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DANIEL BOONE, Frontispiece. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL CYCLOPEDIA 
 
 OF THE 
 
 COMMONWEALTH 
 
 OF 
 
 KENTUCKY 
 
 EMBRACING BIOGRAPHIES OF MANY OF THE PROMINENT MEN AND F4« 
 
 OF THE STATE 
 
 COMPILED AND' PUBLISHED BY THF 
 
 !OHN M. GRESHAM COMP 
 
 CHICAGO— PHILADELPHIA 
 1896 
 
DoNOHUE & Henneberry, 
 
 Printers, Engravers and Binders, 
 
 Chicago. 
 
PREFf\GE) 
 
 THE greatest of English historians, Macaulay, and one of America's 
 ablest and most brilliant writers of the Nineteenth Century, have said : 
 The history of a country is best told in a record of the lives of its people. 
 In conformity with this idea, the Biographical Cyclopedia of the Common- 
 wealth of Kentucky has been prepared. Instead of going to musty records 
 and taking from there dry statistical matter that would be appreciated but 
 by few, our corps of writers have gone to the people, the men and women who 
 have, by their force of character, brought the state to a rank, in many respects, 
 second to none among those comprising this great and noble country; and 
 from their lips we have the story of their life struggles. No more interesting or 
 instructive matter could be presented to an intelligent public. In this volume 
 will be found complete sketches of many whose lives are worthy of imitation 
 of generations yet to come. It tells how many with limited advantages and 
 whose environments were of the simplest kind have become great men and 
 women, and whose influence extends throughout the land. It tells of men who 
 have risen from the lower walks of life to eminence as statesmen, and whose 
 names have become renowned. It tells of those in every walk of life who 
 have striven to succeed, and records how success has usually crowned their efforts. 
 It also tells of many who, not seeking the applause of the world, have pursued 
 " the even tenor of their way," content to have it said of them, as Christ said 
 of the woman performing a deed of mercy — "they have done what they could." 
 It tells of how that many, in the pride of strength of young manhood, left the 
 plow and the anvil, the lawyer's office and the counting room, left every trade 
 and profession, and at their country's call went forth valiantly " to do or die " 
 for the land which gave them birth and, which next to their God, their highest 
 homage was due. 
 
 Generations yet unborn will greatly appreciate this book and preserve 
 it as a sacred treasure, and a precious souvenir of those who gave the best 
 years of their lives in the interest of civilization and progress. Great care has 
 been taken in the compilation of this volume, and every opportunity possible 
 
given those who are represented to insure correctness in what has been written, 
 and the publisher is giving to his patrons a work of few errors of consequence. 
 The sketches of many will be missed in this book. For this the pub- 
 lisher is not to blame. Not having a proper conception of the work, some 
 refused to give the information necessary to compile a biography, while others 
 were indifferent. Occasionally some member of the family would oppose the 
 enterprise, and on account of such opposition the support of the interested 
 one would be withheld. In some instances men could never be found, though 
 repeated calls were made at their places of business. For many sketches of the 
 pioneers of the State and men of prominence we are indebted to Collins' 
 carefully prepared and very excellent history of Kentucky, and for which we 
 give full credit. 
 
 JOHN M. GRESHA.M, Fublishee. 
 Chicago, May 18, 1896. 
 
Biographical Cyclopedia 
 
 OF 
 
 K:EisnrijroK:^t^. 
 
 THOMAS W. BULLITT, one of the leading 
 attorneys of Louisville, was born at Ox- 
 moor, Jefferson County, eight miles from Louis- 
 ville, May 17, 1838. His father, William Chris- 
 tian Bullitt, was born at the same place in 1793, 
 and died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. 
 Henry Chenowith, near Oxmoor, August 28, 
 1877, at the age of eighty-four years. He spent 
 his whole life on the farm, except a short time 
 when he was engaged in the practice of law in 
 Louisville, an occupation for which he was well 
 equipped, but which he abandoned on account of 
 ill health. He was a Whig in early life, but voted 
 for President Franklin Pierce, and from that time 
 until his death he was a pronounced Democrat. 
 He was a member of the Constitutional Conven- 
 tion of 1849-50, but was never an office seeker, 
 although he was always earnest and active in the 
 interest of his party. He was a man of great 
 strength of character, with decided firmness and 
 excellent judgment. His hospitality was pro- 
 verbial, and in this kindness he heartily seconded 
 his excellent wife, who loved all young people and 
 loved to have her house well filled. They really 
 kept "open house" at all times, entertaining 
 friend and stranger in such a manner that through 
 them and others like them the State of Kentucky 
 became noted for its hospitality. 
 
 Alexander Scott Bullitt (grandfather) was a na- 
 tive of Prince William County, Virginia, who 
 
 came to Kentucky in 1783, when about 21 years 
 of age, and purchased a tract of one thousand 
 acres of land lying on what is now the Louisville 
 and Shelbyville turnpike, and called it Oxmoor. 
 This valuable property has been in possession of 
 the Bullitt family over one hundred years, no part 
 of it having been sold. 
 
 A. S. Bullitt was president of the convention 
 which framed the constitution of Kentucky in 
 1799, and was the first lieutenant governor under 
 that constitution. In 1785 he married the daugh- 
 ter of Col. William Christian, whose wife was a 
 sister of Patrick Henry of Virginia. Col. Chris- 
 tian came to Jefferson County in 1785 and was 
 killed by the Indians in 1786. He was buried at 
 Oxmoor, the oldest burying ground in Kentucky, 
 where all the descendants of the families who 
 have since died have been '"gathered to their 
 fathei's." The burying ground is on what was 
 Col. Christian's home, adjoining Oxmoor, and is 
 scrupulously cared for by the family, a permanent 
 fund having been provided for the purpose, and 
 is in the form of a trust in the hands of the Fidelity 
 Trust Co. Governor Bullitt died in 1816. 
 
 Cuthbert Bullitt (great-grandfather) was a Vir- 
 ginia lawyer of renown, and was one of the Judges 
 of the Supreme Court of Virginia at the time of his 
 death. 
 
 Benjamin Bullitt (great-great-grandfather) was 
 a Virginia farmer whose father, Joseph Bullitt, a 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 French Huguenot, came from the province of 
 France and settled at Port Tobacco, Maryland, 
 on the Chesapeake Bay, in 1685. 
 
 Mildred Ann Fry Bullitt (mother) was a native 
 of Albemarle County, Virginia. She survived her 
 husband about two years and died in 1879 in her 
 eighty-second year. She was a faithful Christian 
 and a member of the Presbyterian Church. Her 
 father, Joshua Fry (grandfather), removed from 
 Virginia when she was three years old and settled 
 in Danville. His wife was the daughter of Dr. 
 Thomas Walker of Albemarle County, Virginia, 
 whose farm was, and is now, known as Castle 
 
 Hill. 
 
 Thomas W. Bullitt received his early training 
 at home and in the common schools near Oxmoor 
 and at Centre College, graduating in 1858. tie 
 then went to Philadelphia and read law with his 
 brother, John C. Bullitt, finishing his law course 
 in the law department of the University of Penn- 
 sylvania, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar 
 in 1 861, where he commenced the practice of law 
 with his brother. He remained only until the 
 spring of 1862, when he returned to Kentucky and 
 joined the Confederate army under Gen. John 
 Morgan ; and later accompanied that dashing of- 
 ficer with seventy-five comrades in a raid upon the 
 Ohio Penitentiary. Fie did not escape with Mor- 
 gan and the others, but remained in the prison at 
 Columbus about eight months, when he was 
 transferred to Fort Delaware, and there he re- 
 mained until about a month prior to the close of 
 the war, when he was paroled for exchange and 
 sent to Richmond. 
 
 After the war, Col. Bullitt returned to Louis- 
 ville and commenced the practice of law, in which 
 he has been vastly more successful than he was as 
 a Confederate soldier. He has distinguished him- 
 self by his remarkable industry, his good judg- 
 ment and his careful study of legal subjects bear- 
 ing especially upon corporations. In addition to 
 his lucrative law business, he has been and is con- 
 nected with a number of large corporations, 
 banks, railroads and other enterprises in which he 
 is a director as well as attorney. 
 
 He inaugurated the Fidelity Trust Company of 
 Louisville, the first trust company organized west 
 of the Alleghany mountains, and later organized 
 
 the Kentucky Title Insurance Company, in which 
 he is a director. 
 
 He has been a Democrat ever since he became 
 a voter, but has not aspired to office. 
 
 He is a member of the Presbyterian Church 
 (South) and a liberal supporter of the church and 
 its work. 
 
 Col. Bullitt was married in 1871 to Anna Pris- 
 cilla, daughter of Hon. Caleb Logan of the Louis- 
 ville Chancery Court. Her mother was the daugh- 
 ter of Dr. Louis Marshall, who was a brother of 
 Chief Justice John Marshall. They have six chil- 
 dren living: William Marshall, James B., Agatha 
 M., Alexander S., Keith L. and Myra L. 
 
 C.HARLES BALDWIN POYNTZ, distiller 
 ' of Maysville, late railroad commissioner, 
 and an influential citizen, son of Samuel B. and 
 Mary (Dewees) Poyntz, was born in Maysville, 
 July 17, 1853. He was educated, principally, in 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, to which city his father removed 
 in 1865; and was employed in the accounting de- 
 partment of the Indianapolis and St. Louis Rail- 
 road for several years, and was made assistant 
 paymaster of that company when he was twenty- 
 five years of age. He was located in IndianapoUs 
 for eight years of the time that he was in the ser- 
 vice of the railroad company. 
 
 In 1 88 1 he resigned and came to INIaysville to 
 engage in the distillery and jobbing business with 
 his father and brother, Benjamin B. Poyntz, and 
 was a member of the firm of Samuel B. Poyntz & 
 Sons until the death of the senior member of the 
 firm in 1890, when he and his brother took charge 
 of the business, since which time the well known 
 house has sustained its reputation as one of the 
 most reliable and substantial establishments in 
 the state. 
 
 In 1886 l\lr. Poyntz was elected to the Mays- 
 ville City Council and was made president of that 
 body in 1887. In 1888 he was a delegate to the 
 National Democratic Convention which gave 
 President Cleveland his second nomination; in 
 1889 lie was elected to the Kentucky Senate from 
 Mason and Lewis Counties and was recognized 
 as one of the ablest men in that body, being chair- 
 man of the Finance Committee; was chairman of 
 th? Ninth Congressional District Democratic 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Committee for eight years ; and at the same time 
 chairman of the Appellate Court District Commit- 
 tee, and was appointed Railroad Commissioner 
 for the Third (Eastern) District in 1892, which of- 
 fice he held until December, 1895. His record as 
 a business man and as an ofificial is one in which his 
 friends indulge a pardonable pride. It is without 
 spot, scratch or blemish. 
 
 Mr. Poyntz was married December 24, 1878, to 
 Alice Craig of Crawfordsville, Indiana, an accom- 
 plished and charming woman. 
 
 Samuel B. Poyntz, father of Charles B. Poyntz, 
 was born in Mason County in 1819; died August, 
 1890. He was for some years engaged in the 
 wholesale grocery business in Cincinnati, and for 
 many years before his death he was similarly en- 
 gaged — in connection with distilling — in Mays- 
 ville. He was a gentleman of high character and 
 standing, and one of the most successful business 
 men in northern Kentucky. 
 
 Mary Dewees Poyntz (mother) was the eldest 
 daughter of John Coburn Dewees, one of five sis- 
 ters, all of whom were remarkable for their per- 
 sonal attractions. 
 
 William Poyntz (paternal grandfather) was a 
 native of Pennsylvania and one of the early set- 
 tlers of Kentucky. His wife was a Miss Baldwin 
 of Washington, Mason County. 
 
 John Coburn Dewees (maternal grandfather), 
 a native of Lexington, Kentucky, was for many 
 years a leading citizen of Mason County. His 
 wife, Maria Bayless, was connected by marriage 
 and blood with many of the principal families of 
 this state, and was a sister of the late Dr. Benja- 
 min Bayless, an eminent surgeon of Louisville. 
 
 LUCIEN CLAY DALLAM, a retired mer- 
 chant and banker of Henderson, son of 
 Nathan Smith and Sarah (Hicks) Dallam, was 
 born in Princeton, Kentucky, May 17, 1829. He 
 went to school only a few years and in 1842, when 
 only thirteen years of age, went to work in the 
 County Clerk's office in Livingston County, and 
 served one year as deputy, and returned to Prince- 
 ton and served four years there in a similar ca- 
 pacity. He then began his mercantile career in 
 partnership with his brother, William J. Dallam, 
 and remained in Princeton until 1854, when they 
 
 removed to Henderson. The two brothers were 
 in partnership in the dry goods business in Prince- 
 ton and Henderson about eight years. The firm 
 dissolved in 1856 and Lucien C. Dallam continued 
 the business alone until 1859, when his brother- 
 in-law, Thomas Soaper, who had been clerking 
 for him, was admitted into partnership. This 
 business relation continued under the most favor- 
 able auspices until 1876, when Mr. Soaper pur- 
 chased the interest of Mr. Dallam and the latter 
 retired from mercantile pursuits. 
 
 Pie was one of the chief organizers of the Hen- 
 derson National Bank in 1865, which was opened 
 for business in January, 1866, and Mr. Dallam 
 was elected president of that bank, a position 
 which he held continuously until February, 1892, 
 when he resigned. He is, however, still inter- 
 ested in the bank, in which he is a leading stock- 
 holder. This bank had an original capital of 
 $100,000, which has been increased several times 
 until it has been doubled, and has accumulated a 
 surplus of $100,000. Its average annual divi- 
 dends have been from ten to twelve per cent, and 
 the bank examiners have pronounced it one of the 
 best managed institutions of the kind in the state. 
 It has never charged borrowers of small sums a 
 larger per cent than it charged its patrons of larger 
 means. Mr. Dallam was the leading spirit in this 
 bank for more than twenty-six years, and its suc- 
 cess was largely due to his excellent judgment and 
 ability as a financier. 
 
 He was the first President of the Henderson 
 Bridge Company; served many years as chair- 
 man of the Board of Sinking Fund Commis- 
 sioners of the City of Henderson and also served 
 in the City Council. He is president of the Hen- 
 derson Humane Society, and was Senior Warden 
 of St. Paul's Episcopal Church for many years. 
 In all of his business, official and church relations 
 he has been governed by a wise and conservative 
 policy and has endeared himself to the people of 
 Henderson. 
 
 Mr. Dallam was married in 1855 to Elizabeth 
 Soaper, daughter of Wilham Soaper and sister of 
 Thomas and R. H. Soaper, sketches of both of 
 whom will be found in this work. 
 
 The children of Lucien C. and Elizabeth 
 (Soaper) Dallam are: Susan Henderson, wif? of 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Henry Burnett of Paducah; Clarence, bom April 
 14, 1863, a graduate of the University of Virginia, 
 class of 1886, now practicing law in Paducah, mar- 
 ried Cantey McDowell Venable of Charlottes- 
 ville, Virginia; Charles Edward, born in 1865, 
 graduate of the University of Virginia, class of 
 1885, now assistant cashier of the Henderson 
 National Bank ; Elizabeth Soaper, wife of George 
 Wadsworth Cobb of Chicago, and Sarah Hicks, 
 wife of Muscoe Burnett of Paducah. 
 
 Nathan Smith Dallam (father) was born in Har- 
 ford County, Maryland, December 19, 1782; mar- 
 ried Sarah Hicks in 1807 at Winchester, Clark 
 County, Kentucky, at which place he was located 
 for a time after leaving Maryland. He soon re- 
 moved to Hopkinsville, where he was clerk of the 
 County and Circuit Courts for many years, and 
 also represented his county in the legislature a 
 number of terms; was a Whig and a personal 
 friend of Henry Clay; left Hopkinsville about 1825 
 and went to Princeton, then the "Athens of the 
 West," and held various official positions of honor 
 and trust until the time of his death, June i, 1837. 
 
 He had ten children, whose names were James 
 Lawrence, Mary Frances, Maria, Frances Henry, 
 Jane Marian, Charles B., WilHam J., Edward 
 Winston, Lucien Clay and Virginia Josephine, all 
 of whom are deceased except Lucien C. and Mrs. 
 Mary Frances Duncan, a widow now eighty years 
 of age. 
 
 Sara Hicks (mother) was born in Richmond, 
 Virginia, in 1792. Her parents died, leaving her 
 an orphan at a tender age and she came with her 
 guardian to Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, 
 where she was married to Nathan Smith Dallam 
 in 1807. 
 
 The original pioneer and ancestor of the Dal- 
 lam family, Richard Dallam (great-great-grand- 
 father), came from Wales, England, in 1680, and 
 married Elizabeth Martin in Maryland, who was 
 known in the colonial times as "Pretty Bettie 
 Martin." Many interesting reminiscences of this 
 remarkable woman are still cherished by her de- 
 scendants. She lived to the advanced age of 114 
 years. William Dallam, son of Richard Dallam 
 and "Pretty Betty Martin" Dallam, was the great- 
 grandfather. Francis Matthews Dallam, who 
 came to Kentucky from Maryland and married 
 
 Martha Cassandra Smith, was the grandfather, 
 and Nathan Smith Dallam, who married Sara 
 Hicks, was the father of the subject of this sketch, 
 Lucien Clay Dallam of Henderson, Kentucky. 
 
 MILTON JAMISON DURHAM, cashier of 
 the Central Bank of Lexington, ex- Judge 
 of the Circuit Court, ex-member of Congress, ex- 
 Comptroller of the United States Treasury, etc., 
 son of Benjamin and Margaret (Robinson) Dur- 
 ham, was born in Boyle (then a part of Mercer) 
 County, Kentucky, May 16, 1824. He was 
 brought up on his father's farm, and at the age 
 of nineteen entered Asbury University, Green- 
 castle, Indiana, from which institution he gradu- 
 ated in 1844, when Bishop Simpson was its presi- 
 dent. He taught school at Perryville a short time 
 and read law with the late Joshua F. Bell of Dan- 
 ville; attended the Louisville Law School and 
 was graduated in March, 1850; located the same 
 year in Danville, which was the principal scene of 
 his labors and of a remarkably successful career 
 until his removal to Lexington in 1890. 
 
 In 1861 and the year following he was Circuit 
 Judge of his district by appointment of Governor 
 Magoffin; in 1872 he was elected to Congress by 
 the Democratic party; was re-elected in 1874 and 
 again in 1876, representing the Eighth Congres- 
 sional District. While in Congress he served on 
 many important committees, including Banking 
 and Currency, Coinage, ^^'eights and Measures, 
 Expenditures in the Department of Justice ; Chair- 
 man of the Committee on Revision of Law, and 
 the Committee on Appropriations. In 1885 he 
 was appointed First Comptroller of the United 
 States Treasury by President Cleveland, and held 
 that office until April, 1889. 
 
 In 1890, Judge Durham's health being greatly 
 impaired by a serious attack of La Grippe, his 
 physician advised him to abandon his law practice, 
 and following this advice, he sought another field 
 and assisted in organizing the Central Bank of 
 Lexington, with a capital of 200,000, and was 
 elected Cashier of the bank, in which position he 
 has demonstrated his ability as a financier. He 
 is also treasurer of the Blue Grass Building and 
 Loan Association, one of the strongest organiza- 
 tions of the kind in the State. 
 
HON. M. J. DURHAM. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 From 1872 to 1876 he was Grand Sire of the 
 Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., of the United States. 
 
 Judge Durham is widely known throughout 
 the state and country as an active, energetic busi- 
 ness man, and for many years as a distinguished 
 member of the Democratic party, while in his 
 present sphere of action, he is universally recog- 
 nized as a zealous friend of every effort for the 
 elevation of the masses, especially the laboring 
 community, and a willing helper in every good 
 work; an honest and upright business man, and, 
 what is more rare, an honest politician; has always 
 taken an active and prominent part in politics, and 
 in every relation in life, public and private, he has 
 been noted for his uniform kindness and con- 
 sideration for others. Few men have more stanch 
 friends or enthusiastic admirers than Judge Dur- 
 ham. I 
 
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 His history is an example of the possibilities, 
 under the operation of our free institutions, that 
 are offered to rising young men, who, with native 
 talent, honorable purpose and industry, may sur- 
 mount all difficulties and attain success and honor 
 without the patronage of the influential or the arts 
 of the demagogue. He is strictly a temperance 
 man, having never taken a dram of spirituous 
 liquors in his life, and never treated any person to 
 liquor in any of his canvasses or at any other 
 time. 
 
 Judge Durham was married in 1850 to Martha 
 J. Mitchell, daughter of Judge James P. Mitchell 
 of Boyle County. She died in 1879, leaving four 
 sons and one daughter: Louis H., deceased; 
 Benjamin J., James Wesley, Robert M. and Ora 
 B., who married Albert Morris of Louisville. 
 
 He was again married in 1886 to Mrs. Margaret 
 Letcher Carter, daughter of the late Dr. Samuel 
 M. Letcher of Lexington. 
 
 Judge Durham is a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church (South), as were all of his fore- 
 fathers since their settlement in this country. 
 
 Benjamin Durham (father) was a native of the 
 patriotic County of Mechlenburg, Va., which, in 
 the days of the great struggle for American inde- 
 pendence, furnished six hundred men to serve in 
 the siege and capture of Lord Cornwallis at York- 
 town, October 19, 1781. He removed to Ken- 
 tucky with his father when four years of age, and 
 
 settled in what is now Boyle County in 1782, and 
 made his home there until the day of his death, 
 in 1847, at the age of sixty-nine years. He was a 
 blacksmith and a farmer, and was highly esteemed 
 by his neighbors. He was a class leader in the 
 Methodist Church, and was known as a man of 
 correct business principles, whose daily hfe was 
 the best evidence of the sincerity of his religious 
 profession. His aim in life was to do all the good 
 in his power for his friends and neighbors. He 
 had no ambition to be great and the simplicity of 
 his life was the source of his strength and true 
 greatness. He was a believer in and a faithful 
 advocate of the Jeffersonian democracy, but was 
 not an office-seeker. 
 
 John Durham (grandfather), who removed 
 from Mechlenburg County, Virginia, to Kentucky 
 in 1782, organized the first Methodist Church 
 west of the Alleghany Mountains, which was lo- 
 cated seven miles from Danville. Humility was 
 the distinguishing trait of his character; and if at 
 any time he brought himself into prominence it 
 was by an attempt to accomplish some good work. 
 He was through life an honest and upright man. 
 He was a farmer and a most excellent neighbor, 
 who left his impress upon the community in which 
 he lived. He died at the age of seventy-six years. 
 
 The Durham family was originally from Eng- 
 land, and settled in Virginia about the close of the 
 Seventeenth Century. 
 
 Margaret Robinson Durham (mother) was born 
 in Virginia in 1776, and died in Boyle County, 
 Kentucky, in 1854. She was a true and consistent 
 member of the Methodist Church. 
 
 Jacob Robinson (maternal grandfather) was 
 also a native of Virginia, most of whose useful and 
 exemplary life was spent in Boyle County, where 
 he died. The Robinsons are of English and 
 Scotch descent, and were noted for their energy 
 and thrift. 
 
 LEE H. BROOKS, Vice-President of the 
 "Cincinnati Leaf Tobacco Warehouse Co.," 
 and Manager of the Globe Warehouse, the larg- 
 est establishment of the kind in the world, and 
 recently President of the Chamber of Commerce 
 of Cincinnati, but for eighteen years a resident of 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Covington, was born in Bristol, Addison County, 
 Vermont, May iS, 1840. 
 
 In this great country, abounding in opportuni- 
 ties and rich resources, where so many anen have 
 risen from obscurity to eminence, a man's abili- 
 ties are measured by the successes he has 
 achieved. He is the architect of his own for- 
 tune. Most men who start in life without capital 
 — save their inherent talents, energy and enter- 
 prise — and succeed, do so by force of their native 
 endowments, and are not indebted to assistance 
 from friends, capital or circumstances except as 
 they have created them in making their way to 
 position, wealth and honor. The subject of this 
 sketch is an example of what a young man may 
 do if he has the natural sagacity to discover 
 opportunities and the ability and energy to im- 
 prove them. 
 
 Mr. Brooks received his early education prin- 
 cipally in the High School of Shelby, New York, 
 and began his remarkably successful career as a 
 clerk in a grocery, when he was sixteen years of 
 age. Not satisfied with the education he had re- 
 ceived, he worked industriously during the day 
 and studied at night, saving his earnings so that 
 at the end of one year he had the means — which 
 his father could not provide — to defray his ex- 
 penses for two years in the Albion Academy in 
 Orleans County, New York, and there completed 
 his studies. 
 
 He went to Portsmouth, Ohio, where he 
 taught school for four years, but this occupation 
 was too confining for him, and rather tame for 
 a man of his active temperament, and he took a 
 position as clerk on an Ohio River passenger 
 steamer, and was on the river for about five 
 years, occupying every position on the steamer, 
 from clerk to captain, and had a license as pilot 
 from the Government, a document which he still 
 prizes as a reminiscence of his younger days. 
 
 There came a time when he must seek a broad- 
 er and more promising field where his energies 
 and natural talents would be more likely to bring 
 deserved reward, and in 1868 he gave up his 
 pleasant life on the river to accept a position in 
 Cincinnati as Secretary and Treasurer of the 
 Planters Tobacco Warehouse Company, where 
 he soon gave evidence of his superior ability as 
 
 a business man. By his energy, business tact 
 and sound judgment he began to accomplish 
 great things for his employers. The value of 
 his services was recognized by them, and at the 
 cern. Pie remained with the Planters until 1872, 
 end of one year he became a partner in the con- 
 when he disposed of his interest and determined 
 to establish a new house, and formed a partner- 
 ship with William Waterfield and opened the 
 "Globe Tobacco Warehouse." In this Mr. 
 Brooks showed his ability in the conduct of com- 
 mercial affairs to such an extent that in 1883 the 
 business had increased so immensely that they 
 were compelled to enlarge their warerooms. 
 They accordingly purchased the adjoining build- 
 ing and erected the largest tobacco warehouse 
 in the world. At this time also the firm was re- 
 organized vmder the name of "The Brooks, 
 Waterfield Company," Mr. Brooks becoming 
 President of the concern with the result of an 
 ever increasing and successful business. Mr. 
 Waterfield died in 1888, but his share in the busi- 
 ness was retained as a good investment by his 
 estate. 
 
 In i8g2 all of the tobacco warehouses of Cin- 
 cinnati were consolidated and j\Ir. Brooks was 
 elected Vice-President of the Company and Man- 
 ager of the Globe Warehouse. In this respon- 
 sible position he has helped to conduct the com- 
 bined business of seven large warehouses in a 
 manner that has been highly satisfactory to the 
 members of the colossal enterprise, and in this 
 has achieved the crowning success of a remark- 
 able business career, now at its zenith. 
 
 His early experience on the river was exceed- 
 ingly pleasant and fascinating, and in leaving the 
 active pursuits of the steamboatman he retained 
 his love for the charming life upon the water, and 
 still holds stock in the various steamboat com- 
 panies. Pie is the friend of the river men, and 
 they are great admirers of their former associ- 
 ate, as is evinced by the fact that one of the finest 
 passenger steamers bears the name of "Lee H. 
 Brooks." 
 
 He is President of the company which owns 
 Coney Island, the famous resort for Cincinnati 
 people; is director in the Ohio Valley National 
 Bank; President of the Pettibone Manufactur- 
 
Kentucky biographies. 
 
 ing Company, the large establishment in which 
 all kinds of paraphernalia for lodges, societies, 
 schools, etc., are manufactured, and in which 
 four hundred and fifty people are constantly em- 
 ployed; President of the Smith-Kasson Com- 
 pany, the largest retail shoe house in Cincinnati; 
 and besides these, holds leading positions in other 
 business enterprises. 
 
 Although a resident of Covington, Mr. Brooks 
 is fully identified with the interests of Cincinnati, 
 which is abundantly proven by the fact of his 
 having been President of the Cincinnati Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, the most influential commer- 
 cial body in the city. Such an election is regarded 
 as the greatest honor that can be bestov/ed upon 
 any one in the commercial world, an honor which 
 is due only to the most able and influential busi- 
 ness man. He filled this position with perfect 
 satisfaction to all until October, 1890. 
 
 Mr. Brooks, with his varied career, his indom- 
 itable will and energy, surmounting any and all 
 difficulties and rising to his present high posi- 
 tion in the business world, is a perfect type of the 
 American citizen, an example which inay serve 
 many an ambitious youth, showing what may be 
 done even with limited resources and few oppor- 
 tunities. Solely by his own efforts and native tal- 
 ents, beginning without aid or influence, he has 
 steadily risen until he is among the most honored 
 business men of Cincinnati, and in his special 
 line holds the most influential and leading posi- 
 tion in the world. 
 
 He also occupies a noteworthy position in the 
 social world and in the highest benevolent orders, 
 of which he is a valued and helpful member. He 
 first entered a Masonic lodge in 1864 and has 
 taken all of the degrees of the York and Scottish 
 Rites and takes a great pride in being called a 
 "Shiner." He is perhaps more devoted to 
 Masonry than the Elks or Knights of Pythias, 
 of which he is an honored member. 
 
 Politics have no attractions for Mr. Brooks, 
 and he would hardly accept an office if it were 
 tendered him without the usual bitter strife which 
 office-seekers have to pass through on the way 
 to victory or defeat. 
 
 Mr. Brooks owns many residences in Cincin- 
 nati and Covington, including his elegant home 
 in Covington, in which he has lived for eighteen 
 
 years. He was married in 1866 to Laura A.Tone of 
 Locust Corner, Clermont County, Ohio, and is 
 blessed with an interesting family of four chil- 
 dren: Charles G., George A., Ada and Rosella. 
 His eldest daughter, a graduate of Wesleyan Col- 
 lege, is the wife of Henry Kasson of the Smith- 
 Kasson (shoe) Company. Mr. Brooks is a great 
 lover of his family, which is surrounded by the 
 comforts and luxuries of an ideal home; enjoys 
 meeting his friends, entertains them royally; is 
 fond of music and choice literature; has a fine 
 hbrary; and is well informed, not only in the 
 affairs of the active business Hfe which he leads, 
 but also in the current events. It is in the social 
 aspect of his nature that he appears to the best 
 advantage in the estimation of those who enjoy 
 his genial and intellectual companionship. 
 
 Mr. Brooks' father, Cyrus S. Brooks, was born 
 in Vermont in 1812. He was a farmer there for 
 many years, and in 1848 he removed to Orleans 
 County, New York, and engaged in the shoe 
 business at Shelby Centre, where he was recog- 
 nized as a prominent citizen. Pie afterwards re- 
 moved to Wheelersbttrg, Scioto County, Ohio, 
 but, preferring his former home, returned to 
 Shelby, New York, in about two years, and there 
 resumed his former occupation. His death, in 
 i860, resulted from a kick from a horse. His 
 wife was Sophia Hazleton, who was born in Ver- 
 mont in 1816, and is now living with her son, the 
 subject of this sketch, in Covington. 
 
 Mr. Brooks comes of an old New England 
 family, his ancestor, John Brooks, having immi- 
 grated to this country from England about one 
 hundred and fifty years ago. Pie settled in the 
 State of New York, where his three sons were 
 born. It was one of these brothers who settled in 
 Vermont one hundred and twenty-five years ago 
 and surveyed a large tract of land in Addison 
 County, reclaiming it from a wilderness and living- 
 there all his life. This has been handed down 
 from father to son and is still in the possession of 
 the family. 
 
 One of the sons of this early pioneer was Mr. 
 Brooks' grandfather, so he is purely American by 
 birth and descent. On his mother's side he is 
 related to the noted Colonel Hawkins, who was 
 an officer on General Washington's staff during 
 the whole time of the Revolutionaiy war. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 CYRUS B. GRAHAM, M. D., an industrious 
 and capable young physician of Henderson, 
 is a descendant of an old Scotch Covenanter fam- 
 ily whose history is traced back nearly two hun- 
 dred years. 
 
 In the early part of the Eighteenth Century, in 
 what is now Steriingshire, Scotland, in Clan 
 Grahame, 'neath the shadows of Ben Leith and 
 near the shores of beautiful Loch Katrine, was 
 born Hugh Methven Grahame. He was closely 
 related to the Grahames of Glasgow and was a 
 man of "plodding industry and sober worth." He 
 was one of the Scotch Covenanters, with all of 
 the sturdy independence of that class. Regard- 
 less of the persecution of the minions of Charles 
 II, he would meet those of his religious belief 
 among the hills, "In some deep dell by rocks o'er 
 canopied," and worship God according to the dic- 
 tates of their own conscience, unawed by the fear 
 of Church or State. Hoping to enjoy greater free- 
 dom of thought, Hugh Graham with his family 
 emigrated to near Belfast, Ireland, where his 
 bones lie buried. Here, in 1772, Richard Graham 
 (grandfather) was born. The family then emi- 
 grated to America, settling in South Carolina. 
 Richard Graham "married Hannah Bishop of 
 North Carolina, and with several other families 
 started on the long journey through the wilder- 
 ness to Kentucky. Many interesting stories of 
 that journey have been told by an old slave 
 woman, "Aunt Sylvia," who was a litle girl at that 
 time, and accompanied the party. The men of the 
 company walked along beside their wagons, which 
 were drawn by slow-moving oxen, the wagons 
 containing women, children and household goods. 
 It was a land of sunshine and shadow — the 
 shadow of the many inroads of the savage tribes 
 still hung over it, while the sunshine of the future 
 in the homes to be built was with them. Richard 
 Graham was in that day considered a man of 
 some means, and old Aunt Sylvia often recounted 
 with pride the fact that "Marse Dick had three 
 slaves, his wagon and oxen, one cow and a fine 
 mare." 
 
 Richard Graham located in what is now Hop- 
 kins County, and acquired a large body of land, 
 and was principally engaged in agricultural pur- 
 suits and also operated a tannery, the only one 
 
 in that section. He had a brother who was a 
 soldier in the war of 1812, and who was wounded 
 in the battle of New Orleans. 
 
 Richard Graham had three sons and six daugh- 
 ters; his eldest son, Harvey, served in the 
 Mexican war and also in the Union army in the 
 war of the rebellion. The other sons, LeRoy 
 and Cyrus (twins), were born in 18 14 on the 
 Graham plantation in Hopkins County. LeRoy 
 was tall and straight as an arrow, with deep blue 
 eyes and black curly hair; quick to take offense, 
 yet ever ready to forgive; fond of his dog and 
 gun, and more devoted still to tfie deep, majestic 
 forest, where he would spend days and nights 
 with no companion save his faithful dog and 
 trusty weapon. He was known as a dead shot 
 with the rifle and kept that community supplied 
 with game. Passionately fond of music, on re- 
 turning from his hunting expeditions, it would 
 not be long until he would have his violin, fife 
 or clarionet in his hand and repair to the "quar- 
 ters," where he would get the darkies together 
 for a dance. At the corn-huskings and other 
 frolics he was a welcome guest and an active par- 
 ticipant. He was also very fond of horses, and 
 took pride in owning the fastest horses in the 
 neighborhood. In fact, his staid Presbyterian 
 kinsfolk were shocked and often shook their 
 heads at LeRoy's sporting proclivities. 
 
 With all his love for fun, which he inherited 
 from his Irish mother, he had enough of the 
 canny Scot blood of his father to make him a 
 close trader, and in the matter of business he was 
 shrewd and successful. He bought produce with 
 which he loaded a flat-boat in Tradewater River 
 and floated it into the Ohio, thence down the 
 Father of Waters to New Orleans, where he dis- 
 posed of his boat and cargo at a profit, and, as 
 was the custom then, he returned through the 
 country on foot. 
 
 LeRoy Graham was married three times. His 
 first wife was Alice Parker; his second a Miss 
 Slaton and his third a Miss King. He was mar- 
 ried to Alice Parker in 1852. She was a daughter 
 of Benjamin and Mary Howard Jennings Parker 
 of Hopkins County, who were married January 
 5, 1826. Benjamin Parker was a Virginian and 
 a son of Sir Peter Parker, a British Admiral, who 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 bombarded Charleston, S. C, in the Revolution- 
 ary war, and a man of considerable wealth. Mary 
 Howard Jennings Parker was a daughter of Col- 
 onel Williaim Jennings and Marian Smith 
 Jennings. Colonel Jennings was Deputy Gov- 
 ernor of Virginia and also Superintendent of 
 Indian Affairs in Colonial Virginia. He was the 
 youngest son of Thomas Jennings, who was the 
 second son of William Jennings, Bart., England. 
 
 After his marriage LeRoy Graham located in 
 Nebo, Hopkins County, and engaged in dealing 
 in tobacco and in general merchandising and was 
 for years postmaster of the place. He was in 
 business there for probably thirty-five years, and 
 was widely known by his uprightness and hon- 
 orable dealing. He became a staid and quiet 
 citizen and an exemplary member of the Metho- 
 dist Church. During the war he was a Union 
 man. He belonged to neither of the great politi- 
 cal parties, but was independent in his political 
 views. 
 
 The result of his union with Alice Parker was 
 three daughters and two sons: Jennie Graham, 
 Frances Graham, Olive Graham, Cyrus B. 
 Grahaim (subject of this sketch), and Edwin R. 
 Graham, who died in 1888. 
 
 Cyrus B. Graham, whose long lines of ances- 
 try are thus briefly sketched, was born in Nebo, 
 Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1862. His 
 mother, Alice (Parker) Graham, died when he was 
 a babe. As soon as he learned to read he became 
 an omnivorous reader of history and stories of 
 travel, these being the principal literature at hand. 
 At the age of fourteen he had read Rollins' 
 Ancient History, Gibbon's Rome and several 
 works on Anatomy and Physiology and Gudlow 
 on Medical Examination. He spent a greater 
 portion of his time at his grandmother Parker's 
 home, where he found an excellent library, and 
 while there read everything he could get ■ his 
 hands on. His aunts used to say, "Thank the 
 Lord, Cyrus has something to read, because 
 when he is reading we are all safe; when he is 
 not he is sure to be in mischief." 
 
 At the age of fourteen his father sent him to 
 the farm to bring the horses. When he arrived 
 at the farm, two miles from town, the sun was 
 just peeping over the treetops. He hung the 
 
 bridles on the fence corner and kept on down the 
 road until he reached his grandmother's, eight 
 miles away. He was received with open arms, 
 but with some misgivings as to the future of the 
 runaway boy. He returned to Nebo the next 
 fall and worked in a tobacco factory and store 
 until spring, reading at night until late hours. 
 The next two years were spent in the factory, 
 store or on the farm. He rented land, helped to 
 clear it, sold the timber and the rails which he 
 made, and in this way obtained money with 
 which to buy books; drove a team, plowed or 
 did any kind of work for a little pay; he helped to 
 dig a well one winter when he could find nothing 
 else to do, receiving twenty-five cents a day. The 
 next three years he spent in traveling in the west 
 and south, and what money he made he spent for 
 books, which he would read and then give away. 
 His valise generally contained more books than 
 clothing. He worked at the carpenter trade for 
 two years and would often work till near mid- 
 night to make extra money with which to buy 
 books, and having access to good libraries he lost 
 no time in getting all he could out of them. 
 
 He borrowed money and attended the Green 
 River Academy at Madisonville for five months, 
 and at the end of the term received a certificate, 
 and taught school for six months. He then went 
 to Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee; 
 was "elected" with three others to wash dishes, 
 and for this was allowed a small reduction in his 
 board bill. He remained in college three years, 
 teaching school occasionally and seUing books 
 during vacation to procure money to defray his 
 expenses. He traveled extensively over the 
 south, visiting the colleges as a general agent, and 
 did some newspaper work. 
 
 He took a short course in the Mobile College 
 of Medicine; studied and practiced under Dr. 
 James P. Bone of Arlington, Tennessee; entered 
 the medical department of Vanderbilt University 
 at Nashville, Tennessee, and was graduated in 
 the class of 1891. He traveled for a wholesale 
 drug house during vacations and thus made 
 money to pay his way through school. 
 
 After receiving his license as a physician he 
 located first at St. Charles, Kentucky, and prac- 
 ticed for two years; removed thence to near 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Nashville, Tennessee; and a few months later, 
 October 4, 1893, was married to Frances Duncan, 
 daughter of Marion and Juliet (Mullins) Duncan 
 of Henderson, Kentucky, and located in that city. 
 Dr. Graham is a popular young physician; a 
 member of tlie Henderson County Medical Asso- 
 ciation and a member of the Board of Health. 
 He has every promise of the bright future which 
 a man of his energy and industry deserves. 
 
 PETER B. MUIR, one of the senior members 
 of the Louisville bar, having been prominent 
 as judge and attorney for half a century, was born 
 in Nelson County, Kentucky, October 19, 1822; 
 and at the age of about ten years was left an 
 orphan, his father having died in 1830 and his 
 mother in 1833. His father, Jasper Muir, was a 
 native of Maryland, who came to Nelson County 
 with his parents when a child about the begin- 
 ning of the present century. After attaining his 
 majority he married Isabella Brown, daughter of 
 Peter Brown, and engaged in farming in Nelson 
 County, but died at an early age in 1830. 
 
 Dr. William Muir (grandfather) was a native 
 of Scotland and a graduate of Edinborough Col- 
 lege, who came to America and located in Mary- 
 land, where he resided a few years before remov- 
 ing to Nelson County, Kentucky, where he 
 continued the practice of medicine until the time 
 of his death in 1838, having reached the good old 
 age of eighty-four years. He was a fine scholar 
 and a very successful and popular physician. 
 
 Judge Muir's mother, Isabella Brown, was a 
 native of Maryland, as was her father, Peter 
 Brown, who came with his family to Nelson 
 County very early in the century, where he was 
 engaged in farming on quite a large scale. He 
 died at the age of eighty-four years. His daugli- 
 ter, Isabella Muir, died in 1833, when still a young 
 woman. 
 
 Left an orphan without fortune when a mere 
 child, the outlook for the lad was not encourag- 
 ing. But he secured a good education, chiefly 
 in the country schools, under the direction of his 
 learned grandfather, and at Hanover College, 
 where he spent two years before commencing tlie 
 study of law. He was licensed to practice law 
 in 1845, some months after his marriage to 
 
 Sophronia Rizer, a lady of great beauty and love- 
 liness. His success was assured from the time he 
 opened his office in Bardstown in January, 1846. 
 He was elected County Attorney and served three 
 years, when he formed a partnership with Honor- 
 able Thomas W. Riley, and this firm did a leading 
 practice. In January, 1852, they removed their 
 office to Louisville, where they were equally suc- 
 cessful. 
 
 Mr. Muir, while yet a comparative stranger, 
 was elected a member of the City Council, and 
 served for a term of two years, and in 1856, four 
 years after coming to Louisville, was elected to 
 the legislature. In 1857 he was elected Judge of 
 the Circuit Court for the unexpired term of Judge 
 Bullock, and the partnership of Riley & Muir was 
 dissolved. He was again elected for a full term 
 without opposition, but resigned about the mid- 
 dle of the term and became the first Judge of 
 the Jefferson Court of Common Pleas. That 
 office he held for four years, when he resigned 
 and returned to the bar in partnership with the 
 late Martin Bijur. The firm of Muir & Bijur con- 
 tinued about three years, during which time they 
 were among the leading practitioners of the 
 Louisville bar. George M. Davie was then ad- 
 mitted to the firm, which for several years was 
 known throughout the state as one of the lead- 
 ing law firms in Kentucky. In 1877 that firm 
 was dissolved and Judge ]\Iuir continued his work 
 without a partner until he was joined by D. I. 
 Heyman. The firm of Muir & Heyman con- 
 tinued for several years with marked success. 
 In 1890 his son, Upton W. Muir, was admitted 
 to the firm, which was known as Muii-, Heyman 
 & Muir. After a successful practice of four and 
 a half years that firm was dissolved, Mr. Heyman 
 retiring and the business continued by father and 
 son under the present firm name of P. B. & Upton 
 W. Muir. The Judge and his son are hard work- 
 ers and no law firm in Kentucky stands higher. 
 In the meantime Judge Muir has from time to 
 time occupied an important chair in the law de- 
 partment of the University of Louisville, in which 
 capacity he has rendered valuable service in the 
 training of hundreds of young men, who remem- 
 ber him as the able teacher and the friend of the 
 young men of the bar. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 ti 
 
 In the capacity of Judge he was regarded as 
 one of the best judges on the bench, and was 
 greatly endeared to the hearts of the people. His 
 relation to the bar was of an intimate and almost 
 affectionate nature, and the practitioners in his 
 court had the highest regard for him personally 
 while they acknowledged his superiority in legal 
 attainments. His resignation was purely volun- 
 tary on his part, for he could have retained his 
 place on the bench indefinitely; but the work 
 was severe and the compensation was inadequate 
 to satisfy the ambition of a man of his scholarly 
 and legal attainments, besides he preferred the 
 position of advocate to that of the judge, and 
 so he gave up the ermine for the greater liberty 
 of the practitioner. 
 
 As a lawyer Judge Muir has always com- 
 manded the profound respect of his brethren at 
 the bar. His indomitable energy, his accurate 
 and complete knowledge of the Civil Code and 
 Statute laws, his fair and strictly legitimate man- 
 ner of conducting his cases, his effort to secure 
 sound and honest legal action, thoroughly 
 equipped in every way for his high calling, cour- 
 teous and deferential toward his opponent, faithful 
 and persevering in behalf of his client, he com- 
 mands the respect and confidence of judge and 
 jury, and whatever may be the issue, he leaves 
 no doubt in the mind of his client as to the wise 
 and careful management of his case. His ripe 
 experience, sound judgment and elegant, scholar- 
 ly bearing entitle him to the honored position 
 which he holds as the Nestor of the Louisville 
 bar. 
 
 He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
 and his religious convictions govern every prin- 
 ciple of action in professional life as well as in his 
 daily walk and conversation. 
 
 His son and associate in business is forging 
 ahead, and is well up in the front ranks of the 
 legal profession, for which he possesses the natu- 
 ral quaHfications and has been prepared by a 
 thorough course of study, as well as by several 
 years of practical experience as a practicing attor- 
 ney. He graduated from the University of Vir- 
 ginia in the class of 1886, taking the degree of 
 Master of Arts and the debater's prize, a fifty dol- 
 lar gold medal. He afterwards entered the law 
 
 department of the same institution, and there 
 graduated in 1887. During the past eight years 
 he has been associated with his venerable father, 
 taking an active interest in all the cases which 
 come to the firm. He represents the younger ele- 
 ment in the profession; and with a clear legal 
 mind, a thorough knowledge of law, industrious, 
 persevering and attentive to the interests of his 
 clients he is an able assistant, to whom his father 
 gives a liberal share of credit for his success. 
 
 Judge Muir's wife died in 1885, leaving seven 
 children: Belle, wife of- Harry Weisinger, the to- 
 bacco manufacturer of Louisville; Thomas R., 
 Sydney S., Upton W., Lilian, wife of A. L. 
 Semple of Louisville ; Nellie, wife of A. H. Smith 
 of Springfield, Illinois, and Sophronia. 
 
 Upton W. Muir was married in 1888 to Miss 
 Hebe Harrison, daughter of Julian Harrison of 
 the famous Virginia family of that name. 
 
 JOHN HARDIN McHENRY, deceased, late 
 postmaster of Owensboro, son of John Hardin 
 and Hannah (Davis) McHenry, was born in Hart- 
 ford, Ohio County, Kentucky, February 21, 
 1832. His father was born in Washington 
 County, October 13, 1797, and died in Owens- 
 boro, November i, 1871. He received his edu- 
 cation, principally, from his father, and studied 
 law under his uncle Martin D. Hardin, a distin- 
 guished lawyer of Frankfort, and was admitted 
 to the bar in 1819. He began the practice of law 
 at Leitchfield, where he was postmaster; and 
 November 22, 1820, Governor Adair appointed 
 him Major of the Eighty-seventh Regiment State 
 Militia; and in 1821 Commonwealth attorney for 
 the new judicial district, embracing Daviess, 
 Henderson, Breckenridge, Ohio and Muhlenberg 
 Counties. He removed to Hartford and entered 
 upon the duties of this office, which he held until 
 1839, when he resigned. In 1840 he was elected 
 to the legislature; January 26, 1843, was appoint- 
 ed by Governor Robert P. Letcher — on the 
 advice of the Senate— a member of the Board of 
 Overseers of Transylvania University. In 1845 
 he was elected to Congress from the Second Dis- 
 trict by the Whig party, to which he belonged. 
 In 1849 he was a member of the State Constitu- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 tional Convention, representing Ohio and Han- 
 cock Counties. 
 
 He removed to Owensboro in 1853, where he 
 continued the practice of law until the time of his 
 death. He was a most able lawyer, a hard worker 
 and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all who 
 knew him; and there were few men in the state 
 who were more widely known or more universal- 
 ly beloved. 
 
 Hannah Davis McHenry, mother of John Har- 
 din McHenry, was born November 4, 1800, in 
 Virginia; was married in Muhlenberg County, 
 Kentucky, November 11, 1823; and died in 
 Owensboro, July 23, 1862. She was a daughter 
 of Henry and Frances (Randall) Davis. Frances 
 Randall and a brother were left orphans at an 
 early age. He was afterward in the United States 
 Navy, and was drowned while trying to ford the 
 Potomac River. 
 
 The children of Hannah Davis and John Har- 
 din McHenry were as follows: Martin D. 
 McHenry, Henry D. McHenry, William H. Mc- 
 Henry, Barnabas McHenry, John H. McHenry, 
 Mrs. (Dr.) Hale, Mrs. Robert Craig, L. S.- Mc- 
 Henry and W. E. McHenry. 
 
 A number of the Davis men, relatives of Mrs. 
 McHenry's father, were in the Revolutionary 
 war; others served in the war of 1812; and those 
 who came to Kentucky as pioneers endured great 
 hardship and suffered much from the depredations 
 of the Indians. 
 
 Barnabas McHenry (grandfather) was a native 
 of Maryland, who came to Kentucky soon after 
 the Revolutionary war and was a distinguished 
 pioneer preacher who organized many of the 
 Methodist Churches in Kentucky and the west. 
 He was a very able man and was consecrated to 
 his work. He died of cholera, June 15, 1833. 
 Plis wife, Sarah Hardin, daughter of John and 
 Jane Davis Hardin, died of cholera the next day 
 after her husband's death, June 16, 1833, and they 
 were buried in one grave. 
 
 John Hardin (great-grandfather) was born 
 October i, 1753, and was killed by the Indians in 
 1792. When the first call for troops was made 
 by the Continental Congress he recruited a com- 
 pany of soldiers and joined General David Mor- 
 gan's Rifle Corps ; was in the march from Boston 
 
 to Canada, and in every engagement of that 
 Corps until 1780. At the battle of Saratoga he 
 performed a distinguished service, for which he 
 received publicly the thanks of General Gates. 
 In 1792 he was sent by special order of General 
 Washington on a mission of peace to the Indians 
 in Northern Ohio (then territory) and was mur- 
 dered by them. He was a son of Martin and 
 Mary (Waters) Hardin. 
 
 Martin Hardin (great-great-grandfather) was a 
 son of Martin Hardin, the French Huguenot. 
 King George, through Lord Fairfax, granted a 
 tract of land in Fauquier County, Virginia, to 
 Martin Hardin, junior, in 1748, who made a will 
 in 1799 and died in 1800, at his home in Fauquier 
 County. 
 
 John Hardin McHenry was educated in Han- 
 over College, Indiana; at Center College, Dan- 
 ville, Kentucky, and was three years at West 
 Point. Returning to Kentucky, he studied law 
 and was graduated from the law department of 
 the University of Louisville in 1857. He began 
 the practice of his profession with his father and 
 later was in partnership with Judge W. T. Owen. 
 Mr. McHenry was one of the ten captains selected 
 by lot by Governor Morehead, April 9, 1859, to 
 go to Utah; but the trouble was settled by A. 
 S. Johnson and R. E. Lee before he was called 
 upon to perform his duty on that mission. 
 
 In 1861 he recruited the Seventeenth Kentucky 
 Infantry for the Union army; and on the first day 
 of October, 1861, was in the first engagement on 
 Kentucky soil. His regiment was with General 
 Grant at Fort Donelson and at Shiloh, and was 
 afterward consolidated with tlie Twenty-fifth 
 Kentucky Infantry, and the new regiment was 
 placed under his command. When President 
 Lincoln issued his first proclamation on the sub- 
 ject of emancipation in 1862, Colonel McHenry 
 took issue with the Government, for which he was 
 dismissed. He was greatly loved by his men, 
 who regretted his departure from the service. 
 
 He returned to his home in Owensboro, and 
 in 1863 was a candidate for Congress, but was 
 defeated by George H. Yeaman. He made a con- 
 test for the seat, but it was given to Mr. Yeaman. 
 
 In 1881 and 1882 he took exceptions to the 
 preference shown to ex-confederate soldiers by 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 13 
 
 the state government in the matter of appoint- 
 ments; and he inaugurated the campaign known 
 as the Union Democratic Movement, in which 
 ex-Lieutenant-Governor R. T. Jacob received 
 75,000 votes for Governor. He was a Democrat 
 until the nomination of James G. Blaine for Presi- 
 dent, when he became a Republican. 
 
 Mr. C. C. Watkins, having been appointed 
 Postmaster of Owensboro by President Harrison, 
 resigned his ofifice, and Colonel McHenry was 
 appointed Postmaster March 26, 1891 ; was con- 
 firmed by the Senate December 16, 1891, and died 
 during his term of office, July 7, 1893. 
 
 For two years he was Grand Master, and at 
 the time of his death was Past Grand Master 
 Workman of the A. O. U. W. of Kentucky, a 
 Mason and a member of the G. A. R. 
 
 Colonel McHenry was one of the best lawyers 
 in Kentucky, a fine speaker and eloquent pleader, 
 keen and alert in the management of his cases 
 and a successful practitioner at the bar. He was 
 an obliging and competent official, an ideal sol- 
 dier and an honorable, upright citizen who won 
 the respect and esteem of the entire community. 
 He was universally popular throughout the state, 
 in which he was a prominent figure during the 
 greater part of his busy and useful fife. 
 
 Colonel John H. McHenry was married 
 December 30, 1868, to Josephine Phillips, daugh- 
 ter of Joseph Francis and Elizabeth Sue (Simp- 
 son) Phillips, whose ancestry is traced back to 
 one of the eariiest settlements in the United 
 States. 
 
 Joseph Francis Phillips, father of Mrs. Mc- 
 Henry, was born in 1809. His father's name was 
 William Phillips, who married a Miss Graham of 
 Virginia, whose mother's maiden name was Rob- 
 inson. But to go back to the progenitor of the 
 Phillips family in America: Rev. Joseph Phillips 
 of Boxford, England, and his wife, Elizabeth, 
 came to this country with Governor Winthrop 
 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, in the 
 early years of the seventeenth century, about 1630. 
 Their children were Elizabeth, Abigail and Sam- 
 uel, the last named of whom was a minister at 
 Rowley, Massachusetts. His son, Theophilus, 
 appears in 1686 as one of the guarantees of the 
 Charter of Newton, Long Island, by Governor 
 
 Dongan of New York. Philip Phillips, son of 
 Theophilus, was born December 27, 1648, and 
 removed to New Jersey, locating at Lawrence- 
 ville, about six miles from Trenton, and had three 
 sons: Theophilus, born May 15, 1673; William, 
 born January 27, 1676, and Philip, born Decem- 
 ber 27, 1678. The last named son was captain 
 in a Hunterdon County regiment and was pro- 
 moted to major in 1727, serving in the regiment 
 commanded by Colonel John Reading, who was 
 afterward Governor of New Jersey. Major 
 Phillips died in 1740. His wife's name was Eliza- 
 beth, and they had six children, Philip, Abner, 
 Samuel, John, Esther and Ruth. Samuel (third 
 son of Major Phillips) was the father of five chil- 
 dren, Jonathan, Elias, John, Samuel and Asher. 
 Jonathan, the eldest of these children, was a cap- 
 tain in the Second Regiment of New Jersey in 
 the Continental army. He married Elizabeth 
 Houston, sister of Honorable William Churchill 
 Houston. Elias, the second son of Samuel Phil- 
 lips, was adjutant of the First Regiment of Hun- 
 terdon Militia in the Revolutionary war. He mar- 
 ried EHzabeth Phillips, his cousin, daughter of 
 Colonel Joseph Phillips. John, the third son of 
 Samuel Phillips, married a sister of Elizabeth, wife 
 of EHas. Colonel Joseph Phillips (son of Wil- 
 liam and father-in-law of Elias and John) an 
 officer in the Revolutionary war, was born 1708; 
 died 1778. His children were: Abigail, wife of 
 Captain Edward Yard; Mary, above mentioned; 
 Frances, Elizabeth, above mentioned; William, 
 and Dr. Joseph Phillips, who was a surgeon in the 
 United States army and served with Generals St. 
 Claire, Wayne and Wilkinson, and who died in 
 Lawrenceville, N. J. 
 
 Previous to the Revolutionary war Colonel 
 Joseph Phillips was captain of a company in the 
 old French and Indian war, having left New Jer- 
 sey in the party commanded by Major Trent. 
 
 William, his grandson, came from New Jersey; 
 married in Virginia, and later settled at Frank- 
 fort, Kentucky, where he died in 1864. Under 
 General William Henry Flarrison fought at the 
 battle of Tippecanoe November 7, 181 1. 
 
 Elizabeth Sue Simpson Phillips (mother of 
 Mrs. McHenry) was a daughter of Benjamin 
 and Pauline (Ballard) Simpson. Pauline Ballard 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 was a sister of Andrew Jackson Ballard and Judge 
 Bland Ballard, late of Louisville; and was a 
 daughter of James and Susan Cox Ballard, who 
 was a daughter of Sallie Piety Cox. Sallie Piety 
 was a daughter of Lord Piety of Ireland. Mrs. 
 McHenry's mother often told of hearing her great- 
 great-grandmother, Lady Piety, say to her daugh- 
 ter, all of the generations being present: "Arise, 
 daughter, and go to thy daughter, for thy daugh- 
 ter's daughter hath a daughter." 
 
 James Ballard, great-grandfather of Mrs. Mc- 
 Henry, was a brother of Bland Ballard, the cele- 
 brated Indian fighter, and their father's name was 
 Bland Ballard, a Colonel in the Revolutionary 
 war; and prior to the war was an inspector of 
 tobacco in Virginia, by appointment of the Crown 
 of England. 
 
 EDWARD L. HUTCHINSON, an accom- 
 plished lawyer and president of the City 
 Council of Lexington, was born in Summerville, 
 South Carohna, July 31st, 1858; graduated from 
 the Porter Academy, Charleston, in 1875, and 
 attended Union College at Schenectady, New 
 York, four years, from which he graduated in 
 1879, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Re- 
 turning to Charleston, he taught in Porter 
 Academy for one year; went to Lexington in 1880 
 as tutor in the family of Alexander Jeffrey, and 
 remained in that position for three years, during 
 which time he studied law with the firm of Beck 
 & Thornton, the senior member of which was 
 Senator James B. Beck; was admitted to the bar 
 in 1883; went to New York City and clerked in 
 the law ofifice of Henry Daily, Jr., and in the 
 early part of 1884 returned to Lexington and 
 located permanently in the practice of his profes- 
 sion. 
 
 Two years later he was elected City Attorney; 
 was re-elected in April, 1888; was elected by 
 the people as a member of the Board of Alder- 
 men in 1892, and served two years; in 1894 was 
 appointed by Mayor Duncan to fill a vacancy in 
 the Board of Counciltnen, and upon the retirement 
 of Mr. Kaufman was elected president of the 
 Board; was returned by the people at the next 
 election in 1895, and was again elected president 
 of the Board. 
 
 Mr. Hutchinson is president of the Union Club, 
 of which many of the most prominent men in 
 the state are, or have been, members, including 
 James B. Beck, John G. Carlisle, J. C. S. Black- 
 burn, and others of national reputation. 
 
 Mr. Hutchinson is also president of the Coun- 
 try Club, one of the most popular institutions in 
 the Blue Grass country; secretary of the Union 
 Building & Loan Association; is a member of the 
 Odd Fellows Fraternity and of the Knights of 
 Pythias; is fond of hunting and other out-door 
 sports ; is a typical club man and a leader in Lex- 
 ington society. 
 
 With all of these interests, public and private, 
 and with the highest social reputation, Mr. Hutch- 
 inson is devoted to his profession and is one of 
 the busiest and most industrious lawyers at the 
 Lexington bar, upon the roll of which are names 
 of some of the most illustrious members of the 
 legal profession in the world, and among the 
 active spirits of the present day there is no name 
 that is more worthy of honor than that of Edward 
 L. Hutchinson, who commands the esteem of 
 the bench, of the members of the profession and 
 of the populace. 
 
 His father, M. E. Hutchinson, was a distin- 
 guished lawyer of Charleston, South Carolina, 
 who died in September, 1884. 
 
 Edward L. Hutchinson (grandfather) was born 
 on the old Hutchinson plantation known as 
 "Travelers' Rest," located near the old Dorches- 
 ter Fort and church, between Summerville and 
 Charleston, South Carolina. 
 
 Louisa (Bonneau) Hutchinson, mother of the 
 subject of this sketch, was a member of a dis- 
 tinguished family of French Huguenot descent, 
 who trace their ancestry back to the time of the 
 landing of some of their members in Sbuth Caro- 
 lina during Cromwell's day. 
 
 CHARLES RUSSELL GARR, M. D., an 
 able physician and surgeon of Flemings- 
 burg, Kentucky, son of Benjamin Lewis and 
 Kizia (Russell) Garr, was born in Jefferson 
 County, Kentucky, November 5, 1858; was edu- 
 cated in Jefferson College; studied medicine in 
 the Hospital College of Medicine, Louisville, 
 graduating February 26, 1880; located in Hills- 
 
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 boro, Fleming County, and practiced medicine in 
 that vicinity until February 24, 1889, when he 
 removed to Flemingsburg and formed a partner- 
 ship with Dr. Lucien McDowell, with whom he 
 was associated for two years, when Dr. C. W. 
 Aitkin (see sketch of Dr. Aitkin in this volume) 
 became a member of the firm, which is known as 
 McDowell, Garr & Aitkin, one of the strongest 
 combinations in the medical profession in Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Dr. Garr is a most active, industrious and ac- 
 complished physician, who is held in the high- 
 est esteem by the people of the county in which he 
 has been practicing medicine and surgery for 
 more than fifteen years; is a strong advocate of 
 temperance; a faithful member of the Presby- 
 terian Church and a worthy descendent of an 
 ancestry noted for piety and good citizenship. 
 
 Dr. Garr married Sallie Rebecca Grain, daugh- 
 ter of James W. Grain of Hillsboro, October 9, 
 1883. She was born January i, 1862; was edu- 
 cated at Millersburg, graduating in 1879, and was 
 a pupil of Professor A. G. Murphy, who is now 
 president of Bethel College at Russellvillc, and 
 whose sketch will be found in this volume. 
 
 Dr. and Mrs. Garr have two children : Charles 
 Grain Garr, born October 12, 1884, and Clyde 
 Lewis Garr, born May 3, 1887. 
 
 Benjamin Lewis Garr (father) was born in 
 Culpeper County, Virginia, August 27, 1820. 
 He was educated in the common schools of Jef- 
 ferson County, Kentucky, having removed from 
 Virginia with his parents in 1827. He was en- 
 gaged in farming when the California gold fever 
 was at its height, and he followed the crowd and 
 became interested in mining in California. Three 
 years later he entered the Mexican army as a 
 private under General Prescott, and served two 
 years; was in many of the noted engagements 
 of the war, including the battle of Buena Vista. 
 
 Returning from the war he resumed the occu- 
 pation of a farmer in Jefferson County, where he 
 remained until 1885, when he removed to Shelby 
 County, and died there October 27, 1887. 
 
 He was married June 3, 1856,' to Kizia Russell, 
 who was born in Shelby County, January 17, 
 1837, and died December 24, 1894. They had 
 four children: Elizabeth Virginia, Charles Rus- 
 sell, Mary Margaret and Nfithanifl L. Garr, 
 
 Jacob Garr (grandfather) was born in Madison 
 County, Va., March 20, 1782. He moved to 
 Kentucky and was a farmer in Jefferson County, 
 where he died. He married Susan Garr, his 
 cousin, who was born in Culpeper County, Vir- 
 ginia, February 3, 1774, and died in Jefferson 
 County, July 7, 1864. 
 
 Andrew Garr (grandfather) was born in Cul- 
 peper County, Virginia, in 1750, and died there 
 March 4, 1819. He married Christina Wilhoite, 
 who was born October, 1750, and died October 
 
 4, 1837- 
 
 Lorenz Garr (great-great-grandfather) was born 
 in Dinkelsbuehl, Germany, November 29, 1716; 
 died in 1753. He emigrated to America with a 
 colony from his native place when sixteen years 
 of age, and afterwards married Dorothea Blank- 
 enbaker, who came over from Germany in the 
 same ship. He spelled the name Gaar. 
 
 Andreas Gar (great-great-great-grandfather), 
 who spelled his name still differently, was born 
 in Germany, June 14, 1685; married Eva Seidel- 
 mann in Bavaria, February 23, 171 1. He was 
 a master weaver, which indicates that he pos- 
 sessed skill of no ordinary kind. In the Lutheran 
 Church at Illenschwang are paintings of the 
 twelve apostles and on the back of one of these 
 is written the name of Andreas Gar, donor. In 
 the church book a record is made that Andreas 
 Gar had "left three florins to have a clean wooden 
 cross made in memory of him, should he not be 
 heard from and should he be deemed as lost on 
 the voyage to America." He also applied to the 
 burgomaster and City Council for a letter of 
 character and the seal of the ancient city of 
 Dinkelsbuehl attests that "Andreas Gar has been 
 a good citizen and is worthy of all confidence 
 and esteem." He also secured a letter from his 
 pastor, showing his religious standing. 
 
 John (or Hans) Gar (great-great-great-great- 
 grandfather), a native of Franconia — one of the 
 divisions of Bavaria of the German Empire — was 
 a lineal descendent of the Gars who were honored 
 with a crest by the great Emperor Charles V. in 
 1519. This family was mentioned as an "old and 
 very good family." John Gar was a Lutheran 
 and the probability is that the Gars espoused the 
 cause of the great Reformer at a very early date 
 in the reformation, "He Jived in the village of 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES 
 
 Frankenhofen and engaged in the peaceful occu- 
 pation of weaving, loved and honored by his 
 neighbors, living a peaceful and industrious life, 
 he reared his family in the fear of the Lord and 
 engrafted into his posterity those traits of char- 
 acter that have distinguished them for genera- 
 tions. A great trial came to the good man in 
 his declining years; his oldest son (Andreas Gar, 
 the progenitor of the family in America) had heard 
 of the new colony of Pennsylvania, founded by 
 the great William Penn, to whose domains were 
 invited the persecuted of the world, with the 
 assurance of religious liberty. A company of 
 emigrants was formed and Andreas Gar was a 
 leader among them. Perhaps nothing but old 
 age kept the father from going; he could not 
 survive the long and perilous voyage. With what 
 anxious solicitude the patriarch must have waited 
 for news from his long absent loved ones; and 
 what joy must have filled his soul to learn that 
 they had arrived safely and were established in 
 peace and full rehgious liberty." 
 
 The facts concerning John Gar and Andreas 
 Gar are taken from a history of the Garr family, 
 compiled by John C. Garr of Kokomo, Indiana, 
 which states that the names of the descendants 
 of Andreas Garr number sixteen thousand. 
 
 ROBERT ANDERSON FIELD, Superin- 
 tendent of Schools of Boyd County and a 
 resident of Catlettsburg, son of James M. and 
 Mary Ann (Eatham) Field, was born in Carter 
 County, Kentucky, August i, 1862. 
 
 His father was born in Nashville, Tennessee, 
 March 10, 1820, and has been a stock trader and 
 farmer, living in Boyd County since 1879. He 
 enjoys the peace and quietude of domestic life, 
 taking no active part in political matters, but 
 votes the Democratic ticket — straight. He is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and 
 a good citizen and neighborly neighbor. 
 
 Anderson Field (grandfather) was born in 
 Pennsylvania, October, 1789, and removed to 
 Tennessee in 1804 and was engaged in farming 
 near Nashville. He came to Carter County, Ken- 
 tucky, in 1858, where he died in 1878. His wife 
 was Elizabeth Morris, a native of Pennsylvania. 
 She died in Carter County in 1868. They were 
 
 members of the Methodist Church. Mr. Field 
 voted the Democratic ticket for seventy years. 
 
 Robert A. Field's mother, Mary Ann (Eatham) 
 Field, was born in Boyd County, August 12, 
 1823; was married to James M. Field in May, 
 1853, and is now living with her venerable hus- 
 band in Boyd County. 
 
 Hartwell Eatham (grandfather), a native of 
 Virginia, was a farmer in Boyd County, where he 
 died in 1850. His wife's name was Iby McGuire. 
 Both branches of the Field family were of English 
 extraction. 
 
 Robert A. Field was educated in the schools of 
 Grayson and Catlettsburg and finished his educa- 
 tion at Lebanon, Ohio. He taught school in 
 Cannonsburg and Sandy City for five years ; and 
 in 1890, he was elected Superintendent of Public 
 Schools, and re-elected 1893 without opposition, 
 in which position he has materially advanced the 
 cause of education in Bo}'d. County. He is thor- 
 oughly quaHfied for his work, having been a 
 teacher and having a great interest in the work 
 of improving the school system. 
 
 He is a member of a number of benevolent 
 and social societies, including the Knights of the 
 Golden Eagle and the Mutual Protection Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 He was married to Rebecca Ann Moore, daugh- 
 ter of Enoch Moore, June 12, 1889. She was 
 born in Lawrence County, Ohio, March 31, 1861 ; 
 and was educated at Ironton and Ada, Ohio. 
 They have four children: Marie, born July 17, 
 1890; Robert Arnold, born December 9, 1891 ; 
 Vernon C, born December 11, 1892, and Esther, 
 born November 4, 1894. 
 
 JOHN GOODMAN, M. D.. of Louisville, was 
 J born in Frankfort, Kentucky, July 22, 1837: 
 son of John and Jane M. (Winter) Goodman. 
 
 His father was a native of Hersfeldt, Germany, 
 vvho came to America in 1795, locating in Savan- 
 nah, Georgia. On account of yellow fever there 
 at times, he removed to Kentucky at the sohci- 
 tation of the Clays, who were particular friends of 
 Mr. Goodman. He domiciled with Henry Clay 
 for a time, and remained in Lexington and vicin- 
 ity three or four years before taking up his 
 residence in Frankfort, where he lived until the 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 time of his death in 1849, ^^ the age of seventy 
 years. Mr. Goodman was a Whig and a truly 
 loyal citizen, although of foreign birth. He was 
 a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was a 
 lover of music, and devoted much of his time to 
 teaching others musical accomplishments. He 
 also taught drawing, an art in which he was 
 thoroughly skilled. He engraved the plates for 
 the first bank notes printed in Kentucky and 
 made the press on which, with his own hands, he 
 printed the notes. He also engraved and printed 
 a map of Louisville in 1806. He was an enthusi- 
 astic mineralogist and took much interest in the 
 coal fields at the head of the Kentucky River. 
 His wife, Jane M. Winter, was a native of Mary- 
 land; a member of the Presbyterian Church; 
 died in Frankfort in 1844, aged fifty-two years. 
 
 Dr. Goodman received a careful and thorough 
 education in the schools of Frankfort and Wood- 
 ford County, spending three years under the tutel- 
 age of the noted Professor Sayre of Frankfort, 
 which enabled him to finish his collegiate course 
 at Georgetown in two years, whence he gradu- 
 ated in 1856. 
 
 He read medicine with Dr. Lewis Rogers of 
 Louisville and attended the lectures for two years 
 at the Medical Department of the University of 
 Louisville. He graduated from Tulane Univer- 
 sity, New Orleans, in 1859. Thus equipped for 
 the battle of life, he returned to Louisville and 
 began a most successful career as a general prac- 
 titioner of medicine, giving especial attention to 
 the treatment of the diseases of women and chil- 
 dren and to obstetrics. 
 
 Dr. Goodman has been closely identified with 
 the medical colleges of Louisville as Demonstra- 
 tor of Anatomy in the Kentucky School of Medi- 
 cine, at the same time instructing a private class ; 
 as adjunct Professor of Diseases of Women in 
 the University of Louisville; as Professor of 
 Obstetrics in the Louisville Medical College; and 
 at the same time Professor of Obstetrics and Dis- 
 eases of Women and Children in the Kentucky 
 School of Medicine. He was the originator of 
 the ordinance establishing the Louisville Board 
 of Health in 1867 or 1868, the city having had no 
 Board of Health prior to that time, while at the 
 present time, under the able direction of the 
 
 efficient Health Officer, Dr. W. P. White, it is 
 one of the best organizations of that character in 
 the United States. 
 
 Dr. Goodman was a member of the Board of 
 School Trustees of Louisville for three years; 
 member of the Board of Charity Commissioners 
 for five years and physician in the Industrial 
 School of Reform (House of Refuge) for twenty- 
 five years. He has held membership in the Amer- 
 ican Gynecological Society; in the Kentucky 
 State Medical Society; in the Louisville Medical 
 Society and of the College of Physicians of Louis- 
 ville. 
 
 Dr. Goodman has been twice married. He first 
 married Carrie D., daughter of Dr. Henry Miller, 
 a celebrated physician of Louisville. Mrs. Good- 
 man died in 1883, leaving one son, Henry M. 
 Goodman, now a practicing physician associated 
 with his father, and Professor of Chemistry in 
 the University of Louisville. 
 
 Dr. Goodman was again married in 1885 to 
 Mrs. Rosetta S. (Jones) Kalfus, daughter of R. 
 R. Jones of Louisville. 
 
 WYATT H. INGRAM, JR., Secretary and 
 Treasurer of the Henderson Trust Com- 
 pany, son of Wyatt H. and Kate (Milton) Ingram, 
 was born in Henderson County, Kentucky, Sep- 
 tember 21, 1869. He was educated, principally, 
 in the Kentucky State Agricultural and Mechanic 
 College of Lexington, Kentucky. Returning 
 home he was offered and accepted the important 
 and responsible position of Secretary and Treas- 
 urer of the Henderson Trust Company, which 
 had been organized by Mr. J. A. Priest in 1889, 
 with a paid-up capital of $75,000. The company 
 does a general banking, trust and savings busi- 
 ness, acts as administrator, executor, assignee, 
 trustee, attorney, for non-residents, etc., and a 
 large share of the labor and responsibility of the 
 concern with its multifarious duties devolves 
 upon Mr. Ingram, whose industry and sound busi- 
 ness judgment qualify him in an eminent degree 
 for the position he has occupied since he was 
 twenty-one years of age. The building occupied 
 by the Trust Company was recently remodeled 
 and is one of the finest in the state, embodying all 
 modern improvements and conveniences, with 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 safety vaults of the highest order, providing 
 security against burglary, fire or accident. 
 
 Mr. Ingram gives his whole time and undivided 
 attention to the business of Ihe Trust Company, 
 and is not interested m politics. He is a member 
 of the Knights of Pythias and of the Knights of 
 the Ancient Essenic Order, and enjoys a high 
 social position in the best famihes of Henderson. 
 
 Wyatt H. Ingram (father) was born in Hen- 
 derson in 1832 and is a prosperous farmer and 
 one of the most respected and substantial citi- 
 zens of the county. He married Kate Milton, 
 who was born in Lexington in 1832, and they 
 had three sons and four daughters: Loulou, wife 
 of J. A. Priest, President of the Henderson Trust 
 Company, and a prominent business man of Hen- 
 derson ; J. Milton, an architect in Palo Alto, Cali- 
 fornia, who assisted in the design and construc- 
 tion of the great Stanford University buildings; 
 Annie, wife of Dr. C. B. Watts of Chicago; Marie 
 L., Wyatt H., Matie F. and Bushrod T. Ingram. 
 
 Wyatt Ingram (grandfather) was born in 
 Orange County, Virginia, in 1783, and came to 
 Kentucky with his father and to Henderson 
 County in 1803. His father, William Ingram, 
 died in 1806, when Wyatt Ingram was twenty- 
 three years of age, and the estate being insolvent, 
 the burden of the support of a large family fell 
 upon the son. He paid his father's debts, divided 
 the property equally between the children and 
 paid the expense of educating his brothers and 
 sisters out of his own pocket. He was married 
 December 8, 1813, to Jane McGready, daughter 
 of Reverend Joseph McGready, the great Pres- 
 byterian revivalist of 1800. 
 
 Wyatt Ingram shipped produce to New 
 Orleans, building his own flat-boats on Green 
 River, floating them to Henderson, and after 
 loading them would float them to New Orleans, 
 sell his stock and boat and return home on foot. 
 He walked from New Orleans to Plenderson as 
 many as thirteen times, having the proceeds of 
 his cargo securely belted about him. The tedious 
 journey with its hardships and dangers in those 
 early times required courage of a high order. 
 
 His reputation for integrity and square deal- 
 ing, for his kindness and helpfulness to others 
 was known far and wide, He was one of the 
 
 most influential men of his day, a leader in all pub- 
 lic enterprises, and gave liberally of his means for 
 the public good. He left a large and valuable 
 estate, consisting mostly of farm lands in the 
 county and realty in the city. He died December 
 15, 1850, and a plain slab marks his resting place 
 in Fernwood Cemetery. He said: "If I have 
 done any good it will be found out; no need to 
 emblazon it at my grave." 
 
 There were seven children born to Wyatt 
 Ingram and Jane McGready: Frank, Emily, 
 Louisa, William, Wyatt (father), James and Jane. 
 Of these Frank died when young; Emily mar- 
 ried Robert D. Letcher and died several years 
 later; Louisa married Honorable John W. Crock- 
 ett, and died, leaving one son, Wyatt Ingram; 
 William is bookkeeper in the City of Louisville; 
 Wyatt is a farmer in Henderson County; James 
 organized and commanded a company in the 
 Confederate army during the war, and died since ; 
 Jane is the wife of Dr. Ben Letcher. 
 
 HENRY BASCOM ASBURY of Augusta, 
 prohibition candidate for State Treasurer in 
 1895, was born in Bracken County, February 28, 
 1834. He received a good common school edu- 
 cation and after leaving school he settled down to 
 the quiet life of a Bracken County farmer, which 
 occupation he continued until 1890, when he re- 
 moved to Augusta and became interested with F. 
 A. Neider in the wholesale manufacture of car- 
 riage hardware, in which .business he has contin- 
 ued until the present time. 
 
 In the Prohibition State Convention held in 
 Louisville, June, 1895, he was nominated for elec- 
 tion to the office of State Treasurer. This honor 
 \yas conferred by his party, not only as a recogni- 
 tion of his valuable services in the party, but on 
 account of his unquestioned integrity and other 
 qualifications for a position requiring the services 
 of a strictly honest man. Mr. Asbury has taken 
 quite an active and aggressive part dn the battle 
 for prohibition, and is a recognized leader in the 
 afifairs and counsels of his party; and unlike most 
 politicians, he very consistently combines his poli- 
 tics with has religion, having been a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church since he was fifteen 
 years of age. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 19 
 
 Mr. Asbury has been twice married. His first 
 wife was Tolitha B. Hitch, daughter of Maria (Cra- 
 mer) and Archie Hitch. She was born October 
 22, 1839, died November 8, 1885. His present 
 wife, whom he married February 26, 1892, was 
 Minnie HolHs, daughter of B. O. Holhs, a resi- 
 dent of Bracken County, near Brookville. By his 
 first marriage there were three children born : Tay- 
 lor Asbury, born December 20, i860, now a farm- 
 er in Bracken County, near Germantown, married 
 Estella Byar; Nina Mai, born May 22, 1866, 
 studied medicine under Dr. J. M. Patterson of 
 Augusta, graduated from the Cleveland Medical 
 College of Homoeopathy in 1892, married E. 
 Sherman Stevens of Ohio, with whom she was 
 sent as a Missionary to Japan by the Christian 
 Church; and Jessie J., born March 16, 1877. 
 Henry Bryan, born October 2, 1893, is the only 
 child of the second marriage. 
 
 JUSTUS J. HETSCH, postmaster of Newport, 
 and publisher of the Kentucky Journal, one 
 of the best known and most popular men in his 
 city, was born in Newport, Kentucky, September 
 2, 185 1. He enjoyed all of the advantages of the 
 excellent city schools, graduating from the New- 
 port High School and then taking a classical 
 course of five years in Baldwin University and 
 German Wallace College of Berea, Ohio, graduat- 
 ing with distinction in 1869. 
 
 He was inclined to a professional career and be- 
 gan the battle of life as a teacher in the public 
 schools of Newport and was thus employed for 
 three years, when he resigned to engage in the 
 newspaper and printing business; was made pres- 
 ident of the Newport Printing and Newspaper 
 Company which was organized in 1872, and has 
 been its president until the present time. 
 
 In 1876, during the memorable Tilden cam- 
 paign, his company established the Kentucky 
 Journal, a vigorous Democratic newspaper, which 
 at once became popular throughout Kentucky on 
 account of the aggressive and progressive posi- 
 tion it assumed in national and state politics. Dur- 
 ing the nineteen years of its healthy existence, 
 the Journal has lost none of its popularity and has 
 maintained a circulation and patronage that few 
 papers in the state have ever enjoyed. 
 
 Mr. Hetsch has been and is a Democrat "in sea- 
 son and out of season," and the valuable services 
 which he has rendered his party, personally as well 
 as through the medium of the Journal, have been 
 recognized not only in local affairs but through- 
 out the state. In recognition of his services and 
 of his ability as a party leader, his friends secured 
 his appointment by President Cleveland as Post- 
 master of Newport, and he took charge of the 
 postoffice July 6, 1893. He has greatly improved 
 and facilitated the business of the office to the en- 
 tire satisfaction of the public, and is one of the 
 most accommodating and efficient postmasters 
 Newport has had since it became a city. 
 
 Mr. Hetsch served his county for six years as 
 Courthouse Commissioner. He has held other 
 public positions of trust, and is a member of a 
 number of benevolent orders, including Masons 
 and Knights Templar, in each of which he is en- 
 thusiastic and popular. 
 
 He was married November 30, 1892, to Anna 
 S. Reichel, a most estimable lady of Newport. 
 
 OTWAY W. RASH, a former druggist and a 
 well-known business man and farmer of 
 Henderson, son of Benjamin L. and Agnes J. 
 (Nisbet) Rash, was born in Hopkins County, Ken- 
 tucky, January 30, 1850. His father was also born 
 in that county in 1819, where he still resides and 
 is now retired, having been a farmer nearly all 
 his life. Pie is an elder in the Christian Church, in 
 which he has been an active and influential office- 
 bearer for many years. His father was Stephen 
 Rash, who was a well-known resident of Hop- 
 kins County for many years. 
 
 Agnes J. Nisbet Rash (mother) was born in 
 Hopkins County, where she resided during her 
 whole life, and died January i, 1877. Her father, 
 James Nisbet, was a Virginian by birth, who 
 came to Hopkins County when he was a child in 
 company with his father, James Nisbet, Sr., who 
 was a native of Virginia and a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary war. They were both well-to-do 
 farmers in Hopkins County, where they lived and 
 died and were buried. 
 
 Otway W. Rash was favored with an excellent 
 common school education, remaining on his 
 father's farm until he wag seventeen years of age. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 He then engaged as a clerk in the drugstore of 
 N. M. Holeman, then in Madisonville, now pro- 
 prietor of Dawson Springs. Two years later, in 
 1869, he was employed in the drugstore of J. B. 
 Johnston in Henderson, and after one year's 
 service with him, was similarly employed with 
 George Lyne for four years; and, on the first of 
 August, 1874, he embarked in the drug business 
 on his own account. He continued in this until 
 1889, when he sold out and has for the past three 
 years been engaged in the tobacco business, put- 
 ting up strips for the English market, and is in- 
 terested in several business enterprises of con- 
 siderable magnitude. He is a director of the 
 Planters Bank and is a member of the Henderson 
 Board of Education. He steadily adheres to the 
 faith of his father and mother, and is a member 
 of the Christian Church. 
 
 Mr. Rash was married December 14, 187 1, to 
 Sallie E. Robertson, daughter of Alexander 
 Robertson of Henderson County; and they have 
 three sons living: James R., Otway W. and Ben- 
 jamin Campbell Rash, who will no doubt follow 
 the splendid example of their father and will be- 
 come useful and highly respected citizens. 
 
 GUSTAVUS HOLZHAUER, deceased, a 
 popular druggist and high'y educated gen- 
 tleman of Newport, was bom in Wurtemberg, 
 Germany, August 2, 1847. He was educated in 
 the city of Stuttgart, where he studied the Latin, 
 French and English languages. After leaving 
 school he served an apprenticeship of three and 
 a half years in a drug store and was employed as 
 a clerk in the store for six months. 
 
 In July, 1866, when nineteen years of age, he 
 came to America, locating at Madison, Indiana, 
 where he was employed as a drug clerk for two 
 years, when he removed to Newport and was 
 similarly engaged until 1870, when he embarked 
 in the drug business on his own account, and con- 
 tinued in that business for more than twen'y-five 
 years until his death, November 22, 1895, since 
 which time the business has been conducted by 
 his son, Louis P. Holzhauer. 
 
 Besides having the leading establishment of the 
 kmd in the city, Mr. Holzhauer was financially 
 mterested in a number of other enterprises. He 
 
 was a stockholder and director in the Newport 
 National Bank, of which he was one of the or- 
 ganizers; a director in the Covington Mutual Fire 
 Insurance Company; a member of the Board of 
 School Trustees, representing the Fifth Ward; 
 president of the Lincoln League Club; and was 
 quite prominent in local Republican politics. 
 
 He was frequently urged by influential citizens, 
 without regard to party politics, to become a 
 candidate for office, particularly for the Mayor- 
 alty of Newport; but he had no personal ambition 
 for office, being interested in poHtics from a con- 
 viction of duty and with a view to securing the 
 best men for offices of trust. There was none of 
 the selfish nature in his political work which 
 characterizes the latter day politician. 
 
 Mr. Holzhauer was a member of St. Paul's 
 Lutheran Church, and a member of the Newport 
 Lodge and Newport Commandery of Free and 
 Accepted Masons, in both of which he was a 
 useful and influential worker and a liberal helper 
 of others. 
 
 Mr. Holzhauer was married in 1872 to AmeHa 
 Kauther of Cincinnati, Ohio. He had one son 
 and three daughters: Louis P. Holzhauer, who, 
 until his father's death, was in charge of Ingram 
 & Company's Chemical Laboratory, Detroit, 
 Michigan. The daughters are Edna, Irma and 
 Clara. ! I 
 
 Mr. Holzhauer's father was a flour miller in 
 Germany, and was in comfortable circumstances. 
 He and his wife died in Wurtembersr. 
 
 EE. ABBETT,Deputy Internal Revenue Col- 
 . lector, Covington, son of Henry J. and 
 Mary J. F. (Gill) Abbett, was bom in Warsaw, 
 August 20, 1855. Henry J. Abbett was bom 
 January 27, 181 1, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
 He sei-ved an apprenticeship with a cabinet 
 maker and received his education at night schools ; 
 removed to Carrollton, Kentucky, where he sub- 
 sequently read law with Judge Winslow. He re- 
 moved from Carrollton to Warsaw, where he 
 practiced law successfully for many years; repre- 
 sented Gallatin County in the State Legishture in 
 1845; was afterward County Attorney and served 
 for two terms as County Judge. He continued 
 his practice until 1880, when, on account of ill 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 21 
 
 health, he retired and lived quietly until his death 
 in 1889. He was president of the Warsaw De- 
 posit Bank from its organization to the time of 
 his death, a period of about fifteen years. Dur- 
 ing the war he sympathized with the South and 
 adhered to the principles of the Democratic party; 
 was a prominent Odd Fellow and a charter mem- 
 ber of Kentucky Lodge No. 39. He was quiet 
 in manner and a man of sterling character. His 
 father, Jonathan Abbett, was born in Pennsyl- 
 vania, August II, 177s, and died August 21, 1821. 
 His wife was Eliza H. McDowell. William Ab- 
 bett (great-grandfather), wedded Catherine Cun- 
 nard. 
 
 Mary J. F. Gill Abbett (mother) was the daugh- 
 ter of William Gill, and was a native of Virginia ; 
 born in 1825; removed to Fleming County, from 
 thence to Gallatin County, where she and Henry 
 J. Abbett were married, April 27, 1841. She now 
 resides in Warsaw, and is in the seventy-first year 
 of her age. Her father was also a native of Vir- 
 ginia, a miller by trade, and a major in the War 
 of 1812. Her maternal grandfather, Samuel 
 Roundtree, was a major in the Revolutionary 
 War. 
 
 E. E. Abbett was one of five children of Henry 
 J. and Mary J. F. Abbett. His primary education 
 was received partly in private schools, and in 1873 
 he attended the Kentucky Military Institute in 
 Franklin County. In 1874 he studied in the Ohio 
 Medical College, preparing for the medical pro- 
 fession, which idea he relinquished and came to 
 Covington as division deputy under Collector 
 George H. Davison, which position he filled for 
 two years, when he was promoted to the chief 
 deputyship and held this important position until 
 July, 1889. In 1893 Mr. Abbett became chief 
 deputy collector of internal revenue of the Sixth 
 district under Collector Davezac, and at present 
 occupies this position. Previous to his accepting 
 his present place, Mr. Abbett held the ofiSce of 
 County Superintendent of Public Schools in Gal- 
 latin County, which office he resigned to accept 
 the deputyship under President Cleveland's first 
 administration. On December 10, 1878, Mr. Ab- 
 bett was united in marniage to Nannie Chambers, 
 a daughter of Dr. A. B. Chambers of Gallatin 
 County, and they have four children: Anna G., 
 
 born January 25, 1880; Harry, born August 29, 
 1884; Edward B., born October 20, 1888; Leon 
 G., born November 4, 1891. 
 
 CHARLES BARRINGTON SIMRALL. a 
 distinguished corporation lawyer, son of 
 John W. G. and Mary Barton Simrall, was born 
 in Madison, Indiana, February 18, 1843. The 
 Simrall family came originally from Scotland in 
 the early part of the eighteenth century and set- 
 tled in Pennsylvania, from whence they moved to 
 Virginia, and were later among the earliest set- 
 tlers in Kentucky, as early as 1776. 
 
 On his mother's side Mr. Simrall is descended 
 from the French Huguenots, who fled from 
 France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. 
 They came to America about 1687, and settled in 
 South Carolina and Georgia. 
 
 Mr. Simrall was for several years a student at 
 Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and completed 
 his general education in Tubingen, Germany. 
 On his return from Europe he entered the Cin- 
 cinnati Law School, from which he was graduated 
 in 1867, and at once began the practice of his 
 chosen profession in Cincinnati. 
 
 He is attorney for the following railroad com- 
 panies: The Cincinnati Southern, for which he 
 has been the general attorney for Kentucky since 
 1869; the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, 
 the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific 
 Railroad Company, and the South Covington & 
 Cincinnati Street Railway Company, besides 
 various banks and manufacturing companies. He 
 is the vice-president of the German National Bank 
 of Covington, and is connected as director in 
 various other corporate enterprises. He has 
 made corporate law a specialty, and devotes his 
 time almost exclusively to that branch of the 
 practice. 
 
 Mr. Simrall is a Democrat in politics, but has 
 never participated actively therein. 
 
 He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and 
 belongs to the First Presbyterian Church of Cov- 
 ington. 
 
 In 1868 Mr. Simrall was married to Isabella 
 Downing Price, daughter of John and Josephine 
 Downing Price of Covington. 
 
 Mrs. Simrall was educated at Daughter's Col- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 lege, Harrodsburg, Ky. They have six daugh- 
 ters. 
 
 Though Mr. Simrall's practice is for the most 
 part in Cincinnati, he has resided in Covington 
 for over forty years, of which place he is a promi- 
 nent citizen, having been much interested in 
 municipal affairs and the bettering of the condi- 
 tion of the city. 
 
 REV. JAMES OSGOOD ANDREW 
 VAUGHT, pastor of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, South, Versailles, is the son of Wil- 
 liam P. and Ann L. (Gragg) Vaught. His father 
 was a native of Wythe County, Virginia, and 
 came with his parents when a child to Kentucky 
 and located near Somerset. In 1865 he removed 
 to Harrodsburg, where he now resides. He was 
 a farmer and a local preacher in the Methodist 
 Church, but is now retired, being seventy-three 
 years of age. 
 
 Andrew Vaught (grandfather) was a native of 
 Wythe County, Virginia. After removing to 
 Kentucky he resided in or near Somerset until 
 he died at the age of ninety-five. The Vaughts 
 cam.e to this country about the year 1780, and 
 they have been prominent in the Methodist 
 Church for over one hundred years. Rev. S. K. 
 Vaught (uncle), who died a few years ago, was 
 one of the most distinguished ministers in the 
 Methodist Church in West Virginia. 
 
 Ann L. Gragg Vaught (mother) is a native of 
 Pulaski County and is now in her sixty-sixth 
 year, and a mother in the Methodist Church. 
 
 Elisha P. Gragg (grandfather) was a native of 
 Pulaski County, where he resided until the time 
 of his death in his seventieth year. His father 
 was a native of Virginia, but removed to Ken- 
 tucky about 1790. 
 
 The Graggs are of English descent, and, like 
 the Vaughts, have been Methodists for over one 
 hundred years. 
 
 Rev. James O. A. Vaught was born in Somer- 
 set, February 9, 1847. He received the best edu- 
 cation the schools of Somerset could afiford and 
 then went to Harmonia College, Russellville, In- 
 diana, and graduated in 1870. In the following 
 year he entered the ministry of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, South. Among the principal 
 
 places where he has had charge are Clarksburg 
 and Point Pleasant, West Virginia; Ashland, 
 Catlettsburg, Paris, Newport, Millersburg, Rich- 
 mond, Harrodsburg and Versailles, Kentucky, to 
 which last named place he came in 1895. This is 
 one of the leading churches in the state. Bishop 
 Kavanaugh was married in Versailles and spent 
 thirty years of his life there. 
 
 Mr. Vaught and Annie E., daughter of C. S. 
 Ulen of Catlettsburg, were married in 1873. 
 They have one son and four daughters living: 
 Anna Louise, Kate H., Stephen K., Sarah H., 
 Mattie M. Miss Kate H. Vaught, second daugh- 
 ter, is Professor of Sciences in Millersburg 
 Female College. 
 
 GEORGE LEE WILLIS, editor of the 
 Frankfort Capital, is the son of Rev. Jack- 
 son S. and Mary J. (Long) Willis. His father 
 was a native of Madison County and moved to 
 Shelby County when a young man, where he re- 
 sided until the time of his death in 1883. He 
 was a minister in the Christian Church and a 
 preacher in Shelby County for forty years. Dur- 
 ing the war his sympathies were decidedly with 
 the Southern people, and he narrowly escaped 
 arrest on account of his fearless expression of 
 opinion. 
 
 Henry Willis (grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia, who removed to Kentucky with other 
 members of his family and located in Madison 
 County about the beginning of the present cen- 
 tury. He was a farmer on an extensive scale. He 
 belonged to an old Virginia family of English 
 descent. 
 
 Mary J. Long Willis was a native of Shelby 
 County. She died in 1870, aged forty-eight years. 
 
 Alexander Long (grandfather) was a farmer in 
 Woodford and Shelby Counties, and died in 
 Shelby County at the age of seventy years. 
 
 George L. Willis was born in Shelby County 
 August 4, 1862. He received a good education, 
 and in 1886 went to Louisville, where for five 
 years he was engaged in the different newspaper 
 offices as reporter, city editor, telegraph editor, 
 etc., and in December, 1889, he was sent to 
 Frankfort as legislative correspondent for the 
 Courier-Journal and the Evening Times. He 
 
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KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 23 
 
 filled this position acceptably until January, 1894, 
 when the Weekly Capital was converted into a 
 daily newspaper, and he was chosen editor. The 
 Capital is the successor of the old "Kentucky 
 Yeoman," which was established in 1840. It is a 
 local newspaper, the state official paper, and, like 
 its editor. Democratic in politics. 
 
 Mr. Willis was married in December, 1892, to 
 Ruth Stanton, daughter of Major Henry T. Stan- 
 ton, Kentucky's poet laureate. 
 
 MALCOLM YBAMAN, a successful lawyer 
 and respected citizen of Henderson, was 
 born in Hardin County, Kentucky, March 9, 
 1841. His father, Stephen Minor Yeaman, was 
 born in Meade County in 1799. He removed to 
 Hardin County, where he was engaged in farm- 
 ing until his death in 1854. 
 
 Malcolm Yeaman's mother, Lucretia Helm, 
 was born in 1809. She survived her husband 
 until 1886, retaining the full vigor of a bright 
 intellect to the last. She was a life-time member 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a 
 beloved and exemplary Christian woman. The 
 education of the younger members of her large 
 family devolved upon her after her husband's 
 death, and she devoted herself to this work with 
 a result that was exceedingly gratifying to her in 
 her declining years. Her eldest son, John H. 
 Yeaman, was a minister in the Baptist Church, 
 who died soon after entering the ministry. 
 George H. Yeaman, an eminent lawyer, served 
 two terms in Congress from the Second Ken- 
 tuck District, and was for six years United States 
 Minister Plenipotentiary to Copenhagen, subse- 
 quently locating in New York in the practice of 
 law, where he now resides. William Pope Yea- 
 man is one of the leading Baptist ministers in 
 Missouri. Harvey Yeaman was a brilliant lawyer 
 in Henderson, who removed to Louisville, and 
 subsequently to Colorado, where he died. Mal- 
 colm Yeaman was the fifth son. Caldwell Yea- 
 man, who studied law with his brother Malcolm, 
 went to Colorado and soon took rank among the 
 leading lawyers of that state; established a num- 
 ber of successful business enterprises and for 
 several years filled the office of Circuit Judge, 
 and now resides in Denver. Mary Lucretia Yea- 
 
 man, the only daughter and the youngest child, 
 died when she was just blooming into young 
 womanhood. 
 
 Malcolm Yeaman read law with his brother, 
 George H. Yeaman, in Owensboro, and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1861, and since 1863 has de- 
 voted his whole time to the practice of his profes- 
 sion in Henderson. He has adhered to his purpose 
 to resist the temptations to gain wealth or fame by 
 any other than the legitimate pursuit of his chosen 
 profession. 
 
 Although a democrat, he has not sought poli- 
 tical preferment; and being a man of business 
 ability might have made money in many of the 
 avenues that are always open to men of judgment 
 and moderate capital, but the allurements of 
 wealth and the honors of office have not been 
 permitted to turn him aside from the higher pur- 
 pose to be a successful lawyer, faithful to those 
 who entrust their cause to his keeping and up- 
 holding the high standard of his honorable call- 
 ing. With such a purpose kept steadily in view, 
 Mr. Yeaman has attained success in an eminent 
 degree, and has won the confidence and esteem 
 of the intelligent people in the enhghtened com- 
 munity in which he lives. He is an elder in the 
 Presbyterian Church, and a citizen in whom all 
 who know him have the utmost confidence. 
 
 Mr. Yeaman was married in 1861 to Julia Van 
 Pradells Moore, daughter of Dr. John R. Moore, 
 for many years a leading physician in Louisville, 
 who removed to Pettis County, Missouri, a short 
 time before the Civil war. They have still living 
 four sons and two daughters: Rev. Marion V. 
 P. Yeaman, a minister in the Presbyterian 
 Church; Lelia, wife of W. J. Marshall, Jr., of 
 Henderson; Dr. Malcolm H. Yeaman, a physi- 
 cian just entering the practice; Harvey Yeaman 
 and James M. Yeaman, who are studying law, 
 and Julia, now in school. Their oldest son, John 
 Rochester, was, with several companions, 
 drowned in Puget Sound in May, 1893. 
 
 WILLIAM E. ARTHUR. The paternal 
 grandfather of Mr. Arthur was the Rever- 
 end William Arthur, who was graduated at the 
 University of Glasgow, Scotland, and was con- 
 secrated to the service of God as a clergyman of 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 the Presbyterian Church. He was united in mar- 
 riage with Agnes Gammel of Scotland and sub- 
 sequently in the course of his ministry came to 
 the United States in 1793, and was located at 
 intervals in Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania 
 and finally in Ohio, where he died many years 
 since at Zanesville. He left seven children: 
 Michael, William, John, Gammel, Jane, Mar- 
 garet and Nancy. 
 
 William Arthur (father) was born in the County 
 of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1798, and was 
 educated by his parents. He was prepared for 
 the bar, but became a merchant. He was mar- 
 ried to Eliza Parsons of Maryland, who was the 
 second daughter of William and Sarah Parsons 
 of Harford County, Maryland. 
 
 William E. Arthur is a native of Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, and was born March 3, 1825. In 1832 his 
 parents with their children Vv^ere permanently set- 
 tled at Covington, Kentucky, and in 1834 his 
 father died. Judge Arthur was educated at pri- 
 vate schools and by private tutors in Covington 
 and in Harford County, Maryland. Pie was pre- 
 pared for the bar in the ofiSce of the Honorable 
 John W. Stevenson and Honorable James T. 
 Morehead, who were his law preceptors. In 1850 
 he was admitted to the bar by Honorable William 
 F. Bullock, then of the Sixth Judicial District, 
 and the Honorable James Prior, then of the 
 Eighth Judicial District of Kentucky, and imme- 
 diately thereafter entered upon the practice of his 
 profession. In 1856 he was elected by the Demo- 
 cratic party attorney for the Commonwealth of 
 Kentucky in the Ninth Judicial District, and 
 served for a term of six years. In the Presidential 
 campaign of i860 he was the Democratic elector 
 for the Tenth Congressional District on the ticket 
 of Breckenridge and Lane. In 1866 he was elect- 
 ed by the same party Judge of the Criminal Court 
 for the Ninth Judicial District for a term of six 
 years. He served two years, resigning in 1868. 
 In 1870 he was elected to the Forty-second Con- 
 gress from the Sixth Congressional District; was 
 re-elected to the Forty-third Congress in 1872, 
 and served through both terms on Committee on 
 Elections and on a Committee on Railways and 
 Canals. 
 
 Among Judge Arthur's speeches of any length 
 
 in the House were those on the following sub- 
 jects: Executive Despotism and Congressional 
 Usurpation, the House having under considera- 
 tion the bill (H. R. No. 320) to enforce the provi- 
 sions of the fourteenth amendment to the Consti- 
 tution of the United States and for other pur- 
 poses. (March 31, 1871.) 
 
 Texas Election. The House having under con- 
 sideration the following resolution (January 10, 
 1872): 
 
 Resolved, That W. T. Clark has a prima facie 
 right to a seat as Representative from the Third 
 Congressional District of the State of Texas and 
 is entitled to take the oath of office as a Member 
 of this House, without prejudice to the right of 
 any person claiming to have been elected thereto, 
 to contest his right to said seat upon the merits. 
 
 The Decline of Local Self-Government and 
 Advance of CentraHsm, the House having met for 
 debate in Committee of the Whole on the State 
 of the Union (March 2, 1872). 
 
 Election Contest — Gooding versus Wilson. 
 The House having under consideration the report 
 of the Committee on Elections upon the contested 
 electon case of Gooding versus Wilson from the 
 Fourth District of Indiana. (April 22, 1872.) 
 
 Profusion of the Union and Profligacy of the 
 Administration. The House having met for de- 
 bate in Committee of the Whole on the state of 
 the Union. (May 4, 1872.) 
 
 Free Trade — Inter-State Commerce. The 
 House having under consideration the bill (H. 
 R. No. 1385) to regulate commerce. (March 3 
 and 4, 1874.) 
 
 In August, 1886, he was elected by his party 
 Judge of the Circuit Court for the Twelfth Judi- 
 cial District and served out his term, ending Janu- 
 ary I, 1893, when he resumed the practice of law. 
 
 I" 1855 Judge Artlnir was united in marriage 
 with Addie Southgate, daughter of the late Hon- 
 orable W. W. Southgate, and after her decease 
 in 1858, in December, i860, he wedded Etha 
 Southgate, a younger sister of his first wife. By 
 the last marriage Judge Arthur has two children 
 surviving, Sidney and May. Sidney Arthur is a 
 graduate of Dartmouth College of the class of 
 1887 and of the Law School of the Cincinnati 
 College of the class of 1890, and Ijas entered on 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 25 
 
 the practice of his profession with his father. May 
 Arthur was educated at the Bartholomew Eng- 
 lish and Classical School of Cincinnati, and at 
 Madame Fredin's French and English School, 
 Eden Park, Walnut Hills, of the same city. 
 
 REV. DANIEL STEVENSON, D. D., Presi- 
 dent of Union College, Barbourville, was 
 born in Versailles, Woodford County, Kentucky, 
 November 12th, 1823. His father, Daniel Steven- 
 son, born in Mason County, moved to Versailles 
 when a young man, and soon afterward married 
 Miss Elizabeth West of Scott County. Thomas 
 Stevenson, the paternal grandfather, a native of 
 Frederick County, Maryland, married Miss Sarah 
 ' Evans, daughter of Job Evans, of the same state 
 and county, and one of the seven or eight persons 
 composing the first class of Methodists that was 
 formed in America. In 1786 Thomas Stevenson, 
 with his wife and children, moved to Kentucky, 
 then a part of Virginia, descending the Ohio River 
 in a flatboat, and landing at what is now Mays- 
 ville, but soon took up his residence at Kenton 
 Station, near Washington, in Mason County. 
 The maternal grandfather, Thomas West, was 
 born in Virginia, where he married Miss Atha 
 Fant. They came to Kentucky at a little later 
 period than the Stevensons, and settled in Scott 
 County. 
 
 Dr. Stevenson's rudimentary education was re- 
 ceived at schools in and near Versailles. For a 
 time he was a clerk in a store; entered Transyl- 
 vania University at Lexington in 1843, ^"d grad- 
 uated there in 1847, taking one of the honors of 
 his class. The following winter he spent in Mis- 
 sissippi, teaching and studying law, and the win- 
 ter next after that in Clark County, Kentucky, 
 teaching. He was then elected to a professorship 
 in Whitewater Female College, Centerville, Indi- 
 ana. In 1849 he married, in Kentucky, Miss 
 Sarah Ann Corwine, daughter of Rev. Richard 
 and Mrs. Sarah Corwine, the father being of the 
 Corwine family of Salem, Massachusetts, and the 
 mother, of the Hitt family of Virginia. 
 
 In 1850 Dr. Stevenson resigned his position 
 in Whitewater College and returned, with his 
 wife and their infant child, to Kentucky, and 
 opened a girls' .school in Versailles. In the 
 
 autumn of 1851, having previously begun to 
 preach, he became a member of the Kentucky 
 Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 South, and was stationed, successively, at Orange- 
 burg, Taylorsville, Danville, Newport, Carroll- 
 ton Millersburg, Shelbyville, Frankfort. 
 
 During the Civil war he was decidedly in favor 
 of the preservation of the Union, and in the Union 
 Convention held in 1863 for the nomination of 
 candidates for the state offices he was nominated 
 for the office of Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
 tion, and, with the other nominees on the ticket, 
 was elected. Up to this time the clerical work of 
 this office had been done in the Auditor's office. 
 There was no separate room and no separate 
 clerkship for the Department of Education. Dr. 
 Stevenson secured provision for both from the 
 Legislature, and the system and order which he 
 introduced into the work of the office soon began 
 to have their effect in the schools throughout the 
 state. In addition to this he did a great deal of 
 visiting in different parts of the state in promo- 
 tion of the cause of common school education. 
 At the expiration of his term of office in 1867 he 
 was renominated for the position by the Repub- 
 lican Convention, but the entire ticket was de- 
 feated. 
 
 At the close of the war in 1865, he, with seven- 
 teen other members of the Kentucky Conference 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, with- 
 drew therefrom in conseqiience of the bitter oppo- 
 sition which was made by the majority of the 
 members of the Conference to their advocacy of 
 the idea of the reunion of the dissevered parts of 
 Episcopal Methodism, and united with the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church. 
 
 On going out of office in 1867 he preached for a 
 time at Parkersburg, West Virginia, and then at 
 Lexington, Kentucky. Under his pastorate at 
 this place the beautiful Methodist Church on 
 Broadway was built. He was next in the Presid- 
 ing Eldership, then pastor of Trinity Church, 
 Louisville, after which he went to New England, 
 where he spent four years and a half as a member 
 of the New Hampshire Conference. 
 
 Returning to Kentucky in 1879, he opened the 
 Augusta Collegiate Institute in the Old Augusta 
 College building, AugUsta. He resigned his posi- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 tion at this place in 1886, and soon thereafter be- 
 came president of Union College at Barbourville, 
 in which capacity he is now acting. 
 
 Dr. Stevenson has always taken a deep inter- 
 est in the cause of education in his own church. 
 He was one of the founders of the Wesleyan Col- 
 lege, originally at Millersburg, but now at Win- 
 chester. He is an earnest advocate of higher 
 education among the ministers of his church, and 
 has done much to raise the standard of ministerial 
 education in his own Conference. His special 
 work in his present position is the training of 
 young men for the ministry. He is deeply in- 
 terested, moreover, in the history of the Metho- 
 dist Church in Kentucky, and also in the history 
 of the state. He is a member of the Filson Club 
 of Louisville. 
 
 Dr. Stevenson is recognized as one of the lead- 
 ing Methodist ministers in Kentucky, and has 
 been twice elected to represent his Conference in 
 the General Conference. He is a contributor to the 
 church papers, and has published two or three 
 books. He received the title of A. M. in cursu, 
 from his Alma Mater, and that of Doctor of 
 Divinity from the Ohio Wesleyan University. 
 
 Dr. Stevenson was the only one of the state 
 officers elected with him in 1863 who voted for 
 Mr. Lincoln for re-election as President in 1864. 
 He has for some time been voting with the Pro- 
 hibition party. In 1887 he was nominated by 
 that party for the office of Superintendent of Pub- 
 lic Instruction, in his absence from the nominat- 
 ing convention. He is clear in his political views, 
 but is in no sense a politician. 
 
 Dr. and Mrs. Stevenson have had seven chil- 
 dren, three of whom are dead. Of the four liv- 
 ing, one is a member of the North Ohio Confer- 
 ence, and Pi'ofessor of History in the Ohio Wes- 
 leyan University; another is the wife of Rev. 
 J. W. Sutherland, pastor of the Congregational 
 Church at Webster Groves, Mo. ; another the wife 
 of Mr. J. E. Dunbar, a merchant of Augusta, Ken- 
 tucky, and the other a lawyer in Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 PATRICK McDonald, of Frankfort, is a 
 son of John and Margaret (Purcell) Mc- 
 Donald; was born in Schuylkill County, Penn- 
 sylvania, November 14, 1847. His father was 
 
 born in Ireland, and came to the United States at 
 an early age, and after rernaining in Kentucky a 
 short while removed to Pennsylvania, and then 
 back to Kentucky, locating at Frankfort. There 
 he remained until his death, in May, 1866. He 
 was an industrious man, and was popular with 
 everyone. He was a member of the Catholic 
 Church, in which faith he died. He was twice 
 married, his last wife being Miss Bridget Don- 
 oghue, who preceded him to the grave in 1864. 
 
 Patrick McDonald is well known throughout 
 the state. When his parents located in Frank- 
 fort he was but two years old. His mother died 
 when he was too young to realize the great loss, 
 and this was followed by his father's death before 
 he arrived at an age to be able to care for an in- 
 fant half-brother and sister, who were left on his 
 hands for support. At the age of twelve years he 
 entered the old Yeoman office, then owned by 
 Col. S. I. M. Major, where he learned the printer's 
 trade, serving as foreman, job printer and man- 
 ager, holding the last position until the paper 
 suspended in 1886. 
 
 Mr. McDonald started the "Western Argus" 
 the same year. It is a weekly twenty-eight col- 
 umn Democratic paper, with a rapidly increas- 
 ing circulation, which he still owns and edits, his 
 son Patrick, Jr., aiding as assistant editor. He is 
 open in his opinions on any subject, and upon all 
 public matters expresses himself freely. He was 
 justice of the peace of Frankfort for over twenty 
 years, his last term expiring January i, 1895. He 
 has been prominent in Frankfort's history for 
 more than twenty years. He originated and con- 
 structed an electric street car line five miles in 
 length and was a warm advocate of all public 
 improvements. 
 
 He was second assistant clerk of the House 
 of Representatives of Kentucky during the ses- 
 sions of 1885-86, and was enrolling clerk of the 
 Senate of Kentucky from 1887 to 189 1. He was 
 president of the Board of Trade of Frankfort for 
 one term, and for five years was treasurer of the 
 Sinking Fund Commissioners of Franklin 
 County. During his term as justice of the peace 
 he was the leader in public improvements in the 
 county, and during his term of office more than 
 one hundred miles of turnpike were constructed 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 27 
 
 in the county; while the bridge system was im- 
 proved by the erection of iron bridges in place 
 of the old wooden structures, the last being the 
 destruction of the old wooden bridge connecting 
 North and South Frankfort, which has been re- 
 placed by a beautiful steel structure at a cost of 
 sixty-five thousand dollars. 
 
 He was the delegate to the World's Columbian 
 Catholic Congress from the Frankfort diocese 
 at the World's Fair. 
 
 Mr. McDonald has always taken an active part 
 in political affairs, no one ever questioning his 
 Democracy, which is of the Andrew Jackson 
 type. ■ . ■ 
 
 He was married in September, 1866, to Ann 
 Flynn of Frankfort. They have one son, Patrick, 
 and one daughter, Jennie. 
 
 M 
 
 gCAULEY C. SWINFORD of Cynthiana, 
 son of John P. and Sallie (Terry) Swinford, 
 was born in Pendleton County, March 24, 1857. 
 
 His father, John Patterson Swinford, was born 
 in Harrison County, April 8, 1828; and for the 
 past fifteen years has been a resident farmer of 
 Fleming County. 
 
 William Swinford (grandfather) was a native of 
 Harrison County, where he owned a farm which 
 has belonged to the Swinford family for five gen- 
 erations and which now belongs to McCauley C. 
 Swinford. 
 
 The great-grandfather Swinford was a native 
 of North Carolina and was one of the very early 
 settlers of Harrison County. His ancestors were 
 from England. 
 
 SaUie Terry Swinford (mother) died in 1859, 
 when McCauley was two years old. She was a 
 native of Harrison County. Her father, William 
 Terry, was born in Spottsylvania County, Vir- 
 ginia; moved to Harrison County, where he lived 
 to an advanced age. 
 
 McCauley C. Swinford, after leaving school and 
 quitting the farm, began the study of law in the 
 ofiSce of Judge John Q. Ward, then a prominent 
 attorney in Cynthiana, and also with Louis M. 
 Morlin, and was admitted to the bar October 9, 
 1879. Having been a faithful student at home 
 and in the law ofifices, he was well equipped for 
 
 the lucrative practice which he has enjoyed since 
 entering the profession. 
 
 In November, 1889, he formed a law partner- 
 ship with D. L. Evans under the firm name of 
 Swinford & Evans; and success has followed this 
 relationship up to the present time. 
 
 In October, 1882, he was elected County School 
 Commissioner, and in 1884 he was elected for two 
 years again, the name of the office being changed 
 to Superintendent of Public Schools. In August, 
 1886, he was elected County Attorney for a term 
 of four years, and in August, 1890, he was re- 
 elected and held the ofHce of County Attorney 
 until January, 1895. At no time did he have 
 any opposition, either for the nomination or for 
 the election. 
 
 In the County Democratic Convention, held 
 May II, 1895, he received the nomination for 
 representative in the State Legislature, and was 
 elected in November, 1895, over John W. Mat- 
 tox, the Republican candidate, by 501 majority. 
 
 Mr. Swinford and Mrs. Nannie T. Smith, 
 daughter of James C. King of Harrison County, 
 were married March 2, 1880. They have three 
 sons and one daughter: Virgil C, Urban M., 
 Charles L. and Annie. 
 
 TAMES S. WITHERS, cashier of the National 
 kj Bank of Cynthiana, was bom in Cynthiana, 
 September 4, 1830. His father, William A. 
 Withers, was born in Stafford County, Virginia, 
 in 1798, and came to Kentucky in 181 2. He lived 
 for a short time in Mason County, but removed to 
 Harrison County, where he had his residence 
 until the time of his unfortunate death in 1864. 
 He was killed at the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, 
 while moving some furniture belonging to his 
 son. Col. William T. Withers of the Confederate 
 artillery. He was a drygoods merchant in Cyn- 
 thiana and was visiting his son when he was 
 killed. He was not in the service himself. 
 
 Benjamin Withers (grandfather) was a native 
 of Stafford County, Virginia, and, after removing 
 to Kentucky in 1812, was a farmer in Harrison 
 County. His ancestors were English and were 
 related to the celebrated poet, Robert Withers, of 
 Witheral. He was a Lieutenant in the war of 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 the Revolution and was present at the surrender 
 of Yorktown. 
 
 Eliza Perrin Withers (mother) was a native of 
 Harrison County. She was born in 1806 and died 
 in 1848. Her father, Archibald Perrin, was a 
 Kentuckian, of French descent. He died in 1863. 
 James S. Withers, after attending the best 
 schools in the county, attended the University of 
 Missouri, graduating in 1853. He succeeded his 
 father in the diygoods business in Cynthiana 
 until 1857, when he became cashier of the De- 
 posit Bank of Cynthiana, which was merged into 
 the Commercial Bank of Kentucky in 1862. In 
 1 87 1 it was nationalized, since which time it has 
 been known as the National Bank of Cynthiana. 
 It is one of the most substantial banking houses 
 in the interior of the state, having a capital of 
 one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and a 
 surplus of ninety thousand dollars. Mr. Withers 
 has been cashier of this bank since its organiza- 
 tion in 1857, and has probably served as a bank 
 cashier longer than any one in Kentucky. He 
 is one of the most careful bankers in the state 
 and enjoys the confidence of his associates in 
 business and of the entire community. 
 
 Mr. Withers was married in May, 1856, to 
 Kittie Remington, daughter of Greenup Reming- 
 ton of Harrison County. They have one son and 
 two daughters living: Eliza, wife of Joseph W. 
 Davis of Paris; Elizabeth, wife of Bailey D. Berry 
 of Cynthiana, and Rodney S. Withers. 
 
 Mr. Withers belongs to the Christian Church, 
 of which his father and mother and his grand- 
 father were devoted members. 
 
 JOPIN A. WILLIAMSON, a retired steam- 
 boat captain and a man well and favorably 
 known on the river between Cincinnati and New 
 Orleans, and for many years a resident of New- 
 port, was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, June 9, 
 1826. He is the son of Samuel Williamson, a 
 native of Norfolk, Virginia, who moved to 
 Charleston, West Virginia, where he married 
 Mary Slack in 1808, and made his home there 
 until 1825. He was one of the first men who dis- 
 covered salt on the Kanawha in 1809 or 1810. 
 He taught school for awhile, having received a 
 good education. In 1825 he concluded to move 
 
 west with his family and started down the river 
 in a flatboat and when he reached Portsmouth, 
 Ohio, he stopped near the mouth of the Scioto 
 and remained there for four or five months. Dur- 
 ing that time his son, John A., the subject of this 
 sketch, was born. Then he moved across the 
 river to a farm in Kentucky and followed farm- 
 ing until the spring of 1833, when he removed to 
 Newport. This occurred, unfortunately, during 
 the cholera plague, which was fatal to so many in 
 1833, and of which disease he died soon after his 
 arrival at Newport, being forty-eight years of 
 age. His wife was a native of Pennsylvania and 
 died in Newport in 1879, aged eighty-nine years. 
 Capt. John A. Williamson has lived in New- 
 port since 1833, and his education was limited 
 to a few months in private schools. At the age 
 of fifteen years he went to work on a steamboat 
 that ran from Cincinnati to New Orleans, and 
 became a pilot before he was eighteen years of 
 age. In 1852 he attended as a delegate the Louis- 
 ville convention that drafted the law known as 
 steamboat inspection law, which required every 
 pilot and engineer to have a Hcense. He soon 
 acquired an interest in a line of boats and con- 
 tinued on the river until 1870, and held a large 
 interest in this line until 1882. From 1870 to 
 1876 Captain Williamson operated a full line of 
 boats between Cincinnati and St. Louis, and at 
 the same time owned and managed a boat store. 
 In 1871 he bought the street railway at New- 
 port and operated it successfully until 1891, when 
 he sold out. He owned the Newport ferry from 
 1866 to 1874. In 1884 he conceived the idea of 
 building the Central railroad bridge across the 
 Ohio river between Newport and Cincinnati, and 
 organized a company to build and operate the 
 bridge, which was completed August 29, 1891. 
 It was incorporated under the name of the Cen- 
 tral Railway and Bridge Company, of which he 
 has been the president since its inception. It was 
 chartered by Kentucky as the Central Railway 
 and Bridge Company, and by the state of Ohio 
 as the Central Bridge Company. 
 
 For fourteen years Captain Williamson was 
 president of the Newport Light Company, and 
 has been for many years identified with the busi- 
 ness interests and material growth of Newport, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 29 
 
 and he is one of her best and most enterprising 
 citizens. 
 
 In 1848 he was married to Elizabeth Kirby in 
 Cincinnati and they have one son living, Law- 
 rence WiUiamson. 
 
 The house in which Captain Williamson lives 
 has been his home since February 22, 1850. 
 
 HON. ANDREW HARRISON WARD, at- 
 torney-at-law of Cynthiana, was born in 
 Harrison County, January 3, 181 5. His parents 
 were Andrew and Elizabeth (Headington) Ward. 
 His father was a native of Culpeper County, Vir- 
 ginia, who became one of the pioneers of Harri- 
 son County, where he died in 1842 at the age of 
 seventy-two years. He was a soldier in the war 
 of 1812, and in the subsequent Indian wars under 
 Gen. Harrison, for whom his son was named. He 
 was a favored nephew of Gen. William Ward, a 
 Revolutionary soldier, a brother of Artemus 
 Ward, who was voted for, for commander of the 
 Colonial army. Gen. William Ward gave An- 
 drew Ward a section of land in Champaign 
 County, Ohio, several town lots in Urbana, and 
 six acres of land on Mud River for a tannery, on 
 condition that Andrew, who was a tanner, would 
 teach William Ward's son the trade. According- 
 ly he took up his residence in Ohio and was the 
 first white man who lived in Urbana. The In- 
 dians drove him away shortly before he entered 
 the war of 1812. His father's name was Andrew 
 Ward, a native of Virginia, who with six brothers 
 fought in the Revolutionary war. The Wards 
 are of Irish extraction, but resided in England 
 several years before coming to America. 
 
 Elizabeth Headington Ward was born in Bal- 
 timore County, Maryland, in 1773. She came to 
 Kentucky when only twelve years of age, while 
 the Indians were hostile and when schools were 
 out of the question. She died in Harrison County 
 in 1840. Her father, Zebulon Headington, was a 
 Virginian. He married in Maryland and came 
 to Kentucky in 1785 and settled in Harrison 
 County, where he spent the remainder of his days. 
 He died in 1839, when within a few months of 
 one hundred years of age. He too was a Revo- 
 
 lutionary soldier, serving in the commissary de- 
 partment, and was on his way to Yorktown and 
 so near that he could hear the heavy guns firing 
 when he learned that Cornwallis had surrendered. 
 Andrew Harrison Ward when a boy divided 
 his time between the ordinary farm labors and the 
 winter schools. After reaching the limit of the 
 county school teacher's resoui'ces he went to 
 Transylvania University. In 1842 he began the 
 study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1844, 
 beginning his professional career in Cynthiana 
 at once, where he has enjoyed a lucrative practice 
 in both civil and criminal law ever since. The old 
 lawyers of his acquaintance agree that he has been 
 engaged in more cases of capital offense than any 
 other living lawyer in the state. He defended 
 the first and only case of treason ever tried in 
 Kentucky. In 1884 he M-as employed to go to 
 North Dakota to defend twenty-four indictments, 
 two each against twelve persons charged with 
 murder. He never defended a client who was 
 hung, and no one of them ever got more than 
 ten years in the penitentiary. 
 
 In his earlier years he was a whig and since 
 the extinction of that party he has been a demo- 
 crat, but he has never regretted his early political 
 education. In 1863 he was elected to the Legis- 
 lature, in which he served with distinction until 
 1865. In 1866 he was elected to Congress, and 
 at the expiration of the XXXIX. Congress he re- 
 tired from public life, steadily refusing office, but 
 still retaining an active interest in politics. He 
 never asked for, dr sought any office. Plis nom- 
 ination and election to Congress was without his 
 seeking. He has voted fifteen times for Presi- 
 dent and has been an active presidential cam- 
 paigner since 1840. 
 
 He was not a soldier in the Civil war, but he 
 helped to defend his town and was one of the 
 three hundred and thirty citizens of Cynthiana 
 who gave Gen. Morgan his first fight when he 
 undertook to raid the town. He was opposed 
 to the rebellion. Mr. Ward has been married 
 three times. First to Ellen V. Moore of Harri- 
 son County, September, 1846. She died in 1848, 
 leaving one daughter, Mollie M., now the wife of 
 George T. Gaddy of Woodford County. His 
 first wife's grandmother was a cousin of Gen. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 William Henry Harrison, for whom Mr. Ward 
 cast his first presidential vote, and his last one 
 against Benjamin Harrison, his grandson. His 
 second marriage was to Elizabeth Ware of Cyn- 
 thiana, December 31, 1857. She died in 1865, 
 and on the 28th of April, 1868, he married Helen 
 H. Lair of Cynthiana, and by this union he has 
 three sons and two daughters: Bertie M., wife 
 of Judge W. T. Lafiferty of Cynthiana; Harry R., 
 Catherine, Paul S., and Ashley F. Ward. 
 
 Although he is now past four score years, Mr. 
 Ward is still actively engaged' in the practice of 
 his profession, and has lost none of his reputa- 
 tion as one of the leading lawyers of the state. 
 He is a prominent member of the Christian 
 Church, and is Superintendent of the Sunday 
 School, and teacher of its Bible class. 
 
 He enjoys the confidence and respect of the 
 profession with which he has been prominently 
 identified for over fifty years ; of the community 
 in which he has lived all his life, and of the church 
 in which he has been a leading spirit, and in the 
 Sunday School in which he holds the position 
 usually surrendered to younger men. His years 
 have apparently had no efifect upon his vitality, 
 and his arduous labors only serve to keep him 
 young. 
 
 CHAPEZE WATHEN, a descendant of an 
 old and honored family of Kentucky and 
 a distinguished lawyer and popular citizen of 
 Owensboro, was born in Breckinridge County, 
 Kentucky, February 10, 1858. His father, Bene- 
 dict Wathen, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, 
 August 15, 1801, and came to Kentucky with his 
 parents when he was quite young. He received 
 his primary education in Washington County; 
 graduated from the Medical Department of 
 Transylvania University and located at Hardins- 
 burg, Breckinridge County, where he was a lead- 
 ing practicing physician for many years. Later 
 he bought a farm, on which he spent the closing 
 years of a useful life. This farm was known as 
 Mount Merino, and upon it Dr. Wathen and his 
 brother Richard, who was also a physician, es- 
 tablished a high grade literary school, which they 
 
 conducted, greatly to the advantage of the com- 
 munity. The matrimonial alliances of these two 
 brothers were of a very unusual nature, in that 
 they married four sisters. Benedict married Eliza- 
 beth Chapeze, and after her death married her 
 sister, Eulalie Fleget Chapeze (mother); while 
 Dr. Richard Wathen first married Susan Chapeze, 
 a sister of Benedict's two wives, who died, and 
 then he married Mary Chapeze, another sister; 
 and thus four sisters were the wives of two 
 brothers. The Wathens are descendants of 
 English parentage. 
 
 Eulalie Chapeze (mother of Chapeze Wathen) 
 is a native of Bardstown, Kentucky; was edu- 
 cated principally at St. Catherine Academy in 
 Washington County and is now living in Breck- 
 inridge County in the seventy-first year of her 
 age. 
 
 Benjamin Chapeze (grandfather) was born in 
 Trenton, New Jersey, and received his education 
 in the Catholic schools. When he came to Ken- 
 tucky he followed farming for a while, studying 
 law in the meantime. His pursuit of legal knowl- 
 edge was made under difficulties, taking his books 
 and notes to the field with him and studying at 
 odd times. He was duly admitted to the bar in 
 181 5 and located in Shepherdsville, where he prac- 
 ticed for two years; then went to Elizabethtown 
 and was there two years. In 1820 he removed to 
 Bardstown and practiced in Nelson, Meade, 
 Hardin, Bullitt, Breckinridge, Spencer, Washing- 
 ton and Marion Counties, where he had a large 
 clientele and was exceedingly popular on accovmt 
 of his splendid ability, unquestioned integrity and 
 great force of character. He was known as "the 
 Honest Lawyer," a very rare compliment in those 
 days. He was very much of a gentleman — neat 
 in dress, courteous and genial in manner and of 
 fine personal attractions. He cared little for poli- 
 tics, but was twice an "Old Court" representative 
 of Nelson County in the Legislature and a col- 
 league of Ben Hardin. He afterward affiliated 
 with the Jackson Republicans, who were called 
 Democrats, and who, in Kentucky, had been for 
 the most part, "New Court" men. In 1828 he 
 was a presidential elector on the Jackson ticket, 
 and was more or less prominent in state and 
 national politics during the remainder of his bril- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 31 
 
 liant career. In September, 1839, he defended a 
 man charged with murder in Elizabethtown and, 
 after speaking for two hours, he was overcome 
 by exhaustion. The doctors were called and ad- 
 vised bleeding, and the little strength he had left 
 was thus taken from him and he died nine days 
 later, September 26, 1839, He died in the full 
 confidence of the Catholic religion. Benjamin 
 Chapeze was married May 7, 1812, to EHzabeth 
 Shepherd, daughter of Adam Shepherd, an early 
 settler, who was the first man who ventured to live 
 outside of a fort in Bullitt County. The town 
 of Shepherdsville, on Salt River, was named in 
 his honor. 
 
 Dr. Henry Chapeze (great-grandfather) was a 
 native of France, who came to America during 
 the Revolution, and held the post of surgeon in 
 the patriot army and after the war he married 
 Sarah Kenny, a lady of Irish birth, and located m 
 Bardstown, where he died in 1810. 
 
 Chapeze Wathen, a worthy descendant of a 
 noble ancestry, was educated at St. Joseph Col- 
 lege, Bardstown, and in the law department of 
 the University of Louisville, from which latter 
 institution he was graduated in March, 1881. He 
 located in Brandenburg, and, after practicing 
 alone for four years, was then associated with 
 J. M. Richardson for eight years. He was Com- 
 monwealth Attorney of the then Sixth now Ninth 
 Judicial District, from August, 1886, until 1893, 
 this long term having been made possible by the 
 new Constitution, and his excellent service for 
 the state called forth the highest praise from the 
 people. 
 
 In the spring of 1893 Mr. Wathen removed to 
 Owensboro, a city in which he was by no means 
 a stranger, his reputation as a dignified and cap- 
 able lawyer and an elegant, courteous gentleman 
 having preceded him. He found many friends, 
 and has made many new ones in his new home, 
 and has also found a field of labor quite con- 
 genial to his taste. 
 
 Mr. Wathen was married January 15, 1891, to 
 Mary Fairleigh, daughter of James Fairleigh of 
 Brandenburg. They have two daughters, Jane 
 Murray and Eulalie. Mr. Wathen is a member of 
 the Catholic Church and Mrs. Wathen is a Pres- 
 byterian. 
 
 ELIJAH DUDLEY WALKER, the leading 
 lawyer of Hartford, son of Richard Logan 
 and Mahala (Harris) Walker, and a descendant 
 of one of the families whose names embellish the 
 early history of the state, was born in Hartford, 
 Kentucky, January 29, 1827. He received his 
 literary training in the private schools of his 
 native town, and began the study of law with Rob- 
 ert J. Smart in Independence, Missouri, when he 
 was sixteen years of age, remaining there about 
 twenty months. He was admitted to the practice 
 of law in Missouri at the age of eighteen, but re- 
 turned to Kentucky and read law with John H. 
 McHenry (see biographical sketch) and was ad- 
 mitted to the Kentucky bar in 1846, when nine- 
 teen years of age. He began his brilliant career 
 as a lawyer in Hartford 1849, ^^'^ ^i'l soon have 
 completed a half century of professional work, 
 having made a name and fame that extends be- 
 yond the borders of his state. 
 
 He was elected to the State Senate in August, 
 1857, and was the youngest member of that body. 
 After serving one term of four years he declined 
 a re-election, preferring to devote himself exclu- 
 sively to his profession. He has, however, given 
 much of his time to the furtherance of the inter- 
 ests of the Democratic party, his most recent ser- 
 vice in that capacity being on the platform com- 
 mittee in the convention of 1895, which nom- 
 inated P. Wat. Hardin for Governor. 
 
 While Judge Walker's professional career has 
 been marked by signal success, having been prom- 
 inent in hundreds of cases, many of wnich have 
 been of historic interest, and, while a record of 
 his experiences as lawyer, judge, legislator and cit- 
 izen would serve as an object lesson for ambitious 
 young men, and would be of deep interest to the 
 legal profession in Kentucky, it is the purpose of 
 this sketch to place on record a brief history of 
 the families of which he and his wife are worthy 
 and honored descendants. It has cost him an 
 effort to keep out of politics, his name having 
 been mentioned for Governor and United States 
 Senator under circumstances which would have 
 fired the ambition of almost any other man who 
 would have grasped the opportunity, and, with 
 only a little effort, reached fame and national dis- 
 tinction. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Judge Walker was married August 17, 1857, 
 to Elvira English, whose interesting, ancestry is 
 given herewith. They have five children : Mahala 
 Logan, Lizzie Crutcher, Lulu Dix, Lida and 
 Robert Dudley. Of these Mahala Logan mar- 
 ried J. Edwin Rowe, Commonwealth Attorney of 
 Owensboro, and they have three children: Ella 
 Walker, Bessie R. and Lula E. 
 
 Lida Walker married A. J. Casey of Owens- 
 boro, April 17, 1894, and has one child, named 
 Walker. 
 
 Robert Dudley Walker is studying law with his 
 father. The other children are at home. 
 
 Lizzie Walker has attracted attention as a writer 
 of verse, whose songs are adding so much to the 
 literary treasure of the south. Following litera- 
 ture for the love of it, she has become an inspira- 
 tion, not only to her own circle of friends and* the 
 people of her locality, but also to a wide circle of 
 admiring readers. She inherits her literary talent 
 directly from her mother, who is accomplished, 
 brilliant and versatile, and whose literary ambi- 
 tion is merged with all the mother's pride in her 
 daughter. Her ancestors were people of culture, 
 some of whom possessed marked talent in litera- 
 ture. Her talent shone forth brightly even in 
 early girlhood, and in school she was first and 
 brightest, and she won the medal of honor in the 
 Latin class in one of the best colleges in the south. 
 Returning to her home in the freshness and en- 
 thusiasm of young womanhood she took to song 
 as the form of literary expression best suited to 
 her genius. Her poems at once rose to pubHc 
 notice and favor and were much admired. In 
 every line of her work there is a delicacy and re- 
 finement and a sort of natural classicism that ap- 
 peals strongly to the sympathy and admiration 
 of the reader. The following lines are selected at 
 random as an illustration of her work, in which 
 the reflective element enters rather more than 
 would be expected of one so young and joyous: 
 " 'Tis well that life hath much of gladness, 
 
 Knoweth something, too, of sadness, 
 
 Bringeth hope for each to-morrow, 
 
 Sendeth comfort, oft, for sorrow; 
 
 Giveth while it taketh pleasure, 
 
 Teacheth man his soul to treasure; 
 
 Showeth as the days go by 
 
 How to live, how to die. 
 
 'Tis well— 'tis well." 
 
 Miss Walker is a beautiful young lady of 
 medium stature, an open eye and a spiritual face, 
 large blue eyes as clear as the lake or the sky 
 above it; dark hair, easy address, with perfect 
 self-possession and a dignity of carriage that im- 
 presses her friends with the sense of 
 
 "A soul at ease and beautiful." 
 
 The Walker home at Hartford, which has long 
 been in the possession of the family, is the ideal 
 and type of that "Southern home where social 
 and domestic virtues have so grown, flourished 
 and blossomed as to make the name redolent with 
 all the memories and musings which cluster 
 around the word home in its best and most ele- 
 gant estate." The above quotation is from the 
 pen of the distinguished historian. Dr. John Clark 
 Ridpath, in his review of Miss Walker's poems. 
 
 JUDGE WALKER'S ANTECEDENTS— THE 
 WALKERS. 
 
 Richard Logan Walker (father) was a native 
 of Washington County, Kentucky, and was edu- 
 cated in the schools of that county. He removed 
 to Hartford about the year 1820 and engaged in 
 merchandising and farming, shipping the product 
 of his farm and that of others to the Ohio River 
 in wagons and thence by flatboat to the New 
 Orleans market. He was a soldier in the war of 
 1812, and was sherifT of Ohio County from 1820 
 to 1827, and for one term subsequently. The date 
 of his marriage to Mahala Harris is not given. 
 He died in 1857, and she survived him until i860 
 and died, and is buried by his side at Hartford. 
 They had five children: Nathan Harris, Richard 
 Logan, Sallie Ann, Elijah Dudley and William 
 L. D. 
 
 William Walker (grandfather) was a native of 
 Fairfax County, Virginia, and was a soldier in 
 the Revolutionary war. He married Polly Logan, 
 a member of a distinguished family of Virginia. ' 
 
 MRS. ELVIRA ENGLISH WALKER'S ANCESTRY— 
 THE HYNES FAMILY. 
 
 William Hynes came from Coleraine, Ireland, 
 Londonderry County. When he came to Ameri- 
 ca he worked in the printing office with Dr. Ben- 
 jamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1745. 
 
 Thomas Hynes, son of William, came from 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 33 
 
 Maryland to Kentucky in 1779. A younger 
 brother, Colonel Andrew Hynes, came with him. 
 Thomas Hynes' wife's name was Abigail. They 
 came down the Ohio River, and landed where 
 Louisville now stands. There was only one house 
 there, the fort built by General George Rogers 
 Clark in the spring of 1779, after he had cap- 
 tured a number of British forts in the summer of 
 1778 and spring of 1779. Clark had but one hun- 
 dred and seventy-five men, and for seventeen days 
 they were up to their waists and chins in water 
 at Vincennes in February, 1779. 
 
 Thomas Hynes and his wife, Abigail, and five 
 children passed in a short time from the fort to 
 the falls of the Ohio to a fort on the north bank 
 of Salt River, about three-fourths of a mile above 
 Shepherdsville. They had nine children: Han- 
 nah, Andrew, William R., Sally, Polly, Nancy, 
 Thomas, Rachel and Elizabeth. Thomas Hynes, 
 the father of the above named children, fought in 
 the Revolutionary war, and was a captain under 
 General George Washington. 
 
 After Thomas Hynes moved into the fort on 
 Salt River he bought, in 1785, of Jacob Myers 
 the upper half of said Myers' four hundred acre 
 pre-emption on Salt River, including the site of 
 the fort. The deed from Myers to Thomas Hynes 
 is recorded in deed book No. i in the clerk's 
 office of Jefferson County. In 1788 he moved to 
 Nelson County, on Lick Creek, about four miles 
 from Boston. Thomas Hynes died in 1796 in the 
 thirty-fifth year of his age at the above mentioned 
 place. Abigail Hynes died in Nelson County 
 December 4, 1821, in the seventy-fifth year of her 
 age. 
 
 The children of Thomas and Abigail Hynes 
 married as follows: 
 
 William R. married twice ; his first wife was a 
 Miss Lawrence, by whom he had seven children ; 
 his second wife was a Miss Chenault, by whom 
 he had twelve children, and among the number 
 was Rev. Thomas W. Hynes of Bond County, Il- 
 linois. 
 
 Sally Hynes, Mrs. Walker's grandmother, mar- 
 ried William Crutcher, and had six children. 
 
 Polly Hynes married R. C. Slaughter. 
 
 Colonel Andrew Hynes, Jr., died in Nashville, 
 Tennessee, January 21, 1849. Mrs. Mary J. Mc- 
 
 Reary of St. Louis and Mrs. Lavinia Gay are 
 among his children. 
 
 Colonel Andrew Hynes was one of the trustees 
 appointed by an act of the Virginia Legislature in 
 1780 to lay ofiE the town of Louisville; ana in 
 deed book No. i, in the JefTerson County 
 Court, will be found many deeds made by him. 
 He was one of the delegates from Nelson County 
 to the constitutional convention in 1792. He 
 laid off Elizabethtown, and it was named for his 
 wife Elizabeth. 
 
 Elizabeth Crutcher, youngest child of Sally and 
 William Crutcher, married Robert English of 
 Hardin County, Kentucky. She had three chil- 
 dren, Elvira, Horace and Emma. 
 
 Many of the above facts are taken from papers 
 written by Judge William R. Thompson, son of 
 Polly Hynes, who married Volen Thompson. 
 These facts were written by Judge Thompson 
 only a short time before his death, which oc- 
 curred in 1893. He was a member of the third 
 constitutional convention of Kentucky. The 
 original from which these extracts are taken is 
 in the hands of Mr. Robert Duvall, NoHn, Hardin 
 County. 
 
 CHARLES KENNEDY WHEELER, at- 
 torney at law, Paducah, Kentucky, son of 
 James and Elizabeth (Watkins) Wheeler, was 
 born in Christian County, near Hopkinsville, Ken- 
 tucky, April 18, 1863. 
 
 His father was born in London, Middlesex 
 County, England, April 11, 181 1, and was edu- 
 cated at Oxford College. He came to America 
 when about seventeen years of age, and was first 
 employed as clerk to Judge Black of the South 
 Carolina Supreme Court. He subsequently 
 studied medicine and attended Transylvania Uni- 
 versity at Lexington and was a graduate of the 
 medical department of that institution. After 
 practicing for one year in Paris, Kentucky, h< 
 removed to Talladega, Alabama, where he fol- 
 lowed his profession until 1840, when he removed 
 to Christian County, Kentucky, purchased a farm 
 and retired from the active practive of medicine. 
 
 Dr. Wheeler was twice married; first in Paris 
 to Miss Metcalfe, a relative of Governor Metcalfe; 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 and second to Elizabeth Watkins of Appomattox 
 County, Virginia. 
 
 He was one of the most scholarly men of his 
 day and his hospitable home was the resort of 
 many of the most influential men of the south. 
 He was a Whig during the life of that party, and 
 afterward was welcomed to the councils of the 
 Democracy. He was a Mason of high degree, 
 and a member of the Episcopal Church, in which 
 faith he died March 17, 1886. 
 
 James Wheeler (grandfather) was born in Lon- 
 don, England, and was a man of means, who had 
 no special occupation, and would have been 
 known as a capitalist had he lived in this country 
 nearly a hundred years later. His wife's name 
 was Susan Kennedy, in whose remembrance the 
 middle name of the subject of this sketch was 
 given. 
 
 Elizabeth Watkins Wheeler (mother) was born 
 in 1 82 1, in Appomattox County, Virginia, four 
 miles from the place where General Lee surren- 
 dered to General Grant in 1865. She was educat- 
 ed in private schools in Richmond and was a lady 
 of fine accomplishments, in every way a suitable 
 compMiion for her intelligent and scholarly hus- 
 band. She is now living in Christian County, Ken- 
 tucky, in the home which was noted for hospital- 
 ity in the time of Dr. Wheeler's great popularity. 
 
 Joel Watkins (grandfather) was born in Ap- 
 pomattox County, Virginia, on the day of the 
 birth of the RepubHc, July 4, 1776. He received 
 a fine education in the University of Virginia. His 
 wife's maiden name was Dolly Jones, a native 
 of the same county. He was a wealthy Virginia 
 planter, and owned a great many slaves, and was 
 one of the most influential men of his day. The 
 day of his death is not remembered, nor is that of 
 his wife's, but she survived him some twenty years 
 and died at the old homestead. 
 
 Samud Watkins (great-grandfather) was a cap- 
 tain in the Revolutionary war. 
 
 The Watkins family is one of three families in 
 the United States who received the title to their 
 land from King George, it having descended from 
 the oldest son in each family. They originally 
 came from England. 
 
 Charles K. Wheeler received an academic edu- 
 cation at Stewart College, Clarksville, Tennessee, 
 
 graduating when seventeen years of age. He 
 then entered the law department of the Cumber- 
 land University, Lebanon, Tennessee, and was 
 graduated in 1880. He began the practice of law 
 very soon thereafter, and, with the exception of 
 a period of five years when he was in partnership 
 with Judge Campbell, has been alone in the prac- 
 tice of his profession ever since, and has enjoyed 
 a very liberal share of the business of the Paducah 
 bar. He is devoted to his work and seldom turns 
 aside to indulge in politics. He is one of the most 
 brilliant men in the profession; and being one of 
 the finest speakers on the platform as well as on 
 the forum, his services are in demand by his party 
 in all important political campaigns, and he wields 
 great power through the medium of his splendid 
 oratory. 
 
 He was assistant elector in the Presidential cam- 
 paigns of 1884 and 1888, on the Democratic 
 ticket. He is a member of the Democratic State 
 Executive Committee from the First Congres- 
 sional District, and takes a leading part in the 
 councils of his party, but is not an office seeker. 
 He was elected, however, to the office of Corpor- 
 ate Counsel of Paducah in 1892, the duties of 
 which position are strictly in the line of his profes- 
 sion. 
 
 Mr. Wheeler was married October 10, 1888, to 
 Mary K. Gutherie, daughter of J. J. Gutherie, of 
 Paducah. Mrs. Wheeler was bom in Paducah 
 February — , 1870, and was educated in the best 
 schools of the city, subsequently taking a musical 
 course in the Cincinnati College of Music, and 
 in addition to other accomplishments is a musi- 
 cian of rare talent. They have two children, 
 James and Mary, and tlie happy family is domi- 
 ciled in one of the loveHest homes in Paducah. 
 
 T OHN A. STRATTON, the well-known and 
 J highly successful real estate dealer of Louis- 
 ville, was bom in Henry County, Kentucky, Feb- 
 ruary 24, 1854. 
 
 His father, Elisha B. Stratton, was born near 
 Richmond, Virginia, and came to Kentucky about 
 the year 1820. He first located in Trimble County 
 and subsequently removed to Henry County, 
 where he was a farmer and stock raiser. During 
 the war he was a speculator, and after hig removal 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 35 
 
 to Louisville in 1863 he was for a while engaged 
 in a brokerage business, and became interested in 
 the large trunk manufacturing establishment, 
 which is now known as the Chilton-Guthrie Com- 
 pany. He was a leading member of the Baptist 
 Church, and being a man of fine intelligence and 
 of pure mind and upright character, he was fre- 
 quently called upon to preach the gospel. He 
 died in 1878 at the age of sixty-eight years. 
 
 William Stratton (grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia, where he lived and died. The family, 
 of English descent, came to America during the 
 seventeenth century, one branch settling in Mas- 
 sachusetts and another in Virginia. 
 
 Mary Antle Stratton (mother) was a native of 
 Henry County, and died there when John A. 
 Stratton was only six years of age. Her father, 
 John Antle, a native of Virginia, was one of the 
 pioneers of Kentucky and took part in the Indian 
 fights which occurred in the early part of the cen- 
 tury. He was a long-time resident of Henry 
 County, and died there in 1858. 
 
 John A. Stratton was about nine years of age 
 when he removed to Louisville with his father. 
 He attended a private school taught by Honor- 
 able Albert S. Willis in the county and subse- 
 quently attended the Louisville public schools. 
 At the age of sixteen he became a partner with 
 his father in the firm of Stratton & Snodgrass in 
 the manufacture of trunks, but sold out a year 
 later and returned to school. He abandoned his 
 studies a year later on account of failing health, 
 and engaged in the manufacture of hemp brushes 
 in partnership with Smith & Rammers. For two 
 years he was traveling salesman for the firm, at 
 the end of which time he bought out his partners, 
 and for a short time conducted the business alone ; 
 but he was compelled to abandon the work on ac- 
 count of its injurious efifect upon his lungs. 
 
 He traveled extensively for a year recuperat- 
 ing his health, and as out-door exercise seemed 
 to be essential to life, his physician employed him 
 as collector. He undertook other collections, in- 
 cluding house rents, and his business grew until he 
 found himself one of the leading real estate agents 
 of the city. In this his success was phenomenal. 
 He carefully studied and familiarized himself with 
 the values pf real property, studied the Jaws re- 
 
 lating to the same, and by his unerring judgment, 
 business sagacity and industry soon established a 
 reputation as a safe man to handle the property 
 of others. 
 
 In the time he has been in this business he has 
 made more sales and negotiated larger deals 
 than any other agent in the city. His fe« in a 
 single transaction at the usual percentage to 
 agents amounted to $20,000. He has been em- 
 ployed to divide, adjust and settle some of the 
 largest estates in Louisville, and in almost every 
 important suit at law involving the value of realty 
 he is called as an expert and eminently fair wit- 
 ness. 
 
 He foresaw the advance in Louisville property 
 some years ago and made many valuable deals 
 for his clients and for himself. He is a fine real 
 estate lawyer, and can give his attorney points 
 in matters pertaining to his particular line of busi- 
 ness. A man of means and large liberality, he is 
 prominent in all matters in which public-spirited 
 citizens seek to promote the growth and prosper- 
 ity of the city, and exerts all of his energies to 
 that end. He is a large stockholder in a number 
 of enterprises in the city. 
 
 Mr. Stratton was married in 1874 to Mamie 
 Varble, daughter of Captain Pink Varble, de- 
 ceased, of Louisville; and they have one son, 
 Frank L. Stratton. Captain Varble was one of 
 the best known pilots and steamboatmen on the 
 Ohio River, an exceedingly popular and worthy 
 citizen, who died in 1892. 
 
 WILBUR FITZALAN STIRMAN, M. D., 
 one of the most popular and distinguished 
 surgeons and physicians of Owensboro, son of 
 Dr. William Doswell and Rachel (Wall) Stirman, 
 was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, June 2, 1856. 
 His father was also an eminent physician of 
 Owensboro for more than thirty years. He was 
 born in Washington County, Kentucky, Decem- 
 ber 12, 1820, and was educated in the schools of 
 that county and, after reading medicine with Dr. 
 Linton in St. Louis, was graduated from the 
 medical department of the St. Louis University, 
 February 29, 1844. He was elected Demonstra- 
 tor of Anatomy in that institution the following 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 year, and held that position for two years. In 
 1849 he resigned the professorship in the uni- 
 versity and returned to Kentucky, and located in 
 Rumsey, McLean County, remaining there but 
 a short time, when he removed to Owensboro, 
 where he continued to reside until his death, May 
 8, 1893. 
 
 In 1858 he was called to the chair of Professor 
 of Anatomy in the Kentucky School of Medicine 
 at Louisville, and spent the winter months in that 
 city until 1861, when he resigned on account of 
 the interruption of the school's business upon the 
 outbreak of the war. After this his whole time 
 was given to the practice of his profession. 
 
 He was a dignified, scholarly gentleman, warm 
 hearted, sympathetic and gentle; and his genial 
 manner in the sickroom made him a favorite, but 
 his great worth was as the true physician, in 
 whom his patients trusted implicitly. 
 
 He was no less prominent as a citizen, for he 
 was greatly interested in the progress and wel- 
 fare of the community and was ever ready to 
 help a good cause by word or deed. During the 
 later years of his useful life he was regarded by 
 his many friends and acquaintances as the "Grand 
 Old Man" of Owensboro, while in medical circles 
 he was acknowledged the mentor of the profes- 
 sion. He belonged to several local, state and na- 
 tional medical associations, and helped them along. 
 He was not a politician, but as a good citizen he 
 exercised the right of suffrage and voted the 
 Democratic ticket. He was a true and faithful 
 Christian in connection with the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church; and in all spheres of life in which 
 he was called to act, he was the same dignified 
 scholar, the kind physician, the respected citizen 
 and the beloved Christian gentleman. 
 
 He married Rachel Anne Wall, November 29, 
 1849. She was born in McLean County, Ken- 
 tucky, April 29, 1829; and was educated at Mrs. 
 Tevis' Science Hill Academy, Shelbyville. She 
 survives her husband, and is now living in Owens- 
 boro, greatly loved for her personal worth and 
 lovely Christian character. She is the mother of 
 five sons and one daughter: William Wall Stir- 
 man, deceased; Fannie Conway, wife of Joseph 
 L. Lee of Owensboro; Dr. Wilbur F. Stirman, the 
 subject of this sketch; Middleton Goldsmith Stir- 
 
 man, married Sarah D. Perkins; Joseph Scobee 
 Stirman, married Martha Lumpkin, and Fred- 
 erick Victor, married Susan Gilmour. 
 
 James H. Stirman (grandfather) was a native 
 of Roanoke County, Virginia, where he was a 
 merchant and planter for many years. He was 
 a captain in the War of 1812, and received three 
 gunshot wounds at the battle of Thames and fell 
 within twenty-six feet of the spot where Tecum- 
 seh fell. He recovered from his wounds and sub- 
 sequently removed to Memphis, Tennessee, 
 where he died in 1820. His wife was Elizabeth 
 L. Doswell, daughter of Thomas Doswell of Han- 
 over County, Virginia, who removed to Wash- 
 ington County, Kentucky, where their marriage 
 took place. The Doswells belonged to an old 
 Virginia family, whose ancestors came to that 
 state from England. 
 
 Bannister Wall (maternal grandfather), a to- 
 bacconist, was born in Pearson County, North 
 Carolina, and married Sarah Tate Thompson, 
 who was born in Nelson County, Kentucky, but 
 at the time of their marriage were living in Mc- 
 Lean County. 
 
 Boyd Wall (great-grandfather) married Eliza- 
 beth Wade, and they were residents of North 
 Carolina. 
 
 Sarah Tate Thompson (grandmother), wife of 
 Bannister Wall, was a daughter of Anthony 
 Thompson, native of Pennsylvania, and Rachel 
 Handley of Virginia. 
 
 Anthony Thompson (great-grandfather) was a 
 son of James Thompson and Sarah Finley, both 
 of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Dr. Wilbur F. Stirman received a good literary 
 education in the Owensboro schools; at Hanover 
 College, Indiana, in which he took the Sophomore 
 and Junior courses; and then went to Vander- 
 bilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, from which 
 he was graduated in the class of 1877. In the 
 following autumn he went to the St. Louis Medi- 
 cal College, from which he graduated in medi- 
 cine in 1879. He spent the three years following 
 in hospital work in St. Louis, thereby gaining a 
 valuable experience. 
 
 In 1881 he joined his father in Owensboro, 
 under the firm name of Stirman & Stirman, and 
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KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 of the senior member, May 8, i8g^. After enter- 
 ing upon the duties of the profession with his 
 father, Dr. Stirman took several post-graduate 
 courses in the Polyclinic Institute, New York 
 City. He succeeded to the large practice of his 
 father and has taken his place in the hearts of the 
 people, who have the same confidence in the son 
 that they had so implicitly placed in the father. 
 
 Dr. Stirman is especially distinguished as a 
 surgeon, and is acknowledged by the profession 
 as the ablest surgeon in the county. His services 
 are in demand in all cases in which important 
 surgical skill is required, and other physicians 
 rarely undertake serious work of that character 
 without his assistance or consultation with him. 
 Aside from this branch of work, for which he 
 has especially prepared himself, he enjoys a very 
 extensive general practice, for which he is natur- 
 ally adapted, being kind, considerate and gentle 
 in the sickroom, and having acquired a knowledge 
 of medicine which few men of his age in the 
 state have attained. He has inherited and culti- 
 vated many of the fine traits of character of his 
 distinguished father and is quite as popular as a 
 citizen as he is as a physician and surgeon. 
 
 In recognition of his ability as a surgeon, he 
 is employed in that capacity by the Louisville & 
 Nashville Railroad Company; the Louisville, St. 
 Louis & Texas Railroad Company; the Chesa- 
 peake & Ohio Railroad Company, and the Elec- 
 tric Street Railway Company of Owensboro. 
 
 He is a member of the McDowell Medical So- 
 ciety, and of the American Medical Association. 
 Dr. Stirman is faithful to the principles of the 
 Democratic party, and his vote helps to swell 
 the comfortable majority of the Democracy in 
 his city and county. 
 
 Socially Dr. Stirman is a great favorite, being 
 a companionable, genial and courteous gentle- 
 man of scholarly attainments, whose becoming 
 dignity is lost sight of in the company of his 
 friends and associates. 
 
 HON. JOHN W. BARR of Louisville, Judge 
 of the United States District Court, was 
 born in Versailles, December 17, 1826. His early 
 instruction was received in private schools in his 
 
 native county, and his legal education at Tran- 
 sylvania University, Lexington, whence he was 
 graduated when twenty years of age. 
 
 His father, William Barr, was also a native 
 Kentuckian, born in Fayette County, near Lex- 
 ington, in 1796. He received a good education 
 in the best private schools ; was engaged for many 
 years in the mercantile business in Versailles and 
 Louisville, continuing in the former place until 
 1840, when he disposed of his interests there 
 and removed to Mississippi, where he engaged in 
 cotton planting. He devoted his best energies to 
 business, enjoying a quiet life and caring but lit- 
 tle for politics, although he was a Whig of very 
 strong convictions. He died in Washington 
 County, Mississippi, in 1844. 
 
 Judge Barr's paternal grandfather was a native 
 of Pennsylvania, and a farmer, removing to Fay- 
 ette County in 1787, where he spent the remainder 
 of his days, farming near Lexington. 
 
 Dr. John Watson (maternal grandfather) was 
 a native of Maryland; married Nancy Howe, 
 daughter of Major Howe of Virginia; came to 
 Woodford County when a young man and en- 
 gaged in the practice of medicine, where he con- 
 tinued his professional work during the remainder 
 of his life. His daughter, Ann Watson (mother), 
 was born in Virginia in 1808. She received a 
 liberal education in Woodford County; was mar- 
 ried to William Barr in 1825, and died in Ver- 
 sailles in 1829, at the early age of twenty-one 
 years. She was a devout member of the Pres- 
 byterian Church. 
 
 After completing his legal studies at Lexington, 
 Judge Barr returned to Versailles, remaining 
 there but a short time when he removed to Louis- 
 ville and engaged in the practice of his profes- 
 sion in partnership with the late Joseph B. Kin- 
 kead. This partnership continued for eight years, 
 when it was dissolved by mutual consent, the 
 parties thereto remaining steadfast friends until 
 the death of Mr. Kinkead. 
 
 Judge Barr continued to practice in the higher 
 courts alone until 1864, when he entered into 
 partnership with Hon. John Kemp Goodloe. In 
 1868 Judge Alexander P. Humphrey came into 
 the firm, which continued without change until 
 1880, when Mr. Barr was appointed United States 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 District Judge, in the place of Judge Bland Bal- 
 lard, deceased. 
 
 Although a stanch Whig in his early days and 
 an ardent Republican ever since the organization 
 of that party. Judge Barr has never been active 
 in party affairs and has never sought political 
 preferment. But he has held many offices of 
 trust and honor in Louisville. From 1868 to 1871 
 he was President of the Louisville Sinking Fund 
 Commissioners ; for twenty years he was a direc- 
 tor of the Bank of Kentucky ; he served a number 
 of terms as representative of his ward in the City 
 Council. In all of his relations in public life he 
 has enjoyed the respect and confidence of his 
 fellow citizens. 
 
 In November, 1859, he married Susan Rogers, 
 daughter of Col. Jason Rogers of Louisville. Mrs. 
 Barr was a highly educated and cultured lady, 
 receiving the best instruction that the schools of 
 Louisville and a private school in New York 
 could afford. She was a member of the Presby- 
 terian Church, a devout Christian. She died in 
 1871, leaving seven children, two sons and five 
 daughters: John W. Barr, Jr., Anna W., Caro- 
 hne H., Susan R., Josephine P., Elise R. and 
 Jason Rogers Barr. 
 
 Judge Barr and his family attend the College 
 Street Presbyterian Church. 
 
 MK. SCOTT, a leading wholesale hard- 
 . ware merchant of Paducah, son of John 
 and Martha (Broaddus) Scott, was born in 
 Louisville, Kentucky, August 17, 1832. His 
 father was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1794, and 
 was educated there, removing to Louisville when 
 he was a young man, where he was engaged in 
 blacksmithing on a very extensive scale. He was 
 a soldier and an Indian fighter in the troublous 
 times of the early years of the present century; 
 was wounded in the battle of Tippecanoe, and was 
 in a number of serious engagements with the 
 Indians. He was in business in Louisville for 
 fifty years, retiring in 1865, when he went to 
 Paducah to live with his son, and died there in 
 1868. He was strictly a man of business and 
 cared nothing for politics, personally; but, dur- 
 ing the life of the Whig party, he voted with it 
 
 and wished it success. He was a strong Union 
 man during the war of the '6o's, but he was ad- 
 vanced in years and, having served his country 
 faithfully in his younger days, he took no active 
 part in the struggle between the sections. He 
 was a good citizen, and a pious member of the 
 Presbyterian Church. His ancestors were from 
 Ireland. 
 
 Martha Broaddus Scott (mother) was a native 
 of Culpeper County, Virginia, who came to Louis- 
 ville after receiving her education in her native 
 county, and was married there to John Scott. 
 The Broaddus family was one of the first to set- 
 tle in Virginia and were distinguished for their 
 intelligence and fine traits of character. M. K. 
 Scott, after attending the public schools of Louis- 
 ville, learned the tinner's trade, in which he was 
 employed in Louisville and New Orleans. 
 
 On the first day of August, 185 1, he took 
 steamer from the latter city for Cuba, having ten- 
 dered his services as a private soldier in the cause 
 of Cuba against Spain. There were four hundred 
 and fifty men in the party and they were nine days 
 on the water, finally running on a reef a mile from 
 land, so that the men were forced to go ashore in 
 boats. They were discovered and fired on by 
 the inhabitants, but without great loss. General 
 Lopez, a native born Cuban, but opposed to the 
 Spanish Government, was in command. After 
 landing Lopez took three hundred and fifty men 
 and started for the interior of the island, leav- 
 ing one hundred men under General W. L. Crit- 
 tenden (nephew of John J. Crittenden, United 
 States Senator from Kentucky), with instructions 
 to bring ammunition, baggage and supplies. 
 Crittenden was attacked by Spanish troops and 
 fifty of his one hundred men were slain on the 
 spot. With the remaining fifty men he attempted 
 to escape in a schooner, expecting to be picked 
 up by an American vessel, but they were cap- 
 tured by a Spanish man-of-war and taken to 
 Havana, where Crittenden and all of his men 
 were shot. The Spaniards commanded the sol- 
 diers to turn their backs to the squad of execu- 
 tioners and kneel; and all of them did so except 
 Crittenden, who faced his slayers and said, "A 
 Kentuckian kneels to none but God." This sen- 
 timent has been commemorated in a poem by 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 39 
 
 Mary E. (Wilson) Betts: "He Never Turned His 
 Back on the Enemy." 
 
 Fortunately, Mr. Scott was with Lopez, whose 
 forces had a successful fight with the enemy the 
 next (Sunday) morning. After the battle, Lopez 
 went to the mountains to escape from a superior 
 force. The next Sunday after the first battle they 
 had another battle at General Lopez' plantation, 
 and again resorted to the mountains and again, 
 on the following Sunday, they defeated the enemy 
 in another battle. Four weeks after landing they 
 were defeated again, their ammunition having 
 given out. The command then broke up into 
 small parties and sought refuge in the mountains ; 
 and, after waiting some time, they resolved to risk 
 going to the seacoast, where they hoped to be 
 picked up by a friendly vessel. In attempting 
 this Mr. Scott, with a party of five, was captured. 
 One of the party, named Mahon, from Maysville, 
 Kentucky, had been chosen by lot to go into the 
 valley to secure provisions. He was successful 
 in his mission, but on his way back he ate all 
 of the provisions he had received. While the 
 party was cussing and discussing the situation, 
 they saw that they were pursued by Spanish sol- 
 diers, accompanied by bloodhounds and, after a 
 lively chase, all were captured. Mr. Scott was 
 forced by the hounds to climb a tree. When 
 the soldiers came up they advised him to come 
 down and as he obeyed a bayonet was thrust 
 into his back. He was bound and taken to a 
 town called St. Christopher and, with others of 
 his party, put in stocks. Mahon was not cap- 
 tured for a few days. They were kept in the 
 stocks for four or five hours, when they were re- 
 leased and given the privilege of the town. A few 
 days later they were sent to Havana and placed 
 in Potter prison, their heads were shaved 
 and they were dressed in prison clothes 
 and placed in irons. They were in this 
 sorry plight about three weeks, when they 
 were placed on board a vessel bound for the 
 quicksilver mines in Africa. They were one hun- 
 dred and five days going from Havana to Vigo, 
 Spain ; and, while in quarantine at the latter place, 
 owing to the intercession of the American con- 
 sul, they were pardoned by the queen. The Ger- 
 mans and Hungarians did not claim citizenship 
 
 in the United States and their respective govern- 
 ments would not recognize them, so they were 
 sent to Africa. The American consul took charge 
 of the party and furnished them with provisions 
 for six weeks while waiting for passage. 
 
 Mr. Scott landed safely in New York, March 
 lo, 1852, entirely satisfied with his war experience. 
 He at once returned to his home in Louisville, 
 and for three years was employed by Bridgeford 
 & Company, when he went to Paducah, where he 
 was engaged by E. R. Hart for seven years. In 
 1863 he embarked in the tinning and hardware 
 business in Paducah on his own account, and 
 has continued with the most satisfactory results 
 until the present time. 
 
 As to politics, Mr. Scott is a Democrat with- 
 out political aspirations. He is faithful in busi- 
 ness, devoted to his family and can be depended 
 upon for a good turn in behalf of his friends and 
 neighbors. 
 
 Mr. Scott was married in July, 1857, to Eliza- 
 beth Applegate; and they have eight children 
 living: Frank, William, Elizabeth, Anna, Belle, 
 Ruebie, Etta, Richard and Irene. Two of their 
 children, Harry and Walter, are deceased. 
 
 DR. SAMUEL C. SMITH, formerly of Hen- 
 derson, now a resident and practicing phy- 
 sician of Audubon, Henderson County, was bom 
 in Lunenburg County, Virginia, July 12, 1831. 
 He completed his education at Hampden-Sidney 
 College, Virginia, and graduated in medicine at 
 the National Medical College, Washington, D. 
 C. (the medical department of Columbian Uni- 
 versity), in 1861. In 1862 he. entered the service 
 of the Confederate States of America in the 
 capacity of surgeon, and was assigned to duty at 
 Chimborazo Hospital, in the city of Richmond, 
 Virginia; was transferred to Farmville, Virginia, 
 in 1863, where he served until the close of the war. 
 He removed from Virginia to^ Henderson in Sep- 
 tember, 1870, and was a practicing physician in 
 that city until 1892, when he removed to Audu- 
 bon (a suburb of Henderson), his present place 
 of residence and the center of his field of opera- 
 tions, practicing in the city of Henderson, where 
 his office is located, and in the surrounding coun- 
 ties in Kentucky and Indiana. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Dr. Smith is a member of the Kentucky State 
 Medical Society, the McDowell Medical Society 
 and other organizations for the promotion of 
 medical science. He has been a member of the 
 Presbyterian Church since 1863. 
 
 He married Susan J. Street, daughter of Peter 
 W. Street of Lunenburg County, Virginia, in 
 1854. They had ten children, five of whom died 
 in infancy and five are now living, viz. : Jessie S., 
 wife of Dr. J. K. Hayes, now of Hanson's Sta- 
 tion ; Lillian, wife of G. Rives Williams, grocer of 
 Henderson; Annie M., wife of 'William M. Carr 
 of Morganfield, and Walter S. and William A. 
 Smith, both of whom are unmarried and living in 
 Henderson. 
 
 Dr. Anthony W. Smith (father) was also 
 a native of Lunenburg County, Virginia, and 
 was a celebrated physician and surgeon, hav- 
 ing served in a professional capacity dur- 
 ing the war with Great Britain in 1812. He 
 was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church for 
 many years ; contributed his quota to the medical 
 and surgical literature of his day, and at the time 
 of his death in 1858, was the oldest Mason in his 
 native county. He graduated in medicine from 
 the University of Pennsylvania in 1818, and 
 located in the city of Baltimore, where he mar- 
 ried Miss Margaret E. B. Wheeler of Easton, 
 Maryland; and, after her death, he returned to 
 his native county and state with an only son, O. 
 M. Smith, now deceased. He married Ann M. 
 McRobert of Prince Edward County, Virginia, 
 in 1826, and there were five children by this 
 union, viz.: John Henry, Emily Montford, 
 Camilla, Samuel C. and Henrietta A. Emily 
 Montford died in infancy. Camilla, married 
 James Hayes, Jr., and settled in Mecklenburg 
 County, Virginia; died from effects of fall from 
 a buggy. Jno. Henry died in his sixty-ninth 
 year from apoplexy, unmarried. Henrietta mar- 
 ried James Hayes after the death of her sister 
 Camilla and is still living — being a widow. 
 
 Dr. S. C. Smith, the subject of this sketch, is 
 now in his sixty-fourth year and is still engaged 
 in active practice of all the branches of his pro- 
 fession. Office and address is 100 1-2 Main street, 
 Henderson. 
 
 FRANK O. YOUNG, M. D.. a well-known and 
 popular physician of Lexington, son of 
 Richard B. and Jane (O'Neal) Young, was born 
 in Lexington, Kentucky, November 13, 1854. 
 
 Richard B. Young was a native of Fayette 
 County and when quite young became a resident 
 of Lexington, where he was a leather merchant 
 for many years and where he died, January 26, 
 1873, in the sixty-sixth year of his age. He was 
 a consistent Christian in connection with the 
 Baptist Church. In politics he was an enthu- 
 siastic follower of Henry Clay, and after the 
 disruption of the old Whig party, he voted the 
 Democratic ticket. 
 
 Ambrose Young (grandfather) was also a na- 
 tive of Fayette County and was an enterprising 
 and industrious farmer until the time of his death, 
 which occurred in 1849, when he had reached an 
 advanced age. 
 
 Richard Young (great-grandfather) was of 
 Scotch-Irish descent, and was born in Virginia. 
 He came to Kentucky and was a Fayette County 
 farmer and a highly respected citizen of the coun- 
 ty until the day of his death. 
 
 Jane O'Neal Young (mother) was a native of 
 Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Her parents died 
 when she was a child and she then came to Ken- 
 tucky, where she found a home with relatives in 
 Woodford County. . She is now living and is a 
 devoted member of the Christian Church. Her 
 father, Frank O'Neal, was a native of Ireland who 
 came to America in the first decade of the present 
 century, and died in Virginia, when he was in the 
 prime of life. 
 
 Frank O. Young was educated in Lexington, 
 attending the primary schools and Transylvania 
 University for a time and was graduated from 
 Beech Grove College in 1870. He read medicine 
 with Dr. Hawkins Brown of Hustonville, Ken- 
 tucky, graduated in medicine from Medical De- 
 partment of the University of Louisville, Ken- 
 tucky, and in March, 1874, before he was twenty 
 years of age, he located at Liberty, Casey County, 
 where he practiced medicine for six years. He 
 then removed to Lancaster, where he practiced 
 for two years, after which he returned to Lexing- 
 ton, his native city, and located permanentiy and 
 was soon recognized as one of the most successful 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 41 
 
 physicians in Fayette County. He is a member 
 of the Kentucky State Medical Society, Medical 
 Society of Lexington and Fayette County and of 
 the Medical Society of Central Kentucky; presi- 
 dent of the Board of Aldermen and acting Mayor 
 of Lexington; president of the Lexington Board 
 of Health and of the Saturday Night Building 
 and Loan Association. He is a Knight Tem- 
 plar, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias, an 
 Elk and a member of the Christian Church. 
 
 Dr. Young was married June 15, 1881, to Addie 
 Barkley, daughter of William L. Barkley of Fay- 
 ette County. She died December 18, 1892. 
 
 Dr. Young is a self-made man, as it is owing to 
 his own exertions that he has won his way to the 
 front both as a citizen and as a physician. He 
 is one of the most popular men in his profession, 
 and there are few men in Lexington who have 
 oeen more zealous for the upbuilding and 
 material progress of that beautiful city. 
 
 REV. WILLIAM CARSON TAYLOR, D. 
 D., pastor of the Baptist Church at Frank- 
 fort and one of the most eloquent pulpit orators 
 in Kentucky, was born in Taylorsburg, Henry 
 County, Virginia, February 7, 1858. He is a 
 son of Rev. James I. Taylor, who was a minister 
 in the Baptist Church, but is now retired from 
 active work in the ministry and is engaged in 
 farming in Oregon, to which state he removed 
 from Virginia in 1874. He was born in 1831 in 
 Taylorsburg, a town which takes its name from 
 the Taylor family. 
 
 Reuben Taylor (grandfather) was born in Tay- 
 lorsburg in 1790, and was engaged in agricul- 
 tural pursuits in Henry County, where he died in 
 1864. He was quite prosperous in his occupation, 
 and was one of the leading citizens in his county 
 and a prominent member of the Baptist Church. 
 Three of his brothers were soldiers in the war 
 of 1812. 
 
 George Taylor (great-grandfather), a native of 
 Wales, came to America in 1772; and in 1779 
 took a large tract of land in Henry County, 
 receiving his title from the government when 
 General Washington was President of the United 
 States and Thomas Jefferson was Governor of 
 Virginia. He died in Henry County in 1823. 
 
 Ruth Taylor (mother) is a native of North 
 CaroHna, and is now residing in Oregon, and 
 is well advanced in years. 
 
 William C. Taylor remained on the farm in his 
 native county until he was sixteen years of age, 
 when he removed with his parents to the state of 
 Oregon. Soon after arriving there he entered 
 the State University of Oregon, in which insti- 
 tution he received his classical education; and 
 subsequently attended the New York Theological 
 Seminary at Rochester and, after three years' 
 preparation for the work of the ministry, was 
 graduated from that institution in 1887. 
 
 He accepted a pastorate in the city of Buffalo 
 and was ordained in July, 1887. He labored 
 there with gratifying success for four years and, 
 as one of the results of his work, founded the 
 Fillmore Avenue Baptist Church of Buffalo. 
 
 On the second day of January, 1891, he ac- 
 cepted a call from the Baptist congregation of 
 Frankfort, and at once assumed the duties of 
 pastor of that church. Under his ministra- 
 tion this congregation has steadily increased in 
 numbers, strength and usefulness and was never 
 before in as prosperous a condition as it is to-day. 
 Mr.. Taylor is an eloquent speaker, an able 
 minister, excellent pastor and enjoys the confi- 
 dence of his people. Interesting and pleasing in 
 conversation, warm and sincere in his friendships, 
 he commands the respect and good will of the 
 community, in which he has been the instrument 
 of accomplishing great good. 
 
 He was married May 15, 1889, to Ida Meyer, 
 daughter of C. C. Meyer of Rochester, New York ; 
 and they have two daughters, Ruth and Esther. 
 Dr. Taylor was honored with the title of Doc- 
 tor of Divinity by the Georgetown College, 
 Georgetown, Kentucky, at its annual commence- 
 ment of 1895. During the latter part of that 
 summer and the following autumn he made a 
 tour of Palestine, Egypt and several European 
 countries with a view to special study of Biblical 
 and historical literature. 
 
 EUGENE M. TERRY, Master Lock Manager 
 of the Louisville & Portland Canal, son of 
 John and Mary Moss Terry, was born in Glas- 
 gow, Kentucky, August 13, 1838. His father was 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Wn in Louisa Virginia, and came to Kentucky daughters: Hattie, Florence, Eugenia, John 
 
 wi h his^aU r,' Willam M. Terry, when he was Daniel, Bessie and Charles. Hatt.e xs the wxfe of 
 
 with tati^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ .^ ^^^^ ^_ p_ Kennedy, a farmer of Jefferson County; 
 
 ._.!.„„ T„u„ T^rr^r rpacVicd his maU" and Eugenia is the wife of E. B. Casler of 
 
 nme years „ 
 
 County and when John Terry reached his man 
 hood, he went to Glasgow and lived there until 
 1848, when he removed to Louisville and engaged 
 in the wholesale grocery business. He was a 
 member of and officer in the First Christian 
 Church, an upright citizen and successful business 
 man. He died in 1873, aged sixty-three years. 
 
 William M. Terry (grandfather) was a native 
 of Virginia, who removed to 'Todd County in 
 1819, or about that time, and was a farmer and 
 highly esteemed citizen of that county until the 
 day of his death in 1858. He was at one time 
 sheriflE of Todd County. 
 
 Mary Moss Terry (mother) was born in Barren 
 County, near Glasgow, in 1819 and died in Louis- 
 ville in 1894. She was a lifetime member of the 
 Christian Church and was greatly loved by the 
 congregation with which she was connected in 
 Louisville. 
 
 Josiah Moss (grandfather) was a native of Vir- 
 ginia; was a popular hotel keeper in Glasgow, 
 and at the same time owned and operated a farm 
 in Barren County. He died in Glasgow at the 
 age of seventy years. 
 
 Eugene M. Terry came to Louisville with his 
 father's family in 1848 and continued his schooling 
 in that city. After leaving school he was a clerk 
 in his father's grocery until the breaking out of the 
 war, when he entered the government service in 
 the commissary department in Louisville, in 
 which he served for three years; but just before 
 the close of the war he gave up this position and 
 was engaged in the leaf tobacco trade for two 
 years. He was then in the railroad contracting 
 "business -for two years, after which he served in 
 the city engineer's department of the city as 
 superintendent of public works for a term of 
 five years, afterwards being variously engaged in 
 contracting, etc., until October, 1893, when he 
 was appointed Master Lock Manager of the 
 Louisville & Portland Canal by the Secretary 
 of War. 
 
 Mr. Terry was married in 1863 to Bettie M. 
 Spalding, daughter of the late Daniel Spalding 
 
 and 
 Louisville. 
 
 ANDREW JACKSON WORSHAM, Mayor 
 of the City of Henderson, is a son of the 
 late Elijah W. Worsham and Mariam (Graham) 
 Worsham, and was born in Henderson County, 
 Kentucky, May 17, 1850. 
 
 His father, by honest effort, faithful applica- 
 tion and fine judgment, had gained a competency 
 which enabled him to give his children the best 
 educational advantages, and Andrew was sent to 
 private schools in Henderson, to Smith's Military 
 Institute at Eminence and to a commercial col- 
 lege at Poughkeepsie, New York. 
 
 He applied himself to his studies diligently 
 and acquitted himself with credit to himself and 
 to his father, who had been so mindful of his 
 son's welfare. 
 
 In the month of August, 1873, his father re- 
 moved with his family to California and settled 
 near San Francisco on the San Joaquin river. 
 A. J. Worsham there engaged in ranching for 
 the period of two years. 
 
 On the loth of November, 1873, he had the 
 most thrilling experience of his life. In com- 
 pany with a friend named Duncan Cargill, he 
 undertook to cross the river. The high winds 
 had made the river, which was one and a half 
 miles wide at that point, very rough; and when 
 they started a perfect wind storm set in at dark 
 and the waves were rolling and white caps flying 
 house-top high. They struggled manfully, but 
 progressed very slowly until they reached the 
 middle of the stream, when the boat was capsized, 
 the two men were thrown into the cold waves, and 
 Cargill was drowned. The situation was very 
 appalling, and, exhausted from his exertions and 
 chilled by the water, Worsham still clung to the 
 up-turned boat. It was about 10 o'clock when 
 tliey left the shore, it was near midnight when the 
 boat capsized. Near daylight he had drifted near 
 the shore and had almost lost consciousness, when 
 a Mr. Sutherland came to his rescue, hfting him 
 
 of Louisville; and they have three sons and four from the water, carried him on his shoulder to his 
 
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 home, where restoratives were administered and 
 his life saved. 
 
 On the 7th of June, 1876, not quite three years 
 after his experience as related above, Mr. Wor- 
 sham was united in marriage to Florence Rhorer 
 at her home in San Francisco, California. As a 
 result of this union they have seven living chil- 
 dren: John C, Mariam J., Milton R., Ludson, 
 Arch. D., George A., and Virginia Rhorer Wor- 
 sham. 
 
 Soon after marriage he was elected Superinten- 
 dent of the Calcutta Gold and Silver Mining Com- 
 pany, and removed to Gold Hill, Nevada, where 
 he engaged in mining, until the spring of 1877, 
 when he removed to Banning, where he engaged 
 in merchandising. Mr. Worsham was also post- 
 master of Banning during his residence there. 
 He returned to Henderson in 1881 ; and with his 
 father engaged in the wholesale liquor and dis- 
 tilling business under the firm name of E. W. 
 Worsham & Company, which partnership con- 
 tinued until the death of his father, December 31, 
 1891. In November following, the distillery was 
 incorporated in the name of the Worsham Dis- 
 tilling Company, with D. C. Worsham, President; 
 A. J. Worsham, Vice President, and R. D. Rey- 
 nols. Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 On the 5th of November, 1895, Mr. Worsham 
 was elected Mayor of Henderson, a position for 
 which he is qualified in an eminent degree, having 
 served in the City Council, and being a man of 
 unusual business capacity. Mayor Worsham 
 is a republican in politics, and his election 
 in a democratic city was due in a large measure 
 to his popularity and to the generally conceded 
 fact that he was the man for the place. He is a 
 member of several leading benevolent orders, 
 including the Odd Fellows, Elks, Knights of 
 Pythias and A. O. U. W. 
 
 He is a very industrious man, attending dili- 
 gently to his business, and is always ready to 
 assist in the promotion of a good cause. In the 
 brief time which he has been chief executive for 
 his city, he has applied his well known business 
 methods in the management of the affairs of the 
 city, and has inaugurated a policy of reform which 
 promises to distinguish his administration as one 
 of the most progressive the city has ever enjoyed. 
 
 Elijah W. Worsham (father) was born near 
 Henderson, February 12, 1823. His father, Lud- 
 son Worsham (grandfather) removed from Indi- 
 ana to Kentucky in 1820 and purchased a farm 
 about half a mile above Evansville on the Ohio 
 river. In 1832, Ludson Worsham, having a con- 
 tract for carrying mail between Henderson and 
 Evansville, Elijah Worsham, then nine years of 
 age, was required to make the weekly trip be- 
 tween these two points on horseback. He per- 
 formed this duty manfully for three years and was 
 frequently frightened out of his wits as he passed 
 through the wilderness. His early education was 
 fragmentary, the schools of those days not being 
 the best, and his opportunities of attending even 
 these were limited to such times as he could be 
 spared from the work on the farm. 
 
 In 1844, when twenty-one years of age, he 
 married Mariam J. Graham, a lady of great beauty. 
 In 1847 he purchased a farm near Bloomington, 
 where he lived for three years, and in 1850 he 
 removed to his father's old place. He was an 
 active politician, and in 1855 he was elected to the 
 legislature by the American, or Know-Nothing 
 party. In 1859, he purchased a farm within two 
 miles of Henderson on the Owensboro road. In 
 1863, he built the Overton tobacco factory, and 
 began tobacco stemming on an extensive scale. 
 In 1867 he removed from his farm to Henderson. 
 
 In 1870 he formed a partnership with A. S. 
 Winstead, and, under the firm name of E. W. 
 Worsham & Company, bought and sold liquors 
 at wholesale and manufactured bitters and ma- 
 larial medicines. In 1873, in company with 
 others, he purchased a large tract of Tule lands 
 in California and moved to that state. His ex- 
 perience in wheat raising on these lands for two 
 years was satisfactory, but he sold out and went 
 to San Francisco, remained one year, and thence 
 to Los Angeles, where he engaged in raising sheep 
 and other successful ventures. In 1881 he re- 
 turned to Henderson, and, under the firm name 
 of E. W. Worsham & Company, built a large sour 
 mash distillery, now known as the Worsham 
 Distillery. 
 
 Thus he had many ups and downs, yet by his 
 superior judgment, keen foresight and careful 
 management, he held his own and amassed a 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 splendid fortune. He willingly served the public 
 in any way in his power; was a member of the 
 school board and the city council and was twice 
 elected President of the Henderson Fair Com- 
 pany. He joined the Odd Fellows' order in 1844, 
 and was a useful and active member, at one time 
 serving as Deputy District Grand Master. He 
 united with the Baptist Church in 1846, and was 
 an influential laiember until 1870, when he with- 
 drew. He died December 31, 1891, in the sixty- 
 ninth year of his age. 
 
 THOMAS RODMAN, president of the Farm- 
 ers' Bank of Kentucky, Frankfort, is a 
 worthy member of one of the most prominent 
 families in the state. He has had a most suc- 
 cessful business career, and is to-day one of the 
 leading citizens of Frankfort. He is a son of John 
 and Patsy (Force) Rodman, who were descend- 
 ed, respectively, from Irish and Huguenot an- 
 cestry. 
 
 John Rodman was born in Pennsylvania in 
 1787, and in 1790 came to Kentucky and located 
 near the present site of Louisville, where he re- 
 mained one year with his father, and then removed 
 to Shelby County and subsequently to Henry 
 County, where he died in 1833. He was a man 
 of influence and prominence in his county, hav- 
 ing served one term in the Legislature and being 
 a member of the State Senate at the time of his 
 death. He was a leading and exemplary mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His 
 father, Hugh Rodman, was born in Pennsyl- 
 vania, and was one of the early settlers in Jef- 
 ferson County, subsequently removing to Shelby 
 County, and later to Henry County, Kentucky. 
 
 Patsy Force Rodman (mother) was a native 
 of Virginia, and died in Frankfort in 1883 at the 
 age of eighty-seven years. Her father, William 
 Force, a Pluguenot, came to this country upon 
 the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and located, 
 first, in South Carolina, where he lived a short 
 time, and then removed to Virginia, where he 
 married Magdalene Loe, and spent the remainder 
 of his days in that state. 
 
 Thomas Rodman was bom in New Castle, 
 Henry County, Kentucky, August 10, 1823. His 
 education was Hmited and at the age of fourteen 
 
 he was apprenticed to a dry goods firm for a term 
 of four years. His compensation during the first 
 year of his service was fifteen cents a day. His 
 employers soon realized, however, that young 
 Rodman possessed a talent for business far above 
 the mediocre; and, after a few years of faithful 
 service, he was given an interest in the establish- 
 ment and was admitted as a partner. He con- 
 tinued in that business and prospered until 1863, 
 when he removed to Frankfort and engaged in 
 the dry goods business in that city, where he 
 was quickly recognized as one of the leading and 
 most successful merchants in central Kentucky. 
 After being in the dry goods business in Frank- 
 fort for nearly a quarter of a century, he sold out 
 in 1887 and retired from mercantile pursuits. 
 
 It was largely due to his ability and excellent 
 judgment in financial matters that, soon after his 
 retirem.ent, he was elected president of the Farm- 
 ers' Bank, one of the oldest and most favorably 
 known banking houses in the South. This posi- 
 tion he has filled to the entire satisfaction of all 
 who are in any way identified with the bank. 
 
 For thirty years he has been one of the trustees 
 of the Georgetown Baptist College and for the 
 same number of years he has been a member of 
 and a deacon in the Baptist Church, and is a mem- 
 ber of the Executive Board of the Baptist Asso- 
 ciation. As a stanch democrat he has been 
 frequently urged to become a candidate for the 
 legislature and other offices, but has steadily 
 declined all such honors. Among his friends in 
 and around Frankfort, he is known as the "general 
 peace-maker," a title which he has earned on 
 account of his having arbitrated many misunder- 
 standings, preventing unwise and unnecessary 
 litigation, and in some cases personal conflict, 
 among his friends and neighbors. 
 
 Mr. Rodman is a self-made man in the truest 
 sense of that term, having risen from an appren- 
 tice boy to the presidency of one of the most 
 substantial banking institutions in the country, 
 liis ability as a financier is recognized by the 
 leading business men of the community, while his 
 career as a merchant and business man has been, 
 marked by all of the characteristics of an honest 
 and upright man. 
 
 He is a member of a family who have attained 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 45 
 
 prominence and success in their callings. His 
 brother, Dr. James Rodman (see sketch), is an 
 eminent physician of Hopkinsville, who was for 
 twenty-eight years superintendent of the Western 
 Kentucky Asylum for the Insane at that place; 
 his brother, John Rodman, deceased, was Attor- 
 ney General of Kentucky for eight years and 
 his brother, J. L. Rodman, is a prominent dry 
 goods merchant in Frankfort. 
 
 Mr. Rodman has been twice married; first in 
 1 844 to Sarah E. Thomasson, daughter of Captain 
 Joseph M. Thomasson of Henry County. She 
 died in 1857, leaving three children, two of whom 
 are now living. His second marriage was in 1858 
 to Julia Willoughby of New York, who died in 
 1886, leaving four children. 
 
 REV. JOHN STEELE SWEENEY, generally 
 known as Elder Sweeney, the able pastor of 
 the First Christian Church, Paris, was born in 
 Liberty, Casey County, Kentucky, September 4, 
 1834, and belongs to a family of distinguished 
 ministers who have been and are among the 
 brightest lights in the Christian and Baptist 
 Churches. He is a son of Rev. Guirn E. and 
 Talitha (Campbell) Sweeney, both of whom are 
 natives of Kentucky. His father, born in Lin- 
 coln County in 1807, was for many years a min- 
 ister in the Baptist Church, but in the early days 
 of Alexander Campbell and his able and dis- 
 tinguished confrere, Barton W. Stone, he left the 
 Baptist denomination and accepted the doctrines 
 of the founder of the Christian Church. He has 
 been preaching the gospel for sixty-five years, 
 and while having no charge at present, still 
 preaches occasionally when opportunity is of- 
 fered. He is remarkably well preserved for a 
 man over eighty-eight years of age. His facul- 
 ties are clear and he preaches with wonderful 
 power and irresistible logic. He is now living 
 with his son in Paris. 
 
 His wife, Talitha Campbell, was a daughter of 
 John Campbell, of Scotch descent, and a relative 
 of Rev. Alexander Campbell. They had a family 
 of eight sons and daughters, all of whom reached 
 maturity,and four sons and two daughters are now 
 living. All of the sons are ministers of the gospel : 
 Rev. W. G. Sweeney, who is at present Collector 
 
 of Customs at Dubuque, Iowa, and a Christian 
 minister; Elder John S. Sweeney of Paris; Rev. 
 George W. Sweeney of Chicago ; and Rev. Zacha- 
 riah T. Sweeney, minister and lecturer, of Colum- 
 bus, Indiana, who was Consul General to Turkey 
 during President Harrison's administration. He 
 is one of the ablest ministers and most popular 
 lecturers in the country. The daughters of Rev. 
 G. E. Sweeney are married and are active mem- 
 bers of the Christian Church. 
 
 Rev. Job Sweeney (grandfather) was a native 
 of Belfast, Ireland, who came to the United States 
 with his father, Moses Sweeney, when he was 
 three years of age. He was for many years one of 
 the leading Baptist ministers in Lincoln and ad- 
 joining counties. It was not customary to pay 
 the preachers large salaries, and, like many other 
 ministers, he devoted a part of his time to the 
 cultivation of his farm in order to support his 
 family. 
 
 Moses Sweeney (great-grandfather) was one of 
 the pioneers of Lincoln County, and was contem- 
 porary with Daniel Boone. Soon after his arrival 
 in Kentucky, one of his children was killed by the 
 Indians. 
 
 Elder John S. Sweeney was brought up on the 
 farm, attending the irregular sessions of the dis- 
 trict school. At the age of nineteen years, he 
 went to the Oakland Institute at Columbia, Ken- 
 tucky, taught by an old Englishman by the name 
 of Saunders, a prominent educator of his day, at 
 that time a Unitarian, but who subsequently 
 joined the Christian Church. He was in this 
 academy for two years and he then took up the 
 study of law at Columbia and, after a careful 
 preparation, was admitted to the bar. 
 
 He removed to Jacksonville, Illinois, where for 
 a short time he was engaged in the practice of law; 
 but, finding that this profession was not congenial 
 to his tastes, he abandoned it and accepted the 
 editorial management of the Bible Advocate, the 
 state organ of the Christian Church of Illinois. 
 He remained in this capacity for two years, when 
 the personnel of the paper was changed and he 
 then turned his attention to religious work of 
 another character. This paper, after having gone 
 through several evolutions and changes, is now 
 the Christian Evangelist, published at St Louis, 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 and is one of the very ablest religious journals 
 published by the Christian Church. During his 
 residence in Jacksonville, Mr. Sweeney devoted 
 his entire time to his paper and to ministerial 
 work in the Christian Church. When he relin- 
 quished his connection with the paper, he engaged 
 in evangelical work throughout Illinois and other 
 Western cities, making his home in Winchester, 
 Illinois. During his evangelical labors, he 
 preached on an average of one sermon a day. 
 
 His first regular charge where he confined 
 himself to pastoral work exclusively was in Chi- 
 cago, to which place he removed in 1864. Three 
 years later he resigned, but was afterwards re- 
 called and for two years was pastor of the Wabash 
 Avenue Christian Church. During his last stay, 
 some of the very best people of Chicago became 
 members of this church, including Mr. Potter 
 Palmer and wife and the wife of the Honorable 
 Fred Grant, and many other wealthy and dis- 
 tinguished citizens of Chicago. 
 
 In 1871 Elder Sweeney removed to Paris, where 
 he has labored most successfully for over a quar- 
 ter of a century, and where he presides over one 
 of the largest congregations in Kentucky, the 
 membership of which is made up of the most 
 prominent people in Bourbon County. When he 
 came to this church in 1871, the membership was 
 only three hundred, but under his ministration 
 it is now nearly twelve hundred. 
 
 In the meantime Elder Sweeney has done a 
 great work in organizing and building up other 
 churches. For many years he was one of the 
 leading controversialists in his church, and his 
 reputation in this regard extends throughout the 
 country. He has been engaged in over one hun- 
 dred debates, held in nearly every state in the 
 Union and in Canada, and has discussed religious 
 questions with Methodists, Presbyterians, Bap- 
 tists and infidels. He is a stanch believer in the 
 religious doctrine of his church and is well able 
 to defend his denomination against the most intel- 
 ligent adversaries. 
 
 During the war. Rev. Sweeney was nominated 
 for Congress by his party, but declined to become 
 a candidate for a political office. 
 
 He is generally known throughout the country 
 as an able minister and platform speaker. He is 
 
 a public spirited citizen and takes a deep interest 
 in all that pertains to the welfare of the community 
 and religious work at large. 
 
 In 1858 he married Mary E. Coons of Win- 
 chester, Illinois, who died in 1873. He was again 
 married, in 1876, to AHce Monin of Hardin Coun- 
 ty, by whom he has five children, four boys and 
 one girl. 
 
 A WILKES SMITH, of Richmond, one of 
 . the most learned members of the medical 
 and dental profession in the state, a practicing 
 physician-dentist in Richmond, was born in 
 Champaign County, Ohio, September 12, 1844. 
 
 His father, James Smith, was a native of New- 
 York who came to Kentucky with his parents 
 when he was a child, in 1817. He lived in 
 Georgetown until he was twenty years of age, 
 when he went to Champaign County, Ohio, and 
 lived there until 1869. He then removed to Tren- 
 ton, Indiana, where he died in 1883, aged sixty- 
 eight years. He was a man of fine scholarly 
 attainments, and of excellent traits of character, 
 which distinguished him as a man of unusual 
 intelligence and ability. During the earlier years 
 of his business career, he was employed as a civil 
 engineer, but the greater part of his life was spent 
 in merchandising. 
 
 John Smith (grandfather) was a native of Eng- 
 land, who came to the United States in 1812, or 
 about that time, and after stopping a short time 
 in New York city, came to Georgetown, Ken- 
 tucky, where he spent the remainder of a long and 
 useful life, reaching the unusual age of nearly 
 one hundred years. He was a general merchant 
 in Georgetown and was known as a man of ster- 
 ling integrity and honesty. Being an elder in the 
 Baptist Church, he was probably more widely 
 known and respected as Elder Smith. He con- 
 ducted the services at more funerals than any 
 other minister in Scott County, and few men 
 were as well known in the county. He married 
 Margaret Britton of New Jersey, a sister of Col- 
 onel Britton, who formed a colony in the eariy 
 settlement of Oregon. She was a lady of great 
 beauty and intelligence, and was quite active as a 
 co-laborer with her husband in religious work. 
 She died of cholera in the epidemic of 1839. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 47 
 
 Mary Lang Smith (mother) was born in Mar- 
 tinsburg, Virginia, in 1817, and is still living with 
 Dr. Smith in Richmond. Thomas Lang (grand- 
 father) was a native of Virginia and was for many 
 years a resident of Martinsburg, Virginia. He 
 was a prosperous planter, and served his country 
 as an ofificer in the war of 1812. He married 
 Elizabeth Elliott of Virginia, daughter of Colonel 
 William Elliott of Revolutionary fame. The 
 Langs are of English extraction, whose ancestors 
 were among the most illustrious families of Vir- 
 ginia and Maryland. His sword, used in the 
 Revolutionary war, is still in the possession of his 
 family. 
 
 Dr. A. Wilkes Smith enjoyed fair advantages 
 in the common schools of Champaign County, 
 Ohio, while his scholarly father encouraged and 
 aided him in making rapid advancement. After 
 this elementary work, he studied the classics and 
 sciences under able private tutors. He was 
 thrown upon his own resources at an early age, 
 on account of reverses in his father's business, 
 and this probably was one of the most useful 
 experiences of his youth. While studying medi- 
 cine he taught school and earned the money to 
 pay his way. 
 
 At the age of nineteen he went to Philadelphia, 
 where he continued the study of medicine for 
 several years with a view to entering the United 
 States navy as a surgeon ; but before reaching the 
 goal of his ambition he learned that South Amer- 
 ica was a promising field for dentistry and he 
 accordingly took up that branch of the medical 
 profession and graduated from the Pennsylvania 
 College of Dentistry in March, 1871. At this 
 time his father's health failed and he was called 
 home and afterwards was sent to Kentucky to 
 look after his grandfather's estate, which was in 
 litigation, and he eventually abandoned his pur- 
 pose to go to South America. 
 
 Of Southern parentage, his affections were 
 naturally with the people and institutions of the 
 South, and he decided to make his home in Ken- 
 tucky. He accordingly selected the garden of 
 the Blue Grass State and located in Richmond in 
 June, 1871. Believing that medicine and den- 
 tistry should go together, that the dentist should 
 be a physician &nd surgeon, he has made 9. 
 
 special feature of Oral Surgery, and has made a 
 reputation in his county and state and throughout 
 the United States as a dental surgeon who has few 
 equals in the profession and no superior in the 
 country. 
 
 From 1875 to 1879 he was lecturer on Oral 
 Surgery in the Ohio College of Dentistry at 
 Cincinnati, and during that period was President 
 of the Kentucky State Dental Association. In 
 1881 he was elected Professor of Physiology in 
 the Central University at Richmond, which posi- 
 tion he holds at the present time. In 1882 the 
 Hospital College of Medicine of Louisville con- 
 ferred upon him the degree of M. D. and elected 
 him lecturer on Oral Dental Surgery, which office 
 he held for several years. 
 
 He was editor of the dental department of the 
 medical journal, "Progress," which was published 
 for several years in Louisville. In 1887 he found- 
 ed the Louisville College of Dentistry, as the 
 dental department of Central University is known, 
 and served two years as dean of the faculty and 
 six years as president of the college. The increas- 
 ing labors and responsibilities of these positions, 
 together with the imperative duties of a growing 
 practice, caused a temporary impairment of his 
 health, and he was on that account compelled to 
 resign the office of president of the Dental Col- 
 lege, accepting the honorary appointment of 
 Emeritus Professor of Oral and Dental Surgery, 
 in which relation to the College he stands at 
 pi-esent. During his active work in that institu- 
 tion in Louisville he conducted an oral surgical 
 clinic semi-weekly, in which many operations 
 were performed and a number of new appliances 
 were used which were original with Dr. Smith. 
 
 In 1891 he was elected president of the Rich- 
 mond Board of Health, and in 1895 was elected 
 Health Officer of that city, a position which he is 
 filling with great acceptance to the public. 
 
 Dr. Smith is a member of the Kentucky State 
 Dental Association, of which he served a term as 
 president; a member of the American Dental 
 Association; a member of the Kentucky State 
 Medical Society ; of the American Medical Asso- 
 ciation ; of the Northeast Kentucky Medical As- 
 sociation; Censor of the Medico-Chirurgical 
 College of Philadelphia, and a member of 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 the Practitioners' Club of Richmond. He 
 is a valued contributor to the pages of 
 the leading dental journals of the country. 
 With all of his duties, professional and official, 
 Dr. Smith is a prominent figure in social life; is 
 Past Commander of Richmond Commandery No. 
 19, Free and Accepted Masons, and was the first 
 Captain-General of the Commandery ; is a leading- 
 member of the Presbyterian congregation of Rich- 
 mond; was also one of the originators of the 
 Century Club, and was its president for three 
 years ; and in all movements for the advancement 
 of his city and the enlightenment of his fellow 
 men, he is usually found in the front ranks, an 
 industrious worker, a willing helper and a leader 
 in whom his neighbors place the highest confi- 
 dence. 
 
 Dr. Smith and Bertha O'Donnell Cecil Miller, 
 daughter of James C. and Mary (Poe) Miller, of 
 Louisville, were united in marriage November 
 8, 1881. Mrs. Smith is a lineal descendant of 
 John O'Donnell, who was quartermaster-general 
 in the Revolutionary war, also a descendant of the 
 distinguished Poe and Byrd families of Virginia, 
 and is regent of the Richmond Chapter of the 
 Daughters of the Revolution. She is a woman of 
 superior intelligence, fine literary attainments and 
 rare personal beauty and amiability. She pre- 
 sides over Iheir home with tact, and the doctor 
 ascribes much of his success in later years to her 
 helpfulness and popularity. Doctor and Mrs. 
 Smith have two children living: Elliott Poe and 
 Bertha Evelyn Byrd. Another son, named A. 
 Wilkes Smith, died in infancy. 
 
 "Westover Terrace," the beautiful home of Dr. 
 Smith, situated in the outskirts of the city, is so 
 called for the ancestral home of the Byrds of 
 Virginia. It is a model of convenience and archi- 
 tectural beauty, and was designed and constructed 
 by Dr. Smith, whose versatility of genius, indus- 
 try, energy and faithfulness to every duty would 
 have insured him success in any calling. 
 
 THOMAS EDWARD MOSS, ex-attorney 
 general of Kentucky, was born in Greens- 
 burg, Green County, Kentucky, March 14, 1839. 
 His parents were Thomas S. T. and Judith 
 Campbell Bullock Moss. His father was a native 
 
 of North Carolina and was a resident of Greens- 
 burg from 1808 until his death in 1851. His 
 grandfather was a soldier in the war of 1812. The 
 Moss family is of Scotch origin, and the progeni- 
 tor of the family in the United States located in 
 Massachusetts, where, tradition says, there were 
 seven brothers, six of whom spelled the name 
 "Morse," and one spelled it "Moss." 
 
 Judith Campbell Bullock Moss (mother) was 
 born in Perryville, Kentucky. Her father was a 
 native of Virginia. 
 
 Thomas E. Moss was about fourteen years of 
 age when he removed with his widowed mother 
 from Greensburg to a farm in Hickman County, 
 near Columbus, Kentucky. His father left a 
 small estate and a large family and his mother 
 needed his assistance on the farm, so that he re- 
 ceived but a meager education, but after remain- 
 ing on the farm for two years, he attended the 
 Columbia College in Adair County one year. He 
 then attended school and studied under private 
 teachers until 1858, and in 1859 entered the law 
 department of the University of Louisville, from 
 which he was graduated in March, i860, receiving 
 a diploma to practice law. 
 
 The night after President Lincoln issued his 
 proclamation calling for troops, Mr. Moss left' 
 his home and joined the Second Regiment Ken- 
 tucky Infantry, C. S. A., as a private soldier, mus- 
 tered in at Camp Boon, notwithstanding he had 
 recruited most of a company of which he should 
 have been captain. He was made sergeant major 
 and later adjutant of the regiment. His com- 
 mission stated that his promotion was for gallant 
 conduct on the field. Mr. Moss denies that there 
 was any occasion for such recognition, but since 
 he received more wounds than any other man in 
 his regiment, it is probable that his superiors were 
 justified in securing his promotion for meritorious 
 services. The surrender at Hartsville was made 
 to him, the commander of the opposing forces 
 delivering his sword to Mr. Moss. 
 
 He was wounded, left on the field and captured 
 at the battle of Murfreesboro ; was sent to Fort 
 Norfolk and there sentenced to be hung in retalia- 
 tion for the deeds of others; was placd on board 
 the steamer "Maple Leaf" and ordered to Fort 
 Delaware, and during the voyage he got up a 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 49 
 
 mutiny and overpowered the commander and 
 guards; landed the boat and escaped with his fel- 
 low prisoners. He rejoined the army and con- 
 tinued in the service until the close of the war. 
 
 Returning to Hickman County, he found all 
 of his mother's lands in possession of squatters 
 from Tennessee. He soon left there and went 
 to Paducah, where he began the practice of law 
 in partnership with Judge Bigger. The firm of 
 Bigger & Moss continued without interruption 
 until the election of Mr. Moss as attorney general 
 in 1875. He served his state in that capacity for 
 four years — during the administration of Gov- 
 ernor McCreary — after which he served two or 
 three terms in the legislature, in which he dis- 
 tinguished himself by his superior knowledge of 
 public affairs and by his active work in behalf of 
 his constituents. 
 
 Mr. Moss was married February 28, 1871, in 
 Covington, Kentucky, to Margaret Bright, 
 daughter of the distinguished Senator Jesse D. 
 Bright of Indiana. They have three children: 
 Mrs. Mary Wheat, Jesse Bright and Thomas E. 
 Moss, Jr. 
 
 SAMUEL ALEXANDER PIPER, President 
 of the First National Bank of Maysville, son 
 of Samuel Calvin and Eliza A. (Smith) Piper, was 
 born in Nicholas County, Kentucky, December 
 8, 1828. His father, Samuel C. Piper, was born 
 in Nicholas County in September, 1807, and was 
 educated in the common schools of his county 
 and became a farmer in connection with trading 
 in which he operated extensively. He was one of 
 the most popular men in the county, being scrupu- 
 lously honest and square in all his dealings. He 
 was in the prime of life in the best days of the old 
 Whig party, and was steadfast in his adherence 
 to the principles of that political party. He was 
 a faithful member of the Presbyterian Church and 
 his life was consistent with his profession. He 
 died in 1873 and is buried at Carlisle, Kentucky. 
 His father, Samuel Piper, was a native of Penn- 
 sylvania, who moved to Kentucky in the early 
 history of the state. 
 
 Eliza A. Piper (mother) was born in Bourbon 
 County, August 20, 1809; was married in Sep- 
 
 tember, 1827; died April 12, 1870, and is buried 
 at Carlisle. 
 
 Alexander Smith (grandfather) was one of the 
 most progressive and influential farmers of Bour- 
 bon County. He was a Captain in the War of 
 1812. 
 
 Samuel A. Piper enjoyed the usual training in 
 the common schools in connection with his duties 
 on the farm, and for some years after reaching 
 his majority he was a farmer, and was quite suc- 
 cessful in that vocation, giving considerable at- 
 tention to financial matters; and when the Wells 
 & Mitchell Bank was organized in Maysville in 
 1873 he was prominent among the five men who 
 were interested in the enterprise. In 1880 this 
 bank was reorganized and the name changed to 
 First National Bank, and Mr. Piper was made one 
 of the directors. In 1890 he was elected president 
 of the bank, a position which he has filled with 
 great credit alike to himself and the institution 
 over which he presides. Prior to his election to 
 the presidency of the bank he had been engaged 
 for a short time in dealing in grain in Maysville, 
 which has been his residence since May, 1893. 
 
 Mr. Piper was married September 6, 1855, to 
 Ellen Fitzgerald, daughter of David Fitzgerald. 
 She was born in Mason County in 1832, where 
 she was given a fine education. Her father was a 
 soldier in the War of T.812, and afterward moved 
 to Mason County and was an extensive farmer 
 and land owner. 
 
 Two daughters were born to S. A. and Ellen A. 
 Piper: Annie E. was born October 2,^, 1862, mar- 
 ried January 20, 1881, to S. A. Shanklin, and has 
 had three children ; James Alexander, born March 
 
 14, 1883, died May 12, 1887; Ellen F., born 
 March 7, 1889, and Agnes Virginia, born April 
 
 15, 1892. The second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Piper, Mollie Ryan, was bom January 26, 1865; 
 married Peter P. Parker November 8, 1888; has 
 two children: Preston Piper, born November 21, 
 1889, and Samuel Alexandef, born August 8, 
 1891. 
 
 Mr. Piper is an elder in the Central Presbyter- 
 ian Church of Maysville, and before removing 
 to that city had been an elder for twenty years. 
 His ancestors as far back as he can trace them 
 were of the Presbyterian faith. 
 
so 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 JOHN D. WALKER, Vice President and Sec- 
 retary of the Blue Grass Tobacco Company 
 of Lexington, and one of the most enterprising 
 and successful business men of the Blue Grass 
 capital, was born in Brookville, September 13, 
 1850, where he enjoyed the ordinary advantages 
 in the way of schooling. He was employed with 
 his father for a few years, and learned the car- 
 penter's trade and was engaged in building and 
 painting for three or four years, and then aban- 
 doned this work to engage in the manufacture of 
 wooden stirrups, and in the two years that he 
 was thus occupied he built up a good trade, which 
 he disposed of and embarked in the drug business, 
 which he continued until 1876. Being an active, 
 wide-awake citizen, he involuntarily drifted into 
 local politics and served in various city offices 
 until 1882, when he was elected sheriff of Bracken 
 County, serving two years, and was then marshal 
 of the county for two years, having by special 
 act of the legislature the same jurisdiction as that 
 of sheriff. During this term of office, he began 
 buying and shipping tobacco, and this led him to 
 Cincinnati, where he was engaged in tobacco 
 brokerage for two years. 
 
 In 1885 he took the road for P. J. Sorg of 
 Middletown, Ohio, one of the largest manufac- 
 turers of plug tobacco in the country. In 1886-7 
 he traveled for Overby Wells Tobacco Company, 
 manufacturers of chewing and smoking tobacco 
 (now of Lexington, formerly W. T. Overby & 
 Co. of Paris, Kentucky), and in 1888 he was one 
 of the organizers of the Blue Grass Tobacco Com- 
 pany and was elected Vice President and Secre- 
 tary of the company, a position in which he has 
 rendered efficient service, building up an extensive 
 trade in twist and plug tobacco of high grade. 
 
 Mr. Walker was very active and successful as 
 a Democratic politician in his native county, but 
 has devoted his whole time to his business in the 
 Blue Grass Tobacco Company since he became 
 a citizen of Lexington. 
 
 He was married in 1880 to Jennie Freeze, 
 daughter of G. P. Freeze of Brookville. He is a 
 steward in the Hill Street Methodist Church, and a 
 member of the Knights of the Ancient Essenic 
 Order, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and 
 Improved Order of Redmen, 
 
 His father, Jacob Walker, was a native of Lex- 
 ington, who removed to Bracken County and 
 made his home in Brookville until the time of his 
 death in 1868. He was a merchant and acted as 
 Postmaster of Brookville for many years prior 
 to the war under Democratic administrations. He 
 was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 and a man of very decided opinions and great 
 force of character who was highly respected and 
 admired by his fellow-citizens. 
 
 John Walker (grandfather) was a native of Vir- 
 ginia and a distinguished minister in the Chris- 
 tian Church, who died of cholera in Bracken 
 County in 1844. He was of German and Scotch- 
 Irish origin. 
 
 Melissa Hamilton Walker (mother) is a native 
 of Bracken County and is still a resident of Brook- 
 ville. Her mother, Elizabeth Hamilton, was a 
 native of Bracken County and died in the seventy- 
 fifth year of her age. 
 
 LORENZO D. PEARSON, the oldest and 
 deservedly the most highly respected under- 
 taker of Louisville, was born in Shelby County, 
 Kentucky, January 27, 1810; and is still engaged 
 in business with his sons, giving them his counsel 
 and support and the benefit of his long experi- 
 ence, a business which has certainly made him 
 friends in thousands of households in Jefferson 
 County. Few men have chosen an occupation to 
 which they were better suited than has Mr. Pear- 
 son. Always kind, affable, gentle in his manner 
 and sweetly sympathetic in his disposition, he 
 has often come as a loving friend into the house 
 of mourning and performed the kindly offices 
 of the undertaker in such a manner and with such 
 delicacy as to lessen the sorrow of those who 
 have been bereft of their friends and loved ones. 
 In the half century or more in which Mr. Pearson 
 has served the community he has entombed 
 enough bodies to people a great city, were they 
 alive. He has witnessed the sorrow of thousands 
 of mourners, and in all of his experience in the 
 performance of his sacred duty, no man can say 
 that he ever failed to appreciate and respect the 
 grief of those whom he served. This slight tribute 
 by one who has known him intimately 
 for a third of a century is given from a 
 
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 51 
 
 sense of justice in behalf of a man who has 
 performed a difficult duty for his fellow man 
 as faithfully and as sacredly as the minister 
 who is expected to console the bereaved in the 
 presence of death. 
 
 Lorenzo D. Pearson came to Louisville when 
 he was about twenty-one years of age. He had 
 learned the trade of the cabinet-maker in Shelby- 
 ville, but his schooHng had been limited, so he 
 took up his studies for a few months before set- 
 tHng down to his work in the shop. But he did 
 not have the means to continue this and he worked 
 at his trade for two years, and then found employ- 
 ment with J. V. W. Smith, the leading undertaker 
 in Louisville at that time, and after remaining 
 with him for fifteen years Mr. Pearson began busi- 
 ness on his own account in 1848. In the interven- 
 ing years he has been one of the most active and 
 successful business men in the city, to which he 
 came without means when it was little more than 
 a village and has risen steadily until he has ac- 
 quired a competency, and by his energy, ability 
 and uprightness has become one of its most hon- 
 ored and useful citizens. 
 
 Mr. Pearson was married in 1842 to Mary Ann 
 Duhurst, daughter of John Duhurst, formerly of 
 Philadelphia, but at that time a resident of Louis- 
 ville. He has six children now living, three sons 
 and three daughters: Emma L., wife of Nathan 
 Steinberg; Edward C, Lorenzo D., Jr., Kate, 
 Leila A., wife of R. F. Pelouze, and George E., all 
 of whom reside in Louisville. His sons are in 
 business with him and are carefully sustaining the 
 reputation of their esteemed father. 
 
 Mr. Pearson is a son of Peter and Susan (Crow) 
 Pearson. His father was a native of South Caro- 
 lina, and removed to Shelby County, Kentucky, 
 when a young man and engaged in farming. 
 While assisting in the building of a log house in 
 1813 he was accidentally killed by a log rolling 
 over him. His father was a native of England, 
 who came to America about one hundred years 
 ago and lived and died in South Carolina. 
 
 Susan Crow Pearson (mother) was a native of 
 Garrard County, Kentucky, and died in Louis- 
 ville, in 1872, in the eighty-fifth year of her age. 
 She was almost a Hfe-time member of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church, and her son has not de- 
 
 parted from the faith in which he was brought up. 
 John Crow (grandfather) was a native of Ire- 
 land, who came to America and was a soldier in 
 the Revolutionary war, after which he was a farm- 
 er in Garrard and Jessamine Counties, Kentucky, 
 and died in Shelby County when over one hun- 
 dred years old. 
 
 REV. CHARLES BOOTH PARSONS, D. 
 D., was born in Enfield, Connecticut, July 
 23, 1805. His father died in 1820, and Charles 
 being the eldest of four children, he left home at 
 a tender age and found employment as an errand 
 boy in a New York store. He was induced to 
 join an amateur dramatic company and soon took 
 a leading place in their amusements. On one 
 occasion he played the part of Sir Edward Mor- 
 timer in the "Iron Chest," and one of the city 
 papers compared the young actor to the elder 
 Kean, who was one of the leading actors of that 
 time. This stimulated Mr. Parsons' ambition, and 
 he shortly afterward accepted an offer to join a 
 theatrical company in Charleston, South Caro- 
 lina. His success was immediate and almost un- 
 paralleled, and in the fifteen years of his life upon 
 the stage he was one of its most brilliant stars of 
 the time. His success was at its height, and his 
 prospects for the future most promising, when a 
 change came over him which turned his talents 
 into another channel. The following extract from 
 his autobiography, "Pulpit and Stage," gives a 
 thrilling account of his conversion: 
 
 "There was to be a communion in the Presby- 
 terian Church which I had been attending in the 
 afternoon of the Sabbath, to which the preacher 
 invited all to attend who felt interested in that 
 ordinance, whether they were professors or not. 
 They might show by their presence that they de- 
 sired to honor the feast, though they might not 
 be entitled to participate in it at the present time. 
 It was a stormy afternoon, but I determined to at- 
 tend. When I arrived at the church I took a seat 
 back, and, by accident, on the left hand. It might 
 have been providential. It so happened, too, that 
 I was the only person present who was not endtled 
 to partake of the sacred elements. The preacher 
 very touchingly alluded to the circumstance in his 
 prayer, the full force of which fell upon my heart — 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 the isolated stranger who was on the left of the 
 fold, who had come through the storm to be a 
 spectator to the feast. He prayed that this 
 stranger might be converted and be admitted to 
 the fellowship of the righteous through the Spirit 
 of God. My heart said 'Amen,' while a flood of 
 tears I could not restrain attested, to myself at 
 least, the sincerity of my feelings. I retired to 
 the hotel after service, and locking myself in my 
 room knelt down by my bedside overwhelmed 
 with agony of mind and almost the victim of de- 
 spair. The prayer of the poet- publican was up- 
 permost in my mind, and I exclaimed aloud, 
 'Lord, be merciful.' What was that? A voice 
 close to me seemed to say: 'Believe on the Lord 
 Jesus Christ and thou hast eternal life.' I raised 
 my head and gazed around the room, but saw no 
 one. I then looked under the bed, thinking some 
 one of my friends- perhaps in order to play me a 
 trick had concealed himself there. But all was 
 vacant and silent. Again I addressed myself to 
 my prayer, and again seemingly the same re- 
 sponse was made. 'Surely,' thought I, 'this is the 
 Lord and so I will receive it.' My heart beat 
 heavily and seemed to labor to keep life within 
 me. My tongue faltered, but faith helped me to 
 ejaculate: 'Lord, I do believe; help thou my 
 unbelief.' A flood of light flashed through the 
 room; I sank down in rapture upon the floor, 
 my heart grew joyous and I was a converted 
 man." i 
 
 Previous to his conversion he had made pro- 
 fessional engagements for nearly a year in ad- 
 vance, which, after anxious thought and earnest 
 prayer, he concluded it was his duty to fulfill, and 
 he did so, knowing it would subject him to un- 
 charitable criticism. At length he bade farewell 
 to the stage forever; and being filled with a new 
 purpose and inspired by high aims, he devoted 
 himself to the study of the Scriptures with great 
 earnestness. He soon became a local preacher in 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, and after the 
 usual probation period was admitted to the travel- 
 ing connection September 15, 1841. 
 
 He preached with most happy effect for two 
 years in the Jefferson circuit and in 1843 was 
 ordained a deacon by Bishop Morris. He then 
 preached at Frankfort two years. On the 14th 
 
 of September, 1845, he was ordained elder by 
 Bishop J. Soule and was clothed with the full 
 power of a minister. He was sent to St. Louis in 
 charge of the Fourth Street Church, and while 
 there the degree of Doctor of Divinity was con- 
 ferred upon him by the Board of Curators of St. 
 Charles (Missouri) College. Having returned to 
 Kentucky, he was invited to preach the dedication 
 sermon of a large church in St. Louis, and in 
 1855 he was called to the pastorate of that church. 
 He found a small membership, but his two years 
 of earnest labor resulted in an increase in the 
 membership of over five hundred. In 1857-8 he 
 was presiding elder of the East Louisville district 
 and was subsequently appointed pastor of the 
 Walnut Street Methodist Church, which was 
 erected under his pastorate. He was assigned 
 to that congregation a number of times. He 
 was again called to St. Louis, serving a third term 
 in that city. 
 
 In the celebrated disagreement among the 
 Methodists Dr. Parsons was appointed one of the 
 peace commissioners, and after the division be- 
 tween the North and the South, he cast his lot 
 with the South branch of the church, remaining 
 until the troubles culminated in war between the 
 sections, when, true to his convictions, he returned 
 to the Mother Church, where his views were in 
 harmony with those with whom he was associated. 
 The latter years of his life were spent in the min- 
 istry of the Methodist Church (not South), of 
 which the membership in Louisville was quite 
 small. His preaching, however, always attracted 
 large audiences and his unflinching loyalty to his 
 country made him a tower of strength in the 
 church that was composed of a handful of loyal 
 people. 
 
 In 1868 he went to Pittsburgh to dedicate a 
 church, and on reaching the wharf on his return 
 to Louisville his lower limbs were stricken with 
 paralysis. During his protracted illness which 
 followed every available means was used to re- 
 store him to health, but the disease was of a pro- 
 gressive character and terminated in his death 
 December 8, 1871. 
 
 All through life Dr. Parsons maintained an 
 exalted character. Even when engaged as an 
 actor it was impossible to know him without 
 
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 being impressed with the marked propriety and 
 dignity of his conduct. As a minister he was 
 one of the most able and eloquent in the pulpit. 
 He possessed in an eminent degree all of the 
 requisites of a true orator — great emotions and 
 passions, genius, fancy, imagination, gesture, atti- 
 tude, intonations and facial expression — all were 
 employed to accomplish the mighty purpose of 
 a heart that was burdened with the responsibility 
 of saving souls. His words well chosen and his 
 thoughts inspired by a holy purpose and clothed 
 in purest diction, commanded the attention and 
 admiration of every hearer. He was a true and 
 loyal citizen, a devoted husband and an affection- 
 ate father, who faithfully discharged his whole 
 duty in every relation in life. 
 
 Dr. Parsons was married to Emily C. Oldham, 
 who survives him, and is still a resident of the 
 City of Louisville. She was born in Jefiferson 
 County in 1813. Her parents, William and Eliza- 
 beth (Field) Oldham, were natives of Jefferson 
 County. Her maternal grandfather, Reuben 
 Field, a native of Culpeper County, Virginia, 
 came to Kentucky before the close of the last cen- 
 tury. He was a prominent pioneer in the early 
 settlement of the state, and served in the war for 
 American independence. 
 
 Dr. and Mrs. Parsons were the parents of five 
 children. Their son. Honorable Edward Y. Par- 
 sons, was elected to Congress in 1875 and died 
 in Washington in 1876. 
 
 Frank Parsons, Commonwealth Attorney, one 
 of the most brilliant and eloquent lawyers of 
 Louisville, is a son of the late Rev. Dr. Charles 
 Booth Parsons, an eminent divine, whose 
 biography is given above. 
 
 Emily (Oldham) Parsons (mother) is a native 
 of Jefferson County and a resident of Louisville, 
 well advanced in years, a devout Christian and a 
 "mother in Israel." 
 
 Frank Parsons was born in Louisville, Ken- 
 tucky, January 2, 1850. He received a liberal 
 education, attending the City High School, from 
 which he graduated, and then took a course in 
 the Indiana State University at Bloomington. He 
 studied law with Jackson & Parsons, and was ad- 
 mitted to practice at the Louisville bar in March, 
 1874. He was engaged in a general practice until 
 
 August, 1887, when he was elected Common- 
 wealth Attorney by a majority of seven thousand 
 votes over General Alpheus Baker, who was at 
 that time one of the most capable lawyers in 
 Louisville. He was re-elected for a second term, 
 and has discharged the arduous duties of that 
 ofifice with fidelity to the public and with a high 
 regard for the majesty of the law. He is a man 
 of quiet, even temperament, courteous and polite 
 to his witnesses, of dignified, scholarly bearing 
 and has made one of the best prosecutors who 
 has ever managed the cases of the Commonwealth 
 in the Criminal Court of Louisville. 
 
 With a fine knowledge of the law, a keen sense 
 of the responsibilities of his position, he has the 
 moral courage to defend the rights of the people 
 against evil doers of high or low degree. He is 
 equally at home in preparing and conducting his 
 cases, but he is particularly noted for the elo- 
 quence of his pleadings, being one of the most 
 finished speakers at the Louisville bar. 
 
 He enjoys the respect and confidence of the 
 legal fraternity, and being candid and careful in 
 his pleadings, his arguments have tremendous 
 weight with judge and jury. Without any at- 
 tempt at pyrotechnic display of oratory for the 
 purpose of winning applause, he is easily the most 
 pleasing and attractive speaker in the Criminal 
 Division where oratory is of more avail than in 
 the Civil Courts. In this, and in many other 
 respects, he resembles his father, who was one 
 of the most brilliant orators of his day. At the 
 last election for the ofifice he now holds he had no 
 opposition, being a strong Democrat, but the Re- 
 pubhcans brought out nobody to oppose him, pre- 
 sumably because of his rare fitness for the ofifice. . 
 
 Frank Parsons was married in 1873 to Minnie 
 Dent, daughter of the late Colonel Henry Dent, 
 one of the most distinguished citizens of Louis- 
 ville. 
 
 JAMES KENNEDY PATTERSON, Ph. D.. 
 LL.D., F. R. Hist. S., F. S. A. Scot., President 
 of the State College of Kentucky, and of which 
 under its reorganization he may justly be regard- 
 ed as the founder, is a son of Andrew and Janet 
 (Kennedy) Patterson, and was born in the City 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 of Glasgow, Scotland, March 26, 1833. In 1842 
 he, with his father, came to this country and set- 
 tled in Bartholomew County, Indiana. 
 
 His father subsequently removed to Hancock 
 ■County, Indiana, where he lived until his death 
 in 1862, in the sixty-second year of his age. His 
 occupation in Scotland had been that of a calico 
 printer, but after his arrival in this country he 
 lived on a farm until his death. In religion he was 
 a Presbyterian; in politics a Whig. His wife, 
 Janet Kennedy, who still survives, lives with her 
 son James. She, too, is a Presbyterian, with 
 which faith her ancestors for fenerations had 
 been identified. 
 
 The Pattersons from whom Dr. Patterson is de- 
 scended were allied as a collateral branch with 
 the Pattersons of whom William Patterson, 
 founder of the Bank of England, in the latter part 
 of the seventeenth century, was the most con- 
 spicuous representative. 
 
 For some years after coming to America Dr. 
 Patterson's educational advantages were meager. 
 In 1849-50 he attended a school in Madison, 
 Indiana, taught by Robert French, where he fin- 
 ished the elementary branches and laid a founda- 
 tion for classics and mathematics. During the 
 next year he taught and in May, 1851, entered 
 Hanover College, Indiana, where he graduated at 
 the head of his class in 1856. From 1856 to 1859 
 he had charge of the Presbyterian Academy, 
 Greenville, Kentucky. In the latter year he was 
 elected Principal of the Preparatory Department 
 of Stewart College (now Southwestern Univer- 
 sity), Clarksville, Tennessee. The following year 
 he became Professor of Latin and Greek in the 
 same college. In 1861 he was elected Principal of 
 Transylvania in Lexington, and when that in- 
 stitution was consolidated with and merged into 
 the Kentucky University he became Professor 
 of Latin in the latter. In 1866 he became Pro- 
 fessor of History and Metaphysics in the Agri- 
 cultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, 
 and in 1869 its president. On the reorganization 
 of the college in 1880 he was re-elected President 
 of the State College of Kentucky (Agricultural 
 and Mechanical College), which' office he still 
 holds. 
 
 When the college was reorganized and placed 
 
 on a broader basis a tax of one-half of one per 
 cent, on each $100 of taxable property in the Com- 
 monwealth was levied for its benefit. This tax he 
 was largely instrumental in securing. Two years 
 later the denominational colleges of Kentucky 
 united in a movement to procure its repeal. For 
 three months it was the principal question before 
 the Legislature. Dr. Patterson fought and defeat- 
 ed the combination — one of the most powerful 
 ever formed in Kentucky — single handed and 
 alone. When the question of the constitutionality 
 of the tax was brought forward he argued the 
 defense in reply to Judge Lindsay before the 
 Legislature. In the Court of Appeals, whither 
 the case was carried, Judge Holt affirmed several 
 years later the constitutionality of the tax on the 
 lines of the argument laid down by Dr. Patter- 
 son. The college which in 1880 had an income 
 of only $10,000 per annum, now has a yearly in- 
 come from federal and state aid of over $80,000. 
 It has the best equipped departments of Chemis- 
 try, Botany, Zoology, Geology, Civil Engineer- 
 ing and Mechanical Engineering in the South; 
 and its Alumni take equal rank with the best who 
 enter Johns Hopkins University for the prosecu- 
 tion of post-graduate courses of study. It has 
 seven courses of study and twenty-seven pro- 
 fessors. 
 
 In 1875 Dr. Patterson was appointed by Gov- 
 ernor Leslie delegate from Kentucky to the Inter- 
 national Congress of Geographical Sciences, 
 which met in Paris, France. On his return he 
 made a report to the Legislature, ten thousand 
 copies of which were printed by the state. In 
 1890 he was appointed by Governor Buckner 
 delegate from Kentucky to the British Associa- 
 tion for the Advancement of Science. On this 
 occasion leave of absence was granted him for 
 one year. With his wife and son he sailed for 
 Europe in June, 1890, and returned in August, 
 1 89 1, during which time they traveled in Eng- 
 land, Scotland, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, 
 Germany and Switzerland. 
 
 In 1875 he received from Hanover College the 
 degree of doctor of philosophy; in 1880 he was 
 elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society 
 of Great Britain; in 1880 a fellow of the Society 
 of Antiquarians of Scotland; and in 1896 re- 
 
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 ceived the degree of doctor of laws from Lafay- 
 ette College Pennsylvania. 
 
 During the years 1871-72-73-74 he contributed 
 most of the editorial matter on foreign politics 
 which appeared in the Courier- Journal of Louis- 
 ville, and the first articles which appeared in that 
 paper on the tariff question were from his pen. 
 He contributed about the same time a series 
 of papers on Comparative Philology to Home 
 and School, edited by Major Davis of Louisville, 
 which were well received by prominent men 
 throughout the South. To the local press he has 
 also been a frequent contributor. 
 
 During the sixties and early seventies Dr. Pat- 
 terson was an indefatigable student of languages, 
 and in addition to Latin, Greek and Hebrew, ac- 
 quired a good knowledge of Sanskrit, Gothic, 
 Anglo-Saxon, German and French. Latterly he 
 has devoted more time to history, metaphysics and 
 political science, in which subjects he is regarded 
 as an authority by his contemporaries. 
 
 In 1859 Dr. Patterson married Miss Lucelia 
 W. Wing, youngest daughter of Captain Charles 
 F. Wing of Greenville, Kentucky. Two children 
 were born of this marriage: Jeannie, who died 
 in infancy, and William A. Patterson, who died 
 June 3, 1895, in the twenty-eighth year of his 
 age. He was a young man of fine natural endow- 
 ments and excellent education. His knowledge 
 of French, logic, metaphysics and history was 
 equalled by none of his age in Kentucky. His 
 command of English, in the compass of his 
 vocabulary and in exuberance and delicacy of 
 expression, was a marvel for one of his years. He 
 was the idol of his parents and had been the con- 
 stant companion of his father from his childhood. 
 Dr. Patterson has obtained a site on the college 
 grounds on which to erect and endow a library 
 building to commemorate and perpetuate the 
 name of his only son, William Andrew Patterson, 
 whose name it will bear. William A. Patterson 
 had for some time prior to his decease been as- 
 sistant professor of history and of the English 
 language and literature in the State College. 
 
 Lucelia W. Wing is descended on her father's 
 side from the Wings of New Bedford, Massa- 
 chu'ssets, and on her mother's side from the Rus- 
 sells and Campbells of Virginia. She is a lady 
 
 of extensive reading and rare cultivation and re- 
 finement. Hon. Edward Rumsey, who married 
 her eldest sister, represented his district in Con- 
 gress and was one of the most gifted men of his 
 day. His uncle, James Rumsey, was the inventor 
 of the steamboat, as shown by the resolution of 
 Congress in 1839 awarding a gold medal to his 
 son. Her nephew, Edward Rumsey Wing, was 
 United States Minister to Ecuador, where he died 
 in 1874. 
 
 Of the immediate family of Dr. Patterson but 
 few survive: William Kennedy Patterson, pro- 
 fessor of Greek in Transylvania, died in 1862; 
 Andrew McFarland Patterson, professor of Latin 
 in the same institution, died in 1863; Alexander 
 L. Patterson,_ died in 1865. Besides the subject 
 of this sketch Walter K. Patterson, of a family 
 of five sons, alone survives. He was born in 
 1844, and is now and for sixteen years has been 
 principal of the Academy of the State College, of 
 which his older brother has for nearly thirty years 
 been president. 
 
 HARRISON D. TAYLOR was born March 
 31st, 1802, in Frederick County, Virginia, 
 and died April 8th, 1889, after a successful and 
 useful life, at the advanced age of eighty-seven 
 years. His parents were of Welsh and English 
 origin and derived the name of Harrison from 
 an intermarriage into the Harrison family of Vir- 
 ginia. His grandfather, also named Harrison 
 Taylor, emigrated to Ohio County, Kentucky, 
 the latter part of the last century, his father having 
 died without a will, and under the feudal laws of 
 that time the eldest son inherited the property 
 and left Harrison shareless, who, declining to be 
 a pensioner on his brother's charity, boldly struck 
 out for the frontier. It was not long until he mar- 
 ried Miss Jane Curlette and settled far back in the 
 woods, and as the county improved he built a mill 
 on a stream in Frederick County by which the 
 main road passed, leading from the east across 
 the Alleghany Mountains to the then great unex- 
 plored West. He raised a large family and bore 
 the reputation of an honest miller, which in after 
 years gained him the title of "Honest Old Taylor 
 at the mill." Who should wish to trace their 
 origin to a higher source? as "there is no legacy 
 
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 so rich as honesty." The subject of this sketch 
 was the son of Rev. Thomas Taylor, a pioneer 
 Methodist minister in Ohio County. Although 
 through life a large contributor to the support of 
 his church he never asked nor received a cent for 
 his services as preacher of the gospel. 
 
 While in the vigor of his manhood it was his 
 practice to work at hard labor through the week 
 and ride many miles away on Sunday to fill some 
 appointment, frequently going to Muhlenberg, 
 Grayson, Breckinridge and even Hardin Coun- 
 ties to preach. Of him it may be truly said his 
 heart was always right, his failings were but vir- 
 tue in excess. He had five sons : Nicholas, Wes- 
 ley, Harrison D., Milton and Thomas, and one 
 daughter, Frances. The third son, Harrison, was ^ 
 a man who lived without fear and died without 
 reproach. His boyhood days were spent on his 
 father's farm where he had but small chance of 
 obtaining an education, but such was his burning 
 ambition for knowledge that whilst he followed 
 the plow he carried his grammar in his pocket and 
 conjugated his verbs as he went along, and at 
 night by means of a bright wood fire he pursued 
 his studies. At last upon attaining his majority he 
 decided upon law as a profession, and moved to 
 Hartford, the county seat, where he studied with 
 Judge Henry Pirtle, one of the most distinguished 
 lawyers of the state. His mother, one of the illus- 
 trious women of her day, a model of all 
 the duties of social, religious and domes- 
 tic life, had instilled in him the principle 
 to do right whatever else might happen. And 
 the following story will illustrate his strong 
 characteristics in that direction. His father hav- 
 ing arranged for his board he packed up and went 
 to town dressed in homespun from head to foot 
 quite ignorant of the customs and manners of 
 town life. At the tavern where he stopped there 
 was a bar, of course, which was frequented con- 
 stantly by the most brilliant young men of the 
 place; in the little room to which he had been 
 assigned he noticed old packs of cards laying 
 around, and saw that it had been a resort for 
 gamblers. He had not more than arrived at this 
 conclusion when he heard the voices of three gen- 
 tlemen in the bar below. Then the proprietor 
 remarked in a bland voice: "O, yes, just walk up; 
 
 you will find a good fire; a young Mr. Taylor is 
 up there, but he will have no objection." But 
 before they had ascended the steps he had argued 
 the question pro and con in his mind. First he 
 thought, "I am here a lone boy, noticed by no one ; 
 how pleasant it would be to become intimate with 
 such distinguished gentlemen — ^the leading doctor, 
 lawyer and most accomplished young gentlemen 
 of leisure and fortune in the community. How 
 will it look for so uncouth a chap as I," glancing 
 at his homespun, "to refuse such a favor;" but by 
 the time they had entered the room and asked his 
 permission to play he had decided. "Gentlemen," 
 he said, " I am here for the purpose of study, and 
 although I would like to accommodate you, I 
 think it best to decline." The old doctor wheeled 
 around, audibly muttering curses as he retired, 
 but the other two politely bowed themselves out, 
 and that young man, distinguished for his wealth, 
 family connections and mental endowments, was 
 ever after that his warmest friend. 
 
 It is needless to say that none of the attrac- 
 tions of town life allured him, so firm was his 
 determination to do right and his ambition to 
 learn. He was admitted to the bar in 1825. As a 
 practicing lawyer he was a model of industry and 
 fidelity to his clients, of which he had a large share. 
 He had the confidence of the people as an honest, 
 fair dealing, truthful, noble-spirited man. His 
 practice at the bar was restricted by his own 
 choice and taste to chancery causes and for many 
 years after his retirement from active practice his 
 opinions on the vexed questions which so fre- 
 quently arise in equity, \\'as sought after and 
 esteemed by the Hartford bar. His habits of 
 close study, formed in early life, clung to him in 
 old age. His mind was broad and liberal and he 
 had a most extensive knowledge of all subjects. 
 In the domain of history, the sciences, literature, 
 politics and religion he possessed a vast and 
 varied store of accurate information. He made the 
 first authentic survey of Rough and Green Rivers 
 by directions of the Government, which resulted 
 in establishing permanent navigation of Green 
 River. His excellent knowledge of land titles 
 and of surveying enabled him to acquire a vast 
 amount of real estate in Ohio County. It has 
 been said of him that by his leniency and indul- 
 
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 gence he afforded many struggling young farmers 
 the opportunity to retain their homes. His influ- 
 ence was on the side of every good enterprise and 
 every broad charity. His house was the home of 
 the friendless and especially was he interested in 
 those struggling tO' acquire an education. He 
 wrote a valuable history of Ohio County and many 
 other interesting papers; and was a member of 
 the Filson Club, the principal historical society 
 of the state. He never aspired to political honors 
 and never held office but once (county attorney), 
 and was elected to that without being a candidate. 
 He was in early times a Whig and great admirer 
 and personal friend of Henry Clay, but after the 
 retirement of the great commoner he affiliated 
 with the Democratic party. 
 
 His first marriage was to Miss Mary Daviess 
 in 1828, by whom he had several children: Henry 
 Pirtle, Fannie, Randall, Thomas and Margaret, 
 all of whom are dead but Thomas, who is a farm- 
 er near Hartford. His second marriage was to 
 Mrs. Kittie Trible, of Owensboro, who survived 
 him. His eldest son. Dr. Henry Pirtle Taylor, 
 married Miss Sallie May of Daviess County. Two 
 of their children are living, Harrison P. Taylor 
 and Mary Taylor. The former married Miss 
 Mary Pendleton, daughter of Dr. John E. Pen- 
 dleton of Hartford, Kentucky, and to them were 
 born two children, Sallie and John Pendleton. 
 
 FERDINAND ADAM NEIDER of Augusta, 
 son of Adam and Barbara (Quill) Neider, was 
 born in WheeHng, West Virginia, March 2, 1851. 
 
 His father was born in Prussia in 1805. He 
 came to America when about twenty-five years of 
 age and settled in Wheeling, West Virginia, 
 where he was engaged in the manufacture of gas 
 until 1855, when he retired, five years before his 
 death. 
 
 Barbara Quill, his wife, was also a native of 
 Prussia. They were married in Wheeling in 1831. 
 She was born in 1814 and died in 1877. 
 
 Ferdinand A. Neider was educated in the pub- 
 lic and Catholic schools of Wheeling. At the 
 age of seventeen years he left home and school 
 and began the battle of life for himself. He was 
 stationed at different times in Columbus and Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio, and Madison, Indiana. In Cin- 
 
 cinnati he learned the carriage-making trade; 
 and in 1870, when nineteen years of age, he locat- 
 ed in Augusta and engaged in carriage making. 
 In 1883 he began the manufacture of carriage 
 trimmings, and has now one of the most success- 
 ful and popular establishments of the kind, of 
 which there are only seven in the United States. 
 
 Mr. Neider is a mechanical genius, having 
 patented some thirty different inventions in the 
 line of his business, and from the profits in these 
 inventions and in the manufacture of trimmings 
 and novelties and the sale of carriage hardware 
 he has accumulated a handsome fortune. 
 
 Being public-spirited, hospitable and liberal 
 with his means for the public good and for the 
 pleasure of his friends, he is naturally one of the 
 most popular and useful citizens of Augusta. 
 
 He is considered an all-round man in politics 
 as well as in affairs pertaining to the prosperity of 
 his adopted city. He votes the Democratic ticket 
 in national elections; but is neutral in local poli- 
 tics, always voting the ticket, or for the man, he 
 considers the most likely to serve the public 
 faithfully. 
 
 Mr. Neider is a member of the Catholic Church, 
 as were his father and mother. 
 
 January 29, 1873, he married Maggie Sherwood 
 of Augusta. They have three children: Bertha 
 Estelle, Maggie and Bonnie May. 
 
 DR. RICHARD PRETLOW, deceased, was 
 born in Southampton County, Virginia, 
 November 27, 181 1. His parents were Edna 
 (Bailey) and Samuel Pretlow, who removed from 
 Virginia to Springboro, Ohio, when the son was 
 seventeen years of age. Dr. Pretlow, having 
 secured a liberal education in the best schools of 
 the day, went to Cincinnati when twenty-one 
 years of age and attended the Ohio Medical Col- 
 lege, graduating in 1835. He began his profes- 
 sional career in Richmond, Indiana, and gained 
 a wide reputation as a physician in the course of 
 several years of practice. In 1843 he removed to 
 Covington, where he was engaged in the practice 
 of medicine for over half a century. His death 
 February 20, 1894, was mourned by the entire 
 community in which he had lived so long, and 
 in which he was universally known and respected. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Many expressions of sorrow and tributes to Iiis 
 memory were published in the newspapers of 
 the city, among which was the following, written 
 by Hon. John Sanford, one of his many devoted 
 friends : 
 
 "Another link has been broken which binds the 
 present with the earlier history of Covington. 
 There are not many of them left, and in the death 
 of Dr. Richard Pretlow we have lost one to which 
 many will cling with loving remembrance. For 
 fifty years he practiced medicine in our city. A 
 calling that required him to moVe along the pri- 
 vate pathways of life, that lead within the home 
 circle, and is associated with family affliction. 
 
 "There are no memories so tender as those 
 which cling around the name of one who brings 
 comfort to us at such a time. The announcement 
 of the death of Dr. Pretlow on yesterday moved 
 across our city Uke a shadow, and tears came 
 everywhere in eyes that were unused to the melt- 
 ing mood. The kindly face that had so often 
 beamed beside the bed of pain — the tender hand 
 that had so often brought comfort, and the voice 
 that had so often encouraged hope, were all gath- 
 ered on the 'silent shore. 
 
 "He was a modest, unassuming man, who 
 walked along the sequestered vale of life with no 
 ambition save that of good for his fellows. In all 
 his surroundings, whether as citizen, physician, 
 friend, husband or father, he might have been 
 taken as a model, and humanity would have been 
 elevated by the pattern. He had accumulated a 
 very handsome estate, but not one dollar of it was 
 ever wrung from the suffering poor. 
 
 "If they were able to pay him for his services 
 it was all right; if they were not, they received 
 his attention all the same. The world was made 
 better in his life, and in his death it has lost one 
 of its endearing charms. May he rest in peace." 
 
 Dr. Pretlow was not only devoted to his pro- 
 fession, but endeared himself to all classes by his 
 kindly disposition and his never-failing interest in 
 the general welfare of the community. He was a 
 man of superior judgment in matters of business 
 and was identified with the Farmers' Bank of 
 Kentucky of Covington, and was itspresident for 
 many years. 
 
 He attended the Presbyterian Church, of which 
 
 he was a trustee, and Mrs. Pretlow put a beauti- 
 ful and artistic memorial window in the church, 
 representing "Christ, the Great Physician," in 
 memory of her devoted husband. 
 
 Dr. Pretlow built a beautiful home on the cor- 
 ner of Fourth and Greenup streets, Covington, in 
 which he lived for fifty years. 
 
 He was in no sense a politician, but took great 
 interest as a Republican in political questions. 
 
 In 1837 Dr. Pretlow married Elizabeth A. 
 Lynch of Lynchburg, Virginia. She lived with 
 him for thirty years; died in 1867, and was buried 
 in Highland Cemetery. By this marriage there 
 are two children living: Mrs. Frank Prague of 
 Covington, and Samuel D. Pretlow. He mar- 
 ried again, June i, 1869, Cassie Prague, daugh- 
 ter of Edward and Sarah A. Prague of Spring- 
 dale, Ohio. 
 
 Dr. Pretlow's ancestors were English, and they 
 brought the brick with them to build their house 
 in Virginia. 
 
 JAMES ALLEN McCANE, clerk of the 
 Bracken County Court, son of Thomas and 
 Nancy D. (Anderson) McCane, was born in 
 Bracken County, March 3, 1854. His father is 
 also a native of Bracken County. He was born 
 May 18, 1820, and since his school days, which 
 were spent in the county schools, he has devoted 
 himself to farming near Augusta. He was mar- 
 ried November 29, 1849, to Nancy D. Anderson. 
 
 DR. JAMES T. REDDICK of Paducah was 
 born in Sumner County, Tennessee, Feb. 15, 
 1859. His father, James W. Reddick, was born 
 in the same county in 1836, and was a prominent 
 farmer and trader there who became a Primitive 
 Baptist minister in middle life and preached suc- 
 cessfully in Sumner and adjoining counties for 
 twenty-five years. He was a forcible speaker, a 
 man of strong convictions and exerted a great 
 influence for good in his community. Outside of 
 the ministry he was a citizen of prominence and 
 influence. 
 
 John A. Reddick (grandfather) was also a native 
 of Sumner County; a farmer and a man of most 
 excellent character; honest, industrious, a lead- 
 ing member of the Primitive Baptist Church, a 
 
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 good citizen and neighbor and a Democratic 
 voter. 
 
 John Parish (maternal grandfather) was a 
 native of Tennessee and a farmer all of his life. 
 
 Dr. James T. Reddick divided his time between 
 the farm and the schoolroom when he was a boy, 
 giving the most of his time to farm work. But 
 he was studious and by studying at home suc- 
 ceeded in obtaining a fair primary education. He 
 read medicine at night after working on the farm 
 during the day. His preceptor was Dr. W. H. 
 Neal, a prominent physician of Sumner County. 
 At the age of nineteen he entered the medical 
 department of the University of Tennessee at 
 Nashville and was graduated from that institu- 
 tion at the age of twenty-one years, receiving the 
 honors of his class. He first settled in Hopkins 
 County, Kentucky, where he practiced for ten 
 years and then removed to Paducah in 1890, where 
 he has gained a large practice and secured an ex- 
 cellent standing among the ablest physicians in 
 the city. 
 
 He is a prominent and influential member of a 
 number of benevolent orders, a Mason and Odd 
 Fellow in all the branches of those orders and a 
 member of the Elks. He is a member of the 
 Board of Trustees of the pubHc schools, ex-presi- 
 dent of the Paducah Medical and Surgical So- 
 ciety, vice-president of the Southwestern Ken- 
 tucky Medical Association, member of the State 
 Medical Association and of the American Medi- 
 cal Association. 
 
 Dr. Reddick married Miss WilHe Coleman in 
 1881, and they have three children: Beulah, Clif- 
 ford and WilHe. The doctor and his family are 
 members of the Baptist Church. 
 
 THOMAS D. RYAN, leading merchant and 
 a highly honored citizen of Augusta, son 
 of David and Martha (Bufford) Ryan, was born 
 in Mercer County, Kentucky, May 2, 1828, and 
 was educated in the common schools and at the 
 Augusta College. Very soon after leaving 
 school he embarked in the mercantile business, 
 first in 1844 as a clerk for his brother, James B. 
 Ryan, and soon became a partner in the house. 
 They went to Peoria, Illinois, and there engaged 
 
 in a dry goods venture. Six months later James 
 B. Ryan sold his interest to Thomas D. Ryan 
 and returned to Augusta. After one year's ex- 
 perience in Peoria Thomas D. Ryan also re- 
 turned to Augusta and opened a dry goods store 
 on his own account. 
 
 In 1862 he enlisted in the Seventh Regiment, 
 Kentucky Cavalry, United States Army, under 
 Colonel Metcalfe, and later under Colonel John 
 K. Faulkner of Garrard County, in General Green 
 Clay Smith's brigade. He was sergeant for a 
 time, and after the battle of Richmond was acting 
 commissary until his discharge. Among the im- 
 portant engagements he was in were the cavalry 
 fight at Big Hill, the battles of Richmond and 
 Stone River and numerous battles around Frank- 
 lin and in Central Tennessee. He received a des- 
 perate wound in his head at the battle of Rich- 
 mond, Kentucky, which wound threatened his life, 
 and was honorably discharged, the papers bear- 
 ing the signature of General W. S. Rosecrans. 
 
 In 1864 he was appointed United States as- 
 sessor and deputy collector of internal revenue 
 for Bracken County, which office he held for three 
 years. 
 
 In 1867 he went to Cincinnati and was em- 
 ployed as salesman in the wholesale dry goods 
 house of Steadman, Shaw & Company, after- 
 ward Steadman & Wilcox. The latter firm con- 
 solidated with Shaw, Barbour & Company, un- 
 der the style of Barbour, Steadman & Herrod. 
 Mr. Ryan followed each of these changes, receiv- 
 ing a handsome salary; but in 1873 he left that 
 house for a similar position with Chambers, Stev- 
 ens & Company, wholesale dry goods dealers, and 
 was with them for four years. 
 
 In 1877 he returned to Augusta and opened a 
 retail dry goods store, and has continued in that 
 business until the present time without interrup- 
 tion. His honesty, integrity and other excellent 
 traits of character have made him a host of friends 
 in the county, in which he is well and favorably 
 known. 
 
 Mr. Ryan is an ardent and unflinching Repub- 
 lican and a man of influence in his party. It is 
 his boast that he has never scratched a ticket. 
 He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
 and his daily "walk and conversation" are in 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHdES. 
 
 keeping with his profession. As a citizen of Au- 
 gusta he is public spirited and enterprising, popu- 
 lar and influential. 
 
 Mr. Ryan was marriied in 1850 to Laura An- 
 geline McCormick, daughter of John E. Mc- 
 Cormick. Mrs. Ryan died in 1878, and he was 
 married a second time, December 24, 1880, to 
 Rosa R. Crawford of Steubenville, Ohio, daugh- 
 ter of Thomas Crawford of that city. He has 
 one adopted daughter, Helen Morrison Ryan, 
 daughter of R. J. Morrison of Steubenville, Ohio. 
 
 David Ryan (father) was a native of West- 
 moreland County, Virginia, who came to Har- 
 rod's Station, Mercer County, with his mother, 
 who was a widow, when he was ten years of age. 
 They remained in the station for one year before 
 they were able to make a settlement on the land 
 which his mother had bought on account of the 
 depredations of the Indians. He obtained an or- 
 dinary education and became a successful farmer 
 in Mercer County, where he died in 1854. He 
 was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was in Shel- 
 by's Light Horse Brigade, and was highly hon- 
 ored by being detailed as one of the guards in 
 charge of Perry's prisoners taken on the lakes. 
 After he was an old man he received a land war- 
 rant for one hundred and sixty acres for his mili- 
 tary services. He was a Democrat in politics, a 
 man of strong convictions with the courage to 
 stand up for what he believed to be right and to 
 denounce the wrong. His chief characteristics 
 were his love of home and of the Methodist 
 Church, of which he was a member for many 
 years. 
 
 He had three brothers and two sisters who 
 came with their mother from Virginia. Solo- 
 mon and John took part in the battle of Blue 
 Lick, the last of the great battles with the Indians, 
 who were driven from the state. He married a 
 Miss Runion and raised a large family on a fine 
 farm in Mercer County, Kentucky. 
 
 One of his sisters married Edward Sutterfield 
 and lived in Mercer County. The other sister 
 married Samuel Jones, who owned one of the 
 finest farms in Mercer County. 
 
 Thomas D. Ryan's grandfather was a native 
 of Ireland, who came to America and located in 
 Westmoreland County, Virginia, where he died 
 
 a short time before his widow removed to Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Martha Bufiford Ryan (mother) was a native of 
 Virginia, and was of Scotch descent. 
 
 REV. JOHN M. RICHMOND, D. D., Presi- 
 dent of Princeton (Kentucky) College, was 
 born in Ayr, Ontario, Canada, May 13, 1848. 
 He is a son of William and Ann (Dickey) Rich- 
 mond, natives of Ayrshire, Scotland, who re- 
 moved to Canada in 1838. They were members 
 of the Presbyterian Church, in which Mr. Rich- 
 mond was an elder for thirty years. He was a 
 farmer and citizen of Ayr until 1879, when he 
 died, in the seventieth year of his age. 
 
 Matthew Richmond (grandfather) was a na- 
 tive of Scotland and was associated with Robert 
 Burns on Mossgiel farm, being with the bard 
 when he wrote some of his celebrated poems. 
 
 Dr. Richmond's mother, Ann Dickey Rich- 
 mond, was a Presbyterian of the strictest sect 
 and a devout Christian woman. She lived to the 
 extreme age of eighty-five years and died in Ayr, 
 Canada, in 1892. 
 
 Dr. Richmond's early schooling was obtained 
 in the town of Ayr, after which he attended the 
 Collegiate Institute at Gait, and completed his 
 literary studies in Toronto University with the 
 class of 1868. He then attended the Princeton 
 Theological Seminary in New Jersey, completing 
 his course in 1871. The degree of doctor of di- 
 vinity was conferred upon him by Parsons College 
 (Iowa) in 1887. 
 
 His first charge after entering the ministry was 
 the Hoge Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ohio, 
 where he remained five years. He was then pas- 
 tor of tlie First Presbyterian Church at Ypsilanti, 
 Michigan, for five years; then pastor of the Shady 
 Side Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 
 vania, for seven years; and was then pastor of the 
 Central Presbyterian Church, Louisville, for six 
 years, resigning his pastorate in 1894 to accept 
 the presidency of the Collegiate Institute at 
 Princeton, Kentucky. This institution, which is 
 conducted under the auspices of the Presbyterian 
 Church, was established in 1881, with the especial 
 object in view of preparing young men for the 
 ministry; and it has never been in as prosperous 
 
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 a condition as it is now under Dr. Richmond's 
 able management. 
 
 Dr. Richmond is a thoroughly orthodox Pres- 
 byterian, a man of natural talent, well equipped 
 for the work of minister or teacher, a pleasing, 
 forcible speaker, an excellent teacher, and has 
 developed fine executive ability in the short time 
 he has had charge of the college at Princeton. 
 The trustees of the institution realized the impor- 
 tance of placing a man of ability at the head of 
 afifairs and in selecting Dr. Richmond for the re- 
 sponsible position they removed one of the best 
 ministers from. Louisville, where Dr. Richmond 
 was held in the highest esteem by his congregation 
 and members of sister churches. 
 
 He has been twice married: first in 1871 to 
 Juliette Eyre Phillips, daughter of Louis W. R. 
 Phillips of Princeton, New Jersey. She died in 
 1882, leaving one son, William Dickey Rich- 
 mond, and one daughter, Margaret Craig Rich- 
 mond. His second marriage was in November, 
 1884, to Annie M. Gordon, daughter of Chief 
 Justice Isaac G. Gordon of Pennsylvania. 
 
 WILLIAM M. SMITH, United States At- 
 torney for the district of Kentucky, was 
 bom in Christian County, Kentucky, January 3, 
 1853. He is the son of Samuel R. and Mary J. 
 (Pattillo) Smith. His father was born in Gran- 
 ville County, North Carolina, in 1826, where, after 
 attaining his majority, he engaged in the business 
 of a planter. He removed to Christian County, 
 Kentucky, in the early fifties, and followed farm- 
 ing on a large scale, owning a large number of 
 slaves ; but after the slaves were given their free- 
 dom he engaged in the cotton business, continu- 
 ing in that about eight years, when he removed to 
 Graves County, Kentucky, where he died in 1892. 
 He was an ardent Democrat and sympathized with 
 the South in the late war; traveled extensively 
 and enjoyed life, but never cared for political hon- 
 ors. His father (W. M. Smith's grandfather) 
 was also a native of North Carolina, who fought 
 in the Revolutionary War, and was tendered a 
 commission as lieutenant, but declined on account 
 of his health and was compelled to return to his 
 home, and died there. His ancestors were Eng- 
 lish people. 
 
 Mr. W. M. Smith's maternal grandfather, Wil- 
 liam Pattillo, was a native of Corsica, who came 
 to America when he was quite young and en- 
 gaged in general merchandise. He married Miss 
 Ann Mayfield of Warren County, who was quite 
 wealthy. Mr. Pattillo was a man of fine education 
 and was still engaged in his studies when he died 
 at the age of thirty-two. His daughter, Mary J. 
 (Pattillo) Smith, received a college education and 
 was a lady of fine literary attainments, a member 
 of the Episcopal Church, and died in Graves 
 County in 1875. 
 
 William M. Smith is the sixth of eleven chil- 
 dren. After attending the country schools he 
 graduated at Mayfield College and then attend- 
 ed the Law Department of the University of 
 Louisville, finishing his legal course in 1872. He 
 at once commenced the practice of law with Mr. 
 A. B. Stublefield in Mayfield, a partnership which 
 was terminated after two years by the death of the 
 senior member of the firm. Mr. Smith continued 
 the business alone for two years and then he was 
 for a time associated with Judge W. M. Miller, 
 and later with Judge W. W. Tice. This relation 
 was dissolved by mutual consent and the firm of 
 Robertson, Smith & Robbins was formed and 
 continued until Mr. Smith's appointment as 
 United States district attorney an February, 1894. 
 
 Mr. Smith was county attorney for four years, 
 was a member of the Kentucky Legislature for 
 two years, 1889-90, was a presidential elector in 
 1888, and held other positions of responsibility 
 which were conferred upon him by the people of 
 his county. 
 
 Mr. Smith married Miss Augusta N. Anderson, 
 daughter of Hon. Lucien Anderson of Mayfield, 
 September 26, 1874. Mrs. Smith died in 1879, 
 leaving three sons, Harry A., Terry Pattillo, and 
 Lucien R. In 1884 he married Miss Dellah M. 
 Sherrill, daughter of Col. Lee Sherrill of Ballard 
 County, and there are three children as a result 
 of this marriage. 
 
 Mr. Smith is a Democrat of the Cleveland type, 
 and while he has held a number of positions, elec- 
 tive and appointive, he is not a politician. His de- 
 light is in the law, and he gives his time wholly 
 to his ofiRcial and professional duties. He is a 
 member of the Christian Church, 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 GEORGE WASHINGTON MERRITT, a 
 highly popular young attorney of Russell- 
 ville, was born in Christian County, Kentucky, 
 August II, 1857. 
 
 His father, Washington Merritt, was born in 
 Todd County, Kentucky, July 5, 1835, and re- 
 moved in 1856 to Christian County, where he 
 engaged in farming. He lost all of his property 
 during the civil war, and in 1865 he removed to 
 Robertson County, Tennessee, where he died Jan- 
 uary 10, 1878. He was married October 29, 1854, 
 to Lucy A. Waller, who was born in Pottsylvania 
 County, Virginia, November 20, 1834. She was 
 educated in the common and private schools of 
 Todd County. She was the mother of four chil- 
 dren: Leonard Ross, born August 22, 1855, died 
 July 31, 1885; George Washington; Louisa 
 Ahce, born June 14, i860, married Stephen Plas- 
 ter, who died in October, 1891, and married 
 Miss Knight of Butler County, Alabama; Rosa 
 Lee, born September 3, 1868, wife of Edward Col- 
 lier of Fort Deposit, Alabama. 
 
 Daniel Ross Merritt (paternal grandfather) was 
 born in Williamson County, Tennessee, January 
 10, 1800, was educated at Franklin College; was 
 a graduate in medicine ; removed to Todd County, 
 Kentucky, in 1821, where he practiced medicine 
 until 1838, when he abandoned his profession in 
 order to give his attention to a very large landed 
 estate. He was married three times: first to a 
 widow Fort, whose children were William J., 
 Eliza and one who died in infancy. His second 
 wife was a widow Vance, whose children were 
 Cordilia, Allie, Daniel and Washington (father). 
 His third wife was Penelope Hannum, who was 
 the mother of Richard, Henry Clay, Fisher Harri- 
 son, Rosabella, Montgomery, an eminent lawyer 
 of Henderson, Philander and Charlotte, a total 
 of fourteen sons and daughters. Mr. Merritt died 
 in July, 1883. Five of the sons were in the Con- 
 federate army. 
 
 Benjamin Leonard Waller (maternal grand- 
 father) was born in Pottsylvania County, Vir- 
 ginia, January 12, 1810, and died October 18, 
 1866. He was a fine Greek and Latin scholar, 
 was for fourteen years a prominent teacher and 
 educator, in connection with his farming inter- 
 ests. He removed to Todd County, Kentucky, 
 
 in 1838, when Lucy A. Waller Merritt (mother) 
 was three years of age, and taught school for 
 twelve years, at the same time looking after the 
 business of his farm. He married Dorothy Wil- 
 son, a native of Virginia, and they had nine chil- 
 dren: Lucy A. (mother), Eliza, Benjamin, Nan- 
 nie, George, Zachary Taylor, Sallie, Wilson and 
 Cora. Two of the sons were in the Confederate 
 army. They were members of the Christian 
 Church. 
 
 George W. Merritt attended the common 
 schools in Robertson County, Tennessee, and 
 graduated from Southwestern Presbyterian Uni- 
 versity, Clarksville, in the class of 1880. He en- 
 tered the law department of Cumberland Univer- 
 sity, at Lebanon, Tennessee, February i, 1882, 
 and was graduated in June, 1884. He taught 
 school at intervals while attending college, and for 
 one year following his graduation from the law 
 school at Fort Deposit, Alabama. 
 
 He was admitted to the bar in January, 1886, 
 and began the practice of his profession in Rus- 
 sellville, in which he has met with gratifying suc- 
 cess. He has made his way to prominence in his 
 profession and to success in business through 
 his own industry and perseverance, and com- 
 mands the respect and confidence of the com- 
 munity in which he is universally known. 
 
 Mr. Merritt was married August 31, 1832, to 
 Etta Sory, daughter of Thomas W. Sory. She 
 was born in Robertson County, Tennessee, Au- 
 gust 29, 1857. They have three children living: 
 Vernon Washington, born October 18, 1883; 
 Minnie Ross, born August 9, 1886, and Benjamin 
 Leonard, born February 11, 1888, died in infancy; 
 Sory, born December 11, 1894. 
 
 FRANK F. WALLER of Lawrenceburg was 
 born in Burlington, Boone County, August 
 29, 1858. Mis father, William H. Waller, was 
 born in Virginia in 1823 and came to Kentucky 
 when a young man and engaged in buying and 
 selling horses, cattle and sheep in Boone and 
 Kenton Counties; removed to Mt. Sterling in 
 1868, where he was engaged with S. Wolverton 
 & Co., proprietors of a number of stage hnes, 
 and remained with them until the railroads de- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 stroyed their business. He has been principally 
 engaged in farming for some years past. 
 
 Mary E. Sherrill Waller (mother) was born in 
 Kentucky in 1835. She was the daughter of B. 
 W. Sherrill, a merchant of Burlington, Boone 
 County. 
 
 Frank F. Waller's early education was some- 
 what neglected, as he went to work as a clerk in 
 a hardware store at Mt. SterHng when only 
 twelve years of age. In that way, however, he 
 obtained a knowledge of business which has 
 served him well in a successful business career. 
 Before he was fifteen, he was appointed messen- 
 ger of the Adams Express Co. on the L. C. & L. 
 Railway, and filled that position for nine years, 
 picking up further information and acquiring a 
 knowledge of human nature of which few men of 
 his age could boast. After leaving the road, he 
 was appointed the company's agent at Eminence 
 and was there for one year, when he resigned to 
 accept a government appointment in the revenue 
 service. He resigned after two years' service and 
 returned to Eminence and began business in part- 
 nership with J. S. McKendrick, dealing in lumber 
 and coal. This partnership continued for three 
 years, when they sold out and went to Lexington 
 and opened a coal and lumber ofHce there. On 
 account of sickness in his family, Mr. Waller re- 
 mained there only six months and then went to 
 New Castle and formed a partnership with Mr. 
 Monroe and engaged in the lumber and coal busi- 
 ness under the firm name of Monroe and Waller, 
 while at the same time they owned a transfer 
 and stage line running from Eminence to New 
 Castle, carrying passengers and freight, which 
 proved a, very successful and prosperous venture. 
 He continued in these enterprises until 1893, 
 when he removed to Lawrenceburg and engaged 
 again in dealing in coal and lumber in connection 
 with other kinds of building materials. In this 
 venture he has enjoyed continued success. 
 
 Mr. Waller married Marie L. Sacra of Shelby 
 County, August 22, 1876. They have four sons 
 and one daughter: Harold M., Ben. F., Otis S., 
 Joseph K. and Lucille. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Waller are active members of the 
 Baptist Church, and are highly respected by a 
 host of friends and acquaintances, 
 
 MARMADUKE BECKWITH MORTON, 
 Clerk of the Logan County Court,, Rus- 
 sellville, was born in Logan County, Kentucky, 
 August 16, 1840. 
 
 His father, William I. Morton, was born in 
 Louisa County, Virginia, September 9, 1786, and 
 was educated in the common schools of that 
 county. He came to Russellville in 1810, and 
 after taking a course of legal studies practiced law 
 for a great many years. He was a very public- 
 spirited man, progressive in his ideas, and was a 
 leader in the old Whig party. He was post- 
 master of Russellville for several terms; was 
 elected county attorney of Logan County in 1836, 
 and held that office many years; served his dis- 
 trict in the Legislature at one time; in 1854 was 
 appointed judge of the Logan County Court; 
 was deeply interested in religion, and frequently 
 preached the gospel in the Baptist Church in 
 Russellville, also at the Liberty and Friendship 
 Churches in Logan County and in Tennessee. He 
 was three times married, first December 4, 1805, 
 to Rebecca Haden of Fluvanna County, Virginia, 
 daughter of Colonel Joseph Haden. Mrs. Mor- 
 ton died, leaving five children: Eleanor Beck- 
 with, Amanda Pocohontas, Mary Virginia, 
 Joseph William and George Richard. 
 
 His second wife was Louisa McCormick, who 
 died, and left one child, Peter Henry Morton. 
 His third wife was Mrs. Clarissa McCleland, 
 whose maiden name was Clarissa Harlow Mc- 
 Cormack. She was born in Lincoln County, 
 November 16, 1802. She married John McCle- 
 land May 5, 1822, who died, and she then mar- 
 ried W. I. Morton in 1832, November 13. The 
 children of this union were: Clarissa M. Morton, 
 Joseph W. Morton, Marmaduke B. Morton and 
 Martha L. Morton. 
 
 William Jordan Morton (grandfather) was born 
 in Northern Virginia November 15, 1754. He 
 was known as a "gentleman," having inherited 
 large wealth and owning a great many slaves. 
 His chief characteristic was his loyalty and his 
 intense hatred of the "Tories." He was married 
 March 16, 1779, to Martha Prior, daughter of 
 William and Sarah Prior. She was born April 6, 
 1761, and died March, 1800. They were the 
 parents of twelve children; Peter, bom Decern- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 ber i6, 1779; Sarah, born November 10, 1781; 
 Rebecca, born May 21, 1783; Francis, born 
 March 9, 1785; William I. (father), born Sep- 
 tember 9, 1786; Mary, born March 31, 1788; 
 Joseph, born February 28, 1790; John, born Jan- 
 nary 21, 1792; Elizabeth born September 12, 
 1794; Marmaduke B., bom September 13, 1796; 
 Henry Prior, born September 3, 1798; Martha, 
 born March 15, 1800. 
 
 Marmaduke B. Morton, the tenth child named 
 above, held the same office for twenty years that 
 is now held by his nephew, whQse name heads this 
 sketch. 
 
 Joseph Morton (great-grandfather) was a native 
 of Virginia. Special history unknown. 
 
 John McCormick (maternal grandfather) was 
 a farmer of Lincoln County, Kentucky. He mar- 
 ried Leanna Masterson, daughter of Edward and 
 Eleanor (Coleman) Masterson. They removed 
 from Lincoln County to North Carolina. They 
 had five children: James, Caleb, Mary, Leanna 
 and Leah. 
 
 Daniel McCormick (maternal great-grand- 
 father) was a native of Ireland, who came to the 
 United States when he was about nineteen years 
 of age, and located in Philadelphia; married 
 Sarah HoUingsworth, and had nine children: 
 John, Joseph, William, Daniel, Sarah, Nancy. 
 Hannah and Martha. 
 
 Marmaduke B. Morton received his education 
 in private schools and in Bethel College, Russell- 
 ville, attending the latter institution the first year 
 of its existence. At the age of fourteen he 
 left school and entered the office of the clerk 
 of the County Court as deputy and served in that 
 capacity for about five years. During the Civil 
 war h« looked after his aged mother and her 
 property. After the close of the war he engaged 
 in merchandising at Auburn for four or five years, 
 and was subsequently engaged in farming, but 
 abandoned that occupation and traveled fifteen 
 years for a wholesale hardware establishment in 
 Louisville; from 1890 to 1894 he served as deputy 
 sheriff of Logan County; in November, 1894, he 
 was elected clerk of the Logan County Court. 
 
 Mr. Morton has been a member of the Baptist 
 Church since i860; is a Master Mason and a 
 highly esteemed and popular citizen. 
 
 He was married December 7, 1869, to his cous- 
 in, Virginia Morton, daughter of Joseph Morton. 
 She was bom in Logan County, February 13, 
 1844, and was educated in the best schools of 
 Logan County. They have had eight children, 
 six of whom are living: 
 
 Henry Prior, born December 25, 1870. 
 
 Overton Harris, born October i, 1871; died 
 November 10, 1885. 
 
 Joseph Jordan, born April 21, 1878; died June 
 25, 1891. 
 
 Francis Alexander, born March 4, 1875. 
 
 Clarissa Louisa, born June 23, 1876. 
 
 WilHam I., born April 6, 1878. 
 
 James Hanna, born December i, 1879. 
 
 Virginia, born June 11, 1882. 
 
 PROFESSOR ABNER GOFF MURPHY, 
 President of the Logan Female College, 
 Russellville, was born in Knox County, Ohio, 
 October 18, 1831. He is a son of William and 
 Sarah Ann (McKinney) Murphy. 
 
 His father was bom in Maryland, April 17, 
 1804, and was educated in log school houses in 
 Belmont and Knox Counties, Ohio. He was a 
 farmer and tanner by occupation, and a very 
 worthy and highly esteemed citizen of Knox 
 County, Ohio, until the day of his death, January 
 2, 1885. He was a steward in the Methodist 
 Church, very liberal in the support of his own 
 congregation, and there were few churches in 
 the county to which he did not contribute. He 
 was elected colonel of the Ohio State Militia 
 and served in that capacity for five years. He 
 was a Whig in the days of that political party, 
 and a Republican after its dissolution. He was 
 married December z-j, 1830, to Sarah Ann Mc- 
 Kinney, and they had three children, only one of 
 whom. Prof. A. G. Murphy, is living. Elizabeth 
 died in 1843, and Lydia died in 1837. 
 
 Sarah Ann McKinney Murphy (mother) was 
 born in Loudoun County, Virginia, December 
 27, 1809, and was educated in excellent private 
 schools in Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, 
 and was a woman of rare intellectual endow- 
 ments and attainments. 
 
 Abner Murphy (grandfather) was a native of 
 Maryland, who went to Ohio, where he was en- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 gaged in farming and tanning. He was an 
 orthodox Quaker and a man of many noble traits 
 of character. He married Sarah Gattan, who was 
 born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1775, and died in 
 Knox County, Ohio, in 1853. Her parents immi- 
 grated to America when she was a child. Abner 
 and Sarah Murphy had ten children: Hiram, 
 Robert, William (father), Jane, Mary, Basil, 
 Rachel, Eleanor, Sallie and EHas. 
 
 Abner Murphy's father was a native of the 
 north of Ireland, an Irish Quaker, who settled in 
 Maryland in 1773. 
 
 George J. McKinney (maternal grandfather) 
 was bom in Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1787, 
 and removed to Knox County, Ohio, where he 
 was a farmer. He married Elizabeth Thomas, 
 daughter of Leonard Taylor Thomas, who was 
 born in Buoys Island, in the Potomac, son of 
 Captain Thomas, who belonged to the English 
 army and served in the French and Indian war. 
 After the close of the war he resigned his com- 
 mission in the regular army and married the 
 widow of Colonel Leonard Taylor, ,.A11 of the 
 Taylor family were members of the Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 James Johnston, who was George McKinney's 
 maternal grandfather and the great-great-grand- 
 father of Prof. A. G. Murphy, was a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary war, whose residence was near 
 Philadelphia. After the war he went to Loudoun 
 County, Virginia, and bought a large tract of 
 land, upon which he lived until he was ninety 
 years old, and died in 1830. 
 
 Prof. Abner G. Murphy was educated in the 
 Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. He en- 
 tered the preparatory department in 1845, remain- 
 ing one year. In 1849 he entered again, taking 
 the full course in the University proper, and was 
 graduated in the class of 1855. 
 
 He went to Millersburg, Kentucky, soon after- 
 wards and held the chair of Latin and Greek in 
 the Millersburg Male and Female Collegiate In- 
 stitute until 1859, when he was placed in charge 
 of the Kentucky Wesleyan College, of which he 
 was the principal organizer. He remained there 
 until 1881, when he went to Shelbyville and taught 
 Latin and Greek for some time; but returned to 
 Millersburg and was connected with the Female 
 6 . ' ! I ! ■ ^1 
 
 College until 1886, when he was elected president 
 of the Logan Female College at Russellville. 
 
 Prof. Murphy has instructed hundreds of young 
 men who have risen to eminence in almost every 
 profession and calling in life, who owe much to 
 his wise and helpful advice. Few men can look 
 back over a useful and well spent life with greater 
 satisfaction. But Prof. Murphy is by no means 
 on the retired list, as his usefulness has not been 
 impaired by long service in the field of education 
 and his advancing years and ripe scholarship 
 and untarnished Christian character have given 
 him a hold upon the confidence and respect of 
 the people of Russellville, and qualify him in an 
 eminent degree for the splendid work in which he 
 is engaged in their midst. 
 
 Prof. Murphy's first wife was Emily Savage, 
 daughter of Pleasant M. Savage. She was born 
 in Mason County, in 1829; and was educated in 
 Lexington, Kentucky, and Clarksville, Tennes- 
 see, completing a very thorough course at the 
 latter place under the instruction of Dr. Irvine, 
 a distinguished, educator of his day. There were 
 six children by this marriage : George William, 
 born November 3,. 1859, died March 12, 1864; 
 Elizabeth R., born December 3, i860; Clara M., 
 born February 22, 1863; Mary B., born March 
 18, 1864; Harriet, born March 18, 1864, died in 
 infancy; Irwine S., born April 27, 1867. Mrs. 
 Emily S. Murphy died July 5, 1867. 
 
 Prof. Murphy's second wife, to whom he was 
 married May 28, 1889, was Mary G. Williams, 
 who was born in Parkersburg (now West), Vir- 
 ginia, and was educated in Dr. Prettyman's Fe- 
 male College, Louisville, Kentucky. 
 
 EPHRAIM D. SAYRE, President of the Se- 
 curity Trust and Safety Vault Company 
 of Lexington, was bom in Elizabeth, New Jersey, 
 September 25, 1820. His father, James C. Sayre, 
 was born in the same city, November 11, 1781, 
 and was driven from his home to Madison by the 
 army in the Revolutionary war. He was married 
 May 16, 1867, to EHzabeth P. Hamilton of 
 Elizabeth, New Jersey, who was related to Alex- 
 ander Hamilton. In 1825 Mr. J. C. Sayre came 
 to Louisville, leaving his family in Elizabeth, 
 who followed him in 1827. He purchased a farm 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 near the city which is now that part of Louisville 
 bounded by Main, Jefferson, Twenty-first and 
 Twenty-sixth streets. He was a coach trimmer 
 by trade and, before coming to Kentucky, had 
 been in the Merchant Service, commanding a 
 vessel which ran between New York and New 
 Orleans from 1804 to 1825. He lived on his 
 farm after coming to Kentucky and died October 
 6, 1847, when sixty-six years of age. His broth- 
 er, David A. Sayre, was born in Madison, New 
 Jersey, in 1793; came to Lexington in 1811; 
 founded the Sayre Bank in 1820 and the Sayre 
 Female Institute in 1853. His death in 1870 was 
 greatly lamented by his city and state, for he was 
 one of the greatest public benefactors that ever 
 lived in Kentucky. 
 
 Ephraim D. Sayre lived on the farm mentioned 
 and attended school in Louisville, receiving an 
 education which prepared him for the successful 
 business career which he began in 1839, when 
 nineteen years of age, in the Alsop Mills, corner 
 of Eighth and Jefferson streets (then in the sub- 
 urbs of Louisville), and afterwards was with 
 Glover, McDougall & Co. in the Union Foundry. 
 February, 1848, he went to Lexington and en- 
 tered the banking house of his uncle, David A. 
 Sayre, whom he succeeded in the business at a 
 later day, maintaining the high credit and stand- 
 ing of the bank by his excellent management of 
 its affairs. 
 
 During his long residence in Lexington he has 
 occupied many positions of trust, and the confi- 
 dence placed in him by his fellow citizens has 
 never been regretted. He was treasurer of the 
 Agricultural and Mechanical Association for 
 thirty-nine years — from 1850 to 1889; and has 
 been the secretary and treasurer of the Lexington 
 Cemetery Company since 1850, a very responsi- 
 ble position, which he has filled to the entire 
 satisfaction of the directors and lot owners, which 
 may be inferred by the fact that he carries securi- 
 ties for the cemetery of over eighty-two thousand 
 dollars. 
 
 He organized the Security Trust and Safety 
 Vault Company of Lexington, one of the most 
 solid financial institutions in central Kentucky, 
 and has been its president after the first year since 
 its origin; and as long as he may be able to give 
 
 it the benefit of his superior judgment and ability 
 as a financier and manager of trusts, it is not 
 probable that he will have a competitor for this 
 responsible position. 
 
 Mr. Sayre and Mary E. Woodruff were married 
 in 1850 and they have five children who have 
 reached maturity. Mr. Sayre is a man of vigor- 
 ous constitution, careful in his habits, and al- 
 though a little past seventy-five years of age, is 
 in good health and is in the full enjoyment of 
 all of his faculties, and has had the benefit of ex- 
 tensive travel, having returned, in March, 1896, 
 from a trip to the West Indies, South America and 
 Cuba, which was one of the most delightful of the 
 many excursions he has made. 
 
 JOHN G. SIMRALL, a leading lawyer and 
 distinguished jurist of Louisville, son of 
 Rev. John G. and Sarah (Bullock) Simrall, was 
 born in Fayette County, Kentucky, March 18, 
 1840. His father was a noted Presbyterian min- 
 ister and his mother was a daughter of Waller 
 Bullock, a native of Virginia, but for a long time 
 a prominent farmer of Fayette County, Kentucky, 
 and a near neighbor and intimate friend of Henry 
 Clay. He was a violent Democrat, but in all other 
 matters he was an enthusiastic admirer of the 
 great commoner. His eldest son. Rev. Dr. Jo- 
 seph J. Bullock, who died about two years ago, 
 married a sister of General John C. Brecken- 
 ridge, and was at one time chaplain of the United 
 States Senate. 
 
 Judge Simrall's paternal grandfather, James 
 Simrall, was a native of Virginia who came to 
 Kentucky when he was a boy and was one of the 
 earliest settlers of Shelby County. He recruited 
 a regiment and commanded it during the war of 
 1812. He was a gallant soldier, a brave and 
 daring officer and was conspicuous in many en- 
 gagements. He survived the dangers and hard- 
 ships of army life, but died a few years later 
 from the effects of exposure while in the service 
 of his country. 
 
 John G. Simrall received his primary educa- 
 tion in the Fayette County schools, under the 
 immediate guidance and assistance of his schol- 
 arly father; and, at the age of fourteen, was suf- 
 ficiently advanced to enter Centre College at 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 67 
 
 Danville, from which he was graduated as saluta- 
 torian of his class in 1857. There were forty- 
 seven graduates in the class, including Senator 
 J. C. S. Blackburn, ex-Governor James B. Mc- 
 Creary, Judges Dulaney, Hunt, McKay and oth- 
 ers who have figured prominently in the history 
 of Kentucky during the last quarter of the century. 
 
 Mr. Simrall was employed as a teacher in the 
 family of Junius Ward of Mississippi for one year 
 following his graduation, and then began the study 
 of law in the office of Judge Robertson of Lex- 
 ington. After two years of careful instruction 
 by his distinguished preceptor, he was well pre- 
 pared for the senior class in the law department 
 of the University of Louisville, from which he 
 graduated with high honors in March, 1861. 
 
 He began the practice of law in Louisville 
 in partnership with Judge William S. Bodley, 
 with whom he was pleasantly associated until the 
 death of Judge Bodley in 1878. A partnership 
 was then entered into between Mr. Simrall and 
 Temple Bodley, a son of his former partner, and 
 this relation was dissolved in 1882 when Governor 
 L. P. Blackburn appointed Mr. Simrall vice chan- 
 cellor of the Louisville Chancery Court, in the 
 place of Honorable Alfred T. Pope, who had 
 resigned. After serving this unexpired term. 
 Judge Simrall was elected judge of the Law and 
 Equity Court, which superseded the Vice Chan- 
 cellor's Court. This election occurred in 1884 
 and was for a term of six years, a deserved com- 
 pliment to a faithful officer and a splendid recog- 
 nition of his ability and probity as judge of one 
 of the highest courts in the city This endorse- 
 ment was especially marked, as he had no oppo- 
 sition in the Democratic convention in which he 
 was nominated, or by the opposing party in the 
 general election which took place in August, 1884. 
 In this exalted position he more than met the 
 expectation of his most sanguine friends, and his 
 resignation two years later was regretted by 
 members of the bar and by the public, who had 
 great confidence in him as an able and upright 
 jurist. 
 
 He resumed the practice of law, which offered 
 larger compensation, and in which he has been 
 most successful, having no superior in the pro- 
 fession at the Louisville bar, Notwithstanding 
 
 his purpose to devote himself exclusively to his 
 large practice in the higher courts, his friends 
 persuaded him to become a candidate for the 
 vacancy in the Court of Appeals in 1895. He 
 was an independent Democratic candidate; but it 
 was not a Democratic year, and he could not 
 stoop to modern electioneering methods. Believ- 
 ing that a high judicial office should not be trailed 
 in the dust or gained by political intrigue, he 
 cheerfully submitted to honorable defeat. It was 
 an instance in which politics triumphed over the 
 better judgment of the people. The acceptance 
 of the office would have required great personal 
 sacrifice on the part of Judge Simrall, and he 
 could not have enjoyed the honors of the position 
 if they had been dissipated by any question as to 
 the manner of his election. 
 
 Judge Simrall was married in 1863 to Cornelia 
 Smith, daughter of Thomas P. Smith of Louis- 
 ville, a lady of unusual literary attainments and 
 culture and endowed with superior intellectual 
 and social faculties. They are members of the 
 Second Presbyterian Church. 
 
 They have one daughter, Nellie, who married 
 Lindley M. Kneasbey, now professor of the sci- 
 ence of government at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. 
 The marriage a few years ago was one of the 
 most brilliant social events that has ever taken 
 place in the city. 
 
 DAVID A. SAYRE, banker, was born March 
 12, 1793, in Madison, New Jersey. His 
 parents were in humble circumstances, but were 
 industrious and honest, and, above all, were Chris- 
 tians. In 181 1 he came to Kentucky and settled 
 at Lexington, where he resided continuously until 
 his death. At the time of his arrival in Lexington, 
 he was without money and without friends. He 
 had acquired a knowledge of silver-plating, and 
 to that devoted himself until 1823, and for the 
 next six years connected with his trade a broker's 
 office. In 1829, he turned his attention wholly to 
 the banking business, in which he amassed a 
 large fortune, and for half a century was one of 
 the most valuable citizens Lexington ever had. 
 He had a rare combination of gifts; although 
 greatly devoted to the acquisition of wealth, was 
 at the same time a cheerful giver, and never dis- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 played the traits of the miser or spendthrift; 
 trusted to his head in trading, and to his heart in 
 giving, and rarely found either to fail him. With- 
 out a very liberal education, he belonged to that 
 class of men who despise alike help or hin- 
 drance in making their way in the world. He 
 brought unbounded cheerfulness everywhere into 
 his presence, and, while being innately modest, 
 detested rowdyism and profanity. He possessed 
 pecuHarities and eccentricities, but they rather 
 served to bring him into general favor. He was a 
 man of strong and subtle intellect, which gave 
 him great promptitude in action, and his conclu- 
 sions hardly ever failed in bringing about the 
 highest good. He was always ready to co-oper- 
 ate in any public enterprise by which the city 
 in which he resided, or the state of his adoption, 
 might receive benefit, ever contributing with a 
 liberal hand to the accomplishment of that end. 
 His influence and power were not felt alone 
 among business men. His office was the resort 
 of the most distinguished men of Central Ken- 
 tucky, numbering among his associates Clay, 
 Crittenden, Wickhfife and Morehead, and by them 
 his advice was considered wise and good. The 
 manner in which he used his wealth, probably 
 more than anything else, is worthy of regard; 
 avarice never took possession of him, and bitter 
 thoughts never poisoned the milk of human kind- 
 ness in his heart. As he grew rich, he com- 
 menced distributing; and, as he advanced in age, 
 he became more gentle and loving. He was an 
 earnest Presbyterian of the Calvanistic school, 
 and yet was without narrowness or bigotry in 
 his views and charities. He recognized his de- 
 pendence on his Creator, and therefore felt his 
 obligations to man. It was this, no doubt, to a 
 great extent, which led him to bestow his boun- 
 ties, and to extend his hand for the good of 
 those around him. He looked well after the in- 
 terests of his family, then to the interests of his 
 neighbors, and, finally, to the general public ; and, 
 having no children of his own to be educated, 
 he devoted his means and heart largely to the 
 education of others. In 1854, he donated to the 
 trustees, in perpetuity, for female education, the 
 costly buildings and grounds now occupied by 
 the institution known as the Sayre Female Insti- 
 
 tute. To that magnificent gift he added largely 
 during his life, until the institution which bears his 
 name, in the completeness of its appointments for 
 educational purposes, ranks as one of the first in 
 the valley of the Mississippi. In 1825, Mr. Sayre 
 married Abby V. Hammond, of Norfolk, Vir- 
 ginia, who was his faithful counselor and encour- 
 aged him in his good works. She still survives 
 him. He died in Lexington, September 10, 1870, 
 and his death was accompanied by every demon- 
 stration of sorrow and respect, from the citizens at 
 large, the officers of Sayre Institute, of which he 
 was the founder and benefactor, and from the 
 Northern Bank of Kentucky, with which he had 
 been from time to time connected. Tlie fountain 
 of his moral life and actions was Christianity, and, 
 abiding firmly in the fulfillment of the great faith 
 in which he had lived, he sank peacefully into 
 the arms of death. His place may not be filled in 
 a generation. 
 
 JOHN M'CANN, Justice of the Peace, Louis- 
 ville, Kentucky, has fought his way from the 
 obscurity in which he served an apprenticeship in 
 a machine shop to a position of honor and trust, 
 in which he commands the respect of the com- 
 munity, and is now one of the best known and 
 most popular citizens of Louisville. He was born 
 in that city June 27, 1848, and was educated in the 
 Catholic and public schools, and, when he left 
 school, he thought he would like to be a machin- 
 ist and he worked at that trade with commenda- 
 ble industry for two years. Believing that his 
 employer was not pushing him along as fast as 
 he should, after two years of drudgery, he aban- 
 doned the trade and went on the river as a bar- 
 keeper, a more attractive life and a more profit- 
 able business. After three years of this, he 
 thought it too easy for a man of his physical 
 ability and mental capacity and he quit the river 
 and was employed as a molder in the foundry of 
 Grainger & Company for two and a half years, 
 when, in 1871, he was elected constable, which 
 office he filled so industriously and efficiently for 
 four years that his friends told him he might 
 as well be the magistrate, and to this office he was 
 duly elected in 1875 and has served in the same 
 capacity continuously for more than twenty years. 
 
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 In 1887 his friends concluded that he should go 
 up a little higher and they elected him state sen- 
 ator, in which relation he served four years with 
 distinction and was re-elected in 1890 and served 
 until July, 1893, when he resigned. Under the 
 old constitution he had held the offices of senator 
 and magistrate, but as he could not hold both 
 under the new constitution, he resigned his seat 
 in the senate and completed his term as magis- 
 trate, to which he was again re-elected in 1894. 
 
 Squire McCann has always taken a lively inter- 
 est and an active part in politics, and is so popular 
 that he could easily have any office to which he 
 might aspire, simply for the asking. He has 
 made the duties of the magistrate a careful study, 
 has familiarized himself with the law bearing 
 upon such cases as come under his jurisdiction, 
 with the result that he has secured a more liberal 
 share of business than any other magistrate in 
 the city. Coming up from the machine shop, 
 he has acquired a knowledge of human nature, 
 and, as a justice of the peace, a fund of general 
 information and a knowledge of law which would 
 qualify him for a much higher station in the legal 
 profession; but he is ambitious only to do his 
 duty, and this he believes may be done in an 
 humble sphere as well as in a more exalted station. 
 
 Mr. McCann was married in October, 1871, to 
 Mary E. Parker, daughter of Charles Parker of 
 Louisville, but formerly of LaRue County. They 
 have one daughter living, whose name is Ada. 
 
 Mr. McCann's father, James McCann, was a 
 native of Ireland, who married Mary Condon 
 before leaving the old country, and came to the 
 United States in 1839. They at once located in 
 Louisville, where Mr. McCann was engaged in 
 the grocery business until 1868, when he died. 
 Mrs. McCann survived him until 1886, when she 
 died, aged sixty-three years. 
 
 CAPT. JOHN H. M'BRAYER of Lawrence- 
 burg, whose fame has become world-wide 
 on account of the superior whiskey which bears 
 his name, was born in Lawrenceburg, June 17, 
 1826. On his next birthday he will be three 
 score and ten years of age, and yet he is an 
 active, vigorous man, attentive to business, full 
 
 of energy and as wide awake as any of the younger 
 men around him. 
 
 His father, Alexander McBrayer, was a Ken- 
 tuckian who was well educated and one of the 
 most intelligent and successful business men of 
 his generation. He began life, as many others 
 did at that time, as a trader; but became a mer- 
 chant tailor in Lawrenceburg, in which business 
 he continued until his death, which occurred at 
 an early age in 1828. His father, William Mc 
 Brayer, was a native of North Carolina. 
 
 Susan Wright McBrayer (mother) was born 
 in Augusta County, Virginia, April 29, 1797, and 
 died at the country home of her son, James A. Mc- 
 Brayer, March 19, 1887, being ninety years of age. 
 Her father, John Wright, was a Virginian by 
 birth, who came to Kentucky when he was quite 
 young and lived for a time in Cumberland Coun- 
 ty. He afterwards removed to Greene County, 
 Ohio, and while clearing out a farm was killed 
 by the falling of a tree. 
 
 Capt. McBrayer received a good common 
 school education in Lawrenceburg and vicinity. 
 At the age of nineteen he enlisted for one year's 
 service in the Mexican war. He command- 
 ed a company known as the "Salt River 
 Tigers." It was by his order that the 
 memorable charge on Santa Anna's men was 
 made that won the day at Buena Vista 
 and which settled the differences between the 
 United States and Mexico. Thus, before he was 
 twenty years of age, he had made a reputation 
 for a strength of character which he has main- 
 tained through half a century. His reminiscences 
 of the lively times he experienced in Mexico 
 are always of the deepest interest to his friends 
 and would make a thrilling chapter in history. 
 
 After his return from Mexico, he was in the 
 mercantile business in Lawrenceburg for ten 
 years, during which time, in 1848, he established 
 the distillery which has produced the best whis- 
 key ever made in Kentucky and which is known 
 throughout the world by his name. He is largely 
 interested in the product of a distillery now con- 
 ducted by J. R. Walker, the reputation of which 
 he guards with jealous care. 
 
 Capt. McBrayer has never cared for office, but 
 served two years as sheriff of his (Anderson) 
 
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 County in 1861-2 by appointment of the County 
 Ct)urt. He is an Odd Fellow and a Mason, 
 through which orders he has done much for the 
 aid of others. 
 
 Capt. McBrayer has been quite successful in his 
 business enterprises and takes great interest in 
 public affairs, and is particularly well posted in 
 matters of finance. He has theories of his own 
 respecting the national currency, and is able to 
 express them in clear and vigorous language. 
 He does not pose as an orator or a public speak- 
 er, but he can interest any audience and can ex- 
 press his ideas in clear, good EngUsh. He favors 
 the blending of silver and gold, making a coin 
 that is neither gold nor silver and is both. He 
 would make the present silver half dollar a dollar 
 by adding eleven and two-thirds grains of gold, 
 and so with the silver dollar, add twenty-two 
 grains of gold and make it a two-dollar piece. 
 He says: "This is the shortest method to make 
 a parity in the two metals, and secure domestic 
 quiet in finance." 
 
 HON. JAMES MADISON M'ARTHUR of 
 Dayton, Kentucky, now in the eighty-fifth 
 year of his age, has been prominent in public 
 affairs for over fifty years, and has done much 
 for the pubHc improvement of Newport and Day- 
 ton. The latter place was laid out by him and 
 largely built up through his individual enterprise. 
 Mr. McArthur was born near Georgetown, 
 Kentucky, January 3, 1810, and in 1815 his 
 parents removed to Newport, where he was edu- 
 cated in the best private schools ; and at the age 
 of fifteen years he entered Center College at Dan- 
 ville and studied for one year. He had no predi- 
 lection for professional life, preferring a business 
 career, which he planned and carried out with 
 unusual success. He began by investing and 
 trading in real estate in Campbell County, and 
 stuck to his purpose, until, at one time or another, 
 he had actually owned more than one-third of the 
 land in Campbell County. He then turned his 
 attention to the improvement of Newport; opened 
 the first street in that city ; invested his capital in 
 the building of houses for residences and busi- 
 ness; helped others by selling land on ten years' 
 time and building houses for those who did not 
 
 have the money to pay for their houses, adopting 
 a plan very similar to the present plan of building 
 and loan associations. 
 
 While in Newport he was president of the City 
 Council for ten consecutive years. He estab- 
 lished the Newport Safety Fund Bank, of which 
 he was president from 1852 to 1856; and it was 
 his generous spirit which led the bank to make 
 too many loans, resulting in the failure of the 
 banking institution. This crippled Mr. McAr- 
 thur financially, but it did not dampen his ardor 
 in the work of improvement to which he had de- 
 voted his life. 
 
 Having removed from Newport to Dayton in 
 1848, he was for many years actively engaged in 
 building up the new town, which he had laid out 
 with the assistance of James T. Berry and Henry 
 Walker. He was president of the Dayton Coun- 
 cil for eight years; built the street railway be- 
 tween Newport and Dayton in 1870 and sold it 
 in 1879. 
 
 Mr. McArthur was twice elected to the legisla- 
 ture, in 1846 and in 1873. He introduced and 
 secured the passage of what is known as the 
 "Cemetery Act;" was the originator of an act 
 levying tax on real estate to assist in establishing 
 public schools; and also secured the passage of 
 the "Mechanics Lien Law ;" and was instrumental 
 in securing the enactment of various other laws 
 for the public good. 
 
 Mr. McArthur married Mary J. Strieker, 
 daughter of Charles Strieker of Philadelphia. 
 She was born January 18, 1819; died April 6, 
 1893, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, New- 
 port. They had seven children: Peter, born 
 May 23, 1838; Mary, born April 10, 1840, died 
 June I, 1865; Alice, born March 4, 1842; Annie, 
 born September 30, 1844; Charles, born June 8, 
 1847; Ida, bom June i, 1850, died March 17, 
 1894; and William H., born October 23, 1858. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. McArthur lived happily together 
 for fifty-six years. He is a remarkably well pre- 
 served man; has never worn glasses, his eye- 
 sight never having failed, and now, at the age of 
 eighty-five, he can read the finest print in ordinary 
 use. 
 
 His father, Peter McArthur, was bom in Ar- 
 gyleshire, Scotland, in 1764. He came to Amer- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 ica in 1784 and located near Georgetown. He 
 was employed as surveyor in central Kentucky 
 and southern Ohio, and was for a long time en- 
 gaged in locating land warrants for soldiers of 
 the Revolution. In 181 5 he removed to New- 
 port and kept a hotel. He died in July, 1828, 
 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Newport. 
 He was a cousin of General Duncan McArthur, 
 who was governor of Ohio. 
 
 Mary Michie McArthur (mother) was born in 
 Louisa County, Virginia, in 1769. She was first 
 married to William Tompkins, who lived but a 
 short time after their marriage. She was mar- 
 ried to Peter McArthur, December 26, 1800; 
 died September 15, 1853, and is buried in Ever- 
 green Cemetery, Newport. She was of Irish de- 
 scent. 
 
 MV. MONARCH of Owensboro, king of 
 . the whiskey trade in Kentucky, known 
 throughout the world as the manufacturer of the 
 famous "Monarch" brand of whiskey, respected 
 and loved by his neighbors and fellow-citizens, 
 charitable toward those who need a helping hand, 
 phenomenally successful in business and possess- 
 ing a magnificent fortune, is a native of the 
 county of which he has been a resident all his 
 life. He is a son of Thomas and Susan (Daviess) 
 Monarch and was bom March 10, 1842. His 
 father was born in Maryland, March 25, 1801. 
 He was educated in Washington County, Ken- 
 tucky and, on reaching manhood, engaged in 
 farming in that county, subsequently removing to 
 Marion County, where he lived until 1832, when 
 he rernoved to Daviess County and became one 
 of the most popular citizens, and was a prominent 
 farmer until the day of his death, November 13, 
 1 88 1. In the earlier years of his Hfe, he was a 
 Whig of pronounced convictions, but he did not 
 follow his party until its dissolution. He fore- 
 saw the inevitable, and believing the principles of 
 the Democratic party were more in accord with his 
 views, he was welcomed to the ranks of that party 
 in 1852 and was ever after that a prominent figure 
 in the councils of the local Democracy. He was 
 proverbially kind, generous and honest; a mem- 
 ber of the Catholic Church and an excellent citi- 
 zen. His father was a native of France who came 
 
 to America soon after the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence and was a farmer in Maryland, where 
 he died in 1842. 
 
 Susan Daviess Monarch (mother) was born in 
 Washington County, Kentucky, April 13, 1801. 
 She was a lady of great intelligence and decision 
 of character; dignified, yet kind and respectful, 
 and stood by her convictions unflinchingly and 
 impressed those who knew her as a woman who 
 would have filled any station in high life with 
 credit to her sex. She left her impress upon the 
 community in which she lived and died, having 
 done her duty. She survived her husband until 
 May 14, 1889, rounding out a useful and noble 
 life of a little more than eighty-eight years. 
 
 Mrs. Monarch's family (Daviess) was a branch 
 of the original English family from which Jef- 
 ferson Davis was descended, although the name 
 was spelled dififerently, and her people were 
 among the pioneers of Daviess County, which re- 
 ceived their name. 
 
 M. V. Monarch inherited many of the fine traits 
 of character for which his mother and her ances- 
 tors were distinguished. Under the immediate 
 direction of his mother, his receptive mind was 
 well trained. He was kept in school until twenty 
 years of age, finishing in Cecilian College in 
 Hardin County in 1865. He began his business 
 career in the same year, buying and selling to- 
 bacco, in which he made a good start. He soon 
 abandoned this, however, and engaged in dis- 
 tilling, operating alone until 1870, when he en- 
 tered into partnership with E. P. Payne. The 
 business of the concern grew into magnificent 
 proportions and the concern was subsequently 
 incorporated as the M. V. Monarch Mercantile 
 Company, with Mr. Monarch as president, a 
 position which he has held continuously until the 
 present time. Messrs. Monarch and Payne were 
 the principal stockholders and owners until the 
 death of Mr. Payne, September 9, 1895, a calamity 
 which did not disturb the business of the corpora- 
 tion to the extent that would have resulted under 
 a partnership arrangement. 
 
 In this establishment the famous Monarch 
 whiskey, known all over the world, is manufac- 
 tured under Mr. Monarch's personal supervision ; 
 but he is also a large shareholder and owner in 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 two other distillery companies, of which he is 
 president,The John Banning Distillery Company 
 and the famous Sour Mash Distillery Company. 
 He is a large stockholder in the Owensboro Na- 
 tional Bank and has other investments in business 
 enterprises in Owensboro, besides his elegant 
 home and other real estate. He is receiver of the 
 Owensboro, Falls of Rough & Green River 
 Railroad Company, by appointment of Court. 
 
 Mr. Monarch is one of the most public spirited 
 men in Owensboro and is identified with all pub- 
 lic measures looking to the improvement of the 
 city and the advancement of society. It is known, 
 moreover, among his neighbors, although he has 
 sacredly guarded the fact as a secret, that he and 
 his estimable wife are most generous in their 
 donations to the cause of charity, while their lib- 
 erality to the worthy poor, in the way of private 
 charity, approaches extravagance. Mr. Mon- 
 arch's home is an ideal one, and his devotion to 
 his family is one of his most beautiful traits. He 
 is known far and wide for his unstinted liberality 
 and his hospitable entertainment of friends and 
 strangers. Handsome in his personal appear- 
 ance, gentle in manner, of kind and pleasing ad- 
 dress, easy of approach, ready to respond to every 
 appeal, or to lend a helping hand in any good 
 work, he is unquestionably one of the best and 
 most popular citizens of Owensboro. 
 
 Mr. Monarch was married September 20, 1869, 
 to EHzabeth Ann O'Bryan, who was born De- 
 cember 23, 1844, and was educated in St. Francis 
 Academy in Owensboro. She is a daughter of 
 William O'Bryan and is in hearty accord and sym- 
 pathy with her companion, being a devoted wife 
 and ideal mother. They have a happy family of 
 five children, who are somewhat scattered at pres- 
 ent. Jessie, their first child, died in infancy; 
 Henry Lamar, born May 11, 1872, is now in the 
 law department of the Catholic University, Wash- 
 ington, D. C, being the first student enrolled on 
 the books after the inauguration of that depart- 
 ment in this famous institution; Daniel D., born 
 August 14, 1874, is contracting agent for the 
 C. & O. Railroad; Erminie, born June 11, 1876, 
 now a pupil in St. Mary College, near Notre 
 Dame, Indiana; M. V. Monarch, Jr., born Sep- 
 tember 14, 1878, is a student in Notre Dame Col- 
 
 lege, Indiana; Benita, born May 23, 1881, is at 
 home. It is the purpose of the parents of these 
 young people, whose prospects for a happy future 
 are now so bright, to give them the advantages of 
 a complete and thorough education, so that they 
 may be prepared for whatever may befall them in 
 after life. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Monarch are members of the 
 Catholic Church. Mr. Monarch voted the Dem- 
 ocratic ticket until the nomination of James G. 
 Blaine for President, at which time he voted the 
 Republican ticket, and has afifiliated with the latter 
 party since that date. 
 
 JAMES A. M'CANE received his education 
 principally in the Augusta College, and when 
 nineteen years of age he began to teach school, 
 continuing until 1875, when he was appointed 
 deputy clerk of the County Court and served until 
 February, 1882, when he resigned to become a 
 candidate for the clerkship, to which he was elected 
 in August, 1882; again in 1886; again in 1890, 
 and for the fourth time in 1894. 
 
 His great popularity and success are due, not 
 only to his efficiency in the transaction of the 
 business of the office, but to his accommodating 
 disposition and pleasing address. 
 
 March 18, 1880, he was married to Lizzie B., 
 daughter of P. H, Clayton of Bracken County. 
 She was born April 9, i860. They have two chil- 
 dren: Harvey Clayton McCane, born April 29, 
 1882, and Lewie Allen McCane, bom JNIarch 22, 
 1891. 
 
 Samuel McCane (grandfather) was born Jan- 
 uary 30, 1791, in Pennsylvania; came to Ken- 
 tucky early in Hfe and resided in Bracken County 
 to time of his death on February 5, 1864; fol- 
 lowed farming and trading; made several trips 
 with horses and farming products to New Or- 
 leans. Married in Bracken County, September 3, 
 1818, to Nancy Heaverin. She was born Septem- 
 ber 6, 1795, and died April 8, 1857. 
 
 Nancy D. Anderson McCane (mother) was 
 born in Bracken County, September 2, 1827, 
 and is still living with her husband in her native 
 county. 
 
 James J. Anderson (maternal grandfather) was 
 born in Virginia, April 10, 1788; came to Mason 
 
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 County, this state, while a young man, where 
 he married Nancy D. Allen, April lo, 1815, and 
 soon afterward came to Bracken County, where 
 he died, October 31, 1831. His occupation was 
 farming. His wife, Nancy D. Allen, was born 
 August 17, 1795, and died in Bracken County, 
 February 21, 1866. 
 
 Mr. McCane's ancestors for several genera- 
 tions were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church; and in the matter of politics the connec- 
 tion is solidly Democratic. 
 
 HARVEY MYERS, son of Aurelia Bridgman 
 and Aaron Myers, was born in Chenango 
 County, New York, February 10, 1828. When 
 but a boy Mr. Myers left his home and located in 
 the west. By hard work he managed to educate 
 himself, and about the year 1852 located in Trim- 
 ble County, where he taught school and read law. 
 He was admitted to the bar of that county, and, 
 after a few years practice, removed to Covington, 
 where his ability and fidelity were at once recog- 
 nized. He very soon formed a law partnership 
 with Hon. John W. Stevenson, just then elected 
 Governor of Kentucky, and afterwards United 
 States Senator. Though the practice of this firm 
 was great, and the burden of it fell upon Mr. 
 Myers, he found time to prepare and publish the 
 first Code of Practice of Kentucky, known as My- 
 ers' Code, which is held in the highest esteem by 
 the bar of the state. In 1867 he compiled and 
 published a supplement to the General Statutes 
 of Kentucky, known as Myers' Supplement. 
 
 In politics he was a Republican; and in 1865 
 was nominated by the Union party for the legis- 
 lature and elected; but it having been charged 
 that bayonets were used at the polls in his behalf, 
 and investigation satisfying him of the truth of 
 the charges, he declined the office. In declining 
 the office, Mr. Myers said : 
 
 "On the day of the election bodies of armed 
 soldiers were placed before and around each vot- 
 ing place in the county, and there remained 
 throughout the entire day. Early in the day, 
 numbers of citizens, while approaching the polls 
 in an orderly and peaceful manner for the pur- 
 pose of tendering their votes, were arrested by the 
 
 soldiers and marched away under guard to a 
 prison, and there held in close confinement until 
 the next day, when they were discharged without 
 any charge being preferred against them. In 
 some instances, persons, on coming in sight of 
 the polls, were met by a military officer, told that 
 they would not be allowed to vote, and ordered to 
 depart; and, while obeying the order and depart- 
 ing from the polls, squads of soldiers were sent in 
 pursuit, by whom they were arrested and marched 
 through the streets to prison and confined as 
 stated above. I could not lend my sanction or 
 approval to such a proceeding, as I must have 
 done by accepting this election." This was at 
 that time probably the only instance of declination 
 of office in Kentucky. 
 
 He was shot down in his office by a disap- 
 pointed litigant whom Mr. Myers had opposed in 
 the courts, March 28, 1874. At a meeting of the 
 bar of Kenton and Campbell Counties, on the oc- 
 casion of his death, the following resolutions were 
 adopted : 
 
 Your Committe directed to report resolutions 
 to this meeting of the Bar of Kenton in respect 
 to a deceased member, our brother, Harvey My- 
 ers, offer these resolutions : 
 
 Resolved, That we mourn the loss of Harvey 
 Myers, whose death occurred last Saturday, as one 
 of the saddest events of our times, and we are not 
 able to employ language equal to the expression 
 of the feelings of sadness experienced by his 
 brethren and associates upon this occasion. 
 
 2. Harvey Myers had been for twenty years 
 among us, a man in the full vigor of life, of robust 
 manhood and vigorous mind; he had reached the 
 front rank of his profession at the age of forty-six 
 years, and in a large sense of the expression, he 
 was a law abiding and an honest man. 
 
 3. Harvey Myers will be remembered among 
 his acquaintances and friends for his virtues in his 
 profession, as a citizen, and as a husband and 
 a father — in all these relations he has left no better 
 man, but an example for imitation and emulation. 
 
 4. We ask the president of this meeting to send 
 copies of these resolutions to the courts of this 
 county to be recorded, and a copy to the family 
 of our deceased brother. 
 
 5. That we will attend the funeral of the de- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHHES. 
 
 ceased as a body, and that we will wear the usual 
 badge of mourning for thirty days. 
 
 6. That an invitation is extended to the Bar of 
 Campbell and adjoining counties to unite with us 
 to attend the funeral. 
 
 7. That a Committee of Arrangements for the 
 funeral be appointed, consisting of five, to be se- 
 lected from the Bar of Kenton and Campbell 
 Counties. 
 
 SIMPSON S. MEDDIS, real estate dealer and 
 agent, of Louisville, Kentucky, was born on 
 his father's farm in Jefiferson County, so near 
 the city that it is now in one of the most beautiful 
 suburbs of Louisville. His father, Matthew Med- 
 dis, was a native farmer of Jefiferson County, 
 Kentucky, where he spent his whole life. He was 
 born in 1804 and died in 188 1. 
 
 Godfrey Meddis (grandfather) was a long-time 
 resident of Jefiferson County, and was a soldier in 
 the war of 1812. He was with General Jackson 
 in the battle of New Orleans, and died in that city 
 from a fever which he contracted while in the 
 service. Hlis ancestors were from Germany. 
 
 Apphia Seaton Meddis (mother) was born in 
 Jefiferson County, Kentucky, in 1817, and is still 
 living in her native county. Her father, George 
 Seaton (grandfather) was a native farmer of the 
 same county, where he died in 1835, aged sixty 
 years. His ancestors were from England. 
 
 Simpson S. Meddis left his father's farm when 
 he was sixteen years of age, and was appointed 
 deputy sherifif of Jefiferson County, an ofifice which 
 he held under diiiferent sherififs for fifteen years, 
 and from which he retired to engage in the carpet 
 business with his father-in-law, George W. Small. 
 A year and a half later he accepted the position of 
 teller in the banking house of Odor, Taylor & 
 Company, and was with the bank for four years, 
 until it went into liquidation. Mr. Meddis then 
 engaged in the real estate and auctioneering busi- 
 ness, to which he has devoted his entire time ever 
 since. 
 
 In 1875 he formed a co-partnership with 
 Charles Southwick, under the firm name of Med- 
 dis & Southwick, a very fortunate business rela- 
 tion, which has continued without interruption for 
 over twenty years, in which time they have bought 
 
 and sold real estate of the value of many millions 
 of dollars. They have been in all this time, and 
 are now, the leading men in their business in the 
 city of Louisville. Their long experience, to- 
 gether with their familiarity with property and its 
 value, and their unswerving integrity and strictly 
 honorable methods of business, have won for 
 them the confidence of the people, while their 
 judgment is sought in nearly all real estate trans- 
 actions of importance. 
 
 Mr. Meddis' services as auctioneer are in de- 
 mand, not only in his own city and county, but in 
 other parts of the state, and frequently in other 
 states; and not only in sales of realty, but in fine 
 stock sales and other occasions when large inter- 
 ests are involved. His sales are attended with 
 unqualified success on ' account of his superior 
 knowledge and excellent judgment. His reputa- 
 tion as an auctioneer in large sales is not merely 
 local, but national. 
 
 Mr. Meddis married Eliza H. Small, daughter 
 of George W. Small, of Louisville, in 1861, and 
 they have two sons: George S. and Victor N. 
 Meddis. 
 
 HON. HARVEY MYERS, Jr., attorney at 
 law, Covington, was born December 24, 
 1859. His father, as stated in the foregoing 
 sketch, was a native of Chenango County, New 
 York, a self-made man and a lawyer of great abil- 
 ity and a man of the highest integrity, whose un- 
 timely taking ofif is mentioned elsewhere. 
 
 Young Myers did not experience the difficulties 
 which his father met with in obtaining an educa- 
 tion. The excellent public schools of Covington 
 were open to him, and his father was ambitious in 
 his behalf. He made good use of his opportunities, 
 and after leaving school he studied law in the 
 office of the Honorable Theo. F. Hallam, and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1881, and was a partner of 
 Mr. Hallam for thirteen years. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Myers was elected to the legisla- 
 ture on the Democratic ticket, and was three times 
 re-elected, and in 1889 was elected Speaker of the 
 House of Representatives, and was one of the 
 most popular presiding officers that has ever 
 served in that body. 
 
 Although his father was a Republican, Mr. My- 
 
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 ers has been for years one of the acknowledged 
 leaders of the Democratic party in Covington and 
 vicinity; and is exceedingly popular with men in 
 all parties, being faithful to the best interests of 
 his city and state. He is one of the most promi- 
 nent attorneys in Covington and has an extensive 
 practice. He is a prominent Mason, and is Ex- 
 alted Ruler of the Covington Lodge of Elks. 
 
 Mr. Myers was married November 9, 1888, to 
 Carrie Wells, daughter of H. B. Wells, of Mem- 
 phis, Tennessee. They have four children. 
 
 WILLIAM M. IRVINE, late of Richmond, 
 Kentucky, a successful business man and 
 prominent banker, was a native of the city in 
 which he spent a useful and honorable life. He 
 was a son of Adam and Minerva (Stone) Irvine, 
 and was born June i, 1825. He was educated at 
 Cambridge University, and was especially pre- 
 pared for the legal profession, but on account of 
 failing health at the close of his collegiate course, 
 necessitating employment in the open air, he be- 
 came a tiller of the soil; was especially interested 
 in fine stock and owned some of the best horses 
 and cattle in the state. 
 
 After a few years of life on the farm, his health 
 was improved, and he engaged in the banking 
 business in Richmond, and was for a long time 
 cashier of the Farmers' National Bank. Then 
 president of the Second National. He was then 
 elected vice-president of the First (now Rich- 
 mond) National Bank, which position he held un- 
 til his death, which occurred February 23, 1891. 
 
 He owned a fancy farm of two hundred and ten 
 acres near the aity, and for ten years prior to his 
 death was engaged in culling and training fine 
 horses, in which he took a deep interest for the 
 pleasure and recreation that the occupation af- 
 forded, as well as for the handsome profits which 
 he derived from his sales. 
 
 The suburban home, "Irvinton," in which his 
 wife resides, is one of the most attractive places in 
 the vicinity of Richmond ; and there he surround- 
 ed himself and family with every comfort and 
 convenience, providing everything to indicate 
 the sweetness and pleasures of life ; and these evi- 
 dences of his thoughtfulness remain in their 
 beauty and freshness, a constant reminder of the 
 
 tender and loving husband and father. The 
 premises embrace sixteen acres of ground, upon 
 which there are shrubbery, plants and flowers in 
 their season, and greenhouses in which the choi- 
 cest flowers are propagated for the beautifying of 
 the home in winter, all of which, with the elegance 
 of the surroundings and the interior of the home, 
 tell of the generous and gentle character of a man 
 whose business never occupied his mind to the 
 exclusion of his home and family. 
 
 Mr. Irvine was a model business man, highly 
 esteemed for his unquestioned integrity and 
 sound judgment. He was a member of the 
 Presbyterian Church and a liberal supporter of 
 the gospel, and his deportment in business and in 
 all of the affairs of a busy life was in harmony 
 with his religious profession. 
 
 He never sought office or public recognition, 
 and would not even accept an office, although fre- 
 quently importuned to become a candidate for po- 
 siitions of trust and honor. 
 
 He was married November 3d, 1846, to his 
 cousin, Elizabeth S. Irvine, daughter of Colonel 
 David and Susanah Hart (McDowell) Irvine. 
 Their home was blessed by the birth of five chil- 
 dren, one of whom, Bessie D. Irvine, died of ty- 
 phoid fever October 22, 1883, while attending 
 school in New York. The loss of this lovely and 
 promising child was the greatest sorrow the par- 
 ents were ever called upon to bear. Beautiful and 
 lovely in person, she was a child of unusual bright- 
 ness and intelligence, and gave promise of de- 
 veloping into that charming womanhood for 
 which her illustrious ancestors were so distin- 
 guished. She was sent to one of the best schools 
 in the east in order to give her every opportunity 
 for improving those talents and virtues with 
 which she was so richly endowed. 
 
 Adam Irvine (father) was a native of Madison 
 County, a graduate of Old Transylvania Univers- 
 ity, and a man of fine scholarly attainments, a 
 highly honored and universally respected citizen 
 of his county. He married Minerva Stone, a na- 
 tive of Madison County, in 1824, and died about a 
 year later, three months before his son, William 
 M., was born. 
 
 Colonel William Irvine (grandfather) was a gal- 
 lant soldier and colonel in the Revolutionary war. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 and in the Indian wars of later years, and was car- 
 ried off the battlefield at Boonesboro with a severe 
 gunshot wound, which might not have proven 
 fatal, but he was thrown across a horse and in 
 that way his injury was aggravated so as to cause 
 his death a few years later. 
 
 Christopher Irvine, a son of Colonel William 
 and uncle of William M. Irvine, was a noted In- 
 dian fighter an Kentucky, and followed them into 
 Indiana and Ohio, and was killed by them in the 
 latter state. 
 
 Elizabeth S. (Irvine) Irvine, who survives her 
 husband, the late William M. Irvine, is a daugh- 
 ter of David Irvine, granddaughter of Colonel 
 William Irvine of Revolutionary fame, who was 
 also her husband's grandfather. She is a grand- 
 daughter of Dr. Ephraim McDowell and a great- 
 granddaughter of Governor Isaac Shelby; and is 
 a lady of elegant refinement and superior intelli- 
 gence, an honored and worthy descendant of the 
 illustrious people who fought for American inde- 
 pendence and figured conspicuously in the early 
 settlement of the "dark and bloody ground." 
 
 She has no children living, having buried five; 
 still occupies the lovely home in which her la- 
 mented husband took so much pleasure and com- 
 fort, her brother, David W. Irvine, living with 
 her. 
 
 David Irvine, Sr., father of Mrs. Elizabeth S. 
 Irvine, at the age of nineteen, joined the militia 
 and engaged in the Indian wars and skirmishes 
 of those perilous times. When his father. Colonel 
 William Irvine, Sr., died, David took his place as 
 Circuit Clerk, and this office was held by father 
 and son for a period of forty years. David re- 
 signed eventually, having other business of great- 
 er importance. He married Susanah Hart Mc- 
 Dowell, daughter of the celebrated physician, Dr. 
 Ephraim McDowell. 
 
 William M. Irvine's mother, Minerva Stone, 
 was a native of Madison County and a daughter 
 of Colonel William Stone, who was a gallant sol- 
 dier in the Revolutionary war, and an antagonist 
 whom the Indians greatly feared in the early set- 
 tlement of the Blue Grass State. 
 
 For more extended history of the McDowells 
 and Shelbys, see biographies of H. C. McDowell 
 and Wallace McDowell Shelby in this volume. 
 
 JOHN Y. OLDHAM, M. D., a distinguished 
 physician of Lexington, son of Dr. William 
 B. and Laura A. (Mathews) Oldham, was born in 
 New Castle, Henry County, Kentucky, March 19, 
 1866. His father was born in Jefferson County, 
 near Louisville, and graduated from the Ken- 
 tucky School of Medicine in 1856, carrying off 
 the highest honors of his class. He was a physi- 
 cian at the Marine Hospital in Louisville for a 
 number of years, and subsequently removed to 
 New Castle, Henry County, where he was en- 
 gaged in the practice of his profession until the 
 time of his death, August 18, 1877. 
 
 Presley B. Oldham (grandfather) was born in 
 Jefferson County, Kentucky, June 15, 1808, and 
 died in his native county in 1861. He owned 
 large tracts of land and was very successful as a 
 business man. His ancestors were English peo- 
 ple of the highest respectability. He married 
 Margaret Keller, who was bom July 29, 181 3, 
 and died at the old home place June 2, 1877. 
 
 Laura A. Mathews Oldham (mother) was born 
 in New Castle in 1841; died March 24, 1896. 
 
 Caleb M. Mathews (grandfather) was born near 
 Staunton, Virginia, October 29, 1810, and was 
 ralised on a farm in Woodford County, Kentucky. 
 He studied law under George H. Robertson of 
 Lexington, and graduated from Transylvania, 
 law department, in 1837; married Mrs. Frances 
 S. Beazley, nee Edwards; located in New Castle 
 and cultivated a small farm and garden in con- 
 nection with his legal work. He spent his money 
 and devoted mucli time to the education of his 
 large and now influential family. He was lai-gely 
 instrumental in establishing Henry College, of 
 which he was a trustee for twenty-five years. He 
 was prominently connected with the best move- 
 ments for the advancement of educational inter- 
 ests in the county, and was conspicuous in all good 
 work. He died in New Castle June 8, 1891. 
 
 John Mathews (great-grandfather) belonged to 
 an influential Virginia family. He came to Ken- 
 tucky in 181 1, and settled in Woodford County, 
 and died in 1813, leaving a widow and three sons. 
 His wife, Sarah McDowell (great-grandmother), 
 was a daughter of Major General Joseph Mc- 
 Dowell, an officer in the Revolutionary wjir; sis- 
 ter of General Joseph McDowell of Ohio; sister- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 in-law of Governor Allen Trimble of Ohio ; cou- 
 sin of Governor James McDowell of Virginia; 
 aunt of Governor John P. Gaines of Oregon ; sis- 
 ter-in-law of Colonel L. Ford of the United States 
 Army; and a relative of Dr. Ephraim McDowell 
 of Danville, Kentucky. 
 
 Dr. John Y. Oldham enjoyed excellent edu- 
 cational advantages, attending the public schools 
 in New Castle until he was thirteen years of age, 
 when he took a three years' course in the State 
 College at Lexington, and was one year in Cen- 
 tral University, in Richmond, after which he reaJ 
 medicine with his uncle, Joseph McDowell Ma- 
 thews of Louisville, and graduated from the Ken- 
 tucky School of Medicine in 1885. His first work 
 in the line of his profession was as an assistant to 
 Dr. Dudley S. Reynolds in his office practice, and 
 in the Hospital College of Medicine, in which ca- 
 pacity he was employed for two years. In Sep- 
 tember, 1887, he opened his office in Lexington, 
 making a specialty of the treatment of diseases of 
 the eye, ear, nose and throat, in which he was at 
 once successful, and soon established an enviable 
 reputation. 
 
 Dr. Oldham is a member of the Kentucky 
 State Medical Sodiety; the Mississippi Valley 
 Medical Association, and the Lexington and Fay- 
 ette County Medical Society, and is an occasional 
 contributor to medical periodicals on the subjects 
 pertaining to his special line of practice. He is a 
 member of Merrick Lodge No. 31, I. O. O. F.; 
 of the Ancient Essenic Order, Lodge No. 262; 
 and of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, 
 in which he holds the office of Esteemed Lectur- 
 ing Knight. He is also a member of the First 
 Presbyterian Church of Lexington. 
 
 Dr. Oldham was married March 29, 1887, to 
 Mary S. Flood, daughter of Major John H. Flood 
 of Lynchbtirg, Virginia, and has two sons: J. 
 Harry Oldham and William B. Oldham. 
 
 ADAM SMYRL of Bellevue, a member of 
 the firm of Smyrl & Hughes, No. 59 West 
 Fourth street, Cincinnati; Ohio, was born in 
 County Tyrone, Ireland, March 8, 1843. He was 
 particularly fortunate in his school days, and em- 
 braced the opportunities which his parents gave 
 
 him in the common schools and best academies in 
 the county. 
 
 He came to America in 1869, stopping near 
 Worcester, Massachusetts. He found employ- 
 ment in one of the large woolen mills there, and 
 stuck to it until he mastered the business, which 
 he followed in the New England States until 1876. 
 His mother, having arrived in this country, was 
 living in Bellevue, and when he came to visit her 
 in 1876 she persuaded him to remain with her. 
 
 He accepted a position in the house of C. H. 
 Bishop & Co., flour merchants, and continued 
 with them until 1883, when he formed a partner- 
 ship with W. C. McClanahan and embarked in 
 the flour, grain and commission business in Cin- 
 cinnati. The firm of Smyrl & McClanahan con- 
 tinued until 1888, when Mr. McClanahan with- 
 drew, and a new firm under the style of Smyrl, 
 Armstrong & Hughes was formed, in which name 
 the business was continued until 1894, when Mr. 
 Armstrong retired and the name was changed to 
 Smyrl & Hughes. The extensive business of this 
 house is the best evidence of Mr. Smyrl's ability 
 and integrity as a business man. Although his 
 principal place .of business is in Gncinnati, he is 
 greatly interested in the town in which he has his 
 residence, and is one of the most enterprising citi- 
 zens of Bellevue. 
 
 He is president of the Bellevue and Dayton 
 Land Company; also president of the South Belle- 
 vue Development Company, and is interested in 
 other enterprises pertaining to the advancement 
 of the community in which he lives. He has been 
 a director of the Cincinnati Chamber of Com- 
 merce ; was a member of the Bellevue City Council 
 for eight years; is president of the Jamestown 
 Magisterial District of Bellevue; was chairman of 
 the Bellevue School Board, and is president of the 
 L. J. Crawford Republican Club of Bellevue. 
 While he is not in any sense a politician, he is 
 deeply interested in the success of the Republican 
 party. ' : ! i I 
 
 He is a member and trustee of the Presbyterian 
 Church; superintendent of the Sabbath school, 
 and is a good citizen, honored and respected by 
 all who know him. 
 
 Mr. Smyrl was married May 3, 1882, to Mary 
 L. Milligan, daughter of Samuel Milligan of Cin- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 cinnati. She is also a member of and active work- 
 er in the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Mr. Smyrl's parents, Gabriel and Sarah Ann 
 (Bell) Smyrl, were natives of County Tyrone, Ire- 
 land. His father died in his native country at the 
 age of forty-six years, in 1856. He was a man of 
 fine intelligence and a devoted Christian in con- 
 nection with the Presbyterian Church ; had many 
 friends in his country. He had visited America, 
 and seen considerable for a man in the humble 
 position of a farmer. After his death Mrs. Smyrl 
 came to this country, where some of her relatives 
 had preceded her, and finally made her home in 
 Bellevue, where she reached the good old age of 
 four score years, and died in November, 1893. 
 
 Mr. Smyrl has several brothers, who are re- 
 spected citizens of Bellevue. 
 
 DR. JOSEPHUS MARTIN of Cynthiana, 
 son of Dr. William H. and Mary F. 
 (Whitehead) Martin, was born at Robinson Sta- 
 tion, Harrison County, August 14, 1861. His 
 father was also born in Harrison County, of which 
 he has been a resident all his life; has practiced 
 medicine in the county fifty-one years, and is sup- 
 posed to be the first physician who performed 
 laperotomy in the United States. This was in 
 1852. He is a graduate of the Jefferson Medical 
 College of Philadelphia; also attended the old 
 Transylvania College at Lexington, Kentucky. 
 He had a very large practice not only in the imme- 
 diate vicinity of his home at Robinson, but 
 throughout the county. He was a member of the 
 late Constitutional Convention, and has always 
 been noted for great moral courage. His mother 
 was a daughter of J'osephus Perrin, who repre- 
 sented Harrison County in the legislature a num- 
 ber of times. 
 
 William Martin (grandfather) was born in Har- 
 rison County, January 4, 1790, and was a farmer 
 in that county until his death in 183 1, aged forty- 
 one years. He was a soldier in the war of 1812; 
 married Katherine Clopton Perrin, whose grand- 
 father, Josephus Perrin, came to Virginia from 
 England with three brothers, who fought in the 
 war of the Revolution. 
 
 Mary F. Whitehead Martin (mother) was a na- 
 
 tive of Claysville, Harrison County, and a devout 
 member of the Christian Church. She died in 
 1863. Her father, Nimrod Whitehead, was a na- 
 tive of Harrison County, and was a son of Capt. 
 John Whitehead, of Virginia. 
 
 Dr. Josephus Martin was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Cynthiana and at Georgetown Col- 
 lege. He read medicine with his father and at- 
 tended the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, 
 graduating in 1885. He at once entered upon 
 the practice of his profession in the county, and 
 in 1892 removed to Cynthiana, where he has been 
 remarkably successful. 
 
 Dr. Martin is a member of the Kentucky State 
 Medical Societ5^ He was married in 1886 to A. 
 Stella Gamett, daughter of William T. and Dor- 
 cas (Ewalt) Garnett of Harrison County. They 
 are members of the Baptist Church. 
 
 THOMAS SAMUEL VENABLE, banker and 
 wholesale merchant, of the firm of Venable 
 & Mcjohnson, of Owensboro, was bom in Prince 
 Edward County, Virginia, June 17, 1840. He 
 came with his father to Owensboro November 21, 
 i860, having been educated in his native county, 
 and for many years has been a member of the 
 above mentioned firm, wholesale and retail deal- 
 ers in grain and seeds, and president of the Owens- 
 boro Savings Bank. He was elected elder in the 
 Presbyterian Church in 1870, and is greatly de- 
 voted to his church and its good work. In poli- 
 tics, he is for the prohibition of the liquor traffic. 
 The members of the Venable family have been 
 staunch Presbyterians as far back as their history 
 can be traced. 
 
 Mr. Venable was married August 2, 1864, to 
 Sallie Quicksall Anderson, daughter of James B 
 and Mai-y (Robertson) Anderson. She was bom 
 at "Wood Lawn," her father's home, near Owens- 
 boro, November 13, 1844. Their children's 
 names are: Virginia Woodson, born July 4 1865- 
 graduated from the Owensboro High School 
 June, 1880; also graduated from the High School 
 of Detroit, Michigan, in 1882; married James 
 Truman Shaw of Detroit, May 14, 1889, and re- 
 sides HI Detroit, where her husband is in business 
 
 James Anderson Venable, born March 9, 1868 • 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 79 
 
 graduated from the Owensboro High School in 
 1885; immediately entered the Owensboro Sav- 
 ings Bank as clerk; remained in the bank until 
 January, 1889, when his uncle, T. S. Anderson, 
 who had been owner of the bank, having gone to 
 Detroit and engaged in the same business, James 
 accepted a position in that institution, and in 1892, 
 without his solicitation, was elected Cashier of the 
 Michigan Car Company; afterwards engaged 
 with his brother-dn-law, James T. Shaw, in the 
 grain business in Detroit, under the firm name of 
 J. S. Lapham & Company. 
 
 Mary. Ann Venable, born October 27, 1875; 
 died May 8, 1880. 
 
 Matilda Tyler Venable, bom December 4, 1876. 
 
 Elizabeth Thompkins Venable, born Septem- 
 ber 21, 1882. 
 
 Samuel Lewis Venable (father) was born in 
 Prince Edward County, Virginia, January 8, 1803. 
 He received a very fine education, and was a dis- 
 tinguished Latin and Greek scholar. On reach- 
 ing his majority, his father gave him a farm and a 
 number of slaves, having given all of his. sons the 
 same start in life. He was an elder in the Presby- 
 terian Church and a man of most excellent char- 
 acter. He was married October 3, 1833, to Vir- 
 ginia Woodson Bransford, daughter of Benjamin 
 Bransford of Cumberland County, Virginia. She 
 was born October 16, 1813, and died September 
 21, 1895. She was descended on her mother's 
 side from the noted family of Woodsons, who in- 
 temiarried with the Venables. There were three 
 sons and one daughter in this family : Goodridge 
 Wilson, bom August 16, 1836; Nathaniel Benja- 
 min, bora August 29, 1838; Thomas Samuel, 
 born June 17, 1840, and Elizabeth Mary, born 
 November 29, 1844. 
 
 Nathaniel Venable (grandfather) was born in 
 Virginia, March 28, 1768, and died in 1837. He 
 married his first cousin, Martha Venable, gener- 
 ally called Madam Pattie Venable, February 28, 
 1799. He was a very wealthy planter of Virginia, 
 owning large tracts of land and several hundred 
 slaves. 
 
 Abraham Venable (great-grandfather) was born 
 in Virginia in January, 1725, and died in 1778. 
 He married Elizabeth Micheaux, who was bom 
 June 18, 1731. 
 
 Abraham Venable (great-great-grandfather) 
 was born March 22, 1700, and died March 16, 
 1768. He married Martha Davis, who was born 
 in 1703, and died in 1765. 
 
 The earliest ancestor of the Venable family of 
 whom anything is known came from New Rouen, 
 in Normandy, France, where there is a town 
 called Venables, so named from this family. He 
 accompanied William the Conqueror, and took 
 part in the battle of Hastings. He settled in the 
 County Palatinate of Chester, and was one of the 
 Palatine barons of the County. About the close 
 of the Seventeenth Century two of the younger 
 brothers of the family, Abraham and Joseph Vena- 
 ble, emigrated to America. Joseph went to the 
 Colony of Lord Baltimore and settled at Snow 
 Hill (now West) Virginia. A license was ob- 
 tained for the erection of a Presbyterian house of 
 worship on Joseph Venable's land, and now, after 
 a lapse of more than a century and a half, the 
 Presbyterian Church which was then organized 
 still prospers at Snow Hill. 
 
 The other brother, Abraham, journeyed up the 
 James River and settled in Hanover, now Flu- 
 vanna County, Virginia, and there married a 
 widow, whose maiden name was Mildred Lewis, 
 and these two were the great-great-great-grand- 
 parents of Thomas S. Venable. 
 
 Mr. Venable's grandmother — who was a grand- 
 daughter of Nannie Micheaux and her husband, 
 Richard Woodson — distinctly remembered hear- 
 ing her grandmother relate the early history of 
 the family. 
 
 In the reign of Louis XIV, during the religious 
 persecution consequent upon the revocation of the 
 Edict of Nantes, there lived a man named Roche 
 in the city of Sedan, who was Madam Pattie Vena- 
 ble's great-great-grandfather. He had three 
 daughters, the eldest about eighteen, who, as was 
 the custom, had been examined by the priests or 
 government officials; and her father, fearing she 
 would be taken from him and placed in a Catholic 
 school, sent her and his married niece, who had 
 an infant child, to a seaport, that they might em- 
 bark for Holland. They were escorted by men 
 dressed in women's clothes. The guards were 
 attracted by the crying of the child, and "nine 
 lusty men captured and carried them to prison." 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 The father was permitted to ransom his daughter 
 and take her home, but his niece was retained in 
 prison and was required to wallc the streets every 
 morning, exposed to the ridicule and scoffs of the 
 Catholics, as a penalty for her attempt to escape. 
 Her husband had gone to Holland previously un- 
 der the guise of a ship carpenter. 
 
 Mr. Roche, after paying a certain amount of 
 tribute annually for the privilege of living in 
 peace, determined again to send his daughters to 
 Holland. On the journey Susanna Roche, the 
 younger daughter (who was mother Venable's 
 great-grandmother), was taken very sick and was 
 taken to a public house. While there they were 
 suspected of being Huguenots, and narrowly 
 escaped the vigilance of the soldiers. They went 
 thence to Amsterdam, where their father visited 
 them and provided them with comforts, for he 
 said that the more he had been persecuted the 
 more the Lord had prospered him. Their mother 
 also went to see them, carrying money in her hair. 
 
 The elder of the two sisters married and went 
 to the West Indies. The younger, Susanna 
 Roche, married Abram Michaux. She was a 
 lacemaker while in Holland, and her husband was 
 a gauze weaver. They remained in Holland until 
 they had five or six children, when they came to 
 America and located first in Stafford County, Vir- 
 ginia, and later, when they proposed to go to 
 Manikin, the previous settlers there objected, say- 
 ing they were not entitled to their portion of the 
 land granted by King William to the Huguenots, 
 as they had not come in time, but the king thought 
 differently and decided in their favor. However, 
 they declined settling there, and took up land on 
 the James River at the place now known as 
 Michaux Ferry. 
 
 Susanna (Roche) Michaux was the mother of 
 twelve children, seven daughters and five sons. 
 The daughters were: Jane, who married Le 
 Grande; Susanna, married Quinn; Judith, mar- 
 ried Morgan; Elizabeth, married Lanbourn 
 Woodson; Nannie, married Richard Woodson; 
 Esther, married Alexander Cunningham, and 
 there was one daughter who did not marry. The 
 sons were: Jacob, who married Judith Woodson; 
 John, James and Paul, who remained out of wed- 
 lock. 
 
