A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities, Volume III, Part 38

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

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DAVID HOWARD MCKINLEY, M. D., is one of the young physicians of Winchester, quite recently come into practice, but with un- bounded ambition, talent, a splendid educa- tion, a mind and understanding receptive to learning and thus conducing to all the latest and most modern improvements and discoveries in this field of science there can be no doubt of his success and that farther afield than his home town his name will be known in the future.

Dr. Mckinley was born in Winchester, Kentucky, November 20, 1884, the son of Dr. I. H. Howard Mckinley, who was born in Spencer county, Kentucky, January 11, 1853, and who died in his office in Winchester, Ken- tucky, April 14, 1908. His father, David, was a native of Spencer county, Kentucky, and his father was James McKinley, a native of Ire- land, who came to Kentucky among the early - pioneers. Our subject's father was reared on - a farm and was educated at the common schools, supplementing this with a course at the Elizabethtown school, from which he was

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graduated. Then with the view of making medicine his life study and profession he went to Louisville and studied the necessary course and graduated from the Hospital College in 1878 and further increased his knowledge and gained experience by becoming an interne in the Louisville City Hospital, in which position he remained until the spring of 1879, when he came to Winchester, Kentucky.

In that city he formed a partnership with Dr. Hub Taylor, which lasted for ten years, and from that time practiced by himself. His whole life was devoted to his profession and he met with deserved success, an extensive patronage and a host of warm friends. He served for a term on the school board and was an elder in the Presbyterian church for a number of years. The Doctor was a promi- nent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Masonic Order. He was a distant relation of the late President McKinley, but while differing from him in politics, in that the Doctor was a Democrat, still the fine characteristics which distin- guished the one were most notable in the other.

Dr. I. H. Mckinley married Lucy Tallif- fero, who was born in Winchester, Kentucky, April 11, 1854, a descendant of the old Tallif- fero and Hickman families who were promi- nent in the early history of Kentucky. To this union three children were born: Susie N., the wife of S. T. Davis, living in Win- chester; David Howard, our subject; and Margaret Alyette, wife of Floyd Clay, of Winchester.

David Howard Mckinley, our subject, was reared in Winchester and received his literary education first at the common schools, then in the Kentucky Wesleyan College, from which he graduated in 1899, afterward dur- ing the years 1904-05, at the University of Virginia and finally graduated from the Louis- ville Medical school. After completing this complete course of instruction, Dr. Mckinley entered into the practice of his profession with his father, whose untimely demise we have mentioned and who was greatly mourned by a wide circle of friends. The young Doctor already has shown that he is a worthy fol- lower in his father's footsteps, than which no finer testimonial can be expressed.

J. H. MACNEILL, D. D .- It is with a full appreciation of all that is demanded and of the carefulness that must be accorded each statement, and yet with a feeling of satisfac- tion, that we endeavor the task of touching briefly upon the details of the record of the character of the able and devoted pastor of the First Christian church of Winchester.

Kentucky. He has been an indefatigable and zealous worker in promoting both the tem- poral and spiritual growth of the parish over which he is placed in charge, while his influ- ence in diocesan affairs has been potent for good.

Rev. J. H. MacNeill is in his fourth year of service for the First Christian church of Winchester, Kentucky. He was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1857, the son of John MacNeill, who was born on the island of Colonsay off the coast of Scotland. He was educated in the University of Glas- gow, ordained in the Baptist church and sent to Canada while a young man. Here he met with and married Barbara McDonald, who was also Scotch. He spent his life there work- ing for the church and died at the age of seventy-seven years, active until his death. His wife lived to the age of eighty-three years. They were the parents of ten children, seven sons of whom are living.

Rev. J. H. MacNeill received part of his education in a grammar school and Normal college of his island home, where he taught school for five years. He entered the Bible college of Kentucky University, now Tran- sylvania, in 1882, from which he graduated in 1886. He preached for two years and three months in Louisville, Kentucky, and from there went to Rushville, Indiana, where he preached for eleven years, building up a great church of nine hundred members and erecting a fine church and brick parsonage. From Rushville he went to Muncie, Indiana, where he spent three fruitful years. At the persist- ent "call," thrice repeated, of the church at Kokomo, Indiana, he removed to that impor- tant center, where he remained for six years and where he built one of the finest church houses in the state, costing over forty thou- sand dollars and where he also lead in the building up of probably the largest Bible school then known among the disciples, with an average attendance of over six hundred. In 1907 Rev. J. H. MacNeill begin his pres- ent ministry, where he has the love and re- spect not only of his own people but of the entire community.

