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presentation he is forceful, logical and convincing.
In 1898 occurred the marriage of Mr. Lisanby and Miss Hattie White, a daughter of C. J. White, a farmer of Caldwell county. They have one child, Charles Alvin, born in Princeton, August 4, 1899. Mrs. Lisanby was born in Caldwell county, and is a representative of an old and prominent family here. She belongs to the Baptist church, and Mr. Lisanby has been a member of the Christian church from the age of fourteen years. He exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Democratic party, and belongs to the Ma- sonic fraternity, in which he has attained to the degree of Knight Templar, holding membership in Alida Commandery No. 21, Knights Templar, at Sturgis, Kentucky. Mr. Lisanby deserves great credit for what he has accomplished in life, having been dependent upon his own resources from an early age, not only for what he has gained in a
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financial way, but also for his education. He is a man of strong intellectuality and marked force of character, and has won a very creditable position in the ranks of the legal fraternity of Caldwell county.
PATRICK H. DARBY.
Patrick H. Darby, who is one of Kentucky's native sons, has at- tained distinction at the bar, and is now practicing with success in Princeton. The liberal patronage accorded him is proof of his ability, and of his skilful presentation in court of the cases entrusted to his care. His father, George F. Darby, was born in Caswell county, North Carolina, in the year 1802, and for a considerable period was a well known and representative citizen of Caldwell county, Kentucky. He died in what is now Lyon county, Kentucky, in the year 1858. When a youth he came with relatives to this state, and was here reared to manhood. After reaching adult age he wedded Miss Mary Wyatt, who was born in Caldwell county, a daughter of Zadoc Wyatt, one of the pioneers of this portion of the state, who came to Kentucky from Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Darby traveled life's journey happily together for many years, and she long survived her husband, passing away in 1887, when about eighty-two years of age.
After his marriage George F. Darby settled in Lyon county, which was then a part of Caldwell county, and there spent his remaining days. He was a successful farmer, carefully operating his affairs and gather- ing therefrom rich harvests. He became one of the leading citizens of his community, and his devotion to the general good well fitted him for leadership in public affairs. In politics he was a stanch Demo- crat. He did not hold membership with any church, but his wife and
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her people were connected with the Cumberland Presbyterian church. He lived an upright, honorable life, worthy of the respect of those with whom he was associated, and he enjoyed in high measure the regard of his fellow men. To him and his wife were born the follow- ing children : Frank W. Darby, whose birth occurred on the home farm in Lyon county, Kentucky, in 1839, was educated at Cumberland College, in Princeton, and studied law about 1865-6. He then practiced in Princeton and became a leading representative of the profession. He was a Democrat in politics and served for one term as county judge, while for two terms he represented his district in the state senate and proved a capable legislator. Hle belonged to the Masonic fraternity, in which he attained the Knight Templar degree. He died in Prince- ton, December 31, 1894. Andrew G. Darby, the second of the family, is a practicing physician at Dawson, Kentucky. Patrick H. is the next younger. Mary is the wife of Rev. Milton Cockrill, a Baptist minis- ter, now preaching for the church of his denomination in Windsor, Missouri. William J. is a prominent minister of the Cumberland Pres- byterian church, residing at Newburg, Indiana.
Patrick H. Darby was born on a farm in Lyon county, Ken- tucky, September 23, 1844, and was reared upon the old family home- stead, carly becoming familiar with the duties and labors that fall to . the lot of the agriculturist. His preliminary education, acquired in the public schools, was supplemented by a course of study .in the Cumber- land College, at Princeton, and also in the University of Virginia. When he had acquired a good literary education he determined to en- ter upon a professional career, and took up the study of law in the University of Michigan, being admitted to the bar in Princeton, Ken- tucky, in 1870. He continued to reside at this place until 1877, and
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was employed as assistant attorney for the Elizabeth & Paducah Rail- road. In 1882 he removed to Louisville, Kentucky, where he re- mained continuously until 1898, and in the latter years of his residence there he was general attorney for the Elizabeth & Paducah Railroad. In 1898 he again came to Princeton, where he has since resided, and is to-day one of the foremost members of the bar of this portion of the state. . In 1901 he was elected county attorney of Caldwell county, and is filling the position at the present writing (1903.)
