A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities, Volume III, Part 87

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

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His youth was passed in the unsettled period immediately preceding the Civil war and

its influence was deep upon him. In many ways it was a serious and thoughtful time and the boys of that day felt dimly, but no less certainly, that days of sharp struggle lay be- fore. Despite the section in which he lived and his Southern ancestry, Judge Goodloe, the father, was an ardent Union man, in truth was looked to as one of the leaders of the Union people of Kentucky during that long and bitter strife. It was but natural that Captain Goodloe should share in his family's devotion to the Union, which in past years had been secured by such hard struggle, Northern and Southern brethren shoulder to shoulder. In 1861 his ambition to be a soldier was grati- fied by an appointment to the Military Acad- emy at West Point, and had this appointment not come to him he would have entered the Union army, for the first guns had been fired at Fort Sumter. In 1863, during his furlough from the Academy, while with his family in Lexington, Kentucky, he found an opportunity to take an actual part in the war, which was then at its height. An invasion of the state was made at that time by the Rebel cavalry under the famous General John Morgan. Cadet Goodloe immediately tendered his services to. General Foster, who was in command of Ken- tucky, and they were accepted, he being or- dered to report to General Sanders, who com- manded the pursuit of the Rebels. Cadet Goodloe got a chance to engage the enemey at Irvine, Kentucky, and also a few miles farther along ; but it was a flight and a chase, and little skirimshing was done. He enjoved the experience.

The Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy published an account of the military career of Captain Goodloe in their necrology issued at the time of their annual reunion, June 12, 1900 (the year after his death), and the following ex- tracts are inserted in this review with but slight paraphrase.

In 1865 Captain Goodloe was graduated and appointed first lieutenant in the Thirteenth In- fantry and ordered to Jefferson Barracks, Mis- souri. He was sent to Forts Larned, Zarah and Riley, and thus at the beginning of his mili- tary life was put into active service on the In- dian frontier. In 1866 he was transferred to the Twenty-second Infantry and served upon the regimental staff of General David S. Stan- ley until his promotion to a Captaincy in 1872, his regiments during these years being sta- tioned at Forts Randall and Sully, Dakota Territory. He was with Sheridan at New Or- leans during the troublous political times of '74 to '76. Upon the defeat and death of Gen-

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eral Custer, his regiment, which was then serv- ing in the Department of the Lakes, was hast- ily ordered to the West again.

It was while making forced marches against Sitting Bull's band of Indians that Captain Goodloe received his stroke of paralysis, the outcome of taxing his strength beyond en- durance in helping his soldiers to bear their burdens in that hard march. The weather was extremely hot, which, added to other diffi- culties, rendered conditions almost unbearable. He tried hard and earnestly to regain his health, but in vain. He loved his profession, loved his fellow officers and only yielded to necessity when he was retired from active service April 14, 1883. He was a brave, dili- gent and modest soldier, full of energy and he was often commended for services well done.

General E. L. Otis, in a letter to Captain Goodloe of May 16th, 1897, writes: "You were a strong, active, energetic and able offi- cer as a lieutenant serving in the staff depart- ment of the army, and especially so as a cap- tain of a company. While participating in the severe campaign in Montana in the summer of 1876 against the hostile Sioux Indians, and while in command of your company and en- gaged in the pursuit of the enemy, you were suddenly and without premonition stricken down because of fatigue and the extreme heat of the weather, and remained unconscious for several successive days, during which time you were carried along with the marching col- umn in a mule litter hastily prepared for that purpose. The day was very warm and the march severe. Several of your men seemed unable to endure the fatigue, while you on foot were giving them encouragement and urg- ing them on, you, yourself, carrying two or three rifles which you had taken from them to give them temporary relief. I believe that your effort in behalf of your men was the cause of your extreme illness, and that it is the sole cause of your present incapacity."

Captain Goodloe made his home in Lexing- ton after returning from Europe in 1892. The war with Spain found him helpless to serve, but with a heart panting to be with his old comrades.

On August 12, 1868, Miss Fanny Edgar, of Detroit, Michigan, daughter of William H. Edgar, became the bride of Captain Goodloe. On that day began a life which was beautiful service of devotion to one another. After his illness the devoted wife gave her whole ex- istence to him, trying to nurse him to recovery. When this seemed hopeless she continued her attention to his welfare with a devotion and an

assiduity that elicited the admiration of all who knew and loved the Captain. He was a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church, as is also his widow.

