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Urey Woodson

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Urey Woodson, Editor of the Owensboro Messenger and president of the Kentucky Press Association, was born at Madisonville, Kentucky, August 16, 1859. Six years later his parents moved to Evansville, Indiana. In 1877, when only eighteen years of age, his spirit of independence began to assert itself, and he left home and started the Muhlenberg Echo, a small weekly, at Greenville, Kentucky. This paper still lives, a monument to the “nerve” displayed by its founder, though it soon became too small a medium for the exercise of his talent for journalistic work.

At the annual meeting of the Kentucky Press Association, at Hopkinsville, in 1878, Mr. Woodson, who was then only nineteen and looked five years younger, was christened “The Baby Editor,” which appellation clung to him for several years. In September, 1881, Mr. Woodson sold his paper at Greenville and moved to Owensboro, becoming a part owner of the Messenger, then a semi-weekly. The editorial control of the paper was in his hands, and there has been no interruption to the career of prosperity and increasing influence it at once entered upon.

He has since become sole owner of the Messenger, which is now said to be the most valuable newspaper property in Kentucky, using Merganthaler type-setting machines and all modern improvements. Mr. Woodson’s capacity for work is without limit. He is tireless, alert and never resourceless.

He was the first man in Kentucky to give an intimation of the looseness about the office of James W. Tate, state treasurer, four years before he was proven a defaulter. With that instinct for news that amounts almost to intuition with him, he got an inkling of something wrong at Frankfort, and suggested that an investigation would be a good thing. The matter was laughed at and hushed up by Tate’s associates, who declared that they knew his affairs were all straight, and for four years longer the stealing went on.

In his writings sarcasm and ridicule are his favorite weapons, and while he is personally jovial and witty, he makes but little pretensions to humor with his pen. He prefers to deal in a plain-spoken, business like style that is seldom mistaken for the “lighter vein.” There is no more conscientious or influential editor in the smaller cities of Kentucky than Mr. Woodson.

His paper is a power in the politics of his state, and Democracy has no more ardent champion than he is.

When Governor John Young Brown was elected he tendered Mr. Woodson the appointment of railroad commissioner, which position he filled for four years.

For eight or ten years he has been a member of the Democratic state central committee, and was for a term president of the Kentucky Press Association.

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Urey C. Woodson was born at Madisonville, Ky., Aug. 16, 1859, the son of S.C. and R.J. (Hawthorn) Woodson, the former a native of Hopkins County, Ky., and the latter of Anderson County, Ky. When he was about five years old his parents moved to Evansville, Ind., where he grew to manhood, attending school, etc. At the age of sixteen he entered the newspaper business in that city first on the Evening Herald, afterward on the Sunday Argus, and later on the Evansville Daily Courier. He then went to Greenville, Ky., in the fall of 1877, and published the Muhlenburg Echo, a weekly, which he enlarged and made prosperous. In the autumn of 1881 he sold this paper and became connected with the Messenger.

'''Source:''' ''History of Daviess County, Kentucky''. Chicago: Interstate Publishing Co., 1883. Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

Garrett Lee Withers

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Garrett Lee Withers, a Senator and a Representative from Kentucky; born on a farm in Webster County, near Clay, Ky., June 21, 1884; student of Providence M. and F. Academy and Southern Normal School, Bowling Green, Ky.; admitted to the bar in 1908; practicing attorney in Webster County, Ky., 1911-1953; clerk of Webster County Circuit Court 1910-1912, and master commissioner 1913-1917; member, Kentucky Highway Commission 1932-1936; referee in bankruptcy 1941-1945; appointed commissioner, Kentucky Department of Highways 1947-1949; appointed on January 20, 1949, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alben W. Barkley, and served from January 20, 1949, to November 26, 1950; was not a candidate for election to the vacancy; member, Kentucky house of representatives 1951; elected on August 2, 1952, as a Democrat to the Eighty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John A. Whitaker; reelected to the Eighty-third Congress and served from August 2, 1952, until his death in the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., April 30, 1953; interment in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Clay, Ky.

He represented Daviess County in Congress.

'''Source:''' ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''. On-line. Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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John Albert Whitaker

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John Albert Whitaker, (grandson of Addison Davis James), a Representative from Kentucky; born in Russellville, Logan County, Ky., October 31, 1901; attended the public schools, Bethel College, and the University of Kentucky; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1926 and commenced practice in Russellville, Ky.; county attorney of Logan County, Ky., 1928-1948; delegate to all State conventions 1924-1950; elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Earle C. Clements; reelected to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses and served from April 17, 1948, until his death in Russellville, Ky., December 15, 1951; interment in Maple Grove Cemetery.

He represented Daviess County in Congress.

'''Source:''' ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''. On-line. Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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J. D. Whayne

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J. D. Whayne, Denton. Texas.— Born June 11th, 1832, at Owensboro, Ky., and enlisted in the Confederate Army at Springfield. Ky., on Oct. 1, 1862, as private in Company A, First Kentucky Cavalry. Kelly’s Division, Wheeler’s Corps, Army of Tennessee. My first Captain was Dr. C. Moore, and first Colonel was Ben. Hardin Helm. We were with Albeit Sidney Johnston, Bragg, and Joseph E. Johnston all the time. Our brigade was composed of the First, Second and Ninth Kentucky, and Dorches Battery of Tennessee. Was never wounded nor sick during the war, and was on duty every day till the surrender. Had a brother, Deceous Whayne of Cobb’s Battery, killed at Murfreesboro on Jan. 3, 1863. Was taken prisoner at the battle of Peachtree Creek near Atlanta, but escaped the second day and got back to my company. Was surrendered at Washington. Ga., April 17th, 1865, the day after President Davis surrendered; and was paroled at Nashville, Tenn., May 20th. 1865. The night before the surrender we were paid $47.00 in silver by order of Mr. Davis. (Mr. Whayne does not say so, but it is supposed that the regiment was paid this sum.) Was in the battles of Perryville, Ky.. Murfreesboro. Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga, and was under fire from there to Atlanta, and then followed Sherman to the sea and made our last fight at Bentonville, N. C. There was a hundred days that we were under fire some time during the day or night.

'''Source:''' ''Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray 1861-1865'', compiled by Mamie Yeary, Smith & Lamar Publishing House, Dallas, TX, 1912 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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James Weir

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James Weir. One of the oldest members of the Daviess County bar, and a prominent business man of Owensboro, was born in Greenville, Ky., June 16, 1821. His father, James Weir, was born near Charleston, S.C., and belonged to a Presbyterian family of Scotch-Irish descent, that emigrated to America from the north of Ireland. His mother, Anna Ramsey, was born in Virginia, and was a niece of James Ramsey, who is justly entitled to the claim of being the first to apply steam as a means of propelling boats. His father came to Kentucky toward the close of the last century. He first adopted the business of surveyor, and afterward exchanged this for a mercantile career, and his business extended over a wide extent of territory. He carried on, and managed, under his own supervision at the same time, stores at Equality and Shawneetown in Illinois; at Henderson, Morganfield, Madisonville, Greenville, Lewisburg, Hopkinsville and Russellville, in Kentucky, and at Gallatin, in Tennessee. Although a large amount of capital was necessarily involved in this extensive and wide-spread business, it was his boast that he never borrowed a dollar, nor failed to meet a debt at its maturity.

James Weir, the subject of this sketch, was educated at Centre College, at Danville, Ky., one of the oldest institutions of the State. After graduating here he entered the law school of Transylvania University, in Lexington, where he prepared for the legal profession. March 1, 1842, he married Miss Susan C. Green, daughter of Judge John Green, of Danville. Mr. Weir settled in Owensboro in 1848, and devoted himself to the practice of law, gaining a high standing at the bar as a chancery lawyer. He found time, however, to give to literary pursuits, and in 1849-’50 three novels appeared, of which he was the author.

During his residence in Owensboro, Mr. Weir developed business qualities of no ordinary character, and when the Deposit Bank was organized in 1859, he was chosen its President, and still continues in that position. To his management is chiefly due its present high standing among the banking institutions of Kentucky. He was the first President of the Owensboro & Russellville (now the Evansville, Owensboro & Nashville) Railroad. This office he retained from 1869 till the latter part of 1878.

Mr. Weir has never mingled in politics, nor has he ever been a candidate for any public office. He has attended strictly to his professional business, and since 1850 has had little time to indulge his inclination for light literature, or at least to no greater extent than to be the author of some fugitive pieces which have appeared from time to time in the popular magazines of the day. His ample means have not had the effect of making him selfish or illiberal. He has taken part in every public enterprise which promised to be of benefit to the community. In 1880 he opened a large factory for the manufacture of carriage material, a more full account of which is given in the history of Owensboro. Mr. Weir’s charities have been wide, but unostentatious. While his abilities as a financier have been of service in building up his own fortune, they have also exerted for the promotion of the interests of the city and county of which he is a resident.

Mr. Weir’s residence is one of the most magnificently frescoed buildings in this part of the world. The work cost over $12,000, and was done by an ex-officer of the Confederate army, of foreign birth and education. The elegant historic paintings on the ceiling of the library, in the groupings and combinations, are a constant source of study and pleasure.

== As an Author ==
Mr. Weir demonstrated his capacity as a literateur when comparatively young. Before he was thirty years of age he wrote and published three stories, which were bound in book form and supplied to the regular trade by the chief publishing house of Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Co. The works are the following.

1. ''Simon Kenton''. This is a novel in which it is designed to give a sketch of the habits and striking characteristics of the population of the western portion of North Carolina immediately following the war for independence, and in it to introduce Simon Kenton, the great scout and Indian fighter, and also his constant opponent and enemy, Simon Girty, the tory and renegade. In this volume the character in which Kenton was interested and connected came off victorious.

2. ''The Winter Lodge'' is a sequel to Simon Kenton, and transports all the characters to Kentucky in an early day when first settled; and in it are introduced many of the most striking characters of that period, and many incidents in the early history of Kentucky, with sketches of scenery, the Mammoth Cave, etc., and also the battles in which Simon Kenton and Simon Girty were engaged, and the habits and marked characters of the early pioneers. The name “Winter Lodge” is derived from the name of a cabin erected by Kenton for the hero and heroine of these two volumes, and ornamented with carpets of buffalo hides, lined with fur. Mr. Weir intended in his younger days to write a sequel to this volume, running down to the War of 1812, and the death of Kenton and Girty, but increasing business on his hands prevented him. In Collins’ History of Kentucky there is a sketch of the life and times of Kenton, and Girty was a desperado who figured largely among the pioneers of Kentucky and Indiana.

3. ''Lonz Powers; or, the Regulators'': A romance of Kentucky, based on scenes and incidents in this State. This interesting story was published in two duodecimo volumes, 319 and 364 pages, in the year 1850, by Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia.

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James Weir was born at Greenville, Ky., June 21, 1821; graduated at Centre College, Danville, 1840, and at the Transylvania law school, Lexington; entered upon a successful practice of the law, at Owensboro, where he still lives (1873); has never engaged in politics, and never ran for office. About 1849-50, he wrote three novels (“Lonz Powers, or the Regulators,” “Simon Kenton,” and “Winter Lodge,”) which, abounding in beautiful and thrilling passages, attracted considerable attention in their day; they were published in Philadelphia, and the scenes located in the early West. In 1869, at its organization, Mr. Weir was elected president of the Owensboro and Russellville railroad which – (in March, 1873) was running regular trains to Stroud City, Muhlenburg co., 36 miles; had the grading nearly completed to the Tennessee state line, at Adairville, Logan co., 86 miles ; and was confident of extension, in 1874, to Nashville, Tenn., 120 miles – forming part of a great through route from that city to St. Louis, Chicago, and Cincinnati.

'''Source:''' ''Collins historical sketches of Kentucky''. History of Kentucky. Lewis Collins, revised and enlarged by Richard H. Collins, Collins & Co., Covington, Ky, 1874. Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

Lawson Watson

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Lawson Watson. In the memorial annals of Reno county few names stand out with more distinctness than that of the late Lawson Watson, a well-known, progressive and public-spirited farmer of Miami township, who was run down and killed by one of his teams of horses at a point a quarter of a mile east of the town of Turon on February 14, 1903. Lawson Watson was a Hoosier by birth, having been born in the city of New Albany, Indiana, across the river from Louisville, August 20, 1865, son of Michael and Margaret (Braden) Watson, natives of Ohio, who later became well-known residents of Reno county. Michael Watson was born on June 15, 1807, and later moved to the city of New Albany, Indiana, where he married, moving thence to Owensboro, Kentucky, where he made his home until 1885, in which year he came to Kansas with his family and homesteaded a farm in Miami township, Reno county, the same being lot 2 and the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 3, Miami township, where he established his home and where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on December 14, 1897. His widow, who was born at New Albany, Indiana. May 12, 1823, survived him about fifteen years, her death occurring at West Plains, Missouri, June 13, 1912. Michael Watson was a good citizen and took an earnest part in the civic affairs of his community. He and his wife were the parents of three children, the subject of this sketch having had a sister, Louisa, who died in childhood, and a brother. Michael, a farmer, of West Plains, Missouri. Lawson Watson received his education in the schools of Owensboro, Kentucky, and was about twenty years old when he came to Reno county with his parents. He immediately devoted his attention to farming and presently bought the southeast quarter of section 10, on which he engaged quite extensively in general farming and stock raising and where he made his home until his tragic and untimely death in 1903. Mr. Watson gave a good citizen’s attention to local political affairs and served for two years as trustee of Miami township, to which office he was elected on the Democratic ticket, and was a member of the school board for many years. He was a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and in the affairs of that popular organization took a warm interest. On December 22, 1897, at the home of the bride’s parents in Miami township, this county, Lawson Watson was united in marriage to Mrs. Sarah Evans, widow of J. M. Evans daughter of Francis M. and Sophia (Newlin) Sprout, and to this union two children were born, Margaret, born at Turon, this county, December 30, 1900, and Lawson E., also born at Turon, January 7, 1903, Mrs. Watson owns a very pleasant home on the east side of Burns street, between Kansas and Nebraska streets, in Turon, besides two- other houses in that thriving little city and two farms in this county and is very comfortably situated.

