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William L. Crabb was educated in the district schools of Henry County, and was taking a course preparatory for college when the Civil war be- gan. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in General John H. Morgan's command, Company H, Fourth Kentucky Cavalry, and was in almost every engagement in which that famous cavalry command fought, and was in a fight at New Cas- tle, Kentucky, in which all on the Confederate side were killed or wounded except himself.
He served all through the war and carried the flag that surrendered the last armed force of the confederacy east of the Mississippi River at Mt. Sterling, nearly a month after General Lee's sur- render.
Returning after the war was over, he followed farming in Henry County for two years, and was interested in milling. From 1868 to 1872 he was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Eminence, deal- ing principally in hardware and agricultural im- plements. Since 1872 he has been engaged in distilling, as a member of the firm of Fible & Crabb, until 1890, when the company was in- corporated as the Fible & Crabb Distilling Com- pany, of which Mr. Crabb was elected president. While the business of this company demands much of his time and attention, he is largely in- terested in farming and stock raising, giving spe- cial care to fine horses, in which he takes great pride and pleasure, and from which he derives handsome returns.
There are few more active, energetic and en- terprising men than Mr. Crabb in Henry County. With large business interests of his own, which are conducted with conservative enterprise and with good business judgment, he is one of the foremost men in matters concerning the public
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weal, and his interest in the welfare of his fellow- citizens is manifested by his willingness to enter into any measure for the general advancement of the people with that energy and enthusiasm which are characteristic of the man.
In politics he is zealous for the success of his friends and of the Democratic party, in which he is a wheel-horse. He has no predilection for office or public recognition; but he can take off his coat and work for a friend as if he were the candidate himself. He received an appointment from Governor Knott on his staff with rank of coloncl.
Mr. Crabb was married October 31, 1866, to Mattie V. Owen, daughter of Grandison P. Owen and Mary Ann Thomas, his wife, who was a na- tive of Shelby County, but located at Eminence in Henry County.
There were two sons born to Mr. and Mrs. Crabb: Lindsey T. Crabb, born November 5, 1867, and William Owen Crabb, born March 31, 1871, died December 13, 1871.
Grandison P. Owen's father, Edward Owen (Mrs. Crabb's grandfather), came from Virginia to Harrison County, Kentucky, in 1825; and his father was Edward P. Owen of Virginia.
Mary Ann Thomas (Mrs. Crabb's mother) was a daughter of Lindsey Thomas, who was a son of Oswald Thomas, one of the pioneers who came from Virginia and located in Mercer County, Kentucky. Oswald Thomas married Mary Pogue, youngest daughter of General William Pogue, who was killed in Mercer County by the Indians. She was born in the fort at Harrods- burg, Kentucky. Oswald Thomas was an inti- mate friend and comrade of Daniel Boone, and was with him in many of his excursions and con- flicts with the Indians. The descendants of Os- wald Thomas embrace many of the old and num- erous families of Shelby County, where he located after leaving Mercer County.
W ILLIAM LEROY DULANEY, ex-judge of the Circuit Court and a prominent at- torney of Bowling Green, son of Woodford and Eliza (Archer) Dulaney, was born at York, Illi- nois, July 31, 1838.
His father, Woodford Dulaney, a native of Cul- peper County, Virginia, came to Kentucky in 1819, and located in Bowling Green, where he lived until 1825, when he removed to Louisville. In 1827 he took a boat-load of merchandise up the Wabash river, and, while on this trip, the Black- hawk war broke out and Mr. Dulaney went into the war as captain of a company which he re- cruited in Illinois. He served with Lincoln, Jeff Davis and others, and in the regiment of his father-in-law, Colonel William B. Archer. After the war was over Mr. Dulaney returned to his plantation in Warren County, near Bowling Green, where he was engaged in farming until his death, which occurred in 1878, at the age of seventy-nine years.
LeRoy Dulaney (grandfather), a native of Cul- peper County, Virginia, came to Warren County, Kentucky, in 1820, and located on a plantation, where he resided until his death, in 1841. The Dulaneys are of French origin, and the ancestors of the family in this country came to the United States by way of Ireland.
Eliza Archer Dulaney (mother) was born near York, Illinois, in 1818, and died of cholera in 1849, in the thirty-first year of her age.
Colonel William B. Archer (maternal grand- father) was born in Scott County, Kentucky. He was a colonel in command of an Illinois regi- ment during the Blackhawk war. He died in Marshall, Illinois, in 1883, aged about ninety years.
