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H. THOMAS LLOYD, a prominent farmer of Bracken County and well-known citi- zen of Augusta, son of Richard and Elizabeth (Adamson) Lloyd, was born in Bracken County, Kentucky, May 24, 1836. His father was also born in Bracken County, February 2, 1797. He received his education in the county schools; was a farmer of progressive ideas; was interested in politics, first as a Whig of pronounced views, then as a Union man during the Civil war, and as a straight-out Democrat from 1865 until his death, June 23, 1874. He was a member of the Chris- tian Church, and a man of most positive charac- ter, honored and respected by a large circle of friends and acquaintances.
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The grandfather Lloyd was a native of Mary- land, who came to Kentucky in 1788, and set- tled first in Fayette County, four miles from Lex- ington; removed to Bracken County in 1795. He married Susan Winter of Lexington, who was born in 1767; lived one hundred and one years, and died in 1868.
Elizabeth Adamson Lloyd (mother) was born in Mason County, in 1800; married Richard Lloyd in 1826; died in Bracken County in 1870; was a member of the Christian Church, and a noble Christian woman.
John Adamson (grandfather) was a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; removed to May's Spring, Mason County, Kentucky, in 1786 or 1787, and was a farmer in that county. His wife, Ruth, died in Mason County in 1840.
H. Tom Lloyd, as he is familiarly known, was educated in public schools; finished his studies in 1855; went to Missouri in 1856 and bought a half section of land near the town of Mexico, but having inherited his father's estate, he returned to Bracken County; has purchased other prop- erty, including the Garrett Perrine farm, upon which he resides, and has recently purchased a one-twelfth interest in sixteen thousand acres of land-known as Kentucky colony-on which they have a proposed town site section near Phoenix, Arizona.
Mr. Lloyd is quite active and prominent in all matters relating to improvement in agriculture in his county and state; has been president two years and director twenty-six years, and always a leading spirit in the Union Agricultural So- ciety of Mason and Bracken Counties since 1870; vice-president of the Bracken County Fair As- sociation since 1893; was a member of the World's Fair Auxiliary Congress of 1893; was appointed and commissioned by Governor Buckner a mem- ber of the National Farmers' Congress at Coun- cil Bluffs, Iowa, in 1890; was alternate to the national Democratic convention at Chicago in 1892; is a county infirmary commissioner and re- ceiver for the same; and has at frequent and divers times represented his county and section in con- ventions and societies. He has been superin- tendent of the Augusta and Brookville turnpike alternately for twenty-five years, and is the ac-
knowledged representative progressive farmer in one of the best agricultural districts in the state. In politics Mr. Lloyd is a Democrat, and he is a liberal supporter of the Christian Church.
Mr. Lloyd was married November 30, 1865, to Lucy Perrine of Bracken County. She was born March 13, 1846, and is a daughter of Garrett and Amanda (Myers) Perrine, and granddaughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Davidson) Myers. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd have one daughter, Julia, who was born October 5, 1866, and married Nicholas C. Taliaferro, October 4, 1888.
D R. BUSHROD FOLEY LAIRD of Cov- ington, one of the most distinguished men of the medical profession in Kentucky, was born in Covington, January 5, 1847. He is a graduate of the city high school, class of 1865; attended the Western Military Academy of Dayton, Ohio, in 1866 and 1867 as cadet captain, and the Univer- sity of Leipsic, Saxony, in 1868 and 1869; and having returned to his home, he continued the study of medicine in the Cincinnati Medical Col- lege in 1872, graduating in 1874. He entered into the practice of medicine in the Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati in the year 1875, and was winner of the Dawson and Bartholow prizes. While in Leipsic he studied music in the Kessler Musical Institute, from which he received a cer- tificate. In 1888 he received the premium from the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States for an automatic car coupler, and in 1889 the same device was awarded the medal at the Exposition Universelle, Paris.
In 1861, when only fifteen years of age, he was awarded a prize as the best mathematician in the public schools of Covington. The examiners in the contest were Mr. Meade, father of the late Admiral Meade; A. M. Randolph, ex-attorney- general of Montana and the high school faculty.
Dr. Laird is a member of the Cincinnati Aca- demy of Medicine, member of the Kentucky State Medical Association, of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association and the American Associa- tion.
