H istory of

Kentu cky and Kentuck ians

HENRY E . VAN ARSDALL i s the owner‘

o f his share of the estate his present farm of oneone of the fine farm properties of his native hundred and seventy-five acres , known as

county and is recognized as one of the representative agr iculturists and stock-growers ofMercer county , Kentucky, where he is a sciono f an old and honored fam i ly , the prest ige ofwhose name he is well upho lding. Mr . VanA r sda l l was born in Mercer county , on the26th of December , 1859, and is a son of JamesM . and Elizabeth (Eberly ) Van Ar sdall , theformer of whom was born in Mercer countyand the latter in Garrard county , this state .

James M .

,

van Ar sdal l was a man of fine intellectual powers and for many years was a success ful and popular teacher in the publicschool s of this section of the state , besideswh ich he was also actively identified with agricul tural pursuits . He died on the asth of

June , 1875 . He was a son of Cornelius B .

Van Ar sdal l , and the latter’s father came

f rom New Jersey and founded the family l inei n Kentucky . Mrs . Elizabeth (Eberly ) VanA r sda l l died in November , 186 1 , and of thef ou r ch ildren the subj ect of th is review wast he th ird in order of bi rth , being the youngesto f the three now liv ing. Mary Elizabeth ist he wi fe of John Sageser , o f Shelbyville , Kentucky and Rufus is likewise a representativefa rmer of Mercer county .

H enry E . Van Ar sdal l i s indebted to thepub l ic schools of Mercer county for his earlyedu cat ional tra ining and he continued to beasso ciated in the work and management o f hisfa ther ’s farm unti l 1882 , when . he and hisbro ther purchased the old homestead . whichthey sold shor tly afterward . They then became associated in the purchase of a farmfrom George Smith and they continued to opet a te th is farm in partnersh ip fo r the ensuingeighteen years . In 1898 they bought anotherfarm in the same local i ty and thus became theowners of a landed estate of more than fourhundred acres . In 1905 the two brothers dissolved partnership and Henry E . assumed as

vei . m—i

The Meadows ,$ one o f the beauti ful home

steads of Mercer county . Here he gives h isa ttention to diversified farming, including thepropagation of wheat

,corn

,tobacco and hemp .

I t is worthy of note that every acre of thi sfarm is well adapted for the rais ing of hempand tobacco and that the place has long beenknown as one of the attractive farmsteads ofthis section of the state . Mr . Van Ar sdall alsohas been very successful in the raising of Jersey cattle and Poland-China swine . In a gener ic way Mr . Van Ar sdall gives his allegianceto the Republican party but in local aff airs hesupports the men and mea sures meeting theapproval o f his j udgment rather than following strict partisan l ines . He is a member o fthe Christian church at Harrod sburg and hiswi fe i s a member of Cumberland Presbyterianchurch in the county .

On the 22d of December , 1892, was solemnized the marriage of Mr . Van Ar sda ll toM iss Nannie Gentry , daughter of Richard C .

. and Mary ( Bonta ) Gentry , well known residents o f Mercer county . The home l i fe ofMr . and Mrs . Van Ar sdall has been of themost ideal character and both enj oy unalloyedpopularity in their home community . Theyhave no children .

H OLY NAME CHURCH .—This magn ificent

edifice was not at first the grand building thatit is at the present t ime . The first church wa sbuilt in 1860 and was a modest aff air , more inconsonance with the means o f less wealth andearl ier t imes . It was buil t in 1860 and 186 1 ,being to rn down in 1886 to make way for thepresent building, which is o f immense sizeand splend id finish . I t i s one hundred andforty by one hundred feet at its greatestextension

,of Gothic architecture , with im

ported w indows and was erected at a cost offorty thousand dollars . The church waserected under the supervision of Rev . Thomas

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ful and respectable maturity a family of sevench ild ren , all of whom survive .

Haley P . Car twright was the fi fth in orderof bi rth of the sons and daughters born to h isparents . He spent his early l i fe on the paternal farm

,partook o f the duties and pleasures

peculiar to the lot of the farmer ’s lad , and nu

ti l the age o f s ixteen years attended the publicschoo ls . He subsequently entered the University of Tennessee at Nashville and was thereprepared for his profess ion. His practice andactive work have been of forty years ’ durationin Warren county

,Kentucky . For some pe

r iod of time he belonged to the faculty of hisalma mater where he filled the chair of Physical Diagnosis . He is not one of those contentto let well enough alone ,

$ but has taken nosmall amount of post graduate work , some ofhis later studies having been pursued under themost noted physicians of the day .

Dr . Cartwright was married December 16,

1874,to Miss Jennie R . Simmons , daughter of

Cyrus S immons of Warren county , Kentucky .

To their union have been born the followingchildren : Fred D .

,a graduate physician prae

t icing with his father ; Hall ie Cartwright , nowMrs . Henry Winston Mosby , of Helena , Arkansas ; Percy Car twright , a civil engineer . en

gaged in i rrigat ion work ; and Al ice , who isa t home .

Dr . Cartwright i s act ively identified withthose organizations having particular bearingupon his profession . these being the AmericanMedical Associat ion ; the State Medical Association ; and the Warren County Medical Assoc iation. His lay affi l iations are with the Masonic order , in which he i s of the KnightsTemplars . He i s a member of the Christ ianchurch and in his poli tical conv ict ions i s independent , believing that the best man and thebest measure should far outweigh mere part isanship w ith the voter . He was at one time amember o f the State Board o f Medical Examiner s and enj oys some prominence among hisprofess ional brethren the country over as aconv incing and discriminating contributor tomedical j ournals , his studious incl inationskeeping him well abreast of the times and thelatest results of invest igation .

JOSEP H S . CLAYBROOK E.-Known as one of

the representative business men of the youngergeneration Mr . Claybrooke i s one of the interested principals in the Robertson-ClaybrookeCompany , a leading mercantile concern ofWash ington county , with a well equipped es

tabl i shment in the thriving l ittle city of Springfield . The various departments o f the establi shment are stocked with select l ines of goodsand the store controls a large and appreciative

patronage , draw ing the same from the fine

sect ion o f country normally tr ibutary to

Springfield . Mr . Claybrooke is a representative of one of the sterl ing pioneer famil ie sof Washington county and concerning the genealogy adequate record appears in the sketchof his brother

,William D . Claybrooke , on

other pages of this work .

Joseph S . Claybrooke was born near EastTexas

,Washington county , on the 1 1 th o f

March , 1874,and in the gr aded schools of the

village mentioned he secured his early educat ional discipl ine . Upon leaving schoo l he loca ted in Springfield where , in 1892, he en

tered the employ of the firm of McCo rd

Robertson as a clerk in their general store . H e

was thus engaged until 1897, when he becamea member of the mercanti le establ ishment ofGrundy

,Claybrooke McInti re . This al l iance

continued until 1905 , when he withdrew fromthe firm and removed to the city of Louisvi lle ,where he became one of the interested principals in the wholesale clothing concern of theFall City Clo th ing Company , of .which he issti ll a stockholder and with whose active management he was identified unti l 1907, when hereturned to Springfield and effected the o r

ganization of the Robertson-Claybrooke Company

,which is incorpo rated with a capita l

stock of twenty-five thousand dollars andwhich carries full l ines of dry-good s , men

’sand women ’s cloth ing

,shoes

,hats , carpe ts ,

draperies,wall paper

,notions

,etc . Mr . Clay

brooke is al so associated with his brother ,James R . Claybrooke , in the ownership of afine farm of more than three hundred acresand the same is known as one of the best inWashington county . The brothers are unquest ionably the best growers of Burley tobaccoin th is county and have shown gr eat interestin the advancing of th is l ine of industrial enterpr ise in this section of the state . Thei rsuccess as tobacco growers has been excellentand each year they are devoting increasedacreage to th is product . They are also largeand extensive dealers in mules , and probablyhandle a s many as any other person in thecounty . Mr . Claybrooke was also a stockholder in the Citizens ’ Li fe Insurance Company , of Louisville , and is known as an alert ,progressive and loyal citizen . He accords astaunch allegiance to the Democratic partyand gives his active support to all measurestending to advance the general welfare of h ishome county . Both he and hi s wife are members of the Bapt i st church and be contributedl iberally to the erection of the att ractive newchurch edifice in Springfield . He is affi l iatedw ith Springfield Lodge , No . 50. Free Ac

cepted Masons . in Spr ingfield .

On the 14th of February , 1894. Mr . Clay

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established here for a great many years . He is sta te When he came to Kentucky when a young

a native of I reland . but the blood of Scott ish man and pract i ced h i s PrOfCSStOH ,that Of

forbears flows in h is veins , members of his dentistry , at Bardstown , t il l h is death , on thefamily having many years previously removed 4th

.

OfO

July , 1888 , and where.

his widow sti l lfrom Scotland to the North o f I reland . He mai nta i ns her home ,

.she . be i ng eighty-threewas bo rn in Lo ndonderry October 20 ,

1849, years of age at the time of th is writing,in

and having received his early educat ion in hisnative land

,came to Bowl i ng Green when a

19 10. She recalls with due pleasure andsat i s fact ion the fact that she was a playmate

youth in the year 1865 . He emigrated from and schoolmate of General Phil Sheridan,

Europe with the intention of working for h is when she was a child . Both the paternal anduncle

,John Getty

,who se mercantile career in maternal grand fathers Of the subj ect Of th is

this place wa s of forty-five years duration . Heis

,in truth

,one o f the oldest and longest es

tabl i shed merchants in this part of the country .

Mr . Cuthbertson assimilated in the most tho rough manner the advantages and pract icalsuggestions to be derived from assoc i at ion W i tha bus iness man such as h is uncle , and in a veryfew years ’ t ime embarked independently in

business,which has been successfully carri ed

on from that time .

Mr . Cuthbertson is independent in pol itics ,supporting the men and measures which he bel ieves will best contribute to the general goodand gi ving mere partizanship l ittle consideration . He is one of the elders of the Presbyterian church , of which he and his family arecommunicants , and he gives his active suppo rtto those excellent causes for which it i ssponsor .Mr . Cuthbertson was married October 24,

188 1 , to Jeanne McClure Sterett,daughter of

Dr . G . Sterett , a native of Hawesvil le , K entucky . This union was cemented by the bi rthof three children , as follows : Sterett Cuthber tson

, who is associated with h is father inbus iness , contribut ing to the management ofthe large Cuthbertson store ; Samuel Getty ;and Celeste

,who married Dr . F. D . Reardon ,

a practic ing physician in Bowling Green .

The parents of Mr . Cuthbertson were Johnand Mary (Getty ) Cuthbertson , bo th nat ivesof I reland and the latter a sister of JohnGetty , a prominent citizen of th is place .

FRANK E . DAUGH ERTY .— Judge Daugherty

of Bardstown , Nelson county , has been incumbent of public offi ce almost continuouslys ince attaining his legal majority and is nowcommonwealth attorney for the tenth j udicialcircuit . He also served with marked abil ityand efficiency on the bench of the county cour to f Nelson county and no citizen has a moresecure place in popular confidence and esteem .

