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Rev. Josiah CARNEAL 11419 - Christian Co

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County of Christian, Kentucky; Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., Chicago and Louisville, 1884. Longview Precinct.

REV. JOSIAH CARNEAL. Among the most prominent and useful men of the southeastern portion of Christian County, Ky., and whose influence for good has been great and enduring, may be mentioned the venerable patriarch whose name appears at the head of this sketch. He was born September 23, 1810, in Caroline County, Va., where he was reared, and at the age of eighteen years removed to Christian county, in this State, to commence the battle of life, in which he has proved successful in an eminent degree. His father, James Carneal, was a native of Virginia, and a soldier at Norfolk in the war of 1812. James was the son of Patrick Carneal, who was born in Ireland, and died in Virginia about 1835, at the age of ninety-six years. Subject’s mother, Elizabeth Wright, of Caroline County, Va., died in 1813. From the union of her and James Carneal, sprang: Thomas, Walker, John, Josiah and Sally (Thacker). In 1831 Josiah was married to Kittie Galbreath, of Christian County, Ky., and to them were born: Henry W., John D., Mary (Harris), Martha (Graham), twin with Walker, Eliz. (Crutchfield) and Robert P. Mr. Carneal’s wife dying in 1849, he next married in 1851, Mrs. Nancy Harris, daughter of William Rice. One child – Josiah, now deceased – was born to this union. In 1858 Mr. Carnel was married to his present wife, who is Miss Lucy J., daughter of Thomas McQuary, of Todd County, Ky., and to them were born: Isaiah T., Victoria R. (Massie), Silas, Wesley, Demetrius, Paul and Fannie. In 1827 Mr. Carneal became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was licensed to exhort in 1850, and became a local preacher in 1856, and has been active in his labors from that time to the present. He has been largely instrumental in establishing the society and building Chapel Hill Church. He commenced active life as a carpenter and builder, which vocation he followed for fifteen years, with success, and is at present engaged in farming, owning 558 acres of valuable lands, in a good state of cultivation, and having distributed about 600 acres to his children. Mr. Carneal’s life has been one of marked success, and he is held in high esteem in the community where he lives.

D. E. S. TAYLOR 11418 - Warren Co

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Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883,p. 800.

D. E. S. TAYLOR, farmer and stock dealer, and postmaster. Among those who have been long identified with Caivre township, who are well known and worthy of notice, is the subject of our sketch. He was born in Warren county, Kentucky, February 15, 1830; the son of Smith Taylor and Catharine B. (Smith) Taylor. When he was three years old his parents came to Pike county, settling in Cuivre township, where our subject’s early life was spent in assisting on his father’s farm and attending school. He was married November 7, 1855, to Miss Elizabeth Jordan, daughter of Jas. A. Jordan of Buffalo township. Mr. Taylor is the owner of a fine farm of 300 acres of as good land as Pike county affords, besides being much interested in Cyrene, having some eighty lots in that new town. He is a member of the Masonic order, a member from Master to Sir Knight, and a worthy member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He was appointed postmaster of Cyrene in April, 1879. He was [a] member of the Grange, having been delegate from this county to the state convention. He is a man of good business qualities, of broad views, and is social in his manner. By his fair and honorable dealings has won for himself many friends.

P. Barton DUNN 11417 - SImpson County

sgorin — 2009-11-04 13:42:56Z

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Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume IV – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886.

P. BARTON DUNN was born March 19, 1830, five miles south of Franklin, Ky. He is the third of four boys and two girls born to Richard R. and Susan W. (Parrish) Dunn, who were born and reared in Pittsylvania County, Va. Richard R. was born in September, 1801, and emigrated to Simpson County in 1829, where he engaged in farming; was a member of the Baptist Church and a son of William Dunn, who was born in Pittsylvania County, Va., in 1778; was a corporal in the war of 1812, and participated in the battle of New Orleans. He was a captain of the militia in Virginia after he returned from the field, and of English descent; his wife was eighty-seven years old at her death. P. Barton Dunn was born and reared on a farm; received a common school education and in 1851 entered Cumberland University, Tennessee, for three years. At seventeen years he commenced teaching. Later he attended college and on his return entered the office of the circuit clerk for three years, after which he resumed his teaching in Kentucky and Tennessee until 1868; was elected circuit court clerk; re-elected in 1874 and was a very efficient and popular officer. At the time of his first election he located where he now resides, in the south end of Franklin, where he owns a fine cottage; also owns a good farm of 226 acres just south of Franklin, which is well improved and in a fine state of cultivation. In addition he owns 175 acres of the old homestead where he was reared. He has made life a success, accumulating what he has by his own industry, having started in life without capital. He married, in October, 1859, Berrilla Pearce, of Simpson County, a native of Marion County, and a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Bland) Pearce, who were born in upper Kentucky and were of Irish origin. To Mr. Dunn and wife were born four children: Thomas P., Richard H. (deceased), Ida E. and James W. Mrs. Dunn died in January, 1876, a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a very pious woman, a kind and affectionate wife and mother. Mr. Dunn next married, in December, 1876, Mary Williams Read, of Simpson County, a native of Allen County and a daughter of Edward F. and Elizabeth (Pulliam) Read. By his second marriage one son was born, William Duncan. Mrs. Mary W. Dunn died April 12, 1879, a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Dunn married his third wife, Katurah Pulliam, of Allen County, December 19, 1879. She is a daughter of James P. and Sally (Pulliam) Pulliam. One child is the result of this union – Paul Jones. Mrs. Dunn is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Dunn has been a Mason since the age of twenty-two; has been Master of the Simpson Lodge, No. 177, for ten years. He is one of the progressive and representative men of Simpson County, and cast his first presidential vote for Franklin Pierce, and has voted at every presidential election since.

C. A. F. RONDEAU 11416 - Livingston Co

sgorin — 2009-11-03 13:13:17Z

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Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume IV – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886.

C. A. F., Livingston County, was born November 17, 1858, on an island in the Ohio River, two miles above Golconda, Ill. He is a son of James S. and Charlotte (Hawkins) Rondeau. The father was born in Pope County, Ill., in 1825. His father, William Rondeau, came from England about 1818 and settled first in Philadelphia, and later moved to Illinois, buying, in 1830, the island on which our subject was born. William Rondeau subsequently left his family on the island and went to New Orleans, where he engaged in steam-boating. He was a lawyer in England, but after his arrival here abandoned that profession and became a minister. After residing in New Orleans for a number of years he came north and again turned his attention to farming. James S. Rondeau, the father of subject grew to manhood on the island, and in 1855 he married Miss Hawkins, who was born in Hardin County, Ill., about 1827. Her parents were emigrants from Connecticut, and her father was a soldier in the war of 1812. Subject’s father continued to reside on the old homestead until his death in May, 1867. The mother is still living on the home farm. C. A. F., is the third of a family of seven children, of whom six are living: Isabel, C. A. F., Katie, James, Will and Henry. Subject remained on the home farm until about eighteen, and then began life for himself. His first venture was clerking for J. C. Baker at Golconda. He remained with him two years, and then again turned his attention to farming. In the fall of 1884 he assumed the editorship of the Livingston Sentinel, a paper published by J. C. Hodge, of Golconda. The first number was issued September 16, 1884, and is at present in a flourishing condition. It is a weekly, being printed every Thursday, at Golconda, but mailed at Smithland.

Starling Peters ALDERSON, M. D. 11415, Logan Co.

sgorin — 2009-11-02 13:47:05Z

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History of Kentucky, The Blue Grass State. Volume III Illustrated. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago – Louisville, 1928. Logan Co.

STARLING PETERS ALDERSON, M. D. Choosing a profession in which his father achieved prominence, Dr. Starling Peters Alderson has fully demonstrated his ability to cope with disease and his constantly expanding powers have placed him with the leading physicians and surgeons of Russellville and Logan County. He is a native of the town and comes of distinguished ancestry in the maternal line, being a direct descendant of Sir William Pitt of England. His paternal forebears were also natives of England and case in their lot with the American colonists. They settled in that section of the Old Dominion now constituting the state of West Virginia, becoming influential citizens of that region, and the town of Alderson was named in honor of the family.

Benjamin and Mary Ann (McCarty) Alderson were the grandparents of the subject of this sketch and the latter was of Irish lineage. She was born in Logan county, Kentucky, and died in Russellville. Her husband was a native of Virginia and in 1822 migrated to Logan county, Kentucky. He was one of the pioneer merchants of Russellville, in which he spent the remainder of his life, conducting a retail grocery store. He was a stanch democrat and a faithful member of the Baptist church. He attained the age of seventy-six years, passing away in 18989, and his wife’s death occurred in 1892. Their family numbered five children, three sons and two daughters.

Their son, Madison Elden Alderson, was born February 27, 1852, in Russellville and supplements his public school education by attendance at Bethel College, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1871 and that of Master of Arts in 1874. He next matriculated in the Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, and was graduated with the class of 1878. He returned to Russellville well equipped for his profession, in which he attained high standing, building up the largest practice in the county. He was the local surgeon for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company and for more than twenty years rendered expert service to that corporation. He was honored with the presidency of the Logan county and Southern Kentucky Medical Societies and in 1908 was one of the three delegates from this state to the national convention of the American Medical Association. He was also a personality in business and financial affairs, becoming a director of the National Deposit Bank, president of the Russellville Auditorium Company and the executive head of the Central City Ice& Cold Storage Company, which profited by his administrative power and rare judgment. He was allied with the democratic party and was chosen president of the Russellville board of health. He was president of the board of trustees of Bethel College and also of the Baptist church at Russellville, of which he was likewise a deacon. During the World War he acted as chairman of the local advisory board and was also a member of the draft board. He was married January 27, 1886, to Miss Rebecca Marie Chappelle, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and a daughter of William Pitt and Jane (Campbell) Chappelle. The mother was born in St. Augustine, Florida and her demise occurred in Russellville, Kentucky. Mr. Chappelle was a native of Buffalo, New York, and became captain of a vessel plying the Great Lakes. He was a Mason and gave his political support to the democratic party, while in religious faith he was a Baptist. He was drowned in Lake Erie while en route to Buffalo to organize a company which was later taken over by the Standard Oil Corporation. Dr. Madison E. Alderson was a lifelong resident of Russellville and attained the age of sixty-seven years, passing away May 20, 1919, while his wife died in June, 1921, at Sioux City, Iowa. They were the parents of two children: Starling Peters; and Nelotine J., who was educated in the Logan Female College at Russellville, completing her course in 1911.

Dr. Starling P. Alderson was graduated from the Fuqua high school in 1900 and in 1904 was awarded the B. S. degree by Bethel College. He next entered the University of Illinois, from which he received the M. D. degree in 1909, and for a year was house physician at Grant Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He has since followed his profession in Russellville and his pronounced ability is attested by his success in practice. He acts as district surgeon for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company and is devoted to his patients, performing his duties with skill and thoroughness.

Dr. Alderson was married April 10, 1912, to Miss Mary Morton Hardwick, a daughter of Clarence and Sarah Elizabeth (Burton) Hardwick. The mother was born in Kentucky and resides near Russellville. Mr. Hardwick was a native of Ohio county, this state, and passed away at Hartford, Kentucky. He was allied with the democratic party and served as clerk of Ohio county for many years, while his religious views were in according with the doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Alderson was born in November, 1886, and is a graduate of the Owensboro high school. Dr. and Mrs. Alderson have three children: Mary Lenore, who was born October 20, 1914; Starling Peters, Jr., whose natal day was July 11, 1922; and Sarah Elizabeth, born May 22, 1926.

Dr. and Mrs. Alderson are Baptists and she belongs to the various societies of the church, while he is a member of the church choir. He is a stanch democrat and was elected mayor of Russellville, but resigned at the end of two years in order to enter the race for state senator, in which he was defeated. He was county physician for four years and during the World war was a member of the draft board of Logan county, was contract surgeon under special form No. 44-A and also made speeches throughout the county in behalf of the Red Cross and Liberty Loan campaigns. He is a past president of the local organization of Owls, past noble grand of Russellville Lodge, No. 29, I. O. O. F., and past grand master at arms of the Knights of Pythias of Kentucky. He is a past master of Russellville Lodge, No. 17, of the Masonic order and also a Noble of Kosair Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Louisville. He manifests a deep and helpful interest in matters touching the welfare and advancement of his community and is chairman of the executive committee of the Russellville Board of Trace. Dr. Alderson plays chess and billiards and motoring and fishing also afford him recreation. He enjoys life, maintaining an even balance in his interests and activities, and his record sustains the high reputation which he has been borne by the family.

William I. BOONE 11414 - Christian Co

sgorin — 2009-10-30 13:33:04Z

Henry SCHOOLER 11413 - Fayette Co

sgorin — 2009-10-29 12:56:42Z

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Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, p. 726.

Henry Schooler was born in Fayette county, Kentucky, July 26, 1798. He left Kentucky September 3, and settled in Pike county, Missouri, September 30, 1828. Three children were born to him, two of whom are yet living, one, Mrs. J. E. Brown, having died since this report was received. When Mr. Schooler first came here P. H. McBride was circuit judge; J. Lindsey, sheriff; Levi Pettibone, circuit clerk; and Uriel Griffith, constable of Calumet township. He has resided continuously on the farm he purchased of William Biggs, on upper Calumet, until recently, when he removed to Clarksville. He is a farmer and a carpenter.

William B. DUNN 11412 - Simpson Co

sgorin — 2009-10-28 12:40:08Z

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Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume IV – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Simpson Co.

