History of the Ohio falls cities and their counties : with illustrations and bibliographical sketches, Vol. II, Part 4

Author: Williams, L.A., & Co., Cleveland
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : L. A. Williams & Co.
Number of Pages: 680

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Jacob Wells was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, March 23, 1817. His father was John H. Wells, a native of Virginia, and a sol- dier of the War of 1812. He married, in 1813, Amelia Fox, who was born in South Carolina July 8, 1793. They had eleven children, of whom eight grew to maturity. When Jacob was eleven years old his father moved near Mount Washington, Bullitt county, at which place he received his education. He learned the stone- mason's trade of his father, and worked at this for many years. For ten years prior to the war he and his brother, N. P. Wells, carried on a tombstone establishment in Jeffersontown. At this time Jacob Wells retired from business. N. P. Wells was born at Mount Washington December 17, 1829. He learned the stone- cutter's trade, and has been in that business since 1850, and now has a shop at Jeffersontown. He married Elizabeth Leatherman, daughter of Joseph Leatherman, of Jefferson county. She was born April 15, 1842.

A. E. Tucker was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, July 10, 1848. He is the third child of Hazel Tucker, an old timer of the county and precinct. Hazel Tucker was born in Spencer county in May, 1796. He was a farmer by oc- cupation, and married Nancy Cooper, by whom he had six children. He was a member of the Baptist church. He died May 23, 1875. Al- bert was educated in the Jeffersontown college, and like his father is a farmer. On March 12, 1874, he married Mary Jones, who was born in

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November, 1848. They have three children- William, Thomas, and Mabel.

John Nelson Tyler was born in Jefferson pre- cinct, Jefferson county, on September 28, 1825. He is the fifth of eight children of Allen 'Tyler, a native of the same county. The father of Allen was Moses Tyler, who, with his brothers, William and Edward, immigrated into the same county during Indian times from Virginia. William was for a time a captive of the natives. Allen married Phobe Blankenbaker, daughter of Henry Blankenbaker, of , Virginia. Allen Tyler was born February 28, 1794, and died Novem- ber 30, 1874. Phœbe was born November 13, 1792, and died December 8, 1857. John Nel- son 'Tyler was educated in the common schools, and is a farmer by occupation. He married Rhoda Ann Quisenberry, a native of Jefferson county, by whom he has five children-Lucy Ann Beard, Malissie Alice, William Thomas, Jane, and Minnie Belle.

William Goose is of German descent, and was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, December 8, 1804. He is the third son and sixth child of William Goose, who was a native of Pennsyl- vania, and who came to Kentucky about 1796. Before leaving Pennsylvania he married Catha- rine Yenawine. He was a wagon-maker by trade, and built many of the farmers' wagons formerly used in Jeffersontown precinct, but was also a farmer. He was the father of eight children. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools, and when fifteen was appren- ticed to learn the wheelwright's (spinning wheel) and chair bottoming trades. He served four years at Jeffersontown, and then engaged in these businesses in the same place for about six years. He then began farming on the place where he now resides in Jeffersontown precinct, and was a farmer during the days of flax growing and hand-spinning. In 1827, he married Fanny Willard, who was born in Jefferson county, De- cember 22, 1801, and by whom he has nine liv- ing children-Preston, Harrison, Anderson, Luther, Rufus, James, Adaline, Amanda, and Mary Ann. Willianı Goose has been a member of the Lutheran church for over sixty years. James M. Goose was born March 28, 1838; was educated in the common schools, and is a farmer by occupation. In 1861 he married Mary, daughter of Henry Willard, of Jefferson county

'Squire A. G. Watts, son of Peter Watts, a Revolutionary hero who came into Kentucky in 1779, was born in Boyle county, Kentucky, December 16, 1802. The 'squire's education was received in the common schools and at the Transylvania college. He has lived in various parts of Woodford and Shelby counties engaged at farming, and at Louisville managing hotels, and at one time was engaged in trade at Cin- cinnati. He was proprietor of the Beers house, Fifth street, Louisville, and then of the Oakland house, at Oakland. He was deputy United . States marshal under Blackburn, and continued for six years under him and Lane. In 1849 he moved to Middletown, where he was postmaster and proprietor of the Brigman house, and where he remained for six years. He then came to Jeffersontown, where he has acted as magistrate and police judge. In Shelby and Jefferson counties he has served as magistrate for thirty- four years. On May 15, 1822, he married Judith Ann Ayers, of Woodford county, and in Novem- ber of the same year his wife died. In June, 1825, he married a Virginia lady, Lucy Robin- son by name, by whom he had seven children, one living to maturity. He and his wife are honored members of the Methodist church.

