A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities, Volume III, Part 50

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

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Mr. Long was actively identified with the organization of the Missouri & Kansas Asso- ciation of Lumber Dealers, was a director for several years, and an active and valued factor in its discussions and work. He has been one of the leading spirits in the Southern Lumber Manufacturers' Association from the time of its organization, and was its president in 1904-5. In 1909 he was elected president of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Associ- ation, and he is at the present time a director in each of these important organizations. His paper on yellow-pine stumpage, read at the New Orleans meeting of the Southern Lum- ber Manufacturers' Association, in January, 1903, is a classic and is considered the best statistical information extant on the subject treated. At the Chicago meeting of the Na- tional Lumber Dealers' Association in the same year, his address on monetary affairs placed him in the front rank of lumber finan- ciers in the entire country. At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, in St. Louis, in 1904, Mr. Long made the address on behalf of the lumbermen in response to the address of wel- come given by Hon. David R. Francis, presi- dent of the exposition. He was one of the five principal speakers at the first Conservation Congress, convened by President Roosevelt at the White House in 1908, the other speakers being James J. Hill, John Mitchell, William J. Bryan and Andrew Carnegie. He has deliv-

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ered addresses at many important religious and church gatherings and his services in this way are in constant demand.

Mr. Long is a believer in the gospel of hard work and lives up to his creed. He is a worthy exemplar of the strenuous life. From his first entrance into the lumber business he has literally worked as hard, as long hours and as continuously as his physical powers would permit. It is only during the last two or three years that he has allowed himself any relax- ation, except when on the verge of physical break-down, and then his vacations were only of sufficient duration to permit such recuper- ation as to enable him to continue his work. The typical business man is ordinarily thought of as being hard-headed, cold and calculating, possessing little of the sentimentality of life. Yet Mr. Long avows himself both a visionary and a sentimentalist. This simply implies that he has not so hedged himself in as to lack ap- preciation of those finer, truer things, those benignant ideals and those kindly actions that represent the best in the scheme of human ex- istence. He has had nothing to lose and much to gain by maintaining such an attitude. Of him the following pertinent and consistent statement has been made: "His family, his church and his business,-in these three his whole life is centered, and for them he lives and loves and labors." The best amenities of social life make due appeal to him, and the beautiful home is a center of gracious and re- fined hospitality. Mr. Long has made two trips abroad, the last in 1910, when he and his family spent six months in making an auto- mohile tour of England and the continent.

When about fourteen years of age Mr. Long became a member of the Christian church at Antioch, Shelby county, Kentucky, and he has continued a zealous and valued member of this noble religious body, known also as the Disciples of Christ, during the long intervening years. While at all times an earnest worker in the church and a generous contributor to its various activities, it was in 1901 that Mr. Long's first large donation was announced. Near the close of that year he gave a banquet to the men of the congregation in which he held membership, and after re- viewing the situation of the church and pictur- ing its needs, he concluded by making an offer of seventy thousand dollars toward the erec- tion of a new church edifice in a more suitable location than that of the old one, whose capac- ity had become quite inadequate. As the old building and grounds were worth considerably more than ten thousand dollars, there would devolve upon the congregation the raising of only forty thousand dollars. Mr. Long's offer

was joyfully accepted and the beautiful new church edifice was erected at the junction of Gladstone and Independence boulevards, in Kansas City. The dedication was unique in that there was no money-raising on that occa- sion. Although it was expected that this building would be ample for the needs of the congregation for at least a generation, such was the almost unexampled growth in mem- bership, especially in the Bible school, that within a half decade the new building was too small to accommodate those who thronged to it. Mr. Long then announced to the Bible school that if its members would show their interest and appreciation by maintaining an average attendance of one thousand or more for a certain number of months he would pur- chase the adjoining grounds and build an an- nex equal in dimensions to the original build- ing, said annex to be specially designed and constructed for the Bible school, the depart- ment for training teachers and for social work. He further promised to build and equip a three-story addition at the rear and extend- ing through to the opposite street, this addi- tion to be devoted to a gymnasium, reading rooms, swimming pool and all other require- ments of the modern institutional church. Mr. Long fulfilled his promise, and in addition presented the church with a magnificent pipe organ, costing twenty-eight thousand dollars. With possibly one or two exceptions this is the finest instrument of its kind in the United States. His total contributions to this com- pleted church building amount to a little more than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Its total cost is above three hundred thousand dollars and the edifice is the most elegant and costly of all owned by the denomination in the entire country. Indeed it is surpassed by few in any denomination, excepting those in the cathedral class.

