Biographical cyclopedia of the commonwealth of Kentucky, Part 77

Author: Gresham, John M., Co., Pub
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Chicago, Philadelphia, J. M. Gresham company
Number of Pages: 726

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Edith, the third dam, threw Lord Ronald, a su- perior race horse, sire of Master Kildare, he the sire of Melton, Derby and St. Leger winner.

The fourth dam Deidamia, by Pyrrhus I. (win- ner of the Derby), was out of Wiasma, the grand- dam of imp. Blairgowrie (the dam of the crack mares Breeze and Blossom), by Hetman Platoff, sire of The Cossack (winner of the Derby) and Maltese, the dam of imp. Knight of St. George. Klarnet, Klarinska (winner of the Great York- shire Oaks) and Klarikoff, were also out of Wiasma. Mickleton Maid, the sixth dam, was the granddam of imp. Wombat, the dam of Warwick- shire, Princeton, Pouch (dam of Boulotte, Air- shaft, Fiddlehead, etc.), Lillian, etc.

Maid of Lune, the seventh dam, was an own sis- ter to Emma, the dam of imp. Trustee, Mundig (winner of the Derby), Cotherstone (winner of the 2,000 Guineas and Derby) and Mowerina, the dam of West Australian, winner of the 2,000 Guin- eas, Derby and St. Leger.

The following creditable winners, which failed to win as much as $5,000, were also bred by Mr. Young at McGrathiana. They number one hun- dred and forty-five, which, with the fifty-five stars above noted, makes 200 performers hailing from their great establishment that have earned win- ning brackets in the last eleven years. As a ma- jority of these horses won from $1,000 to $4,000 or over in their turf career, it is no wild hazard to say that the winning product of McGrathiana have captured over 1,000 races and won in money be- tween $1,500,000 and $2,000,000, all of which was earned on the American turf.

Hanover, the matchless race horse, still the largest winning three-year-old in American turf history, who heads the list, has made a wonder-

ful record. No stallion can be recalled that ever before in his first season in the stud or any other year sired twenty-one winning two-year-olds. The class of performers he got was also remarkable, Halma, Handsome, The Commoner, Handspun, Urania, Hessie and Levina, being among the lot. The Hyde Park Stakes, the Essex Stakes, the Mumm Handicap, the McGrathiana Stakes, the Thora Stakes, the Lassie Stakes, the Willow Stakes, the Kentucky Stakes, the Maiden Stakes and the Covington Autumn Stakes were among the important events his sons and daughters won, while Handspun ran a dead heat for the Pepper Stakes, and in the rich Matron Stakes was only beaten three parts of a length, with a classic field of fourteen behind her.

Hanover earned fourth place among the win- ning sires of the year, being only beaten out by stallions who have had representatives out for five and six years. Handsome, one of his sons, sold for $10,000; Handspun, one of his daughters, brought $7,500 at auction, while $11,000 was of- fered and refused for The Commoner, and Halma sold for over $6,000 privately. Before her sick- ness in the spring Handspun was absolutely un- beatable, while Hessie lost but one race. Hand- some beat all the best colts in the West, including Laureate, Frank K., Rey del Carades and Lissak, while Levina won a greater number of races than any two-year-old filly of the year.

A glance at the table of his winners which fol- lows, shows that Hanover got a number of his most creditable performers out of mares without records as producers, and many untried as stud matrons. Going over his maiden list, it will be seen that three of the eleven won money, while the remaining eight together only faced the starting post twenty-two times. One of these, Niagrav- ela, a filly with a very high private reputation, who started twice, was upon both occasions left stand- ing at the post.

The consistent sire Onondaga made a good showing again in 1894, his twenty-seven winning sons and daughters taking into camp IOI races. Dr. Rice beat all the cracks of the year in the Brooklyn Handicap, including Henry of Na- varre, Sir Walter, Banquet and Clifford. His per- formance at Washington Park, Chicago, when he

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ran a mile in 1:40}, was also a brilliant achieve- ment, inasmuch as he carried the crusher of 127 pounds. Peacemaker was class enough to win the United States Hotel Stakes, at Saratoga, in which race he defeated Dobbins. Derfargilla and Otty- anna were good sprinters, while Outlook, Brod- head and Beatifice did well in the selling plate class. Onondaga's get have now raced nine years, during which time he has been represented on the turf by 118 winners, that have won a total of eight hundred and nineteen races and $555,821 in stakes and purses.

