The Biographical encyclopaedia of Kentucky of the dead and living men of the nineteenth century, Part 35

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

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Board for the Western Country ; was sole Judge of the United States Court, for the Kentucky District, until 1807, his decisions only being subject to reversal by the Supreme Court of the United States. His name was involved in the Spanish intrigues on the Lower Missis- sippi, but Congress refused to entertain charges of impeachment, believing him actuated in all his motives by the noblest sentiments of patriotism. Judge Innes was married to the daughter of Colonel Calloway, of Virginia. After her death, he was married to Mrs. Shields, and their only child became the second wife of the Honorable J. J. Crittenden. His widow survived him many years.

EVI, GEORGE W., son of Elias and Eliza Levi, was born February 22, 1835, in Louis- ville, Kentucky. His parents died while he was young ; and, after gathering all the educa- tion he could, in the time, in the public-schools of Louisville, he commenced work for his own sustenance, at the age of twelve, engaging for some time at any thing he could honorably do. He finally learned the stove-molder's trade, and worked at it suc- cessfully, mainly, until he was elected Chief of the Fire Department of Louisville, in 1870. He has ever since filled this position, with great credit to himself and very acceptably to the public. He is a member of quite a number of the social organizations of the day ; relig- iously, he is Methodistic, but is the friend and patron of all Churches and all good causes; is a man of fine personal and social habits; of great integrity of char- acter ; is unpretentious and industrious ; is of good per- sonal appearance; and is a worthy specimen of the self- made men of the times. Capt. Levi was married, March 24, 1870, to Miss Mary E. Fisher, of Louisville.

OYD, CAPTAIN ROBERT LIGGET, Mer- chant, is a native of Shelby County, Kentucky, and was born September 16, 1828. His father, Wm. G. Boyd, a farmer and mechanic, moved from Virginia and settled in Kentucky, as one of the first emigrants. Robert attended the county schools until he was about nineteen years of age. In 1849, after attaining the age of twenty-one years, he commenced farming, continuing successfully until 1864, in the Spring of which year, he went into the steamboat business, commanding the steamer " Elenora," and, in the following year, the "Lady Grace." Abandoning the river in the Fall of 1865, he went into the boot and shoe house of Piatt & Allen, on Main Street, Louisville, as salesman, remaining until 1873, when he formed a co-partnership with Mr. C. L. Hill, in the queen's-ware

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trade, from which he did not withdraw until November 1875, after which he entered into a partnership with Mr. W. F. Alexander, as importers and wholesale dealers in queen's-ware, plated ware, etc., at No. 285 Main Street, Louisville, of which firm he is still the senior member. This is one of the largest houses in that trade in the city, having safely weathered all the financial storms, and having a large trade throughout the States of Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Indiana. Politi- cally, the Captain has been an active Whig, but is now a Democrat. As a colonel of militia, from 1857 to 1860, he enjoyed the reputation of being an accomplished offi- cer. Uniting with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, under the ministry of the Rev. M. F. Ford, at Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1860, he has since been an active member, filling most of the offices to which a layman is eligible, from that of steward and class-leader, to the Superintendency of the Sunday-school. Three times a delegate to the annual conferences, he is now steward of what is known as the "Chestnut Street Church." He is a Royal Arch Mason, being a member of Owens- boro Chapter, called "Joe Daviess" and Falls City Lodge, No. 376; also a member of the I. O. O. F. Married on the 27th of March, 1859, to Miss Margaret McClarty, daughter of John McClarty, of Hardinsburg, Kentucky, he has four children. Mr. Boyd is one of the most pacific and even-tempered gentlemen to be met with; courteous in his deportment ; bearing in his hand- some appearance the marks of an elegant and Christian gentleman ; finely formed, about six feet in height, with a very dark and piercing eye; a good and quiet citizen, he is loved and honored by the large circle of friends and acquaintances in which he moves.

