pipiipNi^flill^^ iiiy »Mfti ii n i tm 'ii in»u i< f ,^^ '^^.. \ x^°^ X^^x. 4^>V ^ " 4. ^ - lOO X^'^^. -^o '*..' '^ .^^ •S^ ^^. \ '^^ V* Copyright, 1897, BY A. V. & W. H. GOODPASTURE. LIFE OF Jefferson Dillard Goodpasture; TO WHICH IS APPEXDKD A GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF JAMES GOODPASTURE. BY HIS SONS A. V. AND W. H. GOODPASTURE. 11 NASHVILLE, TENN. : CUMBERI.AND Presbyterian Publishing House. 1897. .Gf (3(0 INDEXED ^ o «$ PREFACE. This book was not written, primarily, for the benefit of the public, but as a loving- tribute to a venerated father, and for the pleasure and encourag-ement it may be to his family. Many things mig-ht otherwise have been omitted and others elaborated, but the authors have kept steadily in view the objects soug^h to be attained. It makes no pretentions ; if it meets the expectation and approval of those who knew and loved him, it will have achieved their fullest aspirations. Nashviixe, October 1, 1897. CHAPTER I. The country commonly called the The Mountain ^i^^^i^ij^ District of Middle Ten- District. , . , . nessee may be said, m general terms, to extend northeastwardly, hetween the Cumherland Mountains and the Cumberland and Caney Fork Kivei-s, from a line dra^vn lengthwise through the center of the State, to the Kentucky line, embracing the counties of Overton, "\Vhit«, Jackson, Putnam, Fentress, Clay and Pickett. It is possibly the most imperfectly known and least appreciated portion of the State, owing to its in- accessibility, the rest of the country being many years in advance of it in matter of transportation. The child born there fifty years ago, was taught to expect a rail- road through the ]\Iountain District before he reached his majority, and in his turn lield out the same delusive hope to liis own children. Many of its ambitious young men sought honor and wealth in more inviting fields, and those who remained, finding little opportunity for individual enterprise and development, spent sufficient effort in acquiring a com})etency, to have made them eminent in a more favored community. Still the coun- try possessess great natural advantages, especially to the manufacturer, on account of its vast mineral deposits, and unsurpassed water power, and will one day reach a degree of prosperity for which life has hitherto been too short to wait* 6 JEFFKKSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. The Mountain District is distinguished as well for the beauty and variety as for the bold and rugged character of its topographical features. Its towering hills wall in picturesque coves; and its beautiful valleys are fur- rowed by impetuous streams, often forming magnificent cascades, like those on the Caney Fork, Calfkiller and Eoaring Rivers and their tributaries, whose water powers cannot bo excelled. In 1803, F. A. Michaux, the great Roaring River. .,, , ,. , ,., t ., . trench naturalist, alter describing the many falls of Roaring River, following each other in rapid succession, and making the confused noise that suggested its name; the great height of its banks, rising, as ho declares, from eighty to a hundred feet; its im- mense caverns, some of which were celebrated for the dyestone they contained; the large rivulets that ter- minated their windings at its steep banks, whence they fell murmuring into its bed, forming beautiful cascades, several fathoms wide; the many varieties of trees and shrubs skirting its margin, especially tlie wild magnolia, so celebrated for the beauty of its flower and foliage, declared that, "All these circimistances give the banks of Roaring River a cool and pleasing aspect, which I have never witnessed before, on the bajiks of other rivers." It was on the head waters of this beautiful stream that the "Long Hunters," . who spent eight or nine months of the years 17G9-1T70, in the Cumberland Valley, buried one of their party — the first white man killed in Middle Tennessee. They had proceeded down the Cumberland River from their cam]) in Wayne County, Kentucky, till they reached Obeds River, which OVERTON COUNTY ESTABLISHED. 7 received its name from Obediali Terrill, a member of their party. They then came to Iloaring lliver, and Avhile hunting on Maitthews Creek, one of its tributaries, Eobert Crockett was andnished and killed by a i)arty of seven or eight Indians, who were traveling IS'orth on the war trace leading from the Cherokee nation towards the Shawnee tribe. All the ^Mountain District was not Overton County ,^^^,^^ ^^^. g,,,ttieiuent at the same Established. time. 13y the treaty of Holston, in 1T91, the Indian line was made to begin at a point on Cumberland Kiver, from which a southwest line would strike the ridge that divides the waters of Cumberland from those of Duck iiiver, forty miles above Xashville. This line ran two miles and a half east of Livingston, and divided the Mountain District into two almost ecjuai parts. The west was open to settlement, but the east was reserved to the Cherokee nation, and was commonly called the wilderness. By an act of the General Assembly, in 1798, the line of the Indian reservation was made the eastern boundary of Sumner County, which, in 1799, was reduced to its constitutional limits, and the new counties of Smith and Wilson estabhshed out of its eastern territory. Two years later. Smith County was reduced, and the county of Jackson erected, extending to the wilderness. By the treaty of Tellico, in 1805, the Indian title to the wilderness was extinguished, and from that time the whole of the Mountain District was open to settlement. The next year Overton County was established. It lay on both sides of the Indian line, and included, be- sides its present limits, all of the counties of Fentress 8 JEFFKKSON DILLARD GOODPASTUKE. and Pickett, and parts of Clay, Putnam, C'liniberland, ]Morg"an and Scott. It was named for Judge John Overton (lT(>G-lS3o), a native of Virginia, who early emigrated to Tennessee, and under appointment of the l^egislature, negotiated the compact with North Carolina, by which the State of Tennessee was author- ized to perfect titles to lands reserved under the act of cession, which had just been ratified by Congress, and Ihially settled the hot dispute I)et\veen Xorth Carolina, Tennessee and the United States, respecting the public lands in this State. At this time he was one of the judges of the Superior Court of Law and Equity, having been a])pointed in 180 1. to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Andrew Jackson. From the best information now to l^e The Goodpasture ^ .^ j,^^.j.^. ^^ ^^ |^.,^.^. ,,^,^.^^ ^:^ Family. '/ . brothers and two sisters, nameiy, James, John, Abraham, Isaac, Cornelius, Solomon, lOlizabeth and Martha (iood]>asture. who emigrated from the region of Wolf's Hill, in Virginia, sometime in the latter i)art of the eighteenth century. They seem to have come first to Tennessee, whence most of them moved to Kentucky, and settled near Owingsviile, in Bath County. Cornelius died in that county, and Solomon volunteered in the war of 1813, and was proba- bly killed, as he was never heard of afterwards. Of the two sisters, Elizabeth married and moved to ^lissouri, and Mai-tha raised a family near Owingsviile. John did not remain long in Kentucky, but moved to Wan-en County, Ohio. Isaac married and left children, but their location is not known to the writer. Abraham, wbo is said to have reached Bath County about the year JAMES GOODPASTURE. 9 1795, made it his permanent home, and hecame the an- cestor of the large and influential family of Good- }>astures in and around Owiiigsville. James Goodpasture, with whose James Goodpasture. ,, ., .' . , lanuiy we are more intimately con- cerned, was well advanced in years when he came to Tennessee. His oldest st)n. William, had already mar- ried, and remained in Mrginia, where he has many worthy descendants. lie first located in the neighbor- hood, as neighbors were then counted, of Southwest Point, a Federal fort, at the junction of Clinch and llolston llivcrs, on the ea.stern border of the Indian reservation. The place wa,s then in Knox County, about a mile from Kingston, now the county site of Koane County. One of his last acts while a citizen of Knox County was to sign a petition to the Legislature, praying the erection of a new county. As it is the only paper to wliich the wiitcr has found his name attached, it is hero given in full. "To the General xVssembly of the State of Tennessee: "We, the snbscriljers, living in Knox County, below the mouth of Turkey Creek, or north of Clinch, petition that Knox County may be divided, so as to leave the same a constitutional county, and that a new county be formed, so as to contain therein a part of the tract of country lying between the river Holston and Clinch, and above Southwest Point, and a part of that tract of country lying north of Clinch, and we, as in duty bound, will ever pray. July 15, 1799." This petition was signed in fair and legible hands, by James Goodpaeture and Jno. Goodpaster, and by Jacob io JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. Gardenhire, John Gilliland, John Eldridge, James Cope- hmd, and many others, who afterwards became leading citizens of Overton and adjoining counties. The ciiiioiis fact will he noted, that James spelled the final syllahle of his name "tnre," while his son, John, spelled it "tei'.'' Afterwards, John and all his family adopted liis father's orthography, hut the descendants of his r.ncle, Aln-aham, of Bath County, Kentucky, and per- lia})s other branches of the family, adhere to the fhial '"ter." Such small ditTerence in orthography is not re- ma rkalde, however, in an age and country which took such astomshing liberty with men's names as to call Cha|)in, Chapel; Barksdale, Basel; Christian, Christy; Chowaiing, Tunin; and Howard, Hoard. The General Assemblv did not grant The Walton Road. ; % the prayer ot tlie petitioners. But, as we have seen, it established the new county of Smith out of the eastern ten'itory of Sumner, extending to the line of the Indian reservation, and the Goodpastures and some of their neighbors determined to move to this new county. It lay directly across the wilderness from their homo near Southwest Point. There had long been a trace across the mountain from Southwest Point to the Cumberland settlements. Francis Baily traveled it in 1790), and has left an interesting account of his journey. But at the time the Goodpastures crossed the mountain a wagon road had been recently marked out, under authority of the General Assembly, between Southwest Point and the mouth of Caney Fork Kiver, where Car- thage was afterwards established. The work was the enterprise of Capt. William Walton (1760-1816), a native of Birtie County, North Carolina, who had enlisted at THE WALTON ROAD. Ii the age of seventeen, as a private in the Revolutionary war, and served till its close in 1783, coming out with the rank of captain. He emigrated to the Cumberland settlement in 1785, and located his military land war- rant on the north bank of the Cumberland River, at its confluence with Caney Fork, in 1786. The road, which still bears liis najne, was about a hundred miles in length, and contained four "stands" for the accommoda- tion of travelers. Coming west, the first of these was at Kimbrough's, on the eastern foot of the mountain; the second, at Crab Orchard, a once famous place on the mountain plateau, in Cumberland County; the third, at White Plains, in Putnam County, on the westeni foot of the mountain; and the fourth, near Pekin, also in Putnam County. The road was completed in 1801. In the fall of 1802, Michaux writes of this road: "The road that crosses this part of the Indian temtory cuts through the mountains in Cumberland; it is as broad and commodious as those in the environs of Phila- delphia, in consequence of the amazing number of emigrants that travel through it, to go and settle in the western coimtiy. It is, notwithstanding, in some places very rugged, but nothing near so much as the one that leads from Strasburg to Bedford in Pennsylvania. About forty miles from Nashville we met an emigrant family in a carnage, followed by their negroes on foot, that had performed their Journey without accident. Little boards, painted black and nailed upon trees, in- dicate to travelers the distance they have to go." In the year 1800, when the Goodpastures crossed the wilderness, the road was neither so good nor so safe as it was when Michaux traveled it, although, even then, it 12 JEFFERSON DILLAKD GOODPASTURE. was not cont;idercd prudent to travel it, except in parties, on account of roving bands of Indians, one of which ho met hefore he reached Southwest Point. John Good])asture first intended to John Goodpasture. settle m Iiickorv Valley, Wliite County, but the title to his land proving bad he located on lUiifalo Creek, near the jn-csent village of Hilham. in Oven on County. There were then few settlers in this section of country. His nearest neighbor, for a time, was one Anderson, who lived eight miles distant. A \\ andering Indian was sometimes seen, and a few buffalo were still to l>e. found. The country was wild and l)eau- tiful. Its surface was rough and broken, but the valleys were covered with luxuriant cane brakes, and the hills bore so abuiulantJy the wild pea vine, that stock would fatten in the woods. He did not have to feed his stock, winter or sununer. Besides, thei-e were the other tw^o imjiortant jtoints always considered by the pioneer, namely, wood and wafer. There was no finer timbered country in the Mountain District than the region around Hilham. Buffalo Creek was a beautiful little stream, fed by many of the never failing springs, so much sought after by the first settlers. It should be remembered that the river bottoms were quite unhealthy when the coun- try was new, and for tliis reason the pioneers were deterred from occuppng them. Not long after the immigration of the Goodpa.stures, came also William Bryan, a native of Virginia, who, with his family, settled at the Hiram Allen place, on Flat Creek, in the same neighljorhood. Here, in 1803, John Goodpasture was married to his dawghter, Margei^. They began life poor, but by industry and economy they 33 rrj 2 f"! :- < < « O < O ' 5h JOHN GOODPASTURK. 13 were enabled to make a comfortable living, and to give each of their children a common school education, siicli as the country afforded. They raised a family of fifteen children, fourteen of their own. and a nejihew, Jefferson, the son of James (xoodpasture, deceased, all of whom survived them, excejit Andrew, who died in the State of Illionis after he had reached his majority, and left the ])arental roof. They had fii-st lived in a log cahin. such as was common among .pioneers, but in 1804, Mr. Good- pasture built a two story,, weather])oarded, hewn log house, with a kitchen in the rear, connected with the main part of the home Ijy an enclosed hallway, which served them as a dining room. In this house they lived, without intermission, from that time until their deaths, whicli both occurred in 1864. Plain and unpretentious as it wa.« this humble dwell- ing saw more of the 1)right sunshine of a liappy home, and less of the dark shadows of sorrow and distress, than many more imposing structures — even of the i)resent dav. I'nd'"- ;;.- .oof. seven little boys and seven little girls were horn into the world. Xcver in want and never idle, the years rolled on, and they grew to he seven honest, self-supporting. Christian men, and seven virtuous, domestic, ])ious women. There was never a death in that old house from the day it was built until the master and mistress, whom it had sheltered for sixty years, in ripe old age — eighty-six and seventy-nine — within two months of each other, were gathered to their fathers, and left it tenantless; for no one of the tifteen children any longer called it home. John Gootlpasture was a man of strong, positive char- acter. Firm and just, he was at the same time so con- 14 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. h^t'i'vativc and liberal that he iiever liad a hiwyiiit in his life, and iiiaiutained at all times the utmost respect and conHdence of his neighboi-s, among whom he was re- garded as a leader. For half a century, he took two newspapers — a political paper suijporting the Demo- cratic paj'ty, with which he always affiliated, and the organ of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of which, for fifty-five years, he was a member. Temperate in all things, he never used tobacco in any form, and for the last fifty years of his life totally abstained from intoxi- cants. Regular and domestic in his habits and taste, he never spent but eight nights from home after his marriage. Faitliful to his public duties, he voted at every election held in his district. And with a powerful constitution and an orderly manner of life, he never luid a serious spell of sickness, except that of which he died. CHAPTER II. Jefferson Dillard Goodpasture, the Early Life twelfth child of John and Margery (Jjryaii) Goodpastnre, was born on Buffalo Creek, one of the many beautiful little streams tributary to Eoa.ring Eiver, near the classic village of Hilham, in Overton County, Tennessee, on the third day of August, 1834. The older members ol the family were tlien growing up. His oldest sister was in her twentie'Lh year, and before he was a year old had married and emigrated to Illinois, lie was only four when his third sister married and moved to the same State. The com- munity was excellent, having not only much intelligence, but considera])le learning. There is undoubtedly much in environment. A boy camiot well resist the atmos- ]»here by which he is surrounded. The example and in- fluence of one leading man has often been known to affect the character of a whole neighboi'hood, long after he has passed away. There is an inspiration in the life of every man, whose character, achievements or learn- ing have been so conspicuous as to attract the notice of his fellows, that pervades the entire circle of his acquaintance. It is this silent, perhaps unconscious, in- fluence, that causes one section of the country to send out more successful and influential men, than another with equal apparent advantages. Among their nearest neighbors when Judge Goodpasture was growing up. i6 jp:fferson dillard Goodpasture. were Capt. Arnold, Daniel lirown, ('apt. Simeon Hinds;, :\Io?es Fi8lc and T)r. T. T. Barton. ('apt. Jesse Arnold was a native of Captain Arnold. ,, . , t> t xj i la-ovidence, K. 1. He was an only child and his father died when he was qnite yonng. At the age of sixteen he ran away from school, with a view to adopting the life of a sailor. He ol)tained em- ployment on an ontward hound vessel, and his cai-eei- was commenced. He rose in his profession, nnlil he found himself the commander of an American merchant- man. When the war oC 1812 came on, in which the American navy won such hrilliant laurels, he entered the service as the ca})tain of a privateer, which he com- manded until peace was estahlished. After the war he left the navy, and drifted to White Plains, Tenne^Jsee. ahout the year 181 T, and engaged in the nu'rcantile husincss with \\'il!iam liurton, whose daughter he sidj- se(|U('ntly luan-ied. In the meantime, he purchased a small farm at Jlillinm, whither he was attracted hy the prominent Xew England peo})le it contained. Aftei- his mairiage he moved to Hilham. and continued the mer- cantile business there, until his death, which occurred in 184(i. on the very day his son, .Jesse, now President of the iJank of Cookevillc. was horn. ('a])t. Arnold had two dauglitei's. Avo and ()\a, the latter of whom mar- ried Judge (loodpastui-e's In'othcr. ])v. J. M. od him as "chum.'" lie did not, however, remain long in Know illc. liaving early made his way to (.';!ml:er]an(l. where lie was connected with many public enterpiises. Me studied law and was admitted to the liar, ill the -iigge.^tion. of AViUjiiiTi Ijjouni. through whom, MOSES FISK. 19 also, he was tendered the presidency of the University of North Carohna, which he declined. Being a great mathematician, in 1802 he was aj^pointed by Governor Koane one of the Commissioners on the part of Ten- nessee to settle and locate the true lx)undary line between this State and Virginia, and as snch assisted in running the line lately upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States; and for the same reason, in 1817, he was urged by Governor Mc]\iinn to accept the place of mathematician, to aid in the adjustment of the difference between Tennessee and Kentucky. His business as a surveyor was quite lucrative, liringing him large bodies of valuable land, mostly in the IMountain District. He found time, however, for much literal*}' labor. Ill 1803, he was appointed by the General Assembly, in connection with Willie Blount, to compile the laws of the State, which work he undertook alone, and reported to the Legislature in 1805, when he was paid for the work done, and the matter was referred back to him for completion. But Haywood's Iievisal, covering the same ground, having appeared l)cfore he was ready to report, his work A\'as never published. His coirespondence with distinguished individuals, and with antiquarian and his- torical sicieties, was very great. Valuable contributions from his pen will Ije found in the first volume of the Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society, and the seventh volume (second scries) of the ^iJassacliuselts ilistorical Society Papers. Following the tide of immigration b;ick east, from Xasliville, we find him acting a.s pro tem. clerk, when Smith County w.is organized, in 1190. In 1801, he was Chairman of thf Couptv Court of Smith Conntv, and 20 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. when Jackson County was organized, under an act of that year, it was he whom the Legislature named to ad- minister the oath of office to its first justices. In 1802, he Avas Hving at Fort Blount, for some years called Wil- liamsburg, with the old Indian fighter, Sampson Will- iams, one of the daring men who came to Cumberland with James Eobertson, in 1780, and who was Sheriff of Davidson County as early as 1790, and subsequently a member of the State Senate, first from Sumner County, then from Smith and Jackson, and still later from a larger district. Judge Goodpasture remembered to have seen the old pioneer in his youth, but was impressed by nothing about him so much as the immense size of his ears. AVe next find Mr. Fisk laying off the town of Ililham, about the year 1805. He staked his fortune on the success of Hilliam. He spent much money in laying out and undertaking to construct a sj'stem of turnpikes, all centering there. But his Jirst care was to provide it with suitable institutions of learning. He was a trustee of Davidson Academy, of Overton Academy and of Fisk Female Academy. The latter institution was endoAved by tlie gift of one thousand acres of land, each, by Mr. Fisk and liis old friend Sampson Williams, and estab- lished by legislative authority, in 1806, "at a place called Ililluiin, on the eastern part of j\fagnolia Eiver, in the county of Overton." This was the first distinctively feuiale school chartered in the South, and one of the first in America. The name of the stream on wliicli it was located wag no doubt that by which ^Ir. ]"isk called Roaring River, as he was the ti'aveling comjianion of ^lichau,:^, when he raved so oyer the wild magnolias JOHN DICKINSON. 31 found on its banks. Although so ambitious an enter- prise as Fisk Female Academy was not destined to suc- ceed, still Mr. Fisk made it a prime object to see that good schools were maintained at Hilham, and for many yeaj-s it was done under his own direction and control. He induced many young New Englanders to come to his neighborhood, generally as teachers. Notable among these was Judge Leonard, who taught successfully at Hilham, manned Mr. Fisk's daughter and moved to Missom-i, where he became an eminent jurist. Anotber was Sidney H. Little, who taught at Monroe, and after- wards became a distinguished lawyer in the State of Illinois. Under his inspiration other intel- ligent and educated New Englanders came to the West, such as John Dickinson (1781-1815), who graduated at Dartmouth in 1797; taught a while in Knoxville; became a distinguished lawyer in Nashville; fought a duel with one of- the Overtons (using Fisk's dueling pistols); and died in the ver}^ opening of what promised to be an unusually brilliant career. Another was a kinsman, Moses Madi- **°^^^^*^^^''^°" son Fisk (1780-1804), who graduated at Darimouth in 1802, and died in Nashville two years later. This amusing college story is told to illustrate the Ijrightness of his intellect: Professor Woodard was maintaining the identity of the person, in despite of bodily cbanges. He illustrated his position by a sbip, whose parts hare all been renewed, leaving it still the same ship. Young Fisk held out a penknife and asked, "If I lose the blade and get an- other, is it the same knife?" Tbe Professor answered. 22 JEFFERSON DII.LARD GOODPASTURE. "Yes." ''If I next lose the handle and get another, is it still the same?" "Yes." "But my chum finds both the lost blade and handle, and jnits them together — H'hat knife is that?" One otlier sbould be mentioned, his Dr. T. T. Barton. . , , i, „!•. mi i n j. nejghbor. Dr. litns Theodore JJartoii (lTGG-18-^:), a graduate of Dartmouth College, an or- dained ininister of the Congregationalist t'hureh, and a doctor of medicine, who reached Ililliam XoYeml)er 2^, 181T. and practiced medicine there until 182T. when iie left for Jacksonville, Illinois, and died en route. The Goodpastures and Fisks were good friends during all the long years they lived neighbors. .John (iood- pasture. the father, ^\•ho was a Justice of the Peace at the time, performed the marriage ceremony, when, some- time about 181.5, Mr. Fisk, then more than fifty years of age, found himself a wife; and when, many years after- wards, they failed to agree, by their request, he fixed the allowance to be made her, upon their separation. ,She lived thenceforth in a house of her own, in the same yard, and both parties carried out their agreement faith- fully as long as they lived. Judge Goodpasture used to tell some interesting anecdotes, illustrating the character of Mr. Fisk. He said he was a man of marked peculiarities — eccentric, unapproachable, and, as he recollected him, awe-inspir- ing. He was postmaster when the Judge was a small boy, and when he went for the mail, as it was his busi- ness to do, it was always with considerable trepidation. On one of these occasions, there was almost an open rupture between them. Tlie Judge was only ten or twelve veare old at the time, and wore a brown jeans DR. T. T. BARTON. 23 cap his mother had made him. When he walked into the room he hiid liis cap heside him on the floor, and took a seat to wait tlie pleasure of the k^arned okl j)0si- master, wlio was not accustomed to hurry liimself I'or the accommodation of even more important ])er?onaiTes. When he discovered the boy's cap on the lh>or, he toid him, in a manner tliat was construed to be a command, to put it on the table. The ])oy rebeded at once, and made some remark to the effect that it wo\dd do very well down there. "Sir." shouted ^Ir. I'^isk. "I siiy take your hat oil' of my floor;'" wliich, seeming reasonable, he did, compromising with his humiliation by placing it on his head. Speaking of having to wait ^Ir. Fisk's ])lcasure l)rings to mind another anecdote, lie was a Justice of the Peace a.s well as postmaster, and on a certain occasion ('apt. Hinds had some business with him. AMien he walked in Mv. Fisk was reading a newspaper, and paid not the least attention to his salutation, which was repeated ,a second, and perhajis a tliird time. When he had finished the paragra])h he was upon, he raised his eyes from the paper. "Good morning, Capt. Hinds, be seated," he said. "Sir," said Hinds, in liigh dndgeon, "I had some busi- ness with you, but I will see you another time," and turning upon his heels walked out. ('apt. Hinds kept a mill, but in addition he was a col)bler, and when, not long afterwards, Mr. Fisk called on him. lie clumced to be engaged mending a shoe, drawing his threads with both hands, as the manner was. "Good morning," said Mr. Fisk. But the threads came throuah aaain and again, and 24 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. his eyes were never raised from his work, until he had completed his seam. "Good morning. Squire Fisk, come in." j\Ir. Fisk said not a word, but taking in the situation, turned and left in as great a mill as C'apt. Hinds himself had shown on the former occasion. This account of these near neighbors has been thought necessary, as illus- trating the strong, sturdy stock of men who settled this part of the country, and as accounting, in some measure, for the intellectual atmosphere that surrounded Flilham, stimulating the ambition and elevating the aspirations of its young men, many of whom have won h()iini'al)le names among their countrymen. Besides these, there were re])resentatives of many illustrious families in other parts of the coimty. (ioveraor Sevier located iwo grants for something over oT,000 acres of land in Overton County, now Overtoil and Clay. On this vast domain many membei-s of his family settled. After his dealh in 1815, his widow, the celebrated "Bonnie Kate,"" moved to "The Dale," now known as the Clark place, in Clay County. It was in a romantic and secluded spot, upon a high bench, among the liills of Obeds River. Around her, but not with her, were her brother, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, sons and daughters. j\lrs. Matlock, a sister of Governor Sevier, was the mother of Valentine Matlock, one time Sheritf of Overton County; and (ieo. W. Sevier, a son, was Circut Court Clerk. Her brother, John Sherill, lived near the moutli of A\'olf River, as did also her son. Dr. Sa.m Sevier, who after- wards removed with her to Alabama. Of the Governor's brothers, Abram lived about ten miles north of Livings- THE WOMEN. 25 ton, and Joseph near the mouth of Ashburn's Creek. Among his sons and daughters, there was Catherine Campbell, whose second husband was Archibald Kay; Joanna Windle and Valentine Sevier, who lived on Irons Creek; Mary Overstreet, who lived on Obeds Eiver; George AY. Sevier, who lived on Sulphnr Creek, and afterwards moved to Xa.^hville; Sarah Brown, who lived at the James Mc^Millin old place; and Ann Corlin, who lived on Ashhnrn's creek. Not only did they have the heroic deeds of snch men as the Seviei*s to excite their emulation, and the learning of Fisk and liis Dartmouth coterie to direct and discipline their minds, but there was a wonderful concord and fellowship among the pioneer settlers, that strengthened the home ties and inspired the deepest patriotic sentiments. The log-rolling, the corn-shucking and the quilting have been too often descriljed to be repeated here. ICach neighbor was always ready to lend a helping hand to the others. The women of the household never lost an opportunity to do little acts of kindness towards each other, not generally valuable in themselves, but suf- ficient to manifest a neighborly feeling, and on occasion, to relieve the wants of any Avho might be in distress. The very earliest recollection of Judge Goodpasture related to a visit he made to Mrs. Robert Mitchell, who lived not far from his fathers place. When he was ready to leave, Mrs. Mitchell gave liim a pint cup of butter, which he was requested to carr\' to his mother. The tiling that impres,sed the incident upon his mind was the circumstance that, though he took the butter in good faith, in playing along the road he let the cup fall, 26 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. causing the butter and sand to ])etonie so mixed that lie thought it not worth while to deliver it. On another occasion about the same tinle, his furher needed a trowel, and sent him to borrow one of John Ashworth, who lived about a quarter of a mile away. Not comprehending fully what it was that was wanted, he asked the loan of a towel. ^Irs. Ashworth seemed to have some misgivings as to the accuracy of so singidar a request, but she did not hesitate to coiuply. Taking a nice, clean towel, she wrajqied up a mess of dried- pumpkins in it, as if in token of her entire willingness to be obligiug, and asked him to deliver them to his mother. Such were the sttrroundings when Enters School. -, ^ , , t , i ^ i Judge (loodjiasture began to reach an ui>e at which he was to enter school. He could hardlv ha^e been over five years old when he suffered that terrible ordeal. The teacher was John Smeltser. Smeltser mamed a daughter of their neighbor. Daniel Brown, and his grandson, John Smeltser Brown and Judge Goodpasture were, for many years, the warmest of friends. Etit he was in such mortal terror of John Smeltser, that as the first day of his school approached he hid his shoes, thinking, as it was then bitter cold weather, they cotild not be so cruel as to make him go without them. After diligent search, however, some one found his shoes, and there was no longer any excuse left him. He found the master so much less dangerous than he had anticijiated that, as he used to relate, he was not at all times as obedient as he ought to have been to liis reasonable rules. H was not long before he had to stand u}) before the scliool with the little girl WORK ON THE FARM. 2^ whose only fault was to reciprocate his youthful affec- tions. But he must have borne it heroically, as we find the master changing Ms tactics on his next offense. The school was being held in an old dwelling, and under one corner of the room there was a potato cellar, with a trap door leading down to it. lie raised this door and let the culprit down into the cellar. But hardly had he reached the bottom when he discovered a light coming through a rent made by removing a stone from the un- der})inning. His plans were formed in an instant. He made for that hole, and in an incredibly short time was safe at home. However, according to his account, he did not feel at all safe until the whole of the next day had passed withottt the matter having been referred to by the master. Judge Goodpasture — and the same or s on ^^.^^ measurablv true of all his neigh- the Farrr. i' , i bors — was only able to go to school in the winter montlis, liis services being required at home during the cropping season. At that time every member of the household was required to work. Even the card- ing, spinning, weaving, knitting and sewing necessary to clothe the family was done at home. The writer has seen a beautiful sample of silk, from a dress of Judge Goodpasture's sister, Hettie, who raised the cocoons, reeled the silk, dyed it, wove the cloth, and made it into the dress herself. As a veiw small boy it was his daily task to pace around the field, whooping and shouting, making all the noise he could, in order to protect the corn against the myriad of squirrels that committed such depredations upon it as to seriously endanger the crop. Then the same process had to be enacted in the 28 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. orchard, where the parrakeets collected in such numbers as to strip the trees of their fruit in an incredibly short time if they were not frightened away. A little later he gi-ew to the stature of what was called in those days a "plow boy," which was usually reached at the age of about ten years. From this time he made a regular hand in the field. The work was divided up, some running the plows, and others the hoes. He and the negro. Bob, did most of the plowing, in which he attained a proficiency of wliich he was proud even in liis mature life. He thought, no doidjt with good reason, that few men could run a straighter furrow than he. And he never forgot old "Grog," for many years the companion of liis toil; so many, in fact, that he came to understand the summons of the dinner horn as well as his master, and persisted in going to the gap when it sounded, without regard to his wishes in the matter. When his sister, Betsy, married Claiborne Hinds, old Grog was given to her and was put in the wagon that moved them to Mississippi. It was thought that he ought to be shod in anticipation of so long a journey. He was now quite old and had never worn a shoe, so the smith found great difficulty in shoeing him. In fact, he only succeeded in getting one shoe on, and was not able to clinch the nails in that, and so, old Grog- made the long journey to IMississippi without lameness, with but a single shoe half put on. One day in the summer of 1839 he Sees 3 Governor. was informed that Governor Cannon and Colonel Polk, the candidates for Governor, who were stumping the State together, would pass the field where he was plowing. He had never seen a Govenior, GOES INTO BUSINESS. 29 and his curiosity was gTeatly excited. xVt the proper hour, he stationed himself on the fence to see them go by, like the small boy now watches for the circus. Governor Cannon rode an immense iron grey horse, with more trappings than he had ever seen before, and re- ceived much more of his attention than his opponent and traveling companion. The next day, however, he was permitted to go to the speaking. It made a lasting impression on Ms mind, the superiority of Colonel Polk's address, in his estimation, more than counterbalancing the splendid trappings of Governor Cannon's horse. In the next canvass, Governor Polk, who had defeated Cannon, and a few years later. Governor Aaron Y. Brown, each spent a night with liis father. It was during these years that Judge oes n o Goodpasture made his first business Business. ^ . venture. One evening a traveler was entertained at Iris father's, and when the stranger had departed next morning, he found a silver ninepence in the room he had occupied. Tliis was his first capital. He had his mother make him a purse to put it in, wliile he was looking oiit for an investment. He soon bought two beautiful, blue pullets from a neighbor, and entered the chicken business. The arrangement he had with his mother was this: He was allowed to keep all the })ullets, and one rooster to every dozen of them. The excess of roosters she killed as they were needed for family consumption. He succeeded so well that it was not long imtil he had a flock of two hundred for sale. These he sold to John Barksdale for $3.5.00. When he received the money he loaned it to his neighbor, George Christian, a son-in-law of Moses Fisk, who was a good 30 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. citizen and an upright man, with whom he maintained the warmest friendship up to the day of his death. The writer saw Mr. Christian in 1888, who was hale and hearty, in the eighty-seventh year of his age, and earned a cane, made of coffee wood, wliich Judge Goodpasture had brought him from Mexico, and which he prized above its value on that account. Christian gave Mm his note, v.'hich he held until the interest more than equalled the principal. Judge Goodpasture gave close atten- u. a- tion to business, even in his early Mrs rigs. '' cliildliood. Many anecdotes are told of him, illustrating this trait. One will suffice. He had a sow and pigs. In order that they might get water, the })cn was made so as to enclose a part, of Buffalo Creek. In the night there came up a sudden storm. The rain fell in torrents. The boy knew it would flood his pi^n and drown Ms pigs, unless they were released. The night was dark, and the pen some distance from the house. He asked an older brother to go with him to the rescue. His brotJier declining, he went alone, and found the sow standing in the water, and the little pigs swimming in great distress around her. He tore away the fence, and had the pleasure of seeing them find a Itlace of safety and lie down in perfect contentment. CHAPTER III. ]n the ineaiitime, he continued at Continues At School school m the tail and winter, wliere he was enabled to acquire the rudi- ments of an education. Old Union, less than a mile from his fatlier's, was a famous raeetin^^ house, in those days. In its ([luet, shady old church yard, the remains of his father and mother have reposed in peace, these thirty odd years, under the modest marhle slabs his filial love erected over them. The house was sometimes also used for school purposes, and it was here that William Hall once taught a prosperous school of more than sixty students, in which Judge Goodpasture was a pupil. He next entered Judge Leonard's school at Hilham. Then lie recited privately to Dr. Simeon Hinds. The last scliool he attended was taught by Judge Gardenhire. AVhile he was growing up the boys The Debating ^^^, ^^j^^^ed a debating societv at Old Society. ^ ^ ^ ' . I nion, which attracted the attention of the coiuitry for miles around. The value of such societies for the pur])ose of drawing out and developing the latent talent of young men, can hardly be over- estimated. In this society. Judge Goodpasture uiaui- fesled co))si(k'i'aMe ski|! as a debater, and received not a littJe rustic a]>plaus(.'. Always precocious, anti vvw self-reliant, he began to piark out his own career, and assume Die r( sponsil>ilily ul' his future destiny, long before he had reached majovity. His first step was a 32 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. bold one. Stimulated by his success in the debating society, at the age of seventeen, he determined to adopt the profession of the law. The daring character of this resolution can be appreciated when it is understood that among all his ancestors, so far back as tradition reached, none had ever tested the field of the law. When he mentioned to his father his purpose to read law, the old gentleman readily consented, with the obsen^ation, that had at once occurred to his strong, conserv^ative mind, that "it would do him no harm." Accordingly, when he had made up his mind to be a lawyer, without a disturbing doubt as to his ultimate succc'ss, he at once began teaching school, at $12.00 per month, in order that he might be able to put a hand in his place on the farm, while he gave more time to the prosecution of his studies. AVhen he was ready to begin reading law, at about the age of twenty, he rode over to the house of his father's })ersonal and political friend. Judge Alvin Cullom, who from that day became his own devoted and 1 ill i mate friend, while he lived, and at his death be- ( pi rallied him his extensive political library, a.s a token of his warm esteem. Judge Cullom was then just back from serving his first term in Congress, and was regarded by his young friend with much awe and great admiration, lie loaned liim a volume of Blackstone's Commentaries, and gave him such advice as he thought might be useful to him, in entering upon its study. His association with the Culloms was so long and intimate that a short vsketch of the family will not be considered out of place. Thev were of Scotch descent, tracing their lineage back JUDGE ALVIN CULLOM. 33 to the claji ]\Ia.cCulloiii. The grandfather, George Ciillom, was a Maryhind tobacco planter, and William, the father, was a small farmer in the Elk Spring Yalk^v, near Monticello, in Wayne C*oimt3% Kentucky, where all his eleven children were born. Two sons, Edward X. and Alvin, and two daughters, h]lizabeth, the wife of Dr. Spencer j\IcHenry, and Lncinda, wife of the late John Hari., who was for many years County Court Clerk, at Livingston, ca.me to Overton County early in the tweiitie.s, and settled near Monroe, then the county site. The father and most of the others followed them about 1830. Eichard N., the third son, moved to Illinois, where his son, Shelby M., liecame Governor of the State, aiid at present represents it in the United States Senate. The only one of the boys who never figiired in pul)lic life, was James N., who married a daughter of Benjamin Totten. William Cullom, Sr., was a devout Christian man, and for forty-six years a class leader in the Meth- odist Church. Eev.T. F. Bates describes liim, after he came to this State, as having a patriarchal appearance that reminded him of the pictures he had seen of John Wesley. He died in 1838, and was buried at ]\Ionroe. Edward N". Cullom was Judge Goodpasture's immediate predecessor in the office of Clerk and Master, at Livings- ton. But the two members of the family best known in this State, and most intimately connected with Judge Goodpasture, were Alvin and his brother William. Alvin Cullom (i;93-1877), to whom f ^M ^'" yoking Goodpasture went for advice Cullom. ■ . and assistance, when he was ready to take up the study of the law, is described by Rev. T. F. Bates, who knew him well, as large of frame, portly and 3 34 JKFFKRSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. rugged, and every inch a man. He ^vas fully identified with all the best interests of the country, and never be- trayed a trust, nor was guilty of a dishonorable act. Brave as Julius Caesar, lie was yet as tender of heart and gentle as a woman. A\'hether acting as legal counsel at the bar, wearing the ermine of judicial authority on the bench, or looking after the interests of his constitu- ency as a representative in Congress, he was still the refined gentleman, to whom you could commit your dearest interests without the slightest apprehension of betrayal. He threw the weight of his influence uni- formly in the scale of right, peace and justice, and lived in harmony vv'ith these great principles. He was not inflated with vanity by success, and could not be cajoled into improper measures by flattery. Judge Cullom did not adopt the legal profost^ion unul the mature years of his life. When a young man he seems to have raised a small crop of wild oats. Judge Goodpasture used to repeat this sentence from a speech of Hon. Thomas L. Bransford, who was Judge Cullom's competitor in his race for Congress, in 184:3: "Little did 1 think, fellow citizens, twenty years ago, when I was riding a mule and canwing the mail from Gaines- boro to Monticello, and my distinguished competitor was kee[)ing a saloon in Old JMonroe, that we would ever be o]>posing candidates for a seat in the Congress of the United States." The habits of the young men of Monroe do not seem to have been the best about 1833. It was in that year that Andrew J. Marchbanks, after- wards so distinguished on the circuit bench, went to lliat village to study law under his brother-in-law', Major H. H. Atldnson, but in the course of a year, discovering ADAM HUNTSMAN. 