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SCOTT - SOUVENIR SKETCHES [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #5 EDWARD G. HENRY - SOUVENIR SKETCHE [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:33:08, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: GUS E. HANK - HAMILTON COUNTY HISTORY OF KENTUCKY The American Historical Society, 1922 Volume V - Page 338-339 GUS E. HANK. The business partnership of Hank Brothers, hardware merchants, has been in existence at Paducah for about a quarter of a century, and their trade connections, both wholesale and retail, now reach out all over Western Kentucky and to the adjoining states of Illinois, and Tennessee. Both partners are prominent business men of Paducah and also well known in civic and social circles. Gus E. Hank was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, April 30, 1864. However, the family residence at that time was in Paducah. On account of Paducah being in the border war zone the mother of Mr.Hank lived temporarily at Cincinnati at the time her son was born. The father Peter Hank was born in Germany in 1834, and came to the United States and located at Paducah at the age of eighteen. He had learned the trade of shoemaker, and he followed his trade at Paducah for a long period of years. He died an honored and respected citizen in 1917. He was a republican in politics. His wife bore the maiden name of Pauline Hafner. She was born in Paducah in 1845 and died in that city in 1890. Gus E. was the oldest of her children. The second is Harry R., the junior member of Hank brothers. His individual career is reviewed elsewhere. The third of the family was Alice A., who died in Paducah at the age of thirty, wife of Dr. J.D. Bacon, a druggist at Seventh and Jackson streets in Paducah. William A . who was a druggist at Seventh and Clay streets in Paducah, died at Phoenix, Arizona, at the age of twenty-eight. May E., is unmarried and keeps house for her brother Harry. Oscar is manager for the Kentucky Leaf Transit Company at Paducah. Walter, the youngest of the family, is manager of the Depot News Agency at Hamilton, Ohio. Gus E. Hank was educated in the public schools and business college of Paducah and at the age of sixteen entered the store of George O. Hart & Son, hardware merchants. In that business he served what amounted to a practical apprenticeship and acquired a detailed knowledge of the hardware trade. He was with the firm until 1898, when with his brother Harry and with T.T. Jones the present business was established as Hank Brothers & JOnes. With the death of Mr. Jones in September, 1901, his interest was absorbed by the other partners, and since then the firm has been jobbers for an extensive line of staple hardware and specialties, and have built up one of the leading concerns of its kind in Western Kentucky. Their store is at 212 Broadway, where the partners own the modern building and also have a large warehouse at 120 South Third Street. Gus Hank is also president of the Mechanics Building and Loan Association and a director in the Ohio Valley Trust Company. He is an elder and active member of the Presbyterian Church and a republican in politics. His modern home is at Sixteenth and Trimble streets. In October, 1890 at Paducah, he married Miss Maggie Porteous, daughter of John and Mary (Hodge) Porteous. Her father, now deceased, was for many years superintendent of the Oak Grove Seminary at Paducah. Her mother is living at Paducah at the age of eighty-six. Mrs. Hank is a graduate of St. Mary's Academy at Paducah. Gus E., Jr., the older son of Mr. and Mrs. Hank and now associated with his father in business, enlisted May 12, 1916, and for 2 1/2 years was in the service of the Government until mustered out in September, 1919. He was overseas in France with the Quartermaster's Department at Nantes. He entered the army as a private and was promoted to captain. In May, 1920, he married Miss Katherine Kolb. Captain Hank is affiliated with Plain City Lodge No. 449, A.F. and A.M., Paducah Chapter No. 127, R.A.M., Paducah Commandery No. 21, K.T., and Kosair Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Louisville. The second child of Mr. and Mrs. Hank is Pauline, who graduated from the Kentucky State University at Lexington with the A.B. degree and is the wife of Thomas Robinson, a coal mining engineer and manager of the Benedict Coal Corporation, with home at St. Charles, Virginia. The third of the children is Barbara Nell, in her first year at the Kentucky State University at Lexington. Harry C., the youngest of the family, is a sophomore in the Paducah High School. Harry R. Hank, junior member of Hank Brothers, was born at Paducah, was educated in