Jacob McConathy

Jacob McConathy, born Nov. 4, 1766, in Wilmington, Delaware, died March. 29, 1827, in Fayette Co., Ky.  Tradition states that Jacob McConathy was the son of a first marriage between his father and Anne Springer, that he did not get along well with his father’s second wife and went from Delaware to Va., where he changed his name from McConaughy to McConathy.  His captain’s commission is signed by Patrick Henry for some Va. militia service.  He moved to Fayette Co., Ky., in 1797, and is said to have owned part of the first steam mill operated west of the Alleghanies, at or near Lexington, Ky.