A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities, Volume III, Part 28

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

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Judge James H. Hazelrigg was born upon a farm in Montgomery county, Kentucky, De- cember 6, 1848. His parents were George and Elizabeth J. (Greene) Hazelrigg. His father and his grandfather, Dillard Hazelrigg, both were natives of Bourbon county, Kentucky, and passed through the peculiar joys and hardships of the Blue Grass state pioneer. Judge Hazelrigg's mother was a Kentuckian also. Her father's name was Thaddeus Greene and his wife, who bore the maiden name of Mariah Kerr, was a native of North Carolina. When Judge Hazelrigg was but three years of age he had the misfortune to lose his mother by death and he was taken and reared by his grandfather Greene on a

farm in Montgomery county. As soon as he was old enough he entered the common schools of his district and he also attended the school at Stoney Point, and after gaining his rudimentary education in this fashion he matriculated at what is now known as Tran- sylvania University, at Lexington, Kentucky, being graduated therefrom with the class of 1871, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Subsequently the degree of LL. B., was con- ferred upon him by both the Kentucky Uni- versity and the Central University. His edu- cation was interrupted by the great civil con- flict, which placed the entire country in a state of disquiet and alarm and made the usual process of life seem of secondary importance.

In August, 1864, the boy who found the role of mere spectator to the great national struggle galling in the extreme enlisted in the Confederate army service, under the com- mand of Colonel E. E. Clay, whose regiment was a part of the forces of the famous Gen- eral John Morgan. He was present at the sur- render on May 2, 1865. At the conclusion of the war he set about completing his education, read law at Mt. Sterling and was admitted to the bar in 1873. He first hung out his shingle at Mt. Sterling and although still a young man became city attorney of Mt. Sterling, which honor was followed by that of his ele- vation to the office of county judge of Mont- gomery county, which he held for over five years. After a number of years of activity in the profession of his choice, years distin- guished by constant advance and recognition, in November, 1892, he was elected judge of the court of appeals of Kentucky. For eight years he gave service of an eminent character to the duties of this office, during which time, from 1899 to 1900, he was chief justice of the state. Since retiring from the court of ap- peals Judge Hazelrigg has practiced law at Frankfort and his achievements in a more private capacity have been befitting one of his mental and moral caliber. He belongs to that political party whose leaders find extreme gratification in referring to Judge Hazelrigg's section of the United States as the "Solid South," and he has always lent its measures and its representatives his most effective support. Denominationally he is a member of the Christian church.

Judge Hazelrigg was married on November 5, 1872, the lady to become his wife and the mistress of his household being Miss Mat- tie Lauderman, of Lexington, Kentucky, .daughter of James H. Lauderman. The following children are the fruit of this union : May Hooker, now Mrs. C. P. Chen- ault, of Frankfort; Elizabeth, now Mrs.

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Thomas A. Hall, of Frankfort; Emily, who married F. C. Bradley and is now deceased ; and Dyke Lauderman, attorney-at-law, now associated in business with his father. The latter married the daughter of Colonel Charles E. Hoge, of Frankfort.

MARION H. DAILEY, D. D. S .- One of the leading representatives of the dental profes- sion in Kentucky is Dr. Dailey, who formerly served as a member of the state board of den- tal examiners and who has been engaged in the successful practice of his profession in Paris, Bourbon county, since 1893. In his investigation, study and practical work he ex- emplified the ultimate results to be gained in his profession, in both the laboratory and op- erative departments, of which marvelous ad- vances have been made within the time of his active practice, and his high professional standing is the true result of his unmistakable ability.

