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Dr. Kelly was married (first) in Worcester, April 20, 1853, to Lucy Ellis Draper (mother), who was born at Dover, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 3, 1828. She died in Worcester, May 22, 1873.
He was married (second) January 8, 1879, to Jennie P. Martin, with whom he lived until his death, which occurred October 25, 1891.
Dr. George Draper Kelly of Lexington was educated in the public schools of Worcester and
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at Phillips Academy at Exeter, New Hampshire, which institution he entered when fifteen years of age, graduating three years later. He then at- tended Harvard Medical School, from which he received his diploma in 1889; entered hospital service at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, in which he received practical instrue- tion, and after completing his medical studies he began the practice of medicine in his native city, where he remained about a year before locating in Lexington; was a member of the Society of Alumni of Harvard Medical School; of the Mas- sachusetts Medical Society; of the Worcester County Medieal Society, and attached to the staff of the Washburn Memorial Hospital.
On arriving in Lexington, he immediately be- gan a promising career, unabashed by the pres- enee of so many noted physicians, and he has met with great encouragement while doing his share of professional work in a distressingly healthy community. He joined the Kentucky State Medical Society and the Fayette County Medieal Society in 1893, and is physician in charge of the Protestant Infirmary of Lexington.
M ARMADUKE B. BOWDEN, Attorney-at Law of Louisville, son of James H. Bow- den and Nannie Morton, was born in Russelville, Kentucky, July 7, 1866, and educated at Bethel College. Poor health compelled him to leave school at nine years of age, but he returned to school when fourteen and remained for three years. He was greatly interested in geology and was engaged for one year in making a geological survey of Warren and Butler Counties. The dis- play of Kentucky building stone at the Southern Exposition in 1883 was composed of speeimens secured in part by Mr. Bowden for this purpose, and were polished at the Smithsonian Institution. They have since been exhibited as samples of the building stones of Kentucky, wherever Kentucky has been represented in an exposition. Mr. Bow- den read law with his father and was admitted to the bar in July, 1885. In 1888 he served in the town council of Russellville, and in March, 1889, when not twenty-three years of age, was elected mayor of that town. He resigned in 1889 and removed to Louisville, where he has since
been engaged in the practice of law. He was elected president of the Louisville Commereial Club, May 9, 1893, for a term of one year, and was re-elected for another year in 1895, and was elected colonel of the First Kentucky Regiment, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, Deeember 30, 1895.
It was partly due to Mr. Bowden's influence and energy that the G. A. R. encampment was brought to Louisville in 1895. He was at that time president of the Commercial Club, and di- rected all his efforts to that end, visiting different state encampments in the interest of Louisville, and presenting the Massachusetts, Illinois, Indi- ana and New York departments with Abraham Lincoln gavels. This, together with his eloquent orations, provoked a genuine enthusiasm and gained for him a national reputation. At the Indiana and Illinois encampments especially was his influence recognized, as strenuous efforts were making there to earry the eneampment to St. Paul. But after Mr. Bowden's address the tide was turned in favor of Louisville. He also visited the Texas department and, in company with the Hon. E. J. McDermott, visited the Pennsylvania department, where Mr. McDermott was the orator.
Mr. Bowden was married February 14, 1888, to Lee Sandifer, daughter of Nicholas Sandifer, who was judge of the Garrard County Court for many years. She was born in Lancaster, Ken- tucky, and educated at Millersburg Female Col- lege.
James H. Bowden (father) was born in Mor- ganfield, Union County, Kentucky, and attended school there until his thirteenth year; went to Louisville and worked for several years as a print- er on the old Louisville Journal, earning enough money to enable him to attend school for a short term, after which he returned to Louisville and worked at printing at intervals until he cont- pleted his edueation. He studied law with the Hon. G. P. Edwards of Russellville and began to practice in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky, October, 1855; remained there for eighteen months, and removed to Russellville, where he soon became eminent in his profession ; was a member of the Kentucky legislature,
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1875-6; was school commissioner of Logan Coun- ty for a number of years, and in 1882 was elected judge of the Superior Court and was on the bench eight years, serving two terms. Since leaving the bench in 1890 he has practiced law in Russell- ville.
