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Mr. Henry S. Barker removed from Christian County to Louisville at the age of thirteen. He received his college education in the Kentucky University at Lexington, after which he read law and was admitted to the bar in Louisville in 1875. After three or four years of practice in partnership with his brother, Maxwell S. Barker, the latter re- moved from Louisville and Mr. Barker entered into partnership with Aaron Kohn under the style of Kolin & Barker, which relation continued until 1888, when Mr. Barker was elected city attorney, and the popular law firm was dissolved. Mr. Bar- ker has been re-elected to this position for the third term, which will expire in 1897. He is an
active worker in local and state politics and has great influence in the Democratic party, which has unbounded confidence in his integrity and good judgment, as shown by the repeated honors conferred upon him. He is a member of the Louisville Commandery, F. & A. M.
Mr. Barker was married in 1886 to Kate Meri- wether, daughter of Captain Edward Meriwether, of Todd County. They are members of the First Christian Church of Louisville.
A LEXANDER F. BUEREN, a popular phy- sician, who has an extensive and important practice in the eastern portion of the city of Lou- isville, is a son of Francis and Catherine (Van Veen) Bueren, and was born in Papenburg (now Hanover), Germany, December 13, 1849. He was educated in the excellent high schools of his native city and subsequently studied chemistry in Papenburg. He came to the United States in 1872 and at once located in Louisville and began the study of medicine in the medical department of the university of that city, from which he was graduated in 1874.
After obtaining his license he opened an office at 1420 Story Avenue and began his professional career a stranger in a strange land, under circum- stances that would have disheartened a man of less perseverance. But he had the happy faculty of making friends, and his ability as a physician was soon recognized, and he is now one of the most popular physicians in the "east end."
In the twenty-one years of his active profes- sional life, Dr. Bueren has established himself in the confidence of his numerous patrons, who firm- ly believe in him as a man of honor and a phy- sician of marked ability. He attends strictly to his large practice and is not interested in any other kind of business or carried away with poli- tics or money-making schemes. Of a genial dis- position and social nature, he is popular in the society of his friends and in the benevolent orders, to a number of which he belongs, including the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Knights of Honor, and Elks.
His father, Francis Bueren, was a native of Germany, and a well-to-do merchant, a highly- respected and intelligent citizen of Papenburg.
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He never left his native country, but died there when Dr. Bueren was only seven years of age. His mother, Catherine (Van Veen) Bueren, died in 1852. Francis and Catherine Bueren had three children: Godfrey Bueren, who is still a resi- dent of Papenburg, where he is engaged in naval insurance; Margarette, wife of Arnold Brugg- mann, a brewer and lumber merchant of Ippen- bueren, Westphalia, Germany; and Alexander F. Bueren.
S TANLEY ADAMS, an enterprising young business man of Louisville, son of James L. and Martha L. (Jordan) Adams, was born in Brooklyn, New York, December 27, 1864. His father is a native of Petersburg, Virginia, who was for many years a manufacturer of tobacco in Montreal, Canada, and later in New York City, but has lived in Louisville since 1883, where he is in the life insurance business.
Thomas Adams (grandfather) was a native of Petersburg, Virginia, and a resident of that place all of his life. He was a planter and a large property owner and one of the successful busi- ness men of that section in ante-bellum times.
Martha L. Jordan Adams (mother) was born near Petersburg, Virginia, and is now a resident of Louisville. Her father was a large planter and land owner near Petersburg, Virginia, and was a native of that place.
Stanley Adams lived with his parents in Mon- treal for thirteen years, and then in New York until nineteen years of age. He enjoyed the bene- fits of the best private schools of those cities, and after coming to Louisville in 1883, began a suc- cessful business career as collector for the Picket Ice Company. Later accepted a position as col- lector and assistant bookkeeper for the coal firm of Byrne & Speed. In 1887 he was employed by George S. Moore & Co., pig iron merchants, as a traveling salesman, and after serving his em- ployers for four years in that capacity, he was made general manager of their business, which position he held until 1892, when he began busi- ness in the same line on his own account, under the firm name of Adams, Watkins & Co. He withdrew from this firm in 1893 and engaged in the pig iron, coal and coke commission business
alone, but under the style of Stanley Adams & Co. His long experience in this line of mer- chandise and his extended acquaintance among the large manufacturers of the South, together with his superior business tact and indomitable energy, has enabled him to establish himself with- in a comparatively short time, in one of the largest trades enjoyed by any house of the kind in Louis- ville. This is particularly true in reference to the coke trade, as he sells more of that commodity than any other commission house in the city. He is also a member of the Hartwell Coal Com- pany, and is making his way to the front among the wide-awake young men of the Falls City.
