Bullitt County Biographies G-L
Biographical information about people who resided in Bullitt County (or had strong connections to those who did)
ROBERT GAILBREATH was of Irish extraction, and was born in Westmoreland county, Penn., 1791. His parents moved to Kentucky when he was about eight years old. Being fond of study, he acquired, with few advantages from schools, a very fair English education. He was raised up in a Presbyterian church, but when he obtained evidence of his conversion, a candid examination of the subject of baptism led him to accept Baptist views. He united with old Beargrass Church, not from 1817. He was licensed to exercise his preaching gift, in 1819, and having been sufficiently proved, he was ordained to the pastoral care of Little Flock church in Bullitt county, by Moses Pierson, George Waller, Ben. Allen and Z. Carpenter, April 24, 1824. In 1827, Mr. Gailbreath gathered a small church called Fishpool, some four miles North of Little Flock. Of this new organization, also, he was chosen pastor, having, for the sake of convenience, given his membership to it. He was also pastor of the church at Shepherdsville, for a time. In 1851, he resigned the charge of Little Flock and Fishpool, and moved to Louisville. This move was unwise. It took him from a field of labor in which he was appreciated and loved, and where he had spent the prime of his life, usefully, and might still have been useful, for years to come. In the city, he was comparitively a stranger, he was a country preacher, and there was no demand for his ministrations. The move virtually closed his labors, and he spent about thirteen years in idleness, as far as his holy calling was concerned. He died at his home in Louisville, August 23, 1864. Mr. Gailbreath was above medium, as a preacher. He had considerable poetical genius, which he indulged, for recreation. He was a man of umblemished morals, and of faultless christian deportment.
Allen Carpenter Gailbreath Pierson Waller = Bullitt Westmoreland-PA
A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than 800 Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes. Printed For the Author. 1886. Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976 Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, pages 180-181.
JAMES EDWARD GAITHER, of Louisville, is a native of Hardin county, Kentucky, born June 1, 1853. His father, John Richard Gaither, was born in Washington county, this state, and during his childhood removed to Hardin county where he married in early manhood, and then settled on a farm. His grandfather, Edward B. Gaither, was a physician of prominence in his county and when quite young served as captain in the war of 1812. The great-grandfather of our subject, Greenbury Gaither, removed from Montgomery county, Maryland, to Kentucky, in 1802. He had served as an officer in the war of the Revolution, as did John and Henry Gaither, prominent in the colonial history of Maryland about 1630. His family was prominently represented in the late civil war; Burgess Gaither was a member of the Confederate congress from Georgia; George R. Gaither, a colonel of a Maryland regiment in the Confederate army; and Nathan Gaither was a member of the constitutional convention of Kentucky in 1849. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Ann Eliza Bland, and was a daughter of Henry Bland, of Hardin county, Kentucky, whose father, James Bland, emigrated from Fauquier county, Virginia, about 1800, and took up his residence in this state. Members of this family were prominent in Virginia in colonial days; one a member of the council of state; another a lieutenant-general under Nathaniel Bacon and associated with him in the rebellion against Governor Berkeley for refusing to suppress Indian outrages and otherwise oppressing the people. Members of this family are leaders now in business and political circles in the south and west. James Edward Gaither attended the common schools of Hardin county, working on the farm in the seasons of vacation, and at the age of nineteen was graduated at the Lynnland College in Hardin county, in 1872, of which his father was one of the founders and a member of the board of visitors. After his graduation he was appointed deputy clerk of the Hardin county court, thus serving until 1876. He studied law during that time and in the centennial year was admitted to the bar upon examination by two judges of the court of appeals. He completed his legal education at the University of Virginia, during the season of 1877-8, and the following year began practice at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, where he remained until 1886, since which time he has been identified with the bar of Louisville as one of its leading members. Mr. Gaither is a member of the Democratic county committee, and was mayor of the suburban town of Crescent Hill for a number of years. Other than such local and gratuitous service, he has refused to enter politics though frequently urged by his friends to do so. His retention as counsel on some of the leading cases that have come up for trial in the state demonstrates his high standing at the bar. He is a man of strong mentality, keen, analytical powers, and the mastery of any case entrusted to his care is shown by the skillful arrangement of facts and logical deductions and argument. He represented large interests in the celebrated case of the Central Trust Company, of New York, versus Richmond, Irvin & Beattyville Railroad Company in the United States district court for the district of Kentucky; was counsel in the case of Nehoff & Company versus Owensboro & Nashville Railroad Company, in the court of appeals of Kentucky, wherein the liability of common carriers as warehouse men in care of baggage is fixed, reported in the Kentucky Law Reporter. Mr. Gaither is chief attorney for the Columbia Building and Loan Association of Louisville, and is attorney for the towns of Crescent Hill and Clifton, suburbs of Louisville, in cases against annexation of those towns to that city. Mr. Gaither was married in 1881 to Miss Nannie Martin Kennedy, of Jefferson county, Kentucky, and they have one son, Thomas Richard Gaither.
Gaither Bland Kennedy = Hardin-KY Washington-KY Fauquier-VA Montgomery-MD
Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago. Reprinted by Southern Historical Press. p. 219. Jefferson County.
For a period of 32 years the subject of this sketch has made his home at his present location in Cleveland township, Le Sueur Co., Minn., he having come here at the close of his army service in 1864.
Memorial Record of Southwestern Minnesota, Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illiniois, pages 468-470, 1897, Bullitt County.
JOSEPH B. GORE was born August 26, 1848, in La Rue [sic] County, and is a son of Dr. John W. and Elizabeth (Brown) Gore, who had born to them three sons and three daughters. Dr. John W. Gore was born March 21, 1821, in Nelson County; was raised on a farm and received a fair English education in the common schools; attended night schools at twenty-two, and commenced the practice of medicine in La Rue County, to which he moved in 1841. During the war he was put in charge of hospitals as surgeon at different points, and he has practiced for twenty-six years. In 1870 he was elected county clerk, commenced the study of law, and in 1885 was admitted to the bar, in the same year elected county attorney. He was a son of Henry and Ann (Glasscock) Gore. Henry Gore was born in Culpeper County, Va., about 1794, and when a lad of seven years, with his parents, came to Nelson County, Ky. There he grew to manhood. He was a painter by trade, and was elected constable, after which he served as sheriff of Nelson County for twenty-six years, and also served two terms in the Legislature. He was a farmer and slave holder, and died in 1865, aged seventy eight years. He was a son of Jonathan Gore, who married a Miss Rector, both of Virginia. Jonathan Gore's father was born in Ireland, and immigrated to and settled in Virginia, and in 1794 moved to Nelson County, Ky. He was a farmer and slave holder. Ann (Glasscock) Gore was a daughter of Micaja and Catharine (Rector) Glasscock, who were both natives of Virginia, and of Irish descent, and who settled in Nelson County in 1794. Joseph B. Gore was reared on a farm, and received a good English education; at eighteen he entered and clerked in a dry good store for four years. In 1872 he was elected sheriff for one term, after which he farmed till 1882, then entered the circuit clerk's office as deputy. In 1884 he was elected for an unexpired term. He was married, in 1871, to Miss Lura [sic] Rogers, of La Rue County, a daughter of James and Mary (Kennedy) Rogers, of Irish origin. James Rogers' first wife was Lura Roundtree. Mr. Gore has had born by this union seven children, six living: Jessie R., John W., Elenor, Anna B., William R. and Logan M. Mr. and Mrs. Gore are members of the Christian Church, and in politics he is a Democrat, having cast his first presidential vote for Greeley. Mr. Gore's mother was a daughter of James and Nancy (Ash) Brown.
Gore Brown Glasscock Rector Rogers Kennedy Roundtree Ash = Nelson-KY Culpeper-VA VA Ireland
Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1885, Larue Co.
GILBERT GRIFFIN, a native of Spencer County, Ky., was born November 15, 1833. His father, William Griffin, was also born in Spencer County, December 19, 1801, as was married to Miss Catherine Ritchey, April 7, 1823, and had born to them six children, the subject of this sketch being the fifth. William Griffin removed to Bullitt County, Ky., and settled on a farm in 1842. Gilbert Griffin was married to Miss Corilla Skinner, August 12, 1862, and had born to him three children. His wife departed this life, July 22, 1876, and Mr. Griffin was next married November 11, 1880, to Mrs. Ann E. Hall, widow of Dr. D. M. Hall. Mr. Griffin's children are: Jasper, born January 11, 1864; William, February 18, 1867; Minnie, September 2, 1872. His farm of six hundred and forty acres is one of the finest in Bullitt County.
Griffin Ritchey Skinner Hall = Spencer-KY Bullitt-KY
Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Jefferson Co.
