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HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES .

. PRECINCTS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY.

f- ')!"~ SEATONVILLE PRECINCT. price on his right of priority and claim land or The land in this precinct is poor in sections, money. the cou~try very uneven, hills and ravines The early settlers of this precinct left but lit­ predominating. The roads are also very irregu­ tle record of themselves save mere threads of lar, and generally take the course of the traditionary events. They usually, as was the creeks, the bedi of which constitutes the high­ case always at first, settled along the water way. · Now ,af!d then some road angles across courses, or near perennial streams of water. In the country, and through the wood land, but in an early day attractions were probably as great many places, especially in the southern part, in this section of the country as were found any­ there are ribne save some bridle-paths, leading to where in the county. Louisville had abundance and from the neighbors' houses. of water, but good land was found at Seatonville, The original mistake made m granting patents and as for the metropolis of the State, there was to posaession of lands on merely paying a fee of as much likelihood of the latter place being that ten dollars, with the privilege of as much land city as the former in the minds of the first set­ in lieu of same as the speculator would map out, tlers. has always caused much trouble. · One of the first settlers of this precinct was a With auch liberties it is easy to see how ambi­ Mr. Mills, of Virginia, who came in a very early tious speculators would seek out this land, blaze day, riding an old gray mare, for which he was a few trees, as indic~s to the boundary lines, no offered ten acres of land, now the central portion mattrr how irregular that might be, and then of Louisville city. One of his sons, Isaac by have the same recorded properly in the archives name, born in 1796, was an early settler of this of the State. The numerous surveys, the irregu­ part of the country, also. Jari~ of laid out farms frequently led to serious The F'unks-John, Peter, and Joseph-were trouble. Claims would overlap each other until early settlers in this precinct. John and Peter II many as twelve or fifteen owners could be owned a mill near Se~tonvillc, probably the first found for one dry spot of earth. No sooner in th,;: county. 0£ this family of brothers, would some stranger from another State secure John and Joe had no children, but Peter has de­ hi1 possessions with a snug cottage than would scendants living at the present time. , come along an owner of some parcel of his / George Seaton, was born near Seatonville, April grou!ld with a right prior to his. 3, 1781, and died July 6, 1835, and from him These things were tolerated at first with a the village of this precinct takes its name. They patience characteristic of a man always wanting were a family of marked characteristics, and have to be at peace with his neighbor, but the pest of descer.dants living at the present time, and did prior claims was not removed until the shot gun much to advan::e the interests of the new settle­ was called into. requisition, and it became a ments. George Seaton was one of the first aerious matter for any one to saddle a good magistrates of the precinct. 9 10 HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALU; COUNTIES.

Fieldinp: Wigginton, at thirteen years of age, Mr. Mills built in the year , 866, a saw-mill, came here in 1803, hut finally settled in Bullitt and in , 870 attached to it a grist-mill, both of county, where he died. A name to be revered which are in good condition. The saw-mill has as among the early settlers was a Rev. William a capacity of three thousand feet. The grist­ P. Barnett, a minister of the _Baptist church for mill runs two buhr of stones- on~ for corn and over forty years. He was married twice, his sec­ the other for wheat. ond wi fe being the mother of John Wigginton's The first church in this precinct was the Old­ wife. school Baptist church on Chenoweth run. ~ The Bridwells were also very early settlers. , church was in successful operation by that de­ Mr. John Wigginton's mother was one of this nomination up to the year 1820. family. Rev. J ohn C. J ohnson, an old Baptist Hezekiah Pound came from New Jersey in preacher, ministt:red to the people in an early an early day, and settled upon :t tract of land a day. The building was a simple log structure, little southeast of Seatonville, where J. M. Pound probably thirty by for ty feet, and stood where the now lives. graveyard now is. Among the vcrr early pre:.ch­ At that time there was a sentinel station where ers might be mentioned the names of William Mr. George Welsh now lives. His son John H ub, Zaccheus Carpenter, Rev. Mr. Garrett, Pound was born in this precinct July 31, 1784, the Wailers, I<.ev. Andrew Jackson, "Rev. A.

and died August 261 185 r. H e married a Miss Mobley, and Richard Nash. The church

Paulina Boyer November 18, 18081 and had built in 1849 or , 85or is a frame, thirty-five by eight children. The grandfather was in the Rev­ fi fty. The membership at the present time is olution, and several of his chiidren were in the about one hundred and sixty. Elder Clif­ War of 1812. ton Allen is at present the preacher to this In the southern part of the precinct, on Broad congregation. T he elders of the church are river, Mr. George Markwell settled in a very early Jeff Young, George W. Welsh, and H. C. Mills; day. H e was a native of Wales, and after com­ Kenner Mills, superintendent of the Sabbath­ ing here entered three or four hundred acres of school. land. The stone at the head of his grave on the BIOGRAPHICAL NOT ES. old homestead, owned now by J ohn B. Mark­ Radham Seaton, the first of that family in well, gives his birth date ac; 17 5 r. He d ied in Kentucky, and grandfather of Charles A. and December, 1828. Jane, his wife, died at the W. Chesley Seaton, came to Jefferson county age of seventy-two, and lies by his side. His from Virginia. Soon after his arrival he married sons, born in the 178o's, are also buried in this Mary Curry, daughter of Thomas Curry, a native yard. of Virginia, by whom he had four children: Sarah, A prominent man of this precinct, from whom Thomas C., Elizabeth, and Kenner, who was also prominent families hd\te descended, was a born April 17, 17 97. Radha111 Seaton had four­ Mr. Wish, who settled near Seatonvilie at a very teen brothers and two sisters. H is wife's mother ei1 rly day. was Sarah M'Carthy, whose sister, Margaret Chen­ FIRST MILL. oweth, was scalped by the Indians at her home The first mill built in this precinct was by a near Linn Station, in the noted Chenoweth mas­ Mr. Mundell, on Floyd's fork, one-half mile be­ sacre. Radham Seaton died when about forty low Seatonville. This was probably uefore the years old, from injuries received while logging. year 1800. Mr. Mundell operated by the water His son Kenner lived on the home place and was power gained by this stream both a saw-mill and a farmer. He was married September 26, 1833, a grist-mill. The Funks finally purchased this and had seven children, of whom four are living. properly more than sixty years ago, and operated He died in the room in which he was born on the these mills for a number of years. The new 26th of August, 1872. C. A. Seaton was born

mill was buiit as early as in 1832. January 8, 18361 and W. Chesley, October 22, Mr. Isaac Mills worked there as a stone 1847. T hese brothers were educated in the mason. T he mill was in successful operation as common schools, and have until recently been late as in the year 1876, when it stopped. farmers. In l 87 2 the elder of these brothers IIISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. 11 erected a building and cng:iged in general mer­ twenty, and carried on a shop at Jeffersontown chandise business. The l,rotlier nfterwards be­ for thirty years. Some eight years ago he moved came a partner. The village of Seatonville was upon his farm a half-mile southeast of Seaton­ founded by them, nnd the prednct received ville, and has since engaged in farming. On their name. C. A. Seaton is now serving a February II, 184.7, he married Sarah Seaton, second term as magistrate of this precinct, who .vas born in this county March 3, 1828, by besides serving as deputy marshal of the whom he has had eleven children, of whom county, an office to which he was elected last eight are living. Her father, Kenner Seaton, August. January 24, 1856, he married Mary E. was born April 23, 1781; married February 3,

Kelly, a native of Jefferson county, and daughter 1863 1 and died July 6, 1835. Her mother was of Captain Samuel Kelly, an officer in the War horn February 20, 1783, and died December 14, of 1812. She has borne him seven children, of 1863. whom one boy and three girls are living. W. A. H. Furik, a son of Peter Funk, was born Chesley, in August of 1878, was elected deputy October 7, 1822. Peter Funk was of German sheriff of Jefferson county, and is now officiating descent and was born at Boonsboro, Maryland,

:is such. On November 4, 1868, he was married August 141 1782. He early came to Jefferson to Sally Johnson, a native of the county and county, and married Harriet Hite, a native of daughter of George J ohnson. They have but this county. They had seven girls and five one child. Dr. John S., son of Kenner Seaton, boys. A. H . Funk was married June 4, 1849, was born July 16, 1813, and died August 19, to Ellen A. Taylor, a native of Spencer county, 1879. by whom he had nine children, of whom two Henry C. Mills, a twin brother of Mrs. Mary boys and five girls are living. He was regularly Johnson, was born May 7, 1827. He is a son apprenticed to learn the miller's trade, serring of 'Squire Isaac Mills, a native of Virginia, who some five years. For thirty years he worked at was one of the pioneers of Kentucky, a stone his trade in a mill on the old homestead-one mason by trade, a farmer by occupation, and that has been in existence over a century. He long known by the title of 'squire, having and his family are·· members of the Chnstian held the office of magistrate. He came to this church. • county when about sixteen years of age, and James T. Reid is of English descent, and is afterwards married Sarah Wilch. He died the oldest child of John Reid, a native of Mary­ November 14th, 1859, and she on February 26, land. John Reid emigrated to this county when 1875. Henry W. Mills married, during No­ seventeen years old. He married Esther Gil­ vember, 1853, Eliz.ibeth Seaton, daughter of liland, who was born in county Down, Ireland, Kenner Seaton. This marriage resulted in ten in 1825. H e was a tailor by trade, but devoted children, of wh om eight are living. She died the greater part of his life to farming. James November 19, 1880. His occupation has always T. Reid .was born March 25, 1826. On Febru­ been the same as was his father's. In 1866, he ary 24, 1848, he married Rebecca H . Beard, built a dam at Seatonville and erected a saw-mill, who was born in Jefft'rson county, Kentucky, to which, in 1870, he added a grist-mill, which May 4, 1833. They have had thirteen children, he has since operated in addition to his farm. of whom three boys and seven girls arc living. J. W. Jean was born in Henry county, Ken­ Mr. Reid's life long occupation has been that of tucky, April 10, 182 r. His father came to this a farmer, and he is one of the largest farmers of county :u a very e:irly day, where, in about 1814, the east<:rn part of the county. He is a reading he was married, and then moved to Henry coun­ and a thinking man; was a few years since ty, and then to Cr:iwford county, Illinois, where ' elcct<:d magistrate, but resigned after serving two he died in 1828. The mother of J. W. Jean was years. Catharine ~l yers, who was born in Jcfferson J. W. Omer was born in Jefferson county on county, Kentucky, March 13, 1798 . When eight February 13, 1836. He is the seventh of twelve years of age he came to Jefferson county, where children of Jacob Omer, who was born in Penn· he has since resided. He learned the saddler's sylvania in 1795, and when one year old his trade. beginning when sixteen and finishing when father emigrated to Kentucky, and preempted u HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. the land on a part of wh.ich J . W. now Lives. practiced for five years in that city. Since 1861 The records show that this farm was taken up he has been, save the time spent in Louisville, en. by - Hamer. This name was spelled according gaged in teaching. Since 1870 he has been man. to the way it was pronounced, and it became aging a farm in Seatonville precinct. On Apnl Amer, and then Omer. Jacob Omer married 10, 1870, he married Apphia M. Seaton, of Hal~ Persilla Curry in 18.,23- She was born May 5, Morgan county, Indiana. She is the daughter 18o4, and died February 10, 1880. They had of Allen Seaton, a native of Kentucky. twelve children. J. W. has always been a farmer J. W. Wiggington was horn in Bullitt county, and is a 111ember of the Christian church. On Kentucky, August 18, 1827. He was the fourth December 12, 1869, he married Rebecca Har· of nine children of F. Wigginton, who was rison, of Jefferson county, Kentucky. She died born in 1 787 in Virginia, and came to Ken.

September 121 1878, leaving six children. On lucky when about nine years old. He mar.

October 8, 18791 tie married Alwetta Bruce, of ried Jane Bridwell, a Virginian, then of Nel­ Gallatin county, Kentucky. son county. J. W. Wigginton came to Jef. J. M. Markwell was born in Jefferson county, ferson county in 1848, where he remained for

Kentucky, on February 151 1826. H e is the five years, and then removed to Spencer county, seventh of eight children of William Markwell, and remained several years in this and five years who was also a native of the same county. His in Bullitt, and then returned to Jefferson county, grandfather was one of the first settlers. His where he is engaged in farming, which has been mother was Rhoda Pound, who was born in Nel­ his life.Jong occupation. In December, 1848, son county, in 1 7931 but came to Jefferson he married Elizabeth J. Barnett, who was born county when quite young. J. M. Markwell is a in J effe.rson county, Kentucky, March 23, 1833, farmer by occupation. On September 20, 1855, She is the dau~hter of Rev. W. P. Barnet~ he was married to Catharine W. Markwell, who who was a native of Washington county. His , was born in Shelby county, January 7, 1839. wife was Sarah H. Royer, a native of Old· They have seven children, four . boys and three ham county. J. W. Wigginton is the father of girls. He is a member of the Baptist church. eight children- three boys and five girls. He Fred Pound was born in Jefferson county, and his wife are members of the Baptist church.

Kentucky, April 71 1817. His father, John 'Squire J. W. James is a native of Spencer Pound, was born in New Jersey, July 31, 1789; county,Kentucky. He was born September 15, his father coming from Scotland J oho Pound 1839, and is the second of three children of W. came 'to t~is county \\hen a boy. perhaps a James, who was born in Washington county, dozen years old, and always was a farmer. On Kentucky, in 1804- W. James married Eliza·

November 10, 18081 he married Mary Boyer, of beth Markwell, in 1830. She was born ·in Jef· Jefferson county, who was born March 11, 1783. ferson county, in 1810. The James were pio­ Five of their children lived to maturity. Fred neers from Maryland, and the Markwells from Pound has followed his father's occupation. Virgini:i. Mr. W. James was a farmer, as is his

On October 7, 18381 he married Elizabeth C· son J. W. 'Squire J. W. James was educated in Taylor. She was born in Spencer county, the public schools. In 1864 he came to Jeffer· Kentucky, January 27~ 1820. She bore eight son county, and began farming in this precinct. children, of whom six are living- two boys and He is now changing his farm into a fruit farm. four girls. Dr. T . P. D. Pound, the second In 1857 he married Ellen Reasor, daughter of :.on, was born May 28, 1844. He attended James A. Reasor, of Spencer county, who was McCowan's Forest Hill academy, and graduated formerly a resident of this county, and author of at the Louisville Medical college in 1875, and is a valuable work on the treatment and cure of practicfng near the homestead, in Seatonville hogs. In 1874 and 1878 J. W. James was precinct He married Alice Stoul, of the same elected magistrate, and has served with credit county, Nov.ember 27, 1873. R M . J. Pound in that capacity. He and his wife are members was born June 28, 1841. He was educated in of the Baptist church. the same school as was his brother, and in 1860 Major Simpson Seaton .Reynolds was born in graduated at the Louisville Law school, and J efferson county, at Middletown, August 29, HISTORY OF THE OHl O FALLS COUNTI ES. tj

vantages were, however, a detriment during the ,84:i. He is the oldest son of Thomas M. S. Reynolds, who was born in Orange county, Vir­ late war. Soldiers of either army were fre­ ginia, February u, 1818, and was a farmer by quently on these grounds, not in battle array, but occupation. He came to Kentucky in 18401 in camp. The citizens were between the two and settled at Middletown. On J uly 28, r 84 r, he forces, and from the circumstances were com­ married Elu:abeth H. Seaton, daughter of J udge pelled to support both. Food was abundant, George Seaton, of Jefferson county. She was and the art of cooking well understood, and it born July 131 1823, in Seatonville precinct. This was not unusual for a squad of men, or an entire marriage was blessed with thirteen children, of company, to march up to a house and make de­ whom all are living, save William Wallace. The mands for subsistence. To refuse these requests wife and mother died April 22 1 1880. The fam­ was but to submit finally under terms more humili· ily, in March of 1860, moved to Saline county, atmg. Raids upon orchards, ~hiskey, and Miasouri, where they resided for fifteen years, horses, were of frequent occurrence, arid the oft­ when they removed to Nebraska, and !;Cttled repeated story will be handed down by tradition near Lincoln, where Mr. Reynolds is conducting in time to come. a large stock farm. Major Reynolds was edu­ THE FIRST STORE cated in the common schools of Kentucky and in this precinct was probably built in 1840 •/ Miuouri, but was prevented·'from taking a con­ by A. C. H:iys and his brother Charles. · It was templated college course by the breaking out of built at Hays' Sprin~ sixteen miles from L<1uis­ the war. He enlisted in General Marmaduke's ville. The partnership of these brothers contin­ escort, ~ith the rank of captain, and was after­ ued until 1860, their business flounshing dur- wards promoted to the rank of brevet major. ing the time. At this time one of the brothers On October 16 1864, he married Adah T. 1 1\'ent out, and the business was continued by the Guthrie, daughter of D. T. Guthrie, then of other until 1870. Since that time ddferent ones Missour~ but a native of Virginia. His present have had possession. wif.. • name is Harriet, a dau~hter of Colonel The post-office was for many years at .Hays' Brown, of Virginia. At present Major Reynolds §e_tlngs, for the accomruodation of the public in is engaged in stock raising, being a partner of this precinct. It is now Fairmount. Lieuterv.nt Governor Carns, of Seward, Ne­ brub. MILLS. The first mill was built by John Smith on Cedar creek. He came to the county a, FAIRMOUNT 'PRECINCT. q I fi early as 1780, bought a thousand acres of land, This section of the county contains some good but afterwards went to Indiana, where he died m land, an abundance of water, and has the advan­ 1830. At the time this mill was in successful op­ tagd of the Bardstown pike, which highway rur-s eration there was but one stor.c and a bakery in through it from north to south. It has also Louisville, and Mr. Smith supplied the town with many good orchards, and all kinds of fruits are flour. He had an overshot wheel, plenty o ( water thoroughly cultiv.tted. The yield of fru its and at that time (since then the stream has almost berries forms one of the staple products and con­ dried up), two run of stones-one for corn and stitutes one of the industries of the peoplt'. the other for wheat, and a good patronage for Lands once rich in alluvi:il soil have for a period ma11y miles around. The city of Louisville of one hundred years been cultivated in corn and needed but two sacks of flour each week for con­ wheat, and other agricultural products, without sumption at that time, which was usually supplied rest or recuperation of the soil, and in some by strapping a bag of flou r on a horse, mount­ localities the exhaustion has been great. Other ing a boy on top of that, and sending through the lands have been rested, crops of dilft!rent kinds thickets to the village. By starting early he made to alternate in such a way that what was · could usually find his way there and back by taken out l:.y one kind of grain was, in part at nightfall. Mr. J. B. Smith, when a mere lad ten least, restored in nourishment by the substitu· years of age, performed this journey twice a tion of some other kind. These natural ad- week and carried flour to Louisville for several 14 HISTORY OF THE OHIO F:\LLS COUNTIES.

years. There was attached to this grist-mill a The Presbrterian church is an old organizatioft good saw-mill. The millwright,a )[r. Kirkpatrick, also, having a history that reaches back to who was by the way, ::i good one, also attended 1800, when Rev. James \'ance, one of th, to the saw-mill. The mill was tin:illy purch:ised first preachers, ministered to this people. Th, by Mr. Jacob Shaeffer, who run it wry success­ Revs. James l\larshall, Harvey Logan, James fully; but after he turned it over to his son-in­ Hawthorne, William King, \Villiam Rice, and law, a Mr. John Berne, for some reason it wi::nt others since that time have preached here. Th, down. new building was eri::cted in 1870. Rev. S. S. Tay. Mr. J. B. Smith erected a grist-mill on Cedar lor is the pastor in charge. Tl,e elders are: Wil creek in 1851, and two or three years :ifterwards liam Morrison, \V. Johnson, Peter Baker, and a saw-mill. The business was good, but the Joseph Becker; the deacons are: Moses Johnson, troublesome times of the war came on and the Thomas Moore, Clarence Sprowl. William Mor. mills were both burned. In r 859 he again built rison is the superintendent of the Sabbath. both mills, putting in an engine and running by school. The membeuhip is about seventy. stea:n this time. But in 1867 the property suf. This church has suffered in the bitter contest be. fered by fire the second time. Mr. Smith has tween the North and the South, and the division been importuned many times by his neighbors caused in its membership then still continues to1 to rebuild, but having suffered twic~ the results exist. of incendiarism, at a cost of st veral thousand The Northern church still continues to hold dollars, he declined to do so. services in the same house occasionally: A Rev. Mr. J. B. Smith married a Miss Nancy Bell, Mr. McDonald is their µreacher. The elders daughter of Robert Bdl, who was one of the are: Noah Cartwright, William Berry, and Jef. first shoemakers in the precinct. He had no ferson Rush. shop, but would take his awl and last and go BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. from place to place seeking work. Francis Maddox was born in Culpepper county, Virginia, July 14, 1811. His father, CHURCH. John Maddox, came with his family to Shelby The old Chenoweth Run Bag!ist s_hurch, es­ county, Kentucky, in 1816, where he remained

tablished as early as 17921 was the origin1l pince until his death. He married Mary Me Suthel"' of meeting in an early day for religious worship. land, a Virginian. Francis was the fourth of six The Revs. Waller, Gupton, and Jackson were children, four boys and two girls. He received some of the first pr

whom he had seven children, five sons and two 22 1 1837, and was a daughter of Isaac Mills. daughters. L T. Rates is a farmer, at which he Their children are-Charles I., William T., Al­ has always been engaged in Fairmount precinct. fred, George E., Adam Clay, Sarah E., Robert On October 3, 1868, he married Sarah M. John­ F., and Mary J. He is a member of the Meth. son; :;he was born October 13, 1848. Her father, odist Episcopal church, and his wife of the Re. Jacob Johnson, was born on the White river, formed. Indiana, August 6, 1809. He was a blacksmith Dr. A. R. Grove was born in Jefferson county, by trade, but dunng later life was a farmer and Kentur:ky, June 5, 1835. He is the eighth of nurseryr.1an. Jacob Johnson died in 1875. He · nine children of Isaac Grove, who ' was born married February 2 r, 1823, Sarah Guthrie, August '7, 1796. In 1816 he married Celia who was born in Jeffc::rson county May 4 1 1805; Pierpoint. In 1826 they moved from Culpeper she was the youngest daughter of James Guthrie, county, Virginia, to Kentucky. When quite a nattve of Delaware. James Guthrie came to young the medical profession presented attrac. Kentucky in 1781. After residing a few years in tions to the doctor, and after receiving a first­ Kentucky he returned to the East and married rate academical education he began the study of a Miss Welch, who lived but a short time. He, medicine, meanwhile spending considerable time about 1786, married Eunice Paul, nee Cooper, a in teaching. His instructor was Dr. J. S. Seaton, Jersey woman. Thef had nine children. She of Jeffersontown precinct, with whom he re­ died in 1'850. mained two years, until 1857, attending lectures J. B. Smith was born in Shelby county, Ken­ at the Kentucky-School of Medicine, and gradu­ tucky, on April 3, 1810, but was reared in Jeffer· ating in the spring of 1857. Immediately after, son county. He is the oldest of thirteen chil­ he was elected resident graduate of the city hos­ dren of Adam Smith, who was born at Lynn pital, which position he held two years. In station. The father of Adam; John Smith, 1859 he began to practice medicine in Jefferson­ came from Pennsylvania, and was one of the first town precinct, Jefferson county, Kentucky, where settlers of Jefferson county. Adam aided his he · remamed until i861, when he remqved to father to erect and run a mill on Cedar creek. Hay's Spring, in the precinct where he yet fe9 Adam married Sally Ballard in 1809. J. B. sides and is still engaged in professional duties. Smith, like his father, is a miller by trade, but Besides his practice he is one of the largest has not milled any since his mills burned some farmers of the county. On August 26, i843, fourteen years ago. On July 26, 1835, he mar­ was born Frances Hays, whom he married De­ ried Nancy Bell, a native of Jefferson county, cem ber 3, 1861. This marriage has. been blest and daughter of Thomas Bell, of Virginia, who with four children, three of whom are living­ was a soldier in the War of 1812. Mrs. Smith Mary E., Charles I., and Lillie Belle. died March II, 188~. R. W. Hawkins was born in Franklin county, Frank O. Carrithers was born in Sullivan Kentucky, March 10, 1822. His father, Moses county, Indiana, December 25, 1835. When B. Hawkins, was born in · Orange county, Vir­

about two years of age his father moved to ginia, in 17911 and when eighteen, moved Bullitt county, Kentucky. Hts father, Charles to Franklin county, Kentucky. He, in 181-0, T. Carithers was born March 1 2, 1809, in Spen­ married Lucinda Hawkins, by whom he had two cer county, :{(entucky. He mamed Elizabeth children. In about two years she died, and in Dunbar, who was born in that county, January 1820 he married Pamelia Alsop, a native of Cul­ 30, 1810, and died February 19, 1881. There peper county, Virginia. By this wife he had were five children: John A., Frank 0 ., Nancy J., twelve children, R. W. being the second. When Mary E., and Andrew T. Frank 0. was edu­ R. W. was a small boy his father removed into the cated in the home schools and academies and woods near Memphis, where they remained for has followed the calling of his father-farming. some time. When he_was about of age he re­ He moved to Fairmount precinct about sixteen turned to his nati~e county and atten

