The Biographical encyclopaedia of Kentucky of the dead and living men of the nineteenth century, Part 60

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


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ployed, in 1811, by the Government, in building gun- boats; in 1820, held an appointment, from President Monroe, among the Cherokee Indians in Arkansas; in 1822, was elected first delegate to Congress, from that Territory, but never took his seat. He died August I, 1822, at Spadra Bluff, Arkansas, and his remains were buried at Eddyville, Kentucky. Col. Lyon was first married about the close of the war of the Revolution ; and, in 1798, was again married, to Mrs. Beulah Galusha, daughter of Gov. Thomas Chittenden, of Vermont. His first wife died, leaving one child. His son, Matthew Lyon, who was the father of Gen. H. B. Lyon, was a man of considerable distinction in that part of Ken- tucky; and his son, Col. Chittenden Lyon, represented Caldwell County, Kentucky, in the Legislature, for one or two terms; was also a member of Congress, from 1827 to 1835, from Kentucky, and made two or three other exciting contests for Congressional honors, but was defeated. He was a man of great proportions and immense strength.


ORD, JAMES COLEMAN, Planter. During the latter part of the seventeenth century, many English gentlemen, whose families had been adherents of the Stuart cause, left the old country and sought new homes in the Colony of Virginia. Amongst these came the ancestors of the subject of this sketch, and established themselves amidst the tobacco plantations on the banks of the Po- tomac, where the counties of Prince William and Fairfax, are bounded by the river Occoquan, and where some of their descendants yet reside. From Virginia to Ken- tucky, in 1789, came Edward Ford and his son William Ford, and settled, the former in Bourbon, and the latter in Fayette County, where he married Mary Warfield, of Lexington (a member of a family of Maryland origin, and notable in the annals of the Kentucky turf). These were the parents of James Coleman Ford, who was born on his father's plantation, near Lexington, in 1798. For many generations back his forefathers had been de- voted to country life and the employments of agricul- ture ; and, true to the instincts of race, he in early life engaged in cotton planting on Lake Providence, Carroll Parish, Louisiana, and for many years dedicated his chief attention to this favorite pursuit; and, acquiring large landed estates in Arkansas, Louisiana and Missis- sippi, he steadily enlarged the area of his planting interests, and had become, at the beginning of the late civil war, one of the largest producers of the American cotton belt, his crops in the year 1859 aggregating be- tween twenty-seven hundred and twenty-eight hundred bales. The rare union of large administrative capacity and great forecast in matters of detail, carried with it an almost unprecedented success, and rendered his judg-


ment in this branch of agriculture a recognized authority wherever he was known. The undisturbed routine of this period of Mr. Ford's life offers no incident of special note; he was accustomed to spend about half the year in the South, in the direction of his cotton estates, and the remainder with his family in Kentucky. Viewing the spoliations of the late war with uncompro- mising resentment, having no faith in the new labor sys- tem, and no sympathy with the sources of its origin, Mr. Ford has, since, 1861, given little attention to his plant- ing interests, having given charge of them over to younger members of his family. He has sold his Chicot plantation to an association of his former slaves, and the problem offered by this experiment is viewed with much interest in the Mississippi Valley. Mr. Ford mar- ried, in 1830, Mary Jane, third daughter of the late Justice Robert Trimble, of the United States Supreme Court ; and their home in Louisville has, for more than forty years past, been the seat of a refined and splendid hospitality, where has been gathered together all that was most distinguished and courtly in Kentucky society. A Whig in politics, an Episcopalian in religion, happy in all his domestic relations, and of ample fortune, Mr. Ford's character and opinions are strongly marked. He is one of the few surviving exemplars of the conservative agencies of the old Southern civilization, the peculiar conditions of whose creation perished at the surrender of Lee. Of spotless honor, a kind master, a sympathetic and generous friend, keenly sensitive to the ties and ob- ligations of kinsmanship, no member of his widely ex- tended family connections has ever sought in vain his advice or his aid. Mr. Ford has two surviving chil- dren : Robert Trimble, a cotton planter, born 1833, and married to Marie Eloise, youngest daughter of the late Col. John Gordon, of Charleston, South Carolina, their children being J. C. Ford, Jr., a youth of sixteen, and Mariquita Gordon, a daughter of eighteen ; Alice _ Warfield, born 1846, and married to Robert P. Hun- tington, of Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York, eld- est son of the late Judge Huntington, of the United States District Court of Indiana, their children being Ford Huntington, ten years of age, and Robert P. Huntington, Jr., aged nine.