WILLIAM B. DUNN was born July 6, 1827, in Pittsylvania County, Va., and in 1829 removed with his parents to Simpson County, Ky., locating in the southern part, where he has since resided. His father, Richard Dunn, also a native of Pittsylvania County, was born September 15, 1801; was reared near the head waters of Bannister River. He is the son of William Dunn, of Pittsylvania County, who was born in 1774; was a solder in the war of 1812, and died in Simpson County, Ky., in 1841. His father, John, a soldier in the American Revolution, died in 1822, at the age of sixty-six years. He was the son of John Dunn, of Virginia. Richard Dunn married Susan, daughter of James and Dorcas (Hodges) Parrish, of Pittsylvania County, (born in 1799, died May 10, 1863), and from their union sprang William B., Pasco B., Benjamin, Ann (Hendricks) and James. William B. has been twice married; first, April 7, 1853, to Nancy M., daughter of Aaron and Phoebe (Wood) Karr, of Simpson County (born in 1833, died March 23, 1871), and to them were born William J., Thomas N., Eudora A. (deceased), Benella, Susan A. (Hammond) and Robert L. March 28, 1872, he married Mary C., daughter of Rev. Hardy M. and Susan (Duval) Cryer, of Sumner County, Tenn. (born in 1839), and their union was blessed by the birth of one daughter – Mary D. (deceased). Mr. Dunn is a farmer and stock raiser, owning 375 acres of highly improved and productive land constituting one of the best farms in the southern portion of Simpson County, Ky. Mr. Dunn is a member of the Graham Chapter, No. 80, of the Royal Arch Masons. In politics he is a Democrat. Mrs. Dunn is a member of the Christian Church. Her father, Rev. Hardy M. Cryer, was the life-long friend of Gen. Jackson, from whom he received many letters, now in the possession of his family.

Dr. Ebenezer RONDEAU 11411 - Livingston Co

sgorin — 2009-10-27 12:36:47Z

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Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume IV – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Livingston Co.

DR. EBENEZER RONDEAU, Livingston County, was born in Manchester, England, December 16, 1818, and is a son of William and Ann Rondeau. His father’s family was of French descent. His mother’s maiden name was Arkenstall, the name of a very old Welsh family, from whom she descended. William Rondeau was born April 15, 1779, in the city of London. He was a lawyer by profession, and for a number of years practiced in the city of Manchester. In 1819 he came to American, settling first in Philadelphia, where he lived a short time, afterward moving to Pope County, Ill., and locating at the town of Golconda. After coming to America he discontinued the legal profession and entered the ministry of the Baptist Church, which calling he followed until his death in 1852. He was a man of brilliant attainments, and during his residence in this country, ministered to a number of the earliest churches of his order in Illinois and Kentucky. While a resident of Philadelphia, he assisted in the organization of the second Odd Fellow’s lodge in America. Ann (Arkenstall) Rondeau was born in 1780, and died in November, 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Rondeau reared a family of ten children, only three of whom are living: Charles Augustus Ff., Ebenezer and Sarah A., wife of R. T. Berry. The following are the names of those deceased: John, William H., Theophilus, Mebetabel, Mary, Emanuel and James S. Ebenezer Rondeau was quitge a small boy when his parents came to this country, and his first five years in America were spent in Pope County, Ill. At the end of that time his father moved to New Orleans, where our subject lived for a period of four years, the family returning north in 1830, and settling on Golconda Island. At the age of eighteen years Mr. Rondeau commenced reading medicine with Dr. William Sim, of Golconda, under whose instructions he continued three years, when he entered the Louisville Medical Institute (1839) and graduated from that school in the class of 1841. After completing his studies, Dr. Rondeau located in the practice of his profession at the farm of A. H. Wallace, where he remained four years. He then went to Salem, and after one year there he settled at Berry’s Ferry, opposite Golconda, where he practiced for seven years. At the end of that time he moved to Delta, Miss., where he engaged in merchandising, which he carried on in connection with his profession, selling goods for about two years. He then engaged in the wood business, in Arkansas, buying and selling wood and timber for a period of four years, when he was obliged to give it up, owing to failing health. In 1858 he returned to Kentucky, locating in Livingston County, where he engaged in farming for a short time, afterward moving back to Illinois, where he remained during the war. At the close of the war he opened a store at Berry’s Ferry, and ran it until 1869, from which date until 1875 he was engaged exclusively in farming. Since the latter year the Doctor has been dividing his time between his profession and his farm, in both of which he has been rewarded with a flattering degree of success. The Doctor has held several official positions, serving as treasurer and assessor in Pope County, Ill.; during the war, and while a resident of Mississippi, had charge of the postoffice at Delta. The Doctor was married December 2, 1840, to Mrs. Mary A Sterling, daughter of John and Maria Berry. Mrs. Rondeau was born in 1819, and by a previous marriage had two children: Ferdinand R. and Samuel L. Sterling, the former deceased.

Samuel B. JACOBY 11410 - Bourbon Co.

sgorin — 2009-10-26 12:35:41Z

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Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, p. 611. Unknown Co.

Samuel R. Jacoby (deceased), was a farmer, post-office Clarksville; was a native of Kentucky, born in 1811, in Bourbon county; he came to Missouri when a young man, in 1829; he was married in 1837 to Miss Anna E. Givens, a daughter of Matthew Givens, Esq., an early settler of Pike county. Mr. Jacoby, after marriage, began to improve his farm, which had been entered by his uncle, Jacob Jacoby, who was a resident of Kentucky; he had been a farmer all his life. The raised a family of three children: Mary E. (Now Mrs. Jackson), Sophronia Jeans, and Samuel D., who is the youngest, and is making his home with his mother on the old homestead, which contains over three hundred acres. The residence is a large one-story brick, with good out-buildings. Mr. Jacoby was one of the substantial men of the neighborhood. He came here with his mother, she being a widow. He resided on the same farm until his death, which occurred in 1873. His mother made her home with him until she died, at the age of 88 years, in 1866. Mr. Jacoby was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the Christian Church. Mrs. Jacoby, who survives her husband, is a member of the same church, and is a native of Kentucky, born on December 17, 1822.

John F. SIMPSON 11409 - Nelson Co

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THE INDIAN TERRITORY ITS CHIEFS, LEGISLATORS AND LEADING MEN , H. F. & E. S. O'Beirne, St. Louis. C. B. Woodward Company. 1892

John F. Simpson was born December, 1824, in Prince William County, Virginia, the son of J. W. Simpson, of Bardstown, Kentucky, who is now ninety-two years of age. John F. came to Kentucky at the age of twelve, and was educated at the public schools. After a residence of some ten years in Louisville, he moved to Eufaula in the Creek Nation (in 1872), and in the year following embarked in the hide and fur business, which he continues until the present day. In 1870, Mr. Simpson, while in Arkansas, met Miss Susan Crabtree, daughter of the late Mr. William Crabtree, a prominent citizen of the Creek Nation, and they were married the same year in that State. Soon after coming to Eufaula he commenced improving land, and now owns 60 acres close to town, as well as 115 acres two miles further out. Mr. Simpson and his father-in-law were the first who ever grew cotton in the Creek Nation, having hauled a wagon load of the seed from a gin in Texas, situated on the spot where now stands the City of Texarkana. The first crop was a complete failure, owing to an early September frost. This occurred in 1873. Afterwards Mr. Simpson bought and shipped the first bale of cotton ever ginned in the Creek country. The subject of this sketch has seen some active service under General Taylor in the Mexican war. He joined the first regiment that enlisted for a twelve months' service on that occasion, which regiment was the First Kentucky, under Colonel Ormsby. During these twelve months he served at the battle of Monterey, and other engagements of lesser note. Mr. Simpson has a family of six children, Hattie, aged eighteen years; Robert Lee, aged seventeen years; John, aged fourteen years; Kate, aged twelve years; Mary, aged ten years, and James, aged eight years.

Rev. William Cooke BOONE 11408 - Warren Co

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History of Kentucky, The Blue Grass State. Volume III Illustrated. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago – Louisville, 1928.

REV. WILLIAM COOKE BOONE. Reared in a religious environment an surrounded by uplifting influences, the Rev. William Cooke Boone naturally turned toward spiritual work, in which he has found a field of activity well suited to his talents, and for eight years, he was pastor of the First Baptist Church of Owensboro. He was born February 8, 1892, in Bowling Green, and worthily bears a name that has long been an honored one in Kentucky’s history. His father, the Rev. Arthur Upshaw Boone, D. D., was born September 7, 1860, in Elkton, Kentucky, and completed a course in the Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity by Union University at Jackson, Tennessee, and is now pastor of the First Baptist Church of Memphis. He is a gentleman of scholarly attainments, and the far-reaching effects of his work are attested in every community in which he has labored. He is an independent voter and liberal and broadminded in his views on all subjects. His parents were Higgason G. and Martha Maria (Edwards) Boone, natives of Todd county, Kentucky. The mother was born in 1816 and passed away at Elkton, Kentucky, in 1910, when ninety-three years of age. Her grandfather, Benjamin Edwards, was a pioneer settler of Todd county, which he represented in congress, and was one of the influential men of that district. Higgason Boone was born in 1806 and his demise occurred at Elkton in 1885. He was a well-to-do farmer and an earnest member of the Baptist church, of which he was clerk for fifty years. His father, Isaiah Boone, was a nephew of Daniel Boone, the noted Indian fighter, who was one of Kentucky’s earliest settlers. Daniel Boone’s grandfather was a native of England and became the founder of the Boone family in the new world. He settled in Pennsylvania about 1634 and the family migrated from that state to North Carolina and thence to Kentucky, in which they located in 1774.
Mrs. Eddie Belle (Cooke) Boone, the mother of the Rev. William Cooke Boone, was a graduate of the Mary Sharp College at Winchester, Tennessee. She was born August 22, 1866, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and passed away September 24, 1924, in Memphis, Tennessee. She was a daughter of William Alexander and Nannie (Burnam) Cooke. The latter was born in Richmond, Kentucky, and is living at Long Beach, California, at the venerable age of ninety-one years. Her father, John Burnam, was provisional treasurer of the Confederacy and lived for some time in Richmond, Kentucky, later moving to Bowling Green, this state, where he passed away. William A. Cooke was born in 1833 at Paris, Tennessee, and died in Bowling Green, Kentucky, August 15, 1907. He was engaged in the real estate and insurance business at Bowling Green and served as a deacon in the Baptist church. His father, Giles Cooke, was a lineal descendant of Mordecai Cooke, who was one of the early settlers of Gloucester county, Virginia.
In the acquirement of an education, the Rev. William C. Boone attended the public schools of Memphis, Tennessee, and in 1909 completed a course in the University school of that city. He then entered William Jewell College at Liberty, Missouri, from which he won the A. B. degree in 1912 and that of A. M. in the following year. He was a student at the Southern Theological Seminary at Louisville, Kentucky, from 1912 until 1914 and also took postgraduate work in Columbia University, New York city. He was ordained March 24, 1914, at Memphis, Tennessee, and on May 1, 1914, became pastor of the First Baptist Church at Hernando, Mississippi where he remained until July, 1916. He was assistant pastor of the First Baptist church at Memphis, Tennessee, for four months and from February, 1917, until August, 1918, had charge of the first Baptist church at Marianna, Arkansas. On September 1, 1918, he entered the pulpit of the First Baptist church at Owensboro and during his pastorate there its numerical and financial strength was greatly augmented. The church has over fourteen hundred members and has grown rapidly. It is a yellow brick structure with colonial pillars of white stone and is an ornament to the city. It was built in 1924, at a cost of about two hundred thousand dollars and ranks with the finest religious edifices in the state. On March 1, 1927, Rev. Boone became pastor of the First Baptist church at Roanoke, Virginia, where he is continuing his good work. He is an eloquent speaker, sending his message straight to the hearts of the hearers, and a strong bond of sympathy exists between pastor and people.
On September 1, 1915, at Grenada, Mississippi, was solemnized the marriage of the Rev. William C. Boone and Miss Ruth Trotter. Her father, the Rev. I. P. Trotter, D. D. was a native of Mississippi, and passed away in Winona, that state. He received his theological training in the Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville, Kentucky, and was one of the strong individual forces in the spread of the Baptist religion, holding pastorates at Brownsville, Tennessee, Bardstown and Maysville, Kentucky, and in Hattiesburg, Grenada and Shaw, Mississippi. He married Miss Susie Eager, who was also born in the Bayou state and is now living in Providence, Rhode Island. She is a sister of the Rev. John H. Eager, a Baptist minister residing in Baltimore, Maryland, and another brother, Professor George B. Eager, was for a member of the faculty of the Southern Baptist Seminary. Rev. and Mrs. Boone are the parents of four children: Ruth Trotter, whose birth occurred December 5, 1916, in Memphis, Tennessee; Martha Maria, who was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, November 26, 1919; Arthur Upshaw (II), born August 13, 1921, in Owensboro; and Nan Eager, born July 28, 1926, in Owensboro.
Mrs. Boone was born September 19, 1893, in Brownsville, Tennessee, and received her higher education in Judson College at Marion, Alabama, from which she was graduated in 1914 with the A. B. degree. She is a zealous church worker and at Owensboro taught a class in the Sunday School, aiding and encouraging her husband in his altruistic work. Rev. Boone is a democrat in his political views but not a strong partisan, casting an independent ballot at local elections. He is a member of the Investigators Club and of Sigma Nu, a college fraternity. He is a Mason and became connected with the Owensboro Lodge, No. 130, F. & A. M.; Joe Daviess Chapter, No. 32, R. A. M.; and Owensboro Commandery, No. 15, K. T., while his public spirit resulted in membership in the Chamber of Commerce. He turns to golf, hunting and fishing for recreation. He has never been an idle sentimentalist, but a worker, and the lofty ideals which he cherishes find embodiment in practical effort for their adoption. The Rev. Mr. Boone is a young man of winning personality, imbued with firm faith in the doctrines he preaches, and is a strong force for moral progress in his community.

Jonathan STILES 11407 - Nelson Co

sgorin — 2009-10-21 13:02:50Z

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11407 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume V – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Nelson Co.

