The Biographical encyclopaedia of Kentucky of the dead and living men of the nineteenth century, Part 27

Author: Armstrong, J. M., & company, pub
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Cincinnati, J. M. Armstrong
Number of Pages: 946

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¿RAVES, DR. JAMES A., was born May 2, 1842, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father, Dr. James Graves, long engaged in the manufacture and sale of patent medicines, moved to Louis- ville in 1849, and purchased fifty acres of land in the western part of the city, where he built his extensive medical laboratory. The subject of this sketch received his education in the public-schools at Louisville; directed his attention to the study of medi- cine; soon acquainted himself thoroughly with his father's business, which he finally purchased on favora- ble terms, now owning the establishment himself. He has largely increased his manufacturing facilities; has used great exertions for introducing his preparations throughout the country ; has met with unprecedented success, many of his compounds having a wide-spread reputation, being now distributed, through the hands of tens of thousands of agents, in various portions of the world. Although under his father's name and manage- ment, his business has grown to large proportions through his own activity and fine business ability. His annual production and sales have reached their great- est height, now being very great. Few men have been more successful in life, both in a business and in a social sense, and with much liberality he dis-

penses his fortune, being ready at all times to give a helping hand to any good work. He was married, in 1868, to Miss Roxie Gilrath.

HITE, HENRY CLAY, was born February 12, 1830, in Burlington, Boone County, Kentucky, and is the oldest son of Joel and Pamelia (Kar- rick) White. His father came to Kentucky in 1816, and was a native of Orange County, Vir- ginia. Henry Clay White received a good En- glish education, mainly in the academy at Burlington, and, at the age of nineteen, entered the office of the Circuit Clerk of Boone County, where he remained until 1860, during part of that time being Deputy Clerk of the Court. In 1863, he located at Covington; in 1867, he was appointed Clerk of the . Kenton Circuit Court, and has been continually elected to that office, without opposition, and is also now Clerk of the Chancery and Criminal Courts at Covington. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, but has never practiced that pro- fession. Since 1872, he has been a Director in the Northern Bank of Kentucky, and has been prominently identified with the political and other interests of the community, and is one of the most painstaking, system- atic, reliable business men of Covington. Mr. White was married, December 23, 1857, to Miss Mary E. Wood- ford, of Boone County, Kentucky.

ALLUP, COL. GEORGE W., Lawyer and Sol- dier, was born October 28, 1828, in Albany, New York. His ancestors, on his father's side, canie to America in the " Mayflower." His father, Gideon Gallup, was a contractor and builder; and, later in his life, was a farmer. His mother, a Miss Wagoner, came of Belgian ancestors. Col. Gal- lup was educated in the common-schools of New York, the Aurora Academy, and Central College; and followed the occupation of a teacher from 1845 to 1849. In the latter year, he began the study of law, at Burlington, Ohio; and continued his study, in the following year, with Hon. L. T. Moore, of Louisa, Kentucky, and was admitted to the bar. After engaging in mercantile pur- suits for two years, he formed a law partnership with his preceptor; and continued in active practice until the breaking out of the war of the rebellion. Early in 1861, he recruited a company of home-guards, which formed the nucleus of the Fourteenth Regiment Kentucky Vol- unteer Infantry, United States Army, which he assisted in forming, in September of that year. October 10, 1861, he was mustered into the Government service as regi- mental quartermaster, having given his individual receipt

