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In 1874 Mr. Rives bought of Mr. William Wal- lace, a place of four hundred acres, seven miles from Hopkinsville. He afterward added two hun- dred acres to this farm, besides having the man- agement of two other large tracts of land, which he operates in connection with his own. He grows more wheat than any ten of the aver- age growers, his yield often being fifteen to seven- teen thousand bushels.
After the war Robert F. Rives was married to Isabella, daughter of William H. and Elizabeth
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(Hardgrove) Pollard of Amelia County, Vir- ginia. After eight years of married life she died, leaving four children: Robert Henry, born Sep- tember 22, 1869; Franklin, born April 6, 1871; Florence Neal, born September 8, 1872; George Pollard, born April 3, 1874. Of these, Robert Henry, a large planter in Texas, married Miss Eubank of that state, and has one son, Raymond. Franklin, at present a member of the Hopkins- ville, Kentucky, bar, graduated from the Cumber- land University of Lebanon, Tennessee, with dis- tinguished honors and is already in the front rank of the young lawyers of the state.
Mr. Rives was married (second) to Sally A., daughter of Rev. Jordan and Sarah (Viser) Moore of Montgomery County, Tennessee. By this marriage he has four children: Mary Belle, born September 18, 1879; Jordan Moore, born October 5, 1882; Susan Cleveland, born Novem- ber II, 1884; John Lewis, born February 19, 1888.
In his religious association Mr. Rives and family are connected with the Methodist Epis- copal Church (South).
When it comes to exercising the prerogative of a citizen at the polls, he votes with the time- honored Democracy of his fathers.
A LEXANDER HILL, proprietor of Walnut Hill Stock Farm, near the city of Owens- boro, son of Dr. Alfred David Hill, late of Owens- boro, was born in Daviess County, near Owens- boro, Kentucky, December 25, 1855.
His father was born in Bertie County, North Carolina, near Albemarle Sound, June II, 1828. He received a good education in his native county and studied medicine in the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1852. After completing his medical course he performed hospital duty in Cincinnati for two or three years, and was offered a professorship in the Ohio Med- ical College, but declined it. He located in Owensboro, where he began the practice of his profession, but becoming dissatisfied with his vo- cation, he abandoned it and taught school for a time in Daviess County. His inclinations were toward agricultural pursuits, and he soon aban- doned professional work for the life of a farmer,
in which occupation he was very successful, and by industry and good management he acquired a great deal of valuable land in the county. In 1873 he leased his several farms, removed to Ow- ensboro, and engaged in merchandising, and soon became one of the leading business men of that city. In 1876, associated with others, he incor- porated the Farmers' & Traders' Bank of Owens- boro, of which he was elected president, a posi- tion which he held until his death. He continued his mercantile business in connection with his banking interests and was a busy and successful man, highly respected and honored by all who. had dealings with him. He never sought prom- inence as a politician, but he was well informed in all matters pertaining to local, state and na- tional government, and could have wielded a strong influence, but he simply voted the Demo- cratic ticket and was satisfied with having done his duty. He was more zealous in religious than political work, being a member of the Methodist Church and for many years a member of the board of deacons, in which capacity his fine busi- ness qualifications were of inestimable value to the church. He was married in 1853 to Minerva McFarland, and died December 23, 1878.
Benjamin Hill (grandfather) was a native of North Carolina, a farmer by occupation. His wife was Rachel Alexander. Their only child was Dr. Alfred D. Hill.
Robert W. McFarland (maternal grandfather) was a native of South Carolina who came to Daviess County, Kentucky, with his parents when he was a child, and there married a Miss Phebe Glover, who was the mother of four children: Louisa, Minerva, Robert W., Jr., and Beatrice.
Alexander Hill was educated in the common schools of Daviess County, the high school of Owensboro, and the University of Virginia, attend- ing the latter institution in 1874 and 1875. He began his business career as a clerk in his father's store, and became proprietor of that establish- ment upon the death of his father. He had quite a fancy for farming and for fine stock and soon became the owner of the beautiful place near the city known as the Walnut Hill Farm, and gave much of his time in the improvement of the place and to raising and training fine saddle and
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harness horses, an occupation that has given him much pleasure and yielded a handsome profit.