35 tliat he had become quite idle, and was doing no good, hke a wise A'oung man, he returned to liis father. But wiien Judge Cullom did take up the law, lie lei't all idle habits behind him. There was another young man who came to the ilonroe bar about the same lime. Ijut the sprightly, buoyant young Edward Cross (1798- 1881), whether for the same reason that moved Judge ]\larchbanks, or not, for some reason, determined to leave old Monroe and emigi-atc to the State of Arkansas. AVhen he parted from Judge Cullom, his leave taking proved a prophecy. "By the gods, Cullom, I am going to x\rkansas, and when I next meet you I expect it to be in the Congress of the United States." When Judge Cullom went to Congress, in 1843, he met, for the lirst time since their parting, Judge Cross, then the only representative from the State of Arkansas. , ., .. Monroe seems to have been on the Adam Huntsman. wane, even at that early period. Adam Huntsman had been their leading lawyer, and represented them in the State Senate from 1815 to 1831, Ijut he too left about the same time, and moved to Jackson, where he was again elected to the Senate, in 1827, and subsequently served two terms in Congress. In 1835, with the help of the Jackson administration, he defeated the amiable and inimitable Davy Crockett, who was so chagrined at his defeat that he left the State, and found a glorious death at the Alamo, in the Texas war of independence. Judge Goodpasture met Hunts- man once, when he was visiting among his old friends. He was a one legged man, and was then much advanced in years, but he was still sprightly and animated, and when an early friend asked if he knew him, he replied: 36 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. ''I think I used to know an old sinner about your size." In his profession, Judge CuUom made rapid progi-ess. He liad not been at tlie bar long when a leading citizen — perhaps one of the Armstrongs — was indicted for mur- der. Felix Grundy was rettiincd to defend him. Cid- loni assisted him. The defendant was acquitted, and Judge Grundy received a valuable negro for" his fee. Before leaving he said to the assemljled crowd: '"Gen- tlemen, it will not be necessary for you to send for me in the future. You have a man here,"' pointing to Cullom, "who can serve you as well as I." ' Judge Cidlom soon drifted into politics, as nearly all lawyers did in his day. One of the most exciting- elections ever held for representative in . the county occurred in 1835, between him and Jonathan Douglass, who had been a member of the Legislature in 182G. It may be that it was the more bitter on account of the as- })erities growing out of the contest which resulted in the removal of the county site from ]\Ionroe to Livingston, a result ^v'hich was never wholly acquiesced in until the adoption of the constitution of 1834, that made a two thirds vote necessaiy to remove a county site. It was a hot and bitter campaign. Jacob Dillon, who came to the bar with Judge Cullom and Ed. Cross, in 1823, and whom Judge Cullom told the writer, in 1876, he regarded as the most brilliant young lawyer he had ever known, took the stump for him, and though he saw his friend elected by a small majority, he contracted a cold in the canvass, which soon afterwards resulted in his death. At the time of that unhappy event, he had a little daughter, only three months old, who, when she had grown up, became the wife of Judge Goodpasture. GEN. WILLIAM CULLOM. 37 After that Judge C'lilloni was a nieinber of Congress from 1843 to 1847; Circuit Judge from 1850 to 1852; and one of the delegates elected b}' the Legislature to the Southern Conference in 1861. He lived to be eighty-four years of age. Rev. J. AY. Cullom preached his funeral, at a little church he had erected near his home, five miles south of Livingston. In 1835 a handsome voting stranger Gen. William , ^ , ' '^ , ^ , Cullom ^^ twenty-nve, Malked into the lead- ing hotel in McMinnville. He stood full six feet three inches tall, and. as straight as an Lidian, with a profusion of raven black hair. His presence was handsome and intelligent, and his manners courtly and self-satisfied. When he came in, a quiet old gentleman, a Mr. Kamsey, the father Judge Good- pasture's valued friend, Chis Eamsey, of McMinnville, was nodding in the office, perhaps just a little in his cups. As the handsome young man strode Ijack and forth across the ofifice. with the air and mien of a lord, the quiet old gentleman, who was himself something of a character in his country, began to interrogate him. "Young man, what might be your name?" "William Cullom, sir. I am the newly elected Attor- ney-General of this circuit." '"Yes. Where are you from, young man?" "Gainesboro, sir." "Yes. Gaines1)oro, on Doe Creek! I believe the principal products of Doe Creek are babies and dried pumpkins." Such was the introduction of William Cullom (1810- 189G), when he went to attend the first court after his election to the oflfice of Attornev-General of the Sixth 38 JEFFERSON DILI.ARD GOODPASTURE. Judicial Circuit, lie had begun his career by son'ing two years as Dei)uty Sheriff of Overton County, after which he took the law course in Transylvania University, at Lexington, Kentucky, lie coninicnccd the practice at (Tainesl)oro, was soon afterwards elected Attorney- (ieneral, and, in 1839, moved to Carthage. As soon as his time had expired, in 1813, he was elected to the State Senate, and re-elected in 18-1.5. Judge Alvin was an nn- compromising Democrat, but Gen. AVilliam was a Whig. lie was a Taylor elector in 1848, a. meml)er of Congress from 1851 to 1855, and Clerk of the Xational House of Kepresentatives in 1856-7. After the war, he moved to Livingston, and was appointed and afterwards elected Attorney-General of the Sixteenth Circuit, and held the office from 1873 to 1876, when he resigned to accept an appointment as Circuit Judge in the same circuit. While xlttorney-General he moved to Clinton, on the other side of the mountain, where he died in Decendxn', 1896, at the advanced age of eighty-six years. Judge Goodpasture thought he had the greatest mind ever developed in the ]\[ountain District. He was little acquainted with books, not more, perhaps, with law books than those of a literary character. Yet, he was a successful practitioner, and, at times, a powerfid advo- cate. He relied wholly on the inspiration of the moment and the occasion. The writer has often heard him say that his great Kossuth speech, by which he electrilled Congress, in his first appearance before that body, was a i")nre inspiration. He did not know when lie arose what he wonld say, and when he had concluded he was qnite as ignorant of the language he had employed. It was for this reason that he supposed he had made an JUDGE K. L. GARDENHIRB:. 39 unfortunate l)roak when General Breckenridge asked him: "Have you any friend in this House?" And for the same reason he was ready to believe he had made an unusually felicitous eliort, v>hen he added: "If you have he ought to kill you at once, while you are at tke zenith of a reputation some representatives have sought in vain on this floor for thirty years." Perhaps his greatest Congressional speech, however, was that m op- position to the Kansas-]^ebraska bill, which cost him his seat in the next House, but undoubtedly made him clerk of that body. After Judge Goodpasture had been Judge E. L. YOiXilmg law a short while, in 1845 Gardenhire. he entered the law ofnce of Judge E. L. Gardenhire (1815 ), who had moved to Liv- ingston in 18-14, and pursued his studies under his direc- tion. Judge Gardenhire was a grandson of Jacob Gar- denliire, whose name we have seen attached, along with those of James and John Goodpasture, to a petition for tlie division of Knox County. He had the good fortune to receive a better education than fell to the lot of most of the aspiring young men of the Moxuitain Dis- tinct, having spent the last two years of his school life in a classical institution, called Clinton College, in Smith County. At this time he was just entering on a large and lucrative practice, which he has been able to hold for more than half a century. He was well grounded in the law, as well as in historj^ and belles-letters. Judge Goodpasture always thought he would have made a famous teacher in one of our great law schools. In one of his letters he sa3's: "I feel confident that as a teacher, Gardenhire has not a superior in the State. In addition 40 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. to liis line legal attainments, his literaiy taste and acquirements are of the very best, and his vigorous, sys- tematic, orderly manner of studying is unsurpassed." Tiie writer himself read law A\ith Judge Gardenhire some thirty years after his father had entered his oifice, and desires to hear witness to the elevated conception he liad of tlie profession, and tlie wise counsel and valuable instruction he was able to impress upon his pupils. After magnifying the fundamental principles of the law, aud discussing their ]U"actica] a|)plieation to the inilnite variety of liuman activities, he never failed to urge upon the student tlie importance of giving a "painful" investi- gation to tlie facts of each particular case. The lawyer who rode the circuit in the ]\lonntain District had to travel long distances, not unfrequently withou.t a companion. In order to utilize these weary hours. Judge Gardenhire early ado])ted the plan of keep- ing commonplace liooks, in which he copied such pa.s- sages from classic literature as he decjucd might l)e use- ful, on occasions, eillu'i- by way of illustration or orna- ment. These delightful jiieces he would commit to memory, a.s he rode along the tiresome way, thus ac- complishing the double piu-])ose of relieving the tedium of the journey and ilxing in his mind the choice lan- guage in which our great authors have clothed their brightest thoughts. The writer remembers many such passages now. Some were from the Psalms, of which he was ])articularly fond. Shakespeare also was a favorite author, and Junius was another. living's Sketcli Book was liberally used, and occasional lines were taken from Dr. Holmes. Hon. Benton ]\Ic]\Iillin, a nei)he\v of his wife, had studied law with him, and, he JUDGE E. Iv. GARDENHIRE. 41 said, had adopted this phm, which he had found quite iisefuh It may he added, tliat Judge Gardenhire pre- dicted a bright future for Mr. McMilHn, though he had not then offered for the seat in (*ongrcss, wliich lie has now occupied for twenty year?. Judge Gardenhire was not wholly exenijit from tlie ])revailing disposition to enter polities. In 1819-50, he was a member of the State Senate, and in 1858 was elected Circuit Judge. The war coming on, in 18G1, he was a memlier of the Confederate Congress. ITe was a member of the lower House of the General Assembly, in 18T5. a member of the Arbitration Court, in 1877, and a member of the C*ourt of Referees, in 1883. Early in his career. Judge Gardenhire greatly distin- guished himself by the able manner in which he con- ducted the defense of Mary Copeland, indicted for the murder of Ruth Daugherty. The masterly opinion of the Supreme Court in the case was delivered by Judge Tnrley, and is reported in Seventh Humphrey's Reports. CHAPTER IV. Judge Goodpasture had as a chum, inging ji^ i^jg j.^^^, studies at Livino'ston, Geography. '^ ]Janiel McMilhn, of wliom lie always retained the most pleasant recollections. After his ad- mission to the har, McMillin went to Texas, where lie made a distinguished lawyer. The field of his own future activity was not for a time entirely clear to him. He made a tour of the Southern counties of j\Iiddle Tennessee and North Alal)ama, as far as Iluntsville, "singing geography/' as well with a view of replenishing his now almost exhausted means, as for the jnirpose of prospecting for a location in which to practice his pro- fession. Perhaps some reader may not be familiar with this character of instruction. It Avas a primitive method of fixing geographical names and localities in the mind. The teacher would lead, and the pupils would follow in concert. For instance, if they were learning the capitals of the States, they would sing out: "]\Iaine, Augusta; ]\faine, Augusta — New Iiam])shire, Concord; New Hampshire, Concord," and so on. After returning from his tour, singing geography, he enlisted as a volun- teer in Captain Eichardson Copeland's company for service in tlie ]\Iexican war. The company was not accepted, hut President Polk made a place for then- gallant commander, in the Quartermasters dejiartmenc, with the rank of captain. By this time he had defin- itely determined to make Livingston his home, and RIDLEY-MARCHBANKS. 43 accordingly opened an olfice for tlie practice of his professian. He liad not heen long at the bar „ ', .*^'. before he attracted the kindly notice March banks. of Chancellor Bromfield L. Kidley, one of the most distinguished jurists and accomplished gentlemen that ha.ve adorned the bench of this State. 'J'he year 1825 saw two notable additions to the j\[cMinn- ville bar. Andrew J. Marchbanks (18()4:-1865), who found old Monroe not a, |)rofitable place in which to i)rosecnte his kiw studies, in 182;] returned home, and in 1825 located at j\fcMinnvil!e, ^\]iere he was after- wards twenty-five years on the circuit bench. In the same year, Bromfield L. Kidley (1804-1869), a native of jSTorth Carolina, and a graduate of Chapel Hill, emi- grating to Tennessee, also settled at McMinnville, and was subsequently twenty yeai-s Chancellor of his division. There wa.s only three montlis dii!'erence in their ages, and they had an even start for their remarkably parallel careers. Ridley was the more accomplished, by reason of his superior mental training and education; but Marchbanks' rugged manner only made his unbending integrity the more conspicuous. Eidley commenced an entire stranger with rather limited means; ^Marchbanks with no acquaintance and w ithout any means. But they each had in abundance the one thing- that has con- tributed more than any other to the success of men, namely, a fixed determination to succeed in his profes- sion. Chancellor Eidley was always prompt, active, energetic and laborious, and these characteristics lie had in common with Judge Goodpastm-e. He was an elder in the Cumberland Presbvterian Cliurch. and a noble 44 JEFFKKSON DILI.ARD GOODPASTUKE. Christian gentleman, \v]io grappled many hearts to him with hooks of steel. Judge Goodpasture always cher- ished his memory with the deepest veneration. I'erha})s Chancellor Jiidley, who was ^" uniiormily kind to the young men Master. • , •' ^ just comuiencing the practice, was touched 1)y the hard struggle that was maaifestly betore young Goodpasture, as well as attracted hy his sturdy virtues. At any rate, when lulward N. Cullours term as Clerk and Master expired, in 184T, without his knowledge or solicitation, Chancellor Bidley announced his i)urpose to appoint him to the vacancy. Duiing all his life Judge Goodpasture had the rare faculty of attracting the notice and inspiring the confldencc of all with whom he was associated. Just before his first term as Clerk and Master expired, he chanced to be in Smith- ville, where Chancellor Ridley Avas liolding court. "While there Chancellor llidley approached him in this uianner: "^Iv. Goodpasture, is it not about time yon were renewing your bond?" He answered that his tei'ui would expire before the next sitting of the Chancery Court at Livingston, but added that he was not acquainted in Smithville, and would not be able to give l>und lliere. ''I will arrange that,"" said Chancellor Jiidley, and when the bond was wiitten up, himself })rocured the necessary sureties, and gave him an order to be entered on his minutes, re-a])])ointing him for a second term. -ludge Goodi)asture reaJi;^ed his ini- At Lebanon 1=1 1 p l^ i- c _ ^ . ]»erlect cqmpment lor the practice of Law School. _ ^ f ^ his profession, and detennined as soon as he should realize from his office suiiicient fees JUDGE ABRAHAM CARUTHERS. 45 for that purpose, to attend tlic law school, then just established at Lebanon by Judge Abraham Caruthers. Accordingly he entered the law class of 18i8-9, the second taught in Cumberland University. Judge Caruthers had then associated with him, as additional professors. Judge Nathan Green, late of the Supreme C*ourt and Chancellor Bromfield L. Ridley. It was a class of fifty-six magnificent young men, many of whom ha\"e achieved more than a local reputation. There was Judge Abram L. Deuioss, the near neighbor and intimate friend of Judge Goodpasture, in Nashville, who saw him laid to rest in Mount Olivet; Nathan Green, Jr., the present Chancellor of Cumberland University, who suc- ceeded his father as one of the professors of law; Eobert Hatton, the brilliant Congressman and gallant Con- federate General; Col. John F. House, the orator and statesman, who represented the Hermitage district in Congress in a manner not unworthy of Bell and Grundy; Judge Wm. S. McLemore, of the circuit bench; Gov. James D. Porter, who was first assistant Secretary of State, under President Cleveland's first administra- tion; Chancellors John Somers and B. J. Tarver, and many others who took the highest rank in their profession. While at Lcl'anon, ]\Ir. Goodpasture Judge Abraham |^og,.j^,^^ .^.^th Judge Caruthers, who Caruthers. , i n i i • became much attached to liim. When he was about to leave Judge Caruthers declined to receive any compensation for his entertainment until a.ssured that its payment would be the cause of no embarrassment to him. Judge Abraham Caruthers (1803-1862) was a native of Smith Comity, Tennessee. 46 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. He studied law and coinincnced the practice in Colum- bia, but returned to Carihage, and became Circuit Judge, at the age of thirty, under appointment of Governor Carroll, and continued to hold the position until he resigned in 18-17, to enter upon the work of establishing a law school in Lebanon. He discarded the old plan of lectures, and assigned as the daily lesson a given portion of the text, upon which the students were i"ig"idly exam- ined. Tliis he followed l)y a system of moot courts. For this purpose he found no text book exactly suited to his use, and to meet the Avant, he prepared a pam- phlet of forty pages, which he modestly called his "})rinier.'' The catalogue of 1848-9 announces thcit "two tracts have been prepared by one of the professors, tlie first containing the History of a Law-Suit, in the Circuit Conrt of Tennessee, noting incidentally the jurisdiction and mode of proceeding in all the other courts."' . . . Such was the humble beginning of Caruthers' History of a Law-Suit, now a standard text- book found in the library of every Tennessee lawyer. Hon. John M. Bright has paid this beautiful tribute to Judge Caruthers: "He was modest as he was meri- torious, consistent as he was con^icientious, useful as he was laborious, exalted in principle as he wa& liberal in spirit, profound as he was accurate, sound as a lawyer, able as a jurist, popular as a professor, successful as an author, iireproachable as a citizen, exemplary as a Christian."' Among tlie first l)usiness entrusted Joseph Bates. . t i /< i j c^ i to Judge (ioodpasture, alter he came to the bar, was his employment to write the ^ill of Joseph Bates (1777-1849), who lived in Bates' Cove, KLIJAH GARRETT. 47 ueax Monroe, on the Livingston road. He was a man of strong intellect, of fair education and well posted on current events. In religion he was a Cumberland Pres- byterian, and in politics a Democrat. He was a pros- perous man of good, sound judgment; proud of Bates' Cove, on which lie built one of the first, if not the very iirst, brick house in the county. He owned many negroes, whom ho treated well, but made profitable. He was the father of the late Rev. Thos. F. Bates, and a cousin of Mrs. Harvey JM. Watterson, the mother of Henry "Watterson, and of Rev. Joseph H. Bates, who married a sister of Judge CTOodi)asture. Mr. Bates died in April, 18-19, wliile Judge Goodpasture was at Leba- non, and he was called home to prove his will, which he had witnessed as well as written. Afterwards the will was contested and he defended it through all the courts, and at last had the pleasure of seeing it sustained in the Supreme Court. One of the highest evidences of the trust and confidence reposed in Judge Goodpasture, was the great number of wills he was called upon to write. He wrote the will of the original old pioneer ''Big'' Joe Copeland, a perfect giant, who is said to have cracked walnuts with his teeth, and who was often known to reach over the fence and lift two hundred pound porkers out of the pen, and put them in the scales. He took great interest in relating the circumstances under which ho wrote the will of Elijah Garrett. It was a bitter cold day, with a light snow falling. But being informed tliat the occasion was urgent, he proceeded without delay, though it was then nearly night, and Mr. Garrett lived on Wolf River, some 48 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. twelve or fifteen miles awav. lie found the old man apparently in a very low stale, so feeble, indeed, that he began to doul)t whether he had not arrived too late after all. Upon invitation ho took a chair liy the fire, thinking to warm himself before he should begin his work. After a little, JMr. Garrett roused u}) and beiran to talk. Presently his neighbor. Cope, Avas mentioned, and he began to tell of his nimierous fights with Cope. He had whipped liim, he said, many times l)efore they left Virginia, Imt he was so persistent and stubborn, that he had to repeat it frequently after their arrival in Tennessee. As he talked he became excited, got out of bed, ate a hearty supper, and continued his animated discourse, until Judge Goodpasture expressed a wisli to retire, it being too late to undertake the work in hand. A bed uas prepared for him in the room, and being tired he slept soundly. In the morning Mr. Garrett again commenced on Cope, but Judge Goodpasture suggest- ing that if there was a will to be written they had better be at it, he called one of his sons to go for brother West and brother JMatheny, two good men of the neighbor- hood, who were to witness his will. When they parted he said "My son, you will never see me again in the flesh," wliich proved entirely true, the old man having died a few days afterwards. Elijah Garrett was a good man, a devout Christian and a useful citizen. He was a faithful minister in tlie Primitive Baptist Church, as were also three of his sons, and one of his negroes. AVhile they were waiting for brother West and brother JMatheny, he said to -Judge Goodpasture: "Eight there, standing in that door, last Sunday week, I heard my son, John Garrett, preach the FXIJAH GARRETT. 49 ablest sermon I ever heard fall from the lips of a man. I imagined he was very much such a preacher as the apostle Panl." "Well," replied the Judge, "Paul was a man of considerable reputation in his day." Xow John Garrett had been rather wild in liis youth, so that, it was said, his brothers expressed some little incredulity when he made a profession of religion. Judge Goodpasture, some years later, made the first speech delivered in the Mountain Distaict against Know- Nothingism. It was in the Wolf River country, and all the Garretts were present. The pass word of the Know-Xothings was said to have l>een, "Have you seen Sam?'' The applicant who was able to answer this question satisfactorily, was permitted to enter the lodge. Refening to this Knov.'-Nothing pass word, Judge Goodpasture told the story of John Garrett's admission to the church, as he said he had heard it. He said Elijah Garrett, his brother, asked him many searching questions, and turned him over to his brother, William. I>y this time the old man, who had John's conversion much at heart, was getting very nervous, and as William proceeded he became more so. Finally, Bob, the negro, began to ask him a few. "Wait," said the old man Avho could stand it no longer, "let me ask him a question." "Johnny, my son, did you hear a voice?" "Daddy, I did." "Not another word, boys, I'll eat hell if he ain't all right." The Garretts took no offense, but laughed as heartily as any at the pointed thrust. 4 50 JEFFERSON DILI,ARD GOODPASTURE. When Judge Goodpasture was ap- Statevs. pointed Clerk and Master, he had Troxdale. never made an argument in a law- suit. Ilis first appearance was in the ease of the State against Brit Collins, while he was in the law school at Lehanon. He had, however, soon after his admission to the bar, as Attorney- G-eneral pro tem. drawn the indictment in the celebrated case of the State against Troxdale, reported in Ninth Ilumphrej-s. Patsy Trox- dale was a young, buxom girl of about twenty, who lived with her father, Edward O'Neal, on his little moun- tain farm in the eastern part of Overton Coimty. The otb.er members of her family were her mother, and her fiXG brothers and sisters, the oldest of whom was Jack- son, a lad of twelve. Patsy having commenced to keep the company of certain dissolute young men, her father was very indignant, and threatened to exclude her from his home. On the evening of Friday, September 15, 184(), she entertained Nicholas Stephens and William Upton, who were afterwards indicted jointly with her. Saturday morning a peculiar smoke was observed in the direction of the O'Neal fann. On Monday the hon-ible truth appeared. O'Neal, his wife and their five little children had l>een murdered with an axe, their bodies ])iled together, and the house Inirned down over them. The defendants were convicted. In the Supreme Court the judgment was revereed, but not on account of any defect in the indictment, which was drawn in strict con- formity to the technical pleadings of that day. j\Iany years afterwards, by appoint- ment of the com-t, and without hope of reward. Judge Goodpasture defended a prisoner STATE VS. LOGSTON. 5I charged with a shiiilar butchery, who greatly enhsted his sympathy, aud in whose behalf he made a strong and earnest effort. Just after the war, there lived in Fentress County a family consisting of the grandmother, her daughter and three little grand- children; James, the oldest of whom was not over eight. One day in Novembeo-, 1868, the two women and the second child were found dead in their house, having been murdered the day before, with an axe. James' head was badly crushed, but he finally recovered. The youngest child, an infant, was not hurt. Calvin Logston, a young Kentuckian, of rather good appearance, and Jane and Eliza Brown, were indicted in the Circuit Court of Fentress County for the murder. Logston was tried and convicted, and the sentence of death pronounced against him. He appealed to the Supreme Court. Judge Goodpasture appeared as liis counsel, and at his request, in view of the extreme penalty involved, the court, then sitting in sections, heard this case in full ]>ench. A report of the pro- ceedings, published at the time, says: "We do not recol- lect ever witnessing a trial that produced so marked an effect upon the court and bar. There was not a stir in the court room; at the bar stood the prisoner, whose life depended upon the result. The com-t and counsel seemed to feel the resjsonsibility resting upon them. There was a solemn earnestness in the proceedings. The argument of the counsel for the prisoner was aide. He discussed the questions of law^ arising upon the record with great force and clearness. The argument of the Attorney-General in behalf of the State, exhibited great ability, candor and fairness.'"' 52 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. The court reversed tlie jutlgnient and remanded the cause for a new trial. Judge Goodpasture followed the case back to the Circuit Court of Fentress County. The venue was then changed from Jamestown to Livingston, and a new trial had, again resulting in a conviction, mainly on the testimony of the little boy, James, which he thought was too questionaljle to allow so important a verdict to rest upon it. He again appealed for Logs- ton, and again appeared as his counsel in the Supreme Court, but his earnest effort proved impotent to save his poor client, who soon afterwards suffered the death penalty at the hands of the Sheriff of Fentress County. From the time Judge Goodpasture entered the practice, he was a very busy man. Always prom])t and accurate in the dis- charge of his duties as Clerk and Master, he was at the same time building up a practice in the Circiut (*ourt of the county. In addition to his official and profes- sional duties, he was also beginning to exercise and develop his remarkable talent for trading. There has rarely been a more successful trader. His forte lay in an unusually sound judgment, upon which he was able to rest with absolute satisfaction, without regard to the opinions of others; the rapid, almost instantaneous proc- ess by which he reached his conclusions, and the un- Jiesitating, undaunted, tireless, sleepless manner in ^\•hich he prosecuted every purpose he had matured. He A\'as bold to a degree, but, to use his own ex})ression, there was a streak of caution in his nature that deterred him from risking much, where the result appeared to depend in any considerable measure on chance, rather than Judgment. He traded in anything and everything REV. THOS. F. BATES. 53 in whicli liis watchful eye could see a profit. But he never overtraded himself. During all his life he was never so involved as to im}>eril his solvency. Even in the panic of 1893. which broke so many Ijrilliant finan- ciers of Xaslndlle, though he was and had been for twelve or fourteen years trading largely in real estate, and notwithstanding the loss of eight or ten thousand dollars, througli the failures of the Commercial Xationai Bank and the Southern Iron Company, it was never necessai-y for him to sell a foot of land at a sacrifice; but, on the contrary, he was always able to buy Avhen a great bargain oifered. Jle also ventured, to a limited degree, into commer- cial fields. The reader will Ijear in mind that three years previous to this time he was well-nigh penniless, and his elf oris were greatly paralyzed for the want of means, and he was now trying every avenue, and bend- ing every energy to put himself in independent financial condition. On March -1, 18.j0, he entered into a four years partnership with his friend. Thomas F. Bates, and his brother, James M. Goodj^asture, for the sale of gen- eral merchandise in Livingston. Thomas F. Bates (1822-1897). was a Rev. Thos. ^^^^ ^^ Joseph Bates, heretofore men- F. Bates. '■ tioned. He had received a classical education at Alpine Institute, on the mountain near his father's, a school that had been established by Dr. John L. Dillard (1793-1881), one of the fathers of the Cum- berland Presbyterian Church, and bore a high reputa- tion for many years. Dr. Dillard rode the Overton circuit as early as 1815. Judge Goodpasture was named for him. and under his ministration, in his vouth. be- 54 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. came a nieinber, and, many years afterward, an elder in the Cuml>erland Presbyterian Clinrch. While Mr. Bates was there, the school was being ta,iig"ht by Jolin L. Jleveridge, afterwards Governor of Illinois, J. L. Hough and liev. Wm. M. Dillard. He studied for the minis- try and became a well known Cuml>erland Presbyterian preacher. After his father's death, he lived for a time at the farm, in Bates* Cove, but finally settled at Shel- byville. Judge Goodpasture wrote of him a few years ago: "Fletcher Bates, as we always called him, is a fine preacher, and one of the best men I ever knew. He is patriotic — loves his country and friends, and has a great attachment for the old county where he was born and reared. Nothing gratifies him more than to hear of the success of an Overton C^ounty man. I don't think he preaches much now, but is living quietly at home, where he takes great interest in his garden, his flowera and small fruits of which he has a great abundance. He is well to do, has plenty of everything he needs, and seems to be living a peaceful and hapi)y life. He is now seventy-three years old." Dr. James jMcDonnold Ciood past are Dr. J. M. (182v-18Ui), was three years vounger Goodpasture. ' . than the Judge, and was his favorite brother. When a lad, he had a disease in one of his limbs, which necessitated its amputation, when he was only thirteen years old. He had a warm heart, and was a man of nnusually fine feeling and sentiment. He studied medicine and was a successful physician, at Cookeville, where he was in active ])ractice, until he died, at the age of forty-nine years. During one term of six years, he held the office of Glerk and blaster. DR. J. M. GOODPASTURE;. 55 He was a devout Christian and an elder in the Cumber- land Presbyterian Church. By the tenns of tlieir partnership agreement, Judge Goodpasture was not to give his personal attention to the business. CHAPTER V. One can liardly conceive the restless uns or enemy that characterized Judt^e Congress. Goodpasture dnring this period of liis life. Discharging with care and diligence his official dnties; prosecuting with energy and success the prac- tice of his profession; trading in everything that prom- ised a profit; engaging, though not extensively in the mercantile business — yet^ within the first five years of his career, ho found time to make an active canvass of the eight counties of the ]\Iountain district, as a Demo- cratic candidate for Congress. He was not a man of many books — he did not have time to read them. His first great enemy was poverty, which, he thought, had virtually cost him several years of Ms life. Poverty had denied him the finished educa- tion he believed necessary to the attainment of the highest eminence, and which, in after life, it was liis chief care to provide for his children. It was the gaunt figure of poverty that interposed itself between him and every exalted aspiration and every ambitious hope of his early life. No wonder then, that the first struggle of his young manhood should have been with this blighting foe. He entered the contest with a courage and deter- mination only equaled by liis absolute confidence in the result. If he pursued it further than the demands of a learned and exacting profesison would justify, it is matter of little surprise. And that he should have en- COL. JOHN H. SAVAGE. 57 tered the domain of jjolitics, was only in keeping willi the universal practice of the hiwyers of the Mountain District, who esteemed political position as one of the fruits of the legal profession. His competitor in this canvass was Col. John H. ^.^^ j^^^j^ ^ Savage (181-5 — ). a Savage. chivalrous gentleman, a true friend of the people, a gallant soldier and an eminent states- man. Coming home from the ^Mexican war with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and hearing upon his per- son the scars received while gallantly leading an assault U})on the Mexican stronghold at Molino-del-Eey, he was easily elected to Congress in 1849, though opposed by such popular men as Sam Turney and John B. Rodgers. In Congress he had heen hardly less distinguished than in the army. It was in 1850 he made the eloquent speech on the Union, inserted in Field's vScrap Book, which closes with this sentiment: '"I have ever hoped that onr ship of state, self-poised upon the billows, would gather the tempest in her sails and fly with lightning speed to the home of transcendent national glory amid the plaudits of an admiring world. And for this I shall still he ready to make any sacrifice except my honor and my right to be free and equal on e\'ery foot of laud beneath the stars and stripes." This was in 18.51. Both candidates were of the same political party, and Judge Gootli>asture was unable to overcome the advantage that Colonel Savage's distin- guished services had given him, but he made an honor- able race, and one that did him great credit, and some service in the way of a favorable introduction to the people of the district. 58 JEFFERSON DIELARD GOODPASTURE. Congressional Judge Goodpasture was never elecied to Congress. Some twenty-five Conventions. nj i -, ■ years alterwards his name was pre- sented, with a multitude of otliers, before a number of Democratic conventions assembled in rapid succession, during the period in which two members-elect of tlie Forty-Fourth Conga-ess from the fouiih district of Ten- nessee, died before taking their seats; and while he always showed much, sometimes more, positive strength than any of his competitors, it was his misfortune to live in a sparsely settled mountain county, and the nomination uniformly went to one of the rich and populous counties on the other side of the district. Flo soon found that though he might, and did in more than one convention, receive a majority of the votes cast, it was impossible for any of the mountain counties to effect a combination that would bring to its man the two-thirds vote necessary to a nomination. Colonel Savage admit.s that he re- Marries. • 1 J 1 , • ■ 1 ceived at least one surpnse m the contest between him and Judge Cloodpasture. He ex- pected a large majority in the 0]ym})us district of Overton County. AVhen the returns came in, the vote was found to be ])ractica]ly nnanimous against him. The explanation he received was, that Judge Good- pasture's fiancee lived in that district, and had taken an active interest in his behalf. The reference A\'as to Sarah Jane, the youngest daughter of Jacob and Jane C. (Marchbanks) Dillen, whom Judge Goodpasture mar- ried the following spring, namely: on the 16th day of May, 1852. The ceremony occurred at the home of lier brother-in-law and guardian, H. E. Eyan, in Albany, THE MARCHBANKSES. 59 Kentucky, the Eev. Josiali G. Harris, of the Cumber- land Presbyterian Church, officiating. Jacob Dillen was born in Ilcniv Jacob Dillen. County, Virginia, December 11, 1795, and moved with his father, Henry Dillen, an old Kevolu- tionary soldier, to the Wolf River section of Overton Countv, Tennessee, about 1810. He adopted the leaal profession, and though he died on the 21st day of August, 1835, in the very prime of life, so successful had he been that he left each of his four children a patrimony of several thousand dollars. Sarah Jane, the youngest of these, was born on Wolf Eiver, May 4, 1835, and was, consequently, only three months old when her father died. Her mother, Jane Caroline, was the daughter of William Marchbanks, a Marcnbanksss. native of Scotland, who came from South CaroHna to Tennessee, and settled near the pres- ent village of Algood, in Putnam County, where she was born, November 23, 1807. Her mother was Jane Young, a sister of James Young (1787-1860), four- teen years sheriff of Jackson County and twice a repre- sentative in the State Legislature. He was grandfather of the late J. Howard Young, of Dixon Springs, and of Oliver F. Young, of Simpson's Mills. Andrew J. Marchbanks, the distinguished lawyer and jurist of McMinnville, was her brother. Her sister, Sallie, mar- ried Maj. Henry H. Atkinson, a lawyer of some prom- inence in Overton County. Sometime in the twenties, Major Atkinson was elected Circuit Court Clerk, at Monroe. He had as his deputy Jacob Dillen, who also studied law in his office. It was on a visit to her sister, 6o JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. that Jane C. Marclibanks first met joimg Dillen, ^\•holn she married on the 3rd day of February, 1828. ]\irs. Dillen survived her husband only ten years. After liis death, she was married a second time, to Richard Poteet, and lived at Xetherland, on Spring Creek, where, on September 1!), 1845, she was thrown from a horse in a rocky branch near her home and instantly killed. Being now in fairly comfortaJjlc Charleston Com- fij^^j^^.^.^! condition, he took a still mercial Convention. more active interest in public af- fairs. He was a delegate to the Commercial Conven- tion of the Southem and AVestern States, which \\-as held in the city of Charleston during the week com- mencing on tlie 10th of April, 18.")1. This convention was a revelation, as well as a great ol)ject lesson to him. It was one of the most intellectual bodies ever assembk'd in America. Fifteen states were represented. The delegation embraced many of the most brilliant and widely known men of the Soutli and West. It was pre- sided over by Hon. Wm. C. Dawson, of Georgia, and in- cluded among its delegates, such men as IMatthew F. Maury, Clement C. Clay, Sr., Leslie Combs, James C. Jones, John II. Eeagan and Albert Pike. Judge Good- pasture took great interest in the proceedings. He was particularly captivated by General Pike. General Pike liad introduced a series Albert Pike's ^^ resolutions favoring a confedera- Address. tion of the Southern States, for the ])urpose of l)uilding the Southern Pacific Kailroad. and made a powerfid speech in advocacy of them. He so charmed the Convention, that in the evening session he was called out again. He was a man of splendid pres- FEEDING BUZZARDS. 6l euce, faultlessly attired, wearing neatly fitting kid gloves on the outside of which a brilliant diamond sparkled in the gas light. When he appeared in his perfect self-pos- session, and paid his beautifid tribute to the ladies, Judge Goodpasture thought he was the personification of grace and gallantry. "Only a week or two ago," he said, "I was among the snows of the Korth. Even when I left Washington there were no leaves on the trees. But when I arrived Jiere, I found the trees in leaf and the flowers m bloom. Sii", there is an Eastern fable which tells us of a lady of such benignancy and grace, that when the light of her eyes strikes the trees, or glances upon the flowers, the trees are instantly in leaf and the flowers in bloom; and I know now, after seeing the fair forms and bright eyes, ^\•hich grace and enlighten those boxes, why it is that the trees are in leaf and the flowers in bloom in Charles- ton." Judge Goodpasture, in liis youth and younger man- hood, had great ambition to be a speaker, and the im- pression made upon him by the grace and beauty and power of General Pike's oratory can hardly ]>e over- estimated. The writer lias reason to know something of the cft'cct it produced, as he has, for these forty years, borne the General's first name, as a direct result of his magnetic eloquence. It was in Charleston Judge Good- ^* '"^ pasture first met the late Judge Buzzards. Nathaniel Baxter. Walking out on the beach one day he saw an innumerable multitude of buzzards, collecting from the four quarters of the heav- ens, and fighting and scrambling over some object he 62 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. could not see. It turned out that Judge Baxter had been to the market and bought a lot of haslets, which he was throwing out on the beach, in order to see the re- markable si>eetaele of hundreds of perfectly gentle buz- zards falling in a black, scrambling, fighting, ravenous uiass, two or three feet deep, and rising almost in- stantl}', without leaving a vestige, not even a throttle, to mark the place where the object of their greed had been. In 1856, he was a delegate to the National Demo- ^t.^^-^j^.^| Democratic Convention, cratic Convention. . ,,. . . ^ t . wnich met m Cincinnati, June 3-0, and nominated James Buchanan for the Presidency, lie took his wife and baby with him, traveling thi-ough the coiintry in a buggy as far as Lexington, Kentucky. 'J'he beautiful blue grass region had on its richest ver- dure, and its lovely landscapes made their Jouniey vei'v enjoyable. While at the Convention he called on Hon. Thomas li. Benton, who was himself aspiring to the Presidency, and who assured him that he was "sound, sir, both in mind and body.'' He had a contesting dele- gation from Missouri. Not having been assigned seats upon the floor, immediately after the election of the I'resident pro tem. they forcilJy thrust the doorkeeper aside and rushed into the hall, taking possession of the vacant seats assigned to New York, whose delegates were all excluded pending a contest. Their leader mounted a seat and addressed the Convention, amid cries of "Order! order!" Great excitement prevailed, until an agreement was reached, and the contestants retired. The bold leader of this contesting delegation was the Hon. B. Gratz Brown, whom Judge Goodpasture;, as STATE SENATOR. 63 elector for the Fonrtli Congressional District, supported for \iee President on the ticket with Horace Greeley, in 1873. In 1857, he resigned the office of Clerk and Master, and was elected to the State Senate, defeating 'John Bowles, who had been a member of the House of Eepresentatives, in 1851, and a member of the Senate from 1853 to 1857. Bowles afterwards achieved great local notoriet}^ during the re- construction period in Tennessee. In his legislative career Judge Cloodpasture mani- fested the same accurate judgment of public affairs, and the same firm and energetic manner of dealing with them that characterized the whole of his private and professional life. He opposed the bill providing for a conventional rate of interest in a speech of strong, prac- tical sense, wliich affords some insight into the financial maxims by which liis private business was influenced. "I hold," he said, "that a man is none the better off by having liis pocket full of money, if his notes are out for it, bearing even six per cent, interest; Imt if he is paying- ten per cent, interest, it would be better for that man to drain him of liis money at once and relieve liim of his debt." "Speculation, however," he says in another connec- tion, "never did and never will increase the real wealth of Ihe country; whilst one speculator is getting rich, another is becoming bankrupt. ... It is to labor that we are indebted for all our prosperity." He introduced a resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution, providing for the election of Gov- ernor and members of the General Assembly once in four 64 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. years, and for quadrennial se^^sions of the Legislature, which he supported in an able speech. The resolution provoked wide discussion in the press of the State, drawing out strong editorials from such papei-s as the Brownsville Journal, McMinnville Xew Era and Athens Post. The Union and American, the leading Demo- cratic daily at the capital, declared that the urgent necessity for such an amendment was patent to the most casual thinker, and expressed a confidence that if the proposition were referred to the people it would he adopted hy an overwhelming majority. The resolution pa.s,sed the Senate, hut was defeated in the House hy a narrow margin. His chief service to the State, however, was in con- nection with a resolution, which he introduced on the 18th of ^larch, 18-58, just l^efore the final adjouniment of the session, providing for the appointment of a joint select committee to investigate the manner in which the securities of the several free banks had been managed in the office of the comptroller, and whether any in- terest had been improperly paid on the State coupon bonds. They were directed to report on or before the first day of the succeeding October, and were empowered to send for pei-sons and papers. The committee ap- pointed under this resolution, of which Judge Good- pasture was chairman, sat all summer making a thor- ough investigation of the majtter referred to them. They detected the frauds of the Exchange Bank; the eml)ezzlement by the Secretary of State to the amount of fifty thousand dollars; and the over payment of in- terest to about the same amount. Their report, mak- ing a volume of several hundred pages, was made to MEETS THE GREY-EYED MAN OF DESTINY. 