 PINCKNEY THOMPSON, M. D., one of the 
 oldest and most distinguished physicians of 
 Henderson, was born in an humble sphere of life, 
 in Livingston County, Kentucky, April 15, 1828. 
 His father, William Thompson, was a native of 
 North Carolina, whose family settled in Living- 
 ston County before Kentucky was admitted to the 
 Union. He was apprenticed or bound to Colonel 
 Ramsey, a farmer, until twenty-one years of age, 
 and on reaching his majority volunteered in Cap- 
 tain Barbour's company, which assembled at Hen- 
 derson and marched overland to join Gen. Samuel 
 Hopkins' army, then stationed at Vincennes, Indi- 
 ana. The company arrived too late for the battle 
 of Tippecanoe and returned to Henderson. Wil- 
 liam Thompson made several trading trips to New 
 Orleans, and while there was pressed into the 
 service by General Jackson. After a short service 
 he was honorably discharged and returned to Liv- 
 ingston County on foot, a very usual means of 
 transportation in those days; settled down to 
 hard work on the farm and was thus engaged for 
 sixty years. He died in 1871 at the residence of 
 his son in Henderson. His wife, Jane (Thomp- 
 son) Thompson, a native of Livingston County, 
 whose father, William Thompson, came to that 
 county from North Carolina in 1796, and with 
 whom he lived happily for fifty-eight years, sur- 
 vived him about four months and died in Janu- 
 ary, 1872. They are buried in the beautiful ceme- 
 tery at Henderson. 
 
 Pinckney Thompson received his first lessons 
 in Livingston County when the backwoods log 
 cabin schoolroom was the only avenue to educa- 
 tion. But he improved every hour and by the 
 light of the traditional log fire, after a hard day's 
 work on the farm he assiduously prepared himself 
 for the profession to which he was naturally in- 
 clined. In 1849 he began the study of medicine 
 under Dr. D. B. Saunders of Smithland, a very 
 distinguished physician of that time, continuing 
 with him until 185 1, when he went to Louisville 
 and studied under the preceptorship of Dr. T. G. 
 Richardson, demonstrator of anatomy in the 
 medical department of the University of Louis- 
 ville, who subsequently became professor of sur- 
 gery in the Louisiana University. At the same 
 time Dr. Thompson attended the University of 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 8i 
 
 Louisville for two years and was graduated March 
 4, 1853, having served previous to his graduation 
 in the Louisville City Hospital, in which capacity 
 he gained much practical knowledge. 
 
 After visiting his old home he located in Hen- 
 derson, arriving April 15, 1853; and, without any 
 money, and with only three acquaintances in the 
 city, began the practice of his profession. He was 
 not long in securing a lucrative business, and in 
 the forty-two years of professional life he has en- 
 joyed the reputation of being one of the most 
 successful physicians in the community. He has 
 operated in tracheotomy three times, twice suc- 
 cessfully; in lithotomy three times, successfully, 
 and has performed two successful operations for 
 cancer in the breast; besides a large number of 
 minor, yet difficult, operations. 
 
 Dr. Thompson is a member of the Henderson 
 Medical Club, of the McDowell Medical Society, 
 of the Kentucky State Medical Society, of the 
 American Medical Association, and of the Ameri- 
 can Public Health Association; has been presi- 
 dent of the Henderson Medical Club, of the State 
 Medical Society, of the McDowell Medical So- 
 ciety, and was for sixteen years president of the 
 State Board of Health; and is prominent and 
 aggressive in all matters pertaining to the public 
 health and the advancement of the medical pro- 
 fession. 
 
 He is also quite active and prominent in church 
 work, and in 1869 he conceived the idea of estab- 
 lishing a Mission Sunday school for the benefit 
 of children who were not attending other schools. 
 He carried out this idea, eventually donating a 
 lot and erecting a building for the purpose, and 
 for a number of years supporting the school, 
 mostly at his own expense. He has been superin- 
 tendent of this school for twenty-seven years. 
 From this humble beginning the Second Presby- 
 terian Church of Henderson was founded. There 
 is nothing in which he prides himself more or in 
 which he takes a greater interest than his large 
 family of Sunday school children. For the past 
 twenty years Dr. Thompson has been president 
 of the Henderson County Auxiliary Bible Society 
 of the American Society, and has been an elder 
 in the Presbyterian Church since 1862. He is 
 also a Master and Royal Arch Mason, 
 
 In the line of his profession Dr. Thompson has 
 always been found in the front ranks. As presi- 
 dent of the State Board of Health he visited Hick- 
 man during the yellow fever epidemic and made 
 an able report to the board; was present at the 
 meeting of the Sanitary Council of the Mississippi 
 Valley at Memphis in 1879, and was elected vice- 
 president. He has always taken great interest in 
 sanitary matters and probably did more than any 
 other man to secure the enactment incorporating 
 the State Board of Health and established it upon 
 a sound and practical basis. At one time when 
 the state appropriation was inadequate for the 
 purposes of the board, he visited Washington and 
 secured from the National Board sufficient help to 
 guarantee a successful fight against epidemics; 
 and in many other ways he has done efficient work 
 for the advancement of medical science. He has 
 been identified in every movement for the im- 
 provement of Henderson, taking an active inter- 
 est in its educational institutions and contribut- 
 ing his quota to the material building up of the 
 city. He was one of the first and most active 
 trustees of the public school and was the first 
 president of that board and author of the law 
 creating the colored school of Henderson. 
 
 Dr. Thompson was married November 26, 
 1857, to Nannie S. Holloway, daughter of Wil- 
 liam S. Holloway, and has two sons who are 
 young men of great promise. Starling H. and Dr. 
 William Irving Thompson. 
 
 HON. JOHN WILLIAM CALDWELL, of 
 Russellville, Kentucky, son of Austin and 
 Louisa Harrison Caldwell, was born in that place 
 January 15, 1838. The early traditions of his 
 father's family induce the belief that they were of 
 Danish or Norman origin with a strong Celtic 
 cross. They emigrated from Ireland to America 
 in early times and settled in Virginia. From that 
 state five of the sons of his great-grandfather, 
 Oliver Caldwell, moved to Kentucky. John, the 
 eldest, and a half-brother to the other four, mar- 
 ried a Miss Akers and located in Hardin County. 
 In 1834 his son, Austin, moved to Logan County, 
 where he subsequently married the young widow 
 of his half uncle, David Caldwell. 
 
 Mrs. Louisa Harrison Caldwell was born in Vir- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 ginia, October 20, 1805, and was educated in 
 Richmond. Her father, Peyton Harrison, moved 
 about 1809 from Virginia to Logan County, Ken- 
 tucky. Her mother, Eliza Mary Barclay, who 
 was educated in Paris, France, was the daughter 
 of Thomas J. Barclay, who came to America from 
 Straban, Ireland, and was in the consular and 
 diplomatic service of this government in the days 
 of the Confederation. The crest of the family 
 was a naked arm wielding a broken javelin. Mrs. 
 Caldwell's father, Peyton Harrison, was bom at 
 "Clifton," the country seat of his father, Carter 
 Harrison, and was educated at "Hampden Sidney 
 College," in Prince Edward County, Virginia. His 
 mother, Susanna Randolph, was the youngest 
 daughter of Isham Randolph of "Dungeness," 
 Goochland County, Virginia. Carter Henry Har- 
 rison was the son of Benjamin Harrison of "Berk- 
 ley," and Anne Carter, daughter of Robin Carter 
 of "Curratoman," who is known in Virginia his- 
 tory as "King Carter," on account of his large 
 landed estates. Benjamin Harrison was also the 
 father of Benjamin Harrison, the signer of the 
 Declaration of Independence, and of General 
 Charles Harrison of the Revolutionary war ; and 
 was the grandfather of President William Henry 
 Harrison. 
 
 In 1843 Austin Caldwell, the father of John 
 W. Caldwell, died in Russellville, Kentucky, under 
 twenty-nine years of age, leaving him, his only 
 living child, with an estate so much embarrassed 
 that he had no opportunity to receive a collegiate 
 education. All his school training was received 
 in the common schools of Russellville and Chris- 
 tian County before he had reached the age of 
 fourteen, about which time he, in care of his 
 maternal uncle. Dr. Robert Peyton Harrison, 
 went overland to what was then practically the 
 frontier of Texas. He remained in that state four 
 or five years, working on a farm, clerking, carry- 
 ing a surveyor's chain and hunting. During his 
 life in Texas he had many perilous adventures and 
 hair-breadth escapes in swimming swollen rivers 
 and fighting bears, Mexican lions and other wild 
 beasts. He was fond of reading and spent all of 
 his leisure time over the pages of poetry, romance, 
 history and such scientific works as came within 
 his reach. He returned to Kentucky in his nine- 
 
 teenth year- — a perfect athlete, inured to hardship, 
 a dead shot with a rifle, a good horseman, and 
 with a wide knowledge of men gleaned on the 
 frontier. 
 
 A few months afterward he began the study of 
 law in Russellville with his kinsman, William 
 Morton, Esq., then a prominent lawyer of the 
 Logan County bar. He attended one course of 
 lectures in the law department of the Louisville 
 University in the winter of 1856-7, winning the 
 honors of the junior class. In the fall of 1857 he 
 commenced the practice of his profession in 
 Logan County, and soon established himself as 
 a lawyer, giving early evidence of forensic ability. 
 When quite young he married Miss Sallie J. 
 Barclay, daughter of Hugh Barclay, she having 
 shortly before graduated with the honors of her 
 class at the celebrated school, Science Hill, at 
 Shelbyville, Kentucky, which was then conducted 
 by the well known educator, Mrs. Julia A. Tevis. 
 One son and two daughters were the result of 
 this marriage. 
 
 When the Civil war broke out, though he had 
 opposed the secession of his state from the Union, 
 guided by his sympathy with the South, he vol- 
 unteered as a private, and was immediately elect- 
 ed captain of the "Logan Grays," a company then 
 being recruited in Logan Count}- for the Confed- 
 erate service. On the entrance of the Confeder- 
 ates into Kentucky under General S. B. Buckner 
 Captain Caldwell reported his company to him 
 at Bowling Green, and it was assigned as Com< 
 pany A, Ninth Kentucky Brigade, which was 
 commanded by General John C. Breckenridge. 
 On the retreat of General Albert Sidney Johnston 
 south from Bowling Green Captain Caldwell had 
 command of the Ninth Kentucky Regiment until 
 he was relieved by the return of Colonel Thomas 
 H. Hunt from New Orleans. He participated in 
 the battle of Shiloh, where he received three or 
 four contused wounds on his body and had his 
 left arm badly broken, losing sixty-five per cent, 
 of his company, killed and wounded. He was at 
 once promoted to the rank of major of the Ninth 
 Kentucky, and six weeks later, on the reorgan- 
 ization of the regiment, he was unanimously 
 elected lieutenant-colonel. Early in the spring 
 of 1863, on the resignation of Thomas H. Hunt, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 83 
 
 he was made colonel. Until the close of the war 
 he continued in command of his regiment when 
 not commanding the' First Kentucky, better 
 known as the "Orphans' Brigade," and is said to 
 have been in command of this famous military 
 organization longer than any of its regular briga- 
 dier-generals (Breckenridge, Hanson or Helm), 
 except General Joseph H. Lewis. Colonel Cald- 
 well was again badly wounded at Chickamauga, 
 his left arm being broken through the elbow and 
 a slight wound received in his left side. The 
 Board of Army Surgeons, on account of his in- 
 juries, offered to retire him from the service, but 
 he declined; and after a two months' absence 
 returned, with his arm in a sling, to the army at 
 Dalton, Georgia, taking command of his regi- 
 ment before the opening of the celebrated cam- 
 paign between Johnston and Sherman. During 
 that campaign the march of Sherman through 
 Georgia and the subsequent fighting in South 
 Carolina, when not in command of his regiment, 
 he was in command of the "Orphans' Brigade." 
 After the close of hostilities he surrendered with 
 the brigade at Washington, Georgia, and was 
 paroled a prisoner of war May 6, 1865. He im- 
 mediately returned to his home in Kentucky, 
 and in the fall of that year he resumed his practice 
 as a lawyer at the Russellville bar. 
 
 In August, 1866, he was elected judge of the 
 Logan County Court, held that office for eight 
 years, and did a large and lucrative practice in 
 the criminal, circuit and higher courts of the com- 
 monwealth, establishing a reputation as a lawyer 
 of ability and one of the most successful jury 
 advocates that ever practiced at the Russellville 
 bar. Two years after his retirement from the 
 office of county judge he was, in 1876, elected as 
 a Democrat to represent the Third District of 
 Kentucky in the Forty-fifth Congress, and was re- 
 elected to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh. On 
 account of ill-health and the necessity of looking 
 after his private afifairs, over the protest of his 
 constituents, he declined a renomination to the 
 Forty-eighth Congress, though he had no oppo- 
 sition, and the Republicans conceded that it was 
 impossible to defeat him in the district. 
 
 His congressional career, while not a brilhant 
 one, was honest and conservative, Several of his 
 
 speeches in the House of Representatives were 
 given a wide publication through a part of the 
 daily and country press, and the New York Sun 
 said of him: "He is a Democrat with an honest 
 record ; always at his post, and invariably opposed 
 to corrupt and extravagant legislation." He was 
 the stern and unflinching advocate of home rule, 
 tarifif reform, hard money and economy in public 
 expenditures. On his retirement from Congress 
 he did not resume the practice of law, but became 
 the president of Logan County Bank, which posi- 
 tion he now holds. 
 
 JAMES A. CURRY, the senior member of the 
 firm of Curry, Tunis & Norwood, a leading 
 wholesale grocery estabHshment of Lexington, 
 is a son of James and Katherine (Stagg) Curry, 
 and was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, June 
 23, 1829. His father was born in Mercer County, 
 March 25, 1796. He was a contractor and builder 
 and a man of many admirable traits of character, 
 honored and highly respected by all of his neigh- 
 bors; a deacon in the Presbyterian Church for 
 many years; a member of the Sons of Temper- 
 ance, a strong and reputable organization of his 
 time, and was a soldier in the War of 1812, serv- 
 ing in Colonel Slaughter's regiment, which par- 
 ticipated in the battle of New Orleans under the 
 immediate command of Major-General John 
 Adair. He was a Henry Clay Whig, strong in 
 his convictions and influential in his party. His 
 home was in Harrodsburg, where he died in 1878. 
 
 William Curry (grandfather) was born near 
 Staunton, Virginia, and came to Mercer County, 
 Kentucky, in 1790. He married Anna Hill, a 
 relative of General A. P. Hill; was a successful 
 farmer in Mercer County, a member of the Pres- 
 byterian Church, a model Christian gentleman 
 and was prominently identified with the old Whig 
 party. 
 
 Katherine Stagg Curry (mother) was born in 
 Gettysburgh, Pennsylvania. She came to Ken- 
 tucky with her father's family when she was a 
 young lady. Her father, Daniel Stagg, located 
 on a fine tract of land about three miles west of 
 Harrodsburg and there established the old Stagg 
 homestead. He married Mary Conover of Hack- 
 ensack, New Jersey. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 James Stagg (great-grandfather) was a soldier 
 in a company of militia from Morris Comity, New 
 Jersey, in the Revolutionary war. His wife was 
 Leah Brewer of New Jersey. 
 
 James Stagg (great-great-grandfather) was one 
 of the Covenanters of Scotland who fled to Hol- 
 land to escape persecution on account of their 
 religious belief. He first went to Holland, with 
 many others, and subsequently came to the 
 United States, locating in Hackensack, New Jer- 
 sey. His wife's maiden name was Anna Christie. 
 
 James A. Curry, whose 'ancestry is partially 
 given above, was educated in Harrodsburg, and 
 at the age of fifteen, during the brilliant Presi- 
 dential campaign in which Clay and Frelinghuy- 
 sen were the Whig candidates, he was employed 
 as a clerk in the Harrodsburg postofifice. After 
 one year's service in that ofiface he was apprenticed 
 to a tailor and served his full term of four years in 
 learning his trade. When about twenty years of 
 age he began the business of merchant tailoring 
 in Harrodsburg, which he continued until 1856, 
 when he engaged in the drug and book business, 
 continuing there until 1878, when he removed to 
 Danville, where he was in the same business until 
 1883. In that year he disposed of his store in 
 Danville, removed to Lexington and became the 
 senior member of the wholesale grocery firm of 
 Curry, Howard & Murray. Mr. Murray died 
 in 1885 and J. T. Tunis became a member of the 
 firm, the style of which was changed to Curry, 
 Howard & Co. In 1890 Mr. Norwood took the 
 place of Mr. Howard, who withdrew, and the 
 present firm of Curry, Tunis & Norwood was 
 established. 
 
 The citizens of Lexington and the grocery 
 dealers throughout the state will testify to the 
 high standing and unswerving integrity of the 
 company over which Mr. Curry has presided 
 with commendable watchfulness throughout 
 its successful career. As a citizen his character 
 has always been in keeping with the high moral 
 and religious convictions which he inherited from 
 his Scotch Covenanter ancestors and which were 
 inculcated by the careful training of his Christian 
 parents. In politics his affiliations are with the 
 Republican party, the rightful descendant of the 
 old Whig party, in which he was brought up. 
 
 He voted for Bell and Everett in the final strug- 
 gle of that party to recover its supremacy, and 
 failing in this he fell in with the new party which 
 adopted the principles of the old. 
 
 Mr. Curry is closely identified with and deeply 
 interested in the work of the Presbyterian 
 Church, in which he has been an elder for twenty- 
 five years, serving in Harrodsburg, Danville and 
 in the Second Presbyterian Church of Lexington. 
 In 1886 and again in 1893 he was a commissioner 
 to the General Assembly, and in the Assembly of 
 1893 was one of the committee of fifteen who 
 found a verdict in the famous trial of Dr. Briggs 
 for heresy; he is a member of the executive com- 
 mittee in charge of the missionary work of the 
 Presbyterian Church in Kentucky; chairman of 
 the Committee on Systematic Benevolence in 
 Ebenezer Presbytery; president of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association of Lexington, in 
 which he takes a deep interest and which is large- 
 ly indebted to his wise counsel for its usefulness, 
 popularity and excellent standing, and has been 
 a member of the Board of Trustees of Center Col- 
 lege for twelve years past. He is president of the 
 Lexington and Vicinity Bible Society, a life mem- 
 ber of the American Sunday School Union, life 
 member of the American Tract Society and fife 
 member of the American Bible Society. 
 
 Mr. Curry's chief characteristic, aside from his 
 proverbial honesty and integrity in business mat- 
 ters, is his faithful devotion to the church and its 
 work ; and in this there is no show of ostentation 
 or personal pride, but on the contrary a seeming 
 unconsciousness of the superiority which others 
 accord to him. 
 
 Mr. Curry was married September 21, 1852, to 
 Elizabeth Porter Lewis, daughter of Thomas P. 
 Lewis of Harrodsburg. Mrs. Curry was born in 
 Harrodsburg January 4, 1833. They have four 
 children, whose names and the names of the per- 
 sons wliom they married and the names of their 
 children are as follows: 
 
 (i) Kate: educated at Daughters' College, 
 Harodsburg, and at College Hill, near Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio; now the wife of Major C. H. Teb- 
 betts, superintendent and commandant of Culver 
 Military Academy at Culver, Indiana, situated on 
 Lake Maxijikuckee; their children are: James 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 85 
 
 Curry, Mary Winlock, Jonas M., Elizabeth Por- 
 ter and Marian. 
 
 (2) Thomas Porter Curry: graduated from 
 Center College, receiving the highest honors in 
 the class of 1875; is the patentee of the Curry 
 railway signal; a resident of Danville; married 
 Anna Roach, daughter of Edwin Roach, and has 
 two children, Edwin Porter and Kate. 
 
 (3) Mary: educated at Danville; wife of J. T. 
 Tunis, who is a graduate of Center College, class 
 of 1881; a resident of Lexington and a member 
 of the firm of Curry, Tunis & Norwood; they 
 have two children, James Curry Tunis and John 
 Theodore Tunis, Jr. 
 
 (4) James Ploward Curry : educated in Danville 
 and at the Kentucky University, Lexington ; now 
 in business with his father; married Elizabeth 
 Norton Sage, daughter of Osmer Sage of Lexing- 
 ton, and has one son, James A. Curry, Jr. 
 
 GEORGE COX, a son of a salesman of re- 
 spectable standing, was born in the city of 
 London on the first day of March, 1791, and ac- 
 cording to a good old English custom was chris- 
 tened at the Church of St. Mary Magdalen, Ber- 
 mondsey, on the ist of April following. 
 
 His father was John Cox, third son of Henry 
 Cox, born at Ross, Herfordshire, May 13, 1756; 
 and his mother was Mary Cowell, born October 
 26, 1756. They were married at the Parish 
 Church of St. James, Clerkenwell, London, May 
 2, 1784. The result of this union, which was a 
 most happy one, was eight children: Edward 
 and Henry, dying in childhood; John, born Sep- 
 tember 24, 1789, and supposed to have been killed 
 in Spain or Portugal while serving his country 
 in the Peninsular war, under the command of the 
 Duke of Wellington; George, the subject of this 
 sketch; Ann Maria, born January 11, 1793, died 
 December 12, 1867; Frances, mother of the late 
 James Wormald of Maysville; Margaret, died 
 in infancy, and Esther became the wife of George 
 Herbst, May 8, 1834, dying in 1840. 
 
 There are authentic records which trace Mr. 
 Cox's ancestry back for more than three hundred 
 years, but the purpose of this article is to treat of 
 the individual whose lifework affords a shining 
 example. 
 
 His father was employed in the hosiery shop of 
 a man named Marsh, and into this shop the son 
 was taken at the early age of nine years, and from 
 that period to the day of his death he devoted his 
 energies to well directed industry. His mother 
 died February 20, 181 1, and was laid to rest in the 
 burial ground of St. Mary, Newington, Surrey, 
 July 16, 1814. His father married again, his 
 second wife being Ehzabeth Caroline Rose. 
 
 In 1817, at the age of twenty-six, and after a 
 service of seventeen years in the shop of Mr. 
 March, Mr. Cox determined to seek a home in the 
 "Western World," and he succeeded in getting 
 his father, stepmother, his sisters and a number 
 of his cousins to come with him. They landed at 
 Baltimore and came from that point overland 
 as far as Pittsburgh, where they took a flat-boat 
 down the Ohio for Maysville, their destination 
 being Lexington, Kentucky, then the foremost 
 city of the west. Here the party located, and for 
 several months George Cox sought in vain for 
 employment. During these months he made the 
 acquaintance of Ann Hopkinson, an English girl, 
 born in Nottingham, July 15, 1796. From Lex- 
 ington he went to Cincinnati, where he found em- 
 ployment for a short time, and on April 10, 1819, 
 he returned to Lexington and made Miss Hopkin- 
 son his wife. 
 
 With her he came to Maysville to engage in 
 business, his only capital being $300 in money, 
 a strong frame, good health, industry, and, above 
 all, honesty. He opened a small store in a frame 
 house on Front street, above Market, one-half of 
 the house being occupied by his cousin and broth- 
 er-in-law, Edward Cox, as a book store and bind- 
 ery. Both families lived in the second story of 
 the building. 
 
 Mr. Cox was a methodical merchant from the 
 very start. He kept a record of every transaction. 
 The first item of goods sold by the merchant is 
 set down thus: "1819, May 5, Quills, 6 1-4 cents." 
 His simple system of keeping accounts enabled 
 Him to know what he was doing at all times. He 
 paid for articles as he bought them, and when 
 they were gone, if he had money to replace them, 
 it was evident that he was neither losing money 
 nor getting in debt. At the end of each week he 
 footed up his sales, the first entry of that kind 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 in his account book for the week from May 31 
 to June 6, 1819, $23.37 ^-^- From this modest 
 beginning George Cox's business grew until his 
 name was as famihar to the merchants of the 
 east as that of any man in the Union, and it car- 
 ried with it a prestige that might well be envied. 
 
 It was not many years before increasing busi- 
 ness obliged Mr. Cox to secure larger quarters, 
 and he moved into the building now occupied by 
 St. Charles on Front street. Here he remained 
 until 1840, when he bought the property immedi- 
 ately across the alley, and this he occupied as 
 store and dwelling until 1850, when the site now 
 occupied on Second street was purchased. Wil- 
 liam H., Mr. Cox's eldest son, was at about that 
 time admitted to a partnership in the house un- 
 der the firm name of George Cox & Son. Their 
 business grew until it was perhaps the largest 
 retail dry goods trade in Northern Kentucky. Mr. 
 Cox was among the few Englishmen who became 
 Americanized. 
 
 In 185 1 he paid a visit to London, but found 
 little pleasure in the trip. Nearly all his relatives 
 had died or removed to other lands, and upon 
 his return to Maysville he told his family: "I am 
 an American now; I am no longer an English- 
 man." 
 
 He was an unflinching friend of the government 
 during the dark days of the rebellion and loaned 
 largely of his means to aid in carrying on the 
 war, taking in return government bonds, despite 
 the protests of many of his friends that the bonds 
 would be worthless. He reasoned that if the gov- 
 ernment was lost everything was lost, and he 
 would rather sacrifice his fortune in the effort to 
 save his government. 
 
 Mr. Cox was a liberal contributor to every pub- 
 lic enterprise and every worthy object. He was 
 opposed to taxing the public for railroads and 
 other internal improvements, believing that they 
 should be built by public enterprise. His death, 
 September 21, 1881, removed from Maysville her 
 stanchest merchant. Although possessed of a 
 large fortune, consisting of real and personal 
 property, he made no will, expressing that the 
 law would make an equitable and satisfactory di- 
 vision among his heirs, a confidence that was not 
 misplaced. 
 
 ZACK PHELPS, one of the most brilliant all- 
 round lawyers of the Louisville bar, son of 
 James S. Phelps, the prominent tobacco ware- 
 houseman, was born in Christian County, Ken- 
 tucky, July 7, 1857. He came to Louisville with 
 his parents when he was six years of age and 
 attended the public schools, graduating from the 
 Male High School in 1877. He was made class 
 historian and carried ofif the second honor of his 
 class. At the close of his school life, his health 
 being impaired, he went to Salt Lake City, Utah, 
 and while recuperating there began the study of 
 law in the office of Judge J. C. Hemingray. After 
 a careful course of study he passed a highly cred- 
 itable examination before Mr. Justice Schaffer of 
 the United States Supreme Court, who gave him 
 a certificate authorizing him to practice law. 
 
 He returned to Louisville in 1880 and began a 
 most successful career as an attorney. He soon 
 formed a partnership with the late W. L. Jack- 
 son, Jr., who was later elected judge of the Cir- 
 cuit Court to succeed his father. A few years 
 later J. T. O'Neal became a member of the young 
 firm, and the three continued in partnership for 
 six years, until the elevation of Mr. Jackson to 
 the bench. The dissolution of the firm followed, 
 and Mr. Phelps became associated with W. W. 
 Thum, under the firm name of Phelps & Thum, 
 which is one of the most popular and widely 
 known law firms in the city at the present time. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Phelps took a prominent part in 
 the movement to secure a new constitution of the 
 state and made a number of speeches throughout 
 the state favoring a constitutional convention. 
 He was elected by the people of Louisville as a 
 member of the convention which framed the pres- 
 ent constitution of Kentucky in 1890-91. His 
 labors in that body were of a character requiring 
 an intimate and varied knowledge of law and he 
 distinguished himself as one of the most active 
 and influential workers for the public good. 
 
 Mr. Phelps has devoted a great deal of his 
 valuable time to public hfe in the interests of 
 others and for the advancement of his city and 
 state, but has had no aspiration for office, pre- 
 ferring to devote his best efforts to the legal pro- 
 fession, ini which he has gained an enviable reputa- 
 tion as an all-round lawyer of versatile ability of 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 §7 
 
 the highest order, and especially as an expert 
 cross-examiner of witnesses. 
 
 In October, 1893, Mr. Phelps was selected by 
 Honorable Charles D. Jacob, ex-mayor of Louis- 
 ville, to meet Colonel Bennett H. Young in de- 
 bate upon municipal affairs, the main issue being 
 a comparison between the administrations of ex- 
 Mayor Jacob and (then) Mayor Henry S. Tyler. 
 In this sort of contest Mr. Phelps was easily the 
 superior of his able opponent, being loaded with 
 facts, and having an aptitude for debate and con- 
 troversy which is rarely excelled. He carried off 
 the honors for Mr. Jacob, and his enthusiastic 
 audience carried their champion out of the hall on 
 their shoulders. This is only one of the numerous 
 victories on the stump and in the court room, in 
 which he has exerted the power of the ready 
 speaker and won the victory over men of ac- 
 knowledged ability, or convinced a jury by his 
 fine logic and practical eloquence. 
 
 On the first day of January, 1881, Mr. Phelps 
 was married to Amy Kaye, daughter of John and 
 Amanda Kaye of Louisville, and the family group 
 in their beautiful home on New Broadway, in the 
 Highlands, consists of the father and mother and 
 four children, John, Zack, Mary Glass and Amy. 
 
 Mr. Phelps' father, James S. Phelps, was born 
 in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, 
 March 8, 1830. He was educated mainly under 
 the instruction of James D. Rumsey of Hopkins- 
 ville and in a school taught by a venerable Bap- 
 tist minister near that place. He served for some 
 time as deputy in the office of the clerk of the 
 court, and studied law in the office of Henry J. 
 Stites. He was admitted to the bar and opened 
 an office, but shortly afterward engaged in the 
 mercantile business in partnership with Joseph 
 K. Grant, a venture which proved quite successful. 
 In 1856 he sold his interest in the store to his 
 partner and in 1862 removed to Louisville and 
 engaged in the tobacco warehouse business under 
 the firm name of Phelps, Caldwell & Company. 
 This house was sold in 1867 to Ray & Company. 
 The Planters splendid warehouse was erected in 
 1875 by Mr. Phelps and the firm of J. S. Phelps 
 & Company was formed, John C. Durrett being 
 Mr. Phelps' partner. The present company, of 
 which Mr. Phelps is president, was incorporated 
 
 in 1881 with a capital stock of $150,000, which is 
 owned by himself and four sons. 
 
 He is one of the founders and is a hberal sup- 
 porter of the Highland Baptist Church; has been 
 prominently connected with the Odd Fellows, 
 and served several years as grand deputy of the 
 state; a Democrat, but not a politician; a busi- 
 ness man of sterling integrity; an honored and 
 highly respected citizen. 
 
 James S. Phelps and Mary Jane Glass, daugh- 
 ter of Zachariah and Mary Jane Glass of Hop- 
 kinsville, were married July 25, 1849. 
 
 John H. Phelps (grandfather) was born in Vir- 
 ginia in July, 1790. He came to Kentucky with 
 his brother and married Caroline Shipp, a mem- 
 ber of a well known and highly respected family 
 of Christian County. Caroline Shipp Phelps died 
 in 1830, and John H. Phelps was married again to 
 a sister of Governor James T. Morehead. 
 
 The Phelps family is probably of English de- 
 scent, but the progenitor of the family in Virginia 
 left no record of his ancestry. 
 
 Zachariah Glass (maternal grandfather) was a 
 native of Christian County and a merchant in 
 Hopkinsville for many years, and was subsequent- 
 ly elected, and oftentimes re-elected clerk of the 
 County Court, and at the time of his death, in 
 1855, was one of the wealthiest men in Christian 
 County. 
 
 THORNTON M. DORA, son of William and 
 Elizabeth (Morris) Dora, was born in Brack- 
 en County, May 3, 1833. His father, also a na- 
 tive of Bracken County, was born September 6, 
 1802, and was educated in the country schools. 
 He engaged in farming for some years, and in 
 1849 embarked in the mercantile business in 
 Brooksville, in which he was very energetic and 
 highly successful. He was a Whig, but was never 
 active in political matters. He was a member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, going with the 
 Southern wing of that body after the division, in 
 which he was a faithful member and an office 
 bearer until the time of his death, October 28, 
 1855. He was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, 
 near Brooksville. 
 
 Ferdinand Dora (grandfather) was born in 
 Maryland, May 13, 1758, and came to Kentucky 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 during the early settlement of the state, located 
 in Bracken County and was the founder and build- 
 er of the first country church in Bracken County. 
 It was built of logs and was known as "Dora 
 Church." A brick building known as Mount 
 Zion Church now occupies the site. He died 
 January 24, 1830, and his wife, Nancy Beau- 
 champ, died January 10, 1840. Both were mem- 
 bers of the M. E. Church. 
 
 John Dora (great-grandfather) was born near 
 London, England, where the name was spelled 
 Dore. After coming to America, the name was . 
 changed to Dora. On his arrival in this country 
 he located in Somerset County, Matyland, near 
 Baltimore. He had five sons who served in the 
 Revolutionary War, two of whom, Jesse and Ben- 
 jamin, have not been heard from since. His first 
 wife was a Miss Tillman of Maryland. 
 
 John Dora, or Dore, was the only child of his 
 father and mother, who belonged to a very weal- 
 thy family in England. 
 
 Elizabeth Morris Dora (mother) was bom in 
 Bracken County, February 13, 1808, and was edu- 
 cated in Augusta. She and William Dora were 
 married November 17, 1825. She was the moth- 
 er of eight children, three sons and five daughters. 
 She was a devoted member of the Methodist 
 Church and died in the faith February 2, 1882. 
 Her father, Dickison Morris, was a native of Vir- 
 ginia, and was one of the pioneers of Bracken 
 County. Being one of the first civil engineers in 
 the county, he surveyed a great many tracts of 
 land in Bracken and adjoining counties. He mar- 
 ried Fannie Buckner, daughter of Philip and 
 Tabitha Buckner. The Morris family was of 
 Scotch extraction. 
 
 Thornton M. Dora on reaching manhood 
 taught school for two years and while thus en- 
 gaged, in 1853, commenced the study of law, read- 
 ing under the instruction of John H. Bonde of 
 Brooksville. In 1854 he went to Chicago, 111., 
 and studied with his uncle, B. S. Morris, for one 
 year. In 1855 his father died and he returned to 
 take charge of the estate, and by this event his 
 plan of Hfe was changed and he became a mer- 
 chant, taking up his father's business, which he 
 has successfully followed since with the exception 
 of about two years which he spent on the farm. 
 
 He was elected police judge in 1865 and served 
 for many years, being frequently re-elected. He 
 has also been a magistrate and notary public since 
 1864, and was for many years a deputy county 
 clerk. Since March, 1863, Mr. Dora has resided 
 at Germantown. 
 
 During the war his sympathies were with the 
 South and he was quite liberal in his support of 
 the "cause." 
 
 He was married March 16, 1858, to Matilda 
 Frances, daughter of John and Elizabeth Reed, 
 who was born August 17, 1837. She graduated 
 from Science Hill Academy, Shelbyville, in 1856. 
 They have had two children: Samantha Bell, born 
 December 16, 1858, died January 3, i860, and 
 Neppie Eugenia, born February 24, 1861, mar- 
 ried May 26, 1880, to W. D. Reneker, who died 
 in November, 1885; to them was born a daugh- 
 ter (Dora Reneker), November 25, 1882. In De- 
 cember, 1888, she became the wife of Stephen 
 Douglas Rigdon, now living in Toledo, Ohio, and 
 to them two sons have been born — ^Thornton and 
 Thurman. 
 
 EDWARD LESLIE WORTHINGTON, 
 one of the leading members of tlie Mason 
 County bar and a member of one of the prominent 
 pioneer families of Kentucky, was born in Mason 
 County October 20, 1851. He is a son of Madi- 
 son Worthington, who was also a native of jMason 
 County, and a grandson of Thomas T. Worth- 
 ington, a native of Maryland. Thomas T. Worth- 
 ington emigrated from his native state and set- 
 tled in Mason County at a very early day and was 
 one of the first sheriffs of the county. He located 
 about nine miles west of Maysville in the Fern 
 Leaf neighborhood. Samuel Worthington (great- 
 grandfather) came to this country from England 
 about the year 1660, and became a resident of 
 Maryland, where he lived and died. 
 
 Madison Worthington (father) wedded Eliza- 
 beth Bledsoe, daughter of Benjamin Bledsoe, one 
 of the pioneers of Mason County. 
 
 E. L. Worthington grew to manhood on his 
 father's farm and in 1869 entered Kentucky Uni- 
 versity (formerly Transylvania), where he re- 
 mained a student during 1869 and 1870. In 1872 
 he entered the Cincinnati Law School and was 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 graduated from that institution in the spring of 
 1874. He was subsequently admitted to the bar, 
 but remained on the farm until 1880, when he 
 located in Maysville, and at once took rank as 
 one of the most successful practitioners in the 
 county. In 1885 he was elected by the Demo- 
 cratic party to the state senate from the district 
 composed of the counties of Mason and Lewis. 
 During a term of four years in that body he took 
 an active and leading part in its deliberations and 
 was a member of the judiciary committee. 
 
 Mr. Worthington's law practice is not confined 
 to the local courts in Maysville, but has a great 
 many cases before the Court of Appeals and a 
 large clientele in the counties adjoining Mason. 
 He is industrious and zealous in the prosecution 
 of his work and any cause entrusted to his hands 
 is sure of careful attention, and, if just, is almost 
 sure of a verdict. He is assiduous in the prepara- 
 tion of all the business he brings into court, rely- 
 ing more upon this and the weight of evidence 
 than upon a display of oratory before the jury, 
 but when a strong plea is needed he has few 
 superiors as an advocate. Mr. Worthington is a 
 thorough lawyer, a popular and influential citi- 
 zen, an honored member of one of the first famil- 
 ies and a representative Kentucky gentleman. 
 
 EMMETT FIELD, Judge of the Common 
 Pleas Division of the Jefiferson Circuit Court 
 of Louisville, son of William H. and Mary 
 (Young) Field, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, 
 October 28, 1841. His father was born in Cul- 
 peper County, Virginia, in 1816, and was educat- 
 ed and studied law in that state. When he was 
 twenty-two years of age he came to Kentucky 
 and practiced law in Westport, Oldham County, 
 for some years and then removed to Louisville 
 and formed a law partnership with Preston S. 
 Loughborough, with whom he was associated for 
 a long time. Several years before the Civil war 
 he removed to Pettis County, Missouri, and pur- 
 chased a farm upon which he lived until June 5, 
 1 861, when he was killed at his home by Union 
 soldiers. He was in sympathy with the south, but 
 was a non-participant in the war. 
 
 Henry Field (grandfather) was a farmer in Cul- 
 peper County, Virginia, and a member of an old 
 
 and distinguished family whose people were close- 
 ly associated with the early development of the 
 state. 
 
 Dr. Henry Young (maternal grandfather) was 
 a physician of repute who lived near Bedford and 
 practiced his profession in Trimble County, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Judge Field, now one of the most distinguished 
 jurists on the Louisville bench, received his col- 
 legiate education at Westminster College, Fulton, 
 Missouri, and before he was twenty years of age 
 he stepped out of the schoolroom and into the 
 ranks of the Confederate army. He enhsted in 
 the Second Regiment Missouri Cavalry, com- 
 manded by Colonel Alexander, later by Colonel 
 McGoffin, and still later by Colonel Robert Mc- 
 Cullough, with whom he remained a greater part 
 of the time that he was in the service. Returning 
 to Louisville he entered the law department of 
 the University of Louisville, from which he grad- 
 uated. 
 
 The first two years of his professional career 
 were spent in Springfield, Washington County, 
 after which he joined his brother, Richard Field, 
 in Louisville and was associated with him in the 
 practice of law. This partnership was dissolved 
 on account of the failing health of his brother, 
 who removed to Minnesota, and Judge Field was 
 alone in business until his elevation to the bench, 
 with the exception of about one year, when he was 
 associated with Buford Twyman. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Field was elected judge of the 
 Court of Common Pleas, now known as the Jef- 
 ferson Circuit Court, Common Pleas Division, 
 and has served in that high judicial position for 
 nearly ten years. He is a skilled lawyer and an 
 able judge, and is highly esteemed for the wisdom 
 and impartiality of his decisions. His frequent 
 re-election, in opposition to strong political forces, 
 is probably the highest testimonial of his worth 
 and of the esteem in which he is held by the bar 
 and the people of Louisville. 
 
 He is a most genial, polished gentleman, a 
 Democrat, but not a politician, and is unbiased 
 by party prejudice in the discharge of his duties 
 on the bench. 
 
 Judge Field has been a professor in the law 
 department of the University of Louisville during 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 the past ten years, and while his duties in this 
 relation require much time and research, he en- 
 joys its labors as a relief from the exacting re- 
 quirements of the judge, and is deeply interested 
 in the success and progress of his Alma Mater, in 
 which so many distinguished attorneys in the city 
 and state have acquired a knowledge of the legal 
 profession. 
 
 Judge Field was married in 1869 to Sue Mc- 
 Elroy, daughter of Anthony McElroy of Spring- 
 field, Kentucky. She was educated in Professor 
 Sloan's school in Danville. They are members 
 of the Presbyterian Church, and enjoy a high 
 social position in Louisville society. They reside 
 in the beautiful suburb of Crescent Hill. 
 
 ful through his industry, honesty and square deal- 
 ing. He was a member of the German Lutheran 
 Church, and a man of great moral courage and 
 strength of character. He died in 1891, aged 
 eighty-one years. 
 
 Christina Staebler Frantz (mother) was born 
 in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1805, and was mar- 
 ried to Mr. Frantz in Cincinnati. She was a faith- 
 ful member of the German Lutheran Church, and 
 a noble Christian woman. Her father, Jonathan 
 Staebler, was a native of Germany, but came to 
 this country some years before his death. 
 
 George W. Frantz was educated in the Louis- 
 ville public schools and spent two years in the 
 Lutheran College at St. Charles, Missouri. At the 
 age of eighteen years he was well qualified for the 
 prominent part he has taken in the management 
 of large business interests and in public aflairs, to 
 which he has given much attention. 
 
 On the fourth day of March, 1862, he began 
 work in his father's tannery and, as above stated, 
 became a partner in the concern on the first day 
 of January, 1864; and on the first day of Febru- 
 ary, 189S, on the retirement of his brother, he be- 
 came the sole proprietor of the oldest and largest 
 tannery in Louisville. He made many improve- 
 ments and increased the capacity of the plant a 
 hundred-fold. The yard covers an area of four 
 acres of ground and the establishment employs 
 one hundred men, who, with the recent improve- 
 ments in machinery and the increased facilities, 
 can accomplish as much as twice that number 
 of men could do under the old regime. 
 
 Mr. Frantz has always been a Democrat and has 
 taken a lively interest in politics from the busi- 
 ness man's standpoint, being opposed to the draw- 
 ing of party lines in city politics. In 1878 he was 
 elected by the City Council chief engineer of the 
 fire department, but the constant diligence re- 
 quired of him in the department conflicted with 
 his business interests, and after two years of effi- 
 cient service he retired from that office, having 
 placed the department upon a better footing and 
 upon a higher standard of excellence than it had 
 ever reached before. 
 
 In 1895 he was nominated by the Republican 
 party, without his wish or consent, for the im- 
 dustrious citizens of Louisville and was success- portant office of park commissioner — a nomina- 
 
 GEORGE W. FRANTZ, proprietor of one 
 of the largest tanneries in the United States, 
 a man of large fortune made by his own honest 
 industry, a broad-minded, liberal politician and 
 public-spirited citizen, formerly chief of the fire 
 department, and recently elected park commis- 
 sioner of Louisville, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 September 6, 1844. 
 
 His father, David Frantz, was born in Alsace, 
 Germany, August 30, 1810, and came to the 
 United States in 1829, stopping first in Baltimore, 
 where he was employed as a journeyman tanner 
 for two years, and then walked from Baltimore to 
 Cincinnati, where he was superintendent of the 
 tannery of the old firm of A. M. Taylor & Com- 
 pany until 1847, when he came to Louisville as a 
 partner of A. M. Taylor and established the tan- 
 nery now owned by his son, George W. Frantz, 
 situated at the corner of Franklin and Buchanan 
 streets. They began in a small way and con- 
 tinued to work together until 1856, when A. M. 
 Taylor withdrew and H. W. Taylor took his 
 place in the firm. This partnership continued 
 until January i, 1864, when Mr. Taylor withdrew 
 and David Frantz, Jr., and George W. Frantz 
 were admitted to the firm under the style of D. 
 Frantz & Sons. On the first day of January, 1886, 
 the senior member of the firm retired and the busi- 
 ness was continued by the sons under the firm 
 name. 
 
 David Frantz was one of the best and most in- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 tion which was a high compHment to his busi- 
 ness ability — and although a Democrat, he ac- 
 cepted the nomination and was elected by a large 
 majority, receiving almost as many Democratic 
 as Republican votes. While he is very much 
 gratified by his election under such circumstances, 
 he reaHzes his responsibility to the general pub- 
 lic, and has given much thought and labor to the 
 development of the extensive park system of the 
 city. His ability as a financier, together with 
 his high regard for the judicious expenditure of 
 public funds, has made him one of the most use- 
 ful and popular of the six park commissioners. 
 
 Being a self-made man, whose fortune has been 
 acquired by great industry, close personal atten- 
 tion to business and honesty of purpose, he knows 
 the value of a dollar, and applies the rules of pri- 
 vate business in the disposition of the public 
 funds more rigidly than he does in conducting 
 the affairs of his own establishment. He will see 
 that the money entrusted to the park commis- 
 sioners is judiciously expended. At the same time 
 he is broad and liberal in his views of the public 
 needs, and is neither penurious nor lavish in the 
 use of money for needed improvements. 
 
 A man of ample fortune, noted for his generous 
 public spirit and deeply interested in the progress 
 of the city, Mr. Frantz enjoys the confidence and 
 good will of men of all parties. Besides being a 
 large property holder in the city, and having ex- 
 tensive business interests in which he has a vast 
 amount of capital invested, Mr. Frantz owns one 
 hundred and sixty thousand acres of land in 
 Crosby County, Texas, worth an average of 
 five dollars per acre, and which is increasing in 
 value. This land, the finest in the state, was pur- 
 chased some years ago by a syndicate of Louis- 
 ville capitalists for ranching purposes and a com- 
 pany was organized and known as the Kentucky 
 Cattle Raising Company. They owned forty thou- 
 sand head of cattle at one time, but the business 
 failed through mismanagement, and Mr. Frantz 
 became the purchaser of the land in order to save 
 himself and his friends from loss, and it has proven 
 a good investment. 
 
 Mr. Frantz is a Knight Templar, an Odd Fel- 
 low, a member of the Knights of Honor and a 
 member of the Methodist Church, South. 
 
 He was married April 5, 1866, to Mary M. En- 
 derlin of Louisville, and has five sons and one 
 daughter: George W. Frantz, Jr., Emma E., wife 
 of John W. Klein of Louisville ; Walter L., David 
 W., Edwin A. and Harold W. Frantz. 
 
 REVEREND WILLIAM H. FELIX, pastor 
 of the Baptist Church, Lexington, son of 
 Josiah and Jane Ann (Shouse) Felix, was born in 
 Mortinsville, Woodford County, Kentucky, Octo- 
 ber 6, 1838. 
 
 His father was a native Kentuckian, and when 
 a young man he settled in Woodford County, 
 where he married and lived up to the time of his 
 death in 1867, aged fifty-nine years. He was a 
 member of the Baptist Church, and a follower of 
 the political teachings of Henry Clay, but after 
 the dissolution of the old Whig party he acted 
 with the State Rights party of Mr. Jefferson. 
 
 Josiah Felix was long a justice of the peace 
 under the Constitution of 1799. He was an indus- 
 trious farmer and also was largely engaged in the 
 manufacture of bagging and rope. These articles 
 were carried on steamboats to New Orleans and 
 other cities of the Southern states. He was an 
 energetic and successful business man, and em- 
 ployed on an average of one hundred operatives 
 in his hemp factory, and managed a large farm. 
 He was strictly honest and never forgot the small- 
 est item of expense in his business operations. He 
 was of German descent. 
 
 Jane Ann Shouse (mother) was a native of 
 Woodford County. She died in 1893, in her 
 eighty-fourth year. She was a well preserved 
 lady, and a faithful and worthy member of the 
 Baptist Church. 
 
 William H. Felix remained on his father's farm 
 until he was sixteen years of age. In 1855 he en- 
 tered Georgetown College, and was graduated 
 from that institution in June, i860. He then took 
 charge of a Baptist Church at New Castle in Henry 
 County, Kentucky. He was ordained by Doctor 
 Duncan R. Campbell, president of Georgetown 
 College, who preached the ordination sermon. 
 
 At this time the Civil war between the states 
 was inaugurated, and he, still pursuing the min- 
 istry, read law; was admitted to the bar in 1862, 
 and practiced law one year at Shelbyville. 
 
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 In September, 1863, Mr. Felix was called home 
 to take charge of the First Baptist Church, Lex- 
 ington, Kentucky, and served this church until 
 1869, when he received a callfrom the Pilgrim 
 Baptist Church of New York City, and was pas- 
 tor of that church for one year. In 1870 he ac- 
 cepted a call to the First Baptist Church of Cov- 
 ington, where he remained as pastor for fourteen 
 years and resigned in 1884. For two years there- 
 after he served country churches in order to re- 
 gain his health. In 1887 he was called to the 
 church at Lexington, his present, charge. 
 
 When he came to Lexington in 1887, the 
 church had four hundred and twenty-five mem- 
 bers; after his eight years of labor there are now 
 eight hundred and forty-five, a gain of four hun- 
 dred and twenty-five, having himself received six 
 hundred into the church. 
 
 Rev. William H. FeHx is a Baptist minister of 
 high character and renown, and wherever he is 
 known he is greatly loved and respected. As 
 a minister he is energetic and faithful. In his 
 spirits he is seldom greatly elevated or depressed, 
 a uniform dignity marking his deportment in daily 
 life. His conversation is entertaining, and his ser- 
 mons abound in rich thought, plain expression 
 and solemn appeals to the conscience. There are 
 few men whose labors in the ministry have pro- 
 duced a greater portion of good. 
 
 Mr. Felix was married in 1861 to Mattie Hay- 
 don, daughter of Thomas Haydon of Louisville, 
 Kentucky. She died in 1871, leaving four chil- 
 dren: Mary, wife of Hamilton Wright of Hart- 
 well, Ohio; Jennie, now Mrs. Caldwell of Visalia, 
 Kentucky; Josie, wife of Richard Cummings of 
 Covington, and Mattie, wife of William Bain of 
 Lexington. 
 
 Rev. Felix was married the second time in 1875 
 to Camilla Hemmingray, and by this union one 
 son and one daughter have been born: William 
 PL, Jr., and Annie Bradford Felix. 
 
 in the common schools of Kanawha County, West 
 Virginia. He was a merchant of Charleston, 
 West Virginia, and at one time served as superin- 
 tendent of schools in Kanawha County, West 
 Virginia. He was a deacon in the Baptist Church 
 and was active in all good work. He married 
 Mary Matilda Hicks January 9, 1862. She was 
 born October 4, 1844 in Kanawha County, West 
 Virginia. They had twelve children, of whom 
 Timothy Alexander, the subject of this sketch, 
 was the eldest. 
 
 John Field (grandfather) was born in Fairfax 
 County, Virginia, and was a manager of salt fur- 
 naces. He married EHzabeth Thurman, a cousin 
 to Senator Allen G. Thurman of Ohio. He died 
 December 4, 1880. 
 
 Timothy A. Field received his education in 
 Kanawha County, West Virginia; in 1885 en- 
 gaged in the mercantile and lumber business in 
 Carter County, Kentucky, and in 1888 he removed 
 to Ashland and embarked in the wholesale gro- 
 cery business with Thomas J. Crump, the firm 
 name being Crump & Field, a house which is well 
 known throughout Northeastern Kentucky. 
 
 Mr. Field is a member of the City Council of 
 Ashland, having been elected by the Republicans, 
 to which party he belongs. He is a Knight Tem- 
 plar, a popular citizen and a successful business 
 man. He was married June 10, 1887, to Hattie 
 Crump, daughter of Thomas J. Crump. They 
 have two children living, James Thomas and 
 Dorothea Crump. 
 
 TIMOTHY ALEXANDER FIELD, whole- 
 sale grocer of Ashland, son of James L. and 
 Mary (Hicks) Field, was born in Kanawha 
 County, West Virginia, July 30, 1863. His father, 
 James L. Field, was born in Bedford County, 
 
 D' 
 
 ,R. LAMME STEELE GREENS of Cyn- 
 thiana was bom in that city January 14, 
 1866. His father, David A. Givens, was born in 
 Cynthiana in 1831. He was engaged in the mer- 
 cantile business for many years. He was also 
 largely engaged in raising cattle and brought the 
 first imported Jersey cattle to this county. For 
 many years he was very successful, making large 
 sales of Jerseys in New York City and other 
 places. Pie served as justice of the peace, but 
 never held any other office. He was an elder in 
 the Presbyterian Church, and a highly respected 
 citizen of his native town, and died July 26, 1895. 
 liis father, Col. Alexander Givens, was born in 
 
 Virginia, November 13, 1837, and was educated Cynthiana in 1792. He was a farmer and stock 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 93 
 
 raiser, and was a colonel in the state militia. He 
 died in 1840, at the age of forty-eight years. His 
 father, George Givens, was a native of Virginia, 
 a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and was one 
 of the earliest settlers of Harrison County. He 
 was of Scotch-Irish descent. 
 
 Margaret Keller Givens (mother) was born in 
 Cynthiana in 1838. She was a faithful member 
 of the Presbyterian Church, and died in 1882. 
 Her father, Abraham Keller, was born in Cyn- 
 thiana in 1808 and died there in 1868, aged sixty 
 years. He was the distiller of the renowned brand 
 of "A. Keller Whisky." This distillery is still in 
 operation and is owned by Ashbrook Bros. 
 
 Dr. L. S. Givens, after leaving the public 
 schools of Cynthiana, attended Central Univer- 
 sity and graduated from the Ohio Medical Col- 
 lege, Cincinnati, in 1887. He spent the next year 
 abroad in the hospitals of Berlin and London, 
 and in 1889 he began the general practice of 
 medicine in Cynthiana, giving especial attention 
 to diseases of the nose, throat and ear. He is a 
 member of the Kentucky Medical Society and a 
 contributor to the medical journals. He is coro- 
 ner of the county, having been elected to that 
 office on the Democratic ticket in 1894. 
 
 Dr. Givens and Nettie Martin, daughter of 
 Reed M. Martin of Cynthiana, were married, 
 November 18, 1891. They are members of the 
 Presbyterian Church and are prominent in so- 
 ciety. 
 
 REV. BERNARD GREIFENKAMP, rector 
 of St. Augustine's Church, Augusta, was 
 born in Cincinnati, November 20, 1858. The 
 days of his boyhood were spent in Newport, 
 where his parents made their home; and, after 
 receiving his primary schooling, he went to St. 
 Xavier College in Cincinnati, where he took the 
 degree of A. M. in 1879. He then went to St. 
 Francis Seminary, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 
 finished his studies with distinction in 1882. He 
 wrs ordained to the priesthood in the same year 
 at Covington by Rt. Rev. A. M. Toebbe. He at 
 once began the work of the ministry as assistant 
 rector of St. Aloysius Church, Covington, and 
 labored in that capacity for four and a half years. 
 He then was placed in charge of th? St, Augus- 
 
 tine's Church at Augusta, and in the nine years of 
 his ministry in that place he has enjoyed the love 
 and confidence of his parishioners and the respect 
 of the entire community. He is a modest, unas- 
 suming gentleman, a fine scholar and, withal, a 
 diligent student, an eloquent speaker and a wise 
 counsellor. His work has been fraught with 
 good results in his parish and in the community, 
 and his worth is appreciated by all classes of citi- 
 zens, and by Christians of all denominations. 
 
 Father Greifenkamp's ancestors were from 
 Germany and were among the earliest settlers of 
 Cincinnati, where his parents lived at the time 
 of his birth. 
 
 WILLIAM ALVIS GUTHRIE, M. D., of 
 Franklin, Kentucky, son of Francis M. and 
 Nancy (Marcum) Guthrie, was born in Clinton 
 County, Kentucky, August 31, 1864. His father 
 is a native of the same county, where he has been 
 a farmer and a lumber merchant since reaching 
 his manhood. He is a good citizen, an excellent 
 neighbor and a member of the Methodist Church. 
 
 Anderson Guthrie (grandfather) was also a 
 native of Kentucky, and a farmer of Clinton 
 County, and died there in 1893 at the age of 
 seventy-eight years. His father was a native of 
 Virginia, who came to Kentucky very early in 
 the present century, and his father (great-great- 
 grandfather) was bom in Ireland and came to 
 America and settled in Virginia, but in what year 
 the records of the family do not show. 
 
 Nancy Marcum Guthrie (mother) is a native of 
 Cumberland County, Kentucky, a daughter of 
 Basil Marcum, a well-known citizen of that 
 county. 
 
 William A. Guthrie attended school in his 
 native county and spent some time in the Alex- 
 ander College at Burksville, and three years at 
 a high school in Cumberland County. He then 
 read medicine with Dr. W. G. Hunter of Burks- 
 ville, and subsequently went to the University of 
 Tennessee at Nashville, from the medical depart- 
 ment of which he was graduated in 1889. He 
 first settled in Summer Shade, Metcalfe County; 
 and, after practicing there for three years, he 
 went to New York and took a course in diseases 
 of women and in surgery in the Post-graduate 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Medical College of that city. In 1891 he re- 
 turned to Kentucky and located in Franklin, his 
 present residence. In 1893-94 he built his large 
 brick sanitarium, which he designed for a home 
 or hospital for the treatment of the diseases of 
 women, a specialty in which he has had marvelous 
 success. This enterprise has been rewarded with 
 a very large patronage; and is one of the most 
 noted and flourishing institutions of the kind in 
 southern Kentucky. Dr. Guthrie has an exten- 
 sive general practice also, but gives special atten- 
 tion to the treatment of the diseases of women 
 and surgery. He is a member of the American 
 Medical Association, the Kentucky State Medical 
 Society and the Southern Kentucky Medical As- 
 sociation, and is a contributor to the medical 
 journals. 
 
 He married Emma L. Keen, daughter of Wil- 
 liam Keen of Cumberland County, and has one 
 son, Samuel Richard Guthrie. 
 
 Dr. William A. Guthrie left home when he was 
 thirteen years of age to attend school and since 
 that time he has made his own way in the wbrld, 
 and has laid the foundation for a splendid fortune 
 and fame in his profession. Beginning without 
 means of his own and continuing without help, 
 he has met with marvelous success and is des- 
 tined to become one of the most eminent physi- 
 cians of the state. 
 
 COL. JOHN T. GATHRIGHT of Louisville, 
 son of Owen Gathright, was born in Shelby 
 County, August 11, 1841. His father was a native 
 of Shelby County, residing in Shelby and Old- 
 ham Counties until 1858, when he removed to 
 Louisville and was for a while actively engaged 
 in business pursuits, but retired many years be- 
 fore his death, which occurred in 1892, in the 
 seventy-seventh year of his age. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Christian Church and a man of the 
 highest integrity. He was a Whig until 1856, 
 and a Republican after the organization of that 
 party. 
 
 John Gathright (grandfather) was a native of 
 Richmond, Virginia; came to Oldham County 
 about the year 1800, and afterwards moved to 
 Shelby County and located on a farm which has 
 
 belonged to his family ever since. He died in 
 1858, at the age of seventy-eight years. 
 
 Eliza Austin Gathright (mother), who survives 
 her husband, is also a native of Oldham County. 
 Her father, James Austin, was also a native of 
 Oldham County, a farmer and a soldier in the 
 War of 1812. He took part in the battle of New 
 Orleans, which point he reached by flat boat and, 
 after the war was over, returned to his home on 
 foot. He reached the good old age of eighty- 
 eight years. 
 
 John Austin (maternal great-grandfather) was 
 a Virginian of Scotch-Irish descent; a soldier in 
 the Revolutionary war; fought in the battle of 
 Bunker Hill; came to Kentucky soon after peace 
 was declared, and followed farming in Oldham 
 County. He lived to the extreme age of one 
 hundred and nine years. 
 
 John T. Gathright came to Louisville when 
 fifteen years of age and completed his education 
 in the high school. After a brief business expe- 
 rience in his father's store, during which he was 
 a lieutenant of militia, he enlisted in the Federal 
 army in 1861 as a private in Company A, Twenty- 
 second Regiment, K. V. I. At the organization of 
 his regiment he declined the office of major in 
 favor of a friend who had given much of his time 
 and money towards the organization of the regi- 
 ment. He was made quartermaster sergeant, 
 however, and was promoted to first lieutenant 
 May 18, and to captain of his company, July i, 
 1862. 
 
 Captain Gathright was with his regiment in all 
 of its engagements under General Garfield and 
 took part in the several campaigns in South- 
 eastern Kentucky, East Tennessee and West Vir- 
 ginia. In the autumn of 1862 he was ordered 
 with his regiment to Vicksburg, and engaged in 
 the first assault upon that city in what was known 
 as the battle of Walnut Hills or Chickasaw 
 Bayou. He was detailed with the left wing of 
 his regiment to lead the assault on the Con- 
 federate works, and out of the two hundred and 
 sixty-six men in his command, over two hundred 
 were killed, wounded or captured; and he was 
 twice wounded, but not seriously. He after- 
 ward assisted in the attack upon Arkansas Post, 
 which resulted in the capture of the post with its 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 95 
 
 commander, General Churchill, and six thousand 
 prisoners. He returned to Vicksburg about the 
 time General Grant assumed command of the 
 army of the Mississippi, where he saw active 
 service in the front, a"nd was offered promotion 
 to the rank of colonel on the stafif of General Grant 
 by the general in person, but was not able to 
 accept the promotion as his physicians at that time 
 had despaired of his life. 
 
 Returning to his home in Louisville, he was 
 made senior colonel in charge of the militia, 
 which was by no means an empty honor at that 
 time. 
 
 Col. Gathright was one of the original members 
 of the firm of Harbison & Gathright, the large 
 wholesale house which is still in existence; but 
 sold his interest to Mr. Harbison and engaged in 
 the manufacture of saddlery, making many valu- 
 able inventions which have proven quite profit- 
 able. 
 
 He has always affiliated with the Democratic 
 party, which he helped to reorganize after the 
 war, in 1865, being at that time a member of the 
 Democratic City Executive Committee. 
 
 In 1879 he was elected State senator from his 
 district, receiving a highly complimentary ma- 
 jority over four competitors. He introduced a 
 number of important measures in the legislature, 
 all of which were for the advancement of the best 
 interests of his city and State, among which were : 
 A bill to abolish the fee system in county ofifices; 
 a charter for the first trust company organized 
 in Louisville; amendment to the charter of the 
 Louisville & Nashville R. R., by which that com- 
 pany was enabled to perfect its great system of 
 roads in the south to the great advantage of 
 Louisville merchants ; assisted in securing a char- 
 ter for the Louisville Southern R. R.; secured 
 the State endowment of the Kentucky Agricul- 
 tural and Mechanical College when it was de- 
 tached from the Kentucky University, etc. 
 
 He was one of the promoters of the Louisville, 
 St. Louis & Texas R. R., and has been active 
 and successful in aiding many other public enter- 
 prises from which he has gained nothing per- 
 sonally. 
 
 In 1885 Col. Gathright was appointed surveyor 
 of customs of the Port of Louisville by President 
 
 Cleveland, an appointment that was made en- 
 tirely on account of business qualifications and 
 not through political influence. The wisdom of 
 this appointment was verified by the fact that the 
 business of the surveyor's office was increased 
 about four hundred per cent under his adminis- 
 tration. 
 
 Col. Gathright was married in 1864 to Sallie 
 Dunlap, daughter of T. G. Dunlap, of Shelby 
 County. He has been a member of the Presby- 
 terian Church since 1866 and an elder since 1869. 
 He is a member of the Louisville Commandery, 
 F. and A. M. 
 
 JOHN W. GALVIN, M. D., a popular physician 
 of Louisville, son of Dennis and Catherine 
 (Cowley) Galvin, was born in Cadyville, Clinton 
 County, New York, January i, 1861. His father 
 is a native of Ireland, who came to America with 
 his parents when he was one year of age and 
 located in Troy, New York, and removed to Cady- 
 ville, his present home, forty-five years ago. He 
 is a farmer and an industrious and intelligent citi- 
 zen, and is highly respected in the community in 
 which he has spent the greater portion of his life. 
 His father was a native of Athlone and died a 
 short time after coming to this country. 
 
 Catherine Cowley Galvin (mother) was born 
 in Troy, New York, in 1836, and died in 1869, 
 when the subject of this sketch was eight years of 
 age. She and her husband were members of the 
 Catholic Church. Her father, John Cowley, was 
 a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, and was a resi- 
 dent of Troy, New York, for many years, and died 
 there in 1873. 
 
 Dr. John W. Galvin was educated in the High 
 School of Plattsburg, New York, and after com- 
 pleting his schooling went to St. Louis and en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of picture frames, mold- 
 ing and fancy furniture, which he followed indus- 
 triously until 1889, when he came to Louisville 
 and matriculated in the medical department of 
 the University of Louisville, from which he was 
 graduated in 1893. He at once commenced the 
 practice of medicine in Louisville and in the short 
 time in which he has been engaged in the healing 
 art has built up a large general practice. 
 
 Dr, Galvin deserves great credit for his ambi- 
 
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 tion and for the manner in which he has carried 
 out his purpose to prepare himself for the respon- 
 sible duties of the physician. He is unquestion- 
 ably a self-made man, and he will make his mark 
 in his profession if industry and careful study is 
 any guarantee of success. His practice is already 
 large and he has won the confidence of his pa- 
 tients and their friends by his genial manner and 
 obhging, kindly disposition and the professional 
 skill with which he treats the cases which are 
 intrusted to his care. 
 
 Dr. Galvin was married in 1885 to Sallis Tou- 
 cray, daughter of Alexander and Eleanor Tou- 
 cray, of St. Louis. They have one son, Wallace 
 Galvin. 
 
 LYNCH GRAY, President of the Farmers' & 
 Traders' Bank of Owensboro, was born in 
 Nelson County, Kentucky, May 28, 1828. His 
 father, Patrick L. Gray, was born in Baltimore, 
 Maryland, in 1800. After obtaining a good edu- 
 cation in the schools of Baltimore he removed, in 
 1820, to Nelson County, Kentucky, and became 
 interested in farming, an occupation in which 
 there was a wholesome rivalry among the early 
 settlers of Nelson County. He removed to Har- 
 din County in 1841 and followed agricultural pur- 
 suits until 1854, when he died. He lived in the ex- 
 citing political times of Henry Clay and was a 
 Whig to the last. His religious faith was strong 
 and he was an honored member of the United 
 Baptist Church. 
 
 James L. Gray (grandfather), a native of Balti- 
 more and a captain at sea, was killed in the War 
 of 1812, when defending his city at the time the 
 British soldiers landed at Chesapeake Bay. The 
 Grays were of English and Irish extraction. 
 
 Mary Hewlett Gray, mother of Lynch Gray, 
 was born in Baltimore in 1798. She received a 
 fine education in that city before coming to Ken- 
 tucky. She died in 1861. 
 
 John Howlett, a native of Baltimore, accom- 
 panied a colony of people who made the journey to 
 Nelson County in wagons, bringing their teams, 
 servants, furniture and other equipments for life 
 in the new country. He married Drusilla John- 
 son. The Howlett family originally came from 
 England, 
 
 Lynch Gray was educated in Nelson County 
 and, having removed to Hardin County, he 
 learned the trade of a wagon and buggy maker, in 
 which business he was engaged at West Point 
 from 1847 to 1851, when he removed to Daviess 
 County and continued in the same line of business 
 for three years. From 1855 to i860 he was en- 
 gaged in farming and stock trading and, retiring 
 from this in i860, he removed to Owensboro. He 
 took no part in the Civil war, but was in strong 
 sympathy with the south. 
 
 He was interested in various enterprises in the 
 city and county until 187.6, when, with the co-op- 
 eration of others, he organized the Farmers' & 
 Traders' Bank. Dr. Alfred Dodd Hill was elected 
 president and on his death December 23, 1878, 
 Mr. Gray was elected president, a position which 
 he has held and ably filled for twenty years. The 
 capital stock of this bank is $100,000, and it is 
 one of the most substantial banking houses in 
 the Ohio valley. Mr. Gray is ably assisted in the 
 management of the afifairs of the bank by his 
 cashier, G. A. Williams. 
 
 Mr. Gray is also interested in a number of 
 other enterprises; is a stockholder and director 
 in the City Savings Bank; director in the Gravel 
 Road Company of Daviess County; and, among 
 other helpful enterprises, is a stockholder in the 
 Female College. He is not in politics, but votes 
 the Democratic ticket and wishes his party suc- 
 cess. He is a leading member of the Baptist 
 Church and a member of the Masonic Fraternity. 
 
 Mr. Gray was married October 24, 1854, to 
 Louisa Shoemaker, daughter of Price Shoemaker 
 of Daviess County. She was a native of that 
 county and was born in March, 1830, and died 
 October 22, 1870. She was the mother of two 
 daughters: ]\Tary Sephrona Gray, born July 4, 
 1855; married A. J. Mitchell of Owensboro, Feb- 
 ruary, 1878, and they are the parents of two chil- 
 dren, Louis A. Mitchell and A. J. Mitchell, Jr. 
 The second daughter, Cynthia Gray, bom Jan- 
 uary 6, 1857, married James M. Haynes, a dry 
 goods merchant of Owensboro, February, 1879, 
 and they have one child. Gray Haynes. 
 
 Mr. Gray was married a second time to Mary 
 Frances Haynes, daughter of Frank Haynes of 
 Daviess County, February 24, 1877, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 97 
 
 He has risen by his own efforts from a position 
 in the wagon shop of his employer to the presi- 
 dency of a bank which owes its existence to his 
 enterprise, and its excellent standing among the 
 financial institutions of the country to his wise 
 counsel and ability as a financier. There are few 
 self-made men of to-day who have succeeded by 
 honest means in accomphshing as much as Mr. 
 Gray has done. 
 
 CHARLES E. GRAHAM of Paducah, clerk 
 of the McCracken County Court, son of 
 Z. C. and Rachel (Ratliff) Graham, was born in 
 Grahamville (named for his father), McCracken 
 County, Kentucky, February 4, 1872. His father 
 was born in Bloomington, Indiana, February 6, 
 1847, 'i.nd removed with his father to Paducah, 
 April 3, 1858. He was engaged in farming in 
 McCracken County for some time, and in 1877 
 he began merchandising in Grahamville, where 
 he is still in business. Mr. Graham's sympa- 
 thies were with the south during the late war, 
 but he was not an active participant in the strug- 
 gle. He is a straight-out Democrat, interested 
 in the success of his party, but has never sought 
 political preferment. 
 
 William Graham (grandfather) was born in 
 Monroe County, near Bloomington, Indiana, 
 May 30, 1822, and died in McCracken County, 
 March 5, 1872. He was a merchant in Blooming- 
 ton during the greater. part of his life. He mar- 
 ried Margaret Purdy, a native of Wheeling, West 
 Virginia, who is now a resident of McCracken 
 County. She is a daughter of M. A. Purdy, who 
 was born in Providence . in the West Indies, of 
 Scotch and French parentage. His wife was a 
 native of Charleston, South Carolina, whose name 
 and antecedents are not now recalled. 
 
 Rachel Ratliff Graham (mother) was born in 
 McCracken County, Kentucky, April 18, 1852, 
 and was married April 2, 1871. Her father, Alex- 
 ander Ratliff, was born in Virginia in 1820 and 
 died in 1878. His wife was a native of Kentucky, 
 whose maiden name was Hines. All of these 
 were members of the Baptist Church, and were 
 people of the highest standing in the community 
 in which they lived. 
 
 Charles E. Graham attended the common 
 7 
 
 schools of McCracken County until sufificiently 
 advanced to enter a classical school, when he went 
 to Clinton College, Clinton, Kentucky, and from 
 there to the Smith Commercial College, where 
 he graduated in five weeks. He then engaged 
 in merchandising and in the tobacco business 
 with his father in Grahamville until 1894, when he 
 was elected clerk of the McCracken County 
 Court. His election to this responsible position, 
 when he was only twenty-two years of age, is 
 perhaps the best evidence of his popularity and 
 the highest testimonial of his good character. 
 He has had charge of the ofifice since January, 
 i8g5, and has demonstrated his ability to dis- 
 charge its duties in a manner that is highly com- 
 mended by the court and the members of the 
 bar. He is the youngest county clerk in the state, 
 and the ofifice is one of the highest importance, 
 requiring the assistance of two deputies. 
 
 Mr. Graham is a Democrat, and even at this 
 early age is something of a politician, having ren- 
 dered valuable services for his party and obtained 
 his reward. 
 
 RICHARD HENDERSON SOAPER, to- 
 bacconist of Henderson, was born in Hen- 
 derson County, Kentucky, February 7, 1836, and 
 is the eldest son of William and Susan Fannie 
 (Henderson) Soaper. He was educated in the 
 private schools of Henderson; Shelbyville Col- 
 lege and Kenyon College, Ohio. No means 
 were spared to give him a thorough collegiate 
 education. Upon his return from college he was 
 given a position in his father's tobacco stemmery 
 and in a very short time he mastered the science 
 of handling the weed, and subsequently acquired 
 an interest in the business. He remained with 
 his father until 1867, when he established a house 
 of his own. His father joined him in this enter- 
 prise a little later and they continued together 
 until his father's death in 1881, since which time 
 he has continued the business in Henderson in 
 partnership with his brother. In 1868 Mr. Soaper 
 established a branch house in Uniontown, with a 
 capacity of five hundred hogsheads per annum; 
 and this, with his Henderson house, he has oper- 
 ated most successfully, buying and shipping about 
 one thousand hogsheads annually, for which the 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 principal markets are Liverpool and London. In 
 addition to his large tobacco interests in this coun- 
 try and Europe, Mr. Soaper owns two valuable 
 farms in the river bottom, one of five hundred 
 and twenty-eight acres and the other of four hun- 
 dred and twenty-six acres. These lands are noted 
 for their productiveness of either corn or tobacco. 
 His annual crops are very large, and so well sys- 
 tematized are his farming operations that nothing 
 but an overflow or an unprecedented drouth can 
 prevent him from reaping a handsome income 
 from this source every year. • 
 
 His plant in Henderson was destroyed by fire 
 February lo, 1894, but it was immediately rebuilt 
 on even a larger scale than before. The present 
 building is 160x75 feet, four stories high, two 
 stories of brick and two of frame, with an L 80x65 
 feet. An average force of sixty-five or seventy 
 hands are employed in this establishment. 
 
 His father, William Soaper, left a large and 
 varied estate and Richard H. was made executor 
 of his will. The property consisted of lands, 
 houses and lots, moneys, bonds, stocks and other 
 possessions, which were to be apportioned among 
 nine devisees. It was a difficult undertaking, but 
 Mr. Soaper settled this great estate without a com- 
 plaint from anyone, another evidence that he is 
 one of the ablest business men of the times. 
 
 He has acquired a wide knowledge of men and 
 of the world, together with much valuable ex- 
 perience, by his extensive travels at home and 
 abroad. His career has been characterized by 
 great energy, prudent care, superior judgment 
 and undoubted integrity. He is devoted to his 
 friends, is warm hearted and enjoys social life to 
 the highest degree, but has never married. He 
 is as regular as a clock in his habits, always 
 prompt in keeping engagements and punctual to 
 the minute in his attendance at his office; and 
 with these characteristics it is not strange that 
 he is pointed out by his neighbors as a model 
 business man. 
 
 Mr. Soaper was raised a Whig, but he had not 
 reached his twenty-first year, when that party 
 was disbanded and he has never identified himself 
 with any particular party or organization. He 
 has no desire for office and would not accept one 
 if tendered him by the unanimous vote of the 
 
 people. In politics, church and charity he is free 
 to exercise his own will. He gives with a liberal 
 hand, keeping his own counsel and obeying the 
 dictates of his noble, generous heart. 
 
 His father, William Soaper, was born in Lou- 
 doun County, Virginia, April 28, 1795, and was 
 educated in the ordinary schools "of that state 
 and in Maryland. He came to Henderson in 
 1820, and with very limited means engaged in the 
 saddlery business, frequently traveling through 
 the country, but subsequently engaged in pur- 
 chasing and stemming tobacco in partnership 
 with Judge Thomas Fowles. This partnership 
 was dissolved by mutual consent after some years 
 and he continued in the same line of business, 
 with most remarkable success, accumulating a 
 very large fortune. He was married November 
 2, 1830, to Susan Fannie Henderson, whose natal 
 day was May 9, 181 3. Her father, Richard Hen- 
 derson, was a nephew of Richard Henderson for 
 whom the city and county of Henderson were 
 named. Mrs. Soaper's father was married in 
 North Carolina, March 6, 1807, to Annie Alves 
 and came to Henderson in 1812. 
 
 THOMAS SOAPER, one of the oldest and 
 leading merchants of Henderson, second 
 son of William and Susan Frances (Henderson) 
 Soaper, was born in Henderson, Kentucky, Jan- 
 uary 20, 1838. A sketch of his elder brother, 
 Richard Henderson Soaper, with a brief history of 
 the family, is given in this volume. 
 
 Thomas Soaper was reared in his native city, 
 attending a private school taught by Professor 
 McCulloch; and in 1856 went to Kenyon Col- 
 lege at Gambier, Ohio, for one year, and then 
 entered Hanover College, where he pursued his 
 studies for another year. 
 
 Returning to Henderson in 1857, he was em- 
 ployed as a clerk or salesman in the dry goods 
 house of L. C. Dallam, and in 1859 purchased 
 an interest in the establishment and was asso- 
 ciated with Mr. Dallam, his brother-in-law, for 
 sixteen years in the well-known house of Dallam 
 & Soaper. In January, 1876, he purchased Mr. 
 Dallapi's interest, since which time the business 
 has been conducted in the name of Thomas 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 99 
 
 Soaper. In 1892 he succeeded Mr. Dallam as 
 president of the Henderson County Bank. 
 
 Mr. Soaper is one of the most successful mer- 
 chants of Henderson, a fact which is due to his 
 remarkable ability as a business man, as well as 
 to the reputation he has gained for honesty and 
 sincerity. He is a man of strong convictions, 
 warm in his friendships, but not ostentatious or 
 demonstrative, a genial companion and a tender 
 and devoted husband and father. 
 
 He is a faithful and devout member of the Epis- 
 copal Church, in which he was confirmed in i860. 
 For more than thirty years he has been a member 
 of the church vestry, of which he was treasurer 
 for many years, and has been senior warden since 
 1876; has represented his church a number of 
 times in the diocesan conventions, and has been 
 one of the foremost men in all matters of interest 
 to the parish ; was superintendent of the Sunday 
 school for many years; is a member of the Ma- 
 sonic fraternity ; and is a Democratic voter. 
 
 In addition to valuable real property in Hen- 
 derson, including his elegant residence, he owns 
 a farm of one hundred and ninety acres of rich 
 bottom land in the county; another one of five 
 hundred acres in the county and one of two hun- 
 dred and five acres in Union County, which farms 
 he cultivates through employes, under the direc- 
 tion of a competent superintendent, the products 
 of which afiford a handsome income. 
 
 Mr. Soaper was married October 12, 1862, to 
 Cora Cook, daughter of Dr. John B. Cook, for- 
 merly of Huntsville, Alabama, and founder of 
 the Henderson & McDowell Medical Societies. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Soaper have two charming daugh- 
 ters: Bettie Cook and Susan Henderson. 
 
 COL. LORENZO D. HUSBANDS, a lead- 
 ing attorney of Paducah, was born in 
 Christian County, in December, 1823. His father, 
 Harmon Husbands, son of Robert Husbands, 
 was born in Rowan County, North Carolina, in 
 August, 1776. He received the best education 
 that the schools of his time could afford. He re- 
 moved to Christian County in 1805 and was a 
 pioneer farmer and surveyor. He removed to 
 Ballard County in 1845 ^^ii^ died there in 1856. 
 He was a Democrat until 1840 when h? becarne a 
 
 Henry Clay Whig. His wife was Sarah Ren- 
 shaw, daughter of a Mr. Renshaw, a farmer, who 
 lived to a great age and died near Port Royal, 
 Tennessee. They had five daughters and four 
 sons, all of whom are deceased except Mrs. Fran- 
 ces O. Lovelace, of Texas, and Col. L. D. Hus- 
 bands, the subject of this sketch. 
 
 The progenitors of the family in this country 
 were William and John Husband, who came 
 from England and settled in Pennsylvania. The 
 descendants went to North Carolina, where Rob- 
 ert (father) was born. The name was originally 
 Husband, and was changed to Husbands by Col. 
 L. D. Husbands. 
 
 Col. L. D. Husbands was educated in private 
 schools, great care being taken in his early train- 
 ing, and commenced reading law in 1845 with 
 James B. Husbands, in Paducah, and was admit- 
 ted to the bar in that city in 1849, ^"d has been 
 a practitioner uninterruptedly for forty-seven 
 years. He was in partnership with Col. G. H. 
 Morrow from 1850 to 1852; with A. Boyd from 
 1854 until 1861; with William Husbands from 
 1873 to 1883, and with his nephew, James G. Hus- 
 bands, since 1886. 
 
 In 185 1 he was elected county attorney of Mc- 
 Cracken County and served until 1855, when he 
 was elected commonwealth attorney to fill out 
 the unexpired term of Hon. Oscar Turner, and 
 held that office for one year; was elected to the 
 legislature from McCracken and Ballard Coun- 
 ties, in 1859, and was present at all of the regular 
 and called sessions during Governor Magoffin's 
 administration, preceding the Civil War, since 
 which time he has not been a candidate for any 
 political or judicial office. He was a member of 
 the City Council of Paducah and of the Board 
 of School Trustees in the early '50's. 
 
 Col. Husbands was married the first time in 
 1851 to Hannah Singleton, who was born in 
 Hines County, Mississippi, in 1834, and died in 
 1856. She was the mother of one son, Gip, born 
 January 24, 1856, who is a farmer near Paducah. 
 He was again married in 1859 to Mrs. Mary E. 
 Bullock, widow of John M. Bullock, a lawyer, of 
 Hickman. Her maiden name was Mary E. Cook, 
 daughter of John W. Cook, a farmer of Christian 
 County. She was born in Princeton, and was 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 educated principally in Bethel Female College, 
 Hopkinsville. They have three children: Cook 
 Husbands is a bookkeeper in the American-Ger- 
 man Bank of Paducah, married Mintie Fowler, 
 daughter of Capt. J. Fowler, February, 1884; 
 while the other children, Dow and Sallie, are un- 
 married. The children were educated in the best 
 private schools and are graduates. Cook Hus- 
 bands attended the University of Virginia, where 
 he studied law and was admitted to the bar and 
 was for a short time associated with his father; 
 \\'as deputy postmaster for four^ years, under Pres- 
 ident Cleveland's first administration, and was ap- 
 pointed postmaster by President Harrison to fill 
 a vacancy for a few months, on account of his 
 efficiency and familiarity with the office, although 
 he was a Democrat. 
 
 WALKER C. HALL, attomey-at-law, Cov- 
 ington, son of Mary J. McCloud and 
 John Arnold Hall, was born in Covington, June 
 14, 1863. His father was bom in Kenton Coun- 
 ty in 181 3 and was educated in the country schools; 
 was a farmer and stock trader, and was assessor 
 of Kenton County from 1864 to 1872. During 
 the Civil War his sympathies were with the Union, 
 and after the war he voted the Democratic ticket. 
 He died May 14, 1890, and is buried at Inde- 
 pendence, in Kenton County. 
 
 Thomas Hall (grandfather) was born in North 
 Ireland; came to Virginia when a young man, 
 and taught school for a number of years. His 
 father came to America from Ireland and was a 
 soldier in the War of the Revolution. 
 
 Mary J. McCloud Hall (mother) was bom and 
 educated in Kenton County and was married to 
 John A. Hall in 1859. She is now living in Cov- 
 ington. 
 
 Walker C. Hall enjoyed superior advantages in 
 the public schools of Covington, and afterwards 
 took a course in the Central Normal College, 
 Danville, Indiana. In 1885, when twenty-two 
 years of age, he was elected principal of the West 
 Covington public schools, and sei-ved in that ca- 
 pacity for two years, when, in 1887, he was elected 
 principal of the First District public schools, in 
 Covington. He held this position four years, the 
 latter part of which time he spent in studying law. 
 
 He then attended the Cincinnati Law School, 
 graduating in 1890. He began the practice of 
 law in September of the same year in partnership 
 with James P. Tarvin, under the style of Tarvin 
 & Hall, which partnership was dissolved on the 
 first of March, 1895, since which time Mr. Hall 
 has conducted a large practice without an as- 
 sociate. 
 
 He is interested in a number of land syndicates 
 and other business enterprises. 
 
 Mr. Hall was married August 10, 1887, to Min- 
 nie Belle Britting, daughter of Louis K. Britting, 
 manufacturer of the well-known Britting pianos, 
 of Cincinnati. Mrs. Hall was educated in the 
 schools of Ludlow and in the Cincinnati High 
 School, and is a lady of unusual intelligence and 
 refinjement. They have one child, Leslie Virgil, 
 born April 18, 1892. 
 
 WILLIAM M. HANNA, M. D., a distin- 
 guished member of the medical profes- 
 sion and a highly respected citizen of Henderson, 
 son of John S. and Jane (King) Hanna, was bom 
 in Shelby County, Kentucky, September 25, 1837. 
 
 His father, John S. Hanna, was born in Har- 
 rodsburg in 1798, and was educated there. He 
 was an excellent farmer and a prominent citizen 
 of his county; was married in 1825 to Jane King, 
 daughter of Thomas and Anna (McAfee) King, 
 and they had seven children : Margaret, Thomas, 
 James, Samuel, William M., John S. and Eliza 
 Hanna. Mr. Hanna and his wife were members 
 of the Presbyterian Church, and he was an elder 
 for many years. He was a member of the Old 
 State Militia, and was every ready to do his duty, 
 as soldier or citizen. He died in 1878, and is 
 buried in Shelbyville. 
 
 Thomas Hanna (grandfather) was bom in Vir- 
 ginia and came to Kentucky about the time of 
 the war for independence; married Margaret 
 Smith, daughter of Colonel Smith, of North Caro- 
 lina; died in Shelby County, Kentucky. 
 
 James and Martha Hanna (great-grandparents) 
 were natives of the north of Ireland, where they 
 were married. They came to America and settled 
 in Berkeley County (now West), Virginia. Four 
 of their twelve children were born in Ireland, and 
 eight in Virginia. After living in Berkeley Coun- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 101 
 
 ty some years they emigrated to Kentucky, about 
 the time of the Revolutionary War, and located in 
 Mercer County with the early settlers. 
 
 Thomas King (maternal grandfather), a Vir- 
 ginia farmer, came to Shelby County, Kentucky, 
 and married Annie McAfee, then living in Har- 
 rodsburg. They had six children, including 
 Jane, who married John S. Hanna. Mr. King 
 and his family were members of the Presbyterian 
 Church, and were among the best people of Shelby 
 County, where they lived, died and are buried. 
 
 Margaret Smith Hanna (grandmother) was a 
 daughter of Colonel John Smith and Margaret 
 Dobbins Smith, natives of North Carolina. 
 Colonel Smith won his militai-y title in the Revo- 
 lutionary War, and after peace was declared he 
 removed to Kentucky and made his home in 
 Shelby County. 
 
 Dr. William M. Hanna was graduated from 
 Centre College, Danville, in the class of 1858, re- 
 ceiving the degree of A. B. In 1859 he began 
 the study of medicine in Shelbyville with Dr. 
 A. S. Frederick; matriculated in the University 
 of Louisville, in 1862, and after graduating in 
 medicine from that institution, he spent one year 
 in the United States Marine Hospital at Louis- 
 ville, in which service he gained valuable prac- 
 tical experience. 
 
 In 1862 he enlisted as a private soldier in the 
 Confederate army, under General Morgan, and 
 was with him in his famous raids in Indiana and 
 Ohio. In 1863 he was assigned as assistant sur- 
 geon of the Second Kentucky Cavalry, in which 
 capacity he served until the close of the war. His 
 service in the army was equivalent to as many 
 years of schooling, being of the most practical 
 nature. 
 
 After the close of the war, Dr. Hanna located 
 at Henderson and has remained there, engaged 
 in the line of his profession, without interruption, 
 for over thirty years. He soon took his place 
 among the leading physicians of the city, where 
 he is held in the highest esteem and enjoys the 
 confidence of the entire community. He is a man 
 of fine personal appearance and pleasing address, 
 of kind disposition and sympathetic nature; a 
 constant and a diligent student, keeping pace with 
 the advancement in medical science; is a member 
 
 of the Henderson County Medical Society, the 
 Kentucky State Medical Society, and of the 
 American Academy of Medicine and American 
 Medical Association. He is an elder in the Pres- 
 byterian Church, as was his father before him, 
 both branches of his family having belonged to 
 that church for several generations. In the mat- 
 ter of politics he is simply an independent Demo- 
 cratic voter. 
 
 Dr. Hanna was married in 1865 to Mary 
 Matthews, daughter of Rev. William C. Matthews, 
 D. D. They have three children living: Mary, 
 John and Jane. 
 
 Dr. William C. Matthews, father of Mrs. Hanna, 
 was one of the most learned and distinguished 
 ministers in the Presbyterian Church (North). He 
 began preaching at Martinsburg (now West), Vir- 
 ginia; was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at 
 Shelbyville for twenty-five years, and of a church 
 in Louisville for five years. His death, in 1880, 
 was mourned by a wide circle of friends and ac- 
 quaintances throughout the State. 
 
 CHARLES LEONARD HARRISON, city 
 clerk of Bellevue, son of William H. and 
 Sarah A. (Winwood) Harrison, was born in Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio, July 26, 1856. His father, Rev. 
 William H. Harrison, was born in Frederick, 
 Maryland, in 181 8; and was pastor of the First 
 English Lutheran Church, Cincinnati, for twenty- 
 five years, and at the same time was a member of 
 the Board of Education, in Cincinnati, and also 
 a member of the Union Board of High Schools, 
 and held these offices for over twenty years. He 
 died in Cincinnati, of cholera, in 1866. 
 
 Zephaniah Harrison(grandfather) was a brother 
 of President William Henry Harrison, and was 
 a resident of Frederick, Maryland. 
 
 Sarah A. Winwood Harrison (mother) was 
 born in Springfield, Oiiio, in 1828; and is now 
 living at Linwood, Ohio. 
 
 Dr. Benjamin Winwood (grandfather) was a 
 practicing physician of Springfield, Ohio, and 
 was a surgeon in the Union army and died in 
 the service in 1864 in Memphis, Tennessee. His 
 father came from England. 
 
 Charles L. Harrison grew to manhood in Cin- 
 cinnati; and, after leaving school, in which he 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 had enjoyed excellent advantages, he became a 
 civil engineer, and in connection with his brother, 
 William H. Harrison, built the Cincinnati & 
 Eastern Narrow Gauge Railroad. 
 
 He became a resident of Bellevue, Kentucky, 
 October 31, 1883; and in 1888 he was elected 
 city clerk, and was re-elected in 1890 and again 
 in 1892, and in November, 1893, he was re-elected 
 for a term of four years, under the new city char- 
 ter. His personal popularity and his efficiency in 
 the discharge of his official duties are fully at- 
 tested by his frequent election to this office. 
 
 In July, 1895, he published the first weekly 
 issue of the Newport Republican, of which he is 
 editor and proprietor, and which is already an im- 
 portant factor in local politics. As indicated by 
 its name it is a Republican journal; and it is a 
 vigorous mouth-piece for the party in whose in- 
 terests its weekly visits are made. Mr. Harrison 
 personally is regarded as a leader in the Repub- 
 lican ranks; and, with the aid of his paper, he 
 wields an influence in local politics that is hard 
 for the opposing party to overcome. He enjoys 
 the honor of having been a delegate to the con- 
 vention at Louisville which nominated W. O. 
 Bradley for governor, and he deserves much 
 credit for the active part he took in securing the 
 election of Mr. Bradley. 
 
 Mr. Harrison is a highly respected citizen of 
 Bellevue, a member of the Dayton Presbyterian 
 Church, and a member of the Blue Lodge of 
 Masons. 
 
 He was married in 1888 to R. Ella, daughter 
 of Piersol Shaner, deceased, of Vanceburg, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 JAMES MADISON HUGHES, a prominent 
 citizen of Paris, and the president of the 
 Citizen's Bank of that city, was born in Nicholas 
 County, Kentucky, April 20, 1825. For many 
 years he has been a citizen of Bourbon County, 
 closely identified with her business interests. 
 
 He is a son of Jesse Hughes, a native of Bour- 
 bon County, and a grandson of David W. Hughes, 
 who was a major in the war of the Revolution, 
 and a native of Virginia, who removed to Ken- 
 tucky in 1784 and pre-empted one thousand acres 
 of land in the neighborhood of Paris, and also a 
 
 tract of land in Clark County. He remained in 
 Kentucky for a while and then returned to Vir- 
 ginia and brought his wife and children and re- 
 sided on this tract of one thousand acres for a 
 few years. He afterwards removed to a tract on 
 Flat Creek, where he remained until his death. 
 His wife was Margaret Frame, daughter of an 
 immigrant from north of Ireland. His father 
 was a native of Wales. 
 
 Jesse Hughes (father) wedded Priscilla Par- 
 ker, a daughter of Thomas Parker of Maryland. 
 Thomas Parker removed to Kentucky and settled 
 on Cane Ridge, four miles from Paris. Jesse 
 Hughes was prominent in the business affairs of 
 Bourbon County for many years. He died at 
 Carlisle in 1854. He had eight children, three 
 of whom are now living, two sons in Texas and 
 one son in Bourbon County. 
 
 James M. Hughes' early years were spent on 
 a farm in Nicholas County; and in 1854, the year 
 of his father's death, he was elected clerk of the 
 Nicholas County Circuit Court, and served in 
 that office for four years. At the expiration of 
 that time, in 1859, he removed to Millersburg, 
 Bourbon County, and formed a partnership with 
 his nephew, John G. Smedley, in the dry goods 
 trade, and remained actively engaged in that 
 business until 1866, when he took charge of the 
 County Court's office, retaining his interest in the 
 dry goods store. Mr. Hughes was four times 
 re-elected to this office and held it for twenty 
 consecutive years, at the end of which time he 
 refused further election on account of impaired 
 health. For many years he has been one of the 
 leading directors of the Citizens' Bank, and for the 
 past six or eight years has served as its presi- 
 dent. The capital stock of this bank is $100,000, 
 with a surplus of $20,000 and average deposits of 
 nearly $100,000. In 1861 Mr. Hughes was mar- 
 ried to Mrs. Sally Holliday Kenney of Millers- 
 burg. She died in 1865 ; and he subsequently mar- 
 ried Rebecca A. Roseberry, sister of Hiram M. 
 Roseberry, president of the Agricultural Bank of 
 Paris. They have one daughter, Jessie. 
 
 In addition to his large city interests, Mr. 
 Hughes owns a farm of one hundred acres within 
 a mile of Paris, which he superintends, and in 
 which he takes a good deal of pride. 
 
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 103 
 
 JOSIAH HARRIS, a prominent member of 
 the Paducah bar, was born in Columbia, 
 Adair County, Kentucky, November 14, 1840. 
 His father, Josiah Harris, was born in Maryland, 
 April 26, 1810, and removed to Kentucky with 
 his father when he was a young man, and located 
 at Elizabethtown. He subsequently removed to 
 Adair County, where he owned considerable land 
 and was a merchant. A few years later he went 
 to Louisville, where he was engaged in the same 
 business at the beginning of the Civil war. His 
 sympathies were with the Union, but he took no 
 active part in the war and cared but little for 
 politics. He was a member of the Christian 
 Church and was greatly interested in its work; 
 conscientious in business, and was devoted to his 
 home. He died in Louisville, August 6, 1865, 
 and is buried in Cave Hill Cemetery. 
 
 Josiah Harris (grandfather) was a native of 
 Maryland who came to Kentucky as before indi- 
 cated. His father Josiah (great-grandfather) was 
 a captain in the Revolutionary war and was mor- 
 tally wounded at the battle of Cowpens. Realizing 
 that he must die, he sent a small breast-pin plate 
 to his wife as a token of his affection and as a 
 souvenir of the battle. This little pin has been 
 held by the family as a great treasure, and was 
 given to the subject of this sketch by his father. 
 The Harris family originally came from England. 
 
 Sallie Wiles King Harris (mother) was born 
 in Cumberland County, November 20, 1820, and 
 was educated at Danville, Kentucky. She mar- 
 ried Josiah Harris January 16, 1839, and died 
 January 16, 1878. She was a devout member of 
 the Christian Church. 
 
 Milton King (grandfather) was born in Albe- 
 marle County, Virginia, May 30, 1801, and came 
 to Kentucky with his parents when a youth. He 
 was circuit clerk of Cumberland County for fifty 
 years to a day. He afterwards removed to Pa- 
 ducah and lived a retired life until October 4, 
 1884, when he died. His wife was Sallie Wiles, 
 daughter of General Wiles of Virginia. She died 
 in 1840. 
 
 Samuel King (great-grandfather) was a Vir- 
 ginian of Welsh extraction. 
 
 Josiah Harris, lawyer of Paducah, who bears, 
 and has honored the name of his father, grand- 
 
 father and great-grandfather, was educated in 
 Columbia, Kentucky, in that excellent school of 
 which John L. McKee was president. He fin- 
 ished his work in the school room at the age of 
 nineteen and entered the law office of King & 
 King of Paducah and attended the law depart- 
 ment of the University of Louisville, graduating 
 from that institution when he was twenty years 
 of age, having taken the full two years' course in 
 one year. He passed a rigid examination con- 
 ducted by Judge Zack Wheat, Governor Thomas 
 E. Bramlette and Judge George W. Kavanaugh 
 and was granted license to practice law when 
 twenty years of age. 
 
 In his first work he was associated with Judge 
 Wintersmith of Louisville, but when the Civil 
 war commenced, he went to New Orleans as pay- 
 master in the shipyards where the Confederate 
 Government was engaged in building gunboats. 
 He remained there until the approach of the 
 fleet under General Ben F. Butler, when he left 
 New Orleans and returned to Paducah. 
 
 When the war was over he resumed the prac- 
 tice of his profession, locating in Paducah. He 
 took a lively interest in politics and became an 
 enthusiastic Prohibitionist; was a candidate for 
 representative in the legislature in 1872 and was 
 defeated; was candidate for state senator in 1876 
 and was again defeated; was elected to the legis- 
 lature for the term of 1883-4; was defeated for 
 re-election in 1885 on account of the anti-whiskey 
 legislation, which he had favored ; was a candidate 
 for attorney general on the Prohibition ticket in 
 1887; was twice a candidate for Congress, in 
 1889 and 1891, and was nominated for governor of 
 Kentucky by the Prohibition party in 1892. He 
 was chairman of the executive committee of his 
 party from 1888 until 1892 and was prominent in 
 all the councils of his party. Mr. Harris is not 
 in politics for revenue or for office, but from 
 principle ; and an occasional defeat does not deter 
 him from trying again, if he may thereby advance 
 the cause which he has so much at heart. 
 
 Mr. Harris was twice married and is now a 
 widower. His first marriage occurred June S, 
 1864, to Cora Endera, daughter of Henry Endera, 
 an early settler of Paducah and one of the first 
 merchants of that city. She was born December 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 19, 1842, and died January 9, 1879. His second 
 marriage was to Mattie Dunn of Livingston 
 County, Kentucky, June 4, 1882. She was a 
 daughter of Captain George Dunn of Smithland. 
 She was born March 28, 1859, and died August 
 10, 1894. He has one daughter, HalHe, the child 
 of his first wife. She was born April i, 1868; 
 married Charles L. Wurtham of Louisville, Jan- 
 uary I, 1889, and is the mother of three children, 
 Cora, Josiah Harris and Summers Wurtham. 
 
 Mr. Harris is a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church and is a highly respected citizen of the 
 city in which he has made his home for nearly 
 a third of a century. 
 
 JOHN P. HOBSON, a leading attorney at 
 law of Elizabethtown, son of Willis W. and 
 Arabella (Boiling) Hobson, was born in Powhat- 
 tan County, Virginia, September 3, 1850. 
 
 His father was a native of the same county, 
 where he is still engaged in farming, and is one 
 of the best citizens of the county. He was a 
 soldier in General Wickham's brigade in the Con- 
 federate army. 
 
 Joseph Hobson (grandfather) and Caleb Hob- 
 son (great-grandfather) were born in Powhattan 
 County, Virginia, where they lived and died. 
 Atwood Hobson (great-great-grandfather) was a 
 native of England, who came to the United States 
 in 1744 and settled in Powhattan County. All of 
 these men were excellent citizens, quiet and un- 
 ostentatious, "diligent in business, fervent spirit, 
 serving the Lord," and no name is more highly 
 honored in the community in which the Hobsons 
 have lived for six or seven generations. 
 
 Arabella Boiling Hobson (mother) was a na- 
 tive of Petersburg, Virginia, a devout member of 
 the Presbyterian Church, in which her husband, 
 Willis W. Hobson, has been an elder for forty-five 
 years, and a lady of exceptional intelligence and 
 purity of character. She died at the age of fifty- 
 five years. May 20, 1882. 
 
 John P. Boiling (maternal grandfather) was 
 born in Amelia County, Virginia, of which he 
 was sherifif at one time. He died in Petersburg, 
 April, i86r. 
 
 John P. Hobson was brought up in Powhattan 
 County, attending the district and private schools 
 
 until he was prepared for college, when he went 
 to the Washington and Lee University, from 
 which he received his diploma signed by Robert 
 E. Lee, in June, 1870. He then came to Ken- 
 tucky and taught school in Lynnland Institute in 
 Hardin County for three years, after which he 
 began the study of law with A. M. Brown of 
 Elizabethtown, and was admitted to the bar in 
 1873. He at once began the practice of his 
 chosen profession in Elizabethtown, and met with 
 almost immediate success, soon taking- rank 
 among the leading lawyers of his section. He 
 has never actively engaged in politics or any out- 
 side business ventures that would prevent him 
 from entire devotion to his legal work. 
 
 Mr. Hobson was married February 25, 1885, 
 to Ella Nourse, daughter of Charles E. Nourse 
 of Elizabethtown; and they have four sons and 
 one daughter: Charles N., Peyton, Mary B., 
 Willis E. and Robert P. Hobson. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Hobson are active members of the Presbyterian 
 Church. 
 
 CHARLES E. HOGE, Cashier of the State 
 National Bank of Frankfort, and a mem- 
 ber of the large contracting firm of Mason, Hoge 
 & Company, was born in Albemarle County, 
 Virginia, May 5, 1845. 
 
 His father. Rev. Peter C. Hoge, was a native of 
 Augusta County, Virginia, and a graduate of a 
 Virginia college. For ten or twelve years he 
 was a Presbyterian minister, but left that denom- 
 ination and was for many years a distinguished 
 preacher in the Baptist Church, in which he 
 labored successfully. He was a man of high 
 character and a preacher of more than ordinary 
 power and was well known and highly esteemed 
 throughout his state. He removed from Augusta 
 to Albemarle County in 1844 and made his home 
 there until his death in 1876, at the age of sixty- 
 six years. 
 
 Captain James Hoge (grandfather) was a na- 
 tive of Scotland who came to the United States 
 when he was qutie young and served as a captain 
 in the war of the Revolution, following which he 
 located on a farm in Augusta County, Virginia, 
 near Staunton, where he died in 1812. A brother 
 of Charles E. Hoge has in his possession a num- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 ber of letters written by General Washington to 
 Captain Hoge (grandfather), from which it is 
 seen that he was a man of worth, a soldier and a 
 patriot who was held in the highest esteem by 
 General Washington. The Hoge family in Scot- 
 land trace their ancestry back for several cen- 
 turies. 
 
 Sarah Keer Hoge (mother) was a native of Au- 
 gusta County, Virginia, and a faithful member of 
 the Baptist Church. She died in Albemarle 
 County, Virginia, in 1872, four years prior to the 
 death of her husband. 
 
 Charles E. Hoge remained in his native county 
 until he was twenty-three years of age, receiving 
 his education principally in the high school for 
 boys in Scottsville, Virginia, taught by Professor 
 David Pinckney Powers, an eminent educator of 
 his day. It was Mr. Hoge's intention to prepare 
 for the medical profession, but this purpose was 
 interfered with by the Civil war, and in 1863 he 
 enlisted as a private in Braxton's battalion of 
 artillery. Soon after his enlistment he was de- 
 tailed for duty as quartermaster's clerk, in which 
 capacity he served until the final surrender at 
 Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865. 
 
 Returning to his home, he formed a co-part- 
 nership with General James C. Hill, of Confed- 
 erate fame, and J. I. Lewis, a capitalist, and 
 engaged in a general mercantile business in 
 Scottsville. In connection with this business the 
 firm operated a line of canal boats between Lynch- 
 burg and Richmond. The business of the firm 
 prospered beyond their expectations, but Mr. 
 Hoge withdrew from the firm in July, 1868, and 
 went to Augusta County, Virginia, where most 
 of his relatives lived, and embarked in the whole- 
 sale grocery business in Staunton, Virginia, in 
 which he is still the senior partner of the firm 
 of Hoge & Hutchinson. 
 
 In 1870 he became a partner of Captain C. R. 
 Mason of Virginia, one of the largest railroad 
 contractors in the south, under the firm name of 
 Mason & Hoge. Their first contract in which 
 Mr. Hoge was interested was for the building 
 of the "Big Fill" at Jerry's Run on the Chesa- 
 peake & Ohio Railroad, seven miles east of White 
 Sulphur Springs. This is probably the largest 
 fill in the world, containing over one million 
 
 cubic yards. They also built the Lewis Tunnel 
 on that road, which is four thousand four hun- 
 dred feet in length. 
 
 In 1872 H. P. and S. B. Mason, sons of the 
 senior member of the firm, were admitted to part- 
 nership in the company and the name was changed 
 to Mason, Hoge & Company. On the death of 
 Captain Mason in 1885, the business was con- 
 tinued by his sons and Mr. Hoge without change 
 in the style of the firm. To give an idea of the 
 magnitude of the business of this enterprising- 
 company, mention is made of a few of their larger 
 contracts: They built the Elizabeth, Lexington 
 & Big Sandy Railroad ; the extension of the Ken- 
 tucky Central from Paris to Livingston, Ken- 
 tucky, a distance of thirty-three miles; the Mays- 
 ville and Big Sandy Railroad from Ashland to 
 Cincinnati, including the (now C. & O.) bridge 
 over the Ohio river between Covington and Cin- 
 cinnati ; the Corbin extension of the Louisville & 
 Nashville Railroad through Pineville and Mid- 
 dlesboro, including the Cumberland Gap tunnel, 
 also eighteen miles of road between that tunnel 
 and Big Stone Gap for the same company; the 
 Ohio & Atlantic from Bristol, Tennessee, to Big 
 Stone Gap; the Louisville Southern Railroad 
 from Louisville to Harrodsburg; the Kentucky 
 Midland from Frankfort to Paris, a distance of 
 forty miles; a section of twenty-six miles of the 
 Norfolk & Western Railroad between Bluefield, 
 Virginia, and Kenova, West Virginia, including 
 one or two sections on the Ohio side of the river ; 
 they had a large contract with William H. Van- 
 derbilt on the South Pennsylvania Railroad, and 
 after doing work to the amount of over half a 
 million dollars the contract was terminated by tlae 
 sale of the road to the Pennsylvania Central Rail- 
 road Company. Their present contract, one of 
 the largest they have ever undertaken, is for the 
 building of six miles of the Chicago Drainage 
 Canal, the work upon which will approximate five 
 million dollars. 
 
 In August, 1889, the State National Bank of 
 Frankfort, Kentucky, was organized, with a cap- 
 ital of $150,000, the stock of which was taken 
 by subscription in twenty-four hours. General 
 Fayette Flewett, then auditor of state, was elected 
 president, and Mr. Charles E. Hoge, the subject 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 of this sketch, was made cashier. H. P. Mason, 
 of the same firm, was elected vice president. The 
 bank has flourished ever since its organization 
 and there has been no change in its officers. 
 
 Mr. Hoge is also a stockholder and director in 
 the Safety Vault & Trust Company of Frankfort, 
 and a stockholder in the Kentucky Building & 
 Loan Association of Frankfort. His interest in 
 the wholesale grocery house of Hoge & Hutch- 
 inson at Staunton, Virginia, is looked after by the 
 resident partner. He has made his home in 
 Frankfort since 1882 and is identified with the 
 material, social, political and religious interests of 
 the city. He is a member and generous supporter 
 of the Presbyterian Church, and a willing, cheer- 
 ful helper in every good cause. 
 
 Mr. Hoge was married October 14, 1868, to 
 Anne B. French, daughter of Stephen French of 
 Prince William County, Virginia; and they have 
 two sons and three daughters: Stephen F., 
 Evelyne B., Hildred Merrill, Mary Kerr and 
 Percy Echols. The eldest son, Stephen F. Hoge, 
 graduated third in his class from the Virginia 
 Military Institute, with the degree of Civil En- 
 gineer, in 1891, and is now a member of the firm 
 of Mason, Hoge & Company, in charge of a 
 branch of the work on the Chicago Drainage 
 Canal. 
 
 DOCTOR J. OLIVER JENKINS, of New- 
 port, Kentucky, one of the leading and 
 most successful members of the medical profes- 
 sion of that city, is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 Born August 8, 1851; son of William and Le- 
 marian (Mann) Jenkins. William Jenkins was 
 born in Bristol, England, and came here with his 
 parents to the United States in 1820. In 1846 
 William Jenkins removed to Cincinnati, which has 
 been his home ever since. William Jenkins is 
 now seventy-nine years of age, has always been 
 a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
 a Republican in politics. In his early manhood 
 he learned the trade of tanning, which he carried 
 on, in connection with his father and brothers, 
 for a number of years. 
 
 John Jenkins (grandfather) was also a native 
 of England, who, after his arrival in this country 
 in 1820, located with his family at Newark, N. J., 
 
 whence he removed in 1824 to Northern Pennsyl- 
 vania, where he remained until the time of his 
 death, which occurred in 1858. William Jenkins 
 wedded Lemarian Mann, a native of Cincinnati, 
 in 1850. 
 
 Dr. James O. Jenkins spent his youth in his 
 native city and was educated in the public schools. 
 After leaving school in 1869 he commenced to 
 learn the trade of electro-plating, but gave it up 
 soon on account of ill-health. After recovering 
 his health he was employed as assistant librarian 
 for a number of years in the "Public Libraiy of 
 Cincinnati," and during that time he occupied his 
 spare moments in the study of medicine. In the 
 fall of 1873 he entered the Ohio Medical College. 
 In 1880 he again returned to the Ohio Medical 
 College, and after two years of study was gradu- 
 ated with honors from that well-known institution, 
 in the class of 1882. He immediately located in 
 Newport, Kentucky, where he has since prac- 
 ticed and earned a reputation as one of the most 
 successful general practitioners in Northern Ken- 
 tucky. Dr. Jenkins is a member of the State Med- 
 ical Society and of the Mississippi Valley Medical 
 Association, and is a contributor to some of the 
 leading medical journals of the country. 
 
 He was married in 1883 to Mary A. Clark, 
 daughter of John Clark, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and 
 they have one son suid two daughters: Robert 
 C, Ruth L., and Grace, one daughter, Helen, hav- 
 ing died of pneumonia October 4, 1886. 
 
 Dr. Jenkins is Democratic in politics, and after 
 the organization of the Board of Health of New- 
 port, in 1892, he was one of its first members. 
 He has always taken an active and conspicuous 
 part in the cause of education, and in 1893 was 
 elected president of the Board of Education of 
 the City of Newport for a term of two years, end- 
 ing December 31, 1895. 
 
 MAJOR J. PAUL JONES, a prominent 
 farmer of Boyd County, near Ashland, 
 and a distinguished and influential citizen of the 
 county, was bom in Uniontown, Fayette County, 
 Pennsylvania, September 30, 1823. 
 
 His father, Edward Jones, was a native of Mer- 
 thyr-Tydvil, Glamorganshire, South Wales, who 
 came to America and settled in Uniontown, Penn- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 sylvania, where he lived for a period of twenty- 
 five years, when he started to return to his old 
 home on a visit, but was lost in the "President," 
 a ship which went down in mid-ocean. His 
 father was a native of Wales. 
 
 Sarah Howell Jones (mother), a native of the 
 same neighborhood in Wales, removed to Madi- 
 son, Wisconsin, after her husband's death, and 
 made her home there until her death. She and 
 her husband were members of the Baptist 
 Church. 
 
 J. Paul Jones received a good education in col- 
 lege in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, completing his 
 literary studies in 1842. He then began the 
 study of medicine, but through the influence of a 
 friend, he was induced to accept a position as man- 
 ager of a furnace for William Lindsay Pogue, at 
 Amanda, which position he held for two or three 
 years. In 1840 he resumed the study of medi- 
 cine. Returning to Amanda, and having mar- 
 ried a daughter of his former employer, he en- 
 gaged in business with his father-in-law, and 
 took an active part in the management of the 
 business for several years. He then went to farm- 
 ing in Greenup (now Boyd) County. 
 
 In 1861 he entered the Union army as captain 
 of cavalry, but was transferred to the position of 
 regimental quartermaster, in which capacity he 
 served for several months, and then returned to 
 his home and recruited a battalion of six com- 
 panies for the Twenty-second Regiment of Ken- 
 tucky State troops. He was made major and was 
 in command of the battalion until the close of the 
 war. The principal work of his command was 
 skirmishing and fighting guerrillas, one of the 
 most difficult and annoying duties a soldier is 
 called upon to perform. In this case it was very 
 necessary, and the work of Colonel Jones' com- 
 mand was of the highest importance. 
 
 After the close of the war Major Jones re- 
 turned to his farm, which had in the meantime 
 been under the capable management of his esti- 
 mable wife, and has given it his undivided atten- 
 tion until the present time. Unlike many sol- 
 diers of distinction and men of education and 
 marked ability, Major Jones has never aspired to 
 political preferment. Intensely a Union man in 
 his sentiments during the war, he has affiliated 
 
 with the Democratic party during the past thirty 
 years, and could have had almost any favor in the 
 gift of the people merely by indicating his willing- 
 ness to accept. He is a prominent member of the 
 Grand Army of the Republic, and takes a deep in- 
 terest in the affairs of veteran soldiers. 
 
 Major Jones was married February 2, 1846, to 
 Anna Amanda Pogue, daughter of William L. 
 Pogue. She was born May 24, 1829, and re- 
 ceived a superior education in a seminary at 
 Steubenville, Ohio, and was a lady of rare accom- 
 plishments. She was, among other things which 
 distinguished her as a lady of great strength of 
 character, an accomplished equestrienne, and 
 could ride any horse she ever saw. During her 
 husband's absence in the army, she conducted the 
 business of the farm with excellent business tact, 
 without neglecting her household or social duties. 
 She died on the i6th day of September following 
 Major Jones' return from the war. Her father, 
 William L. Pogue, was one of the first white men 
 born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. He died in 
 Ashland, March 31, 1881. His wife, Ann Mc- 
 Cormick, was a native of Richmond, Virginia. 
 
 The children of Major and Anna Amanda Pogue 
 Jones were: Anna Amanda, deceased; SalHe 
 Flournoy, Robert William, Fannie Wells, Har- 
 riet Milton, Mary Louisa, Lottie Culver, and 
 Lindsay, who died in infancy. 
 
 WASHINGTON FITHIAN, M. D., physi- 
 cian and surgeon, was born January 8, 
 1825, in Salem County, New Jersey. His parents 
 were Joel and Sarah Dick (Sinickson) Fithian. 
 His father. Dr. Joel Fithian, was a native of New 
 Jersey; in 1831, moved to Oxford, Ohio, and fol- 
 lowed the medical profession through life. His 
 mother was the daughter of Andrew Sinickson, 
 of New Jersey; and members of both families 
 were officers or soldiers in the War of the Revo- 
 lution, and were among the early settlers in New 
 Jersey. The subject of this sketch received a lib- 
 eral education, mainly at Miami University, at 
 Oxford, Ohio, where he graduated in 1845. I" 
 that year he began the study of medicine; pre- 
 pared for his profession under his father, at Ox- 
 ford; attended lectures regularly, and graduated 
 in the Ohio College of Medicine, at Cincinnati, 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 in 1848. In the same year he located at North 
 Middletown, Kentucky, and entered upon the 
 practice of his profession. He established a valu- 
 able and successful practice at North Middletown, 
 and remained there fifteen years. He spent a 
 part of the year 1863 in Shelby ville, and in 1864 
 removed to Paris, where he has given his time 
 and best energies to his profession, to which he 
 is greatly attached, and in which he occupies an 
 enviable position. He is a member of the Lick- 
 ing Valley Medical Society; has contributed with 
 his pen to the medical literature'of the day; and, 
 by his practice, writings and example, has been an 
 advocate of the most elevated standard for the 
 noble profession. In politics he is an independ- 
 ent voter. His first presidential vote was for Gen- 
 eral Taylor, and he voted with the Whig party 
 during its existence. At the election preceding 
 the war he voted for Bell and Everett. During 
 the Rebellion he was an earnest Union man, and 
 was several months a surgeon in the Federal 
 army. He is associated with the Methodist 
 Church, and has been distinguished for his great 
 integrity of character through life and his excep- 
 tional personal, social and professional habits. 
 He was married in September, 1850, to Lucinda, 
 daughter of Reubin Hutchcraft, of Bourbon 
 County. 
 
 FAYETTE HEWITT, president of the State 
 National Bank of Frankfort, is descended 
 from an old French Huguenot family of that 
 name who settled on the James River, in Virginia, 
 in 1689. His mother, Eliza Chastain, was also 
 a descendant of French Protestant refugees who 
 were driven from France during the bloody reign 
 of Louis XIV., when, by his order, the Edict of 
 Nantes was revoked in 1685, forty thousand of 
 the Huguenots left their native country and set- 
 tled in the American provinces. This country 
 has never had better citizens than those sturdy 
 Huguenots and their descendants. Many thou- 
 sands of them are among the most prominent peo- 
 ple — in the pulpit, at the bar, and in the halls of 
 legislature, and there is no record to show that 
 any one of them has ever disgraced himself, his 
 ancestors or his country. 
 
 General Fayette Hewitt's father, Robert Hewitt, 
 
 was a native of Bedford County, Virginia, who 
 came to Kentucky in 1829. He was for many 
 years principal of an academy at Elizabethtown, 
 Hardin County, and was a man of fine scholarly 
 attainments, who enjoyed a high reputation as an 
 educator. He devoted his life to teaching, but 
 died at the early age of thirty-nine years, in 1850. 
 
 John Hewitt (grandfather) was a native and 
 farmer of Bedford County, Virginia. He was a 
 highly respected citizen, and in the War of 1812 
 he served his country well at the head of his 
 regiment. He died in his native county, in 1841. 
 
 Eliza Chastadn Hewitt (mother) was a native 
 of Frederick County, Virginia; daughter of Rev. 
 Louis Chastain, one of the early ministers in the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, in Virginia, who 
 was sent to Kentucky for the purpose of organ- 
 izing and building up churches. Mrs. Hewitt 
 survived her husband, residing in Elizabethtown 
 until the day of her death, in 1876. 
 
 General Hewitt was born in Hardin (now La- 
 rue) County, Kentucky, near the birthplace of 
 Abraham Lincoln, October 15, 1831. He re- 
 ceived his early education under the careful in- 
 struction of his father, who died when Fayette 
 was eighteen years of age. He at once succeeded 
 his father as principal of the school and continued 
 the academy for ten years, fully sustaining the 
 high standard of the school, and making for him- 
 self a reputation as one of the most competent 
 educators in the State. He was compelled to re- 
 sign in 1859, on account of failing health, and 
 went south for the purpose of recuperating. 
 
 In i860 he received an appointment in the 
 Postoffice Department at Washington, under 
 President Buchanan. This he resigned in March, 
 1 86 1, and soon afterwards was appointed adjutant- 
 general under President Davis of the Confederacy. 
 He served in this capacity in the trans-Mississippi 
 department and with General Breckenridge as ad- 
 jutant-general of a brigade, enduring all manner 
 of hardships and suflerings in behalf of the cause 
 that was lost. He had three horses killed under 
 him, in different battles, and several bullets 
 pierced his clothing, but he escaped unhurt. He 
 participated in many bloody battles throughout 
 the war, and distinguished himself as a daring, 
 gallant and fearless soldier. 
 
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 When he returned home it had been his inten- 
 tion to practice law, but the Kentucky legislature 
 had passed a law that no one who had been a 
 soldier in the Confederate army should practice 
 law in the State, and he resumed the profession of 
 teacher, taking charge of a select female school 
 at Elizabethtown. When the law prohibiting him 
 from practicing was repealed, a year later, he was 
 at once admitted to the bar of Hardin County, 
 and made a successful beginning in the legal pro- 
 fession; but in 1867 Governor Stevenson appoint- 
 ed him quartermaster general, which office he held 
 until 1876, when he resigned and returned to 
 Elizabethtown with the intention of practicing 
 law; but on account of the death of his brother, 
 in Louisville, he removed to that city to settle the 
 estate. 
 
 In August, 1879, he was elected State auditor, 
 and assumed the duties of that office January i, 
 1880. He was twice re-elected State auditor, and 
 held that office until November, 1889, when he 
 resigned to accept the presidency of the State 
 National Bank of Frankfort, since which time he 
 has given his attention to the affairs of that bank 
 and to other financial matters, having been presi- 
 dent of the Frankfort Safety Vault & Trust Com- 
 pany since its organization, and being general 
 manager of the Kentucky Investment & Building 
 Association. 
 
 Virgil Hewitt, brother of the general, was ad- 
 jutant of the Sixth Regiment Kentucky Infantry, 
 C. S. A., in the brigade of General Joseph H. 
 Lewis; and was severely wounded a number of 
 times in the hard-fought battles of Tennessee and 
 Georgia. He was county clerk of Hardin County 
 and deputy clerk of the Court of Appeals, and as- 
 sistant auditor of State until January, 1896. An- 
 other brother. Fox Hewitt, participated in some 
 of the battles around Richmond, and after the 
 war was clerk of the County Court of Hardin 
 County. 
 
 JOSEPH FITHIAN, a member of the med- 
 ical firm of W. and J. Fithian, and an hon- 
 ored and substantial citizen of Paris, was bom 
 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 18, 
 1830. He removed to Oxford, Ohio, with his 
 
 father's family when he was quite young and was 
 educated in the Miami University, at that place, 
 which, at that time, was one of the leading edu- 
 cational institutions in the country. 
 
 He read medicine with his father, who was one 
 of the most noted physicians of Oxford, and at- 
 tended Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, 
 from which he was graduated in 1854. 
 
 In the same year he located in North Middle- 
 town, Bourbon County, and began the practice of 
 medicine and continued there with excellent suc- 
 cess until 1861, when he went to Missouri, re- 
 maining there but a short time. 
 
 He served in the Union army for three and a 
 half years as surgeon of the Eighteenth Regiment 
 Kentucky Infantry, and during that time was fre- 
 quently detailed as brigade and division surgeon. 
 
 Following the close of the war he resumed his 
 professional work in North Middletown and prac- 
 ticed with marked success in that vicinity until 
 1871, when he removed to Paris. Here he soon 
 took a leading position among the most eminent 
 physicians of the city and county, a position which 
 he has maintained without a question as to his 
 professional ability or his high social standing. 
 
 A scholarly and highly cultured gentleman, he 
 is deeply interested in the cause of education, and 
 has been a member of the Board of Education 
 ever since its organization in 1874, and is now its 
 president. 
 
 He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and 
 was elected to represent Ebenezer Presbytery in 
 the General Assembly, which met in Saratoga, 
 in 1883. 
 
 Dr. Fithian was married December 23, 1856, 
 to Emma K. Owen, daughter of G. W. Owen, of 
 Bourbon County; and they have three children: 
 Dr. Frank Fithian, a successful young physician, 
 of Paris, and two daughters, Nellie and Georgia. 
 
 Dr. Joseph Fithian's father, Joel Fithian, M. 
 D., was a native of Cumberland County, New Jer- 
 sey, and a graduate of Pennsylvania University. 
 His principal work as a physician was performed 
 at Oxford, Ohio, in which place he located in 
 1831, and where he spent the remainder of a use- 
 ful life. 
 
 Amos Fithian (grandfather) was a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary War; and his brother, Philip Vic- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 tor Fithian, a Presbyterian minister, was a chap- 
 lain in the patriot army. 
 
 According to tradition, the Fithian family came 
 from Kent County, England, where some of the 
 members lived as long ago as 1648. In 1683 
 William Fithian, the progenitor of the family in 
 the United States, located at Easthampton, Long 
 Island, where his will is recorded. Whether he 
 was the grandfather or great-grandfather of Amos 
 Fithian, who was Dr. Joseph Fithian's grand- 
 father, is not definitely known. 
 
 Sarah Dick Sinickson Fithian (mother) was a 
 daughter of Thomas Sinickson, of New Jersey, 
 who was a captain in the Revolutionary War, 
 and was in the battle of Princeton. Her uncle. 
 Colonel Sinickson, of the patriot army, made him- 
 self so conspicuous and so obnoxious to the op- 
 posing authorities that Lord Howe ofifered a re- 
 ward of one hundred pounds for his apprehension, 
 dead or alive. Colonel Sinickson and another 
 uncle of Mrs. Fithian were members of the Con- 
 stitutional Congress. 
 
 Andrew Sinickson, the original founder of the 
 distinguished family in America, came to this 
 country with a Swedish colony under Peter Min- 
 uet, which settled near Chester, Pennsylvania. 
 Andrew Sinickson afterwards removed to Salem 
 County, in that State, and entered a tract of land 
 the title to which remains in the family to this day. 
 
 W HOWARD McCORKLE, the junior 
 member of the well-known dry goods 
 firm of McMichael & McCorkle, of Lexington, 
 was born in Lexington, Virginia, May 9, 1861. 
 He received his education in the country schools 
 of Rockbridge County and in the classical schools 
 of Lexington, Virginia, conducted by Jacob Ful- 
 ler and Henry B. Jones, captain of Liberty Hall 
 Volunteers, and at Washington and Lee Uni- 
 versity. Leaving there in 1879 he located in New 
 York City, where he was engaged in the cotton 
 commission business until 1883, when he came 
 to Lexington, Kentucky. Here he engaged in 
 stock raising until 1887, when, in the fall of that 
 year, he became a member of the above-men- 
 tioned firm, wholesale and retail dealers in dry 
 goods. Mr, McCorkle is a Democrat in politics 
 
 and a member of the Board of Aldermen. He 
 was first elected to that body, in 1893, and was 
 made chairman of the Joint Ways and Means 
 Committee. He is also a member of the Board 
 of School Trustees. 
 
 In November, 1887, he was united in marriage 
 to Sarah B. McMichael, a native of Lexington, 
 and a graduate of Hamilton College. She is a 
 daughter of Robert McMichael, one of the oldest 
 and most highly respected business men of Lex- 
 ington. V 
 
 Alexander McCorkle, the founder of the Mc- 
 Corkle family in Rockbridge County, was a na- 
 tive of Ulster Province, Ireland. He settled in 
 the Colony of Virginia in 1760, and wedded Mary 
 Steels. His son, Samuel McCorkle, was an act- 
 ive participant in the War of the Revolution. His 
 wife was Margaret McCullum. John McCorkle, 
 a brother of Samuel, was an ensign in Capt. 
 James Gilmore's company of militia from Rock- 
 bridge County that marched to meet Tarleton's 
 raiders in South Carolina. In the battle of* the 
 Cowpens, which followed, he received a wound 
 in the wrist, which, owing to the fearfully cold 
 weather, resulted in lock-jaw and death. He is 
 said to have been buried near McCowan's Ford, 
 in North Carolina. 
 
 The following notice of the death of W. How- 
 ard McCorkle's father, a sketch of his family, ap- 
 peared in the Rockbridge County (Virginia) 
 News: 
 
 "William H. McCorkle, an old and highly re- 
 spected citizen of Rockbridge, died at his home, 
 three miles southeast of Lexington, Tuesday 
 morning, at eight o'clock. He had been in quite 
 infirm health for some time, but his death, at this 
 time, was not anticipated. He was bom in No- 
 vember, 1819, and was a son of William McCor- 
 kle, who lived upon and owned the fanii on which 
 William H. McCorkle lived and died. This place 
 has belonged to the family for several generations, 
 and is the very first deed that appeared on the 
 records of the county after it was founded in 1778. 
 
 "His grandfather was Samuel McCorkle, one 
 of the first grand jurors of this county, who, with 
 his two brothers, John and William, and their 
 father, were pioneer settlers in the hill country, 
 southeast of Lexington, and there, since 1760, 
 
W. H. McCORKLE. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 their descendants have lived. His mother was 
 Nancy Welch, of Fancy Hill neighborhood. 
 Mr. McCorkle married Virginia Wilson, daugh- 
 ter of the late James Wilson, Sr., of Buffalo, who 
 survives him with five sons and one daughter: 
 Charles E., who resides at the old home; Walter 
 E., a lawyer of New York City ; Reverend Dr. E. 
 W., of Clifton Forge; and W. Howard, of Lex- 
 ington, Kentucky. Mrs. John T. Dunlop, of 
 Rockbridge, and Henry, the youngest son, are 
 also at home. Mr. McCorkle was a thrifty and 
 industrious farmer, a good citizen, exemplary 
 Christian, and a man of exceptionally fine com- 
 mon sense. He gave his children the best op- 
 portunities, and lived to be paid for his exertions 
 in their behalf, by the success and by the hon- 
 orable position he saw them attain." 
 
 W. Howard McCorkle, since his residence in 
 Lexington, Kentucky, has identified himself with 
 the business interests of the city, and by his uni- 
 form suave and genial manners, his courtesy and 
 manly bearing towards all, has won for himself a 
 host of friends and an enviable position among 
 the leading citizens of Lexington. 
 
 Mr. McCorkle's father was connected with the 
 Civil Service of the Confederate States, and, 
 though past the required age, marched at different 
 times with the Home Guards to meet the enemy. 
 His kinsmen in both lines, as officers and privates, 
 served as soldiers under Lee, Stonewall Jackson 
 and J. E. B. Stuart, many of them were killed, 
 wounded and imprisoned. 
 
 JAMES R. W. SMITH, a prominent attorney 
 and acting judge of the Louisville City 
 Court, was born in New Albany, Indiana, August 
 28, 1842. His father, 'Major Isaac P. Smith, was 
 a native of Springfield, New Jersey, who removed 
 to New Albany in 1835. He was an architect and 
 builder and was appointed architect and super- 
 intendent of the State Prison at Jeffersonville. 
 He built the county jail and the city hall in New 
 Albany and was architect and builder of many of 
 the finest buildings in that city. During the Civil 
 war he was quartermaster of the Twenty-third In- 
 diana regiment until the organization of the Sev- 
 enteenth Army Corps, when he was detailed by 
 
 General James B. McPherson as acting assistant 
 quartermaster general of transportation on Gen- 
 eral McPherson's staff, and served in that posi- 
 tion until the death of General McPherson at 
 Atlanta. After the war he held an important 
 position in the quartermaster's department in Jef- 
 fersonville until within a short time before his 
 death, which occurred January 7, 1887, when 
 he was eighty years of age. Major Smith was a 
 member of the Second Presbyterian Church of 
 New Albany for many years and a resident of 
 the city for over fifty years before his death. 
 
 Abby H. Campbell Smith (mother) was a na- 
 tive of Newark, New Jersey, and is now a resident 
 of New Albany, greatly advanced in years; a 
 member of the Second Presbyterian Church and 
 a lady of education and refinement, beloved by a 
 large circle of devoted friends, and noted for her 
 deeds of charity. 
 
 Judge James R. W. Smith spent his boyhood 
 in New Albany attending the public schools and 
 finishing his preparatory education in a celebrated 
 academy, of which Professor O. V. Tousley was 
 principal. 
 
 He then began the study of law in the office of 
 Judge David W. La Follette, and after reading 
 with him for two years, went to the Cincinnati 
 Law College and was graduated with the first 
 honor of his class, April 19th, 1865. Since May 
 1st, of the same year, he has been a practitioner of 
 the Louisville bar. 
 
 He has represented the Eleventh Ward in the 
 Louisville School Board a number of terms be- 
 ginning in 1876. In 1883 he was elected state 
 senator for a term of four years from the Thirty- 
 eighth senatorial district, comprising the Eighth 
 and Twelfth Wards inclusive. In this capacity 
 Judge Smith distinguished himself as a man of 
 ability and of the highest integrity, taking a very 
 active part in all measures of importance, and not 
 caring for a law committee, was made chairman 
 of the railroad committee. He was state senator 
 during the memorable senatorial contest for a 
 caucus nomination for United States senator be- 
 tween Hon. John S. Williams and Hon. J. C. S. 
 Blackburn, and made a reputation as a man of 
 firmness and individual opinion by refusing to 
 change his vote from "Old Cerro Gordo Wil- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Hams" to Blackburn, though petitioned to do so 
 by his constituents in an immense petition. 
 
 When the new city charter for Louisville was 
 adopted, providing the judge of the Pohce Court 
 should have a vacation during the months of July 
 and August each year, and authorizing the mayor 
 to appoint a judge to preside during the absence 
 of the judge of the Court, Mayor Tyler appointed 
 Judge Smith to this important position, which he 
 filled with signal ability during the months of 
 July and August, 1894 and 1895, and many times 
 in the absence of the regular judge He demon- 
 strated his fitness for the office by just and fearless 
 rulings, and by an adminstration of the law with- 
 out fear or favor for the protection of the people 
 against crime, criminals and deeds of violence. 
 The criminal was punished and crime suppressed, 
 while justice was tempered with mercy to the 
 youthful offender or those guilty of a first offense 
 or deserving mercy. The criminal and habitual 
 law breakers were very shy of the Police Court 
 when Judge Smith was on the bench; and he 
 made for himself a reputation as a criminal judge 
 that is not confined to Louisville, but known and 
 recognized throughout the country. The cele- 
 brated detective, William Pinkerton, when in 
 Louisville, visited the Police Court and expressed 
 the opinion that "Judge Smith was one of the best 
 men for such a position he knew and that no 
 thieves would come to the city with him on the 
 bench." 
 
 Judge Smith was married October 21, 1869, 
 to Anna E. Baldwin of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. 
 Smith is a graduate of Glendale Female College 
 of Glendale, Ohio, and a lady of considerable 
 literary ability. She is a member and president of 
 Ladies' Missionary Society of Covenant Presby- 
 terian Church of Louisville, and member of La- 
 dies' Board of Managers of Presbyterian Orphan 
 Asylum, and also corresponding secretary of the 
 Synodical Missionary Society of Kentucky. 
 
 Judge Smith is in politics a Democrat, though 
 of conservative tendencies, and has taken a promi- 
 nent part in nearly every state and national con- 
 test since he came to Kentucky, his services being 
 in demand in political campaigns. As a public 
 speaker he has been a logician or argumentative 
 speaker, or dealer in facts and figures, instead 
 
 of a rhetorician. He prefers the law to politics, 
 and declined public positions in the consular ser- 
 vice or that would take him away from Louisville. 
 Judge Smith was raised in the Presbyterian 
 Church, both of his parents having been members 
 of that church over fifty years. He is a member 
 of no secret orders except the Louisville Lodge 
 of Elks and Cherokee Tribe, Improved Order of 
 Red Men, of Louisville. He has always resided 
 in one locality in the Eleventh Ward in Louisville 
 and been popular with the people, though fear- 
 less, outspoken and frank in his opinions. 
 
 STEPHEN GIRARD KINNER, Circuit 
 Judge of the Twentieth Judicial District, 
 residing in Catlettsburg, was born in Lawrence 
 County, Kentucky, July 20, 1848. 
 
 His father, H. H. Kinner, was also born in that 
 county, February 12, 1825, and was a merchant 
 and lumber dealer in the Sandy Valley. During 
 the war he took no active part, but he openly 
 expressed his sympathy with the Confederacy. 
 He was an old line Whig as long as that party 
 was in existence and he then became a Demo- 
 crat, taking great interest in political matters, 
 but seeking no office. He was a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, South; a Mason 
 and one of the best citizens; died, January 3, 1893. 
 
 David Kinner (grandfather) was born in the 
 southwestern part of Virginia, October 18, 1800, 
 and came to Lawrence County, where he followed 
 farming; married Mary Stewart of Virginia: 
 died July 29, 1851. Plis ancestors came from 
 England. 
 
 Mehaha Curnutte Kinner (mother) was born 
 February 6, 1830; married David Kinner, De- 
 cember 2, 1846, and is now living in Boyd County, 
 near Catlettsburg. Her father, Reuben Curnutte, 
 was born in Virginia, January 18, 1793; came to 
 Lawrence County and was one of the leading 
 farmers and stock raisers of that county. He be- 
 longed to the old Whig party; was a member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church and was a prom- 
 inent and influential citizen. The Curnuttes be- 
 longed to an old Virginia family of Welsh 
 extraction. 
 
 Judge S. G. Kinner was educated in the com- 
 mon schools of Boyd County; at South Bend, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 Indiana, in 1866; Center College, Danville, in 
 1867, and in the Ohio Wesleyan University at 
 Delaware, Ohio, in 1868-9; entered the law office 
 of Ireland & Hampton, Catlettsburg, Kentucky, 
 in 1870, and was admitted to the bar in 1872; 
 began the practice of law without an associate; 
 formed a partnership with Hon. K. F. Pritchard, 
 one of the most eminent jurists of the state, and 
 was associated with him from 1878 to 1880. In 
 1874 he was elected county attorney, in which 
 capacity he served four years in connection with a 
 growing practice; in 1880 was elected common- 
 wealth attorney of the Sixteenth Judicial Dis- 
 trict; re-elected in 1886, and, at the expiration 
 of his second term in 1892, was elected circuit 
 judge of the district for a term of five years. In 
 his second race for commonwealth attorney, he 
 was accorded the nomination without opposition 
 in his own party; nor did the Republican party 
 nominate a candidate against him. He received 
 the unanimous nomination for circuit judge and 
 was elected without opposition. He is a fine 
 lawyer, an able jurist and a highly honored and 
 respected citizen; a prominent Mason and Odd 
 Fellow, and a member of the Methodist Church, 
 South. 
 
 On the 14th of September, 1870, he married 
 Ceres Wellman, daughter of Zerelda (Bowen) and 
 Jeremiah Wellman of Wayne County, West Vir- 
 ginia. She was born in that county, July 24, 
 1847, ^"d was educated in the best schools of 
 the county. They have four children: Mary, 
 born November 14, 1871 ; Lute Belle, born Jan- 
 uary 24, 1877; Ceres, born August 22, 1881, and 
 Sallie, born March 27, 1885. 
 
 HENRY L. KREMER, wharfmaster, Louis- 
 ville, Kentucky, was born in that city, Sep- 
 tember 3, 1858, and is a son of Annie (Hendricks) 
 and the late Charles Kremer, who was wharf- 
 master in Louisville for twenty-seven years prior 
 to his death, December 6, 1893. 
 
 Charles Kremer was born in Louisville in 1830, 
 on the present site of the Louisville Hotel. His 
 parents were well-to-do Germans of the Catholic 
 religion. He was educated in the parochial 
 schools and accepted the religion of his father, 
 to which he adhered faithfully during all of his 
 
 life. He learned the trade of coppersmith, but 
 was ambitious and energetic and did not long 
 confine himself to the narrow limits of the shop, 
 but soon became a leader in local politics. He 
 was a man of fine intellect, good judgment and 
 wide influence; and he naturally drifted into polit- 
 ical life, not merely for revenue, but because of 
 the interest he manifested in the progress of the 
 city. His popularity was attested by his election 
 and often repeated re-election to the office of 
 wharfmaster, a position of trust and responsi- 
 bility in which he faithfully served the public until 
 the day of his death. He was devoted to his 
 family and was kind and indulgent to his chil- 
 dren and a true and stanch friend and neighbor. 
 
 Henry Kremer (grandfather) was a native of 
 Germany, who came to the United States, landing 
 in Baltimore when he was a boy and subsequently 
 coming to Louisville, where he married Mary 
 Markley, a native of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 
 who came to Louisville on a flat boat in 1820. 
 He was a dealer in feed and grain and a man of 
 influence, particularly with the German element 
 of society. 
 
 Annie Hendricks Kremer (mother) is a native 
 of Louisville, daughter of James Hendricks, who 
 was born in Ireland and came to Louisville in 
 the '20's. He was a fine machinist and iron 
 worker, and was for a long time connected with 
 the Coleman rolling mill until it suspended oper- 
 ation. He is still a resident of Louisville and 
 very active for a man of eighty-six years of age. 
 
 Henry L. Kremer was educated in the Louis- 
 ville public schools, which he left at the age of 
 fourteen years to accept the position of book- 
 keeper in the foundry of John G. Baxter. He 
 held that position for seven years, and was then 
 for a time bill-clerk in the Louisville & Nashville 
 Railroad office. On the first day of January, 
 1880, he was appointed assistant city assessor and 
 held that office until 1885, when he resigned and 
 was elected to represent the Eighth and Ninth 
 wards in the state legislature, receiving a large 
 majority over the Republican candidate. He was 
 re-elected for three consecutive terms, serving 
 throughout eight years with distinction. During 
 his last term he was chairman of the railroad com- 
 mittee, whose duty it was to prepare the laws 
 
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 governing railroads under the new constitution. 
 He also took an active part in forming the new 
 city charter, and was otherwise diligent in secur- 
 ing legislation for the benefit of the city. During 
 this time, while not engaged at Frankfort, he was 
 interested in contracting and street building. 
 When his father died, in 1893, he was elected to 
 fill the vacancy and has been wharfmaster for two 
 years. 
 
 Mr. Kremer was married February 22, 1882, to 
 Etta Belle Krack, daughter of Dr. J. A. Krack, 
 who was for many years city Assessor. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM W. KIMBROUGH of 
 Cynthiana, judge of the Circuit Court, son 
 of John M. and Susan (Jones) Kimbrough, was 
 born in Harrison County, May 19, 1843. 
 
 His father was also a native of Harrison County 
 and a very successful and popular farmer and an 
 active member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. He died in 1868, at the age of sixty- 
 three. 
 
 William Kimbrough (grandfather) was a Vir- 
 ginian, a bricklayer by trade, but after coming 
 to Kentucky he located near Cynthiana and fol- 
 lowed farming. He was of Scotch-Irish descent. 
 
 Susan Jones Kimbrough (mother) was born in 
 Nicholas County. She and her husband were 
 consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. She died in 1880, aged seventy years. 
 Her father, Moses Jones, was a Kentuckian and 
 an extensive farmer in Nicholas County. 
 
 Judge Kimbrough attended the county schools 
 and completed his education in Miami University 
 at Oxford, Ohio, at that time one of the leading 
 educational institutions in the country. After 
 leaving school he was deputy circuit clerk 
 of Harrison County for fifteen months. He then 
 read law with W. W. Trimble of Cynthiana and 
 was admitted to the bar in 1867. He moved to 
 Bates County, Missouri, in September, 1871, and 
 returned to Kentucky in March, 1875, when he 
 located in Mount Olivet, Robertson County, and 
 practiced law there for thirteen years. He was 
 county attorney of Robertson County from 1878 
 to 1882. In June, 1888, he returned to Cyn- 
 thiana and resumed the practice of law in his old 
 home. In September, 1892, he was nominated by 
 
 the Democratic party for the ofifice of judge of the 
 Circuit Court of the Eighteenth Judicial District 
 and was elected easily for a term of five years. 
 He assumed the duties of his office January i, 
 1893. 
 
 Judge Kimbrough was married in 1869 to 
 Johanah C. Ridgely of Jessamine County. His 
 son, Daniel R. Kimbrough, is deputy circuit 
 clerk of Harrison County. 
 
 JASPER BUSTOW KARN, County Judge of 
 Daviess County, son of Christopher and 
 Ann (Bustow) Karn, was born in the same county, 
 Kentucky, March 7, 1848. His father was a na- 
 tive of the same county, where he spent his life 
 in farming, and died in 1878. His father, also 
 named Christopher, was a native of Pennsylvania, 
 who came to Kentucky early in the century and 
 married Leah Boone, a native Kentuckian and 
 a relative of Daniel Boone, and was a farmer in 
 Daviess County, where he died, in 1847. The 
 ancestors of the Karn family were from Germany. 
 Ann Bustow Karn (mother) was born in Da- 
 viess County, in 1828, and died in 1882. Her 
 father, Jasper Bustow, for whom Judge Karn was 
 named, was a Baptist preacher in Daviess County, 
 where he died in 1847. His wife was Rachel 
 Barnhill, whose ancestors were of Irish extrac- 
 tion. 
 
 Jasper B. Karn, after obtaining his education 
 in the Daviess County schools, was a teacher in 
 the county for three years, reading law at the 
 same time under the instruction of Sweeney & 
 Stewart, of Owensboro, and was admitted to the 
 bar in 1870; but did not begin the practice of law 
 until 1872, when he gave up the business of the 
 pedagogue. He quietly pursued his chosen pro- 
 fession, steadily gaining a profitable practice and 
 making his way to the front. 
 
 He served two terms as city judge, prior to his 
 election as county judge, in 1890. He was re- 
 elected in 1894 and is now serving his sixth year 
 in that important office. He is a gentleman of 
 quiet demeanor and a dignity becoming the office 
 which he has faithfully filled so long. 
 
 He is a member of the Masonic Order, Knights 
 of Pythias, and Knights of Honor. 
 
 Judge Karn h^s been twice married. His first 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 wife was Sallie Fuqua, daughter of Perry Fuqua, 
 of Daviess County. She died December 13, 1881, 
 leaving two children: Virgia, who died in 1892, 
 and Eva, who was born November 15, 1878. His 
 second marriage occurred October 12, 1884, to 
 Rose Roberts, daughter of Dr. Henry Roberts, 
 of Owensboro. By this union there are three 
 children: Robert, Fredrick and Rose. 
 
 FRED KAMLEITER, a prominent and suc- 
 cessful merchant of Paducah, was born in 
 Shillingsfurst, Bavaria, November 4, 1840. He 
 was educated in Germany, leaving school when 
 fourteen years of age, and two years later, in 1856, 
 came to America and located in Cairo, Illinois, 
 where he found employment as a laborer. He re- 
 mained there until the call for troops, in 1861, 
 when he enlisted with the sharpshooters. Com- 
 pany M, Fourth Missouri Infantry, under Captain 
 Harvey. 
 
 During a service of three months this regiment 
 was commanded by Dr. Hammer, and was a part 
 of the command of General Sigel, with whom 
 Mr. Kamleiter was well acquainted. He was in 
 the battles of Wilson's Creek; at Carthage, Mis- 
 souri; Fort Donelson; Pittsburg Landing, and 
 Corinth, Mississippi. After serving the term for 
 which he had enlisted, he joined Battery C, Sec- 
 ond Illinois Artillery, under Captain Flood; and 
 in this he served until the close of the war. He 
 was with General Rosecrans all through the war, 
 from the latter part of 1861 till 186.1^. 
 
 Returning home, he found employment for a 
 short time in Mound City, Illinois; and in 1866 
 arrived in Paducah, where he wat, engaged as a 
 salesman for a year or two, and in i86g estab- 
 lished the retail grocery which is now one of the 
 leading mercantile concerns in that city. He soon 
 became identified with the best interests of the 
 city and is known as one of the most enterprising 
 and liberal public-spirited citizens. 
 
 He was the representative of the Fourth Ward 
 in the City Council from 1883 to 1893, being 
 elected on the Republican ticket; is a stockholder 
 in the German National Bank, and in the Citi- 
 zens' Bank, in which he has been a director; a 
 stockholder in the Paducah Trust Company, in 
 the Citizens' Street Railway Company and in the 
 
 Paducah Fair Association; is largely interested in 
 real estate, owning some fifteen buildings; and 
 is comparatively a rich man, especially consider- 
 ing that he began to hew out his own fortune as 
 a day laborer. He is quite popular among the 
 benevolent orders, and is a member of the Odd 
 Fellows, Masons, Knight Templars, Knights of 
 Honor, A. O. U. W., and is Commandant of Grant 
 Post No. 59, G. A. R. He is also a member of 
 the Lutheran Church and a liberal supporter of 
 the cause of religion. 
 
 Mr. Kamleiter was married November 28, 1868, 
 to Margaret Beyer, daughter of Tobias Beyer. 
 She was born in Bavaria, Germany, December 6, 
 1841, and came to America with her parents when 
 she was three years of age. They have three chil- 
 dren, two of whom are married and have families : 
 Katie, born December 26, 1869; married March 
 24, 1892, to E. W. Brockman; has one child, Fred- 
 rick, born September 19, 1894. Louisa, born 
 March 5, 1870; married March 27, 1893, to 
 Charles Scholz, of Evansville, Indiana; has one 
 child, Norman Fredrick. Hemy Kamleiter, born 
 December 15, 1872; is now in business in Padu- 
 cah. 
 
 Mr. Kamleiter's father, John Fredrick Kamlei- 
 ter, was a mechanic in his native town in Bavaria, 
 Germany. 
 
 HENRY TIMBERLAKE DUNCAN of Lex- 
 ington was bom in Paris, Bourbon County, 
 Kentucky, August 31, 1836; and is a son of the 
 late Henry T. and Eliza (Pike) Duncan, natdves 
 of Bourbon County, Kentucky. 
 
 His grandfather, Daniel Duncan, was a native 
 of Pennsylvania, who left that state and settled 
 in Kentucky in the year 1798, and was a merchant 
 in Paris for thirty-six years — 1798 to 1834. 
 
 The Duncans came from the highlands and 
 lowlands of Scotland. A branch of this Scotch 
 family came from Dumfreeshire and settled in 
 Virginia in 1694, and another branch settled in 
 New York and Pennsylvania in 1735. In the 
 history of Western Pennsylvania, the Rev. 
 Joseph Duncan is spoken of as a Presbyterian 
 minister, preaching in a log church in 1739. 
 Whether this Scotch pioneer preacher was related 
 to Henry T. Duncan or not, is not known. Tra- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 dition states, however, that the Rev. Joseph Dun- 
 can settled in Kentucky about the year 1789, 
 leaving several sons, and one of his grandsons 
 was at one time governor of the territory of Illi- 
 nois. This grandson was a cousin of the subject 
 of this sketch. 
 
 Henry T. Duncan (father) was for many years 
 a leading lawyer and manufacturer in Paris. He 
 died in Lexington in 1881, at the age of 81. 
 
 Samuel Pike (maternal grandfather) was a na- 
 tive of England, who erected the first cotton mills 
 west of the Allegheny Mountains, and whose 
 death occurred in 1838, leaving a fortune of some 
 four hundred thousand dollars, which in that day 
 was considered a very large amount of money 
 for one man to control. 
 
 Henry T. Duncan was prepared for college by 
 private instructors and at the age of seventeen 
 years, entered Harvard College and was gradu- 
 ated from that institution in the class of 1859. 
 After leaving college he became a student of 
 jurisprudence under the late Chief Justice, George 
 Robertson; and was admitted to practice in the 
 courts after four months' study. 
 
 In a short time after this he took editorial 
 charge of the "Observer and Reporter," a political 
 paper, famous in the days of Mike Wickliffe. 
 This was just before the close of the Civil war, 
 and the paper was soon seized and held by the 
 Federal authorities for a time, but was returned 
 to its proprietors. At this time it was edited by 
 T. J. Bush and the late William A. Dudley. Mr. 
 Duncan remained with them for seven or eight 
 months, when he returned to the practice of law. 
 He subsequently formed a partnership with Hart 
 Gibson and J. J. Miller, and in 1870 founded the 
 Lexington "Daily Press," which Mr. Duncan 
 owned and edited until November, 1893, when he 
 assumed the duties of mayor of Lexington. He 
 was nominated to this office by the Democratic 
 party and was elected without opposition. His 
 administration of Lexington's municipal afifairs 
 was one of the most noteworthy and sensational 
 in the city's history. He instituted a searching in- 
 vestigation of the city's affairs for preceding years 
 and unearthed a condition of municipal rotten- 
 ness which startled and amazed the public. He 
 discovered large shortages in the department of 
 
 city collector, running back over many years and 
 through several administrations. His administra- 
 tion was characterized by reform methods, strict 
 business principles and great economy in public 
 expenditures. Perhaps the most worthy and last- 
 ing feature however of his administration was 
 the splendid improvements inaugurated and per- 
 fected by him in the public schools, both white 
 and colored. Under his progressive and intelli- 
 gent directorship they were rescued from the old 
 fogy methods in which they had been conducted 
 for a quarter of a century, and brought to 
 a degree of efficiency that will now compare favor- 
 ably with the public schools of any city of equal 
 size in the south or west. In his race for re-nom- 
 ination, however, he was defeated. His exposures 
 of official rottenness stirred up an active host of 
 enemies who encompassed his defeat by making 
 a coalition with the A. P. A. vote, which was very 
 large. Two primaries were necessary to decide 
 the contest. The first was declared a tie and the 
 second resulted in Mr. Duncan's defeat by only 
 eleven votes, nearly 2,500 votes being cast. His 
 successful opponent was Joseph B. Simrall, whom 
 he had defeated for the nomination two years 
 prior. 
 
 Soon after his election in 1893 the "Daily 
 Press" was consolidated with the "Daily Tran- 
 script," and the two journals were succeeded by 
 the "Press-Transcript," which was for one year 
 edited by Mr. Duncan's son, Henry T. Duncan, Jr. 
 The paper was then purchased by S. G. Boyle, half 
 owner of the "Press-Transcript," and Mr. Dun- 
 can's son took up the profession of law. 
 
 After Mr. Duncan's first experience in the 
 newspaper business he resumed the practice of 
 law with the late Judge W. B. Kinkead, and was 
 in partnership with him for four or five years. 
 
 In 1862 Mr. Duncan was a member of the 
 State Guards, serving as adjutant on the staff of 
 General James S. Jackson, who was killed at the 
 battle of Perry ville in October, 1862. 
 
 Henry T. Duncan was united in marriage in 
 i860 to Lillie, daughter of George W. Brand of 
 Lexington; and they had ten children, nine of 
 whom still survive. His eldest son, George 
 Brand Duncan, was graduated from West Point 
 in 1886, and is now adjutant of the Fourth United 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 States Infantry, stationed at Fort Sherman, 
 Idaho. The second son, Edward, is now engaged 
 in the revenue service ; Henry T., Jr., has adopted 
 the profession of law; Daniel graduated from 
 West Point in the class of 1895. The daughters 
 are: Eliza, wife of John R. Allen, county attor- 
 ney of Fayette County; Nanny; Lilly, wife of 
 George Otis Draper, son of Congressman Draper, 
 and a wealthy cotton machine manufacturer of 
 Hopedale, Mass; Margaret and Fanny. 
 
 CHARLES L. KING, a leading merchant of 
 Corydon, president of the Deposit Bank 
 and president of the Anchor Rolling Mills Com- 
 pany, of Corydon, was born in Henderson Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, March 12, 1838. 
 
 His father, James H. King, was a native of 
 Virginia, who removed to Union County, Ken- 
 tucky, about the year 1829, and engaged in farm- 
 ing. About the year 1832 he removed to Hen- 
 derson County and was a farmer there for a few 
 years, but soon engaged in the milling business; 
 sold out his mill in 1856 and went to Hickman 
 and engaged in the dry goods business. 
 
 He was married an 1828 to Caroline Brinkley, 
 and had ten children: John M., George W., 
 James T., Charles L., Alexander, Edward S., Har- 
 but A., Mary A., Martha C, and Sarah I. Mr. 
 and Mrs. King died in Hickman in 1864, and they 
 are buried at Hickman, Kentucky. 
 
 C. L. King (grandfather) was a native of Vir- 
 ginia, and his father was a native of Ireland, who 
 came to Virginia in very early times. 
 
 Charles Brinkley (maternal grandfather) was a 
 native of Virginia, whose antecedents are not 
 known. 
 
 Charles L. King was educated in the schools 
 of Hickman, and at the age of twenty-one years 
 became a partner in his father's store, under the 
 firm name of J. H. King & Son. They were 
 fairly successful merchants, and after three years 
 they closed out their business and Charles L. es- 
 tablished another store with S. C. Wilson as his 
 partner, the firm name being King & Wilson. 
 They closed out at Hickman in 1866. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. King moved to Corydon and en- 
 gaged in the same business there, in which he 
 has continued in connection with other enter- 
 
 prises until the present time. From 1874 until 
 1878 his brother, Edward S. King, was in part- 
 nership with him, and the firm was King & Bro. 
 C. L. and H. A. King succeeded Edward S., un- 
 der the firm name, and the establishment is still 
 known by that firm name. 
 
 Mr. King is largely interested in other busi- 
 ness enterprises, being president of the Anchor 
 Rolling Mills ; president of the Corydon Deposit 
 Bank; director in the Henderson National Bank; 
 director in the Henderson Woolen Mills Com- 
 pany, etc. He has been an extensive dealer in 
 real estate during the past fifteen years, and is 
 the owner of valuable property in Corydon and 
 vicinity. 
 
 He is a man of the highest integrity, esteemed 
 by all who know him for his generous spirit and 
 upright character. Being a man of sound busi- 
 ness judgment, successful in all of his under- 
 takings, he wields a strong influence in the com- 
 munity, and is recognized as a leading citizen of 
 Henderson County. 
 
 Mr. King was married in 1864 to Mrs. Sallie 
 (Powell) Sheffer, daughter of Harrison A. Powell, 
 a sketch of whose life will be found in this volume. 
 They have four children: Anna, Addie, Maude 
 and Harbut. 
 
 JOHN FRANCIS LOCKETT, a prominent 
 lawyer and politician of Henderson, was born 
 in Henderson County, Kentucky, December 5, 
 1856. He is the eldest son of Rev. Paschal H. 
 and Elmira (Eakins) Lockett. His father was 
 born in Henderson County, June 21, 1832. He 
 studied law when quite young and upon his being 
 admitted to the bar, was regarded by his friends 
 as among the most brilliant lawyers of his day. 
 He was a Whig in politics and followed the 
 changes of that party while it existed and after 
 the beginning of the Civil war became a Demo- 
 crat. In the exciting times just prior to the war 
 he took an active interest and on more than one 
 occasion met upon the rostrum speakers of the 
 opposing party, holding his own among the best 
 of them. He was elected judge of the Henderson 
 County Court in 1866 and held that office for 
 three consecutive terms, tuitil 1882. During the 
 latter year of his official life he devoted much of 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 his time to the study of theology, and frequently 
 preached the gospel. Upon his defeat for re-elec- 
 tion in 1882 he began preaching, and it was not 
 long until he was called to the pastorate of the 
 Baptist Church at Trenton, Kentucky, where he 
 was greatly beloved by all Christian people. 
 
 Captain Francis Lockett (grandfather) was a 
 native of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, and was 
 the author of a popular treatise on the cultiva- 
 tion of tobacco. He came to Henderson when it 
 was scarcely more than a wilderness, and at 
 once became a leader of men* whose advice and 
 counsel were sought by his neighbors. He was 
 a captain of the militia in Virginia and a leader 
 in social and business life in Kentucky. He was 
 a member of the legislature, 1815-17; was then 
 elected State Senator and served until 1819, and 
 was succeeded by the late Governor Archibald 
 Dixon. The Locketts were English people, 
 known as "Roundheads," who came to this coun- 
 try in the time of Charles II. 
 
 Elmira Eakins Lockett (mother) was born in 
 Henderson County, Kentucky, May 5, 1843. Her 
 father, John Eakins, was one of the early set- 
 tlers of Henderson County. 
 
 William Hickman (father's maternal grand- 
 father) was a Baptist minister, and was the first 
 to proclaim the gospel in Kentucky. He com- 
 menced preaching at Harrodsburg in 1776, when 
 on a tour of observation, merely, and after several 
 months returned to Virginia and remained there 
 several years. He then located in Kentucky and 
 was an earnest laborer in his chosen field for over 
 fifty years, and was familiarly known as "Father 
 Hickman." Paschal Hickman was a soldier at 
 the battle of River Raisin, the terrible massacre 
 in which hundreds of his comrades were slain. 
 Hickman County takes its name from him. 
 
 William Hickman (grandfather) was a native of 
 Franklin County, and was also a preacher of con- 
 siderable distinction. 
 
 John Francis Lockett was a pupil in the Hen- 
 derson ward and high schools, during the super- 
 intendency of that finished scholar and disciplin- 
 arian. Professor Maurice Kirby, who is now prin- 
 cipal of the Louisville male high school. He 
 gained an education worthy of his teacher, and 
 few young men have started upon the voyage of 
 
 life more thoroughly equipped. At an early age 
 he chose the legal profession, and applied him- 
 self assiduously to the acquirement of a knowl- 
 edge of law, reading in his father's office; and 
 in 1879 he was admitted to the bar. Like his 
 father, he proved a graceful, pleasing speaker and 
 an able lawyer. For three years, up to and includ- 
 ing August, 1886, he was prosecuting attorney 
 and was county judge from August, 1886, to Jan- 
 uary, 1895, proving himself a most efficient officer 
 and accompHshed jurist. 
 
 He was married April 14, 1881, to Minnie, only 
 daughter of Alvan L. Jones of Henderson, and 
 they have four children : Alvan, Hickman, Sarah 
 and Marie. 
 
 Mrs. Lockett's maternal great-grandfather, Au- 
 gustine Eastin, was a Baptist preacher, who came 
 from Virginia to Kentucky at the time Boones- 
 borough and Bryant's Station were established by 
 the very early pioneers. At one time he was ar- 
 rested and confined in the jail at Richmond, Vir- 
 ginia, for preaching to the British soldiers; and, 
 for persisting in his purpose to continue to do so, 
 was threatened to be shot. His son, General 
 Zachariah Eastin, was bom in Virginia, January 
 II, 1777. He was a colonel in the War of 1812, 
 and fought at Tippecanoe and River Raisin and, 
 in fact, was throughout the campaign with Gen- 
 erals Shelby, Metcalfe and Desha and Colonel 
 Richard M. Johnson of Tecumseh fame. While 
 engaged in this campaign. Colonel Eastin was 
 promoted to the rank of brigadier-general, which 
 commission he held until 1824, when he resigned 
 on account of some misunderstanding between 
 hmiself and General Desha. General Eastin came 
 to Henderson in 1843, where he died some years 
 later. 
 
 STEPHEN M. LOOMIS, County Attorney, 
 Falmouth, son of John W. and Harriet K. 
 Loomis, was born in Pendleton County, Febru- 
 ary 3, 1864. His father is also a native of Pen- 
 dleton County, in which he has spent his life as 
 a farmer. 
 
 Rev. Thomas J. Loomis (grandfather), a native 
 of Dayton, Kentucky, was a prominent Baptist 
 minister, who was well known in the northern 
 part of the state. He raided in Kenton County 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 ti9 
 
 for many years, where he died in 1880 in the 
 seventy-fifth year of his age. 
 
 Harriet K. Loomis (mother) was born in Pen- 
 dleton County in 1828 and is still a resident of 
 that county. I 
 
 Stephen M. Loomis received a good education 
 in the county schools and in Nelson Business Col- 
 lege, Cincinnati. Being an expert penman he 
 taught penmanship for some time and in 1883, 
 at the age of nineteen, he became a partner in the 
 music publishing house of Allen Bros., Arcade, 
 Cincinnati. He continued in this for about two 
 years, when he disposed of his interest and ac- 
 cepted the position of bookkeeper in the store 
 of J. Glasscock in Williamstown, where he re- 
 mained until 1889, when he returned to his home, 
 located in Falmouth, and engaged in the real es- 
 tate business. He soon began the study of law 
 under Judge L. P. Fryer at that place and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1892, and has since then 
 combined the practice of law with his real estate 
 business. In November, 1894, he was elected 
 county attorney on the Republican ticket by a 
 handsome majority, defeating his preceptor, who 
 was the opposing candidate. He took charge of 
 the office in January, 1895, and has made a repu- 
 tation as a faithful and efficient attorney. As an 
 attorney he was associated with Col. Weden 
 O'Neal of Cincinnati in the trial of the Rachford- 
 Finn assassination case and also in the Downard- 
 Vogelsong assassination case, both of which 
 tragedies were enacted in Falmouth and created 
 widespread interest. 
 
 Mr. Loomis is a great friend of the newspaper 
 men and he has since early in his 'teens been con- 
 nected with the press, both as correspondent and 
 editor. He is a fearless, entertaining and forcible 
 writer and would make a very successful news- 
 paper man. He has always taken an active in- 
 terest in politics and it is during a heated cam- 
 paign that his trenchant pen is called mostly into 
 use in educating and swaying public sentiment. 
 
 His parents being unable to give him the edu- 
 cation they wished him to have, encouraged him 
 in his studies at home and his early personal 
 efiforts to acquire a good business education, he 
 having taught public schools in Grant and Pen- 
 dleton Counties, before entering business college. 
 
 He was married in 1891 to Miss Mayme Hall, 
 daughter of J. B. Hall, and granddaughter of Col. 
 H. Bullock of Falmouth, has built him a nice 
 home in West Falmouth, where he expects to 
 make his future home. He is building up a good 
 law practice and enjoys the highest esteem and 
 confidence of his constituents. 
 
 HON. GEORGE W. LAIL, Judge of Harri- 
 son County Court, son of Charles and 
 Louisa (Ingels) Lail, was born near Colemans- 
 ville, Harrison County, October 23, 1838. His 
 father was bOrn dn Harrison County, September 
 15, 1807. He followed farming all his life and 
 was justice of the peace for twelve years. He 
 died May 20, 1861. 
 
 John Lail (grandfather) was a native of Bucks 
 County, Pennsylvania, who came to Kentucky 
 when an infant with his parents. When only 
 three years of age he was captured by the Indians 
 at Fort Hinkson, Bourbon County, now known 
 as Ruddles Mills. His mother afterward recov- 
 ered him by trading some blankets for him. An 
 older brother was captured at the same time, who 
 was never restored to his family; but when twen- 
 ty-four years of age he paid his brother, John Lail, 
 a visit, coming from Missouri, where he had 
 located. John Lail was a farmer. He died at the 
 age of seventy-seven years. The Lails were of 
 German descent, and belonged to an old Penn- 
 sylvania family. 
 
 Louisa Ingels Lail (mother) was a native of 
 Harrison County. She was born April 18, 1814, 
 and died February 20, 1880. Her father, Joseph 
 Ingels, was a native of North Carolina, who came 
 to the northern part of Harrison County and 
 farmed all his life. Her mother, Mary Bryan 
 Ingels, was a niece of Daniel Boone and daugh- 
 ter of William Bryan, who settled what is now 
 known as Bryan Station, and who was killed by 
 the Indians. 
 
 Judge Lail was educated in the common 
 schools and was engaged in farming until the be- 
 ginning of the Civil war. He enlisted in the Con- 
 federate army, April 22, 1861, joining Company 
 C, First Kentucky Infantiy, in which he served 
 for twelve months, and was wounded in the first 
 fight at Drainsville, Loudoun County, Virginia. 
 
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 He recovered from his wound sufficiently to re- 
 enlist in October, 1862; this time joining Com- 
 pany B, Second Battalion Mounted Infantry; 
 which was commanded by Col. Thomas Johnson 
 of Mt. Sterling. He entered this service as a 
 private, but was soon elected second lieutenant 
 and served in that capacity until the close of the 
 war. He was in Camp Chase when the war 
 ended, having been captured February i, 1865, 
 while at home on a furlough. 
 
 Returning to his old home, he settled down 
 to the quiet Hfe of a farmer. .He was justice of 
 the peace from 1882 to 1895. In November, 1894, 
 he was elected county judge on the Democratic 
 ticket, and assumed the duties of that office in 
 January, 1895. 
 
 Judge Lail was married June 15, 1871, to Flor- 
 ence Day, daughter of N. C. Day of Harrison 
 County. They have eight children living, four 
 sons and four daughters: Maud, Jennie, Wade 
 Hampton, Louisa, Ina, Charles E., Rodney F., 
 and George Shirley. 
 
 DD. BELL, deceased, formerly a beloved 
 and exemplary citizen of Lexington, Ken- 
 tucky, was bom in that city June 6, 1849, ^^id died 
 at his home in Lexington June 26, 1892. He was 
 a son of the lamented Henry Bell, a brief sketch 
 of whose noble life is given in connection here- 
 with. Like his father, D. D. Bell's chief charac- 
 teristic was his unstinted generosity and kindly 
 regard for the poor and needy and the hospital- 
 ity which he lavished upon his friends and ac- 
 quaintances, who always found a hearty welcome 
 in his palatial home. He welcomed the stranger 
 to Lexington and to his house and gave his city 
 a good name by his personal kindness and the 
 magnificent entertainment which he provided for 
 visitors. He appreciated good fellowship and 
 was never so happy as when entertaining those 
 who enjoyed his generous hospitality. 
 
 He was a loyal friend and he had no enemy. 
 He was a public-spirited citizen, who was always 
 ready to aid with his means or by personal effort 
 any enterprise which he thought would be helpful 
 to the city; a public benefactor, and a philanthro- 
 pist who sought to cover up his deeds of char- 
 ity, but the instances of his generosity were so 
 
 numerous that he was constantly being found out. 
 It was said of him that he gave car loads of coa! 
 to the poor and none but the recipient was aware 
 of it, while others gave a cart-load and the fact 
 was published in all the papers. Truly, he was a 
 noble, generous man, who gave to others as the 
 Lord had given to him. 
 
 He was a man of marked ability in business af- 
 fairs whose surroundings and opportunities were 
 favorable, it is true, but he grasped opportunities 
 and improved them, and made great advancement 
 through good business management; neverthe- 
 less, his chief object in life was to do good to his 
 fellOwmen, and he was never so much absorbed in 
 business or so fascinated with his success in 
 money making that he forgot to be thoughtful 
 of others. His home was a veritable palace, where 
 he surrounded himself and his family with com- 
 fort and luxury. But he was, withal, a plain man, 
 without ostentation, unassuming in his everyday 
 life, and no one would suppose from his demeanor 
 that he was the wealthiest man in Lexington. 
 
 p. D. Bell took the place of his father, Henry 
 Bell, as director in the Northern Bank, and upon 
 his death the surviving directors, as they had 
 done on his father's death, adopted resolutions of 
 respect, expressing their sincere sorrow, regret- 
 ting that they would no more enjoy his genial 
 companionship and wise counsel, and testifying to 
 their high regard for his many good and honor- 
 able qualities of mind and heart, their sincere 
 affection for his person in life and their grief in 
 his death. 
 
 To his intimate friends alone he revealed the 
 many sterling qualities which stamped him as a 
 man with a full realization of the responsibilities of 
 life, and they alone saw the cheerful courage w th 
 which he assumed and discharged every obligation 
 that these responsibilities imposed. The sunny 
 side of his nature was always presented to the 
 world, and to those whom he met casually he 
 rarely disclosed his remarkable knowledge of 
 human nature or his accurate and methodical 
 business acquirements. His whole life was guid- 
 ed by the golden rule, and the world that knew 
 him was made brighter and happier for his hav- 
 ing been in it. His acquaintance extended 
 throughout the whole country, and there was 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 121 
 
 mourning in nearly every state and city when the 
 telegraph flashed the unwelcome tidings of his 
 death throughout the land. 
 
 His bright and useful Ufe was suddenly cut ofiE 
 in the midst of his usefulness. He was stricken 
 with paralysis on Wednesday and died on the fol- 
 lowing Sunday, June 26, 1892. He was mourned 
 in the city as if each individual acquaintance had 
 met with a personal loss; women and children 
 and even stout-hearted men wept in the streets. 
 
 Mr. Bell was happily married April 5, 1880, to 
 Sydney S. Sayre, daughter of the distinguished 
 banker and financier, E. D. Sayre, a sketch of 
 whose life is given in this work; and this union 
 of two families who were life-long friends, 
 strengthened the ties between the members of 
 these households and made them as one. He left 
 his companion and an only daughter, Clara D. 
 D. Bell, but the circle of relatives and friends 
 who were bereaved by his untimely end embraced 
 a city full of mourners, who have never found an- 
 other to take the place of D. D. Bell in their affec- 
 tions. 
 
 JAMES CAMPBELL, Lawyer and ex-Circuit 
 Court Judge of Paducah, was born in that 
 city April 9, 1843. After the usual preliminary 
 schooling he went to Stewart. College, Clarksville, 
 Tennessee, for two years and then spent two years 
 in European schools, and after returning home he 
 matriculated in the McGill College and Univer- 
 sity, Montreal, Canada, where he studied for one 
 year, and was licensed to practice law at Paducah. 
 He was admitted to McCracken County bar in 
 1866, and has made Paducah his home and the 
 practice of law his profession for thirty years. 
 
 He was a member of the City Council for two 
 years, and in 1881 he was elected to succeed Hon- 
 orable Edward Crossland as Circuit Court judge 
 of the First Judicial District of Kentucky, embrac- 
 ing the seven "Purchase" counties of McCracken, 
 Ballard, Hickman, Fulton, Calloway, Marshall 
 and Graves, and also Livingston County, beyond 
 the Tennessee River. He served until the expira- 
 tion of his term, but was not a candidate for re- 
 election. At the close of his administration the 
 unusual compliment of commendatory resolu- 
 tions, endorsing his course as a man and a judge, 
 
 were passed by the bar and the officers of the 
 court and the people in each county in his judi- 
 cial district. This endorsement was more grati- 
 fying to him than a re-election would have been 
 had he sought to retain the ofifice. 
 
 Judge Campbell was married in 1868 to Mary 
 K. Wheeler, daughter of Dr. James Wheeler of 
 Christian County. They have four children: 
 Wheeler, born in 1869 and admitted to the bar of 
 Paducah in 1890; Bessie, Jeanette and James 
 Campbell, Jr. 
 
 James Campbell (father) was born in Peters- 
 burg, Virginia, in 1798, and came to this state 
 early in the present century, and was one of the 
 most prominent lawyers in Western Kentucky. 
 He was for some time judge of the Circuit Court. 
 He died in Paducah in 1880, in the eighty-second 
 year of his age. His father was a Scotchman, 
 born in Argyleshire, and was the only member of 
 his family who came to America. He was a citi- 
 zen of Petersburg, Virginia, and an officer in the 
 Revolutionary war. His wife (grandmother) was 
 Mademoiselle Victoire de la Porte, a royahst, who 
 fled from France with her family and her uncle, 
 Baron du Boeuf, during the French Revolution 
 of 1789. She was in the palace of the Tuileries, a 
 member of the household, and witnessed the fam- 
 ous massacre of the Swiss Guards. She met and 
 married Mr. Campbell in Virginia. 
 
 Dixon Given (maternal grandfather) was a 
 prominent citizen of Livingston County, who for 
 many years represented his district in the Ken- 
 tucky Senate. 
 
 WILLIAM J. DAVIS, Secretary and Treas- 
 urer of the Louisville School Board, is a 
 son of William Kincaid and Sarah M. (Zimmer- 
 man) Davis of DarHngton C. H., South Carolina. 
 His father was born in South Carolina in 1809 and 
 was a cotton planter in Fairfield District, South 
 Carolina, until his removal to Charleston in 1848, 
 where he was a successful cotton factor and where 
 his death occurred in 1872. 
 
 Jonathan Davis (grandfather) of Fairfield, 
 South Carolina, was a large cotton planter and 
 a Baptist minister, as, indeed, were nearly all of 
 his male ancestors in this country. 
 
 James Davis (great-grandfather) was an officer 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 in General Sumter's Brigade in Northern South 
 CaroHna during the Revolutionary war — one of 
 seven brothers, sons of John Davis, planter, Fair- 
 field, S. C. — who entered the patriot army in one 
 company of cavalry, but two of whom survived. 
 The family is of Welsh extraction, the first 
 ancestor in this country, David Davis, purchasing 
 thirty thousand acres of land from William Penn 
 and settling his congregation, whom he brought 
 over at his own expense from Pembroke County, 
 Wales, in 1710. The church which he built is 
 still standing about thirty miles from Philadelphia. 
 Benedict gives an account of this religious move- 
 ment in his history of the Baptists; and the Rev. 
 John Davis, whilom pastor of the Second Bap- 
 tist Church of Boston, published a history of the 
 "Welsh Tract" Baptists, giving many interesting 
 facts concerning that colony. 
 
 William J. Davis was born in Fairfield County, 
 South Carolina, March 23, 1839. He was eight 
 years of age when his father removed to Charles- 
 ton, and he was educated in that city, graduating 
 with the highest honors at the "Citadel," the State 
 Military Academy. 
 
 Soon after the beginning of the late Civil war, 
 January 19, 1861, he was commissioned first lieu- 
 tenant and shortly after captain in the First South 
 Carolina Infantry, P. A. C. S., and was with that 
 regiment until January, 1863, when his service 
 was commuted to Morgan's Cavalry. He served 
 as commander of scouts and as adjutant-general 
 in General Duke's Brigade of that division until 
 the close of the conflict, except when confined as 
 a prisoner of war. When the war closed he re- 
 turned to South Carolina, but removed to Louis- 
 ville in May, 1866. He was connected with the 
 house of John P. Morton & Company for some 
 time, having charge of their educational publica- 
 tions, and did excellent work as palaeontologist 
 in connection with the State Geological Survey, 
 devoting several years to that branch of public 
 service. 
 
 In 1877 he was elected secretary and treasurer 
 of the Louisville School Board, to which position 
 he has been re-elected annually for nineteen years 
 without opposition. 
 
 Major Davis has been an industrious student 
 and writer, having contributed many articles to 
 
 newspapers and magazines on various topics and 
 has published in pamphlet form numerous arti- 
 cles and monographs on geological subjects, 
 physical geography and natural history, among 
 which may be mentioned especially "The Fossil 
 Corals of Kentucky," which was published by the 
 state in 1880. 
 
 Major Davis has devoted his leisure hours and 
 much of his valuable time to the advancement of 
 science in the line which he marked out in early 
 life. His work has already proved of incalculable 
 benefit to his state, and will be greatly appreciated 
 by future generations. His lectures on geology, 
 fossils of Kentucky, natural history, etc., have at- 
 tracted attention among scholars and students 
 and are exceedingly instructive and interesting 
 even to those who make no pretentions to scien- 
 tific knowledge. 
 
 Major Davis was married in December, 1866, 
 to Frances Cunningham, daughter of Cleland T. 
 Cunningham of Springfield, Kentucky, and they 
 have eight children, six sons and two daughters: 
 William J., Cleland, Francis, Edith, Edwin, Ethel 
 Churchill, Basil Duke and Warren Oflfutt. The 
 eldest son, William J. Davis, Jr., is first assistant 
 electrical and mechanical engineer in the testing 
 department of the General Electric Company at 
 Schenectady, New York. The second son, Cle- 
 land Davis, is ensign in the United States Navy, 
 now stationed at Washington, D. C. The third 
 son, Francis Davis, is a civil engineer, employed 
 on a railroad in process of construction between 
 La Follette, Tennessee, and Middlesborough, 
 Kentucky. The fourth son, Edwin Davis, gradu- 
 ated with the honors of his class from the High 
 School of Louisville and is studying medicine. 
 The other children are at home, and are capable 
 of taking important places in the work of the 
 coming generation. 
 
 HENRY BELL, father of D. D. Bell, was born 
 in Georgetown, Delaware, March 28, 1808. 
 He married Clarissa Davis, daughter of Daniel 
 Davis of Salisbury, Maryland, and came to Ken- 
 tucky when he was a young man, and made his 
 mark, not as the popular politician and statesman, 
 but as a merchant and financier, who was hon- 
 ored for his integrity and universally loved for his 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 123 
 
 goodness of heart and many deeds of charity. A 
 man of strong intellect, well informed on all top- 
 ics of the day, he was still a most companionable 
 man. 
 
 He was an associate and confidential friend of 
 such men of his time as the Wickliffs, Johnsons, 
 Paynes, Wards, Prentice, Wooley, Brand, Mor- 
 gan, Hunt and others whose names are found in 
 the history of the "mellow, happy" ante-'bellum 
 days; and he wielded an influence among men 
 and in politics which made others conspicuous 
 while he modestly remained in the background. 
 He accumulated a princely fortune, and his hand 
 was ever ready to respond to the promptings of a 
 noble and generous heart in behalf of the poor 
 and distressed. 
 
 While phenomenally successful in business, at- 
 tracting attention to his wonderful ability as a 
 merchant and financier, he was even more con- 
 spicuous for his broad charity and generous gifts 
 to the poor of the city. He could not wait for 
 those in need to come to him, but sought oppor- 
 tunities of helping others and alleviating distress, 
 just as other men seek opportunities for invest- 
 ment. 
 
 When his health failed and he was advised to 
 go to Florida he consented, but thinking of those 
 who would miss his benefactions he left $500 to be 
 distributed to the poor of his city during his 
 absence. He was then in his seventy-fifth year, 
 and his advanced years and failing health made 
 the trip to the South of no avail, and he died in 
 Jacksonville, Florida, April 7, 1883. 
 
 The following tender tribute to his memory was 
 written by Jennie C. Morton and printed in the 
 Frankfort "Yeoman": 
 
 A NAME IN WHITE, 
 
 Tho' dead, he leaves his life to speak — 
 
 The best, his meed of praise; 
 He needs no tributes that we make. 
 
 Nor poet's glowing lays. 
 No, no; this noble man has said: 
 
 "If I have lived in vain. 
 No gilded words above me spread 
 
 Can blot out any stain. 
 
 " 'Tis what we do, what we have been, 
 
 That's good and wise and true. 
 Must stand the test at last all men 
 
 Here are submitted to." 
 
 To live the life approved the best— 
 
 For life in death goes on— 
 We livei in hearts and lives we've blest. 
 
 Not words, when we are gone. 
 
 A kindly man, with genial smile. 
 
 And gentle, tender heart, 
 One in whose Scottish blood no guile 
 
 Had ever smallest part. 
 There was no waver in his course. 
 
 His life-way pointed straight; 
 And by its own unswerving force 
 
 He won his goodly fate. 
 
 Now dead, he speaketh thro' his deeds: 
 
 The test death makes and leaves; 
 Found his life all sown with seeds 
 
 Up-bearing golden sheaves. 
 From North to South, from East to West, 
 
 The plaudit is the same. 
 They whose hearts and lives he blest 
 
 Now rise to bless his name. 
 
 JENNIE C. MORTON. 
 
 WILLIAM ANDREW BYRON, Attorney 
 at Law, Brooksville, was born in Mason 
 County, March 23, i860; son of Andrew and 
 Ellen (Ryan) Byron. His father was born in 
 County Limerick, Ireland, January, 1818, and 
 came to America in 1849. He located in Mason 
 County, where he engaged in farming. He had 
 received a collegiate education in the old country 
 and was one of the most intelligent citizens of the 
 county. He was a Democrat in politics and a 
 member of the Catholic Church. He died May 
 II, 1887, and is buried in the Catholic Cemetery 
 at Brooksville. His wife was also a native of 
 County Limerick; born in 1826; came to Ameri- 
 ca in 1849; located in Maysville and was mar- 
 ried to Mr. Byron in 1851. She is a member of 
 the Catholic Church and is now living near 
 Brooksville. They had five children, one daugh- 
 ter and four sons, of whom William A. Byron is 
 the youngest. 
 
 He was reared on his father's farm, remaining 
 until fourteen years of age, when he entered Au- 
 gusta College and continued his studies there 
 until 1878, when, for the want of means, he with- 
 drew, having reached a high grade of proficiency 
 in his studies. He taught school for several years 
 in Bracken County and in the spring of 1884 com- 
 menced the study of law in the office of Hon. R. 
 
124 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 K. Smith, and in the fall of the same year entered 
 the senior class in the Cincinnati Law School, 
 graduating in 1885. He returned to the school- 
 house, however, after completing his law course, 
 and for seven years was engaged in teaching be- 
 fore commencing the practice of law in Brooks- 
 ville, in the spring of 1892. 
 
 Mr. Byron is a versatile writer and an eloquent 
 speaker. 
 
 CHARLES M. COWLES of Falmouth, 
 junior member of the distillery firm of O. 
 W. Cowles & Son, and Clerk of the Pendleton 
 County Court, was born in Butler, Pendleton 
 County, January 24, 1866. 
 
 His father, Ovid W. Cowles, is a native of Litch- 
 field County, Connecticut, who came to Kentucky 
 in 1856 and located at Butler, where he still re- 
 sides. 
 
 Maria Ducker Cowles (mother) was born in 
 Butler in 1840. 
 
 Charles Cowles has been identified in business 
 with his father since he was eighteen years of age. 
 He takes especial interest in their large grazing 
 farm, which is devoted principally to the breeding 
 of Southdown sheep. 
 
 In November, 1894, he was elected clerk of the 
 Pendleton County Court, being the first Repub- 
 lican elected to any office in the county for thirty 
 years. He is an active politician and the success 
 of the ticket was largely due to his efforts. He 
 is a most efficient officer. 
 
 Mr. Cowles was married in 1889 to Marguerite 
 Jefifries, daughter of R. B. McDonald of Fal- 
 mouth. 
 
 ON. JOHN BLADES CLARKE of Brook- 
 ville, Bracken County, was born April 14, 
 
 H 
 
 1833- 
 
 His father, John Clarke, was born in Bracken 
 County in November, 1804, and was educated in 
 the county schools. He was one of the most in- 
 telligent and progressive farmers of his day. He 
 was an exceptionally honest man, a devout Chris- 
 tian, a great lover of his home and a good citizen. 
 He died October 21, 1875, ^"d was buried in 
 Mount Zion Cemetery, near Augusta. 
 
 Abner Clarke (grandfather) was born in York-- 
 
 shire, England, March 16, 1775 ; and when quite 
 young came to the United States and settled in 
 the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. In 1797 he 
 came to Bracken County, near Augusta, where 
 he died September 14, 1850. He married Rachel 
 Howard, daughter of John Howard of Bracken 
 County. She was born in 1774 and died March 
 20, 1835. Abner Clarke was the fourth and 
 youngest son of Stephen Clarke (great-grand- 
 father), who was born in Yorkshire, England, 
 February 14, 1741. 
 
 Hon. J. B. Clarke's mother, Mary (Blades) 
 Clarke, was a native of Jessamine County; was 
 married to John Clarke May 15, 1829. She was 
 a devout member of the Presbyterian Church. 
 Her father, Samuel Blades, was a native of Mary- 
 land, who came to Kentucky, first settling in 
 Jessamine, and afterward in Bracken County, 
 where he died. He was a pillar in the Presbyter- 
 ian Church and a consistent Christian. The 
 Blades were of Scotch descent. 
 
 Hon. John Blades Clarke received a good edu- 
 cation in the Augusta schools and under the tutel- 
 age of Harvey King. After leaving school in 
 1851, he returned to his father's farm, and in the 
 winter of 185 1-2 taught school in the county, after 
 which he read law for three years with Judge 
 Joseph Doniphan in Augusta. He passed a critical 
 examination by the late Julge Alvin Duval and 
 William Moore and received his certificate April 
 20, 1854. In January, 1855, he went to Rockport, 
 Indiana, where he commenced the practice of law, 
 but on account of his wife's ill-health returned 
 to Bracken County in the following September, 
 and located in Brookville December 10, 1855, 
 where he has continued to reside until the present 
 time. 
 
 He was elected county attorney in 1857, and 
 was elected on the Democratic ticket as state sen- 
 ator in 1867, serving four years. In 1874 he was 
 elected to Congress from the then Ninth Con- 
 gressional District, and was re-elected in 1876, 
 serving until 1879. 
 
 Pie married Cordelia A., daughter of Christo- 
 pher and Elizabeth (Bradford) Robertson, who 
 was born September 4, 1835; died December 26, 
 1884. There were six children: Bion, born June 
 23, 1858, died November 2, 1885; William R., 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 125 
 
 born October 22, 1861 ; John B., born February 
 19, 1864; Cordelia, born September i, 1867, died 
 August 10, 1868; Harry, born July 18, 1869, and 
 Clarence, born June 23, 1873. 
 
 John B. Clarke, Jr. (son) married Alice Dud- 
 ley of Falmouth, May i, 1887. They have three 
 children: Katharine, Bion and Robert. 
 
 HON. ASHER GRAHAM CARUTH of 
 Louisville, Kentucky, is the son of Henry 
 Clay Caruth, who was born July 10, 1814, in Ten- 
 nessee ; educated in Allen County, Kentucky, and 
 was for many years a merchant and banker in 
 Louisville, but retired several years ago. He was 
 a member of the Board of Aldermen a number 
 of years. He is still a resident of Louisville. 
 His father. Captain Walter Caruth, served in the 
 Revolutionary war, in which he gained his mili- 
 tary title. He came to Kentucky over one hun- 
 dred years ago, before the state was admitted" to 
 the Union. 
 
 Asher G. Caruth's mother was a daughter of 
 George Washington Mansfield. She was born 
 in Allen County, Kentucky, where she received 
 her education. Her father was a member of the 
 Kentucky Legislature for several years, and was 
 also a member of the convention which framed 
 the constitution of the state in 1850. He died in 
 Allen County in 1851. 
 
 A. G. Caruth was born in Scottville, Allen 
 County, Kentucky, February 7, 1844. He at- 
 tended school in Philadelphia and graduated at 
 the High School of Louisville in June, 1864. He 
 finished his law course in the law department of 
 the University of Louisville in 1866, and has prac- 
 ticed his profession ever since. 
 
 He was a presidential elector in 1876, and was 
 attorney of the Board of Trustees of the Louis- 
 ville Public Schools by annual election from 1873 
 to 1880, when he was elected commonwealth 
 attorney for the Ninth Judicial District of Ken- 
 tucky for a term of six years and was re-elected 
 without opposition in 1886. 
 
 He resigned this ofifice in March, 1887, to take 
 his seat as a member of the Fiftieth Congress, to 
 which he had been elected in November, 1886. 
 He was three times re-elected, and served in the 
 
 Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second and Fifty-third 
 Congresses as a Democrat. 
 
 Since retiring from the public service he has 
 resumed the practice of law, which he did not 
 relinquish entirely during his eight years in Con- 
 gress. 
 
 Mr. Caruth was married February 23, 1871, to 
 Miss Ella Terry, daughter of John Terry, for 
 many years a wholesale grocery merchant in 
 Louisville. She received her education in Louis- 
 ville, and is a lady of many attainments, and en- 
 tirely worthy of the many honors which she has 
 shared with her very popular husband. 
 
 WALLACE McDowell SHELBY, Col- 
 lector of Internal Revenue at Lexington, 
 is descended from Revolutionary ancestry. His 
 great-great-grandfafher, Isaac Shelby, first gov- 
 ernor of Kentucky, was a brave and patriotic sol- 
 dier from the beginning to the close of the War 
 of the Revolution. He was born December 11, 
 1750, in the vicinity of Hagerstown, in the colony 
 of Maryland, whence his father. General Evan 
 Shelby, and grandfather settled after their arrival 
 in the colonies from Wales. Governor Shelby 
 was a lieutenant in his father's company in the 
 great battle with the Indians at Point Pleasant 
 October 10, 1774, at the mouth of the Kanawha, 
 at the close of which battle Evan Shelby was the 
 commanding officer. Colonels Lewis Fleming 
 and Field being killed or disabled. The result of 
 this battle gave peace to Northwestern Virginia 
 at the critical period of the colony. Coming so 
 close upon the eventful contest of the Revolution 
 it deterred the Indians from uniting with the 
 British until 1776. Isaac Shelby was the true 
 hero of the battle of King's Mountain. His great 
 victory here over Colonel Ferguson October 7, 
 1780, occurred at the gloomiest period of the 
 Revolution and was the first link in the great 
 chain of events in the South which established the 
 independence of the United States. History has 
 heretofore, though improperly, ascribed demerit 
 to the battle of Cowpens in 1781, but it belongs 
 justly to the victory on King's Mountain, which 
 turned the tide of war in the South as the victory 
 under Washington at Trenton and of Bennington 
 
126 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 under Starke did to the North. Isaac Shelby 
 was the first man to organize the expedition that 
 terminated in the victory of King's Mountain, 
 and after the close of the war settled in Kentucky, 
 and upon the admission of Kentucky into the 
 Union in 1792 he became her first governor. In 
 1812 he was the second time elected governor 
 and entered the field in person in the War of 1812, 
 and was in the battle of the Thames October 5, 
 1813. No greater patriot nor braver man ever 
 lived than Isaac Shelby. His zeal and love for his 
 country knew no bounds. His, death occurred 
 July 18, 1826, at the age of seventy-six years. 
 
 Wallace McDowell Shelby is a native of Fayette 
 County, Kentucky. He was born July 17, i860, 
 and is the son of Thomas Hart and Florence 
 (McDowell) Shelby. His father, the son of 
 Thomas Shelby, was also a native of Fayette 
 County, where he resided on a farm until 1893, 
 when he removed to Lexington, where he was 
 appointed revenue collector of the Seventh Dis- 
 trict by President Cleveland. He took charge of 
 this office October i, 1893, and died February 
 19, 189S, aged sixty-six years. He was a man of 
 lofty character and unswerving integrity. He 
 was a prominent member of the Walnut Hill 
 Presbyterian Church. He was reared on the farm 
 and became an extensive farmer and cattle breed- 
 er. His farm was one of the finest tracts of land 
 in the "Blue Grass," embracing seven hundred 
 acres. 
 
 Thomas Shelby (grandfather) was born in Lin- 
 coln County, Kentucky, and was with his father 
 and brother James in the second war for inde- 
 pendence. At the age of twenty years Thomas 
 Shelby removed to Fayette County, where he took 
 charge of three thousand acres of land that had 
 been given him by his father. Governor Isaac 
 Shelby. His death occurred February 14, 1869, 
 in the eighty-second year of his age. At his death 
 he deeded his children each seven hundred acres 
 of land. 
 
 Florence McDowell Shelby (mother) is also a 
 native of Lincoln County, and is a member of the 
 Presbyterian Church. Her father, William Wal- 
 lace McDowell (see sketches of McDowells on an- 
 other page), was a nephew of Thomas Shelby, 
 who was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky, and 
 
 emigrated to Marion County, Missouri, where he 
 resided many years and died. 
 
 Wallace M. Shelby was reared on his father's 
 farm in Fayette County and received his educa- 
 tion at Central University, Richmond, Kentucky. 
 After leaving college he went to Missouri and 
 accepted a position as chief clerk under his uncle, 
 Shelby McDowell, who was superintendent of the 
 Pacific Railway Company. In 1885 Mr. Shelby 
 returned to Kentucky and received the appoint- 
 ment of United States ganger under General 
 James F. Robinson, who was collector of internal 
 revenue under President Cleveland's first admin- 
 istration. He held this position until February, 
 1889, when he resigned. He was then en- 
 gaged in mercantile business in Lexing- 
 ton until his father's appointment as collec- 
 tor, when he was appointed chief deputy, and at 
 his father's death he received the appointment of 
 collector. In 1886 Mr. Shelby married Margaret 
 Bryan, daughter of Joseph H. Bryan of Fayette 
 County, and has two children, Florence McDow- 
 ell and Joseph Bryan. The Harts, McDowells, 
 Bryans and Wallaces are all families of prom- 
 inence and many of them were Revolutionary sol- 
 diers. 
 
 REV. WARNER T. BOLLING, D. D., pas- 
 tor of Hill Street Methodist Church, Lexing- 
 ton, one of the most eloquent pulpit orators of 
 Kentucky, was born in Greene County, Alabama, 
 May 25, 1846, and is a son of Warner T. Boiling 
 and Harriet Smith, his wife. He is descended 
 from a distinguished family who settled in the col- 
 ony of Virginia with the Randolphs, Madisons, 
 Meades and Taylors in 1685. The Boilings are 
 of English ancestry, and intermarried with the 
 Bland and Randolph families. 
 
 Warner T. Boiling (father) was a native of 
 Petersburg, Virginia, and when quite a young 
 man emigrated to Alabama, where he resided 
 some years, afterward removing to Nashville and 
 thence to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he died 
 in 1856, in the fifty-sixth year of his age. He was 
 a planter in Alabama, but retired from active busi- 
 ness some years before his death. He was an 
 aristocratic, scholarly gentleman, and a consistent 
 member of the Episcopal Church, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 127 
 
 Harriet Smith Boiling (mother) was born in 
 the vicinity of Richmond, Virginia, and died in 
 Knoxville, Tennessee, in the same year that her 
 husband died, when she was fifty-four years of 
 age. She was a devout member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and a woman of many rare 
 accomplishments and personal attractions. 
 
 Warner T. Boiling was reared in Knoxville 
 and in Memphis, Tennessee, removing to the lat- 
 ter place some time after the death of his parents. 
 He was a student in Emory and Henry College 
 in 1861 ; and in that year, at the age of fifteen, he 
 enlisted in Company C, Second Regiment Ten- 
 nessee Infantry, in which he served four years in 
 the Confederate army. He received a severe 
 wound, breaking his right arm, in the battle of 
 Chickamauga, and also received a flesh wound in 
 the battle of Lookout Mountain. His regiment 
 belonged to the division commanded by General 
 Cleburne, who was killed in the battle of Franklin 
 in 1864. 
 
 Mr. Boiling left college to join the army at 
 such an age that his education was by no means 
 complete and after the war the South was left in 
 such a state that he was unable to resume his 
 studies in college. But by wonderful energy, 
 great perseverance and close application, he pur- 
 sued his studies alone and acquired a well ground- 
 ed and thorough education, and in the truest sense 
 may be styled a self-made man. His fine scholar- 
 ship was recognized by the faculty of St. Charles 
 College, who conferred upon him the degree of 
 doctor of divinity in 1886. 
 
 After four years of study Mr. Boiling entered 
 the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 in 1869, since which time he has preached the 
 gospel in Tennessee, West Virginia, Missouri, 
 Colorado and Kentucky. For three years he was 
 pastor of one of the leading churches in Denver 
 and for six years in Missouri, and came to Ken- 
 tucky in the early part of 1890 and had charges 
 in Covington and Winchester, and in 1894 was 
 sent to Lexington and placed in charge of Hill 
 Street Methodist Church. Under the itinerant 
 system of the Methodist Episcopal Church Dr. 
 Boiling has several times been transferred by 
 order of the bishops to do special work in the 
 states of Colorado, Miggouri and West Virginia, 
 
 He is universally esteemed and appreciated as a 
 minister and as a citizen by the people of Lexing- 
 ton, regardless of sect or class, being an eloquent 
 speaker, a profound scholar and a man of sound 
 judgment and acknowledged ability. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Boiling has been twice married. His 
 first wife, to whom he was married in 1870, was 
 Mary Coley, by whom he had three children, two 
 of whom are living: Robert E. Boiling, who is 
 engaged in business in Cincinnati, and Margaret 
 E. Boiling. His present wife, to whom he was 
 married in 1882, was Willie R. Jeter of Virginia, 
 a woman of rare judgment and Christian charac- 
 ter. By this union there have been five children: 
 Louise, Warner, Arthur, Mary Randolph and 
 Helen Meade. Of these Warner and Arthur are 
 deceased. 
 
 Dr. Boiling is president of the Board of Educa- 
 tion, of the Kentucky Conference, of the M. E. 
 Church, South, and takes an active interest in the 
 educational movements of the day. 
 
 VERY REVEREND FERDINAND BROS- 
 SART, B. G., is a native of Buchelberg, 
 Rhenish Bavaria, and was born October 19, 1849, 
 and since 1888 has been the popular and able rec- 
 tor of St. Mary's Cathedral at Covington. He 
 was the sixth child born to Ferdinand Brossart 
 and his wife, Catherine Diesel, who were both 
 natives of Buchelberg, Rhenish Bavaria. His 
 parents, like many others of Germany, had con- 
 ceived a great distaste and horror of militaryism 
 and longed to take their five sons and one daugh- 
 ter to a country free of those feudalistic environ- 
 ments, and soon emigrated to the United States 
 and located at Cincinnati in 1851. The father re- 
 turned to his native country and there sold his 
 property and then returned to this country, and 
 bought an extensive farm in Kentucky, upon 
 which he resided until his death in 1883. Father 
 Brossart commenced his clerical and preparatory 
 studies for the priesthood at St. Francis' Col- 
 lege at Cincinnati and at Mount St. Mary's of the 
 West. His philosophical studies were taken at 
 the Petit Seminary of St. Nicholas, in the diocese 
 of Ghent, in Belgium, and his theological studies 
 were taken in the University of Louvain, Bel- 
 gium, where he finished his course in 1872, and 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 returned to the diocese of Covington. In October 
 of the same year he was appointed by the Right 
 Reverend Bishop Toebbe to the pastorate of St. 
 Edward's Church at Cynthiana. In 1876 Father 
 Brossart was transferred to St. Pius' Church in 
 Scott County, where he remained for sixteen 
 months. He was next appointed pastor of the 
 Church of Annunciation at Paris, where he at- 
 tended to the spiritual wants of that church until 
 November, 1878, when he succeeded the late 
 Father Bekkers as pastor of St. Paul's Church at 
 Lexington. Father Brossart remained as its pas- 
 tor until July, 1888, when he was selected by the 
 Right Reverend Bishop C. P. Maes, D. D., vicar- 
 general of the Covington diocese, as rector of St. 
 Mary's Cathedral, where he is at present stationed. 
 He is also the editor and manager of the "Cathe- 
 dral Chimes," which is published at Covington. 
 
 JOSEPH BRYAN, M. D., one of the leaders 
 in the medical profession in Lexington and 
 Fayette County and a descendant of a noble an- 
 cestry, was born in Fayette County, Kentucky, 
 December 24, 1849, ^"d is a son of Daniel Bryan 
 and Sarah (Pettit) Bryan. 
 
 Dr. Bryan was educated in the Kentucky Uni- 
 versity at Lexington and studied medicine in the 
 Bellevue Flospital Medical College, New York, 
 one of the leading medical colleges in the United 
 States, and after graduating in 1873, he spent 
 two years as house surgeon of the first surgical 
 division in Bellevue Hospital. After passing a 
 competitive examination by the examining board 
 he was given his choice of six positions and chose 
 the first surgical division. There was no pay at- 
 tached to this position, the appointment being 
 purely honorary, but it was a high compliment to 
 his faithfulness as a student and to his ability as 
 a surgeon. After holding this position his al- 
 lotted time, and gaining much valuable expe- 
 rience in surgery. Dr. Bryan returned to Lexing- 
 ton in 1875 and began the practice of medicine 
 and surgery, to which he has given his whole 
 time and attention for a period of over twenty 
 years. 
 
 Few men in professional life have enjoyed 
 greater success or personal popularity. A man 
 of education, culture and refinement, genial in 
 
 his manner and of kindly disposition, he is re- 
 spected by all who know him and revered by 
 those who have enjoyed an intimate acquaintance 
 with him. An able physician and a scholarly gen- 
 tleman, he is accorded a leading position among 
 the members of the medical fraternity. 
 
 As a citizen he is public spirited and enterpris- 
 ing and is always ready to assist in furthering any 
 good cause. His only office is that of a member 
 of the Board of Health, in which he serves the 
 city without a monetary consideration. 
 
 Dr. Bryan and Mrs. Jessie M. Brown, widowed 
 daughter of Thomas McGrath, were married in 
 1884. 
 
 An interesting history of the Bryan family and 
 its connections is given in an old newspaper 
 which is in possession of a member of the family, 
 the essential points of which are as follows: 
 
 Morgan Bryan, the first of the name of which 
 there is any authentic account, was born in Den- 
 mark and was the only son of William Bryan. 
 He was a Dane by birth, but not by origin, as 
 the Bryans were Irish, and Morgan Bryan re- 
 moved to Ireland and lived there a while before 
 coming to America. He located in Pennsyl- 
 vania and there married Martha Stood, a Dutch 
 girl who had lived in France, but fled from that 
 country on account of religious persecution. Her 
 father and mother died on the voyage to America, 
 and she was adopted by strangers, and after reach- 
 ing womanhood married Morgan Bryan. They 
 removed from Pennsylvania to Virginia and lived 
 near Winchester until two of their sons were 
 grown, married and settled. The\- then removed 
 to the Valley of the Yadkin River in North Caro- 
 lina, where they owned lands, as the records show. 
 Morgan Bi^yan and Martha Stood had seven sons 
 and three daughters: Joseph, Elenor, Rebecca, 
 Mary, Samuel, Morgan, John, William, James 
 and Thomas. Of these William married Mary 
 Boone and Rebecca married Daniel Boone, the 
 noted pioneer of Kentucky. 
 
 Many years after the Bryans had settled in 
 North Carolina there was a great exodus from 
 that state on account of political persecution and 
 illegal taxation, and the Boones and Bryans, being 
 united by the intermarriage of their families, be- 
 came possessed of the idea of living in a country 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 129 
 
 where they would be untrarameled by unjust and 
 obnoxious laws and regulations; and, being at- 
 tracted by the accounts of the fertile fields, beau- 
 tiful rivers and fine forests of Kentucky, they left 
 their homes and took up the tedious journey to 
 the land in which they afterward became distin- 
 guished citizens. 
 
 William Bryan (great-great-grandfather), son 
 of Morgan Bryan, was the first settler at Bryan 
 Station. That he came to the station many years 
 prior to the date given in history is evident from 
 the records at Salisbury, North Carolina, which 
 show that he disposed of his lands there prior 
 to that date. It was in 1779 that he, with his 
 family and three of his brothers, Joseph, James 
 and Morgan, arrived at the fort. Wilham Bryan 
 (great-great-grandfather) headed a hunting expe- 
 dition in company with eleven others and in a 
 skirmish with Indians he was wounded and died 
 in the station a few days later, greatly lamented 
 by his companions and family. He was born 
 March 7,' 1733, and died in 1780. His wife, Mary 
 Boone, was born November 10, 1736, and died 
 July, 1819. Their children were: Samuel, 
 Daniel (great-grandfather), William, Phoebe, 
 Hannah, John, Sarah, Abner, Elizabeth and 
 Mary. Daniel, the second son, was born Febru- 
 ary 10, 1758, and died February 27, 1845. He 
 married Elizabeth Turner and their children were: 
 WilHam, Louis, Samuel, Joseph and Mary. 
 
 Joseph Bryan (grandfather) was born in 1799 
 aiid died in 1887. He married Mary Cartmell, 
 who was born February 9, 1804. Her father, 
 Elijah Cartmell, was born February 25, 1763. 
 Joseph Bryan and Mary Cartmell's children were: 
 Elijah, Daniel, Joseph and Mary. 
 
 Daniel Bryan, second son, is Dr. Joseph 
 Bryan's father. He was born May 5, 1825, and 
 was graduated from Bethany College in the class 
 of 1848. Pie was a distinguished mathematician 
 and a good scholar, but chose no profession, pre- 
 ferring the Hfe of a farmer. He lived in Fayette 
 County for many years and in 1880 removed to 
 Houstonia, Pettis County, Missouri, which is his 
 present place of residence. 
 
 Sarah Pettit Bryan (mother) was born in 1829 
 and was educated in Mr. Broadus' school in Lex- 
 ington. Her marriage to Daniel Bry^ vvjis cele- 
 9 
 
 brated January 25, 1849. She died in 1882. Her 
 grandfather, Harry Pettit, was a native of Fay- 
 ette County, and a farmer. He married Julia At- 
 chison, daughter of Hamilton Atchison and sis- 
 ter of Dr. Thomas Atchison, professor of theory 
 and practice in Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 
 Tennessee. Harry Pettit died in 1874. The At- 
 chisons were of Irish extraction. Mrs. Bryan's 
 grandfather, Pettit, was a native of France. 
 
 HON. GEORGE W. MORRIS, president of 
 the Louisville Gas Company, is the son of 
 John and Elizabeth (Jones) Morris. He was 
 born in Gloucestershire, England, January 27, 
 1823. His father and mother were natives of 
 England, who came to the United States in 1827, 
 locating in New York City, and afterward, in 
 1 83 1, removing to Troy, New York, where they 
 continued to reside until the time of their death. 
 They gave careful attention to the education and 
 religious training of their children. Mr. Morris 
 was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church for 
 fifty years. He was for many years a manufac- 
 turer of carriages, but retired long before his 
 death, which occurred in 1881, when he was in his 
 eighty-eighth year. Prior to the late war he was 
 a Democrat, but after the beginning of the war 
 he became a Republican, but took no active part 
 in political affairs. 
 
 Elizabeth Morris (mother) was born in Eng- 
 land in 1795. She was a woman of great Chris- 
 tian virtue and a beloved member of the Presby- 
 terian Church. She died in i860. 
 
 George W. Morris received a good English 
 education in Troy, leaving school, however, when 
 only fourteen years of age to clerk in a mercan- 
 tile establishment, in which he remained until he 
 was twenty-three years of age, in the meantime 
 teaching school in the vicinity of Troy. When he 
 came to Louisville he had the usual experience 
 of the young man among strangers, and it was 
 some time before he found employment. He 
 was glad to accept a position as bookkeeper in the 
 tobacco house of E. Holbrook at two hundred 
 dollars a year. He was afterward bookkeeper in 
 the wholesale dry goods house of Emory, Low & 
 Co. for three years before embarking in the 
 wholesale grocery business as a member of the 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 firm of Fonda, Moore & Co. (See George H. 
 Moore.) He continued in this for twenty years, 
 conducting the business alone after the with- 
 drawal of his partners, and was notably one of 
 the most successful merchants of Louisville. 
 
 In 1867 he disposed of his grocery interests and 
 for seventeen years was a member of the firm 
 of George S. Moore & Co., large iron dealers, 
 controlHng the product of twenty-five blast fur- 
 naces. He withdrew from this firm in 1885 when 
 elected to his present position, president of the 
 Louisville Gas Company, to which for ten years 
 past he has given his best attention. 
 
 Few men have done more for the public good, 
 without hope of reward or fear of criticism; and 
 if one were to ask one hundred citizens to write 
 the names of ten of the most worthy and popular 
 citizens of Louisville, the name of George W. 
 Morris would be near the top, if not first in every 
 such list. His career has been characterized by 
 great energy, prudence and liberality, controlled 
 by a superior judgment and marked throughout 
 by unquestioned integrity. Notwithstanding his 
 devotion to business pursuits, he has given much 
 attention to letters, acquiring an education, lim- 
 ited in his youth, which places him in rank with 
 the learned men of his day and generation. As 
 an evidence of this, the degree of A. M. was con- 
 ferred upon him in 1865. His interest in public 
 affairs has been as unselfish as it has been ener- 
 getic and unremitting. In 185 1 he advocated, 
 before the people and through the press, the 
 necessity for a new city charter; was one of the 
 earliest advocates for loaning the credit of the 
 city to aid in building railroads; was elected a 
 member of the first board of trustees of the uni- 
 versity and public schools of Louisville, under 
 the charter of 1851; contributed largely to the 
 present admirable public school system of the 
 city, being a member of the school board for 
 twelve years and its president for five years, being 
 elected and re-elected without opposition; and as 
 presiding officer of that and other bodies h< 
 gained unusual distinction as a parliamentarian. 
 For several years he was a director in the Ken- 
 tucky Mechanics' Institute, and delivered the 
 fifth annual address before that association 
 in 1857. In i8$o he was elected president 
 
 of the Board of Trade, serving two years; 
 in 1864 he was a member of the City 
 Council, and in 1866 he was the Democratic 
 nominee for mayor of the city (an office in 
 which it was difficult at that time to place a man 
 of Mr. Morris' standing). In 1870 he represented 
 his ward in the City Charter Convention, and was 
 president of that body. In 1873, on solicitation of 
 the best citizens without reference to party, he 
 became a candidate and was elected by a unani- 
 mous vote to the state legislature, but was com- 
 pelled, on account of pressing business engage- 
 ments, to resign before entering upon the duties 
 of the office. 
 
 Mr. Morris was a director in the Bank of Louis- 
 ville for ten years, and for twenty-two years has 
 been and is a director in the Bank of Kentucky, 
 which is acknowledged the most substantial bank- 
 ing institution in the state. He was one of the 
 incorporators of the Mutual Life Insurance Com- 
 pany of Kentucky in 1868, and has remained in 
 its directory until the present time; was a direc- 
 tor in the Franklin Insurance Company of Louis- 
 ville for thirty-five years and was its president 
 for eight years, and has been a director and presi- 
 dent of the Indiana Cotton Mills Company — 
 whose office is in Louisville — for twelve years. 
 He has been grand treasurer of the Grand Lodge 
 of Kentucky, and of the Grand Encampment of 
 Kentucky, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, for 
 thirty-seven years — an order of which he has 
 been a zealous member for many years, frequently 
 serving the order in its various offices and other- 
 wise aiding it in its benevolent work. He is, and 
 has been, interested in many other institutions 
 and enterprises too numerous to mention, and 
 even now at his advanced age he is a very active, 
 busy man. 
 
 Notwithstanding his many business interests 
 and his labors for the advancement of the city's 
 welfare, he has always been active and zealous in 
 church affairs, being an elder in the Second Pres- 
 byterian Church (formerly Dr. Stuart Robin- 
 son's) ; he has frequently represented the church 
 in its higher courts. He was tor many years 
 superintendent of the Sabbath school, and his 
 attention to details in all the affairs of the church, 
 his ability and willingness to perform any duty, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 with gentleness of spirit and exemplary Chris- 
 tian demeanor, have won the hearts of the people 
 of the congregation and the children of the Sab- 
 bath school in a measure that is exceedingly 
 gratifying to him as he approaches the close of a 
 busy and useful life. 
 
 Mr. Morris was married in 1848 to Caroline, 
 daughter of James and Abigail Wallace of New 
 York State. Mrs. Morris was a lady of superior 
 intelligence and of fine personal attractions. She 
 died in 1894, leaving three children: Carrie, widow 
 of Rowan Boone, a direct descendant of the 
 pioneer, Daniel Boone; John S. Morris and Wal- 
 lace W. Morris, all of Louisville. 
 
 JOHN C. WILLIS, educator and lecturer, 
 now residing in Mitchell, Indiana, was bom 
 in Anderson County, near Lawrenceburg, Ken- 
 tucky, November i, 1862, and is a son of James 
 Emmons Willis and Mary Ellen Gordon Willis. 
 
 His father, James E. Willis, was also a native 
 of Anderson County. He was a merchant of 
 Lawrenceburg at the outbreak of the war, and 
 was also interested in farming. He enlisted in the 
 Union army and served with distinction through- 
 out the Civil war. He took great interest in 
 politics, being an ardent Republican, and on two 
 occasions was the candidate of his party for the 
 legislature. He was a faithful member and sup- 
 porter of the Christian Church. He died in 1888, 
 at the age of forty-eight years, greatly lamented 
 by his family and by the entire community in 
 which he had lived. 
 
 John Gordon (maternal grandfather) was also 
 a native and resident of Anderson County, a 
 prominent and useful citizen, and died in 1862. 
 
 John C. Willis' early education was received in 
 the public schools of his native county. He at- 
 tended college in Danville, Indiana, and Lexing- 
 ton, Kentucky. He took his post-graduate course 
 at the University of Wooster (Ohio), and received 
 from this institution the degree of Ph. D. 
 
 He began his life-work as an educator in the 
 common schools in Woodford County, and in a 
 short time became principal of an academy at 
 Orr, Anderson County, which position he filled 
 acceptably for two years, in that time building up 
 the largest school ever conducted in that place. 
 
 He then was called to the chair of mathematics 
 and civil engineering in Mountain City College, 
 Tennessee; and, while holding this position, he 
 conducted several surveys for railroads around 
 Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain. He was 
 compelled to resign his professorship in this col- 
 lege on account of ill health. One year later he 
 returned to Lawrexiceburg and there organized 
 the Kentucky Normal College, an institution 
 which attained remarkable success during the 
 three years of his administration. 
 
 He then accepted the presidency of Ashland 
 College, at Shelbyville, which position he held 
 for three years, leaving it in 1894 to accept the 
 presidency of the Indiana Nornial College at 
 Mitchell, Indiana, an institution which has flour- 
 ished under his able management and has grown 
 to be one of the great normal schools of the coun- 
 try; hundreds of students are there enrolled each 
 year. 
 
 Mr. Willis has taken high rank as a civil en- 
 gineer, having taught many classes and surveyed 
 many railroads. His executive ability is fully 
 attested by the fact that every institution over 
 which he has presided has had marvelous growth 
 and success. As a teacher he ranks with the best 
 educators in this country, having taught thou- 
 sands of students, coming from all parts of the 
 United States. 
 
 For several years he has been a successful in- 
 stitute instructor and lecturer, and during the past 
 two years has lectured before more institutes in 
 Kentucky than any other instructor. Few men 
 have accomplished more for the cause of educa- 
 tion in the state then Professor Willis. 
 
 He was mamed July 10, 1889, to Licoie Milton 
 of Shelbyville, Kentucky. He is a Royal Arch 
 Mason, and an elder in the Christian Church. 
 
 OLIVER FRANCIS LEE BECKETTE, a 
 member of the firm of R. H. Vansant & 
 Company, lumber dealers, of Ashland, was bom 
 in Cabell County, West Virginia, October i, 
 1861. He received his education in his native 
 county and at Marshall College, Huntington, 
 West Virginia, graduating from that institution 
 in the class of 1886. He went to Mount Savage 
 in March, 1887, and took charge of the books of 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 the Lexington & Carter County Mining Com- 
 pany, remaining there for five years. He was then 
 employed as bookkeeper for the Leon Lumber 
 Company at Leon, Carter County, for a period 
 of two years. On the first of April, 1894, he be- 
 came a member of the well-known lumber estab- 
 lishment of R. H. Vansafit & Company, at Ash- 
 land. He is a man of fine business qualifications, 
 upright in his dealings; one of the most popular 
 young business men of Ashland; a Republican 
 voter; a member of the Masonic Order; a Knight 
 Templar, and a steward in the -Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church, of which he became a member Janu- 
 ary 26, 1896. 
 
 Mr. Beckette was married June i, 1892, to 
 Samantha Prichard, daughter of Wiley Prichard 
 of Mt. Savage, Kentucky. She was born January 
 27, 1866, and educated in the best schools of Mt. 
 Sterling, Kentucky. 
 
 Andrew L. Beckette (father) was born in Cabell 
 County, now West Virginia, July 25, 1824, 
 where he has been engaged for the greater part 
 of his life in farming. During the recent war he 
 was commissioned captain by Governor Wise, 
 and served three years in the One Hundred and 
 Twentieth Regiment of Virginia Militia. He is 
 postmaster at Fudges' Creek, Cabell County, a 
 position which he has held continuously since 
 1870, being one of the few Republicans who have 
 not been disturbed by Democratic administra- 
 tions. He is greatly devoted to his home and 
 does not care for political or social distinction. 
 
 James Beckette (grandfather) was born in 
 Montgomery County, Virginia, September 18, 
 1774; served in the infantry arm of the militia in 
 the War of 1812; was engaged in farming in 
 Cabell County before the State of Virginia was 
 divided; married Plannah Lee, who was a first 
 cousin of General Robert E. Lee. His father's 
 name was Richard Beckette, whose ancestors 
 were from England, with a mixture of German 
 blood in their veins. 
 
 Hannah Lee Beckette (grandmother) was born 
 in Patrick County, Virginia, September 20, 1788, 
 and died December 16, 1862. She was a daugh- 
 ter of William Lee. 
 
 Emily S. (Hatfield) Beckette, mother of Oliver 
 F. L. Beckette, was born in Cabell County, West 
 
 Virginia, September 22, 1824. She married An- 
 drew L. Beckette in 1848, and died January 3, 
 1883. She was well educated and highly cul- 
 tured, a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church (Northern branch), and a lady of most 
 exemplary Christian character. 
 
 Adam Hatfield (grandfather) was born in Taze- 
 well County, Virginia, October 19, 1774. He was 
 a farmer by occupation; a soldier in the War of 
 181 2, and in General Wayne's war with the In- 
 dians. He died June 18; 1855. He married Mary 
 Williams, who was born in Tazewell County, Vir- 
 ginia, February 12, 1782, and died November 15, 
 1847. Adam Hatfield's father's name was An- 
 drew Hatfield, whose ancestors were Germans, if 
 he was not a native of Germany himself. 
 
 HENRY ORENDORF, M. D., of Louisville, 
 was born in Breckinridge County, Ken- 
 tucky, October 6, 1841, and is a member of a very 
 old family whose names are found in the early 
 annals of this country, and who were driven from 
 Germany nearly two hundred years ago by Louis 
 XIV. on account of their religious opinions. They 
 fled to England and eventually made their way 
 to the United States, some time prior to the Revo- 
 lutionary war. Some of the members settled in 
 Virginia, some in Pennsylvania and others in 
 Maryland, and, as the tradition goes, a number 
 of the men became good soldiers in the cause of 
 liberty. One of the Orendorfs, of Frederick 
 County, Virginia, "raised" twenty-four children — 
 eighteen sons and six daughters; seven sons 
 served in the same company in the War of 1812, 
 and four of them afterward owned adjoining 
 farms in Virginia and reared eleven children each. 
 A reunion of the family was held at Blooming- 
 ton, Illinois, in October, 1886, when the fact was 
 developed that there were representatives of the 
 family in thirty-two states and territories. Many 
 interesting legends and reminiscences of the fam- 
 ily were brought to light at this reunion, and the 
 rather peculiar fact was commented upon that not- 
 withstanding they were driven from the "Fader- 
 land" on account of their religion, not one had 
 been found in the vast number of descendants 
 who was a minister of the gospel, and not one of 
 the km^h members of the family had married a 
 
HENRY ORENDORF, M. D. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 133. 
 
 minister. They are, however, moral and religious 
 people, the majority of them being church mem- 
 bers, and they represent nearly all other profes- 
 sions and occupations. 
 
 Henry Orendorf is the son of Mexico Orendorf, 
 a native of Fincastle, Virginia, who came to Ken- 
 tucky over sixty years ago and located in Breck- 
 inridge County, where he engaged in farming 
 and trading in live stock until he was forty-two 
 years of age, and died in 1854. 
 
 Jesse Orendorf (grandfather) was born in Fred- 
 erick County, Virginia, near Winchester, and re- 
 moved to Fincastle, Virginia, and subsequently 
 to Breckinridge County, Kentucky, with his son, 
 Mexico, and was a farmer in that county, where 
 he lived to be eighty years of age. 
 
 Christian Orendorf (great-grandfather) was 
 born in Germany in 1726, and was probably one 
 of those who fled from the Lower Palatinate in 
 the time of Louis XIV. The Orendorf s were 
 descended from noble ancestry. One of the Oren- 
 dorfs left England and went to Canada with Gen- 
 eral Wolfe and later settled in the Mohawk Val- 
 ley. 
 
 Mary Kane Orendorf (mother) was born in 
 Salem, Virginia, in 1818, and is now a resident of 
 Louisville. Her father, Thomas Kane, was a 
 native of Virginia and a farmer, who came to 
 Breckinridge County about sixty years ago, 
 where he died of cholera in 1849. The Kanes 
 were of English extraction. 
 
 Henry Orendorf grew to manhood in his native 
 county, receiving his education in private schools 
 and in Franklin (Indiana) College, which he at- 
 tended for two years and completed his collegiate 
 course at the CeciHan College in Hardin County. 
 He then attended the Kentucky School of Medi- 
 cine in Louisville, from which he was graduated 
 in 1871. He then was employed as interne in 
 the City Hospital for eighteen months, after which 
 he entered the ofifice of Dr. J. M. Holloway in 
 Louisville and was associated with him for four 
 years, being in the meantime visiting physician 
 at the City Hospital. 
 
 In 1876 he went to Savannah, Georgia, as acting 
 assistant surgeon, U. S. A., at that post. He re- 
 mained there three months, and on account of 
 yellow fever was transferred to Blackville, South 
 
 Carolina, and two months later was again trans- 
 ferred to Charleston in the same capacity. He 
 returned to Louisville in 1877, since which time 
 he has been engaged in the practice of his pro- 
 fession in that city. 
 
 In 1879 he was elected to the chair of materia 
 medica and therapeutics in the Kentucky School 
 of Medicine, a position which he still occupies. 
 He is also cHnical lecturer on Genito-Urinary and 
 Diseases of the Skin in the same institution. 
 
 Dr. Orendorf has been a member of all the 
 medical societies as they have come and gone, and 
 at present holds his membership in the principal 
 national, state and city medical societies and as- 
 sociations. 
 
 He was united in marriage May 12, 1876, to 
 Mattie Ormsby, youngest daughter of the late 
 Colonel Stephen Ormsby, of Louisville, who com- 
 manded the famous Louisville Legion in the Mex- 
 ican war. She is a granddaughter of Judge Ste- 
 phen Ormsby, who was the first Federal judge 
 of Kentucky. Dr. and Mrs. Orendorf have 
 two daughters and one son: Louisa Orms- 
 by, Marie Ormsby and Stephen Ormsby Oren- 
 dorf. 
 
 One of the legends of the Orendorf family, 
 which has been published in many newspapers, is 
 worth repeating here: 
 
 Mary Madaline Orendorf, a beautiful young 
 lady of seventeen summers, was present at an 
 entertainment given a number of patriot officers 
 in Baltimore during the Revolutionary war. Gen- 
 eral Horatio Gates, a war-worn veteran, the hero 
 of many battles and the conqueror of Burgoyne, 
 was present, and upon meeting Miss Orendorf 
 surrendered for the first time in his life; and, 
 through her father, made a formal proposal of 
 marriage. General Gates was an accompHshed 
 and popular officer and was flushed with the hon- 
 ors conferred upon him for his imany conquests. 
 He was possessed of great wealth, and offered to 
 lay at her feet his heart, hand and fortune; but 
 she refused his proposal because he was old 
 enough to be her father. She afterward married 
 a son of Jonathan Hager, founder of historical 
 old Ilagerstown. Her htisband died in a few years, 
 leaving a handsome young widow with one child 
 and a large estate. Luther Martin, one of the 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 most prominent lawyers of Maryland, fell desper- 
 ately in love with her, and after a brief courtship, 
 during which he indited numerous letters (some 
 of which are handed down to posterity as model 
 declarations of love) he was accepted. But the 
 engagement was broken off in a way that the 
 following letter will explain: 
 
 "Baltimore, July 26, 1800. 
 "My Very Dear, Amiable Mrs. Hager: 
 
 "I have been told since you left town that on 
 last Sunday week I was at your lodgings." (She 
 was visiting friends in Baltimore.) "Of this I have 
 no recollection. I doubt not I made a foolish 
 figure, but I think it impossible that I should 
 have behaved with rudeness or impropriety. Was 
 that the reason, my dear Mrs. Hager, of the cold- 
 ness and reserve you appeared to me with on 
 Monday morning when I called on you before I 
 went to AnnapoHs? If so, I will not blame you; 
 but be assured you shall never see me again in 
 a situation that I know not what I do, unless it 
 should proceed from the intoxication of love. In 
 the heat of summer my health requires that I 
 should drink in abundance to supply the amazing 
 waste from perspiration. But having found that 
 I was so unexpectedly affected, as I was, by soda 
 water and brandy, I have determined to mix my 
 waters with less dangerous liquors. Nay, I am 
 not only confining myself to mead, cider, beer, 
 hock, mixed with soda water, but I am accustom- 
 ing myself to drink water alone. Thus, if we live 
 to see each other again you will find me most com- 
 pletely reformed and one of the soberest of the 
 sober." 
 
 After writing this letter he was in Richmond, 
 Virginia, arguing a law case. When he returned 
 he found awaiting him a letter which drew out 
 an answer from him, in which he said: "I re- 
 turned much fatigued, but in good health, but, 
 alas! alas! what is health to a poor wretch, who, 
 before you hear from him again will most prob- 
 ably be tucked up, swinging from the limb of 
 
 some convenient tree resemblant of the 
 
 human shape which some prudent farmers hang 
 up in their corn fields to scare the birds away. 
 Yes, my dearest madam, be not alarmed should 
 you hear that your swain, in a fit of despair, has. 
 
 in the French style, given you the slip by sticking 
 his neck in the noose." But he did not destroy 
 his life, and was employed in a legal capacity by 
 Mrs. Hager, who subsequently married Colonel 
 Lawrence of Virginia. 
 
 WILBUR FISK BROWDER, one of the 
 most distinguished lawyers in the state, 
 and a prominent citizen of Russellvill^ was born 
 in Clarksville, Tennessee, December 12, 1848. 
 His father, David Browder, was born in Dinwid- 
 dle County, Virginia, near Petersburg, November 
 II, 1818, and came to Logan County, Kentucky, 
 with his parents in 1819. He was educated in 
 what was known as Russellville Academy, in a 
 building which is still standing and now used as 
 a public school. When he had reached his major- 
 ity he became largely interested in buying tobacco 
 and preparing it for the foreign markets. In 
 
 1842, having married a second time, he removed 
 to Clarksville, Tennessee, where he continued in 
 the tobacco business in connection with merchan- 
 dising. He had extensive business interests in the 
 city and was one of the leading and most enter- 
 prising citizens of Clarksville. He subsequently 
 removed to Montgomery, Alabama, where he was 
 engaged in merchandising and cotton planting 
 until his death, January 6, 1871. 
 
 David Browder was married April 16, 1838, to 
 Mary Evans, who was born in Logan County in 
 July, 1819. She belonged to one of the oldest and 
 most respectable families in the state. She died 
 in October, 1839, leaving no children. Mr. Brow- 
 der was married again November 8, 1842, to Eliza- 
 beth E. Irvine, daughter of Caleb Irvine, a native 
 of Tennessee. She was born in Robertson 
 County, Tennessee, May 18, 1823, and was edu- 
 cated in the Russellville Female Academy, which 
 is now known as Logan College. She survived 
 her husband about three years, and died in Rus- 
 sellville, July 28, 1874. There were ten children 
 by this marriage: Bettie G., born September 28, 
 
 1843, died June 7, 1845; James Thomas, born 
 January 9, 1845, died April 14, 1845; Robert 
 Irvine, born August 30, 1846, died July 19, 1893; 
 Wilbur F., born December 12, 1848; Helen May, 
 born February 21, 1851, died August S, 1851; 
 David, born September 12, 1852, died November 
 
Kentucky biographies. 
 
 135 
 
 24, 1856; Caleb Ewing, born April 22, 1854, died 
 April 25, 1871; Richard D., born June 15, 1856; 
 Edward M., born September 11, 1859; Fannie 
 Irvine, born July 11, 1863. 
 
 Richard Browder (grandfather) was born in 
 Dinwiddle County, Virginia, April i, 1789. He 
 came to Logan County, Kentucky, with his broth- 
 ers, William C. and Robert, in 1819; these three 
 brothers purchased three farms of five hundred 
 acres each, upon which they lived and prospered. 
 Richard Browder was married in Dinwiddle 
 County, Virginia, February 24, 1813, to Elizabeth 
 Anderson, who died in Logan County, June 2, 
 1858. 
 
 David Browder (great-grandfather), a native of 
 Virginia, married Sallie Pegram, also a Virginian, 
 and they lived and died in their native county. 
 
 Richard Browder (great-great-grandfather), a 
 Virginian by birth and lifetime resident, had two 
 sons, Charles and John, who were killed in the 
 Revolutionary war. 
 
 Caleb Irvine (maternal grandfather) was 
 drowned while attempting to cross Mayfield 
 Creek in Graves County, Kentucky, when he was 
 twenty-four years of age. He married EHzabeth 
 Ewing Mitchell of Robertson County, Tennes- 
 see, who lived to be eighty years of age, and died 
 in 1867. They had three children: Elizabeth E. 
 (mother) and two sons, Robert Green Irvine, who 
 became a distinguished Methodist minister, was 
 a member of the Tennessee Conference when he 
 was twenty-one years of age. He became wide- 
 ly known throughout the state as one of the lead- 
 ing preachers in the Methodist Church. The 
 second son, Caleb Ewing Irvine, enhsted for the 
 Mexican war in 1847, ^"^ was engaged with 
 General Winfield Scott in all of his engagements 
 in the war with Mexico and was present at the 
 final surrender of the Mexican army. He was 
 captain of a company and was only twenty-two 
 years of age at the close of the war. He wrote his 
 sister (Wilbur F. Browder's mother) that he did 
 not intend to return to the .States, but told her 
 that as long as she received the "Oregonian" 
 newspaper through the mail she would know that 
 he was alive, and when that paper ceased to make 
 its visits she would know that he was dead. The 
 paper came to her for seven years, and then, com- 
 
 ing no longer, his friends supposed he was dead. 
 For twenty years they heard nothing of him, but 
 in 1885 the family learned that he was a circuit 
 judge in Montana, residing at Deer Lodge. They 
 learned, further, that the district which he served 
 on the bench was strongly Republican in politics, 
 but he had been frequently elected as a Democrat. 
 After the close of the Mexican war he had been 
 appointed captain in the United States army, but 
 did not accept the commission. This promotion 
 was offered him on account of his bravery and 
 gallantry in battle. He died in 1889, having given 
 no reason for thus isolating himself from his fam- 
 ily. 
 
 Wilbur F. Browder received the best education 
 that the weahh and fondest ambition of his parents 
 could afford. His private tutor in Montgomery, 
 Alabama, was Dr. Moses, now the honored rabbi 
 of the Jewish Temple, Louisville, Kentucky, who 
 prepared him for college. In 1865 he entered the 
 University of Virginia at Charlottesville, remain- 
 ing three years and graduating in the class of 
 1868, in which were many students who have since 
 that time become men of national distinction, in- 
 cluding Senators Daniel and Faulkner, John S. 
 Wise, a distinguished lawyer of New York; 
 George P. Raney, chief justice of Florida; Rev. 
 Dr. Whitsett, president of the Louisville Baptist 
 Theological Seminary; Judge Alexander P. 
 Humphrey; Judge William O. Harris of Louis- 
 ville; Hon. Ben T. Perkins of Elkton, Todd 
 County, and quite a number of gentlemen who 
 have acquitted themselves with honor and credit 
 in the National House of Representatives. 
 
 In September, 1868, Mr. Browder began the 
 study of law in the State University at Lexington, 
 Kentucky, and graduated from that institution in 
 June, 1869, before he was twenty-one years of 
 age. His instructors in law were Madison C. 
 Johnson, who was dean of the faculty, John B. 
 Huston and William Cassius Goodloe. 
 
 In November, 1869, he was admitted to the bar 
 in Russellville and at once began the practice of 
 his profession in that city, with the result that he 
 is to-day not only a leading member of the bar 
 of Russellville, but one of the best known and 
 most successful lawyers of the state. He has 
 never been a candidate for any political office. 
 
136 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 although it has been difficult for a man of his 
 ability and popularity to keep oui of office. As 
 a means of diversion from the exacting duties of 
 his extensive practice and to help his friends, he 
 has indulged to some extent in politics, but has 
 steadily set his face against all temptations to run 
 for, or to accept, any political office, even in the 
 line of his profession. 
 
 In 1874 he was appointed register in bank- 
 ruptcy for the Third Congressional District by 
 the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the 
 United States, upon the recommendation of Judge 
 Bland Ballard of the United States Circuit Court 
 of Kentucky; and he accepted and held that 
 office until the repeal of the bankrupt law in 1878. 
 He was appointed master commissioner of Logan 
 County in 1880, but resigned that office in the 
 same year. He was local attorney for the Louis- 
 ville & Nashville Railroad Company from 1882 
 to 1889, when his territory was extended and he 
 was made district attorney for that company. 
 He was one of the organizers of the Logan 
 County Bank, in which he has been a director 
 and stockholder since it was opened for business. 
 
 Mr. Browder was married January 18, 1872, 
 to Bettie B. Wills, who was born in Logan 
 County, March 11, 1849. She was educated 
 principally in St. Mary's College, St. Louis, 
 Missouri, from which institution she is a grad- 
 uate. She is a lady of rare accomplishments, 
 being a fine Latin and French scholar. Her 
 father, John M. Wills, was born in Logan County, 
 July 26, 1 821; married EHza H. Bibb, who was 
 born in Russellville, February 27, 1827. She was 
 a niece of George M. Bibb of Russellville, who 
 was the first chancellor of the old Louisville Chan- 
 cery Court; was judge of the Kentucky Court of 
 Appeals; United States senator from Kentucky, 
 and secretary of the treasury under President 
 Pierce. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Browder have five sons: Wil- 
 bur F., Jr., born November 24, 1872; edu- 
 cated at Bethel College, Russellville, and at the 
 University of the South at Suwanee, Tennessee, 
 where he was a member of the class of 1890; is 
 now engaged in manufacturing leather in Rus- 
 sellville. 
 
 Marion Castner, born June 6, 1874; graduated 
 
 from Betliel College, June 18, 1892; from the 
 University of Virginia in the class of 1894; and 
 from the University of Berlin, Germany, in Sep- 
 tember, 1895; has chosen journalism for his pro- 
 fession. 
 
 John Caldwell, born March 27, 1876; grad- 
 uated from Bethel College in June, 1895; now a 
 student at the University of Virginia. 
 
 Lucien McClure, born Februaiy 6, 1878; now 
 a student in Bethel College. 
 
 Eugene Irvine, born July 4, 1882; in school in 
 Russellville. 
 
 W. F. Browder, Jr., was married November 
 23, 1893, to Harriet Morton Frazer. She was 
 born in Russellville, July 30, 1871, and is a 
 daughter of Thomas A. Frazer, deceased, who 
 was a very prominent citizen of Russellville and 
 cashier of the Bank of Russellville at the time 
 of his death. Wilbur F. Browder, Jr., is the 
 father of Wilbur F. Browder the third, who was 
 born February 19, 1895. 
 
 ARCHIBALD DIXON, M. D., physician and 
 surgeon, of Henderson, son of Governor 
 Archibald Dixon and Elizabeth Robertson Ca- 
 bell Dixon, was born in Henderson, Kentucky, 
 March 4, 1844. After attending the local schools 
 he was sent to the Sayre Institute, Frankfort; and 
 afterwards to the University of Toronto, Canada. 
 Returning from school, he followed the business 
 of farming on his place near Henderson until 
 1876, spending much of his leisure time in reading 
 medical works, and was thus prepared for the 
 study of medicine in the Louisville Medical Col- 
 lege, from w-hich he graduated in 1877, dividing 
 the honors with four of the brightest men in 
 the class. In that year he lost his property and 
 began life anew, as a physician in Henderson, 
 dci)ending upon his profession for the support of 
 liis family. 
 
 lie encountered the usual difficulties of a young 
 physician in a field entirely occupied by older 
 men of excellent reputation, who held their pat- 
 rons against all comers, and he had to take his 
 chances among them. It was a hard struggle for 
 a time, but these circumstances did not dampen 
 his professional zeal. He devoted himself to the 
 work before him with an energy and an applica- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 tion to his studies seldom equaled. His success 
 was soon assured; and, while others were pre- 
 dicting his failure, he was even then enjoying 
 some of the fruits of his labors. He made a 
 manly fight against poverty and obscurity, and 
 by his faithfulness to his calling, his genial man- 
 ner and marked ability, he won the battle against 
 unequal odds ; and, among the many distinguished 
 physicians of Henderson, he was soon known as 
 one of the first in his profession. 
 
 Dr. Dixon is a member of the Mississippi Val- 
 ley Medical Association, the second largest asso- 
 ciation of the kind in the United States. In 1885 
 the distinguished honor of president was con- 
 ferred upon him by this society, and he served 
 with a dignity and intelligence that made him a 
 host of friends. He is also a member of the 
 Kentucky State Medical Society, of which he 
 was president in 1893; member of other socie- 
 ties and clubs in the medical profession, and is a 
 frequent contributor to the leading medical jour- 
 nals. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, 
 and is a Knight Templar and a Knight of Pythias. 
 Dr. Dixon was married in December, 1864, 
 to Maggie Herndon of Frankfort, a most intelli- 
 gent and accomplished lady; and. they have two 
 sons and two daughters: Wynn, Archibald, 
 Maggie and Julia. 
 
 Dr. Dixon is a son of Governor Archibald 
 Dixon, who was born in Caswell County, North 
 Carolina, April 2, 1802, and came to Henderson 
 with his father's family in 1805. He enjoyed but 
 limited advantages in the way of an -early educa- 
 tion, as the settlement was new and the country 
 a wilderness. He studied law and soon took a 
 commanding position at the bar. In 1830 he was 
 elected by the Whig party to represent his county 
 in the legislature, and in 1836 was elected state 
 senator. In 1844 he was elected lieutenant gov- 
 ernor on the Whig ticket with Governor Owsley; 
 was a candidate for governor in the next election 
 (1848), but was defeated by Mr. Crittenden; was 
 a member of the Constitutional Convention in 
 1849 ^"d "^^s the Whig candidate for chairman 
 of that body, but his Democratic opponent, Mr. 
 Guthrie of Louisville, was elected by a majority 
 of two votes ; was the candidate of the Whig party 
 for governor in 1850, but, owing to dissensions in 
 
 the party at that time, was defeated; was elected 
 to the United States Senate in 1852 to fill the un- 
 expired term of Henry Clay, who resigned on 
 account of impaired health, and served until 
 1855. In the campaign of i860 Governor Dixon 
 espoused the cause of Douglas. In that year 
 and in 1861 he devoted himself unceasingly in 
 the effort to stay the tide of disunion, and made 
 speeches of extraordinary power and eloquence 
 in behalf of the Union. When the war came on 
 he suffered heavily in loss of property, but was 
 true to the Union. He took an active part in the 
 days of reconstruction, but did not again enter 
 the political arena. He died April 26, 1876. 
 
 Governor Dixon was twice married; first in 
 March, 1834, to Elizabeth Robertson Cabell, who 
 died in 185 1, leaving six children. His second 
 marriage occurred in October, 1853, to Sue Bul- 
 litt of Jefferson County, by whom he had three 
 children. Five of the six children of his first mar- 
 riage reached maturity: Rebecca Hart, wife of 
 Governor John Young Brown; Susan Bell, de- 
 ceased, who was twice married — first to Cuth- 
 bert Powell, second to Major John J. Reeve; Dr. 
 Archibald Dixon, Honorable Henry C. Dixon 
 and Joseph C. Dixon. 
 
 Dr. William Cabell, a native of England and 
 a graduate of Royal College of Surgeons in Lon- 
 don, immigrated to Goochland, now Nelson 
 County, Virginia, in 1723 or 1724. He had four 
 sons: William; Joseph, also a physician; John 
 and Nicholas. Dr. Joseph Cabell married Mary 
 Hopkins, aunt of General Samuel Hopkins, and 
 the children of that marriage were: Joseph, 
 Mary, who married John Breckinridge; Ann, 
 who married Benjamin Harrison; and Elizabeth. 
 The second time he _ married Ann E. Boiling, 
 daughter of Archibald Boiling of Red Oak, Buck- 
 ingham County, Virginia, whose wife was Jane 
 Randolph. Archibald Boiling was lineally de- 
 scended from Colonel Robert Boiling of Peters- 
 burg, Virginia, whose wife was a granddaughter 
 of the Indian princess Pocahontas. 
 
 Captain Wynn Dixon (grandfather) was a na- 
 tive of North Carolina, who joined the army when 
 sixteen years of age and served throughout the 
 Revolution. He moved from North Carolina to 
 Henderson in 1804. His father, Colonel Henry 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Dixon, commanded a regiment in the Revolu- 
 tionary war and was killed at the battle of Eutaw 
 Springs. Light Horse Harry Lee, in his memoirs 
 of the Revolution, pays Colonel Henry Dixon 
 a high compliment for his gallantry and bravery 
 at the battle of Camden. 
 
 Rebecca Hart Dixon, Governor Dixon's moth- 
 er, was a daughter of David Hart of North Caro- 
 lina, who, with his brothers, Nathaniel and 
 Thomas, were three of nine members of the Hen- 
 derson Grant Company, who, in 1775, through 
 their agent, Daniel Boone, purchased from the 
 Indians all of the land lying between the Ken- 
 lucky and Cumberland rivers ; and established at 
 Booneville the first government in Kentucky, 
 called Transylvania. 
 
 Dr. Dixon's reputation, especially away from 
 home, is in surgery, in which he is regarded as 
 one of the most skillful in the state. 
 
 He was also appointed by Governor Brown as 
 a member of the State Board of Health in 1894. 
 
 JOHN HULL DAVIDSON, ex-Mayor, and 
 one of the most enterprising citizens of Lex- 
 ington, was born in that city, August 23, 1855. 
 
 His father, James T. Davidson, was for a period 
 of twenty-nine years an official in the Northern 
 Bank of Kentucky. He came to this state from 
 the District of Columbia in 1839. His father was 
 James Davidson, who was the first cashier of the 
 Bank of United States at Washington. The 
 mother of J. Hull Davidson, Mrs. Catherine M. 
 Davidson, was a daughter of Jacob Hull, a farmer 
 and large land owner of Fayette County. 
 
 Hull Davidson, as he is familiarly known, re- 
 ceived his education at the old Transylvania Uni- 
 versity and, after leaving college, like his father 
 and grandfather, he became a bank officer, serv- 
 ing as individual bookkeeper in the First Na- 
 tional Bank of Lexington for eight years. Hav- 
 ing engaged in the plumbing and gas fixture busi- 
 ness as a silent partner while in the bank, Mr. 
 Davidson found his business growing to such a 
 rapid extent that he resigned his position in the 
 bank and devoted himself to his new business. 
 After several years of successful business with his 
 partner, R. D. Williams, he bought the old Lanck- 
 art foundry on Short street, by which means they 
 
 were enabled to increase their facilities. Mr. 
 Davidson soon afterward organized the present 
 Lexington Plumbing Company. 
 
 In 1884, in company with Charles Seelbach and 
 J. A. Simonds, he leased the Phoenix Hotel, of 
 which he was proprietor until 1891, when he 
 bought the entire property and formed the pres- 
 ent Phoenix Hotel Company, in which he is the 
 largest stockholder. 
 
 The Lexington Chamber of Commerce owes 
 its organization to Mr. Davidson, who was elected 
 president during its second year. 
 
 In the reform movement in politics in 1886, 
 Mr. Davidson was elected as a member of the 
 first Board of Aldermen; and later, in 1888, was 
 elected City Collector by an overwhelming vote, 
 and was re-elected without opposition in 1890. 
 Mr. Davidson thought he would retire from poli- 
 tics in 1 89 1, but a demand was made on him to 
 become a candidate for the mayoralty, which he 
 declined to consider until after he had addressed 
 a personal circular letter to the voters, asking 
 if it were their wish to have him run for that 
 office. This novel procedure resulted in such a 
 deluge of endorsements that he made the race and 
 was elected by an overwhelming majority. At 
 the close of his term he declined a re-election, as 
 the duties of the office interfered too seriously 
 with his business pursuits. During his short 
 term of seventeen months he got together the 
 neglected records of the four jears which pre- 
 ceded his term, and had them properly copied 
 and restored. The public schools were thorough- 
 ly reorganized and enlarged, and the police force 
 increased. When he took charge of the office the 
 city was burdened with an immense bank in- 
 debtedness; and he floated, for the first time, 
 Lexington bonds at 4 1-2 per cent, and after 
 payinq- off tlic indebtedness, much of which was 
 bearing 7 or 8 per cent interest, with money bor- 
 rowed at 4 1-2 per cent, he also refunded all the 
 6 per cent bonds which could be called in at the 
 new rate. This was considered a great feat in 
 financiering, and has resulted in great profit to 
 the city since he has been out of office, by the 
 low rate of interest established. Besides starting 
 a sinking fund, the expenses of the city were 
 greatly reduced, although the number of miles of 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 brick streets were doubled. Mr. Davidson left 
 the office with $65,000 in the treasury, and Lex- 
 ington had a credit second to no other city in 
 Kentucky. 
 
 Mr. Davidson has been out of politics since 
 November, 1893, and is now engaged in several 
 large business enterprises. He has found time to 
 aid in many new business ventures, in a number 
 of which he has served as director. 
 
 He is one of the busiest men in Lexington, 
 and is always willing to lend a hand or to lead the 
 way in behalf of any public or private enterprise 
 which may redound to the interests of the city 
 of which he is one of the most public spirited 
 and enterprising citizens. He has acted as host 
 in entertaining many large delegations of guests 
 who have visited Lexington during the past ten 
 years, and has thereby made an extensive ac- 
 quaintance, including prominent men and cap- 
 italists throughout the country. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Davidson married Magdalen Lan- 
 caster, daughter of the late M. P. Lancaster, one 
 of the oldest and best known citizens of Lex- 
 ington; and they have two children, a son and 
 a daughter. 
 
 After the death of Mr. Lancaster Mr. Davidson 
 became a member of the firm of M. P. Lancaster 
 & Co., and with his brother-in-law, A. B. Lan- 
 caster, is now conducting one of the most suc- 
 cessful business houses in Lexington, Kentucky. 
 Mr. Davidson was one of the two delegates from 
 Kentucky who attended the convention at St. 
 Louis of the Nicaragua Canal project. Gov- 
 ernor Brown also appointed Mr. Davidson a 
 commissioner of the Eastern Kentucky Lunatic 
 Asylum, a post of duty which he is now filling. 
 
 WILLIAM FITZPIUGH DANDRIDGE, 
 member of the firm of Mason, Hoge & 
 Company, of Frankfort, Kentucky, was born in 
 Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, (now West) 
 Virginia, November 18, 1849. 
 
 His father, Philip Pendleton Dandridge, was 
 a native of the same county, where he carried on 
 extensive farming operations. He also gave con- 
 siderable time to civil engineering, and, prior to 
 the war, aided in the development of mining in 
 the Kanawha Valley, where he had large interests 
 
 in coal and timber lands. In 1858 he removed 
 to Winchester, Virginia; and at the commence- 
 ment of the war between the states, entered the 
 Confederate service in the State Department at 
 Richmond, remaining until the close of the war. 
 His first wife was CaroHne Goldsborough, daugh- 
 ter of ex-Governor Goldsborough of Maryland. 
 She died in 1854, about five years after the birth 
 of the subject of this sketch. Mr. Dandridge's 
 second wife, by whom he had no children, was a 
 daughter of President Zachary Taylor, and wid- 
 ow of General William W. S. BHss, who was 
 General Taylor's famous adjutant general in the 
 Mexican war. 
 
 Mr. W. F. Dandridge's grandfather, Adam 
 Stephen Dandridge, was a native farmer of Jef- 
 ferson County, (now West) Virginia, his birth- 
 place, which he inherited when very young, being 
 the fine estate known as "The Bower," to which 
 his father, Captain Alexander Spottswood Dan- 
 dridge, had retired at the close of the Revolution. 
 Captain Dandridge's earlier home was in what 
 was then New Kent County. His father, Nathan- 
 iel West Dandridge, was one of the three sons 
 of Captain William Dandridge, royal navy, and 
 his wife. Unity We.st, a descendant of John West, 
 governor of Virginia 1635 ; another of these three 
 sons, John, was the father of Martha Dandridge, 
 wife of General Washington. Nathaniel West 
 Dandridge was but a lad, when, as one of the 
 "Knights of the Horseshoe," he followed Gov- 
 ernor Spottswood into the beautiful valley of Vir- 
 ginia, where, more than half a century later, his 
 son (whose mother was Dorothea, daughter of 
 Governor Spottswood) established the home 
 which still remains in possession of his descen- 
 dants of the same name. 
 
 The Honorable Charles Goldsborough (mater- 
 nal grandfather) was a member of Congress from 
 1805 to 1817; and was governor of Maryland 
 from 1818 to 1819. He was fifth in descent from 
 Nicholas Goldsborough of Dorsetshire, England, 
 who settled in 1670 upon the eastern shore of 
 Maryland, founding there the large family con- 
 nection (Goldsboroughs, Lloyds, Tilghmans, etc.) 
 which has furnished to the state, in each gener- 
 ation, able and useful men. 
 
 After the death of his mother, in 1854, WiUiam 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 F. Dandridge, then five years of age, was taken 
 care of by his mother's relatives in Cambridge, 
 Maryland, until he was ten years of age, when 
 he returned to his father at Winchester, Virginia. 
 He enjoyed excellent ^advantages under his fath- 
 er's care in the way of education, and became 
 especially interested in civil engineering. Soon 
 after leaving school he entered the service of the 
 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company as civil 
 engineer. He was employed by that company 
 until 1875, when he undertook a contract in the 
 construction of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad 
 in Grant County, Kentucky. After completing 
 this work, he went to Cincinnati and took the 
 contract for building the Cincinnati, Lebanon 
 & Northwestern Railroad. In 1877 he returned 
 to the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad 
 Company as general agent of the express depart- 
 ment, with headquarters in Cincinnati. He held 
 this position until October, 1881, when he re- 
 moved to Winchester, Kentucky, and became a 
 member of the firm of Mason, Hoge & Com- 
 pany, one of the most extensive contracting com- 
 panies in the United States. In 1886 he removed 
 to Covington in order to superintend the work of 
 his company in the construction of the Chesa- 
 peake & Ohio Railroad bridge at that point. 
 After completing that structure, in 1888, Mr. Dan- 
 dridge removed to Frankfort, his present home. 
 
 Mr. Dandridge was married in December, 1888, 
 to Mary B. Winn, daughter of Colonel Robert 
 Winn of Winchester, Kentucky; and has one 
 child, Elise Winn Dandridge. 
 
 Mr. Dandridge is a direct descendant of Gov- 
 ernor Alexander Spottswood of Virginia, whose 
 daughter, Dorothea, married Nathaniel West 
 Dandridge, formerly of the British navy, whose 
 daughter Dorothea married Patrick Plenry, Octo- 
 ber 9, 1777. 
 
 Another daughter of Governor Spottswood 
 married Bernard Moore of King Williams Coun- 
 ty, Virginia, whose son Augustine married Sarah 
 Rind, and their daughter married Carter Braxton, 
 one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence. 
 
 Alexander Spottswood, son of Governor Spotts- 
 wood, was a brigadier general in the Revolution- 
 ary war, whose wife was a daughter of William 
 
 Augustine Washington and a niece of General 
 George Washington. 
 
 One of the descendants of Governor Spotts- 
 wood, Ann Hill Carter, was the second wife of 
 General Henry Lee, and the mother of General 
 Robert E. Lee. The large connection in Vir- 
 ginia embraced the names of many of the most 
 distinguished men of the country for many gen- 
 erations; Spottswood, Dandridge, Washington, 
 Lee, Braxton, Carter, Fitzhugh and many others. 
 
 JUDGE SAMUEL M'DOWELL was the son 
 of Captain John McDowell, who was killed 
 by the Indians December 25, 1742, in what is now 
 Rockbridge County, Virginia, and what was then 
 the frontier. He was born in the colony of 
 Pennsylvania in 1735, and moved to Virginia in 
 1737, where his grandfather, Ephraim McDowell, 
 was settling a colony of Scotch-Irish. 
 
 As a youth he saw frequent service against the 
 Indians and was a soldier in Samuel Lewis' com- 
 pany at Braddock's defeat. In Dunmore's war 
 (1774) he was a captain of a company from Augus- 
 ta County, Virginia, and was conspicuous at the 
 battle of Point Pleasant. In the Revolution he 
 was colonel of a regiment from Augusta, par- 
 ticipated in General Greene's campaign in North 
 Carolina, the turning point of the war, and was in 
 the pursuit which drove Cornwallis to Wilming- 
 ton. For several years before the Revolution 
 he represented Augusta in the House of Bur- 
 gesses. In all the meetings and movements in 
 Colonial Virginia which led to the struggle for 
 independence he had an active part; of every 
 deliberative body which assumed progressively 
 advancing ground against monarchical and par- 
 liamentary encroachments upon popular and indi- 
 vidual rights, he was a prominent member; no- 
 ta1)ly, the Williamsburg conventions, the latter of 
 which (1776) instructed the Virginia delegates to 
 the Continental Congress to "declare the united 
 colonies free and independent states." When the 
 Virginia state government was driven by the 
 British from its capital, he was selected as one of 
 the State Council, a most important and respon- 
 sible position in that trying time. In 1783 he, 
 with Col. Thomas Marshall, was appointed sur- 
 veyor of public lands in Fayette County, then 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 141 
 
 comprising one-third of the district of Kentucky. 
 During the same year he presided as one of the 
 judges of the first District Court ever held in 
 Kentucky (March, 1783), John Floyd and George 
 Winter being his associate judges. In 1784 he 
 removed his family from Virginia to what is now 
 Mercer County, Kentucky, and in 1786 he was 
 one of the presiding judges at the first County 
 Court held in Kentucky. Over the convention 
 which met in Danville in 1785, and over all the 
 subsequent conventions which assembled for the 
 consideration of the separation of Kentucky 
 from Virginia and the fonmation of a state consti- 
 tution, he presided, "his social position, his soHd 
 attainments, his matured convictions, his high 
 character, his judicial temper, his fine presence, 
 his popular manners and his pecuHar and varied 
 experience of public life combining to admirably 
 qualify him for the position, and to center upon 
 him the attention, confidence and respect of the 
 able men who were associated with him in those 
 early throes of inchoate state." "It was by the 
 moderation and patient discretion of the presiding 
 officer, and the calm patriotism of others hke him, 
 as well as by the keen vigilance of Colonel 
 Thomas Marshall, and far more than by the fierce 
 and direct assaults of others, which savored of 
 personal and partisan animosities, that the 'saga- 
 cious policy of calculated procrastination' was 
 adopted, the schemes of conspirators who plotted 
 to tear Kentucky from her connection vnth Vir- 
 ginia and even from her moorings to the general 
 government and to achieve in lieu through a 
 political and commercial alliance with cruel and 
 treacherous Spain, were thwarted; a solution of 
 the difficulties of a separation from Virginia le- 
 gally and peacefully reached, and all the commer- 
 cial advantages of the free and unobstructed nav- 
 igation of the Mississippi were finally obtained." 
 "In the troublesome and unsettled times in Ken- 
 tucky, he was the 'central figure of an historic 
 group, conspicuous, like himself, for courage, in- 
 telligence, fortitude, dignity of character and 
 mental poise.' All were representative men- 
 types of a cultivated class and of a vigorous, 
 aggressive and enduring race." "After having 
 presided over the nine conventions which consid- 
 ered the question of a separation from Virginia, 
 
 Judge Samuel McDowell was also president of 
 the convention which, in 1792, framed the first 
 state constitution for Kentucky. He was one of 
 the first circuit court judges and one of the first 
 district judges of the new state — appointed by 
 old 'King Mountain' Shelby, by whose side he 
 had fought at Point Pleasant, as well as the first 
 United States judge^ — appointed by Washington, 
 under whose eye he had served in the campaign 
 on the Monongahela, in 1755, and who well knew 
 his worth. In these positions, as in all others, 
 he acquitted himself with credit and honor. He 
 was a Federalist of the school of Washington. 
 He lived to the good old age of eighty-two years, 
 and died honored of all at the residence of his 
 son. Colonel Joseph McDowell, near Danville, 
 September 25, 1817."^ — Green's Historic Famihes 
 of Kentucky. 
 
 THOMAS S. PETTIT, a prominent business 
 man and politician of Owensboro, and one 
 of the best known and personally popular men in 
 the state, was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, De- 
 cember 21, 1843, ^^'^ is a son of Duane and 
 Elizabeth (Zook) Pettit. After his primary 
 schooling in Frankfort, he attended Georgetown 
 College and then learned the printing trade, for 
 which he had a fancy and a remarkable aptitude. 
 He became an adept in all of the mechanical work 
 of the printing office while he was yet in his teens, 
 but he was too ambitious to stick to the cases, 
 and in 1864 he went to Owensboro, and pur- 
 chased the "Monitor" newspaper from a Mr. 
 Woodruff, and began at once to attract attention 
 by publishing a lively local paper and advocating 
 the principles of the Democratic party. Unlike 
 his predecessor, he freely criticised the Repub- 
 lican party and its war policy, and his articles on 
 such topics brought down the wrath of the United 
 States authorities upon his head ; and, as a result, 
 on the 17th of November, 1864, he Avas arrested 
 by order of General Stephen G. Burbridge, im- 
 prisoned and "banished to the Southern Confed- 
 eracy," under the general charge of being "noto- 
 riously disloyal;" and was sent under escort to 
 Memphis and there transferred across the lines. 
 He spent th? following months until May, 1865, 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 traveling within the Confederate lines, and then, 
 the war being over, he returned to Owensboro 
 and resumed the publication of the Monitor, in 
 which he published in several consecutive num- 
 bers a detailed and interesting account of his 
 trip through Dixie, giving his experiences and 
 impressions and relating the hardships and pri- 
 vations which he necessarily suffered during his 
 enforced vacation. These articles attracted much 
 attention and had a very wide circulation, bring- 
 ing the young editor into prominent notice. The 
 Monitor was one of the brightest papers in the 
 state, and Mr. Pettit soon became widely known 
 as one of the most enterprising newspaper men 
 of Kentucky. 
 
 He was the first man to establish a successful 
 newspaper in Owensboro — and he did this before 
 he was twenty years of age — and brought the first 
 Gordon and power presses to that section of 
 Kentucky. 
 
 In 1868 he was elected assistant clerk of the 
 House of Representatives, which position he held 
 for six years, when he was appointed private sec- 
 retary of Governor James B. McCreary, which 
 he resigned to accept the position of reading clerk 
 in the national House of Representatives at Wash- 
 ington. During his service in the Legislature 
 and in Congress, he had the distinction of being 
 known as the best reader in the United States. 
 His strong voice and clear and distinct enuncia- 
 tion enabled him to read, not only so as to be 
 heard from all parts of the house, but he had a 
 ready conception and a quick understanding and 
 could read intelligently documents which he had 
 never seen before. His services in the house 
 were cut short by the Republicans gaining the 
 ascendancy. 
 
 To go back to the '6o's again: On the death 
 of John S. McFarland in 1869, through the in- 
 fluence and personal popularity of Senator 
 Thomas C. McCreery, President Johnson ap- 
 pointed Mr. Pettit assessor of internal revenue 
 for the Second District, the duties of which he 
 performed with ability and fidelity until the close 
 of Mr. Johnson's administration. 
 
 In the fall of 1882 Mr. Pettit was a candidate 
 for Congress against J. B. Clay of Henderson 
 and was defeated, after an exciting race, by less 
 
 than one hundred and fifty votes. In that con- 
 test Union was the pivotal county, and the friends 
 of Clay looked after it in such a way as to secure 
 the majority for their candidate. Mr. Pettit has 
 attended more State Conventions than any man 
 in Kentucky and has been elected secretary of all 
 of them, and in this capacity has rendered the 
 Democratic party valuable services, which have 
 been appreciated and highly complimented. He 
 was one of the secretaries in the Democratic Na- 
 tional Convention which nominated and elected 
 Cleveland, and was called to serve in the same 
 position four years thereafter and selected as one 
 of the notification committee to inform Cleveland 
 and Thurman of their selection for President and 
 Vice-President. 
 
 Mr. Pettit's political views have not been strict- 
 ly in harmony with the Democratic party for some 
 years and he has been one of the ablest leaders 
 of the People's party, having been a candidate of 
 that party for governor in 1895. 
 
 He served with ability and distinction as a 
 delegate to the last Constitutional Convention of 
 Kentucky, and advocated such reforms as the 
 secret official ballot, the taxing of corporations 
 like individuals and the two-thirds verdict of juries 
 in civil cases. He was afterwards chosen by a 
 large majority as one of the representatives of 
 Daviess County in the General Assembly, so as 
 to put into practical operation the provisions of 
 the new constitution, and his election in this in- 
 stance followed one of the bitterest contests ever 
 known in the state. 
 
 He is still actively interested in politics, not for 
 revenue or for honor, but from principle. Having 
 strong convictions upon topics of national import, 
 he has the courage to stand up for them and does 
 not wait to count the noses of those who are ready 
 to stand by him before expressing his sentiments. 
 
 He has for many years been engaged in indus- 
 trial or manufacturing enterprises in Owensboro 
 —too numerous to mention in this brief sketch — 
 and his success, which has been uniformly good, 
 has brought him a fair share of this world's goods. 
 Popular with all classes, industrious, enterprising, 
 generous and philanthropic, he is easily one of the 
 best citizens of Owensboro. He has always been 
 ready to participate in public enterprises, and, in 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 143 
 
 questions of public interest, has always been found 
 on the right side and in the front. 
 
 He is Past Grand Master of the Masonic Fra- 
 ternity, and deservedly holds a high social posi- 
 tion. 
 
 Mr. Pettit was married in December, 1870, to 
 Margaret Blair, daughter of J. H. Blair, who was 
 a prominent merchant of Owensboro in his day. 
 They have one son, Harvey Blair Pettit. 
 
 EPHRAIM M'DOWELL, surgeon, son of 
 Judge Samuel McDowell and Mary Mc- 
 Clung, was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, 
 in 1771, and died in Danville, Kentucky, in 1830. 
 "He attended classical schools in Georgetown 
 and Bardstown, Kentucky, and studied medi- 
 cine in Staunton, Virginia, completing his medi- 
 cal education in Edinburgh in 1793 and 1794. 
 He began to practice in Danville, Kentucky, in 
 1785, and for years was the foremost practitioner 
 in the southwest. In 1817 he was made a mem- 
 ber of the Medical Society of Philadelphia. He 
 received the degree of M. D. from the University 
 of Maryland in 1825. In 1809 he successfully 
 performed the operation for extirpation of the 
 ovary, the first on record, and acquired in conse- 
 quence European celebrity. A description of this 
 with other cases he published in the Philadelphia 
 Eclectic Repertory and Analytic Review in 181 7. 
 He also acquired fame as a lithotomist. Dr. Mc- 
 Dowell's account of his operations on the ovaries 
 were received with incredulity in many places, 
 especially abroad, but at this time his title to the 
 name of 'the father of ovariotomy' is generally 
 recognized. He was a man of culture and lib- 
 eral views, and had he lived in a less primitive 
 community might have obtained wealth and 
 world-wide celebrity in his life-time. In person 
 he was stout, nearly six feet in height, with a 
 florid complexion and black eyes. He was one 
 of the founders and an original trustee of Centre 
 College, Danville, and a few months before his 
 final illness began to build a large mansion near 
 that town. On the 14th of May, 1879, a granite 
 monument with a medallion of Dr. McDowell 
 was erected to his memory, the memorial ad- 
 dress being made by Dr. Samuel D. Gross 
 of Philadelphia, befpr? the Kentucky Medical 
 
 Society. This is located near the center of Dan- 
 ville, in a public square known as 'McDowell 
 Park.'" — Appleton's Cyclopedia of American 
 Biography. 
 
 Dr. McDowell was thirty years old when he 
 married Sarah, a daughter of Governor Shelby. 
 Their only son, Wallace McDowell, is the father 
 of Mrs. Florence Shelby, widow of the late 
 Thomas H. Shelby, late collector of the Seventh 
 District of Kentucky. One of his daughters 
 married Major David C. Irvine of Madison Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky. The other members of his fam- 
 ily married and moved from the state. 
 
 CYRUS MENANDER BROWN of Hop- 
 kinsville, ex-Sherifif and ex-Circuit Court 
 Clerk of Christian County, and a prominent Re- 
 publican politician, was bom in Christian County 
 February 26, 1850. 
 
 His father, Enoch A. Brown, was born in 
 Georgia in 1805, came to Kentucky with his father 
 in 1812 and settled on a farm twelve miles north 
 of Hopkinsville. He was married in 1830 to 
 Sallie Basher, who was bom in South Carolina 
 in 1809, and they lived together fifty-two years. 
 He joined the Christian Church in 1831 under the 
 preaching of Alexander Campbell, the founder of 
 that denomination, and became a prominent local 
 preacher. He distinguished himself particularly 
 as the officiating minister at most of the mar- 
 riages that occurred in the northern part of the 
 county. He married one man twenty years after 
 he had married his son, and twenty years later he 
 married the son's son. It was a common saying 
 that a wedding party was not complete without 
 his presence. He was a man of very decided con- 
 victions and took an interest in politics, being a 
 prominent Democrat prior to the war, a Union 
 man during the war and then drifted into the Re- 
 publican party. He was elected to the Legisla- 
 ture in 1863 and served with distinction until 
 1865. He died in 1882 and his wife died in 1884. 
 They had ten children, five of whom survived 
 their parents: Omar S. Brown, a farmer in the 
 northern part of Christian County; Dr. M. D. 
 Brown, a man of great ability and the only Demo- 
 crat in the family, now residing in Anson, Jones 
 County, Texas ; Mrs. Onie J. Clark, wife of V. C. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Clark of Crofton, Christian County; Cyrus M. 
 Brown, the subject of this sketch, and Mrs. 
 Medoria S. Linn, of Emporia, Lyon County, Kan- 
 sas, whose husband, now deceased, was a lawyer 
 of eminence, a graduate of the Boston Law 
 School; a soldier in the Twenty-fifth Kentucky 
 Regiment commanded by General Shackelford; 
 was a law partner with the late Senator Plumb of 
 Kansas and had a brilliant prospect, but died at 
 the early age of forty years. Albert E. Brown 
 (brother) was in the Union army as second lieu- 
 tenant, Company A, Twenty-fifth Kentucky V. 
 I., and was killed at Shiloh, April 6, 1862. 
 
 Cyrus M. Brown was reared on his father's plan- 
 tation and received a partial education prior to 
 the war, which interfered with his schooling; but 
 he pursued his studies with diligence although 
 with difficulty, and at the age of eighteen he began 
 teaching school and for ten years he taught and 
 studied, at the same time attending to his duties 
 on the farm. In 1880 he was elected sheriff of 
 Christian County by the Republican party, re- 
 ceiving a majority of eight hundred and ten votes 
 over his Democratic opponent; was re-elected 
 in 1882, and in 1886, after an acrimonious con- 
 test, was elected clerk of the Circuit Court. He 
 held that office for six years and four months and 
 could have been re-elected, but declined to be 
 a candidate; remained in his successor's office 
 as deputy for one year, and was elected to the 
 Legislature in November, 1895, having no oppo- 
 sition except the candidate of the Populists, Mr. 
 R. C. Crushew, whom he beat 3,005 votes. 
 
 Mr. Brown has been a liberal contributor to 
 the newspapers; is a fluent and forcible writer, 
 an eloquent speaker and a man of great personal 
 magnetism; has been a Mason since he was 
 twenty-one years of age, frequently holding office 
 in L. M. Cox Lodge, 527; has been a delegate 
 to a number of Republican conventions, and is 
 a wide-awake, enthusiastic, politician and leader 
 in his party. 
 
 DR. ROMULUS CULVER BIGGS of Ash- 
 land, son of William Biggs and Lucy Davis 
 Biggs, was born in Greenup County, Kentucky, 
 August 27, 1843. His father, William Biggs, was 
 born in Montgomery County, October 19, 1800, 
 
 and although ninety-five years of age, is now hale 
 and hearty and in the possession of all his faculties. 
 He removed to Greenup County when thirteen 
 years of age, and at fourteen he was mail carrier 
 from Greenupburg to Little Sandy Salt Works. 
 When sixteen he was deputy sheriff of Greenup 
 County. At that time the county embraced a 
 very large area so that it was necessary for him 
 to travel thousands of miles, mostly through an 
 unsettled country, in the discharge of his duties, 
 and this was accomplished on horseback. When 
 eighteen he left home and went to boating on the 
 Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, and for two years 
 steered a keel boat on the river between Charles- 
 ton and Louisville. He also worked in the salt 
 works on the Kanawha and for a time traded in 
 iron. He made his last trip to New Orleans, 
 where he traded in flatboats in 1827 and quit the 
 river. He returned to Greenup County and en- 
 gaged in general merchandising, stock trading 
 and farming. In everything in which he engaged 
 he was successful, and he has accumulated a very 
 large fortune. He owns the homestead in Green- 
 up County, consisting of a tract of one thousand 
 acres of land; the Waring farm of nine hundred 
 acres in Greenup County, Kentucky : a bkte grass 
 farm of five hundred and seventy-five acres in 
 Greenbrier County, West Virginia ; two thousand 
 acres of farm and timber lands in Arkansas; the 
 Biggs House in Portsmouth, Ohio, and is a large 
 stockholder in the Lexington and Big Sandy Rail- 
 road Company. When the Biggs House was 
 opened in Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1872, the citi- 
 zens of that city gave Mr. Biggs a handsome ova- 
 tion and presented him with a gold-headed cane 
 as an evidence of their appreciation of his enter- 
 prise. 
 
 At the advanced age of ninety-five years he at- 
 tends personally to the transaction of all of his 
 business; is well preserved mentally and physical- 
 ly and wears his years as lightly as most men of 
 sixty. He spends most of his time with his son, 
 G. N. Biggs, and his daughter, Mrs. Beardsley of 
 Huntington, West Virginia, but continues to 
 claim his residence in Greenup Cotinty, which is 
 his voting place, and he never fails to go there to 
 vote the Democratic ticket in all important elec- 
 tions. He was married to Lucy Davis, daughter 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 145 
 
 of George W. Davis, October 12, 1837, and is the 
 father of twelve children. 
 
 Romulus Culver Biggs was educated in the 
 Greenup County schools, in Wesleyan College 
 at Delaware, Ohio, and at Danville, Kentucky; 
 attended the Medical College of Ohio at Cincin- 
 nati, and the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 
 New York, graduating in 1868. He began the 
 practice of medicine at Coalton, Kentucky; was 
 for some time in Greenup and Anderson Coun- 
 ties and located in Ashland in August, 1889, and 
 is now one of the leading physicians of that place. 
 He is a member of the Northeastern Kentucky 
 Medical Association; is a Democratic voter, a 
 highly respected citizen and a member of the 
 Methodist Church. 
 
 He was united in marriage July 11, 1889, to 
 Emma Frances Brown. 
 
 WILLIAM ADAIR M'DOWELL, son of 
 Colonel Samuel McDowell and Anne 
 Irvine, born on Shawnee river, in Mercer County, 
 Kentucky, in 1795, died in Evansville, Indiana, in 
 1853. "He was educated at Washington Col- 
 lege, Virginia, which he left to serve in the war of 
 1812. He studied medicine with his uncle, 
 Ephraim McDowell, with whom he practiced after 
 receiving his degree from the medical depart- 
 ment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1818. 
 He devoted much time to the study of pulmonary 
 consumption, and the result of his chemical ob- 
 servations was published in a monograph enti- 
 tled, 'A Demonstration of the Curability of Pul- 
 monary Consumption' (Louisville, 1843)." — ^Ap- 
 pleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography. 
 
 MORRIS BALDAUF, a successful mer- 
 chant of Henderson, was born in Bavaria, 
 Germany, in 1836. He came to the United 
 States, arriving in New York September 13, 1853. 
 He came direct to Louisville and was a peddler of 
 merchandise for three years, making his Head- 
 quarters in the last named city. In 1856 he went 
 to Hardinsburg, Breckinridge County, and 
 formed a partnership with Louis Ichenhouser and 
 engaged in general merchandising. He sold his 
 interests there in i860 and went to Cloverport and 
 was a clerk in a store there until 1864, when he 
 
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 went to New Albany and joined his brother in 
 the clothing business. They quit New Albany in 
 1866 and returned to Cloverport, where he and 
 his brother opened a general store, which they 
 successfully operated until 1878, when they re- 
 moved to Henderson, and were partners until 
 January i, 1895, when his brother retired from the 
 firm, leaving Morris Baldauf sole proprietor. He 
 is a director in the Planters State Bank, and was 
 a member of the City Council for one year, but 
 resigned. 
 
 He was married in 1864 to Lena Kahn, and 
 has four children : Julius, Minnie, Levi and Cora. 
 His eldest son, Julius, is a graduate in pharmacy 
 and chemistry, and is proprietor of the leading 
 wholesale and retail drug store in Henderson. 
 Levi, his second son, is a student in the Phila- 
 delphia College of Pharmacy. 
 
 Morris Baldauf is a son of Leopold and Ella 
 Kahn Baldauf, natives of Bavaria. His_ father 
 spent a good part of his life as a farmer, but was 
 a merchant later in life, and was in moderate cir- 
 cumstances. Nathan H. Baldauf (grandfather) 
 was a native of the same country, and a poor man, 
 but honest and highly respected. Grandfather 
 Kahn was an honest dairyman in Bavaria. 
 
 COLONEL SAMUEL M'DOWELL, son of 
 Judge Samuel McDowell and Mary Mc- 
 Clung, was born in Rockbridge, Virginia, in 1764. 
 His tender years prevented him from going in 
 the patriot army at the beginning of the Revo- 
 lution. Before its close, however, he disappeared 
 from home at the age of seventeen years, joined 
 Lafayette as a private soldier in the final cam- 
 paign against Comwallis, remained with that 
 command to the end of the struggle, which he 
 witnessed at Yorktown, in the siege and fighting 
 at which place he took a lively hand. He re- 
 moved with his father's family to Mercer County, 
 Kentucky, in 1784, there located and there con- 
 tinued to reside during the remainder of his hon- 
 ored life. In the defense of the district he saw 
 frequent additional service as a soldier under 
 General Charles Scott and General Hopkins. 
 Washington gave another evidence of his confi- 
 dence in and regard for the family by appointing 
 him the first United States marshal for Kentucky 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 when the state was organized in 1792. He was 
 an ardent lover of his country, and his attachment 
 to the Union, probably enhanced by the efforts 
 of the Spanish clique to dissever Kentucky from 
 the general government, was so inculcated in his 
 family, that at the breaking out of the Civil war, 
 of his eleven grandsons then living, nine were 
 officers in the Union army, one being too infirm 
 and the others too young to bear arms. This is 
 the more remarkable where in Kentucky families 
 were so divided. 
 
 JOHN LAWSON, familiarly known in Ken- 
 tucky and along the western rivers as Cap- 
 tain Jack Lawson, an honored citizen of Paducah, 
 now in his ninety-first year, has had a career as 
 full of adventure, excitement and interest as it 
 has been full of years. He made the first loco- 
 motive in England and ran it from Liverpool to 
 Manchester, and after building a locomotive in 
 the shops of the Stephenson Manufacturing Com- 
 pany in Liverpool for the first railroad built in 
 America, he brought it to this country and at- 
 tracted world-wide attention at that time. His 
 career since that time has been one of unusual 
 interest, a full account of which would necessarily 
 embody much of the history of the United States. 
 Captain Lawson was born in Liverpool, Eng- 
 land, August 18, 1805, and is a son of James and 
 Sarah (Travis) Lawson, natives of that city. After 
 obtaining a fairly good education in the schools of 
 Liverpool he learned the trade of machinist, and 
 while employed in that capacity built the first 
 steam locomotive that was ever run in the world; 
 and was employed as its engineer, running be- 
 tween Liverpool and Manchester. 
 
 After this he built an engine in the shops of the 
 Stephenson Manufacturing Company in Liver- 
 pool for the little railroad from Baltimore to 
 Green Springs, and was sent to this country by the 
 manufacturers in charge of the engine, which he 
 set up and engineered until his successor had 
 learned how to run it. Three separate delegations 
 were sent by the managers of the World's Fair 
 to induce Captain Lawson to go to Chicago as 
 their guest, but he declined the honor. 
 
 He was twenty-one years of age when he 
 broug-ht his locomotive to Baltimore; and was in 
 
 that city about three years, when he went to Phil- 
 adelphia and assisted in constructing the first 
 locomotive built in the now celebrated Baldwin 
 Locomotive Works, and rode it on its first trip 
 to Germantown. After this he went to Peters- 
 burg, Virginia, and was for a time employed as 
 engineer on the Petersburg & Roanoke River 
 Railroad. His next stop was in Alabama, where 
 he lived for three years, and was married to Emily 
 Speed. 
 
 He became interested in the great avenues of 
 commerce on the western rivers and embarked in 
 the business of steamboating, and for over fifty 
 years he traveled the waters of the Mississippi 
 from New Orleans to the head of navigation, as 
 well as all of the great tributaries of the "Father 
 of Waters." He began his career on the river as 
 an engineer, but he soon left the boiler deck to 
 take command of the vessel, and afterward built 
 and owned many of the finest boats on the river. 
 
 When the first railroad was built connecting 
 Paducah with the outside world Captain Jack's 
 experience was again called into requisition, and 
 for a time he was an engineer on the new road. 
 He returned to the river, however, as that means 
 of transportation had not then been superseded 
 by the railroad. 
 
 When the war came on he was the owner of a 
 number of fine boats which he tendered to the 
 authorities for the use of the Confederacy. Seven 
 of his boats, lying in the Yazoo River, before the 
 siege of Vicksburg, were in danger of being cap- 
 tured by the Union soldiers, and he burned them 
 to prevent their falling into the hands of the 
 enemy. He also built and fitted out the gunboat 
 "General Polk," which met a similar fate. He 
 then enlisted in the Third Kentucky Regiment 
 and served as a private soldier in tlie Confederate 
 army until the close of the war. He returned to 
 steamboating after the war, and his operations 
 were principally confined to the Cumberland 
 River. He recuperated his fortune to some ex- 
 tent, but he never fully recovered his heavy losses 
 incident to the war. 
 
 During President Cleveland's first term Cap- 
 tain Jack was appointed engineer of the govern- 
 ment building in Paducah, the only office he ever 
 held or sought, ancj i? still holding this position 
 
CAPT. JOHN LAWSON. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 147 
 
 He has been a citizen of Padwcah for fifty-six 
 years and of the United States for nearly seventy 
 years, in which time he has seen many changes 
 and has witnessed and assisted in the introduc- 
 tion of many improvements which have made a 
 new world of the "new world" to which he came in 
 his young manhood. He remembers with pride 
 his first Presidential vote, which was for Andrew 
 Jackson, and his adherence to the principles of 
 "Old Hickory" has never been questioned. He is 
 just as steadfast in his religious faith, being an 
 honored member of the Presbyterian Church, 
 and has been a Knight Ternplar. 
 
 He has entered the tenth decade of a most event- 
 ful and useful life, solitary and alone, his compan- 
 ion for sixty years having died October 16, 1891, 
 and his three children having "gone before" in 
 years long past. But aside from the tender fam- 
 ily ties thus broken no man has more friends who 
 wish him well, and these are ever ready to minis- 
 ter to his comfort. 
 
 Captain Lawson's parents were natives of Eng- 
 land, who also lived in Liverpool. His mother 
 died soon after he came to America, and his 
 father lived to a great age and died about ten 
 years ago. His grandfather, Robert Lawson, 
 was also a native of England, and a highly re- 
 spected citizen of Liverpool. 
 
 CHARLES LOUIS LOOS, President of the 
 Kentucky University, Lexington, was born 
 in Woerth, Department of the Lower Rhine 
 (Alsace), France, December 22, 1823. His father, 
 Jacques G. Loos, was born in the same place in 
 179s, and came to America in 1832 and located 
 in Stark County, Ohio. In 1834 he sent for his 
 family, who arrived in time to be with him only 
 a few weeks before his death. His wife, Catherine 
 Kull, was born in Bavaria in 1800. She survived 
 him until 1868 and died in Allegheny, Pennsyl- 
 vania. 
 
 Charles L. Loos remained in Stark County, 
 Ohio, for seven years after his father's death, at- 
 tending the public school, himself teaching at 
 sixteen. He was reared in the Lutheran Church, 
 but united with the Christian Church in 1838, and 
 began to preach when only seventeen years of 
 
 age. In 1842 he entered Bethany College in Vir- 
 ginia, an institution that was founded by Alexan- 
 der Campbell, and graduated in the class of 1846. 
 Aftgr finishing his studies he taught in the pri- 
 mary department of his alma mater for three years. 
 He then went to Wellsburg, in the same county, 
 and was preacher of the Christian Church at that 
 place for one year. 
 
 His next charge was at Somerset, Pennsyl- 
 vania, where he preached for five years, and dur- 
 ing the last two years of his ministry there con- 
 ducted a collegiate academy on his own respon- 
 sibility, a school that was flourishing un- 
 der his able management. He also edited 
 for two years a religious monthly called 
 The Disciple. In January, 1856, he was 
 called to the First Christian, now the Cen- 
 tral, Church on Ninth street, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 During his stay of one year in that city he was co- 
 editor of the Christian Age, a weekly newspaper 
 published by his denomination. 
 
 In January, 1857, he accepted the presidency of 
 the college at Eureka, Illinois, where he remained 
 nearly two years, serving as president of the col- 
 lege and as preacher of the Eureka congregation 
 at the same time. 
 
 In the latter part of 1858 he returned to Bethany 
 College as professor of ancient languages. For 
 twelve years of this time he was preacher of the 
 church at Bethany; for seven years co-editor of 
 The Millennial Harbinger. He continued his 
 labors there until June, 1880, when he accepted 
 the presidency of the Kentucky University. This 
 responsible position has enabled him to exercise 
 his remarkable ability as an executive and to carry 
 into practical utility his excellent theories in edu- 
 cational matters, and he has abundant compensa- 
 tion for his arduous labors in watching the steady 
 growth of the university, not only in the increased 
 attendance, but also in the high educational stand- 
 ard which it has gained and is maintaining under 
 his able management. 
 
 Mr. Loos has been president of the Foreign 
 Christian Missionary Society for a number of 
 years, and has been a lifetime contributor to the 
 leading journals of his denomination; is always 
 ready, willing and able to preach the gospel; is 
 a true and loyal citizen and independent voter; 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 and is above all devoted to the education of the 
 youth and the elevation of society. 
 
 He was married in July, 1848, to Rosetta E. 
 Kerr, daughter of Rev. John Kerr of Newry, Ire- 
 land. They were the parents of eleven children. 
 Mrs. Loos died January 30, 1893, seven of her 
 children surviving her: Charles, a teacher in the 
 High School at Dayton, Ohio; William J., editor 
 of the Christian Guide, published in Louisville, 
 and a minister of the gospel; Oberline T., a 
 farmer in the northwestern part of the State of 
 Washington; Louisa L., wif© of John M. L. 
 Campbell of Detroit, Michigan; Emily K., wife of 
 Dr. A. S. Dabney of Lexington, Kentucky; 
 Frederic V., minister of the Christian Church at 
 Liberty, Missouri, and Wilhelmina, who is at 
 home with her father. Four children died before 
 the mother, three in childhood, and Carrie D., wife 
 of E. T. Williams, missionary in Nankin, China. 
 
 JOHN W. SCHNEIDER, a well known and 
 successful promoter and business man of 
 Newport, Kentucky, was born in that city De- 
 cember 31, 1851 ; and is a son of Adam and Cath- 
 erine (Goller) Schneider. 
 
 Adam Schneider was a native of Gahans, Sax- 
 ony, Germany, and emigrated from his native land 
 to the United States in 1847, locating in Newport 
 the same year. He followed the occupation of 
 a stonemason in early life, but later was engaged 
 in distilling and milling, and was a prominent and 
 useful citizen, being for a time a member of the 
 City Council. He was a member of the German 
 Lutheran Church, and a faithful attendant until 
 his death in 1885. 
 
 Catherine Goller Schneider was born in Bay- 
 reuth, Bavaria, in 1826, and is living in Newport 
 at the present time. 
 
 John W. Schneider after leaving the public 
 schools entered Nelson's Commercial College at 
 Cincinnati at the age of thirteen years. He kept 
 his father's books in the whiskey and flour busi- 
 ness until he was seventeen years of age, and was 
 next employed in the carpenter trade, at which he 
 worked for one year; but he did not like that 
 trade and gave it up to become a laborer for the 
 Little Miami Railroad. This was a little too dif- 
 ficult for him and h? went to St. Louis in the early 
 
 part of 1870, where he was employed as book- 
 keeper irt a hotel and grocery establishment. He 
 remained there for four years, returning to New- 
 port in 1875, where he accepted a position as car 
 sealer for the Little Miami Railroad Company 
 at Cincinnati. He was next employed as a solici- 
 tor for the Clay Fire & Marine Company. He 
 was subsequently elected secretary of the New- 
 port Stock Provision Mart; and July i, 1875, 
 accepted the position of bookkeeper in the First 
 National Bank at Newport, which was opened for 
 business on that day. While Mr. Schneider was 
 still engaged in the bank he was elected treasurer 
 of the Campbell County Building & Loan Asso- 
 ciation of Newport, and secretary of the Licking 
 Valley Building Association; and February i, 
 1878, was elected secretary of the German Mu- 
 tual Fire Insurance Company of Covington; 
 January i, 1879, was elected member of the 
 School Board; September i, 1879, he was elected 
 secretary of the Newport & Lick Turnpike Com- 
 pany; June 10, 1880, was elected secretary of the 
 Newport Mutual Fire Insurance Company; Jan. i, 
 1881, was elected treasurer of the Board of Educa- 
 tion, and served until January, 1885; August i, 
 1881, was elected treasurer of the Citizens' Build- 
 ing Association, and served until 1886, when the 
 National was organized with Mr. Schneider as 
 treasurer; August 10, 1882, was elected secre- 
 tary of the Red Men's Hall Association; 
 September i, 1882, was elected secretary 
 of the old State Road Company; in 1883, he 
 received the charter for the Protestant Children's 
 Home, and acted as secretary pro tern, in its 
 organization, having been the organizer, but re- 
 fused to act as permanent secretary or accept any 
 position in the home. 
 
 He also organized the syndicate known as the 
 Eellevue Improvement Company, with G. R. 
 Harms as president and himself as secretary; the 
 Orlando Land Company, with T. A. Widrig presi- 
 dent; the Clifton Suburban Home & Building 
 Company, with J. E. McCracken president; the 
 South Covington Land Company, with M. T. 
 Shine as president; organized the East Bellevue 
 Lot Association in 1886, with B. H. Kroger presi- 
 dent and C. W. Nagel secretary; organized the 
 Glen Park Land Companjr in 1888, of which h^ 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 149 
 
 was a director, and resigned January i, 1891 ; 
 organized the South Bellevue Land & Develop- 
 ment Company in 1892; organized the Fort 
 Thomas Land Company in 1893, with eight hun- 
 dred and twenty-seven acres in the Highlands. 
 In this latter enterprise George B. Kerper of Cin- 
 cinnati acted as president. 
 
 It is needless to add that as a promoter and 
 organizer Mr. Schneider stands without a rival, 
 and no man could have accomplished what he has 
 done if he had not enjoyed the confidence of the 
 business community in the highest degree. 
 
 John W. Schneider and Bertha Hanke Utz 
 were married August 26, 1875. 
 
 JOHN TRIMBLE, one of the most eminent 
 and distinguished lawyers and jurists of his, 
 day, was born in Paris, Kentucky, December 4, 
 1783. He was liberally educated by an uncle who 
 resided in the family, and at the age of nineteen 
 he became private secretary to Robert Evans, 
 then territorial governor of Indiana. Young 
 Trimble remained in this capacity at Vincennes, 
 at that time capital of the Territory of Indiana, 
 when he returned to Kentucky and became a stu- 
 dent at law in the office of Colonel George 
 Nicholas, who at that time was one of the greatest 
 jurists in the country. Judge Trimble practiced 
 law from 1807 to 1862; was then appointed cir- 
 cuit judge and removed to Cynthiana; resigned 
 that office and was immediately appointed by 
 Governor Desha, on January 15, 1825, third judge 
 of the New Court of Appeals, which he held for 
 a short time and resigned. In May, 1826, he was 
 tendered the United States judgeship for the Dis- 
 trict of Kentucky by President J. Q. Adams, but 
 ill-health prevented his acceptance. He was a rep- 
 resentative in the Kentucky Legislature in 1826- 
 33-35; was a strong advocate of the proposed 
 railroad from Charleston to Cincinnati, which 
 excited the opposition of his party, and was never 
 a candidate again. Plis death occurred July 9, 
 1852, at Cynthiana. He was an able lawyer and 
 few could cope with him in arguing an abstract 
 question of law depending on principle. He was 
 as noble as a citizen and as true as a friend as he 
 was able as a lawyer. Few knew the general 
 
 variety of his knowledge and the scope of his 
 critical judgment. 
 
 His father was William Trimble, who emigrated 
 to Kentucky and settled in Clark County in 1780, 
 not far from Boonsboro. 
 
 Robert Trimble, a brother of John — and for 
 whom Trimble County was named — was born 
 in Berkeley County, Virginia, in 1777; read law 
 under George Nicholas until the death of 
 Nicholas, when he finished his studies in the office 
 of James Brown ; was licensed, to practice before 
 the Court of Appeals in 1803, and in the same 
 year was elected to the Legislature from Bourbon 
 County. He cared little for politics and later in 
 life refused to become a candidate for the United 
 States Senate, preferring to devote his time to his 
 profession. In 1808 he was commissioned second 
 judge of the Court of Appeals; in 1810 was ap- 
 pointed chief justice of Kentucky, but on account 
 of limited means he declined to accept the first 
 judicial position of the Commonwealth. After 
 retiring from the bench he again took up the prac- 
 tice of law, and in 1813 was appointed United 
 States district attorney for the state. In 1816 he 
 was appointed by President Madison United 
 States judge for the District of Kentucky and filled 
 this office until 1826, when he was promoted by 
 President J. Q. Adams to the Supreme bench of 
 the United States. He died August 25, 1828. 
 Judge Trimble studied law as a principle and com- 
 prehended it as a science. In 1818 the sole pro- 
 fessorship of law in Transylvania University, 
 which was tendered him by the board and his ac- 
 ceptance urged by Mr. Clay, but he declined. 
 Chief Justice Marshall and Judge Storey pro- 
 nounced him to be not only of the first lawyers, 
 but one of the most profound men they had ever 
 known. His private virtues and his simple, noble 
 nature were above all that which were derived 
 from great intellect and lofty station. 
 
 William W. Trimble was a son of John and 
 Eliza (Porter) Trimble and was born in Cynthi- 
 ana, Kentucky, December 31, 1821, and was edu- 
 cated at Danville and under the private instruc- 
 tion of his father, who took a great interest in his 
 education. His uncle, Robert Macmillan, was a 
 professor in a college in Edinburgh, Scotland, 
 who came to America, and studied with him. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 along with his brothers Robert, John and James, 
 who became probably the best educated men in 
 the state. William W. Trimble commenced the 
 practice of law at Cynthiana, where he remained 
 for about twenty years, when in 1873 he removed 
 to Covington. He attended solely to the practice 
 of his profession and was one of the best informed 
 men in law and the general Hterature of his day. 
 He was an ardent Republican, a Mason arid an 
 Episcopalian. He married Mary Barlow, daugh- 
 ter of Martin Barlow and Frances (Cantrell) 
 Barlow. Her parents died when she was young, 
 and was reared in the family of Colonel Joseph 
 Cantrell of Bourbon. Six children were born to 
 Martin Barlow and Frances Cantrell: Fannie, 
 wife of George Fackler, of New York City; Kate, 
 wife of Edward J. Woolsey of the same city; 
 Helen, wife of Arthur Highton of London, Eng- 
 land; William Pitt, who was educated at Frank- 
 fort-on-the-Main, where he graduated, and at the 
 Cincinnati Law School, and is now practicing 
 law at Seattle, Washington; Robert, who was 
 educated at Harvard and Kenyon College, Ohio, 
 and Lawrence, who died in early youth. 
 
 James Barlow, a cousin of Mrs. W. W. Trim- 
 ble's father, was one of the greatest inventors in 
 the state. He invented the planitarium, the most 
 useful and complete astronomical apparatus in 
 the world. 
 
 Judge William W. Trimble was the author of 
 Trimble's Kentucky Digest, which is now used 
 in the Cincinnati Law School as a text book. The 
 judge died August 31, 1886, and is buried at Cyn- 
 thiana. 
 
 HENRY CLAY M'DOWELL, son of Wil- 
 liam Adair McDowell and Maria Hawkins 
 Harvey, born in Fincastle, Virginia, in 1832, 
 coming to Kentucky in 1839, when his father re- 
 turned to his native state. He graduated at the 
 Louisville Law School and won his way to a 
 successful practice in the profession, being for 
 some years a partner of his brother-in-law. Judge 
 Bland Ballard. He was among the earliest in 
 Kentucky to take up arms for the Union on the 
 breaking out of the Civil war, and was commis- 
 sioned by Mr. Lincoln as assistant adjutant gen- 
 eral and served on the stafif of General Rosecrans 
 
 and General Boyle. He was afterwards commis- 
 sioned by Mr. Lincoln as United States marshal 
 for Kentucky, being the same office, for the 
 same state, held by his grandfather, Colonel Sam- 
 uel McDowell, under commission of General 
 Washington. He married Anne Clay, daughter 
 of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Clay, who was 
 killed at the battle of Buena Vista, and having pur- 
 chased the farm of "Ashland," the home of her 
 grandfather, Henry Clay, he there resides, devot- 
 ing himself to agricultural pursuits, and giving 
 some attention to the Lexington & Eastern Rail- 
 way Co., of which he is president In politics he 
 was first a Whig and then a Republican. 
 
 SAMUEL B. CALDWELL, one of the most 
 prominent, enterprising and really public- 
 spirited citizens of Paducah, was born in Henry 
 County, Tennessee, November 2, 1824. He was 
 only three months old when his parents removed 
 to Galloway County, Kentucky. His father was 
 an industrious farmer, and the doctor shared the 
 labors of the farm, when he would have preferred 
 the privileges of the schoolroom. He was virtu- 
 ally educated between the plow handles; but he 
 was not inclined to follow agricultural pursuits, 
 and prepared himself for professional hfe by read- 
 ing and studying on Sundays and rainy days. He 
 found this a difficult and narrow way ; but by per- 
 sistent effort and close application to his studies, 
 he acquired a good primary education. He was 
 blind for three years on account of ophthalmia and 
 went to St. Louis, Missouri, to have his eyes 
 treated by Dr. Van Sant, and while under his care 
 began the study of medicine with a view of be- 
 coming an oculist; but with the restoration of 
 his sight he went to the University of Missouri and 
 took one course in the medical department of that 
 institution in 1854-5. From that time until 1870 
 be was a very successful practitioner, after which, 
 becoming interested in numerous enterprises, he 
 gradually gave up his profession, giving more at- 
 tention to real estate and its improvement. 
 
 I-Ie has been the land purchasing agent and in- 
 vestor for the Norton Brothers for a number of 
 years, making for them many valuable invest- 
 ments in the "Purchase" and in other parts of the 
 state and in other states, and is now interested in 
 
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 large tracts of farm, timber, iron, lead and coal 
 lands in Hopkins County. Besides numerous 
 other enterprises, Dr. Caldwell is largely inter- 
 ested in and prominently connected with several 
 leading local ventures and investments, among 
 which is the West End Improvement Company, 
 of which he is president. This company was or- 
 ganized in 1891 and owns one hundred and sixteen 
 acres, adjacent to the City of Paducah and lying 
 on both sides of the Broadway extension, con- 
 taining some attractive residences, his own among 
 the rest. This tract of ground is platted into 
 about four hundred lots, and is valued at $50,000. 
 
 He is a large stockholder in and president of the 
 General Electric Light & Power Company and a 
 director in the Paducah Electric Street Railway 
 Company, whose hues run through the property 
 of the West End Improvement Company to La 
 Belle Park; was the promoter of and is a stock- 
 holder in the Paducah Fair and Exposition Asso- 
 ciation; is director and stockholder in the Padu- 
 cah and Lovelaceville Gravel Road Company; a 
 large stockholder in the Palmer House, in the 
 Paducah Furnace Company, in the Paducah 
 Wheel Stock Company, in the Paducah Peanut 
 Company, the Paducah Building & Loan Associa- 
 tion, the Kentucky Building & Loan Associa- 
 tion, together with other enterprises and indus- 
 tries, all of which are for the promotion of the 
 general good of the city. Although past three 
 score and ten, Dr. Caldwell is one of the most 
 active, energetic and enterprising men in the 
 community in which he lives. 
 
 A man of high moral and religious character, 
 beloved and highly respected by all who know 
 him, and stands pre-eminently one of the first citi- 
 zens of Paducah. He has been liberal in his sup- 
 port of the cause of religion, and there is not an 
 evangelical denomination in Paducah that has not 
 been benefited by his subscriptions. By these 
 and kindred actions he has endeared himself to the 
 people of Paducah and made for himself a name 
 which will survive him many years, and his 
 work and exemplary life will be held up as an ex- 
 ample to future generations. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell was married in 1856 to Elizabeth 
 Napier of Boyle County, Kentucky. They had 
 four children, two of whom are living: Mary E. 
 
 Caldwell and S. B. Caldwell, Jr., born June i, 
 i860; educated in Paducah and at Hustonville 
 College; admitted to the bar in 1883, and is a 
 practicing attorney at the Paducah bar. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell's father, John L. Caldwell, was 
 born in South Carolina in 1800. He came to 
 Kentucky with his parents in 1806, and lived in 
 Warren County until 1820, when he married 
 Myra Morgan, a native of North Carolina, and in 
 1823, removed to Henry County, Tennessee. He 
 remained there two years, and in 1825 re- 
 moved to Callaway County and to McCracken 
 County in 1834, subsequently going to Illinois 
 in 1843, where he died in 1863. His father, Mat- 
 thew Caldwell, was related to John C. Calhoun. 
 
 Myra Morgan Caldwell's father was a native of 
 North Carolina, who removed to Kentucky in 
 1806. He was of Scotch-Irish extraction. Her 
 maternal grandfather, Charles Richardson, a na- 
 tive of North Ireland, was a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary War. 
 
 CHARLES JACOB BRONSTON, at pres- 
 ent State Senator from the county of Fay- 
 ette, was born in Richmond, Madison County, 
 Kentucky, July 29, 1848. He is the only 
 child of Thomas S. and Sallie A. (Bronston) 
 Bronston. His father was a native of Fayette 
 County, but spent most of his life in Madison 
 County, where, equipped with a common school 
 education, tireless energy and sterling honesty, 
 he became a leader both in public as a politician, 
 and in private as a citizen ; also becoming one of 
 the three founders of the Christian Church in that 
 county. Thomas S. Bronston was a son and name- 
 sake of Thomas S. Bronston, a native of Cham- 
 bersburg, Pennsylvania, who was a brother of 
 Jacob Bronston (maternal grandfather), who was 
 a Madison County farmer and trader and one of 
 the pioneer preachers in the Christian Church in 
 that county. Sallie A. Bronston (mother), was also 
 a native of Madison County. Thomas S. Brons- 
 ton (father) was assistant secretary of state 
 during the term, 1875-9, that Governor James B. 
 McCreary was the chief executive of Kentucky, 
 and was collector of internal revenue for the 
 Eighth district during Grover Cleveland's first 
 
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 administration. He died December 17, 1890, at 
 the age of seventy-four years. 
 
 Charles J. Bronston obtained his early educa- 
 tion at a public school in his native county, and 
 completed it at Kentucky University, Lexington, 
 Kentucky, graduating in 1869 with the highest 
 honors of his class, of which he was valedictorian. 
 One year later he took a special course in the 
 study of law at the University of Virginia, having 
 as preceptor that prince of law teachers, John 
 B. Minor, who died within the last two years. 
 Soon after obtaining a license to practice, he be- 
 came a law partner of Hon. James B. McCreary, 
 afterwards governor of Kentucky, and who for 
 ten years has been and is now congressman from 
 the Eighth district. At the age of twenty-six 
 Mr. Bronston married Susie Wallace Hughes, 
 daughter of William T. Hughes, of Fayette Coun- 
 ty. His wife died May 14, 1891, leaving six chil- 
 dren, three girls and three boys. In 1879 he was 
 elected commonwealth's attorney for the district 
 composed of Madison, Fayette, Clark, Bourbon, 
 Scott, Woodford and Jessamine, soon after his 
 election removing to Lexington, where he has 
 since resided. He held this position until Fay- 
 ette County became a separate district, the Twen- 
 ty-second Judicial, when he was again elected 
 without opposition to the same office, holding it 
 altogether for fifteen years, when he resigned to 
 accept a seat in the state senate as the representa- 
 tive from the county of Fayette. 
 
 As a prosecutor, he was extremely vigorous, 
 regardless of the social standing, race or color of 
 the defendant. He has been employed to assist 
 in prosecuting in criminal cases of great aggrava- 
 tion in various parts of the state. 
 
 When the constitutional convention met in 
 September, 1890, Mr. Bronston sat in the con- 
 vention as the representative from the city of 
 Lexington. Though one of the youngest mem- 
 bers of that body, he at once took rank with the 
 leaders, men skilled in common, parliamentary 
 and constitutional law, and possibly had more to 
 do with the present condition of the organic law 
 of the state than any other member of the con- 
 vention. He is now a member of the state sen- 
 ate and his achievements as a leader of the Dem- 
 ocratic party in that most memorable senatorial 
 
 contest are too well known to require any fur- 
 ther mention. He has always been an ardent 
 supporter of the principles of Democracy, firmly 
 believing that the future welfare and happiness 
 of the great mass of the common people depends 
 on the ultimate triumph of the tenets promulgated 
 by the great leaders of Democracy. All of the 
 political offices that have fallen to Mr. Bronston's 
 lot, virtually won without opposition, have been 
 filled with honor to his state and with credit to 
 himself. One of his enthusiastic friends says of 
 him: "As a lawyer, statesman and orator, he has 
 won a national reputation, and as a man of gen- 
 eral ability stands second to none of Kentucky's 
 great sons. In his opposition to an avowed ene- 
 my he is relentless, for a tried and true friend 
 he knows no sacrifice too great." 
 
 BENJAMIN F. PROCTER, Attorney-at-Law 
 of Bowling Green, son of Thomas L. S and 
 Agnes H. (Carson) Procter, was born in Logan 
 County, Kentucky, near South Union, November 
 26, 1849. His father was bom near Winchester, 
 Kentucky, and when nine years of age removed 
 with his father's family to Logan County, where 
 he subsequently became a farmer and mill-owner 
 and a highly-respected citizen and a prominent 
 member of the Baptist Church. He died at the 
 age of seventy-three years in 18S1. 
 
 Benjamin Procter (grandfather) was a Vir- 
 ginian, who came to Kentucky when he was a 
 young man, settled near Winchester, and thence 
 moved to Logan County, where he became a 
 farmer. He was a captain of militia, a prominent 
 citizen of the county, and died in Logan County 
 m 1853, aged seventy years. His ancestors were 
 of English descent, and were a race of lawyers. 
 
 Agnes H. Carson Procter (mother) was a native 
 of Butler County, Kentucky; died in Logan 
 County in 1870 at the age of fifty-six years. 
 
 Thomas Carson (grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia, wlio came to Kentucky in the early part 
 of the century and settled near Morgantown, 
 where he led the life of a farmer. He married a 
 Miss Dinwiddle of Virginia. 
 
 Benjamin F. Procter was educated in the com- 
 mon schools of Logan County and at Bethel Col- 
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 admitted to the bar in 1873. In the same year he 
 located in BowHng Green, and in 1874 was elected 
 corporation counsel for the city; was re-elected 
 for two consecutive terms, and from 1884 to 1887 
 served as Warren Circuit Court Commissioner. 
 He has never held any other public ofifice, and has 
 not asked any other favor of the pubHc or of his 
 party, preferring to give his undivided attention 
 to his profession, which requires all of his time, 
 and in which he has been highly successful. 
 During the past several years he has given espe- 
 cial attention to corporation law, in which branch 
 he has as large a practice as any lawyer in South- 
 ern Kentucky. He has accumulated considerable 
 property, including valuable real estate in Bowl- 
 ing Green. His father was at one time quite 
 wealthy, but lost his fortune during the Civil War, 
 so that Mr. Procter had to look out for himself at 
 an early age. He is one of the most courteous 
 men, and a typical Kentucky gentleman. 
 
 He was married in 1876 to Lila Pendleton, 
 daughter of Rev. Dr. J. M. Pendleton, of Up- 
 land, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Bap- 
 tist Church, and have a high social standing in 
 Bowling Green. 
 
 DR. ROBERT STUART, a prominent physi- 
 cian of Henderson, was born in Shelby 
 County, Kentucky, December i, 1837; son of 
 Olivia (Hall) and Rev. David Todd Stuart. His 
 father, David T. Stuart, was born in the parson- 
 age attached to Walnut Hill Church (near Lex- 
 ington) July 27, 1812; took the degree of A. B. in 
 Transylvania University at the age of twenty 
 years. In 1832 he entered Princeton, N. J., and 
 studied the regular course of theology. At the 
 request of Rev. William L. Breckinridge he 
 passed the summer of 1836 in preaching at the 
 Fourth Presbyterian Church, Louisville, Ken- 
 tucky, where he formed the acquaintance of Miss 
 Olivia W. Hall, whom he subsequently married. 
 He preached for fifteen years to the churches 
 of Shiloh and Olivet in Shelby County. In June, 
 1 85 1, he removed to Shelbyville and took charge 
 of the Shelbyville Female College, where he con- 
 tinued until his death, September 26, 1868. 
 Eleven children were born to him, viz.: Robert, 
 Winchester, John, Theodore, David T., Isabella, 
 
 Amelia, Mary Lou, Maggie, Florence and Annie. 
 
 Rev. Robert Stuart (grandfather) was of Irish- 
 Scotch parentage, and was born in Virginia; re- 
 ceived a collegiate and theological training at 
 Hampden Sidney, and came to Kentucky before 
 the beginning of the nineteenth century. In 1798 
 he was elected one of the first three professors of 
 Transylvania University, and held the position of 
 professor of languages for a number of years. 
 
 For more than half a century he filled the pulpit 
 of the Walnut Hill Church, Fayette County, Ken- 
 tucky. The degree of D. D. conferred upon him 
 was merited by his learning and long service. He 
 died at the age of eighty-four years in Nicholas- 
 ville, Kentucky. His wife, Hannah Todd, a mem- 
 ber of one of the best families of Lexington, died 
 in 1832. They had eight children. 
 
 Dr. Robert Stuart attended his junior year in 
 Center College in 1855. In 1857 he graduated 
 from Jefiferson College, Cannonsburg, Pennsyl- 
 vania. He attended one course of lectures in the 
 Kentucky School of Medicine, Louisville, Ken- 
 tuck)', and graduated from the Jefiferson School 
 of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa., in the spring of 
 i860. 
 
 He first practiced his profession in Yelvington, 
 Daviess County, Kentucky, where he made the 
 acquaintance of Miss Susan E. Read of Owens- 
 boro, Kentucky, a most beautiful and accom- 
 plished woman, to whom he was united in mar- 
 riage May 8, 1861. In February, 1862, he accept- 
 ed the position of assistant surgeon in the Second 
 Kentucky Cavalry, and served in that capacity 
 until the summer of 1863, when he was compelled 
 to resign on account of impaired health. He was 
 present at the battle of Shiloh, being detailed to 
 accompany the Louisville Legion on the field and 
 attend to their wounded. He was also present at 
 the battles of Stone River and Perryville, Ken- 
 tucky, and accompanied his regiment in the 
 march of Buell's legions in the pursuit of Bragg's 
 army to Louisville and back again to Tennessee. 
 
 After returning from the war he settled in Hen- 
 derson County, Kentucky, and practiced his pro- 
 fession for more than twenty years at Zion, a quiet 
 village six miles from the city of Henderson. 
 
 On December 19, 1891, he had the misfortune 
 to lose his faithful wife after a long and painful 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 illness — one of earth's purest and brightest jewels. 
 In 1893 he removed to Henderson, where he is at 
 present located ; is a member of a number of med- 
 ical societies; elder in the First Presbyterian 
 Church and a citizen of high standing. He is the 
 father of six children: Robert, Benjamin, Annie, 
 Alice W., Mary and Susan Elizabeth. 
 
 THOMAS HUNT STUCKY, M. D., a promi- 
 nent physician of Louisville, son of Harry 
 Stucky and Sallie (Sweeney) Stucky, was born in 
 Louisville March 21, i860. Hs father, one of the 
 best known citizens of Louisville, was born in 
 Jefferson County, Kentucky, September 19, 1827. 
 He was brought up on his father's farm and re- 
 ceived a good common school education. In 
 1846 he went to Louisville and entered the ofifice 
 of the clerk of the County Court and served as 
 first deputy clerk for eight years. In 1861 he was 
 elected city auditor and in 1862 was elected clerk 
 of the Louisville Chancery Court, and after serv- 
 ing one term of six years, declined a re-election. 
 In 1869 he was elected secretary and treasurer of 
 the board of directors of the sinking fund. He 
 held that office eight years and resigned, since 
 which time he has been acting as commissioner 
 and general trustee and assignee in the settlement 
 of estates, a business in which his services are 
 much in demand. In 1878 he was elected alder- 
 man from the sixth ward and served the city in 
 that capacity for sixteen years, consecutively, be- 
 ing re-elected every two years, and generally 
 without opposition. Pie declined another elec- 
 tion, although he could have held that office in- 
 definitely, as he was one of the few men in the 
 general council who were above reproach and 
 concerning whom no suspicion of unfair dealing 
 ever entered the minds of his constituents. 
 
 He was married in December, 1856, to Sallie 
 K. Sweeney, daughter of Rev. Joseph A. Sweeney, 
 of Virginia. They are the parents of Dr. Joseph 
 A. Stucky, of Lexington, whose biography is 
 given briefly herewith ; Dr. Thomas Hunt Stucky, 
 the subject of this sketch, and Virginia Stucky, 
 who is much younger than her brotliers and is 
 at home with her parents. 
 
 Frederick Stucky (grandfather) was born in 
 Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1801, and was a 
 
 resident and farmer of his native county nearly 
 all of his life, but died in Owen County, Indiana, 
 in 1893, where he had been living for some time 
 with a son. Although he reached the advanced 
 age of ninety-two years, he retained all of his 
 faculties until the last day of his life. His wife, 
 Louisa Myers, was born in Jefferson County, 
 Kentucky, in 181 5, and died in 1882. His father, 
 who was the great-grandfather ol the Doctors 
 Stucky, was a native of Maryland, who came to 
 Kentucky, and was one of the earliest pioneers 
 of Jefferson County. The Stucky family is of 
 Swiss origin. 
 
 Dr. Thomas Hunt Stucky completed his studies 
 in the Louisville high school at a very early age 
 and in 1876 he went to Bethany College, West 
 Virginia, an institution that was founded by Alex- 
 ander Campbell; returned to Louisville in 1878 
 and read medicine with Dr. David Cummins, one 
 of the ablest and most distinguished physicians 
 of Louisville, at the same time attending the Hos- 
 pital College of Medicine, from which he grad- 
 uated in 1880, when twenty years of age. He 
 then took post graduate courses in Bellevue Med- 
 ical College, New York, and at Strausberg and 
 Leipsic, Germany, making special studies in the 
 latter two schools in pathology and surgery. 
 
 In 1882 he returned to Louisville and settled 
 down to the practice of his profession. He gave 
 especial attention to diseases of the digestive or- 
 gans, but attended to a general practice, in which 
 he soon became one of the leading physicians 
 among a city full of doctors, some of whom en- 
 joyed a national reputation. While others have 
 been passing away, Dr. Stucky has steadily grown 
 in popular favor and has to-day no superior in 
 the medical profession. 
 
 During the past ten years he has been connected 
 with the Hospital College of Medicine and occu- 
 pies at present the chair of theory and practice 
 and clinical medicine in that college. He is a 
 member of the principal medical associations, in- 
 cluding the American Medical Association, the 
 Mississippi Valley Medical Association, the Ken- 
 tucky State Medical Society, the Tri-State Medi- 
 cal Association, the Mitchell (Indiana) Medical 
 Society, the Medical Chirurgical Association of 
 Louisville and the Jefferson County Medical As- 
 
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 sociation. He is also a member of several benevo- 
 lent orders, including the Chosen Friends, the 
 Royal Arcanum and is a thirty-second degree 
 Mason. He is a baseball enthusiast and is presi- 
 dent of the Louisville club, and in spite of the ups 
 and downs of that storm-tossed aggregation, he 
 has managed to steer it clear of the breakers, 
 
 Dr. Stucky's grandparents and their parents 
 were members of the Methodist Church, but he 
 and his father's family belong to the Christian 
 Church. 
 
 Dr. Stucky was married in 1883 to Laura Pre- 
 witt, daughter of Levi Prewitt, of Fayette County, 
 and his excellent wife is one of the most charming 
 ladies in Louisville society. 
 
 JOSEPH ADDISON STUCKY, M. D., one of 
 J the most successful physicians of Lexington, 
 son of Harry and Sallie Kemp (Sweeney) Stucky, 
 was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, Septem- 
 ber 6, 1858. His ancestry is given in the foregoing 
 sketches of his father, Harry Stucky, and his 
 brother. Dr. Thomas Hunt Stucky. 
 
 Dr. J. A. Stucky was educated in the Louis- 
 ville high school; studied medicine with Dr. J. M. 
 Bodine, of Louisville, and Dr. W. O. Sweeney, 
 of Lexington; attended the medical department 
 of the University of Louisville, from which he 
 graduated in 1878; located in Lexington, and be- 
 gan the practice of his profession, in which he 
 was eminent as a general practitioner until 1885, 
 when he began to confine his practice to the 
 treatment of diseases of the ear, nose and throat, 
 to which specialty he has given his attention with 
 remarkable success. There are few more skillful 
 physicians and surgeons in the country and in 
 the line to which he has given his special atten- 
 tion he has few equals and no superiors. 
 
 Dr. Stucky is a member of the International 
 Medical Congress ; ex-president of the American 
 Rhinological Society; member of the Kentucky 
 State Medical Society ; of the Lexington and Fay- 
 ette County Medical Society; of the American 
 Medical Association and fellow of the American 
 Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological So- 
 ciety. Pie was for five years surgeon for the Ches- 
 apeake & Ohio Railroad Company; lectures be- 
 fore the training schools in the Protestant Infir- 
 
 mary and St. Joseph's Hospital; takes a very ac- 
 tive interest in the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation, being a member of the state executive 
 committee and ex-president of the State Associa- 
 tion; is an influential and industrious member of 
 the Christian Church, and keeps his politics in 
 Hne with his religious profession by voting the 
 Prohibition ticket. He is a man of strong convic- 
 tions, and has the moral courage to stand up for 
 what he believes to be right and to oppose what 
 he conceives to be wrong. His sincerity and 
 his exemplary life and gentlemanly deportment 
 have distinguished Dr. Stucky as a man of in- 
 fluence for whom the people in the community 
 have the highest regard. 
 
 Dr. Stucky was married in 1881 to Nellie Mc- 
 Garvey, daughter of Professor J. W. McGarvey, 
 of Lexington. They have three sons and two 
 daughters living: John McGarvey, William 
 Sweeney, Lillie E., Harry Clarke and Nellie Mc- 
 Garvey. 
 
 SAMUEL P. HAGER, of Ashland, son of 
 Daniel and Violet (Porter) Hager, was 
 born in Floyd County, May 22, 1834. He has a 
 very interesting record of the history of his 
 father's family going back nearly one hundred 
 and fifty years. John Hager, the elder, was born 
 in Hesse Cassel, Germany, December 28, 1759, 
 and came to America under peculiar circum- 
 stances. He was one of the drafted soldiers sent 
 from Germany to aid the English in the Revolu- 
 tionary War; but on his arrival upon the scene 
 of conflict, he deserted and entered the Federal 
 army and served under Gen. Sumter until the 
 close of the war. He settled in Lynchburg, Vir- 
 ginia, and afterwards moved to Amherst County, 
 Virginia. There he married Mary Schrader, a 
 native of Virginia, in 1785; removed to Ken- 
 tucky in 1806 and settled at the mouth of Beaver 
 Creek, Floyd County; removed to the mouth of 
 John's Creek, where he died in February, 1819. 
 His wife died in 1847. They had seven children: 
 John, George, William, Elizabeth, Henry, James 
 M. and Daniel. 
 
 Daniel Hager (father) was born in Amherst 
 County, Virginia, November 15, 1801 ; came to 
 Floyd County with his father's family in 1806. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 They settled near the mouth of Beaver Creek on 
 the Big Sandy and later at the mouth of John's 
 Creek, where he received his schooHng and was 
 engaged in farming until 1840; in 1843 he pur- 
 chased the Hayden farm on Sandy River, in John- 
 son County, and in 1845 removed his family to 
 that place; in 1852 he removed to Paintsville, 
 where he was engaged in merchandising and in 
 the hotel business until 1858, when he removed 
 to his farm, where he resided until 1871, when he 
 again removed to Paintsville, where he died July 
 5, 1887, aged eighty-six year%, having been for 
 many years a member of the Methodist Church. 
 He was the first sheriff of Johnson County (1844); 
 was a member of the legislature in 1845-6; for a 
 number of years before the Civil War, he held a 
 commission as brigadier-general and commander- 
 in-chief of all the militia in eastern Kentucky, a 
 district comprising fifteen counties ; was a south- 
 ern sympathizer and spent nearly all of his time 
 in Virginia during the Civil War. He was a man 
 of great strength of character and a good citizen. 
 Pie was a lifelong Democrat, having voted for 
 General Jackson in 1824. 
 
 Violet Porter Hager (mother) was born in Rus- 
 sell County, Virginia, February 4, 1804; married 
 Daniel Hager, January 31, 1822; died in Paints- 
 ville, February 22, 1879, aged seventy-three years. 
 She was of Scotch-Irish descent. They were the 
 parents of twelve children, six sons and six daugh- 
 ters: John Jackson, Henry George, William 
 James, Mary Jane, Martha Ann, Amanda Burns, 
 Samuel Patton, Emily Elizabeth, Daniel Marion, 
 Louisa, Benjamin Franklin and Violet Vertrees. 
 
 Samuel P. Hager received such education as 
 was afforded at that time in country schools. Hav- 
 ing left school in 1852 he entered his father's store 
 at Paintsville and worked for him until 1856, when 
 he began business in a small way for himself. In 
 1857 his brother-in-law, William Stafford, was 
 admitted as a partner, the style of the firm being 
 Plager & Stafford. In the fall of that year they 
 sold out the store and Mr. Hager went to Tin- 
 ney's Grove in Ray County, Missouri, where he 
 engaged in the business of merchandising, con- 
 tinuing until April, 1859, when he returned to 
 Paintsville. During the war he owned a steam- 
 boat in partnership with his brother Henry and 
 
 others, which they operated on the Big Sandy 
 and Ohio rivers. In 1865 he sold his interest in 
 the steamboat and resumed the mercantile busi- 
 ness in Paintsville at a time when prices were 
 falling as rapidly as they had risen from 1862 to 
 1864, and when a majority of beginners in busi- 
 ness failed. But by hard labor and close atten- 
 tion to business he soon became the leading mer- 
 chant and one of the most successful business men 
 of the place. 
 
 In 1 88 1 he sold a half interest in his store to 
 his brother, Daniel M., and removed to Ashland, 
 Kentucky, where he now resides. 
 
 He has been in the insurance business since 
 1886. Is senior member of the fiim of Hager & 
 Hager at Ashland City, and also of the firm of 
 S. P. Hager & Bro. at Paintsville, Kentucky. He 
 is a stockholder in a number of enterprises in 
 Ashland, of which city he is one of the most en- 
 terprising citizens. 
 
 He is vice-president of the Merchants' National 
 Bank; director in the Ashland & Catlettsburg 
 Street Railroad Company and was one of the 
 originators of the enterprise, and is a prominent 
 Mason, having filled the chairs in his lodge, chap- 
 ter and commandery, and is at present Eminent 
 Commander of Ashland Commandery No. 28. 
 
 During the war Mr. Hager was a Union man, 
 and in this respect differed from his father's senti- 
 ments. He is a Democrat in politics, but takes no 
 active part in the affairs of his party, never hav- 
 ing offered himself as a candidate for office, 
 though frequently solicited to do so. He is a 
 member in the highest standing of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, South. 
 
 Mr. Hager was married November 21, i860, 
 to Angie R. Brown, daughter of Judge Thomas 
 S. Brown, of Johnson County. She was born in 
 Jolmson County April 4, 1844; and they have 
 four children living: William C, born August 31, 
 1861; Harry PI., born March 19, 1864; Edgar, 
 born December 7, 1861 ; John S., born January 
 14, 1871. Two cliildren are deceased: Frederick, 
 born April 9, 1866, died September 9, 1870; Paul 
 v., born August 11, 1873, died November 2, 1875. 
 
 William C. is a member of the firm of Hager 
 & Hager; married Ida Lady, daughter of Daniel 
 Lady, May 15, 1884, and they have three chil- 
 
JUDGE JOSEPH H. LEWIS. 
 
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 157 
 
 dren, named Adah, Hazel and Mary Elizabeth. 
 Harry H. is cashier of the Oxley Stave Company, 
 Chattanooga, Tennessee; married Lizzie Hamp- 
 ton, daughter of Charles Hampton, of Catletts- 
 burg, March 18, 1889; his wife died within two 
 years after marriage and her only child died about 
 a year later. Edgar received a collegiate educa- 
 tion in the Kentucky Wesleyan College, Millers- 
 burg, graduating in 1888; studied law in the law 
 department of Boston University, graduating in 
 June, 1892; was admitted to the bar in August, 
 1892, and is now a practitioner at the Ashland 
 bar. John S. is a graduate of the Kentucky Wes- 
 leyan College, Millersburg, and is assistant cash- 
 ier of the Merchants' National Bank of Ashland. 
 
 HONORABLE JOSEPH H. LEWIS, one 
 of the most distinguished judges of the 
 Kentucky Court of Appeals, who was commander 
 of the famous Orphans' Brigade in the Civil war, 
 was born in the southern part of Barren County, 
 Kentucky, October 29, 1824. 
 
 His father, John Lewis, was a native of Mercer 
 County, Kentucky, and after reaching manhood 
 removed to Barren County, where he engaged in 
 farming. He was a volunteer in the War of 1812, 
 and fought under General Jackson in the battle 
 of New Orleans. He belonged to a family noted 
 for longevity and was eighty-four years of age at 
 the time of his death in 1876. Before the war he 
 was considered a wealthy man, but the ravages 
 of war left him without property and he left no 
 estate. 
 
 Joseph Lewis (grandfather) was a Virginian by 
 birth, who removed to Mercer County before 
 Kentucky was admitted to the Union of states, 
 and was prominently identified with the early de- 
 velopment of the state. The Lewis family is of 
 French origin. The ancestors, leaving France, 
 first went to Wales and thence to the United 
 States, settling in Virginia. 
 
 Judge Lewis' mother, Eliza Martz Reed Lewis, 
 was a daughter of Lewis Reed, who was a native 
 .of New Jersey. He removed to Philadelphia, and 
 subsequently became a resident of Henderson 
 County, Kentucky, where he died. 
 
 Joseph H. Lewis went to Centre College, Dan- 
 ville, from which institution he was graduated in 
 
 1843, ^t the age of nineteen years. He read law 
 in the ofEce of Judge C. C. Tompkins, and was 
 duly admitted to the bar in Glasgow in 1845, and 
 at once entered upon the practice of his profes- 
 sion in that city. In 1850 he was elected to the 
 legislature on the Whig ticket; was re-elected in 
 1 85 1 and 1853, and took an active part in the 
 important work of the sessions. He remained in 
 the Whig party until the "Know-Nothing" craze, 
 when he identified himself with the Democratic 
 party. 
 
 In September, 1861, he volunteered his services 
 in the Confederate army and was commissioned 
 colonel of the Sixth Regiment of Kentucky In- 
 fantry, and remained in command of that regi- 
 ment until after the battle of Chickamauga, when 
 he was promoted to the rank of general for 
 meritorious conduct upon the battlefield. He 
 then took command of the famous Orphans' 
 Brigade, and was conspicuous in the later bat- 
 tles until the close of the war. He was a brave 
 and fearless soldier and inspired his men with the 
 courage and daring which made his brigade so 
 famous. He was in the thickest of the fight at 
 Shiloh, Jackson and Vicksburg, and in all of 
 the hard-fought engagements from Dalton to At- 
 lanta, and in the siege of Savannah. After the 
 surrender he returned to his home in Glasgow 
 and resumed the practice of law; was re-elected 
 to the legislature in 1868, and was made chair- 
 man of the committee on education. 
 
 In 1870 he was elected to Congress from the 
 then Third district to fill a vacancy for one year, 
 and at the next general election he was returned 
 for a full term, so that he served three years in 
 the United States House of Representatives. 
 
 In 1880 General Lewis was elected Circuit 
 Judge of his district, but soon resigned this ofifice 
 to become a candidate for judge of the Court of 
 Appeals, and was elected to fill an unexpired 
 term, caused by the death of Judge M. H. Coper, 
 since which time he has been twice re-elected and 
 has served on the appellate bench continuously 
 for over thirteen years. 
 
 Judge Lewis has been twice married. His first 
 wife was Sarah Rogers, daughter of Dr. George 
 Rogers of Glasgow. She died in 1858, leaving 
 two children: John Lewis, who is in business in 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Glasgow; and Eliza, wife of S. H. Burnham, now 
 residing in Lincoln, Nebraska. 
 
 He was married the second time in 1883 to 
 Cassandra F., widow of I. P. Johnson, daughter 
 of General Thompson B. Flournoy of Arkansas. 
 
 SCYON AMBLER BASS, a leading Attorney- 
 at-Law of Russellville, son of Scyon M. and 
 Mary (Chick) Bass, was born in Butler County, 
 Kentucky, March 15, 1855. 
 
 His father was born in Nelson County, Ten- 
 nessee, August 28, 1827; w^s educated in the 
 common schools and became a farmer in his na- 
 tive county, where he remained until 1867, when 
 he removed to Butler County, Kentucky, and en- 
 gaged in the same business. A few years ago 
 he removed to Auburn, Logan County, where he 
 is now living. He has always been a stock trader, 
 making a specialty of fine horses, and is still in- 
 terested in this branch of his business. He has 
 been a prominent Democrat, but never an office- 
 seeker; is a high Mason and a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He was 
 married in 1846 to Mary Chick, who was born in 
 Virginia, March 15, 1823. She removed with her 
 parents to Tennessee when she was quite young 
 and was educated in the latter state. The chil- 
 dren of Scyon M. and Mary (Chick) Bass were: 
 
 Thadeus, born December 10, 1847, iiow a 
 farmer in Logan County; married a Miss Stanley. 
 
 Gorilla, born in 1849; married John C. Phaland, 
 and is now residing at Auburn. 
 
 Perlina, born in 1853; was the wife of Virgil 
 Gray, who was a member of General John H. 
 Morgan's cavalry in the late war. They both 
 died in 1872. 
 
 Scyon Ambler, born March 15, 1855, subject of 
 this sketch. 
 
 Mary Frances, born in 1857, now the wife of 
 Joseph S. Ray, residing at Auburn. 
 
 Scyon Bass (grandfather) was a native of North 
 Carolina ; removed to Silver Springs, Tennessee, 
 where he was a merchant for more than fifty 
 years. His home was within a few miles of that 
 of President Jackson. He was a Whig of decided 
 convictions; a member of the Baptist Church, 
 and a highly esteemed citizen of his county. He 
 married Mary Ragland, and wag the father of six 
 
 children: Solomon; Harmon, born in 1814, and 
 died at the age of eighty years; Cader, whose 
 home is Tennessee; Scyon M. (father); Julia 
 and Polly. 
 
 Scyon Bass (great-grandfather) was born Au- 
 gust I, 1781, and died August 28, 1847. He was 
 married three times — first to Miss Brantley, a 
 native of Halifax Court House, Virginia, who was 
 the mother of one son, Bennett Bass. After the 
 death of his first wife he married her sister, who 
 was the mother of Solomon Bass. His third wife 
 was Mary Perry, who was born in Virginia, July 
 3, 1789, and died May 18, 1857. Her children 
 were Harmon, who died at the age of eighty- 
 four years; Hetty, who married Kemp, and Har- 
 rison died at the age of eighteen years; Cader, 
 born in 1818; Julia, born in 1822; Scyon M.; 
 born August 8, 1825; Harriet and Almeta died 
 when young; Turner and Lucretia. 
 
 Solomon Bass (great-great-grandfather) was a 
 native of France, who emigrated to America and 
 settled in Virginia, and was the father of six chil- 
 dren : Scyon, Jones, Cader, Oren, Nancy, Hearta. 
 The sons of Solomon Bass were born in Virginia 
 and all of them removed to Tennessee, where they 
 died. 
 
 Ambler Chick (maternal grandfather) was born 
 in Virginia in 1795. He removed to Tennessee 
 as early as 1820, where he owned a plantation 
 and was largely engaged in the cultivation of cot- 
 ton, owning a large number of negroes. In 1852 
 he removed to Logan County, Kentucky, and 
 raised large crops of tobacco and wheat. He 
 married Mary Ragland (also the name of the wife 
 of grandfather, Scyon Bass, but probably not re- 
 lated), who was bom and educated in Virginia. 
 Their children were Burril, Judeth, John, Pettis, 
 Davis, William, Virginia and Perlina. 
 
 William Chick (maternal great-grandfather) 
 and Mary Ragland (still another of the same name) 
 were natives of Wales, who emigrated to Amer- 
 ica and settled in Virginia, but the date of their 
 coming has not been recorded. 
 
 Scyon Ambler Bass, lawyer, of Russellville, 
 was educated at Auburn, Logan County, Ken- 
 tucky, and began the study of law at Bowling 
 Green in the office of that triumvirate of Kentucky 
 jurists. Judge W. L,. Dul^ney (see sketch), John 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 159 
 
 M. Porter and Thomas H. Hines. After reading 
 in this office for one year he went to Cumberland 
 University, his preceptors being Judge Nathan 
 Green and Robert L. Carothers, and was grad- 
 uated and admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1877. 
 
 In the following year he was admitted to the 
 bar in Kentucky and began the practice of law 
 in Russellville, where he has since distinguished 
 himself as a lawyer of ability and excellent judg- 
 ment. 
 
 In March, 1890, he was appointed master com- 
 missioner of the Logan Circuit Court for a term 
 expiring in 1897. 
 
 During the whole time in which he has prac- 
 ticed law in Russellville, he has been extensively 
 interested in stock raising on his farm in the coun- 
 ty; is a silent partner in the firm of W. C. Seward 
 & Company, and from 1880 to 1885 was a member 
 of the firm of Clay & Bass, but took no active 
 part in the management of the business; in 1893 
 was elected president of the Russellville Tanning 
 & Harness Company, and is interested in a cat- 
 tle ranch in Presidio County, Texas. But with 
 all of these interests and investments he is devot- 
 ed to his profession and gives his law business his 
 best attention. 
 
 Mr. Bass was married November 18, 1879, to 
 Mrs. Anneta Seward, whose maiden name was 
 Carter. She was born July 7, 1853, and was edu- 
 cated in the Louisville high school and at Mrs. 
 Tevis' Science Hill Academy in Shelbyville. Her 
 first husband was William J. Seward, of Franklin, 
 deceased. 
 
 The children of Scyon A. and Anneta Carter 
 Bass are: Edwin Lucas, born January 16, 1881; 
 Mary Ellen, born August 5, 1882; Russell Mar- 
 tin, born May 6, 1884, and Minnie Louise, born 
 November 29, 1889. 
 
 REV. JOSEPH RENNIE, Pastor of Stuart 
 Robinson Memorial Presbyterian Church, 
 Louisville, was born in Richmond, Virginia, July 
 15, i860. His father. Rev. Joseph R. Rennie, is 
 also a native of Richmond, now residing in 
 Amelia Court House, Virginia, and is pastor of 
 the Presbyterian Church in that place. He was a 
 farmer until he was forty-eight years of age, when 
 he entered the ministry from a ? onyiction of duty. 
 
 He has been remarkably successful, and is exceed- 
 ingly popular with his congregation, one of the 
 most intelligent in the state. He served through- 
 out the war; was with Stonewall Jackson in his 
 Valley campaign, and with the Richmond How- 
 itzers as driver of a caisson, a very dangerous and 
 much exposed position. He was a good soldier, 
 a highly respected citizen, and is a very influential 
 preacher. 
 
 Joseph Rennie (grandfather) was a native of 
 Kelso, Scotland, who came to New York with 
 James Thorburn, the celebrated seed man. He 
 removed to Virginia about the year 1835, and 
 died in Richmond in 1865, aged sixty-five years. 
 He was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church 
 of Richmond. He was the first landscape gard- 
 ener that came to Richmond. 
 
 Mr. Rennie's mother, Ella (Powell) Rennie, 
 was born in Richmond in 1839. She is, of course, 
 a member of the Presbyterian Church at Amelia 
 Court House, of which her husband is pastor. 
 
 After his primary education, Mr. Rennie spent 
 two years in Richmond College and then entered 
 Hampton-Sidney College, whence he graduated 
 in 1885. He then attended the Union Theological 
 Seminary in Prince Edward County, Virginia, 
 graduating in the spring of 1888. In 1887 he was 
 licensed to preach by the East Hanover Presby- 
 tery, which he had supplied a year previous while 
 pursuing his theological studies. Immediately 
 after graduation, he was called to the pastorate of 
 the Chase City (Virginia) Presbyterian Church, 
 of which he had charge for three years. In Octo- 
 ber, 1890, he went to Oxford, North Carolina, and 
 supplied the church at that place until 1892, when 
 he came to Louisville and took charge of the 
 Stuart Robinson Memorial Presbyterian Church, 
 located in St. James Court, in which he has met 
 with gratifying success, the membership of the 
 congregation having been more than doubled 
 under his preaching and numbering at the present 
 writing about one hundred and fifty members. 
 
 Mr. Rennie was very popular in his college 
 days, and usually represented his college society 
 on public occasions, carrying off the honors. He 
 graduated with high honors, and has sustained 
 the reputation he made then as a profound thinker 
 and eloquent speaker, 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 During his residence in Richmond he was a 
 member of the Second Presbyterian Cliurch, of 
 which the Rev. M. D. Hoge was the pastor. 
 
 Mr. Rennie was married in October, 1888, to 
 Ellen Eugenia, daughter of Dr. Charles Parke 
 Goodall of Richmond, Virginia. She is related to 
 the large Christian family of Virginia. 
 