On May 29, 1888, our subject was married to Jennie H. Croman who was born in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, and reared in Louisville, Ken- tucky. Four children have been born to this union ; Homer, in business in Winchester, Kentucky, and Frank and Josephine, at home. John Jr. died when two and one-half years of age.

It will be appropriate to mention some facts about the church over which. Rev. J. H. Mac- Neill is at present presiding, as it is one of the

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oldest Christian churches in the state, dating back almost to the beginning of the "Restora- tion movement" begun by Thomas and Alex- ander Campbell in 1809. The mother and grandmother of the venerable Elder James W. Harding, who was born in 1823 and who still lives in Winchester, were charter men- bers. The date of the organization is un- known but Elder William Morton was the organizer. The original membership was composed mainly of a few people from "Old Friendship" Baptist church, which was lo- cated where the Winchester cemetery now is. The congregation built its first house of wor- ship in 1837 and in 1845 a new site was pur- chased and a building erected. Thirty years afterward a new building, which continued for many years to be the largest and finest house of worship in the city, was erected on the same site. It continued to be the home and workshop of the church until destroyed by fire in February, 1908. During these thirty years and more, from 1837, Elder Aylette Raines of Paris, Kentucky, preached for the congregation once a month, serving Paris and North Middleton at the same time.

The membership at this time was made up largely of country people, the population of Winchester being only about two hundred and fifty as late as 1839. The names of many of the prominent families now so well and hon- orably known in Clark county are to be found on that early roster. Many of the famous preachers of those times held meeting for the church, among them, John T. Johnson, John A. Gano, Dr. Hopson, Moses E. Lard, Benj. Franklin, John I. Rogers and J. W. McGar- vey. "Raccoon" John Smith and Alexander Campbell also preached a few times. Follow- ing are some of the later ministers of the congregation : J. B. Briney from 1871-1874, J. B. McGinn from 1875-1877, B. F. Clay from 1877-1880, H. T. Wilson from 1880- 1882, J. C. Tully from 1883-1885, J. W. Mc- Garvey and Mark Collis during 1886, H. W. Elliott 1887, J. S. Kendrick 1888-1891, I. J. Spencer 1892 and 1893, W. S. Keene from 1894 until his death in April, 1898, T. B. Walker from 1898-1901, C. J. Armstrong from 1902-1907 and J. H. MacNeill who is still serving the church. The membership is now over seven hundred and fifty, its Bible school numbers over six hundred and they now worship in one of the finest church edi- fices in the state, erected in 1908 at a cost of about seventy-five thousand dollars. It is a thoroughly equipped twentieth century church plant. This church is intelligently and enthu- siastically missionary. Besides its own minis- ter and his assistant it supports four mission-

ary pastors : at Jubbulpore, India ; Albuquer- que, New Mexico; Hazel Green, Kentucky, and a station on the foreign field not yet se- lected by the women of the church who have recently become a "Living Link."

The missionary and benevolent offerings of the church amount each year to almost that contributed to local work. For almost a cen- tury this splendid church has been a dominant factor in the religious life of the city and county, standing for the safety of property, the conservation of peace, and the purification and exaltation of human life. Its influence for good canot be measured until time shall be no more.

WILLIAM W. TARVIN, M. D .- Through his prestige as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of his native city of Covington, Dr. Tarvin · gives effective contradistinction to the scriptural statement that "A prophet is not without honor save in his own country." He has been engaged in the successful practice of his profession in Covington for nearly a quarter of a century, during which he has re- tained a large and representative clientele, and besides which he has kept in close touch with the advances made in both branches of his profession.

William Woodward Tarvin was born in Covington, on the 11th of August, 1864, and is the only child of Richard Į. and Emma ( Wiley) Tarvin, the former of whom was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the latter in Campbell county, Kentucky. The lineage of both families is traced back to stanch English origin, and the first representative of the Tar- vin family in America here took up their res- idence in 1760; they were Dunkards in their religious faith and associations. The Wiley family was early founded in the state of New York, and the greater number of its members, as well as those of the Tarvin family, have been honest and unpretentious representatives of the great basic art of agriculture. Richar 1 J. Tarvin, father of the Doctor. now resides in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he is secretary and treasurer of the Stacy Manu- facturing Company, one of the important in- dustrial concerns of that city. His first wife died in 1888 and he subsequently married Miss Josephine Storch ; the union being without is- sue.

