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F. was the fourth son and eleventh child. He remained on the old homestead farm with his parents until fifteen. when he attended and taught school until twenty-one. He then settled on the old homestead farm for three years; then went to Louisville, Ky., and engaged in the grocery business three years. He read medicine and attended lectures until 1556 when he came to Daviess County, and located the town of Masonville. Dr. Carpenter married Miss Martha E. Taylor in Oldham County. Feb. 14, 1850. She was born in Oldham County. and was a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Speer) Taylor. Dr. and Mrs. Carpenter had four children --- Mary L., wife of James P. Lishbrook, and resides on their farin at Masonville; Albert W., M. D., who is unmarried and practicing medicine at Glumville, MeLean Co., Ky .; Joseph II., who married Alice Lish- brook, and resides in Murray Precinct; Robert L: resides in Mason- ville with his father. The mother died Nov. 14, 1872. Dr. Car- penter then married Sarah E. Taylor Feb. 1, 1876. She was born in Sullivan County, Ind., and was a daughter of William and Susan Taylor. Mrs. Carpenter is a member of the Baptist church.
They have a family of two danghters, Nina M. and Ida P. Dr. Carpenter owns a nice house and lot, also the only store of generai merchandise in Masonville. In politics he is a Democrat, and cast his first vote for James Buchanan for President of the United States.
L. B. Childs, Lewis Station.
Taylor Crigler, Whitesville.
Calvin E. Cottrell was born in Shelby County, Ky., July 12, 1831. His father, Rev. Reuben Cottrell, was born near Richmond, Va., and emigrated to Shelby County, where he was one of the early pioneer preachers. He died May 29, 1862, aged seventy- two years. IIe married Sarah Putnam, of Virginia, whose death preceded his by several years. There was a family of ten chil- dren, five now living. Calvin E. commenced the study of medi- cine when nineteen years of age, with Dr. Samuel Haynes, of Masonville. In 1853 he commenced the practice of his profession, in Butler County, Ky. The next year he again studied with Dr. Haynes. In 1861 he located in Owensboro and remained till after the death of his father in 1862, when he went to Hancock County. In 1870 he abandoned his profession on account of ill health, and returned to Owensboro, and was unable to engage in any business for several years. Since 1881 he has been engaged in the grocery business in Owensboro. March 6, 1857, he married Mary E.,
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daugliter of George and Mary J. Jones. They have had five chil- dren. only three now living-Oscar E., Beatrice and Ida. Albert and John are deceased. Dr. Cottrell is a member of the Baptist church.
J. P. Cox, M. D., born near Bardstown, Ky., Nov. 16, 1831, is a son of J. B. and Lucinda (Phillips) Cox, both natives of Nelson County, Ky. In "Collins's History of Kentucky" is recorded the settlement of his grandfather, James Cox, at the head waters of Cox Creek, Nelson County. His mother died in November. 1879; his father is still living, a member of his family. There was a family of twelve children, three dying in infancy. J. P. was the eldest son and was reared on a farm in Nelson County, receiving his early education in the common schools. In 1858 he began the study of medicine with his cousin, O. N. Cox, of Nelson County. He attended medical lectures at Louisville, Ky. In 1860 he went to Ohio and commenced the practice of his profession, being also engaged in farming a part of the time while there. In 1875 he came to Daviess County and located at Newville, where he has won for himself an enviable name in his profession, his practice extending into Ohio and McLean counties. In March, 1863, he married Sallie I., daughter of Wm. C. Rowan, of Ohio County, Ky. They have five children-William B., Lou Abbie, Anna, James Roy and Orion Noal. In 1877, Dr. Cox united with the Green River Baptist Church.
L. A. Crinnian, Grissom's Landing, where he has been for six or eight years. He came from Louisville.
Ignatius Guy Drury, M. D., Knottsville, was born in Nelson County, Ky., Nov. 18, 1829. His father, Hillary Drury (deceased), was a native of St. Mary's County, Md., and came to Kentucky with his parents in 1807, and removed with his family to this county in 1830. Our subject was reared on the old homestead, about four miles southeast of Knottsville, in this precinct, and educated at St. Mary's College in Marion County. He graduated from the Medical University at Louisville in 1862, and came to Knottsville the same year and formed a partnership with Dr. Will- iam B. Holmes, who was practicing here at that time. Dr. Holmes was also a graduate of the same college. He died in 1867. A few years later Dr. Drury formed his present partnership with Dr. Thos. J. Byrne. In the fall of 1871 he went to New York City and attended the Bellevue Medical College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons. While there he also visited the various
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hospitals, thus gaining much useful information. The Doctor was never married, but is supporting and educating two nieces and a nephew.