 JOSHUA T. GRIFFITH, Clerk of the Daviess 
 County Court, Owensboro, son of Daniel M. 
 and Virginia Shelby (Todd) Griffith, was born in 
 Owensboro, April i, 1861, and received his educa- 
 tion in the schools of that city. During President 
 Cleveland's first administration he was deputy col- 
 lector of Internal Revnue under Hunter Wood, 
 collector of the Second district. He was elected 
 clerk of the Daviess County Court, and is 
 now serving his second term in that office, in 
 which his faithful attention to business and gen- 
 tlemanly demeanor have won for him a popu- 
 larity which few men in the county enjoy. He 
 was married June 11, 1891, to Jettie Rothchild, 
 and has- one child, Virginia Griffith, born January 
 29, 1895. 
 
 Mr. Griffith is a descendant of a long line of 
 ancestry on both sides of the family, who figured 
 conspicuously in the early history of the Repub- 
 lic, state and county; and he reveres the names 
 and deeds of his noble ancestry, whose lives were 
 unblemished by word or act, while he cherishes 
 the laudable ambition to emulate their good 
 works and to preserve their name unspotted be- 
 fore the world, as becomes the scion of a noble 
 ancestry. 
 
 William Griffith, the first of the name to come 
 to America, arrived from London, England, in 
 June, 1675, and settled on the Severn River in 
 Anne Arundel County, Maryland. 
 
 He was married to Sarah Maccubbin, daugh- 
 ter of John and Elinor Maccubbin, and had the 
 following children, viz.: Orlando, born October 
 17, 1688; Sophia, born April 27, 1691; Charles, 
 born January 20, 1693; William, born April 15, 
 1697. 
 
 William Griffith died 1699, leaving a will, 
 proved at Annapolis, Maryland, October 23, 1699. 
 
 Sarah Griffith, his widow, married Thomas 
 
 Reynolds, sheriff of Anne Arundel County, 
 Maryland, and died April 22, 1716. 
 
 Orlando Griffith, born October 17, 1688, eldest 
 son of William and Sarah, married June 6, 1717, 
 at Annapolis, Maryland, Katherine Howard, 
 daughter of John and Mrs. Katherine Greenberry 
 Ridgely, and had the following children, viz.: 
 Sarah, born May 13, 1718; Nicholas, died in in- 
 fancy; Henry, bom February 14, 1720; Green- 
 beriy, born December 31, 1727; Joshua, born 
 January 25, 1730; Benjamin, born November 22, 
 1732; Lucretia, born February 5, 1739; Orlando, 
 Jr., born April 27, 1741; Charles Greenberry, 
 born May 17, 1744. 
 
 Orlando Griffith died March, 1757, leaving a 
 will dated April 8, 1753; proved April 25, 1757, 
 at Annapolis, Maryland. 
 
 His wife, Katherine Howard Griffith, died 
 February, 1783. 
 
 Henry Griffith, born February 14, 1720, son of 
 Orlando, married second time — ^June 4, 1751 — 
 Ruth Hammond, daughter of John and Ann 
 Hammond, and had the following children, viz.: 
 Samuel, born May 7, 1752; John H., born April 
 20, 1754; Philemon, born August 29, 1756; 
 Charles, born December 16, 1758; Ann, bom 
 February 24, 1762; Joshua, born March 25, 1764; 
 Eleanor, born March 9, 1766; Elizabeth, born 
 December 16, 1768, and Ruth. 
 
 Henry Griffith died September 28, 1794. His 
 will was probated at Rockville, Maryland,' Octo- 
 ber 10, 1794. Ruth, his wife, died January 27, 
 1782. 
 
 Joshua Griffith (great-grandfather) of Mary- 
 land, born March 25, 1764, was twice married: 
 first in 1783 to Elizabeth Ridgeley of Anne Arun- 
 del County, Maryland. She was born in 1765 
 and died in 1797. His second wife's name, county 
 and state were the same as that of his first wife. 
 She was born in 1769; married Joshua Griffith in 
 1798 and died in 1803. By the first marriage there 
 were three children: Lydia, married in 1808 to 
 Warner Crow; Remus, born 1786, maiTied in 
 1809 to SaJlie Handley, died 1845; and Ruth, 
 married Moses Cummins. By the second mar- 
 riage there was one child : William (grandfather), 
 who was first married to Aria Mosely, in 1822; 
 and again to Martha Hopkins, in 1848, and one 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 ibi 
 
 child of this union, Carey, died in infancy. His 
 children by his first wife (Aria Mosely) were 
 Ridgely, born in 1823, died in 1841; William 
 Henry, born in 1825, married Margaret Calhoun 
 in 1845, died in 1848; and Daniel M. (father), 
 bom February 28, 1826, married Virginia Shelby 
 Todd in October, 1857, died November 3, 1893. 
 Joshua Griffith (great-grandfather) was one of 
 the most charitable men of his day. The follow- 
 ing instance of his love and generosity towards 
 his neighbors is remembered: At a time when 
 there was a great scarcity of provisions in the 
 county, a number of men came to him wanting 
 to buy his large stock of provisions, but he posi- 
 tively declined to sell, saying, if they had money 
 to buy provisions with they would not suffer, and 
 he must care for his neighbors and supply the 
 wants of those who had neither money or meat. 
 He had scwne knowledge of medicine and, al- 
 though he was not an educated physician, his 
 medical advice was sought by his neighbors for 
 miles around. He cheerfully rendered what 
 service he could to ameliorate the sufferings of 
 others, but he never charged one cent for such 
 services. He was one of the few men who lived 
 and died in the county without an enemy. His 
 useful life, so helpful to others, was spared until 
 he reached a ripe old age, being eighty-two years 
 old when he died. 
 
 William Griffith (grandfather) was born in 
 Maryland, and died in 1845. He was eleven 
 years of age when he came to Kentucky 
 and, owing to the primitive condition of the 
 country, schools were impossible, but he received 
 a fair education in schools at Hartford and at St. 
 Joseph College. He was a soldier in the War of 
 1812-14; and, upon the organization of Daviess 
 County and the opening of the County Court, 
 he was appointed the first clerk of the court. He 
 was afterward admitted to the bar and practiced 
 law for several years. In 1822 he married Aria 
 Mosely, daughter of Captain Thomas Mosely, 
 an early settler in Kentucky, who came from 
 Virginia. She died in 1828; and, in 1841, he 
 married Martha Hopkins, daughter of General 
 Edmund Hopkins of Henderson County. He 
 iDccame largely interested in real estate, owning 
 
 at different times inany thousands of acres of 
 11 
 
 land. Titles for larger landed possessions passed 
 through his hands than were ever given by any 
 other individual in Daviess County, unless by 
 his son, who succeeded him. He encouraged and 
 secured the settlement of a great number of fami- 
 lies in different parts of the county, selling land 
 at low prices and on favorable terms. He was 
 gifted with superior business qualifications and 
 was generous to a fault. He would say to the 
 surveyors of the land which he proposed to sell 
 to throw in five or ten acres rather than make it 
 short by a rood. He was prominent in the de- 
 velopment of the county and was a popular leader 
 in every movement for the public weal. He 
 served his county in the legislature for a number 
 of terms and his district in the senate three or 
 four terms, and in this he served his constituents 
 industriously and conscientiously. 
 
 The excellent name of his honored father was 
 kept in remembrance by the noble deeds of the 
 son, whose life was full of charitable deeds, gen- 
 erous consideration for others and whose pubHc 
 spirited enthusiasm and enterprise did so much 
 to make his county one of the best in the Ohio 
 Valley. 
 
 Daniel M. Griffith (father) was the eldest son 
 of William Griffith. He received a collegiate 
 education at Centre College and at old Transyl- 
 vania, graduating from the latter in the class of 
 1847. He studied law and was duly admitted to 
 the bar, but abandoned the active practice of his 
 profession in order to attend to the large landed 
 estate of his father; and became quite as ex- 
 tensively interested in real estate as his father had 
 been. His legal training served him well in this 
 business, as he was especially well versed in the 
 intricate laws relative to titles and conveyances. 
 His personal knowledge of almost every acre of 
 land in the county, together with an unerring 
 judgment as to its value, gave him great ad- 
 vantage in the purchase and sale of property, and 
 he was the owner of or the agent for thousands of 
 acres of land in Daviess and adjacent counties. 
 
 Business reverses, such as are liable to all men 
 of large enterprises, came to Mr. Griffith and he 
 virtually had to begin at the bottom again and 
 rebuild his fortune; and, by patient persever- 
 ance, business tact and large experience, he fully 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 recovered his losses and owned a larger estate 
 at the time of his death than he had ever owned 
 before. Like his father and his grandfather, he 
 was in his day the most widely known and popu- 
 lar citizen in the county. He was a man of un- 
 impeachable character; few men could have been 
 concerned in as many real estate transactions, 
 large and small, without incurring the displeasure 
 of some of the parties to such transactions. His 
 honesty and integrity were never questioned. He 
 never deceived anyone to gain a personal advan- 
 tage. Only those who knew him personally and 
 intimately could appreciate the true nobility of 
 his character, his kindness and gentleness toward 
 all, his generosity and liberality to those who 
 needed assistance, his fidelity to his friends, and 
 above all, his sacred devotion to his family. Al- 
 way calm and self-possessed, he never deviated 
 from the courtesy which he held was due to every 
 man, whether prince or pauper. There was no 
 harshness in his nature and the humblest menial 
 could approach him with the assurance that he 
 • would be kindly received. By his uprightness 
 and straightforwardness he won friends from 
 among all classes. He left the impress of his 
 strong personality upon the community in which 
 he was a prominent figure, and his death was 
 looked upon as a public calamity. Popular as he 
 was and qualified as few men are for public 
 service, he never aspired to office and only once, 
 in 1847, did he yield to the solicitation of friends, 
 who elected him to the legislature. Some few 
 years before his death, which occurred November 
 3, 1893, he adopted the faith of the Catholic 
 religion, having contemplated that step for many 
 years. 
 
 Daniel M. Griffith was married in October, 
 1857, to Virginia Shelby Todd, daughter of 
 Charles S. Todd and granddaughter of Governor 
 Isaac Shelby. Pier father was minister plenipo- 
 tentiary to Russia under President Harrison's ad- 
 ministration. The maternal ancestry of Joshua 
 T. Griffith were prominent in the early history 
 of the state and nation, and their lives and deeds 
 having become a matter of history a repetition is 
 uncalled for in this volume. The names of the 
 children of Daniel M. and Virginia Shelby Todd 
 Griffith were as follows: Letitia, born in 1858, 
 
 married H. C. Watkins in 1880, and died in 1894, 
 leaving two children — Virginia, born in 1883, and 
 Shelton, born in 1888; Virginia, born in 1859, 
 died in 1877; Joshua T., born April i, 1861, mar- 
 ried June II, 1891, to Jettie Rothchild, has one 
 child, Virginia, born January 29, 1895; Florence, 
 born 1863, married H. A. Miller, now living in 
 Asheville, North Carolina, her children are 
 Amelia, born in 1886; Virginia, born in 1888; 
 Griffith, born in 1889, died 1890; Daniel M., bom 
 September 19, 1867, married Susan M. Herr, No- 
 vember 7, 189s; Rose, bom 1865, married Dr. E. 
 S. Watkins in 1887 and had three children: Sue 
 R. and Rose Yandell (twins), born in 1888, Rose 
 Yandell died 1884; Ruth, born 1870, died 1884; 
 Todd, born 1871, died 1880; Clinton, born 1873; 
 Mary Ridgeley, bom 1876. 
 
 JOHN S. FRITZ, Chief of PoHce of Hopkins- 
 ville, was born in Christian County, Kentucky, 
 June 21, 1864. His father, John G. Fritz, was a 
 native of the same county, bom in August, 1825; 
 was educated in the pubHc schools of the county; 
 at the age of eighteen years began farming on his 
 own account, giving especial attention to the 
 cultivation of tobacco and eventually doing a 
 very extensive tobacco brokerage business. He 
 was a member of the Methodist Church, a Mason 
 and Democratic voter who could always be re- 
 lied upon by his party. 
 
 Solomon Fritz (grandfather), a native of Ken- 
 tucky, was the inventor and manufacturer of the 
 celebrated Fritz gun. 
 
 Jane F. Hord Fritz (mother) was a native 
 of Christian County, daughter of William Hord, 
 a Virginian by birth, who removed to Christian 
 County and was one of tlie representative farm- 
 ers until the time of his death in 1880. 
 
 John S. Fritz, after receiving his primary 
 schooling in liopkinsville, went to Cumberland 
 University, Lebanon, Tennessee, and later to a 
 commercial college in Evansville, Indiana, from 
 which he was graduated in 1883. His first em- 
 ployment was as bookkeeper for the tobacco firm 
 of Gant & Gaither, of Hopkinsville, with whom 
 he remained two and a half years. He was then 
 in the livery business with his brother for two 
 years, and was subsequently appointed deputy 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 under Sheriff Boyd. He served one year on the 
 police force in Hopkinsville and was re-appointed, 
 but resigned to accept the position of bookkeeper 
 for Sheriff West and gave up that position in 1891 
 to accept his appointment as chief of poHce, in 
 which office he has rendered vakiable service to 
 the city and to which he has been re-appointed 
 from year to year until the present time. 
 
 John S. Fritz and Mary Rogers, daughter of 
 ex-Sheriff Rogers, of Christian County, were mar- 
 ried November 11, 1890, and they have two chil- 
 dren : Cora Ruth and Jane. 
 
 He is a prominent Knight of Pythias. He 
 takes some interest in politics and always puts 
 his cross under the rooster. 
 
 LEW B. BROWN, Lawyer, and Editor of the 
 Spencer Courier, Taylorsville, Kentucky, was 
 born in Madison, Arkansas, June 13, 1861. His 
 father, George Llewellyn Brown, was a native of 
 Paris, Tennessee, who traveled extensively and 
 finally settled in Madison, Arkansas, where he es- 
 tablished the Pioneer newspaper before the war. 
 He bitterly opposed the secession in his paper, 
 but when the war began he enlisted in St. Francis 
 County, Arkansas, served as a special messenger 
 and was subsequently promoted to the rank of 
 major in the Confederate army. He returned to 
 Arkansas after the war closed and died in Ozark 
 in 1875, being then the editor of the Ozark Ban- 
 ner. He was a man of fine intelligence and held 
 a high rank in the Masonic Order. 
 
 George Young (maternal grandfather) was a 
 native of Kentucky and a tailor by trade. He was 
 engaged in business in Bardstown for a number 
 of years, and subsequently removed to Arkansas, 
 where he died in 1870. 
 
 Lew B. Brown attended the common schools 
 in Madison, Forrest City and Ozark, Arkansas, 
 and in Cloverport, Kentucky; and supplemented 
 a meager English education by active work as 
 reporter for the Louisville newspapers, including 
 the Courier- Journal, Evening Times and Sunday 
 Truth, and as accredited correspondent for the 
 New York Morning Journal, Chicago Herald, 
 Pittsburg Leader, New Orleans Times-Demo- 
 crat and others. After an apprenticeship of four- 
 teen years in this capacity and as a practical 
 
 printer, he removed to Taylorsville and purchased 
 the Spencer Courier, now owned and edited by 
 him. His first newspaper venture was the 
 Monthly Visitor, which he conducted at Ozark 
 at the age of fourteen. 
 
 He read law under Hon. G. G. Gilbert, of Shel- 
 byville, and Hon. Charles A. Wilson, of Louis- 
 ville, and in June, 1894, was licensed to practice 
 by the Court of Appeals. He is now a full-fledged 
 lawyer-editor and one of the best practitioners 
 at the Taylorsville bar. He won his first case be- 
 fore a jury and made a reputation which he has 
 easily sustained and which has given him a large 
 share of the legal business of his county. 
 
 Mr. Brown is an able journalist, a fine lawyer, 
 an enterprising citizen and a popular member of 
 the Odd Fellows Lodge, Knights of Labor, Typo- 
 graphical Union, and is secretary of the Demo- 
 cratic County Committee, and chairman of the 
 Democratic campaign committee. He makes good 
 use of his opportunities in political work, and is 
 an acknowledged leader in his party and an im- 
 portant factor in the advancement of the material 
 interests of his town and county. 
 
 He was married February 11, 1885, to Emma 
 J. Struby, of Louisville, who was the mother of 
 three children: Llewellyn Chauncey, Albert 
 Young and Barbara Sunshine. Mrs. Brown died 
 of heart failure December 19, 1895, superinduced 
 by the excitement and grief occasioned by the 
 sudden death of her little son. She was a member 
 of the Baptist Church, in which she and her hus- 
 band were recognized as among the leading and 
 most earnest and liberal workers in the cause of 
 Christianity. After Mr. Brown's law business had 
 grown so rapidly, Mrs. Brown assisted him as 
 local editor of the "Spencer Courier" and had 
 developed great talent in newspaper work. 
 
 SAMUEL HOUSTON of Paducah— a lawyer 
 of prominence and fine ability, of strict in- 
 tegrity and high moral standing in his profes- 
 sion and as a citizen — was born in Paducah, Ken- 
 tucky, on November 25, 1838. 
 
 His ancestors on his father's side were of the 
 hardy Scotch-Irish stock, who immigrated to 
 America in the early part of the eighteenth cen- 
 tury, and became soldiers in the colonial and 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 revolutionary wars, and when independence and 
 peace were declared were pioneers and farmers, 
 who aided in reducing the aboriginal west to 
 civilization. 
 
 His father, Eli M. Houston, was a native of 
 Miami County, Ohio, a contractor and builder, 
 who removed to Paducah in 1834, and in the 
 following year was married to Sarah Best. In 
 1842 he removed to Hickman, Kentucky, and in 
 1846 to Memphis, Tennessee, where he was 
 superintendent of construction in the navy yard. 
 In 1850, when gold was discovered, he went to 
 California, and afterward was one of the dis- 
 coverers of the Washoe mines in Nevada, where 
 he died and was buried at Gold Hill in i860. 
 He was a man of fine intellect — handsome, bold, 
 restless and ambitious, who followed the star of 
 empire westward. 
 
 David Houston (grandfather) was a native of 
 Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, who in 
 1785 migrated west with his father's family, and 
 resided in Garrard County, Kentucky, for many 
 years. In 1806 he married Miss McKinney, and 
 in 1808 removed to Miami County, Ohio, where 
 he lived and died on his farm, in 1833. He was 
 a member of the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 William Houston (great-grandfather), a native 
 of Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland, came to 
 America about 1735 and settled on a farm in 
 Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he 
 married Mary Montgomery (great-grand- 
 mother). He was in the colonial army at Brad- 
 dock's defeat, and having served through the 
 war, removed to Virginia, thence to Mecklen- 
 burg County, North Carolina, where he lived 
 many years. In 1785 he removed to Garrard 
 County, Kentucky, and in 1800 removed to Dick- 
 son County, Tennessee. In 1808 he removed to 
 Miami County, Ohio, where he settled on a farm, 
 and died in 18 10 at an advanced age. 
 
 Sarah Best Houston (mother) was a daughter 
 of Thomas and Margaret Best, who immigrated 
 from England to America in 1800, and first 
 located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and in the following 
 year settled and lived for over a quarter of a 
 century in Lebanon, Ohio. In 1834 Thomas Best 
 and his family removed to Paducah. 
 
 Eli M. and Sarah Best Houston (parents) had 
 
 nine children, four only of whom are now living. 
 Sam Houston's education was conducted with 
 a view to professional life, and at an early age 
 chose the law as best suited to his inclination. 
 For this he fully prepared himself, and in 1859, 
 when twenty-one years of age, was admitted to 
 the bar and began the practice of his profession 
 in his native city. He was city attorney from 
 May, 1862, to September, 1872, being elected and 
 several times re-elected as a Democrat. He has 
 never permitted himself to become a politician, 
 nor has he held any other office, preferring to 
 devote himself to his law practice, which requires 
 his undivided time and attention. He has always 
 been active in matters looking to the substantial 
 prosperity of the city. He suggested the build- 
 ing of the city hall, and gave his influence toward 
 its construction and completion, and was one of 
 the leaders in the movement of citizens to secure 
 the construction of the United States government 
 building in Paducah. Mr. Houston is a quiet, 
 dignified gentleman, but has always been at the 
 front, where the advancement of the public in- 
 terest requires ready thought and steady purpose. 
 
 STEPHEN K. SNEED. It has been said that 
 the time to commence the training of a child 
 is when its grandmother is an infant. The rule 
 is a good one, and Stephen Kutesoflf Sneed owes 
 much to its application. His good training reaches 
 farther back than the limits of this sketch per- 
 mit us to go. 
 
 Mr. Sneed was born October 6, 1841, in Gran- 
 ville County, North Carolina, under the roof of 
 the ancestral mansion, "Montpelier," where his 
 forefathers had lived since 1760. His father was 
 Richard Sneed, a physician, respected by all and 
 beloved by those with whom he was brought into 
 professional contact. His mother was Lucy Hen- 
 derson. Dr. Sneed and Miss Henderson had 
 married in North Carolina, the native state of 
 them both, and in 185 1 removed to Kentucky, 
 settling in the city of Henderson, where they re- 
 sided until their death— Dr. Sneed in 1861 and 
 Mrs. Sneed in 1868. 
 
 His paternal grandfather was Stephen Sneed, 
 a captain under General Daniel Morgan, com- 
 mander of the famous riflemen, and at Bemis' 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 165 
 
 Heights and at the Cowpens Captain Sneed dealt 
 lusty blows for our independence. 
 
 His maternal grandfather was Leonard Hen- 
 derson, an eminent lawyer and for many years 
 chief justice of North Carolina, whose learning 
 and ability were largely instrumental in formulat- 
 ing the jurisprudence of that state. Chief Justice 
 Henderson was the son of Colonel Richard Hen- 
 derson. Few names have more impressed them- 
 selves upon the history of Kentucky than that 
 of Colonel Henderson. His ancestors were 
 among the earliest settlers in Virginia, where he 
 was born in 1735. Whilst a youth his parents 
 emigrated to Granville County, North Carolina. 
 He studied law and rose rapidly to wealth and 
 distinction. The fertile wilderness lying between 
 the Cumberland, Kentucky and Ohio rivers at- 
 tracted his adventurous spirit. By the treaty of 
 Wataga, made by him with the Cherokee nation 
 of Indians, he, in consideration of ten thousand 
 pounds sterling, acquired the whole of that terri- 
 tory, comprising what is now about one-half of 
 the state of Kentucky. He named his empire 
 Transylvania, called to his aid a few associates, 
 organized a form of government, became its 
 president, and convened a parliament at Boones- 
 borough, of which Daniel Boone was a member. 
 But the Legislature of Virginia, which then em- 
 braced Kentucky, becoming jealous of Colonel 
 Henderson's growing power, declared void the 
 treaty of Wataga, but by the same legislative act, 
 in consideration of his services to the state, grant- 
 ed to him and his associates a body of over two 
 hundred thousand acres of land, embracing what 
 is now a good part of the county and all of the 
 city that bears his name. The rich county and the 
 beautiful city of Henderson, with its refinement, 
 culture and wealth, her splendid churches and 
 schools, her prosperous manufactories, her broad 
 streets and beautiful parks, are worthy monu- 
 ments to the memory of their illustrious founder. 
 
 Young Sneed, in those early years of his life 
 prior to the removal of his parents to Kentucky, 
 received that instruction, parental and scholas- 
 tic, always bestowed upon the scions of the best 
 southern families. After establishing their home 
 in Henderson the boy was sent to the academy 
 of W. H. Delano, a successful instructor 
 
 as well as accomplished linguist and well- 
 equipped lawyer. In his early maturity he 
 read law for two years under the direction 
 of Harvey Yeaman, an association which, 
 notwithstanding the disparity of ages of tutor 
 and pupil, grew into a deep friendship that lasted 
 until Mr. Yeaman's death. Mr. Sneed never 
 applied for admission to the bar, a profession he 
 would have honored, and in which his subsequent 
 career furnishes proof that he would have made 
 his way to the first ranks. 
 
 His first actual business experience was in the 
 drug stores, then conducted by Ira Delano and 
 George Lyne, whence he was soon called to the 
 position of bookkeeper, and afterwards teller of 
 the Farmers' Bank. Upon the organization of the 
 Henderson National Bank in 1865, though a 
 young man for such a responsibility, he was made 
 its cashier and for several years was also its vice- 
 president. A biography of Mr. Sneed would be, 
 during the period of its existence, a history of 
 this bank, which very soon after its organization 
 took, and has ever since maintained a position 
 among the most successful financial institutions 
 of the state. Although having a watchful care 
 over every detail of its business, his administration 
 of its affairs has not been confined to mere cent 
 per cent routine. His large and comprehensive 
 knowledge of all that pertains to finance has given 
 the bank a success and history that is rarely at- 
 tained by those out of metropolitan environments. 
 In the annual councils of the Union, as well as of 
 his own state, he has long been recognized as 
 one of the leaders, often called to serve upon 
 their most important committees, as well as to 
 discuss intricate and grave questions of finance. 
 But, arduous as Mr. Sneed's duties to his bank 
 have been, it is greatly to his credit, as well as to 
 the advantage of his community, that it has not 
 absorbed all his thought and care. Not only has 
 he found time to indulge a strong love for the 
 best literature, until his extensive and varied read- 
 ■ ing, added to a genial and courteous disposition, 
 has made him a most interesting and popular 
 member of cultured society ; but no useful enter- 
 prise or commendable charity of his city has ever 
 appealed to him in vain, but has often met with 
 the most substantial response. And with it all. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 though never seeking office, he always evinces 
 an active interest in the affairs of the state and 
 Union. During all his mature life, St. Paul's 
 Episcopal Church has felt his helpful hand, and 
 for many years as vestryman, at present junior 
 warden, and not infrequently in the higher ec- 
 clesiastical courts his counsel is sought. 
 
 On May lo, 1871, at "Benvenue," the old Soaper 
 homestead near Henderson, where the bride had 
 been reared amid ideal home surroundings, Mr. 
 Sneed married Marianna, second daughter of 
 William and Susan Henderson Soaper. The kind- 
 est providence has smiled upon the union, but its 
 chiefest blessing is the unbroken family circle — 
 father, mother and six children: Susan Hender- 
 son, Lucy Henderson, Kate Soaper, Marianna 
 Soaper, William Soaper and Stephen Kutesoff. 
 
 In 1 88 1 the five sons and five daughters and 
 many grandchildren of the father of Mrs. Sneed 
 gathered around his couch. He died full of years 
 and of that respect of neighbors and affection of 
 kindred that constitutes the highest earthly honor. 
 One among the largest fortunes ever accumulated 
 in Kentucky by fair dealing was the result of 
 his business Hfe. The mother of Mrs. Sneed 
 (who was a mother in Israel as well) did not long 
 survive him, having died in 1890. 
 
 CAPTAIN PHILLIP BURTON THOMP- 
 SON, one of Kentucky's most able and dis- 
 tinguished lawyers, of Harrodsburg, son of John 
 B. and Nancy Porter (Robards) Thompson, was 
 born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, January 8, 1821. 
 Captain Thompson's descent is traceable on the 
 mother's side to the Huguenot refugees (Porter 
 and Dutois) from the troubles of St. Bartholo- 
 mew, who came to America and settled, and a 
 solitary pair of Welsh emigrants, George and 
 Sally Hill, who about the same time came to this 
 country. 
 
 Anne Porter (Captain Thompson's great-grand- 
 mother) married Archibald Sampson, and of this 
 marriage Archibald Sampson and Elizabeth Bar- 
 bara Sampson were born. Their mother was left 
 a young and handsome as well as a very wealthy 
 widow. Her children had all the advantages of 
 wealth given them in their education— Elizabeth 
 in this country and Archibald in Cambridge, 
 
 England. The latter died within a few weeks 
 after his return to this counti-y, and his large es- 
 tate was distributed equally between his own sis- 
 ter, Barbara, and the children of his mother and 
 Captain Lewis, her second husband. This Bar- 
 bara was Captain Thompson's grandmother. She 
 married George Robards, a descendant of George 
 and Sally Hill of Wales, before mentioned on his 
 mother's side of the house, and paternally of Wil- 
 liam Robards of Virginia, the father of the 
 Robards families of the south and west. This 
 George Robards when very young, scarcely more 
 than a lad, entered the ranks of the revolutionary 
 soldiers. He was in many of the noted battles 
 of those days and came out of the war wearing the 
 title of captain. Of his and Barbara Sampson's 
 marriage were born many children, one of whom, 
 Nancy, was the mother of Captain Thompson. 
 
 Captain Thompson's paternal descent was of 
 the Thompsons, a widely known family of En- 
 glish descent. The first notable member was 
 Roger Thompson, said to have been knighted on 
 the battlefield by Charles II. of England. One 
 of his descendants was sent out to Virginia on 
 application of the governor for help to suppress 
 Bacon's rebellion. It is said he espoused the 
 cause of the Americans and resigned his com- 
 mission. Be that as it may, he settled in this 
 country. Later on one of his descendants of the 
 same name, William Thompson, \^■as a resident 
 of Albemarle County, ^^irginia. He married a 
 Miss Claiborne and to them were born several 
 children, among them four sons : Roger, George, 
 Leonard and John. Several, if not all of these, 
 served in the Revolutionary war, and after it was 
 over moved to Kentucky and settled upon large 
 tracts of land, which land has been inherited by 
 their children. John, the youngest of the four 
 sons, married Miss Susan Burton, and of this 
 marriage, one of several children, was born John 
 Burton Thompson, the father of Captain Thomp- 
 son. Both of Captain Thompson's grandfathers 
 being old soldiers of the Revolution, and living on 
 adjoining plantations, they were naturally thrown 
 much together, and it is not surprising that they 
 were eventually connected by marriage, as before 
 stated. Col. John Thompson's son, John Burton 
 Thompson, marrying Captain George Robards' 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 167 
 
 daughter, Nancy Porter. Of this marriage eleven 
 children were born, four sons and seven daugh- 
 ters: Hon. John B. Thompson, one of Ken- 
 tucky's most eminent statesmen, who served his 
 party in places of trust, once as lieutenant-gover- 
 nor, later for many years in both houses of Con- 
 gress; Judge Henry Thompson, who mamed 
 Miss Eliza Jane, daughter of Governor Allan 
 Trimble of Ohio, and one of the ablest lawyers 
 of that, the state of his adoption; Charles Thomp- 
 son, a planter of Mississippi, later of Kentucky, a 
 man of high standing and integrity. Of the 
 daughters, Sallie, the eldest, married Joseph 
 Johnson of Louisiana, who was at the time of his 
 death president of the state senate; Patsey, who 
 died in infancy; Maria, who married William 
 Daveiss, a farmer of Mercer County, who for a 
 while in politics served his party in the state 
 senate; Elizabeth Barbara, who married Colonel 
 Henry Phillips, politician and planter of the 
 South; Anne Porter, wife of Dr. Carey A. Trim- 
 ble, who at the time of his marriage was con- 
 nected with the Cincinnati Medical College, after- 
 ward a member of Congress; Susan Burton, wife 
 of Henry Massie of Chillicothe, Ohio, son of 
 General Massie, a successful lawyer and financier, 
 and Katharine, wife of Walter A. Dun, a farmer 
 of Madison County, Ohio. 
 
 Captain Phil B., Thompson, the youngest of the 
 four brothers, was born January 8, 1821. He 
 was educated at Centre College, Danville, Ken- 
 tucky, and Jefiferson College, Cannonsburg, 
 Pennsylvania. He acquired his profession — that 
 of law — with and became the partner of his 
 brother, John B. Thompson, being admitted to 
 the bar in 1840. Before reaching his majority he 
 married Miss Martha Montgomery of Mississippi, 
 daughter of Davis Montgomery and Elizabeth 
 (Harper) Davis Montgomery; was a kinsman of 
 the eminent preacher, Samuel Davis, and be- 
 longed to the Montgomery of military distinction. 
 
 Miss Montgomery was born August 22, 1823, 
 and was not twenty years of age when she mar- 
 ried Captain Thompson, and rarely, if ever, has 
 a family received into its connection a bride of 
 such rare patrician beauty as was hers — beauty 
 that she wore to her death, with the regal grace 
 befitting such a heritage. But far beyond her 
 
 beauty of face was that of character, so eminently 
 hers. A faithful wife, devoted mother, extending 
 this care to her children of the third generation, a 
 sincere friend, of quick and tender sympathy, a 
 loyal Christian, esteemed, beloved and honored. 
 She was a member of the Christian Church for 
 fifty years, and died April 15, 1895. 
 
 When Governor Owsley called for two regi- 
 ments of soldiers to enter the ranks in the in- 
 vasion of Mexico, Captain Thompson raised a 
 company, of which he was chosen the chief 
 officer. This company was incorporated with 
 Colonel William R. McKee's command and pro- 
 ceeded to join General Taylor's army of occupa- 
 tion at Point Isabel. 
 
 After the war with Mexico was over. Captain 
 Thompson returned to Harrodsburg, where he 
 continued the practice of law until the Civil war, 
 when he again enlisted, this time taking with him 
 his sons, all three of whom were under eighteen 
 years of age — Davis Montgomery, now Dr. 
 Thompson ; John and Phil Burton (twins). John 
 is now one of the ablest lawyers in Kentucky, and 
 Phil an ex-Congressman, now a practitioner of 
 law in Washington City. John Thompson married 
 Miss Martha Anderson, daughter of Rev. Henry 
 T. Anderson of Virginia, a minister of the Chris- 
 tian Church, and a distinguished linguist and 
 translater. One child is the fruit of this marriage, 
 Philip Burton, a young lawyer, educated at Har- 
 vard University. 
 
 Philip B., Jr., married Miss Mary Garnett. 
 Their children are Garnett and Mattie. Garnett 
 married Miss Lizzie Young of Jessamine County, 
 of which marriage there are two children, a daugh- 
 ter, Mattie, and a son, Philip. Phil B. Thomp- 
 son's daughter, Mattie, a celebrated belle and 
 beauty, married William Leonard Davis, to whom 
 has been born one son, Worthington Davis. 
 
 Captain Thompson has rarely shown any politi- 
 cal aspirations, and only once served his party in 
 the legislative hall. He has for many years been 
 eminent in his profession, and ranks among the 
 first, if indeed he is not the first criminal lawyer 
 of the state. His first case was the celebrated 
 Wilkinson-Redding case ; he also defended James 
 Arnold, who killed Robert Little, in which case 
 he was associated with Governor W. O. Bradley 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 and Senator Dan W. Voorhees. Another cele- 
 brated case was that of Thomas Buford, who 
 killed Judge Elliott of the Court of Appeals, in 
 which he was associated with Evan E. Settle of 
 Owenton, and Major W. R. Kinney of Louisville; 
 and these are only a few of the many noted cases 
 in which he has won a national reputation as one 
 of the finest criminal lawyers in the country. 
 
 HENRY CHARLES KEHOE, M. D, the 
 popular homeopathic physician and drug- 
 gist of Flemingsburg, son of James and Nora 
 (_Conroy) Kehoe, was born in Lewis County, 
 Kentucky, August 6, 1857. 
 
 His father, James Kehoe, a native of Dublin, 
 Ireland, came to America in the early 40's. He 
 received a good education in Dublin, and was 
 qualified for almost any profession he might have 
 chosen, but he preferred the peaceful and inde- 
 pendent life of a farmer. On his arrival in this 
 country he first located in New York. Soon 
 afterwards he removed to Lewis County, Ken- 
 tucky, where he was engaged in farming until 
 during the Civil War, when he enlisted in the 
 Union army. 
 
 Nora Conroy Kehoe (mother) was born in 
 Dubhn, Queen's County, Ireland, November 26, 
 1819, and was married June 29, 1846. Her family 
 was very prominent in the Irish rebellion of 1812, 
 and her grandfather, who was a general, was asked 
 to go into the "inclosure," and not knowing the 
 penalty, he refused to do so, and they were fired 
 upon by the soldiers and he and his entire com- 
 mand were killed. Mrs. Kehoe was a relative 
 of Reverend John O'Hanlon, who has written the 
 best history of Ireland, and a second cousin of 
 the poet, Thomas Moore, with whom she was in- 
 timately acquainted. She was a woman of edu- 
 cation and culture; endowed with strong will 
 power and great force of character. Being left 
 a widow at the close of the war, with the family 
 treasury — like the government vaults at that time 
 — somewhat depleted, she took courage, and, with 
 Christian resignation and hopeful assurance, un- 
 dertook the task of raising her children for the 
 various avocations of life. How well she per- 
 formed her arduous task is best shown by an 
 extract from a letter which she received from 
 
 one of her sons just prior to her death, which 
 occurred February 6, 1895: "You have been 
 blessed with long years, and have seen your fam- 
 ily well raised and, for the most part, prosperous. 
 Your life has been a splendid and noble sacrifice 
 in behalf of those whom you have loved so well 
 and faithfully, and your every example has been 
 one of elevating nobihty and beautiful grace, of 
 transcendent Christian devotion and unalloyed in- 
 tegrity that will. live among the stars and be for- 
 ever a charm to those you leave behind. May God 
 bless you and spare you long to enjoy your well- 
 won battle of life." 
 
 James Kehoe and Nora Conroy were the par- 
 ents of eight children, a brief sketch of each of 
 whom follows: 
 
 (i.) Mary Kehoe, born in New York in 1847, 
 wife of James J. Harrahan, general manager of the 
 Illinois Central Railroad, with headquarters in 
 Chicago, and one of the best known railroad men 
 in America. 
 
 (2.) Thomas Kehoe, born in New York in 
 1849; is engaged in the monumental business 
 in Knoxville, Tennessee ; an expert workman and 
 designer, who designed and executed the monu- 
 ment to which was awarded the first prize at the 
 Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876, 
 competing with some of the best sculptors in the 
 United States and Canada. He was the young- 
 est enlisted soldier in the Federal army in the late 
 Civil war, having enlisted when he was six months 
 past thirteen years of age; served two and a half 
 years in Bierbower's Company, Forty-sixth Regi- 
 ment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry; married a 
 Miss Mattox of Owensboro. 
 
 (3.) William Kehoe, born in Cincinnati in 
 1 851; educated in Maysville; learned printing and 
 became owner and publisher of the Carlisle "Mer- 
 cury," and later of the Cynthiana Democrat; dis- 
 posed of his interest in the latter to accept the 
 position of private secretary to Hon. John G. 
 Carlisle; after serving in that position for eight 
 years was appointed by the speaker chief sten- 
 ographer of the House of Representatives, at a 
 salary of about $5,000 a year; is a large stock- 
 holder in the Mergenthaler type setting machine 
 — now used by the principal daily newspapers 
 throughout the country — and prospective presi- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 dent of the company; married Mattie Webster 
 of Cynthiana. 
 
 (4.) J. Dexter Kehoe, born in Lewis County, 
 Kentucky, in 1853; learned the printer's trade; 
 became interested in poHtics and received the 
 Democratic nomination for representative in Ma- 
 son County before he was twenty-four years of 
 age, but was defeated by two votes by Robert A. 
 Cochran, now deceased; was again nominated, 
 two years later, and was elected by a majority of 
 seven hundred votes, defeating Honorable A. A. 
 Wadsworth; was again elected to the legislature, 
 being the first man re-elected from Mason Coun- 
 ty in succession; was a candidate for the Demo- 
 cratic nomination for Congress, and failed by only 
 half a vote, Mr. Powers receiving the nomination; 
 for many years he managed the public printer's 
 office in Frankfort, resigning this to accept the 
 position of chief of the Bureau of Printing, En- 
 graving Department, in Washington, and is pro- 
 nounced by "Round's Printer's Cabinet" the best 
 printer in the United States ; has filled other posi- 
 tions of honor and trust, and at this writing is 
 being strongly urged to make tlxe race for Con- 
 gress in the Ninth Kentucky District. 
 
 (5.) Mark F. Kehoe, born in Lewis County, 
 Kentucky, in 1855, is a cigarmaker by trade; has 
 served in the Maysville City Council for many 
 years, and is a canvasser for the Cigarmakers' 
 International Union — a position requiring fine 
 business tact and ability — with headquarters in 
 Chicago. 
 
 (6.) Henry Charles Kehoe, M. D., the prin- 
 cipal subject of this sketch, was educated in Mays- 
 ville; learned the printer's trade and was con- 
 nected with the Carlisle Mercury before attending 
 the Pulte Medical College at Cincinnati, from 
 which he graduated in the class of 1884-5, ^^^ 
 then went to Cynthiana and succeeded his broth- 
 er as editor and publisher of the Democrat ; sold 
 the paper in 1887 and began the practice of medi- 
 cine at Cynthiana, and, in 1892, located at Flem- 
 ingsburg, where he is now engaged in the practice 
 of homeopathy and is also interested in the drug 
 house of H. C. Kehoe & Company. He has 
 filled offices in the State Homeopathic Society 
 and written largely for medical journals. 
 
 Dr. Kehoe was married October 8, 1880, to 
 
 Genevieve Loudenback, who is closely related to 
 the family of the late Governor Thomas E. Bram- 
 lette. Her mother is Martha Bramlette, who was 
 a daughter of Henry Bramlette. Mrs. Kehoe is 
 related on other lines of ancestry to some of the 
 best families in the state. They have twcr chil- 
 dren: Fannie Bruce, born in 1881, and Pannell 
 Bramlette, born in 1883. Dr. Kehoe is a mem- 
 ber of the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, a 
 Master Mason and a Knight Templar. 
 
 (7.) Jennie Kehoe was born in Maysville in 
 1859; educated in the Convent at Maysville; 
 married Charles Reed, a farmer of Mason County. 
 
 (8.) James N. Kehoe, born in Mason County 
 in 1862; educated in Maysville; read law under 
 Judge Thomas F. Hargis at Louisville ; was duly 
 admitted to the bar and is a practicing attorney 
 of Maysville; is master commissioner of Mason 
 County ; member of the State Democratic Exec- 
 utive Committee and prominent in local and state 
 politics; married Hannah Kain. 
 
 JOSEPH A. HODGE, an eminent physician 
 of Henderson, was born in Livingston Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, February 2, 1829, and is the son of 
 Edwin and Nancy S. (Hughes) Hodge. His 
 father was also born in Livingston County in 
 1805, and was educated in the common schools. 
 He became a representative farmer; married 
 Nancy S. Hughes in 1828, and they had three 
 children : Mary, Lavinia and Joseph A. Livings- 
 ton County was divided in 1842, and Edwin Hodge 
 lived in that part which is now Crittenden County, 
 and died in 1837. 
 
 Robert Hodge (grandfather) was a native of 
 North Carolina, who came to Kentucky about the 
 beginning of the present century. He was three 
 times married, his first wife being Miss Northern ; 
 his second wife Miss Armistead, and his third 
 wife, name not known. 
 
 Henry Hodge (great-grandfather) was one of 
 three brothers who came from England in col- 
 onial days. One of the brothers went to Virginia, 
 one to Maryland and Henry to North Carolina. 
 One of these brothers, Anthony, for whom Dr. 
 Joseph A. Hodge was named, always bore the 
 name of "Hodges," as do his descendants to this 
 day. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 After the death of Edwin Hodge, Nancy S. 
 Hughes Hodge (mother) married Dr. J. S. Giliam, 
 a Virginian by birth, but at that time a resident 
 of Livingston (now Crittenden) County. He was 
 in many respects a remarkable man, and proved 
 a most kind and indulgent stepfather, and it was 
 through his assistance and influence that Joseph 
 A. Hodge became a physician. 
 
 Joseph Hughes (maternal grandfather) was 
 bom in North Carolina, and removed to Livings- 
 ton County, Kentucky, where he was .a farmer; 
 was somewhat inclined to politics, being a "dyed 
 in the wool" Democrat, and was at one time a 
 member of the Kentucky Legislature. His father 
 was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. 
 
 Joseph A. Hodge was educated in the best 
 schools of Crittenden County; studied medicine 
 with Dr. J. S. Giliam, of Marion, and attended 
 the Louisville University, graduating in 1850, 
 when twenty-one years of age. He practiced 
 medicine in Marion and vicinity from 1850 to 
 1863, when he removed to Henderson, arriving 
 April 28, 1863, where he is still actively engaged 
 in his work for the relief of sufifering humanity. 
 He is a member of the American Medical Asso- 
 ciation, the Henderson County Medical Club, the 
 Kentucky State Medical Society, of which he was 
 president in 1875, the McDowell Medical Socie- 
 ty, and was for a long time a member of the board 
 of examiners of the Third Judicial District of 
 Kentucky. 
 
 He was an old time Whig, but since the war 
 has voted the Democratic ticket. He is a man of 
 the highest moral character, and a member of 
 the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 On the fourth day of December, 1851, Joseph 
 A. Hodge and Susan A. Linthicum, daughter of 
 Dr. Rufus Linthicum, of Muhlenberg County, 
 were united in marriage, having become acquaint- 
 ed four years previous to the date of their mar- 
 riage, when she was a pupil in St. Vincent Acad- 
 emy in Union County. She died May i, 1891, 
 leaving seven children: Edwin, Mary L., Eliza 
 A., Emma, Antonia M., William A. and Nellie 
 D. Hodge. Of these Edwin married Fannie 
 Ditto, daughter of Thomas Ditto, of Brandenburg, 
 and has two children: Thomas Ditto and Edwin. 
 
 Mary L. is the wife of Dr. L. Worsham, of 
 
 Evansville, Indiana, and has five children : Hodge, 
 Eliza, Edwin, Ludson and Mary Lavinia. 
 
 Eliza A. is the wife of Henry Berry, formerly 
 of Memphis, Tenn., now a resident of Washing- 
 ton, D. C, and has three children : Susan Hodge, 
 Henry and Louisa. 
 
 Antonia M. is the wife of Henry Soaper, of 
 Henderson, and has two children: William and 
 Mary Lavinia. 
 
 Nellie D. is the wife of Charles Hunter Dish- 
 man, of Pensacola, Florida, and has three chil- 
 dren: Susan Hodges, Charles H. and Dorothy. 
 
 The two unmarried children of Dr. Hodge, 
 William Anthony and Emma, are at home with 
 their father. 
 
 ROBERT A. WATTS, deceased, late secre- 
 tary and treasurer of the Louisville Rail- 
 way Company, son of Philip H. and Elizabeth 
 (McCampbell) Watts, was born in Shelby County, 
 Kentucky, December 18, 1823. His father was a 
 native of Albemarle County, Virginia, who came 
 to Kentucky in 1818 and located in Shelby Coun- 
 ty, where he lived until 1846, when he went to the 
 territory of Iowa. He remained there only a 
 short time, removing to Indiana, near Terre 
 Haute, where he died at the age of seventy-three 
 years, in 1865. He was one of the prominent 
 educators of his day and most of his life was 
 spent in teaching private schools. He was a 
 soldier in the war of 1812, a loyal citizen and a 
 devout member of the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Charles Watts (grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia, a soldier in the Revolutionary war and 
 a farmer in Virginia and in Indiana, to which 
 territory he removed before its admission to state- 
 hood, and died there in 1846, at the age of ninety- 
 one years. i 
 
 David Watts (great-grandfather) was a resident 
 of Virginia and was probably born in England, 
 as he was of English descent. 
 
 Elizabeth McCampbell, mother of R. A. Watts, 
 was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, in 
 1784 and died in Shelby County in 1844. Her 
 father, Robert McCampbell, was born in Penn- 
 sylvania and went to Rockbridge County, Vir- 
 ginia, where he was a planter, and died in'1815, 
 aged seventy-one years. He was a patriot soldier 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 171 
 
 in the Revolutionary war. The McCampbells 
 are a distinguished Virginia family of Scotch-Irish 
 extraction. 
 
 Robert A. Watts spent his youth in Shelby- 
 ville and was carefully educated by his father. 
 He began business early in life as a merchant in 
 Shelby ville; and removed to Danville in 1845, 
 where he lived until 1855. While there, he was 
 secretary and treasurer of the Lexington & Dan- 
 ville Railroad Company, of which General Leslie 
 Combs was president. This contemplated road 
 was the beginning of one of the divisions of the 
 present line of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad. 
 Under the direction of the celebrated engineer, 
 John A. Roebling, who afterwards built the 
 Brooklyn bridge, the towers for the high bridge 
 over the Kentucky river were built by this com- 
 pany. But the company failed while the towers 
 were in process of erection. 
 
 In 1856 Mr. Watts went west and spent two 
 years in Minnesota, then a territory, and in Chi- 
 cago, where he was in the real estate and banking 
 business. Returning to Kentucky in October, 
 1858, he became a permanent citizen of Louigville, 
 which was his home until the time of his death, 
 with the exception of one year which he spent in 
 Colorado. He was engaged as clerk in a bank 
 for two or three years. When the Southern Tele- 
 graph Company was organized by General J. 
 T. Boyle, who was its first president, Mr. Watts 
 was made secretary and treasurer of the company, 
 holding the office two or three years and until 
 the consolidation of the Southern with the West- 
 ern Union Telegraph Company. This line was 
 constructed between Cincinnati and Memphis and 
 was the means of reducing the rates one-half, 
 and the terms of the consolidation provided that 
 the former exorbitant rates should not be restored. 
 The consolidation took place under the presi- 
 dency of General E. Kirby Smith, who succeeded 
 General Boyle. 
 
 Mr. Watts' next venture, in which he was quite 
 successful, was as agent for the University Pub- 
 lishing Company of New York City, of which 
 General John B. Gordon was president. This 
 company published text books prepared especially 
 for southern schools by the professors in the 
 University of Virginia, which were exceedingly 
 
 popular in the south after the war. The house is 
 still in existence and from its presses are issued 
 many of the most popular school books of the 
 present day. Mr. Watts was the agent for this 
 publishing house until 1872. After spending a 
 year in Colorado, he became chief clerk in the 
 auditor's office of the Louisville & Lexington 
 Railroad while it was in the hands of a receiver. 
 
 In 1878 he was elected secretary and treasurer 
 of the Louisville City Railway Company. In 189 1 
 this company and the Central Passenger Railway 
 Company were consolidated under the name of 
 the Louisville Railway Company, embracing all 
 of the street-car lines in the city and its suburbs. 
 Mr. Watts was elected secretary and treasurer of 
 the new company, which office he held at the 
 time of his death, March 6, 1896. 
 
 Mr. Watts was married in 185 1 to Margaret 
 Mills Anderson, daughter of Honorable Simeon 
 H. Anderson of Lancaster, Kentucky, who died 
 in 1840 while a member of Congress. Mrs. 
 Watts' maternal grandfather was Governor Wil- 
 liam Owsley of Kentucky. Mr. Watts left his 
 wife and one son and one daughter: Robert A. 
 Watts, Jr., and Julia B., wife of W. W. Mead, a 
 commander in the United States navy. His 
 daughter, Gretta, wife of Archibald Wilson of 
 Nelson County, died in 1893. 
 
 Mr. Watts and his family were Presbyterians, 
 and he had been a member of the church of his 
 father and ancestors since 1837. 
 
 MITCHELL GARY ALFORD, Lawyer of 
 Lexington and ex-lieutenant-governor of 
 Kentucky, was born in Fayette County, Ken- 
 tucky, July 10, 1856. At an early age he entered 
 the Kentucky University at Lexington, and was 
 graduated from that institution in the class of 
 1877, and in the following year took up the study 
 of law. In 1879, ^fter two years' study in the 
 law department of the Kentucky University, he 
 graduated with high honors. 
 
 He immediately commenced the practice of 
 law, forming a partnership with Z. F. Smith, a 
 college mate, under the firm name of Alford & 
 Smith, which partnership existed for some seven 
 or eight years and was terminated by the death 
 of Mr. Smith. Mr. Alford then became associated 
 
172 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 with Judge Matt Walton, with whom he practiced 
 for five or six years, when this partnership was 
 dissolved, since which time Mr. Alford has been 
 engaged in his profession alone. 
 
 About two years after his admission to the bar 
 he was appointed master commissioner of the 
 Fayette Circuit Court and held that office for four 
 years. The next office he held was that of judge 
 of the Recorder's Court of the city of Lexington, 
 to which he was elected and served one full term 
 of two years; was re-elected to the same office, 
 but resigned just prior to the -expiration of the 
 term to make the race for State Senator in the 
 Lexington district. He was elected to this office 
 and served the full term of four years, taking an ac- 
 tive part in that body, of which he was the young- 
 est member. In the first session of his term, Mr. 
 Alford served as chairman of the committee on 
 appropriations, and in the second session was 
 chairman of the committee on railroads. While 
 a member of the Senate, Governor Alford's pop- 
 ularity became so general throughout the state, 
 that in the gubernatorial convention of 1891 he 
 was nominated without opposition for the office 
 of lieutenant-governor on the ticket with John 
 Young Brown, and was elected. For several 
 years he held the position of chairman of the 
 State Democratic Central Committee, and was 
 only recently succeeded in that place by General 
 John B. Castleman, of Louisville. He is presi- 
 dent of the State League of Democratic Clubs, 
 composed of some 400 organizations through- 
 out the state, which is a high honor and is the best 
 evidence that the Democratic party of Kentucky 
 recognizes and appreciates his ability as an or- 
 ganizer and campaigner. Governor Alford is a 
 "sound money" Democrat and was one of the sev- 
 eral candidates for the office of governor on the 
 Democratic ticket to succeed Mr. Brown. His 
 defeat in the convention was due to political con- 
 ditions rather than to the lack of willing sup- 
 porters. Had he received the nomination he 
 would have been elected by the usual Democratic 
 majority. 
 
 Aside from his successful career in politics, he 
 has been identified with various extensive busi- 
 ness enterprises. He was one of the promoters 
 and organizers of the First National Bank in 
 
 Middlesborough, and at the first meeting of its 
 board of directors, was elected president of that 
 corporation. Shortly afterward he sold his en- 
 tire stock in the bank, for prudential reasons, 
 and resigned the presidency. During the "boom- 
 ing" days of Middlesborough he was president 
 of several important land companies of the 
 "Mountain City." He is also one of the stock- 
 holders and the treasurer of the Phoenix Hotel 
 Company of Lexington, and is in possession of 
 other valuable property. 
 
 With his fine ability as a lawyer and business 
 man, and with the young Democracy of the state 
 ready and willing to honor him, his success in the 
 future is assured and he can afford to wait for 
 honors that have only been deferred. 
 
 JOHN R. GRACE, who was one of the most 
 able judges of the Court of Appeals, having 
 had an experience of nearly forty years upon the 
 bench prior to his induction into his late exalted 
 position, was born in Trigg County, Kentucky, 
 May 2^, 1834, and died suddenly in Frankfort, 
 February 20, 1896. 
 
 His father, WilHam Grace, and his grandfather, 
 George Grace, were native farmers of Trigg 
 County, their ancestors having settled in the 
 county during the eighteenth century. His 
 mother, Mary (Organ) Grace, was a native of 
 Wilson County, Tennessee. 
 
 Judge Grace was educated in the common 
 schools of his neighborhood, and being of a 
 studious turn of mind, acquired a fund of infor- 
 mation unusual for a boy of his limited opportuni- 
 ties, and at the age of nineteen years he took up 
 the study of law in the office of Matthew Mays 
 of Cadiz. After a careful course of reading he 
 attended the law department of the University 
 of Louisville, from which institution he graduated 
 in 1855. 
 
 In the same year he returned to Cadiz, and 
 being duly admitted to the bar, began the prac- 
 tice of his profession. In a short time he formed 
 a partnership with his former preceptor, under the 
 firm name of Mays & Grace. This business 
 relation continued without interruption until 1865, 
 when the firm was dissolved and Judge Grace 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 173 
 
 became associated with Judge Burnett, wliose 
 death occurred in the following year. 
 
 In 1858 Judge Grace was elected county judge 
 of Trigg County, and served a term of four years. 
 In 1868 he was elected circuit judge of the then 
 Second Judicial District (embracing the coun- 
 ties of Trigg, Christian, Muhlenberg, Hopkins, 
 Caldwell and Lyon) and was re-elected for a 
 series of terms aggregating twenty-six years, 
 which is sufficient proof of the high esteem in 
 which he was held by the people of his district. 
 But a higher endorsement was given him in his 
 election as judge of the Court of Appeals from the 
 First Appellate District, composed of eighteen 
 counties in the western part of the state. He 
 was inducted into that ofhce January 7, 1895, for 
 a term of eight years, succeeding Judge Caswell 
 Bennett, deceased, but after serving a little more 
 than a year, he died, unattended, in his room at 
 the Capital Hotel in the morning of February 
 20, 1896. He had been complaining for some 
 days, but had so far recovered that he was able 
 to go to the breakfast table on the morning of 
 his death, and had just returned to his room and 
 was alone when he received the fatal stroke. The 
 funeral services were held in the court house at 
 his old home in Cadiz, no church in the place 
 being large enough to accommodate those who 
 desired to pay a last tribute of respect to the most 
 distinguished citizen. His remains were accom- 
 panied to his home by committees from both 
 branches of the legislature and by members of the 
 Court of Appeals. 
 
 Judge Grace was married to Emily Terry in 
 1859 and she died in 1861, so that he enjoyed 
 only about two years of married life. 
 
 TAMES HERVEY BARBOUR, M. D., an 
 J eminent physician of Falmouth, son of 
 Nathaniel and Hannah (Ashburn) Barbour, was 
 born in New Richmond, Clermont County, Ohio, 
 February 29, 1824. 
 
 His father, Nathaniel Barbour, was a native of 
 Hunterdon County, New Jersey, where he was 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits; but removed 
 to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1808, prior to the war of 
 1812, in which he participated as a member of 
 Captain Snell's Light Horse Cavalry. After the 
 
 war he removed to New Richmond (1817), where 
 he was for many years a merchant, removing to 
 his farm in that vicinity in 1832, where he died 
 in 1848. He was seriously wounded by the firing 
 of a swivel, a custom adopted by the steamboat 
 men as a signal for their departure. This acci- 
 dent caused the City Council of Cincinnati to 
 pass an ordinance prohibiting the firing of the 
 swivel in that port. 
 
 Nathaniel Barbour (grandfather) followed his 
 son to Cincinnati in 1809 and settled in Clermont 
 County, near Mulford, where he died. The Bar- 
 bours were among the early settlers of New Jer- 
 sey, and were conspicuous in the war of the Revo- 
 lution against England. 
 
 Dr. Barbour's mother, Hannah (Ashburn) 
 Barbour, a native of Bolton, England, was a 
 daughter of Thomas Ashburn, an English manu- 
 facturer for the American market. The embargo 
 in 1807 brought him to Cincinnati, where he 
 owned fifty acres in the city, afterwards the Litel 
 property, and was quite wealthy. After the war 
 of 1812 he became the owner of one thousand 
 acres of land in Clermont County, Ohio, upon 
 which he laid out one-half of the town of New 
 Richmond. He left a family history showing his 
 direct lineage from 1688 down to the present time. 
 
 Dr. J. H. Barbour was raised on a farm in 
 Clermont County, Ohio, and attended the dis- 
 trict school during the winter months. At the 
 age of seventeen he entered the Clermont Acad- 
 emy, where he studied for three or four years, 
 and in 1847 ^^'^ 1848 he took a more thorough 
 course in classics and science in the Miami Uni- 
 versity at Oxford, Ohio. While acquiring his 
 education, he spent some time in teaching in order 
 to obtain means to defray his expenses. 
 
 In 1848 he began to read medicine with Dr. 
 Daniel Barbour of Falmouth, Kentucky, a noted 
 physician of that time. He attended two courses 
 of lectures in the Medical College of Ohio at Cin- 
 cinnati, and graduated in 1852. He at once be- 
 gan the practice of medicine in Falmouth, and 
 was soon known as one of the leading physicians 
 of the county; and after a professional life of 
 forty-three years in that place he is still an active 
 and busy physician of the highest professional 
 standing. 
 
174 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Dr. Barbour has been a prominent and influ- 
 ential politician ever since he was old enough 
 to exercise the right of suffrage. His first presi- 
 dential vote was cast for General Taylor. While 
 the Whig party was in existence he was its faithful 
 supporter, and in the presidential election in i860 
 he voted for Bell and Everett. In 1864 he voted 
 for Abraham Lincoln for presidenu During the 
 war of the Rebellion, he was an earnest supporter 
 of the National Government, and since that time 
 has been identified with the Republican party. 
 
 He was a delegate to the national Republican 
 convention in Chicago in 1880, and was one of the 
 "big four" Kentuckians in that body who broke 
 the unit rule, the state convention having in- 
 structed delegates to vote as a unit, and voted 
 against General Grant, defeating his aspirations 
 for a third term, and in this he voted according 
 to the instructions of his district. The national 
 convention recognized the right of districts to 
 instruct. He has attended nearly all the Repub- 
 lican state conventions held in the state since the 
 war and has been prominent in the councils of his 
 party. 
 
 He is a member of a number of medical asso- 
 ciations, and keeps step with the advancement in 
 medical science; has written numerous articles 
 for the medical journals and has been an active 
 and useful citizen during all of the years of his 
 residence in Falmouth. He is a member of the 
 Presbyterian Church, and has been an elder for 
 many years. In all of his relations to the com- 
 munity he has maintained an unimpeachable 
 character and enjoys the respect and confidence 
 of all men. Dr. Barbour is related to many prom- 
 inent people in Clermont and Hamilton Counties, 
 Ohio; the late Judge Ashburn of Milford and that 
 eminent lawyer of Cincinnati, Thomas Barbour 
 Paxton, and others of the same name were his 
 cousins. 
 
 Dr. Barbour was married December 27, 1852, 
 to Emaline H:ouser, daughter of Samuel t! 
 Houser, who was a prominent lawyer of Fal- 
 mouth. Dr. Barbour has four sons and three 
 daughters living: 
 
 Ashburn Kennett Barbour, an attorney at law 
 in Helena, Montana. 
 
 Hervey Barbour, a graduate of Centre College, 
 
 Danville, Kentucky, now private secretary of ex- 
 Governor Houser, Helena, Montana. 
 
 Dr. George Houser Barbour, a graduate of 
 Centre College and also of the Ohio Medical Col- 
 lege, Cincinnati, a practicing physician in Helena, 
 Montana. 
 
 Max Wilson Barbour, a student in the Ohio 
 Medical College, Cincinnati. 
 
 Mary, wife of John A. Sutton of Cincinnati, 
 Ohio. 
 
 Louise Barbour Spradling, wife of J. H. Sprad- 
 ling, a prominent young lawyer of Louisville, 
 Kentucky; and Miss Sue Barbour. 
 
 Mrs. Emiline (Houser) Barbour is a sister of 
 ex-Governor Houser of Montana, who was one 
 of the pioneers of that state. They trace their an- 
 cestry back for many generations, and the pro- 
 genitor of the family in America settled in North 
 Carolina before the Revolutionary war. The 
 family formed a part of the Moravian colony that 
 settled at Bethania, North Carolina, in 1759. 
 
 Dr. Barbour's brothers, Daniel, Wilson and 
 Nathaniel J., have been prominent in pubHc and 
 professional life; Daniel, now dead, stood very 
 high as a physician and a man of superior intel- 
 lect, and Wilson, now a resident of New Rich- 
 mond, Ohio, and a farmer, was a soldier in the 
 Seventh Regiment Ohio Cavalry, enlisting as a 
 private, and was promoted to a lieutenancy; 
 Nathaniel J., a physician, was assistant surgeon of 
 the Fifty-ninth Regiment Ohio Infantry, and was 
 in many of the most serious engagements of the 
 war, serving until the fall of Atlanta. He was a 
 leading physician of New Richmond, Ohio, where 
 he died in 1885, when forty-seven years of age. 
 
 I AMES A. MITCHELL, Attomey-at-Law of 
 J Bowling Green, son of James and Martha 
 (Stockton) Mitchell, was born in (now) Metcalfe 
 County, Kentucky, July 4, 1843. His father was 
 a native of the same county and was born in 1817. 
 He lived in his native county until 1877, when 
 he removed to Glasgow and died there in 1894, 
 when seventy-seven years of age. He was a farm- 
 er and dealer in live stock, a highly respected citi- 
 zen and a faithful member of the Christian Church. 
 Elzy Mitchell (grandfather) was born in Green 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 175 
 
 County and was a prosperous farmer. He died in 
 1856 at the age of sixty-five years. 
 
 William Mitchell (great-grandfather) came from 
 West Virginia, near Wheeling, and was one of the 
 early settlers of Green County. The Mitchells 
 originally came from Ireland. 
 
 Martha Stockton Mitchell (mother) was born 
 in Edmonton, Barren County, in 1824, and died in 
 the same county (now Metcalfe) in 1845, when 
 twenty-one years of age. 
 
 Dr. Joseph B. Stockton (maternal grandfather) 
 was a native of Virginia who removed to Barren 
 County with his parents when he was a mere 
 child and became one of the most prominent phy- 
 sicians and distinguished citizens of his county, 
 serving one term as representative in the legis- 
 lature, in 1840, and otherwise aiding his people 
 in the capacity of public servant. He died in 
 Barren (now Metcalfe) County in 1870, aged sev- 
 enty-two years. 
 
 Rev. Robert Stockton (maternal grandfather), 
 a native of Virginia and a Kentucky pioneer, was 
 a noted Baptist minister who distinguished him- 
 self as such in the Green River country in the 
 early years of the present century. His ances- 
 tors were from Scotland. 
 
 James A. Mitchell grew to manhood in his 
 native county, attended Columbia Seminary and 
 was in Center College in 1862, when he joined 
 the Confederate army under General Morgan. 
 While on the noted Ohio raid in 1863, he was 
 captured and was a prisoner of war at Camp 
 Chase, Columbus, Ohio, for one month, and at 
 Camp Douglas, Chicago, for eighteen months, 
 when he was exchanged. He then went to Rich- 
 mond, Virginia, arriving there February 28, 1865. 
 After General Lee's surrender, Mr. Mitchell, with 
 a remnant of General Morgan's command, 
 crossed the mountains to Charlotte, North Caro- 
 lina, where Jefferson Davis and the members of 
 his cabinet halted in their retreat from Richmond. 
 An escort for the distinguished party was made 
 up under command of Major Theophilis Steel, 
 now a prominent physician in New York, and 
 Mr. Mitchell was made orderly sergeant of the 
 escort. They conducted Mr. Davis and his cab- 
 inet as far as Greenville, South Carolina, at which 
 place the escort was given charge of the Con- 
 
 federate treasury; and, loading the coin and paper 
 money in wagons, they crossed the state of South 
 Carolina and halted near Washington, Georgia, 
 at which point the money in the treasury was 
 divided among the soldiers, there being $32 in 
 coin for each man. Here the president and the 
 members of his cabinet dispersed, each one being 
 permitted to look out for himself. The soldiers 
 then organized a private squad under the com- 
 mand of the late W. S. Edwards of Louisville 
 and proceeded as far as Athens, Georgia, where 
 they were paroled May 7, 1865. Mr. Mitchell 
 still has his parole of that date in his possession. 
 
 He returned to Kentucky and taught school in 
 his native county for one year. In the autumn of 
 1866 he entered the law department of Washing- 
 ton College, Virginia, of which General Robert 
 E. Lee was then president. There were twenty- 
 two members in the class of that year and twenty- 
 one of them were ex-Confederate soldiers. He 
 was graduated in the class of 1867, and the diplo- 
 ma which he received at that time bears the signa- 
 ture of General Lee. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell began his professional career at 
 Madisonville, Kentucky, in partnership with Polk 
 Lafoon, remaining there until August, 1868, when 
 he removed to Bowling Green and located perma- 
 nently. He has devoted himself exclusively to 
 the practice of his profession, having no political 
 ambition, asking and accepting no office, except 
 that of member of the school board, which he 
 has held since its organization thirteen years ago, 
 and in which he feels a commendable pride. For 
 eleven years past he has been the trusted attorney 
 of the Louisville & Nashville Raikoad Company, 
 representing a district of five counties, and has 
 rendered the company efficient service in a legal 
 capacity. With this responsible position and a 
 large general practice, Mr. Mitchell's time is fully 
 employed and he enjoys a handsome income as 
 a reward for his arduous services. 
 
 James A. Mitchell was married in 1869 to 
 Sallie Barclay, daughter of the late Samuel A. Bar- 
 clay of Bowling Green. She died in 1883, leaving 
 three sons and two daughters : Robert, now regi- 
 mental clerk of the Sixth Regiment of United 
 States Cavalry, stationed at Fort Meyer, near 
 Washington, D. C. ; Martha, wife of George Ellis, 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 merchant of Glasgow; Samuel B., a student in 
 Ogden College; Louise and Julius B., who are 
 living at home. He was again married Septem- 
 ber 22, 1886, to Carrie Burks, daughter of the late 
 Henry H. Burks, of Barren County, and they 
 have one daughter, Katherine. Miss Burks grad- 
 uated with the first honor in 1878 from the Louis- 
 ville Female High School, thereafter spent several 
 years in the Boston School of Oratory, and at the 
 time of her marriage occupied the chair of elocu- 
 tion and physical culture in the Southern Business 
 and Normal College of Bowling Green. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell is a member of the First Presby- 
 terian Church and has been an elder for twenty- 
 five years. His wife is a member of the Meth- 
 odist Church. 
 
 ALEXANDER C. TOMPKINS, member of 
 the legislature from Daviess County and an 
 extensive dealer in tobacco of Owensboro, is a 
 native of Virginia and a descendant of a distin- 
 guished and honored family of that state. He is 
 a son of William W. and Frances Samuellor (Pen- 
 dleton) Tompkins, and was born in Charlottes- 
 ville, Virginia, February 28, 1840. 
 
 His father, William W. Tompkins, was born in 
 Bedford County, Virginia, in 1812. After at- 
 tending excellent private schools in Charlottes- 
 ville, he was elected county clerk of Albemarle 
 County, which office he held for several years. 
 During the Civil war he served the Confederacy 
 in the commissary department, and died April 
 5, 1865, a few days before the surrender of General 
 Lee. He married Frances Samuellor Pendleton, 
 daughter of Henry Pendleton, and was the father 
 of five children: Henry Pendleton, Alexander 
 C, John N., Frederick Windon and Joseph B. 
 Tompkins. 
 
 Dr. John Tompkins (grandfather) was educated 
 in Bedford County, Virginia, and was a practicing 
 physician in that county. Flis wife was a Miss 
 Montgomery of Nelson County, Virginia. 
 
 Henry Pendleton (maternal grandfather) was a 
 native of Louisa County, Virginia, and owned a 
 large plantation in that county, and was one of the 
 most popular and highly respected citizens. 
 
 Alexander C. Tompkins was educated in Char- 
 lottesville and in the Albemarle Military Institute, 
 
 in which he spent two years, finishing his school- 
 ing at the age of eighteen years. He gave his at- 
 tention to farming for a while betore coming to 
 Henderson, Kentucky, in 1859, where he was 
 similarly engaged until in the Spring of 1862, 
 when he returned to Virginia and enlisted in the 
 Twenty-third Regiment Virginia Infantry, in 
 which he served as a sergeant under General 
 Robert E. Lee and took an active part in all of the 
 engagements in Virginia, including the battles of 
 Kernstown, Cross Keys, Port Republic, seven 
 days' battle around Richmond, the second battle 
 of Manassas, the taking of Harper's Ferry and 
 the battle of Antietam. He was transferred to the 
 Second Regiment Virginia Cavalry, commanded 
 by General Fitzhugh Lee, having been promoted 
 to lieutenant. In this regiment he took part in 
 the engagements at Kelly's Ford, Chancellors- 
 ville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, 
 and was in a number of battles in the vicinity of 
 Richmond and Petersburg. At Appomattox 
 Court House his regiment cut its way through the 
 lines of the opposing army, and reaching Lynch- 
 burg, disbanded April 10, 1865. 
 
 After the war was over, he resumed his former 
 occupation of a farmer in Nelson County, Vir- 
 ginia; and subsequently returned to Henderson, 
 Kentucky, and engaged in farming in that county 
 until March, 1867, when he removed to Daviess 
 County, where he owned a large tract of farming 
 land, which he cultivated mostly in tobacco, and 
 on which he built a large stemmery and prepared 
 tobacco for the European market. 
 
 In 1876 he removed to Owensboro and en- 
 gaged in dealing in tobacco on an extensive scale, 
 which proved a fortunate venture and resulted in 
 the establishment of his present large stemmery, 
 which he has conducted with unvarying success. 
 Mr. Tompkins is one of the most popular busi- 
 ness men in Owensboro; of a warm social na- 
 ture, liberal in his views and charitable towards 
 others; generous and public spirited in all mat- 
 ters concerning the city's advancement; fond of 
 his home; devoted to his church and a hustler in 
 business and politics. 
 
 Strictly speaking, he is not a politician, but 
 his personal popularity and his splendid business 
 qualifications have led him into official positions, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 177 
 
 rather against his inchnations, and certainly to the 
 detriment of his personal business. In 1882-4 he 
 served as a member of the City Council, and he 
 has been a member of the School Board for eight 
 years. In 1893 he was elected to the legislature 
 by the Democratic party; was re-elected in 1895, 
 and is the present able representative from Daviess 
 County. 
 
 Mr. Tompkins was married June 12, 1868, to 
 Elizabeth Mary Venable, daughter of Samuel 
 Lewis and Virginia (Bransford) Venable ; she was 
 born November 29, 1844, received a superior edu- 
 cation, and is one of the most refined and highly 
 cultured ladies in Owensboro society. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Tompkins are members of the Presbyterian 
 Church, and in the work of the church they are 
 no less active than he is in the world of politics 
 and business. 
 
 THOMAS H. ARMSTRONG, a merchant of 
 Augusta, son of James Wesley and Eliza 
 Jane (Marshall) Armstrong, was born in Augusta, 
 Kentucky, November 19, 1858. He was educated 
 principally in the old Augusta College, and after 
 leaving school engaged in the mercantile busi- 
 ness with his father and has continued in the same 
 line until the present time, taking his father's 
 place not only in the wholesale grocery establish- 
 ment, but in the afifairs of public interest and in 
 the hearts of the people. 
 
 Mr. Armstrong was married February 16, 1886, 
 to Tena Reynolds, daughter of ex-Congressman 
 William Reynolds of Bracken County. Mrs. 
 Armstrong was born in 1858, and was educated 
 under the careful teaching of Professor Bluett of 
 Augusta College, and is one of the most accom- 
 plished ladies of the city in which she resides. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong have three children: 
 Amy Lee, James W. and Ada. 
 
 James Wesley Armstrong (father) was born in 
 West Union, Ohio, February 14, 1822, and was 
 a graduate of the old Methodist College of Augus- 
 ta, and subsequently went to Transylvania Uni- 
 versity and graduated from the law department 
 of that institution, but did not become a practi- 
 tioner. He returned to Augusta and engaged 
 in the manufacture of carriage hardware, and later 
 in the wholesale grocery businesg, in which he 
 13 
 
 continued until his death. He had a very exten- 
 sive trade and sold goods throughout the north- 
 eastern and central portions of the state in com- 
 petition with similar establishments in larger 
 cities. He was deputy county clerk for a long 
 term of years, and served his city in the Board of 
 Councilmen for four years. He was a Democrat 
 in politics, but his popularity was confined to 
 no party organization. 
 
 He had more friends and wielded a greater 
 influence and power in his county than any man 
 who ever lived in it. One of his chief charac- 
 teristics, for which he was loved and honored, 
 was his liberality with his ample means, in be- 
 stowing charity and helping any cause which he 
 believed to be for the general good of the 
 community. He dispensed his charity with a 
 lavish hand, and it was said that he literally threw 
 money away, while he considered that he was 
 laying up treasures in heaven. During the late 
 Civil war, his sympathies were with the southern 
 people, and he contributed large sums of money 
 to help the cause of the Confederacy. 
 
 As an instance of his integrity and his loyalty 
 to the South, the following incident is related: 
 He was the patentee of a breech-loading gun for 
 which the Remingtons had made him an offer and 
 he went to New York to close the trade. The 
 contract was drawn up by Samuel J. Tilden, and 
 the consideration to be paid Mr. Armstrong was 
 $150,000 and a royalty of fifty cents on each gun 
 manufactured. After consideration he said it 
 must be stipulated in the contract that no guns 
 should be sold to the authorities of the United 
 States government. Remington said he would 
 not agree to this stipulation, as he thought that 
 would be his only chance of making any money, 
 to which Mr. Armstrong replied that he would not 
 sell guns to kill rebels with, and so the sale 
 was declared ofT. The authorities on the other 
 side could not purchase his invention for lack of 
 money, and thus, for the sake of principle, he 
 refused a handsome fortune. 
 
 There was mourning in many households when 
 James Wesley Armstrong died on the 13th of 
 October, 1877, and the high esteem in which he 
 was held was testified by the presence of the 
 largest concourse in attendance at his funeral 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 obsequies that has ever been witnessed in Brack- 
 en County. 
 
 Wilham Armstrong (grandfather) was born in 
 Rapahilla, Ireland, March ii, 1780, and came to 
 America when fifteen years of age, arriving in 
 New York June 22, 1795. There is no record 
 available concerning his brother Johnson and sis- 
 ters, whose names were Mary, Jane and Margaret; 
 but his brother John settled in Maysville and 
 James in Augusta. 
 
 On the 4th day of August, 1805, William Arm- 
 strong was married, near Washington, Kentucky, 
 to Sarah Lee, by Rev. Caleb Jarvis Taylor. Sarah 
 Lee was born in Virginia, August 22, 1787, and 
 was closely related to "Light Horse Harry" Lee 
 and General Robert E. Lee of the Confederate 
 army. There were born to William and Sarah 
 Lee Armstrong eleven children, all of whom were 
 born in West Union, Ohio, except the youngest, 
 who was born in Cincinnati: 
 
 Johnson, born May 23, 1806. 
 
 Mary Ann, born September 29, 1807; married 
 to C. A. Campbell at Cincinnati, September 11, 
 1827, by Rev. Dr. Rooter; married the second 
 time to L. Tomlinson at Ripley, in 1843. 
 
 Margaret, born August 26, 1809; married to 
 S. S. Shropshire, by Rev. William Page, March 
 7, 1827, at West Union. 
 
 Jane Lee, born August 23, 181 1; married to 
 George Colling, September, 1830, at West Union, 
 by Rev. I. Meek. 
 
 Sarah Anne, born June 11, 1813; married to 
 William Reynolds, at West Union, by Rev. G. W. 
 Walker ; married the second time to C. E. Dodd- 
 ridge at Kanawha. 
 
 Matilda G., born August 22, 1815; married to 
 Dr. J. P. Hamilton, at West Union, by Rev. G. 
 W. Walker. 
 
 William McKendree, born July 15, 1818; mar- 
 ried to Amanda Fitzallen Shaw, at Ripley, Ohio, 
 by Rev. W. M. D. Ryan, August 10, 1843. 
 
 Caroline S., born April 11, 1820; married to 
 G. W. Pegman, at Ripley, Ohio, April 5, 1838. 
 
 James Wesley (father), born February 14, 1822; 
 married to Eliza J. Marshall, at Augusta, Ken- 
 tucky, November 18, 1846. 
 
 Eliza M., born June 27, 1825; married to Hor- 
 ace Elmaker, October 10, 1843. 
 
 Julia O., born February 29, 1828; married E. 
 W. Merriwether, at Augusta, Kentucky, Novem- 
 ber 28, 1844. 
 
 William Armstrong (grandfather) was a dry 
 goods merchant in West Union, Ohio, and 
 amassed a large fortune. He was an exemplary 
 citizen and a pillar in the Methodist Church. 
 
 Eliza Jane Marshall Armstrong (mother) was 
 bom in Augusta, Kentucky, March i, 1824, and 
 was a graduate of a college or classical school 
 in Sewickly, Pennsylvania. She was one of the 
 organizers of the Baptist congregation in Augus- 
 ta, and was always associated with that church. 
 She was the mother of nine children, eight of 
 whom are living. She was past seventy years 
 of age at the time of her death, August 9, 1894. 
 
 Martin Marshall (maternal grandfather) was 
 born in Virginia, September 11, 1777, and died in 
 Augusta, September 19, 1853. He was one of the 
 first settlers in Augusta; a lawyer and in every 
 way worthy of the great name of Marshall. He 
 was married March 16, 1803. to Matilda Talia- 
 ferro, who was born in Virginia, September 30, 
 1787, and died in Augusta, March i, 1843. 
 
 JOHN HELM MALLORY, Mayor of Bowl- 
 ing Green, Kentucky, son of Robert T. and 
 Sarah (Earner) Mallory, was born in Bowling 
 Green, July 31, 1844. He was educated in the 
 city schools and at the age of seventeen, in 1861, 
 he was employed in a drug store as a clerk and 
 served in that capacity until 1867, when he en- 
 gaged in the drug business on his own account. 
 He very soon established a good reputation and 
 a profitable business, in which he has continued 
 without interruption until the present time. In 
 the spring of 1894 he admitted to partnership Mr. 
 J. H. Barclay, who had been his clerk for seven 
 years, under the firm name of Mallory & Bar- 
 clay, and this house is now, unquestionably, the 
 leading drug store in the Park City. 
 
 John H. Mallory is now serving his fifth term 
 as mayor of Bowling Green, having been first 
 elected to that office in 1875; after serving one 
 term was elected for two consecutive terms of 
 two years each, the time of office expiring in 
 1881. He was again elected mayor in 1893 ^of 
 a term of two years and was re-elected in 1894 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 179 
 
 under the new constitution for four years. His 
 administration of the affairs of the city has been 
 commended in the highest degree by all classes 
 of citizens, a fact which is fully attested by his 
 frequent election to the mayoralty. He has been 
 connected with the city government since 1870, 
 having been a member of the City Council and 
 commissioner of the sinking fund when he was 
 not serving in the higher capacity of mayor. 
 
 Mr. Mallory is interested in a number of busi- 
 ness enterprises and is president of the Standard 
 Construction Company of Bowling Green, and is 
 vice president of the Hopkinsville Water Com- 
 pany. 
 
 He has been twice married; first in 1866 to 
 Belle Potter, daughter of P. J. Potter of BowHng 
 Green. She died in 1887, and in 1893 he married 
 his present wife, who was Blanche Lawrence of 
 Grenada, Mississippi. 
 
 Robert T. Mallory (father) was a native of Vir- 
 ginia who removed to Bowling Green when he 
 was a young man and married Sarah Barner. 
 Both of them died in 1849, leaving their boy an 
 orphan at the tender age of five years. With the 
 aid of kind friends in his boyhood, he was en- 
 abled to secure a good education, and it may be 
 said that he has had to make his own way in the 
 world since he was a mere child. The habit of 
 self rehance formed in youth has served him well 
 in business and in official life, and he is to-day one 
 of the most honored and respected citizens of 
 the city which owes much to him for its growth 
 and prosperity. 
 
 ISAAC HERSCHEL GOODNIGHT, attorney 
 1 at law of Franklin, son of Isaac and Lucinda 
 (Billingsby) Goodnight, born in Allen County, 
 Kentucky, January 31, 1849. His father was 
 born in Lincoln County, Kentuck) . 
 
 Jacob Goodnight (grandfather), whose wife 
 was a Miss Ploover, was a native of Mecklenburg 
 County, North Carolina. 
 
 Michael Goodnight (great-grandfather), a na- 
 tive of Germany, came to America during colo- 
 nial days, leaving Germany on account of relig- 
 ious proscription. He first located in Virginia 
 and later removed to Mecklenburg County, North 
 Carolina, and was a member of the Mecklenburg 
 
 convention which adopted, in 1775, the first 
 declaration of independence, much of which is 
 engrafted into the Jefifersonian declaration. He 
 had two sons who were soldiers in the Revolu- 
 tion. He moved to Kentucky in 1780, and set- 
 tled at Harlan's Station, now in Mercer County. 
 He was killed by Indians on one of his return 
 business trips to North Carolina. He had twen- 
 ty-four children. His son Isaac was born in the 
 old fort near Harrodsburg, on January i, 1782, 
 being the first male white child born in Kentucky. 
 This distinction is challenged by the heirs of Judge 
 Logan, who was born at Harrodsburg, December 
 8, 1786. 
 
 Lucinda Billingsby Goodnight (mother) was 
 born in Tennessee and was a daughter of John 
 Billingsby, who came to Kentucky from east Ten- 
 nessee and located in that part of Warren which 
 is now Simpson County. His wife was Mary 
 Doak, whose family was of Scotch-Irish origin. 
 
 Isaac H. Goodnight grew to manhood on the 
 farm in Allen County and in 1870, at the age of 
 twenty-one, removed with his parents to Franklin, 
 where he has lived continually since. He was 
 schooled in literature and law at Cumberland 
 University, Lebanon, Tennessee, graduating 
 from that institution in 1873. Returning to his 
 home in Franklin, he read law while performing 
 the duties of deputy circuit clerk and was admitted 
 to the bar in 1874. He soon took rank among the 
 leading lawyers of his section. His ability was 
 recognized by the people of his county and in 
 1877 he was chosen to represent them in the legis- 
 lature. Although one of the youngest members 
 of that body, he was one of the most useful and 
 active and attracted attention throughout the 
 state. In 1888 he was elected to Congress from 
 the Third district and was re-elected in 1890 and 
 in 1892. After serving three terms, he declined 
 a re-election on account of ill health and because 
 his absence from home was detrimental to his 
 legal business, which is now more remunerative 
 than the compensation of a congressman. His 
 service in Congress was marked by ability. His 
 work on the judiciary committee was especially 
 valuable, he being third on the list of that com- 
 mittee at the time of his retirement. 
 
 Mr. Goodnight was united in marriage, March 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 12, 1879, to Ella Hoy, daughter of Thomas J. 
 and Lucy Milliken Hoy, natives of Simpson 
 County. The only child of this union is a son. 
 Hoy Goodnight. The home of this excellent fam- 
 ily is one of the finest residences in Franklin, 
 where hospitality, in the old and true meaning 
 of the word, is dispensed in genuine Kentucky 
 style. 
 
 Mr. Goodnight has steadily maintained his 
 position at the head of his profession in southern 
 Kentucky. He has thrown aside all political am- 
 bition, and his present aim is to devote his life 
 to his profession, for which he is eminently 
 equipped and to which he is thoroughly devoted. 
 
 GEORGE MILTON ELAM, a teacher of 
 teachers, a leading institute instructor, 
 founder and principal of the Blaine Normal 
 School at Blaine, Kentucky, was born in Scott 
 County, Virginia, July 11, 1856. His education 
 was commenced in the common schools of Vir- 
 ginia, after which he went to the high school in 
 Nicholasville, in that state. He then attended 
 Hamilton Institute in Washington County, Vir- 
 ginia, and later the National Normal University 
 at Lebanon, Ohio, and still later Central Normal 
 College, Danville, Indiana, taking the teacher's 
 course, in which he graduated in 1893, also a 
 course in pedagogy, graduating in August, 1894. 
 These different courses were not taken one direct- 
 ly following another, and in the meantime he was 
 following the profession of the teacher, and held 
 teachers' institutes in different parts of the state 
 and in adjoining counties in West Virginia, Vir- 
 ginia, Ohio and Tennessee. 
 
 He taught six years in Virginia, commencing 
 in the spring of 1872, when he was sixteen years 
 of age; taught one year in Hajmilton Institute, 
 and the remaining time in the common schools. 
 He came to Johnson County in 1879 ^^nd was a 
 teacher in the public school for two years. He 
 then removed to Blaine, Lawrence County, where 
 he has been employed as teacher for fifteen years, 
 founding, in the meantime, the Blaine Normal 
 School, an institution which by his industry and 
 skill in training teachers for their profession has 
 proven a great success. A large number of 
 teachers in Lawrence County have attended this 
 
 school, deriving great benefit; and many from 
 other counties in the state and from other states 
 have availed themselves of its advantages. It 
 is conceded to be one of the best institutions for 
 the training and education of teachers, and has 
 done more than similar schools for the advance- 
 ment and improvement of the educational system 
 in eastern Kentucky. 
 
 Mr. Elam is thoroughly devoted to the cause 
 of education. The same energy and ability ap- 
 plied to another profession or to mercantile pur- 
 suits would undoubtedly bring greater pecuniary 
 results, but he cares not so much for the monetary 
 compensation he receives as for the good that 
 he may accomplish in the education and enlight- 
 enment of the people of his adopted state. 
 
 Professor Elam has filled the office of county 
 examiner with ability for eight years, raising the 
 standard of the qualifications of teachers materi- 
 ally and helping them to attain to that high 
 standard. He was superintendent of the county 
 schools at one time, in which capacity he did 
 much valuable work. He has been quite suc- 
 cessful in all of his professional work, as a man 
 must be who loves his vocation. 
 
 His success in establishing a Normal School 
 where one was so much needed, and in training 
 others, making professional teachers of many 
 who had merely taught school as a makeshift 
 while waiting for something better to turn up, 
 is a source of gratification and justifiable pride 
 to him; and for this work he enjoys the esteem 
 and gratitude of all intelligent and worthy citizens 
 of his county. 
 
 He is a member of the Methodist Church, a 
 Mason and Odd Fellow, and in all of these he 
 is an active and helpful worker. 
 
 Professor Elam was married August 29, 1879, 
 to Rebecca E. Bond, daughter of William E. 
 Bond. She was born in Wise County, Virginia, 
 June 7, 1857. Her education commenced in 
 Virginia and was continued in Kentucky and 
 completed in the high school at Flat Gap, Ken- 
 tucky. She taught school for three years in John- 
 son County, and has been a willing and able help- 
 meet in her husband's life work. They have five 
 children living, and two died in infancy: 
 
 William N., deceased; Charley M., Martha, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 i8i 
 
 George W., deceased; Harry B., Nancy C. and 
 James K. Elam. 
 
 William Elam (father) was born in Russell 
 County, Virginia, July 4, 1826; married Nancy 
 Dingus in 1854; was a farmer in Scott County; 
 a member of the Methodist Church and a citizen 
 of excellent repute. He died in February, 1888, 
 and is buried at the old homestead in Scott Coun- 
 ty, Virginia. 
 
 Nimrod Elam (grandfather) was born in Rus- 
 sell County, Virginia, where he lived and died. 
 His wife's name was Nancy Easterling. 
 
 Nancy Dingus Elam (mothei), daughter of 
 George Dingus, was born December 25, 1836, 
 and died June 20, 1890. 
 
 SAMUEL B. MILLS, M. D., one of the oldest 
 and most highly respected physicians of Lou- 
 isville, son of William P. and Mary E. (Moore) 
 Mills, was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, 
 March 9, 1828. 
 
 His father, William P. Mills, was a native of 
 Worcester County, Maryland, who came to Ken- 
 tucky in 1815 and located in Jefferson County, 
 about fifteen miles from Louisville, where he re- 
 sided until about two years before his death, 
 when he removed to Vigo County, Indiana. He 
 belonged to the Maryland militia and did active 
 duty in guarding the coast in the war of 1812, 
 having been called out at the time Washington 
 City was fired by the enemy. He was a patriotic, 
 honorable, and upright citizen, and reached the 
 good old age of four score years and one. His 
 mother was a Miss Porter, sister of Dr. James 
 Porter, who was a student of the celebrated Dr. 
 Rush of Philadelphia and one of the signers of 
 the declaration of independence and also a near 
 relative of Commodore Porter of the United 
 States navy. 
 
 William Mills (grandfather), also a native of 
 Maryland, came to Kentucky in 1815, when Lou- 
 isville was a very small town. He participated in 
 the closing scenes of the Revolutionary war. He 
 was a resident of Jefferson County from the time 
 of his arrival with the early settlers until he was 
 eighty-six years of age, when "he died. His an- 
 cestors were of English extraction. 
 
 Mary E. Mills, mother of Dr. Mills, was a na- 
 
 tive of Jefferson County and died at the age of 
 twenty-four years, when the subject of this bio- 
 graphical sketch was two years of age. 
 
 Thomas Moore (grandfather) was a native of 
 Delaware, who came to Kentucky very early in 
 the present century and purchased land near Lou- 
 isville, upon which he spent the remainder of his 
 days. Pie was seventy-six years old at the time 
 of his death. 
 
 Samuel B. Mills was educated in the schools of 
 his native county, principally at an academy in 
 Jeffersontown. After completing his literary 
 schooling, he sold dry goods for a Jeffersontown 
 merchant for two years; and in 1850 he began 
 to read medicine in that village under Dr. John S. 
 Seaton, a very able and popular physician, and 
 one of the most cultured gentlemen of that day; 
 and after graduating from the medical depart- 
 ment of the University of Louisville in 1852, Dr. 
 Mills joined his distinguished preceptor in the 
 practice of medicine in Jeffersontown and vicinity. 
 This partnership contintied for three years, when 
 Dr. Mills bought his partner out and continued 
 the practice in that vicinity until 1865. From 1861 
 to 1864 inclusive he was teacher of anatomy, phy- 
 siology and hygiene in a school at Jeffersontown. 
 In 1865 he removed to Louisville, where he was 
 by no means a stranger, and at once secured a 
 lucrative practice among the best people in the 
 city. Pie has devoted his time strictly to his pro- 
 fessional work, and has never undertaken any- 
 thing that would in the least interfere with his 
 attention to his patients. He was a member of 
 the Board of liealth, in which he did faithful and 
 valuable service for many years. For some years 
 he was a member of the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons, a medical organization for the 
 regulation of the code of practice in the city; 
 but he is not now a member of any medical as- 
 sociation. He has for more than forty years been 
 a member of the Christian Church, and for more 
 than twenty years an elder in the church ; has for 
 many years been engaged in benevolent enter- 
 prises; has been for twelve years one of the phy- 
 sicians of the Christian Church Widows' and Or- 
 phans' liome of Kentucky, of which he has been 
 a liiember of the board from its organization. 
 
 Dr. Mills was married in 1854 to Susan Herr, 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 daughter of Honorable John Herr, who at one 
 time represented Jefferson County in the Ken- 
 tucky legislature. Mrs. Mills died in 1868, leav- 
 ing two sons and two daughtei's: Susan M., wife 
 oij. M. Allan of Louisville; Arthur P. Mills; 
 Worden S. Mills ; and Eva, wife of Dr. S. S. Foss 
 of Jefferson County. 
 
 Dr. Mills was married again in 1892 to Bettie 
 Embry of Louisville, who is a native of Madison 
 County, Kentucky. 
 
 RUFUS HUMPHREY VANSANT, of the 
 lumber firm of R. H. Vansant & Company, 
 and a popular business man of Ashland, was born 
 in Morgan County, Kentucky, Septembers, 1852. 
 
 His father, William H. Vansant, was born in 
 Russell County, Virginia, October 15, 1819, and 
 was educated in Scott County, Virginia. He 
 came to Kentucky when he was a young man 
 and taught school in Morgan (now Elliott) 
 County for five years, and was subsequently en- 
 gaged in stock trading in Eastern Kentucky. He 
 was a man of fine literary attainments, very highly 
 respected for his manly character and sound views 
 upon questions of public interest; was a Union 
 Democrat during the war, and wielded a health- 
 ful influence among his neighbors. He died in 
 Elliott County, April 29, 1870, and is buried near 
 Martinsburg. His father was one of the early 
 settlers in Pennsylvania, who migrated to Mary- 
 land, Virginia and finally to Russell County, Ken- 
 tucky, where he died. 
 
 Louvisa Hunter Vansant (mother) was born in 
 Greenville, Tennessee, and was educated in Mor- 
 gan County, Kentucky. She was man-ied to Wil- 
 liam H. Vansant December 24, 1841. She sur- 
 vived her husband twenty-three years, and died 
 July 3, 1893. 
 
 Benjamin Franklin Hunter (grandfather) was 
 born in Tennessee, in 1800; came to Morgan 
 County, Kentucky, and was a farmer there until 
 his death, in 1875. Plis wife's name was Eliza- 
 beth Drake, who was born in Tennessee in 1802, 
 and died in Morgan County in February, 1872. 
 The Hunters were descendants of a highly re- 
 spectable English family. 
 
 Rufus H. Vansant of Ashland was educated in 
 Morgan County, under the careful and able train- 
 
 ing of his father; taught school in Elliott County 
 from 1870 to 1880, inclusive; was deputy clerk 
 of the Elliott Circuit Court from 1880 to 1886, 
 and was elected clerk in 1886, serving until 1892, 
 making twelve years of service in the circuit 
 clerk's office. He was also master commissioner 
 of the Elliott Circuit Court from 1884 to 1895. 
 
 During his service in the clerk's office, in 1881, 
 he became interested in the lumber business at 
 Leon, purchasing the lumber taken from the 
 forests along the Little Sandy River. In this way 
 he became an extensive lumber dealer and broker, 
 and in April, 1894, he came to Ashland and es- 
 tablished the firm of which he is the senior mem- 
 ber and the energetic and capable manager. 
 
 He is a Democratic voter; held office through 
 his connection with that party; and takes an ac- 
 tive part in the important political campaigns, in 
 which his fine business qualifications and tact 
 make him a leader and a hard man to beat. 
 
 He is a Knight Templar and a Shriner, and a 
 member of a lumber association, known as the 
 "Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo." 
 
 Mr. Vansant was married December 3, 1879, to 
 Anna V. Hannah, daughter of James W. Hannah 
 of Elliott County. She was born in Kanawha 
 County, West Virginia, September 12, 1862. 
 They have two children living: Mexie, born 
 April 17, 1892, and Harold Henderson, born Oc- 
 tober 5, 1894. One child died in infancy. 
 
 JOHN C. SCHROLL, president of the New- 
 port National Bank, was bom in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, August 20, 1845. His parents removed 
 from that city to Newport in 1848, and he re- 
 ceived his education in the common schools of the 
 last named city. 
 
 After leaving school he was connected with the 
 Monumental & Building Stone Works, and 
 while interested in that enterprise studied law, 
 attending the Cincinnati Law School for two 
 years, graduating from that institution in 1871. 
 He was duly admitted to the practice of law in the 
 Kentucky coiirts, and was elected clerk of the 
 circuit, chancery and criminal courts, which offices 
 he held for three terms, or eighteen years ; and at 
 the end of the third term, declined further election. 
 
 In July, 1892, he assisted in the organizing of 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 183 
 
 the Newport National Bank, and was elected pres- 
 ident of the new organization. The capital stock 
 of the bank ($100,000) was subscribed in one day, 
 showing the confidence the business men placed 
 in Mr. Schroll and Mr. Waller Overton, who were 
 to be respectively president and cashier. The 
 new bank passed through tlie trying times of the 
 panic of 1893 without a stain upon its credit, or 
 a doubt in the public mind as to its ability to 
 weather the storm. It is now one of the strong- 
 est and most popular banking houses in the city. 
 Mr. Schroll devotes almost his entire time to the 
 affairs of the bank, and has developed marked 
 ability as a financier. 
 
 He has been a leader in the Democratic party, 
 but is now out of politics. He has recently en- 
 gaged in the practice of law with Aubrey Barbour, 
 a young man of marked ability, the firm name 
 being Schroll & Barbour. 
 
 Mr. Schroll was married in 1870 to Martha 
 Band of Newport. They have two sons and three 
 daughters : Henry Clay, Thomas Benton, Esther, 
 Mattie B., and Laura. John Randolph, the 
 oldest son, died in 1886, aged fourteen years. 
 Mrs. Schroll and the children are members of the 
 Episcopal Church. 
 
 Mr. Schroll's father, Martin Schroll, is a native 
 of Bavaria, but came to Cincinnati when he was 
 quite young, and was married at that place in 
 1840 to Dorothea Fleckenstein. They removed to 
 Newport in 1848, and Mrs. Dorothea Schroll died 
 in 1854. Martin Schroll, now seventy-six years 
 of age, has retired from the marble and building 
 stone business, in which he was engaged for many 
 years, and is living in Bellevue. 
 
 ALFRED CARTER HAILEY, County Judge 
 of Boyd County, son of Carter and Eliza- 
 beth (Drury) Hailey, was born in Greenup 
 County, Kentucky, May 4, 1835. 
 
 His father, Carter Hailey, was a native of Vir- 
 ginia, who removed to Scioto County, Ohio, in 
 1794; was in the War of 1812, serving one year 
 as drum major and supervisor of the musicians; 
 re-enlisted the second year of the war in com- 
 pany with Andis Buford Hailey, who afterward 
 went to Louisiana and became a cotton planter. 
 After Mr. Hailey was mustered out of service he 
 
 removed to Greenup County, Kentucky, where he 
 was a farmer until his death, December 25, 1838. 
 He was a man of unusual learning for the times 
 in which he lived. His father, John Hailey, was a 
 native of Virginia, who went to Scioto County, 
 Ohio, and was a farmer there until his death. 
 
 Elizabeth Drury Hailey (mother) was a native 
 of Scioto County, Ohio, where she received an ex- 
 cellent education. She was a member of the 
 Methodist Church, and was well known and loved 
 for her many good works. She died in Greenup 
 County, February, 1847. 
 
 Judge Hailey was the youngest but one of nine 
 children. He was educated in Catlettsburg, and 
 learned the trade of house and sign painting and 
 decorating, which business he followed indus- 
 triously until his election as county judge in No- 
 vember, 1894. 
 
 He was a gallant soldier in the Union army, 
 enlisting September 27, 1862, in Company D, 
 Thirty-ninth Kentucky Mounted Infantry, and 
 did duty in the cavalry arm of the service through 
 out the war. His regiment was in the command 
 of General Julius White, for a time and later in 
 General Boyle's command, and still later under 
 Generals S. G. Burbridge and Hobson, and finally 
 under General Palmer. He participated in the 
 battles of King's Salt Works in Virginia, Wari- 
 man's Shoals, Mount Sterling, Cynthiana and 
 others, his regiment being confined principally to 
 service in Kentucky. 
 
 He entered the army as a private; was elected 
 first lieutenant by a vote of his company, and 
 later captain; was post commissary on the staff 
 of Colonel G. W. Gallup, who commanded the 
 brigade for eighteen months; on March 2, 1865, 
 he was detailed to take charge of a flag of truce 
 and escort Miss Fannie Breckenridge, now Mrs. 
 John Steele of Midway, Kentucky, and Mrs. J. 
 Stoddard Johnston, to Richmond, Virginia; Miss 
 Breckenridge to see her father, General John C. 
 Breckenridge, and Mrs. Johnston her husband. 
 It required about two weeks to make the journey, 
 and there were twenty-five soldiers in the detail. 
 
 Judge Hailey has been an active member of the 
 Odd Fellows' fraternity for thirty-two years, and 
 was chosen Deputy Grand Master in 1886. He is 
 an enthusiastic member of the Grand Army of 
 
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 the Republic, and has filled a number of positions 
 of honor and trust in his post. He has always 
 been interested in politics, first as a Whig and 
 later as a Republican. Having no legal educa- 
 tion or experience, his election to the office of 
 county judge was due to his prominence and 
 popularity in his party and to his sound judgment 
 and proverbial honesty of purpose. 
 
 He was married January 25, i«57, to Luvina 
 H. Friend, daughter of Charles Friend of Floyd 
 County. Mrs. Hailey was born September 16, 
 1837, and was educated in Floyd County. They 
 have four children living: William H., born De- 
 cember 29, 1857; Mollie C, born February 
 S, i860, wife of Frank Johnson of Gallipo- 
 Hs, Ohio; Stella, bom May 30, 1868, wife of 
 R. N. Braley of Charleston, West Virginia; Andis 
 Buford, born July 30, 1873, and Curtis H., born 
 1861, died July 11, 1863. 
 
 REVEREND FATHER EDMUND A. 
 BURKE, pastor of the Annunciation 
 Catholic Church, Paris, was born in the city of 
 New York, June 4, 1850. His father, John Burke, 
 removed to Harrodsburg, Kentucky, in 1854, and 
 later to Boyle County, near Danville, where he 
 was engaged in agricultural pursuits. His wife's 
 maiden name was Ann Donnelly. 
 
 Father Burke, after receiving his primary 
 schooHng in Danville, entered St. Joseph's Col- 
 lege at Bardstown, and took a classical course of 
 five years. He then prepared for the priesthood 
 at Mount St. Mary's of the West, and was or- 
 dained October 18, 1878. 
 
 His first charge was at Florence, Kentucky, 
 which he assumed the same year of his ordination, 
 and remained there for ten years, doing a good 
 work for the church and community. 
 
 He then went to Ludlow, where he was sta- 
 tioned for five years, in which time he rendered 
 valuable services; purchasing a fine parochial res- 
 idence; founding the first English speaking Cath- 
 olic school, which he placed in charge of the Sis- 
 ters of Nazareth; erected a church edifice in In- 
 dependence, and accomplished much other impor- 
 tant work in the vicinity of his labors in this field. 
 In 1894 he went to Paris to take the place made 
 
 vacant by the death of Father John Redman, who 
 had been in charge of the church six years. 
 Father Redman was an exceptionally fine man 
 and accomplished a good work in his parish, and 
 died in the prime of life, at the age of forty-six 
 years. 
 
 The Annunciation Church has a large connec- 
 tion, embracing one hundred and seventy-five 
 families, and has a parochial school in which pu- 
 pils are prepared for college. This is one of sev- 
 eral schools in the diocese that received special 
 mention at the World's Fair Catholic Exhibit of 
 Educational Progress. Father Burke is deeply 
 interested in this school, which is taught by the 
 Sisters of Nazareth, and has an average attend- 
 ance of about one hundred pupils. The school 
 room in the rear of the church was inadequate 
 to the demands of the growing parish, and Father 
 Burke completed last September a magnificent 
 new school building costing five thousand dol- 
 lars. He is especially diligent in matters of edu- 
 cation, in which he has already attained most 
 satisfactory results. 
 
 Father Burke is a man of fine literary attain- 
 ments, amiable in disposition, and a fine speaker. 
 He is an enthusiastic member of the Catholic 
 Knights of America and of the Young Men's In- 
 stitute. 
 
 WILLIAM SLAUGHTER FANT, banker, 
 miller, farmer and all-round business man 
 of Flemingsburg, one of the wealthiest men in 
 northern Kentucky, was born in Fleming Coun- 
 ty, May 21, 1830. 
 
 His father. Nelson Fant, w£is born in Stafford 
 County, Virginia, April 2, 1777; married Mary 
 P. White in 1810; came to Fleming County in 
 1813, and spent the remainder of his days in that 
 county; was extensively engaged in farming and 
 grain milling; was baptized and received into the 
 Christian Church by Elder John Smith, and was 
 a Whig of decided convictions. 
 
 Mary P. White (mother) was born, educated 
 and married in Stafford County, Virginia. She 
 was the motlier of four children: Louise, Juliet, 
 James M. and William S. 
 
 James Fant (grandfather) was a native and life- 
 
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 time resident of Stafiford County, Virginia; a 
 farmer and member of the Baptist Church, a 
 man of fine intelligence and splendid character. 
 
 Rhoda White (maternal grandfather) was also 
 a native of Stafiford County, Virginia; a soldier 
 in the Revolutionary war, and a member of the 
 Baptist Church. He married Mary Ficklen of 
 the same county, in which he lived and died. 
 
 William Slaughter Fant, the descendant of these 
 patriots of Revolutionary times, was educated in 
 private schools in Fleming County, and began a 
 most successful business career at the age of six- 
 teen, when he embarked in merchandising in 
 Sherburne as a member of the firm of Garfield & 
 Fant. His partner was a cousin of President 
 Garfield and represented the county in the con- 
 stitutional convention of 1849-50, and was a mem- 
 ber of Congress from Washington Territory. 
 He married Juliet Fant, sister of William 
 S., and was a teacher and preacher in Fleming 
 County, and a very able man. 
 
 The partnership of Garfield & Fant continued 
 about two years, and in 1850 Mr. Fant undertook 
 the management of his father's milling business 
 at Sherburne, which at that time was not in a 
 promising condition. He placed it on a good 
 footing, extending the facilities and soon devel- 
 oped into a successful manager. He removed to 
 Flemingsburg in 1869, where he has since been 
 living; but his business has expanded beyond 
 the limits of the county and state, and his various 
 interests are so numerous and extensive that when 
 asked to enumerate them, he admitted that he 
 could hardly do so. 
 
 He established a mill at Pleasant Valley, Nich- 
 olas County, in 1867, now in operation ; the roller 
 mills at Flemingsburg in 1869; was owner of a 
 mill in Mt. Sterling for a short time; became 
 interested as a large stockholder in, and vice- 
 president of the banking house of Pearce & Fant, 
 in Flemingsburg in 1876; has acquired many 
 hundreds of acres of farming lands in Kentucky, 
 Indiana and Texas ; owning many tracts in Flem- 
 ing, Bath and Nicholas Counties, all of which 
 are cultivated under his own management. In 
 Kentucky, his principal crops are grain and tobac- 
 co; in Texas his business is principally stock- 
 raising. 
 
 With all of these diversified interests, he keeps 
 them well in hand and unencumbered, so that it 
 will be seen that from a small beginning with his 
 father, whose business affairs were in a bad shape, 
 he has acquired great wealth, which he is unable, 
 and does not care to compute. 
 
 Mr. Fant united with the Christian Church at 
 the age of twenty-seven years, and a few days 
 later, in 1858, he was made an elder, in which 
 relation to the church he stands to-day. This 
 fact, together with his well-known business in- 
 tegrity, is a sufficient testimonial of his excellent 
 character. 
 
 Politically his affiliations are with the Republi- 
 can party. 
 
 Mr. Fant and Susan E. Saunders were united 
 in marriage April 14, 1853. She is a daughter of 
 Oliver and Maria (Burns) Saunders; was born 
 near Sharpsburg, Bath County, April 4, 1832, 
 and received a good education in the best private 
 schools of her native county. 
 
 Of their children only four are living: Lula, 
 widow of William Warford, deceased; Nelson, 
 married Mollie Knight, and is living in Flemings- 
 burg; Olive, daughter, living in Flemingsburg; 
 Edwin L., married Susan McMullen and died at 
 the age of thirty-three years. William Saunders 
 Fant, in his twentieth year, is bookkeeper in Flem- 
 ingsburg Roller Mills. 
 
 Oliver Saunders, Mrs. Fant's father, was a 
 soldier in the War of 1812. 
 
 GREEN BERRY SWANGO, Register of the 
 Land Office at Frankfort, one of the best 
 known and most prominent men of Eastern Ken- 
 tucky, son of Stephen and Caroline (Trimble) 
 Swango, was born in Wolfe County (then Mor- 
 gan), Kentucky, February 8, 1846. Stephen 
 Swango was a native and a resident of the same 
 county until his death, which occurred in 1877, 
 at the age of fifty-nine years. He was extensive- 
 ly engaged in farming, and was one of the best 
 business men in his section of the state. He was 
 a member and elder of the Christian Church, was 
 kind and liberal to the poor and stood high as a 
 citizen. He was a Democrat of the old school, 
 but not a politician. 
 
 Abraham Swango (grandfather) was born in 
 
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 that part of Bourbon County which is now Powell 
 County ; was a farmer by occupation ; and died in 
 1863 at the old Swango homestead in Wolfe 
 County, at the age of seventy-three years. He 
 was a member of the Baptist Church, and was a 
 soldier in the War of 1812, and was with General 
 Jackson in the battle of New Orleans. Plis wife, 
 Deborah Ogden, was born in Wolfe County, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Samuel Swango (great-grandfather) was born 
 on the farm owned by George Washington, near 
 Mt. Vernon, Virginia, and came to Kentucky 
 in 1785, or about that date, and located on a farm 
 in that part of Fayette County which is now in 
 Powell County, where he continued to reside for 
 about twenty-five years, when he removed to 
 Wolfe County, and died at an advanced age. He 
 married Betsy Banion of Virginia. His father, 
 Abraham Swango (great-great-grandfather), was 
 a native of Germany, who immigrated to this coun- 
 try in the year 1741, when fourteen years of age, 
 with his father, William Swango (great-great- 
 great-grandfather), and located in Virginia, near 
 Mt. Vernon, where his father died soon after his 
 arrival. His mother died during the voyage and 
 was buried at sea. Abraham Swango was a 
 wagon-maker by trade. He married Alsie Pyles, 
 a lady of Irish birth, who resided in the neighbor- 
 hood of Mt. Vernon. He was a lessee on Gen- 
 eral Washington's farm; was a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary war, and removed to Kentucky in 
 
 1785- 
 
 Caroline Trimble Swango (mother) was born 
 in 1817 in the village of Hazel Green, which was 
 then Montgomery County, Kentucky. She now 
 resides at the old homestead, now in Wolfe 
 County. She has been a consistent member of the 
 Christian Church for fifty years. 
 
 Green Berry Swango grew to manhood on the 
 farm on which he now resides in Wolfe County 
 and received his education in the common schools, 
 supplemented by a course in Stillwater Seminary 
 in that county, of which institution his uncle was 
 principal. Since leaving school he has always 
 been engaged in farming, and now owns a part of 
 the old homestead, which was originally a tract 
 of fourteen hundred acres. At the eai'ly age of 
 fifteen years, in 1861, Judge Swango joined the 
 
 Fifth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, known as 
 the "Ragamuffins," under the command of Gen- 
 eral John S. Williams of Mt. Sterling, H. C. 
 Swango, an uncle, being captain of Company I 
 of this regiment. After a service of twelve months 
 the Fifth Kentucky Regiment was disbanded and 
 he re-enlisted in the Tenth Kentucky Cavalry and 
 served until the close of the war. He was wound- 
 ed at the battle of Cynthiana in June, 1864, re- 
 ceiving a gunshot wound in the head, and was 
 left on the field for dead. This was the closest 
 call he had during his long service in the Confed- 
 erate army. Judge Swango had one uncle and 
 four cousins of the same name who were killed 
 in the service of the Confederacy. During the 
 last several months of the war Judge Swango was 
 corporal and second sergeant, but most of the 
 time he did duty as a private soldier. 
 
 In the fall of 1865 he returned to his home in 
 Wolfe County, where he settled down to farming, 
 but has been more or less engaged in mercantile 
 enterprises also. He has always taken an active 
 part in politics, and is one of the most influential 
 and prominent Democrats in Eastern Kentucky. 
 He has filled many positions of trust and respon- 
 sibility, having served as school commissioner of 
 his county for two years, justice of the peace for 
 four years and master commissioner of the Cir- 
 cuit Court of his county for six years. In the 
 Legislature of 1877-8 he was chosen doorkeeper 
 of the House of Representatives; in 1882 he was 
 elected county judge of Wolfe County; was re- 
 elected in 1886 and held tliis office for eight con- 
 secutive years. In the Constitutional Convention 
 of 1890-1 Judge Swango ably represented the 
 Counties of Montgomery, Menifee, Powell and 
 Wolfe, and took a leading part in its deliberations. 
 Besides the many political and other positions 
 which he has held in his county he was chairman 
 of the Democratic Central Committee for eight 
 years. In 1891 he was elected register of the land 
 office of Kentucky, in which office he served until 
 the expiration of his term, January, 1896. 
 
 Judge Swango was married in 1869 to Eliza J. 
 Young, daughter of Hugh Young of Tazewell 
 County, Virginia, and they have three sons: 
 James H., Charles S. and John Morton. James 
 H. represented Center College in the state oratori- 
 
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 cal contest, and won the first prize. In 1893 he 
 represented the state in the international oratori- 
 cal contest, and carried off the honors, receiving 
 the votes of five of the six judges. In 1891, when 
 only twenty years of age, he canvassed the Tenth 
 Congressional District, making public speeches 
 for the Democrats, and meeting the representa- 
 tives of the Populist and Republican parties in the 
 discussion of the political questions of the day. 
 
 Judge Swango, with the assistance of two other 
 gentlemen, organized the Hazel Green Academy, 
 and served as chairman of the Board of Trustees 
 for two years. His children were partially edu- 
 cated in this excellent institution. 
 
 WILLIAM HOPKINSON COX, Mayor oi 
 Maysville and one of the leading business 
 men and capitalists of that city, is a descendant oi 
 an old and honored English family and is en- 
 dowed with many of the sterling qualities and 
 strong traits of character for which his ancestors 
 have been distinguished for generations. He was 
 born in Maysville, Kentucky, October 22, 1856, 
 and is a son of Elizabeth R. (Newman) and Wil- 
 liam Hopkinson Cox. 
 
 George Cox (grandfather) was born in London, 
 England, in 1791. He came to America and after 
 stopping in Cincinnati, Ohio, a short time, re- 
 moved to Lexington, Kentucky, in 1817, and two 
 years later, after having prospected in Cincinnati, 
 Lexington and Maysville, concluded that Mays- 
 ville would eventually be the largest place of the 
 three, and accordingly located permanently in that 
 city. In April, 1819, he opened a retail dry goods 
 store within a square of the present site of the 
 store of his grandsons. It was not long until he 
 had built up a flourishing trade, succeeding be- 
 yond his greatest expectations. He continued in 
 business until he had amassed a splendid for- 
 tune, and was always satisfied with his choice of 
 Maysville as the best city for a business location 
 He died in 1881, in the ninety-first year of his 
 age. The family name was DeCaux, originally, 
 and the ancestors were Normans, tracing back 
 their relationship to William the Conqueror. (See 
 sketch of George Cox in this volume.) 
 
 William Hopkinson Cox, son of George Cox, 
 and father of the present mayor of Maysville, was 
 
 born in Maysville, and at the age of twelve years 
 began to sell goods in his father's store, and was 
 associated with him as long as his father con- 
 tinued in business, succeeding him after his deatli. 
 He was for many years vice-president of the State 
 National Bank and was one of the most enterpris- 
 ing citizens, being thoroughly identified with the 
 best interests of the city and enthusiastic in all 
 measures for its advancement. He died in 1885, 
 in the sixty-fifth year of his age; and was suc- 
 ceeded in business by his sons, William H. and 
 George Lissant Cox, now the leading merchants 
 of Maysville. 
 
 Elizabeth R. Newman Cox (mother) was born 
 in London, England, and was a daughter of Rev. 
 William H. Newman, an English gentleman and 
 a minister of the Church of England, who came to 
 America early in the present century, and died in 
 1852. 
 
 William Hopkinson Cox, the subject of this 
 sketch, was educated in the private and select 
 schools of Maysville, and at the age of fifteen 
 was thrown upon his own resources, and follow- 
 ing his father's example, he began his business 
 career as a clerk in the dry goods store. He was 
 thus employed until the death of his father in 
 1885, when he became a joint owner of the estab- 
 lishment with his brother; and, notwithstanding 
 his large investments in many other enterprises, 
 he retains his interest in the house of his father and 
 his father's father, and feels a commendable pride 
 in sustaining its splendid reputation. 
 
 During the last ten years Mr. Cox has been 
 extensively engaged in building houses and has 
 probably done more than any other individual 
 citizen in improving the city. The Cox Block, on 
 the corner of Third and Market streets, one of 
 the finest buildings in the city, is an example of 
 his enterprise, and would be an ornament to any 
 city. In the rear of this magnificent structure he 
 has built a block of thirteen handsome residences 
 equal in construction and appearance to the finest 
 dwelling houses in the city. 
 
 He is identified with almost every movement for 
 the advancement of Maysville; has been presi- 
 dent of the State National Bank since 1889, suc- 
 ceeding John T. Wilson, deceased; was a direc- 
 tor in the Electric Light & Gas Company, and is a 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 third owner of the Electric Street Railway, one of 
 the first lines in that section of the state, an enter- 
 prise which was projected and built by him in con- 
 nection with Robert A. Cochran and Newton 
 Cooper. 
 
 Mr. Cox has never had any desire for political 
 preferment, but having the welfare of the city at 
 heart, and desiring to accomplish some changes 
 that were needed in the city government, he yield- 
 ed to the solicitation of his fellow-citizens and 
 accepted the nomination and was elected mayor 
 in November, 1893. As the chief executive of the 
 city he has taken a great interest in its progress, 
 and has brought into requisition the qualifications 
 of an upright and capable business man, greatly 
 to the advantage of the public whom he serves. 
 
 Mr. Cox was tendered the nomination of his 
 party for Congress in 1888, and this would doubt- 
 less have been equivalent to an election, but he 
 declined, preferring to remain at home and serve 
 his people in helping to build up his native city. 
 
 William Hopkinson Cox and Sue E. Farrow of 
 Mount Sterling, niece of Chief Justice Peters of 
 the Court of Appeals, were united in marriage in 
 1880. 
 
 THOMAS T. FORMAN, of Lexington. The 
 Forman family in the United States are of 
 English origin, being descended from Robert 
 Forman, an Englishman who left England on ac- 
 count of the persecution of Archbishop Land, in 
 the reign of Charles I. and emigrated to Holland. 
 From Holland he removed in 1645 to the Dutch 
 possessions on Long Island, New York, where 
 he was one of the incorporators of the town of 
 Flushing. Robert's grandson, Samuel, removed 
 from Long Island to Monmouth County, New 
 Jersey, and became high sherifif of that county. 
 Thomas Forman, a grandson of Samuel, removed 
 with his wife and children from Monmouth 
 County, New Jersey, to Mason County, Ken- 
 tucky, in 1789. The Rev. Ezekiel Forman, D. D., 
 is a grandson of Thomas Forman. The subject 
 of this sketch, Thomas T. Forman, second son 
 of Rev. Ezekiel and Ellen (Russel) Forman, was 
 born in Richmond, Kentucky, December 29, 1852. 
 His father was born in Mason County, Kentucky, 
 and is now the pastor of Memorial Presbyterian 
 
 Church at New Orleans, where he has been in 
 charge since 1890, until which time he spent all 
 his life in Kentucky, and he was the oldest mem- 
 ber in the Presbytery of Transylvania (as to 
 seniority in its membership) when he left the state 
 for the South. He is now, June, 1895, ^^ the 
 seventy-seventh year of his age. During his min- 
 istry he has presided over many of the church 
 courts and has commanded the respect and es- 
 teem of all who know him. His brother, C. W. 
 Forman, D. D., was a missionary in India for 
 forty-five years, and died in 1894, aged seventy- 
 three years. He was the first foreigner whose re- 
 mains were borne through the streets of Lahore 
 at a public burial. He was known in India as 
 Baba (grandfather) Forman. At the time of his 
 death he was at the head of schools aggregating 
 some sixteen hundred native pupils, and was 
 greatly beloved by them. 
 
 Ezekiel Forman (grandfather) was a native of 
 New Jersey, and settled when quite a young man 
 in Mason County, Kentucky, where he married 
 Dolly Wood, who was the second white child 
 born in what is now Mason County. He was :. 
 man of great enterprise and activity, was exten- 
 sively engaged in farming and trading, and ran 
 a line of flatboats from Maysville to New Orleans. 
 He died in Mason County more than a half cen- 
 tury ago, at the age of sixty-five years. The 
 mother of Thomas T. Forman was a native of 
 Danville, Kentucky, and died in her fiftieth year; 
 was a devoted member of the Presbyterian 
 Church, and the daughter of David A. Russel, 
 who was born in Belfast, Ireland, and was of 
 Scotch-Irish extraction. For many years he was 
 a leading elder in the Presbyterian Church at Dan- 
 ville, where he was for maiiy years engaged in 
 mercantile pursuits. He was a man highly re- 
 spected in his community and of unblemished 
 honor. His death occurred in i860 at the age 
 of sixty-five. 
 
 Thomas T. Forman grew up principally in 
 Richmond and Danville, Kentucky, and received 
 his education in the University of Virginia, and 
 in the Kentucky University, and was graduated 
 from several schools of both these institutions. 
 After leaving school he taught one year at Bards- 
 town, and then read law with Honorable John 
 
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 Quincy Ward of Cynthiana. He was admitted 
 to the bar in 1873, ^"^d from May, 1874, to Sep- 
 tember, 1890, he practiced law in Cynthiana, when 
 he moved to Lexington, where he has since been 
 in the active and successful practice of his pro- 
 fession. Mr. Forman is a Democrat and while 
 at Cynthiana served as attorney for that city; was 
 attorney for one of the national banks, and was 
 local counsel for the Kentucky Central Railroad 
 Company. Since his residence in Lexington he 
 has served — by the choice of his brethren of the 
 bar — repeatedly as special judge of the Fayette 
 Circuit Court. 
 
 Mr. Forman has been a member of the Presby- 
 terian Church for nearly thirty years and an elder 
 in the same for about fifteen years. Shortly after 
 his coming to Lexington the First Presbyterian 
 Church requested him to take charge of the Max- 
 well Street Presbyterian Mission, a new brick 
 church having been built on Maxwell, between 
 Limestone and Upper streets, with parsonage at- 
 tached, but without any church organization ; and 
 in June, 1891, Mr. Forman did the first work there 
 in organizing an afternoon Sunday school. In 
 May following the organization was made a 
 separate church, and is now self-sustaining, hav- 
 ing a membership of between two and three hun- 
 dred. Mr. Forman has been one of the ruling 
 elders of this church since its organization, and 
 those best acquainted with the history of that 
 church attribute its remarkable growth in a large 
 measure to the work of the subject of this sketch. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Forman was married to Miss Lelia 
 Campbell Donohoo of Bardstown, Kentucky, and 
 of this union four children have been born, three 
 sons and one daughter, all of great promise. The 
 first-born, M. Don. Forman, is expected to com- 
 plete the course of Bachelor of Arts at Kentucky 
 University in 1896. 
 
 In i8go Mr. Forman was commissioner of West 
 Lexington Presbytery to the General Assembly 
 of the Presbyterian Church, South, at Asheville, 
 North Carolina, and has repeatedly represented 
 his church in his Presbytery, and in the Synod of 
 Kentucky. 
 
 Considering the few years he has been a resi- 
 dent of Lexington, and the strength of the bar of 
 that citj^, he has been employed ip very many 
 
 important cases, and has won the respect of the 
 community and the confidence of the bench and 
 bar. He has never been an aspirant for office. 
 He is a zealous Mason and at the time this is 
 written is Master of Lexington lodge. No. i, the 
 oldest lodge of Free Masons west of the Alle- 
 ghanies, having been founded four years prior to 
 the erection of Kentucky into a state. 
 
 THOMAS H. FRAYSER, who was an hon- 
 ored citizen and well-known business man 
 of Owensboro, was born in Cumberland County, 
 Virginia, February 9, 1837, and died in Owens- 
 boro, Kentucky, December 8, 1894. He received 
 his early training and education in Virginia, and 
 came to Kentucky when he was a young man and 
 was associated for a time with his brother Wil- 
 liam in the tobacco brokerage. He removed to 
 Calhoun, Kentucky, and from that place to 
 Owensboro, where he was engaged in various 
 enterprises until the time of his death. He was 
 a soldier in the Confederate army under General 
 Mahone, Twelfth Virginia Regiment of the Army 
 of Northern Virginia, and was in a number of en- 
 gagements, including the battles at Manassas and 
 Fredericksburg. During the last year of his 
 service in the army he was detailed for duty in 
 the commissary department. 
 
 During his long residence in Owensboro he 
 was for a time engaged in the tobacco business, 
 and for fourteen years was connected with the 
 wholesale grocery establishment of Mcjohnson 
 & Company. He was president of the Owensboro 
 Board of Education for nine years, an office for 
 which he was highly qualified, being a man of 
 superior intelligence, of fine business capacity and 
 having a deep interest in the cause of education. 
 He was elected to this position upon the ground 
 of his peculiar qualifications and not on account 
 of his political affiliations, and he served his con- 
 stituents faithfully. 
 
 He was for twenty years a member of the board 
 of stewards of Settle chapel, Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, South, and his business transactions were 
 characterized by his fidelity to the principles 
 which he professed. He was for twelve years 
 the beloved and honored superintendent of the 
 Sunday school, and in appreciation of bis services 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 and as a testimonial of their love for him, the 
 school, since his death, has had his life-size por- 
 trait hung in the Sabbath school room. 
 
 He was married in Petersburg, Virginia, in 
 1863, to Sallie Harris, and they had ten children, 
 two of whom died in infancy. Those of his chil- 
 dren who survive him are: Frederick Harris, 
 Judith Bransford, Mary Susan, Thomas Hatcher, 
 Sarah Catherine, Jessamine, Giles Harris, and 
 Martha Bransford. 
 
 Thomas H. Frayser's father, William Frayser, 
 was born in Cumberland Coujity, Virginia, in 
 1807, and died there in 1882. He was a farmer, 
 and a member of the Methodist Church. He mar- 
 ried Judith Bransford, a native of the same 
 county, and a daughter of Benjamin Bransford. 
 Their'children were: WiUiam; Mary, who mar- 
 ried Y. N. French; Susan M., who married H. N. 
 Brazey; Virginia, who married William Brozeal; 
 Benjamin, who was killed while serving in the 
 Confederate army; Robert, who married a Miss 
 Allen of Owensboro; and Thomas H., the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. 
 
 Benjamin Bransford (maternal grandfather) 
 was a native of Cumberland County, Virginia, 
 and a very wealthy farmer, whose wife was Lucy 
 Hatcher, of the same county. 
 
 JOHN P. PROWSE of Hopkinsville, Clerk 
 of the Christian County Court, was born in 
 Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, December 29, 
 1844. His father. Colonel George O. Prowse, 
 was born in North Carolina in 1804 and came to 
 Kentucky when quite young, locating in Muhlen- 
 berg County, where he was a farmer and took 
 a prominent part in military affairs, being a colonel 
 of the militia by virtue of his knowledge of mili- 
 tary tactics and his unquestioned bravery. He 
 died at his home in Muhlenberg County, Febru- 
 ary 24, 1862. His father came from England 
 and became a prominent citizen of North Caro- 
 lina. 
 
 Francis Wells (maternal grandfather) was a 
 native of North Carolina, who came to Muhlen- 
 berg County while quite young and was a pros- 
 perous farmer. 
 
 John P. Prowse was educated in his native 
 
 county and lived on the farm with his father until 
 he was twenty-six years of age, when he married 
 and bought a farm, which he retained and oper- 
 ated for three years. In 1873 he sold his farm 
 and engaged in mercantile business in connection 
 with his tobacco trade, in which he was interested 
 for a period of fifteen years. In 1889 he was 
 appointed deputy collector under John Feland, 
 collector Second district, Kentucky, and had his 
 headquarters in Hopkinsville, serving for one 
 year, and in i8go he was elected clerk of the 
 Christian County Court and was re-elected in 
 1894 for a second term of four years. 
 
 He is an ardent Republican and an active and 
 influential leader in his party. His election to his 
 present office was in a large measure due to his 
 personal popularity, as well as his superior quali- 
 fications for the performance of the duties of his 
 office. 
 
 John P. Prowse and T. J. Atkinson of Chris- 
 tian County were united in marriage January 13, 
 1873. They have an interesting group of chil- 
 dren: Frank, Charles, Nonie and John P. 
 Prowse, Jr., all of whom are members of the 
 Universalist Church at Hopkinsville. 
 
 EDWIN FARLEY, ex-postmaster and promi- 
 nent citizen of Paducah, Kentucky, son of 
 Michael and Mary (Dolan) Farley, was bom Au- 
 gust 28, 1842, in Walworth County, Wisconsin, 
 before that territory had been admitted to state- 
 hood. His father was born in County Meath, 
 Ireland, in 1809; received a good education and 
 was interested with his father in the manufacture 
 of linen there before he came to America in 1830. 
 He first located in New York, remaining there 
 until 1836, when he removed to the territory of 
 Wisconsin, settling in Walworth County, where 
 he purchased a tract of land, which he cultivated 
 until recently, but is now living with his daughter 
 in Iowa, retired from business, having accumu- 
 lated a handsome fortune. He was one of the 
 pioneers of Wisconsin and found Indians there 
 at the time of his settlement, but they were not 
 as troublesome as they had been to the early set- 
 tlers of Kentucky. 
 
 While living in New York Mr. Farley married 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 191 
 
 Mary Dolan, who was born in County Cavan, 
 Ireland, in 1815, and died in Wisconsin in 1885. 
 They were members of the CathoHc Church, and 
 prior to the war were strong abolitionists, Mr. 
 Farley being quite active in political matters. 
 Since the war he has been an ardent Republican. 
 
 His father was a linen manufacturer in Ireland, 
 who succeeded his father (great-grandfather), in 
 the business. The family is of English descent, 
 one of the members having gone to Ireland a 
 great many years ago, where he established the 
 linen manufactory to which several generations 
 have succeeded. 
 
 Ed. Farley was educated principally in the Elk- 
 horn Academy and, soon after completing his 
 course, in August, 1861, he joined the Eighth 
 Wisconsin Infantry, which became famous as the 
 "Live Eagle Regiment," and was in the thickest 
 of the fight in many of the vigorous campaigns 
 in Mississippi, including the battles of Farming- 
 ton, Corinth, Jackson (in two engagements), 
 Vicksbui^, Champion Hill, Yazoo City, Wood- 
 ville and Franklin, Mississippi, and was severely 
 wounded at the latter place. He was taken 
 prisoner at luka, Mississippi, in 1862, and was 
 taken to Vicksburg, where he was paroled, re- 
 turning to his regiment, January i, 1863. He also 
 took part in the charge upon Vicksburg, May 22, 
 1863, and was there during the siege. In Octo- 
 ber, 1863, he was commissioned first lieutenant in 
 the Third Regiment, United States Cavalry, and 
 was in this service until mustered out, January 
 26, 1866. 
 
 One of the most desperate small battles in 
 which he was engaged was that which resulted in 
 the taking and burning of Black River bridge, 
 November 27, 1864, thereby cutting off communi- 
 cation between General Hood and the reinforce- 
 ments of his army and his supplies, and prevent- 
 ing Nashville from falling into the hands of the 
 Confederates. This was accomplished by the regi- 
 ment to which Mr. Farley belonged, after many 
 unsuccessful attempts had been made by other 
 commands. It was one of the most daring ex- 
 ploits of the war, and was complimented by the 
 department commander and the war department. 
 Its accomplishment was attended with great ad- 
 vantage to the Union army, and with disaster to 
 
 the southern forces. It may be said this was the 
 beginning of the end of the fearful strife between 
 the sections. 
 
 After leaving the army Mr. Farley was engaged 
 for two years as a cotton planter in Cohoma 
 County, Mississippi; and in February, 1868, he 
 came to Paducah, where he was a merchant for a 
 short time, subsequently engaging in the manu- 
 facture of staves for flour barrels, in which he 
 established a flourishing business. 
 
 In 1871 he was appointed deputy collector and 
 gauger of the Second collection district of Ken- 
 tucky, in which capacity he served the revenue 
 department for five years. He resigned this posi- 
 tion to engage in the wholesale grocery business 
 in Paducah. This enterprise was successful for 
 four years, when President Arthur appointed him 
 collector of internal revenue for the Second col- 
 lection district of Kentucky, with headquarters at 
 Owensboro. He held that responsible office un- 
 til the first election of President Cleveland. 
 
 In 1890 he was appointed postmaster of Padu- 
 cah by President Harrison, without having made 
 application for the office. There was a spirited 
 contest for the office by other candidates, and 
 some of the authorities of Washington wrote him 
 to_ ask if he would accept the office. After con- 
 sulting with a friend to whom he had previously 
 given his support for that office, there being no 
 prospect of a selection from other candidates on 
 account of political complications, he accepted the 
 appointment and served until June, 1894. 
 
 Captain Farley has been a prominent figure in 
 local, state and national politics during the past 
 twenty-five years. In 1884 he was the Republican 
 candidate for the legislature in his district in op- 
 position to Meyer Weil, and should have been 
 declared elected, for he had a majority of six 
 votes on the first count, but a lost (?) sheet was 
 found the next day which gave his Democratic 
 competitor a majority of twenty-eight votes and 
 the honors and emoluments of the office. 
 
 In 1888 he was the Republican candidate for 
 Congress in the First district, and reduced the 
 majority of the opposing party in the "Demo- 
 cratic Gibraltar" of the state 5,566 votes, the city 
 of Paducah going Republican for the first time 
 since the war. He was a candidate for the con- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 stitutional convention in 1890, but was defeated 
 by Judge W. J. Bullitt. 
 
 Captain Farley has been an honored member 
 of the Republican State Central Committee for 
 many years, and is a trusted leader in his party 
 in the state and in the local affairs which concern 
 the welfare of his party and the people. He is 
 a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, 
 Odd Fellows, Knights of Honor, Masons, Knight 
 Templars and Ancient Order United Workmen, 
 and is always ready to lend a helping hand in the 
 cause of charity, benevolence .and Christianity. 
 His friends are not confined to the orders or the 
 party to which he belongs, and he is one of the 
 most universally popular citizens of Paducah. 
 
 Captain Farley was married October 3, 1871, 
 to Ella M. Nunn, who was bom in Paducah, May, 
 1852. They have three sons and four daughters: 
 William H., Marie, Edwin Phillip, Maud, Rosela 
 Ilda, Dora and Herbert Warren; and the family 
 circle remains unbroken. 
 
 CHARLES F. JARRETT was born in Hop- 
 kinsville, Kentucky, in 1843. He is the only 
 child of G. W. and Emily (Gant) Jarrett. His 
 mother was a daughter of Archibald Gant, a na- 
 tive of Rockbridge County, Virginia, who re- 
 moved to Hopkinsville at an early date. His 
 father, G. W. Jarrett, was born near White Sul- 
 phur Springs, Greenbrier County, now West Vir- 
 ginia, in 1807. The old stone house in which he 
 was born still stands as a specimen of the archi- 
 tecture of 1720. At the age of eighteen he left 
 this home for the Rocky Mountains, where for 
 eight years he was a Santa Fe trader, leading a 
 life of hazard and adventure, full of exciting ex- 
 periences and hair-breadth escapes. During the 
 greater part of this time his guide and companion 
 was the world-renowned Kit Carson. After 
 amassing a large fortune young Jarrett returned 
 to his Virginia home and removed thence to Ken- 
 tucky, where he married and spent the remainder 
 of a successful and useful life. 
 
 James Jarrett (grandfather) was a planter of 
 Greenbrier County, Virginia, a man of integrity 
 and considerable influence. 
 
 Charles F. Jarrett received his early instruction 
 in private schools of his native county and fin- 
 
 ished his education at Center College, Danville, 
 Kentucky. When eighteen years of age, in July, 
 1861, he joined the Third Kentucky Regiment at 
 Camp Boone under the command of General 
 Breckenridge and Colonel A. P. Thompson. He 
 was with General N. B. Forrest during the last 
 two years of the war, and was in the foremost of 
 the fight in the fierce battle of Shiloh. There was 
 a fine fiber of dash and bravery in the Jarrett blood 
 which he inherited, and his record as a soldier is 
 full of heroic deeds and personal daring. He en- 
 tered the army at the beginning of the war, and 
 was there at its close, having never missed a day 
 from duty. 
 
 In 1867 he went to Paducah and was a dealer in 
 leaf tobacco for a time in that city. He removed 
 to Hopkinsville in 1875 and continued in the same 
 business in the market known as the "Clarksville 
 district," which is the finest dark tobacco market 
 in the world. 
 
 Mr. Jarrett was married in 1873 to Sudie, 
 daughter of Jesse and Susan (Jeffries) McComb. 
 They have one of the most desirable homes in 
 Kentucky, which he has christened "Cedar Glade" 
 — a stock farm embracing four hundred and 
 ninety acres under fine improvement — seven 
 miles southwest of Hopkinsville. Here is where 
 the fine thoroughbred horses such as McCurdys, 
 Hambletonian and Glen Gordon have their home, 
 and where Mr. Jarrett raises standard bred horses, 
 shorthorn cattle and other fine stock. He has a 
 large number of standard brood mares and colts. 
 
 Among the big-hearted, public-spirited men 
 of Kentucky he stands in the front rank. Mr. Jar- 
 rett not only boasts of an illustrious ancestry, but 
 he is a man of ability and wealth and has a heart 
 that is full of charity. He is the last of the Jar- 
 rett family, but he has nobly borne the name of 
 his famous ancestors and will leave a record with- 
 out stain or blemish. 
 
 T AMES FREDERICK POWELL, a promi- 
 vj nent tobacconist and highly esteemed citizen 
 of Corydon, Henderson County, was born Sep- 
 tember 21, 1841, and is a son of Thomas W. and 
 Elizabeth (Dorsey) Powell. 
 
 His father was born in Virginia, October 4, 
 181 1, and came to Hendersgn Covmty when he 
 
EX-GOV. JOHN V()I)N(. BROWN. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 193 
 
 was quite young, and subsequently owned a 
 greater portion of the land upon which the town ■ 
 of Corydon is now situated. He married Eliza- 
 beth Dorsey, daughter of Noah Dorsey, and was 
 the father of fifteen children : John A., Mary F., 
 Samuel H., William S., Eveline, Maggie, Pattie, 
 Olivia, Ida, Richard, Henry, Allen, Thomas M. 
 and Edwin R. Powell. Thomas W. Powell died 
 April 2, 1892, and his wife, Elizabeth Dorsey, 
 died December 14, 1891. 
 
 Harrison Powell (grandfather) was a native of 
 North Carolina, who removed to Kentucky with 
 his parents when he was a child and located in 
 Henderson County, where he was a prosperous 
 farmer. He married Elizabeth McClanahan. 
 (See sketch of H. A. Powell.) 
 
 His father, Willoughby Powell, was a native 
 of North Carolina, who lived for many years in 
 Henderson County. 
 
 Thomas McClanahan (maternal great-grand- 
 father) was a native of Virginia, who removed to 
 Logan County, Kentucky, where he died. He 
 was appointed captain of a squadron of Tennessee 
 soldiers in the Revolutionary war. His appoint- 
 ment was by General Nathaniel Greene, whose 
 niece was Captain McClanahan's wife. 
 
 Thomas McClanahan (great-great-grandfather) 
 was a Baptist minister of Virginia, whose wife 
 was a Miss Marshall. 
 
 Noah Dorsey (maternal grandfather) was a na- 
 tive of Maryland, of Irish extraction, and mar- 
 ried a Miss Hall of Jefferson County. They re- 
 moved to Henderson County, very early in the 
 present century, and are buried in the cemetery 
 at Corydon. 
 
 James F. Powell was reared on his father's 
 farm, attending the neighborhood schools and 
 also an advanced school in Henderson. He en- 
 tered the Confederate army at the beginning of 
 the war and remained till its close, serving under 
 Generals John H. Morgan and Basil W. Duke. 
 
 After the close of the war he was engaged in 
 merchandising in Corydon, in which he con- 
 tinued successfully for nearly twenty years. In 
 January, 1884, he embarked in the tobacco busi- 
 ness, buying and selling, and in connection there- 
 with he soon established a large stemmery at 
 Corydon, in which he prepares tobacco for the 
 13 
 
 European market. He is also extensively in- 
 terested in farming. 
 
 Mr. Powell is one of the most highly respected 
 citizens of Corydon, and is greatly admired for his 
 upright Christian character. 
 
 He was married November 18, 1866, to Emma 
 Wilson, daughter of James Wilson, and a native 
 of Southern Arkansas. Mrs. Powell is a lady of 
 very engaging manners, active and energetic in 
 good work and of sterling qualities, which have 
 made her very helpful in her worthy husband's 
 successful career. They have nine children, whose 
 names are as follows: James Basil, Olivia Nora, 
 Delia, Annie, Ruby, Ozella, John W., Ruth and 
 Fanny May Powell. 
 
 JOHN YOUNG BROWN, who recently re- 
 tired from the gubernatorial chair of Ken- 
 tucky, is one of the foremost orators and states- 
 men of his Commonwealth. He is a son of Thom- 
 as D. and Mary (Young) Brown, and was born 
 in Hardin County June 28, 1835. His father was 
 for several terms a member of the Legislature 
 from Hardin County, and also represented that 
 county in the convention which framed the state 
 constitution in 1849-50. As a consequence the 
 future governor spent several winters at the state 
 capital, and received his first lessons in oratory 
 from the many famous speakers of that day, who 
 esteemed it an honor to secure an election to the 
 law-making body of the state. Thomas Brown 
 was himself an orator of no mean reputation, and 
 the Youngs, the maternal ancestors of Governor 
 Brown, were long famed in Kentucky for the 
 brilliancy of their intellect. 
 
 John Young Brown entered Center College, 
 Danville, when but sixteen years of age, and 
 graduated from that institution three years later 
 in the class which furnished so many of the famous 
 statesmen of Kentucky and other states. Re- 
 turning to Hardin County, he read law, and at 
 the age of twenty-one commenced practice at the 
 Elizabethtown bar. For the next few years Mr. 
 Brown was in great demand as a campaign orator. 
 The issue of "Know-nothing-ism" being at this 
 time at its height, and Mr. Brown being one of 
 its most formidable opponents, his life was often 
 
194 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 the adherents of this un-Demo- 
 
 threatened by 
 cratic party. 
 
 In 1859 the Democrats of his district met at 
 Bardstown and nominated him, over his own pro- 
 test, as their candidate for Congress. He lacked 
 over a year of being the required age for a con- 
 gressman, but his eonstituents would not listen 
 to his oft-repeated declinations. Colonel Jewett, 
 the outgoing congressman, opposed him as an 
 independent, but the young orator met him at 
 every appointment and carried the district by 
 storm, beating his opponent by about two thou- 
 sand votes. Being under age, he was not allowed 
 to take his seat until the short session of the term, 
 nearly two years after his election. 
 
 He was chosen as a state elector on the Douglas 
 ticket in i860, and held a series of joint debates 
 with the Hon. W. C. P. Breckinridge, who had 
 been his classmate, who was an elector on the 
 ticket headed by the brilliant John C. Breckin- 
 ridge. These debates added much to the reputation 
 of Mr. Brown. About the close of the war Mr. 
 Brown moved to Henderson, in another congres- 
 sional district, from which he was again elected 
 to Congress. He was refused his seat on account 
 of alleged disloyalty, but his constituents refused 
 to elect another in his stead, and for two years 
 the district remained without a representative. He 
 was elected again in 1873 and again for the fourth 
 term in 1875, after which he refused to allow his 
 name to be presented. He remained in political 
 retirement until 1891, when he was triumphantly 
 elected governor of Kentucky. 
 
 It was during 1874 when Mr. Brown made his 
 famous denunciatory speech in Congress against 
 General Butler, which made his name ring around 
 the continent. A resolution of censure was passed 
 against him for this speech, but he was much ap- 
 plauded for it throughout the South, and a subse- 
 quent Congress, by a unanimous vote, ordered 
 the whole matter expunged from the record. 
 
 The greatest victory of his life was won by Mr. 
 Brown when he secured the Democratic nomina- 
 tion for governor in 1891. He had very formid- 
 able opposition for the nomination in the persons 
 of C. M. Clay, Jr., president of the Constitutional 
 Convention of 1890-91 ; Dr. J. D. Clardy, also a 
 
 man from the Second District — and ex-Attorney 
 General P. W. Hardin. At the election following 
 his majority over his nearest competitor was over 
 twenty-eight thousand. 
 
 Coming into the gubernatorial ofiEce at the time 
 of the adoption of the new constitution and the 
 consequent entanglement into which the laws had 
 fallen, the first part of Governor Brown's term was 
 characterized by laborious work and by occasion- 
 al conflicts with the Legislature. His veto mes- 
 sages were masterly state papers, and it is a satis- 
 factory commentary on their worth when it is 
 known that of the many vetoes sent to the two 
 Assemblies that met during his term of office, all 
 were promptly sustained. He retired from office 
 on December loth, 1895, ^"d is now engaged in 
 the practice of law in Louisville. 
 
 Governor Brown's social life has been pre-emi- 
 nently a happy one. When quite a young man 
 he was married to Rebecca Dixon, the beautiful 
 and highly accomplished daughter of Hon. Archi- 
 bald Dixon, lieutenant-governor and United 
 States Senator. 
 
 Governor Brown is an orator among the giants 
 in Kentucky, the home of oratory. In his younger 
 days he attained a reputation for eloquence that 
 was not confined to his state or the South. Since 
 his return to political life he has shown that he 
 has not lost the fire of youtli, and with the added 
 strength that experience has given he can sway 
 the people as few speakers can. While a reticent 
 man, he is not taciturn, and people who have been 
 thrown with him through official relations or by 
 personal contact, bear testimony to his genial 
 manner and warm-hearted friendship and gener- 
 ous hospitality. 
 
 JOHN HAWKINS HART, County Clerk of 
 vj Henderson County , son of John Bradford 
 Hart and Gabriella Hawkins Hart, was born in 
 Plenderson County, Kentucky, November 3, 
 1856. His father, John Bradford Hart, was also 
 born in Henderson County, July 7, 1819. He 
 went with his father's family to Lexington, and 
 from there to Harrodsburg, where he served sev- 
 eral years as deputy circuit clerk under Phil T. 
 
 Allen. In 1845 he returned to Henderson County, 
 prominent member of that hoiy—xiovf coij^egs- where he was for many years engaged in fartij- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 195 
 
 ing, but subsequently removed to Henderson, and 
 is now a merchant in that city. 
 
 William Hart (grandfather) was a native of 
 Caswell Court House, North Carolina, who came 
 to Kentucky in 1796 to look after his interests in 
 a large tract of land which he inherited from his 
 father, and which had been purchased from Rich- 
 ard Henderson & Company. He married Danah 
 Allen Bradford, daughter of John Bradford, edi- 
 tor of the Kentucky Gazette and a native of Vir- 
 ginia. Mr. Hart located on his tract of land near 
 the city of Henderson and spent the remainder 
 of his days there. He was the father of three sons 
 and two daughters: Mrs. Mary Sophia Allen; 
 Mrs. Eleanor Cabell, wife of Robert Cabell of 
 Henderson; John Bradford Hart (father), David 
 Hart, a merchant of Henderson, and Dr. Charles 
 F. Hart, who was a physician in the Western 
 Kentucky Insane Asylum at Hopkinsville for 
 many years, a surgeon in the Union army dur- 
 ing the Civil war, and died some years later in 
 Colorado. 
 
 David Hart (great-grandfather) was a member 
 of the Transylvania Company to which the Leg- 
 islature granted two hundred thousand acres of 
 land in Kentucky for important services rendered. 
 He accompanied his brother, Nathaniel Hart, on 
 one of his perilous trips to Kentucky, but returned 
 to North Carolina, where, with his wife, Susanna 
 Nunn, he spent the remainder of his life. 
 
 The progenitor of the Hart family in this coun- 
 try was Thomas Hart (great-great-great-grand- 
 father), who emigrated from London, England, 
 to Hanover, Virginia, in 1690, or about that date, 
 where he died, leaving one son, Thomas J. Hart 
 (great-great-grandfather), who married Susanna 
 Rice, an aunt of Rev. Daniel Rice of the Presby- 
 terian Church, who came to Kentucky in 1781. 
 
 David Hart (great-grandfather) of North Car- 
 olina, was (probably) a son of Thomas J. Hart 
 and Susanna Rice Hart. 
 
 Gabriella Hawkins Hart (mother) is a native 
 of Henderson County, Kentucky, and a daughter 
 of Strother J. Hawkins, who was a colonel in the 
 War of 1812 and a merchant in Christian 
 County, who subsequently removed to Hender- 
 son County, where he enjoyed the peaceful life of 
 a farmer during his declining years, 
 
 John Hawkins Hart, descendant of this long 
 list of ancestors who figured so prominently in 
 the early settlement of Kentucky and Henderson 
 County, started in life as a farmer's boy; but after 
 obtaining a good education in the schools of the 
 county and later in the Henderson public schools, 
 gained much practical business experience in the 
 store of his father, who had in the meantime re- 
 moved to the city. 
 
 After reaching maturity he sei-ved the city in 
 the capacity of deputy marshal, under S. A. 
 Young, for several years. In 1890 he was elected 
 to the ofifice of county clerk, his present position, 
 having been re-elected in 1894. In this capacity 
 he has rendered good and faithful service, and 
 by his exemplary life and gentlemanly bearing 
 has shown himself worthy of the honored name 
 which he bears. 
 
 He is prominent in the local afifairs of the Dem- 
 ocratic party, and was a delegate to the Demo- 
 cratic state convention held in Louisville in 1895. 
 He was not responsible, however, for the defeat 
 of the ticket which that convention nominated, as 
 he was vigilant and active in his endeavors to 
 secure the success of his party. 
 
 He is a prominent and influential member of a 
 number of benevolent orders, including Knights 
 of Pythias, the Ancient Essenic Order and the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. 
 
 Mr. Hart was married in 1885 to Susan B. 
 Powell of Henderson, a granddaughter of Gov- 
 ernor Dixon, a brief sketch of whose life is given 
 in the biography of his son. Dr. Archibald Dixon, 
 in this work. 
 
 LA VEGA CLEMENTS, a worthy descendant 
 of a family of patriots, and a distinguished 
 young attorney of Owensboro, is the eldest son 
 of Samuel A. and Laura (Wagoner) Clements, 
 and was born near Philpott, Daviess County, Ken- 
 tucky, December 35, 1868. His father was born 
 in Daviess County on March 31, 1839, ^^^ was 
 educated in the county schools, and after reaching 
 manhood engaged in merchandising at Philpott, 
 but subsequently removed to Owensboro, where 
 he now resides. His mother, Laura (Wagoner) 
 Clements, is of German descent, and a daughter 
 of Harry Wagoner, who in his day was a 
 
196 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 worthy and prosperous farmer of Spencer County, 
 Indiana. She was born January 8, 1854, and had 
 the misfortune to lose both of her parents in her 
 early childhood. She was married to S. A. Cle- 
 ments in January, 1868. 
 
 La Vega Clements spent his early days in the 
 country, receiving such educational advantages 
 as could be had from the Kentucky pubHc schools. 
 To these and the public schools of Salisbury, Mis- 
 souri, he is indebted for his education, his parents 
 being unable to afford him any better facilities 
 for his early training. But w'ith this he entered 
 the office of Judge Wilfred Carico of Owensboro 
 in March, 1887, as a law student. After diligent 
 study for more than a year he was admitted to 
 the bar in July, 1888, when only nineteen years of 
 age. He remained with his preceptor until De- 
 cember, 1891, when he formed a law partnership 
 with T. F. Birkhead, with whom he is at present 
 associated. The firm enjoys a large practice, and 
 both are prominent as members of the Owens- 
 boro bar. Mr. Clements was elected city attorney 
 of Owensboro in November, 1893, for a term of 
 four years, carrying over his opponent every vot- 
 ing precinct in the city, a compliment which was 
 due to his personal popularity and an evidence of 
 the high esteem in which he was held by the com- 
 munity as a lawyer of ability, a man of upright 
 character and a Christian gentleman. He was 
 married November 16, 1890, to Maggie Brown, 
 daughter of Thomas Brown of Knottsville, Ken- 
 tucky. They have one child, Gerald S., born Oc- 
 tober 16, 1894. 
 
 Mr. Clements' grandfather, Charles O. Cle- 
 ments, was bom near Baltimore, Maryland, Janu- 
 ary 29, 1808, and emigrated to Kentucky at an 
 early day and settled in Nelson County, near 
 Bardstown; he soon afterwards removed to Da- 
 viess County, where he resided until his death, 
 December 29, 1879. He was a soldier in the war 
 with Mexico, and had the honor of serving with 
 General Winfield Scott at the siege of Vera Cruz. 
 His wife, Susan Philpott, was also a native of 
 Maryland, and was born January 12, 181 1, and 
 died January 11, 1872. She was a daughter of John 
 S. Philpott, who was born in 1780 and died in 
 1839, and who was a descendant of a family 
 prominent in the early settlements of Maryland. 
 
 William Clements, the father of Charles O. Cle- 
 ments, lived and died in Maryland, and was a sol- 
 dier in the Revolutionary war under General 
 Marion. He and his brother Charles joined the 
 patriot army at the beginning of the War for Inde- 
 pendence, one leaving home one day and the 
 other the next. Charles served under Washing- 
 ton, and, strange to say, they never saw each other 
 during the entire struggle for independence, and 
 at the end returned home as they had left, one 
 day apart. William Clements married Winfred 
 Hardy, a daughter of Frederick Hardy, who lived 
 arid died near Baltimore. The Clements family 
 have always been Democrats, and are of English 
 descent, the progenitor of the family in this coun- 
 try being one of the party who accompanied Lord 
 Baltimore in settling the first colony in the wilder- 
 ness of Maryland. 
 
 JAMES H. HAZELRIGG, one of the judges 
 of the Court of Appeals and an able lawyer 
 and jurist, is a member of an old and honored 
 Kentucky family. He is the son of George and 
 Elizabeth (Greene) Hazelrigg, and was bdrn in 
 Montgomery County, Kentucky, December 6, 
 1848. His father was a native of Clark Count}', 
 and in later years was a prominent and successful 
 farmer in Montgomery, continuing that occupa- 
 tion until his death in February, 1874, at the age 
 of fifty-four years. He was a leading member of 
 the Christian Church, was originally a Whig in 
 politics and then fell in with the Union and after- 
 ward with the Republican party. He held the 
 office of magistrate many years in his county. 
 
 Dillard Hazelrigg (grandfather) was a native 
 of Bourbon County, Kentucky, who moved to 
 Montgomery County in 1834, where he was en- 
 gaged in farming tmtil his death in 1871, in the 
 seventy-second year of his age. His wife was 
 Sally Renick, sister of Abram Renick, the most 
 noted and successful shorthorn breeder of Amer- 
 ica. He was a prominent churchman (Christian) 
 and took some interest in politics, voting the 
 Whig ticket until the war, when he affiliated with 
 the Democratic party. His father, John Hazel- 
 rigg, was a native of Virginia, and came to Ken- 
 tucky in 1787, and was the founder of the family 
 in this state, His wife was Annie Cleveland, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 whom he married in Virginia. She was a direct 
 descendant of Ohver Cromwell, her father, 
 Charles, being the grandson of Lord Cleveland, 
 who married Cromwell's daughter. 
 
 The Hazelriggs were prominent adherents of 
 Cromwell and figured conspicuously in those stir- 
 ring times, fighting against tlie "divine right" of 
 kings. 
 
 Elizabeth J, Greene Hazelrigg (mother) was a 
 native of Montgomery County, Kentucky, who 
 died in 1849 at the age of twenty-three years. Her 
 father, Thaddeus Greene, was a native of Vir- 
 ginia, who settled in Montgomery County when 
 quite a young man, where he became a large land 
 and slave owner and a prosperous farmer. His 
 second wife (grandmother) was the sister of Har- 
 vey Kerr of Bourbon County, Kentucky, a cele- 
 brated breeder of fine saddle horses. Thaddeus 
 Greene died in i860, at the age of sixty-eight 
 years. He was a stanch Democrat and an influ- 
 ential citizen of his community. His religious 
 belief was that of the "Hard Shell" Baptist denom- 
 ination, and he belonged to the same family as the 
 Honorable Grant Green, whose sketch appears 
 elsewhere in this volume. 
 
 Judge Hazelrigg remained on his father's farm 
 in Montgomery County until he was fifteen years 
 of age, and attended the district schools in the 
 winter months. In 1864 he joined the Confeder- 
 ate army as a private in Company D, of Captain 
 Bedford's company, E. E. Clay's battalion, and 
 served in the ranks until the surrender of his regi- 
 ment under Colonel Giltner at Mt. Sterling, in 
 May, 1865. 
 
 In 1867 Judge Hazelrigg became a student in 
 the Kentucky University at Lexington, and grad- 
 uated from that institution in the class of 1871. He 
 returned to Mt. Sterling and entered the office of 
 Apperson & Reid as a law student, and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1873. In 1874 he was elected 
 city attorney of Mt. Sterling and held that office 
 until 1882, and was then elected county judge, 
 which latter office he held until 1886. In 1892 he 
 was nominated by the Democratic party for the 
 office of judge of the Court of Appeals; and after 
 a spirited contest in opposition to ex-Chief Jus- 
 tice Holt, the nominee of the Republicans, he was 
 elected in November of the same year. Judge 
 
 Hazelrigg is a stanch Democrat, having always 
 taken an active interest in the success of his party, 
 and having been for many years chairman of the 
 Montgomery County Executive Committee. 
 
 In 1872 Judge Hazelrigg wedded Mattie 
 Laudeman, daughter of James H. Laudeman of 
 Lexington, and this union has been blessed with 
 four daughters and one son: May H., wife of 
 Courtland Chenault of Montgomery County; 
 Elizabeth G., Emily D., Dyke L. and Hattie A., 
 the last named dying in infancy. 
 
 Judge Hazelrigg is a member of the Christian 
 Church and a gentleman of pleasing and courte- 
 ous manners. As a judge in the highest court 
 in the state, he is rapidly pushing himself to the 
 front, and by his careful decisions and wise inter- 
 pretations of the law, has gained the reputation of 
 being one of the most prominent members of the 
 Kentucky Court of Appeals. 
 
 WILLIAM T. ELLIS, ex-member of Con- 
 gress and a leading attorney of Owens- 
 boro, was bom in Daviess County, July 24, 1845. 
 He received a fine literary education in his native 
 county considering that before he was sixteen 
 years of age he enhsted in the First Regiment 
 Kentucky Cavalry. He was mustered in October 
 S, 1861, and "followed the varying fortunes of the 
 Confederacy" till the close of the war, as a private 
 and latterly as a non-commissioned officer in com- 
 mand of scouts. 
 
 He returned to his home after the surrender, 
 and resumed his studies, working during vacation 
 to obtain means to defray his expenses. For two 
 years he taught school while still pursuing his 
 studies and reading law. He received his license 
 to practice law in the spring of 1869, and after this 
 attended a course of lectures in the Harvard Law 
 School. 
 
 Returning to his home in 1870, he was elected 
 county attorney in August of the same year; 
 served four years and was re-elected in 1874; in 
 1876 he was Democratic elector for his district 
 on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket; in 1888 he 
 was elected a member of the Fifty-first Congress ; 
 was re-elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third 
 Congresses; declined further service in the 
 National House of Representatives, and returned 
 to the practice of law at the expiration of his third 
 
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 term, March, 1895. At the close of a brilHant 
 career of six years in Congress he was still one of 
 the younger members and had gained a reputa- 
 tion as one of the brightest and ablest members of 
 the Kentucky delegation. His loyalty to the gov- 
 ernment and his idea of justice to those who 
 fought to preserve the Union was clearly ex- 
 pressed in a speech made in committee of the 
 whole May 5, 1894, from which the following ex- 
 tracts are taken : 
 
 "I do not believe, Mr. Chairman, that the mat- 
 ter of pensions is a political question, though the 
 effort in this body since I have been here has 
 constantly been to make it such. If it had been 
 left to the men who fought the battles of the war 
 on both sides, it never would have been a politi- 
 cal question. The wonder to me has always been 
 that Democrats have suffered our Republican 
 friends as a political party to masquerade before 
 the country as the only friend of the Union sol- 
 dier. 
 
 "Why, Mr. Chairman, if the Republican party 
 alone had been left to fight the battles of the war 
 Richmond would never have fallen, and Sheri- 
 dan's cavalry would have halted long before it 
 reached Appomattox. 
 
 "Speaking for myself and who as a boy fol- 
 lowed the varying fortunes of the Confederacy 
 from the opening to the close of the war, and cor- 
 rectly reflecting as I think the sentiments of every 
 soldier who wore a Confederate uniform and hon- 
 ored it, I am in favor of a liberal pension for every 
 Union soldier who is disabled, whether that dis- 
 ability results from wounds received in battle or 
 from broken down or shattered health consequent 
 upon the exposure and hardship to which he was 
 subjected while engaged in the service of his 
 country. 
 
 "I go further, Mr. Chairman, and say I am in 
 
 favor of pensioning the dependent widows and 
 
 children of the Union soldiers who fell in battle 
 
 ^and whose silent gravestones mark every mile of 
 
 'the way from Shiloh to Gettysbuig. 
 
 "The Republican party, as such, has no patent 
 or trade mark entitling it to the exclusive confi- 
 dence, esteem or votes of Federal soldiers, and 
 the time has come when that fact should be thor- 
 oughly understood. 
 
 "If the Federal soldier owes the scars he wears, 
 his halting step, his rude crutch and his empty 
 coat sleeve to the punishment he received at the 
 hands of his adversaries, he is entitled at least to 
 know that those who fought him so fiercely in 
 war are his friends in peace, and that they stand 
 ready, not only to co-operate with him in defend- 
 ing the integrity of the national flag, but in secur- 
 ing for him a liberal pension for all the injuries 
 they inflicted upon him. The attitude of the ex- 
 Confederate and his section on this subject has 
 been too long misunderstood and his sentiments 
 too often misrepresented. 
 
 "Confederates believed when the armies of the 
 South were disbanded that the war was over. 
 Hungry, clad in rags, without money and with- 
 out price, they followed with unfaltering trust the 
 Confederacy's altering star of hope, until it sank 
 forever behind the bloody fields on which they 
 won their fame. But when they could no longer 
 contend against fearful odds they saluted the 
 stars and stripes, struck hands with the visitors, 
 and greeted them with the genuine salutation, 
 'Henceforth, let us have one flag and one coun- 
 try.' " 
 
 The spirit of fairness and conservatisim indi- 
 cated in this speech is a fair index of Mr. Ellis' 
 public life. Possibly, however, Mr. Ellis' speech 
 in Congress in opposition to what was known as 
 the Carlisle Bill gave him his widest reputation. 
 Although a member of the Committee on Bank- 
 ing and Currency, which reported the Carlisle 
 Bill, he assailed its provisions furiously. In op- 
 posing it he took advanced grounds and predict- 
 ed that its passage would bring financial ruin upon 
 the whole country. Affirming his allegiance to 
 the Democratic party he assailed the Carlisle Bill 
 as undemocratic and as an unwise and unpatriotic 
 measure. In the course of this speech he de- 
 nounced the financial policy of Mr. Cleveland's 
 administration and questioned the soundness of 
 the chief executive's democracy. The speech was 
 widely quoted throughout the country. 
 
 As a lawyer he stands pre-eminently at the 
 front of the Owensboro bar. He has been a close 
 student of the science of law and with a natural 
 aptitude for the discussion of legal questions, 
 pleasing address, a ready flow of language and 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 a graceful delivery he attracts and holds the at- 
 tention of his hearers. While he manages his 
 civil cases with excellent judgtnent and marked 
 ability, it is said by his friends that he rather ex- 
 cels in the criminal practice where adroitness in 
 the examination and cross-examination of wit- 
 nesses and fine rhetoric are essential to success. 
 
 During Mr. Ellis' absence in Congress his law 
 business was conducted by his senior and junior 
 law partners, Hon. W. N. Sweeney and J. J. 
 Sweeney, and it was owing to the fact that the 
 business of the firm had increased to such an ex- 
 tent as to require his whole time, that he declined 
 to remain longer in public life. 
 
 William T. Ellis and Alice Cofifey, daughter of 
 Colonel C. R. Coffey of Owensboro, Kentucky, 
 were married October 20, 1871. His wife died in 
 1872, and he was married again November 2, 
 1876, to Mattie B. Miller, daughter of Dr. W. F. 
 Miller, an eminent physician of Louisville. 
 
 Mr. Ellis' father, Luther R. Ellis, was born in 
 Shelby Count>', Kentucky, November 18, 1818. 
 He was married to Mary M. Kellum of Daviess 
 County and died when he was less than thirty- 
 seven years of age. He left two sons: William 
 T. and Dr. J. W. Ellis. 
 
 The Ellis family were natives of Culpeper 
 County, Virginia, and came to Kentucky in 1804. 
 The grandfather of Mr. Ellis first located in 
 Shelby County, but subsequently removed to 
 Daviess County, where he was a large and pros- 
 perous farmer. 
 
 HARBARD A. POWELL, formerly proprie- 
 tor of the Corydon coal mine, now retired, 
 son of Harrison and Elizabeth (McClanahan) 
 Powell, was born in 1818. 
 
 His father, Harrison Powell, was born in North 
 Carolina in 1786, removed to Tennessee in 1821, 
 and later to Kentucky; stopped in Logan County 
 for a short time and then located in Henderson 
 County, where he was a farmer nearly all his life, 
 and died August 30, 1838. He was drafted for 
 the War of 181 2 and furnished a substitute. He 
 married Elizabeth McClanahan and had eleven 
 children, one of whom died in infancy: Wil- 
 loughby, died at the age of twenty years; Anna, 
 Thomas W., Nancy G., Harrison, Harbard A. 
 
 (subject). Smith, Elizabeth, Lazarus, James and 
 Louisa. 
 
 Willoughby Powell (grandfather) lived for a 
 time in Logan County, and subsequently removed 
 to Henderson County, Kentucky, where he died. 
 He married Mary Whitehead, a sister of Lazarus 
 Whitehead, a prominent member of the bar in 
 Europe, who died a bachelor, leaving a large for- 
 tune. 
 
 Thomas McClanahan (maternal grandfather) 
 was a native of Virginia, who removed to Logan 
 County, Kentucky, where he died at the age of 
 ninety-six years. He was a captain in the Revo- 
 lutionary war by appointment of General Nathan- 
 iel Greene, who after the war was over sent him 
 out on the frontier in command of a squadron 
 of soldiers, and was stationed at a place called 
 Nickajack, now Nashville, Tennessee. He was 
 a brave and fearless man. Few men of his type 
 ever lived, and he stood high in the community 
 in which he lived and died. He married Nancy 
 Greene, a niece of General Greene. 
 
 Thomas McClanahan (great-grandfather) was 
 a native of Virginia and a Baptist minister, whose 
 wife was a Miss Marshall of Virginia. 
 
 Harbard Alexander Powell was educated in the 
 common schools of Henderson County, and early 
 in life became a farmer. He was for some time 
 employed on the farm of his father-in-law, and 
 in 1840 he purchased land and by great energy 
 and economy became quite prosperous. In 1857 
 he built a stemmery and began to deal extensively 
 in tobacco, preparing it for the European market. 
 
 When the Corydon Coal Mining Company was 
 organized he was elected president of the com- 
 pany, and within a few years he bought in the 
 stock held by others and became sole proprietor 
 of the mine. In 1894 he sold the property to his 
 son, B. M. Powell, and is now retired from ac- 
 tive business pursuits. 
 
 He was the first constable elected by the peo- 
 ple of Henderson County, and in 1859 served as • 
 justice of the peace. 
 
 Mr. Powell has been twice married, first to 
 Mary Livesay, a native of Virginia, who died in 
 October, 1856. There were four children by this 
 marriage: Elias L., Louisa, Mary and Nancy. 
 His second wife, to whom he was married De- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 cember 17, 1857, was Melinda E. Gibson, daugh- 
 ter of James Gibson, a prosperous and successful 
 farmer of Henderson County, whose father, Ber- 
 ryman Gibson, was a soldier in the war of the 
 Revolution. The children by this union are 
 Martha Christina, Burnett M., Anna B., Adah 
 Lee, Jessie A., Melinda J. and Thomas Hart 
 Powell. 
 
 JAMES E. PEPPER of Lexington, one of the 
 best known distillers of fine whiskies in the 
 world, whose brands have probably been more 
 universally advertised than any other of the Ken- 
 tucky distilleries, is a son of the late General Oscar 
 and Annette (Edwards) Pepper, and was born in 
 Woodford County, Kentucky, May 18, 1850. 
 
 General Oscar Pepper was also a native of 
 Woodford County, where he was for many years 
 a prominent distiller, in addition to which he 
 owned and cultivated a large farm and was en- 
 gaged in raising fine stock. He was a prominent 
 Democrat and was a general in the Old State 
 Militia. He died in 1865, at the age of fifty-five 
 years. His wife is still living in Woodford County. 
 Her father was a farmer in Fauquier County, Vir- 
 ginia. 
 
 Elijah Pepper (grandfather) was a native of Cul- 
 peper County, Virginia, who came to Woodford 
 County, Kentucky, in the year 1780. He erected 
 the first distillery in the state and continued to 
 operate it until he was succeeded by his son Oscar. 
 He was also an extensive farmer and land owner 
 in Woodford County. The Pepper family is an 
 old and honored one whose members were prom- 
 inent in the colonial days of Virginia. The Coun- 
 ty of Culpeper was named in honor of Sir John 
 Culpeper, the progenitor of the Pepper family in 
 America, but the name was changed by Elijah 
 Culpeper to Pepper after his removal to Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Culpeper County, Virginia, was organized in 
 1748, its territory embracing the present Counties 
 of Culpeper, Madison and Rappahannock; and 
 there was a long controversy involving the title to 
 several millions of acres of land granted by King 
 James to Sir John Culpeper and others whose 
 rights Sir John had purchased. Lord Fairfax mar- 
 ried a daughter of Sir John Culpeper and became 
 
 the owner of the "Northern Neck" of Virginia. 
 The seventh son of Sir John was doubtless the 
 ancestor of the subject of this sketch, who is there- 
 fore a descendant of the English nobility. 
 
 James E. Pepper was reared in his native county 
 and after leaving the common schools he went to 
 B. B. Sayre's Institute in Frankfort and was pre- 
 pared for college, but the death of his father made 
 it necessary for him to take charge of the distil- 
 lery, and the college course was abandoned. 
 
 After spending three years at home he went to 
 New York City in the interest of the distillery and 
 remained there for ten years. In 1880 he returned 
 to Kentucky and established his present large dis- 
 tillery at Lexington, and began the production 
 of the original and genuine "James E. Pepper" 
 whiskey, which is so favorably known throughout 
 the country. He is one of the third generation 
 of a family famous for the excellence of the whis- 
 key made by the Peppers, but his present estab- 
 lishment is far more extensive than was that of 
 his father and grandfather. The plant covers 
 about thirty-five acres of ground in the suburbs of 
 Lexington and has a capacity of fifty barrels a 
 day, employing an average of one hundred men. 
 He has been in the business for over twenty-five 
 years, and has spent a mint of money in perfect- 
 ing his distillery, but has now the finest plant of 
 the kind in the state. 
 
 In addition to his whiskey interests Mr. Pepper 
 owns a large and well stocked farm about one mile 
 from the city limits of Lexington, known as 
 "Meadowthorpe," where he makes his home, and 
 is deeply interested in breeding thoroughbred run- 
 ning horses. This is one of the most highly im- 
 proved and expensive farms of its size in the state. 
 His residence alone, built in the colonial style, 
 cost $40,000, and his stables are perfect horse pal- 
 aces. The buildings and premises are supplied 
 with electric light, gas, hot and cold water, and 
 every modern convenience that experience could 
 suggest or money could buy. He takes great de- 
 light in his horses, among which are some of the 
 most noted runners of the Blue Grass section. 
 
 Mr. Pepper was married in 1890 to Ella Ofifutt, 
 a member of the well known family of that name 
 in Shelby County. 
 
 Mr. Pepper, as the representative distiller, was 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 201 
 
 called upon to prepare an article for that magnifi- 
 cent publication, "One Hundred Years of Ameri- 
 can Commerce," which is from the house of D. O. 
 Haynes & Co., of New York, and of which Chaun- 
 cey M. Depew, LL.D., is editor-in-chief. Mr. 
 Pepper's article, entitled, "American Distillers," 
 deals with the development of the distilling indus- 
 tiy in a general way, without laudation of any or 
 even the mention of his own product. There are 
 one htmdred articles in the work on the history 
 and development of all our great national indus- 
 tries, each one being written by a representative 
 of the branch of trade or industry in which he has 
 had experience, and it is indeed a high honor to 
 have been invited to contribute to its pages. 
 
 Among the contributors are Philip D. Armour, 
 who describes the development of the great meat 
 packing industry; Thomas T. Eckert, president 
 of the Western Union Telegraph Company, who 
 writes of telegraphy; Charles H. Cramp, of ship- 
 building; Levi P. Morton, of American banking; 
 Ohio C. Barber, of the manufacture of matches; 
 Francis G. du Pont, of the manufacture of pow- 
 der; Albert A. Pope, of bicycles; William Stein- 
 way, of pianos; Charles L. Tiffany, of jewelry; 
 Charles H. Taylor, editor of the Boston Globe, of 
 journalism; Levi C. Weir, president of the Adams 
 Express Company, of the express business; Fred 
 Pabst, of brewing, and so on through one hun- 
 dred distinguished names. 
 
 MORRIS CAMPBELL FIUTCHINS, Judge 
 of Mason County, and a well-known Re- 
 publican politician of Northern Kentucky, was 
 born in Maysville, Kentucky, April 12, 1842, and 
 is descended from Revolutionary patriots. His 
 father, Morris A. Hutchins, was born in Casa- 
 novia. New York, October, 1799, and his mother, 
 Eveline (Campbell) Hutchins, was born in Aber- 
 deen, Ohio, in 1807. Her grandfather, Matthew 
 Campbell, was a native of Scotland, who belonged 
 to the clan of the Campbells, whose chieftan was 
 the Duke of Argyle. Matthew Campbell's 
 father. Sir Colin Campbell, was the second son 
 of one of the Dukes of Argyle, and his mother, 
 Mary Montieth, was the daughter of a Scottish 
 nobleman. Matthew Campbell was the pioneer of 
 Aberdeen, Ohio, which village he laid out about 
 
 the beginning of the Revolution. He located 
 a section of land opposite Maysville, in Ohio, and 
 was one of the twenty-five pioneers who laid out 
 the city of Cincinnati, as is evidenced by the cen- 
 tennial history of that city. He was a cousin of 
 James Campbell, who commanded the Ameri- 
 cans at the battle of King's Mountain, in which 
 he defeated the British. James Campbell, 
 brother of Matthew, was a colonel under General 
 Wilkinson, in the War of 1812, as well as in some 
 of the previous Indian wars. The Campbells who 
 settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and 
 in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, were de- 
 scended from two brothers of ducal descent; from 
 the one who settled in Pennsylvania Judge Morris 
 C. Hutchins is in direct line. 
 
 Evan Campbell (maternal grandfather) was 
 born in Scotland; emigrated with his father. Sir 
 Matthew Campbell, to America ; married Amanda 
 Byers, and died at Aberdeen. He was a large 
 landholder and owned several ferry boats on the 
 Ohio River running between Maysville and Aber- 
 deen. 
 
 Benjamin Hutchins (grandfather) was born in 
 the state of New York and was a son of Samuel 
 Hutchins, who was a native of Connecticut and 
 a member of the first legislature of that state. He 
 subsequently removed to Western New York and 
 served as major in the war of the Revolution. 
 Benjamin Hutchins married Jerusha Bradley, 
 whose mother, Anne Morris, was a daughter of 
 Amos Morris, a cousin of Gouverneur Morris and 
 Robert Morris, of Revolutionary fame. A sister 
 of Benjamin Hutchins, Marie, became the wife 
 of Rev. Thomas J. Ruger, who was rector of the 
 Episcopal Church at Janesville, Wisconsin. They 
 were the parents of Major General Ruger, now of 
 the United States army, who succeeded General 
 Scofield in command at Chicago. 
 
 Morris A. Hutchins (father) settled in Mays- 
 ville in 1822, and was engaged in the lumber 
 business until the time of his death. May 2, 1873, 
 in the seventy-fourth year of his age. He was a 
 delegate to the national convention which first 
 nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency, 
 and for supporting and voting for Abraham Lin- 
 coln in i860 he was hanged in effigy in Maysville. 
 He was a man of wealth and prominence and of 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 eminent worth. He took a leading part in the 
 opposition to slavery and was a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 Judge Morris C. Hutchins was educated prin- 
 cipally in the Ohio Wesleyan University. At the 
 breaking out of the Civil war he was the first 
 man in Mason County to volunteer in the Union 
 army, and was sworn into service in Woodruff's 
 Second Kentucky Regiment as a private. In No- 
 vember, 1861, upon the recommendation of Gen- 
 eral Rosecrans, he was promoted to the rank of 
 second lieutenant, and assigned to Company I, 
 Sixteenth Kentucky Infantry. In September, 
 1862, he was promoted to first lieutenant, and 
 subsequently to captain of his company. He was 
 continuously in active service until August 3, 
 1865, and participated in twenty-two battles dur- 
 ing the war, and was for many months detailed on 
 the staff of the First brigade. Third division. 
 Twenty-third Army Corps. At the battle of 
 Franklin, Tennessee, he was slightly wounded 
 and was specially mentioned by his general for 
 his bravery and his valuable services in that en- 
 gagement. In 1866 he returned home and en- 
 tered the office of the Honorable W. H. Wads- 
 worth as a law student, where he remained for 
 two years, and in 1868 was admitted to the bar. 
 In 1872 he was elected mayor of Maysville, and 
 was re-elected. After leaving the mayor's ofhce 
 he was a member of the City Council, and was ap- 
 pointed master commissioner of the Mason Cir- 
 cuit Court, serving in that office for four years. 
 In 1880 Judge Hutchins was a delegate to the 
 Republican national convention, and was one 
 of the immortal "306" who voted thirty-six times 
 in that convention for General Grant. President 
 Arthur appointed him postmaster at Maysville, 
 and he filled that office most acceptably and gave 
 universal satisfaction. In the August election of 
 1894 he was nominated by the Republicans for 
 the office of County Judge, being pitted against 
 Thomas R. Phister, one of the most popular 
 Democrats of the county. Judge Hutchins was 
 easily elected and bears the distinction of being 
 the first Republican who has ever held an elective 
 office in Mason County. Judge Hutchins was 
 married in 1870 to Lydia Frances Dimmitt of 
 Maysville, daughter of Ezekial Dimmitt, Esq. 
 
 They have two children, a son and a daughter: 
 Dimmitt C, a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan 
 University, class of 1895; and Essie C. Judge 
 Hutchins is a prominent member of the Masonic 
 fraternity, being a Knight Templar, and is also ; 
 member of the military order of the Loyal Legion, 
 of which ex-President Benjamin Harrison was 
 the commander in 1894. 
 
 WILLIAM D. BRENT, City Attorney of 
 Covington and a prominent young mem- 
 ber of the Kenton County bar, is descended from 
 the old and honored Brent family of Central Ken- 
 tucky. His parents were John D. and Elizabeth 
 Garvin Brent, who lived in Woodsonville, Hart 
 County, at the time of his birth, December 18, 
 1852. His father. Captain John D. Brent, was 
 born in Hart County, June, 1826. His education 
 was obtained in the common and private schools, 
 and after reaching his majority he was engaged 
 in general merchandising in Hart County until 
 1856, when he removed to Louisville and became 
 the proprietor of the Ninth street tobacco ware- 
 house. He entered the Union army in 1861 as cap- 
 tain of Company K, Fifth Kentucky Regiment, 
 which was under the command of Colonel Buck- 
 ley, and was afterward transferred to General 
 Buell's staff. Captain Brent took part in the bat- 
 tles of Shiloh, Perryville, Chickamauga and other 
 important engagements. 
 
 Having resigned his commission in the army 
 on account of ill health, he removed to Covington 
 in 1864 and engaged in the wholesale dry goods 
 business in connection with the house of Pearce, 
 Tolle & Holton, with whom he remained until 
 1887. In 1880 he was elected a member of the 
 City Council of Covington and served two years. 
 He affiliated with the Democratic party but was 
 not active in politics; was a member of the 
 Masonic fraternity and of the Christian Church. 
 He was not engaged.in business for some years 
 before his death, which occurred October 21, 
 1895. His remains were taken to Bowling Green 
 for interment. 
 
 Joshua Brent (grandfather), a Virginian, came 
 to Kentucky in 1783, and settled in what is now 
 Hart County. He was a lieutenant in the com- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 203 
 
 mand of Colonel Richard Johnson and General 
 Shelby. He was a plantation farmer and for 
 many years was postmaster of the village of Mon- 
 roe, in Hart County. He was a Whig in the best 
 days of that party; was connected with the Chris- 
 tian Church and with the Masonic order. He 
 died in 1863, and is buried on the old Brent home- 
 stead. His wife, Rebecca Worley, was born in 
 Fayette County in 1785, and was one of the most 
 intelligent and highly cultured women in Ken- 
 tucky. She lived to be ninety years old and died 
 in 1875. i 
 
 Captain John D. Brent married a daughter of 
 Valentine Garvin in 1847. She was bom in Hart 
 County, in the month of September, 1829, and is 
 still living. Valentine Garvin (grandfather) was 
 born in Rockingham County, Virginia, in 1794; 
 removed to Hart County when he was a mere 
 boy and became a prominent planter and slave 
 owner, at one time owning about one hundred 
 slaves. He was an extensive tobacco grower and 
 was one of the most prominent politicians of his 
 time, being an enthusiastic Henry Clay Whig, 
 and in later years a Democrat. He was twice 
 elected to the Kentucky legislature in the early 
 history of the state, and also served as a magis- 
 trate for many years. His mother, Barbara 
 (Maggard) Garvin, lived in the fort at Harrods- 
 burg in 1780, and her mother, Kitty Baufman, 
 was also in the fort. Mary Brawner (maternal 
 grandmother) was a native of Charles County, 
 Maryland, and was closely related to the Taylor 
 and Maddox families, who were among the most 
 prominent people of that state. She was a daugh- 
 ter of Isaac Brawner and Ann Maddox Taylor, 
 the latter being a daughter of Robin Taylor. 
 General Smallwood, whose arm was shot of? in 
 the battle of Brandywine, was also related to 
 the Taylors, and was a distant cousin of the sub- 
 ject of this sketch. Charles Carroll, one of the 
 signers of the Declaration of Independence, was 
 also a relative. 
 
 William D. Brent attended the ordinary dis- 
 trict schools and was graduated from the Coving- 
 ton high school in 1872. He taught for one year 
 in the same institution and at the expiration of 
 that time went to Lexington, Virginia, and en- 
 tered the Washington and Lee University, and 
 
 was graduated from that well-known university 
 in the class of 1875. 
 
 After his return to Covington he entered the 
 office of John Fisk as a student at law, with whom 
 he remained seven years, having been admitted 
 to the bar in 1877. He then formed a partnership 
 with Robert B. Fisk, with whom he was asso- 
 ciated for three years. He was a member of the 
 City Council from 1879 to 1882, when he was 
 elected city clerk and served in that capacity for 
 two terms. He was next elected magistrate, and 
 before the expiration of his term of office, he was 
 elected city attorney, of which office he is the 
 present incumbent. 
 
 Mr. Brent was married September 15, 1883, to 
 MoUie Belle Chandler, daughter of Lewis Chand- 
 ler of Cincinnati, Ohio, who was born in 1861; 
 educated in Cincinnati and Grand Rapids, Mich- 
 igan; died March 27, 1889, and is buried at Bowl- 
 ing Green. 
 
 JOHN F. KIMBLEY, M. D., Surgeon-Gene- 
 ral of Kentucky, one of the oldest physicians 
 and most substantial citizens of Owensboro, was 
 born in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, Septem- 
 ber 24, 1823. 
 
 His father, Frank E. Kimbley, a native of 
 Louisville, went to Muhlenberg County in 1792, 
 and there married Elizabeth Valandingham, a 
 member of a distinguished Virginia family. They 
 had six children, of whom the subject of this 
 brief biography was the youngest. 
 
 John Kimbley (grandfather), a Hollander, emi- 
 grated to the United States some time prior to 
 the. Revolution, in which he did faithful service 
 for his adopted country. His coming to Ken- 
 tucky was at a very early date, as may be in- 
 ferred from the fact that he was a resident of 
 Com Island, below Louisville, and assisted in the 
 cultivation of the first crop of corn ever produced 
 in Kentucky. 
 
 Dr. Kimbley was educated in private schools 
 in Muhlenberg County. When twenty years of 
 age he began the study of medicine at his home, 
 and subsequently attended a course of lectures 
 in St. Louis, and practiced medicine for some 
 time before finishing his professional studies in 
 the Jefiferson Medical College of Philadelphia, 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 from which he was graduated in 1849. He had 
 established a good practice in Daviess County 
 before talcing the course in Philadelphia, which he 
 resumed with increased confidence and success 
 upon his return. He had accumulated consider- 
 able property, including a large number of slaves, 
 before the beginning of the Civil war, and lost 
 heavily as a result of that conflict. 
 
 He was a strong Union man and volunteered 
 his services to help put down the rebellion. He 
 was appointed surgeon of the Eleventh Kentucky 
 Infantry, and during the three years and four 
 months of active service in the field, he held 
 various positions of rank in the Cumberland and 
 the Ohio and Tennessee divisions and was one 
 of the chief surgical operators on every battle- 
 field in which his command was engaged. He 
 received the highest commendations of his su- 
 perior officers for faithful and efficient service. 
 He served as medical director of the Cavalry 
 Corps under Brigadier-General Sturgis, whose 
 order relieving him from duty in that command 
 was as follows: 
 
 "Headquarters Cavalry Corps, 
 "Paris, Kentucky, April 9, 1864. 
 
 "The Eleventh Regiment Kentucky Volunteer 
 Infantry having been permanently detached from 
 this command and J. F. Kimbley being surgeon 
 of that regiment, he is hereby relieved from duty 
 as medical director of the Cavalry Corps and will 
 report to his regiment commander for duty. The 
 general commanding cannot, however, thus sum- 
 marily sever his official connection with Surgeon 
 John F. Kimbley without expressing his deep re- 
 gret for the necessity which compels him to lose 
 from his staff so estimable a gentleman, and one 
 who has administered the medical department with 
 so much energy, zeal, and ability. 
 
 "By order of Brigadier-General Sturgis." 
 
 His service in the army was a heavy sacrifice 
 personally, and the loss of his slaves by the eman- 
 cipation proclamation — which showed no partial- 
 ity for Union men — together with other losses 
 incident to the war, rendered it necessary for 
 him to begin at the bottom to rebuild his for- 
 tune. He soon recovered his valuable practice 
 and has held his high position in the profession 
 and in the confidence of the people, and after 
 
 more than thirty years of peace he can look back 
 over the past without regret for the gallant part 
 he took in the war or for the temporary loss 
 which it entailed. He became a Republican at 
 the outbreak of the war and heartily supported 
 every measure of that party during the struggle 
 and in the disquietude of the days of reconstruc- 
 tion, and although firm, positive and outspoken 
 in his political views, he is highly respected for 
 his fidelity to his convictions and honesty of pur- 
 pose. 
 
 Dr. Kimbley is now well advanced in years, 
 but his interest in and his devotion to his pro- 
 fession have never waned. He is still a diligent 
 student of medical science, and readily adopts 
 the new discoveries which promise relief to the 
 suffering, but is not easily carried away by new 
 and untried doctrines and methods. He is a 
 member of the Kentucky State Medical Society 
 and of the Daviess County Medical Society and 
 is a subscriber to the leading medical periodicals 
 of the day. He is a member of the Filson Club, 
 and a valuable contributor to the history and 
 early reminiscence of Kentucky through that so- 
 ciety of honorable citizens of the state. Dr. Kim- 
 bley's life has been wholly devoted to his pro- 
 fession, and his remarkable success and the high 
 position which he enjoys are due to his faithful- 
 ness to his patrons, his industry, energy and zeal 
 in the arduous labors of the family physician. 
 
 His first wife was Emily C. Windsor, a native 
 of Kentucky, who died in 1852. His second wife 
 was a Mrs. Stout, who was his companion for 
 six years and died in i860. His present wife was 
 Mrs. Sarah Ray Stubbins, a daughter of ex-Gov- 
 ernor Ray of Indiana, whose classical education 
 was received in Oxford (Ohio) Female College 
 and in Europe, where she gave particular atten- 
 tion to the study of the German and French lan- 
 guages. She is a lady of unusual literary attain- 
 ments and has imparted much of the large fund 
 of information of which she is possessed to her 
 sons, who, after careful study in private schools, 
 she accompanied to Europe and assisted them in 
 the study of foreign languages. 
 
 Hugh Kimbley, the eldest son of Dr. and Mrs. 
 Kimbley, is studying medicine in the University 
 of Louisville. Frank R. Kimbley, their second 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 and young-est son, is in the class of '97 in Yale 
 College. They are exemplary young men, of 
 more than ordinary intelligence, who attained dis- 
 tinction in their classes. Dr. Kimbley has seen 
 something of the world himself, having traveled 
 extensively in this country and visited Europe 
 several times. He is now surgeon-general of 
 Kentucky, with the rank of colonel, on the per- 
 sonal staff of Governor Bradley. 
 
 ROBERT FRANKLIN RIVES, the wheat 
 king of Kentucky, was born December 7, 
 1837, on the state line between Kentucky and 
 Tennessee. His father, Robert Rives, was born in 
 Warren County, North Carolina, near the Vir- 
 ginia line, December 16, 1803. He was a son of 
 William and Catherine (Turner) Rives, natives 
 of Dinwiddle County, near Petersburg, Virginia. 
 Catherine Turner was a daughter of Stephen and 
 Susan (Hanover) Turner of Amherst County, Vir- 
 ginia. William and Catherine Rives (grandpar- 
 ents) had ten children, whose names were: 
 Stephen ; Thomas ; Nancy, whose htisband's name 
 was Mabry; William; Sallie, whose husband's 
 name was Moss; Polly, who married Watkins; 
 Robert (father); James; Rebecca, who married 
 Southall, and Susan, who married Cunningham. 
 
 Robert Rives (father) was married in 1825 to 
 Rebecca Vaughn, daughter of Susan (Vincent) 
 Vaughn, who was a first cousin of Thomas Jef- 
 ferson. They had four children: William Vin- 
 cent, the eldest son, reared a large family, all of 
 whom are dead except Ophenia (Crews) ; Charles 
 Jefiferson, second son, married Annie Brockman, 
 a granddaughter of the distinguished John Mc- 
 Dougal of Scotland, and had four children: 
 Noyal, Nebraska, Jennie and Robbie, a daughter 
 who married a Mr. Cayce; Susan, the third child 
 and only daughter, married Thomas Adams, and 
 was the mother of four children: Robert, 
 Rebecca, Charles and Thomas. Robert F. Rives, 
 the subject of this sketch, is the youngest child. 
 His father died August 5, 1885, at the venerable 
 age of eighty-three. His life was an honor to his 
 country, and he transmitted to his large posterity 
 that most priceless heritage known to mankind — 
 an unspotted name. 
 
 Robert F, Rives began to solve for himself the 
 
 problem of life at an early age. When nineteen 
 he superintended his father's farm. At the be- 
 ginning of the Civil war he was among the first 
 to ofifer his service to the southern cause. In 
 April, 1861, he joined the Fourteenth Tennessee 
 Infantry, Company L; and, after drilling with 
 that regiment for two months, he was taken ill 
 with fever and was disabled for infantry service. 
 
 After the fall of Fort Donelson in February, 
 1862, he enlisted in Company A, First Kentucky 
 Cavalry, near Murfreesboro, Tennessee; and, 
 after serving six months, his company's time ex- 
 piring, he joined General Morgan's command. 
 He was a good soldier and was in some severe 
 conflicts. He accompanied General Morgan in 
 his raid through Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio; 
 his battalion led the advance all through the 
 raid and fought more or less every day. The 
 closest call he ever had was when the gun- 
 boats at Buffington Island interfered with 
 their crossing, and a large body of Federal 
 cavalry swooped down upon them, and 
 he, with two hundred others, swam the Ohio 
 River, and thus made their escape. They marched 
 through West Virginia to Abingdon, Virginia, 
 and reached the army in time to take part in the 
 battle of Chickamauga. He was in many cavalry 
 fights and, although he had his horse shot under 
 him, he escaped wounds or prison. He was with 
 that captain who, when news came of Lee's sur- 
 render, said: "Boys, we have fought a good 
 fight, and now it seems to be over. We are going 
 home. Go home and bring up your children to 
 love our South and, though you may have noth- 
 ing else to leave them, you can leave them the 
 heritage that they are sons of men who were in 
 Lee's army." 
 
 In 1874 Mr. Rives bought of Mr. William Wal- 
 lace, a place of four hundrd acres, seven miles 
 from Hopkinsville. He afterward added two hun- 
 dred acres to this farm, besides having the man- 
 agement of two other large tracts of land, which 
 he operates in connection with his own. He 
 grows more wheat than any ten of the aver- 
 age growers, his yield often being fifteen to seven- 
 teen thousand bushels. 
 
 After the war Robert F. Rives was married to 
 Isabella, daughter of William H. and Elizabeth 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 (Hardgrove) Pollard of Amelia County, Vir- 
 ginia. After eight years of married life she died, 
 leaving four children: Robert Henry, born Sep- 
 tember 22, 1869; Franklin, born April 6, 1871; 
 Florence Neal, born September 8, 1872; George 
 Pollard, born April 3, 1874. Of these, Robert 
 Henry, a large planter in Texas, married Miss 
 Eubank of that state, and has one son, Raymond. 
 Franklin, at present a member of the Hopkins- 
 ville, Kentucky, bar, graduated from the Cumber- 
 land University of Lebanon, Tennessee, with dis- 
 tinguished honors and is already in the front rank 
 of the young lawyers of the state. 
 
 Mr. Rives was married (second) to Sally A., 
 daughter of Rev. Jordan and Sarah (Viser) 
 Moore of Montgomery County, Tennessee. By 
 this marriage he has four children: Mary Belle, 
 born September 18, 1879; Jordan Moore, bom 
 October 5, 1882; Susan Cleveland, born Novem- 
 ber II, 1884; John Lewis, born February 19, 
 1888. 
 
 In his religious association Mr. Rives and 
 family are connected with the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church (South). 
 
 When it comes to exercising the prerogative 
 of a citizen at the polls, he votes with the time- 
 honored Democracy of his fathers. 
 
 ALEXANDER HILL, proprietor of Walnut 
 Hill Stock Farm, near the city of Owens- 
 boro, son of Dr. Alfred David Hill, late of Owens- 
 boro, was born in Daviess County, near Owens- 
 boro, Kentucky, December 25, 1855. 
 
 His father was born in Bertie County, North 
 Carolina, near Albemarle Sound, June 11, 1828. 
 He received a good education in his native county 
 and studied medicine in the Ohio Medical College 
 at Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1852. 
 After completing his medical course he performed 
 hospital duty in Cincinnati for two or three years, 
 and was ofifered a professorship in the Ohio Med- 
 ical College, but declined it. He located in 
 Owensboro, where he began the practice of his 
 profession, but becoming dissatisfied with his vo- 
 cation, he abandoned it and taught school for a 
 time in Daviess County. His inclinations were 
 toward agricultural pursuits, and he soon aban- 
 doned professional work for the life of a farmer, 
 
 in which occupation he was very successful, and 
 by industry and good management he acquired 
 a great deal of valuable land in the county. In 
 1873 he leased his several farms, removed to Ow- 
 ensboro, and engaged in merchandising, and soon 
 became one of the leading business men of that 
 city. In 1876, associated with others, he incor- 
 porated the Farmers' & Traders' Bank of Owens- 
 boro, of which he was elected president, a posi- 
 tion which he held until his death. He continued 
 his mercantile business in connection with his 
 banking interests and was a busy and successful 
 man, highly respected and honored by all who 
 had dealings with him. He never sought prom- 
 inence as a politician, but he was well informed 
 in all matters pertaining to local, state and na- 
 tional government, and could have wielded a 
 strong influence, but he simply voted the Demo- 
 cratic ticket and was satisfied with having done 
 his duty. He was more zealous in religious than 
 political work, being a member of the Methodist 
 Church and for many years a member of the 
 board of deacons, in which capacity his fine busi- 
 ness qualifications were of inestimable value to 
 the church. He was married in 1853 to Minerva 
 McFarland, and died December 23, 1878. 
 
 Benjamin Hill (grandfather) was a native of 
 North Carolina, a farmer by occupation. His 
 wife was Rachel Alexander. Their only child was 
 Dr. Alfred D. Hill. 
 
 Robert W. McFarland (maternal grandfather) 
 was a native of South Carolina who came to 
 Daviess County, Kentucky, with his parents when 
 he was a child, and there married a Miss Phebe 
 Glover, who was the mother of four children: 
 Louisa, Minerva, Robert W., Jr., and Beatrice. 
 
 Alexander Hill was educated in the common 
 schools of Daviess County, the high school of 
 Owensboro, and theUniversity of Virginia, attend- 
 ing the latter institution in 1874 and 1875. He 
 began his business career as a clerk in his father's 
 store, and 'became proprietor of that establish- 
 ment upon the death of his father. He had quite 
 a fancy for farming and for fine stock and soon 
 became the owner of the beautiful place near 
 the city known as the Walnut Hill Farm, and 
 gave much of his time in the improvement of the 
 place and to raising and training fine saddle and 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 harness horses, an occupation that has given him 
 much pleasure and yielded a handsome profit. 
 
 He is actively interested in a number of enter- 
 prises, and is an earnest promoter of the advance- 
 ment of the city. He is vice-president and di- 
 rector of the Farmers' & Traders' Bank, and has 
 been president of the Owensboro Female College, 
 having been one of the most active citizens in 
 procuring its organization. He is president of 
 the board of stewards in the Methodist Church, 
 and like his father takes a deeper interest in 
 church matters than in politics. 
 
 He is essentially a business man, and has been 
 remarkably successful in all of his undertakings. 
 He is intensely interested in educational matters, 
 and is known in the community as a man of un- 
 swerving integrity and of the most upright moral 
 character. 
 
 Mr. Hill was married November 6, 1879, to 
 May Sutherland, daughter of William and Susan 
 (May) Sutherland, natives of Nelson County, 
 Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Hill have been blessed 
 with a happy family of four children: Alfred 
 David, born January 13, 1882; Mary Lee, born 
 March 6, 1884; Helen Kimbley, born March 16, 
 1886; and Alexander Hill, Jr., born August i, 
 
 1893- ' - : ; : 
 
 THOMAS STUART BRADFORD, M. D., 
 a well-known citizen and eminent physi- 
 cian of Augusta, son of Dr. Jonathan Johnson 
 and Maria L. (Stuart) Bradford, was born in 
 Augusta, Kentucky, November 24, 1848. He was 
 educated in the old Augusta College and in the 
 Pennsylvania University at Philadelphia, and was 
 graduated in medicine from Jefferson Medical 
 College, Philadelphia, in 1871 ; served for one 
 year in the Blockley Hospital, Philadelphia ; came 
 to Augusta the following year and began his life- 
 work in the practice of his profession, in which he 
 has been engaged for about twenty-three years. 
 
 Inheriting a love and talent for the medical 
 profession from his father, who was one of the 
 most distinguished physicians and scholarly men 
 of Kentucky; prepared by early training and libe- 
 ral education for the study of medicine; a graduate 
 of the first medical college in the United States, 
 he was recogni^^id ^t once as a man pf th? highest 
 
 qualifications for the sacred office of family phy- 
 sician; and by patient study, undivided attention 
 to the duties imposed upon him and entrusted to 
 him, he has proven himself one of the most skill- 
 ful and worthy members of the medical profession 
 in Kentucky, and a worthy son of an illustrious 
 sire. 
 
 Dr. Bradford has taken the part of a good citi- 
 zen in all affairs of public interest, in which his 
 counsel is sought and his judgment relied upon 
 by his fellow citizens. He is an enthusiastic Re- 
 publican, without being in any sense an office- 
 seeker or an offensive partisan. He was a dele- 
 gate to the Republican National Convention at 
 Chicago in 1884, and voted in that body, and in 
 the following election, for James G. Blaine. 
 
 Dr. Bradford was married December 31, 1875, 
 to Margaret Marshall, daughter of William C. 
 Marshall, and a descendant of a Virginia family 
 which took part in establishing the independence 
 of this country and in founding the Common- 
 wealth of Kentucky. Mrs. Bradford was born in 
 1 85 1, educated in Augusta, her native place, was 
 a devout and beloved member of the Southern 
 Methodist Church, and a lady whose life was 
 characterized by those splendid virtues of her 
 gifted people. She died March 24, 1893, leaving 
 one son and two daughters: Louis Ewing, bom 
 February 15, 1878; Eliza Stuart, born August 20, 
 1879; s^'^d Elizabeth, born November 24, 1880. 
 
 Jonathan Johnson Bradford, M. D. (father), was 
 born in Bracken County, near Augusta, June 5, 
 1808, studied medicine with Dr. F. A. W. Davis, 
 graduated in medicine from Transylvania Uni- 
 versity in 1830, and was a practicing physician of 
 Augusta for fifty-two years. Besides being a 
 most noted and skillful physician, he was promi- 
 nently identified with all movements looking to 
 the advancement of his neighbors and fellow citi- 
 zens. He was a persistent advocate of temperance, 
 lecturing and writing in behalf of that cause, and 
 was elected and served five terms as Grand Mas- 
 ter Patriarch of the Sons of Temperance, and was 
 Most Worthy Associate and Most Worthy Patri- 
 arch of the National Division of Sons of Tem- 
 perance of North America from 1868 to 1870. He 
 was an able and accomplished writer on medical 
 subjects and was one of the most active and 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 influential citizens of Augusta. In politics he was 
 a Whig, later a Union man, and after the war a 
 Republican, and was well informed in national and 
 state politics, in which his vote and his voice 
 were true to his honest convictions. His long 
 and useful life was devoted to humanity and to 
 the service of the people whom he loved and by 
 whom he was honored and by whom his memory 
 is greatly revered. He was active and vigorous 
 until the end, and he "paid the debt of nature" 
 August I, 1878, having reached his allotted three 
 score and ten. 
 
 He was married (first) July 8, 1830, to Amanda 
 Thome, daughter of Arthur Thome of Augusta. 
 She died after about two years of married life. 
 He was married (second) November 20, 1834, to 
 Maria Stuart (mother), who was a daughter of 
 James Peyton vStuart, a wholesale dry goods mer- 
 chant of Pittsburg. She received her education 
 in that city and was endowed with a high degree 
 of intelligence, possessing many traits and virtues 
 which distinguished her as a woman of noble 
 character and a fit companion for her illustrious 
 husband. 
 
 The grandfather Bradford was a native of the 
 north of Ireland, who came to America with his 
 parents when he was eight years of age. They 
 settled first at Redstone Fort, now Brownsville, 
 Pennsylvania, and he came to Kentucky when a 
 young man, lived for a time in Bourbon County, 
 and was married there in one of the fortifications 
 known as the Irish fort. He afterward removed 
 to Bracken County, where he was engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits until his death in 1830. 
 
 Elizabeth Johnson (grandmother) was a daugh- 
 ter of WiUiam Johnson, a lieutenant in the Revo- 
 lutionary war and a personal friend of George 
 Washington. 
 
 James Peyton Stuart (maternal grandfather) 
 was reared and educated in Virginia, and was a 
 native of that state. He was a wholesale dry 
 goods merchant in Pittsburg; married Jane Hun- 
 ter of Brownsville, Pennsylvania; died in Monon- 
 gahela City in 1861. 
 
 Dr. Joshua T. Bradford, one of the most cele- 
 brated ovarian surgeons in the United States and 
 Europe, was a brother and pupil of Dr. Jonathan 
 Johnson Bradford. He was the most successful 
 
 ovariotomist of his time, and rose to great emi- 
 nence in his profession, especially in the line of 
 surgery. He practiced medicine for many years 
 in Augusta, retiring from the ordinary routine of 
 the family physician and confining himself to im- 
 portant surgical and consultation work for some 
 years before his death. He was born near Au- 
 gusta and died October 31, 1871. A sketch of 
 his career is given in Collins' History of Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 HENRY CLAY HOWARD, judge of the 
 Bourbon County Court, and one of the 
 most promising young attorneys of Paris, son of 
 Colonel Henry Howard, was born in Mt. Sterling, 
 Kentucky, November 14, i860. He is descended 
 from the Lewis, Clay, and Howard families, whose 
 ancestors were distinguished patriots during Rev- 
 olutionary times. 
 
 His father was a member of the distillery firm 
 of Howard, Barnes & Company of Mt. Sterling, 
 and his grandfather, George Howard, was one 
 of the pioneer merchants of that city. His great- 
 great-grandfather, Thomas Howard, was a native 
 of England, who, on coming to this country, first 
 located in Virginia, but came to Woodford Coun- 
 ty before the admission of Kentucky to the Union. 
 
 His maternal grandfather, Douglas P. Lewis, 
 was a resident of Bourbon County, where he 
 married a daughter of "Colonel Henry Clay of 
 Bourbon," so called to distinguish him from his 
 cousin and contemporary, the great commoner. 
 
 Thomas Lewis (maternal great-grandfather) 
 came from Virginia and settled in Fayette County; 
 was a colonel in the Revolutionary war; a mem- 
 ber of the first Constitutional Convention; a 
 member of the first Senate of Kentucky; and 
 fourth circuit judge of the Lexington circuit. 
 
 Judge Henry Clay Howard was thrown upon 
 his own resources at a very early age — his father's 
 firm having failed in 1870 — and he soon devel- 
 oped those splendid qualities which have brought 
 him to the front and made him one of the finest 
 young lawyers of Bourbon County. 
 
 After picking up a primary education, limited 
 and unsatisfactory to himself, he began the study 
 of law in the office of ex-Chief Justice Holt at 
 Mt. Sterling; was appointed to a position in the 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 Treasury Department, and while there he entered 
 a night class in Columbian University, working 
 in the Treasury Department during the day, study- 
 ing and reciting at night. After an undergradu- 
 ate course of two years, he was elected president 
 of the graduating class of 1884, and took the 
 degree of bachelor of laws. The following year 
 he took the post-graduate course and received the 
 degree of master of laws. The time spent in this 
 department of the university is counted as part 
 of the study required for admission to the bar, 
 and after examination he was sworn in as a prac- 
 ticing attorney in the Supreme Court of the Dis- 
 trict of Columbia, July, 1885. He retained his 
 position in the Treasury Department until Feb- 
 ruary, 1887, when he resigned and came to Paris 
 for the practice of law. 
 
 He at once became quite popular and took a 
 leading position among the young lawyers of the 
 Bourbon County bar, so distinguishing himself 
 in his profession and as a leading spirit in Repub- 
 lican politics that his party nominated and elected 
 him judge of the Bourbon County Court in No- 
 vember, 1894. 
 
 Although quite a young man, he has the quali- 
 fications for his position in an eminent degree, 
 and the record he is making will prepare him for 
 other honors and trusts that are sure to come 
 to the faithful. He is modest, refined and cour- 
 teous, and has clothed his present office with a 
 new dignity, commanding the respect of the bar 
 and the endorsement of the entire community. 
 
 ALLEN G. BERRY, M. D., a scholarly and 
 able physician of Ashland, was bom in 
 Chapmansville, West Virginia, August 5, 1859. 
 He came to Kentucky when a child and attended 
 school in Ashland, and subsequently the Normal 
 School at Greenup. He taught in the Greenup 
 County public schools several terms, and in 1883 
 attended a course of lectures at the Louisville 
 Medical College. In June, 1886, he graduated 
 from the Kentucky School of Medicine in Louis- 
 ville. 
 
 He began the practice of his chosen profession 
 at Millersport, Ohio, and continued there until 
 February, 1888, when he located permanently in 
 Ashland, and rapidly advanced to the front among 
 
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 the leaders of the profession in that city. His 
 general practice has grown with his acquaintance 
 and his success as a careful and competent phy- 
 sician has inspired confidence in his skill. 
 
 Dr. Berry is a member of the Northeastern 
 Kentucky Medical Society; a member and medical 
 examiner of the American Order of Union Work- 
 men; a member of the Masonic Order, Poage 
 Lodge, No. 325; Apperson Chapter, No. 81, and 
 the Ashland Commandery, No. 28, Myrtle Cas- 
 tle No. 2 Knights of the Golden Eagle; a mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, 
 and a citizen of excellent repute and high stand- 
 ing. 
 
 Dr. Berry and Lucy Powell, daughter of Luke 
 and Sallie Sweetland Powell, were married in 
 Greenup County, August 23, 1887. Mrs. Berry 
 was born January 11, 1865, and was educated in 
 Greenup County and at Oxford, Ohio. They 
 have had two children: Edgar Allen, born June 
 24, 1889, and Lillian, born July 2, 1891, both of 
 whom 'died in infancy. 
 
 James Madison Berry (father) was born in Law- 
 rence County, Kentucky, June 7, 1835. His 
 father removed to Virginia when James M. was 
 seven years of age, and he was educated in the 
 schools of the Shenandoah Valley. He returned 
 to Lawrence County in 1865, and lived there until 
 1870, when he removed to Greenup, where he 
 was a cabinet maker, and was also interested in 
 farming. During the war of the rebellion he 
 served in the Confederate army as first lieutenant 
 of Company D, Second Virginia Cavalry, and was 
 known as a brave and gallant soldier. 
 
 He was married November 19, 1857, to Bar- 
 bara Robinson, daughter of James and Celia 
 Robinson. Dr. A. G. Berry was the only child 
 of this union. Mrs. Berry died April 2, i860, 
 and James M. Berry and Emily Perry were mar- 
 ried February 2, 1861. There were six children 
 by this marriage: William A., Alvin F., Mary, 
 Laura, Luella, and Carrie E. Emily Perry is a 
 daughter of Henry and Mary Chambers Perry, 
 natives of Virginia. 
 
 Isaac Berry (grandfather) was born in Mont- 
 gomery County, Virginia, February 20, 1789; 
 was educated there, and served as a captain of 
 militia in the war of 1812. He removed to Law- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 rence County, Kentucky, in 1809, where, after 
 the war, he followed the business of a general 
 mechanic until 1842, when he returned to Vir- 
 ginia. He was married in 1808 to Nancy Kelly, 
 daughter of William and Amy Jacobs Kelly. 
 They had thirteen children, seven of whom 
 reached maturity. 
 
 Isaac Berry (great-grandfather) was a native of 
 Ireland, who came to this country and settled in 
 eastern Virginia. 
 
 James Robinson (maternal grandfather) was a 
 native of New Garden, Russell County, Virginia. 
 He followed the occupation of a tanner. 
 
 William Kelley, father of James Madison Ber- 
 ry's second wife (stepmother), was a soldier in 
 the Revolutionary war. 
 
 WILLIAM CLINTON GOODLOE.— The 
 Goodloe family of the United States are 
 all descended from two brothers who were born 
 in England about 1700 and emigrated to this 
 country and settled in Spottsylvania County, Vir- 
 ginia. Their names were Robert and George. 
 It is George Goodloe with whom we have to do 
 in this sketch. George Goodloe married in Vir- 
 ginia a Miss Minor. They had five children, 
 three girls and two boys. One of the girls mar- 
 ried Ben Tompkins; one Roger Quarles, and one 
 Jesse Harper of Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Their 
 son, Robert Goodloe Harper, rose to distinction 
 in Maryland, was United States Senator and the 
 leader of the old Federalist party. 
 
 George's son, Robert, married Miss Sarah 
 Short and settled at her home near the big falls 
 of Roanoke Run in North Hampton County, 
 North Carolina. Robert was born in 1741 and 
 died in North Carolina in 1797. He commanded 
 a company of militia during the Revolutionary 
 war, and built the first state house at Raleigh, 
 North Carolina. His wife, Sarah Short, was born 
 in 1745 and died in Madison County, Kentucky, 
 June 2, 1814. 
 
 Their son, William Goodloe, was born in 1769 
 in North Hampton County, North Carolina. He 
 came to Kentucky when he was eighteen years 
 old in 1787 and settled on Otter Creek in Madi- 
 son County, three miles east of Richmond. In 
 1796 he married Susan Woods, daughter of Cap- 
 
 tain Archibald Woods of Revolutionary fame. 
 They had thirteen children. Their sixth child was 
 William Clinton Goodloe. He was born October 
 10, 1805. He was educated at the Richmond 
 Male Academy and at Transylvania College at 
 Lexington, graduating there in 1824, under the 
 celebrated Dr. Holley. He read law with his ma- 
 ternal uncle, Avey Woods, and was licensed to 
 practice before he was twenty-one. He began 
 his life work in Richmond. On October 26, 1826, 
 he was married to Miss Almira Owsly, daughter 
 of Judge William Owsly of Lancaster, Kentucky. 
 Being a man of fine talents and great energy and 
 very much in love with his profession, he soon 
 attracted attention by his attainments and ability 
 and was appointed by Governor Morehead or 
 Breathitt commonwealth attorney for the judicial 
 district in which he lived. In 1841 he removed 
 to Frankfort, Kentucky, and entered into partner- 
 ship with his father-in-law, Judge Owsly, in the 
 practice of the law. He took an active, control- 
 ling part in the nomination of Judge Owsly for 
 governor in 1844, defeating the wishes and incur- 
 ring the enmity of Henry Clay thereby, who de- 
 sired John J. Crittenden nominated. He moved 
 back to Madison County in the fall of 1846 to his 
 farm and continued the practice of the law. In 
 1847 Governor Owsly appointed him circuit 
 judge. This office he held until August, 1868. 
 In 1849 the changed constitution of the state 
 made the office elective and in 1850, 1856 and 
 1862 he was elected to the position. In politics 
 Judge Goodloe was a Whig, but upon the dis- 
 solution of that party he united with the American 
 party. He warmly and decidedly espoused the 
 cause of the Union in 1861 and became one of the 
 conspicuous leaders of the Union party in Ken- 
 tucky. He was an Emancipationist and voted for 
 the Emancipation candidate for the Constitutional 
 Convention in 1849. His able and enthusiastic 
 advocacy of the Union cause in 1861 brought 
 him prominently to the front, and in the fall of 
 that year Governor Denison of Ohio visited Ken- 
 tucky at the request of Mr. Lincoln and advised 
 the president to declare martial law in the state 
 and appoint Judge Goodloe military governor, 
 as was done in Tennessee in the appointment of 
 Andrew Johnson, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES 
 
 211 
 
 In 1864 Judge Goodloe called a conference of 
 the unconditional Union men of the state at his 
 house in Lexington, Kentucky, to which city he 
 had moved in 1863, and from that conference 
 went forth a call for a convention of Union 
 men who were willing to tinite with the great 
 Union party of the nation in nominating Abraham 
 Lincoln for a second term. The convention met 
 in May in Louisville. Judge Goodloe was elect- 
 ed presiding officer. This was the act which 
 united the Union party of Kentucky with the 
 Republican party of the nation. Delegates were 
 sent to Baltimore instrticted to vote for Mr. Lin- 
 coln for renomination. 
 
 In January, 1865, another Republican conven- 
 tion was held in Frankfort, Kentucky, and Judge 
 Goodloe was the second time elected presiding 
 officer. 
 
 During the impeachment trial of Andrew John- 
 son, when Senator Wade of Ohio was expected 
 to succeed to the presidency, Mr. Wade had 
 selected Judge Goodloe for a seat in his cabinet, 
 and so informed him by letter. Judge Goodloe 
 was not a candidate for re-election as circuit 
 judge in 1868, but at the expiration of his term 
 resumed the practice of the law. He loved the 
 position of judge and made an eminent one, 
 though at the sacrifice of the emoluments of his 
 profession. In less than two months after his 
 retirement from the bench he received two fees 
 that amounted to almost as much as his salary 
 of circuit judge for three years. He died August 
 14, 1870, in his sixty-third year and was buried 
 in Richmond, Kentucky. His children were 
 eight girls, and two boys, Captain A. H. Good- 
 loe of the United States army, and Rev. W. O. 
 Goodloe, D. D., of the Presbyterian ministry. 
 
 DANIEL WEBSTER STEELE, Jr., a prom- 
 ising young lawyer of Ashland, son of 
 Captain Daniel Webster and Aremetha R. (Ulen) 
 Steele, was born December 19, 1867, in Boyd 
 County, Kentucky. 
 
 His parents removed to Star Furnace, Carter 
 County, in 1873, and one year later removed to 
 Ashland, remaining in that city until 1881, when 
 they returned to their farm in Boyd County. He 
 
 attended the county schools from 1872 until 1874 
 — the sessions of which were of five months dura- 
 tion each year; the public schools of Ashland 
 from 1874 to 1881; and the Ashland Collegiate 
 Institute from 1887 to 1890, in the meantime 
 teaching school in order to secure means to defray 
 the expenses of his education. When not teach- 
 ing or attending college, he performed manual 
 labor about the iron furnaces in Ashland, and 
 carried a hod for a plasterer. 
 
 With an ardent thirst for knowledge, deter- 
 mined to prepare himself for a professional career, 
 he had the courage and industry to pursue his 
 studies under difficulties, and the trying experi- 
 ences of his youth were probably as essential in 
 forming habits of industry and diligence as the 
 education which he acquired through his own 
 efiforts. 
 
 In January, 1891, he began the study of law 
 with John F. Hager of Ashland, and pursued 
 his studies with diligence until December 12, 
 
 1891, when he was admitted to the bar. He re- 
 mained in Mr. Hager's office until March 30, 
 
 1892, when he opened a law office without a dol- 
 lar or a law book, but he had that which is better 
 than gold — a determination to succeed, confi- 
 dence in his own ability, faith in humanity, a will- 
 ingness to work and patience to bide his time. 
 
 Few young men have realized upon their in- 
 vestments as quickly and surely as Mr. Steele. 
 By close application to business and indefatigable 
 industry, he has built up a remunerative practice 
 and has succeeded in securing an excellent libra- 
 ry. If the first five years of his professional career 
 are a fair index of the future, he will make his 
 mark as one of the leading lawyers of the state. 
 
 His father, Daniel Webster Steele, was born 
 in Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia, August 
 4, 1837, and removed to Kentucky with his par- 
 ents in 1838. He received his education prin- 
 cipally in the county schools of Boyd and Greenup 
 Counties, and taught school before the war. 
 
 He enlisted September 23, 1861, in Company 
 B, Twenty-second Regiment Kentucky Volun- 
 teer Infantry, as a private, and at the organization 
 of the company was elected second sergeant, after- 
 wards first sergeant and was subsequently pro- 
 moted to second lieutenant, promoted to first 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 lieutenant December 14, 1863, and was afterwards 
 transferred to Company H as captain. 
 
 He participated in the capture of Cumberland 
 Gap; the battle of Tazewell, Tennessee; was in 
 the march from Cumberland Gap to' the Ohio 
 river under command of General George W. 
 Morgan; then joined the army of West Virginia 
 at Charleston; afterwards transferred to the army 
 of the Tennessee at Memphis; then in the expe- 
 dition against Vicksburg; was in the battles of 
 Chickasaw Blufifs, Arkansas Post, Grand Gulf, 
 Port Gibson, Raymond, Champion Hills and Big 
 Black River; was in the general assault on Vicks- 
 burg, May 22, 1863; participated in the forty-nine 
 days' siege and the capture of the city on the 4th 
 of July, and the battle of Jackson, Mississippi, 
 July 12, 1863. 
 
 Captain Steele is a most ardent Republican, 
 and is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He 
 taught school immediately after the war; tilled 
 the soil until 1873, when he became manager of 
 the Star Furnace in Carter County, Kentucky, 
 and was employed there for one year. He was 
 employed by the Ashland Coal & Iron Railway 
 Company from 1874 till 1881, when he removed to 
 Ashland in order to aflford his children the bene- 
 fit and advantages of the educational facilities of 
 that city, from which place he still controls the 
 management of the farm. 
 
 He was married March 2, 1865, to Aremetha 
 R. Ulen. They have six sons and two daugh- 
 ters, the subject of this sketch being the eldest 
 child. 
 
 Daniel Steele (grandfather) was born in Stokes 
 County, North Carolina, May 9, 1791. He en- 
 listed in the Twenty-first North Carolina Bat- 
 talion in 1813, and served until the close of the 
 war in 1815. He was elected to the North Caro- 
 lina legislature in 1818, and served until 1820, 
 when he removed to Washington County, Vir- 
 ginia, where he married Nancy Spears. He was 
 a bricklayer by trade and built the first courthouse 
 at Lebanon, the county seat of Russell County, 
 Virginia. He afterwards studied medicine, and 
 began his work in that profession about 1825, 
 and continued in the practice until his death in 
 1863. 
 
 Aremetha R. Ulen Steele (mother) was born 
 
 in Boyd County, March 21, 1843. She was edu- 
 cated in the schools of Catlettsburg, Ashland and 
 Greenup, Kentucky. 
 
 Benjamin Ulen (maternal grandfather), a phy- 
 sician and farmer, was bom in Virginia in 1790; 
 served in the war of 1812; died in Boyd County, 
 Kentucky, in 1861. He was married three times, 
 and Aremetha Steele was a daughter of his third 
 wife, whose mother was the wife of Louis Napo- 
 leon Raison, whose father emigrated from France 
 to San Domingo, where he owned extensive coffee 
 plantations and many slaves. The negroes re- 
 belled against their master, and in order to save 
 his life, he emigrated to Kentucky. This loss 
 impoverished him. 
 
 Benjamin Ulen (great-grandfather) of Virginia 
 was pursued at one time by Indians, and rather 
 than te captured and tortured by them, he leaped 
 over a cliflf, making a miraculous escape by fall- 
 ing into a grape vine in a buckeye tree. The spot 
 was called "Ulen's Leap," now known as "Lovers' 
 Leap," in West Virginia. 
 
 JUDGE CHARLES B. THOMAS, for many 
 J years judge of the Circuit Court of the Lex- 
 ington district, was one of the most popular 
 judges of the state in his day. He was a son of 
 Barak G. and Sarah Ann (Howe) Thomas. Barak 
 G. Thomas was a native of Elkton, Maryland, 
 and was descended from Welsh ancestors, and 
 when quite a young man emigrated from his 
 native state and settled in Charleston, South Caro- 
 lina. He remained there until 1833, when he re- 
 moved to Lexington with his family, which was 
 his home until his death, which occurred in 1849 
 in the sixtieth year of his age. He was a master 
 machinist by trade and was one of the first men 
 who ran a high pressure steam engine in this 
 country. This was on a steamboat which plied 
 the Pedee River in South Carolina. He had two 
 sons and two daughters by his marriage to Sarah 
 Ann Howe: Judge Charles B., and Major Barak 
 G. Thomas of Lexington (see his sketch); the 
 daughters were Salina A. and Sarah A., both of 
 whom died young. Judge Thomas distinguished 
 himself as an able advocate and an upright judge. 
 Before his elevation to the bench he practiced 
 law for many years before the Lexington bar 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 213 
 
 and was a contemporary of some of the most 
 brilliant men the State ever produced, who were 
 members of the same bar; such men as James B. 
 Clay, George Robertson, M. C. Johnson, F. K. 
 Hunt, R. A. and B. F. Buckner, G. B. Kin- 
 kead, J, B. Beck, and John B. Payne. When 
 quite young. Judge Thomas served as city judge, 
 and about the year i860 was elected circuit judge, 
 his circuit being composed of the counties of 
 Fayette, Scott, Jessamine, Woodford, Clark, Mad- 
 ison, and Bourbon. He remained on the bench 
 until his death in December, 1873, in the fifty- 
 fourth year of his age. He served continuously 
 and most acceptably to the people for a period of 
 thirteen years. During the Civil war. Judge 
 Thomas served in the Southern army as judge- 
 advocate, with the rank of colonel. During the 
 whole of the war he was with the Army of Vir- 
 ginia. He was one of nature's noblemen and had 
 a strong hold upon the affections of the people. 
 Suave and courteous in manner, warm-hearted 
 and kind to his friends, but when upon the bench 
 he was dignified and firm, and his decisions were 
 always just and equitable. Like his father, he 
 was trained in the political school of Jeflerson 
 and was a stanch Democrat. He was a man of 
 great courage, determination and force of char- 
 acter, and when he once made tip his mind that 
 his judgment was correct, he was firm and un- 
 changeable. His literary education was received 
 at the University of Indiana. He read law with 
 Samuel Shy, Esq., and was soon afterward ad- 
 mitted to the bar. A friend, speaking of him, 
 said: "Charles B. Thomas was truly the people's 
 judge, and this universal sentiment was due large- 
 ly to his natural impartiality and high sense of 
 honor in all matters. No decision of his could be 
 questioned, because the people said whatever he 
 said was right. He was neat in his dress and 
 pleasant in his manner, and was a 'good mixer' 
 with the people, but when on the bench he seemed 
 not to know his most intimate friend. His prompt 
 decision in almost all cases made the juries and 
 the people generally style him a 'judge by nature.' 
 His great moral courage and high sense of honor 
 tended very much to make him a most popular 
 man." 
 
 After Major Thomas left the office of Judge 
 
 Robertson, his preceptor, writing of him in a let- 
 ter, said: "I can, without hesitation or qualifi- 
 cation, vouch for his intelligence, his high honor, 
 his excellent character and exceptional habits. 
 He will deceive nobody. He will not say what 
 he does not believe, and will faithfully do what- 
 ever he undertakes." 
 
 M 
 
 AJOR BARAK G. THOMAS, a promi- 
 nent horse breeder of Lexington, son of 
 Barak G. and Sarah Ann (Howe) Thomas, and 
 brother of Judge Charles B. Thomas, was born 
 in Charleston, South Carolina, June 9, 1826. He 
 was educated in the University of Indiana, Bloom- 
 ington, remaining there nearly four years, when 
 he returned to Lexington and entered Transyl- 
 vania University, in which he studied for two 
 years and graduated in 1845. He then attended 
 the law department of that time-honored insti- 
 tution, graduating in 1847; was admitted to the 
 Fayette County bar and began the practice of 
 law. He soon relinquished this, and accepted a 
 position with the Lexington & Frankfort Rail- 
 road Company as civil engineer, and after the 
 completion of that road he was made general 
 freight and passenger agent at Lexington. He 
 sei-ved in this capacity some twelve or fourteen 
 years, until the beginning of the Civil war, and 
 in 1861 he enlisted in the Southern army, first 
 under the command of General Kirby Smith, but 
 at Knoxville his regiment was assigned to the 
 brigade of General Abe Buford. Here for a short 
 time he served as chief of commissaiy, when he 
 was transferred to chief of commissary of Gen- 
 eral Wheeler's Cavalry Corps and served in this 
 line of duty until the time of his discharge. May 3, 
 1865. 
 
 After the close of the war. Major Thomas ac- 
 cepted a clerkship in a grocery, which was only 
 temporary, as he soon became manager of the 
 Lexington Observer and Reporter, and was thus 
 employed for three years. He was then appointed 
 teller in the Farmers' and Traders' Bank of Lex- 
 ington and held that responsible position for three 
 years. In 1875 he was elected sheriff of Fayette 
 County, and was re-elected to the same office, 
 serving two full terms. He then turned his atten- 
 tion to the breeding and training of thoroughbred 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 horses, in which he has been remarkably success- 
 ful and has established a most enviable reputa- 
 tion. He now owns Hirailla, one of the most 
 beautiful country seats and stock farms in central 
 Kentucky. It is located about six miles from 
 Lexington on the Huffman Mill pike, where he 
 keeps about eighty horses. Hirailla is run in 
 connection with Timberland, which belongs to 
 Thomas Gardiner. Among others, Major Thomas 
 has bred the following horses, which in their day 
 were among the very best performers in the coun- 
 try: Hertzog Aureola, Himyar, Lelex, Jewel 
 Band, Ban I'ox, King Fox, and Domino. 
 
 Major Thomas has held many positions of trust 
 in the county of Fayette and the city of Lexing- 
 ton; has been guardian and administrator of 
 many large estates, and from 1870 to 1875 he filled 
 the office of master commissioner of the Fay- 
 ette Circuit Court. He is a Democrat of the old 
 school, and it can truthfully be said that in every 
 relation of life he has performed his part with 
 the strictest integrity and honesty. He is a true 
 friend and is universally popular. 
 
 WILLIAM THOMAS AULL, chief deputy 
 clerk of the County Court, Owensboro, 
 son of James and Charlotte (McDaniel) Aull, was 
 born in Daviess County, Kentucky, March 16, 
 1840. 
 
 His father was born in Nelson County, January 
 4, 181 8, and received a part of his education in 
 that county before removing to Daviess County 
 in 1832, and completed his schooling in the last 
 named county. He has devoted his life during 
 more than a half century to the honorable busi- 
 ness of farming in Daviess County, where he is 
 now living in quiet retirement. He is a faithful 
 member of the Catholic Church. 
 
 Benjamin Aull (grandfather) was a native of 
 Frederick, Maryland, who came to Nelson County 
 when he was a youth; married a Miss Redman, 
 daughter of Richard Redman; was a farmer in 
 comfortable circumstances; a member of the 
 Catholic Church, and a highly respected citizen 
 of his county. He died in Daviess County, aged 
 eighty-three years. His father, Aquilla Aull (great- 
 grandfather) was a Virginian of German descent. 
 
 Charlotte McDaniel Aull (mother) was born in 
 
 Nelson County in 1818. Her parents removed to 
 Daviess County with the Aull family, and they 
 bought adjoining farms in the Knottsville pre- 
 cinct. She married James Aull May 6, 1839, and 
 they lived happily together for fifty years. She 
 died as she had lived, in the Catholic faith, in 1893, 
 aged seventy-six years. 
 
 Abraham McDaniel (grandfather) was a native 
 farmer of Nelson County, whose ancestors were 
 from Ireland. 
 
 William Thomas Aull was educated in Daviess 
 County in the public schools; and on the 30th 
 day of September, 1861, he enlisted in Dr. C. T. 
 Noel's company. First Regiment Kentucky Cav- 
 valry, which belonged to the famous Orphans' 
 Brigade. Dr. Noel, the captain of Company A, 
 was killed in 1862, and W. J. Taylor, first lieuten- 
 ant, took command of the company, with whom 
 Mr. Aull served until the close of the war. He 
 was in the battles of Murfreesboro, Perryville, 
 Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Round Top Moun- 
 tain, Atlanta, and other engagements in which 
 the army of Tennessee took part. In the battle 
 of King's Salt Works, Virginia, October 4, 1864, 
 he was severely wounded, necessitating the ampu- 
 tation of his right leg. He was left in the hospital 
 at Liberty, Tazewell County, V^irginia, until Feb- 
 ruary 19, 1865, when he was taken to Yorkville 
 and a second amputation was performed. He re- 
 mained there until he was able to travel, July 10, 
 1865, when he returned to his home in Daviess 
 County. 
 
 Fie resumed his studies at Pleasant Valley 
 Academy, which he attended for two years, and 
 then taught school for four years. 
 
 In 1873 h^ was elected assessor of Daviess 
 County for a term of four years; in 1878 he was 
 elected constable for a term of two years; in 1880 
 he became proprietor of a hotel in Owensboro, 
 which was burned January 24, 1882, and in the 
 same year he was elected superintendent of city 
 scales; in 1886 he was employed by Collector 
 Hunter Wood, in the Internal Revenue Depart- 
 ment, serving until the close of President Cleve- 
 land's first administration, since which time he 
 has been chief deputy clerk of the County Court, a 
 position for which he has the highest qualifica- 
 tions and which he has filled with great satisfac- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 tion to his employer, the members of the bar 
 and the general public. He is personally very 
 popular, being of a genial disposition, courteous 
 and obliging, and is highly respected for his hon- 
 esty, candor and loyalty to his friends. He is a 
 fair-minded and honorable politician, an active 
 worker in the Democratic ranks, and enjoys the 
 unbounded confidence of the entire community, 
 regardless of politics. He is the secretary and 
 a leading spirit in the Daviess County Confed- 
 erate Association, a purely social organization, in 
 which the embers of the camp-fire are kept burn- 
 ing for memory's sake. 
 
 Mr. Aull was married August 29, 1869, to Mary 
 E. Bnmer, daughter of George W. and Isabella 
 (Head) Bruner. They are members of the Chris- 
 tian Church, and are social favorites in the church 
 and in Owensboro society. 
 
 They have four children living: James G., born 
 November 19, 1871; Leroy, born December 13, 
 1873; Maude L., born June 26, 1876, wife of 
 Charles Usher of Owensboro; W. Jessie, born 
 October 28, 1882. 
 
 CHARLES W. NAGEL, Mayor of Bellevue 
 and a prominent real estate dealer in that 
 progressive young city, was born in Detroit, 
 Michigan, April 25, 1852, and is a son of William 
 F. and Catherine (Bodemer) Nagel. 
 
 His father was a native of Baden, Germany, 
 who came to the United States in 1847, and 
 located in Detroit, where he married. He re- 
 moved to Newport in October, 1857, where he 
 was engaged in manufacturing rope until the be- 
 ginning of the Civil war in 1861. He enlisted 
 in the Fourth Ohio Battery, in which he served 
 throughout the war. During his absence in the 
 service of his adopted country, his family lived 
 in Cincinnati. When he returned he removed to 
 Bellevue, where he resumed his business of mak- 
 ing rope, in which he continued until the time 
 of his death, January 19, 1890, his death being 
 due to a complication of diseases contracted while 
 he was in the army. He was quite prominent as 
 a Republican politician, and was a Michigan dele- 
 gate to the convention that nominated John C. 
 Fremont for President in 1856. 
 
 Charles W. Nagel's mother, Catherine (Bode- 
 
 mer) Nagel, is a native of Baden, Germany, and 
 came to America in 1845, when she was twelve 
 years of age. She is now living in Bellevue. 
 
 During the years of his boyhood, Charles W. 
 Nagel was a resident at different times of New- 
 port, Cincinnati and Bellevue; and received his 
 education principally in the Cincinnati public 
 schools, finishing with a course in a commercial 
 college in that city. After leaving school he 
 learned the printing trade with Jewett & Adams, 
 by whom he was employed for twenty years. He 
 abandoned his trade in 1885 and engaged in the 
 real estate business in Bellevue, in partnership 
 with T. F. Beyland, whose biography will be 
 found in this volume. In 1891 he was elected 
 secretary of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company 
 of Newport, and in connection with L. J. Craw- 
 ford purchased the Newport abstract office and 
 completed its records up to date. 
 
 He has been quite prominent in politics, and 
 during his residence in Bellevue has held a num- 
 ber of offices ; he was a member of the City Coun- 
 cil for three years; was city clerk for seven 
 years ; examiner of teachers for three years ; dep- 
 uty sheriff for four years, and is now serving his 
 second term as mayor of Bellevue, this being a 
 popular endorsement of his administration during 
 his first term. He was also police judge of his city 
 for one term. From all this it may be inferred that 
 Mr. Nagel is a very useful and popular citizen 
 and trusted official. 
 
 He began his career without capital and has 
 accumulated considerable property, including 
 valuable real estate in Bellevue and vicinity. 
 
 Mr. Nagel was married in 1881 to Julia Sut- 
 kamp of Dubuque, Iowa, and has one son and one 
 daughter living: Herbert Lincoln Nagel and 
 Elfrida Nagel. 
 
 NEWTON COOPER, a well-known business 
 man and public spirited citizen of Mays- 
 ville, was born two miles below that city on the 
 hill overlooking the Ohio river in Mason County, 
 Kentucky, May 19, 1820, and is a son of Hugh 
 Cooper and Catherine (Rickerts) Cooper. Hugh 
 Cooper was a native of Spottsylvania County, 
 Virginia, and was born near the boundary line 
 between that state and North Carolina October 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 I, 1792. He emigrated with his father from his 
 native state to Kentucky in abotit the year 1794 
 and settled in the vicinity of Mt. SterHng. He 
 was a soldier under General Harrison in the war 
 of 1812 and was at the siege of Fort Meigs. He 
 came to Mason County and purchased a farm 
 southwest of Maysville, containing sixty acres, 
 in 1808. Here he carried on farming in connec- 
 tion with shoemaking for two year*. He learned 
 his trade under G. Vannatta, and followed it for 
 a short time until his marriage with Catherine 
 Rickerts, who was born in Bedferd County, Penn- 
 sylvania, in 1792. Shortly after his marriage he 
 built a stoneware pottery one mile below Mays- 
 ville, which he operated until 1829, when he re- 
 moved to Maysville, continuing in the same busi- 
 ness till his death in 1831. His father, John Coop- 
 er, was a South Carolinian by birth; removed to 
 Virginia, and there married Patsey McDaniel, a 
 daughter of Henry McDaniel, a native of Scot- 
 land, then living in Spottsylvania County, Vir- 
 ginia, where he owned a plantation and a large 
 number of slaves. He removed to Kentucky 
 about 1793, first making his home in Montgomery 
 County and subsequently removed to Morgan 
 County, where he died. 
 
 Hugh and Caroline (Rickerts) Cooper had ten 
 children, of whom four are living: Milton, born 
 April 24, 1815; Newton, Lucy and Mrs. Marian 
 Power. The Coopers are of EngHsh, the Mc- 
 Daniels of Scotch and the Rickerts of Welsh an- 
 cestry. Rulifif Rickerts was a native of Cecil Coun- 
 ty, Maryland; removed to Pennsylvania and from 
 there to Kentucky in 1797. 
 
 Newton Cooper was reared at the old home- 
 stead, and received one year's schooling, but his 
 principal education, which is by no means mea- 
 gre, has been acquired through an active business 
 career. When quite young he was apprenticed 
 to John C. Reed of Maysville, under whom he 
 served for four years, learning the trade of tin 
 plate and sheet iron making. After the expira- 
 tion of his apprenticeship in 1838, he formed a 
 partnership with Tliomas J. Nicholson in the tin 
 business, which relation continued about one 
 year, when Mr. Cooper purchased Nicholson's in- 
 terest and conducted it alone the greater part of 
 the time until 1883, when he sold out to two of 
 
 his apprentices, McClanahan and Shea. In the 
 same year he built his present fine grain storage 
 and tobacco warehouse on Front street, which 
 is 60x145 feet and six stories high. 
 
 While attending industriously to his many pri- 
 vate interests, he is well known as a pubHc spirited 
 citizen and has been identified with the best in- 
 terests of his city and county. He is a director 
 in the Gas Company and the Electric Light Com- 
 pany, and owns a one-third interest in the Mays- 
 ville Electric Street Railway. Messrs. Cooper, 
 Cochran and Cox were the promoters and build- 
 ers of this road, one of the first constructed in the 
 state. Mr. Cooper has had no time or inclination 
 to seek public office, but under President Grant's 
 first term, and without his knowledge, he was 
 appointed revenue collector of the Tenth District, 
 which place he accepted and for four years admin- 
 istered the affairs of that office most acceptably 
 to the administration and the people of the dis- 
 trict. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM M'DONALD SHAW, City 
 Solicitor of Covington, son of Lafayette and 
 Harriet McDonald Shaw, was born in Coving- 
 ton, September 27, 1857. His father was born 
 in Campbell County, July 3, 1825, and was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of the county and in the 
 law department of Louisville University. After 
 graduating he began the practice of law in Cov- 
 ington, where he has continued successfully until 
 the present time. 
 
 He was judge of the Kenton County Court 
 from 1865 to 1869, and was county attorney for 
 four years. He is thoroughly devoted to his 
 profession and cares little for politics other than 
 a desire for the success of the Republican party, 
 with which he has always affiliated. He is a Uni- 
 versalist. His father, Robert Shaw, was born in 
 Pennsylvania, March 13, 1783. 
 
 James Shaw, great-grandfather of W. McD. 
 Shaw, was born in Ireland in 1754. 
 
 W. McD. Shaw was educated in the public 
 schools of Covington and the High School of 
 Cincinnati and at Princeton College, graduating 
 in 1882. He then entered the Cincinnati Law 
 School and graduated in 1884, taking the ora- 
 torical prize of his class. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 He at once began the practice of law with his 
 father, and from 1886 to 1890 he was county at- 
 torney of Kenton County. July, 1891, he was 
 appointed assistant United States district attor- 
 ney for Kentucky, in which capacity he served 
 with signal ability until September, 1893, and in 
 the following November was elected city solicitor 
 of Covington, which office he still holds, in con- 
 nection with a lucrative law practice. 
 
 Mr. Shaw is an ardent Republican and a trusted 
 leader in his party, not only in his county, btit 
 throughout the state. In 1888 he was Republic- 
 an elector for the state at large and made a bril- 
 liant campaign for General Harrison for Presi- 
 dent. He is one of the finest stump orators in the 
 political arena, and a man who makes a friend 
 of every one he meets. 
 
 Mr. Shaw is an exemplary member of the 
 Presbyterian Church. 
 
 His wife, Ruth Evelyn, daughter of N. M. 
 Holliway of Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Kan- 
 sas City, Missouri, December 21, 1864, and was 
 educated in that city. They were married Octo- 
 ber II, 1893. 
 
 WILLIAM W. BLACKWELL of Hender- 
 son, past supreme chancellor of the 
 Knights of Pythias of the world, was born in 
 Henderson, April 5, 1849, ^'^^ is the son of Paul 
 A. and Martha S. (Crymes) Blackwell, natives of 
 Lunenburg County, Virginia, who came to Hen- 
 derson in 1848. Paul A. Blackwell has been a 
 prominent wholesale and retail hardware mer- 
 chant in Henderson for thirty years. During the 
 war he held the office of police judge, but never 
 sought or held any other public office. 
 
 Chapman Blackwell (grandfather) came to 
 Henderson from Lunenburg County, Virginia, in 
 1832, and was a son of Robert Blackwell, who 
 was a native Virginian. His ancestors are traced 
 to three Blackwell brothers who came from Eng- 
 land two hundred years ago, one of whom located 
 in Blackwell's Island, New York, another in Dur- 
 ham, North Carolina, and the other settled in Vir- 
 ginia. Robert Blackwell (great-grandfather) was 
 a magistrate in Virginia under King George III. 
 
 Mr. Blackwell's mother, Martha S. Crymes 
 Blackwell, was a daughter of Leonard Crymes, a 
 native of Virginia. 
 
 W. W. Blackwell, after making good use of his 
 school days, and while yet a mere boy, entered 
 his father's hardware store and learned the de- 
 tails of the business thoroughly. Pie soon dis- 
 played remarkable business talent and it was not 
 long until he was given an interest in the estab- 
 lishment, and the growth of the business with his 
 valuable assistance soon attested the wisdom of 
 his father in giving him a responsible position 
 in the management of the business. This part- 
 nership has continued until the present writing, 
 under the firm name of P. A. Blackwell & Co. 
 The latter was president of the Gas Commission 
 in 1887, a position which he filled with great credit 
 to himself and to the entire satisfaction of the 
 public. 
 
 W. W. Blackwell joined the Knights of Pythias 
 in 1873 and from the first evinced great interest in 
 that order. He made a careful study of its laws 
 and aims, and was soon known as one of the best 
 informed members, and his opinion was relied 
 upon in all matters concerning the order. His 
 advancement was rapid; and, after presiding in 
 his own (Ivy) lodge, he was made representative 
 to the Grand Lodge which met in Covington in 
 1877, and at that meeting he was elected grand 
 master of the exchequer; at Lexington, in 1878, 
 he was made grand vice-chancellor; at Hender- 
 son, in 1879, he was, when only thirty years of 
 age, unanimously chosen grand chancellor of the 
 state, being the youngest Knight ever elected 
 to that office in Kentucky; at Louisville in 1880 
 the honorable rank of past grand chancellor was 
 conferred on him; at Maysville in 1881 he was 
 elected supreme representative for four years, to 
 represent the Grand Lodge of Kentucky in the 
 Supreme Lodge of the world, and his commission 
 was extended, by unanimous vote, two terms 
 thereafter, 1885 and 1889. 
 
 He represented Kentucky at the Supreme meet- 
 ing held in Detroit in August, 1882, and there 
 received the Supreme Lodge rank, the highest 
 ritualistic rank in the order; attended the Su- 
 preme meeting in New Orleans in 1884; in To- 
 ronto in 1886; in Cincinnati in 1888; in Mil- 
 
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 waukee in 1890, at which session he was elected 
 supreme vice-chancellor by acclamation from the 
 floor, a distinction never before accorded to any 
 member of that august body; in Kansas City in 
 1892, where he was unanimously elected supreme 
 chancellor of the world; in Washington, D. C, 
 in 1894, where he presided over that distinguished 
 fraternal legislative body, the Supreme Lodge, 
 Knights of Pythias, and at the installation of his 
 successor became a past supreme chancellor, an 
 honor of the highest distinction in the order. 
 During his representative service upon the floor, 
 he was a member of the Supreme Lodge finance 
 committee, composed of five members, whose 
 duty it was to audit the books and look after the 
 vast financial affairs, comprising millions of 
 money, the successful management of which 
 brought him within the pale of promotion; was 
 appointed aid-de-camp with the rank of colonel 
 on the staff of Major General James Carnahan, 
 commander-in-chief of the Uniform Rank — ^the 
 grandest body of disciplined soldiers in the world 
 — and served thereon eight years with satisfaction 
 to his commander. He compiled and revised the 
 constitutions of the Grand and subordinate lodges, 
 a duty assigned to him by the Grand Lodge of 
 Kentucky, a work which was attended by a mul- 
 titude of difficulties; but, notwithstanding these 
 difficulties, his report was a masterly one, and 
 was accepted by the Grand Lodge practically as 
 written, by a unanimous vote, which was after- 
 ward supplemented by a series of complimentary 
 resolutions and a rising vote of thanks. 
 
 In every branch of the work in which Mr. Black- 
 well has been engaged he has served his constitu- 
 ents faithfully and well, as outspoken statements, 
 of which he has many, fully attest. 
 
 The following tribute, written by a brother 
 Knight, referring chiefly to his report as supreme 
 chancellor to the Supreme Lodge, is but one of the 
 many complimentary references that have been 
 made to Mr. Blackwell and his work: 
 "W. W. Blackwell, Past Supreme Chancellor of 
 
 the Knights of Pythias of the World: 
 
 "There have been other supreme chancellors 
 besides W. W. Blackwell that have rendered an 
 administration of loyalty and devotion, but the 
 present incumbent is certainly entitled to the dis- 
 
 tinction of having worked harder and devoted 
 more actual time and labor than several of his 
 predecessors put together. He has been in office 
 a little less than two years, yet in that time has 
 visited 46 Grand Lodges in regular session and 
 traveled over 65,000 miles to do so. His voice 
 has been heard by thousands of members while 
 he earnestly advocated constancy and devotion 
 to Pythian principles, and above all loyalty to the 
 government under which we live, the enforced 
 use of the English language on this continent, and 
 cheerful obedience to the Supreme Lodge and the 
 mandates of proper authority — in short, one lan- 
 guage, one flag, one country, and the greatest 
 fraternity on earth. 
 
 "Every supreme chancellor has made himself 
 especially prominent in some particular line : Van 
 Valkenburg as an author; Douglas, the 'little 
 giant,' in securing a universal conformity in the 
 Grand Lodge constitutions, and putting down re- 
 bellion; Ward as a peacemaker; Shaw in execu- 
 tive ability and brilliant rhetoric; but with Black- 
 well it has been a constant labor in the field; 
 making official visits to the Grand Lodges in ses- 
 sion ; urging the incorporation of valuable meas- 
 ures looking to the order's welfare; and greater 
 than all, the monumental task of harmonizing 
 all jurisdictions in the 'strictly English ritual.' 
 By his persistent labor, wise counsel and diplo- 
 macy, he has smoothed the way to a harmonious 
 session of the Supreme Lodge in 1894, by prac- 
 tically settling beforehand what might have de- 
 veloped into conflict long and serious. 
 
 "That Mr. Blackwell has the courage of his 
 convictions will never be questioned by those who 
 have met the man, heard him talk, or read his 
 report; ^and when, as here, ability goes hand in 
 hand with unflinching courage, there is no mistak- 
 ing the writer's views or misinterpreting between 
 the lines. 
 
 "Were we not personally acquainted, to some 
 degree, with the retiring supreme chancellor, we 
 should not, any the more, fail to understand his 
 views on any topic discussed by him in his re- 
 port, nor would we need any interpreter to make 
 plain his meaning; but when to this is added 
 knowledge, though ever so slighf, of the man, 
 any doubt we may have had concerning his words 
 
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 is displaced by certainty, and friendship broadens 
 into admiration. 
 
 "The report is a bold, able document, writ- 
 ten by one who is fearless of consequences, with- 
 out any signs of that policy that usually renders 
 the use of strong words by a sycophant imprudent, 
 and is refreshing to the truth-seeker. Compre- 
 hensive and clear in his conception of duty, never 
 doubting the righteousness of his stand when 
 once that stand is taken, and mailed in the armor 
 of a conscience that pervades all his writings, he 
 rains down upon the doomed head of wrong, 
 wherever he finds it, giant blows, the force of 
 which is born of unquestioned conviction. 
 
 "His words have in them a ring and power that 
 carries conviction and dismay among the dissent- 
 ing, and imparts courage and heart to the loyal. 
 Thorough, practical, broad; severe, yet kind; ex- 
 haustive, yet concise ; plain-spoken, yet conserva- 
 tive in due degree, the report is admirable in the 
 vigor and manliness of its wording. Brother 
 Blackwell assaults most mercilessly every battle- 
 ment of the enemy, tears down their walls, and 
 Samson-like, carries off the gates of their strong- 
 holds, leaving them the choice of unconditional 
 capitulation, or a lonely occupation of their deso- 
 late and demoralized position. 
 
 "Mr. Blackwell while supreme chancellor trav- 
 eled 65,000 miles in the United States and Can- 
 ada, and during his administration he did more 
 than any predecessor in the development of the 
 question, 'Americanizing America,' claiming that 
 it was un-American and detrimental to true 
 patriotism to publish and use a ritual in any other 
 language in a country leading in civilization 
 through the English — our mother tongue. He 
 had while in office perhaps more testimonials of 
 regard than any other man holding the same posi- 
 tion, many of which were costly and valuable. 
 A P. S. C. jewel, valued at $1,000, was voted 
 him by the Supreme Lodge, besides other tokens 
 of regard and esteem from different Grand Lodg- 
 es, and in addition to all this he was paid $3,000 
 more than his salary by the Supreme Lodge as 
 an additional evidence of their appreciation of his 
 efforts." 
 
 W. W. Blackwell and Marcia A. Stinson of 
 Evansville, Indiana, were married October 5, 
 
 1869, and they have one son, Ernest, who is fol- 
 lowing in the footsteps of his father and will make 
 his mark in the world. 
 
 W. W. Blackwell is not only one of the most 
 enthusiastic and distinguished Knights of Pythias 
 in the world, but is also an Odd Fellow of high 
 rank and a leading member of his lodge. 
 
 CHARLES M. F. STRIGER of Covington, 
 son of Mason and Catherine F. (Blume) 
 Striger, was born in Independence, Kenton Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, March 10, 1858. His father was 
 born January 23, 1833, in the same place and in 
 the same house, and was a resident of Inde- 
 pendence at the time of his death, November 2, 
 1895. He was a farmer all the years of his 
 active life. 
 
 John Striger (grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia and became one of the earlier settlers of 
 Kentucky. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. 
 While farming was his principal business, he 
 was also a cooper, and worked industriously at 
 that trade when not busy on the farm. He died 
 at Independence about 1840. His ancestors were 
 from Germany. 
 
 Catherine F. Blume Striger was born in Ken- 
 ton County, Kentucky, December 27, 1838. 
 Her father, Isaac Blume, was a native of Virginia, 
 who came to Kentucky in the early settlement of 
 the state; located in Kenton County, where he 
 died in 1864. 
 
 Charles M. F. Striger was brought up a farmer 
 boy, receiving a good education in the country 
 schools. He afterwards received his diploma 
 from Nelson's College in 1880. He taught school 
 in his native place for two years and in 1882 
 was the Republican candidate for county as- 
 sessor. He then read law in the office of McKee 
 & Finnell in Covington, and wks admitted to the 
 bar in February, 1887. He remained in the of- 
 fice of Judge McKee until 1889, since which time 
 he has been successfully engaged in the practice of 
 law without a partner. He is an active Repub- 
 lican politician, and has been a delegate to every 
 Republican district and county convention since 
 1882; was Republican presidential elector from 
 the Sixth District in 1888, and made the first 
 thorough canvass ever irtade by a Republican 
 candidate in the district, when General Harrison 
 
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 was elected. He was one of the thirteen men 
 who received the highest Republican vote ever 
 cast in the state up to that time. In 1893 he was 
 a candidate for city judge of Covington, but was 
 defeated. Mr. Striger is interested in politics for 
 the principle of the thing, and has been willing 
 to sacrifice himself for the purpose of keeping 
 the organization together, even when an election 
 was not probable; but he thinks the time has 
 come when a nomination by the Republican party 
 will not be merely an empty honor. It is but 
 justice to a faithful party worker to say that Mr. 
 Striger has done his part in bringing about this 
 change in public sentiment. 
 
 He was nominated by one wing of the Repub- 
 lican party for Congress in the Sixth District 
 in 1892, when there was a notable contest between 
 the two factions before the National Convention 
 at Minneapolis as to which set of delegates should 
 be seated. That convention decided against the 
 faction led by Mr. Striger, and he then told his 
 friends that he could not honorably and con- 
 sistently remain a candidate, and, to the chagrin of 
 many friends at the time, withdrew from the race. 
 
 Mr. Striger at present occupies the position of 
 inspector of illuminating oils. His term will ex- 
 pire August 16, 1899. He is unmarried and en- 
 joys the acquaintance and friendship of all the 
 leading Republicans of the state. 
 
 GEORGE WASHINGTON WILLIAMS, 
 deceased, late of Owensboro, one of the 
 leading lawyers of his time, was born in Hancock 
 (then a part of Breckinridge) County, Kentucky, 
 November 27, 1814. He was a son of Otho and 
 Mildred (Anderson) Williams. 
 
 His father was a native of Louisa County, Vir- 
 ginia, where he married Mildred Anderson, be- 
 fore removing to Kentucky. The date of his 
 coming to Kentucky is not recorded, but he was 
 one of the pioneers, and a man of great strength 
 of character and moral standing, who was able 
 to encourage and help his neighbors at a time 
 when good leadership was so much needed. He 
 cleared away the forests and literally hewed him- 
 self a home and farm out of the wilderness. He 
 was an industrious farmer, laboring with untiring 
 energy in the woods and fields during the week, 
 
 studying the Bible by the light of his winter fire 
 at night, and preaching the gospel on the Sabbath 
 day. Of course, this was possible only in the 
 Methodist Church, in which the true spirit of 
 religion was counted of more importance in the 
 minister of the gospel than a classical education. 
 But Rev. Otho Williams, farmer, not only preached 
 the gospel on Sunday, but lived it during the 
 week, an example of a godly man whose life was 
 an argument in favor of the religion he preached. 
 In naming his son George Washington, he indi- 
 cated the patriotism and loyalty to his country 
 which was one of his chief characteristics. 
 
 George W. Williams was brought up under 
 the wholesome influence of pious parents, in a 
 new and but partially settled country, and his 
 educational opportunities were limited. The 
 hard fortune that beset his youth, however, only 
 made him the more determined to acquire an 
 education, and ere long the doors of learning were 
 unbarred and by persistent industry and study, he 
 was enabled to drink deeply at the fountain of 
 knowledge. 
 
 When twenty years of age, by the aid of his 
 brothers, he was permitted to supplement the 
 superficial schooling which he had received by a 
 two years' course in Louisville, where he applied 
 himself most assiduousl}^; and after this he 
 studied medicine, a profession that proved dis- 
 tasteful to him and which he never practiced. In 
 1837 he went to Helena, Arkansas, and taught 
 school for one year; and, returning to Louisville, 
 he began the study of law in the office of Thomas- 
 son & Boone. He was admitted to the bar in 
 1840 and opened an office in Hawesville, where 
 he practiced law until 1872. In 1858 he pur- 
 chased a fann near Hawesville, to which he re- 
 moved with his family, employing an overseer, 
 and continued his professional work in Hawes- 
 ville; and, in 1866, he again removed his family 
 to Hawesville, where he lived for six years. In 
 1872 he removed to Owensboro, where he was 
 soon known as one of the leading lawyers of the 
 city and of the Second Congressional district. 
 
 During the greater part of his professional 
 career he was alone, but was at one time in part- 
 nership with Eli H. Brown, and at another time, 
 with Colonel J. D. Powers. His political career 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 was not remarkably successful, because he was 
 not a politician, a fact which was by no means 
 discreditable. In 1851-52 he was a member of 
 the legislature, representing Hancock and Ohio 
 Counties; in 1856 he was presidential elector for 
 James Buchanan in the Second district; in 1857 
 he was the Democratic candidate for the state 
 senate, but was defeated by John B. Bruner, the 
 Know Nothing candidate; in 1867 he was elected 
 circuit judge of the district, but resigned that 
 ofifice in 1870; became a candidate for judge of 
 the Appellate Court in the same year, but with- 
 drew before the day of election; in 1882 he was 
 a candidate for judge of the Supreme Court, and 
 was defeated by Judge Bowden of Russellville by 
 a slight majority. 
 
 He completed his half century of professional 
 labor, and during all that time he was conspicu- 
 ously identified with the administration of justice 
 in the courts of the Second district and in the 
 Appellate Courts of Frankfort. He proved him- 
 self not only a profound student of legal science, 
 but his reading and investigations in other fields 
 of knowledge were varied and extensive, and he 
 was one of the best informed men of his day. 
 
 Upon the announcement of his death, Mon- 
 day, September 9, 1890, the courts adjourned until 
 Thursday, a very unusual mark of respect. The 
 members of the bar met and paid tribute to his 
 memory. The remarks made by the leading law- 
 yers recalled the facts that Judge Williams was a 
 man of extraordinary talent and spotless charac- 
 ter, a lawyer of the highest attainments, a con- 
 stant and tireless worker, a generous friend, a 
 sympathizer with the poor and oppressed and an 
 unostentatious, true-hearted gentleman. Resolu- 
 tions of respect were adopted, from which the fol- 
 lowing extracts are taken: 
 
 "In addition to other marks of our affection 
 and reverence for our deceased associate, the late 
 George W. Williams, we, on behalf of the Owens- 
 boro bar and the officers of court, ofifer this fur- 
 ther testimonial: 
 
 "Realizing that on like occasions formal ex- 
 pressions are ordinarily regarded but the per- 
 functory observance of customary respect for the 
 dead, it is deemed proper to here protest that his 
 brethren of this bar testify only to his character 
 
 and conduct as they have witnessed it, and speak 
 the things that they do know. 
 
 "Their estimate and appreciation of the life 
 and character of their late associate is not the 
 sudden offspring of sorrow for his death, but is 
 the declaration of matured opinions formed and 
 cherished while he yet walked in and out in his 
 ministrations at the high altar of justice and of 
 law 
 
 "As he appeared to the general public he was 
 an absorbed man, and sometimes unjustly counted 
 a cold one. He, was often misunderstood and 
 sometimes misconstrued, and it was only given 
 to those who associated with him to thoroughly 
 understand and appreciate the strength and mani- 
 fold graces that supported and adorned his char- 
 acter. 
 
 "In his professional career he at all times mani- 
 fested those solid and exalted virtues that assure 
 success to the profession and honor to his calling. 
 Endowed by nature with a keen perception and a 
 logical mind, which long experience had polished 
 and profound study had stored, to these he super- 
 added the virtues of diligence, accuracy, patience, 
 integrity and trustworthiness. For more than a 
 generation in the forefront of legal conflict, he has 
 ever been a sword and a shield for his clients, the 
 exponent of exalted lawyership, and, withal, the 
 pink of knightly courtesy. 
 
 "As a judge on the circuit bench, he brought 
 to the discharge of his high and responsible duties 
 extensive attainments, befitting dignity, absolute 
 impartiality, the capacity for dispatching business 
 and the coirect solution and determination of 
 legal problems. 
 
 "As a philosophic thinker his mind was ever 
 open to the reception of truth from any and every 
 quarter, and in dealing with all questions — social, 
 scientific or political — he gave them candid, 
 patient and earnest consideration, and whilst re- 
 spectful to the opinions of others, thought for 
 himself and came to his own conclusions, which 
 were always logical, original and forcible. 
 
 "As a citizen he shirked no duty or responsi- 
 bility, and while rarely concerned in the conduct 
 of public affairs,' he took a live interest in all that 
 affected the common welfare. He was a friend 
 alike of his people and his country, equally at- 
 
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 tached to the rights of one and the glory of the 
 other. 
 
 "As a man he was of strong will, industrious, 
 honest, brave, magnanimous and true, faithful 
 and confiding with his friends, unswerving in his 
 attachments, fixed in his principles, a pleasing 
 companion, and devoted and affectionate to those 
 bound to him by natural ties. Simple in tastes, 
 frugal in habits, dignified and decorous in man- 
 ner, gracious in address, and at all times and in 
 all companies, by his bearing and appearance, 
 showing that 'His tribe was God Almighty's gen- 
 tlemen.' 
 
 "Resolved, That in his death the community, 
 the state, the bar and his kindred have sustained 
 an irreparable loss. (Signed.) W. N. Sweeney, 
 W. T. Owen, G. W. Jolly, Wilfred Carrico, J. H. 
 McHenry, Lucius P. Little, Committee. 
 
 "After the adoption of the resolutions, on mo- 
 tion they were ordered to be spread upon the 
 records of the court and published in the city 
 papers and copies sent to the bereaved widow and 
 the Western Kentucky Bar Association." 
 
 His mind was so concentrated on his business 
 that he was frequently misjudged and was re- 
 garded by some as cold and haughty, and, while 
 he was not a good mixer, no one was ever more 
 kind or sincerely anxious to help all striving 
 young people to get a start in life, or more ready 
 to aid in any good work for the advancement of 
 others. His quiet demeanor and becoming dig- 
 nity and his absorption in business militated 
 against his popularity as a politician, and for this 
 reason he did not reach positions to which he 
 sometimes aspired, and for which he was so emi- 
 nently qualified. 
 
 He was married November 15, 1841, in Han- 
 cock County, to Mary W. Hamilton, daughter 
 of Sarah and Andrew Hamilton of Boone 
 County, General John Davis, a minister, officiat- 
 ing. Mrs. Williams was bom March 31, 1815, 
 and is now living with her devoted daughter, 
 wife of Judge W. P. Baker, in Owensboro. Judge 
 Williams reared a large family, consisting of six 
 sons and three daughters, of whom Hamilton W., 
 Theophilus, James Russell, William, George and 
 Mildred are deceased. The sumving son and 
 daughters are: lone, married to Judge W. P. 
 
 Baker of Owensboro; Ruth, wife of W. E. 
 Crutcher of Beaver City, Nebraska; and Plugh 
 Anderson, attorney-at-law of Owensboro. 
 
 The children entertain the greatest admiration 
 for their father, whose devotion to his family was 
 one of the most beautiful traits of his exalted 
 character. 
 
 WILLIAM W. FIELD, Judge of Bracken 
 County and Attorney-at-Law of Brooks- 
 ville, son of Charles Anderson Field and Nancy 
 (Toleman) Field, was born June 23, 1844. His 
 father was born in or near Germantown, Ken- 
 tucky, August 8, 1815; was a farmer by occupa- 
 tion, a member of the Methodist Church, and a 
 Democrat in politics after the dissolution of the 
 Whig party in the state ; but while he was enthu- 
 siastic in party affairs, he never sought office for 
 himself. He died in November, 1880, and is 
 buried at Mt. Zion graveyard near Augusta. 
 Charles Field's father was William Field, a native 
 Virginian, but who moved to Kentucky at an 
 early day to that part of Mason which is now 
 Bracken County. He was for several terms sher- 
 iff of his county, then a much more important 
 office than now. He was a large land owner and 
 a prosperous business man. 
 
 The Field family, the first of whom was John 
 Field, were among the early settlers of Virginia. 
 A brother of John Field settled in New York, 
 and from this branch Cyrus Field and others of 
 the name in the East are descended. 
 
 Nancy Toleman, the mother of William W. 
 Field, was born and educated in Bracken County. 
 Her father was a native of Maryland, but came 
 to Kentucky when a young man, settling in 
 Bracken County. Her mother was Mary Hev- 
 ern, whose father was a soldier in the Revolu- 
 tionary war. 
 
 William W. Field was educated at Augusta, 
 Millcrsburg and Coal Springs; studied law under 
 Judge Doniphan, and afterwards at the Louisville 
 Law School, graduating from that institution in 
 1871. He began the practice of law in partner- 
 ship with J. B. Clarke in Brooksville in 1872. 
 This partnership continued for ten years and un- 
 til Mr. Field was elected county judge in 1882. 
 The next office held by Judge Field was that of 
 
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 delegate from his county to the constitutional 
 convention of 1890-91, which framed the present 
 state constitution, and in the deliberations of that 
 body Mr. Field took an active part. In 1894 Mr. 
 Field was again elected county judge, which posi- 
 tion he yet holds. His wife was Nannie E. Smarr, 
 a daughter of John H. Smarr of Bracken County. 
 They have four children: Mary Anderson, Lil- 
 lian T., John Smarr and Millie W. Mr. Field has 
 always been a Democrat in politics; is a member 
 of the Masonic fraternity; while both Mr. and 
 Mrs. Field are consistent members of the Meth- 
 odist Church. 
 
 JOHN PARKER FULTS, JR., County Attor- 
 ney of Jefferson County, was born in Louis- 
 ville December 30, 1870. 
 
 His father, John P. Fults, was born near Madi- 
 son, Jefferson County, Indiana, in 1842. He was a 
 soldier in the Eighty-third Illinois Infantry, under 
 Colonel W. W. McChesney, in the early days of 
 the Civil war, but was discharged on account of 
 physical disability. From 1864 to 1872 he was 
 chief clerk and acting freight agent of the Jeffer- 
 sonville, Madison & IndianapoHs Railroad Com- 
 pany at Louisville; was inspector of customs 
 under James P. Luse, and was subsequently 
 freight cashier for the J. M. & I. Railroad Com- 
 pany; was for seven years bookkeeper in the 
 First National Bank of Louisville, which posi- 
 tion he resigned in July, 1889, to accept the office 
 of deputy collector and cashier of the Fifth Inter- 
 nal Revenue District of Kentucky, a position 
 which he held under Albert Scott, collector, dur- 
 ing President Harrison's administration. He is 
 a Mason, Knight Templar and Scottish Rite, 
 thirty-second degree. His wife's name is Flor- 
 ence (Parker) Fults, a native of Jeffersonville, 
 Indiana. 
 
 Benjamin Franklin Fults (grandfather) was a 
 native of Brighton, New Jersey, who was 
 a soldier under General Winfield Scott. The 
 ancestors of the Fults family were ban- 
 ished from Holland and went to England 
 first, and then came to this country at or 
 about the time the Mayflower brought the pil- 
 grims over, and settled at Plymouth. The name 
 was originally spelled "Foltz," which was changed 
 
 to Fults by the great-grandfather of John P. 
 Fults, Jr. They were generally men who lived to 
 a great age, and were highly educated, represent- 
 ing the legal, medical and other leading profes- 
 sions, and occupying prominent positions in life. 
 
 John P. Fults, Jr., was educated in the Louis- 
 ville public schools and in the A. and M. State 
 College at Lexington, to which institute he was 
 admitted by appointment from Jefferson County, 
 taking a special course of two years in the classics, 
 English and the languages. He then attended 
 the law department of the University of Louis- 
 ville, and was admitted to the bar in 1890, after 
 which, before beginning to practice, he traveled 
 extensively in the United States and Mexico, a 
 part of the time as a salesman, but generally as a 
 newspaper correspondent, representing some of 
 the leading newspapers in the country. This ex- 
 perience was of great value to him, especially as 
 he was under age and his very youthful appear- 
 ance did not recommend him as a lawyer. His 
 newspaper work was of a high order, and he could 
 have made his mark in journalism, both as a 
 writer and as an artist, but he had no intention of 
 adopting it as a profession. 
 
 He accompanied the militia to the scene of the 
 Eversole-French feud in 1888 as correspondent 
 and sketch artist for the Louisville Commercial 
 and as special correspondent for the New York 
 Sun, a duty for which he volunteered when ''war 
 correspondents" were hard to find, owing to the 
 uncertainty of life in that section of the country 
 at that time. 
 
 He has been a member of Company E, First 
 Regiment, Kentucky State Guards of Louisville, 
 for ten years, and has been promoted from the 
 ranks through the non-commissioned offices to 
 first lieutenant, and has gone with his company 
 every time it has been called upon for active duty. 
 Of an adventurous spirit, somewhat reckless and 
 daring, he has always been ready for a skirmish 
 and eager for the fray, and had opportunity of- 
 fered would have distinguished himself as a sol- 
 dier. 
 
 In 1894, when only twenty-four years of age, he 
 was elected county attorney of Jefferson County, 
 and was one of the most active and efficient Re- 
 publican campaigners during the canvass prior 
 
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 to the election, and the success of his ticket was 
 due in a large measure to his activity. He has 
 conducted the business of his office since January, 
 1895, in a manner which has surprised his politi- 
 cal opponents and the older lawyers who thought 
 a "boy" should not have been elected to a posi- 
 tion of so much importance. His work has met 
 with the approval of all who have business in the 
 County Court. His friends say of him that he 
 can take more men by the hand and call them by 
 name than any man but one in Jefiferson County. 
 
 Mr. Fults is a director in the Colored Industrial 
 School of Louisville, and is connected with other 
 institutions and enterprises in the city. 
 
 He is a member of the Masonic Order, of the 
 Junior Order of American Mechanics, of the Red 
 Men, of the Essenic Order, of the Iroquois Wheel- 
 ing Club, the Commercial Club and the Garfield 
 Club of Louisville. 
 
 JOHN M. BURNS, an attorney-at-law of dis- 
 tinction and ability, of Ashland, was born in 
 Boyd County, Kentucky, March 11, 1825. He 
 was educated in the schools of his native county, 
 and studied law under W. H. Burns at West Lib- 
 erty, and after his admission to the bar in 1851, 
 formed a partnership with his preceptor. W. H. 
 Burns lived in West Liberty and John M. Burns 
 was then a resident of Whitesburg, Letcher Coun- 
 ty, while their practice covered a large scope of 
 country, embracing Letcher, Perry and Breathitt 
 Counties. 
 
 John M. Burns was elected county attorney of 
 Letcher County, which office he held until 1853, 
 when he removed to Prestonburg. There he 
 formed a co-partnership with John M. Elliott, 
 who was killed by Buford at Frankfort, and was 
 associated with him for six years, during which 
 time, in 1857, he was elected representative of his 
 district, Floyd and Johnson Counties, in the leg- 
 islature. In i860 he was elected state senator 
 from the Thirty-third District, embracing Pike, 
 Floyd, Johnson and Magoffin Counties ; but when 
 it was discovered that an error had been made 
 in the apportionment of representative districts, 
 and that there was one too many senators, Mr. 
 Burns resigned his seat and delivered a very fine 
 speech, which elicited great applause on the floor 
 
 and in the galleries. He returned to his home 
 and resumed his work in the legal profession. 
 
 In 1864 he removed to Catlettsburg; served 
 two terms as school commissioner, and attended 
 to his practice in Boyd and adjacent counties. 
 From 1883 to 1885 he was revenue agent and 
 inspector for the district of Kentucky and Ten- 
 nessee, by appointment of President Arthur. 
 
 In 1886 he was elected circuit judge of the 
 Sixteenth Judicial District, composed of the coun- 
 ties of Boyd, Carter, Lawrence, Martin, Johnson, 
 Floyd and Pike, and served on the bench the full 
 term with distinction. 
 
 Judge Burns has always taken a deep interest 
 and an active part in Republican politics, and has 
 been a delegate to the State Conventions for many 
 years. He is one of the most widely known men 
 in northern Kentucky, and is popular with all 
 classes. He has been a Mason for forty years, 
 and is a member of the Missionary Baptist 
 Church. 
 
 He was married, April 25, 1843, to Keziah Clay, 
 daughter of William and Rebecca (Cecil) Clay. 
 There were ten children by this marriage, five of 
 whom are living: Catherine, Roland C, Sophia 
 A., Milton and Minnie. The names of the de- 
 ceased children are Mary, William, Leonidas H., 
 James Trimble and Cora Lee. Judge Bums 
 married again June 11, 1875, to Josephine Christ- 
 man. By this marriage there were four children, 
 three of whom are living: Cora Lee, Catherine 
 and Bell Vivian, and Maggie (deceased). 
 
 Judge Burns' father, Rowland T. Bums, was 
 born in Monroe County, Virginia, in 1790; was 
 educated in his native place and studied law with 
 John McConnell of Greenup County, Kentucky. 
 He represented Lawrence and Morgan Counties 
 in the legislature in 1830. He was a preacher 
 in the Christian Church, and died when compara- 
 tively young, August 19, 1833. His wife was 
 Catherine Brinkley Keyser, who was born in 
 1790 at Warm Springs, Bath County, Virginia. 
 She died December 14, 1857. 
 
 Jeremiah Burns (grandfather) was of Scotch 
 ancestry and a native of Maryland. His wife was 
 a Miss Roland, a native of the Shenandoah Val- 
 ley, whose parents were natives of France. 
 
 Rowland T. Burns, a brother of Judge Burns, is 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 a resident" of Louisa; and Lafayette, another 
 brother, is Hving on the old Burns homestead in 
 Boyd County. The other brothers and sisters of 
 the subject of this sketch are dead, viz.: Harri- 
 son G., WilHam H., Jeremiah, James D., Keziah, 
 Nancy, Rowland and Elizabeth, who married A. 
 C. Hanley of West Virginia. 
 
 MR. JOHN D. CLARDY of Christian County, 
 Kentucky, member of the LIVth Congress 
 from the Second District and one of the repre- 
 sentative farmers of southern Kentucky, was born 
 in Smith County, Tennessee, August 30, 1828. 
 He is the son of John C. and Elizabeth (Cayce) 
 Clardy. His father was a native of North Caro- 
 lina who removed to Tennessee and thence to 
 Christian County, Kentucky, and was a progres- 
 sive and highly successful farmer and a prominent 
 man in the county. He died in 1853 at the age 
 of fifty-six years. He had six sons and two 
 daughters: WilHam D., John D., James M., Ben- 
 jamin F., Dr. Thomas F. and Henry H. Of these 
 sons Benjamin F. died in the Confederate service 
 during the war, and Henry H. was killed while 
 in the service of the Confederate army. Dr. 
 Thomas F. Clardy was surgeon of the Seventh 
 Kentucky Regiment and was promoted to the 
 rank of brigadier surgeon on General Buford's 
 stafif in Forest's Cavalry ; died in Christian County 
 February, 1886. The daughters, Mrs. Sarah A. 
 Wills and Mrs. Fannie C. Burke, are both living. 
 
 Benjamin Clardy (grandfather) was a native of 
 North Carolina and a farmer, whose life was 
 spent in his native state and in Tennessee, where 
 he died about 1839. His ancestors were Hugue- 
 nots. 
 
 Elizabeth Cayce Clardy (mother) was born in 
 Cumberland County, Virginia, in 1804, and is 
 living at present with her son, J. M. Clardy, on 
 the old homestead in Christian County, where the 
 family settled in 1831. Her father, Fleming 
 Cayce, was a native of Virginia, where he lived 
 and died. His widow removed with her family 
 to Smith County, Tennessee, and died there. 
 
 John D. Clardy, after reaching the limit of the 
 
 county schools, went to Georgetown College, 
 
 Kentucky, and graduated there in 1848, before he 
 
 was twenty years of age. He taught school one 
 
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 year and then began the study of medicine with 
 Dr. Nicholas Thomas of Tennessee. After taking 
 a course of one year in the medical department of 
 the University of Louisville, he went to the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania and received his degree in 
 that institution in 1851, when twenty-two years of 
 age. , ' i i 
 
 He began the practice of medicine at Long 
 View, Kentucky, and remained there three years, 
 then removing to Blandville, Kentucky, where he 
 practiced with signal success until the beginning 
 of the Civil war, when he returned to his native 
 heath and located in his present home, known as 
 "Oakland," situated seven miles southwest of 
 Hopkinsville. Since that time he has added to his 
 possessions until the farm on which he lives con- 
 sists of five hundred and five acres, besides other 
 large tracts of land, nearly all of which are in 
 Christian County. After locating here he spent 
 most of his time during the war in New York 
 City, where he was a member of the firm of Bacon, 
 Clardy & Company, large dealers in and exporters 
 of tobacco. Before the war nearly all Kentucky 
 tobacco was sent to New Orleans, but traffic in 
 this direction being interrupted by the armies. 
 New York became the outlet for shipments to 
 Europe. This venture proved very successful, 
 but preferring his Kentucky home, he returned 
 in 1866, and while practicing medicine irregularly, 
 devoted his time principally to the extension and 
 improvement of his large estate, at present own- 
 ing various tracts of farm lands amounting in the 
 aggregate to fifteen hundred acres. 
 
 John D. Clardy is by no means- a politician in 
 the usual acceptation of that term, but by sheer 
 force of character he has taken a leading position 
 in the Democratic party which he is ever ready 
 to serve to the best of his ability. He was elected 
 a member of the Constitutional Convention in 
 1890 by over three hundred majority, although his 
 county usually gives a RepubHcan majority of 500 
 to 1,000; was a candidate for governor before the 
 Democratic convention in 1890, but owing to 
 duties in the Constitutional Convention did not 
 make a thorough canvass of the state, and was 
 defeated by John Young Brown. In 1894 he was 
 nominated for Congress in the district convention, 
 defeating Judge Samuel Vance and William Mc- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Clain of Henderson, and was elected to the Fifty- 
 fourth Congress in November by the unusual 
 Democratic majority in that district of three thou- 
 sand votes. His Repubhcan opponent was 
 Elijah G. Sebree of Henderson County. Dr. 
 Clardy has expressed his opinion on the money 
 question by saying that he is in favor of the free 
 coinage of silver if it can be kept on a parity with 
 gold. 
 
 He was married in 1854 to Ann F. Bacon, a 
 native of Trigg County, daughter of Fielding 
 Bacon. Her grandfather, Captain Edmond 
 Bacon, lived with President' Thomas Jefferson 
 for twenty years and was his financial secretary 
 and adviser. He surveyed the ground upon which 
 the University of Virginia was built. This insti- 
 tution was founded by Jefiferson and was his "pet," 
 and he contributed largely to its support. 
 
 Dr. and Mrs. Clardy have three children: John 
 F., who is a farmer, has a wife but no children, and 
 his home is known as "Rockhollow" ; Fleming 
 Cayce, also a farmer, who has a wife and two chil- 
 dren, and Fannie C, wife of Rev. John W. Prest- 
 ridge, who is president of Williamsburg College, 
 Whitley County, Kentucky. 
 
 Dr. Clardy's father and grandfather were mem- 
 bers of the Baptist Church and he is a deacon in 
 the church of his fathers. His mother— a stanch 
 Baptist — still lives, and at the age of ninety-one 
 retains her mental faculties to a remarkable de- 
 gree ; reads any print without glasses, and writes 
 with much of the accuracy and vigor of former 
 years. A Christian with unclouded faith, await- 
 ing with joyous expectation her summons to 
 come up higher. 
 
 WILLIAM L. LYONS, senior member of 
 the well and favorably known firm of W. 
 L. Lyons & Company of Louisville, was born 
 in that city June 3, 1857. 
 
 His father, Henry J. Lyons, was born in Wash- 
 ington City, District of Columbia, in 1829, and 
 came to Louisville when he was a young man; 
 was elected clerk of the Circuit Court when he 
 was twenty-one years of age; was re-elected and 
 resigned before the expiration of his second term, 
 and then engaged in the banking business as a 
 member of the firm of Quigley & Lyons; re- 
 
 moved to New York City in 1862, and was in a 
 similar business there as the senior member of 
 the firm of Henry J. Lyons & Company until his 
 death, April 11, 1867. During his residence in 
 Louisville he was frequently elected a member of 
 the City Council, and was a vestryman in Calvary 
 Episcopal Church. His death occurred in Louis- 
 ville, where he was taken ill on his return trip 
 from Cuba, where he had gone with the hope of 
 improving his health. He is buried in Cave Hill 
 Cemetery, Louisville. 
 
 John Lyons (grandfather) was born in Wash- 
 ington, D. C, and was married to Nancy Hurley, 
 January 19, 1828. She was a daughter of Henry 
 Hurley, who was a prominent citizen of Wash- 
 ington City. 
 
 Laura Simmons Lyons (mother) was born in 
 Bullitt County, Kentucky, in 1838, and died in 
 Louisville in 1878, leaving two sons, WiUiam and 
 Henry J. Lyons. 
 
 William Simmons (maternal grandfather) was 
 a native farmer of Bullitt County, \\here he died. 
 He married Matilda Ann Lee, who was a mem- 
 ber of the Maryland branch of the distinguished 
 family of that name. 
 
 William L. Lyons' early education was begun 
 in New York City and continued in Louisville 
 after his father's death. He completed his studies 
 at Highland Military Academy, Worcester, Mas- 
 sachusetts. He was for some time employed in 
 the general freight and passenger department of 
 the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. In 1878 he 
 began the business of broker in stocks, bonds, 
 grain, provisions and cotton, in which he has con- 
 tinued without interruption until the present time. 
 In 1887 his brother, Henry J. Lyons, was admit- 
 ted to an interest in the firm. The house has a 
 splendid patronage throughout the country, and 
 is favorably known as sound and thoroughly re- 
 liable. 
 
 Mr. Lyons is interested in quite a number of en- 
 terprises, including the Louisville Silvering & 
 Beveling Company, of which he is vice-president. 
 He is an active member of the Board of Trade, 
 and of the Commercial Club; also a member of 
 the Pendennis Club, a member of the Louisville 
 Commandery Knights Templar, and of Calvary 
 Episcopal Church, 
 
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 227 
 
 He has been quite prominent in city politics in 
 the past, Iiaving served as councilman for eight 
 years, during a considerable portion of which time 
 he was chairman of the finance committee of the 
 Board of Councilmen and president of the Council 
 for three terms. He was for several months mayor 
 pro tem., in which capacity he distinguished him- 
 self as a man of sound judgment and fine execu- 
 tive ability. He was one of the most popular 
 members of the City Council and one in whom 
 the business men of the city placed implicit con- 
 fidence. 
 
 Mr. Lyons was married in 1881 to Mary Belle 
 Clay, daughter of Samuel Clay of Lexington. 
 They have two sons and two daughters living: 
 Samuel Qay, Laura S., Mary Rogers and Wil- 
 liam L. Lyons, Jr. 
 
 WILLIAM POAGE, a member of one of the 
 oldest families of Northern Kentucky and 
 a member of the Boyd County bar, was born in 
 Greenup County, Kentucky, August 22, 1854. 
 
 His father, Hugh Calvin Poage, was born in 
 the same county in 1830; received a fair common 
 school education and was a teacher before engag- 
 ing in the mercantile business in Ashland in 1854. 
 During the late war his sympathies were with the 
 Southern people, but he took no active part in the 
 conflict. He is a member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, South, and a member of the 
 Masonic order. The lodge of which he is a mem- 
 ber — No. 325, Poage Lodge — was named in honor 
 of the family. 
 
 Thomas Hoge Poage (grandfather) was a native 
 of "old" Virginia; came to Greenup County, Ken- 
 tucky, early in the present century, and engaged 
 in the iron and furnace business, and died in 
 Texas. 
 
 William Poage, son of Hugh Calvin and Sarah 
 E. (Davenport) Poage, received a limited educa- 
 tion in Ashland and at the age of eighteen years 
 accepted a position as "chief engineer" of a hand- 
 pump on the wharfboat in that city, where he 
 also acted in the capacity of freight clerk and col- 
 lector for the wharfmaster, R. C. Richardson. 
 During the years 1875-76 he was employed at 
 Buena Vista and Princess iron furnaces by Cul- 
 bertson. Means & Culbertson, then the leading 
 
 manufacturers of iron in this section; was also 
 employed in the internal revenue service in Cen- 
 tral Kentucky from 1883 to 1885, and while thus 
 engaged he pursued his studies for the legal pro- 
 fession; was admitted to the bar in December, 
 1886, after a rigid examination by Circuit Judge 
 John M. Burns, Colonel Laban T. Moore and 
 Colonel Frank H. Bruning. He at once began 
 the practice of law in Ashland, and in the course 
 of labor in his chosen field has accomplished very 
 satisfactory results. 
 
 In 1890 he was elected city attorney on the Re- 
 publican ticket, and was re-elected to that office 
 in 1893 for a term of four years. 
 
 William Poage and Lauretta Shaw, daughter of 
 John W. Shaw, were united in marriage April i, 
 1881. Mrs. Poage was born at Gallipolis, Ohio, 
 January 11, 1863, and is a graduate of the Ash- 
 land High School. They have two children : Jan- 
 uary Paul, born January i, 1882, and Judith 
 Princess, born December i, 1883. 
 
 GEORGE E. PLATTS, M. D., a graduate of 
 Denison University of Granville, Ohio, and 
 of the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, a 
 druggist and well known business man of Belle- 
 vue, was bom in the town of Dent, Hamilton 
 County, Ohio, August 6, 1854, and is a son of 
 David G. and Hannah Ann (Wood) Platts, both of 
 whom were natives of Bridgeton, New Jersey. 
 They came to Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1834, 
 where they lived until three or four years prior to 
 Mr. Platts' death in 1892, when they removed to 
 Bellevue, Kentucky, the present home of Mrs. 
 Platts, who is greatly advanced in years. Mr. 
 Platts was a farmer in Ohio for nearly sixty years 
 and was a quiet and unpretentious citizen, a man 
 of intelligence and culture, and an upright Chris- 
 tian gentleman who commanded the respect and 
 confidence of his neighbors. He was a Republi- 
 can in politics, having decided convictions, and 
 was free to express his sentiments; but he was 
 not an office-seeker, or in any sense a politician. 
 His antiecedents were of French-German extrac- 
 tion. I I 
 
 George E. Platts was educated in the common 
 schools of Dent, at the Denison University of 
 Granville, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1876, 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 and prepared for the medical profession in the 
 Miami Medical College in Cincinnati, graduat- 
 ing in 1882. 
 
 He practiced medicine for one year at Cheviot, 
 Hamilton County, Ohio; and in 1883 engaged in 
 the drug business in the thriving little city of 
 Bellevue, a business which has grown in propor- 
 tion to the growth of the population of the place. 
 Thoroughly equipped for the responsible business 
 of the pharmacist. Dr. Platts has commanded the 
 confidence of his patrons. His drug store re- 
 quiring all of his time he has abandoned the pro- 
 fessional work of the practicing physician. 
 
 He takes a lively interest in the prosperity of 
 Bellevue and deals to some extent in real estate. 
 He is particularly interested in the public schools 
 and has served as school examiner, an office for 
 which he is qualified in an eminent degree. He 
 is a Republican, but is devoted to his business and 
 has no aspirations for political preferment. 
 
 Dr. Platts was married in 1883 to Kate Davis, 
 daughter of Shipley Davis and Harriet CuUom 
 of Hamilton County, Ohio, and they have one 
 son, Charles Oilman Platts. Mrs. Platts is a grad- 
 uate of the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy and 
 assists her husband in his business, in which ca- 
 pacity she is thoroughly competent. 
 
 WILFORD E. SENOUR, M. D., a young 
 physician of Bellevue, where he has been 
 practicing in the best families for five years past, 
 was born in Independence, Kenton County, Ken- 
 tucky, July 17, 1866. 
 
 His great-grandfather, Bryant Senour, was a 
 native of Scotland, who came to America in the 
 latter part of the eighteenth century and made 
 his home in Kenton County, where Dr. Senour's 
 grandfather, Wilford Senour, his father, Tilman 
 W. Senour, and himself were born. 
 
 Wilford Senour (grandfather) was a farmer and 
 resident of Kenton County all his life and died 
 there in 1876. 
 
 Tilman W. Senour (father), born and raised in 
 Kenton County, is still a resident of Independence 
 in that county, where he is engaged in farming and 
 dealing in tobacco; a prominent citizen and man 
 of superior intelHgence, respected by all who 
 know him, and is known by nearly every one in 
 
 the county. He is a strong Republican in poli- 
 tics, and takes a lively interest in the success of 
 his party throughout the country. 
 
 Dr. Senour's mother, Anna E. (Cox) Senour, 
 also a native of Kenton County, is a daughter 
 of Frederick Cox, a well-to-do farmer of the 
 county. She is now living with her husband in 
 Independence. 
 
 Dr. Senour was a typical farmer's boy, going 
 to school when there was nothing to do on the 
 farm; but he had an ambition to learn a profes- 
 sion, and by careful study he was prepared for a 
 classical course, and at the age of eighteen years 
 he entered Central Normal College at Danville, 
 Indiana, from which he graduated in 1889. 
 
 He taught in a graded scbool in Independence 
 for seven months, and was a teacher in the Scioto 
 Commercial College at Chillicothe, Ohio, for a 
 short time before commencing to read medicine 
 with his brother. Dr. U. G. Senour, at Pleasant 
 Ridge, Ohio. 
 
 He subsequently attended the medical depart- 
 ment of the University of Louisville, from which 
 he graduated in 1891 ; and in the same year began 
 the practice of medicine in Bellevue, where he 
 was by no means a stranger and where he secured 
 a valuable practice in a short time. He is well 
 equipped for the work of the physician, attentive 
 to his patients, kind and obliging in his disposi- 
 tion and popular with all classes. 
 
 He is interested to a considerable extent in 
 real estate, and has acquired a valuable estate, 
 which is, perhaps, the most substantial evidence 
 of his popularity and success in his profession. 
 
 JAMES HENDERSON McCONNELL, 
 Judge of the Police Court of Catlettsburg, 
 son of Charles and Belle (Henderson) McCon- 
 nell, was born in Greenupsburg, Greenup County, 
 Kentucky, July 9, 1854. His parents removed to 
 Catlettsburg in i860, and he received his educa- 
 tion in that place; studied law with Colonel Laban 
 T. Moore and was admitted to the bar in 1874 
 when he was twenty years of age; practiced law 
 in Catlettsburg alone for seven years ; was deputy 
 sheriiif of Boyd County for four years; went to the 
 mouth of Pond Creek on the Tug River, opposite 
 WilUamstown, West Virginia, and was engaged 
 
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 in the mercantile and timber business for four 
 years, following which he was engaged in steam- 
 boating on the Ohio and Big Sandy Rivers for 
 four years; returned to Catlettsburg and was 
 elected police judge in November, 1894, an office 
 which he has filled acceptably and with unusual 
 ability. 
 
 Judge McConnell is a man of modest demeanor, 
 well versed in law, a wise counselor and an able 
 pleader, and has greatly raised the standard and 
 dignity of the court over which he presides. 
 
 He is popular socially, prominent in Demo- 
 cratic councils, a member of the Methodist Epis- 
 pocal Church, South, and a Mason. 
 
 He was married October 15, 1880, to Ida 
 Rice, daughter of John M. Rice of Louisa. (See 
 sketch of J. W. Rice.) 
 
 Charles McConnell (father) was born near 
 Greenupsburg October 31, 1825; was educated 
 at Marietta (Ohio) College; studied law in the 
 University of Louisville; was the first county at- 
 torney of Greenup after the erection of that 
 county; returned to Catlettsburg and was judge 
 of the police court at one time and the first judge 
 of the Boyd County Court during the war; re- 
 tired from the practice of law and engaged in 
 mercantile pursuits, and is now living in Catletts- 
 burg. He is highly esteemed and respected as an 
 upright Christian gentleman. He was married 
 September 28, 1853, to Belle Henderson of Zanes- 
 ville, Ohio, who was educated in Putnam (Ohio) 
 Seminary and in a select school in Coshocton, 
 Ohio. They had two children: James Hender- 
 son, the subject of this sketch, and Lucy Bragg, 
 born May 19, 1856, married George F. Miller of 
 Huntington, West Virginia, and died January 
 8, 1889. 
 
 John McCutcheon McConnell (grandfather) 
 was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, 
 December 25, 1789; was educated at Cannons- 
 burg (Pennsylvania) College; served time as a 
 shoemaker's apprentice, but ran away and was 
 then apprenticed to a tailor, completed his term 
 of service and received as a reward a horse and 
 bridle and saddle, a suit of clothes and $25 in 
 money. He rode to Chillicothe, Ohio, thence into 
 Kentucky, locating at Prestonsburg ; taught 
 school and studied law; removed to Greenup 
 
 and practiced law there for many years ; served in 
 both branches of the Legislature, and was in 
 the Senate in 1824, when General Lafayette visit- 
 ed that body. 
 
 He died July 5, 1835, in the prime of his splen- 
 did manhood and in the height of his prosperity. 
 He had a very large practice and had accumulated 
 considerable property. 
 
 He was married December 17, 1817, to Lucy 
 Bragg Lewis, daughter of Qiarles Nelson Lewis. 
 She died April 10, 1849. The ancestors of the 
 McConnells came from Londonderry, Ireland, 
 and were Protestants. 
 
 Charles Nelson Lewis (great-grandfather) 
 was a native of Greenup (now Carter) County; 
 was a member of the Kentucky Senate, and died 
 while there and was buried in Frankfort. He 
 married Elizabeth Bragg, a descendant of the 
 Braggs of North CaroHna, and daughter of Ann 
 Blakemore Bragg, a member of the Virginia fam- 
 ily of Blakemores. 
 
 James Henderson (maternal grandfather) was 
 born in Belleville, Pennsylvania; married Sarah 
 Spangler of Zanesville, Ohio, September 17, 1826; 
 was a member of the Ohio Senate for two terms 
 and a very talented lawyer; died March 19, 1844. 
 
 Sarah Spangler Henderson was born in Zanes- 
 ville, Ohio, January i, 1804; died May 29, 1883. 
 
 Clinton Spangler (maternal great-grandfather) 
 was born May 14, 1772, and was a merchant of 
 Zanesville. Ann, his wife, was born January 8, 
 1773; died February 27, 1828. 
 
 CLIFTON ARNSPARGER, County Attor- 
 ney of Bourbon County, one of the 
 ablest young lawyers of Paris, son of Stephen and 
 Martha Todd Arnsparger, was born in Scott 
 County, Kentucky, July 17, i860. 
 
 His' father was a native of Bourbon County 
 and was a man of superior intelligence and edu- 
 cation. His primary instruction was received in 
 the country schools, but this was followed by a 
 course under the private tutorship of Lyman J. 
 Curtis, one of the ablest educators in the county 
 at that time. He continued his studies after he 
 was twenty years of age. His father having only 
 limited means, he was compelled to earn the 
 m.oney to defray his expenses at school, and this 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 he did by working at the shoemaker's trade. For 
 some time he Uved at Centerville, Bourbon Coun- 
 ty, but subsequently removed to Newtown, Scott 
 County, where he followed his trade and opened 
 a general merchandise store. In connection with 
 that he was postmaster of Newtown for a period 
 of nearly twenty years. Having purchased a small 
 farm he attended to that in connection with his 
 store until 1894, when he retired to his farm, upon 
 which he is now living with his family. 
 
 He married Martha Todd of Bourbon County 
 in 1857, and they have four children living: Clif- 
 ton; James D., married Josie Jones; George and 
 Lizzie. Two others, Fanny and Martha, died in 
 infancy. 
 
 Stephen Amsparger and family are members 
 of the Christian Church. Although a Democrat, 
 he was appointed postmaster under a Republican 
 president, and held that office from time to time 
 through the several changes of administration. 
 
 Christopher Arnsparger (grandfather) came to 
 Kentucky from Pennsylvania and was of German 
 descent. 
 
 James O. Todd (maternal grandfather) was a 
 farmer and raiser of fine stock in Bourbon County, 
 and took great interest in the famous Bertram 
 stock. His wife was Elizabeth Austin, of Scott 
 County, and they were Presbyterians. 
 
 Clifton Arnsparger obtained his primary train- 
 ing in the county schools, and in 1877 went to 
 Georgetown College, from whence he was gradu- 
 ated in 1881; was first employed as a bookkeeper 
 in the wholesale and retail grocery of John S. 
 Gaines at Georgetown, Kentucky, for a short 
 time, and then taught school, but soon gave that 
 up and read law with Judge James E. Cantrill, 
 ex-lieutenant governor, now judge of the Cir- 
 cuit Court. He then attended the Cincinnati law 
 school and graduated in law in 1886; was ad- 
 mitted to the bar and began the practice of his 
 profession in Paris in 1886; was city attorney 
 from 1888 to 1892; was public administrator and 
 guardian for several years by appointment; was 
 elected county attorney in the fall of 1893 to fill 
 a vacancy, and at the November election, 1894, 
 was elected to succeed himself in that office, his 
 present term beginning January i, 1895. 
 Among the members of the legal professic 
 
 and the citizens of Paris he bears the name of a 
 good and faithful servant and a lawyer of more 
 than ordinary ability. 
 
 He is a member of the Christian Church, and 
 of Bourbon Lodge No. 23, I. O .O. F. 
 
 Mr. Arnsparger and Ruby Lowry, daughter of 
 William and Sobrina (Neal) Lowry of Scott 
 County were married October 16, 1889. There 
 were born to them three children: William S., 
 bom August 18, 1890; Sobrina, born June 28, 
 1892, died in infancy; and Lucien Marion, born 
 February 3, 1896. 
 
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 JAMES WEIR, lawyer, author and banker and 
 pre-eminently one of the first citizens of 
 Owensboro, is a son of James and Anna (Rum- 
 sey) Weir, and was born in Greenville, Kentucky, 
 June 16, 1821. 
 
 His father, James Weir, was of Scotch-Irish 
 parentage and was born near Charleston, South 
 Carolina. He came to Kentucky about the close 
 of the last century, or one hundred years ago. 
 He was a man of excellent education, and was 
 employed as a surveyor or civil engineer for some 
 time, but eventually engaged quite extensively in 
 mercantile pursuits, his business extending over 
 a vast territory. He owned stores in Shawnee- 
 town and Equality in Illinois, Henderson, Mor- 
 ganfield, Madisonville, Greenville, Lewisburg, 
 Hopkinsville and Russellville in Kentucky, and 
 Gallatin, Tennessee. He had a very large and 
 profitable trade with the Spaniards in New Or- 
 leans and in Cuba, and tliis at a time when all 
 freight between New Orleans and Kentucky was 
 carried on flatboats. Mr. Weir's business, being 
 scattered over so much territory, required him to 
 travel extensively, as an instance of which he 
 often told his son that he had made the journey 
 from New Orieans to Philadelphia and return on 
 horseback not less than twenty-five times, with 
 no other companion but Titus, his faithful old 
 negro servant. He was eminently successful in 
 his many business ventures and left a valuable 
 estate. 
 
 James Weir's paternal grandfather was a resi- 
 dent of Charleston, South Carolina, and a soldier 
 in the Revolutionary war, serving from the be- 
 ginning to the end of the war under General 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 231 
 
 Sumter. The only compensation he received for 
 his faithful and patriotic service was a little negro 
 girl who had been confiscated from the estate of 
 a Tory. His son David, also a soldier, was killed 
 at Sumter's defeat. 
 
 Anna Rumsey Weir (mother) was a lineal de- 
 scendant of Charles Rumsey, who came to the 
 United States from Wales in 1665 and settled in 
 Maryland. Her uncle, James Rumsey, was the 
 inventor of the application of steam to boats and 
 other vessels, whose son, James, upon proof that 
 his father had run the first vessel by steam in the 
 United States, received a gold medal from Con- 
 gress as an appreciation of his father's valuable 
 invention. The inventor, James Rumsey, dropped 
 dead while delivering a lecture before the Phil- 
 osophical Society in London. 
 
 James Weir received a collegiate education in 
 Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, from which 
 he graduated in the class of 1840. Very few, if 
 any, of his classmates are now as actively engaged 
 in business as is Mr. Weir. He studied law at the 
 Lexington law school when Judges Robinson, 
 Wooley and Marshall were professors in that 
 grand old institution, and graduated in the win- 
 ter of 1841. In the following year he began the 
 practice of his profession in Owensboro, where 
 he was a leading member of the bar for over forty 
 years. At the time of his coming Owensboro 
 was a village of two hundred and fifty inhabitants. 
 In i860 he was made president of the Deposit 
 Bank of Owensboro, which position he has held 
 for thirty-five years. In 1869 he was elected presi- 
 dent of the Owensboro & Nashville Railroad 
 Company, and held that position for three years. 
 
 When the reporters entered the city of Owens- 
 boro to obtain information for the compiling of 
 this volume, they called on a number of the best 
 citizens and asked for a list of the prominent men 
 in the city, and every one of the lists thus given 
 was headed with the name of James Weir. It is 
 hardly necessary to add that among his fellow- 
 citizens he stands pre-eminently as the first citi- 
 zen of Owensboro. A lawyer of the highest rank, 
 a banker whose judgment and ability are recog- 
 nized in financial and business circles, and a citi- 
 zen of great purity of character, he is known of 
 all men as a man of generous nature, kindliness 
 
 of spirit, and of the highest scholarly attainments. 
 Dignified and withal courteous and obliging, un- 
 ostentatious in his bearing and unconscious of 
 his superiority, he is greatly loved and respected 
 by everyone in the large circle of his acquaint- 
 ance. ; 
 
 He is, moreover, a man of letters and an author 
 of celebrity, although he has not recently aspired 
 to literary fame. In 1850 he wrote "Lonz Pow- 
 ers," and in 1852-53 "Simon Kenton" and "Win- 
 ter Lodge," which novels were published by Lip- 
 pincott of Philadelphia, and gave promise of a 
 brilliant future, but since that time he has been 
 too much engrossed in his profession and other 
 business matters to devote much time to litera- 
 ture, and his work in that direction has been lim- 
 ited to an occasional sketch for the newspapers 
 and magazines. 
 
 He has never posed as an active politician, hav- 
 ing never sought or held any political office. He 
 was a Whig in his younger days, and has voted 
 with the Democratic party since the war. 
 
 Mr. Weir was married March i, 1842, to Susan 
 C. Green, daughter of Judge John Green of Dan- 
 ville, Kentucky. Her maternal great-grandfather 
 was Joshua Fry, who was a commander of the 
 Virginia troops under General Braddock in his 
 unfortunate campaign, and was taken sick and 
 died before the battle. Joshua Fry, her grand- 
 father, the son of General Joshua Fry, married 
 Peachey Walker, a member of a distinguished 
 Virginia family. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Weir have six children, three sons 
 and three daughters: John E. Weir; Dr. James 
 Weir; Paul Weir; Anna Belle, wife of Clinton 
 Griffith; Susan, wife of James L. Maxwell, now 
 residing in Knoxville, Tennessee; and Nora, wife 
 of R. S. Triplett, Jr., now a resident of Waco, 
 Texas. 
 
 The stories referred to were written before Mr. 
 Weir was thirty years of age. They were pub- 
 lished in book form and supplied to the trade by 
 the Philadelphia house of Lippincott, Gambo & 
 Co. The first of these (1850) was "Lonz Powers, 
 or tlie Regulators"; 'a romance of Kentucky, based 
 on actual scenes and incidents of the early days of 
 the "Dark and Bloody Ground." 
 
 The second novel, "Simon Kenton," was de- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 signed to give a sketch of the habits and striking 
 characteristics of the people of Western North 
 Carolina, immediately following the Revolution- 
 ary times, and to introduce Simon Kenton, the 
 scout and Indian fighter, and also his opponent 
 and enemy, Simon Girty, the Tory and renegade. 
 In this volume the character which Kenton rep- 
 resented came oiif victorious. 
 
 "Winter Lodge" is a sequel to "Simon Ken- 
 ton," in which the author introduces many of 
 the most striking characters who were prominent 
 in the early history of Kentucky, with numerous 
 incidents of the times, descriptions of scenery. 
 Mammoth cave ; the battles in which Kenton and 
 Girty were engaged and the habits and marked 
 characteristics of the pioneers. The name. Win- 
 ter Lodge, is derived from a cabin erected by 
 Kenton, for the hero and heroine, which was 
 ornamented with carpets of buffalo hides and 
 lined with furs. Mr. Weir intended in his 
 younger days to write a third volume of this 
 series, coming down to the War of 1812 and the 
 death of Kenton and Girty, but his increasing 
 business prevented him from accomplishing this, 
 and his literary work of late years has been un- 
 dertaken as a pastime and recreation rather than 
 a matter of business. 
 
 CAPTAIN JOHN F. DAVIS of Louisville, 
 deputy collector of internal revenue, was 
 born in Shelby County, Kentucky, January 8, 
 1832. His father, Theophilus Davis, was born 
 in Virginia in 1797, and removed to Kentucky 
 when a boy, receiving his education in the com- 
 mon schools of Shelby County, where he en- 
 gaged in farming. He was an active member of 
 the Baptist Church, taking great interest in church 
 work. He was not a politician, but always voted 
 the Whig ticket. He died at his home in Shelby 
 County in 1845, and is buried in Grove Hill 
 cemetery. James Davis, father of Theophilus 
 and grandfather of Captain John F. Davis, was 
 a native of Virginia, where he died in 183 1. He 
 was a member of the Baptist Church and a Whig. 
 Captain Davis' mother, Elizabeth (Foster) Davis, 
 was a native of Nelson County, Kentucky, born in 
 1810; educated in Shelbyville; member of the 
 Baptist Church; died January 22, 1832. She was 
 
 the daughter of John Foster, a native of Fauquier 
 County, Virginia; a member of the Baptist 
 Church and a Whig; died 1829. 
 
 Captain Davis received a good education in 
 the Shelby County schools, finishing in the fresh- 
 man class of Shelby College in 1849. After leav- 
 ing college he was a "clerk" in a dry goods store 
 for a year and then, following the example of his 
 ancestors for several generations, he chose farm- 
 ing for his occupation, which he followed suc- 
 cessfully until 1861, when he espoused the cause 
 of the Southern Confederacy, enlisting as a pri- 
 vate soldier at Bowling Green, September 15, 
 1861. He was not long a private, however, for 
 he was almost immediately appointed assistant 
 commissary of subsistence, with the rank of cap- 
 tain of cavalry, and assigned to duty with the 
 Sixth Kentucky Regiment of Volunteer Infantry. 
 He remained on duty with that regiment until 
 October, 1862, when he was promoted to acting 
 chief of subsistence of General John C. Brecken- 
 ridge's division. He was elected a delegate by 
 representatives of his county to the Russellville 
 convention, October, 1861, and voted in the con- 
 vention for a resolution declaring Kentucky to be 
 one of the Confederate states. He was painfully 
 wounded in the battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862. 
 In the winter of 1864-65 he organized the Twen- 
 tieth Alabama Regiment of Cavalry in North 
 Alabama, with headquarters at Gadsden, and 
 joined General B. J. Hill's brigade, remaining on 
 duty in command of liis regiment until the close 
 of the war, surrendering at Gunthersville, Ten- 
 nessee, May 10, 1865. His commission as colonel 
 never reached him. 
 
 Returning to his home in Shelby County, he 
 found that a previous legislature had enacted a 
 law disfranchising all persons who had served in 
 the Confederate army, but this law was repealed 
 by the legislature of 1865-66, and Captain Davis 
 again became a citizen and voter. 
 
 In August, 1866, he was elected sheriflf of 
 Shelby County, and was re-elected in August, 
 1868. Under the laws of Kentucky he could not 
 serve a third term as sheriff; but in 1870 he was 
 elected clerk of the Shelby County Court by a 
 good majority, after an exciting contest. He was 
 twice re-elected to this lucrative office, declining 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 233 
 
 to make another race at the expiration of his third 
 term of four years, in 1882, but entered the race 
 for the nomination of his party for clerk of the 
 Court of Appeals, with eleven candidates, receiv- 
 ing a highly complimentary vote, but yielding 
 the victory to Captain Tom Henry of West 
 Liberty, Morgan County, for the nomination of 
 his party. 
 
 In January, 1884, Captain Davis was appointed 
 by Governor Knott Commissioner of Agriculture, 
 Horticulture and Statistics, which office he held 
 until May, 1888. He was also appointed State 
 Statistical Agent for Kentucky by the Agricul- 
 tural Department at Washington, serving in that 
 capacity until August, 1888. In May, 1888, he 
 returned to his farm in Shelby County, resuming 
 the cultivation of the soil, until August, 1894, 
 when he was appointed deputy collector of in- 
 ternal revenue by Hon. Benjamin Johnson, col- 
 lector of the Fifth collection district of Kentucky, 
 and is now serving in that office at Louisville. 
 
 Captain Davis was married June 17, 1869, to 
 Mrs. Mary P. Gray, widowed daughter of Judge 
 W. J. Steele of Versailles, Kentucky. He is the 
 father of six children, one of whom, Andrew J. 
 Steele Davis, died in 1875. His eldest daughter, 
 Lizzie J., is the wife of Dr. W. T. Buckner of 
 Shelbyville. William J. S. Davis is in business 
 in Loogootee, Indiana. John C, George T. and 
 Mary Stoddard Davis are in school in Louisville, 
 where Captain Davis has purchased a homestead 
 in which he expects to spend the remainder of 
 his days. 
 
 WILLIAM EDWARD BATES of George- 
 town, Judge of the Scott County Court, 
 son of George W. and Maria (Burgess) Bates, was 
 born in Scott County, Kentucky, August 8, 1830. 
 George W. Bates (father) was a native of Mas- 
 sachusetts, who came to Kentucky in 1826, locat- 
 ing in Scott County. In 1834 he removed to Indi- 
 ana and after spending two years in that state he 
 returned to his former home in Scott County, 
 where he contintied to reside until his death in 
 1886. He was a fuller by trade, but after com- 
 ing to Kentucky he devoted his attention to farm- 
 ing. He was a major of militia under the com- 
 mand of General John T. Pratt. He was a highly 
 
 respected citizen and a worthy and upright mem- 
 ber of the Christian Church. 
 
 William Randall Bates (grandfather), also a 
 native of Massachusetts, came to Kentucky in 
 1830 and located in Boone County, where he died 
 in 1837. He was a merchant and a man of won- 
 derful energy and enterprise. The Bates family 
 is of English descent. Two brothers came over 
 to this country in 1635, settling in Boston. Some 
 of their descendants emigrated to the colony of 
 Virginia. The late Honorable Edward Bates, 
 who was President Lincoln's first attorney-gen- 
 eral, belonged to the Virginia branch of the fam- 
 ily. 
 
 Maria Burgess Bates (mother) was born in 
 Scott County, and was a resident of her native 
 county until her death, April 4, 1888. She was 
 a most excellent woman, whose chief characteris- 
 tic was her devotion to her religion and to the 
 Christian Church, of which she was a member. 
 
 Edward Burgess (grandfather) was born in Cul- 
 peper County, Virginia, in 1783, and was one of 
 the first settlers of Scott County, where he was a 
 farmer and died in 1857. The Burgess family is 
 descended from the Huguenots who were driven 
 out of France by Louis XIV. in 1685, many of 
 whom settled in Virginia and the Carolinas, and 
 their descendants are everywhere highly honored 
 and respected; being enterprising and intelligent, 
 they are found in legitimate business pursuits 
 and in the professions in almost every community. 
 The ministers especially who belong to this sturdy 
 race have wide influence in the South and West. 
 
 William Edward Bates lived on his father's 
 farm until he was twenty-four years of age. He 
 was educated in the common schools of his day, 
 and by close application he became well advanced 
 in many of the English branches. He was mar- 
 ried in i860 to Annie E. Reed, daughter of James 
 Reed of Scott County, after which event he re- 
 turned to the farm, where he remained until 1890, 
 during a part of which time — about nine years — 
 he served as justice of the peace. 
 
 In 1890 he was elected judge of the Scott Coun- 
 ty Court, and in 1894 was re-elected to that office, 
 in both of which elections he was the candidate 
 of the Democratic party. 
 
 Judge Bates is a man of great energy and force 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPPIIES. 
 
 of character, possessing many of those qualities 
 without which few men rise to distinction. What 
 is true in the wide field of universal history is none 
 the less true in the limited range of a town or 
 neighborhood. A determined and persistent pur- 
 pose, practical sense and integrity, are traits 
 which mark the outlines of Judge Bates' chief 
 characteristics. He has been a member of the 
 Christian Church since 1848. 
 
 Judge Bates is the eldest of twelve children — 
 eleven sons and one daughter — of George W. 
 Bates, eight of whom are now 'living. During 
 the Civil strife the family was divided; two of 
 the sons were in the Federal and two in the Con- 
 federate army, the latter two serving under Gen- 
 eral John Morgan. Two other brothers served for 
 a short time only, one on each side of the conflict. 
 
 JOHN W. BREATHITT of Hopkinsville, 
 U Judge of the Christian County Court and ex- 
 postmaster of that city, was born in Hopkinsville, 
 Christian County, Kentucky, January 9, 1825. 
 His father, James Breathitt, was born in Virginia 
 in 1794 and came to Kentucky in his youth; at- 
 tended school in Christian County; subsequently 
 read law and was admitted to the bar before he 
 was twenty years of age. He was quite prominent 
 as a lawyer and politician; had a large practice 
 in dififerent parts of the state as well as locally. 
 For several terms he was commonwealth attor- 
 ney for his district, and was an active and leading 
 member of the Presbyterian Church. His father, 
 William Breathitt, was a native of Virginia, who 
 came to Kentucky in the early days of the cen- 
 tury and located in Logan County. 
 
 Peyton Short (maternal grandfather) was a 
 native farmer of Christian County. His daugh- 
 ter, Elizabeth Short, married James Breathitt. 
 
 John W. Breathitt attended school in Chris- 
 tian County until he was fourteen years of age, 
 when he went to North Bend, Ohio, and lived with 
 his uncle while attending school in that place. At 
 the age of seventeen he went to Kenyon College 
 at Gambler, Ohio, and studied for two years, after 
 which he attended school for a short time in 
 Augusta, Kentucky. In 1844, when only twenty 
 years of age, he returned to his native place and 
 engaged in merchandising, in which he continued 
 
 three years, and then went to farming and devoted 
 his time to agricultural pursuits until 1861, when 
 he joined the Federal army and was major of 
 the Third Kentucky Regiment of Cavalry. He 
 participated in the battles of Shiloh, Pittsburg 
 Landing, Stone River, Lookout Mountain and 
 many other engagements during the four years of 
 his active service in the field. 
 
 After the close of the war, he returned to his 
 farm, and in 1874 was elected county clerk, which 
 office he held for sixteen years; was appointed 
 postmaster of Hopkinsville by President Harri- 
 son in 1890; served until October, 1894, and one 
 month later was elected judge of the Christian 
 County Court for a term of four years. 
 
 John W. Breathitt is connected with the Mis- 
 sionary Baptist Church, and is a member of the 
 Masonic fraternity. 
 
 He married Catherine A. Webber in 1847 and 
 they have had nine children, seven 01 whom are 
 living: Peyton S., Augustine Harvie, Harry W., 
 James, Elizabeth S., Mary Caroline and Cath- 
 erine A. 
 
 WILLIAM E. AUD, one of the talented 
 young lawyers of Owensboro, was bom 
 in Knottsville, Daviess County, Kentucky, March 
 19, 1870. 
 
 His father, Hilliary T. Aud, was also a native of 
 Daviess County, and was educated at St. Mary's 
 College, graduating when quite young. He be- 
 gan as a clerk in a store in Knottsville, and after 
 serving in that capacity for four years, in 
 i860 he and his brother purchased the property 
 of his employer and established the firm of J. B. 
 Aud & Brother, which is still in existence, and 
 is the oldest mercantile establishment in that town. 
 Mr. H. T. Aud was mamed September 29, 1863, 
 to Victoria Jarboe, and they had seven children: 
 Guy G., Henry T., William E., Regina, Mary 
 Joseph, Mary Rock and Victoria. Of these Guy 
 G., Regina and Victoria are deceased. 
 
 Thomas C. Aud (grandfather) was a native of 
 Nelson County, Kentucky, a highly educated man 
 and a practicing physician in Knottsville, Daviess 
 County, where he died in 1853. He married 
 Alice Birkhead of Nelson County, Kentucky, 
 daughter of Abraham Birkhead, and had seven 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 235 
 
 children: Joseph B., Ellen, Maggie, Hillary T., 
 Charles Z., Atha Matilda J. and George, all of 
 whom are living except George and Matilda. 
 
 Ignatius Jarboe (maternal grandfather) was 
 born in Nelson County, Kentucky, about 1805, 
 and was a farmer in that county until a short time 
 prior to the Civil war, when he removed to 
 Daviess County and located about three miles 
 from Knottsville and was a farmer there until the 
 time of his death in 1884. His wife was a Miss 
 Martina Speaks of Nelson County, and they had 
 six children: Raymond, Henry, Benjamin, Vic- 
 toria, Josephine and Edward, all of whom are 
 dead except Victoria and Edward. 
 
 The parents and grandparents of the subject of 
 this sketch and their antecedents were members 
 of the Catholic Church. His grandfathers were 
 Democrats, but his father is a Republican and is 
 very active and influential in his party. 
 
 William E. Aud was educated in Jasper College, 
 which is a branch of St. Meinrad College, Indiana, 
 and in Cecilian College, Hardin County, and also 
 graduated from the commercial department oi 
 Cecilian College in 1890. 
 
 He began the study of law in the ofiSce of Pow- 
 ers & Achison in Owensboro, and was admitted 
 to the bar in March, 1891, when twenty-one years 
 of age, and began the active duties of his chosen 
 profession in 1893, and in the same year was ap- 
 pointed public administrator for Daviess County. 
 He at once met with encouragement and has en- 
 joyed a young lawyer's full share of business at 
 the Owensboro bar; and being attentive to busi- 
 ness, a diligent student and an industrious worker 
 in behalf of his clients, he has the promise of a 
 brilliant future. Mr. Aud is a Democrat in politics, 
 but is modest in his ambition for political prefer- 
 ment. 
 
 HON. CURTIS F. BURNAM, senior mem- 
 ber of the Madison County bar, was born 
 in Richmond, Kentucky, May 24, 1820. 
 
 His father, Thompson Burnam, was born near 
 Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, February 
 4, 1789. At the age of about thirteen years he 
 was employed as a clerk in a store in Richmond, 
 his father having removed to that place from 
 North Carolina. He soon developed superior 
 
 business qualifications and tact; was a man of fine 
 intelligence and took a deep interest in the de- 
 velopment of the new country and in the improve- 
 ment of the educational facilities in the commu- 
 nity, and took especial care in the education and 
 training of his children. He was an old-line Whig 
 of pronounced views, and while he never sought 
 political preferment, honors were frequently thrust 
 upon him. He represented Madison County in 
 the Legislature in 1843. In early life he was a 
 successful merchant, but the closing years of his 
 life were spent on his farm of five hundred and 
 sixty acres, one of the finest blue grass farms in 
 Madison, in which county he died May 4, 1871. 
 His wife's maiden name was Lucinda Field. Five 
 of their children are living: John Field Burnam, 
 a prominent business man of Pueblo, Colorado; 
 Mrs. Mary Wilson, widow of Nathaniel Wilson 
 of Columbia, Missouri, now a resident of Wash- 
 ington City ; Rev. Edmond H. Burnam of Luray, 
 Virginia, one of the ablest ministers in the Bap- 
 tist Church, and one of the most accomplished 
 scholars in this country; Mrs. Eugenia Hume, 
 widow of William Stanton Hume, who was a 
 large distiller and capitalist of Silver Creek, Ken- 
 tucky, and Major Curtis F. Burnam, the princi- 
 pal subject of this sketch. 
 
 John Burnam (grandfather) was born in Cecil 
 County, Maryland; was a soldier in the Revolu- 
 tionary war; fought at Guilford Court House, 
 North Carolina, and after receiving his honorable 
 discharge from service in the patriot army, re- 
 turned to his home in Maryland. 
 
 Thomas Burnam (great-grandfather), a native 
 of England, came to this country and settled on 
 the eastern shore in Maryland, near Georgetown, 
 now in the District of Columbia, and acquired 
 a large landed estate, from which, however, his 
 descendants never reaped any benefit. 
 
 Lucinda Field Burnam, Major Burnam's 
 mother, was born on the banks of the Rappahan- 
 nock in Culpeper County, Virginia, and was a 
 daughter of John Field, who removed to Ken- 
 tucky in 1800, or about that time, and located in 
 Bourbon County. He was a Whig and a great 
 admirer and supporter of Henry Clay, and repre- 
 sented Bourbon County in the Legislature a num- 
 ber of terms. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Colonel John Field (great-grandfather) was a 
 native of Virginia and a member of a distinguished 
 family whose people were identified with the early 
 development of that state. He was killed at Point 
 Pleasant. 
 
 Major Curtis F. Burnam was prepared for col- 
 lege in the Madison Seminary and graduated 
 from Yale College in the class of 1840, receiving 
 the degree of A. B., and was valedictorian at the 
 departure of the senior class from college. Two 
 years later, in 1842, he graduated from the law de- 
 partment of old Transylvania University at Lex- 
 ington, Kentucky. He was admitted to the bar 
 in the same year and began his brilliant career 
 as a lawyer in Richmond, which has been the 
 scene of his labors ever since. 
 
 He was a member of the Legislature in all the 
 sessions of 1851-2, 1859-60 and 1861-2, being 
 three times elected to that body, in which he 
 served with honorable distinction. In the Presi- 
 dential campaign of 185 1 he was elector on the 
 Scott and Graham ticket, and cast his vote for 
 them in the electoral college. In 1853 he declined 
 the nomination for Congress when a nomination 
 by the Whig party was equivalent to an election. 
 In 1875 and 1876 he was assistant secretary of the 
 treasury under President Grant, and in the ab- 
 sence of Secretary Bristow, was acting secretary 
 of the Treasury and member pro tempore of the 
 President's Cabinet. 
 
 He was honored in 1884 by his election as pres- 
 ident of the Kentucky Bar Association, which 
 held its annual session at Louisville. 
 
 In 1890-1 he was a delegate to the convention 
 which framed the present Constitution of Ken- 
 tucky, and was one of the most active and able 
 members of that honorable body. 
 
 In 1846 he received from Yale the degree of 
 A. M., and at later dates received from Center 
 College and from Ogden College the degree of 
 LL.D. 
 
 He has been for more than fifty years a mem- 
 ber of the regular Calvinist Baptist Church. 
 
 He was during the great war for the preserva- 
 tion of the Union a devoted Uniop man, and has 
 been a Republican in politics at all times since. 
 In the Legislature of 1863 he received for thirty- 
 five ballots the unbroken vote of his party for the 
 
 office of United States Senator. His last public 
 service was as delegate to the convention at Min- 
 neapolis in 1892, in which body he was chairman 
 of the Kentucky delegation, and voted for Harri- 
 son for nomination to the Presidency. 
 
 Major Burnam has applied himself assiduously 
 to the practice of his profession, in which he has 
 enjoyed a liberal share of the more important 
 cases in the higher courts and has seldom indulged 
 in recreation, but in 1883 he took a holiday and 
 made a tour of Europe. 
 
 He has acquired a handsome estate, including 
 many valuable tracts of land in Madison County 
 and his elegant homestead, which is situated in 
 the suburbs of Richmond. 
 
 Major Burnam was married in 1845 to Sarah H. 
 Rollins, daughter of Dr. A. W. Rollins, and sis- 
 ter of Hon. James S. Rollins, who was twice elect- 
 ed to Congress from Missouri, a brillian, orator 
 and patriotic statesman. 
 
 They celebrated their golden wedding May 6., 
 1895. They have eight children, five sons and 
 three daughters : A. R. Burnam, who was collec- 
 tor of internal revenue of the eighth collection dis- 
 trict under President Benjamin Harrison, and is 
 one of the ablest lawyers in the state ; Thompson 
 Burnam, a farmer and the owner of one thousand 
 or twelve hundred acres of fine land in jNIadison 
 County; James R. Burnam, judge of the Madison 
 County Court and an ex-member of the Ken- 
 tucky Legislature; Robert Rodes Burnam, teller 
 in the Farmers' National Bank of Richmond; 
 Hon. E. Tutt Burnam, now a member of the Leg- 
 islature; Mary C, wife of Waller Bennett of Mad- 
 ison County, now in Europe; Misses Sallie and 
 Lucy, who are at home, ladies of the highest social 
 rank and influence in their community. 
 
 M'l 
 
 ALCOLM McNEILL, deceased, who was 
 prominent citizen of Christian County, 
 Kentucky, was born in North Carolina, Febra- 
 ary 18, 1786. He was the seventh child of Henry 
 and Dorothy McNeill. His father was born in 
 Scotland, and coming to this country, landed at 
 Charleston, South Carolina, and engaged in mer- 
 cantile pursuits with his brother John, afterward 
 marrying Miss Dorothy Pryor of North Carolina. 
 The children of Henry and Dorothy were : Hec- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 237 
 
 tor, Alexander, Angus, Pryor, John Pryor, Mal- 
 colm, Margaret, Elizabeth, Amanda, Catherine 
 and Henrietta. Henry McNeill (father) died near 
 Hopkinsville, Kentucky, November 3, 1820. 
 Dorothy, his wife, died March 17, 1824, at the 
 same place. 
 
 Malcolm McNeill moved to Kentucky from 
 North Carolina in the fall of 1816, going to Chris- 
 tian County, near Hopkinsville, purchasing a 
 large tract of land with his two brothers, and 
 brought his father and mother from North Caro- 
 lina to his place, which was known as the White 
 Plouse, seven miles from Hopkinsville on the 
 Princeton pike. This house was built about 1816. 
 Malcolm and John Pryor and their father owned 
 at that time about ten thousand acres of land. 
 Malcolm afterward purchased his brother John's 
 interest, and became owner of other land in 
 Christian County, living on this place until he 
 sold it and moved near LaFayette. He purchased 
 large lands in that vicinity, and there lived until 
 his death, February 21, 1875. 
 
 Malcolm McNeill was educated at Chapel Hill 
 University, in North Carolina; studied law but 
 never practiced, turning his attention to farming 
 and commercial life. He also purchased lands in 
 Mississippi and engaged extensively in cotton 
 raising. 
 
 His first wife was Miss B. Branch; his second 
 wife Miss Juda Branch. There are no living chil- 
 dren by these two wives. His third wife was 
 Martha Rivers, daughter of Samuel Henderson 
 and Eliza Culloney. This marriage was blessed 
 by three children, two girls and a boy, Elizabeth 
 and Martha, and Thomas Henry. His fourth wife 
 was Miss Lizzie Lynch, and his fifth a Mrs. Bell, 
 having no living children except by his third wife. 
 He made large investments in Chicago, the first 
 of which was in 1843, when he was compelled to 
 reach Chicago by private conveyance— in a 
 buggy or on horseback. In politics he was a 
 Whig but opposed secession, but after the be- 
 ginning of the war sympathized with the South. 
 After the war he became a Democrat. He lost 
 a great deal of property by the depredations of 
 the soldiers. He gave largely to charitable in- 
 stitutions and supported several Methodist 
 churches, being of that faith. He was beloved and 
 
 respected by all who knew him. His business 
 methods were exact and precise, meeting all 
 obligations at the time specified, accumulating 
 property worth one milHon dollars or more, which 
 was equally divided among his grandchildren. 
 
 The oldest daughter of Malcolm McNeill, Eliza- 
 beth, married John P. Caruthers of Memphis, 
 Tennessee. Martha, the second daughter, mar- 
 ried Wiley P. Boddie. 
 
 HON. NORVAL L. BENNETT of Newport, 
 Judge of Campbell County Court, is the 
 son of George W. and Louisa (Perry) Bennett. 
 His father is a native of Culpeper C. H., Virginia, 
 and came to Kentucky with his parents when 
 fifteen or sixteen years of age. He now resides 
 on his farm at Cold Springs, Campbell County, 
 where he has lived for the past thirty years. He 
 is now eighty-one years old and has always been 
 a farmer and is a stanch Republican. 
 
 George W. Bennett, Sr. (grandfather) was also 
 a native of Culpeper County, Virginia, but re- 
 moved to Kentucky in 1827 and owned a line of 
 flatboats which ran between Pittsburgh and New 
 Orleans. The Bennetts belonged to an old Vir- 
 ginia family whose ancestors came from Ger- 
 many. 
 
 Louisa Perry Bennett (mother) was a native of 
 Kenton County. She died in 1872, aged fifty- 
 two years. 
 
 Charles Perry (grandfather) was a native of 
 England; came to America when a youth; was 
 a soldier in the War of 1812, and was a farmer, 
 miller and a millwright. He died at his home in 
 Covington in i860. 
 
 Judge Norval L. Bennett was born near La- 
 tonia Springs, Kenton County, July 17, 1853. He 
 was educated in the common schools of the coun- 
 ty and was a farmer until 1878, when, having an 
 adventurous spirit, he enlisted in the regular army. 
 At the time of his enlistment there were thirty- 
 three men examined and he was one of three who 
 were accepted. He served five years, the full 
 term of his enlistment, doing duty in the west, 
 and from Canada to Mexico. He was all through 
 the Rocky Mountain regions and was with his 
 command through the Ute campaign. During 
 the last three years of his service he was first ser- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 geant, Company H, Sixth Regiment United 
 States Infantry. He was discharged at Salt Lake 
 City April 28, 1883. After returning home he 
 read law, graduated from the Cincinnati Law 
 School and was admitted to the Newport bar in 
 1889. 
 
 In 1894 he was the Republican candidate for 
 county judge and was elected, assuming the 
 duties of the office January 7, 1895. 
 
 Judge Bennett and Mattie A. Dodsworth, 
 daughter of Robert Dodsworth of Cold Springs, 
 were married in 1883, soon after his return from 
 the army. He is president of the board of deacons 
 of the Christian Church ; an active member of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association; a Knight 
 Templar; member of the Junior Order of United 
 American Mechanics; the Maccabees, Order of 
 Ben Hur, K. A. E. O., and commander of the 
 Regular Army and Naval Union. 
 
 THOMAS HENRY McNEILL, son of Mal- 
 colm McNeill, was born in Kentucky in 1821. 
 He graduated from Yale College at the age of 
 eighteen, and at the age of twenty married Miss 
 Rebecca Tuck, daughter of Dr. Tuck, who lived 
 on an adjoining farm, and settled near his father's 
 farm, near LaFayette, Kentucky. This marriage 
 was blessed by the following children: Flora, 
 Harry, Malcolm, Ellen Mesha, Thomas Henry, 
 John Pryor, Benjamin Franklin and Rivers. His 
 wife, Rebecca, died November 20, 1859. 
 
 His second marriage, to Miss Ann Eliza Ar- 
 thur of Mississippi, resulted in two children: W. 
 A. and Alexander C. McNeill. 
 
 For several years Thomas Henry and his father 
 were acquiring large tracts of land in Mississippi, 
 which he took charge of, and devoted his time 
 to raising cotton until 1866, and was known as 
 the largest cotton planter of the South. Pie was 
 a man of great business ability and large acquaint- 
 ance, and entertained his friends in the most 
 elaborate style. His family spent the winter on 
 his plantation in Mississippi; the fall and spring 
 months in MempMs, Tennessee, and the sum- 
 mer months traveling. After his death the 
 younger children were taken by Malcolm Mc- 
 Neill, their grandfather, to his home in Christian 
 County, where they went to school during the 
 
 winter months, and were required to work on the 
 farm in the summer. After the death of Malcolm, 
 the younger children, Benjamin Franklin, Rivers, 
 William and Alexander, moved to Chicago. 
 
 Flora, the daughter of Thomas Henry, mar- 
 ried John P. Caruthers of Memphis, Tennessee. 
 Several children were born to them. 
 
 Harry married, but had no children; died in 
 1883. 
 
 Malcolm married a Miss Burk of Mississippi, 
 and was blessed with five children. Malcolm's 
 second wife was a Miss Gillmore. 
 
 Ellen Mesha married John P. Crudup of North 
 Carolina and had two children. 
 
 Thomas Henry married Miss Nannie Ham- 
 mond of Chicago and had two sons. 
 
 John Pryor died young. 
 
 Benjamin Franklin married Miss Martha C. 
 West of Chicago. The result of this marriage is 
 five living children. 
 
 W. A. McNeill married Miss Rebecca Medcalf 
 of Tennessee. 
 
 Alexander C. married Miss Humes. 
 
 PARIS C. BROWN, Mayor of Newport, was 
 born in Concord, Lewis County, Kentucky, 
 May 5, 1838, and is a son of Thomas L. and Mary 
 (Rowland) Brown. 
 
 His father was a native of Washington, Mason 
 County, and died in De Witt County, Illinois, in 
 1866. His grandfather's name was James Brown, 
 a well-known resident of Mason County. 
 
 Mary Rowland Brown (mother) was bom in 
 Adams County, Ohio, and died in Concord, Ken- 
 tucky, in 1845. Her father's name was William 
 Rowland. 
 
 Paris C. Brown was educated in Concord, 
 where he attended the common schools and 
 graduated from Smith's Commercial College in 
 Cincinnati, in 1854. From 1859 to 1865 he was 
 engaged in steamboating, first as a clerk and later 
 as captain in charge of different boats running 
 from Cincinnati to New Orleans and other points 
 along the western rivers, and in this way became 
 one of the best known and most popular men on 
 the river. 
 
 In 1866 he abandoned the river proper and ac- 
 cepted a position as bookkeeper for the Consoli- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 dated Boat Store Company of Cincinnati, then 
 known as Harry Davidson & Co., of which he 
 has been the efficient manager since 1870. 
 
 He was married in 1864 and became a resident 
 of Newport, since which time he has been one of 
 tlie most progressive and enterprising citizens of 
 that flourishing city. 
 
 He is no politician, but has affiliated with the 
 Democratic party, which has honored him by 
 electing him to positions of honor and trust. He 
 was a member of the School Board, in which he 
 served for eight years, and was president of the 
 board for two years. In November, 1893, he was 
 elected mayor of the city of Newport, an office for 
 which he was chosen on account of his business 
 ability and splendid character as an upright and 
 honest man, whose ideas of reform in municipal 
 government were commended by the business 
 men and substantial citizens. During the two 
 years or more of his administration he has con- 
 ducted the affairs of the city on business prin- 
 ciples and with credit to himself, and the expecta- 
 tions of those who elected him have been more 
 than realized. His official deportment has been 
 characterized by a faithful and conscientious dis- 
 charge of his duties and by excellent business 
 judgment. 
 
 Mr. Brown was married January 17, 1864, to 
 Margaret E. Cummings, daughter of William and 
 Eliza Cummings of Lewis County. They have 
 four sons and one daughter: Frank M., Thomas 
 C, George W., James G. and Nannie. 
 
 ROBERT S. COLEMAN, M. D., leading 
 physician of Princeton, was born in Stewart 
 County, Tennessee, March 8, 1830. 
 
 His father, William H. Coleman, was born in 
 Rockingham County, North Carolina, in 1800, 
 and removed to Stewart County, Tennessee, in 
 18 1 8, and was a farmer in that county until his 
 death, in 1850. 
 
 Robert S. Coleman (grandfather), a native of 
 Rockingham County, North Carolina, removed 
 to Stewart County, Tennessee, in 1820, and was 
 a highly respected farmer there until the time of 
 his death, in 1853. His father was a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary war. The Colemans were de- 
 
 scended from an old Anglo-Saxon family of Eng- 
 land. 
 
 Mary Gatlin Coleman (mother) was a native 
 of Stewart County, Tennessee, and died at Mur- 
 ray, Calloway County, Kentucky, in 1881. She 
 was a member of the United Baptist Church, in 
 which denomination her father. Rev. Ephraim 
 Gatlin, was a distinguished minister. Her an- 
 cestors were from South Carolina. 
 
