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THOMAS KELLY VAN ZANDT, A. B., M. D., of Louisville, was born in Leavenworth, In- diana, on June 24, 1875. He is the son of Thomas Kelly Van Zandt, who was a native of Indiana.
The Van Zandts are Holland Dutch, the name originally having been Van der Zandt. The original Van Zandt in this country was
John, who had three sons, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. One of the sous went to Tennessee and thence into Texas, one went to Minnesota, and Isaac, the great-grandfather of our subject, came into northern Indiana. The original John Van Zandt came over and fought in the Revolutionary war with General Lafayette. The grandfather of our subject, Thomas Van Zandt, married a daughter of the Hon. Thom- as Kelly, who for years was speaker of the House of Representatives from New York. The father of the Doctor was a journalist and visited Leavenworth, Indiana, on newspaper business, met his future wife, married her, then purchased the Crawford County Demo- crat, but died three years after he settled there, on May 2, 1875, at the age of twenty- six years. The mother of the Doctor was Sarah Louise Ouerbacker, who was born in Leavenworth, Indiana, in 1851, the daughter of Michael and Sarah (Lowrie) Onerbacker, both natives of Germany, where they were sweethearts. She came to Louisville on a visit, and he came over on the next ship and they were married in Louisville. They then went to Leavenworth, where he went into business and became quite wealthy. Among the children of this old couple were John, Sam- 11el, Joseph, Peter and George, the Doctor's mother and Mary Martha, who married Judge N. R. Peckinpaugh, of Leavenworth, now of Louisville, who was governor of Alaska for four years, appointed under President Harri- son. John is deceased, Peter still resides in Leavenworth, while Joseph is the president of the O. K. Stove and Range Company and vice- president of the Commercial Bank and Trust Company. Samuel has for years been at the head of the Ouerbacker-Gilmore Wholesale Grocery Company, a director in the American National Bank and an influential business man in Louisville. George is vice-president and general manager of the Ouerbacker-Gilmore Company. Mrs. Van Zandt married for her second husband, in 1879, J. T. Crecelius and is living in Louisville.
Dr. Van Zandt was born six weeks after the death of his father, and when he was four years old his mother brought him to Louisville. He attended the public schools and graduated from the Male High School, Louisville, in 1894. He was then in the employ of the Ouer- backer-Gilmore Grocery Company for over five years and of which he became cashier and head bookkeeper. At the end of this time Mr. Van Zandt, having decided to make the profession of medicine his life business, matriculated in the medical department of the Kentucky Uni- versity, from which he was graduated in the class of 1902, and was honor man of his class.
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He was then an interne in the City Hospital for one year, and in 1903 began practice.
Dr. Van Zandt has been called upon for more than one position of importance. He was associate professor of anatomy until the uniting of the two medical colleges and since it has become the University of Louisville, and he is now associate professor of obstetrics. He is on the visiting staff of the Louisville City Hospital, and he has made a special study of one of the modern scientific discoveries, one that claims the closest attention of the great scientific men of the day, the study of anaes- thetics. Dr. Van Zandt has probably done more in that line than any other one physician in Louisville, having administered anaesthetics to over two thousand patients without one deathı.
Dr. Van Zandt is a member of the Jefferson County Medical Society, the Kentucky State Medical Society, and the Louisville Society of Medicine. He is a member of the Masonic Order, belonging to Louisville Lodge, No. 400, F. & A. M. The Doctor married Mary Gibson Morgan, who was born in Nashville, Tennes- see, the daughter of J. B. Morgan. Her moth- er was Jean Gibson, a granddaughter of Gen- eral Jackson. She is also descended from the Polk family, of which President James K. Polk was a member. One son has been born to the Doctor and wife, Thomas Kelly Jr., born January 10, 1909. From the above sketch it will be seen that the Doctor is a man of intellectuality and advanced ideas, without which he could not have attained to the rank among the most prominent physicians which he now enjoys. He wrote a booklet on "Bible Baptism," which received high commendations from ministers of several denominations, who recommended it to their parishioners who had doubts on that subject. He also prepared an analysis of the "Twenty-Five Articles of Re- ligion" of his church, that by many ministers and laymen was pronounced the strongest pre- sentation of the subject they had ever seen- if not absolutely unanswerable.
