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Baumeister,
John, merchant, builder, was born Nov. 21, 1849, in Louisville, Ky. In 1889 he engaged in the manufacture and sale of lumber. He built the southern exposition public and private buildings of Louisville, Ky. He died Feb. 3, 1900, in Pensacola, 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]
Bemise, John Harrison, physician, educator, college president, was born in 1856 in Louisville, Ky. In 1878-83 he made a study of leprosy on the island of Maui, on which he prepared several valuable papers. He was the first president of the New Orleans polyclinic. He died in 1897 at Ocean Springs, Miss.
[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 – Transcribed by Therman
Kellar]
BETTS,
John Frederic, stock and bond broker; born, Louisville, Ky., Mar. 9,
1871; son of John Frederic and Elizabeth (Potter) Betts; educated in public
and high schools of Louisville; married, Wheeling, W. Va., 1901, Mary Belle
Howell; children: Mary Howell, infant son (deceased) and John F., Jr. Began
as clerk in leaf tobacco business, with Head & Head, Louisville, Ky.,
1890; buyer for same firm until 1895; connected with Drummond Tobacco Co.,
St. Louis, 1895-99; in stock and bond business as member of Drummond, Betts
& Co., 1900-02; since Jan. 1, 1903, conducting brokerage business under
own name. Member
BUTLER,
Wallace Clark, insurance adjuster;
born, Louisville, Ky., Sept. 21, 1833; son of Mann and Martha (Dedman)
Butler; educated in Wyman's School, St. Louis; served in the Confederate
Army as major and pay quartermaster; widower; children: Julia B., Nina B.
(wife of Dr. T. C. Witherspoon), Wallace C, Jr., Sadie B. (wife of Dr. B. D.
Carman.) In the insurance business in 1865 and since 1869 continuously
engaged in business in St. Louis as an insurance adjuster; member of firm of
W. C. Butler & Son, with W. C. Butler, Jr., as partner, 1899-1906, since
alone. Presbyterian. Member Confederate Veterans. Club:
PATTERSON, CHAS-- Born in Sweden in 1825; died in Kirksville {Mo}, January 01, 1891. He came to this country in 1849, and settled in Louisville Kentucky. He came to Adair County in 1856 and remained here until his death. He began the nursery business in 1866, and made a marked success in it. He was very active in encouraging horticulture and belonged to several state and national horticultural societies. [Source: The History of Adair County Missouri, by E.M. Violette (1911) Submitted by Desiree Rodcay]
WITHERSPOON, THOMAS DWIGHT, Presbyterian minister, was born January 17, 1836, at Greensboro, and died November 3, 1898, in Louisville, Ky.; son of Robert Franklin and Sarah Agnes (Fulton) Witherspoon, the former a native of Williamsburg County, S. C., who removed to Alabama and lived at Greensboro and Blount Springs; grandson of Paul and Martha Fulton, of Alabama, and of Thomas and Janet (Witherspoon) Witherspoon, first cousins, who removed from Williamsburg County, S. C., to Greene County, in 1825, where he became an extensive planter; great-grandson of Gavin and Esther Jane (Witherspoon) Witherspoon, the former a corporal in Marion's brigade, and of Robert and Elizabeth (Heathly) Witherspoon, the former a native of County Down, Ireland, who came to America with his father and grandfather in 1734, who was a planter, weaver and reed maker, residing near Kingstree, S. C., and died in Williamsburg, S. C.; great-great-grandson of William Heathly and wife, who was Mrs. Mary (Hamilton) Brady, the former a native of England and an early settler of Williamsburg County, S. C., of James and Elizabeth (McQuoid) Witherspoon, the former a native of County Down, Ireland, who came to America in 1734, on the "Good Intent," landing at Charleston, S. C., and settling in Williamsburg County, S. C., and of Robert and Hester Jane (Scott) Witherspoon, the former a native of Ireland, who came to America on the "Newbuilt," and located in South Carolina; great-great-greatgrandson of Robert and Sarah (Campbell) McQuoid, of County Down, Ireland, and of John and Janet (Witherspoon) Witherspoon, first cousins, the former a native of Begardle, near Glasgow, Scotland, who moved to Knockbracken, County Down, Ireland, in 1695, emigrated to America on the "Good Intent" in 1734, settling in Williamsburg County, S. C., where he was a weaver, the latter dying aboard the vessel while bound to America; great-great-great-great-grandson of Rev. and Lucy (Welch) Witherspoon, of Scotland, and of Rev. James and Helen Witherspoon, also of Scotland. Rev. Dr. Witherspoon entered the University of Alabama in 1853, leaving after his second year: received the degrees of A. B., 1856, A. M., 1866, D. D., 1868, and LL. D., 1884, from the University of Mississippi; and graduated from the Theological seminary, Columbia, S. C., in 1859. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Chickasaw, May 13, 1860, and served at Oxford, Miss., 1859-65. During the War of Secession, he enlisted as a private in the Lamar rifles, Mississippi volunteer regiment, C. S. Army, and served as chaplain of this company throughout the war. He became pastor at Memphis, Tenn., in 1865, remaining until 1870; pastor, Christiansburg, Va., 1870-71; chaplain. University of Virginia, 1872-73: pastor, Petersburg. Va., 1873-82; Louisville, Ky., 1882-91; Richmond, Ky., 1891-97; professor, Central University, Kentucky, 1891-93; and at the Louisville Presbyterian theological seminary, 1893-98. He was the author of various writings. Married: January 18, 1866, to Charlotte Vernon, daughter of Dr. Thomas and Eliza (Pegues) Ingram, the former a noted surgeon of Lenoir, S. C., who moved to Marshall County, Tenn.: granddaughter of Malachi Pegues, who removed from South Carolina to near Holly Springs, Miss.; great-granddaughter of Claudius Pegues, a soldier of the Revolution; great-great-granddaughter of Claudius Pegues, an early settler in Marlborough County, S. C. Children: 1. Lottie Ingram, m. Rev. Eugene Bell, and went with him as a missionary to Korea, where she died suddenly; 2. Florence Pegues; 3. Eva Fulton, m. Rev. Dr. James O. Reavis; 4. Thomas Dwight, jr.; 5. Lillian, d. young; 6. Vernon Ingram; 7. Pauline Fulton, and 8. Mabel Armstrong, twins. Last residence: Louisville.
[History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, 1921 - Transcribed by
AFOFG]
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