He was married, November 15, 1877, to Ellen Zimmerman, daughter of Solomon Zimmerman of Clifton, Ohio. She was educated in a convent
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in Brown County, Ohio. She is a sister of Eu- gene Zimmerman, vice-president of the Cincin- nati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company. Dr. and Mrs. Laird have two children: Martina and Eugenea.
Dr. Laird has a distinguished ancestry. His father, Samuel Boden Laird, was born in Edin- burgh, Scotland, October 15, 1815. He came to America when quite young and was educated in the common schools of Pittsburgh. He was a tobacco manufacturer in that city for some years, and took his tobacco to New Orleans on flat- boats. After selling his tobacco he would buy a horse and return overland. In 1837 he was re- turning from New Orleans and stopped in Cov- ington, where he concluded to locate. He was the largest manufacturer of tobacco in the city for a number of years, and was inspector of to- bacco in the Bodman House, and was acknowl- edged to be the best judge of tobacco in Ken- tucky. He was awarded the premium a number of times for work in this respect.
He was also a manufacturer and dealer in fire- arms during the early days of the war, and in 1861 he was the only man in Covington who was allowed to sell ammunition and firearms, and in this way he became known as the "Uncle Sam" of Covington. At the time of his death he was the richest man in Covington. The principal school buildings in the city stand on ground that was owned by "Uncle Sam" Laird.
He was independent in politics, but his sym- pathies were with the North during the Civil war. He attended strictly to business, caring little for politics. He was an Odd Fellow. He was related to Rev. Charles Laird, a distinguished divine of Pittsburgh, and was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He died October 2, 1863, and is buried in Linden Grove Cemetery. His parents died soon after their arrival in Pitts- burgh, leaving three sons and three daughters, who made their home with a family by the name of Wilson, Mr. Wilson being a leading citizen and at one time mayor of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Laird's mother, Cordelia (Whitaker) Laird, was born of Scotch parents in London, England, August 1, 1825. The family came to America when she was twelve years old and located in Cin-
cinnati. She received her principal schooling in Dr. Orr's Ladies' Seminary in Covington, and was married to Samuel B. Laird in 1844. She is one of the oldest members of the First Presbyter- ian Church in Covington. Her father, William Whitaker, was born in Scotland, but lived for a time in London. He was a steamboat painter and one of the largest contractors in that line in this country. He retired from business in 1850, and lived with his daughter, Mrs. Laird, until 1863, when he died. His son, William Whitaker, Jr., was one of the organizers and founders of the Cincinnati Gymnasium.
H ENRY MARSHALL BUFORD, a leading lawyer of Lexington, son of Henry and Bettie (Marshall) Buford, was born in Paris, Ken- tucky, November 20, 1845. When twelve years of age he entered Center College at Danville, and graduated in 1864, receiving the highest honors of his class. He studied law with Garret Davis, of Paris, and attended Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1866. He was elected by his class to write a prize essay, and this effort, at the age of twenty-one, gave him at once a reputa- tion as a writer and as a scholar of superior ability. i 1
In 1867 he began the practice of law in Lexing- ton and soon took rank as one of the brightest young lawyers of the blue grass capital. His suc- cess was at once assured, and for nearly thirty years he has maintained the dignity of his profes- sion and the honor of his illustrious ancestors, whose names are written on almost every page in the history of Kentucky and of the southwest.
Aside from his practice at the bar, which has always been of the first consideration and has received his best attention, he has once or twice held public office. He was master commissioner of the Circuit Court from 1877 to 1880, and was judge of the Common Pleas Court from August, 1886, to August, 1890. His record as lawyer, officer and judge is without stain or blemish, and much might be said of his busy career, but the main purpose of this sketch is to record the his- tory of the several families from which he is de- scended.
Henry Buford (father) was a native of Scott
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County, Kentucky. Afer reaching maturity, he removed to Fayette County, where he made his home until his death, which occurred in 1849, in the twenty-seventh year of his age. He was a farmer by occupation, and a Henry Clay Whig in politics.
He was the son of Charles Buford (grand- father), who was born in Scott County, Kentucky, and in 1853 removed to Rock Island, Illinois, where he died in 1866, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. He was one of the enterprising farm- ers of Scott County, and owned one thousand acres of valuable land there. At Rock Island he led a retired life, but was president of a short coal line railroad, in which he was interested. For many years before going to Illinois, he was presi- dent of the Kentucky Racing Association and a breeder of thoroughbred race horses.
