ISAAC T. WITHERS was born in Muhlenburgh County, Ky., June 1, 1848, and is a son of Thomas C. and Martha A. (Ingram) Withers, the former was a native of Christian County, and the latter of Muhlenburgh County, Ky. They were of English and German descent respectively. Thomas C. Withers remianed on the home farm with his mother until he attained his majority, his father having died six years previously. He then removed to Muhlenburgh County, where he married his first wife, the mother of our subject, and for several years engaged in teaching in connection with farming. Afterward he was exclusively engaged in farming and stock raising. Here he lost his first wife, in 1857 (1855 Caney), and in the following year married his present wife. He has been for the past twenty-five years a regularly ordained minister of the Christian Church. For the past ten years he has been pastor of the church near his home, in Muhlenburgh County. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity and the I. O. O. F. Isaac T. Withers was employed on his father's farm until he attained his majority, after which he taught and attended school some five or six years. He was then employed as salesman in a general store at Arthur, Moultrie Co., Ill., for one year. He then came to White Plains, Hopkins County, where he has since been engaged in merchandising and in the hotel business. He was married May 23, 1878, to Miss Katy A. Arnold, a native of Logan County, Ky. Two sons have blessed their union--Harry B. and Thomas L. Mr. Withers and wife are members of the church; he of the Christian and she of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He is also an earnest advocate of the temperance cause, and politically is a Democrat.