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James Maynard Lang and Georgie McKee, daughter of George McKee of Paducah, were married October 15, 1882, and they have one child, India, who was born July 22, 1890,
William Lang, father of William Crawley Lang, was born in Manchester, Virginia, and was a private in the War of 1812. He was a merchant tailor in his native city and an enthusiastic Demo- crat, but sought no political office. He was a faithful member of the Methodist Church, to which faith his descendants have adhered until the pres- ent generation. His father, Archibald Lang, was a Scotchman, who came to Virginia during the latter part of the eighteenth century. His wife, Sarah Lang, was a Huguenot. The ancestors of Martha Maynard Lang (mother of William C. Lang) were also from Scotland.
A. T. LACEY, grain dealer and a popular citizen of Paducah, son of Charles Smith and Mary Jane (Baker) Lacey, was born in Hali- fax County, Virginia, March 28, 1858. His father, Charles Smith Lacey, was also born in that coun- ty, in 1819, where he received a fine education, and although he led a non-professional life, was one of the most intelligent and cultured men of that section. He began life as a merchant, but soon found he had a preference for agricultural pursuits and became an extensive planter, owning many acres of valuable land and a great number of slaves. During the struggle between the North and the South his sympathies were decidedly with the people of his own section and he contributed generously to the cause, furnishing provisions and clothing for the Confederate soldiers and aiding them in every way except by taking up arms. His generosity during the war was one of the characteristics of the man, for he has been a philanthropist, whose aim in life has been to min- ister to the needs of others. He is now living a retired life, in his native county, loved and hon- ored by his fellowmen on account of his superior mind, gentleness of spirit, generosity, goodness of heart and many other noble traits of character.
Robert Dudley Lacey (grandfather) was a na- tive of England, who came to this country after his marriage to a Miss Stubblefield, a member of a distinguished English family, and settled in Halifax County, Virginia, where they became fully identified with the progressive and cultured peo- ple of that part of the state.
Mary Jane Baker Lacey (mother) was born in
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Halifax County, Virginia, in 1829, and married Charles S. Lacey in 1847. She is living with her honored husband in her native county, a member of the Baptist Church and a devout Christian woman, greatly loved and admired by a host of friends and relatives.
Elijah Baker (grandfather), a planter and slave owner of Halifax County, Virginia, married Susan Barkstead of the same county. He was noted for his wealth and intelligence, and was one of the best citizens of the county.
A. T. Lacey, a worthy descendant of these first families of Virginia, received a liberal education in Halifax County, attending the best schools in the vicinity, completing his studies in 1876, when eighteen years of age. He began his business career as a merchant in Boydsville, Kentucky, where he sold dry goods, and also dealt in tobacco for three years. He then removed to Paducah and was bookkeeper for a wholesale saddlery house for three years, and traveled throughout the South for six years for the same firm. He was then engaged in the milling business for five years, which led to his present business as a dealer in grain, in which he has been engaged since 1891. In this line of business he has established a very extensive trade and made a reputation as one of the most reliable and successful grain brokers in Southwestern Kentucky.
Mr. Lacey was married June 4, 1884, to Kate I. Baker, daughter of T. A. Baker, cashier of the First National Bank of Paducah. Mrs. Lacey died May 29, 1895, leaving one child, Cecil Baker, born May 24, 1895.
Mr. Lacey is not a partisan, but votes the Dem- ocratic ticket, taking very little active interest in politics. He is more interested in church work, being a member of the Presbyterian Church and an honored and useful citizen.
M ILLARD FILMORE HAMPTON, for many years Clerk of the Circuit Court and at present a practicing attorney in Catlettsburg, was born in that city June 15, 1849.
His father, Levi Hampton, was a native of Cabell County, Virginia, who removed to Boyd County, Kentucky, and subsequently to Brown County Ohio, where he married Elizabeth Hen-
derson in 1845, and returned to Catlettsburg, at which place he made his home during the remain- der of a busy and useful life. He was at different times engaged in various enterprises-lumbering, farming, trading and hotelkeeping-and was a man of affairs, and of wide influence in his coun- ty. When war was declared between the North and South he enlisted in the Union army, joining the Thirty-ninth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. In 1862 he was appointed quartermas- ter, and in December of the same year he was killed at Wireman's Shoals while defending his stores. He was a friend of education, civilization and progress, and was instrumental in bringing Catlettsburg up to its present high moral and educational standard. He left a widow and five children: Julia, Amelia, Mary, Lizzie and Mil- lard F. Hampton. Mrs. Hampton survived her husband but one year, and died in 1863.