His father was Abraham Buford (great-grand- father), a native of Virginia, who emigrated to Scott County in 1788 and was an extensive farmer and large land owner. The ancestors of the Bu- fords, who settled in Virginia in 1697, were of Norman-English descent, and were as brave and fearless a race of men as ever lived in Kentucky. The descendants of the Bufords, who left Virginia in 1786, 1787 and 1788, are now living in various portions of the south and west. The Bufords of Illinois were a branch of the Virginia family who settled there some years prior to the admission of Illinois into the Union, in 1818. John Buford was the founder of the Illinois branch.
Bettie Marshall Buford (mother) was a native of Mason County, daughter of James Keith Mar- shall, and is now a resident of Lexington.
Henry Marshall Buford's grandmother Buford was a daughter of Governor Adair, who was de- scended from Huguenots, who settled in South Carolina in 1696. Governor Adair was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and settled in Ken- tucky in 1786. He served as aide to Governor Isaac Shelby at the battle of the Thames in the year 1813. His conduct during this war was such as to elicit from his superior officers an expres- sion of the highest admiration. Governor Shelby afterwards conferred upon him the appointment of adjutant general of Kentucky troops, with the rank of brigadier general, and in that capacity he
commanded the soldiers of Kentucky in the battle of New Orleans. In 1820 John Adair was elected governor of Kentucky in opposition to Judge Lo- gan, Governor Desha and Colonel Butler. He often served as a member of the State Legislature of Mercer County, and was more than once speaker of that body. In 1825 he was elected to the United States Senate; was elected to Con- gress in 1831, and served as a member of the House for three years. He was born in Abbey- ville, South Carolina, in 1757, and died May 19, 1840, at the age of eighty-three years.
J. K. Marshall (maternal grandfather) was a native of Mason County; removed to Bourbon County in 1837; thence to Milwaukee, Wiscon- sin, in 1855, where he resided some years and then returned to Kentucky, and died in Mason County in 1866, aged sixty-five years. He was an able lawyer, and during his residence in Bour- bon County, served as county judge. He was a man of exalted character, of fine judgment and wonderful energy and liberality.
He was the son of Alexander K. Marshall (great-grandfather), a native Virginian, who set- tled in Kentucky in 1785, and was reporter of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1818.
His father was Colonel Thomas Marshall (great-great-grandfather), who was a brother of Chief Justice John Marshall. He was a noted orator, and like many members of his family, a great lawyer, and was distinguished for his strong common sense.
TESSE E. FOGLE, a well-known lawyer of Hartford, was born in Liberty, Casey County, Kentucky, April 7, 1848.
His father, Hon. McDowell Fogle, one of the foremost lawyers of the state, was born in Lebanon, Kentucky, December 30, 1815, and was the second child, and first male child, born in that now flourishing city. He was educated in the district and private schools and in St. Mary's College in Marion County; adopted the legal profession and studied law privately and under the direction of one of the learned lawyers of that locality, and after being admitted to the bar, he began the practice of his profession at Liberty,
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the county seat of Casey County; continued there until about 1853, when he removed to Owens- boro, accompanied by his brother-in-law and pupil, the late William N. Sweeney, who became one of the most prominent and powerful pleaders at the bar in Western Kentucky. Mr. Fogle practiced law in Owensboro for only a short time, when he returned to Liberty and resumed the practice there and in adjoining counties until 1872, and then retired from regular practice. For many years he was a member of the firm of Fogle & Fox, the latter subsequently becoming judge of the Eighth judicial district. He was also for many years associated in the practice of the law with Colonel Silas Adams-who has since represented the Eleventh district in Congress-under the firm name of Fogle & Adams. His party frequently honored him by electing him to office; he served two or three terms as county attorney; was ap- pointed master commissioner and receiver of the Casey Circuit Court; was a member of the Ken- tucky legislature in 1855-57 and 1859-61, repre- senting the counties of Casey and Russell; and Democratic elector for his district.
When he gave up the practice of law in 1872 he retired to his farm in the country -- but a short drive on the turnpike road leading from Liberty to Middleburg-where he is independently situ- ated, and with his interesting family is enjoying the fruits of an honorable and well spent life. He was quite successful in his profession and suc- ceeded in accumulating a large property, and is now one of the largest land owners of his county. He is a member of the Methodist Church, as was his wife, the mother of the subject of this sketch, and his home has always been a hospitable retreat for the ministers of his church and for others, who have been royally entertained thereat.
