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Andrew Lovelace, Jr., father of our subject, was a farmer, and he and his wife, Eleanor Ashley, had children as follows: Virgil Stew- ard, a resident of Lovelaceville; Martha Jane, widow of B. F. Hay- worth, of Bardwell; John; James Madison, deceased; Freeman B., de- ceased; Mollie Elizabeth, who married Dr. J. H. Elsey, of Bardwell; Isabelle Elizabeth, who married J. B. S. Hutson, of Carlisle county ; Victoria, who married D. B. Henderson : and William A., deceased. In politics the father was a Whig, and later a Democrat, while in religion he was a Methodist and his wife a Baptist.
John Haywood Lovelace was reared in Ballard county and received a limited education. The greater portion of his life has been spent in farming, but at present he is also interested in the Carlisle Manu- facturing Company, lumber dealers. He has been interested in this
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concern for the past six years, and has borne his part in its develop- ment. Mr. Lovelace resides on a farm near Bardwell, and for thirty years has resided and farmed in the vicinity of that place.
In 1870 he married Margaret N. Hayworth, born in Carlisle county, Kentucky. She has borne him the following children: Regin- ald B., Flora M., Myrtle, Roger Williams, Virgil Johnson, William Jordan, Eliza, all living, and three who died in infancy. In politics Mr. Lovelace is a Democrat. In religion he and his wife are Baptists and take an active part in the good work of the church. Fraternally he is a Mason. Both he and his wife began life poor, but now they have amassed a competency, and are numbered among the substantial, reli- able people of their locality.
HUNTER WOOD.
Hunter Wood of Hopkinsville, was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, on the 2d of November, 1845, and is one of the adopted sons of Kentucky who has attained prominence at the bar. The fam- ily is of Welsh origin, and was founded in America long prior to the war of the Revolution. The grandfather, Colonel Thomas Wood, was an officer in the war of 1812. The father, Dr. Alfred C. Wood, was educated in the University of Virginia, and became a prominent practicing physician. He married Martha Walker Rogers, of Albe- marle county, Virginia, a descendant of Dr. Thomas Walker, the first white man who ever came to Kentucky, the year of his visit to the state being 1754.
Hunter Wood, of this review, was graduated at the Virginia Mili- tary Institute, of Lexington, Virginia, in 1864, and the same year en-
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tered the Confederate army, serving with a company of cadets and participating in the battle of Newmarket, Virginia, where the com- pany suffered very severely. After the surrender of General Lee he was paroled, in May, 1865. Upon his return home he resumed his studies and entered the University of Virginia at Charlotteville, Albemarle county, as a student in the law department, and was there admitted to the bar in 1867.
Immediately afterward Mr. Wood removed to Hopkinsville, Ken- tucky, where he has since engaged in the prosecution of his chosen calling with that excellent success that demonstrates his ability and masterful handling of the interests entrusted to his care. He was elected county attorney in 1870 for a term of four years, and in 1874 was elected commonwealth's attorney for a six years' term. He was master commissioner at different intervals in the Christian county cir- . cuit court in the third judicial district between the years 1870 and 1894, holding the office altogether for ten years. He filled the posi- tion of United States collector of internal revenue for four years, from July 1, 1885, to July 1, 1889, under President Cleveland's first adminis- tration; and though maintaining his residence in Hopkinsville dur- ing that time, conducted his office in Owensboro. He is a Democrat in political sentiment, and was a delegate to the national convention of his party in 1884. He has several times been a member of the Demo- cratic state central committee and the county central committee, and has been very active in promoting the interests of the Democracy, the princi- ples of which he so warmly endorses.
Mr. Wood's standing as a lawyer is such that his name is enrolled among those whose powers have won for Kentucky its high reputation on account of the brilliance of its bar. He practices both in the civil
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and criminal courts and has been counsel in many of the leading cases that have come up for trial in this section of the state, among which are the following: The Ohio Valley Railroad Company versus Chris- tian county, testing the validity of a tax levy in behalf of the same road ; John Boyd versus B. E. Randolph, auditor's agent; C. M. Brown versus the commonwealth, seeking to collect taxes withheld by the sheriff in his capacity as county collector ; the city of Hopkinsville et al. versus George O. Thompson et al., concerning the validity of the water works contract under the new constitution; E. P. Campbell versus F. W. Dabney; C. M. Brown et al. versus R. H. Holland, testing the application of the ward system in cities of the fourth class under the con- stitution of 1890; William Cowan versus John P. Prausse, a contested election case in the election of county clerk. Mr. Wood has made a spe- cialty of corporation law, and is well versed on the intrinsic problemis in this branch of jurisprudence. He is now attorney for the following extensive corporations : The Ohio Valley Railroad Company ; the Cum- berland Telephone Company; the Hopkinsville Water Company; the Hopkinsville Electric Light Company, and the Hopkinsville Hotel Com- pany.