In. 1862 Mr. Darby volunteered for service in the United States army as a private in Company F, Fifteenth Kentucky Cavalry. His meritorious conduct, however, won him promotion from time to time, and he became sergeant major, and was later made regimental com- missary with the rank of lieutenant. He then served until the close of the term of enlistment of his regiment, and was honorably discharged in the latter part of 1863.
In 1870 Mr. Darby was united in marriage to Miss Mary Louisa McNary, a daughter of Dr. Thomas L. McNary, of Princeton, who died on the 15th of December, 1901. Three children have been born of this marriage: Maria 1 .. , Nannie and Lucy. Mr. Darby votes with the Republican party, and was the candidate of that party for judge of the court of appeals in 1902. He is a Master Mason and also a member of the Knights of Honor. He likewise belongs to the Presbyterian church, and is one of the valued and representative citizens of his community. He has not only attained success in his chosen calling, but has also found time to devote to measures for the general welfare, aiding materially in the upbuilding of social, intellectual and moral in- terests.
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RICHARD W. OGILVIE, M. D.
There is no profession which demands more careful preparation or more absolute devotion to the duties involved in its practice than does the medical profession, if success is to be attained therein, and when one has gained prominence as a medical practitioner it is proof of his capability and skill and of his allegiance to the ethics which govern the fraternity. Dr. Richard Woods Ogilvie, in his practice at Princeton, has gained many patrons from among the best class of citizens and en- joys the high regard of the community not alone because of his broad learning, but also because of his sterling worth of character.
A native of Garrard county, Kentucky, he was born on the 5th of March. 1876, and is a son of Richard Akin and Martha Ann ( Woods) Ogilvie. Ilis paternal grandfather, Richard Harris Ogilvie, is a native · of Tennessee, where he has spent his entire life, his home being in the city of Columbia. Throughout his active business career he fol- lowed farming, and now he is living retired at the very advanced age of ninety-six years. His father was Richard Henry Ogilvie, who resided in Williamson county, Tennessee, but who was a native of Scotland, whence he einigrated to the new world. He also carried on agricultural pursuits as a life work. After reaching years of maturity the grand- father wedded Miss Sue Akin, a native of Maury county, Tennessee, and together they are enjoying a happy old age, having long traveled life's journey together. She is now seventy-eight years of age.
The maternal grandfather of Dr. Ogilvie was Rice Garland Woods, who was born in Garrard county, Kentucky, and was of Irish lineage. He devoted his attention to farming throughout his business life, and died in the year 1893, at the age of eighty-four. His widow, who
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bore the maiden name of Margaret Denny, was born in Garrard county, where she is still living at the age of eighty-six years.
Richard Akin Ogilvie, the doctor's father, was born in Columbia, Tennessee, and there he spent his entire life, becoming one of the promi- nent and influential business men of that city. He was engaged in banking, and was a prominent factor in the financial circles of that city. A very prominent and honored member of the Masonic fra- ternity, he attained the Knight Templar degree of the York Rite and the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. Hle also belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and to the Knights of Pythias fra- ternity, and gave his political support to the Democracy. A loyal and active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, he served as one of its stewards and labored earnestly for its welfare and upbuilding. His wife was a member of the Presbyterian church. His death oc- . curred in 1886, when he was forty years of age, and Mrs. Ogilvie, who was born in Garrard county, Kentucky, died in 1883, at the early age of thirty-six years. The doctor is their only son, but he has one sister, Sue, who is the wife of Horace K. Herndon, of Lancaster, Kentucky.
Dr. Ogilvie spent the first seventeen years of his life in his father's home in Columbia, Tennessee, and then went to live in Garrard county, Kentucky, where he remained for two years. He next became a resi- dent of Louisville, Kentucky, remaining in that city for five years. His literary education was acquired in the Webb Brothers' school in Bellbuckle, Tennessee, and determining to make the practice of medicine his life work, he began preparation for this calling at the Hospital Col- lege of Medicine in Louisville, where he was graduated with the class of 1900. After six months' hospital service in the Gray Street Infirmary, during which time his theoretical knowledge was supplemented by
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varied practical experience, he left Louisville and came to Princeton, where he has made his home continuously since the fall of 1900, and in the conduct of the business accorded him he has shown a compre- hensive knowledge of the science of medicine and its practical work- ings for the alleviation of human suffering.