Dr. Dailey was born in Jackson county, Kentucky, on the 19th of March, 1869, and is a son of Samuel C. and Virginia B. (Minter) Dailey, both of whom were born in Virginia, the former of Irish and the latter of English lineage. They were reared to maturity in their native. state, where their marriage was solemnized, and about the year 1860 they re- moved to Kentucky, finally establishing their home in Jackson county, where the father purchased land and became a prosperous farmer and stock-grower. He brought to bear marked discrimination and progressive ideas in his chosen vocation and through his identification with the same gained definite success, the while he ever retained the invio- lable confidence and esteem of the community in which he established his home. He con- tinued to reside on the old homestead until his death, which occurred on the 21st of Au- gust, 1909, and there his widow still resides, being held in affectionate regard by all who have come within the sphere of her gentle influence. Of the ten children, seven are living and concerning them the following brief data are here given-Hamilton H. is a suc- cessful farmer in Rockcastle county, Ken- tucky; Laucetta L. is the wife of Henry Sandlin, of Jackson county, this state; Wil- son G. is a physician and surgeon and is es- tablished in the successful practice of his pro- fession in Millersburg, Bourbon county ; Silas S. is a prosperous farmer of Rockcastle county ; Miss Martha G. remains with her widowed mother on the old homestead; Mar- ion H. is the immediate subject of this review ; and Josephine I. is the wife of E. G. Sauls- berry, of Covington. this state. The father

was a staunch Republican in his political al- legiance and his religious faith was that of the Methodist church, of which his widow likewise is a devout member.

Dr. Marion H. Dailey was reared to the sturdy discipline of the old homestead farm and was afforded the advantages of the grad- ed school of Green Hill, Jackson county. That he made good use of his opportunities along scholastic lines is evident when it is stated that at the age of nineteen years he turned his attention to the pedagogic profes- sion, which he followed about two years in the schools of his native county, where he proved a successful and popular teacher. In 1890 the Doctor was matriculated in the Lou- isville College of Dentistry, in which well or- dered institution he was graduated with dis- tinction in June, 1892, with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. Soon after his graduation he located in Beattyville, Lee county, where he initiated the active work of his profession and where he remained until February, 1893, when he removed to Paris, in which thriving little city he has since been actively engaged in the work of his profes- sion. Here he has built up a large and repre- sentative business and he is recognized as the leading dental practitioner of Bourbon coun- ty, as well as one of the representative mem- bers of his profession in the state.

He is an active and valued member of the Kentucky State Dental Society, with which he has been identified since 1893 and he has held official position in this organization al- most continuously from the time of identify- ing himself therewith. During the major portion of the period he has served as a tris- tee of the society and at the present time he is president, and is also president of the Blue- grass Dental Society. For five years he was a member of the state board of dental exam- iners and during this period he did all in his power to elevate the standard of his profes- sion in his native state. Dr. Dailey and his wife are most zealous members of the Presby- terian church in their home city and he has served as deacon in the same since 1904. He is an appreciative member of the time-hon- ored Masonic fraternity, in which he has served as worshipful master of Paris Lodge, No. 2, Free & Accepted Masons; high priest of Paris Chapter, No. 15, Royal Arch Ma- sons; and eminent commander of Coeur de Lion Commandery, No. 26, Knights Tem- plars. He is also affiliated with the. adjunct organization, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, besides which he holds membership in the Independent Or-

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der of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent & Pro- tective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias.

At Paris, Kentucky, on the 3d of February, 1904, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Dailey to Miss Mary Lou Fithian, who was born and reared in Paris, this county, where her birth occurred on the 27th of July, 1880. She is a daughter of Edward R. and Mary (Heath) Fithian, well known and highly hon- ored citizens of Bourbon county, where Mrs. Fithian still maintains her home. Mr. E. R. Fithian died August 7, 1895. Dr. and Mrs. Dailey became the parents of two children- Virginia Cecil, who was born September 2, 1906, and who died on the 27th of December, 1907, and Louise Washington, who was born on the 8th of January, 1909. Dr. and Mrs. Dailey are prominent in connection with the leading social activities of their home city, where they hold an impregnable place in pop- ular confidence and esteem.

JOSEPH ADDISON SWEENY, M. D .- A spe- cialist in the treatment of the diseases of the digestive system, Dr. Sweeny is engaged in the practice of his profession in the city of Louisville, where he retains a large and rep- resentative clientage and where he is recog- nized as a physician of fine attainments and marked discrimination. The Doctor has the distinction of being a scion of old and hon- ored families of Kentucky, where both his paternal and maternal ancestors settled in the early pioneer days. He has been a resident of Jefferson county, save for short intervals, from the time of his birth, and his success in the work of his chosen and exacting pro- fession has been on a parity with his recog- nized ability.

