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From: Sandi Gorin <>
Subject: BIOS #4446 THRU 4450 - HIFNER, GAINES, BAILEY, GEORGE, DANIEL
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 06:46:06 -0500


4446 WOODFORD CO - HIFNER, MELVIN B - Hifner Frazier Weakley
4447 WARREN CO - GAINES, JOHN B - Gaines Ritter Porter McCutchen
4448 WEBSTER CO - BAILEY, G W - Bailey Winstead Moore
4449 WAYNE - GEORGE, EDWARD R - George Hinkle Hopkins
4450 OHIO CO - DANIEL, NICHOLAS C - Daniel Tilford Austin Martin Taylor
Shields Gardner

#4446: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th
ed., 1887, Woodford Co. MELVIN B. HIFNER, a native of Woodford County,
was born October 15, 1856, and is the only son of Thomas M. and Mary
(Frazier) Hifner, natives of Woodford and Jessamine Counties. His
grandfather, Simeon Hifner, was born near Culpeper C. H., Va., and early
settled near Troy, Woodford Co., Ky. Here Thomas M. Hifner was born June 4,
1832, where he has been engaged in teaching and farming. Melvin B. Hifner
received his preliminary education under his father, and in 1880 completed
his studies in civil engineering at Valparaiso, Ind. He had been teaching
about five years in the meantime, and in 1881 was elected county
superintendent of education; he is the present incumbent, and his office
will expire in 1890. He also served as county surveyor from 1881 til [sic]
1886, when he resigned the position. He married, May 10, 1881, Miss Maggie
Weakley, of Shelby County. Mr. Hifner, with his wife, is a member of the
Christian Church. Mr. Hifner's maternal grandfather, Martin Frazier, of
German descent, was born in Virginia, and on coming to Kentucky settled in
Jessamine County.

#4447: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd
ed., 1886. Warren County. JOHN B. GAINES, editor and proprietor of the
Park City Daily Times and Weekly Times-Gazette, was born in Warren County,
Ky., September 30, 1854, and is a son of Samuel B. and Bettie (Ritter)
Gaines, and is of English extraction. Samuel B. Gaines was a Virginian,
born in 1829; his wife was born at Glasgow, KY., in 1837. Samuel B. Gaines
came to Kentucky in early life; he was a general merchant and sold goods in
Allen, Barren and Warren Counties. Gainesville, in Allen County, was named
in honor of him. He was a leading and popular merchant and influential
citizen; his death took place in Barren County in 1856. John B. Gaines was
reared on a farm in his native county, where he remained until eighteen
years of age and was
educated in the common schools. In 1871 he went to Hannibal, Mo., where he
engaged for two years in the railroad business, and for several months held
the responsible position of general passenger and ticket agent of the
Mississippi Valley & Western Railroad - he was the youngest man who ever
held such a position on any line of railroad. In 1873 he went to St. Louis
and was engaged in the newspaper business, his first position being on the
Illuistrated Railway and St. Louis News and afterward as reporter on the
Globe. He has owned and operated a number of newspapers throughout his
native State, and is regarded as one of the most enterprising and
successful newspaper publishers in the State. In 1882 he established the
Park City Daily Times against the advice of all his friends, who thought a
daily paper could not be made to pay in Bowling Green, but the result of
the venture proves conclusively his foresight in inaugurating the
enterprise. His office and contents were destroyed by fire January 29,
1885, and then Mr. Gaines consolidated his paper with the Gazette. May 15,
1885, he became the sole proprietor and editor of the Park City Daily Times
and Weekly Times-Gazette, having bought the interest of his partner, E. H.
Porter, who was appointed postmaster at Bowling Green. The Times, under
the able supervision of Mr. Gaines, is an enterprising and fearless
publication, and adds materially to the enterprise and thrift of the Park
City. Mr. Gaines is an ardent Democrat, and advocates every interest of
that party. He married, in 1878, Winnie McCutchen, of Simpson County, whom
whom he has had three children. Mr. Gaines, in addition to being the
editor and proprietor of the leading newspaper of southern Kentucky, is
alive to the interest of all laudable enterprises, and is the president of
the Park City Building & Loan Association, and a prominent member of the
Bowling Green and Warren County Immigration Society, both of which
enterprises he was largely instrumental in bringing about.

#4448: Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 2nd ed.,
1885, Webster Co. G.W. BAILEY was born in Hopkins County, Ky., April 4,
1848, and is a son of G.W. and Elizabeth (Winstead) Bailey. The Bailey
family came originally from Virginia, and the ancestors of our subject
settled in Hopkins Co, Ky., where the father lived until just before the
war, when the family removed to Webster County. G.W. remained at home and
helped his father on the farm until his twenty-second year, when he went to
Hopkins County, and commenced farming for himself. He remained in that
county five years, then came to Webster County, and continued farming for
four years, then sold his farm and engaged in the livery business in
Sebree, to which place he had removed. He ran his business for some time,
then abandoned it and took up his present business, dealing in fine wines
and liquors. As a farmer he was successful, and the same may be said of
him as a business man. Mr. Bailey was married, May 7, 1873, to Miss Mattie
Moore, of Hopkins County, Ky. They have five children: William, Floy,
Linnie, Claude and Myrtle. Mr. Bailey is a Democrat.