ANE, JAMES STARK, M. D., Physician and Farmer, was born January 24, 1821, in Clarke County, Kentucky. His father, who was a merchant all his life, moved to Kentucky from Charlestown, Virginia. His mother was a daughter of Hubbard Taylor, Sr., who emi- grated to this State at a very early day, and was greatly respected for his patriotism and many virtues; he was a member, from Fayette County, to the Constitutional Con- vention of 1792, which framed the first Constitution of Kentucky ; was, for a number of years, member of the Kentucky Senate, serving from 1796 to 1800, and from 1815 to 1819, from Clarke County; was Presidential Elector in 1805, 1809, 1813, 1817, 1821, and 1825, and died in 1842. Dr. Lane was educated in the schools of Clarke County, and graduated in the medical depart- ment of Transylvania University, at Lexington, in 1844. He located immediately in Clintonville, Bourbon County, Kentucky, where he practiced his profession for over

twelve years, when he removed to Pine Grove, Clarke County, where he has since resided, with the exception of a short time spent in Illinois. Before entering upon the study of medicine, he was engaged, while quite a young man, in the Florida war, entering the service in 1836. He has held no public office, except that of post- master at Pine Grove, from 1858 to 1861, and is now a Director in the Lexington City National Bank. He holds communion with the Christian or Reform Church. Dr. Lane was married, in October, 1844, to Mrs. Mary W. Montgomery, of Clarke County, a daughter of Col. John W. Woodford, a soldier of the war of 1812, and an old citizen of Clarke County. He has no children living.

ALLACE, WILLIAM ROSS, Lawyer, Poet, and Author, was born in 1819, at Lexington, Kentucky. He received a fine education ; read law, and entered upon its practice. He subse- quently settled in New York City, and devoted himself mainly to writing. He has contributed regularly to the leading New York literary papers; and published a volume of his poems in 1848, another in 1851, and he subsequently published two or three vol- umes. The following is the introductory stanza of "The Liberty Bell," one of his most beautiful poems:

" A sound like a sound of thunder rolled, And the heart of a nation stirred- For the bell of Freedom, at midnight tolled, Through a mighty land was heard. And the chime still rung, From its iron tongue, Steadily to and fro; And to some it came Like a breath of flame, And to some a breath of woe."

aREENUP, GOV. CHRISTOPHER, Lawyer, was born, about the middle of the eighteenth century, in Virginia. He was a soldier during the war of the Revolution, and afterwards bore a conspicuous part in the Indian troubles, dur- ing the early settlement of Kentucky. In 1783, he was licensed to practice law in the District Court of Kentucky, having permanently established his home in that State. In 1785, he was appointed Clerk of the Dis- trict Court, and held that position until the organization of the new State; from 1792 to 1797, was a member of Congress; afterwards was Clerk of the State Senate for several years; and, in 1804, was elected Governor, his administration being characterized for wisdom and jus- tice, and receiving the universal support of the people of the State. He was subsequently elected to the Legisla- ture, from the county of Franklin; was many years a

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Director of the old Bank of Kentucky. He was a man of great usefulness, and died, universally esteemed, April 27, 1818, at Frankfort, Kentucky.

EATTY, PROF. ORMOND, A. M., President of Centre College, was born in Mason County, Kentucky, on the 13th of August, 1813. His father, Judge Adam Beatty, was a lawyer of prominence, a personal and political friend of Henry Clay, and Circuit Judge of Mason County for twelve years. Prof. Beatty acquired the principal part of his early education at Washington Academy, in his native county, finishing, however, at Centre College, Danville, from whence he graduated, in 1835. Before graduating, he was tendered the Profess- orship of Natural Science in Centre College, which he accepted and entered upon, after spending one year at Yale College. In 1847, he was transferred to the Chair of Mathematics, which he filled for a short time only, returning to that of Natural Science. In 1872, he was elected President of Centre College, which office he still retains. Among his pupils who have acquired dis- tinction, may be mentioned the names of John C. Breckenridge, Gov. McCreary, Joseph C. S. Blackburn, John Young Brown, Prof. Chenault, and Gen. John M. Harlan. While a student at college, President Beatty united with the Presbyterian Church, and has been an elder, and occupied other prominent positions, in that Church. In 1839, he was married to Miss Sarah L. Rochester, of Boyle County, and, in 1848, to Mildred Ann Bell, sister of the celebrated Joshua F. Bell, and daughter.of David Bell, a prominent merchant of Dan- ville. One child has blessed each of these marriages. A man of great natural ability and eminent scholastic attainments ; and, although modest and retiring in his tastes and habits, he is one of the most thorough, able, accomplished, and successful among all the Presidents of Centre College.