ing law, but the business he was then engaged end of this political division is but about a '1pon did not permit him to finish this profession. mile in width. He after this was engaged in trade at Bridgeport, One hundred and fifty votes are polled here. and afterwards founded the town Consolation. The schools-of .which there are some good In 1852 he came to Jefferson county and has ones- are patronized hy a floating attendance of since been engaged as a fruit grower and farmer. one hundred and fifteen scholars. On Decem!>er 24, 1850, he was married to Martha Mill creek flows through the northeastern por­ . J. Porter, daughter of Dr. James Porter, of Fair­ tion of the precinct, but Pond stream, with its mount. She was born June 13, 1826. They have numerous little tributaries, drains most of its soil. had eight children-four boys and three girls liv­ It has also good highways, the Salt River road ing. Mr. Hawkins is of English descent, being a being the principal one. A branch of the Louis, descendant of Sir John Hawkins, who~was admiral ville, Nashville & Cincinnati Southern railroad of the. British navy during Queen Elizabeth's traverses its entire length from north to south, reign. His ancestors were among the first ac­ affording good opportunities for reaching the cessions to the colonies of Newport ~nd James­ city. town. Some farms under a good state of cultiva­ H. H. Tyler was born in Jefferson county, tion are found here and there; that of Alanson Kentucky, Aug~st 20, 1854. He is the second Moorman is very large, consisting of some twelve child of Answell Tyler, who was born in Indiana hundred acres. He also, as do some others, in about 1815, and died in 1865. He was ap­ pays considerable attention to the cultivation of prenticed to learn the wheelwright's trade; but ran fruit. away and came to Kentucky when about fifteen. The citizi::ns of this precinct have ever been He was a wheelwright and cooper by trade zealous of their spiritual welfare and have had but worked principally at the first and at farming. organizations of a religious charackr since a He married Mary, daughter of Robert Welch, time out of mi'tld. The eldest religious society is probably the Methodist. This society has on May 91 1850, and was the father of four boys, of whom three are living. H. H. Tyler married a building riear Valley Station, erected some .Rosa Funk, daughter of A. Funk, of Seatonville, forty years ago. The membership is large, con­ on December 23, 1875. She was born February sisting of some eighty persons. 25, 1855. They have two boys and one giri. The Baptist society is not so old, the organi­ Both are members of the Christian church. zation having been effected only about fifteen years ago. Rev. Mr. Powers is yet, and proba­ bly was their first minister. The membership is about one hundred and fifty. They have a good MEADOW LAWN PRECINCT. and handsome church building. The general supposition has been that that There is also a Campbellite church in the pre­ portion of Jefferson county lying above Louis­ cinct. ville is far more healthy rind fertile than this por­ .tion. For want of drainage it has not been so TWO MILE '.l'OWN. conducive to health, but since the country has been undergoing a marked change in the way of One of the most promtnent and useful of the improvement, the malarial and other noisome early settlers of this part of the county was Mr. vapors are disappearing, the land is increasing in George Hickes. Probably no man of Jefferson fertility and value, and t~e former peat bogs and county did more for his part of the section of swamp have become well cultivated farms that country, or was more public-spirited, than was now bespeak prosperity. this man. The history of Two Mile Town is, to The soil, generally medium or fair, can still be a great ex~ent, the history of his life. The first improved by drainage and many of the advan­ saw-mill, the first grist-mill, the first carding­ tages are yet undeveloped. The precinct is very machine and fulling-mill, as well as the first irregular in shape, has a breadth in one place of church organizatio~, were established principally some eight miles and at the extreme or southern by his energy and perseverance. He it was who HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. 17

first saw the necessity of cultivating and encour­ was built to this structure, increasing its size. aging all varieties of the choicest fruits, and .he The first busine!>s enterprise was a carding and early took the opportunity of visiting Pennsyl- . fulling machine. The mill was built on Bear Grass vania to secure plants and trees for this pur­ creek, on land now owned by E. J. Hickes, Esq. pose. He had a like desire to encourage the Previous to this time this whole region of Ken­ raising of the best of stock, and accordingly took tucky, and probably the State itself, bad not the mea~ures in this direction, which to-day have advantages afforded by such a mill. Thecommon reached results that point to the noble spirit hand-card was used, the spinning-wheel, and manifested by a self-sacrifi cing man. hand-loom. Flax was raised, each family raising The people of Two Mile Town -tev.exe the a half.acre or an acre, as family necessity re­ name of this man. He was born in Pennsyl­ quired, the same pulled in season, then bleached, vania in 1762; was without resources to gain a afterwards broke, hackeled, and the tow and flax livelihood save his own hands; married in the separated-bags, pants, and coarse cloth made of course of time, and he and his wife Paulina one, while the more delicate, stringy fibers of the moved to Ohio, where he afterwards purchased a other ":~re woven mto bolts, out of which a farm, a_nd after putting the same under repair finer quality of goods was made for sheets, shirt­ sold it at a good .round figure-such is the re­ ing, etc. This additional enterprise not only ward of industry- and moved to Kentucky and benefited the early settlers of this immediate settled upon a four hundred acre tract of land, the neighborhood, but brought custom from other homestead being where Mrs. Hickes now resides. portions of the State. ·He came to this region about 1790. The In· The early settlers were also in much need of dians had been troublesome, but the block and some device for grinding their corn and wheat station-houses of so frequent use previous to Previously the hand-mill was used This con­ this time were less resorted to by the inhabitants. sisted of many devices- any process. in which Buffaloes were still numerous and roved be­ sufficient frictioh could be brought to bear on the tween the cane brake and the prairie, but they grain to pulverize or grind it was in use. Some all disappeared before the year 181 7. Bears were would own a pair of stones, and by a singular· plentifu~ and as they made visits up and down device would have one fastened to one end of a Bear Grass creek, would occasionally pounce pole, the other end being so fastened into the upon a hog. Wildcats and panthers often ex­ crack of the wall or ceiling as to allow suffi hibited their fondness for young pigs, and it was dent motion for the upper stone to be revolved difficult to preserve sheep from their ravages. upon the lower. Sometimes a pestle attached to The division of land m this part of the county, a swinging pole, was made to descend in a mortar the same as in all Kentucky, was irregular and made of _a stone or stump, and sometimes the always located with reference to the wish ol the corn was parched, then eaten. Wheat wu fre­ proprietor regardless of regularity or of the shape quently boiled; in short, various were the methods or form of other tracts adjoining. This not de\·ised to reduce the raw material to a palatable only occasioned crooked roads and ill-shaped state. No greater improvement wu needed at tracts, but, owing to confusion of titles, much that time than that of a grist-mill, and Mr. trouble. This was a matter of so much conse­ George Hikes with his usual foresight erected a quence that it deterred or retarded emigration building on the south branch o( .the Bear Grau rather more than the fertility of the soil hastened for this purpose. · it for a time. This mill was patronized by citizen& o( the Mr. Hickes having purchased his land, built whole country- and yet in that early day the

a stone house about the year 17961 the first of settlements were so spar~e it was not kept bulJ., the kind in the county. It was built of stone To economize time and at the same Wile fuather taken from the creek and quarry near by,. and the interests of the new settlement ,In ~

was so substantially built as to withstand the and much needed dirtction a aaw-aiUl wai 1 at· storms of nearly a century of time, and is still tached, being likewise the first ol the k~nd in the standing as a monument to the enterprise and country. industry of that day. In later years an addition . Previous to the erection of this mill, huts or 18 HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. houses were made of hewed logs or logs un­ erected one on the Bardstown road, between dre.sed and as they came from the forest. The 'Squire Hikes' and the city. Barley and hops cracks, if filled at al~ were chinked with blocks unadulterated were used for making beer. In of wood or chips, then daubed with mortar made the course of time-civilization advanced- the o(. mud The window spaces were rather longer inventive genius of man made rapid progress than broad-there being the space of one log in the fine art of murder; why not improvement llearly the length of the house left for a series of in the manufacturing of beverages? Conse: glass, fitted in one continuous chain of window qucntly corn or oats was found to serve just as sash. Beds were improvised by tht! use of one well, provided beech shavings were used to fur. forked stick at suitable distances from . the sides nish the color. Corn and oats were not as good of the room ·and from the corner, into the fork~ as hops or barley, but they were cheaper, and the of which the ends of the railing and end board eye was so pleasantly deceived by the appear­ or stick were laid, with the other ends mortised ance of the article that the excuse was substi- ' into the side walls of the cabin. Upon these luted for the taste. Colonel Doup was not was laid a net work of wood, and upon t~e latter succe">Sful, however, and the enterprise in all its beds of such material as they then had to make. purity went down. His beer was not intoxicating The saw-mill furnished boards out · of which enough to supply the demands of the frenzied not only frame houses were in part constructed, trade. but all kinds of furniture-tables, chairs, benches, In later years George Hikes established a dis­ floors, etc.-assumed a nec\ter, more tasteful tillery, but that also failed, for some cause or form, and many were the uses made of lumber. other, and since that time Louisville has been George Hikes had four sons: Jacob, John, taxed for the miserable little quantity con­ George,, and Andrew; and three daughters. sumed in this precincL It were better by far Jacob, the eldest son, married and settled just that breweries and distilleries such as were estab­ northwest of the hom·estead, and received as a lished by these men, .had succeeded. There ., part ofh~s patrimony the fulling machine; George, would have been less crime committed tha.n the grist-mill; John, the carding machine; and there is now, in consequence of there being Andrew, land, it being part of the homestead no poisonous beveraites to indulge in. The place. pure whiskey then was used extensively and TAN·YARD. mixed with herbs and roots as an antidote to No attempt was made in early days to dress malaria, and the treatment w~ efficacious. and cure hides or skins, but in the course of MAGISTRACY, lime William Brown started' a tan-yard near Jef­ fersonville-the first probably in Kentucky. Each precinct of Jefferson county is under the This. yard was also of great use and marked an official junsdicuon of two justices of the peace. , important event in the imprevement of the age. It has ever seemed necessary to a true conditicn of peace that force be at hand. The one is the . BREWERY. complement to the other, and can be used in From the day Noah got drunk the people of enforcing obedience to the other. every clime have tippled at the glass. Whether The early records belonging to this depart· or no, the sons of Kentucky would make no excep­ ment of county government have been lost, but tion to this rule. If they drank much whiskey, tradition points to George Hikes as one of the however, they said it was pure and would do no first justices of the peace in the precinct. He harm, besides there was no market for corn, held the office for a time, and it is probably save as it was made into liquor and that was needless to rem.ark that during his magistracy made for drink. . Their beverages were unadul­ the people ever found a true friend in the inter· terated, and a tonic just before breakfast was a ests of right and justice. Colonel Doup filled good incentive to. rise early and work till 8 this position also for a number of years under o'clock, and then it became a good appetizer for the old constitution, and each of these men be· the morning meal when taken at that hour. came sheriff of the county, that office always Colonel Doup, seeing the need of a brewery, being filled by the oldest representative of the HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COl:NTIES. 19

magisterial court composed of the justices of geanc.e overtook him, and Paschal Craddock wa5 the several precincts. no more. When the old 'constitution was changed and COLORED CITIZENS. the judges of all the courts were elected by the The negrocs, in number about the same as people, George W. Hikes, the son of George prc,·ious to the war, arc making some advance­ Hikes and father of the present' Squire Edward ment over their former condition. The emanci­ J. Hikes, was the first justice of the peace of pation act found this a people who took no care Two Mile Town, and served in that capacity o( themselves-no thought of the morrow-and twelve to sixteen years. He died in June, 1849. were without parallel imprudent and improvi­ His father, George Hikes, died in the year 1832. dent. They had been accustomed during their servitude to have their wants attended to by AN INCIDENT. others; their !-ick were visited by hands com­ The peace of Two Mile Town has had but petent to administer, and nurses were supplied little cause for complaint outside of a few cases, by their superiors. A due regard was had for the people having been usually the friends of clothing that always .kept them comfortable and law and order; but previous to the war there warm. Such was their condition before the war, crept into the precinct a pest that was short­ and after that event their want of a dependence ly abated. One Paschal Craddock settled found them almost helpless. near where the present George Hikes now The negroes, as a general thmg, had been resides. His nature was bold and aggressive, friends to their masters in this precmct. Masters but his workings were effected through accom­ who regarded them property by right of in­ plices, he himself never participating directly. heritance, and speculated but little in negro The greatest fault this man possessed seems to traffic, and who did for these ignora"- people have been that of an inordinate desire to steal many acts of kindnesses, are remembered and drive off stock of all kinds. The citizens even to this day. This people have made would miss a hog, a sheep, or a steer from their some progress, and under leadership of a few drove or flock and the country would be scoured who are above the average, are advancing rapidly. aftP.r the missing animals, but always with no They built themselves a comfortable church success-and sometimes not only one anim:il building in 1870, receiving much help financially would be gone but he would enter premises after from the white citizens. This building cost about night and frequently take his pick from droves. four hundred dollars, and is situated on the As usual, every fault finds the man out, nor was Newburg road. Their first preacher was a colored this an exception. The thefts were so enormous man, formerly a slave for Mr. Kellar. He had thal they seemed like the operations of band­ been taught to read by Mrs. Hikes. He was its, and the neighbors took steps towards sup­ named a(ter Mr. Kellar (Mrs. Hikes' father), who pressing the evil. The act of driving sixteen hogs was a friend to the colored people. Harry King, from a neighbor's sty into his own, preparatory to now ninety years of age, bought by fylr. Hikes, 1 an early killing on the next morning, was the last when he was thirty years old, is at present their grand theft sufficient to arouse the vengeance of pastor. He has been now sixty years in Mr. the precinct. A meeting of the citizens was held Hikes' employ. The membership of this church and Mr. Craddock and two of his accomplices is about one hundred. received timely warning that they must leave the The first church in the precinct was built by neighborhood within the space of six months. In the Baptist society about the time George Hikes view of his property they also accompanied this came to the county, Rev. Mr. Walker being one of order with an offer to buy him out, the people the first pastors in charge. The question of close offering to give him a good price for his land. communion was one which gave the organization This money was raised by subscription. some trouble, and was the real cause of the final The two accomplices took the hint and left overthrow later on. The first building was a the COIJnt ry, but Craddock, with a stubbornness stone strn cture erected about the year 1798-99, equal to his meannei;s, failed to comply, and ere on the north bank of Bear Grass, on the Taylors­ he lived out his six months :i little stray ven- ville pike. The attend:ince upon service at this :2o HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES.

point necessitated the membership coming so the Old Testaments were used for advanced far that when the country got older the congre­ scholars. gation divided up, forming out of this one church The onginal methods for instructing pupils three new societies, one of which still retains were quite severe, it generally being . conceded the name of Bear Grass, and is located at the that what could not be taken in by close applica­ original' site. tion of the mind should be "s~pped on the Jeffersontown and Newburg are the localities back." T his method of applying knowledge, at which are situated the other branches. however, worked in other ways than in

A COINCIDENCE. the right An aged citizen, in speaking of the schools, says that the fear that attended A remarkable coincidence worthy of record is the pupils, especially those quite young, was , found in the history of two women of this pre­ was so great that m consequence many egregious cinct. Their history in brief is this: Mrs. Heck­ blunders were made that otherwise would not embush and Mrs. Bammer, strangers to each have been. In reading a passage in Webster's other, left Germany, their native country, at the spelling book which reads : "The farmers same time, sailed over in the same vessel, each were plowing up the field," h~ made a blun­ sold her passage way from New Orleans to Louis­ der by saying "the farmers were blowing up the ville, both coming to this precinct; both joined field," the mlstake made being due to the con­ the Methodist Episcopal church the same day, stant dread at the time that he would receive a and were married the same day. Each had one blow from his teacher's ferrule did he make a son, and both died on the same day. mistake, but like the orator who wished SCHOOLS. to say "he bursted his boiler," got it "he biled The achool system of Kentucky needs some his burster." improvement before the State can have as After the district schools were established. in good school! as are found in som~ of her sister 1841 or 1842, more rapid.progress was made in States. There have been good teachers who the cause of education. Mr. Games Yorston always, in spite of any legislation, succeeded in taught at this time, for a period of seven years. working up an educational interest in this direc­ His methods of. instruction were different, as · f tion, and such has been the case here. ·was also his system of government. The col­ The first school of this precinct, of which the ored people have a school in the precinct also. oldest representative has any recollection, was The land in this precinct grows the best ofgrass. 1 taught about the year 1792 by Professor Jones. Advantage has been taken of this fact, and many The building, a rude affair, was built where the of the fields turned into pasture lands for cows. Budstown pike makes a turn near the toll-gate, There are one-half dozen good dairies in Two Mile or where George W. Hikes now lives. The win­ Town alone. There are also good orchards, and dows were generally long and made by leav­ some attention is paid to the raising of all kinds ing out one log. A big ten-plate stove that of fruits, the same as vegetables. The market fur- , would take wood three fee~ long, and desks nished at Louisville is of great advantage to gar­ made of slabs laid on pins put in the wall. deners. Early in the season produce is shi.pped School generally began about seven o'clock in North; but as the southern crop is exhausted the morning and was kept up till late in the even­ first, later in the season products can be shipped ing. There was no school law, but each parent South. This is particularly true as regards small paid a subscription tax in proportion to his finan­ fruits and vegetables. cial ability. Teachers generally boarded "round," BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. and in this way one good turn was made to serve another. Edward J. Hikes was born April 29, 18171 in 1 The books in use then were Webster's spelling Jefferson county, Kentucky, and has ever resided book, Pike's arithmetic, Kirkam's grammar, upon the old homestead with the exception of no geographies or 'readers, but some history, or four years in Illinois. His father, George 1 probably the life of Washington, was used as a Hikes, came from Pennsylvania in 1790. Mr. substitute for a reader. Afterwards the New and Hikes was married in 1838 to Miss Paulina \ HISTORY OF THE 0H10 FALLS COUNTIES. 21

Kellar, of Moultrie county, Illinois, daughter of was married July 28, 1836, to Miss Effa Seaton, A. H. Kellar, oi Oldham county, Kentucky. of Jefferson county. They have six children This union has been blessed with ten children, all of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Meddis only seven of whom are li ving. Mr. and Mrs. are members of the Christian church; also two Hikes are members of the Christian church, as of the children. are also their children. Mr. Hikes is magis­ William O. Armstrong was born February 23, trate at the present time and is highly esteemed 1845, in Louisville, and resided in the city till by his fellow citizens. 1874, when he moved into the country where we W. W. Goldsmith, M. D., was born in this now find him most pleasantly situated on a farm State July 4, 1823. When nine years of age he of one hundred acres of good land. His house went to New York city where he lived till he was is located on the highest point of land between twenty-seven, then came to Kentucky and Louisville and Bardstown. Mr. Armstrong was loa.ted in Jefferson county. Mr. Goldsmith married November 10, 1870, to Miss Sally studied medicine in New York and graduated in Womack, of Middletown precinct. They have 1844. He was married in 1846 to Miss Ellenor fou r children: Bessie L, Georgie V., Willie F., Godman, of Baltimore, Maryland, daughter of and Mary E. Mrs. Armstrong is a member of John D. Godman, of Philadelphia. They have the Christian church. have had five children. Mr. Goldsmith's father, Roben Ayars was born May 22, 1804, in Salem Dr. Alban Goldsmith, taught the first class in county, New Jersey. He remained here till medicine in Louisville, and was well known in 1822, when he went to Pennsylvania, where he medical circles. The place where Mr. Gold­ was engaged in some iron works till 1829, when smith now lives was once used as a block-house he came to Louisville, and was in business about by the old settlers when in danger of the Indians. three years. He then bought a farm upon which William H. Fredrick was born March 16, we now find him. It contains three hundred and 1820, in Jeffetson county, Kentucky, and ever twenty-five acres. He was married June 14, has been a resident of this State. His father, 1832, to Miss Elizabeth Hikes, of Jefferson Samuel Fredrick, was a native of Jefferson county. They have had eight children, five of county. His grandfather, August Fredrick, whom are living. Mr. Ayars 'l\'as formerly a came from Germany in an early year, ~nd settled Free Mason, and has served as magistrate nearly in Jeffersontown precinct and was one of the pio­ thirty years. neers of this part of the State. His mother was a Edward B. Ayars was born July 9, 184J, in daughter of Abijah Swearinger, who was one of Jelferson county, Kentucky. His father, Robert the early settlers on Floyd's fork. Mr. Fredri<;k Ayars, resides but a short distance from him. was married, September 24, 1843, to Mrs. A. Mr. Ayars was married April 24, 1873, to Miss Voel, widow of Samuel A. Voel, of Jefferson • Georgie B. Hikes, an adopted daughter of George county. Her maiden name was Chrisler, being Hikes. They have three children. Mrs. Ayal"!I a daughter of Fielding Chrisler, a brother is a member of the Christian church. Mr. Ayars of Jesse Chrisler, of Harrods Creek. Mrs. is a Free Mason. He served four years an the Fredrick has had a family of eight children, Federal army in the Second Kentucky regiroenL six of wh om are living. Mr. Fredrick is a Free Paul Disher wa.s born June 7, 1816, in Baden, Mason. He has represented the county in the Germany, and emigrated to America in ,835, legislature two sessions, and is now Senator and)t once came to Kentucky, and settled near from Jefferson county. The district in which he Louisville, where he resided several years, then was elected is composed of Jefferson county and moved into the country where his widow and the first and second wards of Louisville. family now live. He was married April 19, Mathew Meddis, one of the old residents of 1845, to Miss Teresia Huber, of Germany. Jefferson county, was born June 5, 1804, on They have nine children. Mr. Disher died Floyd's fork, and has ever resided in the county. August 17, 1872. He was a member of the His father, Godfrey Meddis, came from Mary­ Catholic church. land in an early day. He died in New Orleans Charles Wetstein was born July 23, 1844, in in ·1815. Mr. Meddis, the subject of this sketch, Jefferson co\lnty, Kentucky. His father, Jacob u li1STORY OF THE OHIO FALLS .COUNTIES.

Wctstein, came from Switzerland in about 18251 horses early one morning, was himself with a

and .ettled in Kentuckr,where he lived till 1877 1 negro servant, captured by the Indians and mur· when he went t~ Switzerland on a visit and died dered. His wife was taken prisoner; was treated in his native country. Mr. Wetstein was mar­ very well, and afterwards taken to Canada, where ried in 187 1 to Miss Carrie Bannger, of J effer­ under the British she received worse treatment son · county, daughter of John E. Baringer. than at the hands of the Indians. They, have had two children. One is living. James Guthrie, an old settler in the southern Mr. ;md Mrs. Wetstein are members of the part of this precinct, was born in 17 49. His Methodist church. He is also a Knight of father, William Guthrie, was a native of. Ireland. . -Honor.. James Guthrie came to Kentucky in 1780; was

·. ;Frederick Baringer was born August 8, 18181 an Indian fighter, and as was the custom in those . in Jefferson county, and has ever resided in the days, had recourse to his block-house to defend State. . His father, Jacob Baringer, was a native himself against their wily attacks. He built a

of Germany, and came.to America in 18171 and stone house at Fern creek- still standing-in was one of.the old settlers. Mr. Baringer has a 1794, which in 1812 was badly shaken by an farm 'of. seventy-three acres of excellent land. He earthquake, and after many years became unsafe .was married in 1843 to Miss Catherine Basler, in consequence. . .of Louisville. They had four children. He William Goose, Sr., was also an early settler, .was mamed the second time in 1859 to Miss coming to Jeffersontown about 1790, from :Sophia . Edinger, of Pennsylvania, daughter of Pennsylvania. The Blankenbakers, a large family, George Edinger. They had five children by came about the same time. Mr. Goose was this.marriage. _Mr. and Mrs. Baringer are mem­ a wagon-maker. The Zilharts were also very bers. ?f the Methodist church. early settlers. Phillip . and George erected a wagon-shop, the first of the Ir.ind in Jefferson- · town. Mr. Goose had a family of eight children. • I The late William Goose was the first wheel­ , : ,. ···· · JEFFERSONTOWN PRECINCT. wright in the village, and made spinning-wheels, also chairs, and did cabinet work. Jacob Hoke ;i'he. history of. the earliest or original settlers was also an early settler, coming here as early as , ., : of this section ·is but traditionary. It would be 1795. He purchased · of Colonel Frederick · . grati(ying always to know who first spied out the Geiger four hundred acres of land and erected a . .land, : afterwards moved to ·the place; how and stone house, now the property of William 0. from whence he came; where he settled, and in Ragland, in 1799. This house is still ~tanding. order take up each of the new comers and treat At that time there was a block-house on Colonel 1 .of their arrivals similarly, but the remoteness of Anderson's tract of land, at Lynn Station, , the!lC events precludes such mention. We can which had been of service to the early settlers, but _only reach the times, of the Revolution, and the last raid of the Indians was made about ,this learn something in regard to the settlers in time, when seeking some horses, after which the generaj. • settlers lived without being disturbed. Colonel Probably as early, and certainly not long Geiger came from Maryland about the year atter. the survey made by Captain Thomas Bul­ 17"96-97. He was colonel in the War of 1812, lit~ agent for Mary and William. College, in and fought at the battle of Tippecanoe. His 177J, the . Tylers settled in this precinct near regiment was made up of men around Louisville. J~ffersontown.' · There were three of these men He sold here! and moved down where Wash ' -:-~oses, Robert and Ned. They experienced Davis now lives, where he had between three and haiclships common to all early settlers, and to four hundred acres of land. He was of some ·indian warfare. kin to the Funk family, and married the second . N:e,lson Tyier, son of Moses, was born in 1790; time, his last wife being Margaret Yenawine, who . and died in 1874 at the advanced age of eighty­ was also related to A. Hoke's wife. William four years. .. One descendant of the Tylers mar­ Shaw, who was killed, bought one hundred acres . ried a Shaw, and afterwards1 while hunting of land off the Sturges farm, and settled on HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COuNTIES. 2,,

