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S. B. ERWIX. 



S. B. Erwin, President of the State Wheel af Ken- 

 tucky, was born in Gibson county, Tennessee, May 22, 



1842. He moved with 

 his parents to Kentucky 

 in 1851. He was raised 

 on a farm. In April, 

 1 86 1, he left school to 

 join the Confederate 

 Army in which he served 

 until captured by the 

 Federals at Selma, Ala- 

 bama, in April, 1865. 

 After the war he re- 

 turned to Paducah, Ken- 

 tucky, and engaged in 

 the mercantile business 

 until the spring of 1867. 

 He then returned to his 

 home in Hickman 

 county, Kentucky. Here he married one of Kentucky's 

 favorite belles, Miss, Annie V. Seay. He now turned his 

 attention to farming and stock-raising, which occupation 

 he has since followed. He has taken an active part in 

 every farmer's organization that has been in Kentucky. 

 He is a member of the only living Grange in the southern 

 part of the State. When the Agricultural Wheel rolled 

 over into the ' ' Blue Grass ' ' State, he was among the first 

 to join it and extend the hand of welcome. At the organi- 

 zation of the State Wheel he was elected President, a 

 position he has ever since held. At a meeting of the State 

 Wheel in January, .1888, he was elected State Business 

 Agent. He was one of the delegates from Kentucky to 

 Litchfield, Arkansas, in 1886, to organize the National 





S. B. Erwin. 