Mr. Long's first gift, of seventy thousand dollars, introduced him to his own church in a national way, and since that time he has been known as its largest individual financial bene- factor, while for several years past he has been its most prominent and best known lay member. He was president of the American Missionary Society in 1907-8 and has been president of the Brotherhood of Disciples of Christ since its organization, in 1909. He is chairman of the board of directors of the Christian Hospital Association, a director of the National Benevolent Association and pres- . ident of the Christian Publishing Company. He has recently donated funds for schools and hospitals in the Philippine Islands and in Japan, and for a Young Men's Christian As- sociation work in India. His subscriptions to

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the Young Men's Christian Association build- ing, that of the Young Women's Christian Association and to the Boys' Hotel and the Girls' Hotel, all in Kansas City, were in each instance equal to or greater than those of any other individual person with one exception. In the cause of education he has given liberal financial assistance to Bethany College, West Virginia ; Transylvania University, Kentucky ; Christian University, Oklahoma; Bible Col- lege of Missouri; William Woods College, Missouri; and Christian College, in the same state. Mr. Long purchased in 1909 the stock of the Christian Publishing Company for one hundred and twenty-nine thousand dollars, and later expenditures, for equipment and other improvements increased this amount by fully sixty thousand dollars, and the entire stock has been transferred by him to the Christian Board of Publication, as a donation to the church at large.

Mr. Long's latest and largest single bene- faction has recently been made in the donation of four hundred thousand dollars toward the erection of a modern, non-sectarian hospital in Kansas City, the same to be under the au- spices and control of the National Benevolent Association of the Christian church. This donation was made contingent upon the rais- ing of an equal amount by other subscriptions. The preliminary portion of these have been secured, thus assuring the sum of eight hun- dred thousand dollars, one-half of which will be utilized in the purchase of grounds and the erection and equipment of buildings and the remainder as an endowment fund. It is Mr. Long's dream that when this much has been accomplished, the value of the institution and the interest of the public will be such as to justify an additional expenditure of one mil- lion, two hundred thousand dollars,-one-half contributed by himself and his family,-thus insuring a great two million dollar institution where modern science and Christian love will unite in the best service to humanity. The foregoing have all been special contributions on the part of Mr. Long. He is also a gener- ous contributor to the regular missionary and benevolent societies of his church. His use- fulness as a good citizen has not ceased with his church donations and charitable gifts. He has been actively identified with the important movements for the material advancement and civic and moral betterment of his home city. He is an active member of the Civic Federa- tion and the Anti-Saloon League, and he is a most ardent worker in the cause of temper- ance and for state-wide prohibition of the liquor traffic in Missouri.

Mr. Long's political affiliation is with the Democratic party, although he refused to fol-

low Mr. Bryan in his campaign for free silver. His name has several times been brought for- ward prominently in connection with candi- dacy for the office of mayor of Kansas City, but his ambitions do not seem to extend toward any personal political preferment. He holds membership in the Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoos, the Kansas City Club and the Mid-day Club. He is not particularly active in these, and aside from that absolutely de- manded by his business his time is spent in the serene and tranquil joys of his home and in association with his family. These home as- sociations are of the most ideal order. Mrs. Long is an educated woman of modest, retir- ing ways and thorough domesticity. She cares little for what is ordinarily termed soci- ety, and has no desire for prominence in the same. Conscientiously devoted to everything good, sharing with her husband the joys of an active, well spent Christian life, she is an ex- cellent example of the loveliness and beauty of character of mature American woman- hood. Her family were from Oxford, Penn- sylvania, but had resided in Kansas for nearly a decade at the time of her marriage to Mr. Long.