Number of starters, 47; number of winners, 26; number of non-winners, 21 ; number of these non- winners that were winners previous to 1894, 12; number of maidens, 9; times started, 570; times first, 85; times second, 98; times third, 67; times unplaced, 320. Total amount won, $56,320.

Number of starters, 43; number of winners, 32; number of non-winners, II; number of these non-winners that were winners previous to 1894, 7; number of maidens, 4; times started, 615; times first, 91; times second, 90; times third, 73; times unplaced, 361. Total amount won, $45,932.

B ENJAMIN ULEN STEELE, Deputy Clerk of Boyd County, a well-known citizen of Catlettsburg, brother of Daniel W. Steele, was born September 17, 1869. After attending school in the county and in Ashland, he found his first employment, in 1889, as a clerk in the office of the Norton Iron Works and remained there eighteen months. In October, 1891, he was ap- pointed clerk of the Circuit Court at Catlettsburg, holding that office until January, 1893. In 1892 he was elected to the office which he was then filling by appointment, but his election was con- tested. Judgment was rendered in his favor in the Circuit Court, but was reversed by the Court of Appeals, and his competitor took the office. In 1895 he was appointed to his present position as deputy clerk of the Boyd County Court. He is a young man of exemplary habits, of indefati- gable industry and possesses every qualification for the proper discharge of his official duties, is quite popular in the community and admired by his friends and acquaintances.

Mr. Steele and Leona Brown Porter, daugh-

ter of John Marshall Porter, were married April 7, 1894. Mrs. Steele was born in Pike County, November 12, 1873. Her father is also a native of Pike County, where he was a farmer, but sub- sequently removed to Catlettsburg and was pro- prietor of a hotel for some time, but retired from active business in 1886, and is now living in Catlettsburg. He married Amanda, daughter of Judge Thomas Brown, and a sister of Mrs. Sam- uel P. Hager, of Ashland.

G EN. JOHN CALDWELL was a native of Prince Edward County, Virginia. He re- moved to Kentucky in 1781, and settled near where Danville now stands. He took an active part in the conflicts with the Indians, and rose by regular steps from the rank of a common sol- dier to that of a major-general in the militia. He served as a subaltern in the campaign against the Indians in 1786, under General George Rogers Clark. He was a prominent man of his day-es- teemed in private and political, as he was in mili- tary life. He was a member, from Nelson Coun- ty, of the conventions held in Danville in 1787 and 1788. In 1792 he was elected from the same county a senatorial elector, under the first consti- tution; and in the college of electors, he was chosen the senator from Nelson. He took his seat in the senate at the session of 1792-3. He was elected lieutenant-governor of the state in 1804, and during his term of service removed to the lower part of the state. He died at Frankfort. November 19, 1804, while the Legislature was in session.

S ELDEN Y. TRIMBLE, of Russellville, one of the brightest and most successful young at- torneys of Southern Kentucky, was born in Cald- well County, Kentucky, April 19, 1867.

His father, Rev. Selden Y. Trimble, was born in Logan County, and educated in private schools in his native county and at Murfreesboro College, Tennessee, from which institution he graduated with the degree of A. M. He then studied for the ministry in the theological department of the same college, and after his ordination began preaching in the Baptist Church in Logan County. In 1855, having previously married, he and his

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wife went as missionaries to Liberia, under the auspices of the Baptist Missionary Society. There were three men, but Mrs. Trimble was the only lady in the party. They spent two years in mis- sionary work there, when Mrs. Trimble was thrown from a horse, receiving injuries which dis- abled her for life and compelled their return to Kentucky. Mr. Trimble preached in the coun- ties of Logan, Caldwell, Lyon and Trigg and de- voted the remainder of his life in securing aid for the support of Baptist missionaries in foreign fields.

Mary E. Morehead Trimble (mother) was born in Kentucky, educated in private schools of Kees- burg, Logan County, was a most excellent Chris- tian woman, joined heartily in her husband's work until permanently disabled by the accident in Liberia and was an invalid and great sufferer for thirty years following her return. She bore her sufferings with that Christian fortitude and faith which characterized her noble self-sacrificing life. She entered upon the reward of the just.

Rev. and Mrs. Trimble had seven children: Sue was educated at Princeton (Kentucky) College, and married John P. Garnett; Bettie married Selden Lyne; Grace married Professor Henry L. Garretson, of Bethel College, Russellville; Mary died young, and Nellie died at the age of eight years. The only son is the subject of this sketch.