Chenoweth run, just above Andrew Hoke. His have been, and in a few year!- the building was son William was taken prisoner when a man, but worthless, and a stone church was built by the escaped, came home and later par_ticipated in ' same denominations about the year 1820, and the battle of Tippecanoe, where he was shot soon after this, the Lutheran denomination, feel­ and afterwards died from the effects of the ing able of themselves, built a church. The wound. George Pomeroy came in 1791-92. He present pastor of this church is Rev. J . E. Lerch. was also chased by the Indians but not captured. The church hc1,s a membership of about seventy­ He settled near Mr. H oke's place, on the run. eight. His son, James Pomeroy, was a distinguished The German Reformed established in 1809, is teacher in the Jeffersontown school for many still in a flourishing condition. The Lutherans, years. e)tablished before 1800, is the church that is Major Abner Field settled here about 1790, a non (SI. mile and a half west of Jeffersontown. His The Methodist Episcopal society built a large sons, Alexander and John, became distinguished brick church building just before the war, and men in the Government employ. the society was a flourishing one for a number of The Funks were very early and settled at the years. Forks of Bear Grass. The son of John Funk ' The New-school Baptists bought their church (Peter) was major of the horse at the battle of occupancy in the Masonic hall from the Presby­ Tippecanoe. J oe Funk was a captain at that terians about ten years ago. time and afterwards a colonel in that war. The Presbyterians, who were originally strong,· James H. Sturges came as early as 1776. H e have about lost their ideniity. then owned the place now in the possession of The Christian church has just put up a large A. Poke. His name was cut in the bark of a new building. Their first building was erected tree with the da~ of 1 776. His sons became about 1856, but the organization datc:s farther eminent men. William H. Pope married his back than that. daughter, and was afterward one of the clerks of The colored people have two churches, ·a Bap­ the county court. tist and a Methodist, both of which are flour­ Martin Stucky, Philip Zilhort, Dr. Ross, and ishing. the Warwicks, were all early ~ettlers in this pre­ AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. cinct.· The Farmers' and Fruit Growers' association MILLS. was established in r 880. The society put up a Funk's Milt on Floyd's fork below Seatonville, shed two hundred feet long at Fern City, on was the oldest one, and was patronized exten­ grounds in all comprising fifteen acres of land, sively until Augustie Frederick built one just and fenced the whole. The officers of this asso­ below Jeffersontown about the year 1800. H e ciation for the present are: President, John had also a saw-mill nea; Jeffersontown. The Decker; vice president, E. J. Hikes; secretary, stream now is hardly strong enough to turn a Bryant Williams; treasurer, Moses Johnson. grindstone, such having been the effect of clear­ There is also a board of twelve directors. The ing the lands on the creeks and rivulets. , success of this enterprise was guaranteed to the people of Jeffersontown last year, when the CHURCHES. most sanguine exptctations were realized. In a very early day the German Reformed Fruits, vegetables, and everything, in fact, raised society built a small log church, very plain in and manufactured by farmers and their wives, style, which they used some few years. Rev. graced the tables at this fair, and much en­ Mr. Zink, a Lutheran, preached to thi5 people for couragement was given to agriculturists in at- several years. Sometimes other preachers would t~ndance. call this way. The old church was torn down O RI GINAL PRICF.S. and a union church was built by all the denom­ In early days the people of this part of the inations in 1816. This was made of brick. • county paid for calico· fifty cents per yard, corn The wails were not built solidly owing to the twenty to twenty-five cents per bushel, wheat brick not having been burnt as they should fifty to seventy-five cents per bushel, oats twenty 24 HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. to twen·ty-five cents per bushel, rye fifty cents county. She was born in Jefferson county ial per bushel. Hired help could be had for six or 1825. They have five children, two boys &lid seven dollars per month, and other articles in three girls. He is a member in go~ standing proportion. of the Baptist church. ·THE LOUISVILLE AND TAYLORSVILLE PIKE Franklin Garr was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, November 21 1836. He is the was commenced in 1849. Mr. Andrew Hoke 1 1 was one of the orig!nal directors, and still serves seventh son and eleventh child of twelve chu. in that capacity. Mr. Ed. Brisco is president of dren of Benjamin Garr, who was born in Virginia the company. Dr. Stout is secretary. There is in 1789. He married Nancy Smith, a native of also a hoard of directors. that State, January 8, 1815. In 1828 they came to Jefferson county. Franklin Ga.rr was educated JEFFERSONTOWN in the commo9 schools. His occupation is thai now has a population of three hundred and fifty. of farming. In ·1859 .he married Mary Cheno. It was laid · out in 1805 by Mr. Bruner, and at with, daughter 0£.Steven 0. Chenowith. She first called Brunersville. One of the first settlers was born in 1838. They had but one child, ·· of this town was George Wolf. He afterwards Charley, born July 29, 1863. Mrs. Garr departed moved to Indiana, and his sons became distin­ this life in 1867. Mr. Garr resides upon and guished men.in politics. manages his farm in Jeffersontown precinct· THE WAR OF 1812. Jacob Wells was born in Jefferson coun~, There were many men who volunteered .from Kentucky, March 23 1817. His father wu 1 1 t~is precinct for that war. It would be impossi­ John H. Wells, a native of Virginia, and a sol- -: ble to give, with data at hand, a complete list of dier of the War of 1812. He married, in 1813,. those who did go. A company of men was Amei1a Fox, who was born in South Carolina rai,ed -~ound about Jeffersontown. Captain July 8, 1793. They had eleven children, of Quiry, who raised this company, paid his men whom eight grew to maturity. When Jacob wu for enlisting, a bounty of fifty cents. A number eleven years old his father moved near M~unt of the citizens also participated in the Mexican Washington, Bullitt county, at which place!: he war. received his education. He learned .the stone, ' . BIOGR.,PHICAL NOTES• . mason's trade of his father, and worked atithii J. A. Winand, son of Jacob Winand, was. born for many years. For ten years prior to the war in Jefferson coun,y January 201 1836. Jacob he and h\s brother, N. P. Wells, carried on a was the son of Phillip, who was a Pennsylvanian tombstone establishment in Jeffersontown. · At and was born in 1798 in Jefferson county. He this time Jacob Wells retired from business: married in 1824 Christiana Koke, daughter of N. P. Wells was born at Mount_ Washington. , Adam Hoke. J oh)l A. Winand was edu~ated in December 17, 1829. He learned the stone­ ~he common :schools and has always . been a cutter's trade, and has been in that business.since f.arnier. January 2~1 1857, he · married Sarah 18501 and now has a shop at Jeffersontown. He , Briscoe, daughter of 'Square Jacob Briscoe, of married Elizabeth Leatherman, daughter of Jeffersontown precinct, in "'11ich precinct they Joseph Leatherman, of J elferson county. She live. They have six children- William A., J. was born April 15, 1&42. Edward, Blanche, Mollie, Anna, and Lillie P. A. E. Tucker was born in Jefferson county, I William L Hawes is of German descent and Kentucky, July , o, I 848. He is the third child was born October 25, 1815. His father, Jacob of Hazel Tucker, an old-timer of the county an~ , Hawes; went to Jefferson county from Bourbon precinct. Hazel Tucker was born in Spencer ti county, Kentucky, when William was six years county in May, 1796. He was a farmer by oc- ·· old. Jacob Hawes, in 1812, married Fannie, cupation, and married Nancy Cooper, by whom dauihter of David Omer. William was educated he had six children. He was a member of the in· the common schools, and his occupation Baptist church. He died May 23, 1875. Al­ from boyhood to the preient time has bee!) that bert was educated in the Jeffersontown college, of a farmer. In 1851 he married Matilda, and like his father is a farmer. On M~h 1 :z, · daughter of John Nett, long a resident of-~he 1874, he married Mary Jones, who was born in HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. ~5 ------·--··· - _..... November, 1848. They have three children­ 'Sq1•ire A G. Watts, son of Peter Watts, a William, Thomas, and Mabel. Revolutionary here, who came into Kentucky in John Ndson Tyler was born in Jefferson pre· 1779, was born in Boyle county, Kentucky, cinct, Jefferson county, on September 28, 1825. December 16, 1802. The 'squire's education He is the fifth of eight children of Allen Tyler, was received in the common schools and at the a native of the same county. The father of Transylvania college. He has lived in various Allen was Moses Tyler, who, with his brothers, parts of Woodford and Shelby counties engaged William and Edward, immigrated into the same at farming, and at Louisville managing hotels, county during Indian times from Virginia. and at one time was engaged in trade at Cin­ William was for a time a captiv~ of the natives. cinnati. He was proprietor of the Beers house, Allen marriM Phc:ebe Blankenbaker, daughter of Fifth street, Louisville, and then of the Oakland Henry Bla1,kenbaker, of Virginia. Allen Tyler house, at Oakland. He was deputy United was born Februa.-y 28, 1794, and died Novem­ States marshal under Blackburn, and continued ber 30, 1874. Phc:ebe was born November 13, for six years under him and Lane. In 1849 he 1792, and died December 8, 1857. J ohn Nel· moved to Middletown, where he was postmaster son Tyler was educated in the common schools, and proprietor of the Brigman house, and where and is a farmer by occupation.• He married he remained for six years. He then came to Rhoda Ann Quisenberry, a native of Jefferson Jeffersontown, where he has acted as magistrate county, by whom he has five children- Lucy and police judge. In Shelby and Jefferson Ann Beard, Malissie Alice, William Thomas, counties he has served as magistrate for thirty­ Jane, and Minnie Belle. four years. On May 15, 1822, he married Judith William Goose is of German descent, and was Ann Ayers, of Woodford county, and in Novem­ born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, December ber of the same year his wife died. In June, 8, 1804- He is the third son and sixth child 1825, he married a Virginia lady, Lucy Robin­ of William Goose, who was a native of Pennsyl­ son by name, by whom he had seven children, vania, and who came to Kentucky about 1796. one living to maturity. He and his wife are Before leaving Pennsylvania he married Catha­ honored members of the Methodist church. rine Yenawine. He was a wagon-maker by trade, George W. McCroeklin was born in Spencer and built many of the farmers' wagons formerly county, April 23, 1845. He is a son of Alfred used in J effersontown precmct, but was also a McCroeklin, a native of Nelson county, and his farmer. He was the father of eight children. mother was of the same county. Her name The subject of this sketch was educated in the was Maria Smith, daughter of John Smith. common schools, and when fifteen was appren­ George was reared upon a farm and received his 'ticed to learn the wheelwright's (spinning wheel) education in the district schools. His occupation and chair bottoming trades. He served four has been that of a farmer and stock dealer. years at Jeffersontown, and then engaged in these March, 1875, he began farming in Jeffersontown businesses in the same place for about six years. precinct o( Jefferson county, and two years after­ He then began farming on the place where he ward became the superintendent of the alms now resides in Jeffersontown precinct, and was house. In February, 1870, he married Susan a farmer during the days of flax growing and M·uetta, a native of Spencer county, by whom hand-spinning. In 1827, he married Fanny he has four children : Maria, Agnes, Alfr~ and Willard, who was born in Jefferson county, De­ John. In religion he is a Catholic. cember 22, 1801, and by whom he has nine liv­ William Cleary was born near Londonderry, ing children- Preston, Harrison, Anderson, county Donegal, Ireland, November 18, 1818. Luther, Rufus, James, Adaline, Amanda, and He received a classical and mathematical educa­ Mary Ann. William Goose has been a member tion, and was a graduate of the Royal high of the Luther:rn church for over sixty years. school of Raphoe, his native town. When James M. Goose was born March 28, 1838; was twenty-two he came to Philadelphia. He spent educated in the common schools, and is a fam1er . the winter of 1840-41 in teaching at Hydcstown, by occupation. In 1861 he married Mary, New York, and in the spring of 18,p came to daughter of Henry Willard, of Jefferson county Louisville. During the next few years he was ·~ HISTORY OF TRE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. prof u i,r o( mathematics in St. Mary's colleg~, born in the same county October u, 1805. Mi Marion coun~y, and taught private school in Harman Easum was a carpenter by trade nnd Cape Girardeau, and aftt!rwards was an in­ worked at this in connection with farming. On ltJUCtOt in St. Vincent's college and prepara­ July 14, 1828, he married Sarah B. Shnin, a native lot'y theological seminary, of Missouri, then of Bullitt county, but reared in Plea~ant Hit~ under Bishop Kendrick's charge. In 1848, Mercer county, Kentucky. They had four chi!. while eojouming in Shelby county, Kentucky, dren: John W., Charles L, Sarah J., and Eliza. he was licented to practice law, · but was en­ beth Ellen. The father was killed October u, gaged in this profession for only a short 1875, by a railroad accident in Rockland county, tim~me four years. · In 1849 he married New York. C. L Easum was educated in the Mrs. John Kennedy, nee Fannie Thomas, a common schools and graduated from the law de, 1 · native of Spencer county, by whom be had two p:1rtment of the Louisville university. He prac­ 1 son~William Grerry and James. She was born ticed law in Louisville until 1861. In September May u, 1812. In 1849 he bought the farm of this year he enlisted in company E, Fifteenth 1 where he now lives, in J etrersontown precinct, regiment Kentucky volunteers, and at the organi, I where he has since resided He conducts his z.1tion ot the company wns elected second lieuten. · (um as a grain farm, and makes a s~ialty of ant. He served in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala. { blooded horses. He has, among other fine bama, and Georgia, and was mustered out in horses, a Hamiltonian stallion, half brother of January of 1865. During this time he was pro- I Maud S., ~lied Lee Boo, and Desmond, a run­ moted to the captaincy of the regiment ( 1863~ ning horse. Since the close of the war he has been upon the• Frederick Stucky. was born in Jefferson count_'.', old homestead farm, which he man:iges as n fruit Kentucky, November 13, 1801. He is the sixth farm. On June 21, 187 r, he married Isabella of nine children of John Stucky, a native of F. Collins, of Orange county, Indiana. Her Germany, a resident of Maryland, and one of father was Thomas H. Collins, a' captain in the I the pioneers of Kentucky. His mother was commissary department of the Army of the t Mary .Meridith, a native of Kentucky. When Potomac. This marriage was blessed with six quite small his parents moved to Gibson county, children: Mary L, John W., Harman, Julia C., 1 Indiana. where they remained until their death. Roberta T., and Ida P. He, though a Repub­ This was when Mr. Stucky was about nine years lican, was elected magistrate in 1875, and again of age. When twelve he was apprenticed to learn in August of 1878-serves till 1883. In 1870 ! the tailor's trade in Vincennes, Indiana, serving he was theRepublican candidate for county at­ seven years. He then returned to Kentucky, torney against Albert I. Willis. his sole wealth being contained within a A. R. Kennedy was born in Jefferson county, 1 bundle carried m a handkerchief. He for the September 15, 1841. He is the third of five next eighteen years :worked at his trade in Jeffer­ children of John Kennedy, a pioneer of Ken­ sontown. His health failing, he mo·ved upon tucky from Maryland He was a farmer by oc­ the larm where he now lh·es, and where he cupation and after coming to the State married hu resided for over forty ye'1'S. This farm is Fanny Thomas, of Spencer county. He died in the same that his ·father and grandfather lived 1847. His widow nfterwards married William on, to which he has ndded other farms, Ch:ary, of Jeffersontown precinct. A R. Ken· and he is now even beyond "well-to-do." nedy ,vns-educated in the common schools and He married Louisa H. Myers, a daughter of at Oldham academy. He is a farmer; one also Jacob Myers. She was born in Jefferson county, interested in fine cattle, having a small but April 26, 1808, and died April 30, 1880. They choice herd of Jersey cattle. On May 4. 1862, had twelve children, of whom there are three he married Josephine Seabold, a nati\'e of the 1 daughters and four sons living. He is a mem­ county. She was born July 1, 1844- L E. ber of the Methodist church. Kennedy- is next younger than A. R., and was Captain C. L Easum was born in Jefferson born November 8, 1844. He was educated in I county, Kentucky, -December 30, 1832. He is the common schools and at the Notre Dame the second son of Harman Ensum, who. was university, South Bend, Indiana, and is a farmer. HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. 27

Dr. S. N. Marshall was born in Spencer and daughter of Joseph Frederic, who was killed

county, Kentucky; October 14 1 1830. His by A. Churchill. Hy this marriage he had two father was a pioneer of Spencer county, and a ch il dren, of whom George is living. In 1837 he farmer. Before emii;rating from Maryland he m:m1cd Sarah Finley, by whom he had four married Drusilla Jenkins. The doctor was the children. On No\'ember 27, 1850, he married youngest of six children, three sons and three Carthage Swope, by whom he had fifteen chi!· daughters. S. N. Marshall was educated in the drcn, of whom eight are li ving. He went to Shelby county academy and the St. Mary's col­ school in the first court-house erected in Louis­ lege, Spencer county, finishing his course in ville. H e was :10 old-line Whig, but never a 1847. He then read medicine with Dr. A. C. Democr:u. Wood, then of Shelhy, but now of Davis county, J . C. Walker was horn in Jefferson county, Kentucky. He finished his medical education Kentucky, October 29, 1830. He is the second at the old Louisville umversity, re~·en-ing his of nine children of Thomas Walker, who was • diploma in 1851. He located at Wilsonville, born in the same county in t 796. He married on Plum creek, Shelby county, where he Lucy Garr, whose father's name was Nicholas, remained for fifteen years. He then removed and who came from Virginia in 1810. J. C. to Jeffersontown, where he has since resided, and Walker was educated in the common schools

practiced his profession. On May Ii, 1855, he and is a farmer. On May 181 1865, he married married Drusilla Carpenter, a native of Shelby Elizabeth Blankenbaker, daughter of Levi Blank­ county, and a daughter of Calvin Carpenter, a enbaker. They have four children, three of farmer. This union resulted in five childrc:!n, of whom are now living- William L, Charley M., whom four are living- Mollie D., Willie, Thomas and Thomas W. T., and Cah-in. The doctor is a member of the Mrs. C. Snyder was born July 8, 1834, on the Presbyterian church, and his wife of the Chris­ ocean when her parents were coming to this tian. country. John Rechtold, her father, was born Samuel Hart was born in Louisville, Ken­ in Kurhessen, Germany. After emigrating to tucky, October 26, 1808. He is the seventh America· he settled in Maryland, and in 1838 of nine children of William Hart, who came to came to Louis~·illl', Kentucky, where he remained Louisville from Maryland prior to 1800. His but a year, when he removed upon the farm in father was both a· tanner and a marble-cutter. Jeffersontown precinct, where his daughter now He resided at Louisville till his death, which oc­ resides. He was a shoemaker by trade, but curred when Samuel wa,; a small child William worked at farming after coming to Kentucky. Hart was married in Pennsylvania to Elizabeth Catharine was the second of seven children. In Hinkle, of that State. Her father John Hinkle, 185 1 she married Fred Snyder, a native of Hesse Peter Yenawine, and others, came down the Darmstadt, Germany. He was born in 1818, Ohio in a flat boat at the same time. He crossed and came to America in 1844, He first settled the mountains with a one-horse cart. After ar­ in Indiana, where he remained until his mar­ riving at Louisville, he was offered the Gault riage. Here he worked at farming. The union house property for his one old horse, when he of Fred and Catharine Snyder was blessed with declared to the would-be trade, that he "wouldn't six children- Mary E., John W., Emma, Charles, give 'old Bob' for the whole d- n town !" Martha, and Gussie. Mr. Snyder died in 1873. Elizabeth Hinkle Hart married John Miller, and Boih himself and wife WP.re members of the died at Jeffersontown. Samuel Hart was appren­ Methodist Episcopal church. ticed to learn the tinner's trade, and after fin ­ William Gray was bo, n in Shelby county, March ishing his trade, carried on a shop at J 1:ffcrson­ 4, 17 99. His father, Robert Gray, wns born near town for a number of yea rs. He built the Jeffer­ Dublin, Irel:tnd, and came to this country when son house at that place, and conducted th is about ei~h teen years old, remaining in Pennsyl·

house and a grocery until 1855 1 when he sold \·ania for a ti me. In that State he married Miss out and moved upon th e! farm where he now re­ Furney, and then came to J effc:rson county sides. · In 1834 he married Rel,ecca Frederic, : and settled on the Bear Grass, near the work­

born November 1 1 18171 a native of the county, house ; but on account of the unhealthiness o( ,s HlSTORY OF THE OHlO FALLS COUNTlES. the place he remained there but two years, wh_en He then located at Middletown, where.be prac., he removed to Shelby county, where he died ticed medicine till 1869, when he removed · to some forty-five years ago at the ;ige of ninety­ the farm where his son now resides, in Jefferson. five. While residing near Pittsburgh he married town precigct. On .March 30, 1845, he married Mary Yabo, by whom he had eleven children. Mary R. Vance, who was born in Jefferson coun. William Gray was reared and educated in Shelby ty, Januury 3 r, 1835. She was the daughter of county, where, also, he spent the greater part of Dr. Robert G. Vance, an old-time practitionero( · his life as a farmer. About thirty years ago he Middletown, also largely engaged in farming. sold out and removed to Jefferson county. They had four children : Robert Vance, William When a few days less than nineteen he married Henry, C. K., and Edwin R. C. K. was edu­ Sarah Allen, by whom he had thirteen children, cated in B. H. McGown's academy, at Anchorage, of whom A. J., Amanda, and Matilda are now liv­ and at Forest Home. His occupation is that of ' ing. The wife died September 8, 1879. He a farmer and fruit grower. On November 29, 1 bas been a member of the Baptist church for 1876, he married Lula E. Finley, daughter of fifty-eight yea1 s. George Finley, a well known teacher of the , In 1865 E. Walter Raleigh was married to county. They have two children: Edgar Vance, Amanda Gray. She was born April 23, 1841, and Clarence Irwin. Dr. Sprowl was justice of and he March 30, 1833. Mr. Raleigh was edu­ the peace for ten years, and a member of the cated in the Asbury university, Greencastle, In­ Presbyteriar, church, of which he was an elder. diana. He is a carpenter by trade, and served He died J uly 23, 1876, and his wife in 1859. a three years' apprenticeship. He has engaged in A. J. Vogt was born' in Germany, in the year the mercantile business considerably, at one time 1849. At the age of thirteen he came to Amer­ in Louisville. He served two years in company ica with his father, John Vogt, with whom he F, Thirty-first Indiana. After the war he was resided till his death, which occurred in 186+ for four years superintendent of the alms-house They settled in Louisville, where A. J. Vogt was in Jefferson county. During late years he has engaged in tanning. In 1881 he purchased a been engaged in farming. stock of groceries and began merchandising on Mrs. J. L:mdram, daughter of John Barr, was the Taylorville pike, six miles from the city. In born in Jefferson county January 4. 1822. Her 1874 he married Kate Schuler, by whom he has father was also a native of the county. He mar­ three children. ried Ellen Tyler, daughter of William Tyler Morris Stephens was born in Baden, Europe, and sister of Sarah Tyler. They had but one May 10, 1822. His father immigrated to this • child, and dying in 1822, their child was reared country when Morns was about six years old, , by its grandparents. She was married to J. and settled in Jackson county, Pennsylvania, Landram in 1842. He was a native of Spottsyl­ and then went to Indiana. ~is name was John 1 vania, Virginia, and came to Kentucky about Stephens. Morris Stephens served an appren­ 1839, when about twenty-one years of age. He ticeship at the bakery and confectionery business wa~ a graduate of Louisville Medical college, at Philadelphia, commencing when seven years and practiced in Harrison county, Indiana, until old and serving seven years. He ran away on ac; the time of his death, December 3 1, 1853. They count of difficulty about wages. When sixteen he had three children- Joseph, Mary Francis, and came to Kentucky and worked at his trade for Letitia Alice. two years; then for twelve years followed the river, C. K. Sprowl was born in Jefferson county, and was employed in the Louisville house for Kentucky, October 5, 1850. He is the third three ye:irs. In , 848 he began business for himself child of Dr. R. C. Sprowl, who was born at and built the Bakers' hall at Louisville, which he Charlestown, Clarke county, Indiana, on January managed himself for two years. He then sold 8, 1820. His father was a prominent farmer of out and moved upon the farm where he now that county. Dr. Sprowl received a liberal edu­ lives, in Jeffersontown precinct. In 1841 he cation and was a graduate of the Louisville married Sarah Seabolt, daughter of George $. Medical university. When quite young he settled Seabolt, of Jefferson county. Morris Stephens in Utica, Indiana, remaining but a short time. is a member of the Baptist church. HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. f~ ···------·------Byron Williams was born in Jeffcrson county, 1 MIDDLETOWN PRECINCT. April 201 1839. l\loses \\'illiar.is, his father, was born in Geori;ia, and knew not his age, his early The most remarkable feature in regard to the. life having been spent with the Cherokee In­ history of this precinct is that it is the oldest one.. dians. When probably twelve he came to this in the county-at one time the largest-i t county, and when quite a young man enlisted in being originally very large, and also the center of the War of 1812 under Captain Kelly. In 1815 1 commercial activity for this part of the State,,, he was married to Elizabeth Bishop, who · \\'as and having the oldest post-office in the State.

born in Bullitt county, August 26 1 1798. They [v Indeed, the citizens of thi, locality will readi - had nine children, four boys and five girls. After ' ly remind you that in the days of 1800 and obtaining his education Byron Williams erected a I during the War of 181.2 the people of Louisville.. saw-mill, which he run for about twelve years. I came here to buy goods and do business; that About eight years ago he sold out this business commercial products for trade were shipped to and bought a store near his home in Jeffe ,son­ the mouth of Harrod's creek, there reloaded and town precinct, since which time he has been transported to. Middletown, where dealen in engaged in merchandising, and managing his wares, goods, or produce from Louisville and farm. On June 251 18631 he married Mary A. other little towns could come and buy at reta,/ Coe, of Bullitt county, by whom he has had five or wholesale rates as they chose. children, of whom one boy and two girls are liv­ v All was acth·ity then. A number of wholesak. ing. This wife died September 28, 1878. On and retail. establishments were doing a large busi­

February 51 1880, he married Nora Johnson, ness. There were manufactures of variou, kind, who was born in this county November 91 1850. in leather, wood, and cloth; merchants, whole He has been postmaster since entering trade. sale and retail; grocel'li olacksmithii hatters Noah Cartwright was l>orn in Pike county, milliners, shoemakers, carpentel'li etc., and the.

