A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities, Volume III, Part 18

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

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omon G. and Ida F. (Petty) Ware became the parents of six sons and one daughter, all of whom are living, and of the number the sub- ject of this review was the second in order of birth.

Orie S. Ware was about seven years of age at the time of the family removal from Pen- dleton county to Covington, in which city he was reared to maturity. Here he duly availed himself of the advantages of the excellent public schools, after which he attended an ex- cellent private academy conducted by Profes- sor George W. Dunlap, at Independence, Ken- tucky, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1898. About one year later he became a student in the law office of Judge W. McD. Shaw, of Covington, where he gained his initial discipline in connection with the preparation for the work of his chosen profession. Finally he was matricu- lated in the Cincinnati Law School, in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, in which he was grad- nated as a member of the class of 1903, and - from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws. He immediately opened an office in Covington, where he conducted an individual practice until the Ist of January, 1910, when he became a partner of his former preceptor, Judge Shaw, who had just retired from the bench of the Kenton circuit court. Since that time he has proved an able and valued coad- jutor of Judge Shaw and their professional business is conducted under the firm name of Shaw & Ware. Mr. Ware has proved himself well qualified for the work of both branches of his profession and has been distinctively successful therein. In politics he is a staunch advocate of the cause of the Democratic party and he has been an active worker in its ranks. He is a most appreciative member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained to the Thirty-second degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite and in which he also holds membership in the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He has held various offices in both the York and Scottish Rite bodies and is past master of Covington Lodge, No. 109. Free and Accepted Masons. In 1910 he was elected grand junior warden of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky. He is a member of the Baptist church and his wife holds membership in the Presbyterian church.

On the 19th of September, 1906, Mr. Ware was united in marriage to Miss Louise Cul- bertson, who was born and reared in Coving- ton and who is a daughter of the late Louis Culbertson, a well-known and honored citizen of Covington for many years prior to his death. Mr. and Mrs. Ware have one son, Will- iam.

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FRANCIS MARION DAILEY, the present city of Frankfort, later continuing his technical attorney of Kentucky's capital city, has gained a position of distinctive priority as one of the representative members of the bar of the state, and he served four years as prosecuting at- torney for Franklin county, retiring fom this office in 1910, at the time of his election to his present office. He has gained success and pres- tige through his own endeavors and thus the more honor is due him for his earnest labors in his exacting profession and for the prec- edence he has gained in his chosen vocation.

Francis M. Dailey was born in Chariton county, Missouri, on the 25th of January, 1874, and is a son of John William and Will Ella (Patton) Dailey, the former of whom was born in Franklin county, Kentucky, and the latter of whom was born in Randolph county, Missouri. The father died in his native county in 1898, at the age of fifty years, and his widow now resides in the city of Frankfort. John W. Dailey was a son of John P. Dailey, who likewise was born and reared in Franklin county, Kentucky, and whose father, so far as family tradition determines, was a native of Ireland, having established his home in Ken- tucky in the pioneer days. John P. Dailey became one of the prosperous farmers of Franklin county, where he continued to reside until his death, his old homestead having been near Peak's Mill. John W. Dailey was reared to the discipline of the farm, but as a youth he learned the trade of blacksmith in his native county. When a young man he went to Mis- souri, where his marriage was solemnized and where he remained until his son, Francis M., was about three years of age, when he returned to his native county and located in the city of Frankfort, where he passed the residue of his life. Besides following the work of his trade he was also engaged in the buying and selling of horses and at one time he owned a stable of thorough-bred horses, many of whom won distinctive victories on the turf. The subject of this review is the only child.