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for the entire outfit of the regiment, before organization. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, some time after- wards; then became colonel of his regiment ; and, toward the close of the war, was promoted, by brevet, to the rank of brigadier-general, for gallant and meritorious conduct on the field. He served with Gen. Garfield in his campaigns in East Kentucky; and was with Gen. George Morgan at Cumberland Gap, where he was in- trusted with the important duties of United States Com- missioner, to negotiate terms of exchange of prisoners, as, at that time, there was no cartel agreed upon. He was provost-marshal of Gen. Morgan's command; and was given command of the forces to hold Cumberland Gap against Kirby Smith, securing for Gen. Morgan's troops a safe transit of the Cumberland river; and, under the orders of Gen. Morgan, he, in person, blew up four mag- azines of powder and fixed ammunition ; burned the large warehouse, containing twenty thousand stands of arms, gun-carriages, and munitions of war; also, destroyed tents and barracks, obstructing the roads in every possi- ble manner, hindering the progress of the enemy; and, on the following day, completed this most perilous un- dertaking by joining Gen. Morgan's forces, taking com- mand of the rear-guard of the retreating army till it had crossed the Ohio river, at Greenupsburg, Kentucky. In the Winter of 1863, he was transferred from Morgan's command to the division of Gen. Buell, in Central Ken- tucky; and, soon after, succeeded Gen. Julius White to the command of the district of Eastern Kentucky, comprising one-fourth of the State. He led an expedi- tion beyond his district into West Virginia, in which he captured Col. Ferguson and a portion of his regiment, the Eighth Virginia, and Col. French, with his entire regiment of eight hundred men, at Piketon, Kentucky ; was attacked by Hodges's Brigade, February 13, 1864, at Paintsville, Kentucky ; repulsed the enemy, and, at Half Mountain, captured the greater part of the brigade, with equipage, supplies, and five hundred horses, losing but few men in the expedition. In May, 1864, he was ordered to join the army of the Mississippi, and was placed in command of the First Brigade, Second Divis- ion, Twenty-third Army Corps, at Kingston, Georgia, and participated in the daily skirmishes and battles of the campaign, until the fall of Atlanta. He was en- gaged in the great battles of Kennesaw Mountain, Peach-tree Creek, New Hope Church, Jonesboro, At- lanta, and various other less noticeable battles. He was also detached with his brigade, under sealed orders, and sent to Johnsonville, Sherman's depot of supplies, then besieged by Forrest, and relieved Col. Thompson, com- manding a division at that place, compelling Forrest to withdraw ; and, just before the battles of Franklin and Nashville, was sent to Eastern Kentucky, to assume com- mand of that district, then threatened by the forces un- der Gen. Breckinridge, where he remained till January

31, 1865, when he was mustered out of service. In 1866, he ran for the State Senate, as the Conservative candidate, and was beaten by the Republican, Colonel William Worthington. During the year 1867, he prac- ticed law, and, for several years subsequently, engaged in the lumber business. In 1872, he built section twenty- four of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, and, in the following year, built the Keys Creek division of the Big Sandy Railroad, and in some of these speculations met with various losses which have materially crippled his busi- ness prospects. Under the last days of Gen. Grant's administration, he received the appointment of post- master of Catlettsburg, Kentucky, where he has long resided, which he still holds. Col. Gallup was a brave soldier, espoused the cause of his country, and fought throughout the great conflict from pure motives of pa- triotism. He was a soldier not only of great daring, but whose entire record in the army was characterized by the display of superior judgment and military skill. He is a man of fine executive capacity, and superior natural abilities for command, possessing a fine, attractive coun- tenance, and in person is powerfully and admirably built. He is a prominent member of some of the social organizations of the day, and actively participated in the various movements of interest, both political and social, in his section of the State. Col. Gallup was mar- ried, in 1851, to Miss Rebecca A. Moore, daughter of Col. Frederick Moore, of Virginia. Of their three chil- dren, one is now living.

ENDERSON, JUDGE RICHARD, Lawyer, after whom Henderson County, Kentucky, was named, was born April 20, 1735; in Hanover County, Virginia. His parents were Samuel and Elizabeth ( Williams) Henderson. In 1756, his family removed to North Carolina, and set- tled in Granville County. He served as deputy sheriff, under his father; received a limited education ; studied law for one year, and, after a rigid examination, was licensed to practice; soon became distinguished in his profession ; in 1768, was appointed Associate Justice for the Colony of Virginia, and held that position until the dissolution of the courts, prior to the troubles leading to the war of the Revolution. He organized a company, in 1775, for the purpose of obtaining lands from the In- dians, and negotiated the treaty of Watauga, in which the land lying between the Cumberland river, the Cum- berland Mountains, the Kentucky river, and south of the Ohio, was ceded to the company. They established a. form of government in which he became President ; called their territory Transylvania, and located the seat of government at Boonesborough. In the first session of their council, Thomas Slaughter was made Chairman;

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and Matthew Jouett, Clerk. This organization, which was founded on liberal principles, together with the right of purchase from the Indians, was annulled by the Legislature of Virginia, and by proclamation of the Governor of North Carolina; but two hundred thousand acres of land was granted to the proprietors, by each State. In 1779, Judge Henderson opened an office for the sale of the company's land, at Nashville, Tennessee, and, in the following year, returned home, where he spent the remainder of his life as a private gentleman. He died January 30, 1785. Some of his sons became distinguished men, in the affairs of their native State.

