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Charles H. Lee, Jr., was born in Mason county, Kentucky, on the 2d of August, 1847, and is a son of Charles H. and Caroline (Dud- ley) Lee, the former of whom was born in
Massachusetts and the latter in the state of Vermont. Both families were founded in America in the Colonial epoch of our na- tional history. The marriage of the parents was solemnized in the state of Vermont and for several years after coming to Kentucky they resided in Mason county, whence they later removed to Bracken county, where oc- curred the death of the devoted wife and mother, who was about thirty years of age when she was summoned to the life eternal. In 1865 Charles H. Lee, Sr., removed to Pen- dleton county and established his home in Falmouth, where he passed the residue of his life, which came to its close when he was seventy-three years of age. He was long numbered among the able lawyers and repre- sentative citizens of the state of his adoption and was specially successful in the work of his profession. He served as county judge while a resident of Bracken county and after his removal to Pendleton county he repre- sented the latter in the state legislature. He was an uncompromising advocate of the prin- ciples and policies of the Democratic party and was a zealous worker in behalf of its cause, the while his fine intellectual and professional talents specially qualified him for leadership in public affairs. Charles H. and Caroline (Dudley) Lee became the parents of one son and one daughter, both of whom are living
Charles H. Lee, Jr., was reared to matur- ity in Bracken county, to whose schools he is indebted for his early educational discipline, besides which he had the advantages of a home of signal culture and refinement. In June, 1864, about two months prior to his seventeenth birthday anniversary, he tendered his services in defense of the cause of the Confederacy by enlisting in Company A, Sev- enth Kentucky Battalion, under Major Bart W. Jenkins, and with this gallant command he continued in service until the close of the war. He took part in several battles and a number of spirited skirmishes and was present at the time General Morgan, the noted Con- federate raider, was killed.
After the close of the war Mr. Lee secured a position as clerk in a dry goods store in Fal- mouth, and he was thus occupied for several years, after which he found requisition for his services in the offices of deputy sheriff and deputy circuit clerk, each of which he retained for a considerable period. In 1890, upon the organization of the Farmers & Merchants Bank of Falmouth he was elected cashier of the same, and he retained this incumbency un- til the organization of the Pendleton Bank, as already noted, when he was made cashier of the institution, to which he has since given
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most effective service in this capacity. Mr. Lee is well known in this section of the state and has a secured place in popular confidence and esteem. . He is recognized as an able and straightforward business man and as a citi- zen he has exemplified all of loyalty and pub- lic spirit.
In politics Mr. Lee has ever been found aligned as a stalwart supporter of the cause of the Democratic party and he is well forti- fied in his opinions as to matters of public pol- ity. He is an appreciative member of the time-honored Masonic fraternity, in which his affiliations are here briefly noted: Orion Lodge, No. 222, Free and Accepted Masons; Hauser Chapter, No. 116, Royal Arch Ma- sons; and Cynthiana Commandery, No. 16, Knights Templar. He has been specially active in the work of his lodge, of which he is past master and of which he is treasurer at the time of this writing. He is adjutant of W. H. Ratcliffe Camp, No. 682, and Chief Paymaster in the staff of General W. B. Holde- man, commanding Kentucky Division, U. C. V. He is a zealous and valued member of the Presbyterian church in his home city and he is an elder in the same.
In June, 1877, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lee to Miss Louise McCune, who was born at Batavia, Ohio, and who was a child at the time of the removal of her parents to Pendleton county, Kentucky, where she was reared and educated. She died December 24, 1907.
CHARLES FRANKLIN OGDEN .- With a deep and abiding interest in the city of Louisville, in its progress and improvement, Charles Franklin Ogden has done much for its ad- vancement, laboring earnestly along lines that have contributed to its material upbuilding. No movement or measure calculated to prove of benefit to the city solicits his aid in vain, for he has ever been a generous contributor to every interest for the public good. In political affairs, too, he is well known, and has labored earnestly and effectively for the improvement and growth of the Republican party, of which he has long been a stalwart and earnest sup- porter and a recognized leader in its ranks.
