Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 18

Third Section Sunday L1SXINOTON LEADEN Taniiary 150 15)10 Widow of Attorney Assassinated While Standing it Court House Door at iac son Well Known Here For the guidance of visitors and the education of some residents not familiar with the extraordinary historical wealth of Lexington HUSBAND WEALTHY PLUMBING CONTRACTS LEXINGTON IS BUILT upon the Mite of an ancient wailel city of vat extent In 177ft hunters discovered catacombs 300x100 feet fifteen feet below the surface in which were numerous mummies In the stress of war the entrance was obliterated and Its location lost A very old well walled with stone found also by settlers was not the work of Indians Stone sepulchers built in pyramid formation were above the surface A mound on Spring street midway between High and Maxwell from which was exhumed pottery and half-burnt wood was credited with having been a sacrificial altar A lead mine opened in 1 700 showed unmistakable signs of having been worked by aborigines Extensive ruins of circumvallatory works were leveled in building the of the West" sjg EARLY SETTLERS were buried on the occupied now -by the First Baptist Church first cemetery of Iiexington It fell into disuse after the cholera epidemic of 1833 gg sge DUST OF NUMEROUS PIONEERS rests in obliterated graves between the iiexington Cemetery and railroad yards their liodies having been buried in graveyard the second to be established here jje jfc jfc jje LEXINGTON WAS INCORPORATED by the Virginia Legislature May 0 1782 TlW ORIGINAL ROBERT PATTERSON HOME (1783) stood at the southwest corner of High and Patterson streets sc ae jc jje WALDEMAIIDE 3IENTELLE who fled Paris at the opening of the Reign of Terror lived opposite Ashland on the Richmond road dying there in 184(1 CAPTAIN JOHN MORRISON JR who fell at defeat in 1813 was the first native of this city JOHN MAXWELL pioneer and first coroner was buried in 1810 in Maxwell's graveyard on Bolivar street which was effaced years ago ae age ate HURRICANE HALL erected more than a century ago and ancestral home of Patrick Henry Thompson Esq is near Donerail on the Georgetown toad ag je ae ae JOSEPH HAMILTON DAVIS prosecutor of Aaron Burr lived on Main street near the site of the Strand theatre jgg gjg gg MCCONNELL'S STATION established in 1783 at the Spring in the valley south of the cemetery was the first suburb annexed by Lexington A FIRST SETTLER named Wymore was killed and scalped on the site of the Central Christian Church 4e 4e 4c 4e IN TROTTER'S WAREHOUSE southwest corner of 31111 and 3Iain streets Dr Frederick Ridgeley delivered lectures to the early medical 'students of Transylvania University )c ae 9g )( THE UNITED STATES BANK occupied the site of the 31 A GEORGE NICHOLAS Kentucky's first attorney general lived in a house occupying the site of Sayre College 3g jjc 9g )g IN A HOUSE FACING THE COURT HOUSE on the east known as Captain Young's house' John Davenport opened a dancing school in 1788 Mrs Abrella Hurst Marcum wjfo of Attorney James Marcum was assassinated at the court Ioum door In Jackson on May 4 whose death led to the stopnua the famous Breathitt countfena? was married in Cincinnati to Captain Jefferson Turier wealthy plumbing contractor ly of Harrodaburg but now a red! dent of Jackson Mrs Marcum la and Captain Turner is 50 yean ol(L The news of the marriage will be of wide Interest thruout Central tad Eastern Kentucky where the nrinrf paLs are well known Mrs Turner Is a daughter of the late Daniel Hunt of Jackson and spent practically all of her life in that city She was married to the late James Marcum in 1886 and six children were born to the union fle whom are now living This is the second marriage of both principal Curtis Jett and Tom White are now serving life sentences in the penitentiary charged with complicity in xr 31arcums murder Mrs Marcum spent Practically all the family fortune In the prosecution of Jett and White and worked hard for several yeara to raise her children being a clerk in the poatofflee for a number of yeara at Jackson 1 The Cincinnati Enquirer of today has the following account of the "tiding of the couple accompanied by excellent pictures of both: romance that had its inception in the Breathitt county Kentucky feuds culminated In the marriage