MITH, REV. GREEN CLAY, Minister of the Baptist Church, was born July 2, 1832, at Rich- mond, Madison County, Kentucky. His mother was the oldest daughter of Gen. Green Clay, of Kentucky, and sister of Hon. Cassius M. Clay. (See sketches of Gen. Green Clay, and Cassius M. Clay.) She is still living, in Fayette County, Kentucky. On both sides of his family he is connected with some of the most distinguished men of the coun- try ; his father, Hon. John Speed Smith, was a lawyer of great ability, and was one of the most prominent public men of Kentucky. (See sketch of John Speed Smith.) He began his education in the schools of Rich-

mond, his native town, passed two years at a preparatory school in Danville, and graduated at Transylvania Uni- versity, Lexington, Kentucky, in 1850, while it was under the Presidency of Dr. Bascom. When he was fifteen years old, he enlisted in the army, and served as Second Lieutenant in the First Kentucky Cavalry, in the Mexican War, under the command of Col. Humphrey Marshall; after returning from Mexico, he was appointed School Commissioner of Madison County, and filled the position for some time. He studied law with his father; attended law school at Lexington, and graduated in 1853. He then formed a partnership with his father, and practised in the several courts of the Blue Grass region of Kentucky, competing with great success with the distinguished members of the bar of that region. In 1858, he moved to Covington, Kentucky, and con- tinued practice until the commencement of the war. He was elected to the Kentucky Legislature in 1860, and was a member of that body during the stormy period of 1860-61 ; and when the resolution was before the House requesting John C. Breckinridge and L. W. Powell to resign their seats in the United States Senate, he delivered a memorable speech in its support. In 1861, he volunteered as a private in Col. Foley's regiment, for the defense of the frontier of Ken- tucky; he was soon after promoted to Major of the Third Kentucky Cavalry, which he assisted in or- ganizing. He resigned his position in this regiment, and returned to his seat in the Legislature. In May, 1862, he was appointed Colonel of the Fourth Ken- tucky Cavalry, and took command of the regiment. He was in several engagements in Tennessee, with Generals Morgan, Forrest, and others, and was pro- moted brigadier-general for gallant and meritorious con- duct in the engagement with General Morgan, at Leb- anon, Tennessee, May 5, 1862. He served with credit, through many engagements, with the army of the Cumberland and Tennessee, until June, 1863, when he was placed in command, for the time being, of Coving- ington and Eastern Kentucky; while holding this posi- tion, he was elected to Congress from the Covington district, and took his seat, as a member from Kentucky, December 1, 1863; serving out his term, he was re- elected, by a handsome majority, in 1865. He was a " Union Democrat " in Congress, though. in the race be- tween Mr. Lincoln and Gen. McClellan, he warmly espoused the cause of the former, and canvassed a large part of the State in his behalf. At the close of his term in Congress, he was appointed Governor of the Territory of Montana, by President Johnson, which position lie held until the Fall of 1868, when he resigned, and re- tired from political life. In April, 1869, he entered the ministry of the Baptist Church, in which his career has been marked with great success. He is now pastor of the Baptist Church at Frankfort, Kentucky. About the

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close of his military career, he was brevetted major- general of volunteers for meritorious services. During the turmoil of war, when men forgot the rights and privileges belonging to private persons, he was careful in his respect for them, aiming at all times to soften the asperities of war, and keep them within the bounds of civilized regulations. This conscientious course gained him many friends, and left him, at the close of the war, without enemies among those who had opposed him. In the Legislature and the halls of Congress, he was re- garded as a fine debater, impressing his convictions upon his opponents by his great earnestness, and eliciting their admiration for fairness and undoubted integrity of pur- pose. While in Congress, he was offered the mission to Spain, by Mr. Lincoln, but declined the proffered honor ; `he was also urged by his friends as a candidate for Speaker of the House, during his second term, and also as a can- didate for Vice-President on the ticket with Mr. Lin- coln. He has been, for many years, one of the noted advocates of temperance; became Grand Patriarch of Kentucky, and has taken position as one of the first and most effective officers and speakers of the order. In 1874, he was elected Grand Worthy Chief of the order of Good Templars. He is one of the most ad- vanced of the advocates of temperance, and believes in carrying his principles into politics, with a view to con- trolling the legislation of the country in the interests of temperance; and, in 1876, was nominated by the Pro- hibition Reform Party, in convention at Cleveland, Ohio, as their candidate for President of the United States, and received the earnest support of the friends of that cause. He is a speaker of great ability, a fine reasoner, abounds in keen wit, and is possessed of great magnetic power. Socially, in most respects, is a good specimen of the proverbial Southern gentleman, approachable, hospitable, and generous. But few men in the nation have a more admirable record; turning his back upon the glittering attractiveness of political life, while he stood well within its portals, with a bright record, he accepted the pastorate of a comparatively feeble Church; entering a new field, for a moderate salary, as he be- lieved purely for the welfare of men, he has arisen to deserved distinction in the ministry, and ranks as one of the first pulpit orators of the State. Whether the pulpit may bring him increased usefulness or not, the undoubted splendor of his past career remains. Yet the demand for honest and upright men in public positions may again call him to the ranks of a public servant, from which he lias voluntarily exiled himself. He would fill, with credit and ability, any position in the gift of the people. His ministerial service has been spent, when not in the active exercise of his duties as a pastor, with his books; so that now, more than at any other period of his life, he is better qualified to serve his country. General Smith was married, in 1856, to