JONATHAN STILES was born December 3, 1844, where he now resides on Rolling Fork, and is a son of John and Rhoda (Edwards) Stiles, to whom thirteen children were born: James F., Eunice (now Miller), Thomas and Elizabeth (deceased), John C., Henry C., Electa (now Stark), Jacob, Joseph and David (all deceased), Demus, Jonathan and Sallie A. John Stiles was born in New Jersey in 1796; came to Nelson County with his parents in 1810, and settled in the extreme southern part of Nelson County, on Rolling Fork, where he grew to manhood, became the owner of 1,7000 acres of land and a large family of slaves, and died in 1876. He was a son of David Stiles, who married Elizabeth Kitchel, natives of Vermont and New Jersey, respectively. David was a solder in the war for independence, and died in 1839, at a ripe old age. He was a son of Jacob Stiles. Mrs. Rhoda Stiles was born in Culpeper County, Va., and was brought to Marion County, Ky., in childhood. Jonathan Stiles at the age of twenty-one commenced life on his own account. He is now the owner of 230 acres of the original homestead, 170 under cultivation. He is an active member of the Baptist Church, as were his parents before him. He cast his first presidential vote for Seymour. James Stiles, the eldest member of the family living, is spoken of as one of the best historians in all his part of the country. John C. Stiles, another brother, was married on the 31st of March, 1859, to Elizabeth Carter, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Shuck) Carter, natives of Marion County. Mr. and Mrs. Stiles have had born ten children, eight living: David, Edward, John, James, Bur, Charles, Chilion and Mary E.

L. D. RASDALL 11406 - Warren Co

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Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume III – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Warren Co.

L. D. RASDALL ranks among the prominent business men and stock breeders in Warren County, and was born January 1, 1843, near Smith’s Grove. He is the son of Urias Rasdall, whose sketch appears above. L. D. Rasdall received his early training on the farm, where he received the rudiments of an English education. He had attended Georgetown College one year when he enlisted in January, 1862, under Gen. Buckner as a guide while in Kentucky, after which he acted as courier. After Gen. Buckner’s departure for Fort Donelson he served with Gen. Johnston as courier until the latter’s death at Shiloh, when he was discharged and returned home. He next went to Madison, Wis., where he engaged as clerk in a hotel for his uncle, William M. Rasdall, six months. He then entered Bryant & Stratton’s Commercial College at Milwaukee, Wis., and after graduating returned to Warren County, Ky., and thence to Glasgow Junction. Later he located at Smith’s Grove, where he entered his father’s store and remained nine years as partner, when he sold his interest and purchased a farm of 115 acres immediately south of the depot, and engaged in farming. Three years later he erected a fine store building south of the railway, and filled it with one of the largest and finest stocks of goods in the county. Since then he has taken a partner and added a large hardware and agricultural room, which he has well filled. He has one of the largest rooms and stocks of goods in southern Kentucky, and has a large and extensive trade. He also owns, with T. J. Smith, 350 acres of very fine land in a high state of cultivation, three miles north of Smith’s Grove, also 500 acres of timber adjoining. Mr. Rasdall is also engaged in breeding fine Short-horn cattle, and is one of the most successful business men in Warren County, although he commenced life working by the month for his father. He was married, May 7, 1873, to Mary M. Smith, a daughter of Henry and Eliza (Ray) Smith. Henry Smith was born in Edmonson County, was a large farmer and slave holder, and accumulated a large fortune. His wife was a daughter of Thomas Ray, of Edmonson County. L. D. Rasdall and wife have had born to them one son: Urias Rumsey Rasdall. Mrs. Rasdall is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Rasdall is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Gen. MacClellan.

Rev. Timothy SISK 11405 - Hopkins Co

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A HISTORY OF KENTUCKY BAPTISTS from 1769 to 1885 by J. H. Spencer, Vol. II, 1886.

TIMOTHY SISK was a native of North Carolina. He emigrated to Kentucky with his parents, at an early period, and settled in Hopkins County. Here he united with the Flat Creek, the oldest church in Hopkins County, it having been constituted in 1803. Mr. Sisk was licensed to preach, by this church, in 1819, where also he was soon afterward ordained. As his church went into the constitution of the Highland Association the same year he was licensed to preach, most of his ministry was spent in that fraternity. In 1835, he dissented from that body on account of its intolerance to missions, and, the next year, became identified with Little Bethel Association. But his connection with this fraternity was short. Before its first anniversary meeting, in 1837, he had gone to his final reward. He is said to have been a good, useful preacher.

George BENDALL 11404 - Christian Co

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William S. ELLIS 11403 - Shelby Co

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Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883; p. 607-8. Shelby Co.

William S. Ellis, post-office, Paynesville; was born in Shelby county, Kentucky, August 29, 1818. He was married November 12, 1843, to Miss Sarah Bivins, a native of Woodford county, Kentucky. He immigrated to Missouri in 1854, and located in Lincoln county, remaining about one year. He then came to Pike county, and purchased the farm on which he has since lived. His wife died January 24, 1873. They were the parents of four children, of which one still survives, John T. He was subsequently married to Miss Catharine V. Edwards, of Pike county, January 4, 1877. He and wife are consistent members of the Baptist Church, he having united with that organization when only sixteen years of age.

Dr. John West POWELL 11402 - Mercer Co

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Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume V – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 4th ed., 1886. Mercer Co. D

R. JOHN WEST POWELL was born August 29, 1832, in Bowling Green, Ky., and in 18940, being left an orphan, was taken to Mercer County by his uncle, Dr. T. J. Moore, with whom he grew to manhood. In 1855 he located at “Dunlora,” a part of the original McAfee survey on the Louisville pike, five and one-half miles north of Harrodsburg, where he has since resided. His father, Maj. John W. Powell, Sr., a native of Virginia, removed with his parents to Adair County, Ky., lived in Danville, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and engaged in merchandising in Bowling Green, where he died in 1840. He was the son of Robert Powell, a Virginian, a major in the Revolutionary war, a relative of the Powells of Powell’s Valley, and died in Adair County, Ky. His wife was a half sister to Benjamin West, the artist, and their offspring were Robert, John W., Sr., William, Susan (Jacobs), Fanny (Kerr), Margaret (Bledsoe) and Mary (Jones). John W., Sr., married Anne St. Clair, daughter of George Moore of Bowling Green (died in 1840), and from their union sprang Ann E. (Worthington), Mary F. (Dudley), George M., Ellen B.(Long), Patsy Bell (Kennedy),; John W., Sarah A. (Kennedy), Hobson (killed at the battle of Franklin Tenn.) and Thomas S. John W., Jr., first married, May 16, 1856, Susan, daughter of Peter B.. And Mary (Buchanan) Dunn, of Mercer County (died in 1864, aged thirty-one years), and their children were Thomas M. (deceased), William D., George M. (deceased) and Annie (deceased). On January 25, 1881, he was married to Margaret, daughter of John J. Halsey (born June 29, 1842), and to them have been born Mary D. Halsey, John West and Lafon. In 1850 Jno. West Powell commenced the study of medicine with Drs. Moore & Spillman, of Harrodsburg, graduating in 1854 in the medical department of the University of Louisville, after which, by solicitation from Dr. Gross, professor of surgery, was associated with him for one year in his practice. The following year he commenced practice at McAfee, which he continued with success eleven years. In 1875-76 he was a representative in the Legislature. He is now engaged in farming and stock raising, owning 550 acres of land. Dr. Powell is an Ancient Odd Fellow; for ten years he was an elder in the Providence Presbyterian Church, and in politics he is a Democrat. He lost twelve slaves through the late war.

Thomas HIGGINBOTHAM 11401 - Wayne Co

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An Illustrated history of Union and Wallowa Counties : with a brief outline of the early history of the state of Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Company 1902

THOMAS HIGGINBOTHAM - The representative and well known gentleman whose name appears at the head of this article has been a resident of Union County for more than a score of years, and he is to-day numbered with the most substantial and influential citizens here, and his home place, a farm two miles northwest from Elgin, displays industry and thrift, coupled with which are his stanch qualities of worth and moral excellence. On March 17, 1856, in Wayne county, Kentucky, our Subject was born to James and Priscilla (Cullum) Higginbotham, natives also of the Blue Grass State. In 1863 the parents went to Clay county, Illinois, and thence to Sangamon county, the same state, where the father was called from life in the fall of 1864, and his remains lie buried in Springfield, Illinois. In the same year the balance of the family removed to Marion county, Iowa, the older sons occupying themselves with the art of agriculture. In 1867 they removed to Sullivan county, Missouri, and for six years continued their employment in the line of farming, then went to Linn county and there they tilled the soil until the date of their advent to the west in 1881. They first went to Walla Walla, Washington, and after a few months came thence to Union county, in October of the same year. Our subject then purchased his present place, two miles northwest from Elgin. It contained one hundred and sixty acres, and is now the size of three hundred and sixty acres. Mr. George C. Higginbotham, a brother of our subject, and born August 31, 1845, in Wayne county, Kentucky, lives with our subject, and together they operate this fine estate, having labored together more or less all the time since they have been men. The mother lived with them until the time of her death, which occurred June 27, 1899, and her remains are buried at the Elgin cemetery.

Mr. Higginbotham was married on August 10, 1879, in Linn county, Missouri, to Amelia, daughter of Ransom and Virginia (Ward) Gent, Natives of Virginia and farmers of Missouri at this time. Six children have been born to them, Florence, James, Ransom, Priscilla, Thomas and Virginia. Mrs. Higginbotham’s father died in Missouri, but the mother came west with her sons and now lives north from Elgin. Mr. Higginbotham is a member of the K. of P., Orion Lodge, No. 73. He is a broad-minded and loyal citizen, possessed of capabilities that have won his success, and his integrity is quite commensurate with the other qualities of intrinsic worth.

Daniel T. THOMPSON 11400 - Marion Co

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Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume V – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 4th ed., 1886. Marion Co.

DANIEL T THOMPSON was born October 14, 1845, and is a son of Daniel B. and Malinda (Mattingly) Thompson to whom seven sons and five daughters were born. D. B. Thompson was reared on Rolling Fork and was a farmer and slave-holder before the war. He is now sixty-seven years old. His father, Richard Thompson, was a native of St. Mary’s County, Md., born about 1766. In 1803 he migrated and located near Raywick, Ky. In 1801 he married Elizabeth Kirk of Maryland, the issue being three sons and seven daughters. Richard Thompson went to sea when a lad of ten years, afterward became captain of a ship, and after became an extensive farmer. He was a son of Joseph Thompson of Maryland, of English descent and Roman Catholic faith. Mrs. Malinda Thompson was a daughter of John and Mary (Daley) Matting [sic], who reared a family of four sons and one daughters, all members of the Roman Catholic Church. David T. Thompson was born in Marion County, and received his education in the common schools, and St. Mary’s College. March 15, 1870, he was united in marriage to Isabella, a daughter of Joseph and Catherine (Mudd) Russell, both natives of Marion County. Mr. Russell is a well-to-do farmer; was a slave-holder. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have had born to them five children: Sallie Catherine, Joseph Russell, Susan E., John Lynn and Mary Isabella. They are members of the Roman Catholic Church. After marriage Mr. Thompson located in Washington County, but finally settled about two miles west of Lebanon, on 300 acres of fine land, and has given considerable time to stock raising and trading, shipping mostly mules to the South. In September, 1875, he was appointed Government storekeeper. In politics he is an active Democrat.

John JONES 11399 - Bourbon Co

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History of Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa, [?]: Lewis Publishing Co., 1893.

Enoch Jones, a well-known citizen of Battle Creek, Iowa, was a resident of Ida County since 1883, and of Iowa, since 1852. He was born in Bourbon County, Ky., March 6, 1825. He was reared and educated in Kentucky, and learned the trade of blacksmith. John Jones, his grandfather, married a native of Wales. He was a prominent hotel man of Culpeper, Va. Moving to Bourbon County, Ky., he settled on Boone Creek, and was a participant in many of the Indian wars. His son, James Jones, father of Enoch, was born in Va., and married Dicie Gregory, a native of that state. After their marriage, they went to Kentucky, and there spent the rest of their lives. They lived on a plantation, and reared a family of eight children. In 1852 he made the journey to Dubuque, Iowa, via the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and settled at Scott’s Grove, in Jones County, Ia., where he was engaged in farming and operating a thresher. He opened up and improved a farm of 320 acres there. In 1874, he first bought land in Ida County. He came to Battle Creek in 1883 to look after his real-estate interests, was pleased with the situation, and located at Battle Creek. He was also for eleven years engaged in the general merchandise business at Monticello, Iowa. This was between 1863 and 1873. Mr. Jones is now making a specialty of horses, buying and selling both draft and roadsters. He has some very fine horses, among which are Union Jack, a large chestnut sorrel, and Randolph, a dark brown hackney.

Augustus H. TEVIS 11398 - Bracken Co

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History of Greene County, Missouri, Western Historical Company, 1883. Geo. C. Swallow, LL.D.