ANDRAM, BRIGADIER-GENERAL WILL- IAM JENNINGS, Lawyer and Soldier, was born February II, 1828, at Lancaster, Ken- tucky, where he has since resided. His parents were Louis and Martha A. Landram, and he was their oldest child. His father was a law- yer by profession, a Virginian by birth; came to Scott County carly in the century ; subsequently, located at Lancaster, where he died, in 1873. He held various


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offices under the Government, and was particularly noted for his great attachment for, and prominence in, the Masonic fraternity. His mother was a native of Gar- rard County, a niece of Chief-Justice Robertson, and daughter of James George, a farmer of that county. Gen. Landram received an education in the best private schools of the county, and, in 1845, became Deputy Clerk of the Circuit and County Courts for Garrard County. After the commencement of the Mexican war, he enlisted as a private in Company A of Col. Humphrey Marshall's First Kentucky Cavalry; at the end of the first month, was promoted to orderly sergeant; partici- pated in the famous battle of Buena Vista, where he was wounded by a saber-cut across the shoulder ; and, at the expiration of the term of enlistment for the regiment, returned home, and resumed his place in the clerk's office, during his leisure hours reading law. In 1850 and 1851, he edited and published the "Garrard Ban- ner," a political journal, in Lancaster, Kentucky ;. in 1854, he was admitted to the bar; in 1853, he was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court for Garrard County ; was continually re-elected, and held the office until the commencement of the war of the rebellion ; in 1861, he entered the Government service, at Camp Dick Robin- son, and was commissioned Colonel of the First Ken- tucky Volunteer Cavalry, which position he resigned in a few days, on account of his dislike to the cavalry service. By order of Gen. Sherman, he took charge of the Government grounds at Harrodsburg, and, in two months, recruited the Nineteenth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and was commissioned its colonel. He partici- pated in the battles of Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion Hills, Black River Bridge, siege of Vicksburg, and siege of Jackson; commanded, in these battles, the Second Brigade, Fourth Division, Thirteenth Army Corps, composed of the Nineteenth Kentucky, Forty-eighth Ohio, Seventy-seventh, Ninety- seventh, One Hundred and Eighth, and One Hundred and Thirtieth Illinois Regiments, and the Chicago Mer- cantile Battery ; in the battle of Sabine Cross Roads, Louisiana, he commanded the Fourth Division, Thir- teenth Army Corps; in 1865, was promoted Brigadier- General of Volunteers; commanded the Baton Rouge District for some time; had charge of the Cavalry Camp of Instruction, at New Orleans; and, when the end finally came, returned to his home, at Lancaster. In 1867, he was appointed, by Andrew Johnson, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Eighth Kentucky District ; and has held the position since, by reappointment from President Grant. He was a Whig until the dissolution of that party, and voted for Bell and Everett, in 1860. He has since been a Republican; is Chairman of the State Central Committee of that party, and was noted for his warm support of General Grant's adminis- tration. He has always been an emancipationist, and,


in 1849, voted for the abolition of negro slavery in Ken- tucky. He has had little opportunity for the practice of his chosen profession, most of his time being occupied in the public positions to which he has been called, and in which he has made an enviable record. He was a brave and efficient soldier, and served the nation nobly throughout a long and bloody war; is distinguished for his strong, admirable traits of character; for his fearless devotion to just and honorable principles; and for his unexceptional personal and social habits. For over twenty years he has been an elder in 'the Presbyterian Church. General Landram was married, in 1849, to Miss Sarah A. Walker, daughter of William Walker, a merchant and old settler of Garrard County.