J. W. Ellis, M. D., was born in Daviess County, Ky., Dec. 30, 1847. His parents were Luther R. and Mary (Kallam) Ellis, na- tives of Kentucky. They had a family of two sons-W. T. Ellis, a lawyer of Owensboro, and J. W. When J. W. was seven or eight years old his parents dicd and he and his brother went to live with their grandfather, Hiram Kallam, a Methodist minister. J. W. remained with his grandfather and attended the Pleasant Val- ley Seminary until seventeen, when he entered the Kentucky Uni- versity at Harrisburg, and remained two terms. He then tanght school at Whitesville, studying medicine with Drs. Hale and Me- Kay fifteen months. Ile then entered the Jefferson Medical Col- lege at Philadelphia, graduating in March, 1870. He then located in Masonville, where he has since practiced his profession. Dr. Ellis is a member of the McDowell Medical Association, and a leading physician and surgeon of the county. He is purely a self- madelinan, as it was through his own exertions that he obtained an education. Dr. Ellis is a Mason and is a demitted member of Hodges Lodge, Whitesville. He owns a fine farm of 325 acres, on the south side of the Hartford road, in Masonville. He decided to make it a stoek farm, and has therefore purchased short-horn and Jersey cattle, and some fine horses and mnles. Dr. Ellis's grand- father, Hiram Kallam, was a Colonel in the war of 1812, and his sword is still in the Masonic hall at Pleasant Valley. Politically, Dr. Ellis has always been a supporter of the Democratic party. IIe was married April 26, 1877, to Bettie Whipp, a native of Casey County, Ky., and a daughter of John W. and Isabella (Coffey) Whipp, natives of Kentucky. They have one son, Wm. T., born Sept. 12, 1880; a danghter, Mary, born Feb. 26, 1878, died Sept. 4, 1878. Dr. and Mrs. Ellis are members of the Union Christian church, Masonville.
H. C. Flemming, Delaware, Curdsville Precinct.
W. Scott Gilmore, Sorghotown.
Josiah Hale, M. D., born Jan. 25, 1829, near Fordsville, Ohio Co., Ky., is a son of Caleb and Sallie (Hnff) Hale, both born in Virginia, and married in Ohio County, Ky. His father died aged seventy-four, and his mother aged seventy. They had a family of four sons and seven daughters; four sons and five daughters now living. Josiah was the third son. His parents being in moderate
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circumstances his early education was pursued in the schools of his county (Ohio), but he was ambitious, and by close study and perse- vering effort succeeded in making himself a fair scholar, and at the age of twenty, having chosen the profession of medicine, began his studies at home under the instructions of Dr. N. L. Lightfoot, a country practitioner, where he pursned his studies diligently for one year. He then went to Fordsville, Ky., and entered into a partnership with Dr. H. Wells, and practiced his profession for two years; then went to Louisville and became a pupil of Dr. D. W. Yandell, of that city, at the same time attending lectures at the Louisville University, where he graduated in 1856. He now entered npon the practice of medicine in Hartford, Ky., continning three years. Then went to New York, and attended a course of lectures at the New York University, also at the New York Ophthalmic Hospital. In 1860 he returned to Hartford, and resnmed his practice there for two years, when he removed to Owensboro, Ky., where he practiced for nine years; then being deter- mined to stand among the first in his profession went again to New York and attended lectures at the Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege, and also took a course of private instruction at the Ophthalmic Hospital, under 'Prof. H. Knopp. He returned to Owensboro, where his success has fully repaid him for his long and persistent study. In his experience as a physician he has had a large praetiee as surgeon, performing many difficult operations. Recently he has devoted himself more especially to the diseases of the eye, and surgical diseases of women, and has attained great distinction and a very large practice. In 1866 he became a member of the Ken- tucky State Medical Society, and in 1871 was elected Senior Vice- President of that body. He is a permanent member of the American Medical Association, a member of the MeDowell Medical Society, of the Owensboro Medical Society, and a member of the Board of Medical Examiners for the Fifth District of Kentucky. Ile was a delegate to the International (Centennial) Medical Con- gress, at Philadelphia, in 1876. IIe was a delegate from the Tri- State Medical Society (Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois) in 1881, to the International Medical Congress that met in London, England; and during his stay in London took a course of instruction on the diseases of the eye at the Royal London Ophthalmic ILospital. lle remained in Enrope one sunner, visiting the leading hospitals, umisenins and art galleries of London, England, Paris, France, and Edinburgh, Scotland, returning to Owensboro in the fall of 1881.
