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acteristic of his preaching is the stimulus which it imparts to his hearers. One who heard him for the first time recently remarked after service that she felt like she had been to church.
Mr. Jones preaches the Gospel; he is not obliged to resort to sensational subjects. Men instinctively raise their ideals and want to be better after hearing him. A gifted young lady speaking of his preaching recently said that she thought the remark made concerning Ruskin was applicable to him. A friend of Mr. Ruskin de- clared that whenever she was tempted to think that the meat was more than the life and the raiment more than the body, she read Ruskin. Mr. Jones' preaching elevates and inspires, and the knowledge of the man outside the pulpit serves to emphasize the best impressions he makes. We bespeak for him and wish him a future of ever-increasing usefulness, and we congratulate the McFerran Church and the people of Louis- ville on securing such a man .- Allyn K. Foster, M. D., in "Seminary Magazine," October, 1893.
J AMES CORBIN NORRIS, M. D., a distin- guished and popular homeopathic physician of Augusta, was born September 26, 1859, and is the youngest of the nine children of Daniel and Rebecca (Pinkard) Norris. Daniel Norris was born in Mason County in 1825, and received his education, for the most part, in a high school in Germantown, which was at that time one of the best schools in Mason County. He is an intel- ligent and prosperous farmer of his native county and takes great delight in his home and is deeply interested in the success of his children. He is a leading member of the Christian Church and is greatly devoted to religious work in connection with that organization. He owned a number of slaves, to all of whom he gave their freedom during the war, in this following the generous example of his father, who freed a number of families of slaves about the time the Civil war began.
James Norris (grandfather), a native of Vir- ginia, was one of the first settlers of Mason Coun- ty, having landed at the mouth of Limestone more than one hundred years ago. He located at the head waters of the north fork of Licking river
and cleared out a thicket in order to cultivate the land. He raised the first crop of tobacco that was ever grown in Mason County and became a prosperous farmer and one of the most exem- plary citizens of the county. As above stated, he gave a large number of slaves their freedom at the beginning of the war, a conflict in which he took no part by word or deed. He was a very earnest and devoted member of the church, a faithful Christian and a most neighborly neighbor. His wife was Nancy McGraw, a member of an old family of Virginia, who died in 1866. Mr. Norris survived her until September, 1879, when he died and was buried by her side in the old Baptist Gilgal Church yard.
Dr. Norris' mother, Rebecca Pinkard Norris, was born in Bracken County in 1833. She was married to Mr. Norris in 1853 and died Septem- ber 30, 1866, and is buried in the Christian Ceme- tery at Germantown.
Stanfield Corbin Pinkard (grandfather) was one of the most prominent business men of the county, having a large furniture manufactory and a tan- nery, besides doing an extensive business in buy- ing and shipping tobacco. He was at one time very wealthy, but through security debts he was forced to give up a larger portion of his fortune. He was one of the most popular and best known men in his section of the state. He was a very generous supporter of the Christian Church, of which he was a faithful and consistent member. His wife was Rebecca Harman, a native of Ger- mantown, who died in the month of April, 1880. Both Mr. and Mrs. Pinkard are buried in the Ger- mantown Cemetery.
Dr. James C. Norris was educated in a select school in Augusta, and afterwards attended Beth- any College in Virginia for two years, finishing his literary course in that institution in 1879. He taught a district school in Bracken County and then entered the Homeopathic Medical College at Cleveland, Ohio, and after taking a two years' course was graduated in 1884. He then served for two years in Huron Street Homeopathic Hos- pital as house surgeon, and in 1886 and 1887 he served as assistant physician in the Ohio peniten- tiary. He then went to Winchester, Kentucky, and practiced medicine in that place for three
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years and then returned to Augusta, where he has been quite successful and highly popular as a practicing physician. He is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society of Homeopathy and of the Kentucky State Society of Homeopathy, and a member of the city council of Augusta.
