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Biography in a Nutshell -- Born, welcomed, caressed, cried, fed, grew, amused, reared, studied, examined, graduated, in love, loved, engaged, married, quarreled, reconciled, suffered, deserted, taken ill, died, mourned, buried and forgotten. (Source: The Cynthiana (Ky.) Democrat (Special Edition, June, 1896)
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George N. Gage
Source: Anonymous, Portrait and Biographical Record of Arizona, Chicago: Chapman Publishing Co., 1901, pp. 672-5.
As much to his earnest efforts as to those of any other one man Tempe is indebted fro a large share of its prosperity to George N. Gage, who has been a citizen of this place for the past twelve years. He has an abiding faith in the future greatness of Arizona, the country likened to Persia by the talented author, Charles Dudley Warner, the land noted for "dry air, even temperature and marvelous productiveness." The Salt River valley [sic], undoubtedly, today is the most highly esteemed of the inhabited portions of the territory, and wise, indeed, were the multitudes who sought renewed health and wealth in this delightful climate.
George N. Gage, the manager of the Tempe branch of the L.W. Blinn Lumber Company, of Los Angeles, Cal., and secretary of the Tempe Land and Improvement Company, possessed the ability of the New Englander, and the zeal and enterprise justly attributed to them. He was born at Pelham, N.H., March 16, 1842, and is a son of John and Rebecca (Greeley) Gage. Both were natives of New Hampshire, also, and the Gage family is an old one in that state, , originally coming from England. The education of our subject was acquired in the public schools of his native town, where he continued to reside until he was about eighteen years of age.
In 1860 Mr. Gage went to Coles county, Ill., and became station agent for the railroad now known as the Big Four, remaining at Charleston in that capacity for nearly ten years. Subsequently he was engaged in the lumber business in the same town for a number of years, and finally formed the resolution to become a citizen of the great southwest. In 1886 he arrived in Tombstone, Ariz., where he made his home for about two years, then removing to Tempe. From 1886 to 1890 he was a member of the board of railroad commissioners of Arizona, and for two years held the responsible office of chairman of that body. The board, which played a useful part in the early period of our railroading enterprises, was later abolished by law. After locating permanently in Tempe twelve years ago, Mr. Gauge became secretary of the Tempe Land and Improvement Company, which has been a very important factor in the development of the place. For eight or nine years he also has held his present position as manager of the L.W. Blinn Lumber Company, and has built up a fine local business for the firm. Politically he is a stanch Republican and in the fraternities is connected with the Odd Fellows and the Masonic order, being a Knight Templar and member of the Mystic Shrine.
For a companion and helpmate in the battles and joys of life, Mr. Gauge chose Miss Nannie Nesbit, a native of Charleston, Ill., their marriage taking place in 1874. Their daughter, Martha N., is the wife of R.H. Burmister, now a bookkeeper in the Arizona National Bank, of [Page 675] Prescott. Miss Louie V. Gage, the younger daughter, is a teacher in the public schools of Prescott.
Mrs. Gage is a member of the Christian Church. She is the daughter of Simeon H. Nesbit, a native of Cynthiana, Ky., and who subsequently moved to Charleston, Ill. His death occurred in December, 1900.
John W. Galbreath
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, p. 722 (Leesburg Precinct).
JOHN W. GALBREATH, farmer; P.O. Cynthiana. Benjamin Galbreath and Miss Clara Hall, a daughter of Daniel Hall of Harrison County, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony; by this union they have a son John W. Galbreath, who was born in Bourbon County, Sept. 23, 1836. His grandfather was John W. Galbreath, who was a Revolutionary soldier, and was killed in the battle of River Raisin. John W., who heads this sketch, married Miss Mary E. Fry, a daughter of William and America Fry, and by this marriage they have six children, named: Mary Alice, George William, Rosa Lee, Mildred Ann, James Woodford and Melinda Belle. He is the breeder of high grade stock and a Democrat in politics.
Hugh N. Garnett
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, p. 655 (Cynthiana City and Precinct).
HUGH N. GARNETT, farmer; P.O. Cynthiana; was born in Harrison County, Ky., Sept. 2, 1850, son of William and Margaret (Newell) Garnett; he, born in Harrison County, where he and his wife still reside upon a large farm upon which he has a fine brick residence. The grandfather of Mr. Garnett, our subject, Hugh Newell, was a very prominent man in his day, he having represented Harrison County in the Legislature several terms. Mr. Garnett has been a farmer all his life, he having been raised one, and to which he naturally inclined, after receiving an education in the schools of his native county. He owns a fine farm of 140 acres of land, upon which he raises principally corn, wheat and tobacco. In 1875, in Harrison County, he married Miss Ada Lancaster, born in Parkersburg, Va., in 1850, daughter of Ransom and Lucy (Hard) Lancaster. His wife is a member of the Methodist Church South, and he is a Democrat.
Larkin T. Garnett
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, pp. 655-7 (Cynthiana City and Precinct).
LARKIN T. GARNETT, farmer and stockraiser; P.O. Cynthiana; was born in Harrison County, Ky., April 1, 1848, son of William and Margaret (Newell) Garnett, both natives of Harrison County, who were the parents of five children. After the ordinary education attainable [Page 655] in the schools of his native county, our subject entered into the life of a farmer, to which he had been reared and has followed that occupation steadily ever since, making stock raising for some years a specialty. He owns an excellent farm of 200 acres, his place being known as "Cottage Home." In April, 1881, he married in Harrison County, Miss Lillie King, born in Harrison, May 22, 1861, daughter of George Thomas and Susan (Craigmyle) King, of Harrison County. He is a Democrat.
Larkin Garnett
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V, Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. IV, p. 283.
LARKIN GARNETT. The motive power for some of Harrison County's most productive business affairs has been supplied by Larkin Garnett, who has also been a man of power and influence in local politics for many years. He is former county assessor, former sheriff, and former representative in the Legislature.
Mr. Garnett was born in Harrison County March 14, 1845, a son of Larkin and Jane (Ashbrook) Garnett, also natives of the same county. His maternal grandfather was Aaron Ashbrook. His parents grew up and married in Harrison County, then located on a farm near Poindexter Station, four miles from Cynthiana, and lived out their lives in Harrison County. They were members of the Christian Church, and the mother was very active in her church duties. The father was a democrat. Of nine children four are still living: Elizabeth, widow of Leon Cuson, of Cincinnati; Fannie, of Cincinnati; Mollie, widow of H.T. Johns, and is matron of the Woman's College of Danville, Kentucky; and Larkin.
Larkin Garnett grew up on his father's farm and had a common school education. At the age of twenty-one he turned his attention to farming on his own account, and remained on the farm until he was first elected assessor. He performed all the duties of this office, making personal canvass for assessment of property. He served four years, and immediately was elected sheriff, holding that office three consecutive terms. There was an interim of one term after which he was again serving as sheriff. He had no opposition in any of these local campaigns. Subsequently he was elected a member of the House of Representatives from Harrison County.
Mr. Garnett has always had agricultural interests, and he was financially interested in and was superintendent for six years of the McGibbins-Edgewater Stock Farm, one of the notable breeding centers for thoroughbreds in Kentucky. The head of the breeding stable during his administration was the noted stallion Springbox. Mr. Garnett now has a farm of over 400 acres leased. He is president of the Crown Jewel Milling Company of Cynthiana, operating one of the largest flour mills in the state. The company is incorporated, with Mr. Garnett as president, D.N. Rees, vice president, J.L. Shawhan, secretary, I.N. Muson, manager, and W.A. Kendal and Rolla Van Hook, directors.
Mr. Garnett married Allie Martin, daughter of Senator I.T. Martin, one of the prominent citizens of Central Kentucky. Mrs. Garnett is a graduate of high school and of Wesleyan College at Cincinnati. At her death in 1904 she left two children, Isaac T., who lives at Cincinnati and is married and has one child, and Alline M., a graduate of the Cynthiana High School, who also attended the State University of California and is now a teacher in the Cynthiana High School. Mr. Garnett is one of the trustees and stewards of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics is a democrat.
Col. Thomas T. Garnett
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, p. 717 (Unity Precinct).
COL. THOMAS T. GARNETT, farmer and trader, P.O. Cynthiana. Among the early emigrants to Kentucky was Larkin Garnett, who was born in Virginia about 1782, and came to this State in 1807 and settled near Cynthiana, Harrison County, where he spent the remainder of his days. He married Elizabeth Bell, also of Virginia birth, by whom he raised six sons and six daughters. He was a farmer and mechanic and by close application to business he managed to accumulate considerable property. He ranked among the prominent men of his day, and died in October 1856, respected by all who knew him. His eldest son, Thomas T., who is the subject of this sketch, was born in Virginia on the 15th of May, 1806, and when only about one year old was brought by his parents to Harrison County, Ky., where he was reared and educated and where he still resides. When he arrived at the age of maturity his father gave him a good horse, with which he ventured out upon his own resources, full of energy and ambition. On the 4th of Oct., 1840, Col. Garnett was married to Louisa Wiglesworth who was born in the county in 1819, and was the daughter of John and Jane (Bush) Wiglesworth, who were also residents of Harrison County. In the early days of this county's history our subject was elected Captain of a militia company and subsequently promoted to major and colonel, which latter title he still bears. He was also elected justice of the peace in his district, an office he filled very acceptably. He has had born to him two daughters, both of whom are now married and settled in life. His elder daughter, Jane E., is the wife of Dr. W.H. Martin and Mary F., the wife of Col. William Moore. Col. Garnett has been a very "wide-awake" business man through the early part of his life, being possessed of rare judgment and quick to see a bargain; he has succeeded in acquiring handsome property, consisting of about 1,000 acres of land, upon which he has erected, according to his own plans and designs, one of the best residences in the county (a view of which graces the pages of this work), fronting the K.C.R.R. at Garnett Station, which station was named in honor of our subject. He and his family are all members of the Baptist Church and he is a straight Democrat in politics.
Gayle Brothers
Source: The Cynthiana (Ky.) Democrat (Special Edition), June, 1896, p. 3, col. 2.
Gayle Bros.
The drug store, on Main street [sic], near Pleasant, established by Dr. Jett, ahs been owned for a year by the Messrs. Gayle, formerly of Frankfort. These gentlemen have speedily ingratiated themselves in the esteem and respect of the people, and the result is a gratifying trade.
Both being pharmacists and having had years of experience, they are prepared to fill any and all prescriptions at any time. They use nothing but the freshest, purest drugs. A large stock of patent medicines, fancy goods, toilet articles, paints, oils, varnishes, soaps, pocket cutlery, and so on, is always on hand, and are offered at prices that are commensurate with the quality of the goods.
If there is any such thing as politics in a drug store, Messrs. Gayle Bros. will ketch 'em bofe cumin' an' gwine, for one of them is a democrat and the other a republican. They are clever and reliable gentlemen and merit their share of trade.
Isaac Gess
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V,Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. IV, pp. 32-3.
ISAAC GESS. While more than thirteen years have passed since Isaac Gess, a well-known stock breeder of the Parker's Mill Pike, five miles south of Lexington, was called to his final rest, he lives in the memory of his many friends as a high type of loyal citizen and progressive, reliable business man. He never faltered in the performance of any task that was rightfully his, and in all his business transactions, far-reaching and effective as they were, he never sought to benefit by the misfortune of others. His life was actuated by high ideals and spent in close conformity therewith, his teaching and his example were ever inspiring and helpful, and his humane sympathy and charity brought men to him in the ties of strong friendship.
Mr. Gess was born February 27, 1847, on a farm on the Richmond Pike, ten miles south of Lexington, a son of John and Mary A. (Spurr) Gess, the latter an aunt of Levi Spurr, a sketch of whose career and family appears elsewhere in this work. John Gess, Sr., the grandfather of Isaac Gess, was born in Virginia, and in 1800 married Lydia Winn, coming to Kentucky in the same year. During the War of 1812 he fought as a solider in the United States forces, and after the close of that struggle returned to his farming occupations in Kentucky, in which he continued to be engaged during the rest of his life. After the death of his son, John Gess, Jr., secured the home place near Athens, and continued its operation until his death at the age of thirty-three years. His wife survived him a number of years and was sixty-six at the time of her demise. They were the parents of six children: A daughter who died in childhood; a son who died in young manhood; John Winn and James William, twins, born in 1843; Isaac, of this notice; and Anna, who married R.N. Offut, of Harrison County, Kentucky, who became a merchant of Lexington, in which city he and his wife both died, without issue.
[Page 33] John Winn Gess and James William Gess were among the best-known citizens of Fayette County. Twins, they bore such a striking resemblance each to the other that in youth and young manhood it was practically impossible for strangers, and even their intimate friends, to tell them apart. From boyhood they were inseparable, constant companions, and so intimate was their relationship that they carried but one purse between them. When the war between the states came on they joined the redoubtable Morgan and took part in the various exploits and escapades of their intrepid leader. They were captured on several occasions at various places, and finally were imprisoned at Camp Douglas, whence John, making his escape, walked back to the old home, where he again joined his brother. For many years they lived together at the home place, being only separated by death when, in 1894, John, who had married, passed away. This separation lasted but a short time, for James felt his brother's loss so keenly that he cared to remain no longer, and several months later he too, passed away. John Winn Gess married Martha Tomblin, of Georgia, whose brother he had known while in the army, and of their children two survive: Mary Belle, the widow of William R. McDonald, residing at Mr. McDonalds' old home at Cuthbert, Georgia, with three sons, William Ross, James Winn and Marion; and Annie, the widow of Dr. Philip H. Lane, a noted neurologist of Philadelphia, who died in 1920, without issue.
Isaac Gess spent his boyhood and youth on the home farm and secured his educational training in the rural schools of his home community. He was married June 7, 1876, to Mary C. Webb, daughter of John and Margaret (Haynes) Webb, and a half sister of the late Thomas Haynes, a history of whose life will be found in the sketch of Miss Elizabeth Frances Haynes, elsewhere in this work. Soon after his marriage Mr. Gess lived with his bride to the farm now occupied by his widow, on Parker's Mill Pike, five miles south of Lexington, knowns [sic] as the Springbank Dairy Farm. This property at that time boasted of no improvements, and for a time Mr. and Mrs. Gess faced numerous hardships in developing a paying and comfortable enterprise. This was duly accomplished, however, through industry and good management, and under Mr. Gess' direction the farm soon became famous for its trotting horses, which Mr. Gess sold on the strength of their breeding. Likewise he kept a herd of Jersey cattle, and in both departments of his work achieved an excellent success. He continued to carry on his prosperous activities until his death, which occurred August 30, 1907. He was a man of public spirit and progressive inclinations, and while he never sought public office he took a keen and helpful interest in local matters and gave his support to worthy movements. Interested chiefly in his home and his farm, he had few outside connections in the way of fraternal or other associations, but was a man of friendliness and sociability, one who had no trouble in making or keeping friends. His loss was one which affected his community deeply.
Following her husband's death his widow took over the reigns of management, which she has handled in an entirely capable and successful manner. Known as an able business woman, she has made the dairy the feature of the farm rather than the breeding of horses and cattle, although she has maintained the fine herd of Jerseys, for which she finds a profitable market. In her dairy business she has a large retail trade among private customers, and her business transactions are carried out in a manner at once highly efficient and straightforward. In other matters she keeps well posted, and possesses a mind not only naturally active but well cultivated. Her home, while not a pretentious one, is neat, well kept and valuable, its desirability being enhanced by its attractive situation, while the 140 acres which are included in the estate are composed of some of the best land in the county.
Joseph Gasser
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V, Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. IV, pp. 294-5.
JOSEPH GASSER is an Alsatian by birth and ancestry, and has lived in Kentucky for thirty years. In his progress from a farm hand to a farm owner and prosperous citizen he illustrates the thoroughness, industry and thrift that have long characterized the people who come out of Alsace.
Mr. Gasser, whose farm is two miles west of Cynthiana, was born in Alsace August 18, 1875, a son of Joseph and Mary (Semone) Gasser. His parents spent their lives in Alsace, where his father died in 1917, and where his mother is still living. Joseph [Page 295] Gasser, Sr., was also a farmer. The family were all Catholics. Of the six children, Joseph is the oldest; Dock lives at Cincinnati, Ohio; George is married and lives in France; Mary is married; Benedict is in France; and the youngest is Lucy.
Joseph Gasser acquired a common school education in Alsace, attending school from six to fourteen. He also worked on his parents' farm, and then at sixteen in order to avoid the enforced military duty he sent out for the new world, borrowing money for that purpose. He reached the United States in debt for his passage, and when he got to Mason County, Kentucky, he hired out as a farm worker for $7 a month. All his surplus wages he sent home until he was twenty-one. Mr. Gasser came to Harrison County in 1893, and continued as a farm laborer for ten years.
On January 29, 1901, he married Rosa Ott, who was born in Pendleton County, Kentucky, October 25, 1880, daughter of Christ and Elizabeth (Hime) Ott. Her father was a native of Pendleton County and her mother of Louisville. They were married in that city and subsequently located on a farm near there and finally moved to Harrison County.
After his marriage Mr. Gasser was a renter four years, and for two years paid money rent for his land. Having accumulated a modest capital, he became a land owner, and gradually the years have brought him a prosperity now measured by the ownership of a 200-acre farm with all the improvements and equipment that characterize the rural district of Harrison County. Mr. Gasser votes as a republican, and he and his family are Catholics.
His five children are: Anna M., Christ, Joseph, Minnie, and Olive.
James Gibbons
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V, Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. IV, p. 272.
JAMES GIBBONS was one of the outstanding figures in the citizenship of Harrison County for a long period of years. It is said that when he came to the county all he owned was the clothing he had on his back. He was an aggressive and hard working Irishman, and from nothing he achieved gratifying material circumstances and became known as a money maker, being an equally effective good citizen.
He was born in County Limerick Ireland, December 24, 1837, and was reared and educated in that country. In 1865, about the close of the Civil war [sic], he reached the United States, landing at New York, and afterward arrived in Harrison County in the condition above described. He hired out to work for General Desha by the month, and subsequently was employed by D.E. Rowland on the farm he afterward owned.
On November 7, 1870, Mr. Gibbons married Miss Kate Jones. She was born in County Limerick, Ireland, May 17, 1851, and was nineteen years old when she came to this country. She accompanied some people to Cynthiana, and for a year and seven months was employed in the home of Felix Ashbrook, Sr. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons moved to the Double Tollgate on Millersburg Pike. In the meantime Mr. Gibbons had made such progress in his affairs as to be the owner of the Shady Nook Pike. He and Mrs. Gibbons lived at the toll gate house for twenty-three years. The pike was then condemned, and he lost all of that property, then worth $3,000.
In the meantime, in 1891, he had bought a farm of 100 acres, and from the pike he moved to this farm and remained there industriously handling his farming and other business affairs until hsi death on January 15, 1921. For many years he was known as a breeder and exhibitor of registered saddle horses.
Mrs. Gibbons, whose home is three miles east of Cynthiana, became the mother of three children. The youngest, Willie T., died in infancy. The oldest is Ida M., who is a graduate of Professor Brown's Harrison County Female College and is the wife of A.L. Pope. The only son, John, attended the public schools and Smith's Classical School at Cynthiana, and is unmarried and operating the home farm. Mrs. Gibbons and her children are members of St. Edwards Catholic Church at Cynthiana.