 Dr. Robert S. Coleman received his early edu- 
 cation in private schools and by hard study at 
 the home of his parents in Stewart County, Ten- 
 nessee. He then read medicine with Dr. A. J. 
 Weldon, in Henry County, Tennessee, and sub- 
 sequently attended the medical department of the 
 University of Nashville, graduating in 1862. He 
 was immediately ordered to report to General 
 Pillow at Fort Donelson and was in the hospital 
 service in the Confederate army until Septem- 
 ber 23, 1863, when he was captured in Henry 
 County, Tennessee, and taken to Fort Heiman, 
 Kentucky, where, in a few days, he was paroled, 
 this ending his military career. 
 
 He then formed a partnership with his fonner 
 preceptor and practiced medicine with Dr. Wel- 
 don in Henry County, Tennessee, for six years, 
 when the firm was dissolved. Dr. Coleman con- 
 tinued his professional work in Henry County 
 until 1872, when he removed to Murray, Callo- 
 way County, Kentucky, and practiced there until 
 September, 1887, when he removed to Prince- 
 ton, the scene of his present labors. 
 
 He was a member of the Board of Health in 
 Calloway County from the time of its organization 
 until he left that county in 1887, and is now a 
 member of the Board of Health of Caldwell 
 County. He was appointed a member of the 
 Board of Medical Examiners for the First dis- 
 trict by Governor Knott; is a member of a num- 
 ber of medical societies, including the Southwest- 
 ern Kentucky Medical Association, and the Callo- 
 way County (Kentucky) Medical Association; is 
 prominent in every movement for the promotion 
 of the public health ; and is a leading member of 
 the Masonic fraternity and of the Knights of 
 Honor. 
 
 Dr. Coleman was married in 1855 to Frances 
 Williams, daughter of John H. and Anna Wil- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 liams of Henry County, Tennessee, and has three 
 sons and two daughters living : Dr. John R. Cole- 
 man, a physician and surgeon of Murray, Ken- 
 tucky; James H. Coleman, an attorney-at-law in 
 the same place; Thomas E. Coleman, a dry goods 
 salesman in Princeton; and the two daughters, 
 Mary and Frances Coleman, who are at home 
 with their parents. 
 
 GEORGE NEWMAN BROWN, lawyer, 
 statesman and jurist, was born September 
 22, 1822, on the banks of the Ohio, in Cabell 
 County, West Virginia, on the site of the present 
 City of Huntington. 
 
 His father, Richard Brown, was a native of 
 Prince William County, Virginia, and an early 
 pioneer with his brothers, Henry and Benjamin, 
 to the Ohio Valley, between the Rivers Guyan- 
 dotte and Great Tattaroy, now Big Sandy, where 
 they settled in the wilderness. There Richard 
 built his log cabin in the forest, and later, about 
 1810, the first brick residence ever erected in the 
 County of Cabell, which was formed in 1809 out 
 of part of Kanawha County. There his hospital- 
 ity became proverbial. 
 
 That house is still standing, and in it Judge 
 G. N. Brown was born and reared, and two of his 
 sisters. His mother, grandmother and his uncle, 
 Benjamin Brown, died in it. 
 
 Richard Brown was the fifth son of George 
 Newman Brown of Prince William County, Vir- 
 ginia, a son of George Brown of King George 
 County, Virginia, and he the son of Maxfield 
 Brown of Richmond County, Virginia, who was 
 a son of William Brown of old Rappahannock 
 County, Virginia, member of the Virginia House 
 of Burgesses in 1659-60 from Surry County. He 
 was the son of Colonel Henry Brown of Surry 
 County, Virginia, member of the Virginia Coun- 
 cil of State, and of the Grand Assembly from 1642 
 to 1651, and who was son of Sir William Brown of 
 England, one of the original grantees and adven- 
 turers in the Virginia charter granted May 23, 
 1609, by King James I. to Robert, Earl of Salis- 
 bury, and several hundred others named therein, 
 of whom the said Sir William Brown was the 
 fortieth on the long list. 
 
 Thus the Brown family has been coeval with 
 
 the colony of Virginia and the settlement of the 
 New World. And Richard Brown, a pioneer in 
 the wilds of Western Virginia, where he and his 
 brothers settled on lands held by them in the mili- 
 tary survey of 28,527 acres, as run by George 
 Washington under Governor Dinwiddle's procla- 
 mation of 1754, and granted by Virginia to Cap- 
 tain John Savage and his company of sixty men 
 for military services rendered in the Indian and 
 French wars. 
 
 George Newman Brown (grandfather) was a 
 Virginia soldier in the War of the Revolution and 
 was in the siege of Yorktown. His wife, Sarah, 
 was a daughter of Henry Hampton of Prince Wil- 
 liam County, Virginia, and a near relative of the 
 first General Wade Hampton of South Carolina. 
 
 His sons. Captain John, Captain Robert of the 
 Cavalry, William, George Newman, James and 
 the son-in-law Reno, were in the War of 1812 with 
 Great Britain in the east; John and Robert were 
 cavalry officers, and Richard a lieutenant and 
 major under General Harrison in the northwest 
 and at Fort Meigs; while Benjamin, in the same 
 war, was United States collector of internal rev- 
 enue for Western Virginia, appointed by President 
 Madison. 
 
 Judge Brown's mother, Frances H. was a 
 daughter of Henry Haney of Bourbon County, 
 Kentucky. She died in 1838, and is buried at 
 Huntington, West Virginia. 
 
 Sarah, his grandmother, widow of George New- 
 man Brown, Sr., after the death of her husband 
 in 1814, removed from Prince William to Cabell 
 County and resided with her son Richard till 
 her death about 1828 or 1830, aged about eighty; 
 and is also buried at Huntington, West Virginia. 
 All her children died without issue except Richard, 
 Benjamin and EHzabeth. 
 
 Richard Brown A\as born January 28, 1782; 
 died August 8, 1843. 
 
 George Newman Brown, the subject of this 
 sketch, was twice married, and had twelve chil- 
 dren, five by the first marriage and seven by the 
 second. The first marriage, November 18, 1847, 
 to Sophia, daughter of Thomas Cecil of Pike 
 County, Kentucky. She died June 6. 1858; was 
 the mother of first Nancy Frances, bom August 
 31, 1848, died January 3, 1878; married Alexan- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 241 
 
 der Martin July i, 1873, son of John P. Martin, 
 and was mother of two children, viz.: Elizabeth 
 Sophia Martin, born August 8, 1874, educated at 
 Staunton, Virginia, and George Brown Martin, 
 born August 18, 1876, a graduate of Central Uni- 
 versity, Richmond. Margaret Matilda, born No- 
 vember 20, 1849, married to Rev. John D. Mc- 
 Clintock June 26, 1871. He died in Columbus, 
 Mississippi, December 12, 1881. She resides in 
 Catlettsburg with her children, viz.: Wallace 
 Cecil McClintock, born May 5, 1872; George Bay- 
 less McClintock, born October 18, 1875, and 
 John David McClintock, bom November 6, 1878; 
 Paul Brown McClintock, born December 10, 
 1880, and died September 11, 1881. John Wil- 
 liam Brown, born May 31, 1851, died July i, 1851. 
 Eliza Taylor Brown, born May 24, 1852, lives in 
 Catlettsburg; unmarried. Thomas Richard 
 Brown, born June 2, 1854, in Pikeville, Ken- 
 tucky; educated in Catlettsburg, and at Dan- 
 ville Collegiate Institute. In 1872 he entered the 
 University of Virginia, afterward attended the 
 Louisville Law School, from which he graduated 
 in 1876, and at once began the practice of law in 
 Catlettsburg, in partnership with his father. He 
 soon took high rank in his profession, and is one 
 of the first lawyers at the bar ; was appointed com- 
 missioner of public schools; elected president of 
 the Big Sandy National Bank, and was one of its 
 charter members. He married Mary, daughter of 
 Greenville Lacky of Louisa, Kentucky, Decem- 
 ber II, 1878. She was born December 13, 1859; 
 educated in Wesleyan College, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 They are members of the Presbyterian Church, 
 and enjoy high social standing in the community; 
 have four children, viz.: Alexander Lackey, born 
 December 6, 1879; Nannie McClintock, born 
 April 19, 1883, died July 29, 1890; Mary Quinn, 
 born October 26, 1887, and Elorence Huston, 
 born August 20, 1892. 
 
 The second marriage of Judge Brown was with 
 Maria, daughter of William Poage. She was bom 
 November 6, 1829. The children by this mar- 
 riage are: James Henry, born May 13, 1859, 
 died January 16, 1861 ; Colbert Cecil, born Octo- 
 ber. 25, 1861, died March 27, 1864; Lucy Mur- 
 ray, born April 16, 1863, educated at Staunton, 
 Virginia; George Newman, born August 25, 
 
 16 
 
 1865, an attorney, who, upon beginning of his 
 profession, died July 12, 1892; Sarah Elizabeth, 
 born September 28, 1867, educated at Staunton, 
 Virginia; Edgar, born October 16, 1872, died 
 November 9, 1872; Benjamin Bernard, born No- 
 vember 24, 1873, educated at Catlettsburg, and 
 studied law with his father and brother. 
 
 George Newman Brown was the eldest son and 
 seventh child of Richard and Erances Brown; 
 educated in the schools of the neighborhood, at 
 Marshall Academy, Virginia, and Augusta Col- 
 lege, Kentucky. After retuming from college in 
 the fall of 1840, he soon began the study of law 
 in the office of Judge James M. Rice of Louisa, 
 and was admitted to the bar in October, 1844. He 
 practiced law in Pike and adjacent counties for 
 sixteen years, during which time he was county 
 attorney for four terms, and represented the coun- 
 ties of Eloyd, Pike and Johnson in the Legisla- 
 ture of Kentucky in 1849-50. 
 
 In i860 he removed to Catlettsburg and en- 
 tered into partnership with Judge Rice. In the 
 Civil war he was a non-combatant, but his sym- 
 pathies were with the Southern people. 
 
 In 1880 he was elected by the people judge of 
 the Circuit Court and served six years on the 
 bench, when he returned to his law practice with 
 his son, Thomas R. Brown, a brief sketch of whom 
 has already been given. During his residence in 
 Catlettsburg he served repeatedly on the Board 
 of Trustees of the city; took an active part in 
 every enterprise for promoting the public weal 
 of county and city, and in the conduct and man- 
 agement of his business, mercantile, agricultural 
 and professional. In Ely's History of Sandy Val- 
 ley it is said he, Judge Brown, "was for thirty 
 years one of the foremost men of business in the 
 Sandy basin." In 1884, in a warm and close con- 
 test for the judgeship between him and W. C. 
 Ireland, the latter was elected. 
 
 As judge on the bench Mr. Brown was courte- 
 ous, patient and impartial to hear both sides and 
 counsel fully, then firm and fearless to decide 
 and enforce the mandates of the law. On the 
 bench he won the reputation of being one of the 
 ablest, purest of Kentucky. 
 
 As a man of business he has proved a success ; 
 as a farmer and patron of husbandry an example 
 
242 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 worthy of imitation in the improvement of his 
 lands and varied systems of agriculture. Gener- 
 ous and liberal to the needy. 
 
 He was appointed by the Legislature of Ken- 
 tucky one of the commissioners to expend $75,000 
 appropriated to Sandy River in improving the 
 navigation thereof, a work of great importance 
 to the prosperity of the people of that section. 
 
 CLAUDE CHINN, the efficient County 
 Clerk of Fayette County, was born in the 
 City of Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, 
 August 14, 1842, and is the son of the late Dr. 
 Joseph G. Chinn and Barbara (Graves) Chinn. 
 
 Dr. Chinn practiced medicine in Jessamine 
 County in 1835-6, removing to Lexington in the 
 latter year, where he was a successful practitioner 
 for many years. He was a good and honored citi- 
 zen and did more charity practice than probably 
 any other physician in Lexington. He was a 
 kind-hearted man and a spirit of meekness seemed 
 to rule his conduct. In his daily life he was sensi- 
 bly alive to every claim of his fellow-citizens and 
 his voice in behalf of benevolence was emphatic 
 and strong. The results of his efforts, as a true 
 Christian gentleman, although limited as they 
 were, in his old age, were appreciated by the peo- 
 ple of Lexington, who will not soon forget him. 
 He was born in Virginia and his father was one 
 of the pioneer settlers of Harrison County. Dr. 
 Chinn was a soldier in the War of 1812 in the 
 capacity of assistant surgeon. He made a special- 
 ty of the diseases of women in the latter part of 
 his Ufe, but becamie almost blind and was retired 
 for several years previous to his death, which oc- 
 curred in Lexington in 1893, ^^ the remarkable 
 age of ninety-three. He was three times married : 
 His second wife was Mrs. Shepherd and his third 
 wife Mrs. Katherine Lawson of Lexington; his 
 last wife died in 1892, at the still more remarkable 
 age of one hundred and four. She was ninety-six 
 years of age when she married Dr. Chinn ; she was 
 a refined lady and was particularly well versed in 
 the principles of Christianity. It is supposed that 
 they were the oldest couple ever married in Lex- 
 ington. Dr. Chinn was mayor of Lexington many 
 years and a stanch Democrat and was a lifelong 
 member of the Christian Church. He built a 
 
 church in Missouri, the cost of which he paid out 
 of his private funds. He was an elder and ex- 
 horter in the church and a well known writer for 
 the religious papers of his denomination, and no 
 member was more highly respected by his breth- 
 ren than Dr. Chinn. The Chinns are of Scotch 
 ancestry. 
 
 Claude Chinn was reared in the City of Lex- 
 ington and was principally educated at the old 
 Transylvania University, and after leaving that 
 institution he removed to Missouri, where he be- 
 came deputy sheriff of Lafayette County under 
 his brother-in-law, Colonel John P. Bowman, 
 where he remained until the time of the breaking 
 out of the war between the States. 
 
 Mr. Chinn was not long in entering the Confed- 
 erate army, enlisting in a Missouri battery and 
 served as a private until the close of the war. 
 With the exception of one year he was with Gen- 
 eral John Morgan. He was slightly wounded at 
 the battle of Blue Mills, Missouri, and at the close 
 of the war returned home to Lexington and was 
 engaged in farming in Fayette County for four 
 years. At the expiration of that time he went to 
 Arkansas, where he operated a plantation on the 
 Mississippi River, raising cotton, and remained 
 there for a year and then returned to Lexington 
 and was agent there for the omnibus lines for 
 some ten years. In 1894 Mr. Chinn received tlie 
 Democratic nomination for County Clerk of Fay- 
 ette County, defeating Theodore Lewis in the 
 primary convention. He was then endorsed by 
 all the political parties and elected without any 
 opposition. 
 
 In 1866 he was united in marriage to Nannie 
 Petett, daughter of William B. Petett of Fayette 
 County. Mr. and Mrs. Chinn have four daugh- 
 ters and one son: Dixey, who married Colby 
 Young; Nannie, wife of William Anderson of 
 Bell County; Joseph W. and Edward. Mr. Chinn 
 is a member of the Confederate Veteran Asso- 
 ciation and one of the leading Democrats of Fay- 
 ette County. 
 
 RICHARD H. GRAY, Attorney-at-Law, Cov- 
 ington, son of Andrew J. and Catherine 
 (Galbaugh) Gray, was born in Covington Febru- 
 ary 22, 1853. His father is a native of Covington 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 243 
 
 also, and has resided in Covington and in the 
 County of Kenton all his life, being at present a 
 resident of Milldale, near Covington. He was a 
 large tobacco manufacturer until 1873, when he 
 removed to his farm in the county, where he lived 
 until 1893. He then retired and took up his resi- 
 dence in Milldale. He is now in his sixty-sixth 
 year. 
 
 John Gray (grandfather) was born in Erie, 
 Pennsylvania, who removed to Covington when 
 a young man and resided there until the time of 
 his death. His ancestors were from Scotland. 
 
 Catherine Galbaugh Gray (mother) was a na- 
 tive of Covington, where she resided all her life, 
 and died in 1865. 
 
 John Galbaugh (grandfather) was a native of 
 Harrisburg, Pa., but removed to Covington when 
 he was a young man. 
 
 Richard H. Gray is a graduate of the public 
 schools of Covington, and for a time attended the 
 University of Virginia. He read law with John 
 N. Furber of Covington and was admitted to the 
 bar in 1875, since which time he has been suc- 
 cessftilly engaged in the practice of law in Cov- 
 ington. In 1884 he formed a partnership with 
 James M. Tisdale and at this time the law firm of 
 Tisdale & Gray is one of the oldest and most pop- 
 ular firms in the city. 
 
 Mr. Gray takes a lively interest in politics from 
 a Democratic standpoint without seeking the 
 honors of his party. He belongs to a number of 
 benevolent orders, including the Masons, Odd 
 Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He was mar- 
 ried in 1877 to Cora B., daughter of John and 
 Mary Dye of Cold Spring, Campbell County. 
 Their residence is in Milldale, a suburb of Cov- 
 ington. 1 1 ' I 
 
 Scotland, who came to the United States when he 
 was a young man and became one of the earliest 
 settlers of Pendleton County. He was a farmer, 
 and one of the best citizens of the county. 
 
 Frances A. Norris Fryer (mother) was a native 
 of Pendleton County. She died in 1889. 
 
 William Norris (grandfather) was a native of 
 Maryland and was one of the earliest settlers of 
 Pendleton County. 
 
 Judge Louis P. Fryer was born in Butler, Janu- 
 ary 10, 1864. After leaving school he read law 
 with his father and was admitted to the bar in 
 1886 and at once located in Falmouth, where he 
 has been engaged in the practice of his profes- 
 sion with unusual success. He was police judge 
 of Falmouth from 1886 to 1888; was city attor- 
 ney in 1888 and 1889 and was county attorney 
 for two years — 1893 and 1894. Unlike his father, 
 he is a Democrat and takes a lively interest in 
 political afifairs, having served as a delegate to 
 several state conventions, and otherwise aiding 
 in the party organization. 
 
 Judge Fryer and Mattie B. Barton, daughter of 
 T. M. Barton of Butler, were married in 1888, 
 and have one daughter, Mabel L. 
 
 HON. LOUIS P. FRYER, Attorney-at-Law, 
 Falmouth, Kentucky, is the son of John H. 
 and Frances A. (Norris) Fryer of Butler, Pen- 
 dleton County. His father is also a native of But- 
 ler, where he still resides, and is now in the sixty- 
 third year of his age, and is still actively engaged 
 in the practice of law. He is a Republican in 
 politics, although not active, and is a faithful and 
 zealous member of the Methodist Church. 
 
 Walter Fryer (grandfather) was a native of 
 
 RIVERS McNEILL, son of Thomas Henry 
 and grandson of Malcolm McNeill, was born 
 November 12, 1858, in Christian County, Ken- 
 tucky, near LaFayette, and lived there until 1876, 
 when' he left for Emory and Henry College 
 in Virginia. He graduated in 1879 and then 
 studied medicine, but not being able to finish the 
 course he desired, he abandoned the study of 
 medicine and turned his attention to commercial 
 life. He went to work in Chicago for a general 
 mercantile house, and after being with them a 
 short time was promoted to the management of 
 one of the departments, afterward accepting a 
 position as auditor for one of the largest publish- 
 ing houses in the West. 
 
 He married Miss Stella Elizabeth Corby of 
 Chicago, and has three living children: Malcolm 
 Rivers, Cherrill and Dorothy Mesha. His oldest 
 child, a daughter, died in infancy. 
 
 Stella Corby is a descendant, on her mother's 
 side, of John Hampden, and on her father's side 
 of the Banning family, early settlers of New York. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 In 1885, Rivers McNeill and his brother, 
 Thomas Henry, engaged in the real estate busi- 
 ness and took charge of the estate left them by 
 their grandfather, Malcolm McNeill, improving 
 and looking after it in a general way. He has 
 built several large modern houses in Chicago and 
 is known as a reliable and competent business 
 man. He has been identified with the reform 
 movements and advanced ideas; has been suc- 
 cessful in business and has established a good 
 name among the business men of Chicago. He 
 attributes his success to hard 'work and atten- 
 tiveness to business, and to the strictest honesty 
 in all transactions. He has never solicited any 
 public office, but takes a great interest in the wel- 
 fare and politics of his country. He is a mem- 
 ber of several charitable institutions and of the 
 Iroquois and Waubansee clubs. Retiring and re- 
 served in disposition, he cares little for society 
 and devotes most of his spare time to his home 
 and family. 
 
 ELI H. BROWN, Corporation Attorney and 
 prominent citizen of Owensboro, was born 
 in Brandenburg, Meade County, Kentucky, No- 
 vember 13, 1843. He received his primary educa- 
 tion from private teachers in Hawesville, and 
 attended the high schools of Lewisport, then 
 taught by Professors Gregg and Trimble, and 
 graduated in June, 1863. He studied law for two 
 and a half years in the office of Judge George 
 Williams, and was licensed to practice law by 
 the judge of the Circuit Court. He located in 
 Hawesville and practiced alone until 1878, when 
 he became associated with Judge Williams, a 
 partnership which continued until October i, 
 1878, when he removed to Louisville and was a 
 prominent member of the bar in that city for 
 nearly ten years. During a part of that time he 
 was in partnership with D. M. Rodman. He ac- 
 quired a lucrative business and was one of the 
 most energetic and prominent lawyers at the 
 Louisville bar. In March, 1891, he removed to 
 Owensboro, where he has been steadily and suc- 
 cessfully engaged in the practice of his profes- 
 sion, and is now one of the leading attorneys of 
 that city, which is so distinguished for legal talent. 
 During his residence in Hawesville Mr, Brown 
 
 was prosecuting attorney for two terms, and has 
 frequently served as special judge of the Circuit 
 Court, but has never sought political preferment. 
 He was presidential elector for his district in 1872 
 on the Democratic ticket and made a spirited can- 
 vass, but has not turned aside at any time from 
 strictly professional work. During the past fifteen 
 years he has devoted himself almost exclusively 
 to the legal work of various corporations, and is 
 at present the attorney for the Glenmore Distil- 
 lery Company, the Eagle Distillery Company, the 
 Daviess County Distillery Company, and the 
 Owensboro Woolen Mills Company. 
 
 One of the most important cases in which he 
 has been engaged was that of a railroad company 
 against the taxpayers of Muhlenberg County, in 
 which he won the suit for the railroad company. 
 In 1868 bonds were voted by Muhlenberg County 
 to the amount of four hundred thousand dollars 
 to secure railroad facilities in the county. The 
 taxpayers refused to pay their assessments and in 
 order to prevent the collection of the tax all of 
 the magistrates in the county were induced to re- 
 sign. The railroad people employed some of the 
 most prominent legal lights in the state to prose- 
 cute their claim, but they gave it up as a bad job. 
 Finally Mr. Brown undertook the case for the 
 railroad company and secured judgment for the 
 tax with interest at seven per cent for five years. 
 The case was decided in the United States Circuit 
 Court by Judge Lurton, who issued an order to 
 Marshal Blackburn to go into the county with an 
 armed force and collect the tax from the people 
 at the point of the bayonet if necessary. The 
 amount of the bonds, with interest, was collected. 
 This case attracted universal attention, especially 
 among the lawyers of the state, as it was of ex- 
 ceptional interest. 
 
 Mr. Brown has been signally successful as a 
 corporation attorney, being greatly devoted to his 
 profession and always faithful to the interests of 
 his clients. He is a man of fine personal bear- 
 ing, dignified in appearance, but genial and cor- 
 dial in his intercourse with others, and is an ex- 
 ceedingly popular citizen. He is a Mason of high 
 degree and a most excellent member of the Chris- 
 tian Church. 
 
 Mr. Brown was married February 3, 1870, to 
 
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 Nancy W. Dorsey of Nelson County, daughter of 
 Dr. Washington Dorsey, a native of Kentucky, 
 and a very celebrated physician, who lived for 
 many years at Yazoo, Mississippi. Mrs. Brow^n 
 was born October 31, 1847, and died in Louis- 
 ville, December 6, 1885, leaving four children: 
 Horace Stone, born June 21, 1871, died March 6, 
 1894; Eli Houston, born May 3, 1875, graduated 
 at the Kentucky University in the class of 1895 ; 
 Washington Dorsey, bom January 3, 1877, now 
 in the senior class of the Kentucky University; 
 and Sarah Ellen, born December 7, 1879, now 
 studying under a governess in Nelson County. 
 
 At the time of his death Horace Stone Brown, 
 eldest son, was city editor of the Louisville Daily 
 Commercial, and the members of the press of 
 that city paid a beautiful tribute to his worth and 
 popularity. 
 
 Eli H. Brown is a son of John McClarty and 
 Minerva (Murray) Brown. His father was born 
 in Nelson County, May 7, 1799, and was educated 
 in Bardstown. He was engaged in merchandising 
 in Hardinsburg, in partnership with two of his 
 uncles, Samuel and James McClarty, until 1823, 
 when he married Minerva Murray and removed 
 to Brandenburg and was the first merchant in 
 that place. He was also interested in the tobacco 
 business at Cloverport, Hawesville, and Leitch- 
 field during the time of his stay in Brandenburg. 
 In 1 85 1 he removed to Hawesville and was secre- 
 tary and treasurer of the Trabue Coal Mining 
 Company until 1857. He was county judge of 
 Hancock County for two terms, ending August 
 3, 1865. He was a man of splendid literary attain- 
 ments, and was one of the best and most highly 
 respected citizens of his county, a prominent Ma- 
 son, and a leading member of the Presbyterian 
 Church. 
 
 Robert J. Brown (grandfather), a native of 
 Maryland, was one of the earliest settlers of Nel- 
 son County, where he was a farmer and trader. 
 He married a Miss McClarty, and died when his 
 son, John McClarty Brown (father), was an in- 
 fant. His widow married a Mr. Hughes, and 
 died in 1852. The Browns are of Irish descent, 
 but have been in this country a long time. 
 
 Minerva J. Murray Brown (mother) was bom 
 in Breckinridge County, November 23, 1807, and 
 
 was educated at Hardinsburg. She was a mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Church and a woman of the 
 most noble traits of character, whose death in 
 1871 was mourned by a host of loving and devoted 
 friends. 
 
 John Murray (grandfather) was a native of 
 Washington County, where he was a merchant 
 for a great many years. He subsequently removed 
 to Rumsey, McLean County, and continued in 
 active business until 1864, when he returned and 
 spent the remainder of his useful life with his 
 daughter, Mrs. (Brown) Hughes. He was quite 
 a figure in politics and was known as a "Consti- 
 tutional Union" man during the war and in the 
 days of reconstruction. His wife's name was Pat- 
 sey Walker, who was a native of Washington 
 County. She died, and Mr. Murray survived her 
 until 1869, when he died in McLean County. 
 
 WILLIAM S. CASON, Lawyer, of Cyn- 
 thiana, was born in Harrison County, No- 
 vember 23, 1856. His father, Benjamin C. Cason, 
 was also born in Harrison County, in 1824, and 
 has been a farmer and a resident of the county all 
 his life. 
 
 Nelson Cason (grandfather) was a native of 
 Spottsylvania County, Virginia, and was one of 
 the pioneer farmers of Harrison County. He 
 belonged to an old Virginia family of Scotch 
 descent. 
 
 Mrs. Rochiel Elker Cason (mother) is a native 
 of Harrison County, and is a prominent member 
 of the Baptist Church. Her father, Samuel Elker, 
 was born in Maryland, in 1792. He removed to 
 Harrison County when quite young; lived in 
 Cynthiana for some years, but devoted the latter 
 part of his life to agricultural pursuits. He died 
 in 1865, aged seventy-three years. His father was 
 a native of Germany. 
 
 William S. Cason improved all of his oppor- 
 tunities in the way of country schools while as- 
 sisting his father on the farm. He also attended 
 the public schools of Cynthiana, graduating in 
 1876. He then went to Lafayette College, Eas- 
 ton, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1880 with 
 the degree of A. B., and three years later received 
 the degree of A. M. from the same college. He 
 attended the law department of the University of 
 
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 Louisville, graduating in 1882. He began the 
 practice of law in Cyntliiana in August, 1882, and 
 has acquired a large practice, to which he de- 
 votes his entire attention. He is not in politics 
 but votes the Democratic ticket. 
 
 He was principal of the city schools of Cyn- 
 thiana in 1885-86, having been elected to fill a 
 vacancy caused by the death of Professor Mar- 
 shall. He was county superintendent of schools 
 from 1886 to 1890. 
 
 Mr. Cason married Ella N. Bowman, daughter 
 of Jacob Bowman of Harrison County, in 1880, 
 and has two sons: Hervey M. and Edgar B. 
 Cason. 
 
 J IRVINE BLANTON, attomey-at-law, of 
 . Cynthiana, was born in Boyle County 
 April 21, i860. He is a son of Lindsay H. and 
 Elizabeth (Irvine) Blanton. His father is a native 
 of Cumberland County, Virginia. He came to 
 Kentucky in 1856, and attended the Danville The- 
 ological Seminary. After entering the ministry, 
 his first charge was the First Presbyterian Church 
 of Versailles. In 1866 he moved to Paris, Ken- 
 tucky, and built the Second Presbyterian Church 
 in that city, and continued as pastor until 1879, 
 when he went to Richmond and assumed charge 
 of Central University, of which he is now chai. 
 cellor. He was with General John C. Breckin- 
 ridge in his campaigns through Virginia and 
 Kentucky. 
 
 Joseph Blanton (grandfather) was a native of 
 Cumberland County, Virginia, and was an exten- 
 sive farmer of that county. He died in 1882 in 
 the eightieth year of his age. He was a leading 
 member of the Presbyterian Church. He be- 
 longed to a well-known Virginia family who orig- 
 inally came from England. 
 
 Elizabeth Irvine Blanton (mother) is a native 
 of Boyle County; a devoted member of the Pres- 
 byterian Church, and a lady of unusual intelli- 
 gence and great force of character. Her father, 
 Abner Irvine, was a native of Fayette County, 
 who removed to Boyle County, where he was a 
 large land owner and prosperous farmer up to the 
 time of his death in 1868. The Irvines are of 
 Scotch-Irish descent and came to America with 
 
 the McDowells and Lyles, well-known Virginia 
 families. 
 
 J. Irvine Blanton spent his boyhood in Paris 
 and Richmond and graduated from Central 
 University in 1880. He taught in the preparatory 
 department for one year, and then studied law in 
 Central University, law department, graduating 
 in December, 1883. He located in Cynthiana the 
 same year and formed a partnership with Judge 
 John Quincy Ward, the firm name being Ward 
 & Blanton. In 1886 his distinguished partner 
 was elected judge of the Superior Court and the 
 business relation was necessarily dissolved. Mr. 
 Blanton continued to practice alone until 1893, 
 when he became the partner of Baily D. Berry, 
 under the firm name of Blanton & Berry, who are 
 at this time associated in a general practice with 
 a large clientele. No law firm in this section of 
 the state stands higher or enjoys a more lucra- 
 tive practice. 
 
 Mr. Blanton was married in October, 1886, to 
 Sallie McDowell, daughter of Judge William C. 
 and Bettie (Breck) McDowell of Richmond. 
 Mrs. Blanton's grandfather was General Joseph 
 McDowell of Hillsboro, Ohio. 
 
 They have one son and two daughters : Eliza- 
 beth, Lindsay H., Jr., and Mary Irvine Blanton. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Blanton are members of the Pres- 
 byterian Church. 
 
 DR. ALEXANDER P. CAMPBELL, den- 
 tist, of Hopkinsville, Christian County, 
 Kentucky, was born in that dty May 9, 1865. 
 His father. Dr. Alexander P. Campbell, Sr., was 
 a native of Todd County, Kentucky, and was 
 born February 11, 1826, and educated in the 
 common schools of that county. He was a farmer 
 until thirty-two years of age, when he removed 
 to Hopkinsville, where he practiced dentistry un- 
 til the time of his death, February 10, 1886. He 
 was a graduate of the Baltimore Dental College. 
 
 Dr. Alexander P. Campbell was a student in 
 the schools of Hopkinsville until eighteen years 
 of age and obtained a good, practical knowledge 
 of dentistry in his father's office before entering 
 Vanderbilt University at Nashville, where he 
 spent three years, and was graduated in the class 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 247 
 
 of 1886. He was assistant demonstrator of den- 
 tistry in that institution for five months, when he 
 resigned and began the practice of dentistry in 
 Hopkinsville, where he has made a reputation as 
 one of the best dentists in the state, and has 
 secured the patronage of many of the best people 
 in the city and county. 
 
 He was married December 7, 1886, to Jennie 
 A. Mills, and they have two children: Fletcher 
 Mills and Fay Ellis. Mrs. Campbell is a niece of 
 Senator Roger Q. Mills of Texas. 
 
 HENRY STITES BARKER, city attorney of 
 Louisville, was born in Christian County, 
 July 23, 1850. His father, Richard H. Barker, 
 was a native of Todd County, who practiced law 
 in Clarksville, Tenn., for a number of years. His 
 death, at the age of about thirty-six years, was 
 caused by yellow fever which he contracted on 
 a steamboat, on his way home from New Orleans 
 in 1853. His ancestors belonged to an old Vir- 
 ginia family, some of whom came to Kentucky 
 from Virginia soon after the Revolutionary war, 
 and were of English extraction. Mr. Barker's 
 mother, Caroline M. (Sharp) Barker, is a native 
 of Christian County, now residing at Crescent 
 Hill, near Louisville. Her father. Dr. Maxwell 
 Sharp, was a native of Virginia, of Scotch-Irish 
 descent, who came to Logan County, near Rus- 
 sellville, in the early settlement of that section, 
 where he practiced medicine. He afterward re- 
 moved to Christian County, Kentucky, where he 
 owned and operated a large farm. He died in 
 1864, aged eighty-nine years. 
 
 Mr. Henry S. Barker removed from Christian 
 County to Louisville at the age of thirteen. He 
 received his college education in the Kentucky 
 University at Lexington, after which he read law 
 and was admitted to the bar in Louisville in 1875. 
 After three or four years of practice in partnership 
 with his brother. Maxwell S. Barker, the latter re- 
 moved from Louisville and Mr. Barker entered 
 into partnership with Aaron Kohn under the style 
 of Kohn & Barker, which relation continued until 
 1888, when Mr. Barker was elected city attorney, 
 and the popular law firm was dissolved. Mr. Bar- 
 ker has been re-elected to this position for the 
 third term, which will expire in 1897. He is an 
 
 active worker in local and state politics and has 
 great influence in the Democratic party, which 
 has unbounded confidence in his integrity and 
 good judgment, as shown by the repeated honors 
 conferred upon him. He is a member of the 
 Louisville Commandery, F. & A. M. 
 
 Mr. Barker was married in 1886 to Kate Meri- 
 wether, daughter of Captain Edward Meriwether, 
 of Todd County. They are members of the First 
 Christian Church of Louisville. 
 
 ALEXANDER F. BUEREN, a popular phy- 
 sician, who has an extensive and important 
 practice in the eastern portion of the city of Lou- 
 isville, is a son of Francis and Catherine (Van 
 Veen) Bueren, and was bom in Papenburg (now 
 Hanover), Germany, December 13, 1849. He 
 was educated in the excellent high schools of his 
 native city and subsequently studied chemistry 
 in Papenburg. He came to the United States in 
 1872 and at once located in Louisville and began 
 the study of medicine in the medical department 
 of the university of that city, from which he was 
 graduated in 1874. 
 
 After obtaining his license he opened an office 
 at 1420 Story Avenue and began his professional 
 career a stranger in a strange land, under circum- 
 stances that would have disheartened a man of 
 less perseverance. But he had the happy faculty 
 of making friends, and his ability as a physician 
 was soon recognized, and he is now one of the 
 most popular physicians in the "east end." 
 
 In the twenty-one years of his active profes- 
 sional life. Dr. Bueren has established himself in 
 the confidence of his numerous patrons, who firm- 
 ly believe in him as a man of honor and a phy- 
 sician of marked ability. He attends strictly to 
 his large practice and is not interested in any 
 other kind of business or carried away with poli- 
 tics or money-making schemes. Of a genial dis- 
 position and social nature, he is popular in the 
 society of his friends and in the benevolent orders, 
 to a number of which he belongs, including the 
 Masons, Knights of Pythias, Knights of Honor, 
 and Elks. 
 
 His father, Francis Bueren, was a native of 
 Germany, and a well-to-do merchant, a highly- 
 respected and intelligent citizen of Papenburg. 
 
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 He never left his native country, but died there 
 when Dr. Bueren was only seven years of age. 
 His mother, Catherine (Van Veen) Bueren, died 
 in 1852. Francis and Catherine Bueren had three 
 children: Godfrey Bueren, who is still a resi- 
 dent of Papenburg, where he is engaged in naval 
 insurance; Margarette, wife of Arnold Brugg- 
 mann, a brewer and lumber merchant of Ippen- 
 bueren, Westphalia, Germany; and Alexander F. 
 Bueren. 
 
 STANLEY ADAMS, an enterprising young 
 business man of Louisville, son of James L. 
 and Martha L. (Jordan) Adams, was born in 
 Brooklyn, New York, December 27, 1864. His 
 father is a native of Petersburg, Virginia, who 
 was for many years a manufacturer of tobacco 
 in Montreal, Canada, and later in New York 
 City, but has lived in Louisville since 1883, where 
 he is in the life insurance business. 
 
 Thomas Adams (grandfather) was a native of 
 Petersburg, Virginia, and a resident of that place 
 all of his life. He was a planter and a large 
 property owner and one of the successful busi- 
 ness men of that section in ante-bellum times. 
 
 Martha L. Jordan Adams (mother) was born 
 near Petersburg, Virginia, and is now a resident of 
 Louisville. Her father was a large planter and 
 land owner near Petersburg, Virginia, and was a 
 native of that place. 
 
 Stanley Adams hved with his parents in Mon- 
 treal for thirteen years, and then in New York 
 until nineteen years of age. He enjoyed the bene- 
 fits of the best private schools of those cities, and 
 after coming to Louisville in 1883, began a suc- 
 cessful business career as collector for the Picket 
 Ice Company. Later accepted a position as col- 
 lector and assistant bookkeeper for the coal firm 
 of Byrne & Speed. In 1887 he was employed by 
 George S. Moore & Co., pig iron merchants, as 
 a traveling salesman, and after serving his em- 
 ployers for four years in that capacity, he was 
 made general manager of their business, which 
 position he held until 1892, when he began busi- 
 ness in the same line on his own account, under 
 the firm name of Adams, Watkins & Co. He 
 withdrew from this firm in 1893 and engaged in 
 the pig iron, coal and coke commission business 
 
 alone, but under the style of Stanley Adams & 
 Co. His long experience in this line of mer- 
 chandise and his extended acquaintance among 
 the large manufacturers of the South, together 
 with his superior business tact and indomitable 
 energy, has enabled him to establish himself with- 
 in a comparatively short time, in one of the largest 
 trades enjoyed by any house of the kind in Louis- 
 ville. This is particularly true in reference to the 
 coke trade, as he sells more of that commodity 
 than any other commission house in the city. 
 He is also a member of the Hartwell Coal Com- 
 pany, and is making his way to the front among 
 the wide-awake young men of the Falls City. 
 
 In 1893 Mr. Adams was elected a member of 
 the Louisville Board of Common Councilmen 
 and in 1894 he was chosen president of the 
 Board, being the youngest man who had ever 
 held that responsible office in Louisville, and he 
 performed its duties with dispatch and excellent 
 good judgment. Being affable, of pleasing ad- 
 dress and always gentlemanly in his demeanor, 
 he made many friends in a very trying position. 
 He is a popular member of a number of benevo- 
 lent orders, including the Odd Fellows and 
 Knights of Pythias, and is vice grand chancellor 
 of Kentucky for the latter order. In this he enjoys 
 the distinction of being the youngest man upon 
 whom that honor has ever been conferred in the 
 state. He is a consistent church member in con- 
 nection with the Baptist denomination and in all 
 of his church, society and business relations he is 
 greatly esteemed as an exemplary young man. 
 
 Mr. Adams was married October 31, 1889, to 
 Fannie E. Miller, daughter of Len S. Miller of 
 Louisville. 
 
 DR. WILLIAM BOWMAN of Tolesboro, 
 Lewis County, was born in Brown County, 
 Ohio, February 22, 1843. His father, Benjamin 
 Bowman, was a native of Pennsylvania and was 
 a farmer near Ripley, Ohio. He was a volunteer 
 soldier in the Mexican war. He died of cholera 
 in 1850 in the fifty-fifth year of his age. His 
 father, George Bowman, was a native of Penn- 
 sylvania and was one of the pioneers of the Ohio 
 Valley. His son, Philip (uncle), served in the 
 war of 1812. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 249 
 
 Mary McEIwee Bowman (mother) was a na- 
 tive of Brown County, Ohio. She died in 1893, 
 aged seventy-six years. Her father, Patrick Mc- 
 EIwee, was born in Ireland. He came to America 
 when a youth and married Mary Crossley, who 
 was born near Hagerstown. Her father and 
 brothers were Revolutionary soldiers. She was 
 one of the first settlers in Brown County, and 
 was personally acquainted with Daniel Boone and 
 Simon Kenton. 
 
 Dr. William Bowman attended the best schools 
 in his native county, and on the 9th of July, 1861, 
 when eighteen years of age, he enlisted as a pri- 
 vate in an independent company of picked men 
 from Brown County, who served as a body guard 
 for Generals Halleck, McPherson and O. O. How- 
 ard. He sefved three years in this capacity and 
 then entered the secret service. He received a 
 f5esh wound in the battle of Silver Creek, but oth- 
 erwise escaped serious injury. 
 
 After returning from the war he studied Latin 
 and Greek under a private teacher, at the same 
 time reading medicine and teaching school. He 
 was thus engaged in the dual capacity of teacher 
 arid pupil for three years. He then went to Mich- 
 igan University, Ann Arbor, for three years, tak- 
 ing a literary and medical course, graduating in 
 the medical department in 1873, and during the 
 following year attended the Ohio Medical College. 
 
 In 1870 he removed to Tolesboro, Lewis Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, which has been his home until the 
 present time. 
 
 Dr. Bowman has been a very active politician, 
 and although against his inclination and detri- 
 mental to his professional work, he has not been 
 able to keep out of office all the time. He was 
 elected to the legislature in 1881 and re-elected 
 two years later. He was the Republican elector 
 at large in the presidential campaign of 1888, 
 and was appointed consul at Tien-Tsin, China, 
 by President Harrison in 1889, and on his return 
 in 1893 he was again elected to the legislature 
 and was a member of the committee on educa- 
 tion, in which he rendered valuable service. 
 
 Dr. Bowman is well and favorably known 
 throughout the state and stands well in the esti- 
 mation of the leading men in all parties. His 
 name was prominently mentioned as the Repub- 
 
 lican candidate for lieutenant governor in the 
 last convention. He stands at the top of the medi- 
 cal profession in the state and has quite an en- 
 viable reputation as a surgeon. He is a member 
 of the State Medical Association and of the Na- 
 tional Medical Association. Dr. Bowman was 
 married in 1864 to Maggie McKinley of Ohio, a 
 relative of Governor William McKinley. 
 
 HON. JACOB T. SIMON, Commonwealth 
 Attorney, Cynthiana, was born in Grant 
 County, September 9, 1846. 
 
 His father, Francis Simon, was a native of the 
 northern part of France, and was engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits all his life. He emigrated 
 to the Island of Martinique in the Lesser Antilles 
 in 1823, where he resided until 1834, when he 
 came to the United States and settled in Grant 
 (then Owen) County, where he was one of the 
 most thrifty farmers of the county, until the time 
 of his death, which occurred July ^9, 1892, at the 
 advanced age of eighty-six yeais. He was a 
 Democrat in politics and served his country in 
 some of the minor offices. 
 
 John Simon (grandfather) was a native of 
 France and a soldier under the first Napoleon. 
 
 Eliza (Musselman) Simon (mother) was born in 
 Grant County in 1821 and is now living in the 
 old homestead. Her father, Jacob Musselman, 
 was a native of Harrison County, who removed 
 to Grant (then Owen) County in 1820, where he 
 followed farming and was one of the leading citi- 
 zens of the county. He died at the age of seventy- 
 six years, in 1867. He was a soldier in the war of 
 1 81 2, being at that time about twenty-one years 
 of age. He was of German descent. 
 
 Hon. J. T. Simon enjoyed but Hmited oppor- 
 tunities in the way of education when a boy, but 
 he was studious and ambitious, and after leaving 
 the county schools attended an excellent semi- 
 nary at Greenup Fork, Owen County, and after- 
 wards took a thorough course in a commercial 
 college. In 1868 he began the study of law 
 under Hon. H. P. Montgomery of Owenton. He 
 was admitted to the bar in 1868, and located at 
 Williamstown, where he remained one year and 
 then formed a partnership with the late Judge 
 O. D. McManama of Falmouth. He remained 
 
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 in Falmouth until 1888, when he removed to 
 Cynthiana, and has continued the practice of his 
 profession with great success until the present 
 time. 
 
 In 1874 he was elected county attorney of Pen- 
 dleton County. He was elected city attorney of 
 Falmouth in 1875 and was twice re-elected to 
 that office. In 1881-2 he represented Pendleton 
 County in the legislature and in 1885-6 he repre- 
 sented the Twenty-sixth Senatorial District, com- 
 posed of Bracken, Pendleton and Grant Counties, 
 in the Kentucky Senate. 
 
 He was elected commonwealth attorney for the 
 Eighteenth Judicial District in 1892, after remov- 
 ing to Cynthiana. In all of his elections he has 
 been supported by the Democratic party, in which 
 he is a most active and successful leader. 
 
 Mr. Simon was married September 17, 1872, 
 to Maggie T. McClure, daughter of John Mc- 
 Clure, one of the most worthy and successful 
 farmers of Grant County. She is a lady of great 
 intellectual and moral worth. They have one 
 daughter, Stella Simon. 
 
 Mr. Simon is a gentleman of fine personal 
 habits, of exceptional business and professional 
 ability; greatly devoted to his profession, in 
 which he is remarkably successful, and is one of 
 the most able and worthy self-made men in his 
 section of the state. 
 
 LINDSEY B. RUGLESS of Vanceburg, son 
 of Thomas Rugless, was born in Lewis 
 County, Kentucky, January i, 1818. His father 
 was a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Lewis 
 County with his father, one of the first settlers 
 on Cabin Creek, eight miles south of Vanceburg. 
 Thomas Rugless married Amelia Burriss, daugh- 
 ter of Mathew Burriss, also one of the pioneers 
 of Lewis County. She was the mother of six- 
 teen children, including the subject of this sketch. 
 After her death her husband married again and 
 two children were the result of that union, mak- 
 ing a full dozen and a half to the credit of Thomas 
 Rugless. 
 
 The ancestors of Lindsey B. Rugless on the 
 maternal side were patriots and pioneers. His 
 great-grandmother's maiden name was Forshee, 
 and she married a Mr. Scott, a soldier in the 
 
 Revolutionary war, which he survived only to 
 be killed by Indians. The result of that marriage 
 was one daughter, named Ruth, and who mar- 
 ried Mathew Burriss, and to whom were born 
 eleven children, five boys and six girls. One of 
 the latter was named Amelia, above referred to. 
 His great-grandfather Forshee settled in Lewis 
 County about the time Kentucky was admitted 
 into the Union. Lindsey B. Rugless is a man of 
 unusual attainments, especially considering the 
 difficulties he experienced in obtaining even an 
 ordinary education. His only schooling was 
 such as he could find in a primitive school house, 
 built of round logs with oiled paper for "window 
 glass." He was an industrious and energetic boy, 
 with laudable ambition, and at the age of eighteen 
 was as well qualified to teach school as any of 
 the pedagogues of that time. He then got up a 
 subscription school in the neighborhood and 
 taught for eight years. It is with a good deal of 
 pride that he now recalls the fact that he never 
 whipped a scholar, although the rod was consid- 
 ered a very necessary appliance in the school 
 room in those days. He was an expert pen- 
 maker, and with his pocket knife made and 
 "mended" the quill pens for the entire school, and 
 wrote all their copies. He struggled along 
 through poverty and hardship, gradually gaining 
 a little and eventually accumulating a competen- 
 cy, most of his undertakings proving successful. 
 He has always prided himself on being a Jef- 
 fersonian Democrat, and was a Douglas man in 
 the presidential campaign just prior to the war, 
 rather bitterly opposing Lincoln and Breckin- 
 ridge. In 1862 he was the Democratic candi- 
 date for the legislature against Judge G. M. 
 Thomas, and was arrested for being a constitu- 
 tional states right Democrat and placed under a 
 bond of $15,000; but he was at heart a Union 
 man and in 1863 joined tlie Federal army, served 
 two years and was honorably discharged at the 
 close of the war. He has been executor, admin- 
 istrator, assignee, trustee, guardian, arbitrator 
 and processioner in a greater number of instances 
 than any other man in the county and has settled 
 many differences between man and man, possess- 
 ing the confidence of his fellow citizens to an 
 extent few men enjoy in any community. He 
 
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 has never united with any religious institution or 
 secret order; but acknowledges a Fatherhood in 
 God and every man his brother. The Golden 
 Rule is his religious creed. He has always been 
 a good friend to the poor; and has the deserved 
 reputation of having bailed more men out of jail 
 than any other citizen of the county, in some cases 
 giving his bond for as much as $10,000. Mr. 
 Rugless was married March 22, 1840, to Calista 
 Lee, daughter of Barton Lee, a neighbor, who 
 was one of the pioneers of Lewis County. She 
 died March 5, 1887, and after her death Mr. 
 Rugless divided his property between his two 
 children, retaining only a small portion for him- 
 self, but to this he has added considerable in 
 later years and is in excellent circumstances. 
 This division was made before his second mar- 
 riage in 1888, but in view of it. He married 
 Mrs. Sarah A. Ewing, widow of Thomas Ewing 
 of Vanceburg. His son, Socrates Rugless, died 
 January 5, 1895, at the age of fifty-three years, 
 leaving his children and his children's children, 
 who were left orphans at a tender age, under the 
 guardianship of his honored and aged father. 
 Mr. Rugless' declining years have been full of 
 sorrow, his son, two of his grandchildren, two of 
 his great-grandchildren and a sister-in-law hav- 
 ing died within a few months, leaving him laden 
 with grief; still he exclaims, "All is right, in 
 God I trust." 
 
 God, in hie wisdom, broughit us here; 
 
 God in his Icindness takes us home; 
 So we, His children, should not fear; 
 
 He is but gathering up his own. 
 
 DR. C. B. SCHOOLFIELD, one of the most 
 progressive physicians in Campbell County 
 and one of the best known citizens of Dayton, 
 was born near Foster, Kentucky, March 6, 1846; 
 son of George T. and Mary (Maxwell) School- 
 field. His father was born in Maryland, Decem- 
 ber 31, 1799, and, at the age of fourteen years, 
 emigrated with his father to Kentucky and settled 
 on a farm in Bracken County near Augusta. He 
 remained on the farm a few years, when he en- 
 gaged in flatboating , between Augusta and New 
 Orleans. In 1838 he retired from the river and 
 again engaged in farming in Bracken County, 
 
 and there remained until 1873, when he removed 
 to Dayton, Kentucky, and after one year's resi- 
 dence there removed to Missouri, where he died. 
 He was for many years an extensive trader in 
 live stock and general produce, which he shipped 
 to New Orleans. In politics he was a Whig, 
 prior to the Douglas campaign, when he became 
 a Democrat. He was a son of Isaac Bosman 
 Schoolfield (grandfather), who was also born in 
 Maryland, emigrated to Kentucky in 1814 and 
 settled on a farm in Bracken County. His wife 
 was Mary Atkinson (grandmother), who also was 
 a native of Maryland. The Schoolfield family in 
 America is traced to the widow Schoolfield, who 
 brought her three sons to Baltimore, Maryland, 
 in 1632, from England. One of these brothers 
 settled in Virginia, one in Maryland, and the 
 other son pushed on further west. They brought 
 with them their coat-of-arms, which is still in the 
 family. George T. Schoolfield (father) married 
 Mary Maxwell in 1840. She was born in Brack- 
 en County, February 24, 1819; was well educated 
 in the private schools of her native county and is 
 a most estimable lady, residing at present in Day- 
 ton. Her father was William Maxwell, a native 
 of Pennsylvania, who later in life came to Ken- 
 tucky and located on a farm in Bracken County, 
 where he died in i860. His wife was Rachel 
 Adams. 
 
 Dr. C. B. Schoolfield received an academical 
 education at Foster and Falmouth, Kentucky, 
 and subsequently studied medicine, entered the 
 Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati and re- 
 ceived his diploma from that institution in 1873. 
 He located at once in his present home in Day- 
 ton, where he soon succeeded in building up a 
 lucrative practice and in making an enviable 
 reputation in his profession. He is a member of 
 the Cincinnati Society of Medicine; Cincinnati 
 Obstetrical Society; of the Kentucky State Med- 
 ical Society; of the Ohio State Medical Associa- 
 tion, and American Medical Association. Dr. 
 Schoolfield is a practitioner of Gynecology in the 
 Good Samaritan Hospital, and is one of the trus- 
 tees of the Speers Memorial Hospital, which is 
 nearing completion in Dayton. The fund for this 
 hospital, which was left by Mrs. Elizabeth Speers 
 of Dayton, amounts at present to nearly $100,000. 
 
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 Upon the completion of this hospital Dr. School- 
 field will be gynecologist and surgeon. 
 
 Dr. Schoolfield is a member of the Baptist 
 Church, a member of the Masonic order and 
 votes the Democratic ticket. 
 
 He was married to Florence Holms, daughter 
 of George B. and Mary Holms of Newport, 
 August 1 8, 1868. Her death occurred May 27, 
 1889. Dr. Schoolfield was again married May 
 5, 1892, to Mrs. Ida Lee Arthur, a daughter of 
 J. M. McArthur. She died March 17, 1894. 
 There are three children by his first marriage: 
 Dr. George Clarence, who graduated from the 
 Cincinnati Medical College and is now practicing 
 his profession in Charleston, West Virginia; Edna 
 Pearl and Edward Raymond. By the second 
 marriage he has no children. 
 
 Dr. G. Clarence Schoolfield is married and has 
 one son, John Charles, the only grandson of the 
 subject of this sketch. 
 
 JOHN E. PACK, M. D., Mayor of George- 
 town and one of the leading physicians of 
 that city, is a son of Richard F. Pack and Sallie 
 M. Emison, his wife, and was born in Scott Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, May ii, 1849. 
 
 Richard F. Pack was also a native of Scott 
 County, where he was an industrious and exten- 
 sive farmer nearly all his Hfe. He was a very 
 successful breeder of saddle horses and other high 
 bred stock, and was an honorable and enter- 
 prising citizen. He died in his native county, 
 March 4, 1892. 
 
 John Pack (grandfather), also a native farmer of 
 Scott County, served as a soldier in the Mexican 
 war, lived to a good old age and died a few years 
 ago, near the scene of his birth. The Packs were 
 of Irish descent, the first of whom in America set- 
 tled in Virginia, from which state the great- 
 grandfather of Dr. Pack came to Kentucky and 
 settled in Scott County, about the time Kentucky 
 was admitted to the Union. 
 
 Sallie M. Emison Pack (mother) was born in 
 Scott County, and died in 1895, aged sixty-eight 
 years. 
 
 William Emison (maternal grandfather) was 
 also a native of Scott County, and was a leading 
 farmer until the time of his death in 1875, when he 
 
 was seventy-nine years of age. The Emisons 
 were of Scotch-Irish descent and were among the 
 early settlers of Scott County, coming to this 
 state from Virginia. 
 
 Dr. John Pack spent his youthful days in the 
 usual routine of the farmer boy, attending school 
 and helping his father on the farm. He received 
 his collegiate education in the Kentucky Univer- 
 sity; read medicine with Dr. W. O. Sweeney of 
 Lexington and attended the Belleview Medical 
 College of New York City, graduating in 1873. 
 
 He began his professional career in the north- 
 ern part of Scott County, which was the field of 
 his labors until 1888, when he removed to George- 
 town, where he has enjoyed a very extensive prac- 
 tice and has found a wider field of usefulness. 
 
 He was elected to the legislature in 1887, and 
 was a most able and efficient member of that 
 body; was a member of the City Council of 
 Georgetown from 1891 until the fall of 1893, when 
 he was elected mayor of the city for a term of four 
 years, taking charge of the office January i, 1894. 
 He is a member of the Kentucky State Aledical 
 Society, and other associations for the advance- 
 ment of medical science; is an enterprising citi- 
 zen and a man and physician in whom the people 
 have great confidence. 
 
 Dr. Pack was married in 1879 to Laura Steven- 
 son, daughter of Reverend Evan Stevenson, for- 
 merly of Georgetown, now of Oxford, Maryland. 
 
 CAPTAIN BENJAMIN C. MILAM.— 
 Among the descendants of the brave and 
 enterprising men who settled in the valley of 
 Virginia, and who afterwards settled in Kentucky, 
 were the "Milams," and were the descendants 
 of the Welsh immigrants who came over from 
 Wales with William Johnson to Virginia in 1722, 
 grandfather of R. M. Johnson, and the ancestors 
 of Henry Clay. 
 
 Captain Benjamin C. Milam was the son of 
 John Milam and Lucy Bradley. His mother was 
 of Scotch-Irish descent, and was born in Scott 
 County, Kentucky, and died in 1831. Captain 
 Milam was born in Franklin County on the first 
 day of July, 1821. When war was declared to 
 exist between Mexico and the United States in 
 1846, Captain Milam was twenty-five years old. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 He immediately raised a company of cavalry, 
 which was attached to the regiment of mounted 
 men commanded by the late General Humphrey 
 Marshall. Captain Milam was engaged in the 
 battle of Buena Vista, when General Taylor or- 
 dered Colonel Marshall to charge the large body 
 of Mexican lancers led by General Torrejon. 
 Captain Milam's company took a conspicuous 
 part in driving the enemy from the field with a 
 loss of over two hundred. It was in this charge 
 of the Mexican lancers that Colonel McKee, 
 Lieutenant Colonel Henry Clay and Captain 
 William T. Willis were killed at the battle on the 
 23d of February, 1847. Captain Milam served as 
 a twelve months' volunteer in the Mexican war. 
 
 John Milam, the father of Captain Milam, was 
 an upright farmer of Franklin County until the 
 time of his death, which occurred in 1844, aged 
 sixty years. He was a soldier of the war of 1812, 
 serving under Governor Shelby when he assumed 
 command of the Kentucky troops at that time. 
 Moses Milam (grandfather) settled in Kentucky 
 about the year 1787. He was also a farmer and 
 died at a ripe old age many years ago. 
 
 Captain Benjamin C. Milam was reared on his 
 father's farm until he had reached the age of four- 
 teen years, when he went to Frankfort and 
 learned the trade of watchmaking and silver- 
 smithing with J. F. & B. F. Meeks. He received 
 only the advantages of a common school educa- 
 tion, but being of robust physique and strong 
 common sense, he overcame every obstacle and 
 has succeeded where many would have failed. 
 At the expiration of his apprenticeship the firm 
 name of J. F. & B. F. Meeks was succeeded by 
 J. _ F. Meeks & Company, which continued only 
 twelve months, when B. F. Meeks withdrew and 
 the old firm was succeeded by Meeks & Milam, 
 J. F. Meeks giving his time and attention to the 
 watch and jewelry business, while Captain Milam 
 devoted most of his time to the manufacturing of 
 fishing reels. This partnership lasted until 1854, 
 when it was dissolved by mutual consent, Mr. 
 Meeks taking the jewelry and watch department 
 and Captain Milam the reel department, and in 
 this line he continued successfully and built up 
 quite a reputation and is known throughout the 
 country as a maker of fishing reels. In later 
 
 years his son John W. has been in partnership 
 with him, the firm name being at present B. C. 
 Milam & Son. In January, 1893, Captain Milam ■ 
 was elected president of the Deposit Bank of 
 Frankfort, succeeding the late William J. Chinn, 
 Sr., which position he now holds. 
 
 After returning from the Mexican war, Cap- 
 tain Milam was married in 1848 to Martha Shock- 
 ley, daughter of Thomas Shockley of Frankfort. 
 She died in December, 1885, leaving one son and 
 a daughter, Annie, who is now the wife of Uberto 
 Keenon of Frankfort; and John W. Milam, who 
 is now in partnership with his father. Captain 
 Milam is descended from a patriotic ancestry. 
 He is a nephew of the celebrated General Ben- 
 jamin R. Milam, who was one of the most daring 
 men in the Texas Revolution of 1836, when the in- 
 dependence of Texas was won at the battle of San 
 Jacinto. History does not mention more daring 
 acts of bravery and hair-breadth escapes made 
 in defense of the people of Texas than is recorded 
 of General Milam in the annals of that state. He 
 was a man of invincible courage, to which was 
 added coolness in action and perseverance in ef- 
 fort. The predominant inclination of his mind 
 was to a military life, and by close attention to 
 the studies connected therewith he prepared him- 
 self to perform those duties which afterward de- 
 volved upon him, and thereby established his 
 character as one of the great heroes of Texas 
 freedom. Milam County in that state perpet- 
 uates his memory. 
 
 D HARRY STINE, Deputy County Clerk 
 . of Campbell County, Kentucky, son of 
 Frederick A. and Glorvina (CarHsle) Stine, was 
 born in Levi^istown, Pennsylvania, May 7, 1857. 
 His father, Frederick A. Stine, was born in 
 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; came to Newport in 
 1859 and is still a resident of that city. He was 
 for many years connected with the lumber firm 
 of I. W. Livezey & Company, and for thirteen 
 years was engaged in the internal revenue service 
 in the Sixth District of Kentucky. He is a stanch 
 Republican and takes a lively interest in all po- 
 litical contests. His antecedents were of German 
 extraction and have lived in Pennsylvania for 
 several generations.- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Glorvina Carlisle Stine (mother) was a native 
 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where her father, 
 ' William Carlisle, Jr., was a leading merchant 
 prior to 1854, when he became identified with the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad and was auditor of the 
 canal department of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company for many years. He died in Philadel- 
 phia in 1889, aged eighty-eight years. 
 
 D. Harry Stine came to Newport with his par- 
 ents in 1859, when he was two years of age. He 
 received a liberal education in the pubHc schools 
 of Newport; and after leaving, school, was em- 
 ployed with his father in the lumber establish- 
 ment of Livezey & Company. Beginning as an 
 errand boy, he remained with the firm for twenty 
 years and was promoted from time to time until 
 he was manager of the establishment, in which 
 capacity he was employed the greater portion 
 of his long term of service with Livezey & Com- 
 pany. 
 
 In January, 1895, he was appointed deputy 
 clerk of the Campbell County Court, a position in 
 which he has proven a very accommodating and 
 efficient officer. 
 
 He is now, and has been for several years past, 
 secretary of the Republican State League of Ken- 
 tucky and takes an active interest in state and 
 local politics. He is also secretary of the Com- 
 mercial Club of Newport, Kentucky. 
 
 In 1890 he was elected mayor of Newport over 
 Albert S. Berry, but was counted out. He con- 
 tested the election and was declared to have been 
 elected by the Circuit Court. The case was car- 
 ried to the Court of Appeals, and the term of 
 office had e:!{pired before the case was reached. 
 In 1892 he was a candidate for the office of 
 clerk of the Circuit Court, but everything went 
 Democratic that year, and he was not elected. 
 
 While Mr. Stine has not been successful in get- 
 ting into office by election, he has accomplished a 
 great deal for his party and has helped to elect 
 other Republicans to office, and enjoys this as 
 much as if he had been the favored candidate. 
 Mr. Stine is very popular in his party and enjoys 
 a very large acquaintance in the city, county and 
 state in which he has lived nearly all of his life. 
 
 He is a member of the Robert Burns Lodge 
 No. 163, F. and A. M., and has served as master 
 
 of the lodge for four years. He is also a popular 
 member of the Knights of Pythias. 
 
 Mr. Stine was married September 25, 1878, to 
 Nellie Georg Holt, daughter of William Holt 
 of Newport, formerly a wholesale grocer of Cin- 
 cinnati. 
 
 STEPHEN GARLAND SHARP of Lexing- 
 ton is a son of Allenton B. and Mary (Gen- 
 try) Sharp and was born at the "Indian Old 
 Fields" in Clark County, Kentucky, April 2, 1843. 
 Allenton B. Sharp (father) was born and reared in 
 Fayette County, where he resided all his life, 
 excepting the short time he lived in Clark County. 
 He was a tailor by trade, and for several years 
 carried on merchant tailoring at Athens, Fayette 
 County. He died at the age of fifty-four years, 
 in 1874. He was the son of Stephen Sharp, who* 
 was also born in Fayette County and was a 
 farmer by occupation. 
 
 William Sharp (great-grandfather) was a na- 
 tive of Virginia, who emigrated to Fayette Coun- 
 ty and was one of the earliest pioneers of that 
 section, and was one of the first teachers in Ken- 
 tucky, teaching at Boonesboro several terms. 
 The father, grandfather and great-grandfather 
 of Stephen G. Sharp lie buried on a farm, 
 adjoining the old Sharp homestead, in Fay- 
 ette County. The Sharps are descendants of 
 Scotch-Irish ancestry. Mary Gentry Sharp 
 (mother) was born in Fayette County and died in 
 1894, in the seventy-second year of her age. She 
 was a daughter of Garland Gentry, a native of 
 Fayette County, and one of the industrious and 
 well-known farmers of his section. The Gen- 
 trys were of Scotch descent and, like the Sharps, 
 were among the early settlers of Fayette County. 
 
 Stephen Garland Sharp was reared near Athens 
 and was educated in the country schools, and in 
 1861 he entered the Confederate army, under the 
 command of General Zollicofifer, as a private sol- 
 dier, and served till the 30th of September, 1864, 
 when he was severely wounded. In March, 1865, 
 he was again wounded while serving with Gen- 
 eral Morgan in the second battle of Cynthiana 
 and was wounded at Carter Station, East Ten- 
 nessee, while under the command of General 
 Duke. The wounds he received at Carter Sta- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 tion were severe and painful, being shot through 
 the lung and liver, and receiving a severe sabre 
 wound on the head. There was no braver man 
 nor more devoted soldier to the "lost cause" 
 tlian Captain Sharp. In every battle his bravery 
 and daring were conspicuous, and in all the posi- 
 tions he was called to fill he did his duty like a 
 soldier and with marked ability. He was captured 
 in 1862, and when General Kirby Smith invaded 
 Kentucky, Mr. Sharp made his escape and joined 
 Smith's army in its march through the Cumber- 
 land Gap. In the spring of 1863 he joined Colo- 
 nel Roy Cluke's regiment of cavalry. It was 
 with Cluke's regiment that he was captured on 
 the Ohio raid when the rear of Morgan's com- 
 mand was firing on the Federals. Senator Rod- 
 ney Haggard of Winchester and Colonel Calvin 
 Morgan rode back and informed Mr. Sharp not 
 to fire any more, that General Morgan had sur- 
 rendered. After the surrender many of the soldiers 
 of General Morgan were sent to four different 
 prisons: Rock Island, Camp Douglas, Fort 
 Delaware and Camp Chase. Mr. Sharp was sent 
 to Camp Chase, where he remained in prison for 
 six weeks, when he was transferred to Camp 
 Douglas, and from there made his escape on the 
 night of March 18, 1864. Passing through Ken- 
 tucky and Virginia, he rejoined a part of the com- 
 mand of General Morgan, who succeeded in 
 making their escape across the Ohio river at Buck- 
 ingham Island. He remained with Morgan until 
 the latter was killed at Greeneville, Tenn. 
 
 In March, 1865, without his knowledge or con- 
 sent, he was retired from the army on account 
 of his severe wounds, and in the spring of 1865 
 returned to his home in Fayette County. The 
 many severe hardships and sufferings endured 
 by Mr. Sharp, in prison, and the painful wounds 
 received in battle reduced his weight from one 
 hundred and sixty pounds to ninety-eight pounds. 
 In the fall of 1865 he returned to Virginia and 
 there wedded Jennie Hill, daughter of Elijah Hill 
 of Jonesville. He soon returned to Kentucky 
 and engaged in school teaching on Marble Creek 
 in Jessamine County. In 1866 he was appointed 
 deputy jailer of Fayette County. In 1870 he 
 was graduated from the law department of Tran- 
 sylvania and practiced law at the Fayette County 
 
 bar until 1874, when he was elected jailer of 
 Fayette County; in 1880 he was elected city 
 attorney, which office he filled for one year; was 
 elected county attorney in 1884 and served four 
 years, and in 1886 was elected county judge, 
 which office he resigned two years later, to accept 
 the office of state treasurer to fill out the unex- 
 pired term of James W. Tate, to which he was 
 appointed by Governor Buckner. After serving 
 the nineteen months of his term by appointment, 
 he was elected to that office for a term of two 
 years, but resigned the office of treasurer in March, 
 1890, to accept a position as general manager of 
 the Pine Mountain Iron & Coal Co., at Pineville, 
 and after holding that position for one year he re- 
 signed and returned to Lexington, since which 
 time he has served one term as president of the 
 City Council; and in the spring of 1892 was 
 elected city collector. 
 
 Judge Sharp has three children Hving, whose 
 names are Virginia, Leslie and Stephen G. 
 Sharp, Jr. 
 
 THEODORE M'DONALD HILL of New- 
 port, Kentucky, ex-judge of the Campbell 
 County Court, is a self-made man in the true sense 
 of that term; born and reared in humble life on a 
 farm in Campbell County, he prepared himself 
 for the legal profession unaided and was admitted 
 to the bar and commenced the practice of law in 
 1871. 
 
 He was elected police judge of Alexandria in 
 1872, to the state legislature in 1877 and re-elected 
 in 1879. After retiring from the legislature, he de- 
 voted himself exclusively to the law until the 
 death of County Judge Makibben in April, 1888, 
 when the Board of Magistrates appointed him to 
 fill the vacancy. His party since that time has 
 twice nominated and elected him to that office 
 by sweeping majorities. His practice as a law- 
 yer from 1871 to 1888 was largely of a nature to 
 acquaint him with county affairs, and he met 
 every requirement of his important office. His 
 popularity is attested by his several nominations 
 without opposition in his own party and by the 
 liberal vote he has always received from the peo- 
 ple at the polls. Looking carefully after every 
 detail of county affairs, keeping county taxes at 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 the lowest possible figure; correcting errors of the 
 assessments for hundreds of people; appearing 
 with the assessor twice before the State Board of 
 Equalization and by argument, facts and figures, 
 he prevented in part the threatened increase of 
 land and lot valuations over the assessors' fig- 
 ures that would have been very oppressive upon 
 the taxpayers of Campbell County. In brief, 
 Judge Hill performed all the duties and require- 
 ments of the people's court with marked ability. 
 Since his retirement from the bench he has been 
 engaged in the practice of law^in Newport. 
 
 In 1861 he left school to join the Confederate 
 army and enlisted in the Fifth Kentucky Infantry 
 as a private, serving under different commanders 
 — notably Colonel Giltner of Morgan's command 
 — until the close of the war. He was with General 
 Lee at Appomattox, and received his parole at 
 Charleston, West Virginia, when on his way 
 home. After arriving at Alexandria, Kentucky, 
 he read law with Honorable R. T. Baker, a noted 
 lawyer and Republican politician, and was admit- 
 ted to the bar February 22, 1871. 
 
 January i, 1868, Judge Hill was united in mar- 
 riage to Mary Isaphine White, a daughter of 
 H. E. White of Campbell County, Kentucky. 
 Of the five children born of this marriage only 
 one survives. Fay Fern Hill. 
 
 Theodore M. Hill is a son of William and 
 Elizabeth (Nation) Hill. William Hill was born 
 in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1794, and removed to 
 Campbell County in 1841, where he remained a 
 resident until his death, which occurred in 1873. 
 He was a stone mason and bricklayer by trade 
 and a Democrat in politics. He was a soldier 
 of the war of 1812 and of the Mexican war. In 
 the war of 1812 he was at the massacre at River 
 Raisin, the battles of the Thames and Lundy's 
 Lane and others, and in Mexico with General 
 Scott from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico. 
 
 He married Elizabeth Nation, daughter of Joel 
 Nation and Mary Albright of Eaton, Ohio, to 
 which place they had removed from North Caro- 
 lina. 
 
 William Hill (grandfather) was a native of 
 County Antrim, Ireland, and his wife, Jane Mac- 
 Donald, of the Isle of Skye, ofif the west coast of 
 Scotland. Both of them were first cousins of the 
 
 celebrated Scotch beauty. Flora MacDonald, the 
 plain narrative of whose life touches all hearts. 
 
 William Hill and his wife came to America in 
 colonial days (1767) and first settled in Pennsyl- 
 vania, and, during his residence there, he was 
 in the Continental army in the war of the Revolu- 
 tion. In 1794 he came with his family to Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio, where he lived until some time 
 prior to his death in 1833, having reached the 
 remarkable age of one hundred and three years. 
 For some years after his settlement at Cincinnati, 
 he kept a tavern known as the "Black Bear," 
 which was one of the pioneer inns of that city. 
 The latter years of his life were spent on a farm 
 in Butler County, Ohio. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Hill (mother) was born in East 
 Tennessee, while her parents were en route from 
 North Carolina to Ohio. She died in Campbell 
 County at the early age of twenty-four years. 
 She was a daughter of Joel Nation, a native of 
 North Carolina, who removed to Prebble, and 
 later to Champaign County, Ohio, where he died 
 in 1864. i I 
 
 Mr. Hill is now engaged in the practice of law 
 in Newport, Kentucky. 
 
 DR. JOHN W. SCOTT, deceased, of Lexing- 
 ton, was the son of the late Matthew T. and 
 Winnie (Webb) Scott. He was boin in Fayette 
 County, Kentucky, January 6, 1821. He received 
 a fair primary education and at the age of four- 
 teen entered the Transylvania University and was 
 graduated from there in the class of 1838, while 
 that college was under the temporary presidency 
 of Dr. Louis Marshall. Afterward he studied 
 medicine with Dr. Benjamin W. Dudley and 
 James M. Bush; and received his degree of M. 
 D. from the medical department of Transylvania 
 in 1842. In the same year he went to New York 
 City, and after spending one year in general hos- 
 pital practice settled down there in general prac- 
 tice of his profession, where he remained for about 
 twelve years. In 1855 he purchased a country 
 seat on Long Island, where he removed and re- 
 sided until 1 866, when he returned to Kentucky 
 and lived in quiet retirement at Lexington until 
 his death, which occurred July 22, 1888. He was 
 twice married: First to Jane Heyer Suydam, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 257 
 
 daughter of Cornelius R. Suydam, a prominent 
 . merchant of New York, by whom he has one child 
 surviving, Cornelius Suydam Scott, a lawyer at 
 Lexington, Kentucky. The only other child, Mat- 
 thew Thompson Scott, was a prominent and suc- 
 cessful physician at Lexington, Kentucky, and 
 died in the tliirty-ninth year of his age, on January 
 25, 1894. He was married the second time, in 1874, 
 to EHzabeth B., daughter of Abraham T. Skill- 
 man, who . was an old and prominent citizen of 
 Lexington, and an uncle of Dr. H. M. Skillman. 
 By the second marriage, there are three children 
 living: John W., a graduate of Center College 
 and of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. 
 He is now in his twentieth year, and when a little 
 past his eighteenth year he was graduated from 
 Center College. The other living children are 
 Henry Martyn Skillman Scott and Margaret Skill- 
 man Scott. Dr. Scott was an elder in the Second 
 Presbyterian Church of Lexington, and took a 
 great interest in cnurch affairs ; a decided believer 
 in the doctrines of the Calvinistic faith and sys- 
 tem; enthusiastic and public-spirited and a man 
 of marked individuality. He never aspired to 
 public office and had no taste for politics. He 
 gave largely and liberally to the boards and ob- 
 jects of his church, to the Center College at Dan- 
 ville, Kentucky, and to other forms of social, 
 educational and religious beneficence. He was 
 deeply interested in the moral, religious and gen- 
 eral elevation of the freedmen, and established 
 and long conducted the first Sunday school for 
 their benefit, managed by white persons in Lex- 
 ington, Kentucky; was a student all his days and 
 was accurately informed on a great variety of 
 subjects. 
 
 His father was Matthew T. Scott, born at 
 Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, January 5, 1786, of 
 Scotch-Irish parents, both of whom died when he 
 was quite young, and he came to live with his 
 relative. Dr. John M. Scott of Frankfort, before 
 the town plat of the present capital had been 
 placed on record. In 1808 he became a clerk in 
 the Bank of Kentucky and was transferred to the 
 Lexington branch of the same institution about 
 two years later. In June, 1810, soon after his 
 arrival in Lexington, he wedded Winnie Webb, 
 daughter of Isaac Webb, who had recently emi- 
 
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 grated from Virginia. Mr. Scott subsequently 
 occupied the positions of teller and cashierxof the 
 United States Bank, and when the paper of that 
 institution was taken by the Northern Bank of 
 Kentucky, which was founded in 1833, he be- 
 came cashier of the new bank, and was an officer 
 in the Northern Bank until his death in 1858, hav- 
 ing for the last six years of his Hfe been the presi- 
 dent of the bank. He came to Kentucky a poor 
 boy, but by good judgment, honesty and indus- 
 try, attained a comfortable position in later years, 
 and during his residence of a half century in Lex- 
 ington had the respect of the best families in that 
 section. He was one of the original subscribers 
 of $500 to the cemetery fund and the first treas- 
 urer of the Lexington Cemetery Company. He 
 was the father of fifteen children, nine of whom 
 reached maturity: James, Isaac W., Joseph N., 
 Mary, the widow of Dr. E. L. Dudley, John W., 
 Winnie, deceased; Margaret, wife of Dr. H. M. 
 Skillman; Lucy W., Matthew T., Joseph and 
 William T., who was colonel of the Third Ken- 
 tucky Infantry, and who led his regiment through 
 the war, died at Frankfort in 1875, leaving a 
 widow and three children. In the early history 
 of the country the Scotts were Federalists aiid in 
 more recent times were all Republicans. The 
 father was an old line Whig. For many genera- 
 tions the Scotts have been of the same religious 
 faith and the younger representatives may not 
 inaptly be termed "hereditary Presbyterians," but 
 are none the less members by conviction. 
 
 Matthew Scott, the grandfather of Dr. John W. 
 Scott, was a lieutenant in Miles' Pennsylvania 
 Regiment in the War of the Revolution. He vol- 
 unteered March 5, 1776; was taken prisoner at 
 Long Island August 27, 1776, exchanged Decem- 
 ber 8, 1776, and promoted to captain in a Penn- 
 sylvania State regiment April 18, 1777, to rank 
 from October 24, 1776. The regiment was desig- 
 nated as the Thirteenth Pennsylvania, November 
 12, 1777; retired July i, 1778. His brother, 
 Moses Scott, was in the same war, and lived and 
 died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Wil- 
 liam Scott, another brother, was commissary. 
 
 John Scott (great-grandfather) was a son of 
 Robert Scott, who was a member of the old Scot- 
 tish parliament, and opposed the union of the 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 crown during the reign of Queen Anne ; the ignor- 
 ing of the Scottish crown and name in the new 
 parliament of Great Britain was further offense to 
 him, and he, with a number of others, who were 
 members of the two houses of the old parliament, 
 sufifered in the Tower of London, with the risk 
 of their heads, until they were released by an am- 
 nesty of George I., when he was brought over 
 from Hanover to take the throne, by virtue of 
 being descended of the Stuarts. Robert and his 
 friend, the Earl of Belhoven, a member of the 
 Upper House of the old parliament, emigrated in 
 disgust to the North of Ireland. John W. Scott 
 was a double cousin of Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes, 
 the wife of President Hayes, who was a daughter 
 of Dr. James Webb of Fayette County, and a 
 first cousin of Dr. Scott, the father of Mrs. Ben- 
 jamin Harrison. 
 
 ANDREW JACKSON CASEY, President of 
 the Inquirer Publishing Company of Owens- 
 boro, son of A. W. and Mary (Cagle) Casey, was 
 born in Russellville, Kentucky, November 15, 
 i860. His father was born in De Kalb County, 
 Tennessee, August 19, 1827; married Mary 
 Cagle August 19, 1846; was a farmer; served 
 in the Confederate army and was colorbearer in 
 Colonel J. W. Caldwell's regiment, and was killed 
 in the battle of Shiloh April 6, 1862. 
 
 His mother, Mary Cagle Casey, is a daughter 
 of Charles Cagle, whose wife was Mary Demon- 
 breun, daughter of Timothy Demonbreun, who 
 lived near Nashville, and for whom Demonbreun 
 street in that city was named. She was educated 
 in the public schools; is now a resident of Rus- 
 sellville, Kentucky, and although past seventy- 
 two years of age, still retains a vigorous intellect. 
 Her grandfather, Timothy Demonbreun, was a 
 soldier in the Revolutionary war. 
 
 Andrew J. Casey, after leaving school, which 
 he did at an early age, found employment in the 
 office of the Russellville Herald, and beginning 
 as an office boy he was promoted step by step, 
 learning the duties and how to perform them, in 
 every department of the newspaper office, until, in 
 1885, he bought a half interest and became the 
 editor of the Herald. He sold his interest in that 
 paper in 1891 and purchased the Owensboro In- 
 
 quirer, a daily and weekly Democratic newspaper, 
 which, under his able management, has become 
 one of the best papers published in the western 
 part of the state, and a valuable property. Mr. 
 Casey is of a retiring disposition, and has never 
 sought political preferment or distinction, though 
 he has numerous friends who would gladly thrust 
 these honors upon him. His legion of admirers 
 is the best evidence of his popularity. Mr. Casey 
 was married April 17, 1894, to Lida Walker, 
 daughter of the illustrious Judge E. Dudley 
 Walker of Hartford, whose biography is given 
 in this volume. She is of that type of woman who 
 have made Kentucky famous. They have one 
 son, Walker Casey. 
 
 HOMER HUDSON, formerly a prominent 
 business man, but now retired, of Coving- 
 ton, was born in that city March 5, 1824, and is 
 a son of John and Ann (Chance) Hudson. His 
 father was born near Staunton, Virginia, in 1787. 
 He received his education in his native county 
 and emigrated from there to Kentucky in 1818, 
 or about that time. For many years he was one 
 of the leading merchants of Covington. His store 
 was on the comer of Third and Garrard streets, 
 and he owned a block of buildings known as Hud- 
 son Row. He served for a time as magistrate, 
 but his principal ambition was to succeed in com- 
 mercial pursuits, and to this he gave his entire 
 time until his death, which occurred in 1825. 
 James Hudson (grandfather) was a native of Vir- 
 ginia, and died in Staunton. He was a hneal de- 
 scendant of Hendrick Hudson, the Holland noble- 
 man who discovered the Hudson River and the 
 Hudson Bay. 
 
 Ann Chance Hudson (mother) was a native of 
 Maryland, whose first husband was a Quaker, 
 and after her marriage came west with her hus- 
 band and located in Cincinnati. After the death 
 of her first husband she married John Hudson in 
 1820. She died in 1886 aged eighty-seven years, 
 and" is buried in Highland Cemetery. 
 
 Homer Hudson received his education in the 
 private schools in Boone County, and also at 
 Kempt's Academy. After leaving school Mr. 
 Hudson studied law in the office of Judge Jame.'- 
 Prior of Carrollton, who is the uncle of Chief Jus- 
 
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 tice Prior of the Court of Appeals. In 1846 he was 
 admitted to the bar and immediately entered upon 
 practice. Finding that the law was not congenial 
 to his tastes, Mr. Hudson, after two years' practice, 
 abandoned the law and commenced merchandis- 
 ing, which he carried on successfully for seven 
 years. At the expiration of this time he became 
 the owner of the Empire Tobacco Works at Cov- 
 ington, which he operated for many years, be- 
 coming one of the best known tobacco manufac- 
 turers in the state. From 1850 to 1855 he was 
 engaged in business in Louisiana, Missouri, in 
 partnership with a Mr. Van Horn, under the firm 
 name of Van Horn & Hudson. 
 
 In 1867 Mr. Hudson served as president of the 
 City Council of Covington. He spent two years 
 (1881 and 1882) with his family in Europe, visit- 
 ing London, Paris, Brussels, Cologne, Switzer- 
 land, Italy and other interesting points on the con- 
 tinent. Mr. Hudson's beautiful home on Fifth 
 street is largely furnished with rare specimens of 
 bric-a-brac which were gathered on this Euro- 
 pean trip. In 1885 Mr. Hudson retired from 
 active business. He is a director and stockholder 
 in the Suspension Bridge Company, and has been 
 for many years; a director of the First National 
 Bank of Covington, and a director in the Cov- 
 ington Cemetery. 
 
 In 1857 Mr. Hudson was married to Esther 
 Fowler, daughter of Edward Fowler and grand- 
 daughter of Major Jacob Fowler. She was born 
 June 4, 1826, in Covington, Kentucky, and died 
 April 31, 1894, leaving three children: John Shel- 
 ley Hudson, a tobacconist of Covington; Ida 
 Dell, now Mrs. Ida Prettyman, and Dr. CHfiford 
 Hudson, who studied medicine in the Ohio Medi- 
 cal College, and took a post-graduate course in a 
 medical college in New York City. Mr. Hudson 
 is well informed on all important questions and is 
 liberal and independent in his opinions and in 
 poHtics. 
 
 JOHN BUFORD HENDRICK was born in 
 Frankfort, Kentucky, June 3, 1864, and is 
 the son of John R. and Mary (Swigert) Hen- 
 drick, and is descended on his father's side from 
 the Dutch Burghers of Holland, who in the six- 
 
 teenth century fought Philip II. of Spain for fifty- 
 one years and established the freedom and inde- 
 pendence of Holland, and that Dutch republic 
 was the fruit of their heroic resistance to the 
 tyranny of Philip in that century. 
 
 John R. Hendrick ffather) was born in Camp- 
 bell County, Virginia, February 10, 1827, and 
 emigrated to Kentucky when a young man. His 
 education was received at Center College. He 
 afterwards took a theological course at Prince- 
 ton, and after entering the Presbyterian ministry, 
 he removed to Frankfort, which was his home 
 until the day of his death, November 28, 1881. 
 
 Phillip Swigert (maternal grandfather), in his 
 day one of the most distinguished citizens of the 
 state, was born May 27, 1798, and died in Frank- 
 fort, December 31, 1871, in the seventy-fourth 
 year of his age. For fifty years he lived in that 
 community and was one of its most active, useful 
 and distinguished men. The farm on which he 
 was born lies eight miles southeast of Lexington, 
 in the present limits of Jessamine County, and is 
 now owned by Thomas A. Davis. When quite 
 young he wrote as a deputy in the Woodford Cir- 
 cuit Court under John McKinney. In 1822 he 
 removed to Frankfort, and received the appoint- 
 ment of clerk of the Circuit Court of Franklin 
 County, and was the successor of Francis 
 P. Blair, Sr. He continued as circuit clerk by 
 appointment and then by election, under the Con- 
 stitution of 1849, until 1862, a period of thirty-two 
 years. At the expiration of that time, wishing to 
 embark in other pursuits, he declined being a 
 candidate for further re-election to that office. 
 He was elected to the state senate of Kentucky 
 from the district composed of the counties of 
 Franklin, Anderson and Woodford in 1865, for 
 the term of four years. He was a man of remark- 
 able financial ability, which was proven sufficient- 
 ly when opportunities were afforded him for ac- 
 tion. He was chairman of the State Board of 
 Internal Improvements and was for many years 
 president of the Farmers' Bank of Kentucky. 
 Soon after his removal to Frankfort he was ap- 
 pointed commissioner, or agent, for the old Bank 
 of Kentucky, the duties of which were to collect 
 its assets and settle up its afifairs, which he per- 
 formed in the most satisfactory manner, and in 
 
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 the prosecution of which he visited nearly every 
 county in the state. 
 
 He was one of the most distinguished mem- 
 bers of the Masonic fraternity and was more 
 widely known in that relation than any other man 
 of his day. He became a Mason in 1819, at the 
 age of twenty-one, and in the following year rep- 
 resented Landmark Lodge No. 41 >" the Grand 
 Lodge of Kentucky, which was in the same year 
 that Henry Clay was elected and installed Grand 
 Master of Masons in Kentucky. He was a life- 
 long friend of Henry Clay. After serving alter- 
 nately as Grand Junior and Grand Senior Deacon 
 he served some years as Grand Treasurer, and for 
 twenty consecutive years afterwards acted as 
 Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge. Upon his 
 retirement from office, as a testimonial of the high 
 esteem in which he was held by his brethren, he 
 was presented with an elegant Grand Secretary's 
 jewel of gold. In 1858 he was elected Grand 
 Pursuivant of the Grand Council, and held the 
 same for several terms. He was elected Grand 
 Master of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky in 1857; 
 elected Grand Secretary of the Grand Chapter of 
 Royal Arch Masons in 1822 and held the office 
 with an interval of only two years until his death. 
 For a period of forty-three years he was a con- 
 stant and efficient member of Hiram Lodge No. 
 4 of Frankfort; was a Knight Templar, the mem- 
 bers of which order, together with all other 
 Masons in convenient distance, were present at 
 his funeral, with all the imposing honors and cere- 
 monies of that ancient and time-honored frater- 
 nity. He was a man of great energy of purpose, 
 untiring industry and methodical habits. It did 
 not matter how multifarious were his duties, he 
 undertook them and accomplished them with 
 great ability and fidelity. Whether of minor or 
 greater importance, it made no difference; he did 
 his duty and did it well. During his life he was 
 nearly always one of the chief and directing spirits 
 in the public affairs pertaining to his county and 
 town, and his devotion to duty and his high moral 
 rectitude were never questioned. No man en- 
 joyed more fully the confidence and respect of the 
 community in which he lived. For twenty years 
 he was mayor of Frankfort; was a successful 
 business man and left a large estate to his chil- 
 
 dren. The ancestors of Phillip Swigert were from 
 Zurich, Switzerland. 
 
 J. Buford Hendrick, his grandson, was reared 
 in the city of Frankfort, and was educated in pri- 
 vate schools. After leaving school he accepted a 
 position in the Deposit Bank of Frankfort, where 
 he also successfully managed the business affairs 
 of his mother. In 1893 he was elected vice-presi- 
 dent of the bank, which office he still holds. In 
 1889 he wedded Georgia, daughter of Jesse P. 
 Lyons of Missouri, and has two children, Mary 
 S. and J. Buford. Mr. Hendrick is a member and 
 deacon in the Presbyterian Church, and a mem- 
 ber of Hiram Lodge No. 4, Frankfort Chapter, 
 Grand Consistory of Kentucky. In politics he 
 is a Republican. The ancestors of the name of 
 Hendrick are land owners in Holland. Henry 
 Hudson, who, in the service of Holland, discov- 
 ered the Hudson River and afterward became a 
 land holder in the Dutch Republic, changed his 
 name to Hendrick Hudson. 
 
 J 
 
 AMES GUTHRIE COKE, editor of the 
 Herald-Enterprise, Russellville, son of 
 Richard Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Guthrie) 
 Coke, and grandson of Honorable James Guthrie, 
 was born in Louisville, Kentucky, June 18, 1841. 
 
 His father was bom in Washington County, 
 Kentucky, August 13, 1815; was a graduate of 
 Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; studied law in 
 old Transylvania University; began the practice 
 of his profession in Springfield, Kentucky; moved 
 to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1840, where he prac- 
 ticed law until his death, May 18, 1845. He was 
 a member of the state legislature in 1837 and 
 1838; was married June 2, 1840, to Mary Eliza- 
 beth Guthrie, daughter of Honorable James 
 Guthrie and Elizabeth Prather, his wife, of Louis- 
 ville. She was bom January 6, 1823, and was 
 educated at Nazareth College, Nelson County. 
 James Guthrie Coke is the only child of this 
 union. 
 
 Mrs. Coke (mother) was married again in 1854 
 to John Caperton. He was born in Virginia and 
 educated in the University of Virginia. He 
 studied law in his native state and afterward con- 
 tinued his legal studies in New Orieans. In 1849 
 he moved to California. He was a deputy under 
 
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 Colonel Jack Hayes, the first sheriff of San Fran- 
 cisco County, and as such opened the first court 
 ever held in California. After his marriage he 
 wound up his business in California, moved to 
 Louisville, retired from active business, and took 
 up his residence in the Guthrie homestead, which 
 fell to his wife's share in the settlement of her 
 father's estate. By this union there were four 
 children: John H., Mary Eliza, Julia and Hugh 
 Gaston; all of whom are dead but John H., who 
 is a successful business man in Louisville, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Richard Coke (grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia, and one of the pioneers of Washington 
 County, Kentucky. 
 
 James Guthrie (maternal grandfather) was born 
 in Nelson County, Kentucky, December 5, 1792. 
 He was educated at St. Mary's College and at 
 Bardstown Academy. After a few years spent in 
 flatboating to New Orleans, he studied law with 
 Judge John Rowan; was admitted to the bar 
 and began to practice at Bardstown. 
 
 He was appointed commonwealth attorney, 
 under the old constitution, but resigned; removed 
 to Louisville, where he soon acquired a lucra- 
 tive practice; was a member of the City Council 
 for many years; served repeatedly in both 
 branches of the legislature; was a member of the 
 constitutional convention and its presiding officer 
 in 1849; was secretary of the United States treas- 
 ury under President Pierce from 1853 to 1857; was 
 a candidate for the nomination to the presidency 
 before the Democratic national convention at 
 Charleston, South Carolina, in i860; was a dele- 
 gate to the peace conference at Washington in 
 i860; also to the border state convention at 
 Frankfort soon afterward; was offered a position 
 in President Lincoln's cabinet, and afterward a 
 major general's commission, with command of 
 the division embracing Kentucky, both of which 
 positions he declined to accept; was elected to the 
 United States senate in 1865, but owing to feeble 
 health, resigned in 1868, and died in Louisville, 
 March 13, 1869. 
 
 His ability as a financier was illustrated in the 
 management of his own affairs, no less than that 
 of the national treasury and the Louisville & 
 Nashville Railroad, in whose early history he was 
 
 one of the master spirits, and by his indomitable 
 energy and wise judgment the success of that 
 road was attained after many years of threatened 
 failure. 
 
 James Guthrie Coke was partly educated in 
 Louisville, and when twelve years of age went 
 to Washington City to live with his grandfather 
 Guthrie, who was at that time secretary of the 
 treasury. After attending private schools in 
 Washington he went to Georgetown College, Dis- 
 trict of Columbia, and in 1857 to Georgetown Col- 
 lege, Kentucky, and would have graduated in 
 1861, the same year that institution suspended on 
 account of the war. He attended the law depart- 
 ment of the University of Louisville; graduated in 
 1863, and began the practice of his profession in 
 Louisville; was in the City Council for two years; 
 served in the legislature from Louisville in 1871- 
 72; was a director of the Louisville, Cincinnati 
 & Lexington Railroad, and helped to organize, 
 and was one of the first directors of the Manufac- 
 turing and Financial Company. He moved to 
 a farm in Logan County in 1872; was twice 
 elected on the board of magistrates; was elected 
 a director of the Louisville & Nashville Rail- 
 road Company, and was elected a delegate from 
 Logan County to the convention of 1890-91, 
 which framed the present constitution of Ken- 
 tucky. In 1884 he moved to Russellville and 
 practiced law in the civil courts until 1888, in 
 which year he connected himself with the Rus- 
 sellville Herald-Enterprise, of which he is editor. 
 His paper is one of the best in the state, and Mr. 
 Coke's strong, vigorous editorials wield a health- 
 ful influence on public opinion. 
 
 Mr. Coke is an able editor, as he was a dis- 
 tinguished lawyer, business man and public ser- 
 vant, before his newspaper work absorbed his at- 
 tention; and is a man of sound judgihent and un- 
 swerving principle, devoted to the progress and 
 enlightenment of the people of his community. 
 He is a trustee of Bethel College, a member of 
 the Baptist Church, and a highly esteemed citizen. 
 
 Mr. Coke was married, first, September 27, 
 1865, to Jennie Winston, a native of Kentucky, 
 daughter of David Y. and Elizabeth Winston. 
 She was educated in Mrs. Nold's Louisville 
 Female Seminary. By this union there was one 
 
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 son, James Guthrie Coke, born July 29, 1866. 
 Mrs. Coke died October 9, 1870. His second 
 marriage was celebrated November 5, 1873, to 
 Queenie Marshall Blackburn, daughter of Gen- 
 eral Samuel Davis Blackburn. She was born in 
 Bowling Green, Kentucky, June 3, 1855; was 
 educated at Bowling Green and Nazareth College 
 in Nelson County, and is one of the most cultured 
 and refined ladies in Southern Kentucky. 
 
 They have three children: John Caperton, 
 Elizabeth Blackburn and Richard H. Coke. 
 
 SPENCER C. LONG of Georgetown, son of 
 Nimrod Long and Elizabeth (Curd) Long, 
 was born in Russell ville, Kentucky, March 3, 1835. 
 
 His father, Nimrod Long, was a native of 
 Logan County, and died in Russell ville in 1887, 
 in the seventy-fifth year of his age. It was said 
 of him that Logan County never produced a more 
 honorable and upright man. He was a farmer of 
 the most progressive class, a man of rare business 
 qualifications, and was known as one of the 
 wealthiest men in the county. For some years 
 before his death he was engaged in the banking 
 business in Russellville, and in 1868 the notorious 
 bank robbers known as the James brothers 
 robbed the bank and wounded Mr. Long; but 
 fortunately the wound did not prove fatal, and 
 he continued the business without loss to his 
 depositors. 
 
 He was a faithful member of the Baptist 
 Church, and was liberal in his support of the 
 gospel. He was also one of the largest contribu- 
 tors to Bethel College, and his charities were in- 
 numerable and were chiefly unknown to others. 
 
 John Slaughter Long (grandfather) was bom 
 in Culpeper County, Virginia, and coming to 
 Kentucky, was among the pioneers of Logan 
 County. He was a farmer and one of the best 
 citizens of his county. He died in 1839, having 
 reached the age of seventy-six years. 
 
 Gabriel Long (great-grandfather) was a major 
 and served under Generals Washington and 
 Greene in the Revolutionary war. With Colonel 
 James Slaughter and Chief Justice John Marshall, 
 he had the honor of being in the battle of the 
 "Great Bridge," the first battle that was fought 
 
 in Virginia, and was present at the last, the sur- 
 render of Lord Cornwallis. 
 
 In 1777 Gabriel Long was assigned to the 
 Eleventh Regiment, commanded by General 
 Daniel Morgan. He was one of the sufiferers at 
 Valley Forge in 1778. Among his messmates 
 was John Marshall, who was afterward Chief Jus- 
 tice of the United States Supreme Court. Gabriel 
 Long was a gallant soldier, a true patriot, and 
 lived to a great age and died in Virginia. The 
 Longs were of English and Norman descent, and 
 were among the earliest settlers of Virginia. 
 
 Elizabeth Curd Long (mother) was born in 
 Logan County, in 1814, and died in 1845. Her 
 father, Spencer Curd, was a native of Shelby 
 County and was for twenty years circuit and 
 county clerk of Logan County. During a part 
 of that time the circuit embraced all of the south- 
 ern part of Kentucky, a territory larger than the 
 states of Rhode Island and Connecticut com- 
 bined. Mr. Curd died in Russellville in 1833. 
 
 John Curd (maternal grandfather) was a native 
 of Virginia, a soldier in the Revolutionary war 
 and was taken prisoner by the British at the battle 
 of Germantown. The ancestors of the subject of 
 this sketch on both sides were patriotic citizens 
 and soldiers in the war of independence. 
 
 Spencer C. Long spent his boyhood in Rus- 
 sellville, and attended Georgetown College, 
 graduating in the class of 1854. His first business 
 venture was as a wholesale grocer in Louisville, 
 where he was a member of the firm of Hall & 
 Long for six years. The firm dissolved about 
 1866; and he was then engaged in the tobacco 
 business in Louisville until 1878, when he went 
 to Russellville and took charge of his father's 
 bank, in which business he remained until his 
 father's death. 
 
 In 1887 he organized the Deposit Bank of Rus- 
 sellville, of which he was president until 1891, 
 when he resigned and removed to Georgetown. 
 He owns a fine farm almost within the limits of 
 Georgetown, and is deeply interested in its culti- 
 vation, while having other investments of various 
 kinds in the city. 
 
 During his residence in Louisville he was a 
 member of the school board, and while in Rus- 
 sellville he served three times as mayor of that 
 
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 thriving city, and was, and still is, treasurer of 
 Bethel College. He is a member of the Baptist 
 Church, and in all respects is an exemplary and 
 enterprising citizen. 
 
 He was married in 1856 to Camelia Gano, 
 daughter of Dr. Stephen Gano of Georgetown. 
 They have two sons and three daughters: 
 Stephen G. Long is a lawyer in Los Angeles, 
 California; Nimrod Long is in the grocery busi- 
 ness at Owensboro; Nelly Long married Church 
 Blaclcburn of Georgetown; Mary Long married 
 Dr. Walter Byrne of Russellville ; and Bessie Long 
 married Robert Finnell of Georgetown. 
 
 CHARLES O. REYNOLDS, Register of 
 the Land Office, son of O. A. and Catherine 
 (Rice) Reynolds, was born in Lexington, Ken- 
 tucky, March 23, 1856. 
 
 His father was born in Anderson County, Ken- 
 tucky, in 1823, and died in Lexington, July 22, 
 1883. He was a well-known business man of 
 Lexington, where he was in the grocery business 
 for thirty-two years; was a leading member of 
 the Baptist Church, a Republican in politics and a 
 member of the Odd Fellow's fraternity, in which 
 he was prominent for many years. 
 
 Catherine Rice Reynolds (mother) was a native 
 of Rose Hill, Fayette County, daughter of Solo- 
 mon Rice; was educated in the county schools; 
 was a very active member of the Christian Church, 
 in which her father was one of the organizers in 
 Lexington. She died in 1866. 
 
 William Reynolds (grandfather) was born in 
 Kentucky, in 1800, and was educated in Ander- 
 son County; married Margaret Abbott of that 
 county; was a farmer, industrious, successful and 
 highly esteemed, and was a leading spirit in the 
 Old Pisgah Church. He died in 1868, and his 
 wife in 1888. 
 
 William Reynolds (great-grandfather) and his 
 father, Aaron Reynolds, were famous Indian 
 fighters in the pioneer days of Kentucky, and 
 William was awarded a land grant by Virginia for 
 his three years' service in the Virginia State Line 
 troops. 
 
 Charles O. Reynolds went into his father's 
 grocery as a salesman before he could see over 
 the counters and learned something about busi- 
 
 ness before completing his education. He at- 
 tended the city schools and won a scholarship 
 in the Agricultural and Mechanical College, and 
 completed his schooling in that institution. 
 
 When twenty years of age he embarked in the 
 grocery business with his brother William, and 
 was thus engaged until 1882, when he was ap- 
 pointed to a position in the United States in- 
 ternal revenue service by Colonel A. M. Swope, 
 remaining until 1885. In the examination of 
 revenue employes Mr. Reynolds was one of 
 two men in the district who received a perfect 
 mark, which resulted in his promotion to the 
 position of division deputy under T. C. McDowell, 
 Colonel W. C. Goodloe's successor having been 
 the first man appointed by Collector Goodloe. 
 He resigned in January, 1893, and was employed 
 as superintendent of the new distillery of J. E. 
 Pepper, and remained with that establishment un- 
 til it shut down, temporarily, after which he was 
 engaged in the coal business until his election as 
 register of the land office. 
 
 His nomination for that office in the Republi- 
 can convention was a surprise to him as he had 
 not sought the nomination, which was secured by 
 his personal friends. His selection was most for- 
 tunate, as he was well known throughout the cen- 
 tral portion of the state and popular with the rank 
 and file of the party, and by his gentlemanly, 
 pleasing manner and striking personality he made 
 many votes for his ticket. He made an active 
 canvass and proved himself a worthy leader and 
 a competent man for the office. In the November 
 election, 1895, he received the largest majority 
 in the state, having a plurality of 9,878 votes 
 which was 966 votes ahead of the ticket. In his 
 new position he has demonstrated lids fitness for 
 che office to which he was elected and has made 
 many friends for himself and for his party. 
 
 Mr. Reynolds was married September 23, 1884, 
 to Josephine DeLime of Frankfort. She was 
 born November 10, 1866; educated in Frankfort 
 schools and died July 11, 1888, and is buried at 
 Lexington. Her father. Professor Louis A. De- 
 Lime, was sent to this country by the French 
 authorities to investigate the culture of sugar 
 beets. In France he was a noted chemist and the 
 author of several scientific works. He was 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 awarded the first prize at the Louisville Exposi- 
 tion for the best apparatus for aging whiskey. 
 
 The five children of O. A. and Catherine Rice 
 Reynolds (parents) were: William, who accom- 
 panied the Greely relief expedition and traveled 
 extensively over the world, now a resident of Lex- 
 ington; Charles O., subject of this sketch; MolUe, 
 married Reed Taylor, went to Chicago and died 
 there in 1881, and Addie and Frank, who are 
 living in Lexington. 
 
 CHARLES LATHAM, a prominent and 
 highly successful merchant of Hopkinsville, 
 is a native of that city, Christian County, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 His father, John C. Latham, was born in Rus- 
 sellville, Kentucky, November 6, 1814, and re- 
 moved with his parents to Christian County when 
 he was five years of age. He was educated in 
 Hopkinsville, and after leaving school was clerk 
 of the Circuit Court of Christian County for sev- 
 eral years. He was then engaged in mercantile 
 pursuits for fifteen years, and in 1865 organized 
 the Bank of Hopkinsville; was elected president 
 of the bank and served faithfully in that capacity 
 until the day of his death, 1885. His estimable 
 widow, whose maiden name was Virginia Glass, 
 is still living in Hopkinsville. His family con- 
 sisted of three children: John C. Latham, Jr., 
 Mary R. and Charles M. Latham, the subject of 
 this sketch. 
 
 John and Nancy (Moorehead) Latham (grand- 
 parents) were Virginians, who came to Kentucky 
 and located in Logan County in the earlier years 
 of the present century and removed to Christian 
 County in 1819. They belonged to that sturdy 
 and intelligent class to whom the county in which 
 they lived owes its high moral and intellectual 
 standing at the present day. 
 
 Charles M. Latham secured a good practical 
 education in the excellent schools of Flopkinsville 
 and Bethel College, Russellville, Kentucky; en- 
 gaged in business while still in his teens, and at 
 once developed a remarkable aptitude for busi- 
 ness, to which he gave his undivided attention, 
 and in the course of the eighteen years of his mer- 
 cantile experience he has steadily risen step by 
 step until he is counted one of the leading mer- 
 
 chants in his section of the state, and one of the 
 most enterprising, industrious and substantial 
 citizens of Hopkinsville. 
 
 He has made a careful study of all the details 
 in the various lines of his trade, being particular 
 to buy the best qualities of salable goods so that 
 he can give his personal guarantee with each sale. 
 His well known integrity and honesty of purpose 
 have won for him the implicit confidence of the 
 people. 
 
 Mr. Latham has been directly or indirectly iden- 
 tified with the general prosperity of his native 
 city, being always ready to assist in any movement 
 that promises to add to its further development 
 and growth. He has investments in bank, hotel 
 and turnpike stock; has never held office or had 
 any aspirations in that direction, but he uses his 
 influence and casts his vote for men and measures 
 which tend to the improvement and elevation 
 of the public service. 
 
 GEORGE HENRY MOORE, deceased, who 
 was a leading and influential merchant of 
 Louisville, was the son of George J. and Cather- 
 ine (Fonda) Moore, and a native of Louisville, 
 born January 10, 1835; died January 14, 1896. 
 
 His father was a native of Ashford, Connecti- 
 cut, who came to Louisville in 1833, where he 
 resided until his death, which occurred in 1875, 
 aged sixty-five years. He was for some time a 
 private banker; and subsequently engaged in the 
 wholesale grocery business as a member of the 
 firm of Fonda, Moore & Company, in which he 
 continued for a number of years. He was a Whig 
 in the days of Henry Clay, who always received 
 his vote when Mr. Clay was a candidate. In 1856 
 he became a Democrat and affiliated with that 
 party until his death, in 1875, although persis- 
 tently refusing to accept any office, political or 
 otherwise. The ancestors of the Moores were 
 English. 
 
 Catherine Fonda Moore (mother) was a native 
 of Troy, New York. She died in 1892, aged 
 seventy-five years. The Fondas were originally 
 from Holland. On coming to America they set- 
 tled near Troy or Albany, New York. 
 
 Mr. Moore received his education principally 
 in a private school in Shelbyville, taught by S. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 26s 
 
 B. Womack. After leaving school he entered his 
 father's wholesale grocery as a salesman or clerk, 
 continuing until 1858, when he went to Jackson, 
 Mississippi, and accepted a position as bool<- 
 keeper in a large wholesale house, where he re- 
 mained until the beginning of the war. Then he 
 enlisted in the Confederate army and was made 
 captain of Company I, Thirty-ninth Mississippi 
 Infantry. After the surrender at Port Hudson 
 he had command of his regiment. He was cap- 
 tured by the Federal soldiers at Altoona, Georgia, 
 and was held a prisoner of war at Johnson's 
 Island until the close of the war. 
 
 He then returned to Louisville and accepted 
 employment as a clerk in the wholesale whiskey 
 house of his uncle, Jesse Moore; and in 1868 be- 
 came a partner in the house, the firm name being 
 changed to Jesse Moore & Co. In 1892 Mr. 
 Moore purchased his uncle's interest and con- 
 ducted the business alone until his death. 
 
 He was also for many years engaged in the 
 distiUing business in partnership with Mr. Max 
 Selliger, under the firm name of Moore & Sel- 
 liger, having two large distilleries in Louisville, 
 where the popular brands of whiskey known as 
 Bellmont, Astor and Nutwood are manufactured. 
 
 Mr. Moore was also the senior member of the 
 firm of Moore, Hunt & Company, wholesale 
 liquor dealers in San Francisco. 
 
 He was for many years president of the Peo- 
 ple's Bank of Louisville until its liquidation in 
 1893; a director in the Fidelity Trust Company 
 of Louisville, and for many years director in the 
 Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home, an in- 
 stitution in which he was deeply interested, as 
 indeed he was in all worthy charities. He gave 
 liberally to the poor, and said nothing about it. 
 Few men have done more to assist his fellow men 
 than did George H. Moore. 
 
 He was a Democrat and took a lively interest 
 in the election of capable men to office; but re- 
 fused to accept any office himself. He was a 
 public-spirited citizen, who felt a great pride in 
 his city, and was always interested in and ready 
 to promote any enterprise that he deemed benefi- 
 cial to the city. 
 
 He was married in 1867 to Florence, daughter 
 of Cornelius Deweese of Carroll County. Two 
 
 sons and two daughters were the result of this 
 union: Jessie, wife of George D. Moore of Wor- 
 cester, Massachusetts; Shirley Moore, who mar- 
 ried Frankie, daughter of the late B. F. Guthrey of 
 Louisville; and Percival and Georgie. 
 
 Mr. Moore was a great lover of art and had 
 the finest private gallery in the city, containing 
 about seventy-five very fine and costly oil paint- 
 ings; a rich legacy to his surviving family. 
 
 L FRANK JOHNSON, State Auditor's 
 . Agent and an able Attorney-at-Law of 
 Frankfort, son of William P. and Mary Elizabeth 
 (Cardwell) Johnson, is a native of Franklin Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky. 
 
 His father was a descendant of Presbyterian 
 stock from the North of Ireland. The fana on 
 which he was born and reared, in Franklin County 
 — four miles from Frankfort — has belonged to the 
 Johnson family since about the time of the Revo- 
 lutionary war. William P. Johnson learned the 
 trade of house carpenter and was a lifetime resi- 
 dent of his native county; was an elder in the 
 Southern Presbyterian Church; an honest busi- 
 ness man and one who loved and honored the 
 religion which he professed. He died in 1875, at 
 the age of fifty-six years. 
 
 William Johnson (grandfather) was born in 
 the northern part of Ireland; came to America 
 and located in Franklin County, Kentucky, at a 
 very early day; married Sallie Arnold, daughter 
 of John Arnold, who was sheriff of Franklin 
 County in 1802, and a granddaughter of Colonel 
 William McBride, a noted Indian fighter, who 
 perished at the bloody battle of Blue Lick Springs 
 in August, 1780. The first house built between 
 Frankfort and Harrodsburg was the work of 
 Frank Johnson's ancestors. 
 
 Mary Elizabeth Cardwell Johnson (mother) is 
 a descendant of a Welsh family of Baptists, who, 
 with the Broaduses, Brevands and the family of 
 Colonel Richard M. Johnson, settled in Virginia 
 in 1722. She was born in Franklin County in 
 1830, on the farm upon which she is now living. 
 She is a faithful adherent of the religion of her 
 ancestors. 
 
 John Cardwell (maternal grandfather) was born 
 in Culpeper County, Virginia, and was closely re- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 lated to the Crockett families of Virginia and 
 Kentucky. He located in Franklin County when 
 he was a young man and volunteered as a soldier 
 in the Northwestern army in the War of 1812. 
 He was an industrious and enterprising farmer, 
 and died at the ripe age of ninety-three years. 
 
 L. Frank Johnson was reared on his father's 
 farm, and obtained his education by his own ex- 
 ertions, working his way through Forest Aca- 
 demy, which he attended one year, and through 
 the Kentucky Military Institute (three years), 
 graduating from that institution in 1880. After 
 teaching school one session he began the study 
 of law with Judge Patrick N. Major, and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1883. 
 
 In 1886 he formed a partnership with his former 
 preceptor. Judge Major, and this relation con- 
 tinued until 1890, when Mr. Johnson was elected 
 county attorney. He held this office for four 
 years and four months, performing its duties with 
 great credit to himself and to the satisfaction of 
 the people who honored him with their suffrage. 
 At the expiration of his term he was appointed 
 state auditor's agent for Franklin County, which 
 office he still holds in connection with the prac- 
 tice of his profession. 
 
 In speaking of Mr. Johnson's characteristics an 
 acquaintance of his said: "His mind is methodi- 
 cal; untiring industry combined with clear judg- 
 ment qualify him for the management of legal 
 business in a degree that points to a bright future." 
 
 He is a steward in the Methodist Church, faith- 
 ful in his duties and firm in his religious convic- 
 tions. 
 
 He was married in 1882 to Mary S. McEwin, 
 daughter of William McEwin of Frankfort, and 
 has one daughter, Mary, and two sons, William 
 F". Major Johnson and Benjamin P. Johnson. 
 
 JAMES M. GRAVES, Cashier of the Lexing- 
 ton City National Bank, and a well known 
 business man of that city, son of William W. and 
 Polly C. (Graves) Graves, was born in Fayette 
 County, Kentucky, December 7, 1834. William 
 W. Graves was born in Culpeper County, Vir- 
 ginia, October 5, 1787, and emigrated to Ken- 
 tucky with his parents when very young and set- 
 tled in Woodford County on a farm. After receiv- 
 
 ing an ordinary English education in Woodford 
 County he went to Lexington and engaged in the 
 dry goods business, in which he continued for 
 several years, when he returned to the farm. In 
 1850 he returned to Lexington, where he engaged 
 in horse breeding, and continued in this until his 
 death, which occurred March 8, 1871. He served 
 as a private soldier in the War of 1812, remaining 
 in the army until the close of the conflict. In 1852 
 he was elected magistrate and held this office as 
 long as he lived. He was a Democrat, an active 
 politician and a member of the Baptist Church. 
 His father was Richard Grant Graves, who was 
 born in Culpeper County, Virginia; came to Ken- 
 tucky and settled in Woodford County, where he 
 died in 1843. William W. Graves wedded Polly 
 C. Graves, daughter of John Graves, of Fayette 
 County. She was born February 15, 1797, and 
 is now living at the age of ninety-eight years, and 
 is in full possession of all her faculties. Since 
 1871, she has made her home with her son, J. M. 
 Graves. 
 
 John Graves (maternal grandfather) was a na- 
 tive of Louisa County, Virginia; born March 2, 
 177s, and came to Lexington, where he was en- 
 gaged in farming until his death in 1848. He was 
 a Henry Clay Whig; was in the War of 1812, 
 and served as colonel in the state militia. His 
 father, Thomas Graves, was also a \'irginian by 
 birth and came to Kentucky as a major on the 
 staff of General Lafayette; after the close of the 
 War of the Revolution he settled near Lexington 
 on a very large tract of land, where he died in 
 the fall of 1801. 
 
 James M. Graves received his education in the 
 Fayette County common schools and entered 
 Transylvania University in 1851, where he studied 
 for two years and then engaged in business with 
 his father in the horse and stock business until 
 1 86 1, when he entered the Confederate service 
 as a member of General Abe Buford's Brigade in 
 the Signal Service, in which capacity he continued 
 until 1863, when he was transferred to the com- 
 mand of General John C. Breckinridge, and was 
 afterward assigned to the Signal Service of the 
 Army of the Tennessee, where he remained until 
 the close of the war, when his command surren- 
 dered at Greensburg, North Carolina, to General 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 267 
 
 Sherman. Returning home, he again turned his 
 attention to horse breeding, and continued in this 
 until 1880, when he accepted the office of presi- 
 dent of Lexington City National Bank, and served 
 one year, when he was elected to his present posi- 
 tion as cashier of that bank. He is an ardent 
 Democrat and has filled several political offices; 
 was appointed magistrate to fill out the unex- 
 pired term of his father; was elected county super- 
 visor in 1870 and held the office until 1878. In 
 1890, after having served for twenty years as a 
 member of the City Council, he resigned and was 
 immediately re-elected by the people. Mr. Graves 
 is director in the Security Safety Vault & Trust 
 Company, president of the Southern Building & 
 Loan Company (a branch of the Knoxville, Ten- 
 nessee, Company of that name), treasurer of the 
 Southern Mutual Investment Company, and is 
 also connected with the hardware cpmpany of 
 Kidd & Graves, Lexington. Mr. Graves is a 
 member of the Baptist Church and has always 
 been interested in the advancement of the edu- 
 cational, religious and business interests of Lex- 
 ington. 
 
 J. M. Graves was married July 25, 1867, to 
 Addie G. Allen, daughter of Rev. Buford E. 
 Allen, a Baptist clergyman, and Elmira B. 
 (Graves) Allen, his wife, and granddaughter of 
 Rev. Joseph Craig, the pioneer Baptist minister 
 of Kentucky. Mrs. Graves is a native of Ken- 
 tucky and was educated at Georgetown College. 
 They have four children: Mary Elenora, Buford 
 Allen, J. Madison and George Thomas Graves. 
 
 MAJOR HENRY S. HALE, ex-State Treas- 
 urer, son of Nicholas and Rhoda (Crouch) 
 Hale, was born near Bowling Green, Warren 
 County, Kentucky, May 4, 1836. Nicholas Hale 
 came from Virginia with his father and settled 
 in Graves County and was a soldier in the War of 
 1812. The Hales are of English descent. Rhoda 
 Crouch Hale (mother) was a daughter of David 
 Crouch, who was a private in the Mexican war, 
 and died in Graves County. The Crouches are 
 of Scotch-Irish descent. Major Hales' family 
 moved to Graves County when he was a mere 
 boy, and he received his education in the county 
 schools. Both of his parents died just as he was 
 
 entering his teens. He had the true Southern 
 spirit, and with a heart full of love for the "Sunny 
 South," he espoused the cause of the Confeder- 
 acy, and fought gallantly through the rebellion. 
 He entered the army as captain of a company 
 in the Seventh Kentucky Regiment, and was soon 
 promoted to major, and was in command of the 
 regiment in several hard-fought battles. He was 
 severely wounded in the left hip at Harrisburg, 
 Mississippi, and disabled for several months, 
 when he was recalled by General Forrest, and for 
 gallantry on the battlefield of "Brice's Cross 
 Roads" was promoted to the rank of heutenant- 
 colonel and assigned to the Third and Seventh 
 Consolidated Regiments. 
 
 The following extract from a Mayfield paper, 
 describing Major Hale as a soldier, is worthy of 
 publication: "Major Hale was a young man of 
 about twenty-four years of age. He was as full 
 of zeal and chivalry as the fine climate and good 
 soil of Southern Kentucky could make one. He 
 was a live, wide-awake officer, a man for emer- 
 gencies, and would undertake anything he was 
 commanded to do by his superior officers. Noth- 
 ing was impossible with him. He had a loud, 
 clear voice and a fine presence, and made a fine 
 impression ; in short he was a model soldier. He 
 commanded the regiment in some of the hardest 
 fought battles and always did it elegantly and 
 knightly. His conduct in the face of the enemy 
 was always inspiring to others. At one time when 
 the regiment showed signs of wavering he 
 snatched the colors and ran forward, flaunting 
 them in the face of the enemy. The effect was 
 magical; every man moved forward and the 
 enemy was driven from its position." 
 
 In 1866 Major Hale was elected sheriff of 
 Graves County, which office he held four years, 
 and in 1871 he was elected Staic Senator and 
 served his constituents faithfull). He was the 
 chairman of the Democratic Committee of Graves 
 County for a number of years. In 1876 a Nation- 
 al Bank of Mayfield was organized, and at its 
 first election Major Hale was made president, 
 which place he held sixteen years, when he was 
 chosen by Governor Buckner to fill out the unex- 
 pired term of Judge Sharp, who resigned the office 
 of state treasurer. At the expiration of his term 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 he became a candidate before the people and was 
 elected by a very compHmentary vote. The man- 
 ner in which he has managed the affairs of office, 
 the abihty he displayed as a financier, and the 
 general official conduct of Major Hale and as a 
 private citizen are well known to the business men 
 of the state. 
 
 Major Hale was a leading spirit in founding the 
 West Kentucky College, an institution of learn- 
 ing, of which the people of Mayfield are justly 
 proud. He is a man of sterling worth to the state, 
 the church and the country. His integrity and 
 true manhood have won for him the love and re- 
 spect of all who know him. 
 
 Major Hale was married November 8, 1865, 
 to Miss Virginia A. Gregory of Mississippi. They 
 have six living children, four sons and two daugh- 
 ters: Nathan A., assistant cashier of the First 
 National Bank of Mayfield; William Lindsay, 
 who was assistant treasurer of the state during his 
 father's term of office; Henry S., Jr., a student 
 in the Military Academy at Danville, and Joseph 
 Theodore. The daughters are Annie B. and 
 Mary E. 
 
 Major Hale was a candidate for secretary of 
 state in the late election (the constitution forbid- 
 ding that he should hold the office of treasurer an- 
 other term), but he went down with a great many 
 other good men in the Republican year of 1895. 
 He is a prominent member of the Christian 
 Church, through his connection with which he 
 performs many charitable acts and good deeds. 
 
 JUDGE FELIX GRUNDY was born in Ber- 
 keley County, Virginia, September 11, 1777; 
 brought in early boyhood to Washington County, 
 Kentucky; educated at Bardstown Academy; 
 studied law, and began the practice at Springfield ; 
 in 1799, a month before reaching the age of 
 twenty-two, was elected a member from Wash- 
 ington County of the convention which formed 
 the second constitution of Kentucky; a repre- 
 sentative in the Kentucky legislature, from the 
 same county, in 1800, 1801, and 1802, and from 
 Nelson County in 1804, 1805, and 1806; was com- 
 missioned, December 10, 1806, one of the judges 
 of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, and April 
 II, 1807, five months before he was thirty years 
 
 old, chief justice of that high court; removed, in 
 1808, to Nashville, and took the highest rank at 
 that bar; was a representative in Congress from 
 Tennessee, 1811-14, and afterward for several 
 years in the legislature of Tennessee; United 
 States senator, 1829-38; in the latter year was 
 appointed by President Van Buren attorney gen- 
 eral of the United States; resigned that position 
 in 1840, and was again elected United States sen- 
 ator, but did not take his seat — dying at Nash- 
 ville, December 12, 1840, aged sixty-three. Judge 
 Grundy was one of the most distinguished lawyers 
 and statesmen of the western country; in the 
 councils of the nation he had but few equals and 
 fewer superiors. 
 
 WARNER ELMORE SETTLE, Judge of 
 the Eighth Judicial Circuit, whose home 
 is in Bowling Green, is descended from a worthy 
 ancestry and the devotees of the theory that the 
 law of heredity is applicable to the moral and 
 intellectual as well as the physical man, have here 
 strong evidence in support of their views. Mr. 
 Settle was born in Green County, near Greens- 
 burg, Kentucky, January 21, 1850. His parents, 
 Simon and Mary (Barnett) Settle, have been de- 
 ceased many years, and his youth was spent on the 
 farm of his maternal grandfather, Judge Thomas 
 R. Barnett, a man of fine intellect, irreproachable 
 character and of great influence in his commu- 
 nity. He served the people of his county for 
 twenty-four years as judge of the County Court, 
 and represented them twice in the State Legis- 
 lature. Young Settle, though unfortunate in the 
 loss of his parents, was peculiarly fortunate in 
 having the care and guidance of his grandfather. 
 His educational training was such as the schools 
 of Greensburg, his county town, afforded at that 
 time, and they were excellent. He remained in 
 school until eighteen years of age, and it was in- 
 tended that he should have a collegiate education, 
 but the emancipation proclamation of President 
 Lincoln changed all that by liberating the slaves, 
 which were about all the property his parents had 
 left him, and his grandfather lost heavily by the 
 same edict. But the young man was industrious 
 and studious, and while he did not go to college 
 he continued his studies so faithfully that he was 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 269 
 
 well equipped before he reached his manhood, 
 and having since then continued his studies he has 
 acquired a fund of knowledge of which many 
 collegiates can not boast. This knowledge not 
 only pertains to the legal profession, but em- 
 braces a wide range of general information and 
 literature, and he is particularly devoted to 
 biography and history. 
 
 In 1869 Mr. Settle began the study of law and 
 in January, 1870, he removed to Bowling Green 
 and diligently pursued his legal studies while as- 
 sisting in the office of the clerk of the Warren 
 County Court. He was admitted to the bar, Sep- 
 tember 15, 1871, and in the same year formed a 
 partnership with John B. Grider, the present judge 
 of the Warren County Court, the style of the firm 
 being Settle & Grider. This partnership was dis- 
 solved in 1875, when he formed a similar rela- 
 tion with Hon. Robert Rodes, an able lawyer 
 and a member of the recent Constitutional Con- 
 vention. W. O. Rodes, son of the senior mem- 
 ber of this firm, came in later and the style 
 of the firm was then Rodes, Settle & Rodes. 
 Mr. Settle retired from this firm December i, 
 1 891, and became associated with John B. Rodes, 
 a younger son of Robert Rodes, and this latter 
 partnership was interrupted in 1892 by the eleva- 
 tion of Mr. Settle to the bench. 
 
 Warner E. Settle is learned in the law, accurate, 
 able and eloquent as a pleader and advocate and 
 was a very successful lawyer, his practice extend- 
 ing over his circuit and adjacent counties and to 
 the Court of Appeals at Frankfort. He loved his 
 profession and was equally at home whether 
 pleading a cause before the chancellor or argu- 
 ing a question before a jury, and retired from prac- 
 tice enjoying an enviable reputation. His nomina- 
 tion and election to the bench were exceedingly 
 complimentary as both were without opposition, 
 and this, too, in a district which abounds in "good 
 timber for the bench." As a judge he has proven 
 himself competent and popular and has reflected 
 honor upon his profession by his quiet dignity, his 
 pleasing manner and his correct and unbiased 
 decisions. He is known as an "Honest Judge," 
 and the members of the bar as well as their cHents 
 know that he will give them a patient hearing 
 and a fair trial. 
 
 Warner E. Settle and Shelly Rodes were mar- 
 ried November 2, 1875, an alliance which has 
 added greatly to his happiness and usefulness. 
 She is the eldest daughter of Hon. Robert Rodes, 
 his former law partner, and is a very intelligent 
 and highly accomplished lady, deservedly possess- 
 ing the esteem of a large circle of friends and ac- 
 quaintances. The family circle is enlivened by the 
 presence of three sons and three daughters. 
 
 Judge Settle, on the paternal side, is of Eng- 
 lish descent. The first one of the family who 
 came from England located in Virginia, where 
 there are still many of the descendants. The great 
 grandfather of Judge Settle, with an elder brother, 
 came from Virginia to Kentucky in 1796, and the 
 two settled on adjoining farms on Beaver Creek in 
 Barren County. They were men of intelligence 
 and of excellent character, and several of the 
 Settle family, descendants, no doubt, of the Eng- 
 lish ancestor mentioned, have attained distinction, 
 among whom may be mentioned Rev. H. C. Set- 
 tle, D. D., of Louisville; Hon. Evan E. Settle of 
 Owen County; Hon. Thomas Settle, deceased, 
 late Judge of the United States District Court of 
 North Carolina, and his son, Thomas Settle, pres- 
 ent congressman from that state. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of Judge Settle's 
 mother was a South Carolinian of Scotch-Irish 
 descent, who served in the War of the Revolution 
 under General Francis, Marion, and received a 
 bullet wound in each shoulder. Thomas Elmore, 
 the mother's maternal grandfather, was of an ex- 
 cellent Virginia family and served through the 
 Revolutionary war as a captain of Virginia in- 
 fantry. 
 
 JOHN C. RUSSELL, lawyer, and enterpris- 
 ing citizen of Louisville, son of John W. and 
 Ann M. (Julian) Russell, was bom in Franklin 
 County, Kentucky, June 30, 1849. 
 
 His father was a native of Rockbridge County, 
 Virginia, and came to Kentucky with his father 
 when he was nine months of age, in 1796, and 
 located in Franklin County, where he made his 
 home until his death in 1870. He was a man of 
 influence in politics, in the Presbyterian Church — 
 of which he was a member — in business and in 
 public afifairs; represented Franklin, Shelby and 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Anderson Counties in the Kentucky Senate from 
 1846 to 1850; was a pioneer in steamboating on 
 the Mississippi River; was superintendent of snag- 
 boats on that river, and was chiefly and always an 
 enterprising farmer in FrankHn County. At the 
 age of sixteen he enHsted for the War of 1812, 
 and served his country faithfully for two years. 
 He was a warm personal friend of John J. Critten- 
 den — for whom his son was named — and was the 
 companion, associate and the equal of many of 
 the great Kentuckians who were better known 
 only on account of the public positions which 
 they held. 
 
 James Russell (grandfather) was a native of 
 Rockbridge County, Virginia ; removed to Frank- 
 lin County, Kentucky, in 1796, where he com- 
 pleted his four score years and died in 1849. He 
 was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, serving 
 under Generals Washington and Greene at York- 
 town. 
 
 The Russells who settled in the American col- 
 onies some twenty years before the beginning of 
 the Revolutionary war were of Scotch lineage, and 
 many of that name were natives of the North of 
 Ireland, but these were also of Scotch parentage. 
 
 Ann M. Julian Russell (mother) was a sister of 
 the father of John Julian of Frankfort, who died 
 in 1890, aged seventy-three years. She was a very 
 active and faithful member of the Presbyterian 
 Church, and a most excellent Christian woman. 
 
 John C. Russell attended that excellent school 
 in Frankfort taught by B. B. Sayre, and spent one 
 year in the scientific department of Yale College; 
 graduated from the law department of the Uni- 
 versity of Louisville in 1874, and began the prac- 
 tice of his profession in Louisville, and soon found 
 his place as a thoroughly reliable and substantial 
 lawyer. 
 
 His career has been one of uninterrupted suc- 
 cess from professional, business and social points 
 of view. Enjoying a very large practice in the 
 civil courts, he has been able to command the 
 capital for investment in a number of business and 
 financial enterprises. 
 
 For ten years he was a director in the Mer- 
 chants' National Bank, is a director in the Louis- 
 ville Trust Company, for many years has been a 
 member of the executive committee of that com- 
 
 pany; president of the Grahamton Manufactur- 
 ing Company (cotton mill), director in the South- 
 ern Electric Railway Company of St. Louis, takes 
 an active part in politics, and is now chairman of 
 the Democratic Committee for the Eighth and 
 Ninth Wards of the City of Louisville — not car- 
 ing for office, but for the promotion of the best 
 interests of the Democratic party. He has been 
 urged frequently to accept office, but has always 
 declined ; is a member of the Sons of the Ameri- 
 can Revolution and of the Scotch-Irish Society of 
 Kentucky ; and is a member of the Second Pres- 
 byterian Church. 
 
 Mr. Russell was married June 27, 1882, to Lila 
 P. Anderson, daughter of W. George Anderson 
 of Louisville. She died in 1883, leaving one child, 
 Lila, who died April 18, 1884. 
 
 Mr. Russell is a brother of Mrs. Mary B. R. 
 Day, formerly state librarian, whose sketch will 
 be found in this work. 
 
 THE HON. ROBERT TRIMBLE was bom 
 in Berkeley County, Virginia, and when 
 three years old, his father emigrated to Ken- 
 tucky. He received but the imperfect rudiments 
 of an education — such only as could be had in a 
 new settlement. He, however, improved himself, 
 by teaching for a few years, and reading carefully 
 the scanty libraries afforded by his neighborhood. 
 After so imperfect a probation, he commenced 
 the study of the law, under George Nicholas. That 
 eminent man dying before he had completed his 
 studies, he continued them under James Brown; 
 and, in 1803, was licensed by the Court of Appeals 
 to practice his profession. He commenced his 
 career in Paris, and in the same year was elected 
 a member of the legislature from the county of 
 Bourbon. But the stormy life of a politician not 
 being congenial to his disposition or taste, he ever 
 afterward refused to be a candidate for political 
 office — even to be nominated, on two occasions, 
 for the United States' senate, when his assent only 
 was necessary to secure his election. He devoted 
 himself exclusively to his profession, and rapidly 
 rose to the first class of jurists. In 1808, he was 
 commissioned second judge of the Court of Ap- 
 peals. He retained this place but a short time, 
 but long enough to greatly distinguish himself in 
 
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 ft by his rectitude, learning and ability. He was 
 appointed chief justice of Kentucky in 1810, but, 
 in consequence of his limited circumstances, de- 
 clined the first judicial station of the common- 
 wealth. After retiring from the bench, he re- 
 sumed, with great assiduity, the practice of his 
 profession; and, in 1813, was appointed a district 
 attorney for the state. He continued at the bar, 
 with eminent and profitable success, until 1816, 
 when he was appointed by President Madison 
 judge of the Kentucky district. He filled this 
 office until 1826, when he was promoted by John 
 Quincy Adams to the Supreme Court of the 
 United States. He died the 25th day of August, 
 1828, in the- fifty-second year of his age, and in 
 the full vigor of his powers. 
 
 MAJ. GEN. JOSEPH WARREN, M. D., 
 was one of the most distinguished patriots 
 of the American Revolutionary war; was born 
 at Roxbury, near Boston, in 1741 — the son of a 
 farmer; entered Harvard University, at fourteen, 
 and was there remarkable for his talents, fine ad- 
 dress, and bold and independent spirit; studied 
 medicine, and had rapid and high success in the 
 practice; on two occasions, delivered eloquent 
 orations on March 5, the anniversary of the Bos- 
 ton massacre, and became prominent in politics, 
 as a public speaker and writer; was president of 
 the provincial congress of Massachusetts, in 1775; 
 participated in the battle of Lexington, April 19, 
 1775; June 14, 177s, was appointed major gen- 
 eral of the military force of Massachusetts prov- 
 ince; and at the battle of Bunker Hill, in Boston, 
 on June 17, 1775, when the American troops — 
 after three times repelling the British troops — 
 exhausted their ammunition and were compelled 
 to retire, he was killed by a random shot, among 
 the last to abandon the entrenchments. Congress 
 passed a resolution to erect a monument to his 
 memory, which long occupied the site of the 
 present Bunker Hill monument. 
 
 THOMAS FRANCIS MARSHALL, eldest 
 son of Dr. Louis Marshall, was born in 
 Frankfort, Kentucky, June 7, 1801, and was edu- 
 cated chiefly by his parents, both of whom were 
 accomplished scholars. His studies in history, as 
 
 the basis of jurisprudence and moral and political 
 philosophy, were completed in Virginia, under 
 the direction of James Marshall, a relative and a 
 man of erudition. On his return to Kentucky, he 
 studied law in the ofifice of Hon. John J. Critten- 
 den. He again made a visit to Virginia, to at- 
 tend a convention called to form a new constitu- 
 tion of that state, that he might improve himself 
 by witnessing the intellectual strife in which were 
 engaged those master minds, Chief Justice Mar- 
 shall, John Randolph, James Madison, James 
 Monroe, and other kindred spirits who were mem- 
 bers of that body. He remained in Richmond five 
 months. Thenceforward his mind took a political 
 direction, he studied the political questions of the 
 day, and entered upon their discussion. 
 
 His political career commenced with his elec- 
 tion, in 1832, to the Kentucky legislature, from 
 Woodford County, as a friend of Henry Clay. 
 During that session he signalized himself by a 
 very able report against "nullification," in answer 
 to the communication on that subject addressed 
 by South Carolina to the several states. In 1833, 
 he removed to Louisville to practice his profes- 
 sion, but abandoned it to again enter the field of 
 politics. He was elected to the legislature for two 
 terms. In 1837 he was beaten for Congress by 
 Hon. William J. Graves, and, mortified at the re- 
 sult, he once more returned to Woodford County, 
 which sent him twice to the legislature. 
 
 Mr. Marshall was elected to the lower branch 
 of Congress from the "Ashland district," in 1841. 
 He spoke often in that body, but only two of his 
 speeches were reported. Disgusted at the man- 
 ner his speeches had been reported, he unwisely 
 said to the reporters, they "must not pass on the 
 public their infernal gibberish for my English." 
 They took him at his word. Mr. Marshall had 
 been elected as a friend of Mr. Clay, but took issue 
 with that eminent statesman on the United States 
 Bank charter and the Bankrupt bill, as he did 
 subsequently on the question of annexation of 
 Texas. The district he represented was devoted 
 to Mr. Clay, and hence Mr. Marshall declined to 
 offer for Congress for the next term, as his defeat 
 was certain. He, however, "took the stump," and 
 canvassed the state for Mr. Polk, for president. 
 In 184s, he ran for Congress, but was beaten by 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Hon. Garret Davis. He next served one year as 
 captain of a cavalry company in the Mexican war. 
 Some time after his return home, he was beaten 
 for the convention to frame a new constitution for 
 the state. He advocated the election of General 
 Scott for president in 1852, and was elected to the 
 legislature from Woodford County in 1853, which 
 was his last public service. 
 
 Mr. Marshall never again aspired to public posi- 
 tion, but devoted his time to the law. Occasion- 
 ally he delivered a political address, but was hard- 
 ly recognized as a politician. He gave a series of 
 "Discourses on History," in various cities, and 
 charmed his hearers by his wit, genius, eloquence, 
 and learning. Civil war ensued. Its events fol- 
 lowed each other in rapid succession, and Mar- 
 shall, like all other civilians, was overshadowed by 
 their tremendous importance. He appeared no 
 more in public excepting in the courts. He died 
 at the home farm near Versailles, Woodford 
 County, Kentucky, on September 22, 1864. 
 
 Marshall was brilliant alike at the bar, on the 
 stump, and in the forum. His powers of oratory 
 and eloquence were unrivaled, matchless, and yet 
 he was withal a pre-eminent logician, and was in 
 truth a remarkable man, and such as we may "not 
 look upon his like again." 
 
 JUDGE JOHN ROWAN was an able jurist 
 and statesman, and one of the most distin- 
 guished men in the western country. He was a 
 native of Pennsylvania. His father, William 
 Rowan, at the close of the Revolutionary war 
 came to Kentucky, in the hope of repairing the 
 ravages made in his private fortune. Kentucky 
 was then a wilderness, the choice hunting ground 
 of many hostile tribes of savages — the field of 
 hazardous adventure, the scene of savage outrage, 
 the theater of ceaseless war, an arena drenched 
 in blood and reeking with slaughter. In March, 
 1783, the father of John Rowan settled in Louis- 
 ville, then an insignificant village. In the spring 
 of 1784, when John was eleven years old, his 
 father, with five other families, made a settle- 
 ment at the Long Falls of Green River, then about 
 one hundred miles from any white settlement. 
 This region was resorted to by a band of the 
 Shawnee tribe of Indians, as a hunting ground. 
 
 and Mr. Rowan and his neighbors had many en- 
 counters with their savage foes. At the age of 
 seventeen, he entered a classical school kept at 
 Bardstown, by a Dr. Priestly. In this school were 
 educated many of those men who have since 
 figured conspicuously in the history of Kentucky, 
 and on the broader theater of national politics. 
 Here John Rowan was remarkable among his 
 fellows for the facility with which he mastered the 
 most difficult branches. He obtained an accurate 
 and critical knowledge of the classical tongues. 
 Guided by the advice of his friends he went, upon 
 leaving this school, to Lexington, and com- 
 menced the study of the law. In 1795, he was 
 admitted to the bar, and soon attained a high 
 rank in his profession. Kentucky, even at that 
 day, held many men eminent for talent, learning 
 and eloquence ; yet he was considered among the 
 foremost. As an advocate, in criminal cases, he 
 had few equals in the state. The Virginia act of 
 1779, constituting the basis of the celebrated land 
 laws of Kentucky, though originally drawn and 
 reported to the legislature by George Mason, one 
 of Virginia's most able statesmen, was so amended 
 before its passage, as to destroy all system in the 
 procuring of patents, and the. consequence was 
 much litigation in Kentucky, arising out of con- 
 flicting land claims. Many of our most eminent 
 lawyers acquired great wealth by buying up con- 
 tested claims, and from contingent fees. In these 
 things, Mr. Rowan never indulged, conceiving 
 them to be inimical to the high moral tone which 
 should be preserved by the profession, and tempt- 
 ing to oppression of the occupants of lands. At 
 an eariy age, he was called into public life, and 
 was a member of the convention that formed the 
 present constitution of Kentucky, in 1799. He 
 was appointed secretary of state in 1804, and in 
 1806 was elected to Congress from a district in 
 which he did not reside. He took his seat in 1807, 
 and served during the eleventh Congress. 
 
 He was frequently a member of the state legis- 
 lature, and in 181 9 was appointed a judge of the 
 Court of Appeals. While on the bench he deliv- 
 ered a learned and forcible opinion on the power 
 of Congress to charter the Bank of the United 
 States in 1816. Not relishing the close confine- 
 ment of the bench, in 1821 he resigned his seat. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 In 1823, he was appointed by the legislature, in 
 conjunction with Henry Clay, a commissioner to 
 defend what were called the occupying claimant 
 laws of the state, before the Supreme Court of the 
 United States. The uncertainty of land titles un- 
 der the Virginia laws before alluded to, had led to 
 the enactment of laws by the Kentucky legislature 
 more favorable to the occupant than the common 
 law of England. These statutes were attacked 
 before the Supreme Court, upon the ground that 
 they violated the compact between Virginia and 
 Kentucky. The petition of the commissioners 
 was drawn by Judge Rowan, and is deemed the 
 ablest vindication of those laws ever published. 
 
 In 1824, he was elected to the senate of the 
 United States, in which body he served for six 
 years. On the loth of April, 1826, he delivered 
 a speech of great ability, on a bill further to 
 amend the judiciary system of the United States. 
 In 1828, he made a learned and powerful speech 
 on the subject of imprisonment for debt, under 
 process issued from the courts of the United 
 States. It had been abolished in Kentucky in 
 1821, and yet he had seen it practiced by process 
 from the Federal courts in this state, in defiance 
 of public sentiment. 
 
 The last public office Mr. Rowan filled was 
 that of commissioner to adjust the claims of citi- 
 zens of the United States against Mexico, under 
 the convention of WasHngton of the nth of 
 April, 1839. Upon the organization of the Ken- 
 tucky Historical Society in 1838, he was elected 
 president of that institution, and held the office 
 until the period of his death. He died, after a 
 short illness, at his residence in Louisville, on 
 the 13th of July, 1843, in the seventieth year of 
 his age. 
 
 GEN. MARTIN D. HARDIN, one of the 
 most distinguished citizens of Kentucky, 
 was about six years old when his father. Colonel 
 John Hardin, emigrated in April 1786, with his 
 family, from the Monongahela country to a pomt 
 on Pleasant Run, a branch of the Beech Fork, 
 Springfield. He studied law with Colonel George 
 Nicholas, and practiced at Richmond and after- 
 ward at Frankfort, with great success; indeed, 
 was the leader of the bar at each place. He was 
 
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 a man of marked talent and of very decided char- 
 acter. In 1812, he was a major in the rifle regi- 
 ment of Colonel John Allen, in the campaign on 
 the northern border during the war with Great 
 Britain, and approved himself a brave, vigilant, 
 and efficient officer. He was secretary of state of 
 Kentucky under Governor Isaac Shelby, 1812-16; 
 and was appointed by Governor Gabriel Slaughter 
 to fill a vacancy in the United States senate, serv- 
 ing one session, 1816-17. He died at Frankfort, 
 October 8, 1823, aged forty-three. He was the 
 father of the gallant Colonel John J. Hardin, an 
 ex-member of Congress from Illinois, 1843-45, 
 who fell in the battle of Buena Vista in Mexico, 
 February 23, 1847. 
 
 WILLIAM WHITLEY, was one of the most 
 distinguished of the early pioneers, whose 
 adventurous exploits have shed a coloring of 
 romance over the early history of Kentucky. He 
 was born on the 14th of August, 1749, in that part 
 of Virginia then called Augusta, and which after- 
 ward furnished territory for Rockbridge County. 
 Unknown to early fame, he grew to manhood in 
 the laborious occupation of tilling his native soil, 
 in which his corporeal powers were fully devel- 
 oped, with but little mental cultivation. He pos- 
 sessed, however, the spirit of enterprise, and the 
 love of independence. In 1775, having married 
 Esther Fuller, and commenced housekeeping in 
 a small way, with health and labor to season his 
 bread, he said to his wife, he heard a fine report 
 of Kentucky, and he thought they could get their 
 living there with less hard work. "Then, Billy, 
 if I was you I would go and see," was the reply. 
 In two days he was on his way, with axe and 
 plow, and gun and kettle. And she is the woman 
 who afterward collected his warriors to pursue the 
 Indians. 
 
 Whitley set out for Kentucky, accompanied by 
 his brother-in-law, George Clark; in the wilder- 
 ness they met with seven others, who joined them. 
 
 In the year 1813, being then in the sixty-fifth 
 year of his age, he volunteered with the Kentucky 
 militia, under Governor Shelby, and fell in the 
 decisive and victorious battle of the Thames, on 
 the 5th of October. 
 
 Colonel Whitley was a man above the ordinary 
 
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 size, of great muscular power, and capable of en- 
 during great fatigue and privation. His courage 
 as a soldier was unquestionable, having been fore- 
 most in seventeen battles with the Indians, and 
 one with a more civilized foe. In the battle of the 
 Thames, he fell at the first fire. His memory is 
 cherished throughout Kentucky with profound 
 respect, as that of one uniting the characters of 
 patriot and hero. 
 
 GEN. ORMSBY MACKNIGHT MITCH- 
 ELL, a distinguished American astrono- 
 mer, was bom in Union County, Kentucky, Au- 
 gust 28, 1810, and died of yellow fever at Beau- 
 fort, South Carolina, October 30, 1862, aged fifty- 
 two. He received his early education in Lebanon, 
 Ohio; was appointed to a cadetship at West Point 
 in 1825; graduated in 1829, fifteenth in a class of 
 forty-six — among whom were those distin- 
 guished Confederate chieftains, Robert E. Lee and 
 Joseph E. Johnston. He filled the position of 
 professor of mathematics in that institution for 
 two years; subsequently studied law and prac- 
 ticed in Cincinnati until 1834; when he was elected 
 professor of mathematics, philosophy, and as- 
 tronomy in the Cincinnati College. In 1845, he 
 succeeded in the establishment of an observatory 
 in Cincinnati, raising the requisite amount of 
 money therefor by his own exertions. In 1859, 
 he was chosen director of the Albany, New York, 
 observatory, and also retained his connection 
 with that in Cincinnati. Among his published 
 works are "Planetary and Stellar Worlds," 
 "Popular Astronomy," and a treatise on algebra. 
 He was commissioned a brigadier general in the 
 Union army, August, 1861, and afterward pro- 
 moted to major general. 
 
 REV. JOHN ALEXANDER McCLUNG, 
 D. D., a distinguished scholar, orator, and 
 divine, was born near Washington, in Mason 
 County, Kentucky, September 25, 1804. He was 
 the son of Judge William McClung, and gi-and- 
 son of Colonel Thomas Marshall ; both of whom 
 had emigrated from Virginia at an early day. 
 Left at a tender age, by his father's death, to the 
 care of a gifted and pious mother, he was, a few 
 years after, sent to the academy of her brother, 
 
 Dr. Louis Marshall, in Woodford County, Ken- 
 tucky. There he exhibited unusual thirst for 
 knowledge, and made great progress in his 
 studies. In 1820, he became a member of the 
 Pisgah Presbyterian Church in Woodford. In 
 his eighteenth year he was entered as a student 
 in the Theological Seminary at Princeton. In 
 1825, he married a lady of great piety and refine- 
 ment, Miss Eliza Johnston, sister of Hon. Josiah 
 Stoddard Johnston, and General Albert Sidney 
 Johnston. 
 
 He was licensed to preach in 1828, and soon be- 
 came one of the most popular young preachers of 
 the West; but in a brief period, his religious con- 
 victions were disturbed, and he voluntarily with- 
 drew from the ministry. 
 
 In 1830, he wrote and published "Camden," a 
 tale of the South during the Revolution, and in 
 1832, "Sketches of Western Adventure" — both 
 works of decided merit, the former published in 
 Philadelphia, the latter by Judge Lewis Collins. 
 
 DR. DANIEL DRAKE, distinguished as phy- 
 sician, professor, and author, was born at 
 Plainfield, New Jersey, October 20, 1785, and died 
 at Cincinnati, Ohio, November 5, 1852, aged 
 sixty-seven years. Brought to Mason County, 
 Kentucky, June 10, 1788, before he was three 
 years old, he grew up with that spirit and self- 
 reliance which marked his whole life, receiving 
 all the education the little village of Mayslick 
 and surroundings could give him, theoretical and 
 practical. In December, 1800, aged fifteen, he 
 went to the village of Cincinnati with its popu- 
 lation of seven hundred and fifty inhabitants, and 
 became its first medical student — so faithful that, 
 in after life, no medical man was more useful or 
 reflected upon that oity more varied renown. In 
 May, 1804, aged nineteen, he began the practice 
 of medicine in Cincinnati; spent the winter of 
 1805-1806 as a student in the Pennsylvania Uni- 
 versity, at Philadelphia, and the succeeding year 
 in practice at his old home in Mayslick. Return- 
 ing to Cincinnati in 1807, he made it his home for 
 life, although much of his time was spent as a 
 professor in Kentucky. In 1817, became profes- 
 sor of materia medica and medical botany in 
 Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky; 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 November, 1820, founded and established the 
 Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, from 
 which, after a bitter controversy, his connection 
 was suddenly sundered. May 1822; resumed his 
 professorship at Lexington, 1823-27; declined the 
 professorship of medicine in the University of Vir- 
 ginia, 1830; was professor in Jefferson Medical 
 College, Philadelphia, November, 1830-31; again 
 in the Medical College of Ohio, 1831-32; founded 
 a new medical school, as a department of Cincin- 
 nati College, June, 1835-39; was professor in the 
 Louisville Medical Institute, afterward known as 
 the University of Louisville, 1839-49; when he 
 resigned and accepted a chair in the Medical Col- 
 lege of Ohio, 1849-50. In 1827, he became editor 
 of the Western Medical and Physical Journal, 
 through which he continued to write for many 
 years. His "Notices concerning Cincinnati," pub- 
 lished 1810, enlarged as "The Picture of Cincin- 
 nati," 1815, were remarkable works. The great 
 literary event of his life was his "Treatise on the 
 Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North 
 America," published 1850, an original work, a 
 wonderful monument to American medical 
 science. 
 
 CHARLES F. WING was a captain at the 
 battle of the Thames, and saw Tecumseh 
 after he was slain. He was clerk of the Muhlen- 
 berg courts from the organization of the county 
 in 1798 to 1856 — fifty-eight years; a longer period 
 than any other man ever held a clerkship in Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 DON CARLOS BUELL, major general of 
 volunteers. United States army, was born 
 in Ohio, 1818; graduated at West Point Academy, 
 1841; was appointed second lieutenant in Third 
 Infantry, regular service; promoted first lieuten- 
 ant, June, 1846; brevetted captain for gallantry at 
 the battle of Monterey, September 23, 1846. His 
 regiment subsequently served under General 
 Scott on the southern line of operations in Mex- 
 ico, where Buell distinguished himself at Churu- 
 busco and Controras, and was brevetted major; 
 in the latter battle he was severely wounded. He 
 became assistant adjutant general with the rank 
 of captain, January, 1848; relinquished his rank 
 
 in the line, March, 1851, and was employed in the 
 duties of his office until 1861, when he assisted in 
 organizing the army at Washington. He was ap- 
 pointed brigadier general, and assigned to a divi- 
 sion in the army of the Potomac, which soon be- 
 came noted for its thorough discipline. In No- 
 vember, 1861, he superseded General Sherman, 
 then in command of the army of the Cumberland 
 — which he reorganized as that of the Ohio, with 
 headquarters at Louisville, Kentucky. 
 
 General Buell assumed command of this army 
 (if army it could be called) at a critical period in 
 Kentucky. Sherman had notified the govern- 
 ment at Washington that two hundred thousand 
 men were necessary for the campaign in the south- 
 west. His opinion was hooted at; he was con- 
 sidered a mad man, and this was the direct cause 
 of his removal. Subsequent events justified his 
 opinion and confirmed his sagacity. The people 
 of Kentucky were divided, but at that period the 
 sentiment for the South was intense and the pre- 
 ponderance was against the North. The army 
 had to be organized. There were few reliable 
 troops, most of the regiments were new, and many 
 of them incomplete. Above all this, it was the 
 policy of the Federal government, then, to con- 
 ciliate the people of Kentucky — not alone to pre- 
 vent an outbreak, but to win them to the Union 
 cause. This seemed at least to be the object of 
 Mr. Lincoln's administration. Its bad faith be- 
 came apparent afterward. General Buell was, 
 therefore, expected to enact the part of the sol- 
 dier and the statesman. He did both well. His 
 moderate cours?, his kindness and courtesy to- 
 wards the non-combatants who were necessarily 
 sufferers by the armed occupation of the state, 
 won the respect of the Southern sympathizers and 
 commanded the admiration of the best friends of 
 the Union cause. During the winter of 1861-62, 
 he organized his troops for the advance move- 
 ment, which was to drive the Confederates from 
 the state. He submitted his plan for this purpose 
 to General McClellan, then at the head of the 
 army. It secured his approval ; and the result was 
 the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson, the retreat 
 of the Confederates from Bowling Green, and 
 their subsequent evacuation of Nashville and ul- 
 timate withdrawal south of Tennessee River. 
 
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 GEN. HENRY LEE, a native of Virginia, 
 was one of the earliest pioneers who settled 
 in the County of Mason. He was a man of con- 
 siderable intelligence and remarkably strong nat- 
 ural powers of mind. He was a member of the 
 Virginia legislature from the district of Kentucky, 
 and also of the convention which adopted the 
 Federal constitution. He served in the conven- 
 tion at Danville which met in 1787, and was one of 
 the commissioners who located the seat of gov- 
 ernment at Frankfort. He was county lieutenant 
 for all the territory north of Licking River, and 
 was appointed judge of the Quarter Sessions 
 Court, and associate judge of the Circuit Court 
 for Mason County, and was president of the 
 Washington Branch of the old Bank of Ken- 
 tucky. He came to Kentucky originally as a sur- 
 veyor, and acted in that capacity for many years. 
 He was a very sagacious man, of fine business 
 habits, and by his position and great application, 
 amassed a very large fortune. He was tall and 
 powerfully made, very erect, and a man of re- 
 markably fine and imposing personal appearance. 
 He died October 24, 1845, in the eighty-ninth 
 year of his age. 
 
 COLONEL THOMAS MARSHALL, for- 
 merly commander of the Third Virginia 
 Regiment on continental establishment, subse- 
 quently colonel of the regiment of Virginia artil- 
 lery, during the Revolutionary war, was a gal- 
 lant soldier — the friend and neighbor of Wash- 
 ington. Being appointed surveyor-general of the 
 lands in Kentucky appropriated by Virginia to the 
 officers and soldiers of the Virginia state line, he 
 emigrated with his wife, Fanny Keith, and part 
 of his children, to Kentucky in the year 1785, 
 coming down the Ohio river to Limestone (Mays- 
 ville.) They had fifteen children: Seven sons — 
 John (chief justice of the United States), Captain 
 Thomas (first clerk of the Mason County Court, 
 Kentucky, and a member of the convention which 
 formed the second constitution of Kentucky), 
 James M., Charles, William, Alexander Keith 
 (reporter to the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 
 1818), and Dr. Louis (of Woodford County, Ken- 
 tucky, father of Thomas F. and Edward C, and 
 president in 1855 ^^ Washington College — ^now 
 
 Washington-Lee University— Lexington, Va.); 
 and eight daughters— Elizabeth (wife of Raw- 
 leigh Colston), Mary Ann or Polly (blind a con- 
 siderable portion of her life, wife of Humphrey 
 Marshall, United States senator from Kentucky, 
 1795-1801, and historian of Kentucky, 1812 and 
 1824), Judith (wife of George Brooke), Lucy 
 (wife of Col. John Ambler), Susannah (wife of 
 Judge William McClung), Charlotte (wife of Dr. 
 Basil Duke), Jane (wife of George Keith Taylor), 
 and Nancy (wife of Colonel Joseph Hamilton 
 Daviess). John, and several brothers and sisters, 
 remained in Virginia. The father died at his 
 home in Woodford County, Kentucky, July, 1803. 
 
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 EN. CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY, 
 son of General Green Clay, was born in 
 Madison County, Kentucky, October 19, 1810; a 
 graduate of Yale College, and a lawyer by profes- 
 sion; elected to the Kentucky Legislature from 
 his native county, in 1835, and again in 1837; 
 removed to Fayette County, which he represented 
 in the Legislature in 1840, but was defeated at 
 the next election on account of his anti-slavery 
 views. In 1844 he canvassed the Northern States 
 and denounced the annexation of Texas as a 
 scheme for the extension of slavery. 
 
 In 1845 he established at Lexington a paper, 
 the True American, in the interest of the abolition 
 or anti-slavery party. 
 
 L 
 
 EWIS COLLINS, third son of Richard Col- 
 lins, a soldier of the Virginia army of the 
 Revolutionary war, was born on Christmas day, 
 1797, near Grant's Station, several miles north- 
 east of Bryan's Station, in Fayette County, Ken- 
 tucky. Left an orphan when quite a youth, he 
 took his first lessons at practical printing under 
 Joel R. Lyle, of the Paris Citizen, during the year 
 1 813; and in 1814 accompanied his old friend and 
 teacher, David V. Rannells, to Washington, in 
 Mason County, and assisted him first in the pub- 
 lication, and afterward in the editorial manage- 
 ment of the Washington Union, until the fall of 
 1820. 
 
 On the 1st of November of that year he be- 
 came proprietor and editor of the Maysville Eagle, 
 a newspaper founded in 1814 by Richard and Joab 
 
SIMON ki-;nton. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 Corwine, who sold it in 1817 to Aaron Crook- 
 shanks, from whom Mr. Collins purchased in 1820. 
 During the succeeding twenty-seven years, to No- 
 vember I, 1847, he remained the owner and 
 editor of that paper — conducting it, in conjunc- 
 tion with the book business, with much tact, 
 ability, energy, and judgment. It was not only a 
 financial success, but the Eagle exerted a wide 
 influence for good over the whole community. 
 It was a pure, truthful, elevated paper, consei^va- 
 tive in its poHtical views, and filled with sound and 
 valuable instruction, adapted to the intellectual, 
 material, and moral wants of the people. 
 
 On the 1st of April, 1823, he was married to 
 Mary Eleanor Peers, daughter of Major Valen- 
 tine Peers (an officer of the Virginia army of the 
 Revolution, who was with General Washington 
 at Valley Forge) and sister of Rev. Benjamin O. 
 Peers. She became, a true helpmate, a devoted, 
 tender wife and mother, and still survives him 
 (1877), an example and blessing to all around 
 her, one of the noblest of her sex, a true "mother 
 in Israel." 
 
 In the same year he retired from the Eagle, he 
 edited and published "Collins' Historical Sketches 
 of Kentucky" — a work of rare research, and a 
 most authentic and comprehensive history of Ken- 
 tucky. He died at Lexington, Kentucky, on the 
 29th of January, 1870, aged seventy-two years. 
 
 COLONEL JOHN SPEED SMITH, for 
 forty years one of the leading lawyers and 
 most prominent public men in Eastern Kentucky, 
 was a native of Jessamine County, Kentucky ; set- 
 tled in Richmond when its bar was one of the 
 ablest in the country, with Martin D. Hardin at 
 its head, and rapidly rose to prominence; rep- 
 resented Madison County in the Kentucky House 
 of Representatives 1819, '27, '30, '39, '41 and '45, 
 and in the Senate 1846-50; was speaker of the 
 former body, 1827; a representative in Congress 
 during Monroe's administration, 1821-23; ap- 
 pointed by President J. Q. Adams secretary of 
 legation to the United States Mission, sent to the 
 South American Congress which was to assemble 
 at Tacubaya; appointed by President Jackson 
 United States attorney for the District of Ken- 
 tucky; appointed by the Kentucky Legislature 
 
 January 5, 1839, as joint commissioner with ex- 
 Governor James T. Morehead to visit the Ohio 
 Legislature and solicit the passage of laws to pre- 
 vent evil-disposed persons in that state from en- 
 ticing away or assisting in the escape of slaves 
 from Kentucky, and to provide more efficient 
 means for recapturing fugitive slaves by their mas- 
 ters or agents — which mission was entirely and 
 handsomely successful. In the campaign of 1813, 
 in the war with England and her Indian allies, he 
 served as aide-de-camp to General Harrison, and 
 proved himself a brave and vigilant officer. 
 
 GENERAL SIMON KENTON was born of 
 obscure parents in Fauquier County, Vir- 
 ginia, April 13, 1755. His father was an Irish- 
 man ; his mother of Scotch descent. The poverty 
 of his parents caused his education to be neglected, 
 most unfortunately for his future prosperity. His 
 life, until he was sixteen years of age, appears to 
 have run smoothly enough, distinguished by no 
 uncommon events from that of the neighboring 
 boys. About that age, however, a calamity befell 
 him, which, apart from its irreparable nature, in 
 the opinion of all young gentlemen of sixteen, 
 gave a direction to his whole future life. He lost 
 his sweetheart ; not by death, or anything of that 
 kind — for that could have been endured — but by 
 means of a more favored rival. The successful 
 lover's name was William Veach. Kenton, in 
 utter despair and recklessness, having gone unin- 
 vited to the wedding, and thrust himself between 
 the happy pair (whom he found seated cosily on a 
 bed), was pounced upon by Veach and his broth- 
 ers, who gave him, in the language of such affairs, 
 "what he wanted." They, however, had mistaken 
 his wants, for, meeting William Veach a short time 
 afterward in a retired place, he informed him that 
 he was not satisfied. A severe fight ensued which, 
 after varied success, terminated in the complete 
 discomfiture of Veach. In the course of the con- 
 test Kenton succeeded in entangling his antagon- 
 ist's long hair in a bush, which put him entirely 
 in his power. The desperate young man beat his 
 rival with a severity altogether foreign to his sub- 
 sequent amiable character. His violence appeared 
 to be fatal; the unhappy man, bleeding at mouth 
 and nose, attempted to rise, and fell back insensi- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 ble. Kenton was alarmed; he raised him up, 
 spolce kindly to him, and receiving no answer, be- 
 lieved him dead. He dropped his lifeless body 
 and fled to the woods. Now, indeed, he thought 
 himself ruined beyond redemption. He had lost 
 the girl he loved, and had killed his former friend 
 and companion, and therefore the society of civ- 
 ilized man must be not only repulsive, but danger- 
 ous. The AUeghanies and the wilderness of the 
 unexplored west offered him a secure asylum, 
 and he plunged at once into the woods. Travel- 
 ing by night and lying concealed by day, after 
 many sufferings, he arrived at Ise's ford, on Cheat 
 River, some time in April, 1771. Here he changed 
 his name to "Simon Butler." Thus, at the age of 
 sixteen, this man, who, in the hands of the Al- 
 mighty, was so instrumental in redeeming the 
 great west from the savage, and opening the way 
 for the stream of civilization which has since 
 poured over its fertile plains, desolate in heart, 
 and burdened with crime, was thrown upon his 
 own resources, to struggle with the dangers and 
 privations of the wilderness. 
 
 Kenton spent the winters of 1773-4 on the Big 
 Sandy with a hunting party, and in the spring, 
 when the war broke out with the Indians, he re- 
 treated into Fort Pitt with the other settlers. 
 When Lord Dunmore raised an army to punish 
 the Indians Kenton volunteered, and was actively 
 employed as a spy, both under the expedition of 
 Dunmore and that of Colonel Lewis. In the fall 
 he was discharged from the army, and returned, 
 with Thomas Williams, to his old hunting 
 grounds on Big Sandy River, where they passed 
 the winter. In the spring of 1775, having disposed 
 of their peltries to a French trader, whom they 
 met on the Ohio, for such necessaries as their 
 mode of life required, they descended the Ohio 
 in search once more of the "cane land." Al- 
 though Yeager was now dead, the impressions 
 left upon the mind of Kenton by his glowing 
 descriptions of Kain-tuck-ee, which Yeager had 
 visited with the Indians when a boy and a prison- 
 er, were still fresh and strong; and he determined 
 to make another effort to find the country. For 
 this purpose he and Williams were now descend- 
 ing the Ohio. Accident at last favored them. 
 While gliding along down "la belle riviere" (as 
 
 the French had christened it), night overtook the 
 young adventurers, and they were compelled to 
 land. They put in with their canoe at the mouth 
 of Cabin Creek, situated in the present County of 
 Mason, and about six miles above Maysville. 
 Next morning, while hunting some miles back 
 in the country, the ardently sought "cane" burst 
 upon Kenton's view, covering land richer than 
 any he had ever seen before. Overjoyed at this 
 piece of good fortune he returned in haste to com- 
 municate the joyful intelligence to Williams. Sink- 
 ing their canoe, the pioneers, par excellence, of 
 North Kentucky, struck into their new domain. 
 In the month of May, 1775, within a mile of the 
 present town of Washington, in Mason County, 
 having built their camp and finished a small clear- 
 ing, they planted about an acre of land with the 
 remains of the corn bought from the French 
 trader. The spot chosen by them for their agri- 
 cultural attempt was one of the most beautiful 
 and fertile in the State of Kentucky. Here, in 
 due season, they ate the first roasting ears that 
 ever grew by the care of a white man on the north 
 side of the Kentucky River. 
 
 Kenton continued to range the country as a spy 
 until June, 1778, when Major Clark came down 
 the Ohio from Virginia with a small force, and 
 landed at the Falls. Clark was organizing an ex- 
 pedition against Okaw or Kaskaskia, and invited 
 as many of the settlers at Boonesborough and 
 Harrodsburg as desired to join him. The times 
 were so dangerous that the women, especially in 
 the stations, objected to the men going on such a 
 distant expedition. Consequently, to the great 
 mortification of Clark, only Kenton and Haggin 
 left the stations to accompany him on this expedi- 
 tion, so honorable to the enterprise of Virginia 
 and the great captain and soldiers composing it, 
 and so successful and happy in its results. After 
 the fall of Kaskaskia, Kenton returned to Har- 
 rodsburg by way of Vincennes, an accurate de- 
 scription of which, obtained by three days' secret 
 observation, he sent to Clark, who subsequently 
 took that post. 
 
 Kenton, finding Boone about to undertake an 
 expedition against a small town on Paint Creek, 
 readily joined him. Inaction was irksome to the 
 hardy youth in such stirring times; besides he 
 
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 had some melancholy reflections that he could 
 only escape from in the excitement of danger and 
 adventure. 
 
 The party, consisting of nineteen men, and 
 commanded by Boone, arrived in the neighbor- 
 hood of the Indian village. Kenton, who, as 
 usual, was in advance, was startled by hearing 
 loud peals of laughter from a cane brake just be- 
 fore him. He scarcely had time to tree before two 
 Indians, mounted upon a small pony, one facing 
 the animal's tail and the other his head, totally 
 unsuspicious of danger and in excellent spirits, 
 made their appearance. He pulled trigger, and 
 both Indians fell, one killed and the other severe- 
 ly wounded. He hastened up to scalp his adver- 
 saries, and was immediately surrounded by about 
 forty Indians. His situation, dodging from tree 
 to tree, was uncomfortable enough, until Boone 
 and his party coming up, furiously attacked and 
 defeated the savages. Boone immediately re- 
 turned to the succor of his fort, having ascer- 
 tained that a large war party had gone against 
 it. Kenton and Montgomery, however, resolved 
 to proceed to the village to get "a shot" and steal 
 horses. They lay within good rifle distance of the 
 village for two days and a night without seeing a 
 single warrior; on" the second night they each 
 mounted a fine horse and put off to Kentucky, 
 and the day after the Indians raised the siege of 
 Boonesborough they cantered into the fort on 
 their stolen property. 
 
 The winter of 1779-80 was a peaceful one to 
 the Kentuckians, but in the spring the Indians 
 and British invaded the country, having with them 
 two pieces of cannon, by means of which two sta- 
 tions, Martin's and Ruddle's, fell into their hands ; 
 whereupon the allied savages immediately re- 
 treated. 
 
 When General Clark heard of the disaster he 
 hastened from Vincennes to concert measures for 
 present retaliation and the future safety of the set- 
 tlements. Clark was no doubt one of the greatest 
 men ever furnished by the west, of no ordinary 
 military capacity. He believed the best way to 
 prevent the depredations of the Indians was to 
 carry the war into their own country, burning 
 down their villages and destroying their corn, 
 and thus give them sufficient employment to pre- 
 
 vent their incursions among the settlements on 
 the south side of the river. Accordingly an expe- 
 dition consisting of 1,100 of the hardiest and most 
 courageous men that the most adventurous age 
 of our history could furnish, inured to hardships 
 and accustomed to the Indian mode of fighting, 
 assembled at the mouth of the Licking. Kenton 
 commanded a company of volunteers from Har- 
 rod's Station, and shared in all the dangers and 
 success of this little army. Commanded by Clark 
 and piloted by one of the most expert woodsmen 
 and the greatest spy of the west, Simon Kenton, 
 the Kentuckians assailed the savages in their dens 
 with complete success. 
 
 General Kenton lived in his quiet and obscure 
 home to the age of eighty-one, beloved and re- 
 spected by all who knew him; 2gth of April, 1836, 
 in sight of the place where the Indians, fifty-eight 
 years before, proposed to torture him to death, 
 he breathed his last, surrounded by his family and 
 neighbors and supported by the consolation of 
 the gospel. 
 
 JAMES GUTHRIE, LL.D., was born near 
 Bardstown, Kentucky, December 5, 1792, and 
 died in Louisville, March 13, 1869, aged seventy- 
 six. Failing health, during several years, had 
 compelled him, in February, 1868, to resign his 
 seat in the United States senate, he being the 
 oldest of the members of that body. He was 
 educated at Bardstown Academy, and before he 
 was grown became a flat-boat or produce mer- 
 chant to New Orleans; afterwards studied law 
 in the office of Judge John Rowan, and practiced 
 in Nelson County; was made commonwealth's 
 attorney in 1820; soon after, removed to Louis- 
 ville, and obtained a lucrative practice; was a 
 representative from Jefiferson County in 1827, '28, 
 '29, and from the city of Louisville in 1830, and 
 senator from 1831-40; early in his political career 
 was shot by an opponent, the wound confining 
 him for three years to his bed; was a member 
 of the convention which formed the present con- 
 stitution of Kentucky, 1849, ^"d its presiding of- 
 ficer; secretary of the treasury in President 
 Pierce's cabinet, 1853-57; a candidate before the 
 Charleston Democratic Convention for the presi- 
 dency, i860, and a delegate to the Democratic 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 National Convention in Chicago, 1864; elected 
 by the Kentucky legislature a delegate to the 
 Peace Convention which assembled at Washing- 
 ton City just before the outbreak of the Civil war, 
 1861, and afterwards was a delegate to the 
 Border State Convention at Frankfort, 1861 ; 
 United States senator from Kentucky, 1865-71, 
 but resigned 1868, as above; was an earnest and 
 consistent Union man during the war, and a mem- 
 ber of the Union National Convention at Phila- 
 delphia, 1866. 
 
 HUMPHREY MARSHALL, the United 
 States senator, was born in Virginia, the 
 son of John Marshall and Jane Quisenberry, who 
 were humble in fortune, and raised a large fam- 
 ily. He had three children: John J., Thomas 
 A., and a daughter who was killed by lightning 
 in infancy, in Woodford County. The two broth- 
 ers were well known to the people of Kentucky 
 as men of ability, chiefly signalized by their judi- 
 cial and political labors; for both were judges for 
 many years, and both were repeatedly elected 
 by the people to political stations. They were 
 men of high mental culture, gonial disposition and 
 great amiability of character. They had early 
 advantages of education, John having taken the 
 first honors at Princeton College, New Jersey, 
 while Thomas graduated with distinction at Yale. 
 They entered life, each with a fortune which 
 was colossal at the time, and each ran a career 
 of great distinction. John represented Franklin 
 County in the lower house of the legislature in 
 1815 and 1833, and in the senate, 1820-24; and 
 was a judge of the Louisville Circuit Court for 
 many years. John J. Marshall in 1809 married 
 Anna Reed Birney, daughter of James Birney 
 of Danville, niece of Thomas B. Reed, United 
 States senator from Mississippi, 1826-27, '29, and 
 sister of James G. Birney, who was for several 
 times the "Liberty" candidate for President of 
 the United States. 
 
 THOMAS A. MARSHALL was born in 
 Woodford County, Kentucky, January 15, 
 1794, and died in Louisville, April 16, 1871, aged 
 seventy-seven. When a boy, he spent some time 
 in Washington City, while his father was United 
 
 States senator. One day, dressed in homespun, 
 he chmbed up one of the huge posts in the vesti- 
 bule of the old capitol and wrote his name. Some 
 one inquired what he was doing. "I am writing 
 my name," he replied, "and I want to see if it will 
 be here when I come to Congress." He was but 
 seven years old. In 1831-35 he came to Congress, 
 from the Paris and Maysville District, 'but the 
 name written in infancy had been painted out. 
 He had previously, 1827, '28, represented Bour- 
 bon County in the Kentucky house of repre- 
 sentatives, as he did the City of Louisville, 
 1863-65. From April, 1835, to August, 1856, and 
 for a short period in 1866, he was upon the Court 
 of Appeals bench, and from 1847-51, 1854-56, 
 and in 1866 was chief justice. His claim to great- 
 ness and renown will be found in the twenty-four 
 volumes of Kentucky Reports from 3d Dana to 
 17th Ben Monroe. From 1836, when he removed 
 to Lexington, to 1849, he was a professor in 
 Transylvania Law School. In November, 18 16, 
 he married Miss Price of Lexington, a niece of 
 Mrs. Henry Clay. Several of their sons have 
 attained distinction, Colonel Thomas A. Marshall 
 of Charleston, Illinois, and Judge Charles Mar- 
 shall of Paducah, Kentucky. 
 
 GENERAL HUMPHREY MARSHALL 
 was educated at West Point Military Acad- 
 emy, New York, graduating in June, 1832, and 
 promoted, upon his graduation, to the rank of 
 second lieutenant in the army. His brief service 
 in the army enabled him to make his mark, as 
 will appear by the records of the War Depart- 
 mental correspondence, for General Cass, then 
 secretary of war, expressed officially the desire 
 of the Government to retain him in the army, and 
 offered to place him in any of the branches of the 
 service he would prefer. Lieutenant Marshall had 
 been mentioned honorably in the dispatches of 
 Major General Winfield Scott, then in campaign 
 against Black Hawk and the Sac Indians of the 
 Northwest. But the country being in a state of 
 profound peace, Mr. Marshall preferred to try his 
 fortune in civic life. He studied law, and was 
 admitted to the bar in April, 1833. He settled at 
 Louisville, in November, 1834. In 1836, he was 
 elected by the people of his ward to the city coun- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 cil, and was then elected to a captaincy of volun- 
 teers, called out by President Jackson to march 
 to the Sabine to defend the frontiers of Louisiana 
 against the approaching amiy of Santa Anna. He 
 quit his profession and municipal honors to ac- 
 cept this new military position; but the battle of 
 San Jacinto settled the fate of Texas, and ren- 
 dered the march of these volunteers unnecessary. 
 
 In 1837, he became a candidate for the Ken- 
 tucky legislature, and was defeated by Hon. S. S. 
 Nicholas, who had just retired from the bench 
 of the Court of Appeals, and whose services were 
 demanded by the banks to insure the renewal of 
 their charters, which they had forfeited by sus- 
 pending specie payments in May, 1837. The can- 
 vass was quite animated. It was with difficulty, 
 and only after a considerable expenditure of 
 means, the defeat of Mr. Marshall was secured. 
 It was the commencement of his political life; 
 it was the beginning and end of that of his com- 
 petitor. 
 
 Captain Marshall now, for the first time, sedu- 
 lously addressed himself to his profession, and his 
 increase of practice was the token of success. The 
 Louisville bar was very strong — embracing such 
 men as Guthrie, Thruston, Duncan, Benham, 
 Loughborough, Pirtle, Field, Thomas Q. Wilson, 
 Wat Wilson, and others, all in active practice; 
 it was with difficulty younger lawyers struggled 
 to the surface. The opening of the Mexican war 
 in 1846 again drew Marshall away from his pro- 
 fession, to accept the command of. the Kentucky 
 cavalry regiment, which was mustered into the 
 United States service at Louisville, June 9, 1846. 
 Colonel Marshall embarked for Memphis early in 
 July with his regiment, and marched thence, over- 
 land, to Mexico, arriving on the Rio Grande in 
 November. At the memorable battle of Buena 
 Vista the tide of adverse fortune was checked by 
 the charge of the Kentucky cavalry. 
 
 On being mustered out of service, June 9, 1847, 
 Colonel Marshall returned to Louisville. He was 
 nominated for the state senate in September, 1847, 
 but declined; and removed to Henry County, 
 to try his fortune as a farmer. He was nominated 
 as the Whig candidate for Congress from the 
 Louisville district, in 1849, ^"^ elected, after a 
 violent contest, by sixty-five votes, over Dr. New- 
 
 ton Lane, the Democratic candidate. He was 
 re-elected, in 185 1, over Governor David Merri- 
 wether, by a handsome majority — ^though Hon. 
 Archie Dixon, the Whig candidate for Gov- 
 ernor, failed to carry the district by more than 
 two hundred votes. The death of General Taylor 
 and accession of Mr. Fillmore to the presidency 
 opened a schism in the Whig party upon the sec- 
 tional questions which afterward led to the Civil 
 war under Lincoln's administration. Colonel 
 Marshall took an active part in favor of "The 
 Compromise Measures of 1850," and his course 
 was enthusiastically sustained by his constituency. 
 
 In June, 1852, a vacancy occurred on the bench 
 of the Supreme Court of the United States by the 
 death of Hon. John McKinley, to which the Lou- 
 isville bar, the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, 
 and the Kentucky delegation in Congress, of both 
 parties, recommended Colonel Marshall. Several 
 delegations from the western and southern states 
 added their recommendations. President Fill- 
 more was anxious to make the appointment, 
 but was prevented from so doing by an adminis- 
 trative rule adopted by him at the time of Judge 
 Woodbury's death, which limited the sticcessor of 
 a justice to the district to which the deceased had 
 been assigned. This rule had been applied in 
 the case of Postmaster General Hall, and now ex- 
 cluded Colonel Marshall. Mr. Fillmore tendered 
 him the appointment of minister to the five states 
 of Central America, which was declined. In 
 August, 1852, he appointed him commissioner to 
 China, with powers plenipotentiary, and Congress 
 passed an act highly complimentary which raised 
 the mission to the first class, after Colonel Mar- 
 shall's appointment was confirmed by the senate. 
 He left on the 2d of October, 1852, for England, 
 and made his way to China, taking France and 
 Italy in his journey, touching at Malta, and tra- 
 versing the Egyptian desert between Cairo and 
 Suez — an excellent opportunity of seeing what 
 was notable in the Old World. He arrived at 
 Canton, in China, about the first of April, 1853, 
 and at once steamed on to Shanghai, where he 
 resided as minister until 1854. 
 
 In 1855 he was returned by his old constituency 
 to Congress, by a majority of more than 2,500, 
 over Colonel William Preston, who had been 
 
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 elected during Colonel Marshall's absence from 
 the country. This canvass was peculiarly ani- 
 mated, for the competitors were men of acknowl- 
 edged talents, and the subject matter of discussion 
 — Knownothingism — ^was new to the disputes of 
 the political arena. Colonel Marshall was re- 
 elected to Congress by some i,8oo majority, in 
 1857, over Mr. Holt; but the canvass was one of 
 mere form — the result not doubtful from the be- 
 ginning of it. In 1859 he was nominated by accla- 
 mation for re-election, but, not relishing the plat- 
 form upon which the party convemtion placed him, 
 he declined. 
 
 Colonel Marshall formed a partnership with ex- 
 United States Senator James Cooper, of Penn- 
 sylvania, for the purpose of taking cases before 
 the Supreme Court, before the Court of Claims, 
 and the Departments of Washington City, until 
 i860. 
 
 The first battle of Manassas opened the trial 
 by battle between the United States and the 
 Southern Confederacy, and palsied the hands of 
 all who hoped to save the Union by the inter- 
 vention of the states themselves. Colonel Mar- 
 shall retired to his farm in Henry County, Ken- 
 tucky, intending to take such course as Kentucky 
 might choose to pursue; but he was not destined 
 to occupy this position long, for, in the fall of 
 1861, a coup d'etat was planned and partially 
 executed, of which the result would have em- 
 braced Colonel Marshall had he remained in the 
 state. He withdrew, in September, to Nashville, 
 Tennessee, and afterward accepted a brigadier's 
 commission in the Confederate army. In this 
 rank he was entrusted with a separate command, 
 styled "The Army of Eastern Kentucky," with 
 which it was at first designed to invade Kentucky 
 through her eastern mountain passes. The sur- 
 render at Fort Donelson, in the winter of 1861-62 
 changed this plan, and threw the Confederacy on 
 the defensive. In January, 1862, General Mar- 
 shall came to action with General Garfield, of 
 Ohio, at the forks of Middle Creek, in Floyd 
 County, Kentucky, but neither lost many men. 
 Both claimed victory. Marshall remained in the 
 county — about seven miles from the field of bat- 
 tle — until about March; Garfield fell back to 
 Paintsville, in Johnson County. 
 
 It was the occurrences in the West that com- 
 manded the management of the forces in the 
 mountain passes. The campaign through the 
 winter of 1861-2 by General Marshall's force was 
 one of the hardest ever experienced by any sol- 
 diery. There were no roads through the coun- 
 try, and no mills to grind meal, except those on 
 the mountain branches, which were barely suffi- 
 cient to turn oiif about two bushels in twenty-four 
 hours. The soldiers of General Marshall's com- 
 mand gathered the iced shucks in the fields, shelled 
 the corn, and took it to these mills to be ground 
 into meal. Many a time they lived on parched 
 corn for days, though marching from morning 
 until night. The typhoid-pneumonia took oiif hun- 
 dreds of young Kentuckians and Virginians from 
 this command in the spring of 1862. 
 
 In May, 1862, General Marshall surprised Ma- 
 jor-General Cox at Princeton, Virginia, and, by 
 an action, relieved the Lynchburg and Knox- 
 ville Railroad — indeed, Southwestern Virginia — 
 of the presence of the Union troops. For this 
 movement. General Robert E. Lee complimented 
 General Marshall, in a letter written for the occa- 
 sion. 
 
 The defeat of McClellan before Richmond, Vir- 
 ginia, seemed to open a chance for the invasion 
 of Kentucky ; and accordingly the president of the 
 Confederacy directed General Marshall to prepare 
 his column to move into Kentucky, promising 
 that he should lead this invasion. Afterward this 
 command was given to General Bragg, and 
 amounted to nothing, for that officer knew nothing 
 of the topography of Kentucky, nothing of her 
 people, and chilled by his vacillation the spirit of 
 revolt in Kentucky. General Marshall was opposed 
 to the retreat from Kentucky, in the fall of 1862, 
 by the Confederate army, but was alone in his 
 opinion in the council of war which determined 
 upon that measure. 
 
 In the winter of 1862-3 he pursued General 
 Carter to the Kentucky line, when that officer 
 penetrated to the railroad near Bristol, Tennessee, 
 but only came upon his rear-guard at Jonesville, 
 Lee County, Virginia, as they were entering the 
 mountain passes in retreat. In the spring of 1863 
 General Marshall entered Kentucky with a cav- 
 alry force, to which it was designed to attach the 
 
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 commands of Generals Pegram and Jenkins, so as 
 to make headquarters at Lexington, Kentucky, 
 with some seven thousand cavalry; but the right 
 and left wings of this force were exhausted by the 
 independent movements of their chiefs, and this 
 expedition efifected nothing. 
 
 During his absence in Kentucky, the command 
 of General Marshall was transferred to General 
 William Preston of Kentucky, and General Mar- 
 shall was ordered to report to General Joseph 
 Johnston in Mississippi. This he did, but before 
 a division was assigned to his command the pres- 
 ident sent other generals of division to occupy the 
 place designed by General Johnston for General 
 Marshall; and as there was nothing left for the 
 latter, but the broken brigade of Tilghman, who 
 had been killed at Baker's Creek, General Mar- 
 shall tendered the resignation of his commission 
 in the army, which he insisted should be accepted 
 by the government. This was reluctantly done 
 when it was discovered that no other course could 
 be pursued consistent with General Marshall's 
 wishes. 
 
 General Marshall settled at Richmond, Virginia, 
 to practice law in June, 1863; but the Kentuckians 
 presented his name, and he was elected tO' the Sec- 
 ond Congress of the Confederate States, in which 
 he was placed upon the Committee on Military Af- 
 fairs. He was re-elected, and occupied this place 
 when Richmond was evacuated and the Southern 
 armies surrendered. He crossed the Mississippi 
 in July, 1865, but found the Confederate flag had 
 yielded throughout the whole boundaries of the 
 government. He spent the summer of 1865 in 
 the valley of the Brazos, in Texas, and from this 
 point obtained a permit to return to New Orleans, 
 in November, 1865; but the public authorities 
 would not consent to his return to Kentucky. 
 He commenced practicing law in New Orleans, 
 but left, in September, 1866, under a permit from 
 President Johnson, to visit his family in Kentucky. 
 
 Once more on Kentucky soil, and in the midst 
 of the people whom he had so long represented 
 in the Congress of the United States, General 
 Marshall was unconditionally pardoned by the 
 President, and then settled to his profession in the 
 city of Louisville. Congress subsequently re- 
 moved all disability from his civic status, and re- 
 
 stored him to the rights to which he was born. 
 In 1870 the friends of General Marshall induced 
 him to present himself as a candidate for Con- 
 gress from the Louisville District — and it is confi- 
 dently believed he would have been elected had 
 he continued a candidate to the poll — but the 
 trickery which makes up the action of party con- 
 ventions so disgusted him that he refused to sub- 
 mit to the convention, and declined the candidacy. 
 After that time, he pursued the practice of law at 
 Louisville energetically and successfully until his 
 death, March 28, 1872, aged sixty. While Gen- 
 eral Marshall was by no means great as a mili- 
 tary man, he was a statesman of considerable 
 ability, and one of the strongest and most pro- 
 found lawyers of Kentucky or the West. 
 
 JUDGE HENRY C. WOOD was born at 
 Munfordville, Hart County, Kentucky, No- 
 bember 27, 1821, and died in Louisville, February 
 II, 1 86 1, aged thirty-nine; graduated at Centre 
 College, Danville, September, 1841, when the sub- 
 ject of his graduating address was the "Legal 
 Profession;" studied law and began the practice 
 in his native town — where, and on the circuit, he 
 took high rank among the leading members of 
 the bar. Honorable Joseph R. Underwood, Judge 
 Elijah Hise, Jesse Craddock, Frank Gorin and 
 others ; was county attorney ; representative from 
 Hart County in the legislature, 1848; removed to 
 Louisville, 1850, and in conjunction with William 
 F. Barret soon became a leading law firm; in 
 August, 1858, was elected a judge of the Court of 
 Appeals for eight years, 1858-66, but in two years 
 and a half was carried to his final rest, "worn out, 
 with his harness on." 
 
 GENERAL LOVELL H. ROUSSEAU, a 
 lawyer, soldier and political leader, was 
 born in Lincoln County, Kentucky, August, 1818; 
 died in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 7, 1869. 
 His limited education, and the death of his father 
 in -1833, leaving a large family in straitened 
 circumstances, made manual labor a necessity; 
 and, while employed in breaking rock on the Lex- 
 ington and Lancaster turnpike, he mastered the 
 French language. When of age he removed to 
 the vicinity of Louisville and began the study of 
 
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 law; he was entirely without instruction, and had 
 no conversation on the subject previous to his 
 examination for Hcense. In 1840 he removed to 
 Bloomfield, Indiana; was admitted to the bar in 
 1841, and soon attained considerable success; 
 was a member of the Indiana legislature in 
 
 1844, '45- 
 
 In 1846 he raised a company for the Mexican 
 war, and took a prominent part in the battle of 
 Buena Vista, his company losing fourteen out of 
 fifty-one men. He was elected to the Indiana 
 senate, four days after bis return from Mexico; 
 removed to Louisville in 1849, before the expira- 
 tion of his term, but not being permitted by his 
 constituents to resign, served them for one year 
 while living out of the state. He immediately 
 took a prominent position at the Louisville bar, 
 his forte, like that of most lawyers who became 
 prominent as successful commanders during the 
 late war, being with the jury and in the manage- 
 ment of difficult cases during the trial. He began 
 recruiting for the United States army early in '61, 
 but was obHged to establish his camp in Indiana; 
 participated in most of the principal engagements 
 in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia; 
 was early made a brigadier general; for gallant 
 services at Perryville won a major general's com- 
 mission. He served with distinction in the battles 
 of Shiloh, Stone River and Chickamauga. 
 
 JAMES SPEED was bom in Jefferson County, 
 Kentucky, March 11, 1812; graduated at St. 
 Joseph's College, Bardstown, Kentucky; studied 
 law at Transylvania University and commenced 
 practice at Louisville, 1833; a representative in 
 the Kentucky legislature, 1847, ^nd senator, 
 1861-63; November, 1864, appointed by Presi- 
 dent Lincoln United States attorney general, 
 which he resigned July, 1866, and resumed the 
 practice of law at Louisville. 
 
 GENERAL CHRISTOPHER RIFF1<: (pro- 
 nounced Rife), the first settler of that part 
 of Lincoln County which is now Casey County, 
 was born of German parents, in Maryland, in 
 1765, married in Virginia before he was eighteen, 
 and died March 25, 1852, aged eighty-five. He 
 emigrated in 1784 to Bourbon County, Kentucky, 
 
 lived awhile at Bryan's Station, at Boonesborough 
 and at Logan's Station, and in 1788 settled at 
 Carpenter's Station, two miles west of Huston- 
 ville, and one-fourth of a mile north of Green 
 river (about one-half of a mile from Middleburg). 
 Thence he removed eight miles southeast and 
 built a cabin in the spring of 1793, where he 
 spent the summer. In the fall, from Carpenter's 
 Station was sent a warning of danger from In- 
 dians; which he was disposed to disregard, say- 
 ing, "By shinks, I ain't afraid of 'em" — and this, 
 notwithstanding he had, less than an hour before, 
 killed a deer on the south side of the river, and 
 while skinning it seen five or six Indians pass 
 overhead on the cliff. He yielded, and took his 
 wife and child to the station; but returning next 
 day, found everything destroyed except his cabin 
 — even the beds ripped and the feathers scattered ; 
 and a huge stone pipe, with a long stem or cane 
 to it, stuck in a crack of the door, and these words 
 written on the door with charcoal, "Ain't this the 
 devil of a pipe !" 
 
 In 1808 General Riffe was a member of the 
 Kentucky house of representatives, occupying a 
 seat between Henry Clay and Humphrey Mar- 
 shall, when the latter gave the insult which re- 
 sulted in a duel. The former resented it on the 
 spot, attacking Marshall, but Riffe (who was a 
 tall, muscular and powerful man) seized each with 
 one hand and held them apart, saying earnestly, 
 "Come, poys, no fighting here, I whips you both," 
 and closed the scene for the present 
 
 THOMAS E. BRAMLETTE was born in 
 Cumberland County, Kentucky, January 3, 
 1817; admitted to the bar in 1837; elected to the 
 state legislature from the Counties of Cumber- 
 land and Clinton; appointed commonwealth's at- 
 torney by Governor Crittenden in 1848, and was 
 the terror of violators of law in his district; 
 resigned his position two years afterward and 
 resumed the practice of law. In 1856 was elected 
 judge of the Sixth Judicial District, where his 
 decisions placed him among the foremost of Ken- 
 tucky's expounders of law. Resigned the judge- 
 ship to go into the army, and, taking the Federal 
 side, was elected colonel of the Third Kentucky 
 Infantry. Appointed United States district attor- 
 
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 285 
 
 ney, vice James Harlan, deceased; but also re- 
 signed that position to accept the "Union" nom- 
 ination for governor. He was elected for four 
 years, from September, 1863, to September, 1867, 
 and served through the entire time of many of the 
 most trying scenes to which Kentucky was sub- 
 jected after she became a state. Governor Bram- 
 lette afterward located at Louisville, where, until 
 his death, January 12, 1875, he was a distinguished 
 and successful lawyer. 
 
 GOVERNOR R. P. LETCHER was a 
 native of Garrard County, where he resid- 
 ed and practiced law until 1840; was a representa- 
 tive in the legislature frequently; in Congress for 
 ten years, 1823-33, and again in the legislature; 
 was always a firm and consistent Whig, and in De- 
 cember, 1 83 1, received the whole vote of the entire 
 Whig representation for speaker of the house. In 
 1838 was speaker of the Kentucky house of rep- 
 resentatives, and as such distinguished for energy 
 and promptitude. As the Whig candidate, he 
 was elected governor, August, 1840, for four years, 
 by 15,720 majority over Judge Richard French. 
 Although one of the most popular electioneerers 
 in the state, he was beaten for Congress in the 
 Lexington district, August, 1853, by Major John 
 C. Breckinridge, by 526 majority — owing to the 
 remarkable popularity of the latter in Owen Coun- 
 ty. He died in Frankfort, January 24, 1861. 
 
 EX-GOVERNOR JAMES T. MOREHEAD 
 was born May 24, 1797, near Shepherdsville, 
 Bullitt County, Kentucky, and died in Coving- 
 ton, Kentucky, December 28, 1854, aged fifty-sev- 
 en; when three years old removed with his father 
 to Russellville, Logan County, where he enjoyed 
 the advantages of the village schools; was at 
 Transylvania University, 1813-15; studied law 
 with Judge H. P. Broadnax, and afterwards with 
 John J. Crittenden, who was then living at Rus- 
 sellville ; settled at Bowling Green and began the 
 practice of law in the spring of 1818; was elected 
 to the legislature, 1828, '29, '30; while attending 
 the convention at Baltimore which nominated 
 Henry Clay for the presidency and John Ser- 
 geant for the vice presidency, was nominated for 
 lieutenant governor, and elected August, 1832; 
 
 upon the death of Governor John Breathitt, Feb- 
 ruary, 1834, was inaugurated governor, serving 
 until September, 1836; was made ex-officio presi- 
 dent of the board of internal improvement, Feb- 
 ruary, 1835, and afterwards, under a change of 
 the law, in 1838, commissioned by Governor Clark 
 to the same office — having already, since March, 
 1837, been the state agent for the sale of bonds 
 for internal improvement purposes; resumed the 
 practice of law at Frankfort in the fall of 1836, 
 and was elected to the legislature from Franklin 
 County, August, 1837; in the winter of 1839-40, 
 he and Colonel John Speed Smith were elected by 
 the legislature commissioners to the state of Ohio, 
 to obtain the passage of a law for the protection 
 of the property of citizens of Kentucky in their 
 slaves — which mission was entirely successful; 
 was United States senator from Kentucky, 
 1841-47, and on his retirement resumed the prac- 
 tice of law at Covington. In the United States 
 senate as a debater, few men ranked higher; 
 whenever announced to speak, the lobbies and 
 galleries were filled with spectators. As a speak- 
 er, he was remarkably fluent and energetic, with 
 a manner eminently graceful and dignified. As 
 a statesman, he was sound and conservative, and 
 his political and general information was exten- 
 sive and varied. His library, embracing the larg- 
 est collection then known of works relating to the 
 history of Kentucky, was purchased by the Young 
 Men's Mercantile Association of Cincinnati. His 
 address at the anniversary of the first settlement 
 of Kentucky at Boonesborough, in 1840, was an 
 invaluable historical summary, and rescued from 
 oblivion a number of documents not elsewhere 
 preserved. 
 
 CHARLES S. MOREHEAD was born in 
 Nelson County, Kentucky, July .7, 1802. 
 Graduated at Transylvania University, and re- 
 moved to Christian County, where he commenced 
 the practice of law. He was elected to the legis- 
 lature in 1827, when barely eligible, receiving 
 nearly every vote in the county; and was elected 
 for a second term. On its expiration, he re- 
 moved to Frankfort, as a more extended field for 
 the practice of his profession. He was appointed 
 attorney general of Kentucky in 1832, and held 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 that office for five years. In 1838-39-40, he was 
 returned to the legislature from Franklin County, 
 the last year officiating as speaker of the house; 
 was re-elected and made speaker in 1841 ; again 
 in 1842; and, in 1844, for the third time he was 
 chosen speaker. He was a representative in Con- 
 gress from 1847 to 1 85 1. Was again sent to the 
 legislature in 1853, and chosen governor in 1855. 
 for the term of four years. At the expiration of 
 his term, in 1859, he removed to Louisville, and 
 formed a law partnership with his nephew, Charles 
 M. Briggs, Esq. His reception there was a per- 
 fect ovation. He was received at the railroad 
 depot by a committee of citizens and escorted to 
 the Gait House, formally welcomed, and made 
 an address. After the secession of South Caro- 
 lina, he was prominent among the conservatives 
 of his state in laboring to avert civil war. He 
 was a delegate from Kentucky to the "Peace 
 Conference" at Washington, in February, 1861, 
 and again to the "Border State Convention," at 
 Frankfort, in May of that year. 
 
 HON. JOSHUA FRY BELL was born in 
 Danville, Ky., Nov. 26, 181 1, and died 
 there, Aug. 17, 1870, aged nearly fifty-nine. His 
 father was a leading merchant of Danville, a na- 
 tive of Newry, Ireland; his mother, Martha Fry, 
 of Virginia, was the daughter of Joshua Fry, dis- 
 tinguished for his literary attainments and, after 
 his removal to Kentucky, as an educator of many 
 of the great men of the state, and the granddaugh- 
 ter of Dr. Thomas Walker, already spoken of 
 under this county as the first white visitor to the 
 interior of Kentucky (in 1750), and who in 1780 
 surveyed the boundary line between Kentucky 
 and Tennessee. His great-grandfather, Col. John 
 Fry, of Virginia, was commander of the American 
 forces during the Colonial days, previous to the 
 election of General Washington. 
 
 Joshua F. Bell graduated in 1828, when sixteen 
 and a half years old, at Centre College, then under 
 the presidency of Rev. John C. Young, D. D.; 
 studied law at Lexington; spent several years in 
 travel in Europe; at twenty-two, returned to Dan- 
 ville, and entered upon the practice of law, obtain- 
 ing a large and lucrative practice, which he zeal- 
 ously cultivated until ill health prevented, a few 
 
 months before his death; was representative in 
 congress for two years, 1845-47; secretary of state 
 under Governor John J. Crittenden, 1850; made 
 a remarkable race as the opposition candidate 
 for governor, in 1859, being beaten by Governor 
 Magoffin; was chosen by the Kentucky legisla- 
 ture, by a unanimous vote in the senate and 81 
 to 5 in the house, one of six commissioners to 
 the Peace Conference at Washington City, Feb- 
 ruary, 1 861, and there plead most earnestly for 
 "peace between embittered and hating brothers;" 
 March 19, 1863, was nominated by the Union 
 Democratic state convention for governor, receiv- 
 ing 627 votes to 171 for acting-governor James 
 F. Robinson. 
 
 SHADRACH PENN, Jr., one of the most dis- 
 tinguished of Kentucky editors, was born in 
 Maryland, in 1790; brought when young to Scott 
 County, Kentucky, where he assisted his parents 
 on the farm; learned the printing business at 
 Georgetown, and for a while published a news- 
 paper at Lexington; spent some time at mer- 
 chandising; was a soldier in the War of 1812; in 
 1818, started the Public Advertiser at Louisville, 
 of which he was editor and one of the publishers 
 until 1841 ; removed to St. Louis, and started the 
 Reporter, a Democratic newspaper, editing it un- 
 til his death in June, 1846, aged fifty-six. He was 
 an earnest antagonist of Colonel Benton's favorite 
 idea of an exclusive gold and silver currency for 
 Missouri — preferring the safe system of Mis- 
 souri banks with a limited issue, to the flood of 
 doubtful bank issues from other states. Under 
 the lead of his paper, the state bank system was 
 continued, the district-plan for election of mem- 
 bers to congress prevailed over the old general- 
 ticket practice, and internal improvements by the 
 state were sustained. He became a power in the 
 politics of Missouri. 
 
 Mr. Penn had been a power in the politics of 
 Kentucky, too— the champion of the Democratic 
 party. On the "old court" and "new court" issues 
 which convulsed the state, from 1822-27, he had 
 vanquished the famous Amos Kendall, and scarce- 
 ly an editor in the country had been able to cope 
 with him. Indeed, the only exception was George 
 D. Prentice, who out-generaled him, if at all, by 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 287 
 
 bull-dog perseverance and terrific sallies of wit 
 and ridicule. Prentice spoke of him, after his 
 death, as an able and sincere man, but lacking in 
 ready self-possession. He was too sensitive to the 
 tortures of Prentice, and fled the field. Prentice 
 said of him, then, that his removal would be re- 
 garded as a public calamity. Of all the history of 
 newspapers in Louisville, the eleven years of con- 
 troversy between those two is recounted with most 
 zest and relish. Of all the prominent Democratic 
 editors of his day, Penn alone seemed to care 
 nothing for office or position. His life was one 
 of controversy; he was fond of it. He was a 
 great journalist, if not a great statesman. 
 
 CHANCELLOR GEORGE M. BIBB, born 
 October 30th, 1776, in Prince Edward 
 County, Virginia, was the son of Richard Bibb, 
 an Episcopal clergyman of great learning. His 
 earliest recollections were of the struggle for 
 American independence, which began at his birth ; 
 and he died just before the war for the independ- 
 ence of his native state and the South had con- 
 centrated its unrecorded horrors around his birth- 
 place. He was the last representative at the na- 
 tional capital of the "gentleman of the old school;" 
 and, refusing to give up the fashion of his early 
 life for the pantaloons of the present day, the 
 "tights" or "small clothes" were not even odd in 
 the elegant old-time gentleman, but added to the 
 popular respect and reverence for him. 
 
 Judge Bibb was well educated, a graduate of 
 Hampden Sydney and also of William and Mary 
 Colleges — and in his latter days was the oldest 
 surviving graduate of each. Studying his pro- 
 fession with that distinguished lawyer, Richard 
 Venable, he practiced in Virginia a short time, 
 and removed to Lexington, Kentucky, in 1798. 
 He attracted business by his legal acquirements, 
 solid judgment, and cogent reasoning, and was 
 soon numbered among the ablest and soundest 
 in a state already prominent for great lawyers. 
 He was appointed by Governor Greenup one of 
 the judges of the Court of Appeals, January 31, 
 1808; and by Governer Scott, its chief justice. 
 May 30, 1809, but resigned in March, 1810; and 
 again, by Governor Desha, was appointed chief 
 
 justice, for the second time, January 5, 1827, but 
 resigned December 23, 1828. 
 
 Judge Bibb was twice elected to the United 
 States senate (the third of five Kentuckians who 
 have enjoyed this distinction) — first in 181 1, but 
 resigned in 1814, and second in 1829, serving the 
 full term of six years, to 1835. During the war of 
 18 1 2, he, in the senate, and Wm. Lowndes and 
 John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, and Henry 
 Clay, in the United States house of representa- 
 tives, formed what was called the "War Mess" of 
 the Madison administration — from having sup- 
 ported the war and the President with such great 
 talent, vigor, and zeal. He settled in Frankfort 
 in 1816. From 1835 to 1844, Judge Bibb held 
 the important position of chancellor of the Louis- 
 ville Chancery Court; but resigned, to become 
 United States secretary of the treasury in the cab- 
 inet of his old colleague in the United States sen- 
 ate. President Tyler, holding it to the close of his 
 presidential term, 1844 to March 4, 1845. Thence- 
 forward, until his death, April 14, 1859, aged 
 eighty-three years, he practiced law in the courts 
 of the District of Columbia, most of the time in 
 the position of chief clerk in the department of 
 the United States attorney-general, but really do- 
 ing the duties now required of the assistant attor- 
 ney-general, an office established for the very 
 labors performed by him. 
 
 GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE, a distin- 
 guished editor and poet, born December 
 18, 1802, in New London County, Connecticut 
 (one account says in Griswold, and another in 
 Preston, towns within eight miles of each other) ; 
 died a few miles below Louisville, Kentucky, Jan- 
 uary 21, 1870, aged sixty-seven; a fluent reader 
 at four years of age; could translate and parse 
 any verse in Virgil or Homer at fifteen, and was 
 ready for college, but want of means compelled 
 him to teach school two years ; entered the sopho- 
 more class at Brown University, Providence, 
 Rhode Island, in 1820, and graduated in 1823; 
 studied law, but finding the practice uncongenial, 
 abandoned it; editor of the Connecticut Mirror, 
 1825; associated with John G. Whittier in the 
 publication of the New England Weekly Review, 
 
288 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 1828-30; visited at Ashland and wrote the Life 
 of Henry Clay, 1830; removed to Louisville, Sep- 
 tember, 1830, and issued the first number of the 
 Louisville Daily Journal, November 24, 1830, 
 which he continued to conduct until November 8, 
 1868, when it was merged in the Courier,' and 
 the two issued thenceforth under the name of the 
 Courier-Journal, Mr. Prentice continuing to aid 
 in editing until the sickness which resulted in a 
 few weeks in his death. 
 
 In college, Mr. Prentice was recognized as a 
 fine scholar and distinguished as a writer of both 
 prose and verse, his college essays exhibiting 
 marked vigor of thought, beauty of diction, cor- 
 rectness of style, and purity of English ; some of 
 his sweetest productions in verse were written 
 while in the university. He relinquished the law 
 because he liked Addison and Byron better than 
 Chitty and Blackstone; there was too much of 
 poetry in him for the dry formulas of the court 
 room. His "Biography of Henry Clay" — much 
 of it written in the home of the great statesman — 
 was finished just ten days before he entered upon 
 the great work of his life as editor of the Louis- 
 ville Journal. It was written in a glowing and 
 ardent style, reflecting the true life of one in the 
 unalloyed admiration of the other. 
 
 During the thirty-eight years of editorial life 
 in the Journal, he perhaps wrote more, and cer- 
 tainly wrote better, than any journalist that ever 
 conducted a daily paper in this state. He made 
 the Journal one of the most renowned papers in 
 the land, and many articles from his pen would 
 have done honor to the highest literary periodical 
 of the day. The Journal under his guidance made 
 and unmade the poets, poetesses, essayists, and 
 journaHsts who appeared in the West for the third 
 of a century which preceded his death. His hu- 
 mor, his wit, and his satire were the best friends 
 and the worst enemies that aspirants to fame in 
 his region could have. 
 
 In 1835 Mr. Prentice was married to Miss Hen- 
 riette Benham, daughter of Colonel Joseph Ben- 
 ham, a distinguished member of the Kentucky 
 bar. They had two sons: William Courtland 
 Prentice, who was killed while bravely leading 
 his company of Confederate soldiers at the battle 
 of Augusta, Kentucky, September 18, 1862; and 
 
 Clarence J. Prentice, also a Confederate ofificer, 
 who was killed by the upsetting of his buggy, near 
 Louisville, November, 1873. Mrs. Prentice died 
 in April, 1868, at the family residence in Louis- 
 ville. 
 
 In i860 he published a book under the title of 
 "Prenticeana," made up of his humorous, witty, 
 and satirical paragraphs as they appeared in the 
 Journal. To this style of composition, perhaps 
 more than to anything else, Mr. Prentice owed 
 his fame as a journalist. He was a paragraphist 
 of unparalleled ability. 
 
 At the breaking out of the rebellion in 1861, 
 Mr. Prentice took sides and used his powerful pen 
 against the South, in the conflict which ended so 
 disastrously to that section. And yet, during the 
 war he performed numerous kind and generous 
 acts to individual sufferers on the rebel side, and 
 proved a friend to many in times of need. 
 
 The disease of which Mr. Prentice died was 
 pneumonia, the result of violent cold taken in rid- 
 ing in an open carriage, on the coldest day in the 
 year, from Louisville to the residence of his son 
 Clarence, some miles below the city. He strug- 
 gled with it for a month, retaining his mental 
 faculties to the last. Just before he drew his last 
 breath, he exclaimed, "I want to go, I want to go." 
 His grave at Cave Hill cemetery is yet without a 
 becoming monument. 
 
 A eulogy of singular beauty and power was 
 pronounced by Henry Watterson, editor of the 
 Courier- Journal, by invitation of the legislature 
 of Kentucky. His poems had been collected by 
 his son, with a view to publication in a volume — 
 to which, it is hoped, some of his most marked 
 prose contributions will be added. As an author 
 and poet Mr. Prentice had few equals; but he 
 was a journalist of pre-eminent ability and versa- 
 tility. 
 
 MAJ. PHILIP NORBOURNE BARBOUR, 
 born near Bardstown, Kentucky, in 1817; 
 raised and educated in Henderson County, Ken- 
 tucky; graduated at West Point, 1834; made 
 second lieutenant in Third Infantry; soon after 
 made first lieutenant and became regimental ad- 
 jutant until 1845; fof bravery in defending Fort 
 Waggoner in East Florida, made brevet-captain; 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 289 
 
 and for services at Palo Alto and Resaca de la 
 Palma made brevet-major May 9, 1846; and was 
 killed in action September 19, 1846, while leading 
 his company at the storming of the breastworks 
 of the city of Monterey. He was a man of great 
 amenity of manners and of much talent — reputed 
 one of the most energetic officers of the war with 
 Mexico. 
 
 WILLIAM LYLE SIMMONS of Lexington 
 was born in Frederick County, Maryland, 
 October 9, 1829, and is a son of John E. H. and 
 Martha (Lillard) Simmons. The family original- 
 ly came to this country with Lord Baltimore. 
 Brigadier-General Morris of Revolutionary fame, 
 who contributed generously to the Continental 
 Congress, was the maternal grandfather of the 
 subject of this sketch. His grandfather Simmons 
 and his father, John E. H. Simmoiis, were the 
 owners of a large number of slaves in Frederick 
 County, Maryland, and, about thirty years before 
 the late war, foreseeing the inevitable conflict, 
 they set their slaves free. 
 
 John E. H. Simmons left Maryland and went 
 to New York City when his son, William L., was 
 five or six years of age, and engaged in the whole- 
 sale manufacture of whips, in which trade he made 
 a national reputation. William attended the gram- 
 mar and high schools of New York and obtained 
 a good education. At the age of fourteen he 
 entered the office of B. Wood & Company and 
 was with them for twenty years, becoming a part- 
 ner within a few years after entering the house. 
 He operated in Wall street and quite largely at 
 times, but not frequently, and laid the foundation 
 for the large fortune which he very nearly lost 
 by the panic of 1873. He paid out and quit, 
 which afterwards proved a very wise conclusion. 
 
 While he was in the possession of large means 
 he had established his noted stables of thorough- 
 bred horses, merely for the pleasure he could 
 find in the ownership of them. He had done 
 this, as he said, for a "plaything," expecting it to 
 yield him nothing but expense. But when the 
 tide of fortune turned he found that he had an 
 exceedingly valuable property in his thorough- 
 breds, and in 1872 he brought them to Lexing- 
 19 
 
 ton, with a result that is well known to horse- 
 men throughout the country. 
 
 Mr. Simmons, popularly known as "George 
 Wilkes" Simmons, is in many ways a remarkable 
 man. Besides being the owner of "George 
 Wilkes" — champion in his day and progenitor of 
 the greatest family of trotters the world has ever 
 seen — he is the breeder and owner of Jay Bird, 
 the sire of Allerton, the thrice-crowned king, who 
 was also the four-year-old champion and was 
 the fastest five-year-old of any sex; he bred 
 Eagle Bird, sire of the two-year-old champion, 
 Monbars; also bred and owns William L., the 
 sire of Axtell, the three-year-old champion ; bred 
 and owns Betterton, sire of George St. Clair, the 
 three-year-old champion of Michigan. 
 
 Such marvelous results do not come by chance. 
 To breed the sire of one champion requires a 
 vast amount of experience, intelligent thought 
 and much more than ordinary ability. Few men 
 have bred the sire of one champion. Mr. Sim- 
 mons has bred and owned five or six champion 
 stalhons or sires, and in doing so became a pub- 
 lic benefactor. 
 
 No mathematician is able to compute the 
 amount of money the breeding establishment of 
 Mr. Simmons has brought to this country. The 
 commonwealth of Kentucky has gained untold 
 milHons by his enterprise. 
 
 PROFESSOR ARTHUR YAGER of George- 
 town College, son of Dr. Frank J. and 
 Diana (Smith) Yager, was born in Campbells- 
 burg, Henry County, October 29, 1858. His 
 father is a native of Oldham County, who re- 
 moved to Campbellsburg in 1852, where he has 
 ever since been engaged in the practice of medi- 
 cine, and is still quite active for a man of seventy- 
 eight years of age. He is a graduate of the Med- 
 ical University of Louisville. 
 
 Daniel Yager (grandfather) was a native of 
 Madison County, Virginia. He came to Oldham 
 County in 181 7 and resided there until he was 
 eighty years of age, and died in i860. He was a 
 farmer on a very extensive scale. The Yagers 
 are of German origin, but have been in this 
 country for more than a century. 
 
290 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Diana Smith Yager (mother) is a native of 
 Oldham County, and she and Dr. Yager are mem- 
 bers of the Baptist Church. 
 
 Fountain Smith (grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia. When he first came to Kentucky he 
 located in Oldham County, but afterwards re- 
 moved to Henry County, where he died in 1843 
 at the age of forty years. 
 
 Professor Arthur Yager received his primary 
 education in his native town and entered George- 
 town College in 1875, graduating in 1879, after 
 a four years' course, after which he had charge of 
 the College Academy for three years. He then 
 spent two years in the Johns Hopkins University 
 at Baltimore, graduating with the degree of Doc- 
 tor of Philosophy in 1884. He then returned to 
 Georgetown and was elected Professor of His- 
 tory andPolitical Science, which position he holds 
 at the present writing. He was for a time sec- 
 retary of the Kentucky College Association and 
 has been, since its organization, a director in the 
 Kentucky Chautauqua at Lexington, and is a 
 member of a number of historical and scientific 
 associations. 
 
 Professor Yager was married in 1892 to Estill, 
 daughter of Dr. James Lewis of Virginia. She 
 was born in Louisiana, where her father was for 
 a time located. They have one son, Rodes Es- 
 till Yager. 
 
 T FERDINAND BEYLAND, a prominent 
 , citizen and business man of Bellevue, was 
 born in Gardelegen, Germany, October i, 1847. 
 His father and mother, D. G. and Caroline (Meyer) 
 Beyland, were natives of Wurtemberg, Germany, 
 who came to America in 1850 and located in 
 Cincinnati; and in 1856 went to Kansas and set- 
 tled within about fifty miles of Kansas City, Mis- 
 souri, in a part of the state which was then con- 
 sidered the western border of civilization. Tlie 
 inhabitants were principally Indians, and as they 
 were not the most desirable neighbors, and as 
 Mr. Beyland was a coppersmith, in which capaci- 
 ty he found little to do in the new country, and 
 being unused to the life and work of the agricul- 
 turist, he remained there only about nine months 
 and returned to Cincinnati, and finally took up his 
 residence in Newport. Mr. Beyland was ^n in- 
 
 dustrious man and a good citizen. He and his 
 wife were members of the Lutheran Church. He 
 died in Newport in 1867, in the fifty-fourth year 
 of his age. His estimable companion survived 
 him until 1882, continuing her residence in New- 
 port, and died at the age of sixty-six years. 
 
 After returning from Kansas, Ferdinand, now 
 about ten years of age, joined a theatrical com- 
 pany and traveled through nearly every state in 
 the Union, gaining a knowledge of the country 
 and of human nature which, together with a good 
 primary education, has been of great advantage to 
 him in business. This was supplemented by three 
 years' experience in the army. At the beginning 
 of the war, he enlisted as a drummer boy and 
 served in the armies of Generals Buell, Rose- 
 crans and Sherman; participated in the famous 
 battles of Shiloh, Stone River, Chickamauga and 
 Missionary Ridge and was in the Atlanta cam- 
 paign, and was honorably discharged from the 
 service at Fort Adams, Rhode Island, in 1864, 
 when he was not yet eighteen years of age. By 
 this time he knew something about his adopted 
 country, but he felt that his education was not 
 complete, and he became a sailor on the Gulf and 
 lived on the water during 1866. During the fol- 
 lowing year he traveled in Texas in a business 
 capacity, and saw all that was to be seen of life 
 in that state. He then became a commercial 
 traveler for the George D. Winchell Manufactur- 
 ing Co. of Cincinnati, covering the whole coun- 
 try from the lakes to the Gulf and from the At- 
 lantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains. This oc- 
 cupied his attention for ten years, when he con- 
 cluded to settle down and put his education to 
 practical use; and, in 1878, he became a citizen 
 of Bellevue. 
 
 He at once interested himself in the develop- 
 ment of that flourishing little city. He organized 
 two of the most reliable building and loan asso- 
 ciations; was president of one of them for a time 
 and is, and has been, secretary of the Home Sav- 
 ings and Loan Association since its organization, 
 April 4, 1889. In 1883 he was elected president 
 of the City Council and served two years, having 
 served as a member for a term of two years pre- 
 vious to that, and was City Treasurer of Bellevue 
 in 1894. ' ; ; i 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 291 
 
 In January, 1894, he became a partner of C. W. 
 Nagel in the real estate business, in which they 
 have met with gratifying success. He has ac- 
 cumulated considerable valuable property in his 
 own name in Bellevue and vicinity. 
 
 Mr. Beyland was married in 1874 to Clara M. 
 Smith, daughter of M. V. Smith of Newport, 
 Kentucky, and they have an interesting family, 
 consisting of two sons and four daughters : Wal- 
 ter, Agnes, Clififord, Alice, Dorothy and Beatrice. 
 
 Mr. Beyland is a member of the Granville 
 Moody Post, G. A. R., and was the founder of 
 the Bellevue Lodge of Knights of Honor in 1878. 
 He is a Republican and a leader in local politics. 
 
 JOHN P. CAMPBELL, Secretary and Treas- 
 urer of the Fowler Wharfboat Company, and 
 one of the most prominent young business men of 
 the flourishing city of Paducah, was born in 
 Martinsburg, West Virginia, September 15, 1867; 
 and is a son of John P. and Mary Boyd (Faulk- 
 ner) Campbell. His father was educated for the 
 legal profession and practiced law for some time ; 
 was a member of Congress for one term, imme- 
 diately preceding the Civil war, in which he took 
 no active part; and was not thereafter engaged in 
 the practice of law, but interested himself in a 
 number of large business enterprises. He was 
 interested in the Henderson & Nashville Railroad 
 from its organization, and was president of that 
 company during the construction of the road. He 
 organized the Mastodon Coal & Iron Company, 
 which was succeeded by the St. Bernard Coal 
 Company. Soon afterwards he retired and gave 
 his attention to his large landed estates during 
 the latter years of his Hfe; and died in 1887, aged 
 sixty-seven years. 
 
 John P. Campbell (grandfather) was born in 
 Virginia in 1778, and removed to Hopkinsville, 
 where he organized the Branch Bank of Ken- 
 tucky, the first bank in Hopkinsville, of which 
 he was president as long as he lived ; and was also 
 proprietor of a large tobacco stemmery and a 
 dealer in tobacco, shipping large quantities to 
 London. He was of Scotch-Irish descent. 
 
 Mary B. Faulkner Campbell (mother) was a 
 daughter of Honorable Charles James Faulkner, 
 a native of Virginia, lawyer, politician and diplo- 
 
 mat, who was minister plenipotentiary and envoy 
 extraordinary to France under President Buchan- 
 an, and was on General Stonewall Jackson's stafif 
 during the Civil war. He was a member of Con- 
 gress for twenty years, representing the Martins- 
 burg, Virginia, District, serving before and after 
 the war; was chairman of the Commitee of Ways 
 and Means and of the Committee on Foreign Re- 
 lations, and served on various other committees. 
 His death occurred in 1886, when in the seventy- 
 sixth year of his age. Mary B. (Faulkner) Camp- 
 bell (mother) is a sister of the present Senator 
 Faulkner of Virginia. 
 
 John P. Campbell was named for his father and 
 grandfather. He attended school in Hopkins- 
 ville and finished his studies at Berkeley Academy 
 at Martinsburg, West Virginia. He spent the first 
 ten years of his business career in the Bank of 
 Hopkinsville; and on May i, 1892, removed to 
 Paducah, where he became interested in the 
 Wharfboat Company, of which he is now secre- 
 tary and treasurer; in 1894 organized the Camp- 
 bell-Mulvihill Coal Company, of which he is pres- 
 ident; in January, 189S, organized the Merchants' 
 Transfer, of which he is also the president. Later 
 in the same year he established the general com- 
 mission and grocery house of J. P. Campbell & 
 Company, and is pushing to the front in a way 
 that is surprising to the business men of Paducah. 
 
 John P. Campbell and Birdie E. Fowler, daugh- 
 ter of the late Captain Gus Fowler, who was one 
 of the most prominent citizens of Paducah, were 
 married October 27, 1891. 
 
 HENRY FIELD DUNCAN, Ex-Commis- 
 sioner of Insurance, Frankfort, Kentucky. — 
 The Reverend William Duncan, who was born in 
 Perthshire, Scotland, January 7, 1630, was the 
 progenitor of the Duncan family that settled in 
 the colony of Virginia in 1690. Reverend Wil- 
 liam Duncan lost his life for refusing to take the 
 Jacobite oath in the reign of Charles II.; he mar- 
 ried in 1657 Sarah Haldane. His oldest child, 
 William Duncan, was born October i, 1659; 
 Charles, another son, September 6, 1662; Henry, 
 January 11, 1664; Thomas, January 28, 1665; 
 Mary, February i, 1667. William Duncan, born 
 April 19, 1690, was the grandson of the Reverend 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 William Duncan who left Scotland, accompanied 
 by his two sisters and brothers. He arrived in 
 Culpeper County, Virginia, on January 23, 1722. 
 On February 1 1 of the same year he took to wife 
 Ruth Raleigh, daughter of Matthew Raleigh, who 
 was born in England of Welsh parentage. Ral- 
 eigh Duncan, their eldest son, was with General 
 Washington at Braddock's defeat in 1755; also 
 at Point Pleasant in 1774, where he was severely 
 wounded, and was in all attacks made by the 
 colonial troops against the invasion of Virginia 
 by the traitor Arnold in 1781: The old Scotch 
 families thus settled in the northern neck of Vir- 
 ginia were true to the cause of freedom during 
 the great struggle for independence; no family 
 was more true to the American cause than the 
 children and grandchildren of William Duncan, 
 who was the founder of this family in the colony 
 of Virginia and the ancestor of the various 
 branches of the Duncans who have scattered 
 themselves over the South and West within the 
 last seventy years. 
 
 Henry F. Duncan is the son of Joseph Dillard 
 and Jane (Covington) Duncan, and was born 
 near Bowling Green, Kentucky, March 13, 1854. 
 Joseph Dillard Duncan was born in Culpeper 
 Court House, Virginia, and with his father came 
 to Kentucky in 1818. His father was a farmer in 
 Warren County, and was for a number of years 
 engaged in merchandising in Bowling Green in 
 connection with his other interests. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Baptist Church; has served as magis- 
 trate, and has always taken an active part in poli- 
 tics, and he is now chairman of the Democratic 
 Committee of his district, although in the eightieth 
 year of his age. 
 
 Edmund Duncan (grandfather) was a native of 
 Culpeper County, Virginia, and made his settle- 
 ment in Warren County, Kentucky, about the 
 year 1818, where he was a farmer until the time 
 of his death, which occurred in 1859. He had 
 been a Whig in his political tenets in the old days 
 of Whigs and Democrats, and filled the oiifiice of 
 magistrate. 
 
 Joseph Covington (grandfather) was a native 
 of Raleigh, North Carolina, who came with his 
 father when a child and settled in Warren County, 
 where his death occurred in 1858, aged seventy 
 
 years. The Covingtons were of Scotch-Irish ex- 
 traction. 
 
 Henry F. Duncan remained on a farm until he 
 was twelve years old, receiving his education in 
 the public schools, which was supplemented by 
 one year at Georgetown College and one year at 
 the State University of Michigan. After leaving 
 school he commenced the study of law, but in 
 May, 1876, he received an appointment in the 
 State Auditor's ofiSce when he relinquished the 
 study of law. He remained in this capacity for 
 three years, at the end of which time he accepted 
 a position in the quartermaster-general's office, 
 and continued there for eight months. On Jan- 
 uary first, 1880, he was again appointed clerk in 
 the state auditor's office under General Fayette 
 Hewitt, and remained in that capacity for two 
 years and five months. In June, 1882, he re- 
 ceived an appointment of clerk in the Insurance 
 Department and held the same until January i, 
 1888, when he was appointed deputy insurance 
 commissioner. On November 11, 1889, he re- 
 ceived the appointment of insurance commission- 
 er and held that important office until the expir- 
 ation of his term in January, 1896. 
 
 Henry F. Duncan was married in 1876 to Sallie 
 Childs Buford, a daughter of Temple Buford of 
 Georgetown, Kentucky. 
 
 HAWES B. EAGLES,AssistantCashierof the 
 Owensboro Banking Company, son of Al- 
 bert James and Kate Coleman (Hawes) Eagles, 
 was born in Daviess County, Kentucky, Febru- 
 ary 28, 1867. He received his education in Hop- 
 kinsville, principally in Major Terrell's private 
 school, and prepared himself for the occupation 
 of civil engineer, which work he began in 1885, 
 but was offered his present position as assistant 
 cashier in the Owensboro Banking Company, 
 which he accepted and has filled with efficiency 
 for more than ten years. 
 
 He was married August 3, 1893, to Anna Belle 
 Deane, an accomplished young lady who was 
 educated in the best schools of Owensboro. 
 
 Mr. Eagles is attentive to business, of indus- 
 trious habits and affable manners, obliging and 
 courteous in business matters, and though quite 
 popular, is unassuming and modest. He has 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 293 
 
 made a good record as a banker and has a prom- 
 ising future. He is a Democrat in politics, but 
 does not seek prominence in his party; is a mem- 
 ber of the benevolent order of Elks, and a con- 
 sistent member of the Baptist Church. 
 
 His father, Albert James Eagles, was born in 
 Kent, England, June 26, 1835; was educated in 
 Oxford College, and came to America in 1854. 
 He was for some years engaged in teaching in 
 Missouri and Kentucky, and after his marriage to 
 Kate C. Hawes, October 26, 1864, he engaged in 
 merchandising in Yelvington, in which he contin- 
 ued until his death, June 13, 1881. He was never 
 naturalized as a citizen of the United States, but, 
 being associated with the Southern people, he 
 was an ardent sympathizer with the South in the 
 Civil war. He was a man of superior education, 
 highly cultured and was quite prominent and 
 much respected in the community in which he 
 lived. He was a member of the Episcopal Church 
 and an exemplary Christian gentleman. He mar- 
 ried Kate C. Hawes, and they had three children : 
 Hawes, William, now with Fairleigh & Straus, 
 attorneys of Louisville, and Marianne. 
 
 William Eagles (grandfather) was a gentleman 
 of leisure, being very wealthy. He lived and died 
 in Kent, England, his native place. 
 
 Kate Coleman Hawes Eagles (mother) was 
 born in Kentucky, October 4, 1841. She was 
 educated in a private school taught by Reverend 
 Beckett, an Englishman and a minister in the 
 Episcopal Church. She is a resident of Owens- 
 boro, and a member of the Baptist Church. 
 
 Benjamin Hawes (grandfather) was born in 
 Virginia, April 8, 1810, and was educated in 
 Owensboro, Kentucky; was a farmer in Daviess 
 County; married Mary Ann Taylor of Clarke 
 County in 1832, and died October 17, 1861. His 
 wife was a daughter of Samuel M. and Mildred 
 Martin Taylor, and a sister of Jonathan Gibson 
 Taylor. She was born July 3, 1813, and was 
 educated in private schools in Lexington; mar- 
 ried Benjamin Hawes in 1832, and died Febru- 
 ary II, 1862. Mildred Martin Taylor was a 
 daughter of Colonel John Martin of Clarke 
 County, whose father was one of the early pioneers 
 and was contemporary with Daniel Boone. He 
 took part in all of the Indian wars of his day. 
 
 Samuel M. Taylor was born in Virginia in 1785. 
 He married Mildred Martin in 1810. His father, 
 Jonathan Taylor, lived in Caroline County, Vir- 
 ginia, prior to the Revolution, and afterward 
 came to Kentucky. 
 
 Richard Hawes, a brother of grandfather 
 Hawes, was Confederate governor of Kentucky 
 during the war between the states after the death 
 of George W. Johnson, the first Confederate gov- 
 ernor. 
 
 Richard Hawes (great-grandfather) came to 
 Kentucky from Virginia in 1810, and located first 
 in Fayette County, later in Jefferson County, and 
 finally in Daviess County, in 1819; and at that 
 time purchased large tracts of land in Daviess 
 and Hancock Counties. He bought three thou- 
 sand acres of land on the Ohio River in the Yel- 
 vington precinct; one thousand acres adjoining 
 the village of Yelvington and one thousand acres 
 bordering on Hancock County, embracing the 
 site of Hawesville, which town was named for 
 him. He married Clara Walker, and was the 
 father of eleven children. He died in 1829, ten 
 years after acquiring his large landed estate. His 
 wife's maiden name was Clara Walker, and they 
 had seven sons and four daughters: Richard, 
 Samuel, Walker, Albert, Aylett, Benjamin, Wil- 
 liam, Ann, Kitty, Susan and Clara. 
 
 Albert Hawes was the first Democratic candi- 
 date elected to Congress from the Owensboro dis- 
 trict, as up to that time the Whigs prevailed in 
 every election. 
 
 H THOMAS LLOYD, a prominent farmer 
 . of Bracken County and well-known citi- 
 zen of Augusta, son of Richard and Elizabeth 
 (Adamson) Lloyd, was born in Bracken County, 
 Kentucky, May 24, 1836. His father was also 
 born in Bracken County, February 2, 1797. He 
 received his education in the county schools; was 
 a farmer of progressive ideas; was interested in 
 politics, first as a Whig of pronounced views, then 
 as a Union man during the Civil war, and as a 
 straight-out Democrat from 1865 until his death, 
 June 23, 1874. He was a member of the Chris- 
 tian Church, and a man of most positive charac- 
 ter, honored and respected by a large circle of 
 friends and acquaintances. 
 
294 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 The grandfather Lloyd was a native of Mary- 
 land, who came to Kentucky in 1788, and set- 
 tled first in Fayette County, four miles from Lex- 
 ington; removed to Bracken County in 1795. He 
 married Susan Winter of Lexington, who was 
 bom in 1767; lived one hundred and one years, 
 and died in 1868. 
 
 Elizabeth Adamson Lloyd (mother) was born 
 in Mason County, in 1800; married Richard 
 Lloyd in 1826; died in Bracken County in 1870; 
 was a member of the Christian Church, and a 
 noble Christian woman. ' 
 
 John Adamson (grandfather) was a native of 
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; removed to May's 
 Spring, Mason County, Kentucky, in 1786 or 
 1787, and was a farmer in that county. His wife, 
 Ruth, died in Mason County in 1840. 
 
 H. Tom Lloyd, as he is familiarly known, was 
 educated in public schools; finished his studies 
 in 1855; went to Missouri in 1856 and bought a 
 half section of land near the town of Mexico, but 
 having inherited his father's estate, he returned 
 to Bracken County; has purchased other prop- 
 erty, including the Garrett Perrine farm, upon 
 which he resides, and has recently purchased a 
 one-twelfth interest in sixteen thousand acres of 
 land — known as Kentucky colony — on which 
 they have a proposed town site section near 
 Phoenix, Arizona. 
 
 Mr. Lloyd is quite active and prominent in all 
 matters relating to improvement an agriculture 
 in his county and state; has been president two 
 years and director twenty-six years, and always 
 a leading spirit in the Union Agricultural So- 
 ciety of Mason and Bracken Counties since 1870; 
 vice-president of the Bracken County Fair As- 
 sociation since 1893 ; was a member of the World's 
 Fair Auxiliary Congress of 1893; was appointed 
 and commissioned by Governor Buckner a mem- 
 ber of the National Farmers' Congress at Coun- 
 cil Bluffs, Iowa, in 1890; was alternate to the 
 national Democratic convention at Chicago in 
 1892; is a county infirmary commissioner and re- 
 ceiver for the same ; and has at frequent and divers 
 times represented his county and section in con- 
 ventions and societies. He has been superin- 
 tendent of the Augusta and Brookville turnpike 
 alternately for twenty-five years, and is the ac- 
 
 knowledged representative progressive farmer in 
 one of the best agricultural districts in the state. 
 In politics Mr. Lloyd is a Democrat, and he is a 
 liberal supporter of the Christian Church. 
 
 Mr. Lloyd was married November 30, 1865, to 
 Lucy Perrine of Bracken County. She was born 
 March 13, 1846, and is a daughter of Garrett and 
 Amanda (Myers) Perrine, and granddaughter of 
 Thomas and Elizabeth (Davidson) Myers. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Lloyd have one daughter, Julia, who 
 was born October 5, 1866, and married Nicholas 
 C. Taliaferro, October 4, 1888. 
 
 DR. BUSHROD FOLEY LAIRD of Cov- 
 ington, one of the most distinguished men 
 of the medical profession in Kentucky, was born 
 in Covington, January 5, 1847. He is a graduate 
 of the city high school, class of 1865; attended the 
 Western Military Academy of Dayton, Ohio, in 
 1866 and 1867 as cadet captain, and the Univer- 
 sity of Leipsic, Saxony, in 1868 and 1869; and 
 having returned to his home, he continued the 
 study of medicine in the Cincinnati Medical Col- 
 lege in 1872, graduating in 1874. He entered into 
 the practice of medicine in the Good Samaritan 
 Hospital in Cincinnati in the year 1875, and was 
 winner of the Dawson and Bartholow prizes. 
 While in Leipsic he studied music in the Kessler 
 Musical Institute, from which he received a cer- 
 tificate. In 1888 he received the premium from 
 the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and 
 Central States for an automatic car coupler, and 
 in 1889 the same device was awarded the medal 
 at the Exposition Universelle, Paris. 
 
 In 1861, when only fifteen years of age, he was 
 awarded a prize as the best mathematician in the 
 public schools of Covington. The examiners in 
 the contest were Mr. Meade, father of the late 
 Admiral Meade; A. M. Randolph, ex-attorney- 
 general of Montana and the high school faculty. 
 
 Dr. Laird is a member of the Cincinnati Aca- 
 demy of Medicine, member of the Kentucky State 
 Medical Association, of the Mississippi Valley 
 Medical Association and the American Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 He was married, November 15, 1877, to Ellen 
 Zimmerman, daughter of Solomon Zimmerman 
 of Clifton, Ohio. She was educated in a convent 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 295 
 
 in Brown County, Ohio. She is a sister of Eu- 
 gene Zimmerman, vice-president of the Cincin- 
 nati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company. 
 Dr. and Mrs. Laird have twO' children: Martina 
 and Eugenea. 
 
 Dr. Laird has a distinguished ancestry. His 
 father, Samuel Boden Laird, was born in Edin- 
 burgh, Scotland, October 15, 1815. He came to 
 America when quite young and was educated in 
 the common schools of Pittsburgh. He was a 
 tobacco manufacturer in that city for some years, 
 and took his tobacco to New Orleans on fiat- 
 boats. After selling his tobacco he would buy a 
 horse and return overland. In 1837 he was re- 
 turning from New Orleans and stopped in Cov- 
 ington, where he concluded to locate. He was 
 the largest manufacturer of tobacco in the city 
 for a number of years, and was inspector of to- 
 bacco in the Bodman House, and was acknowl- 
 edged to be the best judge of tobacco in Ken- 
 tucky. He was awarded the premium a number 
 of times for work in this respect. 
 
 He was also a manufacturer and dealer in fire- 
 arms during the early days of the war, and in 
 1861 he was the only man in Covington who was 
 allowed to sell ammunition and firearms, and in 
 this way he became known as the "Uncle Sam" 
 of Covington. At the time of his death he was 
 the richest man in Covington. The principal 
 school buildings in the city stand on ground that 
 was owned by "Uncle Sam" Laird. 
 
 He was independent in politics, but his sym- 
 pathies were with the North during the Civil 
 war. He attended strictly to business, caring 
 little for politics. He was an Odd Fellow. He was 
 related to Rev. Charles Laird, a distinguished 
 divine of Pittsburgh, and was a member of the 
 Presbyterian Church. He died October 2, 1863, 
 and is buried in Linden Grove Cemetery. His 
 parents died soon after their arrival in Pitts- 
 burgh, leaving three sons and three daughters, 
 who made their home with a family by the name 
 of Wilson, Mr. Wilson being a leading citizen and 
 at one time mayor of Pittsburgh. 
 
 Dr. Laird's mother, Cordelia (Whitaker) Laird, 
 was born of Scotch parents in London, England, 
 August I, 1825. The family came to America 
 when she was twelve years old and located in Cin- 
 
 cinnati. She received her principal schooling in 
 Dr. Orr's Ladies' Seminary in Covington, and 
 was married to Samuel B. Laird in 1844. She is 
 one of the oldest members of the First Presbyter- 
 ian Church in Covington. Her father, William 
 Whitaker, was born in Scotland, but lived for a 
 time in London. He was a steamboat painter and 
 one of the largest contractors in that line in this 
 country. He retired from business in 1850, and 
 lived with his daughter, Mrs. Laird, until 1863, 
 when he died. His son, William Whitaker, Jr., 
 was one of the organizers and founders of the 
 Cincinnati Gymnasium. 
 
 HENRY MARSHALL BUFORD, a leading 
 lawyer of Lexington, son of Henry and 
 Bettie (Marshall) Buford, was born in Paris, Ken- 
 tucky, November 20, 1845. When twelve years 
 of age he entered Center College at Danville, and 
 graduated in 1864, receiving the highest honors 
 of his class. He studied law with Garret Davis, 
 of Paris, and attended Plarvard Law School, from 
 which he graduated in 1866. He was elected by 
 his class to write a prize essay, and this effort, at 
 the age of twenty-one, gave him at once a reputa- 
 tion as a writer and as a scholar of superior 
 ability. ; 1 
 
 In 1867 he began the practice of law in Lexing- 
 ton and soon took rank as one of the brightest 
 young lawyers of the blue grass capital. His suc- 
 cess was at once assured, and for nearly thirty 
 years he has maintained the dignity of his profes- 
 sion and the honor of his illustrious ancestors, 
 whose names are written on almost every page 
 in the history of Kentucky and of the southwest. 
 
 Aside from his practice at the bar, which has 
 always been of the first consideration and has 
 received his best attention, he has once or twice 
 held public office. He was master commissioner 
 of the Circuit Court from 1877 to 1880, and was 
 judge of the Common Pleas Court from August, 
 1886, to August, 1890. His record as lawyer, 
 officer and judge is without stain or blemish, and 
 much might be said of his busy career, but the 
 main purpose of this sketch is to record the his- 
 tory of the several families from which he is de- 
 scended. 
 
 Henry Buford (father) was a native of Scott 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 County, Kentucky. Afer reaching maturity, he 
 removed to Fayette County, where he made his 
 home until his death, which occurred in 1849, 
 in the twenty-seventh year of his age. He was a 
 farmer by occupation, and a Henry Clay Whig in 
 politics. 
 
 He was the son of Charles Buford (grand- 
 father), who was born in Scott County, Kentucky, 
 and in 1853 removed to Rock 'Island, Illinois, 
 where he died in 1866, in the sixty-seventh year 
 of his age. He was one of the enterprising farm- 
 ers of Scott County, and owned one thousand 
 acres of valuable land there. At Rock Island he 
 led a retired life, but was president of a short coal 
 line railroad, in which he was interested. For 
 many years before going to Illinois, he was presi- 
 dent of the Kentucky Racing Association and a 
 breeder of thoroughbred race horses. 
 
 His father was Abraham Buford (great-grand- 
 father), a native of Virginia, who emigrated to 
 Scott County in 1788 and was an extensive farmer 
 and large land owner. The ancestors of the Bu- 
 fords, who settled in Virginia in 1697, were of 
 Norman-English descent, and were as brave and 
 fearless a race of men as ever lived in Kentucky. 
 The descendants of the Bufords, who left Virginia 
 in 1786, 1787 and 1788, are now living in various 
 portions of the south and west. The Bufords of 
 Illinois were a branch of the Virginia family who 
 settled there some years prior to the admission of 
 Illinois into the Union, in 1818. John Buford 
 was the founder of the Illinois branch. 
 
 Bettie Marshall Buford (mother) was a native 
 of Mason County, daughter of James Keith Mar- 
 shall, and is now a resident of Lexington. 
 
 Henry Marshall Buford's grandmother Buford 
 was a daughter of Governor Adair, who was de- 
 scended from Huguenots, who settled in South 
 Carohna in 1696. Governor Adair was a soldier 
 in the War of the Revolution, and settled in Ken- 
 tucky in 1786. He served as aide to Governor 
 Isaac Shelby at the battle of the Thames in thd 
 year 1813. His conduct during this war was such 
 as to ehcit from his superior officers an expres- 
 sion of the highest admiration. Governor Shelby 
 afterwards conferred upon him the appointment 
 of adjutant general of Kentucky troops, with the 
 rank of brigadier general, and in that capacity he 
 
 commanded the soldiers of Kentucky in the battle 
 of New Orleans. In 1820 John Adair was elected 
 governor of Kentucky in opposition to Judge Lo- 
 gan, Governor Desha and Colonel Butler. He 
 often served as a member of the State Legislature 
 of Mercer County, and was more than once 
 speaker of that body. In 1825 he was elected to 
 the United States Senate; was elected to Con- 
 gress in 1 83 1, and served as a member of the 
 House for three years. He was born in Abbey- 
 ville. South Carolina, in 1757, and died May 19, 
 1840, at the age of eighty-three years. 
 
 J. K. Marshall (maternal grandfather) was a 
 native of Mason County; removed to Bourbon 
 County in 1837; thence to Milwaukee, Wiscon- 
 sin, in 1855, where he resided some years and 
 then returned to Kentucky, and died in Mason 
 County in 1866, aged sixty-five years. He was 
 an able lawyer, and during his residence in Bour- 
 bon County, served as county judge. He was a 
 man of exalted character, of fine judgment and 
 wonderful energy and liberality. 
 
 He was the son of Alexander K. Marshall 
 (great-grandfather), a native Virginian, who set- 
 tled in Kentucky in 1785, and was reporter of 
 the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1818. 
 
 His father was Colonel Thomas Marshall 
 (great-great-grandfather), who was a brother of 
 Chief Justice John Marshall. He was a noted 
 orator, and like many members of his family, a 
 great lawyer, and was distinguished for his strong 
 common sense. 
 
 JESSE E. FOGLE, a well-known lawyer of 
 Hartford, was bom in Liberty, Casey 
 County, Kentucky, April 7, 1848. 
 
 His father, Hon. McDowell Fogle, one of the 
 foremost lawyers of the state, was bom in 
 Lebanon, Kentucky, December 30, 1815, and was 
 the second child, and first male child, born in 
 that now flourishing city. He was educated in 
 the district and private schools and in St. Mary's 
 College in Marion County; -adopted the legal 
 profession and studied law privately and under 
 the direction of one of the learned lawyers of that 
 locality, and after being admitted to the bar, he 
 began the practice of his profession at Liberty, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 297 
 
 the county seat of Casey County; continued there 
 until about 1853, when he removed to Owens- 
 boro, accompanied by his brother-in-law and 
 pupil, the late William N. Sweeney, who became 
 one of the most prominent and powerful pleaders 
 at the bar in Western Kentucky. Mr. Fogle 
 practiced law in Owensboro for only a short time, 
 when he returned to Liberty and resumed the 
 practice there and in adjoining counties until 
 1872, and then retired from regular practice. For 
 many years he was a member of the firm of Fogle 
 & Fox, the latter subsequently becoming judge of 
 the Eighth judicial district. He was also for many 
 years associated in the practice of the law with 
 Colonel Silas Adams — who has since represented 
 the Eleventh district in Congress — under the firm 
 name of Fogle & Adams. His party frequently 
 honored him by electing him to office; he served 
 two or three terms as county attorne)'^; was ap- 
 pointed master commissioner and receiver of the 
 Casey Circuit Court; was a member of the Ken- 
 tucky legislature in 1855-57 ^^'^ 1859-61, repre- 
 senting the counties of Casey and Russell; and 
 Democratic elector for his district. 
 
 When he gave up the practice of law in 1872 
 he retired to his farm in the country — but a short 
 drive on the turnpike road leading from Liberty 
 to Middleburg — where he is independently situ- 
 ated, and with his interesting family is enjoying 
 the fruits of an honorable and well spent life. He 
 was quite successful in his profession and suc- 
 ceeded in accumulating a large property, and is 
 now one of the largest land owners of his county. 
 He is a member of the Methodist Church, as was 
 his wife, the mother of the subject of this sketch, 
 and his home has always been a hospitable retreat 
 for the ministers of his church and for others, 
 who have been royally entertained thereat. 
 
 He married Miss Emily J. Sweeney of Liberty, 
 February 17, 1841, who was born there June 4, 
 1821, and died at Liberty, October 14, 1852, and 
 is buried in the Liberty cemetery, near her father 
 and mother. She was the mother of six children : 
 Marietta, Isabelle, Sarah Frances, Jesse Edwin, 
 William McDowell, and a daughter who died in 
 infancy, a few days preceding the death of its 
 mother. 
 
 Subsequently Mr. Fogle married Miss Sallie 
 
 Barger of Russell County, who died after about 
 a year of wedded life. 
 
 His third marriage was to Miss Martha J. Mur- 
 phy of Casey County. By this marriage there 
 were seven children: James M., Elizabeth A., 
 Robert B., Joel, Lena J., D. Edgar and George 
 Preston. 
 
 Joel died in infancy, and William McDowell 
 died September 3, 1883. 
 
 Robert H. Fogle (grandfather) was born in 
 Maryland, May i, 1788, and came with his par- 
 ents to Marion, then Washington County, Ken- 
 tucky, in 1792, with the pioneers; he helped to 
 clear the land where Lebanon is located, and built 
 the first house that was erected in Lebanon, and 
 when the town was established was one of its 
 first trustees; and was appointed the first post- 
 master of that place. He was a saddler by trade ; 
 gained considerable wealth, and in 1829 quit the 
 saddlery business and invested his money in lands 
 near Lebanon and engaged in agricultural pur- 
 suits; he owned a great many slaves, but gave 
 them their freedom before he was compelled to do 
 so by the emancipation proclamation. He re- 
 moved to Daviess County in 1849 and purchased 
 a large, valuable farm near Owensboro, whereon 
 is now located Elmwood cemetery, and there was 
 interested in farming until the death of his wife, 
 in i860, when he sold his land, liberated his slaves 
 and divided his wealth among his children, and 
 made his home amongst them until his death, 
 which occurred February 17, 1884, in the ninety- 
 sixth year of his age. 
 
 He married Miss Rachel Shuttleworth, who was 
 the mother of five children: Ebenezer, Mc- 
 Dowell, Sallie Ann, who married Milford Purdy 
 of Daviess County, and Mary, who married W. 
 B. England of Lebanon, and one who died in 
 boyhood. 
 
 His second wife was Sallie Newbold. There 
 were two children of this marriage: Catherine, 
 who married Thomas England of Lebanon, and 
 Rachel J., who married John Murphy, deceased, 
 of Owensboro. 
 
 Mr. Fogle was a member of the old school 
 Presbyterian Church, and during his stay near 
 Owensboro was the superintendent of the Sun- 
 day school of the First Presbyterian Church of 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 that city. He was loved and respected by all and 
 his buoyant spirits and his kind and unselfish 
 nature made his coming always a source of pleas- 
 ure to his children and grandchildren. 
 
 The great-grandfather Fogle married Sarah 
 Hammet. 
 
 Joel Sweeney (maternal grandfather) was a 
 native of Casey County and was educated in the 
 private schools; was bred a lawyer, but did not 
 practice law; was elected, when quite a young 
 man, clerk of the Casey County Court and Cir- 
 cuit Court, and held this dual' position during 
 life; he was a man of wealth, owning a great deal 
 of land, including a large and valuable farm ad- 
 jacent to Liberty, numerous slaves, a large mill 
 in the town, and much valuable real estate, be- 
 sides being interested in the mercantile business; 
 he was an upright, honorable and respected citi- 
 zen; a man of exemplary character; generous to 
 the poor and needy, and highly esteemed by the 
 people of his county. 
 
 He married Obedience Edwards of Garrard 
 County, and they had eight children : Elizabeth, 
 married Major G. W. Sweeney of Casey County; 
 Amanda, married Dr. Martin Adams of Somerset; 
 Jesse G. Sweeney, a merchant of Lancaster; 
 Emily J., who married McDowell Fogle; W. N. 
 Sweeney, deceased, the eminent lawyer of Owens- 
 boro; Anna Eliza, married Captain C. M. Whipp 
 of Liberty; Marietta, married Dr. D. S. Parker of 
 Arkansas, and James, who was killed by an ac- 
 cident during boyhood. 
 
 Joel Sweeney died at his home in Liberty, in 
 1869, and his wife died while on a visit to her 
 son, Hon. W. N. Sweeney, in Owensboro, in 1873, 
 and is buried beside her husband at Liberty. 
 
 Charles Sweeney (maternal great-grandfather) 
 was a native of Virginia, who came in early life 
 to Casey County, and married Frances Shachel- 
 ford there. His principal occupation was that of a 
 farmer. 
 
 Jesse Edwin Fogle attended the Seminary at 
 Liberty, and the Parochial Academy at Houston- 
 ville, Lincoln County, and taught school in Casey 
 County, and clerked in the general store of his 
 brother-in-law, George G. Fair, in Middleburg, 
 Casey County, before going to Kentucky Univer- 
 sity at Lexington, where he concluded his school 
 
 days in 1870. It had not occurred to Mr. Fogle 
 to enter the law, but, "a competent knowledge of 
 the laws of that society in which we live is the 
 proper accomplishment of every gentleman and 
 scholar, and highly useful, I had almost said es- 
 sential, part of liberal and polite education." This 
 quotation from the first chapter of Blackstone's 
 Commentaries, picked up in his father's library 
 and read out of curiosity, so impressed him that 
 he became interested therein and after having 
 completed the reading of the work determined 
 upon the study of the law, which he did in his 
 father's office and under his instruction. He was 
 admitted to the bar at Liberty, May 25, 1871, and 
 began the practice in partnership with his father. 
 It was a severe trial for him to separate himself 
 from his father and boyhood home, but it ap- 
 peared to him that it would be the best for him 
 to do so, and, thereupon his maternal uncle and 
 namesake, Jesse G. Sweeney, volunteered his 
 kind assistance and made known his inclination 
 to his brother, the late William N. Sweeney of 
 Owensboro, who then represented his district in 
 Congress, and he kindly expressed his willingness 
 to assist him, either in Owensboro or elsewhere. 
 At that time Mr. Sweeney had a son preparing 
 for the law, and his law partner, the late Judge 
 James Stuart, had also a son just entering law, 
 and under these circumstances Hartford seemed 
 to be the best point to begin and have his uncle's 
 assistance and to abide future developments, and 
 it was at his kind suggestion that he came to 
 Hartford, September 4, 1872, and there asso- 
 ciated Mr. Sweeney and Judge Stuart with him- 
 self in the practice, and thereafter had the benefit 
 of their assistance and friendship during their 
 lives. 
 
 Mr. Fogle's success in the practice of his pro- 
 fession demonstrates the wisdom of his choice, 
 yet he never forgets an overruling Providence 
 and the valuable and unselfish assistance rendered 
 him by his distinguished uncle and law partner. 
 He is considered one of the best lawyers at the 
 Hartford bar, made up of good lawyers, and by 
 his industry and good management has become 
 financially independent. Besides owning one of 
 the most desirable residences in Hartford, he 
 owns other valuable property in the city, and an 
 
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 extensive mercantile establishment, over which 
 are his law offices. Adjacent to the town he has 
 a valuable farm, and is also one of the stock- 
 holders of the Bank of Hartford. 
 
 While at Liberty he joined the Christian 
 Church. Still, the church of his father and 
 mother and his wife's church, are alike the objects 
 of his solicitude; he has been a friend to the tem- 
 perance cause from his boyhood. 
 
 Mr. Fogle was married June 6, 1877, to Miss 
 Lelia Addington, only child of the late Virgil P. 
 Addington, a merchant of Hartford. She was 
 born in Hartford, October 15, 1856. She is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 South, refined and cultured and has rare good 
 judgment. Mr. Fogle attributes no small amount 
 of his success to the faithful assistance of his 
 wife, and is very much attached to his home and 
 family. They have two children: Annie, bom 
 April 14, 1878, and now in Hartford College, 
 from which she will graduate June, 1896, and 
 McDowell Addington Fogle, born June 22, 1888. 
 
 JAMES RODMAN, M. D., retired physician 
 of Hopkinsville, one of the ablest men in any 
 profession in Kentucky, son of John and Patsy 
 Fore Rodman, was born in New Castle, Henry 
 County, Kentucky, March 6, 1829. 
 
 His father, John Rodman, who was prominent 
 in Kentucky politics, was a native of Berks 
 County, Pennsylvania, an officer in the War of 
 1 81 2, and was made a prisoner at the battle of 
 the River Raisin. The progenitor of the Rodman 
 family was John Rodman, a well born, educated 
 Irishman, a member of the Quaker Society, who 
 was banished from his home on account of his 
 religious views to the island of Barbadoes, and 
 died in 1690. His sons, John and Thomas Rod- 
 man, were the progenitors of the Rodman family 
 in this country. 
 
 Patsy Fore Rodman (mother) was born in 
 Prince Edward County, Virginia. Her ancestors 
 were Huguenots, who came to this country on 
 the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, landed in 
 South Carolina, and subsequently removed to 
 Virginia. Her father, William Fore, was bom 
 in Virginia, and came to Henry County in 1801. 
 He was a farmer and a man of affairs, taking 
 
 great interest in the welfare of the community 
 and in the material progress of his state and 
 country. His father, Peter Fore, was among the 
 very early emigrants from Virginia to Kentucky; 
 was a Revolutionary soldier, died in a blockhouse 
 in what is now Harrison or Bourbon County, 
 Kentucky, on the day it was taken by the British 
 and Indians under Colonel Byrd. His children, 
 seven in number, with him at that time, were 
 made prisoners and taken to Detroit. The sons 
 returned to Kentucky, living long and reputable 
 lives. The daughters remained, marrying officers 
 in the British army — Wykoff and Smith by name. 
 
 James Rodman was educated in the Henry 
 County Academy, one of the best schools of that 
 day; read medicine with his brother, Hugh, who 
 removed to Frankfort in 1850, where he distin- 
 guished himself as one of the best physicians in 
 the state, and was accidentally thrown from his 
 carriage and killed in 1872, when fifty-two years 
 of age. 
 
 Dr. Rodman, after leaving his brother's office, 
 attended the medical department of the Univer- 
 sity of Louisville, and was graduated from that 
 institution in the class of 1849, before he was 
 twenty years of age. He was fortunate in hav- 
 ing the oversight in his studies of such men as 
 Dr. L. P. Yandell, Sr., who was then dean of 
 the faculty, as well as Drs. S. D. Gross, Daniel 
 Drake and others, among the most eminent phy- 
 sicians and surgeons and able instructors in the 
 profession. 
 
 After receiving his diploma Dr. Rodman be- 
 gan the practice of his calling in Hopkinsville, 
 where he remained three years, and then returned 
 to his native county; and from there he went to 
 Frankfort, where, in i860, he erected the first 
 building for the Feeble Minded Institute. After 
 three years of labor in behalf of this institution, 
 he was made superintendent of the Western Ken- 
 tucky Lunatic Asylum, and returned to Hopkins- 
 ville. He remained in charge of this asylum until 
 April 20, 1889, since which time he has been re- 
 tired, acting only as consulting physician, and 
 in this capacity only in exceptional cases. 
 
 During his long term of service in the asylum, 
 he saw it grow from small dimensions, accommo- 
 dating only one hundred patients, to a magnifi- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 cent institution, thoroughly equipped, with nearly 
 six hundred inmates. It is no flattery to Dr. 
 Rodman to say that the Western Kentucky Asy- 
 lum was among the best institutions in the coun- 
 try, under his management. He was urged by the 
 governor of Kentucky to remain in charge, but 
 declined a reappointment, feeling that he had 
 earned a much needed respite from his labors. 
 
 James Rodman was married in 1853 to Hen- 
 rietta Thomasson, daughter of Captain Joseph M. 
 Thomasson of Henry County, Kentucky. She 
 was a worthy and efficient helpmate in all of the 
 work to which Dr. Rodman devoted his life, and 
 her death on December 20, 1894, was lamented 
 by a host of relatives, friends and acquaintances. 
 
 Dr. Rodman has one son, Thomas, and one 
 daughter, Mary, who married Lieutenant W. H. 
 H. Southerland of the United States Navy, on 
 August I, 1877, who is now residing in Wash- 
 ington. 
 
 EDWARD O. LEIGH, late Assistant Secre- 
 tary of State, and a representative of the 
 young Democracy of Kentucky, is a native of 
 Shelby County, Tennessee, where he was born 
 June 23, 1859. His parents were Rev. William 
 H. and Mary (Brooks) Leigh. 
 
 Rev. William H. Leigh was born in Virginia, 
 December 28, 1826, and for forty-five years was 
 a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 and for thirty years of that time he was presid- 
 ing elder, preaching in Kentucky, Tennessee, 
 Mississippi and other states. He was a man of 
 wonderful force of character and of great execu- 
 tive ability. He was self-educated, and at the 
 age of twenty commenced preaching the gospel, 
 and soon became one of the leading lights of his 
 church ; a man of earnest convictions, whose repu- 
 tation as a minister was confined to no one state. 
 In 1879 he removed to Paducah, Kentucky, 
 where he labored in the church until a short time 
 before his death, which occurred in March, 1880. 
 
 Dr. James Walker Leigh (grandfather) was a 
 native of Virginia, and died of the cholera at 
 Eddyville, Kentucky. 
 
 Ferdinand Leigh (great-grandfather), son of 
 William B. Leigh, was born in Virginia, and 
 was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. James 
 
 Brooks (maternal grandfather) was a native of 
 North Carolina, of English descent, who subse- 
 quently settled in Tennessee, where he died. The 
 maternal great-grandfather of Edward Leigh's 
 mother was a Polk and a first cousin of James K . 
 Polk. 
 
 Edward O. Leigh received his certificate of 
 graduation from Odd Fellows College, Hum- 
 boldt, Tennessee, at the age of sixteen years, at 
 which time he commenced business on his own 
 account, associating himself with his brother, 
 Robert W., who bought out the Humboldt Jour- 
 nal. They published this paper for about two 
 years, when he sold his interest to his brother and 
 went to Memphis. At that place he worked at 
 proof reading for a short time, and in 1884 re- 
 moved to Paducah and founded the Daily Stand- 
 ard. He was the editor and publisher of this 
 paper until the close of the year 1889, when he 
 sold out to Dilday and Van Senden and went to 
 Frankfort, June, 1890, where he afterward ac- 
 cepted the position of assistant clerk in the state 
 senate. At the close of the session he was ap- 
 pointed by Governor Buckner as assistant secre- 
 tary of state, and re-appointed by Governor 
 Brown, in which position he served until the 
 close of Governor Brown's administration. 
 
 SAMUEL W. BEDFORD, special agent of 
 the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New 
 York and a popular citizen of Owensboro, was 
 born in Washington County, Kentucky, Decem- 
 ber 7, 1861, and is a son of Dr. Thompson Ware 
 Bedford and Mildred (Houtchens) Bedford. 
 
 His father was bom in Bourbon County, Ken- 
 tucky, November 27, 1836; graduated from the 
 medical department of the University of Louis- 
 ville in March, 1861 ; began the practice of medi- 
 cine in Washington County, in April, 1861, since 
 which time he has devoted his whole time to his 
 profession, practicing in Daviess County, in 
 Louisville and in Nelson County, being at present 
 located at Chaplin in that county. He is an elder 
 in the Christian Church, a scholarly gentleman, 
 and a man of high Christian character. He was 
 married in October, i860, to Mildred Houtchens. 
 They have five children: Samuel W., Ella S., 
 William K., Hattie O. and Henry W. 
 
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 Asa Kentucky Lewis Bedford (grandfather) 
 was born in Bourbon County, December 14, 181 1, 
 and died June 7, 1847. He was a farmer in his 
 native county; a man of very pronounced char- 
 acter, who had the courage of his convictions and 
 yet, with his strong force of character, an amiable 
 man and highly esteemed by his neighbors. 
 
 Archibald Bedford (grandfather) was a native 
 of Bourbon County, who married a Miss Clay, a 
 member of the prominent family in that county. 
 Samuel W. Bedford's paternal grandmother, 
 wife of Asa Kentucky Lewis Bedford, was 
 Davidella Ware, daughter of Colonel Thompson 
 and Sallie Ware of Bourbon County. She was 
 born February 18, 1812, and died June 22, 1875. 
 A member of the Bedford family in Boston has 
 traced the genealogy of the family to England 
 and sent it to England in order to obtain a legacy 
 that was said to belong to the Bedford heirs in 
 the United States. 
 
 Colonel Thompson Ware (great-grandfather) 
 was a son of James Ware and married Sallie 
 Conn. William E. Houtchens (maternal grand- 
 father) was a farmer in Nelson County, whose 
 first wife was a daughter of Bishop Medley, and 
 his second wife a daughter of Colonel Wood of 
 Bloomfield, Nelson County. 
 
 Samuel W. Bedford was educated in the com- 
 mon schools of Daviess County and Owensboro, 
 his parents having removed to that county when 
 he was seven years of age. At the age of twelve 
 years he left school, but continued his studies 
 while clerking in a store. 
 
 He left Owensboro and went to Louisville, 
 where he was employed a short time before going 
 to Fulton, Kentucky, where he engaged in the 
 clothing business. He became quite popular in 
 that city and was elected mayor of Fulton, May 
 7, 1892. After serving one year he resigned his 
 office and disposed of his clothing business to 
 accept the agency for a life insurance company, 
 and in 1893 he resigned that agency to accept 
 a better position as special agent in Kentucky and 
 Tennessee for the Mutual Life Insurance Com- 
 pany of New York, with headquarters at Owens- 
 boro, a business in which he has been very suc- 
 cessful and is still engaged. He is a member of 
 the Christian Church, an Odd Fellow and is 
 
 popular among a host of friends and acquaint- 
 ances. 
 
 Mr. Bedford was married in 1889 to Winefred 
 M. Bowden, daughter of 'Squire Turner Bowden 
 of Weakley County, Tennessee. She is a gradu- 
 ate of Gallatin College, class of 1888, and is a 
 lady of fine accomplishments. Their only child, 
 Kernan Ware Bedford, was born in August, 
 1890. 
 
 ADAM S. ADAMS, a successful farmer of 
 Mercer County, son of John W. and Eliza- 
 beth (Sharp) Adams, was born in Mercer County, 
 December 26, 1823. His father was born in the 
 same county, April 29, 1792; was educated in the 
 county schools; enlisted for the War of 1812, but 
 was not called into active service; was a farmer in 
 his native county, where he died September 15, 
 1855. He was a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church and a man of most exemplary character. 
 He was married January 30, 1823, to Elizabeth 
 Sharp, of the same county, who was born Octo- 
 ber 29, 1793; educated in the schools of Mercer 
 County and was a devout member of the Presby- 
 terian Church. She died January 13, 1831. The 
 four children of John W. Adams and Elizabeth 
 Sharp, his wife, were: Adam S., born December 
 26, 1823; David Adams, bom June 24, 1827, mar- 
 ried Emma Crawford, May 24, 1870; Precilla, 
 born December 24, 1828, and married Simon 
 Stagg, October 5, 1848; Martha E., born Novem- 
 ber 10, 1830, married George Vanarsdale, No- 
 vember 17, 1853. 
 
 Mr. Adams' second wife, to whom he was mar- 
 ried January 29, 1835, whose maiden name was 
 Jane Adams, was born October 8, 1804, died Au- 
 gust 16, 1864. She was the mother of six chil- 
 dren: Ebenezer, born September 14, 1837, mar- 
 ried Sallie Vananarsdall, December 10, 1863; 
 Thomas, born December 14, 1835, married Sadie 
 Adams, March 13, 1867; John W., born July 7, 
 1839, married Jane Thompson, January 2, 1865; 
 Caleb, born October 8, 1841, married Lettie Ter- 
 hune, January 10, 1888; Joshua, born September 
 7, 1843, ^rid married Nannie Leachman, Novem- 
 ber 5, 1868; William J., born November 8,. 1845, 
 married Mary Smith, October 13, 1869. 
 
 David Adams (grandfather) was born in Vir- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 ginia in 1754; was reared and educated in his na- 
 tive county; came to Kentucky in 1775 and set- 
 tled in Mercer County, on land granted him by 
 the state of Virginia, upon which his grandson, 
 Adam S. Adams, is now living. He died January 
 19, 1823. His wife was Elizabeth Wood of Vir- 
 ginia, who was born in 1756, and died in Mer- 
 cer County, April 24, 1840. Great-grandmother 
 Sharp was slain by Indians. The children of 
 David and Elizabeth Wood Adams (grandpar- 
 ents) were: Mary, bom December i, 1778, mar- 
 ried Josiah J. Mann; Margaret, bom March 21, 
 1781, married David McCamy; Martha, born 
 July 16, 1783, married WilHam Bard; Archibald, 
 born September 25, 1786, married Pheba Cald- 
 well; Elizabeth, born June 4, 1788, married Sam- 
 uel Irvine; William, born November 15, 1790, 
 married Percilla Armstrong; John Wood, bom 
 April 29, 1792, married Elizabeth Sharp; Ann, 
 born September 7, 1795, married Cornelius 
 Vanice; James, bom July 18, 1798, married 
 Rebecca Rose. 
 
 Adam S. Adams' educational opportunities 
 were limited, as there were no schools that he 
 could attend, except a subscription school, which 
 was taught during the winter months. He 
 learned the carpenter trade in his youth and fol- 
 lowed that occupation industriously for fourteen 
 years. In the fall of 1855 he removed to Parke 
 County, Indiana, and engaged in farming and 
 in buying horses and mules for the southern mar- 
 ket. At the beginning of the war he lost all he 
 had made and resumed his occupation as carpen- 
 ter and builder, and followed it successfully for 
 three years; was drafted in 1864, but furnished a 
 substitute and was released from service. 
 
 After his father's death he purchased a part 
 of the homestead farm, to which he subsequently 
 removed, and upon which he is now living. 
 
 During the past six years Mr. Adams has been 
 a director in the Mercer National Bank. He was 
 a member of the fiscal court from 1875 to 1879, 
 but has neither held nor sought any other office. 
 He was a Whig until 1856, since which time he 
 has voted with the Democratic party. He is a 
 member of, and a deacon in the Presbyterian 
 Church, and is one of the most honored and sub- 
 stantial citizens of Mercer County. 
 
 Mr. Adams was married March 11, 1863, to 
 Martha Ann Watson, daughter of Wesley and 
 Miranda (Burford) Watson, then of Parke 
 County, Indiana. She was born September 30, 
 1836. They have no children. 
 
 Wesley Watson was a Virginian by birth; came 
 to Kentucky with his parents when quite young; 
 married Miranda Burford and removed to Parke 
 County, Indiana, in 1832. 
 
 JOHN L. CASSELL, cashier of the Mercer 
 National Bank, Harrodsburg, son of Thomas 
 J. and Susan M. (Daniel) Cassell, was born in 
 Jessamine County, Kentucky, October 7, 1834. 
 Thomas J. Cassell was born in Fayette County, 
 Kentucky, in 1802; studied under private tutors 
 and was one of the most thoroughly educated men 
 in the state; read medicine under Dr. Satterwhite 
 of Lexington, but his health failing he never 
 practiced his profession ; was a druggist for many 
 years, but retired some ten years before his death, 
 in 1867. In religion he was a Methodist; in poli- 
 tics a Whig. 
 
 Abram Cassell (grandfather), the son of Henry 
 Cassell, who came to the United States from 
 Hesse Cassel, Germany, the early part of the 
 seventeenth century, was born near Fredericks- 
 burg, Maryland; was a lieutenant in the Revo- 
 lutionary war; came to Kentucky and settled in 
 (now) Jessamine County, on land for which he 
 received a patent from the state of Virginia. This 
 land is still owned by some of his descendants. 
 He drew a pension from the government for mili- 
 tary services until his death in 1845, ^t the ad- 
 vanced age of ninety-two years. His wife was 
 Catherine Lingenfelder of Frederick, Maryland, 
 who also reached the age of ninety-two years, and 
 died in 1847. They were Presbyterians. Her 
 father came from Germany and settled in Mary- 
 land. The sword used by Abram Cassell in the 
 Revolutionary war and part of the continental 
 money paid him is now in the possession of his 
 grandson, J. L. Cassell, the principal subject of 
 this sketch. 
 
 Susan M. Daniel Cassell (mother), a native of 
 Pendleton County, was reared and educated near 
 Lexington; died in 1867. She was a member of 
 the Methodist Church. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 303 
 
 Enos Daniel (maternal grandfather) was a son 
 of Charles Daniel and Sarah Tate of Louisa 
 County, Virginia. Charles Daniel was the son of 
 John Daniel, the grandfather of Peter Daniel, one 
 of the judges of the Supreme Court of the United 
 States. The family came from England about 
 1750. Under the old constitution Enos Daniel 
 was high sherifif of Pendleton County, Kentucky, 
 for many years, and was a pioneer planter of that 
 county; he died in Jefifersontown, Kentucky, at 
 the home of his son-in-law, Dr. W. W. Senteny, 
 June 6, 1857. He was married April 4, 1779, to 
 Mary Nelson, the grandmother of John L. Cas- 
 sell. 
 
 The children of Thomas J. and Susan M. 
 (Daniels) Cassell are: William H. of Canton, 
 Mississippi; John L. of Harrodsburg; Albert G. 
 of Vicksburg, Mississippi; Thomas J. of Lexing- 
 ton; James D. of Lampasas, Texas, and Lizzie, 
 wife of John Nicholas of Georgetown. Benjamin 
 F. Cassell, the third son, was colonel of the Eight- 
 eenth Mississippi Regiment, Confederate army, 
 Barksdale brigade, and fell at the front of that 
 brigade, on Cemetery Hill, in the battle of Gettys- 
 burg. 
 
 John L. Cassell was educated in Nicholasville, 
 in the excellent school then known as Bethel 
 Academy; went to Lexington, Kentucky, in 1850, 
 and was a clerk in the dry goods store of Allen 
 & Plunkett for four years; then engaged in the 
 same business in Lexington with James H. Shrop- 
 shire, under the firm name of Shropshire & Cas- 
 sell, until i860, when he visited Mississippi with 
 the view of purchasing a cotton plantation. But 
 the war coming on returned to Kentucky and en- 
 gaged in farming in Fayette County until 1872, 
 when, in company with Messrs. Shropshire and 
 Berkley, he estabhshed a wholesale grocery in 
 Lexington, which business was conducted with 
 few changes until 1879, when he purchased Avon- 
 dale and removed to Mercer County and engaged 
 in planting; was a director in and vice-president 
 of the Mercer National Bank (capital $100,000), 
 of which he was elected cashier in 1891, and to 
 which business he has given his best attention 
 until the present time. Has interests in other 
 corporations and owns farms in Mercer and Jessa- 
 mine Counties. 
 
 He is a member of the Christian Church, and 
 in politics is a Democratic voter, but is not a 
 politician. 
 
 Mr. Cassell was married (first) December 13, 
 1858, to Phoebe Elizabeth Bryan, daughter of 
 Thomas Bryan of Fayette County, Kentucky. 
 She died April 11, 1880, leaving six children: 
 Robert, educated at the University of Virginia, 
 married Gertrude Johnson of Michigan, now 
 practicing law in Harriman, Tennessee; Henry 
 B., hemp and grain dealer and postmaster of 
 Burgin, Kentucky; Joseph, now studying medi- 
 cine in the University of Louisville; Albert, now 
 a student in the college at Harriman, Tennessee; 
 Thomas B. Cassell died in Lampasas, Texas, aged 
 twenty-nine years; Dr. John B. Cassell died in 
 San Antonio, Texas, aged twenty-eight years. 
 
 Mr. Cassell was married (second time) Septem- 
 ber 14, 1882, to Virginia Bowman, daughter of 
 Dudley and Virginia Smith Bowman of Mercer 
 County, who is the mother of three children: Vir- 
 ginia and Susan, who are being educated at 
 Daughters' College, and Carrie, who is at home. 
 
 The family residence is on Lynden street, Har- 
 rodsburg, Kentucky. 
 
 WILLIAM CARROLL, Judge of the Cir- 
 cuit Court of the Twelfth district, a resi- 
 dent of New Castle, was born in Arkansas, No- 
 vember 9, 1836. 
 
 His father, Owen Carroll, was born in Parish 
 Killmallock, Ireland; came to New York, where 
 he met and married Ellen Kirk; came to Ken- 
 tucky in .1837, and located in Louisville. He was 
 a railroad and turnpike contractor, and built por- 
 tions of the Louisville, Frankfort & Lexington 
 Railroad; also built the Muldraugh Hill turnpike, 
 and other public roads. He removed from Louis- 
 ville to Frankfort some time previous to his 
 death, which occurred at Simpsonville, Shelby 
 County, in 1842. He and his wife were members 
 of the Catholic Church. Their two children were 
 Judge Carroll and his sister Mary, wife of John 
 W. Hall. 
 
 Judge Carroll's early education was obtained 
 in Anderson College, New Albany, Indiana. 
 After leaving school at the age of sixteen, he fol- 
 lowed civil engineering for a time and then taught 
 
304 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 school in Kentucky for five years. While teach- 
 ing he was an active member of a debating so- 
 ciety in the neighborhood, and a friend who was 
 also a member of the society advised him to study 
 law, assuring him that he had unusual talent for 
 argument. This turned his attention to the legal 
 profession, and he began to read law — indiffer- 
 ently and in a desultory way, at first — but soon 
 became intensely interested and then he knew 
 that he had found the profession in which he 
 could hope to be successful, and determined to 
 prepare himself for the practice of law; a deci- 
 sion which he has had no occasion to regret, and 
 the wisdom of which has never been questioned. 
 
 At the age of twenty-four he entered the law 
 office of Judge DeHaven of LaGrange (whom 
 he succeeded in the office of circuit judge), re- 
 maining with him for eight months, when he was 
 admitted to the bar of Oldham County. After 
 practicing one year he was elected county attor- 
 ney in 1862. This office he resigned in 1864 to 
 enter the Federal army as captain of Company E, 
 Fifty-fourth Regiment Kentucky Volunteer In- 
 fantry; was in the army but a short time when 
 matters of importance demanded his attention at 
 home, and returning to LaGrange he continued 
 in the practice of law at that place until 1873, when 
 he removed to his present home in New Castle. 
 
 In 1871 he formed a partnership with Judge 
 DeHaven, which continued until the election of 
 the latter as circuit judge. In 1877 he formed a 
 partnership with Judge Barbour, and was asso- 
 ciated with him until 188.4, when Mr. Barbour 
 was elevated to the bench of the Superior Court. 
 
 In November, 1892, he was elected judge of 
 the Circuit Court for the Twelfth Judicial District, 
 composed of the Counties of Anderson, Shelby, 
 Spencer, Oldham, Trimble and Henry, and in 
 this capacity he has proven one of the ablest jur- 
 ists in the state. With commendable firmness 
 and decision of character, self-poised and self- 
 reliant, yet modest and unassuming, of pleasing 
 and courteous address, he is highly respected by 
 the members of the bar. 
 
 Judge Carroll is a Democrat, and was quite 
 active and prominent in local and state politics 
 before his elevation to the bench. 
 
 Although not a member of any church, he be- 
 
 lieves in the tenets of the Christian religion, and 
 has a high regard for the church as a great moral 
 agent in society. 
 
 Judge Carroll was married in 1870 to Mrs. Mary 
 J. Jackson, whose maiden name was Mary Smart, 
 daughter of Benjamin P. Smart, a native of Mer- 
 cer County. She was born in Louisville, and was 
 educated there. Her first husband was William 
 Jackson, by whom she has one son, William O. 
 Jackson. 
 
 The children of Judge and Mrs. Carroll are 
 Dr. Owen Carroll, a graduate of the Kentucky 
 School of Medicine at Louisville, and Benjamin, 
 a farmer, of Henry County, and Louise, who is 
 now a pupil in Dr. Poynter's Science Hill Acad- 
 emy at Shelbyville. 
 
 WILLIAM L. CRABB, President of the 
 Fible & Crabb Distilling Company of 
 Eminence, son of Stephen D. and Nancy B. 
 (Poston) Crabb, was born in Henry County, Ken- 
 tucky, August 17, 1844. 
 
 His father, Stephen D. Crabb, was bom in 
 Shelby County, April, 1802, and received an or- 
 dinary education in the schools of his day; and 
 was a farmer and stock raiser in Henry County 
 nearly all his life. He was quite prominent in 
 his sphere; an ardent Democrat, but never held 
 or sought any public position; was a member of 
 the Baptist Church, in which he was even more 
 interested than he was in politics, and was well 
 known for his uprightness and integrity. He was 
 married in 1823 to Nancy B. Poston, and raised 
 a family of eight children, whose names in the 
 order of their birth \\'ere : John P., Ellen, Susan 
 M., James M., Edward D., Emily C, Stephen T. 
 and William L. 
 
 Nancy B. Poston Crabb (mother) was born in 
 Clark County, Febrtiary, 1802, and died May 7, 
 1888. She was a devout member of the Baptist 
 Church, and a noble Christian mother. She was 
 a daughter of John Poston, a farmer of Henry 
 County, whose wife was a Miss Yates of Shelby 
 County. 
 
 Jeremiali Crabb (grandfather) was bom in 
 Frederick County, Maryland, September 17, 1769, 
 and died March 21, 1840. Coming down the 
 Ohio River with others in canoes in 1800, they 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 305 
 
 landed at the present site of Louisville, and from 
 there he "drifted" out into the country and finally 
 settled in Shelby County. However, before leav- 
 ing his native state, he had done what he could 
 in the war of the Revolution ; being too young to 
 bear arms, he was assigned to duty — with those 
 who were too old, or, like himself, too young, for 
 active warfare — as a guard for the prisoners of 
 war. He married Eleanor Compton, a native of 
 Virginia, and was the father of seven children, 
 viz. : Stephen D. (father), Ralph, Jeremiah, Pris- 
 cilla, Elizabeth, Samuel and Alexander C. 
 
 He was quite prosperous and accumulated con- 
 siderable property, including a number of valu- 
 able slaves, whom he bequeathed to his wife; 
 and, before her death, she gave all of the slaves 
 who were over twenty-one years of age their 
 freedom, and provided that the younger ones 
 should be made free upon reaching their ma- 
 jority. 
 
 The Crabb family originally came from Eng- 
 land. In the life of John Wesley, he tells of his 
 great-grandfather attending a certain college in 
 England of which John Crabb was the dean. 
 Various branches of the family appear to have 
 settled in Norfolk, England, and at different sea- 
 ports along the coast of Suffolk ; and history tells 
 us that a pilot of great experience named Crabb 
 of Walton, was consulted in reference to the voy- 
 age of Edward III. before the battle of Crecy, 
 which was fought in the year 1346. 
 
 George Crabb was a philologist of distinction 
 and author of a book of English synonyms. He 
 was born in 1778 and died in 185 1, and some 
 of his writings, especially his synonyms, are stand- 
 ard authority at the present time. 
 
 John Compton, Sr. (great-grandfather), was 
 born February 28, 1747; died January 10, 1803. 
 Elizabeth, his wife, died November 4, 1809. Their 
 children were: Phillip Brisco Compton, born 
 April 27, 1772; Elenor Williamson Compton 
 (grandmother), born September 4, 1774, died De- 
 cember 26, 185 1 ; Alexander Compton, born July 
 10, 1777, died March 5, 1796; John Compton, Jr., 
 born June 20, 1779, died September 18, 1855; 
 Leonard Brisco Compton, born September 3, 
 1781, died February 5, 1841; Samuel Compton, 
 born February 2, 1789, died June i, 182$, 
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 The children of Jeremiah Crabb (grandfather) 
 and Elenor W. Compton, were: Elizabeth Comp- 
 ton Crabb, married James Carter, December 21, 
 1815; Stephen Drane Crabb (father), married 
 Nancy Poston, December 11, 1823; Jeremiah 
 Crabb, Jr., married first Emily Poston, second 
 Lucy Dawson, third Miss Boker; Samuel Comp- 
 ton Crabb, married Hernia Thompson; Priscilla 
 Spigg Crabb, married Richard Young; Alexander 
 Compton Crabb, married first Sarah Barnett, Au- 
 gust 23, 1842, second Lucy B. Rees, April 8, 1857. 
 
 William L. Crabb was educated in the district 
 schools of Henry County, and was taking a course 
 preparatory for college when the Civil war be- 
 gan. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in General 
 John H. Morgan's command, Company H, 
 Fourth Kentucky Cavalry, and was in almost 
 every engagement in which that famous cavalry 
 command fought, and was in a fight at New Cas- 
 tle, Kentucky, in which all on the Confederate 
 side were killed or wounded except himself. 
 
 He served all through the war and carried the 
 flag that surrendered the last armed force of the 
 confederacy east of the Mississippi River at Mt. 
 Sterling, nearly a month after General Lee's sur- 
 render. 
 
 Returning after the war was over, he followed 
 farming in Henry County for two years, and was 
 interested in milling. From 1868 to 1872 he was 
 engaged in mercantile pursuits in Eminence, deal- 
 ing principally in hardware and agricultural im- 
 plements. Since 1872 he has been engaged in 
 distilling, as a member of the firm of Fible & 
 Crabb, until 1890, when the company was in- 
 corporated as the Fible & Crabb Distilling Com- 
 pany, of which Mr. Crabb was elected president. 
 While the business of this company demands 
 much of his time and attention, he is largely in- 
 terested in farming and stock raising, giving spe- 
 cial care to fine horses, in which he takes great 
 pride and pleasure, and from which he derives 
 handsome returns. 
 
 There are few more active, energetic and en- 
 terprising men than Mr. Crabb in Henry County. 
 With large business interests of his own, which 
 are conducted with conservative enterprise and 
 with good business judgment, he is one of the 
 foremost men in matters concerning the public 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 weal, and his interest in the welfare of his fellow- 
 citizens is manifested by his willingness to enter 
 into any measure for the general advancement of 
 the people with that energy and enthusiasm which 
 are characteristic of the man. 
 
 In politics he is zealous for the success of his 
 friends and of the Democratic party, in which he 
 is a wheel-horse. He has no predilection for 
 ofifice or public recognition; but he can take ofif 
 his coat and work for a friend as if he were the 
 candidate himself. He received an appointment 
 from Governor Knott on his staff with rank of 
 colonel. 
 
 Mr. Crabb was married October 31, 1866, to 
 Mattie V. Owen, daughter of Grandison P. Owen 
 and Mary Ann Thomas, his wife, who was a na- 
 tive of Shelby County, but located at Eminence 
 in Henry County. 
 
 There were two sons bom to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Crabb: Lindsey T. Crabb, born November 5, 
 1867, and William Owen Crabb, born March 31, 
 1871, died December 13, 1871. 
 
 Grandison P. Owen's father, Edward Owen 
 (Mrs. Crabb's grandfather), came from Virginia 
 to Harrison County, Kentucky, in 1825; and his 
 father was Edward P. Owen of Virginia. 
 
 Mary Ann Thomas (Mrs. Crabb's mother) was 
 a daughter of Lindsey Thomas, who was a son. 
 of Oswald Thomas, one of the pioneers who came 
 from Virginia and located in Mercer County, 
 Kentucky. Oswald Thomas married Mary 
 Pogue, youngest daughter of General William 
 Pogue, who was killed in Mercer County by the 
 Indians. She was bom in the fort at Harrods- 
 burg, Kentucky. Oswald Thomas was an inti- 
 mate friend and comrade of Daniel Boone, and 
 was with him in many of his excursions and con- 
 flicts with the Indians. The descendants of Os- 
 wald Thomas embrace many of the old and num- 
 erous families of Shelby County, where he located 
 after leaving Mercer County. 
 
 WILLIAM LEROY DULANEY, ex-judge 
 of the Circuit Court and a prominent at- 
 torney of Bowling Green, son of Woodford and 
 Eliza (Archer) Dulaney, was bom at York, Illi- 
 nois, July 31, 1838. 
 
 His father, Woodford Dulaney, a native of Cul- 
 peper County, Virginia, came to Kentucky in 
 1819, and located in Bowling Green, where he 
 lived until 1825, when he removed to Louisville. 
 In 1827 he took a boat-load of merchandise up the 
 Wabash river, and, while on this trip, the Black- 
 hawk war broke out and Mr. Dulaney went into 
 the war as captain of a company which he re- 
 cruited in Illinois. He served with Lincoln, Jefif 
 Davis and others, and in the regiment of his 
 father-in-law. Colonel William B. Archer. After 
 the war was over Mr. Dulaney returned to his 
 plantation in Warren County, near Bowling 
 Green, where he was engaged in farming until 
 his death, which occurred in 1878, at the age of 
 seventy-nine years. 
 
 LeRoy Dulaney (grandfather), a native of Cul- 
 peper County, Virginia, came to Warren County, 
 Kentucky, in 1820, and located on a plantation, 
 where he resided until his death, in 1841. The 
 Dulaneys are of French origin, and the ancestors 
 of the family in this country came to the United 
 States by way of Ireland. 
 
 Eliza Archer Dulaney (mother) was born near 
 York, Illinois, in 1818, and died of cholera in 
 1849, in the thirty-first year of her age. 
 
 Colonel William B. Archer (maternal grand- 
 father) was born in Scott County, Kentucky. 
 He was a colonel in command of an Illinois regi- 
 ment during the Blackhawk war. He died in 
 Marshall, Illinois, in 1883, aged about ninety 
 years. 
 
 William LeRoy Dulaney spent the earlier days 
 of his boyhood in the country near Bowling 
 Green, and attended Centre College at Danville, 
 from which he graduated in the class with Sena- 
 tor Blackburn, ex-Governor McCreary, and other 
 distinguished Kentuckians in 1857. He read law 
 with Judge William V. Loving of Bowling Green, 
 and was admitted to the bar in 1861. 
 
 In the same year he enlisted in the Confederate 
 army as a private soldier in the "Buckner Guides," 
 but was soon transferred to General Morgan's 
 command in Colonel Breckinridge's regiment, 
 and served as a private. He had learned some- 
 thing about military tactics prior to the war, hav- 
 ing been captain of a company of state guards. 
 His brother, Hiram W. Dulaney, was also a sol- 
 
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 dier in the Confederate army, and served through- 
 out the war. 
 
 After peace was declared Mr. Dulaney returned 
 to his home in BowHng Green and took up the 
 business of his profession, and to this he has 
 been faithfully devoted, without interruption, for 
 more than thirty years. 
 
 In 1869 he was elected judge of the Common 
 Pleas Court, and acted in that capacity for two 
 terms. In 1880 he was elected judge of the Cir- 
 cuit Court, and served one term of six years, de- 
 clining a re-election at the expiration of the term. 
 
 Judge Dulaney has been quite prominent in 
 local and state politics, having served on impor- 
 tant committees and as delegate to several Demo- 
 cratic national state and district conventions, but 
 in this he has been actuated by a sense of duty to 
 the public rather than by any political ambition 
 on his part. He is exceedingly fond of sport, and 
 takes particular delight in fox hunting, having a 
 pack of the finest hounds in the state. 
 
 Judge Dulaney was married in i860 to Jane 
 Barclay, daughter of Samuel A. Barclay, of Bow- 
 ling Green. They have no children of their own, 
 but have one adopted son, Paul LeRoy Dulaney. 
 They are members of the Presbyterian Church, 
 and Judge Dulaney is an Odd Fellow and a 
 Knight Templar. 
 
 ISAAC WESLEY KELLY, a leading citizen 
 1 of New Castle, and one of the largest tax- 
 payers in Henry County, son of Griffin and Re- 
 becca (Smith) Kelly, was born in Henry County, 
 Kentucky, May 16, 1837. 
 
 His father. Griffin Kelly, was born in Clark 
 County, Kentucky, January 25, 1810, and re- 
 moved to Henry County with his parents when 
 he was fourteen years of age. His educational 
 advantages were limited to one term of six months 
 in a country school, but he was a man of sound 
 judgment and remarkable ability. His chief busi- 
 ness was that of a farmer, but he was a judicious 
 speculator and a successful financier. A man of 
 wonderful natural resources, prudent and saga- 
 cious, he would have made his mark in any 
 avocation, and had he received an education in 
 accordance with his natural ability he could have 
 reached fam^ and distinction in public life. But 
 
 he had no ambition for political preferment, and 
 declined frequent calls to represent his county 
 and district in Congress and other positions of 
 honor and trust. 
 
 The first money he made was fifty cents which 
 he received for stripping blue grass, and at his 
 death his estate was worth over one hundred 
 thousand dollars. He attributed his success to 
 the fact that he attended to his business affairs 
 himself and never asked any one else to do for 
 him anything he could do himself. He was a di- 
 rector in the Bank of Shelbyville for more than 
 twenty years, and for a long time a director in the 
 Bank of New Castle. He was a member of the 
 regular Baptist Church, and his business was con- 
 ducted upon principles that were consistent with 
 his profession, and he was known and respected 
 as a man of exemplary piety and upright char- 
 acter. 
 
 He was married September 25, 1834, to Re- 
 becca Jane Smith, who was born near Browns- 
 borough, Oldham County, September 14, 1815, 
 and died December 22, 1894. She was a woman 
 of extraordinary energy, of strong, vigorous in- 
 tellect, who exerted a great influence over her 
 children and commanded the love and admiration 
 of her neighbors. She was in every sense a noble 
 woman, a dutiful and helpful wife, an affectionate 
 mother and a pious member of the Baptist Church. 
 Her father was Isaac Smith, born in Blue Ridge, 
 Virginia, a descendant of Captain John Smith. 
 His wife, Susan Schmidt, was from Baden-Baden, 
 Germany. 
 
 Griffin and Rebecca Kelly had five children 
 who reached maturity: 
 
 Elizabeth, married William H. Forwood; died 
 at the age of forty years. 
 
 Isaac W., subject of this sketch. 
 
 Joseph, died at Eminence in 1885. 
 
 Helen, married, first, George Kilpatrick, who 
 was of English birth, graduated with honor at 
 Toronto, Canada, and was a successful practi- 
 tioner at the Louisville bar and died at the age of 
 thirty-four years. Her second husband is Wil- 
 liam Swift of Bourbon County, Kentucky. She 
 is a woman of great strength of character, of fine 
 intelligence and of unusual business ability. 
 
 Clinton Wayne, educated at Kingston and 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Montreal, Canada, and Berlin, Prussia; is one of 
 the leading physicians of Louisville ; dean of the 
 Louisville Medical College, which he founded in 
 1869, and is known throughout the South and 
 Southwest as one of the most distinguished men 
 in the medical profession. 
 
 Joseph Kelly (grandfather) was born in Spott- 
 sylvania County, Virginia, January 29, 1767; 
 came to Kentucky in 1824; was a captain in the 
 war of 1812 under Generals George Rogers Clarke 
 and William H. Harrison, and was in the terrible 
 battle at River Raisin. At one time with three 
 hundred soldiers he held at bay eighteen hundred 
 Enghsh soldiers and Indians, accomplishing this 
 by strategy; when the enemy advanced he com- 
 manded his men to fall on their faces and reserve 
 their fire until they could see the white of the 
 enemies' eyes. By this means they held the 
 British at bay until their ammunition gave out 
 and they were captured. It was Joel Hume, one 
 of Captain Kelly's men, who killed the Indian 
 Chief Tecumseh, instead of Johnson, as history 
 claims. Hume was in line of battle with Cap- 
 tain Kelly's company. He found he had three 
 loads in his gun. He discharged them all 
 at once at a tall Indian chief. After the battle 
 Tecumseh was found with three bullets in his 
 body. Captain Kelly was detailed by General 
 George Rogers Clarke to make a road from near 
 Louisville to Vincennes, Indiana. Joseph Kelly 
 married Elizabeth Mallory, born March 24, 1771 ; 
 died March 30, 1850. 
 
 Isaac W. Kelly began his studies in the typical 
 log school house in Henry County. At the age 
 of fourteen he removed to New Castle with his 
 parents; graduated from Georgetown College in 
 i860, accomplishing a four years' course in two 
 years, the first instance of the kind in the history 
 of that institution ; taught school in Henry County 
 for two years; went to Louisville in 1863, and 
 was engaged in brokerage business there for four 
 years. In 1869 he returned to New Castle and 
 attended to his father's business until 1871. He 
 was in the internal revenue service under Presi- 
 dent Cleveland's first administration and has had 
 large landed and other business interests to oc- 
 cupy his attention; is president of the New Castle 
 Creamery Company; president of the Eniinence 
 
 & New Castle Turnpike Road Company; vice 
 president of the Bank of New Castle; trustee of 
 the Henry Male & Female College of New Cas- 
 tle. He owns a beautiful home in New Castle, 
 from which he directs the affairs of his large 
 farming and other interests in the county; is the 
 largest tax-payer, with but two exceptions, in 
 the county; and is a leading, progressive and in- 
 fluential citizen. 
 
 He never sued a debtor, and has never been 
 sued; strictly honest and true, he is greatly re- 
 spected and honored by the people, who have 
 the utmost confidence in his fidelity and integrity. 
 
 Mr. Kelly is an ardent member of the Baptist 
 Church; a deep student of the Bible, explaining 
 many of the mysteries of the scriptures with a 
 power and force that carries conviction, and in the 
 absence of the pastor often takes his place in 
 the pulpit, in which capacity he displays unusual 
 ability as a teacher of the Word. 
 
 He has traveled extensively in the United States 
 and Canada, and has been a close observer and 
 careful student of men and afifairs and is well in- 
 formed upon local, state and national politics; 
 is a Democrat and the author of his own plat- 
 form : "The greatest good for the greatest num- 
 ber." He was in sympathy with the South, but 
 took no active part during the Civil war. 
 
 He was associated with his brother, Dr. CHnton 
 W. Kelly of Louisville, in the settlement of their 
 father's large estate, and this they accomplished 
 without the aid of a lawyer, the total expense 
 amounting to $18. Isaac W. Kelly was married 
 October 12, 1871, to Thermuthis Hannah Webb, 
 daughter of Honorable Isaac N. and Levian (Gist) 
 Webb. She was born in New Castle and educated 
 in the college at that place. 
 
 Her father was an eminent lawyer of New Cas- 
 tle; a graduate of Hanover (Indiana) College; 
 was an able draughtsman and distinguished schol- 
 ar ; served in the Kentucky legislature and was a 
 man of fine personal appearance and gentlemanly 
 bearing. His wife, Levian Gist Webb, was a 
 native of Northern Alabama, a graduate of a Nash- 
 ville college; a woman of great strength of 
 character, moral courage and fine literary attain- 
 ments, intensely religious and very active in 
 church work. The children of Isa^c W. Kelly 
 
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 and his wife are: Levian, wife of Dr. John R. 
 Smith, now a resident of Carmi, Illinois; Rebecca 
 Jane, wife of Robert Lee Samuells of New Castle. 
 The other children, Grififin, Isaac Newton, Wash- 
 ington Irving and SalHe Barbour, are at home, 
 the greatest care being given to their education 
 and training. 
 
 GEORGE W. JOLLY, a member of the 
 Owensboro bar, son of John B. and Rachel 
 (Hardin) Jolly, was born in Breckinridge County, 
 near the town of Stephensport, February 22, 1843. 
 
 His father was bom in Breckinridge County, 
 July 20, 1815; was educated in private schools 
 in the vicinity of his home. He was engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits until his death, March 10, 
 1896. He was a consistent member of the Meth- 
 odist church and an honored citizen, whose quiet 
 and tmostentatious life won for him the love and 
 confidence of his neighbors. He was married 
 May 9, 1842, to Rachel Hardin, who was born 
 in Breckinridge County in 1817. They were the 
 parents of eight children: Geoi-ge W.; William 
 Henry Harrison, who died in 1864; Nannie; John 
 L., who also died in 1864; Gideon N.; Thomas 
 and Sarah. Mrs. Jolly died December 7, 1893. 
 
 Nelson Jolly (grandfather) was born in Hines' 
 Fort, near EKzabethtown, Kentucky, February 
 20, 1786, and removed to Breckinridge County 
 with his father when a child. He married Bai^- 
 bara Barr, a native of Breckinridge County, and 
 they were pioneer Methodists, as well as citizens 
 of a new and but partially settled country. 
 
 Nelson Jolly, the elder (great-grandfather), was 
 born at Londonderry, Ireland, and came to this 
 country in 1755 with his father, who settled in 
 Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married a Miss 
 Graham of Maryland, and came to Kentucky in 
 1780, or about that time; settled near Hardins- 
 burg in 1790, and made his home in Breckinridge 
 County until 1819, when he died. 
 
 The progenitor of the Jolly family in America 
 (the father of the great-grandfather), was of 
 Scotch-Irish extraction, and settled in Bucks 
 County, Pennsylvania, thirty miles east of Phila- 
 delphia. He enlisted under Paul Jones and was 
 killed in a naval battle off the Irish coast. He 
 left a widow and two children, Nelson and Alcey 
 
 Jolly. Nelson Jolly brought his mother and sis- 
 ter with him (having married Miss Graham be- 
 fore coming) to Kentucky. Alcey married John 
 Combs and hved in Nelson County, Kentucky, 
 after her marriage. 
 
 Henry Hardin (maternal grandfather) was the 
 youngest child of William Hardin (great-grand- 
 father) who was a native of Virginia, and subse- 
 quently became a citizen of Westmoreland 
 County, Pennsylvania, whence he came to Ken- 
 tucky. He was in the Revolutionary war, in com- 
 mand of Virginia troops, and he received land 
 patents in Kentucky as a compensation for his 
 services. These patents were issued by Governor 
 Patrick Henry and Benjamin Harrison. He 
 brought his own and several families from West- 
 moreland County, Pennsylvania, by water in flat 
 boats, to the mouth of Bear Grass Creek (now 
 Louisville), in the fall of 1779, and took his set- 
 tlers to Breckinridge County in March, 1780, 
 and there made a settlement. Block houses and 
 stockades were erected as a defense against the 
 Indians, and in 1782 he founded the town of 
 Hardinsburg, donating the land on which the 
 town now stands. He was appointed colonel of 
 the militia of the county, and soon became known 
 as an Indian fighter. He was a man of large 
 frame and great strength, of dauntless courage, 
 skilled in all of the arts of border warfare. 
 
 George W. Jolly received his education in pri- 
 vate schools. His principal tutor was the Rev. 
 R. G. Gardiner of Hardinsburg, by whom he was 
 sufficiently advanced for the study of law. He 
 then began his legal studies with Judge Kinche- 
 loe in Hardinsburg, and was afterwards a pupil 
 of Judge G. W. Williams of Hawesville (a sketch 
 of whom is given elsewhere in this volume). Mr. 
 Jolly was admitted to the bar in 1867, and began 
 the practice of law at Hardinsburg, where he re- 
 mained until 1872, when he removed to Owens- 
 boro. In this larger and more inviting field he 
 has met with success and has enjoyed a share of 
 the important litigation. 
 
 August 5, 1889, he was appointed United States 
 Attorney for the District of Kentucky by Presi- 
 dent Harrison, and at once assumed the duties of 
 that office. He was re-appointed January 27, 
 1890, and served until the appointment of his sue- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 cesser, January 27, 1894. In the performance of 
 his duties in that office he was indefatigable, and 
 he served the government with fidelity. After the 
 expiration of his term of office he resumed his 
 practice in Owensboro. 
 
 Mr. Jolly was married February 16, 1871, to 
 Miss Sue E. Henderson, who was bom in Breck- 
 inridge County, November 7, 1843. She is a 
 daughter of P. J. and Elizabeth (Orendorf) Hen- 
 derson, and was educated in the schools of Breck- 
 inridge County. They have five children : Hor- 
 ace, born April 17, 1873; Marian, born August 
 27, 1876; Jessie, born January 23, 1878; Percy, 
 born October 25, 1880, and Susie, born Novem- 
 ber 4, 1884. (For interesting lineage of Mrs. 
 Jolly, see sketch of Dr. Henry Orendorf in this 
 volume.) 
 
 JAMES ROBERT MINOR of Augusta, son 
 of Ezekiel and Nancy (Sallee) Minor, was 
 born August 6, 1840. His father was born in 
 Mason County, October 11, 1801. In early man- 
 hood Ezekiel Minor engaged in trading on the 
 Ohio river between Pittsburg and New Orleans, 
 but retired from active trading in 1832 and spent 
 the remainder of his life on his farm. During 
 the War of 1812, when only eleven or twelve years 
 of age, he took care of the family while his father 
 was fighting for his country. He enlisted in the 
 Mexican war, but was not called into active serv- 
 ice. He was a genial and hospitable man and was 
 never so happy as when his home was filled with 
 guests. 
 
 Ephraim Minor (grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia who came to Kentucky, Mason County, 
 in 1794, when he was twelve years of age, with 
 his mother, then a widow, who brought with her 
 from Virginia a number of slaves. The old Eng- 
 lish law of primogeniture which gave the real 
 property to the eldest son prevailed in Virginia at 
 that time, and on that account Mrs. Minor deter- 
 mined to remove to Kentucky. Ephraim took 
 part in the War of 181 2, serving as a private sol- 
 dier. He engaged in farming in Kentucky until 
 1832, when he removed to Illinois and died there 
 about 1834. He was a member of the Methodist 
 Church. He married Rachel, daughter of Wil- 
 liam Lamb, a native and the first sheriff of Mason 
 
 County. She died in 1846. The Minors were 
 originally from England. 
 
 Nancy Sallee Minor (mother) was born in 
 Mason County, March 5, 1802. She was edu- 
 cated in one of the old seminaries of Lexington 
 and was married to Ezekiel Minor December 8, 
 1831. She was a consistent member of the Chris- 
 tian Church and died in 1888. Her father, Jacob 
 Sallee, was a native of Virginia who came to Ken- 
 tucky before the beginning of the present cen- 
 tury and located near what is now known as Bry- 
 ant Station; he afterwards moved to Mason 
 County, where he died in 1830. He married 
 Lucy Hayden of Virginia, who svirvived him 
 many years and died in 1861 at the advanced age 
 of ninety-three years. 
 
 James R. Minor was educated at Augusta Col- 
 lege and taught school in 1869 and 1870 while 
 studying law; was admitted to the bar in 1871 and 
 at once commenced the practice of his profession 
 in Augusta, where he has continued to reside 
 until the present time. 
 
 He has served two years as mayor of Augusta; 
 was city attorney for several terms and county 
 attorney from 1884 to 1894. He is a Mason, an 
 Odd Fellow and a member of the Christian 
 Church. He married Minerva A., daughter of 
 Richard D. and Catherine (Walton) Smith, Au- 
 gust 16, 1869. Mrs. Minor was born Novem- 
 ber 26, 1845, ^"^d was educated at Augusta Col- 
 lege. They have seven children living: Flor- 
 ence Salle, Mary Ware, John Lamb, Carrie Rule, 
 Nancy Lou, Anna Clay and Emma Bertell. 
 
 Tames H. MOORE, M. D., a retired phy- 
 kJ sician and merchant of Harrodsburg, a de- 
 scendant of one of the oldest and most respected 
 families, son of Lawson and Jane Murray (Roch- 
 ester) Moore, was born near Danville, Kentucky, 
 October 3, 1819. 
 
 Lawson Moore (father) was born in Westmore- 
 land County, Virginia, in 1771, and died in Boyle 
 County, Kentucky, September 15, 1858. He 
 came to Kentucky in 1798 and purchased a large 
 tract of land near Danville, where he was a farm- 
 er and stock raiser on an extensive scale. He was 
 married January 2, 1794, to Elizabeth Rochester, 
 who died July 26, 1815; January 22, 1817, he 
 
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 married Jane Murray Rochester, a sister of his 
 first wife, with whom he lived until April 14, 1855, 
 when she died. There were eleven children by 
 the first marriage, and the five children of his 
 second wife were: Christopher Collins, James 
 H., Thomas R., Charles O. and Joseph L. 
 
 Lawson Moore was a man of large frame, of 
 commanding presence, more than six feet high, 
 of powerful physical strength, of strong intel- 
 lect, well read, thoroughly posted in history and 
 abreast of the spirit of the times. Having a large 
 family, he fully appreciated the advantages of 
 education and was one of the active promoters 
 in establishing Centre College ; a man of influence 
 and high moral standing, who left his impress 
 upon the community and helped to provide many 
 advantages for future generations 
 
 Elijah Moore (grandfather) — son of William 
 Moore and Sarah Lawson — ^was married when he 
 was nineteen years of age to Judith Harrison of 
 Northumberland County, Virginia, and had three 
 sons : Lawson, George and William. He was a 
 large and powerful man, of unusual persever- 
 ance and energy, and gave promise of a useful 
 life. Shortly after the birth of his son William he 
 was killed by lightning, when twenty-six years of 
 age. His wife survived him only eighteen months 
 and died leaving three sons, who were placed un- 
 der the guardianship of Christopher Collins, a 
 merchant of Westmoreland County, Virginia, who 
 proved an efficient and trustworthy protector and 
 guide, whose noble traits of character were cher- 
 ished by his wards. 
 
 William Moore (great-grandfather) — son of 
 Thomas Moore — married Sarah Lawson and 
 spent his life on his patrimonial estate. He had 
 two sons, Elijah and Vincent. The latter mar- 
 ried and reared a family in Northumberland Coun- 
 ty, Virginia, where he died. 
 
 Thomas Moore (great-great-grandfather), the 
 progenitor of the numerous and influential fam- 
 ily, came from England at a very early period 
 in the history of this country, and settled on the 
 banks of the Nomonee River in Westmoreland 
 County, Virginia, where, as one of the pioneers, 
 he lived in peace and friendship with the Indian 
 tribes with which he was surrounded. He left 
 two sons, William and Thomas, between whom he 
 
 divided his estate. Thomas died on his portion 
 of the old farm, leaving two sons, Thomas and 
 James, who disposed of their property and re- 
 moved to North Carolina, where they are now 
 represented by numerous descendants. 
 
 Dr. Moore's Hneage on his mother's side is 
 traced back for more than two hundred and fifty 
 years. 
 
 Nicholas Rochester (great-great-great-grand- 
 father), the first ancestor who came to America, 
 was born in Kent County, England, in 1640. 
 The time of his settlement in Virginia is not re- 
 corded, but he had been there many years before 
 his death in 1719. 
 
 William Rochester (great-great-grandfather), 
 son of Nicholas, was born in 1680, died October 
 23, 1750. He married Mrs. Frances McKinney, 
 and they had two children: John, born in 1708, 
 died November, 1754; William, born in 1710, 
 died in July, 1767. 
 
 John Rochester (great-grandfather) — son of 
 William — married Hester Thrift, who died in 
 1773. Their children were: William, who died 
 in infancy; John, born 1746, died December, 
 1794; Ann, born 1748; Phillis, born 1750; Na- 
 thaniel, born February 21, 1752, died May 14, 
 1831; Esther, born 1753. John Rochester was 
 married the second time to Mrs. Annie McClan- 
 ahan, nee South, June 9, 1793, and their only 
 child was William Rochester. 
 
 John Rochester (grandfather) — son of John — 
 married Anne Jordan in 1766. She died in 1789. 
 Their children were: William John, Elizabeth 
 (Lawson Moore's first wife), Robert, Nancy, Es- 
 ther, Hannah, Nathaniel, Jane Murray (Lawson 
 Moore's second wife), Sophia and Artemisia. 
 
 Dr. James H. Moore received a classical educa- 
 tion, attending Centre College until he was ready 
 for the senior class; went to St. Mary's College 
 for a short time; was then under a private tutor 
 and subsequently returned to Centre College; 
 studied medicine with Drs. Fleece and Weisiger 
 and graduated from Transylvania in 1841 ; at the 
 age of twenty-one went to Mississippi, and prac- 
 ticed medicine successfully for five years; re- 
 turned to Kentucky in 1845 and located in Har- 
 rodsburg, April, 1846. Here he engaged in mer- 
 chandising with his brother, Christopher Collins 
 
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 Moore, in which business they were very success- 
 ful. In 1852 he retired to his farm and engaged 
 in raising and importing fine sheep, cattle and 
 horses. He has been an active and leading mem- 
 ber of county fair associations; was president of 
 the Mercer County Association and director for 
 a number of years; was sent as delegate to the 
 Second Congress of Agricultural Associations, 
 which met in Selma, Alabama, and has always 
 taken a deep interest in agricultural matters ; and 
 besides his farm in Mercer County is engaged in 
 cotton planting in the delta between the Missis- 
 sippi and Yazoo rivers on Deer Creek, about forty 
 miles from Vicksburg, where long staple cotton is 
 grown. 
 
 During the war his property was destroyed, 
 amounting to between $200,000 and $300,000, 
 consisting of 1,200 bales cotton, new and costly 
 steam gins, corn crib frames, quarters for 100 
 slaves, but he was not a man to be discouraged 
 by misfortune, and he set to work earnestly to 
 recuperate his fortune. He was one of the organ- 
 izers of the Mercer County National Bank, and 
 was its president from the time of its organiza- 
 tion until he resigned in 1894; was a useful and 
 diligent member of the Constitutional Conven- 
 tion of 1890-91, having been elected over four 
 opposing candidates by a majority of over one 
 thousand votes. He has been an elder in the 
 Presbyterian Church for many years, and has rep- 
 resented his presbytery in the Synod and General 
 Assembly a number of times; is liberal in his 
 views of church doctrine and charitable toward 
 those who differ with him; is a man of great 
 strength of character and greatly honored and re- 
 spected by the people who have known him dur- 
 ing his long residence in Mercer County. Al- 
 though advanced in years, he is active, energetic 
 and enterprising, and is thoroughly imbued with 
 the spirit of progress, an advocate for advance- 
 ment in every direction, an exemplary Christian, 
 a model gentleman and a valuable citizen. Pie 
 has educated a number of poor young men wlio 
 are now filling honorable positions, of whom the 
 county is proud. 
 
 In 1891, when his time was up, according to 
 the scriptural estimate of human life, he built him 
 a beautiful home in Plarrodsburg, a lovely place 
 
 which he has christened "Hillsdale," and in this he 
 hopes to spend the remainder of his life. 
 
 Dr. Moore was married February 13, 1845, to 
 Mrs. Mary S. Foster, nee Messinger, daughter of 
 Hon. Daniel T. and Mary Messinger of Berkshire 
 County, Massachusetts. Her father, Daniel Mes- 
 singer, was a farmer and merchant in Massachu- 
 setts. His father was George Messinger, who 
 was a son of Nehemiah Messinger, who pur- 
 chased lands in Massachusetts from the Indians. 
 His brother Samuel was a surveyor of land in 
 Massachusetts in colonial days. Her mother was 
 Mary Bacon, a noble Christian woman from one 
 of the oldest and most prominent New England 
 families. 
 
 Dr. and Mrs. Moore, like many of the elder 
 Moores, have two sons: Hon. Daniel Lawson 
 Moore, born January 31, 1847; ^^d Bacon Roch- 
 ester Moore, bom June 13, 1850. 
 
 Daniel Lawson Moore (elder son) was edu- 
 cated under private tutors and at Centre College; 
 studied law under Phil B. Thompson, Sr.; was 
 state senator in Capital District; has large busi- 
 ness interests in Colorado, Florida, Mississippi 
 and New Mexico, and is president of the Mercer 
 National Bank, succeeding his father; married 
 Henrietta, daughter of Judge William H. Mc- 
 Beyer, by whom three children were bom: May 
 Messinger, Wallace and William H.; married a 
 second time to Minnie Ball, who is the mother of 
 one child, Anneta. 
 
 Bacon Rochester Moore (younger son) was 
 educated under private tutors at Centre College 
 and at Washington and Lee University, Virginia; 
 studied law with John Charles Thompson; was 
 an extensive planter in the South; was appointed 
 under Governor Knott delegate to Mississippi 
 River Convention held at Vicksburg, and elected 
 by his county as a director of the Levee Board 
 and received the highest commendation on retir- 
 ing; married Nannie Bowman of Mercer Coun- 
 ty and had five sons and two daughters : Dudley 
 Bowman, Mary Bacon, James Harrison, Virginia, 
 Daniel Lawson, Bacon Rochester and John Bow- 
 man. Bacon R. (son) died at Harrodsburg, Au- 
 gust 20, 1889, and at a meeting of the bar at that 
 place on the day following his death the commit- 
 tee appointed to prepare resolutions testified to 
 
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 the high standing in private and social Hfe which 
 he had reached through true merit; that his offi- 
 cial career was marked by a strict observance of 
 duty ; that he was a true friend ; a perfect husband 
 and father; a dutiful son; a Christian gentleman; 
 an estimable citizen and member of the bar and 
 officer of the Court. His death was sincerely de- 
 plored by all who had known him at home and 
 abroad. He was bright, quick of perception ; pos- 
 sessed great firmness and sound judgment. 
 
 JUDGE ALNEY McLEAN, in honor of whom 
 McLean County was named, was a native of 
 Burke County, North Carolina ; emigrated to Ken- 
 tucky, and began the practice of law at Green- 
 ville, Muhlenberg County, about 1805; had but 
 little to do with politics before 1808; was a rep- 
 resentative from that county in the legislature, 
 1812-13; a captain in the War of 1812; a repre- 
 sentative in Congress for four years, 1815-17 and 
 1819-21; one of the electors for president in 1825, 
 casting his vote and that of the state for Henry 
 Clay; again in 1833 an elector for the state at 
 large, when the vote of the state was cast a second 
 time for the same distinguished citizen; and ap- 
 pointed a circuit judge, and for many years 
 adorned the bench. 
 
 FRANK H. SOUTHGATE, M. D., Pension 
 Examiner and a popular young physician of 
 Newport, son of James and Emma (Hills) South- 
 gate, was born in the Highlands, near Newport, 
 Kentucky, April 12, 1869. 
 
 His father, now a resident of Newport, was 
 born in that city in 1848. He returned to New- 
 port after a long residence in the Highlands a 
 few years ago, and is engaged in the manufacture 
 of shingles; a member of the board of aldermen 
 and president of the Newport Commercial Club. 
 He has been a director in the German National 
 Bank ever since its organization and is now vice 
 president. 
 
 Edward L. Southgate (grandfather) was also a 
 native of Newport, where he lived until his death 
 in 1852, when thirty-eight years of age. He was 
 a lawyer by profession, and in addition to his law 
 practice looked after his father's extensive busi- 
 ness. 
 
 Richard Southgate (great-grandfather) was 
 born near Richmond, Virginia, and came to New- 
 port, Kentucky, in 1776. He was a lawyer by 
 profession, but was more extensively interested in 
 mercantile pursuits, in which business he accu- 
 mulated a large fortune in money and realty. He 
 owned about ten thousand acres of land in Camp- 
 bell and Kenton Counties, and was considered 
 one of the wealthiest men in the state. He was 
 at one time a representative of his district in the 
 Kentucky legislature. His wife was a Miss 
 Hinde, daughter of the celebrated physician. Dr. 
 Thomas Hinde, who was a native of England 
 and a surgeon in the English navy. He at- 
 tended General Wolfe at the time of his death in 
 Quebec, and was the physician of Patrick Henry 
 of Virginia; also served throughout the Revolu- 
 tionary war as a surgeon. He was well known as 
 a physician in Virginia and Kentucky. 
 
 Emma Hills Southgate (mother) is a native of 
 Newport, of which city she is still a resident. 
 Her father, B. F. Hills, a native of Massachu- 
 setts, came to Newport, Kentucky, in 1814, and 
 is still a resident of that city. Although about 
 eighty-eight years of age, he is a stout man, in 
 perfect health, and has never known what it is to 
 have to endure illness. Most of his life has been 
 spent in farming in the South. He went to 
 Louisiana in 1867, and lived in that state for 
 twenty years, when he retired from business and 
 returned to his old home in Newport. 
 
 Dr. Frank H. Southgate spent the days of his 
 youth in the Highlands and attended the excellent 
 schools in Cincinnati, Ohio. After acquiring a 
 good education, he entered upon his professional 
 studies under Dr. B. K. Rockford of Cincinnati; 
 and attended the Medical College of Ohio, from 
 which he was graduated in 1892. He then took 
 a post-graduate course in Germany, at the Uni- 
 versity of Berlin. 
 
 In 1894 he began a general practice of medi- 
 cine in Newport, and in the short time in which 
 he has been known as a practicing physician, he 
 has met with encouragement and every assur- 
 ance of success. 
 
 Few men have been better prepared for the 
 responsible duties of the physician; and this fact, 
 together with genial manner and kindly disposi- 
 
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 tion, has won the favor and confidence of a host 
 of friends. While doing a general practice, his 
 special work, for which he has more fully pre- 
 pared himself, is the treatment of diseases of chil- 
 dren. He is assistant professor of physiology 
 and clinician in the Medical College of Ohio at 
 Cincinnati, two very responsible positions which 
 are usually filled by older men. Dr. Southgate 
 is a member of the Academy of Medicine of Cin- 
 cinnati, and a member of the United States Board 
 of Pension Examiners of Newport, and it is hard- 
 ly necessary to add that he is a Democrat in 
 good standing with Mr. Cleveland's adminis- 
 tration. 
 
 GOVERNOR NINIAN EDWARDS was 
 born in Montgomery County, Maryland, in 
 March, 1775, and died of cholera at Belleville, 
 St. Clair County, Illinois, July 20, 1833 — aged 
 fifty-eight. His early education was in company 
 with, and partly under the tuition of, the cele- 
 brated William Wirt, whose bosom friend he was 
 for fortythree years. His academic education 
 was continued under other tutors, and at Dick- 
 inson College, Carlisle, Pa. He studied law and 
 medicine together, and became proficient in both. 
 In 1794, at the age of nineteen, he was sent by 
 his father to take care of his landed estate in 
 Nelson County, Kentucky, where he opened and 
 improved a farm (upon which his father settled in 
 1800), built distilleries and tanyards, and showed 
 great capacity for business. Before he was quite 
 twenty-one he was elected to the Kentucky house 
 of representatives in 1796, and re-elected in 1797 
 by an almost unanimous vote. From the time 
 he was nineteen until twenty-two, he indulged in 
 habits of dissipation and gambling; but by a de- 
 termined resolution broke loose from old as- 
 sociates, removed in 1798 to Russellville, Logan 
 County, and began the practice of law, both in 
 Kentucky and Tennessee. Without a dollar of 
 his own in ,1799, in four years' practice and ju- 
 dicious investment of what he made, he became 
 rich; then went upon the bench as presiding judge 
 of the General Court, and filled in rapid succession 
 the offices of circuit judge in 1804, fourth judge 
 of the Court of Appeals on December 13, 1806, 
 and chief justice of Kentucky on January 5, 1808 
 
 — all before he was thirty-three years of age. In 
 1804 he was chosen one of the presidential elect- 
 ors who cast the vote of the state for Thomas 
 Jefferson. "The great secret of his success was 
 owing to his powerful intellect, and to his energy 
 and untiring industry." 
 
 On the 24th of April, 1809, he was appointed 
 by President Madison governor of Illinois terri- 
 tory, which he accepted; he was twice re-ap- 
 pointed, November, 1812, and January, 1816. In 
 advance of any action by Congress, he organized 
 companies of rangers, supplied them with arms, 
 built stockade forts, and established a cordon of 
 posts from the Wabash river to the mouth of the 
 Missouri — thus preparing with extraordinary 
 energy for defence against the Indians. In 1816, 
 he was a commissioner to treat with the Indians ; 
 in 1818, when lUinois became a state, was sent to 
 the United States senate for six years; then ap- 
 pointed minister to Mexico, but declined; in 
 1826, was elected governor of Illinois for four 
 years, retiring in 1831 to private life. 
 
 JOHN CLAY THOMASSON, M. D., leading 
 vj Homeopathic physician of Georgetown, son 
 of Julius V. and Mary W. (Yelton) Thomasson, 
 was born in Butler, Pendleton County, Kentucky, 
 April 21, 1857. 
 
 His father was born in Virginia in 1800; went 
 to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1819, where he lived and 
 followed the trade of a plasterer until 1836, when 
 he removed to Butler, Kentucky; and he spent 
 the remainder of a long, industrious and useful 
 life on a farm, and died there in 1890. He was a 
 true man and a good citizen, and a member of the 
 Christian Church for sixty years. He was pro- 
 vost marshal during the war, and served several 
 terms as magistrate in Butler County. He was 
 a stanch Republican and an enthusiastic Union 
 man during the war, and was descended from a 
 line of noble English ancestors who were greatly 
 distingaiished in the early history of Virginia. 
 
 Mary W. Yelton Thomasson (mother) was a 
 native of Virginia, a devout and earnest member 
 of the Christian Church, and died in 1893, aged 
 seventy-seven years. Her father was a Virginian 
 by birth, and an early settler of Pendleton County, 
 Kentucky. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 Dr. John Clay Thomasson was educated in the 
 schools of Butler; read medicine with Dr. William 
 Hunt of Covington, and graduated from the Pulte 
 Medical College (Homeopathic) of Cincinnati. 
 He began the practice of medicine the same year 
 in Georgetown. In 1866 he took a post-graduate 
 course in Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, 
 and claims Homeopathy as the true science of 
 medicine. He is a man of great energy and per- 
 severing industry, greatly devoted to his vocation, 
 and is one of the most skillful and popular phy- 
 sicians in Scott County. He is a member of the 
 Kentucky State Homeopathic Medical Society, 
 and is one of the most earnest advocates of that 
 school of medicine in the state. He is not greatly 
 interested in politics, but votes the Prohibition 
 ticket, and has strong convictions on the tem- 
 perance question. 
 
 Dr. Thomasson was married in 1881 to Rena 
 Lucas, daughter of Mrs. Rebecca Lucas of 
 Georgetown. They are active and influential 
 members of the Christian Church, and enjoy a 
 fine social position in the most cultured society. 
 
 ALEXANDER SCO^TT BULLITT was born 
 in Prince William County, Virginia, in the 
 year 1761. His father, Cuthbert Bullitt, was a 
 lawyer of some distinction and practiced his pro- 
 fession with success until he was appointed judge 
 of the Supreme Court of Virginia, which office 
 he held at the time of his death. In 1784 he emi- 
 grated to Kentucky, and settled in what is now 
 Shelby County. Here he resided but a few 
 months, being compelled by the annoyances to 
 which he was subjected by the Indians to seek a 
 less exposed situation. This he found in Jefiferson 
 County, in the neighborhood of Sturgus' Station, 
 where he entered and settled upon the tract of 
 land on which he continued to reside until his 
 death. 
 
 In the year 1792 Colonel Bullitt was elected by 
 the people of Jefiferson County a delegate to the 
 convention which met in Danville, and framed 
 the constitution of Kentucky. After the adop- 
 tion of the constitution, he represented the county 
 in the legislature, and was president of the senate 
 until 1799, when he was again chosen a delegate 
 to the convention to amend the constitution. 
 
 which met in Frankfort. Of this convention, he 
 was chosen president. The year following this 
 convention (1800) he was elected lieutenant gov- 
 ernor of the state, in which capacity he served one 
 term. After this, his county continued to send 
 him to the legislature, of which body he served 
 either as a representative or senator, until about 
 1808, when he retired from public life, and resided 
 on his farm in Jefiferson County until his death, 
 which occurred on the 13th of April, 1816. 
 
 JAMES ELLIOTT STEWART, attorney at 
 law, of Louisa, Kentucky, son of Ralph and 
 America (Canterbury) Stewart, was born in Law- 
 rence County, Kentucky, October i, 1832. 
 
 His father, Ralph Stewart, was born in Virginia, 
 March 4, 1799, and was educated in the county 
 schools. When about twenty years of age he 
 came to Lawrence County, Kentucky, and was 
 a prominent farmer and citizen of that county 
 until his death, April 15, 1882. He was a colonel 
 of militia, having been promoted step by step 
 from the ranks, and was familiarly known as Col- 
 onel Stewart. He was a Democratic voter and 
 took some interest in political matters without 
 seeking ofi&ce. He was more deeply interested in 
 religious matters than in politics; exceedingly hos- 
 pitable, his house was always open to the itinerant 
 preachers of the Methodist Church. He was a 
 highly cultured gentleman and sought the society 
 of educated and refined people, who always found 
 a genial companion and a hearty welcome in his 
 home. 
 
 James Stewart (grandfather) was born in Vir- 
 ginia, where he was a farmer and trader. In the 
 War of 1 812 he served as a private soldier; re- 
 moved to Lawrence County, Kentucky, late in 
 life, and died at the home of his son. His father 
 was a native of Ireland. 
 
 America Canterbury Stewart (mother) was born 
 in Greenup (now Lawrence) County, September 
 13, 1 81 3. She was a lady of education and culture 
 and a devout Christian; was married to Ralph 
 Stewart July 2, 1829. 
 
 Reuben Canterbury (grandfather) was born in 
 Southern Kentucky; settled near the Big Sandy 
 River and cleared a farm from the canebrake and 
 underbrush. This farm he cultivated with sue- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 cess, and was no less fortunate in the rearing of a 
 family of twelve children. He first married a Miss 
 Hornback, of Southern Kentucky, by whom he 
 had three children: Jackson, Benjamin and 
 Nancy. His second wife was a Miss Lykens, who 
 was the mother of nine children: Jeremiah, Ben 
 Franklin, Milton, Lawrence, Washington, Amer- 
 ica, Flora, Sarah and Elizabeth. Mr. Canterbury 
 was one of the commissioners appointed by the 
 legislature to locate the official seat of Lawrence 
 County. The Canterbury family were of English 
 extraction. 
 
 James Elliott Stewart was reared on his father's 
 farm, attending the common schools when oppor- 
 tunity afforded. He left home when twenty years 
 of age and was employed as a clerk in the store 
 of William L. Geiger at Cannonsburg, Boyd 
 County, and in August, 1853, he went to Louisa 
 and began the study of law in the office of Ben F. 
 Canterbury, and was admitted to the bar in Octo- 
 ber, 1854. He went to Paintsville December 31, 
 1854, and opened a law office. He remained there 
 until October 11, 1871, when he returned to Lou- 
 isa. In 1868 he was elected commonwealth attor- 
 ney for the Sixteenth judicial district, and served 
 six years. In 1876 he was elected judge of the 
 Criminal Court for the Sixteenth judicial district, 
 and served for four years. 
 
 Since his return to Louisa Judge Stewart has 
 aspired to no office, but has devoted his time to the 
 practice of law. He has never posed as a politi- 
 cian and would accept no office that was not strictly 
 in the line of his chosen profession. He is one 
 of the best known and most popular lawyers in 
 his section of the state. He is a prominent Mason 
 and a member of the Methodist Church, and a 
 liberal supporter of all religious work, especially 
 that in connection with that denomination. 
 
 Judge Stewart was married January 11, i860, 
 to Cynthia F. Mayo, daughter of Lewis and Maria 
 (Jones) Mayo of Fluvanna County, Virginia. The 
 Jones family were wealthy planters of Virginia. 
 Lewis Mayo was a highly cultured gentleman, a 
 fine scholar and linguist, and taught school for 
 thirty years. 
 
 Mrs. Stewart was born December 22, 1840, and 
 is a lady of culture and refinement. 
 
 Judge and Mrs. Stewart have had five children: 
 
 James Lewis, bom October 31, 1861, died July 18, 
 1884; John Wesley Mayo, born December 13, 
 1863; Forrest L., born November 25, 1870; War- 
 ren Franklin Canterbury, born July 16, 1868, died 
 July II, 1869; Neva Sharon, born December 5, 
 
 1874. 
 
 John W. M. Stewart (son) is a graduate of the 
 Michigan State University law department at Ann 
 Arbor, and previously attended Vanderbilt Uni- 
 versity at Nashville, Tennessee, and was admitted 
 to the bar in 1887. He married Eva S. Southgate, 
 daughter of W. W. Southgate, November 28, 
 1887. She was born September 19, 1867, and 
 was educated in Wesleyan College, Cincinnati, 
 Ohio. 
 
 James Lewis Stewart (deceased) was a graduate 
 of the Michigan State University law department 
 — having previously attended Vanderbilt Univer- 
 sity — and was admitted to the bar before he was 
 seventeen years of age. According to the United 
 States census, he was the youngest attorney in 
 the United States. 
 
 Neva Sharon Stewart graduated at Belmont 
 Female College with high honors, May, 1896. 
 
 Forrest Lee (son), after attending the schools 
 of his native town — ^studying civil engineering in 
 the field — completed his education at Michigan 
 University, since which time he has been in the 
 mercantile business. 
 
 GENERAL WILLIAM ORLANDO BUT- 
 LER was born in Jessamine County, Ken- 
 tucky, April 19, 1791; graduated at Transylvania 
 University, 1812; postponed the study of law to 
 volunteer as a private in Captain N. S. G. Hart's 
 company at Lexington ; was elected corporal and 
 marched to the relief of Fort Wayne; promoted 
 to ensign in Colonel Wells' Seventeenth United 
 States Infantry; in the two battles of the River 
 Raisin, January 18 and 22, 1813, he signalized 
 himself by self-devotion and daring, was wounded 
 and taken prisoner; captain of the Forty-fourth 
 United States Infantry, in the attack at Pensacola; 
 in the battles at New Orleans, December 23, 1814, 
 and January 8, 1815, General Jackson says he 
 "displayed the heroic chivalry and calmness of 
 judgment in the midst of danger, which distin- 
 guish the valuable officer in the hour of battle;" 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 received therefor the brevet rank of major; was 
 aide to General Jackson, 1816-17; resigned, stud- 
 ied law and practiced at Carrollton; married a 
 daughter of General Robert Todd; was represen- 
 tative from Gallatin County in the Kentucky leg- 
 islature, 1817, '18; in United States Congress for 
 four years, 1839-43, and refused to be a candidate 
 for a third term; was the Democratic candidate 
 for governor in 1844, and reduced the Whig ma- 
 jority to 4,624; June 29, 1846, was appointed 
 major-general of the volunteers raised to support 
 General. Taylor in his invasion of Mexico ; acted 
 an important part (and was wounded) in the bat- 
 tle of Monterey, September 19-24, 1846, and in 
 subsequent events in that part of Mexico; Feb- 
 ruary 18, 1848, succeeded General Scott in the 
 chief command of the army in Mexico, until the 
 treaty of peace, May 29, 1848; May, 1848, was 
 nominated for vice president of tlie United States 
 on the Democratic ticket with General Cass, but 
 defeated by Taylor and Fillmore; 1851, supported 
 by the full party vote for United States senator, 
 but not elected; January 29 to February 27, 1861, 
 one of six commissioners from Kentucky to the 
 "Peace Conference" at Washington City. 
 
 GENERAL JOHN ADAIR was born in 
 South Carolina in the year 1757. His char- 
 acter was formed in the trying times and amidst 
 the thrilhng incidents of the Revolution. At an 
 early age he entered the army as a volunteer, and 
 was made prisoner by the British. 
 
 In 1786 he emigrated to Kentucky and settled 
 in Mercer County. In the border war which 
 raged with so much fury on the northwestern 
 frontier. General (then major) Adair was an active 
 and efficient officer, and frequently engaged with 
 the Indians. On the 6th of November, 1792, 
 Major Adair, at the head of a detachment of 
 mounted volunteers from Kentucky, while en- 
 camped in the immediate vicinity of Fort St. Clair, 
 twenty-six miles south of Greenville, near where 
 Eaton, the county seat of Preble County, Ohio, 
 now stands, was suddenly and violently attacked 
 by a large party of Indians, who rushed on the 
 encampment with great fury. A bloody conflict 
 ensued, during which Major Adair ordered Lieu- 
 tenant Madison, with a small party, to gain the 
 
 right flank of the enemy, if possible, and at the 
 same time gave an order for Lieutenant Hall to 
 attack their left, but learning that that officer had 
 been slain, the major with about twenty-five of his 
 men made the attack in person, with a view of sus- 
 taining Lieutenant Madison. 
 
 The pressure of this movement caused the ene- 
 my to retire. They were driven about six hun- 
 dred yards, through and beyond the American 
 camp, where they made a stand, and again fought 
 desperately. At this juncture about sixty of the 
 Indians made an effort to turn the right flank of 
 the whites. Major Adair foreseeing the conse- 
 quences of this maneuver, found it necessary to 
 order a retreat. That movement was effected with 
 regularity, and as was expected, the Indians pur- 
 sued them to their camp, where a halt was made 
 and another severe battle was fought, in which the 
 Indians suffered severely and were driven from 
 the ground. In this affair six of the whites were 
 killed, five wounded, and four missing. Among 
 the wounded were Lieutenant (afterwards gov- 
 ernor) George Madison and Colonel Richard 
 Taylor, the father of the President, Major General 
 Zachary Taylor, the hero of Palo Alto, Monterey, 
 Buena Vista, etc. 
 
 The Indians on this occasion were commanded 
 by the celebrated Little Turtle. Some years after- 
 ward, in 1805-6, when General Adair was regis- 
 ter of the land office in Frankfort, Captain William 
 Wells, Indian agent, passed through that place 
 on his way to Washington City, attended by some 
 Indians, among whom was the chief, Little Tur- 
 tle. General Adair called on his old antagonist, 
 and in the course of the conversation the incident 
 above related being alluded to. General Adair 
 attributed his defeat to his having been taken by 
 surprise. The Little Turtle immediately re- 
 marked with great pleasantness: "A good gen- 
 eral is never taken by surprise." 
 
 In the campaign of 181 3 he accompanied Gov- 
 ernor Shelby into Canada, as an aide, and was 
 present in that capacity at the battle of the 
 Thames. His conduct during this campaign was 
 such as to draw from his superior officers an ex- 
 pression of their approbation, and his name was 
 honorably mentioned in the report to the war de- 
 partment: Governor Shelby afterwards con- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 f erred upon him the appointment of adjutant gen- 
 eral of the Kentucky troops, with the brevet rank 
 of brigadier general, in which character he com- 
 manded the Kentuckians in the glorious battle of 
 New Orleans. The acrimonious controversy be- 
 tween him and General Jackson, growing out of 
 the imputations cast by the latter on the conduct 
 of the Kentucky troops on that eventful day is 
 fresh in the recollection of all. 
 
 In 1820 he was elected governor of Kentucky, 
 in opposition to Judge Logan, Governor Desha 
 and Colonel Butler. He was often a member of 
 the state legislature, and on several occasions was 
 speaker of that body. In 1825 'he was elected to 
 the senate of the United States from Kentucky 
 for the term of one year. In 1831 he was elected 
 to Congress, and served in the house of repre- 
 sentatives from 1831 to 1833, inclusive. 
 
 General Adair was a brave soldier, an active, 
 vigilant and efficient officer — a politician of sound 
 principles and enlarged views, and an ardent 
 patriot. Among the early pioneers of Kentucky, 
 he deservedly occupies a prominent place and a 
 high rank. He died on the 19th day of May, 1840, 
 at the advanced age of eighty-three years. 
 
