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David Simpson (grandfather) was connected with the steamboat lines that plied between Cin- cinnati and New Orleans.
Susan J. Hamilton Simpson (mother) was the daughter of William and Mildred Hamilton. Her father was a descendant of Alexander Ham- ilton and was a building contractor and steam- boat captain, with headquarters at Nashville, Tennessee. Susan J. Hamilton was born in Nashville, Tennessee, February 17, 1814; was educated in Nashville and married David Simp- son in 1833. They had ten children, of whom six are now living. She was a member of the prim- itive Baptist Church, and died in Clay County, Arkansas, May 14, 1891, and is buried there.
H ARVEY H. ROBERTS, a leading physician of Paris, son of John H. and Mary Johnson Roberts, was born in Walton, Boone County, Kentucky, July 26, 1865. He was educated at the Walton High School and at Georgetown Col- lege, and in 1886 took a course in a business col- lege at Cincinnati, Ohio.
He began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Bagby at Walton and continued under the instruction of that gentleman for four years. In 1887 he entered the Ohio Medical College, gradu- ating in 1890; took a post-graduate course in 1893 at the "New York" Polyclinic, in general medicine and surgery and received private instruction in Cincinnati in hospital work under Doctors Ran- serhoff, Dawson and other eminent physicians and surgeons.
After graduating in 1890 he located at Paris, engaging in the general practice of medicine and surgery; while in New York he made a specialty of diseases of the nose and throat and operative surgery ; has written a number of articles for lead- ing medical journals; is a member of the Ken-
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tucky Medical Association, the Mississippi Val- ley Medical Association, the Midland Kentucky Medical Association, the American Medical As- sociation and the "Pan-American Congress," and is a subscriber to the principal medical journals of the country.
Dr. Roberts is a thoroughly wide-awake physi- cian and spares no physical exertion nor medical research to entitle him to the front rank in his chosen profession.
He is deacon in the Christian Church, a Demo- crat in politics, an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias.
He married Ella Graves of Georgetown, daugh- ter of William and Susan (Smarr) Graves, Novem- ber 12, 1890. They have one child, Hamilton, born May 14, 1895.
John H. Roberts (father) was born near Wal- ton, Boone County, Kentucky, October 29, 1825, and was educated in the private schools in that county. He was engaged in farming and stock- raising all his life. He was a member of the Bap- tist Church, being especially active in establishing a church of that denomination at Walton, and was treasurer of the church from its organization until two years before his death, when he resigned on account of ill-health. He retired from farming i11 the latter years of his life and resided in Wal- ton until his death in 1895. He married Mary Johnson, October 24, 1850, and three children were born to them: Columbus, born July 22, 1851; Harvey Hamilton, born July 26, 1865; and James Kirtley, born August 9, 1871. He was a stanch Democrat, but did not take any active part in politics. His wife, Mary J. Roberts, daugh- ter of Hamilton Johnson, was born January 18, 1831.
Wnı. Roberts (grandfather) was born in Jessa- mine County, Kentucky, in 1800; died July 20, 1877. He was a farmer and prominently connect- ed with the business interest of his county. In religious convictions he was a "hard-shell" Bap- tist.
Phillip Roberts (great-grandfather) died at the age of eighty-four. He came from North Caro- lina to Kentucky, in the early pioneer days. He was in the War of 1812.
Sarah (Keene) Roberts (grandmother) was a
daughter of Joseph Keene, Jr., born in 1797, and died October, 1865.
Joseph Keene, Sr. (great-great-grandfather), was prominently connected with the Revolution- ary War and was over one hundred years of age at his death.
Hamilton Johnson (grandfather) was born June 16, 1799; died February 26, 1862; married Mary Tyndal October 17, 1822. He came to Kentucky from New Jersey in the early pioneer days. He was engaged in farming and trading in the general products of the country in those days.
Andrew Johnson (great-grandfather) was in the War of 1812, and died March 27, 1861, aged nine- ty-two years.
Mary (Tyndal) Johnson (grandmother) was born October 26, 1802; died September 21, 1880; was a daughter of John Tyndal.
John Tyndal (great-grandfather) was in the War of 1812; died June 18, 1861, aged ninety- three years.
H ENRY ALBERT COTTELL, M. D., pro- fessor of physiology, histology and clinical diseases of the nervous system, in the medical de- partment of the University of Louisville, editor of the American Practitioner and News, son of Charles Cottel and Phoebe Hanscom, was born in Calais, Maine, June 7, 1847.
