HISTORY OF HENDERSON COUNTY, KY,



return, made an able report to the board; was present at the meeting
of the "Sanitarv Council" of the Mississippi Valley, at Memphis,
April, 1879, where he was elected Vice President. In 1880, he was
re-elected, but, finding it impossible to attend meetings.regularly, Dr.
Wirt Johnson, of Mississippi, was elected in his stead. He has always
taken great interest in sanitary matters; has attended four meetings
of the National Health Board, and was two years a member of the
Advisory Committee of the American Public Health Association. He
did more, perhaps, than any other one man, to secure from the Legis-
lature an act incorporating, and establishing upon a sound and
sensible basis, the present State Board of Health. At one time, when
the State appropriation was inadequate for the purposes of the Board,
he visited Washington and was successful in securing from the
National Board sufficient help to guarantee a successful fight against
dangerous epidemics. In 1860 he built the handsome residence on
Main Street, now owned by G. G. Ellis, and, in 1867, built his present
residence.  He has been identified largely with every movement
looking to the improvement of Henderson, taking an active part in its
educational, social and other leading interests, and has been for over
a quarter of a century, not only a most active and successful prac-
titioner in his profession, but also one of the most earnest and valuable
members of society. He has served for a number of years as Presi-
dent of the Henderson County Bible Society and has annually received
a re-election without opposition.
    REV. D. OWEN DAVIES, D. D., Pastor of the Presbyterian
Church.  Mr. Davies began his ministry in the City of Baltimore,
taking charge, while yet a student in the Princeton Theological Sem-
inary, of the " Old Duncan Church," as it was called, during the pro-
tracted illness of its pastor. It was this church that called Dr. Stuart
Robinson, from Kentucky, to his brilliant Baltimore pastorate. Mr. Da
vies next ministered to the Central Church of St.Louis(now Dr.Branks'),
while the pastor, Rev. S. J. P. Anderson, D. D., made an extended
European tour. After a winter in the South and a summer in the
North, seeking restoration of health, which had become critical, Mr.
Davies was induced to take charge of a church in Cincinnati.
    In the spring of 1863, he was settled over the church at Paris,
Bourbon County, and,while there,was married to a daughter of Governor
Richard Hawes, and there his first child was born. From Paris Mr.
Davies went to Clarksville, Tenn., in 1868, where he did a good
work in restoring to prosperity one of the best churches in that State,
and in saving to the church and county Stewart College, now the



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