 PRESTON H. LESLIE, Twenty-sixth Gov- 
 ernor of Kentucky, was born in that part of 
 Wayne which now forms Clinton County, Ken- 
 tucky, March 2, 1819. Left an orphan at an early 
 age, his fellow citizens are proud of that self-rely- 
 ing spirit and indomitable energy which made 
 him, in his poverty, a cart-driver in the streets of 
 Louisville at the age of thirteen, a wood-chopper 
 at fourteen, a ferryman, farmer's boy and cook for 
 tan-bark choppers at fifteen, a lawyer at twenty- 
 two, a representative in the legislature at twenty- 
 five, a senator at thirty-one, and governor of the 
 eighth state in population of the American Union 
 at fifty-one. He began the practice of law in 
 Monroe County and represented that county in 
 the legislature in 1844 and 1850, and the counties 
 of Monroe and Barren in the senate in 1851-55. 
 After removing to Barren, he was again in the 
 senate, in 1867-71; in December, 1869, was chos- 
 en speaker of the senate, and thereby acting 
 lieutenant governor; on February 13, 1871, upon 
 the resignation of Governor Stevenson, was in- 
 
 augurated for the unexpired term, until Septem- 
 ber, 1871; in August, 1871, was the Democratic 
 candidate and elected governor for four years, 
 from 1871-75, by the remarkable majority of 
 37.156. 
 
 WILLIAM KRAUS, the efficient manager 
 of the Rehkopf Horse Collar Manufac- 
 turing Company of Paducah, is a son of Philip 
 and Louisa (Keyser) Kraus, and was born in 
 Baltimore, Maryland, September 2, 1846. 
 
 His father was born in Hanover, near Bremen, 
 Germany, and was a glass stainer, who came to 
 America, and was the first man who engaged in 
 that business in this country. He first went to 
 Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1834, and removed to 
 Baltimore, Maryland, in 1840, where he followed 
 his trade industriously until his death in 1872. He 
 was a strictly honest and upright man and left 
 no estate. His wife was a native of Saxony and 
 was a woman of superior intelligence who took 
 especial care and pride in the education and prop- 
 er training of her son. 
 
 William Kraus was reared in Baltimore and 
 was educated at Irvin College, Hanover, Lan- 
 caster County, Pennsylvania. After spending 
 seven years in that institution, he entered the 
 government service in the ambulance department 
 and served for four years, during the war of 
 the '6o's. 
 
 When the war was over he returned to Balti- 
 more and served an apprenticeship of three years 
 with John D. Hammond & Company, learning 
 the trade of horse-collar making, and then ac- 
 cepted a position with John D. Lemp of Wheel- 
 ing, West Virginia, and, after spending a short 
 time there, made a tour of the west. 
 
 He first came to Paducah in April, 1876, and 
 after spending about three months there, went 
 to Jefferson City, Missouri, where he was em- 
 ployed in the State Prison for a short time, when 
 he was induced to return to Paducah and to ac- 
 cept his present position as manager of the Reh- 
 kopf Horse Collar Manufacturing Company, the 
 plant of which was established by E. Rehkopf 
 in 1858. Under Mr. Kraus' management, the 
 business of the concern has greatly increased and 
 the present average product of the factory is about 
 
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 two hundred dozen collars a week. Nine trav- 
 eling salesmen are employed who cover the entire 
 southern trade and as far north as Michigan. 
 This manufactory has a reputation all over the 
 country for the excellence of its collars, and it is 
 probably one of the largest establishments of the 
 kind in the country. Much of its success is due 
 to the excellent management of Mr. Kraus, whose 
 thorough knowledge of the details of the work 
 in the shop and of the wants of the trade through- 
 out the country enables him to keep abreast with 
 the demands of the trade and to produce a class 
 of work that cannot be excelled. Mr. Kraus is 
 an educated gentleman, of most agreeable man- 
 ners, and is popular among a host of acquaint- 
 ances. He has frequently been called upon to 
 serve the city in the capacity of Councilman and 
 School Trustee, to which offices he was elected 
 on the Democratic ticket. He is a popular and 
 active member of a number of the benevolent 
 orders, including the Masons, Odd Fellows, 
 Knights of Honor and the "Sapient Screechers," 
 Nest No. 17; has served as master of his Masonic 
 lodge; as dictator of Rapidan Lodge of Knights 
 of Honor and past Grand Sire of I. O. O. F. 
 Lodge No. 19. Mr. Kraus was married January 
 31, 1876, to Anna E. Ear hart of Cincinnati. 
 
 COLONEL DANIEL BOONE, who was the 
 first white man who ever made a permanent 
 settlement within the limits of the present State 
 of Kentucky, was born in Bucks County, Penn- 
 sylvania, on the right bank of the Delaware River, 
 on the nth of February, 1731. Of his life, but lit- 
 tle is known previous to his emigration to Ken- 
 tucky, with the early history of which his name 
 is, perhaps, more closely identified than that of 
 any other man. 
 
 It is said that the ancestors of Daniel Boone 
 were among the original Catholic settlers of Mary- 
 land; but of this nothing is known with certainty, 
 nor is it, perhaps, important that anything should 
 be. He was eminently the architect of his own 
 fortunes ; a self-formed man in the truest sense — 
 whose own innate energies and impulses gave the 
 moulding impress to his character. In the years 
 of his early boyhood his father emigrated first to 
 Reading, on the headwaters of the Schuylkill, 
 
 and subsequently to one of the valleys of South 
 Yadkin, in North Carolina, where the subject of 
 this notice continued to reside until his fortieth 
 year. 
 
 In 1767, the return of Findlay from his adven- 
 turous excursion into the unexplored wilds be- 
 yond the Cumberland mountains, and the glow- 
 ing accounts he gave of the richness and fertility 
 of the new country, excited powerfully the curi- 
 osity and imaginations of the frontier backwoods- 
 men of Virginia and North Carolina, ever on the 
 .watch for adventures; and to whom the lonely 
 wilderness, with all its perils, presented attractions 
 which were not to be found in the close confine- 
 ment and enervating inactivity of the settlements. 
 To a man of Boone's temperament and tastes, 
 the scenes described by Findlay presented charms 
 not to be resisted; and, in 1769, he left his family 
 upon the Yadkin, and in company with five 
 others, of whom Findlay was one, he started to 
 explore that country of which he had heard so 
 favorable an account. 
 
 Having reached a stream of water on the bor- 
 ders of the present State of Kentucky, called Red 
 River, they built a cabin to shelter them from 
 the inclemency of the weather (for the season had 
 been very rainy), and devoted their time to hunt- 
 ing and the chase, killing immense quantities of 
 game. Nothing of particular interest occurred 
 until the 22d of December, 1769, when Boone, 
 in company with a man named Stuart, being 
 out hunting, they were surprised and captured 
 by Indians. They remained with their captors 
 seven days, until, having by a rare and powerful 
 exertion of self-control, sufifering no signs of 
 impatience to escape them, succeeded in disarm- 
 ing the suspicions of the Indians, their escape 
 was effected without difficulty. Through life 
 Boone was remarkable for cool, collected self- 
 possession in moments of most trying emergency, 
 and on no occasion was this rare and valuable 
 quality more conspicuously displayed than dur- 
 ing the time of this captivity. On regaining their 
 camp, they found it dismantled and deserted. 
 The fate of its inmates was never ascertained, 
 and it is worthy of remark, that this is the last 
 and almost the only glimpse we have of Findlay, 
 the first pioneer, A few days after this they were 
 
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 joined by Squire Boone, a brother of tlie great 
 pioneer, and another man, who had followed them 
 from Carolina, and accidentally stumbled on their 
 camp. Soon after this accession to their num- 
 bers, Daniel Boone and Stuart, in a second ex- 
 cursion, were again assailed by the Indians, and 
 Stuart shot and scalped; Boone fortunately es- 
 caped. Their only remaining companion, dis- 
 heartened by the perils to which they were con- 
 tinually exposed, returned to North Carolina, and 
 the two brothers were left alone in the wilderness, 
 separated by hundreds of miles from the white 
 settlements and destitute of everything but their 
 rifles. Their ammunition running short, it was 
 determined that Squire Boone should return to 
 Carolina for a fresh supply, while his brother 
 remained in charge of the camp. This resolu- 
 tion was accordingly carried into effect, and Boone 
 was left for a considerable time to encounter 
 or evade the teeming perils of his hazardous soli- 
 tude alone. We should suppose that his situation 
 now would have been disheartening and wretched 
 in the extreme. He himself says that for a few 
 days after his brother left him he felt dejected and 
 lonesome, but in a short time his spirits recovered 
 their wonted equanimity, and he roved through 
 the woods in every direction, killing abund- 
 ance of game and finding an unutterable pleasure 
 in the contemplation of the natural beauties of the 
 forest scenery. On the 27th of July, 1770, the 
 younger Boone returned from Carolina with the 
 ammunition, and with a hardihood almost in- 
 credible, the brothers continued to range through 
 the country without injury until March, 1771, 
 when they retraced their steps to North Carolina. 
 Boone had been absent from his family for near 
 three years, during nearly the whole of which 
 time he had never tasted bread or salt, nor beheld 
 the face of a single white man, with the exception 
 of his brother and the friends who had been killed. 
 On the 25th of September, 1773, having dis- 
 posed of all his property, except that which he 
 intended to carry with him to his new home, 
 Boone and his family took leave of their friends 
 and commenced their journey west. In Powell's 
 valley, being joined by five more families and 
 forty men, well armed, they proceeded towards 
 their destination with confidence; but when near 
 
 the Cumberland mountains they were attacked 
 by a large party of Indians. These, after a severe 
 engagement, were beaten off and compelled to 
 retreat, not, however, until the whites had sus- 
 tained a loss of six men in killed and wounded. 
 Among the killed was Boone's eldest son. This 
 foretaste of the dangers which awaited them in 
 the wilderness they were about to explore so dis- 
 couraged the emigrants that they immediately re- 
 treated to the settlements on Clinch river, a dis- 
 tance of forty miles from the scene of action. 
 Here they remained until 1775. During this in- 
 tei-val Boone was employed by Governor Dun- 
 more of Virginia, to conduct a party of surveyors 
 through the wilderness, from Falls of the Ohio, 
 a distance of eight hundred miles. Of the inci- 
 dents attending this expedition, we have no ac- 
 count whatever. After his return he was placed 
 by Dunmore in command of three frontier sta- 
 tions, or garrisons, and engaged in several affairs 
 with the Indians. At about the same period, he 
 also, at the solicitation of several gentlemen of 
 North Carolina, attended a treaty with the Chero- 
 kees, known as the treaty of Wataga, for the 
 purchase of the lands south of the Kentucky river. 
 It was in connection with this land purchase, and 
 under the auspices of Colonel Richard Hender- 
 son, that Boone's second expedition to Kentucky 
 was made. His business was to mark out a road 
 for the pack-horses and wagons of Henderson's 
 party. Leaving his family on Clinch river, he set 
 out upon this hazardous undertaking at the head 
 of a few men, on the loth of March, 1775, and 
 arrived, without any adventure worthy of note, 
 on the 25th of March, the same year, at a point 
 within fifteen miles of the spot where Boones- 
 borough was afterwards built. Here they were 
 attacked by Indians, and it was not until after 
 a severe contest, and loss on the part of the whites 
 of three men in killed and wounded, that they 
 were repulsed. An attack was made on another 
 party, and the whites sustained a loss of two more. 
 On the 1st of April they reached the southern 
 bank of the Kentucky river, and began to build 
 a fort, afterwards known as Boonesborough. On 
 the 4th they were again attacked by the Indians, 
 and lost another man; but, notwithstanding the 
 dangers to which they were continually exposed, 
 
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 the work was prosecuted with indefatigable dih- 
 gence, and on the 14th of the month finally com- 
 pleted. Boone shortly returned to Clinch river 
 for his family, determined to remove them to this 
 new and remote settlement at all hazards. This 
 was accordingly effected as soon as circumstances 
 would permit. From this time the lirtle garrison 
 was exposed to incessant assaults from the In- 
 dians, who appeared to be perfectly infuriated at 
 the encroachments of the whites, and the forma- 
 tion of settlements in the midst of their old hunt- 
 ing grounds ; and the lives of the emigrants were 
 passed in a continued succession of the most ap- 
 palling perils, which nothing but unquailing cour- 
 age and indomitable firmness could have enabled 
 them to encounter. They did, however, breast 
 this awful tempest of war, and bravely and suc- 
 cessfully, and in defiance of a,ll probability the 
 small colony continued steadily to increase and 
 flourish, until the thunder of barbarian hostilities 
 rolled gradually away to the north, and finally 
 died in low mutterings on the frontiers of Ohio, 
 Indiana, and Illinois. The summary nature of this 
 sketch will not admit of more than a bare enumer- 
 ation of the principal events in which Boone 
 figured in these exciting times, during which he 
 stood the center figure, towering like a colossus 
 amid that hardy band of pioneers, who opposed 
 their breasts to the shock of that dreadful death 
 struggle, which gave a yet more terrible signifi- 
 cance, and a still more crimson hue, to the history 
 of the old dark and bloody ground. 
 
 In July, 1776, the people at the fort were 
 thrown into the greatest agitation and alarm, by 
 an incident characteristic of the times, and which 
 singularly illustrates the habitual peril which en- 
 vironed the inhabitants. Jemima Boone and two 
 daughters of Colonel Callaway were amusing 
 themselves in the neighborhood of the fort, when 
 a party of Indians suddenly rushed from the sur- 
 rounding coverts and carried them away captives. 
 The screams of the terrified girls aroused the in- 
 mates of the garrison; but the men being gener- 
 ally dispersed in their usual avocations, Boone 
 hastily pursued with a party of only eight men. 
 The little party, after marching hard during two 
 nights, came up with the Indians early the third 
 day, the pursuit having been conducted with such 
 
 silence and celerity that the savages were taken 
 entirely by surprise, and having no preparations 
 for defense, they were routed almost instantly, and 
 without difficulty. The young girls were restored 
 to their gratified parents without having sustained 
 the slightest injury, or any inconvenience beyond 
 the fatigue of the march and a dreadful fright. 
 The Indians lost two men, while Boone's party 
 was uninjured. 
 
 From this time until the 15th of April, the gar- 
 rison was constantly harassed by flying parties 
 of savages. They were kept in continual anxiety 
 and alarm; and the most ordinary duties could 
 only be performed at the risk of their lives. 
 "While plowing their corn they were waylaid 
 and shot; while hunting, they were pursued and 
 fired upon ; and sometimes a solitary Indian would 
 creep up near the fort during the night, and fire 
 upon the first of the garrison who appeared in 
 the morning." On the 15th of April, a large body 
 of Indians invested the fort, hoping to crush the 
 settlement at a single blow; but, destitute as they 
 were of scaling ladders, and all the proper means 
 of reducing fortified places, they could only annoy 
 the garrison, and destroy the property; and being 
 more exposed than the whites, soon retired pre- 
 cipitately. On the 4th of July following, they 
 again appeared with a force of two hundred war- 
 riors, and were repulsed with loss. A short period 
 of tranquillity was now allowed to the harassed 
 and distressed garrison; but this was soon fol- 
 lowed by the most severe calamity that had yet 
 befallen the infant settlement. This was the cap- 
 ture of Boone and twenty-seven of his men in the 
 month of January, 1778, at the Blue Licks, 
 whither he had gone to make salt for the garrison. 
 He was carried to the old town of Chillicothe, in 
 the present state of Ohio, where he remained a 
 prisoner with the Indians until the i6th of the 
 following June, when he contrived to make his 
 escape, and returned to Boonsborough. 
 
 During this period, Boone kept no journal, and 
 we are therefore uninformed as to any of the 
 particular incidents which occurred during his 
 captivity. We only know, generally, that, by his 
 equanimity, his patience, his seeming cheerful 
 submission to the fortune which had made him 
 a captive, and hjs remarkable skill and expertness 
 
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 as a woodsman, he succeeded in powerfully ex- 
 citing the admiration and conciliating the good 
 will of his captors. In March, 1778, he accom- 
 panied the Indians on a visit to Detroit, where 
 Governor Hamilton offered one hundred pounds 
 for his ransom, but so strong was the affection 
 of the Indians for their prisoner, that it was un- 
 hesitatingly refused. Several English gentlemen, 
 touched with sympathy for his misfortunes, made 
 pressing offers of money and other articles, but 
 Boone steadily refused to receive benefits which 
 he could never return. 
 
 On his return from Detroit, he observed that 
 large numbers of warriors had assembled, painted 
 and equipped for an expedition against Boons- 
 borough, and his anxiety became so great that he 
 determined to effect his escape at every hazard. 
 During the whole of this agitating period, how- 
 ever, he permitted no symptom of anxiety to es- 
 cape; but continued to hunt and shoot with the 
 Indians as usual, until the morning of the i6th 
 of June, when, making an early start, he left Chil- 
 licothe, and shaped his course for Boonsborough. 
 This journey, exceeding a distance of one hun- 
 dred and fifty miles, he performed in four days, 
 during which he ate only one meal. He was re- 
 ceived at the garrison like one risen from the 
 dead. His family supposing him killed, had re- 
 turned to North Carolina; and his men, appre- 
 hending no danger, had permitted the defenses of 
 the fort to fall to decay. The danger was im- 
 minent; the enemy were hourly expected, and the 
 fort was in no condition to receive them. Not 
 a moment was to be lost: the garrison worked 
 night and day, and by indefatigable diligence, 
 everything was made ready within ten days after 
 his arrival, for the approach of the enemy. At 
 this time one of his companions arrived from Chil- 
 licothe, and reported that his escape had deter- 
 mined the Indians to delay the invasion for three 
 weeks. The attack was delayed so long that 
 Boone, in his turn, resolved to invade the Indian 
 country; and accordingly, at the head of a select 
 company of nineteen men, he marched against 
 the town of Paint Creek, on the Scioto, within 
 four miles of which point he arrived without dis- 
 covery. Here he encountered a party of thirty 
 warriors, on their march to join the grand army 
 
 in its expedition against Boonsborough. This 
 party he attacked and routed without loss or in- 
 jury to himself; and, ascertaining that the main 
 body of the Indians were on their march to 
 Boonsborough, he retraced his steps for that place 
 with all possible expedition. He passed the In- 
 dians on the 6th day of their march, and on the 
 7th reached the fort. The next day the Indians 
 appeared in great force, conducted by Canadian 
 officers well skilled in all the arts of modern war- 
 fare. The British colors were displayed and the 
 fort summoned to surrender. Boone requested 
 two days for consideration, which was granted. 
 At the expiration of this period, having gathered 
 in their cattle and horses, and made every prepara- 
 tion for a vigorous resistance, an answer was re- 
 turned that the fort would be defended to the last. 
 A proposition was then made to treat, and Boone 
 and eight of the garrison, met the British and In- 
 dian officers, on the plain in front of the fort. 
 Here, after they had gone through the farce of 
 pretending to treat, an effort was made to detain 
 the Kentuckians as prisoners. This was frus- 
 trated by the vigilance and activity of the intended 
 victims, who springing out from the midst of 
 their savage foeman, ran to the fort under a heavy 
 fire of rifles, which fortunately wounded only one 
 man. The attack instantly commenced by a 
 heavy fire against the picketing, and was re- 
 turned with fatal accuracy by the garrison. The 
 Indians then attempted to push a mine into the 
 fort, but their object being discovered by the 
 quantity of fresh earth they were compelled to 
 throw into the river, Boone cut a trench within 
 the fort, in such a manner as to intersect their 
 line of approach, and thus frustrated their de- 
 sign. After exhausting all the ordinary artifices 
 of Indian warfare, and finding their numbers daily 
 thinned by the deliberate and fatal firing from 
 the gai-rison, they raised the siege on the ninth 
 day after their first appearance, and returned 
 home. The loss on the part of the garrison, was 
 two men killed and four wounded. Of t1io 
 savages, twenty-seven were killed and many 
 wounded, who, as usual, were carried off. This 
 was the last siege sustained by Boonsborough. 
 
 In the fall of this year, Boone went to North 
 Carolina for his wife and family, who, as already 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 observed, had supposed him dead, and returned 
 to their kindred. In the summer of 1780, he came 
 back to Kentucky with his family, and settled at 
 Boonsborough. In October of this year, return- 
 ing in company with his brother from the Blue 
 Licks, where they had been to make salt, they 
 were encountered by a party of Indians, and his 
 brother, who had been his faithful companion 
 through many years of toil and danger, was shot 
 and scalped before his eyes. Boone, after a long 
 and close chase, finally efifected his escape. 
 
 After this, he was engaged in no affair of par- 
 ticular interest, so far as we are informed, until 
 the month of August, 1782, a time rendered mem- 
 orable by the celebrated and disastrous battle of 
 the Blue Licks. On this fatal day, he bore him- 
 self with distinguished gallantry, until the rout be- 
 gan, when, after having witnessed the death of his 
 son, and many of his dearest friends, he found 
 himself almost surrounded at the very commence- 
 ment of the retreat. Several hundred Indians were 
 between him and the ford, to which the great mass 
 of the fugitives were bending their way, and to 
 which the attention of the savages was particularly 
 directed. Being intimately acquainted with the 
 ground, he together with a few friends, dashed 
 into the ravine which the Indians had occupied, 
 but which most of them had now left to join in 
 the pursuit. After sustaining one or two heavy 
 fires, and baffling one or two small parties who 
 pursued him for a short distance, he crossed the 
 river below the ford by swimming, and returned 
 by a circuitous route to Bryant's station. 
 
 Boone accompanied General George Rogers 
 Clark, in his expedition against the Indian towns, 
 undertaken to avenge the disaster at the Blue 
 Licks; but beyond the simple fact that he did ac- 
 company this expedition, nothing is known of his 
 connection with it ; and it does not appear that he 
 was afterward engaged in any public expedition 
 or solitary adventure. 
 
 The definitive treaty of peace between the 
 United States and Great Britain, in 1783, 
 confirmed the title of the former to in- 
 dependence, and Boone saw the standard 
 of civilization and freedom securely plant- 
 ed in the wilderness. Upon the establishment of 
 the court of commissioners in 1779, he had laid 
 
 out the chief of his little property to procure 
 land warrants, and having raised about twenty 
 thousand dollars in paper money, with which he 
 intended to purchase them, on his way from Ken- 
 tucky to the city of Richmond, he was robbed of 
 the whole, and left destitute of the means of pro- 
 curing more. Unacquainted with the niceties of 
 the law, the few lands he was enabled afterward 
 to locate, were, through his ignorance, swallowed 
 up and lost by better claims. Dissatisfied with 
 these impediments to the acquisition of the soil, 
 he left Kentucky, and in 1795, he was a wanderer 
 on the banks of the Missouri, a voluntary subject 
 of the king of Spain. The remainder of his Hfe 
 was devoted to the society of his children, and 
 the employments of the chase — to the latter es- 
 pecially. When age had enfeebled the energies 
 of his once athletic frame, he would wander twice 
 a year into the remotest wilderness he could 
 reach, employing a companion whom he bound 
 by a written contract to take care of him, and 
 bring him home alive or dead. In 1816, he made 
 such an excursion to Fort Osage, one hundred 
 miles distant from the place of his residence. 
 "Three years thereafter," says Governor More- 
 head, "a patriotic solicitude to preserve his por- 
 trait, prompted a distinguished American artist 
 to visit him at his dwelling near the Missouri 
 river, and from him I have received the following 
 particulars: He found him in a small, rude cabin, 
 indisposed, and reclining on his bed. A slice 
 from the loin of a buck, twisted round the ram- 
 mer of his rifle, within reach of him as he lay, was 
 roasting before the fire. Several other cabins, ar- 
 ranged in the form of a parallelogram, marked 
 the spot of a dilapidated station. They were oc- 
 cupied by the descendants of the pioneer. Here 
 he lived in the midst of his posterity. His with- 
 ered energies and locks of snow, indicated that 
 the sources of existence were nearly exhausted." 
 He died of fever, at the house of his son-in-law, 
 Flanders Callaway, at Charette village, on the 
 Missouri river, September 26, 1820, aged eighty- 
 nine. The legislature of Missouri in session at 
 St. Louis, when the event was announced, re- 
 solved that, in respect for his memory, the mem- 
 bers would wear the usual badge of mourning for 
 twenty days, and voted an adjournment for that 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 day. It has been generally supposed that Boone 
 was illiterate, and could neither read nor write, but 
 this is an error. 
 
 The following vigorous and eloquent portrait 
 of the character of the old pioneer, is extracted 
 from Governor Morehead's address, delivered at 
 Boonsborough, in commemoration of the first 
 settlement of Kentucky: 
 
 "The life of Daniel Boone is a forcible example 
 of the powerful influence which a single absorb- 
 ing passion exerts over the destiny of an indi- 
 vidual. Born with no endowments of intellect to 
 distinguish him from the crowd of ordinary men, 
 and possessing no other acquirements than a very 
 common education bestowed, he was enabled, 
 nevertheless, to maintain through a long and use- 
 ful career, a conspicuous rank among the most 
 distinguished of his contemporaries ; and the tes- 
 timonials of the public gratitude and respect with 
 which he was honored after his death, were such 
 as are never awarded by an intelligent people to 
 one undeserving. * * * * jjg came orig- 
 inally to the wilderness, not to settle and subdue 
 it, but to gratify an inordinate passion for adven- 
 ture and discovery — to hunt the deer and 
 buffalo — to roam through the woods — to ad- 
 mire the beauties of nature — in a word, to 
 enjoy the lonely pastimes of a hunter's Hfe, re- 
 mote from the society of his fellow men. He had 
 heard, with admiration and delight, Finley's de- 
 scription of the country of Kentucky, and high 
 as were his expectations, he found it a second 
 paradise. Its lofty forests — its noble rivers — its 
 picturesque scenery — its beautiful valleys — but 
 above all, the plentifulness of 'beasts of every 
 American kind' — these were the attractions that 
 brought him to it. * * * * He united, in 
 an eminent degree, the qualities of shrewdness, 
 caution, and courage, with uncommon muscular 
 strength. He was seldom taken by surprise — he 
 never shrunk from danger, nor cowered beneath 
 the pressure of exposure and fatigue. In every 
 emergency, he was a safe guide and a wise coun- 
 sellor, because his movements were conducted 
 with the utmost circumspection, and his judg- 
 ment and penetration were proverbially accurate. 
 Powerless to originate plans on a large scale, no 
 individual among the pioneers cguld ej^ecute with 
 
 more efficiency and success the designs of others. 
 He took the lead in no expedition against the 
 savages — he disclosed no liberal and enlarged 
 views of policy for the protection of the stations ; 
 and yet it is not assuming too much to say, that 
 without him, in all probability, the settlements 
 could not have been upheld, and the conquest of 
 Kentucky might have been reserved for the emi- 
 grants of the nineteenth century. * * * * 
 His manners were simple and unobstrusive — ex- 
 empt from the rudeness characteristic of the back- 
 woodsman. In his person there was nothing re- 
 markably striking. He was five feet ten inches in 
 height, and of robust and powerful proportions. 
 His countenance was mild and contemplative — 
 indicating a frame of mind altogether different 
 from the restlessness and activity that distin- 
 guished him. His ordinary habiHments were 
 those of a hunter — a hunting shirt and moccasins 
 uniformly composing a part of them. When he 
 emigrated to Louisiana, he omitted to secure the 
 title to a princely estate, on the Missouri, because 
 it would have cost him the trouble of a trip to 
 New Orleans. He would have traveled a much 
 greater distance to indulge his cherished propen- 
 sities as an adventurer and a hunter. He died, as 
 he had lived, in a cabin, and perhaps his trusty 
 rifle was the most valuable of his chattels. 
 
 "Such was the man to whom has been assigned 
 the principal merit of the discovery of Kentucky, 
 and who filled a large space in the eyes of Amer- 
 ica and Europe. Resting on the solid advantages 
 of his services to his country, his fame will survive, 
 when the achievements of men, greatly his super- 
 iors in rank and intellect, will be entirely for- 
 gotten." 
 
 MATTHEW WALTON, one of the leading 
 attorneys of Lexington and a man of prom- 
 inence in business and public afifairs, was born 
 near Germantown, Mason County, Kentucky, 
 February i6, 1852, and is a son of John H. and 
 Susan Isabelle (Frazee) Walton. 
 
 His father was a native of Bracken County, 
 who removed to Mason when he was a young 
 man and is still a resident and a large land owner 
 and tobacco grower of that county; an influen- 
 tial man in his community and highly esteemed for 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 3^5 
 
 his integrity and noble Christian character. He 
 is a faithful member of the Christian Church and 
 his chief characteristic is his devotion to his 
 church and its good work. 
 
 Matthew Walton (grandfather) was a native of 
 Boone County, but removed to Bracken County, 
 where he was engaged in farming and died there 
 in 1843, aged forty-eight years. His father — the 
 great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch — 
 was a near relative of George Walton, a delegate 
 in the Continental Congress and one of the sign- 
 ers of the Declaration of Independence. This 
 distinguished patriot was born in Frederick 
 County, Virginia, his parents having removed 
 from Culpeper to that county. His educational fa- 
 cilities were limited, but he was a diligent student 
 and under the most adverse circumstances he 
 overcame all difiSculties, and few young men of his 
 time were better informed than he when he 
 reached his majority. At the age of fourteen he 
 was apprenticed to a carpenter, an ignorant man 
 who considered the time spent in reading and 
 study as time wasted, and he denied the boy any 
 time for his studies; but Walton, using pine 
 torches for candles, spent his evenings in studies, 
 which prepared him for the important part he 
 was destined to take in the affairs of the nation. 
 After serving his time he went to the Province 
 of Georgia and began the practice of law in 1774, 
 a time when the colonies were ablaze on account 
 of the various acts of the British Parliament, and 
 he espoused the cause of independence. He bold- 
 ly opposed the movements of the loyalists and 
 soon called down upon his head the denunciation 
 of the ruling powers. He labored assiduously to 
 persuade the people of the province to take steps 
 toward independence and freedom, which the 
 parish of St. John had chosen. At first it seemed 
 his labors would be in vain, but at length his zeal 
 and enthusiasm began to bear fruit, and in the 
 winter of 1776 the Assembly of Georgia, through 
 his earnest labors, declared for the cause of the 
 patriots, and in February appointed five delegates 
 to the Continental Congress, and of these 
 George Walton was one who signed the Declara- 
 tion of Independence. When he died, February 
 2, 1804, aged sixty-four years, the State of Geor- 
 gia went into mourning for twenty days. 
 
 George Walton's ancestors had come to this 
 country from Norway just one hundred years be- 
 fore he died, settling in Virginia in 1704. Many 
 branches of the family are now scattered over the 
 South and West. 
 
 Susan Isabelle Frazee Walton (mother) was 
 born in Mason County, Kentucky, in 1829, and is 
 now a resident of her native county, a zealous 
 member of the Christian Church, and a lady of 
 rare intelligence and amiability. 
 
 Joseph Frazee (maternal grandfather) was a 
 large land owner in Mason County, and a highly 
 respected citizen, who held many responsible posi- 
 tions in that county. 
 
 Matthew Walton was educated principally in 
 the Kentucky State University at Lexington, and 
 read law with the late Judge Owsley and Benja- 
 min M. Burdett of Lancaster; was admitted to 
 the bar in the fall of 1874; practiced law in Lan- 
 caster nearly seven years; was appointed master 
 commissioner of the Circuit Court in 1877; was 
 an active and interesting correspondent of some of 
 the leading newspapers of the state; was chair- 
 man of the Garrard County Democratic Commit- 
 tee for four years; represented the Eighth Con- 
 gressional District in the National Convention 
 that nominated General Hancock for the Presi- 
 dency; and was prominent in the politics of his 
 county and district. 
 
 He removed to Lexington in 1881 and located 
 there permanently in the practice of his profes- 
 sion. His reputation had preceded him and he 
 was by no means a stranger in the Blue Grass 
 Capital, so that he at once stepped into a lucra- 
 tive practice and into prominence among the 
 many distinguished members of the bar. In 1885 
 he was elected judge of the Recorder's Court of 
 the City of Lexington, which office he filled with 
 credit and marked ability until 1890. 
 
 For seven or eight years past he has been one 
 of the commissioners of the Eastern Asylum for 
 the Insane, and is president of that board; is a 
 director in the Safety Vault & Trust Company 
 of Lexington ; is attorney for the Phoenix Nation- 
 al Bank, in which he is also a director; is attorney 
 for a number of financial and industrial corpora- 
 tions and president of the Lexington Charity Or- 
 ganization, of which he was one of the leading 
 
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 promoters. He is well informed in all matters of 
 public interest and is frequently called upon to 
 represent Fayette County in political and other 
 conventions. He is by no means a partizan in 
 politics, but his ability and wide scope of infor- 
 mation have brought him into prominence in his 
 party, which has implicit confidence in his in- 
 tegrity, wisdom and sound judgment. 
 
 After serving out his term as judge he formed 
 a law partnership with J. H. Beauchamp, under 
 the firm name of Beauchamp & Walton, which at 
 present is one of the most successful firms in Lex- 
 ington. 
 
 Judge Walton and Carrie Farra, daughter of B. 
 F. Farra of Jessamine County, were married Octo- 
 ber 3, 1878. They worship in the New Central 
 Christian Church, one of the most beautiful church 
 edifices in the Blue Grass region, the erection of 
 which was under the supervision of a building 
 committee of which Judge Walton was one of the 
 most industrious members. 
 
 Judge and Mrs. Walton have only one child, a 
 daughter four years old, Clara Belle Walton. 
 
 ROBERT ALLEN BURTON, President of 
 the Farmers' National Bank of Lebanon, 
 son of John Allen and Louisana (Chandler) Bur- 
 ton, was born in Boyle (then Mercer) County, 
 Kentucky, near the battle ground of Perryville, 
 June II, 1834. 
 
 His father was born in Mercer County, April 3, 
 iSoi; was educated in the ordinary schools of 
 his day and was a farmer and merchant at Perry- 
 ville for forty years; retired in i860, and died in 
 1874, aged seventy-three years. He was one of the 
 stanchest Democrats of his time— not for the sake 
 of office, which he did not seek, but from prin- 
 ciple. He had large commercial interests and was 
 a man of superior judgment and excellent busi- 
 ness qualifications and was quite successful in 
 business. 
 
 Robert Burton (grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia; came to Kentucky at a very early day, 
 and married a Miss Ferguson, who was born in 
 a fort at Harrodsburg. 
 
 Louisana Chandler Burton (mother) was born 
 in Washington County, in 1810; was an amiable, 
 Christian woman, greatly admired and respected 
 
 by her acquaintances and revered by her children. 
 She survived her husband about five years, and 
 died in 1879. 
 
 Richard Chandler (grandfather), a native of 
 Maryland, came to Kentucky when he was a 
 young man and located in Washington County, 
 where he was a farmer and blacksmith. He mar- 
 ried Elizabeth McNeal of Fayette County and 
 died in 1855. 
 
 Judge R. A. Burton was educated in Boyle 
 County, finishing at the Perryville Seminary in 
 1856; was engaged in farming while studying 
 law, which he did without an instructor, and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1858; removed to Marion 
 County in the same year and continued farming; 
 was elected to the Legislature in 1859; elected 
 county judge in 1862 and was twice re-elected; 
 elected State Senator in 1869 and served four 
 years; was division deputy collector of internal 
 revenue during President Cleveland's first admin- 
 istration; was again elected county judge in 1890 
 and again in 1894 for a term of three years under 
 the new constitution; represented his district in 
 the Democratic National Conventions of 1874 
 and 1888, and was elected president of the Farm- 
 ers' National Bank of Lebanon in 1890, a position 
 which has required his best attention since that 
 time. 
 
 Judge Burton has been a leading spirit in the 
 Democratic councils of his county and section for 
 many years, and his popularity is so great that he 
 could have any office in the gift of the people. 
 All men who know him have the utmost confi- 
 dence in him; dignified and courtly, he is easily 
 approached, and while his polished manner is 
 such that a stranger will instinctively take off his 
 hat to him, he is open and free with those who 
 know him and is a friend who is always steadfast 
 and true. 
 
 Judge Burton was married May 17, i860, to 
 Margaret Lowry, daughter of Hon. James 
 Lowry of Jessamine County. She wa^ born June 
 II, 1837; was educated in St. Catherine Academy, 
 Washington County, and in Lexington. They 
 have four children living: John A. Burton, gen- 
 eral deputy internal revenue agent for Kentucky 
 under Colonel Yates; Maiy A., educated at 
 Daughter's College, Harrodsburg, and at Science 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 32; 
 
 Hill Academy, Shelbyville; Robert Lee, in col- 
 lege at Richmond, Kentucky; and Marion County 
 Burton, who is in school at Lebanon. 
 
 Judge Burton has shown his high regard for 
 his county, the scene of his many political 
 triumphs and business successes, by naming his 
 youngest son for his county. 
 
 Colonel Richard G. Burton, the only brother of 
 Judge R. A. Burton, who lived in Richmond, 
 Kentucky, is now dead. His sister, Belle, now 
 deceased, married Lee Irvine of Boyle County. 
 Augusta Celesta (sister), married Dr. W. O. 
 Robards of Mercer County. Eusebrie (sister), 
 married J. G. Phillips of Lebanon. 
 
 MATTHEW HEROLD, City Attorney of 
 Bellevue, a popular young lawyer and 
 Democratic politician, was born in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, March 3, 1859. 
 
 His father, Andrew Herold, was a native of 
 Germany, who came to this country in 1835 and 
 located in Cincinnati, where he was engaged in 
 organ building until his death in i860. 
 
 His mother, Susan (Barwick) Herold, now a 
 resident of Cincinnati, is a native of Germany. 
 
 Matthew Herold was educated in the excellent 
 public schools of Cincinnati. From 1882 until 
 1888 he was engaged in the grocery business in 
 Bellevue, which he abandoned for the legal pro- 
 fession. After reading law for two years he took 
 a two years' course in the Cincinnati Law School, 
 from which he was graduated in 1892. He was 
 admitted to the bar and began the practice of 
 law in Newport in the same year, and has met with 
 great encouragement and a good degree of suc- 
 cess in a field that he found pretty well occupied 
 when he embarked in his new profession. 
 
 He takes quite an active part in politics, and 
 being a resident of Bellevue he was elected a mem- 
 ber of the City Council in 1890; served until 1892, 
 when he was elected city attorney ; was re-elected 
 to this office in 1893, again in 1894, and again in 
 1896, a very high testimonial of his efficiency and 
 personal popularity inasmuch as he is a Democrat 
 and Bellevue is a stronghold of the Republican 
 party. Mr. Herold was a member of the conven- 
 tion held in Winchester in 1891 to frame charters 
 for cities of the fourth class. 
 
 He is attorney for a number of corporations, 
 including three building associations in Bellevue 
 and one in Cincinnati, and has given much atten- 
 tion to the legal business of these organizations. 
 
 Mr. Herold was married in 1885 to Caroline 
 Herbert, daughter of Andrew Herbert of Cincin- 
 nati, and they have three sons: Matthew, George 
 and William Herold. 
 
 UREY WOODSON, Editor of the Owens- 
 boro Messenger and president of the Ken- 
 tucky Press Association, was bom at Madison- 
 ville, Kentucky, August 16, 1859. Six years later 
 his parents moved to Evansville, Indiana. In 
 1877, when only eighteen years of age, his spirit 
 of independence began to assert itself, and he left 
 home and started the Muhlenberg Echo, a small 
 weekly, at Greenville, Kentucky. This paper still 
 lives, a monument to the "nerve" displayed by its 
 founder, though it soon became too small a 
 medium for the exercise of his talent for journal- 
 istic work. 
 
 At the annual meeting of the Kentucky Press 
 Association, at Hopkinsville, in 1878, Mr. Wood- 
 son, who was then only nineteen and looked five 
 years younger, was christened "The Baby 
 Editor," which appellation clung to him for sev- 
 eral years. In September, 1881, Mr. Woodson 
 sold his paper at Greenville and moved to Owens- 
 boro, becoming a part owner of the Messenger, 
 then a semi-weekly. The editorial control of the 
 paper was in his hands, and there has been no 
 interruption to the career of prosperity and in- 
 creasing influence it at once entered upon. 
 
 He has since become sole owner of the Mes- 
 senger, which is now said to be the most valuable 
 newspaper property in Kentucky, using Mergan- 
 thaler type-setting machines and all modern im- 
 provements. Mr. Woodson's capacity for work 
 is without limit. He is tireless, alert and never 
 resourceless. 
 
 He was the first man in Kentucky to give an in- 
 timation of the looseness about the office of James 
 W. Tate, state treasurer, four years before he was 
 proven a defaulter. With that instinct for news 
 that amounts almost to intuition with him, he got 
 an inkling of something wrong at Frankfort, and 
 suggested that an investigation would be a good 
 
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 thing. The matter was laughed at and hushed 
 up by Tate's associates, who declared that they 
 knew his affairs were all straight, and for four 
 years longer the stealing went on. 
 
 In his writings sarcasm and ridicule are his 
 favorite weapons, and while he is personally jovial 
 and witty, he makes but little pretensions to humor 
 with his pen. He prefers to deal in a plain-spoken, 
 business like style that is seldom mistaken for the 
 "lighter vein." There is no more conscientious or 
 influential editor in the smaller cities of Kentucky 
 than Mr. Woodson. 
 
 His paper is a power in the politics of his state, 
 and Democracy has no more ardent champion 
 than he is. 
 
 When Governor John Young Brown was 
 elected he tendered Mr. Woodson the appoint- 
 ment of railroad commissioner, which position 
 he filled for four years. 
 
 For eight or ten years he has been a member 
 of the Democratic state central committee, and 
 was for a term president of the Kentucky Press 
 Association. 
 
 JAMES A. VIOLETT, Attorney-at-Law of 
 Frankfort, and a member of the legislature, 
 representing Franklin County, is a son of Leland 
 and Polly (Walker) Violett. His father was a 
 native of Owen County, where he was a farmer 
 in good circumstances and a highly respected 
 citizen of the county. He was a man of exem- 
 plary habits, industrious and frugal, and was an 
 active and energetic man until his death in 1882. 
 His father's people were of French extraction. 
 
 Polly Walker Violett (mother) was a daughter 
 of a Mr. Walker, who came to America from 
 England and lived in Owen County until he 
 reached the unusual age of ninety-seven years. 
 
 James A. Violett was born in Owen County, 
 Kentucky, July 20, 1852, and lived the life of a 
 farmer's boy until he was eighteen years of age, 
 when, having obtained a good common school 
 education, he attended the excellent school at 
 Harrodsburg under the tutorship of Professor 
 Edward Porter Thompson and then taught school 
 in Owen and Franklin Counties, at the same 
 time studying law without an instructor until 1876, 
 when he placed himself under the care and in- 
 
 struction of Judge Cofifee, one of the most eminent 
 judges of the Court of Appeals. He was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in Frankfort in 1879, and at 
 once entered upon a career which has thus far 
 proven highly successful and promises a brilliant 
 future. 
 
 He was elected county attorney of Franklin 
 County in 1882, serving four years, and in 1895 
 was elected on the Democratic ticket as repre- 
 sentative of Franklin County in the legislature. 
 In the remarkable contest for the United States 
 Senatorship in the General Assembly of 1896, Mr. 
 Violett was one of five sound-money Democrats 
 who refused to support Senator Blackburn, the 
 Democratic caucus nominee. He did this in spite 
 of the tremendous pressure the friends of Black- 
 burn brought to bear upon him. Believing, how- 
 ever, that the majority of his constituents and the 
 good of the state demanded the defeat of Black- 
 burn, he steadily refused to cast his vote for that 
 candidate. 
 
 Mr. Violett is one of the most active and able 
 members of the legislature, and a faithful repre- 
 sentative of his constituents. 
 
 He was married to Alice Bell Deakins, daugh- 
 ter of John T. and Polly (Woodsides) Deakins 
 of Shelby County, and they have three children: 
 Luther Francis, now in college at Georgetown; 
 Mary Hill and Walter. 
 
 WILLIAM WELLS CLEAVER, M. D., a 
 leading physician of Lebanon, son of 
 David and Lucy (Kirk) Cleaver, was bom in 
 Lebanon, Kentucky, Alarch 15, 1827. 
 
 His father was born in Marion County, in 
 )8o4; was educated at St. Mary's College, and 
 was a man of superior intelligence. He married 
 Lucy Kirk in 1S24, and they were members of 
 the Presbyterian Church. He followed farming 
 and stocl< trading and was prosperous in his busi- 
 ness. He \\as identified with the Democratic 
 party, but merely as a voter. Having reached the 
 age of seventy-seven years, he died in 1885, and 
 is buried in the cemetery at Lebanon. 
 
 David Cleaver (grandfather) was a native of 
 New Jersey, who came to Kentticky in 1788 and 
 settled in (now) Marion County. Three brothers 
 came with him; and after living as neighbors for 
 
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 a while, two of them removed to Missouri and 
 one went to Alabama, and thence to Arkansas. 
 David remained in Kentucky and spent the re- 
 mainder of his days on the farm upon which he 
 located as one of the pioneers of the county. His 
 wife's name was Lettitia Griffey, who was of Irish 
 parentage. 
 
 Lucy Kirk (mother) was a daughter of James 
 and Annie (Horton) Kirk; a devout Christian 
 and a member of the Presbyterian Church. She 
 died in 1827, and is buried beside her husband 
 at Lebanon. Her parents were of Scotch-Irish 
 extraction. 
 
 James Kirk (grandfather) was a native of Staf- 
 ford, Virginia, came to Kentucky in 1788; was a 
 soldier in the war of the Revolution; married 
 (first) Annie Horton, who was the mother of his 
 twelve children. He lived to the extreme age of 
 ninety-nine years; and when he was eighty-one 
 years of age he married his second wife, who was 
 then twenty-two years of age. 
 
 Dr. William W. Cleaver was educated in 
 Lebanon Seminary and studied medicine in the 
 University of Louisville, from which he was 
 graduated in 1850. He practiced in Lebanon for 
 a short time and in 1853 went to Louisville and 
 followed his profession in that city until 1855, 
 when he returned to Lebanon and located per- 
 manently. He had attained gratifying success 
 when, in 1862, he recruited a company and joined 
 Morgan's cavalry; was in command of his com- 
 pany at the battle of Perryville and other stirring 
 engagements; was subsequently appointed sur- 
 geon ; was with General Morgan in his celebrated 
 Indiana and Ohio raid; was captured with the 
 rest and taken to Fort Delaware, where he re- 
 mained about five months, doing duty as a sur- 
 geon in a hospital while there. 
 
 After the close of the war he resumed his pro- 
 fessional work at Lebanon, since which time he 
 has given his whole time to the exacting duties 
 of a very extensive practice. 
 
 Long experience and faithful attention to busi- 
 ness have made him an enviable reputation as 
 one of the most skillful physicians in his city and 
 county. His services are in demand in almost 
 all extreme cases within his reach. He is one of 
 the pillars in the Presbyterian Church and is a 
 
 Mason of long standing and high degree; a mem- 
 ber of the Marion County Medical Society, of 
 the Kentucky State Medical Society, ex-member 
 of the National Medical Association; and is 
 known in politics merely as a loyal voter of the 
 Democratic ticket. Nevertheless, he was elected 
 to the legislature in 1893, representing his county 
 for one term of two years. 
 
 Dr. Cleaver was married (first) in 1850 to 
 Joanna Grundy, daughter of Felix B. Grundy 
 and Esther McElroy. She was a native of 
 Lebanon, a woman of superior mind and culture 
 and a devout member of the Presbyterian 
 Church. She died in 1894. Their seven 
 children were named: Dr. J. F. Cleaver, 
 deceased; George Hannibal, deceased; Esther, 
 wife of Dr. A. Rose of Utah ; Lucy Hemans, wife 
 of G. W. McElroy of Lebanon; Willie Elizabeth, 
 wife of Rev. George A. Blair of Portland, Oregon; 
 Thomas Foster, physician of Lebanon; and David 
 Irvin, deceased. 
 
 Dr. Cleaver was married (second) November 
 28, 189s, to Miss Minnie McElroy, daughter of 
 Abraham B. and Mary Buckner McElroy. 
 
 HONORABLE CHARLES G. RICHIE, 
 Judge of the Jefferson County Court, is 
 probably the youngest man ever elected or ap- 
 pointed to 'a judgeship in the state, and is one of 
 the ablest of the numerous gentlemen who adorn 
 the bench in the city of Louisville. He was 
 elected to this office in November, 1893, before 
 he was twenty-seven years of age, receiving a 
 majority of two thousand votes over Judge Hoke, 
 his Democratic opponent, who had held that 
 office during the lifetime of the successful candi- 
 date. He had been made the nominee of the Re- 
 publican party and went into the race with the 
 support of his own party and of a host of friends, 
 and with a reputation as an exemplary young 
 man, as a lawyer of marked ability and of the 
 highest integrity, and his success was due to the 
 fact that he was admirably adapted for the posi- 
 tion as well as to the general impression that a 
 change in the office would be for the public good. 
 In the one year or more in which he has pre- 
 sided over the judicial affairs of the county, he 
 has more than met the expectations of his most 
 
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 sanguine friends, having rejuvenated the office 
 and corrected many errors, which had naturally 
 and perhaps inadvertently crept into the methods 
 of the court under an administration of too long 
 standing. Of commanding and prepossessing ap- 
 pearance, being over six feet in stature, of large 
 manly frame, surmounted by a large brainy head, 
 no one would think of his age in taking the meas- 
 ure of the man. He is industrious, painstaking, 
 conscientious and determined; thoroughly con- 
 versant with the law, with sufficient self-reliance 
 to depend upon his own judgment in the disposi- 
 tion of business. Personally, a very affable gen- 
 tleman, he has clothed his office with a new dig- 
 nity and respect which has been favorably com- 
 mented upon by the habitues of the court house. 
 A Republican of the most pronounced convic- 
 tions and a partisan in politics, he is fair and im- 
 partial as a judge and in legal matters his bit- 
 terest political opponent knows that he will re- 
 ceive an unprejudiced hearing and a just decision 
 in the court over which the jurist and not the 
 politician presides. 
 
 The newspapers have complimented him upon 
 his admirable manner of conducting the affairs 
 of his office, and have shown him courtesies which 
 few men in his position would be able to com- 
 mand from political opponents. He has charge 
 of the entire election machinery of the county, 
 and while the one general election held under his 
 administration was of the most exacting charac- 
 ter, no charge has ever been made by his political 
 opponents that his course has been in the least 
 partial to his party. 
 
 Judge Richie was born in Louisville, Ken- 
 tucky, January i8, 1868, and was graduated from 
 the high school in the class of 1887. Pie then at- 
 tended the Louisville Law University and gradu- 
 ated in 1889, after which he entered the office of 
 Honorable Walter Evans, with whom he was as- 
 sociated in the practice of law for three years. In 
 1893 he formed a law partnership with A. J. 
 Speckert, which business relation continued until 
 Mr. Richie's elevation to the bench in Jainiary 
 1895. 
 
 Judge Richie is exceedingly popular, es- 
 pecially with the younger people of Louis- 
 ville, with whom he has mingled all of 
 
 his Hfe. As a lawyer he occupies a place 
 in the front rank of the profession, and is 
 held in the highest esteem by the members of the 
 bar. As a judge he has the utmost confidence and 
 respect of the legal fraternity who have business 
 in his court. As a citizen he is known as a man 
 of the highest integrity, and his relation to the 
 Methodist Church, of which he is a member, is 
 that of an upright Christian gentleman. 
 
 Judge Richie's father, H. C. Richie, is a native 
 of New Albany, Indiana, and a well-known citi- 
 zen of Louisville, who has been sole traveling 
 agent for the Eclipse Woolen Mills for twenty 
 years. He is a man of fine education and unusual 
 business ability, a vigorous writer and speaker, 
 an enthusiastic Republican and protectionist, and 
 is well-informed in national politics. 
 
 William H. Richie (grandfather) was also a 
 native of New Albany, Indiana, and a lifetime 
 resident of that city. He was a pilot on the west- 
 ern rivers and continued his work upon the river 
 until a short time before his death, in 1884. 
 
 Sophia Spurrier Richie (mother) is a native of 
 Sumner County, Tennessee; a leading spirit in the 
 Methodist Church and a lady of fine attainments, 
 and is especially noted for her many "good 
 works." 
 
 Edward Sperrier (grandfather) was for many 
 years a resident of Clarksville, Tennessee. He 
 removed to Cave City, Kentucky, in 1865, where 
 he kept a hotel for a short time, subsequently re- 
 moving to Hardin County, where he died in 1882. 
 He was of Scotch-Irish descent. 
 
 Judge Richie was married August 29, 1895, to 
 Margaret Pierce, daughter of LaFayette and Nan- 
 nie (Lyles) Pierce. Mrs. Richie was born in Sum- 
 ner County, Tennessee, September i, 1873. 
 
 CHARLES F. WEAVER, Secretary and 
 Treasurer of the Ashland Foundry and Ma- 
 chine Works, was bom in Cochran, Indiana, 
 March 10, 1858. His father, Daniel L. Weaver, 
 was born in Gordonsville, Pennsylvania, Febru- 
 ary 25, 1835, and was a master mechanic in the 
 Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadelphia, and 
 an excellent workman. He served eighteen 
 months on the gunboat "Carondalet" in the Mis- 
 sissippi squadron in the Civil war, and after his 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 331 
 
 honorable discharge, continued in the service of 
 the government as master mechanic during the 
 remainder of the war, after which he held a similar 
 position with the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad 
 Company for fourteen years. He was then master 
 mechanic of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad 
 Company at Lexington for four years. He re- 
 moved to Ashland in November, 1886, and es- 
 tablished the Ashland Foundry and Machine 
 Works, which he operated successfully until the 
 time of his death, December 11, 1894. He was 
 a very popular man and a public-spirited citizen, 
 who made many personal friends and enjoyed the 
 confidence of the business community, by whom 
 he was regarded as a man of the highest integrity. 
 He was a Republican in politics, and took a hand 
 in all important elections but would accept no 
 office. He was a general favorite among his ac- 
 quaintances, particularly as a member of benevo- 
 lent societies, including the Masons, in which he 
 was an officer and an enthusiastic and zealous 
 worker. 
 
 Jonathan Weaver (grandfather) was a native 
 farmer of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where 
 he owned a large tract of valuable land, and where 
 he died. His wife, who survived him, was Nancy 
 Lefevre, a native of the same county, and died 
 there in 1888. His father was a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary war, and was wounded at the bat- 
 tle of Brandywine. 
 
 Henry W. and Jonathan R. Weaver (uncles) 
 served in the war of the Rebellion, enlisting in 
 the naval service at Aurora, Ind., and were dis- 
 charged at Plelena, Arkansas, in 1864. 
 
 Charles F. Weaver's mother, Arjyra Daniels, 
 was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, December 16, 
 1838, and was educated in Philadelphia; married 
 Daniel L. Weaver June 7, 1857, and is now living 
 in Ashland. She is a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church and a devout Christian woman, 
 who is loved and respected by a large circle of 
 friends. 
 
 Abel Davis (grandfather) was a native of Bal- 
 timore, Maryland, where he received a good edu- 
 cation and was engaged in the drug business for 
 a time, and was for some years traveling salesman 
 for the Baltimore Steam Packing Co., and subse- 
 quently kept books for a hotel in Charlestown, 
 
 South Carolina, and suffered a paralytic stroke in 
 that city. He went to Philadelphia and opened 
 a Home for Southern Students, who were numer- 
 ous in the educational institutions in that city, and 
 died there January 28, 1861. He was married 
 January 14, 1838, to Eliza Whittis, a native of 
 Elizabeth City, North Carolina; educated in Nor- 
 folk, Virginia; died June 7, 1853, and is buried 
 in the Odd Fellows' Cemetery at Philadelphia. 
 
 Daniel L. and Arjyra Weaver were the parents 
 of six children: Charles F., born March 10, 
 1858; Elizabeth, born March 25, i860, wife of 
 B. F. Myers; Hattie A., born July 8, 1862; Harry 
 Marion, born May 13, 1864; Maggie Rose, born 
 February 24, 1866, and Jerrie Arjyra, born No- 
 vember 28, 1877. 
 
 Charles F. Weaver began business as a civil 
 engineer, for which he was prepared by a splendid 
 education, and was employed on the staff of the 
 engineer who built the Kentuck}- Central Rail- 
 road from Paris to Richmond. Being a 
 Republican he accpted the position of chief 
 clerk to Major D. J. Burchett, United 
 States Marshal of Kentucky, at Louisville, and 
 served during President Harrison's administra- 
 tion, after which he returned to his home in Ash- 
 land and was made secretary and treasurer of 
 the Ashland Foundry and Machine Works. In 
 1892 he was elected to the legislature from the 
 Ninety-eighth District and served one term, but is 
 now out of politics, except for the lively interest 
 he takes in the success of the Republican party. 
 
 THOMAS FOSTER CLEAVER, M. D., son 
 of Dr. William W. and Joanna (Grundy) 
 Cleaver, was born in Lebanon, Kentucky, Novem- 
 ber 25, 1865, and was educated in the best schools 
 of his native city and in the Commercial College 
 at Lexington, under Colonel Wilbur F. Smith; 
 studied medicine in the University of Louisville, 
 from which he was graduated March, 1887. He 
 at once engaged in the practice of medicine with 
 his distinguished father, making a specialty of the 
 treatment of diseases of eye, nose and throat, in 
 which he has been highly successful, while attend- 
 ing to a large share of the general practice of the 
 firm. 
 
 He is a member of the Marion County Medical 
 
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 Society; is a prominent member of the Presby- 
 terian Church and is noted for his interest in good 
 works, and his many deeds of charity. He is 
 very able and skillful as a physician, and is deeply 
 interested in his profession. 
 
 He was married in March, 1888, to Mamie 
 Nutting, daughter of J. P. Nutting of Indian- 
 apolis, Indiana. 
 
 JOSEPH B. SIMRALL, Mayor of the city of 
 Lexington, son of the late Rev. John G. Sim- 
 rail, was born in Fayette County, Kentucky, Feb- 
 ruary 4, 1844. He is a brother of Judge John G. 
 Simrall, the eminent jurist of Louisville, whose 
 sketch with a brief history of the family will be 
 found in this volume. Mayor Simrall was pur- 
 suing his studies in the academy at Walnut Hills, 
 near Lexington, when the North and South 
 crossed swords and prepared for the four years' 
 conflict that followed, and the young student, 
 fired with a love for the Sunny South and with 
 zeal in behalf of the cause of his people, enlisted 
 early in the conflict as a private in Company B, 
 Eighth Regiment of Kentucky Cavalry, under 
 General Morgan. His career as a soldier was 
 very brief, except as a prisoner of war, in which 
 capacity he served an unusually long term, endur- 
 ing privations and sufferings in body and mind 
 which he would gladly have exchanged for the 
 dangers of the battlefield. He was taken pris- 
 oner at Buffington Island in 1863, and confined 
 in Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, where he re- 
 mained for six months, and was then removed 
 to Delaware prison, from which he was not re- 
 leased until after the war was over, in June, 1865. 
 
 He returned to his home in Fayette County 
 and soon afterwards engaged in the drug business 
 in Lexington, in partnership with Mr. Richard- 
 son, under the firm name of Richardson & Sim- 
 rall. This relation continued for about twenty 
 years, when, in 1886, Mr. Simrall became sole 
 proprietor of one of the most popular, enterpris- 
 ing and reliable drug houses in the city, an estab- 
 lishment of which he is still proprietor. 
 
 As a business man, rather than a politician, 
 Mr. Simrall has taken a lively interest in municipal 
 affairs and has always been ready to participate 
 as far as possible in all public enterprises and 
 
 has been found on the right side of all public 
 interests. He was a member of the Board of 
 Aldermen from 1888 until 1892, and in Novem- 
 ber, 1895, he was elected chief executive of the 
 city, an office into which he was installed but a 
 short time previous to the writing of this sketch. 
 He brings to his office a thorough knowledge of 
 the needs of the city, a mind well trained in busi- 
 ness affairs and a strong and abiding purpose to 
 do the right, with the moral courage to obey the 
 dictates of his conscience. He is a member of 
 the Presbyterian Church and the graces and vir- 
 tues of the Christian religion are so pronounced in 
 his character that all men have confidence in him, 
 and predict for him a wise and progressive ad- 
 ministration of the city's affairs. 
 
 Mayor Simrall and Ellen Harrison were mar- 
 ried November 23, 1871. Mrs. Simrall died Au- 
 gust II, 1892, leaving four children living: 
 Sarah, Harrison, John and Ellen. Margaretta, 
 the oldest child, is deceased. 
 
 Harrison Simrall (son) is pursuing his studies 
 in the Kentucky State University, and John is 
 in the city schools. 
 
 Mrs. Simrall's father, Hon. James O. Harrison, 
 was one of the most distinguished attorneys of 
 the Lexington bar. He was born 'April 11, 1804, 
 and died August i, 1888. 
 
 HENRY CHRISTIAN SULLIVAN, a young 
 lawyer of tlie highest integrity of Louisa, 
 Kentucky, was born in Ashland, Kentucky, 
 in 1863, and is a son of Christian Mills 
 and Chattie Clifford (Moore) Sullivan. His fath- 
 er was born in Mason County and educated in 
 Lexington, and was a prominent minister in the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, South, being a 
 strong Southerner in all of his opinions. He was 
 presiding elder for many years of the district in 
 which he lived, and at different periods of his 
 ministry he preached at Ashland, Kentucky, 
 Charleston and Clarksburg, West Virginia, and 
 Greenup and Louisa, Kentucky. 
 
 Plenry C. Sullivan, after leaving school, in 1880, 
 engaged in railroading in Georgia, and from 1881 
 to 1884 he was fireman on an engine running 
 between Rome and Macon ; when not on the road 
 he worked in the shops and assisted in building 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 engines. Retvirning to Louisa, he clerked in a 
 grocery and was assistant postmaster for several 
 years before entering the office of Alexander 
 Lackey as a student at law. He was chairman of 
 the Lawrence County Democratic Executive 
 Committee from 1888 to 1892, and during the 
 first year of his service on that committee the 
 county went Democratic for the first time in 
 seven years. 
 
 He was admitted to the bar in 1891, and during 
 the following year he attended the University of 
 Michigan. It was in that year that the one-year 
 class was organized. A Kentuckian was elected 
 valedictorian of that class, this being the first time 
 that honor had been conferred upon a student 
 who lived south of Mason and Dixon's line. Mr. 
 Sullivan was the originator of a political move- 
 ment in the class which resulted in great advan- 
 tage to the Southern students. 
 
 In 1893 he began the practice of law, and hav- 
 ing a large acquaintance and excellent standing 
 in the community, he at once stepped into a lu- 
 crative practice, which has grown rapidly. He is 
 one of the brightest young men in the profession 
 in Louisa, and undoubtedly has a brilliant future 
 before him. He is a member of Louisa lodge No. 
 270, I. O. O. F., which he has represented in the 
 Grand Lodge of Kentucky, and served in every 
 official position in his lodge, being its treasurer at 
 present. He is also a Knight of Pythias and a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 South. 
 
 Mr. Sullivan was married October 11, 1893, to 
 Nora K. Borders of Louisa, Kentucky. She was 
 born in Catlettsburg in 1868, and is a graduate 
 of Wesleyan College, Cincinnati, Ohio, and was a 
 teacher in the Louisa and Lawrence County 
 schools before her marriage. 
 
 WILLIAM EDWARD RAGSDALE was 
 born near Lafayette, Christian County, 
 Kentucky, July 31, 1847. His father, William 
 Jones Ragsdale, a farmer and native of Virginia, 
 moved to Tennessee near the state line in 1839, 
 and afterwards removed to Kentucky, where he 
 died. Reverses consequent upon the war left his 
 widow, Emily (Tillotson) Ragsdale, in moderate 
 circumstances, with seveti children, whoge nfirries 
 
 were as follows: Elizabeth Rogers, Lucy Coop- 
 er, Mary Rives, James S., Emily Foster, Rebecca 
 Hancock and William E. 
 
 With a very incomplete education, the youngest 
 son found himself confronted with the problem of 
 life. Bright, energetic and determined, he brave- 
 ly faced the difficulties of his position and de- 
 cided to carve out a career for himself. He was 
 descended from fine old Scotch-English ancestry 
 and had a grand, good mother, who reared a 
 family of children who were noted for their honor, 
 culture and true citizenship. In strength of char- 
 acter, resolute and inflexible devotion to princi- 
 ple, her devotion to family, church and her sec- 
 tion was evidenced by tireless ministrations, and 
 during the war she did much to relieve the sick 
 and wounded soldiers. Under the influence of 
 such a mother, he acquired naturally honor, char- 
 ity and a love of liberty and a spirit of inde- 
 pendence. 
 
 His maternal grandmother was Mildred (Gold) 
 Tillotson, the only daughter of Jack and Marion 
 Gold of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, who 
 married a descendant of Sir John Tillotson, 
 who left her a widow at the age of twenty-six- and 
 the mother of six children, viz.: Nancy Yancey, 
 Sarah Blaine, Joyce Wilkinson, Emily Ragsdale, 
 Eleanor Rives and Rebecca Baynham. She 
 never married again and died at the advanced 
 age of eighty. 
 
 His paternal grandfather was William Jones 
 Ragsdale, Sr., of Virginia, a planter, merchant 
 and money lender, who possessed vast wealth be- 
 fore the war, a considerable amount of which 
 was invested in slaves. He married Miss Young, 
 a daughter of General Young, a distinguished sol- 
 dier and statesman. Being a man of quiet habits 
 and vigorous health, he was as free from con- 
 tagions and infections as "the sound oaks are, 
 and the stars," and lived to the ripe age of eighty- 
 one, leaving five children, viz.: John H., Smith, 
 William J., Elizabeth Mann and Frances Hester. 
 
 Before he was quite twenty years of age, Wil- 
 liam E. Ragsdale married Achilles Collins, No- 
 vember 20, 1866, and had other responsibilities 
 in addition to his widowed mother and sisters to 
 call forth his energies. 
 
 Old men now in the vicinity of his boyhood tell 
 
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 how Will Ragsdale made his first speculation in 
 tobacco when only twelve years old. Stephen 
 Rogers, an old negro man, had a crop to sell, 
 and the boy asked what he would take for it. 
 The darkey, doubtless knowing the state of his 
 finances, said, "I'll take five dollars, your silver 
 watch (which, by the way, ran backward and for- 
 ward with equal energy) and a squirrel and cage." 
 This was exactly what Will owned, so they 
 "traded." 
 
 The investment netted him $36, and he was 
 stimulated to try again and again until, finally, he 
 became a capable judge of tobacco. After deal- 
 ing in tobacco five years in Lafayette, Kentucky, 
 he removed in 1872 to Hopkinsville, Kentucky, 
 which is now the first dark tobacco market in the 
 world. He purchased the Main Street Ware- 
 house and conducted an enormous business of 
 buying and selling the weed in that and in New 
 York markets. In 1874 he cleared $116,000. The 
 year following he sold his warehouse to Buckner 
 & Wooldridge and bought of S. G. Buckner 
 "Woodlawn," a fine farm of 526 acres seven miles 
 from the city, and began farming on a large scale, 
 at the same time continuing a broker's business 
 in Hopkinsville. In this he was successful and 
 did a more extensive business than any other 
 one man there. 
 
 He was also the owner of fine horses. In 1879 
 he bought a colt for $500 and named her Minnie 
 R., had her trained upon his own track, then 
 raced her for two years, winning in more than 
 half the rings she entered. In Chicago, Illinois, 
 July 17, 1882, she won a purse of $3,000, and even 
 before the race was done he sold her to Com- 
 modore Kittson of St. Paul for $10,000. He 
 was the owner of "Arlington Denmark," a com- 
 bined saddle and harness horse; "Highflyer," 
 "Toppy" and "William Singerly," a pacer with a 
 record of 2:i6J. 
 
 "Arlington Denmark" was shown at fairs for 
 four years all over the state and never lost a race. 
 In St. Louis he captured first prize out of thirty- 
 six starters. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Ragsdale sold his farm to Joe F. 
 Garnett and again bought a home in Hopkins- 
 ville, where he still lives. He repurchased Main 
 Street Warehouse and does a splendid business 
 
 under the firm name of Ragsdale, Cooper & Co. 
 He has scores of premiums which he has won 
 from time to time as the best judge of tobacco. 
 The foundation of his active life was laid in 
 Hopkinsville and the people both of that city 
 and country entertain for him the highest regard 
 and admiration as a business man and a Christian 
 gentleman. Firm and conscientious in all his 
 convictions and bold and fearless in the defense 
 of them, he has always commanded the respect 
 of those who honestly dififered with him in poHti- 
 cal faith. He is the father of twelve children: 
 Manfred, Lucy, Will, Roy, Clark, James, Achilles, 
 Howell, Thomas, Douglas, and two died in in- 
 fancy. 
 
 DR. C. M. PAYNTER of Lawrenceburg, one 
 of the most successful and popular physi- 
 cians in Central Kentucky, was born in Washing- 
 ton County, Indiana, December 23, 1854. His 
 father, C. M. Paynter, was a lifetime resident and 
 farmer of Washington County, Indiana. He was 
 a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a 
 good neighbor and a man of the highest in- 
 tegrity. 
 
 John Paynter (grandfather) was a Virginian, 
 who belonged to an old and highly respected 
 family in that state, and who became a pioneer in 
 what was then considered the "far west," in 
 Washington County, Indiana. 
 
 Margaret Coffman (mother) was born in Wash- 
 ington County, Indiana, and died there January 
 23, 1855. Her father, M. Coflfman, emigrated 
 from Ireland in 1820, and made his home in 
 Washington County, Indiana. 
 
 Dr. C. M. Paynter was educated with a view to 
 professional life, and after leaving the country 
 schools attended the graded schools in Salem, 
 and finally graduated from J. G. May's private 
 school in 1874, after taking a four years' course. 
 He taught school one year in Salem before en- 
 tering directly upon the study of medicine with 
 Dr. C. L. Paynter of Salem. After studying in 
 the ofifice one year he went to the Medical Uni- 
 versity of Louisville and took a graded course of 
 three years, graduating with the highest honors, 
 February 25, 1881. 
 
 His first work as a practicing physician was 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 done at Orr, Anderson County, but he remained 
 there only a short time, when he removed to Fox 
 Creek and remained there until March, 1891, and 
 then removed to his present location in Law- 
 renceburg. His skill as a physician has been 
 recognized in every community in which he has 
 practiced, and he is one of the busiest physicians 
 in the county. He is very popular, personally, 
 being of a kindly, sociable disposition; does not 
 meddle in politics except to vote as a Democrat 
 and to do his duty as a citizen; is a member of the 
 Methodist Church and is interested in all matters 
 pertaining to tlie good of the community in which 
 he lives. He was united in marriage December 
 28, 1880, to LeHa D. Fiddler of Anderson County, 
 and they have three children : Norah L., Walker 
 B. and Charles A. Paynter. 
 
 JAMES WILLIAM RICE, Attoniey-at-Law, 
 Louisa, Kentucky, son of ex-Congressman 
 John M. Rice, was born in Louisa, Lawrence 
 County, Kentucky, July 21, 1861. His father, 
 John McConnell Rice, enjoyed limited advan- 
 tages in the way of schooling and was for the 
 most part a self-educated man. He attended the 
 Louisville Law School and after graduating be- 
 gan the practice of law in Pike County. So well 
 had he progressed in his reading and studies he 
 was made superintendent of schools; was elected 
 county attorney and served one term in the Ken- 
 tucky legislature. In 1861 he removed to Louisa, 
 and was again elected to the legislature. In 1869 
 he was elected to Congress, defeating George H. 
 Thomas, the Republican candidate, by 3,600 ma- 
 jority; and was re-elected in 1871 by 3,900 ma- 
 jority, but Colonel Zeigler, his opponent, con- 
 tested his election. James G. Blaine was speaker 
 of the House and John A. Logan and James A. 
 Garfield were members, and each of them made a 
 speech in favor of Mr. Rice, who received 247 
 votes, while Colonel Zeigler received 7. 
 
 In 1883 he was appointed judge of the Law- 
 rence County Criminal Court by Governor Proc- 
 tor Knott, and in 1884 he was elected to that office 
 by the people without opposition; was re-elected 
 in 1890, defeating J. F. Stewart, the Republican 
 candidate, by a majority of 210 votes, notwith- 
 standing the district had given a Republican ma- 
 
 jority of 1,100 votes in the preceding presidential 
 election. 
 
 During the past seven years Judge Rice has 
 been an invalid and has visited many of the lead- 
 ing health resorts in the hope of finding relief. 
 
 He was married to Sarah Pogue, daughter 
 of William Pogue. His children are: Ida, 
 wife of Judge McConnell of Catlettsburg; Ada, 
 wife of B. F. Thomas, United States engineer in 
 charge of the Big Sandy Railroad; James W. 
 (subject of this sketch); and John M., Jr., a clerk 
 in the auditor's office at Frankfort. 
 
 James W. Rice received a good education in 
 the schools of Louisa; studied law in his father's 
 office; was admitted to the bar in 1883, and at 
 once began the practice of his profession in his 
 native city. In 1885 he was elected chairman of 
 the board of trustees of the city of Louisa, and 
 in 1890 was elected police judge. He is quite 
 prominent in local politics, being a leader in the 
 Democratic party, popular as a citizen, and a 
 lawyer of acknowledged ability. 
 
 He was married March 18, 1884, to Josie Ab- 
 bott, daughter of James Abbott of Louisa, and 
 has two children living: Carrie Frances, bom 
 September 10, 1886; and James William, Jr., born 
 May 18, 1893. One child, Greenway, born July 
 4, 1888, died December 14, 1891. 
 
 LAWSON RENO, Cashier of the Owensboro 
 National Bank, son of Lawson R. and Mary 
 T. (Campbell) Reno, was born in Greenville, Ken- 
 tucky, February, 1849. His father was born near 
 Norfolk, Virginia, and came with his parents to 
 Muhlenberg County when he was about fifteen 
 years of age. He received his education in private 
 schools of Virginia and Kentucky. In 1840 he 
 embarked in the hotel business in Greenville and 
 was proprietor of the Reno House in that place 
 for fifty-five years. He was for a long time a 
 trustee of the Greenville Female Academy, a 
 school which was conducted for many years under 
 the auspices of the Presbyterian Church, and to 
 the support of which Mr. Reno was a liberal con- 
 tributor. Before the war he was a Whig, and 
 after the disruption of that party he became iden- 
 tified with the Republicans and always took a 
 lively interest in the political issues of the day, 
 
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 caring nothing, however, for office. He was 
 sheriff of Muhlenberg County at one time, but 
 with that exception he has not held or sought any 
 official position. His wife's maiden name was 
 Mary Campbell, a native of Norfolk, Virginia, 
 and is now living in the family homestead in 
 Greenville. Mr. Reno died in 1895. He was the 
 father of seven children : Mary, William, Aman- 
 da, John, R T., Cordelia and Lawson. 
 
 John R. Campbell (maternal grandfather) was 
 an eminent educator of Virginia, his native state. 
 
 Lawson Reno was educated at Greenville Col- 
 lege, chiefly under the instruction of Professor E. 
 W. Hall, who was employed by the prominent 
 men of Greenville to impart special instruction 
 to their sons. Mr. Reno was a delicate youth, 
 and while his education was very thorough, there 
 were times when his studies had to be thrown 
 aside, and for this reason he did not leave school 
 until he was twenty years of age. 
 
 In 1871, when twenty-two, he went to Owens- 
 boro and was employed in the revenue service as 
 deputy collector under his brother, who was col- 
 lector for the Second district of Kentucky. After 
 the expiration of his brother's term as collector 
 he was re-appointed by William A. Stewart, the 
 incoming collector, but resigned to accept the ap- 
 pointment of postmaster of Owensboro, which 
 office he filled for seven years, discharging its 
 important duties with credit to himself and to 
 the entire satisfaction of the community. He re- 
 signed in 1886 and organized the Owensboro 
 National Bank, accepting the position of cashier, 
 which he has held until the present time. 
 
 In all of his business relations with the public, 
 as well as in the wide circle of personal friends, 
 Mr. Reno has enjoyed great popularity, his gen- 
 ial, courteous manner, obliging disposition and 
 natural kindliness towards others winning him 
 a host of friends, while his splendid business quali- 
 fications and methods have won the esteem and 
 confidence of the business community. 
 
 Mr. Reno has been twice married ; first to Mary 
 Frey, daughter of William H. and Martha (Camp- 
 bell) Frey, of Owensboro. She died in 1883, 
 leaving three children: Cordelia, educated in the 
 Owensboro high school and at Nazareth; Wil- 
 liam, now a student in Center College, Danville, 
 
 and Campbell, who is at school in Owensboro. 
 In June, 1894, Mr. Reno married Mrs. Virginia 
 Berry, widow of James I. Berry, of Marion 
 County, Kentucky, who was a son of John B. 
 Berry of that county. Mrs. Reno's maiden name 
 was Wrinn, whose father's name was Paul Wrinn, 
 a wholesale liquor merchant of Baltimore. He 
 married Julia Berry, daughter of Jeremiah Berry 
 of Maryland. Mrs. Reno is a descendant of the 
 Berrys, Miles, Wathens and Snowdowns, famihes 
 who were prominent in Maryland during and 
 after the colonial times, and is a highly cultivated 
 lady, exceedingly dainty, kind and sweetly sym- 
 pathetic, and has found herself in the midst of a 
 charmed circle of friends in the city to which 
 she recently came as a stranger. 
 
 J ERE P. O'MEARA, one of the prominent 
 young lawyers of the Elizabethtown bar, son 
 of the late Thomas O'Meara and Mary (Dooley) 
 O'Meara, was born in Hardin County, Kentucky, 
 near Elizabethtown, July 3, 1867. He was reared 
 on his father's farm, but he had the capacity for 
 an education and his parents gave him every ad- 
 vantage at their command. After passing the 
 usual routine of the district schools, he entered 
 St. Joseph College at Bardstown, and was gradu- 
 ated from there in the class of 1885. He then 
 taught in the public schools of Elizabethtown for 
 a short time, after which he began to read law 
 with J. P. Hobson of Elizabethtown, whose sketch 
 is given in this work. 
 
 He made a thorough and careful preparation 
 for the law and was so dilligent and studious that 
 upon his admission to the bar in 1888 his pre- 
 ceptor took him in as a partner, under the firm 
 name of Hobson & O'Meara. This business re- 
 lation continued until the first of May, 1895, when 
 Mr. O'Meara withdrew from the firm and en- 
 gaged in a general civil practice by himself. 
 
 Mr. O'Meara was elected to the legislature in 
 1 89 1 and served during the "long term" until 
 July, 1893. He was chairman of the committee 
 on Court of Appeals and Superior Court and a 
 member of the committee on general statutes, 
 codes of practice and criminal law. His appoint- 
 ment on these important committees was a de- 
 served recognition of hjs marked legal ability, and 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 337 
 
 he distinguished himself in the discharge of his 
 duties as one of the brightest young lawyers in the 
 state. 
 
 Mr. O'Meara is a very active Democratic poli- 
 tician and a leader in party affairs in his section 
 of the state, and no young man is better known 
 in Hardin County. 
 
 His father and mother were born in County 
 Waterford, Ireland, and came to this country in 
 1862, before their marriage. Mr. O'Meara first 
 located in New York, where he spent a year and 
 came to Kentucky in 1863. He was engaged in 
 railroading for some time, but subsequently 
 bought a farm in Hardin County and was en- 
 gaged in agricultural pursuits until the time of 
 his death, July 3, 1890. His widow is a resident 
 of Hardin County. 
 
 REV. JOHN D. JORDAN, Pastor of the Bap- 
 tist Church, Decatur, Illinois, and one of 
 the most distinguished young ministers in that 
 denomination, was born in Caldwell County, Ken- 
 tucky, February 9, 1861. His parents were of 
 Scotch-Irish descent, and the progenitor of the 
 family in this country settled first in Virginia, 
 subsequently removing to North Carolina, whence 
 his grandfather removed to Kentucky, about the 
 time of his father's birth. Mr. Jordan's father died 
 in 1862, leaving no estate, so that there was small 
 chance for education, as the widowed mother of 
 the boy needed his assistance in keeping the wolf 
 on his own side of the door. Young Jordan 
 worked faithfully for his mother until he was nine- 
 teen years of age, and then started out to educate 
 himself. He could read fairly well and "write and 
 cypher" a little, and had a cash capital of four dol- 
 lars. After spending one year in the district school 
 he went to the Princeton High School, working 
 his way while taking a four years' course. At that 
 time it was his purpose and ambition to study 
 law and enter politics. 
 
 He taught school for two years in his native 
 county — ^the two terms covering twenty months — 
 at $40 a month, and during these two years he be- 
 gan to conduct public religious services. The 
 meetings were well attended, and one hundred 
 persons were converted by his preaching during 
 the first few months of his work in that direction. 
 22 
 
 This determined his course for the future, and he 
 began his studies with a view to the ministry in 
 Bethel College September i, 1886, and spent four 
 years in that institution, during which time he 
 preached at Leitchfield, AUenville, Madisonville, 
 and other places, in connection with his college 
 work, and thus made money to defray his expen- 
 ses, help his mother and educate his half-brother. 
 Rev. B. F. Hyde, besides assisting many a poor 
 and worthy student. He took the degree of A. B. 
 in June, 1890, and the degree of A. M. in June, 
 1893. During his last year in college he had 
 charge of the mental and moral science depart- 
 ment. In 1895 he delivered the alumni oration, 
 being the youngest graduate ever honored by that 
 election. 
 
 For two years he was pastor of the First Baptist 
 Church of Paducah, and when he resigned that 
 charge, September, 1891, to attend the Southern 
 Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, it 
 was against the protest of his congregation. He 
 spent three years in the seminary and graduated 
 in nine of the most important classes of that insti- 
 tution. During these three years he preached in 
 the Elizabethtown and Gilead Baptist Churches. 
 
 While a student in the seminary he was elected 
 to the presidency of a college in Texas at a sal- 
 ary of $2,000 a year, but declined. He was also re- 
 called to the First Church in Paducah and decHned 
 that; was offered the pastorate of the First Baptist 
 Church of Evansville, Indiana, but this and other 
 important calls he declined, hoping to complete 
 his studies in the seminary before entering upon 
 stated work; but in the fall of 1894, following the 
 advice of a leading specialist, he gave up his 
 studies on account of an affliction in his eyes. 
 At this time the First Baptist Churches of Oca- 
 la, Florida, and of Decatur, Illinois, were tendered 
 him, and he accepted the call to Decatur, which 
 congregation has a membership of seven hundred 
 and fifty and church property worth $60,000 in a 
 city of 30,000 population. It is one of the best 
 churches in the state. Prof. John P. Fruit, 
 Ph.D., who was in Leipsic, Germany, at the time, 
 writing to a friend in Decatur, said: "I am de- 
 lighted that Mr. Jordan has gone to Decatur. I 
 have known the man thoroughly; have seen him 
 tried and therefore know him to be one of the mosi: 
 
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 promising young preachers we have ever had at 
 Bethel College. He is a man, every inch of him. 
 There is nothing little in him; no common streak 
 such as you find in many a man." A minister of 
 the gospel could hardly wish for a higher compli- 
 ment than this, but it is only one of many which 
 could be given to show the popularity, high stand- 
 ing and ability of Mr. Jordan as a man and a 
 preacher. In his present field his work has been 
 greatly blessed, as it has been wherever he has 
 labored. 
 
 Mr. Jordan is an indefatigable worker, a fine 
 speaker, and a good mixer- — genial in manner and 
 kindly considerate for others. His popularity and 
 magnetism as a speaker have led him to enter the 
 lecture field on special occasions, and he has al- 
 ready made an enviable reputation upon the plat- 
 form. 
 
 His wife, to whom he was married July 8, 1891, 
 was Ray Griffin of Mississippi. 
 
 JOHN P. NEWMAN, a prominent Attorney- 
 at-Law and a well-known and highly popular 
 citizen of Newport, son of John and Catherine 
 (Charde) Newman, was born in the village of 
 Upton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Sep- 
 tember 21, 1851. 
 
 John Newman (father) was born in Trenton, 
 New Jersey, in 1820; received a good education 
 and taught school in early life. He is now a resi- 
 dent of Boston, Massachusetts, which has been 
 his home and where he has been engaged in com- 
 mercial and manufacturing enterprises for many 
 years. At present he is interested in the Boston 
 Type and Stereotype Foundry. He is a member 
 of the Episcopal Church, a consistent Christian, 
 and stands well in the business community; has 
 reached his seventy-sixth year and is still active 
 and energetic for one of his age. He enlisted in 
 Company G, Twentieth Regiment Massachusetts 
 Infantry, in the Civil war, being elected first lieu- 
 tenant, and was afterward promoted to captain of 
 his company. 
 
 He married Catherine Charde, daughter of 
 Lawrence Charde of Massachusetts. She was 
 born in 1829 and died in 1852. She was descended 
 from Irish ancestry. 
 
 Samuel Newman (grandfather) was a native of 
 
 the southern part of Ireland, who came to the 
 United States when twenty-five years of age and 
 located, first, in New York City. He afterward 
 removed to Trenton, New Jersey, and thence to 
 Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he died. 
 
 John P. Newman received his primary educa- 
 tion in the common schools of Worcester County, 
 and attended the Newtonville Academy in Massa- 
 chusetts, from which he graduated in 1871. At the 
 age of twenty-one years he came west and entered 
 the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated 
 from that institution in 1878. He at once com- 
 menced the practice of law at the Newport bar, 
 and has given his best attention to his large clien- 
 tele, while serving the public in the various capa- 
 cities to which he has been called from time to 
 time. He has been mayor and president of the 
 City Council of Bellevue ; has served five years in 
 the legislature, where he took an active and lead- 
 ing part in behalf of the labor organizations; was 
 tendered the nomination of the Union Labor party 
 for attorney-general of the state, which honor he 
 declined. He is a stanch Democrat, faithful and 
 true to the principles of the party, and while he 
 has always been a friend of and sympathized with 
 the laboring classes he could not go outside of 
 his party, which had frequently honored him by 
 election to office, to accept a nomination by a third 
 party organization. 
 
 He is a member of the Knights of Honor, 
 Knights of Pythias, of the Masonic fraternity and 
 of the Benevolent Order of Elks, and in all of 
 these he is a popular and useful member and has 
 received his share of honors at their hands. 
 
 Mr. Newman was married in 1877 to Bertha 
 Houser, daughter of Mathias Houser, one of the 
 old pioneers of Cincinnati. They have two chil- 
 dren, Oliver and Stella. 
 
 COLONEL WILLIAM M. MOORE of 
 Cynthiana, was born in Harrison County, 
 near Cynthiana, in 1837. His father was also a 
 native of Harrison County, who removed with his 
 family to Lewis County, Missouri, in 1839, where 
 he spent the remainder of his life, and died in 1858 
 at the age of forty-six years. He was a farmer and 
 a large owner of land in Lewis County, which he 
 cultivated with great care and success, raising 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 large quantities of wheat, at the same time devot- 
 ing much attention to stoclc raising. 
 
 Moses Moore (grandfather) was born in Rock- 
 bridge County, Virginia, and removed to Harri- 
 son County, Kentucky, in 1808. He was a farmer 
 and a man of unusual intelligence. He died at 
 the early age of thirty years. He belonged to an 
 old and highly respected family of Rockbridge 
 County, Virginia, who were of Scotch-Irish ex- 
 traction. 
 
 Colonel Moore's mother, Mary (Magee) 
 Moore, was born in Harrison County in 1813, and 
 died in Missouri in 1890. Her father, William 
 Magee, was a native of Virginia, who settled in 
 Harrison County in 1807, and his farm adjoined 
 that of Moses Moore. When he was a lad of four- 
 teen or fifteen he served as orderly or messen- 
 ger for General Washington in the Revolu- 
 tionary war. The Magees were from Ireland, 
 and were Protestants. The Moores and Magees 
 were Methodists, and as far back as known until 
 the present time they were Democrats. 
 
 Colonel William M. Moore was two years old 
 when his father removed to Missouri, which was 
 at that time a new country and on the frontier of 
 civilization, where the educational advantages 
 were nothing to boast of. However, with the aid 
 of his parents, he was prepared for college and was 
 a member of the junior class of the Missouri State 
 University in i860. When the Civil war broke 
 out he was one of the first to offer his services, and 
 he enlisted as a private soldier in May, 1861. He 
 received his first wound in the battle of Lexing- 
 ton. In December, 1861, he was made adjutant, 
 and in May, 1862, he was promoted to the rank 
 of lieutenant-colonel. He resigned in August, 
 1862; re-enlisted and was made captain of his 
 company, and in the same year was made lieuten- 
 ant-colonel again; and in April, 1863, he was pro- 
 moted to the rank of colonel, and during the last 
 year of the war he commanded a brigade, refus- 
 ing a commission as brigadier-general in order to 
 stay with his men. He was wounded at Helena 
 and again at Jenkin's Ferry; was in the battles of 
 Mansfield and Pleasant Hill; was officer of the 
 day in command of the guards when Shreveport 
 was surrendered to General Canby, whose parole 
 Colonel Moore still has in his possession 
 
 July, 1865, Colonel Moore returned to his home 
 in Missouri after four years' service in a cause 
 to which he had sacrificed everything he had, and 
 settled down to the quiet life of the farmer. 
 
 He was elected sheriff of Lewis County in 1875, 
 and in 1877 he was elected to the State Legislature. 
 In 1882 Colonel Moore returned to his native 
 county and located near the place of his birth, 
 about six miles north of Cynthiana, where he en- 
 gaged in farming extensively and in raising stock. 
 He owns over seven hundred acres of land, with 
 modern improvements. 
 
 He was elected to the Kentucky Legislature 
 in 1889 and again in 1891, and was Speaker of the 
 House of Representatives during the session of 
 1891-2. Plis pubHc career has been singularly 
 fortunate, especially in view of his unprofessional 
 life. He is essentially a leader, having a strong 
 will, firm convictions, with courage to assert his 
 views and the intelligence to forcibly present them 
 before the people. He enjoys the confidence of his 
 friends not only in the Democratic party, to which 
 he belongs, but among his neighbors and ac- 
 quaintances. 
 
 Colonel Moore married Fannie Garnett in 1870. 
 They have two daughters, Mary L. and Jennie 
 Moore. Mrs. Moore is the daughter of Thomas 
 T. Garnett, a Harrison County farmer, who came 
 from Virginia with his parents when he was one 
 year old. 
 
 WILLIAM CRAWLEY LANG, a well 
 known business man and at present coal 
 oil inspector of Paducah, although seventy-four 
 years of age, is an active and industrious citizen, 
 who has been closely identified with the business 
 interests at Paducah for more than forty years. He 
 was born in Manchester, Virginia, September 15, 
 1 82 1, and after receiving a fair common school 
 education was a manufacturer of and dealer in 
 tobacco in his native city until 1852. 
 
 He removed to Paducah in 1854 and established 
 a tobacco manufactory in that city, in which he 
 continued with remarkable success until 1863, a 
 time in which many fortunes were wrecked, and 
 Mr. Lang, with many others, lost all he had, and 
 was compelled to abandon his business for a time. 
 
 In 1865 he retired to a farm and in the course of 
 
340 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 ten years had recovered from his embarrassment 
 and gained suificient capital to resume business 
 in the city. 
 
 In 187s he became associated with Thomas 
 Lyle in the grocery business, and was thus en- 
 gaged until 1893, when he was appointed coal oil 
 inspector, a lucrative position, for which he is 
 well qualified, and to which he was called through 
 the influence of the leading business men of 
 Paducah. 
 
 Mr. Lang was married April 5, 1846, to Martha 
 Muse, with whom he lived for' nearly half a cen- 
 tury. She was born in Gloucester County, Vir- 
 ginia, in 1825, and died January g, 1895. She was 
 a member of the Methodist Church for fifty-three 
 years, and a most exemplary Christian woman. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Lang were the parents of six 
 children: James Maynard, deceased; MoUie, wife 
 of William Allen of Paducah; James Maynard, 
 of whom a brief sketch is given herewith; Wallie 
 Lee, Nellie and Addie. 
 
 James Maynard Lang, the third child, and 
 second son of that name, was born in Paducah, 
 July 15, 1857, and was carefully educated in the 
 pubHc schools of the city until he was seventeen 
 years of age, when, in 1874, he was apprenticed 
 to A. B. Kincaid, a druggist of Paducah, for a 
 term of three years. In this capacity he learned 
 the intricacies of chemistry and pharmacy, and by 
 careful study prepared himself for the responsible 
 duties of the modern druggist. After a rigid ex- 
 amination in Louisville^ having complied with the 
 regulations of the State Board of Pharmacy, he 
 became a duly registered pharmacist in 1881, and 
 to this work he has applied himself in his native 
 tity without interruption until the present time. 
 
 He has been a member of the Board of Educa- 
 tion for three consecutive terms, and in Novem- 
 ber, 1894, he was elected president of the Padu- 
 cah Fair Association, a post to which only the 
 most capable business men of the city are called. 
 He is a Democrat, but not for revenue or office; 
 a member of the Knights and Ladies of Honor and 
 of the Odd Fellows. 
 
 James Maynard Lang and Georgie McKee, 
 daughter of George McKee of Paducah, were 
 married October 15, 1882, and they have one 
 child, India, who was born July 22, 1890, 
 
 William Lang, father of William Crawley Lang, 
 was born in Manchester, Virginia, and was a 
 private in the War of 1812. He was a merchant 
 tailor in his native city and an enthusiastic Demo- 
 crat, but sought no political office. He was a 
 faithful member of the Methodist Church, to which 
 faith his descendants have adhered until the pres- 
 ent generation. His father, Archibald Lang, was 
 a Scotchman, who came to Virginia during the 
 latter part of the eighteenth cer^tury. His wife, 
 Sarah Lang, was a Huguenot. The ancestors of 
 Martha Maynard Lang (mother of William C. 
 Lang) were also from Scotland. 
 
 AT. LACEY, grain dealer and a popular 
 . citizen of Paducah, son of Charles Smith 
 and Mary Jane (Baker) Lacey, was born in Hali- 
 fax County, Virginia, March 28, 1858. His father, 
 Charles Smith Lacey, was also born in that coun- 
 ty, in 1819, where he received a fine education, 
 and although he led a non-professional life, was 
 one of the most intelligent and cultured men of 
 that section. He began life as a merchant, but 
 soon found he had a preference for agricultural 
 pursuits and became an extensive planter, owning 
 many acres of valuable land and a great number 
 of slaves. During the struggle between the North 
 and the South his sympathies were decidedly with 
 the people of his own section and he contributed 
 generously to the cause, furnishing provisions and 
 clothing for the Confederate soldiers and aiding 
 them in every way except by taking up arms. 
 His generosity during the war was one of the 
 characteristics of the man, for he has been a 
 philanthropist, whose aim in life has been to min- 
 ister to the needs of others. He is now living 
 a retired life, in his native county, loved and hon- 
 ored by his fellowmen on account of his superior 
 mind, gentleness of spirit, generosity, goodness 
 of heart and many other noble traits of character. 
 
 Robert Dudley Lacey (grandfather) was a na- 
 tive of England, who came to this country after 
 his marriage to a Miss Stubblefield, a member of 
 a distinguished English family, and settled in 
 Halifax County, Virginia, where they became fully 
 identified with the progressive and cultured peo- 
 ple of that part of the state. 
 
 Mary Jane Baker Lacey (mother) was born in 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 341 
 
 Halifax County, Virginia, in 1829, and married 
 Charles S. Lacey in 1847. She is living with her 
 honored husband in her native county, a member 
 of the Baptist Church and a devout Christian 
 woman, greatly loved and admired by a host of 
 friends and relatives. 
 
 Elijah Baker (grandfather), a planter and slave 
 owner of Halifax County, Virginia, married Susan 
 Barkstead of the same county. He was noted for 
 his wealth and intelligence, and was one of the 
 best citizens of the county. 
 
 A. T. Lacey, a worthy descendant of these first 
 families of Virginia, received a liberal education 
 in Halifax County, attending the best schools in 
 the vicinity, completing his studies in 1876, when 
 eighteen years of age. He began his business 
 career as a merchant in Boydsville, Kentucky, 
 where he sold dry goods, and also dealt in tobacco 
 for three years. He then removed to Paducah 
 and was bookkeeper for a wholesale saddlery 
 house for three years, and traveled throughout 
 the South for six years for the same firm. He was 
 then engaged in the milling business for five years, 
 which led to his present business as a dealer in 
 grain, in which he has been engaged since 1891. 
 In this line of business he has established a very 
 extensive trade and made a reputation as one of 
 the most reliable and successful grain brokers in 
 Southwestern Kentucky. 
 
 Mr. Lacey was married June 4, 1884, to Kate 
 I. Baker, daughter of T. A. Baker, cashier of the 
 First National Bank of Paducah. Mrs. Lacey died 
 May 29, 1895, leaving one child, Cecil Baker, born 
 May 24, 1895. 
 
 Mr. Lacey is not a partisan, but votes the Dem- 
 ocratic ticket, taking very little active interest in 
 politics. He is more interested in church work, 
 being a member of the Presbyterian Church and 
 an honored and useful citizen. 
 
 M 
 
 ILLARD FILMORE HAMPTON, for 
 many years Clerk of the Circuit Court and 
 at present a practicing attorney in Catlettsburg, 
 was born in that city June 15, 1849. 
 
 His father, Levi Hampton, was a native of 
 Cabell County, Virginia, who removed to Boyd 
 County, Kentucky, and subsequently to Brown 
 County Ohio, where he married Elizabeth Hen- 
 
 derson in 1845, ^rid returned to Catlettsburg, at 
 which place he made his home during the remain- 
 der of a busy and useful life. He was at different 
 times engaged in various enterprises — lumbering, 
 farming, trading and hotelkeeping — and was a 
 man of afifairs, and of wide influence in his coun- 
 ty. When war was declared between the North 
 and South he enlisted in the Union army, joining 
 the Thirty-ninth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer 
 Infantry. In 1862 he was appointed quartermas- 
 ter, and in December of the same year he was 
 killed at Wireman's Shoals while defending his 
 stores. He was a friend of education, civilization 
 and progress, and was instrumental in bringing 
 Catlettsburg up to its present high moral and 
 educational standard. He left a widow and five 
 children: Julia, Amelia, Mary, Lizzie and Mil- 
 lard F. Hampton. Mrs. Hampton survived her 
 husband but one year, and died in 1863. 
 
 Henry Hampton (grandfather) was a native and 
 lifetime resident of Wayne County (now West 
 Virginia). His ancestors were English people, 
 some of whom came to the new world before the 
 American Revolution, and settled, some in New 
 York, some in Pennsylvania, and others in Vir- 
 ginia and other southern states. 
 
 Millard Filmore Hampton was educated in the 
 public schools of his native town and at Asbury, 
 now De Pauw University, Indiana. Returning 
 from college in 1867, he engaged in merchandis- 
 ing, at the same time pursuing his studies 
 for the legal profession; in 1868 he was 
 appointed deputy clerk of the Circuit Court, 
 and after serving six years in that capa- 
 city was elected clerk in 1874. He held 
 this office by re-election until 1892, when, 
 twenty-five years after first taking up his legal 
 studies, he was admitted to the bar as a practic- 
 ing attorney. His experience of a quarter of a 
 century in the clerk's office, attended with a pur- 
 pose to practice law, together with his reading 
 from time to time, qualified him for successful 
 labor in the profession of his choice, and the ex- 
 tended acquaintance with legal matters and with 
 the people, formed during his long public service, 
 enabled him to command a lucrative practice at 
 the outset, and he is to-day one of the most popu- 
 lar attorneys in Catlettsburg. 
 
342 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 He was married June 20, 1873, to Kath- 
 erine Hornshell, eldest daughter of Captain 
 Washington Hornshell. They have one son, 
 Gus Hornshell Hampton, born March 5, 
 1874, a graduate of Washington and Lee 
 University of Lexington, Virginia, a bright, 
 industrious and exemplary young man, now 
 employed as bookkeeper in the Catlettsburg 
 National Bank. All of the members of the family 
 are members of the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Captain Hornshell is a native of Ohio, and mar- 
 ried in Burlington and removed to Catlettsburg, 
 where he was for many years engaged in steam- 
 boat building, but is now retired. By industry, 
 perseverance and honesty of purpose he carved 
 an honored name and acquired a handsome for- 
 tune. He had the reputation of having built the 
 best steamboats that ever plied the waters of the 
 western rivers; was interested in a number of 
 business enterprises, and is now vice-president of 
 the Catlettsburg National Bank and a highly hon- 
 ored and public-spirited citizen. 
 
 JOHN M. HUTTON, Cashier of the Second 
 National Bank of Ashland, Kentucky, son of 
 James and Luvenda (Jones) Hutton, was born 
 April 24, 1865. His father was born at Pond Run, 
 Scioto County, Ohio, November 5, 1828, and after 
 receiving a good common school education spent 
 the earlier years of his life on his father's farm 
 in that county. In 1853 he removed to Ashland, 
 Kentucky, and was a merchant there for two years, 
 when he went to Catlettsburg, where he was in 
 the same hne of business for six months, and in 
 1855 he embarked in a new business known as 
 "store-boating," taking a large stock of merchan- 
 dise on a boat and stopping at different points 
 along the river. After reaching Memphis with 
 fair success he returned to Ashland, but soon re- 
 moved to the farm in Scioto County, Ohio. He 
 did not remain there long, and returned to Ash- 
 land to accept a position with the A. C. & J. R. R. 
 Company. In 1857 he embarked in the grocery 
 business in Ashland, in which he continued until 
 1889, when he retired, having sold out to his son, 
 the subject of this sketch, and J. H. McCleary. 
 He was always devoted to his business and cared 
 little for poHtics. He was a Democrat until the 
 
 election of President Buchanan, for whom he vot- 
 ed, but after that he was an ardent Republican. 
 During the war he was a strong Union man. 
 
 John Hutton (grandfather) was born in Scioto 
 County, Ohio, in 1805, and spent his life as a 
 farmer in his native county. He married Frances 
 Burress, a native of Maryland, but of German de- 
 scent. He died in 1871, and his wife died in 1881. 
 They were members of the Methodist Church. 
 
 James Hutton (great-grandfather) was also a 
 native of Scioto County, Ohio, and was a soldier 
 in the War of 1812. He married Anna Hamilton 
 of the same county, and they made their home 
 there during their lifetime. 
 
 George Hutton (great-great-grandfather) was 
 a native of Ireland, who was one of the first set- 
 tlers in Scioto County. 
 
 James M. Hutton's mother, Luvenda (Jones) 
 Hutton, was born near Vesuvius Furnace, Law- 
 rence County, Ohio, in 1836. She received a su- 
 perior education in the county schools and at 
 Ashland, Kentucky, and was married to Mr. Hut- 
 ton August 2, 1853. She is the mother of seven 
 children, four of whom are living, and is now a 
 resident of Ashland, the center of a large circle of 
 devoted relatives and friends. 
 
 Richard Jones (grandfather) was bom in Mari- 
 etta, Ohio, March 22, 1800. He was a foundry- 
 man by trade, and had charge of Hecla Furnace 
 for a great many years, and afterward was man- 
 ager of Vesuvius Furnace until 1840, when he 
 removed to Clinton Furnace in Boyd County, 
 Kentucky, of which he was manager for six years. 
 He bought from James Biggs the farm which is 
 now the site of Ashland, and which was in what 
 was then known as the Poague settlement. He 
 was elected to the legislature in 1851, and served 
 one term, after which he sold his farm and went 
 to Missouri to buy land near St. Louis, and while 
 there he was thrown from a carriage, receiving 
 injuries which terminated fatally August 10, 1856. 
 He was married in 1827 to Jane Coyle, daughter 
 of Stephen and Clara Coyle, who was born Octo- 
 ber 21, 1804, and died December 26, 1874. 
 
 William Jones (great-grandfather) married 
 Margaret Jones ; they were both of Irish descent 
 and were among the pioneers of Marietta, Ohio. 
 
 John M. Hutton was graduated from the pub- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 343 
 
 lie schools of Ashland in 1883, after which he was 
 a clerk in his father's store for a year before going 
 to Dufif's Commercial College in Pittsburgh and 
 again for six months after his return. He was 
 then employed as bookkeeper in the wholesale 
 hardware house of Thomas Henderson for a few 
 months, resigning to accept a similar position with 
 the Great Western Mining & Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, where he was employed until he was elected 
 cashier of the Second National Bank of Ashland, 
 a position he has held until the present time and 
 in which he has developed unusual financial abil- 
 ity, and has distinguished himself as a very cap- 
 able manager of the important interests of the 
 bank. 
 
 He is not active in politics, but is a voter of the 
 Republican ticket, and a useful member of his 
 party. He is a member of the Masonic Order and 
 of the Mystic Shrine, and is an officer in the 
 Supreme body of the Knights of the Golden 
 Eagle. 
 
 Mr. Hutton was married April 15, 1891, to 
 Mary Kinner, daughter of Judge S. G. Kinner of 
 Catlettsburg, where she was born November 14, 
 1871. She was educated in the best schools of 
 Catlettsburg and at Bellewood Seminary, near 
 Louisville, finishing in the Convent of the Sacred 
 Heart, Cincinnati. 
 
 DR. J. B. HADDAN, Dentist, Lawrenceburg, 
 was born in Freeport, Louisiana, October 5, 
 1866. His father, Samuel Haddan, was born in 
 Owen County in 1846 and at the age of twenty-six 
 years he removed to Louisiana and engaged in 
 planting. He died there in 1873, when only twen- 
 ty-seven years of age. 
 
 Margaret Brown Haddan (mother) was born in 
 Owen County, a daughter of Joseph Brown, who 
 was also a native and lifetime resident of Owen 
 county, where he died in 1863. 
 
 Dr. J. B. Haddan, after enjoying all of the ad- 
 vantages of the common schools, was a student in 
 Georgetown College for two years. Having 
 chosen dentistry as his profession he studied and 
 worked in the laboratory of Dr. Foster of New 
 Albany, Indiana, for two years and then com- 
 pleted his course by two years of study in Vander- 
 bilt University, Nashville, Tenn., and graduated 
 
 with a class of sixty-six pupils in 1889. He then 
 went to the town of Monterey in Owen County 
 and began the practice of his profession, but at the 
 end of one year he removed to Lawrenceburg, 
 in 1890, where he has met with gratifying success, 
 and has won the confidence and esteem of the en- 
 tire community as well as of his numerous patrons. 
 He is a member of the Monterey Lodge of Odd 
 Fellows, and of the Lawrenceburg Lodge of Free 
 Masons, in both of which orders he is actively in- 
 terested and popular. He is a communicant of the 
 Baptist Church and a regular attendant. 
 
 Dr. Haddan was married July 10, 1889, to Mol- 
 lie Sullivan, who died June 29, 1895, leaving three 
 children: Thomas, Samuel D. and Blanche. 
 
 ALFRED HERR HITE of St. Matthews, 
 Superintendent of Public Schools of Jeffer- 
 son County, is the son of Samuel S. and Jennie 
 (Herr) Hite, and was born at St. Matthews No- 
 vember 6, 1865. His father was born in Jefferson 
 County in 1829, and resides at St. Matthews. He 
 is actively engaged in the real estate business in 
 Louisville. He served one term as sheriff of Jef- 
 ferson County and was deputy commissioner of 
 the Louisville Chancery Court for many years. 
 He is a man of sterling integrity and honesty and 
 a Democrat in politics. 
 
 Jacob Hite (grandfather) was also a native of 
 Jefferson County, and was a prosperous farmer 
 on the land now partly occupied by the Central 
 Asylum. He served in the Mexican war. Died 
 aged eighty-two years. 
 
 Isaac Hite (great-grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia, and was a surveyor, tanner and miller. 
 He was a member of the colony that Daniel Boone 
 brought to Jefferson County, and his name and 
 many of the experiences of the colony are men- 
 tioned in ColHns' History of Kentucky. 
 
 Mr. Hite's mother was born in the house now 
 occupied by him. Her family came from Penn- 
 sylvania to Jefferson County soon after the ar- 
 rival of Daniel Boone. 
 
 Alfred Herr (grandfather) was a native farmer 
 of Jefferson County. 
 
 John Herr (great-grandfather) was born in 
 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he was a 
 cabinet-maker, but after coming to Kentucky he 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 became a successful farmer, and acquired a very 
 large estate. 
 
 Mr. Hite was reared on the farm near St. Mat- 
 thews, and received his education in the country 
 schools and in the Louisville High School, grad- 
 uating in 1886 with the degree of Bachelor of 
 Arts. He taught school in the county for several 
 years and in November, 1893, he was elected 
 county superintendent of schools, taking the office 
 in August following. He married Ninette, 
 daughter of John L. Herr of Jefiferson County, 
 April 9, 1895. He resides on tlje old homestead, 
 which is owned by his brother and himself. 
 
 He has a fine library and a valuable collection 
 of Indian relics, besides some fine old china and 
 silverware, which he prizes very highly. He is a 
 member of the Christian Church. He belongs to 
 a fine family, whose members have always stood 
 well in the community, and the young man is 
 doing his part to sustain the good name of his an- 
 cestors. 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the 
 United States, born in Hardin County, Ken- 
 tucky, in that part since included in Larue Coun- 
 ty, February 12, 1809; removed to Spencer 
 County, Indiana, in 1816; received but a limited 
 education; worked at splitting rails and was a 
 boatman on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers; re- 
 moved to and worked on a farm in Illinois, 1830; 
 served as a volunteer captain in the Black Hawk 
 war, 1832; for four terms, 1834-36-38-40, a mem- 
 ber of the lUinois Legislature; studied law in 
 the interim; a delegate to the national conven- 
 tion which nominated General Taylor for Presi- 
 dent, 1848; a representative in Congress from 
 IlHnois, 1847-49; President of the United States, 
 1861-65; re-elected November, 1864; assassin- 
 ated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, 
 "Good Friday," while seated in a private box 
 in Ford's Theater, in Washington City. Such, 
 in brief, is the public record of Abraham Lincoln. 
 The historian of this day can not do justice to 
 this remarkable man. The Northman would 
 draw his character in terms of glowing eulogy; 
 the Southron would point his pen with bitterness 
 and gall. The one would absurdly ascribe to 
 him the lofty virtues of Washington, the other 
 
 would class him with Grimaldi the clown. And 
 both would be wide of the mark. He was a man 
 of quaint humor and genial disposition, patient, 
 calm, self-poised and thoroughly honest. His 
 administration of the government was for no 
 selfish or personal ends, but meant for the gener- 
 al good. The rectitude of his public conduct was 
 above suspicion, and his love of country must 
 ever challenge admiration. 
 
 COL. REUBEN T. DURRETT was born in 
 Henry County, Kentucky, January 22, 
 1824; graduated at Brown University, R. L, 1846, 
 and at the Louisville Law School, 1850; editor of 
 the Louisville Daily Courier for two years, 1857- 
 59; and just two years later, September 18, i86r, 
 because prominently on the side of the South, 
 was arrested by the military and sent to Fort 
 Lafayette — the first political prisoner in Ken- 
 tucky. As a lawyer, editor, scholar, writer. Col- 
 onel Durrett has made his mark. But the crown- 
 ing glory of his life, so regarded, is the unpar- 
 alleled success of his favorite scheme for a great 
 "Public Library of Kentucky" at Louisville, open 
 and free to all; permanently established (Janu- 
 ary, 1874) in a magnificent building, 168 feet 
 front and four stories high, which cost $210,000, 
 and with a library of over 40,000 volumes and a 
 museum of over 100,000 specimens and curiosi- 
 ties. 
 
 SGRABFELDER, son of Emanuel and Rena 
 . (Driefus) Grabfelder, was born September 
 2, 1844. His fatlier was a native of Bavaria, Ger- 
 many, and was engaged in mercantile business 
 there until November, 1848, when, on account of 
 his somewhat decided republican principles, near- 
 ly all of his property was confiscated. He died 
 in 1855, at the age of sixty-five, and was buried 
 within a short distance of Nuremberg, Germany. 
 Shortly after the death of his father Mr. Grabfeld- 
 cr's mother determined to come to America, and 
 with her three sons landed in New York in 1856. 
 Mr. Grabfelder came to Louisville with one of 
 his brothers in 1857, leaving his mother in New 
 York, where she died in 1887. He clerked in a 
 large wholesale dry goods house until 1866, when 
 he engaged in the distillery business, to which he 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 345 
 
 has successfully given his attention uninterrupted- 
 ly for nearly thirty years, and for many years hold- 
 ing the important office of president of the Temple 
 Adas Israel. 
 
 Mr. Grabfelder married Miss Deha Griff, 
 daughter of Samuel Griff of Louisville, in 1871. 
 Mrs. Grabfelder was educated in a convent in 
 Lorado. They have a fine residence on Broadway, 
 where, with no children of their own, they enjoy 
 the society of their many friends and visitors. 
 
 Mr. Grabfelder is an ardent Republican, always 
 liberal in his support of his party, but has never 
 sought nor would he accept any political office. 
 
 WILLIAM LINDSAY, one of the present 
 senators in Congress from Kentucky, and 
 one of the leading members of the Democratic 
 party of the nation, is a lineal descendant of an 
 old Scotch-Irish family, the progenitor of which 
 in this country was James Lindsay (grandfather), 
 who was a native of Dykehead Farm, Lanark 
 County, Scotland. He was born in September, 
 1773, and emigrated from his native land in 1790 
 and located in Rockbridge County, Virginia, 
 where he engaged in farming. On June 30, 1797, 
 he wedded Agnes McCambell, who was born in 
 that county on December 24, 1775, and was de- 
 scended from Scotch-Presbyterian ancestry. Of 
 this marriage were born nine children: Five 
 girls and four boys, of whom Andrew (father) 
 was the fifth child and third son. Andrew Lind- 
 say was bom October 6, 1809, and died July 4, 
 1883. His entire life was spent in his native 
 county engaged in the peaceful pursuits of the 
 farm. He enjoyed the reputation of an indus- 
 trious, upright and leading citizen. His first wife, 
 whom he married in January, 1834, was Sally 
 Gilmore Davidson, whose ancestors were Scotch- 
 Presbyterians, and settled in Virginia as early 
 as 1745, where they became identified with the 
 pioneer settlement and development of the state. 
 She was born October 7, 1809, and died January 
 7, 1845. To Andrew and Sally Gilmore Lindsay 
 were born four children: William, born Sep- 
 tember 4, 1835; James, April i, 1837; Polly G., 
 October 4, 1839, who became the wife of Daniel 
 A. Teaford of Rockbridge County, and Sally D. 
 
 who married James Kirkpatrick of the same 
 county. 
 
 Andrew Lindsay in the year 1847 took for his 
 second wife Mary F. Gilmore. The children born 
 to this marriage were: Marion, born February 
 22, 1851; Charles, October 14, 1855; Andrew 
 W., February 28, 1861, and Bruce, July 26, 1865. 
 The death of the second Mrs. Lindsay occurred 
 April 16, 1878. 
 
 Senator William Lindsay received his educa- 
 tion in the high schools of Lexington, Virginia, 
 and after completing his academic course there en- 
 tered the office of Judge John W. Brokenborough 
 of that city as a student at law. in November of 
 1854 he migrated to Kentucky and located in 
 Hickman County, where he continued his legal 
 studies under the tutelage of Judge Edward 
 Crossland of Clinton, and was duly admitted to 
 the bar to practice law in 1858. He at once en- 
 gaged in the practice in Hickman and the sur- 
 rounding counties, meeting with success from 
 the start, but he had no sooner become fully es- 
 tablislied with a promising career ahead of him 
 when the breaking out of the Civil war between 
 the States compelled a change. Mr. Lindsay 
 being in warm sympathy with the South, enlisted 
 as a private in the Confederate army in May, 
 1861 ; in July of the same year was made lieuten- 
 ant of Company B, Twenty-second Tennessee 
 Infantry, a company composed entirely of Ken- 
 tuckians. He commanded it as captain in the 
 battle of Belmont, Missouri, in November, 1861, 
 and at Shiloh in April, 1862. After that battle 
 the company was transferred to a Kentucky regi- 
 ment, and Judge Lindsay was thereafter con- 
 nected with the Seventh Kentucky Infantry, and 
 served as staff officer with the brigade command- 
 ers. General Abe Buford, General H. B. Lyon, 
 Colonel Thompson and Colonel Crossland. He 
 was paroled at Columbus, Miss., May 16, 1865, 
 at the close of the war. Returning to Hickman 
 County, Judge Lindsay was elected to the State 
 Senate in August, 1867, to represent the coun- 
 ties of Hickman, Fulton and Graves, and per- 
 formed his duties in a capable and able man- 
 ner, and to the satisfaction of his constituents. In 
 Avigust, 1870, he was elected one of the judges 
 of the Court of Appeals, occupying that distin- 
 
346 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 guished position until September, 1878, serving 
 as chief justice the last two years of his term, 
 when he declined a re-election, and, retiring 
 from the bench, commenced the practice of law 
 at Frankfort, where he at present resides. Per- 
 haps no lawyer in Kentucky is better known or 
 more highly esteemed, both in his profession and 
 among the people, than Judge Lindsay. As a 
 lawyer he stands in the front rank of his profes- 
 sion, and enjoys a large and remunerative prac- 
 tice. As a judge his career was of the highest 
 order. He wrote the opinion in the case of the 
 Commonwealth vs. Hawes, which involved the 
 question of extradition, and the construction of 
 the treaty upon that subject between Great 
 Britain and the United States, in which it was 
 the first time decided by a court of last resort 
 that a person extradited for one of the causes 
 named in the treaty could not be lawfully tried for 
 an offense not named in the warrant of extradi- 
 tion, without first being afforded an opportunity 
 to return to the country from which he had been 
 taken. This decision has been followed by the 
 courts of the other states and by the Federal 
 courts, and the doctrine was affirmed and ap- 
 proved by the Supreme Court of the United 
 States during the session of 1886-7 in the case 
 of United States vs. Rauscher (119 U. S. 407). 
 Judge Lindsay also wrote the opinion in the 
 case of the Covington & Lexington Railroad 
 Company against Bowler, in which it was held 
 that the directors of a railroad company could 
 not assist in bringing the property of the cor- 
 poration to sale, and then claim the benefits of 
 such sale as purchasers. Judge Lindsay has al- 
 ways been a consistent member of the Democratic 
 party, and faithful to its principles and doctrines. 
 In 1889 Judge Lindsay was elected to the Ken- 
 tucky State Senate from the district composed of 
 the Counties of Franklin, Anderson and Mercer. 
 In 1891 he was appointed a member at large of 
 the World's Columbian Commission, and served 
 as such until February, 1893, when he resigned. 
 In January, 1892, he was appointed by President 
 Harrison a member of the Inter-State Commerce 
 Commission, and his appointment was at once 
 confirmed by the senate of the United States. But 
 not having been an applicant for the place. Judge 
 
 Lindsay felt at liberty to decline, and did decline 
 to accept the appointment. In February, 1893, 
 he was chosen by the Kentucky Legislature 
 United States Senator to serve out the unexpired 
 term of Senator John G. Carlisle, ending March 
 4, 1895. In January, 1894, he was re-elected to 
 the United States Senate, without opposition, for 
 the full term, that commenced March 4, 1895, 
 and will end March 4, 1901. 
 
 In December, 1893, Judge Lindsay was united 
 to his present wife, Miss Eleanor Holmes, a lady 
 of great beauty and many rare excellencies of 
 character, prominent in church and society, in 
 which she is distinguished for the character of 
 her receptions and entertainments, and who pre- 
 sides with grace and tact over the hospitable 
 home of her husband. Senator Lindsay has one 
 living child: Miss Marion Semple Lindsay, a 
 daughter by a former marriage. 
 
 DR. JOHN C. WELCH (father) was a native 
 of Jessamine County, born July 3, 1823; 
 the degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred 
 upon him by Transylvania University in 1844 
 and the degree of Doctor of Medicine by same 
 institution in 1846. 
 
 For forty-one years he practiced his chosen 
 profession in his native county with the excep- 
 tion of four or five years, during the war. In 
 1861 Dr. Welch espoused the cause of the Union 
 and entered the service as surgeon of the Twen- 
 tieth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. In 1863 he 
 was made brigade surgeon and served in that 
 capacity until the close of the war. He was an 
 able physician, whose skill was known through- 
 out the state. 
 
 In 1877 and 1879 he represented his county 
 in the lower house of the legislature, and was 
 chairman of the committee on charitable institu- 
 tions and a member of the committee on educa- 
 tion. 
 
 JOHN BREATHITT, late Governor of Ken- 
 tucky, was a native of the State of Virginia. 
 He was the eldest child of William Breathitt, 
 and was born on the ninth day of September, 1786. 
 His father removed from Virginia and settled in 
 Logan County, Kentucky, in the year 1800. Tlie 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGR.\PHIES. 
 
 347 
 
 old gentleman was a farmer, possessed of a few 
 servants and a tract of land, but not sufficiently 
 wealthy to give 'his children collegiate educations. 
 The schools of his neighborhood afforded but 
 few opportunities for the advancement of pupils. 
 John made the best use of the means for im- 
 provement placed within his reach, and by dili- 
 gent attention to his books, made himself a good 
 surveyor. 
 
 He taught a country school in early life, and by 
 his industry and economy, as teacher and sur- 
 veyor, he acquired property rapidly, consisting 
 mostly in lands, which were easily obtained under 
 the acts of the assembly appropriating the pub- 
 lic domain. After his earnings had secured a cap- 
 ital capable of sustaining him a few years, he re- 
 solved to read law, which he did under the direc- 
 tion of the late Judge Wallace. He was admitted 
 to the bar in February, 1810. His industry and 
 capacity for business soon secured him a lucra- 
 tive practice, and from this time he rapidly ad- 
 vanced in public estimation. 
 
 In 1810 or 181 1 he was elected to represent the 
 County of Logan in the House of Representa- 
 tives of the General Assembly, and filled the 
 same office for several years in succession. In 
 1828 he was elected lieutenant-governor of the 
 commonwealth, the duties of which station he 
 filled with great dignity and propriety. In 1832 
 he was elected governor, but did not live to the 
 end of his official term. He died in the gover- 
 nor's house, in Frankfort, February 21, 1834. 
 
 BENJAMIN B. WILSON, a popular young 
 business man and Treasurer of the City 
 of Lexington, son of Reuben B. and Elizabeth 
 M. (Dunbar) 'Wilson, was born in Barnwell 
 County, South Carolina, April 28, 1858. Reuben 
 B. Wilson was born in Barnwell County, South 
 Carolina, March 3, 1831; was educated at 
 Charleston, South Carolina, at the Citadel Aca- 
 demy, from which he was graduated in the class 
 of 1853. He was engaged in the occupation of 
 farming until 1875, when he removed to Au- 
 gusta, Georgia, where for two years he was en- 
 gaged in the grocery business, and was then in 
 the cotton commission business. His health 
 failed in 1888, when he removed to Lexington, 
 
 and died there in 1889. He was a devoted mem- 
 ber of the Baptist Church and held a license to 
 preach, but never had any regular charge. He 
 was an enthusiastic worker in church affairs, and 
 at the age of seventeen years was clerk of the con- 
 gregation of which he was a member, and in 1853 
 was elected a deacon. 
 
 He enlisted in the First Georgia Confederate 
 Regiment of Infantry under Colonel Johnson 
 Haygood, and was at Charleston when the first 
 gun was fired on Fort Sumter. He subsequent- 
 ly joined a cavalry regiment under Colonel Col- 
 cott, with whom he served during the war. 
 
 James J. Wilson (grandfather) was a native 
 of South Carolina, and was well educated, but 
 'had to work hard for it; was a member of the 
 House of Representatives in the Legislature for 
 several terms, and later a member of the State 
 Senate. He was a lawyer by profession, but on 
 account of ill-health relinquished the work of 
 his profession and retired to his farm and finally 
 gave up business and went to live with his 
 son, and died April 28, 1876. 
 
 James Wilson (great-grandfather) was one of 
 the immortal signers of the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence, who was afterward one of the judges 
 of the Supreme Court of the United States. 
 
 Elizabeth Dunbar Wilson (mother) was born 
 in Barnwell County, South Carolina, August 17, 
 1835. She was educated in the high school of 
 Barnwell Village, and this was supplemented by 
 a course in Augusta Female Academy in Georgia, 
 taught by William Hard, a Baptist minister and 
 a teacher of distinction. She was a member of 
 the Baptist Church and a most excellent Chris- 
 tian woman. 
 
 Frank F. Dunbar (maternal grandfather) was 
 a native of Barnwell County, South Carolina, 
 where he received a common school education, 
 and was for sixteen years tax collector of his 
 county, and was familiarly known as Major Dun- 
 bar. 
 
 George R. Dunbar (great-grandfather) was a 
 native of the same county and a farmer by occu- 
 pation. He accumulated considerable property; 
 was modest and unassuming in his manner, and 
 an elegant gentleman of the old school. 
 
 Benjamin B. Wilson is a native of Barnwell 
 
348 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 County, South Carolina; received his education 
 in the best private schools of that section. At 
 the age of seventeen years, he went to Augusta, 
 Georgia, where he became engaged as a salesman 
 in his father's grocery, where he remained for 
 several years, afterwai"ds becoming a partner, in 
 which he continued for two years, and came to 
 Kentucky with his father, in 1881. 
 
 After arriving in Lexington he became inter- 
 ested in the livery business, in which he is now 
 engaged. He was elected city treasurer of 
 Lexington, of which office he^ is the present 
 incumbent. Mr. Wilson is Past Grand Master of 
 the Odd Fellows of the state and a member of 
 several other secret and benevolent orders. He 
 owns and manages a stock farm near the city 
 limits in which he takes especial pride. 
 
 Mr. Wilson was married May 9, 1883, to Alice 
 Hancock of Lexington, a graduate from Sayre 
 Institute, class of 1882, taking the first honors 
 of her class. They have four children: George 
 H., Horace H., Benjamin Dunbar and Ethelbert 
 Reed. 
 
 BENNETT H. YOUNG, one of the most dis- 
 tinguished citizens of Louisville, was born 
 in Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky, 
 May 24, 1843. He received his early education 
 in Bethel Academy in Nicholasville and spent 
 two years in Center College, Danville, leaving 
 college to enter the Confederate army, in which 
 he served with distinction, and spent three years 
 following this service in Europe, completing his 
 studies in the Scotch and Irish universities. He 
 took the highest honors in the law department, 
 and the third distinction in the literary depart- 
 ment of the Queen's University. He began the 
 practice of law in Louisville in 1868, and in a 
 very short time acquired a large and lucrative 
 practice. In 1872 he formed a partnership with 
 St. John Boyle, with whom he became associated 
 in the construction of railways in 1878. When 
 Mr. Boyle was receiver of the Henderson rail- 
 road Colonel Young was his legal adviser, and 
 they united later in the construction of the New 
 Albany & St. Louis Air Line Railroad, which is 
 now controlled by the Mackey syndicate. The 
 construction of this road was due to the energy 
 
 and enterprise of these two men. Later Colonel 
 Young accomplished the reorganization and pur- 
 chase of the Louisville, New Albany and Chi- 
 cago Railroad, now known as the "Monon 
 Route," and was its general counsel until 1883, 
 when he was elected president of the company, 
 which office he resigned in 1884. He was presi- 
 dent of the Southern Exposition in 1884, and in 
 the following year undertook the construction of 
 the Kentucky and Indiana bridge, an enterprise 
 which was carried on with an expenditure of over 
 two and a half million dollars, and with its ter- 
 minals has proven one of the most important fea- 
 tures in the development of the commercial inter- 
 ests of Louisville. The bridge itself is a remark- 
 able structure and contains the largest cantilever 
 system in the world. It has a length of 2,453 
 feet, with two spans of 500 feet each Its five 
 spans form a cantilever system extending a dis- 
 tance of 1,843 fs6t. The draw span is 370 feet in 
 length and is a marvel of mechanical exactness 
 and can be opened and closed by one man in 
 three minutes. The terminal lines include about 
 sixteen miles of road in New Albany and Louis- 
 ville, making one of the best terminal systems 
 in America. 
 
 On the Indiana side the bridge connects direct- 
 ly with the Ohio & Mississippi (or B. & O.) Rail- 
 way, the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Rail- 
 road (or Monon Route), the J. M. & I. R. R. (or 
 Pennsylvania system), and the Louisville & St. 
 Louis Air Line Railroad; on the Kentucky 
 side with the Louisville & Nashville R. R., the 
 Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Railway, the 
 Louisville, St. Louis & Texas Railway, and the 
 Louisville Southern Railway. It operates about 
 sixty passenger trains daily between Louisville 
 and New Albany. The belt lines of this com- 
 pany have been largely instrumental in develop- 
 ing and building up manufactories in the west- 
 ern portion of the city, while the construction of 
 the bridge caused a large reduction in tolls, and 
 has relieved the traffic of Louisville of an expense 
 of several hundred thousand dollars per annum. 
 It has restored Portland to prosperity, added mil- 
 lions of dollars to the taxable wealth of Louis- 
 ville and has given the western portion of the 
 city an impetus and growth that could never 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 349 
 
 have been accomplished without the conception 
 and completion of this enterprise whose chief 
 promoter, director and president was Colonel 
 Bennett H. Young. He had the able co-opera- 
 tion of such men as W. S. Culbertson, Vernon 
 D. Price, W. T. Grant, Thomas W. Bullitt, Mor- 
 ris McDonald and James M. Fetter. John Mc- 
 Leod was the chief engineer and the Union 
 Bridge Company was the contractor. The pres- 
 ent officers of the company are Colonel Ben- 
 nett H. Young, president; W. T. Grant, vice- 
 president; Charles P. Weaver, secretary and 
 treasurer, and W. R. Woodard, general manager. 
 In 1886, upon the completion and opening of 
 the bridge, seeing that its great value depended 
 upon a southern connection, Colonel Young, in 
 conjunction with some of the leading capitalists 
 of Louisville, undertook the construction of the 
 Louisville Southern Railroad, the building of 
 which marked a new era in the development of 
 the City of Louisville, and gave life and prosper- 
 ity to a section of country tributary to Louisville 
 which had no railroad facilities previous to the 
 completion of this enterprise. It was built with- 
 out aid from the state and gave Louisville a 
 trunk line into the south similar to that which 
 cost Cincinnati nearly $2,000,000. In these two 
 gigantic enterprises alone Colonel Young prob- 
 ably accomplished more for the substantial 
 growth and prosperity of the City of Louisville 
 than any other individual has ever undertaken, 
 and he did this at a great personal sacrifice, as 
 he came out of the hard struggles which they 
 cost him with less money than he had when they 
 were undertaken. But this is not all that he has 
 done. He reorganized the Polytechnic Society 
 and inaugurated a business policy which relieved 
 it of embarrassment, made its valuable property 
 pay handsome rentals, increased the number of 
 valuable volumes in its great library, systema- 
 tized, classified and catalogited its books, recon- 
 structed its quarters and provided accommoda- 
 tions for visitors, increased its membership and 
 made it a library worthy of the great City of 
 Louisville, and thus placed the means of educa- 
 tion by reading and research within the reach of 
 all who desire to avail themselves of its advan- 
 tages. Few institutions have ever proven rnore 
 
 beneficial to a community; with its extensive 
 library, its scientific lectures and its instructions 
 in art, etc., it has met a great need, for until Col- 
 onel Young gave it his attention it was not known 
 as a valuable property or as a great library. 
 
 Colonel Young also organized and chiefly en- 
 dowed Bellewood Seminary and the Kentucky 
 Presbyterian Normal School, both of which have 
 become successful and famous institutions. 
 
 In the face of many solicitations Colonel 
 Young has steadily declined public office, except 
 as a member of the State Constitutional Con- 
 vention of 1890-1, to which he was elected, and 
 which he accepted believing that he could serve 
 his state to some advantage. In this body he oc- 
 cupied a distinguished position, and probably 
 wielded as much influence as any individual mem- 
 ber in forming the present organic law of the 
 state. 
 
 He is a strong and vigorous writer; was editor 
 of the Evening Post for some time, giving it a 
 force of character that no other newspaper in 
 the city has ever enjoyed; is the author of a 
 valuable book entitled "History of the Three Con- 
 stitutions of Kentucky," also several pamphlets 
 — one on evangelical work in the State of Ken- 
 tucky, and another the "History of the Division 
 of the Presbyterian Church in Kentucky." 
 
 His valuable work in building the K. & I. 
 bridge and the Louisville Southern Railroad and 
 other public-spirited labors in behalf of his city 
 has been recognized by the merchants and busi- 
 ness men through their principal organization, 
 the Board of Trade, by his unanimous election as 
 an honorary member of that body. He was the 
 youngest man upon whom this great honor was 
 ever conferred. 
 
 Colonel Young is a man of great benevolence, 
 and his kindness to the poor and needy is well 
 known throughout the city in which he lives. He 
 possesses qualities of no uncommon kind. His 
 capacity for the transaction of business is re- 
 markable. His mind is naturally capable of great 
 research; he can divest difficult subjects of their 
 obscurity, see readily through the mazes of intri- 
 cate questions and propositions, and arrange and 
 methodize a multifarious business and conduct 
 doubtful plans to a successful issue. He is a 
 
350 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 warm friend and a generous opponent ; has never 
 been afflicted with the spirit of envy or jealousy, 
 and the desire to be great among his friends and 
 neighbors has never disturbed his equanimity. 
 His chief characteristic is a desire to do all the 
 good he can for his fellowmen. 
 
 Colonel Young was married in 1866 to Martha 
 Robinson, eldest daughter of Rev. Dr. Stuart 
 Robinson, the eminent Presbyterian divine. Mrs. 
 Young died December 14, 1890. 
 
 Colonel Young was married again June 29, 
 
 1895- 
 
 Colonel Bennett H. Young is descended 
 from a Scotch ancestry that settled in the Ameri- 
 can colonies thirty years before the Revolution. 
 His father, Robert Young, was born in Fayette 
 County, Kentucky, in 1803, and died November 
 28, 1889. During the many years he lived in 
 Jessamine County, no spot or blemish tarnished 
 his good name. His high integrity as a man and 
 his devotion to his church were unquestioned. 
 All of the duties which society imposed upon 
 him he discharged with scrupulous fidelity; as 
 a husband and father no one could have been 
 more tender; as a friend none were more faithful. 
 Religion with him was an ever living and pure 
 principle of action, prompting not only his duties 
 as a professed Christian, but controlling and 
 tempering his intercourse with his fellowmen. 
 He married Josephine Henderson, daughter of 
 Bennett Henderson, a native of Albemarle 
 County, Virginia, and granddaughter of Colonel 
 Joseph Crockett, a distinguished officer under 
 General Washington in the Revolutionary war, 
 who settled in Kentucky in 1784, and died in 
 Jessamine County in 1829. 
 
 John Young (grandfather), son of Joseph 
 Young and Hannah McCraney, was born No- 
 vember 15, 1760. He and his brothers, Thomas 
 and Robert, were soldiers in the Revolutionary 
 war, serving in all the campaigns with General 
 Greene against Lord Cornwallis in 1781 and 
 1782, in North and South Carolina. Robert 
 Young was a sharpshooter at the battle of Kings 
 Mountain, and shot and killed Colonel Patrick 
 Ferguson, the British commander. (See Drap- 
 er's Kings Mountain, page 275.) Soon after the 
 close of the Revolutionary war John Young 
 
 (grandfather) left North Carolina and went to 
 Brunswick County, Virginia, where he married 
 Nancy Rymond, who died after the birth of her 
 only child — John Young — in 1788, and in 1789 
 he came to Fayette County, Kentucky, and mar- 
 ried Cynthia McCullough, sister of Captain S. 
 D. McCullough. The late Dr. Archibald Young 
 of Jessamine County was his eldest child by his 
 second marriage, and Robert Young (father) was 
 the youngest. 
 
 Joseph Young (great-grandfather) married 
 Hannah McCraney in 1754. Their children were: 
 Hannah Ann, born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 
 August 30, 1755; Thomas, born December 23, 
 1757; Mary Haddon, born January 30, 1759; 
 John (grandfather), born November 15, 1760; 
 Tabitha, born October 29, 1763, and Robert, 
 March 15, 1765. 
 
 Archibald Young (great-great-grandfather), 
 married Elizabeth McMurds in 1729. She was a 
 daughter of Andrew McMurds and Margaret 
 Hanford, and was born January i, 1705. She was 
 three years her husband's senior. Their children 
 were: Nancy Elizabeth and Thomas (twins), 
 born February 2, 1728; Clotilda, born March 
 6, 1730; Andrew, born December 6, 1732; 
 Joseph (great-grandfather) and Martha (twins), 
 in Philadelphia, November 14, 1734. 
 
 Archibald Young (great-great-great-grarid- 
 father), son of Archibald Young of Dundee, Scot- 
 land, was born in Dundee January 26, 1708, and 
 was married to Martha Drennan, also a native 
 of Dundee. 
 
 CHARLES WALTER YUNGBLUT, a citi- 
 zen of Dayton, Kentucky, and a bright and 
 promising young attorney, whose office and prin- 
 cipal business is in Cincinnati, was born in New- 
 port, Kentucky, September 5, 1868. He is a 
 son of John R. and Anna (Sweitzer) Yungblut, 
 well known citizens of Dayton. 
 
 His father was born in Canton, Ohio, in 1835, 
 and was partly educated before leaving his native 
 place. He came to Newport early in life, and 
 after serving his time as an apprentice in a drug 
 store engaged in that business on his own ac- 
 count, and was a successful druggist in Newport 
 for a period of forty years. He is now retired 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 351 
 
 and is living in Dayton. His ancestors came to 
 this country from Belgium. 
 
 Annie Sweitzer Yungblut is a native of Lor- 
 raine, France, now a province in Germany. She 
 was born in 1843, ^^^ came v\ith her father's fam- 
 ily to this country when she was a child. They 
 lived for a time in Cincinnati and then removed 
 to Newport. Her father married a Miss Mignot 
 of Lorraine. 
 
 Charles Walter Yungblut received his educa- 
 tion in the public schools of Newport, graduating 
 with honors in the class of 1887. He then began 
 the study of law in the Cincinnati Law School, 
 from which he was graduated in 1890, taking the 
 forensic prize of his class. 
 
 He at once opened his office in Cincinnati, and 
 in the five years or more of his professional 
 career he has distinguished himself as a lawyer 
 of ability, having already established a good 
 business, which by careful attention and study 
 and the wise and judicious management of his 
 cases, has grown steadily in the number and im- 
 portance of the cases entrusted to his care. 
 
 He was appointed city attorney of Dayton in 
 1893, ''•nd in that capacity has served the city 
 in which he makes his home with credit to him- 
 self and with the approval of the people. 
 
 Mr. Yungblut is an ardent Republican, and is 
 one of the most prominent young men in local 
 politics. Modest and unassuming, yet progres- 
 sive and aggressive in politics and law, he is 
 steadily preparing the way for a brilliant and use- 
 ful career. 
 
 THOMAS CRYSOSTROM BIRGE, Attor- 
 ney-at-Law, Maysville, son of Ellen (Spell- 
 man) and William C. Birge, was born in North- 
 ampton, Massachusetts, December 3, 1857. His 
 father was born in the same city in 1823 and after 
 completing his studies went to the Sandwich 
 Islands as a sailor; returned and enlisted in the 
 Thirty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 
 and was with the Army of the Potomac through- 
 out the Civil war. When the war was over he 
 returned to his old home and was a farmer the 
 rest of his life. He was a man of fine intellect, 
 a scholarly gentleman, a brilliant conversation- 
 alist and highly respected by all who knew him. 
 
 Thaddeus Birge (grandfather) was born in 
 Northampton in 1785; he was a merchant and 
 farmer; died in 1872. The Birge family came 
 from Scotland and first settled in Worcester, 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 Ellen Spellman Birge (mother) was born near 
 Lake Killarney, Ireland, and came to America 
 when she was fourteen years of age, and lived 
 in Worcester, Massachusetts. She married Wil- 
 liam C. Birge in 1851, and is now living in her 
 old home. Her father, Thomas Spellman, was 
 born in Ireland in 1770, and died in 1870, aged 
 one hundred years. He was the manager of large 
 estates which belonged to the nobility. Great- 
 grandfather Spellman was an Englishman who 
 went to Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth 
 century. 
 
 Thomas C. Birge was educated in the North- 
 ampton schools; came to Kentucky in 1879, and 
 afterwards went to Cincinnati, and remained there 
 a short time before removing to Covington, where 
 he studied law with Judge Shine. He was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in Covington September 6, 1890, 
 and in the same year formed a partnership with 
 T. B. Wise, which continued until June 30, 1894, 
 when Mr. Birge came to Maysville, where he has 
 already taken a position of prominence at the 
 bar. 
 
 Mr. Birge married Mary Cunningham, daugh- 
 ter of William Cunningham, April 27, 1882. She 
 was born in Cincinnati in January, i860, and 
 was educated in her native city. They have five 
 children: Ida, Nellie, Mary, William and Ben- 
 jamin. 
 
 Mr. Birge is a Democrat without seeking prom- 
 inence, and has accepted the religious belief of 
 his mother, who is a Catholic, while his father 
 was a Republican and a Protestant. 
 
 ALEXANDER JEFFREY, President of the 
 Lexington City Gas Company, was born in 
 the City of Edinburgh, Scotland, May 10, 181 5, 
 and is the son of John and Elizabeth (McCon- 
 nell) Jefifrey. 
 
 His father was also a native of Scotland, a 
 barrister by profession and solicitor for the Su- 
 preme Court of Edinburgh. He was the father 
 
352 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 of nine children, of whom the subject of this 
 sketch was next to the youngest. He wedded 
 EHzabeth McConnell, a native of Scotland and a 
 member of the Church of England. She emi- 
 grated to the United States several years after her 
 husband's death and after her son Alexander 
 had arrived in this country and located at Canan- 
 daigua, New York, where she died. 
 
 At the age of sixteen, having previously at- 
 tended college in Edinburgh, Alexander Jeffrey 
 came to this country with his aunt, Mrs. George 
 Ross, who located on a farm in the vicinity of 
 Canandaigua, New York, where he remanied 
 three years. He then accepted a clerkship in a 
 bank in New York City, remaining there for 
 about six months, and then returned to Canan- 
 daigua and was a clerk in the land office under 
 ex-Congressman John Greig for about one year; 
 was teller in a bank in Canandaigua for several 
 years, when he became associated with his broth- 
 er, John Jeffrey, who was a civil engineer and 
 contractor and builder of gas works. They con- 
 structed the gas works of Cleveland, Ohio, Nash- 
 ville and Memphis, Tennessee, Covington, Ken- 
 tucky, and in other cities throughout the coun- 
 try. In 1853 Alexander Jeffrey built the gas 
 works at Lexington and has been a resident of 
 that city and president of the Lexington Gas 
 Company since that time. 
 
 Mr. Jeffrey was married (first) to Delia 
 Granger, a daughter of General John A. Granger 
 of Canandaigua. She died, leaving three daugh- 
 ters and one son. 
 
 His second wife was a well-known poetess, 
 Mrs. Rosa Vertner (Griffith) Johnson of Lex- 
 ington, who died October 6, 1894. She was born 
 near Natchez, Mississippi, where her father, John 
 T. Griffith, a gentleman of literary culture and a 
 graceful writer in both prose and verse, lived for 
 many years. Some of his Indian tales have at- 
 tained celebrity on two continents. Her moth- 
 er was a beautiful and accomplished woman, 
 daughter of Reverend James Abercrombie, who 
 was for forty years rector of old St. Peter's Episco- 
 pal Church of Philadelphia. She died of yellow 
 fever, leaving four little children. The youngest, 
 Rosa Vertner, being only nine months old, was 
 adopted by a maternal aunt, whose husband, 
 
 Daniel Vertner, became the foster father of the 
 little orphan. Daniel Vertner was born in Pitts- 
 burg, Pennsylvania, in 1768, and in early man- 
 hood removed to Lexington and became a suc- 
 cessful business man of that city. He married 
 a Miss Langhorn of Maysville, who died, leaving 
 one son; removed to Mississippi, where he be- 
 came extensively engaged in cotton planting and 
 married a Mrs. Sparks, a lady of distinguished 
 social reputation who is referred to in Mrs. Elli- 
 ott's "Court Circles of the Repubhc." Some 
 years after the death of his second wife, Mr. 
 Vertner married Rosa's aunt, then the widow 
 Harding of Natchez. 
 
 With two fathers and a foster mother, the 
 young girl passed her childhood in the midst 
 of tender affection, luxury and refinement at 
 "Burlington," Mr. Vertner's beautiful country 
 seat near Port Gibson, Mississippi, to which she 
 paid a loving tribute in her poem, "My Child- 
 hood's Home." Beneath thp glow of the South- 
 ern skies and amid the balmy fragrance of South- 
 ern flowers, the poetic fire inherited from her 
 gifted father began to burn within her breast 
 and move her mind to musical pulsations, even 
 in her childhood. Before she could write well 
 enough to give her verses shape on paper, Mrs. 
 Vertner wrote them down, and the poetess in 
 after years cherished one of these childish efforts 
 as a memory of the loving hand that had traced 
 the lines. 
 
 Rosa's education was begun in the South under 
 private tutors, but when she was ten years of 
 age, in the summer of 1836, Mr. Vertner moved 
 to Lexington, Kentucky, to give her the benefits 
 of further instruction. His home there was noted 
 for its elegant hospitality, and none were more 
 popular than he and his wife. As the guardian 
 of several young girls, he was also a father to 
 them, and they clung to him with touching de- 
 votion during his life. Between him and the 
 great statesman, Henry Clay, there existed a 
 warm feeling of friendship. 
 
 Rosa was educated at Bishop Smith's semi- 
 nary, and at the age of seventeen became the 
 wife of Claude M. Johnson — a gentleman of for- 
 tune and a resident of Louisiana ; and, for a num- 
 ber of years after her marriage, she spent her 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 353 
 
 summers in Kentucky and her winters in Lou- 
 isiana. , 1 I I ; 
 
 In 1850 she became a contributor to the Louis- 
 ville Journal, in which the greater number of her 
 poems made their first appearance, and through 
 that popular paper "Rosa" became favorably 
 known to the readers of the principal periodicals 
 of the country. In 1859 her father died, and this 
 grief, together with the cares of motherhood, 
 soon gave to her writings a more spiritual vein, 
 revealing the deep and tender mercies of the 
 heart. Her poems, first published in book form 
 in 1857, elicited warm encomiums from the press 
 and gave her at once a high place as an American 
 poet. 
 
 In 1864 there appeared a novel from her pen, 
 entitled "Woodburn," somewhat sensational, but 
 finely descriptive of past social life in the South. 
 She afterward wrote several tales and a long 
 narrative poem, "Florence Dale, a Tale of Tus- 
 cany," besides occasional shorter lyrics. 
 
 She was the mother of two children: Alex- 
 ander Jeffrey, Jr., and Virginia A. Jeffrey, and 
 was one of the handsomest women of her day. 
 
 REV. WILLIAM MOODY PRATT, one of 
 the oldest and certainly one of the most 
 distinguished ministers in the Baptist Church, 
 whose personal history is one of deep interest and 
 whose ancestry is most remarkable, was born in 
 Fenner, Madison County, New York, where he 
 received his primary schooling ; was prepared for 
 college at Casenovia, and then attended Madison, 
 now known as Colgate University — the name 
 having been changed by reason of large endow- 
 ments from a family of that name; graduated in 
 1838; went to Crawford'sville, Indiana, to preach; 
 returned to college to complete his course in 
 theology, and graduated from the theological de- 
 partment in 1839. On leaving the seminary a 
 most valuable and unusual recommendation, 
 signed by all the members of the faculty, was 
 presented him, and this he has kept and held 
 good and true for fifty-seven years. 
 
 After completing his studies he returned, with 
 his wife, in a buggy — a distance of 800 miles — 
 to Crawfordsville, Indiana; he remained there as 
 
 pastor of the Baptist Church for some years, also 
 23 
 
 teaching in a female school; went from there to 
 Logansport, and from there to South Bend, In- 
 diana; went to Lexington in 1846, and his wife 
 having died, was married again to Mary Elise 
 Dallard, great-granddaughter of Ambrose Dud- 
 ley, who was one of the first settlers at Bryan 
 Station and a distinguished minister, who, with 
 his son, Thomas Dudley, covered a period of 
 nearly one hundred years in the ministry. Mr. 
 Pratt remained in Lexington for seventeen years, 
 and then, during the Civil war, was stationed in 
 Louisville and New Albany, in the interest of 
 church erection; was stationed at Shelby ville for 
 several years; returned to Louisville and has 
 made his home in that city since 1885, and is 
 still engaged in church work. 
 
 His is a most remarkable record; in the minis- 
 try for fifty-seven years; traveled 24,000 miles 
 in a buggy in Indiana and Kentucky; preached 
 about 8,000 sermons; officiated at 600 funerals, 
 and has joined hundreds of couples in the holy 
 bonds of matrimony: 
 
 Only an outline of his work can be given in 
 this brief sketch; many interesting volumes have 
 been written with fewer facts of smaller import 
 than the busy life of Dr. Pratt could furnish. 
 He is an old man now, having almost rounded 
 out his four score years, nearly three score of 
 which have been in the service of the Master; 
 but he is hale and vigorous still, and his zeal 
 knows no abatement. He was a member of the 
 board of trustees of Georgetown College for 
 forty years and president of the board many 
 years, and is a member of the board of trustees of 
 the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at 
 Louisville. 
 
 He is a brother of Daniel D. Pratt of national 
 reputation, who was United States senator and 
 commissioner of internal revenue. 
 
 Dr. Samuel Pratt (father) was born in Belcher, 
 Mass., December 26, 1779, where he received his 
 preliminary schooling. He was highly educated 
 and was very proficient in the languages ; studied 
 medicine in New York City; began to practice 
 his profession in Maine; returned to New York 
 and located at Fenner — five miles from Peters- 
 burgh, and was appointed surgeon by the gov- 
 ernor of Massachusetts in the War of 1812, He 
 
354 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 was a very successful physician, greatly beloved 
 by his friends and those to whom he brought 
 relief in suffering; was a good, pure and noble 
 man; an intense partisan of the Whig stripe; 
 and living in a time when there was opposition to 
 Masonry, he bitterly opposed that order. He 
 died in 1864 at the age of eighty-four years. 
 
 David Pratt (grandfather) was a native of 
 Massachusetts; served as captain in the Revolu- 
 tionary war, and was present at the surrender 
 of General Burgoyne at Saratoga. He was not 
 a professional man, but spent 'most of his life in 
 farming. He was a son of Nathaniel and Sallie 
 (Rundall) Pratt. 
 
 A great-great-grandfather of Rev. William M. 
 Pratt was Josiah Coldridge, who lived near 
 Boston. 
 
 Sallie Hill Pratt (mother) was born in Kittery, 
 Maine, September 14, 1775. She first married 
 Dr. W. D. Moody of York, Maine, who died, 
 and she became the wife of Dr. Samuel Pratt 
 and died in 1849, ^^ ^^^ seventy-fifth year of her 
 age. Her mother was a direct descendant of 
 John Rogers, the martyr. She was a daug'hter of 
 Elephalet Rogers, who was a son of Rev. John 
 Rogers, pastor of the first church at Ipswich 
 and president of Harvard College, who died July 
 2, 1684; he was the eldest son of Rev. Nathaniel 
 Rogers, who came from England in 1636 and 
 settled in Ipswich — as co-pastor with Rev. Na- 
 thaniel Ward — and died July 2, 1655. Nathaniel 
 Rogers was a son of Rev. John Rogers of Ded- 
 liam, England, who died October 18, 1639, aged 
 sixty-seven years, and this John Rogers was a 
 grandson of the Rev. John Rogers who was 
 burned at the stake at Smithfield February 6, 1555. 
 
 WILLIAM LOWTHER JACKSON, de- 
 ceased, late judge of the criminal division 
 of the Jefiferson Circuit Court of Louisville, was 
 born in St. Mary's, (now West) Virginia, August 
 12, 1854, and died December 29, 1895. He was 
 the youngest child of Judge William L. Jackson 
 and Sarah (Creel) Jackson. He secured his edu- 
 cation in the public schools of Louisville, grad- 
 uating from the high school in June, 1875; was 
 valedictorian of his class, and was one of the 
 brightest and best informed young meti vfhq 
 
 have been educated in that school. While en- 
 gaged in his studies, he laid the foundation for the 
 great popularity which distinguished him in after 
 years. He began the study of law in 1876, grad- 
 uated from the Louisville Law School in 1887, 
 and at once began the practice of his profession, 
 in which he had a most successful career until 
 May 19, 1890, when he was inducted into the 
 office of judge of the old Jefiferson Circuit Court, 
 and in November, 1892, was elected judge of the 
 criminal division of the Jefiferson Circuit Court — 
 which, under the new constitution, succeeded the 
 old Jefiferson Circuit Court — and this office he 
 held until his death, which occurred at his home 
 after a long and painful illness, December 29, 
 1895. 
 
 For three consecutive terms — 1881 to 1886 — 
 he was a member of the house of representatives 
 in the Kentucky legislature, and served with 
 great distinction on the judiciary, the revenue and 
 taxation, and other important committees. 
 
 Returning from his duties in the legislature, he 
 formed a partnership with Mr. Zack Phelps, and 
 they were joined later by Mr. J. T. O'Neal, mak- 
 ing one of the strongest legal firms in the city 
 or state. Judge Jackson remained with these 
 gentlemen until the death of his father, when he 
 was appointed to succeed him on the bench. He 
 accepted that office with reluctance and at a 
 personal sacrifice, as he had a most valuable 
 practice. 
 
 Few men have a greater faculty of making 
 friends and keeping them than Judge Jackson 
 had, and he had all of the requirements of the 
 successful lawyer and politician, but he was emi- 
 nently qualified by training, study and natural 
 aptitude for the higher duties of the judge, and he 
 filled that office with ability and with such fidelity 
 that he was frequently in his place on the bench 
 when his sufferings from a lurking disease were 
 so great that his physicians were compelled to 
 interfere with his strong will and order him to 
 abandon his work for some months before his 
 death. Even against the protests of his friends 
 and physicians, he insisted on being carried to 
 the court room in a chair, and he frequently per- 
 formed his duty as judge while suffering excru- 
 ciating pain. , , ; 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 355 
 
 He was a man of firm, honest purpose, and 
 successfully carried out his plans and purposes, 
 overcoming all difficulties until 'he was compelled 
 to yield to the hand of death. His popularity 
 was shown in his last illness by the vast num- 
 bers who ofifered him and his family the sincere 
 sympathy and condolence of loving friends and 
 associates. 
 
 He was an able lawyer, a wise statesman, an 
 honest judge, an honored citizen, a dutiful son, 
 a devoted husband and a loving father. 
 
 His father. Judge William L. Jackson, Sr., was 
 a native of (now West) Virginia, in which state 
 he was judge of the Nineteenth Judicial District; 
 second auditor of the state, and lieutenant gov- 
 ernor. He came to Louisville January i, 1866, 
 and was a successful practitioner at the bar until 
 January, 1873, when he was appointed judge of 
 the old Jefferson Circuit Court by Governor T. 
 H. LesHe. He was elected to succeed himself, 
 and was re-elected again and again, holding his 
 office until his death in 1892. His wife was a 
 daughter of Alexander H. and Lucy (Neal) Creel. 
 Her father was distinguished for his intellectual 
 attainments. Her mother came from the Lewis 
 family, and the Lewises and Neals owned what 
 was called Washington's Bottom, near Blenner- 
 hassett Island, and took an active part in Revolu- 
 tionary annals. 
 
 RICHARD D. DAVIS, President of the Sec- 
 ond National Bank of Ashland, and one of 
 the leading business men of that city, is a son 
 of Elias P. and Myrtilla A. (Winn) Davis, and 
 was born in Carter County, Kentucky, September 
 22, 1844. 
 
 His father was born in Prince William County, 
 Virginia, February 14, 1810; was educated in his 
 native county; removed to Kentucky and was a 
 resident of Fleming County for ten years; re- 
 moved to Carter County in 1837; was sherifif 
 of that county (1851); circuit clerk from 1851 to 
 1884, and clerk of Carter County Court from 1854 
 to 1882; enlisted in the Union army in 1863, and 
 was captain of Company D, Fortieth Regiment 
 Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry; was 
 prominent in politics as Whig and Republican, 
 
 and was a leading citizen in his county; died 
 March 8, 1884. 
 
 Richard Davis (grandfather), a native of Vir- 
 ginia, was a farmer in Fleming County, where he 
 died in 1840. He was passionately fond of hunt- 
 ing, and was familiarly known as "Hound Davis," 
 on account of the number of hounds he owned. 
 His father, Elias Davis, was a native of Wales, 
 who settled in Virginia before the Revolutionary 
 war. 
 
 Myrtilla A. Winn Davis (mother) was born in 
 Champaign County, Ohio, October 25, 1812; was 
 educated near Urbana; was married in 1836; 
 died in Carter County, Kentucky, July 25, 1886. 
 She was a devout member of the Christian 
 Church, a faithful wife and mother and a woman 
 of great influence and strength of character. 
 
 Douglass I. Winn (grandfather), a native of 
 Virginia, went from that state to Champaign 
 County, Ohio ; afterwards removed to Kentucky, 
 and finally to Calloway County, Missouri, where 
 he died. He was a fine scholar, a noted mathe- 
 matician and a professional teacher; a member 
 of the Christian Church and a courtly gentleman. 
 He married Elizabeth Triby Rawlins, who was 
 born in Champaign County, Ohio, and died in 
 Calloway County, Missouri, in 1876. Her 
 mother was a Miss Triby, a native of France. 
 The Davis and Winn families were originally 
 from Wales, and the Rawlins branch of the fam- 
 ily are distinguished citizens of several American 
 states. 
 
 Richard D. Davis of Ashland was educated in 
 Carter County and was well advanced in his 
 studies in 1862, when he found his first employ- 
 ment in the office of the clerk of the Circuit and 
 County Courts of Carter County ; was afterwards 
 deputy circuit clerk in Winchester for nineteen 
 months; was for a short time in the office of 
 Collector of Internal Revenue at Richmond ; was 
 then in charge of the circuit clerk's office in 
 Richmond from February 20, 1865, to 1867 — 
 serving a part of that time as deputy clerk — ^when 
 the clerk resigned and he was appointed clerk, 
 serving until 1868, when, having been admitted 
 to the bar, he returned to Carter County and 
 began the practice of law, in which he con- 
 tinued successfully until 1889. 
 
356 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 He was county attorney of Carter County from 
 September, 1870, to August, 1873; resigned, hav- 
 ing been elected to the legislature as representa- 
 tive from Carter and Boyd Counties ; was county 
 judge of Carter County from October, 1881, to 
 September, 1882. These offices were merely in- 
 cidental to a busy career as an attorney-at-law, 
 and furnish some evidence of his popularity, espe- 
 cially as he has no ambition for political prefer- 
 ment. 
 
 Having organized the Second National Bank 
 of Ashland in 1888, of which' he was chosen 
 president, he removed to Ashland in 1889 and as- 
 sumed the duties of that position, which now 
 demand his best attention. He also has other 
 interests and investments, which combine to make 
 him a very busy man. He is a very genial and 
 warm hearted gentleman, and is regarded as one 
 of the best and most enterprising citizens of Ash- 
 land. He is a popular and helpful member of the 
 Masonic and Odd Fellows orders and also of the 
 "Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoo," an associa- 
 tion of railroad and lumber men. 
 
 Mr. Davis was married November 8, 1870, to 
 Mary Lewis, daughter of C. N. and L. A. (Eng- 
 land) Lewis of Kansas City, Missouri. Mrs. Da- 
 vis was born in Carter County, Kentucky, May 
 25, 1 851; is a member of the Christian Church 
 and a lady of culture and fine personal attrac- 
 tions. They have four children : Lewis N., born 
 October 31, 1871; Roscoe C, born October 19, 
 1878; Myrtilla Annie, born February 15, 1883; 
 and Richard D., born July 15, 1885. 
 
 PETER CALDWELL, Superintendent of the 
 Industrial School of Reform, Louisville, 
 Kentucky, was born in Huntingdon, near Mon- 
 treal, Canada, April 23, 1836. He is a son of 
 William and Jeanette (Elder) Caldwell. His 
 father was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1808 
 and emigrated with his father and others when 
 quite young to Huntingdon, Canada. They 
 were among the first settlers of a section near 
 Montreal that was then nothing more than a 
 wilderness. William Caldwell became a pros- 
 perous farmer and a highly respected citizen who 
 took a lively interest in the development of the 
 new country. He was a man of stron|; convic- 
 
 tions, and of sterling integrity, and a strict mem- 
 ber of the Presbyterian Church. He died in 
 1893, aged eighty-four years. He had three elder 
 brothers, each of whom lived to be eighty-four 
 years of age. 
 
 William Caldwell (grandfather), native of Glas- 
 gow, Scotland, removed to Canada, as before 
 stated; was a soldier in the War of 1812. He 
 died in Huntingdon when eighty-two years of 
 age, his death occurring in the morning of his 
 birthday. 
 
 Jeanette Elder Caldwell (mother) is now a 
 resident of Huntingdon, Canada, where she has 
 lived since her childhood, and is now eighty-five 
 years of age. Her father, George Elder (grand- 
 father), was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and 
 removed to Canada, crossing the ocean in the 
 same ship with the Caldwells; and the two fam- 
 ilies were neighboring farmers in Huntingdon 
 and brethren in the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Peter Caldwell, after attending the schools in 
 his neighborhood, was graduated from the Mid- 
 dleberry, Vermont, College in 1863. When he 
 was seventeen years of age, he began teaching, 
 and was thus employed in Canada for three 
 years, when he came to the United States and 
 spent seven years in teaching and studying, tak- 
 ing special courses in various institutions. He 
 was at one time principal of the Hinsdale College 
 in Massachusetts. In the spring of 1864 he was 
 appointed principal of the Reform School of Chi- 
 cago, and three months later was made assistant 
 superintendent of that institution, a position 
 which he resigned in 1865 to accept the superin- 
 tendency of the "House of Refuge," as it was 
 then called, in Louisville. He has been engaged 
 in this important work for the reformation of the 
 youth of Louisville for over thirty years and his 
 tenure of office depends upon the number of 
 years that he may live. As he belongs to a 
 family noted for longevity, it is to be hoped that 
 he may at least complete his half century as 
 superintendent of this institution, which has 
 grown from a small beginning until, under his 
 able management, it is now one of the largest 
 and most complete schools of the kind in the 
 United States and is in many respects regarded 
 as the mpdel reform school in the country. 
 
SII.AS l-A.'ANS, M. 1). 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 357 
 
 When Mr. Caldwell took charge of the school, 
 there was but one building, which was used for 
 all purposes; now there are fourteen buildings, 
 each one aidapted to the department for which it 
 was constructed and is now used. Then, the 
 number of children in the school was limited, 
 as were the advantages given them. Now, the 
 average number of inmates is about three hun- 
 dred, and the accommodations for their care and 
 instruction are the best the board of directors 
 can afiford with the means at hand. The material 
 growth of the institution, together with the won- 
 derful advancement that has been made in the 
 educational and industrial work of the school, 
 are due in a large measure to the indefatigable 
 labor and wise management of its able superin- 
 tendent. 
 
 The grounds of. the school embrace eighty 
 acres of valuable land within the city limits, 
 twenty-five acres of which are occupied by the 
 buildings and campus, while a large portion of 
 the ground is cultivated for the use of the school. 
 The grounds surrounding and adjacent to the 
 buildings are beautified by trees, shrubbery, flow- 
 ers and rare plants, all of which are tenderly 
 cared for by the children under the direction of 
 competent employes who are practical florists 
 and gardeners. This was the first school of the 
 kind in the country to give attention to the cul- 
 tivation of flowers and plants in greenhouses, 
 and was the first to abandon the system "of giving 
 out the labor of the school under contract. It 
 was the first to build a chapel to be used exclu- 
 sively for worship and Sunday school, and the 
 progress made in these and other matters has 
 led other institutions to advance in the same 
 directions. 
 
 The Industrial School of Reform is, first of all, 
 a school in which the English branches are thor- 
 oughly taught and second in importance is the 
 manual training departments, in which the chil- 
 dren are instructed in the trades. Mr. Caldwell 
 regards the moral and religious training of the 
 inmates of the highest importance and is devoted 
 to his Sunday school and other religious work 
 among the boys and girls, and in this respect he 
 has accomplished a work the value of which 
 cannot be estimated. 
 
 Mr. Caldwell was married in 1865 to Mary 
 Wells, daughter of Rev; Edward "Wells of Chi- 
 cago; and they have three sons and four daugh- 
 ters : Nettie A., Addie, Carrie C, Willie E., Mary 
 E., Hamilton Peter and David C. All of the 
 family are members of the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 SILAS EVANS, M. D., one of the ablest young 
 physicians of Lexington, is a descendant of 
 a Welsh family who settled in Virginia and Penn- 
 sylvania in 1722. He is a son of Silas and Par- 
 melia (Quisenberry) Evans, and was born in 
 Fayette County, Kentucky, April 2, 1858. 
 
 Silas Evans (father) was also a native of Fayette 
 County, and was an extensive farmer and large 
 trader in live stock prior to the Civil war. He 
 died in Scott County, Kentucky, in 1879. He 
 was a life-time member of the Baptist Church 
 and was a Democrat in politics. 
 
 Peter Evans (grandfather) was a Virginian by 
 birth who emigrated to Fayette County, where he 
 became one of the first distillers in that vicinity. 
 He was a son of Peter Evans (great-grandfather), 
 who was a captain in the war of the Revolution 
 and fought in the battles of Monmouth, Prince- 
 ton, German town, and was present at the capture 
 of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, October 19, 
 .1781. After the war he returned to his Virginia 
 home, where he died. He served under Colonel 
 Lewis in the battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. 
 
 The following facts are taken from the records 
 in the pension office at Washington: 
 
 "Captain Peter Evans, born in Prince William 
 County, Virginia, October 25, 1758; removed 
 to Clark County, Kentucky. He married Ann, 
 daughter of Captain John Newman of Prince Wil- 
 liam County, Virginia, December 11, 1777. She 
 was born April 6, 1755, died July 8, 1836, in Clark 
 County, Kentucky. Captain Evans' will, dated 
 February 12, 1814, was probated July, 1814. 
 
 "He enlisted as a private in Prince William 
 County, February, 1776, Colonel Bland's Regi- 
 ment Dragoons, service certified to by Captain 
 Lee of his company. He was commissioned 
 lieutenant by Governor Thomas Jefferson August 
 3, 1779, in Captain Charles Lee's company, and 
 served as such in Captain Valentine Peyton's 
 
358 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 company, Colonel Ewell's command; joined 
 main army near Philadelphia; was on guard on 
 the line three months, discharged December, 
 1779; was commissioned captain by Governor 
 Thomas Jefferson May i, 1780, and joined the 
 regiment of Colonel Wheeden; was at the siege 
 of Yorktown and surrender of Cornwallis, Octo- 
 ber 19, 1781; rendered service five or six years. 
 'Witnesses allude to him as a brave and intrepid 
 officer.' 
 
 "He was at the battle of Princeton, New Jer- 
 sey, January 3, 1777, and was with Light Horse 
 Harry Lee, attending the burial of General Mer- 
 cer, who was mortally wounded in that battle. 
 
 "He was wounded in a skirmish near Morris- 
 town, New Jersey." 
 
 Hickman and Oliver P. Evans appear in the 
 widow's papers. 
 
 Belam P. Evans, son of Captain Evans, was 
 born in Prince William County, Virginia, Sep- 
 tember 25, 1778, died in Jessamine County, Ken- 
 tucky, October 30, 1843. 
 
 Parmelia Quisenberry Evans (mother) was 
 bom in Clark County, Kentucky, and was a mem- 
 ber of a large and influential family of that coun- 
 ty. She died in i860. 
 
 Doctor Silas Evans' collegiate course was taken 
 in Central University at Richmond. He read 
 medicine and was graduated from the Hospital 
 College of Medicine at Louisville in 1882, going 
 thence to New York City, where he took a post 
 graduate course at Polyclinic College and imme- 
 diately afterwards located in Lexington. 
 
 He was appointed by President Arthur to the 
 position of United States examining pension sur- 
 geon, and was for some time visiting surgeon to 
 St. Joseph Hospital. In 1883 he was appointed 
 by the Board of Commissioners under Governor 
 Knott assistant physician in the Eastern Ken- 
 tucky Asylum for the Insane; and was also assist- 
 ant physician in the Cincinnati Sanitarium for 
 one year. Governor Buckner appointed him as- 
 sistant physician in the Hospital for the Insane 
 at Lakeland, where he remained during Governor 
 Buckner's administration; then, returning to 
 Lexington, he became superintendent of High 
 Oaks Private Sanitarium for mental and nervous 
 troubles. He is a member of the Kentucky 
 
 State Medical Society and of the American Med- 
 ico-Psychological Society. 
 
 Doctor Evans was married April 17, 1889, to 
 Pearl Chenault, a daughter of Doctor R. C. 
 Chenault of Madison County. Dr. and Mrs. 
 Evans are members of the First Presbyterian 
 Church at Lexington. 
 
 The name of Evans is an honored one in this 
 country, having lost none of the lustre that clus- 
 ters around it in Wales. The Welsh are de- 
 scended from the ancient Britons who fought the 
 Roman legions under Caesar with more un- 
 daunted courage than any other people in the 
 Isle of Great Britain, and it is the old Welsh 
 barons who forced King John to sign the Magna 
 Charta on the field of Runnymede, June 15, 1215. 
 
 DRURY JAMES BURCHETT, President of 
 the Bank of Louisa, one of the best known 
 and most popular Republicans in the state, son of 
 Armstead and Rebecca (Pigg) Burchett, was 
 born in Floyd County, Kentucky, August 15, 
 1843. 
 
 His father was born in the same county, May 
 12, 1 81 8, and was a prominent citizen, farmer, 
 soldier and business man in his native county 
 until his death, which occurred on his birthday. 
 May 12, 1894. He was a Democrat before and 
 a Republican after the Civil war; enlisted in the 
 Union army and was a sergeant in the Four- 
 teenth Regiment Kentucky Infantry, and was not 
 actively engaged in business thereafter. 
 
 Drury Burchett (grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia; married a Miss McCowan; removed 
 to Kentucky and was a farmer in Floyd County. 
 His father and four brothers were soldiers in the 
 Revolutionary war. The family is of Scotch- 
 Irish origin, the progenitor coming to this coun- 
 try in colonial times. 
 
 Rebecca Pigg Burchett (mother) was born in 
 Floyd County, Kentucky, in 1820; was educated 
 in the county schools; married Armstead Bur- 
 chett in 1841, and is now a resident of Louisa. 
 
 James Pigg (maternal grandfather) was a na- 
 tive of Virginia; married a Miss Ratliff of that 
 state ; removed to Kentucky and was a farmer in 
 Floyd County. His ancestors were of Scotch- 
 Irish extraction. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 359 
 
 Major D. J. Burchett left the school room in 
 Louisa to enlist as a private in Company K, 
 Fourteenth Regiment Kentucky Infantry, June 
 30, 1 861; was promoted to the rank of first lieu- 
 tenant November 8, 1861 ; promoted to the cap- 
 taincy of the company February i, 1862, and to 
 the rank of major August 6, 1864, and served 
 until the close of the war. During eighteen 
 months of his service as captain, he was in com- 
 mand of a battery of eight guns on the border 
 between Virginia and Kentucky, 
 
 He was in several battles of the Eastern Ten- 
 nessee campaign, and went from there on to 
 Atlanta; returned with General Thomas to Nash- 
 ville; was in command of the regiment from 
 Gaylesville to Rome, Georgia, and of the bri- 
 gade from Chattanooga to Pulaski and Nash- 
 ville, and thence to Johnsville. Few men saw 
 more active service during nearly four years of 
 the war, and have had as little to say about it 
 since the smoke cleared away. 
 
 Returning to Louisa, he was mustered out of 
 the service January 31, 1865. For fifteen years 
 following he was engaged in mercantile pursuits 
 in Louisa, during which time he was a prominent 
 figure in the Republican party in his county and 
 district; was elected to the legislature August, 
 1865, and returned in 1877 and again in 1879, 
 representing Boyd and Lawrence Counties; was 
 chairman of Committee on Banks and a member 
 of the Committee of Ways and Means; was ten- 
 dered the nomination for Congress in 1884, which 
 he then declined, but accepted the candidacy of 
 his party in 1888, and was defeated by only two 
 hundred and twenty-nine votes; was appointed 
 United States marshal for the District of Ken- 
 tucky by President Harrison in 1889 and served 
 the full term of four years; was a delegate to the 
 Republican National Convention at Minneapo- 
 lis in 1892, and was an ardent supporter of Presi- 
 dent Harrison, who was renominated. It is 
 hardly necessary to add that he is uncompromis- 
 ing in his loyalty to the Republican party. 
 
 The Bank of Louisa was organized in 1890 and 
 Major Burchett, who was then serving as United 
 States marshal, was elected president of that cor- 
 poration. This is the nearest banking point for 
 the Counties of Lawrence, Johnson and Martin 
 
 in Kentucky and Wayne County, West Virginia. 
 The extensive lumbering and mining interests 
 of that section are greatly facilitated by the estab- 
 lishment of a bank at Louisa. 
 
 He is also president of the Louisa Milling Com- 
 pany; is interested in a wholesale gi-ocery estab- 
 lishment; has investments in real estate and is a 
 very active and enterprising citizen of the thriving 
 city of Louisa. 
 
 Major Burchett was married March 15, 1865, 
 to Addie Jones, daughter of Daniel D. Jones 
 of Lawrence County. She was educated in the 
 schools of her county; was a very intelligent and 
 attractive woman, noted for piety and Christian 
 charity; a devout member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church; died February 7, 1890. Major 
 Burchett's children are: Mary, wife of J. F. Rat- 
 cliff; Emma D., wife of G. R. Vinson, cashier 
 of the Bank of Louisa; Harlan Geiger, now 
 employed in the bank; John, a student in Centre 
 College at Danville; and Addie and Drury, who 
 are at home. 
 
 WES. B. WILSON, Clerk of the Kenton 
 County Court, Covington, was born in 
 Kenton County, Kentucky, December 12, 1852. 
 He was a typical farmer's boy and attended the 
 common schools when he had nothing else to do, 
 and later attended a private school at Independ- 
 ence in Kenton County; was for a time a matric- 
 ulate in the Kentucky University at Lexington, 
 where he advanced rapidly, and was subsequently 
 admitted to West Point, where he spent one year. 
 After leaving school as a pupil he became a teach- 
 er, and followed that profession for seven years, 
 being well equipped and quite successful. While 
 thus engaged he was appointed deputy clerk of 
 the Circuit Court at Independence, the old county 
 seat of Kenton, and filled that position from 
 1879 to 1888. In 1885 he represented his dis- 
 trict in the Legislature, and in 1890 he was elect- 
 ed clerk of the County Court for a term of four 
 years. He was re-elected in 1894, and is the 
 present incumbent of that office. He is a leader 
 in the Democratic party, and enjoys the friend- 
 ship and good will of men of all parties. He is a 
 prominent member of the Knights of Pythias and 
 of the Elks; is a man of influence in business 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 matters, being a director in the Farmers & Trad- 
 ers' Bank and a director in the Covington Trust 
 Company. 
 
 Mr. Wilson was married in 1876 to Lyda Miles 
 of Covington, and they have four sons and one 
 daughter: Grace, Miles, Hansford, Earl and L. B. 
 
 Mr. Wilson's father, Walker H. Wilson, was 
 born in Kenton County, of which he was a resi- 
 dent until the time of his death in April, 1895, 
 when he was seventy-two years of age. He was 
 a prosperous farmer and dealer in live stock. He 
 was a devout member of the Christian Church. 
 
 Aquilla Wilson (grandfather) came to Kenton 
 County from Virginia in 1800, and was one of the 
 pioneer farmers of that county. He died in 1839. 
 The Wilson family is descended from Cav^alier 
 English stock. 
 
 W. B. Wilson's mother, Mary J. (Hansford) 
 Wilson, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, 
 in 1828, and died at the age of sixty-five years, in 
 1883. She was a member of the Christian Church, 
 a woman of superior intelligence and loveliness of 
 character. 
 
 NAPOLEON M. DURBIN, deceased, was 
 born near Claysville, Harrison County, 
 Kentucky, April i, 1815. His father, Daniel 
 Durbin, with two brothers, came from the vicin- 
 ity of Baltimore, Maryland, descending the Ohio 
 river on fiatboats and landing at Maysville before 
 there was any town there. Daniel found his way 
 through the wilderness to Bourbon County, 
 where he bought a large tract of land near Paris. 
 He also owned a grist mill on Stoner Creek, 
 which is still in operation, about three miles from 
 Paris. After some years' residence in Bourbon 
 County, he sold his property and purchased a 
 large tract of land near Claysville, Harrison 
 County, where he died in 1827, aged eighty-six 
 years. He was the grandfather of Rev. John P. 
 Durbin, D. D., deceased, a noted divine of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church and Eastern trav- 
 eler, who was president of Dickinson College, 
 Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He is buried in Forest 
 Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. 
 
 Daniel Durbin (father) was twice married; 
 first to a Miss Nunn of Bourbon County, Ken- 
 
 tucky, by whom he had several children, one of 
 whom, a son, Hosier, was the father of Rev. 
 John P. Durbin. Hosier is buried at Cane Ridge, 
 Bourbon County, Kentucky. The other chil- 
 dren were daughters: Cassie, who married a 
 Dr. Sappington, and Nancy, who married Gen- 
 eral Eastin of Fayette County. Elizabeth Pursell 
 was the second wife of Daniel Durbin, and she 
 was the mother of three children: Napoleon M. 
 Durbin, John Bonaparte Durbin and Gorilla 
 Boracea Durbin. John B. died without issue. 
 Gorilla B. married John C. Wilson, the father of 
 N. B. Wilson, now a resident of Cynthiana. 
 
 Napoleon M. Durbin enjoyed but limited ad- 
 vantages in getting an education; but he was an 
 ambitious and faithful student, and with his nat- 
 ural qualifications was well equipped for almost 
 any position in public life. In starting out he 
 found lucrative employment as a surveyor and 
 he soon acquired property in two grist mills and a 
 woolen factory, which were the beginning of a 
 handsome fortune. 
 
 A man of his intelligence could not be kept 
 out of public life, although he sought no office. 
 He represented his county in the legislature in 
 1846, being elected by the Whig party. He 
 served in that body with General Lucien Desha, 
 they having defeated Hugh Newel and Joseph 
 Shawhan. 
 
 He was a very fluent speaker and was one of 
 the most popular campaigners of his time. He 
 became a Democrat before the war and was out- 
 spoken in his sympathies for the South during 
 the war; and on that account he spent a good 
 portion of his time in prison, while his friends 
 were fighting for tlie South. 
 
 The primary cause of his long imprisonment 
 was the fact that he organized a company, and 
 when about to depart with his company to join 
 tlie Confederate forces, was captured and taken 
 to Lexington. 
 
 He was a formidable and successful opposer 
 of taxation for private or quasi-public enterprises. 
 Pie strongly and vigorously fought the pro- 
 posed levy of a tax on Harrison County prop- 
 erty to aid in the construction of the Kentucky 
 Central Railway. The proposition was defeated, 
 to the great gain of the county. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 361 
 
 He owned a large number of slaves, every- 
 one of whom praised and willingly obeyed him. 
 Those of them who are still living speak of him 
 as the kindest, noblest and best hearted man who 
 ever lived. He was just, generous and benevo- 
 lent, noble in his bearing and gentlemanly in 
 his deportment; true and ever faithful to his 
 friends; fierce and bordering almost on the ter- 
 rible when aroused, yet magnanimous to his ene- 
 mies. 
 
 He died March 12, 1871, at the old homestead 
 near Claysville in Harrison County, which had 
 been the home of his father for many years. 
 
 Mr. Durbin was married in i860 to Cynthia 
 Hill, daughter of James Hill, of Fayette County. 
 She died in October, 1888, aged fifty-nine years. 
 
 His son, Daniel Durbin, attorney-at-law of 
 Cynthiana, was born at the family homestead in 
 Harrison County, November 27, 1862. When 
 fifteen years of age he entered Prof. Smith's clas- 
 sical school, which he attended for four and a 
 half years, and then went to Ann Arbor College, 
 Michigan, for one year. He studied law in the 
 Cincinnati Law School for two years, graduating 
 in 1889, and at once entered upon the practice 
 of his profession in Cynthiana. 
 
 He was married in 1887 to Mary L. Fisher, 
 daughter of John W. Fisher of Bourbon County. 
 They have two sons and two daughters: Cul- 
 len, Bessie, Laura and one other. 
 
 Daniel Durbin has two sisters: Mary, wife of 
 Darwin E. Fisher of Bourbon County; and 
 Elizabeth, wife of Dr. James B. Adams, a dentist 
 of Cynthiana. He also had a brother John, who 
 died in December, 1870. 
 
 The large estate of Napoleon Durbin has been 
 kept intact by his children. 
 
 JOHN CALVIN HOPKINS, a leading busi- 
 ness man of Catlettsburg, was bom in Taze- 
 well County, Virginia, January 25, 1849. 
 
 His father, John Calvin Hopkins, was born in 
 Bedford County, Virginia, August 13, 1812; was 
 educated in Lynchburg and was a merchant in 
 Tazewell County, Virginia, where he died July 
 20, 1889. Prior to the war he was a Whig and 
 afterwards a Republican; a member of the Pres- 
 
 byterian Church; a good and exemplary citizen 
 and an upright and honest business man. 
 
 John Hopkins (grandfather) was a native farm- 
 er of Bedford County, Virginia. His ancestors 
 were of Scotch-Irish descent. 
 
 Elizabeth Tabler Hopkins (mother) was born 
 in Frederick City, Maryland, in 1820; educated 
 in the best schools of that city; married John C. 
 Hopkins in 1847, and died in 1880. 
 
 William Tabler (maternal grandfather) was 
 sherifif of Frederick County, Maryland, a hotel 
 keeper and a prominent politician. He was of 
 German extraction. 
 
 John Calvin Hopkins of Catlettsburg was edu- 
 cated in Jeffersonville, Virginia; began business 
 as traveling salesman for the hat house of R. 
 G. Lampkins and was with that hoti§e from 1871 
 till 1873; went to New York and was engaged 
 in real estate business with his father in 1874; 
 removed to Kentucky and married Monsie L. 
 Martin, October 20, 1874; lived in Prestonsburg 
 about two years and removed to Catlettsburg 
 February 15, 1876; was engaged in the retail 
 grocery business for one year, when he became 
 interested in steamboating, as captain and owner 
 of a fine line of steamboats, which he has con- 
 tinued to operate with marked success until the 
 present time; has also a retail gentlemen's fur- 
 nishing establishment in Catlettsburg; has been 
 a member of the city council for ten years; was 
 elected mayor of the city in 1893, the first mayor 
 under the present city charter; was master com- 
 missioner of the Circuit Court for eight years; 
 is a director in the Catlettsburg National Bank; 
 and in many ways identified with the material 
 interests of his city and county. 
 
 His wife, Monsie L. Martin Hopkins, a de- 
 scendant of a very distinguished family whose 
 antecedents are given herewith, was born August 
 7, 1848. They have four children: 
 
 Ehzabeth, born in Prestonsburg, July 16, 1875; 
 Mary Grau, born in Catlettsburg, June 24, 1877; 
 Nellie, born in Catlettsburg, January 3, 1880; 
 John Martin, born in Catlettsburg, June 30, 1884. 
 
 John P. Martin, Mrs. Hopkins' father, was 
 born in Jonesville, Lee County, Virginia, Octo- 
 ber 17, 181 1 ; removed to Prestonsburg, Kentucky, 
 in 1828 and soon rose to distinction as a lawyer. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 politician and statesman. He was twice elected 
 to the Kentucky house of representatives, twice 
 to the Kentucky senate and once to Congress. 
 He was one of the best informed and most bril- 
 liant men of his time and exerted a wonderful 
 power over the people whom he represented in 
 pubHc affairs; was a most eloquent speaker; of 
 elegant manners, courteous towards others who 
 looked up to him, and universally popular with all 
 classes. One of the secrets of his power was the 
 fact that he had a very fine library and was a 
 constant reader and tireless student; and he thus 
 equipped himself for the battle of life and was 
 ever ready to inform and enlighten his constitu- 
 ents and to combat the errors of those who op- 
 posed him. 
 
 His daughter, Mary W. Martin, who was his 
 constant companion, was hardly less distin- 
 guished than her father. Born in the little town 
 of Prestonsburg, September 13, 1837, she be- 
 came one of the brightest women of Kentucky or 
 of any state. She was educated in a school for 
 girls in Alexandria, D. C, and in the female sem- 
 inary at Steubenville, Ohio. She spent much of 
 her time in Washington, where she was asso- 
 ciated with the most intelligent people, who ap- 
 preciated her talents and admired her qualities 
 of mind and heart, and her many personal attrac- 
 tions. She never lost her identity with Kentucky. 
 She loved the people of her native state and was 
 greatly loved and admired by them. 
 
 She was married in 1868 to Major James 
 Trimble and removed to Harrisonville, Missouri, 
 where she died in 1880. 
 
 Her brother, Alexander L. Martin, was a very 
 prominent and popular man in his day. He was 
 a member of the Kentucky senate, and the county 
 of Martin was named for him. His wife was a 
 daughter of Judge George N. Brown (see sketch 
 in this work). 
 
 John P. Martin (Mrs. Hopkins' grandfather) 
 was a merchant, lawyer and politician of Pres- 
 tonsburg, where he died in 1863. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Kentucky legislature in 1840, and was 
 the only Democrat in that session, "the whole 
 legislature being a den of Whigs;" was a candi- 
 date for lieutenant governor with Linn Boyd, in 
 opposition to Helm and Stephenson; was a very 
 
 strong Southern sympathizer, and often contrib- 
 uted blankets and bedding to the Confederate 
 soldiers. He was married May 14, 1835, to Eliza- 
 beth Lackey, daughter of Alexander and Mary 
 (Morgan) Lackey. Mrs. Martin died June 18, 
 1889. 
 
 WILLIAM ALONZO TALIAFERRO, a 
 leading farmer of Bracken County, son 
 of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Kelsey) Taliaferro, 
 was born in Bracken County, Kentucky, Septem- 
 ber 9, 1834. 
 
 His father was a native of Bracken County 
 and was educated in the county schools; was a 
 tanner, and had a very large trade in early days, 
 but when the eastern manufacturers began to send 
 their goods into his section of the country he 
 gave up tanning and spent the remainder of his 
 days on a farm. He was a man of fine intelli- 
 gence; a Whig in politics; a Southern sympa- 
 thizer during the war, and after that a Democrat; 
 was a member of the Sons of Temperance, a 
 Mason and a member of the Presbyterian Church. 
 His chief characteristic was his love of home, and 
 his highest ambition was to be a successful farmer. 
 He died November 6, 1867, and is buried in the 
 family burying ground on the old homestead. 
 
 Nicholas Taliaferro (grandfather) was a native 
 of Virginia, who came to Kentucky about one 
 hundred years ago and bought a farm of one hun- 
 dred and fifty acres in Bracken County, which 
 place he called "Grampion Hill." He served as 
 a cavalryman in the Revolutionary war. 
 
 The genealogy of the Taliaferro family as far 
 back as the great-grandfather of the subject of this 
 sketch is given as follows: 
 
 Colonel WiUiam Taliaferro and his wife, Mary, 
 daughter of Nicholas Battaile of "Hay," Caroline 
 County, Virginia, had issue : Nicholas, born Octo- 
 ber 30, 1757, died February, 1812; married, first, 
 Annie, daughter of Colonel John Taliaferro of 
 "Dissington"; second, Frances Blassinggame. 
 John, born July 31, 1753, married Ann Stockdell. 
 Lucy, born December 15, 1755. 
 
 Nicholas had issue by his first marriage: Lucy 
 Mary, born August 6, 1789; married Captain 
 William Buckner of Augusta, Kentucky. John 
 Champ, born October 12, 1784; married Susan 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 363 
 
 Buckner. Matilda B., born September 3, 1787; 
 married Martin Marshall of Kentucky. Mary 
 Willis, born August 11, 1789; died January 25, 
 1797. George Catlett, born March 21, 1792; died 
 March 23, 1823; married Mary King. William 
 T. (Dr.), born January 16, 1795, soldier of 1812, 
 and a distinguished physician; married Elizabeth 
 Ramsay. Nicholas had issue by his second mar- 
 riage: Lawrence, born October 28, 1800. Nicho- 
 las, born August 14, 1806. Marshall, born March 
 9, 1808. 
 
 George Catlett and Mary King Taliaferro had 
 issue: Matilda Ann, born December 28, 1814, 
 married Colonel Alfred Souard. 
 
 John and Annie Stockdell Taliaferro had issue: 
 Hay and John, who married, had a son, who died 
 young, and three daughters : Anne, married Isaac 
 Walters, and had John L., George and Alfred. 
 Lucy, married James Bosnell, had several chil- 
 dren. Mary, married James Bosnell; had no 
 children. 
 
 Elizabeth Kelsey Taliaferro (mother) was born 
 in Bracken County, January i, 1807; was edu- 
 cated in the county schools; married Nicholas 
 Taliaferro, November 5, 1829; died March 21, 
 1893, and lies in the family burying ground by 
 the side of her husband. 
 
 William Kelsey (maternal grandfather) was 
 born in Virginia, September 9, 1777, and was a 
 farmer in Bracken County. He was married 
 November 2, 1805, to Sallie Fee, who was born 
 May 23, 1786. There were two children of this 
 union: Elizabeth (mother) and Caroline, born 
 July 6, 1810. William Kelsey died May 17, 1852, 
 in the seventy-fifth year of his age, his wife, Sarah 
 (Fee) Kelsey, having died on the 23d day of the 
 preceding month, in her sixty-seventh year. 
 
 Sallie Fee Kelsey (grandmother) was a daugh- 
 ter of John Fee and Elizabeth Bradford Fee, who 
 were married February 18, 1783. Elizabeth 
 Bradford (great-grandmother) was born March 
 ^3) ^757- She was the mother of nine children. 
 She died November 15, 1839, having survived her 
 husband, John Fee, who died November 7, 1822. 
 
 W. A. Taliaferro's only sister, Laura Augusta 
 Caroline Taliaferro, was born September 23, 1836. 
 He was educated in the schools of Bracken Coun- 
 ty; bought the old Charles Gibbons farm, which 
 
 has been the scene of his prosperous labors since 
 his early manhood. 
 
 He was married November 5, i860, to Anna J. 
 Curtis, daughter of Nicholas and Rebecca (Pet- 
 ticord) Curtis. She was born November 16, 1835, 
 and died January 10, 1865. There were three 
 children by this union: Lizzie, born October 11, 
 1861 ; died May 28, 1862. Nicholas C, born July 
 24, 1863; died July 14, 1891. William A., born 
 October 28, 1864; died July 10, 1894. 
 
 Nicholas C. Taliaferro, the second son, was 
 a young man of superior business qualifications, 
 very talented and highly educated, having gradu- 
 ated from Richmond University in the class of 
 1884 with the highest honors of his class. His 
 early death was a heavy blow to the hopes of his 
 family and many friends and admirers. 
 
 Mr. Taliaferro was married a second time, May 
 7, 1868, to Lizzie Pinkard, daughter of Stanfield 
 and Rebecca (Harmon) Pinkard. She was born 
 December 3, 1841. They have one child. Mat- 
 tie, born November 26, 1869; married Carroll 
 Asbury, May 3, 1894. 
 
 Stanfield Pinkard, Mrs. Taliaferro's father, was 
 born March 29, 1798; died October 17, 1846. 
 
 Rebecca Harmon Pinkard was born March 26, 
 1803; died March 29, 1879. 
 
 Mr. Taliaferro is an elder in the Presbyterian 
 Church; takes the part of a good citizen in the 
 matter of politics, voting the Democratic ticket, 
 but has never sought any position or favor at the 
 hands of his party. 
 
 L WESLEY GERMAN, D. D. S., M. D., a 
 . leading dentist of Louisville, an industrious 
 worker in the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion and in the church and Sunday school, a direc- 
 tor of one of the city missions and a member of 
 the City Council of Louisville, is a native of Penn- 
 sylvania. He was born in Harrisburg, Septem- 
 ber 7, 1855, and is a son of E. S. and Sarah J. 
 (Westfall) German, he a native of Harrisburg, 
 where they now reside, and she of East Liberty, 
 Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 
 His father was born August 3, 1822, and after 
 learning the printer's trade and reading law he 
 embarked in the book business in 1856, dealing 
 principally in works of a religious character, from 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 which occupation he retired in 1878, being suc- 
 ceeded by his sons, Philip and John. The latter 
 subsequently sold out and the establishment is 
 now conducted by Philip German. E. S. Ger- 
 man (father) is a prominent member of and an 
 office-bearer in the Lutheran Church. He has 
 always been active in religious work in connec- 
 tion with that church; and is noted for his re- 
 markable knowledge of the Bible, in the study of 
 which he takes great delight, as he says, "amidst 
 the labors of the day and in the watches of the 
 night." Few men have a more extended and 
 valuable knowledge of religious publications. He 
 was twice elected to the School Board of Harris- 
 burg, but has never aspired to political honors. 
 His ambition has been to be useful in the promo- 
 tion of true life according to the teachings, exam- 
 ple and spirit of Christ, and has recently organ- 
 ized the New Church (Swedenborgian) in Har- 
 risburg. 
 
 Philip German (grandfather) was a native of 
 Meyerstown, Pennsylvania, and became a brewer 
 in Harrisburg. He was a volunteer soldier and 
 corporal in the War of 1812, and marched to Bal- 
 timore with others at the time of the attack of 
 the British on that city. His regiment was quar- 
 tered outside of the city ready to participate in 
 the battle when the English commander was 
 shot and the victory won by the patriots. Fol- 
 lowing the war, he removed to Harrisburg, where 
 he was engaged in his former business until his 
 accidental death in 1855. He married Mary 
 Elizabeth Hirsh, whose mother was Catherine 
 Seltzer and her grandmother was Catherine Linde 
 of Stockholm, Sweden. Her father was from 
 Wittenberg, Germany. The father of Philip Ger- 
 man (grandfather) and his father's father were 
 natives of Germany, near Heidelberg; and it is 
 definitely known that they were members of the 
 Lutheran Church. 
 
 Sarah J. Westfall German (mother) was born 
 in East Liberty, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 
 12, 1823, and is now a resident of Harrisburg, a 
 member of the Lutheran Church, and has been 
 a willing helper in the work in which her hus- 
 band has been engaged in the church and in the 
 Sunday school. 
 
 Simeon Westfall (grandfather) kept a shoe 
 
 store in Wilkinsburg. He left that business and 
 engaged in hauling merchandise between Phila- 
 delphia and Pittsburgh before the day of canals 
 and railroads. He married Hannah Barr of Har- 
 risburg, and after living for a time in East Lib- 
 erty, where Dr. German's mother was born, he 
 removed to Harrisburg and spent the remainder 
 of his life there. 
 
 Robert Barr (great-grandfather) was a Scotch- 
 Irish Presbyterian, a stone mason by occupation, 
 who came to America in 1770. The oath of alle- 
 giance which he took before the formation of the 
 government is framed and kept as an heirloom by 
 a member of the family. 
 
 L. Wesley German was educated in the High 
 School of Harrisburg and at Pennsylvania State 
 College, Pennsylvania. In November, 1874, he 
 began the study of dentistry and was graduated 
 from the Philadelphia Dental College in 1878. He 
 had charge of a dental office in Polo, Illinois, for 
 one year prior to this. After completing his 
 course in the Dental College he returned to Polo, 
 Illinois, and practiced dentistry there for one year; 
 and in the fall of 1879 '^^ located permanently in 
 Louisville, where his success was at once assured. 
 
 He identified himself with religious work in the 
 Lutheran Church and in the Young Men's Chris- 
 tian Association, and in 1880 was elected a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Managers of the Y. M. C. A. 
 One year later he was elected one of the secre- 
 taries of that association, which office he held for 
 three years, when he was again elected a member 
 of the Board of Managers, and one year after was 
 made treasurer, in which capacity he served for 
 three and a half years. 
 
 Dr. German is a hard working member of the 
 Lutheran Church and is the teacher of a large 
 young men's Bible class in the Sunday school, 
 and has been particularly active in missionary 
 work, having helped to organize three congrega- 
 tions as the result of work in which he has been 
 associated with others. He was a deacon in the 
 First Lutheran Church and assistant superintend- 
 ant of the Sunday school; was an elder in St. 
 Paul Lutheran Church, having assisted in the 
 organization of the two last named and also one 
 other church. 
 
 Dr. German is an active member of a number 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 365 
 
 of benevolent orders, having been several times 
 dictator in the Knights of Honor and a member 
 of the State Grand Lodge of that order, and was 
 regent for several terms in the Royal Arcanum. 
 He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity. 
 
 He was one of the fifty citizens who went to 
 Pittsburgh to secure the Twenty-ninth Annual 
 Grand Army Encampment of the Republic for 
 Louisville, and was an indefatigable worker in 
 the preparations in the city for that notable event. 
 
 In November, 1895, Dr. German was elected 
 a member of the City Council, representing the 
 Sixth Ward, and was urged to accept the presi- 
 dency of the board, but declined the honor. 
 
 He is not only a dentist, but is also a graduate 
 of the Kentucky School of Medicine, class of 
 1888, and was for a time a practicing physician 
 until his dental work required all of his time. He 
 is still a diligent student of medicine and dental 
 surgery, keeping up with the times through the 
 best medical literature of the day. 
 
 Dr. German was married July 18, 1889, to Orrel 
 M. Davis, daughter of George Davis of Louis- 
 ville, and they have one child. Marguerite Eliza- 
 beth. 
 
 JAMES H. PARRISH, Banker and Insurance 
 Agent of Owensboro, son of Isaac Newton 
 and Elizabeth (Givens) Parrish, was born in Bul- 
 litt County, Kentucky, February 28, 1855. His 
 father was born in Goochland County, Virginia, 
 April 4, 1818. His education was obtained by his 
 own efiforts, as the sum total of his schooling was 
 one month in the common school. He came to 
 Kentucky with his fathen in 1822, who settled in 
 Jefferson County, afterward a part of Nelson, and 
 still later a part of Bullitt County, and was a resi- 
 dent of three different counties without changing 
 his location. He went to Louisville when sixteen 
 years of age and learned the tailor's trade; re- 
 turned to Bullitt County, and followed that occupa- 
 tion until 1865. He was drafted during the war, 
 but was exempted on account of having artificial 
 teeth. After the close of the war he removed to 
 Owensboro and was engaged in tailoring there 
 until 1878, when he became interested with his 
 son in the wholesale and retail book business, the 
 firm name being W. E. & I, N, Parrish. He was a 
 
 prominent member of the Methodist Church, and 
 a trustee of Settle Chapel. He was twice mar- 
 ried, first to Martha Amos, a native of Jefferson 
 County, Kentucky. Two children of this union 
 died in infancy. The second wife, to whom he 
 was married in October, 1846, was Elizabeth 
 Givens. Their children were: Jane Givens, wife 
 of William A. Brotherton, of Owensboro; George 
 W. and John Otis, wholesale book dealers in 
 Owensboro; James Howard, the subject of this 
 sketch; Arthur Lee, assistant cashier of the 
 Owensboro Savings Bank; Lizzie Sue, now liv- 
 ing with her mother in Owensboro; William E., 
 wholesale book dealer. Isaac N., who began busi- 
 ness as a newspaper carrier, graduated from the 
 Owensboro High School at the age of sixteen, 
 and in 1890 was elected cashier in a bank. 
 He was married February 10, 1895, to Mat- 
 tie B. Haney; Walter Benjamin, died March 
 1883, and Mary Martha. 
 
 Nelson Parrish (grandfather) was a native of 
 Goochland County, Virginia; came to Jefferson 
 County in 1803; was a farmer and cooper, and 
 married a Miss Cosby of Virginia, who died in 
 Bullitt County. He was the father of eight chil- 
 dren: Milton W., Marion, Lester, Edwin, Eliza- 
 beth, Isaac N., Rebecca and Lucien. 
 
 George Givens (maternal grandfather) was born 
 in Lincoln County in 1792. He was a farmer, a 
 Democrat in politics and member of the Baptist 
 Church. He married Mary Simpson and was the 
 father of seven children : Elizabeth (mother), Wil- 
 liam, Joseph, Agnes, Samuel, Jane and Sallie: 
 They removed from Lincoln to Daviess County in 
 i860 and he died there in 1864, aged seventy-two 
 years. ■ | 1 
 
 The great-grandfather Givens was a native of 
 Virginia, who emigrated to Kentucky and lived 
 on a farm at Fort McKinney, in Lincoln County, 
 and the widow of one of his sons is still living on 
 that farm at a greatly advanced age. 
 
 James H. Parrish was educated in the schools 
 of Owensboro; learned the printing trade in the 
 office of the Owensboro Monitor, when Thomas 
 H. Pettit was proprietor; remained in that office 
 five years; was employed in the office of the 
 Examiner, of which Lee Lumpkin was editor; 
 became clerk in the Owensboro Savings Bank in 
 
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 1877, and within one year was made cashier. T. 
 S. Anderson, president of the bank, withdrew in 
 1884, and Mr. Parrish and others bought his in- 
 terest, since which time he purchased the other 
 stockholders' shares and is now the owner and 
 cashier of the bank in which he began as a clerk. 
 He is a member of the insurance firm of Stirman 
 & Parrish, and is one of the most progressive 
 business men of the city. 
 
 In past years he was a Democrat, but is not 
 associated with any political party, preferring to 
 vote according to his judgment and to support the 
 best man regardless of his political affiliations. 
 
 He has been a member of the Baptist Church 
 since he was twelve years of age and a deacon for 
 many years; has been superintendent of and is 
 teacher of a primary class in the Sundb,y school, 
 and is greatly interested in the work of the school 
 and the church. 
 
 Mr. Parrish was married June 14, 1881, to 
 Jessie Moorman, daughter of Silas Mercer Moor- 
 man, who was for many years a merchant in 
 Breckinridge County; was in the Confederate 
 army as quartermaster under General Buckner, 
 and was promoted to the rank of major; was in 
 the service three years and died of camp fever at 
 La Grange, Georgia, in 1863, and is buried there. 
 His wife was Sarah Talbott, who was born in New 
 Market, Tenn. Their children were: George, 
 Edward, Sallie, Henry, Hetty, Belle, Guy, Ten- 
 nessee and Jessie (wife). 
 
 Mrs. Parrish was educated in Owensboro, and 
 at a private school in New Orleans. Of the four 
 children born to Mr. and Mrs. Parrish, Moorman, 
 who was born March 12, 1886, is the only one 
 living. Nora, born July 24, 1882, died June 21, 
 1890; Sarah Moorman, born June 25, 1884, died 
 August 31, 1884; Maria Louise, born March 8, 
 1890, died March 31, 1890. 
 
 MILTON C. RUSSELL, wholesale grocer of 
 Maysville, one of the most conspicuous and 
 successful business men of Northern Kentucky, 
 was born in Maysville April 6, 1844. 
 
 His father, Christopher Russell, was born in 
 England in 1814 and came to America in 1821, 
 locating in Wilmington, Delaware, from which 
 place he removed to Maysville in 1839. He was 
 
 one of the leading contractors and builders of 
 his time and built many houses in Maysville. 
 Having reached his eightieth year, he died in 1894. 
 His wife was Mary Maule, a native of Pennsyl- 
 vania. Her father, John Maule, was also a native 
 of that state and a son of John Maule, who was a 
 native of Scotland. 
 
 Milton C. Russell was educated principally in 
 Rand and Richeson's Seminary in Maysville. 
 Leaving school when sixteen years of age he be- 
 gan his business career as a salesman in the gro- 
 cery of John H. Richeson, with whom he re- 
 mained for four years, when he accepted a similar 
 position with Dudley A. Richardson, remaining 
 with him as salesman until 1881, when he ac- 
 quired an interest in the house. This partnership 
 continued until July, 1886, when the whilom clerk 
 bought out the proprietor, and from that time he 
 has been the controlling spirit in the affairs of an 
 ever increasing business. 
 
 In 1892 the old house was torn away and the 
 present elegant five-story building was erected in 
 its stead, giving Mr. Russell and his sons more 
 room and better facilities and adding a valuable 
 improvement to the city. This house, 42x80 feet, 
 is filled with goods, embracing a stock of about 
 $50,000 in value, and is one of the best equipped 
 and most thoroughly stocked jobbing houses in 
 the state. The trade, while not far reaching, being 
 confined chiefly to adjacent counties, is kept well 
 in hand by traveling salesmen. In 1890 his son, 
 James B. Russell, became a partner in the estab- 
 lishment, and anodier son, Thomas M. Russell, 
 is now associated with him in business. 
 
 Mr. Russell is president of the Union Trust 
 Company (capital $50,000), of which he was one 
 of the organizers. He is secretary of the Mason 
 County Building & Loan Association, one of the 
 most substantial associations of that character in 
 the state. Beginning life as a clerk without any 
 pecuniary assistance and without capital, save 
 industry and a marvelous capacity for business, 
 he has forced himself to the front, and is now 
 recognized as one of the most progressive and 
 substantial business men of Maysville, thoroughly 
 respected and trusted and greatly admired for his 
 fine traits of character and superior business 
 acumen. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 367 
 
 He is prominently identified with the leading 
 benevolent fraternities, being a Knight Templar 
 in Masonry, an Odd Fellow and a Knight of 
 Pythias and Red Men. 
 
 Mr. Russell was married in 1865 to Elexene 
 P. Johnson of Maysville, and has three sons, two 
 of whom are associated with him in business. 
 Christopher D. Russell has embarked in business 
 on his own account as wholesale and retail dealer 
 in queensware, glassware, in Maysville. 
 
 REV. WALLACE L. NOURSE, pastor of the 
 Ninth Street Presbyterian Church of Hop- 
 kinsville, was bom in Bardstown, Kentucky, No- 
 vember 30, 1834. His father, Charles Nourse, 
 was also born in Bardstown, was educated in the 
 schools of that place, and engaged in mercantile 
 business there when twenty-two years of age. He 
 was a man of great force of character, a promi- 
 nent and influential member of the Presbyterian 
 Church, a Whig in politics, whose convictions 
 were as freely and openly expressed as they were 
 firm and decided. He spent most of his life in 
 Bardstown, but removed to Jefferson County, 
 where he died in 1865, in the seventy-fifth year 
 of his age. 
 
 James Nourse (grandfather) was born in Vir- 
 ginia, emigrated to Kentucky when he was a 
 young man and became a prominent lawyer 
 of Harrodsburg. He was a man of great influ- 
 ence and personal magnetism and made friends 
 wherever he was known. He was agent of a 
 Kentucky Land Company and transacted a great 
 deal of business for the early settlers of the state. 
 
 James Nourse (great-grandfather) was a native 
 of England, who emigrated to Virginia, and 
 died there in 1780. 
 
 Rosa Logan Nourse (mother) was a daughter 
 of Judge William Logan and Priscilla Wallace, 
 and was born in Shelby County in 1802. She 
 lived to the extreme age of ninety-one years, 
 and was hale and hearty and was an interested 
 reader of the newspapers and the literature of 
 the day until within a short time before her death, 
 which occurred in Louisville, November, 1895. 
 
 William Logan (maternal grandfather) was 
 born in Fort Asaph, near Harrodsburg, Decem- 
 ber 8, 1876, and was the first white child born in 
 
 the State of Kentucky. Collins states that of the 
 early born sons of Kentucky "he was the most 
 gifted and eminent." He was a judge of the Court 
 of Appeals for many years; was United States 
 Senator in 1819-20, resigning his seat in the Sen- 
 ate to become a candidate for governor of Ken- 
 tucky during the old and new court controversy, 
 but was not elected; was a member of the Con- 
 stitutional Convention in 1799 and frequently a 
 member of the Kentucky Legislature from both 
 Lincoln and Shelby Counties, and three times 
 speaker of the house. He died August 8, 1822, 
 aged forty-six years. His father was General 
 Ben Logan of pioneer fame. 
 
 Wallace L. Nourse was educated in the Pres- 
 byterian schools of Bardstown and attended the 
 Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Danville, 
 teaching school in the meantime, and was licensed 
 to preach by the Presbytery of Louisville in 1862. 
 He began his work in the ministry in Daviess and 
 Hancock Counties. In connection with the 
 Synod of Kentucky he removed to Rockport, In- 
 diana, in 1869; remained there for sixteen years, 
 and was instrumental in building several churches 
 in that vicinity, to which he made liberal contri- 
 butions in time, labor and money. In 1885 he 
 went to Hopkinsville, where he has accomplished 
 a good work in building up the church, and has 
 sustained his reputation as one of the ablest 
 preachers and finest pulpit orators in that sec- 
 tion of the state. 
 
 He married (first) Louisa Bell of Owensboro, 
 in 1864, by whom he has two children living and 
 one deceased. In 1875 he married (second) Sadie, 
 daughter of James Bartrim of Rockport, Indiana, 
 who is the mother of eight children. 
 
 HUGH RAY RIFFE, druggist of Bellevue, 
 son of Dr. John M. and Mary A. (Ray) Rifife, 
 was born in Winchester, Clark County, Ken- 
 tucky, September 17, 1858. His father, Dr. John 
 M. Riffe, is a native of Liberty, Casey County, 
 and is now living in Covington, where he has 
 been a practicing physician for more than a quar- 
 ter of a century. He is a man of great piety and 
 is loved and respected by a host of friends, not 
 only in the Christian Church, of which he is a 
 member, but in the entire community. He is now 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 well advanced in years, having passed three-score 
 and ten, but he is quite active and is greatly de- 
 voted to his profession, in which his services are 
 as much in demand as when he was younger. 
 
 George Chilton Riffe (grandfather) was born 
 in Casey County in 1802. He was educated for 
 the medical profession, and studied medicine 
 under Dr. Ephraim McDowell of Danville, but 
 his preference was for agricultural life, and he 
 never entered the active profession of medicine. 
 He was a farmer all his hfe after completing his 
 studies, but being a man of more than ordinary 
 intelligence and of excellent education he was 
 frequently elected to the legislature, serving in the 
 lower house in 1838-40, and in the Senate from 
 1862 to 1870. He was magistrate in Casey Coun- 
 ty for many years, and was prominent in all of 
 the affairs of interest to his county. He was mar- 
 ried March 17, 1823, to Elizabeth Blaine Ander- 
 son, daughter of Walter Anderson of Virginia, 
 and was the father of nine children, of whom Dr. 
 John M. Rifife was the eldest. He was a man of 
 great strength of character and a member of the 
 Christian Church, whose daily life was in keeping 
 with his profession. 
 
 Christopher Rifife (great-grandfather) was born 
 in Pennsylvania in 1765. At the age of seventeen 
 he was married to Polly Spears of Virginia, and 
 came to Kentucky, at first locating in Harrods- 
 burg, but he subsequently removed to Casey 
 County. He served in the War of 1812 under 
 General Shelby, in the commissary department, 
 receiving the title of general. He represented the 
 counties of Casey and Russell in the Legislature 
 for sixteen years. He was a very intimate friend 
 of Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton and other dis- 
 tinguished Kentucky pioneers. He died in 1850 
 in the eighty-fifth year of his age. 
 
 Walter Anderson (maternal grandfather) was a 
 Virginian and a Baptist minister, but connected 
 himself with the Christian Church about the time 
 of its organization. He married Sarah Ann 
 Blaine, daughter of Alexander Blaine. He died 
 in 1862, aged ninety-one years, and she in 1877. 
 Her father was aide-de-camp to General Wash- 
 ington, and was a relative of James G. Blaine. The 
 family was originally from Ireland. 
 
 Hugh R. Riffe was educated principally in the 
 
 public and high schools of Covington, to which 
 place his parents had removed when he was twelve 
 years of age. He began business as a clerk in 
 the drug store of his brother, John M. Rifle, Jr., 
 and at the age of nineteen began business in the 
 same line on his own account. In 1887 he re- 
 moved to Bellevue, where he has continued in 
 the drug business, at the same time trading more 
 or less in real estate, and has acquired some valu- 
 able property. 
 
 He was married April 24, 1883, to Mamie Lee 
 Cassiday, daughter of the late James A. Cassiday 
 of Covington, and they have three children: 
 James M., Hugh Ray, Jr., and Laura Cassiday. 
 
 AF. GOETZE, a leading druggist of Day- 
 . ton, was born in Cincinnati, October 21, 
 1858. He is a son of August and Sophia (Hart- 
 man) Goetze. His father was bom in Cassel, Ger- 
 many, June 9, 1829, and came to America and 
 located in Cincinnati, July 16, 1854. He received 
 a good education in Germany and at once stepped 
 into prominence in Cincinnati, where he was en- 
 gaged in the wholesale hat business until 1882, 
 when he removed to Dayton, Kentucky. In 1883 
 he was elected city treasurer of Dayton, and when 
 he took charge of that office the little city was 
 overwhelmed with debt. Its bonds were held 
 at from 60 to 75 cents on the dollar, and there 
 were no purchasers willing to take them at any 
 price. Mr. Goetze proved a very able financier, 
 and in ten years he paid every debt, including 
 bonds to the amount of $40,000 in the Jamestown 
 district. There are few more popular or useful 
 citizens of Dayton than August Goetze. 
 
 Herman Goetze (grandfather) was born in Cas- 
 sel, Germany, June 29, 1778, and was a resident of 
 that country all his life. 
 
 Sophia Hartman Goetze (mother) was born in 
 Cassel, Germany, May 14, 1830, and received a 
 fine education in that country. Her marriage to 
 Mr. Goetze took place on his arrival in this coun- 
 try in July, 1854, and they have spent over forty 
 years of married life together. She is a daughter 
 of Valentine Hartman, who was bom in Germany 
 May 13, 1779, and died there May 17, 1846. His 
 wife, Sophia, was born August 22, 1800, and died 
 May 22, 1830. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 369 
 
 A. F. Goetze was educated in the public schools 
 of Cincinnati, finishing with credit to himself when 
 sixteen years of age. He attended the Cincin- 
 nati College of Pharmacy in 1876, and was grad- 
 uated in 1878, and while pursuing his pharmaceu- 
 tical studies was employed in a drug store in Day- 
 ton, and after completing his course located in 
 that city permanently, and has now one of the 
 best retail drug stores in Campbell County. 
 
 Mr. Goetze is a Republican in politics, as is his 
 venerable father, and is prominent as a Mason 
 and Knight of Pythias. 
 
 He was married March 12, 1884, to Lula M. 
 Jones, daughter of Thomas Jones, a prominent 
 poHtician of Dayton. Mrs. Goetze was born 
 April 15, 1863. Their only child. Earl, was born 
 December 24, 1884. 
 
 JOHN C. HOOE, Railroad Ticket and Freight 
 Agent and Agent of the Adams Express Com- 
 pany at Lawrenceburg, was born in Mercer Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, August 21, i860. His father, Wil- 
 liam Archer Hooe, was born in Virginia, in 1809, 
 and at the age of twenty-two years came, to Har- 
 rodsburg, and after studying law began the prac- 
 tice of his profession in Harrodsburg. He retired 
 from active work a few years before his death in 
 1869. He was twice a member of the Kentucky 
 Legislature and was a prominent and popular 
 man in political afifairs. His father was a Vir- 
 ginian, who died in his native place. 
 
 Sue B. (Burford) Hooe, mother of the subject 
 of this sketch, was born in Harrodsburg August 
 24, 1843, ^rid is still a resident of that city. 
 
 Elijah Burford (maternal grandfather) was born 
 in Indiana in 1801, and removed to Harrodsburg 
 in 1820, where he lived to be eighty-six years old. 
 He was a general merchant in Harrodsburg for 
 fifty years. 
 
 John C. Hooe enjoyed the usual advantages of 
 the country boy in the way of schools, and com- 
 pleted his studies at Daughters' College, Harrods- 
 burg. At the age of seventeen began a successful 
 business career as clerk in a store. After one year 
 of service in this capacity he accepted a position 
 as clerk in the office of the Southwestern Railroad 
 Company. Three years later he was appointed 
 agent of the company at Harrodsburg, which po- 
 
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 sition he resigned five years later to become super- 
 intendent of the Southwestern Railroad. He held 
 this important office for seven years and resigned 
 to accept the office of superintendent of construc- 
 tion on the Louisville Southern Railroad, and held 
 that position for eighteen months, when he was 
 made general agent of the Louisville Southern, 
 with headquarters at Harrodsburg. When the 
 Monon people leased the road he was made travel- 
 ing auditor of the Louisville Southern line, and 
 after two years of service as auditor he resigned 
 and became superintendent of the T. B. Ripy Dis- 
 tillery at Lawrenceburg, and was there for six 
 years when he again resigned to accept the posi- 
 tion of ticket and freight agent in connection with 
 the Adams Express Company's agency at Law- 
 renceburg, and this is the only position he has 
 ever held that he has not resigned. 
 
 Mr. Hooe was married November 23, 1884, to 
 Mary V. Roemer of St. Louis. She died Septem- 
 ber 30, 1885. He was married again November 
 3, 1891, to Maggie Crenshaw of Georgetown, and 
 she died May 19, 1895. 
 
 Mr. Hooe is an active and influential member of 
 the Christian Church, and a member of the Order 
 of Maccabees. He has one son, R. B. Hooe, the 
 child of his first wife. 
 
 CB. HAYGOOD, City Clerk of Dayton, 
 . son of Susan (Von Gundy) and Plato Play- 
 good, was born in Cincinnati, January 28, 1852. 
 His father was born in Geneva, New York, in 
 1816; spent his school days in Cleveland, Ohio, 
 and was a clerk in many of the leading hotels in 
 the large cities, including Cleveland, Columbus, 
 Ohio, St. Louis and New Orleans. He was a pure, 
 good man, a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
 an Odd Fellow and a thirty-second degree Mason. 
 He died in Cincinnati in 1876, at the age of sixty 
 years, and is buried near that city in Spring Grove 
 Cemetery. His ancestors came from Scotland. 
 
 Susan Von Gundy Haygood (mother) was born 
 in Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1827, and was edu- 
 cated in the common schools. She and Plato 
 Haygood were married in 1850, and she survives 
 him, being now a resident of Dayton. Her father, 
 Christian Von Gundy, was a native of Germany. 
 
 C. B. Haygood, subject of this sketch, was edu- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 cated in the splendid schools of Cincinnati, gradu- 
 ating from the high school in 1868. He began 
 business as a clerk in the well known wholesale 
 grocery establishment of Babbitt, Harkness & 
 Co. of Cincinnati and was with them for ten years. 
 He then engaged in the retail grocery business 
 on his own account in Dayton and was thus en- 
 gaged for seven years. 
 
 In 1879 he was elected city assessor; was a 
 member of the City Council from the Third Ward 
 in 1885; was elected city clerk in 1886, and has 
 held that office four consecutive terms, rendering 
 service that has given entire satisfaction to the 
 citizens. He takes an active and leading part in 
 Republican politics; is a Mason, Odd Fellow, 
 Knight of Pythias and a member of the Presby- 
 terian Church, in all of which organizations he 
 takes a lively interest. 
 
 Mr. Haygood and Mary Brooks, daughter of 
 Samuel Brooks, were married June 19, 1873. She 
 is a native of Columbus, Ohio. They have four 
 children: Clarence, born May 8, 1876; Walter, 
 born October, 23, 1878; Alma, born July 22, 1889, 
 and Dallas, born April 26, 1893. 
 
 MARTIN J. BROWN, a popular lawyer of 
 Newport, was born in Warsaw, Ohio, May 
 30, i860. His father, Frederick Brown, was born 
 in Germany in 1822 and came to America in 1847. 
 He lived in Cincinnati until 1869, when he re- 
 moved to Newport. He was a blacksmith and 
 followed his trade with great industry and success. 
 He died in 1883, aged sixty-one years. He mar- 
 ried Margaret Miller, a native of Germany, near 
 Baden, who survives him. 
 
 Martin J. Brown came to Newport with his 
 parents when nine years of age, and received his 
 primary education in the Catholic schools of 
 Delhi, Ohio, and at St. Michaels in Cincinnati. 
 He then spent some time at St. Vincent, West- 
 moreland County, Pennsylvania, finishing at 
 Xavier College, Cincinnati; studied law with A. 
 T. Root, then city attorney of Newport, and was 
 admitted to the practice of law September 25, 
 1880. He has had a very successful career as 
 an attorney at law, having a large general prac- 
 tice and being attorney for a number of building 
 associations, to which he has given much atten- 
 
 tion. He is a Democrat, but takes no active part 
 in politics. He and his mother are members of 
 the Roman Catholic Church, as was his father. 
 Mr. Brown was married January 10, 1882, to 
 Hattie Kearney, daughter of James Kearney, de- 
 ceased, of Newport. She died in 1892, leaving 
 two sons and three daughters: Hattie, Mary, 
 Lilian, George and Martin J. Brown, Jr. 
 
 ISAAC P. GOULD, M. D., one of the rising 
 young physicians of Bellevue, was born in 
 Newport, Kentucky, April 28, 1871, and is the 
 son of Isaac P. and Dora A. (Martin) Gould. His 
 father was a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, 
 who came to Newport in 1865, and while living 
 there was engaged for twenty years in the whole- 
 sale shoe business in Cincinnati. He subsequent- 
 ly removed to Lexington. He was a member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was Grand 
 Master of the State Lodge of Free and Accepted 
 Masons. He died in Bellevue in 1895, aged forty- 
 five years. His father was a native of Raleigh, 
 North Carolina, and a minister in the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 in 1867, while on a visit to that city, aged forty 
 years. The Goulds are of English descent. 
 
 Dora A. Martin Gould (mother) is a native of 
 Newport, now living in Bellevue, and is one of 
 the honored members of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 John Martin (grandfather) was a native of 
 Memphis, Tennessee. He came to Newport in 
 i860 and made that city his home most of the time 
 until his death. He was a ship builder, and built 
 gunboats during the war, and was extensively 
 engaged in shipbuilding in Baltimore. He 
 reached the age of seventy-eight years and died 
 in 1893 at Dayton, Kentucky. He was of Scotch- 
 Irish extraction. Mr. Martin was a Republican 
 and a man of great force of character. He was 
 quite prominent during the war, serving his coun- 
 try in the line of his business as faithfully as many 
 who served upon the battlefield. 
 
 Dr. Isaac P. Gould is a graduate of the Belle- 
 vue High School and spent several years in col- 
 lege. After leaving school he read medicine with 
 Professor Fred Kabler of Cincinnati for a time, 
 and then attended the Ohio Medical College at 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 371 
 
 Cincinnati, graduating in 1891. He then took a 
 year's course in the New York Polyclinical Medi- 
 cal College, and in 1892 began the practice of 
 medicine in Bellevue. His thorough preparation 
 for his high calling enabled him to take rank al- 
 most at once among older and more experienced 
 physicians, and he has met with phenomenal suc- 
 cess, both from a business point of view and as 
 a physician of the highest qualifications. 
 
 JOHN H. LEATHERS, Cashier of the Louis- 
 kj villa Banking Company, son of William and 
 Elizabeth (Hess) Leathers, was born in Middle- 
 way, a small town in Jefiferson County, noar Mar- 
 tinsburg, now West Virginia, April 27, 1841. 
 There are few business men in Louisville or else- 
 where who have been more successful through 
 strictly honest and legitimate means than has 
 Captain Leathers. He holds many offices of 
 trust and honor, which have been thrust upon 
 him on account of his business qualifications, fine 
 judgment and his unswerving integrity, and, as 
 will be seen from this brief sketch, he has reached 
 his present enviable position among the first men 
 of the city by his own efforts and without financial 
 aid from friends or relatives. 
 
 His father, William Leathers, was born in 
 Orange County, Virginia, where he was a farmer 
 for some years, but removed to Berkeley County 
 (now West Virginia), in 1850, and died there in 
 1872. He was a member of the Methodist Church 
 and was licensed as a local preacher. His sym- 
 pathies were with the South during the Civil strife, 
 but he was then past the military age and did 
 not enlist. 
 
 Captain Leather's mother was a daughter of 
 Peter Hess, a sturdy German blacksmith of Berks 
 County, Pennsylvania, who removed about the 
 year 1810 to the Shenandoah Valley, where there 
 was a large settlement of Pennsylvania people. 
 She was educated in Virginia and during her early 
 years was a member of the Lutheran Church, but 
 after her marriage she joined the Methodist 
 Church, of which she was a faithful member until 
 her death, which occurred in Martinsburg in 1870. 
 
 The Hess family came from Germany and set- 
 tled in Pennsylvania. The Leathers are of Eng- 
 lish descent. 
 
 Captain John H. Leathers was educated in Mar- 
 tinsburg, Virginia, receiving the best instruction 
 afforded in the common schools, and then pur- 
 suing his studies in the higher branches under 
 the teaching of his uncle, John Hess, a man of 
 great learning, who held the office of county sur- 
 veyor almost during his whole life and taught 
 school in connection with his duties as surveyor. 
 He belonged to the old school and was a thor- 
 ough teacher, under whose guidance some of the 
 most distinguished men of Virginia — who will 
 remember him most kindly and gratefully — re- 
 ceived their early training. 
 
 When about fifteen years of age Mr. Leathers 
 began his business career in a country store, and 
 after about two years' experience there he came 
 to Louisville in 1859. He lost no time in finding 
 employment in the drug store of Cary & Talbot, 
 then located on Market, near Fourth street, and 
 after working for that firm about eighteen months, 
 he secured a place as bookkeeper for WiUiam 
 Terry & Company, wholesale clothiers. Sixth and 
 Main streets. He held that position until the 
 spring of 1861, when the war began, and went 
 back to his home in Virginia and enlisted as a 
 private in Company D, Second Regiment Vir- 
 ginia 'Infantry, which was afterward a part of the 
 famous Stonewall Brigade. Mr. Leathers served 
 with this regiment in most of its campaigns; was 
 taken prisoner at the battle of the Wilderness 
 and was released only a month or two before the 
 final surrender. He was a prisoner at Point Look- 
 otit, Maryland, and Fort Delaware. He was 
 wounded in battle at Gettysburg, after two days' 
 fighting, and had many other thrilling experi- 
 ences, escapes and exploits. The highest rank 
 he attained in actual service was that of sergeant- 
 major of his regiment, which rank he held at the 
 time of the surrender, his present military title of 
 captain, by which he is familiarly known, having 
 been earned in the militia in the service of his 
 state. 
 
 After the close of the war he returned to Louis- 
 ville and secured employment as bookkeeper for 
 the wholesale clothing house of Jones & Tapp, 
 and after two years became a member of the firm 
 of Jones, Tapp & Company. Mr. Jones retired 
 in about a year and the firm name was changed 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 to Tapp, Leathers & Company, in which he con- 
 tinued an active member until 1885, when he was 
 ofifered the position of cashier of the Louisville 
 Banking Company. This he accepted, retaining 
 his interest in the firm of Tapp, Leathers & Com- 
 pany for several years, but finally sold out, the 
 firm still continuing in the same name. 
 
 Captain Leathers is a deacon in the Second 
 Presbyterian Church and president of the Board 
 of Trustees of that congregation; vice-president 
 of the Kentucky Humane Society; president of 
 the Board of Managers of the School of Re- 
 form (House of Refuge), president of the News- 
 boys' Home, grand treasurer of the Grand Lodge 
 of Masons, president of the National Building 
 & Loan Association of Kentucky, resident vice- 
 president of the National Security Company of 
 Kansas City, Missouri, and many equally im- 
 portant offices, mostly of a financial and business 
 nature, which have not been sought by him, but 
 have been urged upon him. 
 
 Captain Leathers was married March 12, 1868, 
 to Kate Armstrong, daughter of C. Q. Arm- 
 strong of Louisville. She was educated in Mrs. 
 Nold's Louisville Female College, graduating in 
 1867. They have four children: Charles F., em- 
 ployed by the Louisville Banking Co.; Annie, 
 graduate of Hampton College, Louisville; Allen, 
 assistant superintendent of the registry depart- 
 ment of the Louisville postoffice, and Stuart Rob- 
 inson, now in the pubHc schools. 
 
 WALTER HOLLADAY DADE, physician 
 and surgeon of the penitentiary at Frank- 
 fort, and practicing physician in that city, was 
 born February 28, 1865, in Edgehill, Louisa 
 County, Virginia, a small village near the head 
 of the Shenandoah Valley. 
 
 His father, Henry Fitzhugh Dade, is a native 
 of Albemarle County, Virginia, whose wife and 
 General Fitzhugh Lee's wife were cousins. He 
 entered the Confederate army at the beginning of 
 the Civil war and was captain of the Monticello 
 Guards from Charlottesville, and was with Gen- 
 eral Lee throughout the war and at the final sur- 
 render at Appomattox. His father, Albert Gal- 
 latin Dade, would have been exempt from mili- 
 tary service on account of his age, but h^ served 
 
 throughout the war as chief of the commissary 
 department of General Lee's army. He was a 
 very wealthy man when the war began and had 
 great confidence in the success of the Cotifeder- 
 acy, contributing largely to the cause, and this, 
 with the ravages of war, left him almost penniless 
 when the war was over. 
 
 The Dades are of pure Anglo-Saxon ancestry, 
 which is traced to William, Earl of Sterling. The 
 family was one of the most prominent in Vir- 
 ginia, where they were among the very earliest 
 settlers. 
 
 Captain Jack Dade (uncle) is mentioned in Rid- 
 path's History of the World as having been killed 
 in the Seminole war. He and several others were 
 on a reconnoitering expedition when they were 
 surprised and surrounded by the Indians and 
 every one of the party was killed. Captain Dade 
 was one of the bravest men of his time and was a 
 principal in a number of duels, surviving his 
 chivalrous antagonists only to be slain by ,the 
 sneaking Indians. 
 
 Mary Holladay Dade (mother) was a daughter 
 of Walter and Sallie Barrett Holladay of Louisa 
 County, Virginia. Her father's parents were 
 natives of Scotland. 
 
 Dr. Walter H. Dade left Virginia when seven 
 years of age and removed with his parents to 
 Henderson, Kentucky, where he attended Reu- 
 belt's select school and the Henderson High 
 School, graduating when sixteen years of age.' 
 He was a clerk in a shoe store in that city for 
 three years when he began the study of medicine 
 with Dr. Archibald Dixon; went to college two 
 years and in tlie spring of 1886 entered Bellevue 
 Medical College, from which he was graduated 
 in 1888. He served two years in the Harlem dis- 
 pensary of Bellevue Hospital doing surgical work 
 exclusively, after which he served on the New 
 York Board of Health, an appointment which he 
 received after a competitive examination, in which 
 there were one hundred and sixty-two applicants 
 for the seventeen places which were to be filled. 
 Dr. Dade stood second in this examination and 
 received the highest compliment from the Board 
 of Examiners. He held this important position in 
 New York City for one year, when, on account 
 of failing health and at the instance of Governor 
 
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 Brown, he removed to Frankfort, February lo, 
 1892. There he accepted the appointment of the 
 sinking fund commissioners as physician and 
 surgeon of the State Prison, which position he 
 holds at present. Dr. Dade, although a general 
 practitioner, has been remarkably successful in 
 surgery, making that his specialty ; and there are 
 few more skillful surgeons in the state. In order 
 to improve his knowledge and proficiency in that 
 important branch of his profession he contem- 
 plates taking a full course in surgery and in the 
 treatment of diseases of women in the University 
 of Vienna. 
 
 Dr. Dade is a member of the Knights of Pythias, 
 a member of the New York County Medical As- 
 sociation, of the Kentucky State Medical Society 
 and the Franklin County Medical Society. He is 
 a regular contributor to the medical journals, 
 writing about one article a month, and lectures on 
 physiology in the Frankfort High Schools. 
 
 Dr. Dade was married June i, 1893, to Blanche 
 Farra of Lexington, and she died April 22, 1894. 
 
 CHURCHILL HADEN BLAKEY was born 
 August 26, 1829, on his father's farm near 
 Shakertown, Logan County, Kentucky, in the 
 first brick house ever built in the county. He 
 spent his boyhood days there, and was educated 
 at Russellville, Kentucky, Academy, first under 
 the superintendency of Mr. French and later 
 under Professor William Wines. He married 
 Mary C. Becker in March, 1855, daughter of 
 Theodore Becker, who was a native of France, 
 and a soldier under Bonaparte, having been 
 brought to America by the English as a prisoner 
 of war. Their children were : Thomas W., Theo- 
 dore B., Churchill, Nellie, Hubert, Clayton B., 
 George D., Lou and Mary. He was a farmer, 
 and served as magistrate for a number of years, 
 succeeding his father; was elected three times as 
 member of the Kentucky Legislature as a Demo- 
 crat, first in 1871, serving contemporary with 
 John G. Carlisle, J. C. S. Blackburn and James 
 B. McCreary; was chairman of Committee on 
 Charitable Institutions and other important com- 
 mittees. He was distinguished for his quaint 
 humor, and had an inexhaustible supply of anec- 
 dotes, which he could relate with great zest and 
 
 with good efifect to illustrate a point or entertain 
 his friends. While in the Legislature he opposed 
 the bill for establishing an immigration bureau, 
 and in his speech said: "I am in favor of keeping 
 Kentucky for Kentuckians." He was credited 
 with being the originator of the expression, "He 
 bit ofif more than he can chaw." 
 
 He was a Master Mason, a member of the Bap- 
 tist Church, superintendent of the Sunday school, 
 and served as moderator of the Baptist Associa- 
 tion for several years, an office seldom conferred 
 upon a layman; was a strong advocate of the 
 temperance cause, and secured while in the Leg- 
 islature the prohibition of the liquor traffic in 
 Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky. He died at 
 his home in Auburn, Kentucky, April 28, 1895. 
 His parents were Ann Whitsitt and Thomas 
 Blakey, early settlers of Logan County, Ken- 
 tucky. His father was a physician and farmer. 
 Also served as magistrate under the old constitu- 
 tion for a number of years, and also by succession 
 as sherif? of the county. He lived and died on 
 the old Blakey homestead, near Shakertown, in 
 1842, aged sixty-three years. 
 
 George Blakey (grandfather) was born in Cul- 
 peper County, Virginia, November 22, 1749, and 
 married Margaret Whitsitt. He was a soldier of 
 the Revolution under Washington, and died on 
 his farm, "Rural Choice," Logan County, Ken- 
 tucky, September 8, 1842, aged ninety-four years. 
 His maternal grandmother was Margaret Douglas 
 of Scotland. 
 
 George Douglas Blakey, a son of George and 
 Margaret W., and uncle of Churchill H. Blakey, 
 was quite prominent as a politician and statesman. 
 He was one of the early advocates of the abolition 
 of slavery, and being a large slave holder emanci- 
 pated them several years before the war of the re- 
 bellion. He was a candidate for governor of Ken- 
 tucky on the abolition ticket with Cassius M. 
 Clay; was a member of the Constitutional Con- 
 vention in 1849, ^^^ ^^^ internal revenue col- 
 lector under Lincoln. He died at Bowling Green, 
 Kentucky, in 1885, aged seventy-five years. 
 Thomas and Ann Hadin Blakey (great- 
 grandfather and mother) emigrated from Eng- 
 land to America and settled in Virginia. 
 
 Churchill Blakey (great-great-grandfather) 
 
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 married Miss Sallie George of Wales. Churchill 
 H. Blakey had no brother, but a cousin, 
 George T. Blakey, was raised in his fath- 
 er's family. And they loved and esteemed each 
 other as brothers during their entire lifetime. 
 George T. Blakey, being the elder, was born in 
 Logan County, Kentucky, in 1821. He was 
 sheriff of his county, and though of different poli- 
 tical faith (being a Republican) they alternated as 
 members of the Kentucky Legislature. He was 
 several times a delegate to the National Repub- 
 lican Conventions, and was ofie of the faithful 
 three hundred and six who stood by General U. S. 
 Grant in his memorable contest for a third term 
 in 1880. He lives at Auburn, Logan County, 
 Kentucky. 
 
 JAMES D. BLACK, leading lawyer of Bar- 
 boursville, son of John C. Black and Clarissa 
 Jones, was born in Knox County, Kentucky, in 
 1850. His father was born in South Carolina in 
 1805 and came to Knox County with his father 
 when three years of age and became a well-to-do 
 farmer in that county, in which he made his home 
 until his death in 1876. He was devoted to farm- 
 ing and held no office except that of justice of the 
 peace, in which he served his county for many 
 years. 
 
 Alexander Black (grandfather) was a native of 
 Ireland, who came to South Carolina when he was 
 a young man, and removed to Knox County, 
 Kentucky, about 1808, and was a farmer there 
 during the remaining days of a well spent life. 
 
 Clarissa Jones Black (mother) was a native of 
 Clay County, Kentucky, and died in Knox Coun- 
 ty in 1862, aged sixty-five years. Her father, 
 Isaac Jones, was a prosperous farmer in Clay 
 County. The great-grandfather of the subject 
 of this sketch, on his mother's side, came from 
 France to this country during the Revolutionary 
 war, it is said, with Lafayette, and was a soldier 
 on the side of the colonies in their struggle for 
 independence. So there is an intermixture of 
 French and Irish blood in Mr. Black's veins. 
 
 James D. Black found time during his farm 
 life to attend such common schools as were then 
 in his neighborhood, and by close application 
 he acquired such education as these scanty op- 
 
 portunities afforded. He was never known to 
 ignore any chance within his reach to learn, and 
 before he reached his legal age he was employed 
 as a teacher. By this means he acquired sufificient 
 means to enter college. He did not miss this op- 
 portunity, for from early boyhood he was pos- 
 sessed with a strong and abiding ambition to 
 enter the profession of the law, and applied him- 
 self with much zeal to preparing himself for this 
 higher pursuit. He attended school at Green- 
 ville and Tusculum College in East Tennessee, 
 where he reached a high standing in scholarship. 
 Returning home he again went to teaching for 
 the purpose of replenishing his finances and to 
 enable him to take up the study of law. He began 
 reading law; was duly admitted to the bar, and 
 subsequent events have shown the wisdom of his 
 choice in selecting that profession, for no man in 
 his section of the state has achieved greater suc- 
 cess than has come to him. He is a profound civil 
 lawyer, and a fine practitioner. As arT advocate 
 he has no superior within the range of that entire 
 section of the state, if, indeed, he has an equal. 
 He has never shown any predilection to politics, 
 having time and again been urged by admiring 
 friends to enter the arena of politics, but he has 
 uniformly declined. But notwithstanding his 
 aversion to office seeking for himself he has many 
 times done valuable services in that direction for 
 his friends. When barely of eligible age he was, 
 even against his own desire, taken up by his 
 friends and elected to the Legislature of his 
 state over an adverse political majority of more 
 than one thousand votes, and after one of the most 
 exciting and hard fought battles ever known in 
 that legislative district. In the Legislature he at 
 once took a high standing, and maintained a com- 
 manding prestige during the entire session, giv- 
 ing to his constituents universal satisfaction. He 
 was petitioned by leading men of both parties to 
 announce himself for re-election, but declined to 
 do so. He then began actively the practice of law, 
 and from that time till now his career has been 
 brilliant and successful, bringing to him not only 
 more than a competency but a constantly widen- 
 ing and increasing practice. His people still re- 
 cognizing his merits elected him school commis- 
 sioner of his county, giving him the vote of every 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 elector over a number of opponents. In 1873 he 
 became a member of the Masonic fraternity, and 
 in 1886 was elected Grand Junior Warden and 
 successively Grand Senior Warden, Deputy Grand 
 Master and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge 
 of Kentucky. While holding the highest office 
 within the gift of the Masons of Kentucky a seri- 
 ous question of Masonic jurisdiction came up for 
 adjudication by him, and by his able handling of 
 that question he permanently settled the contest, 
 and his decision was sustained by the Grand 
 Lodge when that exalted body assembled to pass 
 upon the acts of the Grand Master. 
 
 In 1893 the governor of Kentucky, recognizing 
 Mr. Black's worth, made him commissioner to 
 the World's Fair for the State of Kentucky. By 
 the division of the duties among the members of 
 that commission the Departments of Minerals and 
 Forestry were given to Mr. Black. When the 
 great fair was opened but few states in the Union 
 had any better exhibit in minerals or timber than 
 Kentucky. This gratifying result was largely due 
 to the efiEcient services of Mr. Black. 
 
 It may be truthfully said that in all the varied 
 experiences and wide range of this man's active 
 life he has never failed to do his whole duty. 
 
 James D. Black and Nettie Pitzer, daughter of 
 Thomas J. Pitzer of Barboursville, were united 
 in marriage December 2, 1875. Mrs. Black be- 
 longs to old Virginia families on both sides and 
 is a most accompHshed and refined lady. The 
 children of this union are: Pitzer D. Black, Ger- 
 trude D. and Georgia C. 
 
 LEWIS MAJOR SANFORD, a wealthy and 
 worthy citizen of Henry County, son of 
 Charles and Martha (Major) Sanford, was born 
 in Henry County, Kentucky, September 15, 1824. 
 Charles Sanford (father) was born in Virginia 
 February 6, 1790. When he was eight years of 
 age *his parents removed to Bourbon County, 
 Kentucky; subsequently moved to Henry Coun- 
 ty, where he lived until his death, January 24, 1867. 
 He devoted his life to agricultural and kindred 
 pursuits, and was the leading farmer and one of 
 the most prominent citizens of the county. He 
 married (first) Sallie Force, daughter of Berry 
 Force, a native and wealthy planter of North 
 
 Carolina, who removed to Henry County. Mrs. 
 Sanford was born in North Carolina and was 
 educated in the best schools of Henry County. 
 She was the mother of one child. Berry Force 
 Sanford. 
 
 Mr. Sanford was married (second) to Martha 
 Major (mother), who was a native of Woodford 
 County, daughter of John Major. Her two chil- 
 dren were Lewis Major and Charles B. She died 
 in September, 1836, and Mr. Sanford survived 
 her for thirtyone years, but did not marry again. 
 Charles B. Sanford (brother) died December 20, 
 1851. 
 
 Daniel Sanford (grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia, who came to Bourbon County in 1798, 
 and subsequently removed to Henry County, 
 where he owned large and valuable tracts of land. 
 He was a schoolmate of George Washington and 
 his brother in Virginia, and was a captain in 
 the War of the Revolution. After coming to Ken- 
 tucky he was wholly engaged in the cultivation 
 of his lands. He was a son of Richard Sanford 
 of Virginia. 
 
 John Major (maternal grandfather) was also 
 a native of Virginia, who became a successful 
 farmer in Woodford County, where he died many 
 years ago. 
 
 Lewis Major Sanford, familiarly known by his 
 middle name, which has no military significance, 
 was educated in the best schools of his day and 
 was hurried from the school room at the age of 
 seventeen to take charge of his father's farming 
 interests. This proved a valuable part of his 
 education, affording business experience which, 
 with great industry and good management, has 
 made him one of the most prominent and wealthy 
 farmers in Henry County. The life of the farmer 
 is uneventful, and Mr. Sanford has found his chief 
 pleasure in the quiet and peaceful pursuit of an 
 occupation which is first in importance, but in 
 which notoriety is seldom sought and less fre- 
 quently attained. He has other business inter- 
 ests and investments, however, and has been 
 president of the Bank of New Castle for many 
 years. 
 
 He was married in 1869 to Fannie M. Smith, 
 daughter of A. O. Smith and Harriet L. Hunter 
 Smith, natives of Virginia and residents of Henry 
 
376 
 
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 County, where Mrs. Sanford was born July 26, 
 1846. She was educated in convent schools in 
 St. Louis and Louisville. She was a member of 
 the Christian Church, of which she was a liberal 
 supporter and faithful in good work until the 
 day of her death, February 16, 1892. 
 
 The children of L. M. and Fannie M. Sanford 
 are : Charles, Abram, who married Mary Pryor, 
 daughter of Chief Justice Pryor, of the Kentucky 
 Court of Appeals; Lewis Major, Jr., Hallie Hun- 
 ter, who married John D. Carroll, whose sketch 
 is given in this work; Robert Hunter, Daniel 
 Lawrence, James Goslee, Francis Symmes, Marie 
 Humes and Martha Major. 
 
 ROBERT BENJAMIN LANCASTER, 
 banker, distiller, miller and a leading citizen 
 of Lebanon, son of Benjamin and Ann (Pottinger) 
 Lancaster, was born in Marion County, Ken- 
 tucky, May 26, 1835. 
 
 His father was born in the same county in 1799; 
 educated in the local schools; was a farmer and 
 devoted his entire attention to agricultural pur- 
 suits; married Ann Pottinger of the same county; 
 died in 1839, and is buried at St. Charles, Marion 
 County. 
 
 John Lancaster (grandfather) was born in 
 Maryland and came to Hardin Creek Catholic 
 Settlement in 1788. He was a man of superior 
 capabilities and extraordinary strength of char- 
 acter; a recognized leader in the community and 
 was first in every movement for the material 
 prosperity of the people. He was married in 1790 
 to Catherine Miles, daughter of Philip Miles of 
 Pottinger Creek Settlement. Their children were: 
 Joseph B., married Anna Blair; Raphael, married 
 Caroline Carter, niece of Reverend Charles Car- 
 ter of the arch-diocese of Philadelphia; Philip 
 Henry, married Catherine Hagan; John, married 
 Mary Hay den; Benjamin, married Ann Pottin- 
 ger (father and mother); Ellen, married Judge 
 A. H. Churchill; Ann, married E. B. Smith; 
 James Madison, priest; William, married Mal- 
 vina Churchill; Catherine, married Leonard A. 
 Spalding, brother of Archbishop Spalding of Bal- 
 timore. 
 
 John Lancaster (grandfather) represented 
 Washington County in the Kentucky Legislature 
 
 from 1799 to 1802, and again in 1820. He amassed 
 a large fortune for the times in which he lived. 
 His death occurred in the spring of 1838. 
 
 Family tradition says that the first of the name 
 of Lancaster who came to America was John — 
 a son of a Lancastershire landlord of the same 
 name — who offended his father by marrying Fan- 
 nie Jarnigan, a portionless Irish girl. The young 
 man and his wife came to America and settled on 
 the lower Potomac in a locality then known as 
 "Cob Neck," where they reared a family. One of 
 their sons, Raphael Lancaster, married Eleanor 
 Bradford, whose mother was a Darnell, sister of 
 the mother of Dr. John Carroll, first bishop, and 
 subsequently archbishop, of Baltimore. Two of 
 Raphael Lancaster's sons, John and Raphael, re- 
 moved from Maryland to Kentucky in 1788, John 
 (grandfather) settling on Hardin's Creek, as be- 
 fore stated, and Raphael near Bardstown. 
 
 Ann Pottinger Lancaster (mother) was a 
 daughter of Samuel Pottinger and a Mrs. Logan, 
 whose maiden name was Caldwell. The Pottin- 
 gers came to Kentucky from Virginia in 1781. 
 
 Robert B. Lancaster, the subject of this sketch, 
 was educated in St. Joseph College, Bardstown, 
 and was engaged in farming near that place, and 
 also in distilling until i860, when he removed to 
 Lebanon and was employed in merchandising 
 until the beginning of Civil war, in which he took 
 no active part, being absent in Brazil. 
 
 Returning after the war he again engaged in 
 farming, and was at different times the owner of 
 some of the finest horses in Kentucky. Among 
 others were Marion C, Longbow, Trafalgar, 
 Emma Mc, Lizzie Hayden, Bettie Magruder, 
 Zuma and Linna. 
 
 In 1874 he established the Maple Grove Distil- 
 lery Company near Lebanon, of which he is sole 
 proprietor; is also the owner of the S. P. Lan- 
 caster Distillery Company at Bardstown. In 1886 
 the firm of W. Q. Emison & Company, wholesale 
 liquor dealers and distillers, was organized, Mr. 
 Lancaster having a half interest in the company ; 
 has been a director in the Citizens' National Bank 
 of Lebanon for ten years and president since 1891 ; 
 was one of the promoters of the local telephone 
 exchange of Lebanon, and is a director in the 
 company; has been president of the Springfield 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 377 
 
 & New Market Turnpike Company for twelve 
 years; is president of the Lebanon Roller Mill 
 Company, and has other large business interests 
 in the city and county; is not prominent in poli- 
 tics, but is a Democrat in favor of bimetallism; is 
 a leading member of the Catholic Church, and 
 very generous in his charities, and a most worthy 
 and highly honored citizen. 
 
 Mr. Lancaster was married May 7, 1867, to 
 Mary T. Abell, daughter of John and Mary Jane 
 (Spalding) Abell, and she was the mother of six 
 children: Mary J., wife of T. A. Mattingly of 
 Lebanon; Annie E., Joseph S., Benjamin H., 
 married Rose Brown of Lebanon; John A. and 
 Mary T. 
 
 Mr. Lancaster was married a second time, June 
 22, 1881, to Sally Dougherty of Louisville, and 
 by this marriage he has one son, Robert B. Lan- 
 caster, Jr. 
 
 JOHN D. CARROLL, a leading attorney at 
 law and distinguished politician of New Cas- 
 tle, son of Anthony J. and Eliza (Collins) Carroll, 
 was born in Oldham County, Kentucky, in 1854. 
 
 His father was a native of Ireland; came to 
 Kentucky in 1848, and soon thereafter located in 
 Oldham County, near Buckner's Station, where 
 he resided until his death in 1867; he was a man 
 of strong common sense, excellent judgment and 
 fine business capacity and at the time of his death 
 and for several years prior thereto, was engaged 
 in the business of farming and railroad building. 
 In 1852 he was married to Eliza Collins, who died 
 in 1885. Mrs. Carroll was highly esteemed as a 
 good Christian woman, was devoted to her home 
 and family, and enjoyed the love and respect of a 
 large circle of friends. Four children now living 
 — ^John D., Thomas, Charles and Anthony J. — 
 were the result of this union. 
 
 Few men have risen from humble surroundings 
 in childhood to such prominence in public life 
 and in the legal profession, in both of which re- 
 lations John D. Carroll is one of the first men in 
 Kentucky to-day. Modest and unconscious of 
 his own worth, unwilling to speak of his achieve- 
 ments, a mere outhne of his life is all that can be 
 given in this brief sketch. 
 
 He attended school in La Grange, and this is all 
 
 that can be said of his early education. But he 
 was studious and ambitious, and followed his 
 limited opportunities in the school room by a 
 careful course of reading and study of the higher 
 branches, improving his time to the best advan- 
 tage while performing manual labor on his father's 
 farm, on which he worked from 1869 to 1875. Fol- 
 lowing his inclination he began the study of law 
 regularly in 1875 with Judge William Carroll of 
 New Castle, now circuit judge; was admitted 
 to the bar in 1876 and began the practice of his 
 profession in New Castle; was a law partner of 
 C. M. Harwood of Shelbyville — one of the finest 
 lawyers in the state — until his death in 1882; was 
 then associated with R. W. Masterson, an excel- 
 lent attorney, now residing in Carrollton, Ken- 
 tucky, and has recently been associated with Hon- 
 orable Joseph Barbour, late judge of the Superior 
 Court. j ! ■ ! 
 
 In all of these professional relations he was 
 eminently successful and soon became known as 
 a leading lawyer of his section; and as a matter 
 of course he became a leader in Democratic poli- 
 tics; was elected to the Legislature in 1881 and 
 again in in 1883, serving four years, in which 
 capacity he made himself known throughout the 
 state; was a member of the Constitutional Con- 
 vention of 1890-1, to which he was elected with- 
 out opposition, and in which he further distin- 
 guished himself as a man of superior ability; was 
 appointed in 1891 by Governor John Young 
 Brown as one of three commissioners to revise 
 the laws under the new constitution — a just com- 
 pliment to his superior knowledge and fitness for 
 the work in hand; subsequently, in conjunction 
 with Judge Joseph Barbour, he prepared the Ken- 
 tucky statutes, which is the only compilation of 
 the statute laws in use in Kentucky, and is in- 
 valuable to the profession. He is also the editor 
 of Carroll's Kentucky Codes of Practice, a work 
 that has been received with great favor by the 
 profession. However, his public services have 
 been merely incidental to his labors in the legiti- 
 mate pursuit of his vocation, in which he excels 
 and to which he is earnestly devoted. 
 
 His leadership in his party was recognized by 
 his selection in 1892 as chairman of the Demo- 
 cratic State Central Committee, in which capacity 
 
378 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 he served faithfully and with signal ability until 
 1895. 
 
 He is a prominent and helpful member of the 
 Odd Fellows fraternity, with which he has been 
 associated since 1876. 
 
 Mr. Carroll was married in 1894 to Harriet 
 Hunter Sanford, daughter of Lewis M. Sahford, 
 whose sketch will be found in this volume. Mrs. 
 Carroll was born in Henry County, Kentucky, 
 and was educated at St. Mary's College, South 
 Bend, Indiana. 
 
 HENRY CLAY, the son of a Baptist clergy- 
 man of respectable standing, was born in 
 Hanover County, Virginia, on the 12th of April, 
 1777. His father died when young Henry had 
 attained his fifth year, and the care of superin- 
 tending his education devolved on his widowed 
 mother. She appears to have been a lady of ster- 
 ling worth, singular intelligence and masculine 
 vigor of intellect. 
 
 The boyhood of Henry Clay was furnished with 
 few of those facilities for obtaining a literary edu- 
 cation, which are now accessible to almost all. 
 His mind was left to develop its powers and at- 
 tain its growth through the force of its own in- 
 nate energies, with but little aid from books or 
 competent instructors. Those rich treasures of 
 intellectual wealth, which are to be found in well 
 selected libraries and properly organized schools, 
 were to him a sealed fountain. The extent 
 of his boyish attainments in literature con- 
 sisted of the common elements taught in a 
 country school of the most humble pretensions. 
 Even these slender advantages were but sparing- 
 ly enjoyed, and the future orator and statesman 
 was compelled, by the straitened circumstances 
 of his family, to devote a considerable portion of 
 his time to manual labor in the field. The subse- 
 quent brilliant achievements of that master mind 
 derive increased luster from the contemplation 
 of the obstacles thus early interposed to its prog- 
 ress, and no more honorable testimony can be 
 offered to the ardor, energy and invincibility of 
 that towering intellect and imperial spirit, than 
 the severe trials which at this period it encoun- 
 tered, and over which it triumphed. It is probable 
 that this early familiarity with the sternest reali- 
 
 ties of life contributed to give to his mind that 
 strong practical bias, which has subsequently dis- 
 tinguished his career as a statesman; while there 
 can be no doubt that the demands thus continual- 
 ly made upon his energies tended to a quick de- 
 velopment of that unyielding strength of charac- 
 ter which bears down all opposition, and stamps 
 him as one of the most powerful spirits of the age. 
 
 At the age of fourteen he was placed in a small 
 drug store in the city of Richmond, Virginia. He 
 continued in this situation but a few months, and 
 in 1792 entered the office of the clerk of the 
 High Court of Chancery. While in this office he 
 attracted the attention of Chancellor Wythe, who, 
 being very favorably impressed by his amiable de- 
 portment, uniform habits of industry, and strik- 
 ing displays of intelligence, honored him with 
 his friendship, and employed him as an amanuen- 
 sis. It was probably through the advice of Chan- 
 cellor Wythe that he first conceived the design of 
 studying law, and he has himself borne testimony 
 to the fact, that his intercourse with that great and 
 good man exercised a decided and very salutary 
 influence in the development of his mental powers, 
 and the formation of his character. 
 
 In the year 1796, he went to reside with Robert 
 Brooks, Esq., attorney-general of Virginia. While 
 in the family of this gentleman his opportunities 
 for acquiring a knowledge of the profession to 
 which he had determined to devote his life, were 
 greatly improved, and he appears to have culti- 
 vated them with exemplary assiduity. The year 
 1797 seems to have been devoted by Mr. Clay 
 exclusively to the study of his profession. It is 
 worthy of remark that this was the first year in 
 which his necessities permitted him to pursue an 
 uninterrupted system of study, and so eagerly did 
 he avail himself of the privilege, and such was the 
 ardor and vivacity of his mind that near the close 
 of the year he obtained from the Virginia Court 
 of Appeals a license to practice. Of course the 
 acquisitions made in the science of law, in the 
 course of these irregular and broken efforts to 
 master that intricate and complex system, were 
 somewhat desultory and crude, and it is not the 
 least striking evidence of the wonderful resources 
 of Mr. Clay's genius, that he was enabled, not- 
 withstanding these disadvantages, to assume so 
 
HENRY CLAY. 
 
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 379 
 
 early in life a high rank in his profession, at a 
 bar distinguished for the number, ability and pro- 
 found erudition of its members. 
 
 When Mr. Clay entered upon the duties of his 
 profession, the Lexington bar was noted for tal- 
 ent, numbering among its members some of the 
 first lawyers that have ever adorned the legal pro- 
 fession in America. He commenced the prac- 
 tice under circumstances somewhat discouraging, 
 and as appears from his own statement, with very 
 moderate expectations. His earliest efforts, how- 
 ever, were attended with complete success; his 
 reputation spread rapidly, and, to use his own 
 language, he "immediately rushed into a lucra- 
 tive practice." This unusual spectacle, so rare 
 in the legal profession, is to be ascribed mainly to 
 Mr. Clay's skill as an advocate. Gifted by nature 
 with oratorial genius of a high order, his very 
 youth increased the spell of that potent fascination 
 which his splendid elocution and passionate elo- 
 quence threw over the public mind, and led the 
 imagination a willing captive to its power. It was 
 in the conduct of criminal causes, especially, that 
 he achieved his greatest triumphs. The latitude 
 customary and allowable to an advocate in the 
 defense of his client, the surpassing interest of the 
 questions at issue, presented an occasion and a 
 field which never failed to elicit a blaze of genius, 
 before which the public stood dazzled and as- 
 tonished. 
 
 A large portion of the litigation at that day in 
 Kentucky grew out of the unsettled tenure by 
 which most of the lands in the country were held. 
 The contests arising out of those conflicting 
 claims had built up a system of land law remark- 
 able for its intricacy and complexity, and having 
 no parallel in the whole range of the law of real 
 property. Adapted to the exigencies of the coun- 
 try and having its origin in the necessities of the 
 times it was still remarkable for its logical con- 
 sistency and sound principle. Kentucky, at that 
 day, could boast some of the most profound, acute 
 and subtle lawyers in the world. 
 
 In 1803 he was elected to represent the County 
 of Fayette in the most numerous branch of the 
 State Legislature. He was re-elected to that body 
 at every session until 1806. The impression made 
 upon his associates must have been of the most 
 
 favorable character, since, in the latter year, he 
 was elected to the Senate of the United States to 
 serve out the unexpired term of General Adair. 
 He was elected for one session only. 
 
 During this session Mr. Qay, as a member of 
 the Senate, had occasion to investigate the extent 
 of the power of Congress to promote internal im- 
 provements, and the result of his examination 
 was a full conviction that the subject was clearly 
 within the competency of the general govern- 
 ment. These views he never changed; and 
 profoundly impressed with the policy of promot- 
 ing such works, he at the same session gave his 
 cordial support to several measures of that char- 
 acter. 
 
 At the close of the session Mr. Clay returned to 
 Kentucky and resumed the practice of his pro- 
 fession. At the ensuing election in August he 
 was returned as the representative from Fayette 
 to the Legislature. When the Legislature assem- 
 bled he was elected speaker of the house. In this 
 station he was distinguished for the zeal, energy 
 and decision with which he discharged its duties. 
 He continued a member of the Legislature until 
 1809, when he tendered his resignation, and was 
 elected to the Senate of the United States for two 
 years, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resig- 
 nation of Mr. Thurston. 
 
 The principal matters which came before the 
 Senate during Mr. Clay's second term of service, 
 related to the policy of encouraging domestic 
 manufactures; the law to reduce into possession, 
 and establish the authority of the United States 
 over the territory between the Mississippi and 
 Perdido Rivers, comprehending the present States 
 of Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, and the 
 question of a re-charter of the Bank of the United 
 States. 
 
 At the session of 1810-11 the question of a re- 
 charter of the Bank of the United States was 
 brought before the Senate, and became the sub- 
 ject of a debate, noted in our congressional his- 
 tory for its intemperate violence and splendid dis- 
 plays of eloquence. On this occasion Mr. Clay 
 was found opposed to the re-charter of the bank, 
 and maintained his views in a speech of great 
 ingenuity and power. 
 
 When, at the expiration of the term of seivice 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES 
 
 for which he had been elected, Mr. Clay retired 
 from the Senate, he left behind him a character 
 for general ability and sound statesmanship which 
 few men of the same age have ever attained. 
 
 In 1811, the same year in which he retired from 
 the Senate, he was elected by the people of the 
 Fayette district to represent them in the House 
 of Representatives of the United States. In 181 3 
 he was re-elected, and continued a member of the 
 House until he was sent to Europe as one of the 
 commissioners to negotiate a treaty of peace with 
 Great Britain. During the whole of this period 
 he filled the speaker's chair in the House, having 
 received the high and unusual compliment of 
 being chosen to that responsible station the first 
 day on which. he appeared in his seat in Congress. 
 
 Mr. Clay consequently presided over the 
 Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses, and partici- 
 pated largely in those measures adopted to vindi- 
 cate the honor and assert the rights of the coun- 
 try against the usurpations and aggressions of 
 Great Britain. He gave a warm and hearty co- 
 operation in all those efforts that were made to put 
 the country in a state of defense, and contributed 
 as much, if not more, by his sleepless energy and 
 unrivaled eloquence, to infuse a proper spirit into 
 the deliberations of Congress, than any other man. 
 His speeches on the subject of our difficulties with 
 Great Britain exhibit some of the most brilliant 
 specimens of parliamentary eloquence extant, and 
 their effect at the time in arousing the country 
 to a sense of its wrongs, and a determination to 
 redress them, is said to have been unequalled. 
 As strange as it may sound in the ears of the 
 present generation, there was a large and respect- 
 able party at that period, both in and out of Con- 
 gress, which was averse to war with Great Britain, 
 and disposed to submit to almost any outrage 
 rather than distract her efforts to put down the 
 power of Napoleon, then in the midst of his ex- 
 traordinary career. It was in opposition to what 
 he considered the parricidal efforts of these men 
 that the transcendent genius of the Kentucky 
 statesman displayed its most brilliant, powerful 
 and commanding attributes. He was the life 
 and soul of the war party in Congress — the master 
 spirit around whom all the boldness and chivalry 
 of the nation rallied in that dark hour, when the 
 
 gloom of despondency hung heavy on every 
 brow, and the generous pride of a free people 
 drooped under the withering sense of the un- 
 avenged insult that had been offered to the na- 
 tional honor. In 1814 he resigned his place in 
 Congress to accept an appointment as commis- 
 sioner and minister plenipotentiary to Ghent. At 
 this period the control which he had acquired in 
 Congress was unlimited. In the house it was 
 probably equal to that he had obtained a few 
 years before in the Kentucky Legislature. 
 
 In 1814, having been appointed in conjunction 
 with Messrs. John Q. Adams, James A. Bayard, 
 Albert Gallatin and Jonathan Russell, a commis- 
 sioner to meet commissioners appointed on the 
 part of Great Britain, he proceeded to Europe. 
 On the sixth of August the plenipotentiaries of 
 both nations met in the ancient city of Ghent, pre- 
 pared to proceed to business. The plan of this 
 sketch does not require, nor would it admit, of a 
 detailed account of the negotiations, extending 
 through several months, which finally resulted in 
 a treaty of peace between the two nations. These 
 are to be found related at large in the public his- 
 tories of the time, and to them we refer the reader 
 for a full knowledge of those transactions. Let 
 it suffice to say that on this, as on all other occa- 
 sions, Mr. Clay mingled controllingly in the de- 
 liberations of his distinguished colleagues, and 
 exercised a very commanding influence over the 
 course of the negotiation. There is, indeed, rea- 
 son to believe that, but for his firmness and tact, 
 the right to the exclusive navigation of the Mis- 
 sissippi River would have been surrendered for 
 a very inconsiderable equivalent. His colleagues 
 in the negotiation have always borne the most 
 honorable testimony to the ability and compre- 
 hensive knowledge displayed by Mr. Clay in those 
 memorable transactions, and he returned to the 
 United States with a reputation materially en- 
 hanced. 
 
 He found upon his arrival in Kentucky that 
 during his absence he had been nominated by his 
 friends and elected to Congress ; but as there arose 
 doubts as to the legality of his election he resigned, 
 and the canvass was opened anew. This resulted as 
 the previous vote, in his being returned by an 
 overwhelming majority. He was re-elected in 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 381 
 
 sviccession to every Congress that assembled until 
 the session of 1820-21, when he retired to repair 
 the inroads made in his private fortune by his long 
 devotion to public affairs. During this period he 
 was thrice elected speaker of the house, and pre- 
 sided over the deliberations of that body during 
 the whole period which intervened between 181 5 
 and 1821. 
 
 On his re-entrance into Congress Mr. Clay was 
 called to defend the treaty, in the formation of 
 which he had participated so largely, against the 
 animadversions of his old enemies, the Federal- 
 ists. That treaty was made the subject of un- 
 bridled criticism by those who had opposed the 
 war, and with the magical astuteness of hatred 
 they discovered objectionable features in every 
 clause. In the course of the discussions which 
 thus arose he had frequent occasion to review the 
 origin, progress and termination of the war, which 
 task he performed with masterly ability, exposing 
 the inconsistency and malignity of his adversaries 
 to deserved odium. He met them at every point, 
 and never failed to make their rancorous virulence 
 recoil on their own heads with tremendous effect. 
 
 During the time of this, Mr. Clay's second 
 incumbency in the House of Representatives, 
 many questions were presented for its delibera- 
 tion of surpassing interest, and closely touching 
 the permanent welfare of the republic. The 
 finances of the country were found to be in a 
 condition of ruinous embarrassment; the nation 
 was deeply involved in debt and the little money 
 left in the country was being continually drained 
 away to pay for foreign importations. It was in 
 this gloomy conjuncture of affairs that the session 
 of 1815-16 opened, and Congress was called to 
 the arduous task of repairing the breeches which 
 thus yawned in the public prosperity. In all those 
 measures recommended by Mr. Madison's admin- 
 istration, with a view to the accomplishment of 
 this end, Mr. Clay heartily co-operated. Among 
 other things, he gave his support to a proposition 
 to reduce the direct tax of the United States. He 
 advocated, as has been already stated, the incor- 
 poration of a United States bank. 
 
 The recognition of the South American repub- 
 lics by the government of the United States, a 
 measure which was almost entirely attributable 
 
 to the indefatigable exertions, personal influence 
 and powerful eloquence of Mr. Clay, while it shed 
 lustre on the Monroe administration, surrounded 
 the brow of the great statesman with a halo of true 
 glory which grows brighter with the lapse of 
 time. 
 
 At the session of 1816-17 the subject of the Sem- 
 inole war was brought before Congress, and Mr. 
 Clay, in the course of his speech on that occasion, 
 found it necessary to speak with some severity of 
 the conduct of General Jaickson. This was the 
 origin of that inveterate hostility on the part of 
 the old general towards the great Kentuckian, the 
 consequences of which were deeply felt in after 
 years. 
 
 The only remaining measure of importance 
 with which Mr. Clay's name is connected in the 
 history of those times, was the great and exciting 
 question which arose on the application of Mis- 
 souri for admission into the Union. Probably at 
 no period of our history has the horoscope of our 
 country's destiny looked so dark and threatening. 
 The Union was convulsed to its center. An uni- 
 versal alarm pervaded all sections of the country 
 and every class of the community. A disruption 
 of the Confederacy seemed inevitable — civil war, 
 with its attendant horrors, seemed to scowl from 
 every quarter, and the sun of American liberty 
 appeared about to set in a sea of blood. At this 
 conjuncture every eye in the country was turned 
 to Henry Clay. He labored night and day, and 
 such was the excitement of his mind, that he has 
 been heard to declare that if the settlement of the 
 controversy had been suspended three weeks long- 
 er, it would have cost him his Hfe. Happy was 
 it for America that he was found equal to the 
 emergency, and that the tempest of desolation 
 which seemed about to burst upon our heads was, 
 through his agency, permitted to pass away harm- 
 less. At the close of the session of Congress in 
 1 82 1, Mr. Clay retired, and resumed the practice 
 of his profession. He did not again enter Con- 
 gress until 1823. 
 
 Upon resuming his seat in Congress at the 
 commencement of the session of 1823-4, Mr. Clay 
 was elected speaker, over Mr. Barbour of Vir- 
 ginia, by a considerable majority. He continued 
 speaker of the House until he entered the cabinet 
 
382 
 
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 of Mr. Adams, in 1825. During this timte, the 
 subject of the tariff again came before Congress, 
 and was advocated by Mr. Clay in one of the most 
 masterly efforts of his life. His speech on the 
 occasion was distinguished for the thorough 
 knowledge of the subject which it displayed; for 
 its broad, comprehensive and statesmanlike views, 
 and for its occasional passages of impressive and 
 thrilling eloquence. He also advocated a resolu- 
 tion, introduced by Mr. Webster, to defray the 
 expenses of a messenger to Greece, at that time 
 engaged against the power of the Turks in an 
 arduous and bloody struggle for independence. A 
 spectacle of this kind never failed to enlist his pro- 
 foundest sympathies and elicit all the powers of his 
 genius. 
 
 Toward the close of the year 1824 the question 
 of the Presidency was generally agitated. As can- 
 didates for this office Messrs. J. Q. Adams, Andrew 
 Jackson, Henry Clay and W. H. Crawford had 
 been brought forward by their respective friends. 
 Mr. Clay had been nominated by the Kentucky 
 Legislature as early as 1822. The people failing 
 to make a choice, the election was thrown into 
 the house. Mr. Clay, being the lowest on the list, 
 was excluded from the house by the constitutional 
 provision, which makes it the duty of Congress to 
 select one of the three highest candidates. His 
 position in the house now became exceedingly 
 delicate as well as important. He had it in his 
 power, by placing himself at the head of the party 
 who went with him in the house, to control its 
 choice of the three candidates before it. When 
 the election came on he cast his vote for Mr. 
 Adams, who thus became President of the United 
 States. This vote of Mr. Clay has been made the 
 subject of much calumny and misrepresentation. 
 At the time it was charged that he had been bought 
 up by the offer of a seat in the cabinet. Efforts 
 were made to produce evidence to this effect, but 
 it was attended by signal failure. The charge 
 was reiterated by General Jackson, the de- 
 feated candidate, which led to an investigation 
 of the whole affair. The result of this was the 
 exposure of one of the darkest conspiracies ever 
 formed to ruin the character of an individual. Our 
 limits forbid an attempt to array the evidence on 
 this subject, and we must content ourselves with 
 
 the remark that there is probably not one man 
 of intelligence now in the Union who gives to 
 the charge of "bargain and corruption" the slight- 
 est credit. 
 
 During Mr. Adams' administration Mr. Clay 
 occupied a seat in his cabinet as secretary of state. 
 The various official documents prepared by him 
 while in his office are among the best in our 
 archives. While secretary of state he negotiated 
 many treaties with the various foreign powers 
 with whom this country maintained relations, in 
 which he approved himself as superior as a diplo- 
 matist, as he had been before unrivaled as a legis- 
 lator and orator. He was a universal favorite with 
 the foreign ministers, resident at Washington, and 
 contributed much, by his amenity and suavity of 
 deportment, to place the negotiations on a footing 
 most favorable to his own country. 
 
 At the expiration of Mr. Adams' term of office 
 Mr. Clay retired to Ashland, his seat near Lex- 
 ington. He continued engaged in the avocations 
 of his profession until 1831, when he was elected 
 to the Senate of the United States for the term of 
 six years. About the same time in a national con- 
 vention at Baltimore, he was nominated to the 
 Presidency in opposition to General Jackson. 
 
 The subjects brought before the Senate during 
 this term of Mr. Clay's service were of the most 
 important and exciting character. The subjects 
 of the tariff, the United States bank, the public 
 lands, etc., embracing a system of legislative policy 
 of the most comprehensive character and the high- 
 est importance, constantly engaged the attention 
 of the country and of Congress. During the 
 period signalized by the agitation of these great 
 questions, probably the most exciting in the politi- 
 cal annals of America, no man filled a larger space 
 in the public eye than Mr. Clay. He was the cen- 
 ter of a constellation of genius and talent, the most 
 brilliant that has ever lighted this western hemis- 
 phere. Although defeated when the election for 
 President came on, that circumstance appeared 
 but to increase the devotion of his friends, and 
 perhaps the star of Henry Clay never blazed with 
 a luster so bright, so powerful and far-pervading 
 as at this moment, when all the elements of oppo- 
 sition, envy, hatred, malice and detraction con- 
 glomerated in lowering masses, seemed gather- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 383 
 
 ing their forces to extinguish and obscure its light 
 forever. 
 
 General Jackson's veto of the bill to re-charter 
 the Bank of the United States, while it clearly in- 
 dicated the unsparing temper in which this war of 
 parties was to be prosecuted, produced an eflfect 
 on the financial condition of the country, which 
 resulted in the most disastrous consequences to 
 trade, commerce and business in all its branches. 
 The establishment of the pet bank system but 
 aggravated and hastened the evil, and in those first 
 measures of General Jackson's second term of 
 service were sown the seeds which, at a future 
 day, were reaped in a harvest of woe and desola- 
 tion. As in 1816, Mr. Clay advocated the re- 
 charter of the bank, and denounced the veto in 
 unmeasured terms. He predicted the conse- 
 quences which would result from the measure, 
 and subsequent events fully verified his anticipa- 
 tions. 
 
 In 1840 General Harrison, the Whig candidate 
 for the Presidency, was elected by one of those 
 tremendous and irresistible popular movements, 
 which are seen in no other country besides this. 
 During the canvass Mr. Clay visited Hanover 
 county, the place of his nativity, and while there 
 addressed an assembly of the people. It was one 
 of the ablest speeches of his life, and contained a 
 masterly exposition of the principles and subjects 
 of controversy between the two parties. 
 
 After the election of General Harrison, when 
 Congress assembled, it set itself to work to repair 
 the ravages made in the prosperity and institu- 
 tions of the country by twelve years of misgovern- 
 ment. Unfortunately, however, the work had 
 scarcely commenced before death removed the 
 lamented Harrison from the scene of his useful- 
 ness, and Mr. Tyler, the Vice-President, succeeded 
 to his place. Then followed, in rapid succession, 
 veto after veto, until all hope of accomplishing 
 the objects for which the Whigs came into power 
 were extinct. 
 
 During this period Mr. Clay labored night and 
 day to bring the President into an accommodating 
 temper, but without success. He seemed resolved 
 to sever all connection between himself and the 
 party which brought him into power. He will 
 go down to posterity with the brand of traitor 
 
 stamped upon his brow, and take his place with 
 the Arnolds of the Revolution. 
 
 On the 31st of March, 1842, Mr. Clay executed 
 his long and fondly cherished design of retiring 
 to spend the evening of his days amid the tran- 
 quil shades of Ashland. He resigned his seat in the 
 Senate and presented to that body the credentials 
 of his friend and successor, Mr. Crittenden. The 
 scene which ensued was indescribably thrilling. 
 Had the guardian genius of Congress and the 
 nation been about to take his departure deeper 
 feeling could hardly have been manifested than 
 when Mr. Clay arose to address, for the last time, 
 his congressional compeers. All felt that the mas- 
 ter spirit was bidding them adieu; that the pride 
 and ornament of the Senate and the glory of the 
 nation was being removed, and all grieved in view 
 of the void that would be created. When Mr. Clay 
 resumed his seat the Senate unanimously ad- 
 journed for the day. 
 
 In May, 1844, the National Whig Convention 
 nominated Mr. Clay as a candidate for President 
 of the United States. The nominee of the Demo- 
 cratic party was Colonel James K. Polk of Ten- 
 nessee. The canvass was probably one of the most 
 exciting ever witnessed in this country. In addi- 
 tion to the old issues, a new one was formed on 
 the proposition to annex the Republic of Texas 
 to the American Union. This question, intimately 
 involving the exciting subject of slavery, gave to 
 the Presidential canvass a new character and an 
 unforeseen direction. It would be out of place 
 here, although not without interest and instruc- 
 tion, to trace and analyze the causes which oper- 
 ated to defeat the Whigs. Suffice it to say, that 
 Mr. Polk was made President. Texas became one 
 of the United States. War ensued with Mexico; 
 and the armies of the United States swept the 
 fertile provinces of that sister republic from the 
 mouth of the Rio Grande to the western base of 
 the Rocky Mountains. Governments were ab- 
 rogated and new ones established in their place 
 by the fiat of subordinate militia officers; and 
 throughout the whole extent of that rich and 
 beautiful region scenes were enacted which carry 
 the mind back to the days of romance, and revive 
 the memory of those tragedies which have crim- 
 soned the pages of European and Asiatic history. 
 
384 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Defeated for the Presidency, with apparently 
 no chance to ever reach that high place, Mr. Clay 
 resolved to remain in private life. He had spent 
 more than forty years in public service. He had 
 nearly lived out the years allotted to man. All 
 the honors his state could bestow had been 
 lavished upon him. He commanded aliice the love 
 of his friends and the respect of his foes. During 
 the period of his retirement Ashland, his home, 
 was visited by thousands of persons from all sec- 
 tions of the country, and even from abroad, who 
 came to testify their admiration or esteem for 
 the statesman and the patriot. Now and then he 
 appeared professionally in court, at the solicita- 
 tion of an old chent; but most of his time was 
 devoted to casual visitors, or to the enjoyment of 
 the society of his friends. In 1847 Mr. Clay joined 
 the Protestant Episcopal Church of Lexington — 
 thus consummating a purpose he had cherished 
 for years. 
 
 A year before the Presidential election of 1848 
 the two great political parties began preparations 
 for the contest. No one could conjecture who 
 were to be the chiefs of the opposing forces. There 
 were dissensions in the Whig party, and Mr. Van 
 , Buren's defection threatened to disrupt the 
 Democracy. He did finally accept the nomina- 
 tion of the "Free Soilers" for the Presidency, 
 which brought disaster on the Democratic party. 
 The Whigs would not unite on Mr. Clay. They 
 had followed his fortunes with singular devotion, 
 but the exigencies of the party were great — so 
 great, indeed, that its dissolution seemed immi- 
 nent. In the national contests he had often led to 
 defeat — never to victory. They determined to 
 sacrifice him for success, and ventured upon the 
 fatal policy of expediency. General Zachary Tay- 
 lor, already famous for other achievements in 
 Mexico, had won the battle of Buena Vista against 
 immense odds ; and he who before that war was 
 scarcely known beyond army circles became the 
 object of popular adoration. The opponents of 
 Mr. Clay's nomination concentrated on Taylor, 
 who received the nomination of the Whig Conven- 
 tion held in Philadelphia in June, 1848. Mr. Clay, 
 probably, was not surprised at the result, but he 
 was keenly afifected by the action of a portion of 
 the Kentucky delegation, who, at a critical 
 
 moment, abandoned him, and cast their vote for 
 General Taylor. They were accused of treachery 
 by the disappointed and incensed adherents of Mr. 
 Clay, who himself believed that he was betrayed. 
 The occurrence led to a temporary alienation of 
 friendship between Mr. Clay and a lifetime friend 
 who had been one of the chief actors. But Mr. 
 Clay's resentment was of brief duration, for they 
 met subsequently with the usual cordial greeting. 
 Mr. Clay was married in 1799 to Lucretia, 
 daughter of Colonel Hart of Lexington, Ken- 
 tucky, with whom he lived happily for fifty-three 
 years. 
 
 GENERAL JOHN HUNT MORGAN— dis- 
 tinguished as the greatest partisan ranger 
 (perhaps excepting General Francis Marion) of 
 all American wars — was born June i, 1825, at 
 Huntsville, Alabama. His father, Calvin C. Mor- 
 gan (a Virginian by birth, and a relation of Gen- 
 eral Daniel Morgan, of the Revolutionary war), 
 was a merchant there; his mother, the daughter 
 of John W. Hunt, a leading merchant of Lexing- 
 ton, Kentucky. In 1829 they removed to a farm 
 near the latter place. John was the eldest of six 
 sons, of whom five devoted themselves to the cause 
 of the South: Calvin C. Morgan, who always act- 
 ed as agent in Kentucky for his brother John; 
 Colonel Richard Morgan, on the staff of the great 
 General A. P. Hill as adjutant-general; Major 
 Charlton Morgan, in his brother's command 
 (formerly representing the United States govern- 
 ment abroad); and Lieutenant Thomas Morgan, 
 also in his brother's command, and twice cap- 
 tured. A cousin was one of the bravest private 
 soldiers in the same command. 
 
 John H. Morgan's first war experience was as 
 first lieutenant of Captain Oliver H. P. Beard's 
 company, of Colonel Humphrey Marshall's regi- 
 ment of Kentucky Cavalry, in the Mexican war; 
 and his first battle experience, of the terribly-in- 
 earnest type, at Buena Vista, February 22 and 23, 
 1847, with his men dismounted and fighting as in- 
 fantry. In 1857 he was made the first captain of a 
 volunteer infantry company, the Lexington Rifles, 
 which became prominent for its drill and efficiency, 
 and was afterward incorporated into the "state 
 guard." September 20, 1861, having determined 
 
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 to link his fortunes with the South, he succeeded 
 — although a Federal regiment was encamped 
 within a mile, with orders to next day seize the 
 armory and guns of Captain Morgan's company — 
 in eluding their vigilance, and escaping with all 
 his guns and a number of his men toward the Con- 
 federate lines. After a few weeks' service his com- 
 pany was regularly organized as Company A, of 
 Morgan's Squadron; and the dashing independent 
 service to which his life was henceforth devoted 
 began. We have not space to follow him in all his 
 brilliant and dangerous exploits — generally suc- 
 cessful and forward, but often of the hurriedly 
 retrograde kind. 
 
 April 4, 1862, he received from General Albert 
 Sidney Johnston his commission as colonel, and 
 positive encouragement that his field of action 
 would be enlarged, his force increased and his 
 desire to act independently gratified. The victory 
 at Hartsville, Tenn., in December, 1862, brought 
 him a long-ago-won and long-delayed commis- 
 sion of brigadier-general, which General Hardee 
 urged should be that of major-general at once; but 
 President Davis could only overcome by slow de- 
 grees what seemed an unreasonable prejudice 
 against Kentuckians — possibly because he was 
 too rigid a disciplinarian to encourage the bril- 
 liant independency of Morgan's men and move- 
 ments. May 17, 1863, the Confederate Con- 
 gress recognized the invaluable services of Gen- 
 eral Morgan in a handsome resolution of 
 thanks. His great raids through Kentucky were 
 in July, 1862, August and September, 1862, De- 
 cember, 1862, and June, 1864. His wild raid or 
 ride from Tennessee, across Kentucky, and 
 through the southern part of Indiana and Ohio, 
 to his capture in Columbiana County, Ohio, was 
 in July, 1863. His imprisonment in the peniten- 
 tiary at Columbus lasted only four months; his 
 escape was as startling as it was ingenious; and 
 on November 28, 1863, he was again working his 
 way southward. 
 
 JAMES G. BIRNEY, the first "Liberty" candi- 
 date for President of the United States, was 
 born in Danville, Kentucky, February 4, 1792; 
 died at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, November 25, 
 1857, aged sixty-five years, After studying law 
 
 he settled in Alabama, was district attorney and 
 quite successful. Returning to Kentucky in 1833 
 he assisted in organizing the Kentucky Coloniza- 
 tion Society, and was made president of it — while 
 holding the position of professor in Center Col- 
 lege. His views, at first conservative, then pro- 
 gressive, rapidly changed to "anti-slavery" of the 
 demonstrative kind; he advocated in a public 
 letter in 1834 immediate emancipation, and set 
 the consistent example of freeing his own slaves ; 
 then removed to Cincinnati and established a 
 newspaper. The Philanthropist, of a type not 
 prudent to publish in Kentucky. But there he ran 
 so far and so obnoxiously in advance of public 
 sentiment, that his press was thrown into the 
 river; he revived it, however, in connection with 
 Dr. Bailey. In 1836 he became secretary to the 
 American Anti-Slavery Society at New York, 
 and continued to press the idea of a political party 
 for "freedom." The "Liberty" party nominated 
 him in 1840, and again — after he had become a 
 resident of Michigan — in 1844, as its candidate 
 for the Presidency. 
 
 GARRET DAVIS was born in Mount Ster- 
 ling, Kentucky, September 10, 1801. His 
 father, in early life a blacksmith, was a man of 
 energy and good sense, gained a competency, 
 and served one term in the Legislature. Two of 
 his brothers. Singleton and Amos, were brilliant 
 young men — the latter a member of Congress, 
 1833-35, and dying June 5, 1835, before he could 
 be re-elected. Garret Davis in his boyhood was 
 a deputy in the circuit clerk's office at Paris ; ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1823 ; a representative in the 
 Legislature in 1833, '34 and '35; elected to Con- 
 gress from the Maysville district in 1839-41, and 
 was thrice re-elected, 1841-47, from the Ashland 
 district, Bourbon County having been transferred 
 to the latter; was a member of the Constitutional 
 Convention in 1849, and so determinedly opposed 
 to an elective judiciary that, solitary and alone, on 
 December 21, he voted against the new consti- 
 tution, refused to sign it, and left the convention 
 (Richard H. Hanson being elected to fill the 
 vacancy, who signed the constitution) ; was elect- 
 ed United States Senator, 1861-67, and re-elected, 
 1867-73, but died September 22, 1872, aged 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 seventy-one years and twelve days. In Congress 
 he acquired distinction by his earnest advocacy of 
 the principles and measures of the Whig party; 
 and when about to retire in 1847 Henry Clay 
 appealed to him as a personal favor to make the 
 race for another term, but he had invited Charles 
 S. Morehead to take the field, and could not hon- 
 orably consent. He was a prominent leader in 
 the "Native American" movement, as he was 
 afterward in the "Know-Nothing" or "American" 
 party; and his anti-Catholic views, boldly and 
 ably expressed in a speech in the Constitutional 
 Convention in 1849, ^^.ve him considerable noto- 
 riety; he was nominated in 1856 as the American 
 party candidate for the Presidency, but declined. 
 He was nominated for lieutenant-governor in 
 1848 on the Whig ticket with John J. Crittenden 
 for governor, but declined; and when nominated 
 for governor by the American party in 1855, also 
 declined; thus he declined more good positions, 
 even when election was certain, than most am- 
 bitious men succeed to. He was among the few 
 leading Kentuckians who opposed secession in 
 1861. 
 
 GENERAL CHARLES SCOTT, from whom 
 Scott County received its name, a distin- 
 guished officer of the Revolution, was born in 
 Cumberland County, Virginia. He served as a 
 corporal in a volunteer company of militia in the 
 memorable campaign of 1755, which terminated 
 in Braddock's defeat. Upon the breaking out of 
 the Revolutionary war he raised the first com- 
 pany of volunteers south of James River that 
 entered into actual service, and so distinguished 
 himself that when the County of Powhatan was 
 formed in 1777 the County of Scott was r.amed 
 in honor of him. Having been appointed by 
 General Washington to the command of a regi- 
 ment in the Continental line, he was with Gen- 
 eral Wayne at the storming of Stony Point. He 
 was in Charleston when it surrendered to Sir 
 Henry Clinton. When marching out of the gate 
 a British officer spoke to him very abruptly; or- 
 dered him to march faster to give room for others. 
 Scott turned upon him, ripped out a tremendous 
 oath (one of his characteristics), and shamed the 
 officer for having let go few men stan^ pvit §0 
 
 long against so large an army. The officer 
 molested him no further. After the war termi- 
 nated he removed to Kentucky, and in 1785 set- 
 tled in Woodford County. He was with General 
 St. Clair in his defeat on the 4th of November, 
 1 79 1, when there were about six hundred men 
 killed in one hour. In 1791 he and General Wil- 
 kinson conducted a corps of horsemen against 
 the Indian towns on the Wabash, killed some of 
 the warriors and took a number of prisoners. 
 In 1794 he commanded a portion of Wayne's 
 army at the battle of the Fallen Timber, where 
 the Indians were defeated and driven under the 
 walls of the British fort. In 1808 he was elected 
 to the office of governor of Kentucky, and dis- 
 charged his duties faithfully. 
 
 JEFFERSON DAVIS was bom in Christian 
 County, Kentucky (in that part now included 
 in Todd County), June 3, 1808; but with his 
 father removed to Mississippi in his infancy. He 
 returned to Kentucky for awhile as a student at 
 Transylvania University; was a cadet at West 
 Point Military Academy, 1824-28, and graduated 
 1828; second lieutenant infantry, 1828-33; first 
 lieutenant of dragoons, 1833-35; served in vari- 
 ous campaigns against the Indians, and was dis- 
 tinguished as a subordinate officer in the Black 
 Hawk campaign ; resigned his army commission, 
 1835, and became a planter in Mississippi. Mr. 
 Davis began his political career as Presidential 
 elector, 1844; was elected to Congress, 1845-47, 
 but resigned, 1846, to take a colonelcy of a Mis- 
 sissippi regiment enlisted for the Mexican war; 
 was promoted brigadier-general for gallant con- 
 duct at Buena Vista — where, it was claimed, his 
 regiment, by its steadiness and valor in repelling 
 the final charge of the enemy, turned a doubtful 
 battle into a great victory; in 1847 was appointed 
 by the governor of Mississippi to fill a vacancy in 
 the United States Senate, and subsequently was 
 unanimously elected by the Legislature to the 
 same, 1847-51; resigned, 1850, to make the race 
 for governor of Mississippi against Henry Stuart 
 Foote; was re-elected United States Senator, 
 1852, but resigned to accept the position of sec- 
 retary of war under President Pierce, 1853-57; 
 in 1857 was again elected to the United States 
 
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 Senate, from which he withdrew January 8, 1861, 
 Mississippi having seceded from the Union. 
 
 On February 4, 1861, the delegates from the 
 cotton states met at Montgomery, Alabama, or- 
 ganized a provisional government, adopted a 
 constitution for the Confederate States, and chose 
 Jefferson Davis President, and Alexander H. 
 Stephens Vice-President. 
 
 Jefferson Davis died at his home in Mississippi 
 in I 
 
 GOVERNOR JOHN POPE, one of the 
 most distinguished politicians and states- 
 men of Kentucky, and for many years a resident 
 of Washington County, was born in Prince Wil- 
 liam County, Virginia, in 1770, but brought to 
 this state when quite a boy. In early life, while at- 
 tending a cornstalk mill, he had the misfortune to 
 lose his arm — an accident which turned his at- 
 tention to the profession of the law. Being a 
 young man of great native vigor of intellect, he 
 soon attained eminence. He settled in Shelby, 
 which county he represented in the Kentucky 
 Legislature in 1802; then removed to Lexington, 
 and in 1806-7 was a representative in the lower 
 house from Fayette County, a colleague of 
 Henry Clay and Colonel William Russell. Of 
 that body his great talents rendered him an emi- 
 nently conspicuous and influential member. He 
 was United States Senator from Kentucky for 
 six years, 1807-13 — a colleague of Henry Clay, 
 Buckner Thruston and George M. Bibb; and 
 twenty-four years later a member of the lower 
 house of Congress from the Springfield district 
 for six years, 1837-43. In the meantime he was 
 appointed by President Jackson governor of the 
 territory of Arkansas, which office he held for 
 six years, 1829-35. He died at his residence in 
 Washington County July 12, 1845, aged seventy- 
 five years. 
 
 PHIL J. VEITH, Clerk of the Campbell 
 County Court, Newport, was born in New- 
 port, January 17, 1864. He received a good edu- 
 cation in the public schools, and after taking a 
 business course in a commercial college, com- 
 menced bookkeeping for a planing mill when 
 eighteen years of age. He remaiijed with that 
 
 firm nine years, and in 1891 took charge of the 
 Phil J. Veith Planing Mill & Lumber Company 
 of Newport, which employs about forty people. 
 While the business is conducted in his name the 
 firm is Stone & Veith. Very few young men have 
 met with such signal success, and this is due in 
 a large measure to his -careful attention to busi- 
 ness and well directed energy. Although an 
 active, pushing business man he has had time 
 to look after politics on the Republican side, and 
 his party honored him with the lucrative office of 
 clerk of the Campbell County Court in Novem- 
 ber, 1894. He is an active member of a number 
 of benevolent orders, including Knight Templars, 
 Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows, and is one 
 of the prominent members of the Newport Com- 
 mercial Club, from all of which it may be inferred 
 he is a busy man. 
 
 Mr. Veith and Annie Burke of Cincinnati were 
 married in 1886, and have two children, Carl and 
 Helen. Mr. Veith's father, Frederick Veith, was 
 born in Germany in 183 1, and came to the United 
 States when eighteen years of age. After living 
 in Cincinnati two years he removed to Newport, 
 where he engaged in the grocery business until 
 the time of his death in 1885. He was a member 
 and one of the organizers of St. John's Lutheran 
 Church in Newport. His wife, Catherine 
 (Schmidt) Veith, who survives him, was born in 
 Cincinnati in 1837, and is a faithful member of St. 
 John's Lutheran Church. 
 
 COLONEL ROBERT JOHNSON (the father 
 of Colonels Richard M., James and Major 
 John T. Johnson), was a native of Virginia, and 
 emigrated to Kentucky, then a county of that 
 state, during the stormy period of the revolu- 
 tion. He was distinguished for that high-toned 
 integrity and courage which marked the age 
 and country in which he lived ; and took an active 
 and prominent part in the sanguinary conflicts 
 which raged between the settlers and natives in 
 the early settlement of Kentucky. So great was 
 the confidence reposed in his skill and courage 
 by the adventurers of that age, by whom he was 
 surrounded, that he was called to take a con- 
 spicuous position in almost every hazardous en- 
 terprise, The sentiments of patriotism and integ- 
 
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 rity which marked the history of his active life 
 he did not fail to inculcate upon the minds of his 
 children; and the character of those children, as 
 developed, shows that they were not without their 
 proper effect. Of Colonel Richard M. Johnson, 
 the eldest son, a sketch will be found under the 
 head of Johnson County. Colonel James Johnson 
 was the lieutenant-colonel of the mounted regi- 
 ment of Colonel R. M. Johnson, during the late 
 war, and distinguished himself at the battle of the 
 Thames, as well as on several occasions while in 
 the service. He subsequently served several ses- 
 sions in the Congress of the United States with 
 general acceptance. At the time of his death, 
 which occurred many years since, he was in com- 
 munion with the Baptist Church, and was 
 esteemed a zealous and devoted Christian. Major 
 John T. Johnson was for nine months a judge of 
 the "New Court" of Appeals; for five years a 
 Representative in the Legislature; from 1821-25 
 a member of Congress; and from 1831 until his 
 death in 1856, a distinguished minister of the 
 Christian Church. 
 
 GOVERNOR GEORGE W. JOHNSON— 
 son of WiUiam Johnson and grandson of 
 Colonel Robert Johnson (one of the early settlers 
 and defenders of Bryan's Station, and the ancestor 
 of a large and distinguished family in Kentucky 
 and other states in the South and West) — was 
 born near Georgetown, Kentucky, May 27, 181 1, 
 and died April 9, 1862, aged nearly fifty-one 
 years. He was a graduate of Transylvania Uni- 
 versity ; studied law, and practiced at the George- 
 town bar; abandoned the law for agricultural pur- 
 suits—farming in Kentucky and cotton-planting 
 in Arkansas; represented Scott County in the 
 Kentucky Legislature for three years, 1838, '39 
 and '40; was twice a candidate on the Democratic 
 ticket for Presidential elector, but defeated. In 
 1861 he labored earnestly to place Kentucky by 
 the side of the Southern States in the Civil war; 
 and went, in September of that year, in company 
 with General John C. Breckinridge and others, 
 to the South. He set on foot the organization of 
 a provisional government for Kentucky, which 
 was effected by the convention »t Russellville, 
 
 Logan County, November 18-21, 1861. A consti- 
 tution was adopted, Mr. Johnson elected provi- 
 sional governor, and December 10 Kentucky 
 admitted as a member of the Confederacy. He 
 was mortally wounded at the battle of Shiloh, 
 April 7, 1862. 
 
 BENJAMIN HARDIN, one of the great 
 lawyers of Kentucky, was born in 1784 in 
 Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; was the 
 son of Ben and Sarah Hardin, cousins, the lat- 
 ter a sister of Colonel John Hardin. He was 
 brought, in 1787, to the neighborhood of Spring- 
 field, Washington County, Kentucky; received 
 his early education from Ichabod Radley, and 
 then at Bardstown, and at Hartford, Ohio Coun- 
 ty, from Daniel Barry, an Irish linguist; studied 
 law in 1804 at Richmond, Kentucky, with Mar- 
 tin D. Hardin, and in 1805 at Bardstown with 
 Judge Felix Grundy; in 1806 was licensed, mar- 
 ried to Miss Barbour, and settled at Elizabeth- 
 town, where he remained not quite two years. 
 Some friends of William Bray, under arrest on a 
 charge of murder, employed young Hardin to 
 defend him "until the big lawyers came down from 
 Bardstown." The full meaning of that expres- 
 sion and qualified employment flashed upon Har- 
 din at once; going immediately home he told 
 his wife they must pack up forthwith and remove 
 to Bardstown, or he would never be called a big 
 lawyer; and before Bray was indicted, at spring 
 term, 1808, Mr. Hardin was a resident of Bards- 
 town, and continued to live there until his death; 
 yet in about forty-six years he was not absent 
 from more than six terms of the Hardin Circuit 
 Court and frequently attended the County Court. 
 He was an indefatigable practitioner in the Coun- 
 ties of Nelson, Washington, Hardin, Bullitt, 
 Meade, Grayson, Marion, Breckinridge and some- 
 times Spencer, and in winter time in the Court of 
 Appeals, and at special calls in Louisville and in 
 the State of Indiana. His practice yielded him a 
 handsome revenue and a consequent handsome 
 fortune, in spite of the extremely low fees he 
 charged. At full prices for his services his for- 
 tune would have been immense, for he had one 
 side or other of nearly every seriously contested 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 case. His consultations with his clients were very 
 brief; he seemed to catch the points and facts of 
 a case by intuition; this enforced brevity some- 
 times gave offense, but on the trial no client ever 
 complained that he did not fully understand his 
 case. His memory was extraordinary, and was 
 cultivated and relied upon ; he steadily refused to 
 take a single note, and yet, in the concluding ar- 
 gument, was often known to trace correctly the 
 evidence of a dozen witnesses, repeat what each 
 witness swore, and answer all the points made 
 by the two opposing counsel. He seldom dealt 
 in figures of speech or fancy sketches; his force 
 lay in his perspicuity, in clearly arraying facts 
 and fitting the evidence to sustain each fact in its 
 proper place; he was an animated speaker, al- 
 ways commanding the closest attention, even if 
 not carrying conviction. 
 
 Mr. Hardin served his county in the House of 
 Representatives of Kentucky in 181 o, 1811, 1824 
 and 1825, and in the Senate from 1828 to 1832; 
 and represented his district in Congress from 181 5 
 to 1817, from 1819 to 1823 and from 1833 to 
 1837 — ten years in all. From September, 1844, 
 to February, 1847, he was secretary of state, under 
 Governor Owsley, with whom he had one of the 
 most heated controversies which has ever taken 
 f)lace among the public men of Kentucky; his 
 speech defending himself before the senate com- 
 mittee on executive affairs in January, 1847, was 
 remarkable for its length, power and keenness. 
 His last public service was in the convention that 
 formed the present constitution of Kentucky in 
 1849-50. 
 
 GENERAL JOSEPH DESHA was a de- 
 scendant of the Huguenots of France, his 
 paternal grandfather being one of that persecuted 
 sect, who in the middle of the seventeenth cen- 
 tury fled to America to avoid the fury of intoler- 
 ance, and enjoy unmolested the religion of their 
 choice. The subject of this notice was born De- 
 cember 9, 1768, in Monroe County, in the eastern 
 part of the then colony of Pennsylvania. In July, 
 1 781, his father emigrated to Kentucky, and in 
 the following year removed to that part of the 
 present State of Tennessee, which was then 
 known as the Cumberland District. In the month 
 
 of December, 1789, Joseph Desha was united in 
 marriage with the daughter of Colonel Bledsoe, 
 and in the year 1792 settled permanently in 
 Mason County, Kentucky. 
 
 As early as the year 1794 he volunteered under 
 General Wayne, and served in his campaigns 
 against the Indians with distinction. Indeed, at 
 the early age of fifteen, and between that age and 
 twenty-two, he took an active part in various 
 skirmishes with the foe, who at that period in 
 the early history of the west proved so fatal an 
 annoyance to the settlers. In one of these skir- 
 mishes he had the misfortune to lose two of his 
 brothers, who were killed in Tennessee, an event 
 which no doubt stimulated his courage and great- 
 ly excited his vengeance against the perfidious 
 enemy. His gallant bearing as a soldier and 
 amiable qualities as a man, rendered him justly 
 popular with the people, and for nine years previ- 
 ous to 1806 he represented the County of Mason 
 in the State Legislature. In 1816 he was elected 
 to Congress, and by successive re-elections was 
 continued in that body until the year 1819. 
 
 GOVERNOR CHARLES ANDERSON 
 WICKLIFFE, the youngest of nine chil- 
 dren of Charles and Lydia (Hardin) Wickliffe, 
 and brother of the late Robert Wickliffe of Lex- 
 ington, was born June 8, 1788, in a log cabin 
 on Sulphur Run, a branch of Cartwright Creek, 
 six miles southwest of where now stands Spring- 
 field, Washington County, Kentucky; and died 
 at the residence of his son-in-law in Howard 
 County, Maryland, October 31, 1869, aged 
 eighty-one years. His mother was a sister of 
 Colonel John Hardin, so celebrated in the tra- 
 ditions of the west for his heroism and tragic fate. 
 His early education was limited. He remained 
 at home until his seventeenth year, then spent a 
 year at a grammar school in Bardstown under 
 Rev. Dr. Wilson, and the ensuing nine months 
 under the instruction of Rev. Dr. James Blythe, 
 acting president of Transylvania University. He 
 studied law in the office of his cousin, General 
 Martin D. Hardin. The bar of Bardstown, when 
 he settled there and began his professional career, 
 was the ablest (perhaps excepting Lexington) 
 west of the Allegheny Mountains. It comprised 
 
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 such men as John Rowan, an advocate unex- 
 celled and rarely equaled in his day — afterward 
 a judge of the Court of Appeals and United 
 States Senator; John Pope, one of the strongest 
 debaters that this country has ever produced; 
 Ben Hardin, one of the great lawyers of the state; 
 and at a subsequent period that prodigy, John 
 Hays, whose marvelous eloquence is never 
 spoken of without enthusiasm by those who had 
 the good fortune to hear him. In this battle of 
 the giants Mr. Wickliffe, by fair and honorable 
 exertion, forced his way to a high place in public 
 estimation. 
 
 After war had been declared in 1812, Mr. Wick- 
 lifife volunteered as a private, but was soon ap- 
 pointed aid to General Winlock. He was elected 
 to represent Nelson County in the Legislature 
 in 1812, and re-elected in 181 3. When the news 
 of the appalling disaster at the River Raisin, 
 which covered the state with mourning, reached 
 Frankfort, the Legislature requested the vener- 
 able Colonel Isaac Shelby, then governor for the 
 second time, to take command of the Kentuck- 
 ians and lead them to victory and vengeance. 
 Governor Shelby by proclamation invited his 
 fellow-citizens to meet him at Newport; Mr. 
 Wicklifle again volunteered, was appointed aid 
 to General Caldwell, of the Kentucky troops, and 
 rendered valuable service at the battle of the 
 Thames. 
 
 In 1820 and 1821 he was again a member of the 
 Legislature, and for ten years consecutively, 1823 
 to 1833, represented his district in Congress. In 
 1825, when the choice of President of the United 
 States devolved upon the United States House 
 of Representatives, Mr. Wicklifle, in opposition 
 to most of his colleagues, voted for General 
 Andrew Jackson in preference to John Quincy 
 Adams — which action his constituents sustained 
 by a re-election with over 2,000 majority. He 
 was chosen by the house one of the managers 
 of the impeachment of Judge Peck before the 
 United States Senate, and made one of the ablest 
 speeches reported in the proceedings of that 
 trial. 
 
 In 1833, 1834 and 1835 Mr. Wicklifife was 
 again a member of the Kentucky House of Rep- 
 resentatives, and in 1834 was chosen speaker 
 
 after an animated race, over Daniel Breck and 
 John L. Helm. In 1836 he was elected Heuten- 
 ant-governor, upon the Whig ticket, with Judge 
 James Clark for governor — receiving 35,524 
 votes to 32,186 cast for Elijah Hise, the Van 
 Buren candidate. By the death of Governor 
 Clark, Mr. Wicklifife became governor, October 
 5, 1839, until September, 1840. He was United 
 States postmaster-general in the cabinet of Presi- 
 dent Tyler, September 13, 1841, to March 3, 1845; 
 during which time, August i, 1843, ^^ attempt 
 was made to assassinate him by a crazy man. 
 
 COLONEL GABRIEL SLAUGHTER, 
 Governor of Kentucky, was a native of 
 Virginia, but emigrated in his youth to Ken- 
 tucky, and settled in Mercer County, some lew 
 miles from Harrodsburg. His residence was 
 widely known under the attractive name of 
 "Traveler's Rest." 
 
 Early in life he became a member of the Bap- 
 tist denomination of Christians, and was exten- 
 sively known as a prominent and useful member 
 of that numerous and respectable society. He 
 was frequently employed as messenger to its 
 associated churches, and generally presided as 
 moderator of their assemblies. 
 
 He rendered gallant and distinguished service 
 in the battle of New Orleans on the 8th of Janu- 
 ary, 1815, as a colonel of a regiment of Kentucky 
 troops. On one occasion, while acting as presi- 
 dent of a court-martial — whose decision was not 
 in accordance with the views of General Jackson 
 — the court were ordered to reverse their pro- 
 ceedings; but Colonel Slaughter declined to 
 comply, saying, "He knew his duty, and had per- 
 formed it." General Jackson entertained the 
 highest respect for his character as a soldier and 
 patriot. 
 
 Colonel Slaughter was elected in 1816 to the 
 office of lieutenant-governor, and upon the death 
 of George Madison, succeeded him in the execu- 
 tive chair, and administered the government as 
 acting governor of Kentucky for the four years 
 of Madison's term. He appointed John Pope, 
 Esq., secretary of state, who, at that time, was 
 somewhat unpopular in Kentucky, on account of 
 his opposition to the war with England while 
 
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 Senator of the United States. In consequence, it 
 is thought, of this unexpected appointment, the 
 new election question was fiercely agitated during 
 the first session of the Legislature after Governor 
 Slaughter's inauguration, and at the succeeding 
 session also. The new election movement failed, 
 and the construction- or exposition then given 
 to the constitution, in regard to the succession of 
 the lieutenant-governor to the ofi&ce of governor, 
 upon the "death, resignation, or refusal to qual- 
 ify," of the governor-elect, has been acquiesced in 
 ever since, and regarded as a settled precedent. 
 
 DANIEL JAMES FALLIS, of Covington, 
 was the late president of the Merchants' 
 National Bank of Cincinnati, and also vice-presi- 
 dent (for Ohio) of the National Bankers' Associa- 
 tion of America. He was born near Fredericks- 
 burg, Fauquier County, Virginia, August 19, 
 1809, and the place of his nativity abounds in 
 historic associations. Mr. Fallis was descended 
 from Scotch-Irish ancestry, and his great-great- 
 grandfather presided at a manufacturers' meeting 
 in Dublin in 1698, for which he was compelled to 
 sell his glass manufactory to avoid ruinous taxa- 
 tion, and finally was executed for treason. In 
 the same year his great-grandfather, Thomas 
 Fallis, came to the American colonies and landed 
 in Philadelphia, and nine days after his arrival 
 George Fallis (grandfather) was born. Remain- 
 ing there twenty-three years, they emigrated to 
 Virginia, where they purchased a large landed 
 estate in Stafford County. There was a commun- 
 ity of Quakers in that vicinity, to which the Fal- 
 lises belonged, owing to which fact they were non- 
 combatants during the revolution. 
 
 George Fallis was personally acquainted with 
 and a friend of General Washington; and, learn- 
 ing of the suffering of the Continental soldiers, he 
 wrote letters of sympathy offering to render him 
 any service, except bearing arms, in his power for 
 the relief of the army. Much of his property, con- 
 sisting of many farms, was sold for the purpose of 
 raising money to make good his offer. At one 
 time the Continental money on hand from a por- 
 tion of these sales amounted to one hundred and 
 one thousand dollars ($101,000). 
 
 In 1797 Thomas Fallis (son of George) married 
 
 Mary James; and, of the eight children born to 
 them, Daniel James was the sixth. 
 
 Mr. Fallis remained in Virginia until 1824, 
 when he followed two uncles to Wilmington, 
 Ohio; and in 1826 went to Hillsboro, Ohio, 
 where, until 1853, he was engaged in the mercan- 
 tile business, but sold out preparatory to com- 
 mencing business in Cincinnati. 
 
 In 1854 he began banking, and was the head 
 of the firm of Fallis, Brown & Company, Third 
 street, Cincinnati; but later Mr. Fallis bought his 
 partner's interest and carried on the business un- 
 der the firm name of Fallis & Company, until De- 
 cember, 1859, when the firm Fallis, Young & 
 Company was created, continuing until 1865, and 
 then merged into the Merchants' National Bank, 
 with a capital of five hundred thousand dollars 
 ($500,000). In 1867 this bank purchased the 
 stock of the Ohio National Bank, thus increasing 
 the capital to $1,000,000. Of this bank Mr. FaUis 
 was the president until he tendered his resignation 
 on his eighty-second birthday, August 19, 1891. 
 He was therefore in the banking business unin- 
 terruptedly over thirty-seven years, and twenty- 
 six years as president of the Merchants' National 
 Bank. He was the oldest banker in Cincinnati 
 who had steadily continued in the business, hav- 
 ing passed safely through all the financial crises, 
 never suspending or failing to meet the demands 
 of his depositors and creditors. 
 
 One of his partners, John Young, was a warm 
 personal friend of Secretary Chase. From this 
 arose the fact that Mr. Fallis' judgment was also 
 invoked touching the financial measures of the 
 government, and had great weight upon the 
 public mind. It was from this intelligent and 
 unfaltering support of the leading bankers of the 
 nation, of whom Mr. Fallis was a representative, 
 that the government, through the treasury depart- 
 ment, derived the wisdom and courage to take the 
 steps which finally led to the crowning consum- 
 mation of the specie payment; and the glory that 
 surrounded the names of Chase and Sherman is 
 none the less enduring because they were great 
 financiers and not generals. These great secre- 
 taries, supported by their Heutenants, the repre- 
 sentative bankers of the nation, their judgment 
 and co-operation, commanded the revenues and 
 
392 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 marshaled the resources that constituted the 
 sinews of the war. 
 
 Mr. FalHs was president of the Cincinnati Clear- 
 ing House, an important institution, which he and 
 John W. Elhs, Esq., now of New York City, 
 were chiefly instrumental in organizing. He was 
 a large stockholder, director and chairman of the 
 executive committee of the pioneer iron estab- 
 lishment of Alabama, known as the Evireka Com- 
 pany; was director and president of the Western 
 Tract Society of Cincinnati. Besides these inter- 
 ests he invested his capital in other enterprises, 
 which yielded profitable returns while they gave 
 employment to many men. 
 
 In politics Mr. Fallis was first an old line Whig, 
 then a Know-Nothing, and finally an ardent Re- 
 publican. 
 
 At the age of nineteen he became a member of 
 the Presbyterian Church, and for many years was 
 one of the ruling elders. At the time of his death, 
 and for many years previous, he was connected 
 with the old First Presbyterian Church, Cincin- 
 nati, and was its most able supporter. Mr. Fallis 
 never hesitated to say that he owed his success in 
 life to the Bible and its Author. These consti- 
 tuted the foundation of his character. Add to 
 these experience, judgment, quick perception, a 
 fine moral sense, unquestioned integrity, and we 
 have the main reasons for a business career which 
 was as honorable as it was successful. His inter- 
 est in the world at large, and especially in his own 
 country and in the church of his choice, had not 
 abated as his years increased. It can be said 
 that he was a very quiet man ; and, while pursuing 
 his business, he unostentatiously dispersed his 
 charities. 
 
 October 30, 1835, Mr. Fallis married Miss Ann 
 Poage, daughter of General John Poage, of 
 Greenup County, Kentucky, and granddaughter 
 of Colonel George Poage, who commanded un- 
 der General Washington at the siege of Yorktown. 
 
 Colonel Poage's father (John Poage) came to 
 the American colonies with his parents in 1740, 
 and occupied a high civil office throughout the 
 Revolutionary war. 
 
 Mrs. Fallis most emphatically belongs to one of 
 Kentucky's oldest families, as her mother was the 
 fourth white child born in this state, and at Har- 
 
 rodsburg, when it was only a fort, in the year 
 1777. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Fallis had but two children, a 
 daughter, now Mrs. Charles G. Rodgers, and son, 
 the Honorable John T. Fallis, who was a member 
 of the Cincinnati bar and represented Hamilton 
 County in the Ohio Legislature. From March, 
 1 86 1, until his death, Mr. Fallis resided in Coving- 
 ton, in a beautiful home that has been the scene 
 of hospitality and domestic happiness, but alas! 
 the Angel of Death hovered over it, and on May 
 7, 1893, the only and beloved son was taken from 
 it. This was a very great shock to Mr. FalHs and 
 one from which he never recovered, yet he 
 claimed to be sufficiently well to undertake a 
 journey, so on the evening of June 7 (just one 
 month after his son's death) he left home, but on 
 the following morning was suddenly and fatally 
 attacked with heart disease at Jamestown, New 
 York, his sickness and death both occupying but 
 a few minutes. His remains were brought to the 
 home he so much loved, and there his funeral 
 took place. Beside his son he was laid in High- 
 land Cemetery, back of Covington, and a hand- 
 some monument marks their resting place. At 
 this writing Mrs. Fallis, with her daughter, Mrs. 
 Rodgers, occupies the old homestead. 
 
 EDMUND HAYNES TAYLOR, Jr., of 
 Frankfort, Kentucky, is descended from one 
 of the pioneer families of Kentucky and Virginia. 
 
 The progenitor of this family in America was 
 James Taylor, who came from England and set- 
 tled in what was then New Kent County, Vir- 
 ginia, about the year 1650. He was a wealthy 
 man for that time and invested largely in land, 
 and died in 1698, leaving a large family. 
 
 The oldest son of the first James Taylor, also 
 named James, was one of the earliest surveyors of 
 Virginia, who ran out the lines between Hanover, 
 Spottsylvania and Orange Counties and located 
 about 10,000 acres of land in the latter county, 
 to which he removed at a very early date, as he 
 was living there at the time of his death in 1729. 
 He married Martha Thompson and left a family 
 of nine children; the eldest child, Frances, mar- 
 ried Ambrose Madison and was the grandmother 
 of Presiident James Madison. The third child 
 
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 and oldest son was named James, and was the 
 ancestor of the large Taylor family of Newport, 
 Kentucky. 
 
 The fourth child and second son was Zachary 
 Taylor, father of the gallant Lieutenant Colonel 
 Richard Taylor of the Revolution, and his 
 brother, Hancock Taylor, who together made the 
 first journey down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers 
 from what is now Pittsburg to the mouth of the 
 Mississippi, returning through the unknown In- 
 dian country overland in 1769. Lieutenant Colo- 
 nel Richard Taylor was the father of Major Gen- 
 eral Zachary Taylor, President of the United 
 States. 
 
 The fifth child, and third son, of James and 
 Martha Thompson Taylor was George Taylor, 
 born in Orange County, Virginia, in 171 1. 
 
 He was appointed deputy clerk of Orange in 
 1749 and in 1750 was appointed clerk, which posi- 
 tion he held until 1772, when he was succeeded 
 by his eldest son, James Taylor. 
 
 George Taylor was appointed colonel of the 
 Orange County militia by Governor Dinwiddle, 
 during the French and Indian war, and at "the 
 outbreak of the Revolution was a member of the 
 Orange County Committee of Safety. He was a 
 member of the House of Burgesses from Orange 
 from 1748 to 1758, and member of the Virginia 
 Convention of 1775. He married, first, Rachel 
 Gibson, daughter of Jonathan Gibson, at one time 
 clerk of Orange County, who bore him eleven 
 sons : James, George, Jonathan, Edmund, Fran- 
 cis, Richard, John, William, Charles, Reuben and 
 Benjamin. 
 
 Of these sons, George died in 1761, but all of 
 the other ten served either in rank or file of the 
 Revolution. 
 
 James was a sergeant; Jonathan was lieuten- 
 ant; Edmund an officer of Virginia militia; 
 Francis, colonel of the Regiment of Convention 
 Guards; Richard, captain in the Navy of the 
 Commonwealth; John, a lieutenant in the navy, 
 was captured by the British, carried to New York 
 and confined in the old prison ship "Jersey," and 
 died while a prisoner; Wjlham was major in the 
 Second Virginia Regiment; Charles, surgeon in 
 the Regiment of Convention Guards; Reuben at 
 first a private in the Minute Men and later cap- 
 
 tain; Benjamin was midshipman in the navy and 
 served with his brothers Richard and John. 
 
 After the death of Rachel Gibson, his wife, Col. 
 George Taylor was married a second time to Mrs. 
 Sarah Conway, nee Taliaferro, and had one son, 
 George Conway Taylor, who was at one time a 
 member of the Virginia Council. 
 
 Edmund Taylor, the third son of Col. George 
 Taylor, served throughout the Revolution as a 
 soldier and officer of militia; he received for his 
 services several thousand acres of bounty land, 
 which he located in Jefferson County, Kentucky, 
 and to which he removed shortly after the close 
 of the war. He died in 1784-5, leaving ten chil- 
 dren, one of whom, Mary Taylor, married her 
 first cousin, Richard Taylor, Jr., son of Captain 
 Richard Taylor of the Virginia Navy. 
 
 Richard Taylor, the fifth son of Col. George and 
 Rachel Gibson Taylor, was born in Orange Coun- 
 ty. Virginia, January 6, 1749. On the recom- 
 mendation of General Washington he was ap- 
 pointed a captain in the Virginia Navy of the 
 Revolution in 1776 and served until the close of 
 the war. He commanded at various times the 
 state boats "Liberty," "Patriot" and "Tartar," and 
 captured several armed British cruisers, one of 
 which, the "Speedwell," was afterward sent to the 
 West Indies for ammunition and supplies so badly 
 needed by the Patriot army. 
 
 At one time Captain Taylor's boat was be- 
 calmed just inside of the Virginia Capes, in sight 
 of a British ship, and he determined to attempt 
 the capture of the ship in his open boats, and made 
 the attack. The British fired on his boats, killing 
 six of his men and putting a ball through his 
 thigh, which lamed him for life, but he urged 
 his men on to the attack and finally overpowered 
 the British crew and took them into Norfolk 
 harbor. ' | i : 
 
 For his services during the war he received 
 several thousand acres of bounty land, most of 
 which he located in what was then Jefferson Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, about twenty miles above the Falls 
 of the Ohio, and in 1794 removed to his land with 
 his large family. 
 
 In addition to bounty land. Captain Taylor re- 
 ceived a pension of $300 per annum on account 
 of the wounds received in action. 
 
394 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Captain Richard Taylor married Catharine 
 Davis of Orange or Culpeper County, Virginia, 
 and left a very large family; his son, Col. Richard 
 Taylor, was appointed surveyor of the lands set 
 apart for the officers and soldiers of the Revolu- 
 tion, west of the Tennessee river, in Kentucky, 
 and settled at Columbus, Kentucky. 
 
 Col. Richard Taylor, Jr., married his first cous- 
 in, Mary, daughter of Edmund Taylor, and had, 
 among other children, John Eastin Taylor, who 
 married Rebecca Edrington, and was at one time 
 clerk of Hickman County, Kentucky; born 1803; 
 died at Point Coupee, Louisiana, February, 1835, 
 leaving three children, the eldest of whom is 
 living. 
 
 Edmund Haynes Taylor, son of John Eastin 
 and Rebecca (Edrington) Taylor and grandson 
 of Richard Taylor, Jr., and Mary Taylor, was born 
 in Columbia, Kentucky, in 1832. He was left 
 an orphan at an early age and was adopted, raised 
 and educated by his uncle. Col. Edmund H. Tay- 
 lor of Frankfort, who gave him every educational 
 facility, and who started him out in his business 
 life as he did his own son. 
 
 In early Hfe, with Umited patrimony, but with 
 an ambition bom of laudable desire, he began to 
 carve out the career which has achieved success 
 and given him distinction and prominence as a 
 leader among men. The foundation was fortu- 
 nately laid in a good education and personal disci- 
 pHne under that master of his art, B. B. Sayre, 
 who was not surpassed as an educator in Ken- 
 tucky. His training applied to the entire per- 
 sonality of the pupil, and to this Mr. Taylor owes, 
 besides his mental culture, that grace and dignity 
 of address and that suavity and charm of expres- 
 sion which adds so much to the popularity of 
 character and potency. 
 
 At the age of twenty-one he was united in mar- 
 riage with Fannie, daughter of William Staple- 
 ton Johnson of Frankfort. He was at that early 
 age cashier of the Commercial Bank of Kentucky 
 at Versailles. Soon after he was engaged with 
 men of capital in private banking in Lexington. 
 The great disturbing event of the Civil war led 
 his adventurous spirit to embark in other enter- 
 prises of the troublous times. In 1868, with little 
 more than his business qualifications to bank on. 
 
 he began the manufacture of whiskey at Frank- 
 fort, and in this struck the flood-tide of his career. 
 His ready intuitions soon mastered all details of 
 the science of distilling and its products, and 
 placed him far in advance of the day in perfecting 
 his novel and improved methods which have ac- 
 quired fame for superior purity and excellence 
 wherever fine Bourbon whiskies have become 
 famed over the world. Since 1868, barring some 
 incidents of reverses and financial troubles, this 
 great enterprise has steadily grown in prestige and 
 prosperity, and to-day stands unsurpassed by any 
 other in the distilling interests in the United 
 States. From 1871 to 1891 he was repeatedly 
 elected mayor of the city of Frankfort, serving in 
 all sixteen years, and until he removed to his new 
 and beautiful residence one mile beyond the city 
 limits. On his resignation as mayor he was elect- 
 ed with unanimity by the people of the county 
 to serve them in the legislature of 1891-2, at a 
 period of supreme interest and importance to his 
 constituents and to the state. He was subse- 
 quently elected to the state senate to complete the 
 unexpired term of Judge Lindsay, who was elect- 
 ed to the United States Senate, and narrowly es- 
 caped membership in the present (1896) legisla- 
 ture, having been happily defeated in the nom- 
 inating convention of his party. 
 
 Few men have shown the qualities of high cour- 
 age and invincible power of will of Edmund H. 
 Taylor, Jr., and these have given him a force of 
 character and prestige that make him an acknowl- 
 edged leader of men. His generosity is equal to 
 his splendid abilities, and his charity and public 
 beneficence are as notable as his other traits of 
 character. Mr. Taylor's ample fortune enables 
 him to dispense in munificent style that old fash- 
 ioned Kentucky hospitality in which he has al- 
 ways taken a delight and pride. 
 
 JUDGE HORATIO W. BRUCE, son of 
 Alexander and Amanda (Bragg) Bruce, was 
 born February 22, 1830. His father was born in 
 Garrard County, Kentucky, in 1797, and re- 
 ceived a thorough education in the academy in 
 Lancaster; studied law in the office of Samuel 
 McKee, and after his admission to the bar he 
 
JUDGE H. W. BRUCE. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 395 
 
 practiced law for a short time and then removed 
 to Vanceburg, Kentucky, and engaged in mer- 
 chandising. He accumulated a handsome for- 
 tune, which was largely invested in farms and 
 timberlands, and for many years he gave his at- 
 tention to his farms and his several saw mills. 
 He was an intense Whig and took an active part 
 in state and national politics, serving his country 
 in the State Legislature in 1825 and 1826. He 
 died in 185 1 and was buried at Vanceburg, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 John Bruce (grandfather) was born in Pittsyl- 
 vania County, Virginia, in 1748. He was a 
 farmer, of good education, and a patriot, serving 
 as a soldier in the Revolutionary war within the 
 Virginia State line. After the war he removed to 
 Kentucky and settled in Bourbon County, but 
 afterward removed to Garrard County, where he 
 died in 1827. His wife was Elizabeth Clay, 
 daughter of Henry Clay, Jr., of Mecklenburg, 
 Virginia, who survived him a few years. His 
 father, H. W. Bruce's great-grandfather, was a 
 native of Scotland, who came to this country and 
 settled in Virginia. 
 
 Mrs. Amanda (Bragg) Bruce (mother) was 
 born in Lewis County in 1805. She and Alexan- 
 der Bruce were married in 1818. She died and 
 was buried at Vanceburg in 1852. She was a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 Her father, Thomas Bragg, was a native of Fau- 
 quier County, Virginia, who came to Kentucky 
 and located in Nelson County in 1800, and after- 
 ward moved to Lewis County. He served in 
 the Revolutionary war; was a farmer and a mem- 
 ber of the Episcopal Church. His wife, Lucy 
 Blakemore, daughter of Thomas Blakemore, 
 who married Anne Nevil, was born near Battle- 
 town (now Berryville), Frederick (now Clark) 
 County, Virginia. She was born in March, 1764, 
 and died in November, 1862, so that, if she had 
 lived until the following March, ishe would have 
 been ninety-nine years of age. She was reared 
 in the Episcopal Church, but was for many years 
 member of M. E. Church. Her father, Joseph 
 Bragg (maternal great-grandfather), was a native 
 of and was reared on Albemarle Sound, not far 
 from Norfolk, Virginia. His brother, Peter 
 Bragg, was the great-grandfather of Walter L. 
 
 Bragg of the Interstate Commerce Commission. 
 The Braggs belonged to the old English New- 
 port family, for whom Newport News and the 
 City of Norfolk were named. 
 
 Hon. H. W. Bruce is a native of Lewis Coun- 
 ty. He was educated in private schools in Ken- 
 tucky and in Manchester, Ohio; studied law in 
 the office of L. M. Cox of Flemingsburg and after 
 admission to the bar, at the age of twenty-one, 
 practiced law in Flemingsburg until Christmas, 
 1858, when he came to Louisville, which has been 
 his home ever since, although voluntarily 
 absent during the war. While living in Flem- 
 ingsburg he represented his county in the Legis- 
 lature in 1855 and 1856; and in 1856, when 
 twenty-six years of age, he was commonwealth 
 attorney for that district. He was also a member 
 of the Board of School Trustees of Flemings- 
 burg. 
 
 When he came to Louisville he formed a co- 
 partnership with his brother-in-law, Ben Hardin 
 Helm, under the firm name of Helm & Bruce. 
 Mr. Helm was afterward a general in the Confed- 
 erate army. He was a brother-in-law of Presi- 
 dent Lincoln, having married Miss Emily Todd, 
 a sister of Mrs. Lincoln. Mr. Helm went into 
 the Confederate army as a colonel and was pro- 
 moted to the rank of brigadier-general on the 
 recommendation of Albert Sidney Johnson. He 
 was desperately wounded in the battle of Baton 
 Rouge and was killed in the battle of Chicka- 
 mauga. 
 
 Judge Bruce also cast his lot with the Southern 
 Confederacy, but in a civil capacity, after having 
 been a States' Rights candidate for United States 
 Congress in 1861 in opposition to Robert Mal- 
 lory, the successful candidate. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Russellville conventions, the second 
 of which passed the ordinance of secession, de- 
 claring Kentucky out of the Union. That con- 
 vention established a provisional government for 
 Kentucky, the Legislature of which was called 
 the Provisional Council. He was a member of 
 that council, and during his term of service in 
 the council, Kentucky, by act of the Congress 
 of the Confederate States, was admitted as a 
 member of the "Confederate States of America." 
 
 Judge Bruce was elected a member of the 
 
396 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 House of Representatives of the Confederate Con- 
 gress, in which capacity he served until the end 
 of the war. In 1861, at Montgomery, Alabama, 
 eleven states (not embracing Kentucky, Mis- 
 souri, Delaware and Maryland) formed a provi- 
 sional government under a provisional constitu- 
 tion as the Confederate States of America on an 
 equal footing. The first congress was organized 
 at Montgomery, Alabama, but was transferred 
 to Richmond, Virginia. It was of one body and 
 was known as the Provisional Congress. It 
 adopted a constitution for the Cenfeaerate States 
 of America, which was accepted by those states. 
 The constitution provided for a Legislature 
 designated as the "Congress of the Confederate 
 States of America." That congress was bicau- 
 dal in character. It was ordained that that 
 congress should assemble in Richmond, Virginia, 
 on the eighteenth day of February, 1862, when 
 its House of Representatives should elect a speak- 
 er and other officers. It was also ordained that 
 the President and Vice-President of the C. S. A. 
 should be inaugurated on the 22d day of Febru- 
 ary, 1862. 
 
 As stated. Judge Bruce, who was then thirty- 
 two years of age, was elected a member of that 
 House of Representatives which assembled Feb- 
 ruary 18, 1862. The Congress of the permanent 
 government also assembled on that day. About 
 one hour previous to the assembling of the 
 House of Representatives, the Provisional Con- 
 gress, with Howell Cobb as President, adjourned 
 sine die. Immediately after the adjournment of 
 the Provisional Congress, the first session of the 
 House of Representatives convened, and Thomas 
 S. Bocok of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, 
 was elected speaker. The President, Jefiferson 
 Davis, and the Vice-President, Alexander H. 
 Stephens, were to be formally inaugurated on 
 the 22d of February, four days later; and a reso- 
 lution was adopted by the house directing the 
 speaker to appoint a committee of thirteen, one 
 from each state, on inaugural ceremonies, which 
 committee was charged with the duty of arrang- 
 ing and conducting all the ceremonies incident 
 to the induction of the President and Vice-Presi- 
 dent into office. The State of Kentucky was rep- 
 resented on that committee by Judge Bruce, 
 
 whose career as a member of Congress of the C. 
 S. A. during the remaining years of its existence 
 has long passed into history. 
 
 He left Richmond April 2, 1865, with the other 
 members of Congress, and with President Davis, 
 and went to Danville, Virginia, where he re- 
 mained until the surrender at Appomattox Court 
 Plouse; and after remaining for a while at 
 Greensburg, North Carolina, and Augusta, 
 Georgia, he returned to Richmond. President 
 Johnson had issued his amnesty proclamation, 
 and the attorney-general, Hon. James Speed of 
 Kentucky, being a personal friend of Judge 
 Bruce, he determined to go to Washington and 
 have a settlement with the United States govern- 
 ment. When he arrived in Washington Mr. 
 Speed informed him that he had been pardoned. 
 
 In August, 1865, he resumed the practice of 
 law in partnership with a former pupil, Mr. Sam- 
 uel Russell (late president of the Bank of Louis- 
 ville), under the firm name of Bruce & Russell. 
 This partnership was dissolved in August, 1868, 
 when Mr. Bruce was elected judge of this judicial 
 district, which he held as circuit judge until 1873, 
 when he was appointed chancellor of the Louis- 
 ville Chancery Court by the governor of Ken- 
 tucky. He remained chancellor, by election, un- 
 til March 10, 1880, when he resigned to accept 
 his present position of attorney for the Louisville 
 & Nashville Railroad Company, the duties of 
 which demand his exclusive attention. 
 
 From 1872 to 1880 he was a professor in the 
 law department of the University of Louisville, 
 holding the chair of history and science of law, 
 the law of real property, contracts and criminal 
 law. He was not a graduate of any college or 
 university, which is usually required of profes- 
 sors in chartered institutions of learning. He 
 was for a number of years president of the Louis- 
 vill Medical College. 
 
 Judge Bruce married Miss Lizzie Barbour 
 Helm, June 12, 1856. She was a daughter of John 
 L. and Lucinda Barbour Helm. Her mother was a 
 daughter of Ben Hardin. Mrs. Bruce was born 
 at Flelm Place, Hardin County, April 11, 1836, 
 and was educated in Elizabethtown and Louis- 
 ville. She is a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church. They have five children: Helm, Liz- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 397 
 
 zie Barbour, Maria Preston Pope, Mary and 
 Alexander. 
 
 Helm Bruce is a lawyer in Louisville in part- 
 nership with his uncle, James P. Helm, who is 
 a brother of General Ben Helm — the former part- 
 ner of Judge Bruce — and the firm name of Helm 
 & Bruce is the same as that which existed before 
 the war. Young Mr. Bruce is a graduate of 
 Washington and Lee University, taking two 
 scholarships, one in moral philosophy and one in 
 mathematics, in both of which he received very 
 high honors. He was orator of the literary so- 
 ciety to which he belonged at college, and when 
 he graduated in the law department of the Uni- 
 versity of Louisville he received the medal for 
 the best essay, choosing for his subject "Con- 
 tributory Negligence." 
 
 Two daughters of Judge Bruce, Preston and 
 Barbour, after receiving the best instruction in 
 the schools at home, spent three years in Europe 
 studying the languages, arts and literature. 
 
 WfLLIAM J. RANKINS, retired merchant 
 of Augusta, was born in Mason County, 
 September i, 1823; son of Blackstone H. and 
 Elizabeth (Barker) Rankins. His father was born 
 in Virginia, November 4, 1794, and removed to 
 Mason County when a boy, receiving a part of 
 his education in Mason County, where he died 
 August 31, 1868. In politics he was a Whig and 
 in religion a Universalist. His father, William 
 Rankins, came from Virginia and located in Ma- 
 son County early in the present century, where 
 he was a successful farmer. He died April 12, 
 1838. His ancestors came from Ireland. 
 
 Elizabeth Barker Rankins (mother) was born 
 in Maryland, June 26, 1797, and died in Bracken 
 County, November 20, 1853. Her father, Joseph 
 Barker, was born July 25, 1759; died May 10, 
 1 82 1. His wife (maternal grandmother) was a 
 sister of John Quincy Adams; born June 2, 1769; 
 died May 11, 1854. 
 
 William J. Rankins received a good education 
 in the Mason County schools, after which he en- 
 gaged in a general merchandising, commission 
 and forwarding business, having large transac- 
 tions on the Ohio river, in which he continued 
 from 1849 ""*^1 ^8^4' ^^^" ^^ retired, During 
 
 the war his sympathies were with the Union, but 
 he took no active part, giving attention to com- 
 mercial aflairs and having little interest at any 
 time in politics. He is an elder in the Presby- 
 terian Church, and one of the most honored and 
 substantial citizens of Augusta. 
 
 He was married July 5, 1852, to Hannah J. 
 Silverthorn, daughter of Samuel and Isabella Sil- 
 verthorn. She was born December i, 1831; died 
 July 22, 1878. 
 
 He was married the second time, in Brooklyn, 
 New York, September 20, 1883, to Mary Ann, 
 daughter of James and Mary (De Cue) Sproule. 
 She was born February 9, 1853. 
 
 CHARLES WILLIAM AITKIN, M. D., of 
 Flemingsburg, Kentucky, son of Dr. 
 George and Jennie Holiday (Duty) Aitkin, grand- 
 son of George Aitkin, was born December 16, 
 1859, at Sherburne, Kentucky. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of Fleming County, 
 Kentucky, and at Threlkeld's Select School, Lex- 
 ington, Kentucky. Commenced the study of 
 medicine in 1877 at Sherburne under his father, 
 George Aitkin, A. M., M. D.; attended two 
 courses of lectures at the Medical College of 
 Ohio, Cincinnati, and was graduated March 2, 
 1880; he also took a post-graduate course of 
 instruction in microscopy, bacteriology, physical 
 diagnosis and ophthalmology at the Ohio Med- 
 ical College in 1890, and at the New York Poly- 
 cHnic in 1891. He practiced his profession in 
 Sherburne, Kentucky, with his father from the 
 time of his graduation until 1889, then alone 
 till September, 1890; since April, 1891, in Flem- 
 ingsburg in partnership with Drs. McDowell & 
 Garr, with whom he is now associated under the 
 firm name of McDowell, Garr & Aitkin. (See 
 sketch of Dr. Charles R. Garr in this volume.) 
 
 Dr. Aitkin is a member of the Fleming Coun- 
 ty Medical Society; Northeastern Kentucky 
 Medical Association; was treasurer of the same 
 in 1893, and re-elected at the May meeting, 1894; 
 was elected president of the Northeastern Ken- 
 tucky Medical Association in January, 1896; 
 member of the Kentucky State Medical Society, 
 elected first vice president at June meeting, 1894; 
 member of Alumni Association of the Medical 
 
398 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 College of Ohio; member of the American Med- 
 ical Association; secretary of the Fleming Coun- 
 ty Board of Health, 1891-98; secretary of the 
 Flemingsburg Board of United States Pension 
 Examiners, 1890-93; president of the Fleming 
 County Farmers' Bank since August, 1892; di- 
 rector of local board of the Blue Grass Building 
 & Loan Association; member of Board of Mis- 
 sions, and of the Board of Church Extension of 
 the Kentucky Conference, Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, South. 
 
 He has published articles ort "Pleuritic Effu- 
 sions," Medical Progress, July, 1890, and Amer- 
 ican Practitioner and News; "Diagnosis and 
 Treatment of Diphtheria," Transactions of Ken- 
 tucky State Medical Society, New Series, Vol. I. ; 
 "Wound Closure After Empyema Operation," 
 Ohio Medical Journal, April, 1892; "Some Points 
 on Physical Examinations of the Chest," ibid., 
 January, 1894; "A Complicated Pleurisy," ibid., 
 July, 1894. He is also the author of a paper on 
 "Post-Scarlatinal Nephritis," "Report of Three 
 Atypical Cases of Cancer of the Stomach," read 
 before local societies; also a paper on "The 
 Clergyman, the Doctor and the Religious Press," 
 Ohio Medical Journal, October, 1895. 
 