JOHN F. HAGAN, a native of Shelby County, Ky., was born February 28, 1824, a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Welmore) Hagan, natives of South Carolina. His father moved to Madison County, Ky., at an early day, and in 1826 settled in Shelby County, near Simpsonville. Our subject was reared on the farm, and educated in the common schools. In April, 1871, he married Mary Yates, a native of Shelby County, and a daughter of Jilson and Catherine (Ford) Yates, natives of the county of Shelby. Her grandfather, Ben Yates, came from Virginia and located near Lexington, where he was one of the original settlers; later moved to Shelby County. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hagan are Charles, Lizzie, May, John and Albert. Mr. Hagan owns 500 acres of land in Shelby County. He served five years at the carpenter's trade with Thomas Lowry, of Shelby County, and erected the first building at Eminence.
Hagan Welmore Yates Ford Lowry = Lexington-Fayette-KY Madison-KY Eminence-Henry-KY SC
Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887, Shelby Co.
GILBERT HAGERMAN was born in Spencer County, Ky., seven miles above Taylorsville, March 28, 1837. His parents were George and Luvina (Zimmerman) Hagerman, natives of Nelson County, Ky., where they were married. They were members of the Baptist church. Gilbert, subject of this sketch, was the only child, and when he was but nine years old his father died. He remained on the farm with his mother one year when his mother moved to Decatur County, Ind., to educate him. He remained here attending school, clerking in a store, and learning the carpenter's trade until his mother's death, Oct. 22, 1854. He then spent one winter in Spencer County, Ky., and in March, 1855, returned to Daviess County, Ky., and was overseer on the farm of Major Benj. Duncan and Ed Berry on season; then worked for Ed Worthington one winter and the spring of 1856. June 24, 1856, he married Emily Worthington. She was born in Daviess County, Ky., and was a daughter of Edward S. and Alsinda (Crabtree) Worthington, natives of Daviess County, Ky. After his marriage Mr. Hagerman settled on a farm in Lower Town Precinct. He and wife had five children--Alice A., born Jan. 23, 1858; George E., born Feb. 18, 1862, died Oct. 10, 1874; Charles T., born Dec. 24, 1864; Frank G., born March 11, 1867, died Aug. 16, 1869; William E., born June 9, 1869. The mother died June 10, 1870. She was a member of the Pleasant Grove Baptist church. Mr. Hagerman married Sarah P. Davis, June 29, 1871. She was born in Daviess County, Ky., Masonville Precinct, July 15, 1851, and was a daughter of Virgil and Ruhema F. (Howard) Davis, natives of Shelby County, Ky., and Daviess County, respectively. Her mother was a relative of Daniel Boone. In 1869 Mr. Hagerman was appointed Deputy Sheriff and Tax Collector, and held that position until the spring of 1872, when he moved with his family to Burlington, Coffee Co., Kan., and worked at his trade of carpenter three years. He then returned to his farm near Owensboro; remained here two seasons, then rented land in Upper Town until Dec. 13, 1881, when he purchased his present farm in Masonville Precinct. Mr. and Mrs. Hagerman are both members of the Baptist church and have had three children--Sarah G., born July 12, 1873, died Aug. 12, 1876; Captolia I. A., born March 29, 1876; Helen V., born Sept. 21, 1879. Mr. Hagerman owns a fine farm of ninety-eight acres, thirty-eight acres under cultivation, and well stocked. Mr. Hagerman is a member of Brothers' Lodge, No. 132, I. O. O. F., at Owensboro, Ky., and is, politically, a Democrat. He has held various local offices of trust in his township.
Hagerman Zimmerman Duncan Berry Worthington Crabtree Davis Howard Boone = Taylorsville-Spencer-KY Nelson-KY Decatur-IN Shelby-KY Burlington-Coffee-KS
History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p. 678.
BLUFORD HALL, a citizen of Howard Township, was born in Kentucky on the 22d of April, 1811, being the third of a family of eight children born to William and Polly (Thixton) Hall. His parents were natives of Virginia, from which State they moved to Kentucky in a very early day, and from thence to Indiana in about 1818, settling in Washington County. Here they became prominent in connection with the settlement of the county, and worthy and honored citizens. The subject of this sketch had very limited means of securing an education, but by his energy succeeded in obtaining enough for the business of life. He remained with his parents until he attained his twenty-second year, and November 28, 1833, his married with Rachel Gilstrap was celebrated, and to this union were born nine children, four of whom are now living: Maria (deceased), Sarah J., John W., David J., Lewis L. (who died in Andersonville Prison), Samatha E. (deceased), Nelson F. (deceased), and Mary E. He is a member of the Christian Church, and in politics is a Republican, but is not radical in his views. He is one of the successful farmers of the county, an upright citizen, and his people are among the best in the county.
Hall Thixton Gilstrap = Washington-IN
History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Counties, Indiana From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with Interesting Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc. Chicago, Goodspeed Bros., & Co., Publishers, 1884. Weston A. Goodspeed, Leroy C. Goodspeed, Charles L. Goodspeed. Unknown County.
G. W. HARBISON was born in 1829 in Shelby County, Ky., and is the seventh son of a family of eleven children born to Col. Samuel H. and Sarah E. (Crawford) Harbison. The Harbisons came from Virginia and located at Lexington in 1800, where they resided some time, and later moved to Shelby County where Samuel H. reared his family, and where only two sons now reside--Samuel and G. W.--the others being dead. The father was always a farmer and stock raiser, and served as magistrate at one time; was born March 30, 1781, and was in the war of 1812-1813; under Gen. Harrison. He was an elder forty years in the Presbyterian Church, and died in 1858. Our subject has also followed the pursuits of the farm, owns 300 acres of very valuable land, and is greatly interested in stock raising. In 1861-66 he was sheriff of Shelby County, when there was a great deal for a sheriff to do, owing to the presence of guerrillas in the county. He has been a member of the Presbyterian Church for thirty-three years, and an elder for twenty years. He has been continuously superintendent of the Sabbath- school for twenty-three years. In 1853 he married Miss Emma M. Miller of Lebanon, Ohio, a daughter of Jacob Miller, a prominent Methodist minister. They have five children: Flora P., S. Marshall, Eugene D., Arthur M. and Emma T., the first named three of whom are married. Mr. Harbison is a man of great moral worth and integrity.
Harbison Crawford Miller = Lexington-Fayette-KY VA
Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887, Shelby Co.
ROBERT HARDESTY was born August 29, 1824, in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, and is a son of Richard and Anna B. (Lyon) Hardesty. Richard Hardesty immigrated to Kentucky in about 1818, and died in Bullitt County in 1854. He had two sons who served in the Union army; Henry as a private in the Twenty-first Kentucky Volunteers, and Charles as a surgeon--both dying while out. Henry was born April 15, 1821, enlisted in 1864, and died in Nashville, Tenn., in 1865. Charles was born April 10, 1831. He entered the army in 1862, and died in the Nashville hospital in July, 1863. Robert Hardesty, the subject of this sketch, was married to Miss Isabella Chambers, February 2, 1860. She came with her family from Ireland in 1855. They have four children: Hugh, born November 27, 1860; Robert C., born May 8, 1864; Anna, born November 25, 1871; Letitia P., born September 22, 1880. Mr. Hardesty holds the office of justice of the peace.
Hardesty Lyon Chambers = Breckinridge-KY Bullitt-KY Nashville-Davidson-TN Ireland
Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Jefferson Co.
FRANCIS DUDLEY HARDESTY. The Bank of Winfield was founded June 11, 1894, with the following officers: President, F.D. HARDESTY; Vice-President, William BECKERMEYER; and Cashier, John M. BARTON. The Directors are Henry ELSTROTH, Dr. HEWITT, Samuel MARKS, John MILLER and D.T. KILLAM. After the incorporation of Winfield, Mr. HARDESTY was chosen the first Chairman of the Town Board, and has since been closely associated with the management of the offices. He has frequently been Assessor, and his name is always at the head of every movement for the advancement of the place. For eighteen years he served as administrator of the estate of John ELSTON which was valued at $30,000. He was appointed to the position, and afterward was personally commended by the Probate Court for the manner in which he conducted the business.
Mr. HARDESTY was born in Bourbon County, Ky., November 8, 1830, and is the youngest of ten children comprising the family of Capt. William H. and Jane (NOE) HARDESTY. Six of the household are still living. Mrs. Drucilla HENDRICKS, the oldest who is more than eighty-five years of age, is remarkably well-preserved, and has never worn spectacles. George W. is nearly eighty-four years old. Mrs. Martha Ann KNIGHT is seventy, Mrs. Elizabeth ALLEN sixty-eight, and Mrs. Margaret N. MONEY sixty-six.
