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He was married in 1876 to Lila Pendleton, daughter of Rev. Dr. J. M. Pendleton, of Up- land, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Bap- tist Church, and have a high social standing in Bowling Green.
D R. ROBERT STUART, a prominent physi- cian of Henderson, was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, December 1, 1837; son of Olivia (Hall) and Rev. David Todd Stuart. His father, David T. Stuart, was born in the parson- age attached to Walnut Hill Church (near Lex- ington) July 27, 1812; took the degree of A. B. in Transylvania University at the age of twenty years. In 1832 he entered Princeton, N. J., and studied the regular course of theology. At the request of Rev. William L. Breckinridge he passed the summer of 1836 in preaching at the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Louisville, Ken- tucky, where he formed the acquaintance of Miss Olivia W. Hall, whom he subsequently married.
He preached for fifteen years to the churches of Shiloh and Olivet in Shelby County. In June, 1851, he removed to Shelbyville and took charge of the Shelbyville Female College, where he con- tinued until his death, September 26, 1868. Eleven children were born to him, viz .: Robert, Winchester, John, Theodore, David T., Isabella,
Amelia, Mary Lou, Maggie, Florence and Annie.
Rev. Robert Stuart (grandfather) was of Irish- Scotch parentage, and was born in Virginia; re- ceived a collegiate and theological training at Hampden Sidney, and came to Kentucky before the beginning of the nineteenth century. In 1798 he was elected one of the first three professors of Transylvania University, and held the position of professor of languages for a number of years.
For more than half a century he filled the pulpit of the Walnut Hill Church, Fayette County, Ken- tucky. The degree of D. D. conferred upon him was merited by his learning and long service. He died at the age of eighty-four years in Nicholas- ville, Kentucky. His wife, Hannah Todd, a mem- ber of one of the best families of Lexington, died in 1832. They had eight children.
Dr. Robert Stuart attended his junior year in Center College in 1855. In 1857 he graduated from Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pennsyl- vania. He attended one course of lectures in the Kentucky School of Medicine, Louisville, Ken- tucky, and graduated from the Jefferson School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa., in the spring of 1860.
He first practiced his profession in Yelvington, Daviess County, Kentucky, where he made the acquaintance of Miss Susan E. Read of Owens- boro, Kentucky, a most beautiful and accom- plished woman, to whom he was united in mar- riage May 8, 1861. In February, 1862, he accept- ed the position of assistant surgeon in the Second Kentucky Cavalry, and served in that capacity until the summer of 1863, when he was compelled to resign on account of impaired health. He was present at the battle of Shiloh, being detailed to accompany the Louisville Legion on the field and attend to their wounded. He was also present at the battles of Stone River and Perryville, Ken- tucky, and accompanied his regiment in the inarch of Buell's legions in the pursuit of Bragg's army to Louisville and back again to Tennessee.
After returning from the war he settled in Hen- derson County, Kentucky, and practiced his pro- fession for more than twenty years at Zion, a quiet village six miles from the city of Henderson.
On December 19, 1891, he had the misfortune to lose his faithful wife after a long and painful
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illness-one of earth's purest and brightest jewels. In 1893 he removed to Henderson, where he is at present located; is a member of a number of med- ical societies; elder in the First Presbyterian Church and a citizen of high standing. He is the father of six children: Robert, Benjamin, Annie, Alice W., Mary and Susan Elizabeth.
T THOMAS HUNT STUCKY, M. D., a promi- nent physician of Louisville, son of Harry Stucky and Sallie (Sweeney) Stucky, was born in Louisville March 21, 1860. Hs father, one of the best known citizens of Louisville, was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, September 19, 1827. He was brought up on his father's farm and re- ceived a good common school education. In 1846 he went to Louisville and entered the office of the clerk of the County Court and served as first deputy clerk for eight years. In 1861 he was elected city auditor and in 1862 was elected clerk of the Louisville Chancery Court, and after serv- ing one term of six years, declined a re-election. In 1869 he was elected secretary and treasurer of the board of directors of the sinking fund. He held that office eight years and resigned, since which time he has been acting as commissioner and general trustee and assignee in the settlement of estates, a business in which his services are much in demand. In 1878 he was elected alder- man from the sixth ward and served the city in that capacity for sixteen years, consecutively, be- ing re-elected every two years, and generally without opposition. He declined another elec- tion, although he could have held that office in- definitely, as he was one of the few men in the general council who were above reproach and concerning whom no suspicion of unfair dealing ever entered the minds of his constituents.