JOHN JORDAN CRITTENDEN, in honor of whom this county was named, was born in the county of Woodford, within a few miles of the town of Versailles, on the Ioth of September, 1786. He is the son of John Crittenden, a Revo- lutionary officer, who emigrated to Kentucky soon after the conclusion of the war. He re- ceived as good an education as could be obtained in the Kentucky schools of that day, and com- pleted his scholastic studies at Washington acad- emy, in Virginia, and at the College of William and Mary, in the same state. On his return to Kentucky he became a student of law in the office of the honorable George M. Bibb, and under the care of that renowned jurist, he became thor- oughly prepared for the practice of his profession. At that period the Green River country was the at- tractive field for the enterprise of the state, af- fording to the youth of Kentucky similar induce- ments to those that the west still continues to offer to the citizens of the older states. Mr. Crittenden commenced the practice of the law in Russellville, in the midst of a host of brilliant competitors. He went there unknown to fame-he left it with a fame as extended as the limits of this great nation. All the honors of his profession were soon his, and while his accurate and thorough knowledge of the law gained for him hosts of clients, his brilliant oratory filled the land with his praise, and the pride of that section of the state demanded that he should serve in the legislative assembly. He was accordingly elected to the Legislature from the county of Logan, in 1811; and that noble county conferred the same honor upon him in six consecutive elections. In 1817, and while a Representative from Logan, he was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, having thus attained the highest distinction in the popu- lar branch of the Legislature of his native state. That same honest pride which had impelled the Green River people to press him into public life,
had spread throughout the state, and the people of Kentucky resolved to place him where the eyes of the nation might be upon him-confident that he would win honor for himself and ad- vance the fame of those he represented. He was accordingly, in 1817, elected a Senator in the Congress of the United States, and although the youngest member of that body, no sooner had oc- casion presented, when it was meet for him to speak, than by the universal acclaim of the Ameri- can people, he was hailed as among the foremost of our orators-as a fit colleague for Henry Clay himself-and as one who must take rank with our ablest statesmen. His private affairs requir- ing his unremitted attention, he withdrew from this theatre where he was winning golden opinions from all, to enter more vigorously upon the prac- tice of his profession. In order that he might be enabled to do this in the most favorable manner, he removed to Frankfort, in 1819, at which place the Federal Court and Supreme Court of the state are held. But here, again, the same popular love and enthusiasm followed him, and he was com- pelled to yield a reluctant assent to the wishes of his friends, who desired him to serve them in the Legislature. He was elected from Franklin in 1825 -a period memorable in the history of Kentucky. In the Old and New Court controversy, no man occupied a more conspicuous point that Mr. Crit- tenden, and as the advocate of the laws and Con- stitution of Kentucky, and in the maintenance of a sound private and public faith, no man was more distinguished. He was three times elected to the Legislature from Franklin, and during one of the periods, he was again chosen speaker of the House of Representatives.
The troubles of that period having subsided, and the public service not requiring the sacrifice of his time and business, he again returned to private life, but was permitted a very short res- pite from the political arena; for, in 1835, he was once more sent to the Senate of the United States, and held the office by re-election until the coming in of the administration of President Harrison. By that patriot President he was appointed Attor- ney-General of the United States, and the appoint- ment was hailed by men of all parties as the most appropriate that could have been made. The mel-
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ancholy death of the President brought into power an administration that forfeited the respect of honorable minds. Mr. Crittenden left it, and resigned his office in a note which he sent to the President, that has been considered an admirable specimen of the manner in which a lofty mind can retire from place, when its possession cannot be held with self-respect.
He was elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Clay, and, at the next session of the Legislature, re-elected for the full term of six years, from March 4, 1843. In 1848 he resigned, having accepted the nomination of the Whig party to run for Governor of the state, to which office he was elected. He was appointed Attorney-General by President Fillmore in 1850, and retired with that administration. In 1853 he was again returned to the Senate, for the full term ending in 1861. He was elected to the House of Representatives in Congress in June, 1861, and was a member thereof at the time of his death, which occurred in Louisville, Kentucky, July 25, 1863.
Mr. Crittenden was, during the greater part of his life, a devoted friend of Mr. Clay; but it is known that there was an interruption in their friendship, caused by the participation of Mr. Crit- tenden in the nomination of General Taylor for President. Whatever may have been at one period the feelings of Mr. Clay towards his life- long friend, when they met afterwards, Mr. Clay advanced and said, cordially as of old, "Critten- den, how are you? I am glad to see you."
After the dissolution of the old Whig party, Mr. Crittenden became identified with the "Know- Nothing," or American, organization, which, however, had an ephemeral existence. Left, then, without a party, Mr. Crittenden yet uniformly opposed the measures of the Democracy.