Judge Bowden married Miss Nannie Morton, May 14, 1857. She was born in 1843 and was the daughter of Marmaduke B. Morton (deceased), who was cashier of the Southern Bank of Ken- tucky, and after it went out of business, of the banking house of N. Long & Co., at Russellville. Their children are: Katie, who married Henry M. Caldwell; John S., died in 1876; Fannie, Mar- maduke B., Elizabeth, Mary and Henry W.
John Bowden (grandfather) was born in Bris- tol, England, September 8, 1787. He emigrated to Baltimore in 1815, where he was an architect; he married (first) a Miss Tucker, also a native of England. There were two children by this mar- riage: John and Ann. He removed to Ken- tucky in 1819 and married (second) Lova Fau- quier of Morganfield, Kentucky, and there were eight children by this marriage: Amelia; Rev. George F., killed while young by falling over a cliff; John, member of the Louisville Methodist Episcopal Conference, who was regarded as a man of fine ability, who died in 1846; Annie; Mary, married to Harry Duncan, and died in 1861; two of her sons are each commonwealth's attorneys in Missouri; Sarah, Thomas L., and James H. Bowden, father of Marmaduke B. Bow- den of Louisville.
W TILLIAM L. BROWN of London, judge of Laurel County Court, son of George P. Brown and Eveline McKee, was born in London, Kentucky, April 3, 1841, and was educated in the common schools, supplemented by a short term in Transylvania.
He was a clerk in his father's store, beginning at a very early age, and when only twelve years old began making trips for his father to South Carolina and Georgia with stock in which he was a dealer and trader. He kept this up, performing the duties of a man and transacting business for his father until about the beginning of the Civil war.
In 1860 he was elected lieutenant colonel of militia; during the war he was connected with the quartermaster's department and had charge of the post at Camp Pitman during 1864 and 1865. He was one of the original Republicans in his section of the state and was a delegate to the national convention in 1864 which nomin- ated President Lincoln the second time, since which time he has taken a hand in every cam- paign, local, state and national, taking the stump in support of his party and throwing the weight of his influence against Democracy and in favor of Republican men and principles, and no man in Laurel County is more highly respected.
In 1876 he was admitted to the bar, having studied law previously under Judge Granville Pearl of London. Two years later he was elected county judge on a temperance platform, receiv- ing more votes than both of the opposing candi- dates, Republican and Democratic. Previous to his term of service on the bench he was at differ- ent times deputy clerk of the County and Circuit Courts, deputy sheriff under different sheriffs, during which a party having been convicted of petty larceny and sentenced to receive "forty stripes save one," the deputy was forced to exe- cute the order of the court. The culprit threat- ened to slay both the man who whipped him and the prosecuting witness. He made good his threat as to the witness, waylaying him, but was killed himself in a drunken row before he found an opportunity to slay the deputy sheriff.
He was elected county attorney and served his time in that office, doing efficient work for his county, and was a member of the committee in charge of the erection of the court house and superintended its construc- tion. In 1894 he was nominated by the Repub- licans and again elected county judge, his present official position. Judge Brown has proven on more than one occasion that he is one of the most efficient officials the county has ever had, his career having been characterized by the most determined efforts to improve the condition of his county generally, while his voice has been heard on the side of law and order, and to his efforts in this direction more than to the influence or power of any other individual is due the present
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excellent reputation of Laurel County for good order, peace and quiet. Peerless in his opposition to disorder and in bringing law-breakers to jus- tice, he has been the friend of education and prog- ress. No man has done more in advocating the free school system, and he has always been found in the front ranks among the friends of higher education. The result of his labors in this direc- tion are" already apparent, but the foundation which has been slow and sure in building will tell more effectually upon future generations.
Judge Brown is a Christian man of strong spiritual impulses; a member of the Methodist Church and a lover of Christianity of whatever denomination or creed.
George P. Brown (father) was born in Garrard County, Kentucky, in 1813, and removed to Lat- rel County in 1840, where he died in 1868. He was a general merchant in London until after the Civil war; a man of good education and sound judg- ment; prominent in the affairs of his town and county; energetic and persevering in his efforts to advance the interests of society, and was particu- larly devoted to the cause of education. He served as school commissioner for several years and was largely' instrumental in building the seminary, in which many of the young people of London have enjoyed the advantages of higher education.
