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Ed Porter Thompson

Born near Center, Metcalfe Co., in 1834. Elected Kentucky Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1891 to 1895. Noted educator, mathematician, and linguist, the author of 6 books, including 2 state adopted texts: Academic Arithmetic and Young People's History of Kentucky. His History of the Orphan Brigade is a most complete and valuable Civil War record. He died in 1903.