A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities, Volume III, Part 112

Author: Johnson, E. Polk, 1844-; Lewis Publishing Company
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 860

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whom Bishop Kavanaugh said from the pul- pit, "he was one of a few men he was proud to have known."

Logan succeeded to the estate. He married Harriett Moore Rowland, and to them were born eight children: Robert, Newton, Gabri- ella, Cornelia, all deceased; Charles Logan, Russell, Irvin and Harriett. Charles Logan married Ada Pepper, who was born in Wood- ford county, Kentucky, at "Melrose Abbey," where her father, General Oscar Pepper, was born and where Grandfather Elijah Pepper, son of Samuel Pepper and Elizabeth Holton Pepper, of Prince William county, Virginia, settled on coming from Virginia. Elijah Pep- per married Sarah Neville O'Bannon, daughter of Captain William O'Bannon and Ann Neville, daughter of Joseph Neville, of Fauquier county Virginia. Elijah Pepper and his brother-in- law, John O'Bannon, came from Virginia to- gether and purchased a tract of land, on a part of which is now situated the beautiful town of Versailles, a large spring attracting them to that locality. Another brother, Presley Neville O'Bannon, a naval officer, raised the first American colors abroad. In the midst of battle he scaled the walls of Constantinople, bearing the American Flag. Returning to his native land, at · Richmond, Virginia, he was . presented with a jeweled sword, and received many other marks of distinction in recogni- tion of his services. He brought with him two captive Turks, which after faithful ser- vice were returned to their own country.

General Oscar Pepper married Nannie Ed- wards, daughter of James Edwards and Ann Searcy. To this union were born: Ada, James Edwards (deceased), Oscar Neville (de- ceased), Thomas Edwards, Mary Belle, Dixie and Presley O'Bannon (deceased).

Charles Logan Railey and Ada Pepper Railey had four children born to them: Charles El- mer, Ada Mayo, Annette Randolph and Ed- ward Bayard. Charles Elmer married Elise Castleman and they have two children : Charles . Logan II and Elise. Ada Mayo married Da- vid Castleman and they have one child, Ada Mayo. Annette Randolph married Charles Stuart Elliot, son of John Mclaughlin Elliot, Esq., and Eleanor Stuart, of Yorkshire, Eng- land. Edward Bayard married Sue Metcalf, and died at the age of twenty-five.

Charles Logan Railey and wife lived in Woodford county untl 1893. Coming in that year to Fayette county, Mr. Railey purchased Springhurst, a magnificent estate located on the Harrodsburgh pike, one and a half miles from Lexington, and has continued here his pleasant and profitable occupation of farming and breeding of fine horses.

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HON. THOMAS H. PAYNTER, one of the pres- ent representatives of Kentucky in the United States senate, is a lawyer of high attainments and a man of progressive ideas and mature judgment, and he is ably upholding the high prestige of the Blue Grass commonwealth, which has sent many able and distinguished cit- izens to the national legislature. He is a rec- ognized leader in the councils of the Demo- cratic party in his native state and no citizen is more loyal to Kentucky and its interests. Senator Paynter was born in Lewis county, Kentucky, on the 9th of September, 1851, and is a son of Elisha and Sarah Paynter, his fa- ther having been a representative farmer of that county, having there continued to reside until his death, as did also his wife. The fu- ture senator received excellent educational ad- vantages in his youth, including a course of one year in Center College, at Danville. He read law under the able preceptorship of Judge John R. Garland, of Vanceburg, Lewis county, and was admitted to the bar in 1872. In the following year he established his residence at Greenup, the judicial center of the county of the same name, and there built up a successful practice. In 1876 he was elected county at- torney, and he remained incumbent of this office until 1882, accomplishing a most admira- ble record as an able and versatile public pros- ecutor. Rising rapidly in his profession and in public confidence and esteem, in 1889 he was elected to represent his district in the Fifty-first congress, in which he made his in- fluence so distinctively potent in forwarding the interests of his home state that he was chosen as his own successor and served in both the Fifty-second and the Fifty-third con- gresses. He resigned his position in congress in January, 1895, before the close of his third term, in order to assume the duties of justice of the court of appeals of Kentucky, to which position he had been elected in November, 1894, for a term of eight years. As a member of the supreme court of the state he well up- held the dignity of the tribunal and his opin- ions have passed into the recorded history of this commonwealth. He was re-elected in 1902 and he continued his able and valued ser- vices on the bench until the Ist of August, 1906, when he resigned. Soon afterward he was elected to represent his district in the United States senate, for the term beginning on the 4th of March, 1907, and terminating in 1913. As the senior senator for Kentucky he has won an enviable position as a leading member of the upper branch of the national legislature. He retains an office in the city of Frankfort but still has his home in Greenup. The senator has always been a staunch adher- ent of the Democratic party and an able and Vol. III-35

effective exemplar of its principles and poli- cies. Though unassuming and democratic in his opinions and with naught of intellectual bigotry, he is recognized as one of the legists and jurists who have contributed materially to the high prestige so long enjoyed by the bench and bar of Kentucky.