Frank E . Daugherty was born at Bardstown , Kentucky , on the sth day of July , 1871 ,and is a son of Daniel and Sarah ( Slevin )Daugher ty , the former of whom was bo rn inthe city of Baltimore , Maryland , and the latterof whom was born in Somerset Ohio . The

father was reared to maturity in his native

review were natives of I reland and memberso f staunch old famil ies of that fair isle .Frank E . Daugherty was reared to maturit

yin Bardstown and was afforded exce llent educat i onal advantages , including tho se of St .Joseph

’

s College and Beth lehem Academy,two

of the excellent institutions maintained in thisstate, under the auspices of the Ca tholic churchof which he is a communicant and in whosefaith he was reared . In 1892,

when twentyone years of age , Judge Daugherty was electedc i rcu i t court clerk , an office of which he continned incumbent for five years

,a fter which

he was elected j udge of the county court, an

incumbency which he retained for three consecutive terms , a fter which he decl ined to become a candidate for t e-election .

He hasgiven close study to the law and is well fort ified in the science of j urisprudence

. H e wasadmitted to the bar in 1898 but his service hasbeen largely in public office . In November

,

1909, he wasO

elected commonwealth attorneyof the tenth judICla l district by an enormousmaj ority for a term o f s ix years

,and in th is

ofi'

i ce he has given a most able and discr iminating administration , well j usti fying th e publ icW i sdom shown in the selection . H e i s astaunch adherent to the Democrat ic party andshows a loyal interest in all that touches thesocial and material wel fare of the community .

Judge Daugherty is a bachelor .

JAMES O . CARSON .— Bowling Green is to be

especially congratulated upon the high standard of the men composing the medical pro fess ion , and p rominent among them is Dr . JamesO . Carson . He was born in Warren county

,

Kentucky , December 30 , 1855 .

h is father ,Oliver C . Carson , being a native of Butlercounty . and his mother , Mary Elizabeth Co ll ins , of Warren county . His father

,of Scotch

Irish ancestry , was a farmer . Dr . Carson wasbo rn on his father’s farm , attended the countyschools and assi sted h is fa ther in the variousduties o f farm l i fe . He entered Warren College , now known as Ogden College , in Bowling Green . from which institution he graduated in 1876. In the interim he had servedsome three years as a drug cle rk , and his earlypredi lection for medical science ripened into

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a resolve to become a physic ian . He stud iedmedicine in th e Universi ty of Lo uisville , andgraduated in 1878. After ten years spent ingeneral practice, he devo ted himsel f to specialwork on the eye , ea r

,throat and nose . He

has done post-graduate work in the New YorkPolycl in ic , and by study and vis its to surgi calcenters has kept in close touch with the constantly advancing science with which he ismost concerned .

In 1893 he was married to Miss MargaretPoindexter

,the daughter o f Rev . J . W . Poin

dexter , a Presbyterian minister , and has fivech i ldren .

Bes ides having practiced medic ine in his native county for about th irty years , and being amember of the American Medical Association

,

the State Medical Soc iety and the \Var renCounty Medical Soc iety , Dr . Carson is prominent in Masonry , being a Knight Templar,past commander of that branch of masonryand also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks , of which order he is apast exalted ruler . His pol it ical allegia nce isgi ven to the Democratic party .

He is a deep student , be ing care ful and thorough in his invest igations and t ireless in h isinterest in all questions affecting his ownspecial l ine or the general pract ice of medicine .

ARTH UR CUMM INS.—At Wi l low Springs,

Nelson county,is located the fine disti llery

wh ich is owned and operated by Mr . Cummins , and which represents one of the manyimportant enterprises of this county in th issection of the state . Mr . Cummins is knownas an able and substantial business man andas a cit izen of l iberal ity , loyalty and distinctivepubl ic spi rit . He was bo rn in Jeff ersoncounty

,th is state , on the 22d of October, 1858,

and is a son of Patrick and Margaret (Kanally ) Cummins . Patrick Cummins was bornin county Carlow , Ireland , in 1833 and wasrea red . to maturity in h is native land , whencehe came with hi s parents to Ameri ca when Sixteen years o f age . He was a son of Arthurand Margaret (Whalen) Cummins , both o f

whom passed the closing years of thei r lives inthe city of Louisvi lle , Kentucky , where theirremains were laid to rest . Patr i ck Cumminswas a carriage painter by trade and was a mano f impregnable integrity and honor in all relat ions of l i fe . He became a successful businessman of Jefferson county , where he continuedto reside unti l his death . which occurred on the

“

9th of October , 1909 . H is wi fe died in Louisv i lle . in 1862. and is surv ived by th ree children— Mr s . Ellen Vowels , of Nelson county ;Martin J who bu i lt the Wil low Springs distillery and who is now deceased ; and Arthur ,who i s the immediate subj ect of this review .

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Arthur Cummins was a child o f but fouryears at the time of his mother’s dea th and hewas then taken to the home of h is paternalunc le, Richard Cummins , in Coon Hollow,

Nelso n county , where he was reared to matur i ty and where he was aff orded the advantages o f the public schools

,after which he

cont inued his studies in Cec i l ian College,in

Hardin county . He had learned the distill ingbusiness under the di rect ion of his uncle andafter leaving college he became an employein the Mattingly 8: Moore disti llery

,at Bards

town , being finally made superintendent of theplant . Later he held a similar pos ition in thedisti llery of W . B . Samuels

,at Samuels , Ken

tucky , and stil l later he was identified with theoperatio n and management of the CrystalSprings di st illery , in the city o f Louisvil le.

He finally returned to Wi l low Springs , nearthe place where he was reared , and upon thedeath of his brother Mar tin he succeeded tothe ownership o f the Wi l low Springs distillery , which he has since conducted with all ofsuccess . He is also the owner of a finely improved farm of more than two hundred acresin connection with the disti llery and is president Of the People ’s Bank of New Hope , Kentucky . He is a staunch supporter of the causeof the Democratic party but has never soughtthe honors of emoluments o f publ ic offi ce . H e

is a member of the Catholic church at NewHope , and Mrs . Cummins is a member of theMethodist Ep iscopal church at Bardstown .

On the 4th of February , 189 1 , was solemnized the marriage of Mr . Cummins to MissHatt ie Worrell , daughter of Henry and Emily(Hall ) Worrell , of Bardstown , Kentucky .

The four children of th is union all remain atthe parental home and their names are hereentered , -Charles , Margaret , Arthur J . and

Lucil le .

JOH N H . BLACK BURN,M . D .

— A man st illyoung in his profession , but an en l ightenedpracti tioner and a public-spirited citizen is Dr .John H . Blackburn . He was born at Woodburn , in this county on the 7th day of August ,1876 , and is the son of Henry M . and Amanda(Dupree ) Blackburn Hen ry M . Blackburnwas a well-known merchant of this county ,his prosperous business having been established at Woodburn . H e came origi nallyf rom North Caro lina , his family having en

joyed recognition in the South and the mo therwas from an equally good old Virginia family . Will iam Dupree

,the maternal grandfa

ther , was in his day a prominent man in theaffairs o f the Old Dominion.

John H . Blackburn received a thorough cducation, receiving h is preliminary mental d iscipl ine in the publ ic schoo ls o f h is native

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county,later attending school at Frankl in , and

graduating from the medica l department ofVanderbilt Univers ity at Nashville , Tennessee

,with the class o f 1899 . He supplemented

th is with splendid practical training in theway of a year’s experience as interne in theNashvil le Hospital . Not satisfied to leave“well enough alone he took po st graduatework in the New York Polycl inic School andHospi tal and l ikewise had the inestimablebenefit of a season of post-graduate study withthe celebrated Mayo Brothers of Rochester ,Minnesota . I t is mani fest that a career of

great usefulness awaits Dr. Blackburn. Hehas already buil t up a large pract ice and combines surgery with his genera l medical praetice . He is connected with the societies whichhave to do with h is profession , belo nging tothe American Med ical Association, the Kentucky State Medical Society and the WarrenCounty Medical Society . For the past fouryears he has been di rector of the Course ofPost Graduate Study for the American Medical Assoc iation . His fraternal affi liations alsoextend to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows . In evidence o f the confidence in whichhe is held by his fellow townsmen is the factthat he has served as health offi cer of BowlingGreen .

Dr. Blackburn was married on May 20,

1904,the lady who presides over h is household

having been M iss Bess Hatcher . Mr s . Blackburn is the daughter Of a physician , her father

, Dr . Wi ll iam E . Hatcher , who died in1884,

having practiced in Bowl ing Greentwenty-five years ago, in which time he cameto occupy a posit ion of much prominence . Hewas a native Tennesseean .

PROFESSOR MCHENRY RHOADS, superintendent Of schools , Owensbo ro , Kentucky , wasborn in Muhlenberg county

,Kentucky , July

27, 1858 . Absalom J . Rhoads , his father , wasborn in the same county , and the latter

’s father

,Solomon Rhoads , was born on the same

farm that was the scene of his son’s nativity .

Henry Rhoads,Solomon ’s father

,a na t ive of

Germany,came to America in Colonial days

and settled in Bedford county , Pennsylvania .

He was a soldier in the patriot army in theRevolutionary war and as a reward for gallant serv ice received a grant of land ; and afew years after peace was establ i shed came toKentucky and l ived a while near the presents ite of Calhoun in McLean county . Learningthat another had a prior claim to the land thathe selected there he went to a spot within thepresent l imits of Muhlenberg county and byvi r tue Of his land warrant secured a tract oftimber land

,where he bui lt a cabin and began

at once to open a farm in the wi lderness .

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When the county was organized he was electedits first representat ive to the state legis lature .

He had the honor , also , of bestowing upon thecounty the name by which it has taken i tsplace in hi story . I t was chosen in complimentto General Muh lenberg, h is commander in theRevolutionary war. He made a fine farmproperty there and lived out h is days on i t .He married Miss El izabeth Stone r , a nat i veo f Maryland . The farm passed to Professo rRhoads ’ grandfather, who was a li fe-long resident on i t . He married Rachel Boone Johnson

,a cousinof Daniel Boone

’s . Their son ,Professor Rhoads ’ father , inherited the homestead and prospered on it all his l i fe as a farmer and stockman , dying February 8, 1888.

He married Tabitha Rice Dennis , born nearGreenvi lle , Muh lenberg county , a daughter ofAbraham Dennis . She , too , i s dead Shereared th ree children , named respectively ,Ammie Rhoads

,McH enry Rhoads and Wi ll

iam A . Rhoads . Ammie married Stephen F .

Follen,of Logan county , Kentucky .

McH enry Rhoads attended publ ic schoolsin Muhlenberg county and later was a studentat the West Kentucky College . He began hiscareer as a teacher in a district school nearSacramento

,McLean county , then taught sev

en years in Hart fo rd College . We next findhim instal led as superintendent of schools ofthe city of Frankfort . After nine years success there he resigned the office to becomesuperintendent of the publ ic schools ofOwensboro

,where he has labored efficiently

and eff ectively for a decade .

Mr . Rhoads married M iss Ree Craw ford in1887 . She was born at Mi llwood , Graysoncounty

,Kentucky . a daughter of Benj amin F .

and America ( Stinson ) Crawford , and hasborne her husband ch ildren as follows :Crawford

,Way land

,Annie Laurie , George

Will iam,and Robert and Raymond , twins .