In 1893 Mr. Adams was elected a member of the Louisville Board of Common Councilmen and in 1894 he was chosen president of the Board, being the youngest man who had ever held that responsible office in Louisville, and he performed its duties with dispatch and excellent good judgment. Being affable, of pleasing ad- dress and always gentlemanly in his demeanor, he made many friends in a very trying position. He is a popular member of a number of benevo- lent orders, including the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, and is vice grand chancellor of Kentucky for the latter order. In this he enjoys the distinction of being the youngest man upon whom that honor has ever been conferred in the state. He is a consistent church member in con- nection with the Baptist denomination and in all of his church, society and business relations he is greatly esteemed as an exemplary young man.
Mr. Adams was married October 31, 1889, to Fannie E. Miller, daughter of Len S. Miller of Louisville.
D R. WILLIAM BOWMAN of Tolesboro, Lewis County, was born in Brown County, Ohio, February 22, 1843. His father, Benjamin Bowman, was a native of Pennsylvania and was a farmer near Ripley, Ohio. He was a volunteer soldier in the Mexican war. He died of cholera in 1850 in the fifty-fifth year of his age. His father, George Bowman, was a native of Penn- sylvania and was one of the pioneers of the Ohio Valley. His son, Philip (uncle), served in the war of 1812.
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Mary McElwee Bowman (mother) was a na- tive of Brown County, Ohio. She died in 1893, aged seventy-six years. Her father, Patrick Mc- Elwee, was born in Ireland. He came to America when a youth and married Mary Crossley, who was born near Hagerstown. Her father and brothers were Revolutionary soldiers. She was one of the first settlers in Brown County, and was personally acquainted with Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton.
Dr. William Bowman attended the best schools in his native county, and on the 9th of July, 1861, when eighteen years of age, he enlisted as a pri- vate in an independent company of picked men from Brown County, who served as a body guard for Generals Halleck, McPherson and O. O. How- ard. He served three years in this capacity and then entered the secret service. He received a flesh wound in the battle of Silver Creek, but oth- erwise escaped serious injury.
After returning from the war he studied Latin and Greek under a private teacher, at the same time reading medicine and teaching school. He was thus engaged in the dual capacity of teacher and pupil for three years. He then went to Mich- igan University, Ann Arbor, for three years, tak- ing a literary and medical course, graduating in the medical department in 1873, and during the following year attended the Ohio Medical College.
In 1870 he removed to Tolesboro, Lewis Coun- ty, Kentucky, which has been his home until the present time.
Dr. Bowman has been a very active politician, and although against his inclination and detri- mental to his professional work, he has not been able to keep out of office all the time. He was elected to the legislature in 1881 and re-elected two years later. He was the Republican elector at large in the presidential campaign of 1888, and was appointed consul at Tien-Tsin, China, by President Harrison in 1889, and on his return in 1893 he was again elected to the legislature and was a member of the committee on educa- tion, in which he rendered valuable service.
Dr. Bowman is well and favorably known throughout the state and stands well in the esti- mation of the leading men in all parties. His name was prominently mentioned as the Repub-
lican candidate for lieutenant governor in the last convention. He stands at the top of the medi- cal profession in the state and has quite an en- viable reputation as a surgeon. He is a member of the State Medical Association and of the Na- tional Medical Association. Dr. Bowman was married in 1864 to Maggie Mckinley of Ohio, a relative of Governor William McKinley.
H JON. JACOB T. SIMON, Commonwealth Attorney, Cynthiana, was born in Grant County, September 9, 1846.
His father, Francis Simon, was a native of the northern part of France, and was engaged in agricultural pursuits all his life. He emigrated to the Island of Martinique in the Lesser Antilles in 1823, where he resided until 1834, when he came to the United States and settled in Grant (then Owen) County, where he was one of the most thrifty farmers of the county, until the time of his death, which occurred July 29, 1892, at the advanced age of eighty-six years. He was a Democrat in politics and served his country in some of the minor offices.
