Burial info from death certificate
History of Kentucky, Vol. 4, by Judge Charles Kerr, William Elsey Connelly, Elisa Martin Coulter, 1922, pp 258-259
ANDREW GLOVER KYLE
Andrew Glover Kyle has been a prosperous farmer and businessman was one of the organizers of the Burley Tobacco Company and has played a leading part in the agricultural and public affairs of Mercer County for a number of years. Mr. Kyle whose home is the noted Kyle homestead known as Kylewood but who recently has been relieving himself of strenuous farm duties and recuperating at Harrodsburg was born on what was known as the Thompson place an old colonial home at the head of Main Street in Harrodsburg March 6 1875.
He is a son of John Glover and Marian (Smedley) Kyle, also natives of Kentucky. His father was a farmer also studied law and practiced his profession in Harrodsburg participated in a number of hotly contested cases at the bar and was conceded to be the most popular republican in his day in the county Mercer County seldom went republican in the twenty or thirty years following the Civil war. When he became a republican candidate for circuit judge of the district he overcame the normal majority of 400 by which Mercer County usually went democratic had 500 votes to spare in this county and all but overcame the democratic vote in other portions of the district.
John G Kyle who died in 1887 was the father of six children three dying in infancy and the other three being Jane Fay Kyle born in November 1871 and died in June 1910, Andrew Glover and William Riker Kyle born December 6, 1877, a farmer by occupation who married Nina McAuley of Spencer, Indiana.
Andrew Glover Kyle was about twelve years old when his father died but was given the advantages a liberal education attending Washington and Lee University at Lexington Virginia and also Center College at Danville Kentucky. From school he entered the retail drug business but abandoned that to go to farming on the old Kyle homestead on Dry Branch Pike. His experience as a farmer was strenuous in early years. It was particularly so during that historic period of industrial war between the tobacco trust and the tobacco growers of Kentucky marked by the visitations of the night riders and many losses to individual tobacco growers. Mr. Kyle as noted above was one of the organizers of the Burley Tobacco Company a direct outgrowth of this period of economic disturbance and served as a director until 1919 when the affairs of the company were closed out the stockholders receiving a dollar and a half for every dollar invested.
On September 30, 1897 Mr. Kyle married Mary Dexter Lilly daughter of James E. and Mary Matilda (Dexter) Lilly of Indianapolis. The Lilly family of Indianapolis has long been one of great distinction in business and social affairs and one of the largest wholesales and manufacturing drug firms of the country is the Lilly Company of Indianapolis.
Mrs. Kyle was born January 23, 1872. For many years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Kyle occupied the old Kyle home near Harrodsburg, until his health failed, he was also engaged in the coal business. Mr. and Mrs. Kyle have four children Edward Lilly and Andrew Glover Kyle twins were born August 20, 1898 both of whom are now employed in the Eastern Division of Eli Lilly & Company manufacturing druggists of New York City. John Glover Kyle named for his grandfather Kyle born January 18 1900 who volunteered in the navy, July 5 1918 saw active service on the battleship Wyoming was present at the surrender of the German fleet at the close of the war and was subsequently discharged. He has since signed as a naval reserve and will complete the full term of enlistment. Both the older sons tried repeatedly to get into either the army or navy but were refused admission because of light weight. The only daughter of the family is Mary Dexter Kyle born February 23 1902 and living at home with her parents.