Mr. Ogden was born in Charlestown, In- diana, on February 4, 1874, the son of Floyd G. and Mary (Pounds) Ogden, both natives of Kentucky. The father was born at Gil- man's Point, Jefferson county, Kentucky, the son of Edmund Ogden, a native of New York city, who was the Kentucky pioneer. The mother was born in Fishersville, Jefferson county, Kentucky, the daughter of Squire Hezekiah Pounds, a native of Spencer county,
Kentucky. The father was a farmer and inventor, and invented and patented many de- vices, among them the corn dropper and churn. He removed to Indiana when a lad of twelve or fourteen years of age, but was living in Louisville, Kentucky, when his death occurred on April 21, 1907, in his sixty-seventh year. The widow survives, being in her seventieth year.
Mr. Charles F. Ogden was reared in Fish- ersville, Jefferson county, Kentucky, and at- tended the public and high schools of Louis- ville and Jeffersonville, Indiana. He com- pleted his education at the law department of the University of Louisville, from which he was graduated in 1896. From 1894 for seven years he was in the office of Governor Augus- tus E. Willson, first as a student and then practicing. In 1901 he formed a partnership with James P. Edwards, under the firm name of Edwards & Ogden, which firm became Ed- wards, Ogden & Peak in 1907 by the admis- sion of Judge R. F. Peak.
Mr. Ogden is well known as a lawyer, re- markable for the wide research and provident care with which he prepares his cases. In no instance has his reading ever been confined to the limitations of the questions at issue; it has gone beyond and compassed every contin- gency and provided not alone for the expected, but for the unexpected, which happens in the courts quite as frequently as out of them. In 1897 he was elected to the Kentucky legisla- ture as a Republican from Louisville, serving one term, during which he gave due consider- ation to all matters which came up for action and has left the impress of his individuality upon the legislation enacted during his term. In 1898 Mr. Ogden was commissioned Cap- tain of Company H, Eight U. S. V. I., and served during the Spanish-American War, a period of eleven months. In 1901 he was nominated by the Republicans for county at- torney but was defeated, and in 1902 he was nominated by his party for state senate and again defeated.
Mr. Ogden is a member of the Bar Associ- ation and of the Masonic fraternity. He mar- ried Miss Lulu Whitesides, a native of Nelson county, Kentucky, the daughter of Albert Whitesides. Mr. and Mrs. Ogden have one child, Willson, aged ten years. Mr. Ogden has excellent business ability and executive force, his plans are readily and substantially formed and he is determined in their execu- tion and carries forth to a successful conclu- sion whatever he commences, brooking no ob- stacles that can be overcome by persistent honorable and earnest effort. He occupies a
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prominent position in legal as well as in politi- cal circles, and is accounted one of the rep- resentative men of Jefferson county.
JOHN MARSHALL was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 24, 1856. He was the son of David Marshall, who was born in Phil- adelphia in the year 1805, being the son of John Marshall, a Presbyterian of the north of Ireland, who settled early in the century in Philadelphia. David Marshall came to Louis- ville in 1833, and was actively engaged in busi- ness until 1881, the year of his death. Mary Naomi Ferguson, mother of John Marshall, was the daughter of Hugh Ferguson, a Pres- byterian Irishman, who was a pioneer mer- chant and flour mill owner in Louisville, and lived at the corner of Fifth and Market streets the present site of the German Bank, at which place his daughter was born on February 10, 1822. Hugh Ferguson was quite successful in business and left a large tract of land in the western part of the city which extended from Jefferson to Chestnut street and from Twen- tieth to Twenty-fourth streets, and was after- ward known as the Ferguson West End Addi- tion to the city of Louisville.
John Marshall was educated at the public schools in the city of Louisville and at Center College at Danville, Kentucky, from which he graduated in 1877. He studied law at the Louisville Law School and took a short sup- plemental course at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1879, and was in the office of John Mason Brown, one of the most prominent lawyers in the state of Ken- tucky, until 1884, when he formed a partner- ship with George R. Lochre. In 1891 the firm of Gibson, Marshall & Lochre was formed, and upon the death of Mr. Lochre it was changed to Gibson, Marshall & Gibson.
Mr. Marshall has had some experience in politics, being the Republican candidate for judge of the Law and Equity Court in 1897, and upon the Republican ticket for lieuten- ant governor with Taylor in 1899. He was elected by the people and inaugurated, and presided over the Kentucky Senate until Jan- uary, 1900, when Goebel was killed and the Kentucky Legislature declared Beckham to have been elected lieutenant governor.