Capt. William H. HARDESTY was born in Maryland, March 21, 1777, and when he was a child of five years went with his parents to Kentucky. He learned the carpenter's trade, and one of the buildings which he constructed, a home built of blue ash logs, is still standing in a good state of preservation, though erected over ninety years ago. It is now one of the old landmarks of Bourbon County. When thirty years of age he embarked in farming, and continued in that vocation until his declining years, in the mean time having given each of his children a good start in life. His last years were passed with them, his death occurring in March 1858, in his eightieth year. His father, Benjamin HARDESTY, removed to Kentucky in 1762, with the families of CLAY and OFFITT, who built the fort at Bryants Station, Fayette County.
In the public schools of the neighborhood our subject received a fair education. He remained with his parents until he was twenty years of age, and in November, 1850, came to Missouri, renting a place of ground, on which he raised a crop of tobacco. This venture proving successful, he continued to give his attention to that occupation in connection with general farm work. October 12, 1852, he married Miss Mary M., daughter of William and Elizabeth (CRENSHAW) OVERALL, natives of Kentucky. Shortly after his marriage his father-in-law gave him an eighty acre tract on which he and his wife commenced housekeeping. In 1856 he bought an addition tract of eighty acres, and this place he continued to cultivate until 1880. He then rented his farm and moved to Winfield, where he engaged in the hardware business in partnership with D. T. KILLAM. Later our subject bought out the other member of the firm and from that time until 1892 conducted the business alone.
The first wife of Mr. HARDESTY died November 15, 1886. February 6, 1888, he married Angeline (DORSEY) DAWKINS, widow of G.W. DAWKINS, and their wedded life has been an unusually happy one. Since selling out his business Mr. Hardesty has devoted his energies to many fields of financial activity, and in nearly every instance has met with success. He affiliates with the Democatric party, but has never been an aspirant for office. An active member of the Baptist Church, he has filled the office of Clerk and Deacon for the past thirty-four years, and is always to be found participating in charitable work and benevolent enterprise.
Biography of Francis Dudley Hardesty (1830-1916); Portrait and Biographical Record: St. Charles, Lincoln, and Warren Counties, Missouri. (Chapman Publishing Company, 1895), pp. 489-490.
BENJAMIN HARDIN was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1784, and died in Bardstown, Kentucky, on the 24th of September, 1853. His parents, Ben and Sarah Hardin, removed to Kentucky in 1787, locating in Washington county, near Springfield. "Ben" Hardin, as he was always called, was reared in a pioneer home on the Kentucky frontier; he was educated under private instruction, his first teacher being Icahod Radley. He afterward attended school in Bardstown and Hartford, and continued his education under the direction of Daniel Berry, an Irish linguist and a teacher of high repute. He began the study of law in Richmond in 1804, under the instruction of Martin D. Hardin, and in 1805 became a student in the law office of Judge Felix Grundy, of Bardstown. The year following he was admitted to the bar and he began practice in Elizabethtown, where he remained for two years. Through the next half century the bar of the new state of Kentucky won a place among the most able of the country; in fact it was widely accorded the leadership. It included in its membership some of the brightest minds of the nation, and Benjamin Hardin was enumerated in this most distinguished coterie of lawyers. His methods of procedure before court or jury were simple. He relied upon justice, truth and the facts in evidence to secure a verdict favorable to his clients. No point ever escaped him and his arguments followed each other in logical sequence and led up to a climax that set forth the truth with startling clearness. He was extremely sarcastic in speech and this element combined with an aptness and clearness in presenting a case made him a formidable opponent. In 1808 Mr. Hardin sought a broader field of usefulness and greater opportunities in Bardstown, one of the chief law centers of the state, then famous for the high character of the members of its bar. From that time until his death he was one of the brightest stars in the legal firmament. He was regarded by many as the ablest jurist of his day west of the Alleghenies. His clientage was by no means confined to the county in which he resided, but extended over Nelson, Washington, Hardin, Bullitt, Meade, Grayson, Marion, Breckinridge, Spencer, and other counties and was of the most important character. He also practiced in the court of appeals, in the Louisville courts, and in Indiana and other states. He was connected with almost all litigation of note that was heard in his section of the state for forty-six years. His fame spread abroad throughout Kentucky, nor was it limited by the confines of this state alone. His high reputation therefore soon secured him an extensive following and within a few years he was at the head of one of the most extensive law practices in the state. His comprehensive legal learning, his keen analytical mind that never lost sight of a single point, his readiness in argument and his masterful oratory all gave him a power and strength at the bar which was difficult to combat. His memory was extraordinary and upon it he greatly relied. Taking no notes during the hearing of a case, in the concluding argument he would trace correctly the evidence of many witnesses and answer every point of the opposing counsel. His advocacy frequently towered to the loftiest domain of eloquence of truth,--the still, small voice of justice, pleading through him, for the recognition and protection of the right. He disdained everything like mere factitious ornament and invariably sought to present his argument in the strong, clear light of common reason and sound legal principle. Mr. Hardin lived in what may well be termed the formative period of state and nation, and left the impress of his strong personality upon both. It was but natural that one who viewed so broadly all issues of the day should be made the people's representative in the council chambers where were decided those questions on which hung not only the welfare of Kentucky but also of the entire Union. In 1810 he took his seat as a member of the general assembly of Kentucky, and continued in the house through 1810, 1811, 1824 and 1825. Three years later he was elected to the state senate, where he served from 1828 to 1832. In 1833 he was one of the thirteen presidential electors from Kentucky and again served in that capacity until 1845. He gave his support to the Whig party from its organization, and took a most active part in shaping the legislation and moulding the policy of the state. When not connected with the general assembly of Kentucky, he represented his district in congress and was one of only nineteen, during the entire history of the state, who have served for eight years or more in congress. He was first elected in 1815, for a term of two years; and again elected in 1819, serving four years; and in 1833 was once more made the representative of his district, and continued in Washington until 1837. He was regarded as one of the ablest debaters in the house. In 1844 he was elected secretary of state of Kentucky, but resigned in February, 1847, owing to a disagreement with Governor William Owsley, which brought on one of the most heated controversies that has ever occurred between men of prominence in public life in the state. His speech defending himself before the senate committee on executive affairs, in January, 1847, was remarkable for its length, power and keenness. In 1849 he was made a member of the constitutional convention of the state from Nelson county and performed an important part in framing the organic law upon which rested the commonwealth for forty-one years. His superior knowledge of constitutional law, his comprehensive views of the needs, requirements and best interests of the state, and his wonderful foresight, guided by sound judgment, made him a most valuable member of the convention. This was his last public service and ended a career that has materially advanced the welfare of Kentucky and given it a most prominent place in the galaxy of states that form the Union. He was a gifted orator, his delivery was animated and he had that eloquence which is not born of rhetoric but springs from the inspiration of the occasion. He was frequently called upon to address public assemblies, and delivered the address in Harrodsburg on the occasion of the celebration of the sixty-sixth anniversary of the admission of Kentucky into the Union. Mr. Hardin was married in 1806 to Miss Barbour. His person was tall and commanding, his eye remarkably keen and penetrating, and his countenance exhibited striking indications of decided talent. In the legislative halls of state and nation all acknowledge his worth, while his reputation at the bar classed him among the most brilliant jurists that this country has produced. His name is indissolubly linked with Kentucky's history.
Hardin Radley Barry Grundy Barbour = Washington-KY Westmoreland-PA
Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago. Reprinted by Southern Historical Press. p. 196. Nelson County.
Another distinguished citizen of Washington County was General MARTIN D. HARDIN, the son of Colonel John Hardin. He was a lawyer of great eminence, and practiced his profession in Frankfort with distinguished success. He was a man of marked talent and very decided character, as were indeed all the members of this family. He was secretary of state under Governor Shelby, and in 1817 was appointed by Governor Slaughter to the senate of the United States, in which body he served one session. He was a major in the rifle regiment of Colonel John Allen, in the campaign on the northern border during the last war with Great Britain, in which situation he approved himself a brave, vigilant and efficient officer. General Hardin died at Frankfort in the fall of 1823. He was the father of the late Colonel John J. Hardin, of Illinois, who fell in the battle of Buena Vista in Mexico.
Hardin Shelby Slaughter Allen = Frankfort-Franklin-KY IL Mexico
Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A. & U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Reprinted 1968. Washington County.