65 Governor Harris, and showed great skill in the manage- ment of the investigation. A thousand copies were printed for the information of the public. Meets the Wliile in Nashville Judge Good- Grey-eyed Man pasture had the pleasure of meeting of Destiny. Qen. William Walker (183i-1860), the "grey-ej'ed man of destiny," who was then just back from his brilliant career in Nicarauga. He was at that time under indictment in the United States District Court of Louisiana, for beginning in the territory of the United States, a military enterprise to be carried on from there against the State of Nicarauga. His father lived in Nashville, where he himself was raised and edu- cated, and on this occasion gave a dinner in honor of his distinguished son, to which many prominent people were invited. 5 CHAPTER VI. At the expiration of liis term in the ... *" * f Senate, Judere Goodpastnre declined Witchcraft. ' ^ '■ to be a candidate for re-election, and determined to devote liis time wholly to the practice of his profession. The Moimtain District, extending from the fertile valleys along the Cnmberknd River, to the sterile plateau on top of the monntain, at that time contained every shade of character and every degree of civilization to be found in the country. Less than ten years before Judge Goodpasture came to the bar, there occurred, in Fentress County, the only trial for witch- craft ever had in the State. He knew all the parties connected with it well. Judge Abraham Caruthers was on the bench and John B. McCormick was Attorney- General. The resident lawyers at Jamestown then, were John M. Clemens, the father of Mark Twain and Wni. B. Eiehardson. Subsequently, Clemens' law library came into the possession of Judge Goodpasture, and a few years ago he sent Mark Twain his father's copy of Tidd's Prac- tice. He acknowledged, its receipt in a characteristic letter. He expressed an appreciation of the books, on account of his father's signature, which he recognized; but referring to their contents, he expressed regret that some book other than a law book should not have been found, as he was the one man most incapable of under- A TRIAL FOR WITCHCRAFT. 67 standing' the law, unless it were his elder brother, who practiced in the West. The celebrated mountain lands, of which Mark Twain writes in the Gilded Age, lie in Fentress County; and the picturesque village he describes under the name of Obedstown is none other than its county site. I'hc court-house, on the fence surrounding which the male population of the village were sitting, chewing tobacco and spitting at bumble-bees and such other objects of interest as appeared within their wide range, while they waited the arrival of the mail; and to which one of them referred, when he obseiwed that, '"if the judge is a gwine to hold cote," he reckoned he would have to "roust" his sow and jiigs out of the court- house, was the same in wliich this singular case was tried. It seems that an old man by the name of Stout, \\'ho lived on Obeds Eiver, was arrested for bewitching the beautiful daughter of a certain man, named Taylor, who lived on the mountain. The defendant was treated with much rigor, and his person abused by the various ex- periments to which he was subjected, for the purpose of establishing his guilt. The guards had taken the ])re- eaution to remove the lead from their guns, and to load them with silver, which was considered the only metal to which a wizard is not impalpable. The accused was carried before Esquire Joshua Owens, a leading magistrate of the county, whom Judge (lood- pasture knew intimately for many years aftenvards. The prosecutor and many of his neighbors were intro- duced as witnesses on behalf of the State, and proved, in addition to the particular facts charged, that the defendant had freqitently been seen to escape out of 68 JBFFKRSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. liouses through the key holes in the doors; and that he had on divers occasions not only operated on the hodies and minds of luunan beings, and that at a distance of ten or fifteen miles, hnt also on horses, cattle and other stock. On this evidence the defendant was fonnd gnilty and Ijound over to the next term of the Circuit Comt. When tlie grand jury met. General McCormick being of opinion the prosecution could not be sustained, refused to prefer a bill of indictment. The defendant was ac- cordingly discharged amid great excitement, some of the mountaineers Ijoldly declaring that it would be bet- ter to live without laws, if such offenders could escape with impunity. Stout, on the other hand, went before the grand jury and indicted a number of pereons concerned in his arrest, for assault and iDattery. When these cases came on to bo heard before Judge Canithers and a jury of the county, the defendants admitted the assault and battery and justiiied on the ground that it was committed in arresting a felon, relying on the statutes of Henry Vlll. and James I., making witchcraft a felony, which they de- clared had never been repealed in this State. The en- lightened Judge, however, charged the jury that they were '•destructive of, repugnant to, or inconsistent with the freedom and independence of this State, and form of government,"' and were never in force here by virtue of the act of IT 78, and the defendants were accordingly convicted. The bar that practiced at Livingston Sam Turney. i • .1 • • i 1? 1^1 during this period w-as one 01 the strongest in the State. On account of Judge Good- SAM TUKNEY. 69 pasture's interest in him, particular mention will be made of Sam Tiirney, who was not onh^ a successful lawyer and politician, but one of the most unique char- acters this State has produced. He was a warm friend of Judge Goodpasture, who used to relate man}- anec- dotes illustrafing his eccentricities and peculiarities. He was born in Smith County, on the farm now owned by Hon. Sam Young, near Dixon's Springs. In his youth he lived for a time with Moses Fisk, at Hilham, working on the farm to pay for the instruction he re- ceived at the hands of that eminent educator. When Judge Goodpasture was a boy, he was shown large piles of stumps on Fisk's farm that were said to have been dug up and hauled there by Turney. After he came to the bar he moved to Sparta and made that his home until his death, which occurred about the close of tiie civil war. He was a member of the State Senate from 1839 to 1847. In 1841, he was Speaker of that body, and one of the '"immortal thirteen," who prevented the election of United States Senators by the Twenty-Fo\n-th General Assembly, in which the Whigs had a majority of one. Tiu-ney was not a partisan. He did not care anything about party. In 1856, when he was a candi- date for Congress, and Judge Gardenhire was spoken of as his competitor, he said to Judge Goodpasture: '"I can beat Mr. Gardenhire, and I'll give him choice of sides; if he wants the Democrat side, I'll take the Know- Xothing side; or if he wants the Know-Xothing side, I'll take t'other side." But the Democrats nominated his brother, Hopkins L. Turney, and it was in his in- terest that he was induced to join such partisan Demo- crats as Samuel H. Laughlin and Andrew Johnson in 70 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. their cletennined eil'oi't to defeat the election of two Whig Senators. Tiirney was very careless of his personal appearance. It was not. at all imusnal, as he rode into town, to see a shirt sleeve or a drawers leg hanging ont of his saddle hags. On one occasion Jndge Goodpastnre had spent the night with him, and as they came in next morning, he left a heavy blue blanket with a tailor to be made into an overcoat. When he had gone a short distance the tailor hailed him and a.sked him to return, stating that he had not taken his measure. "Xo difference," said j\Ir. Turney, "just put it all in, ^\v. Gibbons, just put it all in.*' This indifference to personal ajipearance was not con- fined to his apparel. At a certain court in Jamestown, Turney, Goodpasture and James Snodgrass occupied the same room. Turney was a great reader, and seemed to have no choice of books, except he liked old books — the older the better. On this occasion, after Goodpa.sture and Snodgrass had retired, he found one that had long since lost its backs, and was soon absorbed in its con- tents. The tallow candle M-as about two inches long, and he read until it was quite consumed, when the room became perfectly dark. Presently he began a queer • little whick-a-whack noise, \\hich was kept up for some- time. Snodgrass grew quite restless and nervous and finally asked: "Sam, what in tlie blank are you doing?"' "Trimming my hair," was the response. Xext morning, after inspecting the job in a glass, Turney said: "God-a-mighty, Jim, if it ain't cut as well as if a barber had done it." SAM TURKEY. 7 I This profanity would not have heen allowed to go to print, had it not heen deeired to make it the occasion for recording the fact that Mr. Tumey abandoned the habit many years before his death. Early in his politi- cal career, he had been charged with being a deist, and in answering the charge, he went no further than to declare that he believed it right to do right, and appealed, to his constituents to judge his conduct by that rule. Sometime in the fifties, however, while he was attending the sittings of the Supreme Court, at Nashville, he be- came greatly interested in the meetings then being held there by Alexander Campbell, and in the end Joined the church and was baptized. He was stopping at the Sewanee Hotel, and rooming with Judge Goodpasture and Maj. A. A. Swope. The important will case of Peterman against Cope, was pending in the Supreme Court, but had not been heard. Tumey and Sw^ope ■\\ere together in the case. The evening of his baptism, wliile he was sitting before the fire drying his socks, resting the heel of one foot on the toe of the other, and occasionally reversing the position, the Cope will case was mentioned. ••'Major Swope, have you a brief in that case," asked Turney. The Major assured him he had. "Read it, Major, please." Major Swope read until he came to a point that struck Mr. Turney with imusual force. "Swope, read that again, please." Swope read it again. '"God-a-mighty dam, Swope, if we can't win on that." Xot another word was spoken for a full minute, when he 72 JKFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. added, "but a man ought not to swear." Though, to use his own exin-essicn, the process of his rehgion was "gradual," he soon entirely abandoned the habit and became quite religious, sometimes lecturing on the Scriptures. Judge Goodpasture practiced his pro- Builds in the <» • ji i • 111.1 lession with such vigor that he soon Country. built up a clientage not inferior to tliat of any of the distinguished lawyers with whom he was associated. He first lived in a frame house on the west side of the square in Livingston, where three of his children were bom. In 1860, he built a splendid brick residence in the country, two miles west of Liv- ingston, and moved into it just at the beginning of the civil war, and continued to live there until he moved to Nashville, in 1879. AVhen the war came on Judge Goodpasture gave his allegiance to his State, but never entered the army. Although he had led an exceedingly active life, the philosophy by which he lived had made liim few enemies and many friends. He was only giving the rule of Ms own conduct when he wrote to one of his sons: "MaJ<:e it a point from which you must never vary, always to do right; treat everybody kindly, rich and poor alike, and especially the unfortunate and neglected; permit no con- sideration to influence you to, in the smallest degree, slight any on account of poverty or position in society; avoid, as much as possible, the society of the wicked and dissipated, but at all times treat them politely and kindly; and be strictly moral and upright in all your conduct and de})ortment." A MYSTERIOUS HORSEMAN. 73 The result was, he exi:)erienced a A Mysterious gjj .,,1^^ freedom from fear in those Horseman. perilous times, though he was some- times in imminent danger. With no firearms in his house, his doors were never locked, day or night, and he ne\'er refused to answer a call. One evening a horseman rode rapidly up to his front gate. "Wlien Judge Goodpasture had answered his summon.s, he stated that a man had been thrown from his horse and dangerously hurt at the lawn gate, some three hundred yards distant, and asked him to bring a light and oome to his assistance. The horseman then turned and rode back to his companion. It so chanced that two of liis wife's kinsmen, ^Villiam and Young Marchbanks, were spending the night with Judge Goodpasture. They were men of great courage and armed to the teeth. They asked the privilege of accompanying him and to guard against treachery, which was suspected, they car- ried their pistols in their hands. When they arrived at ilie lawn gate, no one was visible, and the only sign of life was the sound of retreating horse hoofs heard in the distance. About this time he experienced a re- markable evidence of the confidence his neighbors reposed in him. Old man Jewett, who lived in the upper part of the county, came to his house one day, to ask Judge Goodpasture to wTite him a pass to Union City, in West Tennessee. He said one of his souE, who was in the (Confederate army, was reported to 1)0 dying there and he wanted to go to his bedside. Judge Goodpasture at first undertook to show him the absurdity of the request. Iiut ^Ir. Jewett still insisted 74 JEFFERSON UILLARD GOODPASTURE. \i])()ii his writing the pa.eaty's protection. Xo other lawyer ventured to appear. The evening before the court met, Judge Goodpasture rode directly to Beaty's honse, about twenty-five miles over the rongh. monntain roads, where he was received in a friendly spirit, and spent the night. In the morning Beaty rode with him into Jamestown, and after he had dispatched the business in hand, broiight him back to his house. Next day, when Judge Goodpasture was ready to depart, Beaty told him it would not be safe for him to go alone, and sent his brother, Flem, with him, as far as old man Hill's, at the foot of the mountiiin, whence he reached home in safety. From that day, Judge Goodpasture never missed a court at Jamestown, until he left the Moimtain District, and in one year did business in that county to the value of seven thousand dollars. From 18G.5 to 1875, his business was phenomenal and the amount of work he did was enormous. In a letter dated June 20, 1869, he says: "I rode home from Jamestown last night^ — reached home at 3 o'clock this morning." He lived about thirty miles from James- town, and tlie way was the very worst of mountain roads. He frequently rode home from Cookeville, some twenty luiles distant, after court adjourned in the afternoon. So, he was at Livingston, Jamestown, Sparta, Cooke- ville, Gainesboro, Gelina and Xashville — always going and ever full of business. HIDDEN TREASURE. 77 A circLimstauee occurred iu 1870, "*''***" that will illustrate how completely he was absorbed in his practice at this time. During the war, he had three or four hundred dollars in gold, which he concealed under the parlor hearth. As soon as the courts were open, he plunged into a flood of new business, without giving the hidden treasure a thought. In the winter of 1867-8, his wife was sick and thought she would be more comfort- able in the parlor. She was moved in and occupied it during the remainder of the winter and spring. One day, some Ave yeai"s after the war, for the first time, the circumstance of the hidden gold suddenly flashed into his mind. He removed the hearth and found every piece of the money safe, though much blackened by the constant fire that had burned above it during his wife's sickness. On the 8th day of June, 1867, he *"" ^ lost his favorite son, Harvey Dillard, Afflictions. ,.,,.11 P then a bright little boy ot two short summers, from the bite of a venomous reptile, wliich was never discovered. Not long afterwards, February 30, 1868, Jacob Dillen, his infant son, died. And within the year, on the 31st day of April, 1868, he suffered the greatest of all bereavments in the death of his beloved wife. Mrs. Goodpasture was a noble little woman. She was as bright, vivacious and intelligent, as she was kind, gentle and charitable; and being the best of company, she was a universal favorite. Many bright stories of her wit and social chamis are still told in the neighbor- hood. These were the only deaths that ever occurred in iiis family during his lifetime. So true it seems, 78 JEFFERSON DILI.ARD GOODPASTURE. that ''misfortunes come not singly, but as if they watched and waited." Xo wonder he should haA-e felt "that the real happiness of this life is hardly worth a thought." After the death of his wife, his household was in a desolate condition. Ilis family now consisted of three boys. Two of them were sent ol! to school, first at Cookeville and then at New ]Middleton. The third was too young to leave home. lie employed a housekeeper, but his necessary absence from home, sometimes for a consideralde period, together with the fact already noted, that he never locked a door, had the effect to stri}) his house of nearly everything of a movable nature it had contained. On the ITtli of June, 1869, he was Marries Again. . , t ,• i -v- • married a second time, to JNannie Young, daughter of x\ustin C and Lucette Young, who lived near Sparta, Tennessee, his old friend .lessc Hickman performing the ceremony. Eev. J. E. Hickman (lS05-18Sb), Uncle Jesse ^^..^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ most consecrated men Hickman. » ,i /-< i ■ i m the pulpit 01 the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Born in the Pendleton district, South Carolina, he came to Tenne.'^see in his childhood, and was brought up to the saddler's trade. Yielding to an impression to preach, he Joined the Madison Presb3i;ery, in West Tennessee, but moved to C'herry Creek, in White County, in 1837, and was one oC the charter members of the Sparta Presbytery, in A\hich ho labored fifty-three years, and where he died at tiie age of eighty-three. Judge Goodpasture called in person to request that he officiate at his marriage. When he arrived, Uncle TAKES HIS BOYS TO COLLEGE. 79 Jesse ordered his cook to "put the big pot in the little one," and so overwhelmed him with polite attentions, that he had spent the whole of the day before he found an opportunity to mention the subject of his visit, though he thought he was in a great hurry. But Uncle Jesse was hos]iitable to a degree little met with in these days. Many years later, after Judge Goodpasture's oldest son had entered the ministiy of the Cumberland I'resby- terian Church, he chanced to pass through Uncle Jesse's country, and called to pay his respects. The old man made him welcome to the best his home afforded, and when he was ready to take his departure, ordered his oavh horse and rode with him to the very uttermost limit of liis neighborhood; and as they passed along the road, from house to house, he would call out his friends: "This is Brother Goodpasture, one of our young preach- ers." "Brother Goodpasture, this is one of my elders. I ^^•as unwilling you should leave the neighborhood without making his acquaintance." And so on. From the time his children began to Takes His Boys ^^^ ^j^| enough to go to school. Judge To College. o o u Goodpasture took the liveliest inter- est in their education. In ISH, the two older boys, after attending preparatory schools at Cookeville and 'New Middleton, were entered in the University of Ten- nessee, at Knoxville, where they graduated in 1875. He took them across the mountain from Livingston to Knoxville on horseback, accomplishing the journey in three days. After he saw them properly located, he ret\irued the same way, leading the two extra horses. It v.as his theory that a boy should Ije taught to use his own judgment and act on his own responsibility. He 8o JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. advised them, moralized ou euiTent events, counseled them out of his ripe experience, stimulated every worthy ambition, but in the end made each take the responsi- bility of his own actions. Some of his letters are worthy of preservation. The one that follows was written to his two older sons just as they were completing the law course in Vanderbilt Univereity: "Livingston, Tenn., May 27, 18?;. "I?idley and Albert: "Dear Sons: — I received a letter from „. _ AVillie vcsterday. He savs his ex- His Sons. V J ^ amination [at Burritt College] begins on the 11th and ends on the 13th of July. If you remain at home that long, as I suppose you will, I want you to go over. I will try to go myself. This is Sunday, and I have nothing to do but meditate, and as usual, a large amount of my thoughts is upon the welfare of my children. The days of my youth are as fresh in my memory as they were twenty years ago. I re- member well the difficulties that were then in my way. I was ambitious, but I had no one to advise me upon the questions that most troubled me. My ambition led me to new fields, about which my own family had no knowledge or experience. I longed to be a speaker, and thought if I could Ije a lawyer the measure of my am- bition would be filled. ]3ut I never had been in a court- house, and I knew that my best friends regarded the idea as ridiculous. So, without eonsidting a human being on earth, at the age of twenty, I took up 'Blackstone.' But my greatest trouble was to stick to it. My pros- pects looked so gloomy, it required all the nerve I had LKTTKR TO HIS SONS. 8 1 to keep me from quitting it, and taking np something more flattering. What little money I had, I had made by raising chickens and teacliing school at $12.00 per month, $5.00 per month of wliich I paid for a hand to work in my place on father's farm. To spend this hard earned money, distressed me. To pay $1.25 per week for board, looked like utter ruin. To do without good Sunday clothes troubled me, but to spend my money for them seemed equally bad. I could not sleep of nights. I could not study to advantage. But I felt determined and never doubted that at some time in the future I vrould have plenty and endeavored to submit patiently to present jjrivations, looking to that time. But enough on this subject. I will add, however, that on account of these adverse circumstances, I virtually lost several years of my life. "Now, you are differently situated. I woidd here say, it is a very great mistake to suppose, that in order to succeed a man must be surrounded with all these diffi- culties. It is not so. True, it is an e^ddence that a man possesses some of the elements of greatness to suc- ceed at all under such circmnstances; but, on the other hand, to be aljle to weigh, appreciate and utilize the advantages tbat education and proj^erty give, is also evidence of greatness. Tbere is one thing certain, no man, I care not what his native intellect is, can reach tlie very highest type of greatness without a thorough edu- cation. The true metal may be there, but it is the polish that glitters and charms the world. But there is one thing every young man should learn, namely, that it takes time to accomplish any great thing; therefore he shoidd be patient. It is better that he should grow 6 82 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. slowly; let him build a firai foundation, and as he rises he can feel and know that it is substantial. It were better if he could keep a little aliead of his reputation; then there is no danger of a fall. "You should start out detennined at any cost to un- derstand thoroughly everything you undertake, and never think of stopping short of the first ranks of your profession. You may expect to spend several years of hard labor, without much return. You will often be disheartened, I care not how great a philosopher you are; you can't help it. You vn.l\ think fees come in slowly, but you must remember that the closest observer cannot see the young tree grow, yet we know that in a few years it grows from a small bush to a large tree. So it is with the professional man. "1 would assure you of this, that there is not a lawyer in the State who has qualified himself properly, and ]jeen an honest, upright, sober, industnous man who has not, sooner or later, succeeded. Every man who deserves success, succeeds. It has always been so and always will be so. The great difficulty is in doing what one knows to be right; it requires more determination, I'rmness and courage than most men have. Yet, it is within the power of any young man, with strong, dis- criminating intellect and good education; fimi, resolute, unshaken morals and strict integrity; fair power of en- durance and a reasonable amount of patience; never flagging industry, and an exalted ambition, to reach any point of eminence open to the profession. And after all, it takes but little more labor than to plod along in the crowded middle or lower ranks. Besides, the pleas- ure is much greater. LETTER TO HIS SONS. 83 ''Xow, I know as well as I know anj'tliing that does not admit of mathematical demonstration^ that if yon and Willie shonld all keep j^onr health and follow strictly through life the advice I am going to give you, you can stand at the very head of the bar in the State. I do not pretend to give Retails. "1. Be Christian gentlemen. ''2. In everything you do in life, let the first inquiry be, is it right? "3. j\Iake as few promises as you well can, and keep strictly all you make. •'•A. Be prompt in all your undertakings. "5. Never go in debt. "6. Never go security. ''7. Be strictly temperate. ''8. Have a good librai-y. '•9. Have a good office and keep it neat and clean. "10. Give yoiu' whole time to your profession. '"11. Examine every lawsuit you have thoroughly, and make a hriei in every case. "12. Never speak on any subject you do not perfectly understand. "13. Be polite to everyone, good and bad, but associate with none but the very best society. "14. Dress well; be neat and clean. "15. Eead the newspapers; post yourselves on polite literature. "If you will begin at the start, there is no difficulty in observing all these rules, and that, Anth industry, is all that is required. There is one thing, however, that is ver}' important, and that is, to keep all of your accounts carefully, and never let them run too long. 84 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. Charge reasonable fees, neither too low nor too high, and when you can do so have them secured. I have written a longer letter than I expected. Write me. "Affectionately, "J. D. GOODPASTUEE." CHAPTER VII. As the years rolled by Judge Good- «°^^^..° pasture found himself in a very dif- Nashviile. -^ ferent situation than previously, in regard to the education of liis children. As appears from his letters to them from time to time, he always felt keenly his own lack of a thorough education, and one of his greatest ambitions was to see that they should escape the privations and hardships he had endured in consequence thereof. All of his children old enough to go to school up to this time, had been boys, and these he had sent away to preparatory schools, and then to college. But he was now in possession of a family of young girls as well as boys, with no good schools in reach of him, and it Avas thought unwise and imprudent to send them from home. He had, besides, reached a period of life, when the conflicts and the exacting duties of a very large practice were growing more and more irksome. The profession of the law had never been to his taste. When a young man, it was the only road to political preferment, and gave at once a respectability and standing to those engaged in it that was offered by no other calling or profession. He disliked the eternal contention and wrangle necessarily incident to it. Xone of the incent- ives that had led him to begin the profession would now apply for its continuance. A poor, struggling boy in the beginning, he had long since made a competence 86 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE- for himself and family. Without reputation, and nttei'ly unknown then, he had now gained all the standing- in the profession that he ever expected to acquire. Besides all this, he had long seen the advantages enjoyed by those who lived in better sections of the country, with railroad and other necessary adjuncts of modern life. Hence, he made up his mind to move. He first meditated moving to McMinnville, where he owned a veiw desirable little farm, and where there was a good female school, and then thought somewhat of go- ing to Gallatin. Both of these, however, were finally abandoned for Nashville, and so, on Tuesday, October 21, 1879, wo find him and the family, in the early emigrant stvle, moving in wagons through the country to that place. He had been there only a short while before and rented an excellent house on the fasliionable Spruce street. He and the family had quite a picnic of the trij). and when they reached Lebanon, the children went almost M'ild with delight. A circus had been there a few days before, and the gorgeous lithographic pictures of the wild beasts, excited their greatest admiration. Besides, they had never seen a town Ijefore, and were car- ried away by its gradeur. Those wlio have been raised in a city can hardly imagine the effect upon children or grown people either, for that matter, who see a town for the first time. Nothing they have heard or read seems to })repare them for it. Thev arrived at Nashville on Sun- Jas. W. McHenry. -, " , i i^i • day aiternoon. and their caravan attracted much attention. Luckilv. their next door BUILDS A HOME. 87 neighbor in the new home turned out to be ]\lrs. Mc- Henry, an old friend, who had been bom and reared in Overton County. She was the widow of James \Y. xMcHem-y, a relative of the well known Cullom family, and one of the best lawyers who ever lived and practiced in Overion County. After the war, he moved to Nashville to secure a wider field for his talents, and was rapidly entering upon a paying practice when he died. He was in the prime of life and would undoubtedly have taken the liighest position at the bar had he lived. He and Judge Goodpasture had been the best of friends, and when he moved to Nashville he insisted on the Judge going with him and forming a partnership for the practice of their profession. But the Judge's business at the time was thought to be too great to turn loose or abandon. Mrs. McHeni7 was very kind to them, and her offers of assistance were greatly appreciated. Judge Goodpasture had been in Builds a Nash vile but a few days until he had "°'"®* purchased a place on wliich to build a home. In the very beginning he displayed that ex- cellent judgment and foresight as regards the value and desirableness of city real estate that afterwards be- came so astonishing. He bought Just outside the cor- poration, on the corner of Broad and Stonewall streets, a fifty foot lot, on which was located a very good two story brick house of four rooms and two basement rooms. The price paid was $2,500.00. This was only $50.00 per foot, without taking the worth of the house into consideration. In less than ten years he saw the value of the ground alone rise to $150.00 per foot. 88 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. He at once began to figure on building, and in the spring of 1880, he began the erection of a splendid residence, utilizing the house already on the lot, but bmlding to it in such a way as to give it the appearance of a new house throughout. His addition, when com- pleted, gave him a residence of fourteen rooms. He was his own arcliiteet, and could plan a house with undoubted ability. The drawing was the one thing that seemed to overcome him. But he vrorked at it most assiduously. Whatever he undertook, he did with liis whole soul; and so in tliis case. If one drawing did not suit, he v.'ould make another. Finally his wife ran up on some of his remarkable plans and drawings, and incpiired if he was laymg out a new cemetery. That she should mistake his house for a cemetery lot and the windows for graves was too much for him, so he finally carried his plans to the carpenter firm of Wright & Co., and got Jacob 0. Wright to make the picture for him. Wright did it to his entire satisfaction, l)ut was in- dicted at the next term of the Criminal Court lor following the the calling of an architect without a license. The Judge also, a little later, pur- Other Building ^j^g^^g^-^ ^ j^^ ^^ ^^^^^ g^^g^^ ^^^ Operations. which to build a law office. At that time a large number of such offices were on Cedar street West of Cherry. The lot was just opposite the ])la.ce of sitting of the Federal Com't and was midway between the Supreme Court at the capitol, and the lower courts on the public square. How times change! In five years there was not a lawyer's office on Cedar street. Judge Goodpasture had a passion for liuilding. OTHER BUILDING OPERATIONS. 89 and all his plans were in the direction of utility and Ijracticality. He purchased not only the ground on which his oiSce was huilt, but the entire corner of (-'cdar and Suniiner streets. The office building was a combination office and dwelling, the office, however, having no connection with the other parts of the house. He was very much })lea&ed with it, and in one of his family letters says: "I will have my office done by the 10th of April; it will l)e the best office in Nashville.'" The plans of house and office were his own. He also planned and built on a part of the same ground a very large, double tenement building. These were very handsome, and were rented before completed at $50.00 per month each. The office building, ex- clusive of the office of two rooms, was rented at $35.00 })er month. At tliis time his business in the Mountain Circuit was in a very unfinished condition, and he was constantly forced to leave home to attend the courts in the different counties in which he had practiced, and especially im- portant to him vvere the coiu'ts of Clay, Overton and Fentress. These harassed him very much at times and almost, on a few occasions, destroyed the pleasure of even so agreeable a thing to him as building. Hence, we find him M-riting as follows on June 10, 1880: "I am inclined to think I made a mistake in building as much as I am doing; it gives me a great deal of trouble, besides, it is the most confining thing you ever saw. My dwelling is nearly done, and we are plastering the house adjoining my office." His great energy, enlivened by a naturally active mind and a thoronohlv confirmed habit of industrv, would go JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. permit of no idle hours, iiolwillititanding the change from the country to the city, so that witliin the year, before he had learned anything much of the place or its modes of bnsiness (and they differ widely from tlu^ country, and especially from the country from wluch he came) we find him purchasing the ground and build- ing a large dwelling for a home, a combination othce aaid dwelling and a large tenement building. And during that same year, he wa.s forced to attend all, or nearly all, the sittings of the courts in the various counties in which he had practiced. This had to be done in winter a.s well as in summer, and on horseback, the railroad at that time running no further than Lebanon, and sometimes the trips were made in dosjKr- ately bad weather. In December, 1879, he wrote one of his sons: * * * "I hope you will come up and spend the Christmas at home. I only regret that I cannot be there. 1 am trying to wind up my business as fast as possible. I will not attend the Jamestown court any more, neither will I attend the Circuit Court at Livings- ton, but will be compelled for sometime to attend the Chancery Courts in Overton and Clay." With what feelings he must have at- tended the Jamestown court for the last time! lie had been the first lawyer to appear in that ccnirt after the war; never missed a court tliere while he lived in the circuit, and was em])loyed in so many cases at one time that the Clerk and Master saitl it would not have been ])ossible to hold a court in his absence. When the writer was there in the summer of 1875. the Clerk and blaster informed him that of the eiofhtv new cases entered on his docket, be had l>ecn THE COURTS. 91 employed in fiftj^-five, and that these included all the caiTses of real importance. And it was this way from the beginning to the end — the confidence of the people of the county in his ability and integrity never wavered, and he had had control, practically, of one side or the other of every law suit of consequence in their court i> for a period of nearly twenty-live years. Could he leave such a county for the last time with other than the deepest emotions? The court he attended there the year he moved was the last time he was ever in Fentress County. He seems to have been mistaken in his statement in the letter above quoted, December, 18?9, that he would not attend the Circuit Courts at Livingston, but would the Chancery of Overton and Clay, for we find in one of his letters, under date of June 10, 1880, an account of a trip to the Circiut Courts of Overton and Clay; of the trial of a very important murder case, and of his gratifying success therein. In criminal cases ho [ire f erred to defend, his sympathies being with the un- fortunate. He liked the Chancery practice better, however, than either the law or criminal. These courts, and a multitude of other unsettled busi- ness, not only harassed him in his bmlding operations in Ids new home, but interfered with and prevented other tilings he had at heart as we may see from the following, quoted from same letter: "I would like ex- ceedingly well to pay you a visit, but it does me nearly as much good to get a long letter from you. Then 1 am compelled to be gone from home so much; next Monday two weeks is Chancer}^ Conrt at Celina, and first Monday in July at Livingston. I am compelled to 92 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. altencl both courts, so I can make you no promise as to the thne of my visit to Clarksville, much as I woukl Uke to do so." To the ordinar}' individual, it seems marvelous that a man of his age coukl or would ride on horseback, through a rough and mountainous circuit, to attend the various courts, look after closely and attentively in- numerable unsettled notes and accounts covering several counties, keep up the taxes and rents on real estate owned by him situated in all sorts of inaccessible })laces, and yet find time to plunge into large real estate deals in Xashville, and plan and erect a numljer of large Inuklings. It only shows the nervous energy and active mind that characterized him through life. How he avoided serious mistakes in his multitude of schemes, planned and carried through, is the remarkal)le feature of it all. "When his Cedar street building was Opens a eomi)leted, he fitted and opened up Law Office. • i^ ir t i a law ofhce m it. lie did uol care much i'or |)ractice, indeed, this was not the prinuu'y object in view. He desiired some place of business of his own and wished to get his son, W. H. Goodpasture, who was then a law student at the A'auderbilt Uni- versity, started off in the practice. This was character- istic of the man. AUhough still extremely active, and with many enterprises on hand, he had already begun to think much less of his own future than of those near and dear to him. Hence, the oft repeated ex- pression in bis letters of this time that ''my chief ambition now is to see my children succeed well iu life.'' HAS PNEUMONIA. 93 In the spiing of 1881, he made a Has trip to his old circuit to attend the Pneumonia. t i • conrts, and on his retnrn rode all day tlirongh a cold, early spring rain. He slept that night in a room without lire and with snch large cracks that a damp, chilling draft passed over him. This gave him a most teiTihle cold, which went into a severe case of pneumonia immediately after his arrival home. A powerful chest and lungs, aided by a naturally strong constitution, pulled him through after a long and hard fight for life, but at one time he grew so dan- gerously ill that the absent members of the family were summoned. He was attended during tliis sickness by Dr. T. A. Atchison, one of the ablest physicians who ever lived in Nashville, and a man who carried wit and good cheer wherever he went. The first call he made, he asked to see the patient's tongue. "Very foul, very foul; but Judge, you need not be at all frightened by this, as it is nothing imcommon for a lawyer to have a foiij tongue." I'inally the patient became convalescent, and so Di., Atchison said to him: ''Judge, I am going to com- mence feeding you, and to begin with, I am going to have you given something so good that it will make your mouth water to think about it. I am going to ask Mrs. Goodpa.sture to fix you a nice dish of spring lamb and green peas." Now, if there was a single tiling that could or could not be eaten, that he despised and aboiTiinated more than any and every other thing, it was sheep of any age or fixed in any way. He always maintained that no matter how well or hungiT he 94 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. might be, the veiy sight of mutton was enough to make him sick. The reader will, therefore, have to imagine his surprise and horror at the suggestion, and the doctor's at the effect it produced. How little can we see into the future! In this con- versation the doctor remarked that he would give fifty tliousand dollars to be as young a man as his patient. The doctor is still alive and active, while his patient, for whose promise of life he was willing to pay so much, ha.-? gone to his eternal rest. CHAPTER VIII. AVilh Judge Goodpasture's recovery Continues cauio. renewed activity, and we find Building. • hini putting up a very large and liandsome triple tenement on the corner of Summer and Cedar streets, himself planning the building and superintending its erection. These tenements he also rented at $50.00 per month each. He had a remarkable tact for getting acquainted with every one of evei-y station with whom he was tlu'own, and took great delight in making the humbler classes feel on good terms with themselves; was ever ready to praise their merits, sometimes extravagantly and not always with justice. But he did it through pure kind- ness of heart, and if gently accused of using a little '■])hirney," his reply woidd always be that it cost him notliing and made them feel good. J\y this time he knew all the carpenters, builders, contractoi's, ]>] umbers and everyone else engaged in the line of building. He would find out whence they originally came, who they knew and to whom they were of kin, and such information was never forgotten by liim, es}>ecially if they or their ancestry ran back to the old Mountain District. He had a genuine sympathy for the hand of toil, and this class seemed to recognize and appreciate it. As an illustration, he had employed in the building of one of his houses, a mechanic named Carter, who was ver}' poor. Some months aftenvards, 96 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. Carter was taken sick, aud sent word to Judge Good- pasture that he would like for him to come to see him. He obeyed the sunmions and called at the humble home, not once but several times. He found the family in need of the absolute necessaries of life and ministered to their wants. Carter died. The Judge's only acquaintance with this man was the 1)rief employment in the build- ing of a house. He had never seen him before that time and never afterwards until he called at the sick bedside. Why did poor Carter send for him in his ex- tremity instead of to those he knew better? We do not know how it is, but the most ignorant can recognize a sympathetic soul. Even brutes can do tliis. He was now living in his newly built home on Broad street, then the most popular and growing suburb of the city. The street cars at that time ran to his cor- ner, and another line ran from there, with a good deal of irregularity and at long inteiwals, to the Vanderbilt. It then cost ten cents to ride from the city to the Van- derbilt and fifteen cents from Edgefield, or what is now J^'ast Xashville, and the cars went no further than to that point. Tennessee was now greatly agitated State Debt ^^^^^, j_j^^ settlement of her 8t.ate debt. Problem. . . ,, , , No question since the war had more thoroughly aroused the people. It was the first time in the histoiy of the State, where all the great politicians and newspapers were to be found on one side of the question and the people on the other. Judge Good- pasture always manifested an interest in politics, and took sides on all public questions, not extreme as a rale nor strictly partisan, but firm in his connctions and STATE DEBT PROBLEM. 97 open in expressiug them. He was a strong ''State credit*'' man, and ardently for the 50-4 compromise sub- mitted to the vote of the people. One of the last poht^ ical speeches ever made by him \vas on this question, in Fentress County, while attending the court there, about the time of moving. There was a large crowd in town, and he pleaded earnestly and effectively with the people. After the election was over, it turned out that Fentress was one of the few middle Tennessee counties to vote in favor of the compromise. He was profoundly astonished at its defeat and greatly regretted it. He feared it meant repudiation of the entire debt. Never had there been more reason for astonishment. As said before, nearly every man of political prominence in the State, almost all the news- papers, and all the business, corporate and money powers in the large counties, towns and commercial centers favored it. Formerly, these elements had l)cen all- powerful. Hi this contest, no one seems to have hwn opposed to the compromise except the people, and they \oted it down overwhelmingly. Something in the same line, though not so successful, was seen applied to the nation, in the late liryan campaign. It seems certain, though he was never heard to say so in plain words, that he lived to see that, after all, the people in the main were right on this question and the politicians wrong. His oldest son, J. R. Goodpasture, a man very tenacious, and sometimes extreme in bis views, but always vigorous in maintaining them, had been elected soon after leaving college to the Legislature, as a strong State credit advocate. We know that he has come to recognize the wisdom of the people, as have 7 98 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. most of those who differed from them, and its compromise l)y the Legishvtiire at 50-3 ended it as a poHtical ques- tion. But it produced great acrimon}' and much ill- feehng while it histed. One of thic results v/as the shooting of Senator L. T. Smith, and at Senator Smith's request, an investigation of the charges averred against him was ordered before a committe of the Senate. Judge Goodpasture had al- ways been Senator Smith's warm personal friend. He had known him intimat-ely for many years, both in a business and social way. In the meantime, W. 11. Goodpasture had graduated in the lavv' school at the A'anderbilt, and the firm had become that of J. D. & V\\ 11. Goodpasture. They were employed by Senator Smith to represent him before the Senate committee. Charges against Senator BaiTett and Speaker j\Iorgan Avere at the same time investigated. A number of other attorneys vv'ere employed, both to prosecute and defend, among them Gen. Luke Wright, of Memphis. The in- vestigation dragged through many weary weeks, the whole being iiublished by order of the Legislature, mak- ing a book of seven hundred pages. Al)out this time the firm enjoyed a His Law peculiar run of practice. As said Practice. before, their oftice was located just opposite the Federal Court, v^■hich then sat in the Kirk- maji building, that is now occupied by the Conservatory of Music. Almost all the time of the court was taken up with small offences against the internal revenue laws. Xow, if the "moonsliiner" and "wildcatter" flourished at any one place beyond all others, it was in the Judge's old circuit. And he kncvr them all and by their given HIS LAW PRACTICE. 