On the 16th of December, 1868, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Wood and Miss Rosalie Nelson Green, of Christian county, daugh- ter of John R. Green, a farmer, and a granddaughter of Thomas Green, whose father, Robert Green, was an officer in the Revolutionary war and a member of the Society of Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Wood have five children : Alfred Walker, of Kentucky New Era; Elizabeth N., wife of J. R. Barr, son of Judge J. W. Barr, of the United States dis- trict court ; Hunter, who is attending the Lebanon Law School; Grace; and Hugh Nelson. Mr. Wood is an active and leading member of the
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Protestant Episcopal church, in which he has served as vestryman for twenty-five years. He is a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Knights of Pythias and Knights of Honor fraternities. He is a man of wonderful energy and executive ability, and undertakes any enterprise with an enthusiasm that brings success. His capacity for work is very large, and to this may greatly be attributed his enviable career at the bar. He readily makes friends, and has the happy faculty of drawing them closer to him as the years roll by, while his strong personal influence is felt by all with whom he comes in contact.
SUMNER MARBLE.
Summer Marble was born near Northampton, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, January 20, 1816, and died in Princeton, Kentucky, on the 28th of May, 1881. He belonged to one of the oldest families in the Bay state, his ancestors locating in the Massachusetts colony at a period long antedating the Revolution.
Mr. Marble was engaged in school teaching in New Jersey, and in 1837 came to Kentucky, where he followed the same profession near New Castle. Later he began reading law, and was admitted to the bar at New Castle, after which he removed to Salem, then the county seat of Livingston county, where he remained until the organization of Crittenden county, when he opened an office in the newly established seat of justice there, Marion. He became the first county attorney of the new county, and his name is inseparably connected with the carly jurisprudence in that locality. In 18449 he was elected to represent his county in the state legislature. He never sought office, but his abilities
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were recognized by his fellow-townsmen, and by them he was elected to office, where he served with the utmost fidelity to the trust reposed in him. In 1852 he removed to Princeton, the county seat of Caldwell county, and was a valued member of the bar at that point until 1858, when he changed his place of residence to Chicago. There he was en- gaged in the prosecution of his chosen profession until August, 1863, and was regarded as one of the ablest members of the bar of that city ; and there he was an intimate friend of Henry H. Honore, Judge Tuley, now one of the most celebrated jurists of that city, and Judge Frank Adams, who was a frequent visitor in his office. In Chicago he was an authority on all matters pertaining to the legal questions arising from street assessments and special taxation cases. He was recalled to Paducah to protect the interests of an old client, Mr. Findlay, in a case involving the disposal of one hundred thousand dollars. He soon re- gained a large and important clientage, and, though known as a gen- eral practitioner, his business was mostly in civil cases, and came from a territory embraced within Lyon, Caldwell, Livingston and Crittenden counties. He also practiced in the court of appeals, and in the United States courts, where he met some of the most brilliant and formidable members of the Kentucky bar, and in forensic combat often won the victor's laurels. His contemporaries were George W. Barbour, after- ward governor of Utah; Livingston Lindsay, who removed to Texas and became judge of the supreme court of that state; Robert Patter- son, a brilliant lawyer, who served both in the house and senate of the legislature; Renzin H. Davidge, of the "new court of appeals"; Cap- tain C. T. Allen, who was a member of the constitutional convention of Kentucky in 1890, and is now in Mexico, Missouri.