One of the earliest settlers in that portion of Kentucky which now forms the county of Breckinridge, was Capt. WILLIAM HARDIN, a noted hunter and Indian fighter - a man of dauntless courage and resolution - cool, calm, and self-possessed in the midst of most appalling dangers, and perfectly skilled in all the wiles and arats of border warfare. Soon after Capt. Hardin had erected a station in what is now the county of Breckinridge, intelligence was received that the Indians were building a town on Saline creek, in the present state of Illinois. Hardin, not well pleased that the savages should establish themselves in such close vicinity of his litle settlement, determined to dislodge them. He soon had collected around him a force of eighty select men; the hardiest and boldest of those noted hunters whose lives were passed in a continual round of perilous adventure.
When this force reached the vicinity of the lick, they discovered Indian signs, and approaching the town cautiously, they found it in the possession of three warriors who had been left to guard the camp. Hardin ordered his men to fire on them, which they did, killing two. The third attempted to make his escape, but he was shot down as he ran. He succeeded, however, in regaining his feet, and ran fifty yards, leaped up a perpendicular bank, six feet high, and fell dead.
HISTORY OF KENTUCKY, by Lewis Collins, and J.A. & U.P. James, published 1847. Reprinted by Henry Clay Press, Lexington, Ky., 1968, pp. 212-213 [Breckinridge county].
BENJAMIN J. HARGAN was born December 25, 1832, in Hardin County, Ky. He is the fourth of four sons and five daughters born to Daniel and Susan (Middleton) Hargan. Daniel Hargan was born December 25, 1804. He followed farming all his life; was a slave holder and was thrice married. His first wife was a daughter of Mrs. Hart, who had been stolen by the Indians in the early settlement of Kentucky, and was recovered after a few years; the second wife was the mother of our subject; the third wife was Cynthia Hall, whose maiden name was Wright. Daniel Hargan is still living. He is a son of Michael Hargan, who was born in Ireland, in 1752, and at the age of sixteen came to America with two sisters, and settled first in New York. Upon his arrival in his adopted country he entered the Continental Army, and served through the war under Gen. Washington. After peace was declared he remained for a short time in New York; then he moved to Maryland, where he married Mary Wellingford; a few years later he located in Virginia; and in 1790 immigrated to and located on Rolling Fork, Hardin Co., Ky., where he remained until his death in December, 1840. He reared five sons and six daughters, Daniel being the youngest child. The mother of Benjamin was born in Lincoln County, Ky., and was a daughter of Henry Middleton of Virginia, who married Miss Elizabeth Bayne. He was a farmer and trader, was born in 1772, and when fourteen years was brought to Kentucky by his parents, Arthur and Ellen Middleton, who first settled in Lincoln County, and, in 1818, located on the south fork of Nolin, where he remained the rest of his life. B. J. Hargan was reared on a farm and received a liberal education. At the age of twenty-four he engaged at farming for himself, continued two years, and then entered the mercantile business with his father, in Hodgensville. In 1860 he engaged in groceries and trading. In 1865 he returned to the dry goods business, which he continued until 1872, when he engaged at farming for six years. In 1878 he re-entered the dry goods business, in Elizabethtown, but two years later moved to Hodgensville, where he has since successfully continued business. He married, June 10, 1856, Nannie E. Hubbard, of La Rue [sic] County, a daughter of William K. and Harriet (Miller) Hubbard. Three children have been born to bless this union: Jacob, Thomas (deceased), and Robert S. Mr. and Mrs. Hargan are members of the Christian Church. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, and was for many years a member of the I. O. O. F. In politics he is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Fillmore.
Hargan Middleton Hart Hall Wright Wellingford Bayne Hubbard Miller = Hardin-KY Ireland NY MD VA Lincoln-KY
Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1885, Larue Co.
EMMETT F. HORINE, M.D.--As one of the representative physicians and surgeons of the younger generation in the city of Louisville, Dr. Horine is especially entitled to recognition in this publication, while further interest attaches to his career from the fact that he is a native son of Kentucky. Dr. Emmet Field Horine was born in Brooks, Bullitt County, Kentucky, on the 3rd of August, 1885, and is a son of Dr. George and Elizabeth B. (Barrall) Horine. Dr. George Horine was born in Bullitt county on the 10th of April, 1857, and was a son of Jacob Horine, who was likewise a native of the same county, where he was born on the 27th of February, 1824, and where his death occurred on the 10th of December, 1876. Jacob Horine married Emily Ann Foster, who was born in Bullitt county on the 9th of April, 1835, and who died December 7th, 1865. Jacob Horine was a son of Captain George Horine, who was born in a German settlement in western Pennsylvania, on the 25th of April, 1790, and whose death occurred January 30, 1877. He married Margaret Kennedy and became one of the influential and honored citizens of Bullitt county, Kentucky, where he owned a valuable landed estate on Knob Creek. On the 27th of January, 1829, Governor Thomas Metcalfe commissioned him a captain in the Thirty-second Regiment, First Brigade of the Kentucky Militia, and this commission is treasured as a valuable heirloom of Dr. Emmet F. Horine, whose name introduces this review. Captain Horine was requested to recruit men in Bullitt county and with them to assist in the defense of General Gaines, who was then operating on the Sabine river in Louisiana. Captain Horine was a son of Jacob Horine, who was born in one of the Rhenish provinces of Germany, about 1750. This worthy ancestor emigrated to America about 1770 and located in the western part of Pennsylvania. He became a member of the Pennsylvania militia and assisted in subduing the Indians at the time of the memorable Wyoming massacre. In the war of the Revolution he was found enrolled as a valiant soldier in the Continental line. He married Barbara Schwartz, in 1780, and in 1795 they removed to Mercer county, Kentucky, where they remained until 1798, when they established their home in Bullitt county, about one and a half miles distant from the Jefferson county line. There Jacob Horine secured several hundred acres of land and reclaimed a valuable farm, thus being the founder of the family in Kentucky. Jacob Horine was a son of Frederick Horine, who was born in Germany, in 1715, and who served as a soldier in the German army, in the reign of Frederick the Great. Elizabeth B. (Barrall) Horine, mother of Dr. Horine, was born in Bullitt county, Kentucky, and is a daughter of Silas F. Barrall, who was likewise a native of that county and who died in January, 1910, at the age of seventy-six years. The lineage of the Barrall family is traced back to staunch French lineage, and Christian Barrall, grandfather of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Horine, was a native of France, whence he came to America as a young man, becoming one of the early settlers of Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. George Horine was graduated in the Kentucky School of Medicine, in 1879, and secured first honors of his class, being awarded a medal for the highest class averages in surgery and materia medica. After his graduation he began the practice of his profession at Brooks, Bullitt county, and eventually he turned his attention more particularly to the treatment of the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, in connection with which he completed a thorough post-graduate course. He continued in practice in his native county until 1892, when he removed to Americus, Georgia, where he was engaged in the work of his profession along the special lines noted until his death, which occurred on the 8th of December, 1903. He was survived by his wife, one son and one daughter, and after his death they returned to Kentucky and established their home in Louisville. Dr. Emmett F. Horine was about seven years of age at the time of the family removal to Americus, Georgia, to whose public schools he is indebted for his early educational training. Thereafter he entered Emory College, at Oxford, Georgia, where he was a student in 1902-03, but he withdrew from this institution while an undergraduate by reason of the death of his father. After the removal of the family to Louisville, where his mother still maintains her home, he entered the Kentucky School of Medicine, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1907, and from which he received his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. In his junior year he received a gold medal for the highest average in scholarship, and in reward for having achieved the highest average in his senior year he was appointed to the position of interne in St. Anthony's Hospital, in Louisville, where he retained this incumbency for fifteen months and where he gained most valuable clinical experience. At the expiration of the period noted the Doctor engaged in the general practice of his profession in Louisville, and here he is proving very successful in the vocation that was likewise dignified and honored by the services of this father. He is a member of the Jefferson County Medical Society, the Kentucky State Medical Society and the American Medical Association and is a close observer of the ethics of his profession, so that he has gained the unqualified confidence and esteem of his confreres, both of his own and the younger generations.
Horine Barrall Foster Kennedy Schwartz = Brooks-Bullitt-KY Mercer-KY Americus-Sumter-GA PA France Germany
HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III, pp. 1203-04. [Full page photograph of Mr. Horine included with bio.] [Jefferson County]
DANIEL R. HOSTETLER is a native of Bono Township, this county (Lawrence County, Ind.), born April 26, 1848, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Chasteen) Hostetler. The father was born in this county in 1822, and the mother in Washington County. Jonas Hostetler came from Kentucky to Bono Township in 1821. Of of eight children was Samuel, the father of Daniel R. Samuel and wife had a family of nine children, of whom six were reared. He farmed and operated a saw mill in Lawrence County sixteen years. He was a soldier in the Second Indiana Regiment, Mexican war, which regiment was hotly engaged at the battle of Buena Vista. In the last war he was First Lieutenant of Company B, One Hundred and Forty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He died in 1882, preceded a few years by his wife. Daniel was reared on the farm and in the mill at hard work, and with but few advantages. He enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infanatry, and served until the troops were mustered out. In 1871 he married Hulda S. Pendergrast, who was born in this county in 1850. They have five children: Oscar, Ollie, Oma, Ambrose and Malcolm. Mr. Hostetler owns 200 acres of land (Marion Township, Lawrence County). Must of his time has been spent in saw-milling. He is a Mason and a Republican, and a prominent man.