WILEY COPE MARSHALL. - Prominent among the members of the Franklin county bar is Wiley Cope Marshall, county attorney and a citizen who is a loyal Kentuckian by all the ties of birth and family. He was born in this county August 4, 1872, his parents be- ing John Swain and Mary Jane (Williams) Marshall. His father, who is now deceased, was a native of Shelby county; the grandfa- ther, Larkin Samuel Marshall, was born in Franklin county, near the Forks of Elkhorn Creek; and the great-grandfather, William Marshall, was a Virginian by birth and one of
Kentucky's earliest pioneers, who set up his home in Franklin on the forks of the Elkhorn Creek. Mr. Marshall's mother was born in Morgan county, her father being Mason H. P. Williams. Further mention of her family is made in the sketch of her brother, Judge Benjamin G. Williams, contained elsewhere in this volume.
The father of Wiley Cope Marshall for a number of years followed the trade of a shoe- maker in Frankfort and later in life moved to the country, where he engaged in farming. Thus it came about that the early years of Mr. Marshall were spent amid wholesome rural scenes and he was introduced to the strenuous occupations which are the share of the farmer's son. He obtained a fairly good common school education, and at seventeen left the parental home to begin the battle of life for himself and finally to enroll himself among the ranks of the successful self-made men. He was not retarded by false pride and at first made his living in various humble ways. His first position was as a laundry agent in Frankfort, and later his uncle, Judge Benjamin G. Williams, prominent lawyer of Frankfort. took him into his office and home, and by cleaning the office, acting as office boy and doing chores about the house young Mar- shall was fed, clothed and sheltered. At the same time, under the preceptorship of his un- cle, he read law and his study was so effective that he was admitted to the bar or licensed to practice law in 1895. After nearly a year of practice Mr. Marshall supplemented his pre- vious training by a course in law at the Uni- versity of Virginia in 1896, and afterward re- sumed his active practice at Frankfort.
From early manhood Mr. Marshall has been an active worker in the ranks of the Demo- cratic party. In 1905 he was one of the or- ganizers of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Frankfort, serving as president of the same for two years. In November of 1909 he was elected county attorney for a term of four years, dating from January 1, 1910. In this office he has already won popular praise and he is generally recognized to be one of the county's leading young men.
The fraternal relations of Mr. Marshall ex- tend to the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is also a deacon in the Christian church.
In 1898 Mr. Marshall married Miss Maude Gertrude Ponder, daughter of the late T. M. Ponder of LaGrange, Oldham county, Ken- tucky. They have one child, a daughter named Elizabeth Langsdale Marshall.
William Thomas Bruner B.S.
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WILLIAM TIEMAN JR .- This long promi- nent citizen of Campbell county was born in Hanover, Germany, November 9, 1843, a son of William Tieman Sr., who, as was his wife, was a native of Hanover. The elder Tieman was a rope maker by trade and a musician by profession. In 1844 he brought his wife and their infant son to America and the little fam- ily settled first at Cincinnati. There they re- mained till 1855, when they moved across the river to Jamestown, now Dayton, Kentucky, where Mr. Tieman embarked in the grocery trade and was successful as a merchant for several years. A Baptist, he developed into a musical evangelist and long labored among churches of that denomination as an employe of the Baptist Association. So successful was he in that capacity and so well known did he become in all the region round about that he grew to fill a warm place in the hearts of Cris- tians not only of the Baptist faith but of other creeds as well. He was especially skillful as a player of the clarinet and scarcely less so as a player of the tuba bass horn, and for many years he was a member of some of the best orchestras of Cincinnati, a city noted in all its history for its musical talent. A great lover of children, he was peculiarly happy in Sunday-school work, and there and in church- es his music was very helpful to him and was highly appreciated by all who had opporunity to hear it. He died at the home of his daugh- ter in Pendleton county, Kentucky, aged sev- enty-three years, and he was survived by his widow only about two years, when she too passed away in Pendleton county.