He is actively interested in a number of enter- prises, and is an earnest promoter of the advance- ment of the city. He is vice-president and di- rector of the Farmers' & Traders' Bank, and has been president of the Owensboro Female College, having been one of the most active citizens in procuring its organization. He is president of the board of stewards in the Methodist Church, and like his father takes a deeper interest in church matters than in politics.
He is essentially a business man, and has been remarkably successful in all of his undertakings. He is intensely interested in educational matters, and is known in the community as a man of un- swerving integrity and of the most upright moral character.
Mr. Hill was married November 6, 1879, to May Sutherland, daughter of William and Susan (May) Sutherland, natives of Nelson County, Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Hill have been blessed with a happy family of four children: Alfred David, born January 13, 1882; Mary Lee, born March 6, 1884; Helen Kimbley, born March 16, 1886; and Alexander Hill, Jr., born August 1, 1893.
T THOMAS STUART BRADFORD, M. D., a well-known citizen and eminent physi- cian of Augusta, son of Dr. Jonathan Johnson and Maria L. (Stuart) Bradford, was born in Augusta, Kentucky, November 24, 1848. He was educated in the old Augusta College and in the Pennsylvania University at Philadelphia, and was graduated in medicine from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1871; served for one year in the Blockley Hospital, Philadelphia; came to Augusta the following year and began his life- work in the practice of his profession, in which he has been engaged for about twenty-three years.
Inheriting a love and talent for the medical profession from his father, who was one of the most distinguished physicians and scholarly men of Kentucky; prepared by early training and libe- ral education for the study of medicine; a graduate of the first medical college in the United States, he was recognized at once as a man of the highest
qualifications for the sacred office of family phy- sician; and by patient study, undivided attention to the duties imposed upon him and entrusted to him, he has proven himself one of the most skill- ful and worthy members of the medical profession in Kentucky, and a worthy son of an illustrious sire.
Dr. Bradford has taken the part of a good citi- zen in all affairs of public interest, in which his counsel is sought and his judgment relied upon by his fellow citizens. He is an enthusiastic Re- publican, without being in any sense an office- seeker or an offensive partisan. He was a dele- gate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1884, and voted in that body, and in the following election, for James G. Blaine.
Dr. Bradford was married December 31, 1875, to Margaret Marshall, daughter of William C. Marshall, and a descendant of a Virginia family which took part in establishing the independence of this country and in founding the Common- wealth of Kentucky. Mrs. Bradford was born in 1851, educated in Augusta, her native place, was a devout and beloved member of the Southern Methodist Church, and a lady whose life was characterized by those splendid virtues of her gifted people. She died March 24, 1893, leaving one son and two daughters: Louis Ewing, born February 15, 1878; Eliza Stuart, born August 20, 1879; and Elizabeth, born November 24, 1880.
Jonathan Johnson Bradford, M. D. (father), was born in Bracken County, near Augusta, June 5, 1808, studied medicine with Dr. F. A. W. Davis, graduated in medicine from Transylvania Uni- versity in 1830, and was a practicing physician of Augusta for fifty-two years. Besides being a most noted and skillful physician, he was promi- nently identified with all movements looking to the advancement of his neighbors and fellow citi- zens. He was a persistent advocate of temperance, lecturing and writing in behalf of that cause, and was elected and served five terms as Grand Mas- ter Patriarch of the Sons of Temperance, and was Most Worthy Associate and Most Worthy Patri- arch of the National Division of Sons of Tem- perance of North America from 1868 to 1870. He was an able and accomplished writer on medical subjects and was one of the most active and
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influential citizens of Augusta. In politics he was a Whig, later a Union man, and after the war a Republican, and was well informed in national and state politics, in which his vote and his voice were true to his honest convictions. His long and useful life was devoted to humanity and to the service of the people whom he loved and by whom he was honored and by whom his memory is greatly revered. He was active and vigorous until the end, and he "paid the debt of nature" August 1, 1878, having reached his allotted three score and ten.
He was married (first) July 8, 1830, to Amanda Thome, daughter of Arthur Thome of Augusta. She died after about two years of married life. He was married (second) November 20, 1834, to Maria Stuart (mother), who was a daughter of James Peyton Stuart, a wholesale dry goods mer- chant of Pittsburg. She received her education in that city and was endowed with a high degree of intelligence, possessing many traits and virtues which distinguished her as a woman of noble character and a fit companion for her illustrious husband.
