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Title: A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, E. Polk, 1844- Lewis Publishing Company
Subjects: Kentucky -- History Kentucky -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s, advanc-ing general prosperity through well directedlabor and at the same time winning individualsuccess. To this class belongs Henry SmithRamey, president of the Lampton, Crane &Ramey Company, manufacturers of paintsand jobbers of glassware, at 809 W. Mainstreet, Louisville. Mr. Ramey was born in Evansville, Indi-ana, on October 3, 1862, the son of HenryRamey, an inventor and manufacturer of agri-cultural implements, who was a native ofCarroll county, Kentucky, and for over fortyyears was engaged in business in Louisville.The grandfather was Henry Ramey of Car-roll county, Kentucky, then Gallatin county,a farmer all his life and a descendent of theold Ramey (Remy) family of Virginia. Sev-eral of his brothers were Baptist ministers.The mother was Mary Waller Bowles, a na-tive of Henrico county, Virginia, who wasrelated to the Waller family of Baptist minis-ters, of which John L. Waller, the notedKentucky Baptist minister, was a member.She was also related to the Bacon family, of
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I i HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS 1165 which Nathaniel Bacon the noted Rebel, wasa member. The grandfather was LyddallBowles, of Henrico county, Virginia, and hisgrandmother was Sallie Price of Kentucky.The early life of our subjects father wasspent in Carroll county, Kentucky. He andhis wife both died in Louisville. Henry Smith Ramey, was reared in Louis-ville from the time he was six months of age.He was educated in the Louisville publicschools. He started in his business life byfirst accepting a position as bookkeeper withJohn H. Brand & Company, coffee and spicedealers, later he was cashier for severalhouses, and in 1893 became secretary, treas-urer and general manager for the Lampton,Crane & Ramey Company, of which he wasone of the organizers, and on the withdrawalof Mr. Lampton from active connection withthe company in 1899, Mr. Ramey succeededto the presidency. The city has benefited by interests whichhave been promoted by him aside from thoseof a strictly persona

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