Hostetler Chasteen Pendergrast = Lawrence-IN Washington-IN Mexico
History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Counties, Indiana From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with Interesting Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc. Chicago, Goodspeed Bros., & Co., Publishers, 1884. Weston A. Goodspeed, Leroy C. Goodspeed, Charles L. Goodspeed. Unknown County.
JOHN S. HOWARD was born in 1825, in Spencer County, a son of Samuel Howard, who was also a native of Spencer County, but what was then Nelson. Dr. Howard was a physician of Spencer County and at Mount Eden in 1838. He was a son of John Howard. Dr. Howard married Martha Burnett, who came from Spottsylvania [sic] County, Va., and died in 1859, aged seventy-five years. When our subject was but thirteen years old his father died, and from that until the age of twenty-five he worked at farming. He then engaged in merchandising for ten years at Mount Eden, when he was elected sheriff of Spencer County and served six years, one year, however, as deputy. In 1866 he was elected county judge, and has served faithfully as such for about twenty years. In November, 1849, he married Miss Julia A. Hayse, daughter of William Hayse, of Henry County, who came from Clark County, Ky., to Henry County, but was originally from VA. To this union eight children were born: Samuel H. (deceased), Meda, William H., Martha C., John A., James B., George T. (deceased) and Mary A. (deceased). The mother of this family died in 1866, and in 1868 Mr. Howard married Miss Sarah J. Montgomery, daughter of John Montgomery, of Spencer County, but who lived for many years in Shelby County. To this union two children were born: Mary L. and Elizabeth F.
Howard Burnett Hayse Montgomery = Nelson Spotsylvania-VA Henry Clark Shelby
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,1887, Spencer Co.
WILLIAM HOWLETT is a native of Bullitt County, and was born February 8, 1839. He is a son of Luke and Eliza (Lee) Howlett; the former a native also of Bullitt County, born in 1809, and the latter born September 29, 1811. William, the subject, is the second son in a family of ten children. He was brought up on the farm and educated in the common schools, finishing up in the Bradenburg High School, then in charge of Prof. D. C. Cully, an excellent educator of that day. He married Miss Elizabeth Ellen Dawson, November 1, 1867, and at once moved onto his own farm. They have had eight children, viz: Margaret Ann, John L. Charles Wm. Franklin, James Lloyd Standford, boy died without being named, Lawrence Curtis, Eliza Elizabeth and Hallie Cathrian.
Howlett Lee Cully Dawson = Meade-KY `Formerly at www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bullitt/howlett.w.txt
Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Bullitt Co.
J. T. JACKSON. A third of a century ago J. T. Jackson made his first modest effort as a retail lumber merchant at Lexington. He is one of the oldest lumber dealers in the state and his personal energies have been the means of broadening his business until it is now conducted on a large scale, involving manufacturing as well as distributing facilities, and also a complete organization for contracting and building. For the past six years it has been conducted as the J. T. Jackson Lumber Company, of which Mr. Jackson is practically the sole owner. He began business in 1888. The facilities now include planing mills for the manufacture of all interior finish, moldings, sash and door and other lines of mill work. He handles all grades of lumber and builders' supplies. The business has $125,000 invested, and the range of its service and activities covers all the Blue Grass country. J. T. Jackson was born in Bullitt County, Kentucky, December 11, 1863. His grandfather, John Jackson, was a Virginian who settled at an early day in Shelby County, Kentucky, and was a farmer in Shelby, Spencer and Bullitt counties, dying in the latter county. His son, James William Jackson, was a native of Shelby County and succeeded to the ownership of the old Bullitt County homestead. James W. Jackson died when past eighty. His wife, Sarah Holloway, was a native of Spencer County, Kentucky, and died in middle years. J. T. Jackson grew up on a farm and lived there until he was about twenty-five years of age. He finished his education in Transylvania University, which he attended in 1883-84. He was on the farm until 1888, when he came to Lexington and opened a small lumber yard on West Short Street. He continued in business at that location for twenty-five years, but in the meantime had secured the grounds where his present plant is located. For several years past a large part of his business has been contacting He is the contractor for the new boys' dormitory of the University of Kentucky. His building superintendent is H.G. Garner, a civil engineer. Mr. Jackson keeps from twenty to sixty men employed in his business. At one time he served as a member of the board of education, and is a substantial citizen whose interests go out to every worthy enterprise in Lexington or his state. He is a deacon of the Central Christian Church. At the age of twenty-three Mr. Jackson married Sallie Hughes, of Frankfort, who died leaving two sons: William Hughes, now a lumber dealer at Danville, Kentucky, and J. T., Jr., associated with his father's office. Mr. Jackson married for his second wife Margaret Sellier, of Lexington, and they have one daughter, Elizabeth Holloway, now a student in the University of Kentucky.
Garner Holloway Hughes Jackson Sellier = Bullitt-KY Shelby-KY Spencer-KY VA
History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr, American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. IV, p. 39 Fayette Co.
WILLIAM HALL JENKINS was born November 23, 1853, at Salubria Springs, Christian Co., Ky., and in 1858 was taken by his parents to Hopkins County. His father, Rev. Dr. Warren L. Jenkins, a native of Hardin County, Ky., was born in 1811, removed with his parents in 1825, to Montgomery County, Ill.; was a member of the Illinois conference, a legislator in Wisconsin, a pioneer at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; next lived in Huntsville, Ala., then went to California in 1850; settled in Sumner Co., Tenn., in 1851, and then in Hopkins County, Ky., in 1858, where he died in 1875. He was a brilliant man, an erudite scholar, made his mark wherever he lived, and was extensively lamented in death. He was the son of Jehu Jenkins, a native of Pennsylvania, who married Hannah Buzan, of Hardin County Ky., in 1804, and died at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, in 1859, at the age of seventy-five years. Dr. Warren L. first married Elizabeth A. Killingsworth, of Montgomery County, Ill., to whom were born Laura A. (Lander), Celeste I., Ellen L. and Thomas B. His second wife was Miss Thankful, daughter of Gen. William and Mary (Alexander) Hall, of Sumner County, Tenn., and from this union sprang the subject of this sketch. Gen. Hall was a pioneer Indian fighter in Tennessee, where his father and two brothers were killed by the savages. He was governor of the State and a member of congress. Our subject married, April 23, 1874, to Miss Mary E., daughter of James D. and Mary A. Couch, of Webster County (born February 29, 1852), and to them have been born Mary T., Ellen D., William H., Jr., and Thomas S. Our subject is engaged in farming, and acting as insurance agent. He is a member of the A.F.& A.M., a Methodist and a Democrat.
Jenkins Buzan Killingsworth Lander Alexander Hall Couch = Christian Hopkins Hardin Montgomery-IL WI IA AL CA Sumner-TN PA
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 2nd ed.,1885, Webster Co.
ISAAC F. JEWELL was born in Spencer County, August 12, 1861, the third of three children born to Jackson and Sarah F. (Read) Jewell. His paternal grandfather, William Jewell, was born in Virginia, but moved to Kentucky in 1775 and settled on Elk Creek, in what was then Shelby County, but now Spencer. He was a farmer, became the father of ten children, and died in 1844. Jackson Jewell, father of Isaac F., was born in 1816 in Shelby, now Spencer County, married in 1843 Sallie Jane Robison, daughter of William Robison, of Jefferson County, Ky. Of their five children, three are now living: James R., Martha and Robert F. Mrs. Sallie Jane Jewell was born in 1816 and died in 1854. Jackson Jewell married for his second wife, in 1855, Sarah F. Read, of Barren County, Ky. She was born in Fauquier County, Va., in 1834, and moved to Kentucky in 1847. Her father, William Read, was born in Virginia in 1814, and died in 1866. He was an Englishman, a farmer, and resided near Glasgow, Barren Co., Ky., where he died. The children of Jackson and Sarah F. Jewell are Annie L., Rice B., Isaac Franklin, Laura and Ella. Jackson Jewell is a farmer, is now seventy-one years old, and resides on the farm where he was born. He is a member of the Elk Creek Baptist Church, of which his wife, who is now fifty-two years old, is also a member. Isaac F. Jewell was reared on a farm and educated at Elk Creek Academy. At the age of twenty-one he went to Jefferson County where he remained two years; then returned to his native county, and in January, 1866, opened a livery, feed and sale stable in Taylorsville. He has a number of fine rigs and fast horses, many of which can trot a mile in less than three minutes. He married, September 29, 1881, Carrie Ashby, of Jefferson County, daughter of John R. Ashby. Two children have blessed their union: Zella, born March 13, 1883, and Webber, born May 18, 1887.