99 names, who their parents were, to whom they were re- lated and to whom married. His ability to gather and j'enieniber family history, seems to have been natiu'al and not acquired. 'JMiey all flocked to him as one man in their petty trovdjles. and made the office their general rendezvous. He enjoyed it immensely — heard with patience the story of their troubles, and used his best endeavor to get them ott' as lightly as possible. From those able to \m\, a small fee was collected, but none were refuseractice in the (Supreme Court. A Court of Referees had been established by the Legisla- ture for the relief of the overcrowded docket of the Supreme Court. Many of the lawyers from the Moun- tain Circuit could not attend tliis coiu't on account of conflicts with their own inferior courts, and of those who did, many could not be there to file exce})tions to the findings of said court so as to secure a hearing before the Supreme Court. For somewhat similar reasons, many could not attend the sittings of the Supreme (.*ourt. Indeed, some of the attorneys up there, on account of the great inconvenience, expense and time required, never followed their causes beyond the lower com-ts. Judge W. W. (Goodpasture, of Livingston, who enjoyed a large and lucrative practice, never, at any time, attended its sittings. Hence, the finn was em- ployed by attorneys all over the Mountain Circuit, who could not themselves be present, to look after their several cases. But the duties of the office were never able to divorce his mind from business. Fven at the time when en- lOO JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. joying the largest practice of any man in liis part of tiie State, he took time to give the maturest thought and most carefnl attention to mattei-s of husiness. Hence, lie watched the markets, attended the auction sah's of real estate, looked at advertised property in all jtarts of the city and seemed to grasp relative values l)y in- tuition. He hegan ahout this time the pnr- Real Estate ^.j^.^^^ ^^^ outlving vacant lots, and Purchases. ,> , • " i i most ol Ins early purchases were m the new suburh of West End. A remarkable thing is. that wliile he left in liis estate a large amount of unimproved I'eal estate, which after the depression conld not. ])erha])s, have heen sold at a profit, still, he never sold a piece of real estate at a loss in Nashville, and his dealings extended over many years. He was secl l>y thopo from the South. Only a few years after this, General Maxey died, and Judge Goodpasture wrote up for the local press the fol- lowing little sketch of him: "lion. Sam Bell ]\Iaxey, whose death is announced in the press, was well known to a section of Tennessee when a young man. The press dispatch states that he WRS horn in Todd County, Kentucky. I do not know how this is, hut liis youth and young manhood were spent at Albany, Ky., a small village and county seat, five miles across the Kentucky line from Overton C^ounty, Tennessee, novr Pickett County. His father, Kice Maxey, Avas clerk of some of the courts at Albany. At that time, in Kentucky, the same man was allowed to be clerk of more than one court. ''I was not acquainted with the subject of this sketch until after his graduation from AVest Point. On his return from the war with Mexico, Avhere he sened with credit, he was made a deputy under his father, and both practiced law at Li"sangston, Tenn., where I was t]ien living. His mother was a Bell, a well known and dis- tinguished family in that part of the State, a connection of which he was always proud, and a name which he always used. He was a dressy man, very much so for that day and section, and was looked upon by the people as something of an aristocrat. But he was always polite, affable, courtly and dignified, and among those \\-ith whom he was acquainted and with whom he associated, he was well liked and popular. His older brother, (there were only two of the boys) was also a graduate of West Point, and also went out at the first call of his 114 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. comitiy to seek glory on the Lloody fields of Mexico. But, like many others who went out from that section, he never returned. I am not certain whether he was killed or died from the exposures incident to army life. He was said to have been a man of great talent and most promising future. "■'I have most excellent reasons for remembering Gen- eral Maxey perfectly. As young men, we not only prac- ticed at the same bar, Ijut were livals for the hand of the same fair one, and finally when I won and went to get my license, he, as deputy clerk, issued it to me, and generously refused the fee which the law allowed him for the service. "Sam Bell's father, Hon. Eice J\Iaxey, was a pious and popular man— a Baptist — well educated, well to do, and a leading man in his section. He was very proud of his boys and his solicitude for their success was intense and continuous. The last time I saw General Maxey was in the winter of 1886. I happened to be in New York, and learned that he was stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. I had not seen liim since the war, but on my approach he instantly recognized me and put me fully at ease by calling me by my given name. Fully thirty years had elapsed since we had met, and he showed the politician's talent for recollecting fac-es. "General Maxey has numerous relatives in Tennessee. Yarney AndreA\s, a large farmer and prominent citizen of Clay Gounty, married a sister of Rice Maxey, the (ileneral's father. Mr. Andrews lived all his life in Clay and left a considerable family. A brother of Eice jMaxey lived just across the Clay County line in Ken- tucky, but his cliildren all moved into Tennessee and SAM BELL MAXEV. 1 15 raipod families, wlio slill live there. One of tiie ehildreii of this l)rotl!er was John ]^. ilaxey, who became a very ])ron\inent man, and was for a long time Chairman of the County Court of Clay County. He is still living. Another son lives in Celina, \\'liere he keeps the village hotel. There arc many others scattered about over that section of the State, and. so far as I know them, tliey are all good people. "General Maxey was married in Overton County, Ten- nessee, to a Miss Denton, a relative of the Hon. H. Den- ton, of Cookeville. Tcnn. There was no issue as a result of this union, and when 1 juet General Maxey in Xew York he was acconii)anied by a yonng man whom he had adopted and raised, and whom he had named after himself, Sam Bell Maxey. "Albany, the former home of the Maxeys, is a small village and county seat. But among the few young men practicing at her bar when Sam Bell was a young man. and who also practiced in all the courts of Over- ton County, a number afterwards became famous. As young men together, there was Sam Bell Maxey, afterwards United States Senator from Texas; Thomas Bramlett, afterwards Governor of Kentucky, and a distinguished lawyer of Louisville, where he settled after the expiration of his gubernatorial term. And there was Preston Leslie, who became a well known Circuit Judge, Governor of Kentucky, Territorial Gov- enioi- by a]ipointment of Cleveland, and who, I tliinlc, has la.tely settled in the West. He is the uncle of Hon. Benton MclMillin. Xot as a practicing lawyer, but as a young man with the others, was William Bramlett. He married in Overton Countv, a daughter of Rev. John Il6 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. L. IJillard, went to Texas, studied law. became dis- tinguished, and for a long time occupied a position on the bencli. He Avas a younger brother of the Governor, and was educated in Overton Count_y. A remarkable thing is, that all these men who l)ecame so distinguished, were members of the Baptist Church." CMAPJ'ER X. Tho i)art3' were greatly rejoiced one Leaves for nioming to see Jack make his appear- iverpoo . ^^^^^^^ jj^ j^^^ ^^ ^^^^ made up his iinnd to go, and had gotten to Xew York in plenty of time, thinking the steamer would sail a day earlier than it did. They went around and ]:)ought tickets for the Alaska, an ocean greyhound, and one of the fleetest steamers developed up to that time. For some years she held the record for quickest passage. Their money matters were arranged, the party were all in good health and fine spirits, and were at last ready to embark upon the boxmdless deep. It was to be the first trip of all the party except t\NO, and they had the liveliest anticipations of the voyage and the trip — what it would look like to get out of sight of land, who would he sea- sick ajid who would escape. All agreed that Jackson would be the iirst to succumb, as he had generally managed to be the nnluckiest in every party of whicli he liad been a member. The voyage to Liverpool was without any especial features. They embai'ked at 11 o'clock, a.m., December 2ii, 188.3, having sjient. altogether, eight days in New York City. The cuisine of the steamer wa.s first-class, and the attendance excellent. They enjoyed, for the first time, melons for breakfast in mid winter, and many other much appreciated delicacies. Sure enough Jack was Il8 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. sea-t«ick riglit away. CampljoU followed hard in his wako, as did Palmer also. .Iu(!l;o (iood)iasture did not exactly _H'et sea-sick. l)Ut the rollin<^- aiul [)itcl!iii>i- of the vessel. with the rattling of chains, the splash of the big waves. I'olling over the deck, and the constant cracking and so'ceching of timbers, produced the most fajicitiil and sometimes surprising dreams. They were, hesides, ([iiite as unpleasant as they wejv unreal. !li' had always been a great smoker, and had cari'ied with him his old hickoiT pipe with cane stem and his fa\(>rite braud. Knights of J^abor, snu>king tobacco. J)Ut smoke did nol taste right to him. While he did not get sea-sick, lie came closer to it than was really comfortahle. About the second night out. the weather became I'ather rough, and the big waves Ijegan to sweep the deck. The \\ater woidd strike the front part of the vessel and come rolling down the deck in a torrent, and with a good deal of noise. From the cabins, this noise of moving water was hard to locate. The Judge was awakened from a light slumber and heard it for the iirst time. He occupied a lower berth. Instantly, he was all attention. He first put his head out and lis- tened. Then he called to his companion in the u]j]jer berth and desired to know if he could hear that water. Of course he could. "Well." said the Judge, "T woiud give a good deal to know just exactly where that water is." The ])a.^sage, being iji midwinter, was rougli and windy throughout. A very fast vessel rocks and ])itehes much worse than a slow one, and does not change her course for any sort of weather. Those "who wish to gain two or tliree days in time of pa.ssage. j)ay very dearly FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS. IIQ for it, the slow boats being a great deal the more com- fortable. On this trip for some days in succeseion, pas- sensfers could only walk from their state rooms to tiie dining saloon by holding to a rope, stretched along the passage way for the purpose; could not go out on deck for a bit of fresh air, as the huge waves were continually sweeping it; and would often be thrown froju their seals to the floor in the smoking room. Many very comical and a few painful scenes of tliis sort were enacted. At the dining table, all of the dishes including one's own plate, had to be kept in bars, and liquids like soup, coffee, etc., had to be held in the hand, if not, it would soon be found in one's lap instead of on the table. The very greatest mistake made by travelers in general is to cross on a very fast ocean steamer. But, finally, there was sighted the Foreign much looked for land on the other side, and the boat was soon discharg- ing her mail at Queenstown. Some enterprising boys rowed over from the town with papers for sale. Every one of course was eager and hungry for the nev/s, and there was a great scramble to get them at double and even treble tlie ordinaiT price. The boys quickly sold out and as quickly left the boat. They sold the pas- sengers as well as the papers. Xot a paper was under a week old. It was really no great loss, however, as Irish and English papers have the least possil)le news in them, and generally nothing to interest an American. There are no real newspapers published outside of America. The make up of a London daily is one of the most amazing things to the American met with abroad. The great papers like the Times, Standard I20 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. and others, [iive full reports of the trials in the Bow street poHee eourts, including the age. residence and ()t(n])alion of the accnsed, the name of ofiticer making the arrest, and where and under what circumstances made, all of the riiaterial evidence in the case, the remarks of tlie magistrate and of the attorneys as well. Then there is the big editorial page, with articles on the driest of dry stibjects, and Y\'ritten in the ponderotis Johnsonian st}le. Then a contributor's ]>age, filled with articles by our old friends, "constant reader" and "vox populi." Til en a page of what pa.'ises for news — a few cables from Rentgers on the continent, all short and unsatis- factory, a few more from the English colonies, maybe something from South America, and an occasional line fj-om the United States. Of course any news of the Khglish Court is recorded. Then the balance is ad- vertisements. Xo Sunday papers, no illustrations, no tiig issues, no enterprise, no interest. An ordinary American paper has more news in one issue, than any ]>aper in Europe has in a week, and a New York daily will have more telegraphic matter in a single numher tlian a big London paper will contain in a month. As the party steamed up the smooth and placid waters of the ZvEercy toward Liverpool, sea-sickness having taken wings, they all busied themselves writing home to friends, so that they might devote their entire time to sigiit seeing, oil landing. All were in fine fettle except Jack. He had one day felt so sea-sick that he thought himself obliged to have fresh air. So he ventitred oat on deck. The waves had been rolling over it, and it was conscfiuently wet and slippery. Jack was standing near an overluuiii'ina" life-boat. He is (luite a tall. THE STOP IN LIVERPOOL. 121 slender man with very elongated linihs. Suddenly, tlie ship gave a big roll. Jack's head went down and his feet and legs went up, and went sufficiently high to strike the bottom of the life-boat with a good deal of force. This greatly impeded his locomotion, intensified by the fact that he had left home with a pair of new shoes. ])nt they were soon at the docks of ^ °^ T.iverpool, and were taken in charge in LiverpooL . by the custom ofhcers, who exannned their baggage, (luggage is the word used over there) for tire-arms and spirits. They went direct to the Xoi'tb- western Hotel, a most excellent hostelry, made so, largely, by its enormous American custom. Campbell registered them, and put John down as Hon. John Terry, the result of which was, that he got altogether the best room of any man in the party. There are very few elevators in Europe, but the American travel through Liverpool is so great that this hotel has been forced to build one. In l]ngland, they are called lifts. When the party had gone np to their jiroper floor, and were passing through the long hall- ways, they saw on every corner "To the Lift." "By the way, gentlemen," said the Judge, "had you discovered in what a peculiar way these people over here spell left?"' And when told of his error, he said it sounded more like left than it did like elevator anyway. John got into some tronble here. That afternoon, when he had been gone for a short time to get his supper at a restanrant, he returned to the hotel m a good deal of excitement, saying that so many people crowded around him, he was afraid to proceed. So one of the crowd had to go with him for the first meal or two. He 122 JEFFKRSON DILLAKD GOODPASTURE. was a raliier iviiiarkal)le looking negvo, six feel one inch, well dressed, with a i)rna(l liriin]ne(l soft hat, (a kind unknown in ]''ngland) ereet in his wa.lk. a splendid ]ih3-si([ne, intensely ^■ain in liis way, but polite and obedient at all times to his employer, lie v,as ex- tremely su])ei'slitious and believed strongly in dreams-. These jendei'ed iiini \ery unha])py \vhene\('r he ehaiieed to eat too niueli su[i[ier. lie had erossed on the steer- age of the boat, and the vessel had p)rodueed the same disturbing sort of dreams that they had with Judge Ciood])a.sture. One of these was so vi\id that, early one moniing, he sent for the Judge and son, and begged them, if the boat should go down, to send for him, so liiat they might all go down together. And they pu'omised him faithfidly tliat tliey would do so. Hut Johri sorui got used to the attention he altraelcd. Jn faet, he grew to like it. Judge Goodpasture suc- ceeded in eonvineing him that it was all on account of his good looks and splendid appearanee. This was easily done after he had occupied his gorgeous room at the (Jreat Xoi'th western, and because, later, in Paris, where the ])arty had registered at Gallignanni"s, antl where Campttell had again put it Hon. John Terry, his was the only name that appeared in the list of recent ])rominent American arriv;ds. So that, what had, at the beginning, been a cause of fear, became a source of great pleasure and gratification. They visited a good nu^ny places in Tiverpool that inten'sted them, but while it is a large city of more than a half million of people, it is still purely com- mercial, and has not much to interest or detain the trav- eler. Xotliing there or elsewhere, though, so much THE STOl'I^IxV LIVERPOOL. 123 iiiterestt'd .hid^uc (ioddpasliire, as tlieir ordinaiy dray horse. TJK'v iwo (■noniioiis in size. The North and West liave an ide;! of it, beeaiise of the very large im- portations of tlu' h'recd hroii^-lit to those seetions, l)ut the ordinary Southci'iici' ean Ijave no a])])reeiation of tlu'ir huge apjiearanec witliout seeing tlieni. Tlie Judge stopped one man and asked him tlie weiglit of ids horse. "Oil, something over a ton." said he. A jiair at these great horses were seen ]»ulling an extraordinary load along the (|uay. and soiuu (me askee]-iodical literature. Harper's Weekly having given an especially good representation of it. They wanted to LONDON. 127 see the '"Dream of Fair Women,'' and tlie historic rep- resentation of Nell Gwynn, w^ho had ])layed in this theater over two hundred years before. All the reserved seats and boxes had been sold for weeks beforehand. But the first floor or pit (with our theatei-s in Nashville it is the highest priced part of the house) is never re- served, but is open to a scramble for all those who have been unable to get reserved seats. Only ordinary benches, however, are pro\dded for occu}>ants of this part of the house. They went early — at least an hour before the opening, and took their stand with a crowd who had gathered directly in front of the ticket office. The price of seats Avas only two shillings (about fifty cents). The crowd increased rapidly and continuou.sly, and before long they were jammed in together as closely as sardines in a box. The entrance door and ticket office Avere opened simultaneously, and there was an awful rush and scramble that batfles all description. There did not appear to be any women in the crowd, and if any, they were very few, and must have been of the most daring. In the push and rush and scramble, men were car- ried clear off their feet and onto the backs of the surging crowd. Judge Goodpasture had all the buttons torn off his overcoat. Some big burly fellow, in trying to get over the crowd, got his foot in Jackson's overcoat pocket, and tore it down to the hem. Jack would have been mad had he not been so rejoiced at getting through with whole bones. The party were carried on through the door by the surging crowd, but once inside, relief was instant, and they secured good seats. All were in a crushed and perspiiing condition. 128 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. The tlieatiT and pit are enoi'moiis in size, and iho latter was filled to the last seat in an incredibly short time. Those occupying boxes and scats in the dress circle came in leisurely, and much later, in full dress, lookin<^ superbly handsome and very <;ay and happ\ ; and the Judjj^e's party thought it not strange tliat tlicre shoidd be envy and discontent at classes, there seemed such a distance from their place to those above them. And then they looked so entirely satisfied and comfort- able, with an abundance of room, elegantly upholstered, cushioned seats, a maid to take charge of their cloaks and wraps, separated from the crowd in railed off boxes, in which they received short calls, and chatted gaily with the young society men of the town. The Judge's party sat below on common, hard, old field school benches, crowded and nudged by those sitting next them, mixed up with the mob, and only thankful that they were allowed to live and look up with envy at their bet- ters. Oh well, they could stand it, for they would soon be back at i^Iashvillc, where they could strut the streets ''as big a man as old Grant." A pretty tough experience, but they all felt fully re- paid (unless it was Jack), after seeing the performance. It surpassed their wildest dreams of spectacular display. AVhile in the city, they called and presented their let- ters to ex-Governor Waller, wlio was then the Consid- General to London. He was an intellectual, short, stout looking man, and treated them very kindly. He after- wards made a telling speech in the national Democratic Convention at Chicago, in ISDO, which some of them heard. CHAPTER XI. Thev left grim old London town for Leave for Paris, -r, ^ -, j. t>, j n i • raris by way ot JJover and Calais. The boat in wliicli they crossed the English Channel was quite a small one, and soon began to bob up and down to the great discomfort of the passengers. It was after midnight, and as the sail is a short one, no private rooms were provided, Init all the men had to pile up on cots in one large saloon. A double row of cots, upper and lower, as in a sleeping car, extended entirely around the saloon. These cots were provided with ominous looking tin vessels, foT it seems that people mil get sea- sick crossing the Channel who can defy the ocean. John got pretty sick crossing the Atlantic but would never acknowledge it, seeming to feel that it would, in some way, be to his discredit. As he had been in a dif- ferent part of the vessel from the others in coming over, he could conceal it from them to a great extent. But not so in this little boat. xVli lay down. Jack was soon heaving, and in a little while so were the other boys, and so were numerous other passengers on all sides. The boys looked around to see how John was resting. He had run his curtain around so as to conceal liimself as much as possible, and was very sljdy drinking out of a dark colored bottle, in appearance very suggestive of whiskey. He afterwards acknowledged that there was so much sickness around him that he was "bleeged to take something to settle his stomach." 9 130 JEFFBRSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. When they landed at Calais, and had their baggage examined by the custom officers, they took a light break- fast at a very good restaurant (that is kept open all night for the benefit of travelers) although it was not yet light. Here they boarded a train for Paris. It was the first time in life that Judge Goodpasture had been in any place where English v/as not the current language, and it seemed to come on him all of a sudden that here was, indeed, a people who did not comprehend a word that he said. About eight o'clock that morning, when they had stopped at a station for a moment, a very polite, farmer looking old gentleman, took the train and came into their coach. The Judge turned on him saying: "You low dov/n, dirty villian, get out of here at once or I will kick you out." "Oui, oui, monsieur," said the old Frenchman, bowing and smiling as he took his seat. The boys roared with laughter. They afterwai-ds found this to be a dangerous sort of pastime. They were now passing through the province of Nor- mandy, and as the train sped along, they looked out on the most beautiful agricultural country in all the world. Normandy may not be its prettiest province, but sunny France, as a whole, stands unrivalled in beauty and fertility. When they ai-rived in Paris, theii* baggage was again examined, as the city has a municipal custom duty, and on a multi- tude of articles not taxed by the State. Among these are food products of all kinds. They arrived about 11 o'clock a.m., and after depositing their baggage at the hotel (they stopped at the Grand Hotel de Suez, across the Seine and near the Latin Quarter), went out in PARIS. 131 town. As all of them were himgry, they stopped m at a restaurant to get breakfast. People on the con- tinent breakfast at 11 or 12 and dine at 6 or 7 o'clock. They were handed a bill of fare, and the only thing any of them could make out was beefsteak. Therefore, each ordered beefsteak. As they were very hungT}-, all agreed that they ought to have a little more variety, so one of the boys picked out something on the bill of fai'e, after examining it ^nth great care, and pointed it out to the waiter. His order was understood. Then each of them in turn took it and very solemidy pointed out to the astonished waiter the same thing. They speculated a good deal while it was being prepared, as to what it would turn out to be. Some thought it might be horse meat, as the I'arisians are said to greatly enjoy that delicacy. Judge Goodpasture said it made no sort of difference to him what it was, just so it was not sheep. They were already devouring their steak, and about the time they had finished it, in came the waiter with six several orders of green string beans, cooked without bacon or grease. The Judge declared he always did like beans, and that these gave him a splendid opporiunit}' to finish off a good meal. He asked for vinegar. Jolm had never seen any olive oil before, and as it was in a \inegar bottle, and very much the same in appearance, he very naturally mistook it for vinegar, and passed it over. The Judge poured it bountifully over liis beans without discovering Ms mistake. The first bite was of so unexpected, nasty, slimy taste, that he came as nearly as possible having a case of sea-sickness on shore. Of course they went to see the gTeat art galleiy at the 132 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. Louvre, the tomb of Napoleon at the Hotel Des In- valides, House of Deputies, rode through the Champs Elysee, saw the Arehe de Triomph, the Column Yen- dorne, the Grand Opera (the most expensive amusement building in the world), and watched the ever changing kaleidoscope of the gay boulevards. In the evening, they generally found something to entertain them. A pai-t of the crowd M'ent to see the divine Sarah (Bern- hardt) at the Theatre Francais, while others enjoyed the music at the Eden Theater. If amusement is the ^hing sought, every taste can be satisfied in Paris. Still, jhere are things that cannot be found even there. Jack's foot was still troubling him gTeatly, the effect of having tried to kick the bottom out of a life-boat on the steamer, coming over, and he went to all the drug stores lie could find in the city for a certain kind of liniment, without success, having finally, much against his mil, to tixke a French article, the efficacy of which he was in great doubt. They were to take an early train for Madrid via Bordeaux, and the hotel gave them an early breakfast. They were asked what they would have to drink. iVll said coffee except Jolm, who said he would take brandy; and he gave a pretty lucid explanation of it — that he could get plenty of coffee at home but "sich drinks as this here French brandy was a scace article to meet up ^-ith." They had a very pleasant time for a part of the way, going to Madrid. They passed through Bordeaux dur- ing the night, and next day found themselves speeding along the beautiful fields of Southern Fnince. Every- Leave for Madrid. MADRID. 133 thing was gi'eeii, and the air was bahuy and delightful. They crossed the Spanish frontier early in the afternoon of the second day, and reached the foot of the PjTenees l>efore night. Here wild strawberries and roses were in hlooni, though it was in the month of January. They had not gone more than half way up the mountain he- fore a very heavy snow began falling, and it was growing steadily colder. There was no way of heafing the car excejjt by the introduction of a long hollow iron, filled with hot A\'ater. Tliis was only good for the fe«t and seemed to have no eif ect on the car. It became most dis- agreeably cold. To make matters worse, a piece had been broken out of one of the windo'ws of their compartment, through which the cold wind came whistling. They had started from Paris Avith a good lunch, and got along well for the first day, but on tliis day, they had had little, if cinyijiing to eat, the mountain stations being illy pro- \ided. They finally secured three sandwiches and a piclsJed bird. The snow continued to pour down, and it was greatly feared that they would become snow bound in this cold mountainous country, and they shuddered at the thought of it. Tliey did not sleep any that night, and arrived early the next morning at j\Iadrid, stopping at the Hotel de Ijondres, in the center of the town. I'hey found themselves in the midst of the most distinctive people in appearance they had yet seen, 'i'be male portion of the inhabitants were walking leis- urely al)out, with long Spanish blankets wrapped around their bodies, moA-ing with all the dignity of old Roman Senators, and \A-eariny: Ijroad brimmed sombrero hats. 134 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. Beggars were going up and down the streets playing ^\•retched tunes on still more wretched guitars. Here the}- saw for the first time, thongh the sight became very familiar later, in other cities of Spain, female asses being driven about for the sale of their milk. AVlien u purchase is made, the herd is stopped, one is milked and the amount ordered is turned over to the purchaser absolutely fresh and warm. It is greatly esteemed over there by invalids. At the hotel, they tasted for the first time goat butter. It is mean, sticky and very inferior. Spain has no dairy breed of cattle, and uses the least possible amount of milk, none to drink and only a small quantity for coffee, as most peo- ple drink it with only sugar and brandy. They Avere not a little astonished at some tilings noticed at dinner. People in European hotels dine at w hat is known as table d' bote — that is, all sit down at one long table, and the meal is served in regular courses. There is no ordering from a bill of fare as in America. If one should not like what is brought in a course, he must wait until that is over before he can. get the one to follow. In Spain, there are usually eight or nine courses, and the hotel fares are better than in other countries of the continent. It talvcs an hom* and often more, to dine. In the center of the table were placed cigarettes, in jjackagcs of five hundred. Wine and brandy being free, some of the party supposed cigarettes were also, and helped themselves. After the meal, the Mhole package was sent to John's room. John thought that perhaps his good looks had once more gained him special favors, but upon inquiry it was found that they had been charged about four dollars for them. Ther MEET THE AMERICAN MINISTER. 135 compromised by paying tliirty cents for what they had taken, and returned the package. At the table, the party were divided, and on opposite sides. Campbell remarked: "I say, Good, this fellow sitting beside me is looking at yon mighty hard." "Yes," replied the party addressed, "and he looks like a pirate." Campbell agi-eed at once that he was a villain, when suddenly the man turned and said in good English, "Where are you from?" They called on the American niin- ^■^^^ MinfTr" ^^^■®^'' ^^''- ^'^"■^'' ^^ ^'^^"® treated with great cordiality and kindness. Americans do not get to Madrid verv^ often, and he seemed really rejoiced to meet some genuine Americans and Southerners. At his m-gent solicitation, they called several times before IccXving the city. On one occasion, he had just dressed to go to a diplomatic meet- ing, wearing the conventional dress suit — a dress tliat is prescribed by Congress, at least the law prescril>es that all American representatives abroad shall dress in the garb of American citizens, except those who have held commissions in the United States army, and these are entitled to wear the uniform of their ra.nk. Mr. Curry's militaiy services had been on the other side, and so he could only dress as a civilian. Tliis, he said, often proved embarrassing. All the other diplomatic representatives dressed in the full uniform of a ranking officer, with sword and other trappings. Under these cir- cumstances, when he woidd meet with the representa- tives from other countries, he was in danger of being taken for an interpreter or a servant. The waiters at all the leading hotels and cafes in Europe wear full 136 JEFFERSON DII^LARD GOODPASTURE. dress suits. The Charge d' Affaires was Mr. Stroble, a native of one of the Carolinas, a graduate of Yale and an exceedingly nice gentleman, whose endeavors to make their stay i)leasant were greatly appreciated. He spent several evenings with them and carried a part of the crowd to Toledo to see the town and the Esciirial Palace. Among others to whom he introduced them was a young American dentist, who Avas getting into a fine practice. Americans are the best dentists in the world, and ai'e scattered about all over the continent. They are better paid than are the natives, and receive a more desirable class of patrons. No science has made such rapid advancements in theoiy, practice and in- struments, and most of it has been done in Amei'ica, Few of these late discoveries have yet reached the native European practitioner. They were very much gratified, afterwards, when Mr. Cleveland, in his second term, made Mr. Stroble minister to one of the South iVmerican countries. We cannot leave Madrid without a wurd or two on the National Art Gal- lery, though to describe such places is generally tire- some. This collection was made by Philip, when the best specimens of the old mastere were very cheap, and an apju'eciation of high art at its lowest ebb, and his purchases have been held, until now they ai'e priceless. It i? not a large galleiy but there is scarcely a painting in the collection that is not the genuine work of a famous name. It is by far the completest collection in the world of the works of the famous Spanish artists, Ribiera and Muviilo, and the largest collection known to the writer ART GALLERY. 137 of the Flemish painter, Reubens, besides containing ex- cellent canvases, too numerous to mention, by Rem- brandt, Raphael, De Yinci, Paul Veronese, Tintoretto and others. It is by no means the largest gallery in Europe, but it is without doubt one of the most valuable and select. Tliis was a gTeat surprise. Judge Goodpasture thought Madrid the handsomest city he had ever seen, and his stay there was enjoyed more than in any other. The Judge and some of the others ^vent out one evening with their interpreter about two hours by sun to buy a pipe, but all the shops were closed for the day — not because of some celebration but by custom. They ^^•aited until next day and liad to search two hours before they could find one. The Spanish do not smoke pipes, but a great many use cigar- ettes and a few, very bad cigars. Neither do they chew. Che\Adng tobacco cannot ordinarily be bonght in the country. Madrid has the finest drive of any city in Eiu'ope, a b.ill with winding roads, from the top of which an un- surpassed view is had of the entire countiy as far as the eye can reach. All fashionable hfe drives up there of an afternoon, and as many as two thousand carriages can be seen in Hne of a pleasant day. Their horses are p] ettier and more stylish than in any other of the great cities of Europe or America. Nearly all of them are Arabian barbs, and are usually stallions. They are bought in Andalusia, and are smaller tlian the light horses of France and England. So much importance, in a social way, is attached to the possession of a pair of horses and carriage, by the people of the capital, that it is said, thov will live in a garret and subsist 138 JEFFERSON DII^LARD GOODPASTURE. Oil beans and bread alone^ in order to drive in the afternoon. Everyone with whom the Judge considted here ad- \isod him to go to Andalusia for the best Jacks. Ao- eordingly, h.o and his son and John, parted from the l)oys, who were going from Madrid to Toledo, and took the trciin for the ancient city of Cordova. A good part of the way lay through the most sterile, driest and ch'eariest country to be foimd anywhere. Mile after mile was passed over without seeing a shrub or living thing, here and there seeing large towns without a single in- habitant, a mouraful suggestion of Spain's former great- ness. She once supported a population of more than sixty millions of people; now she has less than seventeen millions. All this arid desert through which they passed once bloomed like the rose, and supported a large and prosperous population. But it has ceased to rain in tho.se parts, and there is no water for irrigation. On arri\ing at Cordova they stopped at the Hotel Orientale, recom- Cordova. mended by Baedeker, and a most ex- cellent place- They secured an interpreter early the next morning, one Baccariza by name, who had Kttle information and less sense, was vain and sensitive to a degree, but wliithal, a kind-hearted and good man. He had some experience, too, that was thought would make him valuable. He had been the intei'preter and guide to General Grant and party wlien in this part of Spain, and had assisted Leonard Brothers, of Missouri, in pur- chases when they made an importation of Jacks a few years before. Baccariza said that he knew notliing about how or where to find the stock, but that he could GO TO CORDOVA. 1 39 talk, and that he knew a gypsy who was a stock com- missioner and the best about the town. We never got to know the name of tliis commissioner further than Louie. Gypsies are tliick in Spain, and instead of be- iuo- alt-ogether nomadic as with us, a large number of Ihoiii live in towns, and are well to do citizens. CHAPTER XII. Judge Goodpasture engaged Louie, *^''*^ and began to scour the countiy for jacks. They found nothing, prac- tically, except gray ones, some of these, however, were excellent animals. Even with their limited experience, tliey knew that the black were the ones for their market. They could hear vague rumors of black jacks in Cata- lonia in the Xorth, and on the island of Majorca, but it seemed almost impo^ssible to get information on v\']ijc]i to rely in Spain, and especially through a fool inter- |)reter. r)Ut after they found that only gray ones could be had around Cordova, ^Y. H. Goodpasture took the train for Valencia, a city on the Mediterrauean almost opposite ]\Iajorca, about half way to Barcelona. AVhen he went to the station, he was greatly surprised to find Palmer, Jackson and Campbell on the train. They had been to Seville and the Alhambra, and were now on their way to Paris by way of Valencia. Tliey sto])i>ed off for a day at the latter place. The trip was destined to be a fruitless one. The American consul could not s]>eak English, and Mr. Good- ])asture had no interpreter and was unable to secure one in the town. He had recourse to the English consulate where he was well treated, but none in the office knew anytliing of jacks. He heard it said that the biggest and Ijcst mules came from Majorca, but even here, the SEARCH FOR JACKS. I4I preponderance of opinion was, that Andalusia, and especially Cordova, was the best place to buy good ja^iksA. So he returned to Cordova, and bnying was at once begun. Traveling to see jacks in the country was done largely by rail, but sometimes it was necessary to take carriages to points remote from the railroad. Jack buying and mixing with the peasants is a very pleasajit occupation, and woidd have been especially so if they had been able to find what was wanted. One day they drove so far out into the counti7 that they had to spend the night in a small \allage. There was no hotel there, and they stopped at what is known as a posada, that is, a place where teams are accom- modated. The woman who ran the place agreed to fur- nish them sleeping apartments, but could not feed them. She consented though, to cook their food if they would buy it. This was entirely agreeable, and they had the good ^v'oman to make the purchases for them, giving her carte blanche as to what and how much she should buy. The residt was everything desired, and they had a good dinner — soup, omelette (for which Spain is famous), cooked with young, tender asparagus tips, chicken cooked on a spit w^hich revolved in front of the fire, the woman from time to time pouring basting over it: sausage, fruits, cheese and black coffee. The bread was, of com-se, cold, and was placed on the table in spikes about three feet long and three or four inches in diame- ter. Judge Goodpasture sat in the corner of the fireplace and smoked, while tiie cooking was in progress. These fireplaces are very deep and eight or ten feet wide, the 142 JEFFERSON mi,I,AKD GOODPASTURE. fire occupying a small place in the center. No large wood is t-o be had, either here or in France, but their fires are altogether of brush, obtained from trimming the hedges and trees. The Judge was very anxious to talk to the busy females, but nothing is more unsatis- factoiy than a social conversation through an interpreter. He did find out, however, from the servant girl, whom he pronounced the best looking woman he had seen in Spain, the amoimt she received per month for her ser- Aices. He also foimd out that she had no sort of desire to go to America. They ate dinner with their fingers and pocket knives. After their return to Cordova, W.H. Goodpasture took the train to Jativa, in the province of Jaen, near tlie Al- hambra, to see what was to be had there, but not enough could be found to justify shipping the distance. On liis return, he went to Malaga, where he investigated the question with the aid of an interpreter named Lobo. Lobo was said to be flighty and of weak mind, and had taken up the calKng of guide, courier and interpreter, not having sense enough for anything else. While there were innumerable small pack jacks found in the Malaga district, there were none large enough to import. All, there, at Valencia and Jativa were gray. These various tri2>s are mentioned to show how they were ignorantjy groping about and striving to find something they knew to exist but were utterly without information as to where it existed. Six or seven hours ride from Valencia by boat, less than a single night, would have carried them into the home of the biggest black jacks in Europe. It seems strange that specific information could not be ob- tained about them, but the Judge and son were imable to judge's friend. 143 talk the language, did not know of whom to inquire, their interpreter had no sense, and their commissioner v.'as interested in selling in his own section, his employ- ment depending upon it. They completed their purchases in Cordova and the country surrounding it, getting two black jacks and a black jennet out of an importation of twenty-two head. They paid considerably more than the regular price there, the gypsy commissioner doubtless getting a good share of the excess. But if there is any way to help this, they never discovered it, even with the added ex- perience of later importations — in fact, they were worse robbed on the second importation than in the first, or, possibly, in any succeeding ones. An old fellow sold them a rather Judge's common jack at an uncommonly high price, considering quality. They goon discovered that they had paid too much, but said nothing. It put the old Spaniard in great good humor with the world in general, and when they had paid him, he had more money in his pocket than he had ever had before in Ms life. He took a great fancy to Judge Good- pasture, although neither could say a word to the other, and would follow him around wherever he went. If they went out to the suburbs to see sometliing, a distance too short to take a carriage, he would get his old gray horse for the Judge to ride, while he himself and the rest would walk. If they took the train to some far oif village, he would go too, pa.ying his own railroad fare, and carrying his food with liim for the trip. The Judge was partly responsible for this. He would pat the old fellow on the back, and have the interpreter tell him he 144 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. was the greatest and one of the very cleverest men he had ever had the pleasure of meeting in Europe. After these speeches, he would invariably offer the Judge a cigar. This grew to be quite comical, for the same thing, with variations, was gone over day after day, whenever the Judge wanted to see a little fan, or smoke a bad cigar. After completing their purchases, the jacks were collected in a stable at Cordova and put in charge of John. They had ax- ranged to ship from Malaga to London, and thence to Xew York. The boat was not to leave for some time, and they preferred to keep the stock in Cordova until the time of sailing. One day, when they had been to the stable looking at the stock, and were returning to the hotel, they saw coming, what looked like one of the most enormous men ever seen, walking leisurely in their direction. The Spanish are quite a small people and do not wear overcoats. But they were surprised to see that this man wore a great heavy one that came to his heels. This greatly increased their interest and aston- ishment. Upon getting a little closer, the Judge turned, the very picture of amazement, and said, "Upon my word, I do believe it is Plumlee." And so it tiu'ned out to be, Dr. B. S. Plumlee, an old friend from the good county of Clay, who had taken the fever and had him- self come for jacks. Now, Plumlee is a thoroughly good fellow, uncommonly handsome and smart, and an interesting talker as well. A splendid suit of new Paris clothes added to the importance of his appeai-anee. The Judge ceased to be a great maai after liis advent, except in the eyes of his Fidus Achilles, and everj-thing was "Senor Doctoree.