ia Cincinnati yesterday of Mrs AbrieOa Hurst Marcum 46 years old to Captain Jefferson Turner 50 years oil Squire Edward Hauenschlld officiated The couple are from Jackson Ky Marcum and Captain Tuner arrived in Cincinnati Thursday evening and registered at the Grand Hotel Yesterday morning accompanied by Fee chief clerk they procured a marriage license and went to Squire office where the ceremony was performed Captain and Mrs Turner then returned to the Grand Hotel and in an effort to keep the marriage a secret registered as and Mrs Thomas Jefferson Har-rodsburg Ky' T1IE 1IOME OFFICE AND STORK OF DR ELISHA WARFIELD occupied the lot now numbered 264 West Main street He afterward built 4 4 THE LEXINGTON LI IIRARY was founded in 1705 4c 4c 4c 4s JUDGE GEORGE ROBERTSON distinguished Jurist lived at the southeast corner of High and Mill streets afe ac TOMBSTONES TO MATTHEW HARRIS JOUKTT artist and Richard II 3Ienefee statesman remain in a little graveyard near the city on the Georgetown road altho their coffins were moved to Louisville many years ago 4c 4c 4 4c THE OF lxington's second inn conducted by Roliert 3legowan was on 3Ialn street between Upper and IJme-- stone streets The State treasurer had his office in this tavern in 1702 4c 4c 4c THE IIOME OF JAMES HARRISON jurist and father of the public school system of Iiexington (1818) was on the site of the Good Samaritan Hospital 4c 4c 4 4c OLIVER FRAZER artist lived on the north side of the Georgetown road Just beyond Peach Orchard 4c'4c '4c 4c THE BROADWAY CHRISTIAN CHURCH stands on the site of the brick edifice dedicated as the First Presbyterian church in the summer of 1808 -'I 4c 4c 4c 4c ST CARTHERINE'S ACA DE31Y was located in Lexington Jn 1834 sjc THE CORNERSTONE to the Henry Clay monument in the Lexington Cemetery was laid July 4 1837 4c 4c 4c 4c THE FIRST CONGREGATION OF THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST an offshoot of the First Baptist Church In 1826 held services on Short between Upper and IJmestone streets ac ae afe afe AYRES' tavern was at Spring and Main streets afe 9fe ae afe TELEGRAPHIC COXXHCTIOX' WITH LOUISVILLE was established In 1818 4c 4c 4c 4c LEXINGTON first was lighted with gas July 27 1853 ac ac afe afe THE inn was at the corner of Broadway and High streets 4c 4c 4c 4c THE FIRST TRAIN THRU TO LOUISVILLE was run in 1851 in 1853 (December 22) the first train to Paris and in T854 the first to Cincinnati i 4c 4c 4 4 "THE John 3IcX air's early tavern was on 3tain street opposite tiie Court House' 4c 4c 4c 4c SATTERWHITE'S TAVERN was on Short street opposite the Court House afe afe afe afe A COMPANY OF LEX1NGTOMANH headed by Robert Patterson laid off and settled Cincinnati in December 1788 The land on which that rity rises was owned by Colonel Patterson 3Iatthias Denman and John Filson 4c 4c 4c 4c STOLL FIELD State University was the drill ground of the Lexing ton Light Infantry organized In 1780 afe afe afe afe A CABIN AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SHORT AND DE-WEES streets was the first 3Iethodist rhurrh of Iiexington the original congregation having been organized in 1780 4c 4c 4c 4c WILLIAM WEST first artist of the West came to Lexington from Baltimore to live In 1788 Edward West wlio Invented the steambout here Jn'1703 was a brother1 4c 4c 4 4c 3IASOXS established a lodge in Iiexington November 17 1788 their hall being at the northeast corner of Walnut and Short streets 4c 4c 4c 4c WATER STREET was a straiglit-away race course in 1787 racing along Main street having been put under ban by the town trustees 4c 4c 4c BOOKS PRINTED HERE by John Bradford in 1704 are on shelves of Iiexington Library 4c 4c 4c 4c IN 1820-27 31EETINGS OF THE KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION oldest living turf club in America were held at the Williams track on what Is now tlie tomb-spiked northern plateau of the Lexington Cemetery Prior to that time beginning with 1802 meetings of the Lexington Jockey Club had been held at Ashland 4c 4c 4c 1 4c HISTORIC MANSION OF DAVID 3IEGOWAX recently has been removed from the southwestern corner of Megowan street and the cut The building was erected prior to 1800 4c 4c 4c 4c EARLY IX THE LAST CENTURY James Haggln a member of the Fayette bar built a magnificent residence on the site of Hamilton