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Subject: BIOS 5031 THRU 5035 - MALCOM, McELROY, O'NEAL, PFEIFFER, PIRTLE - JEFFERSON CO.
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 07:13:26 -0600

5031 ALCOLM, THOMAS S - Malcom
5032 McELROY, EARL HEWLETT - McElroy Hewlett Stubblefield Purser Metts
Longest Hargis Vance Holley Crawley
5033 O'NEAL, JOSEPH THOMAS - O'Neal Arnold Wright Briscoe Hedge
5034 PFEIFFER, CHARLES - .Pfeiffer Gould
5035 PIRTLE, HENRY - Pirtle

#5031: 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 187. [Jefferson County] THOMAS S. MALCOM
was a son of the late venerable Howard Malcom, and a native of
Pennsylvania, came with his father to Kentucky at the time the latter
assumed the presidency of Georgetown College, in 1840. In the spring of
1842, he aided Mr. Willard in a protracted meeting at the 2nd Baptist
church in Louisville, being a licensed preacher at that time. On the
resignation of Mr. Willard Mr. Malcom was called to succeed him as pastor
of the 2nd church, to which office he was ordained July, 8, 1842. He
served this congregation four years, during which time 124 converts were
baptized for its fellowship, and its membership was increased from 96 to
171. Thomas S. Malcom was not only a most excellent preacher and pastor,
but was also a young man of extraordinary practical intelligence and
business energy. During his brief sojourn in Kentucky, he compiled
statistics of all the associations in the State except one. He compiled a
brief history of Long Run Association from its constitution to 1842, and
published various other historical tables and sketches, which have been of
great value to the denomination, and, especially, to the historian and
statistician. He resigned the pastorate of the 2nd church and returned to
Philadelphia, in 1845.

#5032: "A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY,
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone. Probably published in 1944 by Messenger Job
Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 404-405. Used by permission.
[Jefferson] EARL HEWLETT McELROY: This prominent Gospel preacher was born
at Burgess, Mississippi, on September 16, 1898, and is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Reuben Hewlett McElroy. He graduated from High School at Oxford,
Mississippi, from the University of Mississippi; at Oxford, Mississippi,
and also from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville,
Kentucky. He served in the World's War (No. 1) in the years 1917-1918 and
for some time thereafter served as manager of a summer resort in the Black
Hills of South Dakota. He was converted at the age of seven and was
baptized into the fellowship of the First Baptist Church of Oxford,
Mississippi, by a Rev. Stubblefield. He was licensed to preach by his home
Church in August, 1923, and was ordained by the same Church on June 6,
1926. Revs. J. R. G. Hewlett, F. M. Purser, N. F. Metts, C. Longest, J. E.
Hargis, J. J. Vance, and R. L. Holley were the members of the ordaining
council. He served the Calvary Church at Greenwood, Mississippi, from
September, 1926, to June, 1928; Eaton Memorial Church Owensboro, Kentucky,
from June, 1928, to December, 1936, and again from January, 941, to April,
1943. He served the First Church of Charelston [sic], Mississippi, from
January, 1937, to December, 1940. Since April, 1943, he has been serving
the Highland Park First Church in Louisville, Kentucky. He has been very
successful in his pastorates and has witnessed about 1,400 conversions. He
preached the annual sermon before the Daviess-McLean Association in 1935.
He also served as the Assistant Moderator of the Association in 1942-1943,
until his departure for Louisville. Brother McElroy is a strong doctrinal
preacher as well as successful evangelist. His wife is the former Miss
Hazel Crawley, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Crawley, Louisville,
Kentucky. She is a very active Church and Associational [sic] worker
holding a
number of offices during her stay in this Association among the omen. Our
brother preached the annual sermon before the Tallahatchie [sic]
Association in Mississippi in 1938 and served as the Moderator of this same
Association in 1939-1940.

