Mississippi : comprising sketches of towns, events, institutions, and persons, arranged in cyclopedic form Vol. III, Part 44

Author: Rowland, Dunbar, 1864-1937, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Atlanta, Southern Historical Publishing Association
Number of Pages: 938

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26, 1882, Professor Harris was united in marriage to Miss Virginia Williams, who died Oct. 27, 1887, and who is survived by two chil- dren, Estha, who is the wife of Samuel Shannon, of Jackson; and Virginia, who remains at the parental home. On Nov. 18, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Professor Harris to Miss Pinkie Low- ther, and they have five children, LaRae, Will-Moore, Nathan J., Jr., and Joe Robert.

Hayes, C. L., M. D., one of the leading physicians of Byhalia, Miss., was born in that city May 5, 1857, a son of Dr. J. H. and Jane (Wilson) Hayes. The father was born in North Carolina, but when he was but two years of age his parents moved to Athens, Ala. He received his medical training at the University of Pennsyl- vania, and his residence in Byhalia, where he was a prominent prac- titioner from 1850 until his death in 1883. The mother died in 1887 at the age of fifty-six. She was born in Petersburg, Va., and was a daughter of Legrande and Matilda Wilson. Her father was for years recognized as one of the leaders of Byhalia, socially, commerci- ally and politically. His two sons, now both deceased, Dr. N. G. and Aristotle, were also very prominent in Byhalia life. Dr. C. L. Hayes, the subject of this sketch, received his preparatory educa- tion in the schools of Byhalia and then completed his technical train- ing in the medical department of Vanderbilt university at Nashville, Tenn. After receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1877 he returned to Byhalia and entered upon the practice of his profes- sion. His patronage now extends over a large area, and is steadily growing from year to year, and the doctor is recognized as one of the leaders in his calling. He is prominently identified with the State, County and American medical associations. Dr. Hayes married Miss Emma Raiford, daughter of Thomas W. and Caroline (Barbie) Raiford of Byhalia, and to this union have been born six children. The eldest, a daughter, is now Mrs. Hugh Chalmers of Crawfordville, Ark .; T. Legrande Hayes, M. D., is a practicing phy- sician of Crawfordville, Ark .; Bessie and Zela are at home; Sidney is a student at Mississippi college at Clinton; and Jane is at home.

Hemphill, Samuel H., may properly be designated one of the found- ers of the flourishing little city of Collins, Covington county, of which he is mayor and in which he is one of the most prominent, influential and honored business men. Senator Depew, in one of his character- istic postprandial speeches, made the following happy metaphrase of a somewhat hackneyed quotation: "Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some are born in Ohio." The distinc- tion of coming under the final statement of this asseveration belongs to Mr. Hemphill, for he was born and reared in the fine old Buckeye State and is a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families. He was born March 25, 1846, and is a son of Samuel C. and Melissa (Huckle) Hemphill, who passed their entire lives in that State. After com- pleting the curriculum of the common schools Samuel H. Hemphill supplemented this discipline by a course of study in a business col- lege at Norwalk, Ohio. In 1866, at the age of twenty years, he re- moved to Michigan while he continued his residence in that State

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for the ensuing twenty years, during the greater part of which period he was successfully engaged in the real estate and lumbering busi- ness. In 1886, when the lumber industry of Michigan began to wane in importance, by reason of denudation of the timber tracts, Mr. Hemphill came to Mississippi and established his headquarters in Hattiesburg, Perry county, where he engaged in the handling of real estate, especially timber lands, and in the manufacturing of lumber, enlisting ample capital in these enterprises and thus contributing largely to the development of the resources of the State. He has ever since followed along these important lines of operation, and in 1899, before the town was platted, he came to Collins and erected a sawmill at the head of the railroad, forthwith beginning the manu- facture of lumber for the railroad company and for the upbuilding of the thriving town which soon marked the site. No citizen has been more loyal to the fine little city, and the popular recognition of this truth has not been denied, since, in 1904, he was elected to serve as mayor of the place, and has directed municipal affairs in the same broad, liberal and far-sighted way that has distinguished his personal business policy. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and both he and his wife hold the Christian Science faith and are identified with its organization. On Aug. 12, 1867, Mr. Hemphill was united in marriage to Miss Priscilla A. Canaan, who was born and reared in Ohio, being a daughter of Israel and Martha (Hisey) Canaan. Mr. and Mrs. Hemphill have two children-John Melvin and Jennie.

