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Thomas Weston Gore September 29, 1819 - unknown
Boyle County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 4th Edition

THOMAS WESTON GORE was born September 29, 1819, one mile east of Danville, was 
raised in Boyle County where he remained until 1868, when he removed to 
Nicholasville, Jessamine County, and with his brother, James, engaged in 
keeping hotel, remaining one year. January 1, 1869, they removed to Henderson, 
taking charge of the Hancock House, which they occupied over a year, when they 
took charge of the American House in Evansville, Ind., remaining there one 
year, when they returned to Kentucky and kept hotel in Shelby City one year, 
and in 1878 located at Junction City, Boyle County, where they have since been 
engage in managing the Gore House, which they built and own. The father of T. 
W. Gore was Christian Gore, a native of Reisterstown, Baltimore Co., Md., where 
he was born April 11, 1788, removed to Mercer County, Ky., in 1811 and located 
six miles west of Harrodsburg on Glenn's Creek, on a survey of 1,000 acres of 
land purchased by his father. He was a blacksmith, was long a chairman of the board of trustees of Danville, was many years a steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church and was an uncompromising Union man. Latterly he was largely engaged in dealing in stock with success and died September 2, 1861, at Millborn's, Ohio, while absent with a drove of mules, but was buried in Danville, Ky. He was the son of Jacob Gore, a native of Baltimore County, Md., a Revolutionary soldier, a farmer, who died in Maryland. His father was the son of Michael Gore, of Baltimore County, an extensive land and mill owner, and he was the son of Christian Gore, an officer in the Prussian Army, noted ford a single-handed conflict with three French soldiers in which he was victorious, and afterward one of the first settlers in Lehigh Valley, Penn. Michael Gore's children were Andrew, Christian, Jacob, George, John, Phillip (sheriff of Baltimore County) and Samuel. The two latter were wealthy bachelors. Andrew was an early settler and reared a large family near Maysville, Ky. Jacob's children were Jacob, Christian, and Andrew. His wife, Elizabeth (Weston) Gore, was the mother of the two latter. Andrew settled at Harrodsburg and raised a family. Jacob, Sr., settled at Fredericksburg, Va., and was a noted Methodist at that place. Christian married Catherine, daughter of Michael Haines, of Mercer County (born in Baltimore County, Md., died in 1821) and to them were born James, November 5, 1812; Sarah (deceased), and Thomas W. James married a Miss Casey in 1847, who died childless. In religion Thomas W. Gore is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics is a Republican.



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