D.A. Givens
D.A. GIVENS, breeder of Jersey cattle; P.O. Cynthiana; was born in Harrison County, Ky., May 18, 1831; son of Alexander and Mary (Steele) Lamme; he, a farmer by occupation, a native of Bourbon County, filling the position of Colonel of Militia of Harrison County for many years, and dying in August, 1840; she, a daughter of Samuel and Nancy A. (Steele) Lamme; native of Virginia, but of Scotch descent. They had ten children. The grandfather of our subject, Samuel Lamme, came to Milford, near Cynthiana, about 1783, and was one of the brave and honored patriots who served in the Revolutionary army. He was one of the first Trustees of the schools of Cynthiana. January 19, 1855, Mr. Givens, the subject of this sketch, married Miss Margaret Keller, born in 1839, in Harrison County; a daughter of Abraham and Polly A. Keller. One child has blessed their union--Lamme Steele Givens, born Jan. 14, 1866. Mr. Givens received his education in the schools and Academy of Cynthiana, and commenced business in the mercantile line in 1850, which he followed for many years, including a term as railroad agent, abut 1855, but is now giving attention to farming and the breeding and sale of Jersey cattle, being the only breeder in that line in Harrison County, and his herd of Jersey cattle the only herd of Jersies in his county, about sixty in number, having at its head the bull Rex Alphea (4509). His Nelida represents the Niobe (99) family--favorite of the Elms, Pierott, Duke of Darlington, Uproar, Pansey, etc. He owns 175 acres of land, his home consisting of 25 acres, being called "Elmarch." Himself and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is a Democrat.
Dr. L.S. Givens
Source: The (Cynthiana, Ky.) Log Cabin (Souvenir Supplement), Saturday, Nov. 11, 1905, p. 27, cols. 1 & 2.
D r. L. S. G I V E N S
DR. L.S. GIVENS has been practising [sic] medicine in Cynthiana for about eighteen years and ahs met with splendid success in his chosen profession. For about ten years he has devoted his time almost exclusively to the treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat, performing many successful operations in this and adjoining counties.
On June 1st, 1896, he formed a partnership with Dr. J.E. Wells, a very successful physician and surgeon, and on July 1st, 1903, Dr. N.W. Moore also became a member of this firm, now practising [sic] as Givens, Wells & Moore.
Dr. Lamme S. Givens was born in Cynthiana Jan. 14th, 1866, and received his education in the local schools and at Central University, Richmond, Kentucky. On March 18th, 1887, he graduated from the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, afterwards spending a year aboard in the hospitals of London and Berlin. He has also taken several post-graduate courses, and for the last two months has been in New York doing some special work in the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital.
Dr. Givens married Miss Nettie Martin in 1891. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and of several lodges.
NOTE: A photograph labeled "DR. LAMME GIVENS" accompanies this article on page 27.
Dr. Lamme S. Givens
Source: The Cynthiana (Ky.) Democrat (Special Edition), June, 1896, p. 22, col. 1.
Coroner of Harrison County.
We could not complete the list without giving a short sketch of at least one of Cynthiana's prominent physician's [sic]--one who has been closely identified with the city's interest and improvement from the time of his youth.
Lamme Steele Givens, son of David A. and Margaret Keller Givens, was born January 14th, 1866, in the residence now occupied by Mrs. Nancy A. White on Main street [sic]. his early education was received from the City School, Prof. N.F. Smith and from Central University, Richmond, Ky. After graduating in medicine from the Ohio Medical College in 1887, he spent the greater part of 1888 in Europe in the hospitals of Berlin and London, obtaining all advantages of foreign hospital work, besides taking a special course on diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear in the clinic of the late Dr. Morrell McKenzie. The doctor has been a member of the Pension Board of Examining Surgeons for the past six years and is the regular medical examiner for twelve of the best old-line life insurance companies of America. He takes an active interest in the medical association of the county--and was one of the promoters of the Harrison County Medical Society, organized one year ago. Business has grown to such an extent that he has associated with himself in practice within the last few weeks, Dr. Joseph E. Wells, of Mt. Olivet, Ky. one of the ablest physicians and surgeons in the state.
Dr. Givens was married in 1891 to Nettie M., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Martin, of this city, and says next to his enjoyable home life comes his love for the Presbyterian church.
NOTE: A photograph labeled labeled "DR. LAMME S. GIVENS, Coroner of Harrison County" accompanies this article on page 22, columns 1 & 2.
Dr. Lamme Steele Givens
Source: John M. Gresham Co., comp., Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Embracing Biographies of Many of the Prominent Men and Families of the State, Chicago & Philadelphia: John M. Gresham Company, 1896, pp. 92-3.
DR. LAMME STEELE GIVENS of Cynthiana was born in that city January 14, 1866. His father, David A. Givens, was born in Cynthiana in 1831. He was engaged in the mercantile business for many years. He was also largely engaged in raising cattle and brought the first imported Jersey cattle to this county. For many years he was very successful, making large sales of Jerseys in New York City and other places. He served as justice of the peace, but never held any other office. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and a highly respected citizen of his native town, and died July 26, 1895. His father, Col. Alexander Givens, was born in Cynthiana in 1792. He was a farmer and stock [Page 93] raiser, and was a colonel in the state militia. He died in 1840, at the age of forty-eight years. His father, George Givens, was a native of Virginia, a soldier in the Revolutionary war [sic], and was one of the earliest settlers of Harrison County. He was of Scotch-Irish descent.
Margaret Keller Givens (mother) was born in Cynthiana in 1838. She was a faithful member of the Presbyterian Church, and died in 1882. Her father, Abraham Keller, was born in Cynthiana in 1808 and died there in 1868, aged sixty years. He was the distiller of the renowned brand of "A. Keller Whisky." This distillery is still in operation and is owned by Ashbrook Bros.
Dr. L.S. Givens, after leaving the public schools of Cynthiana, attended Central University and graduated from the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, in 1887. He spent the next year abroad in the hospitals of Berlin and London, and in 1889 he began the general practice of medicine in Cynthiana, giving especial attention to diseases of the nose, throat and ear. He is a member of the Kentucky Medical Society and a contributor of the medical journals. He is coroner of the county, having been elected to that office on the Democratic ticket in 1894.
Dr. Givens and Nettie Martin, daughter of Reed M. Martin of Cynthiana, were married, November 18, 1891. They are members of the Presbyterian Church and are prominent in society.
A. Goldberg
Source: The Cynthiana (Ky.) Democrat (Special Edition), June, 1896, p. 14, col. 1.
A Remarkably Successful
Young Bu[s]iness Man.
It is doubted seriously whether one person out of five would consider Mr. A. Goldberg one of our YOUNG business men. He has been working away with such energy and push since his arrival in Cynthiana in 1885, and has become so well-known to everybody in the county, that one feels like one had known him always. But Mr. Goldberg is not yet thirty-five years old. September will mark that milestone in his career, and certainly there are none who will not wish him a hundred years more of success.
He was born in Poland, and since the electric light, the telephone and the telegraph people have poled the town he begins to feel quite at home.
With a pack on his back this dauntless man started through the country to make a living. What he did is familiar. In a short time he saved sufficient cash to open an unpretentious clothing store on Main street [sic] near Pleasant. Rapidly his business grew, until he removed to a larger store on Pike street [sic], and finally, a few months ago, took possession of the large three story building on Main street [sic], until recently occupied by Mr. Alex Frazer.
Mr. Goldberg now carries a complete stock of everything in the clothing, gentlemen's furnishing goods, boot and shoe line, from a Saratoga trunk to a collar button. By fair, square and honest dealing, by combining a high quality of goods with a low price, he has drawn an excellent trade and holds it with a tenacious grip. It is not good form to make a purchase in his line without first consulting Mr. Goldberg, for he has everything a man or boy needs and he sells at rockbottom prices. Just at present he has a special sale on and is marking things at actual cost.
NOTE: A photograph labeled "A. GOLDBERG" accompanies this article on page 14, col. 1.
A. Goldberg & Sons
Source: The (Cynthiana, Ky.) Log Cabin (Souvenir Supplement), Saturday, Nov. 11, 1905, p. 32, cols. 1-4.
A. G o l d b e r g & S o n s
This favorite Clothing Firm, located on Main Street opposite the Court House, occupies 8,400 square feet of floor space, which fact is a verification of the old adage that "large oaks from little acorns grow."
From a very small capital and a limited stock, Mr. Aaron Goldberg has, by natural tact and strict attention, developed his present large business. A call at his store will find all that is latest and best in this line.
Mr. Goldberg was born across the ocean, sailed to American when he was 25 years of age, and settled in Cynthiana. His success from a small beginning bespeaks his popularity and industry. He is a very prominent K. of P. and member of the Elk Lodge.
Mr. Goldberg has been in business in Cynthiana for 18 years, during which time his correct business methods have won for him the regard of all with whom he has come into contact. In recent years he has made a special feature of strictly "one price" to all, and his firm vigorously observes this rule.
This business house was reorganized July 1st, when Mr. Goldberg took into the firm as partners, his two sons, Raphael and Joe Goldberg, who are favorably [known] in the community. This firm is [only] one of the largest of the kind in the state and has an extensive patronage coming from the adjoining counties of Pendleton, Nicholas, Bourbon, Bracken, Robertson and Scott. The firm handles only reliable and dependable merchandise, made by reliable manufacturers. The Fall and Winter Stock embraces the largest and most complete line of Clothing, Furnishings, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Trunks, Valises, etc., ever shown in Cynthiana. "Positively no misrepresentations" is a motto laid down in this house, and every promise made is backed up by the goods or money for any purchase will be refunded.
Among the leading lines in this mammoth stock are the well known Stein-Bloch Smart Clothing, Michael Sterns Clothing, Hanan, Walk-Over and Eclipse Shoes, Stetson Hats, Dutchess Trousers, and Newburg Corduroys.
NOTE: Photographs labeled "EXTERIOR VIEW OF STORE," JOE GOLDBERG," "AARON GOLDBERG," and "RAPHAEL GOLDBERG" accompany this article on page 32.
Aaron Goldberg
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V, Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. IV, p. 279.
AARON GOLDBERG. Cynthiana has had every opportunity to observe and appreciate the progressive career of Aaron Goldberg, the merchant, who came here nearly forty years ago and first sold goods from a pack and has built up a handsome business through gradual but sure process, his methods having been such as to attract patronage and gain him a high degree of esteem from all his customers and many friends.
Mr. Goldberg was born in Poland, September 15, 1857, a son of Benjamin and Mary Goldberg. Both spent all their lives in their native country. Aaron Goldberg acquired his schooling and his early experience in Poland, and at the age of twenty-six started across the Atlantic to seek his fortune in the New World. He brought with him some knowledge of merchandising gained as a clerk in his father's store. Mr. Goldberg married Frieda Harris in Poland, and was in business there four years. Two children were born to them before they came to America, Raphael and J.H. Goldberg.
Soon after reaching America Mr. Goldberg located at Cynthiana, and for 1½ years peddled goods. He then opened a shop as a tailor, cleaner and repairer of clothing, and as he prospered he added to his business until he has one of the high class clothing stores in Kentucky. He has been in business here thirty-eight years, and his steadfast endeavor to deal squarely with his fellow men has been well[-]rewarded. Two children were born after Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg came to America, Jacob A., associated with his father's business, and Clara, wife of B.F. Goldstein, also with the Goldberg store at Cynthiana. The older son, J.H. Goldberg, is a merchant at Dayton, Ohio, and Raphael is with his father.
Mr. Goldberg has a fine home on Clifton Heights, and besides his own business block he owns four other store buildings and another residence in Cynthiana. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a democrat in politics, has served as a member of the city council of Cynthiana, and in citizenship as well as in his religion with his family has been exceedingly generous and public spirited. In 1914 Mr. Goldberg and wife were in Europe revisiting scenes of their youth and at the outbreak of the World war they were in Switzerland and experienced some little annoyance on the return trip to Paris.
M. Goldberg
Source: The (Cynthiana, Ky.) Log Cabin (Souvenir Supplement), Saturday, Nov. 11, 1905, p. 27, cols. 3 & 4.
Clothing and Furnishings
MR. M. GOLDBERG, whose store is situated on Pike street [sic], opposite the Farmers Bank, desires to announce that his Fall and Winter stock of clothing and furnishings is now complete and ready for your inspection. The prices can not be beat any where. When you get one of these suits you get fashionable styles and a perfect fit. Not one detail has been neglected in selecting these goods.
Mr. Goldberg is an experienced tailor and has had a number of years experience in that department. Don't fail to call and look over his stock which includes furnishings, shoes, hats and rubber goods, also solid gold rings, and watches with Elgin movements at from $1.00 up to $15.00.
NOTE: A advertisement for men's clothing accompanies this article on page 27.
B.F. Goldnamer
Source: The (Cynthiana, Ky.) Log Cabin (Souvenir Supplement), Saturday, Nov. 11, 1905, p. 16, cols. 1-4.
B. F. G o l d n a m e r
Where High Class Clothing and Popular Prices Meet
MR. B.F. Goldnamer's handsome clothing store on Pike Street is a shining example of what enterprize [sic], perseverance and business sagacity can accomplish in a comparatively short time. It has been less than four years since Mr. B.F. Goldnamer came here from Elizabethtown where he had been associated with his father in one of the largest clothing establishments in that city. Mr. Goldnamer opened up a first class clothing and furnishing goods house here and it was only a comparatively short time until the demands of an increasing business required larger quarters. He leased the room he now occupies in the Dedman building, No. 9 Pike Street, and even his commodious store room is now filled to overflowing with Mr. Goldnamer's immense stock.
Up-to-date methods prevail at this up-to-date store, and here is to be found a finely assorted stock, embracing standard lines of suits, overcoats, odd trousers for men, young men and children, including the celebrated Fechheimer, Kiefer & Co., suits and overcoats; Hackett, Carhart & Co. suits and overcoats; Brand Bros. trousers and waistcoats; Monarch, Cluett, Griffon and Wilson Bros. shirts; Wilson Bros.' complete line of hosiery and underwear; fine neckwear, collars, cuffs, suspenders and fixings; W.L. Douglas' celebrated $3.50 shoes for men; Noxall $2.00 hats; Gotham $3.00 hats; National $3.00 hats; J.B. Stetson $4.00 and $5.00 hats; Sweet, Orr & Co. corduroys and overalls; Mason, Campbell & Col., Ireland, and Berry & Davis gloves; dress suit cases, traveling bags, umbrellas, canes, etc. This house also makes a specialty of suits to order. Here a guarantee goes with every article sold.
Mr. Goldnamer's popular salesmen are G.W. Rowland, W.L. Ammerman, Harry McCauley and Wood Taylor.
NOTE: A photograph labeled "B.F. GOLDNAMER" accompanies this article on page 16, column 1. Another labeled "EXTERIOR OF STORE" appears in columns 2 & 3.
William T. Goodman
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, pp. 709-10 (Rutland Precinct).
WM. T. GOODMAN, farmer, born in Pendleton County, June 11, 1833. Grandfather Zachariah Goodman came from Virginia, about 1800, and settled in Pendleton County, where he died at an advanced age. Lafayette Goodman, father of our subject, was born in Pen[Page 710]dleton County about 1801. He followed farming and died in 1841. Wm. T. was raised a farmer; married Elizabeth, daughter of James and Anna (Dewett) Redd, of Harrison County. They have had ten children, seven of whom are living; the dates of whose births are as follows: Jno. J., Dec. 6, 1858; Allen B., Sept. 12, 1861; Anna, April 24, 1863; Zachariah, July 12, 1865; William, Sept. 27, 1868; Effie, Feb. 28, 1871; Mattie, June 24, 1874; politics Democrat. Mrs. Goodman is a member of the Christian Church at Stringtown in Grant County.
Milton J. Goodwin
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V,Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. III, pp. 559-60.
MILTON J. GOODWIN. One of the men who has devoted much of his time and energies to the improvement of the public schools of Montgomery County is Prof. Milton J. Goodwin, of Mount Sterling, County superintendent of schools, now in his second term, and a well-known educator of this region. He was born near Lexington, Kentucky, December 13, 1854, a son of George J. and Eliza (Jameson) Goodwin, natives of Fayette and Montgomery counties [sic] respectively. George J. Goodwin was reared on a farm and after he had attended the local public schools was given a course at Center College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Master of Arts. His wife was graduated from the Savage private school of Mount Sterling. Buying 200 acres of land between Winchester and Lexington, George J. Goodwin spent his life as a farmer. He and his wife had seven [missing text, at least one line, maybe two] liam M., who is a banker and farmer of Cynthiana, Kentucky; David B., who is a merchant of Winchester, Kentucky; and Milton J., whose name heads this review.
Growing up on his father's homestead, Milton J. Goodwin first attended the district schools and later Transylvania College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. For the subsequent year he was engaged in teaching in the public schools, and then entered Bethany College of Bethany, West Virginia, and was graduated therefrom with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Civil Engineering. Receiving the appointment of principal of the Walnut Hills High School, he held it for four years, and then accepted the position of principal and teacher of mathematics and Latin of Carrollton College, Carrollton, Mississippi. Subsequently he was principal of the city schools of Columbia, Kentucky, and then, in 1887, came to Mount Sterling and opened a private school. His superior abilities were soon recognized by the people of the county, and he was elected county superintendent of schools and served for eight years. He was then made principal of the Montgomery County High School, and served as such until 1921, when once more [Page 560] he was elected superintendent of schools, and is the present incumbent of the office.
Professor Goodwin married in Marcy, 1879, Miss Ella Sutton, who was educated in the public schools of Lexington, Kentucky, and Sayre Institute. They have two children, namely; Thomas, who was born January 3, 1880; and Carrie, who was born January 21, 1885, is the wife of Ben G. Land. Professor and Mrs. Goodwin belong to the Christian Church. Fraternally he maintains membership with the Odd Fellows and is a past grand of the Mount Sterling Lodge. Politically he is a democrat, and active in the party. It would be difficult to find a more scholarly man than Professor Godwin, or one better fitted for his present office. Having had so wide and practical an experience in his profession, he is able to give teh schools under his care the benefit of his broadened vision and expert knowledge, and possessing as he does the gift of inspiring others to whole-souled endeavor, his connection with his office is bound to react very favorably for the pupils, teachers and tax payers, and the people of Montgomery County are to be congratulated in their action in returning Professor Goodwin to the office he filled so satisfactorily in former years.
James Gordon
Source: The History of Edgar County, Illinois, Chicago: Wm. Le Baron, Jr. & Co., 1879, pp. 573-4.
JAMES GORDON, retired, Paris, is a pioneer; was born in Mason Co., Ky., May 4, 1800. Nov. 11, 1824, he married Miss Mary Riley, daughter of Rev. G. Riley, of Cynthiana, Ky.; they emigrated to Illinois in 1829, locating in Bloomfield, Edgar Co. He, in partnership with his brother, built and operated a tannery, and continued in that business about eight years, then removed to Paris and opened and run [sic] what he called the Tremont Hotel for two years, and in 1842, was elected County Sheriff, and re-elected in 1844. At the expiration of that term, he engaged in keeping a hotel; then, in 1852, was again elected to the office of County Sheriff, after which he engaged in the clothing business, and after a continuance of two years, again assumed the position of landlord of the Tremont for a time, then retired. He has served as a member of the City Council, and has always felt an interest in all public matters pertaining to the good of the town. Mr. and Mrs. G. have been intimately connected with the growth and prosperity of the Baptist Church for a number of years. They are among the first settlers of Edgar County, and clearly remember when the beautiful land was an unbroken waste, inhabited by roving bands of Indians, with here and there an occasional adventurous pioneer. In those early days inconveniences and disappointments were not uncommon, but through industry and unswerving integrity they have won the respect of all who know them. They are the parents of six children--Elizabeth F. (now Mrs. L.B. Huston), Emily E., (deceased--was Mrs. J.D. Jaquith), Almira F. (now Mrs. J.A. Peck), James M., [Page 574] Mary M. (now Mrs. J.C. Palmer) and Oliver B.