'''Source:''' ''History of Reno County, Kansas Its People, Industries and Institutions'', Sheridan Ploughe, Vol. II, B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana, 1917 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Chapeze Wathen

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Chapeze Wathen, a descendant of an old and honored family of Kentucky and a distinguished lawyer and popular citizen of Owensboro, was born in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, February 10, 1858. His father, Benedict Wathen, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, August 15, 1801, and came to Kentucky with his parents when he was quite young. He received his primary education in Washington County; graduated from the Medical Department of Transylvania University and located at Hardinsburg, Breckinridge County, where he was a leading practicing physician for many years. Later he bought a farm, on which he spent the closing years of a useful life. This farm was known as Mount Merino, and upon it Dr. Wathen and his brother Richard, who was also a physician, established a high grade literary school, which they conducted, greatly to the advantage of the community. The matrimonial alliances of these two brothers were of a very unusual nature, in that they married four sisters. Benedict married Elizabeth Chapeze, and after her death married her sister, Eulalie Fleget Chapeze (mother); while Dr. Richard Wathen first married Susan Chapeze, a sister of Benedict’s two wives, who died, and then he married Mary Chapeze, another sister; and thus four sisters were the wives of two brothers. The Wathens are descendants of English parentage.

Eulalie Chapeze (mother of Chapeze Wathen) is a native of Bardstown, Kentucky; was educated principally at St. Catherine Academy in Washington County and is now living in Breckinridge County in the seventy-first year of her age.

Benjamin Chapeze (grandfather) was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and received his education in the Catholic schools. When he came to Kentucky he followed farming for a while, studying law in the meantime. His pursuit of legal knowledge was made under difficulties, taking his books and notes to the field with him and studying at odd times. He was duly admitted to the bar in 1815 and located in Shepherdsville, where he practiced for two years; then went to Elizabethtown and was there two years. In 1820 he removed to Bardstown and practiced in Nelson, Meade, Hardin, Bullitt, Breckinridge, Spencer, Washington and Marion Counties, where he had a large clientele and was exceedingly popular on account of his splendid ability, unquestioned integrity and great force of character. He was known as “the Honest Lawyer,” a very rare compliment in those days. He was very much of a gentleman—neat in dress, courteous and genial in manner and of fine personal attractions. He cared little for politics, but was twice an “Old Court” representative of Nelson County in the Legislature and a colleague of Ben Hardin. He afterward affiliated with the Jackson Republicans, who were called Democrats, and who, in Kentucky, had been for the most part, “New Court” men. In 1828 he was a presidential elector on the Jackson ticket, and was more or less prominent in state and national politics during the remainder of his brilliant career. In September, 1839, he defended a man charged with murder in Elizabethtown and, after speaking for two hours, he was overcome by exhaustion. The doctors were called and advised bleeding, and the little strength he had left was thus taken from him and he died nine days later, September 26, 1839, He died in the full confidence of the Catholic religion. Benjamin Chapeze was married May 7, 1812, to Elizabeth Shepherd, daughter of Adam Shepherd, an early settler, who was the first man who ventured to live outside of a fort in Bullitt County. The town of Shepherdsville, on Salt River, was named in his honor.

Dr. Henry Chapeze (great-grandfather) was a native of France, who came to America during the Revolution, and held the post of surgeon in the patriot army and after the war he married Sarah Kenny, a lady of Irish birth, and located in Bardstown, where he died in 1810.

Chapeze Wathen, a worthy descendant of a noble ancestry, was educated at St. Joseph College, Bardstown, and in the law department of the University of Louisville, from which latter institution he was graduated in March, 1881. He located in Brandenburg, and, after practicing alone for four years, was then associated with J. M. Richardson for eight years. He was Commonwealth Attorney of the then Sixth now Ninth Judicial District, from August, 1886, until 1893, this long term having been made possible by the new Constitution, and his excellent service for the state called forth the highest praise from the people.

In the spring of 1893 Mr. Wathen removed to Owensboro, a city in which he was by no means a stranger, his reputation as a dignified and capable lawyer and an elegant, courteous gentleman having preceded him. He found many friends, and has made many new ones in his new home and has also found a field of labor quite congenial to his taste.

Mr. Wathen was married January 15, 1891, to Mary Fairleigh, daughter of James Fairleigh of Brandenburg. They have two daughters, Jane Murray and Eulalie. Mr. Wathen is a member of the Catholic Church and Mrs. Wathen is a Presbyterian.

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Frederick Tanner

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Rev. Frederick Tanner was a good, plain, humble preacher. He united with Buck Creek church in McLean county, soon after its constitution, in 1812, and was probably baptized by Benjamin Talbot. After serving that church as clerk, a number of years, he was ordained to the ministry, in 1830, and, afterwards, served it as pastor, for a considerable time. He was also pastor of several other churches, at different periods. He had an humble opinion of his abilities, and, as he expressed it, only consented to serve a church, when it could procure no other preacher. Yet Dr. Coleman regarded him as a man of superior natural endowments, and, under favorable circumstances, an eloquent and powerful preacher. He maintained a spotless Christian character, and exerted an excellent influence over the people who knew him best. He died, at his home, in McLean county, at a ripe old age, about 1868.

'''Source:''' ''A history of Kentucky Baptists: from 1769 to 1885, Vol. 2''. John H. Spencer, Cincinnati, 1886 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Archelaus Ewing Turner

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Archelaus Ewing Turner: President Waynesburg College; lecturer; born near Greenville, Bond County, Ill., April 27, 1861; was graduated from Lincoln College in 1881, receiving degree of A. B.; principal of Ashmore, Ill., Seminary until 1884; that year he received from his Alma Mater the degree of M. A. In 1884 he was Superintendent of the Oakland, Ill., schools, and soon after was appointed tutor in Lincoln College, and in 1885 Professor of Natural Science. Member of the corporation and Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in Martha’s Vineyard Summer Institute at Cottage City, Mass., 1886-1888; 1888-1900, President of Lincoln College; since 1900, President of Waynesburg College. Identified with National Educational Association, the Middle States Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, Pennsylvania Educational Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member of the Committee on Federation and Union, appointed by the Cumberland Presbyterian Assembly to confer with a similar committee of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. Grove City College conferred upon him the degree of Sc. D. in June 1903, and Ph. D. was given him by his Alma Mater. Address, Owensboro, Ky.

'''Source:''' ''Who’s Who in Pennsylvania'', Edited By Lewis R. Hamersly, L. R. Hamersly Company, New York City, 1904 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Alexander C. Tompkins

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Alexander C. Tompkins, member of the legislature from Daviess County and an extensive dealer in tobacco of Owensboro, is a native of Virginia and a descendant of a distinguished and honored family of that state. He is a son of William W. and Frances Samuellor (Pendleton) Tompkins, and was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, February 28, 1840.

His father, William W. Tompkins, was born in Bedford County, Virginia, in 1812. After attending excellent private schools in Charlottesville, he was elected county clerk of Albemarle County, which office he held for several years. During the Civil war he served the Confederacy in the commissary department, and died April 5, 1865, a few days before the surrender of General Lee. He married Frances Samuellor Pendleton, daughter of Henry Pendleton, and was the father of five children: Henry Pendleton, Alexander C, John N., Frederick Windon and Joseph B. Tompkins.

Dr. John Tompkins (grandfather) was educated in Bedford County, Virginia, and was a practicing physician in that county. Flis wife was a Miss Montgomery of Nelson County, Virginia.

Henry Pendleton (maternal grandfather) was a native of Louisa County, Virginia, and owned a large plantation in that county, and was one of the most popular and highly respected citizens.

Alexander C. Tompkins was educated in Charlottesville and in the Albemarle Military Institute, in which he spent two years, finishing his schooling at the age of eighteen years. He gave his attention to farming for a while before coming to Henderson, Kentucky, in 1859, where he was similarly engaged until in the Spring of 1862, when he returned to Virginia and enlisted in the Twenty-third Regiment Virginia Infantry, in which he served as a sergeant under General Robert E. Lee and took an active part in all of the engagements in Virginia, including the battles of Kernstown, Cross Keys, Port Republic, seven days’ battle around Richmond, the second battle of Manassas, the taking of Harper’s Ferry and the battle of Antietam. He was transferred to the

Second Regiment Virginia Cavalry, commanded by General Fitzhugh Lee, having been promoted to lieutenant. In this regiment he took part in the engagements at Kelly’s Ford, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and was in a number of battles in the vicinity of Richmond and Petersburg. At Appomattox Court House his regiment cut its way through the lines of the opposing army, and reaching Lynchburg, disbanded April 10, 1865. After the war was over, he resumed his former occupation of a farmer in Nelson County, Virginia; and subsequently returned to Henderson, Kentucky, and engaged in farming in that county until March, 1867, when he removed to Daviess County, where he owned a large tract of farming land, which he cultivated mostly in tobacco, and on which he built a large stemmery and prepared tobacco for the European market.

In 1876 he removed to Owensboro and engaged in dealing in tobacco on an extensive scale, which proved a fortunate venture and resulted in the establishment of his present large stemmery, which he has conducted with unvarying success. Mr. Tompkins is one of the most popular business men in Owensboro; of a warm social nature, liberal in his views and charitable towards others; generous and public spirited in all matters concerning the city’s advancement; fond of his home; devoted to his church and a hustler in business and politics.

Strictly speaking, he is not a politician, but his personal popularity and his splendid business qualifications have led him into official positions, rather against his inclinations, and certainly to the detriment of his personal business. In 1882-4 he served as a member of the City Council, and he has been a member of the School Board for eight years. In 1893 he was elected to the legislature by the Democratic Party; was re-elected in 1895, and is the present able representative from Daviess County.

Mr. Tompkins was married June 12, 1868, to Elizabeth Mary Venable, daughter of Samuel Lewis and Virginia (Bransford) Venable; she was born November 29, 1844, received a superior education, and is one of the most refined and highly cultured ladies in Owensboro society. Mr. and Mrs. Tompkins are members of the Presbyterian Church, and in the work of the church they are no less active than he is in the world of politics and business.

'''Source:''' ''Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky''. John M. Gresham Company, Chicago, Philadelphia, 1896. Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Virginia Shelby Todd

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Virginia Shelby Todd. Her husband, Daniel M. Griffith, was a resident of Owensboro, Kentucky, where he was born February 28, 1826, and died November 3, 1893. He was one of the most prominent citizens of the town. He and his wife are buried in Elmwood cemetery, Owensboro.

'''Source:''' ''Record the Harris Family Descended From John Harris Born 1680 Wiltshire, England'', Joseph Smith, Press of George F. Lasher, Philadelphia, 1903 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Sarah Shelby Todd

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Sarah Shelby Todd. Her first husband, Finley W. Wall, was a lawyer. He died February 7, 1852. Her second husband, E. A. Hathaway, was a merchant of Owensboro, Kentucky. He died February 23, 1897. She spent all her married life in Owensboro, Kentucky. She died at the house of her youngest daughter, Mrs. James M. Green, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She and her two husbands were buried in Elmwood cemetery, Owensboro.

'''Source:''' ''Record the Harris Family Descended From John Harris Born 1680 Wiltshire, England'', Joseph Smith, Press of George F. Lasher, Philadelphia, 1903 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Charles Stewart Todd

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Charles Stewart Todd was born in Lincoln county, Kentucky, and was educated at William and Mary college, Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1807, 1808 and 1809. He was graduated in law at Litchfield, Connecticut, where was the foremost law school of that time, in the early spring of 1812, and began at once the practice of his profession in Lexington, Kentucky. He enlisted in the summer of 1812 as an ensign in the local military company which was called into service on the outbreak of the war of 1812. During the next winter he was promoted to a captaincy of the Twenty-eighth Infantry, May, 1813, and was appointed aide-de-camp and assistant inspector-general May 20, 1813, on General William Henry Harrison’s staff, in which capacity he served at the Battle of the Thames, October, 1813. He was appointed November 1, 1813, assistant inspector-general with the rank of major, and was assigned to duty in the eighth district, comprising the states of Kentucky and Ohio, and the territories of Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Missouri. He resigned his commission in 1815, and resumed the practice of law in Frankfort, Kentucky.

In 1817 he was, for a few months, Secretary of State in the Administration of Governor Madison, who died soon after his inauguration.

In 1818 he abandoned the practice of law, and settled on a fine farm called ‘Stockdale” in Shelby county, Kentucky, which land had been surveyed for, and patented to his wife’s father, Governor Isaac Shelby, in April, 1776.

In 1820 Colonel Todd was appointed by President Monroe Charge d’ Affaires, and in 1822 Minister to the State of Colombia, South America. It was during his administration of the latter office that President Monroe made the declaration in regard to the necessity of non-interference in American affairs by European powers, which has since been known as the Monroe doctrine. He returned from Bogota in 1825. On his way home in a United States frigate he was attacked by yellow fever when off Santiago, Cuba. His life was despaired of, and he was landed at Charlestown, South Carolina, to die. He did recover, but it was a singular consequence of his sickness that, whereas he had from his infancy hair of positive redness, it changed at the age of 34, before his arrival at home in Kentucky, to a dark brown, and so remained throughout his life, being but slightly tinged with gray when he died, at the age of 76 years. It is further worthy of note that all of his children had dark hair, and that among his descendants, which have now reached to the fifth generation, red heads occasionally appear, which can only be traced to Colonel Todd.

A stay of six weeks in Charlestown so far recruited his health that he was able to undertake the journey of six hundred miles on horseback to his Kentucky home, where his fine blue-grass farm became noted as a model of agricultural management, as well as the seat of a gracious hospitality.

During the Presidential campaign of 1840 Colonel Todd spent many months in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he edited the “Republican,” and took an important part in promoting the candidacy of his old commander, General William Henry Harrison. President Harrison lived but one month after his inauguration, but John Tyler, his successor, carried out Harrison’s wishes in appointing Colonel Todd Minister to Russia, which position he held from 1841 to 1845.

During the next Administration, which was democratic in politics, he held no office, but in 1850 President Fillmore appointed him one of the commissioners to treat with the Indians of western Texas and New Mexico, a region which had but lately come under our control, and which was inhabited by the fiercest and most imtamable savages which have ever been wards of the government of the United States. The familiarity with the topography and with the possibilities of this region, which he acquired while engaged in this duty, led him to become one of the projectors of the Southern Pacific railroad, and when a company was formed to build it, he was elected to its vice-presidency. While he held that position he made his home at Marshall, Texas, where he lived till 1861, when he returned to Kentucky, settled at Owensboro, and was appointed by President Lincoln Assessor of Internal Revenue for the district of western Kentucky.

Colonel Todd was a successful man throughout his life, making a shining mark as a scholarly writer, a brilliant diplomatist and a distinguished soldier, and he is remembered as one of the ablest public servants whom his native state has produced.