On the 25th of May, 1876, was solemnized the marriage of Senator Paynter to Miss Eliz- abeth Pollock, a daughter of the late Joseph Pollock, who was for many years a prominent banker and influential citizen of Greenup, Ken- tucky. Senator and Mrs. Paynter have two children, a son and daughter. The former, Pollock Ray, is his father's private secretary in congress, and the latter is the wife of Mor- ton K. Yonts, of Louisville.

WILLIAM S. BARNES .- The substantial and prosperous citizens of Lexington have a worthy representative in the person of William S. Barnes, who has met with eminent success in the various enterprises with which he has been connected, and is now living retired from busi- ness cares at his beautiful residence at 568 North Broadway. He was born in Mount Sterling, Montgomery county, Kentucky, the country-seat of his father, Thomas Cross Barnes, one mile from Mount Sterling.

His paternal grandfather, Thomas Cross Barnes, a native of Maryland, came to Ken- tucky in early pioneer times, ere the wild beasts of the forest had fled before the advancing steps of civilization. He was twice married, by his first union having one daughter and two sons, Thomas Cross and Albin. By his sec- ond marriage he had two sons, Alexander and John.

Born and brought up in Montgomery county, Thomas Cross Barnes embarked when young in mercantile pursuits at Mount Sterling, where he built up a thriving trade. He ac- quired considerable property and had a most attractive home, known as Sycamore Place, which was located about a mile from the Court House. He was prominent in business cir- cles, for many years serving as president of the Farmers' Bank. At his death, in 1856, he was succeeded in this office by his brother Albin, who, in turn, was succeeded by his half- brother, Alexander Barnes. He married Emily Howard, a daughter of George Howard. Of English lineage, George Howard was born and reared in Richmond county, Virginia, born on December 28, 1776, but spent his last years in Montgomery county, Kentucky, dying in 1864. He married Cassandra Hukell. George Howard's grandfather was a captain in the Revolutionary war and his brother was a first lieutenant in the same company, volunteering from Virginia. Emily (Howard) Barnes sur- vived her husband, passing to the life beyond

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in 1865. To them eight children were born, as follows: Louisa C., Fielder C., Juliet, How- ard, Albin, William S., Thomas G. and Pearse.

Growing to manhood beneath the parental roof-tree, William S. Barnes received a lib- eral education, attending first the district schools and then the Pennsylvania Military In- stitute at West Chester, Pennsylvania. Subse- quently, intending to enter Princeton Univer- sity, he continued his studies six months at a preparatory school. The death of his father made a decided change in his plans, however, and business of importance demanding his im- mediate attention, Mr. Barnes returned home to look after affairs. He afterward con- ducted business as a distiller for some time ; for a period covering ten years he was half owner of the J. W. Pepper Distilling Compa- ny's plant. Disposing of his interest in the distillery in 1893, Mr. Barnes retired from that industry. As a young man he was much inter- ested in race horses on all of the more impor- tant tracks of the country, his stable having been known as the "Melbourne Stable." In 1893 Mr. Barnes turned his entire attention to the breeding and developing of race horses at Melbourne Farm. Very successful as a breed- er, he developed some of the fastest running horses ever seen on the American turf, prom- inent among the number being "Hand Spring," "Prince of Melbourne," and "Endurance by Right." At the time of his retirement he had at Melbourne upwards of two hundred high- class thoroughbreds. In 1890 Mr. Barnes erected a most attractive home on North Broadway, it being a magnificent granite struc- ture, one of the finest in the state, and here he has since lived in comfort and content, his doors ever being open to his many friends and acquaintances. In 1905 on account of ill health, he retired from business.

