A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities, Volume III, Part 4

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

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Dr. Goodman has always had a fondness for the study of the sciences in general, and has given special attention to the science of elec- tricity, in which field his investigations have been of the practical kind, made with a view to inventing useful electrical appliances. In conjunction with his son Henry M. (a leading physician of Louisville) he has been the orig- inator of numerous electrical inventions, among them the needle telephone, in which the principle of the galvanometer was substituted for that of the magnet and armature generally used. Patents on various modifications of this instrument were issued early in the history of the telephone in 1880. The Doctor is a men- ber of the Jefferson County Medical Society and of the Kentucky State Medical Society. He was a member of the American Gynecolog- ical Society at a time when the membership of that eminent society was limited to forty, which honor Dr. Goodman considers the greatest of the many he has received.

In 1859 Dr. Goodman married Caroline D.,

the daughter of Professor Henry Miller, one of Louisville's eminent physicians and med- ical instructors of his day. She died in 1883, leaving one son, Dr. Henry M. Goodman. In 1885 Dr. Goodman was again united in mar- riage, his second wife being Mrs. Resetta S. Kalfus, who is the daughter of the late R. R. Jones of Louisville. Although past the age of threescore and ten, he still attends to his large practice. He has had a long career as physician, and has always been ready to go to the aid of the suffering, and the gratitude of those he has aided has been more precious to him than all pecuniary rewards. For this, as well as his great talents and knowledge he now holds the esteem of all and as well for his noble and sincere character.

THEODORE L. BURNETT .- Mr. Burnett is one of the venerable and distinguished mem- bers of the bar of his native state and was a member of the Confederate congress as well as a soldier in the ranks of the Confederacy in the Civil war, prior to which he had given able service as a soldier in the Mexican war. He has been engaged in the active practice of his profession for nearly three-quarters of a cen- tury, and since 1866 has followed this voca- tion in the city of Louisville, where it was also his to hold the position of corporation counsel of the city for eighteen consecutive years. He has ever stood exemplar of the most loyal citizenship and as a lawyer and man of affairs has ever commanded the uni- form confidence and esteem of his fellow men.

Theodore L. Burnett was born in Spencer county, Kentucky, on the 14th of November, 1829, and is the only child of John C. and Marie ( McGee) Burnett, both of whom were likewise born and reared in Kentucky, where they continued to reside until their death, both having passed away before the subject of this review was ten years of age. The Burnett family lineage is traced back to stanch Scotch origin and authentic data are available from the year 1322. The progenitor of the family accompanied King Robert Bruce to North- eastern Scotland in 1322. The King gave a charter to a large landed estate, and as an evi- dence of tenure he gave him a horn. It is made of ivory and is to this day preserved in a glass case in Crathes Castle, which castle was erected on the estate so granted in 1595 and has been continuously occupied by the head of the family, who at this time is Sir Thomas Burnett, Baronet.

In the castle there are portraits of the fam- ily and among them the portrait of Bishop Gilbert Burnet, who was a cousin of the then head of the family. Bishop Burnet was de- scended from the Crimond branch of the fam-

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ily and accompanied William, Prince of Or- ange, to England in the capacity of chaplain and was a distinguished character in the Rev- olution of 1688 that brought William and Mary to the throne of England, and was ap- pointed Bishop of Salisbury.

William Burnet, eldest son of Gilbert Bur- net, emigrated to America in 1720 and became governor of the colonies of New York and New Jersey. Later he was Colonial governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and died in Boston in 1728. Dr. Thomas Burnett, the youngest son of the Bishop, and his liter- ary executor, spelled the name with two t's, as is shown in his manuscript endorsement in Vol. I, Burnett's History, printed in 1724 and now in possession of the family. George Bur- nett, son of Dr. Thomas Burnett, emigrated to Virginia in 1721 and he was the father of John Burnett, the latter of whom was the grandfather of him whose name introduced this article.