He was married in December, 1856, to Sallie K. Sweeney, daughter of Rev. Joseph A. Sweeney, of Virginia. They are the parents of Dr. Joseph A. Stucky, of Lexington, whose biography is given briefly herewith; Dr. Thomas Hunt Stucky, the subject of this sketch, and Virginia Stucky, who is much younger than her brothers and is at home with her parents.
Frederick Stucky (grandfather) was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1801, and was a
resident and farmer of his native county nearly all of his life, but died in Owen County, Indiana, in 1893, where he had been living for some time with a son. Although he reached the advanced age of ninety-two years, he retained all of his faculties until the last day of his life. His wife, Louisa Myers, was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1815, and died in 1882. His father, who was the great-grandfather of the Doctors Stucky, was a native of Maryland, who came to Kentucky, and was one of the earliest pioneers of Jefferson County. The Stucky family is of Swiss origin.
Dr. Thomas Hunt Stucky completed his studies in the Louisville high school at a very early age and in 1876 he went to Bethany College, West Virginia, an institution that was founded by Alex- ander Campbell; returned to Louisville in 1878 and read medicine with Dr. David Cummins, one of the ablest and most distinguished physicians of Louisville, at the same time attending the Hos- pital College of Medicine, from which he grad- uated in 1880, when twenty years of age. He then took post graduate courses in Bellevue Med- ical College, New York, and at Strausberg and Leipsic, Germany, making special studies in the latter two schools in pathology and surgery.
In 1882 he returned to Louisville and settled down to the practice of his profession. He gave especial attention to diseases of the digestive or- gans, but attended to a general practice, in which he soon became one of the leading physicians among a city full of doctors, some of whom en- joyed a national reputation. While others have been passing away, Dr. Stucky has steadily grown in popular favor and has to-day no superior in the medical profession.
During the past ten years he has been connected with the Hospital College of Medicine and occu- pies at present the chair of theory and practice and clinical medicine in that college. He is a member of the principal medical associations, in- cluding the American Medical Association, the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, the Ken- tucky State Medical Society, the Tri-State Medi- cal Association, the Mitchell (Indiana) Medical Society, the Medical Chirurgical Association of Louisville and the Jefferson County Medical As-
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sociation. He is also a member of several benevo- lent orders, including the Chosen Friends, the Royal Arcanum and is a thirty-second degree Mason. He is a baseball enthusiast and is presi- dent of the Louisville club, and in spite of the ups and downs of that storm-tossed aggregation, he has managed to steer it clear of the breakers.
Dr. Stucky's grandparents and their parents were members of the Methodist Church, but he and his father's family belong to the Christian Church.
Dr. Stucky was married in 1883 to Laura Pre- witt, daughter of Levi Prewitt, of Fayette County, and his excellent wife is one of the most charming ladies in Louisville society.
JOSEPH ADDISON STUCKY, M. D., one of the most successful physicians of Lexington, son of Harry and Sallie Kemp (Sweeney) Stucky, was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, Septem- ber 6, 1858. His ancestry is given in the foregoing sketches of his father, Harry Stucky, and his brother, Dr. Thomas Hunt Stucky.
Dr: J. A. Stucky was educated in the Louis- ville high school; studied medicine with Dr. J. M. Bodine, of Louisville, and Dr. W. O. Sweeney, of Lexington; attended the medical department of the University of Louisville, from which he graduated in 1878; located in Lexington, and be- gan the practice of his profession, in which he was eminent as a general practitioner until 1885, when he began to confine his practice to the treatment of diseases of the ear, nose and throat, to which specialty he has given his attention with remarkable success. There are few more skillful physicians and surgeons in the country and in the line to which he has given his special atten- tion he has few equals and no superiors.
Dr. Stucky is a member of the International Medical Congress; ex-president of the American Rhinological Society; member of the Kentucky State Medical Society ; of the Lexington and Fay- ette County Medical Society; of the American Medical Association and fellow of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological So- ciety. He was for five years surgeon for the Ches- apeake & Ohio Railroad Company; lectures be- fore the training schools in the Protestant Infir-
mary and St. Joseph's Hospital; takes a very ac- tive interest in the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation, being a member of the state executive committee and ex-president of the State Associa- tion; is an influential and industrious member of the Christian Church, and keeps his politics in line with his religious profession by voting the Prohibition ticket. He is a man of strong convic- tions, and has the moral courage to stand up for what he believes to be right and to oppose what he conceives to be wrong. His sincerity and his exemplary life and gentlemanly deportment have distinguished Dr. Stucky as a man of in- fluence for whom the people in the community have the highest regard.
