Maj. William Preston

Inherited 1000 acres and built Preston's Lodge on Baxter Ave. in Louisville, Ky., 1815

Chapter I: Boyhood (pp. 1-23)

https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1w76tdh.6

Amid the yellow and russet hues of the tulip poplars and oaks surrounding their log home, Major William and Caroline Hancock Preston gave thanks for the birth of a son on 16 October 1816.¹ The place was Preston’s Lodge just to the east of Louisville, a rapidly growing town at the Falls of the Ohio River. William was their fifth child, the first born in Kentucky He would be their sole male heir, a matter of utmost importance to his parents, both of whom descended from Virginia’s first families. For seven decades their son would strive to uphold his forebears’...

References

• “Descendants of Margaret Kennerly Strother.” Digital Image
• ”Kentucky's Last Cavalier: General William Preston, 1816-1887". By Peter J. Sehlinger. Page 7. GoogleBooks
• https://www.google.com/books/edition/Kentucky_s_Last_Cavalier/ykcBz...