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In 1885 he was appointed Master Commission- er of Rowan County, by Judge A. E. Cole, and while holding that office for two years he read law, and was admitted to the bar in 1886; prac- ticed law in Morehead until 1890, when he came to Pineville, where he has since devoted his time to the practice of law in that section of the state.
It was while practicing law at Morehead, coun- ty-seat of Rowan, that he performed the most dis- tinguished service for his state. The Rowan County feud between the followers of Craig Toli- ver and Cook Humphreys had become so dis- graceful and serious that Mr. Logan went to see
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Governor Knott to ask him to send the state troops into Rowan County to suppress the lawless- ness of those factions. The Governor replied that he could not do this until the local authorities had exhausted their power; and, returning to his home, Mr. Logan organized a body of men to ac- complish the arrest of those of the Toliver faction charged with the murder of his kinsmen, W. H. W. and J. B. Logan, and, together with the Sher- iff of Rowan County, led them into Morehead, June 22d, 1887, for that purpose, with the result that is known to the world and has become a part of the history of the state. The whole history of the feud and its timely suppression under Mr. Logan's leadership has been written by the his- torians of the Filson Club, and the newspapers of the country gave full accounts from beginning to end, at the time of those stirring events.
Daniel Boone Logan was married in January, 1884, to Lizzie Evans, daughter of Captain Ben Evans, deceased, of Morehead. They have two daughters and one son: Gertrude, Virgie M. and Benjamin F. Logan.
Captain Evans, Mrs. Logan's father, was Cap- tain of a company under General John H. Mor- gan in the Confederate army, and directly under Humphrey Marshall, and was killed at West Liberty. His place was taken by Judge Thomas F. Hargis, late Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and now a resident of Louis- ville.
Mr. and Mrs. Logan are quite prominent in Pineville society, and he is a member of several benevolent orders, including the Masons and the Maccabees.
R OBERT HUGH TOMLINSON, a very able and successful lawyer of Lancaster, son of Joseph and Elizabeth M. (Jones) Tomlinson, was born in Garrard County, Kentucky, May 21, 1852.
His father was born in Newbern, North Caro- lina, in 1815; educated in Hendricks County, In- diana, to which place his parents removed when he was a child; came to Garrard County, Ken- tucky, when twenty-three years of age and was a farmer until recently, when he removed to Dan- ville, where he is living in retirement; was a
stanch Union man during the war; a Republican since and a man of strong convictions. He was reared a Quaker, but has been for many years a member of the Methodist Church.
William Tomlinson (grandfather) was a farmer near Newbern, North Carolina, where he lived and died. His father, William Tomlinson, was a native of Ireland, the date of whose coming to America is not recorded.
Elizabeth M. Jones Tomlinson (mother) was born in Garrard County, Kentucky, in 1826; mar- ried Joseph Tomlinson in 1842 in Hendricks County, Indiana; died in Boyle County, Janu- ary, 1892, and is buried at Danville. She was a member of the Methodist Church and a most ex- cellent woman.
Hugh L. Jones (grandfather) was born in New- bern, North Carolina; was engaged in steamboat- ing; came to Kentucky and taught school in Gar- rard County, and married a Mrs. Taylor, whose maiden name was Judith Moss. He died in Gar- rard County in 1830. The maternal ancestors of Mr. Tomlinson were from England.
Robert H. Tomlinson was educated at Green- castle, Indiana, and in Transylvania University at Lexington, completing his studies in 1873; be- gan the practice of law in Lancaster, August, 1874; was in partnership for a short time with William Robinson, and later with Judge George Denny until 1883, since which time he has at- tended a large practice without an office asso- ciate. He was City Attorney from 1880 to 1890; Chairman of the Democratic Committee for the same length of time; was appointed City Judge in 1881 to fill a vacancy; was elected to the legisla- ture in 1889, and served as County Attorney from 1891 to 1894; is quite prominent in local and state politics, and has often been a delegate to State Democratic Conventions.
Mr. Tomlinson has a fine practice in the courts and is attorney for a number of corporations and building and loan associations, and was President of the Board of Trustees of Garrard Female Col- lege.
He is an active member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, in which he is a steward and trus- tee; is connected with a number of benevolent orders, including Masons, Odd Fellows, Macca-
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bees, Knights of Honor and is Major of the First Regiment Uniform Rank of Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Tomlinson was married September 19, 1877, to Lou Marrs, daughter of Stephen and Margaret (Robson) Marrs, and a native of Ander- son County. Her father was a grocer and died in October, 1888. Mrs. Tomlinson was educated in Franklin Institute and is an intelligent and accomplished lady.