He is interested in many d irections and i s aotive in the work of his po l it ical pa r ty . As amember of the bo ard of d irectors of the Kentucky State Pyth ians ’ Home for Orphans andWidows he has to do in an influential waywith a beneficence of importance . He is amember of Star Lodge , Knights of Pythiasand he and Mrs . Rhoads are communicantso f the Walnut Street Baptist church ofOwensboro .

JOHN S . COCANOUGH ER .— In bo th the pa

ternal and maternal l ines the subj ect of thisreview is a scion of old and honored fami l iesof Wash ington county , where he was born andreared and where he has found ample scopefor productive effort in connection with the

great basic industries of agriculture and stock

growing. He has superv i s ion of the operation

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of the fine Old homestead farm which was theplace o f his birth and is one of the well knownand highly esteemed citizens of his nativecounty .

John S . Cocanougher was born on the oldhomestead that i s sti ll hi s place of abo de andthe date o f h i s nativity was August 19,

1878.

His father,the late John Cocanougher , was

born on the same farmstead,which is attract

ively s ituated on Long Run , and here he devo ted h i s entire active career to agriculturalpursuits , in connection with which he gaineda full measure of success . He was born on the

3d of March , 183 1 , and was sixty-two yearso f age at the time of h is death , which o c

curred in 1893 . He was a man whose l i fe was

guided and governed by the h ighest principleso f integr i ty and honor , and thus he was notdenied the j ust reward o f popular app roba

tion,wh ich i s ever the metewand of character .

Though no t formally identified with any r e

ligious bo dy he attended and liberally suppo rted the Baptist church and his faith wasin harmony with i ts teachings . His widow haslong been a devoted member of the Methodistchurch at Plea sant Run. He was a staunchadvocate o f the principles of the Democratic

party and took an intell igent interest in the

questions and issues of the hour and in localaffairs o f a public o rder , though he neversought or desi red polit ical office . At the timeo f the C iv i l war his sympathies and aid were

given to the cause of the Confederacy , thoughhe did no t enter the mil itary service . He waswell known in his native county and his manygenerous attributes Of character gained to himthe loyal friendship of all who came withinthe sphere of his personal influence . His widow. whose maiden name was Emily Canaryand who sti ll resides on the old homestead ,endeared to her by the gracious memories andassociations o f the past

,was bo rn in Washing

ton county,on the 25th of July , 1834, and is

a daughter of Abraham and Pboebe (Hodges )Canary

,bo th of whom passed their enti re lives

inWash ington county , where they held secureplace in the regard of all who knew them .

The marriage of Mr . and Mrs . Cocanougherwas solemnized on the 1 2th of March , 1857 ,and concerning their ten ch ildren the fo l lowingbrief data are given : Thomas is a resident ofPerryville , Boyle county ; Phoebe is the wi feof George Glascock

,of Marion county ; Mollie

is the wife of Josep h Begley , of Texas , Washlugton county ; Elizabeth is the wi fe of M .

C. Willhi te , of Danville , th is state ; Margaretis the wife of Lee Cochran

,of Marion county ;

William R a success ful farmer of Washington county , i s individually mentioned On otherpages of this work ; Fannie is the wi fe of

Will iam A rnold,of Boyle county ; Lu la is the

wi fe o f Hanson Robinson , of Wash ingtoncounty ; Lena is the widow of James Murpheyand resides in Washington county ; and JohnS . is the immediate subj ect of this review .

John S . Cocanougher was reared to maturityon the home farm and is indebted to the public schoo ls o f his native county for his ea rlyeducational discipl ine . As an independentfarmer he has well upheld the prestige of thefami ly name and he has gained prestige asone of the enterpris ing

,progressive and s uc

cess ful agriculturists and stock-growers ofWashington county , where h is sincerity anduprightness have retained to him the inv io lable esteem of the community that has everrepresented h is home . Though no t imbuedwith any ambition for public offi ce he gives astaunch a l legiance to the cause of the Democratic party and is ever ready to give his influence and co-operation in support of measures and enterprises proj ected for the generalgood of the community . He has operated theo ld home farm since 1893 and has kept thesame up to the highest standard of productiveness and thri ft.

On the 9th of December , 1896, Mr . Cocanoughe r was united in marriage to Miss JosieHarding, who was born in Taylor , Marioncounty , th is state , and who is a daughter ofI saac and Elizabeth (Carter ) Harding. Mr s .

Cocanougher came to Washington countywhen a child and was reared to maturity inthe home of her si ster , Nannie , wi fe of JamesCoyel , where she remained until her marr iage . She i s a member of the Baptist church .

Mr . and Mrs . Cocanougher became the parents o f seven children , of whom s ix are living, their names , with respective dates ofbirth , being here entered : Gilbert , November4,

1898 ; Iva . April 19 , 190 1 ; Hart ford , January 3 1 . 1903 ; Tommie , Apri l 2 , 1905 ; Truman

,February 1 1

,1907 ; and Robert , Apri l 5 ,

JAMES H . HALL — For nearly three quarters of a century the Hall plow has been tothe south what the McCo rmick reaper hasbeen to the west ; typica l of a long-standingindustry , which spells enterprise , honor andfinancial solidi ty . The founder of the JamesH . Hall Plow Company

,of cosmopolitan

fame , partook of the racial qual ities of hi sI rish father , Samuel Hall , and of his Sco tchmother

,Isabelle (Huston ) Hall , and was

there fore a man of intense action as well asof staying qualities ; he has handed down hischaracter to h is sons and grandsons and to thevery nature of the company which they dominate .

James H . Hall was a nat ive of Allegheny

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party and he holds membership in the Baptistchurch . He is affi l iated with the Masonic fraternity , and he also holds membersh ip in theMaysville lodges of the Knights of Pyth ias ,Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Benevo lent and Protective Order of Elks . Heis well known in his native county and herehis c ircle of friends is coinc ident with that o fh is acquaintances . He is an aggressive andupright business man and has achieved success worthy o f the name . In addition to otherinterests he is a member of the directorate ofthe First National Bank of Maysville .

On the 8th of November, 1888 , was re

corded the marriage of Mr . Parker to MissMoll ie Piper

,who was born at Mays Lick ,

Mason county , on the 3 i st of January , 1866,and who is a daughter of the late Samuel A .

and Ellen (Fitzgerald ) Piper , both of whompassed thei r entire l ives in Kentucky . M r .and Mrs . Parker have two sons ,— Preston P .

and Samuel A . , both of whom a re stil l at theparental home and j ust out of school .H ON . JAMES NICHOLAS KEHOE , of Mays

ville , Kentucky , president of the StandardBank o f that c i ty

,ex-congressman from the

ninth district o f Kentucky , and president ofthe Kentucky Bankers Assoc iat ion

,i s a man

who is known the length and breadth of theBlue Grass state as a financ ier

,banker and

statesman , and a man who se support i s evergiven to those causes l ikely to result in theattainment o f the greatest amount of goodto the greatest number . He is a native son ofMaysvil le , his birth having occurred w i th inthe city ’s bo rders July 1 5 , 1862 , and he i s theyoungest child o f James and Nor a (Conroy )Keho e , deceased . Both the father and mothero f Mr . Kehoe had thei r bi rth in the EmeraldIsle , where they were married and came tothe conclusion to try a hazard o f new fo rtunesacross the seas . They sailed in 1847 ,

makingthei r first location at New Orlean s and coming thence to Lew is county

,K entucky

, and

short ly therea fter remov ing to Maysville , Kentucky . which has ever since been the homeo f the family . H i s father was a Union soldierand went fo rth to do ba ttle fo r his countryshortly a fter the bi rth o f his youngest child

,

the subj ect o f th is biography , and he lo st h isl i fe in that cause . but the mo ther surviveduntil 1895 . The fo l low ing is an enumera tiono f the child ren bo rn to this wo rthy coup le :Ma ry became the w i fe o f J . T . Harahan

.

P resident o f the I ll ino is Central Ra i l road .

H e r demise o ccurred abo ut the year 1900 .

Thoma s i s lo ca ted at Knoxvi lle,Tennessee .

where he i s engaged in the ma rble manu fac

turing business . Will iam J . was private secretary and is now executo r o f the late John G .

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Carl isle,Secretary o f the Treasury under

Cleveland . Mr . Carl is le appointed him h i s

sole executor . without bond , an eloquent test imonial to his worth and evidence of the grea tconfidence reposed in h im by that eminentgentleman . Hon . John Dexter , ex-representa.t ive of Mason county in the Kentucky leg i slaturo ,

and is now in the offi ce of the audito rof the Secretary of State , Washington , D . C . ,

which position he has fi lled for the past twelve

years . M . F .,formerly in the cigar manu

factur ing business at Maysville, i s now ret i redand lives in that c i ty . He was at one t imea member o f Maysv i lle

'

s city council . Dr . H .

C . i s engaged in the practice of hi s professionat Flemingsburg , Kentucky . Jennie i s the

wi fe of Charles F . Reed , a gentleman en

gaged in the insurance business at Maysv ille .

As previously mentioned James N. i s the

youngest of the family . In few famil ies havethe members attained to such general prominonce and success at the K eli oe s , and the namehas come to be one to which high prestigeattaches in Kentucky .

James Nicholas Keho e was reared in the

ci ty in which his eyes first opened to the l ighto f day and his prel iminary education was oh

ta ined in the local schoo ls . H e first engagedin the printing business , at Maysville , but d idno t remain therein long. He read law , a t

Louisville,Kentucky

,with Hargis 8: Easton ,

and was admitted to the bar o f Kentucky bythe Kentucky Court o f Appeals at Frank fo rtin 1887 . He pract iced law at Maysville . K en

tucky , unti l 1890 , and won unusually speedyrecogn i tion

,h is qualifications be ing o f remark

ably high o rder,and in the year mentioned

he was elected to Congress from the Ninthd istrict o f Kentucky . a s a Demo crat . althoughthe d istrict was largely Republican . This wa san unusual hono r to fall upon the shoulder so f so young a man, but Mr . Keho e fulfil ledthe duties of his offi ce with admi rable judgment and d iscretion , and h is two consecutiveterms as a membe r o f the Fi fty- seventh and

Fi fty-eighth Congresses we r e gr eat in result .

He was a member o f the impo rtant commi t teeo f fo reign a ff airs while in Co ngres s . L

'

pon

ret iring from the nationa l legislat ive bo dy heengaged in the banking business a t Maysvi lle .

and has s ince devoted h is enti re a ttention to

this l ine o f endeavo r . and i s at present 19 1 1 l

the pres ident of the Kentucky Bankers A s s o

c ia t ion. H e ha s a lso fil led with d i stinct ion andc red it the po s it ions o f c i ty atto rney o f Mays

vi lle , Master in Chancery o f the Mason Circuit Court and been the precinct . county and

d istrict cha i rman o f hi s po l it ical pa rty . H i s

po l i t ical act ivities at the present t ime a re sub

servient to his bus iness a ffairs . the increasing

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in the local ity and there in due course of t imeOz ias married and the birth of the Major occurred February 10 ,

1 766, in St . Mary’

scounty . His early youth was passed in the

stormy days of the Revolution and althoughhe was very young

,a while be fore its tr ium

phant conclusion he decided that he was o fsuffi cient years to take up arms against Britishinj ust ice . He had the happiness to be in thearmy of the great Washington and he was

p resent at the surrender o f Cornwallis atYorktown in 1782 .