Mitchell Gordon
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V, Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. IV, pp. 300-1.
MITCHELL GORDON. There may be a feeling of family pride when an individual points to lands and possessions and says: "See what my ancestors secured and gave to me," but how much more gratifying it must be to realize that one is the builder of his own fortune and that the credit belongs to himself for obstacles overcome and successful results attained. Mitchell Gordon, of Cynthiana, owes nothing to inheritance of a monetary character. From a long line of toilers he was bequeathed a spirit of industry and perseverance. For the rest he has made his own way, and the prosperous clothing business which is now his possession is doubly valuable to him in that it represents years of labor under the most discouraging conditions and finally the attainment of his cherished goal.
Mr. Gordon was born in Russia, May 15, 1877, a son of Abraham and Sophia (Thomshinski) Gordon, and was reared in a small town, where he attended school for a short time, but was principally educated by his father. As a boy he was employed by his brother, who carried on a small business, and later ventured in business on his own account as the proprietor of a soap factory. After two years he disposed of this business and was then employed in a general store, in company with his brother. Called into the regular army of Russia, he served his full term of about four years and received his honorable discharge, and then became a clerk in the store of his brother-in-law, with whom he remained for two years. Being engaged, but prevented from immediate marriage on account of liability of call into the army as a reserve at the outbreak of war with Japan, he in 1904 came to the United States. The trip just about exhausted his capital, and when he arrived at Cincinnati, Ohio, his destination, where there were a number of his countrymen, he was willing to take any honorable employment. He was able to secure work in a butcher shop at $4 per week, which was later raised to $4.50 per week, and finally to $5 per week and board. Mr. Gordon remained in the employ of his first employer for five years. In the meantime, in February, 1905, he sent for his fiancee, Miss Pauline Dzenselsky, who was waiting his call in Russia, and upon her arrival, in February, 1905, they were married. To this union there have been born five children: Abe, who died at the age of two years; Sophia; Lewis; David; and Esther.
Following his marriage Mr. Gordon continued to work for the butcher, in the meantime practicing the strictest economy and saving every dollar that he could. Later he transferred his services to another butcher, and then accepted a position, the duties of which called for him to sell goods in the country. It was in this capacity that he first visited Cynthiana. He was struck with the possibilities of the city, and in 1909 came here to reside permanently, investing his little capital in a small store. Through industry, good business management, honorable dealing and unfailing courtesy he ahs built up an excellent patronage and operates a first-class clothing establishment, with a modern stock of goods. This is located on South Walnut Street, and Mr. Gordon is the owner of the building in which his establishment is situated. As will be seen his career has been one of constant endeavor and steady advancement, and in its working out he has so conducted himself as to win and hold the respect and confidence of those with whom he has been associated.
Mr. Gordon is a member of the Jewish Synagogue [Page 301] at Cincinnati. As a fraternalist he holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, St. Andrews Lodge No. 18, F. and A.M., and the Consistory at Covington, Kentucky, and also with the Knights of Pythias.
Gossett Brothers
Source: The (Cynthiana, Ky.) Log Cabin (Souvenir Supplement), Saturday, Nov. 11, 1905, p. 31, cols. 1-4.
Furniture, Wall Paper, Carpets, Rugs, Mattings,
Oil Clothes, Lace Curtains, Comforts, Blankets, Etc.
Goods bought right are half sold. We buy right and we sell at live-and-let-live prices. IF a man's in love that's HIS business IF a girl's in love that's HER business IF they get married that's THEIR business IF they need Furniture that's OUR business.
Goods bought right are half sold. We buy right and
we sell at live-and-let-live prices.
IF a man's in love that's HIS business
IF a girl's in love that's HER business
IF they get married that's THEIR business
IF they need Furniture that's OUR business.
If you have not traded with us, give us a call and we will make you feel that you have got your money's worth. By fair dealing and prompt attention to your wants we hope to merit a continuation of your patronage. Remember we are in a position to make unusually low prices because we buy in large quantities for cash and give you the advantage of our discounts. SEEING IS BELIEVING when you come to our store.
Gossett Brothers,
NOTE: The text above is not from an article, but replicates the appearance of an advertisement placed on this page.
Graddy Family
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V,Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. III, p. 607.
GRADDY FAMILY. The pioneer of the Graddy family in Kentucky was Jesse Graddy. He was born in North Carolina in 1767. He came to Kentucky in 1787 and settled on Glen's Creek in Woodford County, six miles west of the present Town of Versailles. Jesse Graddy married Viola Dale. Their children were: Nancy, became the second wife of Rev. Isaac Crutcher; Mary married Richard Robertson; Elizabeth married N.E. Martin; Lucinda married Crockett Carlyle; Elsie married Thomas Ford; William Lee married Martha Carlyle and Thomas married Sara Carter.
Thomas and Sarah (Carter) Graddy lived at the old home. Their children were Joseph, who married Miss Crisman; Jesse married Mary Scott of Jessamine County; Florence became the wife of J.M. Kennedy; Laura married James Graves; George T. whose wife was Mollie Ward of Cynthiana; Lute was not married; Mary Viola married Haden Kennel and Carter married Alice Cane of Boone County.
Joseph Graddy had two daughters, Sarah and Dixie, who now live in Missouri.
Jesse Graddy II lived in Woodford County all of his life. He left no heir. He was a man of highest integrity, active in his community and a large land owner.
George T. Graddy or "Bud" as he was affectionately called, spent his whole life in Woodford. He left two daughters, Nellie, who married Grover Walker of Kansas and Miss Sallie Graddy.
Carter and Alice Graddy moved to Boone County. They had four children: Mamie, Bellefield, Elizabeth and Joseph. Carter Graddy still lives in Boone County. He is the oldest man of the Graddy family now living.
William Lee Graddy, bought the farm "Welcome Hall" four miles west of Versailles and brought his bride Miss Patsy (Martha Carlyle) there to live. Miss Patsy proved an admirable mistress of the lonely old home which bears her imprint. She was noted for her hospitality. Her flowers still bloom for her fourth generation as she sleeps in the family burying ground on the hill beside her husband. "Welcome Hall" has never been out of the hands of the direct descendants.
William Lee and Martha Carlyle Graddy were the parents of W. Henry Graddy who married Sallie Ann Belt of Fleming County; George Jesse Graddy who married Fanny Catton, and later, Mollie Blackburn; Sallie Graddy married Henry Johnson of Mississippi and Margaret Graddy married Col. Ben Williams of Clark County, Kentucky.
At her mother's death in 1871 Margaret Graddy (Mrs. Ben Williams), inherited "Welcome Hall." She and her family lived there until 1890 when she sold her life interest to her nephew William Lee Graddy II and moved to Versailles where she lived the rest of her life.
George Jesse Graddy and Fanny Cotton had two children: Sallie Buck Graddy married Dr. Lewis Ferguson and Fanny Graddy married Arthur Cary of Fayette County.
W. Henry and Sallie Graddy had five children: Osburn died in early childhood; Lucy married Edward M. Wallace; Wm. Lee II married Mamie Field, daughter of Thompson Field of Madison County; George Carlyle whose wives were Ann Wall of Bowling Green, Kentucky, Carrie Blakemore, daughter of J.N. Blakemore of Anderson County and Katherine Davis of Harrodsburg; and Joseph C. Graddy married Elizabeth Turner.
It was said that W. Henry Graddy's influence was more felt in the business life of Woodford County than almost any other man. He was the first to bring a Hereford bull to the county and was a pioneer in stimulating the production of beef cattle. W. Henry Graddy chose to invest his money at home and in such enterprises as would employ labor, built up business and add to the natural prosperity of the people around him. He inherited some land and amassed a fortune by great energy, sagacity and honorable dealings. He was of a sturdy constitution and had wonderful capacity for work. In his seventy-second year at the time of his death he was as active as many half his age. It was a sad fatality that he should meet his death at a railroad crossing of the road he had been largely instrumental in building through Versailles.
Wm. Lee Graddy II and Mamie Field Graddy had three children: Lucy married J.D. Gay; W. Henry II married Louise Garrett, daughter of Joseph McDonald Garrett and Anna May married Wm. Hughes. W. Henry Graddy II now owns "Welcome Hall."
George Carlyle and Carrie Blakemore Graddy left one son Neville Graddy.
Joseph C. and Elizabeth Turner Graddy had two daughters: Elizabeth married J. Miller Turner and now lives at Greenwood, the home of her grandfather, W. Henry Graddy, and Josephine who married B.F. Thompson.
There has been no attempt in his sketch of the Graddy family to trace the history of the women of the family further than their marriages. Information as to their children, etc., would come under the family histories of the men whom they married.
James Gray
JAMES GRAY, farmer; P.O. Cynthiana; a native of Harrison County, born in the year 1804; his father, William Gray came from Pennsylvania in 1797 and located in Harrison County, near where his son, James, now lives; his grandfather was also named William; his mother was Jane Craig, daughter of James and Hannah (McCoy) Craig. In 1828 he married Miss Jane McCory, daughter of James McCory, of Bourbon County, Ky.; she died in 1831, leaving one child, now Sarah J. Lail. In 1832, he married Miss Keiser, of Bourbon County, and daughter of John Keiser; she died in 1869, leaving ten children, viz: Susan R., who is dead; Elizabeth, now the wife of Mr. Ammerman, of Harrison County; John K., Margaret, now the wife of Mr. Megibben of Harrison County; Nancy Umston, Martha Gray, Menory Tucker, Letitia Gray, Addie and Fannie. He is the owner of 350 acres of land five miles from Cynthiana along the line of Cynthiana and Leesburg Pike. He is the breeder of a high grade of stock. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church of Mt. Pleasant and by honest toil he has amassed a handsome fortune.
John Ira Gray
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V, Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. IV, p. 303.
JOHN IRA GRAY. One of the oldest and most prominent families in Harrison County is that of Gray, represented by John Ira Gray, a prosperous young farmer living on the old Gray homestead, six miles southwest of Cynthiana.
Mr. Gray was born in the house where he now lives, which is said to be the birthplace of three generations, on January 11, 1889, and is a son of James H. and Mattie C. (Robinson) Gray. His grandparents were John K. and Mary (Henry) Gray. John K. Gray was born on the same farm. The great-grandfather, James Gray, was born in this community in 1804. Of the large family of James Gray there still survive Mrs. Addie Martin, of Cynthiana, and the Misses Fanny and Lettie Gray, who still live on his old home, also Mrs. Mattie Gray of Lafayette County, Missouri. Mattie Robinson, mother of John Ira Gray, was born at Hannibal, Missouri, in 1860, and was a small child when brought to Cynthiana by her parents John P. and Caroline (Stephens) Robinson. She was the mother of two sons, John Ira and Carl H. Carl H. was born July 25, 1890, and died April 26, 1917.
John Ira Gray acquired a district school education, also attended high school at Cynthiana, and has spent his active career in the old homestead farm, where he owns and cultivates 240 acres.
On March 4, 1914, Mr. Gray married Miss Mary E. Darnell, a daughter of S.S. and Drusilla (Hackensmith) Darnell. She was born and reared in Woodfrod County. She received most of her education in the Kentucky Orphan School at Midway, and was a teacher in Woodford County before her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Gray have five children: Martha D., James C., Drusilla and Dave Patterson, twins, and John Ira, Jr. The family are members of the Mount Pleasant Church of which Mr. Gray is one of its deacons. He is a democrat in politics.
Jno. K. Gray
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, p. 709 (Rutland Precinct).
JNO. K. GRAY, farmer; P.O. Broadwell; his grandfather, Wm. Gray, came from Pennsylvania at an early day and settled in Harrison County, near Cynthiana, giving name to the stream known as Gray's Run, which rises near Leesburg and flows into South Licking, at Cynthiana. Having been an extensive trader in hogs and cattle, he was known very familiarly over the greater part of central Kentucky. His son, James Gray, the father of Jno. K., is still living at his home near Broadwell, in the enjoyment of a ripe old age. On the 15th Nov., 1860, when in his twenty-fourth year, Jno. K. Gray was united in marriage to Marietta, daughter of James and Susan (Dewett) Henry, of Harrison County. Their union has been blessed with three children: James H. born Oct. 28, 1861; Mary S., born Aug. 6, 1863; Margaret Ann, born Jan. 14, 1868. Their home was invaded May 12, 1875, by the stern messenger of death, who bore away their youngest. Mr. and Mrs. Gray have for many years been in communion with the Silas Baptist Church, of Bourbon County. Both the children are also members of the same denomination - the daughter at Silas and and the son at Friendship, on Raven Creek. Mr. Gray devotes his entire attention to farming and stock raising, being the owner of about 260 acres of good blue grass land. During the progress of the Grange Lodge at Broadwell, he was one of the leading members. His suffrage has always been exercised for the support of the Democratic party.
James Lee Gray
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V,Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. III, p. 64.
JAMES LEE GRAY. For more than a century the Gray family has borne a conspicuous part in the agricultural and business affairs of Harrison County. James Lee Gray has for many years been one of the leading stockmen of the county, and his farm is a portion of the old Gray homestead.
His grandfather, Francis Gray, was a native of Virginia and came to Harrison County when most of the land was still in the wilderness. He married Lydia Givins, a native of Harrison County. Their son, James Harvey Gray, was born at the old homestead in December, 1828, and came to manhood with a common school education. After his marriage he began farming, and at one time operated a distillery on his farm. His leading interest, however, was the breeding of pure bred [sic] Shorthorn cattle and Cotswold sheep. His stock was frequently exhibited at fairs and exhibitions, and carried off many cups and other prizes. At the time of his death, which occurred February 14, 1878, he owned 330 acres. James H. Gray married Mary Hester Brown, who was born in Harrison County August 22, 1836, daughter of Francis and Polly (Baxter) Brown, who also came from Virginia. James H. Gray and wife had eight children, and all of them at one time or another lived in Texas, where several of them are still active in professional and business life.
James Lee Gray was born on the old homestead seven miles west of Cynthiana, on Mount Vernon Pike, June 12, 1865. As a youth there he acquired a country school education. He was only thirteen when his father died, and after assisting in the labors of the home farm for several years he went to Texas in 1885 and spent ten years ranching in the western part of that state. In 1895 he returned to Kentucky, and for a quarter of a century his time and energies have been devoted to the portion of the old homestead where he owns 170 acres. He has made this a general stock and grain farm, also growing some tobacco. Besides his farm interests Mr. Gray is a director of the Farmers National Bank at Cynthiana.
At Indianapolis February 4, 1903, he married Miss Myrtle Old, a native of Logansport, Indiana. The family residence for many years was at Indianapolis. Her father was William A. Old, for many years a locomotive engineer, but now retired and living at Cynthiana. Mrs. Gray's mother, Susan Asbury, was born in Harrison County, Kentucky, a daughter of Virtner S. and Sallie (Ingles) Asbury, and was of pioneer Kentucky ancestry, one branch of her family connecting with the family of Daniel Boone.
Mr. and Mrs. Gray have one daughter, Mary M., a high school student. Mr. and Mrs. Gray are members of the Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church, of which he is one of its elders. In politics he is a democrat.
Hubbard F. Griffith
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V,Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. III, p. 68.
HUBBARD F. GRIFFITH. One of the oldest farms in Harrison County distinguished by continuous possession of one family and long a center of the pure bred [sic] livestock industry is the Sliver Lake Farm, the present proprietor of which is Hubbard F. Griffith, a great-great-grandson of the founder of this well known family in Kentucky.
William Griffith was born in Virginia and was one of the early settlers in Bourbon County, Kentucky. He was a delegate from that county to the convention which framed the first constitution for Kentucky. Not long after the constitution was ratified he took sick, and died at the age of forty, when in the prime of his years and usefulness. He married Sallie Baker, who after coming to Kentucky studied medicine and was very proficient in the application of herbal remedies to disease.
One of their sons was Maj. William Griffith, who held the rank of major in the State Militia. He moved from Bourbon to Harrison County, settling five miles southwest of Cynthiana, where he became owner of the extensive tract of land comprising about twelve hundred acres known for years as the Sliver Lake Farm. He erected the present brick residence about a century ago. He was born in Virginia November 5, 1782, and died July 7, 1843.
A grandson of Major Griffith and son of William Burrell and Harriet (King) Griffith (he dying in 1837), was William King Griffith, who owned Silver Lake Farm and spent all his life in its occupations. He died December 21, 1915. He married Margaret K. Spears, who died January 29, 1918. His children were: William B., deceased; Emma H., wife of Rev. J.T. Sharrard, of Paris, Kentucky; Hubbard F.; John K., who died in 1906, at the age of forty-three, at Kansas City, Missouri, where he was a prominent attorney.
Hubbard F. Griffith grew up on the old Silver Lake Farm, had a public school education, attended Smith's Classical School and Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. After finishing his education he returned to the homestead, and has made a notable success as a farmer and stock breeder. The feature of his stock farm is his herd of Polled Angus cattle, headed by Allenhurst Blackbird No. 315363. Since the death of his mother his nephew, William King Griffith and wife, Betty George, have occupied the home with him. They have three children, Mary Galloway, William King and Elizabeth Golden Griffith.
J.K. Griffith
Source: Creel, George & John Slavens, Men Who Are Making Kansas City: A Biographical Directory, Kansas City, Mo.: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co., 1902, p. 52 (A photograph of J.K. Griffith accompanies this biography on page 52; the caption of the photograph reads "Photo by Strauss.").
was born near Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky, February 22, 1863. He spent his boyhood there on the Kentucky farm, and received his early education at a private school in Cynthiana. He afterwards sent to Chickering Institute, Cincinnati, and then entered Yale, graduating with the degree of A.B. in 1886. After his graduation there, he attended the Cincinnati Law School, taking his degree of L.L.B. in 1888. He was admitted to the bar in Ohio, then in Kentucky, and came to Kansas City for a permanent residence in the fall of 1888. He was admitted to practice here early in 1889, and entered the office of Scarritt & Scarritt. In 1895 the firm of Scarritt, Griffith, & Jones was formed.
Mr. Griffith is a member of the Commercial Club, a Mason, having been Master of Temple Lodge in 1902. He was married June 21, 1893, in Kansas City, to Miss Georgie Moore, and the union has been blessed with two children, Kerfoot M., and Margaret F.