The scholarly subject of this sketch is a native of Rush County, Indiana, born on his father's farm, May 13, 1841, and was the ninth child of a family of three sons and seven daughters. His parents were Dr. Daniel H. and Phoebe (Scott) Tevis, the former having been a physician by profession,—a self-made man, who enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. He (Dr. Daniel H.) was born in Bracken county, Kentucky, and was quite a scholar as a linguist, being a proficient in both Latin and Greek. The elder Dr. Tevis died in 1858, and his wife in 1862, both of whom are buried in Rush county, Indiana. After his father's death, the management of the extensive farming operations, embracing several large farms, left by him, all devolved on Augustus H., then but seventeen years old. In 1860 he entered Asbury University at Greencastle, Indiana, then under the control of Bishop Bowman. Early in the beginning of the civil troubles, however, young Tevis left college to volunteer like a true patriot and aid in suppressing the rebellion. He enlisted in September, 1861, and became second lieutenant of company H, thirty-seventh Indiana volunteers. He was in active service for over three years, participating in many hard battles, fights and skirmishes, including Stone river, New Hope Church, Resacca, before Atlanta, and numerous others. At Stone river, he was slightly wounded, and soon afterwards was promoted to a first lieutenancy. He was mustered out in November, 1864, and soon re-entered the same institution he had left to join the army. In the close of 1868 he was graduated therefrom, and, in due course was honored with the degree of A. M. On August 6, following, he married Sallie A. Webster, daughter of Dr. E. Webster, of Connersville, Indiana. One child has been born of this union, a bright little girl named Lora Belle. Dr. Tevis' first charge as pastor was that of the M. E. Church at Liberty, Union county, Ind. Following this he was stationed at Wooster and Taylorville, and was next elected superintendent of city schools at Madison, where he served one year. His conference then sent him to Palestine, thence again to Peru, from which latter charge he was transferred by Bishop Peck, to Carson City, Nevada, where he remained two years, and was chaplain both of the Legislature and State prison. It was while here that he went into print as an author, and wrote his "Jesuitism, the Bible, and the Schools," and also his "Beyond the Sierras," published by Lippincott & Co., of Philadelphia. He also corresponded for various newspapers and literary journals. Santa Barbara, California, was his next charge, and from thence he was sent to San Diego. The ill health of his family necessitated his return to Indiana in 1879, and he having already read medicine studiously, entered the Medical College at Indianapolis, from which he soon after graduated as M. D. He was then sent by Bishop Wiley to Springfield, Missouri, where he was pastor of Grace M. E. Church till the spring, of 1883, when he retired therefrom. Besides his more solid literary attainments, Dr. Tevis has paid considerable attention to art, and is quite proficient in music and painting, and has his home decorated with a number of paintings indicative of true art, produced by himself and wife. He has had many of his sermons published which rank him high as a theologian. At present, he is writing a book on infidelity considered in relation to its evil effects as contrasted with Christianity, which will be completed before this work is put in press. Had it not been for the assassination of President Garfield Dr. Tevis would doubtless have received the appointment to the Jerusalem consulate, for which he had received the recommendation of most public men at Washington. Zealous in his ministerial work, fully imbued with a love for mankind and a hearty desire for their spiritual and mental elevation,—always a student and given to habits of indefatigable research, Dr. Tevis is one of those rare men who constitute a valuable acquisition to any community; while the high social qualities of himself and wife render their companionship in the keenest sense enjoyable, and win them hosts of friends wherever they are known.

Reuben ANDERSON 113978 - Harrison Co

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Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, p. 604-5.

Reuben Anderson, farmer, post-office Clarksville. This gentleman is a native of Pike county, Missouri, and was born May 5, 1828. His father, James Anderson, was born in Harrison county, Kentucky, in 1792, and emigrated to Missouri in 1818, and settled near what is now known as Corinth Church, on a farm, where he remained until his death, which occurred in 1864. The mother of our subject, who died when he was quite young, was Lydia Holland, and was a native of Kentucky. His parents raised ten children, all but two of whom are still living. Reuben, our subject, was reared and educated in his native country. When grown he began business for himself, and engaged in agricultural pursuits, which is his present business. He is now turning his attention to Short-Horn cattle. Mr. Anderson was first married in March, 1857, to Phoebe J. McDannold, daughter of N. McDannold, one of the early settlers of this county. She died September 14, 1872, leaving four children, three boys and one girl: Wallie, Laura, A. J., and Jane N., now Mrs. Chas A. Bibb. Mr. Anderson was married the second time to Nannie R. Patterson in 1874. She is a native of this county and is a daughter of John Patterson, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are both members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Anderson’s farm contains 132 acres, about 100 acres of which are in a high state of cultivation.

Urias RASDALL 11396 - Warren Co

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Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume II – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Warren Co.

URIAS RASDALL, a wealthy and prominent citizen, and founder of Smiths Grove, was born March 15, 1812, in the east part of Warren County, and is the fourth of four sons and five daughters born of Robert and Elizabeth (Wright) Rasdall, who were both born in South Carolina, and were brought to Barren County, Ky., by their parents in an early day. Robert Rasdall was a soldier of 1812. When young he located in Warren County, where he succeeded in accumulating a fine property as a farmer. He was a son of William Rasdall, who was born and reared in South Carolina, and, about 1800, immigrated to Barren County, where he purchased and improved a farm. He was a soldier in the war for independence, and was of English origin. Robert Rasdall, the father of our subject, assisted in cutting out the first road where Glasgow now stands. The mother of our subject was the daughter of Jacob Wright, who was born and reared in South Carolina, and who married a Miss Waters. He died in South Carolina. His widow afterward immigrated to and settled in the west part of Barren County. Urias Rasdall was reared on a farm, and was educated in a country school. At twenty he purchased some land, on which he built and operated a grist-mill. He also dealt considerably in stock, which he shipped south. Afterward he engaged in mercantile business. In 1836 he purchased a wagon-load of knit woolen goods, and hauled them to Wisconsin and sold them for good prices in going from Galena to Madison. In 1863 Mr. Randall engaged in the mercantile business at Glasgow Junction. One year later he purchased the property where he now resides in Smith’s Grove, and continued the business of selling goods. He purchased the store and ground for $9,000, and laid out Smith’s Grove. At present he owns twenty acres of land and several good houses and lots in Smith’s Grove, and also owns his father’s old homestead of 100 acres. December 14, 1837, he was united in marriage to Rebecca Doughty, of Warren County, a daughter of Preston and Nancy (Wright) Dougherty, natives of Warren County. Preston Doughty was a substantial farmer and owner of several slaves, and was a son of Daniel Doughty, a farmer. Urias Rasdall and wife had born to them three children: Leander W., Lorenzo D. and Alvarado. The eldest is in business in Macon, Ga., and was in the Confederate Army. The two younger are in Smith’s Grove. The wife of our subject died September 29, 1852, a devoted member of the Baptist Church, of which Mr. Rasdall is also a member. Mr. Rasdall is a man of strong constitution, having never lost a day by sickness. In politics he is Democratic, and cast his first presidential vote for Martin Van Buren.

Ara THOMAS 11395 - Unknown County

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History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folk Lore, Emmet Starr, 1921, The Warden Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Ara, daughter of Goren and Eliza (Wheatley) Thomas was born in Kentucky, June 23, 1886 and educated in that State. Married at Muskogee, October 22, 1905 Augustus William, son of Ferdinand and Pauline Aldrich. They are the parents of John Harley, born November 10, 1906 and Roger Arthur Aldrich born August 2, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich are members of the Apostolic church. Mr. Aldrich is a farmer, near Ketchum.

Benjamin Franklin SOPER 11394 - Boyle Co

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Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume V – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 4th ed., 1886. Boyle Co.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOPER was born January 1, 1838 in Jessamine County, Ky., where he lived until October 1, 1882, when he removed to Boyle County. His father, James Soper, a native of Maryland, born in 1792, was a farmer and mechanic and died in 1861. He was the son of John Soper, of Maryland, who came to Kentucky about 1799. James married Elizabeth, daughter of Elijah Bibb of Jessamine County (born October 15, 1808, died August 11, 1870), and to them were born Nancy A. (Allin), William B., James R. subject, David M., John E., Oremandel T. and Amos B. On the 15th of October 1877, Benjamin F. Soper was married to Miss Louisa W., daughter of John and Paulina (Cravens) Dickerson, of Jessamine County (born March 7, 1843), and this union has been favored by the birth of Lewis Edgar, Nora Lee, Charlie Elbert, Frank Walden and Lorris. Enjoying but limited educational advantages himself, Mr. Soper is taking a decided interest in the education of his children. For sixteen years he was engaged with some success as a manufacturer and dealer in lumber. He is now engaged in farming, owning 210 acres of productive land, which, under his careful management, is in a fine state of cultivation. In religion he is a member of the Christian Church, and in politics a Democrat.

William Wallace JONES 11393 - Adair Co

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History of Kentucky by Judge Charles Kerr, Editor, By William Elsey Connelley and E. M. Coulter, Ph. D., Department of History, University of Georgia. In Five Volumes, Volume V, The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1922

William Wallace Jones. It is generally accepted as a truism that no man of genius or acknowledged ability can be justly or adequately judged while still in the heyday of life, chiefly because time is necessary to ripen the estimate upon work which can only be viewed on all sides in the calm atmosphere of a more or less remote period from its completion. This is in no way inappropriate to the life accomplishments of Judge William Wallace Jones, who has long occupied a conspicuous place in the history of Adair County. No man in the community has had warmer friends or is more generally esteemed. He is a man of refinementt and culture, deeply read, a leader of the- county bar, president of the Bank of Columbia, and one who has achieved success in his affairs. Judge Jones was born January 19, 1855, in Cumberland County, Kentucky, a son of Levi and Nancy Obedience (Gearhart) Jones. His great-grandfather, Charles Jones, was born in Wales, and as a young man immigrated to America and settled in Virginia. Shortly thereafter the colonies began their fight for independence, and Charles Jones joined the Patriot Army under the leadership of Patrick Henry in his first enlistment. Later he re-enlisted and was with the forces of General Lee. He married Fannie Thorpe, a native of Virginia, and shortly thereafter came to Adair County, Kentucky, as a pioneer, here spending the remainder of his life in the pursuits of agriculture. William Thorpe Jones, the son of Charles and Fannie Jones, was born in 1798, in Adair County, Kentucky, and as a young man went to Cumberland County, where he married Mary E. Baker, a native of that county. Mr. Jones farmed in Cumberland County for a few years and then moved to Casey County, where he spent the rest of his life as a tiller of the soil and died in 1868.

Levi Jones, the father of Judge Jones, was born in 1835, in Cumberland County, where he was educated, reared and married and where he farmed for a few years. About 1859 he removed to Casey County, where he continued his agricultural operations during the remainder of his life and died at the age of forty years, in 1875. He was a Union sympathizer during the war between the states, but a democrat in his political allegiance. His religious faith was that of the Baptist Church, and as a fraternalist he belonged to the Masons. He married Nancy Obedience Gearhart, who was born in 1839, in Cumberland County, and died in Casey County in 19o7. They became the parents of five children, as follows: Maude, who died in infancy; William Wallace, of this notice; Mary E., who died at the age of eight years; C. C., who is engaged in agricultural pursuits in Casey County; and Quincy R.. a farmer of Glendale, Arizona. William Wallace Jones acquired his early education in the rural schools of Casey County, and in 1874, when not yet nineteen years of age, began teaching in the country districts of Casey County. During 1874 and 1875 he taught two free schools, following which he pursued a course at Columbia Male and Female School, Columbia. Next, at home, he finished a course of study equivalent to graduating from Center College, Danville, Kentucky. From that time to the present he has continued his studies and it is safe to say that Judge Jones is today one of the best-rounded scholars in the state. He reads Virgil, Tacitus and Ovid, is a thorough Latin and Greek scholar, and is well versed in both ancient and modern literature generally. In 1877 Judge Jones was admitted to the bar and at once engaged in practice, having since had a constantly increasing general civil and criminal practice at Columbia, where his offices are located in the Jones Building, a business structure owned by him on the southwest side of the Public Square. He is also the owner of a modern residence on Greensburg Street, one of the most desirable homes of Columbia.

In politics a republican, Judge Jones has long been before the public, but rather in an official than a political capacity. W. W. Jones was elected judge of the Twenty-ninth Judicial District of Kentucky in 1892 and re-elected without opposition in 1897, serving until January 1, 19o4. He was nominated by the republican party as its candidate for judge of the Court of Appeal of Kentucky in 1898. His only fraternal connection is with Columbia Lodge No. 96, F. and A. M. While his profession and his public duties have engrossed a large part of his attention, Judge Jones has also been a leader in financial affairs in this section for a number of years, and has been president of the Bank of Columbia since 1905. In 1900 he assisted in the organization of the Bank of Jamestown, of which he was vice president and a member of the Board of Directors until 1914, at which time he was elected president. He resigned the presidency in 1918. In 1895 Judge Jones was one of the main factors in the organization of the Monticello Banking Company, of which he was vice president and a director until 19o5, at which time he disposed of his quarter interest in the bank and retired therefrom. During the World war he took an exceptionally active part in all local war activities. He was chairman of the Adair County Chapter of the American Red Cross all through the war period and retains that position at the present time. He was likewise chairman of the first two Liberty Bond drives in Adair County, and assisted in all the campaigns for all purposes, likewise buying bonds and contributing to the various organizations to the limit of his means. In addition he worked helpfully and unremittingly during the epidemic of the influenza. From the elevated plane of public service down through the fields of its usefulness to the community and into the privacy of his family circle the track of the life of Judge Jones has been characterized by a constant and consistent uprightness born of high principles.
He married. at Columbia, Kentucky, in 1885, Miss Loulie Wheat, a daughter of Sinclair and Fannie (Garnett) Wheat, both deceased, Mr. Wheat having been a merchant and farmer at Columbia. Judge and Mrs. Jones have one daughter, Fannie, the wife of George R. Reed, an insurance man residing at the Jones' home on Greensburg Street.

Dr. William Alfred CLARK 11392 - Logan Co

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Centennial History of Missouri, One Hundred Years in the Union 1820-1921, Walter B. Stevens, 1921, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, St. Louis, Chicago.