Jewell Read Robison = VA Shelby Jefferson Barren Fauquier-VA
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,1887, Spencer Co.
HENRY JOHNSON was born in Scott County, Ky., March 3, 1840. He is a son of Henry Johnson, who was also a native of Scott County. Henry Johnson removed to Bullitt County, Ky., and November 10, 1876, was married to Miss Fannie Twyman. He is a farmer, and resides near Huber, Bullitt County.
Johnson Twyman = Scott-KY
Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Bullitt Co.
HON. SILVESTER JOHNSON was born October 15, 1813, in Nelson County, and is one of nine children, viz: Charles, Nancy, William, Thomas, John, Elizabeth, the subject, Ellen and Catherine, born to John and Dorothy (Miles) Johnson, natives of St. Mary's County, Md. They came to Nelson County in 1798, and settled near where New Hope now stands. He married for his second wife Henrietta, a daughter of John B. Hill, by whom he had four children--Priscilla, Hillery, Mary and Sally. The family was of the Roman Catholic faith. Mr. Johnson became a substantial farmer in the county, and died in 1833, at the age of fifty-six years. The subject of this sketch, Silvester Johnson, was brought up on a farm, and received a good English education, finishing off with two years at St. Mary's College, in Marion County. He taught school during the summer months and flat-boated during the winter, a business that had been begun by his uncle. Mr. Johnson was but eighteen years old when he commenced the battle of life on his own account. He flat-boated and merchandised until 1843, when he retired from boating and acted as deputy sheriff for several years, but continued the mercantile business, and in 1853 was elected sheriff, serving one term; afterward acted as deputy sheriff up to 1857. In 1859 he was elected to the Legislature. He has since been solicited several times to offer for the same office, but has always declined. He has drifted into the banking business, which he has successfully carried on for sixteen years. He owns considerable property in New Haven, where he has lived for the late fifty-one years, and is reported to be worth from $300,000 to $400,000, and has given away to charitable purposes $100,000. He still continues to give liberally; for several years he has been clothing the children of St. Thomas' Orphan Asylum. In 1873 he built a parochial school-house in New Haven, at a cost of $6,000, and donated it to the Roman Catholic Church. He established two free Catholic schools and pays out of his own funds the teachers for both white and colored schools. He gave about $20,000 to a new Roman Catholic Church erected in New Haven at a total cost of $30,000. Mr. Johnson was married in August, 1835, to Mildred, a daughter of Charles and Susan (Howard) Boone, who came from Maryland in 1798, and settled in Nelson county. Mrs. Johnson was born in February, 1816, and died July 29, 1875. She was a most excellent lady, noted for her charitable qualities. Mr. Johnson was originally a Whig, and gave his first vote for Henry Clay for President. At the dissolution of the Whig party in 1855, and the springing up of the Know-nothing party, he joined the Democratic party, and has voted with it ever since without ever scratching a ticket. He has been a member of the Democratic committee for Nelson County for the last thirty years.
Johnson Miles Hill Howard Boone = Nelson-KY St._Mary-MD
Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Jefferson Co.
R.J. JONES was born in Spencer County, Ky., April 26, 1844, the sixth of a family of seven children born to John and Caroline (Wigginton) Jones. John was born in Bullitt County, Ky., was engaged in agricultural pursuits, and was a son of George Jones, who was born in Virginia. He immigrated to Kentucky in quite an early day, when Louisville was a small town, and settled in Bullitt County. Mrs. Caroline Jones was born in Spencer County, and is a daughter of Elijah Wigginton, who was a native of Virginia. Our subject was educated at the Georgetown College, in Scott County, Ky. He married, May 3, 1866, Henrietta Bridwell, of Spencer County, Ky., daughter of James and Margaret (Terell) Bridwell. Our subject owns 317 acres of land, and resides near Little Union Church, which was established in 1811. He is a member of the I.O.G.T., is a deacon in the church, and superintendent of the Sabbath-school.
Jones Wigginton Bridwell Terell = Bullitt VA Scott
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,1887, Spencer Co.
HENRY F. KALFUS, M.D., was born in Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, Ky., April 14, 1832, and is of German extraction. His mother was a sister of the distinguished Burr Harrison, of Bardstown, Ky. He received a good education, which he completed at Hanover College, Indiana, in 1852. He studied medicine in his native town, and after practicing five years, graduated at the Kentucky School of Medicine, Louisville, in 1860; he also received a diploma from the medical department of the University of Louisville. He was a candidate for State treasurer in 1863, on the ticket with Hon. Charles A. Wickliffe, but was defeated. When the civil war broke out he raised a company for the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry (Union) commanded by Col. Curran Pope, of Louisville. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and then to colonel. After the battle of Stone River, being dissatisfied with the conduct of the war, he resigned his profession. He is secretary of the Board of Regents of Kentucky School of Medicine, and has held the position for several years. Dr. Kalfus has two children living--Joseph L., now of California, and Mrs. Anna D. Jarnette, of Florida.
Kalfus Harrison Jarnette = Bardstown-Nelson-KY Shepherdsville-Bullitt-KY IN CA FL
Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Jefferson Co.
GREEN L. KEY, a prominent farmer of Bullitt County, Kentucky, was born in that county April 22, 1824, and is a son of George L. Key, who was born in Jefferson County in 1797. Thomas Key, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came from Virginia, and was among the earliest pioneers who settled in the State. Green L. Key's mother was Avarilla (Alexander) Key. Green L. Key was reared on the farm and has always been engaged in that pursuit, and is now one of the substantial farmers in the county. Of late years he has been devoting his time to the growing of fruit, etc.; and he has also fine deposits of granite on his farm. He was married March 17, 1844, to Miss Minerva Chappell, a most estimable and Christian lady, having been a life-long member of the M. E. Church, as has also Mr. key. She died in 1887. Mr. Key, with the exception of a few years' residence in Louisville, has always lived in Bullitt County; while in the city he was extensively engaged as a stock dealer. Mr. Key has born in his family eight children: Cordelia Ann, Roxunna, Sarah M., Corban M., Baxter, Marcus L., John T., Clarence E., George W. and Hallie H., deceased. Mr. Key owns in his home farm 300 acres.
Key Alexander Chappell = Jefferson-KY VA `Formerly at www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bullitt/key.gl.txt
Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Bullitt Co.
A.C. KINCHELOE was born in Spencer County Ky., February 6, 1816, the eldest of a family of three children born to Dr. Jesse and Annie (Cochran) Kincheloe. His father was a native of Kentucky, and was quite a noted physician. His mother was born in Jessamine County, Ky., a daughter of Robert and Mary (Laird) Cochran; Robert was a native of Virginia, immigrated to Kentucky in an early day, settled in Jessamine County, and subsequently moved to Spencer County. Our subject was educated at the common schools. When a boy he learned the carpenter's trade in Louisville and worked on the City Hotel there in 1832. He was the first magistrate elected under the new constitution in Spencer County in 1852, and held the office until 1863. He was then elected sheriff, and served two consecutive terms; was then elected magistrate and served eight years, when he resigned. He married, October 16, 1839, Elvira S. Buckner, of Spencer County, Ky., daughter of Moses V. Buckner, and five children were born to this union: Jesse B., who married Tillie Huston and had one child, Sophie E.; Moses B., a physician, who married Mrs. Nealey; Elvira J., married, first to George Tansill, by whom she had one child, Charles A., and after his death, she became the wife of James W. Jewell; A.C., a dentist; A.X. married a Miss Kincheloe and had two children, Willard and Morris, and is engaged in merchandising in Hardinsburg. Mrs. Elvira S. Kincheloe died in 1856, and our subject married, December 4, 1859, Mrs. Lizzie A. Woodsmall (Tichenor), daughter of James B. and Mary L. (Pittenger) Tichenor. Mr. and Mrs. Kincheloe are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Kincheloe is a Royal Arch Mason, and politically a Democrat. He owns 300 acres of land.
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,1887, Spencer Co.