W.K. Griffith
W. K. GRIFFITH, farmer; P.O. Cynthiana; is a native of Harrison County, where he was born at his present residence in 1828. His grandfather, William Griffith, was a native of Virginia, whence he emigrated at an early day, and figured conspicuously in those pioneer struggles which were the common lot of all of Kentucky's early settlers. He was noted for his uprightness and candor, and soon became possessed of the confidence and esteem of his fellow men, having been elected as a delegate to the convention which met at Danville in April, 1792, to frame the first constitution of Kentucky. The father of our subject, Burrell Griffith, married Harriet King, daughter of John King, of Bourbon County, Ky. After a brief period of wedded life the connubial tie was severed by the death of the wife in 1829. The husband survived her eight years, dying in 1837. W.K. Griffith married Miss Margaret Spears, daughter of John K. and Emily Spears, of Bourbon, and is the father of four children: Wm. B., Emma H., Hubert F. and John K. He is the owner of a very fine estate of 1,300 acres of superior blue grass land, located on Cynthiana and Leesburg Pike, five miles from Cynthiana, and called "Silver Lake" from a very fine lake which covers an area of about two acres and adjoining his residence. Mr. Griffith has for several years past been a successful breeder of short horn cattle and Cotswold sheep, having at the head of his herd, "Victor 2d," by Duke of Broomfield. (American Short Horn Register, Vol. 19, No. 37,102.) His politics are identified with the Democrat party, of which he is a warm and valiant supporter. Mrs. G. is a member of the Christian Church at Leesburg.
J.W. Grinnan
Source: The Cynthiana (Ky.) Democrat (Special Edition), June, 1896, p. 24, col. 1.
Mr. James W. Grinnan is a young photographer whose work gives promise of the success that awaits him. Mr. Grinnan made the photographs for a majority of the views that appear in this issue of the DEMOCRAT and their excellence attests the superiority of his work. He is careful and painstaking and is satisfied with nothing but the best views obtainable. The DEMOCRAT recommends him highly and will watch with interest the progress of his career.
NOTE: A photograph of J.W. Grinnan accompanies this article on page 24, column 1.
Robert Lewis Grinnan
Source: Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, Cincinnati, Oh.: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878, p. 381.
GRINNAN, ROBERT LEWIS, son of W.J. Grinnan and Martha (Bridwell) Grinnan, was born September 1, 1842, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. His father was a native of Prince William County; and a cotton-goods manufacturer; came to Kentucky in 1855, and finally located in Harrison County. His mother was the daughter of Richard Bridwell, a soldier of the war of 1812, and farmer of Stafford County, Virginia. R.L. Grinnan received a good education; and first began business in the foundry of his uncle, at Maysville; in 1858 and 1859 he spent in learning the cooper trade at Cynthiana; in 1860, he learned the photographic business in Maysville, and spent several years carrying on the business in different town of the State; spent 1870, variously engaged in California; in that year, located at Lancaster, Kentucky, where he has since resided. February 7, 1867, Mr. Grinnan was married to Amanda Sutfield (née Salter), daughter of Gabriel Salter, a farmer, and, for several years, a Representative in the Legislature from Garrard County. In 1874, he was elected Police Judge of Lancaster. In 1876, he was appointed on the staff of Gov. McCreary, with the rank of colonel. Mr. Grinnan is a Democrat in politics; and is a member of the Christian Church.
Asa Morrison Hall
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V,Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. IV, p. 169.
ASA MORRISON HALL. The life of Asa M. Hall, well-known attorney of Lexington, has been one of hard study and research from his youth and since maturity of laborious professional duty, and the high position which he has attained in the profession to which he belongs is evidence that the qualities which he possesses afford the means of distinction under a system of government in which places of honor and usefulness are open to all who may be worthy of them.
Asa Morrison Hall was born on his father's farm in Harrison County, Kentucky, on August 5, 1886, and is the son of James W. and Mollie (Wolf) Hall. Both of his parents, who are still living, are natives of Harrison County, the father having been born on December 1, 1858, and the mother on February 9, 1862. They were married on February 10, 1881, and their union has been blessed in the birth of seven children, as follows: Lena, the wife of J.L. Bales, of Lexington, and the mother of three children, Alexander, Fannie May and Virginia; James V.; Asa M., the immediate subject of this sketch; Fannie May, who died at the age of seventeen years; Mary Elizabeth, the wife of Ira Brown, of Des Moines, Iowa; Lucille; and Lillian, who is the wife of James Pool, of Lexington, and they have a son, James, Jr. James W. hall, the father, received his educational training in the common schools of Harrison County, and up to the age of eighteen years he followed the vocation of farming and stock trading. Since that time he has been engaged in the retail grocery business in Lexington and has been successful in his business affairs. Politically he is a democrat, while he and his wife embrace the religious faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The paternal grandfather, Volney Hall, and his wife were both natives of Harrison County, where he followed farming and stock raising. He was a democrat in his political alignment and stood high in the community in which he lived. To him and his wife were born eight children, of whom James W. Hall was the second in order of birth.
Asa M. Hall attended the public schools of Harrison County and the City of Lexington, and then entered the law department of the University of Kentucky, where he took a special course. He had read law aside from his university work, one of his preceptors having been Judge Charles Kerr. He was admitted to the bar in 1912, and after spending one year in the law office of Allen & Duncan he entered upon the practice on his own account and has been eminently successful as a general practitioner. He has been connected with much of the important litigation in the local courts and has earned a wide reputation as a safe and sound counselor. A pleasing, earnest and forceful speaker, he makes a strong impression on court and jury and has won many hard-fought cases. Mr. Hall is a member of the Fayette County Bar Association and the Kentucky State Bar Association. Fraternally he is a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, into which none are admitted except one-hundred-per-cent Americans, and to the Fraternal Brotherhood, as well as the Columbian Union, in which he holds the office of grand magus. Politically he is an earnest supporter of the democratic party. He has achieved a splendid record at the bar at an age when many men are just starting out on their real life work, for from the beginning he has been intensely methodical and unswervingly persistent in his search of the essentials of the legal foundations, therefore the public recognition and appreciation which are accorded him have been richly earned.
Captain John Hamilton
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, pp. 657-8 (Cynthiana City and Precinct).
CAPTAIN JOHN HAMILTON, farmer, P.O. Cynthiana. Capt. Hamilton was born near Gettysburg, in York County, Penn., in 1766, and died in 1863. His father, Wm. Hamilton, was born in County Tyrone Ireland, and emigrated to America several years prior to the Revolution, and settled at the place now called Ginger Hill, in Washington County, Penn. It was then called a frontier settlement. He married Mollie Bitener, also of County Tyrone, Ireland. She died about the year 1814. The fruits of this marriage were eight children, but one of which died under eighty years of age. His educational advantages were very limited, only having an opportunity to attend school about three months. He afterward learned to write his name on the head of a whiskey barrel while distilling. His first business was in clearing up the forest and watching the Indians. Capt. H. was married in Bourbon County in 1795, to Rachel Cook, who was born in Virginia about 1770, and died in 1813. Her parents were John and Peggy (Blair) Cook, both of Virginia birth. Subject was a Captain in the war of 1812. Commanded a company of volunteers, mounted riflemen, under Gen. Hopkins. His first march was to Fort Harrison, commanded by Maj. Zachary Taylor. Being but ten years of age when Independence was declared, he was too young to take any part in the Revolution, except, toward the close, he carried dispatches. He had born to him two sons, (Septimus, born 1805, and John in 1808), and five daughters (Peggy, born 1796; Polly, 1798; Sally, 1800; Nancy, 1803; and Caroline in 1810). Capt. H. came to Kentucky in 1785, then in his nineteenth year. He and a few companions took a large canoe and came down the Ohio River to the mouth of Limestone Creek, now Maysville; from that they went to Ruddel's Station by way of the Buffalo trace. He remained in Kentucky till the whiskey insurrection broke out in Western Pennsylvania, at which time he returned there by the wilderness route, and, arriving, found an army camped on his brother's farm, to put down the insurrection. His brother refused to pay the tax on his still, and hid to prevent being arrested, and had made up his mind to allow his still to be confiscated. At this juncture our subject went after dark, took the still out of the furnace and carried it to the Monongahela, which was some three miles distant, concealed it there, returned and secured the cap and worm, which he took to the same place, until he was ready to start. A few days later our subject, in company with a Mr. McCoons procured a large canoe, loaded their distilling apparatus and brought the same down the Ohio to Limestone; they again hid it, and made their way to Ruddel's Station, where they got an auger and axe and made a rough log sled, to which they hitched a horse, and returned to Limestone and hauled their still, etc., to the Station. The following year they raised some corn and rye and manufactured the same into whiskey, which was perhaps the first of that article ever made in the county, although the credit has been claimed by other parties. He only doubled once a week, and the men would come in every Saturday from the neighboring stations and drink as much as they could, and carry the balance home with them to supply their wants till the next Saturday. His yield was from six to eight gallons per week. He voted for George Washington at his second election to the Presidency of the United States, and voted at every Presidential election afterward to the time of Abraham Lincoln's election. He also voted for a delegate to represent Kentucky in Virginia.
George Hampton
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, p. 711 (Rutland Precinct).
GEORGE HAMPTON, farmer; P.O. Corinth; his grandfather, Andrew Hampton, paternal uncle of Gen. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, came to Kentucky about the year 1790, and settled on the middle fork of Raven Creek. He engaged in farming, and through a long and useful life commanded the esteem of his fellow men. His remains repose in the old burying ground of Raven Creek. Thomas Hampton, the father of our subject, was born in Kentucky, about the time or shortly after his father's settlement. Besides farming, he acquired the trade of gunsmith, which he carried on with success for several years. He died at this home in Harrison County, May 9, 1837. George Hampton was born Feb. 18, 1832, and received his early training upon his father's farm. In the year 1857, he married Paulina, daughter of Crockett Evans, of Wales, Great Britain, by whom he has four children, named and aged respectively: Asa, 17; Lucy, 15; Lena, 6; Gen. Wade, 5. In politics, Mr. Hampton is a staunch Democrat. Mrs. Hampton is a member of the Methodist Church, at Laton's Chapel, in Grant County, Ky.
Henry H. Harding
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, pp. 691-2 (Sylvan Dell Precinct).
HENRY H. HARDING, farmer, P. O. Shady Nook, born in Harrison County, Jan. 31, 1831; his grandfather Thomas Harding came from North Carolina at an early day, and settled in Nicholas County, near Hooktown, where he resided till he fell a victim in 1833 to that dreaded scourge, the cholera; his father Wm. Harding survived the year of the great epidemic and was carried off in 1835 by consumption. Henry H. Harding was raised on a farm and acquired the trade of cooper before he reached his majority; he married first Nancy E., daughter of William and Mary (Maffit) Bishop, of Harrison County; four children were born to them, two of whom, Napoleon B. and Samantha Ann, are living; he next married Elizabeth, daughter of Jno. and Visa (Friman) Florence, of Harrison County; they have eight children, all living, named and aged respectively: Thom[Page 692]as McF., 20; Berry M., 18; Jno. W., 15; Visa W., 13; Ira Ecty, 12; Luther, 7; Nannie M., 5; Henry N., 2; self and wife members of Republican Christian Church. Mr. Harding is a member of the Orient (Masonic) Lodge, of Nicholas County, in which Lodge he now holds the office of Junior Warden; in 1861 he was elected Constable by the Republican party and served for five years.
Thomas W. Hardy
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, p. 710 (Rutland Precinct).
THOMAS W. HARDY, farmer, P.O. Rutland, born in Greenup County, July 15, 1837. His grandfather, Thomas Hardy, was a native of Scotland, whence he emigrated and settled in Virginia; he was a soldier of the war of 1812-15, at the close of which he moved from Virginia and settled near Chillicothe, Ohio, where he died. Rev. John C. Hardy, father of our subject, was born at Chillicothe, and was educated for the Methodist ministry. At the age of twenty-one he was stationed on the Greenup Circuit. He is still living in Lewis County, but owing to an affection of his throat he is compelled to desist from his ministerial labors. When quite young, he was a soldier of the war of 1812, but never engaged in any regular battles. T.W. Hardy was taken by his father to Mason County, where he was raised. In 1850 he came to Harrison and settled near White Oak Meeting House. He married Sarah F., daughter of James W. and Sarah (Lair) Berry, by whom he has four children, aged as follows: Lena T., thirteen; Charles M., twelve; Albert B., ten; Julia E., seven. Mr. Hardy was the first Master of Raven Creek (Masonic) Lodge, having taken an active part in securing the dispensation for said Lodge; he is also a Knight Templar of the Cynthiana Commandery, and now holds the position of Junior Warden in the same. Himself and wife are members of the Methodist Church at Mt. Zion; he was elected a delegate to represent the Kentucky Conference in the general conference which met at Louisville in 1877. In August, 1880, Mr. Hardy was elected Magistrate of the Rutland Precinct as the regular nominee of the Democratic party. In September 1862, he enlisted in the Southern army under Humphrey Marshall. When Marshall left Kentucky he held the office of Captain; he afterward acted as Adjutant and scout under Forrest; he served throughout the war; was in several engagements; at the battle of Chickamauga he was wounded; afterward taken with small-pox at Louisville, where he remained till [sic] close of the war, literally wearing out the disease by his strong constitution.
Charles Hart
Source: History of McHenry County, Illinois: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens: Also a Condensed History of Illinois, Embodying Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History, Chicago: Inter-State Pub. Co., 1885, pp. 477-8.
Charles Hart, one of the first settlers of Chemung Township, came with his parents and settled on a part of the present site of Harvard, Oct. 15, 1839. His father, William Hart, Sr., was born in Milton, Vt., Aug. 17, 1796, and Jan. 24, 1820, married Julia [Page 478] Hurlburt, and in 1839 came with his wife and two sons, William and Charles, to Illinois, and bought 360 acres of land from the Government, eighty acres of which is now in town lots on the west side of Harvard. The mother died Feb. 3, 1861. Their eldest son, William, was born in Milton, Vt., May 24, 1821. He married Susan Wheeler, now deceased. He resides in Berry, Ky. Charles Hart was their youngest son. He was born in Milton, Vt., April 15, 1828, and was therefore eleven years old when his parents moved to Illinois, and has since lived on the old homestead entered by his father. When they first came to the county the Pottawattomie Indians had a camp on their land, on the present site of Mr. Hart's residence, and young Black Hawk, a son of the old chief, visited them. Mr. Hart has been one of the most enterprising men of the township. His influence has always been strong on the side of temperance and morality. Politically he has always been a Republican. He was married Jan. 25, 1855, to Helen Brainard, daughter of Gilbert Brainard, one of the first settlers of Harvard. She died Sept. 3, 1858, leaving one daughter--Adela, who still lives with her father.
Henry G. Hatterick
Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V, Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. IV, p. 298.
HENRY G. HATTERICK is a substantial business man and one of the high-minded public leaders in the civic affairs of Cynthiana, where he is serving as city commissioner.
Mr. Hatterick was born in Bracken County, Kentucky, November 7, 1877, a son of W.J. and Mary (Umphrey) Hatterick. His father, a native of Germany, came to the United States in 1861, being a butcher by trade, and followed that occupation in Cincinnati, at different points in Ohio and also in Kentucky. On March 21, 1889, he located at Cynthiana, and continued in the retail meat business there until he retired. His wife was born in America. Of their ten children nine are still living: Caroline, W.H., F.J., Mary, Anna, Henry G., Dora, Walter and Albert, twins. The parents are members of the Presbyterian Church and the father is a republican.
Henry G. Hatterick grew up at Cynthiana from the age of twelve years and finished his education here in the public schools. After school days were over he learned the butcher's trade under his father, and with the thoroughness characteristic of his father's business methods. For nine years he was connected with an artificial ice manufacturing business, and then joined his brother F.J. in the butcher business under the firm name of Hatterick Brothers. They were actively associated for thirteen years, and the firm name is still continued by Henry G. and his brother Albert.
On February 16, 1905, Mr. Hatterick married Miss Adaline Neff. They are the parents of three children: Anita, a student in the Cynthiana High School, John H. and Harry McDowell. The family are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Hatterick is affiliated with Quimby Lodge of Knights of Pythias. He is a stanch republican in politics, and while the normal democratic majority from Cynthiana is a hundred, he was four times elected city commissioner on the republican ticket by a majority of 250. This fact attests his personal popularity and also the able qualifications he brought to his duties as one of the managers of Cynthiana's municipal affairs.
Emil Hausberger
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V, Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. IV, p. 294.
EMIL HAUSBERGER. One of the best farming sections of Harrison County is just west of Cynthiana, where the owners and cultivators of the land are Alsatians. Their characteristic orderliness and thrifty industry are everywhere apparent. One of these prosperous farms and homesteads is owned by Emil Hausberger, who has worked up from the poverty of an emigrant boy to the Independent circumstances represented by his farm 2¼ miles west of Cynthiana.
Mr. Hausberger was born in Alsace, January 28, 1877, son of Nicholas and Christina (Breiner) Hausberger. His parents are still living in Alsace. His father is a wagon maker by trade, and had his work and shop in a small village in Alsace. Both parents were devout Catholics. A brief record of their six children is as follows: Sophia, who died after her marriage; Wendaline, a wagon maker in France; Alphus, a farmer, Joseph, who came to the United States and lived in Harrison County, where he died; Emil; and Louis, a nurse in France.
Emil Hausberger attended the public schools of his native land from the age of six until he was fourteen, and then gave his labors to his parents. At the age of sixteen his mother gave him money to pay his passage to this country, and he found his first home with an uncle. He worked out as a farm hand by the year for eight years, receiving $10 and $14 per month.
On February 5, 1901, Mr. Hausberger married Mary Lang, who was born in Alsace July 13, 1876, was educated in the common schools and at the age of fifteen came to the United States. For five months she lived in Mason County, Kentucky, and then found employment as a domestic servant in Harrison County for four years, and subsequently worked in Cincinnati until her marriage.
Mr. Hausberger, with a wife and family to provide for, rented a farm for seven years and then turned the proceed of his labor into land of his own. His present place comprises 104 acres, and is completely used and equipped for the purposes of a general farm and stock raising proposition. Mr. and Mrs. Hausberger are members of St. Edward's Catholic Church at Cynthiana, and politically he is aligned with the democratic party.
They have a family of four children: Louis C., Celistena, Gertrude, and Martin J.
James A. Haviland
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, p. 699 (Richland Precinct).
JAMES A. HAVILAND, farmer; P.O. Havilandsville; was born in Harrison County, Ky., May 6, 1821; son of R.S. and Mary C. (Stewart) Haviland. He is a native of New York State, removed to Harrison County, Ky., in 1818, and taught school for about ten years, when he removed to Lexington, and then back to Harrison County, and followed, many years previous to his death, the woolen manufacturing business and merchandising, dying at Havilandsville, Aug. 8, 1858. He had eight children. The grandfather, Israel Haviland, and great-grandfather, James Haviland, were both natives of New York; the first a dealer and manufacturer in boots and shoes, and the latter a farmer. James A., after receiving his education, became superintendent of his father's manufacturing business, and followed farming for twenty years. Our subject is a brother of W.S. Haviland, whose sketch appears in the Cynthiana sketches.
W.S. Haviland
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, pp. 658-9 (Cynthiana City and Precinct).