Dr. Stucky was married in 1881 to Nellie Mc- Garvey, daughter of Professor J. W. McGarvey, of Lexington. They have three sons and two daughters living: John McGarvey, William Sweeney, Lillie E., Harry Clarke and Nellie Mc- Garvey.
AMUEL P. HAGER, of Ashland, son of S Daniel and Violet (Porter) Hager, was born in Floyd County, May 22, 1834. He has a very interesting record of the history of his father's family going back nearly one hundred and fifty years. John Hager, the elder, was born in Hesse Cassel, Germany, December 28, 1759, and came to America under peculiar circum- stances. He was one of the drafted soldiers sent from Germany to aid the English in the Revolu- tionary War; but on his arrival upon the scene of conflict, he deserted and entered the Federal army and served under Gen. Sumter until the close of the war. He settled in Lynchburg, Vir- ginia, and afterwards moved to Amherst County, Virginia. There he married Mary Schrader, a native of Virginia, in 1785; removed to Ken- tucky in 1806 and settled at the mouth of Beaver Creek, Floyd County; removed to the mouth of John's Creek, where he died in February, 1819. His wife died in 1847. They had seven children: John, George, William, Elizabeth, Henry, James M. and Daniel.
Daniel Hager (father) was born in Amherst County, Virginia, November 15, 1801; came to Floyd County with his father's family in 1806.
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They settled near the mouth of Beaver Creek on the Big Sandy and later at the mouth of John's Creek, where he received his schooling and was engaged in farming until 1840; in 1843 he pur- chased the Hayden farm on Sandy River, in John- son County, and in 1845 removed his family to that place; in 1852 he removed to Paintsville, where he was engaged in merchandising and in the hotel business until 1858, when he removed to his farm, where he resided until 1871, when he again removed to Paintsville, where he died July 5, 1887, aged eighty-six years, having been for many years a member of the Methodist Church. He was the first sheriff of Johnson County (1844); was a member of the legislature in 1845-6; for a number of years before the Civil War, he held a commission as brigadier-general and commander- in-chief of all the militia in eastern Kentucky, a district comprising fifteen counties; was a south- ern sympathizer and spent nearly all of his time in Virginia during the Civil War. He was a man of great strength of character and a good citizen. He was a lifelong Democrat, having voted for General Jackson in 1824.
Violet Porter Hager (mother) was born in Rus- sell County, Virginia, February 4, 1804; married Daniel Hager, January 31, 1822; died in Paints- ville, February 22, 1879, aged seventy-three years. She was of Scotch-Irish descent. They were the parents of twelve children, six sons and six daugh- ters: John Jackson, Henry George, William James, Mary Jane, Martha Ann, Amanda Burns, Samuel Patton, Emily Elizabeth, Daniel Marion, Louisa, Benjamin Franklin and Violet Vertrees.
Samuel P. Hager received such education as was afforded at that time in country schools. Hav- ing left school in 1852 he entered his father's store at Paintsville and worked for him until 1856, when he began business in a small way for himself. In 1857 his brother-in-law, William Stafford, was admitted as a partner, the style of the firm being Hager & Stafford. In the fall of that year they sold out the store and Mr. Hager went to Tin- ney's Grove in Ray County, Missouri, where he engaged in the business of merchandising, con- tinuing until April, 1859, when he returned to Paintsville. During the war he owned a steam- boat in partnership with his brother Henry and
others, which they operated on the Big Sandy and Ohio rivers. In 1865 he sold his interest in the steamboat and resumed the mercantile busi- ness in Paintsville at a time when prices were falling as rapidly as they had risen from 1862 to 1864, and when a majority of beginners in busi- ness failed. But by hard labor and close atten- tion to business he soon became the leading mer- chant and one of the most successful business men of the place.
In 1881 he sold a half interest in his store to his brother, Daniel M., and removed to Ashland, Kentucky, where he now resides.
He has been in the insurance business since 1886. Is senior member of the fim of Hager & Hager at Ashland City, and also of the firm of S. P. Hager & Bro. at Paintsville, Kentucky. He is a stockholder in a number of enterprises in Ashland, of which city he is one of the most en- terprising citizens.