Of the eight children of William Tieman Sr. one died in Germany, the others were liv- ing in 1910. William Tieman Jr. was the second in order of birth and was only about a year old when his parents brought him across the ocean to a home in the New World. He was reared in Cincinnati and in Dayton and educated in common schools and at Nel- son's Business College, in the Queen City. As a boy he worked in his father's grocery, learn- ing the business thoroughly behind the count- er, and in the buying of goods and by contact with the buying and consuming community as well as with the manufacturer and the whole- saler, and at twenty engaged in the business on his own account, with Henry E. Spilman, later pastor of the Baptist church of Dayton, as his partner. After the expiration of a year he turned over his interest to his father and then gave his attention to real estate and build- ing. Several years ago he helped to organize the Dayton Lot and Home Company, of which he was president during the entire period of its existence. The association did much to-
ward the development of Dayton as a town of homes, buying tracts of land, platting it and laying out streets and improving and selling lots and assisting purchasers to build on them.
Mr. Tieman, a stanch Democrat of the old school, is under the new order of things polit- ical as stanch a Republican. While he was as yet a young man, in the days before the organ- ization of Dayton, he was village clerk of Jamestown, which later was consolidated with Brooklyn under the present name. Afterward he was at different times elected a member of the city council of Dayton, in which capacity he served faithfully eighteen years in all. Governor Harmon of Ohio was one of Mr. Tieman's boyhood friends, and the ties that bound them so long ago have never been sev- ered but have been drawn tighter as years have come and gone, and after the former's nom- ination to his present great office Mr. Tieman wrote him, referring to the old times and con- gratulating him on the probability of his elec- tion, adding that though a Republican the writer would gladly vote for the friend of his youth if the latter were only a candidate for the governorship of Kentucky instead of the prob- able next chief magistrate of the Buckeye State. One of Mr. Tieman's cherished pos- sessions is Governor Harmon's reply, acknowl- edging the receipt of that letter, referring to their former intimacy and thanking him for the friendship that had prompted him to send his message of good cheer.
Mr. Tieman married Elizabeth Krantz in February, 1864. Her father, Jacob Krantz, was a native of Pennsylvania and an early settler at Jamestown. His old house, built in 1830, is now the property of one of his de- scendants. By trade he was a ship carpenter. Mr. and Mrs. Tieman have children named Lillie, Fred and Nelson. Clifford, another son, is deceased. Adopting the religious ideas of his respected father, Mr. Tieman has long been a Baptist, and he and his wife are de- vout and helpful members of the local organi- zation of the denomination. For some years he was active in the work of the Ancient Or- der of United Workmen. He has been prom- inent as a Knight of Pythias. In 1886 he was made a Mason and he has since attained the Thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite. As a citizen he has been progressive and public spirited, aiding to the extent of his ability ev- ery movement which in his judgment had promised to advance the best interests of his city, county and state, and in national politics his outlook is broad and optimistic.
WILLIAM THOMAS BRUNER, M. D .- The profession of medicine now numbers in its ranks some of the most eminent men of the
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country, men of great force of character who are devoting their lives to alleviating the suf- ferings of mankind. As the standard of the profession rises, the class of men attracted to it becomes higher. One of the prominent physicians and specialists, who has made a splendid record as a medical practitioner, is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch.
Dr. Bruner was born in Garnetsville, Meade county, Kentucky, on March, 18, 1871, the son of the Rev. Isaac Willis Bruner, who was born in Grayson county, Kentucky, on March 31, 1836. The original ancestor was a native of Germany who settled in Virginia and reared a large family, part of whom went to Texas and others to Kentucky.
Rev. I. W. Bruner is a man of finely edu- cated mind, and one of the early teachers of Meade county, at one time professor in Salem College at Garnetsville, Kentucky. For fifty- three years he has been a member of the Bap- tist church, and is now district superintendent of the Kentucky Children's Home Society, and he has been for about ten years traveling over the entire state, where he is one of the very best known men of Kentucky. He went to Hodgenville from Garnetsville, where he lived thirteen years, thence to Henry county, and then lived in Bowling Green until 1903, when he came to Louisville. He married Maggie E. Rogers who was born in Grayson county, a daughter of Judge Benjamin L. Rogers, a niece of Judge Henry Clay Rogers, of Gray- son county, and sister of Henry Clay Rogers, a prominent stock buyer of Litchfield, Ken- tucky. She is still living, her birth having oc- curred in 1848, on February 26.