These children were all born on the old Kyle homestead Kylewood and they represent the fifth generation to live on that homesite. Their ancestors were pioneers who took the land direct from the Government. Mr. Kyle's grandmother was Miss Patsy Letcher a native of Kentucky and of a distinguished family of the state. Her mother was Sallie Davis who came from Virginia. Mr. Kyle's grandfather Andrew Kyle was born in 1798 and died June 29, 1863. He was a son of Rev. Thomas Kyle born in 1757 and died June 22, 1846 at the age of eighty-nine. Rev. Thomas Kyle before coming to Kentucky served as a soldier in the American Revolution
Contributor: Anne (48456023) • [email protected]
History of Kentucky, Vol. 4, by Judge Charles Kerr, William Elsey Connelly, Elisa Martin Coulter, 1922, pp 258-259
ANDREW GLOVER KYLE
Andrew Glover Kyle has been a prosperous farmer and businessman was one of the organizers of the Burley Tobacco Company and has played a leading part in the agricultural and public affairs of Mercer County for a number of years. Mr. Kyle whose home is the noted Kyle homestead known as Kylewood but who recently has been relieving himself of strenuous farm duties and recuperating at Harrodsburg was born on what was known as the Thompson place an old colonial home at the head of Main Street in Harrodsburg March 6 1875.
He is a son of John Glover and Marian (Smedley) Kyle, also natives of Kentucky. His father was a farmer also studied law and practiced his profession in Harrodsburg participated in a number of hotly contested cases at the bar and was conceded to be the most popular republican in his day in the county Mercer County seldom went republican in the twenty or thirty years following the Civil war. When he became a republican candidate for circuit judge of the district he overcame the normal majority of 400 by which Mercer County usually went democratic had 500 votes to spare in this county and all but overcame the democratic vote in other portions of the district.
John G Kyle who died in 1887 was the father of six children three dying in infancy and the other three being Jane Fay Kyle born in November 1871 and died in June 1910, Andrew Glover and William Riker Kyle born December 6, 1877, a farmer by occupation who married Nina McAuley of Spencer, Indiana.
Andrew Glover Kyle was about twelve years old when his father died but was given the advantages a liberal education attending Washington and Lee University at Lexington Virginia and also Center College at Danville Kentucky. From school he entered the retail drug business but abandoned that to go to farming on the old Kyle homestead on Dry Branch Pike. His experience as a farmer was strenuous in early years. It was particularly so during that historic period of industrial war between the tobacco trust and the tobacco growers of Kentucky marked by the visitations of the night riders and many losses to individual tobacco growers. Mr. Kyle as noted above was one of the organizers of the Burley Tobacco Company a direct outgrowth of this period of economic disturbance and served as a director until 1919 when the affairs of the company were closed out the stockholders receiving a dollar and a half for every dollar invested.
On September 30, 1897 Mr. Kyle married Mary Dexter Lilly daughter of James E. and Mary Matilda (Dexter) Lilly of Indianapolis. The Lilly family of Indianapolis has long been one of great distinction in business and social affairs and one of the largest wholesales and manufacturing drug firms of the country is the Lilly Company of Indianapolis.
Mrs. Kyle was born January 23, 1872. For many years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Kyle occupied the old Kyle home near Harrodsburg, until his health failed, he was also engaged in the coal business. Mr. and Mrs. Kyle have four children Edward Lilly and Andrew Glover Kyle twins were born August 20, 1898 both of whom are now employed in the Eastern Division of Eli Lilly & Company manufacturing druggists of New York City. John Glover Kyle named for his grandfather Kyle born January 18 1900 who volunteered in the navy, July 5 1918 saw active service on the battleship Wyoming was present at the surrender of the German fleet at the close of the war and was subsequently discharged. He has since signed as a naval reserve and will complete the full term of enlistment. Both the older sons tried repeatedly to get into either the army or navy but were refused admission because of light weight. The only daughter of the family is Mary Dexter Kyle born February 23 1902 and living at home with her parents.