Francis M. Dailey was reared to adult age in Frankfort, to whose public schools he is in- debted for his early educational discipline, which was supplemented by a course in the Frankfort Male Academy, in which he was graduated. This institution is not at the pres- ent time in existence. Finally he entered Pur- due University, at Lafayette, Indiana, but he was compelled to return home on account of the impaired health of his father. Under these conditions he assumed charge of the business affairs of his father and he had the latter's running horses on the turf for two seasons. He then began the study of law and under the preceptorship of Patrick U. Major,

reading under the direction of W. J. Hendrick, another able member of the bar of the capital city. He made excellent progress in his ab- sorption and assimilation of the science of jurisprudence and was admitted to the bar when twenty-four years of age. Since that time he has been actively engaged in the prac- tice of his profession in Frankfort and his ability and devotion to the work of his chosen calling have given him a secure standing ås one of the leading members of the bar of Franklin county. When twenty-seven years of age he was elected prosecuting attorney of the Frankfort city courts and this incumbency he retained four years, at the expiration of which he was elected county attorney, in which posi- tion he made an admirable record during his term of four years, which expired on January 1, 1910. He has since been city attorney and in this office he is well upholding his reputa- tion as a skilled trial lawyer and able official. He has ever given a staunch allegiance to the Democratic party and is affiliated with the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is one of the popular young men of Frank- fort, being held in high esteem in professional business and social circles. Mr. Dailey is a bachelor.

WILLIAM H. NEWELL, a member of that im- portant concern, the Ohio Custom Garment Company, of Cincinnati, is a Democrat who was elected in 1909 a representative to the Kentucky legislature from a Republican dis- trict (the eighty-fourth). He was a member of many committees of importance and the author of the bill classifying cities and towns which became a law. He is one of the most prominent Elks in the state, is a man of versa- tility and one who has had an interesting and varied career. Mr. Newell was born in New- port December 19, 1871, and is of foreign ex- traction, his parents, Matthew and Rosa (Cochran) Newell, having been born, the for- mer near Manchester, England, and the latter in Ireland. They were married in England and came to the United States in the later '50S, locating first in Cincinnati and later in New- port, Kentucky, where they still reside. Young Newell spent his boyhood and youth in his native place, attending the parochial schools and later the public schools and supplementing this with a business course in the Commercial College in Cincinnati. He early manifested talent as an artist and for a number of years traveled over the country giving exhibitions of rapid work in crayon and oil, having devoted considerable attention to the cultivation of the latter branch. For sixteen years he was en-

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gaged in newspaper and editorial work in Cin- cinnati upon various of the Queen City jour- nals, and gained that broad experience with human nature and all sorts and conditions of men which can nowhere be acquired with such facility as in the capacity of a servant of the Fourth Estate.

Mr. Newell's career as a public man began in 1902 when he was elected by the Newport water works commission as its secretary and superintendent and has served for the ensuing eight years, up to the present time, in that re- sponsible office. He resigned to accept his present position with the Ohio Custom Gar- ment Company of Cincinnati, which he had as- sisted in organizing in July, 1909, he being one of the partners in the concern. They mann- facture clothing for merchant tailors, their trade taking in a majority of the states. The plant is one of some magnitude, about one hundred persons being employed during the busy season.

Mr. Newell has been active in Democratic politics for a number of years and for four years served as secretary of the city and county Democratic committee. In the fall of 1909 he was elected on the ticket of his party as representative to the state legislature from the Eighty-fourth district of Kentucky. He proved an able legislator and was a member of various committees, among them those on commerce and manufacturing, county and city courts, municipalities, geological survey, and others. His efforts to secure beneficial legis- lation for his section were able and fruitful, and the bill fathered by him to secure classi- fication of cities and towns became a law.

As previously stated, Mr. Newell is one of Newport's prominent Elks. He is a member of Newport Lodge No. 273, and holds life membership in the same having served as its secretary for ten years. He assisted in the or- ganization of the state association of Elks at Georgetown, Kentucky, and was elected first vice-president. He is also an Eagle and has the distinction of being the first Eagle in the Blue Grass state, his number being I. In this lodge likewise he has long held the office of secretary.

The marriage of Mr. Newell to Miss Mary E. McCarthy, took place in November, 1902. Mrs. Newell is a daughter of John McCarthy, a well-known resident of Newport. Two daughters have been born to this union, by name Laura Marie and Mary Elizabeth. Both Mr. Newell and his wife are members of the Catholic church.