his native city, attending a local business college, and also learned the hardware business in the store of George O. Hart & Son. He spent sixteen years with that firm and then resigned to become associated with his brother in a business of their own. For two terms, four years, he served as an alderman of Paducah. He is a director of the Paducah Board of Trade, of the Mechanics Trust Association. He is a republican, a past noble grand of Magnum Lodge No. 21, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a member of Paducah Lodge No. 17 of the Elks, and in Masonry is affiliated with Plain City Lodge No. 449, A.F. and A.M., is a past high priest of Paducah Chapter No. 127, R.A.M., is a past commander of Paducah Commandery No. 21, K.T., and is affiliated with the Scottish Rite Consistory at Louisville, and also with Kosair Temple of the Mystic Shrine in the same city. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:33:21, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: HON. JOHN C. LAWLER - CINCINNATI BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL SOUVENIR For the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana John M. Gresham & Co., Chicago Printing Company, 1889 - page 269-270 HON. JOHN C. LAWLER -Is of pure Irish origin. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 13th, 1843. He is a son of John C. and Susan (Cahill) Lawler who were natives of Ireland and married in that country. They emigrated to America in 1835 and located in Cincinnati. The Elder John C., was a tanner by trade, a hardworking, industrious man and a quite citizen. He died in 1854. J.C. Lawler the subject of this sketch, was brought up in Cincinnati and educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio, and in St. Joseph's College in Perry county, Ohio. After quitting school he came to Indiana in 1855 and in May, 1861 enlisted in Company G., Capt. Sayles, 13th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He served three years when he was discharged and came home. He read law with Crow and Voyles and was admitted to the bar in August, 1871. In 1867 he was elected Trustee of Monroe township, Washington county, served one term and was then elected to the Legislature, in 1868, but resigned before the term was up; was re-elected in 1869, and served the full term, being one of the leading Democratic members of that session. He served three terms as a member of the Town Council of Salem. He was married in December, 1866, to Eliza A. Robertson, a daughter of Alexander and Cornelia (Lumley) Roberston of this State. They have had six children, two of whom are dead Hallie, Minnie, John A., and Ella J., are living. Jessie C. and Edna are dead. Mr. Lawler is a member of the Odd Fellows, and is a staunch Democrat. As a lawyer he stand high at the bar. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 01:52:28, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: JOHN W. SCOTT - SOUVENIR SKETCHES BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL SOUVENIR For the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana John M. Gresham & Co., Chicago Printing Co., 1889 - page 270-271 JOHN W. SCOTT, native of Jefferson county, Ind., was born June 3, 1834; was reared in the county until his seventeenth year, when he emigrated to the town of Moorfield, Switzerland county, Indiana. At Moorfield he learned the blacksmith trade, and worked at it there until 1862. Then he purchased a farm on Pleasant Ridge, in Jefferson county, and removed to it, where he remained three years; when he sold out and purchased a farm of 105 acres of land on Ryker's Ridge, in Jefferson county, which he still owns, and where he resides during the summer. Mr. Scott was educated in the common schools of the county, which, by the way, are the best class, and will give to a boy or girl the best practical education in the world. Mr. Scott is engaged in the wholesale and retail grocery business at the corner of Main and Jefferson streets, Madison, and resides in the city during the winter and spring months, in his city residence, No. 601 N. Mulberry street. In 1865 he bought the farm mentioned, which is one of the finest in the county, and, removing to it, engaged in agricultural business in Madison, in which he continued until 1876, when he sold out the business, and that fall was elected treasurer of the county on the Democratic ticket, overcoming a Republican majority of over 600. During the two years of service in the treasurer's office, he made the largest collection of taxes ever made in the county. In the fall of 1878 he was defeated by a small majority for the same office. During the fall he engaged in the grocery business, which business he has been engaged