Mr. Long does not yet answer to the roll call of the old men. He is barely sixty, with the general appearance, elasticity of move- ment and vigor of a man at least a decade younger. To a friendly observer it would seem that he should probably live far beyond the psalmist's span of three score years and ten and find much pleasure in his retrospection of a long, successful life, well spent in useful- ness and service,-a retrospection marred by few regrets and jeweled by many a joy of pleasant satisfaction.

GIDEON FREDERICK GALLUP .- The subject of this sketch is the proprietor of a jewelry store established more than thirty years ago, but he is concerned in so many business in- terests that he is essentially a man of affairs. He also has the advantage of being a descend- ant of a valiant line of ancestors of whom he is a worthy scion, and a sketch of himself, with a few notes of his immediate ancestors, will prove interesting to his many friends.

Gideon Frederick Gallup was born in Law- rence county, Kentucky, May 15, 1857. His ancestors on his father's side came to the American Colonies in the Mayflower in 1620. His grandfather, Gideon Gallup, was a con- tractor and builder and later a farmer, whose wife was a Miss Wagoner, of Belgian ances- try. The father of our subject, the late Col- onel George W. Gallup, a prominent lawyer and soldier, and for many years an active and well known citizen of northeastern Kentucky, was born October 28, 1828, in Albany, New

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York, where he received his early education at the public schools and later at Aurora Academy and Central College. After leaving college Colonel Gallup taught school from 1845 to 1849 in the vicinity of South Point, Ohio, studied law at Burlington, Ohio, as well as during the following year, 1850, continuing the same with the late Colonel L. T. Moore at Louisa, Kentucky. He engaged in merchan- dise for a time and after being admitted to the bar formed a partnership with his former preceptor, continuing in active practice until 186t, when he recruited a company of home guards which became a part of the Fourteenth Kentucky Regular Volunteer Infantry, United States Army, which he assisted in forming in September of that year. On October 10, 1861, he was mustered in as regimental quar- termaster, having given his individual receipt for the entire outfit of merchandise before organizing. Later he became lieutenant col- onel, then colonel, and before the close of the war was made brevet brigadier general for gallant services on the field. He served with General Garfield in eastern Kentucky and with General George Morgan at Cumberland Gap against Kirby Smith, and under the or- ders of General Morgan, Colonel Gallup blew up four magazines of powder and fixed am- munition and burned the large warehouse containing twenty thousand stand of arms and other munitions of war. After obstructing the enemy in every possible way he per- formed the perilous undertaking of joining General Morgan's forces and commanding the rear guard until they crossed the Ohio river at Greenupsburg, Kentucky. In 1863 Colonel Gallup was transferred to General Buell's command in central Kentucky and soon succeeded General Julius White in command of the division in eastern Ken- tucky and led the expedition into West Virginia, capturing Colonel Ferguson and a portion of his regiment, the Eighth Virginia, also Colonel French and his entire regiment of eight hundred men at Piketon, Kentucky. In 1864 Colonel Gallup was ordered to the Mississippi department and placed in com- mand of the First Brigade, Second Division, Twenty-third Army Corps, at Kingston, Georgia, and thereafter took part in the At- lanta campaign until the city surrendered, be- ing in the battles of Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Jonesborough and others. At the battle of Kenesaw Mountain the con- duct of Colonel Gallup's regiment elicited the following order, which was read to the army from the field notes taken of the Fourteentli regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, while formed on a square on the battle ground of the pre-

vious day, June 22, 1864, on the Marietta road, Georgia :

