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DAVID ORR, a wholesale tobacco dealer, of Warsaw, Ky., was born in Scotland May 12, 1843. His father, William Orr, a native of Ayrshire County, Scotland, was born in 1815, and was a wholesale merchant in Reith, in which business he successfully continued for more than forty years. He was an active man in politics for many years, and was a leading member of the Church of Scotland. He married Agnes Longwill, a native of Scotland, and a daughter of David and Jane (Gibson) Longwill, also natives of Scotland, and the former a land owner. The birth of four sons and five daughters followed their union, of whom the subject of this sketch is the third child. William Orr died in 1880. Robert Orr, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was a native of Scotland, and a prominent merchant and land owner. David Orr read law for three years with Daniel S. Love, of Beith, until 1867, when he immigrated to Owensboro, Ky., and engaged in the tobacco business with John A. Faulds, with whom he remained five years. He then removed to Princeton, Ky., where he followed the same business until 1880, when he removed to Warsaw, and is engaged in buying and selling tobacco. He has three large warehouses, and handles about 1,000,000 pounds of tobacco annually. In 1860 he volunteered and served for one year in the Sixth Ayrshire Rifle Volunteers, to protect Britain from French invasion. April 27, 1880, he married Ella Blackmore, a native of Gallatin County, and a daughter of T. M. and Emily (Brooking) Blackmore, natives of Madison, Ind., and Montgomery County, Ky. The birth of one daughter — Mariam Agnes — followed their union. Mr. Orr is a Royal Arch Mason of Warsaw Lodge, at Warsaw, and became a Master Mason of St. John’s Lodge, No. 158, in Scotland. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his wife is a member of the Baptist Church.