In 1901 was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Ogilvie and Miss Jim- mie Harris Lester, of Princeton, and they now have one child, Frances Ione. Fraternally Dr. Ogilvie is quite prominent, belonging to the Knights of Pythias lodge, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is also identified with various organizations having for their object the dissemination of knowledge bearing upon the work of the medical fraternity, being a member of the Caldwell County Medical Society, the Southwestern Kentucky Medical Society, the Kentucky State Medical Association and the Americal Medical Association. He is deeply interested in his chosen life work, and zealously pursues the knowledge thereof that his labors may be more effective in coping with the intricate problems which continually confront the physician. Already he has attained enviable success, and now has a good patronage in Princeton.
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JOSEPH F. GARNETT.
Joseph F. Garnett, the president of the Planters' Bank and Trust Company of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is the grandson of an old pioneer, James Garnett, a native of Virginia, who came to Christian county, Kentucky, in the latter years of the eighteenth century, and settled at Pembroke, Kentucky, where he died.
James T. Garnett, the father of Joseph F., was also a native of
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Virginia, and came with his father to Kentucky when he was about twelve years old. He had the advantages of a course at Princeton University, where he graduated, and then taught school for about twenty years, his labors in this line being in Montgomery county, Tennessee, and Christian county, Kentucky. After his marriage to Miss Mary E. Fauntleroy, a native of Virginia and of a prominent family, he located in Montgomery county, Tennessee, for a time, then returned to Christian county for one year, and, coming once more to Montgomery county, built a school-house on his own place and kept a boarding school, until 1852, when he gave up teaching and bought a farm in Christian county, Kentucky, five miles southeast of Hopkinsville. Here he lived till his death in 1883; his wife died in 1882, at the home place in Christian county, and both are buried in the old family plot at Pembroke. They were life-long members of the Baptist church. All of their seven chil- . dren are still living: Joseph F. is the oldest, and then come Walter F .; Marion 11 .; Lyda B., the wife of Robert J. Downer; Ellen G., the wife of W. W. Boone; James T .; and Mary Fannie.
Joseph F. Garnett was born in Montgomery county, Tennessee, December 16, 1844, and at the age of twelve moved with his parents to Christian county. His father gave him a good common school edu- cation, in the old field schools of the county, and at the age of eighteen he began the duties of teacher himself. He taught at Oak Grove Acad- emy for about fourteen years, his long service being ample proof of his success. He bought a farm near Bell station, and for the next ten years was engaged in managing this. Selling out, he purchased a place on the Clarksville and Hopkinsville pike, seven miles from the latter city, and this is where he makes his present residence, still carrying on farming operations with his son. In 1900 he was made president.
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of the Planters' Bank, which at the same time was reorganized and made the Planters' Bank and Trust Company, with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Garnett's home farm consists of six hun- dred acres, his two older sons own farms of three hundred acres each, and his wife has one of three hundred, so that the family possess in all fifteen hundred acres of Christian county land. Mr. Garnett is president of the Crescent Milling Company of Hopkinsville, and is also a member of the furniture firm, Pyle & Garnett, and owns the large Garnett block in Hopkinsville.
In November, 1869, Mr. Garnett married Miss Emma Whitlock, and the two children now living are John W. and Thomas W. The mother died in 1876, and Mr. Garnett married, in 1878, Miss Wilmoth Holland, from which union there have been three children, Holland, Elizabeth and Fauntleroy. Mr. Garnet is a member of and deacon in the Baptist church, and treasurer of the executive board of Bethel Association, of which association he was elected moderator in 1902 and again in 1903. He is past master in the Masonic lodge, and has repre- sented his lodge in the grand lodge of the state. Mr. Garnett is one of the most influential citizens of Christian county, and he may be proud of the fact that his position of affluence is the result of his own persever- ing and energetic efforts.
WYLIE JONES.
