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tional Convention, representing Ohio and Han- cock Counties.
He removed to Owensboro in 1853, where he continued the practice of law until the time of his death. He was a most able lawyer, a hard worker and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all who knew him; and there were few men in the state who were more widely known or more universal- ly beloved.
Hannah Davis McHenry, mother of John Har- din McHenry, was born November 4, 1800, in Virginia; was married in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, November 1I, 1823; and died in Owensboro, July 23, 1862. She was a daughter of Henry and Frances (Randall) Davis. Frances Randall and a brother were left orphans at an early age. He was afterward in the United States Navy, and was drowned while trying to ford the Potomac River.
The children of Hannah Davis and John Har- din McHenry were as follows: Martin D. McHenry, Henry D. McHenry, William H. Mc- Henry, Barnabas McHenry, John H. McHenry, Mrs. (Dr.) Hale, Mrs. Robert Craig, L. S. Mc- Henry and W. E. McHenry.
A number of the Davis men, relatives of Mrs. McHenry's father, were in the Revolutionary war; others served in the war of 1812; and those who came to Kentucky as pioneers endured great hardship and suffered much from the depredations of the Indians.
Barnabas McHenry (grandfather) was a native of Maryland, who came to Kentucky soon after the Revolutionary war and was a distinguished pioneer preacher who organized many of the Methodist Churches in Kentucky and the west. He was a very able man and was consecrated to his work. He died of cholera, June 15, 1833. His wife, Sarah Hardin, daughter of John and Jane Davis Hardin, died of cholera the next day after her husband's death, June 16, 1833, and they were buried in one grave.
John Hardin (great-grandfather) was born October 1, 1753, and was killed by the Indians in 1792. When the first call for troops was made by the Continental Congress he recruited a com- pany of soldiers and joined General David Mor- gan's Rifle Corps; was in the march from Boston
to Canada, and in every engagement of that Corps until 1780. At the battle of Saratoga he performed a distinguished service, for which he received publicly the thanks of General Gates. In 1792 he was sent by special order of General Washington on a mission of peace to the Indians in Northern Ohio (then territory) and was mur- dered by them. He was a son of Martin and Mary (Waters) Hardin.
Martin Hardin (great-great-grandfather) was a son of Martin Hardin, the French Huguenot. King George, through Lord Fairfax, granted a tract of land in Fauquier County, Virginia, to Martin Hardin, junior, in 1748, who made a will in 1799 and died in 1800, at his home in Fauquier County.
John Hardin McHenry was educated in Han- over College, Indiana; at Center College, Dan- ville, Kentucky, and was three years at West Point. Returning to Kentucky, he studied law and was graduated from the law department of the University of Louisville in 1857. He began the practice of his profession with his father and later was in partnership with Judge W. T. Owen. Mr. McHenry was one of the ten captains selected by lot by Governor Morehead, April 9, 1859, to go to Utah; but the trouble was settled by A. S. Johnson and R. E. Lee before he was called upon to perform his duty on that mission.
In 1861 he recruited the Seventeenth Kentucky Infantry for the Union army; and on the first day of October, 1861, was in the first engagement on Kentucky soil. His regiment was with General Grant at Fort Donelson and at Shiloh, and was afterward consolidated with the Twenty-fifth Kentucky Infantry, and the new regiment was placed under his command. When President Lincoln issued his first proclamation on the sub- ject of emancipation in 1862, Colonel McHenry took issue with the Government, for which he was dismissed. He was greatly loved by his men, who regretted his departure from the service.
He returned to his home in Owensboro, and in 1863 was a candidate for Congress, but was defeated by George H. Yeaman. He made a con- test for the seat, but it was given to Mr. Yeaman.
In 1881 and 1882 he took exceptions to the preference shown to ex-confederate soldiers by
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the state government in the matter of appoint- ments; and he inaugurated the campaign known as the Union Democratic Movement, in which ex-Lieutenant-Governor R. T. Jacob received 75,000 votes for Governor. He was a Democrat until the nomination of James G. Blaine for Presi- dent, when he became a Republican.
Mr. C. C. Watkins, having been appointed Postmaster of Owensboro by President Harrison, resigned his office, and Colonel McHenry was appointed Postmaster March 26, 1891; was con- firmed by the Senate December 16, 1891, and died during his term of office, July 7, 1893.
For two years he was Grand Master, and at the time of his death was Past Grand Master Workman of the A. O. U. W. of Kentucky, a Mason and a member of the G. A. R.