College his extravagance leading to his financial undoing 4c 4c 4c 4c JUDGE RUCKNER THURSTON lived at the southwest corner of Second and Market streets 4c 4c 4c 4c JUDGE GEORGE 31 BIUII lived at the northeast corner of Fourth and Limestone 4c 4c 4c 4c JESSE BLEDSOE'S H031E a century ago was on the site of the new Phoenix Hotel 4c 4c 4c 4c JOSEPH CABELL BRECKINRIDGE lived at the southwest corner of Limestone and Fifth streets 4c 4c 4c 4c WILLI A3I MURRAY member of the Lexington bar at the beginning of the last century lived at'the northeast corner of 31aln and Walnut streets afe afe afe afe THE BUILDING OF 3IORE WOODEN CHI3INEYS was prohibited by art of town trustees in 1701 and post and rail fences across Short street were ordered removed 4c 4c 4c 4c JOHN POPE statesman who came to Lexington from Virginia in 1700 built and occupied the house known as the Woolfolk home on Grosvenor avenue TIIE LEXINGTON LIBRARY first in the West established In 1705 was moved from Transylvania Seminary to the site of the new Leader building northeast corner of Market snd Short streets Ihan indaau KaPalle AeM -a SOXM then Andrew THE REXJA3IIX GRATZ H031E 3lill and New streets bought In 1824 was erected by Thomas January more than aeentury ago aft aje afe afe THE GENERAL JOHN HUNT 310I1GAN HOME is at the northwest corner of Mill and Second streets 3jC jfg 90S afC SAYRE COLLEGE Limestone and Second streets chartered In 1851 was the first institution in Christendom founded for the educa-j tion of women jjg jfg THE EQUEHTRA1N STATUE OF GENERAL MORGAN and "the cenotaph of John Breckinridge youngest vice-president are in shadows of the court house HENRY LITTLE BRICK LAW OFFICE stood on the site of the residence at 183 North 31111 street 4c THE CONFECTIONERY AND DANCE HALL OF 31 GIRON occupied a building recently razed at 123-125 North 31111 street jc 4c THE LAW OFFICE OF TI103IAS MARSHALL was at 'the Short street end of Jordon'a itow Upper street facing Court House 4c sje CASSIUS 3IARCELLU8 CLAY'S ABOLITION PAPER suppressed by force in 1845 was published at 108 North Mill street 4c 4c 4c ROSA VERTXEK JEFFREY lived at the southwest corner of Second and 3Iarket streets and there wrote her books of verse prose and fiction and plays 4c 4c JA3IES BROWN SENATOR AND MINISTER TO FRANCE had Ids law office at the northwest corner of Short and Mill streets 4c 4c DU FOUR REFUGEE OF THE SANTO D03I1NG0 3LSSACRE conducted a dancing school in the residence at the southeast corner of Second and 3Iarket streets which was erected by Dr Frederick Ridgely early in the last century 4c 4c EARLY BLOCKHOUSES raised by Lexington's first iiermanent tenants stood at the southwest corner of 31ain and 31111 streets and northwest corner of High street and Broadway a)S afe jjc THE DUST OF 31RS R1IODA VAUGHN daughter of Captain John Holder first white child born In the wilderness now Kentucky rests in the old Episcopal cemetery She sent nearly all of her life in Lexington and died here in June 18ft3 afe afe afe ac THE FIRST TAVERN oiiened in 1785 by Janies Bray was on 3Iain street near Spring street 4c 4 4c 4t THE HOME OF GENERAL JA3IES WILKINSON who oened the pioneer drygoods store here in the spring of 1781 was on the site of the house at 581 West 31ain street afe afe jjc sfe THE FIRST CORN CROP of Italy of was raised on Clieaside by Robert Patterson John Maxwell James 3Iasterson William and Alexander 3IcConnell and James and Joseph Lindsay 4c 4c 4c 4c THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF 3IILL AND SHORT STREETS was the site of the second Iresbyterian church hquse erected after the original congregation split on Watts' version of the 1 Naims of David in 1702 This congregation endures in the First lresbytcrlan church The other faction disbanded about 1830 afe afg afg THE COLONEL THOMAS HART H03IE in xvliich Henry Clay married Imereti a Hart in 1700 is at the southwest corner of Second and 3Iill streets In the same house General 3Iorgan was mar- ried to 3Iixs Bruce and John Bradford died there afe ac afe afe THE STORE AND H03IK OF JOHN HUNT was on ground where now stands the building at 230 West 3Iain street 9g ag HISTORIC MT HOREB CHURCH is on the Ironworks pike a few rods from the Newtown road ae ac age ae AUGUST NURSERY FARM on the Georgetown road many years ago was the estate of