It is seldom that one attains prominence along several lines, but Dr. William Alfred Clark of Jefferson City is regarded as one of the eminent surgeons of the state and in 1918 served as president of the Missouri state board of health, while in Masonic circles be has also been accorded a place of distinction and leadership, having been grand master of the order in Missouri in 1917 and 1918. He is numbered among Missouri's native sons, his birth having occurred in Clarksburg, Moniteau county, September 11, 1865. He was the eldest of ten children, four sons and six daughters. His ancestors were Scotch-Irish but when they migrated to America is not definitely known. The first authentic knowledge concerning their residence in this country is that they went to Kentucky from Guilford Court House, North Carolina, and in 1833, the grandfather of Dr. Clark left Logan county, Kentucky, and drove across the country in an ox wagon, settling in Moniteau county, Missouri. He took up his abode on the broad prairie where the village of Clarksburg now stands and the town was named in his honor. The doctor's father, George T. Clark, was born in Kentucky in 1830 and passed away about 1893. He lived most of his life In Clarksburg and married Mary B. Yancey, a descendant of Leighton Yancey, who migrated from Virginia to Missouri and was one of the pioneer settlers of Howard county, his farm being the location of the town of Roanoke. A number of the family still live in that locality, and others are near Armstrong and in that vicinity. The village of Clarksburg was built upon the old Clark farmstead, the residence being just at the edge of the town.
It was upon that place that Dr. Clark of this review was reared to manhood, working on the farms in the summer months and attending school in the winter season until he was twenty years of age. When he was quite a boy a college was established there called Clarksburg College, and for a number of years it enjoyed a high reputation as an educational center. Dr. Clark attended school there and was graduated in 1888. During the last year of his college course he was also a tutor, teaching half of the day and studying the other half. He also taught three terms in country schools while completing his college course. Later Dr. Clark went to Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, where he passed the examination to the senior class of Waynesburg College, and then pursued a classical course and was graduated in 1889, at which time he won the salutatorian honors of the class. He later returned to Missouri and was elected principal of the public schools at Tipton, where he taught for five years. Afterward he entered the Washington University Medical School in St. Louis and was graduated in March, 1897. Having thus qualified for active professional duties he located for practice in Jefferson City, where he has remained continuously since, enjoying today the leading practice in the capital. He specializes In surgery and has taken much post-graduate work, keeping at all times in touch with the latest theories and advancement made in the profession. His sound judgment enables him to determine readily the real value of any advanced ideas, and his progressiveness prompts his utilization for every new and worth-while method. He is a member of the Cole County Medical Society, the Missouri Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the American Association of Railway Surgeons. He was also president of the Missouri state board of health for the years 1918-1919.
In 1899 Dr. Clark was married to Miss Clara T. Neef, a daughter of Herman and Mary (Brennelsen) Neef. Her father was an early settler of Jefferson City, where he engaged in business as a hardware merchant. He was born in Alsace, France, but left his native country during the revolution of 1848. Dr. and Mrs. Clark have two daughters: Helen, who was born May 14, 1901, and is now attending the Academy of the Sacred Heart of St. Louis; and Mary Louise, who was born December 23, 1906.
Dr. Clark is very active and prominent in Masonic circles. He has filled all of the chairs from the blue lodge up through the Knights Templar commandery, and he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of St. Louis he has crossed the sands of the desert. His high position in Masonic circles is indicated in the fact that in 1917 he was elected grand master of the state. Throughout his entire life he has made his activities count as a forceful factor in the accomplishment of well defined purposes, based upon conditions of society, upon public needs and upon office unity for the promotion of public welfare.

Cincinnatus D. BELL 11391 - Christian Co

sgorin — 2009-09-29 12:20:52Z

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County of Christian, Kentucky; Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., Chicago and Louisville, 1884. Longview Precinct.

CINCINNATUS D. BELL was born on August 16, 1833, at the old Davis place in Christian County, Ky., and was reared to manhood near Oak Grove, in the vicinity of which he still resides. He is a son of Dr. Joh F. and Kittie (Bowcock) Bell. The father was born in Orange County, Va., on July 15, 1797. He came to Kentucky in 1811, and first settled in Shelby County. In 1813 he moved to Trenton, Todd County, and in 1818 he came to Hopkinsville. Here he read medicine with Drs. Short and Webber until 1822, and then returned to Trenton and farmed and practiced until 1836. He then came to Oak Grove and practiced until his death, which occurred on May 6, 1878. The mother was a daughter of Douglas Bowcock, of Alabama, and to her were born the following children: Elizabeth M., John N., Darwin, Evelina M., Fannie B., Cincinnatus D. (our subject), and Kittie B. Her death occurred in 1837. Our subject was educated in the schools of his native county, and afterward attended the Georgetown (Ky.) College, from which institution he graduated in 1854. Soon after he turned his attention to farming, and has made that his occupation for life. He now owns about 385 acres of valuable land, which he successfully cultivates in wheat and tobacco. He also handles some stock. Mr. Bell was married on October 29 1857, to Miss Annie M. Peay, a daughter of Austin and Maria A. (Pendleton) Peay, of this county. To this lady were born four children, viz.: John P., Mary P., Douglas B. and Austin. In 1862 Mr. Bell entered Woodward’s Second Kentucky Cavalry, and served until the close of the war. Mr. Bell is a member of the Masonic and K. of H. fraternities of Hopkinsville, and is also a member of Salem Baptist Church. In politics he is a Democrat.

David GRAY 11390 - Mason Co

sgorin — 2009-09-28 12:26:12Z

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The History of Methodism in Kentucky, by the Rev. H. H. Redford, D. D., Volume III, From the Conference of 1820 to the Conference of 1832. Southern Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, Tennessee, 1870, pp. 32-34. David Gray was appointed this year (1820s) to the Franklin Circuit, and the two years following to the Guyandotte; and died previous to the Conference of 1823. We find a brief memoir of this excellent young man in the General Minutes. Davie Gray was a native of New Jersey, born in 1791. He became, in early life, a professor of Christianity, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Some time after this, he emigrated to the western country, and united himself to the Methodist Society in Maysville. His life and conversation rendered him an acceptable member, and he was esteemed as a pattern of piety. Here he received license to exhort, and employed himself usefully, until 1819, when he entered the ministry as a local preacher. In 1820, he commenced traveling, and in the autumn of the same year he was received as a traveling preacher, and appointed to the Franklin Circuit. In 1821, he was reappointed to the Guyandotte, and in 1822, admitted to deacon’s orders, and reappointed to Guyandodtte Circuit, where he ended his days. His labors were acceptable and useful. He earnestly sought the glory of God and the salvation of souls. He sustained losses, bore crosses, and endured hardships, with great firmness and resignation. He studied much to know how he might be useful to the people, and to know nothing among them but Christ, and him crucified. He was fervent, energetic, and animating; and his piety and zeal often silenced his opposers, and commended him to their consciences in the sight of God. He as sometimes in perils, both on the land and in the water, and his exposures and labors served to hasten his dissolution. His disease was of an inflammatory kind, against which he bore up for awhile, unwilling to give up his labors. But such was the nature of his illness, that in December, 1822, he was confined to bed, where he lingered out his life in great bodily affliction. During his confinement he experiences the most severe pain, which attended him and increased upon him for several moths. This he endured with great patience, and found the grace of God in all things sufficient. His mind was filled with peace, and he often experienced such a flow of divine grace, that he praised God aloud. He closed his sufferings and life together, on the 21st day of May, 1823, and has gone to his reward.

Abel G ESTES 11389 - Bourbon Co

sgorin — 2009-09-25 12:54:56Z

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Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, p. 608.

Abel G. Estes, farmer, Clarksville. This old gentleman is a native of Kentucky, and was born in Bourbon county, near Flat Rock, on the 14th day of August, 1815. When about twelve years of age he came with his parents to Missouri, in the fall of 1827. His father, Robert Estes, was by birth a Virginian, going to Kentucky in an early day, where he was married to Elizabeth Griffith, the daughter of Abel Griffith. Previous to this he had served as a soldier in the War of 1812. Robert Estes came to Missouri and settled in the timber on the waters of Little Calumet Creek near where the Burskin Church now stands; there he improved a farm, on which he continued to reside until his death. The mother died, December 26, 1877. The old couple raised a family of eleven children, who lived to be men and women grown, six boys and five girls, nine of whom still survive. Abel G., our subject was reared from boyhood on a farm, and had a common school education. When grown to manhood he began his career as a farmer, which has been his principal business for life. When a young man he spent a short time working in the cooper shops. Mr. Estes has been twice married, first to Elizabeth Stadley, a native of Pike county, Missouri, and daughter of John Stadley, Esq.; she died in July, 1863, leaving five children: Thomas J., Mary A., Robert M., and Olive A., twins, and Armilda E. J. Mr. Estes married for his second wife, in 1869, Mrs. Eunis Mulberry, a native of Kentucky. She had one daughter by her first husband, viz., Judith E., now Mrs. Henry Stuke. Mr. E.’s farm contains a landed estate of 270 acres of well improved land. He has a fine two-story brick house erected in the year 1867. Mr. and Mrs. Estes are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Mordecai ADAMS 11358- Bourbon Co

sgorin — 2009-09-24 12:12:20Z

NOTE: As you know, I’ve been posting from the Pike County, Missouri history book. Many Kentucky citizens moved to this county in the early years from Bourbon County KY. I am going to take about a week and clear out some of the Bourbon County biographies.

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Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, p. 604.

Mordecai Adams (deceased) was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, October 15, 1797, where he was reared and educated. In 1817 he came to Pike county, Missouri, where he settled on a farm in Calumet township and continued to reside until his death. He was married in Bourbon county to Miss Sarah Mulherren of that county; by this union were eight children, of whom five still survive: Thomas, Elizabeth, Benjamin F., Mordecai M., and Sarah A. Mr. Amos was a self-made man and by close attention to his farming pursuits he accumulated a large property, sufficient to leave his children all a good home. He and his wife were formerly members of the M. E. Church, but in 1848 he withdrew and united with the Christian Church, with which he was identified until his death, which occurred August 25, 1879. His first wife died May 14, 1849; he was again married in 1858 to Miss Tempie McCue, who died August 20, 1864.

William D. CUMMINS 11387 - Bourbon Co.

sgorin — 2009-09-23 12:47:05Z

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Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, p. 607. Bourbon Co.

William D. Cummins, post office, Paynesville; farmer and stock-raiser; was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, October 29, 1829, and immigrated to Missouri in the winter of 1853, settling and engaging in the mercantile business at Clarksville. He was married, July, 1855, to Miss Bettie Meloan of this county. By this union they have one child, Catharine. Mr. Cummins lost his wife May 6, 1862. He was again married July 28, 1863, to Miss Martha A. Stewart, of Lincoln county. By this union they have four children, three daughters and one son: Fannie M., Bettie K., Lucy L., and Benjamin F. Mr. C. moved to his present farm in 1862. It contains 260 acres of fine land, under a high state of cultivation. He takes great interest in all public enterprises; has been justice of the peace for many years. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church.

John Drake GLASS 11136 - Morgan Co

sgorin — 2009-09-22 12:29:48Z

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History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folk Lore, Emmet Starr, 1921, The Warden Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

John Drake, Son of John and Samantha Glass was born June 16, 1891. Educated in the Cherokee Public Schools and Male Seminary. Married at Grove, Okla., 1910, Pearl I. daughter of George Washington and Fanny Goad, born Sept. 20, 1892 in Morgan County. Kentucky. They are the parents of John Kenneth Glass, born Sept. 9, 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Glass are farmers and school teachers. He belongs to the Wolf Clan. John K Source: Biographies of the Cherokee Indians

Hord HARDIN 11385 - Franklin Co.

sgorin — 2009-09-21 12:49:46Z

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Centennial History of Missouri, One Hundred Years in the Union 1820-1921, Walter B. Stevens, 1921, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, St. Louis, Chicago.

Hord Hardin is connected with one of the strongest financial concerns of the middle west, being the vice president of the Mississippi Valley Trust Company. Mere success has never throughout the history of the world, save in a few rare instances, been the cause of any individual being remembered by his fellows and never has the mere accumulation of wealth gained any man honor. The methods employed in the attainment of wealth, however, may awaken approval and admiration, for the world pays its tribute to him who through enterprise, unrelaxing effort and clear-sighted judgment makes advancement in the business world without infringing on the rights of others. Such has been the record of Hord Hardin, who has wisely used the opportunities that have been presented, who has thoroughly acquainted himself with the tasks in hand and with modern business methods and has displayed marked adaptability in using his powers and his opportunities for the upbuilding of the business. In order to further equip himself for the demands of present-day business conditions he attended night school. His more advanced education was acquired in St. Louis, while his early studies were pursued in the public schools of Frankfort, Kentucky, in which city he was born April 10, 1888. His father, David C. Hardin, was also a native of that state and was a lawyer by profession, practicing for many years in Bardstown, save for the period of his service with the Confederate forces in the Civil war. He married Hannah Hord, a representative of an old American family connected with Virginia and Kentucky. They became the parents of two sons and three daughters: Bessie, the wife of Bernard G. Graham, now living at Frankfort, Kentucky; Hannah, the wife of Oliver W. Long, also of Frankfort; Flora, the wife of Gardner L. Van Trump, a resident of Wilmington, Delaware; William O., who married Aline Crow; and Hord of this review, who is the youngest.
The last named acquired a grammar school education in his native city and continued his studies in St. Louis, where for three years he was a student in the St. Louis University, attending the School of Commerce and Finance, from which he was graduated in June, 1917. He pursued this course at night, while in the daytime he was employed by the Mississippi Valley Trust Company. He became identified with the corporation at the age of fifteen years in the humble position of office boy but gradually fitted himself by experience and study for the position of stenographer and was afterward promoted to the position of secretary to the president of the bank. He worked into the position of assistant executive officer when on the 19th of February, 1919, he was elected vice president of the corporation and is now filling that office. His duties cover general banking and he is now contributing in substantial measure not only to the growth of the business but to the development of the city, for every successful business enterprise constitutes a force in municipal progress. Mr. Hardin is also a director of the San Antonio Water Supply Company, having filled the position from 1914 to the present time. During the war period he gave considerable time to the advancement of the Liberty loan and was a generous contributor to all the various war activities.
Mr. Hardin was married in St. Louis, June 18, 1910, to Miss Edith Wilson, daughter of Ernest Wilson, who was born in London, England, and is now a resident of St. Louis, where he is engaged in the plumbing contracting business. To Mr. and Mrs. Hardin have been born two sons, Hord Wilson and William Graham, aged respectively eight and six years and both now pupils in the Clark school.

Politically Mr. Hardin is a democrat, stalwart in support of the party principles. In religious faith he is a Presbyterian, belonging to the Westminster church of St. Louis. He is a member of the Racquet Club, the Missouri Athletic Association, the Triple A Tennis Club and the Sunset Hill Country Club, and that his interests and activities extend to those things which feature in the city's progress and development is manifest in his connection with the Chamber of Commerce. His cooperation can at all times be counted upon to further measures and plans for the general good and he stands as a most public-spirited citizen as well as one of the leading financiers of St. Louis.