William LeRoy Dulaney spent the earlier days of his boyhood in the country near Bowling Green, and attended Centre College at Danville, from which he graduated in the class with Sena- tor Blackburn, ex-Governor McCreary, and other distinguished Kentuckians in 1857. He read law with Judge William V. Loving of Bowling Green, and was admitted to the bar in 1861.
In the same year he enlisted in the Confederate army as a private soldier in the "Buckner Guides," but was soon transferred to General Morgan's command in Colonel Breckinridge's regiment, and served as a private. He had learned some- thing about military tactics prior to the war, hav- ing been captain of a company of state guards. His brother, Hiram W. Dulaney, was also a sol-
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dier in the Confederate army, and served through- out the war.
After peace was declared Mr. Dulaney returned to his home in Bowling Green and took up the business of his profession, and to this he has been faithfully devoted, without interruption, for more than thirty years.
In 1869 he was elected judge of the Common Pleas Court, and acted in that capacity for two terms. In 1880 he was elected judge of the Cir- cuit Court, and served one term of six years, de- clining a re-election at the expiration of the term.
Judge Dulaney has been quite prominent in local and state politics, having served on impor- tant committees and as delegate to several Demo- cratic national state and district conventions, but in this he has been actuated by a sense of duty to the public rather than by any political ambition on his part. He is exceedingly fond of sport, and takes particular delight in fox hunting, having a pack of the finest hounds in the state.
Judge Dulaney was married in 1860 to Jane Barclay, daughter of Samuel A. Barclay, of Bow- ling Green. They have no children of their own, but have one adopted son, Paul LeRoy Dulaney. They are members of the Presbyterian Church, and Judge Dulaney is an Odd Fellow and a Knight Templar.
ISAAC WESLEY KELLY, a leading citizen of New Castle, and one of the largest tax- payers in Henry County, son of Griffin and Re- becca (Smith) Kelly, was born in Henry County, Kentucky, May 16, 1837.
His father, Griffin Kelly, was born in Clark County, Kentucky, January 25, 1810, and re- moved to Henry County with his parents when he was fourteen years of age. His educational advantages were limited to one term of six months in a country school, but he was a man of sound judgment and remarkable ability. His chief busi- ness was that of a farmer, but he was a judicious speculator and a successful financier. A man of wonderful natural resources, prudent and saga- cious, he would have made his mark in any avocation, and had he received an education in accordance with his natural ability he could have reached fame and distinction in public life. But
he had no ambition for political preferment, and declined frequent calls to represent his county and district in Congress and other positions of honor and trust.
The first money he made was fifty cents which he received for stripping blue grass, and at his death his estate was worth over one hundred thousand dollars. He attributed his success to the fact that he attended to his business affairs himself and never asked any one else to do for him anything he could do himself. He was a di- rector in the Bank of Shelbyville for more than twenty years, and for a long time a director in the Bank of New Castle. He was a member of the regular Baptist Church, and his business was con- ducted upon principles that were consistent with his profession, and he was known and respected as a man of exemplary piety and upright char- acter.
He was married September 25, 1834, to Re- becca Jane Smith, who was born near Browns- borough, Oldham County, September 14, 1815, and died December 22, 1894. She was a woman of extraordinary energy, of strong, vigorous in- tellect, who exerted a great influence over her children and commanded the love and admiration of her neighbors. She was in every sense a noble woman, a dutiful and helpful wife, an affectionate mother and a pious member of the Baptist Church. Her father was Isaac Smith, born in Blue Ridge, Virginia, a descendant of Captain John Smith. His wife, Susan Schmidt, was from Baden-Baden, Germany.
Griffin and Rebecca Kelly had five children who reached maturity:
Elizabeth, married William H. Forwood; died at the age of forty years.
Isaac W., subject of this sketch.
Joseph, died at Eminence in 1885.
Helen, married, first, George Kilpatrick, who was of English birth, graduated with honor at Toronto, Canada, and was a successful practi- tioner at the Louisville bar and died at the age of thirty-four years. Her second husband is Wil- liam Swift of Bourbon County, Kentucky. She is a woman of great strength of character, of fine intelligence and of unusual business ability.
Clinton Wayne, educated at Kingston and
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Montreal, Canada, and Berlin, Prussia; is one of the leading physicians of Louisville; dean of the Louisville Medical College, which he founded in 1869, and is known throughout the South and Southwest as one of the most distinguished men in the medical profession.