Colonel McHenry was one of the best lawyers in Kentucky, a fine speaker and eloquent pleader, keen and alert in the management of his cases and a successful practitioner at the bar. He was an obliging and competent official, an ideal sol- dier and an honorable, upright citizen who won the respect and esteem of the entire community. He was universally popular throughout the state, in which he was a prominent figure during the greater part of his busy and useful life.
Colonel John H. McHenry was married December 30, 1868, to Josephine Phillips, daugh- ter of Joseph Francis and Elizabeth Sue (Simp- son) Phillips, whose ancestry is traced back to one of the earliest settlements in the United States.
Joseph Francis Phillips, father of Mrs. Mc- Henry, was born in 1809. His father's name was William Phillips, who married a Miss Graham of Virginia, whose mother's maiden name was Rob- inson. But to go back to the progenitor of the Phillips family in America: Rev. Joseph Phillips of Boxford, England, and his wife, Elizabeth, came to this country with Governor Winthrop and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, in the early years of the seventeenth century, about 1630. Their children were Elizabeth, Abigail and Sam- ucl, the last named of whom was a minister at Rowley, Massachusetts. His son, Theophilus, appears in 1686 as one of the guarantees of the Charter of Newton, Long Island, by Governor
Dongan of New York. Philip Phillips, son of Theophilus, was born December 27, 1648, and removed to New Jersey, locating at Lawrence- ville, about six miles from Trenton, and had three sons: Theophilus, born May 15, 1673; William, born January 27, 1676, and Philip, born Decem- ber 27, 1678. The last named son was captain in a Hunterdon County regiment and was pro- moted to major in 1727, serving in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Reading, who was afterward Governor of New Jersey. Major Phillips died in 1740. His wife's name was Eliza- beth, and they had six children, Philip, Abner, Samuel, John, Esther and Ruth. Samuel (third son of Major Phillips) was the father of five chil- dren, Jonathan, Elias, John, Samuel and Asher. Jonathan, the eldest of these children, was a cap- tain in the Second Regiment of New Jersey in the Continental army. He married Elizabeth Houston, sister of Honorable William Churchill Houston. Elias, the second son of Samuel Phil- lips, was adjutant of the First Regiment of Hun- terdon Militia in the Revolutionary war. He mar- ried Elizabeth Phillips, his cousin, daughter of Colonel Joseph Phillips. John, the third son of Samuel Phillips, married a sister of Elizabeth, wife of Elias. Colonel Joseph Phillips (son of Wil- liam and father-in-law of Elias and John) an officer in the Revolutionary war, was born 1708; died 1778. His children were: Abigail, wife of Captain Edward Yard; Mary, above mentioned; Frances, Elizabeth, above mentioned; William, and Dr. Joseph Phillips, who was a surgeon in the United States army and served with Generals St. Claire, Wayne and Wilkinson, and who died in Lawrenceville, N. J.
Previous to the Revolutionary war Colonel Joseph Phillips was captain of a company in the old French and Indian war, having left New Jer- sey in the party commanded by Major Trent.
William, his grandson, came from New Jersey; married in Virginia, and later settled at Frank- fort, Kentucky, where he died in 1864. Under General William Henry Harrison fought at the battle of Tippecanoe November 7, 18II.
Elizabeth Sue Simpson Phillips (mother of Mrs. McHenry) was a daugliter of Benjamin and Pauline (Ballard) Simpson. Pauline Ballard
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was a sister of Andrew Jackson Ballard and Judge Bland Ballard, late of Louisville; and was a daughter of James and Susan Cox Ballard, who was a daughter of Sallie Piety Cox. Sallie Piety was a daughter of Lord Piety of Ireland. Mrs. McHenry's mother often told of hearing her great- great-grandmother, Lady Piety, say to her daugh- ter, all of the generations being present: "Arise, daughter, and go to thy daughter, for thy daugh- ter's daughter hath a daughter."
James Ballard, great-grandfather of Mrs. Mc- Henry, was a brother of Bland Ballard, the cele- brated Indian fighter, and their father's name was Bland Ballard, a Colonel in the Revolutionary war; and prior to the war was an inspector of tobacco in Virginia, by appointment of the Crown of England.
E DWARD L. HUTCHINSON, an accom- plished lawyer and president of the City Council of Lexington, was born in Summerville, South Carolina, July 31st, 1858; graduated from the Porter Academy, Charleston, in 1875, and attended Union College at Schenectady, New York, four years, from which he graduated in 1879, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Re- turning to Charleston, he taught in Porter Academy for one year; went to Lexington in 1880 as tutor in the family of Alexander Jeffrey, and remained in that position for three years, during which time he studied law with the firm of Beck & Thornton, the senior member of which was Senator James B. Beck; was admitted to the bar in 1883; went to New York City and clerked in the law office of Henry Daily, Jr., and in the early part of 1884 returned to Lexington and located permanently in the practice of his profes- sion.