^^ DESCRIPTION OF CORDOVA. I45 Xotliing would do Plunilee but that they should go back and show him their stock. He looked through the lot with great care, one at a time. As intimated, the Doctor is a rarely shrewd man. So he praised them all to the extent the occasion seemed to require, but appar- ently was not talvcn vrith any in particular. Finally, he suggested to the Judge that as he Avanted to go to Poitou, France, and purchase, he would not buy m Spain, but still, if the Judge would sell liim two or tlixee of his at a fair profit, which he said he was willing to pay, he thought he might trade with him. The Judge told him he did not desire to make any money off of Mm, as he was on the ground; but Plumlee said that would be all right, and the Judge agreed to price the stock to liim. At his request, the Judge priced each of the Jacks and a part of the jennets. Plumlee walked down the line and said: "I will take tliis one." All right said the Judge. "And this one," said Plumlee. "Plumlee, you have got to stop right there," said the Judge, vnih emphasis. He had picked out the best two year ©Id jack in the lot and his only black jennet, and she in foal. "You may have the two selected, but I would not go home," declared the Judge, "with all the best jacks yours for a thousand dollars. You -ttill have to buy the balance like we did, here in the country." Judge Goodpasture, on leaAdng Cordova, thus writes a friend, describing it: "Cordova, as Campbell would say, is Description ^ ^^^^^^ ^-^^ j^ j^^g ^^^^^ g-^ty thousand inhabitants, and is about three thousand years old. With the exception of a few modem ones, there is not a street in the city that is 10 146 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. straight for one hundred yards, and are from eight to fifteen feet wide, all paved with rock. There are many places of great int-erest. The bridge across the Guadal- quivir is a stone structure in first rate repair, and Avas built by the Romans more than two thonsand years ago. There stand in the river tln-ee stone vrater mills, each puite as old as the bridge. "The Mosque at this place is the gi'catest v.onder of them all. It is one of the largest churches in the world, being about 600 feet by 450, and is supported inside by 1050 large columns, made of marble, porphyiy and all the finest stones of the East. ]\Iany of these were brought from the ancient city of Jerusalem. It was built in 712. The main chapel has tAvo organs, each 75 feet high, and are of comparatively recent date, beiug placed there 150 years ago. '"'The country around Cordova is the richest I have ever seen. It will bring from fifty to seventy-five bushels of com to the acre, and everything else in pro- portion. I was out on a large farm near the city yester- day. We were in a pasture field of a thousand acres. Upon it Avere gi-azing some goats ,some donkeys, and about five hundred head of cattle. These cattle were all of solid colors, either jet black or dark red, the most of them vei*y large, with enormous horns, manv of theui five feet from tip to tip. In the herd Avas a big 1)1 ac^ bull that Avould Aveigh about 2,500 pounds, Avith liurn,-, more than two feet long. He started toAvard us, and Avas folloAved by probably a dozen others. Our inteiiireter and ourselves made for some small trees on the bank of the river. In our flight Ave came upon the lierdsman, Avho assm-ed us that there was no danger unless the DESCRIPTION OF CORDOVA. 147 whole herd shoukl eoiiu". We did not disturb the cattle any more. '"The ^^oals were of a dark I'ed color, and very large, with two wattles under the neck about four inches Ion':, and udders almost as large as those of cows. The}- drive herds of these into the city and sell their niilk. Many are slaughtered as kids. They raise every kind of stock here that is to he found in Tennessee. ''The peasants live hard; they eat little meat, but sub- sist on cheap bread, wine and frtiits, with more or less beans. One can see a man that has lived in a hovel, on cheap bread and beans come out and strut the streets in a flashy cloak ^\-ith red velvet lining and a fancy tur- ban on his head. A stranger would tliink he was one of the nobility. I suppose no people in the world are fonder of dress than the Spaniards, or dress better. They are a very handsome people, both men and women, and polite to excess. If one meets an acquaintance a dozen time a day, he always shakes hands. "In Cordova, the ladies, except the poorer classes, sel- dom walk out on the streets. They can be seen, how- ever, through the windows in pa.ssing. The young folks, 1 am told, make love at the windovrs. One frequently sees a nicely dressed young fellow, standing otitside at the window, talking to some beautiful young woman in- side. These vrindows are made safe with fixed iron jjars like a jail. The young ladies are all beautiful. "All kinds of friuts and vegetables are plentifid here; oranges, large and fine, six cents a dozen; figs, and grapes of every kind, cheap; wine by the ban-el, eight cents a gallon, in quart bottles eighteen cents. Coffee is not mucli used at the table, being drunk principally at the 148 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. cafes. Everyone uses wine at every mea], a quai't bot- tle being placed at each plate. I do not think they use to excess any other drink. 1 have not seen a drunk num in Sj)ain.'"' Judge Goodpasture never displayed much talent in the matter of finding his way in a city, and was especiaJlv troubled in Cordova, Avith its multitude of naiTOw, crooked streets, running in all directions. He never went out there alone without getting lost. He could not inquire of anyone, and would walk until he suddenly and very unexpectedly, found liim&elf outside the walls of the city, on the Alameda, near the railroad station, l.uckily, the station and hotel were on the same street, and in this way he could find his way back. Strangely enough, eveiy time he was lost he finally, after much tiresome- walking and worry, suddenly came out at the same place, and each time would surpi*ise him worse than the preceding one. It made no sort of difference in what direction he tried to go, he would finally arrive at that place all the same. They shipped their stock by rail to ^ ^^*' Malaga, and arrived there a little be- fore night. jMalaga is built quite similarly to Cordova, the streets just as naiTOw and crooked, making it quite as easy to get lost. John, the interpreter and. the writer, went to the stable to feed and attend to the stock, the Judge being quite tired, remaining at the hotel. But after a bit he concluded he A\-ould follow, and left the hotel alone. He was soon lost. There is a very pretty little park in the city, not over one hundred yards square. The Judge ran into this park four or five times, until it looked like he could not get away from it. He was by MALAGA. 149 thiti time very tired indeed, and had ceased trying to find the stable, and was endeavoring to get back to the hotel. In the meantime, he had forgotten its name, if he had CA'er noticed it enough to learn it. Finally, after ])eing abont broken do\ni. he saw in front of a large building a gentleman who looked like an Englishman, and so he proved to be. The Judge told him his trouble; that he was lost and did not know the name of his hotel, or where it was. ''Well,'' said the gentleman, "tliis is the place right here, where you ate yom- supper."' He had Avalked rapidly for an hour and a half and wa.s intensely relieved. Finding one's way in a strange city is as much a natural talent as any gift that can be suggested. Some [x'ople find their way seemingly by intuition, without any sort of trouble, while others will lose all sense of direction, and go the wrong way quite as readily as the riffht. But anv sort of man. with anv deoree of talent, would be excusable for getting lost in C'oi-dova or ^Malaga. They had a very queer and very persistent visitor just before sailing for London. A farmer living near Cordova had thi-ee Jacks which he was very anxious to sell at a big price. They had left there withont seeing ihem. In his anxiety to sell,- the owner put them on the cars and shipped them to ]\Ialaga. AVhen he arrived, he did not have the money to pay the freight, which he ex])ected to pay out of the proceeds of liis sale. He was in a fix. The Judge had bought his full complement, and could buy no more. The poor fellow insisted, and C(mtinued to insist, until they sailed away and left him in his trouble. CHAPTER XIII. W\' cannot. Jeavo Spain without a woi'cl as to the Andalnsian women. Women. Andahisia was, for a long time, oc- cupied by, and in complete possession of, the iMoors. Their splendid moequc at Cordova, the beautiful palace of the Alhambra, the gi'and castles at Jativa, ^lalaga and elsewhere, all proclaim them to have been a great ]>eople, and it is now generally admitted that, at tliat lime, they were in advance of the Spanish. These Southern provinces, the fairest and most fertile of the country, were conquered by Ferdinand and Isabella and confiscated and occupied by their subjects, the larger part of the JMoors leaving the country. But many remained, and in time became mixed with, aiid absorbed by, the Spanish population. This has given to the women of the latter, the most glorious eyes that ever spake love to mortal. Heavy eyebrows, a small downy mustache, intensely black hair, a rather small but i)erfect tigui'c. small feet and hands, excellent taste in dress, the head covered with lace mantillas, out of which those mag- niticent eyes shine luminotisly — this is the lovely senorita of song and story. She is not the most sensible of women, nor the best educated, nor yet the least frivol- ous, but from a purely aesthetic point, she i.s the most attractive of all her sex. Judge Goodpasture thought her mustache her chief MALAGA TO LONDON. 151 attraction, at least he niado Baccariza tliink so. When he saw a woman, old or young, good or bad looking, who had been particulaiiy blessed with tills hirsute adornment, he would call the interpreters attention to it, and to how Yerj becoming it was. • So Baccariza brought his ^vife all the way up to the hotel one day, that the Judge might see what a fine mustache she had. She looked like one of Shakespeare's witches, but as m duty bound, the Judge was duly enthusiastic. Still, the fact remains, that the Andalusian woman surpasses all her sisters in the one matter of beauty, though all, or nearly all, are of the same general type, and do not present that great variety that is found in America. Judge Goodpastm^e wrote as follows of the voyage he had now undertaken: "^'On the 10th day of rebru.ary, my Malaga to ^^^^^ ^YiUie, John Terry, colored, and London. myself, embarked on the good ship Cadiz, at Malaga, Spain, bound for London. "Malaga is located on the JMediterranean coast, about one hundred and fifty miles from Gibraltar. It contains a population of 126,000 people; is a city of great com- mercial importance, its principal trade being in fiiiits and mnes, a large proportion of which are shipped to the United States. Mj purpose, however, is to describe the voyage and not the country. "We steamed out at six o'clock p.m. The bay looked beautiful. The hills of Malaga were adorned by the still standing castles and fortifications of the Moors, and the declining sun seemed to be in unison with the fading glories of the countiy. "Our captain was a very inquisitive as well as com- 152 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. munica-tive man. He knew every-thing known by his passengers for the last twent}^ years, and if each suc- ceeding passenger did not learn it all, it was his own fault, for he was sure to hear it. "'Our voyage for the first one hundred miles Wds de- void of interest, being in the night. However, about daylight, I was awakened by oiur captain, to see some liistoric battle fields on the coast, but have forgotten their names. There is a history about nearly ever}i:liing and place in Spain. A little after daylight, we found ourselves in sight of Tangier, Airica. Our sliip did not land, but we saw the city from the bay — churches and towers and public buildings, and the view as we passed out, was that of a handsome but curious city. Leaving the African coast, we were soon between the two pillars of Hercules and into the Straits of Gibraltar. Here we were in view of three of the greatest fortifications in the world. The best known is, perhaps, Gilbraltar, and then comes the Moorish fortification, which is said to be the strongest defensive point, naturally, of any military post in existence. A little below these two is the Ceuta fortress of Spain. If the three should act in concert., the combined fleets of the world could not enter the Mediterranean. It woidd be a hard thing to accomplish even as against Gibraltar, the English hav- ing kept this point up to the highest standard of modem ^^ari'are. She has two one hundred ton gitus that shoot through eighteen inches of solid steel, and through six or seven inches at the distance of ten miles. "Soon after passing out of the Straits, and having lost sight of ^Gib,' as the place is familiarly called, we entered the bay of Trafalgar, where Lord Xelson gained MALAGA TO LONDON. 153 liis great Aactoiy over the combined fleets of France and Spain. Our captain pointed out the position of the French and Spanish, as well as that of the English, and showed us where Lord Xelson was killed. "lie related many amusing incidents of the battle, one of wliich is truly worth relating. He said: 'In one of the English sliips, a passing cannon ball struck a sailor and cut off one of his legs. In his agony, he called on a fellow soldier, an Irishman, to carry him to the cockpit. The sailor shouldered the wounded man and started, but before he had passed below, another ball took off the womided man's head. The Irishman, in the noise and confusion of battle, had not noticed this, but as he went below, he met one of the officers who asked liim where he was carrying that man. 'To the cockpit,' was the ready response. 'Yes,' said the officer, 'but there is no use of that, his head is shot off.' *Ts that so,' said the Irishman, looking back over his shouldei-s, 'he told me it was Ms leg.' " ''After leaving Trafalgar, we passed tiie city of Tiu-ifa. Here we coidd not land, as cholera was raging in the place. Our next stopping point was the ancient city of Cailiz. We were here for a day and night, and had the opportunity of taking a general xiew of the city, wliich we found to be clean and beautiful, with few indications of its great antiquity. It was founded by Hercules about eleven hundred years before Christ, and now has a population of 65.000 souls, though at one time it was much larger. "We proceeded from Cadiz to Lisbon, Portugal, the capital of the country, and a large town of about 280,000 inhabitants. In the bav lav five English iron-clad war- 154 JEFFKRSON DILLARD GOODPASTUKK. ships, constituting what is known as the Channel Fleet, each sliip manned ])y ahout eight hundred men. One of these ships brought the remains of Peahody to America, and another v^-as in the hom1)ardment of Alex- andria, and has in her side a dent, six or eight inelies deep, and as large as a lialf husliel, made by a cannon ball in that engagement. The Duke of Edinburg had just been appointed to the command of the fleet, and the King of Portugal dined with him on the day of our arrival. They had quite a big time of it. We re- mained here five days, saw the church in which Colum- bus was married, still in good preservation. Lisbon is a city of hills. Here our ship took on two hundred bales of cork. ■'From Lisbon we proceeded to Vigo, Spain, a dirty little town with a fishy smell, on one of the finest bays in the world. Here we took on 460 boxes of eggs for l^ondon. There is a company of Americans at work ni the bay here, mostly from Pliiladelphia, with the best divers to 1)e had, attempting to recover the gold and silver in the galleys that were sunk about 160 years ago. They have found one of the ships and recovered some logwood, and are expecting to get the gold. They are to give a certain per cent of all the money recovered to the Spanish government, if they do not forget to tell the government that they have found any. '"We had so often been told of the dangei-s of the IJay of Biscay that we left A'igo in some dread, but we ci-ossed it in safety. The good captain — to quiet oiu' nerves, I suppose, told us about, and showed us wJiiie crossing the place, where, a few yciirs ago. a nuiid,or .u' Lnglish warships were caught in a st(U'i)i aiul one ot MALAGA TO LONDON. 155 tiiem upset and went down witli 500 men on board, everyone of whom perished. In pa.ssing down the Eng- • hsli Channel, it was a. mattci- of great interest to us, and to John in particuhir, to look at some half dozen or more wrecks. Of some, tlic smoke stacks were visible, and of others, onh' the masts. These wrecks were suggestive." They landed safely at London, and carried their stock to Mills' stable, four or five miles from the place of land- ing, and two or three from where they expected to embark. While unloading at the docks, a slick artist relieved Judge Goodpasture of a fine gold watch, which distressed liim very much, it having been a gift from his wife. Jv'othing was afterward heard of it. Judge Goodpasture thus describes the section in which they had stopped in one of liis letters: "We are here in the black bottom of London, in fact, nearly all of London is black bottom. It is certainly the most god- forsaken, roiigh city in the world. There is, howevci-, including the House of I'arliament, the ])anks. etc., a portion of the city about as large as JSFashville, thai Is grand beyond description: the balance of the city is as bad as you can imagine it. We stayed four days in tlie neighborhood of ]\[oody and Sankey's Tabernacle. 1 reckon a more abandoned place j^ou never saw: poor jjeyond description, and wicked beyond belief." They remained in London one week, giving their stock a good rest. a.s they had l)een fourteen days in reaching London, having sailed about 1,700 miles, and on i\Iarch 3rd eml)arked for Xew York on the steamsliip Assyrian Monarch. It was raining when they sailed, but no wind, and a smooth sea. On Sunday night, March Tth, they bad religious services on board. This 156 JKFFERSON DILLAKD GOODPASTURK. is required on all Eng-lisli boats, weather ])ermitlinfi. 'J'he duty is imposed on the captain, but he is allowed to oali on any minister who happens to be on board, and is willing I0 conduct the services. Judge Goodpasture thus writes home Storm at Sea. , ... i .e - • i < j? desenbmg ms nrst sight ot a geniune storm at sea: "About five o'clock on the morning of March 8th, I was awakened from my shunber by a ter- rible noise and rolling of the ship. The most of the passengers were thrown from their beds. I put on my clothes as best I could, and looking out foimd that a tierce storm was raging. The captain was on the bridge at the time, and was unable to get down for four hoiu's. He held on by main strength, and a part of the time had liimself lashed to the bridge, fearing that he would be washed overboard. He was drenched ^vith spray. The wind blew at the rate of sixty miles an hour for eleven hours, and at times even harder. The sails were not only blown to pieces, but entirely away, by the ter- rilic force of the gaJe. I looked out thi'ough a port hole at the raging waters. Xo man can describe a storm at sea. It is unlike anytliing else. The wind seemed to lift the waters up, and it looked more like a dreadful snow storm, the spray being blo^vn in all direetions, than anything of wliich I can think. The waves looked hke great mountains, parti}' obscured by fog or snow, and the ship careened thirty degress. The officers and siiilors throughoiit the entire stonn were cool — the fii'st officer in particular, who ijididged in many most a,mus- ing anecdotes, and tales of past experiences in sailing over nearly all the waters of the known world. In order that we might know when the time of real danger STORM AT SEA. 157 arrived, he told this — that he once had a verj' timid minister on board dm-ing an imasnally na^ty spell of weather. To qniet his nerves, he called attention to the profanity of the sailors, who were having to work on a wet, slippery deck, and in a cold drenching spray, and told Mm that as long as their profanity continued, lie need have no fear — it would cease at once in case of danger. Xow, the weather gi'ew worse, and at last reached the proportions of a gale. ^Many of the passen- gers were frightened, and ^\'ith the minister at their head, assembled in the dining room for prayers. The minister opened the meeting. While he was in the midst of an eloquent appeal, some of the sailors passed along the deck ^^olently cursing everytliing in sight. 'Thank God/ said he, 'the sailors still swear.' "After the storm was over, we found that some of our machinei*}' was broken, and our ship was standing still, it took four hours to repair it." These storms are very wear}dng and bruising to stock, but seldom result fatally. The jacks and jennets were put in stalls, their heads facing the center and not the sides of the vessel. Heavy strips were nailed to the floor, about two feet apart, so as to give them a footing. Before leaving Spain, they had made a nimiber of swings to hold the weak and injured on their feet. On this trip they never allowed the stock to lay down, beca.use they had been told they would grow so stiff that it wt>uld be impossible for them to stand afterward. This was a great mistake. If allowed to lay for a reasonable length of time, there is no such effect, but they are greatly rested by it. They shipped this time and subsequently, except their 158 JKFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. last shipment, between decks. This will do in winter or earl}- spring when had weather may reasonablj' be expected, but a more serious mistaJce could hardly be made in summer. They once suffered a loss of over fno thousand dollars* Avorth of jacks in a few days' time that was directly attributa.ble to sliipping in this place. If they had been shipped on top of the deck, unques- tionably all would have been saved. It was, however, a very natural mistake. All the insurance companies charged higher rates on top, as in case of a severe storm all might be washed overboard. But the danger of a severe storm in summer is very small — we have ncAer seen one at that season that would have been at all hiizardous. During the prevalence of a storm, like the one above described by Judge Goodpasture, the stock must be watched ver}' closely to avoid accident. The stalls are built up in front of the jacks, ^\^th strong oak plank or other stout wood, reaching a little above the chest. The feed troughs are fastened to the upper planks. The jack is tied to the posts on either side, which holds him in position and prevents his interfering with his neigh- bor. On this trip, the}' had several thrown entirely over the front part of the stall and out into the passage , way. When tliis happens, the immediate presence of the attendant is necessary to release the animars head. This was a hard time on John, but he was faithful luid attentive. ]\Iore or less sea-sick through it all, losing a gTeat deal of sleep, constant watching and working, the depressing effects of bad dreams and feare for the safety of the vessel, made the voyage a pretty tough experience for him. NEW YORK AND HOME. 159 Tlicy at last reached Xew York, hav- New York jup- ' been fourteen davs in sailing and Home. ^ _ . from ]\ralaga to London and six- teen days from the latter to Xew York. This, with dela.js at different places, together with six days by rail from Xew York to Xashville, ^\•a.s a very long and trying trip on both man and beast. They made the journey \ntliout further accident than the loss of one animal, the fine black jennet owned by Dr. Plimilee. They had agi*eed to bring Ms two or three head along with theirs. They regretted this loss very much, bo- cause she belonged to their friend, and was, besides, a very superior aninu^l. Judge CTOodpa.sture came home on a passenger train from Xew York, and prepared to receive the stock by the time of their arrival. He had a very interesting in- terview published in the American, and had awakened a good deal of interest in the public. Dr. Plumlee had gotten home some time previously, having declined to buy in Poitou on account of the very high price. The stock arrived in Xashville the latter part of March, but rather late for the market, which only really covers the period from January to April inclusive. After their long journey, it was impossible to get them in first-class condition in time for the spring demand. Still, several of them were sold at profitaljle figures, and the others were carried over for the following year. One of the veiT best of the lot was a jack named Alfonso, pur- chased from the royal breeding stables at Cordova. He was a large steel gray jack, 15:} hands high, and the best of the variety they ever saw, before or since. As said before, the Andalusian was not the popidar jack for this country. CHAPTER XIV. Judge Goodpasture busied liimself for the next few mouths watchinc: the Importation. '^ jack market, attending to liis various real estate deals and making a trip to Sparta and the Mountain District. He was not satisfied with his first importation of jacks. He became more than ever convinced that black jacks could be found in Europe, and the sales he had made of the gray, made it certain that an importation of black ones would biing gi'eat profit and credit as well. A second importation was, therefore, determined upon, and arrangements were made to go for them during the summer, so as to have them in good fix for the winter and spring trade. All was ready, and he and his son left Xashville on the 7th of July, 1886. Their faithful groom, John Terry, \^'as left beliind because of the expense. It was not then known how much travel woidd have to be done to find the kind of jacks desired, but the Judge left with the determination to keep looking until they were found. He seems to have been a bit sad in leaving on this ti'ip. He thus MTites his wife from Xew York, under date of July 9, 1886: '"The day we left home was one of the ^"^ *** saddest of my life. We got to Louia- Ncw York. „ -^ ■,..-,, ,., ^ ville at 2 p.m., and staid there until i . I was fe^Ung gloomy, and in the evening late, I went down to the bank of the river, to nearly the same spot TRIP TO NEW YORK. i6l where 1 sat upon a rock thirty-six years ago and watched some fishermen. I found a log at tliis place and sitting down on it remained there for an hour. I thought of nearly everything I had done for the last thirty-six years, and where I Mould be at the eud of thirty-six years more. But few people at tliat time would know I ever lived, perchance some might pass through a gra.ve yai-d and point to the mossy headstone and say 'I knew that man when I was a hoy.' Such is life. "We left Louisville at 7 p.m. It was not long until 1 heard the conductor call out Frankfort. I looked out in the dark at Kentucky's capital. I never saw it be- fore. 1 went back and tried to sleep, but I could not. After a little I heard the conductor cry out Lexington. I looked out again to see if I could recognize the place. I was here exactly thirty years ago. Everything in an instant came to my mind as vividly as if it had been but yet>terday. I had Just helped nojuinate {iuchanan for President, and was going home fidl of political enthusiasm. What a change since then!"' He closes this unusually sad letter by saying: ''Remember your inperfect husband in your prayers." This was a feeling very rare to Judge Goodpasture on those tri])s. He had the hajjpy faculty of dismissing from liis mind all thoughts of bitsiness left behind, and entering v/ith enthusiasm into the undertaking on hand. He was an ideal traveling companion. In the best of humor at all times, rarely groAving tired, never fretted, always ready to agree on what to do or where to go— - a thing oftentimes hard for travelers to do; always well, and an adaptability to places and conditions e(|ualed by few men. He was soon acquainted with those with II l62 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. whom he wa^; thrown, and had a way of making every- one like him. Tliey flailed for London ])eT 8. S. Sails for Lvdian Monarch, Julv 10. The voy- London. i ^ i age was not an altogetlier pleasant one. For the iii'st live or six days they were in a deiLse fog. This almost precluded sleep on account of the incessant blowing of the fog horn, and besides, it was unconi- forty ]nany signs and much jabbering,- that they were in the wrong train. iVs a matter of fact, they had taken a train going straight back to Paris. There was nothing to do l)ut to get off at the first station and take the next train foi- Xiines, which they did. When they got back, the station agent, who diA-ined the trouble the> had gotten into, took the Judge by the hand and led him over to one of tlie several raih'oad tracks and put his hand on it, pointing out at same time the direction they were to take, lie then took out the Judge's watch and t^howed liim the exact time it would leave. They had PARIS TO BARCELONA. 1 65 to wait for some time, and witliout especially desiring it, they were given another opportunity of sight seeing in the ancient city of Ximes. Their instructions had been so exact and so impos- sible to misunderstand, that they boarded the right tram next time and had no further trouble imtil they arrived at Cerbere, the last station in France, and near the Spanish frontier, where they arrived at eleven o'clock at night. As they had eaten nothing since morning, they had supper before retinng. and a very bad one it wae. They left at five o'clock the next morning, enteiing a long tunnel immediately on leaving the station. When they emerged, they were in Portl)on, Spam, wliich, like Cerbere, is a custom station, and where the baggage was examined. Here a very beautiful young Spanish woman entered their compartment and rode with them t.o Barcelona. She afforded them much en- tertainment. When they grew tired of looking at the magnilicent mountain scenery on the outside, they had sceneiy quit-e as attractive with \\hich to regale their eyes on the inside; and when they discovered to a cer- tainty that she did not understand English, they enjoyed discussing her conduct and appearance. It afforded diversion for the balance of the trip, but more tlum once she looked rather sus])i(ioiis as to the subject matter of their coiivei*sation. On amval at Barcelona, after a journey of forty-two hours, in addition to stops, they went to the Hotel Cen- tral. It is not recommended by Baedeker, but so far as their experience went, it was the most satisfactory hotel in all respects at which they ever stopped, either on this I66 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. or subsequent trips, in Spain or elsewhere. The charges were quite moderate, only eight pesetas, or a dollar and sixty cents per day, which included breakfasi and din- ner, the only meals served in continental hotels. An excellent restaurant was attached to it, at which tiiey obtained delicious bread and cott'ee on Ih'st rising, the hotel breakfast being served from 11 to rlace, but no bank was in sight. They looked in vain in every direction, although at the addre<^s given. In their perplexity, they showed the address to a plain looking citizen standing idly near. He looked carefully at the address and then a,t tliem, and to their amaze- ment said: '"Do you speak English?" They replied that they used to indulge in that greatest of luxurifS. but had not had the pleasure for some days past outsule of conversations with each other. He then showed them the bank, which turned out to be on the third floor of the building, directly in front of them, but with no sign to indicate its location. They asked their new found English speaking friend to wait for them, whicii he consented to do. After transacting their business in the baidv. they rejoineil liim — fomid that he was a Frenchman who had been to New Orleans and there learned English, but had lived for the last fifteen years in Barcelonia. He was a coal agent, and had never acted as l)ISCOVERS AN IXTKKPKHTKK. 167 iiii interpreter and did not know one single thing about jacks, bnt he said he eonld talk, and knew a man that eould tell them all about jack stock. They engaged him. and thus, chanced the first employment of John liives. who became the most famous interpreter in all Spain, and whose seiTices were often engaged by cable from the United States in order to be the first to obtain them. Xo man has CA'er assisted in the purchase of more jacks for export to America. They went at once to the stables of the man who knew all about jack stock; found that he had gone to his home at Sabadell ajid that they could see Mm the next day (Sunday), as it was to be a great feast day there, and if they waited until the following day they might miss him, he being a man whose business carried him all over northern Spain. His nauie was Jose San Marti. and he was the biggest mule dealer in Spain, importing large numbers from France. He looked to be about >ixty. very erect, with piercing eyes, veiy handsome, and t'xtremely intellectual in appearance. They were kindly received by him at his home, and he agreed to go \nth them on the following Wednesday and show them jacks lor the consideration of fotir dollars for each head pur- chased, and all his expenses. They agreed to his ternii?. His intellectual appearance was not decei\ang. He was sharp and shrewd, and the compensation paid him was ;i mere bagatelle to what he made oiit of them. They never discove^red this imtil divulged by the interpreter subsequently, and it wo\ild probably never have come to light had not he and the interpreter fallen out A\-ith each other over a diA^sion of the swag. CHAPTKR XV. After agreeing to the terms of tiie The Bull T 1 ri J J. ^. ^ commissioner, Judee Goodiiastiire Fight. *" ^ had notliing fnrtlier to do in tiie town, and devoted liiniself to an observance of the fes- tivities of tlie occasion. It was a glorious Sunday, their (irst. on this trip in Spain. The sun slione down just enough to give beauty to the shady parks and evergreen forests. A gentle ]\Iechterranean breeze fanned the cheeks, and made the growing crops in the fields around to waive and ripple as the bosom of a lake. The ther- mometer was not higher than at an American mountain resort, and the atmosphere looked perfectly clear, until one turned toward the tall blue peak of the Montsen'at. A great day it was to the people of the little city of Sabadell — the annual feast of the town. n)ixed up, as everything else is, with the churcli. The streets were gaily decorated with evergreens, flags, flowers, sauey looking peasant girls, and high bred dames. The {)roud seignor, with his broad sombrero, stalked the streets in all his imagined grandeur. The great organ in the old cathedral was pealing forth its grand notes, accompanied by a choir of trained voices and a band of fifty or sixty instniments. The multitude had assem- \Aed at the church, and were going through the exercises t here in the forenoon so as to be in time for the afternoon exercises at the Plaza do Toros, and the evening enter- tainments at the numerous ball rooms. The bull fight. 169 A bull fight was to take place at 4.30 in the afternoon, and to insure themselves good seats they went do,vn at three. The Plaza de Toros here, built upon the plan of the Coliseum of Eome, is an immense circular building with seats and boxes extending entirely around, and in the inside a ring for the combatants, l-'rom the top of the building that day. lloated an immense Spanish flag, and around it a tliousand lesser ones. The crowd had ah-eady Ijegun to assemble, except in the reserved boxes at the top. and was composed of both sexes and all degrees of humanity. The justly famous small Ijov was there, .selhng bottled soda water, fans. ])rogrammes, etc. Buying one of the latter they found that they were likely to see an uncommonly interesting battle. The famous ^lunchao, of ^Madi'id. was to fight tliat day — so was Alaban, of Valencia: Eocher, of Seville; Lopez, of Madrid, and half a dozen others, more or less known to the ring and to fame. The crowd soon assembled, and the private l)oxes, es- pecially, shone resplendent with brilliantly jeweled senoritas. and the most sparkling and brilliant of all the jewels were their jet black eye.s, made brighter still by immediate expectation imd suppressed ex- citement. At precisely 4.30 o'clock, the president, who was the mayor of the town, entered his private l)ox, the band began to jday, the men to yell and the women to wave their handkerchiefs and fans. The president gracefully bowed his acknowledgments. Fans seem to be quite as necessarv there as they were to the Roman ladies at the o-ladatoria] comliats in ancient times. 170 jEFFKRSON DILLAKD GOODPASTUKli. Everytliing then being ready, the trumpet sounded, and the wliole bull fighting company marched into the ring, glittering in their gorgeous costumes. How grace- ful and majestic they looked, these bull fighters, as the}' passed by in their close fitting suits, trimmed in gold and beads. As soon as they had passed in front of the president, he threw the key of the toril (the cell of the bull) to a man dressed in black, wearing an enonnous black phtme in his hat. and mounted upon a spirited Aral)ian bar!) horse, that reared and plunged to the great delight of the crowd. These horses are trained to thus act, and it gives a fine exhibition of graceful horseman- ship. When thrown down, he endea^'ored to catch the key in his hat, but was prevented by the plung-ing of his horse. A curious part of the calvacade was four immeust Norman horses harnessed together, wearing plumes on their heads, and used for the purpose of dragging the slain from the field of battle. The different performers now took their places in the ring, and the door of the toril was thrown open. The public curiosity to see the first rush out of the bull was intense, as none knew whether he would behave well or ill. and they judge there of his character by the manner in which he be- haves upon first entering the ring. The bull, an immense red one, fresh from the Jarama mountains, then rushed into the ring. He had long sharp horns like the native breeds in Texas and Mexico, an exceedingly thick neck, raised far above the level of his back, and a defiant look. Every movement showetl great power and activit\-. No one A\ho has not seen theise bulls, raised in iheir natural state, high up in the THK BULL fiGHf. 171 Inoimtains^ caji imagine their ferocity. Au enraged lion would not appear more dangerous. Thev are very ex- pensive, costing the management four or five hundred dollai"s each. On entering, the first object that presented itself be- ing a man, known in ring parlance as a matadore, he charged him. The man saved himself by dextrously jumping the wall around the ring. These bull fighters are all athletes, and can run and jump like those in an American circus. Other matadores approached waving their red flags, and the bull charged them but without result. Soon he espied the mounted picadores. These are men on horseback, and armed with long poles, in the ends of which arc fixed sharp spears. They wear the l»road brLmmcd ThessaJian hat; their legs are encased in iron and leather, wliich give a heavy look, and the right one, ^^'llieh is usually presented to the bull, is the better protected. The bull chargcxl the first one he came to, and the pic^dore, holding the lance in the i-ight hand, turned his horse to the left and received the oiLslaught of the bull on the point of his weapon. Tliis did not stop him, but possibly only added renewed fury, for he bmied liis horn completely in the liip of the horse, raising liim from the ground, and pitching horse and rider in a mass upon the arena. A cloxid of dust rose from the imper- fectly spriidvled ring, the matadores rushed up waving their red flags to attract away the bull, while others hastily pulled the poor picadore from under the horse and cai'ried him from the ring. "Bravo, bravo toro," shouted the multitude, and women and men lost a sense of existence in the excitement of the moment. The bull 172 JEI^IfERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURfi. was now charging anything in reach, and the horse that lie had just brought to the ground was raised to his feet, a picadore placed upon his back and he was ridden forward again, the blood shooting out in a spurt at even' step. "Isn't tliis tiling terrible?" said Judge Good- pasture, and he began to light his pipe, his universal recourse in case of any unpleasantness. Again the bull attacked and received a fearful gash m the neck from the picadore, but planting his horns full in the horse, he raised liim liigh off the ground, pitching the picadore over the ring wall and letting the horse fall a dead i)east, a vanquished foe. in the ring. He attacked the next he could reach, and again with his terrific force piled man and Ijeast on the ground. The rider was assisted from the ring, the hoi-se raised and another rider placed upon his back. The poor horses were all blindfolded, and when this one wds raised and ridden forth to the awful encounter, his entrails were seen to be lianging down almost to the ground. A large Xewfoimdland dog, led, we suppose, by bad com]>a.ny down to the ring, and by curiosity into it, mak- ing no war upon any one, and intending none, greatly to his sur|3rise, suddenly foimd liimself pitehed ten feet into the air. It was his death warrant. Otlier horses were attackcxl and their ridei-s unhorsed, and soon the scene of battle was indeed a gory one. Dead horses lay about the ring, others liad woimds through wliich the blood gushed or their entrails pro- truded, and the bull still fought game and looked more defiant than ever. Here the tnimpet sounded, and the first act of the Ijloody drama was over. The next act, that of the ehulos, is shori and interest- THE BULL FIGHT. 173 ing. The picadores leave the ring. The sole object of the chulos, as the}- are termed, is to enrage the bull to the highest pitch. They entered the ring bearing shafts with an-ows in the end, and nia.rched directly toward the bull, pointing the shafts at him. These arrows have bai'bs to prevent theii" coming out when once stuck. One of the chulos advanced and just as the bull bounded forward and stopped to toss Mm, he stuck the arrow into lus neck aud dextrously jiunped to one side. These arrows were pro^^ded ^nth crackers, which, by means of a detonating powder, explode the moment they are affixed to the neck. The agony of the infuriated animal on this occasion made him bound and jimip high in the air, greatly to the delight of the audience. To the bull, it was an ever present, imseen, unattackable foe, aud his fury soon knew no bounds. The trumpets again sounded, the arena was clea.rtd for the third act, and the great espada, the star of tlu' (•ompany, the executioner, stood before his com1)atant. On entering the ring, he addressed the president, t.ln-ow Ins ca]) to the grouud. dropped to his knees and swore to do liis duty. In his right hand, he held a long straight Toledo blade, and with his left, he waved a red tlag. He thus enticed the IjuU, who charged him, and he ((uickly jumped aside. He did tliis again and agaiu. when at last ho got him in the desired position. When The bull then jumped forwad to gore Mm. the sword was buried to the hilt just between the shoulders and near the left oue. The sword remained in his body but the bull fought on. Finally the espada succeeded in draw- ing it out, and buried it again in nearly the same place. The bull couched once or twice, fell to his knees and 174 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. then to the ground and immediately expired, the blade having pierced the heart. How furiously the peojjie cheered then I Hats, cigars, fans, handkercliiefs, and all the property wliich "Wem- mick terms portable, was showered into the ring. The bull fighter, the great man of the day, gracefully bowed to the crowd. The four big Norman horees then en- tered, and commenced the operation of dragging the dead from the field, leaving in their wake one broad track of blood. Thus ended the first fight, and, as those that followed ^\•ere but re]:)etitions in the main of the first, we shall not attempt to describe them. After three bulls had been killed, the fourth and last proved to be one of unusual ferocity and power. He had killed all the horses entered. The mob cried lui more; the management refused. The musicians stiirteok about the city. Barcelona is the only really modem to\An in Spain, broad streets, well built busine^i blocks and handsome residences. It is veiy ancient, but has under- gone a renaissance, and now jiartakes more of the French than the Spanish in api)earance. It had a population at this time of something more than 350,000 souls. A magnificent alameda I'uns from the bay clear througli the city, dividing it into two pai'ts. This and the quay were greatly appreciated by hi]n, because he could always iind his way back to the hotel when he came upon either of these two points. He mentions tbis fact more than once in his letters, and congratulated himself on escap- ing Ms Cordova and ^lalaga experiences. Some of the streets are models, not only very broad, but lined witli three or four i-ows of sycamore shade trees, and are kept perfectly clean by sprinkling and sweeping. There is a permanent circiLS here which gives per- formances every night, including that of Smiday, gen- eral admission being lifteen cents. lie attended tliis one night and enjoyed it. The jokes of the clown were in ])antomime to him. but his imagination su})- plied the deiiciency. He and his son had given out their Avash during the morning, and when they returned to their rooms in the KUVIXG JACKS. 