Joseph Kelly (grandfather) was born in Spott- sylvania County, Virginia, January 29, 1767; came to Kentucky in 1824; was a captain in the war of 1812 under Generals George Rogers Clarke and William H. Harrison, and was in the terrible battle at River Raisin. At one time with three hundred soldiers he held at bay eighteen hundred English soldiers and Indians, accomplishing this by strategy; when the enemy advanced he com- manded his men to fall on their faces and reserve their fire until they could see the white of the enemies' eyes. By this means they held the British at bay until their ammunition gave out and they were captured. It was Joel Hume, one of Captain Kelly's men, who killed the Indian Chief Tecumseh, instead of Johnson, as history claims. Hume was in line of battle with Cap- tain Kelly's company. He found he had three loads in his gun. He discharged them all at once at a tall Indian chief. After the battle Tecumseh was found with three bullets in his body. Captain Kelly was detailed by General George Rogers Clarke to make a road from near Louisville to Vincennes, Indiana. Joseph Kelly married Elizabeth Mallory, born March 24, 1771; died March 30, 1850.
Isaac W. Kelly began his studies in the typical log school house in Henry County. At the age of fourteen he removed to New Castle with his parents; graduated from Georgetown College in 1860, accomplishing a four years' course in two years, the first instance of the kind in the history of that institution; taught school in Henry County for two years; went to Louisville in 1863, and was engaged in brokerage business there for four years. In 1869 he returned to New Castle and attended to his father's business until 1871. He was in the internal revenue service under Presi- dent Cleveland's first administration and has had large landed and other business interests to oc- cupy his attention; is president of the New Castle Creamery Company; president of the Eminence
& New Castle Turnpike Road Company; vice president of the Bank of New Castle; trustee of . the Henry Male & Female College of New Cas- tle. He owns a beautiful home in New Castle, from which he directs the affairs of his large farming and other interests in the county; is the largest tax-payer, with but two exceptions, in the county; and is a leading, progressive and in- fluential citizen.
He never sued a debtor, and has never been sued; strictly honest and true, he is greatly re- spected and honored by the people, who have the utmost confidence in his fidelity and integrity.
Mr. Kelly is an ardent member of the Baptist Church; a deep student of the Bible, explaining many of the mysteries of the scriptures with a power and force that carries conviction, and in the absence of the pastor often takes his place in the pulpit, in which capacity he displays unusual ability as a teacher of the Word.
He has traveled extensively in the United States and Canada, and has been a close observer and careful student of men and affairs and is well in- formed upon local, state and national politics; is a Democrat and the author of his own plat- form: "The greatest good for the greatest num- ber." He was in sympathy with the South, but took no active part during the Civil war.
He was associated with his brother, Dr. Clinton W. Kelly of Louisville, in the settlement of their father's large estate, and this they accomplished without the aid of a lawyer, the total expense amounting to $18. Isaac W. Kelly was married October 12, 1871, to Thermuthis Hannah Webb, daughter of Honorable Isaac N. and Levian (Gist) Webb. She was born in New Castle and educated in the college at that place.
Her father was an eminent lawyer of New Cas- tle; a graduate of Hanover (Indiana) College; was an able draughtsman and distinguished schol- ar; served in the Kentucky legislature and was a man of fine personal appearance and gentlemanly bearing. His wife, Levian Gist Webb, was a native of Northern Alabama, a graduate of a Nash- ville college; a woman of great strength of character, moral courage and fine literary attain- ments, intensely religious and very active in church work. The children of Isaac W. Kelly
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and his wife are: Levian, wife of Dr. John R. Smith, now a resident of Carmi, Illinois; Rebecca Jane, wife of Robert Lee Samuells of New Castle. The other children, Griffin, Isaac Newton, Wash- ington Irving and Sallie Barbour, are at home, the greatest care being given to their education and training.
EORGE W. JOLLY, a member of the Owensboro bar, son of John B. and Rachel (Hardin) Jolly, was born in Breckinridge County, near the town of Stephensport, February 22, 1843.
His father was born in Breckinridge County, July 20, 1815; was educated in private schools in the vicinity of his home. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, March IO, 1896. He was a consistent member of the Meth- odist church and an honored citizen, whose quiet and unostentatious life won for him the love and confidence of his neighbors. He was married May 9, 1842, to Rachel Hardin, who was born in Breckinridge County in 1817. They were the parents of eight children: George W .; William Henry Harrison, who died in 1864; Nannie; John L., who also died in 1864; Gideon N .; Thomas and Sarah. Mrs. Jolly died December 7, 1893.
