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Catherine Fonda Moore (mother) was a native of Troy, New York. She died in 1892, aged seventy-five years. The Fondas were originally from Holland. On coming to America they set- tled near Troy or Albany, New York.
Mr. Moore received his education principally in a private school in Shelbyville, taught by S.
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B. Womack. After leaving school he entered his father's wholesale grocery as a salesman or clerk, continuing until 1858, when he went to Jackson, Mississippi, and accepted a position as book- keeper in a large wholesale house, where he re- mained until the beginning of the war. Then he enlisted in the Confederate army and was made captain of Company I, Thirty-ninth Mississippi Infantry. After the surrender at Port Hudson he had command of his regiment. He was cap- tured by the Federal soldiers at Altoona, Georgia, and was held a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island until the close of the war.
He then returned to Louisville and accepted employment as a clerk in the wholesale whiskey house of his uncle, Jesse Moore; and in 1868 be- came a partner in the house, the firm name being changed to Jesse Moore & Co. In 1892 Mr. Moore purchased his uncle's interest and con- ducted the business alone until his death.
He was also for many years engaged in the distilling business in partnership with Mr. Max Selliger, under the firm name of Moore & Sel- liger, having two large distilleries in Louisville, where the popular brands of whiskey known as Bellmont, Astor and Nutwood are manufactured.
Mr. Moore was also the senior member of the firm of Moore, Hunt & Company, wholesale liquor dealers in San Francisco.
He was for many years president of the Peo- ple's Bank of Louisville until its liquidation in 1893; a director in the Fidelity Trust Company of Louisville, and for many years director in the Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home, an in- stitution in which he was deeply interested, as indeed he was in all worthy charities. He gave liberally to the poor, and said nothing about it. Few men have done more to assist his fellow men than did George H. Moore.
He was a Democrat and took a lively interest in the election of capable men to office; but re- fused to accept any office himself. He was a public-spirited citizen, who felt a great pride in his city, and was always interested in and ready to promote any enterprise that he deemed benefi- cial to the city.
He was married in 1867 to Florence, daughter of Cornelius Deweese of Carroll County. Two
sons and two daughters were the result of this union: Jessie, wife of George D. Moore of Wor- cester, Massachusetts; Shirley Moore, who mar- ried Frankie, daughter of the late B. F. Guthrey of Louisville; and Percival and Georgie.
Mr. Moore was a great lover of art and had the finest private gallery in the city, containing about seventy-five very fine and costly oil paint- ings; a rich legacy to his surviving family.
L. FRANK JOHNSON, State Auditor's . Agent and an able Attorney-at-Law of Frankfort, son of William P. and Mary Elizabeth (Cardwell) Johnson, is a native of Franklin Coun- ty, Kentucky.
His father was a descendant of Presbyterian stock from the North of Ireland. The farid on which he was born and reared, in Franklin County -four miles from Frankfort-has belonged to the Johnson family since about the time of the Revo- lutionary war. William P. Johnson learned the trade of house carpenter and was a lifetime resi- dent of his native county; was an elder in the Southern Presbyterian Church; an honest busi- ness man and one who loved and honored the religion which he professed. He died in 1875, at the age of fifty-six years.
William Johnson (grandfather) was born in the northern part of Ireland; came to America and located in Franklin County, Kentucky, at a very early day; married Sallie Arnold, daughter of John Arnold, who was sheriff of Franklin County in 1802, and a granddaughter of Colonel William McBride, a noted Indian fighter, who perished at the bloody battle of Blue Lick Springs in August, 1780. The first house built between Frankfort and Harrodsburg was the work of Frank Johnson's ancestors.
Mary Elizabeth Cardwell Johnson (mother) is a descendant of a Welsh family of Baptists, who, with the Broaduses, Brevands and the family of Colonel Richard M. Johnson, settled in Virginia in 1722. She was born in Franklin County in 1830, on the farm upon which she is now living. She is a faithful adherent of the religion of her ancestors.
John Cardwell (maternal grandfather) was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and was closely re-
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lated to the Crockett families of Virginia and Kentucky. He located in Franklin County when he was a young man and volunteered as a soldier in the Northwestern army in the War of 1812. He was an industrious and enterprising farmer, and died at the ripe age of ninety-three years.