He is vice-president of the Merchants' National Bank; director in the Ashland & Catlettsburg Street Railroad Company and was one of the originators of the enterprise, and is a prominent Mason, having filled the chairs in his lodge, chap- ter and commandery, and is at present Eminent Commander of Ashland Commandery No. 28.
During the war Mr. Hager was a Union man, and in this respect differed from his father's senti- ments. He is a Democrat in politics, but takes no active part in the affairs of his party, never hav- ing offered himself as a candidate for office, though frequently solicited to do so. He is a member in the highest standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Mr. Hager was married November 21, 1860, to Angie R. Brown, daughter of Judge Thomas S. Brown, of Johnson County. She was born in Johnson County April 4, 1844; and they have four children living: William C., born August 31, 1861; Harry H., born March 19, 1864; Edgar, born December 7, 1861; John S., born January 14, 1871. Two children are deceased: Frederick, born April 9, 1866, died September 9, 1870; Paul V., born August 11, 1873, died November 2, 1875.
William C. is a member of the firm of Hager & Hager; married Ida Lady, daughter of Daniel Lady, May 15, 1884, and they have three chil-
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dren, named Adah, Hazel and Mary Elizabeth. Harry H. is cashier of the Oxley Stave Company, Chattanooga, Tennessee; married Lizzie Hamp- ton, daughter of Charles Hampton, of Catletts- burg, March 18, 1889; his wife died within two years after marriage and her only child died about a year later. Edgar received a collegiate educa- tion in the Kentucky Wesleyan College, Millers- burg, graduating in 1888; studied law in the law department of Boston University, graduating in June, 1892; was admitted to the bar in August, 1892, and is now a practitioner at the Ashland bar. John S. is a graduate of the Kentucky Wes- leyan College, Millersburg, and is assistant cash- ier of the Merchants' National Bank of Ashland.
H ONORABLE JOSEPH H. LEWIS, one of the most distinguished judges of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, who was commander of the famous Orphans' Brigade in the Civil war, was born in the southern part of Barren County, Kentucky, October 29, 1824.
His father, John Lewis, was a native of Mercer County, Kentucky, and after reaching manhood removed to Barren County, where he engaged in farming. He was a volunteer in the War of 1812, and fought under General Jackson in the battle of New Orleans. He belonged to a family noted for longevity and was eighty-four years of age at the time of his death in 1876. Before the war he was considered a wealthy man, but the ravages of war left him without property and he left no estate.
Joseph Lewis (grandfather) was a Virginian by birth, who removed to Mercer County before Kentucky was admitted to the Union of states, and was prominently identified with the early de- velopment of the state. The Lewis family is of French origin. The ancestors, leaving France, first went to Wales and thence to the United States, settling in Virginia.
Judge Lewis' mother, Eliza Martz Reed Lewis, was a daughter of Lewis Reed, who was a native of New Jersey. He removed to Philadelphia, and subsequently became a resident of Henderson County, Kentucky, where he died.
Joseph H. Lewis went to Centre College, Dan- ville, from which institution he was graduated in
1843, at the age of nineteen years. He read law in the office of Judge C. C. Tompkins, and was duly admitted to the bar in Glasgow in 1845, and at once entered upon the practice of his profes- sion in that city. In 1850 he was elected to the legislature on the Whig ticket; was re-elected in 1851 and 1853, and took an active part in the important work of the sessions. He remained in the Whig party until the "Know-Nothing" craze, when he identified himself with the Democratic party.
In September, 1861, he volunteered his services in the Confederate army and was commissioned colonel of the Sixth Regiment of Kentucky In- fantry, and remained in command of that regi- ment until after the battle of Chickamauga, when he was promoted to the rank of general for meritorious conduct upon the battlefield. He then took command of the famous Orphans' Brigade, and was conspicuous in the later bat- tles until the close of the war. He was a brave and fearless soldier and inspired his men with the courage and daring which made his brigade so famous. He was in the thickest of the fight at Shiloh, Jackson and Vicksburg, and in all of the hard-fought engagements from Dalton to At- lanta, and in the siege of Savannah. After the surrender he returned to his home in Glasgow and resumed the practice of law; was re-elected to the legislature in 1868, and was made chair- man of the committee on education.
In 1870 he was elected to Congress from the then Third district to fill a vacancy for one year, and at the next general election he was returned for a full term, so that he served three years in the United States House of Representatives.
