B M Dawkins

DAWKINS

Posted By: County Coordiantor
Date: 11/20/2006 at 10:07:48

B M Dawkins, druggist, Mineral Ridge, was born in Oldham county, Kentucky, January 26,1835, and made it his home up to nineteen years of age, when he emigrated with his father to Tippicanoe county, Indiana, and remained there two years and then came to this county in the fall of 1856, and has made it his home since, his first occupation in this county was farming, which he followed up to 1875, in 1867 he was elected member of the board of county supervisors, which office he held for four years, and has also been elected to various offices of his township, his ancestry were all early settlers of the Southern states and of English origin

1880 Boone Co History Book