#5033: Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897.
Published by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago. Reprinted by Southern
Historical Press. p. 211. Jefferson County. JOSEPH THOMAS O'NEAL, of
Louisville, was born in Woodford county, Kentucky, on the 7th of February,
1849, and is descended from one of the pioneer families of Virginia, where
in 1701 located three brothers of the name who had emigrated from the
Emerald Isle to secure homes in the new world. From one of these brothers
was descended Louis O'Neal, who was born in Virginia and served as a
soldier in the colonial army during the war of the Revolution. He became
the founder of the family in Kentucky, locating in Jessamine county during
the closing years of the eighteenth century. His son, George O'Neal, the
grandfather of JosephT., was born in Jessamine county in 1789, and the
father, Merrit Singleton O'Neal, became one of the leading farmers of that
county. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Younger Arnold, a farmer of
Woodford county, where his parents had located in pioneer days on their
emigration from the Old Dominion. Thus Joseph T. O'Neal is connected with
two families of long identification with the history of his native state.
He attended the common schools of Woodford county until fifteen years of
age, when he became a student in the Woodford Academy, of Versailles,
Kentucky, an excellent institution of learning under the direction of
Professor Henry.He afterward pursued his education in the Kentucky
University in Lexingtonand subsequently matriculated in the law department
of the Michigan University, where he was graduated with the class of 1873.
In the fall of that year Mr. O'Neal came to Louisville and entered upon the
practice of law in the office of Judge John Roberts. He has since been a
member of various well-known and prominent law firms. His first
partnership was with William L. Jackson, Jr., and Zach Phelps, under the
firm name of O'Neal, Jackson & Phelps; this was succeeded by the firm of
O'Neal & Phelps; and the next change was made by the admission of Joseph
Pryor to an interest in the business, under the name of O'Neal, Phelps,
Pryor & Seligman, but in October, 1894, by the withdrawal of two members,
the firm became O'Neal & Pryor, and January 1, 1897, Judge W. S. Pryor,
formerly chief justice of the court of appeals, was admitted to the firm
which is now Pryor, O'Neal & Pryor, Judge W. S. Pryor having an office at
Frankfort. Since his admission to the bar Mr. O'Neal hasgiven his entire
attention to the practice and has succeeded in securing a large and
lucrative clientage. Many of the cases which he has handled have been of a
very important character. The characterizing elements of his professional
career are indefatigable industry and the most thorough preparation of his
cases. Thus sure of his position, with an accurate knowledge of the
authorities and precedents which make firm the position he has taken, he
proves a formidable opponent in forensic encounters. He has never laid
aside professional duties to seek the honors and emoluments of political
preferments, having been once a candidate before the people. He was named
for judge of the court of appeals, at the primary election of the
Democratic party, but was defeated by a small vote of two hundred. Mr.
O'Neal married Miss Lydia E. Wright, daughter of Joseph and Ellen (Briscoe)
Wright. Her father is a prominent merchant and distiller, operating the
Sugar Valley distillery in Bullitt county, Kentucky. The Wrights were of
English descent, through the Hedges of England, and came
to America in the early part of the eighteenth century locating in
Virginia, whence they removed to Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. O'Neal have four
children: Meritt D., Joseph T., Goodloe and Emmett. Mr. O'Neal holds
membership in the Baptist church and belongs to the Masonic fraternity and
the Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order.

#5034: Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed.,
1888, Jefferson Co. CHARLES PFEIFFER is a native of this city, and was born
November 20, 1837. He is a son of Henry and Magdalene Pfeiffer, natives of
Germany, who came to the United States in 1828, locating in New York State,
and after
remaining there for several years came to Louisville. He received his
education in the public schools, and then learned the trade of stove
molding in the factory of Wallace, Lithgow & Co. In April, 1866, he formed
a copartnership with some of his fellow workmen under the name of Hare,Leaf
& Co., which continued until 1870, when the firm was changed to Fisher,
Leaf & Co., which name it still bears. They are manufacturers of stoves,
mantels, grates, etc., and have a large establishment on High street and
Portland avenue, employing about 160 people. The factory has never stood
still ten days at a time since first started, and the firm ship their goods
all over the Untied States, and occasionally to Germany. Mr. Pfeiffer was
married in 1861 to Miss Julia Gould, of this city, daughter of Jacob Gould,
a native of Boston, Mass. They have four children living, viz: Robert,
Mary V., Katie Belle and Norbert Lee. Mrs. Pfeiffer died in 1876

#5035: Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed.,
1888, Jefferson Co.Judge Henry Pirtle, one of the ablest lawyers and
jurists that ever practiced at the Louisville bar, located in that city in
1826, from Hartford, Ohio County, Ky., where he had been admitted to the
bar some five years before. He was born in 1799, and was not yet thirty
years old when he came to Louisville, yet so quickly did his professional
brethren recognize his great abilities that with a few months he was
unanimously recommended to the Governor for the appointment of Circuit
Judge. He was accordingly appointed, and again in 1846. In 1850 he was
appointed chancellor of the Louisville Chancery Court, and appointed again
in 1862. He was for twenty-seven years professor of constitutional law,
equity and commercial law, in the law department of the University of
Louisville. He complied a Digest of the Decisions of the Kentucky Court of
Appeals, and was the author of a valuable historical introduction to the
journal of Gen. George Rogers Clark, published in Cincinnati some years
ago, as a number of the Ohio Valley Historical series. He took no active
part in politics; his only office outside the judicial service was that of
State Senator, being elected in 1840, and serving one term. His influence,
however, upon politics and legislation was great. To a letter of his,
addressed to the Secretary of the United States Treasury, about 1850, its
attributed the building of the Marine hospitals at Louisville and elsewhere
on the Western waters. He was an active promoter of historical, literary
and scientific societies, and was regarded as a walking encyclopedia. He
died March 28, 1880, aged eighty years.


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