177 evening, one of the hotel clerks, who spoke a little Eng- lish, came up ven- gravely, bearing one of their shirts. ••Wliat i-s the matter/" said the Judge, "we want it washed.'" '"Yes. yes," said the boy, "but look, it is broken," and pointed to a small rent in the garment. "All right,"' said the Judge, "go ahead, and have it washed and bring us back the pieces."" To thi.s he agreed and retired. Thev i'oujid no iacks in the ini- Buying Jacks. ,.' ... ,' mediate vicinity 01 Barcelona, but on going out into the country from twenty to one hundred miles they found the very thing for which they liad been so long looking. At GrannoUers. they bought a mag- niiicent five year old. IH hand jack called Jumbo, wliich was aftei-fl-ards sold for $3,000.00, and they secured him at a figure thej- were never afterwards a])le to duplicate. They also juirchased fine sp'ccimens at Vich, at Agua Fria. (Jerona and elsewhere. Although this is the home of ilie Cat.alonian jack, they rarely found more tlian three or four at any one place, and were unable to bu\-. a.s a rule, more than one or two of sufficient merit to import, from a single owner. They would sometimes find these jacks on the railroad but often they had to take a conveyance and drive some miles into the countr\-. Purchases cannot well be made without two men to assist — an inter] >reter to tnlk and a commissioner to find the stock. They made Bareolona headquarters, at which [)oint they received their mail, and raehind the frotal bone and penetrates tlie brain. He had fought in Palma the day lief ore. Everyone looked on him with the greatest admiration — he was the beau ideal of the populace wherever he appeared. This iidulation seems to have had some effect, as he mod- estly told ^h. Goodpasture, after an introduction, that he was the greatest espada who ever entered a bull ring. He makes from fifty to seventy-five thousand dollai-s each summer season. There are no bull fights in winter. MAJORCA. 179 They employed as commissioner to show theni the stock of tlie isUtnd, one Francisco Fortesa, who was after- wards cmphjyed ])y a number of Americans in imi)orting. Tiiey drove all over the island, measured and priced jacks, and looked at a most lovely country. The people depend largely on irrigation, but a richer or more fertile spot can scarcely be found in Spain. The export of nuts, principally almonds, is enormous. Tliis delight- ful nut, hulled and parched with a little salt, is to be found generally on the hotel tables of luirope, ^\hile pickled olives are never absent. There is not very much on the island to attract visitors who are not drawn there l)y business. The surface of the country, the towns and the people, are nearly iden- tical with those in Catalonia. A great deal of corn i^ j-aised but purely as a second crop, wheat or something of that sort being grown on the ground first. The val- leys are veiy pretty, ])eing planted in regular to\\>^ of trees siich as the almond, orange or olive; and the ground being covered with beans (a very large variety, used foi' feeding stock entirely), (M»rn or alfalfa. ]ireserits a verv luxuriant ajapearance. The women here, as in Catalonia, are by no means so Ijcautiful as are those around Cordova and ilala^a. Those found at the stores, markets and on the streets, wear short sleeves and low necked dresses. This is generally quite becoming. The hair among the })easanL women is plaited, hangs down their l^acks and is univei-- sally Ijlack, but among the higher classes, it is arranged into a knot on the top of the head, similarly to the styles jtrevelant in France, and a very handsome way of wear- ing the hair it is, particularly if there be a heavy suit l8o JEFt'ERSON DIELAKD GOODPASTURE. of it. Like the womeu of Yeiiiee and Andalusia, they wear a good deal of lace on their head.s. This fasliion ought to be introduced into the United States; no bon- net or hat is half so becoming. They wear the most outnigeous shoes, the heel being \ery high and located near the middle of tlie foot, and the toe very sharp and narro\^ . All coloi-s of shoes are worn except black, which are nor considered fasliionable. The foot of the Spanisli womnn is her pritlc, and its smalhiess is much remarked upon l)y strangeit-. The Judge remained at Grannollers. where it had been arranged to collect the stock. He must have been a b'it lonely, as he was tmable to speak to a soul in the town. Most of the jacks had l)cen collected, and he sjjcnt much of his time in looking at them and seeing them fed. They were a grand lot, far beyond what they had expected to get — all jet black, large, well formed and none older than five years. The Judge repeated over and over again that the collection seemed to him like a dream — that he could scarcely believe it real. They were quite convenient to him, too. lie writes to his wife that they occupy the first floor of his hotel, and that he slept over them every night. That soiue- times lie v.ould hear them all braying at one time, mak- ing good strong music. Those who have heard one jack bray can imagine the effect of eighteen. ITe likewise never tired of going to the market, and spent much of his time very pleasantly in this way. Krom Unuuudlers the jatks were To Marseilles. , . -, ., .,, ,, ,. slu})ped to .\hvrseilles. 1- ranee, rrojn which point they were to be embarked for New York. At Portbon. they stopped to feed, and here each jacK; TO MARSEILLES. l8l was examined carefull}- by a veterinary surgeon befoi'e they were allowed to be shipped out of the country. Wliile here it was diseoA-ered that they had failed to make a declaration before the United States consul, at Barcelona, and obtain a permit to sliip from him. In tliis declaration, the age, sex, size and color of animal must be given and where purchased, also price paid, and it must be made before the consul nearest the place of purchase. So the Judge and Rives continued the journey wiih the stock while W. H. Goodpasture went back to Barcelona for the required papers. On their way to ^larseilles, a stop of several hours was made at Cette, France. Tliis is the most iuiportant city for the manu- factui'e of wine in France. They buy up the cheaper grades in France and Spain, and by processes known to themselves alone, so treat it as to make it closely imitate different grades and different Icinds of w^ne. It is then labeled the genuine article, and is shipped to wholesale dealers all over the world. Huge casks, fifteen to twenty feet in diameter are to be found here. The Judge arrived safely at Marseilles, where the stock Avas unloaded and earned to stables. He had to remain there for some eight or ten days, waiting for the saihng of the vessel on M'bich he had engaged to ship. Having so long to stay, Anth little to do and an inter- preter to show him around and do his talking, he wiis enabled to see much of a very beautiful city. Rive*? was brought along, he being, as before mentioned, a French- man, and, of coui-se, quite as much at home as in Spain. Marseilles is the first seaport of France, located on the Gulf of Lyons, and enjoys a large trade in the Levant and Algiers. The latter is by far the most successful l82 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. of any of the numerous attempts of France at (tolonization, and her trade is monopolized by this city. While there, a steamer came in with, a LirjL!;e number of African donkeys from Algiers, these diminutive animals being used in the parks for the children to ride, and to draw small market carts on the streets. Judge Goodpasture was greatly taken with them, and the im- porter offered him the pick of the lot for fifteen dollars, lie selected a very beautiful three year old Jennet for liis young son, Dillard, Jr., who exhibited her the following fa]] in tlie State P'air at Nashville. She was shown in tlie ring of jeunets three years old and over, and as a matter of sport, the judges tied one of the prize ribbons on her bridle and awarded her a prize of one dollar (wliich the Judge paid) to the intense delight of the boy. After keeping her about a year, she was exchanged for a saddle pony, on wliicli he took a real prize at the next fciir, and which he afterwards sold for three hundred dollars. Judge Goodpasture's great facility for getting ac- ((uainted has been mentioned before in these pages. It was never better illustrated than on an occasion m this city. Ho was one day at the jack stable, and ob- served a man ^Adth a pair of Poitoii mules. He pro- ceeded to measure them, and was asked by the owner in I'rench if he wished to buy. He replied that he could not speak French, and the owner said that he could speak a little English, whereupon, the Judge at once en- tered into a conversation with him. and found that he had been, during the war, a cook on one of Anion L. Dnvis' lioats. Davi.s was ;in old Tennessean. thoroughly TO MARSEILLES. 183 well known to the Judge, and he and the Frenclim.;in were soon the best of friends. Marseilles is a lovely city, much on tJic style of i'aris, with splendid streets, beautifully shaded, and lined with many magnificent hotels and cafes. Indeed, the latter are scarcely surpassed in any otlier city of the world. The quays are the most Inistling. busy aJid interesting part of the town, being constantly tlironged \dth crowds of turbaned orientals, as well as Greeks, Italians, Eng- lish and l-'rench, who ai-e engaged in the business of the place. The city trades all over the world, but especially in the East, and the variety of races found on the streets, drawn there by business, is a genuine study. Opposit-e the moutli of the harbor, is the curious old Chateau d'lf, in which iliraljcau was imprisoned, as well as the C'oimt of Monte C'risto, made so famous in the novel of that nfune by Dumas. The Judge was greatly interested in it, on account of this novel, having ssfen James O'Xeil play a dramitizatiou of it in a theater at Xew Orleans. One of the finest drives and promenades in the world is the Prado here, leading from the city, out several miles, to the bathing beach. It is shaded by eight rows* of spreading sycamore trees, all numbered and so trim- med as to be uniform to a remarkable degree. The Judge was out there several times, and greatly enjoyed watching the gayeties of the bathers, but could never be induced to take a plunge. He had never learned to swim. With visits to the botanical and zoological gardens, among the finest in Europe, the quays, fortifications, cathedrals, drives, parks. ets and other freight for Xew York. Then tliey went to Valencia, where the cargo of wine ca.sks was discharged, and fritits and i-aisins taken on. Then they stoi>}>ed two days at Almeria.. Spain. It was Sunday and int-ensely hot. They could see long lines of pack donkeys, bearing heavy bm'dens down to the ship landing, driven by the toughest class of j)eo})le seen in Spain — very dark in color, dressed some- what differently from those of any other part of the country, and looking more than half savage. From ai>- pea ranee, they must have had more of the Moorish blood than is found in other sections of Andalusia. The town is very rugged, high, steep hills, rising at intervals. Caverns have been dug out of the sides of these hills, in wjiich a considerable population resides. These abodes may be cool, but they pi-esen1 an awful appearance of dirt and srpialor. HEAVY LOSSES. 1 85 Thev next stopped for over a day at Malaga, but no turther description of this toM'n is necessary. The jacks had been located between Heavy Losses. ^^^^^.^ -^ ^j^^ ^.^^^^1^ ^^^^^ ^^^.^^^ ., largo cargo, but little room was given them. They were able to get a fairly abundant supply of air. while the vessel was in motion, and the ventilators properly ad- justed, but when lying in port, it was unendurably iiot and stifling. In consequence of this intense heat and lack of fresh air, three jacks were lost at Almeria and one at ]\lalaga, the four being ea.sily worth five thousand dollars. Among the nmnber was "The King of Jacks'" before mentioned, whose superior they had never seen, and which they thought would be the greatest ever ini- l)orted to America with the possible exception of old Mammoth. He was worth anywhere from $2,000.00 to $2,500.00. A rather amusing circimistance liappeued at ilalaga. The steamer v.as anchored out a half mile from the shore. When the dead jack was reportwl to the crew, they simply hoisted him and threw him overboard into the sea. That was late in the evening. Early next iiioriiing, it was found that he had floated ashore and was beating up against the docks of ]\Ialaga with the incoiiiing tide. The l)oaf \\-as informed by the authori- lics that they would not l»e allowed to discharge such tmuesirable cargo on them, and the cai>taiii was forced \o send in a boat and crew, who hitched up to tlie .jack, and with great labor, rowed him out some miles into the sea. The Judge was feeling sufficiently l.-adly about liis losses l)Ut was iiincli amused at t he ciri-uuisTauce, l86 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. At last they left the ^Lediterraiiean Sails for Home. , , i , , i i t . and her detestable ports and sto|)s. and as soon as they were fairly out at sea, the jacks immediately revived. They had employed a good man to attend to them, lie could speak no English, hut was an adept in signs, and they got along with Inm fairly well. It was a long voyage hut an uneventful one. The captain was a tyranical commander hut at the same time a jolly man, who enjoyed good wine and good eating. He especially delighted in very old Ruche- fort cheese, and the older they were and the more skippers they had, the hetter he liked them. This shocked the Judge, and the captain having obseiwed this, appeared to eat them with more relish than ever. One day, when eating a particularly lively piece of this clieese, as he carried a Ijit to his mouth, a skipper jumped into one of his eyes, and made it sting and watci' for some time. The Judge enjoyed this hugely, and expressed the wish that the whole army of them would follow the good example. At the end of a tedious trip, they landed in Brooklyn. They had never hefore landed there. As soon as pos- sible they got through the custom house. It is a queer thing that our custom system should he allowed to re- main so complicated that one cannot get through liis own pro})ei'ty, hut is forced to employ a commissioner who follows the business, and whose charges are usually exhorbitant. At that time, live stock imported for hreeding purposes, and of a new and valuable breed, were allowed to enter free of duty. After being passed liuough the custom house, they had to be examined by the ofiicial live stock examiner. This took a good part of the day. BROOKLYN. 187 With much trouble and intense roo yn. \vorr\', they succeeded in getting a stable in Brooklyn, until they could make arrangements to sliip their stock. The following morning, when they went do\\'n to the stable, the proprietor, ^vho had never seen a jack before, informed them that he had no idea that they were such horrible animals, that he had slept none that night on account of their noise, and that his neighbors suffered almost as much; that they must move them that very morning, and that he would help them do so. One can form some idea of their noise, when, it is known that Perry & Lester, who erected a jack stable in West Nashville, near the stock yards, were enjoined by the neighbors from keeping them there, on the ground that they were a pubhc nuisance. They shipped by way of the Lake Erie and Western Kailroad, and got home ^vithout accident and without special incidents. Captain Hill had erected in their absence commodious jack stables near Cockrill Springs, and he and Mr. Hayes were on hand to receive them. On tliis trip Judge Goodpasture came througli with the jacks. They were six days coming from New York, and he and his son fed, watered and attended to the stock in transit. They shipped in Arms Palace cars and no stops were made, food and water being carried in the car. Tliis was a vei^ severe trip for a man of his age — little sleep, irregular meals and constant exposiu-e to the night air and drafts. But he was never a man to pay attention to any amount of labor or exposure — he had an idea that neither hurt him, and appeared to give no thought to the subject. In fact, up to this time, he had scarcely felt the effect of his years, and believed himself to be able to successfullv wnthstand an\i:hing-. CHAPTER XVII. The jacks were gotten into good shape for the ^vint€r and spring trade. Employment. ^ i o ^ an excellent catalogue was printed and distrilnited and the stock advertised in the principal agricultural papers. The tirm liad great success in the sales of this importation, together with the gray ones l)rought over on the previous trip. The last importation were sold at what would now appear high prices, rang- ing from $800.00 to $2,000,00. The Judge spent the winter attending to his home afi'airs and assisting in the care and sale of the jacks. He also argued some important cases in the Supreme Court during the ^nnter. One cause especially inter- ested him — that of Gore vs. Stafford. It had been twace tried in both the Circuit and Chancery Courts, and once by the Courts of Referees, altogether five times, and Staiford had lost at each trial. It was an important case, involving the title to an island. After losing be- fore the Referees, Staiford employed Judge Good- pasture's firm to assist his local attorneys before the Supreme Coiu-t. The record was much the largest be- fore the coiu't at that term, containing something like two thousand pages. Stafford gained it. Judge Caldwell who delivered the opinion of the court, being the same judge who had delivered the opinion in the Court of Referees, thus reversing himself and five previous judg- uients, a most uncommon legal triumph. 'riiiKD impokYaTion. . 189 By the middle of ^larch, 188 1, alJ of the jacks of boiii importations were sold but tliree; one of these being a Jack imported by him individiially named Paulito and which he afterwards sold for $1,200.00; Alfonso, the best jack of the lirst importation, and a three year old colt. They made good seasons that year, and holding them over proved a profitable investment. Having been so successful in the sale*^ of this importation, another was at Importation. ^ once resolved upon, and on May i, IcSSi', the Judge and his son, and once more "lion."' John Terry, left J^ashville for the third importation, uiu] sailed per steamship Chateau ^Margaux, ]\Iay 4. John was not put in the steerage this trip but in the second cabin, where he had plenty of wine at his mea!;-. wliich he had grown to appreciate ver\- much. His onJ\ trouble seemed to Ije that of ha^-ing to occupy a eal)iii with two white nu-n, one of whom was continuouslv sea-sick. This unsettled John's stomach again, but as ihe sea-sick man divided his bottle of In-aiuiy, he was. in a measure, compensated for other and disagreeable Teat u res. All who have ever been at sea will remeudjer how the water sceujs lo rise like a high rolling lull in the distance. This hill was u matter of much speculation to Jolui, who said he had, all his life, heard old uu'n say that water would seek its level. The passenger list was small but composed of a queer conglomeration of nationalities, a very few of whom could talk ^vith each other. Among the number was a Frenchman from Hayti, together with liis negro wife and two mulatto children, an old Greek, who was unable igo JEFFERSON DILI.ARD GOODPASTURE. to talk to anyone on board, two Arabs from Jerusalem, a German Jew and family, three or four Spaniards, several Frenchmen and three Americans. Altogether, there were nine di^stinct nationalities on board. The (Ireek passenger died during the voyage and was buried at sea. The captain conducted the funeral ser- vice, delivering a short but serious and appropriate address. It was ven,' afl'ecting to all the passengers, but to one of the Arabs it was almost ovci'whelming. They were Moslems, and had a horror of being buried by a Christian dog. This Arab was named Jusef, and eould speak a few words of English. The Judge soon got acquainted with him. Jusef said he was well fixed at Jerusalem — that he had a wife and two donkeys, and that he made them \vork for him a plenty. They landed in Bordeaux, France, !May 17. 1887, after a verj' smooth, pleasant and uneventfid voyage. They at once tele- gTaphed to Barcelona for Eivcs, and were two days liear- ing from him. He replic-d. that he was engaged by an- other importing firm. They then searched for another, and finally fotmd a man. a stevedore, named Paid Carles, who could speak English but had never acted as an in- terpreter, nor lieaj-d of brcx^ding jacks. He and the Judge had an amusing interview. Carles agreed to go \\ith them for ten francs per day and expenses. They desired to start at once. Suddenly Carles turned to tlie Judge and saiti: "Sir, do you know my terms?"' The Judge replied that he thought it ten fracs per day and expenses. "Xo sir,'" said he. "it is, that I require twenty-four hoiu's notice." "Then,"' said the Jiulge, "I now aive notice that in twents'-four hours we will JFRENCH FAIRvS. IQI leave Bordeaux." This was satisfactory, and at the end of that time they left to attend several fairs to he held in southern Fi-anee. They visited a niimher of these, the one at Aries heing the best, hut found no jacks good enough to import, though they found any number of other kinds of live stock of the best quality. These fairs are not such in our sense of the word, but are more in the nature of huge annual markets, whicli the whole surrounding country attend, bringing what- ever they niay have for sale. It is the best of all places to see the varying types of jieasants. It is made a gen- eral holiday as well as market, several dances being in }!rogress throughout the day, traveling shows and slight of hand performances doing a thriving Inisiness, and every one making a big day of it. On such a day. the leading hotel of the town, at break- fast time (]2 m.), is a place worthy of study. The long dining table is continuously crowded. The women rush in w ith armful s of Ijread, three feet long, like they some- limes carry stovewood in this country. A part of this is distributed on the table and the balance stood up in one corner of the room. Two or three barrels of wine stand near with faucets in them, at which two v.omen are kept busy filling bottles for the use of the guests. Many of those who have finished the meal linger at the table to drink one or two more tmnblers of wine and smoke a cigarette. By the time they have eaten a hearty breakfast and drunk a quart of wine, each feels in a good humor with the others and as they all talk at the same time, a very babel of noise rises with the volumes of smoke. It is a sight never seen in America. 1^2 JKKFKRSON Dll.I.AKl) ( UJODFASTLrRE. After visiting these fairs and rnnniug Leaves for t e j^^^^.j^ .^ niunber of false ritmors about Pyrenees. . the location of fine jacks, it was recognized that there was nothing to be had in this part of France, and they left for the mountains, passing through Toulouse and Carcassonne. They reached the end of the railroad, and the foot of the Pyrenees, at a village called Quillan. Here, in looking over a breed- er's directory for France, they found that one Uiho, gill, of Porte, in the Cerdan, was a. breeder of stallion jacks. They telegraphed him. France being on a war basis, the telegTaph lines are not confined to tlie railroads, })ut iiin into the mountains and every part of the republic. Tpon investigation, it was discovered Courtois ^j^^^, ^^.^^^^^ "j^.^^.^. ^^ ^^^^.^, ^^^^^. ^^^^ & Co. mountains in a carriage; that it vrould take not less than three days, and that there was no bank at Porte from which they coidd draw money. As they were running short of funds. \V. Jl. (loodpasture v/as sent back to Carcassonne to draw some, though it was liot at all certain that he could gel it there. It turned (lUt to be a holiday, and the banks were all closed. Next dav. he found that the banks there did not deal in such exchange, it lieing a rather small i)lace. so he returned to Quillan. The following day he went to Toidouse, where his letter of credit had a regular corresitondenl, Messrs. Courtois »S: Co., and carried with him his passport as iui identilication. Toulouse Ijeing an interior city and hav- ing had little business in this line, they declined to pay a (Jnift on the credit, unless authorized to do so by P.rowii. Shipley & Co.. of Ltmdon. on whom the credit w:is COURTOIS & CO. 193 drawn, it having been issued by Brown Bros. & Co., of Xew York. Tliis placed Mr. Goodpasture in a jwedica- nient. He was expected to return to Quillan on the seven o'clock train that evening. The interpreter had been left there with Judge Goodpasture. However, he concluded to wait, much against his will, and gave the bank the money to cable, panng for the answer at the same time, a queei' custom that is enforced in France where the message requires an answer; and also gave them a telegram to send Judge Goodpasture, explaining the matter, and luckily taldng a receipt for the same. I'he latter was never sent, and when his son failed to aiTive at the expected time, it threw the Judge's part\ into the greatest consternation. The amount to be drawn was some four thousand dollars, and the Judge jumped to the conclusion that some one had seen him draw the money, had followed, rohbed and possibly mur- dered him. A sleepless night was spent, and when the morning train came in without his son, the uncertainty of the previous evening appeared certain and hope Ava.s abandoned. The Judge telegraphed to Bordeaux, Tou- louse and Garcassoniie, and began making preparations to start out on the sad search by the next train. He liad very little money, but the inn keeper at Quillan told him that he need not pay his board bill. Fortunately, before the train left, he re<;eived this telegram in answer to one he had sent: "Drew money this morning, gone — Courtois." This relieved him at once. His son an-ived with the money that evening, and was greatly astonished to find that the bank had failed to send his telegTam at the time of the cable. He had not been well treated hy the bank in other 13 194 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. respects. Altogether, the mistreatment was so gross and its consequences so serious, that they thought the firm deserred a lesson that would stay with them as long as they remained in Ijusiness. They, therefore, wrote them a letter just as strong as they could find language to make it. The matter was fully reported and refen-ed to Brown, Shipley &' Co.. who. after making a thorough examination into it, and hearing the statement of the bank, promptly removed them as one of their corres- pondents and siibstituted a rival bank. No other action was ever taken in the matter. It was a long, dreary drive over tlie rive ver mountain from Quillan, a part of the Mountains. ^vay being over an unfinished road, where it was necessary to walk a good part, of the time. Ancient castles crowned the tops of the high mountain peaks, giving a very romantic appearance, and occasion- ally a wild goat could be seen scrambling along the rocky cliffs. Ice cold water poured down the sides of the mountain, the streams being fed by the melting snow. They entered a small valley, in which was located a little village, inhabited by the most provincial people they had ever met. The Judge said that undoubtedly no white man had ever put his foot in the place before. ()nly Americans were white men to the Judge, just as all the outside world were barbarians to the Greeks. By ransacking the town, buvdng ham at one place, eggs at another and potatoes at a tliird. they were enabled to have a verj' good dinner. While the meal was being prepared, the Judge looked around the village. A horrid old woman, evidently the virago of the place, said something to him. but as GREAT EASTERN. I95 he did not understand it. he paid no attention to her. She repeated it louder with a Hke re&ult. Then she was good and mad, came up to liim, and \nth a loud voice and many gesticulations, gave him several pieces of her mind. The Judge retreated to the place where the din- ner was to be served, and where the interpreter had re- mained. The old woman followed with a number of younger people close in her wake. "'Oh,'' she said, ''you can talk and you can hear, but you think yourself too fine a gentleman to speak to me.'' And thereafter the Judge kept close in until they left. Before entering the valley of the Cerdan, they spent the night with one J. B. Merlat, at the \-illa.ge of Fourmigueres. an innkeeper and stock coimnissioner, whom they employed. He proved in all respects the most reliable and competent of any ever engaged. They found an abundance of good jacks here. It is on the frontier ot France with Bourg-^Nfadame on the French and Puy- ccrda on the Spanish side. Sixteen head were purchased ajid, both collectively and individually, they were tlie best lot ever imported to America. Among the numl>er was Great Eastern, a jack that has stood unrivaled for size, general fomi and excellence, either in Europe or America. He was five years old, sixteen and one-haJf hands high, short, black hair, long body, unequalled head and ear, large, clean bone, and beauty to a re- markable dogi-ee. In fact, he filled the ideal of a perfect jack. He had taken the first prize of a thousand pese- tas at the International Jack Show, at Puycerda, and his reputation had extended all over that part of Em-ope. While on the subject, it M-ill. perhaps, be in order to 196 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. State, tliat at ihe request of the executive committee of the American Breeders' Association of Jacks and Jen- nets, his picture was inserted in the first volume of the Jack Stock Stud Book, as a perfect specimen of the Catalonian breed. After getting him home, the Judge was offered four thousand dollars for him on a guar- antee of his eomplete recovery (he was then suffering from the results of the trip) which he declined. He was certain the jack would recover in his own hands, but feared to risk him with another. There were a number of other very line animals in the importation, among them a sixteen hand jack that took third prize in the ring at Puycerda being shown against Great I'.astern. John succeeded in distinguishing John DJstin- |^-^^^^p,f ^,j^ ^j^^g ^^p. One dav, thev gui&hcs Himself. "^ . , ', were oxaimning a most beautiful specimen of rather small jack. Just as W. H. Good- pasture stepped in front of him for a closer inspection, the jack suddenly jerked loose from his owner and grabbed ]\lr. Goodpasture by the overcoat, tearing it almost off him, and very nearly jerking him down. Re- leasing himself, he and the balance of the party, the Judge leading the van, made their escape over a stone fence. This examination was sufficient, and they at once left. As they drove off, the last they saw of the (iwner, he was after the jack ^vith a pitchfork. It seems the old farmer had experienced trouble in abundance with him before, and was growing veiT tired of it. He sold him for a song to a young, strong and risky farmer hard by. who thought the jack had not been properly handled. But after hanng liim a few days and being nearly killed, he grew quite as sick of liim as JOHN DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF. 197 had his previous owner. Hence, he telegraphed Judge Goodpasture to make liiui an offer for him. The Judge then called John in and told liim all about the jack, and asked him if he thought he could conquer Mm, otherwise he w^ould not want liim at any price. John said he certainly could. The Judge telegraphed an offer of three hundred franc — a little less than sixty dollars — if the owner would deliver him at Bourg-Madame and have him shod all around. This was accepted, and one evening in came the jack, led by two men. He had on a big heavy bridle with a rope in either ring. Each man walked at his side and held one of the ropes, mak- ing it impossible for the jack to jump at either because he would be held by the other. In addition, he had a rounding steel band with double rows of teeth, fitted over his nose to hold him back. He was brought up in front of the hotel and John went out to get him. ISTow, John is six feet one, has unusually long, muscular fingers, with no surplus flesh whatever, and is a most powerful man. Wliile the two men held him, he went out and secured a firm hold on the jack's loAver jaw, his fingers meeting inside the mouth. Then, to the amazement of the Frenclmien, he asked that the bridle be taken off. They had to be told to do so a second time. As soon as this was done, the jack began to rear and plunge and ti^ to strike John with liis fore feet, but as he did so, John, by a quick wrench, threw Mm to the gi'ound. The jack l>ounced up like a rubber ball, at once renewed the fight and was again thrown. By this time, John was gripping Ms mouth so tightly that blood was spurting from uumerous places in his lips. The Judge called out to igS JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. John to kill or conquer him. To shorten the storv', it is only necessar}- to add, that John so thoroughly sub- dued him that he followed him without bridle or halter into the stable. The Judge presented him with a new suit of clothes, and as long as he remained there, he was the biggest man in Bourg-Madame. The jack wa^* never aftenvards any trouble to them, but thorouglily docile and obedient. He was sold to a Texan for $750.00, but when spring came, his old viciousness re- appeared, and having no one who could re^conquer him, he was turned out \\'ith the horses on the ranch, to run at large. They finished bunng Jime 17, and The March Across . i j /» m ^i i i _^ „ ^ . started lor larascon, the nearest rail- The Mountains. way station, at four o'clock on the morning of the 18th. The distance from Bourg- Madame to the railroad is foriy-two miles, over the Pyrenees. The jacks had to be led, and a man was employed for each. Their excellent commissioner, Mon- sieur Merlat, engaged these, and saw to their getting off early, so as to go the day's journey before the sun became too hot. They were given a dollar per day, and fed and housed themselves on the trip. It looked like a little army as they passed out of the town that bright June morning, all the jacks braAong and the men singing and shouting rough badinage to each other. The Judge insisted on leading a jack him- self. They went in single file. It was a jolly procession and attracted great attention. They would sometimes pass by women working in the fields. This was always a great time for the men to get otf their jokes. And sometimes these were rough beyond anything permitted THE MARCH ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS. 199 in this coimtry. It was all taken, however, in good part, and the women would usually paiTV them quite successfully. The first day they went fifteen miles to Porte, at the foot of the steepest part of the road up the Pp-enees. From tliis Tillage they could look up and see the snow covering the entire mountain top. Here the men chip- ped in and bought bread, Avine and dried beef from which they made a hearty breakfast. They slept in the hay that night. The Judge and son went to the Delmonico's of the place, a house composed of a stable underneath, and a small place of entertainment above. One of the daughters of the house was a plain but extremely good natured woman of abont forty years of age. She was very soUcitous of pleasing and making them com- fortable. The Judge seemed to tliink of no way of com- pensating her for such kind attention except by letting it out through the interpreter that she was the beet look- ing woman he had seen in France, and a few other like comphments. This gratified her immensely, and she redoubled her efforts to entertain them— slew a kid, killed her fattest chicken and feasted them to all the good things on the place. In going over the mountains next day, they stopped for a few moment's rest, as they did quite often in going up very long and steep climbs. Here the Judge's Jack stepped over the guttering of the road bed onto a slightly elevated bank, not more than eight inches high, to graze. When ready to start, the jack refused to come down. The Judge pulled and persuaded, but for some time in vain. Finally, the jack reared as though going 200 JEFFERSON DILLAKD GOODPASTURE. to JLUiip a liigli fence and gave a feai'ful Jeoard coming home. To New York. ^ ^ ^ ^, ,. f „ Capt. C. C. H. Burton and rranJc Lestei- were on board with a most excellent importation —one among the best ever brought over; also Mr. A. B. ^lurray and ^Ir. Rutherford, with an importation large in numbers, rather undersized but containing some vei7 handsome ammals. All these people were well known to them and were apjn-eciated companions. On these French boats, breakfast is not served until eleven o'clock and frequently later, and as they were generally up early and expected to be busy with the stock, this feature of the trip did not look veiy pleasing. Fortunatelv, in u'oing down tlie Gevonne. Bordeaux be- • THE VOYAGE TO NEW YORK. 20I ing eighty miles up the river from the Bay of Biscay, they stopped to take on some freight at a small town called Panllac, famous for its claret wines. Here two of the pai-ty went ashoi'e on a boat, the steamer being anchored in mid stream, and bought two hnndred and fifty eggs, a fine ham, onions, lemons and a freshlv cooked hog's head for the benefit of the Judge, who esteemed it a dish of especial delicacy. On board, the} soon made a bargain with the chief cook to furnish them with bread and hot coffee, and to cook the ham and eggs. These they had for a seven o'clock breakfast every morn- ing during the voyage, and no man was ever heard to complain of the lack of variety. One of the jiassengers was a Frenchnum who had lived for a time in the State of Missouri and co\dd s])eak Eng- lish. He was very talkative, very irascible, and an utter stranger to the meaning of a joke. He was above sixty years of age and felt privileged. His little weaknesses and eccentricities soon became apparent. His name was Crossa. After getting fairly settled down and started, the Judge one morning said: "Mr. Cross-eye, this is a ver}' fine morning.'' The old fellow looked at him rather hard but answered that it was. The next day at breakfast, the Judge said, ":Sh\ Cork-eye, how long do you expect to remain in America?" Mr. Crossa looked at him harder than ever and was silent for a time, but finally made some sort of reply. But on the third day the climax was reached. The Judge asked: "'Will you kindly pass me the bread, Mr. Cock-eye?" Then the old fellow jumped up from the table in the greatest rage, and it was with some difficulty that he was restrained. All was quiet after this until one day Mr. Crossa 202 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE- • spoke of having once lived in x\merica; that he was in "Mizzuri'" for about eight years. And the Judge, with great gravity, told him that if he had lived in misery for that length of time, no one could well blame him for going back to France. This came near precipitating the whole trouble over again. Crossa was tery fond of wine, as are all Frenchmen, and stated that he would rather do Avithout bread at Ms meals than wine. So at dinner that day, Frank Lester started the matter Ijy giving the balance of the crowd the wink and pouring out a full tumbler of wine; all the others followed suit, drank it and refilled, and be- fore the old fellow could well get started on his meal, all the wine was gone. He ordered the waiter to go for more. The waiter disappeared and returned v.'ith the information that all had Ijeen served that was given out for the meal. And the old Frencliman said he would as soon dine with a set of hogs as with such a lot of Americans. They amved home the last of July. In transit from New York, the jacks grew so tired and sleepy from in- cessant travel and constant standing on their feet, that they began to fall and had to be stopped and rested at Cincinnati, from which point the Judge came home on a passenger train, All were gotten to Xash\alle in good condition and placed in the old sales stable of Hill & Goodpastm-e. The partnership with Mr. Hill ended with the sec(md importation. CHAPTER XVIIL After resting for only a few days, Sends Back For ^y pj Goodpasture, carrj-ing John -w-itli him. returned for Great East- em. On arrival in the Cerdan, he offered a reward of one thousand pesetas to any one who would find him a Jack of equal merit. No one ever claimed the reward. Mr. Goodpasture purchased seven more jacks and a French coach horse, and in September, arrived safely home vdih them all, including Great Eastern. A very quick trip had been made in order, if possible, to get back in time to show Great Eastern in. the State Fair. The jack arrived in Nashville only two days be- fore the meeting and was too much affected by the trip to be exhibited. But he was shown in the stables to large and admiring throngs of stock men. A most excellent cut of Mm from a sketch by the artist A. C. Webb, was soon aftenvard made for illustration in the stock papers of the countrv^ This was stated by a member of the Farmers' Home Journal Company, of Louisville, to be the first illustration of a jack ever to appear in a paper, which is, without doubt, true. There were few people who believed it to be a con-ect repre- sentation of the animal. The cut was made by the ]kIethodist Publishing House, who sold a copy of it to a IocaI printer, who intended to use it as a cut in his Jack bills. A lawsuit resulted, the court holding tlmt the picture, unless copyrighted, Monged to the public. 204 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. This stock was also sold easily and at good prices, ex- cept Great Eastern, who was fanned to a breeder for the season, where he contracted lung fever and died. The winter and spring was passed in caj"ing for and selling this stock. The following summer, the firm formed a partnership for an impoi"la- Partnerships. . ^ tion \nth livles and Panner. former importers, and W. 0. Parmer and W. H. Goodpastui'e went for the stock. Judge Good]iasture concluded to rest . '*' that summer, and he and wife took To Mexico. a pleasure tnp to Mexico. They left about the middle of June, 1888, and made their first stop at St. Louis, examining all the important points of interest. Among the things seen particularly enter- taining to the Judge, was the cyclorania of the battle of ,Missionar\^ Eidge, where he recognized the pictures of Governor Porter, General Cheatham and others. It was during the memorable Cleveland and Thumian campaign. Xow, like the old Roman, he himself was accustomed to carry a red bandanna. 31rs. Goodpastiu'e, having sliipped her shawl in her trunk, he loaned her his bandanna to protect her head from the drafts on the train from St. Louis to Kansas City. Ever}' one on the train reoog-nized the sign, and some were heard to remark that there sits a good Democrat. They stopped a day and night in Kansas Cit}s long enough to see all there was to be seen. The town is too new to have much to attract visitors, unless it be streets graded down a hundred feet below the houses and \vhich cannot be reached by their occupants. They next A VISIT TO WKXICO. 205 visited Las \'egas, where they spent a night, and the next day went to the Hot Springs. Here they made the entire ascent of the monntain, which gi'ew a little tiresome to the Judge, l)iit they were rewarded by a line view. They were especially pleased with Las Vegas and the springs, and enjoyed their stay there very ranch. They stopped for two days at El Passo, where they were delighted to meet ^Ir. A. G. Hodge and wife, Anth whom they stopped. These were old friends who had boarded at the Judge's for two or three years, and had been great favorites with the family. Their stay was most agreeable, and eveiT attention was shown them. Here they fii-st learned of the ^[exican flood, and that the trains had been stopped for some time on account of it. They left on the second train that went out over the road, and had to stop altogether at night, and often in day time they would have to wait until an employee walked in front of the train to see if the track was in condition to be passed over. At Leone, where the flood seems to have been the worst, they were forced to stop an entire day. Tliis is a large town, and they found the people sleeping in the ]>ajks in ihe greatest destitution, the town being sub- merged in water. A large number of people were search- ing the rivers for the dead. They arrived at Mexico City in the night. On the way down, they had become acquainted with two sisters of charity. On alighting at the depot, no carriages \\ere to be had, all being engaged. They were relieved from this unpleasant predicament by the sisters, who kindly offered them seats in their carriage and had them driven to the hotel Iturbide, at wliich they stopped. 2o6 JKFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURK. Here they met ]\lajor Foster, a Tennessean, who showed them many courtesies. They also met Mr. Bowling and wife of Bowling Green, Kentucky, a place not more than sixty n)iles from their own home. They at once devoted themselves assiduously to seeing the sights of the town, examining the great aqueducts built by Cortez, seeing the place where Maximilian was shot, the private burying grounds of the city, and the monument of Juarez. This monument the Judge "thought one of the finest and handsomest he had ever seen. They went to Guadalupe and saw a natural soda fountain boiling up from the gToiind, the shrine of "ily Lady of Guadalupe'* and the cathedral. Xeax here, they saw the tomb of Santa Anna, a veiy plain and unassuming one, and such as would indicate that his counti'janen were not very' proud of his memory. They brought home some flowers from his grave. Before returning to the city they ate a regular Mexican dinner. Through an introduction by Major Foster, they were allowed to visit the militar}' school, M^here they were treated with much consideration and shown everything. "When they entered a class room, the professor and all the students would stand until they left. They went to Chepultepec, from which point they coidd see the smoke rising from the volcano Popocatapetl. They were much struck l)y the street railway system, the lines having first, second and third class cars, and a baggage car fo? freight. The conductoi"s use horns instead of bells foi stopping them. They visited the American legation and were well re- ceived, being invited to the Fourth of July ball, which thev did not find convenient to attend. Thev were A VISIT TO MEXICO. 