Two years later he was elected City Attorney; was re-elected in April, 1888; was elected by the people as a member of the Board of Alder- men in 1892, and served two years; in 1894 was appointed by Mayor Duncan to fill a vacancy in the Board of Councilmen, and upon the retirement of Mr. Kaufman was elected president of the Board; was returned by the people at the next election in 1895, and was again elected president of the Board.
Mr. Hutchinson is president of the Union Club, of which many of the most prominent men in the state are, or have been, members, including James B. Beck, John G. Carlisle, J. C. S. Black- burn, and others of national reputation.
Mr. Hutchinson is also president of the Coun- try Club, one of the most popular institutions in the Blue Grass country; secretary of the Union Building & Loan Association; is a member of the Odd Fellows Fraternity and of the Knights of Pythias; is fond of hunting and other out-door sports; is a typical club man and a leader in Lex- ington society.
With all of these interests, public and private, and with the highest social reputation, Mr. Hutch- inson is devoted to his profession and is one of the busiest and most industrious lawyers at the Lexington bar, upon the roll of which are names of some of the most illustrious members of the legal profession in the world, and among the active spirits of the present day there is no name that is more worthy of honor than that of Edward L. Hutchinson, who commands the esteem of the bench, of the members of the profession and of the populace.
His father, M. E. Hutchinson, was a distin- guished lawyer of Charleston, South Carolina, who died in September, 1884.
Edward L. Hutchinson (grandfather) was born on the old Hutchinson plantation known as "Travelers' Rest," located near the old Dorches- ter Fort and church, between Summerville and Charleston, South Carolina.
Louisa (Bonneau) Hutchinson, mother of the subject of this sketch, was a member of a dis- tinguished family of French Huguenot descent, who trace their ancestry back to the time of the landing of some of their members in South Caro- lina during Cromwell's day.
C HARLES RUSSELL GARR, M. D., an able physician and surgeon of Flemings- burg, Kentucky, son of Benjamin Lewis and Kizia (Russell) Garr, was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, November 5, 1858; was edu- cated in Jefferson College; studied medicine in the Hospital College of Medicine, Louisville, graduating February 26, 1880; located in Hills-
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boro, Fleming County, and practiced medicine in that vicinity until February 24, 1889, when he removed to Flemingsburg and formed a partner- ship with Dr. Lucien McDowell, with whom he was associated for two years, when Dr. C. W. Aitkin (see sketch of Dr. Aitkin in this volume) became a member of the firm, which is known as McDowell, Garr & Aitkin, one of the strongest combinations in the medical profession in Ken- tucky.
Dr. Garr is a most active, industrious and ac- complished physician, who is held in the high- est esteem by the people of the county in which he has been practicing medicine and surgery for more than fifteen years; is a strong advocate of temperance; a faithful member of the Presby- terian Church and a worthy descendent of an ancestry noted for piety and good citizenship.
Dr. Garr married Sallie Rebecca Crain, daugh- ter of James W. Crain of Hillsboro, October 9, 1883. She was born January 1, 1862; was edu- cated at Millersburg, graduating in 1879, and was a pupil of Professor A. G. Murphy, who is now president of Bethel College at Russellville, and whose sketch will be found in this volume.
Dr. and Mrs. Garr have two children: Charles Crain Garr, born October 12, 1884, and Clyde Lewis Garr, born May 3, 1887.
Benjamin Lewis Garr (father) was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, August 27, 1820. He was educated in the common schools of Jef- ferson County, Kentucky, having removed from Virginia with his parents in 1827. He was en- gaged in farming when the California gold fever was at its height, and he followed the crowd and became interested in mining in California. Three years later he entered the Mexican army as a private under General Prescott, and served two years; was in many of the noted engagements of the war, including the battle of Buena Vista.
Returning from the war he resumed the occu- pation of a farmer in Jefferson County, where he remained until 1885, when he removed to Shelby County, and died there October 27, 1887.
He was married June 3, 1856, to Kizia Russell, who was born in Shelby County, January 17, 1837, and died December 24, 1894. They had four children: Elizabeth Virginia, Charles Rus- sell, Mary Margaret and Nathaniel L. Garr.
Jacob Garr (grandfather) was born in Madison County, Va., March 20, 1782. He moved to Kentucky and was a farmer in Jefferson County, where he died. He married Susan Garr, his cousin, who was born in Culpeper County, Vir- ginia, February 3, 1774, and died in Jefferson County, July 7, 1864.