J. HUNTER PEAK, M. D .- The city of Lou- isville, with its flourishing industrial activi- ties and rapid development, has attracted with-

in its confines men of ability and high char- acter in the various professional lines and in this way progress has been conserved and so- cial stability fostered. He whose name intro- duces this review has gained recognition as a scientist and as one of the able and successful surgeons of the province, and by his labors, his high professional attainments and his ster- ling characteristics has justified the respect and confidence in which he is held by the medical fraternity and by the public at large.

J. Hunter Peak was born near Bardstown, Kentucky, June 14, 1865, the son of John and Sarah (Coy) Peak, both native born Ken- tuckians. John, the father, was born near Lebanon, Marion county, Kentucky, in 1843, and died in 1878. The mother of this sub- ject was born near New Haven, Kentucky, in 1844, and died in 1870. She was the daughter of John and Dolly Coy. In 1872 the elder Peak moved the family to Texas, where he died, and it was in that state that Dr. Peak was reared to manhood. He received his lit- erary education at Garden Valley Institute, Texas, where he was graduated in 1887, and which prepared him to take up the practical and responsible duties of life. He began teaching in Ellis county and taught there four years and then taught two years in Young county. His choice of a life work fell upon the medical profession, and while teaching school he read medicine and in 1891 he matric- ulated in Louisville, Kentucky, Medical Col- lege, where he was graduated in 1894. He then took a post graduate course at the Ken- tucky School of Medicine. He then located in Louisville and engaged in the practice of his profession, where an energetic nature and strong mentality has enabled him long since to pass from the ranks of the many and stand among the successful and prominent few.

In 1895 Dr. Peak was elected a member of the Louisville General Council from the Third ward, and after serving almost two years in that body resigned to accept a position as Unit- ed States pension surgeon, which position he held for four years. In 1899 he was appointed special United States pension surgeon, which position he resigned in 1903 to look after his private practice, as he preferred to concentrate his energies upon his professional work. Af- ter Dr. Peak resigned from office he turned his entire professional attention to surgery, and has made it an exclusive specialty ever since. In the fall of 1909 he was elected to represent the Fourth and Fifth wards of the city as a member of the Louisville School Board, which position he now holds and will be a member of the last board under the pres- ent law.

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Dr. Peak is a member of the Jefferson County Medical Society, the Kentucky State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to Preston Lodge, No. 281, F. & A. M., Louisville, Kentucky, and to Scot- tish Rite Consistory, Southern Jurisdiction.

The Doctor's religious convictions are evi- denced by his connection with the Methodist Episcopal church, being a member of the same. chairman of its Board of Trustees, chairman of the Sunday-school Board and past superin- tendent of the Sunday-school. In politics he is a Republican but is non-partisan in local affairs.

Dr. Peak married Estella Thurman of Lou- isville, Kentucky, the daughter of Sanford H. Thurman, of the old Kentucky family of that name, who married Mary Jane Irvin, of the old Kentucky Irvin family. To the Doctor and wife two children have been born, as fol- lows: Maricita, aged eighteen years, and Ca- lena, aged fourteen years.

The record of Dr. Peak's life is an upright and straightforward one, his success has been achieved along the lines of legitimate activity and unfaltering energy and he has well earned the uniform regard that is extended to him by the professional as well as business men of the state.

GEORGE W. WALTERS, M. D .- Dr. Walters has been engaged in the practice of his pro- fession in Covington for nearly forty years and thus is one of the oldest practitioners, in point of consecutive service, to be found in Kenton county at the present time, the while his high professional ability and marked suc- cess have long given him precedence as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of this section of the state, where he is known as a loyal, liberal and public-spirited citizen of sterling character. Dr. Walters was born in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 24th of September, 1849, and is a son of Ferdinand and Mary (Dowling) Walters, the former of whom was born in Maryland and the latter in England. The mother came to the United States when twenty years of age, and her mar- riage to Ferdinand Walters was solemnized in the city of Philadelphia. The father of the Doctor was a millwright and built up a large and important business as a contractor in this line. He erected many distilleries in Kentucky and numerous flour mills in this state and other sections of the Union. He took up his residence in Cincinnati in 1833 and he moved thence to Covington about 1850, when the sub- ject of this review was an infant. Here he passed the residue of his life and here his