Henry Hampton (grandfather) was a native and lifetime resident of Wayne County (now West Virginia). His ancestors were English people, some of whom came to the new world before the American Revolution, and settled, some in New York, some in Pennsylvania, and others in Vir- ginia and other southern states.
Millard Filmore Hampton was educated in the public schools of his native town and at Asbury, now De Pauw University, Indiana. Returning from college in 1867, he engaged in merchandis- ing, at the same time pursuing his studies for the legal profession; in 1868 he was appointed deputy clerk of the Circuit Court, and after serving six years in that capa- city was elected clerk in 1874. He held this office by re-election until 1892, when, twenty-five years after first taking up his legal studies, he was admitted to the bar as a practic- ing attorney. His experience of a quarter of a century in the clerk's office, attended with a pur- pose to practice law, together with his reading from time to time, qualified him for successful labor in the profession of his choice, and the ex- tended acquaintance with legal matters and with the people, formed during his long public service, enabled him to command a lucrative practice at the outset, and he is to-day one of the most popu- lar attorneys in Catlettsburg.
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He was married June 20, 1873, to Kath- erine Hornshell, eldest daughter of Captain Washington Hornshell. They have one son, Gus Hornshell Hampton, born March 5, 1874, a graduate of Washington and Lee University of Lexington, Virginia, a bright, industrious and exemplary young man, now employed as bookkeeper in the Catlettsburg National Bank. All of the members of the family are members of the Presbyterian Church.
Captain Hornshell is a native of Ohio, and mar- ried in Burlington and removed to Catlettsburg, where he was for many years engaged in steam- boat building, but is now retired. By industry, perseverance and honesty of purpose he carved an honored name and acquired a handsome for- tune. He had the reputation of having built the best steamboats that ever plied the waters of the western rivers; was interested in a number of business enterprises, and is now vice-president of the Catlettsburg National Bank and a highly hon- ored and public-spirited citizen.
JOHN M. HUTTON, Cashier of the Second National Bank of Ashland, Kentucky, son of James and Luvenda (Jones) Hutton, was born April 24, 1865. His father was born at Pond Run, Scioto County, Ohio, November 5, 1828, and after receiving a good common school education spent the earlier years of his life on his father's farm in that county. In 1853 he removed to Ashland, Kentucky, and was a merchant there for two years, when he went to Catlettsburg, where he was in the same line of business for six months, and in 1855 he embarked in a new business known as "store-boating," taking a large stock of merchan- dise on a boat and stopping at different points along the river. After reaching Memphis with fair success he returned to Ashland, but soon re- moved to the farm in Scioto County, Ohio. He did not remain there long, and returned to Ash- land to accept a position with the A. C. & J. R. R. Company. In 1857 he embarked in the grocery business in Ashland, in which he continued until 1889, when he retired, having sold out to his son, the subject of this sketch, and J. H. McCleary. He was always devoted to his business and cared little for politics. He was a Democrat until the
election of President Buchanan, for whom he vot- ed, but after that he was an ardent Republican. During the war he was a strong Union man.
John Hutton (grandfather) was born in Scioto County, Ohio, in 1805, and spent his life as a farmer in his native county. He married Frances Burress, a native of Maryland, but of German de- scent. He died in 1871, and his wife died in 1881. They were members of the Methodist Church.
James Hutton (great-grandfather) was also a native of Scioto County, Ohio, and was a soldier in the War of 1812. He married Anna Hamilton of the same county, and they made their home there during their lifetime.
George Hutton (great-great-grandfather) was a native of Ireland, who was one of the first set- tlers in Scioto County.
James M. Hutton's mother, Luvenda (Jones) Hutton, was born near Vesuvius Furnace, Law- rence County, Ohio, in 1836. She received a su- perior education in the county schools and at Ashland, Kentucky, and was married to Mr. Hut- ton August 2, 1853. She is the mother of seven children, four of whom are living, and is now a resident of Ashland, the center of a large circle of devoted relatives and friends.
Richard Jones (grandfather) was born in Mari- etta, Ohio, March 22, 1800. He was a foundry- man by trade, and had charge of Hecla Furnace for a great many years, and afterward was man- ager of Vesuvius Furnace until 1840, when he removed to Clinton Furnace in Boyd County, Kentucky, of which he was manager for six years. He bought from James Biggs the farm which is now the site of Ashland, and which was in what was then known as the Poague settlement. He was elected to the legislature in 1851, and served one term, after which he sold his farm and went to Missouri to buy land near St. Louis, and while there he was thrown from a carriage, receiving injuries which terminated fatally August 10, 1856. He was married in 1827 to Jane Coyle, daughter of Stephen and Clara Coyle, who was born Octo- ber 21, 1804, and died December 26, 1874.
