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James C. Carrick, at the age of fourteen, en- tered the Kentucky University at Lexington and graduated therefrom in 1884. He subsequently accepted a position in a drug store in Louisville, where he remained for two years, and 1888 was graduated from the Hospital College of Medicine of that city. He then took a post-graduate course at Bellevue Hospital College, New York
City, and received the degree of M. D. in 1889. While there he was house surgeon of the Poly- clinic Hospital for twelve months. In 1890 Doc- tor Carrick located in Lexington, where he has become well established as a leading member of his profession, being an industrious student and having a large practice.
He is a member of the Fayette County Medical Society and of the State Medical Society. He recently contributed an article to the Medical press on Diphtheria, which has been widely read and favorably commented upon by the profession. Doctor Carrick is a member of the Masonic or- der, Knights of Honor and Odd Fellows, and is a member of the Broadway Christian Church, and is a Democrat in politics.
He owns a fine farm in Scott County and raises many valuable horses.
JOHN GRIFFIN CARLISLE, the present Secretary of the Treasury, was born in Ken- ton County, Kentucky, September 5, 1835; edu- cated in the best schools of the neighborhood, and himself a teacher at fifteen and for five years afterward; studied law in Covington with ex- Governor John W. Stevenson and Judge Wil- liam B. Kinkead; as the partner of the latter began the practice in March, 1857, and took rank at once as one of the most analytical and clearest legal minds among the young men of Kentucky ; was elected to the lower house of the Legisla- ture, 1859-61; took a "back seat" during the War of the Rebellion because of certain differences of opinion which were inconsistent with his promo- tion; but in August, 1865, again came to the front as the Democratic candidate for the State Senate from Kenton County, but was beaten at the polls by Mortimer M. Kenton. In February, 1866, the Senate declared the seat of the latter vacant, because the election was "neither free nor equal in the sense required in the constitution, being regulated, controlled and unduly influ- enced by armed soldiers in the service of the United States, in utter disregard of the law." Mr. Carlisle was elected to fill the vacancy, 1866-69, and triumphantly re-elected for another term, 1869-73, but resigned in 1871 to accept the Demo- cratic nomination for lieutenant-governor of the
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state-to which office he was elected August, 1871, for four years, receiving 125,955 votes to 86,148 cast for the Radical nominee. In 1872, for a few months, he was the leading editor of the Louisville Daily Ledger. He was several times sent to Congress from the Sixth (Covington) District; twice elected speaker, and upon the death of Senator Beck was appointed to fill out the unexpired term of Beck; was elected for a full term of six years as United States Senator at next meeting of the Legislature. In March, 1893, when President Cleveland came into office, Mr. Carlisle resigned to accept the treasury port- folio, a position he at present occupies.
Mr. Carlisle is generally regarded by his coun- trymen as being the highest authority on ques- tions of finance and the currency.
OHN BODINE OWSLEY, M. D., cashier J of the Farmers' Bank and Trust Company of Stanford, son of Walter Williams Owsley and Martha Hays, was born in Pulaski County, near Somerset, Kentucky, November 3, 1833.
His father was born in Lincoln County, Ken- tucky, April 12, 1808; educated in his native coun- ty; attended medical lectures at Transylvania University; practiced medicine in Pulaski Coun- ty; removed to Lincoln County, on Dick's river, near Lancaster, in 1853, where he followed his profession during the remainder of his life; died in 1887, and is buried in Buffalo Cemetery at Stanford. He was married in 1831 to Martha Hays, daughter of Charles and Catherine Hays, who was born in Pulaski County in 1810. She was carefully educated, and spent a portion of her early life with her aunt, Mary Owsley, who was a daughter of William Finley. Mrs. Martha Hays Owsley (mother) died in 1839, and Dr. Owsley was married again in 1849 to Isabella Ann Pennington, who died in 1889.
Of the six sons of Doctor and Martha Hays Owsley, but one, the subject of this sketch, is now living; and of the two children of Isabella Pen- nington Owsley (stepinother) one remains, Ste- phen Ephraim Owsley.
Dr. W. W. Owsley (father) was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, a leading citizen and an ex- emplary Christian gentleman.
Ebsworth Owsley (grandfather) was born and reared in Lincoln County; was a son of Harry Owsley (great-grandfather), a citizen of Lincoln County, who was a descendant of Thomas Owsley, a native of Virginia, who surveyed and cut the famous Wilderness road under a territorial con- tract, receiving his compensation from the tolls collected on the road. One of the original toll- gates is still in existence.
