Jessamine County, Kentucky - The whole text, 1898 (part 5 of 5)

Captain Willis was born on the ioth of June, 1794, in Culpeper couiU}', \'a.. and was killed at the battle of Ikiena \'ista, Februarv 23rd, 1847. ^^^ married hrst Hetty E. Howe, daughter of a Presbyterian minister. He had been educated at a seminarv taught l)v his father-in-law. He was elected to represent Green county in the Legislatm-e several times, and also represented (ireen and Hart in the Senate in 1833 and 1838. He made the race for Congress in that district in 1830. with a majority of 2,000 against him, which he reduced to 200. At that time he was believed to be on his death-bed. and this seriously afTected his vote. After his marriage he ])egan merchandising, and shipped large (|uantities of toljacco by liat-boat, and drove horses through tlie countrx- to Xew ( )rleans. The partner, who he sent on one of these expeditions, was taken sick after selling the horses and tobacco, and died, and before Cajitain Willis could reach the place of his demise, the ]M-oceeds of the sale had disappeared. Being involved, lie returned at once, sold out his stock, and commenced studying law and practiced in Green and adjoining counties. Notw^ithstanding that he had a large debt and a family of eight children, and at that time was compelled to meet such men as Samuel Brent, Ben Hardin, Judge Cnderwood and Judge Buckner, he succeeded admirably in his profession. In 1840 he removed to Harrodsburg, remained there three years, and then came to Jessamine county. He was a man of singular energy and great ability. He had built up a large practice, and was regarded throughout Kentucky as one of its most ])romising statesmen. Although fifty years of age at the breaking out of the Mexican war, he at once organized a com])any for service and his ardent patriotism is l)est attested 1)v the fact that with him. three of his sons volun-

Jacoh Kreath Robinson, in the official Hst sjielled Rohertson. was one of the youngest men in this comi)an\ . I le was born in 1829. The oldest man in the coni])any. John Hunter, was born in 1804. and was the son of John Hunter, tlu' first settler. \\v was severeU- wounded in the leg at the battle of lluena X'ista and died in 1881 . l\o])inson was also a soldier in the late war. ])assed through all its hardships and dangers, endured its i)rivations. and now' resides at Harrodsburg. Ky.

Kcntuck}- river; some came on liorseback. some in carriages, and tliev were ordered tliere to meet the steamboat lUue \\'ing. When tlie c()m])an\- reached the river the steamboat was at 15rookl\n, and w liile coming down to ]\lundy's Landing ran into a sandbar and stuck. Capt. PhiHp Thomson's company from fiercer countw was also on the way to Louisville. With ropes the soldiers ])ulled the steamer from off the sandbar twice, and, after it had stuck the third time. Ca])t. Thomson went to Salvisa and obtained wagons and drove through to Louisville, while Captain Willis's comi)any took coalboats at Mundy's Landing, rowed themselves down to Frankfort, and arrived there the next day. After taking breakfast in Frankfort, the steamer arrived at the landing and they took passage and reached Louisville, and were mustered in !)}- Col. George Croghan. From Louisville they were transported to Xew Orleans Ijy steamers, and after remaining there a few days, they crossed the (kilf of Mexico in some old British sailing vessels, and arrived at Brazos on. the Rio Grande river. A part of the regiment was engaged in the battle of Monterey. Shortly after this the regiment was ordered to the cit\- of Saltillo. and from thence, marching with General Taylor, thev engaged in the battle of lUiena \'ista. This was one of the most brilliant battles that crowned American arms, and it was the onh' I)attlc in which the entire regiment, with which Captain Willis' company was connected, was engaged. This regiment was ccjmmanded by Col. \\'illiam R. AIcKee, from Lancaster; Henry Clay, [r., was Lieutenant-Colonel, and Gary H. Fry. ^Major. The com])anv was enrolled on the 2ist of [May, 1846, in Xicholasville, and was mustered in at Louisville June 9, 1846, and was mustered out at Xew ( )rleans June 9, 1847.

The story of this battle has always reflected great credit and renown on Kentuckv courage. The second Kentucky Regiment was on the right tlank of the arm}- and held it throughout the battle, defeating the enemy opposite to them, which was twice their number. At this time the left flank gave way. and its retreat was only stopped by General Tavlor and Jefferson Davis and the cavalry, who drove them back to face the enemy. It was then thit Colonel Hardin, of the First Illinois, and Colonel AIcKee. of the Second, made a disastrous charge against an overwhelming force. This charge was made against the earnest protest of Colonel ^Ic-

Kee and (Captain A\'illis. hut TIardin insisted upon making- it, and Lieutenant-Colonel Clay urged it, and the Kentucky boys, fearing- that the Illinois men would get the g-lory, McKee then united in the charge and was killed. Col. Henry Clay. Jr., was wounded, and Captain Willis, witli the high courage and noble generosity w hich marked his whole career, was urging- his men to take che Lieutenant-Colonel from the field, when the Mexican Lancers came rai)idly down and killed both Colonel Clay and Captain Willis. Harvey Trotter, a soldier from Jessamine, was killed at the same time. James (). Hervey succeeded Captain Willis, and only foiu- of the men who were engaged in tlie battle of Buena Vista in this company, now remain in Jessamine ; John A. Willis, \\'illiam C. Lowrey, A\'illiam Hamilton and I)a\'id Switzer. Captain \\ illis" remains, as well as those of Trotter, were removed by the State of Kentucky, and reinterred in the state g-round in ]*"rankfort cemetery. It was upon the occasion of the reinterment of these soldiers that Theodore O'Hara wrote his iir.mortal poem of " The I'ivouac of the Dead," commencing as follows:

Robert Young, a resident of Jessamine comity for more than sixty-four years, \\-as born in l-'ayette county, on Elkhorn creek. not far from the Jessamine line, in 1803. His father, |ohn ^ oung, was a Revolutionar\- soldier and served three vears under General Greene. At the breaking out of the war In- was only sixteen years of age. He was engaged in ilu- ])attles of Eutaw Springs. Monk's Corner, Guilford Coml Ibnise. and at Yorktown. Robert Young was the son of Jolin ^'oung 1)\- liis second wife. C\-nthia McCullongh.

He learned liat manufacturing with his brother-in-law. Mr. Fritzlen, at \'ersailles, and in 1825 established himself in Xicholasville. He accumulated a moderate fortune and in 1848 purchased a farm and retired from business as a manufacturer.

He married. Josephine Henderson, a g-randdaughter of Col. Joseph Crockett, and reared a large family. His oldest son, Rev. Daniel P. Young, was one of the leading Presbyterian ministers of Kentucky; his two sons, Robert and Melanchthon, two of the county's most substantial and successful farmers and most respected and loved citizens, while his other son. Col. P>ennett H. Young, resides in Louisville and is the author of this b()(jk. His eldest daughter married Dr. Charles ^lann and his ycjungest daughter, Josephine, now resides in Xicholasville.

Robert Young was a man of higli integrity and possessed all the best and noblest qualities of citizenship. His word was better than his bond. Just, generous and conscientious in all his dealings, he connnandcd, as he deserved, the respect and confidence of his friends and acquaintances. He was an earnest, faithful member and olificer of the Presbyterian church and was an honored member in man\- of its councils. No one ever questioned the reality of his religion ; he carried it into all the dealings of his life. He died November 2(jth, 1889. beloved and deeply mourned by the entire community. He never failed to help those who were in want and the grateful remembrance of those who had received of his liberality and kindness is a rich legacy for an\- man.