John Simon (grandfather) was a native of France and a soldier under the first Napoleon.
Eliza (Musselman) Simon (mother) was born in Grant County in 1821 and is now living in the old homestead. Her father, Jacob Musselman, was a native of Harrison County, who removed to Grant (then Owen) County in 1820, where he followed farming and was one of the leading citi- zens of the county. He died at the age of seventy- six years, in 1867. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, being at that time about twenty-one years of age. He was of German descent.
Hon. J. T. Simon enjoyed but limited oppor- tunities in the way of education when a boy, but he was studious and ambitious, and after leaving the county schools attended an excellent semi- nary at Greenup Fork, Owen County, and after- wards took a thorough course in a commercial college. In 1868 he began the study of law under Hon. H. P. Montgomery of Owenton. He was admitted to the bar in 1868, and located at Williamstown, where he remained one year and then formed a partnership with the late Judge O. D. McManama of Falmouth. He remained
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in Falmouth until 1888, when he removed to Cynthiana, and has continued the practice of his profession with great success until the present time.
In 1874 he was elected county attorney of Pen- dleton County. He was elected city attorney of Falmouth in 1875 and was twice re-elected to that office. In 1881-2 he represented Pendleton County in the legislature and in 1885-6 he repre- sented the Twenty-sixth Senatorial District, com- posed of Bracken, Pendleton and Grant Counties, in the Kentucky Senate.
He was elected commonwealth attorney for the Eighteenth Judicial District in 1892, after remov- ing to Cynthiana. In all of his elections he has been supported by the Democratic party, in which he is a most active and successful leader.
Mr. Simon was married September 17, 1872, to Maggie T. McClure, daughter of John Mc- Clure, one of the most worthy and successful farmers of Grant County. She is a lady of great intellectual and moral worth. They have one daughter, Stella Simon.
Mr. Simon is a gentleman of fine personal habits, of exceptional business and professional ability; greatly devoted to his profession, in which he is remarkably successful, and is one of the most able and worthy self-made men in his section of the state.
L INDSEY B. RUGLESS of Vanceburg, son of Thomas Rugless, was born in Lewis County, Kentucky, January 1, 1818. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Lewis County with his father, one of the first settlers on Cabin Creek, eight miles south of Vanceburg. Thomas Rugless married Amelia Burriss, daugh- ter of Mathew Burriss, also one of the pioneers of Lewis County. She was the mother of six- teen children, including the subject of this sketch. After her death her husband married again and two children were the result of that union, mak- ing a full dozen and a half to the credit of Thomas Rugless.
The ancestors of Lindsey B. Rugless on the maternal side were patriots and pioneers. His great-grandmother's maiden name was Forshee, and she married a Mr. Scott, a soldier in the
Revolutionary war, which he survived only to be killed by Indians. The result of that marriage was one daughter, named Ruth, and who mar- ried Mathew Burriss, and to whom were born eleven children, five boys and six girls. One of the latter was named Amelia, above referred to. His great-grandfather Forshee settled in Lewis County about the time Kentucky was admitted into the Union. Lindsey B. Rugless is a man of unusual attainments, especially considering the difficulties he experienced in obtaining even an ordinary education. His only schooling was such as he could find in a primitive school house, built of round logs with oiled paper for "window glass." He was an industrious and energetic boy, with laudable ambition, and at the age of eighteen was as well qualified to teach school as any of the pedagogues of that time. He then got up a subscription school in the neighborhood and taught for eight years. It is with a good deal of pride that he now recalls the fact that he never whipped a scholar, although the rod was consid- ered a very necessary appliance in the school room in those days. He was an expert pen- maker, and with his pocket knife made and "mended" the quill pens for the entire school, and wrote all their copies. He struggled along through poverty and hardship, gradually gaining a little and eventually accumulating a competen- cy, most of his undertakings proving successful. He has always prided himself on being a Jef- fersonian Democrat, and was a Douglas man in the presidential campaign just prior to the war, rather bitterly opposing Lincoln and Breckin- ridge. In 1862 he was the Democratic candi- date for the legislature against Judge G. M. Thomas, and was arrested for being a constitu- tional states right Democrat and placed under a bond of $15,000; but he was at heart a Union man and in 1863 joined the Federal army, served two years and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. He has been executor, admin- istrator, assignee, trustee, guardian, arbitrator and processioner in a greater number of instances than any other man in the county and has settled many differences between man and man, possess- ing the confidence of his fellow citizens to an extent few men enjoy in any community. He