On the sth of January , 1786 ,Major John

Crooke assumed the dignity and responsibil i tyof a married man

,Ann Reeves , a young Mary

land woman,becoming his w i fe . Their union

was blessed by a family of typical pioneerproportions

,th irteen sons and daughters find

ing a shelter beneath thei r roof-tree . Thenames of the family were as follows : Lydia ,Jabez , Sally , Polly , Betsy , John R . , Ol ly , Kiah ,Ozias and Asa

,twins , W i l l iam ,

Franklin andEli . W i th the except ion of two members theenti re family removed to Indiana at an earlyday . Jabez , however , settled in Garrardcounty

,Kentucky

,and Kiah , father of B . F .

Crooke,chose Madison county as hi s perma

nent abiding-place .

Nearly all the children were born in Kentucky

,the emigrat ion having been made only

a year or two a fter the marriage of the Majorand his wi fe . At that . time many surveyo rswere in the state

,which was then a part of

Virginia,surveying out the claims of the Revo

lut ionary soldiers . They were allowed a preemption of one thousand acres and a homestead o f four hundred acres , generally laidout together . Madison was made a countywhile the state was stil l a part of Virginia , in1785 , and James French was the first countysurveyor, holding the offi ce eight years byappointment . K entucky was made a state in1792 and three years later Major John Crookewas elected county surveyor and held the offi ceuntil the year 1847 , a period of fi fty

-two

years,resigning but two years be fore his

death .

Major John Crooke wa s a man o f fine mind ,and for his day and generation he had widein fo rmation . In those days it was the casethat almost all men of some education werecalled upon to teach school and it is notstrange that he had some experience in apedagogical capacity . He also taught numero us young men the art of survey ing, which ,by

-the-way,was one of the chie f accomplish

ments of General Washington . One of thenumerous quaint anecdotes which have beentold of him is tha t whenever a young manwo uld ask h im how far he should be advanced

in mathematics in order to master surveyinghe would answer

,

“Add two and two and put

down four , but do not put down someth ingelse . Which was his way of say ing thatcarefulness and accuracy were the principalrequis ites . When R ichmond was establ ishedas the county seat he la id o ff the city l imits inrectangle and called it the town tract of fi ftyacres . The largest survey on his books wasmade for John Jones for acres aboutthe Three Forks of the Kentucky river . Kentucky at that time , of course , did not have theperfect system of surveying now used in theWest and it was but natural that a gr eat dealo f l it igation arose . Maj or John Crooke wasvery gi fted as a mathematician and he madetables of numbers

,such as the table of Loga

r i thms and Traverse table . He made morethan thirty maps of the different states andterritories . of the United States , Mexico , andso forth . and laid o ff the co unties in goodcolors , all with his pen . He was skil led as arlraughtsman and always used a quill pen.

He made several maps of Madison countywith connected plats of all the lands . He alsosurveyed most of the lands in the early l it igat ions in Madison and other counties . Whenit is remembered that during the t ime that hewas surveyor Madison county extended tothe Virginia l ine on the south s ide of the Kentucky river , i t w il l be easy to bel ieve that heneeded deputies , and a part ia l l ist of them isas follows : James Kincaid , Richard Smith ,

David Will iams , Jones Hoy , George Walker ,James McCo rmick . Daniel Boone , ( youngDaniel ) , Will iam O

’

Rea r , Thomas Moseley .

Thomas Campbel l , Wallace Estill , JosephBarnatt , James Anderson . I rvine Anderson.

John R . Crooke , Kiah Crooke and others .This versat i le pioneer made an arithmetic o fhis own ; understood navigation ; could boxthe compass ; made almanacs and could foretel l the eclipses o f the sun and moon . Latein a certain May on the margin of one o f hi salmanacs he put down

“Frost oppos ite acertain date some t ime in advance . Theweather at that t ime was already quite mild .

At the battal ion muster on the day before thedate he had noted he was rall ied about h isp red ict ion . for it was still warm and equita ble .

Sa id he .“\Yait and see .

$ That evening acloud rolled up from the north and there wasa brisk shower and it cleared o ff cold . Nextmorning , behold $ there was a white frost overeverything. To quote from one of his biograp li er s , He was thenceforth put down asan almanac maker and a sure prophet . $

Major Crooke , Captain John White , andSir John Pa tr ick were a trio o f men who wentabout much together in the various mounta in

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Theta college fraternity . He i s well known inLogan county and h i s sterl ing character andmani fest abil ity have gained to him the un

qua l ified con fi dence and esteem of its people .

On the 8th of October , 1879, Judge Crewdson was united in marriage to Miss Moll iePerkins , who wa s born and reared in Logancounty

,Kentucky

,and who i s a daughter of

the late I . O . Perkins , a na tive of Virgin ia .

Judge and Mrs . Cr ewdson have two children ,Cec ile and Ma ry

,who remain at the parental

home .

REv . H ARRY DENMAN SM i TH ,A . M . ,

A . B .

— A man of broad intell igence and intellectuality , wi th a sympathy for humanity that enables h im to touch the hearts and influencethe l ives of men,

Rev . Harry D . Smith , pastorof the Ninth Street Chri stian church o f Hopk insv i lle

,Kentucky

,i s a success ful laborer in

the Master ’s vineyard and a citizen of worth .

A son of Philander Sm ith,he was born Janu

ary 22 , 1866 ,in H ami l ton

,Mi ssouri .

Philander Smith was a student and later ateacher in Indiana , near Indianapo l is , prior tothe breaking ou t o f the Civil wa r . Off eringhi s services then to his country , he enl i stedin Company B . E ighth Indiana Vo lunteer Infantry . and as captain o f hi s company foughtuntil the clo se o f the confl ict . H is wi fe

,whose

ma iden name was Sarah A . A llee , was alsoa native o f Indiana .

Rece iv ing the rudiments o f h i s education inthe public schools of Marshall

,Missouri

,

Harry D . Smith continued his studies at HaysCity , Kansas . and in Kansas City . Wishingto further advance his knowledge

,he subse

quently attended the Univers ity of M issouri,

and in 1887 was graduated from the Univers ity o f Kansas with the degree of A . B . Hehas also been honored with the degree of A .

M which was con ferred upon him by Transylvania University , of Kentucky . For fouryea rs after h i s graduation Mr . Smith hadcharge o f the Christ ian church at Olathe Kansas . He was next called to Kansas C ity

,to

the \Vest S ide Ch rist ian church,from there

go ing to Eureka Springs,Arkansas

,thence to

Ma rshall . Missouri , where he became pastorof the Christi an church

,and from there went

to Kansa s City to become secretary of theBo a rd o f Fo reign Missions .In 1896 Mr . Smith assumed the pasto rate

of the Christian church at Hopkinsvil le,

where he has since remained , h is work in th iscapac ity having been especially success fuland e ffectua l . Under his ministry the member sh ip of the church has been increased to

eight hundred . while the Sunday-school connected w ith it has been greatly enlarged

. the

number o f i ts members when he came here

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.having been but one hundred , while now it

has an average a ttendance each Sunday o f

three hundred and fi fty pupils . He has astrong influence for goo d with the boys o fhis church

,for whom he has o rganized a

lodge , hi s work fo r the moral and mental betterment o f the young attracting the attentionand winning the approval of the publ ic .

Mr . Smith i s a frequent contr ibutor to

church magazines,and has an offi cial connec

tion w ith two of Kentucky ’s educat ional inst itut ions , being an o ccasional lecturer at theCollege o f the Bible in Lexington and a t rustee , a member of the Faculty and a lecturer o fMcLean College , his lectures being on Christ ian Ev idences and Philo sophy . He is a lsopres ident of the American Christian Missionary Soc iety and a d i rector o f the ForeignChrist ian Mi ss ionary Soc iety . Mr . Smith i sa member o f the Phi Gamma Delta Fraterni ty ,

o f the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Athenzeum Club of Hopkinsv il le . Pol itically he casts his vote in favoro f the men he deems best qual ified fo r ofli ce .

regardless of pa rty afli l iations .

Mr . Smith married , October 29 , 1890 ,Lucy

M . Christy , daughter o f Samuel A . Christy .

M . D . . a prominent phys ician o f Ohio,and

they have one child ,Christy Allee

,who was

born August 27 , 1895 , and i s now a pupil inthe Hopkinsville public schools .GEORGE EDWARD GARv .

— Prominent amongthe leading citizens o f Christian county i s

George Edward Gary , an energet ic,industri

ous and progress ive man who . by his superiormanagement and business abil ity , has createdfor h imsel f an h onored name and posit ion inthe mercantile circles o f Hopkinsville . h i shome city . A son of John Chambers Gary

,

he was bo rn September 22. 1858 , on a farmlying five miles south of Hopkinsville . H is

great-grandfather , Robert Semple Gary,

bravely endured the hardships of war duringthe Revo lut ion

,spending the winter of 1 777

1 778 at Valley Forge with Wash ington’

s

Army . The Garys are descended from Robe r t Bruce o f Scotland .

Born in Buckingham county,Virginia

,Jan

uary 16 , 1824. John Chambers Gary spent h i searly l i fe in h is na t ive state . About 1837 hecame to Kentucky , and was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Christ ian county duringthe remainder o f h is active l i fe . He marriedEl iza Stubblefield Clark . one of whose ances

to rs . Co lonel Geo rge Stubblefield equipped acompany of soldiers for service in the Revolutiona ry wa r at h i s own expense . He hadfive children : Mary . John , Rober t , Emmaand George .

Brought up on the home farm,George Ed

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his father ’s ofl'

i ce,where he not only had the

benefit o f the elder 's enlightened tutelage , butalso

,with in its portal s , came into contact with

some of the mo st no ted men in the state . I tis an eloquent commentary upon his nativeabil ity and power of applying himsel f thatwhen he was eighteen

,he success fully passed

the required examination and was admittedto the bar . He elected to make Lebanon thescene o f his act ivities , has rema ined therethroughout the ensuing years and has , in a

measure,taken the place in the pro fess ion

fi l led by his honored father be fore h is demisein 1900 . He has practiced law continuously ,and has been prominently identified w ithmuch l it igation in both the civil and criminalclasses , h is care fulness , great resource , logi cand rheto ric having won for h im a large clientele and numerous successes .

As a wri ter Mr . Russell po ssesses remarkable gi fts , and he has devoted no little of h i stime and attention to l iterary and edito rialwork . He is editor of the Finger Tip indexesto the ‘Statutes ( 1903 edit ion ) , Constitution ,Civil Code of Pract ice

,of Kentucky

,which

,

although but l ittle thoughts , were endorsedby the Court of Appeals o f Kentucky , ExGovernors J . Pro ctor Kno tt

,James B . Mc

Creary and W . O . Bradley . together w i thother prominent lawyers o f the state . whenthey issued in 1906 . He i s the o rigina to r o fthe Gener ic Class ificat ion o r EncyclopediacStatutory System

,and the compiler of the

Statutes of Kentucky Systematized and Ao

no tated , ed it ion o f 1909 ( publ ished by JamesE . Hughes , Lexingt on , Kentucky ) , which hecompleted in Febr uary o f that year . afterthree years of care ful labo r . 5 0 wel l wasthis work rece ived by the profess ion at large

,

that Mr . Russel l has rece ived several off ersto compile statutes for other states . Ano therevidence of h igh standing i s the fact that hehas been lecturer be fore the law departmentof Central Universi ty o f Danville , Kentucky .