Was born in Jessamine county, in the Keenc neighborhood, where his father at that time resided. He subsequently removed to Boyle county, and represented that county in the Legislature m 1869-73, 'I'l'l ''1 ^^5'^ 'i*-' "^^'^^ '^ member of the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses, and of the Constitutional Convention of 1849.

David Crozier was a native of Pennsylvania, l)orn in 1795. and came to Jessamine county when he was quite a voung- man. He built what is known as Croziers Mill, which is half stone and lialf wood, on Jessamine creek. In 1845 li<^ carried on a cotton factory at liis mill. He worked about forty hands, mostly boys and girls, and manufactured cotton cloth and jeans. With the introduction of railroads, and with the difficulty in getting materials (for by this time Jessamine county had ceased to grow cotton, and the supply of wool was never large enough to run the mill), this mill was closed. Thereafter Mr. Crozier became associated witli Dr. A. K. Marshall in carrying the mails from Lexington to Uean Station, Tenn.

Dr. h^rancis Marion Jasper, who died at Cincinnati on the 22nd of June, iS(-)2, while not a native of Jessamine count^', was long one of its most successful physicians, and his descent entitles him to more than passing notice. His Revolutionary ancestors came from Wales. His great-grandfather, Abraham Jasper, was bc>rn in Wales in 1728 and settled in Georgetown, South Carolina. I-'rom there he moved to a residence on Cooper river, near Charleston. His oldest son became a prominent Torv, while his other sons, Xicholas Jasper, John Jasper and William Jasper, were bra\'e and devoted soldiers in the cause of their countrv dm-ing the Revolutionary war. having served under General .Smnter in .Xorth and South Carolina.

After the Revolutionary war, Nicholas Jasper settled in Pulaski county, Ky., and became the father of a large family of brave and ]3atriotic sons. Xicholas Jas])er was born near Charleston, South Carolina, in 1752. .Sergt. William Jas]ier was the youngest chiUl, born in 1757. Pie was not quite twenty years old during the siege of h'ort ^loultrie, near Charleston, when the flagstafif was broken by a shot from the ISritish. ( )n seeing the flag thus lowered by a shot. Sergeant Jasper inunediately sprang down and replaced the flaq; amid a tremendous fire from the British fleet, commanded by Sir Peter Parker. I^^or his bravery on that occa.sion Governor Rutledge, in tlie presence of the regiment, took his sword from his side and presented it to Sergeant Jasper. He offered the brave soldier a commission, which he refused. He was killed in the assault on Savannah, Oct. 7, 1779, when he was not quite twenty-two years of age.

Jasper, represented Pulaski county in the legislature of Kentucky in 1833. "34 and '^i,^. and when the War of 1812 was declared he enlisted in ilie company commanded by Capt. Harry James. He was in tlie regiment of Colonel Simrall. He was at the battle -of the Thames and fouglu with s])lendi(l courage on that occasion. Dr. Jasper practiced liis professiiin in Jessamine county more tl.an tliirty years. He answered every known call for his ser- vices. He was kind, tender and n-entle. and the qnestion of remuneration affected neither the leni^th nor the al)iHty of his services. He was one of Jessamine's l)est citizens.

Nicholasville, January i8, 1879. He passed his entire life in Nicholas^ ille. He was a useful citizen and a manufacturer of ropes and bagging^. He had a large factory which he operated for a long time successfully. He was a man of extraordinary sweetness of temper, and also of high character. He did the right as he knew it. He opened the first Sunday-school in the Southern Methodist Church in Xicliolasville in the spring of

1843. and was for long' years one of tlie stewards in 'liat cluireh and \\as liljeral in tlie support of liis clun-ch and earnest in its canse. lie married a daughter of John I'ishhack. who settled in Kentuck\- in i/yo. in jessamine county, where he died in 1845. ]\Jr. John Aletcalf, who still survives and lives in Xicholasville, was his eldest son. Cieor,2;-c Metcalf, another son, now resides in Lexins^ton, and was a gallant soldier in the I'iftli Kentucky Infantry, C S. A., while Charles Metcalf, the youngest son, is one of the leading lawyers in Tennessee, and President of the Tennessee State Bar Association. Jo'hn Metcalf and James Metcalf, two of his sons, are still living, while two of his daughters, Miss Sallie and Miss Alice, now reside in Xicholasville at the old home place of their grandfather, who laid out and namecl the town.

Among the men of jessamine who were jjrominent in the first fiftx' Aears «jf its existence was Louis H. C'lTrisman. He was born in 1813 and died in 1866, at his home two miles north of Nicholasville on the Lexington and I)an\ille pike, lie was alwavs acti\'e in ])olitics, was a wiu'm ])artisan. and after a heated contest was elected sheriff of jessamine countx" in 1858. He was the youngest son of Joseph Chrisman. l)r(^ther of (len. Hugh Chrisman. Joseph C'hrisnian was born in Rockingham cotnity, A a., in 1776, and came to Kentucky with his brother and settled in Jessamine count \- in 1700.

Mr. Chrisman served as a volunteer aid on the staff of Gen. W'm. R. Terrell, of the I'\Mleral army, who was killed at Perrvville. HcAvas one of the leaders of tlie Whig part\' in Jessamine cotmty and was always a delightful C(,)mpanion wherever he went on account his fme social qtialities. He was an extraordinary whistler. He could carr\ the several ]iarts while whistling a tune and this made him a welcome guest at everv political meeting. He was a kind neighbor, a sincere friend, a generous opponent and a patriotic citizen. Afr. .\. L. and George Chrisman, his sons, still reside on the old h.imestead.

Rev. Stuart Rol:)inson, in speaking- of Rev. D. P. Young, said: "Mr. Young was perhaps the most successful of all the ministers of the Presbyterian church in Kentucky in winning souls to Christ. His greatness consisted in his wonderful skill in engaging the attention, alike of the converted and unconverted, in the Gospel way of salvation, and his eminent ability in expounding the Scriptures, setting forth that way, and beseeching men in Christ's stead to l)e reconciled to God. The secret of his success was in large part that his heart was in his work ; and he was a man who had a very large heart, filled with the love of Christ and the love of souls. Nobody who knew him ever doubted the earnestness of his piety and holy zeal in the service of his Master. The many people all over Kentucky, who these twenty years aftei his death, grasp tlie hands of his children with a warmer clasp when thev know who they are, and who speak their affection foi him \\ ith tears in their eyes, is the greatest evidence of the warm place he held in tlie liearts of those wh<j came under his influence." Daniel P. Young was the oldest child of Robert and Josephine Henderson ^'oung. and on the lot where Jessamine Female In- -stitute now stands, was born on P>bruary 22d, 1833.

After passing through the home schools he entered Hanover College, at Hanover, Indiana, and graduated in the class of 1852. After finishing his course there, he prepared to attend Transylvania University to jDursue the study of law, but w'hile on his way to Lexington he was induced by his conflicting emotions to change his mind and turned back to Danville, Ky., where he entered the I'iesl)yterian Theological Seminary.

His first charge was at Georgetown. K}.. where under his ministr\- the membership of the church was largely augmented and in an unusual degree he won the love and affection of his congregation.

of friends to accept the charge of the Xicholasville church. In l)otli success crowned his efforts and he was blessed in the upbuilding of these churches.

In 1878, he was called to the charge of the Presbyterian church at Anchorage, and in conjunction with it the principalship of Bellew'ood Seminary and Kentucky Presbyterian Normal School. His eminent fitness for this position was recognized on every hand, ])ut, within a few months after he removed to Anchorage, on jmie 30th, 1878, he ended the labors of his earnest, useful and faithful life.