His father is a native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from which place his family emi- grated to the wilderness of Maine in February, 1813. He labored hard in youth; was self-edu- cated, and came in middle life to be one of the best known men on the Saint Croix River. He was Justice of the Peace, and an extensive dealer in ship timber. In 1857 he removed to Illinois, where, after a brief residence in the towns of War- ren and Rockford, he settled upon a farm in Will County, near Elwood. Here he still lives, hale, hearty, and in the enjoyment of all his faculties, at the age of eighty-seven.
He is a man of culture and of a wide scope of information, and is known as a contributor in prose and verse, to current literature. He has, however, never attempted anything ambitious, having preferred the hard but stable life of the
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farmer to the uncertain scramble for fame. In politics he was a Democrat in early life and cast his first presidential vote for Andrew Jackson. In 1856, however, he voted for Fremont, and has been a stanch Republican ever since. He is of a deeply religious nature, and has been a promi- nent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for more than sixty years. He has always been a man of great energy and industry, doing thor- oughly whatever he undertook to do.
Samuel Cottel (grandfather), a native of Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, was for many years a resident of Maine, where he died at an advanced age. He was descended from a New York Dutch family, who spelled the name Kottel originally.
Phoebe Hanscom Cottel (mother), a native of Maine (Machias), was the daughter of Hiram Hanscom and Susan Weston (grandmother), who was a daughter of Hannah Weston (great- grandmother), who was a daughter of Cap- tain Samuel Watts, an officer in the French and Indian War (1756-63), He fought at Crown Point, on Lake Champlain, under Winslow, and with General Wolfe at the siege of Quebec. He took part, with his son, Cap- tain Samuel Watts, Jr., and son-in-law, Josiah Weston, in the capture of the British man-of-war Margaretta at the port of Machias, in June, 1775, and although advanced in years was the leading spirit in the celebrated achievement. Hannah Weston (his daughter) distinguished herself on this occasion by carrying a sack of ammunition weighing thirty pounds, from Jonesboro, through an unbroken forest, to Machias, a distance of six- teen miles. At this time she was sixteen years old and a bride. Her brother, Samuel Watts, shot and killed Captain Moore of the Margaretta. He was the first naval office killed in the war of the Revolution. Her husband, Josiah Weston, with her brother, Samuel Watts, received pensions for their services. Hannah Weston was the great- granddaughter of the celebrated Hannah Dustin, in whose memory a monument in the public square is one of the historic features of Haver- hill, Massachusetts.
The first ten years of Henry A. Cottell's life were spent in Calais, Maine, when his father re- moved to Illinois, and the next ten years were
spent on the farm and in the public schools of Rockford, Illinois, since which time, 1867, he has been a resident of Louisville. Coming to the city at the age of twenty years, fresh from the coun- try, and unacquainted with city customs, he soon attracted attention as a musician of more than ordinary talent. He found employment in the music establishment of Louis Tripp, where he gained some knowledge of business, became ac- quainted with the best people in the city and made considerable advancement in music, in which he could give some of the professionals points; was employed as organist in one of the largest churches, of which George C. Lorimer was then pastor, while his services were in demand in musical societies and in public entertainments. But the fascinations of music and his pleasant as- sociations with musical people and polite society did not change his purpose to study medicine, and in 1870 he matriculated in the medical de- partment of the University of Louisville, from which he graduated in 1872.
His preceptor, Dr. J. M. Bodine, a distin- guished anatomist, then as now professor of that chair and dean of the University, made Mr. Cot- tell his prosector in anatomy before the young man was graduated, and he has been regularly connected with the university ever since; first, as quiz-master in anatomy and physiology; from 1885 to 1892, as professor of chemistry and mi- croscopy; in 1892, clinical diseases of the nervous system was added to his chair; and in 1895, upon the death of Professor Edward R. Palmer, he was transferred to the chair of physiology, his pres- ent position in the leading medical college in the city of Louisville.
In 1880 Dr. Cottell was called to the editor- ship of the Louisville Medical News, which, in 1895, was united with the American Practitioner and News, and since that time with Dr. David W. Yandell he has conducted that famous jour- nal, under the name of the American Practi- tioner.