Rev. William HATCHETT 11384 - Henderson Co.

sgorin — 2009-09-17 13:05:23Z

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A HISTORY OF KENTUCKY BAPTISTS from 1769 to 1885 by J. H. Spencer, Vol. II, 1886. Henderson Co.

WILLIAM HATCHETT was in the constitution of Little Bethel Association. He was a native of Virginia, and began his ministry in Lunenburg county, in that State. He was licensed to preach, in 1817, and ordained, in 1821. In 1828, he emigrated to Kentucky and settled in Henderson county. The next year, he succeeded John Dorris in the pastoral care of Grave Creek Church. In this position he continued about 30 years, although he had the aid of an assistant pastor, a number of years before his death. In 1835, he withdrew from Highland Association, with his church, the following year, entered into the constitution of Little Bethel association. He was a man of meek and gentle spirit, was greatly beloved by his people, and was a good plain, gospel preacher. He was called to his reward, in 186

John STITES #11383 - Jefferson Co

sgorin — 2009-09-16 12:39:50Z

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History of Kentucky, The Blue Grass State. Volume III Illustrated. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago – Louisville, 1928. JOHN STITES [photograph].

John Stites, Louisville capitalist, is well known in financial circles as president of the Louisville Trust Company, with which he has been identified in an official capacity during the past fifteen years. A native of Christian county, Kentucky, he was born on the 9th of October, 1850, the son of John and Elizabeth (Hunt) Stites. He prepared for a professional career as a law student in the University of Louisville, where he was thereafter successfully engaged in practice from 1873 until 1887, or for a period of fourteen years. It was on the 1st of August, 1887, that he became a factor in financial affairs as vice president of the Fidelity Trust Company, of which he was subsequently elected president, remaining the executive head of the institution until chosen chairman of the board of directors, in which capacity he continued until January 7, 1911. In that year he assumed the vice presidency of the Louisville Trust Company, with which he has been continuously connected to the present time and of which he has been at the head since May, 1913. The steady growth and success of the institution is largely attributable to his wise control and his thorough understanding of every phase of the banking business. Mr. Stites is also the president of the Eastern Park Land Company and the La Grange Land Company, ad interim president of the Kentucky and Louisville Mutual Fire Insurance Company and a director of the Louisville Railway Company, the Louisville Interurban Railway Company, the Proctor Coal Company, the Bourbon Stock Yard Company, and the National Bank of Kentucky.

On the 4th of October, 1877, Mr. Stites was united in marriage to Mildred Ann Chenoweth, of Louisville. Their home is at 1439 St. James court, Louisville. Mr. and Mrs. Stites observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary on October 4, 1927. Their family is as follows: Helen married John G. Gill and is the mother of three children, Mildred Ann, John G. (III) and Susy Barret; Mildred Stites Grant has a son and daughter, Elizabeth Lee and John Stites; John Hunt, a real estate dealer of Louisville, married Louise P. Batterson and has a son and two daughters, Sarah Parkhill, John Junt Stites, Jr., and Louie P.; Elizabeth is now Mrs. William M. Hannah and has two sons and two daughters, Frances C., William M. Jr., Nancy S., and Walter L.; Francis Bell is associated with the Laib Company; Ann Lenox is the wife of Dr. C. W. Karraker and the mother of a son and daughter; C. W. Jr., and Ann S.; James Walker married Edith Bodley, a daughter of Temple Bodley and has one son, James Walker Stites, Jr.

Politically Mr. Stites is a gold democrat and he has membership in the Civic League. He also belongs to the Pendennis and Conversation Clubs of Louisville. He is a director and treasurer of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Kentucky and the Presbyterian Committee for Relief and Education. For a period of three years, from 1908 to 1911, he served as president of the International Sunday School Association. The subjective and objective forces of life in him are well balanced, making him cognizant of his own capabilities and powers, while at the same time he thoroughly understands his opportunities and his obligations. To make his native talents subserve the demands which conditions of society impose at the present time is the purpose of his life, and by reason of the mature judgment which characterizes his efforts at all times, he stands today as a splendid representative of the prominent financier and worthy citizen to whom business is but one phase of life and does not exclude his active participation in and support of the other vital interests which go to make up human existence.

John T. BATTS 11382 - Christian Co.

sgorin — 2009-09-15 12:40:44Z

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County of Christian, Kentucky; Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., Chicago and Louisville, 1884. Longview Precinct.

JOHN T. BATTS was born on April 27, 1832, in Robertson County, Tenn., and is a son of Jeremiah and Mary A. (Burns) Batts. The father was born in Edgecombe County, N. C., and was a son of Jeremiah Batts, Sr., who was also a native of North Carolina. The latter came to Tennessee and settled in Robertson County when Jeremiah, Jr., was but an infant. In that county the grandfather died, in 1858, at the age of eighty-four. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was highly respected among the people of that county, where Jeremiah, Jr., is still living. The mother was a daughter of James Burns, who was also a native of Robertson County. This lady was born in 1810, and died in 1867. To her were born the following children: Mahala L. (Stultz and Dunn), John T., Lucinda A. (Long), Martha W. (Cooley), Mary E. (Davis), Jeremiah, Emily F. (Anderson), Sallie A. (Carlew), Henry C. and Boscomb. John T. Batts remained in his native county until he reached manhood, and then came to this county. He moved on to his present place in 1878, and now owns about 100 acres of highly cultivated land. Mr. Batts was married on September 13, 1836, to Miss Virginia Daughborn, of Robertson County, Tenn. To her was born was child – Joseph W., - and her death occurred in 1870. Our subject married, on October 23, 1870, Miss Mary J. Adams, a daughter of George F. Adams, who was born in Enniskillen, Ireland, in 1802, and is now living in Montgomery County, Tenn. Mrs. Batts was born in Logan County, Ky., on December 4, 1845, and is the mother of three children, viz.: Alva C., George F. and Mary A. Mr. Batts was a soldier in the late war, and fought under Gen. Hood. He is a Mason, also a member of the K. of H. fraternity, and is connected with the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church. He gives his support to the Democratic party.

James Sidney ROLLINS 11381 - Madison Co

sgorin — 2009-09-14 12:45:11Z

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Centennial History of Missouri, One Hundred Years in the Union 1820-1921, Walter B. Stevens, 1921, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, St. Louis, Chicago. Madison Co.
James Sidney Rollins, lawyer and statesman, distinguished for extraordinary public services, was born April 19, 1812, at Richmond, Kentucky, and died at Columbia, Missouri, January 9, 1888, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. His parents were Anthony Wayne and Sallie Harris (Rodes) Rollins. The father was a native of Pennsylvania, a graduate of Jefferson College in that state and an eminent physician. He was a son of Henry Rollins, who was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, emigrated to America during the Revolutionary war, enlisted in the Continental army and fought in the battle of Brandywine. The mother, a lady of refinement and beautiful character, was a native of Madison county, Kentucky. James Sidney Rollins was educated in Washington College of Pennsylvania and in the University of Indiana at Bloomington, being graduated from the latter institution in 1830 with the highest honors and as valedictorian of his class. His parents having removed to Boone county, Missouri, he followed them after his graduation, taking charge of the large farm upon which they had located. During the same time he read law under the instruction of Judge Abiel Leonard of Fayette. During the Black Hawk war, in 1832, he acted as aide-de-camp on the staff of Major General Richard Gentry and was actively engaged for six months on the Des Moines river, deriving from this service the title of major. He then entered the law department of Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky, from which he was graduated in 1834. Among his classmates were Lewis V. Bogy and John C. Miller, both of Missouri, who subsequently served in congress, the former as a senator and the latter as a representative. He then returned to Columbia, Missouri, and entered upon a law practice which was successful and gained him distinction from the outset. In 1836 he was leading counsel for Conway, a negro indicted for the murder of Israel Grant. His defense was masterly and his plea before the jury was a gem of eloquence, exciting the admiration of the bar of the state. For some years, without abatement of effort in his professional work, he was associated with his law partner, Thomas Miller, in the ownership and management of the Columbia Patriot, a whig newspaper. In 1836 he was a member of the first railroad convention held in the state, at St. Louis, and as chairman of a committee in which his colleagues were Ed Sates and Hamilton R. Gamble, he drafted the memorial to congress praying for a land grant in aid of construction. This marked the beginning of a life of great usefulness. In impulse and thought, the public well-being was his greatest desire, and the people whom he sought to serve, recognizing his sincerity and ability, afforded him their confidence and support. In 1838, at the age of twenty-six years, he was elected to the legislature. To this time that body had failed to locate and establish a state university, as contemplated in the act of congress making a land grant for that purpose nearly twenty years previous. Moved by a desire to advance the cause of education and hoping to benefit his own county, he introduced and secured the passage of a bill for location in that one of six central counties named which would provide the largest building fund and afford the greatest advantages. He now devoted his effort to win the prize for his own county of Boone and for months he did little else than address the people upon the subject. A wonderful interest was created and a popular subscription of one hundred and seventeen thousand, nine hundred dollars was made, including a liberal contribution of his own. This sum, and his able presentation of its material advantages, made Columbia the university seat. He was returned to the legislature in 1840 and in 1846 was elected state senator, in both positions devoting his energies untiringly to the development of the state through railway building and river improvement. He was also the leading advocate for the establishment of the insane asylum at Fulton. In 1844 he was a delegate to the national whig convention and went before the people in support of Henry Clay for the presidency. In 1848 he was unanimously chosen as the whig candidate for governor and made a vigorous canvass, receiving the largest vote ever cast for a candidate of that party, but was defeated by Austin A. King, the democratic nominee. In 1854 he was again elected to the legislature, where he opposed slavery extension. In 1857 he was again the whig candidate for governor to fill the unexpired term of Governor Trusten Polk, elected United States senator, and was defeated by Robert M. Stewart. The majority against him was but three hundred and thirty-four and many maintained that an impartial count would have shown his election. In 1860 he was elected to congress on the Bell and Everett ticket, defeating John B. Henderson on the Douglas and Johnson ticket.
Both candidates engaged actively in the canvass and an unusually large vote was polled. He was reelected in 1862, defeating Krekel, republican, by four thousand, nine hundred and three majority. During his congressional service he displayed practical wisdom in his methods and at times thrilled his hearers with the brilliancy of his oratorical powers. During his first term he served on the committees on commerce and on expenditures in the war department, and during the second term on the committee on naval affairs. He was a stanch Unionist and gave hearty and efficient support to every measure for the suppression of the rebellion. He introduced a bill for railroad and telegraph construction from the Missouri river to the Pacific coast, under which, with added amendments, the Union Pacific, Central Pacific and Kansas Pacific railways were built. Upon the passage of the bill providing for agricultural colleges in the various states, through donations of public lands, he received from Senator Morrill, its author, a letter acknowledging that but for his intelligent and able support it would have been defeated in the house. Under the provisions of this measure Missouri received three hundred and thirty thousand acres and founded the agricultural college at Columbia. He also advocated in an able and eloquent speech, which was widely published, the thirteenth amendment to the constitution, abolishing slavery, although at the time he was probably the largest slave owner in his district. In 1864 he declined candidacy for reelection to give his attention to long neglected business interests. In 1866 he was again elected to the legislature, receiving nearly the total vote cast. In this session his prominence as a leader devolved upon him much labor and grave responsibility in formulating and securing the enactment of measures necessitated by the changed conditions consequent upon the abolition of slavery and the abnormal status of a great class which had borne arms against the government. He was deeply interested in perfecting the common school system and in the restoration of the university, which had suffered severely during the war. He introduced and brought to passage the bills for rebuilding the president's house, destroyed by fire, and to establish a normal department of the university, the latter being stoutly opposed. In 1868 he was again elected to the senate, much against his desire and personal interest. In this session he introduced and secured the passage of the bill establishing an agricultural and mechanical college in connection with the university and advocated and aided in the passage of the bills establishing normal schools at Kirksville and Warrensburg, providing for aid to Lincoln Institute and establishing the insane asylum at St. Joseph. In 1872 he was presented to the democratic state convention for the nomination for governor. On the first ballot he received a larger vote than any competitor, but in the end a compromise candidate, Silas Woodson, was chosen. Major Rollins had been unable to take part in the canvass before the people owing to the long continued illness of a daughter, who afterward died. This marks the close of his political life, in which he might have continued had he been so inclined. He maintained interest, however, in the local concerns of his county and city, rail, plank and turnpike roads, improved streets, electric lights, waterworks, banks, churches and schools, some of which he had projected and all aided with effort and means. In the years which followed frequent evidences came to him of the high esteem in which he was held by those who knew most of his life work. In May, 1872, at a meeting of the board of curators of the University of Missouri, a resolution was unanimously adopted, declaring that James S. Rollins "has won the honorable title of Pater Universitatis Missouriensis and that the thanks of this board are hereby tendered to him for his great efforts to promote the prosperity, usefulness and success of this institution." The adoption of the resolution was moved by Professor Edward Wyman, of St. Louis, and addresses in line with its sentiment were made by members of the board and others. The title bestowed upon Major Rollins was merited. Reduced to money value, the sums he had secured from individuals and through legislation for the university, including six scholarships endowed by himself, have amounted to five hundred and eight thousand two hundred and sixty-one dollars and bring an annual interest return of over sixty thousand dollars. In addition to this he was the author of legislation which insure the permanency and inviolability of this and other funds, amounting in aggregate to nearly one million five hundred thousand dollars. April 19, 1886, his seventy-fourth birthday anniversary, he resigned his position as a member of the board of curator of which body he had been president for nearly a quarter of a century, and in his letter of acceptance Governor John S. Marmaduke wrote: "It is a matter of history that to you, more than to anyone else, is due its (the University of Missouri) foundation, its location, its organization and its growth and advance to its present position of extended usefulness; and its perpetuity, already assured, will transmit your name through the histories of countless future ages."
He was a member of the Presbyterian church, active and generous in all its works. He was married June 6, 1837, to Miss Mary E. Hickman, of Columbia, who yet survives with the following of their children: Laura R., the wife of Irvine O. Hockaday; Captain James H.; Mrs. John H. Overall, of St. Louis; George Bingham; Curtis Burnam; Florence, the widow of the Rev. Joseph R. Gray; and Edward Tutt. A son, James Hickman, of the United States army, died February 5, 1898, at the Southern Hotel in St. Louis, where he was temporarily stopping for medical treatment. Major Rollins was tall in stature, lithe of form and courteous and pleasing in address. He was cultured and highly educated, ready with fact and argument, yet without assumption of superiority. As an orator he was impressive and eloquent, his voice was musical, his gestures graceful, and withal so natural that art was not to be imputed. As a legislator for state and nation, he was honest and incorruptible; his love for his country and devotion to its highest interests was devoted, even passionate. His conception and conduct of public affairs marked him as a profound and sagacious statesman. In his personal life he was of kindly disposition, more ready to commend than to condemn; compassionate and tender-hearted, his benevolences were many, liberal and unostentatious. He was in all relations a model Christian gentleman.