The grandfather Bradford was a native of the north of Ireland, who came to America with his parents when he was eight years of age. They settled first at Redstone Fort, now Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and he came to Kentucky when a young man, lived for a time in Bourbon County, and was married there in one of the fortifications known as the Irish fort. He afterward removed to Bracken County, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death in 1830.
Elizabeth Johnson (grandmother) was a daugh- ter of William Johnson, a lieutenant in the Revo- lutionary war and a personal friend of George Washington.
James Peyton Stuart (maternal grandfather) was reared and educated in Virginia, and was a native of that state. He was a wholesale dry goods merchant in Pittsburg; married Jane Hun- ter of Brownsville, Pennsylvania; died in Monon- gahela City in 1861.
Dr. Joshua T. Bradford, one of the most cele- brated ovarian surgeons in the United States and Europe, was a brother and pupil of Dr. Jonathan Johnson Bradford. He was the most successful
ovariotomist of his time, and rose to great emi- nence in his profession, especially in the line of surgery. He practiced medicine for many years in Augusta, retiring from the ordinary routine of the family physician and confining himself to im- portant surgical and consultation work for some years before his death. He was born near Au- gusta and died October 31, 1871. A sketch of his career is given in Collins' History of Ken- tucky.
H ENRY CLAY HOWARD, judge of the Bourbon County Court, and one of the most promising young attorneys of Paris, son of Colonel Henry Howard, was born in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, November 14, 1860. He is descended from the Lewis, Clay, and Howard families, whose ancestors were distinguished patriots during Rev- olutionary times.
His father was a member of the distillery firm of Howard, Barnes & Company of Mt. Sterling, and his grandfather, George Howard, was one of the pioneer merchants of that city. His great- great-grandfather, Thomas Howard, was a native of England, who, on coming to this country, first located in Virginia, but came to Woodford Coun- ty before the admission of Kentucky to the Union.
His maternal grandfather, Douglas P. Lewis, was a resident of Bourbon County, where he married a daughter of "Colonel Henry Clay of Bourbon," so called to distinguish him from his cousin and contemporary, the great commoner.
Thomas Lewis (maternal great-grandfather) came from Virginia and settled in Fayette County; was a colonel in the Revolutionary war; a mem- ber of the first Constitutional Convention; a member of the first Senate of Kentucky; and fourth circuit judge of the Lexington circuit.
Judge Henry Clay Howard was thrown upon his own resources at a very early age-his father's firm having failed in 1870-and he soon devel- oped those splendid qualities which have brought him to the front and made him one of the finest young lawyers of Bourbon County.
After picking up a primary education, limited and unsatisfactory to himself, he began the study of law in the office of ex-Chief Justice Holt at Mt. Sterling; was appointed to a position in the
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Treasury Department, and while there he entered a night class in Columbian University, working in the Treasury Department during the day, study- ing and reciting at night. After an undergradu- ate course of two years, he was elected president of the graduating class of 1884, and took the degree of bachelor of laws. The following year he took the post-graduate course and received the degree of master of laws. The time spent in this department of the university is counted as part of the study required for admission to the bar, and after examination he was sworn in as a prac- ticing attorney in the Supreme Court of the Dis- trict of Columbia, July, 1885. He retained his position in the Treasury Department until Feb- ruary, 1887, when he resigned and came to Paris for the practice of law.
He at once became quite popular and took a leading position among the young lawyers of the Bourbon County bar, so distinguishing himself in his profession and as a leading spirit in Repub- lican politics that his party nominated and elected him judge of the Bourbon County Court in No- vember, 1894.
Although quite a young man, he has the quali- fications for his position in an eminent degree, and the record he is making will prepare him for other honors and trusts that are sure to come to the faithful. He is modest, refined and cour- teous, and has clothed his present office with a new dignity, commanding the respect of the bar and the endorsement of the entire community.
A' LLEN G. BERRY, M. D., a scholarly and able physician of Ashland, was born in Chapmansville, West Virginia, August 5, 1859. He came to Kentucky when a child and attended school in Ashland, and subsequently the Normal School at Greenup. He taught in the Greenup County public schools several terms, and in 1883 attended a course of lectures at the Louisville Medical College. In June, 1886, he graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine in Louis- ville.