He represented his county in the legislature in 1851 and could have had any office within the gift of the people of the county, simply for the asking.
Leroy Brown (grandfather), a native of Albe- marle County, Virginia, came first to Garrard, and subsequently removed to Laurel County, where he was a farmer, returned to Garrard and died in 1863, having reached his eighty-eighth year.
He had eleven brothers, and several of them- he could not tell how many-fought for their country in the War of 1812, one of whom was governor of the colony of South Carolina. He claimed to be a cousin of General Robert E. Lee, his father having married a lady of that connec- tion.
Eveline McKee (mother) was born in Knox, now Laurel County, in 1821, and though full of years is an active member of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church and a resident of London, where she is greatly loved for her many Christian graces.
William Houston McKee (grandfather), a na- tive of Rockbridge County, Virginia, came to Laurel County in 1810, and died there at the age of eighty-six years. He was a farmer and a sur- veyor and a scholarly gentleman who left the im- press of a noble life upon the community in which he lived.
John McKee (great-grandfather), a native of Dublin, Ireland, came to America and married a Miss Houston in Virginia, who was an aunt of General Samuel Houston of Texas.
C HARLES H. PRICE, a popular and suc- cessful lawyer of Middlesborough, was born in Kent, Portage County, Ohio, January 26, 1849.
His father, William B. Price, was born in Can- ada of American parents and was reared and educated in Ohio; removed to Jasper County, Indiana, in 1866, and died there June, 1895, in the seventy-third year of his age. During the earlier years of his business career he was a teacher and merchant, but for thirty years prior to his death he was engaged in farming pursuits. He enlisted in the One Hundred and Ninety- eighth Regiment Ohio Infantry, serving as order- ly sergeant of his company; was postmaster at Solon, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, under Presi- dent Lincoln's administration; was county com- missioner of Jasper County, Indiana, and held other minor offices. He was a life-long Repub- lican and was active and influential in his party. He was a member of the Methodist Church.
Captain William Price (grandfather), a native of Connecticut and of Irish parentage, removed to Ohio when he was a young man; founded the town of Kent in Portage County, and was en- gaged in the manufacture of silks. He was a captain of the old militia and a man of education and wide influence. He was killed by the falling of a mill-stone.
Susan M. Taylor Price (mother) is a native of Summit County, Ohio, and is now living in Jasper County, Indiana, in her sixty-ninth year. Her father was a native of Connecticut and for
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many years a farmer of Summit County, Ohio, where he died.
Charles H. Price spent his early years in the western reserve of Ohio, where his education began before his father removed to Indiana, and there he attended the common schools and Stock- well University. After leaving school he fol- lowed farming a while; studied law and was admitted to the Jasper County bar and began the practice of law in 1873; was elected clerk of the Circuit Court the same year, served two terms and at the expiration of his second term, in 1883, removed to Highmore, South Dakota, where he practiced law until 1890. While there he was city attorney, state's attorney, judge of the County Court and member of the convention which framed the present constitution of that state; was colonel on the staff of Governor L. K. Church, and a member of the commission that codified the laws of the territory; was defeated by the Republican candidates for circuit judge and the state senate, being the Democratic nominee for those offices, respectively. He also served his party as a member of the State Democratic Com- mittee and as chairman of the County Committee.
In April, 1890, he came to Kentucky and lo- cated in Middlesborough, where he has become quite as prominent as a lawyer and citizen as he was in Dakota. He has, however, devoted his attention entirely to the practice of law, and, with characteristic modesty, has kept out of the way of men who have been Kentuckians longer, and has not sought political favors. The only offices he has held were those of special judge of the Circuit Court and member of the city school board. He has gained a lucrative practice in his new field and is recognized by bench and bar as one of the most able attorneys of Middles- borough and vicinity. He is a Knight Templar and Shriner in Masonry, a Knight of Pythias and an Odd Fellow, and is prominent in all of these orders.
Mr. Price was married in 1873 to Lizzie Jones, daughter of Jacob and Mary Jones of Jasper County, Indiana, and has two sons, Max T. and Don K. Price. Grace B. Price, a daughter, died in Indiana at the age of four years and four months.