But, conspicuous as was the whole of Mr. Crit- tenden's career, his latest efforts were his great- est. True to the conservative character of his nature, in his last term in the Senate he offcred in that body a plan to adjust the difficulties be- tween the North and South, known as the "Crit- tenden Propositions," which were discussed in the "Peace Convention" as well as in the Senatc. He hoped, by this plan, to arrest the threatened se-
cession of the Cotton States, and avert Civil War. He proposed to renew the Missouri line of 36 deg. 30 min .; to prohibit slavery north, and to permit it south of that line, as prescribed by the inhab- itants thereof; to admit new states with or with- out slavery, as the constituents might provide; to prohibit Congress from abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia so long as it exists in Mary- land or Virginia; and to pay for fugitive slaves rescued after arrest. These were the main pro- visions. He advocated them with characteristic earncstness, but his patriotic intentions were thwarted by their defeat.
Mr. Crittenden retired from the Senate in March, 1861, but he did not cease his efforts to avert a collision between the people of the two scctions. He was the president of the "Border States Convention," held in Frankfort, Kentucky, in May, 1861, in which it was sought to mediate between the hostile parties. An address was is- sued, but the time for conciliation had past; in- dced, the war had already begun, and Mr. Crit- tenden avowed himself in favor of maintaining the integrity of the Union at all hazards. He was elected to Congress from the "Ashland" District, and took his seat at the extra session in July, 1861, and frequently participated in the debates. He denounced the Confiscation Act, the Emancipa- tion Proclamation, and the enlistment of negroes as soldiers, as obnoxious, dangerous, if not un- constitutional, measures; yet these, he admitted, were minor considerations as compared with the suppression of the rebellion.
The abolition of slavery, the destruction of the South, and the subjugation of the liberties of its people, attest the unblushing hypocrisy of these professions of the Radical party. Mr. Crittenden offered them in good faith, and the Union men of the border slave states accepted them in the same spirit; but the faith of the Northern war party was Punic faith. Their purpose was to keep it sacredly if they were beaten, but repudiate it if they were victorious. During that and the suc- ceeding session, Mr. Crittenden labored assidu- ously to mitigate the horrors of the fratricidal war. His wise and patriotic counsels were disregardcd, for each successive measure adopted only aug- mented the bitterness and widened the gulf that
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separated the two peoples. In his latest mo- ments, Mr. Crittenden spoke of and deplored the disasters that had befallen the country.
Mr. Crittenden's intellect was of a superior or- der. By profession a lawyer, yet the political field was more congenial to him. Or perhaps it would be more correct to say that he entered political life so young that he naturally acquired a taste for the one, to the exclusion of the other. As an ad- vocate, he stood almost without a rival at the bar; yet he was never a profound lawyer. He did not claim to be. He could have mastered any sub- ject, but it would have been at the sacrifice of his political duties. He was a generous, magnani- mous, and brave man-clear, comprehensive and decided in his convictions, and one who never shrank from the expression of them on any public question. His patriotism was never questioned by even the most bitter partisan enemy. Many of his countrymen entertained the hope that the highest office in the gift of the American people would be conferred upon him, but it was fated oth- erwise.
Mr. Crittenden was in two campaigns, in the War of 1812; as aid to General Ramsey in the ex- pedition commanded by General Hopkins; and as aid to Governor Shelby, served with distinguished gallantry at the battle of the Thames.
JOHN SIMEON MULLICAN, sheriff of Daviess County, was born in Washington County, near Springfield, Kentucky, March 22, 1838, and is a son of John H. and Susan (Hayden) Mullican. His father was born near Emmitts- burg, Maryland, and came to Kentucky with his father's family when he was very young, locating for a time in Washington County and removing to Nelson County in 1840, where he died in March, 1852. He was a most exemplary citizen, devoted to the work of the farmer and to the Catholic Church, having been converted to that faith after reaching his maturity. He deemed it a sacred duty to vote, but did not meddle with politics or aspire to office. He was largely inter- ested in stock trading, but his chief pride was in his justly earned reputation as the best farmer in his county. His father, with whom he came to Kentucky from Maryland, was a native of Ireland.