Ebsworth Owsley's mother was Martha Bodine, whose parents were of Welsh and German origin. The Owsleys were originally from England, where the family was quite noted for intelligence and good citizenship. Governor William Owsley was a cousin of Dr. J. B. Owsley of Stanford.
Charles Hayes (maternal grandfather) was one of the leading men in Pulaski County, a very prominent Presbyterian-as were all of his fam- ily and all of the Owsleys-and a most liberal contributor to the extension and support of the church. He donated the ground and erected a building, which is still in good repair, a monu- ment to his memory, and in which his "good works follow him."
Catherine Logan (grandmother), wife of Charles Hayes, was a daughter of William Lo- gan, who was a brother of General Benjamin Logan.
Dr. J. B. Owsley was graduated from Center College, Danville, in the class of 1853. During the next two years he attended the medical de- partment of the University of Louisville, and in 1855 attended medical lectures in the New York State University, known as the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, and finishing before he was twenty-one years of age, did not receive his diplo- ma until he had reached his majority, and in the meantime served as an assistant in Bellevue Hos- pital in New York; was appointed assistant phy- sician on one of the United States war ships, but declined; returned to Kentucky in the fall of 1856 and began the practice of medicine at Crab Or- chard Springs, where he was quite successful for six years. His Grandfather Hayes having died about that time (1862), leaving a large estate, he was called away from that field of labor to attend to the settlement of the estate, and this closed his professional career. He gave his at-
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tention to farming for some years, and in 1870 organized the Farmers' National Bank of Stan- ford. This was succeeded by the Lincoln County National Bank, which was succeeded by the pres- ent Farmers' Bank and Trust Company, operated under state authority, of which he is cashier.
From 1884 to 1886 Dr. Owsley was engaged in pork packing in Louisville, being a member of the firm of White, Akin & Company, of that city. Following his inclinations, however, and having business interests in his former home, he returned there and has since been identified with the bank- ing business in Stanford.
He is a man of the highest integrity, of superior business ability, highly respected and implicitly trusted by all who know him. His opinion and judgment in business matters is regarded by his associates as almost infallible.
Dr. Owsley was married (first) to Sabra Pen- nington, daughter of Ephraim Pennington. She died in 1862, and he was married (second) to Mary F. Welch, daughter of John M. and Eliza- beth Welch.
OHN FELAND, Attorney-at-Law of Hop- J kinsville, son of Samuel and Nancy (Hamill) Feland, was born in Barren County, near Glas- gow, December 23, 1837. His parents removed to Christian County in 1848, and he was educated in the schools at Hopkinsville and at Center Col- lege, attending college in 1858, contemporary with Blackburn, Dulaney and others who have distinguished themselves in public life. After leaving Center College he read law with Colonel James F. Buckner, who was for many years col- lector of internal revenue in Louisville, and was licensed to practice law by Judges Henry C. Stites and Thomas C. Dabney in 1859. He has been a citizen and lawyer of Hopkinsville ever since, except at short intervals.
He was elected to the legislature, August, 1875, and was re-elected in 1877 and 1879; and, not- withstanding the fact that he was one of the mi- nority of Republicans in the house, he served on more committees than any other member. He was elected to the senate of Kentucky in 1885, to fill out the unexpired term of Hon. Austin Peay, resigned,
In 1889 President Harrison appointed him col- lector of internal revenue for the Second Col- lection District of Kentucky, with headquarters at Owensboro; and he held that office for four years.
John Feland and Sarah Kennedy of Todd County were united in marriage February 12, 1863, and they have four children: William S., civil engineer; John, Jr., lawyer; Logan, archi- tect, and Mary, wife of John Gilmour, all of whom are now residents of Owensboro.
Samuel Feland (father) was born in Barren County, January 21, 1811, and was reared in that county as a farmer; but afterwards was a brick- mason and builder. He removed to Christian County in 1848; married Nancy Hamill, daugh- ter of John Hamill, a native of Ireland, who came to Kentucky from Pennsylvania about the time the Felands moved to the Green River country, and the families were neighbors. The date of their settlement in Kentucky is not known pre- cisely, but it was about the beginning of the Rev- olutionary war.