L. Frank Johnson was reared on his father's farm, and obtained his education by his own ex- ertions, working his way through Forest Aca- demy, which he attended one year, and through the Kentucky Military Institute (three years), graduating from that institution in 1880. After teaching school one session he began the study of law with Judge Patrick N. Major, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1883.
In 1886 he formed a partnership with his former preceptor, Judge Major, and this relation con- tinued until 1890, when Mr. Johnson was elected county attorney. He held this office for four years and four months, performing its duties with great credit to himself and to the satisfaction of the people who honored him with their suffrage. At the expiration of his term he was appointed state auditor's agent for Franklin County, which office he still holds in connection with the prac- tice of his profession.
In speaking of Mr. Johnson's characteristics an acquaintance of his said: "His mind is methodi- cal; untiring industry combined with clear judg- ment qualify him for the management of legal business in a degree that points to a bright future."
He is a steward in the Methodist Church, faith- ful in his duties and firm in his religious convic- tions.
He was married in 1882 to Mary S. McEwin, daughter of William McEwin of Frankfort, and has one daughter, Mary, and two sons, William F. Major Johnson and Benjamin P. Johnson.
AMES M. GRAVES, Cashier of the Lexing- J ton City National Bank, and a well known business man of that city, son of William W. and Polly C. (Graves) Graves, was born in Fayette County, Kentucky, December 7, 1834. William W. Graves was born in Culpeper County, Vir- ginia, October 5, 1787, and emigrated to Ken- tucky with his parents when very young and set- tled in Woodford County on a farm. After receiv-
ing an ordinary English education in Woodford County he went to Lexington and engaged in the dry goods business, in which he continued for several years, when he returned to the farm. In 1850 he returned to Lexington, where he engaged in horse breeding, and continued in this until his death, which occurred March 8, 1871. He served as a private soldier in the War of 1812, remaining in the army until the close of the conflict. In 1852 he was elected magistrate and held this office as long as he lived. He was a Democrat, an active politician and a member of the Baptist Church. His father was Richard Grant Graves, who was born in Culpeper County, Virginia; came to Ken- tucky and settled in Woodford County, where he died in 1843. William W. Graves wedded Polly C. Graves, daughter of John Graves, of Fayette County. She was born February 15, 1797, and is now living at the age of ninety-eight years, and is in full possession of all her faculties. Since 1871, she has made her home with her son, J. M. Graves.
John Graves (maternal grandfather) was a na- tive of Louisa County, Virginia; born March 2, 1775, and came to Lexington, where he was en- gaged in farming until his death in 1848. He was a Henry Clay Whig; was in the War of 1812, and served as colonel in the state militia. His father, Thomas Graves, was also a Virginian by birth and came to Kentucky as a major on the staff of General Lafayette; after the close of the War of the Revolution he settled near Lexington on a very large tract of land, where he died in the fall of 1801.
James M. Graves received his education in the Fayette County common schools and entered Transylvania University in 1851, where he studied for two years and then engaged in business with his father in the horse and stock business until 1861, when he entered the Confederate service as a member of General Abe Buford's Brigade in the Signal Service, in which capacity he continued until 1863, when he was transferred to the com- mand of General John C. Breckinridge, and was afterward assigned to the Signal Service of the Army of the Tennessee, where he remained until the close of the war, when his command surren- dered at Greensburg, North Carolina, to General
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Sherman. Returning home, he again turned his attention to horse breeding, and continued in this until 1880, when he accepted the office of presi- dent of Lexington City National Bank, and served one year, when he was elected to his present posi- tion as cashier of that bank. He is an ardent Democrat and has filled several political offices; was appointed magistrate to fill out the unex- pired term of his father; was elected county super- visor in 1870 and held the office until 1878. In 1890, after having served for twenty years as a member of the City Council, he resigned and was immediately re-elected by the people. Mr. Graves is director in the Security Safety Vault & Trust Company, president of the Southern Building & Loan Company (a branch of the Knoxville, Ten- nessee, Company of that name), treasurer of the Southern Mutual Investment Company, and is also connected with the hardware company of Kidd & Graves, Lexington. Mr. Graves is a member of the Baptist Church and has always been interested in the advancement of the edu- cational, religious and business interests of Lex- ington.
