Of Captain Samuel Carter Stout Company E, 9th Kentucky Infantry Taken from the Glasgow Republican

Our series of biographical sketches would be incomplete without this one. As soon as the eyes of our many readers fall upon the picture of this sketch, although it is made from an old portrait, the exclamation will be "That is Sam Stout!" He is familiarly known by his friends as Sam, and everyone feels perfectly at home in his company. Mr. Stout resides out on Fallen Timber Creek in this county. He was born in boyle county Kentucky near Danville, but came to this county when a mere boy and has been living here ever since. When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in Company E, 9th Kentucky Regimental Infantry of the Union Army, and proved himself a gallant soldier. He come of military stock: his grandfather Buckley who was born in Londonderry Ireland, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and was present when Burgoyne surrendered to General Gates at the Battle of Saratoga. His grandfather Stout volunteered from the state of Virginia, in the war of 1812 and was in the battle of New Orleans. Both the father and mother of the subject of this sketch were born in Virginia and that old Virginia style and hospitality is well exhibited in their son. a fascination for military life seems to have made it's appearance in the only son of Mr. S. C. stout. As soon as the call was made for volunteers in the recent war against Spain, James Stout stepped forward just as his father did and is under the service of Captain ______ in Co. G., 3rd Ky. Volunteers, and is now in camp at Lexington, Ky. Young Stout has a military bearing throughout and is making a model soldier. Captain Samuel C. Stout as he is sometimes called is now 52 years old; is a christian gentleman; his friends limited only by his acquaintance; the same man seven days out of every week, and attends strictly to his own business. He is one of the leading farmers and stock raisers of this county, and what he has accumulated has been done by the honest swear of his brow, being at all times assisted in the battle of life by a kind and intelligent wife.