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He has written inany valnable articles for the medical journals of this country, several of which have been republished both in this country and in Europe. He is a member of the Baptist church and a Freemason. Dr. Hale was married in 1853 to the daughter of J. W. Willis, of Ohio County, Ky .; she died at Hartford in 1861, leaving one child-Mary, wife of J. A. Dean, attorney of Owens- boro. Dr. Hale was again married in 1873 to Miss E. McHenry, daughter of the Hon. J. H. McHenry, an ex-member of Congress and a noted lawyer of Owensboro, Ky. Dr. Hale has devoted him- self to his profession with an energy which has made him a success- ful physician and a useful man, his high sense of honor rendering him always regardful of the rights of others, and his urbane, kindly manner winning him the esteem of all. The Hale family were originally from England, and settled in Virginia at an early day, where the family is still represented, as well as in Maine, Massa- chusetts, Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky. In politics Dr. Hale was first a Whig, but since the war has been a Democrat.
C. Hale, Whitesville.
Benjamin F. Harralson, M. D., son of Colonel S. C. Harralson, who was born in Harralson's Ferry (now Delaware), April 17, 1838. He lived on a farm till fifteen years of age, and then at- tended school at Calhoun. He afterward clerked in the drug store of H. D. Jones, and in the meantime studied medicine under Drs. Bullett & Berry. He was Assistant Surgeon of the Eighth Ken- tucky Regiment during the late war. He attended Jefferson Med- ical College, Philadelphia, from which he graduated with high honors in 1865. He then returned to Delaware, where he has built up a large practice. Oct. 24, 1865, he married Miss M. Odon. To them have been born four children, three living-Gross, Gordon and Murray. Dr. Harralson is a member of the Christian church. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity.
S. J. Harris, from Pennsylvania County, Va., has been prac- ticing at Philpot's Station since 1874 or 1875.
Edward Hawes, Grissomn's Landing. After graduating he prac- ticed two years at Birk's City, and about five or six years he has been in Oakford Precinet.
C. B. Hayden, Owensboro. Office, east side of St. Ann Street, second door south of Main, up stairs.
J. P. Heavrin, M D., born in Anderson County, Ky., Nov. 24, 1849, is a son of Dr. James M. Heavrin, a native of the same county. He was educated at Rochester, Ky., Cromwell, Ky., and
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Morehead Seminary, Butler County, Ky. He read medicine with Dr. N. J. Rains, of Rosine, Ky., eighteen months. He took the first course of the Kentucky School of Medicine, at Lonisville, in 1878-'9, and then located in Curdsville, where he has since been practicing, with the exception of one term spent in school in 1882, when he graduated. He was married in March, 1875, to Sarah E. Reynolds. They have had two children, only one living-Grace. Dr. Heavrin is a member of the McDowell Medical Association of Northern Kentucky, the Alumni Association, and the Masonic fraternity.
James H. Hickman, Owensboro; east side of Frederica street, second south of Fifth.
D. V. Higdon, Knottsville.
Burr H. Hobbs, M. D., born July 29, 1824, in Nelson County, Ky., is a son of Win. A. and Nancy (May) Hobbs, both natives of Nelson County. Dr. Hobbs's grandfathers were among the first settlers of the State from Virginia. Dr. Hobbs was reared in Nel- son County and began the study of medicine there; graduated from the Transylvania University of Lexington, Ky., in 1849, the oldest medical college of the West. He went to Arkansas, where he be- gan the practice of medicine, and remained there till the breaking out of the war. He was a member of the Little Rock Convention that seceded the State of Arkansas from the Union, in the spring of 1861. He afterward entered the Southern srmy as surgeon and remained till the close of the war. After the close of the war he returned to Kentucky and settled in Owensboro, where he has since been engaged in the practice of medicine. He is a member of the McDowell Medical Society; was one of the original mem- bers. He has also been connected with the Owensboro Medical Society since its organization, and is now President of the society. He has been a Mason for thirty-five years. Has been Master of the lodge several times. He was married in 1852 to Rachel M. Cox, daughter of Gabriel Cox, of Mt. Washington, Bullitt County, Ky. They have three children-Arthur G. Hobbs, M. D., Professor of the Medical College of Atlanta, Ga .; Nannie, wife of P. F. Smith, of Newnan, Ga., and Fannie, residing at home.