J. M. Graves was married July 25, 1867, to Addie G. Allen, daughter of Rev. Buford E. Allen, a Baptist clergyman, and Elmira B. (Graves) Allen, his wife, and granddaughter of Rev. Joseph Craig, the pioneer Baptist minister of Kentucky. Mrs. Graves is a native of Ken- tucky and was educated at Georgetown College. They have four children: Mary Elenora, Buford Allen, J. Madison and George Thomas Graves.
M AJOR HENRY S. HALE, ex-State Treas- urer, son of Nicholas and Rhoda (Crouch) Hale, was born near Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, May 4, 1836. Nicholas Hale came from Virginia with his father and settled in Graves County and was a soldier in the War of 1812. The Hales are of English descent. Rhoda Crouch Hale (mother) was a daughter of David Crouch, who was a private in the Mexican war, and died in Graves County. The Crouches are of Scotch-Irish descent. Major Hales' family moved to Graves County when he was a mere boy, and he received his education in the county schools. Both of his parents died just as he was
entering his teens. He had the true Southern spirit, and with a heart full of love for the "Sunny South," he espoused the cause of the Confeder- acy, and fought gallantly through the rebellion. He entered the army as captain of a company in the Seventh Kentucky Regiment, and was soon promoted to major, and was in command of the regiment in several hard-fought battles. He was severely wounded in the left hip at Harrisburg, Mississippi, and disabled for several months, when he was recalled by General Forrest, and for gallantry on the battlefield of "Brice's Cross Roads" was promoted to the rank of lieutenant- colonel and assigned to the Third and Seventh Consolidated Regiments.
The following extract from a Mayfield paper, describing Major Hale as a soldier, is worthy of publication: "Major Hale was a young man of about twenty-four years of age. He was as full of zeal and chivalry as the fine climate and good soil of Southern Kentucky could make one. He was a live, wide-awake officer, a man for emer- gencies, and would undertake anything he was commanded to do by his superior officers. Noth- ing was impossible with him. He had a loud, clear voice and a fine presence, and made a fine impression; in short he was a model soldier. He commanded the regiment in some of the hardest fought battles and always did it elegantly and knightly. His conduct in the face of the enemy was always inspiring to others. At one time when the regiment showed signs of wavering he snatched the colors and ran forward, flaunting them in the face of the enemy. The effect was magical; every man moved forward and the enemy was driven from its position."
In 1866 Major Hale was elected sheriff of Graves County, which office he held four years, and in 1871 he was elected State Senator and served his constituents faithfully. He was the chairman of the Democratic Committee of Graves County for a number of years. In 1876 a Nation- al Bank of Mayfield was organized, and at its first election Major Hale was made president, which place he held sixteen years, when he was chosen by Governor Buckner to fill out the unex- pired term of Judge Sharp, who resigned the office of state treasurer. At the expiration of his term
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he became a candidate before the people and was elected by a very complimentary vote. The man- ner in which he has managed the affairs of office, the ability he displayed as a financier, and the general official conduct of Major Hale and as a private citizen are well known to the business men of the state.
Major Hale was a leading spirit in founding the West Kentucky College, an institution of learn- ing, of which the people of Mayfield are justly proud. He is a man of sterling worth to the state, the church and the country. His integrity and true manhood have won for him the love and re- spect of all who know him.
Major Hale was married November 8, 1865, to Miss Virginia A. Gregory of Mississippi. They have six living children, four sons and two daugh- ters: Nathan A., assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Mayfield; William Lindsay, who was assistant treasurer of the state during his father's term of office; Henry S., Jr., a student in the Military Academy at Danville, and Joseph Theodore. The daughters are Annie B. and Mary E.
Major Hale was a candidate for secretary of state in the late election (the constitution forbid- ding that he should hold the office of treasurer an- other term), but he went down with a great many other good men in the Republican year of 1895. He is a prominent member of the Christian Church, through his connection with which he performs many charitable acts and good deeds.