His lecture del ivered there on “The StatuteLaw and H ow to Find It $ was printed in full

,

and was favo rably commented on by severalpopular law j ournals of America .

‘

Mr . Rus

sell i s now annotat ing the Iowa Repo rts,

which work will be in eight vo lumes . and i s

being publ ished by T . H . Floo d 81 Co . , o f

Chicago , Ill inois . The fi rst volume Of th is .

h i s last and best . wo rk i s already in use and

ha s met w i th the approva l o f the bench and

ba r of Iowa .

In the matter o f poli tical conviction Mr .Russell i s a Demo crat . He i s no t

,however .

active in polit ics , giving the question only theconsideration o f the intell igent vo ter . Anycause or pro j ect like ly to resu lt in benefit to

the whole o f soc iety i s sure to find his suppo rt and h is influence in civ ic ma tters i s byno means s l ight . He i s a member of the R0

man Cathol ic Church . Mr . Russell i s un

married .

WALTER J . H ILLS .—A real rai lroad man i s

bo th born and made ; he must have the requ isite traits o f pe rsistency

,original ity , shrewd

ness and ‘executiveness , and it is necessaryalso that he should have the training bo th to

test and to develop these qualit ies . Tried bythese standards . “falter J . Hills , superintendent o f the Nashville , Chattanooga andLouis Railroad . w i th headqua rte rs at Paducah ,

i s an ideal railroad offi cial . A native o f

Michigan , born on a farm near Detroit , in theyear 1860 , he i s a son o f Will iam D . and Bett ie H . (Henderson ) Hills . He received bo tha common and a high-school education in the

capi tal city , and continued also the inv igo r ating work o f the farm until he had attained h i sma j o rity . From the Detroit h igh schoo l heentered the Univers ity o f Michigan , at AnnArbo r. and pursued the higher courses in thatinstitution for two years .

At this point in his l i fe Mr . Hills w i sely dec ided that hi s true course bo re in the direct io nof pract ical wo rk connected with rail roading .

H is first venture into the broad field o f h i s

cho ice was as telegraph operator and s tat io nagent o f the Mich igan Central Railroad at

Lapeer , that state , and he held that po s it io nuntil 188 1 , when he j oined the fo rce o f theChicago , Burlington 8: Quincy as t rain des

pa tcher at McCook ,Nebraska . A fter e ight

years O f use ful experience and train ing in thatcapac i ty he came to Paducah in the ro le o f

railroad builder . and during the succeed ings ix years demonstrated tha t he could extendl ines w ith the same precis ion and thoroughness tha t he could d ispa tch the tra ins o ver theso l id roadbeds .

During this period o f h i s career Mr . H i l lswas engaged in building the Paducah , Tennessee 81 Alabama , and the Tennessee 81 Midlandl ines

,and continued with the system unt il

1895 . He then assumed the management o f

the Paducah,Tennessee

,Alabama 8: Midland .

and , th rough successive trans fers of the proper ty . reta ined the superintendency o f th eNashville . Chattanooga 81 St . Lo uis system .

All these years h i s home has been in Paducah .

where he has become h ighly hono red no t onlyfo r h is abil it ies and probity as a leader in th efield o f southern ra il ro ading. but as a cit izeno f enterprise and broad use fulness . He i spres ident o f the Paducah Bo a rd of Educat ionand one o f the high -degree Masons of thec i ty . His affi l ia tio n w i th tha t o rder includesmembership in Plain City Lo dge . No . 449. A .

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spi ri t which is a dominant factor in producingthe development of a country . He is a man

o f keen discrimination and sound j udgmentand h is execut ive abil ity and excellent management have brought to any concern withwhich he i s connected 3 large degree o f success . Mr . Friedman was one of the principalo rganizers of the Paducah Tract ion Company ,and on its o rganization was elected presidento f the company , which posit ion he now holds .He was one o f the principal organizers o f thel ’a lmer Hotel Company and is st ill servingas its president . This hotel is one o f thefinest and best equipped in th is part of Kentucky . Mr . F r iedman has been a director inthe City Nat ional Bank for several years andnow is i ts vice-president . This bank is si tuated on the corner of Fourth and Broadway

,

i s a ten story building , w i th vaults that arethe second o f their kind in the state . Insho rt . Mr . Friedman has connected h imse l fwi th every enterprise of importance in Paducah . H e is pre-eminently a man of aff airs ,well fitted fo r leadership . and his strong andfo rce ful persona l ity

,h i s keen mental discern

ment and his high ideals of l i fe have madehim at once a power in bus iness ci rcles and ino ther circles as wel l .He i s a prominent Mason , be ing a member

of Plain City Lodge and of Paducah Chapter ,No . 30, R . A . M . He is also a member ofB . P . O . E . Mr . Friedman has a beauti fulres idence The Pines $ — about three mi les inthe country .

SAMUEL HOWARD R IDGWAY,M . D .

— A

care ful,skil ful and progressive phys ician o f

Shepherdsville,Samuel Howard Ridgway

,M .

D occupies an assured position in the medical fraternity of Bull itt county and i s emimontly deserv ing of the success which he hasattained as a pract i tioner . A son of JamesW . Ridgway , a venerable resident of Shephe rdsv i lle , he was born March 24,

1872 , inBull itt county

,not far from Cupio . He is of

Virginia ancestry,his grandfather , \Vi ll iam

Ridg way,and h i s great-grandfather

,Samuel

Ridgway , having both been natives o f Virgin ia . Brought up in Virgi nia , Samuel R idgway migra ted from there to K entuckv in an

early period of i ts settlement , becoming oneo f the origi nal householders of Bull itt county .

Buying a tract of t imber lying s ix milesno rtheast o f the site o f the present courthouse . he erected a log cabin for the use ofhimse l f and family

,and from the dense for

est hewed a farm , which he operated withslave labor . There he l ived and labored manyyears , passing away at the age o f seventy-fiveyears , leaving two sons . Joseph and Will iam .

Will iam Ridg way was probably born in

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Virgin ia , although his bi rth may have oc

curred after the removal of the family to

Bullitt county . He assisted his father as soonas old enough in the pioneer work of clearinga homestead , and as a young man was gi venby h is father a deed to a portion o f the parenta l acres . On th is land , ly ing six milesfrom Shepherdsville , he continued his caree ras a general farmer and stock-rai ser unti l h i sdeath , at the age of seventy-five years . H e

married,August 22

,1805 , Nancy Wells , who

spent her enti re l i fe o f three score and ten

years in Bull itt county . To them ten childrenwere born , all o f whom were trained to the

habits o f indust ry and honesty .

Bo rn in Bull itt county,Kentucky

,July 3 1 ,

1827 . James W . Ridgway was reared to agricultural pursuits and early selected farmingas his l i fe occupation . When ready to settlein l i fe he bought land near West Point

,and

there , until 1902 , was dil igently engaged inimproving h is property , continually add ing to

i ts value and attractiveness . From 1902 un

ti l 1904 he occupied the farm which he hadprev iously purchased . e ight miles below Shepherdsv i lle. on Salt river, but s ince that timehe has l ived reti red in Shepherdsville . H e

has been married four times . He marriedfirst , at the age of twenty-four years , Margaret Bra shear , who was born in Bull itt county . Kentucky . a daughter of Ro

'

bert and Betsey (Unsel ) Brashear , natives of Bardstownand descendants , respectively , of German and

French ancestors . She died in 1883 ,leaving

eight children , namely : Nannie,Will iam

,

George,Ben , Robert , Augustus , Samuel ,

Howard and Lindsey . James W . Ridgwaymarried fo r h i s second wi fe Henrietta Nicholson a cousin of his first wi fe . She wa sborn in Bardstown

,Nel son county

,Kentucky

,

and died on the home farm in Bull itt countyin 1896. leaving one chi ld , Thomas Ridgway .

Mr . Ridg way was married the th i rd time toMr s . Nannie H a rshfield and the fourth timeto Mrs . Ma l inda Hardy , both of whom we reborn in Bull itt county and are buried in Bull itt

.

county . No children were born to theseun ions .

James W . Ridgway is a member of theMethodist Ep i scoal church . Politically he casth i s first pres idential vote for General $ acha ryTaylor , and i s now a stanch suppor ter of th eprinc iples of the Democ ratic party

,being one

o f its oldest voters . He is a member of Bull itt Lodge . No . 1 55 , A . F . 81 A . M .

,and is th e

so le surv ivor now . in 19 10. of the one hundred members belonging to that o rganizationwho fi rst united with it .Samuel H . Ridg way rece ived his element

a rv education in the public schools , afte r

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two sons and a daughter has blessed th is union ,thei r names be ing Frederick J. . Wil l iam H .

and Frances Margaret . Mr . Bockmon’

s fraternal asso ciat ions are with the IndependentOrder of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent andProtecti ve Order o f Elks . H i s political alle

giance is given to the Democratic par ty .

JOHN G . MATTHEWS — Among the prominent captains of industry in the old B lue Grasscommonwealth Colonel John G . Matthewsholds prestige as a business man whose gigantic transact ions have ever been characterizedby square and straight forward methods andas one whose success is on a parity with hiswell di rected endeavors . An attorney by profession, he has not confined his attention tothe practice of law but has directed his ener

gi es along mining and banking enterprises aswell . H e i s widely renowned as a bri ll iantbu siness man and as a citizen who i s deeplyand s incer elv interested in the general wel fareof his home state .

Colonel John G . Matthews , of Barbourvil le ,was born in thi s city on the 2nd of June

,1864,

and he is a son of William J . and Ellen (Eve )Matthews . Joe Eve , Benj amin Eve and JohnBarbour ( for whom the town was named ) emigrated to Kentucky from Virginia in 179 1 , andthey laid o ff the town of Barbourville in th irtys ix lots , each lot containing two hundred andfi fty acres— the original plot of the ci ty . El

len Eve and her brother , Colonel John G .

Eve , were c lassmates of James A . Garfield ,hav ing attended school at Blue Lick Springswhen James G . Blaine taught there . Will iam

J . Matthews , father of the Colonel , was bo rnat Castle Quarlton , county Donegal , I reland ,on the 20th of June , 1832, and he came toAmerica in 1839, when a ch ild o f but sevenvea r s of age , in company with his grandfather,John Matthews

,his father having died some

years previously . Settlement was made atManchester , in Clay county , Kentucky , wherethe grandfather was summoned to the li feeternal . William J . Matthews was rear ed toadult age in Clay county and as a young manhe moved to Knox county , where wa s 501

emnized his ma rriage and where he lived unti lh is death , in 1877 . He was for a number ofyears engaged in the hotel business at Barbourville and he also traded in stock and conducted a dry-good s business . H e was a consistent member of the Christian church , a l

though h i s forefa thers had been connectedw i th the P resbyterian church .