Dr. Tarvin was reared to maturity in Cov- ington, to whose public schools he is indebted for his early educational training. As a boy and young man he was employed in a station- ery store in this city and, in preparation for the work of his chosen profession he began the study of medicine under the able pre- ceptorship of Dr. Charles Kearns, of Coving-

W.W. Garvin.

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ton, of whom specific mention is made on other pages of this work. In October, 1882, he was matriculated in the Ohio Medical Col- lege, which is now the medical department of the University of Cincinnati, and in this in- stitution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1886, duly receiving his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. He forthwith opened an office in his native city, and during the intervening years he has held a secure place as one of the representative members of his profession in Covington, where he controls a general practice and where he has specialized in surgery, in which he has been particularly successful. He is one of the valued members of the Campbell-Kenton County Medical Society, of which he has served as president, and he is also actively identified with the Kentucky State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is physician of the Protestant Children's Home and is a member of the medical staff of St. Elizabeth's Hospital. For seven years he served as city surgeon and jail physician of Covington, and for fifteen years he held the position of county coroner. In politics the Doctor accords a stanch allegiance to the cause of the Democratic party, and on its ticket he was elected county coroner on four different occasions. He is at the present time a member of the board of health of Covington. Mrs. Tarvin is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South.

On the 14th of January, 1885, Dr. Tar- vin was united in marriage to Miss Lulu H. Marsh, who was born and reared in Cov- ington and who is a daughter of Euclid W. and Emma (Krupper) Marsh, both of whom were likewise born in Covington, where their re- spective parents settled in the pioneer days, having come hither from Virginia. Euclid W. Marsh was a prominent tobacco merchant in Covington, and his father likewise had been identified with this line of enterprise. Dr. and Mrs. Tarvin have one daughter, Rebecca M., who is now the wife of John T. Ranshaw, of Covington.

JAMES A. BOONE .- The efficient clerk of Clark county is James A. Boone, who since 1888 has been a resident of this particularly favored portion of the state. He is indeed a Kentuckian of Kentuckians, being descended in a collateral line from the very stock which produced that famous pioneer, Daniel Boone. Mr. Boone is an enterprising business man and a lodge man of wide acquaintance and popularity, his membership extending to no less than six organizations.

He was born January 24, 1867, the names of his parents being John and Amanda

(Dodd) Boone. The father was born in Harrison county, Indiana, and died February 14, 1882, aged forty-four years. The mother, who was a native Virgiman, is seventy-three years old and makes her home in the Hoosier state. The paternal grandfather, Craven Boone, was a native of Montgomery county and one of its pioneers. At an early day ne removed to Harrison county, Indiana, and took a tract of wild land, which he pro- ceeded to clear and bring to a state of cultiva- tion. Boone township in that county bears his name, this being appropriate from the fact that in the community in which he made his home for so many years he was a factor foi good. He was a man of some eccentricities and hewed his own tomb out of the solid rock upon his farm, his remains being therein in- terred after his demise. The father was a good citizen who followed the agricultural line throughout the course of his life and who was gathered to his fathers at his home in In- diana.

It was amid the simple, wholesome surround- ings of the farm that Mr. Boone was reared and in addition to an all-round practical train- ing he secured a common school education. In March, 1882, when fifteen years of age, he began working in a dry goods store in La- conia, Indiana, and here he got his start in life and learned those lessons of industry and thrift which have since stood him in good stead. In October, 1888, he came to Winches- ter, Kentucky, and secured employment in a clothing store owned by V. Bloomfield, which position he held until 1893. He later gave up this work and for a time conducted a general merchandise , store at Beckmerville, Clark county, Kentucky. He sold this in 1901 and went to Hardin county, Kentucky, where he bought a farm and operated it for eight months. He was not a timid soul to fear change and he again sold his property and worked in the Winn Furniture Company's es- tablishment for a time. This he continued until his election in November, 1905, as county clerk of Clark county, in which important ca- pacity he is now serving his second term. He is passionately devoted to the policies and principles of the Democratic party and for several years has been a central committee- man.