Mr. Marshall is connected with several fi- nancial institutions, being a member of the board of directors of the Citizens National Bank, the Fidelity Trust Company and the Kentucky Wagon Works.
He has taken quite an interest in the fight made against tuberculosis and is president of the Association Sanatorium.
JOEL S. HEAD, JR .- An essentially repre- sentative citizen of Ashland, Boyd county, Kentucky, is Mr. Joel S. Head, Jr., who is at the present time, in 1911, incumbent of the po- sition of cashier of the Citizens' Bank & Trust Company. This substantial monetary insti- tution was organized on the 5th of January, 1907, and incorporated under the laws of the state with a capital stock of two hundred thousand dollars. The present officers of the bank are the same as at the time of its organi- zation with the exception of W. H. Dawkins, as president, who is succeeded by Thomas Boggess, Jr. The other officials are: T. J. Shaut, vice-president; S. J. Kinner, second vice-president ; J. S. Head, Jr., cashier ; and W. H. Clay, assistant cashier. The bank has had an unusual growth and increase from the time of its inception and it is now recognized as one of the most popular financial concerns in northeastern Kentucky. Dividends are paid semi-annually to stockholders and the surplus fund on hand amounts to over six thousand dollars. The deposits exceed three hundred thousand dollars while the loans and discounts amount to about four hundred thousand dollars. The gross earnings are about thirty thousand dollars annually. The banking quarters are of the most up-to-date type, equipped with all the most modern ap- pliances. The board of directors is composed of fourteen representative business men and citizens whose reputation for integrity and responsibility is of high order.
Joel S. Head, Jr., was born at Monterey, Owen county, Kentucky, on the 26th of Sep- tember, 1877, and is a son of Joel S. and Drue G. (Talbott) Head, both of whom were like- wise born in this state, the former in Frank- lin county and the latter in the vicinity of Danville. The father was for many years a successful merchant and tobacco dealer and he and his wife now maintain their home at Burgin, Kentucky, he having retired from ac- tive business affairs. The Head family is of old Kentucky stock, formerly of Virginia, and the lineage is of English and French ex- traction. Mrs. Head traces her ancestry back to staunch Scotch-Irish stock. Mr. and Mrs. Head became the parents of seven children, four of whom are now living, Joel S., Jr., be- ing the youngest child. He was reared to ma- turity in his native place, to whose public schools he is indebted for his preliminary educational training, which discipline was ef- fectively supplemented by a course in the high school at Frankfort, in which he was graduated, after which he was for two years a student at Center College, at Danville. When
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twenty-one years of age he entered a bank at Moorehead, Kentucky, later he worked along the same line at Jackson, Kentucky, and then at Chattanooga, Tennessee, from which latter place he came to Ashland in 1907, im- mediately assuming the responsibilities of the office of cashier of the Citizens' Bank & Trust Company. He had served as cashier in all the other banks with which he was connected and thus through twelve years' experience in that line he is well fitted for the position which he now holds.
In politics Mr. Head accords a stalwart al- legiance to the principles and policies of the Democratic party and he has ever done much to advance the general welfare. Fraternally he is affiliated with the time-honored Masonic order, in which he holds membership in the Blue Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Ash- land Commandery, Knights Templars, besides which he is also connected with the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a valued and appreciative member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. His re- ligious faith is that of the Baptist church, while his wife is a zealous member of the Presbyterian church.
On the 6th of October, 1903, was solem- nized the marriage of Mr. Head to Miss Kath- erine Blanton, who was born and reared at Richmond, Kentucky, and who is a daughter of Dr. L. H. Blanton, prominent for many years as instructor and official in various edu- cational institutions in this state. Mr. and Mrs. Head have one child, Benjamin Blanton. Mr. and Mrs. Head are popular factors in connection with the best social activities of Ashland and they hold a high place in the re- gard of their fellow citizens.
CASWELL P. GOFF is one of Clark county's successful citizens, who upon a fine tract of one hundred and eighty-five acres, originally a part of his father's homestead, engages in general farming, tobacco and stock raising. He engaged for some time in agriculture in Montgomery and Bourbon counties, but in the spring of 1909 he was influenced by roseate memories of his native county to return, and is now identified in a prominent manner with the community. He was born December 30, 1865, the son of John and Patsey ( Prewitt) Goff. The father was a native of this county, his birth having occurred May 9, 1821, and his death, May 5, 1904. The mother was born in Montgomery county, Kentucky, in the year 1830 and died aged sixty-five years. These good people were the parents of a "baker's dozen" of children, eight of whom are living and five being deceased. Of those
surviving, Thomas is a resident of Lexington, Kentucky; Henrietta is the widow of Archi- bald Bedford of Winchester, Kentucky; Levi resides in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; John is in Mississippi; Caswell P. is the fifth in or- der; Miss Margaret is living in Washington, D. C .; Elizabeth is the widow of Archie Bed- ford and resides in Columbia, Missouri ; Patsy is the wife of John R. Downing of Maysville.