These children were all born on the old Kyle homestead Kylewood and they represent the fifth generation to live on that homesite. Their ancestors were pioneers who took the land direct from the Government. Mr. Kyle's grandmother was Miss Patsy Letcher a native of Kentucky and of a distinguished family of the state. Her mother was Sallie Davis who came from Virginia. Mr. Kyle's grandfather Andrew Kyle was born in 1798 and died June 29, 1863. He was a son of Rev. Thomas Kyle born in 1757 and died June 22, 1846 at the age of eighty-nine. Rev. Thomas Kyle before coming to Kentucky served as a soldier in the American Revolution
Contributor: Anne (48456023) • [email protected]
Burial info from death certificate
History of Kentucky, Vol. 4, by Judge Charles Kerr, William Elsey Connelly, Elisa Martin Coulter, 1922, pp 258-259
ANDREW GLOVER KYLE
Andrew Glover Kyle has been a prosperous farmer and businessman was one of the organizers of the Burley Tobacco Company and has played a leading part in the agricultural and public affairs of Mercer County for a number of years. Mr. Kyle whose home is the noted Kyle homestead known as Kylewood but who recently has been relieving himself of strenuous farm duties and recuperating at Harrodsburg was born on what was known as the Thompson place an old colonial home at the head of Main Street in Harrodsburg March 6 1875.
He is a son of John Glover and Marian (Smedley) Kyle, also natives of Kentucky. His father was a farmer also studied law and practiced his profession in Harrodsburg participated in a number of hotly contested cases at the bar and was conceded to be the most popular republican in his day in the county Mercer County seldom went republican in the twenty or thirty years following the Civil war. When he became a republican candidate for circuit judge of the district he overcame the normal majority of 400 by which Mercer County usually went democratic had 500 votes to spare in this county and all but overcame the democratic vote in other portions of the district.
John G Kyle who died in 1887 was the father of six children three dying in infancy and the other three being Jane Fay Kyle born in November 1871 and died in June 1910, Andrew Glover and William Riker Kyle born December 6, 1877, a farmer by occupation who married Nina McAuley of Spencer, Indiana.
Andrew Glover Kyle was about twelve years old when his father died but was given the advantages a liberal education attending Washington and Lee University at Lexington Virginia and also Center College at Danville Kentucky. From school he entered the retail drug business but abandoned that to go to farming on the old Kyle homestead on Dry Branch Pike. His experience as a farmer was strenuous in early years. It was particularly so during that historic period of industrial war between the tobacco trust and the tobacco growers of Kentucky marked by the visitations of the night riders and many losses to individual tobacco growers. Mr. Kyle as noted above was one of the organizers of the Burley Tobacco Company a direct outgrowth of this period of economic disturbance and served as a director until 1919 when the affairs of the company were closed out the stockholders receiving a dollar and a half for every dollar invested.
On September 30, 1897 Mr. Kyle married Mary Dexter Lilly daughter of James E. and Mary Matilda (Dexter) Lilly of Indianapolis. The Lilly family of Indianapolis has long been one of great distinction in business and social affairs and one of the largest wholesales and manufacturing drug firms of the country is the Lilly Company of Indianapolis.
Mrs. Kyle was born January 23, 1872. For many years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Kyle occupied the old Kyle home near Harrodsburg, until his health failed, he was also engaged in the coal business. Mr. and Mrs. Kyle have four children Edward Lilly and Andrew Glover Kyle twins were born August 20, 1898 both of whom are now employed in the Eastern Division of Eli Lilly & Company manufacturing druggists of New York City. John Glover Kyle named for his grandfather Kyle born January 18 1900 who volunteered in the navy, July 5 1918 saw active service on the battleship Wyoming was present at the surrender of the German fleet at the close of the war and was subsequently discharged. He has since signed as a naval reserve and will complete the full term of enlistment. Both the older sons tried repeatedly to get into either the army or navy but were refused admission because of light weight. The only daughter of the family is Mary Dexter Kyle born February 23 1902 and living at home with her parents.