Miss Lena Duke, daughter of James K. Duke, of Scott County, Kentucky, and niece of John Marshall, Chief- Justice of the United States. She was a noted belle and beauty of the Blue Grass region, and was distin- guished for her vivacity, wit, and many fine social qual- ities, all of which she still retains. They have five chil- dren-two sons and three daughters.

OGERS, HON. GEORGE CLARK, Lawyer, was born July 22, 1826, at Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky, and was the second son and fifth child of Dr. George Rogers, a distinguished physician of that town, and his wife, Sarah Gorin. Giles Rogers was the earliest known member of the family in this country, and descended from John Rogers, the martyr. He emigrated from Worcestershire, England, and settled in King and Queen County, Virginia ; he married a native of Virginia, whose maiden name was Esom or Eastham. Their son, John Rogers, was a surveyor, and married Mary Byrd; and the youngest son of John Rogers and Mary Byrd was Byrd Rogers, who married in Virginia; subsequently moved to Kentucky, and settled in Fayette County, where he shortly after died. His youngest son was Dr. George Rogers. The mother of George Clark Rogers was the daughter of General Gorin, a Virginian, who early settled in Barren County, Kentucky. Almost all the male members of the families of Rogers, Clark, and Gorin, bore arms in the cause of the Republic, in the Indian wars and the war of the Revolution, many of them becoming distinguished officers, among whom was Gen. George Rogers Clark. George C. Rogers graduated in the High-school of Glasgow; studied law, under the supervision of Judge Tomkins; received great advantage in his legal training from his uncle, Hon. Frank Gorin, and his brother, Hon. John G. Rogers, now an eminent lawyer of Chicago, Illinois; and was admitted to practice in the Spring of 1847, at Glasgow. In 1849, he removed to Bowling Green; in 1851, was elected Attorney for Warren County; and was married, October 7, of the same year, to his third cousin, Jane Underwood, daugh- ter of Judge Joseph R. Underwood, of Bowling Green. He practiced his profession, in the courts of Southern Kentucky, with considerable success; was elected to represent Warren County in the Legislature, in 1855; at the close of his term, removed to Chicago; at the close of the year 1857, returned to Bowling Green, where he afterwards resided. He devoted himself to his profession, acquiring a large practice; in the Fall of 1866, was elected Circuit Judge of the Fourth Judicial District, to fill the unexpired term of Judge Asher W. Graham; in 1868, was re-elected for the regular term of six years, when his death, September 18, 1870, cut short his active

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and valuable career. Judge Rogers was genial, court- eous, without dissimulation, sincere in his friendships, and a man of great charity. As a lawyer, he was able and upright; and, as a judge, had few equals, his mind peculiarly qualifying him for that position. He died in the prime of his life, universally beloved. His widow and four children, two sons and two daughters, survived him.