William Jones (great-grandfather) married Margaret Jones; they were both of Irish descent and were among the pioneers of Marietta, Ohio.
John M. Hutton was graduated from the pub-
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lic schools of Ashland in 1883, after which he was a clerk in his father's store for a year before going to Duff's Commercial College in Pittsburgh and again for six months after his return. He was then employed as bookkeeper in the wholesale hardware house of Thomas Henderson for a few months, resigning to accept a similar position with the Great Western Mining & Manufacturing Com- pany, where he was employed until he was elected cashier of the Second National Bank of Ashland, a position he has held until the present time and in which he has developed unusual financial abil- ity, and has distinguished himself as a very cap- able manager of the important interests of the bank.
He is not active in politics, but is a voter of the Republican ticket, and a useful member of his party. He is a member of the Masonic Order and of the Mystic Shrine, and is an officer in the Supreme body of the Knights of the Golden Eagle.
Mr. Hutton was married April 15, 1891, to Mary Kinner, daughter of Judge S. G. Kinner of Catlettsburg, where she was born November 14, 1871. She was educated in the best schools of Catlettsburg and at Bellewood Seminary, near Louisville, finishing in the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Cincinnati.
D R. J. B. HADDAN, Dentist, Lawrenceburg, was born in Freeport, Louisiana, October 5, 1866. His father, Samuel Haddan, was born in Owen County in 1846 and at the age of twenty-six years he removed to Louisiana and engaged in planting. He died there in 1873, when only twen- ty-seven years of age.
Margaret Brown Haddan (mother) was born in Owen County, a daughter of Joseph Brown, who was also a native and lifetime resident of Owen county, where he died in 1863.
Dr. J. B. Haddan, after enjoying all of the ad- vantages of the common schools, was a student in Georgetown College for two years. Having chosen dentistry as his profession he studied and worked in the laboratory of Dr. Foster of New Albany, Indiana, for two years and then com- pleted his course by two years of study in Vander- bilt University, Nashville, Tenn., and graduated
with a class of sixty-six pupils in 1889. He then went to the town of Monterey in Owen County and began the practice of his profession, but at the end of one year he removed to Lawrenceburg, in 1890, where he has met with gratifying success, and has won the confidence and esteem of the en- tire community as well as of his numerous patrons. He is a member of the Monterey Lodge of Odd Fellows, and of the Lawrenceburg Lodge of Free Masons, in both of which orders he is actively in- terested and popular. He is a communicant of the Baptist Church and a regular attendant.
Dr. Haddan was married July 10, 1889, to Mol- lie Sullivan, who died June 29, 1895, leaving three children: Thomas, Samuel D. and Blanche.
A LFRED HERR HITE of St. Matthews, Superintendent of Public Schools of Jeffer- son County, is the son of Samuel S. and Jennie (Herr) Hite, and was born at St. Matthews No- vember 6, 1865. His father was born in Jefferson County in 1829, and resides at St. Matthews. He is actively engaged in the real estate business in Louisville. He served one term as sheriff of Jef- ferson County and was deputy commissioner of the Louisville Chancery Court for many years. He is a man of sterling integrity and honesty and a Democrat in politics.
Jacob Hite (grandfather) was also a native of Jefferson County, and was a prosperous farmer on the land now partly occupied by the Central Asylum. He served in the Mexican war. Died aged eighty-two years.
Isaac Hite (great-grandfather) was a native of Virginia, and was a surveyor, tanner and miller. He was a member of the colony that Daniel Boone brought to Jefferson County, and his name and many of the experiences of the colony are men- tioned in Collins' History of Kentucky.
Mr. Hite's mother was born in the house now occupied by him. Her family came from Penn- sylvania to Jefferson County soon after the ar- rival of Daniel Boone.
Alfred Herr (grandfather) was a native farmer of Jefferson County.
John Herr (great-grandfather) was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he was a cabinet-maker, but after coming to Kentucky he
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became a successful farmer, and acquired a very large estate.