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has never united with any religious institution or secret order; but acknowledges a Fatherhood in God and every man his brother. The Golden Rule is his religious creed. He has always been a good friend to the poor; and has the deserved reputation of having bailed more men out of jail than any other citizen of the county, in some cases giving his bond for as much as $10,000. Mr. Rugless was married March 22, 1840, to Calista Lee, daughter of Barton Lee, a neighbor, who was one of the pioneers of Lewis County. She died March 5, 1887, and after her death Mr. Rugless divided his property between his two children, retaining only a small portion for him- self, but to this he has added considerable in later years and is in excellent circumstances. This division was made before his second mar- riage in 1888, but in view of it. He married Mrs. Sarah A. Ewing, widow of Thomas Ewing of Vanceburg. His son, Socrates Rugless, died January 5, 1895, at the age of fifty-three years, leaving his children and his children's children, who were left orphans at a tender age, under the guardianship of his honored and aged father. Mr. Rugless' declining years have been full of sorrow, his son, two of his grandchildren, two of his great-grandchildren and a sister-in-law hav- ing died within a few months, leaving him laden with grief; still he exclaims, "All is right, in God I trust."
God, in his wisdom, brought us here; God in his kindness takes us home; So we, His children, should not fear; He is but gathering up his own.
D R. C. B. SCHOOLFIELD, one of the most progressive physicians in Campbell County and one of the best known citizens of Dayton, was born near Foster, Kentucky, March 6, 1846; son of George T. and Mary (Maxwell) School- field. His father was born in Maryland, Decem- ber 31, 1799, and, at the age of fourteen years, emigrated with his father to Kentucky and settled on a farm in Bracken County near Augusta. He remained on the farm a few years, when he en- gaged in flatboating between Augusta and New Orleans. In 1838 he retired from the river and again engaged in farming in Bracken County,
and there remained until 1873, when he removed to Dayton, Kentucky, and after one year's resi- dence there removed to Missouri, where he died. He was for many years an extensive trader in live stock and general produce, which he shipped to New Orleans. In politics he was a Whig, prior to the Douglas campaign, when he became a Democrat. He was a son of Isaac Bosman Schoolfield (grandfather), who was also born in Maryland, emigrated to Kentucky in 1814 and settled on a farm in Bracken County. His wife was Mary Atkinson (grandmother), who also was a native of Maryland. The Schoolfield family in America is traced to the widow Schoolfield, who brought her three sons to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1632, fromi England. One of these brothers settled in Virginia, one in Maryland, and the other son pushed on further west. They brought with them their coat-of-arms, which is still in the family. George T. Schoolfield (father) married Mary Maxwell in 1840. She was born in Brack- en County, February 24, 1819; was well educated in the private schools of her native county and is a most estimable lady, residing at present in Day- ton. Her father was William Maxwell, a native of Pennsylvania, who later in life came to Ken- tucky and located on a farm in Bracken County, where he died in 1860. His wife was Rachel Adams.
Dr. C. B. Schoolfield received an academical education at Foster and Falmouth, Kentucky, and subsequently studied medicine, entered the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati and re- ceived his diploma from that institution in 1873. He located at once in his present home in Day- ton, where he soon succeeded in building up a lucrative practice and in making an enviable reputation in his profession. He is a member of the Cincinnati Society of Medicine; Cincinnati Obstetrical Society; of the Kentucky State Med- ical Society; of the Ohio State Medical Associa- tion, and American Medical Association. Dr. Schoolfield is a practitioner of Gynecology in the Good Samaritan Hospital, and is one of the trus- tees of the Speers Memorial Hospital, which is nearing completion in Dayton. The fund for this hospital, which was left by Mrs. Elizabeth Speers of Dayton, amounts at present to nearly $100,000.
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Upon the completion of this hospital Dr. School- field will be gynecologist and surgeon.
Dr. Schoolfield is a member of the Baptist Church, a member of the Masonic order and votes the Democratic ticket.
