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From: "Beverly Pack" <>
Subject: [PACK-L] John E. PACK - Scott Co, KY
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 19:16:50 -0700

“Kentucky Biographies,” p. 252 --

"JOHN E. PACK, M. D., Mayor of Georgetown and one of the leading physicians
of that city, is a son of Richard F. Pack and Sallie M. Emison, his wife,
and was born in Scott County, Kentucky, May 11, 1849.

Richard F. Pack was also a native of Scott County, where he was an
industrious and extensive farmer nearly all his life. He was a very
successful breeder of saddle horses and other high bred stock, and was an
honorable and enterprising citizen. He died in his native county, March 4,
1892.

John Pack (grandfather), also a native farmer of Scott County, served as a
soldier in the Mexican war, lived to a good old age and died a few years
ago, near the scene of his birth. The Packs were of Irish descent, the
first of whom in America settled in Virginia, from which state the
great-grandfather of Dr. Pack came to Kentucky and settled in Scott County,
about the time Kentucky was admitted to the Union.

Sallie M. Emison Pack (mother) was born in Scott County, and died in 1895,
aged sixty-eight years.

William Emison (maternal grandfather) was also a native of Scott County, and
was a leading farmer until the time of his death in 1875, when he was
seventy-nine years of age. The Emisons were of Scotch-Irish descent and
were among the early settlers of Scott County, coming to this state from
Virginia.

Dr. John Pack spent his youthful days in the usual routine of the farmer
boy, attending school and helping his father on the farm. He received his
collegiate education in the Kentucky University; read medicine with Dr. W.
O. Sweeney of Lexington and attended the Belleview Medical College of New
York City, graduating in 1873.

He began his professional career in the northern part of Scott County, which
was the field of his labors until 1888, when he removed to Georgetown, where
he has enjoyed a very extensive practice and has found a wider field of
usefulness.

He was elected to the legislature in 1887, and was a most able and efficient
member of that body; was a member of the City Council of Georgetown from
1891 until the fall of 1893, when he was elected mayor of the city for a
term of four years, taking charge of the office January 1, 1894. He is a
member of the Kentucky State Medical Society, and other associations for the
advancement of medical science; is an enterprising citizen and a man and
physician in whom the people have great confidence.

Dr. Pack was married in 1879 to Laura Stevenson, daugher of Reverend Evan
Stevenson, formerly of Georgetown, now of Oxford, Maryland."

Beverly L. Pack
Main Lines Researching: PACK, ADKINS, CHANDLER, HEWLETT
Looking for any info on PACK -- any time, any where

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