#4449: History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Counties, Indiana From
the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with Interesting Biographical
Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc. Chicago, Goodspeed Bros., & Co.,
Publishers, 1884. Weston A. Goodspeed, Leroy C. Goodspeed, Charles L.
Goodspeed. Wayne County. EDWARD R. GEORGE, farmer, was born in
Washington County, Ind., March 2, 1819, being the oldest of eight children
born to James and Martha (Hinkle) George, the father being a native of
Kentucky, settling in Washington County in the year 1818, a farmer by
occupation; he died in June, 1871, a
devout Christian. Subject received a limited education and remained at
home assisting his parents till he was twenty-two years of age. December
11, 1845, he married Arrena Hopkins, and to this union have been born three
children, only one living - Epsie - aged twenty-one years. Mrs. George is
a native of Wayne County, Ky., and came with her parents to this State
about the year 1828. The occupation of subject has always been farming,
and he now owns over 300 acres of good land. He has also owned and sold
several stone quarries. He is a member of the Christian Church, and a
Republican. He has filled the office of Township quite creditably.

#4450: A Sesquicentennial History of the Green River Missionary Baptist
Church 1836 - 1986, Written and Compiled by Wendell Holmes Rone, Sr., For
the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Church,
1987. By permission of author. Ohio County. NICHOLAS C. DANIEL, a
prominent Cromwell Merchant, Civil War Veteran, Member of Green River
Baptist Church, and Member of Cromwell Masonic Lodge; was born in Ohio
County, Kentucky, and reared in the Cromwell neighborhood.
He was the son of George M. Daniel (b. c. 1806- d. c. 1876) and Nancy A.
(Tilford) Daniel (b. c. 1809 - d. June 17, 1882). His mother was a native
of Virginia, and was a daughter of Jeremiah Tilford and Lucy (Daniel)
Tilford (b. 1790), who were married on June 9, 1814. George M. Daniel and
Nancy A. Tilford were married on March 15, 1827, in Ohio County, Kentucky.
Nicholas C. Daniel, their son, was born on October 1,1835. During the
Civil War (1861-1865) he served as a private in the Federal Army (Union).
Upon returning home, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary C. Austin (b.
January 5, 1845 - d. April 21, 1934), also a native of Ohio County,
Kentucky. According to the 1870 and the 1880 Ohio County Census
Records they became the parents of at least four children, as follows:
Missouri Florence Daniel (b.c. 1867), Mary Daniel (b. Feb. 1870), Estill T.
Daniel (b.c. 1871) and Anna Daniel (b.c. 1873). Only he and his wife are
listed in the Ohio County Census of 1900. The 1890 Census was destroyed by
fire many years ago. Brother Daniel became a member of the Green River
Church by Christian Experience and Believer's Immersion in November, 1873,
in his thirty-eighth year. His wife had united with the Church in the same
manner while still single in January, 1864. Florence Daniel (Married a
Martin) became a Member by Christian Experience and Baptism on May 4, 1884,
and was lettered out with her parents in May of 1903. Ann Daniel (Married
a Taylor) became a Member by Christian Experience and Baptism in December,
1884, and was lettered out on January 23, 1909. There is no record on the
other two children. Brother Daniel served the Church as a Trustee in
1889-1903. He also attended the Gasper River Association as a Messenger
from the Church in 1876, 1885, 1888, 1892, 1899 and 1901. He attended the
first meeting of the Ohio County Association as a Messenger of the Church
with Brother Birch Shields at the Hartford Church, in 1901. He also
attended the 1902 meeting, before moving his membership in May, 1903. From
1870 to 1903 Brother Daniel was a Groceryman at Cromwell. He was also very
active in the Cromwell Masonic Lodge. From 1903 until his death, on
November 28, 1906, he made his home at Beaver Dam, Kentucky. He died from
complication which arose from having broken a leg on November 14th
preceding his death. He was elected as Tax Assessor for Ohio County on the
Republican Ticket, in November, 1893, and served in the years 1894-1897.
His sister, Martha Elizabeth "Bettie" Daniel (b. December 31, 1845 - d.
September 2, 1909), married James W. Shields (1835-1898) on August 12,
1868, and became the mother of Baptist Minister Birch Shields and Deacon
Warren Shields. Upon his death, Brother Daniel's remains were interred
in the Green River Cemetery after a Funeral Sermon by Pastor A B. Gardner
and Masonic Honors at the grave. An imposing Granite Monument marks his
last earthly resting place, located near the parking lot of the Church.
The following is inscribed upon it: "His words were kindness; His deeds
were Love; His spirit humble; He rests above." Mrs. Daniel and at least
two daughters survived him. Members from the Cromwell, Beaver Dam and
Hartford Masonic Lodges participated in the service honoring him. Mrs.
Daniel outlived him by over twenty-seven years, departing this life on
April 21, 1934. Her body lies alongside his in the Green River Cemetery
awaiting the "First Resurrection."


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