He was married to Florence Holms, daughter of George B. and Mary Holms of Newport, August 18, 1868. Her death occurred May 27, 1889. Dr. Schoolfield was again married May 5, 1892, to Mrs. Ida Lee Arthur, a daughter of J. M. McArthur. She died March 17, 1894. There are three children by his first marriage: Dr. George Clarence, who graduated from the Cincinnati Medical College and is now practicing his profession in Charleston, West Virginia; Edna Pearl and Edward Raymond. By the second marriage he has no children.
Dr. G. Clarence Schoolfield is married and has one son, John Charles, the only grandson of the subject of this sketch.
JOHN E. PACK, M. D., Mayor of George-
town and one of the leading physicians of that city, is a son of Richard F. Pack and Sallie M. Emison, his wife, and was born in Scott Coun- ty, Kentucky, May 1I, 1849.
Richard F. Pack was also a native of Scott County, where he was an industrious and exten- sive farmer nearly all his life. He was a very successful breeder of saddle horses and other high bred stock, and was an honorable and enter- prising citizen. He died in his native county, March 4, 1892.
John Pack (grandfather), also a native farmer of Scott County, served as a soldier in the Mexican war, lived to a good old age and died a few years ago, near the scene of his birth. The Packs were of Irish descent, the first of whom in America set- tled in Virginia, from which state the great- grandfather of Dr. Pack came to Kentucky and settled in Scott County, about the time Kentucky was admitted to the Union.
Sallie M. Emison Pack (mother) was born in Scott County, and died in 1895, aged sixty-eight years.
William Emison (maternal grandfather) was also a native of Scott County, and was a leading farmer until the time of his death in 1875, when he
was seventy-nine years of age. The Emisons were of Scotch-Irish descent and were among the early settlers of Scott County, coming to this state from Virginia.
Dr. John Pack spent his youthful days in the usual routine of the farmer boy, attending school and helping his father on the farm. He received his collegiate education in the Kentucky Univer- sity; read medicine with Dr. W. O. Sweeney of Lexington and attended the Belleview Medical College of New York City, graduating in 1873.
He began his professional career in the north- ern part of Scott County, which was the field of his labors until 1888, when he removed to George- town, where he has enjoyed a very extensive prac- tice and has found a wider field of usefulness.
He was elected to the legislature in 1887, and was a most able and efficient member of that body; was a member of the City Council of Georgetown from 1891 until the fall of 1893, when he was elected mayor of the city for a term of four years, taking charge of the office January 1, 1894. He is a member of the Kentucky State Medical Society, and other associations for the advance- ment of medical science; is an enterprising citi- zen and a man and physician in whom the people have great confidence.
Dr. Pack was married in 1879 to Laura Steven- son, daughter of Reverend Evan Stevenson, for- merly of Georgetown, now of Oxford, Maryland.
C APTAIN BENJAMIN C. MILAM .- Among the descendants of the brave and enterprising men who settled in the valley of Virginia, and who afterwards settled in Kentucky, were the "Milams," and were the descendants of the Welsh immigrants who came over from Wales with William Johnson to Virginia in 1722, grandfather of R. M. Johnson, and the ancestors of Henry Clay.
Captain Benjamin C. Milam was the son of John Milam and Lucy Bradley. His mother was of Scotch-Irish descent, and was born in Scott County, Kentucky, and died in 1831. Captain Milam was born in Franklin County on the first day of July, 1821. When war was declared to exist between Mexico and the United States in 1846, Captain Milam was twenty-five years old.
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He immediately raised a company of cavalry, which was attached to the regiment of mounted men commanded by the late General Humphrey Marshall. Captain Milam was engaged in the battle of Buena Vista, when General Taylor or- dered Colonel Marshall to charge the large body of Mexican lancers led by General Torrejon. Captain Milam's company took a conspicuous part in driving the enemy from the field with a loss of over two hundred. It was in this charge of the Mexican lancers that Colonel McKee, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Clay and Captain William T. Willis were killed at the battle on the 23d of February, 1847. Captain Milam served as a twelve months' volunteer in the Mexican war.
John Milam, the father of Captain Milam, was an upright farmer of Franklin County until the time of his death, which occurred in 1844, aged sixty years. He was a soldier of the war of 1812, serving under Governor Shelby when he assumed command of the Kentucky troops at that time. Moses Milam (grandfather) settled in Kentucky about the year 1787. He was also a farmer and died at a ripe old age many years ago.
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