George Washington Sutton first Jersey cattle importer and pioneer in applying the European tank method in retting hemp 4e 4e 4c TRANSYLVANIA 3IED1CAL COLLEGE destroyed by fire while occupied by Federal troops during the war letween the States stood at the northwest corner of Broadway and Second streets 4c 4c 4c THE 3IAJOR THOMAS BODLEY 1I03IE still stands at the northeast corner of 3Iarket and Second streets 4c 4c 4c WALNUT HILL famous female seminary before the war with ancient church nearby is on the Richmond road eight miles from Lexington 4c 4c 4c JOHN POPE Inited States Senator lived at the northeast corner of Short and Blill streets The house afterwards was occupied by the David A Sayre bank established in 1823 4e- 4c 4e JOEL HART sculptor was a tombstone cutter when Pruden's hlarble Works were at the corner of Upper and Second streets 1835 4e 4c 4e THE GRAVESTONE OF JOHN POSTLE WAITE host to Burr La I ayette Grant Lincoln Arthur anc many famous men remains in the abandoned Episcopal cemetery on East Third street 4e 4c BOTANIC GARDENS OF PROF SA3IUEL CONSTANTINE RAFIN-ESQUE of Transylvania university occupied ten acres on 3Iain street embracing the territory now 3Iegoxvan street in 1823 4e 4c 4c a man does anything well he ought to get credit for it" remarked the generous-minded man replied Bronco Bob Flute Pete got the reputation of such good poker players that it completely spoiled business" Washington Star Vf Look Mother! Is Tongue Coated Breath Feverish and Stomach Sour? Syrup of Figs Harm Tender Stomach Liver Bowels EXTENSIVE PREHISTORIC DEFENSE WORKS and monuments on all sides of Lexington notably at Russell Cave testify that this war cradle was the fixed dominion of the mysterious people of relatively advanced civilisation dispossessed by the Red 3Ian ae sc afe age FOR3L1LLY SURVEYED in April 1770 Iiexington took name from a ramp christened by hunters from the fort at llarrodsburg in 1770 after news of the first battle of the Revolution had penetrated the wilderness (c WILLIAM McCONELIS HUT built in 1775 was at the big spring near Pepper's distillery ag 9g gg THE BUILDING AT 32ft WEST 3IAIX STREET occupies tlie site of the original fort 1780 and later the market house in which the first Kentucky legislature convened June 4 1702 9g jjc jjg aC ON A PARAPET OF THE COURT HOUSE facing the pubfic square is a tabic' bearing the following: 1783 Here Stood The First School House in John 3IrKinney was its teacher and John Filson historian afterward taught there ae ae ajc sfs THE FIRST LEXINGTON CHURCH lresbyterian erected in 1784 was at the southeastern corner of Walnut and Short streets It was called The original Catholic rhurrh erected ten years later was at the northeast corner of Patterson street extended and 3Iain street THE COURT HOUSE occupies ground on which the first stone court house was raised in 1788 Prior to that time a log building at Main street and Broadway had served je 4e THE PHOENIX HOTEL covers ground on which stood the historic Post let ImAite's Tavern built in 1800 ELLERS LIE once palatial home of Levi Todd first county clerk stands opposite Lake Ellerslie on the Richmond road BRYAN STATION established in November 1770 and gpene of some of the most stirring Incidents of pioneer days is five miles out on the road of that name sfc afe afe afe IN THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF GRATZ PARK is a well dug in June 1704 to supply water to Transylvania Seminary erected on this campus the year previous ae ac afe BOONE'S STATION fifteen miles southeast of Lexington in Fayette county was settled by Daniel Boone in 1783 ae ac afe ae THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVE built in the United States was operated over the line from Iiexington to Frankfort now the Ij opened in 1835 as second railroad The cornerstone of this railroad was laid October 21 1831 THE H03IE OF THE GAZETTE issued as Kentucky's pioneer newspaper August 18 1787 was at the southwest corner of Main street and Broadway afe THE PIONEER BANK in the State Lexington Insurance Company 1801 occupied the site of the building at 130 West Main street ON TOWN BRANCH in 1703 the first steamboat invention of Edward West was given a trial the stream being dammed ag afe se )g TRANSYLVANIA COLUXiEf Third and Broadwayt oldest institution