The name of Goff has been a prominent and honored one in Clark county since pioneer days, Mr. Goff's grandfather, Elisha Goff hav- ing been one of the influential early settlers in this section. The father, John Goff, was reared in Clark county, and soon after his marriage began farming where Mr. Goff now lives. He improved his land thoroughly and owned at one time six hundred acres of land and was indeed one of the wealthy men of the county. It was to his great financial misfor- tune that he became dealer in and shipper of fat export cattle, for he invested a great deal of money and was unsuccessful, fairly ruin- ing his fortunes before his death. He was an upright man whose honor and integrity were unquestioned.
Caswell P. Goff laid the foundation of a household of his own by his marriage on June 29, 1898, to Mary S. Evans, born in Clark county, Kentucky, February 3, 1867, a daugh- ter of John and Eliza (Bean) Evans. The father died in 1908 at the age of eighty-one years, and the mother survives, making her home near North Middletown, on a farm in Clark county, Kentucky, her age being seven- ty-two years. Four sons and a daughter are growing to young manhood and womanhood beneath the roof of the subject and his wife, these being in order of birth: Eliza, John, Levi, William, and Thomas.
Mr. Goff was reared upon the farm, re- ceived his early education in the common schools, and supplemented this mental disci- pline with two years attendance in Holbrook Institute at Lebanon, Ohio. He remained with his father until 1891, in which year he removed to Montgomery county, Kentucky, and there for six years he operated rented lands. In 1897 he removed to Bourbon county, Kentucky, where he purchased a farm of two hundred and fifteen acres. After iden- tifying himself for a dozen years with the agricultural interests of that part of the Blue Grass state, in the spring of 1909, he sold out and purchased one hundred and eighty-five acres of the old estate upon which he had passed the happy days of his youth. Here he engages in general farming, tobacco and cattle raising. He is a successful and enter- prising citizen, as well as a self-made man, no
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helping hand having given impetus to his youthful endeavors. He and his wife assist with their sympathy and support the affairs of the Christian church and he is devoted to the cause of the Democratic party.
JOUETT FAMILY .- Among the families which have been prominent in the history of Kentucky, and previously of Virginia, is that of the Jouetts. They are of French Huguenot extraction, having come over in 1686 and set- tled in New Jersey ; but the immediate foun- der of the Kentucky branch was John Jouett, of Charlottesville, Virginia, who was the friend of Mr. Jefferson and an officer of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary war. He was particularly distinguished for his fa- mous ride from Louisa Court House to Char- lottesville, where he arrived barely in time to save Jefferson, then the governor, and the leg- islature, which was in session at that place, from capture by the British under the noto- rious Tarleton. For this service he was pre- sented by the Legislature with a jeweled sword.
Two of his sons, who were also officers in the Continental Army, were killed in the war ; another, John Jouett, Jr., also a Revolutionary soldier, moved to Kentucky and settled in what is now Bath county, whence he was sent twice as a delegate to the General Assembly of Virginia.
Of the sons of John Jouett, Jr., the most distinguished was Matthew H. Jouett, the noted artist, who acquired a national reputa- tion, his work being considered by many com -. petent critics as superior to that of his famous instructor, Gilbert Stuart, of Boston. Mat- thew Jouett was the father of Rear Admiral James E. Jouett, of the U. S. Navy, and of the wife of the great lawyer and statesman, Richard H. Menefee.
