Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Butler Co.

HON. B. L. D. GUFFY, attorney and counsellor at law and county judge, 
Morgantown, Butler County, was born in Muhlenburgh [sic] County, Ky., 
December 24, 1832, and in his infancy his parents, James and Malinda 
(Jamison) Guffy, removed to Logan County, where our subject received a 
good common school education, and subsequently attended the Glasgow 
College, then under the principalship of Prof. D. C. Nutting.  In the 
fall of 1854 he removed to Butler County, where he taught a district 
school, and commenced the study of law.  He settled in Morgantown in 
1857.  His practice at first being insufficient, he often worked as a 
day laborer at 60 cents a day, boarding himself.  In 1856 he studied 
law with J. J. Harrison, of Hartford, and in the autumn of the same 
year he was admitted to the bar.  May 28, 1857, he was married to Miss 
M. A. Munroe, of Ohio County, by whom he has nine children: Estil D. 
Guffy (an attorney at law, Hartford, Ky.), Luella (wife of John M. 
Carson, Morgantown), Olive, Speed, Stella, Cora, Bayless L., Mabel 
Clare and Lilly Dale.  Judge Guffy first received the appointment of 
deputy assessor, subsequently filled the office of police judge for the 
town of Morgantown, and later, in 1860, became assistant marshall, and 
took the census.  In 1862 he was elected judge for the county of Butler, 
which office he held continuously for eight years, and was again elected 
in 1878 and 1882.  The last two times he was elected on the Greenback 
ticket, and is probably now the only county judge in office elected by 
this party in Kentucky.  His father was a gentleman of liberal education, 
and followed farming as an occupation, and school teaching, and died in 
1862.  His mother was Malinda Jamison, who died in 1857.  They were the 
parents of nine children, of whom the judge was the youngest.  His 
eldest sister was the wife of Lieut.-Gov. Hardy; a brother, Rev. C. F. 
Guffy, is a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and 
resides in Butler County; another brother, James H., is a prosperous 
farmer of Butler County; a third brother, F. C., died in the Federal 
Army in 1862, at Tuscumbia, Ala.  His grandfather was Alexander Guffy, 
a Revolutionary soldier and a native of Pennsylvania.  Judge Guffy owns 
one of the finest homes in Morgantown, and county of Butler, besides 
other real estate and personal porperty [sic] in the town and county.  
He has an extensive practice in his profession, and his influence as a 
private citizen and public officer has always been exerted in favor of 
justice and right.

Guffy Jamison Nutting Harrison Munroe Carson Hardy
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Muhlenberg-KY Logan-KY Hartford-Ohio-KY PA

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