is perhaps no farmer who has gained greater
wealth, who has been a more exemplary citizen, friend and neighbor than
Paul J. Renaker, of Dry Ridge. His grandfather was a native of Maryland
and removed to Kentucky about the year 1790, locating near what is now
Cynthiana. He was married to Elizabeth Lemon, and to their union six
children, five boys and one girl, were born. Their names were George,
John, Jacob, Paul, Noah and Millie. P. J. Renaker is a son of Paul, and
his mother's maiden name was Katie Boyers, a sister of Esau Boyers, who was
once a resident of Williamstown. Seven children were born to them, four of
whom were reared to manhood. They were Jacob, who died last year, and was
reputed to be the wealthiest man in the county at the time of his death;
Paul, the subject of this sketch; Noah and William.
Paul, the subject of this sketch, was married in the year 1857 to Mary
Hutchinson, and to their union ten children were born. Five of them are
still living, their names being Letha, Lizzie, Edward, Charley and Boyers.
The others died when small with the exception of Maggie, who died two years
ago. Mr. Renaker is now in his sixty-seventh year, and was the product of
Harrison County. At the age of twenty he removed to Grant County and to
the same farm on which he still lives. He has been a farmer all his life
and now owns several hundred acres of as fine land
as can be found in this county, which is as good as there is anywhere.
While a farmer, and while never having been engaged in any other pursuit
than farming, he has always been a leader in what he believed would promote
the common welfare or be of benefit to humanity in general. He was one of
the organizers of the Dry Ridge Deposit Bank in 1891, and was elected by
the stockholders President, has remained its President ever since. The
bank is one of the safest institutions in the county, and much of its
success is due to the competent management of its board of directors and it
officers. In religion Me. Renaker is a Baptist of the old school, both he
and his good wife having joined the Primitive Baptist Church in the year
1865 at Williamstown, and for more than thirty-five years they have been
workers in that church. They helped to constitute the Primitive Baptist
Church in Dry Ridge, where they now hold membership. In politics Mr.
Renaker is a Democrat, because he believes Democracy is right, and has
brought his boys up in his faith. Mr. Renaker is liberal in all his
dealings with men. He is an obliging neighbor, a sympathetic friend, and
as true a Christian gentleman as can be found anywhere.

#4275: Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May
30, 1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical
Society. W. R. SNOW was born in Richwood, Ky., March 29, 1873, and as soon
as he became old enough to handle the plow, began to learn how a farmer
tilled the soil and prepared his crops for the great markets of the Union.
He vigorously plied his vocation on the broad acres of his father's estate
until he was twenty-one years of age--that period in life of one of the
sterner sex when he feel that it is high time for him to cast his lot in
other fields. He located in Williamstown, and was employed as salesman by
his brother-in-law, J. W. Lancaster, for seven years, during which time he
made a large number of warm friends in this community, who extend to him
their best wishes. His next business venture was a grocery and meat market
at Dry Ridge, which he has successfully managed for over a year. He enjoys
a good trade and tells us that business is increasing. Raymond, as he is
familiarly called, throughout the county, was educated in the common
schools, and by close application has made himself a good business man. He
is industrious, courteous and painstaking, and an all around good fellow.


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