URHAM, HON. MILTON J., Lawyer, was born May 16, 1824, in Mercer County, Ken- tucky. He received a fine literary education, graduating, in 1844, at Asbury University, Indiana; studied law, at the Louisville Law School; since 1850, has been engaged in the practice of the law in Danville; in 1861 and 1862, was a Circuit Judge; was elected to the Forty-third Con- gress, and re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, serv- ing on the Committees on Banking and Currency, and the Department of Justice ; and, in December, 1875, was appointed Chairman on the Committee of the Revision of Laws.


ALLER, REV. JOHN LIGHTFOOT, Clergy- man, was born November 23, 1809, in Wood- ford County, Kentucky, and died in Louisville, October 10, 1854. He obtained a good educa- tion, mainly under private tutors, and, after teaching for several years in Jessamine County, about 1835, became editor of the "Baptist Banner," of Shelbyville ; was subsequently one of the editors of the " Banner and Western Pioneer;" was ordained a minis- ter, in 1840; became general agent of the Kentucky Baptist Association, in 1841 ; in 1843, became pastor of the Church at Glen's Creek, succeeding his father ; in 1845, commenced publishing the "Western Baptist Re- view," a monthly, which he continued till his death, part of the time under the title of "Christian Reposi- tory ;" also, in 1850, resumed his editorship of the " Banner and Pioneer;" aided in organizing the Bi- ble Revision Association; in 1849, was elected, over Thomas F. Marshall, as a member of the last Constitu- tional Convention ; in 1842, held his celebrated debates on Baptism, with Rev. Nathan L. Rice, at Georgetown and Nicholasville ; also, with Rev. John T. Hendrick, at Flemingsburg, Robert C. Grundy, at Maysville ; and


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debated on Universalism, at Warsaw, Kentucky, with Rev. E. M. Pingree, of Cincinnati; and was one of the most noted controversialists of his day. He left a manuscript " History of the Baptist Church in Ken- tucky," and published several discussions on the great doctrines of his Church. In 1852, Madison University conferred on him the title of LL. D.


ARRICK, HON. JAMES RUSSELL, Poet and Editor, was born April 9, 1829, in Barren County, Kentucky. His father, Russell Bar- rick, of Scotch origin, was a native of Virginia, and emigrated to this State between 1790 and 1800; was a man of great natural ability, and was considered one of the most thoroughly well informed men of his day in Kentucky. His mother was the sister of Terence Cooney, the first proprietor of the Louis- ville "Journal," with whom George D. Prentice was first connected, on his arrival in the West. She was also a Virginian, and came to Kentucky, with her father's family, towards the close of the last century. James R. Barrick attended school, under private teachers, in his father's neighborhood, and finished his education at Urania College, at Glasgow, Kentucky. At the age of sixteen, he was appointed postmaster of Glasgow, and held the position fifteen years; soon after receiving that appointment, devoted considerable attention to the study of chemistry and medicine; and, in 1849, opened a drug- store, which he carried on with success until the break- ing out of the war. During this time, he gave himself largely to literary culture; early began to display ability as a writer of poetry, and, before reaching his majority, became a favorite contributor to the Louisville "Jour- nal," and other papers of less note, and received some flattering attentions from literary men over the country. In 1859, he was elected to the State Senate, to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. William Martin Wilson, and was always an earnest advocate of the principles of the Democratic party. In 1860, he favored compromise and reconciliation between the sec- tions, and used every effort to avert the calamity of war, and not until after the election of Mr. Lincoln did he abandon all hope; and, being conscientiously averse to refraining longer from action, united his fortunes with the South, and was at once chosen one of the celebrated Council of Ten; and, upon the evacuation of Bowling Green, accompanied the army, with which he remained until after the battle of Shiloh. During the war he was, for a time, editor of the " Telegraph and Confederate," and subsequently of the Macon "Journal and Messen- ger;" after the surrender, he established his drug busi- ness in Atlanta, and was, at the same time, editor of "Scott's Monthly Magazine;" finally retired from the