Rev. I. W. Bruner and his wife were the parents of the following children: Professor James D. Bruner, Annie Blanch, Dr. W. T. Bruner, Professor General Perry Bruner and Tula Lee. Professor James D. Bruner, presi- dent of Chowan College, Murfreesboro, North Carolina, married Elizabeth H. Cooley, of Chicago. He was educated in and gradu- ated from Georgetown College, received the degree of Ph. D. at Johns Hopkins University, then spent two years in special study in Eu- rope. He was professor of Romance Lan- guages at Chicago University for four years, until his health broke down. He was after- wards professor of Romance Languages in the University at North Carolina, then be- came president of Chowan College, 1900, and was a professor in the University of Illinois at Champaign for a few years before going to Chicago University. His wife was a teach- er of the German language in Illinois Univer- sity. The Professor is an author of note and has published several books, all on the line of
his work. Annie Blauch married Dr. B. L. Bruner, at present secretary of state of Ken- tucky. Professor General Perry Bruner grad- uated from Georgetown College and is a di- rector of Music at Wayland College, Plain- view, Texas, and is unmarried. Tula Lee married F. M. Gerard, and resides in Bowling Green.
Dr. William Thomas Bruner spent his boy- hood days in Hodgensville, Kentucky, where he attended school. He then attended Frank- lin (Indiana) College, and finally graduated from Fairmont College, Kentucky, in 1886, with the degree of B. S. He later was gradu- ated from the Louisville Hospital College of Medicine in 1896, with the degree of M. D. In 1890 the Doctor was graduated from the Chicago College of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. He began general practice in Louis- ville in 1896, but for ten years he has made a specialty of eye, ear, nose and throat treat- ment. The Doctor was a teacher in the med- ical department of the University of Ken- tucky and one year with the University of Louisville. His residence and office are sit- uated at 2743 Dumesnil street.
All his life Dr. Bruner has been interested in church and Sunday-school work, and he has been a member of the Baptist church for twenty-six years, and is president of the Ken- tucky Baptist Sunday-school Union, president of the Louisville Baptist Sunday-school Un- ion and president of the Long Run Baptist Sunday-school Union. He is also superin- tendent of the Sunday-school of Parkland Baptist church. Dr. Bruner is a member of the Jefferson County Medical Society, the Kentucky State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the West End Med- ical Society In fraternal relations he is a Master Mason.
Dr. Bruner married Eva Morris, who was born in Sulphur, Henry county, Kentucky, the daughter of the late W. G. Morris, a tobacco broker of Sulphur and Louisville and of the firm of W. G. Morris & Company, of Louis- ville. They have two children, Nellie Ree, born July 14. 1890, graduated from the Girl's High School of Louisville, and married to E. G. Slaughter of Louisville and William Thomas Jr., born May 5, 1902.
MCKENZIE ROBERTSON TODD, state inspector and examiner, and former private secretary to Governor Willson, is one of Kentucky's foremost Republicans, having been active in politics since 1895 and having been connected with the Republican State Central Committee for years. Mr. Todd is especially well fitted both by excellent principles and native ability and talent for positions of public trust and re-
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sponsibility, while his executive and diplomatic ability and his attainments as a forceful and able campaign speaker have made him a valu- able adjunct to the party to which he pays al- legiance.
Mckenzie Robertson Todd is by birth an Indianan, having been born in Madison, that state, November 30, 1870. His parents are William and Jane (Robertson) Todd, both natives of Scotland, the land of the thistle. When young people they decided to cast their fortunes with a land of newer civilization and richer resources. They met and married in the Hoosier state and in 1883 they moved to Kentucky, where they first located in Shelby- ville. In 1884, however, they came to Frank- fort, where the husband followed his business, which was that of a merchant tailor, and two years later, in 1886, his death occurred. He left to mourn his loss a widow, three sons and one daughter. They were by name John R., Thomas R., McKenzie R., and Mary J., de- ceased. Mrs. William Todd still resides in Frankfort, having made her home in the cap- ital city of the Blue Grass state for some twenty-six years.