death occurred in the year 1876. In politics he was a Democrat of the old school but at the time of the Civil war he transferred his al- legiance to the Republican party. His widow was summoned to the life eternal in 1881, and of their seven children four are living, Dr. George W. being the youngest of the number. Charles F., one of the older sons, was a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which he served four years as a member of the Sev- enth Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry. He held the office of ordnance sergeant and he was breveted lieutenant at the time of receiving his honorable discharge. He was captured, to- gether with about three hundred other Federal soldiers, by General Morgan in the early pe- riod of his service, but after a short time his exchange was effected at Camp Chase, Ohio. In after years he often met with Morgan's men in annual reunion and found much pleas- ure in recalling the more gracious associations of the great conflict, whose animosities had been softened by time.

Dr. George W. Walters was reared to ma- turity in Covington, to whose public schools he is indebted for his early educational discipline, which included a course in the high school. As a youth he served an apprenticeship at the trade of pattern making and for a time he was associated with his father's business. In 1868 he began the study of medicine, under the pre- ceptorship of Dr. Cooke, of Cincinnati, and in the autumn of that year he was matriculated in the Physio-Medical Institute, in Cincinnati, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1870, and from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1881, after an intervening period of successful practice, he completed an effective post-graduate course in the Medical College of Ohio, in the same city. In 1870 Dr. Walters initiated the prac- tice of his profession at Mason, Warren county, Ohio, where he remained two years. He then returned to Covington, where he has been actively and successfully devoting his at- tention to general practice as a physician and surgeon during the long intervening years, which have given him a secure place in popu- lar confidence and esteem both as a physician and as a citizen. The Doctor is a valued member of the Kenton-Campbell County Med- ical Society, of which he served as president in 1896. He is also actively identified with the Kentucky State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Though loyal to the civic duties and manifesting at all times a deep interest in all that touches the welfare of his home city Dr. Walters has never had aught of ambition for public office. He gives

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his allegiance to the Republican party and his wife holds membership in the Christian church, which he himself attends and supports.

In the year 1881 was solemnized the mar- riage of Dr. Walters to Miss Emma Oder, who was born at Williamstown, Grant county, Kentucky, and who is a daughter of Reuben and Margaret ( Masterson) Oder, both of whom were likewise born in Kentucky, where the respective families were founded many years ago. Reuben Oder, a carpenter by trade and vocation, served in the Union army dur- ing the Civil war as a member of a regiment of Kentucky cavalry. Dr. and Mrs Walters have one child, Edith, who remains at the parental home.

WILLIAM B. WOODFORD .- It is a notable fact that Kentucky's sons always have a deep attachment for their native state, and indeed Kentucky's history has been a wonderful one in many respects. Her sons have become prominent in every walk of life, and her statesmen have been the pride of the nation. One man alone, or even a few men do not constitute the strength of the commonwealth. It is the aggregate endeavor of loyal citizen- ship of the vast majority, and in this respect Kentucky has been fortunate, for her repre- sentatives have been enterprising, resolute men, who have striven with natural conditions until they have made the country bloom and blossom as the rose, and have steadily carried forward the work of progress and improve- ment. William B. Woodford of this review, is to be numbered among the wide-awake men of Bourbon county and is today successfully carrying on operations as an agriculturist.

Mr. Woodford was born in Paris, Bourbon county, August 17, 1848. His parents, Will- iam T. and Mary ( Hallack) Woodford, were among the representative people of Kentucky. The former was a native of the Old Dominion, where he was born, February 14, 1817, his father, William Woodford, emigrating thence with his family when he was a small boy, and settling in Montgomery county, where he con- tinued to make his home until his death. He was the father of eight children, as follows: Mary, Samuel A., John T., William T., Lucy, Thomas, Sally and James Madison. Lucy died December 7, 1910, having attained her nine- tieth year.