W.S. HAVILAND, farmer, P.O. Cynthiana. There are but few families of the Northern belt of the Blue Grass region who are able to trace the genealogy of their ancestry back to the seventeenth century; and of these few the name of William S. Haviland is worthy of more than passing mention in this history. His great grandfather, James Haviland, was born in New York, May 25, 1740, and died Nov. 25, 1786. He was a farmer, and married Miss Ann Hanniwell; seven children were the issue of their union, of whom was Israel Haviland, born March 12, 1765, in Harrison Purchase, Weschester County, N.Y. He was married to Miss Jane Anderson, Oct. 12, 1788, and died Oct. 23, 1819, in New York City, where for many years he had resided, engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes. There were born to them fourteen children, of whom Robert S., father of our subject, was the second son; he was born Nov. 11, 1796, and emigrated to Kentucky in 1818. April 6, 1820, he married Miss Mary C. Stewart; his death occurred Aug. 8, 1858, at Havilandsville, Harrison County, Ky. He was educated for a sea captain, but spend most of his life in Kentucky. Of the nine children born to them, William S. our subject was the second son. He was born March 22, 1823 in Harrison County, and Dec. 30, 1845, he married Mary E. Whitehead, whose death occurred April 13, 1849. He was married a second time on June 13, 1854, to Miss Mary Ellen Jones. His children are by his first wife, Mary F., born Jan. 17, 1847; Bettie, born April 11, 1849, and by his second wife, Charles B., born April 19, 1855, Robert S., born Dec. 23, 1857; Carrie, born June 30, 1863. Mr. Haviland is one among the best known and prominent citizens of Harrison County, a native of the county by birth; he has always taken a very active part in her development, and has assisted largely in those enterprises which mark the progress of civilization. His early life was spent in assisting his father to conduct a large mercantile and manufacturing business in Havilandsville, at which place he at the age of twenty-one years embarked in the manufacture and sale of cabinet-ware on his own account. He continued this business until 1850, when he engaged in establishing the legality and collecting claims in the United States and foreign countries. He is the owner of one of the finest houses in Harrison County, located two miles north of Cynthiana on the Cynthiana and Falmouth Pike. His farm consists of 200 acres of choice land, and the brick residence erected by his design, is spoken of as the finest farm residence in Harrison County. He has always been an energetic and enterprising citizen, and bears a name and reputation of which his children may well be proud. Now, in the latter years of his life he is surrounded with those comforts and enjoying those pleasures that are ever the result of honesty, industry and economy.
T.S. Hawkins
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Nick Hayes
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V, Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. IV, pp. 271-2.
NICK HAYES is a prosperous farmer and tobacco grower living on Shady Nook Pike, four miles east of Cynthiana. He is a member of a family that has been in this section of Kentucky for half a century, and the name is widely and favorably known in connection with the farming industry and good citizenship.
Nick Hayes was born near the Bourbon County line May 19, 1872, a son of Edward and Mary (Hayes) Hayes. His parents bore the same family name, but were note related. His father was born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1826, grew up there, and in 1849, at the age of twenty-three, came to the United States. In Kenton County, Kentucky, he married Mary Hayes, who was also born in Ireland, in 1829, and came to the United States with her parents at the age of nineteen. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hayes farmed as renters in Kenton, Bourbon and Nicholas counties [sic], and in 1872 moved to Harrison County, and lived out their lives on their farm here. Of their eight children, three are still living: Ella, Edward, and Nick. Edward and Nick Hayes are joint owners and operators of their farm of 163 acres. They are democrats, members of St. Edwards Catholic Church, and Nick Hayes is the present secretary of Hope Grange.
Thomas C. Hays
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, p. 658 (Cynthiana City and Precinct).
THOS. C. HAYS, deceased; was born in Bourbon County, Dec. 12, 1811, and died May 5, 1881, son of Walter and Catharine (Kendall) Hays; he, a native of Maryland and a farmer, she, of Bourbon County, Ky. They had nine children. Our subject received his education in the schools of Nicholas and Bourbon Counties, and, when a lad, learned the shoemaker's trade, in connection with which occupation he pursued farming until his death. At Oddville, Harrison Co., Dec. 8, 1838, he married Miss Rachel C. Whitaker, born August 24, 1815, at Oddville, daughter of Joseph and Sukey (Horrey) Whitaker, he, born in 1779, in Harrison County; she, in 1781, in Bourbon County, Ky. Mr. Hays had nine children born to him, seven of whom are living: Sudie, Wm. T., Gusta A., Lucius, Joseph L., Abbott B. and Eva C. Sudie is the wife of Wm. H. Mathers; Wm. T. is married and living at Oddville; Gusta A. is the wife of Abraham Lingenfelter; Joseph also is married. Mrs. Hays has a fine farm of 110 acres. Mr. Hays was a member of the Patrons of Husbandry, a Good Templar and a Democrat. Mrs. Hays and her entire family are members of the Methodist Church.
The Hedges Co.
Source: The Cynthiana (Ky.) Democrat (Special Edition), June, 1896, p. 3, col. 5.
This firm, doing business on the corner of Main and Pike streets [sic], is the only one of its kind in the city, and may well be called the Ladies' Emporium as it handles ladies' goods exclusively, furnishing a great many handsome dresses, hats and bonnets for the ladies of our community. In fact, they keep a choice line of the cheapest as well as the best dress goods that can be had in the eastern markets.
Mr. Hedges having been in the dry goods trade for some twenty-nine years and visited all the eastern markets, purchasing their dress stuffs from the manufacturers' agents from abroad, will certainly assure you that experience is money and you can have it by seeing their immense stock. Mrs. Hedges has had twenty years experience in the millinery business, ever being on the alert for the newest and most fashionable articles landed from the foreign markets, and one can safely say she is always up to the times in millinery, as she spares no time or expense to get the latest and best of everything in that line. She also employs the best trimmers to be had. Their stock of kid gloves, hosiery, underwear and notions cannot be excelled.
When you are in the city don't fail to give them a call. They will make the prices right, for they buy in large quantities, and will give you the advantage.
The three story building occupied by the Hedge Co., shows well in the cut of Pike street [sic]. It stands on the north-east corner.
Chris Hehr
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V,Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. V, p. 154.
CHRIS HEHR for many years has been a prominent figure in the community of Broadwell in Harrison County, where he is former postmaster, was proprietor of a blacksmith shop, and is still giving more or less active supervision to his extensive farming interests. His home is on the Cynthiana and Leesburg Pike, seven miles south of Cynthiana.
Mr. Hehr was born at Tell City, Indiana, July 15, 1861, a son of George and Fannie (Flad) Hehr. His parents were natives of Germany and came as young people to the United States. They were married at Cynthiana, Kentucky, later lived in Greene County, Indiana, then at Crittenden, Kentucky, and for many years had their home in Harrison County, where they died. George Hehr was a blacksmith by trade and is still living now retired from his business. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, while his wife was a Catholic. OF their nine children seven grew to mature years and five are still living: Chris; John, a Harrison County farmer; Will, a farmer in Bourbon County; Fannie, wife of C.S. Thompson, of California; and Barbara, who lives in California, widow of R.N. Parker.
Christ Hehr has lived practically all his life in Kentucky. He grew up in Harrison County, where he had the advantages of the public schools at Cynthiana. From his father he learned the blacksmith's trade, and he worked at it in Cynthiana and for a number of years conducted a shop of his own at Broadwell. He and his brothers, George and John, from their work paid the expenses of their sisters through school.
Mr. Hehr's first wife was Mollie Duckworth, of Carlisle, Kentucky. She left three sons, Garnett, Owen and Kenneth. Mr. Hehr then married Mary Florence, and by this marriage has a son, Frazier. Mr. and Mrs. Hehr are members of the Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church. He is a democrat and for twenty years was postmaster at Broadwell. He lives in Broadwell Village, where he has a comfortable residence and three acres of ground, but his main farm comprises 223 acres and is one of the valuable properties in that rural community.
Rev. Howard Andrew Millet Henderson
Source: Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, Cincinnati, Oh.: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878, pp. 575-6.
HENDERSON, REV. HOWARD ANDREW MILLET, Superintendent of Public Education, was born August 15, 1836, at Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky. his father was a native of new Hampshire, and came of a family of seamen, one branch of which settled in North Carolina, some of whom emigrated to Kentucky and settled in Henderson County, which bears their name. He was a man of fine scholarly attainments; was educated at Exeter Academy and Yale College; was the author of a grammar, for many years extensively used in the schools; came to Kentucky about 1825; was principal of a female school at Paris, and was killed by a fall from his buggy, when the subject of this sketch was five years old. His mother was the daughter of Andrew Moore, of Harrison County, Kentucky, a lawyer and member of a family of great worth, and occupying a high position in that county. His grandmother was a Morin, a member of a family distinguished for their generosity and integrity. His mother, a woman of many accomplishments of high culture, still lives in widowhood at Forest Hill, near Millersburg, and is a wonderfully well-preserved woman, a representative of the highest order of refinement in her State. Her last husband, William Nunn, was a man of large wealth and magnanimity; made his home the center of social refinement, and was a most generous, useful, and earnest friend to Howard A.M. Henderson, who was designed by is mother and step-father for the legal profession, and although they took some early step towards carrying out their cherished purpose, it never seemed to wholly meet his own desires. He began his academic education, strictly speaking, after reaching his twelfth year, at Dover, New Hampshire, but mainly finished his literary education at the Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. He also passed some time in the Cincinnati School of Law and Commerce, but, while residing in that city, and being an inmate of the house of Rev. W. McD. Abbett, surrounded by religious influences, joined the Methodist Church, and determined to enter the ministry. In 1857, he joined the Kentucky Conference, at Lexington, and was immediately transferred to the Alabama Conference. He filled several important positions in that Conference; took rank at once as a gifted speaker, a bold independent thinker, and a zealous laborer in the Church. After the commencement of the civil war [sic], he entered the military service of the Confederacy, as captain in the Twenty-eighth Alabama Infantry, where he was known throughout a large part of the army as "the soldier-preacher." He preached every Sabbath, when circumstances of the war permitted, and became very popular as a preacher and soldier, sharing every hardship of the camp and danger of the field. Finally, disabled for entering the line, he was assigned to the staff-position of assistant adjutant-general; acted as commissioner in the exchange of prisoners, early in 1864; effected the exchange of thirty-five thousand prisoners on each side, and was greatly instrumental in alleviating the asperities of the desperate struggle, now looking back with satisfaction to may occasions in which it was his privilege to minister alike to the spiritual and temporal wants of the "forlorn and shipwrecked brother." Towards the close of the war, he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel, with the pay of brigadier-general. For some time succeeding the close of the war, he was editor of the "Demopolis (Alabama) New Era;" returning to Kentucky, in the Fall of 1866, became pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Frankfort, becoming, probably, the most popular minister who had ever had charge of that Church; in 1870, was assigned to the Church at Lexington, where he labored with great success for a year, resigning his charge, in September, 1871, to assume the duties of Superintendent of Public Instruction, to which he had been elected. In 1874, he was again nominated by his party, and was re-elected by a majority over his opponent of ten thousand votes more than any other candidate on his ticket. He has conducted the affairs of his office with great ability; being liberal and progressive in his views, has used every exertion, by intermingling with the best teachers of the country, examining the systems of other States, and bestowing great personal effort, to advance the school system of the State to a favorable comparison with any in the nation. BY his great energy, learning, and executive ability, he has done a noble work for the schools, for which the people of the State owe him a debt of gratitude. He is President of the State Teacher's Association, has been Grand Master of the Odd-fellows, and is a conspicuous working member of several popular social organizations, and is one of the most intelligent, enterprising, and vigorous, and valuable men of Kentucky. In addition to the great labors of his office, he has en[Page 576]gaged largely in literary pursuits, and is editor of the "Freemason," the "Eclectic Leader;" contributes extensively to his Church papers, and the periodical magazines; and, besides writing many sermons and lectures, is the author of "School-house Architecture," a volume of Odd-Fellows' addresses, "Commentary on Kentucky School Law," and "National School Lawyer," and is engaged upon "Representative Kentucky," a work embracing the Ethnology, Topography, History, and Biography of the State. He is a man of fine sensibilities, of great exactness of habit, liberal in his views, fearless in his advocacy of what he deems right; is exceedingly restless and active in temperament; is agreeable and genial in manners; warm in his attachments; and surrounds his home ("St. Elmo"), in Frankfort, with every accompaniment of a refined mind. Dr. Henderson was married, February 5, 1861, to Miss Susan Wilkins Vaughn, daughter of a distinguished physician and planter of Marengo County, Alabama. Dr. Henderson has been honored with the degrees of A.M., D.D., and LL.D.
James P. Henry, M.D.
Source: A Memorial and Biographical Record of Kansas City and Jackson County, Mo., Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1896, pp. 127-8.
JAMES P. HENRY, M.D., has for nearly half a century maintained his residence in Independence, Missouri, and is therefore entitled to rank foremost among its pioneers. There are now only eleven men living in this city and township who were here when Dr. Henry came to Independence in the spring of 1849.
James P. Henry was born in Mercer county [sic], Kentucky, June 20, 1819, and when small removed with his father's family to Harrison county [sic], that state, where he was reared. Jesse Henry, his father, was a man of local prominence in his day. For some twenty years he served as sheriff of Harrison county [sic], his home during this period being in Cynthiana. In 1845 he left his Kentucky home and came over into Missouri, first making settlement in Booneville, and a year later removing to Independence, where the closing years of his life were passed and where he died in the spring of 1852. He was one of the first mayors of this city. His wife, the Doctor's mother, was before her marriage Miss Nancy Porter. She died in Independence in the year 1876. In their family were six children,--three sons and three daughters,--James P. being the eldest.
He received an academic education at Cynthiana, and was there deputy sheriff under his father for several years. Later he filled the position of deputy clerk of the circuit ad county court for about two years in Harrison county [sic]. Then he took up the study of medicine, at first in Cynthiana and subsequently in the Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky, where he graduated in the spring of 1843. After practicing one year in Cynthiana he came, in October, 1844, to Missouri, locating at New Franklin, Howard county, where he remained five years, or until his removal to Independence in the spring of 1849. Since that date he has been a constant practitioner. At this writing he is regarded as the oldest practicing physician in Jackson county [sic]; and throughout his whole residence here he has in many ways been prominently identified with the best interests of the city. For about ten years he was the regular attending physician at the county asylum and for a number of years was one of the curators of the orphan asylum of Kansas City, having been appointed to the latter position by Governor Woodson.
Dr. Henry is a man of family. He was married in Clark county [sic], Kentucky, in April, 1845, to Miss Eleanor Smith, a native of that county, and to them were born to children--Mary E. and Charles M. Charles [Page 128] M. died in Independence, January 17, 1895. He was for many years deputy recorder in Kansas City.
Early in life Dr. Henry was initiated into the mysteries of Freemasonry, and has been a Royal Arch Mason since 1845.
Judge John W. Henry
Source: A Memorial and Biographical Record of Kansas City and Jackson County, Mo., Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1896, pp. 128-31 (An illustration of Judge John W. Henry accompanies this biography between pages 128 & 131).
JUDGE JOHN W. HENRY, judge of the circuit court, and one of the most eminent representatives of the bench and bar of Missouri, now living in Kansas City, is a native of Kentucky. He was born in Cynthiana, Harrison county [sic], January 27, 1825, and is a son of Jesse and Nancy (Porter) Henry, who were also natives of that state.
His father was a very prominent man, being recognized as a leader in public affairs, and for many years served as sheriff of Harrison county [sic], while his business energies were directed toward merchandising. In the spring of 1845 he came to Missouri, locating in Booneville, but about three years later he went to Independence, where he spent his remaining days, his death occurring in 1852. His wife survived him about fifteen years. They were both members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and people of the highest respectability. Their children numbered six, three of whom are now living, namely: James P., a physician of Independence, Missouri; Mary T., wife of J. Brown Hovey, once a prominent lawyer of Kansas City; and John W.
The paternal grandfather of the Judge was Watson Henry, a native of Virginia, who in the pioneer days of Kentucky settled in that state. He reared a large family and lived to an advanced age. The maternal grandfather of our subject, Andrew Porter, spent his entire life in Kentucky, and engaged in business as a millwright.
In the state of his nativity the Judge was reared to manhood and acquired his education. Early in life it became his desire to enter the legal profession and at the age of sixteen he took up the study of law, being graduated in the law department of the Transylvania University before he had attained the age of twenty years. He is a man of broad mind, of keen discrimination and quick perception,--qualities which are very essential to the successful advocate. Being fitted for active practice, he at once entered upon the prosecution of his chosen profession, with which he has since been connected. As an advocate he was thorough and painstaking, laboring earnestly for his clients' interests. He seemed intuitively to recognize the important points in a case and give them their proper weight and argument, and he won many important cases. His professional career has always been connected with Missouri. He continued in general practice until 1875, when he was made judge of the circuit comprising Macon, Schuyler, Adair and Putnam counties, Missouri. He was on that bench from 1872 until 1877, when he was elected to the supreme bench, and served ten years. In 1887 the Judge came to Kansas City, and since 1889 has occupied the position which he is now creditably and acceptably filling, that of judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit. He has a mind particularly free from bias and from impetuosity. His decisions are the results of careful, calm deliberation, of thorough weighing of the evidence and of the law applicable to it. He rarely if ever makes a mistake, and his long connection with the bench, covering a period of about twenty years, indicates his special fitness [Page 131] and the confidence reposed in him. He is indeed a leader in the profession in Missouri, which has ever stood as the protector of the rights and privileges of the people of every civilized nation. He has also served in other official capacities, having in the winter of 1854 been appointed superintendent of the schools of Missouri.
For fifty years the Judge has been a resident of Missouri, and in the early days of the history of the state he traveled over forty counties, making speeches. He has ever been a promoter of the public welfare, deeply interested in all that pertains to the upbuilding of the state, and is one of the most prominent and highly esteemed citizens in all Missouri.
In 1849 was celebrated the marriage of Judge Henry and Miss Maria Williams, daughter of Frank and Martha (Talbot) Williams. They have five children, three sons and two daughters. Nannie is now the wife of E.C. Johnson, and they have three children,--Hattie, Henry and Marie. Jesse married Miss Katie Davidson, and resides in Jefferson City, Missouri, with their three children,--Donald, Porter and Jesse P. Frank, an Episcopalian minister located at Greeley, Missouri, married a Miss Turner. Robert is serving as deputy county clerk of Jackson county. Martha died in infancy. The mother of this family is a member of the Christian church. Their home is located on Linwood avenue, on the outskirts of the city.
Source: The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-made Men, Missouri Volume, New York: United States Biographical Publishing Company, 1878, pp. 639-40.
JOHN W. HENRY was born January 29, 1825, in Cynthiana, Harrison county [sic], Kentucky. His father, Jesse Henry, was a native of Kentucky, held high official position in that state for many years, and moved to Missouri in 1845, locating at Independence, Jackson county [sic], where he lived till his death in 1852. His mother, was Nancy Porter, a native of Bourbon county, Kentucky, and daughter of Andrew Porter.
J.W. Henry received a liberal English education, and began the study of law in Cynthiana in 1843. In 1844 he graduated from the Transylvania Law School, at Lexington, Kentucky, and soon after began the practice in his native town. In 1845 he removed to Missouri, and settled at Boonville where he began the practice of law. In 1847, having been appointed attorney for the branch of the State Bank of Missouri, located at Fayette, Howard county [sic], he removed to that place and resumed his work. Here he formed a law partnership with the late Robert T. [Page 640] Prewitt, and the firm at once took a high rank at the bar of Central Missouri. In 1854 he was appointed by Governor Sterling Price superintendent of public schools in Missouri. In 1857 he removed to Independence. Jackson county, Missouri, and resided there six years, returning to Fayette in 1863. In 1865 he removed to Macon City, Macon county [sic], where he still resides. In 1872 he was elected judge of the 27th Judicial Circuit, composed of the counties of Macon, Adair, Schuyler and Putnam, a district politically opposed to him, but in which eh received a majority of one thousand votes. He was reelected to the same position in 1875. In the following year, he was nominated by the Democrats for associate justice of the Missouri Supreme Court.