Nelson Jolly (grandfather) was born in Hines' Fort, near Elizabethtown, Kentucky, February 20, 1786, and removed to Breckinridge County with his father when a child. He married Bar- bara Barr, a native of Breckinridge County, and they were pioneer Methodists, as well as citizens of a new and but partially settled country.
Nelson Jolly, the elder (great-grandfather), was born at Londonderry, Ireland, and came to this country in 1755 with his father, who settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married a Miss Graham of Maryland, and came to Kentucky in 1780, or about that time; settled near Hardins- burg in 1790, and made his home in Breckinridge County until 1819, when he died.
The progenitor of the Jolly family in America (the father of the great-grandfather), was of Scotch-Irish extraction, and settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, thirty miles east of Phila- delphia. He enlisted under Paul Jones and was killed in a naval battle off the Irish coast. He left a widow and two children, Nelson and Alcey
Jolly. Nelson Jolly brought his mother and sis- ter with him (having married Miss Graham be- fore coming) to Kentucky. Alcey married John Combs and lived in Nelson County, Kentucky, after her marriage.
Henry Hardin (maternal grandfather) was the youngest child of William Hardin (great-grand- father) who was a native of Virginia, and subse- quently became a citizen of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, whence he came to Ken- tucky. He was in the Revolutionary war, in com- mand of Virginia troops, and he received land patents in Kentucky as a compensation for his services. These patents were issued by Governor Patrick Henry and Benjamin Harrison. He brought his own and several families from West- moreland County, Pennsylvania, by water in flat boats, to the mouth of Bear Grass Creek (now Louisville), in the fall of 1779, and took his set- tlers to Breckinridge County in March, 1780, and there made a settlement. Block houses and stockades were erected as a defense against the Indians, and in 1782 he founded the town of Hardinsburg, donating the land on which the town now stands. He was appointed colonel of the militia of the county, and soon became known as an Indian fighter. He was a man of large frame and great strength, of dauntless courage, skilled in all of the arts of border warfare.
George W. Jolly received his education in pri- vate schools. His principal tutor was the Rev. R. G. Gardiner of Hardinsburg, by whom he was sufficiently advanced for the study of law. He then began his legal studies with Judge Kinche- loe in Hardinsburg, and was afterwards a pupil of Judge G. W. Williams of Hawesville (a sketch of whom is given elsewhere in this volume). Mr. Jolly was admitted to the bar in 1867, and began the practice of law at Hardinsburg, where he re- mained until 1872, when he removed to Owens- boro. In this larger and more inviting field he has met with success and has enjoyed a share of the important litigation.
August 5, 1889, he was appointed United States Attorney for the District of Kentucky by Presi- dent Harrison, and at once assumed the duties of that office. He was re-appointed January 27, 1890, and served until the appointment of his suc-
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cessor, January 27, 1894. In the performance of his duties in that office he was indefatigable, and he served the government with fidelity. After the expiration of his term of office he resumed his practice in Owensboro.
Mr. Jolly was married February 16, 1871, to Miss Sue E. Henderson, who was born in Breck- inridge County, November 7, 1843. She is a daughter of P. J. and Elizabeth (Orendorf) Hen- derson, and was educated in the schools of Breck- inridge County. They have five children: Hor- ace, born April 17, 1873; Marian, born August 27, 1876; Jessie, born January 23, 1878; Percy, born October 25, 1880, and Susie, born Novem- ber 4, 1884. (For interesting lineage of Mrs. Jolly, see sketch of Dr. Henry Orendorf in this volume.)
JAMES ROBERT MINOR of Augusta, son J of Ezekiel and Nancy (Sallee) Minor, was born August 6, 1840. His father was born in Mason County, October II, 1801. In early man- hood Ezekiel Minor engaged in trading on the Ohio river between Pittsburg and New Orleans, but retired from active trading in 1832 and spent the remainder of his life on his farm. During the War of 1812, when only eleven or twelve years of age, he took care of the family while his father was fighting for his country. He enlisted in the Mexican war, but was not called into active serv- ice. He was a genial and hospitable man and was never so happy as when his home was filled with guests.