In 1875 Mr. Marble was elected to the state senate from his district,
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comprising four counties, and served for a term of four years. was on the committee on revision of the code of practice, and there made some radical changes, leaving the impress of his talent and indi- viduality upon the legislation of the state. He introduced into the senate a bill providing for the reception of the evidence of persons ac- cused of crime on their own behalf, and spoke strongly in favor of the measure, which, although not adopted at the time, has since be- come one of the laws of the state. His political support was given the Whig party in early life, and in 1860 he supported Bell for the presi- dency. He believed in the constitutional rights of the state to secede, and after the war he affiliated with the Democracy up to the time of his death. He held membership with no religious denomination, but was a firm believer in the truths of Christianity, and his life was an exem- plification of all the underlying principles thereof. He was thoroughly versed in the science of jurisprudence, and in the court room had that case and freedom from anxiety which betokened thorough preparation and mastery of his case in every detail.
Mr. Marble was married at "Old Salem" in 1844 to Miss Eliza Jane Watts, daughter of William Watts, who died during her infancy. She was reared in the home of David Watts, a man of large fortune and wide mercantile experience, a member of the well-known firm of Watts, Givens & Company, and afterward of Watts, Crane & Com- pany, of Paducah and New York, handling cotton and tobacco as brokers and factors. Mrs. Marble died April 5, 1865, leaving one son, William Marble, who was for some years his father's partner in the law business.
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WILLIAM ROBERT HAZELWOOD.
William Robert Hazelwood, of Bardwell, Kentucky, was born in McCracken county, this state, at Woodville, August 6, 1870, and is a son of Smith Y. and Susan C. ( Bromley ) Hazelwood, both born in Christian county, Kentucky. The father was born about 1837 and died at Bardwell in 1889, and was a son of Robert and Susan ( Wright) Hazelwood. He was a carpenter by trade, and moved from Wood- ville to Bardwell in 1888. In politics he was a Democrat, while in religion he was a Cumberland Presbyterian, as was his wife.
William R. Hazelwood was reared in Woodville and Paducah. Ile was educated at Woodville and at La Porte, Indiana, and is one of the leading men of Bardwell. On February 6, 1895, he married Bessie T. Roberts, a daughter of the late J. F. Roberts, of Bardwell. For the past four years our subject has been chairman of the Carlisle county Democratic central committee. He is a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.
GEORGE WILLIAM PAYNE, M. D.
George William Payne, M. D., of Bardwell, Kentucky, was born on a farm near Bardwell, January 21, 1874, and is a son of William J. and Mary (Ramsey) Payne, the former of whom was born near Nashville, Tennessee, August 16, 1841, a son of Joseph Payne, a pio- neer settler of what is now Carlisle county, Kentucky. By occupation William J. Payne was a farmer until 1882, when he moved to Bard- well, and was in the livery business about twelve years. Since then he has resided in Bardwell and looked after his farming interests. In
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politics he is a stanch Democrat. Both he and his wife are members of the Missionary Baptist church. They have two living children and one who died in infancy, while another, David Lee Payne, died aged thirty-nine years, and a daughter, Thressa, died at the age of twenty- one years. The living ones are: James Henry, of Arlington, Ken- tucky, operating his farm, but formerly a traveling salesman for twelve years; and George William.
Dr. Payne was reared in Bardwell and here educated. In 1896 and 1897 he took a course in medicine at Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tennessee, and from there he went to the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis, from which he was gradated in 1899. Since then he has been successfully engaged in the practice of his profession at Bardwell. He is a member of the Carlisle County Medical Society, of which he is president, and he is also a member of the Kentucky State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and fraternally is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he is a stanch Democrat. His religious affiliations are with the Bap- tist church. In 1902 he married Miss Alda B. Moore, a daughter of the Rev. A. C. Moore.
JESSE L. ELSEY.
Jesse Lewis Elsey is a prominent farmer and stock-raiser of Car- lisle county, making his home near Bardwell. He was born in this county on the 5th of May, 1854, and is a son of John Montague Elsey, of whom mention is made on another page of this work in connection with the sketch of his brother, Dr. J. H. Elsey.
Jesse L. Elsey was reared upon the home farm, and was educated in Clinton College, at Clinton, Kentucky. At the age of nineteen he
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secured a certificate and began teaching in the public schools, which profession he followed with success for three years, being recognized as a capable educator. He then turned his attention to farming, and in his work as an agriculturist has been very successful. He has not only engaged in the tilling of the soil, cultivating the crops best adapted to this section of the state, but has also raised considerable live stock, dealing quite extensively in the same. This branch of his business has proved very profitable, and he is widely known as a raiser and dealer in stock. He is now the owner of two excellent tracts of land in Carlisle county, one of forty acres near Bardwell, on which he resides, and another of one hundred acres. All is well improved, and the neat and thrifty ap- pearance of his farms indicate his careful supervision and progressive methods.