He married Miss Emily J. Sweeney of Liberty, February 17, 1841, who was born there June 4, 1821, and died at Liberty, October 14, 1852, and is buried in the Liberty cemetery, near her father and mother. She was the mother of six children: Marietta, Isabelle, Sarah Frances, Jesse Edwin, William McDowell, and a daughter who died in infancy, a few days preceding the death of its mother.
Subsequently Mr. Fogle married Miss Sallie
Barger of Russell County, who died after about a year of wedded life.
His third marriage was to Miss Martha J. Mur- phy of Casey County. By this marriage there were seven children: James M., Elizabeth A., Robert B., Joel, Lena J., D. Edgar and George Preston.
Joel died in infancy, and William McDowell died September 3, 1883.
Robert H. Fogle (grandfather) was born in Maryland, May I, 1788, and came with his par- ents to Marion, then Washington County, Ken- tucky, in 1792, with the pioneers; he helped to clear the land where Lebanon is located, and built the first house that was erected in Lebanon, and when the town was established was one of its first trustees; and was appointed the first post- master of that place. He was a saddler by trade; gained considerable wealth, and in 1829 quit the saddlery business and invested his money in lands near Lebanon and engaged in agricultural pur- suits; he owned a great many slaves, but gave them their freedom before he was compelled to do so by the emancipation proclamation. He re- moved to Daviess County in 1849 and purchased a large, valuable farm near Owensboro, whereon is now located Elmwood cemetery, and there was interested in farming until the death of his wife, in 1860, when he sold his land, liberated his slaves and divided his wealth among his children, and made his home amongst them until his death, which occurred February 17, 1884, in the ninety- sixth year of his age.
He married Miss Rachel Shuttleworth, who was the mother of five children: Ebenezer, Mc- Dowell, Sallie Ann, who married Milford Purdy of Daviess County, and Mary, who married W. B. England of Lebanon, and one who died in boyhood.
His second wife was Sallie Newbold. There were two children of this marriage: Catherine, who married Thomas England of Lebanon, and Rachel J., who married John Murphy, deceased, of Owensboro.
Mr. Fogle was a member of the old school Presbyterian Church, and during his stay near Owensboro was the superintendent of the Sun- day school of the First Presbyterian Church of
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that city. He was loved and respected by all and his buoyant spirits and his kind and unselfish nature made his coming always a source of pleas- ure to his children and grandchildren.
The great-grandfather Fogle married Sarah Hammet.
Joel Sweeney (maternal grandfather) was a native of Casey County and was educated in the private schools; was bred a lawyer, but did not practice law; was elected, when quite a young man, clerk of the Casey County Court and Cir- cuit Court, and held this dual position during life; he was a man of wealth, owning a great deal of land, including a large and valuable farm ad- jacent to Liberty, numerous slaves, a large mill in the town, and much valuable real estate, be- sides being interested in the mercantile business; he was an upright, honorable and respected citi- zen; a man of exemplary character; generous to the poor and needy, and highly esteemed by the people of his county.
He married Obedience Edwards of Garrard County, and they had eight children: Elizabeth, married Major G. W. Sweeney of Casey County; Amanda, married Dr. Martin Adams of Somerset ; Jesse G. Sweeney, a merchant of Lancaster; Emily J., who married McDowell Fogle; W. N. Sweeney, deceased, the eminent lawyer of Owens- boro; Anna Eliza, married Captain C. M. Whipp of Liberty; Marietta, married Dr. D. S. Parker of Arkansas, and James, who was killed by an ac- cident during boyhood.
Joel Sweeney died at his home in Liberty, in 1869, and his wife died while on a visit to her son, Hon. W. N. Sweeney, in Owensboro, in 1873, and is buried beside her husband at Liberty.
Charles Sweeney (maternal great-grandfather) was a native of Virginia, who came in early life to Casey County, and married Frances Shachel- ford there. His principal occupation was that of a farmer.