His wife was the youngest daughter of Isaac Shelby, the first governor of Kentucky, and a granddaughter of General Evan Shelby, who was in command of all the troops which were actively engaged in the hard-fought battle, and the important victory over the Indians, known as the “Battle of Point Pleasant,” or the “Battle of the Great Kanawha,” which was fought at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers, October 10, 1774. Theodore Roosevelt, in his history of the “Winning of the West,” says that Evan Shelby was a stout old Marylander of Welsh blood, and that his son, Isaac Shelby, a stalwart, stern-visaged young man, was a subaltern in his father’s company, but was put at its head when, upon the wounding of Colonel John Field, the command of all the forces engaged devolved upon Evan Shelby. General Andrew Lewis was the commander of the expedition, but he was not in the field during the fighting.

The Shelbys were at this time citizens of the debatable land claimed by Virginia and North Carolina, which afterward became the eastern part of the state of Tennessee, and Isaac Shelby was, in 1779, made county lieutenant of Sullivan county, a part of that territory. October 7, 1780, he was in command of the left wing of the American army at the battle of King’s Mountain, which was, perhaps, the most completely successful action fought by the Americans during the war of the Revolution.

He removed to Kentucky, of which he became the first governor 1792-6, and was again governor 1812-16. He was born in Maryland, December 11, 1750, and died in Kentucky, July 18, 1826.

Evan Shelby’s wife was Letitia Cox, and the wife of Isaac Shelby was Susanna Hood, a daughter of Nathaniel Hood and Sarah Simpson. Colonel Hood was killed and scalped by the Indians at Boonesborough, Kentucky, in August, 1782.

A romantic story is told of the meeting of Letitia Shelby, the youngest daughter of Isaac Shelby, with Charles Stewart Todd, who afterward became her husband. After the disastrous battle of the River Raisin, Upper Canada, January 22, 1813, General Winchester, who was in command, sent Captain Todd with dispatches to Governor Shelby, apprising him of the disaster to the Kentucky troops. After a journey of great hardship and privation through pathless forests in the dead of winter, Todd arrived at the executive mansion at Frankfort to find the governor at the theater. With torn and mud-stained uniform, showing signs of his wrestle with the difficulties of his journey, and of his haste to deliver his dispatches, he entered the theater and presented them to “His Excellency’s” box. They told of the defeat and capture of five Kentucky regiments, and almost every person in the audience had a relative or a friend whose life was in jeopardy. The whole theater sat in suspense while the governor perused them, and the suspense but grew greater when, burying his face in his hands, he gave them to his secretary that he might read them aloud.

But the sad tale was no new one to the messenger. During his long journey he had become habituated to the moving details, and his wandering gaze being soon arrested by the sight of Letitia Shelby, seated in her father’s box, he fell at once a victim to her charms. Her portrait remains to testify to her great beauty, and she, on her part, found the herald a young hero, who captivated her fancy, so that a mutual attachment was then formed which led to their marriage at the executive mansion three years later. She was fourteen years old when they met, having been born June 11, 1799, and she died July 22, 1868. Colonel Todd outlived her nearly three years, dying while making a visit at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He and his wife lie buried at Elmwood cemetery, Owensboro, Kentucky.

'''Source:''' ''Record the Harris Family Descended From John Harris Born 1680 Wiltshire, England'', Joseph Smith, Press of George F. Lasher, Philadelphia, 1903 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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John Samuel Taylor

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Rev. John Samuel Taylor is among the oldest preachers of this fraternity. He was licensed to preach by Bells Run church in Ohio county, in November, 1835, and, afterwards, ordained at Whitesville, whither he had moved his membership. He has been pastor of a number of churches, for brief periods. But his principal labor has been that of a missionary within the bounds of Daviess county and Goshen Associations. In this field, he has wrought a good work. Some years past, when disease of the throat prevented his preaching, he represented Daviess county in the Kentucky Legislature.

'''Source:''' ''A history of Kentucky Baptists: from 1769 to 1885, Vol. 2''. John H. Spencer, Cincinnati, 1886 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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John Samuel Taylor

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Rev. John Samuel Taylor is among the oldest preachers of this fraternity. He was licensed to preach by Bells Run church in Ohio county, in November, 1835, and, afterwards, ordained at Whitesville, whither he had moved his membership. He has been pastor of a number of churches, for brief periods. But his principal labor has been that of a missionary within the bounds of Daviess county and Goshen Associations. In this field, he has wrought a good work. Some years past, when disease of the throat prevented his preaching, he represented Daviess county in the Kentucky Legislature.
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Source:''' ''A history of Kentucky Baptists: from 1769 to 1885, Vol. 2''. John H. Spencer, Cincinnati, 1886 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Brooken T. Taylor

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Rev. Brooken T. Taylor was born and raised in Henderson county. In early life, he obtained hope in Christ and united with the church. Having been licensed to preach, he went to Georgetown College, where he completed his course, not far from 1854. He then took charge of the church at Columbia in Adair county. Here he labored with very remarkable success, about four years. From Columbia, he was called to the church at New Castle in Henry county, where he remained about two years. In 1860, he was called to Owensboro, where he labored only a short time. From this point, he moved to Henderson county, where he served several churches in Little Bethel Association, from 1862 to i867. He also served that Association as moderator, three years. About 1868, he moved to Missouri where he still labors.

Mr. Taylor is a man of a high order of talents and extraordinary preaching gifts. Few men have displayed more intellectual power in the pulpit, in Kentucky, or enjoyed a higher degree of success in the ministry.

'''Source:''' ''A history of Kentucky Baptists: from 1769 to 1885, Vol. 2''. John H. Spencer, Cincinnati, 1886 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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I. N. Taylor

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I. N. Taylor, teacher, Villa Ridge, was born in Owensboro, Ky., January 1, 1858, son of Thomas and Maria (Norris) Taylor. They were both born in Ohio, and he was a relative of President Taylor. By trade he was a carpenter, but had engaged in the saw-mill business before his death, which occurred in 1864, in Massac County, III. She died in Hickman, Ky, in 1862. They were the parents of five children, four of whom are still living, two daughters and two sons. The daughters both reside in New Orleans. Our subject and his brother, George Z., in this county. George Z. is ship carpenter on the United States boat, “John N. McCombe,” but his family resides in Mound City. Our subject, the 3 youngest of the family, was educated in the high school of Metropolis, 111., and then, instead of selecting some mechanical pursuit, as almost all his relatives have done, he chose the profession of teacher, and for several years taught school in Johnson County, 111., and then began a classical course at the Southern State Normal, at Carbondale. He attended for three years, and has taught two successful years in this (Pulaski) County, one year being Principal of the Villa Ridge Schools. In 1882 he again returned to the Normal to complete his course, but his health failed, and he had to abandon it for the time. For two seasons, he has represented the fruit commission firm of Ender & Meyers, of Chicago, at this point. He is member of Meridian Lodge, No. 94, I. O. of G. T.; also Mound City Lodge, No. 250, I. O. O. F. He is Republican in politics.

'''Source:''' ''History of Alexander, Union and Pulaski Counties, Illinois, Volume 2'', edited by William Henry Perrin,O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1883. Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Alfred Taylor

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Rev. Alfred Taylor was a very distinguished minister of the gospel in his country, and generation. The Green river country had produced no such a man before him.

Joseph Taylor, his father, was a native of North Carolina. In early life he professed conversion and, with his wife, united with the Methodists, and, by them, was put into the ministry. After some years, he became convinced of the scripturalness of Baptist principles, and was baptized by Nathan Arnett of Tennessee. In September, 1804, he and his wife entered into the constitution of Providence church, in Warren county, Kentucky. He remained a minister in this church, till 1811, when he moved to Butler county, and united with Monticelo. Of this church, he became pastor, and served it in that capacity till 1837. He was a preacher of small gifts, but is believed to have served his generation faithfully, and doubtless accomplished some good.

Alfred Taylor was born in Warren county, Kentucky, July 19, 1808. At three years old, he was taken by his parents to Butler county, where he was raised up. His opportunities for learning were so poor, that, at the age of twenty, he could barely read intelligently. After he entered the ministry, he was, for a time, under the tuition of David L. Mansfield, and, at a still later period, he studied under the renowned William Warder. He possessed a strong logical mind, and was an earnest student: so that in the end he was well educated, in the best sense of the term.

Notwithstanding young Taylor was raised by pious parents, he early fell in with evil associates and by degrees, formed habits of dissipation, and finally became profanely wicked. But at length the Holy Spirit found way to his heart. In his journal, he says: “After laboring four years to recommend myself to God’s favor, I was enabled, in my 22d year, October, 1829, to trust in Him whose blood speaketh better things than that of Abel, in whom believing, I was enabled to rejoice with joy unutterable and full of glory. In November following, I was baptized in Sandy creek, Butler county, Kentucky, by Benjamin Talbot.” He soon began to exercise in public, and, on the 3d Saturday in May, 1831, was licensed to preach. He was extremely awkward in his early efforts, and so slow was his progress, that it began to be said freely: “That man had better quit.” But his heart was in the matter, and he persevered.

After three years’ probation, he was ordained at Sandy Creek church, in May, 1834, by Joseph Taylor, David J. Kelly, and William Childress. He was called to Pond Run church the same year, and to Sandy Creek, the year following. In 1835, he was married, and the next year moved to Ohio county, and took charge of old Beaver Dam church. By this time he had gained sufficient confidence and mental discipline to be able to express his thoughts, and he grew rapidly in popularity and usefulness. From this time he had many more calls than he could accept. His success in bringing the unconverted to the Savior was wholly unprecedented, in the lower Green River country. But his pastoral labors, which were faithful and efficient, in an eminent degree, formed but a small part of his work.

Between the time of Mr. Taylor’s ordination, in 1834, and the close of the year 1836, the following eminent ministers left the harvest field, in Kentucky, and went to their home above : Walter Warder, William Warder, William C. Warfield, John S. Wilson, Benjamin Talbot, D. J. Kelley, David Thurman, and James H. L. Moorman. These were the leaders of God’s hosts, in the State. All of them, except the first named, labored in the Green River country. Of all the preachers, of anything like prominence in the general work of the Denomination, in the lower Green River Valley, D. L. Mansfield was left alone, and his labors were confined to a comparatively narrow boundary. At the beginning of the great revival of 1837-40, Alfred Taylor became the leader, by common consent. And few men ever discharged the responsibility more worthily, or with greater success. The question of the propriety of “protracted meetings” was the first one he was called on to decide. Against much opposition, he determined in their favor. His first experiment was made at Walton’s Creek in Ohio county. The Lord decided in his favor. Over 180 people professed conversion. He now gave himself wholly to the work of the ministry, with great activity. From this period, till his delicate frame became too much enfeebled to endure constant labor, near the close of his pilgrimage, he was the leading preacher of the lower Green River Valley. In preaching talent, he had no equal, except his intimate and steadfast friend, J. M. Pendleton, and as a successful preacher, he was without a rival. Besides the churches already named, a number of others, including the first church at Owensboro’ enjoyed his pastoral ministrations, for different periods of time.

Towards the close of his life, he suffered from disease of the lungs to such a degree, that he was compelled to desist from preaching, for a time. But, after a brief rest, he again entered the field of labor. In the fall of 1865, he went to the neighborhood of Providence church in Warren county, to preach a funeral discourse, and then aid his son, J. S. Taylor, in a series of meetings, at that church. He reached Charles Asher’s, in the neighborhood of the church, on Friday night, and was so feeble that he had to be assisted to bed. He continued to sink till the 9th of October, 1865, when he went to his everlasting rest.

Mr. Taylor was three times married, and raised a large and respectable family. Three of his sons, Judson S., William C. and James P., are Baptist preachers, and, it is hoped, are worthy of so noble a father. W. C. Taylor has published a brief biography of his father, in a neat little volume of 123 pages.

'''Source:''' ''A history of Kentucky Baptists: from 1769 to 1885, Vol. 1''. John H. Spencer, Cincinnati, 1886 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Beverly Mills Vincent

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Beverly Mills Vincent, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Brownsville, Edmonson County, Ky., March 28, 1890; attended the public schools, Western Kentucky State Teachers College at Bowling Green, and the law department of the University of Kentucky at Lexington; was admitted to the bar in 1915 and commenced practice in Brownsville, Ky.; county judge of Edmonson County, Ky., 1916-1918; during the First World War served as a private in Battery A, Seventy-second Field Artillery, from August 27, 1918, to January 9, 1919; assistant attorney general of Kentucky in 1919 and 1920; member of the State senate 1929-1933; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1932; attorney general of Kentucky from 1936 until his resignation in March 1937; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Glover H. Cary, and reelected to the three succeeding Congresses (March 2, 1937-January 3, 1945); was not a candidate for renomination for the Seventy-ninth Congress in 1944; pursued agricultural interests, and resumed the practice of law; was a resident of Brownsville, Ky., until his death there on August 15, 1980; interment in Silent Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Mammoth Cave, Ky.

He represented Daviess County in Congress.

'''Source:''' ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''. On-line Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Daniel E. Yeiser

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Rev. Daniel E. Yeiser has also been an active and very useful preacher, about 25 years.

'''Source:''' ''A history of Kentucky Baptists: from 1769 to 1885, Vol. 2''. John H. Spencer, Cincinnati, 1886 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Martin Yewell

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Martin Yewell, mayor of Owensboro, Ky., was born in Daviess county, of that state, Dec. 22, 1853, and is a son of Harrison and Sarah (Lewis) Yewell, both natives of Nelson county, Ky. The grandfather, Martin Yewell, was a son of James Yewell, whose father was one of three brothers who came from England at a very early date and settled in Virginia. Martin Yewell was a native of Virginia, but came in his early manhood to Kentucky, settling in Nelson county, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits and milling operations all his life. Harrison Yewell was also a farmer and miller. He located in Daviess county in 1840, and there followed these occupations until his death in 1885. During his life he was one of the well known and influential citizens of the county. His wife died in 1895. Both were members of the Baptist church and consistent practitioners of the tenets of their religious faith. They had the following children: Joseph and John, who both died in the Confederate service during the Civil war, the former at Tunnel Hill, Ga., and the latter at Bardstown, Ky. Thomas and Martha died in infancy; Linda is now living at Owensboro as the widow of H. M. Haskins; Nannie married William Mobbelly and is now deceased; Vardeman lives in Missouri; Martin is the subject of this sketch; Mary Belle is the wife of E. Rice, of Louisville; Sarah Todd is at home, and Robert Lee is a farmer in McLean county, Ky. Martin Yewell received a good common school education, studied law under Judge Yost, of Greenville, Ky,, and was admitted to the bar on April 20, 1880. He first began practice at Uniontown, where he was elected city attorney, but in 1881 came to Owensboro, where he has ever since practiced his profession until elected mayor in 1901. In August, 1882 he was elected county attorney of Daviess county and held the office for two terms of four years each. Mr. Yewell, until 1896, was an adherent of the Democratic party; since that time he has affiliated with the Republicans. He was elected mayor in November, 1901, and his term expires in December, 1905. On Jan. 7, 1885, he was married to Miss Mamie B., daughter of George and Volinda Taylor, and they have two children: Taylor, aged seventeen, and Martine, aged fifteen. Mr. and Mrs. Yewell are both members of the Baptist church.

