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Marion County Biographies
Paul Irving McElroy |
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Contributed By: Sandi Gorin |
Author: Kentucky
Genealogy and Biography, Volume
5, Battle - Perrin - Kniffen 4th
Edition
PAUL IRVING McELROY resides on
the farm where he was born on
the 9th of October, 1822. He
father, William E. McElroy, was
born in Campbell County, Va.,
February 9, 1776, and came
to Kentucky with his father's
family in 1789.
William E. McElroy married Miss
Kittie Cleland in 1804. She died
ten years later, leaving
five children: Maria J., Eliza
K., Phillip E., Harriet P., and
Margaret I., the last named,
now aged seventy-five years,
being the only survivor. William
E. McElroy married his second
wife, Mary Kirk, of Marion
County, in 1821; to this
marriage were born he following
children:
Paul I., Robert L., Cecil F.,
Lucy (Ray), William T., of
Louisville; Dr. James F., of
Bowling Green; Samuel R., of
Little Rock, Ark.; Keturah J.
(Hubbard), and Sarah; the last
named died in infancy. Mary
(Kirk) McElroy died I 1865, aged
sixty-nine; she was a daughter
of James Kirk, a Virginian, and
one of the early settlers of
Washington County, Ky. William
E. McElroy in early life
followed the trade of a
carpenter and builder; later he
engaged
in agriculture and stock
raising; he died in 1874 at the
advanced age of ninety-nine
years.
His father, Samuel McElroy, who
came to Kentucky in 1789,
settled in Washington County,
where he pursued the vocation of
farming up to the time of his
death in the year 1807.
He was of Scotch and Irish
descent; was a veteran in the
war of the Revolution, and a
member of the Presbyterian
Church, in which he was for many
years a ruling elder. Paul's
maternal grandfather, James
Kirk, was also a soldier in the
war of the Revolution; he was
of English parentage, and died
at the age of ninety-seven. Paul
I. McElroy was reared on
a farm, and educated in the
common schools of his native
county of Marion, and finished
at Lebanon in 1839, when he
engaged in farming and
stock-raising, which he has
continued
up to the present time. He is
now the proprietor of the
"Valley Home" farm, a fine
estate
of 350 acres, lying one mile
north of the town of Lebanon. He
was married October 17, 1865,
to Miss Susan McElroy, a
daughter of Hon. Hiram McElroy
of Union County, Ky. She was a
member
of the Presbyterian Church, and
departed this life in 1884,
leaving four children: Mary L.,
Paul I., Jennie F. and Proctor
K. Mr. McElroy is a ruling elder
in the Presbyterian Church,
of which he has been a life-long
member. The McElroy's have, for
200 years, been prominent
as rules and workers in the
church. Mr. McElroy is a
Democrat. He is a president of
the
Lebanon & St. Rose turnpike
Company, but has persistently
refused all offices in which
politics held a place. As a
patron of schools he has done
much for the improvement of
the school system in his county. |
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