Thomas Feland, the progenitor of the Felands who came to Kentucky, was of Scotch-Irish de- scent. He, with several brothers, came to Amer- ica when the country was new, and located in Campbell County, Virginia. With the first tide of emigration to Kentucky, he removed to Lin- coln County and lived there until he reached the unusual age of one hundred and fifteen years, when he died and was buried in Lincoln County. His sons, James and John, lived and died in that county. Andrew removed to Missouri and Sam- uel went to Tennessee. Thomas Feland (great- grandfather) was killed by the Indians. He left a widow and eight children. His son, William Feland (grandfather) was then fourteen years of age. He removed to the Green River country, first to Barren and then to Warren County, where he died in 1839. He left six sons and eight daugh- ters. The sons were: David, Thomas, James H., Joseph, Samuel (father) and John. William Feland married a daughter of David Culbertson of Culbertson's Valley, Pennsylvania.
After quitting the revenue service at Owens- boro in 1893, John Feland returned to Hopkins- ville and resumed the practice of law. He is one
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of the leading men in his profession and has an extensive practice in the courts of Hopkinsville and in the adjacent counties, and in the Court of Appeals and the United States Courts at Louis- ville and Paducah.
JOHN WILLIAM RESPESS CORLIS, M. D., a prominent physician of Brooksville, son of John and Maria (Rice) Corlis, was born in Bracken County, Kentucky, August 14, 1833.
His father was a native of Providence, Rhode Island, who came to Lexington, Kentucky, when he was seventeen years of age; graduated from the medical department of Transylvania Univer- sity, and was a practicing physician in Bracken County for about thirty-five years; was one of the best known and most popular men in the county; prominent in the Masonic order; active in charitable work; a Democrat in politics, but was too loyal to his profession to take an active interest in political affairs. He died September 15, 1867, and is buried at Brooksville.
John Corlis (grandfather) was born in Provi- dence, Rhode Island, January 3, 1767, where he was a merchant and importer of fine silks. Many of his ships were lost at sea, and from these dis- asters and other losses he was threatened with bankruptcy; removed to Lexington, Kentucky, where he lived in retirement, having saved a com- petency from his former wealth.
He married (first) Susanna Condie Russell, who was born in Providence, Rhode Island, October 22, 1767, daughter of Joseph Russell, and died September 26, 1824.
George Corlis (great-grandfather) was born in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, October 24, 1717; died June 16, 1790. His wife, Waitstill Rhodes, was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, February 8, 1723; died in Providence, October 23, 1783, and was buried on her father's plantation at Paw- tucket.
George Corlis (great-great-grandfather) came from England about 1675 or 1680, and married Exercise Shattuck, daughter of William Shattuck, a Massachusetts Quaker, who was driven from his home by the intolerance of the Puritans and settled at Shrewsbury, New Jersey.
Maria Rice Corlis (mother) was born in Brack-
en County, Kentucky, February 2, 1817; was educated in the common schools; married Dr. John Corlis September 27, 1832; died December 12, 1861, and is buried at Brooksville. Her father was Hudson M. Rice, a native of Virginia, who came to Kentucky in his early manhood; was a farmer in Bracken County, and subsequently re- moved to Missouri, where he died.
Dr. J. W. R. Corlis was educated in the schools of Bracken County, and prepared for his vocation in the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, from which he graduated in March, 1855. He at once began the practice of medicine at Brooksville, in which he has continued with most excellent suc- cess for more than forty years, having at this time a very large practice. He also has a fine farm in which he takes a lively interest, being quite de- voted to improved methods of farming. His home in Brooksville is noted for genuine Ken- tucky hospitality and good fellowship.
Dr. Corlis was married July 2, 1857, to Mary Eleanor Kemper Linn, who was born December 13, 1834; daughter of E. W. and Octavia (Pearl) Linn. They have two children living:
Eva, born November 30, 1859, and Octavia, born April 28, 1865.
Eva married R. E. Staton, January 19, 1887, and has three children: Octavia Jane, born De- cember 16, 1887; John Edgar, born October 31, 1889; William Linn, born March 24, 1894.
Octavia married Rev. J. G. Tucker of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, November 20, 1895. .
JOHN VOSE, County Clerk of Boyd County, a popular official and excellent citizen of Cat- lettsburg, son of John and Christina Vose, was born in Pomeroy, Ohio, August 9, 1854.
