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Subject: Muir.Nathanial.1917.Nelson.OBIT


Nathanial Wickliffe Muir December 20, 1917 Nelson County KyArchives Obituaries

Bardstown Kentucky Standard
Nathanial Wickliffe Muir was born in Bardstown sixty-five years ago. He was the eldest son of the 
late Hon. Jasper W. Muir, one or the most prominent attorneys and businessmen of Kentucky. When but 
sixteen years of age N. W. 
Muir entered the banking establishment of Wilson & Muir, a clerk. To that institution he devoted 
his entire life. Owing almost most entirely to his efforts the business expanded from the small 
bank of Wilson & Muir, to the large and flourishing institution of Muir, Wilson & Muir of Bardstown 
and Bloomfield. N. W. Muir was recognized one of the best posted and most reliable banking authorities 
in Kentucky. And at any time he chose to accept he would have been made president of a large banking 
Co. of Louisville, but he steadfastly refused, preferring to devote his energies and talents to the 
bank with which he had been associated all his life.

N. W.  Muir was broad minded and one of the most charitable men of Nelson county, and a number of 
indigent families of this city were supported almost entirely by him. He was a. member and treasurer 
of the Presbyterian church and a democrat in politics. He was widely known and of a social disposition. 
He had gone to Louisville with his wife and only son Thursday morning for the purpose of making some 
christmas purchases. 

The funeral of Mr. and Mrs. Muir, and their son, George Shadburne Muir was held at the residence 
Sunday afternoon, after which the three bodies were interred in the Muir lot in the Bardstown cemetery.


Submitted by: Richard Sevier and Charles Hartley %demail  webguy@bullittcountyhistory.org



Additional Comments:
Killed in train wreck at Shepherdsville, KY 12/10/1917 See 
http://bullittcountyhistory.org/bchistory/trainwreck1917.html

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