EDMUND W. DUGAN resides on the farm, where he was born on the 28th of April, 1816. His father, George Dugan, was born in Virginia, near the Maryland line, about the year 1775; he in company with is brother, Thomas, came to Kentucky when young and engaged in farming near Bardstown; he subsequently purchased land eight miles east of Bardstown on the old Bardstown and Lexington road; he resided there the remainder of his life, and died in 1836, possessed of an excellent farm of 600 acres, nearly all of which is still in the possession of his descendants. He married a Miss Elizabeth Rubell, a daughter of Isaac and Ann (Harnedd) Rubell, of Nelson County. Isaac Rubell was a veteran of the Revolutionary war and was among the earliest settlers of Nelson County. He died at his home, near Bardstown, in 1809. Elizabeth Dugan belonged to the Baptist Church, of which she died a devout member in 1852 at the age of sixty-eight years. Edmund W. Dugan, a native of Nelson County, was reared on the farm and remained with his parents as long as they lived; he received a good education in the common schools of the county, and inherited a portion of the home farm, which he has supplemented by subsequent purchases; he is now the owner of 600 acres of land, well improved and mostly under a high state of cultivation. He makes a specialty of raising fine stock, having some of the best grades in the county. Mr. Dugan was in 1852 united in marriage to Miss Catherine Brown, who was born in 1833, a daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Beauchamp) Brown, her parents being of English descent and natives of Bourbon and Fayette Counties respectively. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Dugan eight children have been born, six of whom are now living: George, Jonathan, James, Anna E., Susan and Edmund N. Politically Mr. Dugan is a Democrat; he never takes an active part in political affairs, but never fails to vote his sentiments. He and wife are not members of any church but hold the Baptist faith.