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Subject: BIOS 1626 THRU 1630 - WILLIAMS, WILSON, WOOSLEY, STARK & AKEMAN
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 06:34:08 -0600


Good morning … the sun is out for a while! Hope this is a good day for all
of you. Here are the bios for 4 March 1998:

1626 - Rockcastle Co - WILLIAMS, C C
Williams Haley Whitehead
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IL
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1627 - Pendleton Co - WILSON, John Elmer
Bradford Brown Hoover Rumberger Wheeling Wilson Wolf
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Pendleton-KY Huntington-PA
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1628 - Edmonson Co - WOOSLEY, Thomas J.
Woosley Blakey
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Halifax-VA Whitley-KY Butler-KY
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1629 - Spencer Co - STARK, Jonathan
Stark Dupuy Holmes Haynes
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Oldham-KY IN
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1630 - Breathitt Co - AKEMAN, John
Akeman Callahan Strong Amis Deaton
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none
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BIO# 1626:
Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B,
Rockcastle County

C.C. Williams, attorney-at-law, Mount Vernon, Rockcastle County, Ky., was
born in that county, May 17, 1861, a son of David N. and Mary E. (Haley)
Williams, of Mount Vernon. He was reared in Mount Vernon, and received his
education at Carthage College, Ill.. In 1882 he entered the Louisville Law
School, where he graduated in 1884. He immediately commenced the practice
of his profession at Mount Vernon. October 12, 1886, he was married to Miss
Sallie J. Whitehead, a daughter of Rev. Alexander and Elizabeth Whitehead,
of Rockcastle County. They have one child, Risse. Mr. Williams is a member
of the Christian Church, and in politics votes with the Democrats.
**

BIO #1627:
History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr, American
Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. 5, p. 220-1, Pendleton
County

JOHN ELMER WILSON, M. D. The honor of the longest service as a physician
and surgeon in the Butler community of Pendleton County belongs to Dr. John
Elmer Wilson, who has practiced there almost a quarter of a century. He is
one of the highly esteemed citizens , though his complete energies and
talents have been absorbed in his profession, and through that work alone
he has satisfied the normal ambitions for usefulness to his fellow men.
Doctor Wilson represents an old family of Scotch origin in Huntingdon
County, Pennsylvania. He was born there at Warriors Mark August 17, 1865.
His grandfather, Thomas Wilson, was born in the same county in 1812, and
died at Warriors Mark in 1882. He was prominent in the coal industry and
was a master collier. He married a Miss Hoover, also a native and life-long
resident of Huntingdon County. Their son, Christopher Wilson, was born in
1836 and died in 1911, spending all his life near Warriors Mark as a
farmer. He was a democrat, an active member of the Lutheran Church, and
during the Civil war served in the Home Guards. Christopher Wilson married
Miss Mary Martha Wheeling, who is still living at Warriors Mark, where she
was born in 1846. Of her five children all three sons have earned
creditable distinction in the medical profession. The oldest, Thomas L., is
a graduate of the Baltimore Medical College and is practicing at Bellwood,
Pennsylvania. The second son is Dr. John E. of Butler, Kentucky. The third
child, Elizabeth, is the wife of William Wolf, a resident of Altoona,
Pennsylvania, and for many years assistant health officer there. The fourth
is Luella, wife of Edward Rumberger, a farmer near Warriours Mark. The
third son, Harry, is a graduate of the Baltimore Medical College and is a
physician and surgeon at Warriors Mark. John Elmer Wilson spent his life to
the age of nineteen on his father's farm, and acquired a rural school
education in Huntingdon County. To pay his way through college he was
employed on public work, and for two years, 1887-8, was a student in
Juniata College in Pennsylvania and completed a course in the Central State
Normal at Lockhaven, receiving the degree Master of English in 1890. During
two years of this student period he taught in Huntingdon County and for six
years was identified with school work in Clinton County, Pennsylvania. He
taught there while attending the Medical Department of the National Norma
University at Lebanon, Ohio, from which he received his M.D. degree in
1896. In 1897 he graduated in medicine from the Cincinnati College of
Medicine and Surgery, and in the same year began his practice at Butler. He
is a member in good standing of the Kentucky State and American Medical
Association. For a number of years Doctor Wilson performed the duties of
city health officer, served a number of terms on the School Board and for
fifteen years was president of the City Council. He is independent in
politics. During the World war he received a lieutenant's commission in the
Medical Reserve Corps, but was unable to enter active serve. He owns a
modern and comfortable home on Peoples Avenue. In 1895, near Butler, he
married, Miss Laura Bradford, daughter of Henry and Hannah (Brown)
Bradford, both deceased. Her father was a farmer of Pendleton County.
Doctor and Mrs. Wilson have one son, Henry Christopher, born January 4,
1903, who graduated from the Butler High School in 1920 and from Nelson's
Business College of Cincinnati in 1921, and is now a teacher in the public
schools.
**