Henry, Patrick, of Brandon, Rankin county, is one of the eminent lawyers and citizens of the State, which he has repre- sented in congress, while he has also been incumbent of other offices of public trust and distinction and is an honored veteran of the Confederate service in the Civil war. Mr. Henry was born in Madison county, Miss., Feb. 12, 1843, and is a scion of stanch old colonial stock. He is a son of Gen. Patrick Henry and Bettie Claiborne West, both natives of Christ- ian county, Ky. The former removed from Clarksville, Tenn., where he prac- ticed law for some years. In 1837, he was elected brigadier-general of militia and in 1839 came to Missis- sippi. Having given up the practice of his profession, he bought and settled on a plantation known as "White Hall" in Madison county, near the present town of Cynthia. In 1841 Bettie Claiborne West came on a visit to her sister, Mrs. E. I. Crawford, who lived at Clinton, Miss., and there met General Henry. Their marriage followed at that place April 7, 1842. The general was an old-line Whig in his political proclivities and represented Madison county, Miss., in the State legislature, for several terms. He was a member of the constitutional convention from Madison county, in 1851; was

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a Union man and one of the most distinguished orators of the State in that cause. In 1860-1, though a strong advocate of the Union, when his State seceded, he accepted the verdict of the people, and was untiring in his efforts to further the cause of the Confederacy. He was made colonel of his county (then Rankin), and forwarded many a stalwart soldier to the front, where but for his advanced age, he would have been himself. He was anxious to enlist, but having four sons in the army, they persuaded him to stay at home. He died in Brandon, Rankin county, 1864, at the age of sixty-one, his wife surviving him by a number of years. Both are buried in the Brandon cemetery. He was a son of Gen. William and Eliza- beth Julia (Flournoy) Henry. Gen. William Henry was born April 12, 1761, in Charlotte county, Va., was a patriot soldier in the Conti- nental army during the Revolution, having served under "Light Horse Harry" Lee and Gen. Nathaniel Greene, while he was also a prominent figure in the War of 1812, having been major general in command of the Second Kentucky division at the battle of Thames, in 1813, while he was tendered the thanks of congress and of Gen. William Henry Harrison for the able manner in which he maneuvered his command. His marriage to Elizabeth Julia Flournoy of Vir- ginia was solemnized Oct. 12, 1786, in what was known as the Flour- noy fort, in Kentucky, where the respective families were early settlers, while the first window glass used in Kentucky was placed in this house or fort by Matthew Flournoy, who brought the same from Virginia in saddle bags. The Henry genealogy is traced back to stanch Irish derivation, the ancestors having crossed into Scot- land, from the north of Ireland, and located in or near Campbellton, Scotland, from which section the original American ancestor, Rev. Robert Henry, came to this country in 1740. He became a distin- guished clergyman of the Presbyterian church, having been early graduated in the college of New Jersey, at Princeton, after which he located in Charlotte county, Va., where he continued in the active work of the ministry at Cub Creek church until his death. Patrick Henry, to whom this sketch is dedicated, was afforded the best of educational advantages in his youth, having been a student in turn, in Mississippi college, Madison college and Nashville military college. He gave prompt evidence of his loyalty to the Confederacy after the Civil war had been initiated, enlisting as a member of Company B, Sixth Mississippi, in which he was made first lieutenant, while later on at the reorganization of the army at Smithfield, N. C., in 1865, he was promoted to the office of major of the Fourteenth Mississippi, "Consolidated," which was composed of the Fourteenth and Forty- third and seven companies of the Sixth Mississippi regiment. He participated in the following engagements, to-wit: Shiloh (wounded), Second Corinth, Coffeeville, Trough's Landing (Port Hudson), Port Gibson, Baker's Creek, Jackson, the Georgia Campaign, from Resaca to and including Atlanta, the campaign of General Hood into Ten- nessee, having been in the battles of Ackworth, where under orders from Brig .- Gen. John Adams, he carried in a flag of truce, and de- manded and received the surrender of the Federal garrison; Decatur,