Ellen Eve . mother of h im to whom th issketch i s dedica ted , was born November 16,

1828 , and she died September 20,1893 , at

Johnson City , Tennessee . She wa s affi l iated

with the Christian church and paid one-half thecost of the first church of that denominationat Barbourvi lle . She was a daughter of Benjamin and Frances T . (Banton ) Eve , the lattero f whom was a daughter of John T . Banton , ofScotch-Irish parentage . Benj amin Eve cameto Barbourv i lle in 179 1 , as already noted , andhe was an hotel man and a merchant by oc

cupation. He was widely renowned as anarbitrator

,many cases having been brought

to him for settlement . He died on October 24,1860 . He never accepted any publ ic offi ce ,though he was frequently urged to do so , buthis brother Joe was the first state senatorand the fi rst circuit j udge of the district . JoeEve was an intimate friend of Justice Millerand former Governor Woodson

,of Missouri .

Ellen (Eve ) Matthews was a c lassmate ofJoseph Bal linger, uncle o f

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Ex-SecretaryBall inger and Mrs . Ballinger was a bridesmaid at her wedding. She was educatedat Georgetown and Lancaster

,Kentucky , and

had a very wide ci rcle of fr iends in the central section of the state . Will iam J . and El

len (Eve ) Matthews became the parents offive children— three sons and two daughters .Benjamin S i las is a farmer and trader at Barbourv i lle ; Georgie died in girlhood ; Dr . VVi ll iam J . i s a prominent physician and surgeonat Johnson C ity , Tennessee ; Bettie Frances i sthe wi fe of Thomas J . Cox , of Johnson City ,

Tennessee ; and John G . i s the immediate subj cet o f th is review .

A fter completing the curriculum of the publ ic schools o f Barbourville Colonel John G .

Matthews was matriculated as a student inMilligan Co l lege , at Mi l l igan , Tennessee , inwhich excellent inst itution he was enrolled fora period of two years , at the expiration o f

which he attended Vanderbilt Univers ity . a t

Nashville , Tennessee , in the law departmento f which wel l ordered institution he wa s

graduated as a member of the class of 1887 .

duly receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws .

He was admitted to the bar of Kentucky inSeptember

,1887 , and wa s engaged in the ac

t ive practice o f h is profession at Barbourv il leuntil 1905 , in wh ich year he wa s forced to giveup the bulk of hi s practice in o rder to devo tehis attent ion to h i s varied business aff a i rs .

which had al ready assumed gigantic proportions . H e served as county a ttorney o f Knoxco unty , having been elected to that importanto ffi ce for the first t ime in August , 1889 . and

remaining incumbent thereo f fo r a period o fnine years in all . H e also served two terms

a s city atto rney o f Barbou rville and at one

time was c ity treasurer o f Barbourville . H e

has been secretary o f the board o f directo rs

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were al so of his planning and execution ; in a

word and in truth , be .was a man who in everyundertaking of l i fe put his strong hand to the

p low and never knew the meaning of“ turning

back .

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naturally honored withno t a few public evidences of the general confi dence in which he was held . From earlymanhood he had been an act ive suppo r ter ofthe Democ ratic party , often served on its var ious committees , and for two terms , sevenyears in all

,performed the duties of the Mad

i son county shrieval ty with impartial ity andfearlessness . His long identification withM asonry at K i rksvi lle and Richmond resultedi n h is advancement to the Knight Templar de

g ree , his membership with the commanderyo f the order being a t the latter place .

M r . S immons ’ first marriage was to MissMary Dej a rnett , who at her death le ft sev

e ral children , th ree of whom reached maturity . O f these George Dej arnett Simmons isnow a leading hardware dealer of Richmond ,member of the firm of Douglas , Simmons andDeatherage ; Wi ll iam Phelps S immons i s amanufacturer of fert il izers at Jacksonville,F lorida ; and Patsy is sti ll l iving at the oldh omestead with her step-mother , the surviv ingw idow .

On the 24th of October , 1884, Mr . S immonsw edded as his second wi fe Miss Ann El izabethA rnold , daughter of John and Mary (W ill is )A rnold . She was born on the Buckeye p ike ,i n Garrard county

,Kentucky , and was reared

o n her father ’s plantation near Kirksv ille .There John Arnold died in 1889 , aged sixtyfou r , while h is widow survived until February2 ,

19 10 ,when she passed away in her eighty

second year .The children born to Mr . S immons

’ secondma rriage with M iss Ann E . Arnold were asfo l lows : James Mccreary Simmons residingo n the o ld homestead with his widowedmo ther , is h is father

’s successor in farmingand l ive stock operations . He was named inho nor of Hon . James B . McCr ea ry , ex-governo r and United States senator o f K entucky ,be tweeen whom and his father exi sted a warmf r iendship o f many years ’ duration . (For bio g raphy of James McCr ea ry , see other pageso f th is history . ) A rnold Simmons , the secondch i ld born to Mr . and Mrs . Josiah P . Simmons . i s a mechanical eng ineer connected withthe American Ca r and Foundry Company ofBe rwick . Pennsylvania . having in his younger

years comp leted three years of the navalco urse at Annapoli s . J . P . Simmons . Jr i s as tudent at Stetson Univers i ty . Deland . Flori da .

where h is uncle , T . E . Arnold . i s busv as

a promo ter of the town and vicinity ; Ceci lVol . 111— 1 2

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and Robert F . are pupils at the Eastern K entucky State Normal Schoo l at Richmond .

JOHN A . MERSHON is a prominent cit izenat Richmond , Kentucky , and he served witheffi ciency for seven years as deputy marshaland as marshal in Mad i son county from 1879to 1887 . He is a man imbued with that strongloyalty and public spi rit so characterist ic o f

Kentuckians , and during his enti re l i fe he hasso conducted h imself as to command the confidence and esteem of all with whom he has

come in contact . He was b orn in Rockcast lecounty , Kentucky , on the i 9th of April , 1857,and i s a son of Andrew J . and Lucretia (Wilson ) Mershon , both of whom were l ikewiseborn in Kentucky

,the former in Garrard

county and the latter in Knox county . The

paternal grandparents of him whose name initiates th is review were John and Talitha ( Buford ) Mershon , both natives of Virginia ,whence they came to Kentucky in an earlyday . The mother was a daughter of Peter G .

Wilson , of Barboursville , Kentucky , he beingo f German parentage and during his l i fe timea fa rmer in Knox county , th is state .

Andrew J . Mershon came to Madisoncounty in Janua ry

,1860,

and he l ived in Kingston for a t ime prior to the inception of theCiv il wa r . He enli sted as a soldier in the Union army and saw much active service . Hewas also a val iant soldier in the Mexican war ,in wh ich he served under “Cerro Gordo$ W i lliams . In the latter struggle he was twicewounded and the copper balls wh ich enteredhis body poisoned his blood and caused h imtrouble during the remainder of h is l i fe . Afterthe close of the Civil war he was elected as aDemo crat , to the state legislature and it i s inte r esting to note that he was the first Demoerat to be elected after the Reconstructiondays . He was very active in the legi slature ,was a fine speaker and was a potent influencefor good in the deliberat ions of the House .

His opponent in the race for elect ion was

George W . Ballew and the ensuing campaignwas one of the most exciting in the history o f

the county . In 1866 Mr . Mershon settled ona farm th ree miles distant from R ichmond .

where he resided for three years . establi sh inghi s home in Richmond in 1860. He co n t inuedto l ive at Richmond until hi s death . wh ich oc

cu rred ou the 6th of Octobe r . 1887 From1869 until 187 1 he served as city marshal . during the period of turbulent fact ional fights .

He was a prominent Mason in K entuckv . H i s

cherished and devoted wi fe . who long surv ivedhim . passed to her reward on the 24th o f Feb

rua ry . 1908 . Mr . and Mr s . And rew T. Mer

shon became the parents of four children .

namely,— John A the immed iate subject o f

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1872 ; Emily J. ,born April I I

,1855 , died Octo

be r 19, 1906 ; John W . i s the immediate sub

ject of th is review ; Lottie M. , born October10

,1858, i s the widow of J . T . Wilson , of

Fleming county ; Ida I rene , bo rn March 30 ,

186 1 , became the wi fe of John Q . Grannis andher death occurred on the 25th of June , 1902Minnie D . ,

born September 24,1863 , was the

wife of Professor R . M . Lee , of Mo refield ,

and she passed away on the 3 1 5 1 of March ,1874 ; James B .

,born December 2,

1865 , married Sall ie Woodyard , of Parkersburg , W

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estVirginia

,and they reside at Avon Park ,

Florida ; they have two children , Robert Byronand Francis ; Lizzie , bo rn August 1 2,

1869 ,died in the same year ; Val ler ia , born November 2

,1870,

died on the 10th of October , 1895 ;she married B . S . Grannis , an atto rney atFlemingsburg

,Kentucky

,and they had two

sons, James K . Grannis , a contractor and

builder in Texas , and Will iam B . Grannis , astudent in the W

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est Virginia Mili tary Institute ; and Will iam H . , Jr .

,bo rn August 1 7 ,

1874,maintains his home at Fl emingsburg,

Kentucky.Will iam H . Sho ckley , Sr . , was one

o f the most substantial cit izens in Flemingcounty and was deeply mourned by a largeci rcle o f relatives and friends at the time ofh i s death , which occurred on the 4th of Janua ry ,

1874.

James B . Shockley , grandfather of JohnWesley Shockley

,was born on ’ the i 6th of

March,1790,

and he died on the 16th ofDecember

,1870 . H i s wi fe , whose maiden

name was Rosina Holland , was bo rn on the2 i st o f February , 1 786, and she passed awayon the i st of February , 1878 . The greatgrandfathe r of John Wesley Shockley wasWill iam B

.Shockley and he was born in Wor

ceste r county , Mary land , whence he immigrated to Kentucky

,with his fami ly , in 1 795 ,

settlement be ing made near what is now knownas Clover Hill , Fleming county . As previouslyno ted .

he was a sai lor prior to coming to Kentucky

.He was twice sh ip-wrecked , the latter

time narrowly escaping with his l i fe . He wasone of the few who had the honor of voting forGeorge Washington for president o f the UnitedStates and he voted at every presidential election down to 1860 ,

when he cast h is last votefor John C

.Breckinridge . He became a mem

ber of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1805and h is home was the home of Methodism inth i s section of Kentucky , he and his son JamesB

.be ing the hosts for all ministers of the

Methodist do ctrines who came to Flemingcounty .

They erected three churches duringthei r l i fetime ; all in the vicinity of Clover Hill ,which was part o f the Shockley estate . Con

cerning the maternal grandparents of John

Wesley Shockley , Wi ll iam Dickey was born inFebruary , 1805 , and he died on the 6th ofMay , 1849. His wi fe

,Mal inda (Quinn )

Dickey , was born on the 27th of June , 1809,a

gc

g

l passed away on the 27th of November,1 2 .