He began the practice of his chosen profession at Millersport, Ohio, and continued there until February, 1888, when he located permanently in Ashland, and rapidly advanced to the front among
the leaders of the profession in that city. His general practice has grown with his acquaintance and his success as a careful and competent phy- sician has inspired confidence in his skill.
Dr. Berry is a member of the Northeastern Kentucky Medical Society ; a member and medical examiner of the American Order of Union Work- men; a member of the Masonic Order, Poage Lodge, No. 325; Apperson Chapter, No. 81, and the Ashland Commandery, No. 28, Myrtle Cas- tle No. 2 Knights of the Golden Eagle; a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and a citizen of excellent repute and high stand- ing.
Dr. Berry and Lucy Powell, daughter of Luke and Sallie Sweetland Powell, were married in Greenup County, August 23, 1887. Mrs. Berry was born January II, 1865, and was educated in Greenup County and at Oxford, Ohio. They have had two children: Edgar Allen, born June 24, 1889, and Lillian, born July 2, 1891, both of whom died in infancy.
James Madison Berry (father) was born in Law- rence County, Kentucky, June 7, 1835. His father removed to Virginia when James M. was seven years of age, and he was educated in the schools of the Shenandoah Valley. He returned to Lawrence County in 1865, and lived there until 1870, when he removed to Greenup, where he was a cabinet maker, and was also interested in farming. During the war of the rebellion he served in the Confederate army as first lieutenant of Company D, Second Virginia Cavalry, and was known as a brave and gallant soldier.
He was married November 19, 1857, to Bar- bara Robinson, daughter of James and Celia Robinson. Dr. A. G. Berry was the only child of this union. Mrs. Berry died April 2, 1860, and James M. Berry and Emily Perry were mar- ried February 2, 1861. There were six children by this marriage: William A., Alvin F., Mary, Laura, Luella, and Carrie E. Emily Perry is a daughter of Henry and Mary Chambers Perry, natives of Virginia.
Isaac Berry (grandfather) was born in Mont- gomery County, Virginia, February 20, 1789; was educated there, and served as a captain of militia in the war of 1812. He removed to Law-
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rence County, Kentucky, in 1809, where, after the war, he followed the business of a general mechanic until 1842, when he returned to Vir- ginia. He was married in 1808 to Nancy Kelly, daughter of William and Amy Jacobs Kelly. They had thirteen children, seven of whom reached maturity.
Isaac Berry (great-grandfather) was a native of Ireland, who came to this country and settled in eastern Virginia.
James Robinson (maternal grandfather) was a native of New Garden, Russell County, Virginia. He followed the occupation of a tanner.
William Kelley, father of James Madison Ber- ry's second wife (stepmother), was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.
W ILLIAM CLINTON GOODLOE .- The Goodloe family of the United States are all descended from two brothers who were born in England about 1700 and emigrated to this country and settled in Spottsylvania County, Vir- ginia. Their names were Robert and George. It is George Goodloe with whom we have to do in this sketch. George Goodloe married in Vir- ginia a Miss Minor. They had five children, three girls and two boys. One of the girls mar- ried Ben Tompkins; one Roger Quarles, and one Jesse Harper of Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Their son, Robert Goodloe Harper, rose to distinction in Maryland, was United States Senator and the leader of the old Federalist party.
George's son, Robert, married Miss Sarah Short and settled at her home near the big falls of Roanoke Run in North Hampton County, North Carolina. Robert was born in 1741 and died in North Carolina in 1797. He commanded a company of militia during the Revolutionary war, and built the first state house at Raleigh, North Carolina. His wife, Sarah Short, was born in 1745 and died in Madison County, Kentucky, June 2, 1814.