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Franklin, two days' fight at Nashville, and on the retreat out of Tennessee. During the Georgia campaign, he was detailed from the line to act as assistant inspector general on the staff of his brigade commander, the lamented Gen. John Adams, who afterwards fell on the enemy's breastworks at Franklin; and continued in this ser- vice until the end of Hood's disastrous campaign. The Army of the Tennessee having been transferred to North Carolina, under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, he surrendered with that army at Greens- boro, N. C., in April, 1865. After the close of the war Major Henry turned his attention in a vigorous way to farming, and to the study of the law, being admitted to the bar of Mississippi, at Brandon, in 1872, and having ever since been established in the practice of his profession in that place. Within the third of a century repre- sented in the period of his professional labors there he has been con- cerned in much important litigation and has risen to a foremost position at the bar of Rankin county, while he has been called upon to serve in positions of public trust and responsibility. In 1878 he was elected to represent his county in the State legislature, and again in 1890, and in the latter year he was elected a delegate from the State at large to the State constitutional convention. In 1895-6

he served as assistant United States district attorney, and from the old Seventh district of the State he was elected to serve in the Fifty- fifth and Fifty-sixth congresses of the United States. In 1903 he was elected to represent the Fifth district of Mississippi in the State senate. The senator is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Knights of Honor, and is commander of Rankin Camp, No. 265, United Confederate Veterans. Feb. 10, 1874, witnessed the marriage of Patrick Henry to Miss Margie E. Cocke, of Rankin county, and the children of this union are six in number, namely: Robert P., Thomas C., William M., Patrick Jr., Edmund T. and Annie Scott, two of whom --- Thomas C. and William M .- are deceased.

Herrin, Jacob C., who is engaged in the general merchandise busi- ness at Robinsonville, being also the owner of a fine plantation in Tunica county, is a native of Mississippi and represented the State in the ranks of the Confederate army during the Civil war. He was born in Sartartia, Yazoo county, Aug. 1, 1842, and is a son of William B. and Lucinda (Sibley) Herrin, the former of whom was born near Nashville, Tenn., and the latter in Adams county, Miss. The Herrin family was founded in America in the colonial epoch, and among its representatives in the Continental line during the Revolution was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Wil- liam B. Herrin early came to Mississippi and he became one of the successful planters of Yazoo county, where he died when eighty- eight years of age, his wife also living to the same venerable age, while both were known for sterling worth of character, their lives being filled with earnest and fruitful endeavor. After attending the common schools of Yazoo county Jacob C. Herrin completed a course in a commercial college in the city of New Orleans, having grown to manhood on the homestead plantation. When the Civil war was inaugurated he went forth in defense of the Confederacy,

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enlisting as a private in Company W, Twenty-ninth Mississippi infantry, with which he was in active service until practically the close of the war, while he was promoted to the office of first sergeant of his company. He took part in many engagements, among the more important of which were the battles of Murfreesboro, Chick- amauga, Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. He was cap- tured and was held in prison at Rock Island, Ill., for a period of seventeen months, being released at the close of the war. He then returned to Yazoo county, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits for a time when he removed to Tunica county, where he has since been identified with the same great fundamental industry, while he has also established himself in the general merchandise business in Robinsonville, where he has a well equipped store and receives an excellent supporting patronage. He has never wavered in his political faith, which is that of the Democratic party, but he has never sought office of any sort. He and his wife are members of the Missionary Baptist church, with which he has been identified since 1887. On Aug. 15, 1866, Mr. Herrin was united in marriage to Miss Clara Kennedy, who was born and reared in Yazoo county, being a daughter of Michael O. and Catherine (Farrell) Kennedy, and of their eight children seven are living, namely: William, Lulu L., Michael, Homer, Jesse, Hill, and Clarence. The eldest son is the owner of a large amount of land in Tunica county.

Hilbun, Henry, who is engaged in the general practice of law in Laurel, is one of the representative younger members of the bar of Jones county and is a member of the State legislature. He was born at Pinnellville, this county, Feb. 6, 1880, and is a son of Andrew Jackson and Mary Eliza- beth (Shows) Hilbun, the former of whom was born in Alabama and the latter in Jones county, Miss. The father is one of the substantial agriculturists of Jones county and is a citizen of worth and prom- inence. His father was a soldier in the Civil war, in which he ably defended the cause of the Confederacy, having died from disease contracted in the service and having been at home on a fur- lough at the time of his demise. The maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch sacrificed his life in the cause of the Confeder- acy, having been killed in one of the battles around Jackson, Miss. Henry Hilbun was afforded the advantages of the schools of his na- tive county and thereafter continued his academic studies in Mill- saps college, in Jackson, eventually entering the law department of the same institution and completing a partial technical course. He continued his studies in the institution while serving as a member of the legislature, and he was admitted to the bar upon examination, in May, 1904. From 1901 to 1902, inclusive, Mr. Hilbun taught in the country schools of Jones county and he also taught one year

