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- Virgil Henry Churchill entered into the business of operating a jewelry,
watch, and general repair business about the year 1875 in Elizabethtown,
Kentucky. The business of Virgil Henry Churchill was known to have
beencompletely destroyed by fire sometime prior to 1900; however, by 1905
the business had been completely rebuilt at which time he took his oldest
son into business partnership with him. Located on Main Street in
Elizabethtown, V. H. Churchill & Son offered an extensive line of watches,
clocks, and jewelry, all of which they repaired; and a refraction room or
optical deprtment for the fitting and repair of spectacles as Virgil Henry
churchill had become an optician in 1882. He remained in this line of
work until he died in 1925. Virgil Henry Churchill in later years closed
his shop in town and moved the business to his home on College Street and
was succeeded in the jewelry and opthalmic business by his oldest son Roy
Pusey Churchill, who learned the business under his father's guidance. A
convert to the Roman Catholic faith at his marriage in 1878, Virgil Henry
Churchill, along with his wife, was a devout member of the St. James
Catholic Churchi in Elizabethtown, Kentucky throughout hsi life. The
Catholic faith was the faith of the Durbin family, and as the subject's
mother, Mariah A. Durbin, was Catholic, so her children were raised.
Virgil Henry Churchill and his wife, Elmira "Emma" J. Kennedy, made their
last home on College Street in Elizabethtown, Kentucky; however, they were
known to have lived for short periods of time in Mnufordsville, Hart
County, Kentucky and Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky.
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1856 - 1925 (69 years)