As already stated, the parents of Theodore L. Burnett died when he was a boy, but under the careful and solicitous direction of his guardians he received excellent educational advantages. He completed the academic course in Transylvania University at Lexing- ton, Kentucky, and in the law department of this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1846. In the same year he was licensed to practice by the court of appeals, but he enlisted as a member of the First Ken- tucky Cavalry, which was mustered in the United States army for service in the war with Mexico. Mr. Burnett returned to Ken- tucky in 1847 and was soon afterward elected county attorney for Spencer county. He be- came one of the leading lawyers of that section of the state and controlled a large practice in Spencer and adjoining counties until the time of the Civil war, when he enlisted for service in the Confederate army as a member of the force commanded by General Albert Sidney Johnston. He remained in the service until, under the authority of the provisional govern- ment of Kentucky, he was elected a member of the provisional congress of the Confederate States. He took his seat as a member of that body early in the autumn of 1861, and when this provisional body was succeeded by the regular congress of the Confederate States of America he was elected a member of the house of representatives. At the expiration of his first term he was re-elected and he continued a member of the southern congress until the close of. the war. He then resumed the prac- tice of his profession in Spencer county, where he remained until 1866, when he re- moved to the city of Louisville, where he has

since been one of the most honored and best known members of the local bar. In 1870 he was elected corporation counsel of the city and by successive re-elections he continued in- cumbent of this position for eighteen consecti- tive years, having six times been chosen for the office by popular vote, and the high regard in which he was held during this time was shown by the fact that at no election was there an opposing candidate. Since he retired from the office of corporation counsel he has prac- ticed in the courts of general jurisdiction, in the court of appeals of Kentucky and in the supreme court of the United States. Mr. Bur- nett is a stanch advocate of the principles represented by the Democratic party in its original condition, and in 1876 he was chair- man of the Democratic state central commit- tee of Kentucky. In later years he has not appeared as prominently in connection with the affairs of the political arena. He has been essentially progressive and public-spirited as a citizen and no worthy cause to advance the general welfare of the community has failed to receive his support. He has served for many years as a trustee and president of the University of Louisville and has otherwise shown special interest in educational matters. Mr. Burnett, some years ago, received the de- gree of LL. D. He was a director of the Louisville Water Company for many years. Both he and his wife are members of the Prot- estant Episcopal church.

In the year 1852 was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Burnett to Miss Elizabeth S. Gil- bert (deceased January 7, 1907), who was born in Lincoln county, Kentucky, and reared in Spencer county, this state, and of the five children of this union only two are now living -John C., who is a representative member of the Louisville bar and who is associated with his venerable father in practice; and Mary, who is the wife of Dr. W. Edward Grant, a successful physician and surgeon of Louisville. Concerning Mr. Burnett the following appre- ciative estimate has been given by one famil- iar with his career :

"Mr. Burnett has a high appreciation of the dignity of the legal profession, and by his per- sonal bearing has added luster to the legal records of the state. In discharge of his du- ties as representative of the city he was courte- ous, kind and attentive, with a masterful command of the resources of the well equipped lawyer and advocate, wise in counsel and vig- orous in the active conduct of his cases."

FREDERICK W. HARDWICK .- One of the im- portant factors of Louisville is the W. T. Pyne Mill &' Supply Company, an extensive enter- prise that has brought success not alone to the

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stockholders, but has also added to the gen- eral prosperity by furnishing employment to many workmen and thus promoting commer- cial activity.

Frederick W. Hardwick is well known in business circles in Louisville and, in fact, throughout a large portion of the state. He is now the president of the W. T. Pyne Mill & Supply Company, a mercantile enterprise of importance. His success in all his under- takings has been so marked that his methods are of interest to the commercial world. He has based his business principles and actions upon strict adherence to the rules which gov- ern industry, economy and strict, unswerving integrity. His enterprise and progressive spirit have made him a first class business man in every sense of the word, and he well deserves mention in this volume.

Mr. Hardwick is a native of England, his birthplace having been at Wakefield, on May 17, 1864, the son of Henry and Emma ( Brit- tlebank) Hardwick, both natives of England. The Hardwick family came to the United States in April, 1870, locating first at Clarkes- ville, Tennessee, from which they later re- moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where the parents now reside.