Thomas J. Jouett, a brother of Matthew H. Jouett, had one son, Edward S. Jouett, a prominent merchant of Winchester, Kentucky, who was noted for the high order of his moral and Christian character. He died Sep- tember, 1894, leaving two children, Edward S., Jr., and Beverly R. Jouett. Their mother was Catherine Reed, who is still living. These two, who are the only sons of the name now in public life in the state, are both lawyers of high personal and professional standing. They were born in Winchester, Edward S. on October 21, 1863, and Beverly R. on April 27, 1870; both were educated at the Univer- sity of Virginia and have practiced their pro- fession in the place of their birth since their admission to the bar, the former in 1885 and the latter in 1892. Their practice has been an extensive one covering a large portion of the
eastern half of the state and oftentimes reach- ing into other states. E. S. Jouett has de- voted himself principally to corporate prac- tice, being general counsel for the Lexington & Eastern Railway Company, and for a num- ber of other corporations, particularly those engaged in lumber and coal operations. B. R. Jouett has confined himself largely to com- mercial and insurance law, though he some years ago acquired a state-wide reputation in the prosecution of Judge James Hargis and his associates in the Marcum-Hargis feud.
E. S. Jouett, Jr., in 1887, married Annie Flournoy Ecton. They have three children- Sarah Beverly, who married Withers Davis, of Paris, Kentucky; Flournoy, who is now at Andover, Massachusetts, preparing for Yale, and Virginia, a thirteen year old lass who is still with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Withers Davis have a little daughter Ann Jouett.
Beverly R. in 1895 married Susie Willis. They have one child, Edward W.
JOSEPH HEDGES EWALT .- In view of the nomadic spirit that has grown to animate the American people to so great an extent, it is pleasing to find in any community representa- tives of old and honored families whose names have been long and prominently identified therewith and to find such scions worthily and successfully carrying forward the industrial enterprises of the sections in which they were born and reared. This is significantly true of Mr. Ewalt, who is numbered among the es- sentially representative agriculturists and stock-growers of Bourbon county and who owns and resides upon the fine old homestead plantation which figured as the place of his nativity.
Joseph Hedges Ewalt, an honored repre- sentative of one of the sterling pioneer fam- ilies of Bourbon county, was born on his pres- ent homestead in Centerville precinct, that county, on the 15th of July, 1865. He is a son of Joseph Henry and Henrietta ( Hedges) Ewalt, both likewise natives of Bourbon county, where the former was born November 27, 1828, and the latter, August 6, 1839. Joseph Henry Ewalt was a son of Samuel and Cynthia (Pugh) Ewalt, both of whom were natives of Bourbon county, where the former was ushered into the world August 12, 1792, and the latter on the 30th of March, 1795. Samuel Ewalt was a son of Henry Ewalt, who was born in Germany, on the 27th of January, 1754, and who was a lad of eleven years at the time when his parents, John and Sarah Ewalt, severed the ties that bound them to their fatherland and emigrated to America. They established their home in what is now Bedford county, Pennsylvania, and there they passed
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the residue of their long and useful lives. Henry Ewalt was reared to maturity in the old Keystone state, and it was his to render gal- lant service as a soldier in the Continental line in the war of the Revolution. On the 10th of December, 1777, about one month prior to his twenty-fourth birthday, he was commissioned ensign of the Sixth Company of the First Battalion of Pennsylvania Militia, and it was with this command that he played well his part in the great conflict through which op- pression was hurled back and the boon of lib- erty gained. He married Mrs. Elizabeth (Frye) Keller, widow of Jacob Keller and daughter of Abraham, Sr., and Agnes Ann Frye. Abraham Frye, Sr., was born in Fred- erick county, Virginia. He was a member of Captain Charles McClay's company of the First Battalion of Cumberland county (Penn- sylvania ) militia during the Revolutionary war.
In 1788 Henry and Elizabeth Ewalt re- moved from Pennsylvania to Kentucky and numbered themselves among the pioneers of Bourbon county. Their original homestead was that now owned and occupied by their great-grandson, Joseph H. Ewalt, whose name initiates this article. Here Henry Ewalt and his wife continued to reside until they were summoned to that "undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns," and they contributed their quota to the development and upbuilding of this now opulent section of the Blue Grass state. On the 4th of August, 1788, John Hagin, of Mercer county, deeded to Henry Ewalt two hundred acres of land north of Cooper's Run, Bourbon county, for a consideration of one hundred and ten pounds- about five hundred dollars-and on this home- stead Henry Ewalt died in September, 1829. Elizabeth Ewalt died in 1837. Their remains are interred in the family burying ground on the old homestead. The property has never passed out of the hands of the Ewalt family, by which it has thus been retained for nearly a century and a quarter.
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