drug trade, and took editorial charge of the " Atlanta Constitution," which position he held at the time of his death. He took an active interest in all matters of im- portance in his community; was, for a time, President of the Barren County Agricultural Society, and a Director of the Kentucky State Agricultural Society; was also Presi- dent of the Barren County Railroad Company ; and was one of those liberal-spirited, open-handed men, who gave his ready support to every good cause. He was con- sidered one of the most attractive writers of his day. His poems were widely circulated through the press of the country, and were much admired for their delicacy and beauty. He was free from diplomacy and cunning; was extremely genial and companionable, with great ease and suavity of manner, being most attractive in his social qualities. In person, he was six feet high and finely proportioned, but, from boyhood, was partially lame, being seldom able to walk without a cane or crutch. He died after having just ended his fortieth year, in the very prime of vigorous manhood ; and his death was made a matter of public notice throughout the coun- try, and brought forth, from many of his admirers, warm eulogiums, the most flattering of which was from the pen of his gifted friend, George D. Prentice, who had been one of his warmest admirers. Mr. Barrick was married, June 16, 1851, to Mrs. Louann B. Ellis, a native of Barren County. His widow and their four children-George Moss, Rosa, Minnie May, and Thomas Rogers Barrick-lived after him, to cherish his memory with the deepest affection. This brief sketch is fitly closed by the following stanzas, selected from one of Mr. Barrick's most beautiful poems, written "To an Absent Wife," during the great civil war:


"Dear Lula, 't is the sunset hour, All nature sleeps, as in a dream, The light that beams on mount and tower Reflects a glow on wood and stream ; The world, as with a spell, is blest, And Eden bliss binds all save me ; The phantom of a strange unrest My path pursues, where'er I be.


I count the years of wedded bliss That swift on rosy wings were past- The beaming smile, the burning kiss, The hopes that were too bright to last. I think of our once happy home, Made cheerful by the constant smile,


Ere it had been my lot to roam An alien from thy side the while.


Though now between thy fate and mine The tide of war may lightly roll, It hath no power to whelm the shrine Thy love deep planted in my soul; Though other skies than those we knew Now bend above my hopeless lot,


And scenes all strange now greet my view, Thou art not, can'st not, be forgot."


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AILLARD, EDWIN SAMUEL, A. M., M. D., 6 LL. D., was born January 16, 1827, Charleston District, South Carolina; graduated at South Carolina University, Columbia, South Carolina, December, 1845; graduated in medicine at the Medical College of South Carolina, with first honor, March, 1854; moved to Florida, by invitation, to take charge of a large practice, June, 1854; practiced there until March, 1857; became a member of the Flor- ida State Medical Society, December, 1855; elected Vice- President on the same date; also, elected annual orator of State Medical Society ; moved to New York, March, 1857; went to Europe, August, 1857, and returned to New York, November, 1857 ; remained there until March, 1861 ; moved to Baltimore, March, 1861, and joined the Confederate army, two months later, at Richmond, Vir- ginia ; held in this army the following positions: As- sistant Surgeon, First Maryland Regiment, May, 1861 ; Surgeon of same regiment, August, 1861; Surgeon of Brigade, August, 1861; Medical Inspector of Army of Virginia, September, 1861 ; Medical Director of one-half of the army, October, 1861 ; made a member of the Medi- cal Examining Board of the Army of Virginia, Decem- ber, 1861 ; Medical Director of the Department of Aquia, March, 1862; Medical Director of one-half of the army around Richmond, Virginia, May, 1862. He lost his right arm in the battle of Seven Pines, May 29, 1862; reported for duty, August, 1862; made Medical Director of Army Corps in Virginia, August, 1862; Medical Di- rector of the Department of North Carolina and Vir- ginia, and placed in charge of all the hospitals of these two States, September, 1862 ; invalided for three months; returned to duty, and made Medical Inspector of Hospi- tal, Department of Virginia, April, 1863; made, by the Secretary of War, General Inspector of Confederate Hos- pitals, December, 1863, serving in that capacity until the close of the war; moved to Richmond, Virginia, as pri- vate practitioner, May, 1865; received the Fiske Fund prize, 1861 ; the prize of the Georgia Medical Associa- tion, in 1865; founded the Richmond " Medical Jour- nal," January, 1866; made Professor of General Pathol- ogy and Pathological Anatomy in the Medical College of Virginia, June, 1867; elected to same chair in Kentucky School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, May, 1868; moved to Louisville, Kentucky, May, 1868, moving also the "Richmond Medical Journal," which has since been published there under the title of the "Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal;" made Professor of Princi- ples and Practice of Medicine and General Pathology in Louisville Medical College, August, 1869; made a member of Kentucky State Medical Association and American Medical Association, in 1869; established the "American Medical Weekly," July, 1874; received the degree of A. M. and the degree of LL. D. from the Uni- versity of North Carolina, August and October, 1873; is