The Lafons who came to American were refugees from France during the Huguenot persecution. The founders of the familv settled in .South Carolina and A'irginia. and their descendant. Pichard Paf»Mi, married Aliss Anna Alaxey, removed to Kentucky and settled in Jessamine county in 1793. They came over the Wilderness Road, with their herds and household effects and slaves and settled, through a ])atent. a thousand acres, comprising the original Fountain House tract, being the lands now occupied by I'urrier, Phillips, Pryants, and Flkins and others, about two and a half miles from Kecne, toward Lexington. Richard Lafon wa: a man of unusual education for that period. He left a reasonable fortune, although he died a comparatively young man. He built one of the first brick dwelling houses in the county.

His son, John Lafon, was born December 4, 1800. He early had every social and literary advantage, and traveled not only in the Lnited States but abroad. He was a man of unusual energy, great juigment. br )i'd and comprehensive views, and was a born leader of men. As a result of' his trading and manufacture he spent his winters in Cuba and Xew Orleans and his suiumers in Kentucky on his farm. At one time he leased all the hemp factories in tln-ee counties and shipped their product to the South by way of the Kentucky and Ohio rivers.

He was a close friend of Henr\- Clav and in many important matters his adviser. Fie was the moving spirit and the president of the Lexingt(Mi X Harrodsburg Turnpike Company at the period of its com]ilction. The road was conunenced in 1834. by the stale, tlien ahainlDiu-d and then leased 1)\ the state to Lewis Singleton for twenty years. Singleton died shortly after the acquisition of the road, and it was then taken up by John Lafon and completed through to I'erryville in 1847. Tl^^ work near the Kentucky river was done under Mr. Lafon's administration, and required very large outlay and a high order of engineering skill. He had tremendous difficulties, both ])hysical and financial, to overcome, but with his master mind he worked out a magnificent success and in the completion of this turnpike rendered Fayette. Jessamine. Mercer and Uoyle counties an incalculable benefit.

Backed i)y his energy and financial ability, this great thoroughfare was built in the face of great difficulties. Such improvements in those davs could only be carried on at large expenditure, relativelv nuich larger than now. and to undertake the construe- tion of a graded road such as this ])ikc'. through the country on either side contiguous to the Kentucky river, demonstrates that lie was a man of a higli order of moral courage as well as the possessor of great sagacity and un\ielding will.

He married Mary Ann liarkley, whose grandfather had been compelled to leave Ireland, where a ]»rice had been placed on his head. And in tlie struggle f(jr Irish independence he was the friend of Roijert luumett and devoted to the liberty of his country. Mrs. Lafon was also a descendant of the Higbees and they came from New jersew In early days tliey built boats on South Elkhorn and hauled them to j'rooklyn and other landings on the Kentucky and launched them, from whence they were floated to New ( )rleans.

A man of culture himself, possessed of a large estate, inherited botli from his father and his mother, he made a home in every wa\ attractive and delightftd. His hos]:)itality was unbounded: he accumulated one of the best libraries in Kentucky, collected curios, and !iis intelligence, his enterprise and his talents became associated with and was the friend of many of the leading men of the state. His home at one time almost rivaled Chaumiere. He built a beautiful house, he laid out handsome grotmds. erected l)ath houses and spring houses, built laundries with hot and cold ])ipes, constructed artificial lakes, and im- ])roved charming drives. There was on his land an ap])arcntly bottomless spring from which boiled up a great volume of water. This, by a splendid circular stone basin, he changed into a most attractive fountain and called his home after it - l-'ountaln House. ^Vith these surro.undings he founded an elegant and ideal home. He secured rare (lowers and adorned his yard with every variety of tree that could ])e grown in the locality. He died in 1848 in the very meridian of his career. His earlv demise was a great loss to his native county in its social, physical and educational interests.

Dr. John W. I lolloway, who represented Jessamine county in the Constitutional Convention of i8()0, and who took a prominent ]iart in the deliberations of that body, was a son of Spencer Holloway, and was l)orn in llu' county on tlie 30th of Ajiril. 1823.

His grandfather, James Holloway, was a native of A'irginia, and was a captain in the Revolutionary war, and settled in Jessamine county very early in its history. His son, Spencer Holloway, was born in 1792, and died at the advanced age of 89. in the year 1883. His son, Joihn W. Holloway, passed his early life on a farm. At 23 years of age he went to Louisville and undertook the study of medicine under Dr. John L. I'rice and remained there three years, and finally graduated in 1850, from the Medical Department of the University of Louisville.

From that time on to the present he has practiced medicine at Keene. He has met with unqualified success in his profession as well as in his conduct of a large farm. He is a man of strong mental vigor, truest friendship, unflinching courage and highest integrity.

In the Constitutional Convention he earnestly advocated equal property rights for women and latterly opposed the ballot system. While the convention did not adopt his views they all respected his sincerity, his integrity and his unusual courtesy.

Saunders was educated in the conmion schools of Xicholasville. He is one of the most expert penmen and careful clerks that have ever served the people of Jessamine. He was a pupil of Prof. A. X. Gordon, while principal of Bethel Academy, and when six- teen years of ajj^e, he entered the Circuit Court Clerk's ofifice as deputy of Lewis i). Uahlwin. Subsequently he became clerk in the general freight offices of the Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co., at Louisville. He returned to Nicholasville in 1885, and one month after his return lie was nominated for Circuit Clerk at the Democratic primary, defeating liis competitor by a handsome majoritv. His conduct of the ofifice was such tliat he was nominated without opposition for a second term. As Circuit Clerk he took the front rank in Kentucky. He married the daughter of jas. \\\ (ilass, of Garrard county, January i, 1887. His grandfather. Austin Smithers, during the epidemic of cholera in 1855 went through the tents visiting the sick and caring for the dead and dying. White and black alike received his attention, and he never wearied in waiting on those who needed his services during that terrible scourge. .Mr. Saunders comes of an ancestr\- full of humane and noble characteristics, and his popularity is undoubtedly the result of these inherited qualities.

Few men have done more for Jessamine countv than Mr. G. \y. Lyne. He has been engaged in the real estate business, and his enthusiasm and energy have enabled him during tliat period to dispose of $2,000,000 worth of property and lie has been instrumental in inducing a large number of strangers to settle in the county. Mr. Lyne is comparatively a young man, only thirtyone years of age. He is a successful auctioneer and is the only man who ever made the real estate business in Jessamine county a success.

William W'. White, who died at his residence, in Xicholasville. on Jaimary 5, 1887, in the 8oth year of his age, was one of the most earnest supjjorters of the doctrines of Alexander Campbell and was instrumental in building up several congregations of that faith in the county. He organized what is known as the Little Hickman ehurcli on the 27th of January. 1841. He was a son of W'illiam ( i. W'liite, who came from Culpeper Court House,

\'<i. Jlc l)ecanie impressed witli the doctrines ])ro])Ounded by Mr. Campljell and from the time of liis miitino- with that denomination mitil tlie end of his hfe .qave his time and talents and energy to building" tip the church which adopted them. His nK'mbershi[) was in the Xicholasville Christian church. However people might differ with Mr. White in his theological, views, none ever doubted the earnestness and the faithfulness of his Christian service and of tlic unselfishness of his ministration. He was plain, simple-hearted and earnest. While engaged in othei business, he preached always as occasion offered and never failed to respond to such calls as his church made upon him.