'''Source:''' ''Memoirs of the Lower Ohio Valley'', Federal Publishing Company, Madison, Wis., 1905
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Robert Stuart

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Dr. Robert Stuart, a prominent physician of Henderson, was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, December 1, 1837; son of Olivia (Hall) and Rev. David Todd Stuart. His father, David T. Stuart, was born in the parsonage attached to Walnut Hill Church (near Lexington) July 27, 1812; took the degree of A. B. in Transylvania University at the age of twenty years. In 1832 he entered Princeton, N. J., and studied the regular course of theology. At the request of Rev. William L. Breckinridge he passed the summer of 1836 in preaching at the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Louisville, Kentucky, where he formed the acquaintance of Miss Olivia W. Hall, whom he subsequently married.

He preached for fifteen years to the churches of Shiloh and Olivet in Shelby County. In June, 1851, he removed to Shelbyville and took charge of the Shelbyville Female College, where he continued until his death, September 26, 1868. Eleven children were born to him, viz.: Robert, Winchester, John, Theodore, David T., Isabella, Amelia, Mary Lou, Maggie, Florence and Annie.

Rev. Robert Stuart (grandfather) was of Irish- Scotch parentage, and was born in Virginia; received a collegiate and theological training at Hampden Sidney, and came to Kentucky before the beginning of the nineteenth century. In 1798 he was elected one of the first three professors of Transylvania University, and held the position of professor of languages for a number of years.

For more than half a century he filled the pulpit of the Walnut Hill Church, Fayette County, Kentucky. The degree of D. D. conferred upon him was merited by his learning and long service. He died at the age of eighty-four years in Nicholasville, Kentucky. His wife, Hannah Todd, a member of one of the best families of Lexington, died in 1832. They had eight children.

Dr. Robert Stuart attended his junior year in Center College in 1855. In 1857 he graduated from Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania. He attended one course of lectures in the Kentucky School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated from the Jefferson School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa., in the spring of 1860.

He first practiced his profession in Yelvington, Daviess County, Kentucky, where he made the acquaintance of Miss Susan E. Read of Owensboro, Kentucky, a most beautiful and accomplished woman, to whom he was united in marriage May 8, 1861. In February, 1862, he accepted the position of assistant surgeon in the Second Kentucky Cavalry, and served in that capacity until the summer of 1863, when he was compelled to resign on account of impaired health. He was present at the battle of Shiloh, being detailed to accompany the Louisville Legion on the field and attend to their wounded. He was also present at the battles of Stone River and Perryville, Kentucky, and accompanied his regiment in the march of Buell’s legions in the pursuit of Bragg’s army to Louisville and back again to Tennessee.

After returning from the war he settled in Henderson County, Kentucky, and practiced his profession for more than twenty years at Zion, a quiet village six miles from the city of Henderson.

On December 19, 1891, he had the misfortune to lose his faithful wife after a long and painful illness—one of earth’s purest and brightest jewels. In 1893 he removed to Henderson, where he is at present located; is a member of a number of medical societies; elder in the First Presbyterian Church and a citizen of high standing. He is the father of six children: Robert, Benjamin, Annie, Alice W., Mary and Susan Elizabeth.

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William Singleton Young

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William Singleton Young, (brother of Bryan Rust Young and uncle of John Young Brown), a Representative from Kentucky; born near Bardstown, Nelson County, Ky., April 10, 1790; studied medicine with Dr. Bemiss, of Bloomfield, and was graduated from the University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky.; commenced practice in Bloomfield, Nelson County, Ky.; moved to Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Ky., in 1814 and continued the practice of law; elected to the Nineteenth Congress; reelected to the Twentieth Congress and served from March 4, 1825, until his death in Elizabethtown, September 20, 1827, before the assembling of the Twentieth Congress; interment in Elizabethtown Cemetery.

He represented Daviess County in Congress

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. On-line. Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Wilbur Fitzalan Stirman

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</header>Wilbur Fitzalan Stirman, M. D., one of the most popular and distinguished surgeons and physicians of Owensboro, son of Dr. William Doswell and Rachel (Wall) Stirman, was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, June 2, 1856. His father was also an eminent physician of Owensboro for more than thirty years. He was born in Washington County, Kentucky, December 12, 1820, and was educated in the schools of that county and, after reading medicine with Dr. Linton in St. Louis, was graduated from the medical department of the St. Louis University, February 29, 1844. He was elected Demonstrator of Anatomy in that institution the following year, and held that position for two years. In 1849 he resigned the professorship in the university and returned to Kentucky, and located in Rumsey, McLean County, remaining there but a short time, when he removed to Owensboro, where he continued to reside until his death, May 8, 1893.

In 1858 he was called to the chair of Professor of Anatomy in the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, and spent the winter months in that city until 1861, when he resigned on account of the interruption of the school’s business upon the outbreak of the war. After this his whole time was given to the practice of his profession.

He was a dignified, scholarly gentleman, warm hearted, sympathetic and gentle; and his genial manner in the sickroom made him a favorite, but his great worth was as the true physician, in whom his patients trusted implicitly.

He was no less prominent as a citizen, for he was greatly interested in the progress and welfare of the community and was ever ready to help a good cause by word or deed. During the later years of his useful life he was regarded by his many friends and acquaintances as the “Grand Old Man” of Owensboro, while in medical circles he was acknowledged the mentor of the profession. He belonged to several local, state and national medical associations, and helped them along. He was not a politician, but as a good citizen he exercised the right of suffrage and voted the Democratic ticket. He was a true and faithful Christian in connection with the Methodist Episcopal Church; and in all spheres of life in which he was called to act, he was the same dignified scholar, the kind physician, the respected citizen and the beloved Christian gentleman.

He married Rachel Anne Wall, November 29, 1849. She was born in McLean County, Kentucky, April 29, 1829; and was educated at Mrs. Tevis’ Science Hill Academy, Shelbyville. She survives her husband, and is now living in Owensboro, greatly loved for her personal worth and lovely Christian character. She is the mother of five sons and one daughter: William Wall Stirman, deceased; Fannie Conway, wife of Joseph L. Lee of Owensboro; Dr. Wilbur F. Stirman, the subject of this sketch; Middleton Goldsmith Stirman, married Sarah D. Perkins; Joseph Scobee Stirman, married Martha Lumpkin, and Frederick Victor, married Susan Gilmour.

James H. Stirman (grandfather) was a native of Roanoke County, Virginia, where he was a merchant and planter for many years. He was a captain in the War of 1812, and received three gunshot wounds at the battle of Thames and fell within twenty-six feet of the spot where Tecumseh fell. He recovered from his wounds and subsequently removed to Memphis, Tennessee, where he died in 1820. His wife was Elizabeth L. Doswell, daughter of Thomas Doswell of Hanover County, Virginia, who removed to Washington County, Kentucky, where their marriage took place. The Doswells belonged to an old Virginia family, whose ancestors came to that state from England.

Bannister Wall (maternal grandfather), a tobacconist, was born in Pearson County, North Carolina, and married Sarah Tate Thompson, who was born in Nelson County, Kentucky, but at the time of their marriage were living in McLean County.

Boyd Wall (great-grandfather) married Elizabeth Wade, and they were residents of North Carolina.

Sarah Tate Thompson (grandmother), wife of Bannister Wall, was a daughter of Anthony Thompson, native of Pennsylvania, and Rachel Handley of Virginia.

Anthony Thompson (great-grandfather) was a son of James Thompson and Sarah Finley, both of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Wilbur F. Stirman received a good literary education in the Owensboro schools; at Hanover College, Indiana, in which he took the Sophomore and Junior courses; and then went to Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, from which he was graduated in the class of 1877. In the following autumn he went to the St. Louis Medical College, from which he graduated in medicine in 1879. He spent the three years following in hospital work in St. Louis, thereby gaining a valuable experience.

In 1881 he joined his father in Owensboro, under the firm name of Stirman & Stirman, and this partnership relation continued until the death of the senior member, May 8, 1893. After entering upon the duties of the profession with his father, Dr. Stirman took several post-graduate courses in the Polyclinic Institute, New York City. He succeeded to the large practice of his father and has taken his place in the hearts of the people, who have the same confidence in the son that they had so implicitly placed in the father.

Dr. Stirman is especially distinguished as a surgeon, and is acknowledged by the profession as the ablest surgeon in the county. His services are in demand in all cases in which important surgical skill is required, and other physicians rarely undertake serious work of that character without his assistance or consultation with him. Aside from this branch of work, for which he has especially prepared himself, he enjoys a very extensive general practice, for which he is naturally adapted, being kind, considerate and gentle in the sickroom, and having acquired a knowledge of medicine which few men of his age in the state have attained. He has inherited and cultivated many of the fine traits of character of his distinguished father and is quite as popular as a citizen as he is as a physician and surgeon.

In recognition of his ability as a surgeon, he is employed in that capacity by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company; the Louisville, St. Louis & Texas Railroad Company; the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company, and the Electric Street Railway Company of Owensboro.

He is a member of the McDowell Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Stirman is faithful to the principles of the Democratic party, and his vote helps to swell the comfortable majority of the Democracy in his city and county.

Socially Dr. Stirman is a great favorite, being a companionable, genial and courteous gentleman of scholarly attainments, whose becoming dignity is lost sight of in the company of his friends and associates.

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Augustus Owsley Stanley

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Augustus Owsley Stanley, a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky; born in Shelbyville, Ky., May 21, 1867; attended the State college at Lexington, Ky., and graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1889; professor of belles-lettres at Christian College and principal of Mackville Academy 1891-1893; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in Flemingsburg, Ky.; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1900; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-fourth Congress; Governor of Kentucky 1915-1919, when he resigned, having been elected Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1918 to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Ollie James for the term commencing March 4, 1919, but, preferring to continue as Governor, did not qualify until May 19, 1919, and served until March 3, 1925; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; member of the International Joint Commission 1930-1933, chairman 1933-1954; died in Washington, D.C., August 12, 1958; interment in Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.

He represented Daviess County in Congress.

'''Source:''' ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''. On-line Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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S. E. Smith

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Baptist minister and civil rights activist '''S. E. Smith''' was born in Glasgow, Barren County Kentucky June 7, 1860. After completing his primary education in the common schools, Smith entered State University (later Simmons University) where he graduated with honors.

He would later serve as a Trustee of the University. In 1895, Smith was serving as Pastor of Fourth Street Baptist Church in Owensboro, and the congregation under his leadership had built a new brick church at a cost of $30,000.

S. E. Smith held the distinction of being a delegate to every National Republican Convention for sixteen consecutive years. During this time span, he also was the National Grand Secretary
of the Order of the Samaritans. Smith was a staunch opponent of the Separate Coach Act in Kentucky, and was a member of the State Executive Committee handling arrangements of the case.

Upon leaving Owensboro, he was called as pastor of First African Baptist Church in Lexington, KY.

Reverend S. E. Smith passed away on August 5, 1907.

== References ==
# '''Source''': ''Sermons, Addresses, Reminiscences & Important Correspondence; E.C. Morris, D.D., 1901, pg. 295''
# '''Source''': ''Notable Kentucky African Americans Database; University of Kentucky''
# '''Source''': ''Biographical Sketches of Prominent Negro Men and Women of Kentucky; W. D. Johnson, 1897''
# '''Source''': ''The Baptist Home Mission Monthly, Volume 17-18, pg. 273''
# '''Source''': http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/morris/ill295.html
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Thomas C. Stackhouse

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Rev. Thomas C. Stackhouse is of French extraction, and was born in Louisiana, July 2, 1840. Losing his parents, he came to Kentucky at the age of fifteen. He was educated at Georgetown college, where he graduated in 1858. He professed religion while attending college, and was baptized into the fellowship of Georgetown church, by A. W. LaRue, in March, 1857. He was licensed to preach at Stanford, while studying theology under A. W. LaRue, March 10, i860. He entered the theological department of Georgetown college, the following fall, and was ordained to the ministry at Mt. Gilead church, in Green county, in August, 1863, by Henry McDonald and John James. He was pastor of the churches at Mt. Gilead and Greensburg, in Green county, and Columbia, in Adair, a number of years. He took charge of the First Baptist church in Owensboro, about 1876. After preaching here several years he moved to Fayette county. He declined a call to the First Baptist church in Lexington on account of that church’s tolerating its members in selling whisky. He afterwards took charge of the churches at David’s Fork, in Fayette county, and Winchester, in Clark county, preaching two Sundays in the month to each, which position he is still occupying (1885). Mr. Stackhouse is a fine pulpit orator, and is held in high esteem by his people.

'''Source:''' ''A history of Kentucky Baptists: from 1769 to 1885, Vol. 2''. John H. Spencer, Cincinnati, 1886 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Josiah Bridges Solomon

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Rev. Josiah Bridges Solomon was born of Baptist parents, in Franklin county, N.C., January 18, 1824. He was brought up on a farm, alternating between the plough and such schools as the neighborhood afforded. In 1843, he professed conversion, and was baptized by P. N. Smith, for the fellowship of Haywood church, in his native county. He soon began to take part in a prayer meeting, and was licensed to exercise his gift, at about the age of 20 years. After this, he entered Wake Forest College, where he spent three years. He was ordained to the ministry, while at college, in November, 1848, by Wm. Hooper, W. T. Brooks, Thomas Crocker and Wm. Biddle. In 1849, he was married to Mary M., daughter of John Burges of Warren county, N.C. In December of the same year, he accepted an appointment to labor as missionary under the patronage of the Baptist State Convention. After filling this position, with good success, two years, he took charge of the church at Warrenton. Here he labored successfully, about seven years, when he was called to Leigh Street church, in Richmond, Va., where he entered upon his labors, in 1860. To this church he ministered four years, during which time it had an increase of 150 members. Being now impoverished by the War, he resorted to teaching, as a means of supporting his family. In 1873, he accepted the presidency of Monongahela College, in Pennsylvania, and occupied the position two years. In 1875, he took charge of the church in Sharon, Pa. Here he remained till 1880, when he accepted a call to the First Church in Owensboro, Kentucky, where he was well received, and labored, much to the satisfaction of the church, till 1885, when he accepted a call to Zion church in Henderson county, Kentucky.