now member of Louisville Medical Societies; made Cor- responding Member of the Boston Gynecological Soci- ety, 1869; Corresponding Member of the Louisville Ob- stetrical Society, 1870; elected Honorary Member of the South Carolina Medical Association, 1870; Honorary and Corresponding Member of College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Arkansas, 1874. Dr. Gaillard married, in 1856, Jane Marshall Thomas, of Charleston, South Carolina (daughter of the Rev. Ed. Thomas and Jane Marshall Thomas), who died in April, 1860, leaving no children. On October 5, 1865, he married, in Richmond, Virginia, Mary Elizabeth Gibson, daughter of Prof. C. B. Gibson and Ellen Gibson, and granddaughter of Prof. William Gibson, of the University of Pennsylvania, formerly of Baltimore, Maryland. By this marriage there are now three children-Ellen Eyre, Edwin White, and Charles Bell Gibson-one infant son (Gustavus Smith Gaillard) having died in May, 1874. Dr. Gaillard was elected President of the Richmond Academy of Medicine in 1867, and President of the Medico-chirurgical Society of Louisville in December, 1868; President of the Ameri- can Mutual Benefit Association of Physicians, March, 1875. He has been the Dean of the Louisville Medical College since the first year of its foundation; Dean of the Kentucky School of Medicine; and has filled other positions of honor and trust, being now, August, 1877, in the active discharge of many of the duties above in- dicated.


HURSTON, HON. JOHN B., Lawyer, was born in Virginia, in 1757. He studied law, and, soon afterwards, emigrated to Kentucky. In 1805, he became United States Senator from Kentucky; subsequently became a Judge of the Circuit Court for Kentucky, and held that po- sition until the time of his death, which occurred at Washington City, August 30, 1845.


AFFELL, JAMES, Manufacturer, is a native of Anderson County, Kentucky, where he was born June 11, 1813. His father, Joshua Saf- fell, was a quiet farmer, and never sought pub- lic position ; his mother, Elizabeth Middleton, was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky, of Virginia parentage. At that early period, the facilities for education were meagre, and, his father dying when he was a child, it became necessary for him to turn his attention to business. He, however, managed to acquire the rudiments of a good English education, and, at the age of fifteen, was apprenticed to a cabinet-maker; but, having a natural inclination for the business and bustle of life, he soon began trading in live stock, and was