As a practitioner, Dr. Cottell has given espe- cial attention to the nervous system, in which branch his success has been most gratifying. Of quiet disposition and modest demeanor, he has never sought notoriety or prominence, but in the
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profession and among the thousands of physi- cians who attribute their success largely to his helpful teaching he is known as one of the most talented educators in the medical profession.
Dr. Cottell was married in 1880 to Mary Van Buren Campbell, daughter of William Campbell and Fannie Minserrat Campbell of Baltimore, Md., now deceased. She was educated in the Nold Louisville Female Seminary, graduating with the first honors of her class. She is a vocal- ist of charming sweetness and power and a lady of highest culture and refinement. Their only child, James Ruffin Cottell, is a promising lad of six years. Dr. and Mrs. Cottell are members of Christ Church, the Episcopal Cathedral of Ken- tucky.
As a writer and speaker Dr. Cottell is well known to the profession. His editorials in the American Practitioner and News have high rank among medical essays, while his popular ad- dresses delivered at the university commence- ments, viz .: Esthetics of Medicine, 1886; The Medical Millenium, 1895, and The Life and Char- acter of Professor Edward Rush Palmer, 1896, are pronounced by competent judges to be ora- torical and literary efforts of unusual merit.
JOHN LYNCH DISMUKES, prominent phy- J sician of Mayfield, son of Paul Dismukes and Sabina Bowman, was born near Nashville, Ten- nessee, December 20, 1830.
He received his literary and classical education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1852; and attended the med- ical department of the University of Pennsyl- vania, from which he graduated in 1856, and be- gan the practice of medicine at Mayfield during the same year and soon became prominent in his profession.
He is a member of the American Medical As- sociation; of the Tri-State Medical Association of Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois, and was elected its first vice president in 1876-77; of State Med- ical Association of Kentucky, and was its first vice-president in 1877; is a member of the Soutlı- ern Kentucky Medical Association, of which he was president in 1874; and has contributed many 33
articles on medical subjects to various journals throughout the country.
During the war he held the position of surgeon in charge of various hospitals in the Confederate army, especially field hospital surgeon of Pat Cle- burne's Division of Hardee's Corps, and was wounded at Chickamauga and again at Franklin, Tennessee. He was one of the incorporators and directors of the Cairo, Tennessee River & Cum- berland Gap Railroad. Dr. Dismukes is a Dem- ocrat in his political affiliations and a member of the Baptist Church.
In November, 1867, he married Imogen E. Tay- lor, daughter of Dr. James S. Taylor of Clinton, Louisiana. They have four children: Mamie Sabina, wife of H. H. Harris of Waco, Texas; James Taylor, dentist; Paul Isham, John L., Jr., educated at West Kentucky College, Mayfield, and later finished his literary studies at Clinton College; was at the University of Louisville for one year and graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine, Louisville, June 21, 1894. He married Mary Landrum, daughter of Dr. William L. Landrum, December 18, 1895, and is now prac- ticing medicine with his father in Mayfield.
Paul Dismukes (father) was born in Roanoke County, Virginia, in 1811; was educated at the academy near Clarksville, Tennessee, under Pro- fessor Thomas Terrill; was a planter in Davidson County, Tennessee; was a strong Southern syn- patlıizer and had four sons in the Confederate army: Dr. John L. Dismukes, the subject of this sketch; Dr. Thomas Terrill Dismukes, also a sur- geon; James Henry of the First Tennessee Regi- ment, died in hospital at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, while in service; and Marcus L., who served under John Morgan and General Forrest. Mr. Dismukes was originally a member of the Presbyterian Church, but was baptized in his last illness by a minister of the Christian denomina- tion. He died August 31, 1869, and is buried near Nashville, Tennessee.
Paul Dismukes (grandfather) was a planter in Virginia, but subsequently removed to Davidson County, Tennessee. He served in the Continental army during the Revolutionary War.
Paul Dismukes (great-grandfather) came from Wales to Virginia. There is a tradition that the
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family went from France, from a place called "Meaux," a suburb of Paris, to Wales, and that "De Meaux," as "Paul De Meaux," was finally changed to "Dismukes."
Sabina Bowman Dismukes (mother) was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1811 and received her education there. She married Paul Dis- mukes, January 18, 1829, and died September 30, 1844, and is buried near her husband in David- son County, Tennessee, at the primitive Dis- mukes' plantation. The names of their children are: John L., Thomas T., Paul, James H., Mar- cus L., Esther Ann (deceased), Sarah, wife of Professor John McCready of the Sewanee Uni- versity, Tennessee, formerly professor in Yale College; and Sabina Bowman Dismukes of Charleston.