The children of Robert H. and Lou (Marrs) Tomlinson are Margaret, Harry Denny, Annell and Robert Hugh.
R EV. JOHN CLARKE YOUNG, D. D., a Presbyterian clergyman, and the most dis- tinguished and successful of the presidents of Cen- ter College, at Danville, Kentucky, was born in Pennsylvania, August 12, 1803, and died at Dan- ville, June 23, 1857, aged fifty-four. He spent three years in Columbia College, New York City, but graduated, at twenty, with the honors of his class, at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsyl- vania; passed his theological course at Princeton Seminary; was pastor of the McChord Church, at Lexington, Kentucky, 1828-30; in 1830, when only twenty-seven, was made the president of one of the leading colleges of the West, Center Col- lege, which owed to him, until his death, much of its greatest glory and usefulness; it had six gradu- ates in 1830, and forty-seven in 1857. He was twice, in 1832 and 1841, moderator of the synod of Kentucky, and in 1853 was moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly (O. S.) His pub- lished writings were few; his forte was as a speaker or preacher; his power in the pulpit and in the church courts was remarkable.
R EV. JOHN BRECKINRIDGE, D. D., was born at Cabell's Dale, in Fayette County, Kentucky, July 4, 1797, and died at the same place, August 4, 1841, aged forty-four. Some ac- count has been given of his paternal ancestors, in the notice of his father and of his maternal, in that of his elder brother, Joseph Cabell Breckinridge. His education was conducted at the best schools in Kentucky, and at Princeton College, N. J., where he graduated, at twenty-one, with great distinction. While
there he became a subject of divine grace, and determined to enter the ministry of the Presby- terian Church-against the earnest wishes of all his immediate family, not one of whom was at that time a professor of religion; they had des- tined him for the law. In 1822, just one year aft- er he completed his theological course, he was chaplain of the Lower House of Congress; in 1823, settled in Lexington, Kentucky, as pastor of the McChord Church; was co-pastor, and then pastor, of the Second Presbyterian Church, Bal- timore, 1826-31; at Philadelphia, as secretary and general agent of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church, 1831-36; a professor in the theological seminary at Princeton, New Jersey, 1836-38; secretary and general agent of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, 1838-40. At the period of his death, he was pas- tor-elect of the First Presbyterian Church, New Orleans, and also president-elect of Oglethorpe University, Georgia. He was a man of extraor- dinary gifts. With talents of a high order, pulpit eloquence rarely equalled in his generation, uni- versally admired and beloved, it was no wonder that calls and invitations to churches, colleges and every sort of public employment suitable to a Christian minister, flowed in upon him and at times embarrassed him as to which it was his duty to accept.
R EV. ROBERT JEFFERSON BRECKIN- RIDGE, D. D., LL.D., was born March 8, 1800, at Cabell's Dale, Fayette County, Ken- tucky, and died at Danville, Kentucky, December 27, 1871, aged nearly seventy-two. Of his pa- ternal ancestors some account has been given in the notice of his father, and some account of his maternal ancestors in the sketch of his elder brother. He was educated at the best private schools in Kentucky, until sixteen; spent two years at Princeton College, New Jersey, one winter at Yale College, and grad- uated, at nineteen, at Union College, Schenec- tady, New York. In 1824 he commenced the practice of law at Lexington, and took an active part in politics; was elected in 1825, on the "Old Court" ticket, a representative from Fayette County in the Kentucky legislature, and was re-
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elected in 1826, '27 and '28. In 1829, after a long and dangerous illness, he joined the Presby- terian Church; soon after, was ordained a ruling elder; in 1831, was a commissioner to the Gen- eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, which met at Cincinnati. He was licensed to preach the gospel in 1832; was pastor of the Second Pres- byterian Church, in Baltimore, for thirteen years, 1832-45; president of Jefferson College, Canons- burg, Pennsylvania, 1845-47; pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Lexington, Kentucky, 1847-53; professor of theology in Danville The- ological Seminary, 1853-71.
While pastor at Lexington, Governor Owsley, in 1847, appointed him state superintendent of public instruction, and in 1851 the people elected him to the same position. He was selected for this office because of his great abilities and splen- did executive talent, and did a noble work in re- ducing to a system the heretofore poorly digested common school laws, and infusing much of his own tireless spirit into the sluggish public senti- mient of the day. While not the originator, he may not inaptly be styled the Father of the Com- mon School System of Kentucky.