of learning west of the Alleglianies was established in 1783 thru act of the Virginia legislature of 3Iay 1780 appropriating confiscated Tory lands jffi afe afe THE EASTERN KENTUCKY HOSPITAL West Fourth street was founded in 181ft as first lunatic asylum of the West afe sfe afe afe THE FIRST THEATRE was opened here June 5 1707 sc RUINS OF THE COTTON 31 ILLS of Lewis Saunders pioneer Kentucky manufacturer (1808) endure at Saundersville afe afe se THE RACE COURSE of the Lexington Jockey Club organized in 1800 was at Ashland The Kentucky Association track East Fiftli street was purchased in 1820 ASHLAND HOME OF HENRY CLAY bought in 1805 is at city limits on the Richmond road 3Ir Clay came to Lexington in November 1707 afe -r LEXINGTON AND LOUlS ILLE were connected by stage line in 1817 THE FIRST LEXINGTON FAIR was held in September 1833 THE LEXINGTON POST OFFICE was established in 1704 jg aft gj( THE FIRST TOWER CLOCK was Installed in the court house in 1810a drug store in 1800 4e 4e 4c '4c CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL occupied the site of a frame house which was converted into the first Episcopal church here in 1706 The cornerstone of the present edifice was laid March 17 1847 4c 4c 4c 4c FIRST THEATRE (1707) was at the corner of Limestone and Water streets Ushers Theatre (181ft) a moro pretentious playhouse In which Edwin Forest made his debut as leading man was at tlie corner of Vine and Spring streets 4c 4c 4e 3IARKET STREET took its name from a market house built on the eastern side of the public square in 1707 and used until iat 4e 4c 4c NATHAN BURROWE8 who Introduced the manufacture of hemp into Kentucky but became famous as a manufacturer of mustard settled here In 1702 and Lexington was hie linmo until his death In 1846 A laxative today saves a tomorrow dhildren simply will not take -the time from bowels which become ced up waste liver gets sluggish stomach SOM- if Look at the tongue mother coated or your child Is Ustles cross feverish breath bad eat heartily full of ld sore throat or any other ailment give a teaspoonfulof fornia Syrup -of dont ry because It la perfectly harmless and in a few hours all this constipation poison sour bile and fermenting waste will gently move out of th bowels and you have a well playful child again A thorough is oflimes all that Is necessary It should be the first treatment given in any sickness Beware of counterfeit fig syrup Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bottle of Syrup of- Figs" which bas full directions for babies children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle Look carefully FAYETTE mother of Bluegrass counties-and embracing more than one-third of the of was formed in November 1780 gg gg jjg THE FIRST FIRE BRIGADE was organized in 1700 ae ac age ae LEXINGTON was made the State capital July 4 1702 4c 4c 4c 4e JOHN GARTY distinguished soldier who lived at the southwest corner of Slain and Mill streets as early as 1873 Introduced the manufacture of earthenware into Kentucky gg THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH to be erected in Lexington was completed in October 1810 and stood on 31111 street opposite Grata Park 4c 4c 4c 4c JOHN JORDAN JR an early Lexington postmaster lived in a house on the site of 112 North Upper street DR BENJA3IIN WINSLOW DUDLEY lived and died in the old Sayre home northeast corner of 3I1I1 mid Church streets ajc ac ae ae IX 1780 THE BAPTISTS OP IaEXIXGTOX ected their first church on the ground now occupied by the First Baptist Church THE HOUSE AT 574 WEST MAIN STREET was the home of 3Iary Todd when she was married to Abraham Lincoln November 4 lal1 at KiiHnirllpM lllfnni 1842 at Springfield Illinois 4e 4c 4c AT THE FIRST 8ESSION of -the first Kentucky 'Legislature' in Lexington June 1702 an act was passed establishing the town of Versailles at court 4c 4c 4c 4e ST PETER'S CHURCH on Limestone street was dedicated December 8 1837 The cornerstone of St Paul's church was laid November 12 1865 4c 4c 4c 4c THE FIRST 31ETHODI8T CHURCH occupies the site of the German Lutheran church and school erected in 1705 and destroyed br fire In 1815 a) afe ge WHILE A STUDENT AT TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY (1824) Jefferson Davis livet at the 3Iadison House Limestone and High streets )ii ii i.