Mr. Boone's numerous and important lodge affiliations have been previously referred to. First and foremost he is a member of the an- cient and august order of Masons, and be- longs to the Order of the Mystic Shrine at Lexington, Kentucky. Other fraternal orders which claim his loyal allegiance are the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows: the Knights

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of Pythias; the Redmen; the Modern Wood- men of America; and the Woodmen of the World.

Mr. Boone laid the foundation of a house- hold of his own when on February 17, 1893 he was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Elizabeth Powell, a native of Clark county, Kentucky. Mrs. Boone was born in 1873 and is the daughter of J. H. and Susan ( Kindred) Powell. Her parents are both Kentuckians, the father a native of Clark county and the mother of Madison. They are retired agri- culturists and now make their home at Win- chester, enjoying in leisure the fruits of their previous industry. The father is sixty-eight years of age and the mother, sixty-five. The two daughters of the subject, Ada Lee and Millie I., are at home. Mr. and Mrs. Boone are members of the Baptist church.

JOSEPH A. MILLER .- This venerable and honored citizen and representative business man of Millersburg has the distinction of be- ing the only living grandson of that sterling pioneer of Bourbon county, John Miller, who was the founder of the village of Millersburg, which perpetuates his name. The family has been prominent in connection with the civic and material development and upbuilding of this favored section of the state, and more complete genealogical record concerning the same may be found in the sketch dedicated to Dr. William M. Miller, on other pages of this work, so that a repetition of the data is not demanded in the present connection.

Joseph A. Miller was born at Millersburg, Bourbon county, Kentucky, on the 19th of February, 1832, and is a son of Alexander and Martha ( Harris) Miller, both of whom continued residents of Bourbon county until they were summoned to the life eternal, secure in the high regard of all who knew them. Joseph A. Miller was reared to the sturdy dis- cipline of the home farm and after availing himself of the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period he was en- abled to prosecute his higher academic studies in old Transylvania University, in the city of Lexington, this state. He continued to be actively identified with agricultural pursuits until 1873, when he established his home in Millersburg and engaged in the grocery busi- ness, in which he successfully continued for more than a quarter of a century. Upon re- tiring from this line of enterprise he engaged in the retail hardware trade, with which he has since been actively concerned, and his es- tablishment controls a large and representa- tive patronage, based upon his honorable meth- ods and dealings and upon his unqualified personal popularity in the county which has

ever been his home and the stage of his ear- nest and worthy endeavors. Mr. Miller has been influential in connection with civic affairs of a local order, has served as township trus- tee for more than twelve years, and has held other minor offices of trust. His political al- legiance has ever been given to the Democratic party and he has kept well informed concern- ing the questions and issues of the hour. Mr. Miller rendered gallant service as a loyal sol- dier of the Confederacy in the Civil war, in which he served for three and one-half years, as a member of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry, in the command of Colonel Breckinridge. Mr. Miller participated in a number of the important battles marking the progress of the great conflict between the north and south and took part in innumerable skirmishes and other minor engagements in which his command was involved. He was never wounded, but was once captured by the enemy, who held him in duress for a period, at the expiration of which he was exchanged. His continued interest in his old comrades is shown by his membership in the United Confederate Veter- ans' Association. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and both are held in the high- est regard in their home city and county.

In Mason county, this state, on the 14th of December, 1872, was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Miller to Miss Sallie M. Best, who was born and reared in that county and who is a member of one of the pioneer fami- lies of that section.

WILLIAM WALLACE THOMPSON. - The death of William Wallace Thompson on No- vember 27, 1901, deprived Mt. Sterling of a citizen who for many years had been a prom- inent factor in business, banking and agricul- tural circles, and in all three fields he left his mark as an enterprising and upright supporter of the best interests of the community. He was born in Mt. Sterling August 30, 1843, the son of Charles G. and Caroline (Smith) Thompson, and of the four children of that union none survive. On the maternal side Mr. Thompson was of pioneer stock. His great-grandfather, Enoch Smith, was one of three men to whom Montgomery county was allotted by grant, from Governor Benjamin Harrison, of Virginia. His father was twice married, the second wife being Mary O'Rear. who is now living in Mt. Sterling at the age of eighty years. This union was also fruitful of four children, two of whom are living at the present time, namely : Charles G., of Mt. Ster- ling, and Emma, wife of George Coleman, of the same place.