JUDGE FELIX GRUNDY was born in Ber- keley County, Virginia, September II, 1777; brought in early boyhood to Washington County, Kentucky; educated at Bardstown Academy; studied law, and began the practice at Springfield; in 1799, a month before reaching the age of twenty-two, was elected a member from Wash- ington County of the convention which formed the second constitution of Kentucky; a repre- sentative in the Kentucky legislature, from the same county, in 1800, 1801, and 1802, and from Nelson County in 1804, 1805, and 1806; was com- missioned, December 10, 1806, one of the judges of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, and April II, 1807, five months before he was thirty years
old, chief justice of that high court; removed, in 1808, to Nashville, and took the highest rank at that bar; was a representative in Congress from Tennessee, 1811-14, and afterward for several years in the legislature of Tennessee; United States senator, 1829-38; in the latter year was appointed by President Van Buren attorney gen- eral of the United States; resigned that position in 1840, and was again elected United States sen- ator, but did not take his seat-dying at Nash- ville, December 12, 1840, aged sixty-three. Judge Grundy was one of the most distinguished lawyers and statesmen of the western country; in the councils of the nation he had but few equals and fewer superiors.
W TARNER ELMORE SETTLE, Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, whose home is in Bowling Green, is descended from a worthy ancestry and the devotees of the theory that the law of heredity is applicable to the moral and intellectual as well as the physical man, have here strong evidence in support of their views. Mr. Settle was born in Green County, near Greens- burg, Kentucky, January 21, 1850. His parents, Simon and Mary (Barnett) Settle, have been de- ceased many years, and his youth was spent on the farm of his maternal grandfather, Judge Thomas R. Barnett, a man of fine intellect, irreproachable character and of great influence in his commu- nity. He served the people of his county for twenty-four years as judge of the County Court, and represented them twice in the State Legis- lature. Young Settle, though unfortunate in the loss of his parents, was peculiarly fortunate in having the care and guidance of his grandfather. His educational training was such as the schools of Greensburg, his county town, afforded at that time, and they were excellent. He remained in school until eighteen years of age, and it was in- tended that he should have a collegiate education, but the emancipation proclamation of President Lincoln changed all that by liberating the slaves, which were about all the property his parents had left him, and his grandfather lost heavily by the same edict. But the young man was industrious and studious, and while he did not go to college he continued his studies so faithfully that he was
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well equipped before he reached his manhood, and having since then continued his studies he has acquired a fund of knowledge of which many collegiates can not boast. This knowledge not only pertains to the legal profession, but em- braces a wide range of general information and literature, and he is particularly devoted to biography and history.
In 1869 Mr. Settle began the study of law and in January, 1870, he removed to Bowling Green and diligently pursued his legal studies while as- sisting in the office of the clerk of the Warren County Court. He was admitted to the bar, Sep- tember 15, 1871, and in the same year formed a partnership with John B. Grider, the present judge of the Warren County Court, the style of the firm being Settle & Grider. This partnership was dis- solved in 1875, when he formed a similar rela- tion with Hon. Robert Rodes, an able lawyer and a member of the recent Constitutional Con- vention. W. O. Rodes, son of the senior mem- ber of this firm, came in later and the style of the firm was then Rodes, Settle & Rodes. Mr. Settle retired from this firm December I, 1891, and became associated with John B. Rodes, a younger son of Robert Rodes, and this latter partnership was interrupted in 1892 by the eleva- tion of Mr. Settle to the bench.
Warner E. Settle is learned in the law, accurate, able and eloquent as a pleader and advocate and was a very successful lawyer, his practice extend- ing over his circuit and adjacent counties and to the Court of Appeals at Frankfort. He loved his profession and was equally at home whether pleading a cause before the chancellor or argu- ing a question before a jury, and retired from prac- tice enjoying an enviable reputation. His nomina- tion and election to the bench were exceedingly complimentary as both were without opposition, and this, too, in a district which abounds in "good timber for the bench." As a judge he has proven himself competent and popular and has reflected honor upon his profession by his quiet dignity, his pleasing manner and his correct and unbiased decisions. He is known as an "Honest Judge," and the members of the bar as well as their clients know that he will give them a patient hearing and a fair trial.