John Wesley Shockley was reared to the

sturdy discipline of the home farm and hesecured h is early educational training in thedistrict school s of his native county . For anumber of years a fter attaining to h is lega lmajori ty he was engaged in agricultural pursuits and in 1889 he turned his attention to thegeneral merchandise business

,cont inuing to be

identified with that l ine of enterprise at Crains ,Kentucky

,for the ensuing nine yea rs . In 1898

he located on his present fine farm of seventyfive acres in Fleming county , near Ewing,where he is engaged in divers ified farming and

the raising of live s tock . He breeds horses,mules

,Poland China hogs , regi stered St . Lam

bert Jersey cattle and Shropshire sheep . Inhis pol it ical convict ions Mr . Shockley endorsesthe cause of the Democratic party and whi lehe has never had aught of ambit ion for publ icoffi ce of any descript ion he is alert and eu

thus iastica lly in sympathy with all measuresand enterprises proj ected for the good of thegeneral wel fare . In a fraternal way he isafli l iated with the Ewing lodge o f the Independent Order o f Odd Fellows . He is anardent advocate of the doctrines set forth bythe Methodist Ep i scopal church , in whose faithhe was reared .

In November , 1890 ,was recorded the mar

r iage of Mr . Shockley to Miss Kate Whaley ,a daughter of Charles and Nancy ( Potts )Whaley , both of whom are now deceased and

who maintained their home in Bourbon county ,Kentucky

,during much of their l ives . Mr .

and Mrs . Shockley have no ch ildren .

ALE$ ANDER HUNTER , M . D .— Since the year

1869 Alexander Hunter , M . D has ministeredin the capacity o f phys ician and surgeon to theills o f humanity in and about Washington ,Kentucky . For many excel lent reasons he i sworthy of distinction among his fellows andamong these reasons are interest ing familyhistory

,a resume of which opens the pages of

some of the most th ril l ing American h istoryand his own val iant career as a soldier in thewar o f the Rebel l ion . He was born on July26 , 1843 , one and one hal f mi les southwest ofWashington ,

h is parents being David andSel ina A . (Gault ) Hunter . David Hunter wasl ikewise a native son of Kentucky , his bi rthhav ing occurred on the 1 2th day of June , 1802.

in Mason county . about a mile and a hal fsouthwest of the town . The grand father , JohnHunter

, wa s bo rn in the B ritish Isles , and h i s

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tuni ty and sa i led acro ss the Atlantic to find a

new home and comfor table fortunes in theO ld Dominion , where he settled , ma rried andreared a . fami ly . His son , Giles Fagan , camefrom Virginia to Kentucky , as was the fashionof the day

,and located in Maso n county , near

Germantown . He had been living near Har

per’s Ferry and he was identified wi th the early

history of the state of Kentucky . He marrieda M iss B lack

,daughter of Rudolph Black , and

of the two sons born to h im, Edward , thefather of Mr. Fagan , the immediate subject o fth is sketch

,was the younger . The elder

bro ther , Rudolph , passed his l i fe in Brackencounty

,be ing in the real estate and loan busi

ness and he died in the year 1884 at the age

of e ighty-one yea r sx Edward Fagan marriedMary Eleanor Bya r ly , daughter of MichaelBya r ly of Meadvi lle , Pennsylvania , the Bya r lyfamily never having been identified with thehistory o f the Blue Grass state . The father o fthe subj ect was a ski lled mechanic anddraughtsman and a man prominent and es

teemed in the community in which he was bestknown . He and his wi fe gave seven goodcit izens to the state , four of them so ns andthree daughters and the following being anenumeration : George G.

, born in 1848, was afarmer by vocation and res ided in Browncounty , Ohio ; Mary became the wi fe of William Hindeman , of Bellevue , Kentucky ; thesubj ect was the th ird in order of bi rth ; CharlesE born in 1856 , resides in Bracken county ,K entucky ; Asa , born in 1858 , i s a farmer andmakes his home in Bracken county ; MarieLo uise , born in 1862, i s the wi fe of Wi ll iamO . Adkins and a citizen of Covington

,Ken

tucky ; Elizabeth , the youngest chi ld , was bornin 1868 , became the wi fe of R . M . Bell , andresides in Nashvi lle , Tennessee .

As a lad Mr . Fagan attended the dist rictschoo ls and what time he did not spend behinda desk in the schoo l room was devoted to gaining a practical education in the various departments of the agricultural science . On December 9 , 1885 , he establi shed an independenthousehold , the lady to become his wi fe beingMiss Eva Hamilton Griffi th , daughter ofLewis W . and Laura P . (Hamilton ) Griffi th ,of Bracken county , both o f them lately deceased . Four children have come to bless thei runion , as follows : Laura Griffi th , born November 16

,1886 ; Edwin Giles , born January

1,1890 ; John Paul , born June 16th , 1894,

and

Lewis Vincent,born July 26

, 1898 .

As prev iously mentioned , Mr . Fagan wasengaged in the buying of tobacco for th irtyyears

,his dealings be ing in the Cincinnati ma r

ket,but when eff o rts were made to pool the

Burley tobacco he ret ired from the fie ld and

devoted his e ff o rts to general farming andstock-raising, but has since that time re-ente redthe buying field .

His handsome, commodio us home was

erected in 1906 and is modern in every respect .

This abode , the center of gracious hospi tal i ty ,is located on the Germantown and Augu staPike, near the Hillsdale church . The Faganfamily are afli l iated with the Sharon Presbyterian church to whose good measures th ey

gi ve their loyal support . Mr . Fagan is a Democrat, but usually votes for what he cons ide rsthe man best fi tted for the offi ce he seeks .BRENTS DICK INSON .

— Conspicuous amongthe foremost business men of Glasgow , Ba r

ren county , i s Brents Dickinson , of the ente rpris ing firm o f Dickinson Brothers , who i salso agent for the Adams Express Companyat that place and l ikewise for the Standard O i lCompany . He is a fine representa tive of th enative born c iti zens of Glasgow , h is birth ha ving occurred here February 22, 1869 . H i s

parents , Wi l l iam and Elizabeth ( Brent s )Di ckinson

,were born in Barren county

,K en

tucky, where his paternal grandpa rent s,

Thomas C. and Martha V . (Day ) Dickinso n,

of whom a more complete biographical reco rdappears elsewhere in this volume , were p ioneer settlers .William Dickinson was brought up in Ba rren county and completed his early educa tio nat Urania College in Glasgow . When abo u ts ixteen years of age he off ered his serv ices tothe cause of the Con federacy , enl isting as aprivate in Company D , Sixth Kentucky Infantry . Proving himsel f brave and gallant inbattle , he was subsequently promoted fromrank to rank

,and being commiss ioned cap

tain of his company served in that capaci tyunti l the close of the Wa r . Returning then toGlasgow

,he was elected to the offi ce of ci r

cuit clerk of Barren county the ensuing yea r ,and fi lled the offi ce ably and satis factorily fo rs ix years . While thus serving he began reading law with Judge Joseph H . Lew i s , of Glasgow

,and after his admiss ion to the Kentucky

bar was engaged in the practice of his profession for several years , first in Glasgow and

later in Louisvil le . He died in Glasgow , whi leyet in the prime of l i fe , being in the fortyseventh year of his age when called to the

world beyo nd . His wi fe , Elizabeth ( Brents )Dickinson , was a daughter of Samuel W .

Brents , who was clerk of Barren county sev

era l years . She survived him a few yea rs,when she , too , passed to the great unknown .

They were the parents of four children, as

follows : Brents . the special subject o f thissketch ; Will iam D . ; Annie ; and Bartlett G.

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o f whom a brief personal sketch may befound on another page of this volume .

Receiving h is rudimentary education in thep ublic schools of Barren county , Brents Dickinson was graduated from the Glasgow No rmal Schoo l with the class of 1880, and soo na fterward entered the employ of Kilgore

,

Lewis Cockrill , of Glasgow , wi th whom her emained as a clerk until 1885 . From thatt ime unt il 1896, under Captain John Lewis , hewas clerk in the offi ce o f the Adams ExpressCompany at Glasgow . Succeeding in the latter year to the posit ion of his employer , Capta in Lewis , Mr . Dickinson has since servedthe company as its Glasgow agent . In thesame year, 1896, Mr . Dickinson , who had prev iously handled salt , l ime and cement by himse l f, was instrumental in organizing the firmo f Dickinson Brothers

,admitting to partner

sh ip his brothers , Bartlett G . Dickinson andW il l iam D . Dickinson . This firm has sinces teadily increased and extended its operations

,

and now is carrying on a substantial business,

dealing in salt , l ime , cement , hay , grain , flourand coal . These brothers are also profitablyengaged in the manufacture of brick and ti le

,

under the firm name o f the Dickinson Brickand Tile Company , of Glasgow . Mr . D ickinso n is l ikewise interested in the Farmers ’ Nat i o nal Bank of Glasgow , be ing one o f its

d i rectorate .

Mr . Dickinson married, April 26, 1893 , at

E dmonton , Metcal fe county , Kentucky ,the

na tive home of the bride , Elizabeth Reid ,w hose birth occurred January 5 , 1874. Herfa ther , Free l ing Reid , a son of Thomas andA nn (Wren ) Reid , who came from Virginiato Metcal fe county , Kentucky , in pioneer days ,

married Mary C . Clark , whose parents wereal so among the earl ier settlers of that part ofK entucky . The only child of Mr . and Mrs .D ickinson , William Reid Dickinson , was bornFebruary 24, 1894, and is now a student at theCastle Heights Preparatory Institute in Lebanon

,Tennessee . Mr . and Mr s . Dickinson

a re active members of the First Christ ianchurch of Glasgow , and are highly esteemedmembers of the community in whichres ide .

WILLIAM B . SM ITH , cash ier o f the Fi rstNational Bank of Glasgow . Kentucky , is oneo f the progress ive and publ ic-spirited men o f

h is county . He i s a native Kentuckian , bornin Barren co unty October 25 , 1859,

and is theson of H on. Basi l G . Smith . who was also anative o f Barren county

,Kentucky . The

father was born almost within a stone ’s th rowo f the place where he lived and d ied . h i s

bi rthdate be ing April 3 ,1806 . In the days

when the country was new he grew into

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sturdy manhood— a val iant , honorable man .

Among the people with whom he l ived anddied he gathered a good common schoo l education and began l i fe for himsel f, with l ittlesave a strong a im

,a clear conscience , a fine

mind and well ba lanced j udgment . In hi syounger days herds of deer, packs o f wolvesand flocks o f wild turkeys roamed over theland

,while dense cane-brakes yielded abun

dant pasture fo r the one and cove r for all . As

the county settled up the fine qualities o f Mr .Smith attracted the attention they deservedand he came to be regarded as a leader . Probably thirty years o f his l i fe were spent on themagistrate ’s bench , while in 1850 he went tothe legislature

,and again in 1867 and 1868 . I t

was during one o f his terms in the legislaturethat the following faith ful pen picture o f himappeared in a Frank fort paper : “Bas i l G .

Smith,representat ive from the county of Bar

ren , is one of the exemplars o f the House ,whose act ions we would advise many members we might name to imitate , and whoseadvice and g uidance we would advise them toseek . He is a gentleman whose l i fe i s sublima ted by a ripe experience and who has no tl ived and observed in va in The lesson whicha long and varied experience has taught himhas been of infinite service and has been ap

propr iated by him . He is a man of steadyhabits and of remarkably quiet manner ; wearsthe garb and air of a plain Kentucky farmer ,which he is

,though a study of his face and

countenance will.detect an act ive mind , a

quick perception and a ripe experience . Soquiet is he in manner , however , that manywould pass by w i thout remarking his presence .