Mr. Barnes married, March 20, 1890, Annie- lyle Bradley, a native of Lexington. Her fa- ther, Thomas Bradley, was born in Madison county, Kentucky, in 1811. At the time of Mr. Bradley's death, he was one of the wealth- iest men in the state, being a hardware mer- chant, a large land holder and a partner in the Private Banking House of Goinstead & Brad- ley. He was an uncle of Ex-Governor W. O. Bradley, the first Republican Governor of Kentucky, and now serving a six year term as United States Senator from Kentucky. Mr. Bradley was twice married. He married first Isabel Beard, daughter of Colonel Henry Beard. She died in 1858, leaving three chil- dren, Oliver Lee, Mary B. Potts and Charles W. He married for his second wife, Annie B. Clark, a daughter of Esquire William Clark, of Franklin, Indiana, by whom he had one child, Annielyle, now Mrs. Barnes. Mr. and

Mrs. Barnes have one child, a daughter named Willy Howard. Mrs. Barnes is a most esti- mable woman, and both she and her daughter belong to the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Barnes is known all over the South as one of the handsomest women in Kentucky, as well as one of the most gracious hostesses.

SAMPSON BUCHANAN MOXLEY .- After an entire life spent in Shelby county Sampson Buchanan Moxley is now living retired, a ven- erable and well-known gentleman who occu- pies a warm place in the hearts of the people of the community. Although prepared for the law, he made agriculture his life work and has only very recently retired from active ope- rations in this line. Mr. Moxley was born January 17, 1833, in Shelby county at the junction of Bullskin Creek and Fox Run, in the vicinity of Shiloh church. His parents were George Washington and Katherin (Kleiser) Moxley, the former the son of Job Moxley, who was born on the banks of the Potomac river some twenty miles above the city of Washington, at Moxley Ferry, Vir- ginia. Job had four sons and one daughter, and he brought his family to Kentucky in the year 1816, making location in Bourbon county .. Some four years later he removed to Shelby county, where he lived for the remainder of his life, his demise occurring in the year 1833, when about ninety years of age. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Buchanan, died in 1815, just previous to the exodus to the newer state, and her remains were interred in the burying ground of the Jug Pan meeting house in Virginia. The four sons to come to Kentucky were as follows: Lansdale, who died a bachelor at the age of seventy years ; Sampson B., who lived out his life in the vi- cinity of Shelbyville; George Washington and William; Nancy M., the only daughter, mar-, ried Asa Tucker and lived in this county. The old farm of the above mentioned Samp- son B., is located on Eminence Pike, three miles north of Shelbyville. He was a farmer of importance and though married left no children. He died when past seventy years of age. William, married a cousin also named Moxley. He was. a carpenter by occupation and died while living with his daughter Mary Moxley Blakemore, in Oldham county. Wil- liam was one of the early Masons of his county. He attained to the age of seventy- five years. George W. married Katherin Kleiser of Bourbon county. Her father Joseph Kleiser was born in Switzerland and her mother in Virginia. Mr. Kleiser was a clock- maker, having learned his trade in London, England, and one of the timepieces made by him is still in the possession of his grandson.

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S. B. Moxley. He owned a farm in Bourbon county and he donated ground for the Hope- well Presbyterian church, in whose cemetery he is buried. George Washington and his wife lived in Shelby county near Shiloh church. The father was a farmer on a moderate scale and he and his wife were active in the Shiloh Presbyterian church, which was situated about a mile distant from their home. He died in 1837, being just remembered by his son, our subject, who was a little lad only four years of age. He was fifty-four years of age when summoned to the life eternal. His widow survived for a good many years, dying in 1853, at the age of sixty years. There were in the family three sons and four daughters, Mr. Moxley being the next to the youngest in order of birth. An enumeration of the brothers and sisters suggests the following facts concerning them : Dillard died at the age of sixteen years; Joseph died in childhood; Mary Ann married Wesley Allen Shipman, both of whom died in Shelby county and are buried in the same grave. Elizabeth became the wife of David Fullenwider and died in Parke county, Indiana; Nancy M. became the wife of Dr. Harrison J. Rice, also of Parke county, Indiana, and there her death also oc- cured; Martha married Joel Guthrie and re- moved to Mexico, Missouri, where both died. The widowed mother was left with a family of very young children, but she reared them suc- cessfully and had the happiness to live to see all of them well settled.

Sampson Buchanan Moxley received his edu- cation in Kentucky's famous Centre College, graduating with the class of 1854. the year previous to the famous class of 1855, which included the Hon. T. T. Crittenden, ex-Gov- ernor of Missouri; John Y. Brown, ex-Gov- ernor of Kentucky; United States District" Judge Phillips of Kentucky; and Hon. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, vice president of the United States. As it was, some of them were his personal friends and several of the bril- liant galaxy were in his classes.