Warner E. Settle and Shelly Rodes were mar- ried November 2, 1875, an alliance which has added greatly to his happiness and usefulness. She is the eldest daughter of Hon. Robert Rodes, his former law partner, and is a very intelligent and highly accomplished lady, deservedly possess- ing the esteem of a large circle of friends and ac- quaintances. The family circle is enlivened by the presence of three sons and three daughters.
Judge Settle, on the paternal side, is of Eng- lish descent. The first one of the family who came from England located in Virginia, where there are still many of the descendants. The great grandfather of Judge Settle, with an elder brother, came from Virginia to Kentucky in 1796, and the two settled on adjoining farms on Beaver Creek in Barren County. They were men of intelligence and of excellent character, and several of the Settle family, descendants, no doubt, of the Eng- lish ancestor mentioned, have attained distinction, among whom may be mentioned Rev. H. C. Set- tle, D. D., of Louisville; Hon. Evan E. Settle of Owen County; Hon. Thomas Settle, deceased, late Judge of the United States District Court of North Carolina, and his son, Thomas Settle, pres- ent congressman from that state.
The paternal grandfather of Judge Settle's mother was a South Carolinian of Scotch-Irish descent, who served in the War of the Revolution under General Francis Marion, and received a bullet wound in each shoulder. Thomas Elmore, the mother's maternal grandfather, was of an ex- cellent Virginia family and served through the Revolutionary war as a captain of Virginia in- fantry.
JOHN C. RUSSELL, lawyer, and enterpris- Jing citizen of Louisville, son of John W. and Ann M. (Julian) Russell, was born in Franklin County, Kentucky, June 30, 1849.
His father was a native of Rockbridge County, Virginia, and came to Kentucky with his father when he was nine months of age, in 1796, and located in Franklin County, where he made his home until his death in 1870. He was a man of influence in politics, in the Presbyterian Church- of which he was a member-in business and in public affairs; represented Franklin, Shelby and
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Anderson Counties in the Kentucky Senate from 1846 to 1850; was a pioneer in steamboating on the Mississippi River; was superintendent of snag- boats on that river, and was chiefly and always an enterprising farmer in Franklin County. At the age of sixteen he enlisted for the War of 1812, and served his country faithfully for two years. He was a warm personal friend of John J. Critten- den-for whom his son was named-and was the companion, associate and the equal of many of the great Kentuckians who were better known only on account of the public positions which they held.
James Russell (grandfather) was a native of Rockbridge County, Virginia; removed to Frank- lin County, Kentucky, in 1796, where he com- pleted his four score years and died in 1849. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, serving under Generals Washington and Greene at York- town.
The Russells who settled in the American col- onies some twenty years before the beginning of the Revolutionary war were of Scotch lineage, and many of that name were natives of the North of Ireland, but these were also of Scotch parentage.
Ann M. Julian Russell (mother) was a sister of the father of John Julian of Frankfort, who died in 1890, aged seventy-three years. She was a very active and faithful member of the Presbyterian Church, and a most excellent Christian woman.
John C. Russell attended that excellent school in Frankfort taught by B. B. Sayre, and spent one year in the scientific department of Yale College; graduated from the law department of the Uni- versity of Louisville in 1874, and began the prac- tice of his profession in Louisville, and soon found his place as a thoroughly reliable and substantial lawyer.
His career has been one of uninterrupted suc- cess from professional, business and social points of view. Enjoying a very large practice in the civil courts, he has been able to command the capital for investment in a number of business and financial enterprises.
For ten years he was a director in the Mer- chants' National Bank, is a director in the Louis- ville Trust Company, for many years has been a member of the executive committee of that com-
pany; president of the Grahamton Manufactur- ing Company (cotton mill), director in the South- ern Electric Railway Company of St. Louis, takes an active part in politics, and is now chairman of the Democratic Committee for the Eighth and Ninth Wards of the City of Louisville-not car- ing for office, but for the promotion of the best interests of the Democratic party. He has been urged frequently to accept office, but has always declined; is a member of the Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution and of the Scotch-Irish Society of Kentucky; and is a member of the Second Pres- byterian Church.
Mr. Russell was married June 27, 1882, to Lila P. Anderson, daughter of W. George Anderson of Louisville. She died in 1883, leaving one child, Lila, who died April 18, 1884.
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