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William Henry Gough October 30, 1826 - unknown
Meade County KyArchives Biography

Author: Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, 2nd edition, 1886

WILLIAM HENRY GOUGH, a highly esteemed citizen of Brandenburg, Meade Co., Ky., was born October 30, 1826, in Breckinridge County. His grandfather, Cornelius Gough, was an early settler in that county, removing with his family from Scott County, Ky. He settled on the Ohio River near Flint Island, and developed a farm. Cornelius Gough died December 10, 1833, of cholera while on a trading expedition in the South. He had seven children, the eldest of whom was Thomas J. Gough, the father of William Henry Gough. He was born in Scott County, Ky., March 3, 1805, received a good English education and served in the several offices of constable, jailer and associate justice of Breckinridge County. Having removed to Meade County, he was elected to the State Legislature in 1837, and was a member of the constitutional convention of 1849. He also served that county as school commissioner for several years, and until his death, August 5, 1873. His first marriage, was August 9, 1825, to Miss Teresa Burch, daughter of Walter Burch. She was born January 2, 1805, and died May 9, 1841, leaving two children, viz: William H. and Susan (decease wife of Lewis Pullen). He then married Agnes Burch, who died without issue after which he contracted an alliance with Christina McGill, who still survives him and is the mother of Mary C. (Popham). William H. Gough was chiefly reared and educated in Meade County, and in 1849 became deputy sheriff, and was elected the first sheriff of Meade County, under the present constitution, serving one term, from which time until 1870 he engaged in farming. In the last named year he was elected to the office of clerk of Meade County Court, a position he has held for the past sixteen years. He married, in 1854, Mrs. Columbia
(Philpott) Burch, widow of John H. Burch. She was born in Meade County and is a daughter of John F. Philpott and Emaline Hardin. Mr. Gough is one of the most influential men of Meade County, a Democrat in politics and a member of the Catholic Church.



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