in ever since. His place was known as the "Temple" grocery, as he occupied the salesroom in the lower part of the Masonic Temple. He remained in the "Temple" until about one month ago, when he removed to his present stand, corner of Main and Jefferson. He has built up a large trade, and has one of the best groceries in the city. In 1887 Mr. Scott took his two sons William A. and Elmer E., into partnership with him in the grocery business; the firm name is J.W. Scott & Sons. Mr. Scott is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the M.E. Church. He has belonged to the church for twenty-five years, and is now a trustee and steward of his church. He has been a member of the Democratic Central Committee ever since 1878, and is a stockholder in Madison Herald Newspaper Company. Mr. Scott was married in 1851, to Miss Sarah Protzman, of Switzerland county, daughter of John Protzman, who was also one of the largest farmers of that county. He has seven children living, three boys and four girls: Elias J., William A., Elmer E., Mary Ida, Annie, Nora M. and Bertha E. He is the son of John and Rebecca (Welch) Scott. John, his father, was born in Jettburg, Scotland, and came to this country in 1818. He was a prominent farmer of this county, and died in 1878, at the age of 90 years. The mother was a native of Lexington, Ky.; she died in 1868, at the age of 68 years. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 01:52:25, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: LEVI H. SCOTT - SOUVENIR SKETCHES BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL SOUVENIR For the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana John M. Gresham & Co., Chicago Printing Co., 1889 - page 111-112 LEVI H. SCOTT, was born in Lafayette township, Floyd county, Ind., March 26, 1856, and after attending the public schools he became a student at the Bedford Male and Female College, from which he graduated. He then took a full course at the Northern Indiana Normal College, Valparaiso, from which he graduated in 1878. He immediately commenced teaching in the public schools of Floyd county, and in 1881 was elected county superintendent of Public Schools. In 1883 he failed of reelection and resumed teaching at Scottsville, Floyd county. In June, 1885, he was again elected county superintendent, and re-elected in 1887. In 1888, March 16, he received the Democratic nomination for treasurer of Floyd county, to which office he was elected by a handsome majority Nov. 6, 1888. In 1879 he was married to Miss Hanna G. Scott, daughter of Wesley Scott, of Floyd county, Ind. He is the son of Jeremiah and Dorcas Wilson Scott, his father being a native of Floyd county and his mother of Clark county, Indiana. His father was born in 1831 and was a prominent farmer of Floyd county; he died May 28, 1886, leaving a wife and eleven children; all are living except the eldest. They are Wesley (who died Dec. 24, 1886, being trustee of Lafayette township), Lev H., Walter J., Angeline, Martha A., James H., William, Dorcas, May and Estella. Mr. Scott has three children: Orella, Maude, Berla and Daisy. He is an Odd Fellow and a member of the Christian Church. ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:54:20, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: EDWARD G. HENRY - SOUVENIR SKETCHES BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL SOUVENIR For the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. John M. Gresham & Co., Chicago Printing Co., 1889 - Part II, page 90 EDWARD G. GREEN, a native of Switzerland county, Ind., was born April 16, 1850. His father, David Henry, was a native of Ireland, and a lawyer by profession and a successful farmer, and emigrated to Indiana in the pioneer period of the State. His mother, Caroline Stapp, was a native of Kentucky. Reared in Switzerland county, he attended the public schools of the county during his boyhood, fitting himself for Hanover College, from which he graduated in 1870. He then entered the law school of Indiana University, from which Institution he graduated in 1872. The same year he took up his residence at New Albany, and entered upon the practice of law, and has, by his abilities as a counselor and advocate, built up a very lucrative practice, standing high at the bar as a practicing attorney. In 1888 Mr. Henry was nominated unanimously by the Democratic party of Floyd county for Representative in the State Legislature, to which office he was elected by a large majority. He is a man of scholarly culture, an able public speaker, and possessed of the elements for a successful and useful public career. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #379 *******************************************