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JEPTHA DUDLEY GARRARD was born at "Fairfield," Bourbon county, Ky., December 5th, 18o2. He received his education at Transylvania University, at Lexington, Ky. After completing the study of law he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he entered upon the practice of his profession. His untimely death occurred at his residence in that city, January 26th, 1837, at the early age of thirty-four years. The editor of the Cincinnati Gazette, in its issue of that date, says of him :
"Mr. Garrard is called off in the prime of life, in the midst of usefulness. It is not for the editor of the Gazette to pronounce his eulogium. He may be misled by feelings of private friendship. But he feels at liberty to say that Mr. Garrard was one among our most useful, most valuable citizens. His public spirit, his individual activity, his private charities were extensive, active, energetic-felt, not seen; practiced, not proclaimed-extended to every department of usefulness : city enterprise, county improvement, religion, politics, political economy. Few men in our community were more valued by the friends that knew them; few could be called from us who will be more missed-and most of all, missed by the poor and needy. Even now not a few hearths are cold and comfortless, wbich would have been far otherwise bad not death called Jeptha D. Garrard to his last account."
In 1824 Mr. Garrard married Sarah Bella Ludlow. She was a daughter of Israel Ludlow, one of the early founders and proprietors of Cincinnati., and was born at Ludlow Station in 1802. Her mother was Charlotte Chambers, daughter of Gen. James Chambers, who was Colonel of the First Pennsylvania Regiment, war of the Revolution, and a member of the Society of Cincinnati. She was highly endowed with beauty and intellect, and was a brilliant 'Woman in all respects. Ten years after the death of Mr. Garrard she married judge John McLean, justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. They resided in Cincinnati until Judge McLean's death in 1861, after which she lived much with her children. She died in Cincinnati, January 12th, 1882, aged eighty years.