William Trimble (grandfather) was a native of Logan County and a son of one of the first set- tlers of Kentucky.

James Morehead (maternal grandfather) was also a native of Logan County, a farmer and quite prominent as a Whig in politics and a faithful member of the Baptist Church. He married a Miss Poor, who was born in Logan County in 1813; her father was quite prominent in Logan County politics, held several county offices, and was at one time a member of the Legislature. She was a cousin of Governor Morehead, although it does not appear that her husband, James More- head, was a relative of the governor. Mrs. More- head reached the advanced age of four score and two years and died in 1895.

Presley L. Morehead (great-grandfather), a na- tive of Virginia, came to Logan County at a very early day and was one of the pioneers of the

county, was a prominent and influential citizen, and served his county in the Legislature.

Selden Y. Trimble was educated in Princeton College, in his native county, and at Bethel Col- lege, Russellville, graduating from the last named college in the class of 1886; taught school for two years in Logan County and one year in Ma- con County, Tennessee, and while teaching studied law. In 1888 he entered the office of Scyon A. Bass, whose biography is given in this volume, and was admitted to the bar in 1889. He at once opened an office and entered upon a career that has been marked by success and has at- tracted the attention and won the respect and confidence of the members of the bar and of the community.

He began his professional career under rather discouraging circumstances. Having paid his way through college, he was entirely without means when he entered the practice of law, but he asked no one for assistance, and with singleness of purpose and by close attention to his studies and his work he soon acquired a lucrative practice, and in the language of one of the oldest lawyers of Russellville, "his success has been wonderful considering the difficulties which he had to con- tend with at the outset, and he is one of the most promising young lawyers at the Logan County bar."

Mr. Trimble was elected a member of the Leg- islature in 1893 by the Democratic party, and although one of the youngest members of that body, he was one of the most diligent and useful representatives the county has ever had.

He was married November 14, 1895, to Maria Perkins, daughter of Judge Ben. G. Perkins, an eminent lawyer of Todd County.

D R. WILLIAM G. MOORE, M. D., of Georgetown, was born in Scott County, Kentucky, September 5, 1847. His father, Will- iam Moore, was also born in Scott County, Feb- ruary 2, 1802. After obtaining the best educa- tion possible in the new settlement, at the age of twenty years he chose the independent life of the farmer, and continued in that occupation until the time of his death, in 1873. He was a man of excellent character and a prominent member of

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the Christian Church. His wife, Anna Miller Moore, was born in Scott County in 1809. Her father's name was Adam Miller, one of the pio- neers of the county.

Dr. William G. Moore received his early edu- cation in the county schools and was much in- clined to follow in his father's footsteps. He re- mained on the farm until he began to study medi- cine in 1870, when he entered the Kentucky School of Medicine in Louisville. He studied from September until the following March, when he returned to the farm and remained till 1873, and then attended a course of lectures in the Med- ical University of Louisville, receiving his di- ploma in March, 1874. He practiced medicine in connection with farming until September, 1883, when he returned to the Medical University and graduated in February, 1884. Having no longer any hesitation between farming and medicine, he practiced his profession at Kincaide for three years, at Oxford for five years, and then returned to Georgetown in 1892 and located permanently.

Dr. Moore has been appointed county physi- cian for a term of four years and has been a mem- ber of the local board of health for two years. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fra- ternity and has been master of the lodge at Ox- ford for ten years, is president of the National Fraternal Union of Georgetown and a member of the Baptist Church.

Dr. Moore and Sallie E. Ford, of Scott County, were married October 18, 1887. They have two children living, Jessie Gano and Hugh Adams. Two other children are dead.

W TILLIAM H. NETHERLAND, owner of "Idlewild," in Bullitt County, and veteri- nary surgeon of Louisville, son of Robert H. and Maggie (Hegan) Netherland, was born in Louis- ville, Kentucky, October 19, 1866. His father was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and came to Louisville in 1856, where he became one of the most prominent and wealthy business men of the city. He had no capital when he reached Louis- ville and was an entire stranger in the city, but by his remarkable energy and business tact he built up the fine establishment now known as the Hart Hardware Co. He was first interested in

business with Mr. John Neal, who is now engaged in raising thoroughbred horses at Bowling Green, the firm name being Neal & Netherland. Mr. Neal subsequently retired from the firm and the name was changed to Netherland & Hart. After Mr. Netherland's death, in 1876, the Hart Hard- ware Company was incorporated. Mr. Nether- land was a very kind and generous man, liberal to a fault and greatly loved and respected by those who were associated with him in business and by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. He was a member of the Broadway Baptist congre- gation and was devoted to his church and his home. He was only forty-six years of age when he died, but he had accumulated a handsome es- tate in the twenty years of his residence in Louis- ville. His father was a native of the Netherlands, who came to America and settled in Virginia, where he spent the remainder of his years.