Ephraim Minor (grandfather) was a native of Virginia who came to Kentucky, Mason County, in 1794, when he was twelve years of age, with his mother, then a widow, who brought with her from Virginia a number of slaves. The old Eng- lish law of primogeniture which gave the real property to the eldest son prevailed in Virginia at that time, and on that account Mrs. Minor deter- mined to remove to Kentucky. Ephraim took part in the War of 1812, serving as a private sol- dier. He engaged in farming in Kentucky until 1832, when he removed to Illinois and died there about 1834. He was a member of the Methodist Church. He married Rachel, daughter of Wil- liam Lamb, a native and the first sheriff of Mason
County. She died in 1846. The Minors were originally from England.
Nancy Sallee Minor (mother) was born in Mason County, March 5, 1802. She was edu- cated in one of the old seminaries of Lexington and was married to Ezekiel Minor December 8, 1831. She was a consistent member of the Chris- tian Church and died in 1888. Her father, Jacob Sallee, was a native of Virginia who came to Ken- tucky before the beginning of the present cen- tury and located near what is now known as Bry- ant Station; he afterwards moved to Mason County, where he died in 1830. He married Lucy Hayden of Virginia, who survived him many years and died in 1861 at the advanced age of ninety-three years.
James R. Minor was educated at Augusta Col- lege and taught school in 1869 and 1870 while studying law; was admitted to the bar in 1871 and at once commenced the practice of his profession in Augusta, where he has continued to reside until the present time.
He has served two years as mayor of Augusta; was city attorney for several terms and county attorney from 1884 to 1894. He is a Mason, an Odd Fellow and a member of the Christian Church. He married Minerva A., daughter of Richard D. and Catherine (Walton) Smith, Au- gust 16, 1869. Mrs. Minor was born Novem- ber 26, 1845, and was educated at Augusta Col- lege. They have seven children living: Flor- ence Salle, Mary Ware, John Lamb, Carrie Rule, Nancy Lou, Anna Clay and Emma Bertell.
JAMES H. MOORE, M. D., a retired phy- sician and merchant of Harrodsburg, a de- scendant of one of the oldest and most respected families, son of Lawson and Jane Murray (Roch- ester) Moore, was born near Danville, Kentucky, October 3, 1819.
Lawson Moore (father) was born in Westmore- land County, Virginia, in 1771, and died in Boyle County, Kentucky, September 15, 1858. He came to Kentucky in 1798 and purchased a large tract of land near Danville, where he was a farm- er and stock raiser on an extensive scale. He was married January 2, 1794, to Elizabeth Rochester, who died July 26, 1815; January 22, 1817, he
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married Jane Murray Rochester, a sister of his first wife, with whom he lived until April 14, 1855, when she died. There were eleven children by the first marriage, and the five children of his second wife were: Christopher Collins, James H., Thomas R., Charles O. and Joseph L.
Lawson Moore was a man of large frame, of commanding presence, more than six feet high, of powerful physical strength, of strong intel- lect, well read, thoroughly posted in history and abreast of the spirit of the times. Having a large family, he fully appreciated the advantages of education and was one of the active promoters in establishing Centre College; a man of influence and high moral standing, who left his impress upon the community and helped to provide many advantages for future generations
Elijah Moore (grandfather)-son of William Moore and Sarah Lawson-was married when he was nineteen years of age to Judith Harrison of Northumberland County, Virginia, and had three sons: Lawson, George and William. He was a large and powerful man, of unusual persever- ance and energy, and gave promise of a useful life. Shortly after the birth of his son William he was killed by lightning, when twenty-six years of age. His wife survived him only eighteen months and died leaving three sons, who were placed un- der the guardianship of Christopher Collins, a merchant of Westmoreland County, Virginia, who proved an efficient and trustworthy protector and guide, whose noble traits of character were cher- ished by his wards.
William Moore (great-grandfather)-son of Thomas Moore-married Sarah Lawson and spent his life on his patrimonial estate. He had two sons, Elijah and Vincent. The latter mar- ried and reared a family in Northumberland Coun- ty, Virginia, where he died.
Thomas Moore (great-great-grandfather), the progenitor of the numerous and influential fam- ily, came from England at a very early period in the history of this country, and settled on the banks of the Nomonee River in Westmoreland County, Virginia, where, as one of the pioneers, he lived in peace and friendship with the Indian tribes with which he was surrounded. He left two sons, William and Thomas, between whom he
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