20^ much impressed \nth many of the Mexican public huikl- ings, and especially by the Senate building on the square. They attended a Sunday entertainment given (in behalf of the flood sufferers. It was given in the building erected by the government at the Xew Orleans Exposition. The music was magnificent, and a gi'eat many of the best people were there in very handsome costumes. They also saw what is a beautiful sight in all countries and is appreciated by all classes, a grand mili- tary review. They spent a week in the Mexican capital, and during the entire time the weather was cool and delightful, it rained nearly every day, but only in showei^ and inter- fered little with sight seeing. They returned to the United States via El Paso. Along the road they bought liaskets of delicious strawberries, and were informed that they were to be had every day in the year, but would not bear shipment. Xotliing in the country seemed to so much impress the Judge as the plowing in the fields by the natives. lie had been a famous plower himself in his boyhood days, and always prided liimself on Ms ability to run a straight furrow; but these Mexicans could surpass any- one at it he had ever seen; not one. but all, seemed to do so. At El Paso they changed their return route and went to Los Angeles where they stopped for two days, seeing the noted ostrich farm, visiting the to^\^l*s watering place, and watching the surf bathing. The Judge was much impressed by the many improvements noted, and the general air of prosperity. Among other things, they have built one of the finest drives in the country. From 2o8 JEFFKRvSON L)«LLARD (iOODPASTT KK. liere they went to San fVancisco, where they remained eight days, stopping at the Palace ITotel. at that time the largest in the United States. They went to the ship building yards, and saw liic warship, Alabama, launched. They ran out and spent a day at Oakland, a beautiful suburban town, one afternoon at San Bafael and an evening at the Golden Gate. In the city, they visited Sutro Heights, which they thought the prettiest ])lace yet visited. These lovely gardens and grounds are i-eally private and filled with fine residences but the public are kindly allowed to enter and admire them. Of course they went to (*hinatown — no visit to San Francisco is complete without it. Their visit was much facilitated by a letter of introduction from a Cliinese merchant which gave them an entrance into places not open to the public. They examined the Joss House, and at night, the Judge visited the Chinese theater. Leaving San Francisco, they next stopped for a couple of days at Salt Lake City, where they were in time to see the celebration of the landing of the pioneer fathers in the Utah Valley. There were speeches by Cannon and others, and one of the widows of Brigham Yoimg occupied a seat on the platform. They visited the cele- lirated Ueehive, one of Brigham YoTing's numerous man- sions, his grave, the tithing house and the great temple, not yet complete, but a most magnificent building. They had Ix-en at work on it for more than twenty years. They were at Garfield Beach and saw the multitudes bathing in the lake. They next visited Colorado Springs, Golden Gate Park and Manitou Springs. Xear here Senator Palmer has his summer home. Thev were at Denver for a dav, A VISIT TO MEXICO. 209 spending the time driving over the city. It is a hand- some and well built town, but contains nothing of especial interest. There were few things to disappoint them on the tour, the general trip being a most agreeable surprise. But a few were so to the Judge, and among these was the noble red man of the West. Instead of finding the man of splendid carriage and fine physique which he ex- pected, he pronounced them the lowest order of hiunaii being-s he had ever seen. All were dirty and filthy, all looked half starved and all seemed to be beggai's. And if it Avere possible to Ise so, the women looked worse than the men, illshapen, undeveloped and almost naked. The Garden of the Gods A^as also disappointing. They had passed through the gi*and canons and other scenery that was so much superior, that the place looked tame and insipid. Taken as a whole, however, he pro- nounced it the greatest and pleasantest trip he had ever made. During the absence of VV. H. Goodpasture m the early summer, Judge Goodpasture had purchased a lot just to the rear of the fair grounds, on which he erected an excellent stable and feed store, and in which he ex- ercised his talent for practical economy, purchasing the lumber in person and superintending the erection of the buildings. On his return from ]\Iexico, a part of the importation was put in the new stables. Among the number in the last lot brought over, was a half sister to Great Eastern, a fine three year old, which was after- wards sold for a thousand dollars, a good price for li jennet, and especially so tov an untried one: 14 2IO JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. The French coach horse that had Leave for impor- ^^^^^ imported had attracted a great deal of favorable attention and a half interest in him was sold for $750.00, the horse having cost in France $300.00 in round numbers. Tliis led the Judge to think there might be money in well selected coach horses;. As Messrs. Lyles and Parmer, partners, could attend to the jacks in his absence, he determined upon the importation of a small number of English Cleveland bays, and he and W. H. Goodpasture left for England the latter part of August, 1888. On arri^-ing at New York, they had the opportunity of attending the grand ovation tendered Senator Thur- man, then the Democratic nominee for Vice President, at Madison Square Garden. There were full twenty thousand lusty Democrats present, packing the great building and all seemed to be yelling and waiving red bandannas. The old Roman was so feeble as to be able to speak only a few words, inaudible to most of the crowd but was followed by Governor Flower, whose voice rang clear and strong to the limits of the vast crowd. Several other Democrats of national reputation .spoke. It was the biggest political gathering the Judge had ever seen. From New York they sailed on the **S<»^- Anchor Line steamer, Fumessia, for Glasgow, Scotland, and landed on September 18, in Glasgow. They at once Ix'gan an investigation into the horse business, visiting the stables of Da\dd Riddle, one of the best known of all the Scotch breeders, being the owner of the Prince of Wales, perhaps the greatest Clyde «re at that tiine in Scotland, After e:N-an)ining what LONDON AND iTvS ATTRACTIONS. 211 Mr. Riddle had in the city, they, in company with his son, visited several breeding establishments in the country, Init purchased nothing, returning to the city. The Glasgow exposition was still in progress, which they went to see. It was quite elaborate and contained many interesting tilings. On the streets of the city, they were much entertained at seeing the costumes of the Highlanders and were as- tonished that such a dress could survive so long. They took the train, after a stay of two days, for London, going by way of Edinburg, York and other cities, and in passing through the former could see some of the fine monuments and castles. This train was the fastest on which they had ever ridden. The distance from Glasgow to London is four hundred and fifty miles. This they made in nine hours, including stops. The schedule during the hunting season is eight hours. On arriving in London, they went to London and Its ^j^^-^. f^^j^^-^-^Q^ stopping place with Attractions. ,^ ^^ ^ rr<, , , ^ , , Mrs. Dysai-t. Thoy had not yet dis- covered where to go to tind tlie liorses desired, and de- termined to stav some flays in London informing them- fcelves. The city had many very attractive things to he seen just at tliis time. Among others which they attended was an evening performance at the Irish Exhibition. There was a perfect little Irish Aallage. with a herd of Kern- cows, the smallest cattle in existence, and the nllagers showed how they carried on their dairpng, the linen industry and many other things. There was a his- torically correct representation of Blarney and Droghedti 212 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. castles. A company of Irish cavalry gave a fine exhibi- tion of riding and field sports. Di^^ding themselves into two companies, they put on wooden helmets with long plumes in them, and anned themselves with stout sticks. At a given signal, each charged the other and tried to knock out the plumes from the helmets, and it li)oked like they would knock each others heads off in the undertaking. Later, as infantry, they stormed and took Drogheda castle, one of the uiost realistic lights imaginable. They also went to the French exhibition one evening. In addition to a splendid display of the products of France and her colonies, there was given a fine exhibi- tion of the French soldier in the field, camp life, etc., and of their campaigns iii Africa, and Egypt. Besides the large company of French soldiers, mounted on ex- cellent horses, there was a large company of Arabs, cojnmaiKk'd })y a native Sheik. They rode pure bred Arabian hoi-ses, which was in itself a most entertaining sight. These gave an exhibition of life on the plains and desert, their modes of worship and government, their games, and, finally, in a marauding expedition, captured and carried off a caravan crossing the desert. Like all visitors to London, they made it a point to visit Madame Taussand's. It is the best display of wax figures in Eiu'ope. They entered a long hall filled \rith life like coimterfeits of all the notable people about whom there was a public curiosity, and leisurely exaanined them in passing down. Suddenly Judge Goodpasture stopped and pointed some distance down the hall to the solitaiw figure of a man standing with his back to them. The .Tudge sai4 thfit^ looking at the main's back and from bis tONiJON AND ITS ATTRACtlONS. 2t3 position, it looked exactly like Andrew Johnson. They strolled on down, and when they reached the figure, sure enough it was Johnson, and so perfect that the Judge felt like shaking hands with him. If there were any other Americans to be seen they are not now re- ealled. In making inquiries in the city, they discovered a breeders" directory for the kingdom, and found the exact information desired, the names of the breeders of vai-ious kinds of horses and their addresses. In this directory, they were astonished to find that England had a jack breeder, Mr. C. L. Sutherland, and that he lived only a few miles out of the city in the county of Kent. Not discovering how to reach him by rail, they took a car- riao-e and drove through what is considered one of the prettiest parts of England. They amved about eleven o'clock in the morning, and found ilr. Sutherland still in bed, but he got up and treated them with great hos- pitality. He had the Maltese and Catalonian breeds of jacks, an excellent specimen of the latter, but asked a price for him altogether beyond reason. He had form- erly owned a fine Poitou, but had sold him at auction in France for more than a thousand dollars. He had them to dismiss their carriage and remain to dine with him. After dinner, they walked over to the home of Mr. Darwin, the scientist, where Ms widow still lived. The lawn, in front of a fine old English country mansion, is covered with large oaks, and around it is a circular path made by Mr. Darwin in walking the lawn in his long periods of meditation. He seemed to have been a sort of Socrates in this respect, and it has made a profound impression on his neighbors. 214 JEFFERSON dILLARD GOODPASTURE. They returned to London by rail, and that evening attended a performance at the Crystal Palace, a place where every nsitor does or ought to go. Here the light- ing was beyond anytliing they had ever imagined. The place is several miles out from the city, and in going on the train the Judge unfortunately got a cinder in one of Ms eyes that gave him great trouble and a poor op- portunity to enjo}^ the brilliant scene. The lights on the grounds were of ever}' color and seemed to be num- berless. A great castle was made of these, an immense birdge, a music stand, and the walks, lined on both sides with thousands of lights, wound their way through the shrubs and flowers. There was splendid music and the performance wound up with a grand ballet. They left immediately after, and happened to get into a car oc- cupied by a large number of those who had taken part m the dance. They were surprised to see how beautiful and fairy like they were on the stage, and how ignorant and common place they appeared off it. Next day the}'' went out about forty miles to see ^Ir. Palmer's herd of prize ^\^nning short horns, and horses. Mr. Palmer is ver}' wealthy and lives in the city, but they were well received by his manager and shown everything on the place. They amved after dinner, but as hungry as two wolves. However, they were invited to lunch, and were set down to a leg of cold mutton, and cider, equal, it appeared to them, to the best champagne. They had never seen any in America like it. How the .]udge did bemoan the fates that day, that denied him the privilege of eating mutton, particularly as he sat by and saw his son eat it ravenously and actually appear to enjoy the performance. PURCHASES. ^15 The following day they left for York, Purchases. the very heart of the Cleveland Bay breeding district. They examined a large number of Yorkshire Bays as well as Clevelands, the former having an infusion of the thoroughbred blood, but they determined to adhere to their original intention and buy only the pure breed. They pur- chased a number of fine young horses around North Allerton, an excellent one at Stamford Bridge, and the best horse of the importation from ^Ir. Baker, of Ing- manthorpe Grange, called Ingmanthorpe Boy, No. 846. These horses were registered in the English Cleveland Bay stud book. They ran up to Manchester and had a look at that large manufacturing city, and that night saw a perform- ance at the theater by Mr. and ]\Irs. Kendall, w^ho after- . wards created such a fm*ore in America. They then went out to the fair at Altringham, where they had been invited by Mr. John Kirby, from whom they had made a purchase, and who was to be one of the judges in the light harness ring. Here they purchased a three year old Clyde-shire hoi-se. of gi-eat size and beauty, of Mr. John Brown, a tenant on the lower farm of Lord Eger- ton. They had not intended the purchase of any large horses, but when they thought of the sensation he would create, could not resist the temptation. They also se- cured an Exmoor pony that was afterwards sold to A. V. Goodpasture, and from which he has raised quite a herd. Before leaving Yorksliire, they visited the well known Booth farm of short horns. They had the stock collected at Liverpool. While waiting for the sailing of the boat, they attended a per- 2l6 JKFFKRSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. formance at the Princess theater by Miss Mary Ander- son, in "A Winter's Tale."' This was one of her last appearances. She came to the United States soon after- wards for a tour but was taken sick and returned to England where she soon aftenvards married and retired from the stage. They shipped on the steamer Oranmore for Baltimore, where they landed without accident or loss of stock. xVfter resting a few days they shipped to Nashville, Judge Goodpasture accompanying the stock on the train and aiding in tlieir care. They arrived home the latter part of October, 1888. CHAPTER XIX. The following winter was pleasantly Prepares for ftn- ^^^^^^ attending to the stock and other Importation. mi t i i i i -i^ making sales. The Judge had built a nice double office near the stahle. where they had big fires, entertained numerous visitors and attended to a ver}' voluminous con-espondence, extending all over the United States and Southern Europe. Inquiries for jacks came in from exery section of the countiy from A'ermont to California, and scarcely a day passed, except Sunday, when they did not have ^^sito^s to see the stock. In the early spring, they closed out '"'''* the jack partnership with Lyles and Parmer, and prepared to make the largest importation of jacks ever yet made to America. Preparations were completed, and on May 4, 1889, the Judge and son sailed on the French steamer Bourgoyne for Havre. It was the year of the Paris International Exposition, and Judge Goodpasture had been appointed a commissioner to it. There was a full complement of passengers on board — quite a crowd of ]\Iexicans. all nice men, a number of negroes from Hayti and several South Americans. A negro woman of the party had a maid with her, who gave the most assiduous attention to her mistress, who was sea-sick most of the time. One woman of unknown nationality, who sat just opposite to them at the dining table, had such a heavy beard that she shaved ever}' morning. 2lS JKFFKRSON DILLAKI) GOOt:)PASTtTRE. They did not stop at Havre, but went directly to Paris, stopping this time at the St. James Hotel on the rue St. Honore. On account of the great crowds coming to tlie exposition, they found hotel rates about double what they had previously been. One of the first places visited was the exposition, the greatest ever held up to that time, and, in many depart- ments, unexcelled since. They were particularly pleased with the beautiful architecture of the building-s. and greatly admired the Eifel tower. It is admitedly one of the greatest pieces of engineering of the time. It was gratifying to note that the elevators were put in by an American firm. The Ullages of the different nation- alities were very curious. Those who filled the African looked as familiar to the Judge as the occupants of a Southern cotton field. At night, they visited a Span- ish circus performing in the city. It was unlike any- thing seen before, and was one of the most enjoyable entertainments ever witnessed in Europe. From Paris they took the train direct for Bordeaux. On arrival, they found that other importers had gotten the interpreter Carles, and they had to search for an- other. They succeeded in getting an English speaking clerk out of the office of Th. Colimibier & Co.. ship brokers, a young fellow of abundant education but little else to recommend him. They hardly knew where to go. Some Good c'^talonia and the Cerdan were both Luck. . ovemm \nth importers, and tiiey did not desire to meet the competition. Leaving the bag- gage at BordeaiLx, they concluded to investigate an un- explored part of the French Pyrenees, and took a train GO TO POITOU. 219 to a point near Tarbes. On the train a gentleman in- formed them that if they would get off at Lannemezan he was sure they coidd find what was wanted. They got off but found no jacks, and were advised to go to a certain town about twenty miles from the railroad. They went and were again disappointed. They returned to Lannemezan, intending to take the train for Bordeaux and then for Barcelona. But their innkeeper insisted on their at least going to Trie before leaving, where he was certain there were a few good jacks. They went but with little hope. Hei-e, to their suqjrise, they en- tered a section never before visited by an American im- porter, and, after a little investigation, found a large number of fine jacks. Most of them were of the Cata- lonian breed, though they bought a sixteen hand Majorca and two Poitous. For the first time they bought jennets as well as jacks. The price of these was very low and the quality good. They left home prepared to purchase the largest importation ' ever brought over, but their plans were yet enlarged by the opportunitiCvS presented. After buving all desired in that sec- Go to Poitou. tion, they returned to Bordeaux and drew four thousand dollars by telegraph from their Nashville bank, which was in addition to the amount of their letter of credit. They then went to Poitou, prin- cipally to the provinces of La Vendee and Deux-Sevres, and were a good deal around the towns of Poitcrs and Niort. They were greatly astonished at the appearahce of tliis race of jacks, none of which had ever been intro- duced into America. Prices were likewise astonishing. They sold here for about as much as do the Spanish m 220 JEFFERSON DILLARD (iOODPAStURE. America, but their mules showed such great superiority over those of all other breeds, tliat they determined to import some at any cost. Their previous desire to get some of these jacks was greatly intensified by a visit to the chateau luid great farm of the Count of Exea. fle had two rarely good specimens of the Poitou Jack, and about one hundred and fifty Poitou mules, one and two }'ears old. The Count, who lived right among the Spanish breeds, told them that the progressive mule breeder in this day of low prices and close competition, could afford to keep and feed no other than the Poitou and make anything. The nniles would sell in the open market for almost a third more than the others. They found the French breedei-s greatly in advance of thedr own, that they had long maintained a stud book (limited to the Poitou breed) and published a monthly, with a lai'ge circulation, in the interest of mides and jacks. Besides, an excellent book had been gotten out on the subject. Judge Goodpasture made a large purchase of Poitous, both jacks and jennets, principally of M. Roy Phillippe and M. Sago, the latter being an officer of the s- tumed to the Pyrenees for those bought there, and col- lected them at Lannemezan, the nearest railroad station. The stock occupied several cars, and by a special dispen- sation, they were allowed to go on the train ^\^th the jacks. They arrived at Bordeaux a Httle after dayhght. The city lies on both side-s of the Geronne^ — about 35,000 on one side and 350,000 people on the other. When they alighted from the train, the Judge could not tell on which side of the river they had stopped, and asked the interpreter, Mr. Duthil. "On zees side, saire,"' was the reply. "All right," said the Judge, ''I was afraid ^\e were on the other." As they came tlirough Toulouse thev Toulouse. ^^^^ delayed for several hours, which thev put in doing the town, though they had been there more than once before. The Judge took an interest in going to the market ^^'here horse flesh is sold and exam- ining the steaks, cuts and roasts. He said it looked rather good — a great deal better than mutton, and he thought it more civilized to eat it. His animosity was kept constantly alive on the mutton question, because it is found on the tables of France and Spain oftentr than any other meat except chicken. From the market they went to the place where the horses are slaughtered. Here such an infirmaiT of old cripples and broken down hacks were collected as no man ever saw outside of a horse eating country. All sorts of unfortunate horses were there, a good many mules and a few small jacks. The Judge thought they ought to be made to kill better fctock or stop the trade. There is no attempt at imposi- tion in the sale of this meat: it is sold strictly as horse 222 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. meat. While passing through the city, a good many chickens were seen running at large on one of tlxe back streets. The Judge remarked to Duthil that in his country they would be stolen, and asked why it hap- pened that this did not occur here. "Because, sir," was, the reply, "in P'rance it is against the law to st^al." But the Judge paid him in his own coin at Havre. On ani^^ng with the stock at Bor- Ship Home. t /-i i deaux, W. H. Goodpasture went to Poitou and collected those there, and brought them to Bordeaux. They now had fifty-two head. They were unable to ship from this port again, and arranged for the. Persian Monarch to call for them at Ha^TC on her voy- age from London to Xew York. They shipped by rail from Bordeaux to Havre. They were gratified to find that Messrs. Kniffin and White, of Danville, 111., had purchased a few jacks in ^Majorca and had arranged to ship on the same boat. They had run short of funds, and the Judge proposed to loan them some, although he had never met them before. Duthil took him to one side and ad^•ised him not to do it. He said: "You do not know these men and how do you know you will not lose your money?'' "Because," replied the Judge, "these are not Frenchmen, but Americans." And Tou- louse was revenged. In the hotel at which the Judge stopped, he saw a large advertisement of the fiimitiu'e dealer, M. Bon- pa^teur. The English translation of this name is Good- pasture. He had previously seen a Bonpasteur street in Calais. These were the only times he had ever seen or heard of the name, outside of his own kindred in America, SHIP HOME. 223 When the boat arrived at Havre, they led the jacks down to the steamer, and arranged \Wth the proprietor of the stable the stock had just occupied to haul do^ii the extra halters, blanl-cet^ and buckets. But tJiey never came; he thought it more profitable to steal them than be paid for their hauling. On the voyage they had much bad luck. They lost by death many of the Poitous. including the gi-eat two year old. He had such a fine coat of hair, long and silkv, that the captain had him skinned in order to make a robe of his liide. The next best of the lot wa.s a yearling Avhich also died. The losses, altogether, amounted to several thousand dollars. They had iew mishaps with the Catalonianf^, losing an excellent one. however, at Salamanca, New York. Xotwithstanding all tills, they landed in Xash^^lle with the largest and most expensive importation ever brought over. It re}> resented a greater investment than any importation be- fore or since that time, and reroached liy anyone in the jack business. This was the last importation made by Judge Good- pasture personally, though W. H. Goodpasture, in August, 1890, made an importation for the firm of twenty-one head, ten jacks and eleven jennets. The McKinley tarii!' bill having been passed during his absence, he had to pay a duty on landing them. Tins duty was a severe one. amounting to thirty clollnrs per capita and twenty per cenf ad valorem 224 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. The finn, in the meautime, had. made the largest sale to Missuori parties ever made in a single transaction, amonnting to over eleven thousand dollars. The busi- ness earned the Judge much over the country — to Ken- tucky, Missomi and elsewhere. lie made no trips further West than Kansas City, though he sent several jacks by other parties to Texas, consisting mainly of the less valuable animals. The results of Judge Goodpastiire's esults of t e embarkation in the importation of live stock was far-reaching in its effect. Indeed, it may be truly said, that no man in the South has ever accomplished more. At the time he en- tered the business, less was Icnown of the different breeds of jacks and jennets than of any other character of live stock. This may be said to be true, even in those sec- tions in which they were best known, while in many parts of the country, there was absolute ignorance on the subject. Judge Goodpasture was himself wholly unacquainted with the different breeds when he began the importation business. It is a matter of the utmost importance that the jack breeding sections be made familiar with all the different races, because there is a vast difference between them, not only in appearance and color, but also in their value as adapted to our country. At the time the Judge entered the business, but two classes of imported jacks were commonly known to breeders, comprehended in the broad terms Spanish and Maltese, although in Spain there are three distinct breeds, differing as widely in ap- pearance and characteristics as do any of the varieties of hoj'ses or cattle, There wa& much reason for' this RESULTS OF THE BUSINESS. 225 popular ignorance. Although the mule and jack are among our most ancient domestic animals, the latter antedating possibly the horse, and certainly our Chris- tian civilization, and notwithstanding the fact that the jack is the highest priced domestic animal known to man, still the field was absolutely barren as to litera- ture. There is no good reason known for this, but its effect was inevitable. Even the agricultural press paid little attention to him. 15 CHAPTER XX. The first importation made by Judge ^*'* *"^^'"*'*" Goodpasture came from the Southern provinces of Spain, and were of the breed known as the Andalusian. In Tennessee, breed- ers had experimented some ^nth them, those first in- troduced having reached us through either Virginia or Kentucky. The king of Spain, in 1T87, presented lo General Wasliington a jack and jennet of tliis breed, the former being called the Royal Gift. About the same time, he was presented with a Maltese jack by the Mar- quis Lafayette. The Maltese jack was crossed on the Andalusian jennet, the result of which was a. very famous jack called Compound, that proved to be much more popular as a breeder than the Royal Gift, which was said to have been selected from the royal stud, and was near sixteen hands liigh, but ill shapen and ungainly. Not many years after tliis, the great orator and states- man, Henr}' Clay, imported a few Andalusians into Ken- tucky. No two men of the day could have added greater popularity to a breed, and being of a distinct- ively gray color, the cross in our native stock was accept- ed w ith little or no protest until the later importations of the distinctively black breeds. The Andalusian is one of the most distinctive of th( many races of jacks. As before said, they are foimd only in the Southern part of Spain, embracing the whole oi the kingdom of Andalusia, and are endently of an THE ANDALU8IAN JACK. 227 ancient race, for we read of them, and the proiite arising from their use in propagating mules, during the Roman occupation and before the time of Christ. Columella, who, in the reign of the emporer Claudius, pubHshed a treatise, which lias been handed down to us, on the husbandr}' and economy of the Romans, gives very par- ticular directions for breeding jacks and mules. He was a native of Cadiz, Spain, owned large estates there, and teUs us that the best mules were raised in that part of the coimtry. But at this time, the best of the breed is found in and around the city of Cordova, As a race, they are distinctively gray in color, some- times, indeed, practically wliite, in rare instances black and occasionally blue. The larger ones, such as woidd ho selected by an importer, range from fourteen and a l-.alf to fifteen hands, though the country literally teems with small pack animals twelve or thirteen hands high. Tliey have a most excellent leg, the" bone is large and firm, and freer than are the other breeds from what is .■ommonly known as jack sores, viz., a running sore that t^i [.pears on the inside of the knee and hock, and wliich •sometimes gives a great deal of trouble. They have a fairly good head and ear and are really a meritorious jack. \Miile many have been imported, they axe not now popular on account of their color. Judge Good- pasture frankly admitted the objection, and abandoned them after a single importation. Even that one was made because of a lack of information. We have heard at least one importer complain of their not breeding regularly; this has not been our observa- tion of them. So far as we have seen, they are as much to be depended upon in this respect as any others. The 228 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. cros8 of the breed is now scattered all over the country, as in addition to those brought over before the war, the} have been imported in the last few years by Mr. Lyles, of Kentucky, Goodpasture and Hill, of Tennessee, Messrs. Leonard, of Missouri, and in 1889 quite a large importation by a firm in Arkansas. After Henry Clay's importation of ^^^ Andalusians, his son went to Spain Catalonian. in the consular or diplomatic service, and while there, sent to his father's Kentucky home an excellent specimen of the black breed, supposedly the Catalonian. So much pleased was Mr. Clay with this jack that a year or two later he imported a number of others. A picture of one of these ornaments one of the rooms in the old homestead at Ashland. Mr. A. C. Franklin made a small importation to Tennessee many years ago, purchased, it is understood, around Barce- lona. These were, undoubtedly, Catalonians, and some of them became famous breeders. Judge Goodpasture, in making a second importation, determined to find the black breed. He found them hi the Xorth of Spain, principally in the province of Cata- lonia, but, later, he discovered the same breed in the Pyrenees of France. No jacks had been imported as far South as Tennessee for many years until he revived the business. He brought over from Catalonia the largest and most select importations that had ever been made, and for the first time made prominent the cliar- acteristics of the different Spanish races. The Catalonian is a very popular jack, and jvistly so. For the propagation of mules of a certain quality they are unsurpassed. They have many valuable qualities, THE CATALONIAN. 229 and among these is that of color. Sunburned blacks arc sometimes seen, but the great majority have a very glossy, jet black coat of short hair that is greatly sought after. Besides, they are a jack of good size, varj-ing from fourteen and a half to fifteen hands, in some in- stances reaching sixteen hands or higher. While they have not a large bone, it is a very fiat, clean one. They have great style and beauty, and are of superb action, and many have been used in the best jennet herds of the country. The area from which they come covers some hundreds of miles, extending from the Mediterranean coast in the Xorth of Spain to the French side of the Pyrenees, tak- ing in what is known as the Cerdan, which lies partly in France and partly in Spain. Although they are foimd in both countries, they are still bred only in the moun- tains of the Pyrenees. They are scattered all over the South of France bordering these mountains, about Tou- louse, Tarbes, Pau and elsewhere. These were, never- theless, imported from their mountain fastnesses as colts to take their places in the stud when sufficiently old. Many of the best Catalonian jacks introduced into this country have been purchased in France. Judge Good- pasture made two entire importations from there and one from the Cerdan. For style and action they are possibly unequaled, cer- tainly not sm'passed, by any other race. This is noted too with great force in the case of jennets. Our native jennet stock are proverbially dull and lazy; they move about in the most composed manner, with an entire lack of appreciation of modem ideas of "get up and go." Such a thing as playing in pasture or paddock is far 230 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. beneath their sense of dignity and decorum. Age fas- tens upon their feelings and spirits long before they reach the responsibilities of being matrons. But the imported will play and run about their lot like colts, and some of them can trot equal to a horse. The Judge was, on one occasion, while buying, driving on a gov- ernment road in France. His team was a spirited pair of Tarbes horses, with a great deal of the oriental Arab- ian blood coursing through their veins. The driver was no less spirited; a defeated soldier of France in their late clash -nith Germany, he still had enough of the fire of enthusiasm left to tiy to pass ever}-thing on the road. The Judge saw ahead of him, driving at a smart gait, a man in a two wheeled vehicle, drawn by a fine looking jennet, and ordered the driver to overtake what promised to be a valuable acquisition to his purchases. This was what the driver wanted to do any way, so he cracked his whip and st-arted off at a merry clip, but the man with the jennet refused for sometime to be overtaken, and the Judge had to drive for a full half mile, at the limit of his speed, before coming alongside of him. It is need- less to say that he purchased the jennet, and she was afterwards sold at a long price in the United States. One rarely sees a drop-eared animal in the breed, and when he does, it generally has some physical cause, such as a hurt in shipping, disease or something of the kind. The race are most excellent breeders, a« they have proven in all the jack producing states, their mules being handsome, quick, active and good sellers, and it is said that they mature very early. Judge Goodpasture imported a very large number of the breed, and they are now scattered all over the West and South, and the good THE MAJORCA. 23 1 effect upon the breeding interests can scarcely be over- estimated. .. , Another of the popular breeds im- 7 he Majorca. ■, ^, ported by Judge Goodpasture was the Majorca. Attention was called to the great size and black color of these jacks in a letter to the Nashville American by the firm, ■wTitten from Spain, sometime before any of them had been imported to America. They are found, principally, on the larger of the Bal- earic islands, known as Majorca, and, so far as is known, the Judge^s firm was the first American importers to visit the island. Majorca lies in the Mediterranean, about fifteen hours sail by steamer from Barcelona. The breed of jacks found here is one of the purest in Spain. As far back as 1825, Mr. Pomeroy, in an essay before the Mar}dand Agricultural Society, says: ''So much have been the ravages of war and anarchy in Spain for a long time past, that the fine race of jacks that country once possessed have become almost extinct. In Majorca, hoAvever, and probably some parts of the coast opposite, the large breed may yet be obtained in its purity." Mr. Pomeroy had not discovered that they were a distinct race from those found on the mainland, but his remark illustrates the fame of the island for a large breed of jacks at even this early day. They are possibly the largest jacks ever imported, cer- tainly the tallest, and have been much sought after for jennet purposes. Their bone is exceedingly large with a body to correspond. While they are black, they rarely have that glossy color so admired in the Cata.lonian, but those brought to this coimtry will average almost a hand 232 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. taller than the latter. In Europe, they rank about the same, both being regarded as superior to the Andalusian. But they are not destined to cut any gi'eat figure in thi.< country; their number is too limited, and there is no \vay in which to greatly augment it. The island from \yhieh they are imported is small, and has been literally stripped of its most meritorious animals. What few have been brought to this country, have been scattered to the four quarters of the earth. No jennets have been imported, and under the present tariff, none are likely to be, so that in a few years, there will not be a pure bred Majorca in the country. They have not been here long enough to fully demon- strate their value as a cross on the native stock, but in Europe, for a large, heavy class of mules, they outrank the other Spanish breeds, but are inferior for the propa- gation of the smaller and more stylish animal. The Spanish government obtians a large part of her artillery mules from Majorca, and the English government have been importing them for the transport senice in Egypt and elsewhere. As to height, those brought to this countrj- will aver- age about fifteen and a half hands, and are more uniform in size than the Catalonian. A good many have been exported to South America, and at prices that are as- tonishing. Two sold there a few years ago, are reported to have gone at $900.00 each, which, if all expenses are added, makes a pretty good figure for a country con- sidered by us so far in the rear of North American civilization. Their heads are enormous, and are inclined to a bulky appearance. "While they have the longest and largest THE POITOU. 233 ears of any race in existence, they are not so erect and piercing as some others, nor have they the style and action; in fa(5t, they may be said to incline to sluggish- ness. Judge Goodpasture imported a sixteen hand jack of this breed, and a two year old colt fifteen and one half hands, but as the former was sold to Georgia and the latter to Texas, he never knew anything as to the value of their progeny. Judge Goodpasture was not only the first to import and introduce the Poitou breed, but the last to try the experiment, no other importer caring to risk the amount necessary to buy and bring them over, their cost being quite double that of the other breeds. Their early history is most interesting. They are to be found in the province of Poitou, knowTi as the granary of France — in the richest and most fertile part of that most fertile of all countries, and are especially abundant in the departments of La Vendee and Deux-Sevres. In 1866, Mr. Eugene Ayrault, of Niort, France, pub- libhed a volume on the Piotou jack. It is a book of a high order of merit, and was awarded a gold medal b} the Society of Agriculture in France, is the only book known to the writer published on jacks, and is confined to a single breed. We give his description of these jacks. He says: "His head is enormous in size, and is very much larger than that of any other race in existence. His mouth is smaller than that of the horse; teeth small, but the enamel exceedingly hard. The opening of the nostril is narrow, the ear very long, and adorned with long ourly hair, called cadanette, which is much esteemed 234 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. bj' breeders. It is said that animals with the longest bodies produce the best mules, and tliis is greatly looked to. The tail is rather sliort, and furnished with, long hair at its extremity only. The chest is very broad, and the belly voluminous. The shoulders are short; the muscles of the forearm long, but not very thick. The knees are exceedingly large, as are all the Joints. The cliestnuts or horny places near the knees, are large and v/ell developed. The abundance of hair which covers the jack constitutes one of the most sought for qualities. The animals are called well taloned or well mustached when they have these qualities in a high degree. "The mane is long and fine, the skin smooth, the hair fine and silky in texture. "We give gi'eat preference to large feet, for which this breed is noted. The skin is almost universally black or dark brown. The gray jack, though seldom met, is rejected by good mule breed- ers. The animals which have the end of the nose black, and whose bodies are wholly of this color, are said to be lacking in breeding. The sldn and coating of the jack is very important, and it is thought that the mules from a jack superior in this respect, mature earlier." Such is Mr. Ayrault's description of them. We will add, that they are physically the most powerful of any race yet discovered; they have greater weight and more bone and substance generally. They are not exceedingly tall, their legs being very short, but in a cross with a mare of fair size the mule will be found to have all the height desired. During the Judge's visit to Paris, Mar- seilles and other French towns, the Poitou mules seen would average not less than sixteen hands with a size and weight never approached by those seen in America. THE POITOU. 235 The first impression one gains of a Poitou is not a favorable one. They are never trimmed or groomed, and we are imaceustomed t« their long hair and bulky appearance. The demand for them is such that it can- not be supplied, and even French breeders in certain parts of the country are forced to use the Catalonian and Majorca. Their price is enough to stagger one, con- sidered from a European standpoint. Mr. AjTault says that $1,000 to $1,200 is ordinary, while $2,000 for a single animal is not uncommon. Large numbers of Poitou mules are imported into Spain for draft purpo&es, and especially by the large firm of San Marti and son of Barcelona, who supply mules both to the government and to individuals. In Spain, their price is very much higher than that of the native stock. The province from which they come is hardly larger than one of our ordinary counties, yet in 1866, the latest statistics at hand, fifty thousand mares were bred to jacks, and the yearly export of young mules amounted to between two and three millions of dollars. Mule breeding there, for profit, is without a parallel in agriculture. Judge Goodpasture imported quite a large number of both jacks and jennets from Poitou. It was in vain that he called attention to the many conclusive facts estab- lishing the superiority of the breed. It was impossible to overcome the antiphathy of American breeders to a coat of hair six or eight inches long, and their enormous bulk of body. The best price he received for one of these jacks was fifteen hundred dollars. It may be. however, that the seed was planted, and that the progeny of this importation will, in time, prove to the progressive 236 JEFFERSON DILLARD GOODPASTURE. breeder their value to the farmer. The Poitoii is the only jack that has been bred for any length of time upon the highest scientific principles. The firm, in addition to bringing ^ ^® about a new birth to the importation Accomplished. 1 ,. , . business, publishing the first jack cut ever to appear in a paper, importing the best jack ever brought to America, conducting the business on a scale never before approached, and introducing to the public new and better breeds, inaugurated other reforms of the gTeatest importance to the jack producing sections. In every census previous to 1890, mules and jacks had been enumerated together under the general designa- tion of mules and asses. This was very misleading. For instance, it is notorious that there are few jacks and jennets in Shelby County, Tennessee, yet it was broadly put down in the census as having more mules and as*os than any c'ounty in the United States. Again, David- son Count}^ Tennessee, having more jacks than any other county in the State, ranks comparatively low in number of mules and asses when enumerated together. Hence, before the census of 1890 was taken, the firm wrote Superintendent Porter, giving all the facts, and calling attention to the misleading character of all pre- vious censuses. They likewise wrote and obtained the active assistance of the senators and congressmen from the jack breeding states, and an order was obtained, having the census of 1890 taken separately, thus giving the jack sections proper credit for that year. The finn also assisted in the organization of the American Breededs' Association of Jacks and Jennets. An elaborate article was published by them in the WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED. 237 Farmer's Home Journal, of Louisville, Kentucky, ad- vocating strongly such an association, and several letters were received by the firm asking them to inaugurate the enterprise. Afterwards Mr. Chas. F. Mills, of Spring- field, 111., who was not a jack man but an official in the state agricultural department, undertook and carried through the preliminary organization. Subsequently permanent organization was effected at Chicago, of which Hon. Chas. E. Leonard, a prominent breeder of Missouri, was made president, and W. H. Goodpasture, secretary. Mr. Goodpasture, as secretary, wrote a great deal on the subject of jacks and the stud-book to the agricultural press of the country, and in 1890, he issued a valuable annual in behalf of the association. In 1891, volume one of the American Jack Stock Stud-Book was pub- lished by him and it, together Avith the Annual, consti- tuted tlie first distinctive jack literature to make its appearance in America. Judge Goodpasture, being a member of the association, attended its meetings and greatly aided in the success it attained. The firm labored incessantly for its advance- ment, and raised the jack business to a commanding position never before occupied by it. As noted in the earlier pages of this book. Judge Goodpasture also made the first direct importation of Cleveland Bay horses to the South. They were a most superior lot, and added much to the breeding interests of the country. CHAPTER XXI. This j)ractically ended the active and ic ness business career of Judere Goodpast- and Death. ° ^ lire. About this time A. V. Good- pasture was appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court, and W. PI. Goodpasture entered the office as deputy. This broke up the firm, and Judge Goodpasture devoted some time to selHng the stock on hand, collecting the debts and closing out the multifarious business that accumu- lates in every venture of importance. For a while, he still dealt some in real estate, but for the last three years of his life he was in bad health and did little. In 1893, accompanied by one of his daugh- ters, he visited the World's Fair at Chicago, and wrote up some of his observations on that great exposition, but never had the article published. lie took few cases in the courts after this, and what he did have were before the Supreme Court. lie spent a good deal of his time in the clerk's office, not only be- cause his sons were there, but because he met lawyers a.'