Mr. Elsey certainly deserves marked credit for what he has ac- complished, for though he began life a poor man, by his industry, fru- gality and capable management, he has succeeded. In matters of citi- zenship he is progressive and public-spirited, and has given his sup- port to the Democracy. Socially he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife are members of the Meth- odist church.
Mr. Elsey has been twice married. In 1880 he wedded Miss Callie B. Reed, who died about ten years later, leaving two children: Cornelia and Jesse L. Mrs. Elsey was born in Carlisle county, and passed away at the age of thirty years. Her father was Joseph Reed, and was one of the pioneer settlers of this locality. In 1891 Mr. Elsey was again married, his second union being with Jennie Davidson, who was born in McCracken county, Kentucky, and by this marriage there is one daughter, Eulalia.
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It will be interesting in this connection to note something of the history of Mrs. Elsey's family, which is one of prominence in Kentucky. Her father, Thomas C. Davidson, was born in Todd county, this state, on the 17th of July, 1825, a son of Charlton B. and Sallie M. (Barks- dale) Davidson, both of whom were natives of Virginia, while the grandfather of Thomas C. Davidson was William Davidson, who for some time made his home in the Old Dominion. William Davidson, emigrating westward, passed up the Cumberland river and reached the present city of Nashville, Tennessee. There he camped and made some prospecting trips into the surrounding country. It is said that he was the first white man to make any definite stay in that vicinity, if not the first to visit the locality, and it was in his honor that Davidson county, Tennessee, was named. Charlton B. Davidson removed from Virginia to Todd county, Kentucky, in the early twenties, and after- ward took up his abode in Stewart county, Tennessee. In March, 1835, he became a resident of Graves county, Kentucky, and on the 26th of December, 1836, established his home in McCracken county, Kentucky, where he spent his remaining days, his death occurring in 18442, when he was fifty years of age. His wife survived him for many years, and passed away in Carlisle county, in 1866, at the age of sixty-six years. She was a daughter of Major Daniel S. Barksdale, a native of Virginia, and also one of the early settlers of Todd county, Kentucky. He also lived at Smithland, Kentucky, and was a trapper along the Cumber- land river, following that pursuit from its mouth up the stream as far as Nashville, Tennessee.
Thomas C. Davidson accompanied his parents to MeCracken county in 1836, and in that county has since made his home, following farming. Hle enlisted in the United States army as a teamster in 18.17,
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and served in the Mexican war from that time until the close of hos- tilities. In 1849 he married Miss Frances A. Miller, a native of Ken- tucky, born in Marshall county on the 23d of December, 1829. Her death occurred in McCracken county, this state, in 1877. By her mar- riage she became the mother of nine children, of whom six grew to mature years, while two sons and two daughters are yet living. Mr. Davidson is a stalwart Democrat, and is a member of Plain City Lodge No. 449, F. & .A. M., of Paducah county. His life has ever been an honorable, active and upright one, and by all who know him he is held in high esteem.
JOHN LEWIS BONE.
John Lewis Bone, a very prosperous and prominent farmer of Hickman county, was born in this county, March 27, 1836, and is a son of Benjamin and Malinda ( Phebus) Bone, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Georgia. The paternal grandfather was John Bone, a Revolutionary soldier, who served for seven years. In 1825 John Bone came to Kentucky from Tennessee, to which state he removed from North Carolina, his native state.
Benjamin Bone was a farmer and removed to Hickman county, Kentucky, with his wife and one son. He was one of the brushbreakers of the county, and extremely poor, but by hard work and thrift he be- came in time one of the leading farmers of the county and owned three . hundred and forty acres of land and several slaves. In politics he was a Democrat and a faithful member of the Methodist church, being very devout in his manner of living. His death occurred when he was about forty-seven years of age. His wife survived him some twenty-five years, dying when seventy-four years of age. To this worthy
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couple were born the following children: William, deceased; Mary E., deceased; John Lewis; James W., deceased; Peter, deceased.