The public schools and Ogden College, Bowl- ing Green, furnished Frederick W. Hardwick his education, but while at school and much against the wishes of his parents, who wanted him to remain in school another year and grad- uate, he, in 1878, took a position in a dry goods store in Bowling Green, in which he continued to work until 1885, in which year he came to Louisville and took a position as as- sistant bookkeeper for the old New York Store. He remained in this position for four years and next took a position as bill clerk in the Ninth Street Tobacco Warehouse, where a year later he was made cashier and which po- sition he held for six years. Mr. Hardwick's next position was with the Farmers' Tobacco Warehouse, as cashier, where he was at the beginning of the Spanish-American war. He assisted in raising Company H, First Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into the service as second lieutenant of the com- pany. After being mustered out of the service Mr. Hardwick returned to Louisville and again went with the Farmers Tobacco Ware- house for a short time. In 1900 he became secretary of the W. T. Pyne Mill & Supply Company and in 1907 became president of that company.

Mr. Hardwick is a thirty-third degree Ma- son. He is a member of Louisville Lodge, No. 400, F. & A. M., King Solomon Chapter, R. A. M., and is past commander of De Molay

Commandery, Knights Templars, an officer in the Grand Commandery of Kentucky, a mem- ber of Kosair Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and of the Grand Consistory of Kentucky, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, of which he has been grand registrar for ten years. He is also a member of Cherokee Golf Club, the Audubon Club and Post D., T. P. A.

What Mr. Hardwick is to-day he has made himself, and by constant exertion, associated with good judgment, he has raised himself to the prominent position which he now holds, having the friendship of many who know him and the respect of all. His life has been a series of advances, in which he has always forged ahead and never retrograded, and in every position which in his life he has been called upon to fill he has been highly successful, and few men have more devoted friends, while none excel him in unselfish devotion to the worthy recipients of his confidence and friend- ship.

HENRY SMITH RAMEY .- There are com- paratively few men who figure prominently in political, military or public life, and it is the men who daily concentrate their energies upon business interests that are the real force of a nation. They uphold the political and legal status and labor for the welfare and up- building of the community in which their in- terests are centered. The growth and de- velopment of every city depends upon its in- dustrial and commercial interests and the men who are its real promoters are they who stand at the head of its business interests, advanc- ing general prosperity through well directed labor and at the same time winning individual success. To this class belongs Henry Smith Ramey, president of the Lampton, Crane & Ramey Company, manufacturers of paints and jobbers of glassware, at 809 W. Main street, Louisville.

Mr. Ramey was born in Evansville, Indi- ana, on October 3, 1862, the son of Henry Ramey, an inventor and manufacturer of agri- cultural implements, who was a native of Carroll county, Kentucky, and for over forty years was engaged in business in Louisville. The grandfather was Henry Ramey of Car- roll county, Kentucky, then Gallatin county, a farmer all his life and a descendent of the old Ramey (Remy) family of Virginia. Sev- eral of his brothers were Baptist ministers. The mother was Mary Waller Bowles, a na- tive of Henrico county, Virginia, who was related to the Waller family of Baptist minis- ters, of which John L. Waller, the noted Kentucky Baptist minister, was a member. She was also related to the Bacon family, of

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which Nathaniel Bacon the noted Rebel, was a member. The grandfather was Lyddall Bowles, of Henrico county, Virginia, and his grandmother was Sallie Price of Kentucky. The early life of our subject's father was spent in Carroll county, Kentucky. He and his wife both died in Louisville.

Henry Smith Ramey, was reared in Louis- ville from the time he was six months of age. He was educated in the Louisville public schools. He started in his business life by first accepting a position as bookkeeper with John H. Brand & Company, coffee and spice dealers, later he was cashier for several houses, and in 1893 became secretary, treas- urer and general manager for the Lampton, Crane & Ramey Company, of which he was one of the organizers, and on the withdrawal of Mr. Lampton from active connection with the company in 1899, Mr. Ramey succeeded to the presidency.

The city has benefited by interests which have been promoted by him aside from those of a strictly personal business character. Mr. Ramey was one of the founders of the Ster- ling Paint & Color Company of Louisville, organized in 1897, of which he is vice-presi- dent. He was one of the organizers of, and is vice-president of the Allen Motor Car Com- pany of Fort Worth, Texas. He is also inter- ested in and a director of other corporations. He is a member of the Board of Trade and Commercial Clubs, as well as the Tavern Club and the Louisville Country Club. His religious tendencies are with the Baptist faith.