'''Source:''' ''A history of Kentucky Baptists: from 1769 to 1885, Vol. 2''. John H. Spencer, Cincinnati, 1886 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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A. B. Smith

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Rev. A. B. Smith, a graduate of Georgetown College, located at Owensboro, about 1856, and has been pastor of a number of churches in the Association.

'''Source:''' ''A history of Kentucky Baptists: from 1769 to 1885, Vol. 2''. John H. Spencer, Cincinnati, 1886 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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A. B. Smith

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Rev. A. B. Smith, a graduate of Georgetown College, located at Owensboro, about 1856, and has been pastor of a number of churches in the Association.
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Source:''' ''A history of Kentucky Baptists: from 1769 to 1885, Vol. 2''. John H. Spencer, Cincinnati, 1886 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Edward Rumsey

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Edward Rumsey, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Botetourt County, Va., November 5, 1796; moved when a child with his parents to Christian County, Ky.; completed preparatory studies in Hopkinsville; moved to Greenville, Ky.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Greenville; held several local offices; member of the State house of representatives in 1822; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); again resumed the practice of his profession; died in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Ky., on April 6, 1868; interment in the Old Caney Station Cemetery, near Greenville, Ky.

He represented Daviess County in Congress.

'''Source:''' ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''. On-line Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Oscar Ellsworth Robinson

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Oscar Ellsworth Robinson, musical conductor; born in Dunkirk, Ind., Mar. 25, 1871; son of Ludwill Milton and Hannah M. (Tomlinson) Robinson; educated in music at Am. Conservatory, Chicago; Univ. of Chicago and other instns.; married Annabel McGill, of Owensboro, Ky., June 28, 1905; 3 children: Emily Moreland, Annabel Ellsworth, Margaret. Began teaching music in Ft. Wayne, Ind., 1891; removed to Chicago, 1893; spl. teacher of music, high schs., Chicago, 17 yrs.; dir. dept. pub. sch. music, Am. Conservatory, since 1898, also mem. advisory bd.; head dept. of music, Hyde Park High Sch.; dir. Chicago Teachers’ Chorus, 1913-17. Mem. Soc. Am. Musicians, Music Teachers’ Club of Chicago Pub. Schs Republican Methodist Home: 6518 Kenwood Av. Studio: Kimball Hall.

'''Source:''' ''The Book of Chicagoans''. Edited by John W. Leonard, A. N Marquis & Co., Chicago, 1905 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Burwell Clark Ritter

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Burwell Clark Ritter, (uncle of Walter Evans), a Representative from Kentucky; born near Russellville, Barren County, Ky., January 6, 1810; received a limited schooling; member of the State house of representatives in 1842 and 1850; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); was not a candidate for renomination in 1866; engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Ky., October 1, 1880; interment in Hopewell (later known as Riverside) Cemetery.

He represented Daviess County in Congress.

'''Source:''' ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''. On-line Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Stephen Ray

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Rev. Stephen Ray was born in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, May 29, 1788. His parents moved to Kentucky, in 1793, and settled in Washington county. Here he was brought up, receiving a fair English education. At the age of twenty, he was made sheriff of his county, and continued in that office four years. At this time he was an Infidel of the Tom Paine school. But, by reading Buchanan’s work on Asia, he was induced to read the Bible. This led to his conversion, and he united with the Presbyterians. Having an active, inquiring mind, he investigated the differences between the various religious denominations around him, comparing their tenets with the Bible. He finally adopted the principles of the Baptists, and united with New Hope church, in Washington county, being baptized by Jeremiah Vardeman. Here he was licensed to preach, August 23, 1820, and was soon afterwards ordained. For a time, he engaged actively in the ministry. But, in April, 1823, he commenced the publication of a weekly paper, at Bloomfield, under the style of “The Baptist Monitor and Political Compiler.” The paper was published one year, at a loss of over $1,000. After this, Mr. Ray was known to the denomination as a writer, rather than a preacher. His style was rough, but pointed and forcible, and he wrote extensively for the periodical press, principally on controversial subjects.

In 1828, he moved to Hickman county, and settled near Clinton. Here, in 1831, he organized the first Sunday-school west of the Tennessee river. He was in the constitution of West Union Association, and, for a number of years, served it as clerk. In 1857, ne moved to Texas, where he remained nine years, after which he returned to Hickman county, Ky. He continued to write extensively for the religious press, till near the close of his life. He died at the residence of his son, Judge G. W. Ray, near Owensboro, Ky., July 16, 1871, in the eighty-fourth year of his age.

'''Source:''' ''A history of Kentucky Baptists: from 1769 to 1885, Vol. 2''. John H. Spencer, Cincinnati, 1886 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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George Eugene Pottinger

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George Eugene Pottinger, real estate; born at Owensboro, Davies Co., Ky., Feb. 12, 1864; son of James and Mary A. (Hayden) Pottinger; educated in public schools of Owensboro, Ky., and St. Mary’s Coll., Marion Co., Ky.; married Margaret A. Shroyer, of Chicago, Sept. 29, 1886. Came to Chicago and engaged in coal business as mem. firm of John R. Stewart & Co., until 1890; then in real estate business, first as Clark & Pottinger until 1894, with Ogden, Sheldon & Co. and as sec. of Ogden Bldg. & Loan Assn. until 1896; mem. Ballard, Pottinger & Co. since 1896; also sec. and treas. of The Maywood Co. since 1905. Republican. Mason (K.T.). Office: 106 N. LaSalle St.

'''Source:''' ''The Book of Chicagoans''. Edited by John W. Leonard, A. N Marquis & Co., Chicago, 1905 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Charles Curtis Pierce

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Charles Curtis Pierce.

Embracing in his ancestry distinguished names, both in the patronymic and the given appellations, and inheriting from his immediate parentage the firmness of fiber and personal heroism that characterizes the people of Kentucky at their best, Charles Curtis Pierce, one of the leading farmers and influential citizens of Morrow township, Macon county, has well sustained the reputation and traditions of his family and made his record creditable alike to the state of his nativity and that of his adoption.

Mr. Pierce was born on January 1, 1842, in Marion county, Kentucky, and is a grandson of Jacob Pierce, a native of that state and a man of prominence in its industrial, civil and political history. His son, Thomas Jefferson Pierce, the father of Charles C, was born in Marion county, Kentucky, in 1806, and was reared and educated in that county. He was also married there to Miss Martha Hart, a native of Mercer county, the marriage occurring in 1835. After passing a number of years of his mature life in Marion county, the father moved what family he had left with him to Daviess county in the same state, and there he died in 1851, passing away at Owensboro at the early age of forty-five. He was a physician and farmer. He and his wife were the parents of three children: A son named Thomas Benton, who died; and Ellen, the widow of T. C. Johnson, who is now residing at Billings, Montana, and Charles Curtis, the immediate subject of this writing, who are living.

The last named obtained a good education at a select school in Greenville, Muhlenberg county, Kentucky, and on completing it came to Missouri to make what was then the farther West his home and grow to greater consequence with its development. He located in Randolph county and during the next four years taught school there. At the end of the period mentioned he moved to Macon county and became a farmer, but still continued to teach in the winter terms of school until 1876, when he gave up the professional line of his activity, and since then he has devoted himself wholly to the industrial line. He has been very successful in his operations in both farming and raising live stock, and is regarded as one of the most progressive and substantial men in the township of his residence. His fine farm comprises 160 acres of laud, is well improved with commodious and comfortable buildings and has been provided with all the appliances necessary for its progressive and profitable cultivation. The stock industry that is carried on in connection with the farming operations is an active and flourishing one, and, as it is managed with skill and intelligence, it yields gratifying returns for the labor and care bestowed upon it.

Mr. Pierce has taken a very active and helpful part in the public affairs of the township in which he lives. He has served as a justice of the peace for upwards of sixteen years, and as a member of the school board equally as long. In matters affecting the progress and enduring welfare of the county he has been an active and effective factor. His church affiliation is with the sect known as Christians, while his present wife is a Baptist. She is a native of Macon county and was a widow when their marriage occurred in 1905, being Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Epperly.

Mr. Pierce’s first marriage was with Miss Nancy L. Summers, a daughter of Joseph and Martha Summers, esteemed residents of Macon county, in which she was born. They had four children and all of them are living: Rosa J., the wife of W. A. Hart, of Macon county; Lulu M., the wife of C. A. Dunkard, of Lewiston, Montana; Mittie, the wife of John Miller, of Macon county, Missouri, and Charles A., who also resides at Lewiston, Montana. The father is a Democrat and at all times zealous and effective in the service of his party.

'''Source:''' ''General History of Macon County Missouri'', Henry Taylor & Company, Chicago, 1910 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Samuel Oldham Peyton

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Samuel Oldham Peyton, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Bullitt County, Ky., January 8, 1804; completed preparatory studies; was graduated from the medical department of Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., in 1827 and began practice in Hartford, Ohio County, Ky.; member of the State house of representatives in 1835; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1848 to the Thirty-first Congress; elected to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1860; resumed the practice of medicine; died in Hartford, Ky., January 4, 1870; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.

He represented Daviess County in Congress.

'''Source:''' ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''. On-line Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Thomas S. Pettit

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Thomas S. Pettit was born in Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 21, 1843, the son of Franklin Duane and Elizabeth (Zook) Pettit; father a native of Virginia and mother of Kentucky. He attended Georgetown College, and before he was grown up learned the printer’s art, which came natural and easy to him, and he became an adept. In 1864 he came to Owensboro and purchased the Monitor of Mr. Woodruff, and began the publication of a lively local paper, advocating Democratic principles. Unlike his predecessor, he freely criticized the acts of the Republican party and their conduct of the war, and consequently in a few months (Nov. 17, 1864) he was arrested by order of General Stephen G. Burbridge, imprisoned and banished south, under the general charge of being “notoriously disloyal.” He was hurried away, and was sent under an escort to Memphis, Tenn., where he was transferred across the lines within the Confederacy, in whose territory he traveled until the following May, when he returned and resumed the publication of the Monitor, as already noted. He was the first to establish a successful, paying paper in Owensboro, which he did before he was twenty-five years of age; and he was the first to bring Gordon and power presses to Owensboro. In this paper he published, in several successive numbers, his “Trip to Dixie,” giving his experiences during the whole of the “round trip.” These exciting annals helped the circulation of his paper to a wonderful degree, as already mentioned. In the South he underwent the many hardships and privations incident to a common soldier.

Subsequently he was elected Assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State Legislature, which position he held for six years, when he was appointed Private Secretary to James B. McCreary. This position he afterward resigned, to accept the situation of Reading Clerk of the House of Representatives at Washington, D.C., for which duty he has extraordinarily good voice and articulation. On the death of Hon. John S. McFarland, in 1869, and through the influence and personal popularity of Senator T.C. McCreery, he was appointed by President Johnson Assessor of this Internal Revenue District, the duties of which position he filled with conscientious fidelity to the close of the term.

Mr. Pettit has never been recognized as a true Democrat. He has attended a number of State conventions of his party, and at every one of them he was elected secretary; and at the last National convention, which nominated Hancock and Hendricks, he was one of the secretaries. He is still active in the political field. Last fall (1882) he was a candidate for Congress against James B. Clay, of Henderson, but, after an exciting race, he was defeated in the pivotal county of Union, by less than 150 votes.

With all this political work Mr. Pettit has also engaged heavily in industrial pursuits. (See account of Marble & Pettit’s stave factory and lumber mills in the History of Murray Precinct.) He has been active in many local and philanthropic enterprises too numerous to mention here. He is a Freemason of high degree. Within four years after he entered the State Grand Lodge he was elected Past Grand Master, a distinction never before accorded to a member so young in that body. In December, 1870, he married Miss Margaret Blair, a native of this county, and a daughter of James Harvey Blair, formerly a merchant of Owensboro. Their only child is named Harvey Blair Pettit.<ref>{{1883}}</ref>

Pettit was a prominent business man and politician of Owensboro, and one of the best known and personally popular men in the state, was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, December 21, 1843, and is a son of Duane and Elizabeth (Zook) Pettit. After his primary schooling in Frankfort, he attended Georgetown College and then learned the printing trade, for which he had a fancy and a remarkable aptitude. He became an adept in all of the mechanical work of the printing office while he was yet in his teens, but he was too ambitious to stick to the cases, and in 1864 he went to Owensboro, and purchased the “Monitor” newspaper from a Mr.Woodruff, and began at once to attract attention by publishing a lively local paper and advocating the principles of the Democratic party. Unlike his predecessor, he freely criticized the Republican party and its war policy, and his articles on such topics brought down the wrath of the United States authorities upon his head; and, as a result, on the 17th of November, 1864, he was arrested by order of General Stephen G. Burbridge, imprisoned and “banished to the Southern Confederacy,” under the general charge of being “notoriously disloyal;” and was sent under escort to Memphis and there transferred across the lines.

He spent the following months until May, 1865, traveling within the Confederate lines, and then, the war being over, he returned to Owensboro and resumed the publication of the Monitor, in which he published in several consecutive numbers a detailed and interesting account of his trip through Dixie, giving his experiences and impressions and relating the hardships and privations which he necessarily suffered during his enforced vacation. These articles attracted much attention and had a very wide circulation, bringing the young editor into prominent notice. The Monitor was one of the brightest papers in the state, and Mr. Pettit soon became widely known as one of the most enterprising newspaper men of Kentucky.

He was the first man to establish a successful newspaper in Owensboro—and he did this before he was twenty years of age—and brought the first Gordon and power presses to that section of Kentucky.

In 1868 he was elected assistant clerk of the House of Representatives, which position he held for six years, when he was appointed private secretary of Governor James B. McCreary, which he resigned to accept the position of reading clerk in the national House of Representatives at Washington. During his service in the Legislature and in Congress, he had the distinction of being known as the best reader in the United States. His strong voice and clear and distinct enunciation enabled him to read, not only so as to be heard from all parts of the house, but he had a ready conception and a quick understanding and could read intelligently documents which he had never seen before. His services in the house were cut short by the Republicans gaining the ascendancy.