Captain Goodloe died at his home on Ash- land Avenue, Lexington, Kentucky, November 27, 1899, and is buried in the cemetery near that city. He filled his lot well as citizen, soldier, friend, brother, son and husband, and sleeps well until the Resurrection Morning.

Mrs. Goodloe survives her husband, and he is also survived by the following brother and sister : Mrs. William H. Neale, of Lex- ington, and Rev. William Owsley Goodloe, a Presbyterian minister at Seymour, Indiana.

THOMAS THROCKMORTON FORMAN has been engaged in the practice of law successfully in Lexington, Kentucky, since 1890, and prior to that time for about sixteen years he prac- ticed his profession at Cynthiana, Kentucky. He was born at Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky, on the 29th day of December, 1852, and is the son of Rev. Ezekiel Forman, D.D., being the second child born of the latter's marriage with Miss Ellen Russel. The line- age of T. T. Forman in the agnatic line is traced back in an authentic way to the reign of Charles I. of England, during whose reign Robert Forman fled from England to Holland to escape religious persecution.

The name of Robert Forman and his wife are enrolled upon the church register at Vliss- ingen Holland, of which the English name is Flushing. Coming to America, Robert For- man became one of the eighteen incorporators of the town of Flushing on Long Island in 1645.

Aaron Forman, son of Robert, was a towns- man of Hempstead in 1660. He was residing at Oyster Bay in 1683.

Samuel Forman, son of Aaron, was a resi- dent of Monmouth county, New Jersey. Samuel Forman was High Sheriff of Mon- month county in 1695.

Ezekiel, son of Samuel Forman, was born in 1706, and died in 1746. He married Eliza- beth Seabrook.

Thomas Forman, son of Ezekiel, moved to Mason county, Kentucky, in 1789. The stone house which he probably built, and certainly occupied, is believed to be standing at the time this sketch was written, and was certainly standing as late as 1903, thus illustrating the solidity with which they built in those days.

Ezekiel Forman, son of Thomas Forman, was born in New Jersey in 1770, died in Mason county, Kentucky, in 1836. He married Dollie Wood, the second white child born in Mason county, Kentucky, in February, 1808. He was

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a large land owner and made a considerable fortune in farming, sheep raising and in trad- ing down the Ohio and Mississippi by flat boat with New Orleans.

Rev. Ezekiel Forman, D.D., son of Ezekiel last named, and the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1819, and died in 1902, in the eighty-third year of his age.

Dr. Forman graduated at Center College, Danville, Kentucky, in 1837, and studied theol- ogy at Princeton, New Jersey. He completed his course in 1841, and returned to Kentucky, where he spent most of his ministerial life. His last pastorate was that of the Memorial Presbyterian church in New Orleans, Louis- iana. In 1898 he returned to Kentucky, and he died in Lexington, April, 1902, and is buried at Richmond, Kentucky, where he was for many years pastor. Dr. Forman represented West Lexington Presbytery in the General Assembly at Rochester, New York, in 1860, as the commissioner for Transylvania Presby- tery. He received the degree of A. M. from Center College, and that of D. D. from Central University, Richmond, Kentucky. Miss Ellen Russel, who became the second wife of Dr. Forman, October 26, 1848, was a daughter of David A. Russel who was born in Belfast, Ireland, of Scotch-Irish lineage, and settled in America when a young man, and for nearly half a century was an elder of the First Pres- byterian church in Danville, Kentucky, where he continued to reside until his death.

T. T. Forman, the subject of this sketch, was reared in a home of culture and refinement, and after preliminary training attended the Kentucky University and later the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, in which institu- tions he continued his studies for about four years. After leaving the University of Vir- ginia he taught school for one term at Bards- town, Kentucky, before he reached his majority or had decided upon his life pursuit. About this time his father had assumed the pastorate of three churches near Cynthiana, Kentucky. T. T. Forman after teaching in Bardstown followed his father to Cynthiana and there read law with the Hon. J. Q. A. Ward and was admitted to the bar in 1873, upon ex- amination before two of the judges of the Court of Appeals. He practiced law in Cynthiana from May, 1874, until September, 1890, and during that time was attorney for the municipality, Farmer's National Bank and was local counsel of the Kentucky Central Railroad, now the L. & N. Railroad Com- pany. In 1890, Mr. Forman removed to Lex- ington, Kentucky, regarding it as a larger field for the practice of his profession, but particularly with the view of giving his chil-

dren better educational advantages. Mr. For- man has never sought political preferment. He has occasionally served as special judge of the Fayette Circuit Court, and his firm, Forman & Forman, of which he is the senior member, the junior member being his son, is regarded as one of the leading firms at the bar. Mr. Don Forman, his son, has been a member of the firm since his admission to the bar in December, 1898.