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in the graded schools of Ellisville, being successful and popular in this field of endeavor. He was a member of the board of school examiners for the county in 1901-2, and he also served as a member of the county text-book board. After his admission to the bar he engaged in the practice of his profession at Ellisville, where he was also editor of the Ellisville News about one year. In May, 1905, he removed to Laurel, where he has since given his entire attention to his law business and where he has gained distinctive recognition as a well read and able member of his chosen profession. He is a stalwart supporter of the principles of the Democratic party and in 1903 he was elected to represent his county in the lower house of the State legislature, being assigned to membership on several important com- mittees, including the judiciary, public buildings and grounds, public lands, and the executive committee having control of the contingent fund of the house. On March 13, 1902, Mr. Hilbun was united in marriage to Miss Lucia Graves, daughter of Benjamin D. and Laura M. (Ford) Graves, who are now residents of Smith county. Mr. and Mrs. Hilbun have two daughters, Earle and Annie Laurie.

Hines, L. D., is one of the representative business men of the city of Tupelo, being president of the Tupelo Cotton Mills and also having other interests of important nature. Mr. Hines is a native of Tippah county, Miss., being a son of Chesley Hines, who was born in Boli- var, Tenn., whence he came to Tippah county, Miss., when a young man, becoming a successful planter and business man. He was a member of a Mississippi regiment in the Confederate service, having enlisted in 1861 and having been in active service until the battle of Perryville, Ky., where he was so severely wounded as to be in- eligible for further field duty. Both he and his wife continued resi- dents of Tippah county until their death. The subject of this sketch was afforded the advantages of the schools of Ripley, Tippah county, and supplemented this discipline by a course of study in the Uni- versity of Mississippi, at Oxford. Since leaving school he has been continuously identified with business interests, having been for a number of years engaged in the general merchandise trade at Ripley, from which place he finally removed to Tupelo, where he has since maintained his home. He was one of the organizers and incorpor- ators of the Tupela Cotton Mills, which were established in 1900, being the only mills of the sort in northern Mississippi. He has been president of the company from the start and the enterprise has been attended with noteworthy success, employment being afforded to 160 hands. The plant occupies a modern two-story building, 75x234 feet in dimension; has 5,000 spindles and 170 looms. The product is a superior quality of blue denims and the goods are shipped into all sections of the Union. The company is capitalized for $170,000. and the industry is one which has added materially to the commer- cial prestige of Tupela and the State. Mr. Hines is also a member of the directorate of the Bank of Tupelo and the Tupelo Compress Company. He is president of the Memphis Queensware Company, of Memphis, Tenn., this being a large and important concern, capital- zed for $125,000, and employing forty hands. He is general mana-

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ger of the Tipton Cotton Mills, at Covington, Tenn., where he spends one day of each week, these mills giving employment to 160 opera- tives and being equipped with 6,000 spindles and 168 looms. He is essentially progressive as a business man and as a citizen and is enterprising and public-spirited in his attitude. His political allegi- ance is given to the Democratic party and he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Hines married Miss Ella Thompson, daugh- ter of Daniel C. Thompson, of Middleton, Tenn., and she presides most graciously over their attractive home in Tupelo, being promi- nent in the social affairs of the city.