Rev. Thomas R. ^\'elch, U. D.. one of the leading Presbyterian ministers of the Southern l'rcsl)yterian church, the son of John Welch and V>. J. Rice, was liorn near Xicholasville, September 15th, 1825. Most of his ministerial life was passed in Arkansas, where he removed in 1851, and took charge of the church in Little Rock. After a coarse in l^ethel Academy, he graduated from Center College in 1844, and in 1870, his Alma Mater conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Dr. Welch was singularh- honored by his chiu'ch. He held many positions of trust in its courts and institutions. He led a busy and successful life, l^ossessed of a fine presence, genial manners and read}' s}nipathy, he found a welcome everywhere. Another has said of him :

"r*)V long residence, abundant lal)ors, eminent administrative al)ilit\-. Dr. Welch is the Presbyterian Nestor of Arkansas, and no man in the state is held in higher esteem or wields a sti"onger influence."

He died a few years since, deeply regretted by the people of the great denomination to which he belonged and sincerely mourned by the memliers of his own congregation at Little Rock.

Mrs. Sarah Withers, an aunt of Dr. Welch, and long a resident of lUoomington, Illinois, was a most benevolent, charitable and earnest Christian woman. At her death, a few vears since.

she made ihc officers of the Xicholasville Presbyterian church her residuary legatees, and directed that the funds thus bequeatlied should be used for the maintenance of a public library in Xicholasville. Quite a large sum, estimated at about $20,000, will 1)c realized and it will be sufficic;nt to equip and maintain a com])lcte and efficient lil^rary in the city.

Alaj. jcjlin llav llanlw born in Seville. Spain, in 17S4, who settled in Jessamine county, in 1871. was the son of an officer of the British army.

( )n his arrival at his new home, in what was then the far west, he inn-chased a very large tract of land on the Kentucky river, six miles south of Xicholasville. His house, a frame cottage of liberal dimensions, located on a bluff many feet above the river, was appropriately named "Cliff Cottage." Its picturesque beauty of location excited the admiration of the distinguished painter. Healy. who visited Maj. Hanl\', when sent by the king, Louis Philli])])e, of I'^rance. to ])aint the portrait of Henry Clav. ( )n entering the grounds, he is said to have exclaimed, "Grand and beautiful."

It was at this home of beauty that the generous proprietor and his estimable family dispensed old time Kentuck}- hospitality, during a period of more than half a century.

]\Iai. Hanly was a very j^ositive character, highl}- intellectual, just in all his dealings,, truthful, honest, and brave; he was, in all the elements that constitute a gentleman of the old school, a man to be admired and trusted. He was a firm believer in the Roman Catholic faith and in the democracy of Andrew Jackson. He was a line shot, and prided himself upon the accuracv of his aim.

( )n one occasion. Col. David Goodloe, who had been challenged l>y .Mr. \\ liitc. M. C, of Madison count}-, to fight a duel, came to ]Maj. Hanly to practice with the major's dueling pistols. ! Ic ])ccanie so exi)ert, after considerablepractice, astohit the bull's eye repeatedly. When the duel finally came off. his antagonist stood willi bis back to a bain. l>oth gentlemen were game and fired at the word. X either were bit. and nmch to their disgust,

Tohn A. Willis, son of Capt. W. T. Willis, while not a native of Jessamine, has resided within its borders for fifty-five years. He was born in Green county on the 3th day of August, 1820; attended a sennnary at Greensburg, and afterwards at Munfordsville, and in 1839 attended St. Mary's College, near Lebanon. He joined the Presbyterian church in Greensburg in 1840, came with his father to Mercer county and studied law and obtained his license in 1843, ^"<^ moved with his father to Nicholasville in 1844. He enlisted in his father's company, and was appointed a cor- poral. He followed the Seeond Kentucky Regiment in all its battles and marches, and was mustered out at Xew Orleans in 1847. W hile the regiment was stationed at Comargo, Air. Willis was stricken witli fever, and all thought that it w^as impossible for him to live. After the death of AIcKee and Clay and Captain Willis, the regiment were anxious to l)e mustered out of the service, and, at the expiration of twelve months, the time for which they were enlisted, tlie\- were l)rought to Xew Orleans and disbanded.

Mr. Willis, after taking a full course in the Commercial College, in Cincinnati, returned to Xicholasville and taught in Keene. After two years" service in the county schools, he became assistant in r.ethel Academw in Xicholasville. After this time he was appointed Master Commissioner of the Jessamine Circuit Court by Judge AA'illiam C. Goodloe. upon the unanimous petition of the entire bar, embracing both Whigs and Democrats. The place was given to Mr. Willis without any solicitation on his part, and he retained it for sixteen years. After the close of the ci\-il war he was elected twice as County Clerk, both times without opposition. A one-armed Confederate soldier was nominated against him in the last race. Imt withdre\\-.

Upon retiring frcn.i the Clerk's ofifice in 1871 with such citizen? as Mr. George Brown. Dr. Brown Young, G. S. Shanklin, Samuel Muir, Charles Farra, Hervey Scott, and William H. Hoover, he organized the First X^ational Bank of Xicholasville, and acted as its cashier from 1871 until T88r, when he was elected president, and held this position until i8g6. He was elected elder in the Xicholasville Presbyterian church at the same time with Roibert Young, in the year 1850. In i860 he was elected clerk of the session. shortl\- before the death of Alaj. D. B. Price. and has been such clerk for thirty-two years.

Patriotic, honest, faithful, just, conservative and kindly. A[r. A\ illis has been a leading citizen of jessamine countv since his return from .^erxice in the Mexican War. to which he gave his father and one vear of hard and. trvim-' service.

\\'illiani lirown, the _\uungest son of George I. Brown, was born in Xic]iolas\ille on the 2T,d of May, 1839; ^^^ <^i^<^^ June i, 1890. He was a man of l^riUiant parts. He allied himself with the Republican party, and attained a higii place in its councils. Senator Tames R. Beck said of him tliat he was the strong-est man of his party witli wIkjui he had ever come in contact. He was a warm. ])ersonal friend of James G. Blaine, who had a great admiration for liis talents and his abilit}'. His mind was analytic, comi)rchensive and logical. At school he did not appear to study as other l^ows. but he always knew his lessons and fuih' understood every sul)ject of which the text books treated. He was fearless and on many occasions eloquent. Had he devoted himself to the law, his chosen profession, rather than to have entered tlie domain of politics, he wotild liave l)ecome one of the first jurists of the country.

No history of Jessamine county would be complete without a sketch of Hon. E. R. Sparks. His enterprise, coupled with his faith in the futm-e of Xicholasville, and his large investments, both in manufactories and in the laying out of additions and construction of streets and houses, have been greatlv instrumental in increasing the population of Xicholasville, and in widening its influence and traffic. He was l)orn al)out a mile east of X'^icholasville on the 31st of January, 1840, and was tlie son of Isaac and Mary Ann Hendricks Sparks. His mother was a sister of the late Rev. John T. Hendrick, D. D., the distingitished Presbyterian divine. ]\Ir. Sparks' father was born in Ohio and in early life moved to Jessamine county, where he lived until his death, on Jan. 28th, 1887, in Ids eighty-first year. Air. Sparks was named for a distinguished .Methodist minister. Rev. Edwin Roberts. From his earl}' manhood he has demonstrated himself to be the possessor of great sagacity, and his uniform success in all his financial transactions has given him a wide reputation for business capacity. He has held few public ol^ces. In 18S2, he was elected State

Senator and serv^ed until 1886. In the Senate he was popular, conservative, and secured tlie confidence and tlie respect of those associated with him in that body, j'or years lie was a councilman, and was prominent in the city government of Xicholasville. He has carried on a large manufactory for hemp in the county seat, which gives cm])lt)_\ nicnt to a number of hands, lie is in the hig-hest degree public spirited, and is always helpful to his town and his county in every public enterprise.