GRIFFITH, WILLIAM R., was born February 28, 1794, in Maryland. William Griffith came from Wales, and settled in Maryland in 1655. Some of the family figured prominently in the Revolutionary War. Joshua Griffith came to Kentucky in 1805, and first located in what was then Ohio County. The house which he first occu- pied, with his family, is the oldest structure of its kind standing in Daviess County. He was a man of great influence, in his day, and was possessed of many admir- able qualities; was of great value to the people of the new country; was universally esteemed; accumulated a large estate; and died at the ripe age of eighty-two. His youngest son was William R. Griffith, the subject of this sketch, who obtained a fine education, at Hart- ford, Ohio County, and at St. Joseph's College, Bards- town, Kentucky. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. On the organization of Daviess County, was appointed Clerk of the County Court; afterwards studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced successfully for several years. He cngaged largely in real estate transactions, and was one of the most extensive land-owners in the county. He served in the Lower House of the Legisla- ture, from 1829 to 1831, and was again elected in 1835; from 1831 to 1835, and from 1840 to 1844, was a member of the State Senate, and acquired a high reputation, for his devotion to the interests of his people, and his undoubted integrity of character. He was a man of fine business capacity, of great strength of mind, of admirable personal build; and was one of the most widely known and useful men in his section of the State. He died in 1848. Mr. Griffith was married, about 1821, to the daughter of Capt. Mosley. She died in 1828. In 1841, he was married to Miss Martha Hopkins, daughter of Gen. Edward Hopkins, of Henderson County. His son, Daniel M. Griffith, was born in 1826; was educated at Centre College and Transylvania Uni- versity, graduating at the latter, in 1847; has been engaged, chiefly, as a farmer and land-trader ; has been a member of the Legislature, and, in 1857, was married to

Virginia Shelby, daughter of the late Isaac Shelby. His other surviving son, Clinton Griffith, was born in 1828; educated at Transylvania University; is an extensive farmer; has also served in the Legislature; was married, in 1852, to Mary Crawford; and, was again married, in 1869, to the daughter of James Weir, a prominent law- yer of Owensboro.

¿REY, JOHN THOMSON, one of the earliest distinguished business men of Louisville, Ken- tucky, was born in 1780, in Culpepper County, Virginia, and is of Scotch origin. His father was one of the wealthiest land-owners in that State ; was a captain of a horse company in the war of the Revolution ; defrayed, from his private purse, the expense of several expeditions during that war, and was in many ways beneficial to the cause of the Repub- lic. John T. Grey received a good education, partially obtained in Kentucky, and, at an early age, became Deputy Clerk of Louisville, under the distinguished Warden Pope; and, in 1806, was appointed postmaster of Louisville, holding that office twenty-three years, dur- ing this time engaging largely in merchandising. He was among the first who ran a steamboat from Louisville to New Orleans, and was, for many years, one of the largest traders and steamboat operators on the Ohio river. His large business connections, admirable social qualities, and general fine standing, made him a favor- te in the community, and established him warmly in the friendship of Henry Clay, and other distinguished men of his day. He was exceedingly attractive in manners, and was always supplied with a fund of good humor, constituting him one of the most agreeable of compan- ions. He kept the old-fashioned open door, his house being the retreat of the merchant, the man of letters, and the clergy, his hospitality being free and un- bounded. He was married to Mary Ormsby, daughter of Peter Ormsby, one of the early remarkable men of Louisville. They had seven children, some of whom still live, and rank among the leading citizens of Louis- ville.

ARTIN, HON. JOHN P., Lawyer, was born October 11, 1811, in Lee County, Virginia. In 1828, he settled in Harlan County, Kentucky ; at the age of ninetcen, was defeated in a race for the Legislature ; in 1835, removed to Floyd County; was elected to the Legislature, in 1841; served in Congress, from 1845 to 1847; was beaten in the race for re-election by Judge Daniel Breck ; in 1848, was the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant-Gov- ernor, and defeatcd by John L. Hclm; in 1856, was a delegate to the Democratic Convention, in Cincinnati ;

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was elected to the State Senate, in 1857, and was the ell- emy of Know-Nothingism in the mountains; in 1860, was a candidate for the Peace Convention, at Washing- ton ; and afterwards remained quietly at his home, in Prestonburg, Kentucky, until his death, which occurred December 23, 1862. His son, Alexander L. Martin, is a lawyer of distinction in Eastern Kentucky, having served the people of the mountains in both branches of the Legislature.