UDLEY, PROF. BENJAMIN WINSLOW, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, son of Elder Ambrose Dudley, one of the early, influential and remarkable preachers of the Baptist Church in Kentucky, was born April 12, 1785, in Spott- sylvania County, Virginia. When he was a year old, his parents came to Kentucky, and settled six miles east of Lexington. He commenced his education in the country schools, and finished it at Transylvania University ; in 1797, came to Lexington, and worked for a while in the store of Samuel and George Trotter; studied medicine under Drs. Ridgeley and Fishback ; graduated in the old school of medicine at Philadelphia, in 1806; had previously commenced practice in Lexing- ton, doubtlessly in connection with his preceptors; after graduating, returned to Lexington, where he passed his long and remarkable career; was soon appointed Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the medical de- partment of Transylvania University; in 1810, visited Europe, and spent four years in the great medical and scientific centers; was honored with a degree, and made a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, in London; on his return home, soon took the front rank in his pro- fession ; was reappointed to the Chair of Anatomy and Surgery in Transylvania University, on the reorganiza- tion of the medical department, in 1818; continued to fill that position for forty years, his fame throughout the world giving great success to the institution. Although he had a laborious general medical practice, extending through the greater part of half a century, his great successes were in surgery ; his operations in lithotomy were unrivaled in the world, reaching two hundred and sixty, of which only two or three were fatal; his opera- tions on the eye; his original operation of trephining, in some cases of epilepsy, and in the treatment of fungus cerebri ; his original operation for hydrocele; and his orig- inal and successful use of graduated pressure, by means of the roller bandage, in the treatment of abscesses, frac- tures, and the control of inflammation, in which few of his pupils acquired the skill that made it so valuable in his hands, justly placed him at the head of the early surgeons of the West. (See forthcoming " History of Transylvania University," by Prof. Robert Pcter, M. D., from which the following remarks are substantially taken, by permission.) As a medical practitioner, he was origi-

nal; was among the first to reject the lancet, in the gen- eral treatment of disease-using, instead, small doses of tartar emetic or ipecacuanha, frequently repeated, with low diet, cholagogue purgatives combined with ipecac, etc .; confined himself to few remedies; but, in the ap- plication of these and of diet and regimen, his usually clear and correct judgment was always apparent. His whole time and energies were devoted to his profession; and, like John Hunter, his most admired early teacher, sought instruction in the book of nature, rather than the written archives of science. As a teacher and lecturer, he was clear and impressive, without effort at eloquence or rhetoric; no early training, or later reading of the classics or literature, ornamented his style; his terse and impressive sentences-uttered, apparently, without pre- meditation or the slightest effort-were the most perfect embodiment of the subject-matter to be taught. His great skill, experience, minute and ready knowledge, numerous and successful operations, suavity and dignity of manners, and. the magnanimity and liberality of his character, all combined to make of his students his de- voted admirers. Although not a member of any Church, he was eminently liberal, charitable, public-spirited, and magnanimous; had a high sense of honor and personal dignity; despised a mean action ; readily forgave an in- jury ; was strong in his attachments to his friends, and as strong in his opposition to his hostile enemies; never regularly kept any account with his patients; gave tens of thousands to public improvements and private chari- ties, yet acquired a considerable fortune; and passed the last days of his useful life in the society of his children and grandchildren, in the household of his son, the late Wm. A. Dudley. This most eminent surgeon that Ken- tucky has ever had, died suddenly, January 20, 1870, of apoplexy. Although Dr. Dudley left no permanent work, he yet contributed some valuable papers to medical science. His first paper was published in February, 1828, in the " Transylvania Journal of Medicine and Associate Sci- ences," at Lexington, being a report of several cases in his own practice, showing that epilepsy may be caused by pressure on the brain from fracture of the skull; and demonstrating, by five successful operations, that relief was in trephining-a fact and cxperience in surgery for which he is entitled to the honor of discovery and dem- onstration. In the same paper he exhibited a novel and successful method of treatment of fungus cerebri, by mcans of dried sponge compresses, showing a cure, in his own hands, in five days. In the next number of that journal, he gave an account of an original and suc- cessful operation for hydrocele. In the fourth number, he began an extensive article, which he continued through several successive numbers, on his peculiar uses of the roller bandage. He also continued his remarks on epilepsy, as treated by the trephine, and, in the ninth number of that journal, gave his experienecs on the

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bandage in the treatment of fractures. He also contrib- uted a valuable article on calculous diseases, illustrating not only his great skill, but his courage and judgment in extraordinary cases of surgery. In 1849, in the " Transylvania Medical Journal," edited and published by his nephew, Dr. E. L. Dudley, appeared his article "On the Treatment of Aneurism ;" in the same paper, in December of that year, he had another article, " On the Treatment of Gunshot Wounds;" and, in the vol- ume of 1850, "On the Treatment of Fractures by the Roller Bandage," which was his last published writing. Dr. Dudley was married, June 9, 1821, to Miss Anna Short, sister of the late Prof. Charles W. Short, M. D., and daughter of Major Peyton Short. They had three children, two of whom, Charles Wilkins Dudley and Mrs. Anna Tilford, are now living.

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The Biographical encyclopaedia of Kentucky of the dead and living men of the nineteenth century, Part 35

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