He was a farmer before and after coming to Kentucky, and owned a large tract of land in Washington County, where he built a very hand- some residence.
Susan Hayden Mullican (mother) was born in Nelson County in 1795 and was a resident of her native county until her death in 1878.
Stanley Hayden (maternal grandfather) was a native of Virginia, where he married a Miss Hil- ton, also a Virginian, and subsequently removed to Nelson County, Kentucky. Mr. Hayden was a farmer and an excellent citizen; a member of the Catholic Church and a Democrat of the old school. The Haydens originally came from Eng- land.
John S. Mullican was two years old when his parents removed from Washington to Nelson County; was educated in St. Joseph College at Bardstown, completing his studies in 1858; sold dry goods for Quinn & Co. of Bardstown until 1861; went to Corinth and enlisted in Company E, Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment, C. S. A., un- der Capt. Hatch Murphy, and served in that regi- ment from June, 1861, till February, 1862, when he was transferred to the First Kentucky Regi- ment, commanded by Col. Thomas H. Taylor, now chief of police of Louisville, and was in the company commanded by Capt. Pat Thorp. His regiment was disbanded at the siege of Yorktown in March, 1863, and Private Mullican was hon- orably discharged on account of impaired health. During his career as a soldier he was in a num- ber of fierce engagements, notably, the battles of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Chickahominy and sev- eral hot skirmishes near Richmond.
After spending six months in Bardstown, he removed to Daviess County and chose the inde- pendent life of a farmer, and his career as such was uneventful and unbroken until 1892, when he was elected sheriff of Daviess County for a term of two years. After completing this term, he was re-elected in 1894 for a term of three years under the new constitution, succeeding himself in Jan- uary, 1895. In this official capacity Mr. Mullican has rendered faithful service, and by his very urbane, courteous and genial manner has added much to his popularity, and has established a name among the best citizens as an honorable
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citizen and capable official. Of course, he is a Democrat, and while he has been twice elected to an important and lucrative office by his party, he has never been a politician, his election having been due to his popularity as a citizen and an hon- est man, rather than to his party affiliations. He adheres to the religious faith of his parents, and is an influential member of the Catholic Church, and of the Young Men's Institute in connection with that church.
Mr. Mullican was married April 10, 1866, to Kate Stowers, daughter of A. H. Stowers of Daviess County. She was born in Daviess Coun- ty in July, 1840, and after attending the common schools completed her education in Nazareth Col- lege, in Nelson County. They have eight chil- dren: James Stowers Mullican, married to Vir- gie Newman of Daviess County; John Vernon Mullican, married to Maggie Burnott of Daviess County; Bettie, Ollie and Oda (twins), Richard, Mamie and Addie.
D ANIEL R. COLLIER, Adjutant General of Kentucky, one of the most widely known and popular Republicans of the state, was born in Garrard County, November 21, 1840. Be- sides having an ancestry to be proud of, Col. Collier has a record of his own with which his ancestors would be pleased if they were living. He took his first and last lessons in the common schools of Lancaster and was pretty well along when the great war broke out, and on the 23d of July, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Third Reg- iment Kentucky Infantry; was elected second lieutenant and went into Camp Dick Robinson, near Lancaster, which was the first Federal re- cruiting post south of the Ohio river. The regi- ment was organized and commanded by Col. Thomas E. Bramlette, who was afterwards the war governor of Kentucky. By the resignation of Col. Bramlette and the promotion of Major McKee to the command of the regiment, Mr. Collier-who had served about a year as second lieutenant and had been promoted to captain of his company, on account of gallant services-was promoted to the rank of major. He held that rank about three months. Early in the morning of December 31, 1862, on the first day of the
battle of Stone River, Col. McKee was killed while leading his regiment, and Major Collier assumed command. Gen. Haskell, in his report of the battle of Stone River, said: "In less than ten minutes after the fall of Col. McKee the gallant major, D. R. Collier, received two severe wounds, one in his leg and one in his breast, but nothing would induce him to leave the field." His commission as lieutenant colonel bore the date of that first day's battle at Stone River.
Col. Collier was in many hard-fought battles, including the siege of Corinth, Shiloh, Murfrees- boro, McMinnville, Stewart's Creek, Perryville, and all the principal campaigns up to Stone River.