Ohio, March 141 1833. He was the eighth of country was thickly settled, which, with the com - nine children o( Rev. William H . Cartwright, -ing m of the farmers to the town, would lend a who was born in Maryland, but who was brought smile to the venders of merchandise that mu11t­ to Shelby county, Kentucky, when an infant. have seemed, financially, quite significant. William H. Cartwright was married in 1814 to The town is not in 'an unhealthy locality; al­ Sarah Stillwell, a nati\'e of Shelby county. He though in the low vallt!Y of the headwaters of was a soldier in the War of 1812. Noah Cart­ Bear Grass. It was laid out originally by olo, Billy White, a prominent pioneer of that locality wright graduated in 1858 from the Miami uni­ 1 versity. He then began teaching in Jefferson and who sold out the lots for the erection of county, Kentucky. In 1860 he took charge of business houses. This little place-once twici the Columbus Masonic seminary, remaining in the population it is to-day-mcreased in 1iu and charge one year, when he left and raised and importance until the natural advantages of Loui• armed company E, Fifteenth regiment, of which ville attracted some attention, and the busines1 he was appointed captain. Afterwards he was men began to center there.. Then it was that promoted to the office of major. He resigned Middletown, in spite of the fact that it was th, on account of ill-health, since which time he has most healthy locality of the two places, began to been an active and efficient worker in the com­ decline. This new ·era of the rise of Louiaville mon schools. Since 1865, save a brief interim, and fall of Middletown began about the ye11 he has been county examiner. Since 1880 he • 1820, and by 1840 the full destruction of thi, has not taught on account of heart disease. commercial emporium, as such, was comple.ted. In 1869 he married July T. Rush, who was 1 This was forty years aeo, and the place still weai:s born in Jefferson county, Fehruary 25 1 1839. the grim visage it did then. She is a daughter of Joseph Rush. They have The little village with its two hundred and fifti' five boys and two girls living. Mr. Cartwright is population still has pleasing reminiscences,. it be­ the largest fruit grvwer of the vicinit)', For ing on the oldest pike in the State, and near th! twenty-six years he has been a member of the scene of Floyd's massacre (see general history} Presbyterian church. and in a locality where stirring events of ait 30 HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES.

early day occurred. Since the building of this here about 1800, and was, for a pioneer society, pike (1820) the stage coach, the herald of in a flourishing c:ondition. The

for drinking whiskey, as the making of corn into 1 The Old Presbyterian church was established whiskey was a necessity to get rid of the corn, here also in an early clay, and nourished until and there was no other way of getting rid of the the_ society was org:inizcd in Anchorage, when whiskey but to drink it. Then it was pure. their interests were transferred to th:it place. People then were not so much <:ivilized as now, The Christian society have had a representation and . did not know how to adulterate the here for m:iny years, and have a church building beverage. The · regular stage route lay from and an organized society. Louisville through Middletown to Frankfort Among the prominent citizens of the place and other points east, and one line of coaches may be mentioned Drs. Fry and Witherbee. not IJeing adequate for the business, com­ Abraham Fry came from Maryland and settled petitiw: lines were run, but after the advent of here as early as 1 795, purcha5ing at that time the railroad this mode of travel lost its usefulness two hundred acres. He came with his wife's and was discontinued, since which time there people. Her name was Miss Mary Smizer. He has been no attempt to renew the iudustries n:arried again in 1814, his second wife being of the place, sa,·e in the buildi~g of a turn­ Miss Sus:in Whips. pike a few years ago, connecting this point Dr. William Fry, A. M., M. D., was born in with the town of Anchorage, in which work the 1S19; was educated at the Transylvania univer­ placing of the cobble and gravel was successful, sity, graduating from the literary course and in but in face of all travel the weeds :ind grass medicjne in 1834; was two years in the city peep up here and then: between the pebbles that hos,pit:il of Louisville as its resident physician. seem to contest their right, by usage and corn· He came here in 1840, practiced medicine six­ mon custom, to· the place. teen years, then went to Louisiana where he The Chenoweth family were residents of this prac11ced medicine eleven years, then returned precinct, likewise the Williamsons. One son, and has since resided in Middletown. He was John Williamson, now living at the advanced married in 1842 to Miss Margaret Brengman, age of ninety years, run the gauntlet at one who died in June, 1872, and has a family of four time. · This occurred near the ~resent residence of daughters now living. Dr. Fry. The two walnut trees near the house Dr. Silas Witherbee, M. D., born November mark the starting and terminating points of the :.13, 1846, in Northern New York State, was ed­ race in this contest, distant fifty paces. ucated at the St. Lawrence university and came

The first· physicians of the place were Drs. to Kentucky in 1865 1 :ind has since controlled Wood and ,Collins, who practiced here prl.'vious , the practice of medicine in the Middletown pre­ to the year 1805, :ind were followed by Drs. cinct, and is well fitted in point of :ibility and Chew and·Glass, who staid until 1830 ~nd 1832, experience to successfully carry out the call ing when Dr. Glass died and Dr. Chew ll1Q\'ed to of this profession. He was married in 1874 to Connecticut. Drs. Young and Vance practiced Miss ~fary lkywroth, d:iughter of Judge Bey­ from that time until about 1840,,ihen Dr. Remis wroth of Mississippi. Dr. Witherbee h:is been and Dr. Fry until 1852, when they gave place to for the past four years a magistratc of :\1tddle­ Drs. Witherbee and Goldsmith, who were :ig:iin town precinct. He purch:ised his property in followed by Drs. S. 0. Witherbee and Fry. 1liddletown in 1876, and has since made exten- The· Methodist Episcopal church was built sive repairs upon it. HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS CO'CNTIES. ,31

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. educated at the St. Lawrence university, Canton, Hamilton Ormsby was born in Jefferson New York, and at the College of Physicians and county September 17, 1832. His grandfather, Surgeons, New York city. He came to '.\liddle­ Stephen Ormsby, n native of Ireland, wns nmong town in 1867, and has since practiced here with the first settlers in the county; was the first good succes5. He practices in quite an extensive circuit judge in this district, also represented the territory, and is highly esteemed as a man and a district in Congress in the time of Clay. His physician. Ur. Witherbee is a member of the son Stephen, the father of Hamilton 01msby, Episcopal church. He holds at present the office was a- prominent citizen. He was in the Mexican of magistrate. war, serving as colonel. He died in April, 1869, Joseph Abel came to this county very early. aged nbout sixty.five years. Hamilton Ormsby He married Catherine Hartley, a native of Mary­ owns four hundred and fifty acres, and does n land. They had fourteen children, ten of whom large farming business. He married, in 1852, grew up, and but two of whom are now living­ Miss Edmonia Taylor, of this county. They Mrs. Ann Bull, widow of William Bull; and Mrs. have six children-Edward, William T., Nannie, Margaret Kane, widow of Charles Kane. Mr. wife of Robert W. Herr; Stephen S., J. Lewis, Abel was a prominent farmer and a worthy man. and Edmonia. The family belong to the Chris­ He died in 1843, in the ninety-fourth year of tian church. lus age. Mrs. Abel died in 1822, at the age of Abraham Fry came to this county from Mary· fifty-one. land about the year 1795, and settled at Fry's B. F. Morse was born in Berkshire county, Hill, on Goose creelc. His wife, Susan (Whipps) Massachusetts, in 1809, and was brought up in Fry, bore him a large family of children, only Ashtabula county, Ohio. He came to Jefferson three·or whom are now living, viz: John, Nancy, county in 1836; kept store se\·eral years, and and William. The names of those living at the has since been engaged in farming. Mr. Morse time of Abraham Fry's death in 1821 were: has four hundred acres of good land, well im­ John, SalJy, Nancy, Abraham, Elizabeth, Mary, proved. He has about two thousand trees in and William. Dr. William Fry was born in his orchards. He raises stock and grain princi­ 1819. He was educated at Lexington, Ken­ pally-usually keeps thirty to forty head of cattle, tucky. He was physici?n to the Louisville hos· one hundred and twenty-five sheep, arid six or pita) two years, commencing in 1838. He prac· more horses. Mr. Morse is. one of our most ticed in Louisiana eleven years; the remainder of thrifty farmers, as well as a respected and worthy the time he has been practi..:ing in Jefforson citizen. county, where he is widely known and respectt'd. Mrs. Ruth W. Tarbell was born in Dover, L L Dorsey, Jr., an old and highly respected New Hampshire, in 1810. She was the daughter citize'n, was born in Middletown precinct Febru· of Obadiah and Sarah Whittier, her father being ary 17, 1818. He m:mied Miss Lydia Phillips. :in \I ncle to the poet, John Greenleaf Whittier. They have six children living, viz: Rosa, ·Ruth Whittier married for her first husband Dr. Nannie, Clark, Mattie, Robert, and Lydia. S. A. Shute, of New Hampshire. Her second Mr. Dorsey has a fine farm and a beau­ husband was Mr. A. Tarbell, a leading and ac­ tiful home. His farm consisted originally of tive citizen of this county-to which he came three hundred acres, afterwards of over one from New York State about the year 1841. For thousand acres, a part of which he has disposed many years he was extensively engaged in stock­ of. He has done a large business for many buying here, and was highly honored as a man years, raising high-bred trotting horses. He is of business enterprise and social worth. Mr. one of the leading farmers of the county, and Tarbell dic:d in 1868, aged sixty-four years. Mrs. socially stands high. His father, Elias D0r3ey, Tarbell resides at "Middletown, which has now came from Maryland when a bor. The farm of been her home for twenty years. Only two of Mr. Dorsey has been in possession of the family her children are now living- Maria A. Tarbell, about one hundred years. and Mrs. Ruth A. Blankenbaker. Dr. Silas 0. Witherbee was born in St. Law­ Stl'phen l\I. Woodsmall was born in Jefferson rence county, New York, in 1846. He was wuntr, in 1826. His father, Captain John 32 HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALT.S COUNTIES.

Woodsmall, r.ame here from Spencer county, in formerly Hobbs' Station, upon the Louisville, 1816. He reared seven children, five of whom ' Cindnnati & Lexington Short Line railroad, are living. 5. M. Woodsm::ill is the youngest twelve miles from Louis,·ille. It is a beautiful son. He married l\1iss Cynthia A. Baird, of little village and has a few good dwelling-houses, Spencer county, in 1848. They have five chil­ two churches, the Bellwood seminary, and the dren-Sally M., James W., Molly A., Sabina, Kentucky Normal school. Mattie M. Mr. Woodsmall and family belong This station was formerly called Hobbs, to the Christian church. He held the office of but after the advent of Captain Sosle, in honor ? magistrate four years; was census enumerator of his services as a captain of a boat it was in 1860 and 1880. named Anchorage. It has the advantages af­ John Downey was born in Jefferson county, forded by sev~n daily passenger trains each way Virginia, in 1810, and came t<> Jefferson county, from Louisville, three from Cincinnati, two from Kentucky, in 1834. He settlt:d on Harrods Lexington, together with freight and express creek, where he resided until 1853, when he facilities equally advantageous to all points. moved to his present residence near Middletown. For history of early settlements and prominent Mr. Downey has three hundred and fifteen acres citizens' cit-tbis precinct see biographies. in two tracts, and does a good farming business. We give below a history of its schools, He was married in 1834 to Miss Ruth Owens, of churches, and of the Central Kentucky Lunatic this county. They had twelve children, four of asylum. ~ whom are living-Lizzie, Charles John, Edward This last named institution had its origin in a Hobbs, :md Mary Louisa. Mr. Downey and house of refuge, founded in 1870. The author­ family belong to the Methodist church. He has ities of the State appointed a committee consist­ 11· been a Mason many years. He held the office ing of Dr. Vallandingham, R. C. Hudson, and of magistrate two terms. S. L Garr, who erected the main buil<1ing-sixty by thirty-four feet, at a cost of fifty thousand dollars. f "(-vo The few cases for disciplme, and the increased $HARDINE PRECINCT. demand for suitable accommodations for the This precinct presents the form of a regular tri­ unfortunate persons who became bereft of angle, having its apex within the city limits of reason, i11duced the State to transform the Louisville, and bounded on the east and west house of refuge into an asylum, and the wisdom by the two railroads that .run southerly. Its of that act has been verified in the number of early history is more traditional than that of any inmates it has since received and treated success­ other ~olitical division in the county, the early fully. This change was made in the year 1872. settlers having all left, and the once marshy, boggy A board of commissioners appointed~ medical lands being afterwards taken up by the thrifty, superintendent, and erected additional buildings well to do German po~ulation who now have from time to time, until its capacity is suffi­ highly cultivated farms and live in a flourishing cient to accommodate the present number of five condition. They have settled in this portion of hundred and fifty inmates. the county quite recently, comparatively, and The main building, 60 x 134 feet, was erected will in cou,se of time have their lands all drained in 1870, at a cost of about fifty thousand dollars. and their farms fertile and rich. After bein~ used a short time for the Home for the Friendless it was converted into an asylum in 1872, and run as it was at that time, until 1875, when the \\'!,ngs were erected, each one being ANCHORAGE fd 1 20 x 36, and each having a capacity for holding is a small election precinct set apart a few years about seventy patients, but owing to the crowded since, without any magisterial prerogatives, for condition the superintendent has been under the the convenience of its citizens when voting for necessity of placiug in each wing . about one county, State, or other officers. The municipal hundred patients. town of this precinct is the ~!age of Anchora~e, The main building with the two principal HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. 33 wings, are in good repair, also the east and west rooms-the slaughter-room proper and all neces­ buildings which are separate structures, entirely sary appliances for handling any .kind of animal; disconnected from the main building and its a hide-room, where all the hides are preserved, wings. The west building has been of late years and a soap-room, with a well con'structed furnace entirely remodelled, and is a convenient and and kettles, in which all the tallow is rendered comfortable building, probably the most so of any and sof~·soap made. Thorough ventilation is about the place, and has a capacity for fifty pa­ secured through properly constructed flues con­ tients. nected with · the stack. Chutes and garbage Just north of this west building some one hun­ platforms, from which all the otral from ·butcher­ dren and fifty feet, stands a temporary, wooden ing and the kitchen garage arc consumed. building, where some seventy-five persons are which entirely frees the building and surround­ confined, and are as well cared for as possible by ings from all bad odors. The capacity of this competent attendants. This house is not a suit­ building is ample for all the wants of the in­ able place for epileptics and idiots, it being a stitution. hot tinder-box in the summer time, and ex­ The spring house w.is made out of a cave, just trem~ly cold in winter. north of the main building. This cave was still The constant watch and care exercised over further excavated and a brick and cement sewer these poor, helpless, unfortunate creatures by Dr. made, some one hundred and seventy feet-long, Gale and his assistants, obviates this disadvan­ through which the water supply for the ruervoir tage to a degree. Probably no man could be comes, and in which an· excellent rrulk-hoµses easily found who has a warmer heart and would fourteen by twenty feet, was constructed, having .watch over the inmates as constantly with a a natural stone ceiling. The floor was clivided singleness of purpose in alleviating their wants, with walks and troughs of brick and cement, than the present superintendent. A visit to the filled with water. ten inches deep, at· a uniform asylum will convince the most skeptical that in temperature of sixty-five 'Fahrenheit, in which point of cleanliness, diet, cheerfulness, and' kind­ one hundred and twenty gallon.jars or cans can ness on the part of the officers towards the in­ be placed daily, and the milk 'kept sweet · and mates, and the zealous care exercised over fresh throughout the year. The entire floor out­ them to contribute to their happiness and com· side the milk-house is paved with brick. and a fort, that there is no better institution in the brick wal~ with a cut-stone copmg, mounted with land. a neat iron, extends across the mouth of the It is worthy of remark that Dr. Gale is not cave. This, with the natural stone walls, cov· only eminently fitted in point of ability to fill the ered with overhanging vines ani;l moss, make responsible positio'n he holds, but that his warm this one of the most attractive places about heart toward these unfortunate beings commends the premises. The institution has also other his unceasing labors in their behalf to every buildings which we need barely mention. An friend of the institution in the State. excellent wooden ice-house, built upon the There is also another temporary building of a most approved plan, with a capacity o( ·four similar character, built of the same kind of ma­ hundred tons; a wood-house, 20 x 40 feet ; terial, and heated in the same manner, wherein a cari>enter-shop that was formerly used for are confined all the colored patients of every storing straw, with a shed of ample dimensions class. This is situated some two hundred and for storing lumber ; a cow-house, with a capac· fifty yards further north. These buildings are of ity for forty cow* this house has been rendered wood, and heated by ~team, which makes of perfectly dry and comfortable by placing a six­ them perfect tinder-boxes; and if by accident a teen-inch concrete -floor, covered with two-inch fire should get started therein no power on earth cypress boards and a brick pavement, laid in ce· could prevent the loss of human life among these ment mortar, around on the outside, three feet imbeciles. wide, which carries off all surface water. There The slaughter-house is west of the main build­ are other buildings, such as stables, com-cribl, ing, CO\·ered with a tin rovf, well painted, and ice-houses, shops, etc. with a smoke·stack forty feet high. It has three The reservoir has been lately addet.., and in 5 34 HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES.

addition the fire service added, as a precaution­ white and colored persons who have been in. , ary measure for th~ protection of property and mates of the asylum: patients. : T, (; "l<"l The cost of these buildings up to the present ~,,.,i ~~i I ;;i I time aggregates the sum of $300,000. r";r;;;raJ~ ~ The farm upon which these bu1ldingc; are lo­ November rst, 188o------I cated consists of three hundred and seventy-nine Paying patients...... 6 • Non-paying patients...... 22 456 acres. The original farm of two hundred and Total ...... 2'Z'/ thirty acres cost $20,000. The grounds in front are very well improved and in good repair. Receiv:ed up I? November 1st, 1881. Paying patients ...... 9 Those in the rear are rough, owing to their Non-paying patients...... 141 natural conformation, as well as to the· rubbish rotal. ....•...... al al;; strewn over them. The convalescents are doing Discharged recovered.-:. some work leveling down these rough places, Paying patie.ots...... I Non-paying patients.-...... ~ making macadamized roads, etc., and -in time,. . I I I I 1- with the two hundred evergreens and forest· .. Total...... : . . , ...... J8 trees which are growing vigorously, will l~k Died- · ·. _. . hying patienu...... · .... . 3 beautifut These trees came from the nurseries Non' J».'Ying_patie~ts.( ...... l--t--ti--i--.....-- 3S of . President S. L. Garr, and Commissioner· Total...... 1 2: 21 38 James W. Walker- a handc;ome donation/from Rem~nlng N_ovember' ut, 1881- these liberal gentlemen. Pllying patients...... 11 liood picket and tight plank fences enclose Non-paying patients ...... 525 1---1---1 I I and partition olf the grounds. Total . ....•...... The comfort and •good general condition of METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. the inmates and institution are due largely to The Methodist people of Anchorage precinct , the eficiency and ever watchful care and atten­ worshiped at Middletown until in 1876, when 11 tion of the medical superintendent, Dr. ··R: · H. Mr. Hobbs started an enterprise which gave Gsle, whose management the board highly en­ the members of this society in Anchorage dorses. Many improvements ha~e been added one of the most beautiful church buildings in by him·· that are worthy of a visit to the asylum the State, there being nothing like it in the coun­ to see. His new and improved coffee- apparatus, try. It is a gothic structure covered with slate, in which can be made, in thirty minutes, one having stained glass windows, and furnished with hundred and iwenty gallons of th~ very best the highest wrought black walnut furniture. The · /i quality of coffee at a cost of less than ten cents frescoing was done by Z. M.. Shirley, deceased, per gallon; bis system of heatirg halls, protec­ a donation . made by ham just before he died, tion against epileptics and idiots getting burned; and a work worthy of a lasting remembrance of 1 · his wire cribs, etc., etc.: all of which give en­ this man. He never lived to enjoy the first ser- I tire ·sausCaction, and provide m!,lch comfort and vices in. . a building in which he took so much ~ul~.to ihe institution. · .'- · . .i~e~ei:· . · . Ii The'' ~rs of Cetitral }(t!'ntucky Lunatic This building, the Memarial Chapel, should be · ~ asylum· for 1881 are: Board of commissioners seen to be appreciated It furnishes an ever­ -S. L Gar:r, president; Ja~es Bridgford, K. lasting monument to the persons who erected K. White, A Barnett, C. B. Blackburn, G. A. · it. The grounds and the principal donation in Owen, Wesley Whipps, A.G. Herr, C. Bremaker. money was made by Mr. E. D. Hobbs. Mr. Medical superintendent-R. "H. Gale, M. D.; :as­ Hugh~ and Mr. :S. L Garr also contnbuted sistant physician, G. T. Erwin, M. D.; second ~s­ largely. sistant physician and druggist. F. T. Riley; stew­ Rev. Gross Alexander is the pastor at this time. ard, R. C. Hudson; matron, Miss Mary B. Rev. Mr. Ovf:rton was the first minister who Gale; secretary, William Terry; treasurer, R. S. officiated in the new building, and was succeeded Veecb. by Rev. G. W. Lyon. The trustees are: Mr. The foll~wins table shows the proportion of W. T. Lewis, S. J. Hobbs, Ed. D. Hobbs, S. HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNT IES. 35

i.. Garr, and William Hughes; Stewards : E. lars, and has a membership of about one hun­ D. !lobbs, S. L. Garr. dred and thirty. Rev. E. W. Bedinger is the present pastor. R. C. Morrison and James THt: BELLWOOD SEMINARY Robinson are the elders ; W. Boyd Wilson and was originally a school established by Dr. W. W. George Hall, the deacons. The trustees are: Hill about the year 1860. Dr. Hill run this Mr. W. B. Wilson, James Robinson, Lewis Mc­ institution about ten years under the chartered Corkle. This society is an outgrowth of the name of the Louisville Presbyterian Orphanage Middletown church. Asylum, erected the main building and school­ house at a cost of about fifteen thousand dollars, IIIOCRAPHICAI. NOTES. but transferred his interest to another party in J efferson Marders was born in this county 1870, who sold it in turn to the Presbyterians, 12 June 1 1803 1 and lived here all of his life. He who changed the name, added some improve­ was a farmer when young; afterwards was in the ments, employed an able corps of teachers, with mercantile business at Middletown several years.

Professor R. C. Morrison as principal ancl presi­ His father, Nathan Marders (born 17721 died dent of the faculty, and have been successful in 1862), was an early comer from Virginia. Mr. building up an institution worthy of the name it Jefferson Marders married Miss Ruth A. Glass, bears. They have at the present time ninety· who was born in Middletown, July 30, 1814. six boarding pupils, and in all an attendance of She was the daughter of Joseph Glass, wno was one hundred and twenty-five this term. There born in 17 79 and died in 1826. Mr. and Mrs. ' are also one or two other private schools in this Mardcrs had only one child, Eliza Jane, born precinct. · September 23, 1837. Mrs. Marders died June The following comprise the faculty and officers 29 11, 1 1859. Mr. Marders died October 1876. of the Bellwood Seminary: Professor R. C. Eliza J. married Dr. E. A. France in 1853. Dr. Morrison, principal and president of faculty, France was born in Roanoke county, Virginia, Latin and mathematics; Mrs. Daniel P. Young, in 1825, and died in 1855. They had one child, lady principal and business manager; Rev. E.W. Mary A., the wife of E. C. Jones, of Louisville. Bedinger, chaplain and teacher of moral science Mrs. France married James R. Hite in 1857. and evidences of Christianity; Miss Emily C. They have three children, William M., Albert, Kibbe, history and astronomy; Professor T. W. and Hallie. Tobin, natural science; Miss Lottie Cox, normal C. W. Harvey, M. D., was born in Scottsville, teacher; Miss Lavinia Stone, literature, composi­ Kentucky, June 6, 1844. He was brought up in tion and elocution; Miss Annie Frierson, instrn· Louisville, attended the Louisville university, mental music; Miss L. J. P. Smith, instructor in and graduated from the Medical Department vocal music; Miss Julia Stone, German, French, course of 1865- 66. Previous to graduation he painting, and drawing; Mrs. Mary Kibbe, pri­ practiced two years in the Louisville dispensary. mary department ; Mrs. Eliza Scott, matron; He commenced practice in Maury county, Ten­ Miss Sue Metcalfe, assistant matron; W. M. nessee, where he remained four years. He then Holt, M. D., attendant physician; Btnnett H. practiced ten years at Middletown, and in 1879 Young, Louisville, Kentucky, regent. Rev. Stu­ removed to Anchorage, where he is now the art Robinson, D. D., R. S. Veech, Esq., Hon. leading physician. Dr. Harvey is a member of H. W. Bruce, W. N. Haldeman, Esq., George the Methodist church. H e is Master of Masonic

C. Norton, Esq., and Bennett H. Young consti­ lodge No. 1931 and .is the chief officer of the tute the board of trustees. Foresters. THE PRESBYTER'AN CHURCH Captain James Winder Goslee, in his lifetime of Anchorage is a fine brick structure erected one of the most honored and respected citizens of this county, w:-s born in H