Dr. Sweeny was born in the city of Louis- ville on the 19th of July, 1873, and is a son of John T. and Catherine (Carpenter) Sweeny. John Talffe Sweeny was born in Jefferson county, this state, on the 14th of November, 1847, and he here continued to maintain his home until the close of his life, his death having occurred while he was visit- ing in the city of Lexington, Kentucky, on the 6th of September, 1884. He was a son of Rev. Joseph Addison Sweeny, who was one of the pioneer clergymen of the Christian church in Kentucky, where he followed the work of the ministry for many years and where he continued to reside until his death, in the fullness of years and well earned honors. He was an intimate friend of Rev. Alexander Campbell, from whose name the Christian church has been designated as the Campbell- ite church, and was an ardent supporter of that distinguished figure in the history of this

denomination. Rev. Joseph Addison Sweeny was a native of Buckingham county, Virginia, in which historic commonwealth the family was founded in the Colonial days, and he came to Kentucky in the pioneer epoch, the family home being established in Jefferson county, with whose annals the name has continued to be closely identified during the long inter- vening years.

John Talffe Sweeny, father of Dr. Sweeny, became one of the representative agricultur- ists and influential citizens of Jefferson county, where he was a leader in the ranks of the Democratic party and where he was called upon to serve in various positions of public trust. He was possessed of sterling qualities of mind and heart, was well qualified for lead- ership in thought and action, and wielded much influence in his community, where he ever commanded the fullest measure of pop- ular confidence and esteem. He was a zeal- ous member of the Christian church, as is also his widow, who still resides on the fine old homestead in Jefferson county. Mrs. Sweeny was born in Shelby county, this state, and is a daughter of Calvin and Lucinda (Tyler) Carpenter, members of families that were es- tablished in that section of the state at a very early date. John T. and Catherine (Car- penter) Sweeny became the parents of five children, of whom Dr. Joseph A. was the first-born, and his two brothers and two sis- ters are living.

Dr. Sweeny passed his boyhood and youth on the home farm and early began to con- tribute his quota to its work. After availing himself of the advantages afforded in the pub- lic schools of his home neighborhood he en- tered the Louisville Male High School, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1892. Soon afterward he became the confidential secretary and advisor of the late Captain William F. Norton, of Louisville, with whom he was long and intimately asso- ciated, having been with the Captain at the time of his death, which occurred in Cali- fornia, in 1903, at which time the Doctor was private physician to his venerable and hon- ored patron and friend. In preparation for the work of his chosen profession Dr. Sweeny entered the Louisville Hospital College of Medicine, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1902 and from which he received his degree of Doctor of Medi- cine. He has taken post-graduate course in the leading clinics of Europe and has made a special study of the diseases of the diges- tive system, to which he now devotes prac- tically his undivided attention and in which he is a recognized authority. He lectured on

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this class of diseases in the Louisville Medical College until the same was merged into the medical department of the University of Lou- isville, when he resigned his position. He is actively identified with the American Med- ical Association, the Kentucky State Medical Society and the Jefferson County Medical So- ciety. In the Masonic fraternity the Doctor has attained the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite and is also affiliated with the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He has not as yet assumed connubial responsibilities.

C. BRUCE SMITH, M. D .- Among the able and representative physicians and surgeons who are lending dignity and honor to their profession within the borders of the fine old Blue Grass commonwealth is Dr. Smith, who is engaged in successful general practice at Millersburg, Bourbon county, where he has built up a large and substantial business, based alike on his marked technical ability and his personal popularity in the county that has been his home from the time of his nativity.

Dr. Smith was born at Millersburg, the beautiful and thriving little city in which he now resides, and here he was ushered into the world on the 21st of June, 1864. He is a son of Dr. John Bruce Smith and Adalaide (Ball) Smith, the former of whom was born in New York and the latter in Kentucky. Dr. John Bruce Smith was educated in New York but finished his studies at the Univer- sity of Louisville. He then practiced in Fleming county, Kentucky, for two years, lo- cating in Millersburg in 1859. He had been in practice thirty-three years at the time of his death, April 6, 1892, at the age of fifty- six. His wife died December 27, 1898, be- ing then fifty-seven years of age. They were the parents of four children, as follows: Ef- fie L., who married S. C. Carpenter, of Mil- lersburg; Anna, who is unmarried and lives in Millersburg; C. Bruce, the subject of this sketch, is next in order of birth; and Leroy B. died December 12, 1896, at the age of twenty-six years.