Jesse Edwin Fogle attended the Seminary at Liberty, and the Parochial Academy at Houston- ville, Lincoln County, and taught school in Casey County, and clerked in the general store of his brother-in-law, George G. Fair, in Middleburg, Casey County, before going to Kentucky Univer- sity at Lexington, where he concluded his school
days in 1870. It had not occurred to Mr. Fogle to enter the law, but, "a competent knowledge of the laws of that society in which we live is the proper accomplishment of every gentleman and scholar, and highly useful, I had almost said es- sential, part of liberal and polite education." This quotation from the first chapter of Blackstone's Commentaries, picked up in his father's library and read out of curiosity, so impressed him that he became interested therein and after having completed the reading of the work determined upon the study of the law, which he did in his father's office and under his instruction. He was admitted to the bar at Liberty, May 25, 1871, and began the practice in partnership with his father. It was a severe trial for him to separate himself from his father and boyhood home, but it ap- peared to him that it would be the best for him to do so, and, thereupon his maternal uncle and namesake, Jesse G. Sweeney, volunteered his kind assistance and made known his inclination to his brother, the late William N. Sweeney of Owensboro, who then represented his district in Congress, and he kindly expressed his willingness to assist him, either in Owensboro or elsewhere. At that time Mr. Sweeney had a son preparing for the law, and his law partner, the late Judge James Stuart, had also a son just entering law, and under these circumstances Hartford seemed to be the best point to begin and have his uncle's assistance and to abide future developments, and it was at his kind suggestion that he came to Hartford, September 4, 1872, and there asso- ciated Mr. Sweeney and Judge Stuart with him- self in the practice, and thereafter had the benefit of their assistance and friendship during their lives.
Mr. Fogle's success in the practice of his pro- fession demonstrates the wisdom of his choice, yet he never forgets an overruling Providence and the valuable and unselfish assistance rendered him by his distinguished uncle and law partner. He is considered one of the best lawyers at the Hartford bar, made up of good lawyers, and by his industry and good management has become financially independent. Besides owning one of the most desirable residences in Hartford, he owns other valuable property in the city, and an
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extensive mercantile establishment, over which are his law offices. Adjacent to the town he has a valuable farm, and is also one of the stock- holders of the Bank of Hartford.
While at Liberty he joined the Christian Church. Still, the church of his father and mother and his wife's church, are alike the objects of his solicitude; he has been a friend to the tem- perance cause from his boyhood.
Mr. Fogle was married June 6, 1877, to Miss Lelia Addington, only child of the late Virgil P. Addington, a merchant of Hartford. She was born in Hartford, October 15, 1856. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, refined and cultured and has rare good judgment. Mr. Fogle attributes no small amount of his success to the faithful assistance of his wife, and is very much attached to his home and family. They have two children: Annie, born April 14, 1878, and now in Hartford College, from which she will graduate June, 1896, and McDowell Addington Fogle, born June 22, 1888.
J
AMES RODMAN, M. D., retired physician
of Hopkinsville, one of the ablest men in any profession in Kentucky, son of John and Patsy Foré Rodman, was born in New Castle, Henry County, Kentucky, March 6, 1829.
His father, John Rodman, who was prominent in Kentucky politics, was a native of Berks County, Pennsylvania, an officer in the War of 1812, and was made a prisoner at the battle of the River Raisin. The progenitor of the Rodman family was John Rodman, a well born, educated Irishman, a member of the Quaker Society, who was banished from his home on account of his religious views to the island of Barbadoes, and died in 1690. His sons, John and Thomas Rod- man, were the progenitors of the Rodman family in this country.
Patsy Foré Rodman (mother) was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Her ancestors were Huguenots, who came to this country on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, landed in South Carolina, and subsequently removed to Virginia. Her father, William Foré, was born in Virginia, and came to Henry County in 1801. He was a farmer and a man of affairs, taking
great interest in the welfare of the community and in the material progress of his state and country. His father, Peter Foré, was among the very early emigrants from Virginia to Kentucky; was a Revolutionary soldier, died in a blockhouse in what is now Harrison or Bourbon County, Kentucky, on the day it was taken by the British and Indians under Colonel Byrd. His children, seven in number, with him at that time, were made prisoners and taken to Detroit. The sons returned to Kentucky, living long and reputable lives. The daughters remained, marrying officers in the British army-Wykoff and Smith by name.
James Rodman was educated in the Henry County Academy, one of the best schools of that day; read medicine with his brother, Hugh, who removed to Frankfort in 1850, where he distin- guished himself as one of the best physicians in the state, and was accidentally thrown from his carriage and killed in 1872, when fifty-two years of age.
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