Mr. T. T. Forman has been an elder of the Presbyterian church since he was about thirty years of age, being first made an elder in the Presbyterian church at Cynthiana, and upon his removal to Lexington became an elder in the Maxwell Street Presbyterian church, and in about the year 1900 became an elder in the First Presbyterian church, Lexington, Kentucky, an office which he still holds. In May, 1890, he was a commissioner to the General Assembly at Asheville, North Caro- lina, from the Presbytery of West Lexington. For several years he has been a member of the Kentucky Synod's Evangelistic Commit- tee, and the Home Mission Committee of the Presbytery of West Lexington. At the meet- ing of Presbytery at Cynthiana in April, 1911, he was unanimously elected as moderator of . that body.

He has served on the Board of Education in Lexington, on the Board of Trustees of the Good Samaritan Hospital, Board of Trustees of the Lees Collegiate Institute Board or Trustees of Sayre Female College, and is a Director and General Counsel for the Union Bank & Trust Company of Lexington, Kentucky.

The only interest Mr. Forman has ever manifested in politics has been to take, when occasion demanded. a decided stand in favor of good government and in an endeavor to select good men for office. This course has occasionally brought him into notice locally. He became a member of the Masonic Frater- nity just about the time he became of age and is a past master of Lexington Lodge, No. I, the oldest Masonic lodge west of the Alle- ghanies.

In October, 1876, Mr. Forman was married to Miss Lelia Campbell Donohoo, of Bards- town, Kentucky, who has been to him a faith- ful and devoted wife and with whom he has lived happily now for nearly thirty-five years.

Four children have been born of the mar- riage. M. Don. Forman, above mentioned, who has been his law partner since 1898; Thomas Vernon Forman, who is engaged in the insurance business in Lexington, Ken- tucky ; Miss Lelia Forman, the only daughter born of the marriage, and who still resides

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with her father ; and Howard H. Forman, who died in August, 1910.

MAJOR ROBERT S. BULLOCK, a hale and hearty man, bearing with ease and graceful dignity his burden of upwards of four score years, Robert S. Bullock has spent nearly one half of his long and useful life in his present position as cashier of the Fayette National Bank in Lexington. A son of Waller Bul- lock, he was born on a farm in Fayette county, May 8, 1828, coming of honored Virginia stock.

Waller Bullock, born in Virginia, came with his parents to Kentucky in pioneer days and assisted in the pioneer labor of clearing and improving a farm from the wilderness. When ready to begin the battle of life for himself, he bought land near the Richmond Pike, about seven miles from Lexington, in Fayette county, and there actively and prosperously engaged in agricultural pursuits, including farming and stock-raising, until his death, at the age of seventy-eight years. He married Maria Burch, who was born in Scott county, Kentucky, where her father was an early settler. She died at the age of forty-five years, leaving ten children.

Robert S. Bullock was brought up on the home farm and acquired a practical education in the district schools, while under the wise instructions of his father, he became well versed in agriculture. He continued farming until the breaking out of the war between the States, when he entered the Confederate ser- vice. Being commissioned Major in the Eighth Kentucky Regiment, he served under General John H. Morgan, participating in many of the campaigns and battles of the earlier part of the conflict. In September, 1863, Major Bullock, with his command, was captured in Ohio and taken to Columbus, where he was held as a prisoner in the. Ohio Penitentiary for about a year and a half. In the early part of 1864 he was transferred to Fort Delaware, where he was confined until the close of the conflict, when he was paroled and returned to Lexington, where he soon found employment as clerk in a grocery. Elected county sheriff in 1868, Mr. Bullock served faithfully for four years. In March, 1873, he was made cashier of the Fayette National Bank, and has held the position con- tinuously since, a record of service that be- speaks his ability and trustworthiness. Al- though eighty-three years of age, Mr. Bullock is still mentally and physically vigorous, and has, without doubt, many more years of use- fulness to come.