Hogan, Frank L., is one of the representative business men and honored citizens of his native county, being president of the Stark- ville Cotton Oil Company and also being the owner of valuable landed and live-stock interests in the county. He was born at Starkville, Oktibbeha county, Miss., May 14, 1866, and is a son of Alexander and Almira (Ames) Hogan, the former of whom was born in Alabama, in 1829, and the latter in Tennessee, in 1833. The father's death occurred in August, 1905, and his cherished and de- voted wife was summoned to the life eternal in March of the follow- ing year. Elijah Hogan, grandfather of the subject of this review, was one of the honored pioneers of Starkville, having been numbered among its first settlers. Prior to coming to Mississippi he lived at Huntsville, Ala., and had plantation interests in that locality, whence he transported his cotton product by flat boat down the Mississippi river to New Orleans. In 1833 he removed with his family to Colum- bus, Miss., and in the following year he took up his residence in Stark- ville, where he conducted a hotel, also engaging in agricultural pur- suits and becoming one of the substantial and influential citizens of the county. He was a leader in the Methodist church and assisted in the organization of the first church of this denomination in Stark- ville. Alexander Hogan likewise stood exponent of the best order of citizenship and was held in unqualified esteem by all who knew him. He was reared and educated in Oktibbeha county and became one of its extensive and successful planters and stock-growers, con- tinuing to be identified with these important lines of industry until his death. He manifested his loyalty to the Confederacy when the war between the States was initiated by doing all in his power to uphold the cause of the Confederacy. In 1862 he enlisted as a pri- vate in the Forty-third Mississippi infantry, with which he was in active service until the close of the war, save for the period of his imprisonment. He was captured at the time of the siege of Vicks- burg and was taken to Camp Douglas, near Chicago, where he was held in captivity until the close of the war, when he received his parole. During the entire time of his service he never asked or was granted a parole, always being found at his post of duty. After due preliminary training the subject of this sketch entered the Mis- sissippi Agricultural and Mechanical college, at Starkville, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1885. After leaving college Mr. Hogan was employed for seven years as clerk in a general merchandise establishment in Starkville, and he then engaged in

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the raising, buying and shipping of live stock, as well as in agricul- tural pursuits, having a valuable landed estate near Starkville and making a specialty of the breeding of fine Jersey cattle. With these lines of industry he is still prominently identified and he has done much to forward such interests in this section of the State. In 1900 the Starkville Cotton Oil Company was organized and he became one of the principal stockholders in the same, being elected president of the company at the time of its incorporation and having since done effective service as its executive head. The other mem- bers of the official corps are : Evans W. Lampkin, secretary and treas- urer, and, including these, the following members of the board of directors,-D. A. Saunders, W. H. Sudduth, W. W. Magruder and B. M. Walker. The company is capitalized for $30,000 and its finely equipped plant has a capacity for handling forty tons per day, is in operation from six to nine months each year and affords employ- ment to about thirty hands, representing one of the important indus- trial enterprises of the thriving little city in which it is located. In other direction has Mr. Hogan shown his liberality and public spirit and he is held in high regard as a citizen and as an enterprising busi- ness man. In politics he pays allegiance to the Democratic party, in whose cause he takes a lively and loyal interest. In 1904 he was appointed a trustee of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical college, to fill the unexpired term of Col. W. B. Montgomery, and · his term expired in March, 1906. He has never been a seeker of public office and has held none save the quasi-preferment noted. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. On Sept. 17, 1902, Mr. Hogan was united in marriage to Miss Mamie Sage, daughter of William W. Sage, of DeSoto county, and they have two children-Robert Alexander and Catherine.

Hogan, J. Beverly, who conducts one of the leading insurance agencies in the city of Starkville, is a representative of one of the earliest settled families of Oktibbeha county and the name which he bears has been prominently identified with the history of the county from the pioneer days to the present. Mr. Hogan has passed his entire life thus far in Starkville, where he was born Aug. 12, 1859, being a son of Cicero Augustus and Ellott (Abney) Hogan, the former of whom was born in northern Alabama, April 23, 1823, and the latter of whom was born in Fairfield district, S. C., July 11, 1829. The Hogan family is of English cxtraction and was founded in Virginia in the early colonial epoch. From the Old Dominion representatives of the name went into Kentucky with Daniel Boone, and from that State came the original representatives of the family in Alabama and Mississippi. Elijah Hogan, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was numbered among the very first settlers of Oktibbeha county, whither he came with his family in 1829. He first located where the village of Osborn now stands and in 1831 removed to the site of the city of Starkville, where he bought an Indian cabin and established his home therein. He was one of the founders of the present thriving city, and he continued a resident of the county until his death, which occurred in 1842. The old

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Mississippi : comprising sketches of towns, events, institutions, and persons, arranged in cyclopedic form Vol. III, Part 44

Author: Rowland, Dunbar, 1864-1937, ed Publication date: 1907 Publisher: Atlanta, Southern Historical Publishing Association Number of Pages: 938

Author: Rowland, Dunbar, 1864-1937, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Atlanta, Southern Historical Publishing Association
Number of Pages: 938