]()lin Welch, early settled in Jessamine county, having- removed from \ irg'inia to that count\- in 1782. Mr. Welch was educated at i'ethcl Academ\-; was also a graduate of Kentucky Wesleyan College, at Millersburg, in 1877. He g-raduated from the Louisville Law School in 1881, located in \'icholasville, where he has since practiced his profession. At twenty years of age, he was elected Superintendent of common schools of Jessamine county.

lie represented the county in the lower house of the General Assem!)ly of Kentucky, in 1889 and "go, in '91, '92 and '93, and has been j)r(>niinent in the countA" affairs since his majority.

framed the first Kentucky Constitution. He was the maternal grandfather of the large and numerous family of Moseleys, Wallers and vSmithis, who live in the Keene neighborhood. He has over 25c descendants va Kentucky, and was one of the men who lived in ihc limits of jessamine count) in the earliest days of its settler, icui.

He \\a> a successful Tiaptist preacher, and served several churches in \\^oodford and Mercer counties, and at the old Mount Pleasant Churcli, at Keene. He led a useful, honorable and distinguished life. 1ji> election to the Constitutional Convention in 179_\ shov. s l-si^ wide popularity and his distinguished position. Fayette county had five members, and among them men of high standing, but none wielded more intiuence than their ministerial colleague.

Jessamine county is at present in a judicial district, composed of lessamii\e, Madison, Estill, Clark and I Nnvell. The Circuit Tud,Q'e is lion. Thomas J. Sc(_)tt, who was b.>rn in Ma lison county, but his father, Dr. lohn Scott, was a native of Jessamine county, whence his father removed, w hen ciuite a vaino^ man, to R'.chmond,

Kv. His mother was a descendant of C ol. F.still, one of the most celebrated pioneers of Kentuckv. Me was educated at Mount Pleasant College, in ^lissouri, from wl ich he graduated at the age of nineteen, hrimediateh' he returned to Richmond, where he entered tlie law office of Maj. Scpiire 1'urner: in 1871 he was admitted to the bar, and in 1875 was elected County Attorney, to which i)ositi()n he was re-elected twice without opposition. In 1886 he was elected Common F^leas Judge for the district com- posed (ti tb.e counties of Madison. Clark, Bourbon, ijath, and .Montgonierv : and in i8<j2. he was elected Circuit Judge of the TwentN-ninth judicial district without opposition, and has been similarly re-elected for the second term. He is recognized throughout the state as one of the ablest Circuit Judges. His careful pre])arati(in, liis studious habits and his sterling integrity render him a nn><k-I circuit judge. Although genial and kindly in h\> personal relations, on the bench he knows nothing but the strictest justice, and this has won for bin: the respect and admiration of all the people of the district.

This distinguished Methodist divine was born in Wayne county, Indiana, on tlie T3th of May, 1818. His ancestors came from \\'ales and settled in \'irginia twenty-five years before the war of tlie American Revolution. In his seventh year, his mother died and he was brought to Kentucky, and made his home with his grandparents. In 1834 he entered the clerk's ofiice in Richmond, Ky., wdiere he remained five years. He used all his leisure moments for the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1839. He began the practice of his profession in Richuioiul. and shortly removed to Irvine. Estill county. I\\., and there he sought licensure in the Methodist ministry. In 1839 he married a sister of the late Samuel h\ Miller, one of the Associate Justices of the Su- ])rcme Court of the Cnited States. Rev. Stephen Xoland. who succeeded his father in the banking business, was the second son - his other son, Sanuiel II. Xoland, removed to Texas. Stephen Xoland made the race for Conunonwealth's Attorney in the district, which then embraced seven counties, against C. C. Rodgers, of Lexington, and defeated him by a majority of 800 \i)tes. A\"liile holding the office of Commonwealth Attorney, he became a terror to evil-doers throughout the district. All sorts of iuHuences were brought to bear to defeat ^Ir. Xoland, bin the\' were without avail. In 1854 he came to Xicholasville, and sliortly afterwards asstuned cliarge of the ^Fethodist Episcopal church. South. X'^otwithstanding the variety of his occupations, he never ga\e up the preaching of the Gospel.

land in 1864. it was known as the Bank of Noland, Wilmore & Co. He was a man of great sagacity and judgment in the conduct of his business; of wide benevolence and charitable impulses, he has probably given away as much money in charity as any man who ever lived in Jessamine. His second wife, Miss Virginia Brown, daughter of Thos. J. Brown, who inherited the many excellent traits of her family, survived luiu. He died on the 27th of January. i8(;o, after a lingering illness, and deeply regretted by the entire conununity, among whom he spent the last forty vears of his life.

Among the earliest settlers in Jessamine county were James Duncan and Charles Duncan. They located within the boundary of Jessamine early in 1788. Charles Duncan was born in Culpeper county. A'a.. in 1761. He was the father of William Dun- can, so long known, who died at his home immediately above Nicholasville in 1863. William Duncan's mother was ^Margaret Burnside, sister of the Revolutionary soldier, Robert Burnside, the great uncle of Gen. A. E. Burnside. William Duncan was born near Barclay's old mill in 1788. In 1813 he married Xancy Blackford, daughter of Benj. Blackford.

James Duncan, the grandfather of S. M. Duncan, was born in Culpeper count}-, \'a., July 18, 1763, and was among the last ^\]^ite men killed l)y the Indians. With two companions, John Huckstep and Joseph Burnside, he went to the mouth of Paint Lick to get salt. 1'hey had made the salt and were returning home, when suddenl}' the report of a gun was heard and Burnside fell with a bullet through his heart. James Duncan was shot bv another Indian who had climbed up on a high bluff, and the bullet entered the head of James Duncan, killing him instantly. Huckstep escaped to Crab Orchard, where Col. Whitley sent out a party in pursuit of the Indians and followed them to near Cumberland Gap. They captured the horses of the two men who had been killed, but the Indians made their escape.

Alexander C. Duncan, the father of vS. M. Duncan, was the oldest child of James Duncan, who was killed in his 28th year and left three small children. When a small boy James Dtmcan ran away from home in company with Nathaniel Harris, the distinguished Methodist minister, and enlisted in the army of General Greene, and was at the battle of Guilford Court House and at the siege of Yorktown. James Dtmcan was born July 18, 1763. and was married to Mary Crockett, daughter of William Crockett, of Wythe count \, in 1787. One hundred years after the death of Jan es Duncan, there came a great rise in the creeks which enter Paint Lick. 'Ihey disclosed a skeleton. On examination of this skeleton a bullet hole was foimd in the head and the remains were identified as tliose of James Duncan, who had been killed and buried at that ])()int nearly a century before. Every bone was perfect with the exception of the right foot. The remains were removed to Nicholasville cemetery and laid to rest amid kindred -dust.

The descendants of James Dimcan and his brotlier, wlio tlnia early made their home in Jessamine count\, in large numbers reside in tlie count \ and thc\- have alwaxs been good citizens and patriots.