"Headquarters Second Division, Twenty- third Army Corps, Army of Ohio, June 23, 1864, Marietta road. The General command- ing this division desires to draw attention of divisions, brigades and regiments, officers and men of this command to the conduct, un- daunted courage and bravery of this Four- teenth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, now assembled, Colonel George W. Gallup, his officers and men, who are now present before you, who held back and checked the advance of the enemy's attack in Marietta road in col- umn of companies front and artillery in sec- tions moving and deployed to left of road, three separated lines of infantry deep, one hundred yards apart. This noble regiment alone and determined met the advance, which had much superior numbers, with such effect, repulsed the head of their column, deliber- ately firing at less than forty yards into their forward line, before the second deployed line came up the inclined ground to where the front line of attack fell and received from the Fourteenth Regiment a second firing which struck them with terrible effect, creating a panic or confusion. The casualties left on this field today, June 23, 1864, seen by our men burying the enemy's dead; while their resistance and valor held the enemy back un- til our fortifications and positions were se- cure and artillery planted on General Hook- er's right, while alone and undaunted Colonel Gallup and the Fourteenth Regiment Ken- tucky Volunteers retired and brought their casualties with them inside our fortifications. For this noble example set, and worthy to be emulated, for such worthy conduct in the face of and against infantry and artillery of supe- rior numbers, for this great achievement, the General commanding this division returns his thanks with his proud admiration of Colonel G. W. Gallup, his officers and the Fourteenth Regiment of soldiers.

"By order General Haskell, commander Second Division, Twenty-third Army Corps, Army of Ohio."

After the war Colonel Gallup returned home to Louisa, Kentucky, and resumed the practice of law, and in 1866 was a candidate for state senate on the Conservative ticket, but was defeated. Later he removed to Cat- lettsburg, where he continued his practice and also engaged in the lumber business. He was prominently connected with build- ing the C. & O. Railway and secured the contract to build the Keys Creek Mining Railway, known as Big Sandy Railway, and met with severe losses in some of the specu-

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lations growing out of the business. Upon the retirement of Ben Burk, whose health had failed, Colonel Gallup was appointed by President Hayes to succeed Mr. Burk as post- master of Catlettsburg, a position he filled with singular faithfulness until the day of his death, December 31, 1880. The late Wil- liam Ely wrote of him in his history of the Big Sandy Valley as follows :

"George W. Gallup was no ordinary man. Had he cultivated in the lines of literary pur- suits, which he had marked out in his youth, he would have risen to literary fame. While he was a good lawyer he never liked its prac- tice. After coming in contact with large bodies of men in the war he was ever after inclined to engage in works that required great numbers of operatives to perform the work. As Colonel in the army, so was he as em- ployer and manager of large forces of work- men, liberal, considerate and just. He wanted his employes to fare well, although he might fail to get his money. He was an impressive speaker and sometimes could be called elo- quent. He was brought out by the Democracy soon after the war as candidate for state senator. The district was Republican and Colonel Gallup was defeated, although he made a gallant fight. He never afterward acted with the party but declared himself a Republican and remained one until his death."

In 1851 Colonel Gallup married a sister of his law partner, Rebecca A. Moore, a native of Virginia and daughter of Colonel Frederick Moore, which family became prominently con- nected with northeast Kentucky. Three children were born to this union: Mary, who died in infancy ; Harry, who died at the age of twelve, and Gideon Frederick, our subject, the only survivor. The widow and mother survives and resides in Catlettsburg.

Our subject, Gideon Frederick Gallup, was the youngest child of the family and at the age of twelve years came to Catlettsburg with his parents. He was educated principally in the military institute at Frankfort, Kentucky, became engaged in railway contracting with his father and in 1878 established his present jewelry store in Catlettsburg, which he has conducted for many years with success. He succeeded his father as postmaster of Catletts- burg, serving about two years. Later he se- cured a contract in the construction of a por- tion of the Lexington division of the C. & O. Railway and helped to complete that road.

