Dicken family.

Francis Troutman was a Bourbon county lawyer and businessman. He made his name in the late 1840's by prosecuting a runaway slave, and was elected to the Kentucky legislature in 1851. He later gave up the practice of law in order to devote himself entirely to his business interests, which included land sales in Illinois, Minnesota and Texas, railroad companies, cattle breeding, raising sheep imported from England, cotton planting and levee construction in Louisiana, and his farm in Bourbon county. In 1852, Troutman married Josephine Wickliffe, the widow of Robert Wickliffe, Jr., a lawyer and friend of Troutman's, who had served as charge d'affaires in Sardinia under President Tyler. Josephine died in 1859. In 1863, Troutman married Anna Dicken, daughter of his business associate, George D. Dicken, a Henry county farmer. They had three children, Lily, George Dicken and Frank Simmes Troutman.

Lily Troutman married Rudolph Balke, president of the Mellwood Distillery Company of Louisville, in 1892. George became a doctor, and Frank took over the family farm in Bourbon county.

From the description of Dicken-Troutman-Balke family papers, 1816-1945, 1850-1899. (University of Kentucky Libraries). WorldCat record id: 13307686