In 1858 Mr. Bullock was united in mar- riage with Mary Franklin, who was born

in New York state, a daughter of Stephen Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Bullock have reared five children, namely: Thomas, who married Nettie McDowell and has one child, Henry McDowell Bullock; Frank, who married Grace Hambrick; Sarah, wife of Rev. Carey F. Moore; Mary died at the age of twenty years ; and Samuel lived but nineteen years.

Mr. Bullock demitted from the Masonic Fraternity, to which he formerly belonged. He is now a member, and the vice-president of the John C. Breckinridge Camp, Confed- erate Veterans. Both he and his wife are valued and esteemed members of the Presby- terian church.

GEN. WILLIAM TEMPLE WITHERS .- Dis- tinguished not only as a brave soldier and an able lawyer, but as a man of prominence and influence, General William T. Withers, late of Lexington, Fayette county, was for many years actively associated with the lead- ing affairs of this part of the state and a brief resume of his honorable and useful life may prove of interest and value to the readers of this biographical work. A son of William Allen Withers, he was born January 8, 1825, in Harrison county, Kentucky, near Cyn- thiana, of English ancestry. Lieutenant Ben- jamin Withers, the General's paternal grand- father, was born in England, it is supposed, and brought to America by his parents when young. He was reared and educated in Vir- ginia, and during the Revolutionary war served as a lieutenant in the Colonial army, being present at the surrender of Lord Corn- wallis. Soon after the close of the struggle for independence, he came to Kentucky, and for a time lived in what is now Maysville, but spent his last years in Harrison county. He married Ann Markham, who belonged to a well-known Virginian family, one of her near relatives having been Chief Justice Marshall.

William Allen Withers was born in 1800 in Virginia, and was brought to Kentucky in childhood. Beginning life for himself as a merchant, he located in Cynthiana ere the time of railroads, going across the mountains by stage to Philadelphia to buy goods, which were forwarded to Pittsburg, sent down the Ohio river to Maysville, and thence taken by teams to Cynthiana. Removing to Jack- son, Mississippi, a short time before the Civil war, he there lived retired from business activ- ities until his death, in 1863. During the try- ing times of the Civil war, he had joined the Home Guards, as aid to General Loring, and was killed while carrying dispatches from the front to the General's headquarters. A few years after the war his remains were re- moved from Jackson to Cynthiana, and laid

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to rest beside the body of his wife, who had died in middle life. His wife, whose maiden name was Eliza Perrin, was born at Stanford, Kentucky, a daughter of Archibald and Jane (Smith ) Perrin, natives of Virginia. Her father, a wealthy planter, moved from Ken- tucky to Platte county, Missouri, where he purchased an extensive tract of land and re- sided until his death, many of his descendants being still residents of that locality. Mr. and Mrs. William Allen Withers reared three chil- dren, namely : James S., deceased; William Temple, deceased ; and Jennie, widow of Sam- uel M. Smith, of whom a brief sketch may be found on another page of this volume.

Graduated from Bacon College, in Harrods- burg, Kentucky, in 1846, William Temple Withers was chosen valedictorian of his class, but on account of the Mexican war, did not stay for Commencement exercises, leaving to enlist in Company C, Second Kentucky Regi- ment, of which he was commissioned sergeant, He was subsequently promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and for a while served as aide de camp to Generals Marshall and Butler. When actual fighting began, he rejoined his regiment, and was with it during all of its campaigns. At the battle of Buena Vista he was twice wounded, and his life was despaired of, his wounds having been more severe, it is said, than that of any other soldier who recovered sufficiently to take part in another war. After spending three months in a hospital, the gal- lant Lieutenant returned to Kentucky, travel- ing three hundred miles in an ambulance.