George W. McCroeklin was born in Spencer county, April 23, 1845. He is a son of Alfred McCroeklin, a native of Nelson county, and his mother was of the same county. Her name was Maria Smith, daughter of John Smith. George was reared upon a farm and received his education in the district schools. His occupation has been that of a farmer and stock dealer. March, 1875, he began farming in Jeffersontown precinct of Jefferson county, and two years after- ward became the superintendent of the alms house. In February, 1870, he married Susan Maretta, a native of Spencer county, by whom he has four children: Maria, Agnes, Alfred, and John. In religion he is a Catholic.

William Cleary was born near Londonderry, county Donegal, Ireland, November 18, 1818. He received a classical and mathematical educa- tion, and was a graduate of the Royal high school of Raphoe, his native town. When twenty-two he came to Philadelphia. He spent the winter of 1840-41 in teaching at Hydestown, New York, and in the spring of 1841 came to Louisville. During the next few years he was

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professor of mathematics in St. Mary's college, in Marion county, and taught private school in Cape Girardeau, and afterwards was an in- structor in St. Vincent's college and prepara- tory theological seminary, of Missouri, then under Bishop Kendrick's charge. In 1848, while sojourning in Shelby county, Kentucky, he was licensed to practice law, but was en- gaged in this profession for only a short time-some four years. In 1849 he married Mrs. John Kennedy, nee Fannie Thomas, a native of Spencer county, by whom he had two sons-William Grerry and James. She was born May 12, 1812. In 1849 he bought the farm where he now lives, in Jeffersontown precinct, where he has since resided. He conducts his farm as a grain farm, and makes a specialty of blooded horses. He has, among other fine horses, a Hamiltonian stallion, half brother of Maud S., called Lee Boo, and Desmond, a run- ning horse.

Frederick Stucky was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, November 13, 1801. He is the sixth of nine children of John Stucky, a native of Germany, a resident of Maryland, and one of the pioneers of Kentucky. His mother was Mary Meridith, a native of Kentucky. When quite small his parents moved to Gibson county, Indiana, where they remained until their death. This was when Mr. Stucky was about nine years of age. When twelve he was apprenticed to learn the tailor's trade in Vincennes, Indiana, serving seven years. He then returned to Kentucky, his sole wealth being contained within a bundle carried in a handkerchief. He for the next eighteen years worked at lis trade in Jeffer- sontown. His health failing, he moved upon the farm where he now lives, and where he has resided for over forty years. This farm is the same that his father and grandfather lived on, to which he has added other farms, and he is now even beyond "well-to-do.". He married Louisa H. Myers, a daughter of Jacob Myers. She was born in Jefferson county, April 26, 1808, and died April 30, 1880. They had twelve children, of whom there are three daughters and four sons living. He is a mem- ber of the Methodist church.

Captain C. L. Easum was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, December 30, 1832. He is the second son of Harman Easum, who was

born in the same county October 11, 1805. Harman Easum was a carpenter by trade and worked at this in connection with farming. On July 14, 1828, he married Sarah B. Shain, a native of Bullitt county, but reared in Pleasant Hill, Mercer county, Kentucky. They had four chil- dren: John W., Charles L., Sarah J., and Eliza- beth Ellen. The father was killed October 12, 1875, by a railroad accident in Rockland county, New York. C. L. Easum was educated in the common schools and graduated from the law de- partnient of the Louisville university. He prac- ticed law in Louisville until 1861. In September of this year he enlisted in company E, Fifteenth regiment Kentucky volunteers, and at the organi- zation of the company was elected second lieuten- ant. He served in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala- bama, and Georgia, and was mustered out in January of 1865. During this time he was pro- moted to the captaincy of the regiment (1863). Since the close of the war he has been upon the old homestead farm, which he manages as a fruit farm. On June 21, 1871, he married Isabella F. Collins, of Orange county, Indiana. Her father was Thomas H. Collins, a captain in the commissary department of the Army of the Potomac. This marriage was blessed with six children: Mary L., John W., Harman, Julia C., Roberta T., and Ida P. He, though a Repub- lican, was elected magistrate in 1875, and again in August of 1878-serves till 1883. In 1870 he was theRepublican candidate for county at- torney against Albert I. Willis.