Few Kentuckians have enjoyed the reputation or exerted the influence of Dr. Breckinridge as a writer. The "Act and Testimony," in 1834, in the great controversy which resulted in a division of the Presbyterian Church, first gave him a na- tional reputation. He was leading editor of sev- eral religious and general magazines and reviews; and author of a book of travels in Europe, in 1844, and of two able works on theology, in 1857 and 1859; and of numerous essays and public letters. He was among the mightiest controver- sialists of his generation.
W ILLIAM NATHAN FOSTER, an able lawyer of Greensburg, Kentucky, son of John Standford Foster and Eliza Fulks, was born December 18, 1857, in Green County, Kentucky. He was educated in the country schools of Green County and in the academy at Canner, Hart County, Kentucky. After leaving school in July, 1881, he taught in the Green County District schools for three years; read law with Judge Towles of Greensburg; received license January,
1885, and began to practice in January, 1886, in partnership with his brother, Robert L. Foster, and this arrangement continued until the fall of 1886, when it was dissolved on account of his brother being elected county attorney. He is a Republican and a member of the Republican National League Club, and of the Baptist Church. He married, December 10, 1891, Miss Sallie C. Vaughn of Green County, daughter of W. N. Vaughn and Amanda Moore. She was educated at the Greensburg high school, graduat- ing in 1883, and is a member of the Methodist Church. They have one child, Herman S., born June 25, 1895.
John S. Foster (father) was born in 1822 in Orange County, Virginia, and was educated in the county schools there. He came with his par- ents, in 1831, to Green (now Taylor) County. He was a farmer and originally a Henry Clay Whig, but in 1856 became a Republican, and was one of the four men in Green County who voted for Abraham Lincoln in 1860. He is a member of the Baptist Church; married Miss Eliza Fulks in February, 1845, and they celebrated their golden wedding in 1895.
J. S. Foster is a son of Josiah Foster and Biddie Mitchell of Orange County, Virginia. Josiah Foster was in the War of 1812. He was the son of Robert Foster, who came to America from Scotland in 1773; settled in Orange County, Virginia, and married Annie Monroe in 1778.
Mrs. Eliza Fulks Foster (mother) was a daugh- ter of Nathan Fulks of Culpeper County, Vir- ginia, and Fannie Richardson of Prince Edward County, Virginia. Eliza Foster was born Sep- tember, 1822, and was educated in Virginia and Kentucky. She came to Kentucky with her par- ents in 1835, when they settled in Green County. She is still living on the farm, eight miles west of Greensburg, on Green river, and is a devout member of the Baptist Church. By her mar- riage with John S. Foster she had nine children, eight of whom are living: Josiah Foster, who joined the Federal army when sixteen years old, in October, 1862, and served until the close of the war, and now a farmer in Green County; James E. Foster, also a farmer in Green County; Mary E., wife of W. J. Sidebottom, a Green County
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farmer; Alice, wife of N. P. Gunun of Summer- ville, Kentucky; William Nathan, lawyer, Greens- burg, Kentucky; Robert L. was three times elect- ed county attorney, the youngest the state has ever had. He was considered one of the best lawyers of his age in Kentucky. He was born February 22, 1859; died April 20, 1895; Sallie, wife of S. T. Gorin; Fannie, wife of J. S. Mears, and John Marshall Foster, farmer of Green County.
Nathan Fulks (father of Mrs. Eliza Foster) was a son of Jackson Fulks of Ireland, who settled in Culpeper County, Virginia, when a young man; came to America in 1767, and married Dora Rob- ertson in 1775.
F FRANCIS MARION CAMPBELL of Spring- field, clerk of the Circuit Court, son of George P. and Lucy (Martin) Campbell, was edu- cated in the common schools of Washington County and in Texas, Kentucky, his last precep- tor being James F. Rhinefort. After completing his education he was a teacher in the district schools in different parts of Kentucky for thir- teen years, and at the expiration of that time he returned to his native county and engaged in farming.
In 1884 he was elected sheriff by the people of Washington County, and was re-elected in 1886, his term expiring in 1888. He then bought a half interest in the flouring mills in operation at Springfield, and held the position of secretary and treasurer of the mills until 1892, when he was elected to his present position as clerk of the Circuit Court. He is a director in the First Na- tional Bank of Springfield, and still retains his in- terest in the flouring mills, his eldest son giving his personal attention to that business. Mr. Camp- bell is a member of the Baptist Church, and in politics is a Democrat. He still owns the old Campbell homestead and cherishes a laudable sentiment in regard to its preservation.