Politically, he is a Democrat. His first vote for president and vice-president was cast for Cass and Butler. At the presidential election of 1860, he voted for Bell and Everett. During the war his sympathies were with the South, but he remained quietly at home throughout the struggle. In religion, Judge Henry is a member of the Episcopalian Church.
He was married August 29, 1849, to Miss Maria R. Williams, of Howard county [sic], Missouri, daughter of Frank Williams, a prominent agriculturalist of that county, and sister of Hon. John T. Williams, speaker of the 29th General Assembly. Judge Henry is a laborious, pains-taking and careful lawyer and judge. He is a man of sterling worth and integrity, having the confidence and esteem of all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance.
Lewis M. Henry
LEWIS M. HENRY, farmer; born in Harrison County about the year 1816. His grandfather, John Henry, came from Virginia very early and settled on the Middle Fork of Raven Creek where he died about the year 1820. Jas. Henry, father of Lewis, came out from Virginia when quite small; he followed farming for an occupation: he was in the war of 1812- 15; he died at home, aged sixty-five. Lewis M. Henry married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Lucy (Matthews) Hampton, of Harrison; had nine children, eight of whom are living: Nellie J., James T., Richard H., George, Andrew, John, Lewis, and Allen. Mr. Henry is a member of the Friendship Baptist Church; his right of suffrage has always been exercised in the interest of the Democratic party.
Newton Henry
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, pp. 710-11 (Rutland Precinct).
NEWTON HENRY, a farmer; was born in Harrison County, Nov. 5, 1822; his grandfather, Thomas Henry, came from Virginia very early, and settled on the middle fork of Raven Creek; his life was spent in pursuing the peaceful avocation of husbandman; his death occurred about the year 1820. James Henry, father of Newton, was born in Virginia, and came out with his father, settling near him in the same part of Harrison County. He bore an honorable part in the war of 1812-15, but was spared to his family for more than half a century after its close. He died in the county, where most of his life had been spent, Nov. 3, 1866. Newton Henry spent his boyhood upon his father's farm, receiving what education could be gleaned from the country schools of that day. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Pollard and Louisa (Crosthwait) McKenney, of [Page 711] Harrison County, by whom he had three children; the only surviving one, James, was born Aug. 15, 1846. Mr. Henry has always been an ardent Republican. During the year 1864 he enlisted under Capt. Thomas Musselman, of the Harrison County Home Guards.
William Herndon
Source: John M. Gresham Co., comp., Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Embracing Biographies of Many of the Prominent Men and Families of the State, Chicago & Philadelphia: John M. Gresham Company, 1896, pp. 509-10.
WILLIAM HERNDON, a distinguished lawyer of Lancaster, son of Elijah and Ann (Crosthwaite) Herndon, was born January 10, 1843, in Irvine, Estill County, Kentucky, and was educated at a select school in Estill County; was a deputy clerk of the court under his father, studying law at the same time and was admitted to the bar in 1868. He entered the Union army in September, 1861, as a private in Company B, Eighth Regiment, Kentucky Infantry; was wounded at Dobyn's Ford or Ferry in 1862, and in January, 1863, was permanently disabled at Stone River and honorably discharged from service, having participated in other battles. After the war he attended school in Estill County and taught school there; was made postmaster at Irvine and served for several terms and was also employed in the Revenue Department, all of which positions he resigned.
In 1878 he resumed the practice of law in Lancaster with James H. Anderson, now of Louisville, with whom he was associated until 1889, since which time he has practiced without an office associated.
Captain Herndon was City Attorney from 1878 to 1880 and declined to qualify after re-election; was appointed in 1881 to serve as United States Commissioner, but resigned in 1884; elected Commonwealth Attorney of the Eighth Judicial District, composed of eight counties, in 1886, for a term of six years, and has been a delegate to all but one of the Republican State Conventions, since he began the practice of law at Lancaster. Both he and his wife are Presbyterians. He is a Mason, Knight of Pythias and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is the leader of the bar at Lancaster and one of the most prominent Republicans of that district. A highly cultured man, he is socially one of the most popular citizens of Lancaster.
Captain Herndon married Helen Kinnaird, daughter of William H. Kinnaird of Lancaster, July 3, 1873. They have five children, four sons and one daughter: Horace, educated at Center College, Danville, Kentucky, and at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; William Leslie, Ben D., Lewis and Annie Christian.
Elijah Herndon (father) was born in Winchester, Kentucky, January 8, 1812, and educated there; was a farmer in early life and was subsequently engaged in the mercantile business at Irvine for many years; was Sheriff of Estill County three terms, first under the constitution previous to 1850, and after that he held the office by election; was then clerk of the Estill Circuit Court. Mr. Herndon was a Baptist and was a leading Whig politician in his county, and, after the war, a leading Republican. He died from the result of sunstroke, November 7, 1876.
William Herndon (grandfather) was born in Charlotte County, Virginia; came to Winchester, Kentucky, in 1800; had been a planter in Vir[Page 510]ginia, but was not engaged in any business in Kentucky; married Katherine Winn. He and his wife both died in 1850. They had five children: John Patrick Henry, George, Elijah, Elizabeth and Sallie. Jacob Herndon (great-grandfather) was a native of Charlotte County, Virginia, and was of Welsh extraction.
Ann Crosthwaite Herndon (mother) was born in Cynthiana, Kentucky, January 9, 1815, and was educated in Cynthiana and Paris, Kentucky. She died in Platt County, Missouri, while visiting a son, October 20, 1892, and is buried there.
Captain William Herndon
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V,Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. III, pp. 255-6.
CAPT. WILLIAM HERNDON practiced law half a century before he retired with the numerous honors and achievements of his profession. He is a former commonwealth attorney of the Eighth Judicial District. He was a Union soldier in the Civil war until disabled at the battle of Stone River, and for a number of years following the war was in the internal revenue service. Altogether his life has been a varied one, and he has discharged his duties with a courage and fidelity that make him one of the most widely known men in Eastern Kentucky.
Captain Herndon, whose home for many years has been at Lancaster, was born at Irvine in Estill County, Kentucky, January 10, 1843. The Herndons came from Scotland to Virginia in Colonial times. His grandfather, William Herndon, was born in Charlotte County, Virginia, in 1772, and moved over the mountains and established a home at Winchester, Kentucky, in 1800. He acquired a large amount of land, developing a plantation worked by slave labor, and died at Winchester in 1850. His wife was Catherine Wynn, who was born at Winchester in 1782, representing one of the first families of Clark County. She died at Winchester in 1850.
Elijah Herndon, father of Captain Herndon, was born at Winchester in 1814, and in 1840 moved to Irvine in Estill County. He was a farmer and merchant, held the office of Sheriff of Estill County six years, and in 1853 moved to Millers Creek in that county, where he owned and operated a saw and grist mill, conducted a store and also built boats to transport the products of the local iron plant down the river. In 1862 he was elected clerk of the Estill Circuit Court, and in that year returned to Irvine and filled that office six years. In 1869 he removed from Kentucky to Jackson County, Kansas, and the last ten years of his life were devoted to farming. He died in 1879. He was a republican in politics from the formation of the party.
The wife of Elijah Herndon was Ann P. Crosthwait, who was born at Cynthiana in 1815 and died in Western [Page 356] Missouri in 1892. Her father, Perry Crosthwait, was a native of Kentucky and died at Cynthiana when his daughter Ann was a child. The mother of Ann Crosthwait and, therefore, the grandmother of Captain Herndon belonged to the distinguished Madison family of old Virginia. Her name was Fannie Madison. She was born in Kentucky and died at Cynthiana. Her father, John Madison, was for a number of years in the employ of the state government of Kentucky. John Madison was a son of Capt. Rowland Madison, who served as an officer in the Revolutionary army [sic]. A brother of Captain Rowland was James Madison, the first Episcopal Bishop in American, who served as president of William and Mary College in Virginia. Still another brother was Gen. Thomas Madison, who married Josiana Henry, a sister of Patrick Henry. Captain Rowland Madison was a first cousin of President James Madison. This Madison family of old Virginia was descended from Isaac Madison, who came from England to the Virginia Colony in 1609.
Capt. William Herndon was second in a family of six children. The oldest, Fannie C., died in Platte County, Missouri, in 1893, wife of James Benton, who was a farmer and later a druggist and died at Irvine, Kentucky. John M. Herndon is a retired farmer in Platte County, Missouri. James S. is a manufacturer in West Virginia. Henry Clay, who died at Lexington in 1911, was in the United States revenue service. Bettie S., the youngest became the wife of S.M. Peacock, jeweler, and both died in Tennessee.
Capt. William Herndon was reared in Estill County, attended rural schools there and also a select school at Irvine. On September 21, 1861, at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the Eighth Kentucky Infantry in the Union Army, and for a year and a half did some strenuous campaigning in Kentucky and Tennessee. He was in the battles of Dobbins Ferry and Rural Hill, was with Buell's army pursuing Bragg over Kentucky in 1862, and participated in the closing phases of the battle of Perryville in that year. On January 2, 1863, the second day of the great battle of Stone River and during Breckinridge's famous charge, Captain Herndon was wounded and permanently disabled for further field service.
After recovering from his wounds he entered the United States revenue service January 1, 1865, as assistant assessor of the Eighth Collection District of Kentucky, with headquarters at Irvine. He held that post of duty thirteen years, until January 1, 1878. In the meantime he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1868, and practiced in connection with his official duties, having his home at Irvine until 1874, when he removed to Lancaster as a deputy collector of internal revenue. Captain Herndon earned a high reputation as a lawyer, and it was only in 1919 that he formally retired from the work of his profession.
He was commonwealth attorney of the Eighth Judicial District from 1886 to 1892. The district comprised the Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Russell and Wayne counties [sic]. He was a republican, a member of the Presbyterian Church, served two terms as master of Lancaster Lodge No. 104, F. and A.M., and is a member of Lancaster Chapter No. 56, R.A.M.
Captain Herndon's home is Kengarlan Hotel in Lancaster. He married in that city July 3, 1873, Miss Helen Kinnaird, daughter of William H. and Patsy (McKee) Kinnaird. Her father was the distinguished Lancaster banker, who died while president of the National Bank of Lancaster, which he had served as cashier and president for over half a century. Mrs. Herndon passed away July 3, 1898, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage. She was the mother of five children; Horace K., the oldest, is a traveling representative for Hirsch Brothers of Louisville, and lives at Greensboro, North Carolina. William Leslie, the second, has for several years been connected with the Goodyear Rubber Company of Akron, but is now temporarily filling a place in one of the state offices at Frankfort. Ben D. Herndon is a member of the Crescent Lumber Company, coal and lumber merchants at Danville. Lewis, the fourth son, is purchaser of cutlery for the Belknap Hardware Company of Louisville. The youngest of the family, Miss Annie C., is bookkeeper for a large importing company, with home at Washington, D.C.
Ben C. Hickman
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, p. 728 (Claysville Precinct).
BEN C. HICKMAN, farmer; is a native of Harrison County, and the son of Jesse and Susan Hickman. He was born in 1844. His early life was spent in receiving an education and assisting in the tilling of the soil of his father's farm. In 1865 he embarked in business for himself by carrying on a mercantile business at Havilandsville with his brother, W.D. Hickman. In 1878 he sold his interest in the business at Havilandsville to his brother; bought a farm of 170 acres, and began farming, which business he still continues. In 1878 he married Miss Emma Casey, a native of Harrison County. Although a young man, he has, by his honesty, economy and industry, succeeded in gaining a good property and a name and a reputation which is beyond reproach. He is a Republican, a member of the order I.O.O.F. Lodge No. 191, at Cynthiana, and, with his wife, united with the Baptist Church.
Susan Hickman
SUSAN HICKMAN, farming; was born in Nicholas County (Ky.), February 18, 1817. She lived with her parents, in Nicholas County, to the time of their death. Her father died when she was but six weeks old, and her mother when she was 17 years old. After the death of her parents she lived with her relatives until she was 23 years of age. In 1840 she was married to Jesse Hickman and removed to Harrison County, where they spent nearly 40 years of happiness together. Mr. Hickman died in 1878, aged 67 years; he was a man of good morals and a christian. The community in which he lived mourns the loss of such a good citizen. There was born to them 10 children, seven of whom are living, viz.: David, Benjamin, John, Mary, Henry, Amanda and Nancy. Mrs. Hickman's grandfathers were both ministers of the Gospel. She is a woman of indomitable energy and perseverance, and enjoys the highest esteem of the community in which she lives.
W.D. Hickman
W.D. HICKMAN, merchant; P.O. Havilandsville; is a native of Harrison County, Ky., and son of J.B. and Susan Hickman. He was born in November, 1842. His boyhood days were spent at home, receiving an education and assisting his father in the duties of his farm. In 1862 he married Jane D. Garrett, and commenced work for himself by teaming and farming. In 1871 he commenced mercantile business in Havilandsville, where he now lives, and continues his business in the store. He is politically a radical. His wife is a member of the Methodist Church. They are the parents of seven children, viz[.]: Nora, Jesse, Wm. G., Susie, Lotta, Walter and Mattie. Mr. Hickman has, by his business habits and fair dealing, established a trade and a reputation which is an honor to himself and to the citizens in the community of which his is a part.
A.J. Hicks
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, p. 703 (Berry's Station Precinct).
A.J. HICKS, farmer; P.O. Robinson; was born in Harrison County, Jan. 28, 1820, and is the son of James and Millie (Adams) Hicks, who were among the early pioneers of Harrison County. The former was a native of South Carolina, and born in 1785; he removed to Wayne County, Ky., after having arrived at manhood, and subsequently to Harrison County. The former was a native of South Carolina, and born in 1785; he removed to Wayne County, Ky., after having arrived at manhood, and subsequently to Harrison County, where he died in his seventy-eighth year. The mother of A.J. was born in Virginia, and died shortly after they became residents of Harrison County, her death occurring in 1815, in their twenty-second year. A.J. was thrown upon his own resources at the early age of ten years, and as is usual in many similar instances, his success in life seems to have been increased by his early hardships. In 1838 he married Miss Polly Ashbrook. Six children were born of this marriage, three of whom are now living; Anna E., James J., and George. In September, 1852, his wife died; his second marriage was to Miss Elizabeth Craig, and of the eleven children born of this marriage six are now living, viz.: Edward, Hugh, Alvin, Doctor, Jacob, and Clark P. About the time of his first marriage Mr. Hicks bought his present farm of 154 acres, since which his time and labor have been spent in its improvement and cultivation. Mr. Hicks is a member of the Christian Church, and in his political views, is a Democrat.
Edward Lewis Hicks
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V, Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. III, p. 490.
EDWARD LEWIS HICKS is one of the successful contractors in Harrison County, and has also been extensively identified with farming interests outside of Cynthiana. His home is on Elmarch Avenue in Cynthiana.
Mr. Hicks was born on a farm in Harrison County, January 10, 1876, son of James J. and Susan (Patten) Hicks. His father was born in Harrison County in 1840 and his mother in the same county in 1841. After their marriage they settled on a farm nine miles north of Cynthiana. They moved out to Missouri for two years and then on returning to Kentucky settled in Mercer County and two years later returned to Harrison County, where the father pursued his activities as a farmer until his death on December 22, 1891. The mother is still living at the old homestead. Both were active members of the Presbyterian Church and the father was a Mason and democrat. There were nine children: Arthur M. of Arizona; Anna, deceased; Preston, a farmer in Harrison County; Miss Bessie; Harry, a farmer on the old homestead; and Florence, wife of G.A. Price of Lexington.
Edward L. Hicks grew up on his father's farm, and received the advantages of the local schools. April 21, 1917, he married Miss Bessie Monson. She was born on a farm in Fleming County, Kentucky, a daughter of Samuel H. and Margaret E. (McCord) Monson. Her father was born in Robertson County, and her mother in the same locality. They were married in Mason County and afterwards moved out to a farm in Kansas. On returning to Kentucky they lived in Nicholas County for a tie and then removed to Covington. In the Monson family were eight children: Bessie, who acquired her education in the public schools of Kansas; Thella, wife of John A. Edgar of Evanston, Ohio; May; Mertie; Grace, wife of Virgil W. Scaggs; Valletta; Norvel, deceased; and Vernard T.
Mr. and Mrs. Hicks are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in politics votes as a democrat. Besides his extensive work as a contractor he owns 100 acres of land seven miles southwest of Cynthiana, and has another dwelling besides his home place in Cynthiana.
Harry Hicks
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V,Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. V, p. 203.
HARRY HICKS is a prosperous and enterprising young farmer of Harrison County, and is giving a capable management to his place of large acreage and complete equipment six miles south of Cynthiana.
The house in which he lives today is close to his birthplace, where he was born May 5, 1884, a son of James J. and Susan (Patton) Hicks. His parents were also born in Harrison County, his father in 1850 and his mother in January, 1852. They were reared and educated here, and after their marriage settled on the old homestead, where the mother is still living. The father died in 1891, at the age of forty-one. There were nine children: Arthur, of Cynthiana; Miss Ida; Edwin L., of Cynthiana; Calvin, whose home is in California; Anna, deceased; Preston, a Harrison County farmer; Harry; Bessie, who lives with her brother Harry; and Florence, wife of Augustus Price of Lexington.
Harry Hicks while growing up on the old farm attended the common schools, and since school days his work has been entirely identified with the Hicks farm of 296 acres. He and his sister Ida also own another farm of sixty-seven acres. Mr. Hicks is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Mount Pleasant and is a democrat.
W.B. Hildreth
W.B. HILDRETH, blacksmith; P.O. Berry; was born in Bourbon County, Ky., and is the son of Jonathan and Ann (Crutchfield) Hildreth. His father was a native of Virginia, and was brought to Bourbon County by his parents when but a child. He followed farming as a business, and moved to Harrison County during his early manhood, where he resided until his death. W.B. became a resident of Harrison County at the time of his parents' removal from Bourbon County. He followed farming during his early manhood, but at thirty-five years of age he began work at blacksmithing, which he has since continued. In 1846 he married Miss Martha M. Penn, who has borne him six children, only two of whom are now living: Margaret, now wife of T.B. Stone, and Mary B., who still resides with her parents. Mr. Hildreth is a Democrat, and a member of Taylor Lodge No. 164, A.F.&A.M., of Berry's Station. He is an honest, hard working man, who bears a worthy name and reputation.
Henry Hiles
HENRY HILES, farmer, was born in Scott County, Jan. 22, 1825; his grandfather, Christopher Hiles, was a native of Germany; he emigrated to Kentucky and settled on Eagle Creek, in Scott County; he was a soldier of the war of 1812-1815; he died about 1833. Jno. C. Hiles, father of our subject, was born in Scott County in 1799; he served several days in his father's stead in the war of 1812, not being old enough to enlist regularly; he was a farmer; he married Ruth, daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth (Hedger) Faulconer, of Harrison; he moved to Harrison and settled where he now lives, in 1853; he was one of the first members of the Raven Creek Lodge, assisting in its erection. Mrs. Hiles is a member of the Methodist Church at Mt. Zion.
Thomas Hinkson
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, p. 657 (Cynthiana City and Precinct).