 Dr. Aitkin was married September 20, 1881, 
 to Miss Ida J. Browning of Mason County, Ken- 
 tucky. Mrs. Aitkin is a daughter of William 
 Reed Browning and Mary A. Ball, his wife, na- 
 tives of Mason County. The children of Dr. and 
 Mrs. Aitkin are Jennie Browning, born Novem- 
 ber 13, 1883, died October 25, 1888, of diphtheria; 
 and Maurice Duty Aitkin, born April 8, 1890. 
 
 Dr. Aitkin is a man of great energy and in- 
 dustry, devoted to his profession and to the im- 
 portant work of the church which is entrusted 
 to his care; an exemplary Christian gentleman, 
 whose professional and other business interests 
 are conducted upon correct principles, and in 
 every relation of life his deportment is character- 
 ized by the faithful and conscientious discharge of 
 duty. 
 
 George Aitkin, A. M., M. D. (father), was born 
 near Knoxville, Tennessee; was a graduate of 
 the academic, theological and medical depart- 
 ments of Transylvania University; taught as a 
 supply in academic department for one term; 
 
 practiced medicine at Sherburne, Kentucky, dur- 
 ing his whole professional career, and died there 
 in 1889. For a number of years he preached 
 to Presbyterian congregations at New Hope, 
 Gilead and Battle Run; was president of the 
 Sherburne Board of Trustees of the public 
 schools and of the Town Council for many years ; 
 owned a farm near Sherburne, which was used 
 principally for grazing; was a Republican in 
 politics until four years before his death, when he 
 became associated with the Prohibition party; 
 was married in 1848 to Jennie Holiday Duty, 
 who was born in Bath County, Kentucky, and 
 was educated in private schools in Sharpsburg. 
 They had four children: Nathan Rice, Emma, 
 wife of Charles H. Daugherty, Daniel D. and Dr. 
 Charles W. Aitkin. 
 
 George Aitkin (grandfather) was born in Scot- 
 land about 1770; graduated in medicine at Edin- 
 burgh; emigrated to America in 1800 and lo- 
 cated in Tennessee; was not fond of his profes- 
 sion and virtually abandoned the practice of 
 medicine and followed farming. He removed to 
 Lexington, Kentucky, where he died some years 
 later. He was a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church and a devout Christian gentleman. 
 
 Rev. William Aitkin (great-grandfather), a na- 
 tive of Scotland, was educated in Edinburgh Col- 
 lege, and was a Presbyterian minister. His two 
 sons were also educated in the University of 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Littleton Duty (maternal grandfather) was a 
 native of Virginia; came to Kentucky about 1810 
 and located in Bath County, where he died; was 
 a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; 
 married Sallie Lyle McAllister, who was a na- 
 tive of Richmond, Virginia, daughter of Charles 
 McAllister and Jennie Holiday, his wife, both of 
 whom were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 JAMES C. CARRICK, a leading physician of 
 Lexington, is of Scotch-Irish origin. He is 
 a grandson of Robert Carrick, who served in 
 Colonel Richard M. Johnson's mounted regi- 
 ment, and is a son of Alexander and Mary Helm 
 (Cantrill) Carrick, and was born in Scott County, 
 Kentucky, January 25, 1867. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 399 
 
 Alexander Carrick was also a native of the 
 same county and was a well-known farmer and 
 breeder of thoroughbred horses for many years. 
 He was born in 1802 and died in 1875. He 
 was a member of the Christian Church in New 
 Town, and performed his duties in every relation 
 of life well. He was a Democrat and espoused 
 the cause of the Confederacy and served through 
 that struggle as a captain of a company. He 
 was the owner of three thousand acres of land 
 in Scott County at the time of his death. 
 
 His father, Robert Carrick, died in the same 
 year, 1876, and was also a member of the Chris- 
 tian Church, and held the office of magistrate. 
 He was born in 1791. He father was a native 
 of Scotland and, when a young man, emigrated 
 from his native land and settled in Kentucky. 
 
 Alexander Carrick married Mary Helm Can- 
 trill (cousin of Lieutenant Governor Cantrill), 
 who was born in Scott County, Kentucky, and 
 is now living in the old homestead in that county. 
 Her father was John F. Cantrill, a native Ken- 
 tuckian, and during the greater part of his life 
 an extensive farmer and stock breeder of Bour- 
 bon County, where his death occurred in 1890, 
 in the eighty-third year of his age. He was a 
 worthy member of the Baptist Church. He mar- 
 ried a Miss Barlow, a member of an old Virginia 
 family who settled in Bourbon County. He had 
 four sons, who served in the Southern army un- 
 der Generals Morgan, Forrest and Wheeler. The 
 Cantrills are descended from the Huguenots who 
 settled in England in 1695, when Louis XIV. 
 issued an edict forbidding the return to France 
 of all refugees who had fled to England to escape 
 being publicly burned alive for the crime of 
 heresy. The Cantrills were silk dyers in France, 
 and followed that profession when exiled in Eng- 
 land from 1695 to 1698. Peter De Cantrill set- 
 tled in Virginia in 1728. 
 
 James C. Carrick, at the age of fourteen, en- 
 tered the Kentucky University at Lexington and 
 graduated therefrom in 1884. He subsequently 
 accepted a position in a drug store in Louisville, 
 where he remained for two years, and 1888 was 
 graduated from the Hospital College of Medicine 
 of that city. He then took a post-graduate 
 course at Bellevue Hospital College, New York 
 
 City, and received the degree of M. D. in 1889. 
 While there he was house surgeon of the Poly- 
 clinic Hospital for twelve months. In 1890 Doc- 
 tor Carrick located in Lexington, where he has 
 become well established as a leading member of 
 his profession, being an industrious student and 
 having a large practice. 
 
 He is a member of the Fayette County Medical 
 Society and of the State Medical Society. He 
 recently contributed an article to the Medical 
 press on Diphtheria, which has been widely read 
 and favorably commented upon by the profession. 
 Doctor Carrick is a member of the Masonic or- 
 der, Knights of Honor and Odd Fellows, and 
 is a member of the Broadway Christian Church, 
 and is a Democrat in politics. 
 
 He owns a fine farm in Scott County and 
 raises many valuable horses. 
 
 JOHN GRIFFIN CARLISLE, the present 
 Secretary of the Treasury, was born in Ken- 
 ton County, Kentucky, September 5, 1835; edu- 
 cated in the best schools of the neighborhood, 
 and himself a teacher at fifteen and for five years 
 afterward; studied law in Covington with ex- 
 Governor John W. Stevenson and Judge Wil- 
 liam B. Kinkead; as the partner of the latter 
 began the practice in March, 1857, and took rank 
 at once as one of the most analytical and clearest 
 legal minds among the young men of Kentucky ; 
 was elected to the lower house of the Legisla- 
 ture, 1859-61 ; took a "back seat" during the War 
 of the Rebellion because of certain dififerences of 
 opinion which were inconsistent with his promo- 
 tion; but in August, 1865, again came to the 
 front as the Democratic candidate for the State 
 Senate from Kenton County, but was beaten at 
 the polls by Mortimer M. Kenton. In February, 
 1866, the Senate declared the seat of the latter 
 vacant, because the election was "neither free nor 
 equal in the sense required in the constitution, 
 being regulated, controlled and unduly influ- 
 enced by armed soldiers in the service of the 
 United States, in utter disregard of the law." Mr. 
 Carlisle was elected to fill the vacancy, 1866-69, 
 and triumphantly re-elected for another term, 
 1869-73, but resigned in 1871 to accept the Demo- 
 cratic nomination for lieutenant-governor of the 
 
400 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 state — to which office he was elected August, 
 1871, for four years, receiving 125,955 votes to 
 86,148 cast for the Radical nominee. In 1872, 
 for a few months, he was the leading editor of the 
 Louisville Daily Ledger. He was several times 
 sent to Congress from the Sixth (Covington) 
 District; twice elected speaker, and upon the 
 death of Senator Beck was appointed to fill out 
 the unexpired term of Beck; was elected for a 
 full term of six years as United States Senator 
 at next meeting of the Legislature. In March, 
 1893, when President Cleveland, came into office, 
 Mr. Carlisle resigned to accept the treasury port- 
 folio, a position he at present occupies. 
 
 Mr. Carlisle is generally regarded by his coun- 
 trymen as being the highest authority on ques- 
 tions of finance and the currency. 
 
 T OHN BODINE OWSLEY, M. D., cashier 
 <J of the Farmers' Bank and Trust Company of 
 Stanford, son of Walter Williams Owsley and 
 Martha Hays, was born in Pulaski County, near 
 Somerset, Kentucky, November 3, 1833. 
 
 His father was born in Lincoln County, Ken- 
 tucky, April 12, 1808; educated in his native coun- 
 ty; attended medical lectures at Transylvania 
 University; practiced medicine in Pulaski Coun- 
 ty; removed to Lincoln County, on Dick's river, 
 near Lancaster, in 1853, where he followed his 
 profession during the remainder of his life; died 
 in 1887, and is buried in Buffalo Cemetery at 
 Stanford. He was married in 1831 to Martha 
 Hays, daughter of Charles and Catherine Hays, 
 who was born in Pulaski County in 1810. She 
 was carefully educated, and spent a portion of her 
 early life with her aunt, Mary Owsley, who was 
 a daughter of William Finley. Mrs. Martha 
 Hays Owsley (mother) died in 1839, and Dr. 
 Owsley was married again in 1849 to Isabella 
 Ann Pennington, who died in 1889. 
 
 Of the six sons of Doctor and Martha Hays 
 Owsley, but one, the subject of this sketch, is now 
 living; and of the two children of Isabella Pen- 
 nington Owsley (stepmother) one remains, Ste- 
 phen Ephraim Owsley. 
 
 Dr. W. W. Owsley (father) was an elder in the 
 Presbyterian Church, a leading citizen and an ex- 
 emplary Christian gentleman. 
 
 Ebsworth Owsley (grandfather) was bom and 
 reared in Lincoln County; was a son of Harry 
 Owsley (great-grandfather), a citizen of Lincoln 
 County, who was a descendant of Thomas Owsley, 
 a native of Virginia, who surveyed and cut the 
 famous Wilderness road under a territorial con- 
 tract, receiving his compensation from the tolls 
 collected on the road. One of the original toll- 
 gates is still in existence. 
 
 Ebsworth Owsley's mother was Martha Bodine, 
 whose parents were of Welsh and German origin. 
 The Owsleys were originally from England, 
 where the family was quite noted for intelligence 
 and good citizenship. Governor WiUiam Owsley 
 was a cousin of Dr. J. B. Owsley of Stanford. 
 
 Charles Hayes (maternal grandfather) was one 
 of the leading men in Pulaski County, a very 
 prominent Presbyterian — as were all of his fam- 
 ily and all of the Owsleys — and a most liberal 
 contributor to the extension and support of the 
 church. He donated the ground and erected a 
 building, which is still in good repair, a monu- 
 ment to his memory, and in which his "good works 
 follow him." 
 
 Catherine Logan (grandmother), wife of 
 Charles Hayes, was a daughter of William Lo- 
 gan, who was a brother of General Benjamin 
 Logan. 
 
 Dr. J. B. Owsley was graduated from Center 
 College, Danville, in the class of 1853. During 
 the next two years he attended the medical de- 
 partment of the University of Louisville, and in 
 1855 attended medical lectures in the New York 
 State University, known as the College of Physi- 
 cians and Surgeons, and finishing before he was 
 twenty-one years of age, did not receive his diplo- 
 ma until he had reached his majority, and in the 
 meantime served as an assistant in Bellevue Hos- 
 pital in New York ; was appointed assistant phy- 
 sician on one of the United States war ships, but 
 declined; returned to Kentucky in the fall of 1856 
 and began the practice of medicine at Crab Or- 
 chard Springs, where he was quite successful for 
 six years. His Grandfather Hayes having died 
 about that time (1862), leaving a large estate, 
 he was called away from that field of labor to 
 attend to the settlement of the estate, and this 
 closed his professional career. He gave his at- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 tention to farming for some years, and in 1870 
 organized the Farmers' National Bank of Stan- 
 ford. This was succeeded by the Lincoln County 
 National Bank, which was succeeded by the pres- 
 ent Farmers' Bank and Trust Company, operated 
 under state authority, of which he is cashier. 
 
 From 1884 to 1886 Dr. Owsley was engaged 
 in pork packing in Louisville, being a member of 
 the firm of White, Akin & Company, of that city. 
 Following his inclinations, however, and having 
 business interests in his former home, he returned 
 there and has since been identified with the bank- 
 ing business in Stanford. 
 
 He is a man of the highest integrity, of superior 
 business ability, highly respected and implicitly 
 trusted by all who know him. His opinion and 
 judgment in business matters is regarded by his 
 associates as almost infallible. 
 
 Dr. Owsley was married (first) to Sabra Pen- 
 nington, daughter of Ephraim Pennington. She 
 died in 1862, and he was married (second) to 
 Mary F. Welch, daughter of John M. and EHza- 
 beth Welch. 
 
 JOHN FELAND, Attorney-at-Law of Hop- 
 kinsville, son of Samuel and Nancy (Hamill) 
 Feland, was born in Barren County, near Glas- 
 gow, December 23, 1837. His parents removed 
 to Christian County in 1848, and he was educated 
 in the schools at Hopkinsville and at Center Col- 
 lege, attending college in 1858, contemporary 
 with Blackburn, Dulaney and others who have 
 distinguished themselves in public life. After 
 leaving Center College he read law with Colonel 
 James F. Buckner, who was for many years col- 
 lector of internal revenue in Louisville, and was 
 licensed to practice law by Judges Henry C. 
 Stites and Thomas C. Dabney in 1859. He has 
 been a citizen and lawyer of Hopkinsville ever 
 since, except at short intervals. 
 
 He was elected to the legislature, August, 1875, 
 and was re-elected in 1877 and 1879; and, not- 
 withstanding the fact that he was one of the mi- 
 nority of Republicans in the house, he served on 
 more committees than any other member. He 
 was elected to the senate of Kentucky in 1885, 
 to fill out the unexpired term of Hon. Austin 
 
 Peay, resigned, 
 26 
 
 In 1889 President Harrison appointed him col- 
 lector of internal revenue for the Second Col- 
 lection District of Kentucky, with headquarters 
 at Owensboro; and he held that office for four 
 years. 
 
 John Feland and Sarah Kennedy of Todd 
 County were united in marriage February 12, 
 1863, and they have four children: William S., 
 civil engineer; John, Jr., lawyer; Logan, archi- 
 tect, and Mary, wife of John Gilmour, all of whom 
 are now residents of Owensboro. 
 
 Samuel Feland (father) was born in Barren 
 County, January 21, 181 1, and was reared in that 
 county as a farmer; but afterwards was a brick- 
 mason and builder. He removed to Christian 
 County in 1848; married Nancy Hamill, daugh- 
 ter of John Hamill, a native of Ireland, who came 
 to Kentucky from Pennsylvania about the time 
 the Felands moved to the Green River country, 
 and the families were neighbors. The date of 
 their settlement in Kentucky is not known pre- 
 cisely, but it was about the beginning of the Rev- 
 olutionary war. 
 
 Thomas Feland, the progenitor of the Felands 
 who came to Kentucky, was of Scotch-Irish de- 
 scent. He, with several brothers, came to Amer-. 
 ica when the country was new, and located in 
 Campbell County, Virginia. With the first tide 
 of emigration to Kentucky, he removed to Lin- 
 coln County and lived there until he reached the 
 unusual age of one hundred and fifteen years, 
 when he died and was buried in Lincoln County. 
 His sons, James and John, lived and died in that 
 county. Andrew removed to Missouri and Sam- 
 uel went to Tennessee. Thomas Feland (great- 
 grandfather) was killed by the Indians. He left 
 a widow and eight children. His son, William 
 Feland (grandfather) was then fourteen years of 
 age. He removed to the Green River country, 
 first to Barren and then to Warren County, where 
 he died in 1839. -^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^°"s and eight daugh- 
 ters. The sons were: David, Thomas, James 
 H., Joseph, Samuel (father) and John. WilHam 
 Feland married a daughter of David Culbertson 
 of Culbertson's Valley, Pennsylvania. 
 
 After quitting the revenue service at Owens- 
 boro in 1893, John Feland returned to Hopkins- 
 ville and resumed the practice of law. He is one 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 of the leading men in his profession and has an 
 extensive practice in the courts of Hopkinsville 
 and in the adjacent counties, and in the Court of 
 Appeals and the United States Courts at Louis- 
 ville and Paducah. 
 
 JOHN WILLIAM RESPESS CORLIS, M. 
 D., a prominent physician of Brooksville, son 
 of John and Maria (Rice) Corlis, was born in 
 Bracken County, Kentucky, August 14, 1833. 
 
 His father was a native of Providence, Rhode 
 Island, who came to Lexington, Kentucky, when 
 he was seventeen years of age; graduated from 
 the medical department of Transylvania Univer- 
 sity, and was a practicing physician in Bracken 
 County for about thirty-five years; was one of 
 the best known and most popular men in the 
 county; prominent in the Masonic order; active 
 in charitable work; a Democrat in politics, but 
 was too loyal to his profession to take an active 
 interest in political afifairs. He died September 
 15, 1867, and is buried at Brooksville. 
 
 John Corlis (grandfather) was born in Provi- 
 dence, Rhode Island, January 3, 1767, where he 
 was a merchant and importer of fine silks. Many 
 of his ships were lost at sea, and from these dis- 
 asters and other losses he was threatened with 
 bankruptcy; removed to Lexington, Kentucky, 
 where he lived in retirement, having saved a com- 
 petency from his former wealth. 
 
 He married (first) Susanna Condie Russell, who 
 was born in Providence, Rhode Island, October 
 22, 1767, daughter of Joseph Russell, and died 
 September 26, 1824. 
 
 George Corlis (great-grandfather) was bom in 
 Shrewsbury, New Jersey, October 24, 171 7; died 
 June 16, 1790. His wife, Waitstill Rhodes, was 
 born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, February 8, 
 1723; died in Providence, October 23, 1783, and 
 was buried on her father's plantation at Paw- 
 tucket. 
 
 George Corlis (great-great-grandfather) came 
 from England about 1675 or 1680, and married 
 Exercise Shattuck, daughter of William Shattuck, 
 a Massachusetts Quaker, who was driven from 
 his home by the intolerance of the Puritans and 
 settled at Shrewsbury, New Jersey. 
 
 Maria Rice Corlis (mother) was born in Brack- 
 
 en County, Kentucky, February 2, 1817; was 
 educated in the common schools; married Dr. 
 John Corlis September 2-], 1832; died December 
 
 12, 1861, and is buried at Brooksville. Her father 
 was Hudson M. Rice, a native of Virginia, who 
 came to Kentucky in his early manhood; was a 
 farmer in Bracken County, and subsequently re- 
 moved to Missouri, where he died. 
 
 Dr. J. W. R. Corlis was educated in the schools 
 of Bracken County, and prepared for his vocation 
 in the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, from 
 which he graduated in March, 1855. He at once 
 began the practice of medicine at Brooksville, in 
 which he has continued with most excellent suc- 
 cess for more than forty years, having at this time 
 a very large practice. He also has a fine farm 
 in which he takes a lively interest, being quite de- 
 voted to improved methods of farming. His 
 home in Brooksville is noted for genuine Ken- 
 tucky hospitality and good fellowship. 
 
 Dr. Corlis was married July 2, 1857, to Mary 
 Eleanor Kemper Linn, who was born December 
 
 13, 1834; daughter of E. W. and Octavia (Pearl) 
 Linn. They have two children living: 
 
 Eva, born November 30, 1859, and Octavia, 
 born April 28, 1865. 
 
 Eva married R. E. Staton, January 19, 1887, 
 and has three children : Octavia Jane, born De- 
 cember 16, 1887; John Edgar, born October 31, 
 1889; William Linn, born March 24, 1894. 
 
 Octavia married Rev. J. G. Tucker of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church, November 20, 1895. 
 
 JOHN VOSE, County Clerk of Boyd County, 
 a popular official and excellent citizen of Cat- 
 lettsburg, son of John and Christina Vose, was 
 born in Pomeroy, Ohio, August 9, 1854. 
 
 His father was bom in Krembendorf, Prussia, 
 December 16, 1824; came to America when about 
 twenty-five years of age ; lived in Pittsburg about 
 a year; then removed to Pomeroy; married 
 Christina Strohmeier in 1853; was a manufacturer 
 of vinegar and was an educated and highly Intel-, 
 ligent man; industrious, honest and much re- 
 spected; a member of the German Methodist 
 Church ; a Whig, and afterwards a Republican in 
 politics; and a naturalized citizen of the United 
 States. H? died in Pomeroy, April 12, i860. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 Christina Strohmeier Vose (mother) was a na- 
 tive of the southern part of Germany; came to 
 America with her parents and completed her 
 education — which had been begun in Germany — 
 in Pomeroy, Ohio; married John Vose in 1853; 
 after his death she was married, July, 1865, to 
 Frederick Bruns of Pomeroy, and subsequently 
 removed to Catlettsburg, her present home. She 
 is a devout member of the Methodist Church and 
 a woman of superior intelligence and of noble 
 Christian character. 
 
 John Vose of Catlettsburg was educated in the 
 schools of Pomeroy, Ohio, and in Catlettsburg. 
 After leaving school he returned to Pomeroy in 
 1870 and sold goods in a mercantile establish- 
 ment for about a year and a half; returned to 
 Catlettsburg in 1872 and some months later went 
 to Ashland and engaged in mercantile business 
 until 1886, when he became bookkeeper in the 
 flour mill of R. C. Poage & Son, which position 
 he held for eight years. In 1894 he became the 
 Republican candidate for the office of county 
 clerk and was elected to his present position, 
 which he has filled with splendid ability and to the 
 entire satisfaction of the members of the bar and 
 others who have business in the county court. 
 He is a very clever and obliging gentleman and 
 an efficient official. He is a member of the Meth- 
 odist Church, the Masonic order and the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. 
 
 Mr. Vose and Jennie Eba, daughter of D. W. 
 Eba, were united in marriage November 29, 1877. 
 Mrs. Vose was born August 11, 1856; educated 
 in the best schools of Catlettsburg; is a member 
 of the Methodist Church and a lady of the high- 
 est Christian character. They have two children 
 living: Clarence Eba, born November 25, 1878, 
 died July 23, 1887; William Wentworth, born 
 August 9, 1881; and John Raymond, born June 
 5, 1885. 
 
 D. W. Eba (Mrs. Vose's father) was born in 
 Butler County, Pennsylvania, in 1819, and died 
 October, 1887; was educated in his native county; 
 came to Catlettsburg about 1850, and engaged in 
 general merchandising, in which he was very 
 successful, and built the Alger House in 1878, 
 one of the best equipped hotels in eastern Ken- 
 tucky, 
 
 He married Isabella Henderson, daughter of 
 Duncan Henderson, a native of New York. She 
 was raised in the Presbyterian Church, but after 
 marriage together with her husband united with 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church in Catlettsburg, 
 and now resides with her daughter at Ashland, 
 Kentucky. 
 
 WILLIAM W. HITE, President of the Louis- 
 ville, Evansville & Henderson Packet 
 Company and of the Louisville & Jeffersonville 
 Ferry Company, and interested in many business 
 enterprises in his native city, was born in Louis- 
 ville, Kentucky, November 14, 1854. 
 
 His father, William Chambers Hite, was born 
 in Jefiferson County, Kentucky, July 23, 1820, 
 and was a resident of Louisville nearly all of his 
 life. He was a man of superior business qualifi- 
 cations and was interested in a number of enter- 
 prises which were of great public benefit and 
 which brought him a handsome fortune. He was 
 an exceedingly affable and popular man, and was 
 unerring in business tact and judgment. At the 
 time of his unfortunate and accidental death he 
 was president of the Louisville, Evansville & Hen- 
 derson Packet Company; a director in the Bank 
 of Kentucky and the Louisville Gas Company, 
 besides having investments and taking an active 
 interest in a number of other profitable enterprises. 
 
 Lewis Hite (grandfather) was a native of Jef- 
 ferson County, Kentucky, a farmer and resident 
 of the county all his life. He was a son of Joseph 
 Hite, who was a son of Abraham Hite, who was a 
 son of Yost or Jost Hite, the histories of all of 
 whom are given in W. H. English's Life of George 
 Rogers Clark. 
 
 Mary Rose Hite (mother) is a native of Jeffer- 
 son County, a resident of Louisville, a member 
 of Christ Church Cathedral, and a most exem- 
 plary Christian woman, who is still in the vigor 
 of youth, although now well advanced in years. 
 
 William W. Hite, eldest son of W. C. and Mary 
 (Rose) Hite, was educated in the pubHc and pri- 
 vate schools of Louisville, and began his business 
 career as a salesman in the wholesale dry goods 
 house of Joseph T. Tompkins & Company, at that 
 time the largest establishment of the kind in 
 Louisville. He was employed with them for five 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 years, when he was made secretary and treasurer 
 of the Louisville, Evansville & Henderson Packet 
 Company, which official position he held until the 
 death of his father, when he was made president 
 of that company, and also president of the Louis- 
 ville & Jeflfersonville Ferry Company ; was elected 
 director in the Bank of Kentucky and in the Louis- 
 ville Gas Company, and, in short, took his father's 
 place in all of the enterprises in which he had 
 been interested, including the leading steamboat 
 and railroad supply establishment in the city, in 
 which the son, in 1878, became the senior mem- 
 ber of the firm of W. W. Hite & Company. 
 These heavy responsibilities, together with the 
 settlement of his father's estate, fell upon the 
 young man's shoulders before he was thirty years 
 of age, and while he was yet relying upon his 
 father's superior ability in the guidance of his 
 various business interests; but he inherited and 
 had learned wisdom from his father and rapidly 
 developed qualities of head and heart for which 
 his father was conspicuous. He has not only 
 met every requirement to the satisfaction of his 
 associates in business and of the members of his 
 family — whose estate he has managed with ability 
 — ^but has conducted the various branches of busi- 
 ness so successfully and profitably that he is now 
 as prominent among the capitalists of Louisville 
 as was his illustrious father. 
 
 Mr. Hite was married in 1888 to Carrie Hope 
 Pace of Richmond, Virginia, and has two sons, 
 a namesake and James P. Hite, who represent 
 the eighth generation of the Hite family as given 
 in this brief sketch. 
 
 THOMAS SIDNEY ANDERSON, son of 
 James B. and Mary Ann Martin (Robertson) 
 Anderson, was born in Daviess County, that part 
 known as the "Beech Woods," six miles east of 
 Owensboro, Kentucky, July 8, 1842. 
 
 James B. Anderson (father) was born in Lex- 
 ington, Kentucky, June i, 1808; first engaged 
 in business with Thomas Anderson & Company, 
 commission merchants of Louisville, as a clerk, 
 and after a few years he acquired an interest in 
 the business. His health failing, he removed to 
 Brandenburg, Kentucky, and was engaged in 
 mercantile business there for several years, but 
 
 returned to Louisville and engaged in the whole- 
 sale dry-goods business as senior member of the 
 firm of Anderson & Evans. 
 
 A few years later he removed to Daviess Coun- 
 ty and bought a farm, upon which he lived until 
 January i, 1850, when he moved into Owensboro, 
 having been in 1849 elected cashier of the branch 
 of the Southern Bank of Kentucky there. He 
 held that position until 1864, when he organized 
 the Planters' Bank of Kentucky — now the First 
 National Bank of Owensboro — of which he was 
 cashier until his death, which occurred October 
 17, 1864. 
 
 He was a very decided Union man before and 
 during the Civil war, and expressed his convic- 
 tions openly; was an ardent advocate of the cause 
 of temperance, and was an elder in the Presby- 
 terian Church, he and his wife having been charter 
 members of the first Presbyterian congregation 
 that was organized in the county of Daviess. 
 
 John Anderson (grandfather) was a native of 
 County Tyrone, Ireland. He came to America 
 in his youth and settled in Lexington. His father 
 was a sea captain; his wife was Sallie Quicksall, 
 a native of New Jersey. 
 
 Mary Ann Anderson (mother) was born near 
 Frankfort, Kentucky, January 2, 181 1. Her mar- 
 riage to James B. Anderson was celebrated in 
 Louisville, December 30, 1828. She survived her 
 husband nearly fourteen years and died in Owens- 
 boro, September 18, 1878. 
 
 The children of James B. and Mary A. Ander- 
 son, two sons and two daughters, were : 
 
 Matilda Robertson, who married Charles R. 
 Tyler of Owensboro; Thomas Sidney, the sub- 
 ject of this sketch; Sallie Quicksall, who married 
 Thomas S. Venable of Owensboro; William 
 Kyle, who married Cornelia Cook of Detroit, 
 Michigan. 
 
 Thomas Anderson (mentioned in the early part 
 of this sketch) and James B. Anderson were not 
 relatives. They became very warm friends, and 
 the latter named his first son for his friend and his 
 wife, whose name was Sidney. 
 
 Isaac Robertson (maternal grandfather) was 
 educated at Princeton College, New Jersey. He 
 was a lawyer in Frankfort, an upright, honorable 
 gentleman; married Matilda Taylor, daughter of 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 40s 
 
 Commodore Richard Taylor of Revolutionary 
 fame; and met an untimely death at the hands 
 of a portrait painter named Dearborn, who was 
 arrested and imprisoned, but made his escape. 
 
 Donald Robertson (maternal great-grandfather) 
 was an educator, mentioned in "Fisk's American 
 Revolution" as "that most excellent Scotch school 
 master," who numbered among his pupils Presi- 
 dent James Madison. 
 
 T. Sidney Anderson, the principal subject of 
 this sketch, attended the University of Michigan 
 at Ann Arbor, but while in his junior year his 
 longer attendance was prevented by the death of 
 his father, who named him executor of his will, 
 and by the fact that he was elected cashier of the 
 Planters' Bank of Kentucky, to succeed his father. 
 This position he held from October, 1864, to Sep- 
 tember, 1 87 1. He and his brother then organ- 
 ized the Owensboro Savings Bank, of which he 
 was at first vice president and then president until 
 1887. In 1883 he removed to Detroit, Michigan, 
 where he was the principal mover in organizing 
 the State Savings Bank, of which bank he was 
 vice president and manager till 1887, and then 
 president until December 9, 1889, when he re- 
 signed voluntarily. While living in Owensboro, 
 and president and principal owner of the Owens- 
 boro Savings Bank, his conscientious business 
 policy was to lend no money to, or aid in any way, 
 the liquor and tobacco trades, or any other busi- 
 ness detrimental, in his judgment, to man's good. 
 The same policy was pursued by the State Savings 
 Bank at Detroit from its organization, and during 
 his management. In December, 1889, the board 
 of directors desired to change the policy of the 
 bank, and lend the money to any one who offered 
 good paper, financially, regardless of a moral 
 consideration; and also wished to hire a special 
 police force to patrol the bank premises on Sun- 
 days and Sunday nights, the same as on week 
 day nights. To neither of these changes was he 
 wiUing to be a party, preferring to sever his con- 
 nection with the institution which he had founded, 
 had managed successfully, and of which he was by 
 far the largest individual stockholder. 
 
 He remained in Detroit until March, 1893, 
 dealt in real estate successfully, and then moved 
 back with his family to his old home, Owensboro, 
 
 Kentucky, since which time he has been attending 
 to his private business only. 
 
 Mr. Anderson is an elder in the First Presby- 
 terian Church of Owensboro, and is superinten- 
 dent of its Sabbath school. He is an ardent 
 temperance man in principle and in practice, and 
 since about 1885 has voted with the national Pro- 
 hibition party. Previous to that time he voted the 
 Republican ticket. 
 
 Mr. Anderson was married May 29, 1867, to 
 Susan Elizabeth Harris, daughter of Giles Harris 
 of Petersburg, Virginia. They have three chil- 
 dren, daughters : Mary Ann, wife of William A. 
 Underbill, a native of Brooklyn, New York ; Pat- 
 tie Bransford and Susan Harris. 
 
 Giles Harris, Mrs. Anderson's father, was born 
 in Prince Edward County, Virginia, September 
 19, 1805; married Martha Williamson Bransford, 
 December 24, 1828; died Sunday, March 15, 1874, 
 in Owensboro. He was a prominent planter and 
 tobacconist and was one of the leading citizens 
 of his city. 
 
 Martha Williamson Bransford (Mrs. Ander- 
 son's mother) was born in Cumberland County, 
 Virginia, February 15, 1807. 
 
 John Claibourn Harris (Mrs. Anderson's pater- 
 nal grandfather) was a prominent planter in Prince 
 Edward County, Virginia; married Polly Gana- 
 way. Mrs. Anderson's maternal grandfather was 
 Benjamin Bransford, who was born in Cumber- 
 land County, Virginia, December 15, 1769; was 
 a planter; married Lucy Hatcher of the same 
 county. He was a son of John Bransford and 
 Judith Amonette Bransford, who had ten children ; 
 he was a grandson of John Bransford, who was the 
 father of three daughters and two sons. 
 
 WILLIAM A. BYRNE, Attorney-at-Law, 
 Covington, son of James and Margaret 
 (Hughes) Byrne, was born in Louisville, Novem- 
 ber 16, 1854. His father was born in County 
 Wexford, Ireland, where he received a good edu- 
 cation, and where he followed farming. He came 
 to Kentucky when a young man and lived in 
 Louisville; but left that city in 1855 on account 
 of the "Know Nothing" riot which occurred 
 there on Monday, August i, 1855, and removed to 
 Covington, where he continued to reside until 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 his death in 1892. He was an uncompromising 
 Democrat in politics, and was a member of the 
 Catholic Church. 
 
 James Byrne, Sr. (grandfather), was born in 
 County Wexford, Ireland, and was killed in the 
 revolution in Ireland, in which his family dis- 
 tinguished themselves. His wife was Johanna 
 Cousins, who belonged to a prominent family 
 in County Wexford. 
 
 Margaret Hughes (mother) was born in County 
 Wexford, Ireland. Her father, William Hughes, 
 was a highly respected farmer in his county. His 
 daughter and two sons, Andrew and Thomas, 
 came to America, and Andrew was killed in the 
 Union army. 
 
 W. A. Byrne was educated in St. Xavier Col- 
 lege, Cincinnati, graduating in 1875. He studied 
 law with Hon. John G. Carlisle for two years ; was 
 admitted to the bar, and after practicing law for 
 three years, was elected city attorney, and was re- 
 elected for three terms, consecutively. At that 
 time all of the civil and criminal cases were con- 
 ducted by the city attorney; but the legislature 
 changed this, making two offices and dividing the 
 work between the city solicitor and the prose- 
 cuting attorney. Under this arrangement, Mr. 
 Byrne was elected city solicitor for a term of four 
 years, and was twice re-elected. 
 
 Under the new constitution there was a ques- 
 tion whether he could hold the office until the 
 expiration of the term for which he had been 
 elected, and it devolved upon Mr. Byrne to decide 
 this question. His decision was that he could 
 not, thus depriving himself of two years of service. 
 He became a candidate for re-election in 1893 
 and was defeated by W. McD. Shaw, the Repub- 
 lican candidate. 
 
 During his long service as city attorney and 
 solicitor, the city did not lose an important case. 
 In this way he saved the city large sums of money. 
 Since giving up his office, the city has employed 
 him as special attorney, which is probably the 
 best evidence of the public appreciation of his 
 legal services. 
 
 Mr. Byrne is president of the Alumni Associa- 
 tion of St. Xavier College; and president and 
 originator of the Catholic Institute and Gymna- 
 sium in Covington, which has over four hundred 
 
 members and is well equipped with library, read- 
 ing room, gymnasium, billiard room, bath rooms, 
 etc. He is deeply interested in this work, especially 
 in behalf of the young men of Covington. 
 
 He has been twice married; first to Mary Byrne 
 of Newport, May 11, 1882. They had two chil- 
 dren, James and William, both of whom are dead. 
 She died in 1885. His second marriage, in 1892, 
 was to Mrs. Anna McNamara, widow of George 
 McNamara, of Covington. By the second mar- 
 riage there were three children; Leo, who died, 
 and Xavier and Martina, who are hving. 
 
 DAVID JACKSON WALLIN, M. D., a pop- 
 ular gentleman and capable physician of 
 Brooksville, son of John and Mary (Bridges) Wal- 
 lin, was born in Montgomery County, near Mt. 
 Sterling, Kentucky, May 2, 1840. 
 
 His father was born and reared near Cumber- 
 land Gap, Tennessee, and removed to Montgom- 
 ery County, Kentucky, where he followed mill- 
 wrighting; and being a most excellent mechanic, 
 his services were greatly in demand far and near. 
 After some years of successful business in the line 
 of his trade, he studied medicine and practiced for 
 one year. Returning to the Cincinnati Medical 
 College in 1842 to take a second course, he acci- 
 dentally cut his finger while dissecting a subject 
 who had died of puerperal fever; blood poison 
 resulted and he died within twenty-four hours 
 after the tirhe of the accident. He was a man of 
 intelligence, excellent judgment and remarkable 
 industry, and was greatly respected in every com- 
 munity in which he lived. 
 
 Mary Bridges Wallin (mother) was born in 
 Montgomery County, Kentucky, and was the 
 daughter of Hiram and Elizabeth Bridges. She 
 died in 1850. She was an exemplary Christian 
 woman, noted for her kind and loving disposi- 
 tion and her deeds of charity, and was greatly 
 loved and admired for her many Christian graces. 
 
 After completing his literary studies in the 
 Montgomery County schools. Dr. D. J. Wallin 
 studied medicine in the Eclectic Medical Institute 
 of Cincinnati, taking two courses, graduating in 
 i860 and commenced the practice of medicine in 
 Brooksville in the same year. 
 
 In 1861 he entered the Confederate army, join- 
 
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 407 
 
 ing Captain Stoner's company in Major Bradley's 
 battalion and General Humphrey Marshall's bri- 
 gade. After serving one year he recruited a part 
 of a company at Mt. Sterling and Captain Tipton 
 having raised a part of another company, they 
 consolidated and Dr. Walhn was made first lieu- 
 tenant of Company I, Eighth Regiment, Ken- 
 tucky Cavalry, which was commanded by Col- 
 onel Roy Clukes. They joined Morgan in Octo- 
 ber, 1862, and accompanied him in his raid 
 through Indiana and Ohio in 1863. Dr. Wallin 
 was taken prisoner with the rest, and sent to 
 Camp Chase, where he remained a prisoner of 
 war for three months and was then transferred to 
 Johnson's Island — a prison for Confederate olifi- 
 cers — and was held there for two years. While 
 there he was surgeon of one of the departments, 
 and in that way found something to do to prevent 
 him from becoming rusty in his medical and sur- 
 gical practice. 
 
 He returned to Brooksville in the fall of 1865 
 and resumed the practice of his profession, to 
 which he has given his undivided attention for 
 more than thirty years. He is a skillful and popu- 
 lar physician, and is a wide-awake and enterpris- 
 ing citizen, progressive and aggressive in his 
 ideas, keeping fully abreast of the times in his 
 knowledge of the great science of medicine. He 
 is the physician of the County Infirmary, and a 
 member of the Board of Examiners for Pensions, 
 and secretary of the board; a member of the 
 Christian Church, and is active in good work. 
 
 Dr. Wallin was married January 29, 1866, to 
 Mary A. Corlis, daughter of Dr. John Corlis, and 
 has two children living: William Bridges, born 
 March 17, 1870, and Corlis, born July 22, 1872. 
 Another child died in infancy. His sons are grad- 
 uates of the medical department of the University 
 of Louisville and are associated with him in the 
 practice of medicine. 
 
 JOHN GIVENS CRADDOCK, editor and pro- 
 prietor of the Paris Kentuckian-Citizen, one 
 of the best newspapers in the state, was born in 
 Harrison County, Kentucky, near the line of 
 Bourbon County, nine miles northwest of Paris, 
 August 28, 1825. He is a son of Richard Clough 
 Craddock, a native of Virginia, who was making 
 
 the journey from his home in Virginia to the 
 Green River country in Kentucky, and, stopping 
 in Paris, he met the widow Givens, who was the 
 mother of six children, and married her. His 
 trip to the promised land in the Green River 
 country was abandoned or postponed indefinitely, 
 as he doubtless thought the Blue Grass country 
 would compare favorably with any other section 
 of the state. So he settled down early in the 
 '20's and became an industrious tiller of the soil in 
 the vicinity mentioned above. He was the father 
 of two children, the subject of this sketch and a 
 daughter, Ann, who died when she was of tender 
 years. 
 
 John G. Craddock, who has become so well 
 known as a newspaper man and as the Nestor of 
 the Kentucky press, studied for two professions 
 before finding that his talents were best suited to 
 the tripod. After his school days were over he 
 studied medicine at Transylvania University, but 
 before completing his course he joined Colonel 
 Simm's company. Second Regiment Kentucky In- 
 fantry, for the Mexican war (1846) and served until 
 that war was ended. He is one of a few remain- 
 ing Mexican war veterans in Kentucky. In 1852, 
 having read law with Governor Hawes, he began 
 doing editorial work for the "Flag," and this lat- 
 ter work, which he began as an amusement, be- 
 came so congenial, and his talent being recog- 
 nized by the publisher of the paper, he virtually 
 abandoned the idea of practicing law and became 
 joint editor of the Flag with Colonel Simms. The 
 paper was successful and grew in popularity until 
 1 86 1, when the Civil war began, when it was com- 
 pelled to discontinue on account of its sympathy 
 with and advocacy of the cause of the Southern 
 people. 
 
 Mr. Craddock took no part, personally, in the 
 war, except to make an occasional reconnoiter as 
 scout on the Confederate side, and spent most of 
 the time during the four years of the conflict in 
 Canada. 
 
 In 1866 he established the Paris True Ken- 
 tuckian, which soon came to be known as the 
 best local paper in Kentucky. 
 
 In 1886 this paper consohdated with "The West- 
 ern Citizen," and in accordance with the custom 
 in such cases, the hyphenated name of Kentuck- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 ian-Citizen was given the paper. The combined 
 circulation of the two papers gave Mr. Craddock 
 a larger audience than he had before, and under 
 his leadership the new venture has prospered until 
 it now has a circulation of about four thousand 
 copies. 
 
 Mr. Craddock has for many years enjoyed the 
 reputation of having the best local newspaper 
 published m the state of Kentucky, and the edi- 
 tors and publishers throughout the state have 
 endeavored to follow the pattern which he has 
 given them, but few of them have succeeded in 
 worthily imitating their leader. The main pur- 
 pose of his paper has been to give the local news 
 in pithy paragraphs, and this, in addition to the 
 force of his editorials and a careful regard, for 
 general news and choice literary matter, has made 
 his paper exceedingly popular with the people 
 of Bourbon and adjacent counties, while among 
 newspaper publishers and politicians it is regarded 
 as first in importance and value among their ex- 
 changes. The Kentuckian-Citizen is published 
 semi-weekly, on Wednesday and Saturday, by J. 
 G. Craddock and William Remington. 
 
 In 1882 Mr. Craddock, who had made no pro- 
 fession of religion previous to that time, was the 
 first of six htmdred and two persons who con- 
 fessed religious conviction under the powerful 
 preaching of that eminent evangelist. Rev. George 
 O. Barnes. 
 
 WILLIAM HENRY SWEENEY of Spring- 
 field, commonwealth attorney of the Elev- 
 enth Judicial District, son of Harvey Sweeney 
 and Mary Edmondson, was born in Marion Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, October 22, 1858, and was educated 
 in the high school of Lebanon and at Forest Acad- 
 emy, near Anchorage, Kentucky ; began the study 
 of law with Russell & Averitt and received his 
 license to practice law from Judge Wicklifife, Au- 
 gust, 1879; began the practice of law in Spring- 
 field in February, 1880, since which time he has 
 devoted his best energies to the legitimate labors 
 of his calling. However, in 1885 he purchased 
 the Leader, a weekly newspaper at Springfield, 
 which he edited and pubHshed for about eighteen 
 months. In the spring of 1886 he became a can- 
 didate for the nomination by the Democratic partv 
 
 for county judge, and received the nomination 
 over Judge W. E. Selectman, the then incumbent, 
 but was defeated at the ensuing August election 
 by the Republican candidate. Judge Andrew 
 Thompson, who was elected by a small majority, 
 the county at that time being a Republican county. 
 
 In September, 1886, Mr. Sweeney was appoint- 
 ed master commissioner and receiver of the Cir- 
 cuit Court; in 1892 he became a candidate for the 
 office of commonwealth attorney in the Eleventh 
 Judicial District, embracing the counties of Green, 
 Marion, Taylor and Washington, and in the pri- 
 maries received a majority in each of the voting 
 precincts except four. In his own (Washington) 
 county out of a vote of over 1,200 cast he received 
 every vote with the exception of six. His elec- 
 tion followed in November without opposition 
 and he is still attending to the duties of that office 
 with fidelity and marked ability. His popularity, 
 which was forcibly attested in his nomination and 
 election, has suffered nothing from the vigorous 
 and conscientious performance of his duties as 
 prosecuting attorney. 
 
 One of the most noted cases which have come 
 within the range of his official duties was his 
 prosecution of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad 
 Company in the Marion Circuit Court, May, 1895, 
 in which the railroad company was charged with 
 extortion in freight charges. In that celebrated 
 case Mr. Sweeney met a number of the greatest 
 railroad lawyers in the country, including Judges 
 Edward Baxter of Nashville, Bruce of Louisville, 
 Alcorn of Standford, Kentucky, and others, and 
 despite this galaxy of legal talent and the powerful 
 influence of that great railroad corporation, he 
 won his case, the jury, after being out about thirty 
 minutes, returning a verdict of guilty, assessing a 
 fine of $500. 
 
 Mr. Sweeney has been very active in politics, 
 as in everything else in which he takes an interest, 
 especially as chairman of the Democratic County 
 Committee for six years and until the close of 
 1895, when he declined further service in that 
 place of honor. 
 
 W. H. Sweeney and Mary A. Leachman of 
 Washington County were united in marriage 
 February 22, 1882. Mrs. Sweeney was educated 
 in Bellwood Seminary and is an estimable and cul- 
 
COL. W. W. BALDWIN. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 409 
 
 tured lady. Her father, Thomas Leachman, a 
 Washington County farmer, was a very substan- 
 tial citizen, who enjoyed the unbounded confi- 
 dence of his neighbors. Emeline Thompson, Mrs. 
 Sweeney's mother, was a daughter of James 
 Thompson, a leading and influential citizen of 
 Washington County. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Sweeney have five children: 
 Ella, Harvey, Sue, Mary and William Sweeney, 
 
 Jr. 
 
 The family history of Mr. Sweeney, which is a 
 matter of record, is given as follows: 
 
 Moses Sweeney (great-grandfather) was born 
 in Ireland and came with his parents to Virginia 
 when about four years of age. He was a soldier 
 in the Revolutionary war in General Putnam's 
 command and died in Virginia in 1787. 
 
 Daniel Sweeney (grandfather) was the oldest 
 child of Moses Sweeney and was born in Virginia 
 in 1776; immigrated to Kentucky and settled in 
 Lincoln County when about eighteen or twenty 
 years of age and afterwards removed to Wash- 
 ington County, near Mackville, and resided there 
 until 1837, when he moved to Boone County, 
 Missouri, where he died in 1859. 
 
 Lizzie Sweeney (great-grandmother) was a 
 Miss Johnson of New Jersey and an own cousin of 
 Vice President Richard M. Johnson. 
 
 EHzabeth Sweeney (grandmother) was a Miss 
 Jones, daughter of Evan Jones of Lincoln County. 
 She was born in 1777 and died in Washington 
 County in 1838. 
 
 . Harvey Sweeney (father) was born in Wash- 
 ington County, February 15, 1809, and lived 
 there until the fall of 1833, when he removed to 
 Lebanon, Kentucky, where he is still living in 
 good health at the advanced age of eighty-seven 
 years. He is a mechanic by trade, but for a num- 
 ber of years operated a farm near Lebanon. He 
 has been a strong, active, energetic man, and in 
 early life took an active part in all matters con- 
 nected with the town and county; has been a 
 life-long Democrat and has always taken a lively 
 interest in political matters; was a Confederate 
 sympathizer during the war and no Southern sol- 
 dier ever appealed to him for help in vain. 
 
 Joseph Edmondson (maternal grandfather) was 
 born in Scotland and came to Virginia at an early 
 
 age. He was a nephew of General Stevens, from 
 whom he inherited a considerable tract of land 
 situated on Cartwright's Creek in (now) Marion 
 County. He married a Miss Watts in Virginia 
 and removed to Kentucky in 1798, and settled 
 on his land, as above stated. 
 
 Wilson Edmondson (grandfather) was bom in 
 Virginia in 1791 and came to Kentucky with his 
 father and resided in (now) Marion County all of 
 his life. He was a farmer by adoption and died 
 in Lebanon, Kentucky, at the age of ninety-two 
 years. He married a Miss Shelby (grandmother), 
 daughter of William Shelby. 
 
 Mary Edmondson Sweeney (mother) was the 
 oldest child of Wilson Edmondson and was born 
 in 1812 in (now) Marion County and died Decem- 
 ber 4, 1884, leaving two children: Fannie, the 
 wife of A. C. Van Cleave of Lebanon, Kentucky, 
 and William H. Sweeney, the subject of this 
 sketch. 
 
 Daniel Sweeney and Wilson Edmondson 
 (grandfathers) were soldiers of the War of 1812 
 and served under General Jackson at New Or- 
 leans. 
 
 COLONEL WILLIAM W. BALDWIN of 
 Maysville, who is popularly and universally 
 known throughout Northern and Central Ken- 
 tucky, was born one and one-half miles south of 
 the city of Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky, 
 January 23, 1827. His father, Garrison Baldwin, 
 was a well known farmer and trader of his day 
 and was a native of King William County, Vir- 
 ginia. He was a son of Henry Baldwin, who emi- 
 grated from his native State of Virginia to Ken- 
 tucky and became one of the pioneer and promi- 
 nent settlers of Mason County. Garrison Bald- 
 win wedded Nancy Marshall Anderson, a native 
 of Prince Edward County, Virginia, and a daugh- 
 ter of Worsham Anderson, who was also one of 
 the early settlers of Mason County. Garrison 
 Baldwin's death occurred in 1829, at about the 
 age of forty years. He had three sons and two 
 daughters, of whom Colonel Baldwin and one 
 sister only survive. He was of Scotch-Irish de- 
 scent. 
 
 Colonel William W. Baldwin at the age of two 
 years was left an orphan by the death of his father. 
 
410 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 who had been in good circumstances, but hav- 
 ing met with reverses, left no estate. Colonel 
 Baldwin grew up on the farm, and received only 
 the advantages afforded in the ordinary schools in 
 the neighborhood of that day. He started out to 
 make his way in the world with little money, but 
 being endowed with good common sense and ex- 
 cellent judgment, he has reached a degree 
 of success in business that few men have 
 attained without aid. For many years he 
 has been one of the most conspicuous fig- 
 ures in his section of the 'state, both in 
 business and politics. His first vienture in busi- 
 ness was in buying and selling tobacco, which he 
 conducted for some years in connection witn gen- 
 eral farming, and which he carried on success- 
 fully until 1866, when, in partnership with Charles 
 E. Tabb, he purchased the Calhoun Plow Works 
 at Maysville — which was at that time a very ex- 
 tensive and important industry of the city — and 
 employed on an average two hundred operatives. 
 These works were burned in 1873 and were never 
 rebuilt. After their plant was burned they en- 
 gaged quite extensively in the grain and stock 
 business at Maysville, but the partnership was 
 subsequently dissolved, and in 1884 he formed a 
 partnership with Newton Cooper and engaged in 
 the grain and tobacco business on Front street. 
 
 Colonel Baldwin has large turnpike interests, 
 and owns a majority of the stock in the Maysville 
 & Lexington Turnpike Company, of which he 
 is president and superintendent, and which is one 
 of the best managed roads in the country; he is 
 also president of the Germantown Turnpike Com- 
 pany, and it has been through his management, 
 principally, that these roads have been made 
 profitable to the stockholders. In 1855 ^"^ 1856 
 he served as deputy sherifl of Mason County, and 
 in 1858 to 1862 held the ofifice of sherifif of the 
 county. In 1871 he was elected from Mason 
 County to the lower house of the State Legisla- 
 ture, and was re-elected, serving on the Commit- 
 tee of Ways and Means, since which time Colo- 
 nel Baldwin has never sought for ofifice. 
 
 In the Legislature, being a careful business 
 man, of fine judgment, painstaking and far-see- 
 ing, he exercised those admirable qualities that, 
 have so signally advanced his private interests. 
 
 In politics he is a sound money Democrat, and 
 wields a remarkable influence among politicians 
 of his party. He owns a beautiful farm south 
 of Maysville, containing six hundred acres of valu- 
 able land, where he resides and entertains his 
 many friends with that hospitality so characteris- 
 tic of old-time Kentuckians. He was united in 
 marriage November 20, 1850, to Martha A. Tabb, 
 a native of Mason County, and daughter of 
 Edward and Letitia (Gill) Tabb. Her father was 
 born in Virginia and her mother in Maryland. Of 
 the children born to this marriage six are now liv- 
 ing: Lucia, wife of C. W. Cartmell of Maysville; 
 Nannie Marshall, wife of A. C. Respass, ex-post- 
 master of the same city; Sue B., who was the wife 
 of Frank B. Ranson, and is now deceased; Wil- 
 liam W., Jr.; Mattie, wife of W. E. McCann of 
 Lexington, and Robert Lee, who is a prominent 
 young business man of Maysville. 
 
 While possessed of great firmness, and strength 
 of character. Colonel Baldwin is of pleasing ad- 
 dress, unassuming and affable in manner and pop- 
 ular with all classes, and although in his seventieth 
 year is apparently in the prime of perfect man- 
 hood. Having been very successful in business he 
 is by no means a gentleman of elegant leisure, but 
 retains the vim, vigor and industrious habits of his 
 earlier years, still devoting his energies to the 
 management of the many enterprises in which 
 he is interested. 
 
 Colonel Baldwin was never known to desert a 
 friend; there is no deception in his nature; is 
 bold and aggressive and is universally esteemed 
 by the people of Northern and Central Kentucky. 
 
 JOHN R. PFLANZ of Louisville, Sheriff of 
 Jefferson County, was born in Portland, now 
 a part of the City of Louisville, July 15, 1855. 
 His parents, John Reinhard and Mary F. Hol- 
 licher Pflanz, were natives of Germany, but were 
 married in this country. His father died in Port- 
 land in 1868, when thirty-six years of age. He 
 was a member of the Presbyterian Church, while 
 his wife, who is still living in Louisville, is a com- 
 municant of the Cathohc Church. Left an orphan 
 at an early age, Mr. Pflanz did not enjoy the ad- 
 vantages of a thorough educaion. He attended 
 the excellent ward schools for a while, but left 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 411 
 
 his studies soon to assist his mother in her grocery, 
 and the best part of his education was of the most 
 practical nature. He regards his early business 
 experience as being quite as useful as any school- 
 ing which he could have received after leaving the 
 old Portland school. 
 
 After clerking for liis mother for some time, he 
 bought out the grocery and opened a bar in con- 
 nection with it. This branch of the business 
 proved quite successful, and his patronage in- 
 creased so rapidly that he soon abandoned the 
 grocery department and devoted his time to the 
 bar exclusively. He continued in this until 1892, 
 when he engaged in the manufacture of brick, but 
 sold out after a brief experience in that line. His 
 next venture was in the "Herald Tobacco Works," 
 but at the same time he was incidentally and to 
 some extent financially interested in a number of 
 other enterprises which he was helping to push 
 along. In November, 1894, he organized the 
 Peerless Cider and Vinegar Works, in which he 
 is the principal stockholder. The works are situ- 
 ated in a large brick building owned by Mr. 
 Pfianz on Thirty-third street. This is one of the 
 largest establishments of the kind in the country, 
 having a daily capacity of two hundred barrels; 
 and while interested in other enterprises, Mr. 
 Pfianz is especially partially to his cider and vine- 
 gar factory and has great expectations for its 
 future. 
 
 Few men in Louisville have been more active 
 in politics than John R. Pflanz, who has the repu- 
 tation of always accomplishing what he under- 
 takes. He is one of the charter members and was 
 for a term president of the Bandana Club, an or- 
 ganization which did valiant service for the Demo- 
 cratic party during Mr. Cleveland's first and sec- 
 ond campaigns ; was a member of the city execu- 
 tive committee for several terms, being chairman 
 of the Seventh Legislative District Committee; 
 was a member of the Board of Common Council 
 for eleven years, and was easily promoted to the 
 Board of Aldermen by election in November, 
 1893, and was a candidate for the presidency of 
 that honorable body in opposition to Charles F. 
 Grainger, who was finally elected after a dead- 
 lock for twenty days and nights, during which 
 time over eleven hundred ballots were cast. This 
 
 is probably the only instance in which Mr. Pflanz 
 was ever defeated and that was not a contest 
 before the people. 
 
 In November, 1894, he was elected sherifif of 
 Jeiiferson County, receiving a majority of thirty- 
 five hundred votes; and was one of two Demo- 
 cratic candidates for county offices who were not 
 defeated by the Republican candidates. He as- 
 sumed the duties of sherifif January i, 1895, and 
 is one of the best sherififs the county and the me- 
 tropolis of the state has ever had. 
 
 Mr. Pflanz was married in August, 1879, to Ida 
 L. Wilkes, daugliter of Captain Perry Wilkes, a 
 river captain pilot, who was also captain in the 
 Union army during the Civil war. They have a 
 family of four children: Virgie, Willie, Stanley, 
 and Grace. 
 
 ROBERT C. TALBOTT of Paris, Kentucky, 
 a member of the Bourbon bar, was born in 
 North Middletown, Bourbon County, Aiigust 
 2, 1862. He began his education in the common 
 schools of the county and when sixteen years of 
 age was placed under the charge of Professor W. 
 L. Yerkes of Paris, under whose efficient train- 
 ing he formed a liking for study, and when at the 
 end of the first year Professor Yerkes took leave 
 of his school to spend a season in Europe Mr. 
 Talbott attended Edgar Institute in Paris, then 
 under the management of Withrow and Waddell, 
 two scholarly gentlemen from Virginia. He con- 
 tinued his studies there for two years and each 
 year received the gold medal for the highest gen- 
 eral average. He then entered Kentucky Uni- 
 versity of Lexington, Kentucky, and at the close 
 of three years graduated with the first honors of 
 his class. He read the text books of law private- 
 ly for a year and was admitted to the bar by the 
 Court of Appeals of Kentucky. He began the 
 practice of law in the fall of 1884 at Paris. Upon 
 his twenty-first birthday he was elected superin- 
 tendent of public schools of Bourbon County for 
 a term of four years; was then re-elected, con- 
 tinuing the practice of law during these eight 
 years, and after the expiration of his second term 
 devoted his attention exclusively to the practice of 
 law. He is now associated with W. H. McMil- 
 lan, under the firm name of McMillan & Talbott. 
 
412 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Robert C. Talbott is a great-great-grandson of 
 Samuel Talbott of Fairfax County, Virginia, who 
 was a lineal descendant of the English family of 
 Talbotts. Samuel Talbott married Mary Mag- 
 dalene De Moville, and from their family most of 
 the Kentucky Talbotts have descended. He died 
 December 31, 1777, and his wife in 1791. His old- 
 est son, De Moville Talbott (great-grandfather), 
 was born July 25, 1754, and married Lee Ann 
 Mason of the Mason family of Virginia. After 
 her death in Virginia De Moville Talbott mar- 
 ried Margaret Williams, who was born in Vir- 
 ginia, June 7, 1767. De Moville Talbott moved to 
 Kentucky, and located in Bourbon County. He 
 had in all sixteen children, a record of whose 
 births, marriages and deaths were kept in the 
 family Bible, which recites that De Moville Tal- 
 bott died April 16, 1839. De Moville Talbott's 
 third son, Samuel Talbott (grandfather), was born 
 October 4, 1781, to his wife, Lee Ann Mason, in 
 Virginia. He was twice married. His second 
 wife was Miss Margaret Lauder (grandmother). 
 Samuel H. Talbott, the father of Robert C. Tal- 
 bott, was the son of Samuel and Margaret Lauder 
 Talbott. From the early days when the settlers 
 followed farming as a necessity, because little 
 else was open to them, his forefathers continued 
 this independent and honorable calling, which 
 descended, like the lands, from father to son. 
 Samuel H. Talbott married Anna McMillan 
 (mother), daughter of Robert McMillan, late of 
 Bourbon County, formerly of Clark County. 
 There are but two children of this marriage: 
 William F. Talbott and Robert C. Talbott, both of 
 Paris, Kentucky. 
 
 Robert McMillan (grandfather) was born 
 in 1813, and was a son of Colonel Wil- 
 liam McMillan and Elizabeth Frame McMillan, 
 of Clark County, Kentucky. Colonel McMillan 
 in the early days of the commonwealth served 
 his people not only in peace, having represented 
 them for twenty-four years in the State Legisla- 
 ture and in the Senate, but also in war; was en- 
 gaged in the Indian war previous to 1812, and was 
 colonel of the Seventeenth Regiment United 
 States Infantry, in the War of 1812. TLe was a 
 son of James McMillan and Margaret White, 
 daughter of Dr. Robert and Helen White of Edin- 
 
 burgh, Scotland, a family made famous by Henry 
 Kirk White, whose poetic genius attracted the 
 attention of the literary world, although he died 
 before arriving at the age of twenty-one years. 
 From the union of James McMillan and Margaret 
 White, besides Colonel Wilham McMillan, were 
 the following children: James and his brother, 
 both of whom were killed in the Revolution; 
 Robert was private secretary to George Wash- 
 ington, and Mrs. Trimble, the mother of Judge 
 John Trimble of the Court of Appeals of Ken- 
 tucky, and Robert Trimble of the Supreme Court 
 of the United States. 
 
 Mr. Talbott's grandmother, Matilda Barclay, 
 wife of Robert McMillan, was the daughter of 
 William Barclay and Nancy Shelton, daughter 
 of Commodore Shelton of the Revolution. Wil- 
 liam Barclay was a son of William Barclay and 
 Nancy Ramsey of Pennsylvania. This William 
 Barclay was a Revolutionary soldier, and after the 
 war moved to Virginia. His son William was 
 born in Virginia, but moved to Clark County, 
 Kentucky, where he reared a family. 
 
 Robert C. Talbott was married in June, 1888, 
 to Sara Grimes, daughter of William and Mary 
 Hedges Grimes. Mrs. Talbott attended Hamil- 
 ton College at Lexington, Kentucky, for four 
 years, and was an honor student of that college of 
 the class of 1887. While there she received three 
 gold medals for proficiency in different branches. 
 She is a great-great-granddaughter of John 
 Grimes of Loudoun County, Virginia, who was 
 a soldier of the Revolution in the Virginia State 
 service. She is a descendant of the Scott, Shore, 
 Stamps and Metcalfe families of Virginia, all of 
 whom were descendants of English families of 
 prominence, also of the Adams and Biggs fam- 
 ilies of Pennsylvania, and the Hedges and Trout- 
 man families of Maryland. Mr. Talbott is a Dem- 
 ocrat; lie and his wife are members of the Chris- 
 tian Church. They have three children: Robert 
 C. Talbott, Jr., Edna Cecil and Ethel Allen Tal- 
 
 l)0tt. 
 
 William F. Talbott, son of Anna McMillan and 
 Samuel H. Talbott and only brother of Robert C. 
 Talbott (whose sketch is given above) was born 
 in North Middletown, Bourbon County, Ken- 
 tucky, February 27, 1857; was educated in the 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 413 
 
 common schools of the county, and was also un- 
 der the charge of Professor W. L. Yerkes of Paris, 
 Kentucky, but owing to bad health was compelled 
 to leave school. He engaged in farming; con- 
 tinued in this occupation until 1890, when he re- 
 moved from his farm to Paris, and is now engaged 
 in the livery business. 
 
 He was married in October, 1887, to Mattie 
 Shipp, only daughter of Edwin T. and Blannie 
 (Williams) Shipp. The Shipp family were former- 
 ly of Fauquier County, Virginia, and came to 
 Kentucky in 1795, where they engaged in farm- 
 ing and were large land owners. Edwin T. Shipp 
 was an old and prominent citizen of Bourbon 
 County. The Williams family is of Welsh extrac- 
 tion. Mrs. Talbott was educated in the private 
 schools of Bourbon. They have three children, 
 Dorothy L., Gladys C. and William McMillan 
 Talbott. Mr. and Mrs. Talbott are members of the 
 Christian Church. 
 
 WILLIAM T. KNOTT of Lebanon, Ken- 
 tucky, cultured gentleman and ripe 
 scholar, son of Joseph Percy and Maria Irvine 
 (McElroy) Knott, was born on Cherry Run, 
 Washington (now Marion) County, Kentucky, 
 October 10, 1822. 
 
 The genealogy of the Knott family begins with 
 Thomas Percy Knott (great-great-grandfather), 
 who was an Episcopal minister in Derbyshire, 
 England. His only son, Thomas Percy Knott 
 (great-grandfather) was educated for the minis- 
 try and had pursued his studies with that intent, 
 until he chanced to meet a young lady named Jane 
 Hart, who was to be sent to Baltimore, Mary- 
 land, to school, and the young man changed his 
 purpose, or rather the young lady changed it for 
 him, and after completing his classical course in 
 England he came to America and married the 
 same Jane Hart. The children of this marital 
 relation were: Nancy, who married Anthony 
 Bickett; Joseph Percy, married Frances Ray; 
 Mary, married Richard Ray; Frances, married 
 Stephen Briscoe; Thomas Percy, married Fran- 
 ces Rayne; Samuel, married Elizabeth Ray; 
 Lloyd W., married Martha Allen; Jane Hart and 
 Ellen, who never married. 
 
 Thomas Percy Knott (grandfather) was a teach- 
 er in Maryland before coming to Kentucky, and 
 followed that profession in Marion (then Wash- 
 ington) County. Among his pupils were Ben 
 Hardin, Colonel C. A. Wicklifife, Martin Ewing 
 and others, whose names illumine the pages of 
 Kentucky history. He continued to teach — being 
 especially devoted to the languages and to sur- 
 veying — until the time of his death in 1826. His 
 remains were interred at Raywick, Marion 
 County. 
 
 Joseph Percy Knott (father) was born in Mary- 
 land, near Elicott's Mills, March 31, 1794; came 
 to Kentucky an infant, was educated by his father 
 and was a teacher in Washington (now Marion) 
 County, in the vicinity of Lebanon, and was also 
 a teacher in Columbia Seminary, and on Cherry 
 Run, near the place where he settled after his 
 marriage. He was one of the contractors who 
 constructed the famous turnpike over Muld- 
 rough's Hill, one of the first improvements of that 
 kind in the state ; resumed teaching in Shelbyville 
 in 1846 and 1847, ^^^ later at West Point, where 
 he died in 1851. He served as magistrate in 
 Washington County (now Marion) for some 
 years; was a member of the Legislature from 
 Washington County in the years 1833-34, when 
 Marion County was cut ofif from Washington, 
 and an active, public-spirited and scholarly gen- 
 tleman. He was a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church and an exemplary Christian. He mar- 
 ried Maria Irvine McElroy, and the names of their 
 children were: William T. Knott, the subject of 
 this sketch; Samuel Cleland, who married Sarah 
 Gates ; Margaret Marion, married Robert T. Nes- 
 bitt; James Proctor, ex-governor, married Sarah 
 R. McElroy; Edward Whitfield, married Mattie 
 McCoy, now living in Kirkwood, Missouri; 
 Anna Maria, married Randolph Hudnall, and 
 Joanna, who married Reverend Marcellus C. 
 Gorin, a Presbyterian minister of St. Louis, Mis- 
 souri. 
 
 Anna Maria Hudnall died in 1859, leaving a 
 daughter, Anna Hudnall, who is the editor of a 
 newspaper in Carson City, Nevada. 
 
 William T. Knott attended the schools in the 
 county and in Lebanon; and is a graduate of 
 Center College, in which institiation he never spent 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 a day or recited a lesson. He was teaching school 
 in Lebanon and from some of his young friends 
 who were attending Center College he obtained 
 the curriculum, purchased the books and studied 
 the full course at home. When the commence- 
 ment was held and the graduates received their 
 diplomas, Mr. Knott, who was in the audience, 
 was called up by the faculty and presented with a 
 diploma, and was thus placed on an equal foot- 
 ing with other graduates. The college conferred 
 upon him the degree of Ph. D. in 1894, being the 
 third person to receive that honor from old Cen- 
 ter College. 
 
 He had charge of the Lebanon Seminary for 
 ten years, losing but two days' time in all those 
 years. In 1852 he became interested in promot- 
 ing and building the Lebanon branch of the 
 Louisville & Nashville Railroad, and when, after 
 much diligent labor on his part, the road was 
 completed to Lebanon, he was made general 
 agent of the branch and located at Lebanon, and 
 it was his duty to appoint and superintend local 
 agents. He was connected with the Louisville & 
 Nashville Railroad in one capacity or another 
 from 1858 to 1890, when he resigned his position 
 to accept an appointment as superintendent of 
 county schools, an ofifice to which he has since 
 been elected and re-elected, and is now serving 
 his third term, and in which he is deeply interest- 
 ed, having a fondness for children and being en- 
 thusiastically devoted to the cause of education. 
 His qualifications for this work are unusual. Hav- 
 ing been a professional teacher for ten years and 
 a lifetime student, few men in the state are better 
 prepared to direct the education of the rising gen- 
 eration than is Mr. Knott. 
 
 During the term of his brother, J. Proctor 
 Knott, as governor of Kentucky, he was assistant 
 state geologist under John R. Proctor, who was 
 director of the geological survey of Kentucky. 
 This line of study has always been of the deepest 
 interest to him, and as a result of his researches 
 he has one of the finest collections of geo- 
 logical specimens, outside of the large in- 
 stitutions, in the United States. He has 
 made several trips to the Rocky Moun- 
 tains, and his collection of specimens of the 
 minerals and geological formations of that sec- 
 
 tion of the country is one of great interest and 
 value. His library embraces the largest private 
 collection of scientific works in the country. At 
 odd times he has made a careful study of the 
 botany of Marion County, and knows every plant 
 scientifically in that section. Has made a careful 
 study of the archaeology of the county and has 
 worked up the conchology of the state, the great- 
 er part of the land and fresh water shells and has 
 them named and classified in his cabinet. 
 
 Mr. W. T. Knott was married (first) July 11, 
 1847, to Marion B. McElroy, by whom he has 
 four children living: Joseph McElroy Knott, 
 cashier of the Marion National Bank of Lebanon, 
 married Mattie Ruble; William Sneed Knott, at- 
 torney at law of Los Angeles, California, married 
 Lulie Pierce of Springfield, Illinois, a sister of 
 William Pierce, ex-consul to Cuba; Kate Grundy 
 Knott and Jennie Marion, who are at home. 
 
 Mrs. Knott died May, 1865, and Mr. Knott was 
 married (second) January, 1867, to Mrs. Lydia 
 McElroy, widow of Hugh Sneed McElroy, who 
 was a brother of Mr. Knott's first wife. Her maid- 
 en name was Lydia Harrison, daughter of George 
 S. Harrison. She is a native of England. She 
 had two children by her first husband: Rosa, wife 
 of James B. Shepard of Denver, Colorado, and 
 George S. McElroy, now of San Antonio, Texas, 
 whose wife was Louise Phillips. 
 
 The genealogy of the McElroy family is meager 
 but interesting. The first now known of the name 
 were contemporaneous with John Knox of Scot- 
 land, and they were the ancestors of the McEl- 
 roys of Marion and Washington Counties. They 
 have kept the tradition that their ancestors were 
 active participants in the establishment of the 
 "Solemn League and Covenant" of 1636. Being 
 opposed in their desire to worship God according 
 to the dictates of their consciences and being de- 
 nied all offices of trust and all privileges, they be- 
 came very bitter in their opposition to the British 
 government. Consequently, early in the eigh- 
 teenth century, they sought homes in the Ameri- 
 can colonies, settling for the most part in Pennsyl- 
 vania, New Jersey, Virginia and the Carolinas. 
 
 From the best information at hand, it was about 
 1730 when James McElroy and Sarah McCue (or 
 McHugh), his wife, first located in New Jersey. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 They afterward removed to Pennsylvania and 
 finally to Virginia, locating in (now) Campbell 
 County, in 1760. All of their children were boys: 
 John, Archy, Hugh, Samuel and James. The 
 father was a farmer, whose principal crop was 
 tobacco, which, for the want of money, was com- 
 mon currency in Virginia in those days. The 
 father and his sons were ever ready to respond to 
 frequent calls to arms on account of the French 
 and Indian wars and the greater war of the Revo- 
 lution. They were in many battles in Virginia and 
 campaigns on the Pennsylvania border. Samuel 
 and several of his brothers were present at the 
 surrender of Lord Cornwallis. 
 
 John and Archy, sons of James McElroy, re- 
 moved to South Carolina, and were the progeni- 
 tors of the McElroys in the Carolinas, Georgia, 
 Tennessee and some of the southern counties of 
 Kentucky. Three of the sons of James married 
 three sisters, who were daughters of John Irvine. 
 Hugh married Esther, Samuel married Mary, and 
 James married Margaret Irvine. These women 
 were daughters of a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian 
 minister. 
 
 Hugh McElroy and John Irvine, his brother-in- 
 law, with their families, removed from Campbell 
 County, Virginia, to Kentucky in 1787. McElroy 
 settled in Nelson (now Washington) County, and 
 Irvine in Lincoln (now Boyle) County, near Dan- 
 ville. In 1789, September 4, Samuel and James, 
 with their wives, followed Hugh to the "wilder- 
 ness of Kentucky," and settled in Nelson (now 
 Marion) County, near Lebanon. 
 
 Of these Samuel (the great-grandfather of Wil- 
 liam T. Knott) and his wife, Mary Irvine, had 
 issue as follows: Sarah, bom 1767, married Alex- 
 ander Handley; John, born 1769, married (first) 
 Miss Copeland (second), Mrs. Simpson; James, 
 born 1770, died young; Hitgh, born 1772, mar- 
 ried Miss Gilkie; Margaret, born 1773, married 
 James Wilson; Abram, born 1774, died young; 
 William, born 1776, married (first) Keturah Cle- 
 land, (second) Mary Kirk; Samuel, born 1777, 
 married (first) Mary Briggs, (second) Jane B. 
 Grundy; Mary, born 1778, married William Mc- 
 Colgan; James, born 1780, married Esther Simp- 
 son; Abram, born 1780, married Miss Redford 
 (James and Abram were twins) ; Elizabeth, born 
 
 178 — , married George Wilson, and Nancy, born 
 178—. 
 
 The children of William McElroy (1776) and 
 Keturah Cleland, his wife, were: Maria Irvine 
 McElroy, born 1805, who married Joseph P. 
 Knott, October 10, 1822 (parents of William T. 
 Knott); Eliza, born 1807, married (first) Isaac 
 Everhart, (second) T. P. Gibbs, (third) Isaac 
 Withrow; Philip E., born 1809, married Lydia 
 Gibbs; Harriet PauHna, born 181 1, married A. 
 S. Mays; Margaret, born 1814, married Samuel 
 T. Ray. The children of William McElroy and 
 his second wife, Mary Kirk, were: Paul Irvine, 
 married Sue McElroy; Robert Lapsley, married 
 Lizzie Hughes; Cecil Scott, married Fannie 
 Brown ; Lucy Ann, married Samuel T. Ray (after 
 the death of his first wife, who was her half sister) ; 
 William T., married Eliza Cassidy; James Frank- 
 lin, married Mary Chapman; Samuel Rice, mar- 
 ried Belle Reed; Keturah, married Dr. George 
 Hubbard, and Sarah, who died young. 
 
 James Proctor Knott, son of Joseph Percy and 
 Maria (Irvine) Knott and brother of William T. 
 Knott — the principal subject of the foregoing 
 sketch — was born in Marion County, Kentucky, 
 August 28, 1830. After receiving a common 
 school education, he was professor of natural 
 science in the Lebanon Seminary; practiced law 
 in Lebanon ; removed to Missouri, where he prac- 
 ticed law; was a delegate to the Democratic Na- 
 tional Convention in i860; was elected to the 
 Missouri Legislature; was attorney-general of 
 that state during the Civil war; returned to Leba- 
 non and was a member of Congress from that dis- 
 trict for twelve years, 1867-71 and 1875-83; was 
 governor of Kentucky, 1883 to 1887; and is now 
 dean of the faculty of the law department of Cen- 
 ter College at Danville, Kentucky. 
 
 THOMAS R. WELCH, M. D., an able and 
 successful homeopathic physician and sur- 
 geon of Nicholasville, was born in that city, Feb- 
 ruary 4, i860, and is a son of the late Dr. John 
 Welch, who died in Nicholasville, February 2, 
 1887, and Lizzie (Downing) Welch. Thomas R. 
 Welch received his primary education in Bethel 
 Academy, under the training of that eminent 
 teacher, Professor A, N, Gordon, who is now 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 principal of an academy in Fayette County. He 
 afterwards attended Kentucky Wesleyan College 
 and received the degree of A. M. In 1882 and 
 1883 he taught in the city schools and then read 
 medicine with his father and graduated from the 
 Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, in 1885, 
 and in the same year he began the practice of 
 medicine in his native city, where he has become 
 known as one of the best physicians in the county. 
 
 During all of that time he has been and is still 
 a member of the board of examiners for the 
 common schools; is a member pf the Nicholas- 
 ville Board of Education; is a member of the 
 Kentucky State Homeopathic Association, of the 
 Southern Homeopathic Association and the 
 American Institute of Homeopathy; is a mem- 
 ber of the Baptist Church; an Odd Fellow and 
 a Knight of Pythias, and has served in all of the 
 offices in these two orders. 
 
 Dr. Welch is a most scholarly gentleman and a 
 student of great industry ; of quick perception, a 
 retentive memory and a close observer, he can 
 rapidly acquire knowledge of every kind, par- 
 ticularly in the great science of medicine. As a 
 physician and surgeon he has few superiors. He 
 is faithfully devoted to his profession and has 
 gained wide popularity by his prompt and cour- 
 teous attention to business. 
 
 Dr. Welch was married in 1889 to Josephine 
 Stanley, daughter of Elder William Stanley, a 
 minister in the Christian Church, who is now liv- 
 ing in East Aurora, New York. They have one 
 daughter, Amanda. 
 
 John Welch (great-grandfather) was born in 
 the north of Ireland in 1743, came to America and 
 served under General George Washington in the 
 Revolutionary war, after which he settled in Lin- 
 coln County. He subsequently removed within 
 the present limits of Jessamine County, where 
 he raised a large family of sons and daughters, 
 whose descendants in Jessamine County are very 
 numerous and are of the highest respectability. 
 He died one mile south of Nicholasville in 1836, 
 and is buried on the farm which he opened in 
 1784. His oldest son, Alexander Welch, was 
 born in Virginia in 1778. Nathaniel Welch, his 
 second son, was born in Lincoln County in 1783, 
 and John Welch, his youngest son, who was the 
 
 father of Dr. John C. Welch and grandfather of 
 Dr. Thomas R. Welch, was born in Lincoln 
 County in 1790, and died in 1842. 
 
 Lizzie Downing Welch (mother) was the oldest 
 daughter of Armistead Downing, whose ances- 
 tors were from England and settled in North- 
 umberland County, Virginia, in 1726, where many 
 of the descendants are yet living. The Kentucky 
 family of Downings are descended from this Eng- 
 lish branch, of whom three brothers, John, 
 Thomas and Robert, are supposed to have set- 
 tled in Virginia in the year above mentioned. 
 
 GEORGE HENRY MEADE, Circuit Clerk 
 of Boyd County, son of Albert Gallatin and 
 Elizabeth (Hornbuckle) Meade, was born Sep- 
 tember 9, 1862, in Boyd County, Kentucky. 
 His father, Albert Gallatin Meade, was born 
 in Bedford County, Virginia, in 1803, and 
 came to Greenup (then a part of Boyd) Coun- 
 ty in 1828. He was a farmer and a promi- 
 nent member of the Methodist Church and one 
 of the most respected citizens of the county. He 
 died at the age of sixty-nine in 1872, and is buried 
 at McCormick's Chapel in Boyd County. His 
 father was a native of Clay County, Virginia, and 
 was a highly respected farmer of that county. The 
 Meades are of Irish and German extraction. 
 
 George H. Meade's mother, Elizabeth (Horn- 
 buckle) Meade was bom and educated in Greenup 
 County, Kentucky. She was a lady of noble 
 Christian character, prominent and useful in the 
 work of the church to which she and her husband 
 belonged, and her death, which occurred on the 
 twelfth day of March, 1864, was lamented by a 
 large circle of loving relatives and friends. 
 
 Richard Hornbuckle (maternal grandfather) 
 was a farmer in Greenup County, a man of great 
 force of character and a gentleman of culture. He 
 was an old-time Whig in his younger days, and 
 later became a RepubHcan of pronounced con- 
 victions. He was a native of North Carolina. 
 
 George Henry Meade, the subject of this sketch, 
 was educated in the Boyd County district schools, 
 and at Marshall College, Huntington, West Vir- 
 ginia, from which institution he was graduated in 
 the class of 1883. He afterward took a commer- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 cial course in the Valparaiso (Indiana) Normal 
 School, graduating in 1884. 
 
 He taught in the district schools of Boyd Coun- 
 ty for two years and then went to Lebanon, Ohio, 
 and took a teacher's course in the Normal School, 
 after which he resumed his professional work as 
 teacher in his native county, and was thus em- 
 ployed until January, 1895, when he assumed the 
 duties of the office of clerk of the Circuit Court 
 at Ashland, to which he was elected on the Demo- 
 cratic ticket in November, 1894. In this change 
 from one department of public service to another 
 the educational interest of the county was the 
 loser, but the legal branch of service gained an 
 efficient and faithful officer. 
 
 Mr. Meade was married January 10, 1894, to 
 Mary Edith Fannin, daughter of J. L. and Mary 
 (Lock) Fannin, of Boyd County. She was born 
 March 29, 1873. They have one child, Delbert 
 Quigley, born January 25, 1895. 
 
 Mr. Meade has two sisters and five brothers: 
 Mary E. Meade; Richard; William R. Meade, 
 served in the Fourteenth Regiment Kentucky In- 
 fantry, Union army and married Melissa Shelton ; 
 Pierce L. Meade, married Ellen Ward; Anna 
 Meade; Albert Gallatin Meade, married Pauline 
 Molsvarger, and Luke Cullis, who has been twice 
 married, first to Caroline Molsvarger, who died 
 in March, 1888, and whose second wife was Ad- 
 die Walters. 
 
 THOMAS HENRY HINES, ex-Chief Justice 
 of the Kentucky Court of Appeals and dis- 
 tinguished attorney at law of Frankfort, son of 
 Judge Warren W. and Sarah (Carson) Hines, 
 was born in Butler County, Kentucky, October 
 9, 1838. His ancestors were of English and 
 Scotch origin and were among the first settlers 
 of Kentucky. Dr. McDowell states that these 
 early settlers were the largest body of pure Eng- 
 lish stock that has been separated from Virginia 
 in two hundred years. They were descended 
 from Romans, Saxons, Celts and Normans, the 
 two latter predominating, the characteristics of 
 whom were impressed upon their English de- 
 scendants. They were noted for their love of lib- 
 erty and were men of strong individuality. It was 
 the same principle that produced the American 
 
 27 
 
 Revolution and made the people of the North 
 American colonies free and independent. 
 
 Judge Hines is a true blue descendant of the 
 old Roman and Norman blood of these English 
 ancestors. His professional career has been suc- 
 cessful and brilliant and his service on the appel- 
 late bench, for a term of eight years ending in 
 1885, was distinguished by the highest legal abil- 
 ity. The State of Kentucky never gave birth to a 
 more daring and accomplished gentleman. Brave 
 and generous, with that high sense of honor so 
 characteristic of true representative Kentuckians, 
 he has manfully performed his duty as soldier, ad- 
 vocate, judge and citizen, and is admired and hon- 
 ored by a host of friends and acquaintances. 
 
 In order to vary the monotony of a work of this 
 character, as well as to show the daring and chival- 
 rous courage of the man, an account of the escape 
 of General Morgan, Captain Hines and six other 
 Confederate officers from the Ohio Penitentiary 
 during the war, which escape was planned by him 
 and executed under his management, and is given 
 in lieu of the usual details of his ancestry and the 
 deeds and exploits of his fathers. History fur- 
 nishes no more interesting facts, and romance 
 is thrown in the shade by the reality of that most 
 daring and successful venture. 
 
 In the exciting account of General Morgan's 
 escape, in November, 1863, written bj Samuel 
 C. Reed, is seen the brave and defiant spirit of the 
 old British blood in Captain Thomas H. Hines, 
 who was then twenty-three years of age, of great 
 nerve and endurance. 
 
 Merrion, the warden, feeling the importance 
 of a little brief authority, on the morning of No- 
 vember 3, 1863, grossly insulted Captain Hines, 
 who determined that he would neither eat nor 
 sleep until he had planned some means of escape. 
 Prison life had become intolerable, and the 
 thought of breathing the free air of heaven once 
 more was inexpressibly sweet. He was engaged 
 in reading Victor Hugo's graphic description in 
 "Les Miserables" of the subterranean passages of 
 Paris, and of the wonderful escapes of Jean Val- 
 jean. He argued in his mind that the dryness of 
 the cells must be owing to air passages or ventila- 
 tors beneath, to prevent the moisture from rising, 
 and that by removing the cement and brick in the 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 cells they might strike the air chambers and 
 thence escape by undermining the foundation 
 walls. This plan was first communicated to Cap- 
 tain Samuel B. Taylor — a grand nephew of Presi- 
 dent Zachary Taylor — who was as agile, ingenious 
 and daring as Captain Hines. 
 
 There were difficulties to overcome from the ar- 
 rangement of the cells — ^five tiers or stories of 
 solid stone masonry, six feet long, six feet high 
 and three feet wide. General Morgan's cell was 
 in the second story, and Hines' immediately be- 
 neath. 
 
 With two case knives, which had been sent 
 from the hospital with food for some of the sick 
 men, the work was begun November 4 in Hines' 
 cell, he assuming the responsibility and alone 
 taking the risk of discovery and its consequent 
 punishment by imprisonment in the dungeon. 
 With these tools two men could work at a time, 
 relieving each other every hour and spending four 
 or five hours a day in labor. It was a work of love 
 and progressed steadily, Hines keeping strict 
 guard, and by a system of knocks or raps upon 
 the cell door, indicating when to begin and when 
 to stop work and come out. The cement and 
 bricks removed were hidden by the men in their 
 beds. The prison guards were always suspicious 
 and watchful, and some privileged convicts were 
 sometimes set as spies to watch the Confederate 
 officers. 
 
 After digging in each of the seven cells for 
 eighteen inches square through six inches of 
 cement and six layers of brick, the air chamber 
 was reached and found to be sixty feet long and 
 three by three feet in height and width. There- 
 after the rubbish was removed to the air chamber, 
 while the holes in the walls were carefully con- 
 cealed by their beds. But their patient work 
 was scarcely begun. They worked thence through 
 twelve feet of solid masonry, fourteen feet of 
 "grouting'' (the stone and liquid cement) and five 
 feet of graveled earth, and on November 25th 
 reached the yard of the penitentiary. 
 
 For the first time General Morgan was now 
 made acquainted with the mysterious under- 
 ground avenue, and was greatly surprised and 
 delighted upon examining the work. A consulta- 
 tion in Morgan's cell on the evening of the 27th 
 
 determined them to attempt their escape that 
 night. The weather for some weeks had been 
 perfectly clear, and for several nights succeeding 
 their escape the ground and penitentiary walls 
 were covered by a heavy sleet, which would have 
 made it impossible to scale them. Late in the 
 evening of the 27th light fleecy clouds gathered 
 in the west, which with the feeling of the atmos- 
 phere, betokened a cloudy sky and rain; and at 
 nine p. m. a steady rain set in, lasting through the 
 night. How to scale the outside wall, thirty-five 
 feet high, was their greatest difficulty; besides, 
 several sentinels were on post in the yard and two 
 or three vicious dogs were unchained at night. 
 Again, General Morgan was to be gotten out of 
 his cell in the second story before the turnkey 
 locked all the cell doors at five p. m. "Love 
 laughs at locksmiths," and so did Morgan's men. 
 Calvin Morgan, the general's brother, made out of 
 his bed-ticking a rope seventy feet long, and out 
 of a small iron poker a hook for the end of the 
 rope. At five p. m. when the prisoners were or- 
 dered to their cells. Colonel Dick Morgan went to 
 his brother's cell while the general was locked up 
 in Dick's, one of the seven on the ground floor. 
 General Morgan was allowed the exceptional 
 privilege of a candle to read by after nine o'clock, 
 and the turnkey on going his rounds, finding Dick 
 Morgan with a book before his face reading, mis- 
 trusted nothing, but locked in the wrong prisoner. 
 
 In the stillness of the night, at 12:25 ^- ™-> 
 when even a whisper or the falling of a pin could 
 be heard, Captain Sam Taylor dropped noiselessly 
 into the air chamber, passed under the other six 
 cells and touched the occupants as a signal to 
 come forth, each one first so shaping his bed 
 clothes as to resemble the sleeping form of a man, 
 and prevent the suspicion of guards on their hour- 
 ly rounds, until after daylight. 
 
 Wlien they emerged from the hole under the 
 foundation three sentinels stood within ten feet, 
 but the steady rainfall drowned any noise from 
 their footsteps. A few paces toward the wall were 
 gone over when one of the huge dogs came run- 
 ing with a howl within ten feet of them, barked 
 once, and then went off, doubtless mistaking them 
 for sentinels. They reached in safety the last gate 
 of the wall, a double gate thirty feet hig^h, of iron 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 outside and inside of heavy wooden cross-timbers 
 with open spaces. Wrapping a stone in a cloth 
 to prevent noise and tying it to one end of the 
 rope, Taylor threw it over the top of the inside 
 gate, the weight of the stone drawing down the 
 rope. Securing the hook to one of the timbers one 
 of the parties climbed to the top of the gate and 
 thence to the top of the wall. The rope was 
 hauled up, the hook fastened to the iron railing on 
 the main wall, and in a few minutes they had de- 
 scended to the open street, within thirty steps of 
 a guard, who stood near a bright gaslight. The 
 party immediately separated, General Morgan 
 and Captain Hines going together. By a letter 
 in cipher to a lady friend who sometimes loaned 
 books to the prisoners, Hines' need of money had 
 been supplied, the money being hidden within 
 the folds or binding of a book. Morgan wore 
 goggles loaned by a sore-eyed fellow-prisoner, 
 and kept from the gaslight, while Hines went 
 boldly up to the ticket office and purchased two 
 tickets, just as the Cincinnati train, at i :2S a. m., 
 came thundering along. Once in the car without 
 suspicion they felt equal to the emergency, and 
 by care and ingenuity made good their escape to 
 the South. 
 
 Those who made their exit from prison walls 
 on that memorable night were General Morgan 
 and six of his captains : Thomas H. Hines, Jacob 
 C. Bennett, Ralph Sheldon, James D. Hocker- 
 smith, Gustavus McGee and Samuel B. Taylor. 
 
 The coolness and composure of Captain Hines 
 was wonderful. He spent the evening from five 
 to nine in reading one of Charles Lever's novels, 
 and then slept soundly until aroused by Captain 
 Taylor, just after midnight. He was too polite 
 to part with his host Merrion without leaving his 
 compliments and wrote a letter enclosing the tally 
 of the time and labor expended in effecting the 
 escape, which was as follows: 
 
 "Castle Merrion, Cell No. 27. 
 
 "Commencement, November 4, 1863; conclu- 
 sion, November 20. number of hours for labor 
 per day, three; tools, two small knives. 
 
 "'La patience est amere, mais son fruit est 
 doux.' By order of my six honorable Confeder- 
 ates. 
 
 "THOMAS H. HINES, C. S. A." 
 
 Four days after Captains Taylor and Ralph 
 Sheldon were captured near Louisville and re- 
 turned to the penitentiary. Captain Taylor died 
 several years after the war; General Morgan was 
 slain; Gustavus McGee was killed near Cumber- 
 land Gap ; Ralph Sheldon, a descendant of Ralph 
 Sheldon, who was a member of the English Par- 
 liament in 1645, died a few years ago, and Captain 
 Hines still lives to hear the story of the greatest 
 exploit in American history told by others. 
 
 Collins' History states that General Morgan 
 and Captain Hines, after getting on the train, went 
 through Dayton to Cincinnati, where they crossed 
 the Ohio at seven p. m. in a skifif to Ludlow, just 
 below Covington, took breakfast at the residence 
 of an enthusiastic lady friend, where they were 
 furnished with horses and traveled twenty-eight 
 miles to Union in Boone County, thence by easy 
 stages, with volunteer guides, through Gallatin, 
 Owen, Henry, Shelby, Spencer, Nelson, Greene 
 and Cumberland Counties, arriving at Overton, 
 Tennessee, December 8, where Hines by quick 
 wit again saved Morgan; was captured Decem- 
 ber 13, but in five days made his escape. General 
 Morgan escaped by way of Athens, Tennessee, 
 across the mountains of North Carolina to Colum- 
 bia, South Carolina, and thence to Richmond, Vir- 
 ginia. The governor of Ohio offered five thou- 
 sand dollars reward for his capture. 
 
 GUY M. DEANE, one of the most energetic 
 and promising young business men of 
 Owensboro, son of Silas Mercer and Sallie Moor- 
 man Deane, was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, 
 January 5, 1870. 
 
 His father was born in Breckenridge County, 
 May 25, 1839; died June 14, 1894. He received 
 a collegiate education and removed to Owens- 
 boro when a young man and found employment 
 as a clerk in the old Planters Hotel. For a num- 
 ber of years he was engaged in the drug business 
 in partnership with Mr. Courtney and became in- 
 terested in the coal business; was the owner of 
 several coal mines near Owensboro, and these 
 being nearer the city than other mines, furnished 
 most of the coal that was consumed in Owensboro 
 for many years. He had been quite prosperous 
 in business and had bright prospects for the future. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 but, as was common in the early tumult of the Civil 
 strife, his heart was fired with zeal for the south- 
 ern cause, and he abandoned his business and 
 entered the Confederate army as a private in Cap- 
 tain Noel's Company, First Regiment, Kentucky 
 Volunteers. He was with Captain Noel at Shiloh 
 when that gallant officer received his mortal 
 wound. He continued with the army until the 
 spring joi 1863, when he was forced to return to 
 his home in Owensboro, on account of impaired 
 health. 
 
 He resumed the operation ot his coal mines, 
 at the same time having an interest in the drug 
 business with Pointer & Conway, in which he con- 
 tinued until 1887, at which time he was made pres- 
 ident of the Owensboro Savings Bank, a posi- 
 tion which he held until his death. He was one 
 of the originators of the Falls of Rough Railroad, 
 and was president of that company at one time. 
 
 Notwithstanding his many business interests 
 and his contact with men of affairs, he was an ex- 
 tremely modest man, and accomplished more by 
 his quiet and unassuming manner than others who 
 made more noise in the woi^ld. He was always 
 ready and willing to aid and foster any charitable 
 undertaking, whether public or private; he gave 
 liberally to the poor, but did it quietly and with 
 the stipulation that it must not be mentioned pub- 
 licly. In business his word was as good as his 
 bond, and he adhered to that principle through 
 life, no one ever having known him to fail to keep 
 his promise. He was a living example of manli- 
 ness, gentleness, integrity and truthfulness. His 
 death was a public calamity, for he was a most 
 useful citizen and greatly loved and respected 
 by all classes. 
 
 He was baptised and received into the fellow- 
 ship of the Baptist Church in 1869, and remained 
 a consistent member until his death, being one of 
 the most liberal supporters of the church and its 
 work. He was a Mason of highest degree. 
 
 Mr. Deane was married October 4, 1866, to 
 Sallie Moorman, a highly educated and accom- 
 plished lady, a graduate of the Georgetown Fe- 
 male Academy and a member of one of the most 
 honored families of Kentucky. The names of the 
 children of Mr. and Mrs. Deane are: Guy M., 
 bom January 5, 1870; Allen, born December 13, 
 
 1871; Anna Belle, born November 25, 1873; and 
 Edward, born May 18, 1876. 
 
 Somers Deane (grandfather) was a native of 
 Breckenridge County, a prosperous farmer and 
 large slave owner. He was quite prominent as 
 a member of the Baptist Church and was well 
 known as a Democrat of decided convictions. 
 He married Elizabeth Moorman, daughter of 
 James L. Moorman. Guy M. Deane graduated 
 from the high school of Owensboro in the class 
 of 1886, and began business as a retail coal 
 dealer, and in 1890, formed a partnership with 
 Boyd Micheson in the same business; was book- 
 keeper in the Owensboro Savings Bank until 
 April, 1895, when he began operating a coal mine 
 at Deanefield, in which he is now successfully 
 engaged; is also interested in real estate and is 
 a stockholder and director in the Owensboro Sav- 
 ings Bank. He is one of the most enterprising 
 young business men of the thriving city of Owens- 
 boro, well known for his energy, push, business 
 sagacity, integrity and honesty. 
 
 Mr. Deane and Sue Griffith were married March 
 I, 1892, and their only child, Ruth Griffith, was 
 born May i, 1893. Mrs. Deane is a daughter of 
 Honorable Clinton Griffith, and was educated in 
 Oxford Female College, graduating in 1889. 
 
 CHARLES ALBERT BIRD, a director in 
 the Louis Snider & Sons Paper Company 
 of Cincinnati, and one of the substantial citizens 
 of Dayton, Kentucky, was born November 4, 
 1842, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, of English par- 
 entage. He left his home when ten years of 
 age and went to Qiicago and subsequently 
 to St. Louis and took a position as clerk on 
 a steamboat plying between St. Louis and 
 New Orleans, and was in this service when the 
 Civil War began. He enlisted in the First Mis- 
 souri Infantry, C. S. A., commanded by Colonel 
 Bowen, who was afterwards a brigadier general, 
 and continued in the service until 1863, and 
 was present at the surrender of Vicksburg. He 
 then came to Cincinnati and secured employment 
 in the well-known paper house of Louis Snider 
 & Sons, which has since been incorporated, and 
 in which company he is a stockholder and 
 director, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 421 
 
 Mr. Bird is deeply interested in the welfare 
 and progress of the city in which he has made 
 his home for many years, and was elected 
 mayor of Dayton by the Democratic voters in 
 1893; has been an honored and trusted member 
 of the city council for eight years; is courthouse 
 commissioner of Campbell County; is a member 
 and Past Master of the Henry Barnes Masonic 
 lodge No. 607 of Dayton, and is one of the 
 leading spirits in all affairs for the betterment of 
 the community in which he lives. 
 
 Mr. Bird was married in November, 1873, 
 to Isabella Twaddell, who was born in Cincinnati, 
 April 17, 1852, and where she enjoyed unusual 
 advantages in her school days. They have a 
 group of five promising boys: Charles, Albert, 
 Clarence, George and Nelson McKibben. 
 
 John Rogers, fifth president of Harvard College, 
 and Elizabeth Denison, the only daughter of 
 Major-General Daniel Denison, Governor of 
 Massachusetts, and his wife, Patience, a daughter 
 of Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts. 
 
 WILLIAM ROGERS CLAY, son of 
 Samuel Clay, Jr., and Mary Rogers Clay; 
 grandson of Colonel Littleberry Bedford Clay 
 (C. S. A.) and Arabella Maccoun, daughter of 
 James Maccoun, of the McAfee Company, first 
 settlers of Mercer County, Kentucky; great-great- 
 grandson of Dr. Henry Clay, who emigrated to 
 Kentucky in 1787 from Mecklenburg County, 
 Virginia, and who was a descendant of John Clay, 
 who settled in what is now Chesterfield County, 
 Virginia, in 1613; great-great-grandson of Dr. 
 David Rice, founder of Hampden-Sidney College, 
 Virginia, and Transylvania Seminary, Kentucky, 
 which subsequently became Transylvania Uni- 
 versity, and a member of the Kentucky Constitu- 
 tional Convention of 1792, who married Mary 
 Blair, sister of Samuel Blair, Jr., President of 
 Princeton College, New Jersey, and chaplain 
 of the Continental Congress, and a daughter 
 of Samuel Blair, founder of Fagg's Manor 
 Seminary, Pennsylvania, and professor of di- 
 vinity in Princeton College, who married Frances, 
 the daughter of Judge Lawrence Van Hook, 
 the first Dutchman to hold an official posi- 
 tion in New Jersey. On his maternal side, 
 William Rogers Clay is a grandson of Captain 
 William S. Rogers (C. S. A.), and a great-great- 
 grandson of Nathaniel Rogers, member from 
 Bourbon County of the Constitutional Conven- 
 tion of 1798, who was the great-great-grandson of 
 
 ERNEST LINNWOOD CRYSTAL, teach- 
 er and a student of theology of Chiles- 
 burg, Fayette County, son of George and Vic- 
 toria (Deane) Crystal, was born in Fayette Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, May 13, 1872. 
 
 His father, also, was born in Fayette County, 
 January 8, 1845; was educated in the county 
 schools; and at the age of sixteen, enlisted in 
 the Confederate army under General John H. 
 Morgan, in Company A, Eighth Regiment, Ken- 
 tucky Cavalry; was with his command in the 
 famous raid through Indiana and Ohio in 1863 
 and was captured, taken to Camp Chase and then 
 to Camp Douglas, where he remained until the 
 close of the war. 
 
 Returning to his home in Fayette County, he 
 engaged in blacksmithing, and has followed his 
 trade with commendable industry and good suc- 
 cess until the present time. He is a Democratic 
 voter, a member of the Confederate Veteran As- 
 sociation, a faithful member of the Christian 
 Church and an honored citizen. 
 
 James E. Crystal (grandfather) was a native of 
 Fayette County; married Mrs. Biven, whose 
 maiden name was Sallie E. Hall. He was a de- 
 vout member of the Baptist Church and followed 
 the trade of blacksmithing at Brian Station. 
 
 Victoria Deane Crystal (mother) was born in 
 Woodford County, March 9, 1844; was educated 
 in the schools of her native county; married 
 George Crystal in 1866 and died April 5, 1878. 
 She was a member of the Christian Church. 
 
 Peter Francis Deane (maternal grandfather) 
 was born near Culpeper C. H., Va.; removed 
 to Kentucky and married Lucinda Smith of Jessa- 
 mine County. 
 
 Ernest L. Crystal received his primary school- 
 ing at Briar Hill; attended the Kentucky State 
 College from 1887 to 1889, inclusive, and was in 
 Transylvania University from 1890 to 1892, in- 
 clusive. In the fall of 1892 he commenced teach- 
 ing in Fayette County and taught one year; re- 
 
422 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 sumed teaching in 1894, continuing through 1895, 
 since which time he has been a student in Bible 
 College at Lexington, preparing for the ministry 
 in the Christian Church. 
 
 Mr. Crystal has applied himself industriously 
 in endeavoring to qualify himself for the high vo- 
 cation which he has in view; his work has been 
 very thorough and his friends and teachers speak 
 of him as a young man who has the prospect of 
 a bright and successful career. 
 
 JAMES BURNIE BECK, who was Senator 
 in Congress for many years, was born Feb- 
 ruary 13, 1822, in Dumfries-shire, Scotland. He 
 received an academic education, and came to 
 America in the spring of 1838, joining his father 
 in Wyoming County, New York, where he had 
 settled and engaged in agricultural pursuits many 
 years previously, leaving his son to complete his 
 literary education in Scotland. In 1843, he came 
 to Lexington, Kentucky, and at once began to 
 read law, and after a thorough preparation, grad- 
 uated from the law department of Transylvania 
 University, in March, 1846; and at once entered 
 on the practice of his profession, at Lexington. 
 In 1867, he was elected to Congress; was re- 
 elected in 1869, and again in 1871 and 1873, serv- 
 ing eight years, consecutively, in the National 
 House of Representatives; during the sessions 
 of the Fortieth Congress he was member of the 
 reconstruction committee, of which Thaddeus 
 Stevens was chairman, and was conspicuous in 
 his influence over the acts of that committee; 
 was member of the Committees of Reconstruction 
 and Appropriation during the Forty-first Con- 
 gress; was member of the Committee of Ways 
 and Means in the Forty-second and Forty-third 
 Congresses and distinguished himself by his great 
 industry, ability, and zeal. In January, 1876, he 
 was elected to the United States Senate, being 
 selected, without opposition, by the Legislative 
 Democratic caucus. His name had previously 
 appeared, on several occasions, in the party 
 caucuses, for the same position. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Charleston and Baltimore Conventions 
 of i860, and assisted, at the latter place, in the 
 nomination of John C. Breckinridge. He was 
 identified with the Whig party until its dissolution, 
 
 casting his first presidential vote for Henry Clay, 
 in 1844; was the law partner of John C. Breckin- 
 ridge from i854to 1866, and supported Mr. Breck- 
 inridge in his race for the Presidency. Senator 
 Beck was a man of powerful build and constitu- 
 tion, his whole make-up indicating a man of great 
 strength, determination, and self-reliance. He 
 was a speaker of uncommon powers, and was un- 
 doubtedly one of the ablest lawyers and most 
 influential men of his adopted state. He was 
 married February 3, 1848, at Louisville, to Miss 
 Jane W. A. Thornton, of Loudoun County, Vir- 
 ginia, step-daughter of Governor James Clark, 
 of Kentucky, and daughter of George W. Thorn- 
 ton, grand-nephew of General Washington. 
 Senator Beck died in 1890. 
 
 CLARENCE CRITTENDEN CAL- 
 HOUN, principal of the Lexington 
 Business College, was born in Daviess County, 
 Kentucky, September 13, 1863, being a descend- 
 ant of a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian family, who 
 on their arrival in America first settled in Penn- 
 sylvania but subsequently moved to Virginia. 
 From this family John C. Calhoun, the immortal 
 statesman of South Carolina, was descended. One 
 branch of the family, in company with a body of 
 settlers who were coming to Kentucky, were at- 
 tacked by a band of Indians, and almost the entire 
 party either killed or taken prisoners. Among 
 the slain were the father and mother of George 
 Calhoun, the great-grandfather of the subject of 
 this sketch, and George, their son, was taken 
 prisoner by the Indians at the tender age of three 
 years, and held by them until he was seven years 
 of age, when he was rescued by a party of settlers 
 under Judge Cotton, by whom he was tenderly 
 cared for until he was grown, when he repaid 
 the kindness of Judge Cotton by marrying one 
 of his daughters. After which time he spent a 
 part of his life in Henry County, Kentucky, but 
 finally moved to Daviess County, Kentucky, 
 where he lived until his death in 1835. He was 
 First Lieutenant of a company of Pennsylvania 
 Rangers during the Revolutionary War, serving 
 from June 8, 1776, to January i, 1781. He was 
 often called on to act as courier, carrying mes- 
 sages through the trackless wilderness from one 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 423 
 
 army to another. Serving at one time in this 
 capacity under General Washington, he was com- 
 plimented on the field of battle by that illustrious 
 leader and patriot, who entrusted him with a most 
 important and perilous mission, telling him that 
 he had never failed him and he felt that now he 
 was the only man in his command who would be 
 able to deliver his message, which was done at 
 the risk of his life, thus saving the day. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Calhoun, grandfather of C. C. 
 Calhoun, removed with his father, George Cal- 
 houn, to Daviess County, Kentucky, where he 
 became profoundly and deeply impressed with a 
 call to the ministry, and although his education 
 had been neglected, on account of delicate health 
 and poor facilities, yet with remarkable persever- 
 ance he prepared himself for his high calling, 
 which he soon entered with his heart and soul 
 full of love for his fellow-man and fired with en- 
 thusiasm to proclaim to them the glad tidings of 
 the gospel of peace. He soon became one of the 
 leaders of his church (the Cumberland Presby- 
 terian), preaching all over Southwestern Ken- 
 tucky for a term of fifty years. At all times and 
 under all circumstances he absolutely refused to 
 receive any salary for his work, yet his financial 
 prosperity abounded largely above that of his 
 fellows. He held his congregations solidly to- 
 gether during the exciting scenes of the Civil 
 War; and at the ripe age of eighty-six years, he 
 was called away from his earthly labors to re- 
 ceive an eternal reward at the hands of his Master. 
 
 His youngest son, John R. Calhoun, father of 
 C. C. Calhoun, was born in Daviess County, Ken- 
 tucky, March 17, 1839. Owing to delicate health, 
 and much against his will, he was forced to give 
 up his college course, in which he gave great 
 promise and through the advice of his physicians 
 he has devoted himself to farming, spending what 
 spare time he could in the study of the Bible and 
 sacred literature, and to the service of his church. 
 
 December 11, 1862, he was married to Miss 
 Margaret N. Bosley, who was educated at Science 
 Hill, Shelbyville, Kentucky. Mrs. Calhoun being 
 possessed of high intellectual endowments, kind 
 and gentle manner, unselfish and considerate of 
 others, is loved and admired by all who know 
 her. Her father, Nicholas G. Bosley, was born in 
 
 Maryland, April 9, 1803, and came to Daviess 
 County, Kentucky, in 1826. He possessed great 
 enterprise and industry with the highest morality 
 and integrity. By hard work and good manage- 
 ment, he acquired a comfortable fortune, but had 
 a large portion of it taken from him by the Fed- 
 eral forces during the Civil War. 
 
 Clarence C. Calhoun was the eldest of a large 
 family, and the duty of looking after his father's 
 business devolved upon him at an early age, so 
 that he had neither time nor opportunity to ac- 
 quire an education, although he endeavored to 
 improve every opportunity which presented itself. 
 He usually had a book with him studying while 
 his team and the other workmen rested. In this 
 way, while plowing, he mastered the subject of 
 fractions so thoroughly and so well as to enable 
 him to take a college course without again going 
 over the subject. When twenty-one years old, 
 he left the parental roof fully determined to obtain 
 an education, although his capital, which he had 
 saved up, amounted to the modest sum of $15.00. 
 With a resolution to do or die, he went to work 
 building patent fences, digging ditches, working 
 in the harvest field or at anything else that was 
 honorable until he had accumulated about $100. 
 January 24, 1886, he entered the State A. &. M. 
 College at Lexington, Kentucky, and was there 
 three and one half years, taking a scientific and 
 classical course. While taking his course the 
 trustees of the college placed him in charge of the 
 commercial department of that institution now 
 known as the Lexington Business College. While 
 attending college, or rather during vacations, he 
 made the money to defray his expenses at manual 
 labor or by selling books, making as much as 
 $200 in one month. 
 
 He had been a student in this institution less 
 than a year when he was called upon by the 
 faculty to deliver an address on Commencement 
 Day. This effort was made in the presence of 
 Senator James B. Beck, Governor Proctor Knott 
 and many of the most distinguished men of the 
 state. At the conclusion Senator Beck arose to 
 his feet and complimented the address in a most 
 enthusiastic manner, which was heartily entered 
 into by the other distinguished gentlemen present. 
 
 The Lexington Business College has had a 
 
424 
 
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 wonderful growth under his able management. 
 When it started, less than seven years ago, the 
 school was located in an old dwelling, almost 
 entirely without equipment and with less than 
 one dozen students. Since then thousands of 
 young men and women have been given a business 
 training, and placed in positions in which they are 
 able to make comfortable livings. Through his 
 influence and work a new building has been 
 erected, especially adapted to the business col- 
 lege. This is situated on East Main street, near 
 the Phoenix Hotel, and its magnificent and im- 
 posing front constructed of stone is the chief at- 
 traction in that part of the city. It is unequaled 
 in the arrangement and equipment of its several 
 departments, the planning and furnishing of 
 which was done under the direction of Mr. Cal- 
 houn, whose management of the school has made 
 it possible for this fine building to be erected. 
 Thus by his energy and business tact he has built 
 up an institution which is destined to stand among 
 the most renowned business colleges on this 
 continent. He is a hard worker himself, and 
 expects all work done under him to be faithful 
 and conscientious and based upon the highest 
 principles of honesty and integrity. 
 
 When Mr. Calhoun was at home, occasionally 
 attending the country common schools, they were 
 so poor and the results of their work so unsatis- 
 factory, he determined if ever in his power to do 
 something for the improvement of the system 
 and the advancement of the cause of education 
 in Kentucky. Accordingly in January, 1892, in 
 connection with Hon. A. L. Peterman, he began 
 the publication of an educational journal known 
 as "The Southern School," which has developed 
 into the largest and most popular periodical of the 
 kind west of the Allegheny Mountains. In a 
 little more than two years it has gained a sub- 
 scription list of over six thousand, and its weekly 
 visits are hailed with delight by teacliers in every 
 state in the South. When it was projected its 
 publishers did not expect it to be a success from a 
 financial point of view, but in this they have been 
 happily disappointed, while they have seen it 
 grow and flourish until it has done more for the 
 public school system in Kentucky than any other 
 instrumentality. In conclusion it may be said 
 
 of Mr. Calhoun that he has accomplished, within 
 ten years, a work which few men have equaled in 
 a lifetime. 
 
 "C. C. Calhoun, when a boy at home with his 
 father, was noted for his stability of character, 
 fixedness of purpose and close application to 
 business. What he did was thoroughly done; he 
 lost no time; when not engaged in physical labor 
 his time was occupied in reading. He was ever 
 trusty, faithful and punctual in attendance upon 
 his father's business and immovable in his moral 
 character." Written by his father as a just tribute. 
 
 SAMUEL P. AMENT, deceased, financier, 
 business man, manufacturer, missionary 
 preacher and soldier, for many years before his 
 death a citizen of Louisville, was born in Jessa- 
 mine County, Kentucky, May 12, 1801. 
 
 His father, Gabriel Ament, was a native of 
 Germany who came to Kentucky and was a suc- 
 cessful farmer in Jessamine County. He married 
 Mary Metcalfe, sister of Governor Metcalfe, and 
 was a man of education and of fine intelligence. 
 Their son, Samuel, was reared on the farm and 
 sent to the common schools, obtaining the rudi- 
 ments of a fair education; but it was in the home 
 under the wise and careful training of his gifted 
 mother that he imbibed tlie knowledge and the 
 principles which guided him in all the affairs of a 
 remarkably busy and useful life. 
 
 He inherited very little of this world's goods, 
 but received from his parents that which is more 
 precious than wealth. Possessing unusual talent, 
 he applied a vigorous intellect and an honest pur- 
 pose with diligence, industry and wise discretion 
 and was rewarded with a degree of success which 
 few self-made men enjoy. 
 
 Leaving the parental roof before he was twenty 
 years of age, he went to Nashville, Tennessee, and 
 there laid the foundation for a large fortune, estab- 
 lishing a foundry as the nucleus of his business 
 operations, and extending his interests on mer- 
 cantile lines, at one time having a supply house 
 for steamboats, and in the year of the cholera 
 epidemic, he was proprietor of three or four drug 
 stores. 
 
 While active, energetic, enterprising and suc- 
 cessful in business, occupying a prominent and 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 425 
 
 enviable position among the leading business 
 men of Nashville, accumulating wealth and dis- 
 tinction as a man of the highest integrity, up- 
 rightness and enterprise, it was in the capacity of 
 a Sunday school teacher and worker and as a 
 missionary preacher of the gospel that he was 
 most prominent and popular. In this line his 
 sviccess was co-equal with that of his business 
 career. 
 
 In McFerrin's history of "Methodism in Ten- 
 nessee" a detailed account of Mr. Ament's early 
 work is given. In Redford's "History of Method- 
 ism in Kentucky" his father, Gabriel Ament, is 
 mentioned as one of the earnest workers in the 
 early days of the century in Kentucky. Dr. 
 McFerrin says that Samuel P. Ament came to 
 Nashville, June, 1820 (his nineteenth year), where 
 he knew no one but Honorable Felix Grundy and 
 his wife. Mrs. Grundy was a devout Presbyterian 
 and having invited young Ament to her house, 
 she informed him that a few friends had deter- 
 mined to establish a school for the purpose of edu- 
 cating poor children who wished to attend and for 
 religious instruction of the children generally. He 
 readily consented to become one of the teachers. 
 
 The first meeting was held on the first Sunday 
 in July, 1820, in a little dilapidated building with 
 no glass in the windows. The books used were 
 Webster's spelHng book and the New Testament. 
 Meetings were held each Sunday morning at 
 eight o'clock and the teachers became mission- 
 aries to solicit attendance, and for this they were 
 subjected to persecutions in almost every con- 
 cievable way. They were denounced as Sabbath- 
 breakers and violators of the law, and were 
 threatened with punishment as disturbers of the 
 peace. The finger of scorn was pointed at them 
 on all occasions, and the churches pronounced 
 against them, declaring that they should not be 
 countenanced. In fact, their greatest opposition 
 came from the churches who refused them the 
 use even of the basement rooms and thus com- 
 pelled the abandonment of the school during the 
 winter months. But it was revived in the follow- 
 ing spring, and they obtained permission to use 
 the basement of an old cabinet shop, which had 
 been the resort of hogs and where they had 
 wallowed and slept and where there were "innum- 
 
 erable little insects with hopping propensities." 
 Other good people joined the little band of 
 teachers and the good work was carried on. 
 
 Mr. Ament found two boys fighting, separated 
 them, took them into the Sunday school where 
 they were taught and reformed and both became 
 men of superior talent and of high moral and 
 Christian character. 
 
 Eventually the opposition gave way, and in 
 November, 1822, they were invited into one of 
 the churches. This was undoubtedly the first 
 Sunday school in Nashville, and out of it grew 
 some of the churches in that city. Among the 
 fruits of this school and others which followed, 
 Mr. Ament could point to many of the communi- 
 cants in the various congregations in the city who 
 were trained in the Sunday school, and many of 
 the leading lights in the ministry were pupils of 
 these earnest "Sabbath-breakers and violators of 
 the law." 
 
 Dr. McFerrin writing (1879) before the death 
 of Colonel Ament, says: "He still lives in the en- 
 joyment of a green old age, full of zeal and con- 
 stant jn labor for the good of the rising genera- 
 tion. For the instruction of the children and the 
 prosperity of the Sunday schools, his zeal knows 
 no abatement." 
 
 Colonel Ament was not a man to exploit his 
 own achievements, and the good work that he 
 accomplished cannot now be estimated. It is 
 known, however, that he built a mission church in 
 Nas'hville, at his own expense, in which he 
 preached regularly every Sunday night; that he 
 was never too much engrossed with his large 
 business interests to devote his time and con- 
 tribute of his means for the work of the church 
 and its nursery, the Sunday school. 
 
 Little is known of his record as a soldier, but 
 he enlisted and fought in the Mexican war, and 
 thus won the military title of Colonel, by which 
 he was known. 
 
 He was for some time after the war a resident 
 of Washington, District of Columbia, where he 
 bought a fine home and practically retired from 
 business pursuits. 
 
 He was married February 10, 1887, to Mary 
 Ann Howard, daughter of Alfred Hoskins and 
 Nancy Monroe. 
 
426 
 
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 Colonel Ament made his home in Louisville 
 until his death in June, 1891. He is buried in 
 Mount Olivet Cemetery at Nashville, Tennessee. 
 
 Alfred Hoskins, Mrs. Ament's father, was a 
 native of Hardin County, whose parents came to 
 this state from Virginia. He was a prosperous 
 farmer and slave owner and for some years kept 
 a tavern and stage office on the Louisville and 
 Nashville turnpike, about five miles from Louis- 
 ville. He died when Mrs. Ament was thirteen 
 years of age. His wife, Nancy Monroe, was 
 a native of Bullitt County, whose parents were 
 from Virginia. Her father was the youngest 
 brother of President James Monroe. Mrs. Ament 
 survives her husband and is living in Louisville 
 and has with her Daisy Lee Dyer her grand- 
 daughter. 
 
 FRANK E. DAUGHTERY, of Bardstown, 
 Clerk of the Nelson County Circuit Court, 
 son of Dr. Daniel Daughtery and Sarah Slevin, 
 was born in Bardstown, July 5, 1871. 
 
 His father, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 
 vania, came to Bardstown in 1840 and engaged 
 in the practice of dentistry in which he continued 
 until the time of his death, July 4, 1888, having 
 reached the age of seventy-two years. He was a 
 very learned man, especially in the science of 
 dentistry, and his work was of the highest 
 standard. He soon made a reputation for ex- 
 cellent work and gained a very large patronage 
 from the best people in the county and established 
 himself in the confidence of the people, by whom 
 he was universally respected. He was a brother 
 of Hon. M. A. Daughtery, who was Judge of the 
 Supreme Court of Ohio for many years and both 
 were devout Catholics. 
 
 Sarah (Slevin) Daughtery, who was a native of 
 Somerset, Ohio, survives her husband and is a 
 resident of Bardstown. The grandfathers of the 
 subject of this sketch were natives of Ireland. 
 
 Frank E. Daughtery was educated in the Bards- 
 town schools, at Bethlehem Academy and St. 
 Joseph's College, and after cjuitting college was 
 correspondent of Louisville and Cincinnati news- 
 papers, in which he did special work of a very ac- 
 ceptable character. 
 
 In 1892 he was employed in the office of the 
 
 Clerk of the Circuit Court under D. C. Hardin and 
 in June, 1892, Mr. Hardin was appointed Secre- 
 tary of the Railroad Commission by Governor 
 Brown and Mr. Daughtery announced himself 
 as a candidate for the office of Clerk of the 
 Circuit Court. When the vacancy occurred 
 Judge Russell expressed his desire to appoint 
 Mr. Daughtery to the office, but he was not of 
 legal age and the County Clerk, W. J. Dalmazzo, 
 was appointed to serve until after the primary 
 election, which was to be held August i, 1892. 
 Mr. Daughtery received the nomination over two 
 opponents, and Mr. Dalmazzo resigned the Cir- 
 cuit Clerkship and the candidate took charge of 
 the office to which he was easily elected in the 
 following November for a term expiring in 1897. 
 
 Mr. Daughtery is quite active in politics and for 
 one of his years has made a mark of considerable 
 breadth. Few young men have accomplished as 
 much before reaching their twenty-fifth birthday 
 and he was hardly out of his teens until he was 
 something of a wheel-horse in the political arena. 
 His hustling qualities and his effective methods 
 were soon recognized by the older politicians and 
 they made him Chairman of the County Demo- 
 cratic Campaign Committee in 1895 and he led 
 them to an easy victory, while other Democratic 
 strongholds in the state were demolished by the 
 Republicans and others who were clamoring for a 
 change. Mr. Daughtery not only managed the 
 campaign by virtue of his position as Chairman, 
 but he took the stump and preached the gospel 
 of Democracy with telling, eflfect in every school 
 house in the county. 
 
 He is the youngest Circuit Clerk in the state at 
 present and one of the most efficient. He will go 
 forward, not backward, and those who watch his 
 career for another quarter of a century will see 
 him away up in front. 
 
 STEPHEN A. YOUNG, Clerk of the Circuit 
 Court and an exceedingly popular citizen of 
 Henderson, was born in Union County, Ken- 
 tucky, October 2, 1842. 
 
 His father. Judge Milton Young, removed from 
 Nelson to Union County, where he was county 
 judge for two terms, and represented his county 
 for one term in the Kentucky Legislature. He 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 427 
 
 was quite wealthy before the war, and owned a 
 large number of slaves. He removed to Hender- 
 son in 1859 ^^^ spent the remainder of his days in 
 that city. 
 
 Hon. Bryan R. Young, M. D. (grandfather), 
 owned a large estate in Nelson County, and was 
 the father of a large family, of whom judge Mil- 
 ton Young was the junior member. Dr. Brown 
 served the Bardstown district in Congress for 
 one term, 1845-7. He was a successful physician, 
 and astonished the neighbors by building the 
 first brick house in Nelson County, which is still 
 standing as a reminiscence of former days. 
 
 John Young (great-grandfather) was a native 
 of London, England, who came to this country 
 soon after the Revolutionary war. 
 
 C. M. Singleton (great-grandfather) came to 
 Kentucky in 1796 and located in Nelson County, 
 near Chaplin, where he owned a large tract of 
 land. He was the father of ten sons and daugh- 
 ters, among whom was William Singleton (grand- 
 father), who represented his district in Congress 
 back in the '30's. 
 
 Stephen A. Young, son of Judge Milton Young 
 and Maria Thompson Young, is a brother of Mil- 
 ton Young, the owner of McGrathiana of Lexing- 
 ton, and is a worthy descendant of an illustrious 
 ancestry. He lived with his father in Union 
 County until about eighteen years of age, attend- 
 ing the common schools, where he acquired the 
 rudiments of a good education. After removing 
 to Henderson he attended an excellent private 
 school, where he advanced rapidly and soon com- 
 pleted a course which was deemed sufficient for 
 one who was then inclined to agricultural pur- 
 suits. Leaving school, he was engaged in farm- 
 ing for four years, when he was elected constable 
 in the Henderson district, serving two terms. He 
 was then elected marshal and tax collector of 
 Henderson, and performed this double duty for 
 two terms. 
 
 In 1883 he was appointed clerk of the Circuit 
 Court, to fill a vacancy, and in the following No- 
 vember was elected to that office, to which he 
 has been re-elected the second time. Soon after 
 his appointment as clerk he was also made com- 
 missioner of the Circuit Court, which office he 
 held in connection with the clerkship for five years. 
 
 His frequent elections were due to his universal 
 popularity, his admirable qualifications, and inci- 
 dentally to his excellent standing in the Demo- 
 cratic party, in which he is a leader and an active 
 worker. 
 
 He is one of the sinking fund commissioners of 
 the city by appointment of the mayor, a deserved 
 compliment to his excellent judgment and ability 
 as a financier and to his unswerving integrity in 
 business transactions. 
 
 Mr. Young is a member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, and is a Knight of Pythias, in both 
 of which he is an active worker and a helper of 
 others. | > 
 
 He was married in 1863 to Caroline Bank, 
 daughter of David Bank of Henderson. 
 
 GEORGE D. TODD, Mayor of Louisville, 
 vice-president of the Todd-Donigan Iron 
 Company, president of the Kentucky Machinery 
 Company, vice-president of the Kentucky Society 
 of Sons of the American Revolution, vice-presi- 
 dent of the Union Soldiers' and Sailors' Monu- 
 ment Association of Kentucky, and incidentally 
 connected with other business, social, political 
 and patriotic interests, a descendant of a long 
 line of ancestors whose names are inscribed on 
 the pages of history, was born in Frankfort, Ken- 
 tucky, April 19, 1856. He is the tenth of twelve 
 children — who reached maturity — of Harry Innes 
 and Jane (Davidson) Todd, who were for many 
 years well known citizens of Frankfort. 
 
 George D. Todd was educated in the public 
 school of Frankfort, and in 1874, when eighteen 
 years of age, went to Louisville and found em- 
 ployment as bookkeeper in the hardware estab- 
 Hshment of W. B. Belknap & Company, and was 
 thus engaged for six years, when the Todd-Doni- 
 gan Iron Company was organized (1880) and he 
 engaged in business on his own account. As a 
 stockholder and vice-president of that company 
 he has made his way to the front in commercial 
 circles, built up a substantial and growing busi- 
 ness, and has encouraged and assisted other en- 
 terprises and business men; has aided in the 
 general growth and prosperity of the business 
 interests of the city by his individual efforts and 
 by his active interests in and labors for the Board 
 
428 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 of Trade, in which he was a director for many 
 years. 
 
 With all of these interests and the many duties 
 which they have imposed, he has given much of 
 his valuable time and helpful assistance to the 
 Kentucky Society of the Sons of the American 
 Revolution, of which he is vice-president; to the 
 Union Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Associa- 
 tion, of which he is also vice-president, and to the 
 cause of the Republican party in Kentucky, being 
 treasurer and one of the most active managers of 
 the State Executive Committee, and a hard-work- 
 ing, successful and invincible leader in local and 
 state politics. 
 
 His election by the Republican City Council to- 
 the office of mayor was a tribute to his worth as a 
 business man and as a true friend of the com- 
 mercial interests of the city, as well as to his wise 
 leadership in his party. Henry S. Tyler, mayor, 
 having died in office, the election of his successor 
 became the duty of the City Council, both boards 
 of which were solidly Republican for the first time 
 in the history of the city, and Mr. Todd was the 
 logical candidate, being supported by the better 
 element in his party, and by the substantial, rep- 
 resentative business men of all parties. He was in- 
 augurated mayor January 31, 1896, and at once 
 began to apply the wise and safe rules of busi- 
 ness in the management of the aiifairs of the city. 
 Without giving up his attention to other interests 
 he has already done faithful service in his respon- 
 sible position as chief magistrate of Louisville. 
 
 Mr. Todd is unmarried, being devoted to the 
 care of his aged mother and a sister, who presides 
 over his household afifairs. His home is the de- 
 pository of a fine collection of relics of early times 
 in Kentucky, in which his forefathers figured 
 prominently; and in addition to his association 
 with Kentucky history and active work in that 
 line, he is a member of the Virginia Flistorical 
 Society. He is a Mason of the Thirty-second 
 degree, and is a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church. 
 
 Harry Innes Todd (father) was born in Frank- 
 fort, Kentucky, September 16, 1818; died in his 
 native city May 12, 1891. He was educated in 
 Frankfort, and when a young man went to Louis- 
 ville and was employed as a clerk with Coleman 
 
 & Ward for a few years. Returning to Frankfort 
 he was engaged in steamboating as captain of one 
 of the boats then plying the Kentucky and Ohio 
 Rivers; was sheriff of Franklin County for two 
 terms; was lessee of the state prison for eight 
 years, and then warden of the same institution 
 for one term, after which he retired from active 
 business. 
 
 He represented Franklin County in the Legis- 
 lature for two terms. During the Civil war he was 
 an uncompromising Union man, and after that a 
 Democrat — although a protectionist — and was 
 very active and successful in politics; had a wide 
 acquaintance throughout the state and enjoyed 
 the happy faculty of remembering the face and 
 name of every man he met, and thus secured the 
 good will and warm friendship of a host of promi- 
 nent people. 
 
 John Harris Todd (grandfather) was born in 
 Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1796, and was a young 
 lawyer of distinction with the promise of a bril- 
 liant career, but died in his twenty-eighth year. 
 He married Maria K. Innes, daughter of Judge 
 Harry and Anne (Harris) Innes. (See brief sketch 
 of Judge Innes herewith.) 
 
 Thomas Todd (great-grandfather) was born in 
 King and Queen County, Virginia, January 23, 
 1765. He was the youngest son of Richard Todd, 
 who was descended from one of the most remark- 
 able families in the colonies, his ancestors being 
 among the early emigrants from England. 
 Thomas Todd's mother was Elizabeth Richards. 
 His father died when Thomas was eighteen years 
 of age, leaving a considerable estate, which, by 
 the laws of primogeniture, descended to the eldest 
 son, William, but was swallowed up by mortgages 
 and debts inherited. Thomas Todd received a 
 good education, mainly through his own efforts; 
 served as a substitute for six months in the Revo- 
 lutionary war, and often referred to the incident 
 in after life as the first opportunity he ever had 
 of making any money. He afterward served in 
 the cavalry in that war on his own account ; came 
 to Danville, Kentucky, in 1786 and was the guest 
 of Judge Harry Innes and a teacher in his family 
 while studying law. He was appointed clerk of 
 the Federal Court prior to the admission of Ken- 
 tucky into the Union, and was clerk of the Court 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 429 
 
 of Appeals after that event, until December, 1801 ; 
 was appointed judge of that court by Governor 
 Garrard ; was appointed chief justice by Governor 
 Greenup; was appointed judge of the United 
 States Circuit Court, embracing Ohio, Kentucky 
 and Tennessee, by President Jefiferson, and con- 
 tinued in that office until his death, February 7, 
 1826. He married Elizabeth Harris, who died in 
 181 1, having borne him five children: Harry 
 Innes, John Harris, Charles Stewart (who was 
 minister plenipotentiary to Russia under Presi- 
 dent William Henry Harrison), Elizabeth Hanna 
 and Ann Maria Starling. 
 
 He married (second) the widow of George 
 Steptoe Washington (nephew of General Wash- 
 ington), whose maiden name was Lucy Payne, a 
 sister of the wife of President Madison. There 
 were three children by this marriage: James 
 Madison, William Johnston and Madisonia. The 
 Todds were originally from Ireland. 
 
 Jane Davidson Todd (mother) was born in 
 Frankfort, Kentucky, September 19, 1821. She 
 was educated in the schools of her native place and 
 became the wife of Harry I. Todd, August 20, 
 1839. ^^ before stated, she is now living with her 
 son. Mayor Todd, in Louisville, and is a devout 
 member of the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Colonel James Davidson (maternal grand- 
 father) was a native of North Carolina, and a twin 
 brother of Michael Davidson. They came to Ken- 
 tucky and were farmers and prominent men in 
 Lincoln County. Each was elected to the Legis- 
 lature — sometimes one would be in the Senate 
 and the other in the House, and in the next term 
 their positions in the Assembly would be reversed. 
 James was finally elected state treasurer; was in 
 the War of 1812; married Harriet Ballinger, 
 daughter of Joseph and Jane Logan Ballinger. 
 He died May, i860, and she died in 1861. Jane 
 Logan Ballinger died January, 1851. Her mother 
 was Janet McClure, and her father was John 
 Logan of Revolutionary fame, for whose brother 
 Logan's Fort was named. 
 
 George Davidson (maternal great-grandfather) 
 was a captain in the Revolutionary war. He 
 came to Lincoln County, Kentucky, from North 
 Carolina, while his brother William went to Ten- 
 nessee. Davidson County — in which Nashville, 
 
 the capital of the state, is situated — was named in 
 his honor. The Davidsons are of Irish and the 
 Logans of Scotch descent. 
 
 Judge Harry Innes, Mayor Todd's great-grand- 
 father, was appointed judge of the Supreme Court 
 of the District of Kentucky, October 13, 1782, by 
 General Benjamin Harrison, then governor of Vir- 
 ginia; and in 1789, under the first judiciary law 
 of the United States, was appointed United States 
 judge for the District of Kentucky by President 
 Washington, which position he held until his de- 
 mise, September 20, 1816. JulyiS, 1792, Governor 
 Isaac Shelby, "by and with the advice and consent 
 of the Senate, appointed said Harry Innes chief 
 justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky," which 
 he declined. He was born January 15, 1752, in 
 Caroline County, Virginia; son of Rev. Robert 
 Innes, who was a native of Scotland and a minis- 
 ter in the Episcopal Church. Judge Innes held 
 many offices and performed public services which 
 were of the highest importance to the people of 
 Virginia and to the new State of Kentucky. 
 
 LUCIUS P. LITTLE, a well-known author 
 and able attorney at law of Owensboro, 
 son of Douglass Little, was born on his father's 
 farm in the southern part of Daviess County, 
 Kentucky, February 15, 1838. 
 
 His father was a native of what was then Ohio 
 County, Kentucky, but in the part afterwards em- 
 braced in Daviess County. He was at various 
 periods of his life engaged in farming, black- 
 smithing and wagon making and in the latter 
 days practiced law. He held the offices of con- 
 stable, justice of the peace, and county judge and 
 was in office over twenty years and died in 1877. 
 His father and mother, grandparents of Lucius 
 P. Little, were natives of South Carolina, where 
 they were married in 1798. They, with Judge 
 Little's great-grandfather, George Little, emi- 
 grated from South Carolina to Kentucky in 1802. 
 George Little was a native of Scotland, whence 
 he came to America before the Revolutionary 
 War, and during that time he served as a private 
 in the Colonial army. He was a life-long cripple 
 in consequence of a severe wound received in 
 battle. 
 
 Judge Little's great-grandmother was a daugh- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 ter of Alexander and Mary (Handley) Douglass, 
 both of whom were natives of Scotland. His 
 mother's maiden name was Martha Wright, 
 daughter of John and Katherine (Weatherford) 
 Wright of Charlotte County, Virginia. She came 
 to Kentucky with her parents in 1820, and still 
 lives in her eighty-fifth year. 
 
 Judge Little was the eldest of seven children, 
 and his early years were spent on the farm where 
 he was born and in the small towns of Rumsey and 
 Calhoun. He attended school in these towns, 
 but never enjoyed the advantages of collegiate 
 training. When sixteen years of age he became 
 a deputy clerk, remaining three years in the 
 clerk's offices in Daviess and McLean Counties. 
 
 At the age of eighteen he began the study of 
 law and in 1856 and 1857 attended law school at 
 Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee. 
 He began the practice of his profession at Calhoun 
 in 1857, in his twentieth year, continuing there 
 until i860; was appointed deputy United States 
 marshal and took the census in McLean Coun- 
 ty in i860. In the close of that year he re- 
 moved to Louisville, and after practicing in that 
 city for twelve months he went to California in 
 1861 and remained there a year, employed in 
 a conveyancer's office. Returning to Kentucky 
 in 1862 he spent some months in recruiting for 
 the Confederate army, for which offense he 
 was arrested by the United States authorities 
 and imprisoned, first at Bowling Green, and 
 then at Frankfort. Securing release, he went to 
 Mexico in the fall of 1863, but returned to Ken- 
 tucky in the spring of 1864 and after some time 
 resumed his law practice at Calhoun. 
 
 He removed to Owensboro, February, 1867; 
 where he has ever since resided. He was a can- 
 didate for Circuit Judge in. 1874 and defeated; was 
 again a candidate in 1880 and elected; and was 
 re-elected in 1886. After serving twelve years 
 on the bench, he resumed the practice of law in 
 Owensboro in 1893, and is known as one of the 
 leading lawyers in Kentucky. 
 
 Judge Little is much inclined to literary work 
 and is a frequent contributor to the magazines and 
 newspapers, his work always being acceptable. 
 His most pretentious work, "Ben Hardin," pub- 
 lished in book form in 1887, is a volume of rare 
 
 merit and deep interest, and has had an extensive 
 sale. It is a book that should be in the library 
 of every Kentuckian. 
 
 He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church South, and is a Knight Templar Mason. 
 
 Judge Little has been three times married: 
 First, to Lizzie Freeman of Woodford County, 
 April, 1868; second, to Louise Holloway of Hen- 
 derson County, October, 1875; and third, to Fan- 
 nie Beach of New Jersey, January, 1889. He has 
 eight living children. 
 
 ROBERT CARTER RICHARDSON, one of 
 the senior attorneys of Covington, and an 
 author of distinction, son of Samuel Q. and Mary 
 H. (Harrison) Richardson and a descendant of 
 some of the most distinguished patriots of Revo- 
 lutionary times, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, 
 May 18, 1826. His parents died when he was 
 quite young, but he received a good education, 
 graduating from the academical department of 
 Transylvania University in 1846; and after read- 
 ing law with Judge George Robertson of Lexing- 
 ton, graduated from the law department of his 
 alma mater in 1848, and was admitted to the bar 
 in Lexington. 
 
 He removed to Covington in 1850, and has 
 been engaged in the practice of his profession in 
 that city — his present home — for forty-six years; 
 and during all that time has been regarded as one 
 of the most successful and honored members of 
 the bar. 
 
 He was a member of the Legislature from Ken- 
 ton County from 1855 to 1859, and was succeeded 
 by John G. Carlisle; was superintendent of pub- 
 lic instruction from 1859 to 1863; register in 
 bankruptcy from 1872 to 1883, and has been 
 prominently identified with the public aflfairs of 
 his city, county and state and the national gov- 
 ernment during all of the years of a busy and use- 
 ful life. While yet a minor he served one year in 
 the Mexican war in Cassius M. Clay's company, 
 Colonel H. Marshall's regiment, as sergeant, and 
 for a time as acting sergeant major. During the 
 Civil war Mr. Richardson was an uncompromis- 
 ing Union man and had command of two com- 
 panies of home guards. 
 
 Mr. Richardson was married in 1859 to Marie 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 431 
 
 Louise Harris, daughter of Colonel Henry C. 
 Harris, who was for fourteen years a member of 
 the Kentucky House of Representatives and Sen- 
 ate. He was a lawyer of eminence in his profes- 
 sion ; was a Southern sympathizer during the war ; 
 made one or two races for Congress; married a 
 Miss Davis of Virginia. 
 
 Samuel Q. Richardson (father), a distinguished 
 lawyer, was a native of Fayette County, Ken- 
 tucky; located first in Cincinnati, Ohio, then in 
 Louisville, and finally in Frankfort, Kentucky, 
 where he had a large practice in the Appellate 
 Court. He died in the forty-fifth year of his age. 
 
 John Crowley Richardson (grandfather) was a 
 native of Virginia and was ensign in a Baltimore 
 regiment in the Revolutionary v^ar. 
 
 William Richardson (great-grandfather) was 
 born in Baltimore, and was colonel of a Mary- 
 land regiment in the Revolutionary war. The 
 progenitor of the Richardson family in this coun- 
 try came from England in 1680, or about that 
 time, and settled in Baltimore. The descendants 
 have always been distinguished for their patriot- 
 ism, loyalty and good citizenship. 
 
 Mary H. Harrison Richardson (mother) was 
 born on the old Harrison estate in Virginia. Her 
 father, Robert Carter Harrison, was a cousin of 
 President William Henry Harrison, and a nephew 
 of Benjamin Harrison, who was one of the sign- 
 ers of the Declaration of Independence and gov- 
 ernor of Virginia. The mother of Robert Carter 
 Harrison was Susannah Randolph. She was a 
 sister of Jane Randolph, who married Peter Jeffer- 
 son, and was aunt of President Thomas Jefferson. 
 
 Mr. Richardson is also an author of distinction, 
 his name appearing in Allibone's Dictionary of 
 Authors, published some time since in Phila- 
 delphia. 
 
 CHARLES STEWART BELL, Sr., born 
 August 14, 1825, now resident at Lexing- 
 ton, Kentucky. A beautiful, a sweet and gentle 
 yet a forceful life it has fallen to my lot to sketch, 
 as the setting sun falls across it with mellow glow, 
 and the twilight is modestly, yet wistfully, to come 
 and fold the good man to its heart. I write of 
 such a man, without an enemy, though placed in 
 such position that another would have scores of 
 
 them. He has held his own with sturdy strength, 
 through every storm, without engendering ani- 
 mosities; he has been true to every trust — true 
 to his God, his neighbor and himself, and faithful 
 always. He has not found a man to speak one 
 idle word against his character. Old as he is, 
 with a long, a busy and a useful life behind him, 
 there is no spot, nor smirch, nor stain upon his 
 name. Shame has not known him nor disgrace 
 abided in his house. Of him it might in truth be 
 said: 
 
 "Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content. 
 The quiet mind is richer than a crcwn; 
 Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent, 
 The poor estate scorns Fortune's angry frown. 
 Such sweet content, such mind, such sleep, such bliss, 
 Beggars enjoy when princes often miss. 
 The homely house that harbors quiet rest, 
 The cottage that affords no pride nor care, 
 The man that 'grees wi' country music best, 
 The sweet consort of Mirth, and Music's fare. 
 Obscured life sets down a type of bliss: 
 A mind content both crown and kingdom is." 
 
 The modesty and accuracy of his mind could 
 not be better shown than in his own sketch of his 
 family, which is reproduced almost literally as 
 written by him for the purposes of this article. It 
 is as follows: 
 
 My ancestors were natives of Annandale, Dum- 
 fries-shire, Scotland. The natives of Annandale 
 were a warm-hearted race, proud of the common 
 tie which binds them to their grand historic dale, 
 and with feelings of attachment for the "glorious 
 heritage of name and fame bequeathed to them 
 by their forefathers." 
 
 My grandfather, William Bell, married Agnes 
 Irving ; they were born and lived in Annandale, 
 near Annan. He was a descendant from the three 
 connected Bells of Middlebie, Allenbie and 
 Blackethouse, and was noted as a good farmer in 
 his day. They had six children, four sons and two 
 daughters. 
 
 My grandfather on my mother's side was John 
 Moffat. He married Elizabeth Brown ; they were 
 also born in Annandale, near Lockerby, and had 
 five children, two sons and three daughters. He 
 was a mercantile man. Both families were Pres- 
 byterians. My father, George K. Bell, was the 
 4;son of William and Agnes I. Bell, and married 
 
432 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Sybella Moffat, in 1820. They had twelve chil- 
 dren, nine sons and three daughters. After they 
 were married they lived at Hillside, near Locker- 
 by. From there he removed to Jardine Hall, in 
 the parish of Applegarth, and resided there for 
 several years. In 1838 he took charge of the 
 woods and forests on the Marquis of Queens- 
 berry's estates, and upon the resignation of James 
 Stewart, Esq., as factor on the estates, he suc- 
 ceeded to that position, and continued to hold it 
 until his death, which took place on the 26th of 
 April, 1873, ^t Cummertrees House at the age of 
 seventy-six years. My mother died on the 26th of 
 October, 1873, at the age of seventy-four years. 
 
 I was born at Clughfoots, near Hillside, parish 
 of Dryfesdale, August 14, 1823, and received most 
 of my education at the School of Sandyholm, in 
 the parish of Applegarth. I was fond of botany, 
 and at the age of fourteen years wanted to follow 
 horticulture. As soon as Sir William Jardine, 
 the naturalist, knew of my wish he got his gar- 
 dener to make a place for me in his gardens at 
 Jardine Hall, and after working two years in them 
 I went to the nurseries of Thomas Kennedy in 
 Dumfries, then the largest in the south of Scot- 
 land, to learn something of nursery work. After 
 remaining some time in these nurseries, a situa- 
 tion was offered me in the gardens of the Duke 
 of Beccleugh, at Drumlanrig Castle, which were 
 then undergoing some improvements, as it was 
 expected that Queen Victoria would stop there on 
 her way from London to Edinburgh, this being 
 her first visit to Scotland. The gardens of Drum- 
 lanrig were then considered amongst the finest 
 in Scotland. After remaining about two years at 
 Drumlanrig, in the different departments of the 
 gardens, I went to Liverpool in England, and 
 was employed some time in the large nurseries of 
 William Skirving. 
 
 While living in Liverpool I concluded to 
 visit the United States, and sailed from Liver- 
 pool early in June, 1842, arriving in New York 
 on the 6th day of July, not then eighteen years of 
 age. I remained in New York City and vicinity 
 and in Dutchess County, New York, for about a 
 year, occasionally visiting some of the noted 
 places on the banks of the Hudson River when 
 not employed. In November, 1843, I sailed from 
 
 New York to New Orleans, and spent part of the 
 winter there, and then went to Mobile, Alabama. 
 From there returned to New Orleans and took 
 passage by steamboat for Cincinnati, Ohio, arriv- 
 ing at that city in June, 1844, where I soon found 
 employment with a florist in his greenhouses. 
 While there I was engaged to come to Lexington, 
 Kentucky, by Henry Duncan, Esq., who was hav- 
 ing greenhouses and vineries built for growing the 
 fine varieties of foreign grapes at his then beauti- 
 ful residence, Duncanan. 
 
 I arrived in Lexington on the 28th of Novem- 
 ber, 1844. On the 17th of February, 1846, I mar- 
 ried Margaret Bunyan Smith, in Chillicothe, 
 Ohio. Her father's name was William Smith and 
 her mother's name Helen Scott. Her paternal 
 grandfather was named William Smith. He was 
 born, lived and died at Newstead, a village in 
 Rosburyshire, Scotland. He married Margaret 
 Bunyan in January, 1787. They had a family of 
 three sons and four daughters. William, the old- 
 est, my wife's father, was born in November, 1787, 
 at Newstead. He was a direct descendant from 
 John Bunyan, the author of the Pilgrim's Prog- 
 ress, a book which, next to the Bible, is more read 
 in Scotland than any other. He had two uncles 
 named Robert and Andrew. One was a surgeon 
 in the British navy, and the other an "ensign." 
 Her mother's name was Helen Scott. She was 
 born February 2, 1792, near Hawick, Scotland. 
 Her father's name was John Scott, and his wife's 
 name Mary Riddle. They moved to a farm at 
 Merton, near Abbotsford. Her father and his 
 son were elders in the same church. Her uncle, 
 John Scott, had a position in the office of Sir Wal- 
 ter Scott. They were distant relations of Sir 
 Walter Scott's. William Smith and Helen Scott 
 were married near Hawick, but left there in 181Q 
 or 1820, and went to Dumfries-shire. He was em- 
 ployed for about twenty-two years at Drum- 
 lanrig in superintending the home farms and 
 improvements on them for the Duke of Bec- 
 cleugh. In the spring of 1842 he sold his prop- 
 erty near Hawick, and emigrated to the United 
 States with his family. They arrived in New 
 York from Scotland August 4, 1842. From there 
 went to Circleville in Pickaway County, Ohio, and 
 in March, 1843, ^e purchased a farm in Ross 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 433 
 
 County, Ohio, near Chillicothe, where he lived 
 until November i8, 1852, when he died, his wife 
 following him February 13, 1857. They had 
 twelve children, all born in Scotland. 
 
 On the first of April, 1849, I was chosen super- 
 intendent of the Lexington Cemetery, and from 
 that date until September i, 1866, continued to be 
 superintendent. From September, 1866, to Sep- 
 tember I, 1867, I was superintendent for the A. 
 and M. College on the farms of Ashland and 
 Woodlands, then the property of the Kentucky 
 University and A. and M. College. When I left 
 the A. and M. College it was my intention to 
 have gone more extensively into the nursery and 
 florist business and to devote my whole time to 
 it, but when it became known to the trustees of 
 the cemetery they made me a proposition to again 
 take charge of the cemetery, and I again became 
 superintendent of it on September i, 1867, and 
 have continued up to the present time (1896). 
 
 On the' 24th of July, 1885, my wife died, in the 
 sixty-fifth year of her age. At an early age she 
 joined the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, and 
 continued to be a member of that church until 
 her death. 
 
 We had five children, four sons and one daugh- 
 ter: George K. Bell, born December 28, 1846, now 
 agent for the Adams Express Company in Lex- 
 ington, Kentucky; John Moffat Bell, born March 
 16, 1848, now cashier of the First National Bank 
 of Lexington, Kentucky; William Smith Bell, 
 born November 9, 1852, now a florist in Lexing- 
 ton; Charles Stewart Bell, born January 15, 1855, 
 now in the wholesale fruit and commission busi- 
 ness in Lexington, Kentucky; Ellen Scott Bell, 
 born December 3, 1849, was graduated at the 
 Sayre Female Institute in Lexington, and mar- 
 ried T. V. Munson June 27, 1870. 
 
 Mr. Munson was born near the village 
 of Astoria, Fulton County, Illinois, September 
 26, 1843. His father, William Munson, was a 
 New Englander, his mother a Kentuckian. He 
 took a full course in Bryant and Stratton's Busi- 
 ness College of Chicago, getting his diploma in 
 1864. In 1866 he entered Kentucky University, 
 taking the full scientific course, and graduated as 
 B. S. in 1870. He was at once elected adjunct 
 professor in the sciences, This position he held 
 
 one year, when too long continued hard study 
 in the schoolroom weakened his health, so that 
 he chose to give up teaching for the pursuit of 
 horticulture. He started a nursery in Lincoln, 
 Nebraska, in 1873, and in 1876 he moved to a 
 better location at Denison, Texas, where he now 
 has a fine nursery, well stocked, of over one hun- 
 dred acres. In 1888 he was honored by the Re- 
 public of France, which conferred upon him the 
 title of "Chevalier du Merite Agricole," and pre- 
 sented him with the diploma and decorations of 
 the Legion of Honor, for valuable information on 
 the native grapes of North America, especially as 
 to resistant stocks, and such as will grow well in 
 dry, chalky soils. Only one other such decoration 
 was given an American, Thomas E. Edison re- 
 ceiving that. 
 
 It is amongst the species of native grapes that 
 he has achieved during twenty years of experi- 
 mentation some most remarkable results in 
 hybridization. This work he is still pursuing, 
 and only future generations will be able to fully 
 appreciate the broadening he has given to Ameri- 
 can viticulture. He has now associated with him 
 his eldest son, William Bell Munson, in the man- 
 agement of his business, finding himself over- 
 loaded with the management of it. 
 
 "In May, 1895, the trustees of the cemetery 
 granted me a leave of absence for two months to 
 visit Scotland. I sailed from New York on June 
 8, 1895, and was absent nearly two months, never 
 having been back to Scotland since I left there 
 early in the spring of 1842, after an absence of 
 fifty-two years. On visiting my old home I found 
 all that was left was outside, the old trees, the 
 grass, the house; but inside all was changed by 
 time and death." 
 
 A life history, told in such simplicity, need not 
 be classed as uneventful. To be born, to marry, 
 to become a parent and to die is but the common 
 lot of man; but to start like the trickling rivulet 
 from mountain mosses on the cliffside, to form 
 misty cataracts and limpid pools in the descent, 
 to broaden into a meandering brook and fertilize 
 the fruitful fields, to become part of the broad- 
 breasted river which turns the whirring wheels of 
 factories and bears its white-winged commerce to 
 the sea and yet retain the purity and gentleness of 
 
434 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 mountain dew, is not the heritage of every man. 
 To this man such a Hfe has been— a Hfe of useful- 
 ness, of gentleness, of grace and peace. 
 
 The Scotch race exhibits its sturdy tenacity in 
 nothing more than its adherence to the idea of 
 home, and its capacity for founding and perpetu- 
 ating the family. Its favorite doctrine of "predes- 
 tination makes its people look upon the rooftree 
 as especially the gift of God, and the Scotsman 
 considers the corner stone of his dwelling as hav- 
 ing been laid in the mind of the Almighty before 
 the foundation of the world. To'have about him 
 a family of strong and brave children, self-reliant 
 and devout, is the crowning glory of the old man 
 as he looks into the setting sun. 
 
 But with all his subhme faith in the Higher 
 Power he does not forget works, which are the 
 fruit of faith. No matter how poor, he must 
 strive to be better ofif in this world's goods; no 
 matter how humble, he must seek to rise higher, 
 so that in his old days he may be able to stretch 
 a helping hand to the son, perhaps, of the man 
 who helped him in his youth. Industry and per- 
 sistent effort bring him to the front in every clime, 
 and when he thinks his betterment demands it, he 
 does not hesitate to leave his much beloved land 
 behind him, turning his face toward a new soil 
 where growth is rapider and skill and energy in 
 more demand. 
 
 Such reasons brought Charles Stewart Bell to 
 this country in 1842, a youth in years, but a 
 mature man in experience. The instinct for home 
 life, for cherishing and developing, for training 
 the young in strength to resist rough blasts and 
 flourish in rocky soil, is innate with his race and 
 makes of the Scotchman the best nurseryman in 
 the world. He makes the plant, as well as the 
 child, thrifty and self-reliant. With four years' 
 apprenticeship in the best gardens of his native 
 land, with strong arms, stout heart and willing 
 mind the young man found no difificulty in secur- 
 ing work. From the Gulf to the Ohio he wrought 
 faithfully, studying with apt mind the changing 
 conditions of soil and climate. Until he reached 
 Lexington he had not realized his gardener's 
 ideal. Here he paused, and his heart said to itself, 
 "Eureka! I have found it." 
 
 In thi§ chosen l^nd he found at last perfection, 
 
 and here he planted himself, and built the monu- 
 ment of his life, which still remains, and will re- 
 main for generations yet unborn — the Lexing- 
 ton Cemetery. In this his best thought hasfound 
 expression, and the earth showeth forth his handi- 
 work. 
 
 This country suited him ; its fertile soil and blue 
 skies incited him to faithful labor in this world, 
 and firmer faith in a better world to come. He 
 had roved enough, and while pruning the grape 
 vines at "Duncanan," or watching the full clusters 
 ripen info purple beauty, the strong young heart 
 felt its warm blood stirred by the angel Love. 
 He was young and impulsive, yet cautious, as his 
 people are. Love with him meant an eternal 
 union of two hearts; it meant the home, the 
 hearthstone, the family, the frugal, hOnest life, 
 the serene old age, the peaceful death. So he 
 curbed his strong impulses, and labored on in 
 silence for nearly two more years, his loneliness 
 increasing all the time. Then when his future was 
 assured his home was chosen and he ceased to be 
 a wanderer, for the wedding day came quickly, 
 and he was made happy by the hand of one who 
 was to be a faithful friend, a wise counselor, a 
 devoted mother, a loving, tender helpmate in all 
 things, until death should part. Time has made 
 good the wisdom of his choice, and death has 
 made of that pure wife a blessed memory. 
 
 With his marriage the real life of the man be- 
 gan. Hitherto he had been a wanderer— an ap- 
 prentice of destiny. Now, having chosen an 
 abiding place, a home, his constructive nature 
 began to assert itself. First he established a 
 nursery of his own, where with his young wife he 
 could begin to enjoy existence for the first time 
 under his own vine and fig tree. But the capacity 
 for work, the genius and skill for designing and 
 executing was too great in him to be hidden in 
 a private station. While his modest tastes and 
 frugal habits made a quiet home life his ideal, yet 
 there was a higher need for him, a broader sphere 
 for his abilities. He was called in 1848 to the 
 superintendency of his lifework, 
 
 THEJ LEXINGTON CEMETERY. 
 
 This beautiful place of rest had just been pur- 
 chased by a company, and consisted of about 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 435 
 
 forty acres of beautiful, undulating land on the 
 outskirts of the city, which was then covered with 
 virgin grass and shaded with mighty forest trees, 
 most of them remaining. The area was increased 
 from time to time, until now it comprises one 
 hundred and six acres, the whole being a beauti- 
 ful monument to the exquisite taste, the far-reach- 
 ing thoughtfulness and the broad executive abil- 
 ity of this one man. 
 
 Nature had been not niggardly in her gifts to 
 the favored spot, but the genius of Charles Stew- 
 art Bell has supplemented Nature, and builded 
 beauty upon what was already beautiful. Every 
 obstacle of unsightliness has been transformed 
 into lines of grace, and the very defects of the 
 situation and the soil have been made the hand- 
 maids of its perfection. Exuberant undergrowth 
 has been cleared away, the long grass trimmed 
 into a velvet sward, the native trees thinned so 
 that sunlight may enter through their interspaces, 
 depressions have been terraced, or transformed 
 into crystal lakes, hills turned into gentle slopes, 
 broad winding roads constructed so as to give 
 access to every portion of the grounds, foreign 
 trees, flowers, shrubbery, evergreens have been 
 added to the perspective, until in all the land 
 there is nowhere a more beautiful city of the dead. 
 All this has been done by an humble, unobtrusive 
 Scotchman, who has claimed no credit except that 
 he has loved his work and been faithful to those 
 who trusted him. 
 
 It is not given to all men thus to have written 
 their life history, as it were, upon the face of 
 Nature. It is true, the battlefield remains a me- 
 mento of the conqueror, and the fortress a mon- 
 ument to the engineer, but it is sweeter far and 
 better far to be remembered by the well trimmed 
 hedge, the robust trees, the banks of violets, the 
 roadway winding through the shadows, and the 
 dell where the spring bubbles and the sunbeam 
 loves to play at noon. This man has written upon 
 God's footstool the serious depths and the happy 
 hillocks of his earthly years, the meditations of 
 his mind, the gentle graciousness of his heart. 
 Longer than a granite tomb his work will last, 
 for the lines of beauty upon Nature's face with- 
 stand the touch of Time. For centuries the Lex- 
 ington Cemetery will be looked upon as the 
 
 crowning work of Charles Stewart Bell, and its 
 accurate conformity to every graceful attribute of 
 landscape gardening will make of it a model to be 
 striven for by his successors in the art. Cared for 
 as tenderly as if it were an only child, with not a 
 vagrant weed to mar its velvet sward, and not a 
 twig nor fallen leaf to cumber up its winding paths 
 or float upon the surface of its lakes, he will leave 
 this lovely spot a sacred heritage to his succes- 
 sor, without spot or blemish on it. His talent has 
 not been hidden in a napkin, but has been in- 
 creased an hundredfold, and his reward shall be 
 as great. 
 
 Blessed as he has been in the success of all 
 his earthly undertakings, he has been equally 
 as fortunate in his children. Of his son-in-law, 
 T. Volney Munson, he has given a sketch more 
 complete than this writer could pen. Mr. Mun- 
 son is a man of rare ability in literature, both in 
 and out of his chosen profession, and having mar- 
 ried the only daughter and pet of the family it is 
 natural that Mr. Bell should take pride in his 
 achievements. To see his daughter well married 
 and provided for must be indeed a solace to his 
 declining years, the more so that her children 
 have begun to follow in the forceful footsteps of 
 their ancestors. 
 
 Each of the boys has carved out for himself an 
 honorable niche in the community. Upright, 
 honorable, their fidelity to every principle of jus- 
 tice has made them worthy of the good old stock 
 from which they sprung, and the responsible po- 
 sitions which they fill. Each one has his home 
 and hearthstone, and finds his delight there rather 
 than in the mad rush of ambition, or the mael- 
 strom of swirling politics. All are good citizens, 
 and exercise their privileges at the polls with con- 
 science for a guide and the best interests of all 
 the people as a purpose. Yet from the wrangling 
 of ward meetings they stand aloof, and of brib- 
 ery and corruption and trickery they know noth- 
 ing. The darker side of life, the weakness or 
 venality of public men are to them, and will be 
 ever, a sealed book. 
 
 The eldest, George Keatley Bell, attended the 
 city schools of Lexington, and was also for two 
 years a student of Transylvania University, at 
 the same place. After leaving college he went 
 
436 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 into business in the grocery store of his uncle, 
 Thomas M. Bell, where he remained as clerk, 
 and partner for about ten years. On June 6, 1872, 
 he entered the office of the Adams Express Com- 
 pany at Lexington as clerk, and in June 19, 1882, 
 became agent, which position he continues to 
 hold. On June 5, 1873, he was married to Miss 
 Endora Smith, daughter of John M. Smith of 
 Versailles, Kentucky. She died August 19 of the 
 same year. On December 14, 1880, he was mar- 
 ried to Miss Laura Stone, daughter of David 
 Stone of Lexington. By her he became the father 
 of three children, all now living: Walter Stone 
 Bell, born August 17, 1882; Arthur Hampton 
 Bell, born July 10, 1885; George Scott Bell, born 
 November 22, 1887. 
 
 His second wife was born October 26, 1854. 
 Her mother, Harriet N. Hampton, was married 
 to David Stone (his second wife) February 22, 
 1840, and died June 15, 1855. David Stone was 
 born February 14, 1807, married three times and 
 died November 13, 1873. Mr. Bell and his wife 
 are members of Central Christian Church. 
 
 John Mofifat Bell, the second son, received the 
 same education as his elder brother, except that 
 he spent three years at Transylvania. Leaving 
 college he entered the banking house of David 
 A. Saye, where he remained until November, 1866, 
 when he became individual bookkeeper in the 
 First National Bank of Lexington, Kentucky. 
 June, 1869, he was made teller and in July, 1887, 
 was promoted to cashier, having been assistant 
 cashier for several years previous. March 19, 
 1872, he married Mary H. Erd, daughter of Frank 
 I. Erd of Lexington. Mr. Erd was a German by 
 birth, but came to America at an early age, and 
 was a prosperous furniture dealer in Lexington. 
 She was born in Lexington, Kentucky, July 8, 
 1848, and educated at the celebrated private school 
 of Mrs. Rhoten in that city. To them were born 
 three children: Frank Charles Bell, born Novem- 
 ber 30, 1872, now bookkeeper in First National 
 Bank; Lawrence E. Bell, born March 30, 1874, 
 now with E. J. Curley & Company, Lexington 
 office; John Lambert Bell, born August 25, 1875, 
 and educated at the Kentucky State College at 
 Lexington. 
 
 Mr. BelJ and wife are not connected with any 
 
 congregation, one being Presbyterian the other 
 Christian in faith. 
 
 William Smith Bell, born November 9, 1852, is, 
 like his father, a florist and nurseryman, and his 
 success has placed him in the front rank of flor- 
 ists in Kentucky. He received only a common 
 school education, and in 1868 entered business life 
 with his father as florist. Their partnership con- 
 tinued until i88r, since which time he has been 
 in business for himself. In 1871-72, however, he 
 was with Scott & Son, prominent florists of Phil- 
 adelphia. Since returning to Lexington he has 
 become the fashionable florist of the city, and 
 also ships his goods to all parts of the state, and 
 to other states. 
 
 He was married October 12, 1875, to Miss 
 Addie Lancaster, daughter of Henry Lancaster, a 
 contractor and builder of Lexington, who died in 
 1876. His wife was born October 20, 1852. To 
 them six children were born: Emily Scott Bell, 
 October 4, 1877; Nellie Munson Bell, March 19, 
 1880; W. S. Bell, Jr., November 19, 1882; Ade- 
 laide Lancaster Bell, March 9, 1885; Flora Bun- 
 yan Bell, January 26, 1890; Charles Stewart Bell, 
 April 7, 1893. 
 
 Mr. Bell is a member of the M. E. Church, 
 South, and of several secret societies. 
 
 Charles Stewart Bell, Jr., is the youngest of 
 the five children, having been bom January 15, 
 1855. He was educated in the public schools and 
 Transylvania University. After leaving school 
 he was for a short time deputy county clerk and 
 afterward clerk in Adams Express Company. He 
 then went into the fruit business, first by retail, 
 but since 1875 in the wholesale and commission 
 fruit and vegetable trade, and is now one of the 
 largest dealers of the state in both foreign and 
 native lines. He also owns a wholesale and re- 
 tail store in Frankfort, Ky., but resides in Lex- 
 ington. On November 16, 1876, he was married 
 to Miss Luella Keith, daughter of Dr. Marvel 
 Lewis Keith, formerly of Greenville, South Car- 
 olina. Her mother was Miss Susannah Ball of 
 Lexington. Mrs. Bell was born June 20, 1854, 
 and is a graduate of Sayre Female Institute. Both 
 are members of First Presbyterian Church of 
 Lexington. They have three children living, the 
 eldest having died at an early agfe. The living 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 437 
 
 are: Margaret Elizabeth Bell, Lewis Keith Bell 
 and Virginia WickHffe Bell. 
 
 The sons of Mr. Bell, senior, are all Demo- 
 crats in politics, and steady, church-going people. 
 Of his daughter it can well be said, as of her 
 mother, that she is indeed a helpmeet for her hus- 
 band, and a guardian angel to her children. 
 
 And thus we come to the closing chapter to this 
 successful life, for in the course of nature the 
 last page in the precious volume must soon be 
 turned. To such a life, however, death can have 
 no terrors, and the tired body can sweetly sleep in 
 the home which his hands have made so beautiful 
 by the side of the wife whom he loved so well; 
 and every tear which drops upon the sod above 
 him will be as pure as the violets he taught to 
 bloom upon the sunny slopes. He will die full 
 of years and honors, with children and grand- 
 children about him and unsullied memories to 
 speak his name when he has gone. Upon his 
 monument it could be carved 
 
 "The earth has lost a man 
 Whom Heaven has claimed." 
 
 This sketch of the Bell family was written by J. 
 Soule Smith, of Lexington. 
 
 WILLIAM J. DALMAZZO of Bardstown, 
 Clerk of Nelson County Court, son of 
 James Dalmazzo and Ann E. Price, was born in 
 Vevay, Switzerland County, Indiana, December 
 7, 1844. His father was a native of Turin, Italy, 
 who came to America when he was sixteen years 
 of age for the purpose of completing his educa- 
 tion. He became a citizen of Vevay and made 
 his home there until the time of his death, which 
 occurred in 1845, i" the fifty-third year of his age. 
 He was a very prosperous merchant and a highly 
 respected citizen. 
 
 Ann E. Price (mother) was born in Nelson 
 County, December 18, 1822, and is now a resi- 
 dent of Bardstown. After the death of Mr. Dal- 
 mazzo she married Francis Smith of Nelson 
 County. There were four children by her first 
 marriage, only one of whom, the subject of this 
 sketch, reached maturity. 
 
 Ignatius Price (maternal grandfather) was a 
 native of Nelson County, whose parents were 
 
 from Maryland. He was an industrious black- 
 smith and wagonmaker in Bardstown in the days 
 of the old stage coach and did a very thriving 
 business. He died in 1840 in the forty-fifth year 
 of his age. 
 
 W. J. Dalmazzo's mother returned to Bards- 
 town after the death of his father and he was edu- 
 cated in St. Joseph's College. After leaving 
 school, well advanced in the English branches, he 
 found employment as a clerk in a dry goods es- 
 tablishment for some time, and in 1864 was ap- 
 pointed Deputy County Clerk by Edwin Turner, 
 in which capacity he served for several years and 
 was deputy in that office and in the Circuit Clerk's 
 office and postoffice at different times until No- 
 vember, 1886, when he was appointed to his pres- 
 ent position as County Clerk and expects to serve 
 out his term — which expires January i, 1898 — 
 when he proposes to retire, having acquired a con- 
 siderable estate. 
 
 Mr. Dalmazzo has taken quite an active part in 
 local politics and has held a number of minor 
 offices in Bardstown, where he is one of the most 
 popular citizens, and was Assistant Postmaster for 
 three years, when not engaged in the Clerk's 
 office. He has never married, but is living with 
 his aged mother, for whom he has provided the 
 comforts of a happy home. They are devout 
 members of the Catholic Church and are highly 
 respected by the people of Bardstown and of 
 Nelson County. 
 
 WILLIAM P. THORNE, distinguished 
 criminal lawyer and politician of Eminence, 
 son of William Kimberland and Mary K. (Moody) 
 Thorne, was born in Henry County, Kentucky, 
 March 5, 1845. 
 
 William K. Thorne (father) was born in Shelby 
 County, April 13, 1813; was educated in the 
 common schools and applied himself to farming 
 and raising fine stock, removing to Henry Coun- 
 ty in 1839, where he died August i, 1889. He 
 was a man of great force of character, but did 
 not seek prominence; a Democrat in politics; 
 a faithful member of the Christian Church and one 
 of the best citizens of Henry County. He mar- 
 ried the widow Ireland, whose maiden name was 
 Moody, and who was the mother of five children 
 
438 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 by her first husband, inckiding John Crit Ireland, 
 who was a captain in the Confederate army and 
 afterward for many years proprietor of the 
 Euclid livery stable in Louisville, and Dr. J. W. 
 Ireland, a prominent physician. 
 
 The children of William K. Thorne and Mary 
 (Ireland) Thorne were Andrew J., William P. and 
 Shelby T. Thorne. 
 
 John Thorne (grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia, who came with his father (John) to 
 Shelby County when he was a child. His sister 
 and two cousins (boys) were killed by the In- 
 dians. They had been sent out of the fort on an 
 errand and were surprised and pursued by the 
 Indians, and ran into Clear Creek for refuge at a 
 particularly deep pla.ce, which has been known 
 ever since as Thome's Pool. For some time the 
 children evaded the shots of the redskins by 
 diving, but they could not remain long under 
 water, and as they arose in the water they were 
 struck by the Indians' arrows until all three were 
 killed. W. P. Thorne has presented one of the 
 arrows taken from the girl's body to the Filson 
 Club, of which he is a member. 
 
 John Thorne (grandfather) married Elizabeth 
 Kimberland (grandmother), a native of Virginia, 
 and their children were: Levisa, who married 
 Peter Laswell; Nancy, wife of W. Morrison; 
 Ann, wife of William N. Perkins; William K. and 
 
 J- J. 
 
 John Thorne (great-grandfather) came to Ken- 
 tucky from Virginia; was one of the pioneers of 
 Shelby County, and lived in the fort mentioned 
 in the above tragic incident. 
 
 William P. Thorne graduated from Eminence 
 College in 1865, under the able instruction of Pro- 
 fessor Giltner; studied law with Judge George 
 C. Drane, now of Frankfort and at that time a 
 partner of Chief Justice Pryor; was admitted to 
 the bar of Henry County in 1868, and at once be- 
 gan the practice of his profession, in which he 
 has steadily risen until he is one of tlie most 
 celebrated lawyers in the state. 
 
 In 1874 he was elected county attorney, serving 
 until 1878; has frequently been chosen to the 
 position of circuit judge and that of common- 
 wealth attorney in the absence of those officials; 
 and while serving as prosecuting attorney he suc- 
 
 ceeded in holding over the four men of the notori- 
 ous Simmons' gang who were hung by a mob; 
 and this brought him into notice all over the state 
 as a fearless and capable prosecutor. He also 
 prosecuted Alsop for the murder of Harrison in 
 Jefiferson 'County ; defended Stivers, who killed 
 Colonel Veal of Fayette County; with Colonel 
 Wadsworth defended Shire, who was charged 
 with poisoning his father-in-law, Colonel M. Glea- 
 son, of Grant County; defended Foreman in 
 Montgomery County, who was charged with 
 the murder of Cravens, which case was three times 
 taken to the Court of Appeals; prosecuted 
 Doome for killing Hughes at Bardstown ; defend- 
 ed Mattox, who killed Jameson at Lakeland; 
 and there has not been an important criminal 
 case in Henry County since Mr. Thorne became 
 a lawyer in which he has not taken an active part; 
 and he has been employed in many important civil 
 cases; was local attorney for the Louisville & 
 Nashville Railroad Company for many years, and 
 is attorney for the Farmers & Drovers' Bank of 
 Eminence. 
 
 He has taken a lively interest in Democratic 
 politics and is serving his county for the third 
 time in the Legislature; has been assistant Dem- 
 ocratic Presidential elector in four campaigns, 
 and was a delegate to the National Convention 
 in New York (1868), which nominated Seymour 
 and Blair, and was an alternate delegate to the 
 National Convention that nominated Cleveland 
 the second time. 
 
 Mr. Thorne was united in marriage March 27, 
 1866, with Anna Dickerson, and their children 
 are : Agnes Pearl, wife of Lindsey T. Crabb, son 
 of W. L. Crabb, whose sketch will be found in 
 this volume; Mary Bernice, wife of James E. 
 Waugh of Pembroke, and William P. Thorne, 
 Jr. 
 
 Mrs. Tliorne's father, Richard A. Dickerson, 
 was born in Grant County June, 1825, and was a 
 prominent farmer and distinguished citizen of his 
 native county ; active and influential in the Dem- 
 ocratic party; exerting great .power over the 
 minds and actions of others and enjoying the 
 good will and confidence of all men. He was 
 a son of Archibald and Harriet (Dictum) Dicker- 
 son; and his mother was a daughter of Captain 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 439 
 
 Richard Dictum, whose wife was a Miss Mc- 
 Bride, whose two brothers fell at the battle of 
 Brandywine, one of whom was General McBride. 
 
 Agnes Collins Dickerson, Mrs. Thome's 
 mother, was a daughter of Richard Collins and a 
 niece of Lewis Collins, the historian of Kentucky. 
 Richard Collins married Lucy Wilson, daughter 
 of James and Agnes (Pickett) Wilson. James 
 Wilson was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, 
 as is shown by a land grant allotted to him Janu- 
 ary 31, 1786, and signed by Patrick Henry. 
 Agnes Pickett belonged to a distinguished Vir- 
 ginia family, and was present at the surrender 
 of Lord Cornwallis. 
 
 Mrs. Thorne has three brothers : R. T. Dicker- 
 son; Worth W. Dickerson, ex-congressman, of 
 Williamstown, and Jefferson D. Dickerson, de- 
 ceased. 
 
 JOHN SAMUEL OWSLEY, farmer of Stan- 
 foi-d, Lincoln County, son of Samuel Owsley 
 and Eliza W. Stephenson, was born in Walnut 
 Flat, Lincoln County, Kentucky, October 3, 1840; 
 attended Stanford Seminary for several years, and 
 in 1855 entered Center College, Danville, where 
 he pursued his studies for two years ; returned to 
 his father's farm and engaged in farming, stock 
 raising and trading; was married October 15, 
 1861, to S. Malinda Miller, daughter of Thomas 
 W. and Mary J. (Hocker) Miller of Madison 
 County. She was one of the most cultured ladies 
 in all that section of the state; a graduate (in 
 1859) of Mrs. Tevis' Science Hill Academy at 
 Shelbyville; was a remarkably fine musician; a 
 lady of very superior intellect and a devout mem- 
 ber of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. She 
 died October 15, 1888, and is buried in Bufifalo 
 Cemetery at Stanford. She was the mother of 
 eight children, all of whom are living: Mary E., 
 wife of J. W. Manier of Na;shville, Tennessee; 
 John Samuel, Jr., commonwealth attorney of 
 Stanford; Mattie H., wife of W. P. Walton, editor 
 and proprietor of the Stanford Interior Journal ; 
 Maggie S., Linda, Thomas Miller, attorney at 
 law of Bowling Green; Emma McGee, Michael, 
 in school at Danville. 
 
 Maggie S., Linda and Emma McGee are at 
 home with their father. All of their children are 
 
 members of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
 Church, and the voters are Democratic in politics. 
 
 After the death of his wife Mr. Owsley removed 
 to Stanford, where he lived for four years, at the 
 same time giving his attention to his farm, to 
 which he has since returned. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Legislature from Lincoln County in 
 1877-8, contemporary with Hon. James B. Mc- 
 Creary, who was Governor at that time; is a di- 
 rector in the Farmers' Bank & Trust Company, 
 and is interested in other business enterprises, 
 aside from his farming operations, which demand 
 his first attention. 
 
 Samuel Owsley (father) was born in Virginia; 
 came to Kentucky in 1781 with his parents, when 
 he was about four years of age; was educated in 
 the common schools near Crab Orchard; was a 
 farmer by occupation; married Eliza W. Stephen- 
 son, daughter of George Stephenson, in 1839, and 
 had one child, John Samuel, the principal subject 
 of this sketch. He (father) died September, 1851, 
 and is buried at the old homestead, now the home 
 of his son. His wife died May, 1874, and is buried 
 by his side. ' 
 
 William Owsley (grandfather) was a Virginian ; 
 came to Kentucky in 1781, and married Mary 
 Bolin, and was a farmer in Lincoln County. 
 
 John Samuel Owsley, Jr., son of John Samuel 
 and Melinda Miller Owsley, was born in Lincoln 
 County, Kentucky, January 20, 1867. Is a grad- 
 uate of the literary and law departments of Cum- 
 berland University. He commenced the practice 
 of law in Stanford in the spring of 1889, and was 
 elected Commonwealth Attorney by the people in 
 the Thirteenth Judicial District in 1892, when he 
 was only twenty-six years of age. He is asso- 
 ciated in the practice of law with Judge Softly, 
 and is one of the leading young lawyers practic- 
 ing at the Lincoln County bar. He is a member 
 of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church; a mem- 
 ber of the Knights of Pythias and the K. U. T. M. ; 
 a Democrat in political aiifiliations and quite active 
 and influential in party affairs. 
 
 He was married April 26, 1894, to Ella McEl- 
 wain of Franklin, Simpson County, and has one 
 child, James M. Owsley, born February i, 1895. 
 
 The genealogy of the Owsley family is given as 
 follows : I 
 
440 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Reverend John Owsley (great-great-great- 
 great-grandfather) born in 1663, married Ann 
 Glaston of Virginia. 
 
 Captain Thomas Owsley (great-great-great- 
 grandfather) was a native of Virginia. 
 
 Thomas Owsley (great-great-grandfather), 
 married Ann West. Lived in Virginia. 
 
 Thomas Owsley (great-grandfather), born in 
 1 73 1, married Mary Middleton. 
 
 William Owsley (grandfather), born in 1749, 
 married Catherine Bolin. 
 
 Samuel Owsley (father), born 'February 2, 1778, 
 married Eliza W. Stephenson. 
 
 John Samuel Owsley, born October 3, 1840, 
 married S. Malinda Miller. 
 
 John Samuel Owsley, Jr., born January 20, 
 1867, married Ella McElwain. 
 
 James M. Owsley, born February i, 1895. 
 
 DAVID L. EVANS, County Clerk, Cynthi- 
 ana, son of Green D. and Emaline (Davis) 
 Evans, was born in Harrison County, November 
 1 1, 1864. His father was born in the same county 
 on the same farm, April 10, 1826. He was an ac- 
 tive farmer until 1893, when he retired and re- 
 moved to Cynthiana. 
 
 David Evans (grandfather) was a native of Vir- 
 ginia, who came to Harrison County when a boy 
 with his father, Walter Evans, who purchased the 
 farm now owned by Green D. Evans. The 
 Evanses are of Welsh descent. 
 
 Emaline Evans (mother) was born in Hanover 
 County in 1838. She and her husband and son, 
 David L., are members of the Christian Church, 
 the latter being clerk of the congregation in Cyn- 
 thiana. 
 
 James Davis (grandfather) was a native of Har- 
 rison County, and for many years a well-known 
 distiller, but the latter part of his life was devoted 
 to farming. 
 
 David L. Evans, after attending the common 
 schools, took a thorough course under the tutor- 
 ship of Professor N. F. Smith, who had a private 
 school in Cynthiana. He taught school in the 
 county for one term and then removed to Garrard 
 County and opened a general store at Point Lick. 
 He remained there about two and a half years and 
 then went to Kansas, where he commenced the 
 
 study of law, returning in a short time to Cynthi- 
 ana, where he completed his law course with M. 
 C. Swinford, and was admitted to the bar in Oc- 
 tober, 1889. During the same year he became 
 a partner of Mr. Swinford, under the firm name 
 of Swinford & Evans, which relation has con- 
 tinued satisfactorily until the present time. The 
 firm has a very large and lucrative practice. 
 
 In November, 1894, Mr. Evans was elected 
 county attorney on the Democratic ticket, taking 
 charge of the office January i, 1895. 
 
 MRS. MARY B. R. DAY, who has been State 
 Librarian for six years and whose present 
 term of office expires June i, 1896, is a native of 
 Franklin County, Kentucky, and a daughter of 
 John W. Russell, whose family name is found in 
 many pages of the best histories of Kentucky. 
 Mr. Russell was himself quite prominent in Ken- 
 tucky politics, and was an intimate friend of Pres- 
 ident William Henry Harrison. He was a de- 
 scendant of a Scotch-Irish family, whose ances- 
 tors came to Virginia prior to the Revolution, 
 and, with the characteristics of their intelligent 
 race, were true patriots in the struggle for Ameri- 
 can independence. 
 
 Mr. Russell married Ann M. Julian, of a Hu- 
 guenot family, and a daughter of Charles Julian, 
 who was one of the wealthiest men in the state. 
 He moved to Kentucky from Fredericksburg, 
 Virginia. 
 
 Mrs. Day was educated principally in Frank- 
 fort, and to the many liberal endowments of mind 
 and heart she added those accomplishments 
 which have distinguished her as a lady of unusual 
 intelligence and refinement. 
 
 She was married in 1880 to W. E. Day, a trav- 
 eling correspondent of the Chicago Journal, who 
 died in 1881. Her health failed and she lived sev- 
 eral years in Florida and the West. Mrs. Day 
 spent near all of her Hving in her efforts to regain 
 her health, and showed both pluck and ability 
 from her first effort in politics; although defeated 
 in her first race she made such friends as to give 
 her great strength with the succeeding Legisla- 
 ture and she was elected against strong opposi- 
 tion. She served with credit through the Con- 
 stitutional Convention and long Legislature 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 441 
 
 which imposed more work on the Hbrarian than 
 any legislative bodies ever held in the state. 
 
 Returning to Kentucky she was one of the 
 brightest women of the capital, and it was on ac- 
 count of her popularity and extensive acquaint- 
 ance that she was elected State Librarian by the 
 Legislature in 1890. It was a deserved recogni- 
 tion of her scholarly accomplishments and business 
 ability — ^the highest official compliment that could 
 be paid to a lady in Kentucky. She is now serv- 
 ing her third term, but withdrew from the last 
 race before the caucus. 
 
 Mrs. Day is a member of the Daughters of the 
 Revolution and is a sister of John C. Russell, a 
 prominent attorney of Louisville, of whom see 
 sketch. 
 
 "The penitentiary at Frankfort has no doubt the 
 best Warden in America in the person of Colonel 
 George. And he has with him the best of men to 
 assist him. The writer was the guest of Captain 
 Gervis Stone, who is the clerk of the prison. He 
 needs no commendation. His name wherever 
 known is enough to know that he is not there as 
 the favorite of some one, but of worth and compe- 
 tency. 
 
 With such men at the head of our prison, they 
 have turned what might be a hell on earth into a 
 humane home for our unfortunate brothers. Rev. 
 Mr. Cooper, the chaplain, is a small man, but as 
 large as all out-of-doors. He is doing a noble 
 work and tells me he has the co-operation of all 
 the officers, and that the Warden never fails to 
 worship with the prisoners. 
 
 I met on Sunday afternoon some of Frankfort's 
 best women, among whom was the State Librar- 
 ian, Mrs. Day, teaching the Sunday School. May 
 God bless them and their labors. I believe many 
 men are made better rather than worse." 
 
 Written by Rev. George Froh and published 
 in the Spencer Courier. 
 
 JACKSON M'cCLAIN, of the real estate and 
 insurance firm of McClain & Rogers of Hen- 
 derson, eldest son of Colonel Jackson and Car- 
 rie (Hunt) McClain and elder brother of M. Hunt 
 McClain, whose sketch is given above, was born 
 in Henderson, Kentucky, June 16, 1870. 
 
 He received a liberal education in the Hender- 
 
 son schools and was well prepared for a busi- 
 ness career when he engaged in the real estate 
 and insurance business in his native city, to which 
 employment he has given his attention with profit- 
 able results and has established a very extensive 
 business. He is a man of strong individuality, 
 with many of the characteristics of his father, 
 whom he resembles in many respects, especially in 
 his methodical habits and excellent business judg- 
 ment. He is well posted in the value and his- 
 tory of property and is one of the most reliable ap- 
 praisers in Henderson County. Although quite 
 young, he has fully estabhshed himself in the con- 
 fidence of his fellow-citizens, who predict for him 
 a successful future. Few young men have han- 
 dled their patrimony with finer discrimination or 
 better results and he is constantly adding to the 
 nucleus of a splendid fortune. He has been a 
 member of the water works commission of Hen- 
 derson for the past year. 
 
 Mr. McClain was married in April, 1891, to 
 Myra Strother Hart, and they have one child, 
 Carrie Lucelia. 
 
 THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, M. D., one of the 
 most skillful and reliable physicians of Bards- 
 town, son of Thomas H. Williams and Sarah T. 
 Rodman, was born near Beechland P. O., Wash- 
 ington County, Kentucky, January 11, 1840. 
 
 His father was a native farmer of Washington 
 County, in which he spent all the years of a use- 
 ful life and died February 10, 1895, aged 82. He 
 was an earnest Christian and is remembered as 
 a very active member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church South. 
 
 Samuel Williams (grandfather) was born in 
 Maryland and was one of the earliest settlers of 
 Washington County, where he was distinguished 
 as a scholarly gentleman, an educator and a sur- 
 veyor. He removed to Marion County late in life 
 and died there at the advanced age of eighty-six 
 years. The Williams family is of Welsh origin, 
 the progenitor of whom came to Maryland in co- 
 lonial days. 
 
 Sarah T. Rodman Williams (mother) was born 
 in Washington County, Kentucky, in 1820, and 
 died there May 22, 1890, aged seventy. She was 
 also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 
442 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 South and a woman of great piety and Christian 
 benevolence. 
 
 David Rodman (grandfather) was a native of 
 Maryland, of Scotch-Irish descent and was one of 
 the pioneers of Washington County, where he fol- 
 lowed farming and millwrighting principally and 
 was for a time engaged in business as a merchant 
 in Springfield. He was one of the most indus- 
 trious and influential men of his times. 
 
 Dr. Thomas D. Williams came of a good stock 
 of sturdy, intelligent people, who were the peers 
 of their neighbors — not prominent in public af- 
 fairs nor ambitious for public applause — but men 
 and women who performed their duties with punc- 
 tuality and lent character and stability to the com- 
 munity in which they shared the privations so fa- 
 miliar to the people who developed a new coun- 
 try and prepared the way for the comfort and en- 
 joyment of their posterity. He was made ac- 
 quainted with the rugged duties of farm life, and, 
 as a boy, performed his share in the field and for- 
 est, attending school betimes, until he was suf- 
 ficiently advanced to enter the Covington Insti- 
 tute in Springfield, where he was prepared for his 
 collegiate course, which followed in Maxwell Col- 
 lege, in the same county. After leaving college he 
 was engaged in teaching, an avocation in which 
 many eminent men have found the key to success 
 and fame, and then attended the Bellevue Med- 
 ical College in New York in 1867 and 1868, from 
 which he received his diploma and began the 
 practice of his profession in Washington County, 
 removing to High Grove, Nelson County, after 
 one year's practice, and there continued the ex- 
 acting labors of the country physician for seven 
 years. Leaving that field he went to Maud, Wash- 
 ington County, and practiced in that vicinity un- 
 til 1886, when he sought a more inviting field in 
 his present location at Bardstown. In the mean- 
 time, after practicing about eight years, he took a 
 postgraduate course in the Hospital College of 
 Medicine at Louisville, from which institution he 
 also received the degree of M. D. 
 
 His success has been most gratifying, especially 
 in his present location. Thoroughly qualified by 
 study and long experience, he is one of the most 
 reliable and popular family physicians in Nelson 
 County or thereabouts. Devoted to his profes- 
 
 sion, industrious and energetic, faithful and 
 prompt to answer the signal of distress, he has won 
 the confidence of his patients and the public to a 
 most gratifying degree. He is still a student 
 and a careful reader of medical literature, keep- 
 ing pace with the rapid progress of medical science 
 and is a member of the Kentucky State Medical 
 Society, and secretary of the Nelson County Med- 
 ical Society. He was one of the founders of "The 
 Buck Fork Medical Society (embracing the coun- 
 ties of Nelson, Marion and Washington), which 
 was a most prosperous organization for eight 
 years, four years of which time Dr. WiUiams was 
 its active secretary and for three years its presi- 
 dent. 
 
 In 1893 the Pan-American Medical Congress 
 was held in Washington City, D. C. Dr. Chas. 
 A. L. Reed, Chairman of Committee on Perma- 
 nent Organization, appointed Dr. T. D. Williams 
 Chairman on Organization for the Local Profes- 
 sion for Bardstown and Nelson County, which 
 position he filled with ability and honor to himself 
 and his profession. He has always been deeply in- 
 terested in the success and advancement of his 
 profession, and has, for many years, been an en- 
 thusiastic medical society man, always delighting 
 in the discussion of medical topics. He has writ- 
 ten several articles for the medical press, which 
 received most favorable comment, especially his 
 article or essay on "Puerperal Convulsions," read 
 before the State Medical Society at Danville, Ken- 
 tucky, in 1879. 
 
 He is a Mason and a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church South. 
 
 Dr. Williams was married (first) to Annie M. 
 Burdette, daughter of Peyton Burdette of Mt. 
 Washington, Kentucky, February 28, 1871. She 
 died September i, 1879, leaving two children: 
 Lizzie, now deceased, and Nannie. 
 
 Peyton Burdette was one of the leading citizens 
 of Bullitt County, a man of sterling worth and in- 
 tegrity, full of energy and enterprise, and did 
 more than any other citizen to build up Mount 
 Washington, and to advance the educational and 
 commercial interests of the town. He lived to be 
 a very old man and was escorted to his last rest- 
 ing place by one of the largest processions of sor- 
 rowing friends in the history of the town. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 443 
 
 Dr. Williams was married the second time to 
 Miss Theresa Reed of Springfield, Washington 
 County. She was a daughter of Nelson Reed, de- 
 ceased, who was one of the wealthiest and most 
 prominent farmers of the county. Mr. Reed was 
 a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church, 
 and one of the most liberal supporters of Pleasant 
 Grove Church, at which place he and all his fam- 
 ily held their membership. 
 
 Miss Nannie Williams, only daughter and 
 child of Dr. Williams, is now a pupil of Logan 
 Female College, Russellville, Kentucky, and has 
 been for three years. She will graduate from that 
 institution in June, 1897. 
 
 Dr. Williams' brothers are: J. R. Williams, a 
 prominent farmer of Washington County; John 
 M. Williams, a merchant and farmer of the same 
 county; Rev. James H. Williams of the Kentucky 
 M. E. Conference and Samuel W. Williams, a 
 farmer of Washington County, all of whom with 
 their famihes are members of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church South. 
 
 The character of the parents may be judged 
 from the excellent standing of their sons, among 
 whom there is none who has not honored the fath- 
 er's good name. 
 
 MILTON YOUNG, the leading stock farm- 
 er and breeder of thoroughbred race horses 
 in Kentucky, was born in Union County, Ken- 
 tucky, January 10, 185 1. He is a descendant of 
 the family of Youngs whose progenitors came 
 from the North of Ireland and settled in the Val- 
 ley of Virginia and Pennsylvania after the close 
 of the Revolutionary War. 
 
 His father. Judge Milton Young, was a native 
 of Nelson County, Kentucky, who removed to 
 Union County early in life, probably about the 
 time of his marriage, and lived there until 1859 and 
 then removed to Henderson, where he died at the 
 age of forty-eight years. During his residence in 
 Union County, he was County Judge for two 
 terms and was a member of the Kentucky Legis- 
 lature from Henderson County at the time of his 
 death. He operated an extensive tobacco stem- 
 mery after removing to Henderson, and shipped 
 tobacco to England. He was quite wealthy before 
 
 the Civil War, and owned a large number of 
 slaves. He was a Henry Clay Whig, and took an 
 active interest in politics, and was an influential 
 leader in his party. His early opportunities for 
 obtaining an education were limited, but he ac- 
 quired a wide range of useful knowledge, and 
 mastered civil engineering and informed himself 
 on all questions of practical use in his sphere of 
 life. He possessed a strong mind, great firmness, 
 decision and force of character and was a highly 
 respected citizen of his county. He married 
 Maria Thompson, whose father, Stephen Thomp- 
 son, was a farmer in Washington County, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Bryan R. Young (grandfather) was a native 
 Virginian, who removed to Kentucky in 1796, 
 and was one of the first settlers of Nelson County. 
 His father's old farm in that county was opened 
 in 1793, or about that time, and is still known as 
 the "John Young Farm," upon which stands the 
 first brick house that was built in the state. His 
 daughter, Elizabeth Young, sister of Judge Mil- 
 ton Young, married Thomas Brown, and was the 
 mother of ex-Governor John Young Brown. 
 Bryan R. Young was a practicing physician in 
 Nelson County, a leading citizen and politician, 
 and was a member of Congress in 1845-7. 
 
 Milton Young of Lexington was nine years of 
 age when his father. Judge Milton Young, re- 
 moved from Union County to Henderson, and he 
 lived there until 1884, except during two years 
 when he was in Hopkinsville. For several years 
 he was successfully engaged in the cigar and to- 
 bacco business, and subsequently was in the hard- 
 ware and implement business for five years at 
 Henderson. 
 
 In 1881 he was married to Lucy Spalding, 
 daughter of Honorable I. A. Spalding (ex-Rail- 
 road Commissioner) of Union County, and they 
 have five children: Sue Spalding, Alice, Mamie, 
 Milton and Jack Spalding. 
 
 In 1884 he removed to Fayette County, where 
 he has ever since been engaged in breeding thor- 
 oughbred horses. He bought the celebrated stock 
 farm, "McGrathiana," situated three miles from 
 Lexington on the Newtown pike. This is one of 
 the finest and most extensive stock farms in Ken- 
 tucky, consisting of seven hundred and fifty acres 
 
444 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 of the finest blue grass land. He keeps three 
 hundred brood mares, which, in 1894, furnished 
 the turf with one hundred and seventy-four win- 
 ners, whose combined winnings amounted to' 
 $346,283 in stakes and purses. In the last two 
 years sons and daughters of the McGrathiana stal- 
 lions have won $710,496 on the American turf, a 
 marvelous unbeaten record of a wonderful thor- 
 oughbred breeding plant. 
 
 Though the stallions, living and dead, repre- 
 senting McGrathiana Stud Farm had fourteen 
 less winners, that captured $17,930 less in 1894, 
 than did the same representative horses in 1893, 
 the showing last year is even better than during 
 the season of the World's Fair Carnival. In 1893, 
 race meetings were held at Monmouth Park, 
 Gloucester and Guttenberg, while in 1894, ad- 
 verse legislation closed the above named tracks, 
 with their half a million dollars in stakes and 
 purses, a part of which the horses bred at Mc- 
 Grathiana have always been lucky enough to win. 
 With the chances at the same valuation of stakes 
 and purses in 1894 as was offered in 1893, last 
 year would have, no doubt, witnessed horses by 
 McGrathiana sires winning fully $400,000. As it 
 is, the mark they made in 1894 has only been 
 beaten by the McGrathiana stallions the previous 
 year, and the combined winnings of two seasons 
 constitute an unbeaten record in the annals of 
 American racing. They had out a winner every 
 day, on an average, for nearly six months, and 
 they won, on an average, over one and a half races 
 per day during the entire year. Had a man fol- 
 lowed the sons and daughters of these horses for 
 two years he would have had nothing but money, 
 as in 730 days (two years), they have won 1,268 
 races, that in valuation equaled an average of 
 nearly $1,000 per day. The following resume 
 gives a condensed record of Mr. Milton Young's 
 famous sires which, in 1894, made such a re- 
 markable showing. It is worthy of note, too, that 
 the now famous McGrathiana Stud has been in 
 the hands of Mr. Milton Young for thirteen years 
 only. 
 
 Hanover's get have shown this year again their 
 high class as three-year-olds. Halma has devel- 
 oped into a great stake winner. He landed the 
 Phoenix Hotel Stakes, one and one-eighth miles. 
 
 in 1:52^ (a second slower than the record); the 
 Kentucky Derby and the Clark Stakes. In the 
 Phoenix Hotel Stakes the contending horse was 
 The Commoner, another son of Hanover, who was 
 giving Halma five pounds. At even weights it is 
 doubtful which would have won, and it was a 
 feather in Hanover's cap that his two sons should 
 have run such a bruising race in fast time. It 
 proves conclusively that the Hanovers train on 
 and stay as three-year-olds. Other three-year-olds 
 that have been returned winners this season are 
 The Commoner, Hallowe'en, Urania, Hollywood, 
 Buck Massie, Sligo, Miss Young, Whyota and 
 Handspun, winner of the Tennessee Oaks, etc. 
 
 Among Hanover's two-year-olds are the highly 
 tried Handspring and the winners Hand Maid, 
 Lela Dell and Helen Mar. 
 
 Where is a sire in America that can boast of a 
 Derby and an Oaks winner in the first season? 
 There is no doubt that Hanover will in a short 
 while be at the head of our winning stallions, and 
 perpetuate the famous line of Glencoe, who sired 
 the greatest of all mares, old "Pocahontas." 
 
 In spite of the decrease of racing in 1894 as 
 compared to 1893, the get of Duke of Montrose 
 won only 1,996 less in 1894 than they did in 1893, 
 and out of forty-seven starters thirty-five of his 
 get were money winners, while twenty-six cap- 
 tured one or more races. His son, Henry Young, 
 broke the one and three-sixteenths mile record 
 in the Columbus Handicap, at Washington Park, 
 Chicago, in which he defeated a great field, includ- 
 ing Yo Tambien, Cash Day, Rudolph and Dr. 
 Rice, in i :58|. Saragossa beat all kinds of horses 
 last year, while Pocahontas was easily the best of 
 the Western three-year-old fiUies and Ta Ta was 
 a very smart two-year-old. Duke of Montrose up 
 to the close of 1894 has had out ninety-five start- 
 ers during his stud career and sixty-eight of these 
 performers have proven winners. Just half of the 
 two-year-olds by him that were out last year were 
 winners and one of these performers won eight 
 races. 
 
 Macduff's record of thirty-two winners in forty- 
 three starters was a grand one, inasmuch as only 
 eight starters by him failed to earn money in 1894. 
 Out of thirteen two-year-old starters he had ten 
 winners, and in that lot were Kitty Clive, Satsuma 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 445 
 
 and Katherlne, all high class performers. Of six- he has been favored with a very inferior lot of 
 
 ty-two performers that represent all of Macduff's mares. 
 
 get that have appeared on the turf as yet, fifty- Favor had nine winners in his list of starters last 
 
 three have won races, making his percentage of .year. Fertile being the best class of the lot. In the 
 
 winners reach a shade over go per cent. It is two seasons he has been represented on the turf 
 
 hard to find a stallion with as good a showing in by thirty-one starters. Of these seventeen proved 
 
 this respect, considering the number of starters winners, a fair average considering his chances, 
 
 by him that have faced the red flag. he having been favored with few good mares. Of 
 
 Strathmore is another wonder as a sire of win- thirteen two-year-old starters out by him last year 
 
 ners. In twenty-four starters out last year, he was six won races, and nine proved money winners, 
 
 represented by eighteen winners, and two others Imp. Simple Simon is a son of the great St. 
 
 of his six non-winners landed money. Cash Day, Simon, who was unbeatable on the turf, and whom 
 
 a grand three-year-old, equalling the record of Fred Archer, the greatest jockey of all time, pro- 
 
 Wildwood and Faraday (one mile seventy yards nounced the best race horse he ever threw a leg 
 
 in 1:44), was his brightest star, though his old over. 
 
 timers Strathmeath, Monrovia and Soundmore, Since St. Simon's retirement from the turf his 
 as usual, have done well. Strathmore had six win- success at the stud has been unprecedented. The 
 ning two-year-olds in ten starters, among them first of his get appeared on the turf in 1889, and 
 being Queen May, Glad and Ashland, all of which with the disadvantage, compared with older sires, 
 were good class. Strathmore would have been of having only two-year-olds to represent him he 
 higher up in the Hst of winners had Strathrol not was third on the list of winning stallions. The 
 turned out a sulker, as the colt showed high class premier position that season was occupied by his 
 in the spring, running the $10,000 Ducat to a sire, Galopin, with Hampton second and St. Si- 
 head, a mile in 1 140 flat, the fastest time ever mon a good third. Every year since 1889 St. Si- 
 scored in a mile race in Kentucky. Ten Broeck's mon has been the undisputed champion stallion, 
 mark, a quarter of a second faster, also scored in The following statistics show the amounts won 
 that state, being made against time. During his each year by the sons and daughters of St. Simon 
 career in the stud Strathmore has furnished the in first money only: 
 
 turf with forty-seven starters, thirty-three of which issg. $121,500 sd on the list of winning sires. 
 
 have won races. He also has the distinction of be- ]^^- f*-?™ 1st on the list of winning sires. 
 
 1891. 134,o00 1st on the list of winning sires. 
 
 ing one of the few living horses that has sired a 1892. 266,250 1st on the ust of winning sires. 
 
 winner of $100,000 or over, his son Strathmeath f,f; ^^'Z, J"! °" ^^^ !!^* °i winning sires. 
 
 ^ ' ' 1894. 210,000 1st on the list of winning sires. 
 
 having won $109,772 in stakes and purses. 
 
 Imp. Pirate of Penzance had no big money T'tai.$i,079,250 
 
 winners out last year, but he had a great array of Such figures speak for themselves, 
 
 winners, only three of his fifteen starters failing To refer at length to the cracks by St. Simon 
 
 to earn brackets. One of these won in 1893, so in would be almost equivalent to writing a history of 
 
 all his starters last season he had but two maid- the principal events of the English turf since 1889, 
 
 ens. Little Cripple turned out a very fine selling which would take up too much space. In 1890, 
 
 plater, while Rhett Goode was a stake winner and when the oldest of his get were three years old, a 
 
 Bandit scored several fine victories. He had but larger proportion of first-class stakes fell to their 
 
 four two-year-old starters, and three of them share than to the first get of any stallion before 
 
 proved race winners. But nineteen of this son of or since. Their wins included the St. Leger, the 
 
 imp. Prince Charlie's get have as yet started in Oaks, the 1,000 Guineas, the Epsom Grand Prize, 
 
 the two seasons he has been represented on the the Newmarket Stakes, the Newmarket Oaks, the 
 
 turf, and fifteen of these performers have proven Rous Memorial Stakes, the Sussex Stakes, the 
 
 winners. This showing is all the more remark- Zetland Biennial Stakes, the Brocklesby Stakes, 
 
 ^ble inasmuch as, with but on? or two exceptions, th? Agcot Biennial Stakes, etc. 
 
446 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Lady Gladys, the dam of Simple Simon, was by 
 Gladiateur, one of the greatest race horses ever 
 foaled, winner of the 2,000 Guineas, Derby, St. 
 Leger, etc. Lady Gladys threw the winners Gal- 
 lant, Gayland and Laddie. Gladiateur is the sire 
 of Lord Gough, he the sire of the dams of Kil- 
 warHn (winner of the St. Leger, etc.), and Ben- 
 digo, another crack. Margery, the granddam (sis- 
 ter to Scottish Queen, winner of the 1,000 Guin- 
 eas), was by Blair Athol, winner of the Derby and 
 St. Leger. 
 
 Edith, the third dam, threw Lord Ronald, a su- 
 perior race horse, sire of Master Kildare, he the 
 sire of Melton, Derby and St. Leger winner. 
 
 The fourth dam Deidamia, by Pyrrhus I. (win- 
 ner of the Derby), was out of Wiasma, the grand- 
 dam of imp. Blairgowrie (the dam of the crack 
 mares Breeze and Blossom), by Hetman Platofl, 
 sire of The Cossack (winner of the Derby) and 
 Maltese, the dam of imp. Knight of St. George. 
 Klarnet, Klarinska (winner of the Great York- 
 shire Oaks) and Klarikoff, were also out of 
 Wiasma. Mickleton Maid, the sixth dam, was the 
 granddam of imp. Wombat, the dam of Warwick- 
 shire, Princeton, Pouch (dam of Boulotte, Air- 
 shaft, Fiddlehead, etc.), Lillian, etc. 
 
 Maid of Lune, the seventh dam, was an own sis- 
 ter to Emma, the dam of imp. Trustee, Mundig 
 (winner of the Derby), Cotherstone (winner of the 
 2,000 Guineas and Derby) and Mowerina, the 
 dam of West Australian, winner of the 2,000 Guin- 
 eas, Derby and St. Leger. 
 
 The following creditable winners, which failed 
 to win as much as $5,000, were also bred by Mr. 
 Young at McGrathiana. They number one hun- 
 dred and forty-five, which, with the fifty-five stars 
 above noted, makes 200 performers hailing from 
 their great establishment that have earned win- 
 ning brackets in the last eleven years. As a ma- 
 jority of these horses won from $1,000 to $4,000 
 or over in their turf career, it is no wild hazard to 
 say that the winning product of McGrathiana have 
 captured over 1,000 races and won in money be- 
 tween $1,500,000 and $2,000,000, all of which was 
 earned on the American turf. 
 
 Hanover, the matchless race horse, still the 
 largest winning three-year-old in American tiirf 
 history, who heads the list, has made a wonder- 
 
 ful record. No stalHon can be recalled that ever 
 before in his first season in the stud or any other 
 year sired twenty-one winning two-year-olds. The 
 class of performers he got was also remarkable, 
 Halma, Handsome, The Commoner, Handspun, 
 Urania, Hessie and Levina, being among the lot. 
 The Hyde Park Stakes, the Essex Stakes, the 
 Mumm Handicap, the McGrathiana Stakes, the 
 Thora Stakes, the Lassie Stakes, the Willow 
 Stakes, the Kentucky Stakes, the Maiden Stakes 
 and the Covington Autumn Stakes were among 
 the important events his sons and daughters won, 
 while Handspun ran a dead heat for the Pepper 
 Stakes, and in the rich Matron Stakes was only 
 beaten three parts of a length, with a classic field 
 of fourteen behind her. 
 
 Hanover earned fourth place among the win- 
 ning sires of the year, being only beaten out by 
 stallions who have had representatives out for five 
 and six years. Handsome, one of his sons, sold 
 for $10,000; Handspun, one of his daughters, 
 brought $7,500 at auction, while $r 1,000 was of- 
 fered and refused for The Commoner, and Halma 
 sold for over $6,000 privately. Before her sick- 
 ness in the spring Handspun was absolutely un- 
 beatable, while Hessie lost but one race. Hand- 
 some beat all the best colts in the West, including 
 Laureate, Frank K., Rey del Carades and Lissak, 
 while Levina won a greater number of races than 
 any two-year-old filly of the year. 
 
 A glance at the table of his winners which fol- 
 lows, shows that Hanover got a number of his 
 most creditable performers out of mares without 
 records as producers, and many untried as stud 
 matrons. Going over his maiden list, it will be 
 seen that three of the eleven won money, while the 
 remaining eight together only faced the starting 
 post twenty-two times. One of these, Niagrav- 
 ela, a filly with a very high private reputation, who 
 started twice, was upon both occasions left stand- 
 ing at the post. 
 
 The consistent sire Onondaga made a good 
 showing again in 1894, his twenty-seven winning 
 sons and daughters taking into camp lor races. 
 Dr. Rice beat all the cracks of the year in the 
 Brooklyn Handicap, including Henry of Na- 
 varre, Sir Walter, Banquet and Clifford. His per- 
 formance at Washington Park, Chicago, when he 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 447 
 
 ran a mile in i :4oJ, was also a brilliant achieve- 
 ment, inasmuch as he carried the crusher of 127 
 pounds. Peacemaker was class enough to win the 
 United States Hotel Stakes, at Saratoga, in which 
 race he defeated Dobbins. Derfargilla and Otty- 
 anna were good sprinters, while Outlook, Brod- 
 head and Beatifice did well in the selling plate 
 class. Onondaga's get have now raced nine years, 
 during which time he has been represented on the 
 turf by 1 18 winners, that have won a total of eight 
 hundred and nineteen races and $555,821 in stakes 
 and purses. 
 
 Number of starters, 47; number of winners, 26; 
 number of non- winners, 21 ; number of these non- 
 winners that were winners previous to 1894, 12; 
 number of maidens, 9; times started, 570; times 
 first, 85; times second, 98; times third, 67; times 
 unplaced, 320. Total amount won, $56,320. 
 
 Number of starters, 43; number of winners, 32; 
 number of non-winners, 11; number of these 
 non-winners that were winners previous to 1894, 
 7; number of maidens, 4; times started, 615; 
 times first, 91; times second, 90; times third, 73; 
 times unplaced, 361. Total amount won, $45,932. 
 
 BENJAMIN ULEN STEELE, Deputy Clerk 
 of Boyd County, a well-known citizen of 
 Catlettsburg, brother of Daniel W. Steele, was 
 born September 17, 1869. After attending school 
 in the county and in Ashland, he found his first 
 employment, in 1889, as a clerk in the office of 
 the Norton Iron Works and remained there 
 eighteen months. In October, 1891, he was ap- 
 pointed clerk of the Circuit Court at Catlettsburg, 
 holding that office until January, 1893. In 1892 
 he was elected to the office which he was then 
 filling by appointment, but his election was con- 
 tested. Judgment was rendered in his favor in 
 the Circuit Court, but was reversed by the Coua-t- 
 of Appealsy and his competitor took the office. 
 In 1895 he was appointed to his present position 
 as deputy clerk of the Boyd County Court. He 
 is a young man of exemplary habits, of indefati- 
 gable industry and possesses every qualification 
 for the proper discharge of his official duties, is 
 quite popular in the community and admired by 
 his friends and acquaintances. 
 
 Mr. Steele and Leona Brown Porter, daugh- 
 
 ter of John Marshall Porter, were married April 
 7, 1894. Mrs. Steele was born in Pike County, 
 November 12, 1873. Her father is also a native 
 of Pike County, where he was a farmer, but sub- 
 sequently removed to Catlettsburg and was pro- 
 prietor of a hotel for some time, but retired from 
 active business" in 1886, and is now living in 
 Catlettsburg. He married Amanda, daughter of 
 Judge Thomas Brown, and a sister of Mrs. Sam- 
 uel P. Hager, of Ashland. 
 
 GEN. JOHN CALDWELL was a native of 
 Prince Edward County, Virginia. He re- 
 moved to Kentucky in 1781, and settled near 
 where Danville now stands. He took an active 
 part in the conflicts with the Indians, and rose 
 by regular steps from the rank of a common sol- 
 dier to that of a major-general in the militia. He 
 served as a subaltern in the campaign against the 
 Indians in 1786, under General George Rogers 
 Clark. He was a prominent man of his day — es- 
 teemed in private and political, as he was in mili- 
 tary life. He was a member, from Nelson Coun- 
 ty, of the conventions held in Danville in 1787 
 and 1788. In 1792 he was elected from the same 
 county a senatorial elector, under the first consti- 
 tution; and in the college of electors, he was 
 chosen the senator from Nelson. He took his seat 
 in the senate at the session of 1792-3. He was 
 elected lieutenant-governor of the state in 1804, 
 and during his term of service removed to the 
 lower part of the state. He died at Frankfort, 
 November 19, 1804, while the Legislature was in 
 session. 
 
 SELDEN Y. TRIMBLE, of Russellville, one 
 of the brightest and most successful young at- 
 torneys of Southern Kentucky, was born in Cald- 
 I well County, Kentucky, April ig, 1867. 
 
 His father. Rev. Selden Y. Trimble, was born in 
 Logan County, and educated in private schools in 
 his native county and at Murfreesboro College, 
 Tennessee, from which institution he graduated 
 with the degree of A. M. He then studied for 
 the ministry in the theological department of the 
 same college, and after his ordination began 
 preaching in the Baptist Church in Logan County. 
 In 1855, having previously married, he and his 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 wife went as missionaries to Liberia, under the 
 auspices of the Baptist Missionary Society. There 
 were three men, but Mrs. Trimble was the only 
 lady in the party. They spent two years in mis- 
 sionary work there, when Mrs. Trimble was 
 thrown from a horse, receiving injuries which dis- 
 abled her for life and compelled their return to 
 Kentucky. Mr. Trimble preached in the coun- 
 ties of Logan, Caldwell, Lyon and Trigg and de- 
 voted the remainder of his life in securing aid 
 for the support of Baptist missionaries in foreign 
 fields. 
 
 Mary E. Morehead Trimble (mother) was born 
 in Kentucky, educated in private schools of Kees- 
 burg, Logan County, was a most excellent Qiris- 
 tian woman, joined heartily in her husband's work 
 until permanently disabled by the accident in 
 Liberia and was an invalid and great sufferer for 
 thirty years following her return. She bore her 
 sufferings with that Christian fortitude and faith 
 which characterized her noble self-sacrificing life. 
 She entered upon the reward of the just. 
 
 Rev. and Mrs. Trimble had seven children : Sue 
 was educated at Princeton (Kentucky) College, 
 and married John P. Garnett; Bettie married 
 Selden Lyne; Grace married Professor Henry L. 
 Garretson, of Bethel College, Russellville; Mary 
 died young, and Nellie died at the age of eight 
 years. The only son is the subject of this sketch. 
 
 William Trimble (grandfather) was a native of 
 Logan County and a son of one of the first set- 
 tlers of Kentucky. 
 
 James Morehead (maternal grandfather) was 
 also a native of Logan County, a farmer and quite 
 prominent as a Whig in politics and a faithful 
 member of the Baptist Church. He married a 
 Miss Poor, who was bom in Logan County in 
 1813; her father was quite prominent in Logan 
 County politics, held several county offices, and 
 was at one time a member of the Legislature. She 
 was a cousin of Governor Morehead, although it 
 does not appear that her husband, James More- 
 head, was a relative of the governor. Mrs. More- 
 head reached the advanced age of four score and 
 two years and died in 1895. 
 
 Presley L. Morehead (great-grandfather), a na- 
 tive of Virginia, came to Logan County at a very 
 early day and was one of the pioneers of the 
 
 county, was a prominent and influential citizen, 
 and served his county in the Legislature. 
 
 Selden Y. Trimble was educated in Princeton 
 College, in his native county, and at Bethel Col- 
 lege, Russellville, graduating from the last named 
 college in the class of 1886; taught school for 
 two years in Logan County and one year in Ma- 
 con County, Tennessee, and while teaching 
 studied law. In 1888 he entered the office of 
 Scyon A. Bass, whose biography is given in this 
 volume, and was admitted to the bar in 1889. He 
 at once opened an office and entered upon a career 
 that has been marked by success and has at- 
 tracted the attention and won the respect and 
 confidence of the members of the bar and of the 
 community. 
 
 He began his professional career under rather 
 discouraging circumstances. Having paid his 
 way through college, he was entirely without 
 means when he entered the practice of law, but he 
 asked no one for assistance, and with singleness 
 of purpose and by close attention to his studies 
 and his work he soon acquired a lucrative practice, 
 and in the language of one of the oldest lawyers 
 of Russellville, "his success has been wonderful 
 considering the difficulties which he had to con- 
 tend with at the outset, and he is one of the most 
 promising young lawyers at the Logan County 
 bar." 
 
 Mr. Trimble was elected a member of the Leg- 
 islature in 1893 by the Democratic party, and 
 although one of the youngest members of that 
 body, he was one of the most diligent and useful 
 representatives the county has ever had. 
 
 He was married November 14, 1895, to Maria 
 Perkins, daughter of Judge Ben. G. Perkins, an 
 eminent lawyer of Todd County. 
 
 DR. WILLIAM G. MOORE, M. D., of 
 Georgetown, was born in Scott County, 
 Kentucky, September 5, 1847. His father, Will- 
 iam Moore, was also born in Scott County, Feb- 
 ruary 2, 1802. After obtaining the best educa- 
 tion possible in the new settlement, at the age of 
 twenty years he chose the independent life of the 
 farmer, and continued in that occupation until 
 the time of his death, in 1873. He was a man of 
 excellent character and a prominent member of 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 449 
 
 the Christian Church. His wife, Anna Miller 
 Moore, was born in Scott County in 1809. Her 
 father's name was Adam Miller, one of the pio- 
 neers of the county. 
 
 Dr. William G. Moore received his early edu- 
 cation in the county schools and was much in- 
 clined to follow in his father's footsteps. He re- 
 mained on the farm until he began to study medi- 
 cine in 1870, when he entered the Kentucky 
 School of Medicine in Louisville. He studied 
 from September until the following March, when 
 he returned to the farm and remained till 1873, 
 and then attended a course of lectures in the Med- 
 ical University of Louisville, receiving his di- 
 ploma in March, 1874. He practiced medicine 
 in connection with farming until September, 1883, 
 when he returned to the Medical University and 
 graduated in February, 1884. Having no longer 
 any hesitation between farming and medicine, he 
 practiced his profession at Kincaide for three 
 years, at Oxford for five years, and then returned 
 to Georgetown in 1892 and located permanently. 
 
 Dr. Moore has been appointed county physi- 
 cian for a term of four years and has been a mem- 
 ber of the local board of health for two years. 
 He is a prominent member of the Masonic fra- 
 ternity and has been master of the lodge at Ox- 
 ford for ten years, is president of the National 
 Fraternal Union of Georgetown and a member of 
 the Baptist Church. 
 
 Dr. Moore and Sallie E. Ford, of Scott County, 
 were married October 18, 1887. They have two 
 children living, Jessie Gano and Hugh Adams. 
 Two other children are dead. 
 
 WILLIAM H. NETHERLAND, owner of 
 "Idlewild," in Bullitt County, and veteri- 
 nary surgeon of Louisville, son of Robert H. and 
 Maggie (Hegan) Netherland, was bom in Louis- 
 ville, Kentucky, October 19, 1866. His father 
 was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and came 
 to Louisville in 1856, where he became one of the 
 most prominent and wealthy business men of the 
 city. He had no capital when he reached Louis- 
 ville and was an entire stranger in the city, but 
 by his remarkable energy and business tact he 
 built up the fine establishment now known as the 
 Hart Hardware Co. He was first interested in 
 
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 business with Mr. John Neal, who is now engaged 
 in raising thoroughbred horses at Bowling Green, 
 the firm name being Neal & Netherland. Mr. 
 Neal subsequently retired from the firm and the 
 name was changed to Netherland & Hart. After 
 Mr. Netherland's death, in 1876, the Hart Hard- 
 ware Company was incorporated. Mr. Nether- 
 land was a very kind and generous man, liberal to 
 a fault and greatly loved and respected by those 
 who w6re associated with him in business and by 
 a large circle of friends and acquaintances. He 
 was a member of the Broadway Baptist congre- 
 gation and was devoted to his church and his 
 home. He was only forty-six years of age when 
 he died, but he had accumulated a handsome es- 
 tate in the twenty years of his residence in Louis- 
 ville. His father was a native of the Netherlands, 
 who came to America and settled in Virginia, 
 where he spent the remainder of his years. 
 
 Margaret Hegan Netherland (mother) is a 
 member of the well-known Hegan family of 
 Louisville and is still a resident of her native city. 
 
 Francis Hegan (grandfather) was a native of 
 Ireland, who came to the United States and a 
 few years later located in Louisville and estab- 
 lished a show case and picture frame factory 
 near the corner of Fourth and Main streets. He 
 made the first show case ever manufactured in 
 Louisville and did a thriving business in that 
 line and in the manufacture and sale of picture 
 frames. He was a great lover of art and one of 
 the best art critics in the whole country, and be- 
 sides dealing largely in fine pictures he had a fine 
 collection of the best pictures he could procure 
 in his private gallery. He began business in a 
 small way, but he was frugal and industrious 
 and he met with great success, leaving a large 
 estate at the time of his death in 1865. 
 
 William H. Netherland was educated in the 
 public schools of Louisville and at the Kentucky 
 Military Institute at Frankfort, from which he 
 was graduated in 1884. He engaged in farming 
 and stock raising and bought "Idlewild," the most 
 beautiful stock farm in Bullitt County, and made 
 a business of breeding fine trotting horses, which 
 proved quite profitable for some years, but the 
 value of horses depreciated a few years ago, and 
 Mr. Netherland took up the study of the treatment 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 of diseases of horses, to which he had given much 
 attention, and for which he had a fancy; and at- 
 tended the Chicago Veterinary College, from 
 which he graduated in 1893, since which time he 
 has devoted most of his time to his veterinary 
 practice in Louisville, although still residing at 
 "Idlewild," where he has a large number of fine 
 horses and raises some of the best trotters in the 
 state. His veterinary practice has grown rapidly. 
 In fact, he at once met with remarkable success, 
 his extensive acquaintance among the horse men 
 of the county and state giving him a great advan- 
 tage. His experience in the treatment of his own 
 horses made him a very good horse doctor be- 
 fore he undertook it as a profession. While he 
 still resides on his ideal farm in Bullitt County, 
 his practice, together with his shoeing forge — in 
 which the shoeing of horses is done on scientific 
 principles — requires all of his time and attention 
 in the city. 
 
 Dr. Netherland was married in 1887 to Lillie 
 P. Rogers, daughter of John Rogers of Jefferson 
 County, and has one child. He is a member of 
 the Broadway Baptist Church, as was his father 
 and mother and his Grandfather Hegan before 
 him. 
 
 DUDLEY SHARPE REYNOLDS, A. M., 
 M. D., physician and surgeon, and one of 
 the members of his profession in Louisville who 
 has achieved unusual distinction, was born near 
 Bowling Green, Kentucky, August 31, 1842; only 
 son of Rev. Thomas and Mary (Nichols) Rey- 
 nolds. Both his parents were natives of Ken- 
 tucky, and his father was a son of Dr. Admiral 
 and Sarah Freeman Reynolds, and grandson of 
 Nathaniel and Catherine Vernon Reynolds. In 
 1839 Thomas Reynolds and Mary Nichols eloped 
 from Kentucky to Gainesville, Tennessee, and 
 were married there, after which they went to live 
 in Barren County, Kentucky, on a tract of land 
 owned by the Reynolds family, and on which 
 Nathaniel Reynolds, of Revolutionary fame, set- 
 tled in 1791. He had joined the Baptist Church 
 in 1841, and in 1850, the Blue Springs Baptist 
 Church, of which the Rev. James L. Brooks was 
 pastor, licensed him to preach. On the 30th day 
 of May, 1852, he was ordained minister by the 
 
 presbytery, composed of the Rev. Jesse Moon, 
 Rev. William Skaggs, and Rev. Theodore Mere- 
 dith, and labored faithfully as a preacher of the 
 gospel to the end of his life. He was employed 
 as a church missionary for nearly fifty years, and 
 was the chief organizer and founder of the Corn 
 Creek, Poplar Ridge, and Middle Creek Baptist 
 Churches, of Trimble County; established the 
 Covington, Liberty and other churches in Old- 
 ham County, and is said to have organized more 
 Baptist churches than any other minister who has 
 labored in Kentucky. During the last forty years 
 of his life he lived at Westport, in Oldham Coun- 
 ty, and built up a large congregation there. In 
 1876 he also organized there a Union Sunday 
 School, which included in its membership the 
 representatives of nearly every family within a 
 radius of five miles, and embraced Presbyterians, 
 Episcopalians, Christians, Methodists, and Uni- 
 tarians, being the largest single Sunday school 
 organization in the state. His life was one of 
 great usefulness, and he was revered, honored, 
 and beloved by the Baptist Church of Kentucky 
 and by all who knew him. He died at the resi- 
 dence of his son, December 30, 1895, aged seven- 
 ty-four years, and on January i, 1896, he was 
 buried in the family cemetery at Westport, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Dudley S. Reynolds, the son, was educated at 
 the private schools of Professors Arnold and All- 
 man, at the Trimble High School, of Kentucky, 
 and at Irving College, of Tennessee. Ogden Col- 
 lege, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, conferred 
 upon him the degree of master of arts, and he 
 was graduated in medicine from the University 
 of Louisville, March 3, 1868. 
 
 In January, 1869, Dr. Reynolds was elected 
 surgeon to the Western Dispensary, resigning his 
 position in October, 1871, to engage in special- 
 ism. From October, 1871, to June, 1872, he was 
 engaged in study at the New York Eye and Ear 
 Infirmary, at the Wills Eye Hospital, of Phila- 
 delphia, and at the Royal London Ophthalmic 
 Hospital, in Moorefields. On returning to Louis- 
 ville, in 1872, he devoted his attention exclusive- 
 ly to ophthalmology and otology. 
 
 When the Central University of Kentucky es- 
 tablished its medical department at Louisville, in 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 451 
 
 187s, Dr. Reynolds was appointed to the chair of 
 ophthalmology and otology, and took an active 
 part in the organization of the Hospital College 
 of Medicine. He represented the college at the 
 meeting of medical teachers at Chicago, in 1877, 
 and participated in the organization of the Asso- 
 ciation of American Medical Colleges. At the 
 joint convention of teachers and governing boards 
 of medical colleges, held at Atlanta, Georgia, May, 
 
 1879, he represented the faculty of the Hospital 
 College of Medicine, and was its delegate to each 
 of the succeeding annual meetings of the College 
 Association. At the meeting held in Washington, 
 D. C, May, 1891, he took a leading part in the 
 reorganization of the Association of American 
 Medical Colleges, was elected chairman of its ju- 
 dicial council, and re-elected at Detroit, in 1892, 
 for a term of three years, and again at Baltimore, 
 May 8, 1895. 
 
 Dr. Reynolds is a member of the American 
 Medical Association, and was elected president of 
 the Section of Ophthalmology, at New York, in 
 
 1880. At Detroit, 1892, he wrote the preamble 
 and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted, 
 pledging the support of that body to the Asso- 
 ciation of American Medical Colleges, and de- 
 manding that all the colleges in the United States 
 should observe a standard of requirement not to 
 fall below the minimum standard adopted by the 
 College Association. In conjunction with Drs. 
 X. C. Scott of Cleveland, Ohio, and J. M. Bodine 
 of Louisville, Kentucky, he formulated the plan 
 for establishing the Section on Ophthalmology in 
 the American Medical Association, which was 
 presented to the meeting at Louisville, in 1875, 
 and subsequently adopted at Chicago, in 1877. 
 
 In 1879 the property of the Public Library of 
 Kentucky was directed, by decree of the Chan- 
 cery Court of Louisville, to be sold by the sheriff, 
 to satisfy judgments amounting to about thirty 
 thousand dollars. Dr. Reynolds conceived the 
 idea, and successfuly undertook the re-organiza- 
 tion of the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky, 
 which, by special act of the legislature, had been 
 empowered to take charge of the old Public Li- 
 brary property; but, owing to the decree of sale 
 in chancery, the society had abandoned its trust. 
 The re-organization was accomplished January 
 
 3, 1879, and a new executive council was elected. 
 Dr. Reynolds, with four other gentlemen, having 
 gone into bank and borrowed the money and paid 
 of? all the executions and judgments in court, 
 announced to the society at its re-organization 
 the purpose to take possession of the property at 
 once. This met with unanimous approval, and 
 the gentlemen who had procured the necessary 
 funds for relieving the financial obhgations were 
 elected members of the board of directors to serve 
 for five years. Dr. Reynolds was made chairman 
 of the library committee, and continued in that 
 office until April, 1894. In November, 1879, the 
 building had been remodeled and a new library 
 room provided, and about twenty thousand vol- 
 umes of useful literature were opened to the pub- 
 lic. This plan of arrangement was continued 
 until 1 89 1, when the work of re-arranging and 
 cataloguing was begun; it was completed in 1894, 
 and the last fasciculus of the subject catalogue, 
 according to the Dewy system, was published. 
 Under Dr. Reynold's management, the library 
 grew from a little more than twenty thousand to 
 fifty thousand volumes. 
 
 In 1879 he became editor of the "Medical Her- 
 ald," a monthly magazine, which was well sup- 
 ported by the profession and attained a wide cir- 
 culation. He sold the magazine and retired with 
 the close of the year 1883. In March, 1886, Mr. 
 D. W. Raymond established "The Medical Prog- 
 ress," a monthly magazine for students and prac- 
 titioners; he secured the services of Dr. Reynolds 
 as editor-in-chief, and, after a successful career 
 of five years, the publishers, the Rogers-Tuley 
 Company, having failed in business, the magazine 
 was sold by the assignee, and Dr. Reynolds ceased 
 his connection as editor. 
 
 He has been appointed by the Kentucky State 
 Medical Society as one of its delegates to the 
 American Medical Association, annually, 1872-96, 
 inclusive. In 1878, at the request of the Hon. 
 James B. McCreary, governor of Kentucky, he 
 was appointed by the President of the United 
 States an honorary commissioner from Kentucky 
 to the International Industrial Exposition at Paris, 
 France. He represented the American Medical 
 Association in the International Medical Congress 
 of i88r, and in the British Medical Associa- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 tion at Ryde, Isle of Wight, August, 1881; 
 was one of the vice presidents of the Section on 
 Ophthalmology of the Ninth International Med- 
 ical Congress, 1887; was honorary president of 
 the Sections on Ophthalmology and Medical 
 Pedagogics in the first Pan-American Medical 
 Congress, Washington, D. C, September, 1893; 
 delivered the annual oration of the Alumni Asso- 
 ciation of the Medica-Chirurgical College of Phil- 
 adelphia, April 7, 1887, and was made a fellow 
 of that college; was president of the Mississippi 
 Valley Medical Association, 1887-88; president of 
 the Academy of Medicine and Surgery in the 
 Polytechnic Society of Kentucky, 1880; chairman 
 of the board of censors of the Kentucky State 
 Medical Society, 1881-90; was president of the 
 joint faculties of the medical and dental depart- 
 ments of the Central University of Kentucky, 
 1891-93. He is a member of the Mitchell Dis- 
 trict Medical Society of Indiana, and in July, 
 1892, was elected its president, a position never 
 before occupied by a non-resident of that state; 
 is a member of the Filson Historical Club, and of 
 the Watterson Club, of Louisville. 
 
 Dr. Reynolds is professor of ophthalmology, 
 otology and medical jurisprudence in the Hos- 
 pital College of Medicine, medical department of 
 the Central University of Kentucky. He was 
 professor of general pathology and hygiene from 
 1883 to 1890. He conducts the largest clinic in 
 Louisville at the Hospital College every Monday 
 and Thursday during the year, and has been 
 surgeon to the eye and ear department of the 
 Louisville City Hospital almost continuously since 
 1873. He is the author of many essays and clin- 
 ical reports, embodying a great variety of sub- 
 jects and many original devices in ophthalmic 
 surgery. 
 
 On May 7, 1865, Dr. Reynolds married Miss 
 Mary F. Keagan of Louisville. Their children 
 are Dr. Dudley S. Reynolds, Jr., who lost his life 
 by accident, at Collinsville, Illinois, October 22, 
 1894, and Mary A., wife of Professor P. Richard 
 Taylor, M. D., dean of the faculty of the Hospital 
 College of Medicine. 
 
 Mrs. Reynolds died March 3, 1876. He was 
 married again, July 13, 1881, to Miss Matilda 
 L, Bruce of Covington, Kentucky, daughter of 
 
 Hon. Eli M. Bruce, a distinguished member of the 
 late Confederate States Congress. Of this union 
 there are two children: Eli M. Bruce, aged thir- 
 teen years, and Elizabeth, aged ten years. 
 
 MHUNT McCLAIN, Attorney at Law of 
 . Henderson, Kentucky, was born in that 
 city November 22, 1871, and is a son of the late 
 Jackscin and Carrie (Hunt) McClain. His father, 
 Colonel Jackson McClain, was born in Hender- 
 son October 5, 1816. At the age of twenty-three 
 years his father died, leaving a large estate for 
 his son to look after. The settlement of the estate 
 was accomplished with marked ability and to the 
 satisfaction of all concerned. He was a large land 
 owner and gave attention to the cultivation of his 
 crops for many years. He owned a. number of 
 slaves before the war, and their freedom, com- 
 bined with other losses resulting from the war, 
 crippled him financially for a time; but he over- 
 came this by his indomitable will power, energy 
 and business tact, and fully recovered and in- 
 creased his fortune. He was a man of superior 
 intellect and fine judgment who applied himself 
 strictly to the management of his business, and 
 this chief characteristic was in a large measure 
 the secret of his success in life. He was inter- 
 ested in a number of large enterprises and was a 
 director in the Farmers' Bank, of which he was 
 president for a time during the war. He was also 
 a director in the Henderson & Nashville Railroad 
 and was largely instrumental in making a success 
 of that enterprise. For several years he was a 
 member of the School Board and was frequently 
 called upon to handle trust funds, settle estates, 
 etc. In 1841 he married Mary Watson, who 
 died leaving one child, Annie, who married 
 the late Colonel A. H. Major. In 1869 Jackson 
 McClain married Carrie S. Hunt of Warsaw, 
 Illinois, who died leaving five sons: Jackson, 
 born June 16, 1870; M. Hunt, born Novem- 
 ber 22, 1871; William, born September 19, 1873; 
 James Henry, born March 4, 1877, and George, 
 born August 6, 1879. Mr. McClain's third wife, 
 who survives him, was Mrs. Helen Trafton. He 
 was paralyzed in 1888, an attack from which he 
 did not fully recover, and died in 1892. 
 James McClain (grandfather) was a native of 
 
JACKSON MCCLAIN. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 453 
 
 Henderson, a farmer and large land owner in the 
 county, and was one of the most influential citi- 
 zens of his day. He died in 1839. His wife 
 (grandmother) was a Miss Butler, daughter of a 
 Henderson County farmer. 
 
 M. Hunt McClain, after attending the Hender- 
 son schools to the limit, received his collegiate 
 education in the Cumberland College at Lebanon, 
 Tennessee, graduating in the class of 1892. He 
 was admitted to the bar and began the practice of 
 his profession in Henderson in the same year. 
 In the short time in which he has been in actual 
 business he has devoted much of his time to the 
 further equipment for the lifework before him, 
 and at the same time has met with remarkable suc- 
 cess in his vocation. He is the owner of one hun- 
 dred and seventy-five acres of land on Green 
 River Island, five miles from Henderson. 
 
 In 1892 he married Minnie Wilson Hoskins, 
 daughter of W. T. Hoskins of Henderson. They 
 have one child, Elizabeth Hunt, born April 14, 
 1893- 
 
 THOMAS PATRICK CAROTHERS of New- 
 port, a prominent attorney and Democratic 
 politician, son of Robert Barr and Elizabeth 
 (Abbott) Carothers, was born in Campbell Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, March 30, 1857. His father, Rob- 
 ert Barr Carothers, is a native of Carlisle, Cum- 
 berland County, Pennsylvania, who came to Ken- 
 tucky in 1856, locating in Campbell County — 
 which has been his place of residence ever since — 
 and is now actively engaged in contracting for 
 and building water works. He is a Republican 
 of liberal views and a man of superior intelligence 
 and business ability. 
 
 Patrick F. Carothers (grandfather) was born in 
 Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, in 1802 and 
 lived in Dayton, Ohio, where he was a railroad 
 master mechanic and a man of great strength 
 of character and something of a Democratic poli- 
 tician, being greatly devoted to the interests of 
 his party. He died in Dayton, Ohio, in 1880. 
 The progenitor of the Carothers family in Amer- 
 ica came from Scotland about one hundred and 
 fifty years ago. 
 
 Elizabeth Abbott Carothers (mother) is a native 
 of Covington, and was born before that part of 
 
 Kenton was taken from Campbell County. Her 
 ancestors came from England more than two 
 hundred years ago. Her father, Thomas Helm 
 Abbott, was born in Mason and reared in Camp- 
 bell county, where he was a prosperous farmer 
 and a prominent member of the Baptist Church. 
 He died in 1892 at the age of eighty-eight years. 
 
 Thomas P. Carothers was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Newport and Cincinnati, and after 
 leaving school was engaged in business with his 
 father for several years. He then attended the 
 Cincinnati Law School, from which he graduated 
 in May, 1878. He at once began the practice of 
 law in Newport and soon buih up a large general 
 practice, to which he is earnestly devoted. 
 
 He was a member of the state legislature in 
 1883-4; was elected city attorney in 1891 and 
 1892, and again in 1894 and 1895. 
 
 He has always taken quite an active interest in 
 local and state politics, serving his time as a 
 member of the Democratic state central commit- 
 tee; was for several terms chairman of the Camp- 
 bell County Democratic executive committee, and 
 was a delegate to a Democratic state convention 
 before he was twenty-one years of age. 
 
 He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal 
 Church, belongs to Robert Burns Lodge No. 163, 
 Free and Accepted Masons, and member of the 
 Kentucky Society of the Sons of the American 
 Revolution. 
 
 Mr. Carothers was married in 1866 to Carohne 
 Butler Powell, daughter of Charles Powell of 
 Louisville, and they have two daughters: Mary 
 Belle and Caroline Thomas. Mrs. Carothers is 
 a member of the distinguished Butler family of 
 Carrollton, of whom Gen. William O. Butler was 
 the most conspicuous. 
 
 FRANCIS WILLIAM BUCKNER, deceased, 
 for many years a prominent merchant of 
 Hopkinsville, Kentucky, was born in Virginia, 
 in 1809. He came to Kentucky with his parents 
 when he was a youth. His father's name was 
 George B. Buckner, who married Martha Up- 
 shaw, both of whom were natives of Virginia. 
 Francis W. Buckner was for some time a mer- 
 chant at Oak Grove, Christian County, and sub- 
 sequently removed to Hopkinsville, where he con- 
 
454 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 tinued in the same line of business until his death. 
 He was married April 9, 1835, to Sarah Gordon, 
 daughter of Samuel Gordon, a native of Buck- 
 ingham County, Virginia, who was one of the 
 first settlers of Christian County, where he died in 
 1852. Mrs. Buckner was born December 2, 1819, 
 and still lives to enjoy the results of her noble life 
 work. She is the mother of four sons and one 
 daughter, all of whom she brought up to be useful 
 and influential citizens. Her sons are among the 
 most prominent and respected men in the com- 
 munity in which they live. 
 
 Samuel Gordon Buckner, her eldest son, a lead- 
 ing tobacco merchant of Hopkinsville, was for 
 some years the senior member of the firm of 
 Buckner, Wooldridge & Co., tobacco warehouse- 
 men of Hopkinsville, and is now a member of the 
 firm of Abernathy & Co., one of the largest to- 
 bacco houses in the city. He is a great admirer 
 of fine horses and has from time to time owned 
 some of the best thoroughbred horses in Ken- 
 tucky. He married Kate Wooldridge, a most 
 highly cultured lady and a member of one of the 
 best families of Virginia, and they have six chil- 
 dren: Thomas, Frank, Joseph, Sherwood, Rob- 
 ert and Mattie Owsley. 
 
 Frank Buckner, second son, was born June 
 15, 1843. When the Civil war began he enlisted 
 in the Oak Grove Rangers, commanded by Cap- 
 tain Woodward, and in 1862 was made second 
 lieutenant in the Second Kentucky Cavalry, and 
 served in that capacity until the war was ended. 
 He was a brave soldier and uncomplainingly en- 
 dured many hardships. He is now a tobacco 
 commission merchant of Clarksville, Tennessee; 
 a man of sterling worth. Mason and Knight of 
 Pythias. He was married in 1867 to Hattie El- 
 liott, daughter of Col. William H. Elliott, and 
 they have four children: Elliott, Gordon W., 
 Annie and Lewis. 
 
 Harry Buckner, third son, is one of the finest 
 farmers in Christian County, and a man of wide 
 influence in his section. He married Elizabeth 
 Monroe, a most estimable lady, who died in 1889, 
 leaving two little girls, who are living with their 
 father and devoted grandmother. 
 
 Upshaw Buckner, youngest son, was born 
 January 17, 1858, and is a farmer near Longview, 
 
 where he owns 800 acres of land, nearly all of 
 which is in a high state of cultivation. He was 
 married in 1894 to Mary Kelly. 
 
 Annie Wooldridge Buckner is the only daugh- 
 ter of Francis W. and Martha (Upshaw) Buckner. 
 
 WILLIAM P. M'CLAIN, a leading attorney 
 of Henderson and native of that place, is 
 the son of William McClain, who was also a na- 
 tive of Henderson and an extensive and wealthy 
 farmer of Henderson County. He had large pos- 
 sessions in land and other property, including one 
 hundred and eighty-five slaves, whom he set free 
 of his own volition. His tobacco crop alone for 
 one year sold for seventy-five thousand dollars. 
 He married Virginia Pollitt of Henderson, daugh- 
 ter of James Pollitt, one of the first merchants in 
 Henderson, who died of cholera in 1832. Wil- 
 liam McClain (father) died in 1885, aged sixty-one 
 years. ', '■ I 
 
 James McClain (grandfather) was a native of 
 Kentucky and his father was from Maryland. 
 Col. Jackson McClain (uncle), brother of James, 
 a colonel on Governor Powell's stafif, died in 1891. 
 
 Virginia Cabell McClain (grandmother) was a 
 member of the noted Cabell family of Virginia, 
 who were descended from Pocahontas. She was 
 left a widow and married Governor Dixon of 
 Kentucky. ' ; ! ' 
 
 W. P. McClain, after his primary schooling in 
 Henderson, attended Notre Dame College, in 
 Indiana, graduating with the degree of A. B., in 
 1869. He then attended the University of Vir- 
 ginia and graduated from the law department of 
 that institution in 1872; remained there two years 
 longer; was licensed to practice in the Supreme 
 Court of Missouri; subsequently began the prac- 
 tice of law in Henderson. He was elected city 
 attorney in 1880, and resigned that office in 1881 
 to accept the office of county attorney, which he 
 held for fourteen years consecutively, at the same 
 time attending to a growing general practice in 
 all of the courts. 
 
 He was a candidate before the Democratic con- 
 vention for the nomination for congressman in 
 1894 and made a brilliant campaign, but was de- 
 feated in the convention by a small vote. He 
 received 9^ of the 11 votes of the Henderson 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 455 
 
 County deleg-ation, while Mr. Vance, his local 
 opponent, received i| votes, throwing the nom- 
 ination to John D. Clardy of Christian County. 
 His friends will urge him to become the con- 
 gressional candidate of his party in 1896. 
 
 Mr. McClain is one of the foremost men at the 
 Henderson bar; a leader in the Democratic party 
 and one of the prominent citizens of Henderson. 
 
 He was married to Mary Garland, daughter of 
 Dr. Richard Garland of Henderson. 
 
 REVEREND JAMES VENABLE LOGAN, 
 D. D., LL.D., president of Central Univer- 
 sity, Richmond, son of James Hervey and Mary 
 Venable Logan, was born in Scott County, Ken- 
 tucky, July II, 1835. 
 
 His father was a native of Shelby County, where 
 he died, January i, 1856, in his fifty-sixth year. 
 He was a Presbyterian minister and had charge of 
 Bethel Church in Scott County during the twenty 
 years of his ministry. 
 
 Alexander Logan (grandfather) was a native of 
 Augusta County, Virginia, and was one of the 
 early settlers of Shelby County, Kentucky. He 
 was a farmer by occupation and a leading member 
 of the Presbyterian Church. There is an inter- 
 esting account of the Logans in Thomas M. 
 Green's "Historical Families of Kentucky." 
 
 Mary Venable Logan (mother) was born in 
 Shelby County in 1810 and was a most exem- 
 plary Christian woman of the Presbyterian faith. 
 She survived her husband many years, and died 
 in 1892. 
 
 James Venable (maternal grandfather) was a 
 native of Prince Edward County, Virginia, who 
 came to Kentucky with the pioneers and located 
 in Shelby County, where he was a farmer and 
 died well advanced in years. He was a soldier in 
 the War of 181 2. He was descended from the 
 Huguenots, of which sturdy race much is said 
 in other sketches in this work. 
 
 Rev. James V. Logan, D. D., was prepared 
 for college in primary and classical schools in 
 Scott County, and graduated from Center Col- 
 lege in the class of 1854. He then attended the 
 Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Danville, 
 finishing that course in i860. He received and 
 
 accepted a call from the Harrodsburg congrega- 
 tion and was installed as pastor of that church 
 in October, i860, remaining there until 1868, 
 when he was released from that charge to assume 
 the editorial chair of the Free Christian Com- 
 monwealth at Louisville, and was engaged in 
 that work until the union between the Synod of 
 Kentucky and the Presbyterian Church South 
 was effected. In 1872 the Kentucky Synod un- 
 dertook to establish a school of learning and Dr. 
 Logan was occupied in the work looking to that 
 end until 1874, when his labors, in connection 
 with others, culminated in the establishment of 
 Central University, College of Philosophy, Let- 
 ters and Science, at Richmond, Kentucky. 
 
 In the memorial of the Educational Convention 
 held at Lexington, May 7 and 8, 1872, and which 
 inaugurated the movement which resulted in the 
 establishment of this university, the following lan- 
 guage occurs : "It is the sense of this convention 
 that steps be taken to at once establish, on a 
 broad and liberal basis, an institution of the high- 
 est order, under the auspices of the Synod of 
 Kentucky, and thus carry out the earnest wishes 
 of the fathers, as demonstrated by the establish- 
 ment of Center College, now lost to this church." 
 
 Dr. Logan was elected to the chair of ethics, the 
 only chair then appointed by the Synod. In 
 1880 he was elected to his present position, in 
 which he presides over and conducts the deliber- 
 ations of the faculty and sees that their decisions 
 are enforced. He is also vice chancellor of the 
 university and discharges the duties of the chan- 
 cellor in his absence or inability to act. This 
 institution has prospered greatly undei^ the wise 
 management and direction of President Logan, 
 and now has over two hundred students enrolled. 
 The university grounds are beautifully situated in 
 the suburbs of Richmond, and are nearly square, 
 about one-fourth of a mile to the side. The Hos- 
 pital College of Medicine of Louisville, the Louis- 
 ville College of Dentistry, the Collegiate Institute 
 of Jackson, Kentucky, and Hardin Collegiate In- 
 stitute of Elizabethtown are departments of Cen- 
 tral University, and all are in a most flourishing 
 condition. But Dr. Logan's duties are confined 
 to the College of Philosophy, Letters and Science 
 at Richmond, with which he has been connected 
 
456 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 since its inauguration in 1874, and of which he has 
 been president for sixteen years past. 
 
 Dr. Logan was married (first) in December, 
 1863, to Martha E. S. McBrayer, daughter of 
 Sandford McBrayer of Harrodsburg. She died 
 January, 1888, leaving two sons and three daugh- 
 ters: SandfordV.M.; Mary McBrayer; Martha 
 E., wife of FrankHn H. Kean of Louisville; 
 Susan Magoffin, wife of Thomas Burnam of 
 Richmond, and James Venable, Jr., who mar- 
 ried Jessie Taylor of Richmond. 
 
 Dr. Logan was married (secoifd) November 7, 
 1895, to Mrs. Mary Lee Herndon of Richmond. 
 
 The degree of D. D. was conferred upon Rev. 
 James V. Logan in 1880 and the degree of LL. D. 
 in 1890, by Hampden Sydney College of Virginia. 
 
 IW. BERNHEIM, senior member of the large 
 . wholesale Hquor house of Bernheim Broth- 
 ers, Louisville, although a comparatively young 
 man, has gone from the bottom to the top of the 
 financial ladder; has won success against great 
 and opposing odds, and for a number of years 
 back has given a very large portion of his time, 
 and liberally of his money, to aid other young 
 men to whom fortune has made small endow- 
 ment. 
 
 I. W. Bernheim is by no means an ordinary, or 
 a commonplace man; he exhibits great genius 
 as a manufacturer, a merchant, and as a money 
 maker, but he also exhibits towards public and 
 private charities, without regard to sect or creed, 
 a liberality that stamps his as a philanthropic 
 spirit. 
 
 With small opportunities for study, he is nev- 
 ertheless in touch, and in sympathy with the best 
 English and German literature, and no friend to 
 culture could find in him aught to offend the most 
 delicate taste. Although his boyhood and earlier 
 manhood were fully taken up with the struggles 
 of a pathetic poverty, a poverty that might have 
 been expected to harden and deface the man, Mr. 
 Bernheim has never allowed the love of the beau- 
 tiful in his nature to die out, and since fortune has 
 smiled upon him he has patronized art, not 
 through affectation or stintingly, but liberally, and 
 because he is fully persuaded that art is one of the 
 most glorious fruits of human civiHzation. Among 
 
 the business men of Louisville, the name of I. W. 
 Bernheim is an influential one-; for it is synony- 
 mous with success, and his indorsement of an en- 
 terprise is recognized always as a most important 
 factor, doing much to insure success. As a busi- 
 ness man he is genial, exhibiting at all times a 
 breadth, a comprehension and a confidence that 
 at once stamps his as a master mind. He is an en- 
 thusiast, loving his work, rejoicing in the devel- 
 opment of his ideas, and glorifying in the reputa- 
 tion, international in character, that he wins from 
 a busy world. He is a man of detail, possessing 
 in a phenomenal degree the faculty of keeping in 
 touch with the most minute affairs of his great 
 enterprise, and wisely holding that a really great 
 business rests upon a foundation of details, even 
 as the calcareous secretion deposited by coral in- 
 sects forms the base for future continents. 
 
 When he landed in America from Freiburg, 
 Germany (the place of his birth), in 1867, it was 
 with but twenty francs in his pocket, and only to 
 find that the house he was to work for had failed 
 during his coming over. His indomitable nature 
 had already developed, however, and quickly his 
 small capital was invested in a stock of goods, 
 shouldering which he started on foot, an itinerant 
 trader, toward the, to him, unknown and bound- 
 less West. A year later found him in Paducah, 
 Ky., where he secured a position as bookkeeper 
 for a house with which he remained until 1872. In 
 1869 he sent for his brother, Bernard, and three 
 years later the house of Bernheim Bros., a small 
 craft then, but a large one now, was launched 
 upon the sea of commerce. It is interesting just 
 here to note that I. W. and Bernard Bernheim had 
 won already the esteem of Mr. Elbridge Palmer, 
 president of the City National Bank of Paducah, 
 a gentleman of wealth, culture, of discernment 
 and of great liberality, and by his assistance they 
 were enabled to enter upon a career that he has 
 lived to see become in all particulars a successful 
 one, and he has the further satisfaction of know- 
 ing that Bernheim Bros, will never and could 
 never forget the friend of their earlier and strug- 
 gling days. 
 
 Isaac W. Bernheim feels that he owes much to 
 America, and although he makes trips from time 
 to time to Europe and to Oriental countries, he 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 457 
 
 loves no country as he does this, and the spirit of 
 no other people as he does the American spirit. 
 It is, therefore, not only a duty to him, but a 
 pleasure to subscribe liberally and systematically 
 to all charitable enterprises with which he is fa- 
 miliar, and to all movements that seem to him for 
 the betterment of the masses, or for the improve- 
 ment of our institutions. 
 
 To him the Young Men's Hebrew Association 
 of Louisville owes its origin and its steady 
 growth, and of this association he has been unani- 
 mously elected president every year since it was 
 founded. In giving, however, Mr. Bernheim is 
 bound by no sectarianism nor controlled by any 
 prejudice, for the struggles of his early days, and 
 the sunshine that fell across his path when a kind 
 word was spoken or a helping hand given, has 
 inspired him with a firm belief in the "Fatherhood 
 of God," and the "Brotherhood of man." 
 
 HON. EPHRAIM T. LILLARD of Nicholas- 
 ville, Kentucky, son of Stephen and Ro- 
 sanna (Hudgons) Lillard, was born in Mercer 
 County, Kentucky, June 23, 1847. His father, 
 Stephen Lillard, was born in Lawrenceburg, Ken- 
 tucky, June 23, 1808; was a farmer until 1861, 
 when he went out as captain of a squadror of 
 volunteers at the time Morgan organized his 
 forces, before any general organization had been 
 effected in the South. After several months ser- 
 vice he returned to his farm in Mercer County, 
 where he was shot down in his own house by 
 the Federal soldiers, but he survived his wounds 
 and lived until September 30, 1889. He was an 
 intense Democrat and often boasted that he never 
 scratched his ticket. He was a member of the 
 Methodist Church, and very domestic in his dis- 
 position. He was the son of Ephraim Lillard, a 
 native of Virginia, who came to Anderson Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, when quite young, and engaged in 
 farming. 
 
 Mrs. Rosanna Hudgons Lillard, mother of 
 Ephraim T. Lillard, was bom in Lawrenceburg, 
 Kentucky, in 181 6; was married to Stephen Lil- 
 lard in 1832, and was the mother of twelve chil- 
 dren, six sons and six daughters. She died Feb- 
 ruary, 1896; was buried beside her hsuband at 
 their old homestead in Mercer County, Kentucky. 
 
 Her father, William Hudgons, a native of Vir- 
 ginia, married Miss Nancy Blake, a direct de- 
 scendant of Lord Dudley Blake of England. 
 William Hudgons removed from Virginia to Law- 
 renceburg, Kentucky, and was several times elect- 
 ed judge of the Anderson County Court; and 
 afterwards removed to Richmond, Missouri, 
 where he died. 
 
 Ephraim T. Lillard was educated in the com- 
 mon schools and in the Confederate army, which 
 he joined at the age of fourteen years. He was 
 wounded at the battle of Cross Roads, near Wild 
 Cat, Kentucky, and was in the battles of Perry- 
 ville, Stone River and other engagements; was 
 with John Morgan on his raid through Indiana and 
 Ohio; was captured at Bufifington Island, Ohio, 
 imprisoned, and, after being exchanged, entered 
 Lee's army, served through the war and received 
 his parole at Appomattox Court House. 
 
 After the war he returned to his father's farm; 
 married Miss Bettie Nooe, daughter of Nimrod 
 and Lucy P. Nooe, June 22, 1870; was elected 
 to the legislature from Jessamine County, whence 
 he removed in 1875; was one of the original four- 
 teen in the house who voted for Joe C. S. Black- 
 burn in his race for the United States Senate and 
 says, "I'm still for Joe." It is hardly necessary 
 to say that Mr. Lillard is a Democrat. He and 
 his wife are members of the Christian Church. 
 They have three children living, and two have 
 died. I 
 
 Mr. Lillard is now in the internal revenue ser- 
 vice in Louisville under appointment of Ben 
 Johnson, collector of the Fifth district. He was 
 special deputy appointed to superintend the in- 
 come tax collection, before that law was declared 
 unconstitutional, and after that was transferred to 
 duty in the internal revenue service in same dis- 
 trict. 
 
 EUGENE K. WILSON of London, county 
 attorney of Laurel County, son of Dr. John 
 M. Wilson and Nancy Kerr, was born in Wil- 
 liamstown. Grant County, Kentucky, February 
 2, i86g. 
 
 Dr. John M. Wilson was born in Pendleton 
 County, Kentucky, in 1832, and has been a resi- 
 dent and practicing physician of Williamstown 
 
458 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 for forty years. He is very prominent in his 
 profession, useful as a citizen and vigorous and 
 aggressive as a Republican politician; has been 
 chairman of the county committee for twenty-five 
 years, and three times a delegate to national con- 
 ventions; is still active and skillful in his pro- 
 fession and always ready for a campaign, in which 
 he is a foe worthy of the best of the Democrats 
 in his bailiwick. He is, moreover, a Christian 
 gentleman and a consistent member of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church. 
 
 Dr. James M. Wilson (grandfather), a native of 
 Culpeper County, Virginia, came to Kentucky 
 when he was a young man, locating at Falmouth, 
 where he practiced medicine and took a lively 
 interest in political affairs. He served his county 
 and district in both branches of the legislature; 
 was a captain in the Mexican war, and was in 
 all things faithful, honest and true, living up to 
 his rehgious profession as a member of the Meth- 
 odist Churoh. He reached his full seventy-eight 
 years, and died in 1880. 
 
 James Wilson (great-grandfather) was a na- 
 tive of England. He was a major in the patriot 
 army during the Revolutionary war and was 
 among the slain in that great conflict. 
 
 Nancy Kerr Wilson (mother) was born in 
 Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1839; is now living 
 in Williamstown and is a member of the Presby- 
 terian Church. 
 
 James Kerr (grandfather), a native of Henrico 
 County, Virginia, came to Kentucky with his 
 father, James Kerr, who came with Simon Ken- 
 ton, and was killed by the Indians near Lexington. 
 He was a lineal descendant of Robert Bruce. 
 His son, James Kerr, became a farmer in Fayette 
 County; was a large slaveholder; a Union man 
 during the Civil war and a citizen of the highest 
 respectability. 
 
 Eugene K. Wilson was reared in Williamstown 
 and received his primary education in the schools 
 of that place; attended Center College, from 
 which he graduated in the class of 1887; read law 
 and attended the law department of the University 
 of Louisville, graduating and receiving his diplo- 
 ma from that institution in 1889; edited and pub- 
 lished "The Eagle," a weekly Republican news- 
 paper in Williamstown, for one year, while wait- 
 
 ing to reach his majority; went to London in 
 1890 and began the practice of law, meeting with 
 encouragement and a liberal share of the legal 
 business in the Civil Courts; was Republican 
 elector for the Eleventh Congressional district 
 in the presidential campaign of 1892, making a 
 brilliant canvass, and establishing a reputation as 
 a young politician of more than ordinary ability; 
 in November, 1894, was elected to his present 
 ofifice as county attorney, which will require his 
 attention until January, 1898. 
 
 This is a fine record for a young man, now in 
 his twenty-seventh year, but it is only the prelim- 
 inary work for future honors and successes that 
 must come to one of Mr. Wilson's ability and 
 industry. He is also a star-route mail con- 
 tractor, in which he has large interests, London 
 being a point of great interest in that line of 
 government work. There were twenty thousand 
 contracts let during the past year from London. 
 Mr. Wilson is a member of the Methodist Church, 
 and is a leading Knight of Pythias, having been 
 twice elected chancellor commander of London 
 Lodge No. 102. 
 
 CHARLES BRIDGES PEARCE, Cashier of 
 the State National Bank of Maysville and 
 one of the ablest financiers in the state, was born 
 near Flemingsburg, Kentucky, ]\Iay 7, 1823. For 
 nearly half a century he has been closely identified 
 with the growth and development of Maysville, 
 where he is highly esteemed as a citizen and rec- 
 ognized as one of the most successful business 
 men in all that section of the state. 
 
 His father, William Pearce, was a native of 
 England, and one of the most prosperous mer- 
 chants of his day. He received only an ordinary 
 education, but was a man of strong character and 
 remarkable individuality. He was a merchant, 
 private banker and farmer, and became one of 
 the wealthiest men in northern Kentucky. He 
 died of cholera, aged forty-eight years, June 14, 
 
 1833- 
 
 Mary Bridges (mother) was a Virginian, daugh- 
 ter of a Welshman who, coming from Virginia, 
 settled in Flemingsburg, Kentucky, before the 
 Revolutionary war. 
 
 Samuel Pearce (grandfather) was a native of 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 459 
 
 England who came to this country and settled 
 at Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, and was a 
 soldier in the war for American independence, 
 as was also his brother William, who came to this 
 country with him. Samuel Pearce removed from 
 Pittsburg to Kentucky, and for a time lived in the 
 vicinity of Lexington, subsequently removing to 
 Flemingsburg, where he spent the remainder of 
 a useful life. 
 
 Hiram T. Pearce (brother) was born in 1813 
 and was the guardian of Charles B. Pearce. He 
 died in 1866 or 1867, leaving an estate worth 
 half a million dollars, which was considered a 
 very large fortune, as there were few wealthier 
 men at that time. 
 
 Charles B. Pearce was only seventeen years of 
 age when he became associated with his elder 
 brother, Hiram T. Pearce, in the wholesale dry 
 goods business at Maysville, under the firm name 
 of L. C. & H. T. Pearce. This firm was suc- 
 ceeded by Pearce & Company, and afterwards 
 by Pearce, Wallingford & Co., and the jobbing 
 business was removed to Cincinnati in 1861. 
 
 In i860, principally through the efforts of 
 Charles B. Pearce, the banking house of Pearce & 
 Wallingford was formed, and in 1866 H. T. Pearce 
 was admitted to the firm, which became Pearce, 
 Wallingford & Co.; in 1872 Charles B. Pearce 
 and Joseph Wallingford bought the bank stock 
 belonging to the estate of Hiram Pearce and 
 continued in business until 1882, when Mr. Pearce 
 purchased Mr. Wallingford's interest and organ- 
 ized the State National Bank of Maysville, the 
 capital stock of which is $150,000, while the aver- 
 age deposits show it to be equal in point of busi- 
 ness to any bank in that section. Its predecessors 
 were the banking house of Pearce, Wallingford 
 & Company and the branch of the Farmers' Bank 
 of Kentucky, the assets of which Mr. Pearce 
 bought. 
 
 Mr. Pearce was made cashier of the State Na- 
 tional Bank at the time of its organization and has 
 been at the head of its management until the 
 present time, being the owner of one-half of the 
 stock. Of all the members who constituted its 
 board of directors in 1882, Mr. Pearce alone sur- 
 vives. 
 
 He is largely interested in other business en- 
 
 terprises and is sole proprietor of the Limestone 
 Flouring Mills, which cost him $85,000. 
 
 From 1843 to 1858 he was a leading dry goods 
 merchant and it is no vain boast to say that in 
 those years he sold more dry goods throughout 
 northern Kentucky and southern Ohio than any 
 other jobber. He made regular journeys to and 
 from Philadelphia to buy goods, by stage coach 
 on the old National Pike, and found no better 
 mode of travel until 1847. 
 
 He has never aspired to office, having no time 
 to devote to politics, but has performed his duty 
 as a citizen at the polls with commendable punc- 
 tuality. 
 
 Mr. Pearce was married in 1848 to Maria 
 Shultz, daughter of Christian Shultz, who came 
 from York, Pennsylvania, to Maysville, where 
 'he established a large bagging factory and also 
 owned a commission house in New Orleans. 
 Mrs. Pearce died in 1885, leaving five children: 
 L. E. Pearce; Christian S. Pearce of Nashville; 
 Charles D. Pearce, whose first wife was a daugh- 
 ter of W. N. Haldeman and who was business 
 manager of the Louisville Courier-Journal for 
 many years; and two daughters, residents of 
 Louisville. , 
 
 GEORGE FRANKLIN THOMPSON, M. 
 D., an eminent and popular physician of 
 Frankfort, son of William B. Thompson and 
 Sarah Franklin, a native of Virginia, was born 
 at Bryant Station, Fayette County, Kentucky, 
 June 20, 1848. His father was for forty years a 
 large stockholder in the celebrated Phoenix Hotel 
 of Lexington, and died in March, 1891. 
 
 Dr. Thompson was educated in the schools of 
 Lexington and under Professor Smith at Ver- 
 sailles, but his studies were interrupted by the 
 war, and in 1862, when only fourteen years of 
 age, he enlisted in Company A, Fifth Regiment 
 Kentucky Cavalry, C. S. A., and was detailed as 
 escort to Gen. Abe Buford. He followed the 
 varying fortunes of the Confederacy until the last 
 and was in the thickest of the battles of Murfrees- 
 boro (Christmas, 1862), and later at Chickamauga 
 and Mission Ridge and other important engage- 
 ments in that vicinity. He was with Gen. Mor- 
 gan in his raid through Kentucky, Indiana and 
 
460 
 
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 Ohio, and on this excursion he rode an excellent 
 horse, covering 109 miles from four o'clock in the 
 morning until nine in the evening. The trip was 
 through a section of the country in which it would 
 not have been safe for a man (or boy) of his 
 views to venture alone, but he was of a daring 
 spirit and rather enjoyed the excitement and espe- 
 cially the consternation of the people. 
 
 He was wounded in the left breast at Mt. Ster- 
 ling (1864); escaped to Cynthiana, where he was 
 captured on Sunday; escaped the same day and 
 was recaptured the following Sunday at Hall's 
 Gap; escaped again the same day and joined his 
 command at Alberene, Virginia, with which he 
 remained until paroled at Athens, Georgia, in 
 May, 1865. 
 
 Returning to his home, he resumed his studies 
 at Danville, where he completed his literary course 
 in 1867, and began the study of medicine with 
 Dr. J. W. Foster of Lexington; attended the 
 Hospital College of Medicine in Louisville, from 
 which he was graduated in 1874. 
 
 In the following year he located in -Frankfort 
 and began a professional career which has been 
 eminently successful. Among the physicians 
 with whom he has labored for over twenty years 
 he stands in the front rank, while the people who 
 have enjoyed the benefit of his professional skill 
 regard him as a most competent, obliging, cour- 
 teous and skillful physician. His popularity is 
 fully attested by the liberal share of the work of 
 the many able physicians in his field of labor. 
 
 Dr. Thompson was married November 28, 
 1877, at Maysville, to Kate Byrne, and they have 
 an interesting group of six children: Agnes, 
 Frank, Lewis, Nellie, Mason, Mary and Harry. 
 
 GEORGE DURELLE, Judge of the Court of 
 Appeals from the Louisville District, son of 
 George O. J. Durelle and Frances Mary Peirce, 
 was born in Livingston County, New York, Oc- 
 tober 18, 1852. 
 
 His father was a native of New Hampshire and 
 was educated in Bowdoin and Dartmouth Col- 
 leges. He graduated in medicine and surgery at 
 Dartmouth in 1838 and practiced in Livingston 
 County, New York, until his death, making a spe- 
 
 cialty of surgery, in which he was particularly 
 skillful. His career was short but successful and 
 promised to be far above the mediocre, and he 
 had made a reputation for fine work in surgical 
 cases when, in 1853, he died at the age of forty. 
 He was an exceedingly kind man, of tender sym- 
 pathies, of courteous demeanor, and made a host 
 of friends both socially and in his profession. His 
 ancestors were Huguenots who came to this 
 country and settled in New England, where many 
 of the name are found to-day. 
 
 Frances Mary Peirce Durelle (mother) was 
 born in Livingston County, New York, in 1831; 
 was educated in private schools in Rochester, New 
 York, and is now a resident of Louisville. Her 
 second husband was Professor S. B. Barton, at 
 one time of Center College, and well known as a 
 teacher in Danville and Louisville. 
 
 Shepard Peirce (grandfather) was the second 
 white child born at Avon, New York. He was 
 engaged in mercantile pursuits in that state, and 
 was Justice of the Peace, Commissioner of Loans, 
 and Postmaster of Livonia. He married Mary 
 Cone Pitkin, a native of Connecticut, and a mem- 
 ber of the Pitkin family, whose men were famous 
 in law and in the ministry. In the direct line of 
 ancestry in this family were William Pitkin, the 
 founder, who was appointed by the King, Attor- 
 ney-General of Connecticut, Chief Justice William 
 Pitkin, Colonel Joseph Pitkin of the Crown Point 
 Expedition, and Captain Richard Pitkin of the 
 Revolutionary Army. ]\Iary Lord, the wife of 
 Colonel Joseph Pitkin, was a great-granddaugh- 
 ter of Governor John Haynes, the first Governor 
 of Connecticut. 
 
 George Durelle's primary education was re- 
 ceived from Professor Barton in Louisville and at 
 Walnut Hill, Kentucky. He subsequently attend- 
 ed Pingry's School in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and 
 graduated from the Hopkins Grammar School at 
 New Haven, Connecticut — the oldest school ex- 
 cept one in the United States. He was then fully 
 prepared for college. He entered Yale in 1868, 
 and continued his studies there until 1871. Re- 
 turning to Louisville he was a teacher in the Sixth 
 Ward public school for two years, and at the same 
 time attended the Louisville Law School, from 
 which he was graduated in 1874. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 461 
 
 After practicing law for some time without an 
 ofifice associate he formed a partnership with 
 Horace C. Brannin, which relation continued un- 
 til 1882, when he was appointed Assistant United 
 States District Attorney under President Arthur's 
 administration and served four years. In 1886 he 
 returned to the practice of law, and in 1889 was 
 reappointed Assistant District Attorney under 
 President Harrison's administration. After serv- 
 ing two years he resigned and resumed the gen- 
 eral practice of law in the Civil Courts. He was 
 frequently called on to act as Special Master of the 
 United States Circuit Court in important and 
 compHcated railroad litigations. 
 
 In 1894 he was the leading counsel in the con- 
 tested election case of Boyle vs. Toney, which re- 
 sulted in favor of Judge Toney, but under such 
 circumstances that he declined his seat on the Ap- 
 pellate bench; whereupon Major George B. East- 
 in was appointed to fill the vacancy until the No- 
 vember election, 1895. Mr. Durelle lost his case 
 after a vigorous and well-managed contest, but 
 his ardent labors against what he considered a 
 great political wrong, brought him more con- 
 spicuously before the public than any former work 
 he had done. His efiforts in behalf of a profes- 
 sional brother and political friend were so gener- 
 ally appreciated that when he himself became a 
 candidate for the seat which had been the sub- 
 ject of the contest, there was no one among the 
 many Republican lawyers in the Fourth Appellate 
 District who offered to contest the nomination 
 with him, and he was nominated in the conven- 
 tion by acclamation. 
 
 Major Eastin was nominated by the Demo- 
 crats, and Judge John G. Simrall was an inde- 
 pendent candidate. The Democrats were confi- 
 dent of success, but Mr. Durelle received a plu- 
 rality of two thousand five hundred and seventy- 
 five votes, and a majority of over thirteen hun- 
 dred over both opponents. 
 
 The new Judge left politics when he went to 
 Frankfort to take his seat with Chief Justice Pry- 
 or. Judges Lewis, Gufify, Hazelrigg, Grace (since 
 deceased) and Paynter; and after being duly in- 
 stalled he settled down to his new duties with in- 
 dustry and zeal, fortified by an extended knowl- 
 edge of the law, and at once established himself 
 
 in the confidence and good will of his associates 
 and the members of the bar. 
 
 Mr. Durelle was married June 3, 1886, to Miss 
 Louise Leib, daughter of the late Fred Leib of 
 Louisville. She was educated in Miss Belle Peer's 
 school, and attended the Warren Memorial Pres- 
 byterian Church, of which she was a member at 
 the time of her death, November 23, 1895. She 
 left two children: Frederic, born May 20, 1889, 
 and Louise Marie, born November 13, 1895. 
 
 THOMAS C. DABNEY, deceased, of Cadiz, 
 one of the most distinguished lawyers and 
 jurists of Kentucky, son of Albert Gallatin Dab- 
 ney and Ann Eliza Catlett, was born in Louisa 
 County, Virginia, September 20, 1823, and died 
 in Cadiz, Kentucky, November 12, 1886. He was 
 educated under the able direction of Elder George 
 P. Street, and after finishing his literary and scien- 
 tific course at the age of eighteen, he took up the 
 study of law, and soon afterwards came to Cadiz 
 and was domiciled with the family of J. E. Thomp- 
 son, who was then County and Circuit Clerk. Mr. 
 Dabney became deputy clerk, at the same time 
 pursuing his studies for the legal profession un- 
 der the late Hon. C. D. Bradley, which having 
 completed, he commenced to practice law in Ca- 
 diz in 1844. 
 
 While always deeply interested in politics, he 
 never sought, nor would hold, a political office 
 outside of the legal profession. He served for 
 several terms as County Attorney; in 1852 was 
 elected County Judge of Trigg County; in July, 
 1857, he was elected Judge of the Second Circuit 
 Court District, which extended across the state 
 at that time, embracing seven counties. His term 
 expired in 1862, when, declining further election, 
 he returned to the practice of law. 
 
 "Full forty years he walked hand in hand with 
 law, the love of his youth, and with untiring per- 
 severance and devotion he won a prominent and 
 enviable place among her votaries. Envy and 
 jealousy found no abiding place in his heart, but 
 rejoicing in his brother's prosperity he gracefully 
 yielded the palm to the victor, feeling as much 
 pride in the clear judgment of the Court and in the 
 energy and talent of the bar as he did shame in 
 any act that would bring contempt upon the pro- 
 
462 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 fession. Most truly did he ennoble a noble pro- 
 fession, ever striving to honor and exalt the adopt- 
 ed child of Blackstone, the legitimate offspring of 
 Divinity. The dignity that characterized his every 
 act and thought never forsook him 'e'en when 
 his feet were slipping o'er the brink.' Vain and 
 worse than useless are the eulogies of the dead, 
 and unavaihng indeed are clamorous praises of 
 him whose life has been as a white tablet." 
 
 In his family circle Judge Dabney was kind, 
 affectionate and unselfish to a fault. Wherever his 
 name was known it was strongly fettered with 
 piety, honor and fidelity on the one hand and 
 modesty, purity and benevolence on the other. 
 Chaste and delicate in his tastes he could not 
 brook that which savored of coarseness or unre- 
 finement. He was the proudest of men and yet 
 the humblest, and so rare was the blending, so 
 admirable the balancing that he was the esteemed 
 friend of the prosperous and the ready counselor 
 and help of the poor. Not even to his jealous and 
 exacting profession — to which his heart was ever 
 loyal — would he yield a moment of his hours of 
 study and communion with the Book of Books. 
 At the close of every day, and for hours, he would 
 pore over and study the sacred history, which, 
 like a golden beam of Hght, threaded his library, 
 lending its hue to his favorite volumes. Such a 
 life is written of no other man in this volume. 
 
 Judge Dabney was married March 7, 1848, to 
 Susanna Rumsey, only child of the late James D. 
 Rumsey of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in which 
 city she was born July 10, 1826. She died at her 
 home in Cadiz, August 10, 1890. Her father, a 
 native of Maryland, was a son of Dr. Edward 
 Rumsey of Christian County, and they belonged 
 to a family of gentlemen by inheritance. Pos- 
 sessed of the very first order of common sense, 
 they supplemented their native talent with fine 
 classical attainments, extensive reading and with 
 such grace of manner that made any one of them 
 a central figure in polite circles and as truly the 
 valued guest of every cultivated household. It 
 was in such an atmosphere that Mrs. Dabney was 
 born and raised. She was carefuly educated by 
 her father and was as familiar with the dactyls of 
 Homer as Longfellow was with the spondees of 
 poor Dick Kirk. She continued her reading 
 
 through life, and at her death had studied and un- 
 derstood more books than any other lady in the 
 commonwealth. ' 1 j 
 
 Her great uncle, James Rumsey, and her own 
 uncle, Edward Rumsey, were men of great am- 
 bition. To the former the credit is now univer- 
 sally conceded of discovering and adding the 
 power of steam to the navigation of boats; and the 
 latter, when quite a young man, was a representa- 
 tive in Congress from the Second District of Ken- 
 tucky and was the intimate associate and peer of 
 such men as Richard H. Menifee, Wise of Vir- 
 ginia, Ingersoll of Pennsylvania, and Prentiss of 
 Mississippi. As a public speaker his points were 
 as incisive as Wise, his rhetoric as rich and fertile 
 as Sargent S. Prentiss, and his declamation as 
 graceful as Menifee. In the early dawn of his 
 brilliant career he was summoned home on ac- 
 count of the illness and death of his entire family 
 of children, the loss of whom so humbled his spirit 
 that he refused to return to his seat or appear 
 again before a public audience. And he kept his 
 word. 
 
 James Rumsey, the inventor mentioned above, 
 possessed the delicate temperament of true gen- 
 ius — nervous, sensitive and refined. He died in 
 London, England, of sudden heart failure, caused 
 by intense personal excitement while lecturing 
 on the application of steam power to navigation 
 before the Royal Society. 
 
 "But the chief charm of this estimable lady (Mrs. 
 Dabney) did not lie in the long line of her dis- 
 tinguished ancestry, her ripe scholarship, exten- 
 sive reading, or finished culture, but in her na- 
 tive goodness as a woman, her kind and tender 
 care as the mother of a large family, and the soli- 
 citude she manifested for the enjoyment and 
 pleasure of a host of friends who were her almost 
 constant companions and welcome guests." 
 
 The children of Thomas C. Dabney and Su- 
 sanna Rumsey were: James R. Dabney, a gradu- 
 ate of Kentucky University, and late County 
 Judge of Henderson County, died in Hopkins- 
 ville, September 23, 1895. Albert J. Dabney, lieu- 
 tenant in the United States Navy, educated at 
 Kentucky University and the AnnapoHs Naval 
 College, Maryland, now living in Staunton, Vir- 
 ginia, His health having failed, he resigned his 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 463 
 
 position in the United States Navy, and has since 
 filled important chairs as teacher in colleges in 
 Tennessee, Kentucky and in the military academy 
 in Staunton. Cornelia, widow of J. R. Averitt, 
 whose early death closed a prospective briUiant 
 political career. Thomas C. Dabney died April 
 13, 1873, at the Kentucky University, Lexington. 
 Annie S.; Minnie, wife of Judge Robert Cren- 
 shaw; E. F. Dabney, attorney at law of San Jose, 
 California, a graduate of the Louisville (Ky.) Law 
 School; Dr. A. S. Dabney, dentist of Paducah, 
 graduate of the Baltimore Dental College. The 
 Doctor, though a young man, is prominent in his 
 profession, a bookworm and well-known genealo- 
 gist; and Carrie Lee, wife of Edward Higgin of 
 Denver, Colorado. 
 
 Judge Dabney's father, Albert Gallatin Dab- 
 ney, was born in Louisa County, Virginia, in 
 1798; was a planter and owned many slaves; re- 
 moved to Christian County, Kentucky, in the fall 
 of 1830, with a family of four sons. While in Vir- 
 ginia he was a Major in the State Militia. He was 
 a typical, old-time gentleman, and carried him- 
 self as he wore his title, with stately dignity. 
 
 Cornelius Dabney (grandfather) and his wife, 
 who was a Miss Winston, lived in Louisa Coun- 
 ty, Virginia. He was a prosperous planter, a man 
 of fine character and a worthy descendant of one 
 of three brothers — Cornelius, John and Isaac — 
 who fled from France upon the revocation of the 
 Edict of Nantes. They wrote their names 
 D'Aubigne, a name which is well known in 
 France. The family crest was "Faithful and grate- 
 ful." Judge Dabney's grandfather, Cornelius 
 Dabney, was a descendant of Cornelius 
 D'Aubigne from France, and he could trace his 
 pedigree in an almost unbroken line to St. Bar- 
 tholomew's historic eve of terror and persecution. 
 
 ROBERT CRENSHAW, leading lawyer and 
 honored citizen of Cadiz, son of Robertson 
 Crenshaw and Mary Frances Walden, was born in 
 the precinct of Roaring Springs, Trigg County, 
 Kentucky, June 4, 1847. 
 
 His father was born in Halifax County, Vir- 
 ginia, September, 1816, and came to Trigg Coun- 
 ty with his parents in 181Q. He married Mary 
 Frances Walden in 1839 and was a resident and 
 
 farmer of Trigg County until the time of his death, 
 which occurred February 12, 1853. He was a 
 faithful member of the Christian Church, a Mason 
 and an honored citizen. 
 
 Cornelius Crenshaw (grandfather) married 
 Nancy Kent in Halifax County, Virginia, and 
 came to Trigg County, Kentucky, in 1819. He 
 was for many years a member of the United Bap- 
 tist denomination, but afterwards associated him- 
 self with the Christian Church and was noted for 
 his piety and good works. Before coming to 
 Kentucky he had served in a Virginia company in 
 the War of 1812, in which he was a commissioned 
 officer stationed at Norfolk, Virginia. 
 
 Mary Frances Walden Crenshaw (mother) was 
 a sister of Dr. J. C. Walden of Maysville, whose 
 sketch and ancestry will be found in this volume. 
 
 Robert Crenshaw was raised by his uncle, 
 Thomas Crenshaw, and educated under the teach- 
 ing and direction of Professors A. J. Wyatt and G. 
 P. Street. At the age of twenty he began the 
 study of law under Judge Thomas C. Dabney. He 
 commenced the practice of law in 1868. In 1872 
 he was elected County Attorney for a term of four 
 years, during which time he also held the office 
 of School Commissioner; and in 1884 was elected 
 County Judge, and this office he filled during the 
 whole term with great credit to himself and to the 
 entire satisfaction of his constituents. On leaving 
 the bench he resumed the practice of law, in which 
 he has had a successful and brilliant career. 
 
 He has sometimes indulged in politics for the 
 sake of his friends and the political weal, but has 
 sought no favors outside of his legal profession. 
 He has occasionally gratified a propensity for 
 newspaper work by lending his aid to the local 
 journals, and his writings have been much quoted. 
 
 In 1894 a vote was taken in Trigg County on 
 the question whether whisky should be sold in the 
 county, and Judge Crenshaw was selected as 
 Chairman of the Executive Committee to canvass 
 the county in the interest of the Prohibition party, 
 which won the contest by over five hundred ma- 
 jority, an achievement of which he is very proud 
 and for which he is greatly honored by the Chris- 
 tian people of his county. And this one incident 
 is a fair index of the character of the man. He 
 undertook a task which was by many consid- 
 
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 ered unpopular and one in which few men could 
 hope to succeed; but the magnitude of the under- 
 taking nor the jeers of the enemies of temperance, 
 nor the opposition of so-called business interests 
 could not deter him from throwing the whole 
 force and weight of his influence against a so- 
 cial wrong and in favor of the best interests of so- 
 ciety. 
 
 Judge Crenshaw was married in 1877 to Minnie 
 Dabney, daughter of Judge Thomas C. Dabney, 
 the subject of the foregoing sketch, and it is hard- 
 ly necessary to add that she is one of the most in- 
 telligent women of the state of Kentucky. She 
 has made a name in literature and is a frequent 
 contributor to literary and rehgious journals. 
 Judge and Mrs. Crenshaw have a happy family of 
 six children : Susanne Moore, E. Rumsey, Dab- 
 ney H., Robert, John W. and Albert. 
 
 OOHN FRANKLIN HAGER, leading attor- 
 ney-at-law of Ashland, son of Henry G. Ha- 
 ger, and grandson of Daniel Hager, Sr., was born 
 in Floyd County, Kentucky, March 16, 1853. His 
 mother died in 1856, and at the age of eleven years 
 he went to Ashland and for two years attended the 
 private school of J. B. Powell; was one year at 
 school in Catlettsburg and another year at Ma- 
 sonic Academy, Louisa, Kentucky. In his boy- 
 hood, when not in school he was a knock-about 
 hand on Big Sandy River steamers serving as 
 cabin-boy, cook, watchman and "cub" pilot. At 
 the age of fifteen he was employed by his uncle, 
 S. P. Hager, a general merchant at Paintsville, 
 and remained there for four years except a part 
 of one year when he attended the public schools 
 at Paris, 111. At the age of nineteen he was ap- 
 pointed deputy clerk of the Magofifin Circuit 
 Court, receiving one-third of the fees for his serv- 
 ices, at the same time reading borrowed law books 
 and qualified himself for examination for license, 
 to practice law, which he obtained at West Lib- 
 erty, November 13, 1873, being then under twen- 
 ty-one years of age. He soon returned to Ash- 
 land and became a partner with John W. Hamp- 
 ton in the practice of law, succeeding as Hamp- 
 ton & Hager, the law firm of Ireland & Plamp- 
 ton, Mr. Ireland having been elected Judge of the 
 Sixteenth Circuit. This partnership continued 
 
 until 1880, when Mr. Hampton removed to Texas, 
 since which time Mr. Hager has been engaged in 
 a large practice alone at Ashland. 
 
 He served as Commissioner from Kentucky un- 
 der appointment of Governor Buckner at the cele- 
 bration of the Centennial of the Federal Consti- 
 tution at Philadelphia in September, 1887; as 
 Commissioner from Kentucky at the Centennial 
 Exposition at Cincinnati in 1888; as Railroad 
 Commissioner from May, 1888, to August, i8gi, 
 resigning the latter position several months be- 
 fore the expiration of his term. He was one of 
 the Commissioners in charge of the State Treas- 
 ury after the defalcation and flight of Treasurer J. 
 W. Tate; was twice elected city attorney of Ash- 
 land, in 1878 and 1886, and with that exception 
 has never been a candidate for or held an elective 
 office. His law practice is worth many times the 
 salary of any office within the gift of the people 
 of the state. 
 
 Mr. Hager was married December 22, 1881, to 
 Margaret Elizabeth Maupin and their family con- 
 sists of three sons and two daughters, Gerald, 
 Adele, Richard Buckner, Margaret Maupin and 
 John F. Hager, Jr. 
 
 WILLIAM ELLIOTT, a leading tobacco- 
 nist of Henderson, Kentucky, son of H. 
 Clay and Elizabeth (Palmer) Elliott, was born in 
 Daviess County, Kentucky, August 14, 1857. He 
 was educated in the public schools of Henderson, 
 and after leaving school he began the business of 
 stemming tobacco and preparing it for the Eng- 
 lish market. In 1892 he built a large stemmery, 
 which was burned May i, 1895, with a loss of 
 about $50,000. He subsequently bought the old 
 Shelby property and equipped it thoroughly, in 
 which he continued his business with only tem- 
 porary interruption, and in which he has been re- 
 markably successful. He is a man of great en- 
 orgy and push, of more than ordinary enterprise 
 and of reliable business judgment. 
 
 He is interested in some of the leading business 
 enterprises of the city, particularly tiie Farmers' 
 Bank, a branch of the Farmers' Bank of Ken- 
 tucky, at Frankfort, which has a capital of $360,- 
 000, the largest capital held by any bank in the 
 state outside of the city of Louisville. Mr. Elliott 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 465 
 
 is Vice-President of the Henderson branch of this 
 strong financial institution. He has served six or 
 eight years as trustee of the public schools, and 
 has always taken a deep interest in the cause of 
 education and in the moral and religious welfare 
 of his city, being a member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church and for fifteen years superintendent 
 of the Sunday school. Mr. Elliott has performed 
 well his part as a good citizen, voting according 
 to the dictates of his conscience and using his in- 
 fluence in behalf of men and measures for the best 
 interests of society. 
 
 He was married December 29, 1879, to Mary 
 Nunn of Henderson ; and the result of this union 
 is a happy family of four children. 
 
 Mr. Elliott's father was a native of Nelson 
 County, who removed to Daviess County after 
 his marriage. His mother was a native of Wash- 
 ington County, Kentucky, and was a daughter 
 of Robert Palmer, and granddaughter of the emi- 
 nent jurist, Ben Hardin. 
 
 Dr. William Elliott (grandfather) is now living 
 in New Haven, Nelson County, where he prac- 
 ticed medicine for many years, and is now ninety- 
 seven years of age. 
 
 Robert Palmer (maternal grandfather) was a 
 resident of Springfield, Washington County, Ken- 
 tucky, and his mother was a daughter of Ben Har- 
 din. (See Collins' History, p. 646.) 
 
 COLONEL THOMAS B. FORD, Circuit 
 Clerk of the Franklin County Court, is a 
 son of Harbin H, and Ann M. (Brooks) Ford, 
 and was born in Owen County, Kentucky, Feb- 
 ruary 7, 1841. He is descended from an old Eng- 
 lish family of early settlers in Virginia. He is 
 a grandson of William Ford, who was born in 
 Orange County, Virginia, and removed to Ken- 
 tucky in 1816 and located on a farm near Lex- 
 ington, where he died in 1820. Harbin H. Ford 
 (father) was also a native of Orange County, 
 Virginia, and removed to Kentucky in 1830, or 
 about that time, locating in the vicinity of Lex- 
 ington, where he made his home for several years, 
 when he removed to Owen County and purchased 
 real estate to the amount of about one thousand 
 acres, and was at the time of his death one of the 
 largest land owners in the county. He was an 
 
 30 
 
 officer in the War of 181 2, a member of the 
 Baptist Church and a conscientious Chris- 
 tian gentleman. He died in Owen County. His 
 wife, Ann Brooks, was of Irish origin, whose 
 ancestors settled in this country about the time 
 of the Revolution. She was born in Washington, 
 D. C, in 1802, and died at Frankfort, Kentucky, 
 in 1 881. She was a devout Christian, a woman 
 of strong character and was a communicant of 
 the Baptist Church. 
 
 Colonel Thomas B. Ford lived with his parents 
 on a farm in Owen County until in his fourteenth 
 year, when he removed with his mother to Frank- 
 fort, where he attended Sayres Academy, a school 
 in which many of the most eminent men in Ken- 
 tucky were educated. Upon leaving this insti- 
 tution he read law and in 1862 was admitted to 
 the bar. He practiced law most successfully for 
 several years, and in 1874 was elected to the office 
 of county attorney, which he held for four years. 
 After the expiration of his term as county attor- 
 ney, he was chosen superintendent of public 
 schools, and in 1880 was re-elected to the same 
 office. During his incumbency of this office the 
 schools of Franklin County showed much im- 
 provement and the school fund of the county 
 began to largely increase. In 1878 Colonel Ford 
 was appointed clerk of the United States Court, 
 which office he filled most capably and acceptably, 
 continuously for a period of thirteen years, and 
 which he resigned in 1891. In 1892 he was 
 elected circuit clerk of Franklin County, which 
 office he now holds. Colonel Ford has always 
 taken an active interest in local and municipal 
 affairs, and has been a member of the city council 
 and served two terms as school trustee. He is 
 a member of W. G. Simpson Lodge No. 472, 
 F. & A. M., of Owen County, Dexter Lodge, K. 
 of P., of Frankfort, and Frankfort Lodge No. 28, 
 I. O. O. F. Colonel Ford and his sister still own 
 the old homestead in Owen County. In 1881 he 
 was united in marriage to Mamie Elliott, daughter 
 of Benjamin T. Elliott of Frankfort, and they 
 have one son, Elliott Ford. Not the least among 
 Colonel Ford's accomplishments is his success in 
 the field of literature. His talents in this fine 
 have been very versatile, as evidenced by his 
 many well-known publications: "The Deadly 
 
466 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Blow," "The Governor's Daughter," "Norma 
 Norton's Vow" and "The Perilous Plot;" and 
 among his best known stories which have been 
 published in "The Saturday Night" are "My 
 Violin," a poem which has been much admired, 
 as has also his opera, entitled "Lena," which was 
 set to music by Professor Mauer; also his drama, 
 "The Three Turks." Colonel Ford justly de- 
 serves the recognition he has received. He is 
 at present the president of the Southern Literary 
 Association, and is taking an active interest in the 
 development of literature in the South. 
 
 McHENRY RHOADS, the efficient superin- 
 tendent of the city schools of Frankfort, 
 and one of the leading educators of the state, 
 was born in Muhlenburg County, Kentucky, July 
 27, 1858. He grew up on a farm in his native 
 county and in 1876 entered the West Kentucky 
 College, and after a four years' course was grad- 
 uated from that institution in 1880. After com- 
 pleting his studies, he became a teacher in the 
 preparatory department and was subsequently 
 assistant teacher in Natural Sciences in this col- 
 lege. At the end of three years he severed his 
 connection with this institution and in 1883 was 
 elected vice president of the Hartford College, 
 where he remained eight years. During the last 
 five years of his stay at Hartford he was editor 
 and part owner of the Hartford Herald. In the 
 fall of 1891 he was elected to his present position, 
 superintendent of the city schools of Frankfort. 
 Since he took charge the schools of the city have 
 greatly improved and increased in attendance un- 
 til it is now necessary to employ a corps of twen- 
 ty-two teachers. In 1887 Mr. Rhoads married a 
 Miss Ree Crawford, a daughter of Benjamin F. 
 Crawford of Millwood, Grayson County, and they 
 have two sons, Crawford Carlisle and Wayland. 
 
 McHenry Rhoads is a son of Absalom J. and 
 Tabitha R. (Dennis) Rhoads. His father was 
 born in Muhlenburg County in 1816. He was a 
 prosperous farmer, a good citizen and a member 
 of the Baptist Church. He died in his native 
 county, February 21, 1888. 
 
 Solomon Rhoads (grandfather) was a native of 
 Pennsylvania, who came to Kentucky and set- 
 tled in Muhlenburg' County long befgr^ that 
 
 county was organized. He was a farmer and dis- 
 tiller, and married Rachel (Boone) Johnson, a 
 third cousin of Daniel Boone. His death oc- 
 curred in that county at the age of sixty years. 
 
 Henry Rhoads (great-grandfather) was bom in 
 Germany in 1737, and at the age of seventeen 
 years he landed in this country, and became one 
 of the earliest settlers in what is now Muhlenburg 
 County. He was a member of the first legislature 
 under the state government and named his coun- 
 ty in honor of John Peter Muhlenburg. Henry 
 Rhoads was a man of considerable prominence 
 and influence, and was a soldier in the Revolu- 
 tionary war. 
 
 Mrs. (Dennis) Rhoads (mother) was also 
 a native of Muhlenburg County, where she lived 
 until September 26, 1883, and died in the fifty- 
 second year of her age. She was a daughter of 
 Abraham Dennis, a native of South Carolina, 
 who removed to Muhlenburg County when he 
 was a young man, where he followed farming 
 until the time of his death. His ancestors were 
 from Ireland. 
 
 JOHN T. HODGE, a prominent and brilliant 
 young attorney of Newport, Kentucky, was 
 born near Florence, Kenton County, Kentucky, 
 March 28, 1863. He is a son of Gen. George B. 
 Hodge, a sketch of whose part in public affairs 
 is appended. 
 
 John T. Hodge was educated in the public 
 schools of Newport; read law with W. H. McCoy 
 of Cincinnati; graduated from the Cincinnati 
 Law School in 1887; was third in his class of 
 one hundred and eighteen and received the de- 
 gree of LL.B. He remained in the office of his 
 preceptor until August, 1890, when he opened 
 an office in Newport and was successfully engaged 
 in practicing law until 1893, when he was ap- 
 pointed master commissioner, of which office he 
 is the present incumbent. 
 
 Mr. Hodge is an active politician and a leader 
 in the Democratic party, which has honored him 
 with positions which demand the services of a 
 man of good judgment and of great executive 
 ability. He has twice been chairman of the Dem- 
 ocratic county executive committee; was chair- 
 man of the Second legislative district committee 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 467 
 
 for one term; is now chairman of the Newport 
 Democratic committee; recently succeeded Hon. 
 Harvey Myers as central committeeman; took a 
 prominent part in the Democratic convention of 
 1895; was a Democratic candidate for elector in 
 the presidential campaign of 1892, receiving 
 thirty-five more votes than any other electoral 
 candidate in his county, and in all of these posi- 
 tions has proved himself a man of great strength 
 of character, a brilliant speaker and a leader of 
 acknowledged ability. 
 
 Mr. Hodge was married April 4, 1891, to Vir- 
 ginia Lee Lovell, daughter of Howard L. Lovell 
 of Covington. They are members of the Episco- 
 pal Church. 
 
 Mr. Hodge's father. Gen. George Baird Hodge, 
 was born in Fleming County, April 8, 1828, and 
 was educated at Maysville and in the Navy School 
 at Annapolis, Maryland. He was midshipman in 
 the United States navy in 1845; served as mid- 
 shipman through the Mexican war; resigned in 
 April, 1850; in 1853, at the age of twenty-five, 
 he was the Whig candidate for Congress; made a 
 brilliant, but unsuccessful campaign ; then began 
 the practice of law in Newport; was a member of 
 the Kentucky house of representatives from 1859 
 to 1861 and was chairman of the committee on 
 federal relations, when the celebrated resolution 
 declaring the neutrality of Kentucky was passed, 
 May 16, 1861; was candidate in i860 for elector 
 at large on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket; 
 entered the Confederate army as a private soldier, 
 September 23, 1861; was a member of the pro- 
 visional government of Kentucky in 1861 ; mem- 
 ber from Kentucky of the Confederate provis- 
 ional congress, 1861-62; member of the first per- 
 manent Confederate congress, 1862; and when 
 not attending the sessions of congress continued 
 to serve in the army; was made captain and 
 assistant adjutant-general of Gen. Breckinridge's 
 division, 1862; promoted to major for distin- 
 guished gallantry at the battle of Shiloh, April, 
 1862; was made colonel, 1864, and brigadier gen- 
 eral of cavalry the same year, and was in com- 
 mand of the military district of Mississippi and 
 Louisiana at the close of the war, 1865. 
 
 Gen. Hodge resumed the practice of law in 
 Newport in 1866; was candidate for presidential 
 
 elector at large on the Greeley and Brown ticket 
 in 1872, and received the highest vote cast, and 
 was president of the electoral college which met 
 in Frankfort, December 4, 1872. He was an 
 able lawyer, a shrewd politician, a beautiful and 
 forceful writer, a ready, eloquent speaker and 
 was prominently mentioned as a candidate for 
 governor in 1874, but at that time he removed to 
 Longwood, Orange County, Florida, and made 
 that his home until the time of his death in 1892. 
 His son, John T. Hodge, has inherited his 
 talent in a remarkable degree and has laid the 
 foundation for a brilliant career. 
 
 JOHN H. BARRET, a prominent business man 
 and capitalist of Henderson, is a son of the 
 late John H. Barret and Susan D. Rankin. 
 
 His father, for whom he was named, was born 
 in Louisa County, Virginia, February 4, 1818; 
 died in Henderson in 1890. He (father) received 
 a good education in his native county, and fol- 
 lowed the plow and endured the hardships and 
 performed the rough labors incident to the Hfe 
 of a farmer's boy, but he was dutiful, obedient, 
 energetic and thoughtful, and developed a sound 
 judgment, exhibiting traits which qualified him 
 for the higher responsibilities which he assumed 
 later in life; and at the age of seventeen he left 
 the parental roof in Virginia and joined his elder 
 brother, Alexander Barret, who had gone to Hen- 
 derson, Kentucky, about two years before. It 
 was in December, 1835, that he accepted employ- 
 ment with his brother, who was then engaged in 
 purchasing and stemming tobacco. He soon be- 
 came a valuable assistant to his employer, and was 
 with him about four years, when, having married 
 Susan D. Rankin (December, 1839), he formed 
 a co-partnership with his brother-in-law, James 
 E. Rankin, and engaged in the sale of dry goods, 
 which continued until 1852, when the firm dis- 
 solved by mutual consent, Mr. Barret having been 
 tendered a partnership with his brother and for- 
 mer employer in the tobacco business. This 
 business relation of the brothers continued until 
 the death of Alexander B. Barret in 1861. The 
 settlement of an estate of between three and four 
 million dollars devolved upon the surviving part- 
 ner as executor of his brother's will, and this he 
 
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 accomplished within five years ; hundreds of lega- 
 cies were paid off, accounts settled, books bal- 
 anced and the estate divided without a jar, and 
 this was considered "one of the most brilliant and 
 successful financial and business achievements 
 known to the business world." 
 
 The great stemming interest was carried on 
 in the meantime by the surviving partner, John 
 H. Barret, who eventually associated with him 
 his sons, John H. and James R., and his son-in- 
 law, James F. Rankin, the firm being known as 
 John H. Barret & Co. For sortie years prior to 
 his death (1890), the senior member of the firm 
 took no active part in the details of the business 
 of his firm, except by counsel and advice. 
 
 He was a leading spirit in the promotion and 
 construction of the Evansville, Henderson & 
 Nashville Railroad; the city authorities placed 
 $300,000 worth of its bonds in Mr. Barret's hands 
 as custodian, without security; he purchased the 
 first locomotive for the road with his own money; 
 was one of the organizers of the First National 
 Bank; was mainly instrumental in establishing 
 the woolen and cotton mills, in both of which 
 he was a large stockholder; owned and cuhivated 
 hundreds of acres of land in Henderson County, 
 large tracts in Hopkins and Breckinridge coun- 
 ties, and four thousand, eight hundred acres in 
 Delta County, Texas, upon which he cultivated 
 cotton and corn and was largely engaged in stock 
 raising; had branch tobacco stemmeries in 
 Uniontown and Owensboro; was a liberal sup- 
 porter of the cause of rehgion, giving liberally 
 to all denominations and all charitable organiza- 
 tions; was a Mason, but seldom attended his 
 lodge; was no politician or office seeker, but was 
 interested in the election of good men to office; 
 a man of warm personal attachments and gen- 
 erous impulses, but not effusive, he was a good 
 and true friend and a generous enemy. His death 
 was a public calamity, and there was mourning 
 in many households where his kindness had en- 
 deared him to the humble, and his exemplary 
 life had commanded the love and respect of the 
 whole community. 
 
 He was married December, 1839, to Susan D. 
 Rankin, a woman of affectionate disposition, even 
 temper, strong, good sense, active benevolence 
 
 and earnest piety. Their three children, John H., 
 James R. and Susan, were quite young, when 
 their mother died in 1851. Mr. Barret was mar- 
 ried again in 1852, to Mary Augusta Haddock 
 of Smithland, Kentucky, and all of his four chil- 
 dren by this marriage died in infancy. Upon the 
 death of Mr. Barret in 1890, his sons, John H. 
 and James R., and son-in-law, James E. Rankin, 
 continued the business — in which they had been 
 interested — under the old firm name of John H. 
 Barret & Co., the subject of this sketch taking 
 the place of his father as senior member of the 
 firm. 
 
 Peter Straghan Barret, farmer, and his wife, 
 Matilda (Wilson) Barret (grandparents of John 
 H. Barret, Jr.) were natives of Louisa County, 
 Virginia. John Barret, his paternal great-grand- 
 father, and Henry Pendleton, his maternal great- 
 grandfather, were bom, lived and died in Virginia. 
 
 Susan D. Rankin Barret (mother) was a daugh- 
 ter of Dr. Adam Rankin, an eminent physician 
 of Henderson, whose first wife was Elizabeth 
 Speed, daughter of Captain James Speed and 
 Mary Spencer. She was born in Virginia, Feb- 
 ruary 7, 1774, came to Kentucky in 1782, and 
 from that date until she was grown her life was 
 spent amid the trials, dangers and privations in- 
 cident to early Kentucky history. She was mar- 
 ried to Dr. Adam Rankin, one of the pioneers of 
 Henderson, to which place they went soon after 
 their marriage, and his name is connected with 
 the earliest events of that place. For many years 
 he was prominent as a physician and public- 
 spirited citizen, and no man stood higher in the 
 estimation of his fellow men. The distinguished 
 naturalist, Audubon, made his home with Dr. 
 Rankin while he was sojourning in Henderson, 
 and these two were personal friends. 
 
 An interesting sketch of the Speed family, of 
 which Mr. Barret is a descendant, will be found 
 elsewhere in this work. 
 
 John H. Barret, the principal subject of this 
 sketch, attended the Henderson schools; was pre- 
 pared for college in the celebrated school of B. 
 B. Sayre at Frankfort, and graduated from the 
 University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1861. 
 From that time he was associated in business 
 with his father until the death of the latter in 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 469 
 
 1890, when he became senior member of the firm, 
 as before stated. 
 
 The great tobacco stemmery was established 
 about i83oand has grown considerably during the 
 sixty years of its existence. The present building 
 covers an area of 230x60 feet, is four stories high, 
 and its average annual output is 800 hogsheads, 
 and this, together with the product of the branch 
 houses, goes to the markets in the United King- 
 dom of Great Britain. 
 
 Mr. Barret is also president of the Henderson 
 Woolen Mills, manufacturer of Kentucky jeans 
 and jeans pants, a stockholder and director in the 
 Henderson Cotton Mills; director in the Hen- 
 derson National Bank, and the Ohio Valley Bank 
 and Trust Company, and has interests in other 
 enterprises of more or less magnitude. His busi- 
 ness relations are virtually the same as were those 
 of his father, and his reputation as a business man 
 and citizen is that of a worthy successor to his 
 honored father. 
 
 Mr. Barret was married September 15, 1863, to 
 Henrietta OfTutt, a member of the distinguished 
 family of that name of Shelby County. He has 
 two children, Mary, wife of Dr. James W. Hed- 
 dins of St. Joseph, Missouri, and Augusta, who 
 is at home with her father, Mrs. Barret having 
 died June 27, 1895. 
 
 DR. JAMES P. WILLIAMS, one of the lead- 
 ing dental surgeons of western Kentucky 
 and prominent citizen of Henderson, was born 
 in Winchester, Tennessee, January 18, 1865; son 
 of James €. and Cynthia (Vaughan) Williams. 
 His father was born in Virginia in 182 1, and some 
 years later removed with his family to FrankHn 
 County, Tennessee, where he became a farmer, 
 and in 1846 married Cynthia Vaughan, and they 
 had twelve children: Fulton, Indiana, Rufus, 
 Martin, Marie, Jasper, Thomas, Mollie, Jennie, 
 Jeremiah, Josiah and Cynthia. The father is still 
 living in Tennessee, but the mother died in Feb- 
 ruary, 1895. 
 
 Joshua Williams (grandfather) was a native of 
 Jackson County, Alabama, who removed to Vir- 
 ginia and later to Tennessee. 
 
 Dr. James P. Williams, the subject of this 
 sketch, received his education in Winchester, 
 
 principally at the normal school, in which he 
 received a very high rating in 1885. He then at- 
 tended Vanderbilt University, and was graduated 
 from the dental department in 1888. 
 
 He located in Owensboro, and was for six 
 years associated with Dr. Armendt, a well-known 
 dentist of that city, but removed to Henderson in 
 1884, where he has established himself in a lucra- 
 tive business and in the confidence of the people, 
 receiving a liberal share of their patronage. He 
 is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
 Church and is active and enthusiastic in the work 
 of the church. 
 
 GEORGE ALEXANDER LEWIS, editor 
 and proprietor of the Roundabout of 
 Frankfort, was born in that city, June 24, 1846, 
 and is a son of George Wythe and Mary J. (Todd) 
 Lewis. George W. Lewis was a native of Spott- 
 sylvania County, Virginia, and removed with his 
 parents to Kentucky when fifteen years of age. 
 He began life as a dry-goods clerk, but later 
 became connected with the Frankfort Common- 
 wealth in the capacity of bookkeeper and business 
 manager, frequently contributing to the columns 
 of his paper; in 1864 he removed to Lexington 
 and, associated with his eldest son, J. B. Lewis, 
 commenced the publication of the Nation and 
 Unionist, of which he was editor. Although a 
 Southern man by birth and education, he was a 
 strong supporter of the Union during the Civil 
 war, and his paper was the first in the state to 
 advocate the re-election of Abraham Lincoln. 
 Mr. Lewis was a man of strong convictions and 
 firmness of character; he died July 19, 1865. He 
 was a son of John and Jean Wood (Daniel) Lewis. 
 Mary J. (Todd) Lewis is an eminently pious 
 woman, a constant worker in the Presbyterian 
 Church, of which she became a member when 
 she was a child. She was born and reared in 
 Frankfort, where at the age of seventy-six she 
 still resides. Her parents, George and Mary 
 Ellis (Montague) Todd, were Virginians by birth 
 and died when she was a child, and she was raised 
 by an elder sister. Col. Zachary Lewis (great- 
 grandfather) of Bel-Air, Spottsylvania County, 
 Virginia, was an officer in the Colonial army dur- 
 ing the French and Indian war, a messmate of 
 
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 General Washington at Fort Cumberland, and 
 was presented a sword by the latter, which is 
 still in possession of the family. Col. Lewis after- 
 ward served in the Revolutionary army. His 
 son John was an eminent educator in Virginia 
 and Kentucky, and served as a captain of cavalry 
 in Virginia during the War of i8i2. From him 
 such men as the late Governor and United States 
 Senator John W. Stevenson, the eminent lawyer, 
 Alexander Holladay of Virginia, Rev. Cadwalla- 
 der Lewis, LL.D., and numerous others received 
 the bulk of their education. His wife, Jean Wood 
 Lewis, was a sister of Judge Peter V. Daniel of 
 the Supreme Court of the United States. 
 
 George A. Lewis was educated in the best pri- 
 vate schools of Frankfort, but left the school 
 room early to begin the battle of life. In 1859 
 he was appointed a page in the house of rep- 
 resentatives of the Kentucky legislature, which 
 position he held during the sessions of 1859-60, 
 '61-62, '63-64. During the session of 1861-62, 
 one of his associates was Hon. W. O. Bradley, 
 present governor of Kentucky, who served in a 
 like capacity. 
 
 From 1853 Mr. Lewis has been a citizen of 
 Frankfort, excepting one year spent in Lexington 
 and a few months spent in Ohio County, where he 
 had charge of the office of the Hartford Herald. 
 For eighteen years he has been in business just 
 across the street from where he was born. For 
 twelve years he worked at the case as a com- 
 positor, but in June, 1878, established the Round- 
 about printing establishment, and from a small 
 beginning of one boy and himself as the working 
 force has built it up until now three papers, one 
 daily and two weeklies, and a semi-monthly law 
 magazine are issued from this plant. In July, 
 1880, he established the Kentucky Law Reporter, 
 the only law magazine published in Kentucky. 
 It has grown to be indispensable to every lawyer 
 in full practice in the state. 
 
 Mr. Lewis was never in the war, but partici- 
 pated in two skirmishes with Morgan's raiders 
 near Frankfort in June, 1864. He has served 
 as commissioner of the Institution for Educa- 
 tion of Feeble Minded Children, which he now 
 holds by appointment by Governor Bradley. In 
 November, 1893, he was elected member of the 
 
 board of councilmen and served three months as 
 president of that body. In March, 1892, Mr. 
 Lewis made the race for the legislature to fill a 
 vacancy, and with a normal Democratic majority 
 of 800 to 1,000 he was only defeated by 222. He 
 is one of the original incorporators of the Masonic 
 Temple Company, and at present is a member 
 of the board of directors; joined the Masonic 
 order in 1870; has been a very active member, 
 and for twelve years has served as master of 
 Hiram lodge No. 4, one of the oldest lodges in the 
 state ; passed all the chairs in the lodge. Chapter, 
 Council and Commandery. In 1891 was grand 
 master of Grand Council of Kentucky, and at 
 present is grand sword bearer of the Grand Com- 
 mandery of the state; also past grand councilor 
 of Kentucky Royal Templars of Temperance and 
 past supreme herald of the United States in the 
 same order. 
 
 Mr. Lewis was raised a Presbyterian, his father 
 having for many years been presiding elder of 
 that church. He is a Republican, casting his 
 first ballot for General Grant. 
 
 February 17, 1874, he was married to Alice 
 Giltner, daughter of Henry Giltner and Caroline 
 (Cromwell) Giltner, and has no children. 
 
 He is the editor and publisher of the Frank- 
 fort Roundabout, a local and society paper, the 
 oldest published in this city, also publisher of the 
 Kentucky Law Reporter, and is one of the worthy 
 citizens of Frankfort; industrious, against fraud 
 and sham of all kinds, and is always found on the 
 side of morality and justice. 
 
 TOHN WILLIAM GREENE of Owen Coun- 
 kj ty, circuit judge of the Fifteenth Judicial Dis- 
 trict of Kentucky, son of Jesse L. Greene and 
 Caroline Cannon, was bom in Grant County, Ken- 
 tucky, August 8, 1842; was educated in the com- 
 mon schools of Owen, Grant and Kenton Coun- 
 ties and quit school at the age of twenty to enter 
 the Confederate army; joined Company E, Fifth 
 Regiment Kentucky Infantry in September, 1862, 
 and served until the close of the war. He took 
 part in many of the famous battles of that war, 
 including Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and 
 every engagement of that campaign until the fall 
 of Atlanta, and lost a limb in the battle of Jones- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 471 
 
 borough. He entered the army as a private, was 
 elected second sergeant; promoted to orderly 
 sergeant; elected second lieutenant and promoted 
 to first lieutenant; and continued in service after 
 losing a limb until the final surrender. He re- 
 mained in Perry County, Alabama, and taught 
 school for one term; returned to Owen County 
 in the fall of 1865 and taught school; was elected 
 sherifif of Owen County, August, 1866, and re- 
 elected 1868; serving four years in all, and, hav- 
 ing studied law previously, was admitted to the 
 Owen County bar in 1871 and began the practice 
 of his profession alone; became associated with 
 William Lindsay in 1874, and was a member of 
 the law firm of Greene & Lindsay for several 
 years; was elected county judge in 1878 and 
 served four years; was appointed member of the 
 State Board of Equalization by Governor Buck- 
 ner in 1889; was re-appointed and commissioned 
 in 1891, but resigned and was elected to his pres- 
 ent office as judge of the Circuit Court of the Fif- 
 teenth Judicial District in 1892. Considering the 
 demands of a very extensive law practice when 
 not on the bench, it is evident that Judge Greene 
 has been a very busy man, and his neighbors say 
 he was a brave and fearless soldier, a most effi- 
 cient civil officer, a distinguished lawyer, an able 
 and upright judge, and has made his own way in 
 the world; starting amid humble surroundings, 
 he has reached an enviable prominence in the 
 legal profession and is highly esteemed by the 
 members of the bar. He is a member of the 
 Baptist Church and of the Odd Fellows frater- 
 nity. Having been frequently elected to office in 
 Owen County, it is not necessary to add that he 
 is a Democrat in good standing. 
 
 Judge Greene was married (first) in December, 
 1870, to Margaret M. Gaines, who was born in 
 Henry County and died February 22, 1882. She 
 was the mother of Frank C. Greene. 
 
 He was married (second) in October, 1884, to 
 Mrs. Ada Williams, whose maiden name was 
 Howard; a native of Gallatin County, whose first 
 husband was Taylor Williams. There are three 
 children by this last marital union: Maggie E., 
 Anna May and John Howard Greene. 
 
 James L. Greene, father of Judge Greene, was 
 born in Grant County, Kentucky, in 1819, and 
 
 died August, 1893. He was educated in the 
 schools of his native county, removed to Owen 
 County in 1848, or about that time, and was prin- 
 cipally engaged in farming, serving a time as a 
 magistrate ; was a member of the Missionary Bap- 
 tist Church and a prominent Mason; was married 
 in 1840 to Caroline Cannon, who was born in 
 Grant County in i8ig, and their children's names 
 were: Emily C, John W. (subject), James S., 
 Elijah L., R. C. Greene, Sallie, Mary, Owen 
 Breckenridge, Willard, Jesse and Carrie. 
 
 Robert Greene (grandfather) was a native of 
 Culpeper County, Virginia, and he and his broth- 
 er William Greene came to Grant County, Ken- 
 tucky; William was a teacher and Robert A. a 
 pioneer farmer. He married Sallie Ford, a na- 
 tive of Kentucky; their children were: John F., 
 William P., Jesse L. (father), James F., Elijah J. 
 and Francis. Robert Greene died in Grant 
 County in 1859. 
 
 John Greene (great-grandfather), a native of 
 Virginia, came to Kentucky with his sons, Wil- 
 liam and Robert, and died in Grant County. 
 
 John Cannon (maternal grandfather) was born 
 in Lexington, Kentucky, and was educated in 
 the common schools of his day and removed to 
 Grant County early in life and subsequently to 
 Owen County, where he was a farmer and justice 
 of the peace; was married about 1816 to Julia 
 Wornon, who was born in Culpeper County, Vir- 
 ginia, and came to Kentucky with her parents. 
 Their children were: Sallie, Caroline and Wil- 
 liam. 
 
 HARRY BLANTON BECK, Circuit Clerk of 
 Owen County, Kentucky, son of David E. 
 and CoHe (Blanton) Beck, was born in Owen 
 County, May 8, 1853. 
 
 He was educated in the schools of Owen Coun- 
 ty; left school when he was fifteen years of age 
 and went to Montana Territory, where he was 
 engaged in stock-raising for six years. After this 
 he went to Dakota and became a miner. But 
 when his step-father died in 1876 he returned to 
 Kentucky and located in Bath County, where he 
 engaged in a general merchandise business for 
 four years. He then went to Owenton and en- 
 gaged in merchandising until 1892, when he was 
 
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 elected to his present position as circuit clerk of 
 Owen County. At the state convention in June, 
 1895, he was appointed a member of the State 
 Democratic Central Committee from the Ashland 
 District. He is an Odd Fellow and a Master 
 Mason. 
 
 Mr. Beck was married May 8, 1878, to Annie 
 Duncan of Carlisle, Nicholas County, Kentucky, 
 daug-hter of C. H. B. Duncan of Louisville and 
 Zilla (Carter) Duncan, a native of Nicholas Coun- 
 ty. Mrs. Beck was born in Paris, Kentucky, and 
 educated in private schools at -Frankfort, Ken- 
 tucky. She was a member of the Christian 
 Church. They had three children: Nannie 
 Coleman, Ethel and Herndon Blanton (deceased). 
 Mrs. Beck died January 26, 1888. 
 
 Dr. David E. Beck (father) was born in Wheel- 
 ing, West Virginia, October, 1824, and was edu- 
 cated at Fairfield, Iowa. He graduated from a 
 Philadelphia medical college, and began to prac- 
 tice medicine first at Fairfield, Iowa. In 1849 he 
 left Iowa and settled in New Liberty, Kentucky, 
 where he continued to practice his chosen pro- 
 fession until his death, May 13, 1858. He was a 
 Democrat in politics and an Odd Fellow; mar- 
 ried Colie Blanton in 1850. She was educated at 
 New Liberty, Owen County, Kentucky, and was 
 a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. 
 They had four children: James, Harry B., Susan 
 and a daughter who died in infancy. 
 
 James Beck (grandfather) was born in Ireland 
 and immigrated to Wheeling, West Virginia. 
 He had one son, John, by his first wife. His 
 second wife was Sarah Evans, a native of Vir- 
 ginia, and by this marriage he had four children: 
 William G., James Schriver, David Evans and 
 Richard Simeon. 
 
 James Beck, Sr., died in Pennsylvania, and 
 after the death of her husband Mrs. Beck kept 
 a hotel in Wheeling, West Virginia, arid Abraham 
 Lincoln was for many years her boarder. She 
 came to Kentucky when very old to end her days 
 with her son. Here, of course, strong sentiment 
 existed against Lincoln, and whenever such senti- 
 ments were expressed in the presence of Mrs. 
 Beck she would indignantly defend her favorite 
 boarder. 
 
 Henry Blanton (maternal grandfather) was a 
 
 native of Kentucky, and for fifty years a merchant 
 at New Liberty, Kentucky. Before the war he 
 was a large slave owner. His brother, William 
 Blanton, was a devout pioneer Baptist preacher. 
 Henry Blanton was originally a Whig and then 
 a Democrat, and, like his brother in the ministry, 
 a Baptist. He married (first) his cousin, Susan 
 Blanton, a native of Virginia. His second wife 
 was Mrs. Sarah Craig, nee Green, a native of Vir- 
 ginia, who was known far and wide for her strong 
 religious convictions. By his first marriage he 
 had five children: Bettie Ware, Susan Sneed, 
 Dr. Carter, Margaret Coleman and Dr. William 
 H. Blanton. Dr. Carter Blanton died at Hick- 
 man, Kentucky, while attending the yellow fever 
 sufferers in 1878. 
 
 CHARLES LOUIS RAISON, JR., a resident 
 of Newport and a prominent attorney-at- 
 law, practicing in Cincinnati and also in Newport, 
 was born in Greenup, Kentucky, October 29, 
 1849. He is a son of Charles Louis Raison and 
 Amanda K. Corum, natives of Greenup County. 
 His father was educated for the legal profession 
 and was admitted to the bar, but having a pref- 
 erence for mercantile life, did not engage in the 
 practice of law, but was for many years a suc- 
 cessful merchant and prominent citizen of Green- 
 up; but removed to Ashland, where he also 
 engaged in mercantile pursuits, taking a lively 
 interest in politics, and was elected county judge 
 of Boyd County and was subsequently elected 
 mayor of the city of Ashland. A Republican of 
 strong convictions and a man of unusual force 
 of character, he was a leader in his party and 
 a man of affairs in the communities in which he 
 lived. He was bom in Greenup in 1823 and 
 died in Ashland in 1887. 
 
 Mr. Raison's family history is one of unusual 
 interest, showing his relation to the nobility of 
 France for many centuries. His great-grand- 
 father's name was Louis Modesta Raison de la 
 Geneste, who married Lady Marie Thereza Lan- 
 gier. At his death his wife survived him with 
 two children, Louis Raison de la Geneste (grand- 
 father), and Lady Marie Thereza Clotilda Raison 
 de la Geneste. His widow married Philip Ridore, 
 a planter and owner of large estates in the Island 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 473 
 
 of San Domingo. At the time of the insurrection 
 of the negroes and massacre of the white inhab- 
 itants of the Island of San Domingo, Louis 
 Raison de la Geneste (grandfather) was the owner 
 of a large estate and many slaves. He and his 
 sister escaped from the island and came to Ameri- 
 ca. He came to Greenup County, Kentucky, 
 where he lived and died. He married Avemathea 
 Young, daughter of John Young, who was a 
 native of Virginia, a man of large means, of high 
 social standing and an officer in the Revolutionary 
 war. 
 
 Lady Marie Louise Victoria Antoinette Raison 
 de la Geneste, sister of Louis Modesta Raison de 
 la Geneste, married Pierre Antoine Fontaine de 
 Chaussenell, and they came to America and lo- 
 cated in New Orleans, where they lived and died, 
 and where many of their descendants now reside. 
 
 Louis Raison de la Geneste (grandfather) was 
 an educated French nobleman, and the family is 
 one of the oldest and strongest of the French 
 nobility. The title is a matter of public record 
 in France, and can be traced for many hundred 
 years, showing that many of the ancestors were 
 military men of renown. It has its coat-of-arms 
 and crest and a history showing the title of the 
 family for centuries. Notwithstanding this, 
 Charles Louis Raison, the subject of this sketch, 
 is thoroughly American. He never uses his title, 
 preferring to be known simply as an American. 
 
 The parents of Amanda K. Corum (mother) 
 came to Kentucky from North Carolina, in which 
 state many of her relatives now reside. She is 
 now living with her son in Newport. 
 
 Charles Louis Raison, following the example of 
 his ancestors, was carefully and thoroughly edu- 
 cated under the helpful direction and assistance 
 of his talented father, and after leaving school 
 at the age of seventeen, was employed as book- 
 keeper for the Eastern Kentucky Railway Com- 
 pany in Greenup County, and was engaged in 
 dififerent capacities with various companies in the 
 iron business in that section until 1873, and there 
 began the study of law under D. K. Weis. He 
 then took the law course in the University of 
 Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and returning to Ken- 
 tucky, was admitted to the bar in Carter County 
 in 1875. He practiced in partnership with Hon. 
 
 B. F. Bennett of Greenup until 1878, when he 
 removed to Cincinnati and engaged in the prac- 
 tice of law in that city, taking up his residence, 
 however, in Newport, preferring a home in his 
 native state while doing business in the larger 
 city across the river. His success was gratifying 
 and encouraging from the start, and he soon 
 found his proper place among the leading lawyers 
 of the Ohio metropolis. In 1888 he formed a 
 partnership with George H. Ahlering, the firm 
 being known as Raison & Ahlering; and as 
 they are residents of Newport, deeply interested 
 in the welfare of that city, and prominent in all 
 matters looking to its general growth and prog- 
 ress, they have an office in Newport as well as 
 in Cincinnati, and receive a liberal share of the 
 legal business of Campbell and adjacent counties. 
 
 Mr. Raison is a Republican, and while averse 
 to holding office, being independent of the public 
 crib, he takes the part of a good citizen in the 
 selection of men and the adoption of measures 
 looking to the improvement of the public service. 
 
 He was married in 1879 to Georgiana Wright- 
 son, daughter of Hon. Thomas Wrightson, ex- 
 state senator from Campbell County. They have 
 two children living: Lizzie and Thomas Raison. 
 
 STANTON HUME THORPE, Clerk of the 
 Madison Circuit Court, Richmond, son of 
 Stanton Hume Thorpe and Sallie Wallace (Miller) 
 Thorpe, was born on a farm in the eastern por- 
 tion of Madison County, Kentucky, December 
 10, 1864. 
 
 His father was born in the same vicinity in 
 1832 and has been a resident of the county all his 
 life, principally engaged in farming, and leading 
 a quiet and unostentatious Hfe; was assessor of 
 the county for one term, but has not taken an 
 active part in politics. 
 
 Thomas Thorpe (grandfather) was born, lived 
 and died in Madison County, Kentucky, having 
 reached the good old age of eighty-three years. 
 
 Zachariah Thorpe (great-grandfather) was one 
 of the first settlers of Madison County, where he 
 pre-empted land and became a prosperous farmer. 
 
 Sallie Wallace Miller Thorpe (mother) was 
 born in Madison County, Kentucky, in 1837, and 
 is now in her fifty-ninth year. Her father, Chris- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 topher J. Miller, was a native of the same county, 
 was an industrious blacksmith and farmer of his 
 native county. His father, Daniel Miller, was 
 one of the very early settlers of that county. 
 
 Stanton Hume Thorpe, Jr., received his educa- 
 tion in the public schools of the county, remain- 
 ing on his father's farm until he was eighteen 
 years of age, when he accepted a position as 
 deputy circuit clerk in Richmond under his uncle, 
 William H. Miller, and was thus employed for 
 seven years. In 1892 he made the race for the 
 clerkship and was elected clerk of the Circuit 
 Court, of which he took charge January i, 1893. 
 He had performed the duties of the office for so 
 many years that he was entirely familiar with 
 every detail and fully qualified for his responsible 
 position. 
 
 Mr. Thorpe is a modest young man of accom- 
 modating disposition, very popular with the mem- 
 bers of the bar, efficient in the performance of his 
 duties and enjoys the esteem of the people of his 
 county, with whose interests he is fully identified. 
 He is a member of the best society of Richmond, 
 belongs to the fraternities of Masons and Odd 
 Fellows, and is a consistent member of the Mis- 
 sionary Baptist Church. 
 
 He was married in August, 1886, to Henrietta 
 R. Raybom, daughter of Milton L. Rayborn of 
 Madison County, and they have one «on, Cecil 
 Thorpe. 
 
 CHARLES H. ALEXANDER, D. D. S., 
 leading dentist of Middlesborough, Ken- 
 tucky, son of Cummins G. Alexander and M. 
 Morrison, was born in Speedwell, Tennessee, 
 August 15, 1863. 
 
 His father was born in Lebanon, Virginia, in 
 1829, and when a child went to Claiborne County, 
 Tennessee, with his father; was a resident and 
 farmer of that county until 1879, when he re- 
 moved to Fincastle, Campbell County, Tennes- 
 see, where he is living at the present time. Dur- 
 ing the war between the sections, he sympathized 
 with the South, but did not bear arms except as 
 a member of the Home Guards, which was an 
 important branch of the service in his section. 
 Mr. Alexander has devoted his life to agricultural 
 pursuits with commendable industry and excel- 
 
 lent success. He is a man of fine traits of char- 
 acter, an exemplary Christian and a member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 
 
 David Alexander (grandfather), a native of Ire- 
 land, came to this country with his father when 
 five years of age; removed to Claiborne County, 
 Tennessee, in the early '30's, where he was a 
 farmer, and died in 1844. His father was a native 
 of Ireland, who immigrated to Virginia in the 
 early years of the present century. 
 
 Mary Morrison Alexander (mother) was a na- 
 tive of Hawkins County, Tennessee, and died in 
 Claiborne County in that state in 1870. She was 
 a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 South, and was known and loved for her good 
 works and many deeds of kindness. 
 
 Peter Morrison (maternal grandfather) was 
 born and raised in Sullivan County, and was a 
 tanner in Hawkins County, Tennessee. 
 
 Dr. Charles H. Alexander attended the county 
 schools in Claiborne County. He was fifteen 
 years of age when his father removed to Fincas- 
 tle, where he attended the High School and aft- 
 erwards finished his literary studies in Hiawassa 
 College, near Sweetwater, Tennessee, always pay- 
 ing his own way. He was employed as a clerk in 
 a Knoxville business house for two years before 
 going to Nashville in 1886 to take a course in 
 dentistry in State University of Tennessee, from 
 which he was graduated in 1889. 
 
 He began his professional work as a traveling 
 dentist, with headquarters at Jelico, Tennessee, 
 in 1889, and remained there about a year, when 
 he located permanently in Middlesborough, Ken- 
 tucky, in December, 1889. He came to that city 
 in the height of its prosperity, and did not desert 
 it when reverses came. His confidence in the fu- 
 ture of the city has not been misplaced, for the 
 tide has turned and the city of Middlesborough 
 ofTers greater and more substantial advantages 
 for residence and business than ever before in its 
 history. In 1896 Dr. Alexander took a post- 
 graduate course in the American College of Den- 
 tal Surgery in Chicago. 
 
 Dr. Alexander's preparation for the delicate 
 work of his profession was very thorough and 
 scientific. His work has been of the highest or- 
 der, and of a character that commends him to the 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 public. His patronage has come from the best 
 people of the community, and he has established 
 himself in the confidence of the entire neighbor- 
 ing public. It is no fulsome praise to say that Dr. 
 Alexander is the most skillful and scientific den- 
 tal surgeon in all that section of the country. 
 
 He stands well in polite circles, is a thirty-sec- 
 ond degree Mason, a member of the Maccabees, 
 a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church South. 
 
 JOHN D. COLLINS, M. D., a prominent phy- 
 J sician of Covington, was born in Winchester, 
 Clark County, Kentucky, July ii, 1823. His 
 father. Dr. Orville Colhns, was born in Clark 
 County, near Winchester, in 1797, and was a 
 resident and practicing physician of Winchester 
 for fifty years, retiring some years prior to his 
 death in 1880. He was an active member of the 
 Christian Church, and during his latter years 
 often preached the gospel. Being a man of strong 
 convictions and great firmness of purpose, he 
 was naturally a leader and a man of wide influ- 
 ence. 
 
 Dillard Collins (grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia, of Scotch-Irish parentage, who came to 
 Kentucky and located in Clark County, within 
 a mile of Winchester. He was colonel of a regi- 
 ment in the War of 1812 and died when young. 
 
 Mary Christie Collins (mother) was born in 
 Clark County, four miles from Winchester, in 
 1799, and died in 1859. She was a lady of un- 
 usual intelligence and refinement and was a be- 
 loved member of the Christian Church. 
 
 John Christie (grandfather) was a Virginian 
 and an early settler and prosperous farmer of 
 Clark County, a soldier in the War of 1812, after 
 which he was known as Colonel Christie. High- 
 ly educated and exceedingly courteous in manner, 
 he was a very popular man, in fact, a true Ken- 
 tucky gentleman. 
 
 John D. Colhns attended the schools of Win- 
 chester until twelve years of age, when he went 
 to Hopkinsville and received a classical education 
 in the seminary in that place. He read medicine 
 with his father; graduated from the Missouri 
 Medical College at St. Louis, March, 1845, ^"d 
 subsequently took a course in the Eclectic Med- 
 
 ical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating in 
 1853. He began the practice of medicine in 1845 
 at Madisonville and was one of the leading phy- 
 sicians in that section at the beginning of the 
 Civil war, when he entered the Confederate army 
 as a surgeon, and served in that capacity until 
 the war was ended. In 1865 he located at Hen- 
 derson and was engaged in the line of his pro- 
 fession in that city until 1881, when he removed to 
 Covington and was for several years a general 
 practitioner, but for the past several years has 
 devoted his time and attention especially to the 
 treatment of diseases of women. He is a member 
 of the Kentucky State Medical Society; is prom- 
 inent and active in the Christian Church, in which 
 he is a communicant, and as a citizen enjoys the 
 esteem of the best people of Newport. 
 
 Dr. Collins has been twice married; first in 
 1845 to Elvira Hatchett, daughter of Captain John 
 A. Hatchett of Henderson. She died in 1866, 
 leaving three daughters, two of whom are living: 
 Lela, wife of J. D. Gunn of Tennessee, and 
 Rosalie A. Collins, who is now and has been for 
 twelve years past a teacher in the high school of 
 Evansville, Indiana. He was married (second) 
 in October, 1879, to Sallie McMillan of Mays 
 Lick, Kentucky. 
 
 JOHN ROWAN ADAM'S, Circuit Clerk of 
 Oldham County, son of Allen Adams and 
 Susan (Vance) Adams, was born in Oldham 
 County, Kentucky, in 1848. He was educated in 
 the common schools of the county and in George- 
 town College. Leaving school in 1863, he taught 
 for several years in Henry and Oldham Counties, 
 and then engaged in farming and trading, selling 
 his stock in the markets between Louisville and 
 New York. 
 
 He was enterprising and successful as a trader; 
 was elected sheriff of Oldham County in 1879 
 and re-elected in 1883. In 1886 he was elected 
 county and circuit clerk, and discharged these 
 offices so efficiently that he was re-elected in 1890. 
 He is a Knight Templar in Masonry and a 
 Knight of Honor, and was master of Lodges 
 Nos. 156 and 47, F. & A. M., for twelve years. 
 
 Allen Adams (father) was born in Jefferson 
 County, Kentucky, and educated in the common 
 
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 schools of that county. When Oldham County 
 was formed in 1824 from parts of Jefferson, Shel- 
 by and Henry Counties the Adams farm was 
 transferred to the new county, and there Mr. 
 Adams engaged in general farming; was first a 
 Whig and afterwards a Democrat in politics, and 
 was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He 
 married (first) Susan Vance, a native of Jefiferson 
 County, and she was the mother of four children, 
 who survived her: Robert P., James A., John R., 
 and Mary Agnes, wife of Dr. Alonzo Morrison, 
 all of whom are living in Oldham County. 
 
 He married (second) Mrs. Thornton, nee Au- 
 gusta Taliaferro, a native of Oldham County, 
 and by this marriage there were five children: 
 Mayo, Coleman C. and Richard (twins), Thorn- 
 ton and Sue. 
 
 Frank Adams (grandfather) was a native of 
 Pennsylvania and came to Jefferson County, Ken- 
 tucky, where he was a farmer. 
 
 Robert Vance (maternal grandfather) was born 
 in Virginia and came to Jefferson County and 
 married Nancy Adams. 
 
 OTIS SETH TENNEY, LL. D., one of the 
 most accomplished and influential members 
 of the Lexington bar, a practitioner in doubtful 
 and intricate cases and thoroughly familiar with 
 interstate and national laws, a native of New 
 Hampshire, graduate of Norwich University, 
 Northfield, Vermont, taking the degree of A. B. 
 in 1845, A. M. in 1847, and LL. D. in 1889, has 
 been a resident of the Blue Grass State since 1847, 
 and has been practicing law in Lexington for ten 
 years. His ancestry, taken from a volume devoted 
 entirely to the genealogy, history and biographies 
 of the Tenney family, is briefly given as follows: 
 Thomas Tenney, a member of the Reverend 
 Ezekial Rogers' company from Yorkshire, Eng- 
 land, arrived at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1638, 
 and settled at Rowley, Massachusetts, in April, 
 1639. This Thomas Tenney was the great-great- 
 great-great-great-grandfather of the subject of 
 this sketch. Of his children. Deacon John Ten- 
 ney (great-great-great-great-grandfather), born 
 December 14, 1640, was the next descendant. 
 He married (first) Mercy Parrat, born July 23, 
 1646; married (second) Susanna Woodbury, 
 
 born February 16, 1648. Deacon John Tenney 
 died April 13, 1722. 
 
 His son. Deacon Samuel Tenney (great-great- 
 great-grandfather), was born November 20, 1667; 
 married (first) Abigail Bailey, daughter of Dea- 
 con Joseph Bailey; married (second) Sarah Boyn- 
 ton, daughter of Captain Joseph Boynton and 
 Sarah Swan Boynton; was a lieutenant in the 
 Continental army; member of the Colonial As- 
 sembly in 1725, when, fifty years before the Decla- 
 ration of Independence, he was one of thirty who 
 voted against receiving the King's Charter, "a 
 step more bold than that of the fifty-six signers of 
 1776." He died February 3, 1747, in his eighty- 
 first year. 
 
 Joseph Tenney (great-great-grandfather) was 
 born in Bradford (now Groveland), Massachu- 
 setts, March 16, 1698; married Abigail (Annie) 
 Wood, daughter of John and Elizabeth Wood, 
 February 14, 1722; members of the Congrega- 
 tional Church ; removed to Norwich, Connecticut, 
 in 1723, and afterwards to Woodbury, Connecti- 
 cut, and died April 20, 1775. 
 
 John Tenney (great-grandfather) was born in 
 Norwich, Connecticut, September 2, 1729; mar- 
 ried Olive Armstrong, March 11, 1755; resided at 
 Hanover, New Hampshire, where he arrived with 
 an ox-team June, 1770. Mrs. Tenney died April 
 18, 1806, and John Tenney died February 19, 
 1810. 
 
 David Tenney (grandfather) was born in Nor- 
 wich, Connecticut, May 15, 1759; married (first) 
 Susanna Durkee, who was born November 7, 
 1765, and died February 11, 1788; married (sec- 
 ond) April 9, 1789, Anna Jacobs, who was born 
 August 23, 1765, and died May 8, 1813; married 
 (third) Mrs. Priscilla (Smith) Dole. He was a 
 soldier and pensioner of the Revolutionary War; 
 died March 14, 1851. He raised thirteen chil- 
 dren, ten of whom were living at his death, and 
 at that time had eighty-nine descendants. 
 