In citizenship Mr. Ramey stands for all that is progressive and beneficial, and in busi- ness life for all that is honorable. He has been to a great extent the architect of his own fortune and has builded wisely and well. A man of sound judgment, he never has ar- rived quickly at conclusions, but when once his mind is made up as to what is the right course nothing can deter him from pursuing it. He possesses excellent executive and business ability, combined with a resistless energy and resolute purpose, and while he has gained a handsome competence he has never selfishly used this for his own interests only, but has done what he could to promote the welfare of the city and to ameliorate hard conditions of life for the unfortunate. He recognizes fully man's obligation to his fel- low men and throughout his life has been actuated by high and honorable principles.

WALTER FISK BOGGESS, M. D .- The subject of this, review in one of Louisville's leading physicians, who has become established here as one of its ablest representatives. Walter Fisk Boggess is a native son, born on the farm

in Jefferson county January 19, 1863. He is the son of the Rev. Charles Young Boggess, who was a native of Muhlenberg county, Ken- tucky, born in 1827, the son of Robert Boggess, a native of North Carolina, who came to Ken- tucky in 1801, located in Muhlenberg county. The mother of Dr. Boggess was Rose M. Moorman, the daughter of Alanson Moorman, who was a native of Lynchburg, Virginia, and came to Meade county, Kentucky, early in life, settling in Jefferson county in 1858, where he died in 1895, at the age of eighty-eight years. His daughter, Rose M., was born in 1837, and died in 1905. Rev. Charles Young Boggess joined the Louisville Southern Methodist Epis- copal Conference in 1854 and became an ear- nest worker in the active ministry until within the last few years. He now resides in Jeffer- son county, Kentucky, and is in his eighty- fourth year.

For a number of years Dr. Walter Fisk Boggess accompanied his father, who held pas- torates in different towns, and was in conse- quence reared in various places and attended various public schools, afterward becoming a student at Forrest Academy. He was gradu- ated from Vanderbilt University in 1882, with the degree of B. A. For two years he held the position of assistant instructor of the Greek language at that same institution.

Having decided upon the study of medicine as his future life work, he studied in Louisville and New York cities and received his M. D. degree in 1886. Dr. Boggess has met with unqualified success and has occupied a number of important positions in connection with his profession. He was assistant physician at Lakeland Asylum, the State Institution for the Insane near Louisville, for two years, and in 1890, began the regular work of a general prac- titioner in Louisville. He was professor of practice at the Louisville Medical College and is consulting physician at the Louisville City Hospital and also at the Deaconess Hospital. He is a member of the Jefferson County Medi- cal Society, of the Kentucky State Medical Society and of the American Medical Associa- tion.

Dr. Boggess married Lida Jones, the daugh- ter of Colonel Stephen Jones of Abbington, Virginia. From this union there are two chil- dren : Elizabeth and Katherine.

Dr. Boggess has demonstrated that he has thoroughly improved the advantages which have been afforded him, and that he was par- ticularly well equipped for the active work of his profession while still a very young man, being but twenty-three years of age when he received his M. D. degree, and his judgment and wisdom have been singularly matured by

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the discipline which has been his and by his devotion to study. His life has been one of signal usefulness and honor, and it is a pleasure to offer even this brief resume and tribute.

HON. WILLIAM H. DYER .- In political as in business circles, the busy and useful citizen of Newport whose name heads this sketch has been of service to the people of this city, county and state. Mr. Dyer was born in Newport, April 19, 1868, a son of William H. and Vir- ginia (Prentice) Hawthorn Dyer. His father was of English birth. His grandfather, Wil- liam Dyer of Edinburgh was, with his brother, owner of several sea-going vessels, some of which he commanded from time to time on voyages of greater or lesser extent, and not the least interesting chapter in the family his- tory is that detailing the particulars of his death at sea by storm and wreck. The senior William H. Dyer came as a boy to the United States with his mother, locating in Cincinnati, where early in his manhood he embarked in the manufacture of blank books, an enterprise in which he was quite successful. After his marriage to Virginia Prentice Hawthorn he took up his residence in Newport, where he died in 1870, at the early age of twenty-seven years, and where his widow survived until in 1876. The latter was a granddaughter of Rich- ard Southgate, a prominent Kentucky pioneer who is represented by a biographical sketch on another page of this work. Her maiden name was Hawthorn, her father having been Jacob Hawthorn, her mother, Richard South- gate's daughter.