I serving as pilot and commander of different capital he· has_prospered well, and is now doing 1 vessels. When only nineteen years of age he a good business. The loss of his wife, Annie I was commander of the Matamora. He married, (Linnig) Hausman, in March, 1881, was a severe December 31, 1839, Miss Catherine R. White. blow to him. They had lived together happily She was born in this county February 10, 1821. for seventeen years and brought up a large farn. They had but one child, Emma, who died in her ily of children. I twenty.first year. Captain Goslee met his death in a frightful manner, being killed by a railroad train. The old mansion where Mrs. Goslee re­ sides has been in possession of her family for SPRINGDALE PRECINCT. three generations. The place was settled by her This precinct received its name in honor of maternal grandfather, Martin Brengman, about one of the finest springs in the county, having the year 1794, Her father, Mmor White, was an even temperature the year round of fifty-four born in this county in 1795. degrees Fahrenheit. There is one spring at John N. McMichael was born in Chillicothe, Dorsey's camp ground which has an even tr.m­ Ohio, December 25, 1800. His parents, James perature of fifty degrees. The spring abov~ and Eleanor (Dunbar) McMichael, moved to mentioned is under the dwelling house of the Louisville in 1802. John N. is the oldest of old homestead of James Young, who settled .three· children, and the only survivor. The here very early on a large tract of land, com­ others were named Mary Ann and Adeline. His prising in all some eight hundfed acres; but up father died in 1805, and his mother in the sixty­ to the year 1860 this precinct was a part o( third year of her age. J. N. McMichael was ap­ Harrod's Creek. pointed a constable in 1827, served four years, Mr. Young, upon coming to this part of the and then was sheriff for six years. He was next county, decided to build him a awelling house. city marshal for two years. With C. Miller he His son, also financially interested, concurred in started the first coal office in 'Louisville. He the same, but each party decided on grounds or I was quite extensively engaged in this business for knolls on the either side of the spot finally chosen, ) five year!!. At the end of this time he moved to and not agreeing one with the other, they com- l the country and has since devoted himself to promised by each meeting the other half way, I agrkulture. Mr. McMichael has served as mag­ where they found rather marshy ground. After istrate six years, also as police judge at Anchor­ · excavating sufficiently for a cellar, they discov- , age two or three years. He and his wife belong ered this spring, which has given them since that / to the Baptist church. He married Miss Nancy time a pure, cold and limpid stream of water. 1· C. Hargin, of this county, in 1832. They have The house was built in 1828, and is still stand- eight children living, viz: John W., Thomas H., ing. The land was purchased by Young from, I George C., Charles C., James G., Nellie (married John Dorothy, who secured it by patent from 1 William B. Rogers, New Orleans), Nancy C., and the Government. I Mollie. Among the distinguished settlers of this pre· { A. Hausman, proprietor of the Star grocery cinct was the well known William White, who J at Anchorage, was born in 'Germany in 1842, ..yas born in Virginia in 1 763. He came to Mid- ! and came to th.is country at the age of seventeen. dletown, which place wai surveyed and laid out 'i He was brought up a mechanic; afterwards under his direction, and was a member of worked at stone masonry ~nd boot and shoe the State Legislature. His son, Miner White, making. In 1859 he came to Kentucky, and in was born in the year 1795. He cleared the 1862 to Louisville, where he made boots and lands and also settled upon a tract in Spring­ shoes until 1866, when he moved to Anchorage, dale; built mills on Goose creek, near this continuing in the same business, to which he little place, being the first of the kind in the added the duties of a country store keeper. Mr. county. One was a saw-mill, to which was after­ Hausman was the first merchant in Anchorage, ward added a grist-mill. Still later the lower and still continues the only one. He is a self­ mill, farther down the creek was built, to which made man. Starting in business with only $25 was added a distillery. These mills have long \ ! HfSTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNT!F:S. 31

since gone down, but served the cr of g<>od mill sites arc found on this r. llar· arc members of the Methodist church. bour. A Mr. )layo afterwards owned it. Philip T>. Harbour, one of the oldest and well­ Lawrence Young, of Caroline county, Vir­ known residents of Jefferson county, was born ginia, born in 1 793, was a prominent man of this January 18, 1818, in Orange county, Virginia, precinct. He came with his father, James and when an infant came :o Kentucky with his Young, settled here on a l:.rgc tract of land, and parents, who settled in Fayette county. They became a noted horticulturist. and editeti the lived here but a short time, when they went to Southern Agriculturist many years before he died. Oldham county. Mr. Barbour, the subject of He ~lso had a green-house, and cultivated this sketch, resided here twenty-five or thirty flowers, as well :is the v:irious ki11ds of trees :ind years, and then came to Jefferson county, :11 fruits. He was a noted teacher, and taught at Springdale precinct, where he is now livin~ Middletown such mt:n as ~fr. E. I>. Hohbs and on a line farm of six or seven hundred acres. I~ I~ Dorsey, being his pupils. He studied law in '.\lr. Barbour was married in 1841 to Miss Transylvania college, where he took the full Comfort Ann Dorsey, of Jefferson county. collegiate course, but was not stwct.'1isful in the This marriage was blessed with three children. i,rofession, and abandoned it for the school­ Mrs. Barbour died in 1847. Mr. Barbour was room. He was known by pomolc,gists as :in au­ married a second time, in 1851, to Miss Fannie thority in that science also. He was married in Butler, of Orange county, Virginia. They have 1823, and died in 187.?. His son, 'S.1uire \Vil­ h:id eight children. Mr. and Mrs. Harbour are li:im Young, a well-to-do rour,g farmer now re· members of the Christian church. sidinl( at Springdale, became the lirst magistrate William I. Harbold, M. D., was born August in the precinct when it was organized in 1868. 13, 18 r 9, in J efferson county, Kentucky. · Mr. It was :;imply :i rnting prcdrwt in 1860, l,ut was Harbold studied medicine in the Kentucky not, by an :wt of the I .egislature, made a magis­ School of Medicine, and graduated in 1852. terial peec-inrl until the year I S68. He hac; practiced ever since, though he has given There are at present no mills, and but one some allention to farming. He was married m church, and but school in the precinct. The 1846 to Miss Fannie Close, of Oldham county. church is a missionary

O'Fallen. At this time St. Louis was far in the was a settler on the Ohio river six miles below interior, and a good trading place with the In­ Louisville, whc::re he had purchased a tract of a dians. The1e he remained, visiting the various 1 thousand acres of land. Indian posts throughout the Northwest, going Judge Miller had settled on the upper end, up the Missouri river on the first steamboat that about four miles from the county court-house, ran on those waters. He remained in the fur on a large tract of land. trade with the Indians until 182.3, when he re­ Benjamin Pollard settled in the southern turned to Kentucky and married, that year, Miss part. Sarah A. Leonard, and settled where he now The citizens of this precinct never had a lives. He was elected to the lower house of church until the year 1863, when St. James' the State Legislature of Kentucky in 1835; was was built, about four · miles below Louisville, by re-elected and held the position until 1840, when the Episcopalians. T he society is and has been he was defeated for Congress in the hard cider small, the membership now being about forty. campaign, and was again defeated for the same Mr. William Cornwall has been the leading and office in 1848. fo t 844 he was one uf the most ac:tive man, probably, in this organization. Presidential electors. In 1849 he was elected to draft the ntw constitution for the State of Ken­ tucky, which position he held until the death of ~ 'J.:, \ Henry Clay, in 1853, and was then elected to FISHERVIJ.LE PRECINCT. the United States Senate. In 1853 he was ap­ Tlie land in this precinct is generally good. pointed by President Pierce as Governor of New Along the valley of .Floyd's fork it is ri<;h Mexico. In 1857 he resigned, and in 1859 was and well adapted to grain raising. The high elected to the State Legislature; and became lands are better adapted to the raising of stock. speaker of the House of Representatives in The capital town of this country is Fisherville, 1861. He was again defeated for Congress by a neat, white-washed little place on Floyd's· forlc, John Harney, after which he n:tired to private which sometimes in its forgetful and excited con­ h(e until 1879 when he was again taken up by dition overflows the whole place. The town the citizens of his county and elected to the was named in honor· of Robert Fisher some forty Legislature. years ago, and is in point of appearance ab:>ve His life has been an eventful one. He is now the average modern village. There are not only an active man eighty two years of age; has ever good houses here, but a thrifty looking class been regarded by his constituents as an able, of dwelling habitations are dotted over the entire efficient. and truscy representative of their in­ precinct, and especially in the valley of Floyd's terests. He has raised a family of four children, fork. The Raglins, Gillands, Beards, Driskils, now living. and many others might be mentioned. In short, His son, William H. Merriwether, born in many of the houses are elegant 1825, was- reared _on the farm, and married in The Louisville, Fisherville and Taylorsville 1857 to Miss Lydia Morselle, and lives on part turnpike winds its length through the precinct of the farm purchased by his grandfather in and the town ; also pikes of shorter length made 1805. He was appointed deputy marshal in for the convenience of neighbors are found here 1861, and re-appointed in 1862 and 1863. In and there. 1864 he was appointed marshal by President The Gillands were early settlers of this place, Lincoln, which position he held in 1868. In and became wealthy. John Henry Gilland, one 1870 he was appointed clerk of ~he United of the first magistrates, c:,.me early and settled States court, and held that position until 1876, near Boston when Fisherville and Boston were when he became interested in a real estate agency, together. Dr. Reid's father, Matthew, was an old which business he still pursues. H e was origin­ settler. His wife was a Gilland; also Mike and ally a Democrat, but since 1860 has been a Re­ Billie Throat, Billie Parns, Allen Rose, who publican. became quite wealthy, Adam Shake, father, and Major John Hughes, a prominent man of this the Carrithers and Seatons were among the early precinct, served in the Revolutionary war, and settlers of this place. 40 HISTORY OF THE OH IO FALLS COUNTIES.

The Shroats were German Baptists from Penn­ Rogers Clarke. H er grandfather came to " sylvania, and preached long before the church county as early as 1 782, and her father was ~ was brought to Fisherville from Floyd's fork. in 1811, in Nelson county, came here in 18:· '

This church was moved about 1852, ar:d is a and settled on four hundred and fifty ac1 frame, two stories in height, the Masons occupy­ of land. Mrs. Cleo F. C. Coon received ~ ing the second floor. Rev. William Barnett was education in Shelbyville, Kentucky, in the se~ one of the early preachers in the old brick church school of Miss Julia Tevis, graduating from tti.; before it was removed. Following him )Vere institution in r 85 1. She taught at differeit, Rev. William Hobb~, Worl, Hunter, Cole­ places, until, in the year 1869, in her fathcti man, and Fountain. Rev. W. E. Powers is the house, a large commodious farm dwelling, shtl present pastor. The church is numerically weak. 6pened a school with about fifty pupils, and Jio1 The officers are Edwin Shouse, moderator; success in the work has been increasing frOQ' John Davis clerk; John Scearce and A. J. year to year since that time. The governm~ Conn, deacons. exercised in the management of the school; ha . The Reformed Church is one-half mile east of course of study, scientific and classical; the ~I Fisherville, and is a good, respectable building, cieties and social circles under the guidance "I erected at a probable cost of twenty-five hun­ a marked intellectuality; the low rates of tuition; dred dollars, in 1881. This organization is an the large list of pupils graduated from the insti­ outgrowth of the old Baptist organization, and tution, together with the reli1;ious features of tht like other churches of its kind had its origin school, compare favorably with similar enter· some time after Campbell made his visit to this prises. Mrs. Coon has, from time to time, been part of the State. T he principal actors identi­ erectings such building and making such adcfi. fied in the pros and cons of that day on this tions as were found necessary. H er corps of question were Calvert, a "hard-shell" Baptist, teachers is competent and experienced. The James Rose, Joseph Sweeney, and some others. names an:: Rev. Mr. Taylor preaches for·this people at this Literary Department-Mrs. Cleo F. C. Coo~ time twice a month. Robert Taylor, Higley, principal, and tt":.cher of higher mathematics and and La Master are the elders. William Dri~kill English branches; Professor H. N. Reube!~ and IL Sando Carpenter and T}'ler Carpenter teacher of languages, mental and moral science; are the deacons, and Stephen Taylor clerk. Miss Mollie E. Grubbs, teacher of algebra, read· MILLS. ing, English grammer, and writing; Miss Emma Robert Fisher is the .owner of the present A. Rose, M. E. L, teacher of higher arithmetic, mills in Fisherville. His father owned the origi­ and intermediate classes. nal mill in this place. Musical Department- Miss Alice M. Bailey, The :\bundance of water in the creek during principal teacher; Miss Katie M. Reubelt, M. E. all the months of the year, and the reputation of L, assistant teacher. the mills throughout the county, brings much Ornamental Department- Miss Lulic M. custom to this little place. Myers, teacher of drawing, painting, wax, and · worsted work, .. nd lace. EAST CEDAR HILL ll NSTITUTE is located twenty miles east of Louisville, and RIOCiRAPH ICAL NOTES. two miles east of Fisherville, on the Fisherville John B. Sccares was born May 24, 1812, I and Buck Creek turnpike, in a community in Woodford county, Kentucky. His father, I whose people are remarkable for their intelli­ Robert Sceares. was a native of Pennsylvania gence and morality. It is in a healthy section , and came to Kentucky in an e.1rly day, being one of country, and where there is fine natural of the pioneers of tht: State. :\fr. Sceart:s has scenery. followed farming for several years, though he The institution was founded in 1869 br :'11 rs. was formerly 1:ngagt.'d in milling. He was mar­ Cleo F. C. Coon, a highly educated lady, an9 of ried in 1~3 4 to :\tiss Permelia Sale, of Woodford marked refinement and culture. She is the county. Ther had one child. His second daughter of R. R. Clarke, a relati\'e of George marriaf!e· occurred in 1839, to Miss Permelia HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. 41

Shouse, of Henry county. H e had five chil­ Mr. Carrithers is engaged in general farming, dren by this marriage. His third marriage took and has about one hundred and eighty acres of

place in 1857, to Miss Juliette Jones, of Scott land. H e was married J anuary 121 18301 to county. This union was blessed with eleven Miss H annah Y. Davis, of Spencer county. Of children, four of whom are living. Mr. Sce:ues this union one child was born. His second is a member of the Baptist church, also a Free marriage was to Miss Elvira Fredrick, April 12, Mason. 1832. They had eleven children, six living at John H. Gilliland was born December 24, the present time. His third marriage w;u

x838, in Jefferson county, Kentucky, where he November 13, 18781 to Mrs. S. E. Burton, of has ever resided. He is at the present time en­ Boyle county, Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Carri­ gaged in farming, has about three hundred and thers are members of the Presbyterian church. fifty acres of excellent land, a nd a beautiful Elisha Walters, an old and substantial citizen, home. He married Miss Sally F. Crutcher of was born in Lincoln county, Kentucky, December

Spencer county, October 12, 1865. They have 11 18141 "here he resided till 1836, when he had three children, two now living- Thomas B., went to Spencer county, living there till 1841, Alice C., Mattie K. Mattie is deceased Mr. then came to Jefferson county. His father, Gilliland is a Free Mason. Thomas Walters, came from Virginia, as did his

Thomas Gilliland was born J une 24 1 1813, in grand-parents, in early times. Mr. Walters was Shelby county, Kentucky, and came when very mairied January 6, 1842, to Miss Rebecca Rhea, young to Jefferson county with his parents. His of Jefferson county. They ha\·e had twelve chil­ father, Thomas Gilliland, was a native of Ireland dren, ten of whom are living. Mrs. Walters

and came to America about the year 1800. died Fehruary 191 1881. She was a member of Thomas Gilliland, Jr., was married in 1840 to the Cumberland P resbyterian church. Mr. Miss Margaret Blankenbaker of Shelby county, Walters is a church member, also a Free Mason. daughter of Lewis Blankenbaker. He was mar­ Daniel McKinley, an old and resr,ccted citizen, ried in 1876 to Miss Lizzie Townsend of Fisher­ was born October 5, 1805, in Shelby county, or ville precinct. They have one child, Thomas what is now known as Spencer county. He

Hampton, who was born September 12, 1877. came to J efferson county in 18331 and lived in Mr. Gilliland is a Free Mason. the county till his de:uh, which occurred April

James Robison was born May 11 , 1835, in 25 1 1881. He was married December 13, 1827, 1 Jefferson county, and has ever resided upon the to Miss Kezia Russell, of Nelson county, Ken­ old homestead in Fisherville precinct. His tuck)•. They have had thirteen children, seven of father, Willia1.1 Robison, was born in Pennsyl­ whom are living. Mrs. McKinley was born vania in 1791, and moved to Kentucky when November 1, 1808. She is a member of the eight years of age, with his parents, and settled in Presbyterian church. Mr. McKinley was alw a Spencer county. In 1833 William Robison member. moved into Jefferson county, where he died Daniel B. McKinley was born January 24,

June 11 1 1876. Mr. James Robison has fol­ 18441 in Jefferson county, Kentucky. He is a lowed farming the greater part of his life, and son of Daniel McKinley. He was married in ha.s a good farm of two hundred and fifty acres. 1869 to Miss Mildred Day, of Spencer county, He was married J anuary 12, 1860, to Miss Ruth daughter of Richard Day. They have had four C. Moore, daughter of Simeon Moore, of J effer­ children-Carrie, Hallie, John, Liuie. Lizzie son county. Mr. Robison is a member of the is deceased. Mrs. McKinley died March 7, Presbyterian church ; Mrs. R obison a member 1877. Mr. McKinley is a member of the Pres­ of the Methodist church. Mr. Robison is mas­ byterian church.

ter of the lodge of Free Masons at Fisherville. Colman E. Drake was born February 191

William Carrithers was born October 22 1 18071 1.832, in Spencer county, Kentucky. His father, in Spencer county, Kentucky. His father was a Benjamin Drake, was a native of Pennsylvania, native of Pennsyh·ania and came to Kentucky in and came to Kentu<:kY when the country was an early day. His grandfather, as also his grand­ wild. Mr. Colman Drake came to Jefferson mother on his father's side, came from Ireland. county m 1869. His farm lies in Spencer and 6 42 HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES.

}*son counties. It contains one hundred zens line opportunities for carrying on mercantile and sixty acres. He was married in 1871 to pursuits in the city. Miss Marietta Stevens, of Garrard county, Ken­ Among the early settlers may be mentioned roclty. They had one child, but she died when the Wilhites, who were probably among the first, very young. Mrs. Drake died September 1 7, I James Taylor, relative of Colonel Richard Tay. 1872. She was a member of the Christian I lor, wh o came in 1799, and set1led near the church. I present town of Worthington upon a tract of a Robert Carrithers was born November 19 I thousand acres or more of land. He was early 1 I ·I 18u, in Shelby county, though what ic; now i identified with the political history of the county, Spencer county. He lived there till 1834, when and was clerk of the county court. H e had a he came to Jefferson, where he has ever since i brother who served in the Revolutionary war. resided. His father came from Pennsylvania. I He was the grandfather of Dr. N. Barbour, of Louisville, and was a native of Virginia. Mr. Carrithers was married in 1833 to Miss I 1 Edna Staltand, of Spencer county. They had Thomas and Richard Barbour were early set­ nine children by this marriage. He r,as again tlers here, locating on large tracts of Ian~ just married, in 1856, to Miss Elizabeth J . Russell, above Harrod's creek. Ri chard Barbour was of Spencer county. They had three children among the first magistrates of the precinct, and by this m~rriage. Mr. Carrithers is a i:nember held the office for a long time. Thomas Bar­ of the Cumberland Presbyterian church; Mrs. bour, his brother, and father to Dr. Barbour, was ·· ~ Carrithers of the Methodist church. an early representative of this county in the Leg- l Squire McKinley was born November 28, islature. He married Mary Taylor, a cousin o('

18201 in Shelby county. His father, James Mc­ Zachary Taylor, and raised a large family, Dr. Junley, was a native of Kentucky. He died in Harbour being the only living representative of 1863. Mr. S. McKinley learned the carpenter's the family at this time. He built a large flour­ l trade when young and followed this occupation ing mill (to which was attached a saw-mill) about for a short time. He was married in 1844 to the year 18o8-o9, and later on one was built' Miss Mary McKinley, of Spencer county. They lower down by Glover. These mills were greatly had two children by this marriage-Jam\. S. and ad\'antageous to the county, furnishing a ready ! John W. He was again married, in 1854, to market for the grain, which would be ground I Mrs. Sophia Drake. They had nine children by and then shipped to New Orleans. Mr. Barbour this marriage- Sarah B., George C., Iv:mhoe, died in 1820. He had two sons, Thomas and . Charles E., Cynthia K., Marietta, Benjamin F., James, who were in the War of 1812. The I William F., also a girl not named. Mrs. Mc­ Barbour mill was run until about the year 1835, Kinley is a member of the Methodist chur.ch. when it went down. Andrew Mars and his cousm Andrew Steel 1 were early settlers also, localing on lands op~ I site Twelv.::-1riilc island. . l HARRODS CR'EEK Dr. William Adams was the first. resident / is a fertile, rolling tract of land along lhe. ~iver's physician of the precinct. ·~ e, as was the cus, I edge, ncrth of Louisville, extending from· the tom 1n those times, ob1~ined a general expcri· I suburbs of that ci'ty to the northern limit of tht: ence, m-0stly hy the practice of medicine. He, county. Like most precincts, its contour or ho"•cver, attended lectures in the Transylvania ~orm is irregular, being much greater in length rnlle!,!C, but nc\•e r graduated. H is advent to than in width. the plal'e w:is about the year 1825. Ten years It has good advantages in the way of a turn­ afterwards Dr. N. Uarhour pr:icticcd the medical pike that runs through it, goin~ from Louis\'ille profrssion there, and conlinued the prar1ice un· to Oldenburg. . Also in the Narrow Gua~e ra il­ til in 1872, when he remo\·ed to Louis\·ille, road, formerly built by the citizens of th

course of lectures in medicine in Philadelphia. empties into the Ohio river ten miles above CHURCHES. Louisville, and where it is about forty rods wide. The subject of religion early engrossed the About a fourth of a mile from its mouth it dips attention of the people of this part of the at an angle of about seven degrees, giving it an county, but no building or regular society was appearance of falls. It has been stated that this organized until about the year 1820. creek, like many others in the State, has subter­ The Taylors and Barbours were Episcopalians ranean passages, through which a part of its but the Presbyterians erecteJ a brick church waters flow without crossing the falls. this year, and they connected themselves with Goose Creek waters formerly turned a grist- • that organization: mill for Mr. Allison, and still farther down a Dr. Blackburn, of Tennessee, a scholarly gen­ saw-mill that was run for many years, but there tleman, was one of the fi rst pastors of this has been no mill on this stream for full thirty society. Some of the names of the corporate years. The old grist-mill, after it was abandoned, members are here appended-Andrew Mars, was used for a time as a school-house. Thomas Barbour, Robert and Edwin Woudfolk, BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. John D. Lock, and some of the Wilhites. The Abraham Blankenbaker was born July 13, building as erected remained until about the 1796, in Mercer county, Kentucky, where he year 1850, when owing to its crumbled condition lived till he wa.s fi\·e years of age, when he went it was replaced by• another. The Rev. Dr. to Shelby county in company with his parents McCowan, a learned and an excellent gentleman, and resided there till 1822. He went to Louis­ preached here some eight years. · ville and lived there till 1853. He then moved The church is not as strong in its membership to Harrods Creek, where his family now reside. as it was at one time, but is still in existence, Mr. Blankenbaker died March 22, 1871. He the Revs. Thomas Christler and Alexander was married to Miss Anna Clos~ of Oldham Dorson being the pastors at the present time. county, Kentucky, June 16, 1833. This union The colored people organized a society known was blessed with fi,·e children, though only one as the Greencastle church in 1875; J. Wilhite survives. Mr. Blankenbaker was an exemplary officiaung at that time. The building was erected man and was highly esteemed by all who knew at a cost of one thousand dollars, and the society him. has a mi:mbnship at thi, time of one hundred Jesse Chrisler, one of the well known residents and nine. They arc known as the Mission of Jeffc:rson county, was born April 9, 1799, in Baptists. Rev. E. J. Anderson is the present Madison county, Virginia, and lived there till he pastor. was five or six years of age, when he came to The town of Harrods Creek was laid off quite Kentucky with his parents. He lived in Louis­ early, and divided up into small lots. It was ville about twenty-five years and was engaged in formerly known as the Seminary land~ It, how­ the grocery and banking business in the mean­ ever, was never built up and remains to-day only time; he then went co Harrods ·creek, where we a few straggling houses. now find hirr. most pleasantly situated. He was Harrods Creek Ferry was formerly an import­ married December 12, 1838, to Miss Mary L ant wharf; this was inihe palmy days of Middle­ Cleland, of Mercer county, Kentucky. They town and when Louisville was deemed an un­ have had seven children, five of whom are living. healthy village. Goods were shipped and landed Mr. and Mrs. Chrisler are members of the Pres­ at this harbor until, probably, about the year byterian church. Mr. Chrisler is a well known 1810, when the metropolis of the county was and respected citizen. moved to the Falls of the Ohio river, and the John T. Bate was born December 30, 1809, in principal trade went there. Jefferson county, Kentucky, and has ever re· Harrods creek and Dig Goose creek are the sided near his old home. He has followed principal streams of this precinct. They each farming as an ccrupation the _greater part of his furnish an abundance of water th(' year round, life, though he was engaged in manufacturing and near their mouths run close together and several years. His farm contains five hundred parallel for a mile or so. H:mods creek stream acres of excellent land. )Ir. Hate was married - ,, . 44 HISTORY OF THE OH10 F.\1.1~ COUNTIES. "' December-25, 1834, to Miss Ellenor A. Lorke, 1 to Harrods Creek. Mr. Barrickman· was mar. fA of Oldham county, Kentucky. They have had ried in 1870 to Miss Bettie Carpenter, of Bul­ two children, Octavius L. and Clarence. Octa­ lock C'ounty, a daughter of Judge Carpenter. " vius is deceased. Mrs. Bate died about forty. , They have had five children, four of whom are one years ago. .Mr. Bate has been magistratt: livini;. Mr. Barrickman has a farm in company twenty years and is highly esteemed by all of his , with J udge DeHaven, which contains four hun. "'! fellow citizens. dred acres of excellcnt land. He is engaged in j James Trigg was born November 17, 1816, in stock-raising, chiefly, and is considered a success- Oldham county, Kentucky, and resided there till 1 ful farmer. ..i 1849, when he went to southern Kentucky, , / Glenview stock farm, one of the largest in the I ,, where he was engaged in farming till 1863, when J county, is situated six miles from Louisville, and l, he came to Jefferson county, where we now find is a large and beautiful place. Mr. J. C. Mc- r· him most beautifully situated on a farm of Ferren, the present owner, )fought the place ,..i ninety-five acres. Mr. Trigg w:is m:irried April about thirteen years ago. He does an extensive ·

17, 1849, to Miss Mary W. H.irshaw, of Oldham business, and is widely known. His farm con- ~ 1· county. They have had three children, two of t:iins eight hundred and eighty-five acres. He ,L, whom ar~ living. Mrs. Trigg died in 1873. Mr. keeps from one hundred and fifty to two hundred Trigg is a member of the Christian church. head of trotting horses. His stock is amopg the ~ Alexander B. Duerson was born August 9, most celebrated in the country. Mr. Mcferren ., 1825, in Oldham county, Kentucky, and 1e­ has one of the most .beautiful residences in this mained there until 1856, when he moved to Jef­ county. His farm, with the stock now upon it, ferson county, where he now resides upon a farm i~ worth at least three hundred and fifty thousand . \.ii of two hundred and eighty-five acres. :\1r. J>ucr­ dollars. ~Ir. :\kFerran is a native of Bl1n'en · son was married m 1855 to Miss Mary A. Lyle, county, KcntuC'ky. of Natchez, Mississippi. ·They have had fom children. Mr. and Mrs. Duerson are members of the Presbyterian church, as is, also, their SPRING GARDEN PRECINCT. daughter. Mr. Duerson is deacon of the church at H arrods Creek, and is a most worthy man. This precinct was formerly called Spring F. S. Barbour was born August 27, 1843, in Grove. It lies adjacent to Louisville and in con­ Jefferson county, Kentucky. He has always re­ sequence its history 1s mostly blended with the· sided upon the homestead farm, which contains history of that city. two hundred and sixty-fivt: acres of excellent land, The noted, well known Ge· disease. He is a mcmbcr of the Presbyterian tray his country. He camt: to Kentucky to bring church. about a satisfactory connection between the tw" • William Barrickman was born February 24, States. H is history will be found in another • 18:14, in Oldham county, Kenturky, where he portion of the work. He was never married resided until he was l\\'Cnty-one ycars of age, Hon. Elisha D. Staniford, M. D., was a native when he ,,·ent to Jdfason count}' and lived there ' of this portion of the county. His father also , three years. He afterwards 1esi