To go back to the ‘6o’s again: On the death of John S. McFarland in 1869, through the influence and personal popularity of Senator Thomas C. McCreery, President Johnson appointed Mr. Pettit assessor of internal revenue for the Second District, the duties of which he performed with ability and fidelity until the close of Mr. Johnson’s administration.

In the fall of 1882 Mr. Pettit was a candidate for Congress against J. B. Clay of Henderson and was defeated, after an exciting race, by less than one hundred and fifty votes. In that contest Union was the pivotal county, and the friends of Clay looked after it in such a way as to secure the majority for their candidate. Mr. Pettit has attended more State Conventions than any man in Kentucky and has been elected secretary of all of them, and in this capacity has rendered the Democratic party valuable services, which have been appreciated and highly complimented. He was one of the secretaries in the Democratic National Convention which nominated and elected Cleveland, and was called to serve in the same position four years thereafter and selected as one of the notification committee to inform Cleveland and Thurman of their selection for President and Vice-President.

Mr. Pettit’s political views have not been strictly in harmony with the Democratic party for some years and he has been one of the ablest leaders of the People’s party, having been a candidate of that party for governor in 1895.

He served with ability and distinction as a delegate to the last Constitutional Convention of Kentucky, and advocated such reforms as the secret official ballot, the taxing of corporations like individuals and the two-thirds verdict of juries in civil cases. He was afterwards chosen by a large majority as one of the representatives of Daviess County in the General Assembly, so as to put into practical operation the provisions of the new constitution, and his election in this instance followed one of the bitterest contests ever known in the state.

He is still actively interested in politics, not for revenue or for honor, but from principle. Having strong convictions upon topics of national import, he has the courage to stand up for them and does not wait to count the noses of those who are ready to stand by him before expressing his sentiments. He has for many years been engaged in industrial or manufacturing enterprises in Owensboro —too numerous to mention in this brief sketch—and his success, which has been uniformly good, has brought him a fair share of this world’s goods. Popular with all classes, industrious, enterprising, generous and philanthropic, he is easily one of the best citizens of Owensboro. He has always been ready to participate in public enterprises, and, in questions of public interest, has always been found on the right side and in the front.<ref>{{BiographicalCyclopedia}}</ref>

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William J. Owen

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Rev. William J. Owen. This excellent and zealous young man was ordained to the ministry by Green Brier church, in Daviess county, near to which he was born and raised, Jan. 20, 1850. After serving this church with some others in the neighborhood, a short time, he moved to Jacksons Purchase, about 1856. Here he zealously devoted himself to the work of the ministry. In February, 1859, he located in Troy, Obion county, Tennessee, where he accomplished the principal work of his brief ministry. During the same month in which he moved to Troy, he gathered a church of eight members. Under the faithful labors of the young pastor”, the little church steadily grew, till it numbered thirty-three, Mr. Owen was also pastor of Palestine and Concord churches, where his labors were also successful. But his work was soon brought to a close. Early in December, 1863, he became too feeble to leave his room, and, on the 14th of the following June, was called to receive his crown.

'''Source:''' ''A history of Kentucky Baptists: from 1769 to 1885, Vol. 2''. John H. Spencer, Cincinnati, 1886 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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John H. Osborn

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John H. Osborn, an old and well known resident of Evansville, Ind., has been for several years prominently identified with the manufacturing interests of the Lower Ohio Valley. He was born in Boone county, III., but when three years of age came with his parents, William and Ann (Burrell) Osborn, to Cannelton, Ind., where he grew to manhood and obtained his education. He learned the trade of machinist, worked in different shops in Louisville and Owensboro, Ky., and for nearly fifteen years was connected with the cotton mills at Cannelton. In 1875 he came to Evansville as master mechanic of the Evansville Cotton Mills. Nine years later he was promoted to the responsible position of superintendent of the mills, which he has ever since held, his previous practical training giving him especially high qualifications for the place, Mr. Osborn was one of the organizers of the White Oak Handle Company, which was incorporated in 1902 with a capital stock of $35,000, and has been president of the company since the formation, W. H. Patrick being the secretary and treasurer. The company manufactures plow handles exclusively and the demand for its products is constantly increasing. Aside from his private business interests Mr. Osborn finds time to assist in the promotion of any enterprise tending to advance the commercial prosperity of Evansville, and to devote to public affairs. Although he is an ardent Republican, and has frequently been urged to accept a nomination for public office, the only political position he ever held was that of trustee of the Evansville water-works, being a member of the board at the present time. In 1875 he declined to accept the nomination for Congress, though in 1904 he was a delegate to the national Republican convention which nominated Roosevelt and Fairbanks. It is therefore from no lack of loyalty to his political convictions that he declines political honors, but simply from his devotion to his business undertakings, Mr. Osborn has served with marked ability as a director of the Central Trust and Savings Company, the Union Savings Company, and the Evansville Business Men’s association. In fraternal circles he is a well known for, being a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal church and is a liberal contributor to the charitable work of his church. In June, 1878, Mr. Osborn was united in marriage to Miss Mary A, White, of Evansville.

'''Source:''' ''Memoirs of the Lower Ohio Valley'', Federal Publishing Company, Madison, Wis., 1905 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Anthony New

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Anthony New, a Representative from Virginia and from Kentucky; born in Gloucester County, Va., in 1747; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; colonel in the Revolutionary Army; elected as an Anti-Administration candidate from Virginia to the Third Congress and reelected as a Republican to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1805); moved to Kentucky and settled in Elkton; elected as a Republican from Kentucky to the Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813), the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1819), and the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823); engaged in agricultural pursuits; died on his estate, “Dunheath,” near Elkton, Todd County, Ky., March 2, 1833; interment in the family burying ground on his estate.

He represented Daviess County in Congress.

'''Source:''' ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''. On-line Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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William Huston Natcher

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William Huston Natcher, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Bowling Green, Warren County, Ky., September 11, 1909; attended the public schools and received high school education at Ogden Preparatory Department of Ogden College, Bowling Green, Ky.; B.A., Western Kentucky State College, Bowling Green, Ky., 1930 and from Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, LL.B., 1933; was admitted to the bar in 1934 and commenced practice of law in Bowling Green, Ky.; Federal conciliation commissioner for the western district of Kentucky in 1936 and 1937; county attorney of Warren County 1938-1950; president of the Young Democratic Clubs of Kentucky 1941-1946; served in the United States Navy 1942-1945; commonwealth attorney for the eighth judicial district of Kentucky 1951-1953; delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1940; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third Congress, August 1, 1953, by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Garrett L. Withers; reelected to the twenty succeeding Congresses and served from August 1, 1953, until his death in the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., March 29, 1994; chairman, Committee on Appropriations (One Hundred Third Congress); interment in Fairview Cemetery, Bowling Green, Warren County, Ky.

He represented Daviess County in Congress.

'''Source:''' ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''. On-line Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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James A. Munday

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Hon. James A. Munday''''',''''' born in Hancock County, Ky., Aug. 14, 1843, was a son of Redmond and Martha L. (Hamilton) Munday. His father was a descendant of Reuben Munday, one of the first settlers of Virginia. He came to Kentucky when a young man, and was married here.

He had a family of two daughters and one son, the daughters both deceased. He died when his son was two years old. After the death of his father James A. and his mother moved to Hawesville, where he attended school till fourteen years of age. He then entered Greenville Academy, at that time flourishing under the presidency of Hon. Edward Rumsey, and superintendence of James K. Patterson, present President of the Kentucky State College. He afterward attended the Georgetown College, his junior year being interrupted by the political troubles preceding the war, on account of which the school was discontinued. Mr. Munday then returned home, and in August, 1862, after several unsuccessful attempts, succeeding in reaching the Confederate lines and enlisted in Company H, Tenth Kentucky Confederate Cavalry, under command of Captain H.C. Meriweather.

The regiment was afterward assigned to General Morgan’s command, in all the engagements and movements of which he took an active part. He was in a few months promoted to a Lieutenancy for soldiery conduct, and when Captain Meriweather was detailed for other duty, he took charge of the company, in which capacity he did much service as a scout. His company and another under his command were assigned to the advance of the Second Brigade on General Morgan’s memorable invasion of Indiana and Ohio, and were among the first to charge and carry the breast-works of Corydon. After the most remarkable ride on record his command was foiled in its attempts to rally a few men and assist in covering a retreat, he with several of his regiment were surrounded and captured, and taken to Johnson’s Island. The Government having determined on special severity with those who had dared to invade “the sacred soil,” sent half of General Morgan’s officers to the Ohio penitentiary, and the other half to the western penitentiary of Pennsylvania at Allegheny, holding them as exempt from the cartel of exchange. After eight months of close confinement, Mr. Munday with his fellow officers were transferred to Point Lookout, and afterward to Fort Delaware. At the close of the war he returned to Hawesville, and soon after his mother was killed by being thrown from a buggy.

Mr. Munday attended a course of lectures at the Louisville Law University. On his return home he took charge of the Circuit Clerk’s office as Deputy, and the following summer was elected Circuit Clerk – the youngest clerk ever elected in the State. He held the office two years. During the time he was elected Assistant Secretary of the Kentucky Senate. After the expiration of his term of office he commenced the practice of law in Hawesville. In 1870 he came to Owensboro and formed a partnership with Judge George W. Williams.

In 1871 he was made Master Commissioner of Daviess County Circuit Court; resigned that office in 1875 and formed a business partnership with Thomas S. Pettit in the manufacture of staves. He sold out in 1879 and became the owner of the Owensboro ''Monitor'' office, and established the Owensboro ''Messenger'', a weekly Democratic newspaper, a half interest in which was sold in 1878 to [[C. W. Bransford|C.W. Bransford]]. After beginning the publication of the Daily''Messenger,'' in the fall of 1878, it was consolidated with the ''Examiner,'' a weekly paper then owned by [[Lee Lumpkin|L. Lumpkin]], forming the Owensboro ''Messenger and Examiner,'' published weekly and semi-weekly. Mr. Munday continued in editorial charge of these papers until the spring of 1881, when he severed his connection with them and engaged in the canvass for Senator in his district, comprising Daviess and McLean counties.

He was elected Senator in August, 1881, and took an active part in the legislation of the session of 1881-’82. He is a member of the Star Lodge, No. 19, K. of P.; Owensboro Lodge, No. 130, A.F. & A.M.; and Owensboro Lodge, I.O.O.F.

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Hon. James A. Munday, one of the able and prominent attorneys of Clarke county, was born in Hancock county, Kentucky, August 14, 1843, a son of Redmond F. and Martha L. (Hamilton) Munday, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Kentucky. The paternal ancestors are of English extraction, and their advent on this continent was during the first settlement of Virginia. From this State the grandfather of our subject removed during the early boyhood of his only son to become one of the substantial citizens of Tennessee. The maternal ancestors of our subject, the Hamiltons and Russells, were of Scotch and Irish stock, and have given their courage, energy and ability to the development of Kentucky, since its early settlement.

James A. Munday, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the county schools of the neighborhood, at Greenville Academy and at Georgetown College, Kentucky, where his course was interrupted by the Civil war in the winter of 1861-62. He soon afterward joined a number of his neighbors, who made their way through the military lines and enlisted in the Confederate army. He served in the Tenth Kentucky Cavalry, was soon promoted to Lieutenancy and afterward entrusted, with the command of his company. He participated in all of the many engagements of his command until his capture, after which he suffered a long imprisonment.

After returning home, at the close of hostilities, he took a course of lectures at the University of Law in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1867 he was elected clerk of the Hancock Circuit Court. He was shortly afterward chosen Assistant Secretary of the State Senate, and re-elected two years later. Mr. Munday began the practice of his profession at Hawesville, the seat of his native county, and in 1870 removed to Owensboro, in Daviess county, where, after practicing a year in partnership with Hon. George W. Williams, he was appointed Master in Chancery of the Daviess Circuit Court. His health becoming poor in sedentary pursuits, he retired after four years’ service, purchased, with Mr. Thomas S. Pettit, a half interest in a stave factory with a large body of timber land and engaged in the manufacture of staves. On closing out that business he established the Owensboro Messenger, a weekly newspaper, which proved successful from the beginning. In the following year this paper was consolidated with the Examiner, its flourishing rival, conducted by Mr. Lee Lumpkin, and the new paper proceeded on its successful career, as a weekly and tri-weekly journal, with Mr. Lumpkin as manager and Mr. Munday as senior editor and Mr. C. W. Bransford as junior editor. In 1880 Mr. Munday sold his stock in the paper, retired from the business and was elected to the State Senate for a term of four years, during which as chairman and member of leading committees he took an active part in the important legislation of both sessions.

On the accession of Mr. Cleveland to the presidency Mr. Munday was appointed Special Agent of the General Land Office and was assigned, at his own request, to the Territory of Washington, where he had already intended to locate. After a vigorous and successful administration of this office, until the fall of 1889, he resumed the practice of law, remaining at Vancouver. He received the Democratic nomination for Superior Judge for the district composed of Skamania, Clarke, Cowlitz, Wahkiakum and Pacific counties, but was defeated at the fall election of that year with the rest of his ticket, though by a much smaller majority. He was a delegate from his State to the National Democratic Convention at Chicago in June, 1892. As one of the two nominees of the Democratic State Convention of September, 1892, he ran for Representative in Congress at the November election, but again shared the Democratic defeat and demonstrated his strength in his own and neighboring counties.

During his residence in Owensboro, Kentucky, Mr. Munday joined the Knights of Pythias, the Masons and the Odd Fellows, afterward becoming a Past Chancellor and Representative in the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias.

While devoting his time to his professional business he has given occasional attention to the development of fruit lands, and holds, jointly with John O’Keane, several hundred acres of dairy and fruit land on the Columbia and Lake rivers in Clarke county. He has been largely identified with the best interests of his county and ever ready to encourage public enterprises. He is a cultured gentleman of genial disposition, though retiring and undemonstrative in manner, and enjoys the highest confidence of those who know him best.