These children were all born on the old Kyle homestead Kylewood and they represent the fifth generation to live on that homesite. Their ancestors were pioneers who took the land direct from the Government. Mr. Kyle's grandmother was Miss Patsy Letcher a native of Kentucky and of a distinguished family of the state. Her mother was Sallie Davis who came from Virginia. Mr. Kyle's grandfather Andrew Kyle was born in 1798 and died June 29, 1863. He was a son of Rev. Thomas Kyle born in 1757 and died June 22, 1846 at the age of eighty-nine. Rev. Thomas Kyle before coming to Kentucky served as a soldier in the American Revolution
Contributor: Anne (48456023) • [email protected]
History of Kentucky, Vol. 4, by Judge Charles Kerr, William Elsey Connelly, Elisa Martin Coulter, 1922, pp 258-259
ANDREW GLOVER KYLE
Andrew Glover Kyle has been a prosperous farmer and businessman was one of the organizers of the Burley Tobacco Company and has played a leading part in the agricultural and public affairs of Mercer County for a number of years. Mr. Kyle whose home is the noted Kyle homestead known as Kylewood but who recently has been relieving himself of strenuous farm duties and recuperating at Harrodsburg was born on what was known as the Thompson place an old colonial home at the head of Main Street in Harrodsburg March 6 1875.
He is a son of John Glover and Marian (Smedley) Kyle, also natives of Kentucky. His father was a farmer also studied law and practiced his profession in Harrodsburg participated in a number of hotly contested cases at the bar and was conceded to be the most popular republican in his day in the county Mercer County seldom went republican in the twenty or thirty years following the Civil war. When he became a republican candidate for circuit judge of the district he overcame the normal majority of 400 by which Mercer County usually went democratic had 500 votes to spare in this county and all but overcame the democratic vote in other portions of the district.
John G Kyle who died in 1887 was the father of six children three dying in infancy and the other three being Jane Fay Kyle born in November 1871 and died in June 1910, Andrew Glover and William Riker Kyle born December 6, 1877, a farmer by occupation who married Nina McAuley of Spencer, Indiana.
Andrew Glover Kyle was about twelve years old when his father died but was given the advantages a liberal education attending Washington and Lee University at Lexington Virginia and also Center College at Danville Kentucky. From school he entered the retail drug business but abandoned that to go to farming on the old Kyle homestead on Dry Branch Pike. His experience as a farmer was strenuous in early years. It was particularly so during that historic period of industrial war between the tobacco trust and the tobacco growers of Kentucky marked by the visitations of the night riders and many losses to individual tobacco growers. Mr. Kyle as noted above was one of the organizers of the Burley Tobacco Company a direct outgrowth of this period of economic disturbance and served as a director until 1919 when the affairs of the company were closed out the stockholders receiving a dollar and a half for every dollar invested.
On September 30, 1897 Mr. Kyle married Mary Dexter Lilly daughter of James E. and Mary Matilda (Dexter) Lilly of Indianapolis. The Lilly family of Indianapolis has long been one of great distinction in business and social affairs and one of the largest wholesales and manufacturing drug firms of the country is the Lilly Company of Indianapolis.
Mrs. Kyle was born January 23, 1872. For many years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Kyle occupied the old Kyle home near Harrodsburg, until his health failed, he was also engaged in the coal business. Mr. and Mrs. Kyle have four children Edward Lilly and Andrew Glover Kyle twins were born August 20, 1898 both of whom are now employed in the Eastern Division of Eli Lilly & Company manufacturing druggists of New York City. John Glover Kyle named for his grandfather Kyle born January 18 1900 who volunteered in the navy, July 5 1918 saw active service on the battleship Wyoming was present at the surrender of the German fleet at the close of the war and was subsequently discharged. He has since signed as a naval reserve and will complete the full term of enlistment. Both the older sons tried repeatedly to get into either the army or navy but were refused admission because of light weight. The only daughter of the family is Mary Dexter Kyle born February 23 1902 and living at home with her parents.
These children were all born on the old Kyle homestead Kylewood and they represent the fifth generation to live on that homesite. Their ancestors were pioneers who took the land direct from the Government. Mr. Kyle's grandmother was Miss Patsy Letcher a native of Kentucky and of a distinguished family of the state. Her mother was Sallie Davis who came from Virginia. Mr. Kyle's grandfather Andrew Kyle was born in 1798 and died June 29, 1863. He was a son of Rev. Thomas Kyle born in 1757 and died June 22, 1846 at the age of eighty-nine. Rev. Thomas Kyle before coming to Kentucky served as a soldier in the American Revolution
Contributor: Anne (48456023) • [email protected]
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