~S\r. S. '\[. Duncan, who has been one of the most dihg-ent, and faithful of ah tlie anti(|uarians in Kentucky, was a son of Alexander Crockett Duncan and Hannah N. Williams, the latter beino- a native of Mecklenburg" county Xorth Carolina. She was born Afarch S, T793, and died in 1861. Mr. Duncan's father was born in Fort IJlackamore, Russell county, A'irginia, and came to Jessamine county in 1788. He was an infant when his father, James Duncan, settled within the limits of jessamine county. S. M. Duncan was born in Pulaski county, in 1830. He enjoyed limited advantages of education, but most wonderfully improved them - he only had three months' schooling. He worked for thirty years at liis trade as carpenter, and learned cabinet-making, which he folio-wed five years, but afterwards gave that up and returned to liis original callini,^ lie has gathered together an immense amount of material concerning not only the earliest history of Jessamine county and its people, but in regard to the early historv of Kentucky. He has ahvavs had a passion for acquiring old letters and documents, and. but for his patience and care and lal.'or, not only in the finding, but in the preservation, of materials, it would have been impossible for any one to write a history of jessamine county. Mr. Duncan began this collection of material when (juite a young man. He talked with men who had been in the Revolutionary War. and to those who had in their minds fresh recollections of the struggles, trials and dangers of pioneer life m Kentucky. He has written a great deal on the sul> ject. and deserves the thanks of the people, not only of Jessamine countv. Imt of (/entral Kentucky.

Andrew Hemjtliill was one of the most scholarly men that lived in Jessamine c(nmty in its early davs. Me lived in the southern part of tlie ccnmty. settling there in 1823. He was born in Tyrone county, Ireland, in iSoo. He obtained his education at Trinitv College, Dublin, and came to American in 1819. landing at Philadelphia. Jn a very short time he was chosen as teacher of Latin iri an academy in the city of Reading, in Berks count}-, and subsequently became principal of the academy, which position he held for two years. He settled in Jessamine county in 1823, and was married to Mildred Tapp. He came to Jessamine county through his uncle James Hem])liill wlm Iiad purchased a farm in that section of the couiUy nian\- years before. In 1823 James Ilenipliill died and made Andrew his heir, devising to him 250 acres of land on I lickman creek six miles east of N'icholasville. Mr. Ilem]»hill through all his life retained his scholarshii). He read Latin and ( ireek with great fluency. He died in 1863.

they could never do the thing- just as Mr. Hemphill would do it; }et he was always kindly, helpful and suggestive in his examinations, and never went away from the schools without saying pleasant and agreeable words to the scholars. He was the father of a large family of children, many of whom are now residents of Jessamine county, and are among its best and most substantial citizens.

Mr. John Henry Glass, who now owns Glass Mills, near W'ilmore, was l)orn in 1838, of German parentage, in Jessamine county. After going to school during his boyhood in Cincinnati, he learned the trade of cabinetmaker, with his father, who was one of the most skilled mechanics who ever lived in Jessamine county. In 1870 Mr. Glass erected a mill in Lancaster. Ky., which is still in successful operation. Afterwards he sold out to George Denny, the president of the national bank, and moved back to Jessamine and bought the property known as the old paper mill, on Jessamine creek, about three miles above its mouth. This mill had been operated for more than 100 years. After running it about three years he tore part of it down and erected a new building and put in new machinery, retaining, however, the water power, which had been in constant use for more than a century.

This mill is operated all the year round, has its office and switch at W'ihnore, Ky., and is one of the best manufacturing enterprises in Jessamine county. It has a large trade up and do'wn the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, and its brands of flour are considered among the very best manufactured in the West. The principal of these, "The Daniel Boone," shows Mr. Glass' patriotism. IMr. Glass has been instrumental in building ten miles of turnpike in the western part of the county and in furnishing a constant and liberal home demand for grain, which has much increased land values in that section. Blessed with a large familv, he has trained them both to industry and morality, and he is one of the useful men of the communitv.

JJenjaniin A. Crutclicr. the iiresenl Commonwealth's Attorney for tlie Twenty-fifth ju(hcial (hstrict, which includes Jessamine, Aladison. Estill, Clark, and Powell counties, was born in Nicholasville, June 21, 1856. Elected County .Attorney in 1884, he resided to become a candidate for Commonwealth's Attorney. He was re-elected Commonwealth's Attorney in 1897. He is a man of conser\ali\-e instincts, careful ])re|)aration, unquestionable honesty and i^reat industry. He has proven a most admirable rrosecuiinj;- Attorney, firm, faithfid. yet considerate and just, he represents the conuuonwealth as if he were representing his own affairs, and the entire district recognizes his great efficiency and rd)ililv.

The Hon. Thos. ]'>. rrutclicr is now Police jndge of Nicliolasville. He was l)oi-n in Jessamine count}- in 1831. He is the father of Benj. A. Crutclier, the CommonweaUh's Attorney for tlie district. For a long- tirae he was one of the leadin"- merchants in

Jessamine. He is a man of the old school. u]M-igiit, conscientious, always considerate to others. l'\")r live years he has been Judge of the City Court of Xicholasville, and lias made a most excellent record. lie is a mem])er of the Mrst IJaptist clun-ch and is one of its most earnest and enthusiastic supporters.

John Spears Bronaugh was horn in the Keene neighborhood and spent his early years on his father's farm. \\\\.h a vigorous constitution as well as a vigorous mind, he improved all his cdu- calional advantages, and attended college at 'J'ransylvania University, at Lexington. He read law with Judge James Prior, n_ear Carrollton, Ky. I'aithi'id, studious, patient and laborious, when admitted to tlie bar in 1847. ^"^ Xicholasville, he was well prepared for tlic practice (^f his profession. For more than half a century he has been i)romincnt in all the litigation which affected the people of Jessamine, and by his good judgment, his great learning and wise counsel, he has endeared himself to the whole connntmitw and secm-ed a high ])lace in the estimation of his fellow-citizens. At a lime when the goxernment of Xicholasville needed a strong hand and an economical administration. Mr. Bronaugh was called b\- the vcmcc of his townsmen to assume the fluties of the Alavorally. He evolved order out t)f cha:>s. systematized all the affairs of the city government and as executive officer so conducted himself and the affairs of the town that it was with difficulty lie could avoid ihc solicitations of the voters to hold the office always, and it was only his persistent refusal to accept the office which caused the people of the town to elect another man. He has always stood for the best interests of the county and town, and while conservative, he had been enterprising and has been a leader in all that has brought the county to its present prosperity and splendid development. The county has trusted him in man\ imi)ortant transactions and he has always conducted them with |)rudence, skill and al)ility.

Tuos. J. Brown

Is one of the Mag-tstrates of the county and resides in the neighborhood of Wihnore station. Successful in business, kindly in manner, faithful in his official life, he commands, as he deserves, the support and confidence of his district. Whatever is for the best interests of the whole county always has his hearty approval and assistance.

The Levi T.uther Todd referred to in the minutes t)f tlie town of Xicholasville. was born in T.exinii^ton. Ky.. July 26. 1791. He was educated at Transylvania rniversity. and practiced law several vears. He served with dislinction in the war of 1812.

In 1867 he eame to Lexington and jn-esented to the Masonic (irand Lodge, of Kentueky. then in session there, the sword and l.clt of Col. Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, which were worn Ijy Col. DaA'eiss when he was killed, in the battle of Tippecanoe, on the 7th of Xovend)er, 1811. He died near Indianapolis, in 1867.