Andrew Garr (grandfather) was born in Cul- peper County, Virginia, in 1750, and died there March 4, 1819. He married Christina Wilhoite, who was born October, 1750, and died October 4, 1837.
Lorenz Garr (great-great-grandfather) was born in Dinkelsbuehl, Germany, November 29, 1716; died in 1753. He emigrated to America with a colony from his native place when sixteen years of age, and afterwards married Dorothea Blank- enbaker, who came over from Germany in the same ship. He spelled the name Gaar.
Andreas Gar (great-great-great-grandfather), who spelled his name still differently, was born in Germany, June 14, 1685; married Eva Seidel- mann in Bavaria, February 23, 1711. He was a master weaver, which indicates that he pos- sessed skill of no ordinary kind. In the Lutheran Church at Illenschwang are paintings of the twelve apostles and on the back of one of these is written the name of Andreas Gar, donor. In the church book a record is made that Andreas Gar had "left three florins to have a clean wooden cross made in memory of him, should he not be hcard from and should he be deemed as lost on the voyage to America." He also applied to the burgomaster and City Council for a letter of character and the seal of the ancient city of Dinkelsbuehl attests that "Andreas Gar has been a good citizen and is worthy of all confidence and esteem." He also secured a letter from his pastor, showing his religious standing.
John (or Hans) Gar (great-great-great-great- grandfather), a native of Franconia-one of the divisions of Bavaria of the German Empire-was a lineal descendent of the Gars who were honored with a crest by the great Emperor Charles V. in 1519. This family was mentioned as an "old and very good family." John Gar was a Lutheran and the probability is that the Gars espoused the cause of the great Reformer at a very early date in the reformation. "He lived in the village of
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Frankenhofen and engaged in the peaceful occu- pation of weaving, loved and honored by his neighbors, living a peaceful and industrious life, he reared his family in the fear of the Lord and engrafted into his posterity those traits of char- acter that have distinguished them for genera- tions. A great trial came to the good man in his declining years; his oldest son (Andreas Gar, the progenitor of the family in America) had heard of the new colony of Pennsylvania, founded by the great William Penn, to whose domains were invited the persecuted of the world, with the assurance of religious liberty. A company of emigrants was formed and Andreas Gar was a leader among them. Perhaps nothing but old age kept the father from going; he could not survive the long and perilous voyage. With what anxious solicitude the patriarch must have waited for news from his long absent loved ones; and what joy must have filled his soul to learn that they had arrived safely and were established in peace and full religious liberty."
The facts concerning John Gar and Andreas Gar are taken from a history of the Garr family, compiled by John C. Garr of Kokomo, Indiana, which states that the names of the descendants of Andreas Garr number sixteen thousand.
R OBERT ANDERSON FIELD, Superin- tendent of Schools of Boyd County and a resident of Catlettsburg, son of James M. and Mary Ann (Eatham) Field, was born in Carter County, Kentucky, August 1, 1862.
His father was born in Nashville, Tennessee, March 10, 1820, and has been a stock trader and farmer, living in Boyd County since 1879. He enjoys the peace and quietude of domestic life, taking no active part in political matters, but votes the Democratic ticket-straight. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a good citizen and neighborly neighbor.
Anderson Field (grandfather) was born in Pennsylvania, October, 1789, and removed to Tennessee in 1804 and was engaged in farming near Nashville. He came to Carter County, Ken- tucky, in 1858, where he died in 1878. His wife was Elizabeth Morris, a native of Pennsylvania. She died in Carter County in 1868. They were
members of the Methodist Church. Mr. Field voted the Democratic ticket for seventy years.
Robert A. Field's mother, Mary Ann (Eatham) Field, was born in Boyd County, August 12, 1823; was married to James M. Field in May, 1853, and is now living with her venerable hus- band in Boyd County.
Hartwell Eatham (grandfather), a native of Virginia, was a farmer in Boyd County, where he died in 1850. His wife's name was Iby McGuire. Both branches of the Field family were of English extraction.
Robert A. Field was educated in the schools of Grayson and Catlettsburg and finished his educa- tion at Lebanon, Ohio. He taught school in Cannonsburg and Sandy City for five years; and in 1890, he was elected Superintendent of Public Schools, and re-elected 1893 without opposition, in which position he has materially advanced the cause of education in Boyd County. He is thor- oughly qualified for his work, having been a teacher and having a great interest in the work of improving the school system.
He is a member of a number of benevolent and social societies, including the Knights of the Golden Eagle and the Mutual Protection Asso- ciation.