OVE, COL. S. PALACE, Lawyer and Soldier, was a native of Lincoln County, Kentucky, where he was born May 10, 1826. His father, Granville N. Love, was of Irish descent, a farmer by occupation, died in Montgomery County, Missouri ; he served as an officer in the war of 1812. His mother, Clementina D. P. Mershon, was of Welsh descent, but born in Garrard County, Kentucky, where she died. Her father was a soldier of the Revolution, and died in Garrard County, in 1824. Until the age of fifteen, he attended the schools of his native county, then entered an academy, in Columbia, Missouri, under the tuition of an older brother, where he spent three years; enlisted, at the age of twenty, in Company H, First Missouri Volunteers, under com- mand of Col. A. W. Doniphan, of Mexican fame. His regiment started on an expedition to Santa Fe, in June, 1846, reaching it in August of the same year; partici- pated in the battle of Bracito, on Christmas-day, 1846, and that of Sacramento, on February 28, 1847; cap- tured San Miguel, and other towns, and was the first to enter the hitherto unexplored regions of the Navajos, Indian Territory. His courage and bravery were of a high order, and led him to engage with ardor in any ex- pedition which promised adventure; and gained the good will and esteem of his brother officers, and the warm personal friendship of Col. Doniphan, who frequently selected him as companion on his expeditions. While in Mexico, he learned, and still speaks fluently, the Spanish language. He was mustered out of the service, at New Orleans, June 28, 1847; then returned to South Carrollton, Muhlenburg County, Kentucky, and engaged in teaching, from 1849 to 1857; then engaged in mer- chandising, until the opening of the civil war, when, with Col. P. B. Hawkins, he raised the Eleventh Ken- tucky Infantry, U. S. A .; was appointed lieutenant- colonel, and fought at Shiloh, Corinth, and Perryville, Stone river, and Bowling Green, under Gen. Buell; suc- ceeded Col. Hawkins, when he resigned, June 26, 1863; afterwards served with Gen. Burnside, in the campaign of East Tennessee ; then was with Gen. Sherman in the various engagements near Atlanta; was mustered out of service, December 16, 1864, and returned to Kentucky. In 1865, he was nominated on the Democratic ticket for

State Senator, from the Eighth District, but was not elected ; removed to Greenville, was admitted to the bar, November 6, 1865, and began practice ; was elected, in 1866, Presiding Judge of the Muhlenburg County Court, and held the office two successive terms; was a member of the Electoral College of 1872, and has since continued in the successful practice of his profession. In 1850, he was married to Miss Jennie McConnell, daughter of John McConnell, of Muhlenburg County ; has raised a large family of sons and daughters; and, in the various changes of a long and successful career, has shown marked ability, and won the confidence and esteem of his fellow-men.

EE, HENRY, Farmer and Surveyor, was born in Virginia, in 1756, and became one of the early pioneers of Mason County, Kentucky. Like many of the young men of education who came from Virginia at that early day, he was a surveyor, and spent many years of his life en- gaged in that capacity in this State. He was a member of the Virginia Legislature from Kentucky, and also served as a delegate to the Virginia Convention, which ratified the Federal Constitution; was a member of the - Convention, at Danville, in 1787; had command of the militia, over a large territory of the State lying north of the Licking river; was Judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions; was one of the Judges of the Mason County Circuit, and was President of the Washington Branch of the Bank of Kentucky. He was a man of strong nat- ural talents, of fine business ability, and large influence ; was erect, powerfully built, and of commanding per- sonal appearance. He died October 24, 1854.

ARDER, REV. JOSEPH W., D. D., was born October 13, 1825, in Logan County, Kentucky. His father, Rev. William Warder, was an able and successful minister; and his mother, a woman of great piety, and a sister of Gov. Charles S. Morehead. His father died while he was young, and his educational expenses were defrayed chiefly by his uncle. He graduated, at Georgetown College, in 1845, delivering the valedictory address. During his college life, he united with the Baptist Church, and was licensed to preach. After graduating, he was principal of the preparatory department of the College for one year; was elected Professor of Mathe- matics; declined the position, and entered Newton Theological Seminary, at Boston ; spent some time at Princeton, New Jersey, and graduated at Newton, in 1849; was ordained to the ministry, and became pastor

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of the Frankfort Baptist Church; from 1851 to 1856, was pastor of the Maysville Church; for the next nine ycars, had charge of the Church at Lexington, Missouri; from 1865 to 1867, was pastor of the Church of Atchi- son, Kansas; for the next two years, was pastor of the Church at Kansas City; in 1869, took charge of the Church at Clinton ; two years afterwards, was, for a short time, financial agent for William Jewell College ; resumed his pastorate at Clinton; was afterwards pas- tor of the First Baptist Church, at Lawrence, Kansas ; and, in 1875, accepted the pastorate of the Church on Fourth and Walnut Streets, Louisville ; and, throughout his long, active, laborious career, has not only been one of the most exemplary, able, and successful, but also de- servedly stands among the most popular, highly esteemed ministers of his Church. Mr. Warder was married, in 1851, to Miss Elizabeth S. Tureman, eldest daughter of Henry C. and Amanda Tureman, of Maysville, Ken- tucky. He has seven living children.