( )n the one-lnmdredth anniversary of the existence of Xicholasville. Jessamine county is part of the Senatorial district in which are included \\'oodford and Scott counties. The Senator from this district is Thomas R. Welch, M. D., an able and successlul homeopathic physician, now residing in Xicholasville, in which ])lace he was born on the 4th of h\'I)ruary, i860.

He was educated at Bethel Academ_\- under Professor Gordon, and is a graduate of the Wesleyan College, He taught in the city schools of Xicholasville and graduated from the Hahnemann College in 1885, and from that time on has practiced in Jessamine county. He is a mend.^er of the iSoard of Examiners for the schools of the county, of the Xicholasville Board of Education, the State Homeopathic Association and (_>f the American Institute of Homeopathy. He is also a member of the Baptist church and of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias.

He has been earnest and faithful in the discharge of his duties in his profession. In 1879 the Twenty-second Senatorial district, of which Jessamine was a ])art, became a political battle-ground. It was the liome district of the Hon. J. C. S. Blackburn, and the ] Ion. Henry L. Martin was nominated on a platform antagonistic to Senator Blackburn's views. Jessamine county, by courtesy, was entitled to name the Democratic candidate, and a strong l^opular man was recjuired. By a unanimous demand IJr. Welch was called to make the race for Blackburn. His majority in the district was 2,454. an extraordinary manifestation of the confidence of the people of the district. Jessamine county gave him an almost un])recedented majority of 977 votes. His conduct in the legislature justified the confidence of his district. He took a prominent i)art in the deliberations of that historical legislature.

Harrison Daniel was for many years one of the most prominent citizens of Jessamine county. He was the grandson of Col. John I'rice, and Ijorn in 1790. His father, John Daniel, was a native of ( )rang"e countw \ irginia, and came to Kentucky in the year 1787. He was related to the Daniels in the northern neck of X'irginia, and family history says that he served in the arm}' of General Washington al Hrandywine, Trenton and .Monmouth. He settled on ^Jarble creek and here his son was born. In the early history of Kentucky Mr. Daniel was a useful and important character. He was High Sherift and represented Jessamine county in the legislature in 1826. He possessed extraordinary mathematical talents. His son, AX'illiam Daniel, went to the Mexican war in the company of Captain \\'illis. He had a wonderful facultx for making and keeping friends, and many of his descendants still remain in Jessamine countv, whose peo]ile their ancestor so faithfully served.

Dr. John C. Welch was born in Jessamine county iu 1823. He ])racticed medicine for forty years in the county, except during his service for four years as surgeon of the Twentieth Kentucky volunteer infantry. In 1863 he was promoted to l^rigade surgeon. In 1877 and 1879 he represented Jessamine county in the lower house of the legislature. He was a 1)rother of Dr. 'Jdiomas R. \\'elch, the distinguished Prcsl)yterian di\ine.

George IJrown was born in Xicholasville on l*"ebruary 28, 1819, and died October 30, 1897. He first attended school at St. Joseph's, Bardstown. K\-., afterward at Center College, Danville and finally at Trans\lvania Cniversity in Lexington. Upon leaving college he at once engaged in the business of the manufacture of hemi). 1 lis father had been one of the ])ioneers in hemp manufacture in Lexington and the son acquired a ipractical knowledge of the business in early life. Owning a large number of slaves, whieh he used in his business, he made it extremely profitable and he continued in the manufacture of hemp for many years. In the fall of 1853 he moved to a farm on Jessamine creek, about two miles from Niclholasville, and in conjunction with his farm operated a hemp manufactory. He married Ann AI. Hemphill in 1843, ^^'^^'^ proved to him an afifectionate, faithful and helpful wife. She was one of the model housekeepers of Jessamine county and as neighbor and friend had no superior.

Air. Brown was a man of intense activity ; domestic in his taste, he loved his home and added to it those things which made it attractive. He was a model husband and father. When twenty-two years of age. he united with, the Nicholasville Presbyterian church, in the faith of which he continued to the end of his life, and at his death he was the oldest living member of the organization. He was converted under the preaching of Rev. David Todd. He was efBcient and earnest in his Christian work and was alwavs one of the liberal and helpful members of the congregation. He was a pure, good man; long president of the Jessamine County Bible Society, he was not only active but useful in the Bible work and has left behind him no enemies and a host of friends.

Gen. Samuel Dickerson Jackman was a Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army of Missouri. He was born in Nicholasville in the brick house on the left hand side of the road leading to Sulphur Well, and opposite the present house of Thos. B. Crutcher, Sept. 18, 1825. He was a courageous soldier, vigorous and active in the field, and was extremely successfuly in his raids on the Federal lines in Missouri during the war. His mother was the daughter of David Dickerson. and he served in the War of 1812. His father. Dr. John Jackman, left Jessamine county and settled in Missouri in 1831. General Jackman removed from Missouri at the close of the war, to Texas, where he died in 1893. He amassed a large fortune and died childless.

It is a remarkable fact that every officeholder in Jessamine county, upon the occasion of the centennial of its capital cit\', was born and reared in the county. Judge Win. TT. Phillips, who is County Judge, has held that office longer than an\- man who ever had it. He was born in Jessamine county on the 30th of ^larch, 1838. His education was received at the conuuon schools, and the early part of his life was passed on a farm. He attended Bethel Academy as a student, coming from his lather's home, in Nicholasville. From the time of his earliest manhood to 1874 he was an industrious farmer, and lie never sought office but was a faithful and efficient worker for his father. In that year he was nonn'nated for Count \ judge. The nomination was to some ex- tent unexpected by liini and unsouo-ht. At tlial time tlie Democratic nominees were considered the leaders of a forlorn hope; the Repttblican ])art\- was organized and had a1)le leaders, and all the county offices were held by them: but Judge I'liillips was elected 1)\- a majority of fourteen votes, and the Circuit Court Clerk was chosen b\- the same niajoritw The rest of the Democratic ticket was defeated. In 1878 judge I'hillii)s was again elected, although opposed by the strongest man in the Republican party, and also by an independent Democrat; then his majority was 26 votes. In \H^2 he was elected without opposition, and he has held the office of County Judge for 2;^ years. His ancestors were Huguenots, who came from the James river, and settled in Kentucky about 1790. His official career is unusual and extraordinary, and manifests the high esteem in which he is held l)y the peo])le of his native county. His official acts have stot)d the closest scrutin\-. and his numerous endorsements by the voters is a testimonial of the hio-hest character.

Dr. Alexander 1\. Marshall was a member of Congress from the Ashland District in 1855. He was the third son of Dr. Louis Marshall, wdio was the youngest brother of Chief-Justice John Marshall. Louis Marshall lived in \\'oodford county, at a place called r.uck fond. Idiere .Alexander l\. Marshall was born the 1 ith of Februar}-. 1808. He studied medicine and at the age of 25 camei to Xicholasville and practiced his profession, wdiich he did with marked success. He united with John G. Chiles in 1842. in operating a stage and mail line through the Kentucky mountains to Bean Station, Tenn., and continued in this bitsiness \nr more than 20 years, ddiis, however, did not prevent him from practicing his profession.

He was a man of fine presence and of courage in the statement of his convictions. He represented Jessamine countv in the Constitutional Convention of 1849, defeating George L Brown by 80 majority. He was elected to Congress on the Know Nothing ticket, defeating James ( ). Harrison, a distinguished Lexington law\er, by over 1,500 majority. He died ui Fayette count\' in 1886.