John Lynch Bowman (maternal grandfather) changed his name to John Bowman Lynch in or- der to inherit the property under the old name, taking the name from his uncle, Thomas Lynch (and using the name of Lynch only), who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, whose only son, Thomas Lynch, was lost at sea. John Bowman Lynch inherited the property. The estate is called Lynch Peach Tree Plantation and is in South Carolina near George- town. He studied medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1800, and while at college was considered very eccentric. He was a very wealthy man and kept a large home es- tablishment. His wife was Ann Eliza Campbell of England. He died in 1866.
John Bowman (great-grandfather) married Miss Lynch, daughter of Thomas Lynch, signer of the Declaration of Independence for and from South Carolina.
FRANCIS THOMAS DURAND WAL- LACE, lawyer of Louisa, son of Thomas and Mary (Moore) Wallace, was born in Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky, March 26, 1850. His father traced his ancestry back to Sir Wil- liam Wallace, the Scottish warrior and statesman, of whom was written the song: "Scots wha ha'e wi' Wallace bled."
Thomas Wallace (father) was born in Lafay- ette, Indiana, April 24, 1812. When he was but
three years old his father removed to Clarke County, Ohio, where Thomas spent his boyhood days and received his education. He was a clerk in a store in Springfield, Ohio, for one year, and at the age of seventeen years came to Floyd County, Kentucky, where he was engaged as a cabinet maker for four years, and there mar- ried his first wife, Lizzie Everell, who died in 1839, soon after their marriage. In 1840 he re- moved to Louisa, and, his health having failed, he engaged in general trading and accumulated quite a handsome fortune. In politics he was a Whig, and during the Civil war, a Union sympa- thizer, but after the war he voted the Democratic ticket. He was very much interested in his busi- ness and cared little for politics, except from a general interest in the public weal. He was a Master Mason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He was married (sec- ond) in 1841, to Mary Moore, and died in Louisa, July 29, 1871.
Thomas Wallace (great-grandfather) was a na- tive of Virginia, where he was raised, educated and married. He came to Kentucky about 1795 and settled at Mays Lick, Mason County. After- wards, about 1807, he removed to Clarke County, Ohio, where he purchased a large tract of land at a small price, and died there, March 13, 1813. He was said to be a very religious man, a mem- ber of the Presbyterian Church, which has been the religious faith of the family for centuries.
His wife's name was Ellen Ross, who belonged to a family of distinction in Scotland. Her par- ents were from the Shire of Ross, so called in honor of the Ross family. Some of her relatives. are still living in Mason County, to which section they came from Virginia. The Ross and Wal- lace families were descendants of a people who were noted for their large frames and physical strength.
The children of Thomas and Ellen Ross Wal- lace were six sons and four daughters: John, William, Ross, James, Moses and Joseph (sons); Mary, Nancy, Deborah and Rachel (daughters).
Mary died young; Nancy married James Mc- Clon of Madison, Indiana; Deborah married Preston Ross, her second cousin; both are now deceased; Rachel married John Ross, a brother
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of Deborah Ross' husband, and died young; John Wallace was a farmer and died on the farm given him by his father and was worth from $50,000 to $100,000; he married twice and had a large fam- ily by his first wife, but no issue by his second marriage. William Wallace was educated for the ministry before his father left Kentucky and was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Paris until his death in 1816. He married a Miss Ran- kin of Lexington and they had four children, one of whom is the celebrated William Ross Wallace. The other three children were daughters: Ellen, Martha and Mary; the latter married John H. Harney, who was the editor of the Louisville Democrat; and she was the mother of William Wallace Harney, another distinguished poet, now of Florida.
Ross Wallace (grandfather) was a farmer and general trader. He married Elizabeth Neely in Bath County. His was an eventful life, an out- line of which would require more than the lim- ited space in this volume. The children were named William, Thomas (father), Deborah and Elvessie.
Elizabeth Neely Wallace (grandmother) was a widow when she married Ross Wallace, but was only seventeen years of age. Her first hus- band's name was Gibbs, a negro trader of Bour- bon County, Kentucky (perhaps), who only lived about a year after their marriage and died by poison from his negroes on the Mississippi river, while on a trading tour. He left one child, Me- lissa Gibbs.
