Excerpt from Jesse A. Grice: Sheriff and Mayor, 1852-1915 After working at various jobs he became a butcher and livestock dealer. In his teens he won the admirationand confidence of his fellow townsmen, for the people of Maysville raised funds to buy him a horse and cattle wagon. Thereafter, in competition with experienced dealers, he al ways secured his share of business. At sixteen he was pros pering in his own business. Within three years, Jesse was sufficiently established to ask Angelia Stopher to marry him. She accepted his pro posal, and the young couple were married in Maysville on September 22, 1871. The marriage was happy but short lived; unfortunately, Mrs. Grice died two years later. The couple had one child, John Grice. After the death of his wife, Jesse moved to Hicks ville, Ohio, where he bought a meat market; he managed it in connection with his trade of stock buying. On November 25, 1874, he married Dora B. Hall, a resident of Ohio who had been born and reared a Hoosier. Two sons were born of the union-wallace, who died at the age of eighteen months, and Vernon. In 1878, after four prosperous years in Hicksville, Grice and his family returned to Maysville, where he pur chased a farm near that village. Here they lived for four teen years. During this Jesse successfully engaged in stock trading. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.