He was married to Rebecca Ann Moore, daugh- ter of Enoch Moore, June 12, 1889. She was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, March 31, 1861 ; and was educated at Ironton and Ada, Ohio. They have four children: Marie, born July 17, 1890; Robert Arnold, born December 9, 1891; Vernon C., born December 1I, 1892, and Esther, born November 4, 1894.
JOHN GOODMAN, M. D., of Louisville, was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, July 22, 1837: son of John and Jane M. (Winter) Goodman.
His father was a native of Hersfeldt, Germany, who came to America in 1795, locating in Savan- nah, Georgia. On account of yellow fever there at times, he removed to Kentucky at the solici- tation of the Clays, who were particular friends of Mr. Goodman. He domiciled with Henry Clay for a time, and remained in Lexington and vicin- ity three or four years before taking up his residence in Frankfort, where he lived until the
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time of his death in 1849, at the age of seventy years. Mr. Goodman was a Whig and a truly loyal citizen, although of foreign birth. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was a lover of music, and devoted much of his time to tcaching others musical accomplishments. He also taught drawing, an art in which he was thoroughly skilled. He engraved the plates for the first bank notes printed in Kentucky and made the press on which, with his own hands, he printed the notes. He also engraved and printed a map of Louisville in 1806. He was an enthusi- astic mineralogist and took much interest in the coal fields at the head of the Kentucky River. His wife, Jane M. Winter, was a native of Mary- land; a member of the Presbyterian Church; died in Frankfort in 1844, agcd fifty-two years.
Dr. Goodman received a careful and thorough education in the schools of Frankfort and Wood- ford County, spending three years under the tutel- age of the noted Professor Sayre of Frankfort, which enabled him to finish his collegiate course at Georgetown in two ycars, whencc he gradu- ated in 1856.
He read medicine with Dr. Lewis Rogers of Louisville and attended the lectures for two years at the Medical Department of the University of Louisville. He graduated from Tulane Univer- sity, New Orleans, in 1859. Thus equipped for the battle of life, he returned to Louisville and began a most successful carecr as a general prac- titioner of medicine, giving especial attention to the treatment of the diseases of women and chil- dren and to obstetrics.
Dr. Goodman has been closcly identificd with the medical colleges of Louisville as Demonstra- tor of Anatomy in the Kentucky School of Medi- cine, at the same time instructing a private class; as adjunct Professor of Diseases of Women in the University of Louisville; as Professor of Obstetrics in the Louisville Medical College; and at the same time Professor of Obstetrics and Dis- cascs of Women and Children in the Kentucky School of Medicine. He was the originator of the ordinance cstablishing the Louisville Board of Health in 1867 or 1868, the city having had no Board of Hcalth prior to that time, while at the present time, under the able direction of the
efficient Health Officer, Dr. W. P. White, it is one of the best organizations of that character in the United States.
Dr. Goodman was a member of the Board of School Trustees of Louisville for three years; member of the Board of Charity Commissioners for five years and physician in the Industrial School of Reform (House of Refuge) for twenty- five years. He has held membership in the Amer- ican Gynecological Society; in the Kentucky State Medical Society; in the Louisville Medical Society and of the College of Physicians of Louis- ville.
Dr. Goodman has been twice married. He first married Carrie D., daughter of Dr. Henry Miller, a celebrated physician of Louisville. Mrs. Good- man died in 1883, leaving one son, Henry M. Goodman, now a practicing physician associated with his father, and Professor of Chemistry in the University of Louisville.
Dr. Goodman was again married in 1885 to Mrs. Rosetta S. (Jones) Kalfus, daughter of R. R. Jones of Louisville.
W TYATT H. INGRAM, JR., Secretary and Treasurer of the Henderson Trust Com- pany, son of Wyatt H. and Kate (Milton) Ingram, was born in Henderson County, Kentucky, Sep- tember 21, 1869. He was educated, principally, in the Kentucky State Agricultural and Mechanic College of Lexington, Kentucky. Returning home he was offered and accepted the important and responsible position of Secretary and Trcas- urer of the Henderson Trust Company, which had been organized by Mr. J. A. Priest in 1889, with a paid-up capital of $75,000. The company does a gencral banking, trust and savings busi- ness, acts as administrator, executor, assignec, trustce, attorney, for non-residents, etc., and a large share of the labor and responsibility of the concern with its multifarious duties devolves upon Mr. Ingram, whosc industry and sound busi- ness judgment qualify him in an eminent degrce for the position he has occupicd since he was twenty-one years of age. The building occupied by the Trust Company was recently remodeled and is one of the finest in the state, embodying all modern improvements and conveniences, with
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