Mr. Hite was reared on the farm near St. Mat- thews, and received his education in the country schools and in the Louisville High School, grad- uating in 1886 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He taught school in the county for several years and in November, 1893, he was elected county superintendent of schools, taking the office in August following. He married Ninette, daughter of John L. Herr of Jefferson County, April 9, 1895. He resides on the old homestead, which is owned by his brother and himself.
He has a fine library and a valuable collection of Indian relics, besides some fine old china and silverware, which he prizes very highly. He is a member of the Christian Church. He belongs to a fine family, whose members have always stood well in the community, and the young man is doing his part to sustain the good name of his an- cestors.
A' BRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, born in Hardin County, Ken- tucky, in that part since included in Larue Coun- ty, February 12, 1809; removed to Spencer County, Indiana, in 1816; received but a limited education; worked at splitting rails and was a boatman on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers; re- moved to and worked on a farm in Illinois, 1830; served as a volunteer captain in the Black Hawk war, 1832; for four terms, 1834-36-38-40, a mem- ber of the Illinois Legislature; studied law in the interim; a delegate to the national conven- tion which nominated General Taylor for Presi- dent, 1848; a representative in Congress from Illinois, 1847-49; President of the United States, 1861-65; re-elected November, 1864; assassin- ated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, "Good Friday," while seated in a private box in Ford's Theater, in Washington City. Such, in brief, is the public record of Abraham Lincoln.
The historian of this day can not do justice to this remarkable man. The Northman would draw his character in terms of glowing eulogy; the Southron would point his pen with bitterness and gall. The one would absurdly ascribe to him the lofty virtues of Washington, the other
would class him with Grimaldi the clown. And both would be wide of the mark. He was a man of quaint humor and genial disposition, patient, calm, self-poised and thoroughly honest. His administration of the government was for no selfish or personal ends, but meant for the gener- al good. The rectitude of his public conduct was above suspicion, and his love of country must ever challenge admiration.
C OL. REUBEN T. DURRETT was born in Henry County, Kentucky, January 22, 1824; graduated at Brown University, R. I., 1846, and at the Louisville Law School, 1850; editor of the Louisville Daily Courier for two years, 1857- 59; and just two years later, September 18, 1861, because prominently on the side of the South, was arrested by the military and sent to Fort Lafayette-the first political prisoner in Ken- tucky. As a lawyer, editor, scholar, writer, Col- onel Durrett has made his mark. But the crown- ing glory of his life, so regarded, is the unpar- alleled success of his favorite scheme for a great "Public Library of Kentucky" at Louisville, open and free to all; permanently established (Janu- ary, 1874) in a magnificent building, 168 feet front and four stories high, which cost $210,000, and with a library of over 40,000 volumes and a museum of over 100,000 specimens and curiosi- ties.
S. GRABFELDER, son of Emanuel and Rena (Driefus) Grabfelder, was born September 2, 1844. His father was a native of Bavaria, Ger- many, and was engaged in mercantile business there until November, 1848, when, on account of his somewhat decided republican principles, near- ly all of his property was confiscated. He died in 1855, at the age of sixty-five, and was buried within a short distance of Nuremberg, Germany. Shortly after the death of his father Mr. Grabfeld- er's mother determined to come to America, and with her three sons landed in New York in 1856. Mr. Grabfelder came to Louisville with one of his brothers in 1857, leaving his mother in New York, where she died in 1887. He clerked in a large wholesale dry goods house until 1866, when he engaged in the distillery business, to which he
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has successfully given his attention uninterrupted- ly for nearly thirty years, and for many years hold- ing the important office of president of the Temple Adas Israel.
Mr. Grabfelder married Miss Delia Griff, daughter of Samuel Griff of Louisville, in 1871. Mrs. Grabfelder was educated in a convent in Lorado. They have a fine residence on Broadway, where, with no children of their own, they enjoy the society of their many friends and visitors.
Mr. Grabfelder is an ardent Republican, always liberal in his support of his party, but has never sought nor would he accept any political office.
