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   The Goodspeed Publishing Company,
   History of Tennessee, 1887

       JOSEPH H. KETRON, A. M., principal of Kingsley Seminary, at
   Bloomingdale, was born in Sullivan County, Tenn., November 12, 1837.
   He is the eldest son of WATSON and MARY (COOKENOUR) KETRON, the former
   born in this county, April 22, 1809, the son of HENRY and SUSANNAH
   KETRON, the former the son of MICHAEL KETRON, who was a native of
   Germany.  The father is one of the oldest and best farmers of his
   county.  The mother, born in Wythe County, Va.. August 29, 1817, is
   the daughter of JACOB and MARY COOKENOUR, both of German origin. Our
   subject, one of seven living children, received country school advant-
   ages, and in his eighteenth year became a public school teacher. Later
   he received a high school education. Early in 1874 he became a student
   and tutor in what is now Grant Memorial University, at Athens, Tenn.,
   and afterward attended the Illinois Wesleyan University, at Bloomington,
   Ill., where he was graduated in 1876. Two years later he received the
   degree of A. M., at Athens. In 1879 be received the same degree from
   his alma mater. In 1876 he taught in Holston Seminary, at New Market,
   Tenn., and a year later came to his present position, where he has
   since been one of the leading educators of the State. Kingsley Seminary
   has won an enviable reputation under the management of our subject. A
   normal class was organized in 1883, a very popular department.  The
   attendance for 1886-87 was 162.  Our subject has long been a member of
   the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in 1884 was a lay delegate to the
   general conference, at Philadelphia, Penn.

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