Wylie Jones, the efficient sheriff of Caldwell county, was born upon a farm in this county on the 20th of October, 1869, and is a son of Loften and Lucretia (Gray) Jones. His father was born in Trigg county, Kentucky, but was reared in Caldwell county, in which place
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he met and married Miss Gray, who was born in Caldwell county. Her death occurred in 1886, when she was forty-two years of age, and she left the following children : James D., who died in 1887 when twenty years of age; Wylie; Icie, the wife of W. 11. Burnham, of Trigg county, Kentucky ; Curtis, a resident farmer of Caldwell county; and Gus, who is living with his father upon the home farm.
In the usual manner of farmer lads Wylie Jones spent his boyhood days, attending the public schools and devoting much of his leisure time to the work of field and meadow. He continued with his father until sixteen years of age, at which time he entered upon his business career as a salesman in a country store owned by Major M. J. Groom, by whom he was employed for nearly four years. He then resumed the occupa- tion to which he had been reared, and continued to engage in farming with fair success until the Ist of January, 1895, when he was appointed to the position of deputy sheriff under Major Groom, his former em- ployer. When John H. Steven became sheriff Mr. Jones continued as deputy for four years, making seven years in all in which he served in that capacity. In November, 1901, he was elected sheriff on the Dem- ocratic ticket, and is now filling that position in a most acceptable man- ner, being prompt and fearless in the discharge of his duties and stand- ing as a strong protector of law and order in this community.
In 1892 Mr. Jones was united in marriage to Miss Lucy Ella White, a daughter of W. H. White, a resident farmer of Caldwell county. Five children have blessed this union: Walter, Eugene, William Loften. Frank Wylie and Burnard. In his social relations Mr. Jones is a Mason and has attained the Royal Arch degree. Couteous, genial, well in- formed, alert and enterprising, he stands to-day as one of the leading
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representative men of his county, and enjoys in high measure the good will of those who have known him from his boyhood days down to the present time.
ROBERT LEE GRESHAM.
Caldwell county finds in Robert Lee Gresham a capable official, who, ever loyal to his duties, fully meets the obligations resting upon him, showing himself worthy of the trust reposed in him. He is now serving as county clerk of Caldwell county, and in his work is syste- matic, prompt and accurate.
Mr. Gresham was born upon a farm in Caldwell county on the 7th of June, 1865, his parents being Leander Sharp and Martha A. (Carter) Gresham. His paternal grandfather was Moses Gresham, a native of Halifax county, Virginia, whence he removed to Trigg county, Ken- tucky. After residing in that locality for some years he came to Cald- well county, where he spent his remaining days. He was a farmer by occupation and reared a large family. In the various communities in which he lived he became recognized as a leading and influential man, and one worthy of the high regard of his fellow citizens. The maternal grandfather of our subject was Moses Carter, who served his country in the war of 1812, and who was a pioneer settler of Caldwell county, coming to this district of the state when it was largely unimproved and taking an active and helpful part in the work of development and progress here.
Leander Sharp Gresham was born in Trigg county, Kentucky, in 1808, and after arriving at years of maturity wedded Miss Martha A. Carter, whose birth occurred in Lyon county, Kentucky, about 1823. He became a farmer, active and energetic in prosecuting his work, and
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through his well directed efforts and capable management won success, becoming the possessor of a valuable property. His political support was given the Democracy. He died in Caldwell county in 1872, when sixty-four years of age. His wife survived him many years, and died in 1901, aged seventy-eight years. They were the parents of the fol- lowing children : Moses Carter, the eldest, was a Confederate soldier, serving for four years under General John Morgan. He enlisted when but sixteen years of age and was captured at the time of Morgan's. raid into Ohio, after which he was held as a prisoner of war at Camp Doug- las in Chicago for eighteen months. Following the war he carried on farming in Caldwell county, where he made his home until his death, which occurred about 1883.
Woodson Anderson, the second member of the family, is a merchant of Kuttawa, Lyon county, Kentucky. Mrs. Sallie Taylor is a resident of Paducah. William Thomas carries on farming in Cald- well county. Alice, the wife of John Hays, is a resident of this county. Lucy is the wife of John Young, and their home is in Prince- ton. Robert Lee is the next of the family. Three others are deceased. Of these two died in childhood and one, Lena, died at the age of eighteen years.