His father was born in Krembendorf, Prussia, December 16, 1824; came to America when about twenty-five years of age; lived in Pittsburg about a year; then removed to Pomeroy; married Christina Strohmeier in 1853; was a manufacturer of vinegar and was an educated and highly intel- ligent man; industrious, honest and much re- spected; a member of the German Methodist Church; a Whig, and afterwards a Republican in politics; and a naturalized citizen of the United States. He died in Pomeroy, April 12, 1860,
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Christina Strohmeier Vose (mother) was a na- tive of the southern part of Germany; came to America with her parents and completed her education-which had been begun in Germany -- in Pomeroy, Ohio; married John Vose in 1853; after his death she was married, July, 1865, to Frederick Bruns of Pomeroy, and subsequently removed to Catlettsburg, her present home. She is a devout member of the Methodist Church and a woman of superior intelligence and of noble Christian character.
John Vose of Catlettsburg was educated in the schools of Pomeroy, Ohio, and in Catlettsburg. After leaving school he returned to Pomeroy in 1870 and sold goods in a mercantile establish- ment for about a year and a half; returned to Catlettsburg in 1872 and some months later went to Ashland and engaged in mercantile business until 1886, when he became bookkeeper in the flour mill of R. C. Poage & Son, which position he held for eight years. In 1894 he became the Republican candidate for the office of county clerk and was elected to his present position, which he has filled with splendid ability and to the entire satisfaction of the members of the bar and others who have business in the county court. He is a very clever and obliging gentleman and an efficient official. He is a member of the Meth- odist Church, the Masonic order and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
Mr. Vose and Jennie Eba, daughter of D. W. Eba, were united in marriage November 29, 1877. Mrs. Vose was born August 11, 1856; educated in the best schools of Catlettsburg; is a member of the Methodist Church and a lady of the high- est Christian character. They have two children living: Clarence Eba, born November 25, 1878, died July 23, 1887; William Wentworth, born August 9, 1881; and John Raymond, born June 5, 1885.
D. W. Eba (Mrs. Vose's father) was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, in 1819, and died October, 1887; was educated in his native county ; came to Catlettsburg about 1850, and engaged in general merchandising, in which he was very successful, and built the Alger House in 1878, one of the best equipped hotels in eastern Ken- tucky.
He married Isabella Henderson, daughter of Duncan Henderson, a native of New York. She was raised in the Presbyterian Church, but after marriage together with her husband united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Catlettsburg, and now resides with her daughter at Ashland, Kentucky.
W ILLIAM W. HITE, President of the Louis- ville, Evansville & Henderson Packet Company and of the Louisville & Jeffersonville Ferry Company, and interested in many business enterprises in his native city, was born in Louis- ville, Kentucky, November 14, 1854.
His father, William Chambers Hite, was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, July 23, 1820, and was a resident of Louisville nearly all of his life. He was a man of superior business qualifi- cations and was interested in a number of enter- prises which were of great public benefit and which brought him a handsome fortune. He was an exceedingly affable and popular man, and was unerring in business tact and judgment. At the time of his unfortunate and accidental death he was president of the Louisville, Evansville & Hen- derson Packet Company; a director in the Bank of Kentucky and the Louisville Gas Company, besides having investments and taking an active interest in a number of other profitable enterprises.
Lewis Hite (grandfather) was a native of Jef- ferson County, Kentucky, a farmer and resident of the county all his life. He was a son of Joseph Hite, who was a son of Abraham Hite, who was a son of Yost or Jost Hite, the histories of all of whom are given in W. H. English's Life of George Rogers Clark.
Mary Rose Hite (mother) is a native of Jeffer- son County, a resident of Louisville, a member of Christ Church Cathedral, and a most exem- plary Christian woman, who is still in the vigor of youth, although now well advanced in years.
William W. Hite, eldest son of W. C. and Mary (Rose) Hite, was educated in the public and pri- vate schools of Louisville, and began his business career as a salesman in the wholesale dry goods house of Joseph T. Tompkins & Company, at that time the largest establishment of the kind in Louisville. He was employed with them for five .
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years, when he was made secretary and treasurer of the Louisville, Evansville & Henderson Packet Company, which official position he held until the death of his father, when he was made president of that company, and also president of the Louis- ville & Jeffersonville Ferry Company; was elected director in the Bank of Kentucky and in the Louis- ville Gas Company, and, in short, took his father's place in all of the enterprises in which he had been interested, including the leading steamboat and railroad supply establishment in the city, in which the son, in 1878, became the senior mem- ber of the firm of W. W. Hite & Company. These heavy responsibilities, together with the settlement of his father's estate, fell upon the young man's shoulders before he was thirty years of age, and while he was yet relying upon his father's superior ability in the guidance of his various business interests; but he inherited and had learned wisdom from his father and rapidly developed qualities of head and heart for which his father was conspicuous. He has not only met every requirement to the satisfaction of his associates in business and of the members of his family-whose estate he has managed with ability -but has conducted the various branches of busi- ness so successfully and profitably that he is now as prominent among the capitalists of Louisville as was his illustrious father.