He is a lways in h i s own place , and , thoughattending with an active interest upon proceedings o f the house , yet his countenance isordinarily calm and exhibiting an immobil i tywhich would lead the casual passer-by to suppose he was unobservant o f what was pass ing .

But let the question come to a vo te and itw i l l at once be perceived that he has the matter fully in hand , and when circumstancesrender i t necessary fo r him to occupy the floorhe makes h is views known w ith a perspicuityand an emphasis which are unlooked fo r .

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Basil G . Smith was tw ice married . H is

first w i fe was Miss Nancy Nuckols , and byher eight children were bo rn to him . H is

seco nd wi fe was Miss Mary Luckett , ofFrank fort

,and by th i s union five children

were born . In the year 1824 or 1825 ,scarcely

a mile from h i s own birthplace , Mr . Smithpurchased himsel f a farm . Here he built h ishome and here reared his family , sending h i sch ildren fo rth to become ho norable and usefulmembers of society . And here in the fullness

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of years and of honor he was at last gatheredfrom the home he had himsel f created to thebosom of the God who had created h im

,dying

August 1 5, 1889 .

Will iam B . Smith , the immediate subj ect ofthis review ,

was the fourth in order of bi rtho f the five children born to the second marr iage of h is father . He was reared on a farmand received h is education in the public schoolso f h is native county and in the Glasgow No rma l Schoo l , graduating from this institutionin 1878 . When sixteen years o f age he beganteaching school , and followed this vocation forsome t ime , teaching during the fall and winter months and attending the normal schooland reading law during the summer . In 1879he passed an examination in law before LewisMcQuoWn and Isaac T . Woo dson and r e

ce ived l icense to pract ice law from JudgeJames Garnett . Soon a fter this

,however

,he

went to Lo ckhart , Texas , where he publi shedthe county newspaper for three years . In1880 Mr . Smith returned to Glasgow and married Miss Annie L . Huggins , daughter of W11

l iam E . and Sall ie (Reynolds ) Huggins . In1883 he removed to Glasgow ,

and in connection with J . M . Richardson

,publ ished the

Glasgow Times for n ine years,he acting a s

business manager . In 1892 he was electedcashier of the Depo s it Bank at Glasgow ,

tosucceed Judge John Ritter , which bank wasthen in the hands of a rece iver . A fter clo s ingup the aff ai rs o f the Deposit Bank in 1892,

hein connection w i th Howe .Ralston and S . T .

Young established the First National Bank ofGlasgow and was elected its cashier

,in wh ich

capacity he has since served . He i s also oneof the stockholders in the New Glasgow Planing Mill Company

,manufacturers of hard

wood flooring, the first to be establ ished inKentucky and one o f the notable industries ofthe state . Mr . Smith is also a stockholder inthe Glasgow Water Company and a stockholder in the Farmers ’ Loose Lea f TobaccoCompany , of Glasgow . He was one o f theincorporators of the First Na t ional Bank o fHorse Cave and is the largest sto ckholder inthat institution .

To Mr . and Mr s . Smith have been born six

children,as follows : Ed H an attorney-at

law at Miami , Oklahoma ; Jennie Jean ; HarryG.

,who is assistant cashier in the First Na

tional Bank of Glasgow ; Sarah Luckett ; H ow

a rd B . ; and Malcolm R . Their home is oneo f the most cultured and attractive in Glasgow . Mr . and Mrs . Smith are members ofthe Baptist church , in which the former hasserved as deacon for the past ten years .

HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS

JOHN C . DUFFY i s a member of the p r o fe ssion that has more prominent actors in the

aff airs of the public than.

any other cla ss i nthe community . This is but the natura l r esu l tof causes which are mani fest and requi r e noexplanation . The abil ity and training w hic hqual i fy one to practice law also quali fy him in

many respects for duties which l ie outside the

strict pa th of h is profession and wh ich to uc hthe general interests o f society . Holdingmarked precedence among the members o f th ebar in Hopkinsv ille i s the subj ect o f ou r

sketch , who for more than fourteen yea rs ha spracticed here

,with constantly grow ing suc

cess and has taken an act ive par t in publ ica ff ai rs .Mr . Duffy was born December 24,

1866 , in

Harrison county, Kentucky , a son of P ete rDuffy

,a merchant and farmer in Phil l ippi ,

West Virginia,and Ma l inda (Harris ) Du ffy .

The father wa s born in county Monaghan ,

I reland,whence he emigrated to th is country

and settled in Virginia in the days prior to the

Civi l wa r . John C . Duffy rece ived his ea rlyeducation in the public schools at Clarksbu rg,

W'

est Virginia,and was graduated in the S ta te

Norma l Schoo l at Glenville , ‘West Virg i n iaHe then attended Peabo dy College and the

University of Nashville,Tennessee , in wh ich

latter insti tut ion he was graduated , duly r e

ce iv ing the degree of Bachelor of SClel’l t t'

in which he pursued a post-graduate cou rsefo r one year . Subsequently he was e ngagedin teaching in South Kentucky College , nowMcLean College , and in the meantime he

studied law and was admitted to the Kentuckybar in 1896 . Since that time he has beenactively engaged in the practice of his pro fo ssion and it is mo st grati fying to note that h i ssuccess has been on a parity w i th h i s w el ld i rected endeavors . In 1905 Mr . Duffy wa s

elected to the ofli ce of county attorney and in

1909 was reelected and won by a major i ty o f

seven hundred and fi f ty-nine votes over Jo hnFeland

,h i s opponent . In poli tics he ha s ever

been al igned as a stalwart supporter o f thecause of the Democratic party and he has eve rmani fested a deep and sincere interest in com

munity affai rs .

Mr . Duff y is a very acute logician and

force ful speaker , as has been demonstrated inthe many powerful speeches he has del ive r edin connect ion w ith various state and countyissues . The following letter written to the

Cour ier -J ourna l by T . C . Underwood showsmarked appreciation of his eloquence and w il lbe here reproduced in enti rety .

County Attorney Duffy made one o f the

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federate veteran of the Civil war . Dur ingthe majo r po rtion of h i s active career he hasbeen engaged in the general contracting andbuilding business

,and in that l ine of enter $

prise has achieved a most noteworthy success .In all the relations of l i fe he is stra ightfo r

ward and honest and hi s cit izenship has everbeen characterized by earnest and sincere devo t ion to all matters connected with the progress and development of th is section of thestate .

Born at Pa lmyra,the judicial center of

Ma rion county , Missouri , on the zud o f September

,184 1 , Mr . Bro shee r i s a son of Thomas

and Sarah (Harmon ) B r o sheer , both o f whomwere born and reared in Bracken county , Kentucky

,where was solemnized thei r marriage

and whence they removed to Missouri aboutthe yea r 1832 . The father was a contractorand builder by occupation and he continued tores ide in the state of his adoption until h isdea th . in 1885 , at the venerable age of eightyfour years . Thomas Bro sheer ’

s father was o fFrench-Huguenot descent

,his forbea rs hav

ing settled in the commonwealth of North Caro l ina in the early Colonial epoch of our nat ional history . Th e Harmon family , io r igina lly o f Pennsylvania , were of German descent and representa tives of the name werepioneer settlers in Bracken county , Kentucky .

Mr s . Bro sheer died in 1887 , at the same agea s her husband , namely , eighty- four years .Mr . and Mrs . B ro sheer were consistent members of the Christ ian church and they werethe parents o f six children . Of his s istersbut two a re l iving at the present time , theybe ing Mr s . Charles Mancer , a widow now re

siding at St . Louis , Missouri ; and Mrs . K emper

,l ikewise a w idow , who maintains her

home in Kansas C ity,Missouri . At this

j uncture i t is interesting to note that three ofMr

. Bro sheer’

s sisters were married at thesame time .

George M. Bro sheer grew up in his home

city of Palmyra,to whose publ ic schools he is

indebted fo r his prel iminary educationaltra in ing

,the same having been eff ectively sup

plemented by a course of study in St . Paul’s

College at Palmyra . He had scarcely passedh i s twentieth year at the t ime of the incept iono f the Civil wa r and he was immediately firedw ith boy ish enthusiasm fo r the Southerncause . He enl isted at the time of the PriceMcCu llough campaign in Missouri , in 186 1 ,

and the company in which he served consi stedprincipally of h i s college class mates . Heserved with all o f faith fulness and gal lantryuntil the close o f the war and was a membero f the First M issour i Artil lery , which was in

dependent , not having been connected w ithany brigade . With the passage of time LI r .

Bro sheer was promoted to the rank of fi r stl ieutenant and at the close o f the war he w as

mustered out of service as brevet major, h a ving been brevetted major as the result o f me r iforions service . A lthough he participated i na number of the most important engagemen t s

marking the progress of the war he was ne ve rseriously wounded .

After civil hostil ities had ceased and pe a c ehad again been establ ished throughout the

country , Mr . Br o sheer went to the city o f I nd ianapo li s , Indiana , where he engaged in th e

work of his trade , that of carpenter , which hehad learned as a mere youth . He was c o n

s idered a skilled carpenter at the early age o f

fourteen years and he continued to devo te h i sattention to tha t l ine of work during the r e

ma inder of h is act ive career. He was a r e s ident o f the capital city of the old Hoo s ierstate of the Union for a period of two yea rs ,

at the expiration of which he went to Quincy .

Ill inois , where he was foreman in a planingmi l l for some e ight years . He then came toKentucky , where he has s ince resided and

where he has been interested in the contract ingand building bus iness for fully a quarter o f acentury . For a decade he maintained h i s

home at M inerva,Mason county , this sta te .

and in 1890 he came to Middlesbo ro , where hehas long been recognized as an essentially loyaland publ ic-spi rited cit izen and as one who isever on the qui vive to do all in h is power toadvance the general wel fare .

In Kentucky,in 1867 , was solemnized the

marriage of Mr . Bro shee r to Mi ss Lizzie Ree d ,who was born and reared in Bracken county.Kentucky , and who was a representative of anold and prominent family of that section ofthe old Blue Grass commonwealth . She wassummoned to the l i fe eternal on the I st ofApril , 1909 ,

at the age of sixty-five yea rs ,deeply mourned by the wide circle of relativesand admir ing friends . To this union wereborn six ch ildren

,two Of whom are living in

19 1 1 , namely : J . R. , who is a farmer in Orangecounty

,Virginia , and who is married and has

three ch ildren ; and C . K . , who is one of thelead ing phys icians and surgeons at Middlesboro . Dr . Bro sheer i s marr i ed and has onech ild

,Virginia Ruth . Since the death o f h is

cherished and devoted wi fe M r . Broshee r ofth is review has resided in the home of his son .

the Do ctor .In pol it ics Mr . Bro sheer has ever been

al igned as a stalwart supporter of the princ ip les and po l ic ies for which the Democraticparty stands sponsor and wh i le he has never

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Brown, John C. , 1054

Brown, W’ i l l iam A . , 1 103

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Browning, Amo s 1675

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Browning . Joseph 166-1

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C la ry, Nannie B 1452

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Coates , Thomas J 1396

Cobb. J . Tevis. 1665

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