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when he became an orphan and after the age of fourteen he received no more schooling. Any deficiency in education he well remedied, however, for he was a natural student and read a great deal, becoming a well posted man, far superior in this respect to many whose educa- tional advantages has been many times as great. When fourteen years of age he found it necessary to face the real issues of life. His first stock in trade consisted of a horse and wagon, this being the nucleus of what came to be a small livery stable. Later he clerked in a dry goods store for a few years and for a time operated a dry goods store of his own, which he ultimately sold. He made a radical change by entering the Exchange Bank, where he assumed the office of cashier and for seven years he continued in this capacity. He sub- sequently resigned and organized The Trad- ers' Deposit Bank (now The Traders' Na- tional) and for fifteen years held a similar position with that substantial concern. In 1898 Mr. Thompson retired and devoted the remainder of his life to farming. He owned a splendid farm of seven hundred acres on the Maysville pike, fertile in soil, well situated and beautiful in natural scenery. None was more truly a successful, selfmade man than he, everything which he secured or achieved being absolutely through his own efforts. The fine agricultural property which he left at his death is now conducted by the sons who remain at home. In his political allegiance Mr. Thomp- son was a Republican and he was a member of the Christian church, having been a deacon in the same.

Mr. Thompson laid the foundation of an ideal married companionship on June 6, 1871, when he was united in the holy bonds of mat- rimony to Minerva Quisenberry, who was born in Clark county January 31, 1853. Mrs. Thompson was a daughter of Thomas J. Quis- enberry, also a native of Clark county, who departed this life in March, 1881, aged fifty- nine years, and his wife, Frances Bybee, was also born in this favored portion of Kentucky in 1832, her demise occurring in 1895. The marriage of this worthy pair was blessed by the birth of eight children, Mr. Thompson's wife being the third in order of birth. The eldest child, Mary Jane, died in February, 1905. She was twice married, her first hus- band being Richard Duerson, of Winchester, Kentucky. Her second, Dr. David L. Proc- ter, of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. The only son, Joseph T., resides in Winchester, Kentucky, as do three daughters. Laura is the wife of Christy Bush; Elizabeth is Mrs. Charles B. Stewart ; Emma is the wife of Woodson Mc- Cord. Miss Illa, seventh in order of birth and Lula, the youngest, and wife of Edward Fox,

still live upon the ancestral farm settled by their grandfather, Joel Tandy Quisenberry.

To Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were born seven children and four of them are living at the present day. The daughter, Mary Fran- ces, is the wife of James Kennedy of Mt. Ster- ling; William Lois and his wife, Leila Prew- itt, live upon their farm near Prewitt station. in Montgomery county. Joseph W. and Paul are upon the homestead, in whose cultivation these two estimable young citizens unite.

JOHN W. BURNS, M. D .- For fully a score of years Dr. John W. Burns was engaged in the active practice of his profession in this section of the fine old Blue Grass state, but in 1906. on account of impaired licalth, he was forced to give up his work, in which his suc- cess was of most distinguished order. He is now living in Carlisle, Nicholas county. He was born at Georgetown, Brown county, Ohio, on the 9th of September, 1860, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Duckworth) Burns, the former a native of Ireland, whence he em- igrated to America as a young man, and the latter a native of Montgomery county, Ken- tucky. William Burns was reared and edu- cated in Ireland and on his arrival in the United States, he lived for a time in Robert- son county, Kentucky, where his marriage was solemnized. Some time after his marriage he removed to Georgetown, Ohio, where he fol- lowed the work of his trade, that of carpenter and contractor. He was twice married and by his first wife became the father of three children-Alonzo, who is now deceased ; Mary E., who is the widow of John Stewart and who resides at Cane Ridge, Kentucky; and John W., of this review. Mrs. Elizabeth Burns was summoned to the life eternal in 1864, after which William Burns married again and reared a large family of children. He re- moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he owned and operated a lumber yard for a number of years prior to his death. When civil war was precipitated upon a divided nation he tendered his services in defense of the Union and gave valiant service throughout the war in an Ohio regiment.

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A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities, Volume III, Part 38

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