Cynthiana Democrat, Harrison Co, Ky Newspaper, June 1896, Page 10 From: Edie Suttle "jsattle9@idt.net" Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 06:42:13 -0700 This one file contains all of the eight e-mail submissions of page 10. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 10, Part 1 DR. D.C. PATTERSON Dr. D.C. Patterson was born near Broadwell, in this county, in December, 1866. He received his primary education in Prof. N.F. Smith's school in this city and graduated from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in March, 1892. Immediately after he located in this, his native county seat, and has successfully conducted the practice of dentistry here since that time. Dr. Patterson has always made an especial effort to preserve the natural teeth, but is prepared to practice in all its branches with the appliances and aparatus found in a modern dental office. He is a member of the Kentucky State Dental Association and was for two years a member of the executive committee of that body, being honored as no other dentist has been in this state by being elected to that committee at the same convention when he became a member. He is also a prominent member of Quinby Lodge, No. 58, K. of P., of this city. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 10, Part 2 COSBY & M'DANIEL AN ENERGETIC, PUSHING BUSINESS FIRM The house of Cosby & McDaniel, though comparatively young, is widely known as a leader in the clothing and furnishing line. There are no "misfit parlors' connected with these people--they fit everybody everytime and all the time and guarantee every article sold. Mr. F.M. Cosby, senior member of the firm, was born in 1841, in Madison County, Ky. He came to Cynthiana in 1864 and has since been engaged in various business enterprises. Beginning as a clerk in diverse retail stores, by his industry and strict business habits he progressed rapidly up the line of success. In 1872 he was married to Miss Alice E. Gray, and soon thereafter entered in partnership in the fancy goods and confectionery line, the firm name became Cosby & Gray. For nine years he traveled for Cincinnati parties in the clothing business and has thus had thirteen years experience. Returning to Cynthiana in 1885, Mr. Cosby opened a clothing store in the building now occupied by Fennell Bros., where he succeeded in building an immense and lucrative trade, continuing until ill health compelled him to retire. After resting several years he became identified with several business enterprises, and finally, with Mr. McDaniel as partner, he opened the present store in the building owned by himself on Pike Street. Mr. John F. McDaniel is a native of Harrison county. Leesburg neighborhood is his birth place, where he first saw the light of day on April 15, 1856. He worked on the farm as a country boy and there laid the foundation for the solid sense, energy and business quailifications that haave since marked his career. When he came to Cynthiana he served four years as deputy clerk under Mr. Collier. For six years he was book-keeper for the Farmers National Bank, and retired to become book-keeper for Riggs, Garnett & Co., where he served three years. For eight years he has been secretary of the Model Savings Association (late Harrison County Association) and in that capacity stands in the same relation as the cashier of a bank. Mr. McDaniel married Miss Mollie Batterton, of Bourbon. Cosby & McDaniel have already established a splendid trade. Theirs is the only house in Cynthiana that handles clothing, hats, and gentlemen's furnishing goods exclusively. By fair and honest dealing they hope to attract and hold the best of patronage. Live and Let LIve is their motto. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 10, Part 3 THE OLDEST HOUSE ITS VENERABLE WALLS COULD A TALE UNFOLD The last house to the left on the corner of Pike and Maple streets, as you approach the Licking from the north is the oldest building ever erected in Cynthiana. Its construction shows that it was built for a fortification as well as a place of habitation. The windows are long and narrow run parallel to the roof and are more that six feet from the ground, and seem to have been placed in the walls not so much to admit light as to be convenient apertures through which to reconnoitore an enemy. Judge Curry, born 1789, who came to this town when he was five years old, Dr. George W. Perrin, born 1794, and Rev. Samuel Rogers, born 1789, soldier of the war of '12 said that this house did not look new when they could first remember it. It is built of hewn logs, and wooden pegs were used to put the wood work of doors and windows together, there being no nails to be obtained here at the time it was built. What a pity its walls cannot tell how many infants began the pilgrimage of life from that now sunken threshold, and how many gay bridal parties crossed the old door stone, and how many silent voyages set sail beneath the roof-tree to cross the river of death. But sounds of gladness and sounds of woe that once echoed from its now crumbling walls are lost forever. All the audiences that have witnessed the drama of human life that has been enacted on this stage of being for more than a hundred years, have at some time passed that voiceless sentinel that stood guard on the Licking when the war whoop of the savages defied the advance of civilization. Still its worn eaten logs hold together as firmly as when they sheltered the first inhabitant of the "City of the Maidens." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 10 (Note: There is a portion of this home preserved and still standing behind the Court House in Cynthiana, August 1997) ------------------------------ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 10, Part 4 THE FIRST MARKET HOUSE The first market house stood north of the Court House on Court Square. It was an open building consisting of pillows supporting a low, sloping roof. It was erected thus open to inspection in order to force green grocers and butchers to sell their wares literally on the square. When Cynthiana was an infant the man who went to market at dawn was not surprised to see wagons sitting astride the market house roof and boys watching from afar off the gentlemen from the country who had recognized their vehicles in their exalted position and were haranging the multitudes in the forum as in ye olden times. Oh, we boys were boys then and for a long time thereafter. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 10, Part 5 PRANKS OF BOYS----THE STINGY MAN In the house now the property of Mr. George Givens, there lived a man "in an early day" who shall be nameless. The boys all hated him because he was stingy and because he objected to noise, after he had retired for the night and was wont to make his dislikes felt. He would fly out of his bed very thinly clad and lay about him with a club when he was being treated to a friendly serenade. There were then three or four steps before his front door. One night his enemies took them away and then set up a fearful caterwauling under the windows. The old man stole out of bed, softly unlocked his front door, and club in hand, sprang forward to chastise the offenders, but lay at full length biting the dust where his door steps should have been. For days after this the "stingy man" went about the streets with his nose going before him a vertible pillar of fire. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 10, Part 6 GENERAL THOMAS METCALFE In 1812 Gen. Thomas Metcalfe made Cynthiana a rendezvous for his volunteers and from here he led them to the seat of war. Sixty years after the war had ended one of Gen. Metcalf's command said: "When the war of 1812 broke out I had been married a few days. I volunteered under Metcalfe, one of the bravest men I ever knew. I was living at Millersburg at that time. One morning as I sat at breakfast with my young bride I heard the bugle and knew that it sounded to call me to my command. I embraced my young wife, commended her to God's care and her earthly father's also, and was soon on the way to Cynthiana. By my side rode a boy of seventeen, who proved to be bravest hero I ever knew and still I have forgotten his surname. He had offered himself as a substitute for a man with a large family, who had volunteered and had afterwards regretted his hasty act of patriotism. I witnessed the parting between the boy, James_______, and the wife of the man whose substitute he was. She said as the boy mounted his horse, "When you return, my son, blow the bugle that I may know you are coming and may run to meet you, and may God bless you." The boy never returned. He was recklessly daring and fell fighting at the battle of "River Baisin." In the trenches of that memorable stream his heroic heart has long since turned to dust, but his soul bore the stamp of divinity and returned to its kindred--the immortals." Boys, remember this line below: "Time is the warp of life, oh weave it well." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 10, Part 7 North Main street is beautifed with the residences of J.W. Renaker, Mrs. I.T. Martin, Mrs. White, J. Newt. Renaker, Dr. McNees, Dr. Scott, Dr. McDowell, Dr. Hickman, (all in Doctor's Row) Garrett Allen, Dr. Jett, Prof. Leonard, W.L. Northcutt and numerous others. ~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 10, Part 8 M.C. SWINFORD SKETCH OF HARRISON COUNTY'S REPRESENTATIVE Hon. M.C. Swinford was born in Pendleton county near the Harrison line on March 24, 1857. His father was John P. Swinford, whose ancestry was of the first settlers in the northern part of this county. His mother's parents, the Terry's came to this county from Virginia among the pioneers. The Swinfords are of old English family and emigrated from North Carolina. With the death of his father, M.C. Swinford at the age of two years, was taken to live with his grandfather, near Berry, where he remained until 1877, with the exception of a short period. Young Swinford was destitute of the means to secure an education, but with his great thirst for knowledge, availed himself of the opportunities of the common schools of his district, but procured the most of his education at his home by the light of a tallow dip. He taught school for a while; saved money enough to complete a course of law which he took under Judge J.Q. Ward and the late L.M. Martin; was admitted to the bar in 1879. In 1882, he was elected by the Magistrates Common School Commissioner of the county, and in 1894, after the name of the office and mode of election had been changed by the legislature, was elected County Superintendent of Schools by the people. Mr. Swinford was elected County Attorney in 1886 and 1890, being elected in each instance without opposition. In 1895 he was elected representative over the popular John W. Mattox. In 1881 he formed a partnership with Judge W.T. Lafferty, under the firm name of Swinford & Laafferty; in 1889 D.L. Evans, present County Attorney, under name of Swinford & Evans; in November last he became the senior member of the law firm, Swinford & Osborne. He always took a lively interest for his friends and party in politics, but has now retired from politics and will devote himself exclusively to the practice of his profession. On the 2d day of March, 1882, Mr. Swinford was married to Mrs. Nannie T. Smith, daughter of the late James T. King, a prominent farmer of near Berry. Mrs. Swinford died on the 2d day of June, 1896. They had four children. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 10