William T. Woodford, father of William B .. was reared a farmer, even when a lad be- · ing familiar with the pleasant secrets of har- vest and seed-time. He was educated in the common schools and when a young man, after his father's death, he came to Bourbon county and for some years was engaged in merchan- dising in North Middletown. Later he re-

moved to Paris, where he continued in the same line, and met with no small amount of success. He secured a congenial life compan- ion and a household of his own, when in 1847, in Paris, he was united in wedlock to Miss Mary Hallack, who was born in Fayette conn- ty, Kentucky, on August 31, 1827. In 1849 Mr. Woodford abandoned town life and re- moved to the country, where the balance of his life was devoted to farming. He became well-to-do and enjoyed consideration as one of the influential and highly respected men of his day. His death occurred in August, 1888, but his widow survives and makes her home with one of her sons in Paris. They were the parents of seven children: William B., the subject and the eldest in order of birth; Ln- cinda H .; Anna M .; J. Hal; Mary M .; Clara (deceased ) ; and Elva.

Mr. Woodford, the immediate subject of the review, was reared upon the farm, early chose it as a life work, and has always fol- lowed it, never regretting his decision. He received his education in the schools of his native county. He was married in Bourbon county, Kentucky, November 4, 1872, to Miss Bettie Bedford, daughter of George M. Bed- ford, a prominent farmer and breeder of short horn cattle of Bourbon county. The first Mrs. Woodford was summoned to the Great Beyond in 1877, leaving no issue, and in 1896, Mr. Woodford married Miss Carrie Larue, daughter of Clifton and Eliza ( Perrine) La- rue, and a native daughter of the Blue Grass state, her birth having occurred in Mason county, November 22, 1858. No children have been born to the union. Mrs. Woodford is a member of the Christian church.

Mr. Woodford is esteemed as one of the enterprising and public spirited men of the county-owns 1,050 acres all in a body, being quite a large cattle feeder. "Woodland," which is the name of the place, is five miles south on the Winchester Pike.

DR. FRANK FITHIAN, for over a decade and a half a representative physician and surgeon of Paris, Bourbon county, Kentucky, is a na- tive son of the fine old Blue Grass state. He was born in Clark county, Kentucky, on the 2d of November, 1859, and is a son of Dr. Joseph and Emily (Owen) Fithian, the for- mer of whom was born in Philadephia, Penn- sylvania, and the latter in Kentucky. Dr. Jo- seph Fithian was a son of Joel and Sarah (Sinnickson) Fithian, natives of New Jersey who moved to Oxford, Ohio, when their son was a small child. On the mother's side the family dates back to the early settlements in New York and the emigrant ancestor of the Fithian family was William, who came from

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England about 1630. Joel Fithian served in the war of 1812: Dr. Joseph Fithian was ed- ucated åt Miami University and took his med- ical course at Jefferson Medical College, Phil- adelphia, from which he was graduated in 1853. He then came to North Middleton, Bourbon county, Kentucky, with his brother Dr. Washington, and practiced here until 1870 when he removed to Paris, Kentucky. Here he practiced until his death, July 12, 1898. He was a popular and successful physician and was surgeon in the U. S. army, Eighteenth Kentucky Infantry. He was an active mem- ber of the Presbyterian church and fraternally was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His wife was a native of Bour- bon county, Kentucky, where she was reared and educated. She died December 19, 1897, leaving three children, Dr. Frank, Miss Nellie, and Mrs. C. D. Webb, of Paris, Kentucky.

Dr. Frank Fithian was reared to maturity in his native county and there received his early educational training, which was later supplemented by a course in Centre College, at Danville, in which excellent institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1880, and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Immediately after his graduation he was matriculated in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, in which he was graduated in 1884, with the well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. He initiated the practice of his profession at North Middletown, this county, and there controlled a successful and lucrative clientage for a period of ten years. In 1894 he removed to Paris and here his success has been on a parity with his well directed efforts. His broad human sympathy and spirit of help- fulness as combined with his acknowledged skill in the work of his profession tend to make him a most popular doctor.

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A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities, Volume III, Part 18

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