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Title: A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, E. Polk, 1844- Lewis Publishing Company
Subjects: Kentucky -- History Kentucky -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r business, enjoying an extendedsuccess in the latter. In later years he hasentered the real estate field and is one of theablest and best-known representatives. Mr.Southgate was one of the original stockhold-ers of the German National Bank of New-port. He afterward became a director andafter the death of Samuel Shaw for someyears served as vice-president of the institu-tion. Mr. Southgate keeps abreast of the timesand is an ever interested student of public af-fairs, giving his support to such measures ashe believes will prove conducive to the generalgood. He was originally Democratic in poli-tics but of late years has manifested independ-ent tendencies. He was a member of theNewport board of aldermen and for severalyears has been trustee of the Highland dis-trict. He is a Mason, holding membership inthe Blue Lodge. Both he and his estimablewife are members of the Methodist church,South. Mr. Southgate was married September 13.1866, to Miss Mary Emma Hills, a native of CjfinSw row •
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HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS 1379 Hig-hlantls. Her father, Benjamin Hills, wasborn in Canada, but removed to the BlueGrass state and for many years farmed inCampbell county. Five of the children bornto this union are living: Frank Hills is aphysician of Highlands; Jesse lives in Cincin-nati, where he also engages in the practice ofthe medical profession; James Taylor is awholesale tobacco dealer in Birmingham, Ala-bama; Mildred is the wife of Dr. Greer Ba-ker, of Cincinnati; and Aiartha is the wife ofWilliam Heney, of Danville, Virginia. Mortimer Delvill Martin.—For upwardsof four score years a resident of Harrisoncounty, Mortimer Delvill Martin, living retiredin Cynthiana, is an honored representative ofthe earlier pioneers of Kentucky, and a truetype of the sturdy, energetic and self-reliantmen who have actively assisted in the develop-ment of this fertile and luxuriant agriculturalregion. Since the days of his boyhood he haswitnessed wonderful transformations in thecounty,

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