In politics he is an Independent Repub- lican, and has served four years as trustee of the jury fund of Boyd county. Mr. Gallup is a member of the I. O. O. F., K. of P. and the Masonic Order. On June 17, 1896, he

was married to Jeannette Thornhill Atkin- son, a native of Appomattox county, Virginia. born near the surrender ground of the histor- ical battle, the daughter of the late Robert Atkinson, a native of Buckingham county, Virginia, an extensive planter and slave owner. He served as a private in a Virginia regiment during the Civil war in the Confederate army. Mr. and Mrs. Gallup have two children: George Frederick and Lucille Frances. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, in which they are active and interested, he being one of the stewards and trustees.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DAY .- Among those figures which lend dignity and honor to the bench and bar of the state of Kentucky, Ben- jamin Franklin Day stands conspicuous, Mt. Sterling being proud to claim the residence of this well-known gentleman. Of high attain- ments, progressive ideas, possessing an extra- ordinary power of marshalling and presenting significant facts so as to bring conviction, it is manifest that he should enjoy high prestige in the profession. That his practice is large goes without saying and no small part of it is in the Federal court. His judicial career, which was in the capacity of county judge, was of eight years' duration, beginning with 1872.

Benjamin Franklin Day is a native of Ken- tucky, having been born in Morgan county December 13, 1846, and he has been identified with some of the most stirring scenes of Ken- tucky history, as a veteran of the Civil war having been present at some of the most deci- sive battles of that conflict. He is the son of Archibald and Sarah (Cox) Day, the former a native of North Carolina, who died in 1897, and the latter of Montgomery county, Ken- tucky. This much respected lady, now at- tained to the age of ninety years, is at present living in Morgan county, Kentucky. She and her husband were the parents of eleven sons and daughters, seven of whom survive. Of these Mr. Day is the eldest; J. C. resides in Menifee county, Kentucky. Jefferson is a resident of Charleston, Illinois; Robert lives in Morgan county, Kentucky; Perlina is the wife of P. E. Lacey, of Charleston, Illinois ; Elizabeth, whose husband was John Brown, resides in Louisville, Kentucky; and Molly is the widow of M. S. Scott, of Hartford, Indi- ana.

The first of the Day family to come to America was Travers . Day, a Scotchman, to whose ears, when still living in "the land o' cakes" had come many alluring accounts of American opportunity. Upon crossing the seas he settled at the head of the New river in

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North Carolina and there became the founder of a family which was to be well known in the Southland. The next in line to Travers Day was Mr. Day's grandfather, Daniel Day, who married Rhoda Hoskins and became the father of five children, of whom Archibald Day was one. The maternal great-grandfather, John Cox, married Bettie Terrell and they had seven children. Of these John Cox, grandfather of the immediate subject of the review, married Judah Sexton and they also had a family of seven children, of whom the subject's mother was the youngest.

Archibald Day began his independent career in Morgan county, Kentucky, where he entered land. He was in every sense the architect of his own fortunes and he became a successful farmer, departing this life when a man of no inconsiderable property.

Mr. Day spent his early years on the farm and claimed the advantages of the common schools of his native county. He then entered the private school of William Bristo, the father of Senator Bristo of Kansas and the son of Joseph Bristo, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church and a Northerner. Mr. Day, who was only about fifteen years of age at the beginning of the Civil war, was a member of this school when the nation went down into the dark valley of decision. Mr. Bristo was in many respects a remarkable man and one of fine education, and he had three sons, one of whom, as above stated, is now Senator Bristo of Kansas. On account of his being from the section north of the Ma- son and Dixon line and of his suspected con- victions, there was a good deal of bitterness di- rected toward him, and he found it expedient to close his school. He announced his inten- tion of joining the Federal army, but advised his pupils to do as they believed to be right. Although so young, Mr. Day was roused to support the cause of the South and enlisted with the twenty-seventh Virginia Infantry, commanded by Colonel Gordon, with which he served one year. He was subsequently trans- ferred to the Tenth Kentucky Cavalry and did scout and special duty under Wheeler, Morgan and Williams until the close of the war. While with the Virginia regiment he partici- pated in the battles of Harpers Ferry, Antie- tam and Fredericksburg, and while in cavalry service was at Mt. Sterling, Cyanthiana, Rich- mond. Knoxville, Saltville, Wytheville and Blue Springs.

At the close of the war Mr. Day returned to Morgan county and engaged in farming and teaching for two years, subsequently going into the mercantile business at Maytown, and in 1860 he removed to Frenchburg. Menifee

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A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities, Volume III, Part 50

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