Their son, William Goodloe, was born in 1769 in North Hampton County, North Carolina. He came to Kentucky when he was eighteen years old in 1787 and settled on Otter Creek in Madi- son County, three miles east of Richmond. In 1796 he married Susan Woods, daughter of Cap-
tain Archibald Woods of Revolutionary fame. They had thirteen children. Their sixth child was William Clinton Goodloe. He was born October IO, 1805. He was educated at the Richmond Male Academy and at Transylvania College at Lexington, graduating there in 1824, under the celebrated Dr. Holley. He read law with his ma- ternal uncle, Avey Woods, and was licensed to practice before he was twenty-one. He began his life work in Richmond. On October 26, 1826, he was married to Miss Almira Owsly, daughter of Judge William Owsly of Lancaster, Kentucky. Being a man of fine talents and great energy and very much in love with his profession, he soon attracted attention by his attainments and ability and was appointed by Governor Morehead or Breathitt commonwealth attorney for the judicial district in which he lived. In 1841 he removed to Frankfort, Kentucky, and entered into partner- ship with his father-in-law, Judge Owsly, in the practice of the law. He took an active, control- ling part in the nomination of Judge Owsly for governor in 1844, defeating the wishes and incur- ring the enmity of Henry Clay thereby, who de- sired John J. Crittenden nominated. He moved back to Madison County in the fall of 1846 to his farm and continued the practice of the law. In 1847 Governor Owsly appointed him circuit judge. This office he held until August, 1868. In 1849 the changed constitution of the state made the office elective and in 1850, 1856 and 1862 he was elected to the position. In politics Judge Goodloe was a Whig, but upon the dis- solution of that party he united with the American party. He warmly and decidedly espoused the cause of the Union in 1861 and became one of the conspicuous leaders of the Union party in Ken- tucky. He was an Emancipationist and voted for the Emancipation candidate for the Constitutional Convention in 1849. His able and enthusiastic advocacy of the Union cause in 1861 brought him prominently to the front, and in the fall of that year Governor Denison of Ohio visited Ken- tucky at the request of Mr. Lincoln and advised the president to declare martial law in the state and appoint Judge Goodloe military governor, as was done in Tennessee in the appointment of Andrew Johnson,
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In 1864 Judge Goodloe called a conference of the unconditional Union men of the state at his house in Lexington, Kentucky, to which city he had moved in 1863, and from that conference went forth a call for a convention of Union men who were willing to unite with the great Union party of the nation in nominating Abraham Lincoln for a second term. The convention met in May in Louisville. Judge Goodloe was elect- ed presiding officer. This was the act which united the Union party of Kentucky with the Republican party of the nation. Delegates were sent to Baltimore instructed to vote for Mr. Lin- coln for renomination.
In January, 1865, another Republican conven- tion was held in Frankfort, Kentucky, and Judge Goodloe was the second time elected presiding officer.
During the impeachment trial of Andrew John- son, when Senator Wade of Ohio was expected to succeed to the presidency, Mr. Wade had selected Judge Goodloe for a seat in his cabinet, and so informed him by letter. Judge Goodloe was not a candidate for re-election as circuit judge in 1868, but at the expiration of his term resumed the practice of the law. He loved the position of judge and made an eminent one, though at the sacrifice of the emoluments of his profession. In less than two months after his retirement from the bench he received two fees that amounted to almost as much as his salary of circuit judge for three years. He died August 14, 1870, in his sixty-third year and was buried in Richmond, Kentucky. His children were eight girls, and two boys, Captain A. H. Good- loe of the United States army, and Rev. W. O. Goodloe, D. D., of the Presbyterian ministry.
D ANIEL WEBSTER STEELE, Jr., a prom- ising young lawyer of Ashland, son of Captain Daniel Webster and Aremetha R. (Ulen) Steele, was born December 19, 1867, in Boyd County, Kentucky.
His parents removed to Star Furnace, Carter County, in 1873, and one year later removed to Ashland, remaining in that city until 1881, when they returned to their farm in Boyd County. He
attended the county schools from 1872 until 1874 -the sessions of which were of five months dura- tion each year; the public schools of Ashland from 1874 to 1881; and the Ashland Collegiate Institute from 1887 to 1890, in the meantime teaching school in order to secure means to defray the expenses of his education. When not teach- ing or attending college, he performed manual labor about the iron furnaces in Ashland, and carried a hod for a plasterer.
With an ardent thirst for knowledge, deter- mined to prepare himself for a professional career, he had the courage and industry to pursue his studies under difficulties, and the trying experi- ences of his youth were probably as essential in forming habits of industry and diligence as the education which he acquired through his own efforts.
In January, 1891, he began the study of law with John F. Hager of Ashland, and pursued his studies with diligence until December 12, 1891, when he was admitted to the bar. He re- mained in Mr. Hager's office until March 30, 1892, when he opened a law office without a dol- lar or a law book, but he had that which is better than gold-a determination to succeed, confi- dence in his own ability, faith in humanity, a will- ingness to work and patience to bide his time.
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