Wm. E. Holmes, M. D., was born Ang. 31, 1856, son of J. M. and Elizabeth Holmes; was educated in Daviess County and at South Carrolton, Muhlenberg County; began reading medicine in 1876 with Dr. J. W. Ellis, of Masonville. He attended medical lectures at Jefferson College at Philadelphia, Penn,, and gradnated
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from this institution in 1879. He began practice iminediately afterward in Murray Precinct, and has been remarkably successful in his practice.
I. E. Johnson, Curdsville.
Philip T. Johnson, M, D. was born in Owensboro, Ang. 1, 1851 He attended the common schools of his native city until seventeen years of age, then went to the Hampden-Sidney College, Prince Edward County, Va., where he graduated in 1870, at the early age of nineteen. Ile then returned to Owensboro and read medicine with Drs. Todd and Scott two years; then entered the Hospital College of Medicine, at Louisville, Ky., where he graduated in 1875. He immediately commenced the practice of his profession in Owensboro, and Dec. 27, of the same year, was married to Miss Alice V. Hathaway, a native of Owensboro, and daughter of E. A. and Sallie Shelby (Todd) Hathaway. The latter was a great-grand- danghter of Governor Isaac Shelby, first Governor of Kentucky; also a granddanghter of the renowned Colonel Charles S. Todd, a sketch of whom is given in the chapter on the officials of the connty. Dr. Johnson's father was the Hon. Jaines L. Johnson, an account of whom is given in the same chapter.
After his marriage the Doctor settled on the old homestead in Owensboro, where he has since resided. He is a member of the Kentucky State Medical Society, and of the McDowell Medical Society. He has a most magnificent library in all respects, besides a number of valnable relics and articles of virtu. His remarkable antographic album is described in the literary chapter.
Mrs. Johnson is a member of the Fourth Presbyterian Church. They have two children-James L., born Dec. 22, 1876, and Harriet T., born March 9, 1878.
R. C. Kenner, Birk's City.
John F. Kimbley, M. D., is a native of Muhlenberg County. His grandfather on his father's side was born in Holland; emigrated to the United States previous to the Revolutionary war; served in that struggle and came at an early date to Kentucky. He settled on Corn Island below Louisville, and assisted in raising the first corn ever produced in Kentucky. One of his children was Frank E. Kimbley, who moved from Louisville to Muhlenberg County in 1792. He married Elizabeth Valandingham, a descendant of a Virginia family, by whom he had six children. The youngest was John F. Kimbley, born Sept. 24, 1823. At the age of twenty-one, in Muhlenberg County, he began the study of medicine, subse-
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quently attending a course of lectures in St. Louis, and in 1849 graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia. He had located in Daviess County in 1847, and after his gradua- tion returned to the same locality, practicing medicine until the late war. The Doctor took strong grounds for the Union. He volunteered his services, and in 1861 was appointed surgeon of the Eleventh Kentucky Infantry, serving three years and four months. He held, at various times, staff, brigade, division and corps positions in the armies of the Cumberland, Ohio and Ten- nessee, and was one of the chief surgical operators on every battle- field of his command, receiving always the commendation of his superiors. He served as Medical Director of the cavalry corps of Brigadier-General Sturges. General order No. 23, relieving Sur- geon Kimbley from the duty of Medical Director, was as follows:
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS, PARIS, KY., April 9, 1864. $
The Eleventh Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry having been permanently detached from this command, and J. F. Kimbley being surgeon of that regiment, he is hereby relieved from duty as Medical Director of the cavalry corps and will report to his regiment commander for dnty. The General commanding can not, however, thus summarily break his official connection with Surgeon J. F. Kimbley without expressing his deep regret for the necessity which compels him to lose from his staff so estimable a gentleman, and one who has administered the medical department with so much energy, zeal and. ability.
By order of
BRIGADIER-GENERAL. STURGES.
On his return to Daviess County, Dr. Kimbley resumed the practice of medicine. He has been married three times and has two children. The Doctor was a slave-holder at the breaking ont of the war, and lost heavily by the emancipation of the slaves. He earnestly supported every measure for crushing ont the rebellion, and adopted Republican principles during the struggle. His political opinions still place him in the Republican ranks, a position he has chosen, not so much from partisan feeling as that he considers in thus acting he is best discharging his duty to his country as a patriot.
James S. and Wm. R. Knox, Whitesville.
