. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. ness according to the laws of trade. James Prichard, the grandfather of Dr. Ban-16 186 THE BIG SANDY VALLEY. field, was a very bright, well-read, intellectual was for many years magistrate, first of Carter,then of Boyd, and was recognized as the ablestmember of the County Court on the bench. Heraised a family of sons and one daughter of re-markable intellectual endowment. Hon. K. F. Prichard, ofBoyd, is one ofhis sons, and anuncle of Dr. A. field. Prichard,one of
. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. ness according to the laws of trade. James Prichard, the grandfather of Dr. Ban-16 186 THE BIG SANDY VALLEY. field, was a very bright, well-read, intellectual was for many years magistrate, first of Carter,then of Boyd, and was recognized as the ablestmember of the County Court on the bench. Heraised a family of sons and one daughter of re-markable intellectual endowment. Hon. K. F. Prichard, ofBoyd, is one ofhis sons, and anuncle of Dr. A. field. Prichard,one of BoydCounty^s mostnoted physiciansand capitalists, isanother. W. Prichard,of Carter, is alsoone. Wily Prich-ard, the strong-minded man andheavy capitalist, is another; and a very bright son is aphysician in Indiana; two other sons are farmers,and intelligent men. Mrs. Banfield, the sister ofthe bright sons, and mother of Dr. Banfield, is notbehind the sons in intellectual vigor. She wasborn within two hundred yards of where her giftedson keeps his office at the mouth of Bear Creek,or Kockville, Dll. ALLEN P. BANFIELD. JOB DEAN. 187 Coming of such an ancestry^ he could hardlyfail of success. But he does not depend on theprestige of ancestral blood to achieve success, butrather on his own exertions. He studied medicinewith his uncle Allen Prichard; afterward he attendedthe best seminaries of learning in the country, andgraduated from one of the best colleges of medicinein Cincinnati, and immediately commenced practiceat Kockville, Ky., where he has had great practice, which is very profitable, is more thanhe can attend to. Like his kinsfolk, he is equallyat home in financial affairs. Although so young, heis often called on to settle up large estates, fromthe well-known fact that he is just and accurateand trustworthy. He is a strong Democrat in pol-itics, and an intelligent politician; but under nocircumstance will he run for office, preferring,rather, to d
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