December 31, 1831. He studied medicine under Dr. J. B. Flint, and graduated in the Ken­ SHIVELY PRECINCT. tucky School of ~[edicine; was fvr years presi­ Among the early settlers of this precinct dent of the Red River Iron works, of the Louis­ shotild be mentioned the name of Colonel Wil­ ville Car Wheel company, of the Farmers and liam Pope, who was one of the early settlers of Drovers' bank, president of the Saving and the State. He arrived at the falls of the Ohio

Trust company, and held other ver}' important river in 17 791 and, like other ad,·enturers, with positions. He was also at one time member of his young family occupied the fort at the the Senate, and was also a member of the House entrance to the canal. He was a native of of Representatives. Farquier county, Virginia, the· son of William The Churchills, of Louisville, were also resi­ Pope, of Virginia ancestry, whose wife was Miss dents of this precinct. The family is a large Netherton, and by whom he had three sons, one and formerly constituted one of the most of whom William was also one of the pioneers of prominent ones in Virginia, extending back some the new State, and lived to a great age, dying in two hundred years. William Churchill, being 1825. Colonel William Pope married Penelope a church warden, by his last will, made in Edwards, and his four sons became distinguished 1711, left a sum of money, the interest of which men. John was at one time Governor of the was to be used for the encouragement of the Territory of Arkansas and also a member of Con­ ministry, to preach against the raging vices of gress. William Pope, the second son of the the times. Samuel C. Churchill came to the pioneer, was a wealthy farmer in this vicinity, a precinct when eight years of age, in 1784. man of splendid pusiness talents and great in­ ij His father, Armstead Churchill, married Eliza­ dustry, and amassed considerable fortune. He beth Blackwell and settled in Spring Garden, married C~nthia Sturgus, "'ho was the mother of I.. on a·large tract of land. His son, Samuel C., Mrs. Ann Anderson, the wife of Larz, son·. of I father of S. B., married Abby Oldham, only Colonel Richard C. Anderson, of Revolution~ry I daughter of Colonel William Oldham. Colonel fame. Her only son was Richard C. Anderson, Oldham was a Revolutionary soldier, and was in named in honor of her grandfather. The de­ scendants of the Pope families are numerous, and ,I,'; command of a Kentucky regiment when St. /, Clair was defeated in 1791. Samuel C. Church­ were many of them quite prominent men. I ill was a 1:irge and extensive farmer, and devoted Major Abner Field was a very early settler in himself solely to his farm. S. B. Churchill was this portion of the State, and was one of the first born in this precinct in 1812; was educated at representatives in the Virginia House of Bur­ the St. Joseph's college,· Borgetow!1, Kentucky; gesses. He married a claughter of Colonel Wil­ went to St. Louis and edited the Sr. Louis Bulle­ liam Pope. His first son, Dr. Nathaniel Field, tin for many years; was Repr~sentative to the is a prominent physician of Jeffc:rsonville, Indi­ Missouri Legislature in 1840; delegate to the ana. Charleston convention in 1 860. He returned to v'°Christian William Shivclel, was also a very Kentucky in 1863, and was elected to the State prominent and early settler of this precinct, and Legislature from J effc:rson county. In 1867 he in honor of whom the precinct was named. He became Secretary of State under Governor built his mill about the year 1810. He settled Helm, and continued in office under Governor on a large tract of land, then a wilderness. Stevenson. His brother, Thomas J. Churchill, There were many other prominent citizens in this was a captain in the Mexican war, a major-gt:n­ precinct of whom may be mentioned the Kissiger eral in the Confederate army, :ind after the war family, Fulton Gatewood, Squire Thornburry, a Governor of Arkansas. magistrate; ~latthew Love, John Jones, who kept Spring Garden pre<.:inct, being contiguous to the tan-yard for many years; Amos Goodwin, the city, gi,·es the titi1.ens the advantages ?f Leonard Gatewood, school teacher; the Town­ school and church- there bt:ing no church sly's, and others. buildings in this portion of the county. Tht: The salt works m this precinct were quite im­ land is of good quality and the agricultural in­ portant in an early day. P1:ople come for salt at terest!' well e,·eloptd. p that time from a hundred miles distant. Joe 46 1:I1STORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. , ------Brooks, John Speed, and D. Staniford operated here a long time. Jones' tan-yard, built about GILMAN'$ PRECINCT. the year 1807, was near the salt ;orks, and the This precinct lies JUSt east of the city of I old Shiveley tavern, on Salt River run, .was the Louisville, and embraces some of the richest all(j • stopping place for the traveler- the stone meet­ most fertile land_s in the county, and it may be · • ing-house, · built about the year 1820, stands truly remarked, some of the finest in the great on the Salt River road, and was used by all de­ State of Kentucky. aominatfons. It has natural boundary lines on its south, east In an early day religion and dancing occupied and north sides in the streams of Bear Grass and l much attention. . The earthquake that occurred Big Goose creeks. The former of these streams ~ in 1811 seems to have jarred the religious feel­ skirts the whole of its southern and southeastern ings of the community' consirlerably. Everybody sides, and the latter its northeastern boundary. I 1 then imagined the world was surely coming to an The precinct of Harrod's Creek lies just to its \ end and joined the church, but the next winter north. The Louisville & Cincinnati railroad runs the fiddle and not the preacher held sway, and through the entire length of this division, having the heel and toe kept time to the music almost stations every mile or so apart, giving the cui. constantly. The earthquake was severe and pro­ zens an opportunity of living in their beautiful duced considerable commotion. homes in the country and of carrying on busi. ness in the city. Trains run so frequently, both · in the morning and evening, that a large portion · of these people are professional or business men JOHNSTOWN PRECINCT. whose business is in the city. A ride over the is the same in character and quaJity of land and road through this precinct shows a grandeur and·· surface of the country as the other precincts magnificence of country life rarely beheld·: south of Louisville, being marshy and filled with Large, elegant and costly edifices may be seen · ponds. Thi-; was specially true in an early day on every side. Here are also large, valuable · before any draining was done. farms under the highest state of cultivation-.;. While these ponds were not ttllable, they fur­ The Magnolia stock farm established by A; . nished the opponunity of much amusement to G. Herr in 1864, is probably as fine a farm the young men who loved sport, and. as they as can be found in the State. It was so·· t were filled with ducks, these places were of fre- named by George D. Prentice as early as 1841,' j . quent resort. On one occasibn, however, they from the number of m.agnolias that grew uporr . . . were the cause of furnishing a bit of In'dian it. It was not establisht.-d as a fancy stock farm ' \ history. until . as above stated, .when Mr. Herr began . \ . Among the earliest settlers of this portion of raising the finest thoroughbred stock, for which :· I the county was the Lynn family, and on one this farm has made a reputation throughout the • 1> occasion the young ·men· left home for a States and Canada. season of. sport, and visite·d the ponds as usual The Eden stock farm, under the proprietor~~. for game. .Not taking any precaution. against ship of Mr. L L Dorsey, h~ likewise attained ;: the Indians,·they were captured by a roving band for itself a reputation not ·unenviable. of savages and carried over into Indiana. The The roads leading to various places in this l forced .visit made in compaQY with the dusky · precinct are in a better condition and more· ~ warriors was not altogether to their liking. But, direct than in . some of the precincts of the making. the best of their imprisonment, they county. The Lyndon and Goose Creek turn· feigned such friendship for their red brothers, and pike road, put through in 1873, and the one lead- so much liking .to a roving life, that in the course ing from Louisville give the people good high­ of a few months they succeeded in gaining the ways, and with the railroad, excellent opportuni­ entire confidence of their captors, and on one ties for reaching Louisville. occasion, when left . with the squaws while the The remoteness of settlement renders it im­ warriors were hunting, took French leave, and possible to give dates of the original patents of came home. lands taken in this section of the county, but it HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. 47 ------··----··----·-- ...... -- is known the attention of emigrants to the county tenancy in the United States army, died in 1808, and the vacant commission was assigned him. was attracted to this section as soon as else­ r where. H e was made captain m 181 o, and served at I• The Bullitts, Taylors, I3ateses, Herrs, Brecken- Fort H arrison, and for gallantry was promoted ! ridges, Chamberses, and a host of others, since to major. H e served in the Black Hawk war in familiar names to every household, settled here 1832, and in 1836 in the Florida war, where he in an early day, opened up the wilderness, raised was promoted to general, and in 1840 was made large families, and have long since departed. chief in command of all the forces in the South­ The record 1eft by these pioneers is mostly of a west, and soon afte1 took command of all forces traditionary character. We aim to give but the in the Mexican war. He was nominated by the reliable facts. Whig National convention, assembled in Phita. The Indians were troublesome to a degree, delphia in 1848, as a candidate for the Presi­ and the whites were under the necessity of build­ dency of the United States, and took his seat ing stations and block-houses to defend them­ March 5, 1849, and died next year (see biogra­ selves against their attacks. Abbott's , tation phy). One of the descendants of Colonel Rich­ v.•as one of these points, built in an early ard T aylor, bearing the same name, is a real day. It was afterwards owned by Mr. Herr, estate broker in Louisville. who purchased the property of Abbott's widow. Colonel Stephen Ormsby, one of the first Of the massacres which took place here we judges of the county court, settled upon a large r have but little that is reliable. The Indians tract of land. 1.1: would, however, cross the river from Indiana, Major Martin, a farmer, was :ln old settler. !Ill steal horses, and sometimes make depreda- He had a brother who married a sister of W. C. tions upon the whites. They, on one of Bullitt. these raids, barbarously massacred a white worn- I David L. Ward was an extensive salt trader, an and cut uff her breasts. This event took I making trips to New Orleans. He at one time place on A. G. Herr's place. There is also on owned one of the first wa~er mills on Goose creek. this farm in a charcoal pit a place where the In- I This property was erected by Mr. Leaven Law­ dians made their :mow-heads of flint. Where I rence, and run by him for some years, being the this stone w:is obtained by them is not known, 1 first used; and with its coming a new era was as there are no flint qu;mies known in the county, I marked in the advance made over the old fash- and probably none this siae of Canada. ioned hand or horse mill. It was situated on Of the early settlers who came to this section Goose creek, north of Lyndon station. After of the r.ounty John Herr was among the first. Ward purchased it he failed. He was n yourg man of no means, and came I Alex. P. Ralston owned one on Bear Grass at with Mr. Jacob Rudy. His pos~essions were in I an early day, and sold it in 1804 to Colonel

Continental scrip, $60,000 of which, when sold 'j Geiger. These mills received custom for many brought him but the paltrr sum of $q. . milt:s aroynd. Mr. Herr finally amassed a consideraule fortune, Edward Dorsty was an old settler. He, how­ owning before he died ahout one thousand acres 1 e,·er, did not come to the precinct before 1812.

Clfland. He married \liss Susan Rudy and had I He purchased a large tract of land near O'Ban­ lived, at the time oi his clc:uh in 18.12, tc the I non station. Ht was a nati\'e of Maryland. advanrec.l a~t: ui eighty 1wu p::m. 1 Colonel Richard Anderson, father of Richard Colond Richard T aylor, father of Zach:1ry I C. Anderson, Jr., was a distinguished citizen who Taylor, was an old !>ettlcr in this precinct. His stttled here :it :in early period. He was a mem­ distingui~hed son lies huri,·d near the old pince, 1 her of Coni;rcss, ser\'ini.; with honor to his con. with a sllilahlc monument tn mark his last resting stilllency and credit to hi1mdf for a 11u111l>er of plare. C,,hmcl Taylor "'"·ed through the Revo- year~. an,I w.i,. :uh·rwards h, ,nur,J uy a position l11ti"11ary war. He came from \"ir0inia a11d s,·t· as \ l ini,ter t,1 "'"' of the ::,outh .\r.ieri, :rn States. tkd on a lar~t· plantation in I jS5, and here It H e . wa, m:uned to a \1 h:, t ;ro:it!1cny, :ind his wa-.1hat l~1chary Taylor spent twenty-(uur ycar:.,,f only <'11ilJ. 11011· dc.1J, 111 ;1r:i,J J, ,hn T. Cm)', his lik. 111::. hrutlh'r I lan<'O~ k, who had :i Ji, II· ( \,l,111, I .\1:dt:1~<111 scukcl on the Shdliynl!t• pik<:. 48 HISTORY OF THE OHIO F.-\I.LS COUNTIES. --·------~ William Chambers will be remembered, not There arc others who figured quite extrnsi\'ely only as ari early settler of this portion of the in 1he history of this precinct- the llullitts, coun~y. but on account of hi.s wealth. He mar­ Br~ckinridgt·s, Brown~, Colonel William Cr~ ried a Miss Dorsey, and after\\'nrds, in conjunc­ i;:h:i n, father of )fajor John Croghan, the heroot tion with General Christ)., purchased a large th e: \Var of 1812, and others. quantity of land near where the central portion ' CHURCH. of St. Louis city is now. The increase in value One, i( not the first, of the c,riginal organiza. of his land made him immensely wealthy, :md tions of a religious character in the precinc~ upon his death he left property to the value of a was a Baptist society, on Bear Grass. This I million of dollars to his only daughter, Mrs. society had its place of meeting first in Two Mile Mary Tyler. Town- it being encouraged in that precinct by > Norbom B. Bealle, one of the wealthy citizens Mr. George Hikes, who settled there about of the pioneer days, was a large land holder, 1790- 94. One of the first pastors was Rev. owning probably a thousand acres of land. He Mr. Walker. The congre~ation was made up lived in grand style; owned a fine, large, resi­ of the citizens, not only of their own precinct t dence. He was the father of three children. but of Jeffc:rsontown, Gilman, and other places. l , Of the early settlers who left numerous descend­ In the course of time the question of close If I ants is Mr. James S. Bates, a \·ery worthy man, communion was one which gave the organization · and a good, influential citizen. He was an some trouble and caused 1ts entire overthrow. exce.edingly large man, weighing four hundred The first building was a sto!le structure, erect­ p.ound; He also owned a large tract of land, ed about the year 1 798- ~9. on the north bank a great many slaves, and ratsed a large family of of Bear Grass. Rev. Ben Allen was also one of l children, who left many descendants now living. the divines who ministered to the people spirit: I He was a dealer in real estate, and sometimes ually in an early day. · made very hazardous ventures. The membership, however, became numerou~ and the questions arisi ng concerning communion t PHYSICIANS. There have not been many professional men made a split, a portion of the church going to Jeffersontown and a portion to Newburg, butthe in the precinct, owing to the contiguity of the 1 place to Louisville. People in an early day old church still retains the name of the Bear I would, however, sometimes need a doctor, and Grass church ana remains on the original site. ? to supply the demand Dr. Gualt settled among BEAR CRASS. I them and plied his calling. He was their first This stream of water, so frequently mentioned I physi1:ian, and remained some time. previously, is a considerable one, named to retain No record has bt:en kept of the magistracy of the original idea of wealth represented by the . Gilman, but we have in tradition th·e services of lands and surrounding country through which it .· one man, John Herr, Jr., who filled this office flows. It has a number of good mill sites, and for a period of forty years. He was born No­ .furnishes an abundance of water ten months fn · vember 201 18061 and died in 1863.. He was a the year, and supplies water for a number of­ quiet, unobtrusive man in his manner, but grist-mills, and one paper-mill It rises from . l influential and a very s~ctessful man in several eight different springs, and like other streams in J respects. In 1854 he ;as selected f>y his dis­ the State sometimes disappears for a. quarte~ of • I trict to represent them in the Legislature, and ac­ a mile or so and then emerges. Near the city quitted himself with credit. He held various it runs parallel with the Ohio for a distance of • positions of trust, and owned the fine farm now about half a mile, and enters the river at Louis­ the property of A. G. Herr, the noted stock ville. dealer. He was the son of John Herr, Sr., be­ At the mouth of the creek is one of the best fore mentioned, and one of four brother~ who harbors on the Ohio, perfectly safe and com­ lived to an honored, useful old age. modious for vessels of five hundred tons burthen. Alferd, the youngest brother of this family, is During seasons of the year when the waters are the only one living. He is a man of some con­ the most depressed there can be found here water siderable influence and of property. twelve feet deep. HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. 49

Albert G. Herr was born in this county and ness won fur him hosts of devoted friends. He has always lived here. His father, John Herr, died in 18531 aged seventy·three years. Theo· was born here, and his grandfather, also named dore Brown was born in 1821 1 and lives on what John, wa~ one of the lirst settlers. Mr. Herr is was once a part of the old farm. He has two the proprietor of the Magnolia stock farm, so hundred and nfty acres of land and a pleasant named by the poet Prentice forty years ago. :ind beautiful home. He has been for forty His stock and farm are w1ddy celt:brnted. The ye:us a member of the Protestant Episcopal farm contains two hundred and six acres. Mr. churcli. Arthur Brown, his brother, and the Herr's residence is most beautiful, and his gar­ youngest of the three surviving members of his den is filled with a great variety of choice ex­ father's family, was born in 1834- He married otics. Mr. Herr does an extensive business l\'liss Matilda Galt, daughter of Dr. N. A. Galt, breeding Jersey cattle, trottinp; horses, Berkshire "ho was the son of Dr. William C. Galt, who cam~ hogs, and Silesian Merino sheep. from Virginia to Louisville in very early times. Dr. H. N. Lewis was born at St. Matthews in Mr. Brown has six children- ]. Lawrence, Alex­ 1856. His lather, Dr. John Lewis, practi~ed in ander G., Arthur A., William G., Harry L, and this county thirty years and was eminently suc­ Matilda G. Mr. Brown is now serving his sec­ cessful. He died in 18j8, and his son succeeds ond term as magistrate. He is engaged in farm­ him in.his practice. Dr. Lewis was educated at ing. Mr. Brown. is a member of the Episcopal the Louisville high school, ani-1 graduated in church. medicine from the Louisville Medical college, John C. Rudy was born in this county in also from the Hospital Medical college. He 1822. His father, Daniel Rudy, was one of the now does a good business, and is looked upon as early settlers here, Louisville being but a small a rising young physician. He is a gentleman in village when he came. Daniel Rudy died in every sense of word and richly deserves success. 1850 aged seventy.five, :l.nd his wife, Mary 1 I: Benjamin Lawrence came to this county from (Shibely) Rudy, in 1852, at the age of sixty-ive. Maryland, in very early times, nnd settled on Mr. J. C. Rudy lived upon the old farm until what is now L L. Dorsey's Eden Stock farm. recently. Rudy chaizj was named for his father, f He was an excellent farmer and a pro1.perous and built chiefly by his means. Mr. Rudy is a businP.sS man. His sons, Samuel and Leben­ good farmer, and owns two hundred acres of the former the grandfather of Theodore Brown, land. He held the office of magistrate eight or now residing here-were upright and worthy ten years. He is a member of the Methodist men, highly successful in bu'siness. Samuel church. He married Miss Priscilla Herr in Lawrence was the father of Benjamin :md Elias 1852. They have four children living-Ardell, Lawrence, who were among the prosperous mer­ George F., James S., and Taylor. chants and most esteemed citizens of Le,uisville. Mrs. Ann Arterburn, widow of the late Norbon Urath G. Lawrence, their sister, became the wife Arterburn, was born in this county. She was of James Brown, the father of Theodore and the daughter of John Herr, an old resident here. Arthur Brown. She was a lady widely kr:iown Her husband was also a native of this county. and beloved for her hospitality, benevolence, They were married in 18401 and had eight chil­ and high moral integrity, None but good words dren- Orphelia, Bettie, Emma, William C., were ever spoken of her. Edward, Anna, Clifton, and an infant son. James Brown c:lme from eastern Maryland Orphelia, Bettie, Edward, and Clifton arc now about the year 1800. He was a clerk in the salt living. Mr. Arterburn died April 91 1878, aged works of David L. Ward, at Mann's Lick, Bul­ sixty-five. Mrs. Arterburn still resides upon the litt county. He afterwards bought land on Bear place where she was born. Her sister, Mrs. Grass creek, and became one of the richest 01en Emily Oldham, widow of the late John Oldham, of the county. At one time he owned nin<: tren li,·es with her. · hundred acres in the county. H e wns a man of Joseph Raymond was born in county Sligo, good judgment, of the strictest integrity and Ireland, August 5, 1804. tn 1831 he came to honesty, and was noted for his benevolence and Quebec, and soon afterward to Kentucky. ~c public spirit. His modest dem·eanor and manli- settled in Louisville and engaged in gardening, 1 50 HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES.

bis present business. ¥r. Raymond was ~ar­ known and everywher~ respected throughout this ried iri 1835 to Miss Margare.t. Drisbach, a na· section. tive of Philadelphia. They have had four chil­ I. B. Dorsey, son of L L Dorsey, Sr., is a dren-Mary Ann, who died when three months leading farmer and respected citizen. Edward old; Jacob B., died in his twenty-third year; Dorsey, father of L L, came here from Mary­ George Frederick, resides in this precinct; land about the year 1800. L L . .Dorsey, Sr., Thomas P. lives with his father. Mr. Raymond had three ·sons, but the subject of this _sketch is a member of the Methodist church, and of only, lived to grow up. Mr. I. B. Dorsey has th~ orper of Odd Fellows. a farm ·of two hundred and twenty acres, and is James Harrison, the oldest man li1,·inp; in this engaged in raising grain. The land taken up by county having Louisville for a birthplace, was his great-grandfather has been held by represen­ the son of Major John Harrison, who came to tatives of the Dorsey family since the time o( thi:. county in I 785. Major Harrison was mar­ the first comer of that name. Mr. Dorsey was ried at Cave Hillin 1787 to Mary Ann Johnston. married in 1860 to Miss Sarah Herndon. Their They had five children- Sophia J. (married children are: Susan, Mary, Amanda, Levvie, Robert A. New), Benjamin I., Colonel Charles Sally, Rhodes, George, and Eveline. Mr. Dorsey L, pr. John P., and James. James is the only is a member of the Christian church. survivor. James Harrison was born May 1, 1799, and has always lived in this county. He has been engaged in the practice of : law in Louisville sine~ 1842, and stands high· in his professi~n. Geor~e F. Raymond was horn m Jefferson O'BANNON PRECINCT. county, December 4, 1840. He received a good t common school education, and was brought up O'Bannon (originally Williamson) precinct, a farmer. He was married in 1862 to Miss Eliza was established in 1813- 14, the first magistrates fl McCarrell, of Washington county, Kentucky. being E. M. Stone and Miner W. O'Bannon. They had eight children, five of whom are liv· J.M. Hampton and Miner W. O'Bannon are the. ing-Margaret, Mary ( deceased), Carrie, Ruth magistrates at the present time. {deceased), George (deceased}, Joseph, James, ./ Bushrod O'Bannon, deceased, and Miner and William. Mr. Raymond has ·served as mag­ O'Bannon, now resident of the place, were the . l istrate fourt.een years. sons of Isham O'Bannon, a native of Virginia, who Captain William C. Williams was born in was born in I 767, and came here in 1816, first set­ Louisville, April 4, 1802. His father w:is a· tling in Shelby county. In 1830 he settled his Welshman, who came to this country in 1788. estate upon his seven children, three daughters

Captain Williams followed farming the most of and four sons; one daughter now being eighty· :, bis life. He furnished capital for several busi· one years old, and the average age of the four ness enterprises, but took no active part himself. children now li,·ing being seventy-five years. His residence is an elegant mansion a few miles J. B. O'Bannon owned here an extensive tract out of town. · He was one oC the wealthiest citi­ of four hundred acres ol land, which he im· zens of the county. He owned twenty-si~ houses proved. He was the first president of the Farm­ in Louisville, including some fine business ers' and Drovers' bank, president of the Farmers' ,., blocks. He was elected a captain of militia in Mutual Insurance company, and owned consid· 1823-24. For fifty years he was a member of erahle stock in the railroad, was director in the the Masonic fraternity. Religiously he was con­ Louisville City bank, and was the founder of nected with the Christian church. He married the Methodist Episcopal church in this place, Miss Hannah Hamilton May 27, 1857. They which has, however, gone down since his death, had sixteen children, four of whom were: David owing to the members of the church dying off M., John H., Mrs. Fannie W. Fenley, and Mrs. and moving away. It was first called O'Ban­ Mary E. Tyler. Captain Williams died in his non's chapel, but against his wish, and was an seventy-ninth year, September 13, 1880, widely outgrowth of the Salem church. It was a neat HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. 51 .....------I- - structure, built in 1869, under the Rev. Mr. Hen­ II surface as perpendicular and smooth on both derson's appointment to this pl:lce. Mr. J. B. the in- and outsides as most stone houses built O'Bannon died in 1869. in then ineteenth century, and so solidly are the M. W. O'Bannon was born in Virginia in 1810. ' walls built it is not improbable it will stand yet He was the son of Isham O'Bannon, who moved one hundred years longer before the crumbling to Shelt-y county, Kentucky, in 1816: thence to I process begins. Jefft:rson county in 1831, where he resided until his death in 1845. Mr. M. W. O'llannon was a THE CHENOWETH MASSACRE. merchant of Shelbyville from 1834 to 1838. In