In 1880 General Lewis was elected Circuit Judge of his district, but soon resigned this office to become a candidate for judge of the Court of Appeals, and was elected to fill an unexpired term, caused by the death of Judge M. H. Coper, since which time he has been twice re-elected and has served on the appellate bench continuously for over thirteen years.
Judge Lewis has been twice married. His first wife was Sarah Rogers, daughter of Dr. George Rogers of Glasgow. She died in 1858, leaving two children: John Lewis, who is in business in
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Glasgow; and Eliza, wife of S. H. Burnham, now residing in Lincoln, Nebraska.
He was married the second time in 1883 to Cassandra F., widow of I. P. Johnson, daughter of General Thompson B. Flournoy of Arkansas.
CYON AMBLER BASS, a leading Attorney- S at-Law of Russellville, son of Scyon M. and Mary (Chick) Bass, was born in Butler County, Kentucky, March 15, 1855.
His father was born in Nelson County, Ten- nessee, August 28, 1827; was educated in the common schools and became a farmer in his na- tive county, where he remained until 1867, when he removed to Butler County, Kentucky, and en- gaged in the same business. A few years ago he removed to Auburn, Logan County, where he is now living. He has always been a stock trader, making a specialty of fine horses, and is still in- terested in this branch of his business. He has been a prominent Democrat, but never an office- seeker; is a high Mason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He was married in 1846 to Mary Chick, who was born in Virginia, March 15, 1823. She removed with her parents to Tennessee when she was quite young and was educated in the latter state. The chil- dren of Scyon M. and Mary (Chick) Bass were:
Thadeus, born December 10, 1847, now a farmer in Logan County; married a Miss Stanley.
Corilla, born in 1849; married John C. Phaland, and is now residing at Auburn.
Perlina, born in 1853; was the wife of Virgil Gray, who was a member of General John H. Morgan's cavalry in the late war. They both died in 1872.
Scyon Ambler, born March 15, 1855, subject of this sketch.
Mary Frances, born in 1857, now the wife of Joseph S. Ray, residing at Auburn.
Scyon Bass (grandfather) was a native of North Carolina; removed to Silver Springs, Tennessee, where he was a merchant for more than fifty years. His home was within a few miles of that of President Jackson. He was a Whig of decided convictions; a member of the Baptist Church, and a highly esteemed citizen of his county. He married Mary Ragland, and was the father of six
children: Solomon; Harmon, born in 1814, and died at the age of eighty years; Cader, whose home is Tennessee; Scyon M. (father); Julia and Polly.
Scyon Bass (great-grandfather) was born Au- gust 1, 1781, and died August 28, 1847. He was married three times-first to Miss Brantley, a native of Halifax Court House, Virginia, who was the mother of one son, Bennett Bass. After the death of his first wife he married her sister, who was the mother of Solomon Bass. His third wife was Mary Perry, who was born in Virginia, July 3, 1789, and died May 18, 1857. Her children were Harmon, who died at the age of eighty- four years; Hetty, who married Kemp, and Har- rison died at the age of eighteen years; Cader, born in 1818; Julia, born in 1822; Scyon M., born August 8, 1825; Harriet and Almeta died when young; Turner and Lucretia.
Solomon Bass (great-great-grandfather) was a native of France, who emigrated to America and settled in Virginia, and was the father of six chil- dren: Scyon, Jones, Cader, Oren, Nancy, Hearta. The sons of Solomon Bass were born in Virginia and all of them removed to Tennessee, where they died.
Ambler Chick (maternal grandfather) was born in Virginia in 1795. He removed to Tennessee as early as 1820, where he owned a plantation and was largely engaged in the cultivation of cot- ton, owning a large number of negroes. In 1852 he removed to Logan County, Kentucky, and raised large crops of tobacco and wheat. He married Mary Ragland (also the name of the wife of grandfather, Scyon Bass, but probably not re- lated), who was born and educated in Virginia. Their children were Burril, Judeth, John, Pettis, Davis, William, Virginia and Perlina.
William Chick (maternal great-grandfather) and Mary Ragland (still another of the same name) were natives of Wales, who emigrated to Amer- ica and settled in Virginia, but the date of their coming has not been recorded.
Scyon Ambler Bass, lawyer, of Russellville, was educated at Auburn, Logan County, Ken- tucky, and began the study of law at Bowling Green in the office of that triumvirate of Kentucky jurists, Judge W. L. Dulaney (see sketch), John
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