He whose name initiates this article gained his rudimentary education in the public schools of his native place and supplemented the same by a course in the Kentucky Wes- leyan College, in Millersburg. In this insti- tution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1884, and from the same received the degree of Bachelor of Science. In Septem- ber of the same year he entered the medical department of the University of Louisville, in which he completed the prescribed course and in which he was duly graduated in 1886, with the well earned degree of Doctor of

Medicine. As an undergraduate Dr. Smith was known as a most earnest and receptive student, and he made good use of the oppor- tunities afforded him, so that he came forth admirably fortified in the learning of his pro- fession, the while he had received due clinical experience. After his graduation the doctor showed much judgment by seeking his initial practice under the direction of an older and more experienced member of his profession. Under these conditions he was associated in practice about one year with Dr. Wheeler, an able physician then engaged in practice at Sal- yersville, Magoffin county. After this experi- ence Dr. Smith returned to his alma mater, the University of Louisville, in the medical department of which he completed an effect- ive post-graduate course. Thereafter he was engaged in post-graduate work in the Hospi- tal College of Medicine in Louisville for a period of five months, at the expiration of which he received appointment to the position of interne in the Louisville city hospital, where he remained fifteen months, during which he gained most valuable and diversified clinical experience. After leaving the hospi -. tal Dr. Smith served sixteen months as assist- ant to Professor Thomas H. Stucky, who was incumbent of the chair of Materia Medica in the medical department of Central University of Kentucky. During this period Dr. Smith delivered class lectures on Materia Medica in the Louisville College of Pharmacy, and he showed marked facility and discrimination in the educational work of his profession.

In January, 1892, Dr. Smith returned to his native place, Millersburg, where he has built up a large and representative practice and where his success and popularity set at naught all application of the scriptural statement that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country." The doctor is a valued and in- fluential member of the Bourbon County Medical Society and is also identified with the Kentucky State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is now serving his fourth consecutive year as health officer of Millersburg, and he has been special- ly assiduous and exacting in the exercising of his official functions, through which the health of the community has been conserved in every possible way. Dr. Smith and his wife are valued factors in the best social life of the community. He is a member of the Christian church and Mrs. Smith of the Baptist, and he is affiliated with the local organizations of the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of the Macca- bees.

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emnized the marriage of Dr. Smith to Miss Maude V. S. Smedley, who was born at Mil- lersburg on the 14th of October, 1867, and who is a daughter of John G. Smedley, one of the venerable and honored business men of this place and one to whom a specific tribute is paid on other pages of this volume. Dr. and Mrs. Smith have one daughter, Martha Adalaide, who was born August 4, 1895.

JOHN G. SMEDLEY .- Numbered among the honored citizens and representative business men of Millersburg, Bourbon county, Mr. Smedley is entitled to definite recognition in this publication. He is junior member of the firm of Corrington & Smedley, who conduct a large and prosperous enterprise as dealers in general merchandise and whose well equipped establishment is one of the foremost in the thriving little city of Millersburg.

Mr. Smedley views with a due measure of satisfaction the fact that he claims Kentucky as the place of his nativity and that in both the agnatic and maternal lines he is a scion of honored pioneer families of this favored com- monwealth. He was born at Carlisle, Nicho- las county, on the 20th of February, 1836, and is a son of Aaron and Catherine (Hughes) Smedley, the former of whom was born in Bourbon county, this state, and the latter in Nicholas county. The father de- voted the major part of his active career to merchandising and farming, and both he and his wife were residents of Bourbon county at the time of their death. They became the par- ents of six children, of whom five sons and one daughter are now living.