Margaret Hegan Netherland (mother) is a member of the well-known Hegan family of Louisville and is still a resident of her native city.

Francis Hegan (grandfather) was a native of Ireland, who came to the United States and a few years later located in Louisville and estab- lished a show case and picture frame factory near the corner of Fourth and Main streets. He made the first show case ever manufactured in Louisville and did a thriving business in that line and in the manufacture and sale of picture frames. He was a great lover of art and one of the best art critics in the whole country, and be- sides dealing largely in fine pictures he had a fine collection of the best pictures he could procure in his private gallery. He began business in a small way, but he was frugal and industrious and he met with great success, leaving a large estate at the time of his death in 1865.

William H. Netherland was educated in the public schools of Louisville and at the Kentucky Military Institute at Frankfort, from which he was graduated in 1884. He engaged in farming and stock raising and bought "Idlewild," the most beautiful stock farm in Bullitt County, and made a business of breeding fine trotting horses, which proved quite profitable for some years, but the value of horses depreciated a few years ago, and Mr, Netherland took up the study of the treatment

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of diseases of horses, to which he had given much attention, and for which he had a fancy; and at- tended the Chicago Veterinary College, from which he graduated in 1893, since which time he has devoted most of his time to his veterinary practice in Louisville, although still residing at "Idlewild," where he has a large number of fine horses and raises some of the best trotters in the state. His veterinary practice has grown rapidly. In fact, he at once met with remarkable success, his extensive acquaintance among the horse men of the county and state giving him a great advan- tage. His experience in the treatment of his own horses made him a very good horse doctor be- fore he undertook it as a profession. While he still resides on his ideal farm in Bullitt County, his practice, together with his shoeing forge-in which the shoeing of horses is done on scientific principles-requires all of his time and attention in the city.

Dr. Netherland was married in 1887 to Lillie P. Rogers, daughter of John Rogers of Jefferson County, and has one child. He is a member of the Broadway Baptist Church, as was his father and mother and his Grandfather Hegan before him.

D UDLEY SHARPE REYNOLDS, A. M., M. D., physician and surgeon, and one of the members of his profession in Louisville who has achieved unusual distinction, was born near Bowling Green, Kentucky, August 31, 1842; only son of Rev. Thomas and Mary (Nichols) Rey- nolds. Both his parents were natives of Ken- tucky, and his father was a son of Dr. Admiral and Sarah Freeman Reynolds, and grandson of Nathaniel and Catherine Vernon Reynolds. In 1839 Thomas Reynolds and Mary Nichols eloped from Kentucky to Gainesville, Tennessee, and were married there, after which they went to live in Barren County, Kentucky, on a tract of land owned by the Reynolds family, and on which Nathaniel Reynolds, of Revolutionary fame, set- tled in 1791. He had joined the Baptist Church in 1841, and in 1850, the Blue Springs Baptist Church, of which the Rev. James L. Brooks was pastor, licensed him to preach. On the 30th day of May, 1852, he was ordained minister by the

presbytery, composed of the Rev. Jesse Moon, Rev. William Skaggs, and Rev. Theodore Mere- dith, and labored faithfully as a preacher of the gospel to the end of his life. He was employed as a church missionary for nearly fifty years, and was the chief organizer and founder of the Corn Creek, Poplar Ridge, and Middle Creek Baptist Churches, of Trimble County; established the Covington, Liberty and other churches in Old- ham County, and is said to have organized more Baptist churches than any other minister who has labored in Kentucky. During the last forty years of his life he lived at Westport, in Oldham Coun- ty, and built up a large congregation there. In 1876 he also organized there a Union Sunday School, which included in its membership the representatives of nearly every family within a radius of five miles, and embraced Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Christians, Methodists, and Uni- tarians, being the largest single Sunday school organization in the state. His life was one of great usefulness, and he was revered, honored, and beloved by the Baptist Church of Kentucky and by all who knew him. He died at the resi- dence of his son, December 30, 1895, aged seven- ty-four years, and on January 1, 1896, he was buried in the family cemetery at Westport, Ken- tucky.

