Kentucky: A
History of the State, Biographies K-L |
| JAMES D. KELLEY, M. D.,
was born in Simpson County, Ky., July 24, 1839. He is a
son of William and Martha
(Covington) Kelley, who were also
natives of Simpson County, and born in 1818 and 1816,
respectively. They were married in 1836. William
Kelley was engaged in agricultural pursuits and
stock trading; he was a man of considerable local
prominence and held the office of magistrate in Simpson
County for many years; he died in 1865, leaving three
sons and one daughter, viz.: James D., Elizabeth
M. (Pearson), John W. and Thomas
H. Mrs. Kelley survived her husband thirteen
years. He was a son of John Kelley, of
North Carolina, who died in Simpson County, Ky., in 1824.
John was for many years a minister in the
Methodist Church. His wife was Miss Bond,
whose parents resided in Buncombe County, on the Yadkin
River. She died in 1858, having survived her husband
nearly thirty-four years. Dr. J. D. Kelley,
at the death of his father, took charge of the farm, and
until he had completed his twenty-seventh year cared for
his mother, and at that time took up the study of
medicine, and read with Dr. Francis
Hart Kelly for two years; then attended a course
of lectures in 1869-70; then practiced until 1873, when
he entered the University of Louisville, from which
institution he graduated in medicine and surgery in 1874.
That year he located in New Roe, Allen County, where he
practiced his profession with success until 1884, when he
removed to Scottsville, where he has continued to
practice until this present time. On the 6th of
September, 1877, he was united in marriage with Euphili
E. (Bradshaw) Caldwell, who was
a resident of Covington, Ga.; she is a daughter of the Rev.
James N. Bradshaw, an able divine of the
Southern Presbyterian Church, and for several years,
president of the Southern Masonic Female College at
Covington, Ga. Mrs. Anna J. (Brown) Bradshaw
is a sister of Niel S. and Gen.
John C. Brown. Niel S. was governor of Tennessee
in 1855-56 and minister to Russia under President
Buchanan. John C. was a general in the
Confederate Army and governor of Tennessee since the war.
Both are able lawyers and reside at this time in
Tennessee. The Doctor and his wife are members of the
Southern Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder.
Their union was blessed with two children: James
E., deceased, and Mary Duncan,
aged six years. The Doctor is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and has filled the Master's chair for many
years. He is a Royal Arch Mason; is temperate in habits
and his influence is in favor of the cause of temperance.
He is a Democrat, and bears the character of a
public-spirited, citizen; his time is devoted to his
profession and the good of the community in which he
resides. REV. DANIEL F. KERR ws born in White County, Tenn., March 1, 1847. His father, William Kerr, was a native of the Old Dominion, born near Richmond, January 1, 1795. He married Nancy Yates some time in the year 1825; she is living, aged eighty years, having been born in 1805. William Kerr through life was engaged in agricultural pursuits; in 1857 he located in Grayson County; his death occurred on the 6th of August, 1884. He was a son of John B. Kerr, who was a Scot by birth, emigrated from his native country to America at an early day and settled in Virginia, and later removed to Tennessee, and located in White County, where he was engaged in agriculture at his death in 1848; he left one son and a daughter who never married. Rev. D. F. Kerr was born and reared on a farm, receiving in early life such schooling as could be obtained in the common schools of that period. In July, 1863, he joined the Federal Army, enlisted in Company B, Thirty-fifth Kentucky Mounted Infantry. His command participated in many engagements, most notable of which were those of Saltworks and Gladesville, in Virginia. After receiving his discharge from service in December, 1864, he returned home and engaged in the saw-mill business, in which he continued for nine years. In 1874 he traveled in Kansas in the capacity of State lecturer in the interest of the I. O. G. T., and in the same year was licensed as a local minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1880 he was ordained by Bishop Merrill at Catlettsburg, Ky.; and has continued in the ministry up to the present time. His preaching is earnest, and his labor constant and zealous, and through his instrumentality many have been brought into the "Fold of Christ." He has been twice married; his first wife, Mary A. Davis, of Grayson County, whom he maried 14 of July 1867, died in 1873, leaving two children, one son, Robert H., and a daughter who died in April, 1873. On the 10th of August, 1874, he married his second wife, Mary E. Quisenberry, of Grayson County, Ky.; this marriage is blessed by the birth of one son, George B. Mrs. Kerr is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Kerr is a Master Mason, and a member of Graham Lodge, No. 208. Politically he was a Republican until the year 1876. In that year he supported Green Clay Smith, and in 1880 voted for Lorenzo Dow; he is now a Prohibitionist. DOCTOR LANDERS was born about 1826, near the waters of Bays Fork Creek, in Allen County, Ky. His father, Isaac Landers, was born in Warren, now Allen County, where he grew up, and about 1814 married Patsey, daughter of Solomon and Sarah Willoughby, of Warren, now Allen County. From their union sprang William H., Solomon, John, Bryant, Jacob, Vincent, Doctor, Laney (Motley), Samuel, Catherine (Davis), Elizabeth (Motley), Sally (Dodson). Doctor Landers married, September 17,1857, Mary E., daughter of Benjamin P. and Lethe (Turner) Wilson, of Allen County. She was born May 18, 1840, and to them have been born Martha E. (Motley), James E., Donnie B. and William I. (deceased). Doctor Landers has had no assistance in the battle of life; but by his own toil has obtained the title to about 260 acres of well improved land in good condition, and is besides the owner of a good grist-mill located on the waters of Bays Fork Creek. He is thoroughly a self-made man, and in politics a staunch Democrat. WILLIAM H. LANDERS was born in Allen County, where he now resides. His father, Jacob Landers, was also a native of Allen County, as well as his grandfather, Isaac Landers. Jacob Landers has been twice married, first, on February 19, 1860, to Elizabeth, daughter of John Ayers, of Allen County. To them were born, William H. and John T. Elizabeth Landers, the mother of William H., departed this life February 5, 1863. In 1864 Jacob Landers was again married, but of this marriage there is no issue. He owns at present somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 acres of land in good condition and procured by his own economy. William H. married, January 17, 1882, Rufina J., daughter of Josey L. and Zela F. (Cornwell) Willoughby, of Allen County. To them one child, Anna P., has been born. Mr. Landers has a fair English education; is a member of the "Bay's Fork" Baptist Church, and in politics is a Democrat. |