THOMAS HINKSON, farmer, distiller and wholesale liquor dealer; P.O. Cynthiana, Ky. Among the prominent self made men of Harrison County, we would mention the name of Thomas Hinkson, who was born in the county on March 12, 1819. His grandparents were natives of Ireland. His father, Samuel Hinkson, was born at Bullitt's Lick, and when quite young moved to Harrison County, and settled near what is now called Trickum, where he died about 1837. He married Susan Lyons, of Bourbon County; they had eight children born to them, six of whom were raised to maturity, four sons and two daughters. The fourth son, Thomas, of whom we write, enjoyed but very limited educational advantages; to use his own language, when asked where he was educated, he replied, "I never had any." He began his life as an humble farmer without any means, and on Aug. 16, 1860, was married to Susan, daughter of John and Julia (Ecklar) Richardson, of Harrison. This union has been blessed with four sons, viz: John, Wm., Sterling, and Wyatt, living, and Bennie, who died Nov. 14, 1877, in his fourth year; and one daughter, Oteria. Miss Hinkson is a member of the Christian church. Our subject has never had any political aspirations, and consequently never filled any county office. He is however a member of the City Council of Cynthiana at this time, and has been affiliated with the Democratic party since the War. He has ever been an active, thoroughgoing business man, possessed of indomitable energy, and is regarded by all who know him as a man possessed of more than ordinary business capacity. In his case we have a fine example of what can be accomplished by perseverance and economy in a life time, beginning without a dollar, and worse than this, without educational advantages, and at this date (1882) owns 1200 acres of land in this county, 300 in Kansas, fine brick residence in Cynthiana; twenty shares of National Bank Stock, $15,000 or $20,000 worth of whisky distillery property, &c., &c.
G.W. Hinton
G.W. HINTON, farmer; P.O. Hinton; was born in Scott County, Aug. 29, 1829; his grandfather, Wm. Hinton, came from Culpepper Court House, Va., in 1794, and settled at Turkey Foot, in Scott County, taking up one thousand acres of land; his family and effects were transported from Virginia in wagons; he was one of the first settlers of Turkey Foot, which takes its name from the fact that three streams unite at that point, forming a figure which bears some resemblance to the shape of the foot of that remarkable Western bird. During those early days they were much troubled with Indians and wild beasts, and had to keep their sheep and cattle in pens to protect them from the ravages of wolves and panthers. The father of our subject was born in Virginia in 1784, and was ten years old when the family moved to Kentucky. G.W. Hinton lived with his father till twenty-two years of age, when he removed to Harrison County and run [sic] a sawmill, in partnership with his brother-in-law, T.F. Butler; Sept. 6, 1857, he married Millie, daughter of Capt. John and Catharine (Lemon) Rennaker, of Harrison County; he is the father of three children, namely: Jno. T., born Oct. 6, 1858, married to Miss Jeffers, of Grant County; Mary E., born Feb. 7, 1860, married to J.T. Stone, of Scott County; and Wm. A., born Feb. 2, 1872; was elected Magistrate of Rutland precinct in 1865 and served four years; was re-elected in 1869, receiving at this time the largest vote that has ever been given to any many in Rutland Precinct. Mr. Hinton has devoted his life to farming and trading; he is the owner of 375 acres of land lying in Harrison and Scott Counties, and is a prudent and successful business man; himself and wife are members of the Christian Church at Mt. Olivet, in Scott County, where he has been an Elder since the organization of the church, in 1868; he votes with the Democratic party.
Charles B. Hobday
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V, Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. III, p. 57.
CHARLES B. HOBDAY. Out on Waits Pike, five miles north of Cynthiana, are located the farm and home of Charles B. Hobday, one of the live and enterprising agriculturalists of Harrison County, who has made enterprising agriculturalists of Harrison County, who has made something of a specialty of the breeding of Jersey cattle.
Mr. Hobday was born in Harrison County June 30, 1873, a son of John M. and Rebecca M. (Walters) Hobday. His father was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, June 18, 1821, and was eight years of age when his father moved to Pendleton County, Kentucky. He grew up there, acquired a good education at Falmouth, and for seventeen years gave most of his time to teaching in Harrison and adjoining counties. After his marriage he settled near Claysville, and was a practical farmer the rest of his life in that community. He was a member of the Baptist Church at North Fork in Bracken County and was a Mason. His wife was born in Bracken County March 4, 1845, and is still living, in her eightieth year. She was reared and educated in the Claysville community. There are three children: Charles B.; Thomas M., a Harrison County farmer; and Howe, who also farms in Harrison County.
Charles B. Hobday grew to manhood on the old farm near Claysville. He attended school there and gave his time and labor to his father until he was twenty-four. On December 23, 1897, Mr. Hobday married Meade Cummings, who was born in Harrison County March 16, 1880. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hobday remained on the Hobday homestead until 1906 and then for a period of eleven years lived at Forth Worth, Texas. Mr. Hobday returned to Harrison County in 1917, and has since been a resident in the Poindexter community north of Cynthiana, coming to his present farm in 1920, where he has 150 acres of land, well[-]improved and thoroughly cultivated. He is interested in the success of the democratic party and is the local committeeman. He is affiliated with St. Andrews Lodge No. 18, Free and Accepted Masons, and with Cynthiana Lodge No. 127, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a past grand. He and his family worship in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Cynthiana.
Mr. and Mrs. Hobday have three living children: Charles B., Jr., and Maxine, both students in high school, and Ayleene.
J.M. Hobday
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, pp. 728-29 (Claysville Precinct).
J.M. HOBDAY, farmer; P.O. Claysville; a native of Gordonsville, Virginia, and son of Edward and Sarah P. Hobday; he was born in 1825; his father was born in Virginia, and removed to Pendleton County, Ky., where he followed the occupation of farming; he died aged eighty-five years. His mother was born in Charlottesville, Va., in 1796, and is now residing in Harrison County, Ky. J.M., the subject of our sketch, received his education in Pendleton County, Ky., and at the age of twenty-seven left home and began first by teaching school in Harrison County, which he followed for eighteen years, during that time he bought a farm and managed it. In 1872, he married Rebecca M. Jackson; she was born in Bracken County, in 1842. His children by his first wife are James H., and by his present wife Charles B., Thomas M., and Howe. He is the owner of 600 acres of [Page 729] land; he is a member of the Masonic Order, Taylor Lodge, No. 164, at Berry's, Ky.
James M. Hodson
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, p. 659 (Cynthiana City and Precinct).
JAMES M. HODSON, farmer, P.O. Oddville; was born in Butler County, Ohio, Aug. 10, 1827; son of Joseph and Mary (Ramey) Hodson; he, born in Delaware in 1797; she, born in Nicholas County, Ky., in 1797; both now living in Indiana; they had eight children, James M. being the third in order of birth. Mr. Hodson received his education in the schools of his native county and at Cincinnati. He began his business life by learning the painter's trade, at which he worked for some years, but in 1868 commenced farming. In 1872, he entered into merchandising at Oddville, which he left in 1878, and has continued farming since, owning a find productive farm of 200 acres. In Cincinnati, Oct. 2, 1849, he married Elizabeth C. Phillips, born in Bristol, England, Oct. 1, 1827, daughter of Peregrine and Elizabeth (Chapman) Phillips; he, born in Bristol, England, June 30, 1800; she, born in London, England, Nov. 25, 1807. James M., our subject, has been blessed with but one child, James P., married and living at Oddville. He and wife are members of the M.E. Church South. He is an Odd Fellow and an Independent Democrat.
W.C. Hobson
W. C. HOBSON, farmer; P.O. Connersville; he was born in Clermont County, Ohio, in 1834; his father was William Hobson, who was born in Ireland, and died in Ohio in 1860. His mother, Mary N., was the daughter of Covington Nelson, of Virginia. She died in 1850. He married Miss Wiley, of Harrison County, daughter of B. B. Wiley, who died of cholera in 1850. By this union they have five living children, viz: Emerald W., John B., Lulu A., William A. and Nelson L. He is the owner of ninety-two acres of land, situated some seven miles from Cynthiana on the Cynthiana and Georgetown road. He is a member of the fraternity of A.F. & A.M. His wife is a member of the Christian Church. He is a Republican.
J.H. Holding
J.H. HOLDING, farmer; P.O. Lair's; native of Scott County, born in 1818. His father was James Holding, who died in 1762, at the age of seventy-five. His grandfather, William H., was a native of Maryland, emigrated here early and settled in Scott County, and his great-grandfather emigrated here from England. His mother was Nancy Barnett, a daughter of Joseph Barnett, of Harrison County, who came from Virginia, she died in 1827. He married Mrs. Elizabeth Hill, daughter of David Jewett, of Bourbon County, and they have two children, named James David and Lair Belle. His son, James W., was in Capt. Jim Cantrill's Co. of Gen. John H. Morgan's command during the war and returned home in 1865. Mr. Holding is a breeder of high grade stock, and belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and a Democrat, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church at Cynthiana, he being one of the stewards of the Church; he was also Lieutenant in Militia.
Milton Diltz Holton
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V,Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. V, pp. 93-4.
MILTON DILTZ HOLTON, district manager of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, is one of the distinguished men of Calloway County, and one who has taken a constructive part in the civic as well as business life of Murray, which he has served with dignified efficiency as mayor. Mr. Holton was born at Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky, October 27, 1869, a son of Henry E. Holton, grandson of Thomas Holton, and a member of one of the aristocratic families of Virginia, where his family was established during the Colonial epoch of this country by ancestors who came from England. One of his ancestors served in the American Revolution, and all of them were citizens of merit and high standing.
Thomas Holton, the paternal grandfather, was born in Kentucky, whither the family had migrated in pioneer days, and he died at Covington, this state, at a time antedating the birth of his grandson. A man of strong personality, he took an active part in local affairs wherever he was located, and at one time served as sheriff of Pendleton County, Kentucky. During a portion of his life he was a steamboat man, and he also attained to a well-merited success as proprietor of a popular hotel. During the early '50s he was a resident of Memphis, Tennessee, from which city he moved to Covington, Kentucky. Thomas Holton was married to a Miss McCarty, who died at Paducah, Kentucky, in May, 1891. Her father, a great-grandfather of Milton D. Holton, was a veteran of the War of 1812.
Henry E. Holton was born at Falmouth, Pendleton County, Kentucky, in 1838, and died at Los Angeles, California, in 1910. He was reared at Covington, Kentucky, and educated at West Point Military Academy, where he remained until the outbreak of the war between the North and the South. Espousing the cause of the South, he resigned and coming back home enlisted in the Confederate army, as a member of Company D., Eighth Arkansas Regiment. He was wounded and captured at the battle of Chickamauga, and spent nineteen months in prison on Johnson's Island. During the war he served as a commissioned officer. His cause lost, he bravely shouldered the responsibilities of the reconstruction period, and for two years taught school in Harrison County, Kentucky, where he owned and conducted a private school until 1871. In that year he moved to Ghent, Kentucky, and spent a year as one of the professors in a school at that place. The subsequent year he spent at Milton , Kentucky, and going to Moscow, Ohio, was superintendent of its schools until he left that city for Germantown, Kentucky, and for a year was superintendent of its schools. Coming to Murray, he served as principal of its school for five years, and then went to Paducah, Kentucky, and conducted a private school from 1886 to 1892, and also owned a dairy and fruit farm in the vicinity of that city. In 1892 he went on a farm near Richmond, Virginia, and was there occupied with agricultural pursuits until 1900, when he went to Saint Louis, Missouri, and there conducted a flourishing real estate business for six years. In 1906 he moved to Portland, Oregon, and continued his operations as a realtor until he retired and moved to Los Angeles, California. He was a strong democrat. The Christian Church had in him an active member and gen[Page 94]erous supporter, and he was for many years a lay preacher. Fraternally he was a Mason and Odd Fellow.
Henry E. Holton was married to Harriet Broadwell Diltz, a daughter of Milton L. and Nackie (Penn) Diltz, the latter being a lineal descendant of John Penn, a brother of William Penn. Her uncle, Louis Broadwell, was a congressman from Ohio. Mrs. Holton was born in Bracken County, Kentucky, in 1842, and died at Paducah, Kentucky, in 1891, having borne her husband the following children: Sue, who married Judge T.P. Cook, an attorney and formerly circuit judge of the Third Judicial District of Kentucky, lives at Hopkinsville, Kentucky; Milton D., who was second in order of birth; Henry E., who is in the insurance business at Murray, is serving that city as mayor; and Carrie, who is the widow of Rufus Ward, formerly actively engaged in an insurance business at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where he died, and where she is still living.
Milton D. Holton attended the public schools of Moscow, Ohio; Germantown and Murray, Kentucky, and left school when he was sixteen years old and was employed on his father's farm near Paducah, Kentucky, until 1888. In the latter year he became shipping clerk for a tobacco warehouse at Paducah, Kentucky, and remained with that concern fro two years, leaving it to go with a dairy and creamery house at Paducah, and then, in 1892, he went to Amarillo, Texas, when it was a cow town with less than 1,000 population, and worked in general store for a year. Returning to Kentucky, he had charge of a creamery for a year. In 1894 he came to Murray, and was admitted to the bar, having been studying law during his leisure moments for some time. For a year he was engaged in the practice of his profession, but did not find in it any more than he had in his former occupations, the proper outlet for his talents, and finally, in 1905, he embarked in the insurance business, which is essentially his forte. He went to Fort Worth, Texas, and carried on a flourishing business for several years. In the meanwhile he became interested in a mining proposition at Sweetwater, Nevada, and spent several years looking after it, but in 1909 went to Chicago, Illinois, and from December of that year until March, 1910, was representative on the road out of Chicago for the Travelers Insurance Company. Returning to Murray, he resumed his insurance business here, and is now district manager for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, one of the sound and dependable organizations, his territory covering Calloway, Trigg and Marshall counties. His offices are conveniently located in the Ryan Building on Court Square. Mr. Holton is very active as a democrat, and was the second mayor of Murray, was city clerk for one term, and for six years was master commissioner of Calloway County. A Mason, he belongs to Murray Lodge No. 105, A.F. and A.M.; Murray Chapter No. 92, R.A.M.; Paducah Commandery No. 11, K.T.; and Kosair Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., of Louisville, Kentucky. He is an ex-member of Paducah Lodge NO. 217, B.P.O.E., and an ex-member of the Knights of Pythias. For ten years he served as secretary of the Calloway County Fair Association and as secretary of the Murray Building & Loan Association. Mr. Holton owns a modern residence on Olive Street, which is one of the fine ones of Murray, and is surrounded by admirably kept and extensive grounds, in which are some magnificent shade trees.
On January 25, 1899, Mr. Holton was married at Murray, Kentucky, to Miss Julia Kelly Hamlin, a daughter of Judge R.F. and Laura (Boggs) Hamlin, both of whom are now deceased. He was county judge and county clerk of Calloway County, and early in life was prominent as an educator at Murray. During the war between North and the South he served gallantly in the Confederate army. Mrs. Holton was graduated from the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and for a year prior to her marriage was engaged in teaching school in Calloway County. She is a lady of charming personality and fine educational talents. Mr. and Mrs. Holton became the parents of four children, namely: Hattie Laura, who was born December 2, 1899, was graduated from the Murray High School, after which she attended Hamilton College at Lexington, Kentucky; Robert, who was born in November, 1903, graduate from the Murray High School and is now at Transylvania College, at Lexington, Kentucky; Annie Diltz, who was born December 18, 1905, is attending the Murray High School; and Juliet Milton, who was born November 26, 1911.
Mr. Holton has been eminently successful in his insurance work, and is actuated by high motives in carrying out his policies. His experience prior to his entry on his present line of endeavor he feels to have been of great value to him, as it taught him much with regard to human nature and the motives which govern men. His present connections not only give him an agreeable and profitable occupation, but he feels that in educating the public to the necessity for providing protection for their families and their own old age he is rendering his kind a service of great value. Possessing as he does liberal views and a public spirit, he has been able to give much to Murray and has quickened into intense activity a local pride that is having remarkable results.
James Delaney Howell
Source: History of Union County, Kentucky: A Complete Account of the Settlement, Organization, and Government of the County, Together with Facts and Figures concerning the Society, Professions, Commerce, Industries, Agriculture, Coal, Railroads, Education, Religion, and Other Institutions and Resources of the County, and Biographical Sketches of Its Leading Citizens, Evansville, Ind.: Courier Co., 1886, pp. 763-4.
farmer, of Shiloh Precinct, is the son of William and Susan (Washburn) Howell; his parents were both Virginians; his father was a carpenter in Cynthiana. Mr. Howell was born in Harrison County, Ky., January 27, 1809; he was one of a family of eight children, three boys and five girls, and is the only surviving member of the family; his education was limited to three years' training in the schools of Scynthiana [sic].
In September, 1831, he married Millicent Breckinridge, of Bourbon County, Ky. She was born in November, 1811; was the daughter of Alexander and Annie Breckinridge. She died in Shiloh Precinct in June, 1876. Nine children were born of this union: Alexander married Ollie Ulmsnider, and is a flourishing druggist in Shawneetown, Ill.; Martha married Lemuel Holt, a farmer of Antioch--she died in 1882; John married Mollie Givens, and is a steamboat captain at Shawneetown; Warren married Mrs. Annie Harth, and is living near Caseyville; George, a farmer of Raleigh Precinct, married Lizzie Morris; Walker married Carrie Haskins, and is living in Colorado; Henry married Fannie Wall, and is living at Antioch; Harrison and Nannie are at home. This family furnished a gallant quota to the Army of the Confederacy. In 1861, John Walker and Harrison enlisted in Tennessee with Company G, of the First Kentucky Cavalry. They participated in the battles fought by this command, notably, at Chicamauga, Cumberland Gap and other places. John held the office of captain, and received a wound in the arm at Missionary Ridge, and Harrison was captured at Caseyville in 1862, and was imprisoned at Johnson's Island on September 1, 1862, but was exchanged at Vicksburg in November, 1862. They were discharged in Georgia on November 11, 1865. Of these sons, Harrison and John are Masons.
Our subject lives upon his farm of one hundred acres in the northeast corner of Shiloh Precinct, in a large hewed-log house, that was built in 1864. He manages his farm in person, although he is getting along in years. In his younger days Mr. Howell was a plantation overseer for eight years, and he [Page 764] has not forgotten how to run a farm. In politics he claims to be an Old Line Whig.
George Howk
GEORGE HOWK, grocer; Cynthiana. George Howk, Sr., was born in Bracken County in 1822. He conducted the business of a general grocer for a while when he removed to Covington, where he remained for six years, when he came to Cynthiana in 1865, and opened a large establishment of the same character. He accumulated a handsome estate, and died in October 1881. His wife was Mary Chowning, daughter of John Chowning, of Harrison County. George Howk, Jr., was born in Kenton County, Oct. 6, 1859. He received his education in Cynthiana, and upon attaining his majority, entered the grocery, queensware, and furniture business. He now has one of the largest and best stores of the kind in Central Kentucky. He was married in August, 1880, to Miss Mattie O'Neal, daughter of George O'Neal, of Paris, Ky. They have one child, George Barrett, born Sept. 23, 1881. In politics Mr. Howk is a Democrat.
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V, Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. IV, pp. 302-3.
GEORGE HOWK. Harrison County contains some of the most beautiful rural properties in this part of the state, and one of them, Floral Grove, is now the property of George Howk, a very progressive farmer and a member of one of the old-established families of Kentucky. George Howk was born at Covington, October 6, 1859, a son of George and Mary (Channing) Howk, the former of whom was born in Brown County, Ohio, January 6, 1822, a son of Aquilla and Anna (Townsend) Howk. Aquilla Howk and his wife were natives of Maryland, and after they were married they came to Brown County, Ohio. He became the owner of the first ferryboat on the Ohio River. His three sons were George, Thomas and Lewis.