'''Source:''' ''Illustrated History of the State of Washington'', By Rev H K Hines, The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1893. Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

John Simeon Mullican

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John Simeon Mullican, sheriff of Daviess County, was born in Washington County, near Springfield, Kentucky, March 22, 1838, and is a son of John H. and Susan (Hayden) Mullican. His father was born near Emmittsburg, Maryland, and came to Kentucky with his father’s family when he was very young, locating for a time in Washington County and removing to Nelson County in 1840, where he died in March, 1852. He was a most exemplary citizen, devoted to the work of the farmer and to the Catholic Church, having been converted to that faith after reaching his maturity. He deemed it a sacred duty to vote, but did not meddle with politics or aspire to office. He was largely interested in stock trading, but his chief pride was in his justly earned reputation as the best farmer in his county. His father, with whom he came to Kentucky from Maryland, was a native of Ireland, He was a farmer before and after coming to Kentucky, and owned a large tract of land in Washington County, where he built a very handsome residence.

Susan Hayden Mullican (mother) was born in Nelson County in 1795 and was a resident of her native county until her death in 1878.

Stanley Hayden (maternal grandfather) was a native of Virginia, where he married a Miss Hilton, also a Virginian, and subsequently removed to Nelson County, Kentucky. Mr. Hayden was a farmer and an excellent citizen; a member of the Catholic Church and a Democrat of the old school. The Haydens originally came from England.

John S. Mullican was two years old when his parents removed from Washington to Nelson County; was educated in St. Joseph College at Bardstown, completing his studies in 1858; sold dry goods for Quinn & Co. of Bardstown until 1861; went to Corinth and enlisted in Company E, Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment, C. S. A., under Capt. Hatch Murphy, and served in that regiment from June, 1861, till February, 1862, when he was transferred to the First Kentucky Regiment, commanded by Col. Thomas H. Taylor, now chief of police of Louisville, and was in the company commanded by Capt. Pat Thorp. His regiment was disbanded at the siege of Yorktown in March, 1863, and Private Mullican was honorably discharged on account of impaired health. During his career as a soldier he was in a number of fierce engagements, notably, the battles of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Chickahominy and several hot skirmishes near Richmond.

After spending six months in Bardstown, he removed to Daviess County and chose the independent life of a farmer, and his career as such was uneventful and unbroken until 1892, when he was elected sheriff of Daviess County for a term of two years. After completing this term, he was re-elected in 1894 for a term of three years under the new constitution, succeeding himself in January,’ 1895. In this official capacity Mr. Mullican has rendered faithful service, and by his very urbane, courteous and genial manner has added much to his popularity, and has established a name among (h? best citizens as an honorable citizen and capable official. Of course, he is a Democrat, and while he has been twice elected to an important and lucrative office by his party, he has never been a politician, his election having been due to his popularity as a citizen and an honest man, rather than to ‘his party affiliations. He adheres to the religious faith of his parents, and is an influential member of the Catholic Church, and of the Young Men’s Institute in connection with that church.

Mr. Mullican was married April 10, 1866, to Kate Stowers, daughter of A. H. Stowers of Daviess County. She was born in Daviess County in July, 1840, and after attending the common schools completed her education in Nazareth College, in Nelson County. They have eight children: James Stowers Mullican, married to Virgie Newman of Daviess County; John Vernon Mullican, married to Maggie Burnott of Daviess County; Bettie, Ollie and Oda (twins), Richard, Mamie and Addie.

'''Source:''' ''Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky''. John M. Gresham Company, Chicago, Philadelphia, 1896. Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Fielding Bradford Meek

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Read before the National Academy, November, 1896.

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF FIELDING BRADFORD MEEK.

Mr. President and Members of the Academy: As no formal memoir of Mr. Meek has been presented to the Academy, although it is now twenty years since he died. I offer the following sketch for our archives. It is necessarily brief, because he was himself very reticent concerning all his personal affairs, even with his intimate associates, and because he had survived all his relatives except a few who were comparative strangers to him, and he to them. It was my good fortune to be acquainted with him during the last ten or twelve years of his life and to be admitted to a large share of his confidence. While engaged with him in some paleontological studies a few months before his death I seized upon an unusually favorable occasion to obtain from his own lips the following biographical data:

Mr. Meek was born in the city of Madison, Indiana, December 10, 1817. The ancestral home was in county Armagh, Ireland. His grandparents, who were communicants of the Irish Presbyterian church, emigrated to America about the year 1768, and made their new home in Hamilton county, Ohio. There his father grew up to manhood and married; but a few years afterward, with his young family, he removed to Madison, where he became a lawyer of considerable eminence. The family, including the children born in Madison, consisted of the parents, two sons, and two daughters, all of whom were dead many years before Mr. Meek’s own decease. The father died when Fielding was only three years old, leaving the family in only moderate circumstances.

Fielding’s early youth was spent in the city of his birth, where he attended the best school that were then established there, but his ill health greatly interfered with his education. Still, the time of those years was not wasted, for it was then that he began to develop a love for natural science, by his contributions to which he afterward became distinguished. Upon reaching manhood, by advice of his friends but against his own inclination, he invested his small patrimony in a mercantile business, first in Madison and afterward in Owensboro, Kentucky. The result was financial failure. After this he labored at whatever he could find to do, struggling with poverty and ill health, but improving every opportunity to advance his studies, which then began in earnest to include the fossils found in the region of his home. His earnestness in this direction drew the attention of Dr. D. D. Owen, who, when he began to organize his United States Geological Survey of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, made young Meek one of his assistants. He held that position during the years 1848 and 1849, at the end of which time he returned to Owensboro.

He remained in Owensboro until 1852, when he went to Albany, New York, as assistant to Prof. James Hall in the paleontological work of that State. He entered upon this work with zeal and effectiveness, for he had then not only acquired large knowledge of invertebrate fossils, but he had become very skillful with his pencil in their delineation. With the exception of three summers, he remained at Albany continuously until 1858. Two summers were spent upon the Geological Survey of Missouri, under the direction of Prof. G. C. Swallow, and the other, that of 1853, in exploring the Bad-lands of Nebraska. In this work he was associated with Dr. P. V. Hayden, both of them having been commissioned by Professor Hall to do that work in his interest.

Three years after that exploration he, in collaboration with Professor Hall, prepared for publication by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston an important memoir on Cretaceous fossils from Nebraska, This was his first published paleontological work, and it was a worthy introduction to his subsequent career. In

1858 Mr. Meek left Albany and went to Washington, D. C, where he resided until his death. The main building of the Smithsonian Institution had then been only a short time completed and all its rooms were not then needed for its business. The Secretary, Professor Henry, who encouraged the gathering at the Institution of scientific workers, not only gave them all its advantages for study, but he allotted some of the unoccupied rooms as sleeping apartments to such as were without a family. One of these rooms, situated in the main tower, was allotted to Mr. Meek when he first went to Washington, and it remained his only home, as well as his usual working place, until his death.

The association which he formed with Dr. Hayden in their western explorations in 1853 was at least tacitly continued as long as Mr. Meek lived. All the invertebrate fossils collected by Dr. Hayden in his afterward famous western explorations were investigated and prepared for publication by Mr. Meek, although a large part of the results of those labors was published under the joint name of Meek and Hayden. In the principal work which was published under this partnership name, “The Paleontology of the Upper Missouri,” Mr. Meek evinced a high order of paleontological ability, and the reputation thus gained was well sustained by his subsequent work.

Notwithstanding his intimate relation with Dr. Hayden, Mr. Meek declined to accept any regularly salaried position upon the survey organized by the former, preferring to command his own time and opportunities to do work in other inviting fields. He thus did for the Geological Survey of Illinois much the greater part of the work on invertebrate fossils which has made that series of reports famous, although it was published under the joint name of Meek and Worthen.

The appended list shows the extent of Mr. Meek’s labors, and therefore mention will be made here only of his last one, which he justly regarded as the most important work of his life. It is volume IX of the quarto series of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, and contains more than 600 pages of text and 45 full-page plates of illustrations.

Because twenty years have passed since Mr. Meek finally laid down his pen, and because his work is now held in as high esteem as when he was alive, it is unnecessary to speak at length here of its character. It is enough to say that it was characterized by thoroughness, scrupulous exactness, nice power of discrimination, and a comprehensive grasp of his subject.

Mr. Meek was never robust in health, and during a large part of his life he was more or less an invalid, his malady having been pulmonary tuberculosis. As age advanced his periods of exhaustion became more frequent and more pronounced until they ended in death. He died in Washington December 21, 1876, having only a few days before completed his 59th year.

His funeral was held in a hall of the Smithsonian building, where Professor Henry delivered a funeral oration, and the burial was made in the Congressional cemetery, in the eastern suburb of Washington.

In person Mr. Meek was moderately tall, rather slender, and of dignified bearing. Although he was never strong and often ill he never complained, was always cheerful, always hopeful, and always passionately devoted to his scientific work. He was genial, sincere, pure-minded, and honorable. Gentleness and candor were apparent in every lineament of his face and in every word he uttered; yet he was eminently self-reliant and rigorously circumspect in all his actions. His hearing began to fail in early manhood, and the infliction increased until he became totally deaf several years before he died, so that his friends could converse with him only by writing. This affliction, together with his natural diffidence, caused him to avoid social gatherings, but he was always ready, and even eager, to meet and converse with his friends, especially those who were engaged in kindred studies.

He was never miserly, but his habits were so frugal that at the time of his death he had accumulated what to him was a comfortable provision for old age. He seemed to have had no morbid fear of death, but none of his friends, not even Professor Henry, who had great influence with him, could induce him to make his will. The result was that his accumulations went to a distant relative, who was a comparative stranger to him in life.

Few men will be remembered, both for eminent ability and sterling personal qualities, so long as Fielding Bradford Meek.

'''Source:''' ''Biographical Memoirs, Vol. IV''. Charles A. White, National Academy of Sciences, 1896 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Allen Burr Miller

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Rev. Allen Burr Miller, now the well-known Dr. Miller of Little Rock, Ark., was born in what is now LaRue Co., Ky., July 9, 1834. At the age of six years, he was taken by his parents to Ohio county, where he was raised on a farm with few educational advantages. After his arrival at manhood, he attended Bethel College for a time. He professed conversion at a Methodist meeting when he was about thirteen years of age, and was baptized several years later, for the fellowship of Green River church, by Alfred Taylor. He was licensed to preach before he went to college, and was ordained to the ministry, in 1856. In 1857, he took charge of the church at Hickman, Ky. Here he labored with good success two years, and then went to Trenton, Tenn., where he ministered one year, after which he returned to his native State, in answer to a call from the church at Bardstown. Here he remained two years, and accomplished a good work. He next moved to Owensboro, from whence he was called to the First church in Memphis, Tenn., where he labored with a good degree of success, several years. His next move was to Paducah, Ky., where he ministered two years, and then accepted a call to Quincy, Ill. After preaching there a year, he again returned to Kentucky, and was, for a time, pastor of the church at Versailles. From this place he went to Evansville, where he preached some five years, and then went to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he still ministers. On the 4th of January, 1866, he was married to Anna Clark, a handsome and accomplished lady of La Grange, Ky.

Besides his pastoral labors, Dr. Miller has devoted much time to the work of an evangelist, in which capacity he has been very successful, having baptized about 2,000 persons. He is a popular preacher, brilliant rather than profound, a man of untiring energy, and is full of zeal in his holy calling devoted much time to the work of an evangelist, in which capacity he has been very successful, having baptized about 2,000 persons. He is a popular preacher, brilliant rather than profound, a man of untiring energy, and is full of zeal in his holy calling.

'''Source:''' ''A history of Kentucky Baptists: from 1769 to 1885, Vol. 2''. John H. Spencer, Cincinnati, 1886 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Fielding Bradford Meek

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Read before the National Academy, November, 1896.

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF FIELDING BRADFORD MEEK.

Mr. President and Members of the Academy: As no formal memoir of Mr. Meek has been presented to the Academy, although it is now twenty years since he died. I offer the following sketch for our archives. It is necessarily brief, because he was himself very reticent concerning all his personal affairs, even with his intimate associates, and because he had survived all his relatives except a few who were comparative strangers to him, and he to them. It was my good fortune to be acquainted with him during the last ten or twelve years of his life and to be admitted to a large share of his confidence. While engaged with him in some paleontological studies a few months before his death I seized upon an unusually favorable occasion to obtain from his own lips the following biographical data:

Mr. Meek was born in the city of Madison, Indiana, December 10, 1817. The ancestral home was in county Armagh, Ireland. His grandparents, who were communicants of the Irish Presbyterian church, emigrated to America about the year 1768, and made their new home in Hamilton county, Ohio. There his father grew up to manhood and married; but a few years afterward, with his young family, he removed to Madison, where he became a lawyer of considerable eminence. The family, including the children born in Madison, consisted of the parents, two sons, and two daughters, all of whom were dead many years before Mr. Meek’s own decease. The father died when Fielding was only three years old, leaving the family in only moderate circumstances.

Fielding’s early youth was spent in the city of his birth, where he attended the best school that were then established there, but his ill health greatly interfered with his education. Still, the time of those years was not wasted, for it was then that he began to develop a love for natural science, by his contributions to which he afterward became distinguished. Upon reaching manhood, by advice of his friends but against his own inclination, he invested his small patrimony in a mercantile business, first in Madison and afterward in Owensboro, Kentucky. The result was financial failure. After this he labored at whatever he could find to do, struggling with poverty and ill health, but improving every opportunity to advance his studies, which then began in earnest to include the fossils found in the region of his home. His earnestness in this direction drew the attention of Dr. D. D. Owen, who, when he began to organize his United States Geological Survey of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, made young Meek one of his assistants. He held that position during the years 1848 and 1849, at the end of which time he returned to Owensboro.

He remained in Owensboro until 1852, when he went to Albany, New York, as assistant to Prof. James Hall in the paleontological work of that State. He entered upon this work with zeal and effectiveness, for he had then not only acquired large knowledge of invertebrate fossils, but he had become very skillful with his pencil in their delineation. With the exception of three summers, he remained at Albany continuously until 1858. Two summers were spent upon the Geological Survey of Missouri, under the direction of Prof. G. C. Swallow, and the other, that of 1853, in exploring the Bad-lands of Nebraska. In this work he was associated with Dr. P. V. Hayden, both of them having been commissioned by Professor Hall to do that work in his interest.