Henry Craig MORRISON - Madison Co

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Centennial History of Missouri, One Hundred Years in the Union 1820-1921, Walter B. Stevens, 1921, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, St. Louis, Chicago.

Henry Craig Morrison, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Morrison Lee Mining & Development Company, president of the Contract Waterproofing Company and also secretary of the Arkansas Mining & Mercantile Company, has won a most creditable position in business circles in St. Louis, his native city. He was born July 22, 1888, and is a son of John W. Morrison of St. Louis, whose birth occurred in Georgetown, Kentucky, and who comes of an old family of English lineage. The first representatives of the name landed at Plymouth during the early colonization of Massachusetts, and for a century the. family was represented in Kentucky before John W. Morrison became a resident of St. Louis. Here he entered prominently into the business life of the city as a member of the dry goods firm of Hargardine McKittrick & Company. He wedded Mary Elizabeth Sparks, who was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and is a daughter of Mitchell Sparks, who belonged to one of the old families of Arkansas that settled at Fort Smith prior to the Civil war. Mrs. Morrison is still a resident of St. Louis.
In the schools of his native city Henry Craig Morrison pursued his education until he had completed a course in the Central high school and later he attended the Rolla School of Mines, from which he was graduated in 1913 with the degree of Mining Engineer. He then started out on his business career as engineer with the Sandusky Portland Cement Company and after a period spent in Chicago was stationed in St. Louis, representing that company until 1917, when he established business on his own account, organizing the Contract Waterproofing Company. They do engineering and contract work of a most important character and their business has steadily developed. Mr. Morrison is also the general manager of the Morrison-Lee Mining & Development Company and both corporations have offices in the Railway Exchange building. In the former connection Mr. Morrison's specialty is construction waterproofing and a list of his big contracts would be o€ such length as to preclude mention in a work of this character. Among the many notable contracts accorded him, however, were those for the building of the basements and lower portions of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway depot at Chicago, in which city he also did the work on the office building of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and the Boyce building on Dearborn street. He also received the contract for the concrete work for the Missouri state penitentiary at Jefferson City, Missouri, for St. John's Hospital, the Boatmen's Bank building, the Arcade building, the city jail, the Valhalla Mausoleum and the Anheuser-Busch reservoir at St. Louis. He has developed his powers and ability to the highest point of efficiency and skill, his work of this character bringing him deserved eminence and success. He is also promoting business interests of importance as general manager of the Morrison Lee Mining & Development Company and through his connection with the Arkansas Mining & Mercantile Company.
On the 12th of March, 1916, Mr. Morrison was married in Louisville, Kentucky, to Miss Medora Sparks, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, a daughter of George T. Sparks, the president of the First National Bank of Fort Smith. Mr. Morrison is a democrat in his political views but maintains largely an independent policy, voting without regard to party ties if his judgment so dictates. A Presbyterian in religious faith he has membership in the Westminster church of St. Louis. He belongs also to the Automobile Club, to the Missouri Athletic Association and to the Chamber of Commerce and is keenly interested in all that has to do with the progress and welfare of the city, supporting all interests of civic value and worth. He gains his recreation largely from motoring and greatly enjoys making extended tours in this way. His has been, however, a busy and active life and his high efficiency and usefulness in the line of his chosen profession have brought him prominently to the front.

Paul Raymond CUNNINGHAM 11379 - Muhlenberg Co.

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History of Kentucky, The Blue Grass State. Volume III Illustrated. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago – Louisville, 1928

Dr. Paul Raymond Cunningham, a prominent member of the dental fraternity of Muhlenberg county, is practicing in Central City and represents the fourth generation of the family in Kentucky. His great-grandfather, William Cunningham, was born in Bonnie, Scotland, a coast town, in 1765, and was the youngest of three children. His brother died in early life and his sister came to the United States soon after her marriage, settling on the James River in Albemarle county, Virginia, in 1780. William Cunningham received a common school education and learned the tailor’s trade under the direction of his father. According to the laws of his country he as obliged to spend at least two years in the regular army and in order to avoid military service he left home. With the assistance of his maternal uncle, a sailor, he stowed himself away on a sailing vessel bound for America and remained hidden until the ship was in mid-ocean. After a six months’ voyage the boat reached Chesapeake bay and was anchored in the harbor at Norfolk, Virginia. Obtaining permission to go ashore, Mr. Cunningham traversed the city and managed to elude his uncle, for a seafaring life was thoroughly distasteful to him.

Proceeding to Albemarle county, he joined his sister, with whom he made his home for a number of years, and from 1792 until 1794, during the whiskey rebellion in Pennsylvania, was a solder in the United States Army. After the expiration of his term of service he returned to his sister’s home and resumed his former occupation.
In 1795 William Cunningham was married in Albemarle county to Miss Nancy Carr, daughter of a wealthy planter and for a time they lived on a small farm in the county. In the spring of 1818 Mr. Cunningham migrated to western Kentucky and with the assistance of one of his sons and a negro slave built a house and stable on his property in Trigg county, also raising a crop of corn. In the fall of 1818 he again journeyed to Virginia, disposed of his land in that state, and brought his family to the new home in Kentucky. He erected a mill on the present site of Trigg Furnace, cleared his farm and prepared the land for cultivation of corn and tobacco. He was one of the pioneer horticulturists of that locality, bringing his trees from Virginia, and became the owner of a large orchard which bore fruit for nearly a hundred years. Through hard work and good management he developed a highly productive plantation, which is now known as the John Crute farm.
Mr. Cunningham also found time for public affairs and was an officer at the first election ever held in Trigg county, formerly a part of Christian county. He figured conspicuously in events which shaped its early history, becoming a member of the third session of the circuit court in 1820, and was appointed by the judge as road commissioner, in which connection he opened up the public highways in the western part of the county. Although not a medical practitioner he was successful in his efforts to combat disease and his skill was much in demand. He was long a leader of progress in his district and served the community to the best of his ability until his death in 1823, at the age of fifty-eight years. His wife was born in 1770 and passed away in 1833. She had reached the sixty-third milestone on life’s journey and was laid to rest in the Trigg Furnace cemetery beside her husband.

In their family were twelve children. John, the eldest, who was born in 1796 and died in 1854, married Polly Gresham, who was born in 1799 and died in 1870. They had eight children: William, Jasper, Betsy, John, Mary, Belle, Eddie and Helen. Gideon was born in 1798 and died in 1865, while his wife, Harriet Tidwell, was born in 1800 and died in 1860. They were the parents of five children: Andrew, Michins, Jack, Nicholas and Beadie. Thomas, who was born in 1799 and died in 1870, married Malinda Baker, who was born in 1802 and died in 1870. Their family numbered eight children: William, Thomas, Fream, Frances, Blake, Caroline, Adliza and Alexander. William was born in 1800 and died in 1878. His wife, Jennie Mitchell, was born in 1811 and died in 1875, and they had nine children: Nancy, Andrew, David, Thomas, Mickins, Alexander, Eliza, John and Dabney. Andrew, who was born in 1804 and died in 1879, married Nancy Pool, who was born in 1806 and died in 1886, and they were the parents of six children: Morgan, Green, Bruce, Mary, Eliza and Josie. Dabney was born in 1806 and died in 1866.

Mickins was the next of the family. His sister, Mrs. Rebecca (Cunningham) Wimbly, who was born in 1809 and died in 1869, was the mother of eight children: James, Jack King, Clint, Vertura, Emmie, Sarah, Mat and Alice. James, who was born in 1810 and died in 1888, married Sarah Wimbly, who was born in 1815 and died in 1882 and they had ten children: John, Perry, Penelope, Polly, Helen, Malissa, Victoria, Sallie, Nannie and Bettie. Alexander was born in 1813 and died in 1882, while his wife, Cynthia Wallace, was born in 1816 and died in 1887 and they were the parents of eight children: Alexander, Zachariah, Axom, Lida, Malissa, Kate, Malinda and Duncan. Robert, who was born in 1816 and died in 1884, married Mary Civils, who was born in 1818 and died in 1890 and they had a family of eleven children: Leander, William, James, Robert, Mack, Rufus, Washington, Elizabeth, Eudorda, Aurora and Signora. Nancy was born in 1818 and died in 1830.

Mikins Cunningham, the seventh child of William and Nancy Cunningham, was born in 1808 and died in 1888. He followed the occupation of farming, was a life-long resident of Trigg county, was an adherent of the democratic party and a Baptist in religious faith. He wedded Betsy Civils, who was born in 1811 and died in 1899. They were the parents of ten children: Robert, Arnold, James, Warren C., Ruth, Eliza, Zurea, Kittie, Bettie and Tishie.

Their son, Warren C. Cunningham, father of Dr. Cunningham, was born in Trigg county and studied dentistry under a preceptor. He acquired marked skill in the profession, which he followed during the later part of his life in Cadiz, Kentucky, in partnership with his son, Dr. H. G. Cunningham, who is now practicing in Bristol, Tennessee. The father remained in Cadiz until his demise and was a faithful member of the Baptist church, while in politics he was a democrat. The mother, Julia (Adams) Cunningham, was born in Trigg county and still resides in Cadiz. Her parents were Clay and Sarah Adams, of whom the latter was born in Trigg county and resides on the homestead near Cadiz. Mr. Adams was a native of the Blue Grass state and served in the Civil War. He was a Baptist in religious faith and his life was devoted to agricultural pursuits. Dr. Paul R. Cunningham has four half-brothers and one half-sister, namely: Jewell, who operates a farm in Trigg county; Herbert G., a prominent dentist of Bristol, Tennessee; Fenton, who is a printer and lives in Asheville, North Carolina; Mark C., an accountant, with the Illinois Central Railroad, who resides in Chicago, Illinois; and Mrs. Bentley Piercy, of Cadiz, Kentucky.

Dr. Paul R. Cunningham was born October 20, 1901, in Trigg county, and received his early education in Cadiz. He completed a course in the Hopkinsville high school and in 1924 was graduated from the University of Louisville with the degree of D. D. S. He served for a year as an interne of the City Hospital in Louisville and then came to Central City. He is located in the building of the United Mine Workers of America and his office is equipped with the most modern appliances used in dental surgery. He has a natural talent for the profession and the rapid growth of his practice testifies to the confidence reposed in his ability.
Dr. Cunningham is a member of the Delta Sigma Delta dental fraternity and acts as scribe of the Kentucky branch of the organization. He is a member of the State, Western Central and American Dental Associations and keeps in close touch with the progress that is constantly being made by his profession. He belongs to the Central City Board of Trade and champions every project for the good of his community. He is a Mason, belonging to the Cadiz Lodge, No. 121, F. & A. M.; Central City Chapter, o. 147, R. A> M.; Central City Commandery, No. 41, K. T.; and Rizpah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Madisonville. He is affiliated with the Baptist church and his political views are in accord with the tenets of the democratic party. Dr. Cunningham is a young man of serious purpose, keen intelligence and pleasing personality and the respect accorded him is well deserved.

William SAFFELL 11378 - Anderson Co

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Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883. pp. 982. Anderson Co KY.

William Saffell, Spencerburg, was born in Anderson county, Kentucky, December 4, 1842. When he was about ten years old his parents immigrated to Ralls county, Missouri, where he lived until 1854. His father, Jacob Saffell, died in 1852, leaving his mother, Julia A., with a large family of small children to rear and educate, with very limited means. His mother moved to Pike county, Missouri. In March, 1861, our subject commenced to learn the blacksmith trade at Spencerburg, on the day of Lincoln’s inauguration. On learning his trade, Mr. Saffell went into business for himself, and by strict attention to business he has accumulated a handsome property. When only fifteen years old he identified himself with the cause of temperance, by joining the Old Sons of Temperance, and has never broken his pledge. Mr. Saffell is a member of the A. F. & A. M. He was married November 1, 1866, to Miss Lucy, daughter of Adam and Emeranda Ogle, who was born August 20, 1847. They have four children: Allie May, Willimette, Emeranda, and Thomas R., deceased. Mr. Saffell and his wife are both members of the Christian Church, and Mr. Saffell has been a member of the school board and also of the town council.

Dr. George W. DUNCAN 11377 - Simpson Co

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Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume IV – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Simpson Co.