C HARLES R. BROCK, Lawyer of London, Kentucky, son of Daniel R. Brock and Mary Lucas Brock, was born in Laurel County, Kentucky, May 9, 1865.
Daniel R. Brock was born in the same county in 1841, and is still a resident farmer in his native county, and is an active member of the Baptist Church, having been clerk of the Laurel River Baptist Association for many years. He mar- ried Mary Lucas, a native of the same county.
Ragan Brock (grandfather) was born in Union County, Tennessee, in the first year of the present century; came to Laurel County, Kentucky, in 1833, and was a farmer there until his death in 1876.
William Lucas (maternal grandfather) was a farmer and tanner in Laurel County, where he died in 1867.
Charles R. Brock had a varied experience in getting an education, and few young men have so persistently followed a purpose with ultimate success. A farmer's boy who was expected to perform a share of the labor of the farm and garden, his opportunity for schooling was limited, and his studies were practically confined to the common school curriculum until he was seven- teen years of age, when he formed a determined purpose to secure for himself the advantages of a college education.
He attended Laurel Seminary at London and Union College at Barboursville, teaching and studying in alternate years until he was able to enter the Kentucky State College at Lexington, from which latter institution he was graduated in June, 1890, taking the degree of Bachelor of Science.
During the several years of his studies he taught at different times in the county schools, and in the London public schools of which he was prin- cipal for three terms, all the while pursuing and advancing himself in his college work.
After completing his college course he was an associate principal of Laurel Seminary for one year, and at the same time began the study of law. During the school year of 1891-92 he was teacher of mathematics and the German language in the Williamsburg Institute; and while there his spare moments were given to the study of his chosen
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profession under the practical guidance of Hon. R. D. Hill of Williamsburg, Kentucky. He was admitted to the bar in November, 1891, and after completing his term in the institute he entered into a partnership with his able preceptor.
After a very satisfactory practice for three years this partnership was dissolved by mutual consent in June, 1895, since which time Mr. Brook has been gaining a strong foothold, and by hard work and close application is now re- ceiving a good share of the business of the courts in his native county. He is devoted to his profes- sion and the pleasure of his office during the day is only surpassed when in the evening at home he and his lovely young wife enter upon literary and historical studies which they happily pursue together.
The details of a young man's ups and downs and his efforts to obtain an education are not of thril- ling interest, but the example points a moral and may stimulate other lads to greater endeavor and lead them on to success. It also serves to show the character and pluck of this young man who is now upon the threshold of a successful career.
Charles R. Brock and Katherine Brown, daugh- ter of Judge W. L. Brown of London, were mar- ried June 1, 1893. Mr. Brock is a member of the Baptist Church, and is now superintendent of the Sabbath School.
E DWARD J. HOWARD, City Attorney of Middlesborough, son of John A. Howard and Mary J. Keran, was born in Scotland Coun- ty, Missouri, December 4, 1861.
His father, John A. Howard, was born in Clark County, Missouri, in 1836, and died in Leaven- worth, Kansas, in 1892. He was a lawyer and a leading Republican politician; joined the Federal army as a private in the Twenty-first Regiment, Missouri Infantry, and was wounded in a skir- mish in the Red River expedition, and this wound and the exposure incident to army life caused his death. He was in Leavenworth on business at the time of his death, having retained his home in Clark County, Missouri.
Thomas Flannery Howard (grandfather) was a native of Harlan County and removed to Clark County, Missouri, with his father about 1836, and
died there. He was a farmer and a preacher in the Methodist Church.
John N. Howard (great-grandfather) was the first County Judge of Harlan County, Kentucky, and was a man of prominence and considerable means. He donated to the county the ground upon which the first court house was built, at Harlan C. H., the county-seat. He was a farmer and stock-raiser in that county and in Missouri, to which state he removed late in life and died there in old age.
Samuel Howard (great-great-grandfather) came from Virginia to Kentucky in 1795 and settled in what is now Harlan County. He was the ancestor of one branch of the Howard family in Kentucky. He was born in Buckingham County, Virginia, in 1762, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary War under General Washington, and was at Valley Forge, White Plains and Monmouth. He was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at York- town, and was one of the Revolutionary War pen- sioners in Kentucky. He died about 1840 in Harlan County. The Howards were originally from Scotland, whence they went to England hun- dreds of years ago, and thence to Virginia in a very early day.