A. R. Kennedy was born in Jefferson county, September 15, 1841. He is the third of five children of John Kennedy, a pioneer of Ken- tucky from Maryland. He was a farmer by oc- cupation and after coming to the State married Fanny Thomas, of Spencer county. He died in 1847. His widow afterwards married William Cleary, of Jeffersontown precinct. A. R. Ken- nedy was educated in the common schools and at Oldham academy. He is a farmer; one also interested in fine cattle, having a small but choice herd of Jersey cattle. On May 4, 1862, he married Josephine Seabold, a native of the county. She was born July 1, 1844. L. E. Kennedy is next younger than A. R., and was born November 8, 1844. He was educated in the common schools and at the Notre Dame university, South Bend, Indiana, and is a farmer.

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Dr. S. N. Marshall was born in Spencer county, Kentucky, October 14, 1830. His father was a pioneer of Spencer county, and a farmer. Before emigrating from Maryland he married Drusilla Jenkins. The doctor was the " youngest of six children, three sons and three daughters. S. N. Marshall was educated in the Shelby county academy and the St. Mary's col- lege, Spencer county, finishing his course in 1847. He then read medicine with Dr. A. C. Wood, then of Shelby, but now of Davis county, Kentucky. He finished his medical education at the old Louisville university, receiving his diploma in 1851. He located at Wilsonville, on Plum creek, Shelby county, where he remained for fifteen years. He then removed to Jeffersontown, where he has since resided, and practiced his profession. On May 17, 1855, he married Drusilla Carpenter, a native of Shelby county, and a daughter of Calvin Carpenter, a farmer. This union resulted in five children, of whom four are living-Mollie D., Willie, Thomas T., and Calvin. The doctor is a member of the Presbyterian church, and his wife of the Chris- tian.

Samuel Hart was born in Louisville, Ken- tucky, October 26, 1808. He is the seventh of nine children of William Hart, who came to Louisville from Maryland prior to 1800. His father was both a tanner and a marble-cutter. He resided at Louisville till his death, which oc- curred when Samuel was a small child. William Hart was married in Pennsylvania to Elizabeth Hinkle, of that State. Her father John Hinkle, Peter Yenawine, and others, came down the Ohio in a flat boat at the same time. He crossed the mountains with a one-horse cart. After ar- riving at Louisville, he was offered the Gault house property for his one old horse, when he declared to the would-be trader that he "wouldn't . give 'old Bob' for the whole d-n town!" Elizabeth Hinkle Hart married John Miller, and died at Jeffersontown. Samuel Hart was appren- ticed to learn the tinner's trade, and after fin- ishing his trade, carried on a shop at Jefferson- town for a number of years. He built the Jeffer. son house at that place, and conducted this house and a grocery until 1855, when he sold out and moved upon the farm where he now re- sides. In 1834 he married Rebecca Frederic, born November 1, 1817, a native of the county,

and daughter of Joseph Frederic, who was killed by A. Churchill. By this marriage he had two children, of whom George is living. In 1837 he married Sarah Finley, by whom he had four children. On November 27, 1850, he married Carthage Swope, by whom he had fifteen chil- dren, of whom eight are living. He went to school in the first court-house erected in Louis- ville. He was an old-line Whig, but never a Democrat.

J. C. Walker was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, October 29, 1830. He is the second of nine children of Thomas Walker, who was born in the same county in 1796. He married Lucy Garr, whose father's name was Nicholas, and who came from Virginia in 1810. J. C. Walker was educated in the common schools and is a farmer. On May 18, 1865, he married Elizabeth Blankenbaker, daughter of Levi Blank- enbaker. They have four children, three of whom are now living-William L., Charley M., and Thomas W.

Mrs. C. Snyder was born July 8, 1834, on the ocean when her parents were coming to this country. John Rechtold, her father, was born in Kurhessen, Germany. After emigrating to America he settled in Maryland, and in 1838 came to Louisville, Kentucky, where he remained but a year, when he removed upon the farm in Jeffersontown precinct, where his daughter now resides. He was a shoemaker by trade, but worked at farming after coming to Kentucky. Catharine was the second of seven children. In 1851 she married Fred Snyder, a native of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany. He was born in 1818, and came to America in 1844. He first settled in Indiana, where he remained until his mar- riage. Here he worked at farming. The union of Fred and Catharine Snyder was blessed with six children-Mary E., John W., Emma, Charles, Martha, and Gussie. Mr. Snyder died in 1873. Both himself and wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

William Gray was born in Shelby county, March 4, 1799. His father, Robert Gray, was born near Dublin, Ireland, and came to this country when about eighteen years old, remaining in Pennsyl- vania for a time. In that State he married Miss Furney, and then came to Jefferson county and settled on the Bear Grass, near the work- house; but on account of the unhealthiness of

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the place he remained there but two years, when he removed to Shelby county, where he died some forty-five years ago at the age of ninety- five. While residing near Pittsburgh he married Mary Yabo, by whom he had eleven children. William Gray was reared and educated in Shelby county, where, also, he spent the greater part of his life as a farmer. About thirty years ago he sold out and removed to Jefferson county. When a few days less than nineteen he married Sarah Allen, by whom he had thirteen children, of whom A. J., Amanda, and Matilda are now liv- ing. The wife died September 8, 1879. He has been a member of the Baptist church for fifty-eight years.