TIk,- ])rcseni Count} Attornc} , James Willard Mitchell, was Ijorn in Xicliolasville. in 1861. His father, Jas. 1\ Mitchell, was eldest son of Dr. Geo. W. Mitchell; his mother was the third dau^S;hter of the late Thomas Jefferson and Mary Jane Wallace Brown, who was the eldest daughter of Joseph Wallace, son of Capt Jolin \\'allace. Captain John Wallace was one of the most

\o man in Jessamine cotmt\- commands in a hiqiier degree the conlidiiue ot his fehow-citizens and no one is ca])ahle of arousing more enthusiasm in his i)arty and among his friends. He has

Mr. Mitchell was elected County Attorney by a large and flattering majority. The County Attorneyship was the first position to which Mr. Mitchell was elected and he fills it with credit to himself and to his constituents. He is a man also of fine business capacity, thorough reading and preparation, great punctuality in the discbarge of his official and personal business. Few men are more eloquent or effective on the stump. He understands human nature, and is destined if he chooses to follow public life, to become a leader of men.

He married Miss Annie Anderson, daughter of Capt. Samuel M. Anderson, He is thoroughly identified with the people of Jessamine, and they, in turn, feel a just pride in his success and his attainments in his profession.

Was born in Clark county, Ky., on the nth of August, 1804. He lived for twenty-six years on the farm now occupied by Mrs. Mary Ann Bourne, three miles east of Nicholasville. He w^aswell educated, studied law, and divided his time betw-een his profession and farm. He early moved to Todd county with his father, who had settled in Jessamine county in the year 1790. In 1830-31 Mr. Bristow was elected to the Kentucky Legislature,, in 1846 to the State Senate, and was a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1849. In 1854 he was elected Representative in Congress to fill the unexpired term of Presley Ewing, and in 1859 was again elected as Representative from Kentucky to the 36th Congress.

His son, Benjamin H. Bristow, served with distinctfon in the Federal army, afterwards became Solicitor-General, was a candidate for President before the Republican party, was long a resident of Louisville, but moved from that city to New York, where he has achieved distinction and success in the practice ot law.

Curd I.owry, the present county clerk of Jessamine county, is the third son of the late Judge Melvin T. Lowry, who was county and circuit clerk for twelve years prior to his death, in 1887. He secured the ofifice in opposition to Robt. S. Perry, who had held it for sixteen years and his race in this respect was phenomenal.

He was for two terms deputy clerk under L. D. Baldwin. In 1887 he moved to Kansas City where he remained two years and then rt'Uirned to a position in the I'irst National Bank. His great-grandfather on his mother's side was John Daniels, who settled in Fayette county in 1788 and married a sister of Col.

Tohn Trice. 1 Us paternal grand father settled in Jessamine county long- l)ef()re its organization, lie comes of distinguished parentage and lineage and his ])()pularil\ is the result of his kindlv heart and gentleman\- manner.

In this. i8<;8, Jessamine county is divided into five magisterial districts. Al the last November election, the gentlemen chosen to fill this responsible office were as follows: farmers in Jessamine county, and has been elected magistrate for several terms He was l)orn in h'ayette county, is about fiftyfive years of age, and is honest, clear-headed, and a faithful representative of the interests which his fellow-citizens entrust to his keeping.

James T. Barkley

He resides in Xicholasville. I ie was ihe sun of Mason liarkley, wlio was a large farmer on the Marrodsburg Pike. He was 1)orn in 1848. and is engaged in llie hardware business in Xicholasville. He is a man who is higiily esteemed l)y his fellow-citizens.

Allen W. Robinson

Resides in the Marble creek neighborhood, lie was a grandson of John Robinson. He is a man who never shrinks from doing his dut}'. and has made a most efficient ofificer.

Wilson Fain

Lives in the llickman neighborhood. He is a son of Larkin l-'ain. who represented Jessamine ci:)unt\ in the Legislature in 1850-55. He enjoys to an unusual degree the confidence and respect of his fellow-citizens in that portion of the countv in which he resides.

Who commanded a regiment from Kentucky at the battle of the Raisin, in 1812. in which regiment were two companies, Gray's and Price's, from Jessamine couiUy. was long a resident in the count \. He was born in \'irginia. in 1778. and <lie(l in 1835. His exposures in the \\'ar of 181 2 brought on rheumatism, and the colds he contracted in the northwestern army settled in his eves and resulted in a total loss of eyesight. He was a gallant soldier and a man res])ected and loved by all the ])eo])le of the county. In the terrible battle of Raisin he showed splendid heroism, and a high order of coiuMge, and had his advice been followed, the terrible tragedy of thai battle would have l)een avoided.

Was long a prominent public man in Jessamine county. He died of cancer of the throat March t(S. t888. He was the second son of Col. Robert McAfee, and was l)orn in Mc.\fee. fiercer county, on the 15th of .\ugust, 1825. He was admitted to the bar in

Harrodsl^urg' in 1845. '^''"1 removed to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he commenced the practice of his profession. About this time the war with Mexico broke out, and he volunteered as a private in Captain .Mean's company of cavalry, which was one of the companies in the regiment of Col. Ambrose Yell, who was killed at the battle of Buena A'ista. In that battle Colonel McAfee bore a prominent part in the charge of Humphrey Marshall and Colonel Yell against 6,000 lancers, led by General Mineon, who attempted to take the American batteries. In the charge in which McKee, Clay and Willis were lost, Colonel McAfee saw a Mexican laTicer in the act of killing a wounded soldier. He instantly shot the Mexican. He used what was in those days a celebrated gun known as the Mississippi rifle.

At the close of the Mexican war, Colonel McAfee moved to Nicholasville, and married Miss Elizabeth Shely. In 1857 he was elected a member of the Kentucky legislature. Early in 1861 Colonel McAfee was arrested as a Southern sympathizer ; he was> taken from his home at 12 o'clock at night on the 21st of June, and without warrant or charge was carried and lodged in prison in Lexington. A writ of habeas corpus was taken out by Frank Hunt, Esq., and W. C. P. Breckinridge, Esq., in order to get Colonel ^McAfee before the Federal Court, then in session at Frankfort, but the Federal officers suspended the writ of habeas corpus. On the way to Camp Chase, in Cincinnati, he escaped by walking away from the guards, passed through Central Kentuckv and reached the South. He was commissioned lieutenantcolonel by James A. Seddon, Confederate Secretary of War. In 1864 he raised a battalion of 300 mounted men, and was with General Jones in W'^estern Virginia, and helped to defeat General Averill's rail on Harrodsburg in 1864. He was severely w'ounded in 1862 at Big Creek Gap. He was captured in 1864, and remained in Camp Douglas until the close of the war. He was a magnificent looking man in physical appearance, and possessed a high degree of courage.

Andrew McAfee, wlio at present worthily represents his ward in the city council, is one of the younger generation of colored men, who by his conduct and character has done much to dissipate tlie prejudice against the education of his race. He was educated in the local schools for his race, and by his energy and determination has won the confidence and trust of his constituents.

nsnal cnthnsiasni anion^ the jjcoi^le of the connty and one of the largest crowds ever seen in Central Kentncky was assembled on this occasion.

The procession, representing the industrial interests of the city and cotmty occnjiicfl the morning: while historical and patriotic addresses took np the afternoon.

The executive committee, consisting of B. AL Arnett, chairman ; W. L. Steele, J. D. Hughes, H. H. Lowry, Charles Deering, and J. B. Stears, provided a most interesting program and conducted the exercises in the most patriotic and pleasing manner.

Geo. B. Taylor

Committees of ladies from all parts of the county united in completing the arrangements for the great occasion. These committees were as follows :