Mary Moore Wallace (mother) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 25, 1817. Her parents moved to (now West) Virginia in 1820, and she was educated in Marietta, Ohio, and at Barboursville, West Virginia. She mar- ried Thomas Wallace in 1841, whom she survives, and is now a resident of Louisa, in good health, and in the seventy-ninth year of her age.
Frederick Moore (maternal grandfather), a na- tive of Holland, came to Philadelphia when he was a youth and was engaged in tanning there and later in merchandising. Following the War of 1812 he had a large stock of goods, and con- cluded that the only way to save himself from great loss was to remove to some point where he
could trade his goods for furs and other produce of the country. So he came to Kentucky in 1816, or about that time, and settled near Cassville, Virginia, and there continued in business until 1871, when he removed to Louisa and died, May 23, 1873. His wife's maiden name was Pamelia Van Horn, a native of Philadelphia, who died in Louisa, Kentucky, August 1, 1881, at the ad- vanced age of eighty-six years. Her parents were descendants of Hollanders.
Francis T. D. Wallace, the principal subject of this sketch, was educated in the schools of Louisa and at a commercial college in Portsmouth, Ohio; was associated with his father in general trading for a while, and in 1868, following the natural bent of his mind, he began the study of law in the office of Prichard & Harcher; was admitted to the bar of Louisa in November, 1870; opened his office in that place and began the practice of his profession under most favorable and encour- aging auspices. In 1881 he was appointed local attorney for the Chattaroi, now the Ohio & Big Sandy Railroad Company, which position he held until 1892, when that company was merged into the Chesapeake & Ohio system, and Mr. Wal- lace was made assistant solicitor for that company with headquarters at Ashland.
Mr. Wallace began to take an active interest in politics when quite young, and one year after he was admitted to the practice of law, he was elected police judge of Louisa, and served in that capacity for a period of four years; was a mem- ber of the State Senate from 1885 to 1889 from the Thirty-second District, comprising the coun- ties of Greenup, Boyd, Lawrence and Elliott, and in that body took rank as a wise, safe and conservative legislator, looking carefully after the interests of the people. During his term he intro- duced many measures for the material improve- ment of eastern Kentucky. Since the expiration of his term as Senator he has devoted his atten- tion exclusively to his large and increasing law practice in Louisa.
In politics he is, and always has been, a Dem- ocrat; is a Shriner, Knight Templar, Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order.
Mr. Wallace was married September 16, 1872,
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to Phoebe E. Wood, daughter of John Perry Wood and Lucy Alzina (Day) Wood. Mr. Wood was a general trader and stock dealer in New York. Mrs. Wallace was born in Hartford, Washington County, New York, September 7, 1852, and was educated at Fort Edward, New York.
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SAAC SHELBY, Kentucky's first state gov-
ernor, was born on the IIth day of December, 1750, near to the North Mountain, a few miles from Hagerstown, in Maryland, where his father and grandfather settled after their arrival in America from Wales. In that early settlement of the country, which was annoyed during the period of his youth by Indian wars, he obtained only the elements of a plain English education; but, like his father, General Evan Shelby, born with a strong constitution, capable of bearing great privation and fatigue, he was brought up to the use of arms and the pursuit of game.
At the age of twenty-one he took up his resi- dence in western Virginia, beyond the Alleghany mountains, having previously acquired a knowl- edge of surveying and of the duties of sheriff at Fredericktown. He was engaged, in his new res- idence, in the business of feeding and attending to herds of cattle in the extensive range which dis- tinguished that section of the country. He was a lieutenant in the company of his father, the late General Evan Shelby, in the memorable battle fought the 10th of October, 1774, at the mouth of the Kanawha, at the close of which his father was the commanding officer, Colonels Lewis, Fleming and Field being killed or disabled. The result of this battle gave peace to the frontier, at the critical period of the colonies venturing into the eventful contest of the Revolution, and de- terred the Indians from uniting with the British until 1776. This was, probably, the most se- verely contested conflict ever maintained with the Northwestern Indians; the action continued from sunrise to sunset, and the ground for half a mile along the Ohio was alternately occupied by each of the parties in the course of the day. So san- guinary was the contest that blood was found on each of the trees behind which the parties were posted. The Indians, under the celebrated chief,
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