John Lewis Bone was reared and educated in Hickman county, attending the country schools. His father gave him eighty acres of raw land, which he successfully developed, added to it, and now owns two hundred and eighty-five acres of well-improved land. In politics he is a Democrat. His religious affiliations are with the Methodist church. Fraternally he is a Master Mason.
In October, 1859, he was married in Hickman county to Sarah F. Ward, who was born in this county, and died here July 10, 1898. Five children were born to them, namely: James H., born May 27, 1861, and died October 23, 1899; Luella, born January 7, 1863; Annie B., born February 20, 1865; Henry E., born March 3, 1867; Callie D., born November 27, 1869. The success which has attended the efforts of Mr. Bone has been gained through his own hard work and excellent management, and he is justly regarded as a leading representative of the best farming interests of the community.
MAJOR JOHN W. BREATHITT.
Major John W. Breathitt, postmaster of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, was born in the town in which he lives, January 9, 1825, and here his long life of activity and usefulness has been passed.
Major Breathitt belongs to one of the pioneer families of Ken- tucky. The name Breathitt is honorably linked with Kentucky his- tory. John Breathitt, an uncle of the major, was governor of Kentucky in 1833, and Breathitt county was named in honor of him. The Breath- itts are of German and Scotch origin, and Virginia was their primitive
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home in this country. William Breathitt, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Virginia and in early life emigrated with his family to Kentucky, settling in Logan county, where he improved a farm and where he passed his life as an agriculturist. He died in Logan county at a ripe age. His son, Hon. James Breathitt, the Major's father, was quite young when he was brought to this state. He studied law and became a prominent attorney in Christian county, where he located in carly manhood, and where he died at the age of forty-five years. He married Elizabeth S. Short, a native of Christian county and a daughter of Peyton Short, who came from Virginia to Kentucky and settled in Christian county among its pioneers. Two sons were born of this union, Peyton Short Breathitt and John W. Breathitt. The former became a physician, but died in early manhood.
John W. Breathitt was educated in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and Gambier (Ohio) College, with a finishing course in law at Augusta, Kentucky. For a number of years he was engaged in farming. In 1874 he was elected county clerk, which office he filled continuously for a period of sixteen years, having been re-elected. He was next elected county judge, an office he filled three years. Under President Harrison's administration he was appointed postmaster of Hopkinsville, was re- appointed by President Mckinley, and is still the incumbent of the office. His long public service in Christian county, where he has spent his whole life, has gained for Major Breathitt a large acquaintance, and it may be truly said that there are few men in the county, if, indeed, there are any, who are held in higher esteem by the people general !! than he. And further, it may be said, those who know him best esteem him most highly.
During the Civil war Major Breathitt was captain of Company
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A, Third Kentucky Cavalry, and was appointed major of the Third Kentucky Cavalry, First Battalion; and served in the defense of the Union throughout the war in the Army of the Cumberland.
lle was married in November, 1847, to Catherine .A. Webber, a native of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and a daughter of Dr. . 1. Webber, one of the prominent physicians of the town. They became the parents of nine children, namely: Peyton Short; Augustine, assistant post- master of Hopkinsville; Harvie, an attorney at Hopkinsville; Judge James, an attorney and a representative in the state legislature from Christian county ; John W., deceased; Elizabeth S .; Caroline, wife of Robert S. Green ; Catharine .A., wife of M. F. Griffin; and Fannie, who died in infancy.
AUGUSTINE BREATHUITT.
Augustine Breathitt, assistant postmaster of Hopkinsville, Ken- tucky, is deserving of rank with the most patriotic citizens of his locality. He has a war record that includes service in two wars. A son of Major John W. Breathitt, Augustine Breathitt was born in Hopkinsville, Octo- ber 8, 1849, and here spent his boyhood days, receiving his education in the public schools. He was in his early teens when the Civil war was inaugurated. His eagerness for soldier life and his ambition to serve his country could not be restrained, and in October, 1863, at the age of fifteen, he entered the army, enlisting as a member of Com- pany E, Seventeenth Kentucky Cavalry, U. S. A., of which he was first orderly sergeant. Hle shared the fortunes of his company for a period of thirteen months. until the close of the war, and during that time saw much hard service. At the close of the war he was honorably discharged, and was mustered out at Louisville. At the opening of the
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