In taking up the personal history of Mr. Gresham we present to our readers the life record of one who is well known in Caldwell county, for his entire life has been passed here. He was reared upon a farm and was educated in Princeton and in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Becoming a teacher, he followed that profession with success for a number of years in this state and also for two years in Missouri. With the ex- ception of the latter period he has never resided elsewhere than in the state of his nativity. On leaving the schoolroom he turned his attention
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to farming, and was thus engaged until called to public service. His fellow citizens, recognizing his worth and ability and his devotion to the general good, elected him to the position of county assessor, in which he served in a most capable manner for four years. In 1901 he was elected county clerk upon the Democratic ticket, and is the present in- cumbent in that office. He has made for himself a creditable record as a public official, and receives public commendation.
In the year 1891 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Gresham and Miss Mary Spratt, who died in January, 1901, leaving four children : Nettie K., Margaret E., Robert L. and Mary Spratt. In 1903 Mr. Gresham married for a second wife Miss Charlton Thompson, of Cald- well county. Mr. Gresham is a well-known Mason, having attained the Royal Arch degree in that fraternity. He is also connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias lodge, and he holds membership in the Second Presbyterian church in Prince- ton, in which he is now serving as elder. His life has even been lion- orable, his actions manly and sincere, and his methods above question.
CHARLES J. POLLARD, M. D.
Dr. Charles Jackson Pollard is numbered among the medical prac- titioners of Caldwell county, practicing successfully in Princeton, where he has gained a reputation and a patronage that many an older member of the medical fraternity might well envy. He was born upon a farm in this county on the 27th of October, 1873. His paternal grandfather, Wilson Pollard, was a native of Tennessee and of Irish lineage; was born in the year 1803 and in early life came to Kentucky, establishing his home in Caldwell county, where he spent his remaining days, reach-
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ing the advanced age of eighty-four years. He was an influential citizen, prominent and progressive, and in the year 1876 was elected to repre- sent his district in the general assembly. He proved an active working member of the legislature, and gave to each question which came up for settlement his earnest consideration in order that he might be able to advocate that which would be most beneficial to his state. He had extensive farming interests, and at one time owned and operated a tannery on the road between Princeton and Hopkinsville. In his busi- ness affairs he prospered and won success, and also gained the honorable name which is rather to be chosen than great riches.
Ilis son, Wilson Lee Pollard, became the father of Dr. Pollard. He was born in Caldwell county, where he has always lived, his home being upon a farm ten miles southeast of Princeton, near the little town of Cobb. He married Miss Martha White, also a native of this county, . and the doctor is their only child. Mr. Pollard has always carried on agricultural pursuits, meeting with a fair measure of success in this undertaking. He and his wife are members of the Harmony Baptist church, and both are representatives of well-known and honored fam- ilies of the county. Their own circle of friends is extensive, and they receive from them the warm regard and esteem which is ever accorded sterling worth.
Dr. Pollard was educated on the old homestead near the village of Cobb, and after obtaining his preliminary education in the public schools continued his studies in the Bethel College at Russellville, Kentucky. He then took up the study of medicine in the Southwestern Homeo- pathic Medical College at Louisville, Kentucky, and was graduated therefrom on the 6th of April, 1897. He spent one year in the Louis- ville City Hospital, thus adding to his theoretical knowledge by broad
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and practical experience. Ile afterward practiced for one year in the vicinity of his parental home, and on the ist of January, 1899, opened an office in Princeton, where he has since gained a good and growing patronage.
Dr. Pollard was married in 1897 to Miss Mallie Groom, a daughter of Gus Groom, of Caldwell county. They now have two interesting children : Laurine and Gladys. Both the Doctor and his wife hold membership in the Baptist church and take an active and commendable interest in its work. He is associated with a number of societies formed to disseminate knowledge concerning the science of medicine, and in this way he keeps in touch with the advanced thought and progress of the profession. He belongs to the Caldwell Medical Society, to the South- western Kentucky Homeopathic Medical Society, of which he was twice honored with the presidency, the Kentucky State Medical Association, and the Kentucky State Homeopathic Society, in which he was elected vice-president in 1903. He is yet a young man, but has already attained prominence in his chosen calling. With a nature that could never con- tent itself with mediocrity, he has steadily advanced until he has left the ranks of the many to stand among the successful few.
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