Mr. Moxley, although not feeling any pre- dilection for the law, prepared for its prac- tice, but never became an active member of the profession and eventually took up farm- ing. This seems to have been the record of a good many of Kentucky's worthy citizens, the state's agricultural opportunities having ever proved exceedingly tempting. He con- tinned in the ranks of Shelby county's farmers until very recently, January, 1911, being the date on which he relinquished his more stren- nous duties to younger hands. Hemp was his leading crop and he also bought and shipped this product. He has kept out of politics, but all his life has given his heart and hand to the Democratic party and de-

clares proudly that he will die a Democrat.

Mr. Moxley has been twice married. His first wife was Martha Venable Payne, daugh- ter of Colonel Edward Conyers Payne, him- self a son of Edward Payne and Elizabeth Howard, of Fayette county. Martha Payne died seven years after her marriage to Mr. Moxley, leaving three small children. Paulina, the elder daughter, is unmarried. She is a teacher by profession, a graduate of the Uni- versity of Chicago, and for several years has been principal of a school of travel and study for American girls in Rome, Italy. Edward Payne, the son of this marriage, died in 1900. Katherine Hunter, the younger daughter, is the wife of H. J. Luce, Esq., a capitalist of New York City. They have one daughter, Margaret Payne Luce.

Mr. Moxley was a second time married, to Sallie Lewis Offutt. She is a daughter of Henry Cleggett and Mary (Vance) Offutt, and her birth occurred on the family home- stead, about a mile south of Shelbyville, on the 26th of September, 1843. She traces her family record back to the year 1630, and the family is found at a very early date in Mary- land. In fact they are one of the oldest fam- ilies of Maryland and Virginia. The an- cestors were connected with George Calvert, later Lord Baltimore. Mrs. Moxley's father was born in Montgomery county, Maryland, and came with his parents to Kentucky at the age of nineteen years. In 1806 they located in Scott county where they remained for some time, coming to Shelby county in 1827. He married in Fayette county, Mary Vance, widow of Dr. Samuel Glass. He was an extensive farmer and devoted his best energies to the great basic industry. Both he and his wife lived to a ripe old age, he dying in 1876, at the age of eighty-six years, and she in 1888, at the age of eighty-two. They reared a family of sixteen children, but only two survive at the present time, namely: Mrs. Moxley and Miss Florence Offutt. The children of the sub- ject of his second marriage are here enumer- ated. Mary Scott is the wife of Geo. Allen Armstrong. Henry Offutt is a Shelby county farmer, and originator of one of the famous herds of Hereford cattle in America. Martha M., widow of Eustace G. Golsan, resides with her parents. George Barrett is the president ,of the A. Kiefer Drug Company, of Indian- apolis, Indiana, one of the largest wholesale houses in the Central West. S. B. Jr., is en- gaged in the fire insurance business with his brother-in-law, Mr. Armstrong. Irving Hed- deus, the youngest child has spent considerable time abroad and in travel, and now resides at the home of her parents. Both Mr. and Mrs. Moxley have been members of the Shelby-

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ville Presbyterian church since 1858 and are counted as valuable factors in its good work. Their home is one of the interesting and cul- tured abodes of Shelby county.

CAPTAIN PHILLIP BURTON THOMPSON .- No subject more inspiring than the noble men comprising the early bar of Kentucky could be presented to the biographer. They were strong, capable, upright men worthy to be ex- emplars. A noteworthy life in the annals of the state was that of the late Captain Phillip Burton Thompson, and far from uneventful was the life history of this honored and repre- sentative business man. He served with marked gallantry as a soldier during the Mex- ican and Civil wars and the same loyalty and patriotism characterized his course in times of peace. A number of representatives of the family are found enrolled as patriot soldiers in the Revolutionary war and the annals of early history bear record of the worthy lives and worthy deeds of many scions of this worthy stock.