BIO#1628:
Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1885,
Edmonson County.

THOMAS J. WOOSLEY was born December 16, 1840, in the western part of
Edmonson County. He is the sixth in a family of four boys and three girls
born to Samuel and Rebecca (Blakey) Woosley, natives of Halifax County,
Va., and Whitley County, Ky., respectively. Samuel Woosley was a farmer, of
English descent, and came with his parents to Whitley County about 1812 or
1815. Soon after his marriage he came to Edmonson County, where he was
engaged in farming and stock trading. His first office was that of a
constable; he then repesented Edmonson and Butler Counties three terms in
the Lower House of the State Legislture. In 1860 he took the census of
Edmonson County. He died in 1865. His father, Samuel Woosley, came from
Virginia; first settled in Whitley County and later in Edmonson Co. Mrs.
Rebecca Woosley was a daughter of Curtis Blakely, of Whitley County. Thomas
J. Woosley was reared on a farm, and remained with his parents until
twenty-one years of age, when he engaged in farming. In August, 1875, he
was made deputy sheriff of Edmonson County, and filled that office for five
years. In August, 1880, he was elected circuit clerk, and in August, 1882,
was elected county clerk, both of which offices he now holds. He owns a
farm of about 250 or 300 acres, partially improved. Mr. Woosley is a member
of the Masonic fraternity. He cast his first presidential vote for Gen.
MacClellan.
**

BIO# 1629:
A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than 800
Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and Corrected by
Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes. Printed For the Author. 1886.
Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976 Lafayette,
Tennessee. Vol. 2, p 178 [Spencer County]

JONATHAN STARK, like the Dupuys, Holmeses and Hayneses, was of French
extraction, and descended from that class of protestants known as
Huguenots. The old Huguenot families referred to, were early settlers in
several different localities in Kentucky. Jonathan Stark settled in what is
now Spencer county. Here he was baptized into the fellowship of Elk Creek
church, in July, 1795. The family with which he was connected, moved to
what is now Oldham county, where a church was gathered, perhaps by an old
patriarch of the tribe, of the name of Abraham Stark, during the great
revival of 1800-3. At this church, which was named Floyds Fork, but was
popularly known as Stark's Meetinghouse, Jonathan Stark was ordained to the
ministry, in 1803. He preached in this church, at least nine years, after
which he moved to Indiana.
**

BIO# 1630:
Dr. John J. Dickey Diary, Fleming County, Ky. Recorded in the 1870's and
beyond. Reprinted in Kentucky Explorer, Volume 11, No 2 June, 1996, p. 82.
By permission. Breathitt County

A Talk with John Akeman - 1898 Ned Callahan and Capt. Strong compromised
their troubles in Jackson, and in a few days Strong was killed. Their
excuse for that way of doing was that Capt. Strong did the same way with
the Amises. He and John Amis and old Wilson Callahan agreed to go home and
go to work, and he would not trouble them. In two days, he had them killed.
At least it was only a few days. Old Wiley, Tom, Ause, and Bob Amis bundled
up and left at once. I don't think any of the Strong men were killed. I do
not remember that any besides these were killed on the Amis side. This
lasted over a year. Strong kept his men around him. The others did not have
the means to support their men in a body as Strong had. Old John Deaton
declared that they killed 40 head of sheep for him during the war.

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