SUPPLEMENT TO CANTO V. 1875. MISCELLANEOUS DATES.

From stray fragments and traditions, From authenticated pages, From all evidence existing, We transcribe the names of brothers Who have served our state and county In divergent fields of labor; Who have lent their minds and bodies To the profit of their fellows. Stubborn facts and dates and figures, Chime not smoothly in my measure, Straggling history makes angles, Which do sharply turn my canto— Which transform my major canto Into strains of minor music. Yet the story must be perfect, Of the city on the hillside; Still the awkward miscellany Must awake my bard to chanting All the song of fair Lancaster. ’Twas in seventeen hundred eighty, That there came from old Virginia [41] To the west, a gifted preacher, Lewis Craig, a Baptist preacher, Who became a valiant champion Of that church in Garrard county. Gilbert’s Creek, his chosen station, Was the scene of great revivals, And his voice proclaimed the Gospel, Till its tones were hushed forever.

In seventeen hundred nine and ninety, Nathan Hall, a Presbyterian, Came to labor for the Master, In this section of Kentucky.

Nathan Rice was born in Garrard, A strict follower of Calvin, In his doctrines of religion; Was a zealous, constant worker, In the vineyard of salvation, In the field of controversy, As debater and reviewer, Both as pastor and as author, Labored hard and labored steady. The debate on modes of baptism, Sprinkling, pouring, or immersion, Held with Alexander Campbell, Caused unlimited excitement All throughout the Christian churches, [42] Made a stir and nine days’ wonder, Throughout all denominations. Universalism doctrine, And the justice of slaveholding, Formed two other grave discussions In the great divine’s career. Dr. Rice is still devoting His enfeebled voice and gesture To the Gospel proclamation; Furrowed brow and locks of silver Give the glory of religion, In a portrait true and tender, Speaking fluent words and holy, Telling still the “old, old story.” Every prominent position, In the gift of flock or pastor, Has been his to grace and honor, In the field of Christian labor.

J. L. McKee, D. D., proclaimer Of the Gospel revelation, Gathers penitents unnumbered To the mercy-seat of Jesus, Gathers multitudes of brothers, In the strait way of salvation. Earnest, eloquent and faithful, Heart and mind and will are ready, Ready by devoted study, [43] Ready by Divine assistance, By the milk of human kindness, By the grace of gentle warning, For evangelizing sinners, For converting souls from error. Holding Presbyterian tenets, Orthodox in Scotland’s canons, He proclaims a dying Saviour, Points a crucified Redeemer, Urges love among all brethren, As his rule of faith and practice, As his bulwark of dependence, As the channel of redemption For rebellious, wayward mortals. Gifted orator and teacher, Chastened learner and disciple, May his thrilling exhortations, May his zealous admonitions, Long resound in old Kentucky, Long reëcho in Lancaster.

From eighteen four, to eighteen hundred Four and seventy, were statesmen Sent to represent Lancaster, [44] In the senate of Kentucky. First, in eighteen four, James Thompson, Eighteen six, came William Bledsoe, Eighteen nine, was Thomas Buford, Then in eighteen twelve, John Faulkner, Eighteen thirty-two W. Owsley, Samuel Lusk, in four and thirty, In fifty-nine, George Denny, Senior.

In the House the hillside city Was in numbers represented From among the early settlers, To the present generation. Thomas Kennedy, elected, Seventeen hundred nine and ninety, Then John Boyle in eighteen hundred, Eighteen one, came Henry Pawling, Eighteen two, was Stephen Perkins, Next, in eighteen three, James Thompson, Eighteen five, came Abner Baker, Eighteen six, came Thomas Buford, Samuel McKee in eighteen nine, and William Owsley, eighteen eleven: Then in eighteen twelve, John Yantis, Eighteen thirteen, Samuel Johnson, Eighteen fourteen, Robert Letcher, Eighteen fifteen, came James Spillman, [45] Eighteen twenty-one Ben. Mason, Then George Robertson, in eighteen Two and twenty, was elected. Twenty-seven, R. McConnell. Eighteen hundred eight and twenty Simeon Anderson next followed, Nine and twenty, Tyree Harris, One and thirty, Jesse Yantis, Eighteen thirty-two, John Jennings, Alex. Sneed, in three and thirty, Eighteen thirty-five, George Mason, A. G. Daniel, nine and thirty, George R. McKee, in one and forty, Jennings Price, in three and forty, Forty-four, went Grabriel Salter, Eighteen forty-five, W. Mason, Horace Smith, in forty-seven, Forty-eight, La Fayette Dunlap, John B. Arnold, eighteen fifty, Fifty-four, George W. Dunlap, Joshua Dunn, in five and fifty, William Woods, in fifty-seven, Fifty-nine, went Joshua Burdett, Alex. Lusk, in one and sixty, Sixty-three, went John K. Faulkner, Sixty-five, went Daniel Murphy, William J. Lusk, in sixty-seven, Seventy-one, went William Sellers. Reëlected, three and seventy.