DR. GEORGE W. DUNCAN was born January 26, 1826, in Simpson County, Ky., and is the tenth of eight boys and four girls born to Sanford and Nancy (Hammond) Duncan. Sanford Duncan was born in Loudoun County, Va. He was a son of Colman Duncan, who married Mary Lyne, both of Westmoreland County, Va.; was a Revolutionary soldier, and immigrated to Nelson County, Ky., about 1795. He was born in February, 1742, and died in April, 1823. His wife was born in March, 1749, and died in May, 1814. Colman Duncan was a son of Henry Duncan, who was born in Scotland. He with two brother came to the United States and settled in Westmoreland County, Va. Mrs. Nancy (Hammond) Duncan was a daughter of Job Hammond, who married Mary Stone, both of Kentucky and of Welsh origin. He was an officer of the Revolutionary war, and was wounded in both arms in an Indian fight. Sanford Duncan came from Nelson to Logan County, Ky., about 1800. In 1818 he located five miles south of Franklin, assisted in organizing the county of Simpson, was one of the commissioners appointed to run and locate the State line from Reelfoot Lake to the Mississippi River in 1840; was also appointed one of the commissioners to survey Simpson County and lay out school districts. He did all the public business in his own community, and as one of the most influential and valuable citizens in Simpson County. He farmed extensively and also kept a hotel on Louisville & Nashville Pike, and accumulated a large property in Simpson County. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. Dr. G. W. Duncan was reared on a farm and received a good education. In 1840 he entered Cumberland College at Princeton. When the college was transferred to Lebanon he returned to Franklin and finished his education. In 1846 commenced the study of medicine with Drs. Briggs and Wright, of Bowling Green. In 1848 he graduated from Louisville Medical University; located and commenced the practice at Mitchellville, Tenn. In 1859 he located in Franklin, Ky., where he has been successfully engaged in the practice ever since. He held the position of post surgeon during the war. He married, September 4,1860, Dorinda Puryar, of Smith County, Tenn., a daughter of William and Mary (Pearce) Puryar, both natives of Tennessee, of French and Scotch descent, respectively. William was a son of Daniel Puryar. To Mr. and Mrs. Duncan have been born eight children, four now living: Mary Sanford, Charles A., George H. and William A. Dr. Duncan and wife are member of the Cumberland Presbyterian and Baptist Churches, respectively. Dr. Duncan is a leading member of the Masonic fraternity, and a Knight Templar. He has been very successful during life, has acquired a good fortune, and is one of the most benevolent and kind-hearted men in southern Kentucky. He has taken a considerable interest in the study of the prehistoric races, and made some valuable discoveries in his excavations of mounds and graves. Dr. Duncan’s wife is also a hard student, and an interesting ornithologist. She has succeeded in making one of the finest collections in the State, and one of the fines private collections in the United States. Her collections can be seen at various expositions, and she is said to have had one of the finest private collections at the New Orleans Exposition. Dr. Duncan and wife are great lovers of the arts and sciences, and win the respect of all who meet them.

Uriah W. ROBERTSON 11376 - Livingston Co

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Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume IV – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Livingston Co.

URIAH W. ROBERTSON was born in Livingston County, October 19, 1848, and is a son of George M. and Nancy (Crawford) Robertson, natives of the same county and State. The paternal ancestors of Mr. Robertson were North Carolinans, his grandfather, Walter Robertson, coming from that State and settling in Livingston County, when the country was very new. He died at his home place near Salem, about 1844. George M. Robertson was born in 1817, and is still living in Crittenden County, near the village of Salem. Subject’s mother, Nancy Robertson, was a daughter of Frank Crawford. He was born in South Carolina, and came to Kentucky in 1803, settling in Livingston County, where he died in 1864. Mrs. Robertson was born in 1827, and died in about the year 1864. The following were the children born to George M. and Nancy Robertson: Louisa J., Martha F., U. W. (subject), and Serene P. Uriah Robertson was brought up to agricultural pursuits, and received his early education in the common schools. He afterward attended Princeton College, Caldwell County, where he fitted himself for teaching, which profession he followed at intervals until 1876. At the age of twenty-one he purchased his present farm, and February 23, 1870, was married to Miss Jerrie, daughter of Jeremiah Clemens, of Livingston County. Since his marriage Mr. Robertson has given his attention to agriculture and stockraising, and at the present time owns a farm of 156 acres in Carrsville Precinct. He is a member of the Hopewell Cumberland Presbyterian Church, to which he has belonged since 1870. His wife is a member of the same congregation. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson have had born to them the following children: Nellie (deceased), George O., Clemens U., Robert A., Nora E., Bertie (deceased) and Thomas M.

Nancy Louisa Chandler WHITE 11375 - Warren Co

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Source: History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folk Lore, Emmet Starr, 1921, The Warden Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Nancy Louisa, daughter of Burges Gaither and Ann Eliza (Gunter) Chandler was born in Delaware District, July 30, 1884, and was educated in Willie Halsell College, Vinita. graduating in 1900. Married at Vinita, May 22, 1907, Dr. Lee Carl, son of Dr. George W. and Georgia A. (Adair) White, born December 25, 1873 in Warren County, Kentucky. He graduated from Kentucky University in 1905 and is an alumni of the Louisville University. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow.They are the parents of Carl Chandler White, born March 9, 1919. Mrs. White is a member of the Methodist church and is a Rebecca. She is the youngest sister of Hon. T. A. Chandler, Congressman from the First District of Oklahoma. Dr. White enjoys a lucrative practice at Adair.

James W. STARK 11374 - Bourbon Co

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Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, p. 593-4 Bourbon Co.

James W. Stark, son of James and Jane (Watt) Start, was born in Pike county, Missouri, seven miles west of Clarksville. His father and mother were both natives of Bourbon county Kentucky. They were married there May 5, 18915 and in 1816 they moved to Pike county, Missouri, and settled on the farm where our subject was born. They lived here until the death of Mr. Stark, which was in May, 1873. Mrs. Stark is still living and is in her eighty-sixth year. She lives with her daughter Susan, who is the wife of Isaac Jump, Esq., of Pike county. The children of this family were sixteen in number and all lived to be grown, and all but one married. The names were Henry, Thomas, John, Eliza, James W., Elizabeth, Mary, William, Sarah, Thornton, Susan, Washington, Margaret, Julia, Jane and Edward. Henry was drowned in Illinois opposite Clarksville in 1840; he was about twenty-five years old. He was out with a fishing party and was taken with cramps and drowned before assistance reached him. Thomas, John, and William died in Pike county; Thornton died at Eureka Spring, Arkansas, where he had gone for his health; Sarah died in California, Jane in Colorado; Washington and Margaret (now Mrs. James Brown), live in Pettis county, Missouri; Edward lives in Colorado; Eliza is the wife of Bosman Boggess of Audrain county. The rest all live in Pike county; Elizabeth is the widow of Lewellyn Carroll; Mary is the wife of Wm. Carroll; Susan is Mrs. Wilson. James W. Start was married December 15, 1842, to Miss Catharine B. Schooler. She was born in Kentucky and came to Pike county with her parents in 1828, when she was only five years old. They had had three children, Nancy Margaret, Sarah Elizabeth, and William Henry. Nancy M. is the wife of Capt. Abijah Johns of Clarksville. They have one child, Harry S. Sarah Elizabeth died January 19, 1880. William Henry is living on the farm where his father was born. He married Miss Margaret M. Elgin of Pike county. They have four children living, George N., William D., Beulah C., and Ira O., and two dead, Leona and James Francis. Mr. Start has been farming all his life until 1876, when he moved to Clarksville and he now devotes his time to managing his property in Clarksville and his farms in the country adjoining.

Granville HOGAN 11373 - Taylor Co

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Peter M. BARKER 11372 - Christian Co.

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William Fayette OWSLEY 11371 - Cumberland Co.

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Centennial History of Missouri, One Hundred Years in the Union 1820-1921, Walter B. Stevens, 1921, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, St. Louis, Chicago.

William Fayette Owsley, M. D. The profession of medicine has been notably prominent in the wonderful scientific discoveries of the past and present centuries. Through the bequests of men of large means trained medical men are concentrating their efforts in laboratories equipped with every possible adjunct for research and investigation, to the solving of the problems which so definitely concern humanity, its beginning, existence and end. Not every physician is granted these opportunities, however enthused he may be with professional zeal and ardor, but the discoveries which come to him and the achievements which are his in his consideration of daily practice are, perhaps, quite as creditable, and certainly they are frequent enough to demonstrate great ability. Since 1901 Dr. William Fayette Owsley has been numbered among the efficient physicians and surgeons of Cumberland County, and during that period has proved his skill as a professional man and his worth as a citizen of Burkesville, where he has always made his home. Doctor Owsley belongs to one of the oldest families of Burkesville, and was born at this place July 22, 1879, a son of William Francis and Sallie A. (Alexander) Owsley. His paternal great-great-grandfather, William Owsley, was a pioneer from Virginia to Burkesville in the early history of this community, and here was born the great-grandfather of Doctor Owsley, Dr. Joel Owsley, who was an early physician and surgeon and followed his profession here throughout his career. He was likewise an early believer in the Christian or Campbellite faith, and preached the doctrines of that church even before the arrival of Alexander Campbell. Dr. Joel Owsley married Mary Ann Lewis, who was born and died at Burkesville.
William Francis Owsley, the elder, the grandfather of Dr. William Fayette Owsley, was born in 1812 at Burkesville, and was reared to mercantile pursuits, in which he was engaged until reaching his thirty-fifth year. At that time, in partnership with Fayette W. Alexander, the maternal grandfather of Doctor Owsley, he established a branch house of the Louisville Bank, which was conducted until into the '70s. When he severed his connection with this institution Mr. Owsley turned his attention to the brokerage business, and from that time forward concerned himself with the handling of mortgages, farms, etc. He married Mary Agnes Bledsoe, who was born in 1834 at Burkesville, and died in 1881. He survived her for many years and passed away while on a trip to Louisville, in June, 1908. William Francis Owsley, the younger, father of Dr. William F. Owsley, was born August 2, 1852, at Burkesville, and as a young man elected to make farming his life work. That he made a wise choice has been demonstrated in his subsequent career, for he has been a leading and successful agriculturist, and at the present time is the owner of a valuable property in Cumberland County. In addition to his general farming activities he was a raiser and handler of horses, having an extensive stock farm, and his horses, particularly the Red Squirrel breed, are known all over the United States. While somewhat retired from active pursuits, having reached the psalmist's three-score-and-ten years, he supervises his large enterprises and take a keen interest in business affairs, as well as in matters which affect the community life. He is a democrat in politics, but has never been an aspirant for public honors. Reared in the faith of the Christian Church, he has always been a liberal supporter of its movements. Mr. Owsley married Miss Sallie A. Alexander, also a member of an old and honored family of Burkesville, who was born here in 1852, and died in March, 19o4. They became the parents of the following children: Susie King, who died in 1916, aged thirty-six years, at Burkesville, the wife of Dr. John G. Talbot, a physician and surgeon of Burkesville, a sketch of whose career appears elsewhere in this volume; Dr. William Fayette, of this review; Mary Agnes, the wife of Dr. R. C. Richardson, a dental practitioner of Leitchfield, Kentucky; Grant A., a resident of Burkesville, who during the World war was stationed at Camp Taylor, subsequently was sent to other training camps, commissioned a first lieutenant, and was ready for overseas duty when the armistice was signed; and Helen, the wife of S. M. Young, vice president of the Bank of Cumberland, Burkesville.

William Fayette Owsley attended the public schools and Alexander College, Burkesville, following which he entered Center College, Danville. He lacked only three months of graduation when ill health forced him to leave that institution, and upon his recovery entered the Hospital College of Medicine at Louisville, where he spent three years. Following this he pursued a course in the medical department of the University of Kentucky at Louisville, from which he was graduated in 19o1 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In that same year he graduated from the Louisville School of Pharmacy with the degree of Graduate Pharmacist. In 1902 he took two post-graduate courses at the University of Kentucky, one in the spring and one in the fall, specializing in diseases of women and diseases of children. Doctor Owsley began his practice at Burkesville in 1901, and since that year has built up a splendid practice. A man of unusual ability, he has always taken a progressive stand upon matters pertaining to his profession. Always devoted to his work, he is constantly endeavoring to add to his store of knowledge and widen his field of action. Having devoted so many years to his calling he has been liberally rewarded by the bestowal of confidence and the enjoyment of praise honestly won. Doctor Owsley is the owner of his modern residence and offices on Glasgow Street, one of the most desirable and comfortable homes in the city, an old Colonial brick structure. He is likewise the owner of a farm of 250 acres, part of which extends into the city limits, and carries on general farming and stock raising thereon. In politics a democrat, Doctor Owsley is a professional man rather than a politician, but has accepted the responsibilities of public office on occasion. In 1906 he was appointed a member of the Board of Town Trustees to fill out an unexpired term, and in the following year was elected to that post for a full term of four years. At the present time he is United States examining surgeon for Cumberland County, and formerly for six years was health officer of the county. He belongs to the Cumberland County Medical Society, the Kentucky State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and is a deacon of the Christian Church. During the World war he was very active in local matters, being examining surgeon for the Cumberland County Draft Board, food administrator of Cumberland County and chairman of the civilian relief committee, in addition to helping every drive be put "over the top." With Mrs. Owsley he organized every local chapter of the American Red Cross in the county.
On October 25, 1905, Doctor Owsley married at Lexington, Kentucky, Miss Annie Pearl Owings, a daughter of W. A. and Nannie (Rue) Owings, residents of Lexington, where Mr. Owings is a well known trotting horse owner, breeder and developer. Mrs. Owsley was graduated from the public schools of Danville, Kentucky, at the age of thirteen years, and four years later graduated from Caldwell College, now the Woman's College of Danville, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. She took a postgraduate course at the Kentucky State University, and finally pursued a course at the Western College for Women. She is a woman of superior intellect, graces and accomplishments, and is a leader in the club and social life of Burkesville. To Dr. and Mrs. Owsley there has come one son, William Fayette, Jr., born August 16, 1906, who is now a student in the Burkesville High School.

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A History of the Pioneer Families of MO, with Numerous Sketches, etc., Relating to Early Days in MO.. Bryan, William S. and Rose, Robert. St. Louis, MO. (1876).

Charles Howard, of Halifax County, Virginia, married Nancy Lewis, and settled in Warren County, Kentucky. One of their sons, named Joseph, married Malinda Lennox, and settled in Montgomery County, Missouri, in 1818. Their children were Sylvesta, Cynthia E., Elijah, Rachel, Estelle, Cordelia, and. Malinda. Mr. Howard's first wife died, and he was married again to Phoebe Saylor, by whom he had John and George. She also died, and he married a lady named McCormack, by whom he had Greenup, Nancy, and Matilda. He was married the fourth time to Sydney Hall, by whom he had Joseph W. and a daughter. He was married the fifth time to Nancy Bladenburg, but they had no children.