Dudley S. Reynolds, the son, was educated at the private schools of Professors Arnold and All- man, at the Trimble High School, of Kentucky, and at Irving College, of Tennessee. Ogden Col- lege, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, conferred upon him the degree of master of arts, and he was graduated in medicine from the University of Louisville, March 3, 1868.

In January, 1869, Dr. Reynolds was elected surgeon to the Western Dispensary, resigning his position in October, 1871, to engage in special- ism. From October, 1871, to June, 1872, he was engaged in study at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, at the Wills Eye Hospital, of Phila- delphia, and at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, in Moorefields. On returning to Louis- ville, in 1872, he devoted his attention exclusive- ly to ophthalmology and otology.

When the Central University of Kentucky es- tablished its medical department at Louisville, in

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1875, Dr. Reynolds was appointed to the chair of ophthalmology and otology, and took an active part in the organization of the Hospital College of Medicine. He represented the college at the meeting of medical teachers at Chicago, in 1877, and participated in the organization of the Asso- ciation of American Medical Colleges. At the joint convention of teachers and governing boards of medical colleges, held at Atlanta, Georgia, May, 1879, he represented the faculty of the Hospital College of Medicine, and was its delegate to each of the succeeding annual meetings of the College Association. At the meeting held in Washington. D. C., May, 1891, he took a leading part in the reorganization of the Association of American Medical Colleges, was elected chairman of its ju- dicial council, and re-elected at Detroit, in 1892, for a term of three years, and again at Baltimore, May 8, 1895.

Dr. Reynolds is a member of the American Medical Association, and was elected president of the Section of Ophthalmology, at New York, in 1880. At Detroit, 1892, he wrote the preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted, pledging the support of that body to the Asso- ciation of American Medical Colleges, and de- manding that all the colleges in the United States should observe a standard of requirement not to fall below the minimum standard adopted by the College Association. In conjunction with Drs. X. C. Scott of Cleveland, Ohio, and J. M. Bodine of Louisville, Kentucky, he formulated the plan for establishing the Section on Ophthalmology in the American Medical Association, which was presented to the meeting at Louisville, in 1875, and subsequently adopted at Chicago, in 1877.

In 1879 the property of the Public Library of Kentucky was directed, by decree of the Chan- cery Court of Louisville, to be sold by the sheriff, to satisfy judgments amounting to about thirty thousand dollars. Dr. Reynolds conceived the idea, and successfuly undertook the re-organiza- tion of the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky, which, by special act of the legislature, had been empowered to take charge of the old Public Li- brary property; but, owing to the decree of sale in chancery, the society had abandoned its trust. The re-organization was accomplished January

3, 1879, and a new executive council was elected. Dr. Reynolds, with four other gentlemen, having gone into bank and borrowed the money and paid off all the executions and judgments in court, announced to the society at its re-organization the purpose to take possession of the property at once. This met with unanimous approval, and the gentlemen who had procured the necessary funds for relieving the financial obligations were elected members of the board of directors to serve for five years. Dr. Reynolds was made chairman of the library committee, and continued in that office until April, 1894. In November, 1879, the building had been remodeled and a new library room provided; and about twenty thousand vol- umes of useful literature were opened to the pub- lic. This plan of arrangement was continued until 1891, when the work of re-arranging and cataloguing was begun; it was completed in 1894, and the last fasciculus of the subject catalogue, according to the Dewy system, was published. Under Dr. Reynold's management, the library grew from a little more than twenty thousand to fifty thousand volumes.

In 1879 he became editor of the "Medical Her- ald," a monthly magazine, which was well sup- ported by the profession and attained a wide cir- culation. He sold the magazine and retired with the close of the year 1883. In March, 1886, Mr. D. W. Raymond established "The Medical Prog- ress," a monthly magazine for students and prac- titioners; he secured the services of Dr. Reynolds as editor-in-chief, and, after a successful career of five years, the publishers, the Rogers-Tuley Company, having failed in business, the magazine was sold by the assignee, and Dr. Reynolds ceased his connection as editor.

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Biographical cyclopedia of the commonwealth of Kentucky, Part 77

Author: Gresham, John M., Co., Pub Publication date: 1896 Publisher: Chicago, Philadelphia, J. M. Gresham company Number of Pages: 726

Author: Gresham, John M., Co., Pub
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Chicago, Philadelphia, J. M. Gresham company
Number of Pages: 726