MOSES B. KINCHELOE, M.D. Among the well known professional men of St. Clair County may be mentioned the subject of this sketch. He is a native of Spencer County, Kentucky, and was born October 6, 1845. His father, Almanyor Kincheloe, was also born in that county February 6, 1816, and his grandfather, Jesse, an eminent physician, was a native of Virginia. The mother of Moses, formerly Elvira Buckner, was born in Spencer County July 4, 1821. She was a daughter of Moses V. Buckner, who was born in that county April 12, 1799. Moses B. was the second child of a family of five children. His mother's death occurred in October, 1856, and his early life was spent in acquiring his primary education and working on a farm. In 1868 he took a literary course at the Georgetown College of Kentucky. In 1869 he taught school and passed his leisure hours in reading medicine under Dr. H. D. Rodman. He attended the Medical University of Louisville, Kentucky, and afterward settled in Bullitt County, Kentucky. In 1873 he attended another course of lectures and was graduated in the spring of 1874. In 1879 he came to Appleton City, Missouri, and opened an office. In the spring of 1880 he formed a partnership with Dr. W. E. Shelton, this relation existing till January, 188i, since which time he has been alone. Dr. K. was united in marriage July 7, 1881, to Mrs. Nannie Neeley, whose maiden name was Royce, a native of Richmond, Kentucky. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
Source: 1883 History of St. Clair County MO, National Historical Co., pg: 1114
ACHILLES LASHBROOK (deceased) was born in Bullitt County, Ky., July 2, 1820. His father was James Lashbrook. Achilles was the youngest of six children. He was but six years old when he came with his parents to Daviess County, Ky. The family settled near Bethabara church, in Masonville Precinct. Achilles was married in Ohio County, Ky., to Martha A. Johnson, April 1, 1841. She was a daughter of Phillip Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Achilles Lashbrook were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a Class Leader and preacher in this church for a number of years. He and wife had a family of ten children, eight living--Sarah A., born Nov. 26, 1843, is the wife of Benjamin Shown and resides on their farm in Independence County, Ark.; James P., born March 15, 1846, remained on the old homestead in Masonville Precinct until twenty-one, when he went to McLean County, Ky., and lived with his uncle, Edmund Johnson, one season, then returned to the old homestead and married Mary L. Carpenter, April 14, 1868. She was born in Oldham County, Ky., Jan. 18, 1850, and was a daughter of Dr. Henry F. and Martha E. (Taylor) Carpenter. After Mr. and Mrs. James P. Lashbrook were married, he settled on his father's farm for two years; then moved to Owensboro and engaged in the tobacco business two years; then bought the Sammons farm in Masonville Precinct and lived three years; then purchased the old homestead farm of his father and lived here two years when he sold it to his cousin, William Lashbrook, and bought his present farm of E. G. Yager, where he still resides and where he owns a fine farm of 104 acres, all under cultivation except twenty acres of timber. He raises tobacco, corn, wheat, hay and straw. Mrs. Lashbrook is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. They have had a family of six children--Ada, born July 19, 1870; Henry A., born Oct. 8, 1872; James A., born Nov. 5, 1874; Arthur, born March 25, 1877; Martha B., born March 8, 1879; William A., born Feb. 7, 1881. Mrs. Lashbrook was formerly a member of the Grangers of Daviess County. In politics he is a Democrat. He has been elected School Trustee of his precinct. William E. Lashbrook was born Dec. 3, 1848. He married Mrs. Cora E. Tolman, daughter of Colonel Roland Hackett, a Colonel in the late war. They reside at Livermore, McLean Co., Ky., where Mr. Lashbrook is Postmaster and a merchant. John S. Lashbrook, born June 18, 1851, married Ruth Bennett for his first wife, and Sophia Atherton is his present wife. He is Superintendent of Singer's Sewing Machine Company at Greencastle, Ind. America G. Lashbrook, born Feb. 11, 1854, is the wife of Joseph H. Wellman. Surelda F. was born Oct. 23, 1856, and married Thomas Potts. Alice E., born May 22, 1859. She is the wife of Joseph H. Carpenter. Martha J., born Feb. 26, 1862, is unmarried and resides with her sister in Masonville, attending school. Mr. Achilles Lashbrook was one of the pioneers of Daviess County and came here in 1826. He was a minister of the Methodist church for fifteen or sixteen years, and at the time of his death, which occurred Nov. 20, 1881, aged sixty-one years, four months and eighteen days, he had been a member of the church about forty-five years. He was loved and respected by all for his nobleness of mind and character.
Lashbrook Johnson Shown Carpenter Taylor Sammons Yager Tolman Hackett Bennett Atherton Wellman Potts = Bullitt-KY Ohio-KY Independence-AR McLean-KY Oldham-KY IN
History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p. 690.
NORRIS LASHBROOK: This much beloved brother was born on November 15, 1869, near Masonville, in Daviess County, Kentucky, and was the son of Norris and Lucy Bean Lashbrook. His father was a veteran of the Civil War having enlisted in Dr. C. T. Noel's Company of Wheeler's Confederate Cavalry While in this war he fought in the battles of Murfreesboro, Tenn., Perryville, Ky., Chickamauga, Tenn., Missionary Ridge, Dug Gap, Kenesaw Mountain, and Peach Tree, Georgia, Bentonville, N. C., and various other skirmishes.
The subject of our sketch was converted at the age of eighteen and was baptized into the fellowship of Sugar Grove Baptist Church by Elder B. F. Swindler. By this same church he was licensed to preach in August, 1890. His ordination did not take place until July 21, 1905, when, at the call of Zion Church, he was set apart to the work of the ministry by Elders R. T. Bruner, B. F. Jenkins, D. E. Yeiser, and deacons from Walnut Street, Bell's Run, Macedonia, Bethabara, and Red Hill churches.
"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone. Probably published in 1944 by Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 330-332. Used by permission. [Daviess]
W. T. LEA was born in East Tennessee, Nov. 28, 1824, and came to Daviess County, Ky., April 10, 1851, settling first in Murray Precinct. He lived in several places, renting land till 1876 when he bought fifty acres four miles west of Owensboro. He was married Jan. 4, 1853, to Mary E. Trunell, a native of Bullitt County, Ky., born in September, 1833. They have six children--T. J., Millard Fillmore, Ada, Hester, Harry I. and Ellen L. Mr. Lea has been a member of the Missionary Baptist church forty years. He is neutral in his political views. His family have not had the chills since commencing to use cistern water, sixteen years ago.
Lea Trunell = TN Bullitt-KY
History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p. 648.
JAMES A. LEE, an enterprising farmer of Mississippi County, was born in Bullitt County, Ky., on March 31, 1839. He is a son of William T. and Dorothea (Lee) Lee, both natives of Bullitt County, Ky. Both the grandfathers, John Lee and Henry Lee emigrated from Maryland to Kentucky, and settled in Bullitt County, where the former died. The latter remained there several years, and in 1848 removed to Mississippi County, Mo., and settled on a farm in Mathews' Prairie, joining the farm on which James A. now resides, and on which he lived until his death on March 31, 1864. William T. Lee was a farmer, and came with his parents to Mississippi County, when he purchased the old McElmurry farm, on which our subject now resides. He soon had the place under cultivation, with good improvements, and resided there until his death on January 2, 1862. His wife died in October 1878. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom three are living: Nancy (Mrs. W.H. Snellin), James A. and Rebecca (Mrs. Frank Howell). Those deceased are Margaret, John H., Elizabeth, Susan, Phillip, and an infant unnamed. James A. was but nine years of age when he came with his parents to Mississippi County. In 1861 he enlisted in Capt. Price's Company, First Missouri Cavalry, under Gen. Jeff. Thompson (confederate). On December 28, 1861, he was captured at his home by the Second Illinois Cavalry, and was taken to Bird's Point, where he was kept in prison for two months. He was then sent (via St. Louis, where he was kept one week) to Alton, Ill., where he remained two months. After enduring many hardships, and being reduced much in flesh, he as released from prison on parole May 20, 1862 and returned home and resumed farming, assisting his mother in taking care of his younger brothers and sisters, as his father had died while he was in prison. He has been twice married, the first time to Belle Hudson, who died in 1873. He was married the second time, in 1883 to Elizabeth Smith, a native of Mississippi County. Mr. Lee is a member of the Masonic fraternity and I.O.O.F., and is also a Wheeler.
Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri; Biographies of Mississippi County, 1888
MILES EVERETT LEE, state custodian of public buildings and grounds at Frankfort, is one of the capable and reliable men of Kentucky, who has won his appointment though merit and who is giving universal satisfaction because of the efficient manner in which he is discharging his duties. He was born near Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky, May 12, 1880, a son of Silas Lee and grandson of Miles Lee, who died near Belmont, Bullitt County, Kentucky, before the birth of his grandson. For many years he was very active as a farmer and became a successful man. Miles Lee married Sarah Cundiff, who also died in Bullitt County. The Lee family was established in Virginia during the Colonial epoch of this country, when its representatives came from England. Silas Lee was born near Belmont, Bullitt County, Kentucky, in 1845, and was there reared, but moved to Hardin County after reaching his majority. Here he has continued to live, and has devoted himself to agricultural pursuits with gratifying results, as he is now one of the leading framers of his neighborhood. In politics he is a democrat. From the time he joined the Baptist Church he has continued to be one of its active supporters and liberal contributors. Silas Lee was married to Almeda Lee, who was born near Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1844 and died in Hardin County in the spring of 1883, having borne her husband two children; Miles Everett and his sister Lizzie, who married Alonzo Pate, a farmer in the vicinity of Vine Grove, Hardin County, and a prominent democrat of that region. Miles Everett Lee attended the Hardin County country schools, the Hardin Collegiate Institute and Center College at Danville, Kentucky, but left the latter in 1903, at the close of his freshman year. For the subsequent eight years he taught school in Hardin County, and was also local editor of one of the newspapers of Elizabethtown. For one term he served as county assessor, then entered a general insurance business, with which he was occupied until he was elected to the State Assembly in 1915 from Hardin County and was re-elected in 1917, on the democratic ticket. He served in the session of 1916, the special session of 1917 and in the session of 1918, and in the latter year was a member of the rules committee, and was on a number of important committees during the time he was a member of the Legislature. Mr. Lee was author of the local option law making the second conviction for bootlegging a felony, and this bill passed. He was joint author with Senator Jay Harlan, of the Budget Bill, passed in the session of 1918, putting all state departments on a budget system. On July 1, 1981, Mr. Lee was made custodian by the Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners to fill an unexpired term expiring March 1, 1922. His jurisdiction includes the new state capitol, the old state capitol, the executive mansion now occupied by the governor, and the old mansion, as well as the grounds surrounding all of these, which office is a very responsible one. The Baptist Church holds Mr. Lee's membership. He belongs to Morrison Lodge No. 76 A. F. and A. M., of Elizabethtown; Elizabethtown Chapter No. 34, R. A. M. : Elizabethtown Chapter O. E. S.; and Elizabethtown Commandery No. 37, K. T. . While he lives at Frankfort, Mr. Lee maintains his legal residence at Elizabethtown, where he is a property owner. During the late war he was one of the zealous workers in behalf of the Hardin County war activities, was secretary of the Red Cross drive in 1918, assisted in all of the drives, and bought bonds and War Savings Stamps and contributed generously to all of the organizations. On June 26, 1907 Mr. Lee was married near Elizabethtown, Kentucky, to Miss Ethel K. Purcell, a daughter of Levven and Catherine (Stader) Purcell. Mr. Purcell, who was a farmer of Hardin County, is now deceased, but his widow survives and makes her home at Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Lee have two children, Carl Purcell, who was born November 5, 1909; and Almeda Catherine, who was born May 16, 1914. Mr. Lee is a man who has steadily risen, never failing to justify the confidence reposed in him. His fellow citizens long ago recognized the fact that in him they would have a dependable and conscientious representative, and he is living up to the record he made formerly in the work he is doing in his present office. Such men as he add prestige to the state and set an example those who come on the scene of action in subsequent years will do well to follow.
Cundiff Lee Pate Purcell Stader = Hardin-KY Bullitt-KY
History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr, American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. V, p. 366, Franklin Co.
MILES T. LEE was born in Bullitt County, Ky., May 28, 1833, a son of James Lee, who was a native of Nelson County, Ky., and was born July 14, 1806; the subject's mother, Sarah Lee, was born in Bullitt County, and to her were born three children: H.C., John and the subject of this sketch. Miles T. Lee was married to Miss Elizabeth Ann Greenwell, all of Bullitt County. To this union were born two children: Doss G., born March 13, 1870, and Robert, born November 2, 1868, died February 23, 1869. Mrs. Lee died September 9, 1881.
Lee Greenwell = Nelson-KY `Formerly at www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bullitt/lee.mt.txt
Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Bullitt Co.
"EDMUND LISTON and family immigrated from Maryland to Kentucky in 1786. They traveled overland to Pittsburg, Pennsylvamia, where they "took water" on a flat boat in company with another boat belonging to two brothers by the name of COX, who were immigrating to the same locality. There were ten men in the party, five to each boat.
"During the voyage down river Edmund LISTON concluded to go ashore and procure game, and a negro called Gabe (who was with the company in addition to the white men) and the two COXES rowed him ashore. Indian signs were so plain that it was evident the woods were full of them and Edmund returned to the boat. COX and his brother, however, called on Gabe to see them over and they insisted he complied. As they neared shore the Indians fired, killing Joseph COX, the older of the two, and wounding Benjamin COX by a shot through the shoulder. William CHENOETH, who accompanied them, jumped out of the canoe and dived as far as he could, while Gabe wheeled the canoe and made for the boat, and Benjamin COX, who in falling out of the conoe caught by it's side, was using his endeavors to aid Gabe by kicking and paddling to get out of the reach of the Indian guns. Those in the boat were using their utmost to persuade Gabe to lie down in the canoe as COX seemed able to guide it at the same time keep it between himself and the Indians, but the negro did not heed and was soon shot dead by the Indians. CHENOETH was seen to raise his head behind some willows, but soon disappeared, he again made a dive, and every time his appeared the water would foam around it, caused by the bullets from the indian's guns. So desperate was his struggle that he gave out, COX having overtaken him with the canoe in time, crippled as he was. Thomas POUND, who was one of the members on the boat, made a well directed shot, killing one of the Indians, which caused them to cease shooting. This occurred just below Limestone Creek above Cincinnati, where the boats soon landed, and which then consisted only of a fort and a few log huts. John Cleves SYMMES, afterwards William Henry HARRISON'S father-in-law, lived there at that time and was founder of the settlement.
"The party pushed on down river to where Louisville now stands, arriving on the foruth day of April, 1786, to find only a few log cabins. Edmund LISTON started the next day to Nelson Co. and obtained pack horses and moved his family near his father, within four miles of Bardstown at a fort called Fort Rogers. Here they lived, buying land and having it taken away by what was said to be an older title. In 1789 they moved to Jefferson County, where they remained two years, and then moved to Spencer Co. and bought land. In 1801 they sold out and moved to Butler County, Ohio."
'This party of five probably consisted of William KESTER, his two sons, Paul and William, and two sons-in-law, Edmund LISTON and Thomas POUND, and their families - John KESTER, son of William, at that time but sixteen years old, probably not being counted as one of the five.
'Prior to moving to Vigo County, Indiana, the family of Edmund LISTON, who married Elizabeth KESTER, resided in Knox Co., near the fort at Vincennes, Indiana. They lived in a cabin and tilled the fields nearby, but stayed in the fort at night. The Indians were numerous in the vicinity and, as history shows, were at times friendly, at others of a warlike mood. Some of the Indians were in the habit of visiting the LISTON home and practicing archery with the boys. The daughters at home then were Delilah and Elizabeth, and to the latter, a beautiful girl, one of the younger Indians took a fancy and would often aim his bow and arrow at the girl purposely to scare her. But no one among the LISTON family was at the time aware of his attachment. One day a squaw called on the LISTONS and said her son (meaning the young Indian above mentioned) was "sick at heart" and wanted the girl "Lizzie" LISTON for his squaw. Her request being promptly refused she went away, but on the following day two Indians came and walked straightway into the cabin and threw some silver money on the table and seizing Lizzie LISTON ran off with her between them as fast as they could. The screams of the girl and also her sister were heard by a brother who was in a field cultivating corn about one-half mile away, and he threw off the "hame string" from his horse and made chase after the Indians, and soon overtaking them released his sister. On their return to the cabin they found the silver money the Indians had left was gone.----As told by Nancy Ann (REED) HUNT.
'Margaret H. LISTON, wife of John POUND, "Has often told some of the thrilling experiences she had with the Indians. Among other things she related that her husband had a deep hole under the floor large enough for her and the five children to get into when they heard the Indians coming. She would raise the plank in the floor and after all the children got in she would follow and the frightened chicks would crouch quiet as the grave, when the Indians would enter the cabin and take what they wanted and go away. She also related that when the corn was tall enough they would escape into the cornfield. On one occasion one of the little boys was forgotten and left in the house. The mother realized the awful fact and when she crept back in the forlorn hope of saving the child's life and got to where she could see, to her horror she beheld the boy laughing and chatting and turning the grindstone for an Indian to grind his tomahawk. She looked on in mute horror, but the Indian finally left and did the boy no harm."
'This sketch, kindly furnished by Mr. Marvin B. CRIST, is as dictated to him in 1863 by his grandfather, Joseph LISTON, son of Edmund and Elizabeth (KESTER) LISTON:
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