In 1865 E. Walter Raleigh was married to Amanda Gray. She was born April 23, 1841, and he March 30, 1833. Mr. Raleigh was edu- cated in the Asbury university, Greencastle, In- diana. He is a carpenter by trade, and served a three years' apprenticeship. He has engaged in the mercantile business considerably, at one time in Louisville. He served two years in company F, Thirty-first Indiana. After the war he was for four years superintendent of the alms-house in Jefferson county. During late years he has been engaged in farming.

Mrs. J. Landram, daughter of John Barr, was born in Jefferson county January 4, 1822. Her father was also a native of the county. He mar- ried Ellen Tyler, daughter of William Tyler and sister of Sarah Tyler. They had but one child, and dying in 1822, their child was reared by its grandparents. She was married to J. Landram in 1842. He was a native of Spottsyl- vania, Virginia, and came to Kentucky about 1839, when about twenty-one years of age. He was a graduate of Louisville Medical college, and practiced in Harrison county, Indiana, until the time of his death, December 31, 1853. They had three children-Joseph, Mary Francis, and Letitia Alice.

C. K. Sprowl was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, October 5, 1850. He is the third child of Dr. R. C. Sprowl, who was born at Charlestown, Clarke county, Indiana, on January 8, 1820. His father was a prominent farmer of that county. Dr. Sprowl received a liberal edu- cation and was a graduate of the Louisville Medical university. When quite young he settled in Utica, Indiana, remaining but a short time.

He then located at Middletown, where he prac- ticed medicine till 1869, when he removed to the farm where his son now resides, in Jefferson- town precinct. On March 30, 1845, he married Mary R. Vance, who was born in Jefferson coun- ty, Januury 31, 1835. She was the daughter of Dr. Robert G. Vance, an old-time practitioner of Middletown, also largely engaged in farming. They had four children : Robert Vance, William Henry, C. K., and Edwin R. C. K. was edu- cated in B. H. McGown's academy, at Anchorage, and at Forest Home. His occupation is that of a farmer and fruit grower. On November 29, 1876, he married Lula E. Finley, daughter of George Finley, a well known teacher of the county. They have two children: Edgar Vance, and Clarence Irwin. Dr. Sprowl was justice of the peace for ten years, and a member of the Presbyterian church, of which he was an elder. He died July 23, 1876, and his wife in 1859.

A. J. Vogt was born in Germany, in the year 1849. At the age of thirteen he came to Amer- ica with his father, John Vogt, with whom he resided till his death, which occurred in 1864. They settled in Louisville, where A. J. Vogt was engaged in tanning. In 1881 he purchased a stock of groceries and began merchandising on the Taylorville pike, six miles from the city. In 1874 he married Kate Schuler, by whom he has three children.

Morris Stephens was born in Baden, Europe, May 10, 1822. His father immigrated to this country when Morris was about six years old, and settled in Jackson county, Pennsylvania, and then went to Indiana. His name was John Stephens. Morris Stephens served an appren- ticeship at the bakery and confectionery business at Philadelphia, commencing when seven years old and serving seven years. He ran away on ac- count of difficulty about wages. When sixteen he came to Kentucky and worked at his trade for two years; then for twelve years followed the river, and was employed in the Louisville house for threeyears. In 1848 he began business for himself and built the Bakers' hall at Louisville, which he managed himself for two years. He then sold out and moved upon the farm where he now lives, in Jeffersontown precinct. In 1841 he married Sarah Seabolt, daughter of George S. Seabolt, of Jefferson county. Morris Stephens is a member of the Baptist church.

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· Byron Williams was born in Jefferson county, April 20, 1839. Moses Williams, his father, was born in Georgia, and knew not his age, his early life having been spent with the Cherokee In- dians. When probably twelve he came to this county, and when quite a young man enlisted in the War of 1812 under Captain Kelly. In 1815 he was married to Elizabeth Bishop, who was born in Bullitt county, August 26, 1798. They had nine children, four boys and five girls. After obtaining his education Byron Williams erected a saw-mill, which he run for about twelve years. About eight years ago he sold out this business and bought a store near his home in Jefferson- town precinct, since which time he has been engaged in merchandising, and managing his farm. On June 25, 1863, he married Mary A. Coe, of Bullitt county, by whom he has had five children, of whom one boy and two girls are liv- ing. This wife died September 28, 1878. On February 5, 1880, he married Nora Johnson, who was born in this county November 9, 1850. He has been postmaster since entering trade.