John G. Smedley gained his early educa- tional discipline in the common schools of Bourbon county, where he was reared to ma- turity, and later he was afforded higher edu- cational advantages through attendance at Georgetown College, at Georgetown, this state. Prior to entering this institution he had initiated his experience in connection with the practical affairs of life, as he began clerk- ing in a general store in the city of Lexington when but fifteen years of age. After leaving college he went to the city of St. Louis, Mis- souri, where he held a clerical position in a mercantile establishment for some time. In 1859 he took up his residence in Millersburg, Kentucky, where he engaged in the general merchandise business in partnership with his maternal uncle, James M. Hughes. This as- sociation was maintained for several years and Mr. Smedley then formed a partnership with James M. Batterton, with whom he con- tinued to be associated in the same line of en- terprise until the death of Mr. Batterton, about the year 1882. Shortly afterward he

again entered into partnership with his uncle, Mr. Hughes, later he was associated for a time with Alexander Butler, and in 1897 the latter was succeeded by C. W. Corrington. Since that time the business has been success- fully continued under the firm name of Cor- rington & Smedley. Mr. Smedley has the dis- tinction of being the oldest merchant engaged in active business in Millersburg, so far as years of active identification with local busi- ness affairs is concerned, and during more than half a century of dealing with the people of this community he has maintained an in- violable reputation for fair and honorable business methods and sterling integrity of character, the gracious result of which has been that no citizen commands a greater meas- ure of popular confidence and respect.

Mr. Smedley has always done his part in the support of measures and enterprises pro- jected for the general good of the community, and while he has never sought or desired po- litical preferment he has accorded a staunch allegiance to the cause of the Democratic party. He is affiliated with Amity Lodge, No. 40, Free & Accepted Masons, of which he is past master, and for the past half century he has been a zealous member of the Baptist church in Millersburg.

At Millersburg, in the year 1861, was sol- emnized the marriage of Mr. Smedley to Miss Martha Boulden, who was summoned to the life eternal in 1872. Of this union were born two children-Claude, who died at the age of two years, and Maude S., who is the wife of Dr. C. Bruce Smith, of Millersburg, of whom specific mention is made on other pages of this work. In 1877 Mr. Smedley contracted a second marriage, having then been united to Mrs. Elizabeth (Boulden) Raines, widow of Dr. Henry Raines, who was one of the rep- resentative physicians and surgeons of Bour- bon county at the time of his demise. Mrs. Smedley passed away in the year 1892 and is survived by two children born of her mar- riage to Mr. Smedley-Mary H., who is the wife of Dr. Ernest Boston, of San Antonio, Texas, and Graham B., who is engaged in the practice of law at Midland, Texas, and who is serving as prosecuting attorney of Midland county at the time of this writing, in 1910. The honored subject of this review now re- sides in the home of his son-in-law, Dr. C. Bruce Smith, and though venerable in years he is alert and vigorous, while he finds pleas- ure in being surrounded by leal and loyal friends in the community that has been his home and the scene of his well directed ef- forts during the long period of more than half a century.

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CHARLES H. DIETRICH .- The subject of this sketch, now a citizen of Winchester, Kentucky, is a native of the Buckeye state, having been born in Fredericksburg, Wayne county, Ohio, September 19, 1849. His par- ents were John J. N. Dietrich and Elizabeth (Boyer) Dietrich, both of whom were born near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His grand- father, Jacob Dietrich, was a soldier in the American army in the war of the Revolution. His great-grandfather, a native of Germany, emigrated to America between 1745 and 1750 and settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Dietrich's father was a woollen manufac- turer, a business which he followed for many years, both in Pennsylvania and in Ohio, to which state he returned about the year 1837.

Charles H. Dietrich was reared in Wayne county, attending the schools of his native town and later those of Defiance, Ohio, to which city his parents removed their home in their later years. Upon the organization in 1873 of the Ohio State University, of Colum- bus, Ohio, he entered it as a student and grad- uated in 1878, in the first class of that now famous institution. He had been engaged in teaching before he entered college and re- sumed that work soon after his graduation. His health failing he joined a party of pros- pectors in the winter of 1880 and went to New Mexico, where he worked as a United States mineral surveyor until the close of the year when he was engaged by the city school board of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to organize and supervise the graded schools of that city. He entered upon the work at once and continued . but a child when his father died.

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A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities, Volume III, Part 28

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