First, John Boyle was sent to Congress, From eighteen three to eighteen nine; then Samuel McKee, to eighteen seventeen; Then George Robertson, till twenty; R. P. Letcher next, from twenty To eighteen hundred three and thirty. From thirty-nine to eighteen forty, Simeon H. Anderson was chosen; From sixty-one to three and sixty, George W. Dunlap served the session, Called to quell the civil troubles, By pacific intervention.

John Boyle and William Owsley, And George Robertson, were Judges Of the Appellate Court at Frankfort. Samuel Lusk, George R. McKee, and Samuel McKee, and Mike H. Owsley, Form the list of Circuit Judges Of the Eighth Judicial District. County Judges, five in number; James H. Letcher, first in order, Nicholas Sandifer, the second, Third, James Patterson elected, Fourthly, comes George Denny, Junior, [47] Last is William McKee Duncan. Police Judges are as follows: First, T. Gresham heads the list, then Hugh McKee and Allan Burton, James McKee and Louis Phillips, R. Grinnan and W. M. Duncan. George Denny, Junior, M. H. Owsley, Served as Commonwealth’s Attorney.

William A. Bridges, Benjamin Letcher, A. R. McKee, and W. J. Landram, W. D. Hopper, E. D. Kennedy, John K. Faulkner, now in office, Are the Circuit Court Recorders. County clerks were Benjamin Letcher, A. McKee, and W. B. Mason, James H. Smith, and W. J. Landram, J. W. West and W. H. Wherritt.

Of our Territorial Judges,— R. P. Letcher, in Arkansas, A. A. Burton, in Dacotah. Foreign Missions,—R. P. Letcher, Went to Mexico in office; A. A. Burton, to Colombia, R. C. Anderson, Colombia, [48] And to Panama in service. A. R. McKee, to Panama, was Sent as Consul for a season.

S. McKee and R. P. Letcher, George Robertson, M. V. Grant, and James McCoy, and W. G. Mullins, S. H. Anderson, John Boyle, and W. Mattingly, John McMillan, Thomas Chilton, and Charles Talbott, Samuel Lusk, and W. P. Bryant, Jesse Woodruff, John G. Totten, R. D. Lusk, and S. T. Mason, George W. Dunlap, A. A. Burton, Alex. Robertson, H. Bruce, and Levi Blanton, Lewis Landram, W. Kincaid, and Alex. Aldridge, A. G. Stephenson, B. F. Graham, Bascom Brown, and Dudley Denton, L. B. Cox, J. Smith, Joshua Burdett, Alex. Lusk, and Thomas Wilbur, M. L. Rice, and George F. Burdett, Horace Smith, and L. F. Dunlap, W. C. Samuel, Charles E. Bowman, A. R. McKee, and W. J. Landram, [49] Samuel McKee, and T. McQuery, George R. McKee, and W. B. Mason, S. T. Corn, and Phil. P. Barbour, R. McKee and W. D. Hopper, James A. Anderson, W. J. Lusk, and Theodore Bailey, and George Hatch, and R. M. Bradley, B. F. Burdett, W. O. Bradley, H. T. Noel, Harrison Wilds, and M. H. Owsley, W. M. Duncan, William Herndon, R. L. Tomlinson, Matt. Walton, George Denny, Junior, H. C. Kauffman.

J. V. Gill, and R. McConnell, A. Edmonson, B. F. Rhoton, William Gill, and Benjamin Mason, George B. Mason, L. M. Buford, Joseph Smith, and W. A. Downton, J. P. Burton, B. F. Duncan, J. S. Pierce, and W. H. Pettus, Alex. Hann, and Lewis Mullins, Anthony Hunn, and Samuel Letcher, David Bell, and Harvey Baker, Jennings Price and Abner Baker, L. B. Hudson, Jos. P. Letcher, William Cooke, and Hartford Peters, Charley Fox, and Houston Jackman, [50] O. P. Hill, and William Jennings, Thomas Craig, John Craig, George Givens, Johnson Price, and M. D. Logan, Edward Cooke, and S. L. Burdett, William Bush, and William Huffman, Lastly, Dr. H. C. Herring, Are the city’s Esculapians.

We have merchants and mechanics, Who supply the world of commerce, We have artisans, and farmers, Who are thriving, noble workers, Men whose names are as the legions, As they toil in honest labor. We have literary talent, We have preachers and professors, We have poets and musicians, Gallant sons and blooming daughters; We have statesmen, we have soldiers, In the halls and in the battles; Even out upon the ocean, Has the city’s fame extended; In the navy as the army, Have her offspring been promoted; Every path may claim her children, Every sphere in life, a foll’wer, Every scroll of fame, a column. Cicero Price became a seaman, [51] Went to cruise upon the waters, Rose to Commodore in service, And sustained his proud position, Through the shifts of fickle fortune. Let each heart enshrine a volume Of our honest, upright brothers; Let the story of Lancaster, Brush aside the dust and ashes, Clear away the clogs and brake-wheels, Come forth as the sun at noonday, With her hearts and hands unsullied, With her banner folds untarnished.