Mr. Campbell was married in 1865 to Fannie Campbell, daughter of Nathaniel Campbell and Lucy Martin. Mrs. Fannie Campbell was born in Washington County in 1844, and educated in the public schools. She attended the Methodist Church, of which she was a devoted member at
the time of her death, September 14, 1890. She is interred in the old family burying ground Her eight children are all living: Arthur, Della, Lulie Bell, Myrtle, Robert Edgar, Theodora, Bessie and Pearl.
George P. Campbell (father), son of Nathaniel and Sallie (Pettit) Campbell, was born June 10, 1806; came from Ft. Wayne County, Virginia, i11 1812, when only six years of age, and lived in Shelby County, Kentucky; was educated in the common schools of that county, and, after leaving school, engaged in farming and stock raising in Washington County. He was a member of the Baptist Church and his political affiliations were with the Democratic party.
He married, in 1830, Lucy Martin, daughter of Andrew and Susan Martin of Boyle County. She was born in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1813 and educated in the public schools of that county, and was a member of the Baptist Church. They had nine children, six of whom are living: Micajah, deceased; Sarah, now Mrs. Elliott of Washington County; W. T. Campbell, farmer of Washington County; Francis Marion Camp- bell (subject); John C. Campbell of Bottsville, Washington County; Sue, deceased, who mar- ried John G. Howard; George Waller Campbell, a merchant of Willow Springs, Missouri-twelve miles from Kansas City; Lucy E., married the Rev. Purdom, pastor of the Bethlehem and Mack- ville Baptist Churches, and Samuel Campbell, postmaster and merchant of Jensonton, Wash- ington County.
George P. Campbell (father) died September 24, 1886, and his wife died March 12, 1866. They are buried in the old family burial ground at the Campbell homestead.
R' EV. HENRY BIDLEMAN BASCOM, D. D., LL.D., a leading bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Hancock, New York, May 27, 1796, and died at Louisville, Kentucky, September 8, 1850, aged fifty-four. His father emigrated to the West in 1812 and set- tled in or near Maysville, Kentucky; thence re- moved to Ohio, about five miles distant. The son assisted to support the family-at one time by driving a dray. He quit school at twelve, but
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read and studied in the spare moments from his work. At fifteen he began to exhort, soon after joining the Methodist Church; at seventeen was licensed to preach, first in southern Ohio; at eighteen, in West Virginia; at twenty and twen- ty-one, around Danville and Richmond, Ken- tucky; at twenty-two and twenty-three, in 1818- 19, at Louisville, the first Methodist preacher ever stationed in that city. Henry Clay listened to his wonderful eloquence and had him elected chap- lain of the house of representatives of congress, 1823-24. This extended his sphere of usefulness and gave him a national reputation. He preached to admiring thousands in the large cities.
He was president of Madison College, at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 1827-28; agent of the American Colonization Society, 1829-30; profes- sor in Augusta College, Kentucky, for ten years, 1831-41; president of Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, 1842-48; the recognized leader in the convention of delegates from the annual conferences, held at Louisville in 1845, which resulted in the organizing of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; editor of the "Methodist Quarterly Review," 1846-50; prepared for publi- cation, in 1849, a volume of his sermons, which met with great public favor; was elected a bish- op, in 1850, and presided over the St. Louis con- ference, July, 1850-the only conference he lived to attend as bishop. On his return journey to his home at Lexington, Kentucky, he was too ill to proceed farther than Louisville, where he lingered for five weeks, until his death.
JUDGE JAMES HERVEY DORMAN, a leading and able lawyer of the bar of Owen- ton, son of Peter and Lucy (Kemper) Dorman, was born in Gallatin County, Kentucky, Novem- ber 7, 1831. There was no school near that he could attend until he was twenty years of age. About that time, having earned some money, he entered Asbury (now De Pauw) University, In- diana and remained there for two years and then taught school for four years.
At the beginning of the war between the states, he entered the Confederate army. In 1862 he fought under General Lee in the Army of North- ern Virginia, and at different times served under 32
Generals Humphrey Marshall, John C. Breck- enridge, Ransom, Longstreet, Morgan and Buck- ner. From the last named he obtained a fur- lough to celebrate his marriage with Miss Lizzie Gaines. He was a high private in the front ranks, but on one occasion he started from Lex- ington as captain of a company of seventy men, and when they reached Cumberland Gap they all deserted, declaring they had volunteered to fight in Kentucky and would not fight elsewhere. Judge Dorman then went on to Abingdon, Vir- ginia, and enlisted as a private. He was in forty- two battles and was ten days at the siege of Knoxville, Tennessee, his entire service extending over a period of three and a half years. When the war closed all the money he had was twenty-five cents.