1840 he went to M:ushall, Saline county, Mis­ Richard Chenoweth first built Fort Nelson, souri, where he resided until 1863, farming and which ·bankrupted him. He w~s disappointed in practicing law. During the unpleasantness con­ the Government rdusing assistance in this mat­ sequent upon the outbreak of the war, Mr. ter, and came here in 1782, after the. Floyd's O'Bannon was obliged to leave Missouri. He re­ Fork massacre, :ind built for h1mstlf this . fort, turned to this count)', where he has !iince resided, and just above it the cabin where he lived with a prominent and respected citizen. He has been his family. At that time there were no out set­ thrice married. In 1835 he married Miss Jane tlements except Lynns, Bear Grass, Harrods Richardson, of Lafayette county, Kentucky. She creek, and Boone's stations. The family con­ died in 1838, leaving two daughters, one since de­ sist~d of himself, his wife Peggy, who ~,·as a ceased-Mary Adelaide, who died in 1847 in the bra,·e woman-and who was a McCarthy before twelfth year of her age ; Jane Richardson, born m:irriage- Thomas, James, Alexander, Millie, . in 1838, is the wife of J. R. Berryman, Marshall, and Naomi, the last named bein~ at that time Missouri. His second wife was Miss Julia Bar­ about two years old. He had also some few nett, of Lafayette county, Missouri. She di<:d in persons constantly about them as guards, and at 1843, having borne one son, who d ied in infancy. this time Rose and Bayless were with the In 1847 he married Mrs. Elizabeth (Harrison) family. Payne, formerly from Woodford county, Ken­ About dusk one evening in midsummer, while tucky, but at that time residing in Missouri. this little family were talking over the past at Mr. O'Bannon has held the office of justice of their evening meal, they were suddenly surprised the peace six years. by sixteen Indians, belonging to the tribe of John Williamson was al) early settler of this the Shawnees, suddenly 01,ening the door and precinct, owning nt one time a couple of thousand rushing in. Rose, being nearest the entrance­ acres of l.1nd, also a distillery on Floyd's fark. way, jun1ped behind the door as soon ~s it was He raii,ed h is own corn for d;stillery use. He swung open, and in the dreadful excitement was an active, large-hearted, and clever man. which followed passed out undiscovered and His- daughter by his firsr wife married Bushrod effected an escape. Bayless was not killed out­ O'Bannon. His second wife was the widow of right and was burned at the stake at the spring Ed Dorsey, and from this union owned all his house, just a fe1v feet distant. The old man lands except four hundred acres. ,vas wounded and his daughter Millie toma­ In this precinct is the old Chenoweth ~ hawked in the arm, but they esc;iped to the fort. h2_u~ built by Mr. Chenoweth as early as The old man, however, survived and lived many the summer of 1782. It is near Williamson's years, but was afterwards killed by the falling '>f station, and on the farm now owned by J ohn a log at a house-rnising. James, a little fellow, Wiiliamson, and was built for a fort and as a was, with his brothers Eli and Thomas, killed at refuge for the Chenoweth family in case of an the wood-pile. The daughter Millie afterwards attack from the Indians. The house was made married a man named Nash. Naomi, the little of unhewn stone, packed in mortar made simply girl, crept to the sp1ing house and took refuge, of lime, water and gravel The cement thus child like, under the t:ible. An Indian after­ made one hundred years ago appears as durable wards came in and pl:lced a fire brand on it, but to-day as it was when the house was erected, and it only burned through the leaf. In the morning the stone," so nicely and evenly laid, presents a a party of whites were reconnoitenng and sup- 52 HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. posed the Chenoweth family :ill killed, and upon t:iken to Detroit, :ind burned :it th·e stake. His approaching the scene discovered the little gi1 I, daughter Elizabeth m:irricd Major Bland Ballard, who stood in the doorw:iy, :ind told them upvn an old Indian fighter and uncle of Judge B:illard, coming up that they werot all killed. The of Louisville. The second d:iughter married,· mother was scalped and at that time w:is · Mr. Smith, who :ilso particip:ited in the Indian not known to be alive, but she survived the wars. Ruth, who :ifte.rwards married a Mr. tragedy many years and did much execution H:ill, was quite young at the time of the massa. after that with her trusty rifle. Her head got ere. George ·and Moses were born after that well but was always bare after that time. James was thirteen ye:irs old ~hen mur­ John Williamson, Jr., o"'·ner of the property dered, and John ten ye:irs old when captured, upon which the Chenoweth Spring-house fort and his son, John Willi:imson, is now in the now stands, was born m 1796, and still lives at eighty-seventh year of his :ige, :ind although mar. this adv~nced age, having a mind and memory ried the second time h:is no children. clear as crystal His father, John Williamson, PROFESSOR M1GOWN'S SCHOOL. came with his father, John Williamson, from Dr. McGown, deceased, w:is a prominent Virginia, and scttlt:d at the Lynn station in 1781. m:in in O'B:innon precinct. He was born in Durmg the massacre of that year the Indians at­ 18051 was the youngest child of his father. and tacked the fort, killed the grandfather, Mr. Wil­ the mainstay of his widowed mother. He was liamson's olde~t uncle, and made captive his a circuit-rider :ind pre:iched for a number of father, who was taken that night to Middletown, years. He fin.illy est:iblished a school he~e in where he saw the scalps of his father and oldest 18601 put up large buildings and carried it on brother stretched over a hoop to dry, and knew quite successfully until his death, which occurred for the first time of their murder. His legs :ind in 1876. feet being sore, the Indi:ins made leggings of deer skins and tted them on with hickory b:irk. He was then ten ye:irs old and rem:iined with the Indians in all four ye:irs before he made his BOSTON PRECINCT. escape. He was adopted into the Tccum~eh This p:irt of the county is ever memor:ible in family, the father of that noted chief bein~ the the Long Run Indi:in mass:icre which preceded Shawnee chief of that party, and the one who the terrible defeat sust:iined by General Floyd, adopted him. He was taken to Chillicothe, :ind who the d:iy :ifter with thirty-four of his men there granted his liberty on condition that he :ittemptcd the buri:il of the victims of the could run the gauntlet A fair chance was given m:iss:icre. And :ilso will this precinct not for­ him, and he would have succeeded had it not get the lament:ible disaster which occurred just been for a log nt the end of the race that pre­ one hundred ye:irs there:ifter, lacking eight d:iys, vented his mounting it successfully, and he was in the giving wnr of the bridge over Floyd's fork, struck by a war-club. He was next t:iken by sending :i lo:ided train of cars twenty feet two Indians and washed in the rin:r. This was into the terrible :1.byss below, killing eight per­ for the singular purpose of washing :ill the white sons outright :ind dangerously wounding m:iny blood out of him. It was done by two Indians more, m:iny of whom were of the most promi­ who alternately dipped and.,. ducked him until nent represent:itives of this precinct. _Floyd's , breath and hope were gone, nnd he ,,·ns defeat occurred September 17 1 1781. The then pronounced lndi:in :ind trained in thei r names of those who fell :ire not known, nor is hunting grounds :ind by their camp fi res. there much th:it is definite. The facts given He attempted several times to make his es­ wt>re furnished by Colond <.;. T. Wilcox, a cape, but failing in h is purpose would return. prominent citizen of northern Middletown pre­ He was finally purch:ised of the lndi:ins for cinct, who is :i descend:int of 'Squire Boone, being his gr:indson, and gle:ined some facts rela­ I twenty-four g:illons of whiskey. After his return 1•! to Louisville he fought the Indi:ins for seven tive to the terrible tr:igedy from Isaiah Boone, ye:irs; was in Wayne's army and the battle of his uncle, :ind son of 'Squire Boone. the river R:iistn, where he was again c:iptured, He w:is :it Floyd's defe:it. His father had HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. 53

built at a station on Cle:u creek two miles e~st of their c:ittle and losing their baggage and many where Shelbyville now is. His father, with several horses. Some rc:iched Linn's station that night, !'I ll others, had left Boonesboro in 1779 and settled :md a few Boone's. Boone and his party re­ in Boone's station. There w:is a station on mained in his station several days :after that be­ Bear Grass c:illed Bear Grass, three miles e:ist of fore they went down to Linn's. A few of the Louisville, and one eight miles from Louisville names of the killed on Long run ar~ the two called Linn station was on the pl:ice afterwards Miss Hansboro, sisters of Joel Hansboro, a Mr. owned by Colonel R. C. Anderson. McCarthy, a brother of Mrs. Ric Chenoweth, Boone's station at that time was the only and a Mrs. Vancleve, an :iunt of Colonel G. T. station between Linn's .and H:urods creek. 'Squire Wilcox. Boone's station. was about twenty-two miles east The next day Gener:il (then colonel)JohnFloyd, of Linn's station. Bland Ballard and Samuel Colonel (then captain) Wells, and Bland Ballard Wells at that time lived in the station and (afterwards major), and thirty-four others from General Floyd lived in that of Bear Grass. Linn's and Dear Grass stations went up to bury There were two couple to be married in Linn the de:id When they reached Floyd's fork, Bal­ station. Bland Ballard and a man named Carris lard s:iid to them: "You send a fow men and as­ went frpm Linn station to Brashear's station, cer_tain where the Indians are." He was, however, near the month of Floyds fork, now Bullitt overruled, and on they went. At the he:id of the ~: county, after a Baptist preacher, John Whitaker, ravin~ they were surrounded, and sixteen of their to marry them. This was the first legal marriage men were shot down at the first fire. Fourteen Jn this part of the county. In going ·over Bal­ were buried in one si nk. They began to retr~t. 1, lard discovered an Indian trail and was satisfied Isaac Boone s:iid when they reached the fork he r there was a large body of savages. He retraced discovered an Indian following him. He raised his steps to Linn station and sent word to Bear his gun, the Indian stepped behind a tree. Just Grass station, and then went to Boone's station :it that time General Floyd :ind Colonel Wells that night. They held a meeting and ·agreed to ome in sight, Floyd on foot and Wells on horse­ leave the station and go to Linn station. There back. Wt:lls said to Floyd: ''Take my horse." were a number of large families in Boone's sta­ Floyd, being large and fleshy, was much ex· tion at that time, viz., the Hintons, Harrises, hausted. They took to the bushes, and reached Hughes, Hansboros, Bryans, Vancleves, and the place selected should they be defeated. It ma:ny others. They could not all get ready to was near where Thomas Eider's new house now move the next day, but some were determined stand3, on the Shtbyville pike, about three miles to go. Squire Boone was not ready and could above Midctlctown. For some time prior to this, not prevail on them to wait another day. So Gener:il Floyd and Wells were not friendly. M~jor Ballard conducted this ~rty, lt:l\'ing Isaac Boone said: " General, th:it. brought you Squire Boone and a few families to come the to your milk." The gencr:il's reply "as: "You next day. When Ballard's party reached Lone :ire a noble boy; we were in n tight place.• run- he Wll$ attncked in the rear. H e went b:ick This boy was then but fourteen ,·ears of age, and to protect that 1):lrt of the train :ind drove the was at that time in Sims' station. The oecurrence Indians b:ick and held them in chtck as long as took place in September, 1781. he. could In going back he saw a man and his 'Squire Boone's wife's maiden n:ime was Jane wife by the namt of Cline, on the grc,und. He V:inclevc. Enoch Boone, their youngest son, told Cline to put his wife on the horse and hurry was born at Boonsboro, October 15,_i777, being on. They were in the bed of Lon~ run. Bal­ the first white male child born in Kentucky. He lard retlLrned in a short time to find Cline and died in Meade county, Kentucky, in 1861. his wife still on the ground. He put her on the 'Squire Boone died in 1815, and was, by his re­ horse and g:ive the horse a rap with his riding quest, buried in a cave in Harrison countr,, In· whip, :ind as he did so an Indian pulled a sack J inna. S:lrah Boone, mother of G. T. Wilcox. from the horse. Ballard shot the Indian and was the only daughter of 'Squire Boone. · She hurried to the front. Here he found a gre:it was married to John Wilcox .in 1791, and he many killed and the people scattered leaving settled upon, surveyed and improved ta11d pat· ~ HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES.

.-d in the n:une of &rah Boone by her father, quarter, and the work of removin'{ the ruins be­ • •iles north of Shelbyville. gan. The heavy timbers had first to be removed ~ Wilcox family had a paternal parentage before some bodies could be recovered, and the • George Wilcox, a Welcihman, who emigrated night was well nigh spent ere all were secured. to North Carolina in t 740. He married Eliza­ Some were crushed immediately to death, others 1 beth Hale, and by her had six children-George, injured, and some only fastened in by the heavy , Dafld. John, Isaac, Eliz, and Nancy, who came weights over them, and stran~e to say some were to Kentucky in · 1784- George, Jr., married not in the least hurt, save receiving a jar, incident Emal'Cth Pinchback; David married Sarah to the occasion. Unfortunately this number was Boone, sister to Daniel Boone; and John mar­ small. ried Sa:ah Boone, daughter of 'Squire Boone, The names of those killed itr,e . given below: • and mother of G. T. Wilcox. Phelim Neil, of Shelbyville, president of the road; William H. Maddox, city marshal of A WR.ECK. Shelbyville; Robert Jones, shoemaker, of Shelby- ' The second lamentable disaster which filled ville, and the father of a large family; Walker the minds of these citizens with di?may and Scearce, of Shelbyville, a young man very sue. hon-or occurred on the 8th of July, 1881, at cessful in business, whose death was much Floyd's Fork railroad bridge. The passenger regretted; Humbolt Alfo rd, a resident of Boston trains on the road running between Shelby· and a fine young lawyer of Louisville; James ville anp Louisville were unusually crowded, it Hardie, a resident of Boston and a highly re. being at the time of the exposition in the last spected citizen; a Mr. Perry, of Louisville, a named city. The train returning to Shelbyville boarder in the family of George Hall, near Bos­ was late, owing to some unaccountable delay, ton; and a gentleman from California, name not and was running with more than ordinary speed. known. It reached the bridge crossing Floyd's fork about Among those not hurt was a small girl named 8 o'olock in the evening. A. cow was standing Mary Little, who sat near a gentleman who was ir on the tr:ick just in front of the bridge, but before killed. She made her way out unscathed save she could be whistled off the engine struck her, in the loss of her clothing, which was greatly knocking her off and killing her instantly. The damaged by the water and considerably torn, shock .threw the engine off the track, and, being presenting herself before her mother's door with- close to the bridge, struck the corner of that out a hat, and in a somewhat sorry plight. Mr. suucture in such a way as to demolish it. The George Petrie, the conductor, was badly hurt train was still running at ·a high speed, all this at the time. There were about forty passengers happening in less time than it takes to write it. in all, and but fe,v escaped death or injury. The bridge went crashing down into the \Yater a The officials of the railroad were prompt in distance of twenty feet or more. The en:;inc, from rendering aid to tht: unfortunate ones, paying off the impetus given by its ,veight and rapid motion, all claims against the_m for the loss the sad mis- leaped full twenty feet-from where it first struck hap had occasioned, though the misfortune was the bridge, bringing the tender, baggage car, and not due in the least to any mismanagement of passenger coach down with it in a mingled mass their~. of timber, its load of human freight, . ai:id all. Boston is :i small place of only some ten fam­ II Heavy timbers from the bridge fell on every tlie~ precinct was formerly a part of side and on the crumbled mass of coaches, Fisherville. Esquire Noah Hobbes has been one • that now resembled a pile of kindling wood. of its magistrates, serving in that capacity for The terrible crash made by the falling of this sixeen years. His associate is Willia"\ Ral{l:O. train was heard for miles around, and ins:inct­ His son J. F. Hobbes was school commissioner ively the citizens surmised the difficulty and six years. immediately set out for the scene of the disas­ The old B:iptist chu1ch on U>ng run 1s one of l• ter. Telegrams were immediately despatched to the oldest churches west of Lexington. This so- Louisville and Shelby\'ille for assistance, and it ciety was organized during the pioneer times. was not Jong before hdp gathered in from every Rev. Henson Hobbes, a Viri;inian by birth, HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. 55

and a good man, officiated here as mm1ster Miss Jane Boone Wilcox, of Shelby county. and died in 1822 or 23- He had four sons all Daniel Boone, the "old Kentucky pioneer," was preachers. He was among the first settlers on a great-uncle of Mrs. Beckley. She was his the ground The old church building was a nearest relative in Kentucky at the time of his frame. The one now in use is of briclc and was burial. Mr. and Mrs. Beckley have had six chil­ built full thirty years ago. dren, three of whom are living: Sarah A., John The Methodist Epicopal church was built but H., George W., R!ismus G'., Edwin C., William (our. years ago. R Sarah, John, and Edwin are deceased. The following may be mentioned as among George was captain in the First Kentucky regi­ the early preachers of Boston precinct: Revs. ment. Mr. and Mrs. Beckley are members of Sturgeon, Hulsey, Joel Hulsey, John Dale, and the Baptist church. Matt Powers, who has been preaching now in Noah Hobbs was born in Jefferson county, the Baptist church for twenty years. Rev. John August 12, 1818. His father, James Hobbs, Whittaker was among the early preachers, being was a native of Shelby count)". Mr. Hobbs, the here during the time of the massacre. subject of this sketch, worked at the carpenter trade till he was about forty years of age. He BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. came upon the farm, where we now find him, John L Gregg was born in Shelby county, twenty-four years ago. He was married in 1840 July 7, 1838. His father, William Gregg, was to Miss Elizabeth .frazier, of Shelby county. one of the early pione_ers of Kentucky. Mr. They have had three children, only one of whom Gregg has a farm of four hundred and eighty acres is living: Alonzo, Horatio C., and James F. o( excellent land. He is engaged in general Alonzo and Horatio arc dead. James F. is a farming. He was married September 15, 1859, to Free Mason, and was school commissioner six ldi-5s Susan Ho~, of Shelby county. They have years. Mr. Hobbs has served as magistrate seven children. Mr. and Mrs. Greig are mt'm· sixteen ye:m. bers of the Baptist church. He is a f rec A J. Sturgeon ff"as born in this county in 18,p. Mason. His father, S. G. Sturgeon, an old resident, was John T. Little was born November 26, 1832, born here in 1811. Seven of his children arc in Jefferson county, and has always resided in now living, viz: Sarelda, wife of R T. Proctor, the State with the exception of siic years in John­ of this county; A. J. Sturgco,1; Melvina, wife of son e-0unty, Indiana. · His grandfather, Joseph David Cooper, Shelby county; Robert S.; Flor­ / Keller, a native of Virginia, was an early pioneer, ence, wife of George Cochran, of this county; and the old stone house in which he li,·ed is still Simpson, and Katie. A. J. .Sturgeon married mnding._ and a crevice made by an earthquake Miss Sue D. Elder, of this county, in 1866. in 1810 or 1812, is yet quite noticeable. His They have six children: Maudie, Eugene, Adah, F.ther, John Little, was born in Maryland, about Nellie, Edward, and J..ois. Both Mr. and Mrs:. forty mites from Baltimore. In 1866 Mr. Linlc, Sturgeon arc members of the Baptist cburcli. the subject of this sketch, went to Louisville, Mr. Sturgeon also belongs to the Masons and where be was enga&cd in the grocery business Knights of Honor. He has been deputy assessor and as manufacturer of plug tobacco about ten three years. years; then moved to Boston precinct where ht is ~till in business. Mr. Little was married in 1866 to Miss Eliza Cochran, of Louisville. They VALLEY PRECINCT. have two children. A. G. Beckley 11·as born in Shelby county in George W. Ashby was born in Spencer county, 1810, and resided here until 1855, when he came Kentucky, in the year 1821. In 1855, or when to Jefferson county. and settled in Boston precinct in his thirty.fifth year, he came to Jefferson on a farm of two hundred and firty acres of excd­ county and located in Valley precinct near Val­ lent land His father, Henry Beckley, was a noti\·e ley Station on the Cecelia branch of•the Louis­ of Maryland, and came to Kentucky in an early ville & Nashville 1ailroad. In the year 1857 he day. He was married December 18, 1832, to was married to Miss Eliza J. Kennedy, of Jeffer- 56 HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES.

son county. She died in 187 5, leaving bec;ides Germany, in the year 1828. In 1852 ·he carne her husband a family of three children. The to Kentucky. He was married to Miss Mar. father of George Ashby was Mr. Beady Ashby, garet J. Smith, who died in 1878, leaving a who came t~ Kentucky when a boy. family of two daughters. 'Squire Rohr is one of :William L Hardin was born in Jclforson the foremost men in the neighborhood in which county, Kentucky, in the year 1829. He ha~ he lives, and is well deserving the good name be been thrice married: in 1854 to Miss Elizabeth bears. Philipps, a daughter of Mr. Jacob Philipps of Henry Mayb:ium was born in Prussia in the Jefferson county; in 1860 to Mrs. Swindler; re:ir 1833. His father, Charles Maybaum, emi. in 1875 to Miss Mollie Finley, of Louisville. grated to America in 1834. He first settled in They have a family of four children. The first Ohio, where he rem:iined until 1847. In that representative of the Hardm family who settled year he removed to Louic;villc, where for a nurn. in the county was the grandfather of the subject ber of years he followed tanning. He died in of this sketch, Mr. Jacob Hardin, who came to Upper Pond, in 1863. Henry was marrit!d in the Falls of the Ohio seventy or seventy-five 1862 to ·Miss Mary Toops, of Indiana. She years ago. The father :>f William I~ Hardin, died in 1864, leaving one daughter, Emma. He Benjamin Hardin, was born in Jefferson county. w:is again married in 1866 to Miss Sarah A. Mr. Hardin lived the early part of his life in Hollis, by whom he h:is two children. He is in Louisville, where he worked at his trade, that the gener:il mercantile business at Orel, on the of a plasterer, since which time he has lived on Cecelia branch of the Louisville & Nashville his farm near Valley Station. railroad. Mansfield G. Kendall was born in Lower Elias R. Withers was born in Hardin county, Pond settlement, near where Valley Stationnow Kentucky, in the year 1811 . . In 1838 he moved ~. stands, September 9, 1815. In 1847 he was to Louisville, where for thirty-seven years he . married to Miss Eliza Jones, a daughter of Cap· lived, acting as a steamboat pilot between that I tian Henry Jones, of Jefferson county. The result city and New Orleans. At the close of that of this marriage was a family of five hoys, two of time, or in 1855. he bought the farm \\-hich whom are still living. Henry J., who lives on he still owns and on which · he resides near the old homestead, follows the mercantile busi­ Orel. He was married in 1838 to Miss M. J. ness. The other, Lewis, is a farmer. .Mr. Davis, of Louisville. They have six children, Kendall followed the business of a wagon-m:iker, five of whom are living. until his retirement a few ye:irs since. His Alanson Moorman w:is born near Lynchburg. father's name was R:ildgh Kendall, who. settled Virginia, in the year 1803. He is the youngest in Lower Pond many years previous to the birth of eight children of Jesse Moorman, who came of the subject of this sketch, when there were from Virgini:t to Kentucky in 1807, and settled

only four or five families in that region. Mr. in Meade county. In 1827 Mr. Moorman was ) Henry KendJll m:irried Miss Margaret M. Lowe, married to Miss Rachel W. Stith. They have ' of Springfield. ·Lewis married Miss Frederira ten children living. Since coming to this county Trinlere, of New Alb:iny. he has been engaged principally in farming his Lynds Dodge was born .in the State of New '1:trge estate on the Ohio river near Orel. Mr. York in the year 1829. When yet a young m:m l\loorman is widely know'n as a man of ability he came to Jefferson county, Kentucky, and and strict intcgritr. • contracted for the building of the first ten miles Mrs. Mary C. Aydelott is the widow of George out from Louisville of the Louisville & Nashville K. Aydelott. He was born at Corydon, In· railroad. H e has followed contracting, with the di:tn:i, October 24, 1S zo. In the fall of 1843 exception of a short time sp.:>nt on the river. he moved to Kentucky and located in Meade He married Gabrella Walker, of Jefferson county. county, where he followed farming until the year They have eight children. W:trren Dodge is 1864. In that year he bought the farm which ·.1 well knowri as the m~rchant and postmaster at is still the residence of his family, on the Ohio, Valley Station. twelve miles below Louisville. On the 23d day

Frederick Rohr, Esq., was born in Baden, of November, 18431 he was married to Miss HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES: S7