Captain Thompson, one of Kentucky's most noted men, was born at Harrodsburg, Ken- tucky, January 8, 1821, the son of John B. and Nancy Porter (Robards) Thompson. The Thompson family was one that was widely known in England, of whom the first notable member was Roger Thompson, said to have been knighted on the battlefield by Charles II of England. One of his descendants was sent out to Virginia on application of the Governor for help to suppress Bacon's rebellion, and history records that he espoused the cause of the Americans and resigned his commis- sion. Later on one of his descendants of the same name, William Thompson, became a res- ident of Albemarle county, Virginia, where he married a Miss Claiborne, and to them were born, among other children, four sons : Roger, George, Leonard and John. Several if not all of them served in the Revolutionary war and afterward came to Kentucky, settling upon large tracts of land which have been inherited by their children. John, the youngest of the four sons, married Susan Burton, and their son John Burton Thompson was the father of Captain Phillip Thompson of this sketch. The maternal ancestors of Captain Phillip B. Thompson, the Porters and Robards, are traced back to the Hugenot refugee Porter who came to America, where they settled to avoid the troubles of St. Bartholemew. Anne Por- ter, Captain Thompson's great-grandmother, married Archibald Sampson, and of this mar- riage were born Archibald and Elizabeth Bar- bara Sampson. Their mother was left a young and wealthy widow and she was enabled to and did give them the best of educations, the

daughter in this country and the son at Cam- bridge, England. Archibald, the son, died within a few weeks of his return to this coun- try. The daughter, Elizabeth Barbara, was Captain Thompson's grandmother. She mar- ried George Robards, a descendant of George and Sallie Hill, Welsh emigrants. George Ro- bards was the son of William Robards of Vir- ginia, and when but a boy entered the ranks of the Revolutionary army, from which ser- vice he returned with a captain's commission. Of his marriage with Elizabeth Barbara Por- ter, among other children was born Nancy, the mother of Captain Phillip B. Thompson. The other children of John Burton Thompson and his wife Nancy, were: Hon. John B. Thomp- son, one of Kentucky's most distinguished statesmen, who served as Lieutenant Governor of the state, served in the national house of representatives from Kentucky and also rep- resented Kentucky in the United States sen- ate ; Judge Henry Thompson, who married the daughter of Governor Allan Trimble, of Ohio, and became one of the leading lawyers of that state ; Charles Thompson, planter ; Sallie, who married Joseph Johnson, who at the time of his death was president of the Louisiana state . senate; Patsey, who died in infancy; Maria, who married William Daviess, of Mercer coun- ty, Kentucky, who served in the Kentucky state senate; Elizabeth Barbara, who married Colonel Henry Phillips, a noted politician and planter of the South; Anne Porter, who mar- ried Dr. Carey A. Trimble, at one time con- nected with the Cincinnati Medical College and afterward served in Congress; Susan Bur- ton, who married Henry Massie, of Chil- licothe, Ohio; Katherine, who married Walter A. Dun, of Madison county, Ohio.

Captain Phillip Burton Thompson was the youngest of the above sons. He received his education at Centre College, Danville, Ken- tucky, and at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, after which he read law with his brother John B., was admitted to the bar in 1840 and went into practice as a partner of his brother. When Governor Owsley called for two regiments for service in the war with Mexico, Captain Thompson raised a company of which he was chosen captain. This com- pany, as part of the command of Colonel Wil- liam R. McKee, joined General Taylor's one of occupation at Point Isabel and served throughout the war. After the war with Mexico was over Captain Thompson returned to Harrodsburg and continued the practice of law until the outbreak of the Civil war, when this intrepid warrior again enlisted, this time taking with him three sons, all of whom were under eighteen years of age, Davis Montgom-

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ery, John Burton and Phillip Burton, these two last being twins.

Captain Thompson was a man of few polit- ical aspirations and only once served his state in the legislative halls, but as a lawyer he stood among the leaders of the Kentucky bar. Few of his competitors at the bar possessed the same degree of mental strength and culture and few were so indefatigable in their work. He studied and mastered every phase of a case. He was the majesty of the law person- ified and permitted no guilty man to escape. He was not so severe on petty offenders but was vigilant, earnest and resourceful in the prosecution of a person indicted for a felony, especially for a capital offense. Noted for the untiring perseverance with which he rushed every cause through the courts, he was re- garded as a most formidable antagonist, but was a fair and manly one, for he had neither sympathy nor respect for a lawyer who would lower the standard to win a case and he had no patience with tricks or subterfuges. He would win on high grounds in the open fields by honorable methods and the masterful adap- tation of the law to the facts and the equities or lose by the inherent weakness of his cause.

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A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities, Volume III, Part 112

Author: Johnson, E. Polk, 1844-; Lewis Publishing Company Publication date: 1912 Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 860

Author: Johnson, E. Polk, 1844-; Lewis Publishing Company
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 860