George Howk, the elder, was reared in his native county, and was there married, but soon thereafter moved to Augusta, Kentucky, where he was engaged in the wholesale grocery business. Still later he was engaged in the same line of business at Covington. With the outbreak of hostilities between the North and the South he moved with his family to New York City, but after a year returned to Covington. [Page 303] He finally bought the farm now owned by his son George, and here continued to reside until his death, October 4, 1881. A man of scholarly tastes, he took great pleasure in reading and accumulated a fine library, one of the best in the county, and it is now owned by his son. In addition to other books there are some volumes which are valuable, both on account of their age and rarity, some of them having been published over a century. Both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church. As long as he continued in the mercantile field he made a success of his business, and was equally prosperous as a farmer, and at his death was the owner of 465 acres of very valuable land. The children born to him and his wife were as follows: Julia A., who died in childhood; Emma; John, who died in infancy; Charles, a bachelor, and lives with his brother George; and George.
George Howk, was only six years old when he was brought to his present farm, His first business experience was gained in operating it, but he left the farm to carry on a furniture and queensware business for three years, and then for thirteen years lived at Daytona, Florida, where he was interested in orange culture. On April 1, 1897, he returned to the homestead and has been occupied in conducting it ever since. This farm comprises 241 acres and is in prime condition in every respect.
On August 11, 1880, Mr. Howk was united in marriage with Martha Ryan O'Neal, who was born at Augusta, Kentucky, April 6, 1863, a daughter of George and Amanda M. (Baker) O'Neal, natives of Maryland and Augusta, Kentucky, respectively. For some years Mr. O'Neal was in the hotel business at Augusta, and there Mrs. Howk was educated, attending the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Howk have had two children, namely: George B, who was born September 22, 1881, died at the age of nineteen years; and William C., who was born September 4, 1883. He attended both public and private schools. His wife was Metrie L. Whaley, and they have three children, namely: Anna M., Mary E. and William C., Junior. Mrs. George Howk is a member of the Baptist Church. In politics Mr. Howk is a democrat, and he ahs been a member of the City Council of Cynthiana.
Rev. R.C. Hubbard
Source: The Cynthiana (Ky.) Democrat (Special Edition), June, 1896, p. 8, col. 1.
Rev. R.C. Hubbard.
Rev. Robert Clarendon Hubbard, is a native of Halifax county, Virginia. He was reared on a farm. His collegiate education was received at Richmond College Virginia, and his theological education at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., from which place he graduated in 1891.
Mr. Hubbard served as pastor in Virginia eight months before entering the Seminary. In 1889 he began as pastor at Sanders, Carroll county, Kentucky, and remained there until 1894 when he came to Cynthiana. He comes of good old Baptist stock. His grandfather, Joel Hubbard, served in the War of 1812 and in the Mexican War, and was a Baptist minister for sixty-five years. His father, Joel Hubbard, Jr., was in the Confederate army during the four years of war.
Mr. Hubbard is held in the highest esteem by people of all denominations in Cynthiana. He is a scholarly young preacher, and has added materially to the strength of the church since coming to this city. He is still a bachelor--an eligible bachelor--and for that reason the DEMOCRAT refuses to divulge his age.
NOTE: A photograph labeled "REV. R.C. HUBBARD" accompanies this article on page 8, column 1.
H. Huerkamp
Source: The (Cynthiana, Ky.) Log Cabin (Souvenir Supplement), Saturday, Nov. 11, 1905, p. 30, cols. 1 & 2.
Department Store
DRY goods, millinery, groceries, foot wear, glass and queensware, in fact everything to be found in an up-to-date Department Store are to be found in large assortments and at low prices, at H. Huerkamp's place of business at the Corner of Pleasant and Walnut Streets, Cynthiana, Ky.
Mr. Huerkamp owns his large business house and does a large business in general merchandise, his store being made headquarters by a large portion of the buying public. He will exchange his merchandise for produce of any kind, paying the highest market price for same.
He has been in business here for twenty years and his constantly increasing trade is an eloquent testimonial to his honest business methods and fair treatment of his patrons. His trade is larger than at any time in the past and he bids fair to build up an even larger patronage in the future.
With success in business, a splendid wife, attractive daughters and promising son, Mr. Huerkamp certainly seems to have a full share of the desirable things in life.
NOTE: A photograph labeled "HENRY HUERKAMP" accompanies this article on page 30.
Rev. Oscar M. Huey
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V, Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. III, p. 155.
REV. OSCAR M. HUEY, superintendent of the Louisville Baptist Orphans Home, was pastor of a number of churches in Kentucky, but his work as a minister has been distinguished chiefly by the zeal and success of his efforts in evangelical work and in the constructive work of building up membership and extending the institutional benevolences of his denomination.
Rev. Mr. Huey was born in Boone County, Kentucky, May 24, 1862, a son of George W. and Sallie (Williams) Huey. His father who was born in the same section of Kentucky May 2, 1824, gave all his active life to his farming interests in Boone County. He was a devout Baptist and a democrat in politics. George W. Huey, who died January 27, 1889, married Miss Sallie Williams, who was born in Gallatin County, Kentucky, February 22, 1841, and died in August, 1915. Oscar is the oldest of their four children, three of whom are still living.
Oscar M. Huey received his early educational advantages in Union and Boone counties and attended Georgetown College and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. His first regular pastorate was at Erlanger, and successively he was a pastor of churches at Carrollton, Stanford, Sommerset, Crescent Hill and Louisville. He early showed especial interest in evangelical work and held many meetings with various churches, his abilities and broadening experience bringing him increasing usefulness in this field. For this work over 5,000 united with the Baptist denomination besides 1,200 that united with the Sommerset Church while he was stationed there., and where he built a $40,000 church. He has been superintendent of the Louisville Baptist Orphans Home since 1919. During 1917-18 he was chairman of the Executive Committee of Long Run Association and for five years was a member of the Station Missionary Board and was president of the Baptists Ministers Conference one year.
Mr. Huey has had the invaluable assistance for many years of his devoted wife, Mrs. Huey being equally interested with him in missionary efforts, and has done much to promoted this branch of work among Baptists women Mr. Huey and Miss Katherine Kennedy were married March 11, 1885. She was born at Walton in Boone County November 25, 1865, being second of four children, three of whom are still living, born to James W. and Elizabeth (Dorman) Kennedy. Her mother died in August, 1918. The father, who is still living in Cynthiana, Kentucky, was a merchant in Boone and Grant counties, and as a democrat was twice honored with election as representative to the Legislature. He is also a Baptist. Mr. and Mrs. Huey have four sons: Lee M., who married Miss Mable Childers and resides in Corinth, Kentucky; Samuel L. who married Miss Margaret Scott, and lives in Lexington, Kentucky; George W., of Detroit, Michigan, who married Miss Louise Marshall, and Edward, who married Miss Louise Wilson and resides at Eminence, Kentucky.
The Huffman Brothers
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V,Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. IV, pp. 177-8.
HUFFMAN BROTHERS. James H. and Dr. L.R. Huffman, are continuing an industry established by their father nearly half a century ago, an industry that has been a noteworthy contribution to the improvement of livestock standards in Kentucky. The Huffman Farm, on Russell Cave Pike, one mile south of Centerville and twelve miles north of Lexington, is the home of the "Blue Grass Herd" of Poland China hogs. The big type Poland China is now one of the most widely dispersed swine breeds in the world, and undoubtedly some of the greatest specimens of that breed have been propagated at the Huffman Farm.
The late Lindsey R. Huffman, who died in 1900, took up swine breeding as a special industry on his farm in 1872. He was a pioneer Kentucky breeder of the Poland China, and exhibited at local fairs for years. He was an exhibitor when there was no classification of breeds at fairs, but his Poland Chinas carried off honors against all competition. He shipped to every state, and many of the products of the Huffman Farm have gone abroad to South America and elsewhere. Some of the animals bred here were never defeated in a show ring. For a number of years the Huffmans handled both types of the Poland China, the small boned and the large type. But emphasis has always been placed on the big type, and that has now practically superseded the small, not only at the Huffman Farm but in the opinion of most breeders everywhere. In some years as many as three hundred breeding animals have been produced on the Huffman Farm.
A portion of this farm was settled more than a hundred years ago, and the greater part of the three [Page 178] hundred acres has been in the Huffman family for eighty years. The pioneer of the family was Henry Huffman, who came from Washington Court House, Virginia, and settled in this section of Kentucky, where he lived until his death, at the age of ninety-two. His old home is still standing. His second wife was Hannah Lantern, who survived her husband and reached nearly the age of one hundred. Their children included two sons, Lindsey R. and Benjamin R., the latter dying at middle age while the daughters were America, who became the wife of Charles Huffman and lived in Kentucky; Polly Ann, who married Joseph Callahan; Roxy Ann, who married Morton Levi; Maria, who became the wife of John Marcum and lived to old age; and Lucinda, who was the wife of John Besore.
The late Lindsey R. Huffman married Amanda Allen, daughter of Adoniram and Polly Allen, of Bourbon County. Their married life was all spent on the old homestead, and his enterprise added to its area until it included the three hundred acres as now. The family of Lindsey R. Huffman comprised six children: James H.; Lou Ann, who was the wife of James Mathews and died in middle life; Lindsey R., Jr.; Norman, of Fayette County; Willard, a farmer in Scott County; and Mary L., who is the wife of Enoch K. Reniker and lives in Harrison County.
James H. Huffman, his brother and active business associate, has had charge of the breeding work, and the achievements of the Huffman Brothers are known in Poland China circles all over the country. Part of the farm is devoted to tobacco culture, but for the most part its activities center around the Blue Grass Herd of Poland Chinas. James H. Huffman married Nannie T. Case, of Bourbon County, and they have one son, Joseph Lindsey Huffman.
John Huls
JOHN HULS, farmer; P.O. Claysville; he was born in Montgomery County, Ky., in 1803, June 30; he received his education from the common schools of his native county, and at the age of twenty-one began farming, which he followed in Montgomery County until 1849, when he removed to Harrison County, Ky., where he has since remained and followed the occupation of farming and working some at the trade of shoemaking. In 1827, September 18, he married Miss Louisiana Fletcher, who has borne him thirteen children, eleven of whom are still living, viz.: Garrett F., Pleasant, Andrew J., Achilles, Jerusha, Winifred, Sally, John, Nimrod, Elizabeth, and Naomi. He had held the office of Magistrate for four years; he is a member of the Christian Church, and is a Democrat. Mr. Huls is one of the oldest citizens of Claysville Precinct, and bears a name and reputation of which his children may well be proud.
Benjamin Humphrey
BENJAMIN HUMPHREY, farmer; P.O. Robinson Station, was born in Bourbon County, March 9, 1813; son of Gilford and Nancy (Martin) Humphrey; he, a shoemaker by trade, born in Virginia in 1791, and dying in 1879; she, also a native of Virginia, born in 1791, and dying in 1872. They had nine children, Benjamin being the oldest. Mr. Humphrey, the subject of this sketch, attended school in Bourbon and Harrison Counties, and then entered into the life of a farmer, at which occupation he has continued ever since, at present owning a fine farm of 123 acres of land. October 17, 1837, in Harrison County, he married Deborah Brannock, born in that county, Dec. 7, 1819, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Myers) Brannock; he, born, in Delaware in 1772, dying in 1853; she, born in Mary in 1789, dying in 1850. Mr. Humphrey has been blessed with a family of fourteen children, eight of whom are living: Enoch; Benjamin Franklin and Deborah, twins; Elizabeth; Sally; Laura; David A. and Batson A. The family are members of the Methodist Church, South. Mr. Humphrey is a Democrat.
William Hunt
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, pp. 727-28 (Claysville Precinct).
WILLIAM HUNT, farmer; P.O. Smitsonville; is a son of H.D. and Charlotte Hunt, both natives of Kentucky, and traces the genealogy of his family back to one of the first settlers of Kentucky; his grandfather, Mr. Robertson Hunt, came to Kentucky with Daniel Boone [Page 728], where he remained a resident until his death, which occurred at the extreme old age of one hundred and four years. William was born in Montgomery County, Ky., in 1842, and at the age of six years, his parents moved to Harrison County, Ky., where he received his education. In 1859, the family removed to Texas, settling in Harrison County of that State; there William engaged in work at the trade of carpenter and at carrying the United States mail from Marshall, Tex, to Keatchie, La. Within one year after the arrival of the family in Texas, his father and mother died, leaving three children younger than himself to his care. In 1860, he returned to Harrison County, and settled on the farm he now owns. In 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate Army, and at the close of the war, on his way home, he walked form Abingdon, Va., to Mt. Sterling, a distance of two hundred miles, in five days. upon his return he at once engaged in agricultural pursuits, which he has since followed, in connection, with which he runs, during the winter season, a saw mill, owned by him, and built in 1810, by one ------- Miller. Here, by his own energy and industry, he has built for himself a comfortable and pleasant home, his house being at the time of its erection, the finest between August, Bracken County, Ky., and Cynthiana. In 1870, Mr. Hunt was married to Miss Lizzie Botts; they are the parents of six children: Hattie, Annie, Amanda, Sidney, Nettie, and Mamie. In religious faith he is a Baptist, he and family being members of the Beaver Church; he is also a Democrat, as was also his father, and although a young man, he has already a good business, and a worthy name and reputation in the community where he resides.
Robert R. Hutcherson
Source: Connelley, William Elsey, History of Kentucky, Vols. I-V,Chicago & New York: American Historical Society, 1922, Vol. IV, pp. 233-4.
ROBERT R. HUTCHERSON. Mr. Hutcheson and wife are the proprietors of the Newport Business College. He is a veteran educator with an honorable record of more than half a century of service. He taught his first school while the Civil war [sic] was still in progress, and with the exception of a few years his work has been in Kentucky.
He was born near Frankfort in Franklin County, May 30, 1846. His grandfather, Peter Hutcheson, was a native of Edinburg, Scotland, but came to this county early in life and joined the Colonists in their struggle for independence during the Revolutionary war [sic]. A few years after the war he came west and settled in Kentucky and Bourbon County. He owned a farm in that county, and at one time owned land on which the City of Louisville is now built. He died at Centerville in Bourbon County when nearly 100 years old.
His son, Dr. John D. Hutcheson, was born in Bourbon County in 1810, was reared in that and Woodford County, was married at Millville in Woodford County and for several years taught school and practiced medicine in Franklin County. In 1848 he removed to Owen County, where he did the heavy work of a physician and surgeon with a large country practice until he retired to Anderson County, where he lived until his death in 1902. Doctor Hutcheson was a republican and a very devoted member of the Christian Church. He married Elizabeth Gaines, who was born in Woodford County in 1820 and died in 1890, at the age of seventy, near Stamping Ground in Scott County. Robert R. is the oldest of a large family of children; James P. is a retired merchant at Owenton, Kentucky, where for nineteen years he has filled the office of postmaster; Miss Cordelia died at the age of twenty-five; John E. is a farmer and rural mail carrier at Stamping Ground; Lenora, who lives near Stamping Ground, is the widow of J.N. Johnson, a Scott County farmer; George W., who was in the internal revenue service many years, died at Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, in 1914; and Sallie died at the age of seventeen.
Robert R. Hutcheson has all his life been a student. He first attended rural school in Owen County, later the Bridgeport High School, spent two years in Em[Page 234]inence College at Eminence, Kentucky, and subsequently received a diploma and teacher's certificate from the Gregg Shorthand School of Chicago. Mr. Hutcheson taught his first six months' term of school at Harmony in Owen County in 1864. He was identified with teaching work in that county until 1884. Following that for twelve years he was principal of the Corinth Academy in Grant County. In 1896 he became principal of the Plattsburg High School in Mississippi, but remained only a year, when he resumed his work with the Corinth Academy. Mr. Hutcheson in 1901 began teaching a commercial school at Covington, where he remained eight years, and from 1909 to 1912 was principal of schools at Bromley, Kentucky. Returning to Covington in 1912, he conducted the Hutcheson Normal and Business Institute Incorporated, for a year or two. In 1914 he established a commercial school at Augusta, but after a year sold it and took over his old school at Covington, and continued its management until 1919. In that year he leased the Newport Business College, and he and Mrs. Hutcheson have been owners of the property since 1921. This is one of the strong and ably staffed institutions of its kind in the Ohio Valley, its home being in the Newport National Bank Building.
Mr. Hutcheson was for four years vice president of the Kentucky State Teachers Association, and is widely known among the educators of the state. He is a democrat, is a past chancellor commander of Corinth Lodge No. 30, Knight of Pythias, and has been a delegate to the State Grand Lodge and is a past grand of Monterey Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
His home is at 624 Garrard Street in Covington. ON August 25, 1864, at Harmony in Owen County, he married Miss Lucinda F. Matthews, daughter of Franklin and Elizabeth (Costigan) Matthews, now deceased. Her father was a farmer in Owen County. Mrs. Hutcheson died July 11, 1911, when they had been married nearly forty-seven years. She was the mother of six children. J. Frank, the oldest, is editor of the Spokesman, a trade journal at Covington. Emma, who died at the age of twenty-five, was the wife of E.E. Vallandingham, an insurance man with home at Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. Minnie, the third in age, is the present wife of Mr. Vallandingham. William, advertising writer for the Stewart Iron Works at Covington, was in the Government service at Washington during the World war [sic]. R. Gayle, a resident of Covington and salesman for the Mabley & Carew Company department store in Cincinnati, is the fifth in age. Raymond R., manager of the advertising department of a firm at Brooklyn, New York, was in training as a soldier at Camp Meade when the armistice was signed.
July 14, 1913, Mr. Hutcheson married at Newport Miss Emma May Hinton. Mrs. Hutcheson, one of the very talented and efficient women of her generation, was born near Williamstown, Kentucky, April 2, 1885, was educated in the public schools at Sherman, near Williamstown, attended high school at Covington, and in 1912 graduated from the Hutcheson Normal and Business Institute. She passed the teacher's examination with highest honors under Mr. Robert R. Gregg, of the Gregg Shorthand School of Chicago in 1920. Since her marriage she has proved invaluable to Mr. Hutcheson in business college work, teaching shorthand, typewriting, English, spelling, and for the past seven years has also taught music. She had two years of practical business experience as a stenographer of Cincinnati. Mrs. Hutcheson from the age of seventeen until twenty-one was organist for the Christian, Methodist and Baptist churches at Florence, Kentucky. She is now an active member of the Madison Avenue Christian Church at Covington.
Her father, J.T. Hinton, was born in Harrison County, Kentucky, October 24, 1860, at one time owned a large farm near Cartersville, and subsequently transferred his farming operations to Florence, Kentucky, and also did a business as a contractor in fence building. From 1907 to 1911 he had charge of a dairy farm at Mount Healthy, Ohio, and then returned to Kentucky and is now living at Dry Ridge, where he is engaged in the garage business. He is a democrat and an elder in the Christian Church and a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. J.T. Hinton married Ella B. Jeffers, who was born at Cartersville in Grant County August 24, 1860. She died August 30, 1921, and was buried in Highland Cemetery. Their two daughters are Lutie Pearl and Mrs. Hutcheson. The former is the wife of Dan Points, Jr., owner and operator of a garage at Dry Ridge. Mrs. Hutcheson is also part owner of the business college with her husband.
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