The immediate subject of this sketch was reared to manhood in Newport, receiving his education from public schools and from a col- legiate institution in Cincinnati where he fin- ished the prescribed course of study. When he was about nineteen years old he went to Paris, Texas, and there began the real battle of life. After a time he transferred his business head- quarters to Waco, in that state, where he pros- pered through operations in real estate. Re- turning to Newport, he was again amid the scenes of his childhood and youth, where he has been doubly orphaned and where he had been carefully brought up by his grandfather and grandmother Hawthorn, from whose home he had gone forth a few years before to seek fortune in the far South. It was to take charge of his grandmother's estate that he came back. That he settled in due time, meanwhile giving attention to some other business. For some years he has been successful as a broker and real estate dealer. He was for several terms president of the Covington and Newport Real Estate Exchange and for more than ten years has been a director of the Newport National

Bank. His social relations have been various, and he was long a member of the Supreme Council of the Ancient Arabic Order. He is a Mason and a Knight of Pythias.

In his politics Mr. Dyer is a Republican, and he has for some years been active in the work of his party. In 1895 he was elected to represent his assembly district in the Kentucky legislature, and in 1900 to represent his sena- torial district in the state senate. From the beginning of his political career he has been active and influential in the promotion of good government. He was a leader in the fight against gambling and pool rooms, which was inaugurated in Campbell county about 1905 and which after an aggressive campaign ex- tending through three years swept all gambling from that division of the state. He was during the entire period chairman of the Law and Order League and of the Citizens' Committee. A memorable part of his good work in the senate was his authorship of the Quadriennial Assessment Bill, which became a law and is in beneficent operations in cities of the second class throughout the state. In all important deliberations of the senate during his member- ship of it he took an active part, and his prom- inence is attested by his having been, with Governor Cox, a member of the steering com- mittee for the Republican party. In all his public work he has had in view the greatest good to the greatest number of his fellow citi- zens. It has not always been pleasant work, but history shows that it has been successful. It has been successful too in the face of bitter opposition that has stopped at nothing that promised to advance its interests. His compen- sation is mostly in his consciousness of having fought good fights for the right and in the recognition by the best element of the citizen- ship of Campbell county and the great state of Kentucky of the fact that he has always done so consistently and persistently and with utter disregard of his own personal interests.

EDWARD CARL HOAGLAND, JR .- In financial circles of Prospect, Kentucky, Edward Carl Hoagland is well known, for he is now accept- ably filling the position of cashier in the Bank of Prospect, which bank he organized after having learned the banking business thoroughly with others. Mr. Hoagland was born in Sul- phur, Henry county, Kentucky, September 20, 1880, the son of Edward C. and Cora O. (Morris) Hoagland.

The Hoaglands of Kentucky are of Scotch stock, and this branch of the family was founded in Kentucky by Isaac Hoagland, who with two of his brothers came from Scotland, Isaac settling in Woodford county, Kentucky, the other brothers settling respectively in In-

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diana and Illinois. Isaac removed from Wood- ford county to Trimble county, where he died. Edward C. Hoagland, Sr., removed from Trimble county to Oldham county and for several years operated a woolen factory, then returned to the farm, where he now resides. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and of the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Hoagland married Cora V. Morris, who was born in Henry county Kentucky, the daughter of Squire John Morris, who was a Kentuckian by birth and lived all his life in Henry county. The children of Edward C. Hoagland, Sr., and wife are as follows: Ethel F., who married F. D. Hancock, of Sulphur, Kentucky ; Edward C., Jr., subject ; Arthur W., deceased; Frank M., assistant cashier of the Bank of Prospect, Kentucky; Martha L., and William G.

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A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities, Volume III, Part 4

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