After returning home he taught school and re- sumed the study of law, reading at night, after school hours; and began to practice in Owenton in 1866, where he is still actively engaged and is one of the leading men of his profession.
From 1869 to 1874 he was in the state. senate, and immediately after his term expired he was elected county judge, and held that office from 1874 to 1878, since which time he has acted as special circuit judge on several occasions, but has held no other office.
Judge Dorman was married March 16, 1864, to Lizzie Gaines, daughter of Col. Samuel Gaines, a Methodist minister. She is a native of Sullivan County, Tennessee, and was educated at a noted college in Asheville, North Carolina. They have four children living: William Gaines, Fannie, Letitia (deceased), Virginia Lee and James Her- vey Dorman, Jr.
Judge Dorman is a man of many fine qualities. He is an active politician and a stanch Democratic adherent to principle, as his record abundantly proves. As a lawyer he stands second to none at the bar of Owenton, a bar famous for its legal celebrities. Judge and Mrs. Dorman are mem- bers of the Missionary Baptist Church.
Peter Dorman (father) was born in Accomac County, Virginia, September 3, 1803. He came to Kentucky at the age of eighteen and settled in Bourbon County, Kentucky, where he was educated in the primitive schools of that day.
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When he was twenty-one years of age he moved to Gallatin County, Kentucky, and was a farmer in that county the remainder of his life and died January 3, 1873.
He married Lucy Kemper in 1830. She was born March 17, 1814. They had eleven children: James H., Fannie, Anna Eliza, John Wickliffe and Martin Luther (both John W. and Martin Luther were in the Confederate army), Elizabeth, Lucy, Emma, Henry, Peter and Atlanta.
Mathew Dorman (grandfather) was born in Accomac County, Virginia, of English ancestry. He came to Kentucky and died in Gallatin County. His wife was Atlanta Barnes of Acco- mac County, Virginia. They had nine children : Peter, Archie, Samuel, Lydia, Elizabeth, Lear, Silas, Jerubial and Mathew.
Mathew Dorman (great-grandfather) was a farmer of Accomac County, Virginia. He was in the Continental army, in Washington's com- mand.
Jonathan Kemper (maternal grandfather) was born and educated in Fayette County, Kentucky. After residing there for many years, he moved to Owen County, where he died. They had nine children: Nathan, Robert Walker, Lucy, Al- fred, Asa, Joshua, Elizabeth, Jonathan, Jr., and David.
Benjamin Kemper (great-grandfather) was born in Germany, and after his marriage there immigrated to Fayette County, Kentucky, where he engaged in farming.
E EDWARD CROSSLAND, deceased, an emi- nent jurist and member of congress from Mayfield, Kentucky, son of Samuel and Eliza- beth Harry Crossland, was born in Hickman County, Kentucky, June 30, 1827, and was edu- cated in the common schools there. He farmed for a few years after leaving school, and was the first sheriff of Hickman County after the adoption of the constitution of 1850. He studied law with Col. Bowmar, and, being admitted to the bar, commenced to practice with Col. George W. Sil- vertooth and Col. W. D. Lannon. From 1857 to 1859 he represented Hickman and Fulton Coun- ties in the Kentucky legislature. In 1861 he en- listed in the Confederate army, connecting him-
self with the First Kentucky Regiment, then under command of Col. Blanton Duncan and afterwards under Col. Thomas H. Taylor of Louisville. He was sworn into service in Vir- ginia as captain of his company and served in that capacity one year, when he was promoted to the rank of major, and later to that of lieutenant colonel. Upon the disbandment of the regiment, he was assigned to duty as colonel of the Sev- enth Kentucky Infantry, then in Mississippi, and was in command of the Kentucky brigade with Forrests' Cavalry when the war closed. After the war he returned to the practice of law in the First Judicial District, his home being at Clinton, Hickman County. He was elected judge of the Common Pleas Court of his district in 1866, but resigned that office in 1871 and was elected to Congress from the First District, being re-elected and serving until 1875. When his congressional term expired he resumed the practice of law at Mayfield, Kentucky, and in all the courts of his judicial district. In 1880 he was elected circuit judge of his district and was on the bench until he died, September II, 1881. He was a Mason, and it is needless to add that he was a Democrat.
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