Mary C. McCord, of Strasburgh, Shenandoah He was killed by being thro~n ·from a buggy in county, Virginia. Mr. Aydelott died December 1859, at the advanced age of nmety three years. 3, 1880, leaving a family of three sons and one Anthony Miller is the seventh of ten children daughter. The eldest, Robert H., is a member of Robert Miller, who came to Jefferson county of the firm of McCord, Boomer & Co., of Louis· in about the year 1800. Anthony Miller was ville: The second, George W., has been five born February 5, 1816. He served, when a years connected with the hat trade in New youth, an apprtnticeship at the plasterer's trade, Albany, but is now running the home farm. The and has since worked at it considerably during others are at home. the greater part of his life. In connection with George Alsop was the first of the Alsop family this he has farmed, and has lived on his farm in m Kentucky. At an early day he came from Valley precinct for the last thirty-five years. On Virginia, bringing with him a family consisting the 4th of July, 1842, he was married to Ellen of his wife and several children. He, however, Camp, a native of Louisville. He is the father left one son, Henry, in Virginia. He there of nine children, five of whom are living-Cas­ married Miss Mary Jones, and in the year 1828 sandra, Myra, Anthony, Weeden, and Will followed his father to the West They had five children, three sons and two daughters, one of whom, Gilford Dudley, went to Louisville in 183 r, to learn the cabinet business, he then being four­ teen years of age. He was married in 1842 to WOODS PRECI NtT. Miss Nancy H. Moore, a granddaughtet ot Col­ John Harrison, Esq., was born in Shelby onel James Moore. They have six children county, Kentucky, in 1809. When he was about living, all but one married. Mrs. Alsop died in eleven years of age his father, William Harrison, 1876, in her sixtieth year. moved to Jefferson county, where he lived until The first representative of the Lewis family in his death, which occurred about thirty years ago. Kentucky was Mr. Thomas Lewis, who came 'Squire Harrison was married Septe~ber 4, 1834, aom Virginia at a very early day, bringing with to Miss Mary Ann Kendall, a daughter of him bis family, consisting of two sons and one Raleigh Kendall, of Lower Pond. They have daughter. The sons were Henry and James, six children living, all married He was for nine who lived and died on their farms m Lower years a justice of the peace, having been elected Pond settlement Henry married a Miss Myrtle, to the office four times. Has also been assessor of Virginia. He died in 1836, his wife following of Jefferson county for sixteen years and has some years later. They left six children, four of held many offices in the gift of the people. whom are still living. One of these is Mr. Captain Eli P. Farmer was born in Monon­ Thomas Lewis, who was born in 1809; was mar­ galia county, West Virginia, in 1819. In 1823 ried, in 1837, to Miss Margaret Morris, of Eliza­ his father came to Ki:ntucky and located in Jef­ bethtown, Kentucky; she died in 1867, leaving ft:rson county. He was, however, a Kentuckian beside her husband a family of seven children, by birth, being born near Lexi11gton, in 1791, six of whom arc still living; four are citizens of and was one of the pioneers of the State. He Jefferson county, one in Florida, and one in Vir­ was married to Miss Sarah Price, of Virginia. gi nia. by whom he had six children. Two are still Edmund Bollen Randolph was born in J effer­ living; one is in Texas ; the other, the subject san county in 1837. He was married in 1872, of this sketch, Captain Farmer, was married to Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson, of Jefferson county. in 1845 to Miss Sarah A. Gerking, of Jefferson She is the daughter of Mr. John Griffith. 'Squire county, by whom he has eight children, four of Randolph is the son of Mr. William . Randolph, ' wh om are married. He was an officer in the who settled in Je ffo:rson county about the begin­ Thirty-fourth Kentucky infantry, and served ning of the present century, and who was one of about one year in the First cavalry. . the county's most prominent early time m~n. He was a pensioner of the War of 1812, and was one of " Mad " Anthony Wayne's soldiers. g 58 HISTORY OF THE ()HTO F.-\1.15' C'Ol'~TTE:-. ------·----·---- ... -- - --· CROSS ROADS. John Terry was horn m \" irginia in IRIo. In Thomas Milton· Beeler, Esq., was born in 1811 his lather, Jose1,h Terry, cmi~rated to Jefferson county, Kentucky, in 1833. His father Kentucky, seuling on :0.1cC'awlev's creek, in Jef. was John C. Beeler, who came with his father, ferson rounty. He was married in 18,10 to :,.[iss Charles Beeler, to Mann's I .icks at a very early ;\l:lrgartt :\lcCawler, daughter of Joshua Mr. day, supposed to have been somewhere in the ('awlcy, of the same county. She died in 1865 1 nineties. The grandson · and suhjec:t of this leaving seven childr<·n, all of whom are married: sketch was married in 185510 Miss Margaret A. the youngest of whom, Taylor 'frrry, married Standiford, a daughter of 'Squire David Standi­ :O.liss :\1111ie E. :\kCawley, and now li\'es on the ford, who was one of the earliest settlers or home place. Jefferson county, and for a long time a magistrate. i\lrs. Elizabeth Young is the widow of Mr. 'squire Beeler has been blessed with a family of Theodore \\". Young. who was born in I .exington nine childre~-all now living. He has filled the in 1818. \Vhen he was a young man he c:ame to magistrate's office for six years. I .ouisville. He was a tanner by trade and began The first representative <•f the McCawley family the tanning business on Pe~nsyh'ania run, in Jelfer. in Kentucky was James McC,lwley, who came to son county. This he followed up to the time of Jefferson county from Virginia, when it was still his marriage to Miss Pendergrass in 1831. He included in the State of Virginia. From an ac­ then settled on the old Pendergrass farm, where count of provisions purchased for the use of the he lived until the time of his death, in 1875. fort at Harrodsburg from December 16, 1,77, to Mrs. Young is the daughter of Mr. Jesse Pender­ October 18, 1778, we find that he was living in gras~. and granddaughter of Colonel James F. that neighborhood at.the time. From there he Moore, of Salt Lich fame. Her brother, Com, came to Jefferson county. In after years he 11,nJore Pendergrass, died while in rommand of went back East, and returned, bringing with him the na\'r yard at Philadelphia during the Rebel­ the first wooden wagon ever seen in this region. lion. Her grantlfather, Garrell Pendergrass, His cabm was located on the place now owned was killed by Indians at H:modsburg when on by his grandson, Ur. B. F. McCawley, near the his way to I .ouisvilll' in the year 17 77. Mr. and little creek which still bears his name. He was Mrs. Young were lih.:$sed with a family of nine frequently attacked by the Indians, ·and at c,ne children, four oi whom are niam'!d and citizens v~ time lost a valuable horse by their cornt:ring the of J elferson count}' anundce, Scotland. Mrs. He was a farmer by occupation. His wife was Heatle)' died in 1871, leaving three chit­ Miss H<.nch, of a Virginia" family, who died in dren, two daughters and one son. T he latter 1838. Colonel Mccawley died of cholera :n is dead. One daughter is at home, the other, his home, in July, 18 50. They left two sons and Mrs. Mitchell, in :O.li~sissippi. :\fr. Heatley now ~wo daughter~, the old\.·St of whom, Colonel lives on his farm on the !:;hepardsvillc pike, south George \\'. :\fcCawley, was killed while leading of the city of J ,oui~villc. • the se~·enth charge of the brigade:: he was cum­ :\I rs. .\la rt ha Farman w:is born in :\ladison manding, against Hooker"s corps at l\:ach Tn:e rounty, Kentu <' ky, in the rt:ar 1840. She is the creek. The sel'oml, lknj:unin F. .\h-C:twk y, Jaughter of .\Ir. James l.n;.::.Jun, who ,ame to was born at the !\lc('awh:y h11nk·~k:1d in 1 :-i., ;. Jdft:r:<011 rn1111ty in 1850 ..111<.l made it hi\ home In 185S he graduated at 1hc Kentlh ky :-iclwul 1,f up 111 thl· 1 imc of hi~ 1k,llh, w!,i<'h 1><.·curr<·d in .l\[edirine, since whi<'h time he h.1- ll\·l·d on th.: .\u;.:11,t, 1s;5 I Ii, wile . .\l.11ild.1, f.ill1111t:J him '• ol

Ann Eliza Brook,; is the only daughter of Isaac to Miss Lydia McGee, a dau~hter of Patrick and Catharine Brooks. Mr. Broolts was born in McGee, of Spencer county. They had two chil­

Pennsylvania in 17981 and came with his father dren, a son, Dr. J. P., 'and a daughter, to Bullitt county, Kentucky, when but a boy. Trajctta, wife of Mr. Ly.man Parks, who died in He was married in 1823 to Miss Catharine Fry, 1880. Mr. Cotton died in 1878; his wife in then in her eighteenth year. Mr. Brooks died 1879. Dr. James P. Cotton was born in Jeffer­ of consumption in r 844, Mrs. Brooks surviving son county, Kentucky, in 1829. He graduated him thirty-five years. They left, besides the at the Louisville universi~y in the class of 1853 subject of this sketch, two sons, the eldest of and 1854. He practiced his profession until whom, Shepard W., is a citizen of Bullitt county; he arrived at his thirtieth year, since which time the other, James B., lives in Kansas. he has been engaged upon his estate in fruit Mr. Edmund G. Minot was born in Nelson farming on a large scale. county, Kentucky, March 7, 1827. He is a son The first member of the Hawes family who of Major Spence Minor, a soldier of 1812, who settled here was Mr. Peter Hawes, who was born came to Kentucky with his father from Loudoun in Maryland, and came to Jefferson county, county, Virginia, in 1797. His mother was Miss Kentucky, at a very early day, settling on Floyd's Mary Guthrie, a daughter of General Adam fork. His son, Be.njamin, was born in 1793 and Guthrie, who was a soldier against the Indians, died in 1869. Benjamin left a family of eight and came to Louisville at a very early day. Mr. children-Isaac W., J ames, Benjamin, Jessie R, Minor has been twic~ married-in 1851 to Miss Peter, Harrison, and Mrs. Kyser. Sarah Stone, and in 1854 to Miss Mary Wagley, Mrs. Mary A. J ohnson is the widow of Mr. who was born October_ 13, 1833. She is the William M. Johnson, who was born _in Scott daught~ of George and Eliza Wagley, of Frank­ county, Kentucky, in 1818, and died in 1878. fort. They have _seven children. Mr. Minor's Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were married in 1842, business is that of a farmer, although he was her maiden name being Seabolt They were marshal of the chancery court in 1880, and has blessed with a family of six children, all of whom bttn deputy since 1875. are married. Mrs. Susan G. Heafe; is the widow of Mr. Mr. William P. Welch was born on Pennsyl­ George W. Heafer, who was born in Abottstown, vania run, in J efferson county, Kentucky, August Pennsylvania, in 1791 •• In i8u he emigrated 7, 1797. His father, Andrew Welch, emigrated to Kentucky, stopping at Louisville, where he to that settlement about one hundred years ago. lived until 1829- In 1823 he removed to his He hiid married, before leaving Pennsylvania, farin near Newburg post-office, where. he Hved Miss Eleanor Patterson. He left a family of until the time of his death, which occurred in eight children, of which William is the only sur­ July, 1877. He was married in 1827 to Miss viving member. \Villiam was married, in 1848, Susan G. Shiveley, a daughter of one of Jeffer­ to Mrs. Elizabeth J. Cunningham, a daughter of son county's earliest settlers-Philip Shiveley. Mr. Elijah Applegate, of Jefferson county. They They had two children, one son and one daugh- · have had one child, Eliza Eleanor, who married ter. The son, George R. C. Heafer, was mar­ Thomas B. Craig, and died in July, 1880. MT. ried to Miss Julia Jones, of Jefferson county. Welch remembers early incidents very well, and Both he and his wife are dead, leaving a family well remembers being in Louisville before t~ere of three children. The daughter is Mrs. Joseph were any pavements in the city. · · Hite, of the same county, and ha~ nine children. The first representative of the Robb family in Mrs Heafer is now in her seventy-third year and Kentucky was· Mr. James Robb, who came to still lives on the old homestead. Mud Creek, Jefferson county, from Penn­ Mr. William K. Cotton was born in Indiana sylvania. He was originally from Kentucky. in 1805. In 1826 he came to Kentucky, first liv­ He left eleven chilrlren, all of whom settled in ing in Spe.ncer county, where he remained until Indiana excepting Henry, who spent most of his his removal to Louisville in 1853. In 1860 he eventful life of eight)'-three years in J efferson bough·t the John Seabolt farm on Fern creek, nine county, Kentucky. He was born in Pennsyl­ miles from the city. He was married in 1828 vania m 177 8, and was twice married. His first

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356 HISTORY OF THE .OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. of his services, February 19th, he anointed one Canal & Water-power Company, for the building- hundred and ninety invalids, and one hundred of a canal from deep water above the city todctp and seventy-six made their confession. water below, thus forming a water-route aroulld Mr. John H. Ryan, an immigrant to Louisville Louisville of about six miles' length, and cutting from Philadelphia in 1837, and a successful off the Falls, if deemed best, and partially the leather merchant here for many yea~, died old canal, as a means of transit for steamers, be- J anuary 25th. . sides furnishing an 1mmens~ amount of water. On the next day Joseph Clements,. Esq., was power, and draining the southern part of the stricken with heart disease in the recess of the city, where some of the old ponds still are. It IS St. Nicholas Hotel, while waiting for a street thought the canal will be made from a pomt near car, and died in a few minutes. H e came to the the water-works to the mouth of Paddy's Run. city about 1842, was one of the editors of the April 3d, the bill for a new Government bnild. Louisville Daily Dime, then a lawyer and finally ing in Louisville=, to cost $800,000, passed the a justice of the peace for nearly thirty years, be­ Federal H ouse of Representatives. April 5th, ing at the tin:ie of his death the oldest magistrate the State Medical Society met in the Young m the city. Men's Christian Association Hall, with Dr. J. Professor Noble Butler, a te:icher of high re­ W. Holland, of Louisville, presiding. April 6th, pute in Louisville since 1839, Md author of the pupils of the Girls' High School had an inter­ several succes~ful tt:xt-books, died at his "Home esting series of memorial exercises, in honor to School " on Walnut street, F ebruary 12th. the gemus and virtues of the poet Longfellow, A great flood camt: in Febru:iry, working more then recently deceased. mischief on the river front than any other that In the early days of April there was renewed ever visited Louisville. It reached its highest agitation of the question of removal of the State on the 22d, when it was thirty-two and one-half capital from Frankfort to Louisville. A propo­ fet:t above low water at the head of the canal, sition to issue $1,000,000 in the city's bonds, to and fifty-s ix :ind one-half feet in the channel meet the expenses oi removal, was submitted to depth at the foot of the Falls. Though not the vote on the 8th and appro\"ed by 3,053 to 1, 133- hight:st, it was accounted the most disastrous in 0nly one precinct of the city, th~ first of the und:ition that evt:r visited the Ohio Valley. First Ward, cast a majority against it. February 25th, died Dr. -E. D. Foree, one of Our record closes on the 10th of April. the most eminent physicians of Loui~ville. H e is the subject of a biographical notice elsewhere. February 28th, the Grand Lodge of the An­ cient Order of United Workmen for Kentucky met at the Liederkranz Hall. March 5th, the steamer James D. Parker is CHAPTER XIV. wrecked upon the Falls, in the Indiana chute, THE ANCIENT SUBURBS. just below the railway bridge. M,m;h 8th, death Campbc.llton - Its Foundations - Be<:omes Shippingport - of Henry Clay Pindell, a prominent lawyer of Survey and r1auing L,y llcrthoud-Sale to the Tar.. scons­ Populntion in 1810 and 1830-lts l>c~-adence- The "Ken· the city. The same day a boat's crew frnm the tucky Giant "'-Notices by McMurtrie, Faux the Traveler, Gc vernment lif.:-saving station go over the dam, and Ogden. Portland-Its Beginnings, Rise, Progress. out without loss of life. Mardi 12th, the corner and Absorption into Louisville- Notices by Casseday and stone of the new Colored Baptist church, on D-.ma- The Flood or 1882. Centre street, between Chestnut and Broadway, Before passing to the special chapters in which was laid in the presence o f an immense throng certain great interests of the city of Louisville and several colored Masonic lodges. March are to receive separate attention, some notice of 15, Philip Pfau, Esq., an old and wt:11-known the two towns formerly independent, but now citizen and magistrate( dic:d from the effects of embraced within the city limits, seems to be de- injuries received February 26th, by falling manded. / through a cellar way. During this month an act SHIPPINGPORT passed the Legislature chartering the I .ouisville was the first of these, in the order of time, as it t HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. 357

' ~ j once was also in importance. The site of this people. One of its chief industries, that con­ lies upon the primitive two-thousand.acre tract cerned with the "postage of goods around the of Colonel Campbell, from which fact is apparent Falls, being thus destroyed, it naturally fell rap­ the fitness of its original name of" Campbellton," idly into d«!cadence. taken when it was founded in 1785, only seven The town was regularly incorporated in 1829, vears after General George Rogers Clark landed but ultimately lost its separate existence, and his troops and colonists amid the canebrakes of was merged in the grasping growth of the neigh­ Corn Island. It lies, as all residents of Louis­ boring city, with which its beginnings were almost ville know, between the rapids and canal, and de­ contemporaneous. rived its second name of Shippingport, which was One of the most famous men of Shippingport given it in or before 1806, from its situation fa. was Porter, the "Kentucky Giant," who was ex­ voring the transhipment of freight from that point hibited for years, and then became a saloon­ around the Falls on the Kentucky shore, before keeper and hackman at the Falls. A notice the canal was made. The title has altogether lost was given him by Charles Dickens, in the its significance, since the construction of that American Notes, which will be found in our great work. Much of the site is subject to over­ annals of Louisvillt's Seventh Decade. flow in time of high water, and many houses and NOTICES OF SHIPPINGPORT. the mills on the lower ground were thoroughly The earliest of these, which has come to our flooded during the recent inundation of 1882. knowledge, is given by Dr. Murtrie, in his Sketches A few cabins were erected in Campbelltpn of Louisville, published m 1819. He says: during 1785 and subsequently; but the place This important place is situated two mile, below Louisville, made small progress for ten years. It was regu­ immediately at the foot of the r.. pids, and is built upon the larly surveyed and platted by Woodrough in beautiful plain or bottom which commences at the [oldl 1804, upon a plan drawn up by Valcom; and the mouth of lkargrass creek, through which, under the brow lots were advertised for sale. The streets run­ of the second bank, the contemplated canal will in all proba­ aliility be cut [ a prediction verified to the letter l The town ning with general parallelism to the river were originally consisted of forty-five acres, but it has since re­ Front (sixty fc;et wide), Second and Third (fifty reived con:;iderable additions. The lots are 75 x 144 feet, the feet each), Market (ninety, evidently with the avcr.i.ge prke of which at present is from forty 10 fifty dollars per foot, according 10 the advantages of its situation. The Louisville view of placing markets m the middle streets are all laid out at.right angles; those th:\t run parallel of it), Tobacco (sixty), Bengal and Jackson to the riser, or ne.irly so, are eight in number and vary frum (thirty each), and Hemp (sixty). The streets thirty to ninety feet in width. These are all intersected by twelve-feet alleys, running par:i.llcl to them, and by fifteen running at right angles to these were Mill and cross strt!

presents a good mooring-ground, capable of containing any has already cost its owner, Mr. Tarascon, $•50.000, and when number of vessels, of any burthen, and completely sheltered completed it will rr.anufacturc five hundred barrels of flour from every wind. Rock lsl,,nd, which forms the northern per day. Immediately abo,·e is a line of mill-seats, extend. boundary of this basin, is a safe landing-place, where boats ing two thousand six hundred aud sixtv-two feel, affordinr frequently receive their cargoes, which are carried over the 5ites for works of that description wh ich, if erected, would Kentucky chute. This is only, however, when the water is be able join1ly to produce two thousand b.irrels in the twenty. low. The channel by Sandy Jsla~. which offers a pleasant four hours. Some experiments are now making by the and commod.ious situation for repairing vessels, was ob· owner, in order 10 determine the possibility or having a .cries structed by a nest of snags, which probably had existepelled for centuries, and had been the cause of considerable loss of by the force or the cur~ent only. Should he succeed, he in­ properly by sinking boats, which, from the swiftness of the tends extending his works and 10 employ this power for cot­ current, it was hardly possible to steer clt>ar of them. Last ton-spinning, fulling, weaving, etc. summer, however, Mr. 1. A. Tarascon, al his own expense and with considerable difficulty, succeeded in raising and Mr. Faux, the " English Farmer" pefore men­ removing them. The whole front or the town will be im­ tioned as here in 1819, says m his Memorable proved this summer by the addition of wharves, which will Days in America: facilitate the loading and unloading of steamboats that are \ I rode in a hackney coach to Shippingport, a sort of ham- constantly arriving from below. let of Louisville, standing on the margin of the river, oppo. Dr. McMurtrie gives the following view of the site to a flourishing new town on· the other side, called le~ding industries of the place in and before Albion (New Albany}. in Indiana. Counted from twel~e to sixteen elegant steamboats aground, waiting for water. 18 19: The passage down from hence to Orleans is $75, a There were formerly here, as at Louisville, a number of price which competition and the unnecessary number of boats rope-walks, which are at present nearly all abandoned, there built will gre-,llly reduoe. Entered a low (but the best) tavem not being a sufficiency of hemp raised in the county to sup­ in Shippingport, intending, if I liked it, 10 board and wait ply the manufacturers. This has arisen from the great losses here for the troubling of the waters; but, owing to the mean­ sustained in the sales of corda:e, which has discour.iged the ness or the company and provisions, I soon left and returned rope-maker, and consequently offered no inducement 10 the 10 headquarters at Louisville. The travder, who must larrner to plant an article for which there was but li1tle de· necessarily often mix with the very dregs or society in this mand. coun1ry, should be prep.ired with plain clothes or the dress NAPOLEON OTSTILLERY.-This is conducted by a gentle­ or a mechanic, a gen1lem:.nly appearance only exciting un­ man from Europe, whose long experience ancl perfect knowl­ friendly or curious feelings, which defeat its object and make edge of the business enables him 10 fahricate the different his superiority painful. kinds of distilled waters. cordials, liqueurs, etc., which have Mr. Gi:orge W. Ogden, whose volume of Let­ been pronounced by connoisseurs from Martinique and the ters from the West has already been cited, gave Gallieres de Bois to want nothing but age 10 render them equal to anything or the kind presc:nted in either of those the village this notice in the summer of 1821, I places. when here: MERCHANT MANUFACTURING Mll.L. - Tl,is valuable A hule below, on the Kentucky side, is a small place called mill is remarkable, not only for its· size and the quantity of Shippingport. Here boats bound down the river generally flour it is calcul.,ted 10 manufacture when complett'd, but for land for the purpose or leaving tt,e pilot and of obtaining in­ the beauty of its machinery. which is said' to ht' the most formation relative 10 the markets below. It is but a few I perfect specimen of the rn,llwright's abilities to . IJC found in ye,•.rs ~ince Ship,prngport was a wilderness. but since its com­ I this or any other country. The foundations were commenced mencement i1s increase has IJeen unparalleled, and ii bid.s fair in J une, 1815, and were ready to receive the enormous super­ to rival even Louisvi;J~ in commerce and m.inufactures. Be­ structure only in the spring of 1817. The building is divided low this town, for fifty miles, the river is truly beautiful. into six stones, corn;iderably higher than is usual, there being Near the rapids is situated Fort Steuben. one hundred and two feet from the first 10 the six th. Wag­ &ons containing the wheat or othel\ grain for the mill arc driven under an arch, which comm;tnds the hopper or a scale; into which it is discharged and .,,.cighed at the rate of seventy· five bushels in ten minuti,s. From this it is conveyed by ele­ PORT LAND. vators to the sixth story. where, after passing through a The site of this place was the property of Gen· scr...en, it is depo,ited iu the g:\rncrs; if manufacrur;ng, from thence into a "rubber" or a new construction, whence it is era! William Lylit: when, in 1814, it was surveyed conveyed into a large screen, and thenc-e to the stones. and plattc-d undt:r his direction l,y Alexander When ground, it is re-conveyed by elevators to the hoppcr­ Ralston. An addition was laid out in 1 817, for . boy, in the sixth story, whence, after bt'ing cooled, it de· the same proprietor, by Joel Wright. A pi:culiar scends to the bolting cloths, the btan being depc.sued in a gallery on the left and the shorts in another to the right. division prevailed in the town-plat, the two parts The flour being divided into fine, superfine, and middlings, being known as "Portland proper," and "the en· I is precipitated into the packing chests, whence it is delivered largement of Portland.': The lots in the "proper'' to the barrels, which an, filled wirh great rapidity by a pack, ing press. . plat were of hall-acre size, and sold readily for This noble and useful establishment is not yet finished, an d $zoo each, increasing tn price by 18 19 to $500 HISTORY OF THE OHIO FALLS COUNTIES. 359

to $1,000. The enlargement comrrised lots thoroughly flooded, and · many cattle drowned, fifty per cent. larger, or three-fourths of :tn acre while more suffaed untold _agonies, while stand­ in size, and the price at first corresponded, being ing for many hours in water up to their heads. $300 apiece. They did not appreciate, however, ih the same ratio as those of the older Portland, as they were selling at $500 to $600 in 1819. During this year McMurtric's Sketches said of Portland: But a small portion of this cxtcn,ive place is as yet occu· pied by houses. Some very handsome ones, however, are CHAPTER XV. now erecting in Portland pro()"r, and among them a v,•ry ex· RELIGION IN LOUISVILLE. tensive brick warehouse. belonging to C:iptain H. M. lntroduc1ory-Method1sm Earliest to Org.,nize here-The 5bn:ve. The property m this pl.ice h"s lately aurnctcd the First l\lethodist Episcopal Church-Methodist Reformed attention or a numbt-r of wealthy men, who seem determined Church- Trinity (.'hnpel-First German ,\·lethodist Epis­ to improve to the utmost every advantage it possesses. and copal Church-Divi\ion or the Churches North and South as it is not so ~ub;ect to inun4ation a~ some of the adjoining - West Broadw:oy Methodist Eph,copal Church-St. James places. its future destinii-s may be considered as those of a Afric.~n '.\lethodi:.t Episcopal Ch~rch-Biogmphical Notices highly flouri shing and important town. of B.iscom, Holman, Crouch, Stevenson, Kavanaugh, In 1830 Portland had a population of 398, Parsons. and Sehon. Roman Catholicism-The Diocese not quite three-fourths that of Shippingport. of Louisville-Its Bishop-Removal from Bardstown to Louisville- The Si:.ters of C,,nrity-The Jesuits-First Thirty years later, however, it had forged far Catholic Church in Louisvi lle--Lo<·.il Development of ahead of that ancient burg, and numbered 1,706 Catl:olicism-lts Congregations. Convents, Schools, Etc.­ inhabitants. Long before this, however, in 1837, Church and Convent of St. Louis Bertrand-SL Xavie.r·s the encroachments of growing Louis\·ille de­ Institute-Notices or Aishops Spalding and McCloskey, and Father A~II. The Baptists- The First (Walnut­ manded the extinction of Portland as a separate street) Church-1::.tst Church - Jefferson,street Church­ municipality, and it has since shared the fortunes, Hope Church Broadway Church-Southern Baptist The­ for good or ill, of its larger and older sister. It ological Seminary- Notices or Manly, Warder, Arnold, J. L. and J. C. Waller. Burrows, and Pratt. Presby· had been incorporated only three years, or since terianism- The First Church- The Second-The Portland 1834. Avenue-Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church-The Mr. Cassed:iy, writing his History of Louts· Mutual Assurance Fund-Notices of Smith, Bre<:kcn­ 'ville about 1851, said of this place: ridge, Humphrey, Jones. and Lowry. The Christian Church-The First- The Second-Notice of Tyler. The It has fulfilled the office of a suburb to Louisville, but has Episcopahans-Christ Church-St. Paul's- St. Stephen's never at any time held prominent importance among towns, Miss.ion- Biography or Rev. Dr. Norton, and Notices of and is chiefly worthy or notice now as a point or lar,ding for Ors. Crouch, Peers, and Perkins. Unitarianism- The lhe largest class or New Orleans boats at seasons when the Church of the Messiah-Notice of the Rev. Dr. Hey­ stage or the river will not allow them to pass over the rapids. wood. J udaism-Notice or Rabbi Kleebcrg. Notes of Although it was at one time predicted that "its future desti. r847-Religion in Louisville in 1852-The Women's Chris·: Dies might be regarded as those of a highly flourishing and tian Association. important town," it has never equalled the least sanguine hopes of its friends. h has no history of its own worthy of The topic of this chapter must needs deal relation. main)y with religion as organized in Louisville. Dana's Geographicai Sketches of the Western But it is obviously impossible to treat adt:!quately, Country, in 181 9, had said of this village: within the limits of a singlt:! chapter, the history of each of the many religious societies now in the It is a flourishing pL,ce, A street ninety-nine reet wide, having a communication with Louisville, extends along the city; and we are necessarily confined to a few highest bank above the whole length or the town. It con­ representative churches, and almost exclusively tains three warehouses, several stores, and one good tavern. to those whose pastors or officers have shown a It may be added that the lower part of Port. practical spirit of co-Operation with the compilers land, that lying along the river, suffered with un· of this w0rk. usual severity during the flood of Fc:bruary. 1882. The annals of organized religion in Louisville Many buildings on the street next the river began with Were severely injured and some totally wrecked, JIIETHODISM. while the street itself was fill ed with floatage and The first society of the Methodist Episcopal debrise and much damage was done in other church in Louisville is reputed to have been or­

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