 Captain Seth Tenney, father of Major O. S. 
 Tenney, son of David and Anna Jacobs, was born 
 in Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 1792; 
 was married in Lyme, New Hampshire, Decem- 
 ber 31, 1818, to Esther Miller, who was born in 
 Lyme, November 17, 1794, and died May 4, 1882. 
 "Residence, Hanover; a farmer and Captain in 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 477 
 
 State Militia ; served at Portsmouth, New Hamp- 
 shire, in the War of 1812; died October 16, i86q." 
 "He was a man and officer worthy of the name." 
 
 The children of Captain Seth Tenney and Es- 
 ther Miller, his wife, were: Infant, born Decem- 
 ber 22, 1819, lived only a few days; Benjamin M., 
 born June 14, 1821, died April 24, 1857; Otis 
 Seth (subject), born December 4, 1822; Samuel 
 Claflin, born February 27, 1825, farmer of Lon- 
 don, Ohio; Esther Angeline, born December 12, 
 1826; Mary Marinda, born April 18, 1829, resi- 
 dence at Etna, New Hampshire; Charles Carroll, 
 born November 22, 1831 ; David Culver, born De- 
 cember 28, 1834. 
 
 Major Otis Seth Tenney was born December 
 4, 1822, in Windsor County, Hanover Township, 
 New Hampshire. His father was a Captain in 
 the Continental Army during the War of the Rev- 
 olution and carried a very handsome sword, which 
 was brought to Kentucky by his son, from whom 
 it was captured during the Civil War. Major Ten- 
 ney received his education in the common schools 
 of New England until the age of thirteen, then 
 prepared for college at Norwich Institute, New 
 Hampshire, and graduated at the Military Uni- 
 versity, at Norwich, in 1845. 
 
 After leaving college he began teaching a mili- 
 tary school at Wilmington, Delaware, but re- 
 moved to Kentucky shortly afterwards and es- 
 tablished a school of the same kind at Mt. Sterling, 
 at Old Fort Mason. In 1847 he commenced the 
 study of law with Colonel Walter Chiles of Mt. 
 Sterling, and in March, 1849, was admitted to the 
 bar and began the practice of his profession in 
 that place and continued without interruption un- 
 til October, 1862, when he enlisted as a private 
 in the Confederate army, but soon became Major 
 of the Second Kentucky Cavalry, serving in that 
 capacity until the close of the war when he re- 
 turned to Kentucky and was paroled at Lexing- 
 ton. 
 
 Soon after his return from war he attempted to 
 resume practice, but was not permitted to do so 
 by the presiding judge, except by courtesy shown 
 to a non-resident lawyer, it being decided that he 
 was not a citizen according to the Expatriation 
 Act passed by the Legislature in 1861-62. He ap- 
 pealed to the higher court at Frankfort and Judge 
 
 Robertson rendered a decision (2 Duvall, Ky. 
 Rep., p. 351) by which not only he but other ex- 
 Confederate soldiers were allowed to practice at 
 the bar. He continued his residence at Mt. Ster- 
 ling, actively and successfully engaged in his pro- 
 fession, and in 1868 was a candidate for Circuit 
 Judge of his district, and again in 1874, but was 
 defeated by small majorities. 
 
 He removed to Lexington in 1882, and is now 
 a distinguished member of the bar of that city, and 
 is not only one of the first lawyers in Central Ken- 
 tucky, but one of the most active and enterprising 
 men in the community. 
 
 Major Tenney was married May 18, 1848, to 
 Junia M. Warner, daughter of James Warner of 
 Delaware, who is connected with some of the 
 most distinguished families of the East. She 
 was born September 29, 1820. 
 
 Their children, only two of whom are now liv- 
 ing, were: Otis Seth, born February 20, 1849, 
 died in infancy; Harriet H., born September 19, 
 1850, died July 25, 1854; Robert P., born Decem- 
 ber 2, 1852, died July 22, 1854; Lilian H., born 
 July 17, 1855, married Joseph B. Russell of Cam- 
 bridge, Massachusetts, May 20, 1880. Her hus- 
 band is a brother of ex-Gov. W. E. Russell; Anna 
 M., born April 6, 1857, married W. W. Hamilton 
 of Mt. Sterling, February 5, 1878; Harriet H., 
 died November 26, 1863. 
 
 JAMES GARRARD was born on the 14th of 
 January, 1749, in the County of Stafford, in 
 the (then) Colony of Virginia. At a very early 
 period in the Revolutionary struggle, he engaged 
 in the public service, and in the capacity of a 
 militia officer, shared in the dangers and honors 
 of that memorable war. While in service, he was 
 called by the voice of his fellow-citizens to a seat 
 in the Virginia Legislature, where he contributed, 
 by his zeal and prudence, as much, or perhiaps 
 more than any other individual, to the passage of 
 the famous act securing universal religious lib- 
 erty. 
 
 He was an early emigrant to Kentucky, and was 
 exposed to the perils and dangers incident to the 
 settlement and occupation of the country. He 
 was repeatedly called by the voice of his fellow- 
 citizens to represent their interests in the Legis- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 lature of the state; and finally, by two successive 
 elections, was elected to the chief magistracy of 
 the commonwealth, a trust which, for eight years, 
 he discharged with wisdom, prudence and vigor. 
 As a man, Governor Garrard had few equals; 
 and in the various scenes and different stations 
 of life, he acted with firmness, prudence and de- 
 cision. At an early age, he embraced and pro- 
 fessed the religion of Christ, giving it, through 
 life, the preference over all sublunary things. In 
 the private circle he was a man of great practical 
 usefulness, and discharged with fidelity and ten- 
 derness the social and relative duties of husband, 
 parent, neighbor and master. He died on the 19th 
 of January, 1822, at his residence. Mount Leb- 
 anon, in Bourbon County, in the seventy-fourth 
 year of his age. 
 
 COLONEL CURRAN POPE, son of Hon. 
 Worden Pope, was born at Louisville, Ky. ; 
 graduated at West Point; promoted to brevet 
 Second Lieutenant of Second United States Ar- 
 tillery, July, 1834, but resigned December, 1834; 
 assistant engineer improvement of Kentucky and 
 Cumberland Rivers, 1835; clerk of Jefferson 
 County Court for seventeen years; Colonel Fif- 
 teenth Kentucky Regiment United States Infan- 
 try during Civil War; wounded at battle of Per- 
 ryville, October 8, and died therefrom November 
 5, 1862. 
 
 COLONEL WM. B. ALLEN was born near 
 Greensburg, Kentucky, May 19, 1803; edu- 
 cated in the celebrated schools of Rev. John How 
 of Greensburg, and of Dr. Jas. Priestly of Nash- 
 ville, Tennessee; taught school awhile; studied 
 law with Samuel Brents, and began the practice 
 before he was twenty-one; postmaster at Greens- 
 burg, 1823-28; Representative in Kentucky Leg- 
 islature 1829, and made a speech in favor of a sys- 
 tem of common schools; attorney Greensburg 
 branch of Bank of the Commonwealth, 1829; an 
 editor, 1834; clerk Greensburg branch of Bank of 
 Kentucky, 1835-37, and cashier of same, 1837-57; 
 master in chancery for Green County, 1843-45; 
 resumed practice of law, 1858; compiled "The 
 Kentucky Officer's Guide," 400 pp., 8 vo., 1859; 
 county attorney, 1862-70; again master in chan- 
 
 cery, 1866-70; was for many years Colonel Six- 
 teenth Kentucky Militia; and for nearly fifty years 
 has been one of the most active and prominent 
 members and officers of the Masonic order in the 
 state. But the crowning act of a long and useful 
 life is his "History of Kentucky," issued Novem- 
 ber, 1872, 449 pp., 8 vo. 
 
 GOV. WILLIAM OWSLEY, born in Vir- 
 ginia in 1782, was the son of William Ows- 
 ley and Catherine Bolin, whose sons were Samuel, 
 Nudigate, William, who became Governor of 
 Kentucky; Dr. Joel, Thomas and Major Jona- 
 than. The daughters were Ann Middleton, Mar- 
 garet Bayne, Mary Pearl, Patience and Chloe. 
 Governor William Owsley became the most dis- 
 tinguished of this large family, and the fourteenth 
 Governor of the commonwealth. He was one of 
 those men who rose to distinction through en- 
 ergy and perseverance. His father was a man in 
 moderate circumstances and of some political in- 
 fluence. Young Owsley was ambitious, ener- 
 getic and industrious, and allowed no obstacle to 
 deter him from accomplishing an object when 
 once he made up his mind to that end. This en- 
 ergy and industry carried him from the humble 
 position of a deputy surveyor to the Supreme 
 Bench, and to the Chief Executive of the state. 
 Judge Owsley was born in 1782, in Virginia. His 
 father, also named William Owsley, emigrated to 
 Kentucky in 1783, when his son was an infant but 
 a year old. He settled in the vicinity of Crab 
 Orchard, in Lincoln County, where he lived an 
 honored citizen, and finally became High Sheriff 
 of that county. Young William received a good 
 education for the time, better than the majority 
 of the youths. He taught school several terms, 
 then became, under his father's administration, a 
 Deputy Sheriff. It was in this latter position that 
 he attracted the attention of Judge John Boyle, 
 for many years a judge of the Court of Appeals 
 of Kentucky, and its Chief Justice. Judge Boyle 
 conceived a strong interest in the young man, and 
 perceiving that there was something in him if 
 properly developed, encouraged him to study law. 
 He tendered him the use of his library, then one of 
 the most extensive in the state, and the advantage 
 of his own instruction. Young Owsley eagerly 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 479 
 
 grasped the offer, and so studiously did he em- 
 ploy his time that he was admitted to the bar and 
 commenced the practice of law in Garrard Coun- 
 ty. His success was assured from the start, and 
 he soon attained to the highest rank as a lawyer. 
 He became the warm, personal friend of Judge 
 Boyle, and their friendship remained unbroken 
 through life. Judge Owsley served several terms 
 in the Legislature, in the Lower House in 1809- 
 II and '31, and in the Senate in 1832-34, where he 
 distinguished himself as a young statesman of 
 rare promise. In 1812, when then but thirty-one 
 years of age, so highly was his legal ability re- 
 garded, that Governor Scott appointed him a 
 Judge of the Court of Appeals. This position, 
 however, he held but a short time, in consequence 
 of the Legislature passing an act reducing the 
 number of judges to three. Owsley being the 
 youngest, both in age and appointment, resigned. 
 But a vacancy occurring in 1813, he was ap- 
 pointed to. that august tribunal by Governor Shel- 
 by. Judge Boyle had him appointed a Judge of 
 the Court of Appeals some years before, and was 
 now Chief Justice. The other member of the 
 court was Benjamin Mills, a prominent member 
 of the Bourbon County bar. Judge Owsley re- 
 mained upon the bench until 1828, a longer 
 period than any man in the state up to that time 
 (except Judge Boyle) when he resigned and re- 
 tired to private life. He finally removed to Frank- 
 fort, remaining there until 1843, when he pur- 
 chased a fine farm in Boyle, upon which he lo- 
 cated, giving up his law practice. In 1844 he was 
 elected Governor of Kentucky on the Whig ticket 
 over General William O. Butler, one of the most 
 popular Democrats in the state, by 4,624 majority. 
 As a Governor he devoted his best energies to a 
 faithful discharge of the high and important duties 
 of the office, and upon the expiration of the term 
 he retired to his farm, where the remainder of his 
 life was spent in peaceful retirement. He died in 
 1862, at the age of eighty years. "In personal 
 appearance Governor Owsley was tall, slender 
 and erect. In his private character he was ir- 
 reproachable; in manner simple, though some- 
 what reserved. He held perfect command of his 
 temper at all times, yet never failed to act with 
 promptness and decision in times of emergency." 
 
 A member of the Owsley family, Harry Byran 
 Owsley, has gathered together in book form the 
 records of the Owsley family, in which a clear and 
 unbroken record has been established, that "from 
 facts and actual data" one is "enabled to look 
 through the generations of the family back to the 
 time of the Restoration, and, by inference, catch 
 glimpses of its past, to a period much more re- 
 mote." 
 
 THOMAS C. McCREERY, of Owensboro, 
 was born in Kentucky, in 1817; was a student 
 at Center College, Danville, Kentucky; studied 
 law, but turned his attention to agricultural pur- 
 suits; was a candidate for presidential elector in 
 1852, and defeated; but in i860 was elected, and 
 voted for Breckinridge and Lane; was elected 
 United States Senator February, 1868, as a Demo- 
 crat, vice James Guthrie, resigned, and served 
 until March 4, 1871, and again elected December 
 19, 1871, for six years from March 4, 1873 to 1879. 
 He was an elegant, forcible and popular speaker. 
 
 REV. CARTER HELM JONES, pastor of 
 McFerran Memorial Baptist Church, of 
 Louisville, was born in Cakley, Nelson County, 
 Virginia, November 30, 1861. His father, so well 
 known to Baptists in general and to Southern peo- 
 ple in particular, is Rev. J. WilHam Jones, D. D., 
 at present the chaplain of the University of Vir- 
 ginia, and is perhaps best known as the author of 
 several comprehensive works on the lives of R. E. 
 Lee, Jefiferson Davis and others. On his mother's 
 side Mr. Jones is a lineal descendant of Carter 
 Baxton of Virginia, one of the signers of the Dec- 
 laration of Independence, and otherwise his ances- 
 try embraces many of the most noted names in 
 the history of Virginia, The two institutions at 
 which he studied with marked ability are Rich- 
 mond College and the Southern Baptist Theolog- 
 ical Seminary, at both of which he was fully grad- 
 uated, being chosen at the former of these insti- 
 tutions as the valedictorian of the literary so- 
 cieties. He afterwards pursued special studies for 
 a year under Prof. Noah K. Davis, at the Uni- 
 versity of Virginia. Though the general col- 
 legiate and the special theological training of Mr. 
 Jones have been mogt thorough, we are persuaded 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 that the influences which have contributed most 
 powerfully to his usefulness and reputation are 
 not to be sought for in the class room. It is our 
 conviction that the two most powerful factors in 
 a man's life are to be determined in answer to the 
 questions: Who is he? And what were the in- 
 fluences that surrounded him in his early life? In 
 answering these we believe that we shall arrive at 
 the true source of Mr. Jones' power as a preacher 
 and as a man. It has already been said that his 
 family is an illustrious one, and to say that he is 
 the son of his father may seem trite, but it fur- 
 nishes a clue to the real estimation of his char- 
 acter. What was said concerning another meni- 
 ber of the family by one of -the faculty of the 
 seminary might be in many other respects applied 
 to him: "The son of your father could not but 
 write well." We are convinced, too, that the 
 apparently paradoxical union of sweetness and 
 force to be found in both the man and his sermons 
 is decidedly traceable, in a large measure, to the 
 influence of his mother. 
 
 In answer to the second question we are 
 brought to perceive the great moulding force of 
 his life. The home of his father was the resort 
 not only of Baptist ministers from every section 
 of the country around, but of men whose names 
 have become celebrated in the history of the 
 South. Mr. Jones delights to tell of the times 
 when a child he was brought into contact with 
 such men as Lee, Davis and others. We have 
 dwelt upon these things because of the conviction 
 that it is absolutely inpossible to know a man or 
 understand his power by simply inquiring what 
 churches he has served or what stations he may 
 have occupied. After leaving the University of 
 Virginia, Mr. Jones accepted the pastorate of the 
 First Baptist Church at Elizabeth, New Jersey, 
 and it was there that his really remarkable career 
 began. It was not long before he took a high 
 position among the ministers, not simply of the 
 state of his adoption, but of New York city and 
 state as well, and the honors conferred upon him 
 were distinguishing in the extreme. At one time 
 he preached the sermon before the Baptist State 
 Convention of New Jersey, at another, following 
 O. P. Gififord and Wayland Hoyt, in an address 
 before the Baptist Social Union of New York 
 
 city. Before long, neighboring churches began 
 to appreciate his abilities and the invitations he 
 received to speak were numerous and compli- 
 mentary. He, however, preferred to give his best 
 efforts to his own church, which rapidly grew in 
 numbers and efficiency under his preaching. 
 
 In 1889, in response to a unanimous call from 
 the First Baptist Church of Knoxville, Tennessee, 
 Mr. Jones removed to that city, and as a sHght 
 tribute to his work there, we copy tfie following 
 from the Knoxville Tribune of April 30 of that 
 year: "The story of Mr. Jones' career as the 
 pastor of the First Baptist Church is a familiar 
 one to the church going people of Knoxville. 
 Since he accepted the pastorate there have been 
 nearly four hundred and fifty names added to the 
 church roll. Every Sunday the large and com- 
 modious First Church has been crowded with 
 Baptists, numbers of other denominations and 
 people of no denomination at all, who came there 
 attracted by the power of his oratory and the 
 sympathetic force of his appeal to the human 
 heart. His departure from the city is a distinct 
 loss to the community. He was and is an ideal 
 citizen and one of practical benefit and a graceful 
 ornament to any community. It is with pro- 
 found regret that the citizens of Knoxville see 
 him go." In 1891 Mr. Jones delivered the ser- 
 mon before the Southern Baptist Convention at 
 Birmingham, being the youngest man who ever 
 enjoyed that distinction. As a lecturer he has 
 attained considerable reputation, and his ad- 
 dresses on commencement occasions are particu- 
 larly worthy of notice. In 1892 he preached the 
 baccalaureate sermon at Lake Forest College, 
 and in 1893 he delivered the address before the 
 Y. M. C. A. of Washington and Lee University 
 to one of the most cultured audiences ever assem- 
 bled in Virginia, in a style entirely worthy of 
 the brilliant occasion. Many of the seminary 
 men will remember his stimulating address before 
 the Broadus Literary Society recently. It is an 
 overwhelming tribute to his popularity in Ten- 
 nessee that a number of colleges asked him to 
 deliver to them farewell addresses on leaving that 
 state. As a preacher, he possesses unusual mag- 
 netism, a wealth of diction rarely equalled and a 
 princely imagination. Perhaps the leading char- 
 
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 acteristic of his preaching is the stimulus which it 
 imparts to his hearers. One who heard him for 
 the first time recently remarked after service that 
 she felt like she had been to church. 
 
 Mr. Jones preaches the Gospel; he is not 
 obliged to resort to sensational subjects. Men 
 instinctively raise their ideals and want to be 
 better after hearing him. A gifted young lady 
 . speaking of his preaching recently said that she 
 thought the remark made concerning Ruskiri was 
 applicable to him. A friend of Mr. Ruskin de- 
 clared that whenever she was tempted to think 
 that the meat was more than the life and the 
 raiment more than the body, she read Ruskin. 
 Mr. Jones' preaching elevates and inspires, and 
 the knowledge of the man outside the pulpit serves 
 to emphasize the best impressions he makes. 
 We bespeak for him and wish him a future of 
 ever-increasing usefulness, and we congratulate 
 the McFerran Church and the people of Louis- 
 ville on securing such a man. — Allyn K. Foster, 
 M. D., in "Seminary Magazine," October, 1893. 
 
 JAMES CORBIN NORRIS, M. D., a distin- 
 guished and popular homeopathic physician 
 of Augusta, was born September 26, 1859, and is 
 the youngest of the nine children of Daniel and 
 Rebecca (Pinkard) Norris. Daniel Norris was 
 born in Mason County in 1825, and received his 
 education, for the most part, in a high school in 
 Germantown, which was at that time one of the 
 best schools in Mason County. He is an intel- 
 ligent and prosperous farmer of his native county 
 and takes great delight in his home and is deeply 
 interested in the success of his children. He is a 
 leading member of the Christian Church and is 
 greatly devoted to religious work in connection 
 with that organization. He owned a number 
 of slaves, to all of whom he gave their freedom 
 during the war, in this following the generous 
 example of his father, who freed a number of 
 families of slaves about the time the Civil war 
 began. 
 
 James Norris (grandfather), a native of Vir- 
 ginia, was one of the first settlers of Mason Coun- 
 ty, having landed at the mouth of Limestone 
 more than one hundred years ago". He located at 
 the head waters of the north fork of Licking river 
 
 31 
 
 and cleared out a thicket in order to cultivate the- 
 land. He raised the first crop of tobacco that 
 was ever grown in Mason County and became 
 a prosperous farmer and one of the most exem- 
 plary citizens of the county. As above stated, 
 he gave a large number of slaves their freedom at 
 the beginning of the war, a conflict in which he 
 took no part by word or deed. He was a very 
 earnest and devoted member of the church, a 
 faithful Christian and a most neighborly neighbor. 
 His wife was Nancy McGraw, a member of an old 
 family of Virginia, who died in 1866. Mr. Norris 
 survived her until September, 1879, when he died 
 arid was buried by her side in the old Baptist 
 Gilgal Church yard. 
 
 Dr. Norris' mother, Rebecca Pinkard Norris, 
 was born in Bracken County in 1833. She was 
 married to Mr. Norris in 1853 and died Septem- 
 ber 30, 1866, and is buried in the Christian Ceme- 
 tery at Germantown. 
 
 Stanfield Corbin Pinkard (grandfather) was one 
 of the most prominent business men of the county, 
 having a large furniture manufactory and a tan- 
 nery, besides doing an extensive business in buy- 
 ing and shipping tobacco. He was at one time very 
 wealthy, but through security debts he was forced 
 to give up a larger portion of his fortune. He 
 was one of the most popular and best known 
 men in his section of the state. He was a very 
 generous supporter of the Christian Church, of 
 which he was a faithful and consistent member. 
 His wife was Rebecca Harman, a native of Ger- 
 mantown, who died in the month of April, 1880. 
 Both Mr. and Mrs. Pinkard are buried in the Ger- 
 mantown Cemetery. 
 
 Dr. James C. Norris was educated in a select 
 school in Augusta, and afterwards attended Beth- 
 any College in Virginia for two years, finishing 
 his literary course in that institution in 1879. He 
 taught a district school in Bracken County and 
 then entered the Homeopathic Medical College 
 at Cleveland, Ohio, and after taking a two years' 
 course was graduated in 1884. He then served 
 for two years in Huron Street Homeopathic Hos- 
 pital as house surgeon, and in 1886 and 1887 he 
 served as assistant physician in the Ohio peniten- 
 tiary. He then went to Winchester, Kentucky, 
 and practiced medicine in that place for three 
 
482 
 
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 years and then returned to Augusta, where he 
 has been quite successful and highly popular as a 
 practicing physician. He is a member of the 
 Ohio State Medical Society of Homeopathy and 
 of the Kentucky State Society of Homeopathy, 
 and a member of the city council of Augusta. 
 
 JOHN JORDAN CRITTENDEN, in honor 
 of whom this county was named, was born 
 in the county of Woodford, within a few miles of 
 the town of Versailles, on the loth of September, 
 1786. He is the son of John Crittenden, a Revo- 
 lutionary officer, who emigrated to Kentucky 
 soon after the conclusion of the war. He re- 
 ceived as good an education as could be obtained 
 in the Kentucky schools of that day, and com- 
 pleted his scholastic studies at Washington acad- 
 emy, in Virginia, and at the College of William 
 and Mary, in the same state. On his return to 
 Kentucky he became a student of law in the office 
 of the honorable George M. Bibb, and under the 
 care of that renowned jurist, he became thor- 
 oughly prepared for the practice of his profession. 
 At that period the Green River country was the at- 
 tractive fi'eld for the enterprise of the state, af- 
 fording to the youth of Kentucky similar induce- 
 ments to those that the west still continues to offer 
 to the citizens of the older states. Mr. Crittenden 
 commenced the practice of the law in Russellville, 
 in the midst of a host of brilliant competitors. He 
 went there unknown to fame — he left it with a 
 fame as extended as the limits of this great nation. 
 All the honors of his profession were soon his, and 
 while his accurate and thorough knowledge of the 
 law gained for him hosts of clients, his brilliant 
 oratory filled the land with his praise, and the 
 pride of that section of the state demanded that 
 he should serve in the legislative assembly. He 
 was accordingly elected to the Legislature from 
 the county of Logan, in 181 1; and that noble 
 county conferred the same honor upon him in 
 six consecutive elections. In 1817, and while a 
 Representative from Logan, he was elected 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives, having 
 thus attained the highest distinction in the popu- 
 lar branch of the Legislature of his native state. 
 That same honest pride which had impelled the 
 Green River people to press him into public life, 
 
 had spread throughout the state, and the people 
 of Kentucky resolved to place him where the 
 eyes of the nation might be upon him — confident 
 that he would win honor for himself and ad- 
 vance the fame of those he represented. He was 
 accordingly, in 1817, elected a Senator in the 
 Congress of the United States, and although the 
 youngest member of that body, no sooner had oc- 
 casion presented, when it was meet for him to 
 speak, than by the universal acclaim of the Ameri- 
 can people, he was hailed as among the foremost 
 of our orators — as a fit colleague for Henry Clay 
 himself — and as one who must take rank with 
 our ablest statesmen. His private affairs requir- 
 ing his unremitted attention, he withdrew from this 
 theatre where he was winning golden opinions 
 from all, to enter more vigorously upon the prac- 
 tice of his profession. In order that he might be 
 enabled to do this in the most favorable manner, 
 he removed to Frankfort, in 1819, at which place 
 the Federal Court and Supreme Court of the state 
 are held. But here, again, the same popular love 
 and enthusiasm followed him, and he was com- 
 pelled to yield a reluctant assent to the wishes of 
 his friends, who desired him to serve them in the 
 Legislature. He was elected from Franklin in 1825 
 — a period memorable in the history of Kentucky. 
 In the Old and New Court controversy, no man 
 occupied a more conspicuous point that Mr. Crit- 
 tenden, and as the advocate of the laws and Con- 
 stitution of Kentucky, and in the maintenance of 
 a sound private and public faith, no man was more 
 distinguished. He was three times elected to the 
 Legislature from Franklin, and during one of the 
 periods, he was again chosen speaker of the 
 liouse of Representatives. 
 
 The troubles of that period having subsided, 
 and the public service not requiring the sacrifice 
 of his time and business, he again returned to 
 private life, but was permitted a very short res- 
 pite from the political arena; for, in 1835, he was 
 once more sent to the Senate of the United States, 
 and held the office by re-election until the coming 
 in of the administration of President Harrison. 
 By that patriot President he was appointed Attor- 
 ney-General of the United States, and the appoint- 
 ment was hailed by men of all parties as the" most 
 appropriate that could have been made. The mel- 
 
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 ancholy death of the President brought into 
 power an administration that forfeited the respect 
 of honorable minds. Mr. Crittenden left it, and 
 resigned his office in a note which he sent to the 
 President, that has been considered an admirable 
 specimen of the manner in which a lofty mind can 
 retire from place, when its possession cannot be 
 held with self-respect. 
 
 He was elected to fill the vacancy occasioned 
 by the resignation of Mr. Clay, and, at the next 
 session of the Legislature, re-elected for the full 
 term of six years, from March 4, 1843. I^ 1848 
 he resigned, having accepted the nomination of 
 the Whig party to run for Governor of the state, 
 to which office he was elected. He was appointed 
 Attorney-General by President Fillmore in 1850, 
 and retired with that administration. In 1853 he 
 was again returned to the Senate, for the full term 
 ending in 1861. He was elected to the House of 
 Representatives in Congress in June, 1861, and 
 was a member thereof at the time of his death, 
 which occurred in Louisville, Kentucky, July 25, 
 1863. 
 
 Mr. Crittenden was, during the greater part of 
 his life, a devoted friend of Mr. Clay; but it is 
 known that there was an interruption in their 
 friendship, caused by the participation of Mr. Crit- 
 tenden in the nomination of General Taylor for 
 President. Whatever may have been at one 
 period the feelings of Mr. Clay towards his life- 
 long friend, when they met afterwards, Mr. Qay 
 advanced and said, cordially as of old, "Critten- 
 den, how are you? I am glad to see you." 
 
 After the dissolution of the old Whig party, Mr. 
 Crittenden became identified with the "Know- 
 Nothing," or American, organization, which, 
 however, had an ephemeral existence. Left, then, 
 without a party, Mr. Crittenden yet uniformly 
 opposed the measures of the Democracy. 
 
 But, conspicuous as was the whole of Mr. Crit- 
 tenden's career, his latest efiforts were his great- 
 est. True to the conservative character of his 
 nature, in his last term in the Senate he ofifered 
 in that body a plan to adjust the difficulties be- 
 tween the North and South, known as the "Crit- 
 tenden Propositions," which were discussed in the 
 "Peace'Convention" as well as in the Senate. He 
 hoped, by this plan, to arrest the threatened se- 
 
 cession of the Cotton States, and avert Civil War. 
 He proposed to renew the Missouri line of 36 deg. 
 30 min. ; to prohibit slavery north, and to permit 
 it south of that line, as prescribed by the inhab- 
 itants thereof; -to admit new states with or with- 
 out slavery, as the constituents might provide ; to 
 prohibit Congress from abolishing slavery in the 
 District of Columbia so long as it exists in Mary- 
 land or Virginia; and to pay for fugitive slaves 
 rescued after arrest. These were the main pro- 
 visions. He advocated them with characteristic 
 earnestness, but his patriotic intentions were 
 thwarted by their defeat. 
 
 Mr. Crittenden retired from the Senate in 
 March, 1861, but he did not cease his efiforts to 
 avert a collision between the people of the two 
 sections. He was the president of the "Border 
 States Convention," held in Frankfort, Kentucky, 
 in May, 1861, in which it was sought to mediate 
 between the hostile parties. An address was is- 
 sued, but the time for conciliation had past; in- 
 deed, the war had already begun, and Mr. Crit- 
 tenden avowed himself in favor of maintaining 
 the integrity of the Union at all hazards. He was 
 elected to Congress from the "Ashland" District, 
 and took his seat at the extra session in July, 1861, 
 and frequently participated in the debates. He 
 denounced the Confiscation Act, the Emancipa- 
 tion Proclamation, and the enlistment of negroes 
 as soldiers, as obnoxious, dangerous, if not un- 
 constitutional, measures; yet these, he admitted, 
 were minor considerations as compared with the 
 suppression of the rebellion. 
 
 The abolition of slavery, the destruction of the 
 South, and the subjugation of the liberties of its 
 people, attest the unblushing hypocrisy of these 
 professions of the Radical party. Mr. Crittenden 
 ofifered them in good faith, and the Union men of 
 the border slave states accepted them in the 
 same spirit; but the faith of the Northern war 
 party was Punic faith. Their purpose was to keep 
 it sacredly if they were beaten, but repudiate it if 
 they were victorious. During that and the suc- 
 ceeding session, Mr. Crittenden labored assidu- 
 ously to mitigate the horrors of the fratricidal war. 
 His wise and patriotic counsels were disregarded, 
 for each successive measure adopted only aug- 
 mented the bitterness and widened the gulf that 
 
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 separated the two peoples. In his latest mo- 
 ments, Mr. Crittenden spoke of and deplored the 
 disasters that had befallen the country. 
 
 Mr. Crittenden's intellect was of a superior or- 
 der. By profession a lawyer, yet the political field 
 was more congenial to him. Or perhaps it would 
 be more correct to say that he entered political 
 life so young that he naturally acquired a taste for 
 the one, to the exclusion of the other. As an ad- 
 vocate, he stood almost without a rival at the bar ; 
 yet he was never a profound lawyer. He did not 
 claim to be. He could have rriastered any sub- 
 ject, but it would have been at the sacrifice of his 
 political duties. He was a generous, magnani- 
 mous, and brave man — clear, comprehensive and 
 decided in his convictions, and one who never 
 shrank from the expression of them on any public 
 question. His patriotism was never questioned 
 by even the most bitter partisan enemy. Many of 
 his countrymen entertained the hope that the 
 highest office in the gift of the American people 
 would be conferred upon him, but it was fated oth- 
 erwise. 
 
 Mr. Crittenden was in two campaigns, in the 
 War of 1812; as aid to General Ramsey in the ex- 
 pedition commanded by General Hopkins ; and as 
 aid to Governor Shelby, served with distinguished 
 gallantry at the battle of the Thames. 
 
 JOHN SIMEON MULLIGAN, sheriflf of 
 Daviess County, was born in Washington 
 County, near Springfield, Kentucky, March 22, 
 1838, and is a son of John H. and Susan (Hayden) 
 Mullican. His father was born near Emmitts- 
 burg, Maryland, and came to Kentucky with his 
 father's family when he was very young, locating 
 for a time in Washington County and removing 
 to Nelson County in 1840, where he died in 
 March, 1852. He was a most exemplary citizen, 
 devoted to the work of the farmer and to the 
 Catholic Church, having been converted to that 
 faith after reaching his maturity. He deemed it a 
 sacred duty to vote, but did not meddle with 
 pohtics or aspire to ofifice. He was largely inter- 
 ested in stock trading, but his chief pride was in 
 his justly earned reputation as the best farmer 
 in his county. His father, with whom he came to 
 Kentucky from Maryland, was a native of Ireland, 
 
 He was a farmer before and after coming to 
 Kentucky, and owned a large tract of land in 
 Washington County, where he buih a very hand- 
 some residence. 
 
 Susan Hayden Mullican (mother) was born in 
 Nelson County in 1795 and was a resident of her 
 native county until her death in 1878. 
 
 Stanley Hayden (maternal grandfather) was a 
 native of Virginia, where he married a Miss Hil- 
 ton, also a Virginian, and subsequently removed 
 to Nelson County, Kentucky. Mr. Hayden was 
 a farmer and an excellent citizen; a member of 
 the Catholic Church and a Democrat of the old 
 school. The Haydens originally came from Eng- 
 land. 
 
 John S. Mullican was two years old when his 
 parents removed from Washingtoti to Nelson 
 County; was educated in St. Joseph College at 
 Bardstown, completing his studies in 1858; sold 
 dry goods for Quinn & Co. of Bardstown until 
 1 861; went to Corinth and enlisted in Company 
 E, Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment, C. S. A., un- 
 der Capt. Hatch Murphy, and served in that regi- 
 ment from June, 1861, till February, 1862, when 
 he was transferred to the First Kentucky Regi- 
 ment, commanded by Col. Thomas H. Taylor, 
 now chief of police of Louisville, and was in the 
 company commanded by Capt. Pat Thorp. His 
 regiment was disbanded at the siege of Yorktown 
 in March, 1863, and Private Mullican was hon- 
 orably discharged on account of impaired health. 
 During his career as a soldier he was in a num- 
 ber of fierce engagements, notably, the battles of 
 Yorktown, Williamsburg, Chickahominy and sev- 
 eral hot skirmishes near Richmond. 
 
 After spending six months in Bardstown, he 
 removed to Daviess County and chose the inde- 
 pendent life of a farmer, and his career as such 
 was uneventful and unbroken until 1892, when he 
 was elected sheriff of Daviess County for a term 
 of two years. After completing this term, he was 
 re-elected in 1894 for a term of three years under 
 the new constitution, succeeding himself in Jan- 
 uary,' 1895. In this official capacity Mr. Mullican 
 has rendered faithful service, and by his very 
 urbane, courteous and genial manner has added 
 much to his popularity, and has established a 
 name among (h? best citizens as an honorable 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 citizen and capable official. Of course, he is a 
 Democrat, and while he has been twice elected to 
 an important and lucrative ofifice by his party, he 
 has never been a politician, his election having 
 been due to his popularity as a citizen and an hon- 
 est man, rather than to 'his party affiliations. He 
 adheres to the religious faith of his parents, and 
 is an influential member of the Catholic Church, 
 and of the Young Men's Institute in connection 
 with that church. 
 
 Mr. Mullican was married April 10, 1866, to 
 Kate Stowers, daughter of A. H. Stowers of 
 Daviess County. She was born in Daviess Coun- 
 ty in July, 1840, and after attending the common 
 schools completed her education in Nazareth Col- 
 lege, in Nelson County. They have eight chil- 
 dren: James Stowers Mullican, married to Vir- 
 gie Newman of Daviess County; John Vernon 
 MuUican, married to Maggie Burnott of Daviess 
 County; Bettie, Ollie and Oda (twins), Richard, 
 Mamie and Addie. 
 
 DANIEL R. COLLIER, Adjutant General of 
 Kentucky, one of the most widely known 
 and popular RepubHcans of the state, was born 
 in Garrard County, November 21, 1840. Be- 
 sides having an ancestry to be proud of. Col. 
 Collier has a record of his own with which his 
 ancestors would be pleased if they were living. He 
 took his first and last lessons in the common 
 schools of Lancaster and was pretty well along 
 when the great war broke out, and on the 23d of 
 July, 1 861, he enlisted in Company B, Third Reg- 
 iment Kentucky Infantry; was elected second 
 lieutenant and went into Camp Dick Robinson, 
 near Lancaster, which was the first Federal re- 
 cruiting post south of the Ohio river. The regi- 
 ment was organized and commanded by Col. 
 Thomas E. Bramlette, who was afterwards the 
 war governor of Kentucky. By the resignation 
 of Col. Bramlette and the promotion of Major 
 McKee to the command of the regiment, Mr. 
 Collier — who had served about a year as second 
 lieutenant and had been promoted to captain of 
 his company, on account of gallant services — was 
 promoted to the rank of major. He held that 
 rank about three months. Early in the morning 
 of December 31, 1862, on the first day of the 
 
 battle of Stone River, Col. McKee was killed 
 while leading his regiment, and Major Collier 
 assumed command. Gen. Haskell, in his report 
 of the battle of Stone River, said: "In less 
 than ten minutes after the fall of Col. McKee 
 the gallant major, D. R. Collier, received two 
 severe wounds, one in his leg and one in his 
 breast, but nothing would induce him to leave 
 the field." His commission as Heutenant colonel 
 bore the date of that first day's battle at Stone 
 River. 
 
 Col. Collier was in many hard-fought battles, 
 including the siege of Corinth, Shiloh, Murfrees- 
 boro, McMinnville, Stewart's Creek, Perryville, 
 and all the principal campaigns up to Stone River. 
 About five months after receiving the wounds 
 mentioned, it being apparent that he would not 
 again be able for active service, he resigned his 
 commission and returned to his native county, 
 engaging for a time in farming, stock-raising 
 and in mercantile pursuits. He soon became a 
 leader in Republican politics in his county and 
 district, and one whom others were willing to fol- 
 low. He wielded a strong influence among the 
 voters of the Eighth Congressional District. 
 President Harrison recognized the colonel's val- 
 uable services in the campaign of 1888, and in 
 August, 1889, appointed him surveyor of customs 
 and custodian of public property at Louisville, 
 which offices he filled with signal ability until 
 September, 1893. 
 
 He was a delegate to the Repubhcan National 
 Convention in 1892 which renominated Gen. Har- 
 rison, and not only cast his vote but controlled 
 other votes for the popular president. During 
 the gubernatorial campaign of 1894 he was one 
 of Col. Bradley's most trusted lieutenants and 
 willing workers, and when his friend and neighbor 
 was inaugurated governor, on the same day he 
 appointed Col. Collier adjutant general of Ken- 
 tucky. And it was an appointment which gave 
 general satisfaction throughout the state. 
 
 Col. Collier was married December 21, 1865, 
 to Mary E. Hoskins, daughter of Col. W. A. Hos- 
 Isins of Danville, who commanded the Twelfth 
 Regiment Kentucky Infantry, and was a mem- 
 ber of the Kentucky legislature in 1872. Mrs. 
 Collier is a niece of Mrs. Dick Robinson, for 
 
486 
 
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 whose husband Camp Dick Robinson was named 
 as a compliment to his loyalty; also a niece of 
 Mrs. James Ferris of Lancaster, who predicted 
 thirty years ago that Col. Bradley would some 
 day be governor of Kentucky. Col. and Mrs. 
 Collier have three children; his eldest daughter, 
 Roberta, is the wife of Robert L. Elkin of Gar- 
 rard County, and has one child, Daniel Collier 
 Elkin. 
 
 His son, William H. Collier, is in mercantile 
 business at Lancaster, and Ida Frances Collier 
 is at home. 
 
 Col. Collier is a member of the Christian 
 Church, of the Masonic order, the Knights of 
 Honor and, of course, a member in good standing 
 of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
 
 Col. Collier's father, Alexander Collier, was 
 a native of Garrard County, where he died in 
 i860. He received a good common school edu- 
 cation and followed the occupation of a farmer 
 most of his life; in politics a Democrat; in re- 
 ligious faith a Baptist. 
 
 Robert Collier (grandfather) was a Virginian, 
 who married there and came to Garrard County, 
 where he practiced medicine for many years. He 
 was of Scotch-Irish extraction. 
 
 Rebecca Scott Collier (mother) was a native 
 of Garrard County; received a good education in 
 the schools of the county; was a devout member 
 of the Baptist Church and a noble Qiristian 
 woman; died in 1856. 
 
 Joseph Scott (maternal grandfather) was born 
 in Virginia, of English parentage. After com- 
 ing to Kentucky he first settled in Barren Coun- 
 ty, and subsequently removed to Garrard, where 
 he was a farmer and an exemplary citizen. 
 
 GEORGE KELLY, M. D., a learned and able 
 young physician of Lexington, son of a 
 noted physician of Massachusetts, was born in 
 Worcester, June 6, 1866. His father, Frank H. 
 Kelly, M. D., fellow of the Massachusetts Medical 
 Society, was born in New Hampton, September 
 9, 1827; after the district school he entered the 
 academy in New Hampton, in which he studied 
 the higher branches for three years; was em- 
 
 ployed in the dry goods store of James P. Simp- 
 son until 1846, when he left his -native place and 
 went to Boston. Remaining there several 
 months, he went to Dover and read medicine 
 with Dr. Bethnel Kirth, with whom he went to 
 Cincinnati in 1847, where he attended a course of 
 medical lectures; was afterwards associated with 
 Dr. Aaron Ordway of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 
 until 185 1, when he removed to Worcester and 
 located permanently, at once entering upon a 
 most successful career in the practice of medicine, 
 in which he continued for twenty-three years. 
 
 He was first president of the board of trustees 
 of the Worcester City Hospital in 1870 and served 
 in that capacity for thirteen years consecutively; 
 joined the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1875 
 and delivered the annual address before the 
 Worcester District Medical Society in 1880; was 
 connected with city government in various ca- 
 pacities and at divers times, as member of the 
 school board for two years, of the common coun- 
 cil six years, of the board of aldermen and as 
 mayor of Worcester in 1880 and 1881. During 
 his administration as mayor the erection of the 
 new building for the city hospital was commenced 
 and a board of health was established. He was 
 not only a very noted physician and elegant gen- 
 tleman, but he was active as a citizen and bore 
 his part manfully in his endeavors to advance the 
 best interests of his city. He was the author 
 of a book entitled, "Reminiscences of New Hamp- 
 ton," and also wrote a genealogical history of the 
 Kelly and Simpson families, the Simpsons being 
 related to his mother, who was a descendant of 
 Thomas Simpson, the Revolutionary patriot. 
 His mother was a daughter of Tristram and Ann 
 Cram, whose ancestors were natives of Deer- 
 field, New Hampshire. 
 
 Dr. Kelly was married (first) in Worcester, 
 April 20, 1853, to Lucy Ellis Draper (mother), 
 who was born at Dover, Massachusetts, Septem- 
 ber 3, 1828. She died in Worcester, May 22, 
 
 1873- 
 
 He was married (second) January 8, 1879, to 
 Jennie P. Martin, with whom he lived until his 
 death, which occurred October 25, 1891. 
 
 Dr. George Draper Kelly of Lexington was 
 educated in the public schools of Worcester and 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 487 
 
 at Phillips Academy at Exeter, New Plampshire, 
 which institution he entered when fifteen years of 
 age, graduating three years later. He then at- 
 tended Harvard Medical School, from which he 
 received his diploma in 1889; entered hospital 
 service at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 
 Boston, in which he received practical instruc- 
 tion, and after completing his medical studies he 
 began the practice of medicine in his native city, 
 where he remained about a year before locating in 
 Lexington; was a member of the Society of 
 Alumni of Harvard Medical School; of the Mas- 
 sachusetts Medical Society; of the Worcester 
 County Medical Society, and attached to the staff 
 of the Washburn Memorial Hospital. 
 
 On arriving in Lexington, he immediately be- 
 gan a promising career, unabashed by the pres- 
 ence of so many noted physicians, and he 
 has met with great encouragement while doing 
 his share of professional work in a distressingly 
 healthy community. He joined the Kentucky 
 State Medical Society and the Fayette County 
 Medical Society in 1893, and is physician in 
 charge of the Protestant Infirmary of Lexington. 
 
 M 
 
 ARMADUKE B. BOWDEN, Attorney-at 
 Law of Louisville, son of James H. Bow- 
 den and Nannie Morton, was born in Russelville, 
 Kentucky, July 7, 1866, and educated at Bethel 
 College. Poor health compelled him to leave 
 school at nine years of age, but he returned to 
 school when fourteen and remained for three 
 years. He was greatly interested in geology and 
 was engaged for one year in making a geological 
 survey of Warren and Butler Counties. The dis- 
 play of Kentucky building stone at the Southern 
 Exposition in 1883 was composed of specimens 
 secured in part by Mr. Bowden for this purpose, 
 and were polished at the Smithsonian Institution. 
 They have since been exhibited as samples of the 
 building stones of Kentucky, wherever Kentucky 
 has been represented in an exposition. Mr. Bow- 
 den read law with his father and was admitted 
 to the bar in July, 1885. In 1888 he served in 
 the town council of Russellville, and in March, 
 1889, when not twenty-three years of age, was 
 elected mayor of that town. He resigned in 1889 
 and removed to Louisville, where he has since 
 
 been engaged in the practice of law. He was 
 elected president of the Louisville Commercial 
 Club, May 9, 1893, for a term of one year, and 
 was re-elected for another year in 1895, and was 
 elected colonel of the First Kentucky Regiment, 
 Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, December 
 30, 1895. 
 
 It was partly due to Mr. Bowden's influence 
 and energy that the G. A. R. encampment was 
 brought to Louisville in 1895. He was at that 
 time president of the Commercial Qub, and di- 
 rected all his efforts to that end, visiting different 
 state encampments in the interest of Louisville, 
 and presenting the Massachusetts, Illinois, Indi- 
 ana and New York departments with Abraham 
 Lincoln gavels. This, together with his eloquent 
 orations, provoked a genuine enthusiasm and 
 gained for him a national reputation. At the 
 Indiana and Illinois encampments especially was 
 his influence recognized, as strenuous efforts were 
 making there to carry the encampment to St. 
 Paul. But after Mr. Bowden's address the tide 
 was turned in favor of Louisville. He also visited 
 the Texas department and, in company with the 
 Hon. E. J. McDermott, visited the Pennsylvania 
 department, where Mr. McDermott was the 
 orator. 
 
 Mr. Bowden was married February 14, 1888, 
 to Lee Sandifer, daughter of Nicholas Sandifer, 
 who was judge of the Garrard County Court for 
 many years. She was born in Lancaster, Ken- 
 tucky, and educated at Millersburg Female Col- 
 lege. 
 
 James H. Bowden (father) was born in Mor- 
 ganfield. Union County, Kentucky, and attended 
 school there until his thirteenth year; went to 
 Louisville and worked for several years as a print- 
 er on the old Louisville Journal, earning enough 
 money to enable him to attend school for a short 
 term, after which he returned to Louisville and 
 worked at printing at intervals until he com- 
 pleted his education. He studied law with the 
 Hon. G. P. Edwards of Russellville and began 
 to practice in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, 
 Kentucky, October, 1855; remained there for 
 eighteen months, and removed to Russellville, 
 where he soon became eminent in his profession ; 
 was a member of the Kentucky legislature, 
 
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 1875-6; was school commissioner of Logan Coun- 
 ty for a number of years, and in 1882 was elected 
 judge of the Superior Court and was on the bench 
 eight years, serving two terms. Since leaving 
 the bench in 1890 he has practiced law in Russell- 
 ville. 
 
 Judge Bowden married Miss Nannie Morton, 
 May 14, 1857. She was born in 1843 and was the 
 daughter of Marmaduke B. Morton (deceased), 
 who was cashier of the Southern Bank of Ken- 
 tucky, and after it went out of business, of the 
 banking house of N. Long & Co., at Russellville. 
 Their children are: Katie, who married Henry 
 M. Caldwell; John S., died in 1876; Fannie, Mar- 
 maduke B., Elizabeth, Mary and Henry W. 
 
 John Bowden (grandfather) was born in Bris- 
 tol, England, September 8, 1787. He emigrated 
 to Baltimore in 1815, where he was an architect; 
 he married (first) a Miss Tucker, also a native of 
 England. There were two children by this mar- 
 riage: John and Ann. He removed to Ken- 
 tucky in 18 19 and married (second) Lova Fau- 
 quier of Morganfield, Kentucky, and there were 
 eight children by this marriage: Amelia; Rev. 
 George F., killed while young by falling over a 
 cliff; John, member of the Louisville Methodist 
 Episcopal Conference, who was regarded as a 
 man of fine ability, who died in 1846; Annie; 
 Mary, married to Harry Duncan, and died in 
 1861 ; two of her sons are each commonwealth's 
 attorneys in Missouri; Sarah, Thomas L., and 
 James H. Bowden, father of Marmaduke B. Bow- 
 den of Louisville. 
 
 WILLIAM L. BROWN of London, judge of 
 Laurel County Court, son of George P. 
 Brown and Eveline McKee, was born in London, 
 Kentucky, April 3, 1841, and was educated in 
 the common schools, supplemented by a short 
 term in Transylvania. 
 
 He was a clerk in his father's store, beginning 
 at a very early age, and when only twelve years 
 old began making trips for his father to South 
 Carolina and Georgia with stock in which he was 
 a dealer and trader. He kept this up, performing 
 the- duties of a man and transacting business for 
 his father until about the beginning of the Civil 
 war. 
 
 In i860 he was elected lieutenant colonel of 
 militia; during the war he was connected with 
 the quartermaster's department and had charge 
 of the post at Camp Pitman during 1864 and 
 1865. He was one of the original Republicans 
 in his section of the state and was a delegate to 
 the national convention in 1864 which nomin- 
 ated President Lincoln the second time, since 
 which time he has taken a hand in every cam- 
 paign, local, state and national, taking the stump 
 in support of his party and throwing the weight 
 of his influence against Democracy and in favor 
 of Republican men and principles, and no man in 
 Laurel County is more highly respected. 
 
 In 1876 he was admitted to the bar, having 
 studied law previously under Judge Granville 
 Pearl of London. Two years later he was elected 
 county judge on a temperance platform, receiv- 
 ing more votes than both of the opposing candi- 
 dates. Republican and Democratic. Previous to 
 his term of service on the bench he was at differ- 
 ent times deputy clerk of the County and Circuit 
 Courts, deputy sheriff under different sheriffs, 
 during which a party having been convicted of 
 petty larceny and sentenced to receive "forty 
 stripes save one," the deputy was forced to exe- 
 cute the order of the court. The culprit threat- 
 ened to slay both the man who whipped him and 
 the prosecuting witness. He made good his 
 threat as to the witness, waylaying him, but was 
 killed himself in a drunken row before he found 
 an opportunity to slay the deputy sheriff. 
 
 He was elected county attorney and served 
 his time in that office, doing efficient work 
 for his county, and was a member of the 
 committee in charge of the erection of the 
 court house and superintended its construc- 
 tion. In 1894 he was nominated by the Repub- 
 licans and again elected county judge, his present 
 official position. Judge Brown has proven on 
 more than one occasion that he is one of the most 
 efficient officials the county has ever had, his 
 career having been characterized by the most 
 determined efforts to improve the condition of his 
 county generally, while his voice has been heard 
 on the side of law and order, and to his efforts 
 in this direction more than to the influence or 
 power of any other individual is due the present 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 489 
 
 excellent reputation of Laurel County for good 
 order, peace and quiet. Peerless in his opposition 
 to disorder and in bringing law-breakers to jus- 
 tice, he has been the friend of education and prog- 
 ress. No man has done more in advocating the 
 free school system, and he has always been found 
 in the front ranks among the friends of higher 
 education, The result of his labors in this direc- 
 tion are already apparent, but the foundation 
 which has been slow and sure in building will 
 tell more effectually upon future generations. 
 
 Judge Brown is a Christian man of strong 
 spiritual impulses; a member of the Methodist 
 Church and a lover of Christianity of whatever 
 denomination or creed. 
 
 George P. Brown (father) was born in Garrard 
 County, Kentucky, in 1813, and removed to Lau- 
 rel County in 1840, where he died in 1868. He was 
 a general merchant in London until after the Civil 
 war; a man of good education and sound judg- 
 ment; prominent in the afifairs of his town and 
 county; energetic and persevering in his efforts to 
 advance the interests of society, and was particu- 
 larly devoted to the cause of education. He 
 served as school commissioner for several years 
 and was largely instrumental in building the 
 seminary, in which many of the young people 
 of London have enjoyed the advantages of higher 
 education. 
 
 He represented his county in the legislature in 
 185 1 and could have had any office within the 
 gift of the people of the county, simply for the 
 asking. 
 
 Leroy Brown (grandfather), a native of Albe- 
 marle County, Virginia, came first to Garrard, and 
 subsequently removed to Laurel County, where 
 he was a farmer, returned to Garrard and died in 
 1863, having reached his eighty-eighth year. 
 
 He had eleven brothers, and several of them — 
 he could not tell how many — fought for their 
 country in the War of 1812, one of whom was 
 governor of the colony of South Carolina. He 
 claimed to be a cousin of General Robert E. Lee, 
 his father having married a lady of that connec- 
 tion. 
 
 Eveline McKee (mother) was born in Knox, 
 now Laurel County, in 1821, and though full of 
 years is an active member of the Methodist Epis- 
 
 copal Church and a resident of London, where 
 she is greatly loved for her many Christian graces. 
 
 William Houston McKee (grandfather), a na- 
 tive of Rockbridge County, Virginia, came to 
 Laurel County in 1810, and died there at the age 
 of eighty-six years. He was a farmer and a sur- 
 veyor and a scholarly gentleman who left the im- 
 press of a noble life upon the community in 
 which he lived. 
 
 John McKee (great-grandfather), a native of 
 Dublin, Ireland, came to America and married 
 a Miss Houston in Virginia, who was an aunt 
 of General Samuel Houston of Texas. 
 
 CHARLES H. PRICE, a popular and suc- 
 cessful lawyer of Middlesborough, was born 
 in Kent, Portage County, Ohio, January 26, 
 1849. 
 
 His father, William B. Price, was born in Can- 
 ada of American parents and was reared and 
 educated in Ohio; removed to Jasper County, 
 Indiana, in 1866, and died there June, 1895, in 
 the seventy-third year of his age. During the 
 earlier years of his business career he was a 
 teacher and merchant, but for thirty years prior to 
 his death he was engaged in farming pursuits. 
 He enlisted in the One Hundred and Ninety- 
 eighth Regiment Ohio Infantry, serving as order- 
 ly sergeant of his company; was postmaster at 
 Solon, Cuyaihoga County, Ohio, under Presi- 
 dent Lincoln's administration; was county com- 
 missioner of Jasper County, Indiana, and held 
 other minor offices. He was a life-long Repub- 
 lican and was active and influential in his party. 
 He was a member of the Methodist Church. 
 
 Captain William Price (grandfather), a native 
 of Connecticut and of Irish parentage, removed 
 to Ohio when he was a young man; founded the 
 town of Kent in Portage County, and was en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of silks. He was a 
 captain of the old militia and a man of education 
 and wide influence. He was killed by the falling 
 of a mill-stone. 
 
 Susan M. Taylor Price (mother) is a native 
 of Summit County, Ohio, and is now living in 
 Jasper County, Indiana, in her sixty-ninth year. 
 Her father was a native of Connecticut and for 
 
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 many years a farmer of Summit County, Ohio, 
 where he died. 
 
 'Charles H. Price spent his early years in the 
 western reserve of Ohio, where his education 
 began before his father removed to Indiana, and 
 there he attended the common schools and Stock- 
 well University. After leaving school he fol- 
 lowed farming a while; studied law and was 
 admitted to the Jasper County bar and began the 
 practice of law in 1873; was elected clerk of the 
 Circuit Court the same year, served two terms 
 and at the expiration of his second term, in 1883, 
 removed to Highmore, South Dakota, where he 
 practiced law until 1890. While there he was 
 city attorney, state's attorney, judge of the County 
 Court and member of the convention which 
 framed the present constitution of that state ; was 
 colonel on the staff of Governor L. K. Church, 
 and a member of the commission that codified 
 the laws of the territory; was defeated by the 
 Republican candidates for circuit judge and the 
 state senate, being the Democratic nominee for 
 those offices, respectively. He also served his 
 party as a member of the State Democratic Com- 
 mittee and as chairman of the County Committee. 
 
 In April, 1890, he came to Kentucky and lo- 
 cated in Middlesborough, where he has become 
 quite as prominent as a lawyer and citizen as he 
 was in Dakota. He has, however, devoted his 
 attention entirely to the practice of law, and, 
 with characteristic modesty, has kept out of the 
 way of men who have been Kentuckians longer, 
 and has not sought political favors. The only 
 offices he has held were those of special judge of 
 the Circuit Court and member of the city school 
 board. He has gained a lucrative practice in 
 his new field and is recognized by bench and bar 
 as one of the most able attorneys of Middles- 
 borough and vicinity. He is a Knight Templar 
 and Shriner in Masonry, a Knight of Pythias and 
 an Odd Fellow, and is prominent in all of tliese 
 orders. 
 
 Mr. Price was married in 1873 to Lizzie Jones, 
 daughter of Jacob and Mary Jones of Jasper 
 County, Indiana, and has two sons. Max T. and 
 Don K. Price. Grace B. Price, a daughter, died 
 in Indiana at the age of four years and four 
 months. 
 
 CHARLES R. BROCK, Lawyer of London, 
 Kentucky, son of Daniel R. Brock and 
 Mary Lucas Brock, was born in Laurel County, 
 Kentucky, May 9, 1865. 
 
 Daniel R. Brock was born in the same county 
 in 1841, and is still a resident farmer in his native 
 county, and is an active member of the Baptist 
 Church, having been clerk of the Laurel River 
 Baptist Association for many years. He mar- 
 ried Mary Lucas, a native of the same county. 
 
 Ragan Brock (grandfather) was born in Union 
 County, Tennessee, in the first year of the present 
 century; came to Laurel County, Kentucky, in 
 1833, and was a farmer there until his death in 
 1876. 
 
 William Lucas (maternal grandfather) was a 
 farmer and tanner in Laurel County, where he 
 died in 1867. 
 
 Charles R. Brock had a varied experience in 
 getting an education, and few young men have 
 so persistently followed a purpose with ultimate 
 success. A farmer's boy who was expected to 
 perform a share of the labor of the farm and 
 garden, his opportunity for schooling was limited, 
 and his studies were practically confined to the 
 common school curriculum until he was seven- 
 teen years of age, when he formed a determined 
 purpose to secure for himself the advantages of a 
 college education. 
 
 He attended Laurel Seminary at London and 
 Union College at Barboursville, teaching and 
 studying in alternate years until he was able to 
 enter the Kentucky State College at Lexington, 
 from which latter institution he was graduated in 
 June, 1890, taking the degree of Bachelor of 
 Science. 
 
 During the several years of his studies he taught 
 at different times in the county schools, and in 
 the London public schools of which he was prin- 
 cipal for three terms, all the while pursuing and 
 advancing himself in his college work. 
 
 After completing his college course he was an 
 associate principal of Laurel Seminary for one 
 year, and at the same time began the study of law. 
 During the school year of 1891-92 he was teacher 
 of mathematics and the German language in the 
 Williamsburg Institute; and while there his spare 
 moments were given to the study of his chosen 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 491 
 
 profession under the practical guidance of Hon. 
 R. D. Hill of Williamsburg, Kentucky. He was 
 admitted to the bar in November, 1891, and after 
 completing his term in the institute he entered 
 into a partnership with his able preceptor. 
 
 After a very satisfactory practice for three 
 years this partnership, was dissolved by mutual 
 consent in June, 1895, since which time Mr. 
 Brook has been gaining a strong foothold, and 
 by hard work and close application is now re- 
 ceiving a good share of the business of the courts 
 in his native county. He is devoted to his profes- 
 sion and the pleasure of his office during the day 
 is only surpassed when in the evening at home 
 he and his lovely young wife enter upon literary 
 and historical studies which they happily pursue 
 together. 
 
 The details of a young man's ups and downs and 
 his efforts to obtain an education are not of thril- 
 ling interest, but the example points a moral and 
 may stimulate other lads to greater endeavor and 
 lead them on to success. It also serves to show 
 the character and pluck of this young man who is 
 now upon the threshold of a successful career. 
 
 Charles R. Brock and Katherine Brown, daugh- 
 ter of Judge W. L. Brown of London, were mar- 
 ried June I, 1893. Mr. Brock is a member of the 
 Baptist Church, and is now superintendent of the 
 Sabbath School. 
 
 EDWARD J. HOWARD, City Attorney of 
 Middlesborough, son of John A. Howard 
 and Mary J. Keran, was born in Scotland Coun- 
 ty, Missouri, December 4, 1861. 
 
 His father, John A. Howard, was born in Clark 
 County, Missouri, in 1836, and died in Leaven- 
 worth, Kansas, in 1892. He was a lawyer and a 
 leading Republican politician; joined the Federal 
 army as a private in the Twenty-first Regiment, 
 Missouri Infantry, and was wounded in a skir- 
 mish in the Red River expedition, and this wound 
 and the exposure incident to army life caused his 
 death. He was in Leavenworth on business at the 
 time of his death, having retained his home in 
 Clark County, Missouri. 
 
 Thomas Flannery Howard (grandfather) was a 
 native of Harlan County and removed to Clark 
 County, Missouri, with his father about 1836, and 
 
 died there. He was a farmer and a preacher in 
 the Methodist Church. 
 
 John N. Howard (great-grandfather) was the 
 first County Judge of Harlan County, Kentucky, 
 and was a man of prominence and considerable 
 means. He donated to the county the ground 
 upon which the first court house was built, at 
 Harlan C. H., the county-seat. He was a farmer 
 and stock-raiser in that county and in Missouri, 
 to which state he removed late in life and died 
 there in old age. 
 
 Samuel Howard (great-great-grandfather) came 
 from Virginia to Kentucky in 1795 and settled in 
 what is now Harlan County. He was the ancestor 
 of one branch of the Howard family in Kentucky. 
 He was born in Buckingham County, Virginia, in 
 1762, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary War 
 under General Washington, and was at Valley 
 Forge, White Plains and Monmouth. He was 
 present at the surrender of Cornwallis at York- 
 town, and was one of the Revolutionary War pen- 
 sioners in Kentucky. He died about 1840 in 
 Harlan County. The Howards were originally 
 from Scotland, whence they went to England hun- 
 dreds of years ago, and thence to Virginia in a 
 very early day. 
 
 Mary Keran Howard (mother) is a native of 
 Scott County, Illinois, and is now a resident of 
 Marceline, Linn County, Missouri. Her father, 
 James S. Keran, was a native of Ohio ; removed to 
 Illinois and thence to Scotland County, Missouri, 
 and finally to Tulare County, California, where he 
 died, aged sixty-seven years. He was a farmer 
 and minister in the Methodist Church. His par- 
 ents were natives of Ireland. 
 
 Edward J. Howard was reared in Clark Coun- 
 ty, Missouri, and received a good education in 
 the academy and pubHc schools. After reading 
 law for a time he came to Kentucky in 1888 and 
 finished his course of reading at Harlan Court 
 House, and was admitted to the bar in the same 
 year and went to Middlesborough in 1889, where 
 he located permanently in the practice of his pro- 
 fession. For three or four years he combined real 
 estate operations with his law practice, but since 
 1893 has devoted his whole time to the law, and 
 is now serving his second term as City Attorney of 
 Middlesborough. 
 
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 Mr. Howard has taken a lively interest in poli- 
 tics and was the Democratic nominee for Con- 
 gress in the district in 1890. The regular Republi- 
 can majority in the district is eleven thousand, and 
 he reduced that majority to three thousand four 
 hundred. This was a fair test of his popularity 
 and is good evidence of his superiority as a cam- 
 paigner. He is one of the leading lawyers of his 
 city and section and has paved the way for a most 
 brilliant and successful career. He is a member 
 of the Missionary Baptist Church; is active in 
 church work and a leading Knight of Pythias, 
 being Vice-Chancellor of Lodge No. 83. 
 
 Mr. Howard was married in 1886 to Mary E. 
 Long, daughter of William R. Long of Mere- 
 dosia, Illinois, and has two sons living: Edward 
 J. Howard, Jr., and George F. Howard. 
 
 DANIEL BOONE LOGAN, lawyer and citi- 
 zen of Pineville, formerly of Morehead, 
 where he led a company of citizens who sup- 
 pressed the notorious Craig Toliver faction in 
 Rowan County in 1887 (wherein he honored the 
 memory of Kentucky's most distinguished pio- 
 neer, for whom he was named), was born in Car- 
 ter County, Kentucky, April 23, 1858. He is a 
 great-grandson of another pioneer, James Lo- 
 gan, who took no small part in the early trials of 
 those who sought homes on "the dark and bloody 
 ground ;" so that he carries the blood of heroes in 
 his veins while he bears the name of Daniel 
 Boone, who was Kentucky's greatest citizen in his 
 day. 
 
 Mr. Logan is a son of James Fleming Logan 
 and Nancy McGlone Logan. His father, a native 
 of Fleming County, removed to Carter County 
 in 1853, where he was engaged in farming until 
 the spring of 1869, when he removed to Greenup 
 County and died December 5, 1869, aged fifty- 
 two years. During the Civil War he was in the 
 Federal army, serving in the Quartermaster's de- 
 partment. 
 
 Tobias Logan (grandfather) was born in Flem- 
 ing County in 1796, and was a farmer there until 
 1853, when he also, with his son, James F. Logan, 
 removed to Carter County, where he died in 1870, 
 following his son to "that other country" within a 
 few months after James F. Logan's death. 
 
 James Logan (great-grandfather) was born in 
 North Carolina and came to Kentucky with his 
 parents when he was a child, locating near Shel- 
 byville. He subsequently took part in the Indian 
 wars and was shot, scalped and left for dead at the 
 battle of Blue Lick Springs, but he survived with 
 the loss of his hair and an eye. 
 
 William Logan (great-great-grandfather) was a 
 native of Scotland, who came to the United States 
 and located in North Carolina, subsequently re- 
 moving to Kentucky and settling near Shelby- 
 ville. 
 
 Nancy McGlone Logan (mother), now a resi- 
 dent of Rowan, was born in Greenup County, 
 Kentucky. Her grandfather, Owen McGlone, 
 was a native of Pennsylvania, and was one of the 
 first settlers of Bufifalo Fork of Tygart's Creek. 
 His father was a native of Scotland and became a 
 resident of Pennsylvania, where he and his wife 
 died. His son Owen about 1800 settled on Buf- 
 falo Fork and died there about i860. His widow- 
 reached the almost impossible age of one hundred 
 and thirteen years, dying in 1885. His son, Wil- 
 liam Owen McGlone, was born in what was then 
 Mason, but now Carter County, and resided there 
 all his life. He was the father of Nancy McGlone 
 Logan. He was a farmer and died in 1867. Dan- 
 iel Boone Logan was reared in Carter County 
 and received his education principally in the High 
 Schools of Grayson, Bethel and Morehead. He 
 was then engaged in teaching for a period of ten 
 years in the counties of Rowan, Fleming, Car- 
 ter and Bath, in the meantime pursuing his studies 
 and endeavoring to advance himself in the pro- 
 fession into which he had drifted. 
 
 In 1885 he was appointed Master Commission- 
 er of Rowan County, by Judge A. E. Cole, and 
 while holding that office for two years he read 
 law, and was admitted to the bar in 1886; prac- 
 ticed law in Morehead until 1890, when he came 
 to Pineville, where he has since devoted his time 
 to the practice of law in that section of the state. 
 
 It was while practicing law at Morehead, coun- 
 ty-seat of Rowan, that he performed the most dis- 
 tinguished service for his state. The Rowan 
 County feud between the followers of Craig Toli- 
 ver and Cook Humphreys had become so dis- 
 graceful and serious that Mr. Logan went to see 
 
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 493 
 
 Governor Knott to ask him to send the state 
 troops into Rowan County to suppress the lawless- 
 ness of those factions. The Governor replieu 
 that he could not do this until the local authorities 
 had exhausted their power; and, "returning to his 
 home, Mr. Logan organized a body of men to ac- 
 complish the arrest of those of the Toliver faction 
 charged with the murder of his kinsmen, W. H. 
 W. and J. B. Logan, and, together with the Sher- 
 iff of Rowan County, led them into Morehead, 
 June 22d, 1887, for that purpose, with the result 
 that is known to the world and has become a part 
 of the history of the state. The whole history of 
 the feud and its timely suppression under Mr. 
 Logan's leadership has been written by the his- 
 torians of the Filson Club, and the newspapers of 
 the country gave full accounts from beginning to 
 end, at the time of those stirring events. 
 
 Daniel Boone Logan was married in January, 
 1884, to Lizzie Evans, daughter of Captain Ben 
 Evans, deceased, of Morehead. They have two 
 daughters and one son : Gertrude, Virgie M. and 
 Benjamin F. Logan. 
 
 Captain Evans, Mrs. Logan's father, was Cap- 
 tain of a company under General John H. Mor- 
 gan in the Confederate army, and directly under 
 Humphrey Marshall, and was killed at West 
 Liberty. His place was taken by Judge Thomas 
 F. Hargis, late Chief Justice of the Kentucky 
 Court of Appeals, and now a resident of Louis- 
 ville. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Logan are quite prominent in 
 Pineville society, and he is a member of several 
 benevolent orders, including the Masons and the 
 Maccabees. 
 
 ROBERT HUGH TOMLINSON, a very 
 able and successful lawyer of Lancaster, son 
 of Joseph and Elizabeth M. (Jones) Tomlinson, 
 was born in Garrard County, Kentucky, May 21, 
 1852. 
 
 His father was born in Newbern, North Caro- 
 hna, in 1815; educated in Hendricks County, In- 
 diana, to which place his parents removed when 
 he was a child; came to Garrard County, Ken- 
 tucky, when twenty-three years of age and was a 
 farmer until recently, when he removed to Dan- 
 ville, where he is living in retirement; wfis a 
 
 stanch Union man during the war; a Republican 
 since and a man of strong convictions. He was 
 reared a Quaker, but has been for many years a 
 member of the Methodist Church. 
 
 William Tomlinson (grandfather) was a farmer 
 near Newbern, North Carolina, where he lived 
 and died. His father, William Tomlinson, was a 
 native of Ireland, the date of whose coming to 
 America is not recorded. 
 
 Elizabeth M. Jones Tomhnson (mother) was 
 born in Garrard County, Kentucky, in 1826; mar- 
 ried Joseph Tomlinson in 1842 in Hendricks 
 County, Indiana; died in Boyle County, Janu- 
 ary, 1892, and is buried at Danville. She was a 
 member of the Methodist Church and a most ex- 
 cellent woman. 
 
 Hugh L. Jones (grandfather) was born in New- 
 bern, North Carolina; was engaged in steamboat- 
 ing; came to Kentucky and taught school in Gar- 
 rard County, and married a Mrs. Taylor, whose 
 maiden name was Judith Moss. He died in Gar- 
 rard County in 1830. The maternal ancestors 
 of Mr. Tomlinson were from England. 
 
 Robert H. Tomlinson was educated at Green- 
 castle, Indiana, and in Transylvania University at 
 Lexington, completing his studies in 1873; be- 
 gan the practice of law in Lancaster, August, 
 1874; was in partnership for a short time with 
 William Robinson, and later with Judge George 
 Denny vmtil 1883, since which time he has at- 
 tended a large practice without an office asso- 
 ciate. He was City Attorney from 1880 to 1890; 
 Chairman of the Democratic Committee for the 
 same length of time; was appointed City Judge in 
 1881 to fill a vacancy; was elected to the legisla- 
 ture in 1889, and served as County Attorney from 
 1891 to 1894; is quite prominent in local and state 
 politics, and has often been a delegate to State 
 Democratic Conventions. 
 
 Mr. Tomlinson has a fine practice in the courts 
 and is attorney for a number of corporations and 
 building and loan associations, and was President 
 of the Board of Trustees of Garrard Female Col- 
 lege. 
 
 He is an active member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, in which he is a steward and trus- 
 tee; is connected with a number of benevolent 
 orders, including Masons, Odd Fellows, Macca- 
 
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 bees, Knights of Honor and is Major of the First 
 Regiment Uniform Rank of Knights of Pythias. 
 
 Mr. Tomlinson was married September 19, 
 1877, to Lou Marrs, daughter of Stephen and 
 Margaret (Robson) Marrs, and a native of Ander- 
 son County. Her father was a grocer and died 
 in October, 1888. Mrs. Tomlinson was educated 
 in Frankhn Institute and is an intelhgent and 
 accomplished lady. 
 
 Tile children of Robert H. and Lou (Marrs) 
 Tomlinson are Margaret, Harry Denny, Annell 
 and Robert Hugh. 
 
 REV. JOHN CLARKE YOUNG, D. D., a 
 Presbyterian clergyman, and the most dis- 
 tinguished and successful of the presidents of Cen- 
 ter College, at Danville, Kentucky, was born in 
 Pennsylvania, August 12, 1803, and died at Dan- 
 ville, June 23, 1857, aged fifty-four. He spent 
 three years in Columbia College, New York City, 
 but graduated, at twenty, with the honors of his 
 class, at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsyl- 
 vania; passed his theological course at Princeton 
 Seminary ; was pastor of the McChord Church, at 
 Lexington, Kentucky, 1828-30; in 1830, when 
 only twenty-seven, was made the president of one 
 of the leading colleges of the West, Center Col- 
 lege, which owed to him, until his death, much of 
 its greatest glory and usefulness ; it had six gradu- 
 ates in 1830, and forty-seven in 1857. He was 
 twice, in 1832 and 1841, moderator of the synod 
 of Kentucky, and in 1853 was moderator of the 
 Presbyterian General Assembly (O. S.) His pub- 
 lished writings were few; his forte was as a 
 speaker or preacher; his power in the pulpit and in 
 the church courts was remarkable. 
 
 REV. JOHN BRECKINRIDGE, D. D., was 
 born at Cabell's Dale, in Fayette County, 
 Kentucky, July 4, 1797, and died at the same 
 place, August 4, 1841, aged forty-four. Some ac- 
 count has been given of his paternal ancestors, 
 in the notice of his father and of his maternal, 
 in that of his elder brother, Joseph Cabell 
 Breckinridge. His education was conducted 
 at the best schools in Kentucky, and at 
 Princeton College, N. J., where he graduated, 
 at twenty-one, with great distinction. While 
 
 there he became a subject of divine grace, and 
 determined to enter the ministry of the Presby- 
 terian Church— -against the earnest wishes of all 
 his immediate family, not one of whom was at 
 that time a professor of religion; they had des- 
 tined him for the law. In 1822, just one year aft- 
 er he completed his theological course, he was 
 chaplain of the Lower House of Congress; in 
 1823, settled in Lexington, Kentucky, as pastor 
 of the McChord Church; was co-pastor, and then 
 pastor, of the Second Presbyterian Church, Bal- 
 timore, 1826-31 ; at Philadelphia, as secretary and 
 general agent of the Board of Education of the 
 Presbyterian Church, 1831-36; a professor in the 
 theological seminary at Princeton, New Jersey, 
 1836-38; secretary and general agent of the Board 
 of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, 
 1838-40. At the period of his death, he was pas- 
 tor-elect of the First Presbyterian Church, New 
 Orleans, and also president-elect of Oglethorpe 
 University, Georgia. He was a man of extraor- 
 dinary gifts. With talents of a high order, pulpit 
 eloquence rarely equalled in his generation, uni- 
 versally admired and beloved, it was no wonder 
 that calls and invitations to churches, colleges and 
 every sort of public employment suitable to a 
 Christian minister, flowed in upon him and at 
 times embarrassed him as to which it was his 
 duty to accept. 
 
 REV. ROBERT JEFFERSON BRECKIN- 
 RIDGE, D. D., LL.D., was bom March 
 8, 1800, at Cabell's Dale, Fayette County, Ken- 
 tucky, and died at Danville, Kentucky, December 
 27, 1871, aged nearly seventy-two. Of his pa- 
 ternal ancestors some account has been given 
 in the notice of his father, and some account 
 of his maternal ancestors in the sketch of his 
 elder brother. He was educated at the best 
 private schools in Kentucky, until sixteen; 
 spent two years at Princeton College, New 
 Jersey, one winter at Yale College, and grad- 
 uated, at nineteen, at Union College, Schenec- 
 tady, New York. In 1824 he commenced the 
 practice of law at Lexington, and took an active 
 part in politics; was elected in 1825, on the "Old 
 Court" ticket, a representative from Fayette 
 County in the Kentucky legislature, and was re- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 495 
 
 elected in 1826, '27 and '28. In 1829, after a 
 long and dangerous illness, he joined the Presby- 
 terian Church ; soon after, was ordained a ruling 
 elder; in 1831, was a commissioner to the Gen- 
 eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, which 
 met at Cincinnati. He was licensed to preach the 
 gospel in 1832; was pastor of the Second Pres- 
 byterian Church, in Baltimore, for thirteen years, 
 1832-45; president of Jefiferson College, Canons- 
 burg, Pennsylvania, 1845-47; pastor of the First 
 Presbyterian Church, Lexington, Kentucky, 
 1847-53; professor of theology in Danville The- 
 ological Seminary, 1853-71. 
 
 While pastor at Lexington, Governor Owsley, 
 in 1847, appointed him state superintendent of 
 public instruction, and in 1851 the people elected 
 him to the same position. He was selected for 
 this office because of his great abilities and splen- 
 did executive talent, and did a noble work in re- 
 ducing to a system the heretofore poorly digested 
 common school laws, and infusing much of his 
 own tireless spirit into the sluggish public senti- 
 ment of the day. While not the originator, he 
 may not inaptly be styled the Father of the Com- 
 mon School System of Kentucky. 
 
 Few Kentuckians have enjoyed the reputation 
 or exerted tihe influence of Dr. Breckinridge as a 
 writer. The "Act and Testimony," in 1834, in 
 the great controversy which resulted in a division 
 of the Presbyterian Church, first gave him a na- 
 tional reputation. He was leading editor of sev- 
 eral religious and general magazines and reviews ; 
 and author of a book of travels in Europe, in 
 1844, and of two able works on theology, in 1857 
 and 1859; ^nd °^ numerous essays and public 
 letters. He was among the mightiest controver- 
 sialists of his generation. 
 
 WILLIAM NATHAN FOSTER, an able 
 lawyer of Greensburg, Kentucky, son of 
 John Standford Foster and Eliza Fulks, was born 
 December 18, 1857, in Green County, Kentucky. 
 He was educated in the country schools of Green 
 County and in the academy at Canner, Hart 
 County, Kentucky. After leaving school in July, 
 1 881, he taught in the Green County District 
 schools for three years; read law with Judge 
 Towles of Greensburg; received license January, 
 
 1885, and began to practice in January, 1886, in 
 partnership with his brother, Robert L. Foster, 
 and this arrangement continued until the fall of 
 
 1886, when it was dissolved on account of his 
 brother being elected county attorney. He is a 
 Republican and a member of the RepubHcan 
 National League Club, and of the Baptist 
 Church. He married, December 10, 1891, Miss 
 Sallie C. Vaughn of Green County, daughter of 
 W. N. Vaughn and Amanda Moore. She was 
 educated at the Greensburg high school, graduat- 
 ing in 1883, and is a member of the Methodist 
 Church. They have one child, Herman S., born 
 June 25, 1895. 
 
 John S. Foster (father) was born in 1822 in 
 Orange County, Virginia, and was educated in 
 the county schools there. He came with his par- 
 ents, in 183 1, to Green (now Taylor) County. He 
 was a farmer and originally a Henry Clay Whig, 
 but in 1856 became a Republican, and was one 
 of the four men in Green County who voted for 
 Abraham Lincoln in i860. He is a member of 
 the Baptist Church; married Miss Eliza Fulks 
 in February, 1845, ^"'d they celebrated their 
 golden wedding in 1895. 
 
 J. S. Foster is a son of Josiah Foster and Biddie 
 Mitchell of Orange County, Virginia. Josiah 
 Foster was in the War of 1812. He was the son 
 of Robert Foster, who came to America from 
 Scotland in 1773; settled in Orange County, 
 Virginia, and married Annie Monroe in 1778. 
 
 Mrs. Eliza Fulks Foster (mother) was a daugh- 
 ter of Nathan Fulks of Culpeper County, Vir- 
 ginia, and Fannie Richardson of Prince Edward 
 County, Virginia. Eliza Foster was born Sep- 
 tember, 1822, and was educated in Virginia and 
 Kentucky. She came to Kentucky with her par- 
 ents in 1835, when they settled in Green County. 
 She is still living on the farm, eight miles west 
 of Greensburg, on Green river, and is a devout 
 member of the Baptist Church. By her mar- 
 riage with John S. Foster she had nine children, 
 eig'ht of whom are living: Josiah Foster, who 
 joined the Federal army when sixteen years old, 
 in October, 1862, and served until the close of the 
 war, and now a farmer in Green County; James 
 E. Foster, also a farmer in Green County ; Mary 
 E., wife of W. J. Sidebottom, a Green County 
 
496 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 farmer; Alice, wife of N. P. Gunun of Summer- 
 ville, Kentucky- William Nathan, lawyer, Greens- 
 burg, Kentucky; Robert L. was three times elect- 
 ed county attorney, the youngest the state has 
 ever had. He was considered one of the best 
 lawyers of his age in Kentucky. He was born 
 February 22, 1859; died April 20, 1895; Sallic, 
 wife of S. T. Gorin ; Fannie, wife of J. S. Hears, 
 and John Marshall Foster, farmer of Green 
 County. 
 
 Nathan Fulks (father of Mrs. Eliza Foster) was 
 a son of Jackson Fulks of Irelapd, who settled in 
 Culpeper County, Virginia, when a young man; 
 came to America in 1767, and married Dora Rob- 
 ertson in 1775- 
 
 FRANCIS MARION CAMPBELL of Spring- 
 field, clerk of the Circuit Court, son of 
 George P. and Lucy (Martin) Campbell, was edu- 
 cated in the common schools of Washington 
 County and in Texas, Kentucky, his last precep- 
 tor being James F. Rhinefort. After completing 
 his education 'he was a teacher in the district 
 schools in different parts of Kentucky for thir- 
 teen years, and at the expiration of that time he 
 returned to his native county and engaged in 
 farming. 
 
 In 1884 he was elected sheriff by the people of 
 Washington County, and was re-elected in 1886, 
 his term expiring in 1888. He then bought a half 
 interest in the flouring mills in operation at 
 Springfield, and held the position of secretary and 
 treasurer of the mills until 1892, when he was 
 elected to his present position as clerk of the 
 Circuit Court. He is a director in the First Na- 
 tional Bank of Springfield, and still retains his in- 
 terest in the flouring mills, his eldest son giving his 
 personal attention to that business. Mr. Camp- 
 bell is a member of the Baptist Church, and in 
 politics is a Democrat. He still owns the old 
 Campbell homestead and cherishes a laudable 
 sentiment in regard to its preservation. 
 
 Mr. Campbell was married in 1865 to Fannie 
 Campbell, daughter of Nathaniel Campbell and 
 Lucy Martin. Mrs. Fannie Campbell was born 
 in Washington County in 1844, and educated in 
 the public schools. She attended the Methodist 
 Church, of wihich she was a devoted member at 
 
 the time of her death, September 14, 1890. She 
 is interred in the old family burying ground. 
 Her eight children are all living: Arthur, Delia, 
 Lulie Bell, Myrtle, Robert Edgar, Theodora, 
 Bessie and Pearl. 
 
 George P. Campbell (father), son of Nathaniel 
 and Sallie (Pettit) Campbell, was born June 10, 
 1806; came from Ft. Wayne County, Virginia, 
 hi 1812, when only six years of age, and lived 
 in Shelby County, Kentucky; was educated in the 
 common schools of that county, and, after leaving 
 school, engaged in farming and stock raising in 
 Washington County. He was a member of the 
 Baptist Church and his political affiliations were 
 with the Democratic party. 
 
 He married, in 1830, Lucy Martin, daughter of 
 Andrew and Susan Martin of Boyle County. She 
 was born in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 181 3 
 and educated in the public schools of that county, 
 and was a member of the Baptist Church. They 
 had nine children, six of whom are living: 
 Micajah, deceased; Sarah, now Mrs. Elhott of 
 Washington County; W. T. Campbell, farmer 
 of Waslhington County; Francis Marion Camp- 
 bell (subject); John C. Campbell of Bottsville, 
 Washington County; Sue, deceased, who mar- 
 ried John G. Howard; George Waller Campbell, 
 a merchant of Willow Springs, Missouri — twelve 
 miles from Kansas City; Lucy E., married the 
 Rev. Purdom, pastor of the Bethlehem and Mack- 
 ville Baptist Churches, and Samuel Campbell, 
 postmaster and merchant of Jensonton, Wash- 
 ington County. 
 
 George P. Campbell (father) died September 
 24, 1886, and his wife died March 12, 1866. 
 They are buried in the old family burial ground 
 at the Campbell homestead. 
 
 R' 
 
 lEV. HENRY BIDLEMAN BASCOM, D. 
 D., LL.D., a leading bishop of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church South, was born in Hancock, 
 New York, May 27, 1796, and died at Louisville, 
 Kentucky, September 8, 1850, aged fifty-four. 
 His father emigrated to the West in 181 2 and set- 
 tled in or near Maysville, Kentucky; thence re- 
 moved to Ohio, about five miles distant. The 
 son assisted to support the family — at one time 
 
 by driving a dray. 
 
 He quit school at twelve, but 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 497 
 
 read and studied in the spare moments from his 
 work. At fifteen he began to exhort, soon after 
 joining the Methodist Church; at seventeen was 
 Hcensed to preach, first in southern Ohio; at 
 eighteen, in West Virginia ; at twenty and twen- 
 ty-one, around Danville and Richmond, Ken- 
 tucky; at twenty-two and twenty-three, in 1818- 
 19, at Louisville, the first Methodist preacher ever 
 stationed in that city. Henry Clay listened to his 
 wonderful eloquence and had him elected chap- 
 lain of the house of representatives of congress, 
 1823-24. This extended his sphere of usefulness 
 and gave him a national reputation. He preached 
 to admiring thousands in the large cities. 
 
 He was president of Madison College, at 
 Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 1827-28; agent of the 
 American Colonization Society, 1829-30; profes- 
 sor in Augusta College, Kentucky, for ten years, 
 1831-41; president of Transylvania University, 
 Lexington, Kentucky, 1842-48; the recognized 
 leader in the convention of delegates from the 
 annual conferences, held at Louisville in 1845, 
 which resulted in the organizing of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church South ; editor of the "Methodist 
 Quarterly Review," 1846-50; prepared for publi- 
 cation, in 1849, a volume of his sermons, which 
 met with great public favor; was elected a bish- 
 op, in 1850, and presided over the St. Louis con- 
 ference, July, 1850 — the only conference he lived 
 to attend as bishop. On his return journey to his 
 home at Lexington, Kentucky, he was too ill to 
 proceed farther than Louisville, where he lingered 
 for five weeks, until his death. 
 
 JUDGE JAMES HERVEY DORMAN, a 
 leading and able lawyer of the bar of Owen- 
 ton, son of Peter and Lucy (Kemper) Dorman, 
 was born in Gallatin County, Kentucky, Novem- 
 ber 7, 1 83 1. There was no school near that he 
 could attend until he was twenty years of age. 
 About that time, having earned some money, he 
 entered Asbury (nov/ De Pauw) University, In- 
 diana and remained there for two years and then 
 taught school for four years. 
 
 At the beginning of the war between the states, 
 he entered the Confederate army. In 1862 he 
 fought under General Lee in the Army of North- 
 ern Virginia, and at different times served und^r 
 33 
 
 Generals Humphrey Marshall, John C. Breck- 
 enridge. Ransom, Longstreet, Morgan and Buck- 
 ner. From the last named he obtained a fur- 
 lough to celebrate his marriage with Miss Lizzie 
 Gaines. He was a high private - in the front 
 ranks, but on one occasion he started from Lex- 
 ington as captain of a company of seventy men, 
 and when they reached Cumberland Gap they all 
 deserted, declaring they had volunteered to fight 
 in Kentucky and would not fight elsewhere. 
 Judge Dorman then went on to Abingdon, Vir- 
 ginia, and enlisted as a private. He was in forty- 
 two battles and was ten days at the siege of 
 Knoxville, Tennessee, his entire service extending 
 over a period of three and a half years. When the 
 war closed all the money he had was twenty-five 
 cents. 
 
 After returning home he taught school and re- 
 sumed the study of law, reading at night, after 
 school hours; and began to practice in Owenton 
 in 1866, where he is still actively engaged and is 
 one of the leading men of his profession. 
 
 From 1869 to 1874 he was in the state senate, 
 and immediately after his term expired he was 
 elected county judge, and held that office from 
 1874 to 1878, since w'hich time he has acted as 
 special circuit judge on several occasions, but has 
 held no other office. 
 
 Judge Dorman was married March 16, 1864, 
 to Lizzie Gaines, daughter of Col. Samuel Gaines, 
 a Methodist minister. She is a native of Sullivan 
 County, Tennessee, and was educated at a noted 
 college in Asheville, North Carolina. They have 
 four children living: William Gaines, Fannie, 
 Letitia (deceased), Virginia Lee and James Her- 
 vey Dorman, Jr. 
 
 Judge Dorman is a man of many fine qualities. 
 He is an active politician and a stanch Democratic 
 adherent to principle, as his record abundantly 
 proves. As a lawyer 'he stands second to none 
 at the bar of Owenton, a bar famous for its legal 
 celebrities. Judge and Mrs. Dorman are mem- 
 bers of the Missionary Baptist Church. 
 
 Peter Dorman (father) was born in Accomac 
 County, Virginia, September 3, 1803. He came 
 to Kentucky at the age of eighteen and settled 
 in Bourbon County, Kentucky, where he was 
 educ?ited in the primitive schools of that day. 
 
498 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 When he was twenty-one years of age he moved 
 to Gallatin County, Kentucky, and was a farmer 
 in that county the remainder of his life and died 
 January 3, 1873. 
 
 He married Lucy Kemper in 1830. She was 
 born March 17, 1814. They had eleven children: 
 James H., Fannie, Anna Eliza, John Wickliffe 
 and Martin Luther (both John W. and Martin 
 Luther were in the Confederate army), Elizabeth, 
 Lucy, Emma, Henry, Peter and Atlanta. 
 
 Mathew Dorman (grandfather) was born in 
 Accomac County, Virginia, of English ancestry. 
 He came to Kentucky and died in Gallatin 
 County. His wife was Atlanta Barnes of Acco- 
 mac County, Virginia. They had nine children: 
 Peter, Archie, Samuel, Lydia, Elizabeth, Lear, 
 Silas, Jerubial and Mathew. 
 
 Mathew Dorman (great-grandfather) was a 
 farmer of Accomac County, Virginia. He was 
 in the Continental army, in Washington's com- 
 mand. 
 
 Jonathan Kemper (maternal grandfather) was 
 born and educated in Fayette County, Kentucky. 
 After residing there for many years, he moved to 
 Owen County, where he died. They had nine 
 children: Nathan, Robert Walker, Lucy, Al- 
 fred, Asa, Joshua, Elizabeth, Jonathan, Jr., and 
 David. 
 
 Benjamin Kemper (great-grandfather) was 
 born in Germany, and after his marriage there 
 immigrated to Fayette County, Kentucky, where 
 he engaged in farming. 
 
 EDWARD CROSSLAND, deceased, an emi- 
 nent jurist and member of congress from 
 Mayfield, Kentucky, son of Samuel and Eliza- 
 beth Harry Crossland, was born in Hickman 
 County, Kentucky, June 30, 1827, and was edu- 
 cated in the common schools there. He farmed 
 for a few years after leaving school, and was the 
 first sheriff of Hickman County after the adoption 
 of the constitution of 1850. He studied law with 
 Col. Bowmar, and, being admitted to the bar, 
 commenced to practice with Col. George W. Sil- 
 vertooth and Col. W. D. Lannon. From 1857 to 
 1859 he represented Hickman and Fulton Coun- 
 ties in the Kentucky legislature. In 1861 he en- 
 listed in the Confederate army, connecting him- 
 
 self with the First Kentucky Regiment, then 
 under command of Col. Blanton Duncan and 
 afterwards under Col. Thomas H. Taylor of 
 Louisville. He was sworn into service in Vir- 
 ginia as captain of his company and served in 
 that capacity one year, when he was promoted to 
 the rank of major, and later to that of lieutenant 
 colonel. Upon the disbandment of the regiment, 
 he was assigned to duty as colonel of the Sev- 
 enth Kentucky Infantry, then in Mississippi, and 
 was in command of the Kentucky brigade with 
 Forrests' Cavalry when the war closed. After 
 the war he returned to the practice of law in the 
 First Judicial District, his home being at Clinton, 
 Hickman County. He was elected judge of the 
 Common Pleas Court of his district in 1866, but 
 resigned that office in 1871 and was elected to 
 Congress from the First District, being re-elected 
 and serving until 1875. When his congressional 
 term expired he resumed the practice of law at 
 Mayfield, Kentucky, and in all the courts of his 
 judicial district In 1880 he was elected circuit 
 judge of his district and was on the bench until 
 he died, September 11, 1881. He was a Mason, 
 and it is needless to add that he was a Democrat. 
 
 Judge Crossland's wife, Mary Hess, daughter 
 of Nelson I. Hess, was born in Trenton, Ten- 
 nessee; was married to Judge Crossland in 1846, 
 and is still living in Temple, Texas. 
 
 Nelson I. Hess, father of ]Mrs. Crossland, lived 
 in Trenton, Gibson County, Tennessee, and was 
 a physician and minister in the Cumberland Pres- 
 byterian Church. He married Adeline North- 
 cutt and died in 1870. His mother was a sister 
 of Joseph Hamilton Daviess of Mercer County, 
 Kentucky. 
 
 The following is a public tribute to the mem- 
 ory of Judge Crossland: 
 
 The rapid resume of the civil and military posi- 
 tions held by Judge Crossland bear unquestion- 
 able testimony to the fact that he was deeply 
 cherished in the afifections of the people, and that 
 his popularity was based upon their unbounded 
 confidence in his ability and integrity. It was not 
 the evanescent popularity of a day or a season, 
 but that of a life-time; solid, impregnable. Nor 
 was it undeserved. The people did not misun- 
 derstand or mist5ike him, "They loved him be- 
 
JUDGE EDWARD CROSSLAND. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 499 
 
 cause he first loved them." Every pulsation of 
 his heart was in unison with their interests. He 
 had a faculty of seeing things as the people saw 
 them, and of feeling them as the people felt them. 
 His thoughts and emotions came from the ready 
 mould of his genius, glowing and commending 
 their own worth to every one who listened to his 
 words. In this respect 'he was a born orator. 
 In the quickness of his perceptions and the rapid- 
 ity with which his conclusions were reached he 
 had few equals. His firm and deeply grounded 
 principles of truth and honor and patriotism for- 
 tified him against the errors and vices of the mere 
 political demagogue. 
 
 His affections were high and pure and gen- 
 erous, and chief among them was charity. In him 
 charity of thought, word and deed was one endur- 
 ing and overpowering enthusiasm. 
 
 As a soldier he was brave to recklessness of his 
 own life, but the wounding or death of any of 
 those under his command affected him to tears. 
 In his death the district lost one of the purest 
 and ablest of jurists. 
 
 He was always kind, brave, self-sacrificing and 
 devoted. The soldier, the lawyer, the jurist, the 
 statesman and the citizen, as well as the hero and 
 patriot, is no more. 
 
 The Graves County bar adopted the following 
 resolutions : 
 
 "That in the death of Judge Edward Crossland 
 the people of the First Judicial District have 
 been deprived of the services of an eminent and 
 impartial judge; of a lawyer of extraordinary in- 
 dustry, fidelity and ability; sound in judgment 
 and unblemished in integrity. 
 
 "That Graves County has sustained a calamity 
 in being deprived of one of her ablest and most 
 highly gifted citizens, who was kind, generous 
 and hospitable and brave, witih a heart alive to 
 every noble and magnanimous impulse — whom 
 the people of our own country delighted to hon- 
 or.'' Signed by the Committee: W. N. Boaz, 
 F. Metcalf, P. Lyles, and W. M. Smith. 
 
 Samuel Crossland (father) was bom in South 
 Carolina and came to Hickman County, Ken- 
 tucky, in 1820. He married Elizabeth Harry in 
 South Carolina and had two daughters: Eliza- 
 beth and Mary. He died in 1854 and is buried in 
 
 Hickman County. His family is a very numerous 
 one in South Carolina. 
 
 S. H. Crossland, son of Judge Crossland and 
 Mary Hess, was born August 7, 1849, in Hick- 
 man County, Kentucky. He entered Washing- 
 ton and Lee University in 1867; he studied two 
 years there and then read law in his father's office 
 and attended the law department of the Univer- 
 sity of Louisville; was admitted to the bar in 
 1871 in Mayfield, and practiced in that judicial 
 district; was elected county attorney in 1882 for 
 one term; was elected commonwealth's attorney 
 of the district in which he lived in 1886, then 
 composed of eig^ht, now only five counties. He 
 went out of office in January, 1893, since which 
 time he has been in the regular practice of his 
 profession. 
 
 Mr. Crossland was married December 25, 1873, 
 to Miss Mattie E. Smith, daughter of W. H. 
 Smith of McCracken County, Kentucky. She 
 died in December, 1895, and is buried in May- 
 field, Kentucky. They had six children: Ed- 
 ward, Nannie, Lai., Caswell Bennett, Kathleen 
 and Samuel. Mr. Crossland is one of the best 
 criminal lawyers in his district, in fact, criminal 
 law is his specialty, but he has a large general 
 practice. He is greatly devoted to the memory 
 of his distinguished father. 
 
 ROBERT M. JACKSON, Cashier of the First 
 National Bank of London, eldest son of 
 William H. Jackson and Maria McKee, was born 
 in London, Kentucky, June i, 1859. He received 
 his general education in private schools in his 
 native city, and graduated from the Lexington 
 Commercial College, March 28, 1877. 
 
 He began his business career in the drug busi- 
 ness with his father and brother, a firm which 
 has done an extensive business from its begin- 
 ning. November 9, 1885, he was appointed post- 
 master of London by President Cleveland and 
 held that office nearly five years, and until his 
 successor was appointed by President Harrison. 
 It was conceded that he conducted the affairs of 
 that office with fidelity and dispatch, devoting 
 his whole time and most careful attention to its 
 duties. 1 
 
 Upon the organization of the First National 
 
500 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Bank in December, 1888, he was elected vice 
 president; and January 10, 1893, upon the re- 
 tirement of R. C. Ford, he was elected cashier, 
 since which time he has given his undivided 
 attention to the affairs of the bank, with the re- 
 sult that it is now in a better condition than 
 at any time in its history, and is one of the safest 
 financial institutions in the interior of the state: 
 It was in a large measure due to his ability and 
 wise management that this bank was able to 
 stem the financial storm that swept over the coun- 
 try in 1893, when many stronger institutions 
 went down as a consequence of mistrust and 
 doubt on the part of depositors. 
 
 He was appointed aide on the staff of Governor 
 John Young Brown in 1891, but has never held, 
 or been candidate for, any elective office. For 
 four years past he has been chairman of the 
 Eleventh Congressional District Democratic 
 Committee, and in that capacity has done much 
 efficient work for his party. He has done well 
 for a man of his years and has bright prospects 
 for the future. He is deeply interested in the wel- 
 fare of London and Laurel County, is public 
 spirited and enterprising, and ever ready to aid 
 in the estabHs'hment of new companies and indus- 
 tries. He is quite prominent in Masonic circles, 
 being high priest of the Royal Arch Chapter, 
 and has taken the degrees of Knight Templar 
 and the Mystic Shrine. 
 
 Mr. Jackson was married in 1880 to Alice 
 Ewell, daughter of Hon. R. L. Ewell of London, 
 a sketch of whose life and ancestry is given in this 
 volume. They have one of the most attractive 
 homes in London. 
 
 William H. Jackson (father) was born in Lau- 
 rel County, Kentucky, in 1830, and has been a 
 resident of London since 1856. He followed his 
 trade as a blacksmitili until 1868, since which time 
 he has been engaged in the general mercantile 
 and drug business. In 1867 he was elected jailcr 
 of the county and served one term, otherwise he 
 has held no office. 
 
 Stephen M. Jackson (grandfather) was born, 
 lived and died in Laurel County; was a modest, 
 well-to-do farmer; a devout member of the Bap- 
 tist Church, and a good citizen. He reached 
 bis seventy-fourth year and died in 1889. 
 
 John Jackson (great-grandfather), a native of 
 England, came to the United States when a 
 young man, with three brothers, and was among 
 the first settlers of Madison County. He was a 
 farmer and owned the ground upon which the 
 city of Richmond now stands. 
 
 Maria McKee Jackson (mother) was born in 
 Laurel County in 1841, and is now a resident of 
 London. Stie and her husband are prominent 
 members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 Her father, John V. L. McKee, a native of Vir- 
 ginia, of Irish parentage, became one of the ear- 
 liest residents of Laurel County. He was a farm- 
 er and carpenter, and a highly esteemed citizen. 
 
 WILLIAM F. SCOTT, M. D., Superinten- 
 dent of the Lexington Asylum for the 
 Insane, son of Dr. John D. and Martha Ann 
 (Farris) Scott, was born in Stanford, Kentucky, 
 March 7, 1828. 
 
 His father. Dr. John D. Scott, was born in 
 Garrard County, near Bryantsville, and removed 
 to Stanford when a young man. He lived there 
 and practiced medicine for many years. He was 
 one of the most popular and successful physi- 
 cians in all that section, and his practice enabled 
 him to accumulate a large and valuable estate in 
 land and slaves. Becoming independent, he re- 
 tired from the practice of his profession and re- 
 moved to Louisville, where he died at the age of 
 sixty-five years. He was a Christian physician, 
 a member of the Presbyterian Church, a man of 
 great purity of character, a scholar and a true 
 Kentucky gentleman. 
 
 His grandfatlier, John Scott, descended from 
 an old Pennsylvania family, but was a native of 
 Kentucky, and one of the pioneer farmers of 
 Garrard County, before and after the admission of 
 Kentucky to the union of t)he states. He was a 
 man of advanced ideas, great personal influence, 
 and accumulated great wealth. 
 
 Martha Ann Farris Scott (mother) was born 
 near Walnut Flat, Lincoln County, early in the 
 present century. She was a woman of unusual 
 piety, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and 
 was greatly esteemed for her intelligence and 
 many personal graces. 
 
 William Farris (grandfather) was one of the 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 most noted breeders of race horses of his time, 
 and accomplished a good work in the improve- 
 ment of stock in his state, which was even at that 
 time noted for fine horses. He was a very 
 wealthy man. His wife (grandmother) was a 
 Miss Owsley, cousin of Governor Owsley. 
 
 Dr. William F. Scott was educated in the high 
 schools of Stanford and read medicine with Dr. 
 Thomas Montgomery of that place, and with Dr. 
 Reed of Hustonville. He graduated from the 
 medical department of Transylvania University 
 at Lexington in 1852, where he was a pupil of 
 the celebrated Dr. Benjamin Dudley, and in the 
 same year located in Somerset, Pulaski County, 
 where he has since practiced his profession; has 
 been a successful general practitioner and has 
 the reputation of being one of the most skillful 
 surgeons of southern Kentucky. By his faithful- 
 ness and kindness in the discharge of his duties, 
 he has greatly endeared himself to every one 
 throughout that section of country, and no man 
 has more influence with the people of his com- 
 munity. 
 
 He has successfully performed all the difficult 
 operations in surgery, including lithotomy, etc. 
 In 1894, month of February, he performed an 
 operation on Thomas Hurd, extracting a stone 
 from the bladder weighing four ounces, one 
 among the largest on record. 
 
 In 1862 he was appointed and commissioned 
 surgeon in the Thirty-second Regiment Kentucky 
 Volunteers, commanded by his brother-in-law. 
 Col. Thomas Z. Morrow. He served with dis- 
 tinction as surgeon in the field for one year, and 
 was post surgeon more or less throughout the 
 war; was one of the charter members and stock- 
 holders and directors of the First National Bank 
 of Somerset, organized in 1871 ; was president of 
 the Board of Pension Examiners by appointment 
 of President Benjamin Harrison, and has obeyed 
 the call of his party in every case where his pro- 
 fessional services have been required. He is an 
 ofificer of the G. A. R. and a member of the Ken- 
 tucky State and Pulaski Medical Societies. 
 
 Dr. Scott is progressive in his ideas, and not- 
 withstanding his fidelity to the old school is ever 
 ready to accept new and true principles which 
 lead to advancement in medical science; is a con- 
 
 stant student and a reader of medical and scien- 
 tific literature, and is up to date in study and 
 practice. 
 
 In i860 Dr. Scott was married to Miss Mar- 
 garet E. Bradley, an intelligent, accomplished 
 young lady, daughter of Robert M. and Ellen 
 Lotten Bradley. R. M. Bradley was one of the 
 most noted land lawyers of Kentucky, and his 
 wife one of the most excellent women of her 
 time. Mrs. Scott is a sister of W. O. Bradley, 
 governor of Kentucky. Dr. and Mrs. Scott have 
 three sons living: Thomas M. Scott, who held 
 a position in the revenue office under Gol. Dan 
 Collier; Ethelbert D. Scott, a lawyer of Lex- 
 ington, and Dr. Samuel Scott, a young physician. 
 Dr. Scott and his wife are members of the Baptist 
 Church. 
 
 Dr. Scott has been a life-long Republican, and 
 has rendered valuable service to the party in its 
 earlier and later struggles for supremacy. In 
 January, 1896, he was appointed by Governor 
 Bradley superintendent of the Eastern Kentucky 
 Asylum. The political aspect of his appointment 
 was merely incidental, the doctor's qualifications 
 for the office being paramount. His appointment 
 has given general satisfaction, and he brings to 
 his position ripe experience, devotion to duty, 
 and is meeting the most sanguine expectations 
 of his many friends and admirers. 
 
 JAMES GAYLE TODD, County Attorney of 
 Owen County, son of Howard Todd and Wil- 
 lina Duvall, was born in Owen County, Novem- 
 ber 21, 1858. He was educated in the common 
 schools in New Liberty and at Concord College. 
 Upon leaving school at. the age of sixteen, he 
 engaged in farming and stock-raising, but began 
 the study of law with Joseph Blackwell at New 
 Liberty and was admitted to the bar in 1880; was 
 in partnership with Joseph Blackwell there, but 
 finally located at Owenton. In 1894 he was 
 elected to his present position as county attorney 
 of Owen County, on the Democratic ticket. Mr. 
 Todd was married in 1884 to Kitty Kale of Owen 
 County. 
 
 Howard Todd (father) was born in Scott Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, in 1806, and was educated in the 
 backwoods schools of tliat day, and was a trader 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 and farmer in Owen County all his life. When 
 fourteen years of age he was made deputy sheriff 
 of Gallatin County, which then comprised the 
 present counties of Carroll, Gallatin, Trimble and 
 Owen. He served as deputy and sherifif alto- 
 gether for fifteen years and was a delegate to the 
 State Constitutional Convention from Owen 
 County in 184Q. Before the war he was an old 
 line Whig and afterwards a Democrat. Mr. 
 Todd was a hospitable Kentucky gentleman of 
 the old school, a large land and slave owner, and, 
 like most Kentuckians of that day, entered hear- 
 tily into the spirit of the Masonic order. 
 
 Among the papers which he left is a receipt 
 dated 1819, showing that John Gayle of Gallatin 
 (now Owen) County had property Hsted at one 
 thousand acres of land and a number of negroes. 
 His total tax at that time was $5.40, showing the 
 vast increase in taxation. Under the present 
 rates his taxes would have been several hundred 
 dollars. 
 
 Howard Todd married WilHna Duvall, a native 
 of Scott County, who was educated at Frankfort, 
 and they had eight children: Lewis, Annette, 
 Jennie, Pike, Bettie, Howard, Mattie and James 
 Gayle. 
 
 Samuel Todd (grandfather) was born in Fred- 
 ericksburg, Virginia; came to Scott County, 
 Kentucky, in 1805, and thence to Owen County 
 in 1807; was sherifif of Gallatin County, as is 
 stated above, and was a member of the Missionary 
 Baptist Church. He married Mary WilHs, a na- 
 tive of Fredericksburg, Virginia. 
 
 John Duvall (maternal grandfather) was born 
 in Maryland in 1784. He was a farmer by occu- 
 pation and came to Scott County and became a 
 very wealthy man; was a colonel in the War of 
 1812; served in the Kentucky legislature in 1827 
 and died in 1859. He married Jennie Branham, 
 a native of Scott County, Kentucky. Their chil- 
 dren were: Thomas, Howard, Alvin, Elizabeth, 
 who married Dr. English; William P., who rep- 
 resented his district twice in the state senate and 
 house of representatives; Burbridge, Edward, 
 Annie, who married William G. Simpson; Mar- 
 tha, and John, Jr., who represented Owen County 
 in the Kentucky house of representatives. 
 
 Judge Alvin Duvall, distinguished son of John 
 
 and Jennie Branham Duvall, graduated with hon- 
 ors from Georgetown College; studied law under 
 Governor James F. Robinson, and afterwards 
 took a legal course in Transylvania University at 
 Lexington; represented his county in the legisla- 
 ture in 1850; was appointed circuit judge in 1852; 
 was judge of the Court of Appeals from 1856 to 
 1864, and in 1864 was again a candidate,- when 
 the military governor of Kentucky,- Burbridge, 
 caused his name to be stricken from the poll- 
 books three days before the election. General 
 Burbridge then ordered his arrest on the ground 
 that he was in sympathy with the Southern cause. 
 To avoid the consequences of this high-handed 
 usurpation of power, he fled to Canada, but after 
 two months returned to Georgetown and resumed 
 the practice of law ; was appointed reporter of the 
 Court of Appeals in 1866, and the two volumes 
 of reports published by him have been highly 
 commended. In May, 1866, he was nominated 
 for clerk of the Court of Appeals and was elected 
 by a majority of thirty-seven thousand, nine hun- 
 dred and fifty-four votes over his Republican 
 opponent. In 1868 he was elected president of 
 the Farmers' Bank of Kentucky, which position 
 he held until his death, in 1893. 
 
 EVAN EVANS SETTLE of Owenton, Ken- 
 tucky, distinguished lawyer and politician, 
 son of William H. and Harriet Evans Settle, was 
 born in Frankfort, Kentucky, December i, 1848. 
 His education was commenced at Frankfort 
 under that distinguished educator, B. B. Sayre, 
 and continued in the Louisville Male High 
 School, from which he graduated in 1864, at the 
 age of sixteen. He was first employed as a clerk 
 in the provost marshal's office in Louisville in 
 the winter of 1864-65, and upon returning to 
 Frankfort was a clerk for one year in the audi- 
 tor's ofifice under W. T. Samuels. He went to 
 Greenville, Mississippi, in 1866, and was a clerk 
 there under W. A. Haycraft. In 1887 he returned 
 to Kentucky and was employed in the United 
 States District and Circuit Courts, of which A. 
 J. Ballard was then clerk, and in 1868 went to 
 Owen County and was for one year in the office 
 of A. B. Roberts, County Court clerk. He 
 studied law alone and has practiced in Owen 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 S03 
 
 County since he obtained his Hcense ; was elected 
 county attorney in 1878, re-elected in 1882 and 
 again in 1886, but resigned that office in 1887, 
 and was elected to the legislature by his party, 
 and was re-elected in 1889; was a delegate to 
 the St. Louis National Convention (Democratic) 
 in 1888 and seconded the nomination of Governor 
 Gray of Indiana for vice president. He was a 
 candidate for. the Democratic Congressional nom- 
 ination in 1894 in the Seventh District against 
 W. C. P. Breckenridge and W. C. Owens. In 
 this memorable campaign there was a great deal 
 of bad feeling and bitterness engendered between 
 the candidates and their friends. Personal vitu- 
 peration and abuse of each other was indulged in 
 by the candidates and excitement ran very high. 
 In striking contrast to the methods employed by 
 the others to win the endorsement of their party 
 was the dignified and high plane on which Mr. 
 Settle conducted his campaign. He did not want 
 to go to Congress on the issue of the private 
 short-comings and misdoings of either of his 
 opponents, and in accord with this positively re- 
 fused to attack the moral character of either of 
 them. He considered their public record only as 
 a legitimate object of attack. This conduct won 
 for him much commendation and many friends, 
 but not quite enough votes, for in the unprece- 
 dented excitement of the campaign the other way 
 seemed to be what the people wanted. 
 
 Mr. Settle married Lizzie R. Herndon, Octo- 
 ber 20, 1875. She was born and educated in 
 Owen County. They have six children: Mary, 
 Margaret, Evan E., Eunice, Horace H. and Har- 
 riet Clay. 
 
 Thomas P. Herndon, Mrs. Settle's father, was 
 a soldier in the Mexican war and served in the 
 Confederate army during the war between the 
 states. His wife was Margaret Threlkeld of 
 Owen County, Kentucky. 
 
 William H. Settle (father) was born in Frank- 
 lin County, Kentucky, January 27, 1823, and was 
 educated in the common schools there. He was 
 a wholesale merchant and speculator in Frankfort 
 and in Louisville, living in Frankfort until the 
 beginning of the war, when 'he removed to Louis- 
 ville, and invested largely in land at that place. 
 Before the war he was an old line Whig and 
 
 during the war was a Union man. He was a 
 Democrat in politics and in religion a Presby- 
 terian. He married Harriet D. Evans, who was 
 born and educated in Frankfort. By this mar- 
 riage there were five children: Evan E., Sallie, 
 James H., Mattie and William. 
 
 'Mr. Settle was married (second) October 23, 
 1861, to Mary W. McCraw, a native of Lynch- 
 burg, Virginia, and a daughter of Colonel Hill 
 McCraw (well known in Louisville) and Nannie 
 Elliott McCraw. The children of this marriage 
 are William, Nannie, John, Joseph and Samuel. 
 Mr. Settle died in 1886. 
 
 Joseph Settle (grandfather) was born in Frank- 
 lin County, Kentucky. He was a millwright and 
 gunsmith; married Sallie Sanders, daughter of 
 Hugh Sanders, who came from Virginia and was 
 a son of Nathaniel Sanders, a soldier of the Rev- 
 olutionary war. 
 
 Evan Evans (maternal grandfather) was a con- 
 tractor and builder, and was one of the architects 
 who superintended the erection of the present 
 state house at Frankfort. He was a native of 
 Wales and came to this country in the early part 
 of this century ; settled first in Pennsylvania, where 
 he married Mary Breese, also a native of Wales. 
 They were Presbyterians. Their children were: 
 John Evans, an eminent lawyer of Frankfort; 
 James S. Evans, civil engineer and soldier in the 
 Mexican war, and Humphrey Evans, who was 
 also in the Mexican war and a major in the Con- 
 federate army, being in many important battles, 
 in the Army of the Mississippi. 
 
 DAVID ROWLAND FRANCIS, ex-Gov- 
 ernor of Missouri, was born October i, 
 1850, in Richmond, Kentucky; educated in Rich- 
 mond Academy and in the school taught by Rev. 
 Robert Breck. In 1866 entered Washington 
 University at St. Louis, graduated in 1870; en- 
 gaged as shipping clerk for the firm of Rowland 
 & Shryock for two years, then junior partner 
 of said firm for two years. In 1878 established 
 his own business, the D. R. Francis Commission 
 Company, later engaged in the wholesale grain 
 business, both enterprises being eminently suc- 
 cessful, and his conduct of them entitling him, 
 although young, to be called one of the ablest 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 financiers in the city of St. Louis. He is a man of 
 broad public spirit and endowed by nature with 
 the qualities which stamp him as a leader of enter- 
 prises for the public weal. Is magnetic to an un- 
 usual degree and inspires the confidence of all 
 with whom he is associated. He is identified 
 with many corporations. 
 
 In 1883 was elected vice president of the Mer- 
 chants' Exchange and elected president in 1884, 
 in one of the most spirited contests ever held. 
 He is vice president of the Mississippi Valley 
 Trust Company and vice president of the Laclede 
 Bank. In 1885 was nominated by the Demo- 
 cratic convention for mayor of St. Louis on the 
 one hundred and eighty-fourth ballot. One of 
 the issues of his campaign for the mayoralty was 
 cheap gas, and it was largely due to his efforts 
 after election that the rate for this necessity was 
 reduced. He vetoed the Electric Elevated Rail- 
 way bill on account of the small compensation 
 received by the city for the franchise. During 
 his administration $950,000 passed into the city 
 treasury from the Missouri Pacific Railroad Com- 
 pany. In May, 1884, he was elected delegate- 
 at-large from Missouri to the Democratic Na- 
 tional Convention held in Chicago in June, and 
 was one of the first politicians that recognized the 
 adaptiveness of Grover Cleveland for the presi- 
 dency. He gave Mr. Cleveland an ardent sup- 
 port. In 1888, August 22, he was nominated for 
 governor of Missouri by the Democratic State 
 Convention, and was elected in November of the 
 same year — was inaugurated January 14, 1889. 
 His administration was exceedingly popular. 
 He displayed great executive ability in the man- 
 agement of it. It was characterized by wisdom 
 and the spirit of legitimate progress. 
 
 Gov. Francis is a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church and a Knight Templar. He was married 
 January 21, 1876, to Miss Jane Perry, daughter 
 of John D. Perry, and is the father of six manly 
 boys: Perry, David Rowland, Charles Broad- 
 dus, Salton Turner, Thomas, Sidney Rowland. 
 
 He had two brothers, Thomas H. and Sidney 
 Rowland, and two sisters, Hallie Francis Boyd 
 and Mary Francis Ellerbe. Sidney Rowland 
 Francis passed away December 4, 1893. He was 
 a remarkable man, possessing many traits in com- 
 
 mon with Governor Francis. No man stood 
 higher in the affection and esteem of the people 
 of St. Louis. Although comparatively a young 
 man, he had amassed a large fortune. Thomas 
 H. Francis lives in St. Louis and has sterling busi- 
 ness qualities. Hallie Francis, wife of William 
 Boyd, passed away December i, 1893, leaving 
 three young daughters to mourn her irreparable 
 loss. She was a woman of strong character, 
 amiable and loving in her family relations, and 
 in her religious convictions so devotedly and prac- 
 tically pious that she was a living epistle seen 
 and known of men. Her husband, William G. 
 Boyd, is a relative of Gov. Francis and associated 
 with him in business. In 1894 he was elected 
 president of the Merchants' Exchange, making 
 the third of the immediate family who have held 
 the position — David Pittman Rowland, an uncle, 
 David Rowland Francis and William G. Boyd. 
 Mr. Boyd has recently been elected vice president 
 of the Mercantile Club. 
 
 Mary Francis Ellerbe, wife of the lawyer, Chris- 
 topher P. Ellerbe, resides at Ferguson, Missouri, 
 and in common with the other members of her 
 family is endowed with mental qualities of a high 
 order, and a distinctly attractive personality. 
 
 The father of Governor Francis was John 
 Broaddus Francis. He was born in Madison 
 County, January 21, 1819; educated in the same 
 county; was deputy sheriff for three years and 
 sheriff for four years of Madison County. After- 
 wards engaged in the mercantile business in Rich- 
 mond. Later moved to Lincoln County and 
 farmed; moved to Missouri in 1882, near St. 
 Louis; died November 27, 1894, and was buried 
 in Bellefontaine Cemetery at St. Louis. He was 
 a Whig and a very enthusiastic politician, but 
 loved his home so well that he did not care for 
 office for himself. His zeal was in the interest of 
 his party, and for the advancement of his friends. 
 An upright, honorable gentleman of the old 
 school, of stainless life and actuated by courteous, 
 kindly impulses. The father of John Broaddus 
 Francis was Thomas Francis, born in Henrico 
 County, Virginia, in 1787; came to Kentucky 
 when very young, and served in the War of 1812. 
 His wife, Mary Broaddus, was the daughter of 
 Edwin Broaddus, sixth in descent from the Edwin 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 505 
 
 Broaddus who came from Wales. He located on 
 Silver Creek, Madison County, Kentucky; was 
 the oldest magistrate in the county, and high 
 sheriff; died in March, 1864. His wife died in 
 1862. 
 
 Thomas Francis, the grandfather of John 
 Broaddus Francis, was bom near Richmond, 
 Virginia, at Bottomme Bridge; married Miss 
 Bottomme. 
 
 The mother of Governor Francis, Eliza Cald- 
 well Francis, was born in Richmond, Kentucky, 
 February 27, 1830; educated at the school of the 
 Rev. John Brown — the Madison County Female 
 Seminary; was married December 5, 1849; is a 
 devoted member of the Presbyterian Church. 
 Her father, David Irvine Rowland, was born in 
 Botetourt County, Virginia, November 12, 
 1802; came to Madison County in 1804; was a 
 shoe manufacturer in Richmond, Kentucky, and 
 a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was 
 buried near Richmond. Her mother was Mehala 
 Hogg Tyree, daughter of James Tyree and Mary 
 Goddin of New Kent County, Virginia. She was 
 born December 12, 1802; educated in Virginia, 
 and married in Richmond, Kentucky; died April 
 20, 1868. Mrs. Francis' grandfather, Robert 
 Rowland, married Francis Irvine, daughter of 
 David Irvine and Jane Kyle. Both lived near 
 Lynchburg, Virginia. Francis Irvine was the 
 sister of William and Christopher Irvine, those 
 incomparable men whose characters and services 
 are indelibly impressed upon the history of Ken- 
 tucky, and one of the ten Irvine sisters, who, im- 
 bued with the pioneer spirit of Scotch-Irish ances- 
 try, at different times left their comfortable home 
 in Virginia and journeyed on horseback through 
 the wilderness to their adopted home in Kentucky, 
 enduring all manner of hardships and exposed by 
 day and by night to the attacks of savage foes, 
 animal and human. 
 
 They intermarried with the prominent fanjilies 
 of Kentucky, and in every instance were the an- 
 cestresses of influential and distinguished pro- 
 geny. The influence of the descendants of David 
 Irvine and Jane Kyle forms an interesting and 
 instructive chapter in the history of Kentucky 
 and sister states. The names of the ten pioneer 
 Irvine women were : Mary Irvine Adams, Mada- 
 
 lene Irvine Pittman, Amelia Irvine Hockaday, 
 Elizabeth Irvine Talbott, Sallie Irvine Goggin, 
 the celebrated Goggin family of Virginia; Marga- 
 ret Irvine Pace, Jane Irvine Curie, Frances Ir- 
 vine Rowland, Anna Irvine Goggin, Sophie Ir- 
 vine Fox. 
 
 The last named was the mother of the late 
 Judge Fontaine Talbot Fox of Danville, Ken- 
 tucky. No words here can add to the fame of 
 that revered and distinguished citizen. His mem- 
 ory is embalmed in the hearts of his associates on 
 the bench and at the bar of Kentucky. Jane Ir- 
 vine Curie was the ancestress of WilHam Boyd, 
 who married a sister of Governor Francis. 
 
 The Curies were men of broad public spirit. 
 In the early days in Kentucky gave largely of 
 their private means to enterprises for the public 
 weal. Contributed $10,000 to secure the inde- 
 pendence of Texas. 
 
 They were of English descent and owned an im- 
 mense estate at Curies Neck, situated in a bend 
 of James River, Virginia, noted as being the high- 
 est point on that river reached by the British 
 during the Revolution, and was also just above 
 the point to which McClellan retreated after his 
 defeat near Richmond. Archibald Curie and Jane 
 Irvine, his wife, the ancestors of William Boyd, 
 were stanch Presbyterians. Mrs. Sophie Boyd, 
 granddaughter of Archibald Curie and mother of 
 William Boyd, is a widow and resides in Louis- 
 ville, Kentucky. She is the mother of four sons 
 who are successful business men, and two inter- 
 esting daughters, Mrs. James Mahon and Mrs. 
 Lily Stark. The ancestors of David Irvine were 
 Scotch-Irish. From the time of Robert Bruce, 
 when a part of the royal forests of Drum were 
 awarded William de Irvine in consideration of 
 valuable services, in every succeeding era of 
 Scotch history we come upon honorable mention 
 of the family. The military spirit dominated 
 them. We read of their valor on many a hot- 
 ly contested field. Captain Christopher Irvine 
 commanded King James' Light Horse at the bat- 
 tle of Flodden. Alexander Irvine, twin brother 
 of the ancestor of the Kentucky branch, closed the 
 gates of Londonderry in the face of another King 
 James and his flushed army, thereby securing 
 civil and religious liberty to the British Empire. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 "In view of the stupendous results of this in- 
 trepid action," says the Edinburg Review, "Alex- 
 ander Irvine is justly entitled to be called, if not 
 the greatest, certainly one of the greatest heroes 
 the world has ever seen." In the American Revo- 
 lution General William Irvine played a conspicu- 
 ous part and many of his Irvine kinsmen served 
 under him. In the early days in Kentucky the 
 brothers, William and Christopher Irvine, and 
 Christopher, the son of William, performed prodi- 
 gies of service for the state. 
 
 In the war between the states, a number of the 
 descendants of David Irvine were engaged, in 
 rank from private up to general. It is to his 
 mother, Eliza Caldwell Irvine Rowland, that Gov- 
 ernor Francis owes his success in life. Mrs. Fran- 
 cis is a rare woman. As clearly as a signet makes 
 an impression upon a sheet of white paper, she 
 has impressed upon her children the intellectual- 
 ity and strongly marked characteristics of a re- 
 nowned ancestry. Governor Francis is a young 
 man yet, and his friends predict for him still 
 greater successes, and higher public responsibili- 
 ties. 
 
 JAMES DAVID LANDRUM, physician, of 
 Mayfield, son of James and Nancy Walden 
 Landrum, was born in Barren County, Kentucky, 
 October i, 1822. He was educated in Christian 
 County; studied medicine under Drs. Shelton, 
 McKinney and Lindsay; also at Physio-Medical 
 College, Cincinnati, entering there in 1848 and 
 graduating in 1853. His first partner was Dr. 
 L. D. Shelton in La Fayette, Christian County; 
 later in Mayfield, from 1877 to 1892, he was as- 
 sociated with Dr. John L. Dismukes; was ad- 
 mitted to membership in the American Medical 
 Association in 1859, and is a charter and life 
 member of Graves County and West Kentucky 
 Medical Societies, and is President of the May- 
 field Medical Club (1896). 
 
 In 1850 Dr. Landrum was a first degree Ma- 
 son and in 1864 was Grand Master of Grand 
 Lodge of Kentucky, and in 1895 took the thirty- 
 second degree, and is the oldest man in Kentucky, 
 and it may be in the country, to take that degree. 
 At the same time his son, William L. Landrum, 
 and his grandson, W. T. Landrum, also became 
 
 Masons of this high degree, the latter being the 
 youngest to obtain that honor in the United 
 States. 
 
 Dr. Landrum joined the Christian Church in 
 1839 and for the last twenty-five years has been an 
 elder; is one of the three living charter members 
 of that church in Mayfield. During the Civil War 
 Dr. Landrum was contract surgeon with General 
 Grant from March to September, 1862, when he 
 resigned; was elected State Senator in 1863 as a 
 Union man, and served until 1867. Since that 
 time he has held no ofifice and has practiced medi- 
 cine in Mayfield, yet he is a great temperance 
 worker, and an ardent Republican. 
 
 Dr. Landrum was married (first) in 1850 to 
 Catherine Robbins, and she was the mother of 
 five children, of whom are : William L., general 
 agent for the Southern States of the Panly Jail 
 Building and Manufacturing Company of St. 
 Louis; Thomas J., of the firm of Bray & Land- 
 rum, clothing manufacturers of Louisville; and 
 John W., secretary and general manager of 
 Graves County Water and Electric Light Com- 
 pany. 
 
 Dr. Landrum's second marriage was to Mrs. 
 Mary Virginia Fisher Anderson, widow of Cap- 
 tain Anderson of the Confederate army. She 
 was educated at the school of Enos Campbell, 
 Hopkinsville. 
 
 Dr. Landrum is essentially a leader, whether in 
 professional, church or political affairs. For fif- 
 ty-six years he has been an earnest, conscientious 
 and untiring worker in his church. He has the 
 love of his fellow-citizens, who recognize in him 
 one of the highest types of American manhood. 
 
 James Landrum (father) was born in Amherst 
 County, Virginia, and educated there; was a 
 farmer in Virginia, and on coming to Barren 
 County, Kentucky, in 1809, followed the same 
 pursuit. From there he removed ..o Christian 
 County, whore he died in 1841. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Primitive Baptist Church. 
 
 Thomas Landrum (grandfather) died at Am- 
 herst Court House, Virginia, at the age of ninety- 
 six years. He was in the Revolutionary army, 
 and his son James fought in the War of 1812. 
 They belonged to the famous Scotch-Irish race. 
 
 Nancy Walden Landrum (mother) was born in 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 507 
 
 King William County, Virginia, and died in 
 Graves County, Kentucky, in 1863, at the age of 
 sixty-two years. She married James Landrum 
 in 1814. She was a member of the Primitive Bap- 
 tist Church. Her father, William Walden, was 
 born in England and moved to King William 
 County, Virginia, and subsequently to Kentucky, 
 and was a wealthy farmer. He disinherited his 
 daughter, Mrs. Landrum, because of her mar- 
 riage. He married Nancy Anne Rhodes, of the 
 famous aristocratic Rhodes family of Virginia. 
 
 DOCTOR NEWTON PORTER, M. D., a dis- 
 tinguished physician and Baptist minister 
 of Eminence, son of Eli Porter and Martha Ball, 
 was born in Henry County, Kentucky, January 
 17, 1816, and was reared in the same county. Dr. 
 Porter being the seventh son, the old tradition 
 probably induced his parents to christen him 
 "Doctor," and that is his name as well as his 
 title. 
 
 He attended the common schools of the neigh- 
 borhood in which he lived until his fifteenth year, 
 when, on account of his father's death and the ne- 
 cessity of his assistance in the support of the 
 family, he was compelled to leave school. He then 
 commenced to educate himself systematically, and 
 before he was sixteen years of age began to 
 teach school, and taught for sixteen years alto- 
 gether in the vicinity in which he resided. 
 
 At one time he thought seriously of turning his 
 attention to the profession of law, but was influ- 
 enced and dissuaded from this course by friends 
 who thought him better fitted for the medical pro- 
 fession. When twenty-three years of age, while 
 engaged in teaching, he began the study of medi- 
 cine under the instruction of Dr. N. Green of Car- 
 rollton. His method of study for twelve years 
 was thorough and careful, and although he was 
 compelled to practice on account of the impor- 
 tunities of friends, he would not allow himself 
 to be considered fully equipped as a physician 
 until he believed that he could conscientiously 
 do so. Dr. Porter attended Georgetown College 
 for a short time, but he is mainly self-educated. 
 
 He went to Louisville in 1847 ^"d entered the 
 Kentucky School of Medicine in 1850; graduated 
 in 185 1 with high honors, being chosen valedic- 
 
 torian of his class and selected for that honor by 
 a unanimous vote, but he magnanimously re- 
 quested that one of the students whom he espe- 
 cially admired be given the honor in place of him- 
 self, which request was granted. He began the 
 practice of medicine in Eminence, Henry Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, and was for many years the lead- 
 ing obstetrician of the state. 
 
 He was elected President of the State Medical 
 Society in 1867, and delivered the address be- 
 fore that society at Danville, in April, 1868, and 
 this address was published in the state reports. 
 He was also for a number of years a member of 
 the American Medical Association, but when he 
 gave up the active practice of medicine in 1883, 
 he withdrew from that society. 
 
 He joined the Baptist Church at the age of thir- 
 teen, and in 1841 was ordained minister of that 
 denomination. From 1847 to 1848 he was pastor 
 of the East Baptist Church at Louisville, and sub- 
 sequently pastor at various times of the following 
 churches: Fox Run Church at Eminence; Bal- 
 lardsville Church in Oldham County; Hopewell 
 Church in Henry County; Indian Fork Church 
 in Shelby County; Christiansburg Church in Shel- 
 by County; the Baptist Church at Frankfort, and 
 others at other places. During his long and ac- 
 tive service for fifty-five years as a minister of the 
 Baptist Church, he took part in the ordination of 
 thirty-three ministers, aided in forming the con- 
 stitution of six churches, preaching during that 
 time on an average of once a week, and per- 
 formed the marriage ceremony and the initial 
 rites of church membership for hundreds of per- 
 sons. 
 
 He is a man of the most remarkable energy, as 
 is evidenced by the fact that while in the active 
 service of the church he was also actively en- 
 gaged in the practice of medicine. As a writer 
 he is comprehensive and strong, his specialty be- 
 ing controversial religious themes. He is also a 
 reviewer of marked ability, possessing the subtle 
 acumen and logical discrimination that fits him 
 for the work. 
 
 For a number of years he served as secretary 
 of the Baptist ministers' state meeting; was Presi- 
 dent of the Board of Trustees of Eminence Col- 
 lege for several years; President of the Eminence 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Male and Female Seminary in 1862, till it ceased 
 to be a school, and also President of the Board of 
 Town Trustees at the same time. From 1867 to 
 1873 he was President of the Eminence and Shel- 
 by Turnpike Company, and at the same time a 
 director in the Eminence Bank. He was Master 
 of Eminence Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, 
 for about ten years ; was clerk of the Sulphur Fork 
 Baptist Association for nine years, and has been 
 for fifteen years and is now moderator of the 
 same; is also moderator of the Fox Run Baptist 
 Church at Eminence and has been, for forty years, 
 excepting intervals of a few years when absent; 
 was surgeon for the Louisville and Nashville 
 Railroad Company, between La Grange and 
 Frankfort for several years and served in the 
 United States army as Assistant Surgeon dur- 
 ing the Civil War; not leaving his home but at- 
 tending all detachments of the army, large and 
 small, that located at Eminence, including the 
 prisoners of war who were brought there. 
 
 Dr. Porter has always been a leader in any en- 
 terprise for the promotion of the welfare and best 
 interests of the community in which he lives. 
 
 His has been a record of almost unparalleled 
 usefulness, a long, stainless, honorable hfe, spent 
 in the fear and love of God and in the service of 
 his fellow-men, and he is known and respected 
 as he well deserves, as one of the bulwarks of 
 Christianity of his day and generation. 
 
 He married (first) Mary E. A. Rees of Henry 
 County, daughter of Thos. F. Rees, a native of 
 Henry County. She died in January, 1852. By 
 this marriage he had four children: Larmer, 
 Joseph, Mary and Albert. He was married (sec- 
 ond) in 1852 to Miss Keziah Scott, who is the 
 mother of one child, Chitron Scott. 
 
 Eli Porter (father) was born in Culpeper Coun- 
 ty, Virginia, in 1772, and died on October 24, 
 1832. He emigrated to Kentucky, arriving in 
 Henry County on Christmas Day, 1814. Fie was 
 married in June, 1800, to Martha Ball, who was 
 born in 1783 and died in August, 1833. There 
 were fourteen children by this marriage, eleven of 
 whom were sons. 
 
 Samuel Porter (grandfather) was born, lived 
 and died in Culpeper County, Virginia. He was 
 an old field school teacher. His father, great- 
 
 grandfather of Doctor Newton Porter, was a 
 native of Wales, and emigrated from Wales to 
 Culpeper County, Virginia. 
 
 The Porters are connected with the most dis- 
 tinguished families of Kentucky. Henry Clay's 
 mother was a first cousin of Eli Porter and ex- 
 Governor Porter is also a near relative. The 
 grandfather on the maternal side was John Ball, 
 a native of England, who emigrated to Fauquier 
 County, Virginia, and was a planter and known 
 as "a Virginia gentleman." He served in the 
 Revolutionary War as a Captain. 
 
 STANLEY MILWARD, Treasurer of the city 
 of Lexington, was born in Fayette County, 
 Kentucky, February 14, 1868, and is a son of W. 
 R. Milward and Belle (Bright) Milward. He at- 
 tended school at Lexington, made rapid progress 
 and, when only twelve years of age, entered the 
 State Agricultural and Mechanical College, tak- 
 ing the business course and graduating in 1885. 
 He was first employed with the Chesapeake & 
 Ohio Railroad Company in Lexington, but re- 
 signed to join his father who was engaged as 
 funeral director and embalmer, in which business 
 he is still engaged as those duties do not interfere 
 with those of the important trust placed in his 
 hands by the people. 
 
 That he is something of a politician is evi- 
 denced by the fact that in November, 1895, he was 
 elected, as a Republican, Treasurer of the city of 
 Lexington for a term of four years, over the popu- 
 lar Captain S. G. Sharp, who for twenty-eight 
 consecutive years has held office, both state and 
 municipal. In fact, Mr. Milward is the only Re- 
 publican ever elected or appointed to that office in 
 Lexington. 
 
 He was married October 16, 1889, to Miss Bes- 
 sie Featherston, daughter of C. F. Featherston 
 and Annie Beasley. They have two children: 
 Annie, born 1892, and Margaret, born 1894. 
 
 Mr. Milward is quite a prominent man in 
 various secret societies; belongs to Merrick 
 Lodge, No. 31, 1. O. O. F.; has filled all the chairs 
 of the subordinate lodge and is now Grand Con- 
 ductor of the Grand Lodge of the state, and Spe- 
 cial Deputy Grand Master of the Twentieth Dis- 
 trict; also a member of Bethesda Encampment 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 509 
 
 and Rebecca Lodge, I. O. O. F. He is very 
 prominent in K. A. E. O. circles and was Charter 
 Excellent Senator of Fayette No. 262, when it 
 was organized at Lexington; has membership 
 in the Improved Order of Red Men and A. O. U. 
 W. and Maccabees; is very much interested in 
 his lodge work and is naturally proud of the high 
 offices he has held. 
 
 W. R. Milward (father) was born in Lexington, 
 Kentucky, February 5, 1842, and is a son of Joseph 
 Milward and Eliza Young. He enlisted in the 
 Federal army in the fall of i860 and was Colonel 
 of the Twenty-first Kentucky Volunteer Infan- 
 try; served throughout the four years and after 
 the close of that conflict returned to Lexington 
 and engaged in the furniture and undertaking 
 business with his brother, J. U. Milward. Mr. 
 Milward is a member of the A. O. U. W. and R. 
 of T. ; is a Republican in politics and has always 
 been active in the ranks and councils of that party 
 in Lexington. He is a communicant of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, and an interested 
 worker in religious fields. 
 
 Arabella Bright Milward (mother) was born in 
 Louisville, Kentucky, August 19, 1845, s-i^d is a 
 daughter of Dr. John W. Bright, a very promi- 
 nent physician of that city many years ago. Mrs. 
 Milward is a thoroughly practical woman, a great 
 reader and an able writer; is a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church; was married to W. 
 R. Milward. April 10, 1867. They have four 
 children: Stanley, W. R., Jr.; Anne Bell and 
 John Bright. 
 
 WILLIAM HERNDON, a distinguished 
 lawyer of Lancaster, son of Elijah and 
 Ann (Crosthwaite) Herndon, was born January 
 10, 1843, i^ Irvine, Estill County, Kentucky, and 
 was educated at a select school in Estill County; 
 was a deputy clerk of the court under his father, 
 studying law at the same time and was admitted 
 to the bar in 1868. He entered the Union army 
 in September, 1861, as a private in Company B, 
 Eighth Regiment, Kentucky Infantry; was 
 wounded at Dobyn's Ford or Ferry in 1862, and 
 in January, 1863, was permanently disabled at 
 Stone River and honorably discharged from serv- 
 ice, having participated in other battles, After 
 
 the war he attended school in Estill County and 
 taught school there; was made postmaster at Ir- 
 vine and served for several terms and was also 
 employed in the Revenue Department, all of 
 which positions he resigned. 
 
 In 1878 he resumed the practice of law in Lan- 
 caster with James H. Anderson, now of Louis- 
 ville, with whom he was associated until 1889, 
 since which time he has practiced without an of- 
 fice associate. 
 
 Captain Herndon was City Attorney from 1878 
 to 1880 and declined to quahfy after re-election; 
 was appointed in 1881 to serve as United States 
 Commissioner, but resigned in 1884; elected 
 Commonwealth Attorney of the Eighth Judicial 
 District, composed of eight counties, in 1886, for 
 a term of six years, and has been a delegate to 
 all but one of the Republican State Conventions, 
 since he began the practice of law at Lancaster. 
 Both he and his wife are Presbyterians. He is 
 a Mason, Knight of Pythias and a member of the 
 Grand Army of the Republic. He is the leader of 
 the bar at Lancaster and one of the most promi- 
 nent Republicans of that district. A highly cul- 
 tured man, he is socially one of the most popular 
 citizens of Lancaster. 
 
 Captain Herndon married Helen Kinnaird, 
 daughter of William H. Kinnaird of Lancaster, 
 July 3, 1873. They have five children, four sons 
 and one daughter: Horace, educated at Center 
 College, Danville, Kentucky, and at Miami Uni- 
 versity, Oxford, Ohio; William Leslie, Ben D., 
 Lewis and Annie Christian. 
 
 Elijah Herndon (father) was born in Winches- 
 ter, Kentucky, January 8, 1812, and educated 
 there; was a farmer in early life and was sub- 
 sequently engaged in the mercantile business at 
 Irvine for many years ; was Sherifif of Estill Coun- 
 ty three terms, first under the constitution previous 
 to 1850, and after that he held the office by elec- 
 tion; was then clerk of the Estill Circuit Court. 
 Mr. Herndon was a Baptist and was a leading 
 Whig politician in his county, and, after the war, 
 a leading Republican. He died from the result of 
 sunstroke, November 7, 1876. 
 
 William Herndon (grandfather) was born in 
 Charlotte County, Virginia; came to Winchester, 
 Kentucky, in 1800; had been a planter in Vir- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 ginia, but was not engaged in any business in 
 Kentucky; married Katherine Winn. He and his 
 wife both died in 1850. They had five children: 
 John Patrick Henry, George, EHjah, Elizabeth 
 and Sallie. 
 
 Jacob Herndon (great-grandfather) was a na- 
 tive of Charlotte County, Virginia, and was of 
 Welsh extraction. 
 
 Ann Crosth-waite Herndon (mother) was born in 
 Cynthiana, Kentucky, January 9, 1815, and was 
 educated in Cynthiana and Paris, Kentucky. She 
 died in Piatt County, Missouri, while visiting a 
 son, October 20, 1892, and is buried there. 
 
 JAMES DEE SIMPSON, secretary and treas- 
 urer of the Mayfield Woolen Mills, son of 
 David M. and Susan J. (Hamilton) Simpson, was 
 born in Humphrey County, Tennessee, February 
 15, 1856; was educated at Murray Institute, Mur- 
 ray, Kentucky, and Neophogen College, Cross 
 Plains, Tennessee, and graduated in 1875 with the 
 degree of A. B., finishing in 1877; then engaged in 
 mercantile business at Farmington, Kentucky, 
 with C. H. McDonald. The firm of Simpson & 
 McDonald continued for about two years, when 
 he sold his interest and removed to Mayfield and 
 with Frank Bray and G. O. Duncan, engaged in 
 the retail dry goods business for three years. In 
 1887 he bought a one-third interest in the May- 
 field Woolen Mills, and, with the exception of two 
 years, when he was in Arkansas, he has been with 
 that company as secretary and treasurer since its 
 organization. 
 
 He is a Democrat in politics, and in religion 
 both he and his wife hold to the Universalist be- 
 lief. He is a man of sterling business qualities, 
 proving the advantage that accrues from culture 
 and training in mercantile enterprises, as well as in 
 professional life. 
 
 He was mamed October 2, 1878, to Fannie J. 
 Cochran, daughter of J. C. Cochran of Farming- 
 ton. Their only child, Clarence D., is sixteen 
 years of age, and in the West Kentucky College 
 at Mayfield. He is an athlete and lowered the 
 world's record for his age last year for rapid 
 cycling for all distances from one-twelfth of a mile 
 to five miles. 
 
 David M. Simpson (father) was born in Ohio, 
 
 March 17, 1812; when thirteen years of age he 
 removed to Humphrey County, Tennessee, and 
 became a planter in that county and removed 
 to Graves County, Kentucky, in 1866 and lived 
 there until 1879, when he removed to Clay Coun- 
 ty, Arkansas, and engaged in planting; was first 
 a Whig and then a Democrat in politics, and in 
 religion a Baptist. He is now hving in Arkan- 
 sas at the age of eighty-four years. 
 
 David Simpson (grandfather) was connected 
 with the steamboat lines that plied between Cin- 
 cinnati and New Orleans. 
 
 Susan J. Hamilton Simpson (mother) was the 
 daughter of William and Mildred Hamilton. 
 Her father was a descendant of Alexander Ham- 
 ilton and was a building contractor and steam- 
 boat captain, with headquarters at Nashville, 
 Tennessee. Susan J. Hamilton was born in 
 Nashville, Tennessee, February 17, 1814; was 
 educated in Nashville and married David Simp- 
 son in 1833. They had ten children, of whom six 
 are now living. She was a member of the prim- 
 itive Baptist Church, and died in Clay County, 
 Arkansas, May 14, 1891, and is buried there. 
 
 HARVEY H. ROBERTS, a leading physician 
 of Paris, son of John H. and ]\Ian,' Johnson 
 Roberts, was bom in Walton, Boone County, 
 Kentucky, July 26, 1865. He was educated at 
 the Walton High School and at Georgetown Col- 
 lege, and in 1886 took a course in a business col- 
 lege at Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 He began the study of medicine in the office of 
 Dr. Bagby at Walton and continued under the 
 instruction of that gentleman for four years. In 
 1887 he entered the Ohio INIedical College, gradu- 
 ating in i8go; took a post-graduate course in 1893 
 at the "New York" Polyclinic, in general medicine 
 and surgery and received private instruction in 
 Cincinnati in hospital work under Doctors Ran- 
 serhofif, Dawson and other eminent physicians 
 and surgeons. 
 
 After graduating in 1890 he located at Paris, 
 engaging in the general practice of medicine and 
 surgery; while in New York he made a specialty 
 of diseases of the nose and throat and operative 
 surgery ; has written a number of articles for lead- 
 ing medical journals; is a member of the Ken- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 511 
 
 tucky Medical Association, the Mississippi Val- 
 ley Medical Association, the Midland Kentucky 
 Medical Association, the American Medical As- 
 sociation and the "Pan-American Congress," and 
 is a subscriber to the principal medical journals 
 of the country. 
 
 Dr. Roberts is a thoroughly wide-awake physi- 
 cian and spares no physical exertion nor medical 
 research to entitle him to the front rank in his 
 chosen profession. 
 
 He is deacon in the Christian Church, a Demo- 
 crat in politics, an Odd Fellow and a Knight of 
 Pythias. 
 
 He married Ella Graves of Georgetown, daugh- 
 ter of William and Susan (Smarr) Graves, Novem- 
 ber 12, 1890. They have one child, Hamilton, 
 born May 14, 1895. 
 
 John H. Roberts (father) was born near Wal- 
 ton, Boone County, Kentucky, October 29, 1825, 
 and was educated in the private schools in that 
 county. He was engaged in farming and stock- 
 raising all his life. He was a member of the Bap- 
 tist Church, being especially active in establishing 
 a church of that denomination at Walton, and 
 was treasurer of the church from its organization 
 until two years before his death, when he resigned 
 on account of ill-health. He retired from farming 
 in the latter years of his life and resided in Wal- 
 ton until his death in 1895. He married Mary 
 Johnson, October 24, 1850, and three children 
 were born to them: Columbus, born July 22, 
 1851; Harvey Hamilton, born July 26, 1865; and 
 James Kirtley, born August 9, 1871. He was a 
 stanch Democrat, but did not take any active 
 part in politics. His wife, Mary J. Roberts, daugh- 
 ter of Hamilton Johnsoji, was born January 18, 
 1831. 
 
 Wm. Roberts (grandfather) was born in Jessa- 
 mine County, Kentucky, in 1800; died July 20, 
 1877. He was a farmer and prominently connect- 
 ed with the business interest of his county. In 
 religious convictions he was a "hard-shell" Bap- 
 tist. 
 
 Phillip Roberts (great-grandfather) died at the 
 age of eighty-four. He came from North Caro- 
 lina to Kentucky, in the early pioneer days. He 
 was in the War of 181 2. 
 
 Sarah (Keene) Roberts (grandmother) was a 
 
 daughter of Joseph Keene, Jr., born in 1797, and 
 died October, 1865. 
 
 Joseph Keene, Sr. (great-great-grandfather), 
 was prominently connected with the Revolution- 
 ary War and was over one hundred years of age 
 at his death. 
 
 Hamilton Johnson (grandfather) was born 
 June 16, 1799; died February 26, 1862; married 
 Mary Tyndal October 17, 1822. He came to 
 Kentucky from New Jersey in the early pioneer 
 days. He was engaged in farming and trading 
 in the general products of the country in those 
 days. 
 
 Andrew Johnson (great-grandfather) was in the 
 War of 1812, and died March 27, 1861, aged nine- 
 ty-two years. 
 
 Mary (Tyndal) Johnson (grandmother) was 
 born October 26, 1802; died September 21, 1880; 
 was a daughter of John Tyndal. 
 
 John Tyndal (great-grandfather) was in the 
 War of 1812; died June 18, 1861, aged ninety- 
 three years. 
 
 HENRY ALBERT COTTELL, M. D., pro- 
 fessor of physiology, histology and clinical 
 diseases of the nervous system, in the medical de- 
 partment of the University of Louisville, editor of 
 the American Practitioner and News, son of 
 Charles Cottel and Phoebe Hanscom, was born 
 in Calais, Maine, June 7, 1847. 
 
 His father is a native of Portsmouth, New 
 Hampshire, from which place his family emi- 
 grated to the wilderness of Maine in February, 
 1813. He labored hard in youth; was self-edu- 
 cated, and came in middle life to be one of the 
 best known men on the Saint Croix River. He 
 was Justice of the Peace, and an extensive dealer 
 in ship timber. In 1857 he removed to Illinois, 
 where, after a brief residence in the towns of War- 
 ren and Rockford, he settled upon a farm in Will 
 County, near Elwood. Here he still lives, hale, 
 hearty, and in the enjoyment of all his faculties, at 
 the age of eighty-seven. 
 
 He is a man of culture and of a wide scope of 
 information, and is known as a contributor in 
 prose and verse, to current literature. He has, 
 however, never attempted anything ambitious, 
 having preferred the h^rd but stable life of the 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 farmer to the uncertain scramble for fame. In 
 politics he was a Democrat in early life and cast 
 his first presidential vote for Andrew Jackson. 
 In 1856, however, he voted for Fremont, and has 
 been a stanch Republican ever since. He is of 
 a deeply rehgious nature, and has been a promi- 
 nent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 for more than sixty years. He has always been a 
 man of great energy and industry, doing thor- 
 oughly whatever he undertook to do. 
 
 Samuel Cottel (grandfather), a native of Ports- 
 mouth, New Hampshire, was for many years a 
 resident of Maine, where he died at an advanced 
 age. He was descended from a New York Dutch 
 family, who spelled the name Kottel originally. 
 
 Phoebe Hanscom Cottel (mother), a native of 
 Maine (Machias), was the daughter of Hiram 
 Hanscom and Susan Weston (grandmother), 
 who was a daughter of Hannah Weston (great- 
 grandmother), who was a daughter of Cap- 
 tain Samuel Watts, an officer in the French 
 and Indian War (1756-63), He fought at 
 Crown Point, on Lake Champlain, under 
 Winslow, and with General Wolfe at the siege 
 of Quebec. He took part, with his son, Cap- 
 tain Samuel Watts, Jr., and son-in-law, Josiah 
 Weston, in the capture of the British man-of-war 
 Margaretta at the port of Machias, in June, 1775, 
 and although advanced in years was the leading 
 spirit in the celebrated achievement. Hannah 
 Weston (his daughter) distinguished herself on 
 this occasion by carrying a sack of ammunition 
 weighing thirty pounds, from Jonesboro, through 
 an unbroken forest, to Machias, a distance of six- 
 teen miles. At this time she was sixteen years 
 old and a bride. Her brother, Samuel Watts, shot 
 and killed Captain Moore of the Margaretta. He 
 was the first naval office killed in the war of the 
 Revolution. Her husband, Josiah Weston, with 
 her brother, Samuel Watts, received pensions for 
 their services. Hannah Weston was the great- 
 granddaughter of the celebrated Hannah Dustin, 
 in whose memory a monument in the public 
 square is one of the historic features of Haver- 
 hill, Massachusetts. 
 
 The first ten years of Henry A. Cottell's life 
 were spent in Calais, Maine, when his father re- 
 moved to Illinois, and the next ten years were 
 
 spent on the farm and in the public schools of 
 Rockford, Illinois, since which time, 1867, he has 
 been a resident of Louisville. Coming to the city 
 at the age of twenty years, fresh from the coun- 
 try, and unacquainted with city customs, he soon 
 attracted attention as a musician of more than 
 ordinary talent. He found employment in the 
 music establishment of Louis Tripp, where he 
 gained some knowledge of business, became ac- 
 quainted with the best people in the city and made 
 considerable advancement in music, in which he 
 could give some of the professionals points ; was 
 employed as organist in one of the largest 
 churches, of which George C. Lorimer was then 
 pastor, while his services were in demand in 
 musical societies and in public entertainments. 
 But the fascinations of music and his pleasant as- 
 sociations with musical people and polite society 
 did not change his purpose to study medicine, 
 and in 1870 he matriculated in the medical de- 
 partment of the University of Louisville, from 
 which he graduated in 1872. 
 
 His preceptor. Dr. J. M. Bodine, a distin- 
 guished anatomist, then as now professor of that 
 chair and dean of the University, made Mr. Cot- 
 tell his prosector in anatomy before the young 
 man was graduated, and he has been regularly 
 connected with the university ever since; first, as 
 quiz-master in anatomy and physiology; from 
 1885 to 1892, as professor of chemistry and mi- 
 croscopy; in 1892, clinical diseases of the nervous 
 system was added to his chair; and in 1895, upon 
 the death of Professor Edward R. Palmer, he was 
 transferred to the chair of physiology, his pres- 
 ent position in the leading medical college in the 
 city of Louisville. 
 
 In 1880 Dr. Cottell was called to the editor- 
 ship of the Louisville Medical News, which, in 
 1895, was united with the American Practitioner 
 jind News, and since that time with Dr. David 
 W. Yandell he has conducted that famous jour- 
 nal, under the name of the American Practi- 
 tioner. 
 
 As a practitioner, Dr. Cottell has given espe- 
 cial attention to the nervous system, in which 
 branch his success has been most gratifying. Of 
 quiet disposition and modest demeanor, he has 
 never sought notoriety or prominence, but in the 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 513 
 
 profession and among the thousands of physi- 
 cians who attribute their success largely to his 
 helpful teaching he is known as one of the most 
 talented educators in the medical profession. 
 
 Dr. Cottell was married in 1880 to Mary Van 
 Buren Campbell, daughter of William Campbell 
 and Fannie Minserrat Campbell of Baltimore, 
 Md., now deceased. She was educated in the 
 Nold Louisville Female Seminary, graduating 
 with the first honors of her class. She is a vocal- 
 ist of charming sweetness and power and a lady 
 of highest culture and refinement. Their only 
 child, James Ruffin Cottell, is a promising lad of 
 six years. Dr. and Mrs. Cottell are members of 
 Christ Church, the Episcopal Cathedral of Ken-, 
 tucky. 
 
 As a writer and speaker Dr. Cottell is well 
 known to the profession. His editorials in the 
 American Practitioner and News have high rank 
 among medical essays, while his popular ad- 
 dresses delivered at the university commence- 
 ments, viz.: Esthetics of Medicine, 1886; The 
 Medical Millenium, 1895, and The Life and Char- 
 acter of Professor Edward Rush Palmer, 1896, 
 are pronounced by competent judges to be ora- 
 torical and literary efforts of unusual merit. 
 
 JOHN LYNCH DISMUKES, prominent phy- 
 sician of Mayfield, son of Paul Dismukes and 
 Sabina Bowman, was born near Nashville, Ten- 
 nessee, December 20, 1830. 
 
 He received his literary and classical education 
 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel 
 Hill, graduating in 1852; and attended the med- 
 ical department of the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, from which he graduated in 1856, and be- 
 gan the practice of medicine at Mayfield during 
 the same year and soon became prominent in his 
 profession. 
 
 He is a member of the American Medical As- 
 sociation ; of the Tri-State Medical Association of 
 Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois, and was elected 
 its first vice president in 1876-77; of State Med- 
 ical Association of Kentucky, and was its first 
 vice-president in 1877; is a member of the South- 
 ern Kentucky Medical Association, of which he 
 was president in 1874; and has contributed many 
 33 
 
 articles on medical subjects to various journals 
 throughout the country. 
 
 During the war he held the position of surgeon 
 in charge of various hospitals in the Confederate 
 army, especially field hospital surgeon of Pat Cle- 
 burne's Division of Hardee's Corps, and was 
 wounded at Chickamauga and again at Franklin, 
 Tennessee. He was one of the incorporators and 
 directors of the Cairo, Tennessee River & Cum- 
 berland Gap Railroad. Dr. Dismukes is a Dem- 
 ocrat in his political affiliations and a member of 
 the Baptist Church. 
 
 In November, 1867, he married Imogen E. Tay- 
 lor, daughter of Dr. James S. Taylor of Clinton, 
 Louisiana. They have four children: Mamie 
 Sabina, wife of H. H. Harris of Waco, Texas; 
 James Taylor, dentist; Paul Isham, John L., Jr., 
 educated at West Kentucky College, Mayfield, 
 and later finished his literary studies at Clinton 
 College; was at the University of Louisville for 
 one year and graduated from the Kentucky 
 School of Medicine, Louisville, June 21, 1894. He 
 married Mary Landrum, daughter of Dr. William 
 L. Landrum, December 18, 1895, and is now prac- 
 ticing medicine with his father in Mayfield. 
 
 Paul Dismukes (father) was bom in Roanoke 
 County, Virginia, in 181 1; was educated at the 
 academy near Clarksville, Tennessee, under Pro- 
 fessor Thomas Terrill ; was a planter in Davidson 
 County, Tennessee; was a strong Southern sym- 
 pathizer and had four sons in the Confederate 
 army: Dr. John L. Dismukes, the subject of this 
 sketch ; Dr. Thomas Terrill Dismukes, also a sur- 
 geon ; James Henry of the First Tennessee Regi- 
 ment, died in hospital at White Sulphur Springs, 
 Virginia, while in service; and Marcus L., who 
 served under John Morgan and General Forrest. 
 Mr. Dismukes was originally a member of the 
 Presbyterian Church, but was baptized in his last 
 illness by a minister of the Christian denomina- 
 tion. He died August 31, 1869, and is buried 
 near Nashville, Tennessee. 
 
 Paul Dismukes (grandfather) was a planter in 
 Virginia, but subsequently removed to Davidson 
 County, Tennessee. He served in the Continental 
 army during the Revolutionary War. 
 
 Paul Dismukes (great-grandfather) came from 
 Wales to Virginia. There is a tradition that the 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 family went from France, from a place called 
 "Meaux," a suburb of Paris, to Wales, and that 
 "De Meaux," as "Paul De Meaux," was finally 
 changed to "Dismukes." 
 
 Sabina Bowman Dismukes (mother) was born in 
 Charleston, South Carolina, in 1811 and received 
 her education there. She married Paul Dis- 
 mukes, January 18, 1829, and died September 30, 
 1844, and is buried near her husband in David- 
 son County, Tennessee, at the primitive Dis- 
 mukes' plantation. The names of their children 
 ai-e: John L., Thomas T., Paul, James H., Mar- 
 cus L., Esther Ann (deceased), Sarah, wife of 
 Professor John McCready of the Sewanee Uni- 
 versity, Tennessee, formerly professor in Yale 
 College; and Sabina Bowman Dismukes of 
 Charleston. 
 
 John Lynch Bowman (maternal grandfather) 
 changed his name to John Bowman Lynch in or- 
 der to inherit the property under the old name, 
 taking the name from his uncle, Thomas Lynch 
 (and using the name of Lynch only), who was 
 one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence, whose only son, Thomas Lynch, was 
 lost at sea. John Bowman Lynch inherited the 
 property. The estate is called Lynch Peach Tree 
 Plantation and is in South Carolina near George- 
 town. He studied medicine in the University of 
 Pennsylvania, graduating in 1800, and while at 
 college was considered very eccentric. He was 
 a very wealthy man and kept a large home es- 
 tablishment. His wife was Ann Eliza Campbell of 
 England. He died in 1866. 
 
 John Bowman (great-grandfather) married 
 Miss Lynch, daughter of Thomas Lynch, signer 
 of the Declaration of Independence for and from 
 South Carolina. 
 
 FRANCIS THOMAS DURAND WAL- 
 LACE, lawyer of Louisa, son of Thomas 
 and Mary (Moore) Wallace, was born in Louisa, 
 Lawrence County, Kentucky, March 26, 1850. 
 His father traced his ancestry back to Sir Wil- 
 liam Wallace, the Scottish warrior and statesman, 
 of whom was written the song: "Scots wha ha'e 
 wi' Wallace bled." 
 
 Thomas Wallace (father) was born in Lafay- 
 ette, Indiana, April 24, 1812. When he was but 
 
 three years old his father removed to Clarke 
 County, Ohio, where Thomas spent his boyhood 
 days and received his education. He was a clerk 
 in a store in Springfield, Ohio, for one yearj and 
 at the age of seventeen years came to Floyd 
 County, Kentucky, where he was engaged as 
 a cabinet maker for four years, and there mar- 
 ried his first wife, Lizzie Everell, who died in 
 1839, soon after their marriage. In 1840 he re- 
 moved to Louisa, and, his health having failed, 
 he engaged in general trading and accumulated 
 quite a handsome fortune. In politics he was a 
 Whig, and during the Civil war, a Union sympa- 
 thizer, but after the war he voted the Democratic 
 ticket. He was very much interested in his busi- 
 ness and cared little for politics, except from a 
 general interest in the public weal. He was a 
 Master Mason and a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church South. He was married (sec- 
 ond) in 1841, to Mary Moore, and died in Louisa, 
 July 29, 1 87 1. 
 
 Thomas Wallace (great-grandfather) was a na- 
 tive of Virginia, where he was raised, educated 
 and married. He came to Kentucky about 1795 
 and settled at Mays Lick, Mason County. After- 
 wards, about 1807, he removed to Clarke County, 
 Ohio, where he purchased a large tract of land at 
 a small price, and died there, March 13, 1813. 
 He was said to be a very religious man, a mem- 
 ber of the Presbyterian Church, which has been 
 the religious faith of the family for centuries. 
 
 His wife's name was Ellen Ross, who belonged 
 to a family of distinction in Scotland. Her par- 
 ents were from the Shire of Ross, so called in 
 honor of the Ross family. Some of her relatives 
 are still living in Mason County, to which section 
 they came from Virginia. The Ross and Wal- 
 lace families were descendants of a people who 
 were noted for their large frames and physical 
 strength. 
 
 The children of Thomas and Ellen Ross Wal- 
 lace were six sons and four daughters: John, 
 William, Ross, James, Moses and Joseph (sons); 
 Mary, Nancy, Deborah and Rachel (daughters). 
 
 Mary died young; Nancy married James Mc- 
 Clon of Madison, Indiana; Deborah married 
 Preston Ross, her second cousin; both are now 
 deceased; Rachel married John Ross, a brother 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 of Deborah Rosas' husband, and died young; John 
 Wallace was a farmer and died on the farm given 
 him by his father and was worth from $50,000 to 
 $100,000; he married twice and had a large fam- 
 ily by his first wife, but no issue by his second 
 marriage. William Wallace was educated for 
 the ministry before his father left Kentucky and 
 was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Paris 
 until his death in 1816. He married a Miss Ran- 
 kin of Lexington and they had four children, one 
 of whom is the celebrated William Ross Wallace. 
 The other three children were daughters : Ellen, 
 Martha and Mary; the latter married John H. 
 Harney, who was the editor of the Louisville 
 Democrat; and she was the mother of William 
 Wallace Harney, another distinguished poet, now 
 of Florida. 
 
 Ross Wallace (grandfather) was a farmer and 
 general trader. He married Elizabeth Neely in 
 Bath County. His was an eventful life, an out- 
 line of which would require more than the lim- 
 ited space in this volume. The children were 
 named William, Thomas (father), Deborah and 
 Elvessie. 
 
 Elizabeth Neely Wallace (grandmother) was 
 a widow when she married Ross Wallace, but 
 was only seventeen years of age. Her first hus- 
 band's name was Gibbs, a negro trader of Bour- 
 bon County, Kentucky (perhaps), who only lived 
 about a year after their marriage and died by 
 poison from his negroes on the Mississippi river, 
 while on a trading tour. He left one child, Me- 
 lissa Gibbs. 
 
 Mary Moore Wallace (mother) was born in 
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 25, 1817. 
 Her parents moved to (now West) Virginia in 
 1820, and she was educated in Marietta, Ohio, 
 and at Barboursville, West Virginia. She mar- 
 ried Thomas Wallace in 1841, whom she survives, 
 and is now a resident of Louisa, in good health, 
 and in the seventy-ninth year of her age. 
 
 Frederick Moore (maternal grandfather), a na- 
 tive of Holland, came to Philadelphia when he 
 was a youth and was engaged in tanning there 
 and later in merchandising. Following the War 
 of 1812 he had a large stock of goods, and con- 
 cluded that the only way to save himself from 
 great loss was to remove to some point where he 
 
 could trade his goods for furs and other produce 
 of the country. So he came to Kentucky in 1816, 
 or about that time, and settled near Cassville, 
 Virginia, and there continued in business until 
 1871, when he removed to Louisa and died. May 
 23, 1873. His wife's maiden name was Pamelia 
 Van Horn, a native of Philadelphia, who died 
 in Louisa, Kentucky, August i, 188 1, at the ad- 
 vanced age of eighty-six years. Her parents were 
 descendants of Hollanders. 
 
 Francis T. D. Wallace, the principal subject of 
 this sketch, was educated in the schools of Louisa 
 and at a com'mercial college in Portsmouth, Ohio; 
 was associated with his father in general trading 
 for a while, and in 1868, following the natural 
 bent of his mind, he began the study of law in the 
 office of Prichard & Harcher; was admitted to 
 the bar of Louisa in November, 1870; opened 
 his ofifice in that place and began the practice of 
 his profession under most favorable and encour- 
 aging auspices. In 1881 he was appointed local 
 attorney for the Chattaroi, now the Ohio & Big 
 Sandy Railroad Company, which position he held 
 until 1892, when that company was merged into 
 the Chesapeake & Ohio system, and Mr. Wal- 
 lace was made assistant solicitor for that company 
 with headquarters at Ashland. 
 
 Mr. Wallace began to take an active interest in 
 politics when quite young, and one year after he 
 was admitted to the practice of law, he was 
 elected police judge of Louisa, and served in that 
 capacity for a period of four years; was a mem- 
 ber of the State Senate from 1885 to 1889 from 
 the Thirty-second District, comprising the coun- 
 ties of Greenup, Boyd, Lawrence and Elliott, 
 and in that body took rank as a wise, safe and 
 conservative legislator, looking carefully after the 
 interests of the people. During his term he intro- 
 duced many measures for the material improve- 
 ment of eastern Kentucky. Since the expiration 
 of his term as Senator he has devoted his atten- 
 tion exclusively to his large and increasing law 
 practice in Louisa. 
 
 In politics he is, and always has been, a Dem- 
 ocrat; is a Shriner, Knight Templar, Royal Arch 
 Mason and a member of the Knights of the 
 Ancient Essenic Order. 
 
 Mr. Wallace was married September 16, 1872, 
 
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 to Phoebe E. Wood, daughter of John Perry 
 Wood and Lucy Alzina (Day) Wood. Mr. Wood 
 was a general trader and stock dealer in New 
 York. Mrs. Wallace was born in Hartford, 
 Washington County, New York, September 7, 
 1852, and was educated at Fort Edward, New 
 York. 
 
 ISAAC SHELBY, Kentucky's first state gov- 
 1 ernor, was bom on the nth day of December, 
 1750, near to the North Mountain, a few miles 
 from Hagerstown, in Maryland, where his father 
 and grandfather settled after their arrival in 
 America from Wales. In that early settlement 
 of the country, which was annoyed during the 
 period of his youth by Indian wars, he obtained 
 only the elements of a plain Enghsh education; 
 but, like his father. General Evan Shelby, born 
 with a strong constitution, capable of bearing 
 great privation and fatigue, he was brought up to 
 the use of arms and the pursuit of game. 
 
 At the age of twenty-one he took up his resi- 
 dence in western Virginia, beyond the Alleghany 
 mountains, having previously acquired a knowl- 
 edge of surveying and of the duties of sheriff at 
 Fredericktown. He was engaged, in his new res- 
 idence, in the business of feeding and attending 
 to herds of cattle in the extensive range which dis- 
 tinguished that section of the country. He was a 
 lieutenant in the company of his father, the late 
 General Evan Shelby, in the memorable battle 
 fought the loth of October, 1774, at the mouth of 
 the Kanawha, at the close of which his father 
 was the commanding officer. Colonels Lewis, 
 Fleming and Field being killed or disabled. The 
 result of this battle gave peace to the frontier, at 
 the critical period of the colonies venturing into 
 the eventful contest of the Revolution, and de- 
 terred the Indians from uniting with the British 
 until 1776. This was, probably, the most se- 
 verely contested conflict ever maintained with the 
 Northwestern Indians ; the action continued from 
 sunrise to sunset, and the ground for half a mile 
 along the Ohio was alternately occupied by each 
 of the parties in the course of the day. So san- 
 guinary was the contest that blood was found on 
 each of the trees behind which the parties were 
 posted. The Indians, under the celebrated qhief, 
 
 Cornstalk, abandoned the ground under cover of 
 the night. Their loss, according to the official 
 report, exceeded that of the Americans, the latter 
 amounting to sixty-three killed and eighty 
 wounded. This report was drawn up by Captain 
 Russell, reputed to be the best scholar in camp, 
 and the father of the late Colonel William Rus- 
 sell of Kentucky. The fortune of the day, as 
 stated in Doddridge's Notes of Border War, was 
 decided by a bold movement to the rear of the 
 left wing of the Indians, led by Captain Evan 
 Shelby, in which the subject of this memoir bore 
 a conspicuous part. 
 
 The garrison at Kanawha was commanded by 
 Captain Russell, and Lieutenant Shelby contin- 
 ued in it until the troops were disbanded, in July, 
 1775, by order of Governor Dunmore, who was 
 apprehensive that the post might be held for the 
 benefit of the rebel authorities. He proceeded 
 immediately to Kentucky, and was employed as a 
 surveyor under Henderson & Co.; who styled 
 themselves proprietors of the country, and who 
 had established a regular land office under their 
 purchase from the Cherokees. He resided in the 
 then wilderness of Kentucky for nearly twelve 
 months, and being without bread or salt, his 
 health was impaired, and he returned hon^e. 
 
 In July, 1776, during his absence from home, 
 he was appointed captain of a minute company 
 by the committee of safety of Virginia. In the 
 year 1777 he was appointed by Governor Henry 
 a commissary of supplies for an extensive body 
 of militia, posted at different garrisons to guard 
 the frontier settlements, and for a treaty to be held 
 at the Long Island of Holston river with the 
 Cherokee tribe of Indians. These supplies could 
 not have been obtained nearer than Staunton, 
 Virginia, a distance of three hundred miles; but 
 by the most indefatigable perseverance (one of 
 the most conspicuous traits of his character) he 
 accomplished it to the satisfaction of his country. 
 In 1778 he was engaged in the commissary de- 
 partment, providing supplies for the Continental 
 army, and for an expedition, by way of Pittsburg, 
 against the Northwestern Indians. In the early 
 part of 177Q he was appointed by Governor 
 Henry to furnish supplies for the campaign 
 against the Chickamaug-a Indians, which he ef- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 fected upon his own individual credit. In the 
 spring of that year, he was elected a member of 
 the Virginia legislature from Washington County 
 and in the fall of that year was commissioned a 
 major by Governor Jefiferson in the escort of 
 guards to the commissioners for extending the 
 boundary line between that state and the state of 
 North Carolina. By the extension of that line, 
 his residence was found to be within the limits 
 of the latter state, and shortly afterwards he was 
 appointed by Governor Caswell a colonel of the 
 new county of Sullivan, established in conse- 
 quence of the additional territory acquired by the 
 running of that line. 
 
 In the summer of 1780 Colonel Shelby was in 
 Kentucky, locating and securing those lands, 
 which he had five years previously marked out 
 and improved for himself, when the intelligence of 
 the surrender of Charleston and the loss of the 
 army reached that country. He returned home 
 in July of that year, determined to enter the ser- 
 vice of his country and remain in it until her 
 independence should be secured. He could not 
 continue to be a cool spectator of a contest in 
 which the dearest rights and interests of his coun- 
 try were involved. On his arrival in Sullivan, 
 he found a requisition from General Charles Mc- 
 Dowdll, requesting him to furnish all the aid in 
 his power to check the enemy, who had overrun 
 the two southern states, and were on the borders 
 of North Carolina. Colonel Shelby assembled 
 the militia of his county, called upon them to 
 volunteer their services for a short time on that 
 interesting occasion, and marched in a few days 
 with three hundred mounted riflemen across the 
 Alleghany mountains. 
 
 In a short time after his arrival at McDowell's 
 camp, near the Cherokee ford of Broad river. 
 Colonel Shelby and Lieutenant-Colonels Sevier 
 and Clarke — the latter a refugee from Georgia — 
 were detached with six hundred men to surprise 
 a post of the enemy in front, on the waters of 
 Pacolet river. It was a strong fort, surrounded 
 by abbatis, built in the Cherokee war, and com- 
 manded by that distinguished loyalist, Captain 
 Patrick Moore, who surrendered the garrison, 
 with one British sergeant-major, ninety-three 
 loyalists, and two hundred and fifty stand of arms. 
 
 Major Ferguson of the British army, though a 
 brigadier general in the royal militia and the 
 most distinguished partisan officer in the British 
 army, made many ineffectual efforts to surprise 
 Col. Shelby. His advance, about six or seven 
 hundred strong, came up with the American com- 
 mander at Cedar Spring, and before Ferguson 
 approached with his whole force, the Americans 
 took two officers and fifty men prisoners, and 
 safely effected their retreat. It was in the se- 
 verest part of this action that Col. Shelby's atten- 
 tion was arrested by the heroic conduct of Col. 
 Clarke. He often mentioned the circumstance 
 of his ceasing in the midst of the battle, to look 
 with astonishment and admiration at Clarke 
 fighting. 
 
 The next important event was the battle fought 
 at Musgrove's mill, on the south side of Enoree 
 river, distant forty miles, with seven hundred men, 
 led by Cols. Shelby, Qarke and Williams of South 
 Carolina. This affair took place on the 19th of 
 August, and is more particularly described in 
 the sketch of Col. Shelby, inserted in the first 
 volume of the "National Portrait Gallery," pub- 
 lished in 1834, under the direction of the Ameri- 
 can Academy of Fine Arts. It has been intro- 
 duced into the historical romance called "Horse- 
 Shoe Robinson," and noticed also in McCall's 
 History of Georgia, where the British loss is 
 stated to be sixty-three killed and one hundred 
 and sixty wounded and taken; the American loss, 
 four killed and nine wounded; amongst the for- 
 mer, Capt. Inman; and amongst the latter, Col. 
 Clarke and Capt. Clarke. Col. Innes, the British 
 commander of the "Queen's American Regiment," 
 from New York, was wounded, and all the Brit- 
 ish officers, except a subaltern, were killed or 
 wounded; and Capt. Hawsey, a noted leader 
 among the tories, was killed. 
 
 The Americans intended to be that evening 
 before Ninety-Six — but at that moment an ex- 
 press from Gen. McDowell came up in great 
 haste, with a short note from Gov. Caswell, dated 
 on the battle-ground, apprising McDowell of the 
 defeat of the American grand army under Gen. 
 Gates, on the i6th, near Camden. Fortunately, 
 Col. Shelby knew Caswell's handwriting, and by 
 distributing the prisoners among the companies, 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 so as to make one to every three men, who car- 
 ried them, alternately, on horseback, the detach- 
 ment moved directly towards the mountains. 
 The Americans were saved by a long and rapid 
 march that day and night, and until the evening 
 of the next day, without halting to refresh. Col. 
 Shelby, after seeing his party and prisoners out of 
 danger, retreated to the western waters, and left 
 the prisoners in charge of Clarke and Williams, 
 to convey them to a place of safety in Virginia, 
 for at that moment there was no corps of Ameri- 
 cans south of that state. The briUiancy of this 
 affair was obscured, as, indeed, were all the minor 
 events of the previous war, by the deep gloom 
 which overspread the public mind after the dis- 
 astrous defeat of Gen. Gates. 
 
 Ferguson was so solicitous to recapture the 
 prisoners, and to check these daring adventures 
 of the mountaineers, that he .made a strenuous 
 effort, with his main body, to intercept them; 
 but faihng of his object, he took post at a place 
 called Gilbert-town, from whence he sent the most 
 threatening messages, by paroled prisoners, to 
 the officers west of the mountains, proclaiming 
 devastation to their country if they did not cease 
 their opposition to the British government. 
 
 This was the most disastrous and critical period 
 of the Revolutionary war, to the South. No one 
 could see whence a force could be raised to check 
 the enemy in their progress to subjugate this 
 portion of the continent. 
 
 Comwallis, with the main army, was posted at 
 Charlottestown, in North Carolina, and Ferguson, 
 with three thousand, at Gilbert-town ; while many 
 of the best friends of the American government, 
 despairing of the freedom and independence of 
 America, took protection under the British stand- 
 ard. At this gloomy moment, Col. Shelby pro- 
 posed to Cols. Sevier and Campbell to raise a 
 force from their several counties, march hastily 
 through the mountains, and attack and surprise 
 Ferguson in the night. Accordingly, they col- 
 lected with their followers, about one thousand 
 strong, on Doe run, in the spurs of the Alleghany, 
 on the 25th of September, 1780, and the next 
 day commenced their march, when it was dis- 
 covered that three of Col. Sevier's men had de- 
 serted to the enemy. This disconcerted their first 
 
 design, and induced them to turn to the left, gain 
 his front, and act as events might suggest. They 
 traveled through mountains almost inaccessible 
 to horsemen. As soon as they entered the level 
 country, they met with Col. Cleveland with three 
 hundred men, and with Cols. Williams and Lacy, 
 and other refugee officers, who had heard of 
 Cleveland's advance, by which three hundred 
 more were added to the force of the mountaineers. 
 They now considered themselves to be sufficiently 
 strong to encounter Ferguson; but being rather 
 a confused mass, it was proposed by Col. Shelby, 
 in a council of officers, and agreed to, that Col. 
 Campbell of the Virginia regiment — an officer of 
 enterprise, patriotism and good sense — should be 
 appointed to the command. And having deter- 
 mined to pursue Ferguson with all practicable 
 dispatch, two nights before the action they se- 
 lected the best horses and rifles, and at the dawn 
 of day commenced their march with nine hun- 
 dred and ten expert marksmen. As Ferguson 
 was their object, they would not be diverted from 
 the main point by any collection of tories in the 
 vicinity of their route. They pursued him for the 
 last thirty-six hours without alighting from their 
 horses to refresh but once, at the Cowpens, for an 
 hour, although the day of the action was so ex- 
 tremely wet, that the men could only keep their 
 guns dry by wrapping their bags, blankets and 
 hunting shirts around their locks, which exposed 
 their bodies to a heavy and incessant rain during 
 the pursuit. 
 
 By the order of march and of battle. Col. Camp- 
 bell's regiment formed the right, and Col. Shelby's 
 regiment the left column, in the center; the right 
 wing was composed of Sevier's regiment, and 
 Maj. Winston's and McDowell's battalions, com- 
 manded by Sevier himself; the left wing was 
 composed of Col. Cleveland's regiment, the fol- 
 lowers of Cols. Williams, Lacy, Hawthorn and 
 Hill, headed by Col. Cleveland in person. In 
 this order the mountaineers pursued, until they 
 found Ferguson, securely encamped on King's 
 Mountain, which was about half a mile long, and 
 from which he declared the evening before that 
 "God Almighty could not drive him." On ap- 
 proaching the mountain, the two center columns 
 deployed to the right and left, formed a front, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 and attacked the enemy, while the right and left 
 wings were marching to surround him. In a few 
 minutes the action became general and severe — 
 continuing furiously for three-fourths of an hour; 
 when the enemy, being driven from the east to 
 the west end of the mountain, surrendered at dis- 
 cretion. Ferguson was killed, with three hundred 
 and seventy-five of his officers and men, and seven 
 hundred and thirty captured. The Americans 
 had sixty killed and wounded; of the former, Col. 
 Williams. 
 
 This glorious achievement occurred at the most 
 gloomy period of the revolution, and was the first 
 link in the great chain of events to the south, 
 which established the independence of the United 
 States. History has, heretofore, though improper- 
 ly, ascribed this merit to the battle of the Cow- 
 pens, in January, 1781; but it belongs, justly, to 
 the victory on King's Mountain, which turned the 
 tide of war to the south, as the victory of Trenton, 
 under Washington, and of Bennington, under 
 Stark, did to the north. It was achieved by raw, 
 undisciplined riflemen, without any authority 
 from the government under which they lived — 
 without pay, rations, ammunition, or even the ex- 
 pectance of reward, other than that which re- 
 sults from the noble ambition of advancing the 
 liberty and welfare of their beloved country. It 
 completely dispirited the tories, and so alarmed 
 Cornwallis, who then lay only thirty miles north 
 of King's Mountain with the main British army, 
 that, on receiving information of Ferguson's to- 
 tal defeat and overthrow by the riflemen from the 
 west, under Colonels Campbell, Shelby, Cleveland 
 and Sevier, and that they were bearing down upon 
 him, he ordered an immediate retreat — marched 
 all night, in the utmost confusion — and retro- 
 graded as far back as Winnsborough, sixty or 
 eighty miles, whence he did not attempt to ad- 
 vance until reinforced, three months after, by Gen- 
 eral Leslie, with two thousand men from the 
 Chesapeake. In the meantime, the militia of 
 North Carolina assembled in considerable force 
 at New Providence, on the border of South Caro- 
 lina, under General Davidson ; and General Small- 
 wood, with Morgan's light corps, and the Mary- 
 land line, advanced to the same point. General 
 Gates, with the shattered remains of his army, col- 
 
 lected at Hillsborough, also came up, as well as 
 the new levies from Virginia, of one thousand 
 men, under General Stevens. This force enabled 
 General Greene, who assumed the command early 
 in December, to hold Cornwallis in check. 
 
 The histories of the war at the south have never 
 done justice to the sagacity and judgment of Col. 
 Shelby upon another interesting occasion, just 
 following the aiifair on King's Mountain. As soon 
 as he had placed the prisoners beyond the reach 
 of the enemy, he repaired to the headquarters of 
 General Gates, and suggested to him the plan of 
 detaching General Morgan towards the moun- 
 tains. The details of this arrangement were sub- 
 mitted by him, and approved by Gates, and 
 Greene had the good sense to adopt them, after 
 he assumed the command. The result of his ad- 
 vice was exhibited in the splendid affair at the 
 Cowpens, which ladded fresh laurels to the vet- 
 eran brows of Morgan, Howard and Washington. 
 
 In the campaign of the fall of 1871, Colonel 
 Shelby served under General Marion, a distin- 
 guished partisan officer, of the boldest enterprise. 
 He was called down by General Greene to that 
 lower country, with five hundred mounted rifle- 
 men from the western waters, in September, 1781, 
 to aid the General in intercepting Cornwallis, at 
 that time blockaded by the French fleet in the 
 Chesapeake, and who, it was suspected, would en- 
 deavor to make good his retreat through North 
 Carolina to Charleston; but, upon his lordship's 
 surrender in Virginia, Colonel Shelby was at- 
 tached to General Marion's command below, on 
 the Santee, and was second in command of a 
 strong detachment of dragoons, under Colonel 
 Mayhem, ordered to carry a British post at Fair- 
 lawn, near Monk's Corner, eight or ten miles be- 
 low the enemy's main army, under General Stuart. 
 Information had been received by General Mar- 
 ion that five hundred Hessians at that post were 
 in a state of mutiny, and would surrender to any 
 considerable force that might appear before it. 
 But the officer commanding the post having 
 some apprehensions of their fidelity, had marched 
 them off to Charleston, the day before Colonel 
 Mayhem appeared before it. The post, however, 
 was surrendered, with one hundred and fifty Brit- 
 ish prisoners. The British General at Fergu- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 son's Swamp, nine miles in the rear, made great, 
 though unavailing efforts to intercept Mayhem's 
 party on their return with the prisoners to Gen- 
 eral Marion's encampment. Immediately after 
 this excursion, the British commander retreated 
 with his whole force to Charleston. 
 
 As the period for which the mounted volun- 
 teers had engaged to serve was about to expire, 
 and no further active operations being contem- 
 plated, after the retreat of the enemy towards 
 Charleston, Colonel Shelby obtained leave of ab- 
 sence from General Marion, to attend the assem- 
 bly of North Carolina, of which he was a mem- 
 ber, which would sit two hundred miles distant, 
 about the first of December. Marion addressed a 
 letter on the subject to General Greene, which 
 Colonel Shelby was permitted to see, speaking in 
 high terms of the conduct of the mountaineers, 
 and assigning particular credit to Colonel Shelby 
 for his conduct in the capture of the British post, 
 as it surrendered to him after an inefifectual at- 
 tempt by an ofiRcer of the dragoons. 
 
 In 1782, CoLonel Shelby was elected a member 
 of the North Carolina assembly, and was appoint- 
 ed one of the commissioners to settle the pre- 
 emption claims upon the Cumberland River, and 
 to lay off the lands allotted to the officers and 
 soldiers of the North Carolina line, south of where 
 Nashville now stands. He performed this serv- 
 ice in the winter of 1782-3, and returned to Boons- 
 borough, Kentucky, in April following, where he 
 married Susanna, second daughter of Captain 
 Nathaniel Hart, one of the first settlers of Ken- 
 tucky, and one of the proprietors styled Hender- 
 son & Co., by their purchase of the country from 
 the Cherokees. 
 
 After completing the organization of the gov- 
 ernment under the provisions of the constitution, 
 by filling the various offices created by it, the 
 earnest attention of the Governor was directed to 
 the defense of the state against the Indian incur- 
 sions, and the border war to which the people 
 were exposed by their remote and unprotected 
 position in the wilderness. General Washing- 
 ton's paternal regard to the same high object was 
 manifested in the cautious and extensive arrange- 
 ments which were made under the direction of 
 General Wayne for a strong expedition against 
 
 the northwestern Indians, who were stimulated 
 and aided by the British and provincial forces oc- 
 cupying posts within our boundary. The confi- 
 dence of Washington, as well as of the people of 
 Kentucky, was reposed in the energy and patriot- 
 ism of Governor Shelby. This was evinced in his 
 almost unanimous elevation to the chief magis- 
 tracy, as well as in the answer of the first Legisla- 
 ture to his message, and in a letter from General 
 Knox, secretary of war, of July 12, 1792. 
 
 In the subsequent letter from the war depart- 
 ment, the defensive operations for the protection 
 of Kentucky were committed exclusively to his 
 judgment and discretion, and whenever there was 
 a prospect of acting offensively against the In- 
 dians of the northwest, the president made an ap- 
 peal to his patriotism and that of the state, in fur- 
 nishing mounted volunteers in aid of the regular 
 force. His energy and the gallantry of Kentucky 
 was signally displayed in the valuable succor ren- 
 dered to General Wayne on the memorable 20th 
 of August, 1794. His enlightened forecast, and 
 the valor of Kentucky, presented on this occa- 
 sion, as on the equally glorious 5th of October, 
 1813, the means of victory both in men and trans- 
 portation, at a critical moment to the scene of ac- 
 tion — to victories the most decisive in their results 
 to any heretofore known in Indian warfare. 
 
 Whilst the people of Kentucky were interrupted 
 in their business and prosperity by the attention 
 necessary to the progress of the Indian War, they 
 Were annoyed by continued apprehensions of los- 
 ing the navigation of the IMississippi, on which 
 their commercial existence depended. In the 
 midst of these difficulties, a new and unexpected 
 occasion presented itself for the display of Gov- 
 ernor Shelby's diplomatic sagacity. The com- 
 plaints and remonstrances of the Spanish minister 
 induced the general government to open a cor- 
 respondence with Governor Shelby, for the pur- 
 pose of suppressing an expedition, which was rep- 
 resented to be in contemplation, by La Chaise and 
 other French agents, against the possessions of 
 Spain on the Mississippi. Governor Shelby had 
 no apprehensions that they would succeed in or- 
 ganizing the necessary force, and under this im- 
 pression his reply to the department of state, Oc- 
 tober 5th, 1703, was forwarded, without consider- 
 
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 ing that he had not authority under existing laws 
 to interfere in preventing it. But the granting of 
 commissions to General Clark and other influ- 
 ential individual's, and the actual attempt to carry 
 the plans of French emissaries into effect, induced 
 the Governor to examine the subject more thor- 
 oughly, and conceiving that he had no legal au- 
 thority to interfere, he addressed a letter, Janu- 
 ary 13, 1794, to the secretary of state, expressing 
 these doubts, and assuming an attitude, which, 
 though professing the most devoted regard to the 
 Union, had the efifeot of drawing from the general 
 government a full development of the measures 
 which had been pursued for securing the naviga- 
 tion of the Mississippi. These explanations by 
 the department of state, and by the special com- 
 missioner, the eloquent Colonel James Innes, at- 
 torney-general of Virginia, who was deputed by 
 General Washington to proceed to Kentucky to 
 communicate with the Governor and Legislature, 
 removed all ground of uneasiness, and created a 
 tranquillity in the public mind which had not ex- 
 isted since the first settlement of the state. 
 
 At the close of his gubernatorial term, he re- 
 turned to his farm in Lincoln, with renewed rel- 
 ish for the cares and enjoyments which its man- 
 agement necessarily created. He was as distin- 
 guished for the method and judgment and indus- 
 try, which he displayed in agricultural pursuits, 
 as he had exemplified in the more conspicuous 
 duties of the general and the statesman. He was 
 the model of an elevated citizen, whether at the 
 plow, in the field, or in the cabinet. 
 
 He was repeatedly chosen an elector of presi- 
 dent, and voted for Mr. Jefiferson and Mr. Madi- 
 son. He could not yield to the repeated solicita- 
 tions of influential individuals in different parts 
 of the state, requesting him to consent to be a 
 candidate for the chief magistracy, until the exi- 
 gencies of our national affairs had brought about 
 a crisis which demanded the services of every 
 patriot. In this contingency, he was elected, upon 
 terms very gratifying to his feelings, a second 
 time to the chief magistracy, at the commence- 
 ment of the war, in 1812, with Great Britain. 
 
 Of his career at that eventful period, it would be 
 impracticable, in the limits of this sketch, to pre- 
 sent even an outline. His energy, associated with 
 
 a recollection of his Revolutionary fame, aroused 
 the patriotism of the state. In every direction he 
 developed her resources, and aided in sending 
 men and supplies to the support of the northwest- 
 ern army under General Harrison. The legisla- 
 ture of Kentucky, in the winter of 1812-13, con- 
 templating the necessity of some vigorous effort, 
 in the course of that year, to regain the ground 
 lost by the disasters at Detroit and at the River 
 Raisin, passed a resolution authorizing and re- 
 questing the Governor to assume the personal di- 
 rection of the troops of the state, whenever, in his 
 judgment, such a step would be necessary. Un- 
 der this authority, and at the solicitation of Gen- 
 eral Harrison, he invited his countrymen to meet 
 him at Newport, and to accompany him to the 
 scene of active, and, as he predicted, of decisive 
 operations. Upon his own responsibility he au- 
 thorized the troops to meet him with their horses. 
 Four thousand men rallied to his standard in less 
 than thirty days ; and this volunteer force reached 
 the shore of Lake Erie just in time to enable the 
 commander-in-chief to profit by the splendid vic- 
 tory, achieved by the genius and heroism of Per- 
 ry and his associates. It was a most interesting 
 incident, which augured favorably of the issue 
 of the campaign, that Governor Shelby should ar- 
 rive at the camp of General Harrison precisely at 
 the moment when Commodore Perry was disem- 
 barking his prisoners. The feelings of congratu- 
 lation which were exchanged by the three heroes, 
 at the tent of the General on the shore of Lake 
 Erie, may be more readily conceived than de- 
 scribed. The writer of this article had been pre- 
 viously dispatched by General Harrison to Com- 
 modore Perry, to ascertain the result of the naval 
 battle, and, returning with Perry, was present at 
 this interview. 
 
 In all the movements of the campaign, whether 
 in council or execution, monuments of his valor 
 and of his energetic character were erected by the 
 gratitude of the commander-in-chief, of all his 
 troops, and of the president of the nation, who 
 spoke officially of his services with the veneration 
 which belongs only to public benefactors. The 
 Legislature of Kentucky and the Congress of the 
 United States expressed their sense of his gallant 
 conduct in resolutions which will transmit his 
 
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 name to posterity, "as a patriot without reproach 
 and a soldier without ambition." 
 
 The vote of Congress assigning to him and to 
 General Harrison each a gold medal, commemo- 
 rative of the decisive victory on the Thames, was 
 delayed one session in consequence of some pre- 
 judice prevailing in the public mind in relation to 
 General Harrison. As soon as Governor Shelby 
 was advised of this fact, he solicited his friends in 
 Congress, through Mr. Clay, to permit no expres- 
 sion of thanks to him, unless associated with the 
 name of General Harrison. This magnanimous 
 conduct and the unqualified commendation which 
 he gave of the career of General Harrison on that 
 campaign, connected with a favorable report of 
 a committee at the next session of Congress, in- 
 stituted at the request of the General, of which 
 Colonel R. M. Johnson was chairman, led to the 
 immediate adoption of the original resolution. 
 
 Governor Shelby was unremitting in the aid 
 which he extended to the operations of the gen- 
 eral government during the war. He furnished 
 troops to defend the country around Detroit, and 
 dispatched an important reinforcement to Gen- 
 eral Jackson for the defense of New Orleans. His 
 sagacity led him to send General Adair as Adju- 
 tant-General, with the rank of Brigadier-General, 
 to meet the precise contingency, which actually 
 occurred, of General Thomas being sick or dis- 
 abled. The result of this measure was exhibited 
 in the critical succor afforded by General Adair 
 on the memorable 8th of January. 
 
 In the civil administration of the state. Gov- 
 ernor Shelby's policy continued to establish and 
 confirm the sound principles of his predecessors. 
 Integrity, fidelity to the constitution, and ca- 
 pacity, were the qualifications which he required 
 in public officers ; and his recommendations to the 
 Legislature enforced a strict regard to public 
 economy and to the claims of public faith. In the 
 fall of 1816, his term expired, and he retired again 
 to the sweets of domestic life, in the prosecution 
 of his favorite pursuit. 
 
 In March, 1817, he was elected by President 
 Monroe to fill the department of war; but his ad- 
 vanced age, the details of the office, and his de- 
 sire, in a period of peace, to remain in private 
 life, induced him to decline an acceptance of it. 
 
 In 1818, he was commissioned by the President to 
 act in conjunction with General Jackson in hold- 
 ing a treaty with the Chickasaw tribe of Indians, 
 for the purchase of their lands west of the Ten- 
 nessee River within the limits of Kentucky and 
 Tennessee, and they obtained a cession of the 
 territory to the United States, which unites the 
 western population, and adds greatly to the de- 
 fense of the country, in the event of future wars 
 with the savages, or with any European power. 
 This was his last public act. 
 
 In February, 1820, he was attacked with a par- 
 alytic affection, which disabled his right arm, and 
 which was the occasion of his walking lame on 
 the right leg. His mind continued unimpaired 
 until his death, by apoplexy, on the i8th of July, 
 1826, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. He 
 had been for many years a member of the Pres- 
 byterian Church; and in his latter days, was the 
 chief instrument in erecting a house of worship 
 upon his own land. 
 
 BENJAMIN F. BRIGGS, editor of the May- 
 field Monitor, was born in Sumner County, 
 Tennessee, August 2.^, 1848. He came to Graves 
 County, Kentucky, with his father when quite 
 young and clerked in his father's dry goods store 
 until 1870. But he was not satisfied there and 
 decided that the trade of printing would be more 
 congenial to his taste, and he therefore learned 
 printing under Mr. Warren, editor of "The Jack- 
 son Purchase." He was in the composing room 
 of this paper for three years and was accredited 
 with the greatest proficiency there. 
 
 In 1873 he established a weekly paper entitled 
 "The Banner of Tejnperance," published in the 
 interest of temperance, which scored an immedi- 
 ate success, and in 1875 founded "The Mayfield 
 Monitor." This paper, under Mr. Briggs' ex- 
 cellent management, has reached a large and 
 growing circulation, and wields a strong influ- 
 ence in the political, social and civil affairs of 
 Graves County. 
 
 Mr. Briggs is a Democrat, and for three years 
 was secretary of the Graves County Democratic 
 Committee, supporting personally and through 
 the columns of his paper, the platform and can- 
 didates of his party. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 523 
 
 He is a man of fine literary attainments and 
 wields a trenchant pen. He is a member of the 
 Methodist Church, is a Knight of Pythias and a 
 Knight of Honor. 
 
 Mr. Briggs was married April 26, 1883, to 
 Mary Rives, daughter of John Rives. She was 
 educated at Mayfield and is a most estimable and 
 cultured woman. They have one child, Nell. 
 
 W. M. Briggs (father) was born in Bardstown, 
 Kentucky, in 1814. He married Julia Watwood 
 in 1839 ^^'^ i" 1840 ^s removed to Sumner Coun- 
 ty, Tennessee, and there engaged in mercantile 
 business. He was a man of strong Southern 
 sympathies and an old line Whig at first and after- 
 wards a Democrat. He removed to Union 
 County, Illinois, in 1861, where he died. His 
 wife died in Gallatin, Tennessee, in 1854. 
 
 DAVID T. TOWLES, a leading criminal law- 
 yer of Green sburg, son of George W. 
 Towles and Fannie Mason, was born in Green 
 County, Kentucky, June 6, 1830, and with the 
 exception of one year at St. Mary's College, 
 Marion County, he was educated in the common 
 schools of Green County. After leaving school 
 he taught in his native county for five years, 
 studying law during that time. He secured his 
 hcense to practice in 1853 and immediately began 
 the practice of his chosen profession. He has 
 made a specialty of criminal law, and since 1865 
 there has never been a murder case in his county 
 that he has not been engaged in the defense. 
 The first office that he held was that of assessor 
 of Green County, to which he was elected in 
 1856 and held for a term of four years. In 1862 
 he was elected clerk of the County Court and 
 held that office for twelve years and was county 
 judge for eight years. He is now master com- 
 missioner of his circuit by appointment of Judge 
 Patteson. Judge Towles is a Mason and was 
 superintendent of the Methodist Sunday School 
 for fifteen years. He was in the Mexican war 
 and figured conspicuously in the historic battle 
 of Buena Vista. For the space of seven months 
 only he took part in the Civil war, ill health com- 
 pelling him to resign his commission as cap- 
 tain of Company C, Thirteenth Kentucky In- 
 fantry, in the Federal army. In 1851 he married 
 
 Martha A. Montgomery, daughter of David 
 Montgomery and Tabitha Holland, both of 
 Green County. Mrs. Towles was educated in the 
 schools of her native county. 
 
 The Montgomery family originally came from 
 Virginia. Her grandmother was scalped by the 
 Indians and left by them for dead, but she was 
 found by a party of immigrants on their way to 
 settle in Kentucky and was taken care of by them. 
 
 Judge and Mrs. Towles had eight children, 
 only three of whom are living: George W. 
 Towles, a lawyer of Greensburg; Montgomery 
 Towles, farmer of Green County, and Lena, wid- 
 ow of Luther L. Foster. 
 
 George W. Towles (father) was born in Cul- 
 peper County, Virginia, in 1793, and was the 
 son of Joseph Towles and Martha Weatherall of 
 Virginia. He married and came with his father 
 to Kentucky in 1822 and settled in Green County. 
 He received a common school education in Vir- 
 ginia and studied law there, receiving his license 
 in Kentucky in 1830; begun the practice of his 
 profession in Green County; was a Democrat 
 and twice elected to the legislature from his coun- 
 ty; was an earnest, consistent Christian and a 
 member of the Baptist Church. He died in 1856. 
 His wife was Fannie Mason, daughter of Enoch 
 Mason of Culpeper County, Virginia, of the dis- 
 tinguished Virginia family of that name, one of 
 whom was James M. Mason, United States Sen- 
 ator. Fannie Mason Towles was born in Vir- 
 ginia in 1800. She was a woman of remarkable 
 strength of intellect and was known as a very 
 devout member of the Baptist Church. She died 
 in 1863 and is buried beside her husband at 
 Summersville, Kentucky. Of their twelve chil- 
 dren, only David T. Towles, the subject of this 
 sketch, is now living. 
 
 George Washington Towles, son of Judge 
 David T. Towles and Martha Montgomery, was 
 bom within six miles of Greensburg, September 
 25, i860. He was educated in Greensburg and 
 studied law in the office of his father and his 
 father's law partner. Colonel Hudson; received 
 his license in January, 1885, and for five years 
 practiced his profession in Greensburg. 
 
 In 1887 he was elected city attorney; in 1890 
 he removed to Campbellsville to practice his pro- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 fession, and in the same year was elected city 
 attorney there. In the memorable race in Green 
 County for county attorney George W. Towles 
 made the race as a Democrat against his brother- 
 in-law, Luther L. Foster, the Republican candi- 
 date, and was defeated by thirty-one votes, having 
 made the best Democratic race in that county 
 since the war. Upon his return to Greensburg 
 he was made examiner of Green County. 
 
 He married Mary Chandler in December, 1885, 
 daughter of Elzy Chandler and Lizzie Scott. 
 Lizzie Scott Chandler was the daughter of a 
 celebrated Baptist, John Scott. Mrs. Towles was 
 born in Greensburg and educated there and in 
 Louisville and Nashville, graduating at the latter 
 place. They have three children: Frederick 
 Mason, Elzy Chandler and David T. Towles. 
 
 JOHN M. HIGGINBOTHAM, President of 
 the Citizen's Bank of Lancaster, son of Wil- 
 liam Higginbotham and Eleanor Roberts, was 
 born in Garrard County, Kentucky, September 
 21, 1842. He was educated in the common 
 schools of Garrard and Madison Counties and 
 was a farmer in that county until the beginning 
 of the war between the states, when he enlisted 
 as a private in the Confederate army, serving 
 throughout the war as a member of Capt. M. D. 
 Logan's company in Third Kentucky Regiment 
 of Cavalry, commanded by Col. R. M. Gano; 
 after the regiment was captured on the Ohio 
 raid he escaped and went back South and joined 
 Gen. J. S. Williams' brigade in Gen. Jo Wheeler's 
 division of cavalry. He participated in many a 
 hotly contested battle, among them Chickamauga 
 and Knoxville and those around Atlanta. In a 
 skirmish near Lynchburg, Virginia, his finger 
 was wounded so badly that it had to be ampu- 
 tated, and this was his only wound. He was 
 also at the fight at Green River Bridge, where 
 so many gallant young Kentuckians were killed 
 — beardless youths most of them, fresh from the 
 class room and the tender home circle. A hand- 
 some shaft now marks the spot where so many 
 of his comrades fell on that eventful Fourth of 
 July, 1863. After the war closed Mr. Higgin- 
 botham returned to Kentucky and again en- 
 gaged in farming; was elected sherifif of Garrard 
 
 County in 1878, although the county had pre- 
 viously been Republican, by a majority of one 
 hundred and fifty votes. He served two terms in 
 this office; he organized the Citizen's National 
 Bank of Lancaster in 1882 and was made presi- 
 dent, which position he now holds. 
 
 In 1885 he established a hardware business, 
 and this he still manages in connection with two 
 farms; one of which, situated about twelve miles 
 from Lancaster, is the old Higginbotham farm. 
 He has served as councilman of the city of Lan- 
 caster and has faithfully performed his duty as a 
 citizen whenever called upon to do so. 
 
 November 24, 1886, he married Emma Palmer, 
 daughter of John M. and Nancy Palmer. She 
 was born in Garrard County and educated there. 
 Mr. Higginbotham is an extremely popular man, 
 honorable and conscientious in business, consid- 
 erate and accommodating, courteous in his social 
 relations and faithful in his religious duties in the 
 Christian Church, of which he and his wife are 
 members. 
 
 William Higginbotham (father) was born in 
 Garrard County, January i, 1812; was educated 
 there and engaged in farming and was greatly 
 interested in politics, as a Democrat. He was 
 married in 1840 to Eleanor Roberts, daughter 
 of James Roberts and Elizabeth Mitchell of Lin- 
 coln County. She was educated in the common 
 schools and was a member of the Christian 
 Church. They had ten children, six of whom 
 are living: Alzira, wife of R. D. Ballard of Gar- 
 rard County ; Ellen, wife of Cunningham Stafford 
 of St. Louis; Bettie, wife of F. M. Shumate of 
 Boyle County; George T., farmer near Lex- 
 ington, and Matilda, wife of Isaac Arnold of 
 Guthrie, Oklahoma. 
 
 William Higginbotham died in April, 1880, 
 and his wife died in November, 1888. They are 
 buried in the old family burial ground in Gar- 
 rard County. 
 
 Emmanuel Higginbotham (grandfather) was 
 the descendant of one of the several brothers who 
 came from Scotland to Amherst County, Vir- 
 ginia. From that place he emigrated to Ken- 
 tucky in 1795, and settled in the eastern part of 
 Garrard County on a farm. His wife's maiden 
 name was Reid. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 525 
 
 WILLIAM LOGAN was the eldest son of 
 General Benjamin Logan, and was born 
 at Harrodsburg on the 8th day of December, 
 1776. He was, probably, the fifth white child 
 born in Kentucky. In 1799 he was a member 
 of the convention which formed the present con- 
 stitution of the state, being then only twenty- 
 three years of age. His selection to this respon- 
 sible office, so early in life, evinced the high opin- 
 ion entertained of his character and talents by 
 his fellow citizens. About the same time he com- 
 menced the practice of the law, and soon at- 
 tained considerable eminence in his profession. 
 He was frequently elected to represent his county 
 in the legislature, and on several occasions was 
 made speaker of the house of representatives. 
 He was twice appointed a judge of the Court of 
 Appeals, in which station he was noted for the 
 propriety with which he discharged its various 
 duties. In 1820 he was elected a Senator in the 
 Congress of the United States. He resigned his 
 seat in this body in 1820, for the purpose of be- 
 coming a candidate for governor of the state, 
 but was not elected. 
 
 He died at his residence- in Shelby County, on 
 the 8th of August, 1822, in the forty-sixth year 
 of his age. At the time of his decease he was 
 generally looked to by the people of the state as 
 the candidate for governor in 1824, and had he 
 lived would no doubt have succeeded General 
 Adair in that office. 
 
 WILLIAM WARFIELD of Lexington, one 
 of the best known breeders of short-horn 
 cattle in America, son of Benjamin Warfield and 
 Sarah Caldwell, was born in Fayette County, 
 Kentucky, at the old country home called "Gras- 
 mere," May 30, 1827. 
 
 Benjamin Warfield, his father, was born near 
 Annapolis, Maryland, February 8, 1790, and was 
 brought to Kentucky in the autumn of the same 
 year, Elisha Warfield, his father, removing with 
 his family to a farm near Bryant's Station, Fay- 
 ette County. 
 
 The family originated in America with Richard 
 Warfield, who, in 1637, emigrated from England 
 find settled at Black Horse Inn, nine miles from 
 
 Annapolis, Maryland. The family was a large 
 and substantial one, owning a considerable body 
 of real estate and taking an active part in local 
 affairs. 
 
 Elisha Warfield, son of Benjamin, son of John, 
 son of Richard Warfield (the immigrant) was ac- 
 tive in advocating the resistance to Great Britain 
 in 1774-6, and served on a committee of observa- 
 tion for Anne Arundell County. After his re- 
 moval to Kentucky, he devoted himself to agri- 
 cultural pursuits till his death in 181 7. 
 
 Benjamin Warfield, the father of the subject of 
 this sketch, graduated at Transylvania University 
 and read law in Lexington and was there ad- 
 mitted to the bar. He then removed to Mount 
 Sterling and began the practice of his profession. 
 As soon as the war broke out in 1812, he volun- 
 teered, and on June 5th he was chosen First Lieu- 
 tenant in Captain Samuel Williams' Company. In 
 the next campaign he commanded a company in 
 Colonel Richard M. Johnson's command, and was 
 present at the battle of the Thames, where the 
 Kentucky troops so brilliantly retrieved the defeat 
 at the River Raisin. He was present in a num- 
 ber of engagements and was chosen by General 
 William Henry Harrison for several special serv- 
 ices, in one of which he was wounded by a ball in 
 the thigh. 
 
 After the war he went to Cynthiana, where he 
 practiced law till 1824. He also served in the 
 Legislature during this period. 
 
 In 1824 he moved to Lexington and began the 
 practice of the law in partnership with Robert 
 Wickhfife, Esq., in which he was very successful 
 till his retirement in 1831. From 1831 till his 
 death, October 27, 1856, he devoted himself to 
 his farm and the breeding of thoroughbred stock, 
 in which he had long been interested. 
 
 The mother of William Warfield was Sarah 
 Caldwell, who was born in Bourbon County, in 
 1799, and died in Fayette County in 1836. Her 
 father, William Caldwell, was born in the Cum- 
 berland Valley, Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish 
 parentage, was a soldier in the Revolution, serv- 
 ing in the Second Regiment of the Pennsylvania 
 line, and lost an arm from a wound. Her mother 
 was a Miss Sutherland. 
 
 William Warfield attended the school of Bey- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 erley Hicks so well known in "the old times," and 
 afterward the public schools of Lexington. He 
 graduated at Transylvania University in 1846, 
 and several years after took two courses in the 
 medical department, but never practiced medi- 
 cine as a profession. He had early (1843) l^^^" 
 entrusted by his father with the care of one of his 
 farms, and became very much interested in the 
 business. He especially fancied the short-horn 
 cattle, and soon developed the herd which his 
 father had begun as early as 1827: He was in- 
 terested in a number of impoptations, and dM a 
 great deal to increase the knowledge of the breed 
 in this country. No herd in America has so long 
 and so interesting a history. The record of its 
 victories in the show ring would fill a small vol- 
 ume. But it is as the basis of fifty years' scien- 
 tific study of the theory and practice of breed- 
 ing that the herd deserves most lasting fame. 
 The results of this study have been embodied in 
 a "History of Imported Short Horns" (1884), a 
 volume of immense and accurate learning, un- 
 rivaled in the annals of the breed, and the 
 "Theory and Practice of Cattle Breeding" (1888), 
 a thorough discussion of the subject, which has 
 met wide recognition both as a hand-book for the 
 general reader and a text book in the agricultural 
 colleges. Its sale in England has been a special 
 indication of the writer's wide reputation. Be- 
 sides these volumes Mr. Warfield has written a 
 great deal for the "Breeders' Gazette," the "Na- 
 tional Live Stock Journal," and the "London 
 Live Stock Journal." 
 
 "Grasmere," the home of this herd, is one of 
 the most beautiful farms of the Blue Grass region, 
 and is about one mile from the city of Lexington. 
 Since the burning of the house, some years ago, 
 Mr. Warfield has made his home in Lexington. 
 The herd to-day speaks eloquently for the skill of 
 the accomplished breeder. 
 
 The Warfields were an old Whig stock and 
 William Warfield was no exception to the rule. 
 Mr. Lincoln asked him to accept a commission 
 of Captain in the army in 1861 for the sake of the 
 example, which he gladly did, although he was 
 compelled on account of ill-health to resign in 
 the winter of 1861-2. In politics he continues a 
 Republican, and keeps up another family tradi- 
 
 tion in his devoted adherence to the Presbyterian 
 Church. 
 
 He married December 21, 1848, Miss Mary 
 Cabell Breckinridge, daughter of Rev. Robert J. 
 Breckinridge, D. D., LL.D., and granddaughter 
 of Attorney-General and Senator John Breckin- 
 ridge, and of General Francis Preston. They have 
 two living sons who, though still young men, 
 have already made their mark. The elder son, 
 Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, D. D., LL.D. 
 (born November 5, 185 1), is now professor of 
 Theology in Princeton (N. J.) Theological Semi- 
 nary. He graduated with the highest honors at 
 Princeton College, 1871, and Seminary, 1876. He 
 also studied abroad in 1872-3, and at Leipsic, 
 Germany, 1876-7. In 1878 he became professor 
 of New Testament Literature in the Western 
 Theological Seminary (Allegheny, Pa.), and in 
 1887, succeeded the celebrated Dr. A. A. Hodge 
 in his present chair. He is the directing editor 
 of the Presbyterian and Reformed Review, an 
 able writer, fine hnguist, and generally recog- 
 nized as the leading theologian of the Presby- 
 terian Church. The younger son, Ethelbert Dud- 
 ley Warfield, LL.D. (born March 16, 1861), now 
 president and professor of Political Science at 
 Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, gradu- 
 ated at Princeton College (1882), studied at the 
 University of Oxford, England, and in Germany 
 (1882-3), and graduated at Columbia College 
 (N. Y.) Law School (1885). He practiced law 
 from 1885-8, when he became president of Miami 
 University, Oxford, Ohio, whence he was called 
 to Lafayette College in 1891. Mr. Warfield ac- 
 knowledges the assistance of his sons in much of 
 his literary work. 
 
 MARTIN J. BROWN, Attorney-at-Law of 
 Newport, son of Frederick Brown and 
 Margaret Miller Brown, was born in Warsaw, 
 Ohio, May 30, i860. 
 
 His father was a native of Germany, who came 
 to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1847 and made his home 
 in that city until 1869, when he removed to New- 
 port and died there in 1883, aged sixty-one years. 
 He was a blacksmith by occupation and master 
 of his trade, industrious and honorable in all his 
 dealings. He was of the Catholic faith, and very 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 527 
 
 faithful in his reHgious duties; was not much in- 
 clined to politics, but voted the Democratic ticket. 
 
 Margaret Miller Brown (mother), now living 
 in Newport in her seventy-second year, was born 
 near Baden, Germany. She is a member of the 
 Catholic Church, and a woman of most excel- 
 lent character. 
 
 Martin J. Brown was nine years of age when his 
 parents removed to Newport. He was educated 
 in a Catholic school at Delhi, Ohio ; at St. Mich- 
 ael's in Cincinnati; at St. Vincent College in 
 Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and finally 
 at St. Xavier College, Cincinnati. 
 
 He studied law in the office of A. T. Root, 
 who was then city attorney of Newport, and was 
 admitted to the bar September 25, 1880, when he 
 began the general practice of law, in which he 
 now has a large clientele and a' lucrative business. 
 He has made a special study of law regulating 
 corporations, and is special attorney for five or 
 six organizations, building and loan associations, 
 etc. He has devoted his time wholly to his large 
 practice and has taken no active part in politics 
 and has sought no office at the hands of the 
 Democratic party, with which he affiliates. 
 
 Mr. Brown was married January 10, 1882, to 
 Hattie Kearney, daughter of James Kearney, 
 deceased, of Newport. She died in 1892, leaving 
 a family of two sons and three daughters : Hat- 
 tie, Mary, Lillian, George and Martin, Jr. 
 
 Mr. Brown adheres to the religious faith of his 
 father and venerable mother. 
 
 WILLIAM HENRY GILTNER, Attorney- 
 at-Law in the Columbia Building, Louis- 
 ville, son of Professor William S. Giltner and 
 Elizabeth (Raines) Giltner, was born in Emi- 
 nence, Kentucky, January 23, 1870. He grad- 
 uated from Eminence College in 1888, taking the 
 degree of A. B., and the following year received 
 the honorary degree of A. M. ; spent two years in 
 Harvard College, taking a special course in law, 
 and received his certificate from that institution 
 in 1890; studied law in Sedalia, Missouri, with 
 H. T. Williams and was licensed to practice law 
 in May, 1891; attended the lectures at the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan during the term of 1891-92, 
 and graduated from that institution in June, 1892, 
 
 and began the practice of his profession in Louis- 
 ville in July of the same year. He was asso- 
 ciated with Augustus E. Willson from October, 
 1892, until March, 1896, when he removed his 
 office to the Columbia Building, making a spe- 
 cialty of real estate cases, wills, etc. 
 
 Mr. Giltner made no haste in entering his pro- 
 fession, but prepared himself most thoroughly for 
 his work. He has made many acquaintances in 
 the city, among whom he is exceedingly popular. 
 
 He is a Democrat from principle, but does not 
 take an active part in politics and has no aspira- 
 tions for office. He is a member of the Christian 
 Church and of the Knights of the Ancient Essen- 
 ic Order, of the Signet Club of Harvard and 
 Kappa Signa Fraternity of Michigan University. 
 
 From the following sketch of his parents and 
 their ancestry it will be seen that Mr. Giltner 
 comes of excellent families. 
 
 William Spencer Giltner (father), ex-president 
 of Eminence College, educator and Christian 
 minister, son of John Giltner and Rosanna Sid- 
 ner, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, 
 May 18, 1827; was educated in Woodland 
 Academy in Fayette County, and in Bethany 
 College, West Virginia, from which he grad- 
 uated in 1852, and was chosen valedictorian 
 from a class of eighteen. After graduation 
 he took charge of Sylvian Academy in Fay- 
 ette County, and after that was principal of 
 Tubman College in Paris — a school founded 
 by Mrs. Emma Tubman of Augusta, Georgia; 
 at the same time was pastor of the Chris- 
 tian Church at Paris, remaining there six 
 years, and then removed to Eminence, August 
 6, 1858; took charge of the high school, which 
 was chartered as Eminence College, in i860, and 
 had charge of that institution until 1893, when 
 he was compelled to abandon active work on ac- 
 count of failing health. For thirty-six years he 
 was the leading spirit in building up and foster- 
 ing this institution of learning, where hundreds 
 of men and women who are known in various 
 spheres of life for their scholarly attainments and 
 highly moral and religious character, have been 
 educated and prepared for their life work. No 
 man in Kentucky has performed a greater ser- 
 vice for his state, and the college which he has 
 
528 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 established will be only one of his monuments, 
 for Professor Giltner has accomplished a great 
 work in the ministry and in building churches 
 and procuring means to pay for them. Pie was 
 the originator of the plans for building the 
 Christian Churches in Eminence and Paris and 
 other places, and solicited the funds to pay for 
 their erection. He is a man of large scholarly 
 attainments and of sincere religious convictions, 
 self-sacrificing and earnest in his endeavors to 
 promote the cause of education and untiring 
 in his efiforts to spread the gospel. 
 
 Professor Giltner was married in 1856 to Eliza- 
 beth Raines, daughter of Ayelette Raines; and 
 they have six children: Anabel, now married to 
 H. A: Brewer; Lizzie D., a skillful and accom- 
 plished musician, who completed her musical 
 studies in Leipsic, Germany; Leigh Gordon Gilt- 
 ner of Eminence, Kentucky; Robert Raines, 
 president Eminence Roller Mills Company; 
 Frank Carleton and William Henry, a lawyer of 
 Louisville. 
 
 Elizabeth Raines Giltner (mother) died June 
 8, 1894; was educated in private schools in Paris, 
 and was a lady of rare culture and ability, who 
 took an active part in her husband's work, 
 penned many poems of merit, chiefly in memory 
 of her departed friends, and wrote a number of 
 plays, which were enacted by the school, always 
 taking charge of the public entertainments of the 
 college. She died June 8, 1894. 
 
 John Giltner, father of Professor W. S. Gilt- 
 ner, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, 
 March 4, 1797, and died March 14, 1863. He 
 was a member and an elder in the Christian 
 Church, or the Church of the Reformation ; was 
 a friend and associate of Alexander Campbell, 
 the founder of that church, and of Barton W. 
 Stone and others who were prominent in the or- 
 ganization of that denomination in Kentucky. 
 
 Mr. John Giltner married Rosanna Sidner, and 
 they had eight children: Martin, Archibald, 
 Abram, William S., Mary Ann, Frances, Maggie 
 and Henry Clay. 
 
 Abraham Giltner, grandfather of Professor 
 Giltner, was a native of Bourbon County and 
 lived in Bryant's Station when that fort was so 
 frequently attacked by Indians. He married 
 
 Katherine Lighter, a native of Bourbon County, 
 daughter of Henry Lighter, who was a native of 
 the same county. 
 
 John Giltner (great-grandfather) was a native 
 of Maryland, who came to Bourbon County at 
 the close of the Revolutionary War. 
 
 Bennett Giltner (great-great-grandfather) was 
 a native of Amsterdam, Germany, and his father 
 was John Giltner, one of three brothers who were 
 of the body guard of King Frederick the Great. 
 This John Giltner married Katherine Weber, 
 daughter of a wealthy Amsterdam gentleman, 
 who was so indignant because his daughter mar- 
 ried a soldier that he disinherited her, but left the 
 strange provision in his will that her portion of 
 his property should be held in trust and allowed 
 to accumulate for her children's children of the 
 fifth generation, to whom it should be paid. This 
 John Giltner, or Gildner, as the name was writ- 
 ten in Germany, emigrated to New Amsterdam, 
 where he lived, and his descendants settled in 
 Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky. 
 
 Mary Rosanna Sidner, Professor Giltner's 
 mother, was born in Bourbon County, and her 
 father and mother, Martin and Margaret Sidner, 
 were natives of the same county, being members 
 of Virginia families and pioneers of Kentucky. 
 
 Rev. Aylette Raines, Elizabeth Giltner's father, 
 was one of the most distinguished preachers of 
 the Christian Church. He was born in Spottsyl- 
 vania County, Virginia, January 22, 1798, and 
 died at Eminence College, September 7, 1881. 
 His father, Jesse Raines, and his mother, Mary 
 Dodd, were of English ancestry. On the occa- 
 sion of the death of Rev. Aylette Raines, Rev. 
 S. W. Crutcher preached a memorial sermon 
 from the text: "Know ye not that there is a 
 prince and a great man fallen in Israel this 
 day?" 
 
 T UNE W. GAYLE, Sheriff of Owen County, 
 kj son of James and Sallie (Green) Gayle, was 
 born in Owen County, Kentucky, February 22, 
 1865. He received his education at Concord Col- 
 lege in his native county and at Georgetown Col- 
 lege. He left school at the age of sixteen and 
 was appointed Deputy Sheriff and in 1892 was 
 elected Sheriff, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 529 
 
 He was married February 3, 1886, to Minnie 
 Alexander, daughter of Phillip and Martha (Ba- 
 ker) Alexander. She was a native of Owen 
 County, Kentucky, and was educated at Bell- 
 wood Seminary. They had two children : Mattie 
 Belle and Lula, who died June 19, 1889. Mrs. 
 Gayle died December 11, 1891. 
 
 James Gayle (father) was born in Owen Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, June 28, 1825. He attended school 
 until he was eighteen and then devoted himself 
 to farming. He located at New Liberty, in 1865, 
 and kept a hotel there for twenty-two years, when 
 he retired from active business pursuits. He is a 
 Democrat, a Mason and an Odd Fellow. He 
 married Sallie Green in October, 1846. His wife 
 was a native of Owen County and was educated 
 in the schools of that county. They have nine 
 living children: Lula, wife of Dr. Madison M. 
 Riley, President of the Greenville Female Semi- 
 nary, Greenville, Tennessee; Emma Eva, wife 
 of Ben E. Garvey of New Liberty, Kentucky; D. 
 Howard, Cashier of Citizens' Bank at New Lib- 
 erty, Kentucky, who married Jennie Orr; Robert 
 H., Secretary and Treasurer of the Daviess Coal 
 Mining Company of Knoxville, Tennessee; June 
 W.; Walter S., Cashier of the First State Bank of 
 Monterey, who married Sarah Byrnes; Corrine, 
 who married Charles M. Alexander, and died 
 March 4, 1895; James Gayle, Jr., and Albert De 
 Long Gayle. John Gayle (grandfather) was born 
 in Caroline County, Virginia, November 26, 1777. 
 He immigrated to Gallatin, now Owen County, 
 Kentucky, in 1806. 
 
 He was a wealthy planter and large slave 
 owner. He married Melinda Brassfield, a daugh- 
 ter of James Brassfield, a native of Woodford 
 County, and they had ten children: 
 
 Elizabeth, John, Joanna, George, William, 
 Sarah, Robert, James, Melinda and Thomas. 
 
 John Gayle (great-grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He owned 
 plantations and slaves. He married Joanna Wal- 
 den, who was also a native of Virginia. 
 
 Paschal Green (maternal grandfather) was born 
 in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1799, of Eng- 
 lish parents. He came with them to Gallatin 
 County, Kentucky, in 1802. Twenty years later 
 he went to New Liberty and engaged in rpei- 
 
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 chandising. He was a Whig and a Mason of 
 high rank, and he married Agnes Blanton, July 
 4, 1825. She was a native of Franklin County, 
 Kentucky, and daughter of William Blanton and 
 Eliza (Ware) Blanton. 
 
 John Green (maternal great-grandfather) was a 
 native of Culpeper County, Virginia, a planter 
 and slave owner. He married Anna Rhoderfer, 
 who was born in the same county May 14, 1771. 
 
 JAMES W. SAYRE, Cashier of the Sayre 
 Bank of Lexington, son of E. D. Sayre and 
 Mary E. (Woodruff) Sayre, was born in Lexing- 
 ton, Kentucky. He was educated in private 
 schools in Lexington and in the New York 
 French Institute, from which he graduated in 
 1873. Returning to his home, he entered his 
 father's bank as messenger and received a thor- 
 ough training in the banking business, filling all 
 of the intermediate positions from messenger up 
 to his present office as cashier. So indefatigable 
 has he been in the performance of his duties and 
 in his attention to business, he has been absent 
 from his post not more than six weeks altogether 
 during the past seventeen years. He is a gentle- 
 man of broad culture and fine business ability; 
 active in all public spirited enterprises, popular as 
 a citizen, interested in the success of the Dem- 
 ocratic party; is a thirty-second degree Scottish 
 Rite Mason, Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias; 
 a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is a 
 director in the Lexington Savings, Building & 
 Loan Association, an organization that is con- 
 ducted by some of the best business men of Lex- 
 ington. 
 
 Mr. Sayre's wife is a daughter of H. L. Lovell 
 of Covington, and was educated in the Sayre 
 Institute at Lexington, and in the Southern 
 Home School, Baltimore. They have two chil- 
 dren, Willie Louise and Howell L. Sayre. 
 
 E. D. Sayre (father) was born in New Jersey 
 in 1830, and came to Kentucky when he was a 
 boy, and lived on a farm which is now a part of 
 the site of Louisville. After receiving his educa- 
 tion in the common schools, he was employed as 
 a clerk in the foundry of Glover M. McDougall 
 & Co., and after a time went to Lexington and 
 began his remarkably successful and honorable 
 
530 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 career as a clerk in the bank of David A. Sayre. 
 •A more extended sketch of E. D. Sayre will be 
 found in this work. 
 
 ' Mary E. Woodruff Sayre (mother) is a daugh- 
 ter of William Woodruff. Her mother died 
 when Mrs. Sayre was an infant, and she was 
 reared by her step-mother at Henderson and edu- 
 cated in that city. She is a devout member of 
 the Presbyterian Church. The children of E. D. 
 and Mary E. Sayre are E. D. Sayre, Jr., Sydney 
 S. (Mrs. Carey), Mary L. (Mrs. Williams) and 
 James W. Sayre. 
 
 JUDGE WILLIAM H. HOLT of Frankfort, 
 Kentucky, was born November 29, 1842, in 
 Bath County, Kentucky. His father, Joseph 
 Holt, died in that county when his son was an 
 infant. The maiden name of his mother was 
 Miss Fanny Tyler. She is. still living at Mt. 
 Sterling, Kentucky, her name being now Mrs. 
 Fanny Gossett, honored by all who know her, 
 and yet in possession of all her faculties, although 
 ninety-three years of age. Both lines of ancestry 
 are English. Tlie parents came to this state in 
 their early married life from Connecticut. 
 
 Judge Holt received his early education at 
 the common schools in his native county; after- 
 ward attended school at Twinsburg, Ohio; Fort 
 Edward Institute, New York, and graduated at 
 the Albany, New York, Law University in May, 
 
 1862, with the highest honors of his class. He was 
 admitted to the bar May 5, 1862, and in June, 
 
 1863, began the practice of his profession at Mt. 
 Sterling, Kentucky. Here he continued in ac- 
 tive and lucrative practice until 1884, when he 
 was elected a judge of the Court of Appeals of 
 Kentucky. During all this time he avoided be- 
 ing a candidate for any office, although frequent- 
 ly urged to do so, but preferred to attend strictly 
 to his practice, being the recognized leader of the 
 bar in Eastern Kentucky. During the time he 
 was an occasional newspaper writer and was 
 Grand Master for one year of the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows. While not aspiring to 
 office, he took an active interest in politics, hav- 
 ing always been a . Republican. When a very 
 young man he canvassed Eastern Kentucky 
 for the thirteenth constitutional amendment, 
 
 abolishing slavery; was twice a presidential 
 elector; seconded the nomination of Hon. John 
 Sherman at the Chicago convention in 1884 
 and has long been known as one of the Repub- 
 lican leaders in Kentucky. The district from 
 which he was elected judge in August, 1884, was 
 composed of over forty counties, and he enjoys 
 the distinction of being the first and only Re- 
 publican who has ever served his state as the 
 chief justice of its highest court. Of undoubted 
 integrity, untiring industry, fine intellect, elo- 
 quent in speech, he is known and recognized as 
 one of the leading men of the state. Judge Holt 
 is recognized throughout the state as one of the 
 ablest all-round lawyers in Kentucky, and is on 
 one side or the other of many of the most im- 
 portant cases that come before the courts of the 
 commonwealth. 
 
 He was married October 19, 1864, to Miss 
 Sarah Roberts, Gloucester County, New Jersey, 
 who was of Quaker parentage. They have five 
 children, the oldest, M. J. Holt, being a practicing 
 lawyer in Oklahoma, and the oldest daughter 
 being the wife of Hon. A. J. Carroll, late speaker 
 of the Kentucky legislature. 
 
 SIMON BOLIVAR BUCKNER, ex-Gov- 
 ernor of Kentucky, one of the leading states- 
 men of his state and section, was born in Hart 
 County, Kentucky, April i, 1823. He graduated 
 at West Point in 1844, and as second lieutenant 
 was assigned to the Second Regiment, United 
 States Infantry, but was called to West Point 
 the next year as professor of ethics, from which 
 he requested to be relieved, that he might engage 
 in the Mexican war, and this request being grant- 
 ed, he was with General Taylor in active service 
 from the mouth of the Rio Grande to Saltillo. 
 He landed at Vera Cruz with Worth's division 
 in January, 1847, ^"^ in the siege there and at 
 Cerro Gordo, at San Antonio and Cherubusco, 
 at Molino del Rey and around the City of Mex- 
 ico, he bore himself bravely and was brevetted 
 first lieutenant and then captain for conspicuous 
 gallantry. Returning from the Mexican war, he 
 was appointed assistant instructor of infantry 
 tactics in the United States Military Academy, 
 and was thus employed from 1848 to 1855. He 
 
JUDGE W. H. HOLT. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 531 
 
 served in the regular army in the Indian country 
 and elsewhere with a commission as captain. 
 In 1860-61, as major-general, he was chief in 
 command of the Kentucky State Guard, which 
 command he resigned to enter the Confederate 
 army. At Fort Donelson he was left in com- 
 mand after the escape of Generals Floyd and 
 Pillow, and after vainly seeking an armistice, 
 surrendered to General Grant with about twelve 
 thousand prisoners, who were sent to Camp Mor- 
 ton and held six months for exchange. 
 
 General Buckner bore himself throughout that 
 conflict with that distinction and ability of gen- 
 eralship which characterized him throughout his 
 military career, and he determined to share the 
 fortunes of his prisoner soldiers and was taken 
 to Camp Morton, IndianapoHs, from whence he 
 and General Tilghman were soon after trans- 
 ferred to Fort Warren, near Boston, and there 
 closely confined in a narrow prison, where they 
 were denied all correspondence with family or 
 friends. After five months of captivity he was 
 exchanged at Richmond, Virginia, in August, 
 1862, when, promoted to the rank of major-gen- 
 eral, he reported to General Bragg at Chatta- 
 nooga. Subsequent to this his distinguished ser- 
 vices at Mumfordsville, at Perryville, in charge 
 of the defense at Mobile, at Chickamauga, in 
 charge of the Southwest department of Missis- 
 sippi, Alabama and Louisiana, and to the close of 
 the war — during which time he was advanced to 
 the high rank of lieutenant-general — all these 
 enter too broadly with the general history of the 
 war to be treated of in this volume. 
 
 His public career since the war, while he has 
 been disposed to lead a quiet and retired life, 
 has been one of which the people of Kentucky 
 have been proud, and his election to the office 
 of governor in 1887 was largely due to a desire on 
 the part of the people to honor a man for whom 
 they had the highest admiration, rather than 
 from the usual political conditions which attend 
 such elections. His administration of the afifairs 
 of the state was endorsed by men of all parties, 
 and as, after the war, he had no truer, warmer 
 friend than General Grant, to whom he surren- 
 dered in the early days of the Civil war, so he had 
 no greater admirers in his own party than those 
 
 who were of opposite political views. Naturally 
 gifted with a high order of intellect. General 
 Buckner has improved these with a thorough 
 education in the highest institutions of learning 
 in the country, and has largely improved his 
 intervals of pleasure in his Hart County home 
 with study and the perusal of the best literature of 
 the day. Though modest in self-assertion be- 
 fore the public, he is held in high esteem by his 
 friends, and is to-day one of the most conspic- 
 uous figures in the state of Kentucky. 
 
 MATTHEW M'KINNEY, a prominent jour- 
 nalist of Cadiz, son of Samuel and Char- 
 lotte Walker Rowlett McKinney, was born De- 
 cember 26, 1826, in Campbell (now Appomattox) 
 County, Virginia. He attended school at Cadiz 
 and Princeton, Kentucky; left school in 1848 
 and read law with Judge Collins D. Bradley, who 
 was circuit -judge of his district. 
 
 In 1852 he commenced to publish the "Ken- 
 tucky Rifle" at Hopkinsville, which he continued 
 to edit until 1854; was then engaged in farming 
 in Trigg County for five years; from 1 861 to 1864 
 was clerk of the County Court ; was editor of the 
 "Kentucky Yeoman" at Frankfort during the Til- 
 den campaign, and in 1881 he began the publica- 
 tion of the "Telephone" in Cadiz; was a member 
 of the Kentucky legislature from 1873 to 1875, 
 and was elected county superintendent of schools 
 in Trigg County in 1888. 
 
 Major McKinney was married August, 1855, 
 to Jennie B. Watson, daughter of Thomas T. 
 Watson, and they have three children: Mollie, 
 wife of Judge Bingham; Charles, attorney-at-law, 
 and Jennie. 
 
 Major McKinney and his family are members 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 Samuel McKinney (father) was born in Char- 
 lotte County, Virginia, and educated in the com- 
 mon schools ; was a merchant and farmer of Hali- 
 fax County, Virginia; came to Christian County, 
 Kentucky, in 1832; removed to Trigg County 
 in 1838, and was a merchant at Cadiz and 
 Wallonia. He was a member of the Methodist 
 Church and a very ardent Whig, although not an 
 aggressive politician, He died in November, 
 
532 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 1858, and is buried on his farm, four miles from 
 Cadiz. 
 
 Charles McKinney (grandfather) married 
 Miss Watkins, sister of Philip Watkins, whose 
 son, William Watkins, is now on the plantation 
 which has been in the Watkins family since grant- 
 ed them by the Crown of England for services 
 rendered. The McKinney family originally 
 came from England. 
 
 Charlotte W. Rowlett McKinney (mother) was 
 born in Charlotte County, Virginia. She was 
 married to Samuel McKinne/in 1821, and died in 
 1873. She is buried near Cadiz; was a member 
 of the Methodist Church and a woman of lovely. 
 Christian character. 
 
 Matthew Jewett Rowlett (maternal grandfath- 
 er) married Miss Pettuss and lived and died in 
 Halifax County, Virginia. The Rowletts also 
 came to this country from England. 
 
 JOHN WILEY MATHEWS, Cashier of the 
 Bank of New Castle and Secretary of the 
 Henry County Trust Company, son of Caleb M. 
 Mathews and Frances S. Edwards, was born in 
 New Castle, Kentucky, November 20, 1843. He 
 was educated principally in the Henry Male 
 Seminary, under the special instruction of Rev. 
 E. D. Isabel; left school when sixteen years of 
 age and was employed as private tutor in his 
 uncle's family, and in 1863, when twenty years 
 of age, was appointed quartermaster at Camp 
 Nelson, in the Union army, and was thus em- 
 ployed for two and a half years — until the close 
 of the war; in 1866 he was a clerk in the Capital 
 Hotel at Frankfort, and following this was su- 
 perintendent of the Kentucky River Navigation 
 Company, a position which he resigned in 1879, 
 when he was appointed to his present position as 
 cashier of the Bank of New Castle. He is also 
 secretary of the Henry County Trust Company, 
 and is interested in other financial and business 
 enterprises of his city; was mayor of New Castle 
 for several terms, being elected and re-elected by 
 the people without his solicitation; projected and 
 helped to organize the New Castle Cemetery 
 Company; was chairman of the committee ap- 
 pointed by the Bankers' Association in connec- 
 tion with the revising committee of the constitu- 
 
 tional convention (1891-92), which formulated the 
 present banking laws of the state, and was there- 
 by acknowledged one of the best informed bank- 
 ers in Kentucky. He is, moreover, one of the 
 substantial business men of New Castle. Mr. 
 Mathews is a Democrat and is not afraid to say 
 that he belongs to the sound money wing of that 
 party, being able to give a reason for his con- 
 victions. He is a member of the Christian 
 Church, of the Masonic order and of the historic 
 Filson Club, and is active and useful in all of 
 these. 
 
 Mr. Mathews was united in marriage, in 1865, 
 with Yeba Hewitt, daughter of Judge Hewitt 
 of Frankfort, and she has borne him thirteen 
 children, ten of whom are living. The oldest was 
 Mattie, deceased, wife of M. K. Weems of 
 Quincy, Illinois, proprietor of the largest laundry 
 in the West. (It was his great-grandfather who 
 wrote the history of George Washington con- 
 taining the first account of the story of the 
 hatchet and the cherry tree.) The names of the 
 other children of Mr. and Mrs. Mathews are 
 Caleb M., Pryor, John, Joseph, George, Yeba, 
 Lawrence D., Ruth E., Margaret G., Albert K., 
 St. John, deceased, and Joanna, deceased. 
 
 Caleb M. Mathews (father) was born near 
 Staunton, Virginia, and was educated with a view 
 to the legal profession in the old Transylvania 
 University, having previously enjoyed excellent 
 advantages in private schools in Woodford and 
 Jessamine Counties. He began the practice of 
 law in Versailles and subsequently removed to 
 New Castle, where he became known as one of 
 the leading lawyers of that section, and continued 
 in active practice there until the time of his 
 death, which occurred in 1892. He was a prom- 
 inent Mason, and was for many years a member 
 of the Baptist Church. He married Frances S. 
 Edwards and reared an illustrious "family. His 
 eldest daughter, Laura, was the wife of Dr. Wil- 
 liam B. Oldham of New Castle, now deceased; 
 John W. (subject), and Dr. Joseph M., an emi- 
 nent surgeon of Louisville, member of the faculty 
 of the Kentucky Medical College, president of 
 the State Board of Health, and author of a num- 
 ber of medical works. 
 
 Mrs. Mathews, nee Edwards, was the widow of 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 S33 
 
 Hiram Beazley when she married Caleb M. 
 Mathews, and had one daughter, Aphia, by her 
 first marriage, who married Chief Justice Pryor 
 of the Court of Appeals, and died January, 1895. 
 
 John Mathews (grandfather) was a native of 
 Staunton, Virginia, and was only a small boy 
 when he came to Kentucky with his parents. He 
 was a wealthy farmer and owned large tracts of 
 land in Woodford County. He married Sarah 
 McDowell, daughter of Joseph McDowell, who 
 was a brigadier-general on General Washington's 
 stafif, and a member of the Continental Congress. 
 His father was also one of Washington's gen- 
 erals and a native of Virginia. The father of the 
 elder General McDowell and the great-great- 
 grandfather of John W. Mathews, was a native 
 of Ireland, who came to this country and was 
 the progenitor of the Virginia McDowells, and 
 there is a tradition that one of his ancestors was 
 a Gaelic king. 
 
 Wiley Edwards (maternal grandfather) was a 
 native of Kentucky and a grandson of Robert 
 Edwards, who made the ninety-nine years' lease 
 of the Edwards estate, embracing valuable prop- 
 erty in that city and including the site of Trinity 
 Church. Mr. Mathews (subject) has in his pos- 
 session a chest which that same Robert Edwards 
 brought over from Wales when he came to 
 America. 
 
 JOSEPH C. S. BLACKBURN, senior United 
 States Senator from Kentucky, resident of 
 Versailles, was born in Woodford County, Ken- 
 tucky, October i, 1838; educated at B. B. Sayre's 
 school in Frankfort and at Center College, Dan- 
 ville, graduating from Center in 1857. He read 
 law with George B. Kinkead at Lexington, was 
 admitted to the bar in 1858 and practiced law 
 until 1 86 1, when he entered the Confederate 
 army and served throughout the war; resumed 
 practice in 1865; elected to the legislature in 
 1 87 1, and again in 1873; was elected to the 
 Forty-fourth Congress and re-elected, and was 
 serving his fifth term in the Forty-eighth Con- 
 gress when he was elected to the United States 
 Senate in the Forty-ninth Congress, in which 
 position he will remain until March 4, 1897, when, 
 his successor not having been chosen, he will in 
 
 all probability succeed himself. Senator Black- 
 burn is one of the most conspicuous figures in 
 American politics, and a leader of the free silver 
 wing of the Democratic party. His extended 
 experience in Congress and in politics has char- 
 acterized him as a man of rare gifts and great 
 power. He has few equals as a speaker; well 
 informed, of instinctively quick perception, he is 
 formidable in debate, whether in the deliberative 
 assembly or before the people. His powers of 
 elocution are exceptionally fine and his oratory 
 is equalled by few men in public life. Of im- 
 pulsive and ardent temper, behind a genial and 
 chivalrous spirit, he is a general favorite with 
 his friends, whose admiration rarely stops short 
 of the wildest enthusiasm. 
 
 ANTHONY J. CARROLL, Attorney-at-Law 
 and prominent politician of Louisville, was 
 born at Buckners, Oldham County, Kentucky, 
 September 2, 1864; attended the local schools 
 and received valuable assistance from his tal- 
 ented mother in gaining the rudiments of his 
 education, after which he attended Funk Acad- 
 emy, a collegiate school in La Grange, grad- 
 uating in 1881. He then began his successful 
 career in Louisville as a reporter for the Courier- 
 Journal, serving as reporter and city editor until 
 1887, when he was transferred to the Evening 
 Times, of which he was city editor until 1891, 
 when he was elected to the legislature to repre- 
 sent the district comprising the Sixth and Sev- 
 enth wards; continued his work in the Times 
 office, with leave of absence during the sessions 
 of the legislature of 1891-93; was re-elected in 
 1893 and nominated for speaker without oppo- 
 sition and by acclamation in the Democratic cau- 
 cus and was elected speaker of the house, being 
 the youngest man ever elected to that honor with 
 a single exception, and being the first man ever 
 elected or chosen in the caucus by acclamation 
 in the history of the state. He was re-elected to 
 that body in 1895, and had the Democrats con- 
 trolled the house he would have been again 
 chosen speaker without opposition, having re- 
 ceived the Democratic caucus nomination with- 
 out opposition. During his occupancy of the 
 speaker's chair, there was never an appeal taken 
 
534 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 from his decisions or rulings, a fact that can 
 not be stated of any other presiding officer in 
 that body. 
 
 At the close of the session of 1894, having read 
 law while in the newspaper office and in the 
 legislature, he was admitted to the Louisville 
 bar, and became associated in the practice of 
 law with F. J. Hagan, and at once entered upon 
 the profession which had been his choice for 
 years. The vmiversal acquaintance which he had 
 made while engaged in newspaper work, and his 
 wide popularity, having a friend in every ac- 
 quaintance, enabled him to step into a lucrative 
 practice at once. 
 
 His record as a legislator was pure and spot- 
 less, and his reputation for industry and integrity 
 gave assurance of his honesty of purpose. Suc- 
 cess had crowned his every effort, and this gave 
 him a prestige and inspired confidence on the part 
 of litigants. His services were sought and im- 
 portant cases placed in his hands, which older 
 lawyers expected would have come to them, 
 and his success in the legal profession was at 
 once assured. 
 
 Mr. Carroll was married June 6, 1894, to Sarah 
 F. Holt, daughter of ex-Chief Justice W. H. Holt 
 of Frankfort. 
 
 Anthony Carroll, father of Anthony J. Carroll, 
 was an extensive railroad contractor, who lived 
 in Oldham County, where he purchased a tract 
 of six hundred acres of land, upon which he 
 made his home until his death in 1871, aged fifty- 
 six years. He was a native of Ireland, where his 
 father, Anthony Carroll, lived and died. 
 
 Elizabeth Collins Carroll (mother) was a na- 
 tive of Ireland and a highly educated and accom- 
 plished lady. She survived her husband, and 
 died at her home in Oldham County in 1883, 
 aged fifty-one years. Her father, Edward Col- 
 lins, died on his native heath in Ireland. 
 
 JAMES H. HICKMAN, Mayor of Owensboro 
 and one of the most influential citizens of 
 that city, son of Dr. William A. and Burnette 
 (Barbour) Hickman, was born in Bardstown, 
 Kentucky, March 17, 1852. He was educated in 
 St. Joseph College at Bardstown and in the 
 
 University of Illinois; and, after completing his 
 literary course, studied medicine and attended the 
 medical department of the University of Louis- 
 ville, from which he graduated in 1875. For five 
 years following he was associated with his father 
 in the practice of medicine, but abandoned his 
 profession in 1880 to engage in the tobacco 
 business with F. J. Clarke, under the firm name 
 of Clarke & Hickman. This partnership con- 
 tinued until 1883, when Dr. Hickman was elected 
 president of the Owensboro Wagon Company — 
 one of the most successful manufacturing enter- 
 prises in that city — a position which he still re- 
 tains. He is vice president of the First National 
 Bank and has other investments and business 
 interests, but has given especial attention to the 
 management of the afifairs of the Wagon Com- 
 pany. 
 
 After serving the public for several years as 
 trustee of the School Board and as a member 
 of the City Council, he was elected mayor of 
 the city in 1890, and has been twice re-elected — • 
 in 1892 and 1894. 
 
 A man of superior business ability, of un- 
 swerving integrity, of genial, courteous demean- 
 or, he is at once the exacting man of business 
 and the generous friend of all who have dealings 
 or intercourse with him. Nor is his popularity 
 confined to party lines, for while he is a Democrat 
 when it comes to a vote or a political contest, 
 he knows no party in the discharge of his official 
 duty, enjoying the confidence and respect of men 
 of all parties. 
 
 He is a member of the principal benevolent 
 orders, including Knights Templar, Knights of 
 Pythias, Elks, Royal Arcanum and Knights of 
 the Ancient Essenic Order, and is a member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 Dr. Hickman was married October i, 1877, 
 to Adele PI. Jackson, daughter of James S. and 
 Sue (Hawes) Jackson. She was a native of Ma- 
 sonville, Daviess County, Kentucky. She died 
 leaving three children, Virginia, Christopher and 
 William. 
 
 Dr. WiUiam A. Hickman (father) was born in 
 Shelbyville, Kentucky, October 26, 1816. He 
 removed with his father to Sangamon County, 
 Illinois, in 1833, where he remained four years, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 535 
 
 when he returned to Shelbyville and began the 
 study of medicine. 
 
 In 1840 he entered the medical department of 
 the University of Louisville, from which he grad- 
 uated in 1842, and began the practice of medi- 
 cine in Shelbyville. Finding, however, that his 
 practice would probably conflict with his old 
 friend and preceptor. Dr. G. W. Nuckols, he re- 
 moved to Bardstown in 1840, where he was a 
 leading physician for twenty-five years, when he 
 turned over his lucrative practice to his brother, 
 Dr. J. F. Hickman, and removed to Owensboro 
 in 1865 and practiced medicine in that city and 
 vicinity for another quarter of a century, when 
 he went to Springfield, Illinois, to reside with his 
 daughter, Mrs. James P. Radclifl. He practiced 
 medicine there for a few years and then engaged 
 in the drug business, in which he continued until 
 his death, December 20, 1894. 
 
 Dr. Hickman was actively engaged in the prac- 
 tice of his profession for more than fifty years, 
 and was a conspicuous figure in the communities 
 in which he lived, a man of superior intellect, 
 kind hearted and benevolent, with a good word 
 for everyone, and his reputation as a physician 
 was of the highest character. 
 
 He was the leading spirit in establishing the 
 first railroad at Owensboro, and was the first 
 president of the road. He was an active member 
 of the Methodist Church for over sixty years, dur- 
 ing which time he was an exemplary Christian 
 gentleman. 
 
 Dr. W. A. Hickman was married (first) in 1844 
 at Bardstown to Burnette Barbour, daughter of 
 William and Jane Barbour. She was born in 
 Virginia in 1827, and died in Bardstown in 1853. 
 Her parents having died when she was quite 
 young, she made her home with her uncle, Ben 
 Hardin of Bardstown. She was educated in Dr. 
 Atkinson's school in Bardstown, and was a very 
 highly accomplished member of the distinguished 
 Barbour and Hardin families. Ben Hardin mar- 
 ried Betsy Barbour, a sister of William Barbour. 
 
 William Hickman (grandfather) was born in 
 Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1790; removed to 
 Sangamon County, Illinois, in 1833; then went 
 to Springfield, Illinois, where he died in 1874. 
 He married Mary E. Cardwell at Shelbyville, 
 
 Kentucky, in 1813, and she' died in Springfield, 
 Illinois, in 1833. William Hickman was a mer- 
 chant in Springfield and several times a member 
 of the legislature. His father was a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary war, and was present at the siege 
 of Yorktown, and was one of the guards ap- 
 pointed by General Washington to take Corn- 
 wallis to Richmond. 
 
 MRS. LUCY DOWNS, the first white child 
 born of American parents west of the 
 Allegheny mountains, was a resident of Old 
 Town, Greenup County, for over forty years. 
 She was the daughter of Jeremiah and Lucy 
 Virgin, born September 17, 1769, in what is now 
 Fayette County, Pennsylvania, near Uniontown, 
 which was then called Beesontown. She re- 
 moved in 1790, with her parents and brother, 
 Brice Virgin, to Limestone, now Maysville, Ken- 
 tucky, and thence in 1792 to Cincinnati — where 
 she was married September 20, 1800, under a 
 marriage license issued by Gen. Arthur St. Clair, 
 as governor of the territory of the United States 
 northwest of the Ohio. In June, 1845, P^^ of 
 her regular family at Old Town were her daugh- 
 ter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter; 
 she then distinctly remembered Gen. Washing- 
 ton's visit to her father's and a neighbor's in 1773 
 when surveying" what was afterwards called 
 Washington's Bottom. 
 
 WALTER O. BULLOCK, M. D., an emi- 
 nent physician of Lexington, son of Sam- 
 uel R. and EHza Whitney Bullock, was born near 
 Lexington, Kentucky, in 1842. His father died 
 in 1849 ^'^d he was cared for by good and wise 
 friends. He passed through the Sophomore class 
 of the Transylvania University at Lexington and 
 was then sent to the University of Virginia, where 
 he remained until the beginning of the Civil 
 war, when he enlisted in the Confederate service, 
 and was with the army of the West until the 
 close of the strife. He then began the study of 
 medicine, entering first the University of Louis- 
 ville, and from there going to Bellevue Medical 
 College, New York City, where he graduated 
 in 1869. 
 
 On his return home he was appointed demon- 
 
536 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 strator of anatomy* in the Louisville Medical 
 College and remained there for one year; prac- 
 ticed his profession from 1871 to 1875 in the 
 state of Mississippi, and returning to Kentucky 
 was appointed by Governor Blackburn superin- 
 tendent of the Eastern Asylum for the Insane at 
 Lexington, which position he held for three years. 
 He has since been engaged in the active practice 
 of his profession in Lexington. He is president 
 of the Board of Medical Examiners, and sur- 
 geon for the Lexington Eastern Railroad. 
 
 Samuel R. Bullock (father)', son of Waller and 
 Maria B. Bullock, was born in Fayette County, 
 Kentucky, August i, 1817; graduated from Cen- 
 ter College in 1838, and after completing his law 
 course at the Transylvania University, began 
 practice at Lexington. In 1845 he became a 
 partner of J. C. Breckinridge and afterwards of 
 James B. Beck. He was a brilliant lawyer and 
 personally enjoyed the confidence of the com- 
 munity to an unusual degree, as was evidenced 
 by his being made executor of many valuable 
 estates. He died of cholera July 12, 1849. He 
 married Eliza Whitney, who died in 1859. 
 
 The name Bullock has been a power in Fayette 
 County for generations. The famous educator. 
 Rev. Dr. Joseph Bullock, principal of Walnut 
 Hills Academy, a celebrated female school lo- 
 cated seven miles from Lexington, left his im- 
 press for good on the minds and characters of 
 hundreds of Kentucky women and those of other 
 states. 
 
 JOSEPH SAMUEL BOTTS, corporation law- 
 yer of Lexington, son of H. C. Botts and 
 Nannie Felix, was born in Woodford County, 
 Kentucky, September 17, 1865. After the coun- 
 try schools, he attended W. L. Threlkeld's school 
 in Lexington, and was in Georgetown College 
 for five years, but was prevented from finishing 
 his collegiate studies by illness. I-Ie then at- 
 tended the law department of the University of 
 Virginia and graduated with the honors of his 
 class and with the degree of Bachelor of Laws; 
 was elected judge of the moot court of the senior 
 class, this honor being based upon the class and 
 social standing and merit of the student and of 
 the man. He was admitted to the bar in 1886 
 
 and at once began to give special attention to 
 the legal business of corporations, in which he 
 has been eminently successful, and is attorney 
 for the following building and loan associations : 
 The United States Savings and Loan Com.pany 
 of St. Paul; The United States Building and 
 Loan Association of Louisville; Commercial 
 Building and Trust of Louisville; Deposit Build- 
 ing and Loan Association of Lexington, and 
 Fayette Building and Loan Association of Lex- 
 ington, Kentucky, besides which he represents a 
 number of the leading collection agencies 
 throughout the country and many of the leading 
 business firms of Lexington, including L. & G. 
 Straus, Pearson & Clark, Williamson & Bro., 
 Lindsey & Nugent and others. Mr. Botts is a 
 thorough corporation, equity and commercial 
 lawyer, in which line he has been eminently suc- 
 cessful and has proven himself one of those useful 
 factors which have been brought to the front by 
 the advancement of the city of Lexington. He 
 prosecutes his cases with good judgment and 
 with vim and vigor, showing due respect to op- 
 posing parties, and his intense interest in every 
 transaction inspires his clients with utmost con- 
 fidence in his management and his fidehty. 
 
 H. C. Botts (father) was a son of Henry and 
 Virginia Botts, and was born and educated in 
 Montgomery County, Kentucky. 
 
 Nannie Felix Botts (mother), daughter of Jo- 
 seph and Jane Shouse Felix, was born in Wood- 
 ford County in 1839, and graduated from a fe- 
 male seminary in Versailles. She was a highly 
 educated woman and an accompHshed musician, 
 having studied under Prof. De Roode and other 
 eminent teachers. She married H. C. Botts in 
 1864 and died in Woodford County in 1865, leav- 
 ing her only child, the subject of this sketch, to 
 her mother, to whom he owes all of the quali- 
 ties of his noble and useful manhood. 
 
 Jane Shouse Felix (grandmother and foster 
 mother) was a daughter of Samuel Shouse and 
 Katherine Perry. She died in 1894 and is buried 
 beside her husband in the old family burial 
 ground of her fathers. 
 
 Joseph Felix (grandfather) was born in 1808, 
 and was a farmer in Woodford County, and also 
 manufactured bagging and rope and had an ex- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 537 
 
 tensive business with the South. He was a 
 member of the Hillsboro Baptist Church; died 
 in 1867, and is buried beside his wife, near Mor- 
 tonsville. Their children are Elizabeth, wife of 
 J. C. Hall; John I. Felix; William M. Felix; 
 Cordelia, wife of C. T. Dale; Alice, wife of C. G. 
 Skillman; Josiah Felix; Mary, wife of B. P. Car- 
 penter; Emma, wife of L. J. Cleveland, and 
 Nannie, deceased, who married H. C. Botts. 
 
 COL. CHARLES S. TODD, a soldier and 
 diplomatist, son of Judge Thomas Todd of 
 the United States Supreme Court, was born near 
 Danville, Kentucky, January 22, 1791, and died 
 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, May 14, 1871, aged 
 over eighty years. He was educated in the best 
 schools of Kentucky; graduated at William and 
 Mary College, Virginia, 1809; studied law with 
 his father and attended the law lectures at Litch- 
 field, Connecticut, under the celebrated Judges 
 Gould and Rees, 1810; practiced law at Lex- 
 ington, 1811-12; volunteered June, 1812, and 
 was made acting quartermaster of the advance 
 of the Northwestern army; was on Gen. Wil- 
 liam H. Flarrison's stafif, as division judge advo- 
 cate of the Kentucky troops, December, 181 2; 
 bearer of instructions to Gen. Winchester, pre- 
 vious to the disastrous affair of the River Raisin ; 
 upon the recommendation of Gen. Harrison was 
 appointed captain in the Seventeenth United 
 States infantry, and soon after appointed aid 
 to that commander, whose official report highly 
 commended his important services in the cam- 
 paign and particularly in the battle of the 
 Thames; he subsequently acted as deputy in- 
 spector general of the Eighth Military District, 
 then as adjutant general, and in March, 181 5, 
 was promoted inspector general, with rank of 
 brevet colonel of cavalry. Gen. Harrison, in a 
 letter subsequent to the war, to a member of 
 President Madison's cabinet, expressed the opin- 
 ion that "Col. Todd was equal in bravery and su- 
 perior in intelligence to any officer of his rank in 
 the army." 
 
 Upon the disbandment of the army in 181 5, 
 Col. Todd resumed the practice of law at Frank- 
 fort, and in 1816 married the youngest daughter 
 of Gov. Shelby; was secretary of state under 
 
 Gov. Madison, 1816; representative in the legis- 
 lature from Franklin County, 1817 and 1818; 
 charge d'affaires to Colombia, in South America, 
 1818-23; on his return, settled in Shelby County 
 as a farmer; was a commissioner to the Presby- 
 terian General Assembly in Philadelphia, 1837 
 and 1839, when the separation was effected, he 
 sustaining the old school; was vice president of 
 the Kentucky State Agricultural Society for sev- 
 eral years, and delivered the annual address, 1839; 
 in connection with Ben Drake, prepared sketches 
 of Gen. Harrison, 1840, and became editor of the 
 Cincinnati Republican, a Whig newspaper; ac- 
 companied Gen. Harrison to Washington, Feb- 
 ruary, 1841, having been selected by him as 
 United States minister to Vienna, but this ap- 
 pointment was prevented by the death of the 
 president; in the summer of 1841 President Tyler 
 appointed him to the mission of St. Petersburg, 
 which he held until displaced by President Polk 
 in the fall of 1845. At St. Petersburg, and during 
 his visits to the interior of Russia and to the 
 king of Sweden (Bernadotte, the only marshal 
 of the great Napoleon who retained his crown), 
 he was treated with most marked consideration. 
 
 GEN. THOMAS METCALFE, the tenth 
 governor of Kentucky, was born in Fau- 
 quier County, Virginia, March 20, 1780. His 
 mother was the Sally Metcalfe who was shot from 
 her horse, on the 19th of January, 1781, by a 
 British sentinel — whilst endeavoring to make her 
 escape from the Elk Run neighborhood, in that 
 county, where the American traitor. Gen. Bene- 
 dict Arnold, with 1,800 British soldiers, was "ex- 
 ercising the most unheard of cruelty, indiscrim- 
 inately on men, women and children, and com- 
 mitting wanton destruction of every kind of prop- 
 erty." She recovered from her wound, and with 
 her brave husband, a captain in the Revolution- 
 ary war, and "an acquaintance of George Wash- 
 ington," emigrated to Kentucky in 1785, and 
 settled in Fayette, but removed in a few years to 
 Nicholas County. They were poor and humble, 
 in his early youth, young Metcalfe was sent to 
 school only long enough to obtain a knowledge 
 of the rudiments of an English education — suf- 
 ficient, however, to inspire an ardent love for 
 
538 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 knowledge. At sixteen, he was apprenticed to 
 an elder brother, a stone-mason. While learning 
 his trade, his otherwise leisure hours were de- 
 voted to study and to books. What to other 
 boys was labor and irksome, was to him relaxa- 
 tion and full of promise for the future. At nine- 
 teen his father died; and upon him fell a large 
 portion of the burden — to him a cherished iiHal 
 privilege — of caring for his mother and several 
 children. As a mason he built, of stone, several 
 court houses — at West Union, Adams County, 
 Ohio; at Greensburg, Green C-ounty, Kentucky, 
 in 1806 (still standing in 1873), and others, and 
 laid the foundation of that at Paris, Bourbon 
 County, which was burnt down May 8, 1872, but 
 of which his uncle, John Metcalfe, built the super- 
 structure. From his trade and his great earnest- 
 ness afterwards as a public speaker, he received 
 the sobriquet of the "Old Stone Hammer," by 
 which he was familiarly and proudly known for 
 forty-five years. 
 
 In 1809 he made his first public speech. A 
 requisition had been made upon the state to vin- 
 dicate the honor of the nation in the contem- 
 plated difficulties with old Spain. His own fire 
 and enthusiasm were quickly communicated to 
 the crowd, and volunteers flocked to his standard 
 in numbers above his complement. He had twice 
 before raised volunteers for contemplated service 
 against Spain, and now for the third time was 
 disappointed. He quietly dofifed his military title 
 and took up his stone-hammer. In 181 2 he was 
 elected to represent Nicholas County in the lower 
 branch of the Kentucky legislature; and re- 
 elected 181 3, '14, '15, '16 and '17 — in 181 3, while 
 absent as a soldier, receiving every vote in the 
 county but thirteen. In the spring of 1813 he 
 raised a company of volunteers, and at the battle 
 of Fort Meigs was under Col. Boswell, on the 
 left flank of the line on this side of the river, 
 which defeated more than double its number of 
 Indians; his intrepidity and gallantry secured 
 the favorable notice of the commander-in-chief, 
 Gen. Williarh H. Harrison, afterwards president 
 of the United States. In 1818 he was elected to 
 congress, and re-elected four times; but during 
 the last term, in 1828, he resigned to make the 
 race for governor as the candidate of the Na- 
 
 tional Repubhcan (or Adams) party — being elect- 
 ed by 38,940 votes, to 38,231 for the able and 
 popular Maj. William T. Berry, the Jackson can- 
 didate. The latter party elected John Breathitt 
 lieutenant governor over Judge Joseph R. Un- 
 derwood by 1,087 majority. 
 
 In February, 1827, Gen. Metcalfe was chal- 
 lenged to fight a duel by George McDuffie of 
 South Carolina, for offensive language used in a 
 newspaper article; he accepted and named rifles 
 as the weapons at ninety feet. McDuffie, insist- 
 ing on pistols, dropped the matter rather than 
 fight with rifles. 
 
 Gov. Metcalfe served four years in the state 
 senate from Nicholas and Bracken Counties, 
 1834-38; in 1840, and for some years, was presi- 
 dent of the state board of internal improvement; 
 and in 1848-49 filled by appointment of Gov. 
 Helm the unexpired term of John J. Crittenden 
 in the United States Senate. He died at his 
 home at Forest Retreat of cholera, August 18, 
 1855, aged seventy-five years. 
 
 THOMAS HARRIS BARLOW, who was 
 born August 5, 1789, in Nicholas County, 
 Kentucky, and died June 22, 1865, in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, was the most ingenious and celebrated of 
 Lexington inventors. His education was lim- 
 ited. He was a soldier of the War of 1812, in 
 Colonel Richard M. Johnson's regiment. He 
 built a steamboat at Augusta, Bracken County. 
 After his removal to Lexington, he built, in the 
 winter of 1826-7, ^ steam locomotive, with car at- 
 tached, for two passengers, and with power to 
 ascend an elevation of eighty feet to the mile. In 
 May, 1827, it was opened to the public for exhi- 
 bition, in a large room over Joseph Bruen's ma- 
 chine shop, where an oval track around the room 
 was constructed, and the first "train" in western 
 America put in motion. General Leslie Combs, 
 Dr. Wm. S. Chipley and other old citizens are still 
 living who took a ride at fifty cents a ticket. Sam- 
 uel Robb purchased the novelty for travel — vis- 
 iting Louisville, Nashville, Memphis and New 
 Orleans, at which latter place it was burned while 
 on exhibition. In 1827 he built another locomo- 
 tive and sold it to a party who found it profitable 
 to travel and exhibit it. In 1835 another locomo- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 539 
 
 tive — with two upright cyHnders and lever beams, 
 both engines attached to one axle, with crooks 
 at right angles, and upright boilers — was built by 
 Jos. Bruen, for the new railroad from Lexington 
 to Frankfort, constructed of strap-iron rails 
 spiked down to stone sills, which proved to be 
 as unsubstantial as its advocates claimed it would 
 be substantial. 
 
 In 1845, i" the silversmith shop of his son, Mil- 
 ton Barlow, be made a small, rude planetarium, to 
 illustrate the motion of the heavenly bodies in 
 teaching his grandchildren. The idea grew as he 
 studied and labored, and his son and Wm. J. Dal- 
 sem aided him in working out such combinations 
 gearing as produced the minute fractional rela- 
 tive revolutions of the planets. After three years' 
 patient labor, the first fine instrument was com- 
 pleted, and sold in 1849 to Girard College, Phila- 
 delphia. Other instruments were built during 
 the next ten years, and after the exhibition of 
 one at the World's Fair in New York, in 1851, 
 sold for $2,000 each; two of the larger size to 
 Congress for the Military Academy at West 
 Point, N. Y., and the Naval Academy at Annapo- 
 lis, Maryland, and one to the city of New Or- 
 leans — besides a number of smaller ones to col- 
 leges and public institutions. Thus has Ken- 
 tucky the honor of presenting to the scientific 
 world the only perfect instrument to show the 
 motions of the solar system — the dates of all 
 eclipses, of the transits of Mercury and Venus, 
 and every other suggested problem during hun- 
 dreds of years, that scientific men were curious to 
 test it. It is one of the most exact and wonderful 
 combinations of machinery ever made. 
 
 In 1840, Mr. Barlow had invented a rifled can- 
 non, and made a model, but laid it aside. In 1855, 
 encouraged by the liberality of Congress, in buy- 
 ing two of his planetariums, he obtained for his 
 gun a patent, with the most comprehensive 
 claims. Congress appropriated $3,000 for an ex- 
 perimental gun — which was cast at Knapp & Tot- 
 ten's great foundry in Pittsburgh, and taken to 
 Lexington to be rifled and completed by the 
 father and son. It weighed, finished, 6,900 
 pounds, was five and one-half inches bore, and 
 twisted one turn in forty feet. It then was sent 
 to the Washington navy yard to be tested, and 
 
 developed greater accuracy and range than was 
 expected. Although neglected for awhile by our 
 own government, it attracted the attention of for- 
 eign ministers and agents, and is believed to have 
 originated or suggested most of the rifled guns 
 of Europe and the United States. Previous to 
 this, Mr. Barlow invented an automatic nail and 
 tack machine, which capitalists eagerly pur- 
 chased. About 1861, a stroke of paralysis, from 
 which he recovered but partially, cut short Mr. 
 Barlow's usefulness as an inventor. His son Mil- 
 ton, on returning from the Confederate army in 
 1865, gathered up the fragments of $9,000 worth 
 of planetariums built for educational institutions 
 in the South — which could not reach them be- 
 cause of the Civil War, and which were broken to 
 pieces or scattered by the malicious and destruc- 
 tive spirit of some Federal soldiers — and finished 
 two in elegant style. One of these, by the liberal- 
 ity of the Kentucky Legislature, he was enabled 
 to exhibit at the World's Exposition in Paris, 
 France, in 1867 — as Kentucky's contribution to 
 that grand collection of the products of all civil- 
 ized nations. It received the highest premium 
 awarded to any illustrative apparatus. 
 
 STONEWALL J. DOUTHITT of New Cas- 
 tle, clerk of the Henry Circuit Court, son 
 of Silas P. and Lucy (Clements) Douthitt, was 
 born in Henry County, near Lockport, February 
 22, 1861. He was educated in the common 
 schools and at the Central Normal School at 
 Danville, Indiana. After leaving school at the 
 age of twenty years, he was engaged in farming, 
 and being of a very studious turn of mind and 
 very fond of general reading, he intended to 
 choose the profession of law for his occupation, 
 but circumstances diverted him from this course. 
 He taught for a number of years in Henry 
 County, and becoming interested in politics and 
 being a Democrat, was elected clerk of the Cir- 
 cuit Court in 1887 and was re-elected in 1892. 
 Mr. Douthitt was married in February, 1892, to 
 Nannie Samuell, daughter of Richard P. Samuell 
 and Annie (Smith) Samuell, who is a grand- 
 daughter of Abram Owen. She was born in 
 Henry County and educated in the Henry County 
 Male and Female College. They have one child: 
 
540 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Helen D., born August, 1892. They are mem- 
 bers of the Baptist Church. 
 
 Silas P. Douthitt (father) was born in Henry 
 County, September, 1828, and educated in the 
 schools of the day. He was a farmer and ex- 
 tensive tobacco grower. He represented Henry 
 County in the Kentucky legislature in 1875-6 and 
 again in 1879 ^""^ 1880, having been elected as a 
 Democrat. 
 
 He was married in 1850 to Lucy Clements, a 
 native of Henry County,, where she was edu- 
 cated. Their children were : Erasmus D., Field- 
 ing S., Rhelda, Stonewall J., Sidney T., Lula and 
 Laura. 
 
 John Douthitt (grandfather), whose mother 
 v.as a Helm, was born in Culpeper County, Vir- 
 ginia, in 1785 and died in 1868. He came to 
 Henry County, Kentucky, with his father when 
 he was twelve years of age, passing through the 
 bluegrass region so as to settle near the Ken- 
 tucky river in order to have access to easy trans- 
 portation. During the War of 1812 he was ap- 
 pointed major of militia, but it was found un- 
 necessary for him to engage actively. He mar- 
 ried Theodosia Wilson, whose parents came from 
 Virginia, and the children of this union were: 
 James C, Thomas, Tapeley, Silas P., Plarriet, 
 Ann, Kate, Jane and Betsy. 
 
 Thomas Douthitt (great-grandfather) was a 
 native of Virginia, and was in the War of the 
 Revolution, coming to Kentucky after that time, 
 as above stated. 
 
 John Clements (maternal grandfather) was 
 born in Fleming County, Kentucky, about the 
 year 1800; he was a member of the Baptist 
 Church, a Democrat and a farmer; married Leti- 
 tia Smoot. 
 
 Gustavus Adolphus Clements (maternal great- 
 grandfather) was a native of South Carolina, who 
 came to Kentucky in 1778 and was at Bryant's 
 Station when Simon Girty raided that fort. He 
 was one of the stanch-hearted old pioneers to 
 whom those who came after and enjoy the fruits 
 of their labor owe all honor and gratitude and 
 kindly remembrance. 
 
 John Clements, a brother of Gustavus Adol- 
 phus Clements, was killed by the Indians at Blue 
 Lick Springs. 
 
 JUDGE .GEORGE ROBERTSON was born 
 November 18, 1790, in Mercer County, Ken- 
 tucky. His father, Alexander Robertson, who 
 was born in Augusta County, Virginia, about a 
 mile from Staunton, November 22, 1748, was the 
 son of James Robertson — who, with his own 
 father of the same name, emigrated about 1737 
 to America from the neighborhood of Coleraine, 
 in the north of Ireland. They were a portion of 
 the colony that settled on Burden's grant, in the 
 then Trans-Allegheny wilderness of Virginia. 
 Alexander Robertson was a near relative of Wil- 
 liam Robertson, the celebrated historian, whose 
 nephew, John Henry, was the father of Patrick 
 Henry. 
 
 On August 18, 1773, he was married to Mar- 
 garet Robinson, at the residence of Col. John 
 Howard (father of Gov. Benjamin Howard of 
 Missouri) in Bedford County, Virginia. He was 
 a man of strong mind, sterling moral qualities, 
 and popular with his fellow citizens; was elected 
 a member of the Virginia Federal Convention, 
 at Richmond, June, 1788, and also elected a mem- 
 ber of the Virginia legislature, the ensuing win- 
 ter. With his family he emigrated to Kentucky, 
 at Gordon's Station, December 24, 1779, during 
 the hard winter. Near this spot, at Harlan's 
 spring, the head of Cane Run, he built "the first 
 fine house in Kentucky," and permanently lo- 
 cated. In 1792, he was elected by the people the 
 first sheriff of Mercer County. He died in 1802. 
 Margaret Robinson, the mother of George 
 Robertson, was born April 13, 1755, on the Roan- 
 oke River, in what was then Fincastle, afterwards 
 Bottetourt, and now Montgomery County, Va. 
 She died at the residence of her son-in-law, ex- 
 Governor Robert P. Letcher, in Frankfort, June 
 13, 1846, in her ninety-second year. 
 
 George Robertson, after attaining a good ele- 
 mentary education in the English branches, was 
 sent, August, 1804, to Joshua Fry (then teaching 
 on his farm five miles west of Danville, once 
 owned and occupied by Colonel George Nicholas) 
 to learn Latin, French and mathematics. From 
 this he entered Transylvania, remaining until 
 1806; then spent four months in Rev. Samuel Fin- 
 ley's classical school at Lancaster, Kentucky, for 
 six months more, being his assistant in teaching. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 541 
 
 In the spring of 1808 he went to Frankfort to 
 study law under General Martin D. Hardin, but 
 was disappointed ; returned to Lancaster, and, un- 
 der the direction of his brother-in-law, Samuel 
 McKee, then a member of Congress, studied law 
 until September, 1809, when Judges Boyle and 
 Wallace granted him license to practice. 
 
 In November, 1809, when only a few days over 
 nineteen years of age, he married Eleanor Bain- 
 bridge, who was less than sixteen, a daughter of 
 Dr. Bainbridge, of Lancaster. The young couple 
 set up for themselves in a small buckeye house 
 with only two rooms, respecting which this re- 
 markable coincidence of successive events is re- 
 lated with pride; Judge John Boyle had begun 
 housekeeping in the same house, and while occu- 
 pying it was elected to Congress, 1803-09; Samuel 
 McKee began housekeeping in the same house, 
 and succeeded Boyle in Congress, 1809-17; 
 George Robertson commenced housekeeping in 
 the same house, and succeeced Mr. McKee in 
 Congress, 1817-21; Robert P. Letcher com- 
 menced housekeeping in the same house, and aft- 
 ter an interval of two years succeeded Robertson 
 in Congress, 1823-33. But for Robertson's resig- 
 nation of the last term for which he was elected, 
 1821-23, there would have been no intermission. 
 Thus, four young men in succession began house- 
 keeping in this unpretentious buckeye log cot- 
 tage, and represented that district in Congress for 
 thirty years, with the single intermission of two 
 years. In addition to this, two of them held the 
 Chief Justiceship of Kentucky for over thirty-one 
 years — Judge Boyle from March 20, 1810, to Jan- 
 uary 5, 1827 (seventeen years), and Judge Rob- 
 ertson from December 24, 1829, to April 7, 1843, 
 and again from September, 1870, to September, 
 1 87 1 (over fourteen years); and a third, Mr. 
 Letcher, was Governor for four years, 1840-44. 
 Nor were these all the honors most worthily con- 
 ferred upon these four men. 
 
 After about two years, Mr. Robertson built up 
 a fine practice, and in 1816, when only twenty-six, 
 was elected to Congress against formidable op- 
 position. He was twice re-elected without oppo- 
 sition; but did not serve out his last term, hav- 
 ing resigned his seat in 182 1. He soon acquired 
 distinction in Congress; was Ch^jrm^n of the 
 
 Land Committee and a member of the 
 Judiciary and Internal Improvement Commit- 
 tees; and drew and introduced the bill to estab- 
 lish a territorial government in Arkansas. To 
 that bill John W. Taylor of New York ofifered 
 an amendment interdicting slavery — which was 
 elaborately discussed and produced great excite- 
 ment. The restriction was carried by one vote; a 
 re-consideration had, and the bill finally passed, 
 divested of the restriction, by the casting vote of 
 the speaker, Henry Clay. 
 
 In 1820, Mr. Robertson initiated — instead of 
 the old system of disposing of the public lands on 
 a credit, at a minimum of two dollars per acre — 
 the present system requiring payment without 
 credit, and reducing the minimum price to one 
 dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and the 
 quantity that might be purchased to eighty acres ; 
 whereby any poor man who could command one 
 hundred dollars might obtain a home. He advo- 
 cated its adoption, although in opposition to 
 most of the Western members led by Mr. Clay; 
 the bill passed by a large majority. This measure 
 has contributed more to the advancement and 
 prosperity of the West than any ever adopted. 
 Mr. Robertson's speech advocating its passage is 
 published in his "Scrap Book." 
 
 In 1 81 6, George Madison was elected Gov- 
 ernor and Gabriel Slaughter Lieutenant-Gov- 
 ernor of Kentucky for four years. Governor 
 Madison died a few weeks after the election, and 
 before he was inaugurated, and the Lieutenant- 
 Governor was inaugurated as Governor. At the 
 next session of the Legislature, December, 1816, 
 a resolution passed the House of Representatives 
 for a new election of Governor. This led to a 
 popular excitement which, for more than a year, 
 agitated the state almost to revolution. Mr. Rob- 
 ertson, in the summer of 181 7, published, over 
 the signature of "A Kentuckian," an argument 
 against the "new election," in pamphlet form, 
 which exercised a powerful influence in allaying 
 excitement and settling the question against the 
 new election. 
 
 He took an active part in the celebrated "re- 
 lief" and "anti-relief," "Old Court" and "New 
 Court" controversy in Kentucky. He was elected 
 to the Legislature from Garrard County in 1822, 
 
542 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 and for several successive years, until that fearful 
 contest was finally settled in 1826-7. He was 
 elected Speaker of the House in 1823, but at the 
 session of 1824 was beaten for Speaker by Rob- 
 ert J. Ward of Scott County. It was at this ses- 
 sion that the act was passed to repeal the act or- 
 ganizing the Court of Appeals and to reorganize 
 a Court of Appeals; it was hence known as the 
 "reorganizing act." It was unconstitutional and 
 revolutionary. After its passage, the anti-relief 
 party was near disbanding. Mr. Robertson wrote, 
 and by adroit management had entered upon the 
 journal oi the house, the protest against that act 
 — which had the effect of uniting the "anti-rehef" 
 into an "Old Court" party. It was circulated far 
 and wide, electrified the people, and became the 
 text of the party. Through the influence of the 
 principles enunciated and arguments promul- 
 gated in that document, the Constitution was in 
 the end triumphantly vindicated and maintained. 
 Mr. Robertson was re-elected speaker in 1825, '26 
 and '27. He was the author of the "Manifesto" 
 of the majority in 1826-27, and delivered many 
 public addresses during that contest; his letters 
 and writings were powerfully effective, but the 
 letters over the signature of "Plebeian" and pub- 
 lished in the "Spirit of '76," were peculiarly ef- 
 ficient, and may yet be read with pleasure and in- 
 struction as masterly specimens of political es- 
 says. 
 
 Previous to the nomination, in 1828, of General 
 Thomas Metcalfe, for Governor, the nomination 
 was tendered to Mr. Robertson by a committee 
 of the convention, but declined. Governor Met- 
 calfe appointed him Secretary of State, the duties 
 of which office he discharged for a short time. 
 Judge Boyle having resigned his seat upon the 
 appellate bench, and accepted the appointment of 
 Judge of the United States District Court; Judges 
 Owsley and Mills, after the termination of the 
 contest in favor of the Old Court, resigned. 
 George M. Bibb had been previously appointed 
 Chief Justice. Judges Owsley and Mills were re- 
 nominated by Governor Metcalfe, but rejected by 
 the Senate. Mr. Robertson was nominated, De- 
 cember 24, 1828, and his nomination confirmed. 
 He accepted, with the understanding that he 
 might resign at the end of the year; at which 
 
 time he was appointed Chief Justice. In 1843 
 he resigned this high trust, and returned to the 
 bar and to a lucrative practice. In August, 1864, 
 his name was placed upon the poll books as a 
 candidate for Judge of the Appellate Court of the 
 Second District. This was done only two or three 
 days before the election, by friends who were 
 alarmed at the open interference of the military, 
 in threatening or ordering the arrest of candi- 
 dates who were styled disloyal. In many parts 
 of the district it was not known; yet he was 
 elected by a large majority. An office tendered 
 under such extraordinary circumstances could 
 not be declined; and although then in his seventy- 
 fifth year, he accepted it, discharging its onerous 
 duties with diligence and ability until February 
 2, 1871, when he was stricken down, while ac- 
 tually presiding as Chief Justice, with paralysis — 
 the result of too continuously overtasking, 
 through a life of great labor, his splendid consti- 
 tution. Although disabled from active duty, the 
 bar indulged the hope of his ultimate restoration, 
 and was unwilling for him to resign, especially 
 during the summer vacation. But at the con- 
 vening of the court in September, Judge Robert- 
 son, after, as Chief Justice of Kentucky, admin- 
 istering the oath of office to Governor Preston 
 H. LesHe, immediately resigned — an act entire- 
 ly voluntary on his part and then wholly unex- 
 pected. His short address at the time caused 
 many in the large assembly attending the inaugu- 
 ration to shed tears. 
 
 Judge Robertson's death occurred at his home 
 in Lexington, May 16, 1874, in his eighty-fourth 
 year. Although prostrated by disease, and phy- 
 sically disabled, his mind was entirely unimpaired 
 and his mental faculties wholly unobscured. He 
 never sought office, but declined many that were 
 tendered him. After his retirement from Con- 
 gress, General Adair tendered him the offices, first 
 of Attorney-General of Kentucky, and then of 
 Judge of the Fayette Circuit; and as an induce- 
 ment to his acceptance of the latter, the authori- 
 ties tendered him a law professorship in Tran- 
 sylvania University. President Monroe offered 
 him the appointment of Governor of Arkansas 
 territory. In July, 1824, Hon. Richard Clough 
 Anderson, Jr., then minister to Bogota, having 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 543 
 
 expressed a desire to return home if Mr. Rob- 
 ertson would take his place, the mission to Co- 
 lombia was tendered him, but declined, and Mr. 
 Anderson determined to remain. In 1828, Presi- 
 dent Adams tendered him the -mission to Peru, 
 which was also declined. He four times declined 
 seats in the Federal cabinet, of different grades, 
 and twice a seat on the bench of the United States 
 Supreme Court. 
 
 In 1848, and again, 1851-53, he represented his 
 adopted county, Fayette, in the lower branch of 
 the Kentucky Legislature. 
 
 In his long public life he was industrious, dili- 
 gent and constant, performing as much labor as 
 any man who ever held office in the state. His 
 law lectures and political essays, some of which 
 have been published in his "Scrap Book," Lex- 
 ington, 1855, ^^d his legal opinions as contained 
 in the Kentucky Reports speak for themselves — 
 evincing at once depth of thought, laborious re- 
 search, accurate discrimination, and sound philos- 
 ophy. 
 
 GEORGE W. ADAIR, a descendant of Gov- 
 ernor Adair, a citizen of Maysville and the 
 present county attorney of Mason County, was 
 born in that county, and of which he has been 
 a citizen all his life. For twenty years he has 
 practiced law at the Maysville bar, which is one 
 of the best in the state. 
 
 Isaac C. Adair (father) was a native of Vir- 
 ginia, but emigrated to Kentucky early in the 
 present century. He wedded Sarah B. Conway, 
 a daughter of Miles Conway, who was at one 
 time judge of the Mason County Court. 
 
 Isaac C. Adair, the son of John Adair, died 
 when his son George W. was only seven years 
 of age. The latter was thrown entirely upon 
 his own resources, and had the battle of life to 
 fight unassisted. Mr. Adair is a Republican, and 
 is the first man of the Republican persuasion to 
 hold the office of county attorney in Mason 
 County. 
 
 JOHN GORDON BURNETT HALL, Coun- 
 ty Judge of Hopkins County and resident of 
 Madisonville, son of Dixon and Sallie (Henson) 
 Hall, was born in Hopkins County, Kentucky, 
 
 September 23, 1857. His father, Dixon Hall, 
 was born in Hopkins County, Kentucky, April 
 29, 181 1, and during the greater portion of his 
 life was a farmer and merchant. He served sev- 
 eral terms as justice of the peace, one term as 
 deputy sheriff, and in 1878 was elected county 
 judge, holding this office until 1882. In 1883, 
 with his two remaining daughters and his son, 
 Robert M. Hall, and family, he removed to Win- 
 dom, McPherson County, Kansas, and engaged 
 in mercantile business, but in 1892 he returned 
 to Madisonville, where he remained with his son, 
 John G. B., and his daughters until his death, 
 September 29, 1894. He lived eighty-three years 
 and three months. While he was modest and 
 retiring in his disposition, his reputation for firm- 
 ness and unyielding loyalty to his convictions 
 was widely known and appreciated. This trait 
 of his character was especially displayed while 
 he was a county judge in his refusal to grant 
 license for the sale of intoxicating liquors in any 
 locality except upon proof of the necessity for 
 such sale. This arrayed against him strong 
 prejudices and continuous opposition of many, 
 but drew to him friends equally as numerous 
 and determined, cultivated a strong public senti- 
 ment against the liquor traffic and led to the 
 adoption by a vote of the people of a strong 
 prohibitory law, which continued in force 
 throughout said county for ten years, and now 
 prevails in a large portion thereof. He was a 
 member of the Primitive Baptist Church and a 
 conspicuous figure in the religious work of that 
 denomination at Flat Creek. 
 
 Caleb Hall (grandfather) was born in central 
 Kentucky, came to Hopkins County at an early 
 day, took a prominent part in the organization 
 of the county in 1806, the locating and laying 
 out of the county seat, Madisonville, in 1807, and 
 was bondsman for the first sheriff of said county. 
 He died near i860 and was about seventy-five 
 years of age. His father came from Virginia. 
 
 Sallie Henson Hall (mother) was born in North 
 Carolina, July 4, 181 5, and was brought to Hop- 
 kins County, Kentucky, when quite a small babe 
 by her father and family. They came in wagons 
 over mountainous roads, and she was carried 
 for great distances in the arms of her older sister, 
 
544 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Pollie Henson, who was then a young girl, and 
 who died in 1894 at the age of ninety-one years. 
 SalHe Henson was married to Dixon Hall De- 
 cember 19, 1832, and became the mother of ten 
 children, the youngest of whom is the subject 
 of this sketch. She was a faithful member of 
 the Primitive Baptist Church, a kind and affec- 
 tionate Christian lady, whom her friends loved 
 and speak of in highest praise. She died Sep- 
 tember 6, 1873. 
 
 John G. B. Hah was educated in the schools 
 of Madisonville, except a term in 1877 and 1878 
 in the Cumberland University at Lincoln, Illi- 
 nois. After leaving school he read law with 
 Polk Laffoon and William L. Gordon, a prom- 
 inent legal firm of Madisonville, and was admitted 
 to the bar in September, 1879; has devoted his 
 best energies to the practice of his profession 
 until the present time, and has the confidence of 
 his people as a safe, painstaking and conscien- 
 tious attorney. In 1884 he and C. C. Givens 
 established the Hopkins County Gleaner, a week- 
 ly newspaper, which met with a phenomenal suc- 
 cess, reaching a circulation of four thousand 
 copies in fifteen months. He sold his interest 
 to Mr. Givens, and in 1885 went to Kansas and 
 located in Hugoton and assisted in the organi- 
 zation of Stevens County. He was elected first 
 county attorney of the new county in 1886 and 
 was re-elected in 1888. During his first term the 
 county was divided into two factions, which grew 
 very bitter towards each other and engaged in 
 frequent battles. In one of these, which hap- 
 pened just over Stevens County line in "No 
 Man's Land," south of Kansas, four of the 
 Woodsdale faction were killed. The excitement 
 and prejudice and desire for revenge were so great 
 that the enforcement of law was impossible. Mr. 
 Hall's friends were of the Hugoton faction, and 
 although he tried to show favors to neither, his 
 office was of such vital importance in the county 
 seat contests and other county matters, a great 
 efl'ort was made to defeat him, but he was nom- 
 inated on the first ballot over three opponents 
 by the farmers' convention, there being no party 
 lines, and was re-elected. In the following 
 spring, 1889, after the RepubHcans had nom- 
 inated their candidate for district judge of the 
 
 district composed of twelve counties, the people 
 who were dissatisfied held a People's convention, 
 in which Mr. Hall received on first ballot a tie vote 
 with the leading candidate, and within a few votes 
 of a nomination, but was defeated on second bal- 
 lot. In July of the same year he resigned his 
 office of county attorney and returned to his na- 
 tive county in Kentucky, and resumed the prac- 
 tice of law. In November, 1894, he was elected 
 county judge of Hopkins County, and in that 
 respect, as well as in his devotion to the best 
 interests of the community, he is following in the 
 footsteps of his honored father, a faithful and 
 upright judge. In politics he is a Democrat; in 
 religion, he is a member and officer of the Chris- 
 tian Church. 
 
 NEWTON C. SHOUSE of New Castle, sher- 
 iff of Henry County, son of Dudley J. and 
 Mary A. (Combs) Shouse, was born in Henry 
 County, Kentucky, November 21, 1861. 
 
 I-Iis father was born in Woodford County, 
 where he lived until 1840, when he removed to 
 Henry County. For ten years of his early life 
 he was engaged in teaching in the public schools 
 of Woodford, Shelby and Henry Counties. For 
 twenty-five years he was employed in the internal 
 revenue department, performing duties in Henry 
 and adjacent counties in the Fifth Collection 
 District. 
 
 In 1890 he engaged in farming in Henry Coun- 
 ty, near Sulphur, where he has his home at 
 present. He has been a very enthusiastic Repub- 
 lican since the war, and has taken an active and 
 frequently a leading part in the affairs of his party 
 in his bailiwick. He is a member of the Baptist 
 Church and there is no truer, better man in 
 Henry County than D. J. Shouse. 
 
 He was married April 22, 1845, to Mary A. 
 Combs, and has eight children living: William 
 T., Jennie V., James D., Nannie S., Thomas M., 
 Ernest G., Sophronia and Newton C. Shouse. 
 The father and mother of these children have 
 entered upon the fifty-second year of married 
 hfe. 
 
 Thomas Shouse (grandfather) was a native of 
 Woodford County, Kentucky, where he was a 
 farmer. He was a captain under General Wil- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 545 
 
 liam Henry Harrison and fought in the battle 
 of Tippecanoe, in which engagement he received 
 a very severe wound. He was a good and true 
 citizen, and a member of the Regular Baptist 
 Church. 
 
 William W. Combs (maternal grandfather) was 
 born in Henry County in 1801, and was a prom- 
 inent farmer in that county. His wife's name 
 was Mary Sanford, who was born in Henry 
 County, Kentucky, in 181 7. 
 
 Newton C. Shouse was educated in the public 
 schools of Henry County, and in 1881 attended 
 a commercial college in Louisville, graduating 
 from the business department. From 1882 to 
 1884 he had charge of the registry department 
 in the Louisville postofifice, since which time he 
 has been successfully engaged in the leaf tobacco 
 bvisiness in Louisville, and in Henry County. 
 In 1894 he was elected sheriff of Henry County, 
 being the first Republican ever elected to an 
 office of that importance in that county. He 
 has performed the duties of his office with fideUty 
 and to the entire satisfaction of the citizens, by 
 whom he is respected and trusted with implicit 
 confidence. 
 
 Mr. Shouse is a member of the fraternities of 
 Masons and Elks, and is a member of the Bap- 
 tist Church, the church of his fathers. 
 
 He was married May 22, 1895, to Sallie C. 
 Morris, daughter of David Morris, deceased, and 
 Amanda (Ronner) Morris. Mrs. Shouse was 
 educated at Fairmount College, Henry County. 
 
 DAVID CONGREVE LISLE, Postmaster 
 of Winchester, Kentucky, son of Claiborne 
 Lisle and Esther Hampton, was born in Qark 
 County, six miles south of Winchester, June i, 
 1854. He was educated in the common schools 
 of the county and afterwards was a teacher in 
 his native county for several years. He was the 
 publisher and proprietor of the Clark County 
 Democrat from 1883 to 1887, and while in the 
 newspaper work was an active politician, and the 
 columns of his paper were used to strongly advo- 
 cate the principles of the Democratic party. In 
 recognition of his services to his party, his broth- 
 er. Congressman Lisle, secured for him the ap- 
 pointment as postmaster of Winchester in 1893. 
 35 
 
 He is a thorough and highly efficient business 
 man, conscientious in the performance of his 
 duties, and honorable in his dealings; a devoted 
 husband and father, and very popular socially. 
 His management of the postoffice has demon- 
 strated the wisdom of his appointment and is 
 appreciated by the public. 
 
 Mr. Lisle is a member of the Christian Church, 
 an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias. He 
 was married April 26, 1886, to Mildred Winn, 
 daughter of J. N. Winn and Mary Poston of Clark 
 County. She was born December 17, 1865, and 
 was educated in Daughter's College at Harrods- 
 burg, Kentucky. They have three children liv- 
 ing: Mary D., Nick Winn and Mildred. 
 
 Claiborne Lisle (father) was born in Clark 
 County, July 22, 1820; was educated in the 
 county schools, and was one of the original Dem- 
 ocrats of the county. He is a prosperous farmer 
 and a director and vice president of the Win- 
 chester Bank. His farm on which he has his 
 residence is situated about seven miles from Win- 
 chester. 
 
 James Lisle (grandfather), a native of Clark 
 County, was a son of John Lisle, who was one of 
 the early settlers of Kentucky, he having located 
 about a mile north of Boonesboro. 
 
 Esther Hampton Lisle (mother), daughter of 
 George Hampton and Catherine Raut, was born 
 in 1821 and died May 26, 1876. She was the 
 mother of eleven children, of whom the following 
 are living: David C. Lisle, James D. Lisle, Zip- 
 porah, wife of Henry Oliver of Arlen, Clark 
 County; Thomas Lisle, and Minerva, wife of J. 
 N. Hodgkin of Elkin, Clark County. Marcus 
 C. Lisle, deceased, was elected to Congress in 
 1892, when he was only twenty-nine years of age, 
 and died July 7, 1894, while discharging the 
 duties of that office. He was born September 22, 
 1863, in Clark County, Kentucky, and after at- 
 tending the common schools of the county took 
 a two years' course at Kentucky University, 
 Lexington, afterwards studying law at Columbia 
 College, New York. After finishing the law 
 course he practiced law at the Winchester bar, 
 and was elected judge of the Clark County Court 
 in August, 1889; resigning this office in 1893 
 to take his seat in Congress. July 27, 1887, he 
 
546 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 married Miss Lizzie B. Bean of Clark County, 
 who died March 4, 1893, the day upon which he 
 was to take his seat in Congress. They had one 
 son, Claiborne Lisle, who was born September, 
 1889. 
 
 WILLIAM HENRY WADSWORTH.— 
 In the family Bible still owned and cher- 
 ished by the descendants of the first-named, un- 
 der date of 1632, the following memorandum is 
 recorded : 
 
 "This day, Christopher and William Wads- 
 worth came over in ye good ship Lion." 
 
 Of the antecedents of these two brothers, be- 
 yond the fact that they were of English birth 
 and of the Puritan faith, were of excellent repute, 
 and acquitted themselves as became true men, 
 nothing is known to the writer. In this land 
 they took root and put forth vigorous branches 
 in the New England colonies; and if trees may 
 be judged by the fruit they bear, it will be ad- 
 mitted that they must have come of good and 
 sound stock. From Christopher descended 
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whose fame ex- 
 tends wherever the English language is read or 
 spoken as the sweetest and greatest of American 
 poets. WilHam Wadsworth, the younger broth- 
 er, was twice married, and was the father of ten 
 children. The name of Joseph Wadsworth, a 
 son of William by the second marriage, is in- 
 separably associated with one of the earliest 
 struggles of the colonies for the right of self- 
 government, and will live in American history 
 as that of the hero who preserved the charter 
 of Connecticut by concealing it in the oak tree, 
 which ever since has been known as "The Charter 
 Oak." He had five children, the oldest of whom 
 was a son named Joseph B. Wadsworth. This 
 son had a son and namesake, who had eight chil- 
 dren, the third of whom was a son named Tim- 
 othy Wadsworth, who was the father of eleven 
 children. Rhoda Wadsworth, the youngest child 
 of Timothy, married Dr. Samuel B. Barlow, and 
 was the mother of the late S. L. M. Barlow of 
 New York City, so well known as an able lawyer, 
 a successful financier, and a liberal patron of 
 art and literature. The youngest son of Timothy 
 was the late Adna A, Wadsworth, who was born 
 
 in Hartford, Connecticut, on the 4tn of May, 
 1795. He married in early life Mary Williams 
 Ramsdell, daughter of Robert W. and Prudence 
 Ramsdell of Hartford. Adna A. Wadsworth 
 came to the West when a very young man, and 
 located in Maysville, where he lived the rest of 
 the days allotted to him in such a manner as to 
 win the respect of all who knew him. Without 
 the advantage of an academic or collegiate educa- 
 tion, he was yet a man of intelligence and in- 
 formation, as well as one of strong natural sense. 
 He did not accumulate riches, nor even an inde- 
 pendence, but he left to his only son the more 
 valuable inheritance of manliness, self reliance, 
 courage, integrity and an honorable character. 
 He was long the marshal of Maysville, and made 
 an efficient and fearless officer. His wife died 
 in 1824, at the age of twenty-three years, leaving 
 a son, William Henry Wadsworth. He married 
 a second time, but both his children by the sec- 
 ond wife died in infancy. 
 
 William Henry Wadsworth, the subject of this 
 sketch, was born in Maysville, Kentucky, on July 
 4, 1 82 1. Upon the early death of his mother, 
 the little boy found a home in the family of 
 David Smith, who lived a short distance from 
 Maysville, on the trace beaten in the prehistoric 
 ages by the bufifalo in their roamings from the 
 prairies of central Ohio to the salt springs of 
 Kentucky. It was while he lived at this place, 
 the playmate of the young daughters of Mr. 
 Smith, who admired his grace and brightness, 
 and whom he never ceased to hold in kindly re- 
 gard, that he was seized with the ambition, and 
 revealed to them his purpose, to own the spot 
 overlooking the beautiful river, which he finally 
 purchased, and where the end of life came to him. 
 To his remaining parent he was an object at 
 once of aflfection and pride; appreciating the 
 value of the opportunities which had been denied 
 to himself, the elder Wadsworth made exertions 
 to have his son well educated. The boy was 
 sent to the best schools to be found in the 
 locality in which he Hved. At first to a country 
 school on Tuckahoe Ridge, where he had as his 
 playfellows and classmates the sons and daugh- 
 ters of the Virginian farmers who owned and 
 occupied the lands for many miles around — then, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 547 
 
 as now, an uncommonly fine rural population. 
 This was followed by several years of study at 
 the Maysville Seminary, of which the late Jacob 
 Rand and W. W. Richeson were the principals, 
 and where he had as one of his schoolmates 
 Ulysses S. Grant, whose home was then in Brown 
 County, Ohio. His brilliant talents, his aptness 
 in mastering all subjects with which he grappled, 
 even at that early age, made a profound im- 
 pression upon Gen. Grant, who, years after, in his 
 headquarters at Millikin's Bend, spoke of him 
 to the writer in terms of unstinted praise and the 
 frankest admiration. The collegiate education of 
 Mr. Wadsworth was obtained at the Augusta 
 College, then in the height of its usefulness, with 
 an able faculty and a large attendance of pupils. 
 While of a playful temperament and fun-loving 
 disposition, which remained with him through 
 life, through the years of his boyhood and youth 
 his assiduity in the acquisition of knowledge was 
 remarkable. With a wonderfully retentive mem- 
 ory, quick perception, and great facility of ac- 
 quisition and expression, he did not rely on these 
 qualities, but was at once most painstaking and 
 industrious— a thorough student. It was while 
 attending college at Augusta that a bough was 
 blown from a tree under which he was passing, 
 and, falling upon him, broke his left shoulder 
 and arm, inflicting the injury which left him 
 crippled for life. After leaving college, at which 
 he graduated with distinguished honor, he was 
 for a time a clerk in the dry goods store of 
 James Clarke, then a Maysville merchant, and 
 thus earned the means necessary to enable him to 
 prepare for the profession in which he was des- 
 tined to shine with a light as steady as it was 
 brilliant. His legal studies were prosecuted in 
 the office of Thomas Y. Payne and Henry Wal- 
 ler, and under their instruction. The last named 
 will be remembered as an accomplished gentle- 
 man and one of the ablest members of the Mays- 
 ville bar of his time. Upon his admission to the 
 bar, Mr. Wadsworth did not have to pass through 
 the ordeal to which the young and untried law- 
 yer is usually subjected — that of waiting through 
 weary months, perhaps for years, for his first 
 "case." Loved by his associates and by those 
 of his own age, his industry, thoroughness and 
 
 manliness had also attracted the attention and 
 won the respect of the business community and 
 of the farmers of a prosperous and wealthy coun- 
 ty. Business came to him unsought, without 
 resort to chicanery or doubtful methods, and 
 without accepting cases which the higher class 
 of lawyers prefer to avoid. Almost at a bound 
 he gained the front rank in his profession in all 
 northern Kentucky, and held it, if not without a 
 peer, certainly with no superior, for nearly or 
 quite half a century — no mean tribute to his 
 worth when one calls over the list of able and 
 brilliant men who were his associates or antag- 
 onists in many a stoutly contested battle in the 
 courts. 
 
 In 1853 the Whigs of Lewis and Mason Coun- 
 ties tendered Mr. Wadsworth an unsought nomi- 
 nation as their candidate for the state senate, 
 which he accepted, not without reluctance, and 
 made his debut into the political arena in an able 
 and thorough canvass of the Senatorial District. 
 Such was his personal popularity, and so un- 
 mixed the esteem in which he was held by mem- 
 bers of both parties, that the field was left free 
 to him without opposition, and not only did he 
 draw out the full strength of the Whigs, but the 
 votes of a large number of Democrats also were 
 recorded in his favor. At this time Mr. Wads- 
 worth was a little more than thirty years of age. 
 Those who were so fortunate as to hear him 
 could not but remark that, if he had ever had any 
 of the aiifectations of the "boy orator" or of the 
 "young man eloquent" about him, he had cer- 
 tainly outgrown them. His speeches were ear- 
 nest and animated, yet calm and dispassionate 
 appeals to the reason and judgment of his audi- 
 tors; clear cut, masterly arguments upon issues 
 which strictly concerned them; free from all 
 theatrical gesticulation and stage play, yet deliv- 
 ered with fervor and fire ; without florid or exag- 
 gerated expression, and yet with a sustained 
 beauty and purity of diction and sentiment run- 
 ning all through them from the beginning to 
 the close which was unsurpassed. The term for 
 which he was elected was for four years, extend- 
 ing over the sessions of 1853-4 and 1855-6. Dur- 
 ing these sessions he addressed the senate on a 
 number of important questions, not only draw- 
 
548 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 ing crowded and enthusiastic audiences from the 
 interested pubHc, but never faihng to carry his 
 point and ehciting the most compHmentary opin- 
 ions from his associates. 
 
 Though he agreed with the leading principles 
 of the American party, and actively co-operated 
 with it in opposing the candidates and measures 
 of the Democrats, Mr. Wadsworth never united 
 with that organization. In common with many 
 members of the bar in 1856, he favored the candi- 
 dacy of E. C. Phister, who had been his class- 
 mate and townsman, and who, up to that time, 
 had been a zealous Whig, for the circuit judge- 
 ship. But developments during the canvass 
 forced upon many of the Whigs the conviction 
 that the motives which had induced them to sup- 
 port Mr. Phister would be defeated by his elec- 
 tion, and they insisted that Mr. Wadsworth 
 should become a candidate in opposition. An 
 election to the position would have been no 
 advancement to Mr. Wadsworth, who was then 
 in the enjoyment of a lucrative practice and in the 
 full tide of a prosperous career. But he was not 
 the man to hesitate when duty called or friends 
 demanded personal sacrifices. He threw himself 
 into the canvass with all his accustomed energy. 
 Many Whigs were already committed to Phis- 
 ter, believing him to be one of them; Democrats, 
 in the full persuasion that in the future he would 
 co-operate with them, gave him their full 
 strength; the combination was successful by a 
 meagre majority. The announcement of his ad- 
 hesion to the Democrats, which quickly followed 
 the election of Judge Phister, fully vindicated the 
 course of Mr. Wadsworth. During those years 
 Mr. Wadsworth had been unremitting in the suc- 
 cessful practice of his profession. In northern 
 Kentucky he had no equal upon the hustings. 
 His career as a legislator had been one of marked 
 ability. In the canvass of i860 the momentous 
 issues involved stirred men's souls. Parties felt 
 that it was a struggle for life, and they put for- 
 ward their ablest men. It was at such a time 
 that Mr. Wadsworth was chosen to form and lead 
 the Union sentiment of the state as the candidate 
 of the Bell-Everett party for elector from the 
 state at large. The canvass he made in every 
 district in Kentucky was conceded by all to have 
 
 been one of exceptional power and brilliancy, 
 arousing the Union men to the utmo-st enthu- 
 siasm and challenging the admiration of their 
 most resolute opponents. John C. Breckinridge 
 was defeated in Kentucky; the sentiment which 
 kept Kentucky fast to her moorings within the 
 Union and sent thousands of her sons into the 
 Union army was crystallized during that canvass. 
 It was felt and admitted that the result was in 
 large measure due to the unanswerable argu- 
 ments addressed to the good sense and judg- 
 ment of the people by Mr. Wadsworth and the 
 eloquent appeals by which be kindled and fanned 
 into a flame their slumbering patriotism. The 
 cause he had at heart triumphed through his ef- 
 forts; but it was almost at the sacrifice of his 
 own life; his physical endurance was unequal to 
 the tax made upon it by his mental power; he 
 retired from the canvass to be prostrated for 
 weary months upon a bed of pain. Before he 
 could leave his room one state after another had 
 passed ordinances of secession, but Kentucky 
 stood firm. 
 
 In May, 1861, the Union men of the Mays- 
 ville district, assembled in convention at Grayson, 
 without a dissenting voice, and without an in- 
 timation from him that he desired it, tendered 
 him their nomination for Congress. His oppo- 
 nent in the race which ensued was John S. Wil- 
 liams, who had the prestige of a military career 
 in the war with Mexico, had been a Whig mem- 
 ber of the legislature, and to whom must be con- 
 ceded power and skill in exciting passion and 
 stimulating prejudice. This is not the place for 
 a contrast of two men so utterly unlike. Col. 
 Williams, after a few meetings with Mr. Wads- 
 worth before immense audiences, with their pas- 
 sions at white heat, found that his interests re- 
 quired him to refuse further joint discussions. 
 The majority in the district for Mr. Wadsworth 
 was more than eight thousand ; in his own county 
 it was over fifteen hundred in a vote of twenty- 
 five hundred ; in Col. Williams' county the Union 
 majority was large. The seed sown by Mr. 
 Wadsworth the previous fall bore good and abun- 
 dant fruit in the spring harvest. Mr. Wadsworth 
 was re-elected in 1863 as a conservative Union 
 man. He went to Washington desiring to give 
 
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 the administration a cordial support in every 
 measure for the restoration of the Union and the 
 maintenance of the constitution, and which tend- 
 ed to those ends. While to the end of the strug- 
 gle, and in its every phase, he yielded to no man 
 in devotion to the Union cause, he found himself 
 unable to concur with the distinctive and an- 
 nounced policy of the President and of the ma- 
 jority in Congress on many measures which his 
 judgment condemned as violations of good faith 
 to the Union people in the Southern states, as 
 calculated to prolong the war, to increase the 
 bitterness of the strife, and to defeat the end in 
 view as expressed in the Crittenden resolution. 
 His dissent was frankly expressed and his oppo- 
 sition was openly made, his speeches while in 
 Congress voicing the sentiments of the sincerest 
 friends of the Union in the country and of thou- 
 sands of the bravest soldiers who fought and 
 died under its flag. While the war progressed 
 he was in the field and under fire on a number of 
 occasions under General Nelson, General Green 
 Clay Smith, General Lew Wallace and others. 
 His patriotism and devotion were tested and 
 proved by the severest ordeals through which a 
 man can pass. 
 
 The war over, Mr. Wadsworth, declining a re- 
 election to Congress, returned to the practice of 
 his profession. In 1868 he made a brilliant can- 
 vass of several of the Northern states in support 
 of General Grant, and thereafter continued to act 
 with the Republicans. He was ofifered and de- 
 clined the mission to Austria. The commission 
 was constituted to adjust the claims between this 
 country and Mexico, and questions involving 
 many millions were referred to that commission 
 for adjudication. In cases in which the doors 
 were open for so much fraud and perjury. General 
 Grant was impressed with the fact that the honor 
 of his administration not less than that of the 
 United States, demanded that this government 
 should be represented upon the commission by 
 men of the very highest legal ability and of 
 proved incorruptibility; by men whose personal 
 characters would place their decisions above sus- 
 picion. His choice rested upon Mr. Wadsworth, 
 to whose patriotism he made an earnest appeal 
 that he would accept a place on the commission. 
 
 To this service and in the discharge of this great 
 trust, Mr. Wadsworth devoted a number of the 
 best years of his Hfe, separated from home and 
 family, performing arduous labor which sapped 
 his strength, and at a salary far below the usual 
 earnings of his practice. It was not a reward 
 that was given to, but a sacrifice that was de- 
 manded of him. In very few instances were any 
 of the questions arising in the adjudication of 
 these claims referred to the umpire, Sir Edward 
 Thornton, and in those instances they were in- 
 variably decided as Mr. Wadsworth had pre- 
 viously ruled. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Wadsworth was a third time 
 elected to Congress from the Maysville district, 
 then largely Democratic, receiving the support 
 of more than a thousand prominent Democrats 
 of the district, some of whom had been Confed- 
 erate soldiers, who desired in this public manner 
 to express their appreciation of his worth, their 
 confidence in his integrity, and their attachment 
 to his person. 
 
 Mr. Wadsworth was of a delicate physical or- 
 ganization; it was as if his mental vigor and 
 fire preyed upon his body. He was slender al- 
 most to the point of emaciation. His voice was 
 clear, not strong; his articulation distinct, and 
 pronunciation devoid of afifectation. His man- 
 ner was earnest, at times impetuous, almost to 
 the point of vehemence. His diction was never 
 florid, but was as simple as it was scholarly, 
 chaste and elegant. His speech was never bur- 
 dened with, nor his meaning obscured by, classi- 
 cal and poetical quotations, which, when used, 
 were employed solely as the vehicles of demon- 
 stration. He never indulged in mere oratorical 
 pyrotechnics; when his utterances were orna- 
 mented with metaphor, it served to give force 
 and power to his argument. When roused by 
 the magnitude of the issue, he could rise to a 
 high flight of eloquence, but he was remarkable 
 for the elegance of diction and the elevation of 
 sentiment which was sustained throughout and 
 which distinguished all his speeches. In this he 
 more nearly resembled Mr. Crittenden than any 
 other of our public men; but he was himself, 
 and no imitator of another. The highest faculty 
 of Mr. Wadsworth was his power of close, clear, 
 
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 incisive, vigorous, unanswerable reasoning. He 
 was a good classical scholar and had made him- 
 self a proficient in several modern languages. A 
 lover of polite literature, and a diligent reader of 
 the best authors, his artistic taste was pleased 
 and his lively fancy stimulated by the better class 
 of poetry, of which he was a critical reader and 
 excellent judge. Delighting in flowers, as he did 
 in all things beautiful and lovely, he was an 
 accomplished botanist. There are many who can 
 testify that he was the embodiment of a noble and 
 princely generosity, and there never was a truer 
 nor a stancher friend. It need scarcely be added 
 that he was utterly fearless. 
 
 Mr. Wadsworth was married to Miss Martha 
 Morehead Wood, daughter of Charles Wood of 
 Lewis County, and a member of a numerous and 
 prominent family in northern Kentucky. They 
 were the parents of seven children, of whom 
 Adna A., William H., Charles, John G., S. B. 
 Wadsworth and Mrs. Bessie Clarke are living. 
 Mrs. Wadsworth died December 21, 1891. Her 
 husband followed her on April 2, 1893. He was 
 at the time general attorney for the Chesapeake 
 & Ohio Railway Company in Kentucky, in which 
 position he was succeeded by his son, law part- 
 ner and namesake. 
 
 JAMES WILLIAM FERGUSON, late presi- 
 dent of the Deposit Bank of Paris, was one 
 of the most successful business men of Bourbon 
 County. He was born in Winchester, Clark 
 County, August 25, 1830; and is a son of Abram 
 L. and Mary (Matson) Ferguson. His father 
 was born in Fayette County, and his mother in 
 Bourbon County. Abraham Ferguson (grand- 
 father) was a native of Spottsylvania County, 
 Virginia, who emigrated to Kentucky and be- 
 came one of the pioneers of Fayette County, 
 making his settlement in the eastern part of the 
 county, near Childsburgh. The old Ferguson 
 homestead, containing five hundred and thirty 
 acres of land, is now owned by his grandson, 
 William H. Ferguson. Abraham Ferguson was 
 a very successful business man and became quite 
 wealthy. He was one of the largest slave owners 
 of his day. His father was a native of Scotland, 
 
 and belonged to a prominent and influential 
 family. 
 
 Abram L. Ferguson (father) was born in 1803. 
 For many years he was engaged in mercantile 
 pursuits in Winchester; and upon the death of 
 his father in 1840, from inheritance and by pur- 
 chase of the interests of other heirs, the old 
 homestead came into his possession. He soon 
 removed there, where he lived until his death 
 in 1854. It then became the property of James 
 W. and since of WiUiam H. Ferguson. Abram 
 L. Ferguson married Mary Matson, and they 
 had seven children, of whom two are now 
 living: Robert M., a banker at Lexington and 
 a wealthy real estate owner, and Mrs. Lucy 
 Campbell, who resides in Berlin, Germany, 
 for the purpose of educating her daughters 
 in music. One of her daughters has the reputa- 
 tion of being one of the finest vocalists in Ger- 
 many. 
 
 Noah Ferguson, deceased, a brother of James 
 William Ferguson, resided for many years in 
 Bourbon and Fayette Counties, and was a prom- 
 inent farmer and horse breeder. 
 
 Thomas Matson (grandfather) was a Virgin- 
 ian, who joined one of the early tides of emigra- 
 tion to Kentucky and located on a farm about 
 six miles southeast of Paris, near Bethlehem 
 Church. He was prosperous as a farmer and a 
 large slave owner. The Matsons are of distin- 
 guished English ancestry. Colonel Robert Mat- 
 son of Missouri, an uncle of James W. Fer- 
 guson, was prominent in the late Civil war. 
 
 James W. Ferguson remained in Winchester 
 until he was ten years of age, when, with his 
 parents, he removed to the old homestead in 
 Fayette County, in 1840. He received a good 
 English education in the schools of his neigh- 
 borhood, and continued to reside at home until 
 1856, when he wedded Martha Hume, a daugh- 
 ter of Captain William P. Hume of Bourbon 
 County. He immediately removed to the latter 
 county, purchasing a farm of two hundred and 
 fifty-seven acres, five miles west of Paris, on the 
 Hume and Bedford turnpike. 
 
 Captain Hume (father-in-law), who died in 
 1875, was one of the leading citizens of hi» 
 county. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 Eight children v/ere born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Ferguson: William, deceased; Abram Luns- 
 ford, a farmer in Scott County; Maggie, wife of 
 Thomas Waller of Cincinnati; Robert H., a farm- 
 er of the county; Lucy, wife of J. M. Hall of 
 Bourbon County ; Volney W., James W., Jr., also 
 farmers, and Matilda, wife of James Thompson, 
 farmer. Mr. Ferguson was most liberal with his 
 children, giving each of them from four hundred 
 to five hundred acres of bluegrass land, among 
 the finest farms of the bluegrass region. He 
 owned live thousand acres of land before it was 
 divided among his children. 
 
 In 1889 he removed from the farm to Paris, 
 having been elected president of the Deposit 
 Bank of Paris in 1887. He was a director and 
 one of the largest stockholders in the bank for 
 thirty years, and for several years held the office 
 of vice president. Bourbon County has one of 
 the best agricultural associations in the state, 
 and for six or eight years Mr. Ferguson was its 
 president, always taking an active interest in the 
 success of the Bourbon County exhibits at its 
 fairs. This association has been in existence 
 for over fifty-six years and is next to the Fayette 
 County Association in importance, and for many 
 years its county fair was the best in the state. 
 
 Mr. Ferguson was a deacon in the Christian 
 Church. He had one of the finest homes in 
 Paris. In the latter years of his life he gave his 
 time in a business way to the management of 
 the Deposit Bank, which is the oldest, with the 
 exception of the Northern Bank, in the county, 
 its capital being one hundred thousand dollars 
 ($100,000), and its average deposits one hundred 
 and eighty thousand dollars ($180,000). 
 
 FRANK P. KENYON, M. D., a leading phy- 
 sician of Middlesborough, was born in Ply- 
 mouth, Michigan, March i, 1853. 
 
 His father, Orrin Kenyon, was born in Wayne 
 County, New York, and removed to Plymouth, 
 Michigan, in 1828, when that section was little 
 less than a wilderness ; improved a farm and has 
 been a resident and farmer there all his life, and 
 is now approaching his ninetieth year. His fath- 
 er, Elisha Kenyon, was a native of Wayne Coun- 
 ty, New York ; removed with his family to Mich- 
 
 igan in 1828 and there died at the age of sixty- 
 five. 
 
 Roxanna Fairman Kenyon, Dr. F. P. Ken- 
 yon's mother, was also a native of Wayne Coun- 
 ty, New York, and accompanied her father to the 
 then far West, to which he had preceded her and 
 prepared the way, returning for her. She there 
 met her husband, and they were married, July, 
 1835, and celebrated their sixtieth wedding anni- 
 versary in 1895. She is now in her seventy-ninth 
 year and in good health. Her father was a native 
 of Massachusetts, who went to Plymouth, Mich- 
 igan, and completed the ninety years of a very 
 useful, but uneventful life. 
 
 Dr. Kenyon received an academic education in 
 Ypsilanti, Michigan, and read medicine with Dr. 
 T. A. McGraw, one of the most eminent surgeons 
 of Detroit. He then attended the Detroit Med- 
 ical College, from which he graduated in 1876. 
 He supplemented his very thorough course in 
 medicine by practice and study in the hospitals of 
 Vienna and Berlin, and returning, located in 
 Montague, Michigan, where he practiced suc- 
 cessfully for eight years. His health failing 
 there, he went to Fargo, North Dakota, and prac- 
 ticed for three years; but his health did not im- 
 prove materially, and he was compelled to seek 
 a milder climate, which he found in Knoxville, 
 Tennessee, in the fall of 1888. He had only 
 fairly established himself in that place when, in 
 1889, he was induced to seek a home in the 
 Eldorado of Kentucky, and, with other Knoxville 
 people, came to Middlesborough in the fall of 
 1889, when the boom was on, and finding a 
 healthful climate and lucrative practice, he soon 
 became a permanent and prominent citizen. 
 
 Thoroughly equipped for the duties of his pro- 
 fession by study and long experience, he was 
 at once recognized as a skillful surgeon and ex- 
 cellent physician, and has enjoyed as large a 
 practice as one could expect in a locality so con- 
 ducive to health. He is one of the most schol- 
 arly and cultured gentlemen in the city, a man 
 of influence in the community, and one of the 
 most thoroughly accomplished physicians and 
 surgeons in that section of the state. 
 
 He is a member of the American Medical Asso- 
 ciation, of the Kentucky Medical Society, and 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 was the first president of the Middlesborough 
 Medical Society. He is also a member of the 
 Masonic order, Knights of Pythias and the Mac- 
 cabees. 
 
 Dr. Kenyon was married in 1877 to Gertrude 
 Shattuck, daughter of Nelson S. Shattuck of 
 Reading, Michigan. 
 
 HUGH B. PHILLIPS, one of the most sub- 
 stantial business men of Owensboro, was 
 born in Meade County, Kentucky, March 8, 
 
 1833- 
 
 He began business life as a commission and 
 dry, goods, grocer and produce merchant in 
 Brandenburg in 1857 with Captain J. M. Phillips, 
 remaining there until 1864, when he removed to 
 Lebanon and engaged in general merchandising 
 and commission business, in which his brother, 
 James G. Phillips, joined him, forming the firm 
 of Phillips & Bros.; was also a member of the 
 firms of H. B. Phillips & Company, and J. G. 
 Phillips & Company, merchants, in Columbia, 
 Adair County ; also of the firm of Hoskin, Bryant 
 & Company, in Campbellsville, Taylor County; 
 was interested in merchandising in Rockcastle 
 with his brother (1881); was interested in min- 
 ing at Livingston, Rockcastle County, at the 
 same time; is a member of the firm of Phillip & 
 Matthews at Owensboro, Kentucky, which is en- 
 gaged in exporting tobacco to European mark- 
 ets, and is now a member of the firm of Phillips 
 Brothers & McAtee, the largest wholesale and 
 retail merchandising establishment of that city. 
 
 Mr. Phillips is a man of extraordinary execu- 
 tive ability, as may be inferred from the fact that 
 he has made a success of every undertaking. Few 
 men have larger or more diversified interests, and 
 yet he has conducted them all, with the aid of 
 his competent associates, in a manner that has 
 proved him one of the finest business men in the 
 state. He has traveled extensively in the United 
 States and in Europe, Cuba and Canada, and 
 although denied even an ordinary education in 
 his younger days, he has gained by reading and 
 observation a fund of information and a knowl- 
 edge of affairs which few men possess. 
 
 Mr. Phillips was married (first) in 1862 to Liz- 
 zie Seymour, daughter of Austin Seymour; and 
 
 she was the mother of six children: Annie, wife 
 of John McChord ; Rosa L., wife of W. H. John- 
 son; Julia, wife of John Polk; Minnie, married 
 (first) Ray Edmunds, (second) Rev. Fred Hale; 
 Hugh B., died October, 1890; Carrie, wife of O. 
 W. Thomas of Lebanon, Kentucky; and Sey- 
 mour. 
 
 Mr. Phillips was married (second) February 4, 
 1896, to Elizabeth H. Solomon of St. Louis, Mis- 
 souri. 
 
 Thomas Phillips (father) was born in Wash- 
 ington County, Kentucky, in 1793, and died in 
 Meade City, in 1847. He spent most of his life in 
 farming; married Julia Maxwell, who was born 
 near Lebanon, and died in Meade County in 
 1840. They were members of the Baptist Church 
 and were noted for their religious convictions and 
 good citizenship. They had nine children: Ap- 
 poHne, who married John Hall; Elizabeth, mar- 
 ried Jabez Durham; Mary, married William Hen- 
 dricks; Sarah, married J. S. Cox; Thomas; Cap- 
 tain Joseph M., now of Chicago; James G.; Wil- 
 liam D. and Hugh B. Phillips, the principal sub- 
 ject of this sketch. 
 
 Thomas Phillips (grandfather), a native of Vir- 
 ginia, of Scotch-Irish parentage, came to Wash- 
 ington County, Kentucky, and cleared a farm 
 upon which he spent the remainder of his days. 
 He was one of the pioneers of the state; settled 
 on Hardin's Creek, Washington County, and the 
 residence which he built over one hundred years 
 ago is now m a good state of preservation, being 
 first built of logs and since weatherboarded. 
 
 JOHN W. LEWIS, Member of Congress and 
 distinguished lawyer of Springfield, son of 
 William and Ann (Carlile) Lewis, was born in 
 Green County, Kentucky, October 14, 1841. He 
 graduated from Center College, Danville, Ken- 
 tucky, in 1862, and in that same year began to 
 study law at Greensburg, and was admitted to the 
 bar in 1863. He remained in Greensburg until 
 1869, and then removed to Springfield, Ken- 
 tucky, and formed a partnership with Hon. R. 
 J. Browne. In 1867 he was the candidate of the 
 third party in Green and Taylor Counties for rep- 
 resentative in the state legislature, and in a strong 
 Democratic district was defeated by only 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 eig-hteen votes. The third party was composed 
 of Union men in Kentucky who refused to join 
 the Democratic ranks. In 1874 he was Repub- 
 Hcan candidate for commonwealth attorney of 
 his district, and in 1876 was Repubhcan candi- 
 date for Congress in the Fourth District, and 
 again defeated. His presidential vote was cast 
 for General McClellan in 1864, and in 1894 Mr. 
 Lewis was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress 
 as a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Lewis is an able lawyer, indefatigable in 
 the practice of his profession, and punctilious to 
 the extreme in the honorable discharge of its 
 responsibilities. He is a painstaking attorney, 
 keenly alive to the interests of his clients, and 
 the entire community has confidence in the effi- 
 ciency of his leg-al methods. Mr. Lewis is a 
 warm hearted man, devoted to his family and 
 true to his friends. He is a man of fine con- 
 versational powers and of many prepossessing 
 social qualities. Although an enthusiastic and 
 uncompromising partisan, there is a vein of sen- 
 timent in his nature that enables him to recognize 
 the better part of every man's nature, irrespective 
 of politics and environment. No good thing in 
 literature, either humorous or pathetic; no bril- 
 liant leadership in the field or in the House of 
 Representatives, whether found in political com- 
 rade or in foe, is lost to Mr. Lewis through preju- 
 dice or narrow partisan conception. The follow- 
 ing clipping from a leading paper in Kentucky 
 will show the estimation in which he is held 
 in his native state: 
 
 "There are but few Republicans in Kentucky 
 whose names produce as pleasurable a sensation 
 as that of John W. Lewis. Fighting the battles 
 of the party, when it was apparently a hopeless 
 minority, and when he was but a youth, he has 
 grown in the esteem and affection of his country- 
 men, until the new party is a great party and John 
 W. Lewis one of its trusted leaders. At all times, 
 his word has been his bond, and it has never been 
 forfeited. Political allies as well as opponents, 
 alike, accord to him the courage of his convic- 
 tions and that attribute of true manhood which 
 could never, under any circumstances, do an un- 
 worthy act. 
 
 "His friends here who have known him through 
 
 many years, would take his word, concerning any 
 measure, however important, or regardless of 
 what it might portend. If personal and moral 
 courage added to intellectual ability of high or- 
 der, and the qualities of an orator at once per- 
 suasive and convincing, be passports to a great 
 place, then John W. Lewis possesses the quali- 
 fications to represent Kentucky in the United 
 States Senate." 
 
 Mr. Lewis was married June 20, 1877, to Eliza- 
 beth Philips, daughter of James G. Philips, of 
 Lebanon, and they have one child, a daughter. 
 Wm. Lewis (father) was a native of Pittsylvania 
 County, Virginia, and followed mercantile pur- 
 suits. He was a man of strong personality, with 
 mental qualities of a high order and fine business 
 ability. No man in the private walks of life ever 
 stood deservedly higher. 
 
 He married Ann Carlile, daughter of Wm. 
 Carlile of Green County. She is a most exem- 
 plary woman, kind, sympathetic, intelligent and a 
 devoted Christian. 
 
 Her father, Wm. Carlile, was a farmer of 
 Green County, energetic and prosperous, and a 
 ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church (North), 
 a very influential man in his county and church 
 connection. 
 
 EDWARD BILTZ, Mayor of Newport, and 
 a blacksmith and machinist doing busi- 
 ness in Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in the latter 
 city, June 10, 1848. His parents removed to 
 Newport in the same year, and he has been a 
 life-time resident of the city of which he is now 
 the chief executive; was educated in the public 
 schools; learned blacksmithing with his father, 
 whose shop was in Cincinnati; when twenty-one 
 years of age he bought his father's interest, and 
 has continued the business of blacksmithing and 
 manufacturing in that place with profitable re- 
 sults and increasing trade until the present time, 
 employing a large force of skillful mechanics 
 and doing a high class of work. 
 
 Mr. Biltz has been identified with the affairs 
 of Newport for many years, having served as 
 alderman prior to his election as mayor, and was 
 a trustee of the waterworks for several years. 
 He is a gentleman of excellent business qualifi- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 cations and his standing in the community may 
 be inferred from the honors that have been thrust 
 upon him. 
 
 He was married in 1870 to Miss Sarah Miller, 
 daughter of Peter Miller of Maysville, Kentucky, 
 and they have five sons and one daughter living : 
 Edward P., Charles H., George W., Lula May, 
 Frederick B. and Howard M. Amy E. died in 
 1894 in her eighteenth year. 
 
 Mr. Biltz and his family are members of the 
 Methodist Church South and he is a prominent 
 Knight of Pythias and a member of the Royal 
 Arcanum. 
 
 Charles Biltz (father), a native of Germany, 
 came to the United States when he was six years 
 of age. His parents settled in Pennsylvania, and 
 he remained with them until he was twenty years 
 of age, when he went to Cincinnati and engaged 
 in blacksmithing; removed to Newport in 1848, 
 and is now retired from business in the seventy- 
 second year of his age; a member of the Meth- 
 odist Church and an honored and respected citi- 
 zen. 
 
 Margaret Fable Biltz (mother) was a native of 
 Germany and came to Cincinnati when a child; 
 was educated there; married Mr. Charles Biltz 
 in 1844, and died March, 1892. She was a mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a 
 woman of lovely Christian character. 
 
 GEORGE S. FULTON of Bardstown, able 
 lawyer, distinguished citizen and state sen- 
 ator, son of Samuel S. Fulton and Margaret 
 Anderson, is a native of Spencer County. 
 
 His father was born in Washington County, 
 Pennsylvania, March 8, 1814, and was reared 
 and educated in his native county, taking his 
 collegiate course in Washington College. In his 
 earlier years he was a teacher and gained con- 
 siderable distinction as an educator. Coming to 
 Kentucky in 1838, he taught in Jefif arson County 
 for two years, following whicli he removed to 
 Spencer County in 1840, remaining there until 
 1848, when he returned to Jefferson County, and 
 two years later removed to Nelson County and 
 located on a farm near Bloomfield, where he 
 made his home, and followed farming until his 
 death, which occurred February 12, 1880. 
 
 Senator Fulton (grandfather) was a native of 
 Washington County, Pennsylvania, and was a 
 captain in the Revolutionary war. 
 
 Margaret Anderson Fulton (mother) was born 
 in Lincoln County, Kentucky, October 16, 1816, 
 and died in Nelson County, June 17, 1877. Her 
 father, John Anderson, was one of the pioneers 
 of Nelson County, and for a number of years 
 a merchant in Bloomfield, where he died about 
 1826. 
 
 The children of Samuel S. and Margaret An- 
 derson Fulton were Mary, wife of Bodine Mc- 
 Clasky, who died May 2, 1896; George S., the 
 subject of this sketch; Eugene, deceased; John 
 A., formerly judge of the Nelson County Court, 
 now chief deputy collector of internal revenue at 
 Louisville ; Samuel and W. A. Fulton of Florida. 
 
 George S. Fulton was born in Taylorsville, 
 Spencer County, Kentucky, April 27, 1847. 
 While he was quite young his father removed to 
 his farm near Bloomfield and there the son "got 
 his raisin' " and his primary education, inciden- 
 tally gaining a practical knowledge of the science 
 of farming. At the age of seventeen he entered 
 Forest Home Academy in Jefferson County, in 
 which school he finished his course in one year, 
 for in this and in all of his school duties, he 
 received valuable assistance from his father, who 
 instructed him in the classics and higher math- 
 ematics ; and in these he had anticipated the work 
 in the academy, which enabled him to complete 
 the course in much less time than is usually re- 
 quired by less favored pupils. 
 
 After quitting school he was engaged in teach- 
 ing in Nelson County, and later had charge of the 
 Covington Institute at Springfield for one year. 
 He then (1868) began reading law, and in 1869 
 entered the law department of the University of 
 Louisville, from which he graduated in 1872. 
 He opened his office in Bardstown, May 9, 1873, 
 and began a successful career, practicing in the 
 courts of Nelson and adjacent counties, and to- 
 day occupies a place of enviable prominence 
 among the votaries of the law. 
 
 For twenty-three years or more he has labored 
 with perseverance and untiring devotion, ever 
 striving to uphold the dignity of his profession; 
 enjoying a goodly share of the legal business of 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 555 
 
 his section, walking uprightly, turning aside for 
 no honors or emoluments other than the legiti- 
 mate fruit of honest toil in the line of his profes- 
 sion. Of course, politics have interested him. 
 Almost every good lawyer finds himself drawn 
 into politics from circumstances or preference, 
 if not from personal motives. But he has never 
 been found scrambling for office. He may have 
 found it necessary to run sometimes in order 
 to keep out of office, and when he failed in 1892 
 and was elected to the state senate, it was no 
 fault of his. The Fourteenth is one of the most 
 important senatorial districts, and there was need 
 of a good man, and he was captured by his 
 friends, defeated for once in his life in his purpose 
 to keep out of office, and having been chosen 
 he obeyed the call. 
 
 He served on the Judiciary Committee and 
 others in which a high order of legal ability 
 was required, and throughout the deliberations 
 of the two sessions in which he served his record 
 is that of a white tablet neatly inscribed with 
 deeds of honor. He took part in none of the 
 questionable methods which characterized the 
 session of 1896, save that he stood unalterably 
 and unfalteringly by the nominee of his party, 
 but counselled forbearance and honest effort for 
 the promotion of the interests of the common- 
 wealth. 
 
 - Mr. Fulton was married October 8, 1874, to 
 Kate R. Adams, daughter of Stephen G. Adams 
 and Elizabeth Ray of Daviess County, and they 
 have two sons, Eugene A. and Stephen G. Ful- 
 ton. Mr. Fulton and his family are members of 
 the Presbyterian Church, in which he has been 
 a communicant since 1867. 
 
 JUDGE WILLIAM E. RUSSELL, an emi- 
 nent lawyer of Lebanon, son of Andrew 
 Russell and Elizabeth Echols, was born in Co- 
 lumbia, Kentucky, October 6, 1830, and was edu- 
 cated chiefly under the instruction of David Page, 
 an eastern man who was employed as tutor in the 
 Caldwell family. 
 
 Judge Russell also attended Hancock Acad- 
 emy, three miles from Columbia, conducted by 
 W. H. Saunders, and when seventeen years of 
 age, enlisted in the Mexican War, and was made 
 
 Orderly Sergeant of the company in General 
 John S. William's Regiment, in the same brigade 
 with J. C. Breckinridge, and in General Scott's 
 command. Upon the death of his Captain he was 
 made Lieutenant and was for several months in 
 command of the company. Peace being declared 
 he returned to Columbia, June, 1848, and studied 
 law under Isaac Caldwell; was admitted to the 
 bar at the age of nineteen and immediately began 
 to practice his profession. His first partnership 
 was with Captain Edgar B. Gaither, who, with 
 Theodore O'Hara, composed the famous poem, 
 "The Muffied Drum's Sad Roll Has Beat," etc., 
 and continued until Mr. Gaither died, and then, 
 with Colonel Nathan Gaither until he removed 
 to Harrodsburg. The Gaithers were cousins of 
 the mother of Henry Watterson. 
 
 He was one of the Democrats, faithful and true, 
 who opposed the Know-Nothing movement in 
 1854-5 and distinguished himself as one of the 
 ablest speakers and most active men in opposition 
 to that craze which swept the state like a cyclone 
 and as quickly came to naught. In 1857 Mr. 
 Russell was elected to represent his county in the 
 Legislature and was one of the really representa- 
 tive men in that body. He continued in the prac- 
 tice of law in Columbia until 1867, when he re- 
 moved to Lebanon, which has been his home 
 and the central point of his professional career 
 since that time. 
 
 In 1886 he was elected Circuit Judge b) the 
 people of the district composed of the counties 
 of Mercer, Nelson, Washington, La Rue, Taylor 
 and Marion. He made the race for Judge of the 
 Appellate Court against Judge Joseph Lewis, and 
 although he carried the city of Louisville by three 
 thousand majority, was defeated. His standing 
 on the bench is second to none and his fearless 
 and determined advocacy of the principles he 
 conceives to be for the good of the state make 
 him a power in politics. 
 
 Judge Russell is one of the most prominent lay- 
 men in the Catholic Church, and, as his record 
 in connection with that denomination abundant- 
 ly proves, has been an earnest and enthusiastic 
 member, giving his time and energies unstintedly 
 to the work of the church. He has held the high 
 and responsible offices successively of Supreme 
 
556 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Vice-President and Supreme President of the 
 Catholic Knig-hts of America, being elected to the 
 latter office in 1883, and re-elected in 1885, and 
 was sent as a delegate to New York in the inter- 
 est of the order, showing the confidence reposed 
 in his fidelity and executive ability. He declined 
 a third term. 
 
