County of Christian, Kentucky. Historical and Biographical.
Edited by William Henry Perrin. F. A. Battey Publishing Co.,
1884, pp. 392-393. Hopkinsville City and Precinct. JOHN ORR is a
native of Allegheny County, Penn., born September 29, 1830, to
Hugh and Virginia (McConnell) Orr, the former of Irish descent
and the latter of Scotch descent, and the parents of the
following children: Mollie, deceased wife of Arthur White;
Isabella, wife of Henry Kennedy, Beaver County, Penn.; Eliza,
deceased wife of R. H. Cooper; Martha, wife of John Kerr, of
Beaver Falls, Penn.; Alvira; William, of Beaver Falls; James, of
Beaver County, Penn., and John, the subject of this sketch, who
was the seventh child. His early life was spent in Pennsylvania,
where he learned the carpenter's trade. Coming to Hopkinsville
in 1850, he engaged at his trade and continued the same until
1866; when he, in company with Martin Miller, erected and
established the Hopkinsville Planing Mill, which has since been
enlarged and is now one of the l