Mary Keran Howard (mother) is a native of Scott County, Illinois, and is now a resident of Marceline, Linn County, Missouri. Her father, James S. Keran, was a native of Ohio; removed to Illinois and thence to Scotland County, Missouri, and finally to Tulare County, California, where he died, aged sixty-seven years. He was a farmer and minister in the Methodist Church. His par- ents were natives of Ireland.
Edward J. Howard was reared in Clark Coun- ty, Missouri, and received a good education in the academy and public schools. After reading law for a time he came to Kentucky in 1888 and finished his course of reading at Harlan Court House, and was admitted to the bar in the same year and went to Middlesborough in 1889, where he located permanently in the practice of his pro- fession. For three or four years he combined real estate operations with his law practice, but since 1893 has devoted his whole time to the law, and is now serving his second term as City Attorney of Middlesborough.
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Mr. Howard has taken a lively interest in poli- tics and was the Democratic nominee for Con- gress in the district in 1890. The regular Republi- can majority in the district is eleven thousand, and he reduced that majority to three thousand four hundred. This was a fair test of his popularity and is good evidence of his superiority as a cam- paigner. He is one of the leading lawyers of his city and section and has paved the way for a most brilliant and successful career. He is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church; is active in church work and a leading Knight of Pythias, being Vice-Chancellor of Lodge No. 83.
Mr. Howard was married in 1886 to Mary E. Long, daughter of William R. Long of Mere- dosia, Illinois, and has two sons living: Edward J. Howard, Jr., and George F. Howard.
D ANIEL BOONE LOGAN, lawyer and citi- zen of Pineville, formerly of Morehead, where he led a company of citizens who sup- pressed the notorious Craig Toliver faction in Rowan County in 1887 (wherein he honored the memory of Kentucky's most distinguished pio- neer, for whom he was named), was born in Car- ter County, Kentucky, April 23, 1858. He is a great-grandson of another pioneer, James Lo- gan, who took no small part in the early trials of those who sought homes on "the dark and bloody ground;" so that he carries the blood of heroes in his veins while he bears the name of Daniel Boone, who was Kentucky's greatest citizen in his day.
Mr. Logan is a son of James Fleming Logan and Nancy McGlone Logan. His father, a native of Fleming County, removed to Carter County in 1853, where he was engaged in farming until the spring of 1869, when he removed to Greenup County and died December 5, 1869, aged fifty- two years. During the Civil War he was in the Federal army, serving in the Quartermaster's de- partment.
Tobias Logan (grandfather) was born in Flem- ing County in 1796, and was a farmer there until 1853, when he also, with his son, James F. Logan, removed to Carter County, where he died in 1870, following his son to "that other country" within a few months after James F. Logan's death.
James Logan (great-grandfather) was born in North Carolina and came to Kentucky with his parents when he was a child, locating near Shel- byville. He subsequently took part in the Indian wars and was shot, scalped and left for dead at the battle of Blue Lick Springs, but he survived with the loss of his hair and an eye.
William Logan (great-great-grandfather) was a native of Scotland, who came to the United States and located in North Carolina, subsequently re- moving to Kentucky and settling near Shelby- ville.
Nancy McGlone Logan (mother), now a resi- dent of Rowan, was born in Greenup County, Kentucky. Her grandfather, Owen McGlone, was a native of Pennsylvania, and was one of the first settlers of Buffalo Fork of Tygart's Creek. His father was a native of Scotland and became a resident of Pennsylvania, where he and his wife died. His son Owen about 1800 settled on Buf- falo Fork and died there about 1860. His widow reached the almost impossible age of one hundred and thirteen years, dying in 1885. His son, Wil- liam Owen McGlone, was born in what was then Mason, but now Carter County, and resided there all his life. He was the father of Nancy McGlone Logan. He was a farmer and died in 1867. Dan- iel Boone Logan was reared in Carter County and received his education principally in the High Schools of Grayson, Bethel and Morehead. He was then engaged in teaching for a period of ten years in the counties of Rowan, Fleming, Car- ter and Bath, in the meantime pursuing his studies and endeavoring to advance himself in the pro- fession into which he had drifted.
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