 He was married November 14, 1854, to Susan 
 Agnes Elder of Lebanon, daughter of Colonel 
 Sylvester Elder and Elizabeth Dickens, a rela- 
 tive of Charles Dickens. Mrs. Russell was edu- 
 cated at Calvary Convent in Marion County and 
 is a devout member of the Catholic Church. They 
 have seven children: Sylvester; Fannie, wife of 
 Colonel J. B. Watham of Lebanon; Henry, 
 Emma, William Edwin, Jr., Lev. and Echols Rus- 
 sell. 
 
 Lev. Russell (son) was born in Lebanon, Ken- 
 tucky, May 23, 1874. He attended St. Mary's 
 College and read law with his distinguished 
 father and his brother, Sylvester, and was li- 
 censed to practice in 1893. By hard work and 
 close application to the duties of his profession 
 he has obtained a splendid and varied knowledge 
 of law and his friends predict for him a brilliant 
 future. In manners he is as gentle and refined as 
 a woman and his private character is an example 
 of morality. His many good qualities have won 
 for him golden opinions from all who know him. 
 
 Sylvester Russell, another son of Judge Rus- 
 sell, graduated from St. Mary's College in 1876 
 and began the practice of law in 1877. He rep- 
 resented Marion County in the Legislature of 
 1883-4; has been prominent in all the noted 
 criminal cases in Marion County and adjoining 
 counties since he entered upon the practice of 
 law and has been connected with important liti- 
 gation outside of the state. He obtained from a 
 jury a verdict which was affirmed by a higher 
 court for the largest damages ever obtained and 
 affirmed in the state. Like most Kentuckians in 
 the legal profession he is a ready debater and his 
 wonderful reserve force based upon a genuinely 
 profound knowledge of law, together with his 
 indomitable spirit, elicit the admiration and con- 
 fidence of the people. He was married July 17, 
 1878, to Lula Caldwell, who died. She was the 
 mother of four children. 
 
 Andrew Russell (father of Judge W. E. Rus- 
 sell) was born of Scotch-Irish parentage in Lin- 
 coln County, Kentucky, in 1800, and was edu- 
 cated there. He owned a large farm in Adair 
 County and employed the many negroes that be- 
 longed to his wife in cultivating the farm. He 
 was married in 1823 to Elizabeth Echols of Vir- 
 ginia, who came when she was young to Adair 
 County. She was a member of the Baptist 
 Church and her husband belong to the Chris- 
 tian Church. 
 
 Andrew Russell came to Kentucky when the 
 people lived in forts and, of course, endured all 
 the hardships incident to pioneer life. Flora Rus- 
 sell, his cousin, and niece of General Logan But- 
 ler, the historian says, was tomahawked by the 
 Indians. 
 
 In 1 85 1 Andrew Russell went with his family 
 to Dallas, Texas, and located there. At that time 
 Dallas was very unhealthy and several of the chil- 
 dren were taken ill and an elder brother and sis- 
 ter of Judge Russell died there in 1852 and are 
 buried in Dallas. 
 
 The children of Andrew Russell and Elizabeth 
 Echols were : Dr. Timolean, who died in Texas ; 
 Frances, deceased, who married Dr. Rice, and 
 A. K. Russell and Bettie, first wife of Dr. John 
 Clemens of Louisville, Kentucky, both of whom 
 are dead, and Judge William E. Russell. 
 
 Three brothers came to Baltimore, Maryland, 
 from Scotland; one went east and the other two 
 went to Virginia, and one of these was Judge 
 Russell's gi-eat-grandfather. 
 
 Colonel Sylvester Elder, father of Judge Wil- 
 liam E. Russell's wife, was the son of Joseph El- 
 der of Baltimore, and his grandfather came from 
 England with Lord Baltimore, and settled in Bal- 
 timore, Maryland. He was a cousin of Arch- 
 bishop Elder of Cincinnati. 
 
 GUS W. RICHARDSON, farmer and poli- 
 tician of Guston, Meade County, and Dep- 
 uty Collector of Internal Revenue, Fifth District 
 of Kentucky, was bom in Meade County, Ken- 
 tucky, near Ekron, April 25, 1849. He was born 
 and raised on a farm and has always been, and is, 
 a farmer, and yet there have not been many 
 months since he was nineteen years of age in 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 557 
 
 which he has not performed official duty in one 
 capacity or another. He was Deputy Sheriff for 
 two years; was County Surveyor for four years; 
 Magistrate four years, being elected in 1882; was 
 elected to the Legislature in 1885; re-elected in 
 1887 and again in 1889, serving three terms in 
 succession, an honor which had never been con- 
 ferred on any former member, and he was only 
 prevented from serving a fourth and perhaps 
 other terms, by the sentiment in favor of rota- 
 tion in office, and even this unwritten law was 
 sustained by a meager majority of about 100 
 votes. 
 
 The most exciting race of his life was in the 
 primaries of the Democratic party for the nomi- 
 nation for the State Senate in 1892, with Cap- 
 tain A. J. Gross, <then Adjutant-General of Ken- 
 tucky. It was the hottest contest Mr. Richard- 
 son ever had, and with the "machine" in favor of 
 his opponent there were men who winked one 
 eye when the vote was counted and the other man 
 declared the nominee. In Meade County there 
 were one thousand and eighty votes, and Mr. 
 Richardson got all of them except one hundred 
 and sixty-four, which is some evidence of the 
 popularity of the man in his own county. 
 
 Mr. Richardson was appointed Deputy Col- 
 lector of Internal Revenue in 1894, and placed in 
 charge of the bonded accounts with distillers, one 
 of the most important desks in the Collector's 
 office at Louisville; and he is serving his country 
 in that office at this writing, retaining his home 
 and his farming interests in Meade County. 
 
 Mr. Richardson was married December 12, 
 1871, to Alice A. Thompson, daughter of J. H. 
 Thompson and Elizabeth Wimp Thompson of 
 Meade County. Their children are JuHa T.; 
 James Adrian, deceased; Orla Coburn; Gus Al- 
 bert, and Anna Lucille. 
 
 Orla Coburn Richardson (father) was born 
 March 13, 1807, in Whitehall, on Lake Cham- 
 plain, New York, and came to Meade County, 
 Kentucky, with his parents in 1809. He re- 
 ceived only a limited education, but was a man of 
 great natural ability and strength of character, 
 and, like his son, was always a farmer and near- 
 ly always in office, as Magistrate, Sheriff and 
 Representative in the legislature. He was a very 
 
 popular man, and was particularly noted for his 
 hospitality and charity. His house was always 
 open to friend and stranger, and the ragged beg- 
 gar was never turned away without some evi- 
 dence of Mr. Richardson's kindness or generosity. 
 He died June, 1882, having passed his seventy- 
 sixth year. 
 
 He was twice married, first to Hannah Fulton 
 of Meade County; and second, to the widow Rob- 
 erts, nee Mary Shacklette, daughter of General 
 Ben Shacklette. Mr. Richardson's children by 
 his first marriage were David F., Mary, Orla D., 
 Sarah, Hannah and Eliza; by his second mar- 
 riage there were two children: Gus W., the sub- 
 ject of this sketch, and Julia, who was married 
 November 5, 1868, to Benjamin S. Clarkson. 
 
 David M. Richardson (grandfather) was born 
 in Vermont, September, 1765, and died in Meade 
 County, September 15, 1832, in the sixty-seventh 
 year of his age. He was a highly educated man ; 
 was a merchant in early life and, closing out busi- 
 ness, he traded his small stock of goods for a 
 tract of land in Meade County and removed to 
 Kentucky in 1809. 
 
 Mary Shacklette (mother), who first married 
 John Roberts, being left a widow with a farm and 
 a large family, developed remarkable business 
 ability and was a woman of more than ordinary 
 accomplishments. As the wife of Orla Richard- 
 son and the mother of three sets of children, in- 
 cluding stepchildren, she was loved and respect- 
 ed by all of them and she filled a large place in the 
 social affairs of the neighborhood. She died in 
 June, 1876. 
 
 General Ben Shacklette (grandfather) came to 
 Meade County from Pennsylvania about 1800 
 and won his military title in one of the Indian 
 wars. He was a successful farmer and was the 
 first Sheriff of Meade County. He was born in 
 Pennsylvania, but was of French origin. 
 
 ORVILLE MONROE WOOD, Mayor of 
 Carrolton and the leading merchant in that 
 city, son of William Wood and Mary S. Ander- 
 son, was born in Gallatin County, Kentucky, 
 July 3, 1852. 
 
 His father, now a resident of Carroll Coun- 
 ty, is a native of Mercer County, Kentucky; re- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 moved to Gallatin County in 1845, and thence 
 to Trimble County in 1859 ^^^ finally to his 
 present home in Carroll County, in 1892. He 
 has been actively engaged in farming nearly all 
 his life; has been a member ofthe Baptist Church 
 for over fifty years and has always enjoyed the 
 respect and confidence of his neighbors. 
 
 David Wood (grandfather) a native of Virginia 
 of English descent, spent most of the seventy-five 
 years of his useful life in farming and was a resi- 
 dent of Carroll County for twenty years prior 
 to his death. He was a devout member of the 
 Baptist Church and was noted for his devotion 
 to religious principles. 
 
 Mary S. Anderson Wood (mother), now resid- 
 ing with her husband in Carroll County, was born 
 in Gallatin County in 1829. Her father, Richard 
 Anderson, was a native of Virginia, who came to 
 Kentucky when he was a young man and died 
 in Carroll County in 1885, aged seventy-seven 
 years. He was an intelligent farmer and like the 
 Woods he and his house belonged to the Bap- 
 tist Church. His son, Rev. James O. Anderson, 
 who died a few years ago in Kansas City, was 
 one of the most eminent divines in that denomi- 
 nation. The Andersons belonged to an old fam- 
 ily of prominence of Virginia. 
 
 Orville M. Wood was reared and educated 
 principally in Trimble County, remaining on his 
 father's farm until 1879, when he engaged in mer- 
 cantile business in Trimble County, continuing 
 there, however, but one year when he removed 
 to Prestonville, Carroll County, where he was en- 
 gaged as a merchant until 1891, sold out and re- 
 moved to Carrollton, and in 1891 formed a part- 
 nership with M. L. Downs under the firm name 
 of Downs & Wood — in a general fire insurance 
 agency. This firm was dissolved in November, 
 1891, when Mr. Wood purchased the store of W. 
 L. Smith, who was the oldest merchant in the 
 place, since which time he has given his attention 
 to the business of this establishment, now the 
 leading store of the kind in Carrollton. 
 
 In November, 1893, Mr. Wood was elected 
 Mayor of the city for a term of four years and as- 
 sumed the duties of that office in January, 1894. 
 This election was a deserved compliment to Mr. 
 Wood's ability and integrity as a business man 
 
 rather than a political triumph, for he has not 
 sought or cared for prominence in politics. 
 
 He is a prominent Mason and a Knight of 
 Pythias, and has not forsaken the church of his 
 father and mother and his grandfathers. 
 
 Mr. Wood was married February 3, 1873, to 
 Esther J. Robinson, daughter of Samuel Robin- 
 son of Wetzel County, West Virginia, and has 
 one son, named Gideon G. Wood. 
 
 HENRY L. MARTIN, President of the Citi- 
 zens' Bank of Midway, was born in Wood- 
 ford County, June 5, 1848, and is a son of Jesse 
 and Margaret T. Martin. 
 
 He entered the Confederate army before he was 
 fourteen years of age and was a daring scout in 
 Morgan's command, and proved a brave soldier, 
 who was entrusted with many important missions 
 by the military authorities. His brilliant record 
 as a soldier was the index to his successful busi- 
 ness career and his political record is one of which 
 to be proud. 
 
 He gained a national reputation as a repre- 
 sentative of the Louisiana Bounty Bureau, secur- 
 ing the 'sugar bounties, and in that was instru- 
 mental in achieving one of the most pronounced 
 legislative victories in the history of the coun- 
 try. The payment of the bounty meant the re- 
 habilitation of the credit of the sugar producers, 
 and enabled them to make another effort to re- 
 cover from the results of former legislation. This 
 bounty appropriation would have failed, notwith- 
 standing the representatives in Congress who 
 were friendly to the measure, if it had not been for 
 tl;e splendid supplemental work done by the 
 Bounty Bureau, and the indefatigable individual 
 efTorts of such men as Henry L. Martin. A New 
 Orleans paper in speaking of the work of the 
 public-spirited citizens in this connection says: 
 
 "In according the praise in this connection it 
 cannot be looked upon as invidious to say that 
 Mr. Henry L. Martin is entitled to the highest 
 praise for his splendid work in Washington. He 
 made his first trip to that city in connection with 
 the movement to secure the eight-tenths of a cent 
 bounty appropriation, about December 15, 1894, 
 and while he has returned to the city several 
 times since he remained only a short time, and it 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 may be said that he has been on the ground 
 watching the legislative battle ever since it began. 
 And he has not been simply watching the con- 
 test, but has been taking a most active and po- 
 tent part. 
 
 "To his efforts may be attributed directly the 
 splendid work of Senator Blackburn, who so ably 
 handled on the floor of the Senate the bounty 
 amendment offered by the appropriations com- 
 mittee, and whose tact and parliamentary re- 
 sources were such as to thwart the opposition of 
 even such wily, able and experienced Senators 
 as Gorman, Brice and Harris, and while Senator 
 Blackburn was one of the champions in the fight 
 for according equity and justice to the sugar pro- 
 ducers, Mr. Martin was untiring in his labors with 
 influential men in. Congress, and his large ac- 
 quaintance, pleasing address and forceful, concise 
 and convincing manner of presenting the grounds 
 upon which the appropriation for the payment of 
 the bounty were based went a long way toward 
 dispelling doubt and making converts." 
 
 Mr. Martin made his first political race in 1893 
 when he was elected to the Kentucky Senate by 
 the Democrats of the Twenty-second District, 
 embracing Woodford, Scott and Jessamine Coun- 
 ties. When the Legislature assembled he was 
 appointed on some of the most important com- 
 mittees and was made Chairman of the Finance 
 Committee — one of the most responsible in the 
 Senate. His services in that body have shown 
 a very high order of ability. Although the un- 
 faltering personal friend of Senator Blackburn, 
 he must not be set down as a free silver advo- 
 cate. 
 
 Mr. Martin has a very extensive acquaintance 
 in Kentucky and is well known in the South and 
 throughout the country; and his reputation is 
 that of a clear-headed business man of great men- 
 tal activity, with a directness of purpose which 
 insures success in his undertakings for himself 
 and for his friends and the public. He is a gentle- 
 man of culture and literary tastes, and his home 
 bears every evidence of elegance and refinement. 
 
 Mr. Martin was married (first) in 1871 to Katie 
 Brooks of Scott County, who was the mother of 
 four (Children, who survive. He was married 
 (second) in 1886 to Lulie T. Stephenson, daugh- 
 
 ter of John T. Stephenson, of Maury County, 
 Tennessee. She was educated in Columbia In- 
 stitute, graduating in 1880 with the highest rank 
 in her class. 
 
 Mr. Martin is the President of the Citizens' 
 Bank at Midway, near which place he has a 
 beautiful and attractive home and valuable farm, 
 where he resides and where blooded horses are 
 bred.' He also owns a large stock farm near Co- 
 lumbia, Tennessee, and is engaged in the live 
 stock business in New Orleans, being senior 
 member of the firm of Martin, Thompson & Com- 
 pany. He is also largely interested in the David 
 sugar plantation in St. James Parish, and has 
 been very successful in all his commercial under- 
 takings, as well as in his political aspirations and 
 public services. 
 
 JAMES B. M'CREARY of Richmond, ex- 
 governor of Kentucky and member of Con- 
 gress since 1884, was born in Madison County, 
 Kentucky, of pioneer ancestry. He graduated 
 from Center College at the age of eighteen, 
 studied law and graduated with the honors of a 
 class of forty-seven in the Law College of the 
 University of Tennessee in 1859, and began a 
 lucrative law practice at Richmond; aided, in 
 1 861, in recruiting the Eleventh Regiment, Ken- 
 tucky Cavalry, for the Confederate army; was 
 elected major, promoted to lieutenant-colonel, 
 and served until the close of the war, serving 
 with Morgan mainly, and with General Breck- 
 inridge latterly; was married June 12, 1867, to 
 Kate Hughes of Fayette County; was delegate 
 to the National Democratic Convention that 
 nominated Seymour and Blair; elected to the leg- 
 islature for three consecutive terms, 1869-71-73, 
 and was speaker of the house during his second 
 and third terms; was elected governor of the 
 state in 1875 for a term of four years; and was 
 elected to Congress in 1884, receiving a ma- 
 jority over his Republican opponent of 2,146 
 votes, and has been re-elected for each succeed- 
 ing term. Gov. McCreary is remarkable for his 
 wise and systematic methods of administration in 
 both public and private affairs, and for the silent 
 force of sagacious intelligence with which he has 
 conducted the large and complex interests which 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 have been under his charge for many years. Be- 
 sides his law practice and much voluntary atten- 
 tion to current enterprise, he operates a large 
 farm in Madison County and another in Alabama. 
 While speaker of the house, such was the just- 
 ness and fairness of his decisions that not a 
 single appeal was taken in four years. As gov- 
 ernor his administration was orderly and suc- 
 cessful, and yet without demonstration of efifort. 
 The most turbulent wars of factions in the mount- 
 ains were suppressed when the local authorities 
 were defied and powerless. Gov. McCreary adds 
 to natural abilities of a very high order the ad- 
 vantages of a scientific and classical education. 
 He is a lucid, forcible and attractive pubHc 
 speaker, of entertaining conversational powers 
 and most winning and genial temper. Perhaps 
 no man in Congress has more readily and dili- 
 gently attended to the requests and wishes, not 
 only of his district constituents, but of the entire 
 state. Of handsome face and form and cour- 
 teous bearing, his presence always attracts and 
 pleases, while acquaintance improves the first im- 
 pression. No public character of Kentucky has 
 had a steadier outgrowth of reputation and ad- 
 vancement, and none has won more affectionate 
 admiration or provoked fewer enemies. His 
 future is promising, and should he remain in 
 political life he is almost sure to follow the line 
 of promotion open to him. (Smith's History of 
 Kentucky.) 
 
 SPEED FAMILY, THE. It will be more con- 
 venient to present the members of this nu- 
 merous family by giving the ancestry common to 
 all and then a brief sketch of those who have 
 been most prominent. 
 
 JOHN SPEED, English historian, geographer 
 and antiquarian, was born at Farrington in the 
 County of Cheshire, in the year 1552, in the 
 time of Edward VI. This was sixty-eight years 
 before the Mayflower brought the Pilgrims to 
 Plymouth Rock. Walter Raleigh was born in 
 the same year, and Shakespeare one year later. 
 
 His son, John Speed, was born in 1595; was a 
 graduate of Oxford and an eminent physician, 
 
 and was the author of a number of publications 
 and a play which was acted in the theaters. He 
 had two sons — John and Samuel; the latter was 
 installed Canon of Christ Church, May 6, 1674, 
 and was afterwards Vicar of Godalmin in Surrey 
 County, where he died January 22, 1681. His 
 brother John was born at Oxford, elected scholar 
 at John's College in 1643, but was ejected for 
 political reasons and afterwards restored. He 
 took the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1666 
 and practiced at Southampton as late as 1694. His 
 son, James Speed, from whom all the Speeds in 
 this country are descended, left Southampton, 
 England, and settled in the eastern part of Vir- 
 ginia. He was born September 28, 1679, and 
 came to America in 1695. He found his way to 
 the County of Surrey on the south side of the 
 James River, opposite the site of Williamsburg. 
 He married Mary Pulley, September 6, 171 1, and 
 died March 15, 1719, aged thirty-nine years; she 
 died June 3, 1733, aged forty. They had four 
 sons: James, born June 16, 1712; John, born 
 February 5, 1714; William T., born February 19, 
 1 716, and Thomas Speed, born February 28, 
 1719. James and Thomas are lost sight of. John 
 and William left records which show that they 
 enjoyed such educational advantages as were 
 common in those days, and are evidence that they 
 had good training in their youth. Their parents 
 had impressed upon their minds correct ideas 
 and principles of virtue and moralit)- and true am- 
 bition, which became an inheritance to them and 
 their posterity. 
 
 John Speed, second son of James Speed and 
 Mary Pulley, lived in Mecklenburg County, Vir- 
 ginia; married Mary Taylor, a widow whose 
 maiden name was Mary Minstay, October 6, 
 1737. They lived together forty-five years; she 
 died July i, 1782; he died March 8, 1785. He 
 was a man of large wealth and one of the most 
 substantial citizens of Virginia; very prominent 
 in the Episcopal Church, worshiped in a church 
 built by him and known as "Speed's Church." 
 Yet, in a letter to his son, Captain James Speed, 
 who lived in Kentucky, he wrote of his approach- 
 ing death; his health was impaired; "and, above 
 all, I have a wounded spirit. I know I am going 
 to leave this country, and where am I going? Not 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 to Kentucky. God only knows; I do not. This 
 is my grief." 
 
 John Speed and Mary (Minetry) Taylor had 
 seven sons and four daughters : John, born April 
 3. 1738; James, born March 4, 1740; Henry, 
 born March 28, 1742; Sarah, born February 14, 
 1743; Lewis, born January 25, 1745; Martha, 
 born August 11, 1748; Joseph, born May 27, 
 1750; Lucy, born April 11, 1752; Mathias, born 
 June 18, 1754; a son died in infancy and Mary 
 died young. 
 
 Four of these brothers served in the Revolu- 
 tionary War, and perhaps others: John, James, 
 Lewis and Mathias certainly did. Lewis died of 
 his wounds; James was shot through the body 
 at the battle of Guilford C. H., North Carolina, 
 March 15, 1781. He was never able to walk or 
 stand erect afterwards, and in his old age he used 
 a sled for going about. His son, Judge John 
 Speed, writing in 1828, says: "I was born pre- 
 vious to the Revolution ; my father was one of the 
 patriots of that day who shed his blood for lib- 
 erty and equal rights. In my youth I heard him 
 and others of our fathers recount the oppression 
 they resisted, the hardships, the privations they 
 encountered and endured for their own, but more 
 especially for our sake." 
 
 Captain James Speed, second son of John and 
 Mary Taylor, married Mary Spencer December 
 ID, 1767; and removed with his family to Ken- 
 tucky in 1782, settling about four miles from 
 Danville, and there lived, and died September 3, 
 181 1. 
 
 Flis children were Thomas, born October 25, 
 1768; Mary, born June 8, 1770; John, born May 
 17, 1772; Elizabeth and James (twins), born Feb- 
 ruary 7, 1774; Henry, born August 15, 1777; and 
 Julia, who died in infancy. 
 
 Captain Speed was well educated; was a writer 
 of some note and was one of the earlier judges 
 of Kentucky. He owned slaves which he brought 
 from Virginia, acquired large tracts of land and 
 was involved in a number of land suits; he was 
 a member of the Kentucky Conventions of May, 
 1785, and August, 1787; a member of the Political 
 Club, and of the Society for the Promotion of 
 Useful Knowledge, which were composed of the 
 most enlightened men of the state. He was a 
 36 
 
 candidate for delegate to the Constitutional Con- 
 vention in 1792 and was defeated because he was 
 an Emancipationist. His grandson, James Speed 
 (Attorney-General United States), was beaten for 
 the same office in 1849 for the same reason. From 
 his letters to the Governor of Virginia and to 
 members of his family it is seen that he was a 
 man of great influence in public affairs and kind- 
 ly afifectionate to his family. An account of his 
 children and their descendants says that Thomas 
 was the ancestor of the Bardstown family; John 
 was the ancestor of the Louisville family; Mary 
 married William Smith of Madison County, and 
 was the mother of Colonel John Speed Smith and 
 grandmother of General Green Clay Smith, who 
 died in 1895. Her daughter married Tom Fry 
 and was the mother of General Speed S. Fry and 
 his brothers and sisters. Elizabeth married Dr. 
 Adam Rankin, whose descendants are in Hender- 
 son. James and Henry have no descendants liv- 
 ing. 
 
 Major Thomas Speed, first son of Captain 
 James Speed and Mary Spencer, was a resident 
 of Kentucky from 1782 until his death in 1842. 
 He was a representative in Congress and in the 
 Legislature, and a Major of volunteers in the War 
 of 1812. A sketch of his hfe would present a his- 
 tory of Kentucky through a most interesting 
 period. He early displayed an aptness for learn- 
 ing and when still a youth was associated with 
 men of mature years who were leaders in public 
 affairs in the society at Danville called the Po- 
 litical Club, and must have possessed unusual 
 and even extraordinary qualifications to be in- 
 vited to join them at so early an age. He was 
 made secretary of the club, and the records of 
 that society were preserved through his care. His 
 grandson, Thomas Speed, clerk of the United 
 States Court of Louisville, has written a valuable 
 book for the Filson Club, giving a full history 
 of the PoHtical Club. Major Speed was also sec- 
 retary of the Kentucky Society for the Promotion 
 of Useful Knowledge, an account of which is 
 given in Collins' History. He was connected 
 with the office of Colonel Christopher Greenup, 
 clerk of the General Court, which he left in 1790 
 and engaged with his brother John in merchan- 
 dising. They had stores in Danville and Bards- 
 
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 town. He was first married at Bardstown, De- 
 cember II, 1796, to Susan Clayton Slaughter; 
 and after her death he married Mary McElroy 
 Allen, widow of Robert Allen. He was appointed 
 clerk of the Bullitt and Nelson Circuit Courts. 
 In 1817 he was elected to Congress and he made 
 the trip on horseback by a route of eight hun- 
 dred miles ; was an omnivorous reader and an ex- 
 cellent writer, and frequently contributed to the 
 National Intelligencer, published at Washington ; 
 was a friend and correspondent of Henry Clay. In 
 1821, 1822 and 1840 he was in the Kentucky Leg- 
 islature. He was a refined, dignified and culti- 
 vated man, graceful and polished in manners, 
 charming in conversation and pure and spotless 
 in character. He died near Bardstown, February 
 20, 1842, and his wife died one year later. 
 
 Thomas Spencer Speed, oldest son of Major 
 Thomas Speed, was born near Bardstown, Au- 
 gust 30, 1814. In March, 1861, he removed to 
 Daviess County; and ten years later returned to 
 his native place and remained there until his 
 death, March 16, 1892. He received an academic 
 education at St. Joseph's College; sickness pre- 
 vented his preparation for the ministry. He lived 
 a retired life. He was an Emancipationist, and 
 was glad when his own and other slaves were set 
 free. His home was always open to his friends; 
 was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and his 
 chief characteristic was his sincerity and devoted 
 adherence to what he believed was right. A total 
 abstainer, he would not use whisky even for medi- 
 cine. He was fond of reading and was a great 
 student of the Bible. He gave each of his chil- 
 dren a good education, and was able to help them 
 in their studies. He was married twice. First 
 to Sarah Whitney Sparhawk, who was a native 
 of New Hampshire, and a teacher in the Female 
 Academy at Bardstown, of which Rev. Nathan L. 
 Rice was principal. She died in 1842. The chil- 
 dren of this marriage were : John James, died in 
 childhood; William O., born September 8, 1839; 
 and Thomas, born November 26, 1841. He was 
 again married in 1846 to Margaret Hawkins at 
 Crawfordsville, Indiana. There were five chil- 
 dren of this second marriage: Spencer Haw- 
 kins, Austin Peay, Horace, Richard Canby and 
 Louisa J. Speed. 
 
 THOMAS SPEED, son of Thomas S. Speed 
 Bardstown, was born November 26, 1841. He 
 was educated in Center and Hanover Colleges; 
 joined the Union army in 1862 as a private; was 
 made First Lieutenant and then Adjutant of the 
 Twelfth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, 
 and also served on brigade stafif. The principal 
 engagements he was in were the siege of Knox- 
 ville, Bean's Station, the various battles of the At- 
 lanta Campaign, Columbia, Franklin, Nashville, 
 taking Fort Anderson and Wilmington, North 
 Carolina. After the war he studied law at the 
 Michigan University and in the office of James 
 Speed (Lincoln's Attorney-General), with whom 
 he began to practice and was associated with him 
 in law practice till the death of General Speed in 
 1887, after which he was in partnership with 
 James Speed's son John, with whom he was as- 
 sociated until July 9, 1892, when he (Thomas 
 Speed) was appointed clerk of the United States 
 District and Circuit Courts at Louisville, an office 
 which he has filled until the present time with 
 marked ability. He is a writer of great force and 
 clearness, and has written and compiled a volume 
 entitled, "Records and Memorials of the Speed 
 Family," from which the foregoing ancestry is 
 taken in greatly abridged form. While this book 
 was designed for the perusal of the numerous 
 members of the Speed family, the ancestors of 
 Thomas Speed were so prominent in state and na- 
 tional afifairs, the memoirs are full of interesting 
 facts and incidents in which every Kentuckian 
 would be deeply interested. It is a volume of 
 over two hundred pages, and is not in the book 
 market. 
 
 He wrote an article on the battle of Franklin 
 which was published by the Ohio Commandery 
 of the Loyal Legion; also "The Wilderness 
 Road," a Filson Club publication; and the "Po- 
 litical Club," published by the Filson Qub, of 
 which he is secretary. Mr. Speed is a valued con- 
 tributor to the newspapers and periodicals upon 
 political and historical subjects and his fund of in- 
 formation, with a ready command of pure English, 
 enable him to write with ease and fluency, while 
 his articles bear the stamp of truthfulness and re- 
 liability. 
 
 In his official capacity as clerk of the United 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 563 
 
 States Courts, he has the legal training and ex- 
 perience as a lawyer which are so essential to the 
 understanding of his duties, and the keeping of 
 the records of the courts is a kind of work for 
 which he is qualified in an eminent degree. He 
 has many of the chief characteristics of his il- 
 lustrious ancestors, and is one of the present gen- 
 eration who have so faithfully sustained the good 
 name of the Speed family. 
 
 Thomas Speed was married in 1870 to Lucy 
 Madison Buckner; and they have two children: 
 James Buckner, a graduate of Rose Polytechnic 
 Institute, and a skilled electrical and meclianical 
 engineer, now assistant superintendent of the 
 Louisville Electric Light Company; and Mary 
 Whitney. 
 
 Austin P. Speed, second son of Thomas S. 
 Speed and Margaret Hawkins, was educated in 
 Owensboro, studied civil engineering and assist- 
 ed in locating the Louisville & Cincinnati Short 
 Line Railroad, under the distinguished engineer. 
 General St. John. He has been for many years 
 in the coal business in Louisville, a member of the 
 firm of Byrne & Speed; is a fine business man 
 and is a director in several corporations in which 
 he has investments, particularly the Ohio Valley 
 Telephone Company. He married Georgia Mc- 
 Campbell of Louisville, daughter of William Mc- 
 Campbell, a well-known and prominent merchant 
 of Louisville, and niece of the late J. H. Mc- 
 Campbell, secretary and treasurer of the J. M. & 
 I. Railroad Company. They have one son, Good- 
 win Speed. 
 
 Dr. John J. Speed was the second son of Major 
 Thomas Speed of Bardstown, born October 31, 
 1816; graduated from St. Joseph's College, 
 Bardstown, and in medicine from Transylvania 
 University in 1838. He first practiced medicine 
 at Crawfordsville, Indiana. In 1846 he returned 
 to Bardstown and practiced there until 1850 in 
 connection with Dr. Alfred W. Hynes. In 1850 
 he moved to Louisville, where he resided until 
 his death. He held a foremost position among 
 the physicians of Louisville, having a thorough 
 medical knowledge and great skill in practice. In 
 1874 he was elected president of the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons of Louisville. For a 
 number of years he was professor in the Hospital 
 
 College of Medicine, and for as many years was 
 secretary of the State Board of Health. In 1861 
 he was appointed Postmaster of Louisville by 
 President Lincoln, which office he held for eight 
 years. He was a writer on medical subjects of 
 considerable note. Many of his articles were 
 published in the journals of the profession. He 
 was a man of the highest personal character, 
 frank and sincere in his nature, and of great 
 culture and refinement. 
 
 He married Miriam Hawkins of Crawfords- 
 ville, Indiana. Their children were Rose Speed, 
 deceased, and Louise Speed. The latter married 
 Thomas Moore of Indianapolis, Indiana. Dr. 
 Speed married (second) Miss Belle Tevis of Shel- 
 byville, who is still surviving and lives in Louis- 
 ville. 
 
 Judge John Speed of Louisville, son of Captain 
 James Speed, was born May 17, 1772, and was 
 ten years of age when he came to Kentucky with 
 his father. He was the partner of his brother. 
 Major Thomas Speed, in merchandising, and in 
 the salt works at Shepherdsville. He bought a 
 large tract of land near Louisville, on the Bards- 
 town road, and built a large house, naming the 
 place "Farmington ;" reared a large family, all of 
 whom partook of his sterling qualities. He dis- 
 pensed that lavish hospitality for which "Farm- 
 ington" is noted. Although a slaveholder, he 
 was an emancipationist. He deplored the ex- 
 istence of slavery, but could not do otherwise 
 than he did, and he treated his slaves humanely 
 and made them comfortable and contented. He 
 was a man of strong masculine characteristics, 
 methodical and systematic in business; was Judge 
 of the Quarter Sessions Court; was a volunteer 
 Indian fighter in 1791 ; assisted in the equipment 
 of troops and furnished supplies for the War of 
 1812; was a writer of great force for "The Focus," 
 a paper published in Louisville. His first wife 
 was Abby Lemaster, who died July, 1807. Two 
 of her children, Mary and Eliza, survived her and 
 lived unmarried to an advanced age. His second 
 wife was Lucy Gilmer Fry. She was one of the 
 large family of children of Joshua and Peachy 
 Fry, and their marriage made an extensive kin- 
 ship between the Speeds, Frys, BuUitts, Bells and 
 others, The marriage occurred November 15, 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 1808. Judge John Speed died March 30, 1840. 
 His wife survived him and died in Louisville, 
 January 27, 1874. Their children were: Thomas, 
 born September 15, 1869, died 1812; Lucy Fry, 
 born February 26, 181 1; James (Lincoln's Attor- 
 ney-General), born March 11, 1812; Peachy Wal- 
 ker, born May 4, 1813; Joshua Fry, born Novem- 
 ber 14, 1814; William Pope, born April 26, 1816; 
 Susan Fry, born September 30, 1817; Philip, 
 born April 12, 1819; John Smith, born January 
 I, 1 821; Martha Bell, born September 8, 1822; 
 Ann Pope, born November 5, 1831, died 1838. 
 
 James Speed, Attorney-General under Presi- 
 dent Lincoln, son of Judge John Speed of "Farm- 
 ington," was born at the homestead, five miles 
 from Louisville, and was perhaps the most il- 
 lustrious member of the Speed family, whose rec- 
 ord of pubhc service and excellent personal char- 
 acteristics are well known and too voluminous 
 for a brief sketch in a work like this. He served 
 in the City Council, in both branches of the Leg- 
 islature, and, as a leader and counsellor in the 
 time of war, he advised the military officers in 
 command in Kentucky, and his influence was 
 very great upon the Union sentiment throughout 
 the state. In 1864, he was appointed Attorney- 
 General in President Lincoln's cabinet, serving 
 until his resignation under Andrew Johnson in 
 1866. Pie presided over a convention of South- 
 ern Unionists in Philadelphia, which protested 
 against the policy of Andrew Johnson; in 1868 he 
 received the vote of the Kentucky delegation for 
 Vice-President on the ticket with General Grant. 
 After leaving the cabinet, he resumed the practice 
 of law with Thomas Speed and continued in ac- 
 tive work until his death in 1887. 
 
 Pie was married in 1841 to Jane Cochran, 
 daughter of John Cochran of Louisville, sister 
 of Garvin H. and Arch. Cochran, and her sister 
 married Rev. John H. Pleywood of Louisville. 
 The children of James and Jane Cochran Speed 
 were: John, Henry Pirtle, Charles, Brecken- 
 ridge, James and Joshua. 
 
 JOHN SPEED, son of James Speed and Jane 
 Cochran Speed, was born in Louisville in 1842. 
 He was graduated at the Louisville High School 
 and was a bank clerk, first in Louisville and later 
 
 in Chicago, where he and his cousin, James B. 
 Speed, worked together in the banking house of 
 Badger & Company. The war coming on both 
 the young men entered the Union service. John 
 Speed enlisted as a private in the Ninth Ken- 
 tucky Cavalry. His intelligence and capacity 
 caused him to be promoted to Second Lieuten- 
 ant in August, 1862. He served with his regi- 
 ment under General Nelson against Kirby Smith 
 in the Richmond (Kentucky) Campaign; was on 
 General C. C. Gilbert's stafif in the battle of Per- 
 ry ville; also served on General Nelson's staff and 
 a short time on the stafif of General Rosecrans. 
 In May, 1863, he was made Captain and Assist- 
 ant Adjutant-General and then served on Divi- 
 sion Staff in the Army of the Cumberland. Dur- 
 ing the Atlanta campaign and march to the sea, 
 he was on the stafif of Major-General W. T. Ward, 
 General Butterfield and others. In April, 1865, 
 he was made paymaster with the rank of Major, 
 but resigned June, 1865. His personal gallantry 
 and valuable services were distinctly recognized 
 by the commanding Generals in the West — Buell, 
 Rosecrans and Sherman. After the war, when- 
 ever General Sherman would meet any of the 
 Louisville family he would inquire, "How's 
 John?" 
 
 Returning home Major John Speed went into 
 business as dealer in plumbing and gas-fitters' 
 supplies. This proving unprofitable, he gave it 
 up, and entered the law practice with Thomas 
 Speed, who is now clerk of the United States 
 Courts, and was one of the most successful attor- 
 neys at the Louisville bar. After the appoint- 
 ment of Thomas Speed as clerk of the United 
 States Courts, Major Speed formed a partnership 
 with Judge James Speed Pirtle, but he retired 
 from this firm and from practice in July, 1894, and 
 removed to his farm in Spencer County. He was 
 married in 1864 to Aurore Combe of Owensboro, 
 Kentucky. They have two sons living: James 
 and Shippen Speed; one son, John, died in in- 
 fancy. 
 
 William P. Speed, son of Judge John Speed, 
 grandson of Captain James Speed, and brother of 
 Joshua F. and Attorney-General James Speed, 
 was born at the Farmington homestead in Jef- 
 ferson County. He married Margaret D, Phil- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 565 
 
 lips, an elder sister of the wife of his brother, J. 
 Smith Speed. She died without children and he 
 afterwards married Mary Ellen Shallcross, 
 daughter of Captain John Shallcross, whose de- 
 scendants constitute one of the leading famihes 
 of Louisville. Of this marriage James B. Speed 
 was born, a sketch of whom is given below. W. 
 P. Speed removed to Booneville, Missouri, his 
 wife having died, and was married there to Ardell 
 Hutchinson, and they had two children: Austin 
 P. and Laura. Mr. Speed made his home in 
 Booneville until his death, June 28, 1863. He was 
 a man of fine ability, having great natural quick- 
 ness of intellect, and exceedingly bright and jov- 
 ial in his temperament, and combined with this 
 disposition he had a strong intelligent judgment. 
 His early death prevented his coming to that 
 greater prominence to which his talents would 
 have inevitably carried him had his life been pro- 
 longed. 
 
 JAMES BRECKENRIDGE SPEED, one of 
 the leading business men of Louisville, reputed 
 to be the wealthiest man in the city, is the 
 son of William P. Speed, late of Booneville, 
 Missouri. He was educated in the schools of 
 Louisville, and first engaged in business as 
 a bank clerk in Louisville. He went to Chi- 
 cago with his cousin, John Speed, and they 
 were both employed as clerks in the banking 
 house of Badger & Company. Both entered the 
 Union service at the outbreak of the war, James 
 B. Speed becoming Adjutant of the Twenty-sev- 
 enth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, of 
 which Charles D. Pennebaker was the first Colo- 
 nel, and which was afterwards commanded by 
 Colonel John H. Ward. He saw active service 
 with his regiment in all the campaigns in the 
 West, remaining with it until the spring of 1865. 
 He then engaged in business in Louisville and 
 his remarkable capacity for business was at once 
 generally recognized. He progressed steadily 
 until his standing to-day is such that it may be 
 said he never had a superior in the city of Louis- 
 ville. He is president of a number of large cor- 
 porate enterprises, among which are the Louis- 
 ville Cement Company, the Louisville Street Rail- 
 way Company, and the Ohio Valley Telephone 
 
 Company; and is director in various others, in- 
 cluding banks, besides being the head of the 
 firms of J. B. Speed & Company, dealers in ce- 
 ment, lime, salt, etc., and Byrne & Speed, dealers 
 in coal. Any one of these enterprises would tax 
 the powers of an ordinary man, but he has the ca- 
 pacity to take the active management of all of 
 them with unerring judgment and unvarying suc- 
 cess. In addition to these labors he attends not 
 only to his own private estate, which is very large, 
 but also attends to other estates entrusted to his 
 care. 
 
 With a steady energy and a strong intellect he 
 has built up enormous enterprises, given employ- 
 ment to thousands of persons, and everything in 
 which he engages is solidly founded. He is en- 
 tirely devoid of every semblance of ostentation 
 and is generous with his means without a thought 
 of publicity. With all his devotion to business 
 he finds time to travel for health and pleasure in 
 this country and abroad; is social in his nature 
 and has a warm attachment for his friends and 
 those allied to him by the ties of kinship. 
 
 He was married in 1867 to Cora Coffin, daugh- 
 ter of George W. Coffin, a wealthy citizen of Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio. Their children are Olive and Wil- 
 liam. Another child, Douglas Breckenridge, died 
 in infancy. 
 
 Joshua Fry Speed, son of Judge John Speed, 
 was born November 14, 1814. He was edu- 
 cated at St. Joseph's College, in Bardstown. Aft- 
 er spending two years in the wholesale house of 
 William H. Pope in Louisville, he went to Spring- 
 field, Illinois, where he spent seven years mer- 
 chandising. At that place he became the friend 
 and associate of Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. 
 Douglas, Colonel John Hardin, Colonel Baker, 
 General Shields, Judge Gillespie, Nathaniel Pope 
 and others. From his youth he regarded life with 
 a businessHke seriousness, which led to great suc- 
 cess. His acquaintance with Lincoln was very 
 close, and when the latter became President Mr. 
 Speed was his most trusted adviser. While in Il- 
 linois he took a lively interest in politics, and as- 
 sisted in editing a paper. He returned to Ken- 
 tucky in 1842 and married Fannie Henning, sis- 
 ter of James W. Henning of Louisville. Messrs. 
 Henning & Speed became partners in the real 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 estate business, and the partnership continued 
 until Mr. Speed's death in 1882. 
 
 Mr. Speed's life was a very active one during 
 the Civil War. He was the confidential adviser of 
 President Lincoln concerning afifairs in the West, 
 and made frequent trips to Washington on mat- 
 ters of public interest. He was offered the posi- 
 tion of Secretary of the Treasury by Mr. Lincoln, 
 but he declined it. 
 
 The following words are from the pen of Gen- 
 eral John W. Finjiell, Adjutant-General of Ken- 
 tucky during the war: 
 
 "His position was peculiar. Without at any 
 time an ofHce, civil or military, he was the trusted 
 confidant, adviser and counsellor of both the civil 
 and mihtary authorities of the state and nation 
 all through the Rebellion. He was a man of few 
 words, often painfully reticent; never in a hur- 
 ry, never disconcerted. He seemed intuitively to 
 know the right thing and the right time to do it. 
 His compensation was found alone in the con- 
 sciousness of duty performed. He uniformly de- 
 clined to receive pay for any time or effort he was 
 asked to give to the cause of his country." 
 
 From the close of the war until the end of his 
 life he continued to live in Louisville, and was one 
 of its most conspicuous citizens. He was en- 
 gaged in many business enterprises, among oth- 
 ers he was instrumental in building the Short 
 Line Railroad. 
 
 Mr. Speed had no children. He died May 29, 
 1882, leaving a large estate. His widow, Mrs. 
 Fannie Henning Speed, is still living in Louis- 
 ville. 
 
 Major Philip Speed, son of Judge John Speed 
 and Lucy Fry, was born at the old Farming 
 homestead, April 12, 181Q; married Emma Keats, 
 daughter of George Keats, who was a brother of 
 the poet, John Keats. He had a large family of 
 bright and handsome children, and there was 
 never a happier household; Mary Eliza married 
 Enos S. Tuley. who was for nearly thirty years 
 connected with the Louisville postofifice; George 
 Keats Speed married Jennie Ewing, daughter of 
 Dr. U. E. Ewing, a distinguished physician of 
 Louisville, and died February 13, 1887; Peachy 
 Austine (called Tiney) married Captain John F. 
 Rogers of the United States army; Ella Keats 
 
 (deceased) married T. B. Crutcher; John Gilmer 
 Speed, now connected with Harper's Weekly and 
 engaged in literary work for magazines, married 
 Mary Craik Poindexter; Alice married Harry P. 
 McDonald, an architect of Louisville; Fannie 
 married M. J. O'Connor, an engineer, contractor 
 and bridge builder; Florence, wife of Josiah Mc- 
 Roberts, patent lawyer of Washington, D. C. ; and 
 Thomas A. Speed, vice president of the Todd- 
 Donigan Iron Company of Louisville, married 
 Amelia Harrison. 
 
 J. Smith Speed, youngest son of Judge John 
 Speed and Lucy Fry, was born February 21, 
 1 821; was twice married, first to Elizabeth Wil- 
 liamson, who died without issue, and second to 
 Susan Phillips. Their children were Elizabeth 
 W., married Richard Jouett Menefee, son of the 
 Kentucky orator and statesman, Richard H. 
 Menefee; William P. of Chicago, married Belle 
 Ellis of Bardstown; Joshua F., married Martha 
 Nicholson of New York; Arch. C. of Chicago, 
 married Mary Burns, and J. Smith Speed of 
 Little Rock, Arkansas, married Mary Stewart 
 Shallcross. 
 
 Martha B., daughter of Judge John Speed and 
 Lucy Fry, married Thomas Adams, whose chil- 
 dren were Kate, deceased; Lucy Ness, deceased; 
 Gilmer S.; Bessie Innis, deceased, and James 
 St. John. 
 
 Gilmer Speed Adams is a member of the firm 
 of J. B. Speed & Company, a first class business 
 man, agreeable and exceedingly popular, and a 
 man of extensive information gained in reading 
 and travel. His wife is a daughter of the late 
 John M. Robinson, who was one of the most 
 prominent wholesale merchants of Louisville. 
 
 LUKE P. BLACKBURN, Governor of Ken- 
 tucky, 1879-83, was a son of Edwin M. 
 Blackburn, and was born in Woodford County, 
 June 16, 1816; graduated at Transylvania Uni- 
 versity, Lexington, and practiced in Lexington 
 and Versailles, giving gratuitous services 
 throughout the cholera scourge at Versailles in 
 1835; was a member of the Kentucky legislature 
 in 1843; removed to Natchez, Mississippi, in 
 1846, to practice his profession; became famous 
 for his devoted and generous services and sac- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 rifices in the yellow fever epidemics of 1848 and 
 1854, in hygienic measures for the prevention 
 and in the treatment of the disease; and made a 
 national reputation for heroism and self-sacrifice 
 in 1878, when he again volunteered his services 
 and devoted his whole time to the sufferers from 
 yellow fever at Hickman, Kentucky. His first 
 wife, Ella G. Boswell, having died, he married 
 in 1857 Julia M. Churchill of the distinguished 
 family of that name in Kentucky. After taking 
 a European trip he located in New Orleans, and 
 there practiced medicine until interrupted by the 
 Civil war, in which he took an active and im- 
 portant part for the South. By request of the 
 governor-general of Canada, he visited Bermuda 
 Islands for the relief of sufferers there, for which 
 he received the grateful acknowledgments of the 
 highest colonial authorities. In 1867 he retired 
 to his plantation in Arkansas, but returned to 
 Kentucky in 1873, and, as previously stated, ren- 
 dered distinguished services in the yellow fever 
 epidemic at Hickman in 1878. He never fig- 
 ured conspicuously in politics until 1879, when 
 the grateful sentiment which existed in his state 
 for his philanthropic labors in behalf of his fellow 
 men made him governor of his native state, a re- 
 ward for true heroism which the people had no 
 cause to regret. He lived in retirement after 
 serving his term, and died in Frankfort in 1887. 
 
 GEORGE B. BINGHAM of Cadiz, Judge of 
 the Trigg County Court, son of Jabez and 
 Virginia Daniel Bingham, was bom in Trigg 
 County, Kentucky, October 3, 1853. He was 
 educated at Princeton College, Kentucky; at- 
 tended the law department of the University of 
 Louisville, and after leaving the law school in 
 1875 he went to Florida, and on returning to the 
 state settled at Wallonia, Kentucky, his native 
 place, where he engaged in the mercantile, farm- 
 ing and milling business. In 1890 he was elected 
 county judge of Trigg and was re-elected in 1894. 
 In i8qi he purchased a half interest in the "Tele- 
 phone," a Democratic newspaper published at 
 Cadiz and estabhshed fifteen years ago. 
 
 Judge Bingham is a Mason and a Democrat, 
 and he and his wife are members of the Christian 
 Church. 
 
 He is one of the foremost men in his commu- 
 nity and deservedly enjoys the confidence and 
 esteem of all the people. 
 
 He married Miss Mary W. McKinney, daugh- 
 ter of Major Mat McKinney, January 29, 1880, 
 and they have two children, Edith and Jabez. 
 
 Jabez Bingham (father) was born in Athens, 
 Ohio, February 27, 1827. He came to Trigg 
 County, Kentucky, when sixteen years of age, 
 and was educated in the common schools. He 
 learned mill-wrighting and followed that trade 
 for a few years, and finally settled at Wallonia, 
 Trigg County, and engaged in farming, and was 
 a magistrate of his district. In 1861 he raised a 
 company of soldiers for the Confederate army, 
 of which he was elected captain, and this com- 
 pany joined the Eighth Kentucky Regiment, un- 
 der command of General Forrest. He was cap- 
 tured at Fort Donelson and some time after being 
 exchanged was promoted to the rank of major 
 of the Eighth Kentucky Cavalry, and served until 
 the close of the war in that capacity. 
 
 When he returned to Trigg County after the 
 war he became a builder and contractor and was 
 extensively interested in farming. He held the 
 rank of colonel in the Kentucky State Militia; 
 was a member of the Methodist Church and a 
 Mason of very high degree, and was especially 
 interested in the work of that fraternity. In early 
 life he was a Whig, but afterwards a Democrat. 
 He was a man of strong convictions and had the 
 courage of his convictions in a measure that dis- 
 tinguished him as a man of great strength of 
 character. 
 
 In 1 85 1 he married Virginia Daniel, and they 
 had five children, only two of whom reached 
 maturity, George B. and William Cranston. 
 
 In 1883 he was elected to the Kentucky legis- 
 lature from Trigg County, and died a short time 
 after the session adjourned, October 13, 1884. 
 
 Silas Bingham (grandfather), son of Silas and 
 Irene (Rice) Bingham, was born in Vermont, 
 on the southern shore of Lake Champlain, April 
 II, 1792. In 1796 his father settled in Athens, 
 Ohio, and assisted in opening up the land se- 
 cured by Wayne's treaty. He, together with the 
 family of his brother and of his widowed sister 
 and three other families, were the first settlers 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 in that county. They suffered all the privations 
 incident to pioneer life. Judge Bingham thus 
 writes of those early days: "When venison was 
 eaten for bread and bear meat for pork. The 
 sugar maple yielded its sweets and wild berries 
 were their only fruit. Lessons were learned frorh 
 'Long S' spellers and old English readers by the 
 light of log fires in winter and by tallow dips in 
 summer. This, too, after a hard day's toil shrub- 
 bing, plowing, hoeing and hunting for supplies 
 for the larder. When the school master came it 
 was esteemed a great privilege." 
 
 The wife of Silas Bingham, Sr., was a daugh- 
 ter of Major Rice of the Revolutionary army, 
 and a granddaughter of Prof. Wheelock of Dart- 
 mouth College. 
 
 Silas Bingham, Jr., married Martha Cranston, 
 whose father came to Ohio from Orange County, 
 New York, in 1811. They had nine children: 
 Royal, James, John, Jabez, Nira, Hannah, Irene, 
 Martha and Ruth. Of this family only one son, 
 John, and two daughters survive. Mrs. Bingham 
 died in 1873. 
 
 The first of the sons who came to Kentucky 
 was James, who settled in Union County, but 
 removed to Trigg County in 1843, where he 
 married a Miss Henry. 
 
 The first Bingham who came to the United 
 States was an attache in the British naval service, 
 who settled in Vermont. 
 
 Virginia Daniel (mother) was born in Trigg 
 County. She was a member of the Methodist 
 Church; died in 1867 and is buried at Wallonia. 
 Her father, George Daniel, was born in North 
 Carolina and came to Kentucky at an early age. 
 He was high sheriff and a planter and trader in 
 real estate. He accumulated a handsome estate, 
 and was a leading citizen of the county. 
 
 HENRY MARTYN SKILLMAN, the oldest 
 member of the medical profession now en- 
 gaged in the active practice at Lexington, is the 
 youngest child of Thomas T. and Elizabeth (Far- 
 rar) Skillman, and was born in the city, of Lex- 
 ington, Kentucky, September 4, 1824. 
 
 Thomas T. Skillman (father) was a native of 
 New Jersey, born in 1786. Possessing only the 
 rudiments of a common school education, but a 
 
 thorough knowledge of the printing business, 
 he came to Kentucky in 1809 with little capital, 
 but with indomitable will, and a fixed determina- 
 tion to make a success of life. He located at 
 once at Lexington, the seat of Transylvania Uni- 
 versity, and center of all the social, literary and 
 political influence of the state. In 1813, he took 
 to wife Elizabeth, daughter of Ebenezer Farrar. 
 She was a lady of rare attainments, born in 
 New Hampshire in 1786, and came with her par- 
 ents to Lexington in 1789. Here she became a 
 recognized leader among the women in every 
 good work ; was one of the founders of the Lex- 
 ington Female Bible Society, and was for many 
 years the president of the Lexington. Female 
 Benevolent Society. To her husband she was 
 always an efficient co-worker, sharing with him 
 all his trials, and sustaining him by her earnest 
 co-operation in all his plans and aspirations. She 
 survived her husband nearly thirty-nine years, 
 dying in February, 1872, at the advanced age of 
 eighty-one years, leaving to her descendants as 
 a precious heritage the remembrance of her nu- 
 merous Christian deeds and her many good 
 works. The assistance of the leading clergy- 
 men of the day, prominent among whom was 
 the Rev. John Poage Campbell, M. D., a man of 
 distinguished ability, enabled Mr. Skillman, about 
 the year 181 3, to found the Evangelical Rec- 
 ord and Western Review, a monthly magazine, 
 having for its object the dissemination of sound 
 evangelical truth, and the defense of the faith 
 against every class of errorists. At a later date 
 this magazine came under the editorial charge 
 of Rev. John Breckinridge, the then gifted and 
 brilliant young pastor of the McChord Church, 
 and afterwards so well known throughout the 
 country. In 1824 Mr. Skillman established the 
 Western Luminary, the first religious newspaper 
 in the West, and which continued to be pubHshed 
 several years after the proprietor's death. He 
 also founded in Lexington a publishing house 
 larger than anything of the kind ever attempted 
 in the Mississippi valley, from which was issued 
 numerous standard religious works of perma- 
 nent value, as well as tracts and pamphlets 
 brought forth by the heated controversies of 
 the day. It is appropriate to say that the name 
 
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 of Thomas T. Skillman on the title page of any 
 book, tract or pamphlet as its publisher was suf- 
 ficient evidence of its purity and fitness for the 
 family circle. These various publications, 
 through the agency of his brother, A. T. Skill- 
 man, long and favorably known as the leading 
 book merchant of Lexington, were widely scat- 
 tered throughout the state. It is worthy of men- 
 tion in 1823 an edition of several thousand copies 
 of the entire Bible, with the imprint of Thomas 
 T. Skillman, publisher, printed from stereotype 
 plates sent out from New York by the American 
 Bible Society, were issued from his establishment 
 in Lexington. This eminently good man and 
 elder in the Presbyterian Church, and a frequent 
 member of its highest courts, was suddenly 
 stricken down by cholera June 9, 1833. 
 
 Henry Martyn Skillman was educated at the 
 old Transylvania University, and, after leaving 
 that institution, he spent several years with an 
 older brother in acquiring a practical knowledge 
 of drugs. In 1844 Dr. Skillman commenced the 
 study of medicine under Drs. B. W. Dudley, J. 
 M. Bush and E. L. Dudley, who were among the 
 leading physicians and surgeons of their day. 
 Dr. Skillman was graduated from the medical 
 department of Transylvania University in 1847, 
 and in the following year was made demon- 
 strator of anatomy by his Alma Mater, and was 
 thence transferred to the chair of physiology and 
 pathological anatomy in the same institution. 
 This latter position he held until, owing to the 
 exigencies of the Civil war, and the destruction 
 of their building by fire, this college was closed. 
 During the war Dr. Skillman served two years as 
 a contract surgeon for the government. In 1869 
 he served as president of the Kentucky State 
 Medical Society; is a permanent member of the 
 American Medical Association, and 1876 was a 
 delegate to the International Medical Congress 
 which met in Philadelphia. In 1889 was elected 
 the first president of the Lexington and Fayette 
 County Medical Society. Dr. Skillman has trav- 
 eled quite extensively, visiting principal capitals 
 of Europe, also Mexico and Cuba, which, with his 
 natural social accomplishments, renders him a 
 particularly agreeable and entertaining com- 
 panion. Dr. Skillman is one of the most skillful. 
 
 successful and accomplished physicians of Ken- 
 tucky, and universally beloved. 
 
 Dr. Skillman's private practice and the many 
 calls upon him by his professional associates in 
 many of the surrounding counties sufficiently 
 attest the high estimation in which he is held 
 alike by the people and the medical fraternity. 
 
 MILTON ELLIOTT, a distinguished educa- 
 tor and Christian minister, president of 
 West Kentucky College at Mayfield, son of Wil- 
 liam and Sarah Harris Elliott, was born in Estill 
 County, Kentucky, April 22, 1837. He was edu- 
 cated at Irvine, Kentucky, under F. G. Gaylord, 
 a distinguished educator of New York. Mr. El- 
 liott assisted Professor Gaylord in the high school 
 in Platte City, Missouri, from 1858 to 1859, ^"^ 
 was afterwards placed in charge of the Kendrick 
 Institute for Ladies and Gentlemen, at Monti- 
 cello, Kentucky. This school building was de- 
 stroyed by fire in July, 1870, and he then went 
 to the College of the Bible at Kentucky Uni- 
 versity, where he remained until December, 1873-. 
 His health failing, he went to Estill Springs, and 
 while recruiting his health taught and preached 
 in his native county for eighteen months. In 
 August, 1874, he founded at Kirksville, Madison 
 County, the Elliott Institute, and taught there 
 for nineteen years and preached every Sunday 
 during that time in the Christian Church. In 
 June, 1893, he accepted the presidency of Gar- 
 rard College, Lancaster, Kentucky; and in Sep- 
 tember, 189s, became president of West Ken- 
 tucky College at Mayfield and is still in charge 
 of that institution of learning. 
 
 Professor Elliott is eminently successful as an 
 educator. Although he has had control of West 
 Kentucky College for so short a time, there is 
 already a new impetus given to the work of the 
 different departments. He is conscientious and 
 painstaking in the extreme, and his natural apti- 
 tude for the work is aided by broad culture and 
 ripe experience. His conduct of the college has 
 given great satisfaction to its patrons. There 
 are two hundred and seventy pupils enrolled and 
 ten teachers employed. President Elliott is a 
 Mason and ardent prohibitionist. 
 
 He married Juan Phillips of Monticello, Ken- 
 
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 tucky, daughter of Micajah Phillips, October 15, 
 1867. They, have nine children: Minnie Le 
 Grand, a music teacher in West Kentucky Col- 
 lege ; Henry H., first assistant of the high school 
 of Paris, Missouri; William M., member of the 
 senior class of the Kentucky School of Medicine; 
 Milton, Jr., teacher in West Kentucky College; 
 J. Nathan, a member of the senior class of West 
 Kentucky College, who won the championship 
 medal of the Declamatory League of Kentucky 
 in May, 1894, and also the first prize in the Blue 
 Grass Declamatory League in 1894; Florence 
 S. ; Mary E. and Julian Gaylord, who are in 
 school, and Lucy Cecil, an infant. 
 
 William Elliott (father) was born in Madison 
 County, Kentucky, July 3, 1807, and was edu- 
 cated there. He engaged in farming for a while 
 in Kentucky; removed to Memphis, Missouri, 
 in March, 1849, ^"^ ^^'^^ there September 5, 
 1849. He was a member of the Christian Church 
 and a Whig in politics. He was a man of fine 
 mind and of a kindly, sympathetic nature, but 
 was earnest and firm in his convictions, and very 
 conscientious in the discharge of duty. 
 
 He married Sarah Harris, February 21, 1828. 
 She was born in Madison County, Kentucky, 
 February 8, 1812. She was a devoted member 
 of the Christian Church, in which faith she died, 
 July, 1870. They had seven children: Milton, 
 Nathan, Burgess, William H., Nancy B., married 
 to Isaac B. Hon; Parmelia, married to Peter M. 
 Hon, and Martha Jane, to Silas Campbell. Mr. 
 Elliott's mother was married the second time to 
 Pleasant M. Daniel, a man of sterling worth, 
 whom Mr. Elliott loved as a father, and by this 
 marriage there was one son. Pleasant Daniel, Jr. 
 Dawson Elliott (grandfather) was born in Vir- 
 ginia of English parents. He was a soldier in the 
 War of 1 81 2 and lived for sixty years in Madison 
 County. He was a Whig in politics and held 
 some county offices, although his principal occu- 
 pation was farming. In religious views he held to 
 the beHef of the Christian Church. He was a 
 pioneer member of the Christian Church. He 
 married Parmelia Parrish, who died in 1866, he 
 having died in i860, and both of them are buried 
 on the old homestead in Madison County. 
 Webber Harris (maternal grandfather) was 
 
 born in Virginia of a family German by descent, 
 and came in the early days of Kentucky history to 
 Madison County. He was a farmer and amassed 
 a handsome estate. His wife was Nancy Pauley. 
 He died March 7, 1865. 
 
 Mrs. Juan Elliott's mother was a Miss Jones, 
 daughter of James Jones, who was a soldier in 
 the War of 1812, and who afterwards represented 
 his county in the legislature of Kentucky. His 
 wife was Miss Mary Buster, whom he married 
 in their native state, Virginia. 
 
 Mrs. Elliott's father, Micajah Phillips, was born 
 in North Carolina, and when a boy emigrated 
 with his parents, Cornelius and Rhoda Phillips, 
 to Wayne County, Kentucky, where he spent 
 the remainder of his life. As the schools of his 
 county in his early life were very poor, his edu- 
 cation was quite limited, but, having an ardent 
 desire for knowledge, he became a man of un- 
 usual intelHgence. He might truly be said to have 
 been a self-educated man. He reared a large 
 family, and died at the age of eighty-seven years. 
 
 GOVERNOR GEORGE MADISON was 
 born in Virginia about the year 1763. His 
 career was one of distinction in arms as well as 
 the cabinet. He was one of the soldiers of the 
 American Revolution. Before he was of age, 
 whilst yet a boy, he threw himself in the ranks, 
 and with a gallant bearing passed through the 
 scenes of his country's first and great struggle 
 for independence. He was also engaged in the 
 battles which were fought by the early settlers 
 of Kentucky with the Indians of the North- 
 western territory. At the head of his company. 
 Captain Madison was wounded at St. Clair's de- 
 feat in 1791; and he was again wounded in the 
 attack upon the camp of Major John Adair by the 
 Indians in 1792. Major Adair, in his report of 
 that battle to Brigadier General Wilkinson, 
 speaking of Captain Madison, whom he had or- 
 dered to take a party and gain the right flank of 
 the enemy, says: "Madison's bravery and con- 
 duct need no comment; they are well known." 
 This was his reputation in miHtary life — to speak 
 in favor of his courage was considered super- 
 fluous — all who saw him in the field, both men 
 and officers, knew him to be brave — that knowl- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 edge came, as if by intuition, to all whc beheld him 
 — his looks, his words, his whole demeanor on 
 the field, were emphatically those of a soldier. 
 No hero ever shed his blood in the cause of his 
 country more freely than George Madison; 
 when called into her service, there seemed no 
 limit to his patriotism, no bounds to his zeal in 
 her behalf. It did in truth appear as if he con- 
 sidered himself — all. he had, and all he could do — • 
 a free gift, a living sacrifice, to be offered up on 
 the altar of his country. 
 
 JUDGE ELIJAH C. PHISTER was born in 
 Maysville, Kentucky, October 8, 1822; a stu- 
 dent of the Maysville Seminary; graduated at 
 Augusta College, August, 1840; studied law at 
 Philadelphia with Hon. John Sergeant, one of 
 the ablest jurists and purest public men in the 
 United States, and with Payne & Waller, leading 
 practitioners of the Mason bar, and began the 
 practice, June, 1844; was elected mayor of his 
 native city, January, 1847, '^nd re-elected Jan- 
 uary, 1848; circuit judge, 1856-62; representa- 
 tive in the Kentucky legislature, 1867-69, and 
 re-elected, 1869-71, in which body he took a dis- 
 tinguished part; appointed by Gov. LesHe one 
 of the commissioners to revise the statutes, 1872, 
 but declined. 
 
 His profession, the idol of his early love. Judge 
 Phister followed with an inflexibility of purpose 
 which seldom fails to be awarded the very high- 
 est positions in the judiciary. He was suggested 
 by gentlemen prominent in the profession as one 
 of the ablest, firmest and purest of living judges. 
 Later he served one or two terms in Congress 
 before his death. 
 
 BENJAMIN W. PENICK, Cashier of the 
 Greensburg Deposit Bank, son of Thomas 
 Bailey Penick and Mary Ingram Penick, was 
 born in Green County, June 3, 1841. He was 
 educated principally in the schools of his county, 
 and at Columbia High School and Georgetown 
 College, graduating from the latter institution 
 in i860. He then returned to Green County and 
 engaged in farming for a few years during the 
 war, after which he studied law under General 
 W. T. Ward, and, being admitted to practice at 
 
 the bar, located in Greensburg and was elected 
 circuit clerk in 1868 and was re-elected, serving 
 in all for four consecutive terms of six years 
 each. At one time he was employed in a respon- 
 sible position with the Cumberland & Ohio Rail- 
 road Company. 
 
 Two years before leaving the clerk's office, 
 in 1890, he was elected cashier of the Greens- 
 burg Deposit Bank by the board of directors of 
 that institution, and for two years served in the 
 ' double capacity of circuit clerk and cashier of 
 the bank. He combines the business of banker 
 and lawyer in a very unique manner. People 
 come to his bank, make their deposits and receive 
 legal advice from him in regard to their business 
 enterprises. That he is considered as a man of 
 ability and integrity is evidenced by the posi- 
 tions of trust he has held and still holds. His 
 ability is measured by the success of the bank 
 of which he is cashier, having in five years paid 
 annually eight per cent, to stockholders, and 
 accrued a surplus almost equal to that paid in 
 capital stock. 
 
 Mr. Penick is a Democrat, a member of the 
 Baptist Church, a Royal Arch Mason and an 
 honorary member of the W. C. T. U. 
 
 He married (first) Bettie Brummal, daughter of 
 Josiah and Mary Hundley Brummal. She was born 
 in Green County in 1841 and was educated there 
 and at the Shelbyville Academy. She was a 
 Presbyterian, and died in that faith in 1872 and 
 is buried at Motley Homestead, Green County. 
 By this marriage he had four children: Brum- 
 mal Penick of Green County ; Mary Penick, wife 
 of Dr. Archibald Stewart Lewis of Greensburg; 
 William Clifton Penick of Green County, and 
 Hundley Penick, his second son, deceased. 
 
 His second marriage was to Anna M. Hobson, 
 daughter of General E. H. Hobson of Green 
 County, whose sketch will be found in this work. 
 She was educated at Danville, Kentucky, and is 
 one of the pillars of the Presbyterian Church in 
 Greensburg, Kentucky, and president of the 
 Woman's Christian Temperance Union in that 
 town; a woman remarkable for fixedness of pur- 
 pose and adherence to her faith. 
 
 Thomas Bailey Penick (father) was the son of 
 William Penick, who was a native of Virginia 
 
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 1851-53; was elector for the state at large in 
 1852; elected to Congress the same year to fill 
 a vacancy, and re-elected, 1853-55; appointed 
 envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary 
 to Spain by President Buchanan, 1858, but re- 
 called at his own request in 1861 ; entered an 
 energetic protest against the act of Spain in seiz- 
 ing, in violation of the "Monroe doctrine," the 
 bay of Samana, with a view of re-establishing her 
 monarchy over San Domingo — for which, and 
 for his entire fidelity to his duty, he received the 
 special thanks of William H. Seward, then United 
 States secretary of state. He returned to the 
 United States shortly after the first battle of 
 Manassas, August, 1861, and urged the people 
 of Kentucky to prompt and active resistance to 
 the Lincoln administration. Finding the state 
 already occupied by Federal troops, he left Ken- 
 tucky and entered the Confederate army, serving 
 until the battle of Shiloh upon the staff of Gen. 
 Albert Sidney Johnston, who fell and expired in 
 his arms, in the instant of a victorious assault 
 upon the enemy. 
 
 Col. Preston was immediately transferred to 
 the staff of Gen. Beauregard; in a week after 
 the battle was commissioned brigadier-general, 
 April, 1862; was at Corinth, Tupelo, guarded 
 the line of the Tallahatchie, and aided in the de- 
 fense of Vicksburg — the first siege of which was 
 abandoned July 2^, 1862, by Admirals Farragut 
 and Porter and the Federal land forces; reached 
 Kentucky in October, 1862, but too late to take 
 part in the battle of Perry ville; commanded the 
 right of Gen. Breckinridge's division at Mur- 
 freesboro, and in the tremendous charge "into the 
 jaws of death'' across Stone river, in the face of 
 two divisions and fifty-eight guns, when 1,700 
 men out of 7,000 fell ; was transferred to the com- 
 mand of the troops in southwestern Virginia, in 
 the spring of 1863; commanded a division at 
 Chickamauga, September, 1863, in which — after 
 the repulse by Gen. George H. Thomas of the 
 Confederate attack of General Longstreet with 
 Hood's division under McLaws, and the repulse 
 of another attack by Hindman's division — ^Pres- 
 ton ordered Grade's brigade to fix bayonets and 
 renew the attack, and pressing after him his 
 whole force with desperate enthusiasm, gained 
 
 the whole of Missionary Ridge, and drove the 
 Federals in one long confused mass headlong 
 down the ridge and through every avenue of 
 escape to Chattanooga. It was a grand victory, 
 but at terrible cost — losing, out of 4,078 men, 
 14 officers and 184 men killed, 63 officers and 
 1,014 men wounded, and 61 missing, a total of 
 1.336, or one-third. 
 
 JOHN BOYLE, for more than sixteen years 
 Chief Justice of Kentucky, was born of hum- 
 ble parentage, October 28, 1774, in Virginia, at a 
 place called "Castle Woods," on Clinch River, 
 in the then county of Botetourt, near Russell or 
 Tazewell. His father emigrated, in the year 1779, 
 to Whitley's Station in Kentucky, whence he aft- 
 erwards moved to a small estate in the county of 
 Garrard, where he spent the remainder of his 
 days. 
 
 On the 3d of April, 1810, Judge Boyle was pro- 
 moted to the Chief Justiceship, which he contin- 
 ued to hold until the 8th of November, 1826. The 
 decisions of the Court, while he was upon the 
 bench, are comprised in fifteen volumes of the 
 State Reports, from ist Bibb to 3d Monroe, and 
 are marked with firmness and purity. 
 
 WILLIAM O'CONNELL BRADLEY, 
 Governor of Kentucky, son of R. M. and 
 Ellen Bradley, was born in Lancaster, Kentucky, 
 March 18, 1847. He is of Irish ancestry, as his 
 middle name indicates, his paternal great-grand- 
 mother being a relative of the Irish patriot and 
 statesman, Daniel O'Connell. His parents were 
 native Kentuckians, and his father, Robert M. 
 Bradley, was one of the ablest lawyers in the 
 state. 
 
 When Governor Bradley was quite young his 
 parents moved to Somerset, where he lived until 
 the breaking out of the war between the states. 
 He then quit school and entered the Union army, 
 first as a recruiting officer in Pulaski County, at 
 the age of fifteen. He afterwards enlisted at 
 Louisville as a private soldier, but remained in 
 the service for a short time only. 
 
 He returned home and began the study of law 
 and was prepared to practice before the legal age 
 for admission to the bar. The Legislature, how- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 ever, in recognition of his proficiency in the 
 knowledge of law, passed an act authorizing any 
 two of the circuit judges to grant him license to 
 practice. This was a very unusual occurrence, 
 the general law requiring th applicant to be twen- 
 ty-one years of age. As soon as he obtained li- 
 cense, he entered upon the practice of his chosen 
 profession, being associated with his father, who 
 had returned to Lancaster. 
 
 In 1870, at the age of twenty-three, he made a 
 brilliant race and was elected Prosecuting Attor- 
 ney, and his service in that office was the step- 
 ping-stone to his success and great popularity. 
 In 1872 he was nominated by the Louisville con- 
 vention as presidential elector on the Grant and 
 Wilson ticket in the Eighth Congressional Dis- 
 trict, and made a most brilliant canvass. At the 
 age of twenty-five he was the Republican candi- 
 date for Congress in his district, and although 
 he was not elected, he reduced the Democratic 
 Congressional majority from over two thousand 
 to six hundred and fifty votes. In the winter of 
 1875, at the age of twenty-nine years, he was 
 nominated by his party in the Legislature for 
 United States Senator, and received the unani- 
 mous vote of the Republican members of that 
 body. In the fall of 1876 he again made the race 
 as Republican nominee for Congress. He re- 
 ceived nearly three thousand more votes than 
 were ever polled before by any candidate of the 
 Republican party in that district, but theDemo- 
 cratic vote also being unusually large, he again 
 failed of election. 
 
 He again made the race for Congress in 1882 
 and declined the empty honor of a nomination in 
 1884. He also declined the nomination for at- 
 torney-general in 1879; was a delegate to the 
 national Republican convention at Chicago and 
 seconded the nomination of General Grant; was 
 a member of the National Republican Committee 
 for Kentucky; was selected in 1884 by President 
 Arthur to prosecute the Star Route thieves, but 
 the attorney-general refused to allow a full and 
 impartial trial and he retired from the case. 
 
 His campaigns of later years, and the part he 
 has taKen as candidate for governor in 1891, 
 his speech in the national convention in 1892, his 
 brilliant address in the Kentucky department of 
 
 the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, and above 
 all his successful campaign as the RepubHcan 
 candidate for governor in 1895 are familiar to 
 the people of his own state and to the whole 
 country, no man having occupied a more prom- 
 inent position in American politics in that time. 
 In the late campaign he rendered the most sig- 
 nally brilliant and unprecedented service for his 
 party by breaking the record of the great solid 
 Democratic South, knit together, as it was sup- 
 posed, in bonds of indissoluble union. This last 
 phenomenal success of Governor Bradley has 
 made for him a national reputation, and, in the 
 opinion of many in the state and out of it, his 
 present political possibilities are immense, hav- 
 ing received the enthusiastic endorsement of the 
 larger part of his party in the Republican State 
 Convention for the nomination for President of 
 the United States. 
 
 Governor Bradley is a man of fine legal ability 
 and executive finesse. He is a fluent and attrac- 
 tive public speaker and possesses in an eminent 
 degree that quality which is known as personal 
 magnetism. Although he cannot be called a 
 personally aggressive man, yet he has strong con- 
 victions upon what he conceives to be right and 
 necessary and has the courage and independence 
 to maintain his opinions. 
 
 He was married July 13, 1867, to Rlargaret 
 Robertson Duncan, daughter of Dr. B. F. Dun- 
 can and a grand-niece of Chief Justice Robert- 
 son. She is a most intellectual and charming 
 woman, fully qualified for her dignified position 
 in the governor's mansion and in Frankfort 
 society. 
 
 ROBERT M'AFEE BRADLEY, father of 
 Governor William O. Bradley, was born in 
 Madison County, Kentucky, March 27, 1808, and 
 died in Lancaster, August 31, 1881. Of the great 
 lawyers who were schooled and experienced in 
 land legislation in the immediate history of Ken- 
 tucky, none were more able or successful than 
 Robert M. Bradley. So successful was he in his 
 special work as land attorney that his opponents 
 gave him the name of "land pirate." 
 
 In one of his many important land suits, forty 
 witnesses were summoned by the defense and 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 testified that the survey in question was made 
 only ten years before. The only evidence Mr. 
 Bradley introduced were blocks cut from the 
 identified corner trees, showing the annulations 
 since the marks were made. Standing before the 
 jury with one of these blocks in his hand, and 
 facing the court, he said: "I rely, not upon the 
 testimony of man, the frail creature of the hour; 
 influence, money or fear may corrupt him or 
 warp his judgment. I offer the testimony of the 
 Most Hig'h! Since these trees were marked by 
 the surveyor's tomahawk, year by year, with His 
 own immortal finger, He has drawn a line indi- 
 cating the passing time. Tempest or sunshine, 
 rain or storm, that invisible hand, with unerring 
 certainty, recorded the fleeting years amid the 
 stillness of the forest. No money can change, no 
 power can warp the testimony. Not all the wa- 
 ters of the ocean can wipe it out. God placed 
 it there, and there it must remain as long as 
 those majestic trees lift their heads toward the 
 skies. Here are the thirty lines drawn by the 
 Divine hand! Which will you believe — the evi- 
 dence of God or man?" The jury found a verdict 
 for Mr. Bradley's client. 
 
 Mr. Bradley was never a candidate, and he had 
 no desire for office, giving little care to matters 
 outside of his profession, except his ardent advo- 
 cacy in public and private of popular education. 
 He was a man of very positive character, elo- 
 quent and majestic, and wielded a great power 
 over a jury. 
 
 GEN. JOHN CABELL BRECKINRIDGE, 
 only son of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, a 
 distinguished lawyer and politician, who, at twen- 
 ty-nine, was twice speaker of the Kentucky house 
 of representatives, and secretary of state for three 
 years before his death at the early age of thirty- 
 five, and grandson of John Breckinridge, who 
 before his death at forty-five had twice been 
 speaker of the Kentucky house of representa- 
 tives, United States Senator, and attorney gen- 
 eral of the United States in the cabinet of Presi- 
 dent Thomas Jefferson, was born in Lexington, 
 Kentucky, January 15, 1821; graduated at Cen- 
 ter College, Danville, September, 1839; adopted 
 the profession of law; practiced for avi^hile at 
 
 Burlington, Iowa, but returned to Lexington; 
 was major of Third Regiment Kentucky Volun- 
 teers in the Mexican war, September, 1847-48; 
 represented Fayette County in the legislature of 
 Kentucky, 1849. This was his introduction into 
 political life. He rose rapidly. In 1851 he was 
 elected to the Federal Congress from the Ash- 
 land district after an exciting contest over Gen. 
 Leslie Combs. . The district was Whig, and Gen. 
 Combs the devoted friend of Henry Clay. 
 Breckinridge's chances were deemed hopeless; 
 but his talent, his winning manners, together with 
 his vigorous canvass, overcame all obstacles. He 
 v/as triumphantly elected. He was re-elected in 
 1853, defeating ex-Gov. Robert P. Letcher, whom 
 the opposition had put forward as their strongest 
 man. The struggle in this canvass was even 
 more protracted and violent than in the first race, 
 but with precisely the same result. He retired 
 from public life in 1855, having previously been 
 tendered by President Pierce the mission to 
 Spain, which he declined. In 1856 he was elected 
 Vice President, in conjunction with Mr. Buchan- 
 an as President, and before the expiration of his 
 term of service the Kentucky legislature elected 
 him United States Senator, to succeed Mr. Crit- 
 tenden for six years from March 4, 1861. 
 
 He announced his purpose of appealing to 
 the sword, resigned his commission as United 
 States Senator to the people of Kentucky, refus- 
 ing to recognize a legislature overawed by bayo- 
 nets, and called on the Kentuckians to make 
 common cause with the South. He was ap- 
 pointed brigadier general, and at once placed by 
 Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston in command of a 
 brigade at Bowling Green. When the army fell 
 back, Gen. Breckinridge's command formed part 
 of the forces which made that wonderful retreat 
 to Corinth, Mississippi. At Shiloh, in the crit- 
 ical charge where was lost the life of that great 
 soldier, Albert Sidney Johnston, Gen. Breckin- 
 ridge was there, animating his untried troops to 
 deeds of daring and valor. Again he was called 
 upon to cover the retreat of the army, a duty 
 which was . skillfully and efficiently executed. 
 And the same service was repeated when the 
 Confederates evacuated Corinth. 
 
 Breckinridge had now been promoted major 
 
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 general, and commanded a division. In June, 
 
 1862, he was ordered to Vicksburg, and with 
 his command successfully resisted the memorable 
 bombardment of that important point, which was 
 kept up during the month of July. The enemy, 
 foiled in the attempt to capture Vicksburg, re- 
 tired. Gen. Breckinridge was next ordered to 
 take Baton Rouge, which was then occupied by 
 the Federals. Although greatly outnumbered, he 
 drove the enemy from his camps, which he de- 
 stroyed and forced them to take shelter under 
 cover of their gunboats. Th& Confederate ram 
 Arkansas was to co-operate in this attack, but 
 the disaster which destroyed it rendered further 
 operations by the land forces impracticable, and 
 the Confederates retired unmolested. 
 
 On August 17, 1862, Gen. Breckinridge took 
 possession of Port Hudson, and discovering its 
 military strength, urged its defense as very im- 
 portant to the policy of holding the Mississippi 
 river. Acting upon positive orders, Gen. Breck- 
 inridge, with his gallant Kentucky brigade (which 
 followed his banner throughout the war) and 
 some Tennessee troops, marched with alacrity to 
 the succor of Gen. Bragg, who was then in Ken- 
 tucky; but before reaching Cumberland Gap, a 
 communication from Gen. Bragg announced his 
 abandonment of Kentucky. At the battle of 
 Murfreesboro, or Stone River, January 2 follow- 
 ing. Gen. Breckinridge, by orders, led his division 
 "into the jaws of death." He assailed an impreg- 
 nable position of the enemy, losing 1,700 men 
 out of less than 7,000. It was a fearful sacrifice, 
 for which Breckinridge was in no measure re- 
 sponsible. Nevertheless, upon his command 
 again devolved the arduous duty of covering the 
 retreat of Bragg's broken army. 
 
 He continued with the Army of the Tennessee 
 
 . until May 25, 1863, when he was ordered to join 
 
 Gen. Joseph Johnston in Mississippi. It was his 
 
 command which gallantly repelled the assault 
 
 of the enemy on Jackson, Mississippi, July 17, 
 
 1863. Shortly afterwards he again returned to 
 Bragg's command, participated in the battle of 
 Chickamauga, and commanded a corps at the 
 battle of Missionary Ridge, which was fought 
 November 25, 1863. 
 
 After consultation with the president, he was 
 
 ordered to southwest Virginia, and assumed com- 
 mand March 3, 1864. While engaged in duty in 
 his department, he was suddenly called upon by 
 General Lee to march with all his available force 
 to Staunton and the Shenandoah Valley to check 
 the movement of Gen. Franz Sigel. On May 
 15th he attacked the general at New Market, 
 and routed him, after a brilliant engagement. 
 The Federal general was driven in full retreat 
 to Winchester, but rendered pursuit impossible 
 by burning the bridges in his rear. Gen. Lee 
 sent Breckinridge a congratulatory dispatch, and 
 an order to join him forthwith at Hanover Junc- 
 tion. The order was promptly obeyed, and Gen. 
 Breckinridge's forces protected the rear of Lee's 
 army and his line of communication when Sheri- 
 dan made his great raid. He remained with Gen. 
 Lee's army and bore a conspicuous part in the 
 battle of Cold Harbor, fought June 2, 1864, when 
 the Federal army was repulsed with fearful 
 slaughter. Subsequently, in conjunction with 
 Gen. Jubal Early, he foiled Gen. David Hunter 
 in his attempt to capture Lynchburg, and pur- 
 sued that officer into the mountains. 
 
 Gen. Breckinridge's troops were then incor- 
 porated with Gen. Early's, and he was placed in 
 command of a corps. They next prepared for 
 operations in Maryland, Virginia and the District 
 of Columbia. On June 22 they took up the line 
 of March. July 3, 1864, Breckinridge's com- 
 mand captured Martinsburg; July 5 the whole 
 army crossed the Potomac at Shepherdstown ; 
 July 9 Breckinridge defeated and routed Gen. 
 Lew Wallace at Monocacy, which left the way 
 open to Washington. On the nth the Confed- 
 erates reached Silver Spring, only six miles from 
 the Federal City, and within sight of the dome 
 of the capitol. Skirmishing occurred the next 
 day; but that night Gen. Early, for prudential 
 reasons, ordered a retreat — re-crossing the Poto- 
 mac at Edwards' Ferry on the night of the 13th. 
 Gen. Breckinridge remained in the Valley, par- 
 ticipating in the serious engagements there 
 fought. 
 
 But a few days after the battle of Winchester he 
 received orders from Richmond to return to 
 southwest Virginia, which he did in time to repel 
 the Federal forces which, under Gen. Stephen G. 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 577 
 
 Burbridg-e, were operating in that quarter. He 
 continued in command of this department until 
 February 4, 1865, when he was appointed Sec- 
 retary of War, to succeed Hon. James A. Sed- 
 don, and was thus engaged to the close of the war. 
 After the fall of Richmond, and the collapse of 
 the Confederacy he made his way to the Florida 
 coast, whence he escaped in a small boat and 
 reached Cuba in safety. He visited Canada and 
 Europe, and returned to his home, at Lexington, 
 Kentucky, a year or more afterward. Avoiding 
 all political comphcations, he thenceforth devoted 
 himself exclusively to his profession, and to busi- 
 ness engagements as vice-president of the Eliza- 
 bethtown, Lexington & Big Sandy Railroad. 
 Like the great chieftain of the "Lost Cause," his 
 course was singularly modest, retiring and pru- 
 dent — deferential, in a marked degree, to that 
 proscriptive policy of the party in power which 
 deprived the nation, however unwisely, of the 
 safe counsels of men of his stamp. Had a more 
 liberal policy obtained, the eloquent voice of John 
 C. Breckinridge would have been heard once 
 more. But he died, all too soon, on Monday, 
 May 17, 1875, aged fifty-four; shortly after a 
 visit from Hon. Henry Wilson, then Vice-Presi- 
 dent of the United States — whose own near ap- 
 proach to the grave seemed to relax somewhat of 
 the unforgivingness of his party friends toward 
 the dying statesman and soldier. 
 
 GOVERNOR JAMES CLARK, the son of 
 Robert and Susan Clark, was born in 1779, 
 in Bedford County, Virginia. His father emi- 
 grated from Virginia to Kentucky at a very early 
 period, and settled in Clark County, near the 
 Kentucky River. The subject of this notice re- 
 ceived the principal part of his education under 
 Dr. Blythe, afterwards a professor in Transyl- 
 vania University. He studied law with his broth- 
 er. Christian Qark, a very distinguished law- 
 yer of Virginia. When he had qualified himself 
 to discharge the duties of his profession, he re- 
 turned to Kentucky, and commenced the practice 
 of the law in Winchester, in 1797. 
 
 He was several times elected a member of the 
 State Legislature, in which body he soon at- 
 tained a high and influential position. In 1810, 
 37 
 
 he was appointed a judge of the Court of Appeals, 
 and acted in that capacity for about two years. In 
 1812, he was elected to Congress, and served 
 from the 4th of March, 1813, until March, 1816. 
 In 181 7 he received an appointment as Judge of 
 the Circuit Court, for the judicial district in which 
 he resided, which station he filled with great abil- 
 ity, and to the general satisfaction of the public, 
 till the year 1824, when he resigned. 
 
 In 1825, he was elected to Congress to fill the 
 vacancy occasioned by Mr. Clay's appointment as 
 Secretary of State, and continued to represent the 
 Fayette District in that body until 1831. In 1832, 
 he was elected to the Senate of Kentucky, and 
 was chosen speaker in the place of Mr. Morehead, 
 who was then acting as Governor, in the place 
 of Governor Breathitt, deceased. He was elected 
 Governor of Kentucky in August, 1836, and died 
 on the 27th of September, 1839, in his sixtieth 
 year. 
 
 GOVERNOR CHRISTOPHER GREEN- 
 UP was born about the year 1750, in the 
 then colony of Virginia. When the American 
 Revolution occurred, he was in the prime of 
 youth. It was not in his nature to see his coun- 
 try engaged in such a struggle without engaging 
 in it himself. He accordingly devoted his youth 
 to her cause, and was one of the soldiers and 
 heroes of that great conflict ; and passed through 
 its scenes of trial and hardship, acting well his 
 part, and winning no small share of that honor 
 which crowned the triumph of the American 
 arms. In the bloody war which took place be- 
 tween the pioneers of the West and the Indian 
 tribes, he also bore a part, and brought into 
 active service against that formidable foe the 
 skill which he had acquired during the Revolu- 
 tion. To the dangers of such a warfare he freely 
 exposed his life, and risked, with a manly and 
 brave heart, all its perils. After thus gaining 
 for himself considerable distinction in arms, he 
 settled in Kentucky, and on the 4th of March, 
 1783, was sworn in as an attorn ey-at-law in the 
 old court for the district of Kentucky, estab- 
 lished by an act of the Virginia legislature. On 
 the i8th day of March, 1785, he was appointed 
 the clerk of that court, which office he held dur- 
 
578 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 ing the existence of the court. In 1792 he was 
 elected a member of Congress, and served as 
 such until the year 1797. After this he filled 
 the office of clerk of the senate of Kentucky to 
 within a short time of his election as governor, 
 which occurred in August, 1804. For four years 
 he discharged the duties of this office with high 
 honor and credit, both to himself and the state 
 over which he presided. At the expiration of 
 his gubernatorial term, he was elected to the 
 legislature from the county of Franklin. In 1812 
 he acted as a justice of the peace for the same 
 county. He served also many years as a di- 
 rector in the old Bank of Kentucky; and, after 
 a long Hfe of public service to his country, he 
 died on the 27th of April, 1818, in the sixty-ninth 
 year of his age. 
 
 WILLIAM PULASKI WALTON, Editor 
 of the Interior Journal, Stanford, Ken- 
 tucky, son of Thomas R. and Isabella Turner 
 Walton, was born in Louisa County, Virginia, 
 and educated partly in the common schools there, 
 his studies being interrupted by the war between 
 the states. 
 
 He remained at home during his father's ab- 
 sence in the Confederate army, but afterwards 
 attended a college in Baltimore, Maryland. 
 
 He was deputy sheriff for two years, and depu- 
 ty county clerk of Hanover County, Virginia, 
 for some time. In 1871 he engaged in railroad 
 enterprises, being a contractor on the Chesapeake 
 & Ohio Railroad in Virginia and West Virginia, 
 building a number of miles of that road; and 
 was subsequently engaged in the same capacity 
 with the Baltimore & Ohio and Cincinnati South- 
 ern Railroad, building in all about forty miles of 
 road. 
 
 February 5, 1875, he bought the Interior Jour- 
 nal at Stanford, Kentucky. He has a peculiar 
 and marked adaptiveness to newspaper work and 
 has brought to his editorial chair a pen in touch 
 with the finer sentiments of humanity that is the 
 open sesame to the public confidence and general 
 usefulness. As an editor, Mr. Walton is a mod- 
 ern Chevalier de Bayard, "sans peur et sans re- 
 proche," conscious of his own integrity and 
 guided by a singly defined principle of action; 
 
 he is uncompromising in his maintenance of what 
 he conceives to be the right, feeling that the 
 welfare of the masses depends upon the measure 
 of the personal responsibility of the individual. 
 His pen is a terror to evil-doers, and his gen- 
 erous and independent conceptions of true citi- 
 zenship, irrespective of class or conditions, are 
 encouragement to the right minded. 
 
 In his management of the Interior Journal he 
 is the fin-de-siecle reporter, realizing that the 
 newspaper is the mouth-piece of the people and 
 that its function is to truthfully chronicle current 
 events, the result of operative causes, by catching 
 the fire of their passing and bringing humanity 
 in touch with the hopes, ambitions, privileges and 
 misfortunes of its kind. In consequence of Mr. 
 Walton's methods, the Interior Journal is a most 
 substantial and influential semi-weekly paper, and 
 is the most widely circulated newspaper in the 
 state outside, of course, of the larger cities. 
 
 Mr. Walton is especially strong in his friend- 
 ships, will go to the same lengths for his friends 
 that he would like to have them go for him, and 
 for those who are fortunate enough to enjoy his 
 friendship, his sympathy and unselfish personal 
 interest are like a brother's. He is thoroughly in 
 accord with the spirit of Masonry, and is a mem- 
 ber of that order. In politics he is a Democrat, 
 and of course a partisan; he feels too deeply not 
 to advocate strongly, but he aims to be just and 
 even generous in his estimates of men and of en- 
 vironments that largely determine action. 
 
 Mr. Walton has made money in the newspaper 
 business where others would have failed, and has 
 investments in other enterprises in and around 
 Stanford ; is the owner of the opera house and of 
 other real property in that city; is interested in 
 a Land Association in the eastern part of the 
 state, and is a stockholder and director in several 
 corporations. 
 
 He was married to Kate Huffman in Septem- 
 ber, 1875, who died May 6, 1892. In June, 1895, 
 he was again married, his wife being Miss Mattie 
 Owsley, daughter of Hon. John S. Owsley, Sr., 
 of Lincoln County. 
 
 An eminent journalist of Louisville has paid 
 the following tribute to the editor of the Interior 
 Journal; 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 579 
 
 "Mr. Walton combines the dual faculties of a 
 reporter and an editor in a stronger degree than 
 any other man I know in Kentucky journalism. 
 He and Emmett Logan, I should say, stand at the 
 head. He' has that nose for news which marks 
 the true newspaper man, and when news has 
 been collected he never hesitates to print it be- 
 cause it may not meet the approval of some mag- 
 nate of his section. On the contrary, he gives 
 it that prominence in his paper to which it may 
 be entitled, and then writes an editorial com- 
 ment upon it which usually reaches the very 
 marrow of it. Walton is not learned in courtly 
 phrases and his paper is not crowded with them. 
 Yet he is a Virginia gentleman, and higher praise 
 than this cannot be accorded. In all the years 
 of his newspaper career it is doubtful if he ever 
 wrote a sentence from mere wantonness. Yet 
 he can be merciless when the cold letter of the 
 law requires that he shall be so. If the circum- 
 stances demand the use of a bludgeon for the 
 coarse offender, who would appreciate no other 
 punishment, he has that bludgeon ready. If a 
 rapier touch, keen, delicate and deadly, will bet- 
 ter reach the vital point, there is in Kentucky 
 journalism no defter hand than his. Utterly free 
 from bombast or bravado, he is wholly without 
 fear; gentle in thought and manner as the cav- 
 aliers of whose long line he proves so honorable 
 a part; he is careless of danger and brooks no 
 demand upon him for the suppression of the 
 news, or the withholding of his honest opinions. 
 As a conservator of the peace, a promoter of the 
 best interest of society, the Stanford Interior Jour- 
 nal, under the management of Mr. Walton, has 
 been equal to any twenty sheriffs in the counties 
 about him ; the superior of any regiment of state 
 troops. Defying crime, whether in high or low 
 places, and demanding that it meet its reward, 
 he has made murder infamous and brought its 
 direst punishment into fashion. No higher praise 
 can be accorded this modest gentleman than to 
 say that he is alike feared and respected by that 
 class against whom his most earnest warfare has 
 been waged. 
 
 "Walton is a partisan, as men of his tempera- 
 ment always are, but he is a very fair one. Ever 
 ready and anxious to fight the battles of his party, 
 
 he numbers among his friends many who hold 
 opposing political opinions, and none among 
 these can say that he ever sought or accepted 
 an unfair advantage. He is a fair fighter and 
 gives and takes his blows like the fearless gentle- 
 man that he is. 
 
 "His friendship is so warm, constant and de- 
 voted that I can find no words in which to de- 
 scribe it. It is enough to say that to those who 
 have come within the charmed circle that encloses 
 his intimates, he is a brother indeed and in fact." 
 
 Thomas R. Walton (father) was a son of Wil- 
 liam and Mary Warren Walton of English ex- 
 traction, was born June lo, 1822, in Louisa, Vir- 
 ginia. George Walton, one of the signers of the 
 Declaration of Independence, was a near relative 
 of William Walton. Thomas R. Walton was 
 educated in the common schools of Louisa, but 
 removed when a young man to Hanover County, 
 Virginia, and engaged in general farming and 
 stock-raising. He was a Democrat and held a 
 commission as captain in the Confederate army, 
 but on account of delicate health, his service con- 
 sisted principally in raising companies and dril- 
 ling them in military tactics. In 1850 he mar- 
 ried Isabella Lucetta Turner, daughter of Wil- 
 liam Turner, who was -a steamboat owner on 
 the Mississippi river. She was born in Vicks- 
 burg, Mississippi, September 17, 1825. She and 
 her husband v/ere members of the Methodist 
 Church. 
 
 They had four children: Thomas R. of Flor- 
 ida; Mrs. I. N. Vaughan of Virginia; Edwin 
 Claiborne of Stanford, and William Pulaski Wal- 
 ton. Thomas R. Walton died November 5, 1881, 
 and his wife died April 17, 1877. They are buried 
 side by side at the old homestead in Hanover 
 County, Virginia. 
 
 CHARLES WILLIAM WHITE, Repre- 
 sentative from Hardin County to the Ken- 
 tucky Legislature, son of Benjamin F. and Jane 
 (Pemberton) White, was born in Shelby County, 
 Kentucky, September 27, 1857. He was edu- 
 cated in the common schools in Shelby County, 
 and afterwards engaged in mercantile business. 
 He is a Democrat of the most pronounced and 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 uncompromising convictions ; was elected to the 
 Legislature from Hardin County, Kentucky, in 
 1892, and was re-elected in 1895. He has only 
 resided in Hardin County six years and during 
 that time has been chosen twice by the people of 
 the county to represent them in the Legislature. 
 
 He was married on November 24, 1886, to Fan- 
 nie Shaw, daughter of Judge J. R. Shaw. She was 
 born February 28, 1871. Their only child, born 
 September n, 1887, is now attending the school 
 at Elizabethtown. Mr. and Mrs: White are mem- 
 bers of the Methodist Church.' 
 
 Benjamin F. White (father) was born in Wheel- 
 ing, West Virginia, February 15, 1804, and was 
 educated there in the common schools. He was 
 a^stage contractor by occupation and a Demo- 
 crat in politics. He came to Virginia when quite 
 young, and during the latter part of his life he 
 was proprietor of a hotel at Graefenberg, Ken- 
 tucky. In his religious views he held to the be- 
 lief of the Methodist denomination. Mr. White 
 was a man of great social prominence and noted 
 for his strong character. 
 
 Jane Pemberton White (mother), daughter of 
 Richardson Pemberton and Sarah Hoell Pem- 
 berton, was born in Franklin County, June 15, 
 1836, and educated there. She was well known 
 as "Aunt Jane White," and was noted for her 
 sympathy, religion and hospitality. Her home 
 was always a welcome haven for the Methodist 
 preachers, to which denomination she belonged. 
 
 J ALEXANDER IRELAND, M. D., of 
 . Louisville, son of William Ireland and 
 Jane Stone, was born in Jefferson County, Ken- 
 tucky, September 15, 1824. He received a good 
 English education, with a fair knowledge of Latin 
 and Greek; and at the age of seventeen began 
 the study of medicine in the office of Dr. James 
 F. Pendergrast in Jefiferson County, and con- 
 tinued his medical studies under Doctors Bullitt 
 and Cummins in Louisville; attended the lectures 
 in the medical department of the University of 
 Louisville in 1845-6, and, after continued study 
 and careful preparation, attended a further course 
 in the Kentucky School of Medicine, from which 
 he graduated in 1851. 
 
 He began the practice of his profession in 
 Louisville and remained in that city until 1854, 
 when he removed to his farm in the county and 
 practiced in that vicinity until 1864, at which time 
 he was elected to the chair of Obstetrics and 
 Gynaecology in the Kentucky School of Medi- 
 cine. In order to fill this appointment he again 
 became a resident of Louisville, and was professor 
 in the Kentucky School of Medicine until that 
 college was merged into the University of Louis- 
 ville, and was then elected professor of CHnical 
 Medicine in the university. 
 
 Upon the re-establishment of the Kentucky 
 School of Medicine, he resumed his former chair 
 in that institution, which he occupied until 1870, 
 when he was elected to a similar chair in the 
 Louisville Medical College, and has remained in 
 connection with that college until the present 
 time, having recently been elected Emeritus Pro- 
 fessor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, with full 
 pay and no work! During his long connection 
 with the Louisville Medical College, he served for 
 a period of fourteen years as dean of the college, 
 and while acting as professor in this institution 
 he was elected to the chair of Gynaecology and 
 Paedology in the Kentucky School of Medicine, 
 with which he had been connected formerly, but 
 declined the honor. From this it will be seen 
 that of the forty-five years of Dr. Ireland's pro- 
 fessional life, he has given a third of a century 
 to the training of others in the science of medi- 
 cine. But this constitutes only a small part of the 
 labor performed in those years, for no one of the 
 many distinguished men of the medical profes- 
 sion in Louisville has stood higher as a family 
 physician, and his large general practice has been 
 conducted with energy and industry and has been 
 attended with a degree of success that has been 
 as gratifying as it has been profitable, and would 
 satisfy the ambition of any man. 
 
 Dr. Ireland's position in the medical societies 
 of his times, his generous and able work in behalf 
 of the local, state and national organizations of 
 which he has been an enthusiastic member, has 
 been generously recognized by the honors which 
 have been conferred upon him from time to time, 
 while his ability as a professor has been attested 
 by the long service which he has rendered in the 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 581 
 
 medical colleges, no less than three different in- 
 stitutions having sought his aid as teacher and 
 professor in chairs of the highest importance- 
 
 In the earlier years of his medical career and 
 prior to his active engagement in the practice of 
 medicine, he was a preacher of the Gospel, having 
 been licensed to preach (1848) in the Baptist 
 Church; and while pursuing his studies and for 
 several years after entering the medical profes- 
 sion, he was an ordained minister and the reg- 
 ularly installed pastor of several of the churches 
 of his denomination, preaching in the Baptist 
 Churches in Jefferson and Bullitt Counties and at 
 Jeffersonville, Indiana. He is a life member of 
 the General Association of Baptists and one of 
 the most substantial, earnest and valuable men 
 in that denomination. 
 
 His literary pursuits have been systematic 
 and thorough and he has grown in the knowledge 
 of men and affairs as he has grown in years; has 
 contributed his share of work for the medical, 
 religious and literary press, accomplishing all this 
 in connection with and in addition to a very active 
 practice of his vocation, in which, alone, he has 
 been a very busy man. 
 
 Of very quiet and retiring disposition, with no 
 attempt at personal display, his work, not yet 
 finished, has been accompHshed quietly and with- 
 out the use of the ordinary and even legitimate 
 means of advertising which are so frequently re- 
 sorted to by ambitious men in the profession. 
 
 Foremost in the medicaV profession, prominent 
 in the church with which he has been connected 
 for near half a century, he has well nigh com- 
 pleted a life work upon which he may look back 
 with pride and satisfaction and with the assurance 
 that he is honored and loved by his associates 
 in the institution in which he has labored longer 
 than any other professor; affectionately remem- 
 bered by his patients who have enjoyed his care 
 as the gentle physician, and known and read of 
 all men as the upright, Christian gentleman, 
 whose example is worthy of imitation. 
 
 Dr. Ireland was married in 1848 to Sarah E. 
 Cooper, daughter of Levin Cooper of Jefferson 
 County, by whom he had one son, Dr. Henry 
 Clay Ireland. He married (second) in 1859 to 
 Susan M. Brown, daughter of Furtney Brown of 
 
 Louisville, and by this marriage has one son, 
 William F. Ireland. 
 
 Dr. Ireland's paternal grandparents were na- 
 tives of Scotland, and his father, William Ireland, 
 was a native of Kentucky, who followed agri- 
 cultural and mechanical pursuits, and was one of 
 the most substantial, upright and useful citizens 
 of Jefferson County, where he lived until a short 
 time before his death, when, his wife having died, 
 he went to live with his son in De Witt, Ark., and 
 died there in 1870. 
 
 Jane Stone Ireland (mother), whose parents 
 were Virginians of English ancestry, was born 
 in Nelson County, Kentucky. Dr. Ireland is 
 the eldest of the four children of William and Jane 
 (Stone) Ireland. 
 
 EDWIN PORTER THOMPSON, educator 
 and author, eldest son of Lewis M. and Mary 
 R. Thompson, was born near Center, Metcalfe 
 County, Kentucky, May 6, 1834. He was left 
 in his twelfth year to the care of a widowed 
 mother, and consequently he was early disciplined 
 in the school of self-reliance, a school that has 
 graduated so many shining examples of American 
 citizenship. 
 
 The bent of his mind was strongly intellectual, 
 and inspired by laudable ambition and a genuine 
 love for learning, he has step by step reached a 
 high rank among the scholars of his native state. 
 He was reared on a farm, but after he was nine- 
 teen years of age he was engaged in teaching 
 principally until i860, when he studied law; but 
 the breaking out of the war between the states 
 prevented his obtaining license at that time. His 
 sympathies were entirely with the South in that 
 fraternal struggle, and feeling that true manli- 
 ness and patriotism called him where his feelings 
 were so warmly enlisted, he entered the Confed- 
 erate army and served until the end of the war 
 in May, 1865. He was twice wounded; was a 
 prisoner for five months, after the battle of Stone 
 River; and after exchange he was promoted to 
 a captaincy on the regimental staff. Sixth Ken- 
 tucky Infantry. 
 
 He then engaged in farming; meanwhile and 
 afterward writing the History of the First Ken- 
 tucky Brigade and editing a magazine. But his 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 most congenial occupation was that of teaching, 
 and for many years he was president of Owen 
 College, Harrisburg, Owen County, one of the 
 most thorough in its various departments and 
 one of the most ably conducted educational in- 
 stitutions in the state. He has made frequent 
 contributions to periodical literature and is the 
 author of an Academic Arithmetic, written be- 
 fore the war. The History of the Kentucky Bri- 
 gade was a work of great labor, being one of the 
 most complete and valuable among the records 
 of the late war, and for its incident and senti- 
 ment peculiarly gratifying to the survivors of the 
 famous historic body of Southern soldiers called 
 "The Orphan Brigade." 
 
 In October, 1888, he was appointed by Gov- 
 ernor Buckner to fill a vacancy in the office of 
 state librarian; in March, 1890, was made pri- 
 vate secretary to Governor Buckner, which place 
 he filled during the remainder of Buckner's term ; 
 was elected superintendent of public instruction 
 in August, 1891, which responsible position he 
 filled for four years and four months, discharging 
 the duties of the office with marked ability, and 
 it may truly be said that no other man has done 
 so much for the common schools of Kentucky. 
 He is a genial, sociable gentleman, an engaging 
 conversationalist, and impresses all who know 
 him as possessing unusual qualities of head and 
 heart. In his religious views he is a Baptist. 
 
 He married April 22, 1858, Marcella P. 
 Thompson, a daughter of Nathan and Eliza 
 (Stringer) Thompson. 
 
 Lewis Morgan Thompson (father) was born 
 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and was brought 
 to this state by his parents in 181 5, when less than 
 three years old. 
 
 His mother, Mary R. Thompson, was born and 
 reared at Mt. Airy, the old family seat of her 
 father, Waddy Thompson, in Metcalfe County. 
 Her parents came from Pittsylvania County, Vir- 
 ginia, in 1809. 
 
 The following respecting Captain Thompson's 
 present work is taken from the Louisville Times 
 of January 27, 1896: 
 
 "The Hon. Ed Porter Thompson, ex-superin- 
 tendent of public instruction, has long been col- 
 lecting material for a work which will be a most 
 
 important addition to the annals of Kentucky. 
 Interest in the great struggle of 1861-65 seems 
 rather to increase than diminish as Jhe years go 
 by, and the extraordinary part played by Ken- 
 tuckians is a theme which should receive thought- 
 ful investigation and be put to permanent record 
 before the actors therein have all passed away. 
 
 "Capt. Thompson is as seduously engaged in 
 this work on behalf of those who espoused the 
 Southern cause as he was during his term of 
 ofifice in meeting every demand of that position. 
 Though his admiration of these men amounts to 
 enthusiasm, his work will not tend to provoke 
 bitterness or keep alive any feeling of ahenation 
 consequent upon the dififerent course adopted by 
 Kentuckians of that period, but will be rather a 
 contribution to the history of the state, by a man 
 of broad and liberal views, which will increase 
 the pride of the whole people in the renown 
 which Kentucky has won upon the battlefields of 
 the Republic. The civil (no less remarkable than 
 the military) history of these men since the close 
 of the war will receive special attention. The 
 work will be in three volumes, denominated 'A 
 History of Kentucky Soldiers in the Confederate 
 Army,' the first of which will be the re-written 
 history of the 'Orphan Brigade,' including Helm's 
 cavalry regiment; the second, of the five infantry 
 regiments whose gallant service has never been 
 put to record, and the third will be devoted to 
 the Kentucky cavalry." 
 
 COLONEL JOHN SMITH HURT, lawyer 
 of Mount Sterling, Kentucky, son of Joshua 
 and Elizabeth (Pebworth) Hurt, was born in 
 Montgomery County, Kentucky, May 21, 1826. 
 He was educated in the common schools of the 
 county and at the academy in Mt. Sterling under 
 Hugh B. Todd and William Raney. He left 
 school at the age of eighteen and went to live with 
 his uncle, Elder John Smith, at Owingsville, Ken- 
 tucky, where he remained until 1846, and at the 
 age of nineteen enlisted for the Mexican War in 
 Captain Turpin's Company, Second Regiment 
 Kentucky Volunteers — a splendid body of men 
 commanded by Colonel McKee — and among 
 numerous other engagements was at the battle of 
 Buena Vista. Henry Clay, Jr., who was Lieu 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 583 
 
 tenant-Colonel of this regiment, rode a white 
 horse, and seeing that it attracted too much at- 
 tention he brought it to Mr. Hurt to hold, but in 
 the emergency of the terrible contest he remount- 
 ed it and was killed soon after. Colonel Hurt re- 
 turned to Owingsville after the war was over and 
 studied law with Hon. Andrew Trumbo for two 
 years and was admitted to the Owingsville bar. 
 During the gold fever in 1849 he accompanied 
 his brother Elisha to California and remained 
 there two years, meeting with reasonable suc- 
 cess. On his return to Owingsville in 1851 he 
 was elected County Attorney and held that office 
 two terms. He continued to practice law with 
 fair success until 1861, when he immediately en- 
 listed, and recruited a regiment at Olympian 
 Springs for the Union army. This regiment was 
 with General Nelson in the Big Sandy River ex- 
 pedition and in a number of small engagements 
 and skirmishes. In June, 1862, he joined Buell's 
 army near Mumfordsville and moved into Ten- 
 nessee, where his regiment took part in the battle 
 of Shiloh. Returning with Buell's army to Ken- 
 tucky in the fall of 1862; he was in the battle 
 of Perry ville in October, 1862, and with General 
 Buell followed Bragg into Tennessee after the 
 battle of Perryville, but was detached from Buell 
 in the winter of 1863 and returned to Kentucky 
 and connected himself with Colonel Walker's 
 regiment of cavalry. They had a slight skirmish 
 with Colonel Cluke's regiment near Mt. Ster- 
 ling and followed that leader as far as Owings- 
 ville when Cluke retired from the state. 
 
 Colonel Hurt was attached to Burnside's army 
 in the summer of 1863 and was with him during 
 his expeditions into East Tennessee. He com- 
 manded the Twenty-fourth Kentucky Volunteer 
 Infantry at the siege of Knoxville, when it was 
 besieged by Longstreet and was with General 
 Sherman on his march from Chattanooga to At- 
 lanta. He was in the battle of Resaca, where he 
 commanded a brigade consisting of four regi- 
 ments — the Twenty-fourth Kentucky, Sixty- 
 third Indiana, One Hundred and Third Ohio and 
 a Tennessee regiment — and of the eighteen hun- 
 dred men in his command he lost five hundred 
 and ninety-two. It was his brigade that captured 
 the first line of works at Resaca. He was also en- 
 
 gaged at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain near 
 Atlanta and was in the battles around Atlanta, in- 
 cluding the battle of Jonesboro, finally capturing 
 the city. 
 
 Upon being mustered out in 1865 he returned 
 to Owingsville and resumed the practice of law. 
 He was a candidate for the Legislature on the con- 
 servative or Democratic ticket August, 1865, but 
 was defeated — because of his advocacy of the re- 
 peal of the expatriation law depriving those who 
 had been engaged on the Southern side during the 
 war between the states, of citizenship — this to- 
 gether with his opposition to the posting of sol- 
 diers at the polls to prevent Colonel Hurt's friends 
 from voting caused his defeat. In 1883 he was 
 again nominated by the Democrats to represent 
 the Ninth District and was again defeated, after 
 which he retired from politics. He removed to 
 Mt. Sterling in 1889, where he now resides and 
 is engaged in a lucrative practice. He was en- 
 gaged in the Rebecca Hamilton will case and in 
 the criminal case of William N. Smoot, the Com- 
 monwealth vs. Adam Trimble, and for the Com- 
 monwealth vs. F. M. Ewing, executor of A. J. 
 Ewing, which involved the sum of $44,000, to- 
 gether with other cases of importance. Col. Hurt 
 has never married. 
 
 His father, Joshua Hurt, was born in Spartan- 
 burg District, South Carolina, in 1790. He first 
 settled in Fayettesville, Tennessee, and fought un- 
 der Jackson at the battle of New Orleans. He re- 
 moved from Tennessee to Montgomery Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, near Mt. Sterling, in 1820; to San- 
 gamon County, Illinois, in 1830 or 1831, and 
 was a member of Lincoln's company in the 
 Black Hawk War. He was a member of the 
 Christian Church and a devoted friend of Elder 
 John Smith, his brother-in-law. He died in Illi- 
 nois in 1831, and after his death his wife returned 
 to her father's home in Kentucky. 
 
 He married twice, and the children by his first 
 wife were: Berryman, Rebecca, Alfred, Moses, 
 Elisha and John. He was married (second) in 
 1823 to EHzabeth Pebworth, and the children by 
 this marriage were: William P., John S., James 
 and Harvey G. Joshua Hurt voted for Jackson 
 because he was a soldier under him, but he was 
 always a Whig in politics, _ 
 
S84 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Elizabeth Pebworth Hurt (mother) was born in 
 Norfolk, Virginia,. in 1802. She came when very 
 young to Kentucky with her parents, who crossed 
 the Allegheny Mountains in 1803 and settled in 
 Montgomery County, Kentucky, three miles from 
 Mt. Sterling, where her father purchased a small 
 farm and where the descendants of his daughters 
 still live. The name itself has no male repre- 
 sentatives. Elizabeth Pebworth Hurt died in 
 April, 1885. She was a member of the Christian 
 Church. 
 
 Of the children of Joshua by Iiis first marriage, 
 first, Berryman, eldest son, was reared in Mt. 
 Sterling, Kentucky, and was married three times. 
 First, to a sister of Judge N. P. Reid ; second, to 
 Miss True of Fayette County; third, to Miss Ber- 
 ry of Bath County. In 1865 he moved to San- 
 gamon County, Illinois, and died during a visit to 
 Kentucky in 1888. 
 
 Second, Rebecca married a Mr. Pendleton, who 
 was assassinated at Flemingsburg in 1835; third, 
 Moses died in early manhood; fourth, EHsha 
 grew up in Mt. Sterling and married Miss Belt of 
 Flemingsburg, who died of cholera in 1833. He 
 afterwards married Miss Lee of Mason County 
 and they removed to Pike County, IlHnois, and 
 resided there until his death. He was a farmer, 
 but in 1849 he crossed the plains with his half- 
 brother, John S., and afterwards went into mer- 
 chandising and accummulated quite a fortune. 
 He returned to Pike County, Illinois, and was 
 Captain and Quartermaster in General Grant's 
 army at Fort Donelson and Shiloh, and was 
 wounded at the latter place. He was the Sheriff 
 of Pike County, Illinois, and held the office two 
 terms. Fifth, John was born in Tennessee and 
 reared in Montgomery County, Kentucky. He 
 went to Texas in 1836, and served under General 
 Sam Houston at the battle of San Jacinto. Fie 
 returned to Illinois and afterwards was Captain of 
 a company in Col. Baker's Regiment in the Mexi- 
 can war. His company captured General Santa 
 Ana's carriage after the General had escaped on 
 one of the mules taken from the carriage. John 
 Hurt went to California in 1850, and returned to 
 Logan County, Illinois, and was Sheriff of that 
 county one term. He married Miss McGraw of 
 that county, and he died in 1856. 
 
 The children of Joshua Hurt and Elizabeth Peb- 
 worth (second wife) were : First, William P., who 
 was born and attained manhood in Montgomery 
 County; married Katharine Bruton of Montgom- 
 ery County; removed to Greencastle, Indiana, in 
 1 851; remained there one year and removed to 
 Boone County, Missouri, and became first pro- 
 fessor of mathematics in the Christian Female 
 Seminary, Columbia, Missouri. He afterwards 
 became its President and conducted the insti- 
 tution for about thirty years. He then returned 
 to his farm in Boone County, Missouri, where he 
 now resides. 
 
 Second, John S., the principal subject of this 
 sketch; third, James Hurt, was born and reared 
 in Montgomery County, and removed to Mis- 
 souri when twenty-one years of age; married Miss 
 M. McBride, daughter of Chief Justice McBride 
 of Missouri. She died and he then married Julia 
 Howard of Clay County, Missouri, and removed 
 to Kansas City. He owned a ranch on Cimarron 
 River in Colorado, accumulated a fortune and died 
 in 1883. Fourth, Harvey, was born and reared in 
 Montgomery County and married the widow Lee, 
 whose maiden name was Mason. He was a suc- 
 cessful farmer and owned a large farm three miles 
 north of Mt. Sterling. He died in 1893. His 
 widow and children survive. 
 
 Colonel Hurt's paternal grandfather moved 
 from Virginia to South Carolina and his family 
 were connected with the Methodist Church. Rob- 
 ert Pebworth (maternal grandfather) was a na- 
 tive of Norfolk, Virginia ; and married Anna Mos- 
 ley of that place. His family was of English 
 descent, as were the Hurts. 
 
 The Hurt family has a splendid record as sol- 
 diers, citizens, lawyers, business men, educators, 
 philanthropists and ministers of the Gospel. 
 Wherever they have pitched their tents they have 
 been known for their honor and sturdy citizen- 
 ship. 
 
 WATTS PARKER, Judge of the Twenty- 
 second Judicial District of Kentucky, was 
 born February 23, 1848, in the village of Athens, 
 ten miles east of Lexington, Kentucky. His 
 early education was limited to the schools of the 
 village and vicinity, and this education was dis- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 585 
 
 continued before he was fifteen years old. At the 
 age of seventeen he conceived the idea of becom- 
 ing a physician, and to obtain means to enable 
 him to attend medical lectures, he engaged in a 
 small grocery business in his native village and 
 read medicine until he was twenty, attending one 
 course of medical lectures, dviring this period, at 
 the Miami Medical College. At the age of twen- 
 ty he abandoned the study of medicine, and at 
 twenty-one engaged in a small mercantile busi- 
 ness in Lexington, and there began the study of 
 law. He soon returned to Athens, resumed busi- 
 ness at that place, and there continued the study 
 of law. In August, 1870, he was examined by 
 Chief Justice Robertson for a license to practice 
 law, and a license was granted by Judge Rob- 
 ertson and Judge Peters. Removing to Lexing- 
 ton in 1872, he began the practice of law, at- 
 tended the Law School of Kentucky University 
 in 1872 and '73 and received a diploma of that 
 institution. In 1874 he was admitted to a part- 
 nership with J. R. Morton, and this partnership 
 continued until the latter went upon the bench 
 in 1883. 
 
 During this period the subject of this sketch 
 served a term as city attorney, and was at one 
 time a member of the School Board of Lexington. 
 In 1884 he was appointed master commissioner of 
 the Fayette Circuit Court, and this position he 
 held until January i, 1893. He was a commis- 
 sioner of the Eastern Kentucky Lunatic Asylum 
 for four years, and was president of the Central 
 Bank from its organization until he assumed his 
 duties as judge. 
 
 In November, 1892, he was elected judge of 
 the district composed of the County of Fayette, 
 with the county seat at Lexington, the term for 
 which he was elected beginning January i, 1893, 
 and to continue five years. 
 
 He was married to Miss Bettie Burgin, March 
 7, 1878. Three children, Nellie Burgin, Mary 
 Shepherd and Virginia, are the result of this 
 union. In politics Judge Parker has always been 
 a Democrat. 
 
 His parents were John E. Parker of Caroline 
 and Rebecca Shepherd of Spottsylvania County, 
 Virginia. They emigrated to Kentucky in 1832; 
 his mother died in 1855; his father in 1881. 
 
 When a mere lad John E. Parker served as a sol- 
 dier in a Virginia regiment in the War of 1812. 
 He was a man of unusual energy, force of char- 
 acter and great courage. He was not prosperous 
 in his business and died poor, but enjoyed the 
 full confidence and respect of his fellow citizens. 
 The subject of this sketch was thrown upon his 
 own resources at an early age. He was named 
 after his grandfather, Watts Parker, a native of 
 Virginia and a soldier in the War of the Revo- 
 lution. 
 
 GEORGE ALLISON HOLLAND, an able 
 lawyer of Eminence, Kentucky, son of Wil- 
 liam Allison Holland and Eliza (Van Nuys) Hol- 
 land, was born in Henry County, Kentucky, Sep- 
 tember 8, 1 861. He was educated at Eminence 
 College, graduating in 1880, and the next year 
 entered the Louisville Law School, from which 
 institution he graduated in 1882, and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar the same year. During this 
 time he was a reporter for the Louisville Com- 
 mercial and later was connected with the Courier- 
 Journal in the same capacity. 
 
 In 1883 he went south and practiced law in 
 Chattanooga until 1892 and while there was 
 elected Alderman on the Democratic ticket. In 
 1889 he turned his attention to journalism and 
 from 1889 to 1892 he was editor and proprietor of 
 the Sunday Argus, a political organ published at 
 Chattanooga. 
 
 Mr. Holland has always been greatly interested 
 in politics, but too much engrossed in the legiti- 
 mate practice of his profession to care for office. 
 From 1892 to 1895 he traveled with his invahd 
 wife through Mexico and the United States. He 
 is a member of the Presbyterian Church and of 
 the Masonic Fraternity and is a Knight of 
 Pythias. 
 
 He was married in 1886 to Jean Neilson Gil- 
 lespie of Chattanooga, daughter of Dr. Joseph 
 and Penelope (Whiteside) Gillespie. She received 
 her education at Vassar College and with her hus- 
 band is a member of the Presbyterian Church. 
 They have no children. 
 
 William A. Holland (father) was born March, 
 1825, in Edinburg, Indiana. He is a Mason and 
 a member of the Christian Church. His wife is 
 
586 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 also a member of this denomination. Mr. Hol- 
 land is a Democrat of the old school. In 1868 he 
 established the "Constitutionalist" at Eminence, 
 Kentucky, and is still owner and editor of that 
 newspaper. It is probably the only paper of its 
 age in the interior of the state that has never 
 changed management since it was first estab- 
 lished. 
 
 George B. Holland (grandfather) was the eld- 
 est son of John and Sarah Jones Holland. He 
 was born at Wellsburg, Virginia, May 26, 1806, 
 and married Rebecca French, who was born in 
 Ohio, August 9, 1808. She was the daughter of 
 Samuel and Elizabeth French, both of whom were 
 natives of Pennsylvania. 
 
 John Holland (great-grandfather) was born in 
 Baltimore, Maryland. His father was one of three 
 brothers who came from England and settled re- 
 spectively in Maryland, Virginia and South Caro- 
 lina, from whom are descended the Hollands of 
 those states. The celebrated author. Dr. J. G. 
 Holland, belonged to the Virginia branch. 
 
 The Hollands were closely related to the 
 Crouches. The Rev. Ben T. Crouch, a noted 
 Methodist divine, revered and honored by the 
 earlier Methodists in Kentucky, was a first cousin 
 of Rev. George B. Holland. His brother. Dr. 
 John W. Holland of Indianapolis, was noted for 
 his scholarly attainments and professional skill. 
 
 Of Mr. Holland's mother's family an old rec- 
 ord says: "The name of Van Nuys was taken 
 from the name of a village in Holland. The Van 
 denotes noble rank. Auk Jansen Van Nuys, 
 commonly written in an old record Jans, whose 
 ancestors' birthplace was Nuys, in Groutgen, 
 Holland, and who came from Amsterdam, Hol- 
 land, in 1651, to New Amsterdam, now New 
 York, settled in Flat Brush in 1669. He was 
 made magistrate in 1673 and in 1674 was a dele- 
 gate from the Dutch towns to confer with Gov- 
 ernor Colve. His first wife was Magdelene Pict- 
 erse, who was interred in the burial ground of 
 the Dutch Reformed Church in Brooklyn (now 
 Fulton Street), and from whom descended among 
 others, upon whom no stain rested, Isaac Van 
 Nuys, who married Vrouchie Quick, whose son, 
 James Van Nuys, served in the War of 1812. He 
 married Tiny Bois, daughter of Denina Bois and 
 
 Anna Sebren. Their son, Dennis Bois Van Nuys, 
 married Sally Ann Sams, and their daughter, 
 Eliza Jane Van Nuys (mother) married William 
 Allison Holland, father of George Allison Hol- 
 land. 
 
 "Auk Jansen Van Nuys married (second) Eliza- 
 beth Jans, widow of Jacob Clausens. 
 
 "Of the Van Nuys family five were assassinat- 
 ed by the British during the Revolutionary War. 
 Their names w ere : Margareta, Magdalena, Eliz- 
 abeth, Maria and Jacobus, all children of Janache 
 Ankurts Van Nuys. 
 
 "Maternal branch: Griffin Jones of Virginia, 
 Welsh by descent, married a lady of Irish descent. 
 From them was descended Joseph Kelly, who was 
 Captain in the War of 181 2, and in whose com- 
 pany William O. Butler, afterwards Major-Gen- 
 eral in the United States army, during the Mexi- 
 can War, was orderly sergeant. 
 
 "Captain Joseph Kelly married Elizabeth Mal- 
 lory, whose daughter, Parmelia Kelly, married 
 James Sams of Virginia parentage. Their daugh- 
 ter, Sarah Ann Sams, married Dennis Bois Van 
 Nuys and their daughter, Eliza Jane Van Nuys 
 married William Allison Holland of English de- 
 scent. 
 
 "On the Rhine is Castle Van Nuys, belonging 
 to Count Van Nuys, who was of this same fam- 
 ily." 
 
 The records of the paternal and maternal sides 
 of Mr. Holland's family are very lengthy. On 
 the maternal side is the history showing ances- 
 tors in the Revolutionary War and one uncle, 
 John C. Van Nuys, in the Confederate army. 
 
 WILLIAM SCOTT BARBOUR, deceased, 
 a distinguished attorney-at-law of Ver- 
 sailles, was a son of Philip D. and Fannie B. 
 (Newman) Barbour of Jeflerson County, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 His father was a native of Orange County, Vir- 
 ginia, but was reared in Jefferson County, Ken- 
 tucky, where he was one of the most progressive 
 farmers of his time. He died in 1881, in the sixty- 
 fourth year of his age. He was married (first) to 
 a daughter of Caleb Dorsey of Jefferson County. 
 She has two sons and one daughter: John D. 
 Barbour, who has served two terms as Sheriff of 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 587 
 
 Jefferson County, and is a resident of Louisville; 
 Dr. Philip C. S. Barbour, a resident of Louisville, 
 a practicing physician and superintendent of the 
 Louisville City Hospital; and Mary, deceased, 
 who married J. William Newman. His second 
 wife, Fannie B. Newman, is the mother of eight 
 children: James P. Barbour, deceased, who was 
 cashier of the Bank of Louisville; William Scott 
 Barbour, deceased, subject of this sketch; Rich- 
 ard N. Barbour, general bookkeeper in the Fay- 
 ette National Bank of Lexington; Sallie, de- 
 ceased, who married Dr. Vansant of Mount Ster- 
 ling; Maggie Pollock, wife of Dr. Willis H. Hob- 
 son of Harrods' Creek, Jefiferson County ; Sheri- 
 dan Lee, recently married to Maud Hill of Paris ; 
 Edward R. and Fannie B., who are unmarried 
 and reside in the old homestead in Jefiferson 
 County. 
 
 Philip C. S. Barbour (grandfather) was born in 
 Orange County, Virginia, and came to Kentucky 
 in 1819, locating near the line between Jefferson 
 and Oldham Counties, where he spent the re- 
 mainder of his days on his farm. His death oc- 
 curred in 1861, at the age of seventy-two years. 
 He was a prominent member of the Christian 
 Church, as were his wife and nearly all of his chil- 
 dren and his children's children. He married Mar- 
 garet Pollock of Orange County, Virginia. Her 
 ancestors were from Scotland and the Barbours 
 are of Scotch-Irish descent. 
 
 Fannie B. Newman Barbour (mother) is a na- 
 tive of Orange County, Virginia. She still re- 
 sides on the homestead near Louisville. Her 
 father, James Newman, was a native of the same 
 place. His home in Virginia is still known as 
 Hilton, and is near the old home of President 
 Adams, near Somerset, where he died. He was a 
 very intelligent man; was educated for a profes- 
 sion and studied law, but preferred the inde;- 
 pendent life of the farmer and never practiced 
 at the bar. He was a frequent contributor to the 
 agricultural papers, and did much for the ad- 
 vancement of agriculture, in which he was deeply 
 interested. His ancestors were English. 
 
 William Scott Barbour was born in Jefiferson 
 County, Kentucky, December 10, 1854, and re- 
 ceived his education in the Lonsdale Academy in 
 Madison County, Virginia, finishing at the Uni- 
 
 versity of Virginia. He taught school for some 
 months after leaving school, and when eighteen 
 years of age began the study of law under Wil- 
 liam R. Thompson of Louisville and finished his 
 law course under ex-Governor Porter of Ver- 
 sailles, being admitted to the bar in March, 1877. 
 He at -once entered upon the practice of his 
 chosen profession in Versailles and met with 
 most flattering success. He was County Attor- 
 ney for two terms, from 1882 to 1890, and was 
 Master Commissioner of the Circuit Court from 
 1883 until the time of his death. 
 
 Mr. Barbour and Theresa Berryman, daugh- 
 ter of Edward N. Berryman of Woodford Coun- 
 ty, were married June 15, 1882. 
 
 He died at his home in Versailles, September, 
 1895, in the forty-first year of his age and in the 
 prime of a busy and exemplary life. 
 
 LEONARD J. CRAWFORD, distinguished 
 lawyer and leading Republican politician of 
 Newport, son of Jacob H. Crawford and Mary 
 Elizabeth Eckert, was born in Newport, Ken- 
 tucky, April 29, i860. 
 
 His father a native of Fleming County, re- 
 moved to Newport when he was a young man and 
 was a resident of that city at the time of his death. 
 He was a pilot on steamers plying the Ohio River 
 between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, and was high- 
 ly esteemed by his numerous acquaintances along 
 the river and by all who knew him. Mary Eliza- 
 beth Crawford (mother) is a native of Campbell 
 County, Kentucky, now residing near Newport, 
 a devout Christian, member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and a lady of the highest in- 
 telligence, education and refinement. 
 
 L. M. Eckert (maternal grandfather), a native 
 of Campbell County and for many years a resi- 
 dent of Newport, retired from business and spent 
 the latter years of his life on his farm in his na- 
 tive county. During his residence in Newport he 
 was president of the City Council through sev- 
 eral terms and was otherwise prominent as a lead- 
 ing and influential citizen. He was imposing in 
 appearance, being six feet four inches in height 
 and proportionately built; was very genial in his 
 disposition and could tell a good story with great 
 zest. He was a very strong and uncompromising 
 
588 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Republican; a member of the Methodist Church 
 and died in the Christian faith in 1876, aged six- 
 ty-four years. 
 
 L. J. Crawford was educated in the Campbell 
 County schools and in Hughes' High School in 
 Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1880; 
 read law with Ben Butterworth and graduated 
 from the Cincinnati Law School in 1882; located 
 in Newport during the same year, where he has 
 practiced law ever since, with the exception of one 
 year's practice in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He 
 has a large business of the most lucrative charac- 
 ter, and is one of the best known attorneys in 
 Kentucky; is very prominent in pohtics and a 
 leader in the Republican party, not only in his 
 city and county, but throughout the state; was 
 the candidate of that party for Attorney-General 
 in 1 891; was presidential elector for the state at 
 large in the campaign of 1892; was president of 
 the Republican State League for three consecu- 
 tive terms, 1892 to 1895, and delivered the ad- 
 dress of welcome in behalf of the Kentucky Re- 
 publicans at the National League Convention 
 held in Louisville in 1893. 
 
 He is not only a lawyer and politician of wide- 
 spread reputation, but a man of affairs and of 
 means; director in the Newport National Bank 
 and in the Covington Trust Company. He is a 
 member of the Methodist Church, and in all of his 
 relations to the legal profession, his poHtical 
 party, his business interests, the church and in 
 society he is known and respected as a good and 
 true citizen. 
 
 Mr. Crawford was married in 1883 to Ella J. 
 Horner of Campbell County, and they have two 
 sons: Leonard J. and Clay Crawford. As this 
 goes to press he is conducting the defense of 
 Scott Jackson in the celebrated case of the Com- 
 monwealth of Kentucky vs. Jackson in the Camp- 
 bell Circuit Court at Newport. 
 
 BERRY LEWIS LITSEY, president of the 
 First National Bank of Springfield, son of 
 Uriah Litsey and Ellen Lewis, was born in Wash- 
 ington County, Kentucky, August 3, 1842. 
 
 Prominent among the early residents of Ken- 
 tucky was Randolf Litsey, who came from Mary- 
 land and located near Springfield prior to the be- 
 
 ginning of the present century. He was engaged 
 in farming and later in the distillery business. He 
 was born in 1770 and died in September, 1849. 
 His wife, Mary Gregory, daughter of Richard 
 Gregory, died in 1859. 
 
 Uriah Litsey, father of B. L. Litsey, was born 
 October 15, 1813, and died in July, 1886. At 
 the age of twenty-seven he purchased a farm on 
 the Beech Fork, adjoining the farm on which 
 stands the hoUse where Thomas Lincoln and 
 Nancy Hanks were married. He was married to 
 Ellen J. Lewis, daughter of Berry and Mary Hays 
 Lewis, October 7, 1841. Uriah Litsey was origi- 
 nally a Whig in politics, but after the dissolution 
 of that party, identified himself with the Demo- 
 crats. He was a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church at Pleasant Grove. 
 
 Ellen Lewis Litsey (mother), now living in the 
 family homestead near Pleasant Grove, is the 
 mother of ten children, only one of whom, the 
 eldest, is living. She is a devout member of the 
 Presbyterian Church and a faithful Christian 
 woman, who has seen much sorrow, but whose 
 faith in a wise Providence is unshaken. 
 
 Berry Lewis Litsey was reared on a farm and 
 attended the common schools at Pleasant Grove; 
 also attending several sessions at the Taylorsville 
 High School. Choosing agriculture, he pur- 
 chased a farm in 1868 on the Beech Fork; was 
 successful in farming and in 1878 purchased the 
 farm on which he now lives near Pleasant Grove. 
 
 In August, 1890, he was elected Probate Judge 
 of Washington County for a term of four years; 
 was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in 
 Chicago in 1892, representing the Fourth Con- 
 gressional District, and has served his party and 
 the public in various other capacities; was elected 
 president of the First National Bank of Springfield 
 in 1892; was elected by the people Judge of the 
 Washington County Court in 1890 and held that 
 office until January, 1895. 
 
 He is still engaged in farming near Pleasant 
 Grove, having never lost interest in or failed to 
 give attention to his farm, while serving in ofifice 
 or as president of the bank. 
 
 Judge Litsey was united in marriage February 
 3, 1870, with Catherine Hays, daughter of David 
 R. Hays and Mary McMaken Hays of Pleasant 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 589 
 
 Grove neighborhood. She is a graduate of Naz- 
 areth College in Nelson County. Her parents 
 were of Scotch-Irish extraction. The children of 
 Judge Litsey and Catherine Hays are : Mary, wife 
 of Jas. I. Martine of New York; Nellie Rebecca, 
 Katie Bell and David R. Litsey, all of whom are 
 at home except Mrs. Martine. Judge Litsey and 
 his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. 
 He cast his first presidential vote for George B. 
 McClellan. 
 
 JEFFERSON DAVIS PRYOR, M. D., of 
 Mayfield, son of James Calvin and Emma 
 Goodwin Pryor, was born July 5, 1861, in Graves 
 County, Kentucky. He was educated in the 
 Graves County schools and Chnton College, 
 Hickman County; studied medicine at the Uni- 
 versity of Louisville, graduating in 1890; came 
 to Mayfield and for three years was in partner- 
 ship with Dr. Boyd; since then he has practiced 
 medicine alone; is a member of the Graves Coun- 
 ty Medical Society and Southwest Kentucky Med- 
 ical Society; a Democrat in politics and a mem- 
 ber of the Missionary Baptist Church. He is also 
 a Knight of Pythias, a Mason and Odd Fellow. 
 He was married June 22, 1895, to Annie Watts, 
 daughter of N. B. Watts of Mayfield, Kentucky. 
 She was educated at Southwest Kentucky Col- 
 lege, Mayfield, and is a member of the Christian 
 Church. Dr. Pryor has a good practice, and is 
 financially prosperous. He stands very high pro- 
 fessionally and socially in Mayfield, takes great 
 pride in his profession, and keeps well posted 
 in the progress in medical science. 
 
 James Calvin Pryor (father), now a resident of 
 Graves County, was born in Logan County, Ken- 
 tucky, February 3, 1820; removed to Graves 
 County when quite young; was educated there, 
 and has been a farmer since reaching his major- 
 ity. During the war he was not in the service, 
 but was in sympathy with the South. His broth- 
 er. Jack Pryor, was captain of a company in the 
 Confederate army. James Calvin Pryor (father) 
 is living on the homestead where he settled fifty- 
 two years ago. 
 
 James Pryor (grandfather) was born in Logan 
 County, Kentucky, and was one of the earliest 
 settlers in Graves County, removing there in 
 
 February, 1821, and his name appears among 
 the first entries in the court records. He settled 
 six miles east of Mayfield on Panther Creek, now 
 known as Pryor's Precinct. He married a Miss 
 Phelps. He loved the forests and was a great 
 hunter in his younger days. 
 
 Jonathan Pryor (great-grandfather) settled at 
 Pryorsburg, Graves County; owned many fine 
 horses; was actively engaged in the improve- 
 ment of land, opening roads, etc. He was a man 
 of broad sympathies and was so recognized and 
 sought by all who needed advice and assistance. 
 The Pryors are Irish and belong to the same fam- 
 ily as Judge Pryor of the Supreme Bench of Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Emma Goodwin Pryor (mother) was born in 
 Henry County, Tennessee, March 9, 1826, and 
 removed with her father, Jesse Goodwin, to 
 Graves County, where he was a farmer. His 
 wife, Sukie Butler, was a woman of strong native 
 intelligence, and her memory to the last was a 
 veritable chronological table of events in Ken- 
 tucky history. She was a member of the Primi- 
 tive Baptist Church. 
 
 Mr. Goodwin (great-grandfather) was an Eng- 
 lishman, who served in the War of 1812. 
 
 LAWRENCE B. ANDERSON, General In- 
 surance agent at Mayfield, son of Ervine 
 Anderson and Eliza Lockridge, was born Febru- 
 ary I, i860, in Graves County, Kentucky; edu- 
 cated at the seminary in Mayfield, Kentucky, and 
 taught school after graduating; was admitted to 
 the bar in 1886, and elected County Judge in 
 1890, and since 1894 has been engaged in insur- 
 ance work in Mayfield, Kentucky. He was mar- 
 ried August II, 1888, to Miss Daisy D. Bolinger, 
 daughter of J. F. Bolinger, one of the leading 
 men of Mayfield, and they have three children: 
 Robert, John and Elizabeth. Mr. Anderson is a 
 Democrat and a Knight of Pythias, and he and 
 his wife are members of the Baptist Church. 
 
 He was indefatigable in the discharge of his 
 duties while he held the office of County Judge; 
 merited and won the esteem of his associates in 
 the law and of the community at large. 
 
 Ervine Anderson (father) was born January 21, 
 1820, and was the first white child born in Graves 
 
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 after it was formed into a county; was educated 
 in the common schools, and afterwards appoint- 
 ed deputy and circuit clerk — the two offices be- 
 ing together at that time — under his father. 
 When twenty-two years of age he was appointed 
 clerk of the County and Circuit Courts, and held 
 that position until the war, being frequently elect- 
 ed. During the war he began to practice law, 
 having studied under his father. With the change 
 in the Constitution he was again elected county 
 and circuit clerk; was a member of the Legisla- 
 ture from Graves County in 1871-2, and contin- 
 ued in the practice of law until his death, July 11, 
 1876. He was a Cumberland Presbyterian, a Ma- 
 son, and a Democrat, being especially strong in 
 his Southern sympathies. Before the war he was 
 a very wealthy man, and after it had some fortune 
 left. He had an abiding interest in the reputation 
 and welfare of Graves County, and wielded a won- 
 derful influence in the politics of the county. 
 
 John Anderson (father of Ervine Anderson) 
 was born in what is now Albemarle County, 
 North Carolina, and came to Kentucky after being 
 educated in North Carolina. The purchase was 
 not then incorporated into counties. He cleared 
 up his farm, and in 1821, just as Graves County 
 was formed, was elected clerk of the County and 
 Circuit Courts, and held these offices until his 
 death, in 1842. He studied law and practiced ir- 
 regularly; was a man of great natural ability, and 
 stood very high in the community. He was in the 
 War of 1812; in politics a Whig. He married Re- 
 becca Davenport in North Carolina. She died in 
 1866. The following is an extract from an old 
 record made by John Anderson: "Emigrated 
 from Caldwell County, Kentucky, to the district 
 of country west of Tennessee River, and settled 
 on Mayfield Creek in the woods, two and a half 
 miles north of the present site of the town of 
 Mayfield. We had to make our way through the 
 woods from Tennessee River and were three days 
 on the route, encamping in the woods of nights, 
 and threading our way through the thicket by 
 day. We arrived on the 27th of October, 1819, 
 at our place of future residence, and pitched our 
 camp. I built cabins and cleared land, and re- 
 sided at that place until December, 1824, when 
 the county of Graves having recently been organ- 
 
 ized, and myself appointed clerk of the County 
 and Circuit Courts, I moved to the town of May- 
 field, where I have resided ever since." 
 
 Eliza Lockridge (mother) was born in Graves 
 County, Kentucky, May 8, 1829. She was mar- 
 ried to Ervine Anderson October 15, 1844. She 
 is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
 Church, and is now living in Mayfield. They had 
 nine children, four sons and five daughters: 
 Lawrence, John, married to Miss Martha Leach; 
 Wiley, to Miss Annie Bray (now deceased) ; An- 
 nie, married Robert T. Albritton; Amelia, mar- 
 ried Judge W. W. Robertson; Edith, married 
 Stephen Carney; Emily, married J. R. Jamison; 
 Albert, married Martha Grider, and Hester, mar- 
 ried Gus G. Coulter. 
 
 Mrs. Anderson's father was Robert D. Lock- 
 ridge, born in Lexington, Kentucky, November 
 5, 1805. He married Elizabeth Buchanan of 
 Logan County in 1827. He was a physician, 
 and died in Graves County in September, 1876. 
 His father was also Robert Lockridge and 
 owned a great part of the land that Lexington 
 is built on, but sold it and went to Murray Coun- 
 ty, Tennessee, when his son Robert was a lad. 
 He married a relative, Jane Lockridge. Robert 
 (grandfather) married Miss Buchanan in Murray 
 County, Tennessee. Eliza (mother) was the first 
 white child born in Feliciana, Graves County, 
 Kentucky. The Anderson name has been a pow- 
 er for good in that county for almost three-quar- 
 ters of a century. The record of the father and 
 grandfather of Judge Anderson is a priceless leg- 
 acy to their children and grandchildren. 
 
 WILLIAM B. MOODY, an able young law- 
 yer of New Castle and ex-County Attor- 
 ney of Henry County, son of William Harvey and 
 \'^irginia O'Bannon Moody, was born in Henry 
 County, Kentucky, April 8, 1852. He was edu- 
 cated in the pubHc schools of his native county 
 and in the Baptist Seminary at Eminence, leaving 
 the latter institution on account of poor health 
 and taught in the public schools of Henry Coun- 
 ty for four years. 
 
 While teaching he read law, first with Judge 
 Warren Montfort and then with Judge Barbour, 
 who was at one time Judge of the Superior Court 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 of Kentucky; was admitted to the bar in Octo- 
 ber, 1874, and began to practice at New Castle, 
 June I, 1875. From 1878 to 1886 he was County 
 Attorney of Henry County; in 1880 began to edit 
 and publish a Democratic paper, entitled "The 
 Henry County Local." 
 
 He united with the Baptist Church when he was 
 fourteen years of age, showing that his mind was 
 early tinged with religious sentiment. 
 
 Ml-. Moody was married December 25, 1876, 
 to Carrie Belle Price, daughter of William B. 
 and Anna (Ellis) Price, who was born in 1854 and 
 educated at New Castle and Hillsboro, Ohio. 
 They have one child, Anna Virginia. 
 
 William Harvey Moody (father) was a native of 
 Henry County, Kentucky, and was educated in 
 the schools of that county. In religion he was 
 a Baptist, in politics a Democrat, by occupation a 
 farmer; married Virginia O'Bannon, and they 
 had five children: William B., George T., P. N., 
 John E. and Emma, who married Dr. Rees. Wil- 
 liam H. Moody died in 1884. 
 
 His wife was educated at the Henry Female 
 College at New Castle, and was a member of the 
 Baptist Church. Her father, William O'Bannon, 
 was a native of Virginia, and a pioneer of Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Richard Moody (grandfather) came to Ken- 
 tucky from Virginia, and married Lucy Wood- 
 sides. They were communicants of the Baptist 
 Church. 
 
 HENRY SCOTT ROBINSON, a distin- 
 guished criminal lawyer of Campbellsville, 
 son of John R. Robinson and Malvina (Scott) 
 Robinson, was born in Campbellsville, Kentucky, 
 June 6, 1861, and was educated in the schools 
 of that place. He performed the duties of the 
 farmer boy until he was nineteen years of age, 
 and then read law with his father and Judge Mon- 
 tague; received his license in January, 1882, at 
 Greensburg, Kentucky, and at once began the 
 practice of law in Campbellsville; was elected 
 county attorney of Taylor County in 1884 and 
 re-elected in 1890, serving until January i, 1895. 
 While discharging the duties of his office as 
 county attorney with fidelity and industry, he 
 was also engaged in the general practice of law, 
 
 and has won distinction as a criminal lawyer of 
 unusual ability, having been engaged in all mur- 
 der trials of note in the district since his admis- 
 sion to the bar. He enjoys a large general prac- 
 tice, and is a man and a lawyer in whom the 
 people have implicit confidence. His reputation 
 is not merely local, but he is one of the best 
 known of the younger attorneys in central Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Mr. Robinson was united in marriage, August 
 26, 1883, with Hattie Taylor, daughter of Daniel 
 G. Taylor and Lou Cowherd. She died Septem- 
 ber 25, 1889, leaving no children. 
 
 He was married (second) in October, 1892, to 
 Minnie Sharp, daughter of William Sharp and 
 Sue M. Pruitt; and they have one child (born 
 September 21, 1893), Malvina, who is named for 
 Mr. Robinson's mother. 
 
 John R. Robinson (father), son of Robert Rob- 
 inson and Miss Rice (whose mother was a Pur- 
 year), was born in Taylor County, Kentucky, 
 February 22, 1823. He worked on a farm until 
 he was twenty-one, enjoying very little schooling, 
 and then went to Campbellsville and was em- 
 ployed by his uncle. Pleasant Saunders, at eight 
 dollars a month, in the tobacco business. Out of 
 this small salary he saved money enough to en- 
 able him to attend school until he had acquired 
 a fair education; read law with Judge E. L. Bar- 
 bee of Campbellsville and soon after receiving his 
 license to practice law was elected county attor- 
 ney. He was the first magistrate in his district; 
 was engaged in all of the important land cases, 
 of which there were many in his earlier days, 
 and was known all over the state as one of the 
 ablest lawyers, not only in that particular line 
 of business, but as a general practitioner of the 
 highest ability. Be is now well advanced in 
 years and has retired from active practice; is 
 a man of strong religious convictions, a member 
 of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and a 
 highly esteemed citizen, in whom all who know 
 him have the utmost confidence. 
 
 He was captain of Company E, Twenty-seventh 
 Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, Union army, in 
 the Civil war, having recruited the company him- 
 self; but, owing to the ill health of his wife, he 
 resigned and returned home. 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 He married Malvina Scott of Greensburg, 
 daughter of John Scott, who came to Louisville 
 with his parents from Culpeper County, Virginia, 
 when the present metropolis of the state had only 
 a few shingle-roofed houses. He subsequently 
 removed to Greensburg, which was then the 
 larger city. His father, Randolph Scott, and his 
 wife are buried a little south of Alcorn, where 
 they settled and lived as pioneers and finally 
 paid the debt of nature. 
 
 Malvina Scott Robinson (mother) was edu- 
 cated at Greensburg, and was a member of the 
 Baptist Church. She was the mother of two chil- 
 dren, the subject of this sketch and Malvina, 
 who died August 23, 1864. Mrs. Robinson died 
 June 30, 1864. 
 
 John R. Robinson was married (second) Octo- 
 ber I, 1867, to Lydia Ann Barbee, daughter of 
 John Barbee and Mary Ray, and a sister of Judge 
 E. L. Barbee of Campbellsville. There were four 
 children by this union: Nannie, wife of W. L. 
 Young, master commissioner of the Taylor Cir- 
 cuit Court, also attorney-at-law and ex-school 
 commissioner at Campbellsville; Bettie Robin- 
 son, the first woman who ever took the degree of 
 A. B. at Georgetown College; Pleasant Saun- 
 ders Robinson, engaged in the sawmilling and 
 lumber business near Campbellsville, and Joe E. 
 Robinson, a student in Center College. 
 
 The Robinson family is of Irish extraction, the 
 progenitor having settled in Virginia on his ar- 
 rival in this country before the Revolutionary war. 
 
 CHARLES W. SHORT, lawyer, editor, real 
 estate dealer and judge of the Police Court 
 of Pineville, son of Jonathan Short and Lucy 
 Wing, was born in Greenville, Muhlenberg Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, June 24, 1850. His father was a 
 native of Muhlenberg (now McLean) County, 
 and died in Greenville in 1883, aged sixty-one 
 years. He was a merchant in Greenville during 
 the greater part of his life, a member of the Pres- 
 byterian Church, and a most worthy and honored 
 citizen. 
 
 David Short (grandfather) was born in Virginia 
 in 1810, came to Kentucky and located in (now) 
 McLean County, and was a farmer there until 
 the time of his death in 1848. His father was a 
 
 native of Germany and for many years a resident 
 of Virginia. 
 
 Lucy Wing Short (mother), now residing in 
 Greenville in her sixty-eighth year, was born in 
 that city and has lived there all her life. She 
 has been active as a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church for many years, and is a woman of more 
 than ordinary intelligence and of strong Chris- 
 tian faith. 
 
 Charles F. Wing (grandfather) was a native of 
 New Bedford, Massachusetts, who came to Ken- 
 tucky in the latter part of the eighteenth century, 
 and upon the erection of Muhlenberg County in 
 1798 was made clerk of the Circuit and County 
 Courts, which offices he held for many years; 
 was circuit clerk until 1856, or a period of forty- 
 eight years; was a captain in the War of 1812, 
 serving in Canada under Gen. William Henry 
 Harrison. He died in 1861, aged seventy-six 
 years. He belonged to an old and respected fam- 
 ily of Puritans in Massachusetts. 
 
 Charles W. Short was educated principally in 
 the Greenville College, for boys, under the able 
 teaching of Professor Hall, finishing his literary 
 and scientific studies in the Kentucky State Col- 
 lege in Lexington, following which he was deputy 
 county clerk at Greenville for six years, reading 
 law at the same time. In 1878 he was elected 
 county superintendent of schools, holding that 
 office for seven years, being three times elected. 
 In January, 1885, he purchased the Muhlenberg 
 Echo, a Weekly Democratic newspaper, which 
 he edited with ability for two years; sold the 
 paper to W. H. Eaves and engaged in the tobacco 
 business in Greenville in partnership with E. L. 
 Younts; was in that business for three years, 
 when, in 1890, he came to Pineville with the first 
 boomers and engaged in the practice of law and 
 dealing in real estate. In 1891 he was elected 
 police judge, of which office he is the present 
 incumbent, his term expiring in 1898. On the 
 first of January, 1896, he organized the Cum- 
 berland Courier Publishing Company, and be- 
 gan the publication of a Republican weekly news- 
 paper, of which he is the business manager. 
 
 Judge Short has been one of the most active, 
 public spirited men of the new and flourishing city 
 of Pineville, and with all of the duties of a large 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 593 
 
 law practice, presiding in the City Court as occa- 
 sion requires, looking after his real estate inter- 
 ests and fostering his newspaper enterprise, he 
 is one of the busiest men in the mountain district 
 of Kentucky. But he has the brains, with push, 
 pluck and persistence, and will succeed in any 
 undertaking. 
 
 He was married in 1871 to Sue Reno, daughter 
 of J. E. Reno of Greenville, and has a family 
 of seven children: Lizzie, Annie, Reno, Lucy, 
 Mamie, Kate and Adeline. Judge Short and his 
 family are members of the Methodist Church. 
 
 T SHAM MARION WILFORD, proprietor of 
 1 the Wilford Mills, one of the substantial insti- 
 tutions of Mayiield, son of Robert Wilford and 
 Ada Aliza Randolph, was born in Trigg County, 
 Kentucky, July 20, 1832, and after his school 
 days was a farmer in Graves County until 1881, 
 when he purchased the Wilford Mills in May- 
 field from his brother, N. Green Wilford, and in 
 1885 his son, Robert O., became interested with 
 him in the milling business. Having devoted his 
 life to the quiet and peaceful pursuits of the farm- 
 er and miller, he has not sought prominence or 
 political preferment, though his Democracy has 
 never been questioned. He has been more con- 
 spicuous in church matters than in politics, hav- 
 ing been a life-long member of the Baptist Church 
 and a faithful attendant upon its ordinances. He 
 owns a large farm of valuable land in Graves 
 County and is still interested in its cultivation. 
 No man stands higher in the community, and he 
 is known all over his section as a man of integrity, 
 unswerving honesty and devotion to principle. 
 
 Mr. Wilford was married September 5, 1858, 
 to Jincy Olivia Perry, daughter of O. H. Perry 
 of Graves County. She died February 8, 1885, 
 leaving six children, five daughters and one son: 
 Robert Oliver, now in business with his father; 
 Emma, widow of Henry Clay Gardner (who died 
 March 25, 1896, leaving thre.e children, Tracy, 
 Agnes and Robert); Lula Green, wife of U. N. 
 Graham of Mayfield; Rosa Lee, Bessie and May. 
 
 Mr. Wilford was married (second) to Mrs. 
 
 Owen, nee Melton, November 18, 1887, and has 
 
 one son by this marriage, Ben Wilford. 
 
 Robert Wilford (father) was born in North 
 3S 
 
 Carolina in 1810; was quite young when he 
 came to Trigg County with his father, Isham 
 Wilford, who died soon after coming to Ken- 
 tucky; his mother married (second) William 
 Armstrong. Robert became a trader and stock- 
 raiser, making frequent trips to the New Orleans 
 market to sell his stock. He was married in 183 1 
 to Ada Aliza Randolph, who was born in Trigg 
 County in 1816. He died February 8, 1846, and 
 she died on the same day of the same month in 
 the following year. Their children were three 
 sons and three daughters: Isham Marion, Na- 
 thaniel Green, James David (killed at the battle 
 of Shiloh in the Confederate army), Robert Jas- 
 per, Eliza Jane and Mary Emeline, both de- 
 ceased, and Melinda Frances, wife of Henry A. 
 Rives. 
 
 The Wilfords are of Irish ancestry, but it is not 
 known when the progenitor came to this coun- 
 try. Mr. Wilford's maternal grandfather, Wil- 
 liam Randolph, was a native of Virginia, who 
 came to Trigg County early in the century and 
 was a farmer, after clearing his land. He was 
 twice married, his first wife being a Widow Cam- 
 eron. His family consisted of two sons, David 
 and Alexander, and three daughters. He died 
 in Trigg County in 1847. He belonged to the 
 distinguished Randolph family of old Virginia. 
 
 DANIEL BRECK, civil engineer of Louis- 
 ville, son of Rev. Robert L. Breck, was born 
 in Richmond, Kentucky, July 27, 1861, and grad- 
 uated from Central University in 1880. He went 
 to Leadville, Colorado, and spent some time in 
 prospecting and hunting before taking a post- 
 graduate course in the California University, con- 
 cluding in 1883. He made a special study of civil 
 engineering in both of these universities, and 
 while in California built a sea wall at San Luis 
 Obispo; assisted in the construction of a rail- 
 road from Port Harford, Cal., and also a railroad 
 in Oregon; returned to Kentucky and accepted 
 a prominent position in the engineering depart- 
 ment of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Com- 
 pany with headquarters in Louisville; promoted 
 to roadmaster on the Short Line Division; from 
 that to superintendent of the Owensboro Divi- 
 sion, and is at present in the office of the president 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company 
 at Louisville. 
 
 His father, Rev. Robert L. Breck, D. D., was 
 born in Richmond, Kentucky, May 8, 1827, and 
 aftpr graduating from Center College at the age 
 of seventeen years, he attended Princeton Col- 
 lege, New Jersey, graduating from the theological 
 seminary and has since received the degree of 
 Doctor of Divinity from Princeton College. 
 
 He preached his first sermon in the old church 
 on "Woodburn Farm" in Woodford County, 
 since which time his name and' work have been 
 identified with the history of the Presbyterian 
 Church and with Center College and Central 
 University as one of the leading ministers in the 
 church and as an educator of young men; was 
 moderator of the General Assembly when the sec- 
 tional division took place; took an active part in 
 the historic events of those stirring times; was 
 the prime mover in the organization of Central 
 University and was its first chancellor, wielding a 
 great influence and occupying a prominent place 
 in ecclesiastical bodies and especially in the edu- 
 cational work of the church. 
 
 Daniel Breck is a grandson of Judge Daniel 
 Breck, a member of Congress and judge of the 
 Court of Appeals of Kentucky ; a great-grandson 
 of Major-General Green Clay of the War of 1812; 
 also a great-grandson of General Levi Todd of 
 the Indian Wars. His ancestors were intimately 
 connected with the early history of Kentucky. 
 
 RODNEY HAGGARD, Judge of the Qark 
 County Court, son of Augustine L. and Lou 
 Ann Mullins Haggard, was born in Clark Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, October 3, 1844, and educated in 
 the common schools of the county and in the 
 high school at Winchester. 
 
 At the age of seventeen he began teaching. 
 When the war between the states broke out he 
 dismissed his school and joined the Buckner 
 Guards in Kirby Smith's command. He was a 
 recruiting officer and raised a company, of which 
 his uncle, Gordan C. Mullins, was elected cap- 
 tain and himself lieutenant. This was the first 
 company raised for Chenault's regiment of John 
 H. Morgan's command, and Judge Haggard was 
 with this command until Gen. Morgan was cap- 
 
 tured in the Ohio raid, at which time he was in 
 command of the remnant of the regiment, all 
 his superior regimental officers having been 
 killed, wounded or captured. He was then a 
 prisoner on Johnson's Island until the close of the 
 war. During his active service in the army he 
 took part in a number of engagements, among 
 which were the battles of Richmond, Kentucky; 
 Hartsville, Tennessee; Green River Bridge, Mills 
 Spring, West Liberty, Lebanon and a number of 
 fights in Indiana and Ohio, and in fact was in all 
 of the battles in which Morgan's command was 
 engaged during his service with it, and was a 
 gallant soldier. 
 
 After the war, not being twenty-one years of 
 age, he resumed his work, studying and teach- 
 ing school alternately until August, 1866, when 
 he was elected sheriff of Clark County. This 
 was the first regular election after the war, and 
 the first at which he had ever voted; he was the 
 youngest man who ever held that office in the 
 state of Kentucky and the first to settle his ac- 
 counts with the auditor for each year. In 1870 
 he was re-elected and began the study of law 
 under Chief Justice James Sympson of Winches- 
 ter and obtained license to practice his profession 
 from the judge of the Court of Appeals; subse- 
 quently graduated from the Louisville Law 
 School, was admitted to the bar in March, 1873, 
 and has ever since his admission to the bar en- 
 joyed a lucrative practice, being engaged upon 
 one side or the other of all important cases in 
 the county. In 1880 he was elected without op- 
 position to the state senate from a district com- 
 posed of Clark, Bourbon and Montgomery Coun- 
 ties, and served as senator for four years ; made a 
 splendid record as legislator, having introduced 
 the act creating the State Board of Equalization, 
 the act equalizing and extending exemptions, to 
 require county attorneys to assist commonwealth 
 attorneys in prosecutions in Circuit Courts and 
 many other important measures, all of which 
 still remain upon the statutes. He was elected 
 county judge of the Clark County Court in 1893 
 to fill an unexpired term, and in 1894 was re- 
 elected for the full term, and is now serving in 
 that capacity. He has been the attorney for the 
 Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company for fif- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 595 
 
 teen years and attorney for the Kentucky Cen- 
 tral Division of the Louisville & Nashville Rail- 
 road for twelve years. He is an able judge and 
 an upright, trustworthy citizen and in whom the 
 community places unbounded confidence. His 
 natural qualities of sturdy, reliable manhood are 
 enforced by the strong prestige of an honorable 
 and honored ancestry. He has always been an 
 active, unflinching Democrat, and his election 
 has always been as the nominee of that party. 
 He is a pubhc speaker of much abiHty and his 
 time and means have been freely given in the in- 
 terest of his party. 
 
 He was married in February, 1868, to Mary 
 E. Baldwin of Clark County, daughter of Lieuten- 
 ant W. W. Baldwin, who was killed on the Con- 
 federate side in the disastrous fight at Green 
 River Bridge, July 4, 1863. Her mother was 
 Mary A. Eades Baldwin. They have seven liv- 
 ing children: Leland, Frank Hunt, Annie Mil- 
 dred, wife of J. W. McFarlin ; Mary Rodney, John 
 Henry, Rodney and Benjamin Wheeler. 
 
 Augustine Lewis Haggard (father), son of 
 David I". Haggard of Albemarle County, Vir- 
 ginia, and Patsy Adams Haggard of Clark Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, but originally from Virginia, was 
 born in Clark County, June 3, 1820, and was edu- 
 cated in the common schools of that county. 
 
 He held successively the offices of justice of the 
 peace, judge of the County Court, clerk of the 
 Clark Circuit Court and master commissioner of 
 the Clark Court of Common Pleas. He took a 
 great interest in public affairs and was an active 
 Whig until that party was merged into the Re- 
 publican party, when he became a Democrat. 
 He was a man of strong native ability and a phi"- 
 lanthropist whose active benevolence was the out- 
 come of religious principle, consequently he was 
 very prominent in church work and his judg- 
 ment much depended upon in church affairs, 
 as well as in political circles. He divided his time 
 between Winchester and his country home until 
 he died, December 19, 1895, at his home six 
 miles from Winchester. He is buried at Mt. 
 Olive Cemetery on the Muddy Creek Turnpike 
 Road, where three generations of the family are 
 resting; himself and wife, his father, mother, 
 grandfather and grandmother lie buried side by 
 
 side. Nathaniel Haggard and wife, Elizabeth 
 Craig Haggard, the great-great-grandfather and 
 mother of Judge Rodney Haggard, are buried 
 in a lot on the Boonesborough pike, two miles 
 from Winchester and seven miles from Boones- 
 boro. 
 
 John Haggard (great-grandfather), son of Na- 
 thaniel Haggard and Elizabeth Craig Haggard, 
 was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, and 
 married Mary Shepard. ,, 
 
 Nathaniel Haggard (great-great-grandfathar) ' 
 came from Virginia to Kentucky when it was a 
 wilderness and built a house two miles from the 
 present site of Winchester, seven miles from 
 Boonesboro. It is of hewn cherry logs and has 
 portholes for defense in case of attacks from the 
 Indians. That property and house have been 
 in the possession of the male members of the 
 family from pioneer days until the present time. 
 All his ancestors have been Christian people and, 
 like himself, members of the Baptist Church, and 
 are of Scotch and EngHsh blood. Judge Hag- 
 gard is now in the prime of life, full of mental and 
 physical vigor, and has the promise of a bright 
 future before him. 
 
 TYLER W. McATEE, one of the leading busi- 
 ness men of Owensboro, son of Benjamin 
 L. McAfee and Margaret Wilson, was born in 
 Bardstown, Kentucky, November 19, 1849. 
 
 Benjamin L. McAfee (father) was born in 
 Montgomery County, Maryland, February 14, 
 1799; removed to Nelson County, Kentucky, in 
 1812, and was educated in the Bardstown schools; 
 became a stage line contractor and ran a line of 
 stage coaches between Louisville and Nashville 
 and between Louisville and Crab Orchard, known 
 as the Easton & McAfee Stage Line. He sold his 
 interest in these hnes and retired to his farm, 
 situated within a mile of Bardstown; went south 
 to enlist in the Confederate army in 1861, but 
 was compelled to- return on account of feeble 
 health, and died in 1862. He married Margaret 
 Wilson in 1841, and they had four children: 
 Benjamin L., Mary, Emily and Tyler. Mr. Mc- 
 Afee was a man of very generous disposition 
 and used his large means liberally, dispensing 
 hospitality lavishly and lending a helping hand 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 whenever he could do a kind turn for a friend or 
 neighbor. He is remembered as one of the most 
 useful citizens — a representative man of his times. 
 His father was a native of Scotland, who came to 
 America about the beginning of the War of the 
 Revolution and served in the Colonial army. 
 
 Tyler W. McAtee attended the common schools 
 of Nelson County and Cecilian College in Har- 
 din County, before entering the St. Louis Uni- 
 versity, from which he was graduated in June, 
 1870. He began his successful career as a clerk 
 in the store of Spalding & Carlisle at Bardstown, 
 where he remained for eleven years. In 1881 
 he formed a partnership with Phillips Bros, at 
 Owensboro, the firm being known as Phillips 
 Bros. & McAtee, which is now one of the leading 
 business houses of that city. He is largely inter- 
 ested in other enterprises in Owensboro, being a 
 director in the Bank of Commerce, secretary of 
 the Owensboro Woolen Company and stock- 
 holder in the Owensboro Wagon Company; is 
 a Knight Templar in Masonry ; a member of the 
 Southern Presbyterian Church, and a citizen of 
 influence and good repute. 
 
 Mr. McAtee was married in 1878 to Sallie 
 Rountree, daughter of R. H. Rountree. She was 
 educated in Bellwood Seminary in JefTerson 
 County, and is one of the most accomplished 
 ladies in Owensboro society. They have three 
 daughters: Margaret, Wicklifife and Elizabeth. 
 
 ALEXANDER JOHN ALEXANDER, son 
 of Hon. Robert Alexander and nephew of 
 the late Sir William Alexander of England, was 
 born October 7, 1824, at Woodburn, his father's 
 estate in Woodford County, Kentucky. He went 
 to England and completed his education at Trin- 
 ity College, Cambridge, and afterwards spent 
 some little time in the routine of a counting house 
 to prepare himself for practical business details 
 before returning to America. In 1849 ^^ re- 
 turned to Kentucky and for a number of years — 
 during the lifetime of his brother, Robert Aitche- 
 son Alexander, then owner of the ancestral es- 
 tate at Woodburn — he lived in Chicago, where he 
 still has large financial interests. At the death 
 of his brother he inherited the Woodburn estate 
 and the great Airdrie estate of Scotland, the lat- 
 
 ter having passed by the Scottish law of entail 
 to Sir William Alexander of England, and at 
 Sir William's death, by the same law of entail, 
 the estate came into the possession of Robert 
 Aitcheson Alexander of Woodford County, Ken- 
 tucky, the income from said estate amounting at 
 one time to one hundred thousand dollars an- 
 nually. The mineral products of Airdrie estate 
 have been much reduced in late years, but they 
 still yield a handsome annual income. 
 
 Mr. Alexander is an extensive breeder of race 
 and trotting horses, and his private sales of blood- 
 ed stock average yearly from seventy-five to a 
 hundred thousand dollars, and yet he is in no sense 
 a turf man, no entries on race courses ever being 
 made by him personally or by proxy. He is a 
 genuine lover of blooded stock, delighting in the 
 occupation, and ambitious to keep up the well- 
 merited fame of the Woodburn establishment. 
 
 The extensive blue grass acres at Woodburn, 
 laid off in the artistic old English style in groups 
 of trees here and there on the emerald sward 
 and picturesquely beautiful in alternate light and 
 shadow, have been for many years associated with 
 many of the most famous names of Kentucky's 
 blooded stock. Among the famous trotting and 
 racing horses which have led lives of luxurious 
 ease at Woodburn stock farm may be mentioned 
 Lexington, purchased by Robert Aitcheson Alex- 
 ander from Richard Ten Broeck for $15,000; 
 Scythian, an imported famous EngHsh horse; 
 Asteroid, King Alphonso, Australian, Glen Athol, 
 Belmont, Woodford, Mambrino and Harold. In 
 addition to the above mentioned famous racers 
 and trotters and others which have since become 
 known to fame was the stock of Southdown 
 sheep, amounting often to eleven hundred head. 
 
 In 1873 the present owner of Woodburn, at a 
 large stock sale in New York, paid $27,000 for 
 the Tenth Duchess of Oneida, a calf of six 
 months, and $19,000 for the Seventh Duchess of 
 Oneida, a yearling. He has had extensive deal- 
 ings with English stockraisers and in reality is 
 one of the greatest stockbreeders of America, 
 that factor being equally important with the agri- 
 culturist for the healthy physical and mental de- 
 velopment of the masses. 
 
 Mr. Alexander 15 a man of culture, dignified 
 
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 and courteous in manner, but without the sHght- 
 est ostentation in life or character. He is un- 
 swervingly honorable in his business dealings, 
 and his private life is absolutely stainless, his nat- 
 ural bent of morality being strengthened by 
 strong religious principle. He is an elder in 
 the Southern Presbyterian Church, and recently 
 made a most munificent donation to the Theo- 
 logical Seminary at Louisville in connection with 
 that body and intended as a memorial of a be- 
 loved and promising son, deceased. He is a man 
 of delicate health, and it is to be regretted that a 
 more vigorous constitution has not supported 
 his broad, energetic spirit. 
 
 He was twice married; first to Lucy Hum- 
 phries, daughter of David Humphries of Wood- 
 ford County; and second to Miss Fullerton of 
 Chillicothe. They have five living children. 
 
 Hon. Robert Alexander (father), second son 
 of William Alexander and his wife, who was a 
 Miss Aitcheson of Airdrie House, Scotland, was 
 born in 1767 near Edinburgh, and educated at 
 that place. He came to America and settled in 
 Woodford County, Kentucky, before the state 
 was admitted to the Union. After being edu- 
 cated at the University of Edinburgh and while 
 young, he went to France, where he met Ben- 
 jamin Franklin, and acted as his private secretary. 
 He came to this country in 1785 (his father hav- 
 ing preceded him), and in 1791 bought the es- 
 tate of Woodburn in Woodford County, embrac- 
 ing twenty-seven hundred acres of the blue grass 
 region, from the heirs of General Hugh Mercer, 
 who had obtained it as a military grant from 
 Virginia. 
 
 Hon. Robert Alexander was a man of broad, 
 enterprising spirit, ready to serve his state in any 
 capacity and deeply interested in its welfare and 
 prosperity. He was a member of the Kentucky 
 River Company, the first company chartered by 
 the state for the improvement of rivers. When 
 the first bank of Kentucky was chartered in 1807, 
 he was made president of it, and also served in 
 the board of directors. He was appointed to 
 survey and fix the western boundary Hne be- 
 tween Kentucky and Tennessee lying between 
 the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers; and found 
 that those who had settled the eastern part of the 
 
 line had made a miscalculation, thereby depriv- 
 ing Kentucky of valuable territory. In 1795 he 
 was elected to the state senate, being re-elected 
 and serving with distinction in that body. He 
 was one of the most thoroughly educated men 
 of his day, but entirely unostentatious and pre- 
 ferred a quiet home life. 
 
 He married the daughter of Daniel Weisiger 
 of Frankfort. They had five children: Lucy, 
 the wife of J. B. Waller of Chicago; Alexander 
 John; Mary, wife of H. C. Deeds of London, 
 England; William, died in childhood, and Rob- 
 ert Aitcheson, late proprietor of Woodburn Stock 
 Farm. Hon. Robert Alexander died from in- 
 juries received in a fall at Frankfort in 1841. 
 
 William Alexander (grandfather) was a native 
 of Edinburgh, Scotland, where many of his ances- 
 tors had lived, and where, in the seventeenth cen- 
 tury, his father (the great-grandfather of A. J. 
 Alexander) attained to the dignity of lord pro- 
 vost of that city. His first wife was Miss Aitche- 
 son of Airdrie House, Scotland, and belonged to 
 a family of considerable wealth and distinction 
 in Lanark and Renfrew Shires in the west of 
 Scotland. After her death he came to the United 
 States and was married, the second time, to Miss 
 Laport. He died in 1819 at the age of ninety 
 on his son's estate of Woodburn in Woodford 
 County. His eldest son, by his first marriage. 
 Sir William Alexander, was a lawyer of very 
 high standing and was elected to the bench as 
 one of the barons of the Court of Exchequer, and 
 knighted for distinguished services rendered the 
 crown. He was never married. 
 
 RICHARD L. EWELL, a leading lawyer 
 and Christian minister of London, son of 
 Thomas M. Ewell and Miranda Fox, was born 
 in Knox County, Kentucky, January 26, 1833. 
 His father was born in the same county, where he 
 married, and soon after the birth of the subject 
 of this sketch went West to seek his fortune and 
 was never heard from again. 
 
 Leighton Ewell (grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia, where he married and then came to 
 Kentucky and joined the early settlers of Knox 
 County; was sherif? of the county in 1830; re- 
 moved to Ray County, Missouri, and died there 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 in 1842, aged about sixty-five years. He was 
 related to General Ewell of Virginia, a distin- 
 guished officer in the Civil war. 
 
 Miranda Fox Ewell (mother) was born in Knox 
 County, Kentucky, April 30, 1816, and died in 
 Laurel County, March 17, 1888. She was a mem- 
 ber of the Baptist Church and was chiefly noted 
 for her piety and goodness of heart. 
 
 Benjamin Fox (maternal grandfather) was born 
 near Richmond, Virginia, and was stolen by the 
 gypsies when a child and was never recovered or 
 identified by his relatives. He' was one of the 
 earliest settlers of Knox County, where he lived 
 until 1836, when he removed to Davis County, 
 near Gallatin, Missouri, where he died in 1839, 
 leaving a very valuable estate, considering the 
 times and the peculiar experiences of his earlier 
 years. 
 
 Richard L. Ewell attended school for a period 
 of six months and fifteen days all told, but he was 
 of a studious turn of mind, and with a thirst for 
 knowledge he pursued his studies, reading by 
 the traditional torch-light, and picked up a fair 
 English education. Reared on a farm, he fol- 
 lowed that occupation, which he understood bet- 
 ter than any other, until the call for soldiers ; and 
 in October, 1861, he enlisted in the Union army, 
 as a private in Company H, Twenty-fourth Regi- 
 ment Kentucky Infantry, and served throughout 
 the war, or until January 31, 1865, when he was 
 mustered out of the service in Covington, hav- 
 ing never lost a day from duty. In the later part 
 of his service he was a Lieutenant, but for the 
 most part he served in the ranks. 
 
 Returning to his home in Laurel County, he re- 
 sumed farming, which he followed for one year; 
 and in 1866 was elected clerk of the Circuit Court 
 and in 1867 was elected County Clerk and per- 
 formed the duties of both offices until 1874. 
 
 In the meantime he had read law and in Sep- 
 tember, 1874, he was admitted to the bar and 
 made an argument in a murder case the same 
 term in which he was sworn in as an attorney. 
 And thus he began his career as an attorney-at- 
 law — in the forty-first year of his age — in which 
 he has been highly successful. His practice has 
 steadily grown until he is one of the best known 
 lawyers in Laurel and adjacent counties. He also 
 
 has a valuable practice in the United States 
 Courts and in the Kentucky Court of Appeals. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Ewell was superintendent of the 
 census in the Sixth Kentucky District. He is 
 associated with his son-in-law, James D. Smith, 
 in the practice of law, and they are largely inter- 
 ested in real estate transactions and are the own- 
 ers of fifteen thousand acres of fine timber and 
 coal lands in Kentucky. 
 
 Mr. Ewell has been a member of the Christian 
 Church since 1859 ^^'^ ^ preacher in that denomi- 
 nation, having preached the gospel at all times 
 and in all places within his call, and in this work 
 of love for the Christian religion he is as dis- 
 tinguished as he is as a lawyer. He has never 
 used tobacco or taken a drink of whisky and is 
 a strong advocate and example of temperance. In 
 politics he has been an uncompromising Repub- 
 lican since the organization of that party. 
 
 Mr. Ewell was married, first, in 1853 to Bur- 
 netta Watkins, daughter of Luke W. Watkins of 
 Missouri. She died March i, 1865, leaving three 
 sons and two daughters: America A., wife of 
 James D, Smith, attorney-at-law of London (part- 
 ner) ; Dr. Silas W. Ewell of Carroll County, Mis- 
 souri; AHce, wife of Robert M. Jackson, cashier 
 of the First National Bank of London; James A. 
 Ewell, publisher and editor of two newspapers in 
 Ritsville, Washington, and Richard R. Ewell, a 
 farmer in Laurel County. 
 
 Mr. Ewell was married (second) May i, 1866, 
 to Julia A. Johnson, daughter of George W. 
 Johnson of Laurel County, and has five children 
 by this marriage; John H.; George W.; Robert 
 L.; Logan M. and Pocahontas, wife of McCalla 
 Fitzgerald, who is connected with the First Na- 
 tional Bank of London. 
 
 HON. THOMAS F. PORTER, lawyer, was 
 born in Richmond, Madison County, Ken- 
 tucky, July 7, 1 82 1. He received a thorough edu- 
 cation at Richmond and in the schools of Bour- 
 bon County and at the age of nineteen entered 
 the law department of Transylvania University, 
 where he graduated in 1842, soon after locating in 
 Versailles, Woodford County, to practice his 
 chosen profession, and where he still resides. He 
 early established a fine law practice and has been 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 engaged in every important case occurring in his 
 district almost from the very outset of his pro- 
 fessional career. In 1853 he was elected by a 
 large majority to represent his county in the Leg- 
 islature. In 1857 he became the candidate of his 
 party for the State Senate and although the De- 
 mocracy had a minority in the district of six hun- 
 dred votes and he was opposed in the race by the 
 learned and popular Dr. Lewis Marshall, after a 
 most exciting contest he was elected by a major- 
 ity of thirty-nine votes. In the session of 1859 he 
 was elected Speaker of the Senate to fill the place 
 made vacant by the illness of Hon. Lynn Boyd, 
 who had just been elected Lieutenant-Governor 
 on the Democratic ticket. After the death of the 
 Hon. Lynn Boyd, December 17, 1859, he at once 
 honorably resigned the Speakership and on De- 
 cember 25 was unanimously elected as permanent 
 Speaker of the Senate, presiding over that body 
 with marked executive ability during the regular 
 and many called sessions incident to the perilous 
 times preceding the outbreak of the war between 
 the states, and remaining ex-oflScio Lieutenant- 
 Governor of the state until the adjournment of the 
 Legislature sine die in 1861. He was nominated 
 in the following April as a member of the pro- 
 jected famous Border State Convention and can- 
 vassed the eastern portion of the state in the in- 
 terest of the project, but the purpose of the con- 
 vention was not favorably received by the gov- 
 ernment, and the President of the United States 
 having called on the Governor for troops the 
 convention was considered impracticable and the 
 nominees withdrew. He then became a candi- 
 date for re-election to the State Senate as the 
 nominee of the Southern element in his district, 
 but was defeated. About this time on account of 
 his strongly avowed Southern sympathies he was 
 compelled to leave the state and spent a few 
 months in Nashville and New Orleans and al- 
 though he returned and resumed the practice of 
 his profession he was one of the most extreme and 
 absolutely fearless advocates of the doctrine of 
 states rights in the country. When Kentucky 
 decided to remain in the Union, being unwilling 
 to participate in a struggle against his state, he 
 took no active part in the great contest, but un- 
 derwent, as a friend to the South, many hard- 
 
 ships and discourtesies incident to the stormy 
 times of fraternal strife. 
 
 His career as President of the Senate was a 
 signally honorable and brilliant one and the fair- 
 ness and strict impartiality with which he dis- 
 charged the duties of his office in the times that 
 tried men's souls abundantly proved his catholic- 
 ity of spirit, and his uncompromising adherence 
 to principle as well as his thorough parliamen- 
 tary finesse. At the close of his services as pre- 
 siding officer of the Senate, in token of personal 
 esteem and as indicative of the high value put 
 upon his official record, he received from the Sen- 
 ate, through the hands of his old political adver- 
 sary. General Rousseau, a beautiful and costly 
 gift. The instances are worthy of note when a 
 man for the general service of the state can suc- 
 cessfully divorce himself from individual per- 
 sonal bias and rise above environment. 
 
 Mr. Porter has immense professional pride in 
 the strict maintenance of the highest standard of 
 the legal profession. He takes a warm personal 
 interest in his clients and their cases, devoting to 
 them his time and unstinted energies and con- 
 ducting all his professional transactions on the 
 highest principles of individual honorable respon- 
 sibility. He appears to great advantage in a court 
 room, is a lucid and forcible speaker, indulging in 
 few fanciful flights and dealing directly with the 
 points at issue, no crumb of evidence escaping 
 his keen, logical observance and professional acu- 
 men. He is a singularly self-reliant man, his na- 
 tive pluck enforced by the substantial acquire- 
 ments of a diversity of talent and his social quali- 
 ties, his dignified ease of manner companionable, 
 yet entirely removed from familiarity, make him 
 equally as strong in society as in his profession. 
 
 Governor Porter has been twice married, first 
 in 1846 to America McAfee. By this marriage 
 he had one daughter, the wife of W. H. Craig, a 
 merchant of Louisville, Kentucky. In 1848 he 
 was again married to Susan V. Hancock, daugh- 
 ter of William Hancock of Woodford County. By 
 this marriage there is living one child, the accom- 
 plished Jessamine Porter, who was a pupil of 
 Emille Gramonte of New York. 
 
 Charles Porter (father) was a native of Vir- 
 ginia and emigrated with his parents to Ken- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 tucky early in the history of the state, living in 
 Madison County until the subject of this sketch 
 was thirteen years old, and then removing to a 
 farm in Bourbon County. The history of the Por- 
 ter family is this: Three brothers of this name 
 who had followed the fortunes of the house of 
 Campbell in the Highlands of Scotland came to 
 this country in an early day, one of them settling 
 in Pennsylvania, another in Virginia, and still an- 
 other in Tennessee. From them are descended 
 the Porters of their respective states, many of 
 whom have been prominent in the afifairs of the 
 country. 
 
 JOHN L. CONN, a leading physician of Car- 
 rollton, son of Thomas Conn and Catherine 
 Bradshaw, was born in Bardstown, Kentucky, 
 October 8, 1859. His father was born in Jef- 
 ferson County, and removed to Union County 
 when he was a young man, and was a resident 
 and farmer of that county until 1857, when he 
 removed to Bardstown, where he lived the re- 
 mainder of his days and died at the age of seventy 
 years. His life was principally devoted to farm- 
 ing, but he was also engaged for a time in mer- 
 chandising. He was for many years a member 
 of the Christian Church, in which he was an 
 active worker and a devout worshiper. 
 
 Jack Conn (grandfather), a native of Virginia, 
 of Scotch-Irish descent, came to Jefferson Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, when Louisville was a small village, 
 and purchased land — as the records will show — 
 which is now a part of the site of that city. He 
 was a farmer and died there, aged seventy-eight 
 years. 
 
 Catherine Bradshaw Conn (mother) was a na- 
 tive of Shelby County and died in 1885, aged 
 sixty-five years. Her father, John Bradshaw, 
 was a native of Bourbon County, of English 
 ancestry; was a resident of Shelby County for 
 many years, and died there. 
 
 Dr. Conn was reared in Bardstown, where he 
 attended school, and finished his educational 
 studies at a select school in Carrollton, under 
 the teaching of Prof. J. T. English ; read medicine 
 with Dr. Prentice Meade of Carrollton and at- 
 tended the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, 
 from which he graduated in 1882; practiced med- 
 
 icine in Carrollton for about two years ; removed 
 to Anchorage, Jefiferson County, and practiced 
 in that vicinity until the winter of 1890, when 
 he went to New York and attended the lectures 
 at the Polyclinic College. Returning in the 
 spring of 1892, he located in the city of Louis- 
 ville, corner of Clay and Broadway; was engaged 
 in the general practice of medicine in that city 
 for one year, when, in 1892, he located perma- 
 nently in Carrollton and formed a partnership 
 with his preceptor. Dr. Prentice Meade. This 
 pleasant and profitable relation was dissolved by 
 the death of the senior partner in 1893, since 
 which time Dr. Conn alone has been attending 
 to the duties which formerly devolved upon the 
 firm — having succeeded to the large practice of 
 Dr. Meade, who was one of the most popular 
 and efficient physicians in the city. Dr. Conn 
 has met with most excellent success in his profes- 
 sion, and has established himself in the confidence 
 of the people. He is quite active in politics and 
 was chairman of the district convention which 
 nominated Hon. Al Berry for congress; was 
 elected a member of the school board in 1894, 
 and is deeply interested in the cause of education, 
 and in all matters pertaining to the advancement 
 of his city and county. 
 
 EDWARD HENRY HOBSON, Senior Vice- 
 Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of 
 the Republic, railroad president, RepubHcan poli- 
 tician and a leading citizen of Greensburg, is a 
 son of Captain William and Lucy Kirtley Hobson 
 and was born in Greensburg, Green County, Ken- 
 tucky, July II, 1825. He was given the advan- 
 tages of a common school education at Greens- 
 burg and was for a short time in a school at Dan- 
 ville. 
 
 At the age of eighteen years he engaged in the 
 mercantile business at Greensburg and looked 
 after his father's interests on Green River. While 
 engaged in these peaceful pursuits war was de- 
 clared with Mexico and the young man, fired with 
 inherited patriotic ardor, enlisted in Company A, 
 Second Kentucky Infantry, and was elected Sec- 
 ond Lieutenant of the company. In June, 1846, 
 the regiment left Louisville on board the old 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 steamer "Sultana" and was hurried on toward the 
 scene of action. Soon after reaching Mexico 
 Lieutenant Hobson's company was selected as 
 escort for the supply train from Seralvo to Gen- 
 eral Taylor's army, then before the strong works 
 at Monterey. This was a charge of great re- 
 sponsibility, showing the confidence placed in 
 Mr. Hobson by his superior officers. 
 
 During the battle of Buena Vista his company 
 was engaged in fighting along the line as heavy 
 infantry and was four times detached as riflemen 
 to repel the enemy's advances. At one time when 
 detached from the main line, with sixty men Lieu- 
 tenant Hobson was attacked by three hundred 
 Mexican infantry. He defeated and pursued them 
 until recalled by Colonel McKee for the final 
 charge on the Mexican forces. In the night after 
 the battle of the twenty-third, Lieutenant Hob- 
 son and his men bore in their arms the mangled 
 remains of Colonels McKee and Clay to the camp 
 on the battlefield. For his undaunted courage in 
 this terrible engagement he was promoted to tlie 
 rank of First Lieutenant. The regiment was in 
 active service after the battle of Buena Vista un- 
 til it returned to New Orleans, where it was mus- 
 tered out of the service in June, 1847. 
 
 After his return from Mexico Mr. Hobson re- 
 sumed his mercantile business. His bright mili- 
 tary record, his fine business qualifications and 
 personal integrity have obtained for him many 
 positions of honor and trust. Like his father, be 
 was and is an enthusiastic -Mason, and held the 
 position of Deputy Grand Master of the Masonic 
 order for the state of Kentucky. He is a strong 
 advocate of the common school system and for 
 a long time was president of the Board of Trus- 
 tees in Greensburg, and has always been deeply 
 interested in the many industries and enterprises 
 for the building up and development of the coun- 
 try. 
 
 When war for the suppression of the rebellion 
 was declared he was president of the Branch 
 Bank of Kentucky at Greensburg, having suc- 
 ceeded Mr. John Barret in that position. When 
 the state was invaded by the Confederate forces 
 under General Buckner in the fall of 1861, on the 
 approach of the advance column, Mr. Hobson 
 collected the bank funds — gold, silver and cur- 
 
 rency to the amount of $140,000, and, on horse- 
 back at night with five companions, carried the 
 money to Lebanon, boarded a train and delivered 
 the whole amount to Virgil McKnight, cashier of 
 the Bank of Kentucky at Louisville. Mr. Mc- 
 Knight assured him that he was the only officer 
 in all of the branch banks south of Louisville who 
 had brought or sent him a dollar belonging to the 
 bank. 
 
 When the war between the states seemed inev- 
 itable, Mr. Hobson was appointed by Simon 
 Cameron, who was Secretary of War, Colonel of 
 the Second Regiment Kentucky Infantry, and 
 later on he recruited and was in command of the 
 Thirteenth Kentucky Infantry, and assisted in or- 
 ganizing the Twenty-first and Twenty-seventh In- 
 fantry Regiments. His command was one of the 
 first to move against the enemy at Shiloh; and for 
 gallantry on that sanguinary field, April 7, 1862, 
 he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-Gen- 
 eral. As for other engagements, he was at the 
 siege of Corinth and contributed largely to the 
 success of the Union arms in that contest. At 
 Perryville he commanded a special brigade and 
 afterwards defeated the attempt to burn the rail- 
 road bridge at Muhfordville during Morgan's 
 first raid in Kentucky. 
 
 General Hobson was assigned to the command 
 of the Southern Central Kentucky Division with 
 headquarters at Munfordville, and while in com- 
 mand of this department had several engage- 
 ments with Morgan and repulsed that famous 
 cavalry leader at Marrowbone. From this place 
 Gen. Hobson pursued Morgan a distance of nine 
 hundred miles, being in the saddle twenty-one 
 days with not over forty hours' rest, and overtook 
 the raiders at Buffington Island, and broke them 
 up, capturing, wounding and killing many of 
 Morgan's command. 
 
 General Hobson also conducted a successful 
 campaign against General Adam Johnson, com- 
 pletely annihilating his forces on the Cumber- 
 land River and breaking the Confederate con- 
 trol in Southwestern Kentucky. He was in the 
 expedition to the Salt Works in Virginia and 
 during this time his men lived on pawpaws, the 
 General sharing their privations, a fact that en- 
 deared him greatly to his soldiers. The moun- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 tain campaign was a series of brilliant military 
 tactics and strategic movements, and by the skill- 
 ful handling of the troops he virtually saved the 
 army. In this campaign the ability of General 
 Hobson as a military commander was fully at- 
 tested to the entire satisfaction of the govern- 
 ment authorities, his troops and his superior 
 officers. 
 
 General Hobson was twice wounded ; in March, 
 1862, at Spring Hill, Tennessee, when drilling his 
 regiment in the presence of General Buell and 
 other Generals of the corps, his hprse became un- 
 manageable and fell backwards on him, fractur- 
 ing one of the bones of his right leg; and still, 
 with his injured leg swollen to twice its natural 
 size, on the morning of April 6, when twenty miles 
 from Shiloh, his men placed him on his horse and 
 amid the wildest cheers he led them to their place 
 in the line of battle, where they were engaged in 
 the thickest of the second day's fighting at Shiloh. 
 During this engagement General Hobson's horse 
 was thrown under him and injured by the con- 
 cussion of a bomb, but was not killed and the 
 General remounted and rode him until the close 
 of the battle. He closed his fighting in this bat- 
 tle by charging and capturing a six-gun battery 
 and narrowly escaped from the successful exploit 
 with his hfe, his clothing being cut and pierced 
 by the enemy's bullets. His second wound was 
 received during an encounter with Morgan at 
 Kellass' Bridge, Kentucky, where he was shot in 
 the elbow in consequence of which his left arm 
 was paralyzed for several weeks. But he con- 
 tinued to perform cavalry service with his wound- 
 ed arm resting in a sling. He has never recov- 
 ered from the effects of this wound. 
 
 After the close of the war General Hobson re- 
 turned to Greensburg and again engaged in mer- 
 cantile pursuits. In 1869 President Grant ap- 
 pointed him Collector for the Fourth Kentucky 
 Revenue District and he held this position for five 
 years. He was a promoter of the Southern Divi- 
 sion of the Cumberland & Ohio Railroad and suc- 
 ceeded in building the branch road from Greens- 
 burg to Lebanon, and is now president of that 
 railroad company. 
 
 General Hobson was one of the organizers of 
 the Republican party, and has been an acknowl- 
 
 edged leader in state politics since the days when 
 it was hardly safe for a Republican to express his 
 sentiments in Kentucky. 
 
 He takes much interest in the affairs of the 
 Grand Army of the Republic, and the year 
 (1892-3) he was Commander of the Department 
 of Kentucky — which position was given him un- 
 solicited^ — was the most successful year for the 
 Grand Army in Kentucky. At the Twenty-ninth 
 Annual National Encampment of the Grand 
 Army held in Louisville,. September 8 to 13, 1895, 
 General Hobson was elected Senior Vice-Com- 
 mander-in-Chief. He belongs to the Union Vet- 
 eran Ltegion and the Union Veterans' Union, also 
 the Loyal Legion Commandery of Ohio; and 
 wherever and whenever there is an organization 
 or movement or demonstration in memory of the 
 soldiers or the perpetuation of loyal sentiments he 
 is with it heart and soul. 
 
 General Hobson was married October 12, 1847, 
 to Kate Adair, daughter of Alexander and Eliza- 
 beth (Monroe) Adair. Her father was of Scotch- 
 Irish descent and served as the first marshal of 
 the territory of Florida. She was a niece of Gov- 
 ernor Adair of Kentucky, and her mother was a 
 sister of Judges T. B. and Benjamin Monroe. She 
 was a native of Florida and was educated at Dan- 
 ville and Frankfort, Kentucky. She was a mem- 
 ber of the Presbyterian Church, and died June 
 18,1872. Their children were: William A. Hob- 
 son (deceased); Annie May Hobson, wife of B. 
 W. Penick, of Greensburg ;,Atwood Monroe (late- 
 ly deceased) ; John A., merchant at Greensburg ; 
 Edwena, at home, and Bettie K., wife of L. C. 
 Alcorn of Greensburg. 
 
 Captain William Hobson (father) was born in 
 Virginia, January, 1788. His mother died when 
 he was very young, and his father being in indi- 
 gent circumstances, he was taken charge of by his 
 uncle, Jonathan Patterson, who removed to Green 
 County, Kentucky, in 1796, bringing William 
 with him, who was about seven years of age. He 
 was apprenticed to Thomas R. Slaughter at 
 Greensburg to learn the trade of harness and 
 saddle making; and, having completed his term 
 of apprenticeship, went to Danville and devoted 
 himself for a few months exclusively to the com- 
 mon branches of an English education. Being 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 603 
 
 then deprived of means to complete his school- 
 ing on account of the death of his uncle, he was 
 compelled to leave school for the work-bench and 
 went to Nashville, Tennessee, where he worked 
 as journeyman saddler until he had accumulated 
 some means and then returned to Greensburg and 
 commenced business for himself, making his 
 home there until his death. 
 
 He was an officer in the War of 1812, and 
 served with distinction in General William Henry 
 Harrison's campaign against the Indians on the 
 Northwestern frontier. In times of peace, dur- 
 ing many years he filled various town and county 
 offices, and upon the establishment of an inde- 
 pendent bank in Greensburg in 1818 he was 
 elected one of the directors. For sixteen years, 
 with only short intervals, he was director of the 
 Branch Bank of Kentucky at Greensburg. For 
 forty years he was a trustee of the town of Greens- 
 burg, and was generally president of the board, 
 elected to the office without a dissenting vote. At 
 the first election under the new Constitution 
 (1850) Captain Hobson was almost unanimously 
 elected Justice of the Peace, although there were 
 four or five other candidates of high standing, 
 and he held that office during life. He was a zeal- 
 ous Mason and treasurer of both chapter and 
 council from their first organization in Greens- 
 burg; was also one of the trustees of New Ath- 
 ens Seminary for a number of years, and was, in 
 short, almost indispensable to every enterprise in 
 Greensburg that had for its object the promotion 
 of the public weal. His record whether as a pri- 
 vate citizen or public official was characterized by 
 pure morality, strict integrity, disinterested be- 
 nevolence, industrious habits and correct judg- 
 ment. He died April 6, 1853, and in respect to his 
 memory the Masonic fraternity at Greensburg 
 erected a monument over his grave. 
 
 Lucy Kirtley Hobson (mother) was born No- 
 vember 8, 1793, and when she died was the old- 
 est member of the Methodist Church in her sec- 
 tion of the country. When a girl she came over 
 the old Wilderness Road on horseback from Vir- 
 ginia to Kentucky. She was one of those pioneer 
 women to' whom the present generation owe so 
 much of grateful remembrance. 
 
 Her parents, Thomas Kirtley and Judiath 
 
 Lewis Kirtley, settled in Green County, Ken- 
 tucky, where her father was a farmer and died in 
 1818. His wife died November 9, 1820, and both 
 of them are interred in the old burial ground eight 
 miles from Greensburg. Lucy Kirtley married 
 Captain William Hobson, March 14, 1814, and 
 had seven children, three of whom are living: A. 
 G. Hobson, banker at Bowling Green; General 
 E. H. Hobson and Luvenia M., who married 
 Charles D. Allen. The other sons and daughters, 
 now deceased, were Eliza, who married James 
 D. Montley; James Thomas; Alonzo Thomas; 
 Lucy Ann and W. J. Hobson. 
 
 Many facts of interest in the life of General 
 ing sketch, particularly those concerning his mili- 
 Hobson are necessarily omitted from the forego- 
 tary record, a complete outline of which would 
 make a volume. But this will serve the main pur- 
 pose of a work of this character, which is to place 
 on record the names and character of men who 
 have distinguished themselves in the service of 
 their state and country, or have faithfully per- 
 formed their duty in whatever station their lot 
 may have been cast. 
 
 HENRY CLAY BOHON, cashier of the First 
 National Bank of Harrodsburg, Mercer 
 County, Kentucky, is the son of W. F. Bohon and 
 Virginia Hutcherson Bohon; was born March 20, 
 1845, in Monticello, and was educated at the Ken- 
 tucky University, when it was located at Har- 
 rodsburg. After leaving school in 1864 he en- 
 tered business with his father and in March, 1873, 
 took full control with Smith Hansford. The firm 
 name was Bohon & Hansford, in Harrodsburg, 
 until May, 1884. In that year he was elected 
 cashier of the First National Bank, which posi- 
 tion he now holds. This bank was organized 
 twenty-three years ago, and is now running un- 
 der an extended charter. Mr. Bohon was Presi- 
 dent of the Kentucky Sunday School Union for ten 
 years; is now County President of the Kentucky 
 Sunday School Union, and has been Superin- 
 tendent of the Christian Church Sabbath School 
 for fifteen years. He is an honorary member of 
 the State Confederate Association, .and is a man 
 of pleasing address, and readily makes friends of 
 all thrown in contact with him. While his Indus- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 try and unswerving integrity merit the success he 
 has achieved his many fine quahties of liead and 
 heart command the respect and esteem of the en- 
 tire community. 
 
 Mr. Bohon married Miss SalHe Knight, daugh- 
 ter of Grant L. Knight of Jessamine County, Ken- 
 tucky, December 15, 1869. She was born July. 
 I, 1847; educated at St. Catherine, Marion Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, at Daughter's College, Harrods- 
 burg, and at Danville, Kentucky. They have five 
 children: Mary, married Stephenson Haydon 
 of Harrodsburg, now living at ■ Lawrenceburg, 
 Kentucky; Annie Belle, Nora and Nannie, who 
 were educated at Daughter's College, and Hen- 
 ry Clay, Jr., now at Harrodsburg Academy. 
 
 W. F. Bohon (father) was born in Mercer 
 County, Kentucky, October, 1812, and was edu- 
 cated in the schools of the county. He farmed 
 for a while and was then in mercantile life for fif- 
 teen years. In 1857 came to Harrodsburg, and 
 lived there until three years before his death, 
 April 5, 1873; was a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church, and a Democrat in politics. He married 
 a descendant of the Owsley family of Kentucky, 
 and was the father of seven children: Henry 
 Clay; Dr. J. T. Bohon of Lincoln County; W. J. 
 Bohon of Danville; George Bohon of Harrods- 
 burg; R. S. Bohon of Decatur, Illinois; Elizabeth, 
 wife of Linn W. Hudson; Mattie, wife of H. H. 
 Peacock, Dallas, Texas. John Bohon (grand- 
 father) lived in Mercer County, Kentucky. 
 
 GRANT GREEN, cashier of the Farmers' 
 Bank of Kentucky, Frankfort, son of John 
 Green and Martha Dixon, was born in Hender- 
 son County, Kentucky, February 3, 1826. His 
 ancestors were from Fauquier County, Virginia, 
 where the progenitor of the family in this coun- 
 try, coming from England, settled in 171 7. His 
 grandfather raised a large family of children, 
 many of whom performed distinguished service 
 for their country. All of the male members who 
 were old enough to bear arms at the time joined 
 the army and fought for American Independence. 
 Mr. Green's grandfather, Gabriel Green, came 
 to Kentucky in 1815 and located in Henderson 
 County, and was a Lieutenant in the Revolution- 
 ary army. His son, John Green (father), married 
 
 Martha Dixon, daughter of Captain Henry 
 Dixon, whose father was a Colonel in the Revo- 
 lutionary war. She was eleven years old when 
 her father came from Caswell County, North 
 Carolina, to Henderson County, Kentucky. Their 
 marriage was celebrated in 1820 and Mr. Green 
 died in 1829, leaving four children to the care of 
 his widow. He left no estate and it was a hard 
 trial for the mother to provide properly for her 
 children, but with almost superhuman efifort, 
 great endurance and self-denial, sacrificing every 
 pleasure but that of caring for her children, she 
 performed her task and brought her family to a 
 position in the social and business world, of 
 which she was justly proud. She educated them 
 in the best schools of the day and brought them 
 up to understand and appreciate the importance 
 of industry and determined efifort. 
 
 Grant Green, second son of this noble woman, 
 began active life as a teacher in the school in 
 which he had been a pupil, taking the place of 
 teacher before his former classmates of his own 
 age had finished their school days. In this he 
 was very successful, and gave great satisfaction to 
 pupils and patrons. His uncle, William Green, 
 was Sherifif of the county in 1848, and he gave up 
 teaching, reluctantly, to serve as deputy sheriff, 
 which occupied him for two years ; was then dep- 
 uty clerk of the County and Circuit Courts and 
 served until 1851, when he was nominated by 
 the Democratic party for representative in the 
 Legislature and elected. The sessions of that 
 body were noted for the arduous labors, keen 
 foresight and wisdom of the members. It was 
 the second session following the adoption of the 
 new constitution and the laws then existing had 
 to be modified and changed and new laws enacted 
 to conform to the Constitution. This Legisla- 
 ture was one of the ablest that ever met in Frank- 
 fort, performing its labors in a most satisfactory 
 manner. 
 
 Mr. Green was appointed Assistant Secretary of 
 State February 26, 1852, and afterward Secre- 
 tary of State, by Governor Powell, who had 
 defeated Archibald Dixon, the Whig candidate, 
 and a cousin of Mr. Green. He served in that 
 office until the expiration of Governor Powell's 
 term of office, September 3, 1855. In the mean- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 time he was a member of the Democratic State 
 Central Committee, and in 1855 he was nomi- 
 nated for Superintendent ofPublic Instruction, but 
 the entire Democratic ticket was defeated by the 
 Know-Nothing party in that campaign, and Mr. 
 Green returned to Henderson and began the prac- 
 tice of law with H. F. Turner ; was elected County 
 Judge in 1858; was elected State Auditor in 1859, 
 and, resigning his seat on the bench, returned to 
 Frankfort, January i, i860; and during the try- 
 ing times of the war he managed the state finances 
 with ability and giving universal satisfaction. The 
 Legislative committee appointed at his request to 
 examine his office at the close of his term made 
 a very complimentary report of the management 
 and condition of the office. He was defeated for 
 a second term only through the interference of 
 the Federal troops in the election (1864), and even 
 then by a very small margin. 
 
 Returning to Henderson in 1864 he was en- 
 gaged in the tobacco business for two years, when 
 he associated himself with others in banking un- 
 der the firm name of Green, Marshall & Co., and 
 in May, 1868, was appointed cashier of the Farm- 
 ers' Bank of Kentucky, at Frankfort, a position 
 he has held for twenty-eight years, and in which 
 he may continue as long as he lives or cares to 
 give his attention to business. The stock of the 
 Farmers' Bank was worth eighty-three cents on 
 the dollar, when he took charge, and it was not 
 long until it was worth its face value, and the 
 bank is to-day one of the strongest in the state. 
 This is the record, in brief, of one of the best men 
 living in Kentucky to-day. It would be superflu- 
 ous to add words of praise or comment upon a 
 career that has been and is an open book. His 
 life and his work have been largely in the service 
 of the public, and he has performed every duty 
 with fidelity, integrity and singleness of purpose, 
 leaving no page in his history upon which he can- 
 not look and point others to with pride and satis- 
 faction. 
 
 Mr. Green was united in marriage February 28, 
 1855, with Kate S. Overton of Fayette County, 
 Kentucky, a member of a distinguished family 
 in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. They 
 have four children living: Henry Dixon, the 
 oldest son, was drowned in the Ohio river at Hen- 
 
 derson in 1867, at the age of ten years; Eliza 
 Overton, the oldest daughter, married George 
 B. Alexman of Greenville, Mississippi, and has 
 one child, Grant Green Alexman; Grant Green, 
 Jr., married Joe Gray of Woodford County, and 
 they have four children; Dr. Waller O. Green, 
 the third son, is a practicing physician in Louis- 
 ville; Kate Overton, the second daughter, mar- 
 ried William Raymond Worrall of New York; 
 John Taylor, the fourth son, is pursuing his 
 studies in Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Ten- 
 nessee. 
 
 Martha Dixon Green (mother) was a daughter 
 of Captain Henry Dixon, who was born in Cas- 
 well County, North Carolina, in 1777. He was a 
 brother of Wynn Dixon, who was the father of 
 Governor Archibald Dixon (see sketch of Dr. 
 Archibald Dixon in this work). Captain Hal 
 Dixon, as he was better known, came to Ken- 
 tucky in 1808 and lived in Henderson County 
 until 1853, when he removed to Union County, 
 and died at Sulphur Springs in November, 1858. 
 He was a remarkably large and muscular man, 
 weighing ordinarily from 225 to 250 pounds; a 
 man of indomitable will and absolutely without 
 fear; very industrious and attentive to business; 
 was for Jackson, against Clay and served one 
 term in the legislature, but was not much in- 
 clined to politics. He married Mary John- 
 son of Virginia, who bore him twelve children, of 
 whom the mother of Grant Green was the second 
 child. The children of John Green and Martha 
 Dixon were: Dr. Dixon Green (deceased), who 
 married Miss Lambert of Arkansas, and second 
 Miss Swift of Tennessee; Grant Green; John W. 
 Green, who married Miss Randolph of Hender- 
 son County, and Mary Ann, deceased, who mar- 
 ried Theodore Hall. 
 
 Henry Dixon, father of Captain Hal Dixon, 
 was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War; was 
 highly complimented for gallantry at the bat- 
 tle of Camden and died from wounds received 
 in the battle of Eutaw Springs. Judge Schenk 
 in his History of North Carolina, 1780-81, calls 
 him "the Chevalier Bayard of the Revolution- 
 ary War," and compliments his action in the 
 battle of Camden in these words: "Perhaps the 
 most brilliant officer whose services enriched 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 the annals of that memorable invasion was Major 
 Hal Dixon, whose daring and impetuous course 
 was so splendidly displayed among the scattered 
 legions of Yates at Camden. He refused to fly 
 when his comrades had been driven from the field 
 and his devoted band had been left exposed to the 
 bayonet charge on the front and flank. With 
 a fine spirit, he faced his battalion to the charge 
 from either side and fought as long as a cartridge 
 was in his belt, then resorting to the bayonet 
 himself, he cut his way through the attacking 
 forces and made good his retreat." 
 
 HORACE W. TWISS, attorney for the Watts 
 Steel and Iron Syndicate of Middlesboro, 
 Kentucky, son of Quintin Twiss and Fannie 
 Covey, was born in London, England, March 
 24, 1865, was reared in London and educated at 
 Kings School in Canterbury ; after leaving school 
 he traveled in France and Germany for two years; 
 returning to his home, studied law and was ad- 
 mitted to practice in London ; became solicitor in 
 1890 and continued in the practice of law in his 
 native city until 1892, when he came direct to 
 Middlesborough, where millions of dollars of 
 English money have been invested, and engaged 
 in the practice of law in the new city. He is 
 especially qualified for the legal work of the 
 corporations doing business in and developing 
 the great resources of Middlesborough and vi- 
 cinity, and is employed especially as attorney for 
 the Watts Steel and Iron Syndicate of Middles- 
 borough. He has found other business in the 
 practice of his profession and is now thoroughly 
 established in his new home, the surroundings 
 of which are in striking contrast with the scenes 
 of his youth in the great city of London. 
 
 Before coming to America Mr. Twiss was 
 married (1892) to Lilian Simms, daughter of 
 Henry Simms of Bath, England, and they are 
 members of the Episcopal Church of Middles- 
 borough. 
 
 Quintin Twiss, father of Horace W. Twiss, a 
 native of London, England, was employed in 
 her majesty's treasury for thirty-five years, and 
 is now retired and living in London, in the sixty- 
 first year of his age. He is a devout member of 
 
 the Church of England, as is his wife, who is also 
 a native of London. 
 
 Horace Twiss (grandfather), also a native of 
 London, was a distinguished barrister of the 
 Queen's Council; was a member of Lord Bea- 
 consfield's government, and came from a talented 
 family. John Kemble was this grandfather's un- 
 cle, and Mrs. Siddons, the greatest actress Eng- 
 land ever produced, was his aunt. 
 
 William Covey, the maternal grandfather of 
 Horace W. Twiss, a native of Oxbridge, was a 
 very prominent physician of London, where he 
 died in 1888, aged seventy-five years. 
 
 This modest sketch of a scholarly gentleman 
 of the highest legal attainments is intended to 
 introduce Mr. Twiss to the people of Kentucky, 
 with whoni he has become identified in the de- 
 velopment of the hidden resources of the mount- 
 ains. 
 
 JOSEPH BARBOUR of New Castle, ex- Judge 
 of the Superior Court of Kentucky, son of 
 Joseph Barbour and Nancy Marshall Samuels, 
 was born in Carroll County, Kentucky, in April, 
 1844, and educated at the Male High School, Pa- 
 ducah, Kentucky, and at Poughkeepsie, New 
 York, but did not graduate from any literary in- 
 stitution. In 1866 he entered the Louisville Law 
 School, from which he graduated in one year, 
 and commenced the practice of law at New Cas- 
 tle, where he resided until 1886, when he was 
 elected Judge of the Superior Court, never hav- 
 ing previously aspired to office. He was re-elected 
 in 1890 and was on the Superior bench until that 
 court was abolished by the new Constitution, 
 January, 1895. He then resumed the practice of 
 law at New Castle, and is one of the leading law- 
 yers in Kentucky. He is an active and a deeply 
 interested politician, having been a delegate to 
 many state conventions, and is a writer of great 
 force and ability, wielding a ready and trenchant 
 pen ; was associated with J. D. Carroll in the com- 
 pilation of the statutes of Kentucky, and is the 
 author of Barbour's Digest of Kentucky De- 
 cisions, considered an authority by the bench and 
 bar of the state. Mr. Barbour was married (first) 
 in 1874 to Mary Webb, daughter of Hon. J. W, 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 Webb, a native of Henry County, and a promi- 
 nent lawyer and politician. She was born and 
 educated in New Castle. There were four chil- 
 dren by this marriage: Levine, Webb, Nannie 
 and Willie. In 1887 he was married (second) to 
 Mrs. Sallie Chenault, whose maiden name was 
 Webb, widow of Dr. Walker Chenault of Rich- 
 mond, Kentucky. 
 
 Joseph Barbour (father) was a native of New 
 York, but of Virginia ancestry. He was born in 
 179S and educated in New York, and came to 
 Carroll County, Kentucky, in 1840, where he had 
 a contract to build the locks and dams on the 
 Kentucky River. In the summer of 1844 he 
 moved to Paducah, built large mills and was en- 
 gaged in the milling business for a number of 
 years. After that he was extensively engaged in 
 farming in Marshall County. He was a man of 
 broad public spirit and brought his remarkable 
 energy to the furtherance of every public enter- 
 prise. He was a Whig in politics and also a 
 strong secessionist, belonging to that old school 
 of politicians denominated "fire-eaters" because 
 of their extreme views. He died just at the be- 
 ginning of the Civil War, April 8, 1861. He was 
 married in 1842 to Nancy Marshall Samuels, 
 whose grandfather was a nephew of Chief Jus- 
 tice Marshall. 
 
 JUDGE FONTAINE TALBOT FOX, late 
 distinguished lawyer and jurist of Danville, 
 Boyle County, Kentucky, son of William and 
 Sophie Irvine Fox, was born January 28, 1803, near 
 Richmond, Kentucky. He was educated at Nich- 
 olasville, at an academy taught by a Scotchman 
 by the name of Reed, and studied law under Hon. 
 Charles Cunningham. He was admitted to the 
 bar in 1824 and commenced the practice of law at 
 Somerset, but afterwards removed to Stanford, 
 Lincoln County, Kentucky. In 1831 he was ap- 
 pointed by Governor Metcalfe to the office of 
 Commonwealth Attorney for the Twelfth Judi- 
 cial District. He was afterwards elected to this 
 office by the people and held it many years, but 
 after he gave it up he would never accept a case 
 to prosecute any man. He was during his life- 
 time concerned in an immense amount of litiga- 
 tion extending over the entire state of Ken- 
 
 tucky, and it is said of him that he probably made 
 more money from the legitimate practice of law 
 than any man of his time in the state. He lived 
 lavishly, but did not accumulate a fortune be- 
 cause of his sympathetic, benevolent nature. In 
 1834 he ran for Congress as a Whig against Sher- 
 rod Williams, but was defeated because of the 
 Whig vote being divided by Adam Beatty run- 
 ning as an independent. In 1836 he represented 
 Pulaski County in the Legislature and Lincoln 
 County in 1844. In 1855, having removed to 
 Danville, Kentucky, he consented reluctantly to 
 become the standard-bearer of his party — the 
 Know-Nothings — in the Congressional contest, 
 his opponent being the Hon. Albert Gallatin Tal- 
 bot; but was again defeated. There was a bitter 
 fight made against him by the Catholic and for- 
 eign element, and an immense amount of money 
 used on the opposing side. There is a belief to 
 this day in the district that he was rightfully en- 
 titled to the office. 
 
 In 1862 he was elected Circuit Judge of the 
 Eighth Judicial District, which office he held un- 
 til he resigned it in 1881. As an indication of his 
 hold upon the people of his district, after he had 
 resigned the office of Circuit Judge on account of 
 age and feeble health, and when he was not a 
 candidate for the office various county precincts 
 voted for him solidly for Judge, declaring they 
 would have no other. 
 
 Judge Fox was a man of incorruptible and ex- 
 alted public and private character and possessed 
 a personality as unique and clear cut as some mas- 
 terpiece of art. He was never heard to utter an 
 unkind word of any human being, choosing to be 
 silent when he could not speak favorably, and 
 with him friendship was a sentiment beautiful in 
 its tenderness and phenomenal in its fidelity. As 
 a citizen his heart and hand to a fault were re- 
 sponsive to every project for the public good. He 
 was devoted to his family, often riding sixty-five 
 and seventy miles on horseback over rough 
 mountain roads in order to spend the Sabbath 
 day with them and joining in the sports of 
 his children with the zest of a boy. As a lawyer 
 he had an exalted conception of the system of 
 jurisprudence, recognizing its divine origin and 
 prerogatives, and was faithful to the uttermost de- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 tail of its responsibility. He was called the 
 widows' and orphans' friend, and the friend of the 
 friendless, his heart of womanly tenderness bleed- 
 ing or rejoicing over the misfortunes or welfare 
 of his clients. As a jurist from a purely judicial 
 standpoint, a cotemporary in the legal profes- 
 sion said, "That his judicial rulings, compared 
 with the common run of judicial rulings, was like 
 a clear stream of water running beside a muddy 
 one." 
 
 In his personal responsibility as a jurist his 
 character can best be summed, up in his own 
 words, when he delivered his decision in the fa- 
 mous Center College case of 1866: "My preju- 
 dices, my interests, my desires and my hopes are 
 with the plaintiff, but my decision is a judgment 
 in favor of the defendant." 
 
 As an orator he was magnetic and persuasive, 
 and as a pleader at the bar, he possessed won- 
 derful influence over a jury. In his social at- 
 tributes, his conversational powers clear, epigram- 
 matic, forcible, sparkling with wit and humor 
 and anecdote and mellowed by sentiment, he was 
 without a peer. In politics Judge Fox was origi- 
 nally an old-line Whig, but after the fusion of that 
 party with the Republican he became an ardent 
 Democrat. 
 
 In religion, he was a Presbyterian. He died 
 April 7, 1887, and is buried at Danville, Ken- 
 tucky. He married Eliza J. Hunton, daughter of 
 Thomas and Ann Bell Hunton of Albemarle 
 County, Virginia, where she was born Novem- 
 ber 21, i8og. Her father died soon after she 
 came to Kentucky, leaving his widow in affluent 
 circumstances. 
 
 Her three brothers were equally distinguished 
 in the legal professions of Missouri and Louis- 
 iana. 
 
 Judge Logan Hunton was the author of the 
 celebrated Allison letter that is accredited with 
 the election of General Zachary Taylor, Presi- 
 dent of the United States. He declined a cabi- 
 net position under General Taylor, which was 
 offered him in recognition of his services, and was 
 made United States District Attorney for the 
 state of Louisiana, a position more agreeable to 
 himself and family. He amassed a large fortune. 
 
 Mrs. Fox is a woman of the old school, the 
 
 type so rapidly passing off the stage of action. 
 Womanly, home-loving, with great strength of 
 mind and character dominated by religious prin- 
 ciple, her influence for good is recognized and 
 appreciated by all. She is a consistent member of 
 the Presbyterian Church and was for many years 
 president of the Ladies' Aid Society of her church. 
 They had ten children who grew to maturity — 
 the first, Thomas Fox, lawyer by profession, liv- 
 ing at Danville. He was married, first, to Henri- 
 etta Clay Wilson, a widow and daughter of Judge 
 Gist of Montgomery County, Kentucky. By this 
 marriage he has two daughters: Eliza, now Mrs. 
 John Rogers, living near Lexington, and Susan 
 Fox, who resides at Danville. Mr. Fox was mar- 
 ried, second, to Mary Moberly of Boyle County, 
 Kentucky. 
 
 William McKee Fox (deceased), lawyer, repre- 
 sented Pulaski County in the Legislature for two 
 terms and ran for the nomination of his party for 
 Attorney-General of Kentucky, against Rodman, 
 the incumbent. He also made a race for the Con- 
 gressional nomination in 1878 and was defeated 
 by a proxy vote. He was drowned in the Cum- 
 berland River. He was a man of brilliant mental 
 parts with an all pervading personal magetism. 
 It was said of him editorially in the Courier- Jour- 
 nal: "A typical Kentuckian, brave, impulsive, 
 generous to a fault; genial, eloquent, ready, 
 equally strong in society as in his profession, the 
 man never lived with bigger heart or brighter in- 
 tellect. He bent himself seriously to nothing 
 that he did not illumine and wherever he ap- 
 peared he was surrounded with a host of admir- 
 ing associates." 
 
 Peter C. Fox (deceased), lawyer, was Major 
 of Scott's Louisiana Cavalry on the side of the 
 South during the war of the states. After the 
 war he became a turf man and elevated his voca- 
 tion — was extremely popular. 
 
 Judge Fontaine T. Fox, lawyer of Louisville, 
 Kentucky, was elected to the Board of Alder- 
 men in 1868; was Assistant City Attorney 1870- 
 1873; appointed Vice-Chancellor by Governor 
 McCreery in 1878. In 1886 he ran for Governor 
 of Kentucky on the Prohibition ticket. He is 
 the author of two works: "Fire Insurance Con- 
 tracts," and "The Woman's Suffrage Movement 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 609 
 
 in the United States." He has been pronounced 
 by Enghsh and American critics as a writer of the 
 purest English. He married Mary Barton, 
 daughter of the late Professor Samuel Barton, 
 who for many years was professor of mathematics 
 at Center College, Danville. She died in October, 
 1894. He has five children. 
 
 Dr. Samuel Fox, a leading physician of Texas, 
 has five children. 
 
 Felix G. Fox, attorney-at-law at Danville, Ken- 
 tucky, a man of fine legal attainments. 
 
 Sophie Fox Sea (writer), author of a very popu- 
 lar story for children, a hymn that has obtained 
 a national reputation and a number of short 
 stories and poems of local celebrity. Mrs. Sea is 
 the wife of Captain Andrew McBrayer Sea of the 
 Confederate service, a commission merchant of 
 Louisville, Kentucky, and a ruling elder in the 
 First Presbyterian Church of that city. He is 
 highly educated and springs from notable pio- 
 neer and Scotch-Irish ancestry. He inherited a 
 handsome fortune from his father. John Oliver 
 Fox (deceased) was a civil engineer. Charles C. 
 Fox, City Attorney of Danville, and Master Com- 
 missioner of his district. He is a ruling elder in 
 the First Presbyterian Church of his town and 
 married Mollie Allen, daughter of Albert Allen of 
 Fayette County, Kentucky, and niece of Madison 
 Johnson. They have three daughters. 
 
 Annie Bell Fox Caldwell, wife of Jerry Cald- 
 well of Danville, a descendant of the celebrated 
 Clemens, Wicklifife and Caldwell families. He is 
 -a successful farmer, is president of the Farmers' 
 National Bank of Danville and one of the ablest 
 financiers in the state. They have five children. 
 
 William Fox (father) was born in Hanover 
 County, Virginia, March i, 1779. He clerked in 
 company with Henry Clay in the office of his 
 (Fox's) uncle, Peter Tinsley, of Hanover County, 
 Virginia, and received from him a thorough train- 
 ing in penmanship and the practical branch of 
 law. After he came to Kentucky with his par- 
 ents he went to Pulaski County in company with 
 Chief Justice Samuel McKee. They kept bach- 
 elor hall together for ten years, when McKee re- 
 turned to Madison County. William Fox served 
 as county and circuit clerks for forty-seven years. 
 He was a man of rare qualities of mind and char- 
 
 acter and reverenced to an extraordinary degree 
 by the people among whom he lived. He married 
 (first) Sophie Irvine, daughter of David Irvine 
 and Jane Kyle, and sister to the pioneers, William 
 and Christopher Irvine. They had seven chil- 
 dren. He married (second) Mary Irvine, daugh- 
 ter of Hail and Elizabeth Talbot of Luter Island, 
 Missouri. William Fox died in Somerset, Octo- 
 b«r 19. 1855. He had a large landed estate and 
 many negroes. 
 
 Samuel Fox (grandfather) came to Kentucky 
 from Hanover County, Virginia, about 1783. He 
 settled in Madison County on the present site 
 of Foxtown. He inherited a large estate under the 
 old primogeniture law of succession. His wife 
 was Rhoda Pickering, daughter of Richard and 
 Lucy Pickering of Virginia. They lived together 
 as man and wife for seventy-five years and had 
 thirteen children. They were never known to 
 have but one quarrel. He died in 1844; she died 
 in 1841. They are buried at Fox's. 
 
 THOMAS JONES BIGSTAFF, a leading 
 lawyer of Mt. Sterling, son of James M. and 
 Mary (Jones) Bigstaff, was born in Bath County, 
 December 11, 1862. He received his education 
 at Georgetown College, from which he was grad- 
 uated in 1884. Then for one year he attended 
 Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, 
 New York, and was then a clerk in a bank for 
 one year. 
 
 In 1886 he began the study of law with Judge 
 B. J. Peters and with the law firm of Young, 
 Mitchell & Young, and was admitted to the bar 
 in 1887. About this time he was appointed at- 
 torney for the Traders' Deposit Bank at Mt. 
 Sterling. In 1888 he formed a partnership with 
 Edward C. O'Rear, the firm name being O'Rear 
 & Bigstafif, of which he is still a member. They 
 make corporate law a specialty and are attorneys 
 for a number of turnpike companies. Eastern cor- 
 porations and insurance companies. 
 
 Mr. Bigstafif is a member of the Board of 
 Trustees of the city schools. In politics he is 
 a Democrat and in religion a member of the 
 Baptist Church. 
 
 He married in 1894 Alexine Benton, daughter 
 of Hiram and Maria Crumb Benton. She was 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 reared in Michigan and educated in Olivet and 
 Albion Colleges, and graduated in the Chautau- 
 qua Course. They have one child, James M. 
 Bigstaff, Jr. 
 
 James M. Bigstaff (father) was born in Bath 
 County, Kentucky, May 20, 1842, and was edu- 
 cated at Owingsville and in the country schools. 
 He left home at the age of fourteen to make his 
 living; began as deputy in the circuit clerk's 
 office at that age and served until he was nineteen, 
 at which time he was engaged in general farming 
 and stock-r-aising in Bath County; removed to 
 Newport, Kentucky, in 1863; remained there a 
 short time and then returned to Bath County and 
 resumed farming, and in 1872 he removed to 
 Mt. Sterling. His wife inherited eight hundred 
 acres of land, which, by good business manage- 
 ment and enterprise, Mr. Bigstaff has increased 
 three-fold. He was president of the Exchange 
 Bank for three years; resigned that position in 
 1884, organized the Traders' Deposit Bank and 
 has been its president since its organization. He 
 is a member of the Baptist Church and in poli- 
 tics a Democrat. He was married in 1862 to 
 Mary E. Jones, a native of Bath County, Ken- 
 tucky. She was educated at the Georgetown 
 Seminary and is a member of the Baptist Church. 
 Their children are: Thomas Jones, Sarah Fen- 
 ton, Elizabeth lies and Odd Samuel. 
 
 Odd Samuel Bigstaff (grandfather) was born in 
 Bath County, Kentucky, and although almost 
 self-educated, was a very highly cultured man and 
 had a fine library, selected and purchased by him- 
 self. He was a physician and had a large prac- 
 tice extending from Bath County to the Ohio 
 river. He was a thoroughly good and useful 
 man, highly respected and beloved. He married 
 Mrs. Fenton Arnold, widow first of John Arnold 
 and then of David Arnold. Her maiden name 
 was Fenton Bean, and she was born in Mason 
 County and educated at Maysville. At the age 
 of twenty-seven she had been three times married. 
 She was truly a help-meet to Dr. Bigstaff; was 
 companionable with him and assisted him greatly 
 in his work; their children were: Sarah, who 
 married John Hines; Richard, Benjamin, Sam- 
 uel of Newport, Kentucky, and James M. Big- 
 staff. The Bigstaff family came to Kentucky 
 
 from Culpeper County, Virginia. The original 
 name in England was Bickerstaff, but those who 
 came to America changed their name to Bigger- 
 staff. Dr. Biggerstaff dropped the "geir" and 
 wrote the name simply Bigstaff. The name 
 Bickerstaff was discovered by chance. Mr. Big- 
 staff's father received an importation of cattle a 
 few years ago from Bickerstaff Place, England. 
 This name was traced and found to be the origin- 
 al name of this family. The coat-of-arms that 
 was found consisted of a unicorn rampant. It 
 is a tradition that one of the earliest ancestors 
 was Jacob Staffe, who had several sons, one 
 named Long, another Bicker, hence the name 
 Longstaffe and Bickerstaffe. 
 
 Thomas T. Jones (maternal grandfather) was a 
 native of Bath County and a farmer; was ap- 
 pointed colonel of the State Militia; married 
 Elizabeth Boyd of Bath County, Kentucky, and 
 their children were : James William, John Spen- 
 cer and Mary Elizabeth. 
 
 John Jones (maternal great-grandfather) was 
 a farmer owning several thousand acres of land 
 in Bath County and as many hundred slaves. He 
 was a turfman and was married three times. He 
 was a very energetic and prosperous man. 
 
 PHILIP SLAUGHTER CAMPBELL, Fire 
 Insurance Adjuster, of Louisville, Ken- 
 tucky, son of Samuel and Martha Frances 
 (Thompson) Campbell, was born in Middleburg, 
 Loudoun County, Virginia, June 19, 1844, and 
 removed with his father's family to Louisville in 
 May, 1851, and here has since resided. 
 
 His father, Samuel Campbell, was the son of 
 Patrick Campbell, who, with his brother Robert, 
 came to this country from Scotland and, after 
 they had served throughout the war in the Ameri- 
 can army during the Revolution, they settled — it 
 is supposed— at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 
 where Samuel was born. When he was quite 
 young both of his parents died, and he was raised 
 by his uncle and aunt, and at about the age of 
 twelve years, was taken to Winchester, Clark 
 County, Virginia, where he grew to manhood. 
 He died in Louisville, April 19, 1884, in his 
 eighty-seventh year. 
 
 His mother, Martha Frances Campbell, was a 
 
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 daughter of William Mills Thompson and Cath- 
 arine Wigginton (Boradus) Thompson of Cul- 
 peper County, Virginia, where both had been 
 raised, as had their parents before them. She 
 died in Louisville, June 21, 1869, in her fifty- 
 seventh year. (Rev. John A. Boradus, deceased, 
 of Louisville was a nephew of Catharine Wig- 
 ginton Boradus Thompson above referred to.) 
 
 Philip S. Campbell — who was named for Rev. 
 Philip Slaughter of Culpeper County, Virginia — 
 received his education in the schools of Louis- 
 ville. At the age of eighteen he began his busi- 
 ness career in a retail drug store, and after two . 
 years changed to wholesale dry goods, which he 
 followed for eight years, finally taking up fire in- 
 surance, March i, 1871, by buying an interest 
 in the business of W. H. Slaughter, the firm name 
 being Slaughter & Campbell. This firm was af- 
 terwards changed to Lyman, Moore & Camp- 
 bell, and then to Lyman & Campbell. 
 
 During his connection with the local fire insur- 
 ance business, his firms represented some of the 
 most prominent American and foreign companies 
 and did a large and successful business for them. 
 He engaged with Barbee & Castleman, managers 
 Southern Department of the Royal Insurance 
 Company, and London and Lancashire Fire Insur- 
 ance Company, January i, 1877, and traveled for 
 them as special agent and adjuster for five years, 
 afterwards being with J. H. M. Morris, manager 
 of the Queen Insurance Company, for the same 
 territory, and in 1891 he settled down to adjust 
 fire losses in Louisville and vicinity only, in 
 which undertaking he has been eminently suc- 
 cessful. He is active, energetic and industrious, 
 and has all of the qualities which combine to 
 make what is known as a hustler. Popular, gen- 
 ial, polite and courteous in his dealings, he com- 
 mands the respect of all with whom he is asso- 
 ciated. Thoroughly posted in the laws and rules 
 governing insurance, experienced in the peculiar 
 complications which often arise in cases requiring 
 proper adjustment of fire losses, he has estab- 
 lished himself in the confidence of the prominent 
 fire insurance companies of the country, who 
 want fair dealings, prompt attention and intelli- 
 gent handling of their business. 
 
 Philip S. Campbell was married October 4, 
 
 1870, to Elizabeth Milton, daughter of John Mil- 
 ton, deceased. Her father was born in Fayette 
 County, Kentucky, and her mother, Louisa Ann 
 Taylor, deceased, was born in Clark County, 
 Virginia. John Milton was one of the most 
 prominent business men in Louisville in his day, 
 and at his death was cashier of the old Northern 
 Bank of Kentucky, in that city, and both he and 
 his wife were life-long prominent members of the 
 Presbyterian Church. Mr. Campbell's parents 
 were Episcopalians, his father having been an 
 officer in that church for fifty years, although he 
 was a Presbyterian before his marriage. His 
 mother was an active worker in the church from 
 early womanhood. P. S. Campbell and his wife 
 are members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 
 Louisville. They have one son living, Philip S. 
 Campbell, Jr., who is employed as clerk in the 
 insurance office of Barbee & Castleman. Their 
 only daughter, Louise Milton Campbell, died 
 July 17, 1894, in her twenty-third year. She had 
 from early childhood been deeply interested in 
 church work, and at the time of her death was 
 teacher of a class of young ladies in the Sunday 
 School of St. Paul's Church. 
 
 Mr. Campbell can trace his ancestry for several 
 generations; on his mother's paternal side for 
 about 300 years and on her maternal side about 
 200 years, to England and Scotland. On his 
 father's side he cannot, with certainty, go beyond 
 his grandfather, who was a soldier in the Revo- 
 lutionary war. Col. Richard W. Thompson of 
 Terre Haute, Indiana, is the only uncle Mr. 
 Campbell has now living, and he is in his 
 eighty-seventh year. 
 
 CHARLES WiEEDEN WILSON, a brother 
 of John R. and son of Samuel L. and Sarah 
 (Ashby) Wilson, was born near Corydon, in Hen- 
 derson County, Kentucky, February 12, 1848. 
 He attended the district sdiool in his neighbor- 
 hood as opportunity offered and was a pupil in 
 the State University at Lexington, when he was 
 called home on account of his father's illness 
 and took full charge of the farm and tobacco 
 business as a partner of his father. After the 
 death of the latter in 1876 Charles remained on 
 the farm and took care of his mother until her 
 
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 death, after which he removed to Henderson, 
 where he has continued successfully in the to- 
 bacco business and is one of the best known 
 business men of Henderson. 
 
 His father, Samuel Long Wilson, was born in 
 North Carolina in 1802, and came to Kentucky 
 when thirteen years of age, and when he reached 
 his manhood became a farmer in Henderson 
 County. He was also extensively engaged in 
 the handling of tobacco and built a large factory 
 on his farm. His wife was Sallie Weeden Ashby, 
 who was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, in 
 1813. They had ten children, seven of whom 
 reached maturity. Mr. Wilson's father was a 
 farmer and a tanner in North Carolina, who' came 
 to Kentucky in 181 5 and was a farmer in Hen- 
 derson County until the time of his death. 
 
 Robert Ashby (maternal grandfather), a native 
 of Virginia, belonged to the renowned Ashby fam- 
 ily in that state, who took such an active part in 
 the late Civil war, and was closely related to the 
 generals, Dick, Turner and John Ashby. Rob- 
 ert Ashby removed to Kentucky in the early days 
 of the state, or possibly prior to its admission 
 to the Union, having previously married Nancy 
 Walton of Maryland, who was the daughter of a 
 famous seafaring captain. 
 
 RAWLEIGH D. ARMSTRONG, Sherifl of 
 Franklin County, was born in Bridgeport, 
 Franklin County, Kentucky, November 29, 1849, 
 and was reared on the farm on which he now 
 resides and owns, receiving his education in the 
 high school of Frankfort. After leaving school 
 in 1877, he was appointed deputy sherifif under 
 William Chinn and held that position for two 
 years, when he engaged in farming and trad- 
 ing in live stock, in which business he has 
 continued ever since. He has built up an exten- 
 sive trade, and is now one of the representative 
 farmers and traders of Franklin County. He has 
 always been an active worker in the ranks of the 
 Democratic party, and in 1892 he was elected 
 sheriff of the county for a term of two years, at 
 the expiration of which term (1894) he was re- 
 elected without opposition, under the new con- 
 stitution, for a term of three years. Mr. Arm- 
 strong was married (first) to Mary E. Hodges, 
 
 daughter of Thomas Hodges of Franklin County. 
 She died, leaving one son, who died in May, 1882, 
 in the twenty-first year of his age. Mr. Arm- 
 strong's second wife was Mary Towles, daugh- 
 ter of Diamond Towles of Missouri, and she is 
 the mother of two daughters and one son, who 
 are now living: Mabel, Ruby and Rawleigh L. 
 Armstrong. 
 
 Abel Armstrong, father of R. D. Armstrong, 
 is a native of Woodford County, Kentucky, who 
 removed to Franklin County with his parents 
 when he was a small boy. He was reared on a 
 farm and has always been engaged in agricultural 
 pursuits. In politics he is a straight-out Demo- 
 crat and has always taken a lively interest in 
 the success of his party. He is still living on his 
 farm near Frankfort, having passed his ninetieth 
 year. 
 
 William Armstrong (grandfather) was a native 
 of Culpeper County, Virginia, who came to Ken- 
 tucky about the first year of the present century, 
 and after living in Woodford County for some 
 years, came to Franklin County, where he was en- 
 gaged in farming until the time of his death, hav- 
 ing reached a very old age. He married Sallie 
 Wilson of Woodford County. R. D. Armstrong's 
 great-grandfather, William Armstrong's father, 
 was a native of Scotland and was of Scotch-Irish 
 origin. He came to Virginia during the latter 
 years of the eighteenth century. 
 
 Matilda Towles Armstrong (mother) was bom 
 in what is known as Clover Bottom, in 1832, and 
 died in 1879 in the forty-second year of her age. 
 She was a daughter of Rawleigh D. Towles, who 
 was born in Culpeper County, Virginia. He 
 came with his father to Woodford County, where 
 he was engaged in general farming. The Towles 
 family originally came from England, where they 
 were highly connected. 
 
 COLONEL RICHARD M. JOHNSON, the 
 third son of Colonel Robert Johnson of 
 Scott County, was born in Kentucky in the au- 
 tumn of 1 781. The literary institutions of Ken- 
 tucky were then in their infancy, and the facihties 
 for thorough education exceedingly limited. 
 Richard remained with his father until the age 
 of fifteen, receiving only such instruction as the 
 
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 nature of circumstances would allow. At this 
 age he left his father's house, intent upon advan- 
 tages superior to those afforded in that vicinity, 
 and entered a country school, where he acquired 
 a knowledge of grammar, and the rudiments of 
 the Latin language. Afterwards he entered 
 Transylvania University, where, by unremitted 
 industry, he made rapid progress in the acquisi- 
 tion of classic and scientific knowledge. 
 
 Upon quitting the university, he entered upon 
 the study of law, under the guidance and instruc- 
 tion of that celebrated jurist and statesman. Col- 
 onel George Nicholas. On the decease of this 
 gentleman, which took place a few weeks after 
 his young student had entered his office, the sub- 
 ject of this biography placed himself under the 
 instruction of Hon. James Brown, late a senator 
 in Congress from Louisiana, and subsequently 
 a minister from the United States to the court of 
 France, but then a distinguished member of the 
 Kentucky bar. With this eminent citizen he fin- 
 ished his preparatory studies, and at the early age 
 of nineteen entered upon the arduous duties of 
 his profession. 
 
 As a lawyer, he was eminently successful, and 
 displayed the same active energy of mind and 
 benevolence of heart which have since so emi- 
 nently distinguished him in higher and more re- 
 sponsible stations. He despised injustice and op- 
 pression, and never omitted an occasion to ren- 
 der his services, without prospect of reward, 
 where honest poverty or injured innocence was 
 found struggling against the oppressions of 
 wealth. The inabihty of a client to pay a fee 
 never deterred him from attending seduously to 
 his cause, no matter how intricate and laborious 
 were the services. By these means, even at so 
 early an age, he secured to himself the just re- 
 ward of his virtues, and the approbation and es- 
 teem of the public. 
 
 Scarcely had he been installed in the duties 
 of his profession, before an opportunity was af- 
 forded for the development of that high and 
 chivalrous patriotism which has since identified 
 him with some of the noblest feats of American 
 valor, and given his name to immortality. In 
 1802 the port of New Orleans, in violation of an 
 existing treaty, was closed against the United 
 
 States by the Spanish intendant. The occurrence 
 gave rise to immense excitement throughout 
 America, especially in the vallies of the Ohio 
 and Mississippi, and a rupture between Spain 
 and the United States, likely to end in war, was 
 the consequence.' Richard M. Johnson, then 
 only in his twentieth year, with many other young 
 men of his neighborhood, promptly volunteered 
 his services to pass down the western waters and 
 make a descent on New Orleans, in the event of 
 war. In a few days, chiefly through his exer- 
 tions, a large company was enrolled, and he was 
 chosen to the command. The speedy adjustnjent 
 of the dispute with Spain deprived him and the 
 brave youths under his command of the oppor- 
 tunity of signalizing themselves and the state 
 upon the field of battle. 
 
 Before he had reached the age of twenty-one, 
 at which period the constitution of Kentucky 
 fixes the eligibility of the citizen to a seat in the 
 legislature, the citizens of Scott County elected 
 him, by acclamation, to a seat in that body. As 
 a member of the legislature, he acquitted himself 
 with great credit, and to the entire satisfaction 
 of his constituents. Having served two years 
 in that station, at the age of twenty-four he was 
 elected a representative in the Congress of the 
 United States; and in October, 1807, being then 
 just twenty-five, took his seat in that body. 
 
 He entered upon the theater of national poli- 
 tics at a period when party excitement ran high, 
 and attached himself to the Republican party, 
 more from a uniform and fixed devotion to the 
 principles of democracy than from any purely 
 selfish policy. He was immediately placed upon 
 some of the most important committees, and at 
 the second session of the term for which he was 
 elected was appointed chairman of the commit- 
 tee of claims, at that time among the most im- 
 portant of the house committee. 
 
 In 181 1 our relations with Great Britain were 
 such as, in the opinion of many, to render an ap- 
 peal to arms inevitable. Richard M. Johnson 
 was among those who were convinced that no 
 other alternative remained to the people of the 
 United States; and accordingly, after supporting 
 with great energy all the preparatory measures 
 which the crisis demanded, in June, 1812, gave 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 his vote for the declaration of war. This impor- 
 tant measure was shortly afterward followed by 
 an adjournment of Congress, when he hastened 
 home, raised the standard of his country, and 
 called around him many of the best citizens of 
 his neighborhood, some of whom, schooled in the 
 stormy period of the early settlement of the state, 
 were veteran warriors, well suited for the service 
 for which they were intended. With this bat- 
 talion, composed of three companies, he hastened 
 to the frontier, and when arrived at St. Mary's 
 on the 13th of September, his force, by general 
 order, was augmented by a battalion of mounted 
 volunteers, and he elected to the command of 
 the regiment thus formed. A portion of the regi- 
 ment only, during that season, had any opportu- 
 nity of an engagement; and this was a party of 
 the mounted battalion, under Major Suggett, 
 which, in communicating with Fort Wayne, be- 
 sieged by a superior force, encountered an equal 
 number of the enemy, whom it routed, killing an 
 Indian chief of some distinction. After an active 
 campaign of about ten months, Colonel Johnson 
 returned home for the purpose of proceeding to 
 Washington to re-enter Congress, having added 
 to his reputation as a statesman that of an ener- 
 getic and patriotic soldier. 
 
 In October, 1813, the decisive crisis in the 
 operations of the Northwestern army arrived — 
 the battle of the Thames, which led to a termina- 
 tion of hostilities in that quarter, was fought and 
 won. The distinguished services of Colonel 
 Johnson and his brave regiment in that san- 
 guinary engagement have scarcely a parallel in 
 the heroic annals of our country. The British 
 and Indians, the former under the command of 
 General Proctor, and the latter under that of 
 Tecumseh, the celebrated Indian warrior, had 
 taken an advantageous position, the British in 
 line between the river Thames and a narrow 
 swamp, and the Indians in ambush on their right, 
 and west of the swamp, ready to fall upon the 
 rear of Colonel Johnson, should he force a re- 
 treat of the British. Colonel Johnson, under the 
 orders of the commander in chief, divided his regi- 
 ment into two battalions, one under the com- 
 mand of his gallant brother James, and the other 
 to be led by himself. Colonel Johnson with his 
 
 battalion passed the swamp and attacked the In- 
 dians at the same moment that his brother James 
 fell upon and routed the British regulars. The 
 contest for a while between Colonel Johnson's 
 battalion and the Indians was obstinate and 
 bloody, the slaughter great, but success complete. 
 The gallant colonel was in the very midst and 
 thickest of the fight, inspiring by his presence 
 and courage the utmost confidence of his brave 
 followers, and though perforated with balls, his 
 bridle arm shattered, and bleeding profusely, he 
 continued to fight until he encountered and slew 
 an Indian chief who formed the rallying point 
 of the savages. This chief was supposed to be 
 the famous Tecumseh himself, upon whose fall 
 the Indians raised a yell and retreated. The 
 heroic colonel, covered with wounds, twenty-five 
 balls having been shot into him, his clothes and 
 his horse, was borne from the battle ground, 
 faint from exertion and loss of blood, and almost 
 lifeless. Never was victory so complete or its 
 achievement so glorious. Fifteen hundred In- 
 dians were engaged against the battalion of Col- 
 onel Johnson, and eight hundred British reg- 
 ulars against that of his brother. Both forces 
 were completely routed, and an effectual end 
 put to the war upon the northern frontier, dis- 
 tinguished as it had been by so many murderous 
 cruelties upon the part of the savage allies of the 
 British. 
 
 The war in that quarter now being ended, in a 
 short time the army took up its march home- 
 ward ; but Colonel Johnson being unable to con- 
 tinue with his regiment, was carried to Detroit, 
 from whence after a short confinement he de- 
 parted for home. After a distressing journey, 
 during which he endured the most painful suffer- 
 ing, he reached his home in Kentucky early in 
 November. In February, 1814, still unable to 
 walk, he reached Washington city, and resumed 
 his seat in Congress. Everywhere upon the 
 route, and at the metropolis, he was met with 
 the most enthusiastic and cordial greetings of a 
 grateful people. Even his political opponents, 
 deeply sensible of his sincerity, his patriotism and 
 his valor, cordially united in doing honor to the 
 man who had at so much sacrifice rendered such 
 glorious service to the country. Congress, by 
 
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 joint resolution, made appropriate acknowledg- 
 ment of his gallant deeds, and directed him to be 
 presented with a suitable testimonial of his ser- 
 vices. 
 
 He continued to serve his constituents in Con- 
 gress until the year 1819, when he voluntarily re- 
 tired, carrying with him the esteem of the whole 
 nation. But his native state, of which he was 
 justly the idol, would not suffer him to remain in 
 retirement. The people of Scott County imme- 
 diately returned him to the state legislature, and 
 that body elected him to the United States Sen- 
 ate. An honor so exalted from a source so hon- 
 ored he could not resist; and accordingly, in De- 
 cember, 1819, he took his seat in the United 
 States Senate, and after serving his term was 
 unanimously re-elected, a circumstance which 
 serves to show how well he preserved the confi- 
 dence of the people of his native state, and how 
 deeply he was enshrined in their affections. 
 
 His career as a legislator was scarcely less bril- 
 liant and useful than that in which he distin- 
 guished himself as a warrior. His speeches and 
 reports are monuments of his wisdom and lib- 
 erality as a statesman. The whole nation will 
 bear evidence to his zeal and industry in support 
 of all measures calculated to promote the end of 
 free government — the happiness of the people. 
 No man labored more indefatigably in behalf of 
 private claimants than did Colonel Johnson; and 
 so scrupulously faithful was he in the discharge 
 of his duty towards all who applied for his ser- 
 vices that he never failed while in Congress to 
 attend to a single application that was made to 
 him. The old soldiers of the Revolution, the 
 invalids of the last war, and thousands of other 
 persons all over the Union who had claims to 
 urge upon the government had no truer friend in 
 Congress than Colonel Johnson, as many of them 
 now enjoying the bounty of the government 
 through his instrumentality can bear most grate- 
 ful testimony. 
 
 In 1836 he was made Vice President of the 
 United States, and presided over the Senate with 
 great dignity for the term of four years, at the 
 expiration of which he retired to his farm in 
 Scott County, Kentucky. The remainder of his 
 life, with the exception of two terms in the state 
 
 legislature, was assiduously devoted to improv- 
 ing his private fortunes, somewhat impaired by a 
 too liberal hospitality and constant attention to 
 pubHc afifairs. He was a member of the legis- 
 lature at the time of his death, which occurred in 
 Frankfort in 1850. 
 
 JOHN M. UNTHANK. After leaving school 
 was a teacher of the common schools of this 
 and Harland counties for eight or ten years, and 
 was admitted to the bar in 1873, and has been en- 
 gaged in the active practice of law here ever since. 
 He represented Bell, Harland, Leslie and Perry 
 counties in the Legislature in sessions of 1883 and 
 1884, and has served as special Circuit Judge of 
 his circuit. Mr. Unthank was married February 
 4, 1859, to Miss Josephine, daughter of Alex- 
 ander and Mary Moore of Bell County. 
 
 Mr. Unthank championed the first bill which 
 became a law that prohibits the sale of whisky in 
 his district and the law has never been repealed. 
 
 ALOYSIUS J. SPECKERT, one of the most 
 successful -young lawyers of Louisville, son 
 of Col. Frank Speckert, was born in Aurora in 
 1867. His father, now prominent among the 
 wealthy German citizens of Louisville, was born 
 in Rhenish Bavaria, December 29, 1843, ^iid came 
 to this country, a poor orphan boy, in April, 1861 ; 
 enlisted as a drummer boy at Aurora, Indiana, 
 August 22, 1861, in the Thirty-second Indiana 
 Volunteers, under Col. August Willich, and 
 served with that fidelity and faithfulness which so 
 distinguished the loyal German element in the 
 war for the suppression of the Rebellion; re- 
 turned to Aurora in 1865 and remained there 
 until 1868, when he removed to Louisville and 
 engaged in the retail grocery trade, and soon 
 accumulated a handsome fortune. He was a 
 member of the common council for ten years, 
 in which he served the city faithfully. He has 
 been a leader in a number of benevolent societies, 
 serving as an officer in many of them; was cap- 
 tain of St. Martin's Commandery, Catholic 
 Knights, for fifteen years, and was then elected 
 lieutenant-colonel and later on was placed in com- 
 mand of the battalion, with the rank of colonel. 
 Mr. Speckert was thrown upon his own resources 
 
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 at a very tender age, and has distinguished him- 
 self as a man of remarkable pluck and shrewd 
 business tact. 
 
 A. J. Speckert was educated in the Louisville 
 schools, and after reading law with Kohn & 
 Barker, attended the University of Virginia; was 
 admitted to the bar and again entered the office 
 of his preceptors. Mr. Barker was elected city 
 attorney, and that firm being dissolved, Mr. Aaron 
 Kohn, David Baird and A. J. Speckert formed 
 a law partnership in 1890, which was known as 
 Kohn, Baird & Speckert. In 1893 he withdrew 
 from that firm and was associated with Charles 
 G. Richie, present judge of the County Court, 
 owing to whose election in 1894 the firm of 
 Speckert & Richie was dissolved, and Mr. Speck- 
 ert became the head of the firm of Speckert, 
 Kreiger & Bolderick. 
 
 Although still quite young, he has had large 
 experience and has met with wonderful success 
 as a lawyer; has managed his cases carefully, 
 and is popular with the bar and the people. He 
 is an eloquent speaker, and has made some pow- 
 erful arguments in cases of the "highest impor- 
 tance. 
 
 JOHN M. BROOKS, President and Resident 
 Manager of the Middlesborough Town and 
 Lands Company, son of Joseph A. Brooks and 
 Margaret McMillan, was born near Knoxville, 
 Tennessee, October 28, 1840. His father was 
 born, lived and died in the same house, covering 
 a period of seventy-eight years; was a farmer, 
 a general in the State Militia, and an elder in the 
 Presbyterian Church ; a man of strong character- 
 istics and of influence; a Christian gentleman 
 and a distinguished citizen. His older brothers 
 were in the Indian wars, and they all endured 
 many privations incident to pioneer times. 
 
 Moses Brooks (grandfather), a native of Rock- 
 bridge County, Virginia, was a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary war, in Campbell's Virginia Reg- 
 iment, and at the close of that war removed to 
 Abington, Virginia, and soon after settled in 
 Tennessee, near Knoxville, where his son, Gen. 
 Joseph A. Brooks, and his grandson. Captain 
 John M. Brooks, were born. 
 
 John Brooks (great-grandfather), a native of 
 
 the north of Ireland, of Scotch-Irish parentage, 
 came to the United States and located first in 
 Pennsylvania, next in Rockbridge County, Vir- 
 ginia, and finally in Washington County, Ten- 
 nessee, when that was a part of North Carolina. 
 
 Margaret McMillan Brooks (mother), now a 
 resident of Knoxville, was born in Knox County, 
 in 1808, and the history of her father and grand- 
 father was almost identical with that of her hus- 
 band's people. 
 
 John McMillan, grandfather of Capt. Brooks, 
 was a farmer in Knox County, Tennessee, where 
 he died in 1841. 
 
 Alexander McMillan (great-grandfather), a na- 
 tive of the north of Ireland, of Scotch-Irish de- 
 scent, came over with John Brooks and was with 
 them in their removals and neighbors in their 
 homes. The McMillan family belonged to the 
 most intelligent class of people in that part of 
 Ireland, which was noted for educational advan- 
 tages and the pure, moral and religions charac- 
 ter of the citizens. They were Presbyterians 
 of the strictest sect; and many of them who came 
 to America were known as Reformed Presbyteri- 
 ans or Covenanters. Undoubtedly Captain 
 Brook's ancestors on both sides of the house be- 
 longed to those old Scotch Covenanters, than 
 whom no better people ever lived. 
 
 Captain Brooks had the usual experience of 
 the farmer's son, working more than going to 
 school. After the country schools, he attended 
 the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and 
 before graduating enlisted as a private in the 
 Confederate army. Company I, Second Tennessee 
 Infantry, known as Asby's Regiment; was soon 
 promoted to aide-de-camp, with the rank of cap- 
 tain, on Colonel Scott's staff — who was in com- 
 mand of a brigade — serving in that capacity dur- 
 ing the war; was three times wounded and par- 
 ticipated in many hard fought battles. 
 
 Following the close of the war, he was for sev- 
 eral years engaged in the drug business in Knox- 
 ville; his store was destroyed by fire and he 
 then engaged in the real estate and insurance 
 business in that city until April, 1889, when he 
 joined the stampede for Middlesborough; be- 
 came interested in Middlesborough Town Com- 
 pany and in July was made president and resi- 
 
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 dent manager of that company, which position he 
 occupies to-day, the name of the company having 
 been changed, however, to the Middlesborough 
 Town and Lands Company. This corporate, 
 company has expended nearly five millions of 
 dollars, English money, in developing the town, 
 and Captain Brooks has had the entire manage- 
 ment of the work, and the disbursement of the 
 money. Further remarks as to his business abil- 
 ity or his integrity, honesty and faithfulness are 
 unnecessary. He has accomplished a grand 
 work, the history of which would make a volume. 
 
 Captain Brooks was married (first) in 1868 to 
 Sopha Park, daughter of Rev. James Park, D. 
 D., of the First Presbyterian Church, Knoxville. 
 Mrs. Brooks died in 1886, leaving three sons and 
 one daughter : James Park ; Alma, wife of John 
 Wasson of Fayette County, Kentucky; John M. 
 and Robert C. Brooks. 
 
 Captain Brooks was married (second) in 1892 
 to Ameha McDowell, daughter of Joseph Mc- 
 Dowell, formerly of Danville, now of Perryville, 
 Kentucky. They are members of the Presby- 
 terian Church. 
 
 GEORGE MOSBY DAVISON of Stanford, 
 Judge of Lincoln County, was born in 
 Stanford, Kentucky, March 23, 1855, and is the 
 son of Edward M. Davison of Washington 
 County, Virginia, and Martha (Vaughan) Dav- 
 ison of Lincoln County, Kentucky. Edward M. 
 Davison was the son of Mosby Davison of Bed- 
 ford County, Virginia, and Dorothy Tankersley 
 of Caroline County, Virginia. Mosby Davison 
 
 was the son of Davison and Sarah Mosby 
 
 of Bedford County, Virginia. Dorothy Tankers- 
 ley was the daughter of George Tankersley and 
 Dorothy Roy of Caroline County, Virginia. 
 George Tankersley was the son of George Tank- 
 ersley, Sr., and Mary Long of King George 
 County, Virginia, and George Tankersley, Sr., 
 was the son of John Tankersley and Ann Beverly 
 of King George County. The Beverlys, Mosbys, 
 Longs, Tankersleys and Roys are ancient famil- 
 ies of Virginia. The Tankersleys came from 
 about Yorkshire, England, to Caroline County, 
 Virginia, about the year 1715. (See Bishop 
 Meade's History of Old Families of Virginia.) 
 
 Martha Vaughan Davison, mother of Judge 
 Davison, is the daughter of Zachariah Vaughan 
 of Culpeper County, Virginia, and Harriet Ball 
 of Garrard County, Kentucky. Zachariah 
 Vaughan was of Scotch-Irish extraction and the 
 son of Joseph Vaughan and Elizabeth Weaver of 
 Culpeper County, Virginia. Harriet Ball was the 
 daughter of Rev. John Ball and Margaret John- 
 son of Garrard County, Kentucky. Margaret 
 Johnson Ball was the daughter of Rev. Job 
 Johnson and Sarah Mosby of Virginia. As to 
 Revs. John Ball and Job Johnson see A. H. 
 Redford's History of Early Methodism in Ken- 
 tucky. Rev. Job Johnson and John Ball came 
 from Rockingham or Buckingham County, Vir- 
 ginia, to Garrard County, Kentucky, about 1785. 
 
 Judge Davison was educated in the common 
 schools and Stanford Academy, and in the pri- 
 vate school of Prof. J. B. Myers, an eminent and 
 successful educator; read law in the office of J. S. 
 & R. W. Hocker and obtained license to practice 
 April 26, 1880, and began practicing in January, 
 1 88 1, at Stanford; was appointed to a position in 
 the internal revenue service under the late Col. 
 A. M. Swope of the Lexington District, which he 
 filled till August, 1883, when he was transferred 
 to the Seventh District under the late General W. 
 J. Landrom, and resigned in October, 1885, and 
 resumed the practice of law at Stanford. During 
 his four years in the internal revenue service he 
 filled many important and difficult assignments 
 and gained the reputation of being a most effi- 
 cient, valuable and painstaking officer; and was 
 highly esteemed by his superior officers and the 
 business pubHc; in 1885 he again began the prac- 
 tice of law at Stanford; in June, 1886, he was 
 unanimously selected chairman of the Lincoln 
 County Republican Committee, which position 
 he has continuously filled by unanimous elections. 
 In September, 1886, he was appointed Master 
 Commissioner of the Lincoln Circuit Court by 
 Judge T. Z. Morrow, which position he held until 
 March 5, 1893. At the August election, 1887, 
 Judge Davison was elected to the Legislature 
 from Lincoln County, as a Republican, defeating 
 Dr. J. D. Pettus, the Democratic nominee, being 
 the first Republican elected to the Legislature 
 from Lincoln County; in the Legislature of 1887- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 88 he was placed on important committees of the 
 house, and was one of the Republican leaders of 
 that session; in 1888 he was unanimously chosen 
 as the Republican elector for the Eighth Dis- 
 trict and again in 1892, and in both of the Harri- 
 son campaigns. He was a valuable organizer and 
 speaker in both the Eighth and Tenth Districts. 
 Judge Davison was one of the charter members of 
 the Republican League of Kentucky. In every 
 campaign since 1883 he has been prominent in 
 Republican politics. As an organizer he has no 
 superior, perhaps, in the state, ^nd his services 
 are always in demand, though he is modest and 
 unassuming and has never pushed himself to the 
 front. In 1893 he declined the nomination for 
 State Senator in this Republican District and 
 again in 1894 he declined the nomination for Con- 
 gress, preferring to give all of his time to his 
 law practice, but the Republicans of Lincoln 
 County in 1894 unanimously nominated him for 
 County Judge. After a bitter contest he was 
 elected over his clever and popular opponent, J. 
 Walker Givins — the Democratic nominee — by a 
 majority of one hundred and sixty, overcoming 
 a Democratic majority of four hundred and re- 
 ceiving more votes than any person on either 
 ticket. His popularity is fully attested by his 
 election to the Legislature and County Judge in 
 a county usually four hundred Democratic. Al- 
 though Judge Davison has given much time and 
 labor to politics in the past ten years, he has re- 
 tained a fair law practice and has been engaged in 
 many important cases. 
 
 JOHN R. SIMPSON, attorney for the Mid- 
 dlesborough Town and Land Company, and 
 leading lawyer of that city, son of Judge William 
 Simpson and Virginia Gilpin, was born in Glas- 
 gow, Kentucky, April 26, 1852. His father was 
 born in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1818; was 
 educated in Jefiferson College, Washington Coun- 
 ty, in that state; came to Kentucky in 1836; was 
 engaged in teaching in Jefiferson County near the 
 present site of Lakeland Asylum for the Insane, 
 for five years; was a writer in the ofiSce of the 
 Clerk of the Court of Appeals for two years ; was 
 admitted to the bar and went to Burksville and 
 practiced law until 1850, when he removed to 
 
 Glasgow, and entering politics, was presidential 
 elector in i860 on the Bell and Everett ticket; 
 was elected to the State Senate in 1863, and before 
 completing his term of office was appointed in 
 1865 by Governor Bramlette to fill the unex- 
 pired term of Judge Joshua F. Bullitt, in the 
 Court of Appeals. At the ensuing August elec- 
 tion he was elected to succeed himself, and served 
 as Chief Justice until his death, February 21, 
 1866. 
 
 George Simpson (grandfather) was a native of 
 Scotland, and was a cabinetmaker in Washing- 
 ton County, Pennsylvania, where he died, having 
 reached a good old age. 
 
 Virginia Gilpin (mother) was a native of King- 
 William County, Virginia; was married to Wil- 
 liam Simpson in 1848 and died in Glasgow in 
 1864, aged thirty-nine years. She and Judge 
 Simpson were menibers of the Presbyterian 
 Church and she especially was known for her* 
 piety and lovely Christian character. 
 
 John R. Simpson, left an orphan at an early 
 age, was educated in Louisville; graduated from 
 the law department of the University of Louis- 
 ville in 1872 and practiced law in that city until 
 1876, when he removed to Columbia, Adair 
 County, where he practiced his profession; was 
 elected County Attorney in 1878, and after com- 
 pleting his term of office removed, in 1884, to 
 Williamsburg, Whitley County, and was soon 
 recognized as one of the leading lawyers of that 
 section; was Democratic Elector in the presi- 
 dential campaign of 1888; and in 1889 was em- 
 ployed by the companies then engaged in devel- 
 oping a section of country in and around Cum- 
 berland Gap, and especially in building the city 
 of Middlesborough. He began at the very in- 
 ception of this great enterprise, taking charge 
 of the legal business of the capitalists who were 
 interested in the development of the resources 
 of the section, and before there was any town on 
 the present site of Middlesborough; and while 
 he has since become a resident of the city among 
 the hills and has been engaged in the general 
 practice of law there, he has continued in charge 
 of the legal business of the original company, 
 now changed to the Middlesborough Town and 
 Lands Company, the K. C. & G. L. and Belt 
 
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 Railroads and other companies and corporations 
 that are identified with the city and its improve- 
 ment. 
 
 In this stupendous enterprise he has found 
 ample scope for his talent and ability as an attor- 
 ney, and the work of his department performed 
 under his direction has given great satisfaction 
 to the various companies interested. These 
 duties have been varied and in many instances 
 difficult, requiring a high order of legal ability, 
 and he has proven himself equal to the task. 
 
 Mr. Simpson was married in 1880 to Bettie 
 Cravens, daughter of Timolean Cravens, a promi- 
 nent attorney of Columbia, Kentucky. They have 
 three sons and one daughter: William, John E., 
 Reid J. and Mary V. Mr. Simpson is a Royal 
 Arch and Scottish Rite Mason, is deacon in the 
 Baptist Church and was Sunday school super- 
 intendent for eighteen years. 
 
 W JACKSON HISSEM of Newport, attor- 
 . ney-at-law and State Senator from 
 Campbell County, was born in Tyler County, 
 West Virginia, March 12, 1863. He is a de- 
 scendant of ancestry who were active soldiers of 
 the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. 
 He has some of the blood in his veins of the old 
 Pennsylvania Dutch stock, from which state his 
 grandparents moved in the beginning of this 
 century to the wilds of West Virginia. When the 
 subject of this sketch was geven years of age he 
 moved with his parents to Campbell County, this 
 state, where his father engaged actively in agri- 
 cultural and mercantile pursuits. Young Hissem 
 was of great service to his father, both behind 
 the counter and upon the farm, where he worked 
 with might and main during the spring, summer 
 and autumn, attending the public school during 
 the winter. He later attended a business college 
 in Cincinnati, where he more firmly laid the 
 foundation for a business career; engaged in mer- 
 cantile business for himself, when he reached his 
 majority; often served in local offices, where he 
 was chosen by his fellow citizens. 
 
 In 1891 he was nominated by the Republicans 
 to make the race for the Legislature ; was elected 
 and served during the Long Parliament, as that 
 
 session is known. At the end of that session he 
 was nominated by acclamation in the convention 
 of his party for the State Senate, and elected, de- 
 feating an eminent lawyer and jurist. He was the 
 youngest member of that body, and having 
 drawn the short term, was re-elected in Novem- 
 ber, 1895, by the largest majority ever accorded 
 a candidate in the county. 
 
 After a course of law covering a considerable 
 period, Mr. Hissem was admitted to practice be- 
 fore the Court of Appeals in 1894, since which 
 time he has practiced his profession at his home 
 in Newport. He has never been defeated for any 
 office to which he aspired. He has always been 
 active in the councils of the Republican party. 
 
 He was married in 1887 to Nettie M. Pickens, 
 daughter of Robert P. Pickens of Campbell Coun- 
 ty. They have two daughters as the fruit of that 
 union: Leva, aged seven, and Ethel, aged five. 
 His father, Levi Hissem, was a native of West- 
 moreland County, Pennsylvania, and removed 
 with his father to what is now Tyler County, 
 West Virginia, when four years of age, and lived 
 there until 1870, when he came to Campbell 
 County. While in West Virginia he was a farm- 
 er and largely interested in the woolen, flour and 
 lumber business. He was a Democrat prior to 
 the Civil War, but since that time he has been 
 an enthusiastic and consistent Republican. While 
 deeply interested in political questions, he has 
 never been a politician. His father, Jesse His- 
 sem, was a native of Maryland, who removed 
 to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; and 
 lived there a number of years before locating in 
 Tyler County, West Virginia. Before his death, 
 in 1872, he removed to Meigs County, Ohio. 
 His ancestors, as far as known, were Americans, 
 having been among the first settlers in the United 
 States. W. J. Hissem's great-grandfather was a 
 soldier in the Revolutionary war. 
 
 Elizabeth Morgan Hissem (mother) was born 
 in Virginia in 1820, and is living with her husband 
 in Campbell County. They are members of the 
 Methodist Church, and have been identified with 
 the church work for over a half century. 
 
 Joseph Morgan (maternal grandfather) was 
 born in Monongalia County (now) West Vir- 
 ginia, in 1792, and died in Tyler County, West Vir- 
 
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 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 ginia, in 1884, aged ninety-two years. He was a 
 soldier in the War of 181 2, and was a relative 
 of Morgan, the Indian fighter, mentioned in his- 
 tory. He was a farmer, a large dealer in cattle 
 and a very successful business man. 
 
 HENRY KIRBY BOURNE, lawyer, of New 
 Castle, Kentucky, son of Thomas J. 
 Bourne and Sallie Pryor Beard, was born in Shel- 
 by County, Kentucky, September 2, 1862. He 
 graduated from Center College, in Danville, Ken- 
 tucky, in 1884, and from 1884 to 1886 taught 
 Latin and Greek in the Henry Male and Female 
 Academy. In 1886 he entered the law depart- 
 ment of the University of Virginia, graduating 
 in 1887, and immediately began the practice of 
 law in Henry and adjoining counties. 
 
 He is also somewhat interested in farming. 
 Mr. Bourne is a man of fine natural ability and 
 was a close student, as his high standing at col- 
 lege will testify. He was valedictorian of his class 
 at college and was class orator in the twenty- 
 second of February exercises. He also won the 
 Sophomore prizes in English literature and in 
 Latin. Mr. Bourne is a Mason and a member of 
 the Christian Church and his political affiliations 
 are with the democracy. 
 
 Thomas J. Bourne (father) was born in Henry 
 County, Kentucky, July 24, 1830, and after his 
 education in the common schools became a 
 farmer and stockraiser. He commenced flatboat- 
 ing in 1852, making thirteen trips to New Orleans 
 between 1852 and 1858, carrying all kinds of pro- 
 duce, and at the same time shipping stock to the 
 Southern markets. 
 
 In 1850 he removed to Carroll County, where 
 he remained until 1861, when he returned to Shel- 
 by County, but in 1863 he again changed his loca- 
 tion- to Henry County, where he is now living. 
 He is a Democrat in politics and a member of the 
 Christian Church. He was married (first) in 1861 
 to Sally Pryor Beard, who was born in Lexington, 
 Fayette County, Kentucky, June, 1834, and died 
 December, 1870. She was educated in the private 
 schools, of Fayette County and was the mother 
 of two children: Thomas Pryor, who was born 
 July 9, 1866, and died May 21, 1878, and Henry 
 K. Bourne, the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Mr. Bourne was married (second) to Bettie 
 Beazley, who was born in Henry County in 1838. 
 She was the daughter of Augustus and Sallie 
 (Webb) Beazley. Mr. Bourne is of English an- 
 cestry. He is a Mason and a man of sterling 
 qualities; a highly respected and prominent agri- 
 culturist. 
 
 Ben H. Bourne (grandfather) a native of Cul- 
 peper County, Virginia, came to Kentucky when 
 very young with his parents ; was a school teacher 
 in early life, but afterwards was a farmer and was 
 greatly interested in fine stock; removed from 
 Henry to Carroll County in 1850; was a Whig in 
 politics, and in religion a member of the Christian 
 Church. He married, in 1828, Julia Waters, 
 daughter of William Waters, and a native of Hen- 
 ry County, Kentucky. She died in Henry 
 County in 1883. Ben H. Bourne died in Carroll 
 County in 1852. 
 
 Joseph M. Beard (maternal grandfather) was 
 born in Fayette County, Kentucky, and edu- 
 cated in Lexington ; was a farmer by occupation ; 
 removed to Oldham County and engaged in 
 farming and merchandising at Beards Station; 
 was a Democrat and a Catholic; married Sally 
 P'oree, a native of Shelby County, Kentucky, 
 daughter of William P. Force and Elizabeth 
 Major Force. Their children are all deceased, 
 except Dr. William F. Beard of Shelbyville, Dr. 
 E. F. Beard of Shelby County, and Mrs. Thresa 
 Gregory (Addie Beard) of Shelby County. 
 
 GEORGE B. EASTIN, Attorney-at-Law of 
 Louisville, enjoys the distinction of repre- 
 senting the dignity of his profession in an un- 
 usual degree. His appointment by Governor 
 Brown to fill a vacancy in the Court of Appeals, 
 February 22, 1895, called forth expressions of 
 approval from the members of the bar all over 
 tlie state. The Louisville attorneys were espe- 
 cially hearty and sincere in their congratulations, 
 for they knew the man and were able to judge of 
 his fitness for the ofifice to which he had been 
 called, as if by inspiration. Gov. Brown could 
 not have chosen a man of higher qualifications 
 and it could not be said that there was in any 
 sense a political significance in an appointment 
 which had not been sought, and which would not 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 have been made if the advice of politicians had 
 been considered. Judge Eastin's friends were 
 taken by surprise, if he was not himself, and the 
 congratulations he received were of more value 
 to him than the ofiRce. It was an honor which 
 came as a recognition of true worth and ability, 
 in one whose highest ambition had been to make 
 a good name as a thorough gentleman in the 
 practice of law, and having established himself 
 in the estimation of bench, bar and public, he 
 would have been content to remain ; but the call 
 to a higher place was accepted as a compliment 
 to his dignified modesty and as a recognition of 
 those qualities which count for little in a bluster- 
 ing electioneering campaign, but which make the 
 capable lawyer and a faithful judge. His former 
 teacher, Judge Muir, one of the senior members 
 of the Louisville bar, expressed the sentiments 
 of the professional brethren of Judge Eastin in 
 these words: "This appointment gives me in- 
 expressible pleasure. I have known Major East- 
 in ever since he was admitted to the bar. He 
 was one of my pupils when I was a professor in 
 the law department of the University of Louis- 
 ville. He was a good student and had a fine 
 legal mind. I predicted then what has since 
 proved to be true, that he would attain eminence 
 at the bar. He is a gentleman of courage and 
 robust integrity and will prove himself an efifi- 
 cieni and most admirable judge. In my opinion 
 Gov. Brown has made an excellent selection." 
 Judge Eastin filled the short term on the Appel- 
 late bench with honor to himself and the people 
 whom he represented, showing that he was not 
 only a man of a high order of intelligence, but 
 possessed a legal mind that would adorn any 
 court in the country. A few months of faithful 
 service closed his official career, and he resumed 
 his work at the bar in January, i8g6, with the same 
 quiet indifference to public recognition and hon- 
 or that had characterized his professional career 
 prior to his elevation to the bench. 
 
 Judge Eastin was a gallant soldier on the losing 
 side in the war of the '6o's, and came out of the 
 strife, like a good many other young men, with- 
 out means and out of a job. He served in Gen. 
 Morgan's command as a captain, and the military 
 title of major, by which he is familiarly known, 
 
 was given him by courtesy. He found his way 
 to Louisville, after the war, at the age of about 
 twenty years, and in 1867 was graduated from 
 the Louisville Law School; began the practice 
 of his profession, and soon made his way to a 
 position in the front rank of the Louisville bar, 
 where his record is spotless, and where he is 
 known as a man of sterling integrity. He mar- 
 ried Fanny Castleman, a sister of Gen. John B. 
 Castleman, with whom he is now traveling in 
 Europe. 
 
 MARQUIS R. LOCKHART, Common- 
 wealth Attorney of Campbell County and a 
 leading member of the Newport bar, son of Sarah 
 (Richardson) and Henry Lockhart, was born in 
 Lexington, Kentucky, November 13, 1846. 
 
 His father, Henry Lockhart, was born in the 
 northern part of Ireland and came to the United 
 States with his parents when he was twelve years 
 of age. They located on a farm in New York, 
 and Henry remained there until he was of age, 
 and then came to Lexington and engaged in stock 
 trading, going South every year to sell horses 
 and mules, which he bought in Kentucky. He 
 owned a farm near Lexington, upon which he 
 lived until 1861, and after the close of the Civil 
 War he went to Paris and lived with his son until 
 his death, which occurred in 1893, in the ninety- 
 second year of his age. He was raised a Pres- 
 byterian, but connected himself with the Christian 
 denomination after coming to Kentucky. 
 
 Sarah Richardson Lockhart (mother) was a 
 native of Montgomery County ; was a member of 
 the Christian Church, and died at the age of sixty 
 years. Her father. Marquis Richardson, was 
 born in Clark County, Kentucky, but spent the 
 most of his life on his farm in Montgomery Coun- 
 ty, six miles from Mt. Sterling, where he died, 
 aged eighty years. 
 
 Marquis R. Lockhart attended the public 
 schools in Lexington, the Kentucky University 
 at Harrodsburg before the war, and was one year 
 in the University of Lexington after the close 
 of the war. 
 
 In May, 1862, he enlisted as a private soldier 
 in the Confederate army, and served until his 
 command was surrendered at Washington, 
 
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 Georgia, in April, 1865. He was with General 
 Basil Duke's regiment in Morgan's Indiana and 
 Ohio raid; was wounded in the battle at Bull's 
 Gap, East Tennessee, and saw some sharp fight- 
 ing on many other occasions. 
 
 He was not quite twenty-one when he returned 
 to Lexington, and attended the university one 
 year to pick up some of the lost threads of his 
 education. He then began civil life as an edu- 
 cator; taught in the public schools of Mt. Sterling 
 for one year; turned aside for one year and ac- 
 quired valuable experience as editor of the Mt. 
 Sterling Sentinel; taught in the academy at 
 Sharpsburg for one year; was principal of the 
 Bethel Academy for Boys at Nicholasville for 
 three years, and, in 1878, having read law while 
 engaged in teaching, he was admitted to the bar 
 and began the practice of his profession in 
 Owingsville, Bath County. He remained there 
 for two years and then removed to Covington, 
 where he gained a large and lucrative practice, 
 remaining in that city for six or seven years, and 
 then removed to Newport, where he has given 
 his best efforts to the requirements of his voca- 
 tion and with most gratifying results to himself 
 and his friends. 
 
 As a means of recreation, as well as for the ad- 
 vancements of the interests of the Democratic 
 party, Mr. Lockhart has indulged to some ex- 
 tent in politics, and in 1892 his party rewarded 
 his valuable services by electing him common- 
 wealth attorney of Campbell County for a term 
 of five years. He has had charge of this office 
 since January, 1893. 
 
 Mr. Lockhart and Mattie Wilson, daughter 
 of Harvey T. Wilson of Covington, were married 
 in 1870. They have one son and two daughters: 
 Henry, Riba and Sallie. 
 
 MILTON HARCOURT M'LEAN, lawyer of 
 Covington, son of Martha A. (Rees) and 
 Robert A. McLean, was born in Harrison County 
 September 14, 1867. After attending school in 
 Cynthiana and in Covington, he graduated with 
 the highest honors from the Hillsboro, Ohio, 
 College, in 1886. He was employed in one of 
 the leading distilleries in Ohio for four years, 
 occupying a responsible position, for which he 
 
 was fitted by a thorough education. He then 
 commenced the study of law in the Cincinnati 
 Law School, in which he took the full course, 
 graduating in 189 1 with the second prize honor in 
 a very large class. He opened an office and at 
 once took a position among the brightest young 
 men at the Covington bar; and by his industry 
 and honesty of purpose, together with marked 
 legal ability, he has acquired a practice of which 
 an older lawyer might be proud. 
 
 Mr. McLean was married in 1891 to Anna 
 Marie Bering of Highland County, Ohio, daugh- 
 ter of Major J. A. Bering of the Forty-eighth 
 Ohio Volunteer Infantry, who served with great 
 distinction during the Civil War. Major Bering 
 has recently published an interesting history of 
 his regiment in connection with a biographical 
 sketch of himself, in which he has shown that he 
 is a man of letters as well as a brave soldier. 
 
 Mr. McLean has an exceedingly interesting an- 
 cestry, being a relative of General George Wash- 
 ington, and a direct descendant of one of the best 
 pioneer families of Kentucky. 
 
 His father, Robert A. McLean, was born in 
 Harrison County, July 28, 1832, where for some 
 years he was extensively engaged in the lumber 
 and sawmilling business; but is now, and has 
 been for many years, engaged in the distillery 
 business in Covington. He is a member of all the 
 leading secret orders, a member of the Methodist 
 Church, and is a Democrat in politics. 
 
 Robert McLean (grandfather) was a native of 
 Harrison County, and died there in i860. He 
 was sheriff of the county for many years. He 
 married Cynthia Lewis, a native of Virginia. 
 
 Martha A. Rees McLean (mother) was born in 
 Harrison County in 1838, and was married to 
 R. A. McLean in 1856. Her father. Milton Rees, 
 was a native of Kentucky and was a wealthy 
 trader and farmer. His sons are following in his 
 footsteps and are to-day among the largest trad- 
 ers in central Kentucky. 
 
 Mr. McLean's great-grandfather, Samuel Lewis, 
 was one of the pioneers of Harrison County, where 
 he bought a large tract of land. He came to 
 Kentucky with others, including the McLeans, 
 before the admission of the state to the Union. 
 His daughter, Cynthia Lewis (grandmother) was 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
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 related to General George Washington; her 
 grandmother, Sarah Ball, and General Washing- 
 ton's mother, Mary Ball, were sisters. This rec- 
 ord has been traced so accurately as to be beyond 
 dispute, and the subject of this sketch manifests 
 a pardonable pride in his noble ancestry, being 
 a fourth cousin of the Father of his Country. 
 
 HON. ANDREW T. WOOD, lawyer, of Mt. 
 Sterling, Kentucky, son of Henry S. and 
 Flavilla Weaver, was born in Flemingsburg, Ken- 
 tucky, November 18, 1834. He received his edu- 
 cation in the common schools, and at the age of 
 seventeen left school and drove a stage over the 
 old line between Mt. Sterling and Maysville, and 
 also from Mt. Sterling to Paris. He enlisted in 
 the Union army, August 5, 1862, having pre- 
 viously been in the recruiting service for some 
 time; was elected First Lieutenant Company A, 
 First Regiment Kentucky Cavalry, and served in 
 this company until it was mustered out of serv- 
 ice. He was engaged in the fight at Triplett 
 Bridge, with Scott's Cavalry, and also at Pine 
 Grove in 1863, where there was a running fight 
 for four days, until Scott was driven beyond the 
 Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers. He also 
 participated in many severe engagements in the 
 eastern part of the state. He was mustered out 
 with his regiment, September 1, 1863, and was 
 then commissioned Major of the Seventy-first 
 Regiment Kentucky Infantry, and served until 
 the war was over. 
 
 In 1865 he began the study of law in Mt. Ster- 
 ling with J. S. Dury, who died in 1867; completed 
 his studies with Thomas Turner of that place; 
 was admitted to the bar in January, 1873. He 
 practiced at Mt. Sterling alone for a short time, 
 and then formed a partnership with Thomas Tur- 
 ner. This continued until 1880, when he con- 
 tinued his practice alone for three years, and in 
 1883 became associated with B. F. Dury, and 
 this partnership was dissolved in 1893, since 
 which time he has practiced alone. He was City 
 Attorney of Mt. Sterling from 1884 to 1886. 
 
 He was the Republican candidate for Congress 
 in 1872, but was defeated, and at another time 
 was a candidate for Judge of the Common Pleas 
 Court, with a similar result. In 1891 he led the 
 
 Republican party as its nominee for Governor of 
 Kentucky, but, as he expected, was defeated by 
 his Democratic opponent. Colonel Wood is a 
 leading lawyer of Mt. Sterling; very active in Re- 
 publican politics; a Mason of high degree and a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 He married Matilda Pickrell, a native of Hen- 
 ry County, daughter of Henry and Mary (Jack- 
 son) Pickrell, her mother being a cousin of 
 Stonewall Jackson. Their children are: James 
 H. Wood, John C. Wood, Railroad Commission- 
 er of Kentucky; Currie F. Wood, William Hoff- 
 mann Wood and Henry S. S. Wood. 
 
 Henry S. S. Wood (father) was born in Vir- 
 ginia in 1806 and came to Flemingsburg with an 
 uncle in 1812. He was educated in the schools of 
 the county ; was a farmer, and later was the owner 
 of the Martha Mills, situated about five miles from 
 Flemingsburg, and was accidentally killed the 
 day Abraham Lincoln was elected President, in 
 i860. Mr. Wood was an ardent Henry Clay 
 Whig, and a class leader in the Methodist 
 Church. He married Flavilla Weaver, in July, 
 1828, and their children were: John, Matilda, 
 Henry S., William H., Eliza, Mary and Thomas. 
 
 Thomas Wood (grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia, where he was a farmer, and died at the 
 age of ninety-seven years. He married Mary 
 Sweet, also a native of Virginia. 
 
 Thomas Weaver (maternal grandfather) was 
 bom in Virginia and came to Fleming County 
 when a child. He was a farmer and died in 1815. 
 
 MICHAEL CASSIDY. Probably no person 
 is more intimately connected with the early 
 history of Fleming County than Michael Cassidy, 
 who was born in Dublin, Ireland, October 22, 
 1755. While he and his brother Andrew were 
 attending school their father sent them money 
 by a relative to defray their expenses, and gave 
 orders that it was not to be given to Mike, but 
 to be placed in the hands of Andrew; at this 
 Michael became ofifended and determined to 
 leave home. He shipped as a cabin boy on a 
 vessel called the Maryland Merchant; his brother 
 followed him on board the ship and on his knees 
 begged him to give up his rash intention, but all 
 to no purpose, he had set his face toward the won- 
 
624 
 
 KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 derful New World and from his course he was 
 not to be turned. 
 
 He landed in America in 1767 and was ap- 
 prenticed by the captain of the vessel to Rob- 
 ert Crayton of Baltimore, Maryland. He re- 
 mained here until the breaking out of the Revo- 
 lutionary War, when he enlisted and was present 
 at the surrender of Cornwallis. 
 
 At the close of the war he emigrated to Ken- 
 tucky and located at Strode's Station in Clark 
 County; from there he moved to Fleming Coun- 
 ty and established what afterwards became noted 
 as Cassidy's Station. From this time for ten 
 years his life was one continual struggle with the 
 blood-thirsty savages and the stubborn wilder- 
 ness, endeavoring to hold his home and hearth- 
 stone. 
 
 His personal appearance was peculiar, being 
 very low of stature, measuring only five feet three 
 inches, and yet heavy enough to weigh one hun- 
 dred and seventy pounds. There are many amus- 
 ing stories connected with his "smallness." Upon 
 one occasion his camp was surprised by the In- 
 dians, and his two companions, Bennett and 
 Spor, were killed. Cassidy was overpowered and 
 captured ; his captors taking him for a boy turned 
 him over to the smallest of their party to be 
 butchered, but the victim did not propose to be 
 led like a lamb to the slaughter, and so vigorous 
 and persistent was the conflict that the other two 
 Indians were compelled to assist in clubbing the 
 boy. In falling his hand fell upon one of the In- 
 dian's knives, and rising to his feet he flourished 
 it with such ferocity that the Indians gave back 
 and Cassidy darted like a deer into the deep 
 woods and made his escape. He carried to his 
 grave the marks of this terrible conflict. 
 
 Upon another occasion, while a member of the 
 Legislature, he was addressing the House, when 
 the Chairman seeing his head just over the 
 shoulders of those seated near him, cried out, 
 "Is the gentleman from Fleming sitting or stand- 
 ing?" Tip-toeing to his greatest height, "Stand- 
 ing, sir," roars back Cassidy. 
 
 The grave of Stuart, the spy, who was killed by 
 Cassidy, is still to be seen on the farm of Wil- 
 liam Robertson. This was to Cassidy the most 
 regretful act of his life, although he was in no 
 
 way to be blamed for it, and Stuart before he died 
 completely exonerated him from all blame in 
 the matter. Stuart, it seems, was employed by 
 the whites, as a scout whose duty it was to keep 
 them posted as to the movements of the Indians. 
 To facilitate him in this he usually dressed in the 
 guise of an Indian. It was understood among the 
 whites that no gun was to be fired in hearing 
 of the station except at a "redskin." One even- 
 ing approaching the settlement he was tempted 
 into shooting a large owl. Cassidy seized his 
 gun and started in the direction of the firing. 
 Stuart getting sight of him took refuge behind 
 a low forked tree, and raising his head up be- 
 tween the forks to make himself known, was shot 
 through the forehead by Cassidy. 
 
 Michael Cassidy was one of the most noted of 
 the many brave pioneers and Indian fighters 
 whose exploits gave to Kentucky the name of 
 "the dark and bloody ground." More than thirty 
 were his close and deadly conflicts with the sav- 
 ages — brave, resolute and watchful he was well 
 fitted for his task and mission, and neither was 
 the one left undone nor the other a failure. 
 
 Sitting to-day in perfect safety around our 
 well-warmed hearthstones and groaning tables, 
 riding in ease and pleasure over our McAdam- 
 ized roads, or seated in the cosy car, we little rea- 
 lize or appreciate the hardships, dangers and pri- 
 vations of that sturdy band of men who made 
 these things possible ; it was a good idea that by 
 these "sketches" they should once more stand 
 before us in rugged honesty and undaunted cour- 
 age. 
 
 Michael Cassidy seems to have enjoyed the 
 confidence of the people of his community, hav- 
 ing filled many positions of honor and trust. In 
 1797-98, before this county was formed, he rep- 
 resented Mason in the lower house of Kentucky 
 representatives. 
 
 On the formation of Fleming County out of a 
 part of Mason he became her first Senator in 
 1800-6. In 1 808-9- 1 7-20-22 we find him repre- 
 senting Fleming County in the lower house. 
 
 He was also one of the judges of the first court 
 of quarter-sessions. 
 
 He married Mary Evans, daughter of Francis 
 Evans, February 17, 1795. They had ten chil- 
 
KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 625 
 
 dren, seven sons and three daughters, WiUiani 
 Cassidy being the eldest and Samuel Evans Cas- 
 sidy the youngest. 
 
 He died March 19, 1829, having been a mem- 
 ber of the Presbyterian Church for thirty years 
 and was buried at old Brick Union with the 
 honors of war. In his coffin was laid away one 
 of the most noted men connected with the history 
 of Fleming County. His descendants are nu- 
 merous and well known among the citizens of 
 Fleming County. 
 
 SAMUEL SHAW, president of the German 
 National Bank of Newport, was born in 
 Campbell County, November i, 1823. He is the 
 son of Margaret (Moran) and Robert Shaw. His 
 father was a Virginian, who married there and 
 came to Campbell County, Kentucky, in the first 
 year of the present century and purchased a large 
 tract of land, which he cultivated until the time 
 of his death, which occurred in 1827, at the age 
 of forty-seven years. 
 
 John Shaw (grandfather) was of Irish birth, 
 but he came to America when quite young and 
 led the Hfe of a farmer in Virginia, where he died. 
 Margaret Moran Shaw, mother of Samuel 
 Shaw, was born in Virginia in 1772; was mar- 
 ried to Robert Shaw in 1800; came to Campbell 
 County the same year; died in 1856 at the age 
 of eighty-four years. She was a devout mem- 
 ber of the Baptist Church and a woman of fine in- 
 tellectual attainments and great force of char- 
 acter. 
 
 Edward Moran (grandfather) was a native of 
 Virginia, and a farmer. His father came to this 
 country from Scotland and was also a Virginia 
 farmer. 
 
 Samuel Shaw spent the days of his boyhood on 
 his father's farm; receiving a good education in 
 the common schools and in Parker's Seminary. 
 After leaving school as a pupil he took the place 
 of the schoolmaster and was engaged in the 
 laudable occupation of teaching for several years. 
 He then turned his attention to business as a 
 grocer and flour merchant in Cincinnati, in which 
 he was one of the most successful men of his day. 
 He continued in the same line until 1882, when 
 
 he sold out to his son-in-law. Chambers Phister, 
 who has continued the business until the pres- 
 ent time. 
 
 Mr. Shaw was elected to the Kentucky Legis- 
 lature on the Republican ticket in 1880 and 
 served two years, doing some very efficient work 
 for his constituents. 
 
 In 1882, having disposed of his business in Cin- 
 cinnati, Mr. Shaw was instrumental in organiz- 
 ing the German National Bank of Newport, and 
 was made its president, which office he has held 
 uninterruptedly since its organization. The bank 
 has a capital of $100,000, and a regular surplus 
 of $50,000, and carries individual profits amount- 
 ing to $10,000. It is one of the most substantial 
 banks in Kentucky, and its excellent standing 
 is largely due to the wise and careful manage- 
 ment of its president. 
 
 Mr. Shaw resides in the Highlands, where he 
 owns a valuable farm to which he gives some at- 
 tention. He was married in 1852 to Elizabeth 
 Smith, daughter of Benjamin Smith of Campbell 
 County. They have one son and five daughters : 
 Ida, wife of Chambers Phister; Benjamin R.; Han- 
 nah, wife of L. K. Marty; AUce; Maggie, wife of 
 W. P. Flanders, and Eva. 
 
 RICHARD GARNETT CALDWELL, vice- 
 president and manager of the Paducah 
 Building and Trust Company, is a son of James 
 Shipp Caldwell and Arenca Wood Caldwell, and 
 was born in Barren County, near Glasgow, Ken- 
 tucky, September 18, 1849. His father was a na- 
 tive of Adair County, where he received his edu- 
 cation in the common schools and subsequently 
 removed to Barren County and was a farmer 
 there until his death in 1885. During the war 
 he took no active part in the struggle, but freely 
 expressed his sympathy with the South. He was 
 a very active member of the Christian Church, in 
 which he was a devoted, faithful and consistent 
 worker. 
 
 Beverly Caldwell (grandfather) was a Virgin- 
 ian by birth, who came to Kentucky early in the 
 present century and located first in Green and 
 afterwards in Adair County. He belonged to the 
 old and respected Caldwell family of Virginia, 
 
626 
 
 KENTtJCkY BIOC^RAPHlEg. 
 
 whose ancestors came from Scotland and was re- 
 lated to John C. Calhoun. Mr. Caldwell married 
 a Miss Hatcher of Virginia, who was the mother 
 of James Shipp Caldwell (father). 
 
 Arenca Wood Caldwell (mother) was a native 
 of Barren County, where she died in 1880. Her 
 father, William Garnett, was a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary War, and after the war was over 
 he removed from Virginia to Barren County, 
 where he became a large land-owner and a far- 
 mer on an extensive scale, and was also a stock- 
 trader. He married a Miss Willis of Virginia, 
 and she was the mother of four children. The 
 family was noted for its wealth and the large 
 number of slaves which they owned before the 
 war. 
 
 Richard Garnett Caldwell, received his educa- 
 tion in the Barren County schools and in a pri- 
 vate school in Glasgow, taught by a Mr. Lowell. 
 He assisted his father on the farm for some years 
 and was deputy sheriff of the county from 1867 
 to 1870; sold groceries in a retail house in Glas- 
 gow for one year and then went to Kemper 
 County, Mississippi, and raised, bought and sold 
 cotton and cane until 1880, when he returned to 
 Kentucky and embarked in the drug business in 
 Cave City; sold out his drug store in 1882 and 
 
 for seven years following was general agent for 
 harvesting machinery and spent most of the time 
 traveling for his house. In 1889 he engaged in 
 the real estate and building and loan business in 
 Bowling Green, traveling a portion of the time 
 in the interest of Louisville business firms, who 
 were eager to secure his services. 
 
 His experience in building and loan matters in 
 Bowling Green prepared him for the duties of his 
 present position as manager of the Paducah 
 Building and Trust Company, to which he came 
 in 1893. During his residence in Paducah he has 
 made an enviable reputation as a business man 
 and public spirited citizen, having become iden- 
 tified with a number of enterprises of more or 
 less magnitude; being vice-president of the Mer- 
 cantile Collecting Agency and a director in the 
 Paducah Fair Association. He is a Democratic 
 voter, but is not deeply interested in politics. 
 Like his father and mother he is a member of the 
 Christian Church and he and his family are faith- 
 ful attendants. 
 
 Mr. Caldwell was married December 16, 1873, 
 to Fannie Davis, daughter of Ben Davis of Bar- 
 ren County. They have six children: Michael 
 Garnett, Louisa, James Shipp, Duke Dickinson, 
 William Ernest and Nellie. 
 
iNiDEx: 
 
 Abbett, E. E 20 
 
 Adams, Stanley 248 
 
 Adams, Thos 248 
 
 Adams, A. S 301 
 
 Adams, J. W 301 
 
 Adams, David 301 
 
 Adams, Allen .' . . 475 
 
 Adams, J. R 475 
 
 Adair, John 317 
 
 Adair, G. W 543 
 
 Adair, I. C 543 
 
 *Altkins, C. W 397 
 
 Aitkins, Geo 397 
 
 *Allen, W. B 478 
 
 Alexander, C. H 474 
 
 Alford, M. C 171 
 
 Alexander, C. G 474 
 
 Alexander, A. J 596 
 
 Alexander, Robt 597 
 
 Ament, S. P 424 
 
 Anderson, J. J 72 
 
 Anderson, T. S 404 
 
 Anderson, J. B 404 
 
 Anderson, L. B 589 
 
 Anderson, Ervine 590 
 
 Arthur, W. E 23 
 
 Arthur, Wm 24 
 
 Armstrong, T. H 177 
 
 Armstrong, J. W 177 
 
 Armstrong, R. D 612 
 
 Armstrong, Abel 612 
 
 Arnsparger, Clifton 229 
 
 Arnsparger, Stephen 229 
 
 Asbury, H. B 18 
 
 Aud, W. E 234 
 
 Aud, H. T 234 
 
 AuU, W. T 214 
 
 Aull, Benj 214 
 
 Ballard, James 14 
 
 Barr, J. W 37 
 
 Barr, Wm 37 
 
 Baldeau, M 145 
 
 Bass, S. A 158 
 
 Bass, S. M 158 
 
 Barbour, W. S 586 
 
 Barbour, J. H 173 
 
 Barbour, P. D 586 
 
 Barbour, N 173 
 
 Barbour, P. N 288 
 
 Barbour, Joseph 606 
 
 Bates, W. E 233 
 
 Bates, G. W 233 
 
 Barker, H. S 247 
 
 Barker, R. H 247 
 
 Barnett, T. R 268 
 
 Baldwin, W. W 409 
 
 Baldwin, Garrison 409 
 
 Barret, J. H 467 
 
 Barret, P. S 469 
 
 Barret, J. H., Sr 467 
 
 Barlow, T. H 538 
 
 Bell, D. D 120 
 
 Bell, Henry 122 
 
 Bell, J.F 286 
 
 Bell, C. S., Sr 431 
 
 Bell, G. K 435 
 
 Bell, J. M 436 
 
 Bell, W. S 436 
 
 Bell, C. S., Jr 436 
 
 Beckette, O. F. L 131 
 
 Beckett, A. L, 132 
 
 Bennett, N. L 237 
 
 Berry, A. Y 209 
 
 Berry, J. M 209 
 
 Beyland, T. F 290 
 
 Bedford, S. W 300 
 
 Bedford, T. W 300 
 
 Beck, J. B 422 
 
 Beck, H. B 471 
 
 Beck, D. E 472 
 
 Bibb, G. M 287 
 
 Biggs, R. C 144 
 
 Biggs, Wm 144 
 
 Birge, T. C 351 
 
 Blrge, W. C 351 
 
 Bird, C. A 420 
 
 Birney, J. G 385 
 
 Biltz, Edward 553 
 
 Blitz, Chas 554 
 
 Bingham, G. B 567 
 
 Bingham, Jabez 567 
 
 Bigstaff, T. J 609 
 
 Bigstaff, J. M 610 
 
 Blakey, G. D 373 
 
 Blackwell, W. W 217 
 
 Blackwell, P. A 217 
 
 Blakey, G. D 373 
 
 Blanton, J. 1 246 
 
 Blanton, L. H 246 
 
 Black, J. D 374 
 
 Black, J. C 374 
 
 Blackburn, L. P 566 
 
 Blackburn, J. C. S 533 
 
 Boiling, Rev. W. T 126 
 
 Boiling, W. T., Sr 126 
 
 Boume, T. J 620 
 
 Boune, G. B....'. 620 
 
 Bowman, Wm 248 
 
 Bowman, Benj 248 
 
 Boone, Daniel 319 
 
 Bowden, M. B 48" 
 
 Bowden, J. H 487 
 
 Botts, J. S 536 
 
 Bohon, H. C 603 
 
 Bohon, W. F 604 
 
 Brown, C. M 143 
 
 Brown, E. A 143 
 
 Brown, D. B 163 
 
 Brown, G. L 163 
 
 Brown, J. Y 193 
 
 Brown, T. D 193 
 
 Brown, P. C 238 
 
 Brown, T. L 238 
 
 Brown, G. N 240 
 
 Brown, E. H 244 
 
 Brown, J. M 245 
 
 Brown, M. J 370 
 
 Brown, F ; 370 
 
 Brown, W. L 488 
 
 Brown, G. P 488 
 
 Brown, M. J 526 
 
 Bramlette, T. E 284 
 
 Breathitt, James 234 
 
 Breathitt, John 346 
 
 Breathitt, J. W^ 234 
 
 Bruce, H. W 394 
 
 Bruce, Alexander 394 
 
 Bruce, John 395 
 
 Brock, C. R 490 
 
 Brooks, L. H 5 
 
 Brooks, J. M 616 
 
 Brooks, Moses 616 
 
 Boyle, John 573 
 
 Brossart, Rev. F 127 
 
 Bryan, Morgan 128 
 
 Bryan, Joseph 128 
 
 Bryan, Wm 129 
 
 Browder, W. F 134 
 
 Browder, David 134 
 
 Bronston, C. J 151 
 
 Bronston, T. D 151 
 
 Brfent, W. D 202 
 
 Brent, J. D 202 
 
 Bradford, T. S 207 
 
 Bradford, J. J 207 
 
 Breckinridge, Rev. John 494 
 
 Breckinridge, Rev. R. J 494 
 
 Breckinridge, J. C 576 
 
 Briggs, B. F 522 
 
 Briggs, W. M 523 
 
 Brock, C. R 490 
 
 Bradley, W. 573 
 
 Bradley, R. M 574 
 
 Breck, Daniel 593 
 
 Breck, Rev. R. L, 593 
 
 Bullitt, T. W 1 
 
 Bullitt, A. S 1 
 
 Bullitt, Cuthbert 1 
 
 Bullitt, A. S 315 
 
 Burke, Rev. E. A 184 
 
 Burns, J. M 224 
 
 Burns, R. T 224 
 
 Burham, C. F 235 
 
 Burham, Thompson 235 
 
 Bueren, A. F 247 
 
 Bueren, Francis 247 
 
 Buell, D. C 275 
 
 Buford, H. M 295 
 
 Buford, Henry 295 
 
 Butler, W. 316 
 
 Burton, R. A 326 
 
 Burton, J. A 326 
 
 Burchett, D. J 358 
 
 Burchett, A 358 
 
 Buckner, F. W 453 
 
 Buckner, G. B 453 
 
 Buckner, S. B 530 
 
 Bullock, W. 535 
 
 Bullock, S. B 536 
 
 Buster, N. 1 572 
 
 Byron, W. A 123 
 
 Byron, Andrew 123 
 
 Byrne, W. A 405 
 
 Byrne, James 405 
 
 Caldwell, J. W 81 
 
 Caldwell, S. B 150 
 
 Caldwell, Austin 82 
 
 Caldwell, Wm 356 
 
 Caldwell, John 447 
 
 Caldwell, Peter 356 
 
 Caldwell, Richard G 625 
 
 Campbell, James 121 
 
 Campbell, James, Sr 121 
 
 Campbell, A. P 246 
 
 Campbell, A. P., Sr 246 
 
62g 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Campbell, J. P 291 
 
 Campbell, J. P., Sr 291 
 
 Campbell, F. M 496 
 
 Campbell, G. P 496 
 
 Campbell, P. S 610 
 
 Campbell, Samuel , . . . 610 
 
 Casey, A. J 3.A.\..-366- 
 
 Cabell, Wm 137 
 
 Cason, W. S 245 
 
 Camth, A. G 125 
 
 Cassell, J. L 302 
 
 Cassell, T. J 302 
 
 Cassell, Abram 302 
 
 Cassldy, Michael 623 
 
 Carroll, Wm 303 
 
 Carroll, Owen 303 
 
 Carroll, J. D 377 
 
 Carroll, A. J 377 
 
 Carroll, A. J 533 
 
 Carroll, Anthony 534 
 
 Carriok, J. C 398 
 
 Carrick, Robt 398 
 
 Carlisle, J. G 399 
 
 Calhoun, C. C 422 
 
 Calhoun, Rev. S 423 
 
 Carothers, T. P 453 
 
 Carothers, P. P 453 
 
 Chinn, Claude 242 
 
 Chinn, J. G 242 
 
 Clark, James 577 
 
 Clarke, J. B 124 
 
 Clarke, John 124 
 
 Clements, L 195 
 
 Clements, C. 196 
 
 Clardy, J. D 225 
 
 Clardy, J. C 225 
 
 Cleaver, W. W 328 
 
 Cleaver, David 328 
 
 Cleaver, T. F 331 
 
 Clay, Henry 378 
 
 Clay, W. R 421 
 
 Clay, Samuel, Jr 421 
 
 Cox, George 85 
 
 Cox, John 85 
 
 Cox, W. H 187 
 
 Cooper, Newton 215 
 
 Cooper, Hugh 215 
 
 Coleman, R. S 239 
 
 Coleman, R. S., Sr 239 
 
 Coke, J. G 260 
 
 Collins, J. D 475 
 
 Collins, Lewis 276 
 
 Collins, Orville 475 
 
 Corliss, J. W. R 402 
 
 Corliss, John 402 
 
 Collier, D. R 485 
 
 Collier, Alexander 486 
 
 Cottell, H. A 511 
 
 Cottell, Chas 511 
 
 Conn, J. L 600 
 
 Conn, Thos 600 
 
 Cowles, C. M 124 
 
 Compton, John, Sr 305 
 
 Crabb, W. L 304 
 
 Crabb, S. D 304 
 
 Craddock, J. G 407 
 
 Craddock, R. C 407 
 
 Crystal, E. L 421 
 
 Crystal, Geo 421 
 
 Crenshaw, Robt 463 
 
 Crenshaw, R 463 
 
 Crittenden, J. J 482 
 
 Crossland, Edward 498 
 
 Crossland, Samuel 499 
 
 Crawford, L. J 587 
 
 Crawford, J. H 587 
 
 Curry, J. A 83 
 
 Curry, Wm 83 
 
 Dabney, C 463 
 
 Dabney, T. C 461 
 
 Dade, W. H 372 
 
 Dade, H. F 372 
 
 Dallam, L. C 3 
 
 Dallam, N. S 3 
 
 Dandridge, Wm 139 
 
 Dandridge, W. F 139 
 
 Dalmazzo, W. J 437 
 
 Daughtery, F. E 426 
 
 Daughtery, Daniel 426 
 
 Davidson, E. M 617 
 
 Davidson, G. M 617 
 
 Davidson, J. H 138 
 
 Davis, W. J 121 
 
 Davis, Jonathan 121 
 
 Davis, J. P 232 
 
 Davis, R. D 355 
 
 Davis, E. P 355 
 
 Davis, Garret 385 
 
 ►Davis, Jefferson 386 
 
 Day (Mrs.), M. B. R 440 
 
 Desha, Joseph 389 
 
 Deane, G. M 419 
 
 Deane, S. M 419 
 
 Dixon, Archibald 136 
 
 Dixon, Wynn 137 
 
 Dismukes, J. L 513 
 
 Dismukes, Paul 513 
 
 Dora, F M 87 
 
 Dora, F 87 
 
 Dora, J 88 
 
 Dorman, J. H 497 
 
 Dorman, Peter 497 
 
 Downs (Mrs.), L 535 
 
 Douthitt, S. J 539 
 
 Douthitt, John 540 
 
 Drake, Daniel 274 
 
 Duncan, H. T 115 
 
 Duncan, H. F 291 
 
 Duncan, Rev. Wm 291 
 
 Durham, M. J 4 
 
 Dunham, BenJ 5 
 
 Dulaney, W. L, 306 
 
 Dulaney, Woodford 306 
 
 Durrett, R. T 344 
 
 Durbin, N. M 360 
 
 Durbin, Daniel 360 
 
 Durelle, George 460 
 
 Eastin, G. B 620 
 
 Eagles, H. B ■ 292 
 
 Eagles, A. J 293 
 
 Edwards, Ninian 314 
 
 Elam, G. M ISO 
 
 Ellis, W. T 197 
 
 Elliott, Wm 464 
 
 Elliott, Wm., Sr 465 
 
 Elliott, Milton 569 
 
 Elliott, Wm 670 
 
 Evans, Silas 357 
 
 Evans, Silas, Sr 357 
 
 Evans, D. L 440 
 
 Evans, G. D 440 
 
 Ewell, R. L 597 
 
 E well, Leighton 597 
 
 Parley, Edwin 190 
 
 Pant, W. S 184 
 
 Pant, N 184 
 
 Fallis, D. J 391 
 
 Fallis, George 391 
 
 Felix, Rev. W. H 91 
 
 Felix, Joseph 91 
 
 Peland, John 401 
 
 Feland, Samuel 401 
 
 Peland, Thos 402 
 
 Ferguson, A. L 550 
 
 Ferguson, J. W 550 
 
 Field, R. A 16 
 
 Field, A 16 
 
 Field, Emmet 89 
 
 Field, Henry 89 
 
 Field, T. A 92 
 
 Field, John 92 
 
 Field, W. W 222 
 
 Field, C. A 222 
 
 Fithian, W 107 
 
 Fithlan, Joseph 109 
 
 Fithian, Amos 109 
 
 Forman, T. T 188 
 
 Porman, Rev. E 188 
 
 Fogle, J. E 296 
 
 Fogle, McDowell 299 
 
 Fogle, R. H 297 
 
 Ford, T. B 465 
 
 Ford, H. H 465 
 
 Foster, J. S 495 
 
 Foster, W. N 495 
 
 Fox, F. T 607 
 
 Frantz, G. W 90 
 
 Frantz, David 90 
 
 Fritz, J. S 162 
 
 Fritz, J. G 162 
 
 Frayser, T. H 189 
 
 Prayser, Wm 190 
 
 Fryer, L. P 243 
 
 Fryer, J. H 243 
 
 Francis, D. R 503 
 
 Fultz, J. P., Jr 223 
 
 Fultz, J. P., Sr 223 
 
 Fulton, G. S 554 
 
 Fulton, S. S 554 
 
 Garrard, James 477 
 
 Gathright, J. T 94 
 
 Gathright, John 94 
 
 Galvin, J. W 95 
 
 Gayle, J. W 528 
 
 Gayle, James 529 
 
 Garr, C. R 14 
 
 Garr, B. L 15 
 
 German, L. W 363 
 
 German, E. S 363 
 
 Given, L. S 92 
 
 Giltner, W. H 527 
 
 Glltner, W. S 527 
 
 Goodman, John 16 
 
 Goodloe, W. C 210 
 
 Goodnight, I. H 179 
 
 Graham, C. B 8 
 
 Graham, C. E 97 
 
 Graham, Wm 97 
 
 Greifenkamp, Rev. B 93 
 
 Gray, A. J 242 
 
 Gray, Lynch 96 
 
 Gray, R. H 242 
 
 Gray, J. L 96 
 
 Graves, J. M 266 
 
 Graves, W. W 266 
 
 Grabfelder, S 344 
 
 Greene, J. W 470 
 
 Greene, Robt 471 
 
 Green, Grant 604 
 
 Griffith, J. T 160 
 
 Griffith, J 160 
 
 Griffith, Wm 161 
 
 Griffith, D. M 161 
 
 Grace, J. R 172 
 
 Greenup, C 577 
 
 Grundy, J. F 268 
 
 Gould, I. P 370 
 
 Gould, I. P., Sr 370 
 
 Goetze, A. F 368 
 
 Goetze, A 368 
 
 Guthrie, W. A 93 
 
 Guthrie, James 261 
 
 Guthrie, James 279 
 
 Hardin, Jno 12 
 
 Hardin, Martin 12 
 
 Hardin, Ben 388 
 
 Hardin, M. D 273 
 
 Hardin, Henry 309 
 
INDEX. 
 
 629 
 
 Haddan, J. B.. 
 
 Hall, W. C 
 
 Hall, J. G. B.... 
 
 Hall, Thos 
 
 Hall, Dixon 
 
 Hanna, W. M.. 
 Hanna, Thos . . . 
 Harrison, C. L. 
 
 343 
 ]00 
 543 
 100 
 543 
 100 
 100 
 101 
 
 Harrison, W. H 101 
 
 Harris, Josiah 103 
 
 Harris, Josiah, Sr 103 
 
 Hager, S. P 155 
 
 Hager, J. F 466 
 
 Hager, Daniel 155 
 
 Hailey, A. C 179 
 
 Hailey, Carter 179 
 
 Hart, J. H 194 
 
 Hart, Wm , 195 
 
 Hazelrlgg, J. H 196 
 
 Hazelrigg, D 196 
 
 Hale, H. S 267 
 
 Hale, Nicholas 267 
 
 Hampton, M. F 341 
 
 Hampton, Levi 341 
 
 Hadden, J. B 343 
 
 Haygood, C. B 369 
 
 Haggard, Rodney 594 
 
 Haggard, A. L 595 
 
 Hetch, J. J 19 
 
 Hewitt, Lafayette 108 
 
 Hewitt, Robt 108 
 
 Henderson, L 165 
 
 Hendrick, J. B 258 
 
 Herold, M 327 
 
 Hegan, Francis 449 
 
 Herndon, Elijah 509 
 
 Hemdon, Wm 509 
 
 Hickman, Wm 118 
 
 Hickman, J. H 534 
 
 Hickman, W. A 534 
 
 Hissem, W. J 619 
 
 Hill, Alexander 206 
 
 Hill, A..D 206 
 
 Hill, T. M 255 
 
 Hill, Wm 256 
 
 Hite, A. H 343 
 
 Hite, S. S 343 
 
 Hlte, W. W 403, 
 
 Hite, W. C 403 
 
 Hines, T. H 417 
 
 Hines, W. W 415 
 
 Higginbotham, J. M 524 
 
 Higginbotham, Wm 524 
 
 Holzhauser, G 20 
 
 Hobson, J. P 104 
 
 Hobson, Joseph 104 
 
 Hobson, E. H 600 
 
 Hobson, Wm 602 
 
 Hoge, C. E 104 
 
 Hoge, Rev. P. C 104 
 
 Hodge, G. B 467 
 
 Hodge, J. T 466 
 
 Hodge, J. A 169 
 
 Hodge, R 169 
 
 Howard, H. C 208 
 
 Howard, E. J 491 
 
 Howard, Henry 208 
 
 Howard, J. A 491 
 
 Hopkins, J. C 361 
 
 Hopkins, J. C, Sr 361 
 
 Hooe, J. C 369 
 
 Hooe, W. A 369 
 
 Houston, Sam 163 
 
 Houston, Eli 164 
 
 Holland, G. B 586 
 
 Holland, G. A 585 
 
 Holt, W. H 530 
 
 Hutchison, E. L 14 
 
 Husband, L. D 99 
 
 Hughes, J. M 102 
 
 Hughes, Jesse 102 
 
 Hutchins, M. C 201 
 
 H-utchlns, Benj 201 
 
 Hudson, Homer 258 
 
 Hutton, J. M 342 
 
 Hutton, James 342 
 
 Hurt, J. S 582 
 
 Hurt, Joshua 583 
 
 Hynes, T 33 
 
 Ingram, W. H., Jr 17 
 
 Ingram, W. H., Sr 18 
 
 Ingram, Wyatt 18 
 
 Irvine, W. M 75 
 
 Irvine, Adam 75 
 
 Irvine, William. 75 
 
 Irvine, David 76 
 
 Irvine, Caleb 134 
 
 Ireland, J. A 580 
 
 Jackson, W. L 
 
 Jackson, W. L., Sr. 
 
 Jackson, R. M 
 
 Jackson, W. H 
 
 Jarrett, C. F 
 
 Jenkins, J. O 
 
 Jenkins, John. 
 
 354 
 
 354 
 
 499 
 
 500 
 
 192 
 
 106 
 
 106 
 
 Jeffrey, Alexander 351 
 
 Jeffrey, John 351 
 
 Jeffrey, Rosa Vertner 352 
 
 Johnson, L. F 265 
 
 Johnson, Robt 387 
 
 Johnson, W. P 265 
 
 Johnson, G. W 388 
 
 Johnson, Wm 265 
 
 Johnson, R. M 612 
 
 Jolly, G. W 309 
 
 Jolly, Nelson 309 
 
 Jordon, Rev. J. D 337 
 
 Jones, J. P 106 
 
 Jones, Rev. C. H 479 
 
 Jones, Rev. J. W 479 
 
 Karn, J. B. . , 114 
 
 Kamleiter, Fred 115 
 
 Kehoe, H. C 168 
 
 Kehoe, James 168 
 
 Kelly, I. W 307 
 
 Kelly, Griffin 307 
 
 Kelly, George 486 
 
 Kelly, Joseph 308 
 
 Kelly, F. H 486 
 
 Kenton, Simon 277 
 
 Kenyon, F. P 551 
 
 Kenyon, Orrin 551 
 
 KimbOTigh, H. W 114 
 
 King, Thos 101 
 
 King, Milton 103 
 
 King, C. L 117 
 
 Kinner, S. G 112 
 
 Kinner, H. H 112 
 
 Kimbley, J. F 203 
 
 Kimbley, John 203 
 
 Knott, W. T 413 
 
 Knott, J. P 415 
 
 Kremer, H. L 113 
 
 Kremer, Chas 113 
 
 Kraus, Wm 318 
 
 Kraus, Philip 318 
 
 Lail, G. W 119 
 
 Lail, John 119 
 
 Lawson, John 146 
 
 Latham, Chas 264 
 
 Latham, J. C 264 
 
 Laird, B. F 294 
 
 Laird, B. F., Sr 295 
 
 Lang, W. C 339 
 
 Lang, Wm 340 
 
 Lacy, A. T 340 
 
 Lacy, C. S 340 
 
 Lancaster, R. B 376 
 
 Lancaster, John . . . 
 
 Landrum, J. D 
 
 Landrum, James . . 
 
 Lee, Henry 
 
 Letcher, R. P 
 
 Leigh, E. O 
 
 Leigh, Rev. W. H. 
 
 Leslie, P. H 
 
 Leathers, J. H. 
 
 376 
 
 506 
 
 506 
 
 276 
 
 285 
 
 300 
 
 300 
 
 318 
 
 371 
 
 Leathers, Wm 371 
 
 Lewis, G. A 469 
 
 Lewis, G. W 469 
 
 Lewis, J. W 552 
 
 Lewis, J. H 157 
 
 Lewis, John 157 
 
 Lincoln, Abraham 344 
 
 Little, L. P 429 
 
 Little, D 429 
 
 Lillard, E. T 457 
 
 Lillard, Stephen 457 
 
 Lindsay, James 345 
 
 Lindsay, Wm 345 
 
 Lisle, D. C 545 
 
 Lisle, M. C 545 
 
 Lltsey, H. L 588 
 
 Litsey, Uriah 588 
 
 Lloyd, H. T 293 
 
 Lloyd, Richard 293 
 
 Lockett, J. F 117 
 
 Lockett, Rev. P. H 117 
 
 Lockhart, Henry 621 
 
 ♦Lockhart, M. R 621 
 
 Loomis, S. M 118 
 
 Loomis, Rev. T. J 118 
 
 Loos, C. L 147 
 
 Long, S. C 262 
 
 Long, Gabriel 262 
 
 Logan, Rev. J. V 455 
 
 Logan, Alexander 455 
 
 Logan, D. B 492 
 
 Logan, J. F 492 
 
 Logan, Wm 525 
 
 Lyons, W. L 226 
 
 Lyons, H. J 226 
 
 ♦Matthews, CM 76 
 
 Martin, Josephus 78 
 
 Martin, Wm 78 
 
 Mallory, J. H 178 
 
 Marshall, T. F 271 
 
 Marshall, Thos 276 
 
 Marshall, H 280 
 
 Marshall, T. A 280 
 
 Marshall, H 280 
 
 Marcellus, Cassius 276 
 
 Marcellus, Cassius 276 
 
 Mathews, J. W 532 
 
 Mathews, C. M 532 
 
 Martin, H. L 558 
 
 Madison, George 570 
 
 Merritt, G. W 62 
 
 Merritt, Washington 62 
 
 Meade, G. H 416 
 
 Meade, A. G 416 
 
 Metcalfe, Thos 537 
 
 Meddls, S. S 74 
 
 Mitchell, O. M 274 
 
 Mitchell, J. A 174 
 
 Mills, S. B 181 
 
 Mills, W. P 181 
 
 Milam, B. C 252 
 
 Milam, John 253 
 
 Minor, J. R 310 
 
 Minor, E 310 
 
 Milward, Stanley 508 
 
 Milward, W. R 509 
 
 Monarch, M. V 71 
 
 Morris, G. W 129 
 
 Moore, G. H 264 
 
 Moody, W. B 590 
 
 Moody, W. H 590 
 
630 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Moore, G. J 264 
 
 Morehead, J. T 285 
 
 Moorehead, C. S 285 
 
 Moss, T. E 48 
 
 Moore, J. H 310 
 
 Moore, La wson 310 
 
 Moore, E 311 
 
 Moore, W. M 338 
 
 Moore, Moses 339 
 
 Moore, W. G 44S 
 
 Moore, Wm 448 
 
 Morton, M. B 63 
 
 Morgan, J. H 384 
 
 Mulr, P. B 10 
 
 Mulr, Wm 10 
 
 Mulligan, J. S 484 
 
 Mulligan, J. H 484 
 
 Murphy, A. G 64 
 
 Myers, Harvey 73 
 
 Myers, Aaron 73 
 
 Myers, Harvey, Sr 74 
 
 McLean, M. H 622 
 
 McLean, Alney 313 
 
 McLean, R. A 622 
 
 McHenry, J. H 11 
 
 McHenry, B 12 
 
 McClung, Rev. J. A 274 
 
 McDonald, P 26 
 
 McCane, J. A 72 
 
 McCane, A 72 
 
 McCane, J. A 58 
 
 McCane, John 68 
 
 McCormick, Daniel 64 
 
 McKinney, G. J 65 
 
 McBrayer, J. H 69 
 
 McBrayer, A 69 
 
 McArthur, J. M 70 
 
 McArthur, Peter 70 
 
 McCorkle, W. H 110 
 
 McCorkle, W. H., Sr 110 
 
 McDowell, Samuel 140 
 
 McDowell, Ephraim 143 
 
 McDowell, W. A 145 
 
 McDowell, Samuel 145 
 
 McDowell, H. C 150 
 
 McConnell, J. H 228 
 
 McConnell, Chas 229 
 
 McNeill, Malcolm 236 
 
 McNeill, T. H 238 
 
 McNeill, Rivers 243 
 
 McCIain, Jackson 441 
 
 McClain, M. H 441 
 
 McClain, Jackson 452 
 
 McClain, W. P^ 454 
 
 McClain, James 454 
 
 McCreery, T. C 479 
 
 McKinney, Matthew 551 
 
 McKinney, Samuel 531 
 
 McCreary, J. B 559 
 
 MoAtee, T. W 595 
 
 McAtee, B. L 595 
 
 Nagle, C. W 215 
 
 Nagle, W. F 215 
 
 Neider, F. A 57 
 
 Newman, J. P 338 
 
 Newman, John 338 
 
 Netherland, W. N 449 
 
 Norris, J. C 4S1 
 
 Norris, Daniel 481 
 
 Nourse, Rev. W. L 367 
 
 Nourse, Chas 367 
 
 Oldham, J. T 76 
 
 Oldham, P. B 76 
 
 O'Meara, J. P 336 
 
 O'Meara, Thos 336 
 
 Orendorf , Henry 133 
 
 Owsley, J. B 400 
 
 Owsley, W. W 400 
 
 Owsley, J, S 439 
 
 Owsley, Samuel 439 
 
 Owsley, Wm 478 
 
 Parker, Watts 584 
 
 Parker, J. E 585 
 
 Parsons, Frank 53 
 
 Parsons, Rev. C. B 51 
 
 Pattillo, Wm 61 
 
 Patterson, J. K 53 
 
 Pack, J. E 252 
 
 Pack, John 253 
 
 Paynter, C. M 334 
 
 Paynter, John 334 
 
 Parrish, J. H 365 
 
 Parrish, I. N 365 
 
 Pearson, L. D 50 
 
 Pettlt, T. S 141 
 
 Pepper, J. E 200 
 
 Pepper, Oscar 200 
 
 'Pepper, Elijah 200 
 
 Penn, Shadrich 286 
 
 Pearce, C. B 458 
 
 Pearce, Wm 458 
 
 Pennick, T. B 571 
 
 Pennick, B. W 571 
 
 Pflanz, J. R 410 
 
 Phelps, Zack 86 
 
 Phelps, J. S 87 
 
 Phillips, J. F 13 
 
 Phillips, H. B 552 
 
 Phillips, Thos 552 
 
 Phister, E. C 571 
 
 Piper, S. A 49 
 
 Pike, Samuel 116 
 
 Platts, G. E 227 
 
 Poyntz, C. B 2 
 
 Poyntz, S.B 2 
 
 Powell, J. P 192 
 
 Powell, T. W 192 
 
 Powell, H. A 199 
 
 Powell, H 199 
 
 Poage, Wm 227 
 
 Poage, H. C 227 
 
 Pope, John 387 
 
 Pope, Curran 478 
 
 Porter, Rev. Newton 507 
 
 Porter, Eli 508 
 
 Porter, T. F 598 
 
 Proctor, B. F 152 
 
 Proctor, Ben j 152 
 
 Prouse, J. P 190 
 
 Pretlow, Richard 57 
 
 Prentice, G. D 287 
 
 Pratt, Rev. W. M 353 
 
 Pratt, Samuel 353 
 
 Price, C. H 489 
 
 Price, W. B 489 
 
 Preston, Wm 572 
 
 Pryor, J. D 589 
 
 Pryor, J. C 589 
 
 Ragdale, W. J 333 
 
 Ragdale, W. E 333 
 
 Ranklns, W. J 397 
 
 Ranklns, B. H 397 
 
 Raison, C. L., Sr 472 
 
 Ralson, C. L., Jr 472 
 
 Rennle, Rev. Joseph 159 
 
 Reynolds, CO 263 
 
 Reynolds, O. A 263 
 
 Reynolds, D. S 450 
 
 Reynolds, Rev. Thos 450 
 
 Reddlck, J. T 58 
 
 Reno, Lawson 335 
 
 Reno, L. R 335 
 
 Rhoads, McHenry 466 
 
 Rhoads, A. J 466 
 
 Richmond, Rev. J. M 60 
 
 Rives, R. F 205 
 
 Rives, Robt 205 
 
 Rlffe, J. M 366 
 
 RlfEe, Christopher 284 
 
 Riffe, H. R 366 
 
 Richie, C. G 329 
 
 Richie, H. C 330 
 
 Rice, J. W 335 
 
 Rice, J. M 335 
 
 Richardson, R. C 430 
 
 Richardson, S. Q 430 
 
 Richardson, G. W 556 
 
 Richardson, O. C 557 
 
 Rodman, Thos 44 
 
 Rodman, John 44 
 
 Rodman, James 299 
 
 Rowan, John 272 
 
 Roberts, H. H 510 
 
 Roberts, J. H 511 
 
 Rousseau, L. H 283 
 
 Robertson, George 540 
 
 Robinson, H. S 591 
 
 Robinson, J. R 591 
 
 Rugless, L. B 250 
 
 Rugless, Thos 250 
 
 Russell, J. C 269 
 
 Russell, J. W 269 
 
 Russell, James 270 
 
 Russell, M. C 366 
 
 Russell, Christopher 366 
 
 Russell, W. E 555 
 
 Russell, Andrew 656 
 
 Sanford, L. M 375 
 
 Sanford, Chas 375 
 
 Sayre, J. W 529 
 
 Sayre, E. D 65 
 
 Sayre, David 67 
 
 Scott, J. W 257 
 
 Scott, M. T 257 
 
 Scott, Matthew 257 
 
 Scott, John 257 
 
 Scott, Chas 386 
 
 Scott, W. F 500 
 
 Scott, J. D 500 
 
 Scott, M. K 38 
 
 Schneider, J. W 148 
 
 Schneider, Adam 148 
 
 Schroll, J. C 182 
 
 Schorfield, C. B 251 
 
 Schoolfleld, G. T 251 
 
 Schoolfleld, G. T 251 
 
 Settle, W. E 268 
 
 Settle, E. E 502 
 
 Settle, W. H 503 
 
 Senour, W. E 228 
 
 Senour, T. W 228 
 
 Shouse, N. C 544 
 
 Shouse, D. J 544 
 
 Short, C. W 592 
 
 Short, David 592 
 
 Shelby, Wm 125 
 
 Sharp, S. G 254 
 
 Sharp, Wm 254 
 
 Shaw, Layfayette 216 
 
 Shaw, Samuel 625 
 
 Shaw, W. M 216 
 
 Shelby, Thos 126 
 
 Shelby, Isaac 516 
 
 Simrall, C. B 21 
 
 Slmrall, J. B 332 
 
 Simrall, J. G 66 
 
 Slmrall, James 66 
 
 Sinickson, A 110 
 
 Simpson, J. R 618 
 
 Simpson, Wm 618 
 
 Simon, J. T 249 
 
 Simon, Francis 249 
 
 Simpson, J. D 510 
 
 Simpson, D. M 610 
 
 Simmons, W. L 289 
 
 Simmons, J. E. H 289 
 
 Skillman, H. M 568 
 
 SkiUman, T. T 568 
 
INDEX. 
 
 631 
 
 ■Smith, S. C 391 
 
 Smith, A. W 40 
 
 Smith, A. W 46 
 
 Smith, James 46 
 
 Smith, John 46 
 
 Smith, W. M 61 
 
 Smith, J. R. W Ill 
 
 Smith, I. P Ill 
 
 Smith, J. S 277 
 
 Smyrl, Adam 77 
 
 Sneed, S. K 164 
 
 ^Slaughter, G 390 
 
 Soaper, R. H 97 
 
 Soaper, Wm 98 
 
 Soaper, Thos 98 
 
 Southgate, F. H 313 
 
 Southgate, James 313 
 
 Speed, James 284 
 
 .Speed, John 560 
 
 Speed, Thos 561 
 
 ^pead, James 561 
 
 Speed, T. S 562 
 
 Speed, Thos 562 
 
 Speed, J. J 563 
 
 Speed, James 564 
 
 Speed, John 564 
 
 Speed, J. B 565 
 
 Speed, Philip 566 
 
 Speckert, A. J .' 615 
 
 Speckert, Frank 615 
 
 Stevenson, Rev. D. 
 Stratton, J. A.. 
 Stratton, E. B.. 
 Stratton, Wm.. 
 Stirman, W. F. 
 Stirman, W. D. 
 Stirman, J. H.. 
 Stagg, James . 
 
 25 
 34 
 34 
 35 
 35 
 35 
 36 
 84 
 
 Stewart, James 315 
 
 Stewart, J. E 315 
 
 Stewart, Ralph 315 
 
 Stewart, Robt 153 
 
 Stewart, Rev. Robt 153 
 
 Stucky, T. H 154 
 
 Stucky, J. A 155 
 
 Stucky, Harry 154 
 
 Steele, D. W., Jr 211 
 
 Steele, B. U 447 
 
 Striger, C. M 219 
 
 Striger, John 219 
 
 Stine, D. H 253 
 
 Stockton, Rev. Robt 175 
 
 Stine, F. A 253 
 
 Steele, D. W., Jr 211 
 
 - " 45 
 
 46 
 46 
 
 Sweeney, Rev. J. S. 
 Sweeney, Rev. G. B. 
 Sweeney, Rev. Job. 
 
 Sweeney, Moses 
 
 Sweeney, W. H 
 
 Sweeney, Harvey .. 
 
 Sullivan, C. M 
 
 Sullivan, H. C 
 
 Swango, G. B. 
 
 408 
 
 408 
 
 332 
 
 332 
 
 185 
 
 Swigert, Phillip 259 
 
 Taylor, Rev. W. C 41 
 
 Taylor, R. T 41 
 
 Taylor, George 41 
 
 Taylor, H. D 55 
 
 Taylor, B. H., Jr 392 
 
 Taylor, Zachary 393 
 
 Taliferro, W. A 362 
 
 Taliferro, N 362 
 
 Talbott, R. C 411 
 
 Talbott, R. M 412 
 
 Terry, E. M 41 
 
 Terry, John 42 
 
 Terry, W. M 42 
 
 Tenney, O. S 476 
 
 Tenney, Seth 476 
 
 Thompson, E. P 581 
 
 Thompson, Plnckney 80 
 
 Thompson, P. B 166 
 
 Thompson, G. F 459 
 
 Thomas, C. B 212 
 
 Thomas, B. G 213 
 
 Thomasson, J. C 314 
 
 Thomasson, J. V 314 
 
 Thorne, W. K 437 
 
 Thome, W. P 437 
 
 Thorne, John 438 
 
 Thorpe, S. H 473 
 
 Tompkins, A. C 176 
 
 Tompkins, W. W 176 
 
 Todd, G. D 427 
 
 Todd, H. 1 427 
 
 Todd, J. G 501 
 
 Todd, Howard 501 
 
 Todd, C. S 537 
 
 Towles, D. T 523 
 
 Towles, G. W 523 
 
 Tomlinson, R. H 493 
 
 Tomlinson, Joseph 493 
 
 Trimble, John 149 
 
 Trimble, Robt 149 
 
 Trimble, W. "W 149 
 
 Trimble, Robt 270 
 
 Trimble, S. T 447 
 
 Trimble, Rev. S. Y 447 
 
 Twiss, H. W 606 
 
 T-wiss, Qulntis 606 
 
 Unthank, J. M 615 
 
 Vansant, R. H 182 
 
 Vansant, W. H 182 
 
 Vaught, Rev. J. O. A 22 
 
 Venable, Nathaniel 79 
 
 Venable, T. S 78 
 
 Venable, S. L 78 
 
 Veith, P. J 387 
 
 Violett, J. A 328 
 
 Violett, Leland 328 
 
 Voss, John 402 
 
 Ward, A. H 29 
 
 Ward, A 29 
 
 Wathen, C 30 
 
 Wathen, B 30 
 
 Wathen, B. C 30 
 
 Wathen, H 31 
 
 Walker, E. D 31 
 
 Walker, J. D 50 
 
 Walker, Jacob 50 
 
 Waller, B. L 62 
 
 Waller, F. F 62 
 
 Watts, R. A 170 
 
 Watts, Chas 170 
 
 Warren, Joseph 217 
 
 Walton, Matthew 324 
 
 Walton, J. H 324 
 
 Walton, M., Sr 325 
 
 Walton, T. R 578 
 
 Walton, W. P 578 
 
 Wallin, D. J 406 
 
 Wallin, John .' 406 
 
 Wallace, F. T. D 514 
 
 Wallace, Thos 514 
 
 Warfleld, Wm 525 
 
 Warfleld, Benj 525 
 
 Wadsworth, W. H 546 
 
 Watkins, Joel 34 
 
 Weir, James 230 
 
 Weir, James, Sr 230 
 
 Weaver, C. P 330 
 
 Weaver, D. L 330 
 
 Welch, J. C 346 
 
 Welch, T. R 415 
 
 Wheeler, C. K 33 
 
 Wheeler, James 34 
 
 Whitley, Wm 273 
 
 White, C. W 579 
 
 White, B. P 580 
 
 Willis, G. L 22 
 
 Willis, H. W 22 
 
 Withers, J. S 27 
 
 Withers, B 27 
 
 Williamson, J. A 28 
 
 Willis, J. C 131 
 
 Williams, G. W 220 
 
 Williams, Otho 220 
 
 Williams, T. D 441 
 
 Williams, Samuel 441 
 
 Williams, J. P 469 
 
 Wing, C. F 275 
 
 Wilson, B. B 347 
 
 Wilson, R. B 347 
 
 Wilson, W. B 359 
 
 Wilson, W. H 360 
 
 Wilson, E. K 457 
 
 Wilson, J. M 457 
 
 Wilson, C. W 611 
 
 Wilson, S. L 612 
 
 Wickliffie, C. A 389 
 
 Wood, O. M 557 
 
 Wood, A. T 623 
 
 Wood, David 558 
 
 Wood, H. C 283 
 
 Wood, H. S. S 623 
 
 Worsham, A. J 42 
 
 Worthington, E. L 88 
 
 Worsham, E. W 43 
 
 Woodson, Urey 327 
 
 Wilford, I. M 593 
 
 Tager, Daniel 289 
 
 Yager, Arthur 289 
 
 Yeaman, Malcolm 23 
 
 Young, F. 40 
 
 Young, R. B 40 
 
 Young, R 40 
 
 Young, A 40 
 
 Young, B. H 348 
 
 Young, Robt 350 
 
 Young, John 350 
 
 Young, S. A 426 
 
 Young, Milton, Sr 426 
 
 Young, B. R 427 
 
 Young, Milton 443 
 
 Young, Rev. J. C 494 
 
 Yungblut, C. W 350 
 
 Yungblut. J. R 350