Wright Featherston/second wife Mrs. Elizabeth (Neet) Higbee. Robert Wright
Featherston - s/o Jeremiah Featherston/Elizabeth Elmore. Jeremiah
Featherston - s/o Charles Featherston/Jean Wright - BRANCH #1).
Steve Black Featherston is manager of the Marshal1-Featherston Motor
Company, one of the largest automobile agencies in the state. Mr. Featherston
was formerly in the hardware and agricultural implement business, began
handling automobiles as a side line, and on April 1, 1913, began the present
business, erecting in that year a two story building, with 70 feet frontage
and 88 feet in depth at 177 North Upper Street. That building was on the
opposite side of the street to the present headquarters of the business. In
1917 on the present site the firm built a one-story model salesroom and
storage plant 57 by 200 feet deep, and in 1920 erected another one-story
structure on the same side of the street 127 by 200 feet depth. Thus the firm
has between $75.000 and $80,000 enlisted in real estate alone. They have
storage for 400 cars, and keep an average of twelve men busy in the mechanical
department. They do a general garage business, and since 1914 has been
Fayette County representative for the Buick car. The firm has sold as many as
seventy-five cars per year. The business has had a steady growth and
increase, and the capital of the firm when they started in 1913 was only the
lot where they put up their first garage. Mr. Featherston is widely known
over the state as a successful automobile dealer and has given his
enthusiastic influence to good roads movement.
He was born at the forks of the Elkhorn in Franklin County, Kentucky,
August 12, 1881, son of Lloyd and grandson of William Featherston. His
grandfather spent his active life on the homestead farm in Franklin County, a
portion of which is still owned by the family. Lloyd Featherston, a native of
Frankfort, was for many years identified with the operation of the 500-acre
farm, but in 1890 moved to Midway where he became overseer and manager of the
R.P. Pepper estate, devoting the next six years to the superintendence of this
extensive farm. He then moved to Fayette County, locating on Leestone Pike, 3
1/2 miles from Lexington, and the last four years of his life he lived retired
in Lexington, where he died at the age of sixty-five. He married Sally
Wilkerson, who is still living in Lexington. Her parents were William and
Martha (Black) Wilkerson.
Steve Black Featherston was reared and educated spending his early life
on a farm, and became associated in 1909 with C.M. Marshall in the C.M.
Marshall & Company, hardware and agricultural implements. For eight years
prior to that he had been with the Smith-Watkins Company, a hardware firm.
Mr. Featherston had been handling automobiles since 1910. He has served as a
director and president of the Lexington Board of Commerce, and is a member of
the Rotary Club. At the age of twenty-three he married Louise Bagby of
Bowling Green, Missouri. They have two sons, Lloyd and Steve, Jr.
(JFH: Stephen "Steve" Black Featherston - s/o George Lloyd Featherston/Sarah
"Sal lie" Dorcas Wilkerson. George Lloyd Featherston - s/o William Epps
Featherston/lst wife Eliza Graves. William Epps Featherston - s/o James E.
Featherston/Elizabeth "Betsy" Elmore. James E. Featherston - s/o Carolus
cont.