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FOX WORTHY, Miss Alice S.,
educator, born in Mount Carmel, Fleming county, Ky., 22nd December, 1852.
Through her paternal grandmother, Mary Calvert Foxworthy, she is a lineal
descendant of Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore, of Maryland. Her early education
was received in the Stanford Academy, Stanford, Ky., and there she began her
career of teaching immediately after her graduation. In her native State she
taught successfully in the Stanford Academy, the Catlettsburg High School and
the East Kentucky Normal School. From the last mentioned position she was called
to the responsible post of presiding teacher in the Tennessee Female College of
Franklin, Tenn. She next received a call to the position of lady principal in
the Nashville College for Young Ladies. Since 1884 Miss Foxworthy has occupied
that position. Dr. G. W. F. Price, the president of that college, early invested
her with full authority, leaving her to work out her ideas in the practical
organization and management of the school. Miss Foxworthy’s attainments are by
no means insignificant. Her school training has been continued and extended by
reading and study during the whole of her professional life. In 1890 the
University of Nashville, Nashville, Tenn., conferred upon her the degree of M.A.
Though the duties of principal have gradually withdrawn Miss Foxworthy from
class-room work, her intimate acquaintance with each pupil under her care is not
lessened. The Sabbath-school class of over one-hundred pupils and the
flourishing missionary society which she has built up give her an opportunity
for a strong influence in forming the characters under her charge. She is' an
original and impressive teacher of the Bible. Her religion is a religion of
justice and unselfishness, her energy is inexhaustible, her perseverance
indomitable. Her close observation, her keen and accurate judgment of men and
things, and her long experience as a practical educator place her easily in the
first rank in her profession.
(American Women, Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore,
Volume 1 Copyright 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow.)
Bishop, Richard Henry, business president, government official, was born May 6, 1845, in Flemingsburg, Ky. He received his education in the public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio; and graduated from Bethany college of Virginia, he is identified with the business and public affairs of Jacksonville, Fla.; and is a successful business man and real estate dealer in that city. For several years he was president of the school board of Covington, Ky.; for several years was private secretary to the governor of Ohio; and has held various other positions.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 â€" Transcribed by Therman
Kellar]
Bishop, Richard Moore, merchant, governor, was born Nov. 4, 1812, in Fleming county, Ky. In 1848 he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio. He engaged in the wholesale grocery business; and amassed a fortune. In 1857 he was elected a member of the city council of Cincinnati; and in 1858 became president of the council; and in 1859-61 was mayor of the city. In 1873 he was a member of the Ohio state constitutional convention; and in 1878-80 was the thirty-first governor of Ohio. He died March 2, 1893. in Jacksonville, Fla.
[Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 â€" Transcribed by Therman
Kellar]
BEN F JONES, D.D., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, began his work upon the prairies of Western Kansas, and has had a thorough training in hardships well known to the pioneers of that state. He has preached in sod houses, school houses, tents, and in the open; has ministered to congregations where the cow-boy and plainsman formed an interesting part of the audience; has had a full-fledged poker game going on in one end of the building while trying to east out devils at the other end. He gives as his experience that a sermon and a poker game can get along in the same building if they have to. Mr. Jones was born in Plummers Landing, Fleming County, Kentucky, March 21, 1868. He was married April 09, 1889, to Charlotte Gladys Kimball, daughter of George W and Harriette (Lloyd) Kimball. They have five children: Ben C, born January 17, 1892; Linn Irl, October 04, 1893; Alice Judith, May 31, 1896; Charlotte Frances, August 07, 1906; Minnie May (by adoption), May 31, 1886. Minnie May is now Mrs. Harry E Moore of Trenton Missouri. Mr. Jones entered the ministry when twenty years old, and has served continuously in the regular pastorate until the present. For sixteen years he was a member of the Southwest Kansas conference, transferring from that to the Missouri conference in the spring of 1905. For three years and six months, he was pastor of the first Methodist Church at Trenton Missouri, coming from there to Kirksville, where he has the pastorate of the First Methodist Church. On June 02, 1910, the Memorial University of Mason City, Iowa, conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity upon him. He is a member of the Sons of Veterans, of which he has served as Chaplain, Division Chaplain and Chaplain of the National Commandery, having been connected with that order twenty-three years; has belonged to the K. of P. lodge since 1890, and is a member of the local lodge at Kirksville; was made a Mason in 1895; belongs to Adair Lodge, No. 366, and Caldwell Chapter, No 53, Royal Arch. He is independent politically, but leans to progressive Republicanism. [Source: "A History of Adair County Missouri" by E.M. Violette (1911); Submitted by Desiree Burrell Rodcay]
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