About five months after receiving the wounds mentioned, it being apparent that he would not again be able for active service, he resigned his commission and returned to his native county, engaging for a time in farming, stock-raising and in mercantile pursuits. He soon became a leader in Republican politics in his county and district, and one whom others were willing to fol- low. He wielded a strong influence among the voters of the Eighth Congressional District. President Harrison recognized the colonel's val- uable services in the campaign of 1888, and in August, 1889, appointed him surveyor of customs and custodian of public property at Louisville, which offices he filled with signal ability until September, 1893.
He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892 which renominated Gen. Har- rison, and not only cast his vote but controlled other votes for the popular president. During the gubernatorial campaign of 1894 he was one of Col. Bradley's most trusted lieutenants and willing workers, and when his friend and neighbor was inaugurated governor, on the same day he appointed Col. Collier adjutant general of Ken- tucky. And it was an appointment which gave general satisfaction throughout the state.
Col. Collier was married December 21, 1865, to Mary E. Hoskins, daughter of Col. W. A. Hos- kins of Danville, who commanded the Twelfth Regiment Kentucky Infantry, and was a mem- ber of the Kentucky legislature in 1872. Mrs. Collier is a niece of Mrs. Dick Robinson, for
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whose husband Camp Dick Robinson was named as a compliment to his loyalty; also a niece of Mrs. James Ferris of Lancaster, who predicted thirty years ago that Col. Bradley would some day be governor of Kentucky. Col. and Mrs. Collier have three children; his eldest daughter, Roberta, is the wife of Robert L. Elkin of Gar- rard County, and has one child, Daniel Collier Elkin.
His son, William H. Collier, is in mercantile business at Lancaster, and Ida Frances Collier is at home.
Col. Collier is a member of the Christian Church, of the Masonic order, the Knights of Honor and, of course, a member in good standing of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Col. Collier's father, Alexander Collier, was a native of Garrard County, where he died in 1860. He received a good common school edu- cation and followed the occupation of a farmer most of his life; in politics a Democrat; in re- ligious faith a Baptist.
Robert Collier (grandfather) was a Virginian, who married there and came to Garrard County, where he practiced medicine for many years. He was of Scotch-Irish extraction.
Rebecca Scott Collier (mother) was a native of Garrard County; received a good education in the schools of the county; was a devout member of the Baptist Church and a noble Christian woman; died in 1856.
Joseph Scott (maternal grandfather) was born in Virginia, of English parentage. After com- ing to Kentucky he first settled in Barren Coun- ty, and subsequently removed to Garrard, where he was a farmer and an exemplary citizen.
G EORGE KELLY, M. D., a learned and able young physician of Lexington, son of a noted physician of Massachusetts, was born in Worcester, June 6, 1866. His father, Frank H. Kelly, M. D., fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society, was born in New Hampton, September 9, 1827; after the district school he entered the academy in New Hampton, in which he studied the higher branches for three years; was em-
ployed in the dry goods store of James P. Simp- son until 1846, when he left his native place and went to Boston. Remaining there several months, he went to Dover and read medicine with Dr. Bethnel Kirth, with whom he went to Cincinnati in 1847, where he attended a course of medical lectures; was afterwards associated with Dr. Aaron Ordway of Lawrence, Massachusetts, until 1851, when he removed to Worcester and located permanently, at once entering upon a most successful career in the practice of medicine, in which he continued for twenty-three years.
He was first president of the board of trustees of the Worcester City Hospital in 1870 and served in that capacity for thirteen years consecutively; joined the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1875 and delivered the annual address before the Worcester District Medical Society in 1880; was connected with city government in various ca- pacities and at divers times, as member of the school board for two years, of the common coun- cil six years, of the board of aldermen and as mayor of Worcester in 1880 and 1881. During his administration as mayor the erection of the new building for the city hospital was commenced and a board of health was established. He was not only a very noted physician and elegant gen- tleman, but he was active as a citizen and bore his part manfully in his endeavors to advance the best interests of his city. He was the author of a book entitled, "Reminiscences of New Hamp- ton," and also wrote a genealogical history of the Kelly and Simpson families, the Simpsons being related to his mother, who was a descendant of Thomas Simpson, the Revolutionary patriot. His mother was a daughter of Tristram and Ann Cram, whose ancestors were natives of Deer- field, New Hampshire.
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