Three years after that exploration he, in collaboration with Professor Hall, prepared for publication by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston an important memoir on Cretaceous fossils from Nebraska, This was his first published paleontological work, and it was a worthy introduction to his subsequent career. In

1858 Mr. Meek left Albany and went to Washington, D. C, where he resided until his death. The main building of the Smithsonian Institution had then been only a short time completed and all its rooms were not then needed for its business. The Secretary, Professor Henry, who encouraged the gathering at the Institution of scientific workers, not only gave them all its advantages for study, but he allotted some of the unoccupied rooms as sleeping apartments to such as were without a family. One of these rooms, situated in the main tower, was allotted to Mr. Meek when he first went to Washington, and it remained his only home, as well as his usual working place, until his death.

The association which he formed with Dr. Hayden in their western explorations in 1853 was at least tacitly continued as long as Mr. Meek lived. All the invertebrate fossils collected by Dr. Hayden in his afterward famous western explorations were investigated and prepared for publication by Mr. Meek, although a large part of the results of those labors was published under the joint name of Meek and Hayden. In the principal work which was published under this partnership name, “The Paleontology of the Upper Missouri,” Mr. Meek evinced a high order of paleontological ability, and the reputation thus gained was well sustained by his subsequent work.

Notwithstanding his intimate relation with Dr. Hayden, Mr. Meek declined to accept any regularly salaried position upon the survey organized by the former, preferring to command his own time and opportunities to do work in other inviting fields. He thus did for the Geological Survey of Illinois much the greater part of the work on invertebrate fossils which has made that series of reports famous, although it was published under the joint name of Meek and Worthen.

The appended list shows the extent of Mr. Meek’s labors, and therefore mention will be made here only of his last one, which he justly regarded as the most important work of his life. It is volume IX of the quarto series of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, and contains more than 600 pages of text and 45 full-page plates of illustrations.

Because twenty years have passed since Mr. Meek finally laid down his pen, and because his work is now held in as high esteem as when he was alive, it is unnecessary to speak at length here of its character. It is enough to say that it was characterized by thoroughness, scrupulous exactness, nice power of discrimination, and a comprehensive grasp of his subject.

Mr. Meek was never robust in health, and during a large part of his life he was more or less an invalid, his malady having been pulmonary tuberculosis. As age advanced his periods of exhaustion became more frequent and more pronounced until they ended in death. He died in Washington December 21, 1876, having only a few days before completed his 59th year.

His funeral was held in a hall of the Smithsonian building, where Professor Henry delivered a funeral oration, and the burial was made in the Congressional cemetery, in the eastern suburb of Washington.

In person Mr. Meek was moderately tall, rather slender, and of dignified bearing. Although he was never strong and often ill he never complained, was always cheerful, always hopeful, and always passionately devoted to his scientific work. He was genial, sincere, pure-minded, and honorable. Gentleness and candor were apparent in every lineament of his face and in every word he uttered; yet he was eminently self-reliant and rigorously circumspect in all his actions. His hearing began to fail in early manhood, and the infliction increased until he became totally deaf several years before he died, so that his friends could converse with him only by writing. This affliction, together with his natural diffidence, caused him to avoid social gatherings, but he was always ready, and even eager, to meet and converse with his friends, especially those who were engaged in kindred studies.

He was never miserly, but his habits were so frugal that at the time of his death he had accumulated what to him was a comfortable provision for old age. He seemed to have had no morbid fear of death, but none of his friends, not even Professor Henry, who had great influence with him, could induce him to make his will. The result was that his accumulations went to a distant relative, who was a comparative stranger to him in life.

Few men will be remembered, both for eminent ability and sterling personal qualities, so long as Fielding Bradford Meek.
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Source:''' ''Biographical Memoirs, Vol. IV''. Charles A. White, National Academy of Sciences, 1896 Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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Alney McLean

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Alney McLean, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Burke County, N.C., June 10, 1779; pursued preparatory studies; moved to Kentucky; appointed surveyor of Muhlenberg County in 1799 and elected one of the trustees of Greenville on its formation; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Ky., about 1805; member of the State house of representatives in 1812 and 1813; served as a captain in the War of 1812; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); elected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); served as judge of the fourteenth district of Kentucky from 1821 until his death; presidential elector on the Clay ticket in 1824 and on the ticket of Clay and Sergeant in 1832; died near Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Ky., December 30, 1841; interment in Old Caney Station Cemetery, near Greenville, Ky.

He represented Daviess County in Congress.

'''Source:''' ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.'' On-line Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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James Andrew McKenzie

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James Andrew McKenzie, (uncle of John McKenzie Moss), a Representative from Kentucky; born in Bennettstown, Christian County, Ky., August 1, 1840; attended the common schools of Christian County and Centre College, Danville, Ky.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1861 and commenced practice in Hopkinsville, Ky.; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; during the Civil War served as a private in the Confederate Army; member of the State house of representatives 1867-1871; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882; secretary of state of Kentucky under Gov. J. Proctor Knott 1884-1888; commissioner from Kentucky to the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago, Ill., in 1893; appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Peru by President Cleveland in 1893; resigned and settled on his farm near Long View, Ky.; died at Oak Grove, Christian County, Ky., on June 25, 1904; interment in Fairview Cemetery, Bowling Green, Ky.

He represented Daviess County in Congress.

'''Source:''' ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''. On-line Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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John Hardin McHenry

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John Hardin McHenry, deceased, late postmaster of Owensboro, son of John Hardin and Hannah (Davis) McHenry, was born in Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, February 21, 1832. His father was born in Washington County, October 13, 1797, and died in Owensboro, November 1, 1871. He received his education, principally, from his father, and studied law under his uncle Martin D. Hardin, a distinguished lawyer of Frankfort, and was admitted to the bar in 1819. He began the practice of law at Leitchfield, where he was postmaster; and November 22, 1820, Governor Adair appointed him Major of the Eighty-seventh Regiment State Militia; and in 1821 Commonwealth attorney for the new judicial district, embracing Daviess, Henderson, Breckenridge, Ohio and Muhlenberg Counties. He removed to Hartford and entered upon the duties of this office, which he held until 1839, when he resigned. In 1840 he was elected to the legislature; January 26, 1843, was appointed by Governor Robert P. Letcher “on the advice of the Senate” a member of the Board of Overseers of Transylvania University. In 1845 he was elected to Congress from the Second District by the Whig party, to which he belonged. In 1849 he was a member of the State Constitutional Convention, representing Ohio and Hancock Counties.

He removed to Owensboro in 1853, where he continued the practice of law until the time of his death. He was a most able lawyer, a hard worker and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all who knew him; and there were few men in the state who were more widely known or more universally beloved.

Hannah Davis McHenry, mother of John Hardin McHenry, was born November 4, 1800, in Virginia; was married in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, November 11, 1823; and died in Owensboro, July 23, 1862. She was a daughter of Henry and Frances (Randall) Davis. Frances Randall and a brother were left orphans at an early age. He was afterward in the United States Navy, and was drowned while trying to ford the Potomac River.

The children of Hannah Davis and John Hardin McHenry were as follows: Martin D. McHenry, Henry D. McHenry, William H. McHenry, Barnabas McHenry, John H. McHenry, Mrs. (Dr.) Hale, Mrs. Robert Craig, L. S. McHenry and W. E. McHenry.

A number of the Davis men, relatives of Mrs. McHenry’s father, were in the Revolutionary war; others served in the war of 1812; and those who came to Kentucky as pioneers endured great hardship and suffered much from the depredations of the Indians.

Barnabas McHenry (grandfather) was a native of Maryland, who came to Kentucky soon after the Revolutionary war and was a distinguished pioneer preacher who organized many of the Methodist Churches in Kentucky and the west. He was a very able man and was consecrated to his work. He died of cholera, June 15, 1833. His wife, Sarah Hardin, daughter of John and Jane Davis Hardin, died of cholera the next day after her husband’s death, June 16, 1833, and they were buried in one grave.

John Hardin (great-grandfather) was born October 1, 1753, and was killed by the Indians in 1792. When the first call for troops was made by the Continental Congress he recruited a company of soldiers and joined General David Morgan’s Rifle Corps; was in the march from Boston to Canada, and in every engagement of that Corps until 1780. At the battle of Saratoga he performed a distinguished service, for which he received publicly the thanks of General Gates. In 1792 he was sent by special order of General Washington on a mission of peace to the Indians in Northern Ohio (then territory) and was murdered by them. He was a son of Martin and Mary (Waters) Hardin.

Martin Hardin (great-great-grandfather) was a son of Martin Hardin, the French Huguenot. King George, through Lord Fairfax, granted a tract of land in Fauquier County, Virginia, to Martin Hardin, junior, in 1748, who made a will in 1799 and died in 1800, at his home in Fauquier County.

John Hardin McHenry was educated in Hanover College, Indiana; at Center College, Danville, Kentucky, and was three years at West Point. Returning to Kentucky, he studied law and was graduated from the law department of the University of Louisville in 1857. He began the practice of his profession with his father and later was in partnership with Judge W. T. Owen.

Mr. McHenry was one of the ten captains selected by lot by Governor Morehead, April 9, 1859, to go to Utah; but the trouble was settled by A. S. Johnson and R. E. Lee before he was called upon to perform his duty on that mission.

In 1861 he recruited the Seventeenth Kentucky Infantry for the Union army; and on the first day of October, 1861, was in the first engagement on Kentucky soil. His regiment was with General Grant at Fort Donelson and at Shiloh, and was afterward consolidated with the Twenty-fifth Kentucky Infantry, and the new regiment was placed under his command. When President Lincoln issued his first proclamation on the subject of emancipation in 1862, Colonel McHenry took issue with the Government, for which he was dismissed. He was greatly loved by his men, who regretted his departure from the service.

He returned to his home in Owensboro, and in 1863 was a candidate for Congress, but was defeated by George H. Yeaman. He made a contest for the seat, but it was given to Mr. Yeaman.

In 1881 and 1882 he took exceptions to the preference shown to ex-confederate soldiers by the state government in the matter of appointments; and he inaugurated the campaign known as the Union Democratic Movement, in which ex-Lieutenant-Governor R. T. Jacob received 75,000 votes for Governor. He was a Democrat until the nomination of James G. Blaine for President, when he became a Republican.

Mr. C. C. Watkins, having been appointed Postmaster of Owensboro by President Harrison, resigned his office, and Colonel McHenry was appointed Postmaster March 26, 1891; was confirmed by the Senate December 16, 1891, and died during his term of office, July 7, 1893.

For two years he was Grand Master, and at the time of his death was Past Grand Master Workman of the A. O. U. W. of Kentucky, a Mason and a member of the G. A. R.

Colonel McHenry was one of the best lawyers in Kentucky, a fine speaker and eloquent pleader, keen and alert in the management of his cases and a successful practitioner at the bar. He was an obliging and competent official, an ideal soldier and an honorable, upright citizen who won the respect and esteem of the entire community. He was universally popular throughout the state, in which he was a prominent figure during the greater part of his busy and useful fife.

Colonel John H. McHenry was married December 30, 1868, to Josephine Phillips, daughter of Joseph Francis and Elizabeth Sue (Simpson) Phillips, whose ancestry is traced back to one of the earliest settlements in the United States.

Joseph Francis Phillips, father of Mrs. McHenry, was born in 1809. His father’s name was William Phillips, who married a Miss Graham of Virginia, whose mother’s maiden name was Robinson. But to go back to the progenitor of the Phillips family in America: Rev. Joseph Phillips of Boxford, England, and his wife, Elizabeth, came to this country with Governor Winthrop and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, in the early years of the seventeenth century, about 1630. Their children were Elizabeth, Abigail and Samuel, the last named of whom was a minister at Rowley, Massachusetts. His son, Theophilus, appears in 1686 as one of the guarantees of the Charter of Newton, Long Island, by Governor Dongan of New York. Philip Phillips, son of Theophilus, was born December 27, 1648, and removed to New Jersey, locating at Lawrenceville, about six miles from Trenton, and had three sons: Theophilus, born May 15, 1673; William, born January 27, 1676, and Philip, born December 27, 1678. The last named son was captain in a Hunterdon County regiment and was promoted to major in 1727, serving in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Reading, who was afterward Governor of New Jersey. Major Phillips died in 1740. His wife’s name was Elizabeth, and they had six children, Philip, Abner, Samuel, John, Esther and Ruth. Samuel (third son of Major Phillips) was the father of five children, Jonathan, Elias, John, Samuel and Asher. Jonathan, the eldest of these children, was a captain in the Second Regiment of New Jersey in the Continental army. He married Elizabeth Houston, sister of Honorable William Churchill Houston. Elias, the second son of Samuel Phillips, was adjutant of the First Regiment of Hunterdon Militia in the Revolutionary war. He married Elizabeth Phillips, his cousin, daughter of Colonel Joseph Phillips. John, the third son of Samuel Phillips, married a sister of Elizabeth, wife of Elias. Colonel Joseph Phillips (son of William and father-in-law of Elias and John) an officer in the Revolutionary war, was born 1708; died 1778. His children were: Abigail, wife of Captain Edward Yard; Mary, above mentioned; Frances, Elizabeth, above mentioned; William, and Dr. Joseph Phillips, who was a surgeon in the United States army and served with Generals St. Claire, Wayne and Wilkinson, and who died in Lawrenceville, N. J.

Previous to the Revolutionary war Colonel Joseph Phillips was captain of a company in the old French and Indian war, having left New Jersey in the party commanded by Major Trent.

William, his grandson, came from New Jersey; married in Virginia, and later settled at Frankfort, Kentucky, where he died in 1864. Under General William Henry Harrison fought at the battle of Tippecanoe November 7, 181 1.

Elizabeth Sue Simpson Phillips (mother of Mrs. McHenry) was a daughter of Benjamin and Pauline (Ballard) Simpson. Pauline Ballard was a sister of Andrew Jackson Ballard and Judge Bland Ballard, late of Louisville; and was a daughter of James and Susan Cox Ballard, who was a daughter of Sallie Piety Cox. Sallie Piety was a daughter of Lord Piety of Ireland. Mrs. McHenry’s mother often told of hearing her great-great-grandmother, Lady Piety, say to her daughter, all of the generations being present: “Arise, daughter, and go to thy daughter, for thy daughter’s daughter hath a daughter.”

James Ballard, great-grandfather of Mrs. McHenry, was a brother of Bland Ballard, the celebrated Indian fighter, and their father’s name was Bland Ballard, a Colonel in the Revolutionary war; and prior to the war was an inspector of tobacco in Virginia, by appointment of the Crown of England.

'''Source:''' ''Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky''. John M. Gresham Company, Chicago, Philadelphia, 1896. Courtesy of the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee

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