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very successful; then went to Frankfort, and bought an interest in the stage line from Lexington to Louisville, with E. P. Johnson & Co .; in a few years, he, with Dr. John Witherspoon, bought the line of his former partners, and successfully carried on the business for twenty-five years, during several of which he was also engaged in manufacturing, having, in 1869, opened the Cedar Run. Distillery, and, in 1876, purchased the Valley Flour Mills of Frankfort, both of which he still continues. Since the organization of the Deposit Bank of Frankfort, he has been one of its directors. In his various enterprises, he has been remarkably successful, owing to his energy, fine business talent, and strict integrity in all his trans- actions. During the war, he was a staunch Union man, and sacrificed much valuable property in his zeal for the cause, and, since, has taken a strong stand with the Re- publican party; and, although not strictly speaking a politician, he has often been a delegate to the political conventions, and has been a source of great strength to the weak party in his State. During the war, his prin- ciples were severely tested; but he remained, through- out, unflinchingly devoted to the national cause. In politics, as in every thing else, his conduct has been of such character as to demand the respect of his neighbors, and he is, consequently, one of the most influential and highly esteemed members of the community. He has been one of the most extensive and successful business men of the State; has been characterized for his univer- sal integrity, his liberality, his public enterprise, his broad charities and expansive views, and is, undoubt- edly, one of the most valuable and useful citizens of Franklin County. In personal appearance, he is pre- possessing ; in his manners, genial and attractive; in personal and social habits, is unexceptional; and, al- though not a member of a Church, he is the friend and patron of all Churches. In 1834, he was married to Miss Martha T. Hazlett, daughter of William Fulton Hazlett. His family, of two sons and two daughters, have reached maturity, the sons being actively engaged with him in his extensive manufacturing operations.


, NOTT, HON. J. PROCTOR, Lawyer, was born August 29, 1830, in Marion County, Ken- tucky. He received a fine literary education ; studied law; settled in Missouri in 1850; was elected to the State Legislature in 1858; re- signed in the following year; in 1860, was elected Attorncy-General of that State; was a delegate to the Missouri Convention in 1861; returned to Ken- tucky in 1862; in 1867, was elected Representative from Kentucky to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Com- mittee on Mines and Mining; was re-elected to the Forty-first and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving on im-


portant committees, and acquiring a national reputation. He resides at Lebanon, in his native county ; and is now one of the most distinguished men of his State.


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ERRY, WILLIAM J., M. D., was born in Washington County, Kentucky, July 9, 1816. The family is of Scotch-Irish descent ; came at an early date to Virginia, but afterwards settled in Kentucky. His father, Major Edward Berry, was an officer in the war of 1812, and was pro- moted for gallant conduct at the battle of New Orleans. His mother was Mary Brazelton, a Virginian, a relative of Abraham Lincoln's mother, who lived in the family of Major Berry for several years. He began his educa- tion in the county schools, attended St. Mary's College, near Lebanon, Kentucky, in 1834-5; commenced his medical studies, in 1836, in the office of Prof. Linton and Dr. Polin, at Springfield, Kentucky ; and attended, in 1837, the first course of medical lectures ever deliv- ered in the Louisville University, the professors being Drs. Caldwell, Miller, Cooke, Yandell, and Flint. In the Spring of 1838, he located at Hartford, Ohio County, where he has since remained, excepting two years spent in Missouri, building up an extensive and valuable prac- tice. In 1848, he attended a full course of lectures at the St. Louis University, where he graduated. It is 'worth noting that he is the fourth physician, in the his- tory of medicine, who successfully removed the clavicle bone from a patient. It was this operation which dis- tinguished Joseph Pancoast, of Philadelphia, he being the first to perform it, although it was claimed for Dr. McCrary, of Hartford. Doctor Berry has also attained great reputation as a successful obstetrician, as well as in the general treatment of women and children. He has never been a politician, but was prevailed on by his friends, to make the race for the State Senate, in 1851, and was elected; again, in 1853, was a candidate, but withdrew on account of illness in his family ; was again induced, in 1853, to accept the nomination to the Lower House ; won the election by a large majority, and, in 1873, was elected a second time to the State Senate; in 1874, was Republican nominee for State Treasurer, but was defeated. He married, July 26, 1838, Miss Sarah M. Walker, daughter of R. L. Walker, a prominent merchant of Hartford, Kentucky, and has had a family of eleven children, seven of whom are living. His son, Samuel, is a rising physician of Ohio County ; another son, Vega, is a distinguished physician of Yazoo County, Mississippi ; a daughter, Selma, is married to Dr. W. F. Gregory, of Hartford ; Zellia is the wife of Moses Elison, a druggist of Dcasonville, Mississippi; and thic other children are yet at homc. He has taken great in- terest in the order of Good Templars; traveled at his




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