Noah Cartwright was born in Pike county, Ohio, March 14, 1833. He was the eighth of nine children of Rev. William H. Cartwright, who was born in Maryland, but who was brought to Shelby county, Kentucky, when an infant. William H. Cartwright was married in 1814 to Sarah Stillwell, a native of Shelby county. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. Noah Cart- wright graduated in 1858 from the Miami uni- versity. He then began teaching in Jefferson county, Kentucky. In 1860 he took charge of the Columbus Masonic seminary, remaining 'in charge one year, when he left and raised and armed company E, Fifteenth regiment, of which he was appointed captain. Afterwards he was promoted to the office of major. He resigned on account of ill-health, since which time he has been an active and efficient worker in the com- mon schools. Since 1865, save a brief interim, he has been county examiner. Since 1880 he has not taught on account of heart disease. In 1869 he married July T. Rush, who was born in Jefferson county, February 25, 1839. She is a daughter of Joseph Rush. They have five boys and two girls living. Mr. Cartwright is the largest fruit grower of the vicinity. For twenty-six years he has been a member of the Presbyterian church.

MIDDLETOWN PRECINCT.

The most remarkable feature in regard to the history of this precinct is that it is the oldest one in the county-at one time the largest-it being originally very large, and also the center of commercial activity for this part of the State, and having the oldest post-office in the State.

Indeed, the citizens of this locality will readi- ly remind you that in the days of 1800 and during the War of 1812 the people of Louisville came here to buy goods and do business; that commercial products for trade were shipped to the mouth of Harrod's creek, there reloaded and transported to Middletown, where dealers in wares, goods, or produce from Louisville and other little towns could come and buy at retail or wholesale rates as they chose. .

All was activity then. A number of wholesale and retail establishments were doing a large busi- ness. There were manufactures of various kinds in leather, wood, and cloth; merchants, whole- sale and retail; grocers, blacksmiths, hatters, milliners, shoemakers, carpenters, etc., and the country was thickly settled, which, with the com- ing in of the farmers to the town, would lend a smile to the venders of merchandise that must have seemed, financially, quite significant.

The town is not in an unhealthy locality, al- though in the low valley of the headwaters of Bear Grass. It was laid out originally by old Billy White, a prominent pioneer of that locality, and who sold out the lots for the erection of business houses. This · little place-once twice the population it is to-day-increased in size and importance until the natural advantages of Louis- ville attracted some attention, and the business men began to center there. Then it was that Middletown, in spite of the fact that it was the most healthy locality of the two places, began to decline. This new era of the rise of Louisville and fall of Middletown began about the year 1820, and by 1840 the full destruction of this commercial emporium, as such, was completed. This was forty years ago, and the place still wears the grim visage it did then.

The little village with its two hundred and fifty population still has pleasing reminiscences, it be- ing on the oldest pike in the State, and near the scene of Floyd's massacre (see general history), and in a locality where stirring events of an

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early day occurred. Since the building of this pike (1820) the stage coach, the herald of progress, always brought its full share of news. The stranger found in his host the person of Martin Brengman, a native of the town, who kept the tavern many years. Brengman and his son John Brengman supplied the traveler with bed and board, and a good drink, pure and in- vigorating, for a period of nearly fifty years, be- ginning about 1800. There was an excuse then for drinking whiskey, as the making of corn into whiskey was a necessity to get rid of the corn, and there was no other way of getting rid of the whiskey but to drink it. Then it was pure. People then were not so much civilized as now, and did not know how to adulterate the beverage. The regular stage route lay from Louisville through Middletown to Frankfort and other points east, and one line of coaches not being adequate for the business, com- petitive lines were run, but after the advent of the railroad this mode of travel lost its usefulness and was discontinued, since which time there has been no attempt to renew the industries of the place, save in the building of a turn- pike a few years ago, connecting this point with the town of Anchorage, in which work the placing of the cobble and gravel was successful, but in face of all travel the weeds and grass peep up here and there between the pebbles that seem to contest their right, by usage and com- mon custom, to the place.

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History of the Ohio falls cities and their counties : with illustrations and bibliographical sketches, Vol. II, Part 4

Author: Williams, L.A., & Co., Cleveland Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : L. A. Williams & Co. Number of Pages: 680

Author: Williams, L.A., & Co., Cleveland
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : L. A. Williams & Co.
Number of Pages: 680