RENNER, CARL C., Landscape Painter, was 0 born August 1, 1838, at Lautereicken, on the Rhine, in Bavaria, where his father, Frederick Brenner, lived, a glazier by trade. He attended the public-schools of his native village, from his sixth to his fourteenth year ; was considered one of the brightest of his class, and showed such de- cided talent in drawing that his teacher made applica- tion to King Ludwig I, for his admission to the Academy of Fine Arts, at Munich. The king was ever ready to assist artistic talent, and readily granted the permission; but here he met with opposition from his father, who, as himself and two other sons were glaziers, desired that Carl also should follow the trade, and re- fused to allow him to prosecute his art studies. He therefore worked with his father until 1853, when the family emigrated to America, arriving at New Orleans in the Winter of that year, and went to Louisville, Ken- tucky. Here his talent was discovered by Mr. George P. Doern, proprietor of the " Anzeiger," who noticed somne of his excellent pencil sketches of Mississippi scenery, and at once advised him to become a landscape painter. He therefore made use of his earnings as glazier, and also house and sign painter, to pursue studies for that purpose, and his work since attests the genius that enables him so faithfully to portray nature. Even when employcd on sign painting, his artistic work- manship drew much admiration, and many beautiful samples were on exhibition at the Louisville Exposition, and the International, at Vienna. His landscapes have always met with ready sale, and are found in many of the prominent art-galleries of the United States. In social life he is very popular, and occupies a high place

in the esteem of his countrymen. He was married, in his twenty-sixth year, to Miss Anna Glass, the accom- plished daughter of an eminent musician of Louisville.

ARRET, ALEXANDER BUCHANAN, To- bacco Merchant, and one of the most successful and notable business men of America, was born March 18, 1811, in Louisa County, Virginia. His father, P. S. Barret, was a well-known cit- izen of that State, and his mother was a daugh- ter of Henry Pendleton; a member of the distinguished family of that name in Virginia. The subject of this sketch, like many others of his day, had, in his youth, but limited educational advantages. In after years, as his opportunities increased, he improved himself, and be- came one of the best read and most thoroughly in- formed men in the country. At the age of fourteen, he left home, and found congenial employment in the office of his uncle, William Barret, in Richmond, Virginia, who, with the Messrs. Gilliat, of England, carried on a large tobacco trade in this country and Europe. He afterwards engaged in various pursuits, with singular tact and aptitude for securing remunerative results, showing such business capabilities as to induce his un- cle's firm to offer him a partnership, sending him to Henderson, Kentucky, to conduct a tobacco interest in that locality. In virtue of that agreement, he went to Henderson, about 1833, and, from that time forward, was prominently identified with the substantial interests of Henderson County, and the tobacco trade of the United States. His superior financiering and general ability soon established his firm as the first in the to- bacco trade of the West. In a few years a dissolution of the partnership took place, he remaining in Hender- son, and retaining the business and reputation of the old firm. In 1852, he joined with him his younger brother, John H. Barret, and in this association the business continued until his death. He established branch stem- meries in Henderson, Louisville, Owensboro, Clover- port, and other points in Kentucky, at Clarksville, Ten- nessee, and in Missouri; and was, in his time, without doubt, the most extensive tobacco merchant in the world, controlling annually many thousands of hogs- heads in the markets of England. His operations were not confined to tobacco alonc. He was the largest planter in Henderson County, and invested largely and successfully in cotton, and ranked as one of the largest land-holders and real estate proprietors in the whole country. His wonderful mental activity and alertness in business affairs continued unimpaired during all the bodily languor and exhaustion of his last long and painful illness; and one of his most successful finan- cial operations, based upon the chances of the civil war

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The Biographical encyclopaedia of Kentucky of the dead and living men of the nineteenth century, Part 27

Author: Armstrong, J. M., & company, pub Publication date: 1878 Publisher: Cincinnati, J. M. Armstrong Number of Pages: 946

Author: Armstrong, J. M., & company, pub
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Cincinnati, J. M. Armstrong
Number of Pages: 946