Beginning then the study of law with Major William R. Wall, Lieutenant Withers was ad- mitted to the bar and began the practice of his profession in Cynthiana, where he continued successfully until 1851. Removing then to Jackson, Mississippi, he practised there, in partnership with ex-Chief Justice Sharkey, for a number of years, in the meantime buying land in Louisiana and engaging in cotton plant- - ing, retaining his residence, however, in Jack- son. During the year preceding the breaking out of the Civil war, he vigorously opposed secession during all discussions on the subject, but in 186t he espoused the cause of his friends. At the solicitation of Jefferson Davis he came to Kentucky and was instrumental in raising the First Kentucky Brigade, which was organized at Camp Boone. in Tennessee. He afterward organized the Mississippi Light Artillery, which was composed of ten com- panies and fifteen hundred men, and until the close of the conflict commanded that brigade, with the rank of colonel, which was the high- est rank in that branch of the army, and equivalent to that of general in any other

corps, a title afterward accorded him. During the second attack of the city of Vicksburg, General Withers was taken from the artillery and given sole command of the Confederate right wing at the battle of Chickasaw Bayou, where General Sherman was defeated and forced to retreat. Rejoining the artillery, General Withers had command at the memo- rable fight against General Grant at Champion Hill, and during the third siege of Vicks- burg he commanded all of the land batteries, which were many in number, and extended a distance of five miles. On the surrender of Pemberton's army at Vicksburg, the General yielded himself and his command to General Grant, but was soon exchanged and, return- ing to the Artillery, remained in service on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay and in Cen- tral Alabama, until the final surrender of his troops at Macon, Georgia.

Soon after the cessation of war, General Withers was appointed state agent at Wash- ington, and remained in the District of Co- lumbia several months. Returning then to Jackson, Mississippi, he formed a partnership with Judge Wiley P. Harris and practised law in that city until 1871, when he came to Lex- ington, Kentucky, in order that his children might have better educational 'advantages: Buying within the city limits the estate known as Fairlawn Farm, the General engaged in the breeding of trotting horses as a recreation. The industry soon developed into a profitable business, and expanded from season to season until it became the largest trotting horse breed- ing estate in the entire country. He contin- ted thus actively and profitably employed until his death, June 16, 1889.

General Withers married, in April, 1850, Martha Sharkey, who was born March 24, 1830, in Warren county Mississippi, and was there brought up and educated. To them ten children were born, namely: Ida, Sally, Alice H., Sharkey, Martha, Annie M., William T., Jennie, Mary S. and Edith (deceased). Mrs. Withers is a member of the Christian church, with which she and her husband united many years ago.

General Withers took an active interest in educational matters, and served as chairman of the Executive Committee of Kentucky Uni- versity and as a member of both its Board of Curators and its Board of Trustees, and was for many years chairman of the Executive Committee of Hamilton Female College. His death was really caused by the wound received in the Mexican war.

JAMES NICOL .- As superintendent since 1905, and for the past twenty years associated with the Lexington Cemetery, James Nicol

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has made good use of his artistic skill as a landscape gardener and horticulturist, render- ing this burial spot one of the most beautiful of the many attractive resting places of the dead to be found in the state. A Scotchman by birth and breeding, he was born at Thorn- hill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, which was like- wise the birthplace of his father, William Nicol.

David Nicol, Mr. Nicol's grandfather, a Highlander, was born in Aberdeenshire, Scot- land, where his ancestors for many generations had lived and died. Going as a young man to Dumfriesshire, he established himself as a landscape gardener, and was there engaged in his favorite occupation during the remainder of his life. He married Nannie Hay, a life- long resident of Dumfriesshire.

William Nicol, developing much native me- chanical ability when young, learned the car- penter's trade and subsequently carried on a good business as a contractor and builder in his native shire, where he spent his entire life. He married Mary Todd, a daughter of William Todd, a life-long resident of the same shire, and to them nine children were born.

James Nicol obtained a practical education when young, attending the public schools reg- ularly as a boy and youth. Born with a love for flowers, he early began the study of horti- culture, becoming familiar with its every branch. Subsequently establishing himself as a landscape gardener, he entered the employ of the Duke of Buccleugh, at Drumlanrig Castle, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, and had charge of the beautifying of his estate until 1884. Emigrating then to the United States, Mr. Nicol joined his uncle, Richard Nicol, a noted florist in Frankfort, Kentucky, and re- mained with him four years. Coming then to Lexington, he has continued a resident of this city, since 1905 having served acceptably as s11- perintendent of Lexington Cemetery. This 'City of the Dead," one of the hallowed spots of the city, owes much to the magic touch of his skilful fingers, which have made it beautiful by trees, flowers, shrubs and shaded walks.

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A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities, Volume III, Part 87

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