W TILLIAM LINDSAY, one of the present senators in Congress from Kentucky, and one of the leading members of the Democratic party of the nation, is a lineal descendant of an old Scotch-Irish family, the progenitor of which in this country was James Lindsay (grandfather), who was a native of Dykehead Farm, Lanark County, Scotland. He was born in September, 1773, and emigrated from his native land in 1790 and located in Rockbridge County, Virginia, where he engaged in farming. On June 30, 1797, he wedded Agnes McCambell, who was born in that county on December 24, 1775, and was de- scended from Scotch-Presbyterian ancestry. Of this marriage were born nine children: Five girls and four boys, of whom Andrew (father) was the fifth child and third son. Andrew Lind- say was born October 6, 1809, and died July 4, 1883. His entire life was spent in his native county engaged in the peaceful pursuits of the farm. He enjoyed the reputation of an indus- trious, upright and leading citizen. His first wife, whom he married in January, 1834, was Sally Gilmore Davidson, whose ancestors were Scotch- Presbyterians, and settled in Virginia as early as 1745, where they became identified with the pioneer settlement and development of the state. She was born October 7, 1809, and died January 7, 1845. To Andrew and Sally Gilmore Lindsay were born four children: William, born Sep- tember 4, 1835; James, April 1, 1837; Polly G., October 4, 1839, who became the wife of Daniel A. Teaford of Rockbridge County, and Sally D.
who married James Kirkpatrick of the same county.
Andrew Lindsay in the year 1847 took for his second wife Mary F. Gilmore. The children born to this marriage were: Marion, born February 22, 1851; Charles, October 14, 1855; Andrew W., February 28, 1861, and Bruce, July 26, 1865. The death of the second Mrs. Lindsay occurred April 16, 1878.
Senator William Lindsay received his educa- tion in the high schools of Lexington, Virginia, and after completing his academic course there en- tered the office of Judge John W. Brokenborough of that city as a student at law. In November of 1854 he migrated to Kentucky and located in Hickman County, where he continued his legal studies under the tutelage of Judge Edward Crossland of Clinton, and was duly admitted to the bar to practice law in 1858. He at once en- gaged in the practice in Hickman and the sur- rounding counties, meeting with success from the start, but he had no sooner become fully es- tablished with a promising career ahead of him when the breaking out of the Civil war between the States compelled a change. Mr. Lindsay being in warm sympathy with the South, enlisted as a private in the Confederate army in May, 1861; in July of the same year was made lieuten- ant of Company B, Twenty-second Tennessee Infantry, a company composed entirely of Ken- tuckians. He commanded it as captain in the battle of Belmont, Missouri, in November, 1861, and at Shiloh in April, 1862. After that battle the company was transferred to a Kentucky regi- ment, and Judge Lindsay was thereafter con- nected with the Seventh Kentucky Infantry, and served as staff officer with the brigade command- ers, General Abe Buford, General H. B. Lyon, Colonel Thompson and Colonel Crossland. He was paroled at Columbus, Miss., May 16, 1865, at the close of the war. Returning to Hickman County, Judge Lindsay was elected to the State Senate in August, 1867, to represent the coun- ties of Hickman, Fulton and Graves, and per- formed his duties in a capable and able man- ner, and to the satisfaction of his constituents. In August, 1870, he was elected one of the judges of the Court of Appeals, occupying that distin-
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guished position until September, 1878, serving as chief justice the last two years of his term, when he declined a re-election, and, retiring from the bench, commenced the practice of law at Frankfort, where he at present resides. Per- haps no lawyer in Kentucky is better known or more highly esteemed, both in his profession and among the people, than Judge Lindsay. As a lawyer he stands in the front rank of his profes- sion, and enjoys a large and remunerative prac- tice. As a judge his career was of the highest order. He wrote the opinion in the case of the Commonwealth vs. Hawes, which involved the question of extradition, and the construction of the treaty upon that subject between Great Britain and the United States, in which it was the first time decided by a court of last resort that a person extradited for one of the causes named in the treaty could not be lawfully tried for an offense not named in the warrant of extradi- tion, without first being afforded an opportunity to return to the country from which he had been taken. This decision has been followed by the courts of the other states and by the Federal courts, and the doctrine was affirmed and ap- proved by the Supreme Court of the United States during the session of 1886-7 in the case of United States vs. Rauscher (119 U. S. 407). Judge Lindsay also wrote the opinion in the case of the Covington & Lexington Railroad Company against Bowler, in which it was held that the directors of a railroad company could not assist in bringing the property of the cor- poration to sale, and then claim the benefits of such sale as purchasers. Judge Lindsay has al- ways been a consistent member of the Democratic party, and faithful to its principles and doctrines. In 1889 Judge Lindsay was elected to the Ken- tucky State Senate from the district composed of the Counties of Franklin, Anderson and Mercer. In 1891 he was appointed a member at large of the World's Columbian Commission, and served as such until February, 1893, when he resigned. In January, 1892, he was appointed by President Harrison a member of the Inter-State Commerce Commission, and his appointment was at once confirmed by the senate of the United States. But not having been an applicant for the place, Judge
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