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HENRY K. PUSEY, M. D., Superintendent of the Anchorage Insane Asylum, was born in Meade County, Ky., January 2, 1827, and is a son of Joel and Ann (Roope) Pusey, natives of Maryland. He was reared on a farm and educated in the schools of Meade County. He read medicine, and graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Louisville in 1849. He commenced the practice of medicine at Garrettsville, Meade County, and successfully practiced there until 1882, when he went to Louisville, remaining until 1844, when he was appointed by Gov. Knott superintendent of the Insane Asylum at Anchorage, which position he still holds. He was married in 1851, to Miss Sarah McCarty, of Marion County. The Pusey family is of English origin, and can be traced back eight and a half centuries in Berkshire, England. Running through all these years, the name has undergone many changes of orthography, having been spelled Pesey, Pesie, Pesye, Pose, Pusye, Pyssey, Pusey, Pewte, Pewsey and Pecote. In the celebrated Doomesday Book, completed in 1086, and embodying the results of the survey ordered by William the Conqueror, the name is registered “Pesie” or “Pesei.” Here the family have resided from the time of the Danish King Canute, fifty years before the Norman Conquest. From this family, Dr. Pusey, the subject of this sketch, traces directly his lineage.