Thomas E. Lamping, M. D., born Sept. 22, 1850, in Grays- ville, Monroe Co., O., is a son of Frederick A. and Cassandra (Frenchi)
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Lamping, of Washington County, Ohio, the former a native of Germany, and the latter a descendant of the old Quakers of Ohio. Thomas E. received his literary education principally at Bethany, W. Va. He commenced his medical studies with Dr. George Baird, of Wheeling, W. Va., in 1870. In the spring of 1871 he attended a series of lectures at Long Island Hospital, Brooklyn, and in the fall of 1872 went to Cincinnati and attended lectures at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and graduated from there in February, 1873. The following March he came to Owensboro. In the spring of 1882 he was elected City Physician. June 15, 1882, he formed a partnership with J. A. Sieber. He is a member of the Owensboro and McDowell medical societies. He was married April 15, 1874, in Henderson, Ky., to . Lucy Brush, daughter of the late Rev. Geo. W. Brush, one of the oldest preach- ers in Kentucky, and a member of the Louisville Conference. They have one son-Frederick A.
C. J. Lockhart, M. D., was born in Daviess Connty, Ky., Sept. 6, 1851. He was reared and received his early education in this county. He commenced the study of medicine with his father and attended the Louisville Medical College from 1874-'76. He com- menced the practice of his profession in March, 1876, and is now located eight miles east of Owensboro. He has built up a good practice and is a promising young physician of Daviess County. He was married in 1881, to Miss Hannah Craig, a native of Daviess County, born March, 1862. They have one child-Robert C., born Oct. 2, 1882.
Simon M. Lockhart M. D., was born in Daviess County, Ky., Aug. 26, 1854. His early education was received in the schools of Owensboro. He studied medicine with his father and brother, and attended the Louisville Medical University two terms. He commenced the practice of medicine in March, 1878, and is now located at the forks of the Hardinsburg and Yelvington roads, four miles east of Owensboro. He is a member of the McDowell Medical Association. His parents, Dr. William and Mary (Sub- lett) Lockhart, are ratives of Indiana and Logan County, Ky., respectively, his father born in 1816, and his mother in 1821. They have three children-Laura C., Charles J. and Simon M. His father came to Kentucky when eight years of age, and was educa- ted in this State. He has practiced medicine in Daviess County over forty years.
Edward M. Luckett, Owensboro; residence, north side of Fourth,
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second west of Clay strect. Dr. Luckett is a well-known, promi- nent physician ; once President of the Green River Medical As- sociation, and has often had other responsible positions.
Dr. McMurtry, is in Vanover Precinct, near the narrows bridge. Henry & Watson Megill, Owensboro, druggists.
Hardin K. Orsburn, M. D., son of James S. Orsburn, was born in Webster (then'Henderson) County, Ky., Oct. 18, 1857. He was reared on a farm, and educated in the Morganfield Col- legiate Institute, of Union County, Ky. He commenced the study of medicine when twenty years of age, and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md., in Marclı, 1880. He then came to West Louisville, and commenced the practice of his profession in partnership with Drs. Orsburn & Blandford. He is a member of the McDowell Society of Second Kentucky Congressional District.
V. Orsburn, M. D., son of James S. Orsburn, was born in Webster (then Henderson) County, Ky., March 20, 1846. His father was also a native of Henderson County, born Aug. 17, 1819. He was educated in Princeton College, Ky., and in the medical department of the Louisville [University, from which he graduated in 1874. He commenced the study of medicine prior to his entering the college, having practiced since 1869. In 1875 he formed a partnership with T. W. Blandford. They have a large practice in West Louisville and vicinity. Dr. Orsburn was mar- ried Oct. 24, 1869, to Mrs. Mary J. Lewis, of McLean County, daughter of J. J. Rust.
Mason C. Pate, Whitesville.
Dr. Rinehart, Lewis Station.
M. H Rose, physician and Postmaster, Sorghotown.
J. D. Russell, Yelvington. Has been there about five years.
John A. Sieber, M. D., born in Evansville, Ind., Sept. 4, 1853, is a son of John and Catherine (Krapt) Sieber, natives of Bavaria, Germany. He was educated in the public schools, and Trinity Catholic School of Evansville, graduating from the latter in 1867. He was then clerk and bookkeeper in a large pork establishment. Oct. 15, 1874, he commenced the study of medicine with J. W. Irwin, M. D. He took his first course of lectures at the Evans- ville Medical College in the fall of 1876, and graduated in the spring of 1879. While in college he acted as prescription clerk in the city free dispensary thirty months; also acted as prosector for Edwin Walker, Professor of Anatomy. He commenced the prac-
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