Mr. Hite was married in 1888 to Carrie Hope Pace of Richmond, Virginia, and has two sons, a namesake and James P. Hite, who represent the eighth generation of the Hite family as given in this brief sketch.
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THOMAS SIDNEY ANDERSON, son of
James B. and Mary Ann Martin (Robertson) Anderson, was born in Daviess County, that part known as the "Beech Woods," six miles east of Owensboro, Kentucky, July 8, 1842.
James B. Anderson (father) was born in Lex- ington, Kentucky, June 1, 1808; first engaged in business with Thomas Anderson & Company, commission merchants of Louisville, as a clerk, and after a few years he acquired an interest in the business. His health failing, he removed to Brandenburg, Kentucky, and was engaged in mercantile business there for several years, but
returned to Louisville and engaged in the whole- sale dry-goods business as senior member of the firm of Anderson & Evans.
A few years later he removed to Daviess Coun- ty and bought a farm, upon which he lived until January 1, 1850, when he moved into Owensboro, having been in 1849 elected cashier of the branch of the Southern Bank of Kentucky there. He held that position until 1864, when he organized the Planters' Bank of Kentucky-now the First National Bank of Owensboro-of which he was cashier until his death, which occurred October 17, 1864.
He was a very decided Union man before and during the Civil war, and expressed his convic- tions openly ; was an ardent advocate of the cause of temperance, and was an elder in the Presby- terian Church, he and his wife having been charter members of the first Presbyterian congregation that was organized in the county of Daviess.
John Anderson (grandfather) was a native of County Tyrone, Ireland. He came to America in his youth and settled in Lexington. His father was a sea captain; his wife was Sallie Quicksall, a native of New Jersey.
Mary Ann Anderson (mother) was born near Frankfort, Kentucky, January 2, 1811. Her mar- riage to James B. Anderson was celebrated in Louisville, December 30, 1828. She survived her husband nearly fourteen years and died in Owens- boro, September 18, 1878.
The children of James B. and Mary A. Ander- son, two sons and two daughters, were:
Matilda Robertson, who married Charles R. Tyler of Owensboro; Thomas Sidney, the sub- ject of this sketch; Sallie Quicksall, who married Thomas S. Venable of Owensboro; William Kyle, who married Cornelia Cook of Detroit, Michigan.
Thomas Anderson (mentioned in the early part of this sketch) and James B. Anderson were not relatives. They became very warm friends, and the latter named his first son for his friend and his wife, whose name was Sidney.
Isaac Robertson (maternal grandfather) was educated at Princeton College, New Jersey. He was a lawyer in Frankfort, an upright, honorable gentleman; married Matilda Taylor, daughter of
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Commodore Richard Taylor of Revolutionary fame; and met an untimely death at the hands of a portrait painter named Dearborn, who was arrested and imprisoned, but made his escape.
Donald Robertson (maternal great-grandfather) was an educator, mentioned in "Fisk's American Revolution" as "that most excellent Scotch school master," who numbered among his pupils Presi- dent James Madison.
T. Sidney Anderson, the principal subject of this sketch, attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, but while in his junior year his longer attendance was prevented by the death of his father, who named him executor of his will, and by the fact that he was elected cashier of the Planters' Bank of Kentucky, to succeed his father. This position he held from October, 1864, to Sep- tember, 1871. He and his brother then organ- ized the Owensboro Savings Bank, of which he was at first vice president and then president until 1887. In 1883 he removed to Detroit, Michigan, where he was the principal mover in organizing the State Savings Bank, of which bank he was vice president and manager till 1887, and then president until December 9, 1889, when he re- signed voluntarily. While living in Owensboro, and president and principal owner of the Owens- boro Savings Bank, his conscientious business policy was to lend no money to, or aid in any way, the liquor and tobacco trades, or any other busi- ness detrimental, in his judgment, to man's good. The same policy was pursued by the State Savings Bank at Detroit from its organization, and during his management. In December, 1889, the board of directors desired to change the policy of the bank, and lend the money to any one who offered good paper, financially, regardless of a moral consideration; and also wished to hire a special police force to patrol the bank premises on Sun- days and Sunday nights, the same as on week day nights. To neither of these changes was he willing to be a party, preferring to sever his con- nection with the institution which he had founded, had managed successfully, and of which he was by far the largest individual stockholder.
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