Mr. Todd is indebted for his public school education both to the schools of Indiana and to those of Frankfort. After completing his course he entered the University of Michigan, and in 1894 was graduated from its law de- partment. He hung up his professional shingle in the home city and in a gratifyingly short time was the possessor of an excellent practice. About this time, although only about twenty-five years of age, he became interested and then active in politics and in 1896 was appointed assistant attorney general, in which capacity he served the state until 1899, a pe- riod of three years. During the brief time that Governor Taylor was governor of Ken- tucky Mr. Todd served as his private secre- tary. He was again appointed to the office of assistant attorney general, and served for two years more, after which he was made state statistical agent in the United States depart- ment of agriculture, which position he re- signed to become private secretary to Gover- nor Willson when that gentleman assumed the gubernatorial office. In this important capac- ity he served with distinction from December 31, 1907, to April 25, 1910, when he resigned to accept the appointment to the position of state inspector and examiner, succeeding Mr. H. M. Thatcher, who had resigned.
Among Mr. Todd's most valuable services must be noted those as a member of the com- mittee of five that successfully conducted the Republican campaign of 1907 to a triumphant issue. He is especially sought on account of
his convincing and eloquent oratory. While a student at the University of Michigan he was chosen, after a heated contest, to repre- sent the University at the National College League of Republican Clubs at their annual meeting. He is thus by no means a novice in the practice of moving the popular mind by eloquent appeal. As another evidence of the favor in which Mr. Todd is held in high places is the fact that he was appointed by Governor Willson a member of the Perry's Victory Cen- tennial Commission, under an act of the Ken- tucky legislature authorizing the state's execu- tive head to appoint five Kentuckians to rep- resent the state in 1913 at the centennial cele- bration at Put-in-Bay, Ohio.
JOHN GOODMAN, M. D .- To feel in the eve- ning of his long life that he has followed na- ture's inward laws, that he has not lived for self alone, that he has helped and uplifted many of his fellow men, and that he has won a high and honored position in society, all these things and many more are the rewards of the splendid career of John Goodman, who stands in the front ranks of physicians and surgeons in Louisville. No estimate too high can be set on the works of such a man, and it is hoped that the brief record of the main events, of his career, which is all that can be attempted in a work of this kind, will be an incentive to those who come after him to high- er and nobler living, for it is in biography alone that the best stimulus is to be found.
Dr. Goodman was born in Frankfort, Ken- tucky, July 22, 1837, the son of John and Jane (Winter) Goodman. The father was a native of Germany, who came to America in 1798, and settled in Frankfort in 1803. The mother was a native of Maryland, the daughter of Daniel Winter, a native of Wales. Dr. Good- man received his preliminary education in the private schools of Frankfort, and in 1855 was graduated from Georgetown (Kentucky) College. Following his graduation he became a student in the office of Dr. Louis Rogers, in Louisville. In 1859 he was graduated from the medical department of Tulane University, near New Orleans, with high honors. That same year he began the practice of medicine in Louisville and has continued the same up to the present time, and is now in active prac- tice, with offices in the Weissinger-Gaulbert building.
Dr. Goodman, in addition to his large prac- tice, has held many important positions. In 1860 he became demonstrator of anatomy in the Kentucky School of Medicine, and when that institution was compelled to suspend its sessions on account of the war between the states, he became an instructor in the Univer-
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sity Dispensary School of Medicine and at the same time was adjunct professor of obstetrics in the medical department of the University of Louisville. In 1868, in conjunction with Professor H. M. Bullitt, Professor Henry Miller (his father-in-law) and others he es- tablished the Louisville Medical College, and became professor of obstetrics in the same, holding that professorship for eleven years. For three years he also held the chair of ob- stetrics and diseases of women in the Ken- tucky School of Medicine. For ten years Dr. Goodman was physician to the Presbyterian Orphan Asylum. For twenty-five years he was connected with the House of Refuge and for eight years was one of the physicians of the University Dispensary. In all these char- ities Dr. Goodman gave his time, skill and services, gaining little reward pecuniarily but receiving the gratitude of many he had assist- ed and the approval of his own conscience.
Dr. Goodman was one of the organizers of Louisville's first Board of Health in 1868, and wrote the health ordinances for the govern- ment of the health department of the city, many of which are still in force. For three years he was a member of the Louisville School Board, and for a similar length of time was a member of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities. The Doctor has been a frequent contributor to medical literature, his' papers pertaining to obstetrical subjects and the functions of the female organs having at- tracted the attention of the profession, and the theories of which he was the originator hav- ing since received the endorsement of eminent physiologists.
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