^d friends from all over Middle Tennessee. It was a good place to smoke and talk. His sons kept a box of smoking tobacco always on hand for the use of them- si'lves and the bar, but found it difficult to keep pipes. The Judge bought a half bushel of liis favorite liickory [lipos with cane stems, and sent them up. After this, there was Httle trouble on the pipe question. He took a severe case of the grip in the winter of 1892-3. For a time afterwards, he would get better in SICKNESS AND DEATH. 239 summer and then worse in winter. It is a disea&e sufficiently bad for the young and robust, but with a man of his age, it seems almost impossible to get entirely nd of it. It sapped his great energy, and gave him a dis- inclination to carry on business of consequence. His mind ran much on the past, on the struggles of his early life, on the people he had known and met, and personal reminisences. Xo matter how much con- versation lagged, it was never much trouble to aroiise his interest by an inquiry as to some odd character he had known many years before, or ask him to relate one of Ms favorite anecdotes. These were never second hand, but always an occurrence happening under his own observation. But disease had begun to undermine his powerful frame and constitution. His family could see it, but as he retained his flesh, it was not so apparent to Ms friends. He grew to have a disinclination to go out in town, and spent most of his time at home. On Sunday afternoon, their only leisure time, one or both his sons living m Xashville, would go out and see him. These w*ere al- ways delightful occasions to them. He never lost interest in the general public, and care- fully read the daily papers. One of his last attempts at going out was to hear j\Ir. Br}'an speak, and he came liome that night thoroughly exhausted. He was at last taken down, though he would' not go to bed, occupying a big, roomy, office chair. He had never believed in sending for doctors except in extrenne cases, and never felt that he himself needed one. But Dr. Ewing was summoned. The patient grew steadily worse, and the illness was pronomiced that dread disease. 240 JEFFERSON DlLLARD GOODPASTURE. Bright's. The fact was not disclosed to him, and it is not certain that he knew that his sickness was to be fatal. If so, he never disclosed it. The absent son, Eev. J. R. Goodpasture, was sent for, and arrived at the bedside in time to help nurse and minister to his wants. His suffering for some days was extreme. The devotion of his wife was intense and untiring. She was present with liim day and night, and watched \vdth an unflagging zeal to allay some pain . or gratify some desire. She relinquished sleep and refused rest, and nursed him as only a wife can. Dr. John G. Goodpasture, his brother, came from his home at Carthage, Tennessee, to see him, but was never fully recognized by him. On November 2, 1896, he died, and, according to his own often ex- pressed wish, his funeral, like the life he had lived, was simple and unostentatious. Little need be said of Judge Goodpastiu-e's character beyond what is developd in these pages. He lived an uncommonly busy life, and never knew an idle period. He hafi been heard to say that in early life he had some temper, but he had gained a complete mastery over it. and had one of the gentlest and most lovable natures imaginable. He had a great deal of charity for the short comings and faults of others, more than almost anyone. If an individual deeply wronged him, he v\'Ould feel hurt and provoked for a time, but we have never known any one who could so quickly forget and forgive. The occm-rence was completely effaced, and did not leave even a scar. And he would take the first oppor- tunity to show it to him who had committed it. He was a philosopher. If things occurred, as they do in all active careers almost constantly, that were cal- SICKNESS AND DEATH. 24I dilated to worry and annoy, he would study and reflect over it, try to see the good in it, and never take his mind from it until he had reached a satisfactory con- clusion. This philosophical habit of treating all the unpleasant happenings of life, was a prominent and valu- able feature of his character that was very striking to those who knew him intimately enough to observe it. He loved his family with an intense and sacrificing devotion, and was always ready to kindly aid, console or advise. Thus died a busy man, who never intentionally wronged a human being in his life. He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and his funeral was conducted by Rev. Ira Landrith assisted by Rev. Angus McDonald. 16 APPENDIX. THE FAMILY OF CAPTAIN JAMES GOODPASTURE. FIRST GENERATION. No. 1. JameB Goodpasture was one of the pioneers of the Wolf's Hill, or Abingdon settlement, in Virginia, where all his children were born except the youngest. He emigrated to Tennessee in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and located, first, near Southwest Point, a Federal fort on the Indian line. But in 1800 he moved west, across the Indian territory, called the wilderness, and made a per- manent settlement on Flat Creek, then in Smith, but now in Overton County. When the Indian title to the wilderness was extinguished, and Overton County erected, he was elected captain in its first military organization. He was a great admirer and partisan of President Jefferson, for whom his youngest son, born two months after his in- auguration, was named. He married a Miss Hamilton .n 1776, and had eight children. He died about 1820. 2. William, born June 4, 1777; died March 15, 1848. 3. John, born November 4, 1778; died July 28, 1864. 4. James. 5. Martha. 6. Arthur. 7. Margaret. 8. Abraham. 9. Jefferson, born May 13, 1801; died in September, 1857. 246 GENEALOGY OF THE SECOND GENERATION. No. 2. William Goodpasture, son of James and (Ham- ilton) Goodpasture, was born in Washington County, Vir- ginia. He did not go West with the other members of his father's familj', but remained on the old homestead, where he died. He married Sarah Lockhart (1778-1840) and had seven children. 10. V/m. Lockhart, born May 14, 1803; died Sept. 22, 1889. 11. Martha Hamilton, born Nov. 7, 1805; died Sept. 4, 1854. 12. Mary Campbell, born Jan. 25, 1808; died July 15, 1872. 13. Abraham Hamilton, born July 10, 1810; died Septem- ber 8. 1854. ^ 14. Elizabeth Lockhart, born May 12, 1813; died January VJ, 1882. 15. Margaret B., bprn Dec. 6. 1815; died March 15, 1885. 16. Jane Campbell, born Jan. 4, 1817; died June 14, 1848. No. 3. John Goodpasture, son of James and (Hamilton) Goodpasture, was a native of Virginia, who emlgiated to Tennessee in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and settled near Hilham, in Overton County, in 1800. He was a Justice of the Peace, and a leading citizen in his com- munity. He married Margery (1786-1864), daughter of V/illiam Bryan, in 1803, and had fourteen children. 17. Mary R., born January 24, 1805; died April 20, 1893. 18. Martha H., born Dec. 28, 1S06; died August 1, 1876. 19. Nancy B., born December 25, 1807; died July 12, 1891. 20. Levina, born October 27, 1808; died August 20, 1885. 21. William B., born August 25, 1810; died April 4, 1893. 22. Abraham H., born June 21, 1812; died Sept. 21, 1885. 23. Elizabeth B., born May 27, 1814; died January 1, 1897. 24. Esther A., born August 26, 1816; died Februarj- 15, 1896. 25. Andrew B., born July 16, 1818; died April 17, 1842. 26. Margaret Ann, born March 21, 1820; died Dec. 25, 1890. GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 247 27. Jokn G., born April 21. 1822. 28. Jefferson D., born August 3, 1824; died Nov. 2, 1896. 29. James McD., born April 17, 1827; died August 11, 1876. SO. Winburn W., born October 20, 1828. No. 4. James Goodpasture, son of James and ( Hamilton > Goodpasture, was born in Virginia, and emigrated with his father to Tennessee. He married in Overton County, Ten- nessee, where he died in earlj' manhood, leaving two sons, the elder of whom was raised by his brother Abraham, and the younger by his brother John. 31. Madison. 32. Jefferson. No. 5. Martha Goodpasture, daughter of James and (Hamilton) Goodpasture, married a Mr. Willard and movea to Illinois, many years ago. No other information. No. 6. Arthur Goodpasture, son of James and (Hamil ton) Goodpasture, was born in Virginia and died in Over- ton County, Tennessee. He has many descendants in Ten nessee and Illinois, but we have not been able to get any information from them in time for this publication. We give the names of such of his children as are known to us. 33. Robert M. 34. William I., born Sept. 29, 1815; died August 23, 1891. 35. Abraham H. 36. Malinda. 87. Sarah. 38. A daughter. No. 7. Margaret Goodpasture, daughter of James and (Hamilton) Gtoodpasture, married Andrew McClain, and lired in Knox County, Tennessee. No other information. 248 GENEALOGY OF THE No. 8. Abraham Goodpasture, son of James and (Hamil ton) Good past ui'e, was born in Virginia and moved with his father to Overton County. Tennessee, whence he subae- quently moved to Morgan County, Illinois. He had nine children. 39. William. 40. Abraham. 41. Alexander. 42. Hamilton, born in 1808. 43. Jane. 44. John. 45. Hannah. 46. Mai-tha. 47. Elizabeth. No. 9. Jefferson Goodpasture, son of James and (Hamil- ton) Goodpasture, was the only one of his father's children born after he settled in the present county of Overton, in Tennessee. He married Nancy Allen (1805-1864) in 1827, and had nine children. 48. Mary M., born December 7, 1828; died August, 1857. 49. Francis M., born May 10, 1830. 50. James H., born December 11, 1831; died June, 1854. 51. Marena, bom March 16, 1833; died, 1890. 52. Thomas C, born October 28, 1834; died January 8, 1862. 53. M^linda E., born September 23, 1837. 54. Eliza E., born August 23, 1841; died, 1865. 55. Sarah C, born September, 1843; died, 1890. 56. William P., born October 26, 1845; died, 1871. THIRD GENERATION. No. 10. William Lockhart Goodpasture, son of William and Sarav (Lockhart) Goodpasture, married Jane White, July 31, 1834, and had five children. GOODI^ASTURa FAMILY, 249 57. A. W., born June TO, 1885. 58. Hugh W., born September 25, 1837. 59. Ellen W. W., born June 11, 1839. 60. Jamea L., born August 10, 1845. 61. Mary Campbell, born April 7, 1849. Na 11. Martha Hamilton Goodpasture, daughter of William and Sarah (Lockhart) Goodpasture, married John T. Sprinkle, October 27, 1825, and had ten children. 62. Mary Terrel, bom November 20, 1826. 63. Charles Henry, born Nov. 1, 1830; died Jan. 8, IS'jI. 64. William Emlar, born June 31, 1832; died April 16, 1S63. 65. Sarah Elizabeth, born May 5, 1834. 66. Naomi, born Sept. 25,1836; died Jan. 22, 1845. 67. Ferdinand Archibald, born December 11, 1838; died November 23, 1860. 68. Susana Jane Ganaway, born February 5, 1841. 69. Levicie Bowen, born Jan. 28, 1843; died Sept. 2, 1854. 70. Narcissa Cecil, born December 21, 1844. 71. Virginia Graves, born August 20, 1850; died September 13, 1854. No. 12. Mary Campbell Goodpasture, daughter of William and Sarah (Lockhart) Goodpasture, married James Fleming, and had children. 72. William. No. 13. Abraham Hamilton Goodpasture, son of William ami Sarah (Lochart) Goodpasture, married Sarah M. Humphrey (1814- ), November 28, 1833, and had eleven children. 73. William Hamilton, born September 5, 1834. 74. Sarah Margaret, born February 3, 1836. 75. David Washington, born September 29, 1837; diod .-vugust, 1863. 76. EUen Virginia, born August 7, 1839. 77. S. F., bom May 31, 1841; died in infancy. 350 GENEALOGY OF THE 78. E. A., born October 24. 1843. 79. Elizabeth St. Clair, born October 18. 1845; died Sep- tember 7, 1854. 80. Jane Lockhart. born October 28, 1847. 81. John Henry, born Jan. 18, 1850; died Sept. 12, 1854. 85. Caaper Winton, born January 25. 1852; died January 14, 1854. 83. Abraham Hamilton, born October 4, 1854. No. 14. Elizabeth Lockhart Goodpasture, daughter of William and Sarah (Lockhart) Goodpasture, married Roland Wolfe, September 21, 1848, and had five children. 84. Ellen V., born April 21, 1850; died May 15, 1884. 85. Sarah M., born October 29, 1851. 86. Maggie F., born March 26, 1854. 87. Melissa F., born April 12, 1856; died December 22, 1860. 88. Emma C, born November 6, 1857. No. 15. Margaret B. Goodpasture, daughter of William and Sarah (Lockhart) Goodpasture, married William Rector, and haa children. 89. James. No. 17. Mary R. (Polly) Goodpasture, daughter of John and Mar- gery (Bryan) Goodpasture, was born in Overton County, Tennessee. She married Abraham W. Carlock (1800-1884), April 10, 1825, and settled near Bloomington, in McLean County, Illinois, where she died. She had twelve children. 90. John G., born January 28, 1826; died April 25, 1888. 91. Martha, bom June 21, 1827; died August 25, 1828. 92. Madison P., bom April 16, 1829. 93. Nancy J., born January 9, 1831; died March 5, 1868. 94. Sarah, born January 9, 1833. 95. Mahaia, bom January 9, 1835. 99. Reuben, born June 17, 1837. GOODPASTUR* FAMILY. 25 1 97. Levina, born December 17, 1839. 98. William B., boru March 15, 1842. 99. Mary, born April S, 1844; died March 26, 1869. 100. Abraham H., bom August 21, 1846. 101. Margery, born October 20, 1849; died August 6, 1819. No. 18. Martha H. (Patsy) Goodpasture, daughter of John and Margery (Bryan) Goodpasture, was bom in Overton County, Tennessee. She married William Dale (1806-1877) in 1827, and settled on Cumberland River, in Clay County, Tennessee, where she died. She had eleven children. 102. Levina, born October, 1828; died November 6, 1854. 103. John Dillard, born in 1829; died in infancy. 104. William Jackson, bora December, 1831; died Sep tember 20, 1863. 105. Elizabeth, born October, 1833. 106. Wilbum Hamilton, born October, 1835. 107. Cleon Easailus, born December 31, 1837. 108. Alfred Lafayette (twin), born November 30, 1840. 109. Andrew Columbus (twin), born November 30, 1840. 110. John Francis, born October 31, 1842. 111. Dulcena, born July, 1846; died in 1882. 112. Dillard Goodpasture, born July 12, 1848; died October 18, 1854. No. 19. Nancy B .Goodpasture, daughter of John and Margery (Bryan) Goodpasture, was born in Overton County, Ten- nessee, and married Rev. Joseph H. Bate« (1806-1888), March 11, 1828; moved to Illionis in 1830, and died at Lin- coln, in that State. She had fourteen children. 113. William Iredell (twin), bora December 15, 1828. 114. Mary Elzada (twin), born December 15, 1828. 115. John Russell, bora January 22, 1830. 116. Hettie Elizabeth, died in Infancy. 117. Thomas Jefferson, bora February 21, 1833. 118. Pennelia Jane, born October 11, 1864; di»d July 25, 1882. 25i GENEALOGY OF THE 119. Madison Canby, born July 7, 1836. 120. Margery Josephine, born January 30, 1839. 121. Joseph Baxter, born January 11, 1841. 122. Abraham Henderson (twin), born December 30, IS 12. 123. Dulcena (twin), born December 30, 1842; died in in- fancy. 124. Marquis Jerome, born April 23, 1845; died December 28, 1872. 136. Margaret Ann, born July 20, 1847. 126. Harriet Rosanna, bom March 17, 1850; died July 23, 1876. No. 20. Levina Goodpasture, daughter of John and Margery (Bryan) Goodpasture, was born in Overton County, Ten- nessee. In 1830, she married Thomas Dale, now in the eighty-seventh year of his age, and moved to Illinois. Returning, they subsequently moved to Dade County, Mis- souri, where she died. She had nine children. 127. Marrillena, born in 1831; died May, 1855. 128. Margery, born in 1832; died in infancy. 129. Edward, born 1834; di«d in infancy. 130. W. A., born January 17, 1836. 181. John W., born July 17, 1837; died September, 1870. 132. Abraham B., born May 22, 1839; died in 1862. 133. Tennessee, born 1841; died 1861. 134. Thomas A., bom 1843; died 1867. 135. Mary M., born 1845. No. 21. William B. Goodpasture, son of John and Margery (Bryan) Goodpasture, was born in Overton County, Ten- nessee, and was married four times. First, to Jane A. ( -1835), June 29, 1830; second, to Martha Ann Harville ( -1855), September 21. 1S36; third, to Adelphia Smith, December 20, 1855; and, fourth, to , January 15, 1885. He settled in Sangamon County, Illinois, where he died. He had twelve children. ■ GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 253 BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 136. John F., born September 26, 1832; died September 26, 1836. BY HIS SECOND WIFF. 137. Azaxiah Thomas, bom September 17, 1837; died October 15, 1863. 138. Mary Margery, born January 12, 1839; di6d July, I860. 139. James Harden, born May 4, 1840; died in infancy. 140. Andrew Seymour, bom March 9, 1842. 141. Lucy Dulcena, bora January 25, 1844. 142. William Brastus, born November 25, 1845. 143. Philander CaBS, bom June 9, 1848. - 144. McGrady, bom September 20, 1850; died July 30, 1851. 145. Martha Ann, born April 7, 1853; died June 26, 1873. 146. Levi Dodds, born January 28, 1855. BY HIS THIRD WIFE. 147. Jesse Fletcher, born September 25, 1856. No. 22. Abraham H. Goodpasture, son of John and Margery (Bryan) Goodpasture, was bom in Overton County, Ten- nessee, and died in Petersburg, Illinois. He professed re- ligion October 17, 1833, and in November of the same year, became a candidate for the ministry, under the care of the Elyton (Alabama) Presbytery, of the Cumberland Presby- terian Church; was licensed April 25, and preached his first sermon May 3, 1835; moved to Illinois, and became a mem- ber of Sangamon Presbytery, and was very active in the work of the ministry. From the journal, which he kept during the first forty years of his ministerial life, it appears that he preached 4,320 sermons, durng that time. He had an appointment for the Sunday succeeding his death. He was a man of sublime faith, a joyous and cheerful diapoRi- tion. and a charming social nature. He married Dulcena B. Williams (1819- ). the daughter of James ( -1834) and Hannah (Maupln) Williams. January 10, 1843. who still 254 GENEALOGY OF THE survives him, in the 79th year of her age. They had three children. ; i.. 1 148. J. Dlllard, i)om May 9. 1846. 149. Hattle E., bom March 5, 1855. 150. Jacob Ridley, born May 10, 1860. No. 23. Elizabeth B. (Betsy) Goodpasture, daughter of John and Margery (Bryan) Goodpasture, was born in Overton County, Tennessee; married Claiborne Hinds ( -1872), October 11, 1846, and settled in Guntown, Mississippi, where she died. She had five children. 151. Tennessee G., born Aug. 28, 1847; died April 22, 1879. 152. John S., born January 6, 1849. 153. Martha F., born December 6, 1850. 154. Mary A. B., bom March 20, 1854; died March 12, 1875. 155. Ova C, bom December 22, 1859. No. 24. Esther A. (Hettie) Goodpasture, daughter of John and Margery (Bryan) Goodpasture, was born in Overton County, Tennessee, where she died, greatly beloved by all who knew her. She was twice married; first, to James Maxwell, Clerk of the County Court of Overton County; second, to LemuH Gustin Rose, a prosperous farmer, who survives her, now in the 87th year of his age. She never had any children. No. 25. Andrew B. Goodpasture, son of John and Margery (Bryan) Goodpasture, was born in Overton County, Tennessee. Soon after reaching his majority, he emigrated to Illinois, where he died not long afterwards. His was the only death in the family during the lifetime of his parents. He wa« never married. No. 26. Margaret Ann (Peggy) Goodpasture, daughter of John and Margery (Bryan) (Joodpasture, was born in Overton GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 255 County, Tennessee, where, also ehe died, surviving the last of her two children only a week. She married Dennis C. Mitchell, September 13, 1848. Her two children were, 156. Isaiah Wlnburn, born June 25, 1849; died December 18, 1890. 157. John M. D.. born April 12, 1851, died June 18, 1884. No. 27. John G. Goodpasture, son of John and Margery tBryan) Goodpasture, was born In Overton County, Tennessee; served as a volunteer In the Mexican war; is a practicing physician, and resides at Algood, in Putnam County. II« has been married twice: first, to Catherine M. Atkinson (1830-1896), July 14, 1850; second, to Maybelle Mills (1874- ) on the eleventh day of March, 1897. He has four chil- dren, all by the first wife. 158. Wlnburn A., born in 1851. 159. Sallie M.. born in 1853. 160. Josie, born in 1855. 161. Hettle, born April 21, 1872. No. 28. Jefferson Dillard Goodpasture, son of John and Margery f^Brj'an) Goodpasture, was a native of Overton County, Tennessee, where he obtained a common school education. He attended the law school at Cumberland University in 1848-9; In 1847, before he ever appeared In a lawsuit, he was appointed Clerk and Master, at Livingston, and wae re-appolnted at the expiration of his term, in 1853. In 1856, he was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention, at Cincinnati; resigned the office of Clerk and Master, in 1857, to accept a seat In the State Senate. After the ex- piration of his term In the Senate, devoted himself wholly to the law, In which he achieved eminent success. In 1872. was one of the Presidential electors, elected on the Greeley and Brown ticket. Moved to Nashville in 1879, and traded largely in real estate, and later engaged extensively in the importation of live- stock- He djed m Nashvlhe. He- waa 256 GENEALOGY OF THE twice married: first, to Sarah Jane (1835-1868), daughter of Jacob and Jane C. (Marchbanks) Dillen, May 15, 1852, second, to Nannie, daughter of Austin C. and Lucette (Clark) Young, June 17, 1869. He had nine children. BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 162. John Ridley, bom March 5, 1854. 163. Albert Virgil, born November 19, 1855. 164. William Henry, bom November 28, 1859. 165. Harvey Dlllard, born July 27, 1864; died June 8, 1867. 166. Jacob Dillen, bom August 27, 1867; died Feb. 20, 1868. BY HIS SECOND WIFE. 167. Lucette Margery, bom May 15, 1870. 168. Austin Young, bom August 26, 1872. 169. Mona Clark, born April 1, 1874. 170. Jefferson Dillard, born April 13, 1877. No. 29. James McDonnold Goodpasture, son of John and Margery (Bryan) Goodpasture, was bom in Overton County, Ten- nessee, and died in Putnam County. He was a physician by profession, and was for six years Clerk and Master, at Cookeville. He married Ova Arnold (1839- ), December 5, 1854, and had four children. 171. Avo, born September 27, 1855. 172. Mary Hettie, born September 23, 1858. 173. John Bryan, bora July 15. 1864. 174. Sarah Margery, born March 13, 1868. No. 30. Winburn W. Goodpasture, son of John and Margery (Bryan) Goodpasture, was born and still lives in Overton County, Tennessee. He is a prominent lawyer, and has been both Circuit Judge and Chancellor. He married Martha Ann Capps (1886- ), daughter of Doak H. Capps, long a successful merchant of Livingston, Tennessee, J9.i),v\- ^ 17, 1854, a-iid ha« had five children, GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 257 175. Eugene, born September 13, 1856; died February 3, 1858. 176. Lou G., born April 4, 1857. 177. Ala May, born March 5, 1859; died August 4, 1891. 178. Maggie L., born December 28, 1863. 179. Elmo C, born March 12, 1867. No. 31. Madison Goodpasture, son of James Goodpasture, Jr., moved with his uncle Abraham Goodpasture to Morgin County, Illinois. Subsequently he lived at Louisiana, Mis souri. He was twice married and had children. 180. James. , No. 32. Jefferson Goodpasture, son of James Goodpasture, Jr., soon after reaching manhood moved to the State of Illinois, where he has descendants, but we have not been able to get particular information with reference to them. No. 33. Robert M. Goodpasture, son of Arthur Goodpasture, mar- ried and had children. 181. Milton. 182. Dillard. 183. Martha. No. 35. Abraham H. Goodpasture, son of Arthur Goodpasture, moved to Illinois, and had children. No other information. No. 36. Malinda Goodpasture, daughter of Arthur Goodpasture, married Thos. J. Murphy, and lived at Hilham, Tennessee. She died several years ago. No children. No. 37. Sarah Goodpasture, daughter of Arthur Goodpasture, married Hiram Hembree and lived in Overton County, Ten- nessee. She had children. 17 258 GENfiALOGY OF THE 184. Campbell. 185. Joseph Robert. No. 38. Goodpasture, daughter of Arthur Goodpasture, married Arthur Garrett, of Overton County, Tennessee . No other information. No. 41. Alexander Goodpasture, son of Abraham Goodpasture, of Morgan County, Illinois, married and had children. After his death his widow married Jacob Gillespie, and the family lived near Eugene City, Oregon. No other information. No. 42. Hamilton Goodpasture, son of Abraham Goodpasture, of Morgan County, Illinois, was born in Overton County, Ten nessee. He married Eleanor Ellyson, in 1836, and ha J eight children. 186. Elizabeth, born November 9, 1836. 187. Andrew Jackson, born August 18, 1840. 188. William Hamilton, born in 1841; died August 9, 1865. 189. Abraham, born in 1843. 190. John Ellyson, born October 7, 1847. 191. James P., born March 19, 1848. 192. Martha Jane, born June 7, 1850; died Jan. 17, 1893. 193. Thomas B., born July 1, 1852. No. 43. Jane Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham Goodpasture, of Morgan County, Illinois, married a Mr. Deaton, and had seven children. 194. Bounaparte. 195. Alexander. 196. Simpson, drowned in Missouri River. 197. James (twin). 198. Thomas (twin). 199. Hannah. 200. Marear«tte. GOODPASTURE PAMII,Y. 259 No. 45. Hannah Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham Goodpasture, of Morgan County, Illinois, married a Mr. Long, and lived near Concord, Illinois. No other information. No. 46. Martha Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham Goodpasture, of Morgan County, Illinois, maiTied a Mr. Smith, and lived near Concord, Illinois. No other information. No. 47. Elizabeth Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham Goodpasture, of Morgan County, Illinois, married a Mr. Taylor, and lived near Concord, Illinois. No other information. No. 48. Mary M. Goodpasture, daughter of Jefferson and Nancy (Allen) Goodpasture, died unmairied. No. 49. Francis M. Goodpasture, son of Jefferson and Nancy (Allen) Goodpasture, is one of the substantial citizens of Overton County, Tennessee; did much to pi-eserve the county records, during the war, and has since been one of its leading magistrates. He married Lydia L. Thomas (1842- ), July 28, 1868, and has had five children. 201. James T., born May 5. 1869. 202. Florence, born March 14, 1871. 203. John J., born October 12, 1873. 204. Flora A., born November 6, 1876; died August 19, 1887. 205. Albert B., born May 14, 1881; died September 3, 188b. No. 50. James H. Goodpasture, son of Jefferson and Nancy (Alien) Goodpasture, died unmarried. No. 51. Marena Goodpasture, daughter of Jefferson and Nau'^y 260 GENEALOGY OF THE (Allen) Goodpasture, married Clinton Masters ( -1861), in 1855. She had no children. No. 52. Thomas C. Goodpasture, son of Jefferson and Nancy (Allen) Goodpasture, married Adelade Smith, in 1859, and had one child. 206. James J., born in 1860. No. 53. Malinda B. Goodpasture, daughter of Jefferson and Nancy (Allen) Goodpasture, married Porter Winton, in 1859, and has seven children. 206. William. 207. Robert. 208. Nancy. 209. Ann. 210. Belle. 211. Ferdinand, deceased. 212. Quitman. No. 54. Eliza E. Goodpasture, daughter of Jefferson and Nancy (Allen) Goodpasture, married John Tays ( -1864), in 1863, and had one child. 213. John W., born in 1865. No. 55. Sarah C. (joodpasture, daughter of Jefferson and Nancy (Allen) Goodpasture, married James Cooper ( -1870), In 1868, and after his death, married Richard Hamilton. She had four children. The names of the last two not known. BY HER FIRST HUSBAND. 214. Lillie May, born August 22, 1869. BY HER SECOND HUSBAND. 215. Albert, born In June, 1874. GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 261 No. 56. William P. Goodpasture, son of Jefferson and Nancy (Allen) Goodpasture, married Bethier Lee, in 1870, and had one child. 216. Willie Ann, born in June, 1871. FOURTH GENERATION. No. 57. A. W. Goodpasture, son of William Lockhart and Jane (White) Goodpasture, married Minnie Rhudy, January 19, 1870. No. 58. Ellen W. W. Goodpasture, daughter of William Lockhart and Jane (White) Goodpasture, married Rev. John M. Scott ( -1891), April 11, 1867, and had eight children. 217. Bertie J., born February 14, 1868; died March 5. 1889. 218. Milton, born May 31, 1870. 219. Mary Ellen, born February 14, 1872. 220. J. Walter, born April 25, 1874. 221. Josephine Cleo, born October 20, 1876. 222. William Trigg, born August 25, 1878. 223. Conley S., born July 23, 1881. 224. Wilson White, born November 13, 1888. No. 60. James L. Goodpasture, son of William Lockhart and Jane (White) Goodpasture, married Mary Hoofnagle, January 12, 1869. and has two children. 225. Clarence, born April 3, 1870. 226. Anna Clyde, born April 3, 1874. No. 61. Mary Campbell Goodpasture, daughter of William Lock- hart and Jane (White) Goodpasture, married Prof. H. ('„ Clutsam ( -1887), June 10, 1868. 262 GENEALOGY OF THE No. 62. Mary Tenel Sprinkle, daughter of John T. and Martha Hamilton (Goodpasture) Sprinkle, married Wm. Snider, May 24, 1845, and had twelve children. 227. John Henry, born July 7, 184C. 228. William Hamilton, born February 13, 1848. 229. Peter Terrel, born June 1, 1850. 230. George Washington, born July 7, 1852. 231. Charles Sylvester, born July 16, 1854. 232. Martha E. C., born Nov. 25, 1856; died Sept. 30, 1890. 233. Lafayette McMulIen, born December 2. 1858. 234. Sarah Emma Jane, born July 22, 1861. 235. A. R. F., born April 23, 1863. 236. Archibald S., born May 18, 1866; died Dec. 7, 1872. 237. Mary Susana Levisa, born January 5, 1868. 238. Alice Virginia, born March 30, 1870. No. 73. William Hamilton Goodpasture, son of Abraham Hamil ton, and Sarah M. (Humphrey) Goodpasture, was married three times— first, to Mary B. Curren, September 22, 185D; second, to Margaret E. Winbarger, September 18, 1866; and, third, to Mary J. Pafford, January 25, 1894. He has nine children. BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 239. Albert S., born November 21, 1860. BY HIS SECOND WIFE. 240. David W., born July 29, 1868. 241. Charles H., born July 10, 1870. 242. Sarah E., born December 27, 1872; died July 23, 1S^1. 243. James Glenn, born July 17, 1815. 244. Everett Hamilton, born March 19, 1878. 245. Livonia V., born June 19, 1880. BY HIS THIRD WIFE. 246. Robert Lee, born December 27, 1894. 247. Milton W., born March 17, 1896. GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 263 No. 74. Sarah Margaret Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham Ham- ilton and Sarah M. (Humphrey) Goodpasture married L. R. CoIIey. No. 75. David Washington Goodpasture, son of Abraham Hamil- ton and Sarah M. (Humphrey) Goodpasture, enlisted in the Confederate Army, and was killed in battle in 1863. No. 76. Ellen Virginia Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham Hamil- ton and Sarah M. (Humphrey) Goodpasture, married Samuel Farris. No. 78. E. A. Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham Hamilton and Sarah M. (Humphrey) Goodpasture, manied John V. Musser. No. 80. Jane Lockhart Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham Ham- ilton and Sarah M. (Humphrey) Goodpasture, married C. R. Johnston, November 19, 1869, and has had ten children. 248. Minnie Jane, born August 30, 1870. 249. Lizzie Bickle, born May 21, 1872. 250. John Abraham, born August 31, 1874. 251. Walter 'Enoe, born August 14, 1876. 252. George Washington, born February 7, 1878. 253. Charles Worley, born Sept. 27, 1880; died July 4, 1881. 254. Joseph Keller, born December 31, 1883. 255. Henry Clay, born October 7, 1886. 256. Clara Belle, born January 26, 1888. 257. Ella Blanche, born October 1, 1891. No. 83. Abraham Hamiltin Goodpasture, son of Abraham Hamil- ton and Sarah M. (Humphrey) Goodpasture, married Kate Moore. 264 GENEALOGY OF THE No. 84. Ellen V. Wolfe, daughter of Roland and Elizabeth Lock- hart (Goodpasture) Wolfe, married William A. Winbarger, December 17, 1872. No. 85. Sarah M. Wolfe, daughter of Roland and Elizabeth Lock- hart (Goodpasture) Wolfe, married Ephraim Six, February 17, 1887. No. 86. Maggie F. Wolfe, daughter of Roland and Elizabeth Lockhart (Goodpasture) Wolfe, married John A. Corrico, October 23, 1883, and has three children. 258. Andrew Blain, born November 10, 1884. 259. Lutie Estelle, born April 24, 1886. 260. Ella May, born May 12, 1891. No. 88. Emma C. Wolfe, daughter of Roland and Elizabeth Lock- hart (Goodpasture) Wolfe, married H. C. Defreese, May 6, 1880. No. 90. John G. Carlock, son of Abraham W. and Mary R. (Good- pasture) Carlock, was born in McLean County, Illinois, where he died. He married Lucinda Musick, September 5, 1850, and had eight children. 261. Dillard H., born October 15, 1851; died young. 262. George M., born December 10, 1852; died young. 263. Mary L., born January 1, 1854. 264. Richard L., born July 1, 1856. 265. Hester E., bom August 2, 1858; died April 1, 1864. 266. S. Gertrude, born March 16, 1860. 267. John G., born February 14, 1863; died in 1868. 268. Lorin A., born December 8, 1867; died in 1870. No. 92. Madison P. Carlock, son of Abraham W. and Mary R. (Goodpasture) Carlock, was born in McLean County, GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 265 Illinois. He was twice married. First to Elizabeth Ewing ( -1858), June 20, 1853, and, second, to Nancy E. Judy, June 14, 1860. He was the father of fifteen children. BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 269. Arabelle, born September 28, 1854; died September 27, 1855. 270. James Howard, born September 1, 1856. 271. Isaac, who died in infancy. BY HIS SECOND WIFE. 272. Rosalie, born March 17, 1861; died February 20, 1889. 273. George W., born June 4, 1862. 274. John A., born September 1, 1863. 275. Ida M., born April 8, 1865. 276. Horace L., bom January 3, 1867. 277. Lyman J., born January 26, 1868. 278. Madison B., born January 4, 1870; died April 29, 1871. 279. Lina Gennette, born January 23, 1873. 280. Roy R., born June 29, 1875. 281. Wayne B., born March 17, 1877. 282. Marion P., born December 25, 1880. 283. Grace Lenore, born March 23, 1882. No. 93. Nancy J. Carlock, daughter of Abraham W. and Mary R. (Goodpasture) Carlock, was born in McLean County, Illinois; married Thomas Brown, October 1, 1858; moved to the State of Nebraska, where they now reside. They have four children. 284. Jacob M., born December 12, 1859. 285. Hattie, born January 5, 1861. 286. Abraham C, born April 17, 1862. 287. Cora, born June 10, 1865. No. 94. Sarah Carlock, daughter of Abraham W. and Mary 1. (Goodpasture) Carlock, was born in McLean County, 266 GENEALOGY OP THE Illinois, and now resides in Santa Cruz, Cal. She was twice married; to William Allen, March 15, 1850; and to William P. Marley ( -1860), March 2, 1858. She had two children. BY HER FIRST HUSBAND. 288. Zepheniah, born April 22, 1851. BY HER SECOND HUSBAND. 289. William P., born January 22, 1859. No. 95. Mahala Carlock, daughter of Abraham W. and Mary R. (Goodpasture) Carlock, was born in McLean County, Illinois, where she still resides. She married Benjamin Gaddis ( -1895), September 22, 1853, and had eleven chil- dren. 290. Madison W., born July 4, 1854; died May 18, 1876. 291. Albert W.. born October 9, 1855. 292. Cassius M., bom November 18, 1857. 293. Mary F., born December 28, 1859. 294. Florence L., born March 30, 1862; died Jan. 10, 1863. 295. James A., born October 16, 1863; died March 30, 1864. 296. Silas M., born April 30, 1865. 297. George B., born September 1, 1867. 298. Luella, born September 13, 1870. 299. Rosa B., born Sept. 14, 1875; died Sept. 8, 1882. 300. Gertrude, born September 7, 1878. No. 97. Levina Carlock, daughter of Abraham W. and Mary R. (Goodpasture) Carlock, was born, and still resides in McLean County, Illinois. She married Ira Rowell. Novem- ber 16, 1869, and has had five children. 301. Lillie, born September 27, 1870. 302. Laura B., born December 20, 1871; died June 15, 1890. 303. Lula J., born Nov. 21. 1875; died Feb. 18, 1895. 304. Edith J., born June 30, 1879. 305. Ira, born October 10, 1885. GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 267 No. 98. William B. Carlock, son of Abraham W. and Mary R. (Goodpasture) Carlock, was born in McLean County, Illionis, and is now a prominent lawyer at Bloomington. He married Missouri McCart, October 6, 1870, and has three children. 306. Leslie Bryan, born September 14, 1811. 307. William C, born July 15, 1877. 308. Madeline (adopted), born August 15, 1892. No. 100. Abraham H. Carlock, son of Abraham W. and Mary R. (Goodpasture) Carlock, was born in McLean County, Illinois, and now resides at Carlock, in that county. He married Ida I. Edwards, January 9, 1879, and has three children. 309. Lula E., born October 25, 1879. 310. Pearl L., born August 3, 1881. 311. Celia W.. born April 14. 1884. No. 101. Margery Carlock, daughter of Abraham W. and Mary R. (Goodpasture) Carlock, was born in McLean County, Illinois, where she died. She married William Pusey, October 10, 1881, and had four children. 312. William. 313. Mary. 314. Lucretia. 315. Parker Elmo. No. 102. Levina Dale, daughter of William and Martha H. (Good- pasture) Dale, married G. W. Parrish, in 1852, and died childless. No. 104. William Jackson Dale, son of William and Martha H. (Goodpasture) Dale, married Leanna Butler (1840-1890), in March, 1854. He was a captain in the Confederate Army, 268 GENEAl,OGY OF THE and was killed at the battle of Chickamau^, September 20, 1863. He left four children. 316. William Thomas, born in 1856. 317. Martha, born in January, 1858. 318. James, born in 1860. 319. Jennie Lee, born April 27, 1861. No. 105. Elizabeth Dale, daughter of William and Martha H. (Goodpasture) Dale, married L. B. (Tuck) Butler, in April, 1851, and has had six children. 320. Martha, born in February, 1852; died about 1880. 321. Louisa, born in 1854. 322. Marcella, born about 1856. 323. Jane Ann, born about 1858. 324. Dulcena, born about 1860. 325. John, born about 1867. No. 106. Wilburn Hamilton Dale, son of William and Martha H. (Goodpasture) Dale, lives at Butler's Landing, Tennessee, and has been married three times — fii-st to Catherine Maberry ( -1874), in August, 1854; second, to widow Hampton ( -1878), about 1876; and, third, to . He has a large family. No. 107. Cleon Easailus Dale, son of William and Martha H. (Goodpasture) Dale, married Frances P. Chism ( -1894), in January, 1858, and has had ten children. 326. Bettie, boi-n December 11, 1859. 327. Ann, born in 1861. 328. Andrew, born in 1863. 329. Bennett, born in 1865. 330. William, born in 1867. 33L Sallie, born in 1868. 332. Jennie, born in 1872; died in 1877. 333. Nettie, born in 1874. GOODPASTURE FAMIL,Y. 269 334. John, born in 1876. 335. Ada, born in 1878. No. 108. Alfred Lafayette Dale, son of William and Martha H. (Goodpasture) Dale, resides in Livingston, Tennessee, and has been married twice. His first wife was Sallie Butler, whom he married in 1864. After her death, he married her sister, Lucette Butler, December 10, 1884. He has had nine children. BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 336. Russell Aubry, born in 1865. 337. Jake Bennett, born about 1866. 338. Butler, born in 1868; died in childhood. 339. Lura. born in 187~^0. 340. Lizzie, born in 1S72. BY HIS SKCOND WIFE. 341. A son, died in infancy. 342. Perry. 343. Lillie. 344. Pauline. No. 109. Andrew Columbus Dale, son of William and Martha H. (Goodpasture) Dale, was a Lieutenant in the Confederate Army and is now a prominent citizen of Davidson County, Tennessee. He has been married twice — first to Jane Ann Chowning ( -1883), January 23, 1868, and, second, to Mary Kyle, December 10, 1884. He has had ten children. BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 345. Marcellus C, born March 2, 1869. 346. Etta, born March 17, 1872. 347. James C, born December 10, 1875. 348. William R., born in February, 1880; died in infancy. 270 GENEALOGY OFjTHE BY HIS SECOND WIFE. 349. Dillard Y. (twin), born November 4, 1885. 350. Nellie (twin), born November 4,1885; died November 14, 1886. 351. Rebecca, born December 13, 1887. 352. Andrew C, born September 7, 1889. 353. Paul, born April 21, 1894. 354. Hugh, born April 23, 1897. No. 110. John Francis Dale, son of ^Villiam and Martha H. (Good- pasture) Dale, lives at Bennett's Ferry, Tennessee, and liaB been twice married — first, to Margaret Dervin ( -1886), in 1872, and, second, to . He has children. BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 355. Stone Plumlee. No. 111. Dulcena Dale, daughter of William and Martha H. (Good- pasture) Dale, married Capt. Jacob C. Bennett, of Morgan's Confederate Cavalry, in June, 1863. Her husband was one of the six officers who escaped with General Morgan from the Ohio Penitentiary. She had ten children. 356. Lizzie, born in February, 1866. 357. Mattie, born in 1867. 358. John, born in 1869; died in 1878. 359. William, born in 1871; died in 1878. 360. Ida (twin), born in 1873; died in 1878. 361. Edgar (twin), born in 1873. 362. Albert Ridley, born in 1876; died in 1876. 363. A son, died in infancy. 364. Jackson, born in 1878; died in 1887. 365. Fannie, born in 1879. No. 113. William Iredell Bates, son of Joseph H. and Nancy i>. (Goodpasture) Bates, Ib a farmer, living near Columbus, GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 27 1 Adams County, Illinois, but has, for several years, been superintendent of Adams County Alms House and Farm, a position requiring special skill and tact. He was married to Mary Ann Robertson, June 27, 1851, and has had nine children. 366. Martha Dulcena, born May 7, 1854; died May 17, 1854. 367. Amos Dillard, born September 3, 1855. 368. Myra .Josephine, born March 26, 1858. 369. Ida Frances, born July 25, 1861. 370. Mary Effie, born November 25, 1863. 371. William Eddy, born Junary 20, 1866. 372. Hattie Loas, born January 4, 1868; died December 12, 1870. 373. Joseph Marcus, born April 18, 1870. 374. Orval Lee, born December 13, 1874. No. 114. Mary Elzada Bates, daughter of Joseph H. and Nancy B. (Goodpasture) Bates, married William Downing, May 28, 1850, and lives in Camp Point, Illinois. She has five chil dren. 375. John Franklin, born in May, 1851. 376. Joseph Henry, born in 1856. 377. Albert ftezin, born in 1859. 378. Jessie Viola, born in 1864. 379. Harriet E., born in 1867. No. 115. John Russell Bates, son of Joseph H. and Nancy B. (Good- pasture) Bates, is married, but has no children. He lives at Republic, Greene County, Missouri. When a young man, he went to Oregon, and was, at one time, a member of the legislature of that State. No. 117. Thomas Jefferson Bates, son of Joseph H. and Nancy R. (Goodpasture) Bates, is a retired farmer, living in Gales- burg, Illinois. He has represented Adams County In the Illinois Legislature, and served many years on supervisor's 272 GENEALOGY OF THE board of that county. He married Leonora Wilson, Novem ber 6, 1859, and has had seven children. 380. Melgar McClellan, born August 18, 1860; died August 25, 1862. 381. John Emmett, born August 17, 1862. 382. Henson Everett, born March 8, 1864. 383. Henry Malcolm, born December 20, 1865. 384. Carrie Geneva, born December 19, 1867. 385. Leonora Wilson, born September 27, 1869. 386. Mary Emma, born August 13, 1871. No. 118. Permelia Jane Bates, daughter of Joseph H. and Nancy B. (Goodpasture) Bates, married James Sharp, a prosperous farmer of Camp Point, Illinois, April 21, 1864. She had three children, two of whom survived her. 387. Fletcher. No. 119. Madison Canby Bates, son of Joseph H. and Nancy B. (Goodpasture) Bates, lives in Oberlin, Ohio. He was mar- ried to Emma Latimer, May 16, 1861, and has five children. 388. George Latimer. 389. Eula Goodpasture. 390. Mary Drumon. 391. Harriet Myrtle. 392. Madison Clair. No. 120. Margery Josephine Bates, daughter of Joseph H. and Nancy B. (Goodpasture) Bates, married David R. Thomas, a farmer and trader of Augusta, Hancock County, Illinois, November 22, 1860, and has had eight children. 393. Lizzie May, born September 15, 1861. 394. Nancy Josephine, born August 19, 1863; died Feb- ruary 25. 1887. 395. Edith Allegra, born October 21, 1865. 396. Arthur Reed, born June 18, 1868. 397. Augusta Bates, born July 2, 1871; died September 1, 1872. GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 2.73 898. Lottie Maud, born October 11, 1873. 399. Freddie, born July 17, 1876; died February 17, 1877. 400. Madison C, born December 19, 1879. No. 121. Joseph Baxter Bates, son of Joseph H. and Nancy B. (Goodpasture) Bates, received a college education. Taught school and raised cotton in Alabama. Was admitted to the bar. Was a Republican candidate for the legislature, and for Presidential elector. Returned to Illinois in 1877, and entered the field of journalism. Has been, for many years, political editor of the Bloomington, Illinois, Daily Pan- lagraph, the most widely circulated paper in Illinois, outside of Chicago. He married Sophie Harrison Rucker, of Bed ford County, Tennessee, June 23, 1870, and has six children. 401. Lucy Ragsdale, born March 20, 1873. 402. Annie Rucker, born November 13, 1874. 403. Jerome Lowell, born January 30, 1877. 404. Robert Paul, born July 16, 1879. 405. Ralph Dwight, born November 7, 1882. 406. Irene Huron, born September 25, 1888. No. 122. Abraham Henderson Bates, son of Joseph and Nancy B. (Goodpasture) Bates, of Springfield, Illinois, received a college education, and entered the ministry of the Presby- terian Church. Has had charge of churches at Empire City, Oregon, and Mawa and Springfield, Illinois. He married Lydia E. Parker, June 17, 1880, but has no chidren. No. 124. Marquis Jeix)me Bates, son of Joseph H. and Nancy B. (Goodpasture) Bates, was a greatly beloved and highly re- spected business man. Ho was never married. No. 125. Margaret Ann Bates, daughter of Joseph H. and Nancy B. (Goodpasture) Bates, married Leland S. Breese, a business 18 274 GENEALOGY OF THE man of V/ilmette, Illincis, August 22, 1869, and has had six children. 407. Margaret Josephine, born February 20, 1871. 408. Bessie Maybelle, born August 31, 1872. 409. Harriet Isabelle, born August 9, 1875. 410. Paul Leland, born January 14, 1883. 411. Niles Sidney Sumner, born June 15, 1886. 412. Beulah Nancy, born June 5, 1888; died April 27, 1889. No. 126. Harriet Rosanna Bates, daughter of Joseph H. and Nanv„- B. (Goodpasture) Bates, married David M. Harris, a minis- ter, teacher and editor, of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, August 25, 1869, but had no children. No. 127. Morillena Dale, daughter of Thomas and Levina (Good pasture) Dale, married Thomas Brown, at Melville, Dado County, Missouri, in 1854. She had no children. No. 130. W. A. Dale, son of Thomas and Levina (Goodpasture) Dale, a merchant at Cane Hill, Missouri, is a permanent cripple from service in the Confederate Army. He mar- ried Rebecca Lewis, of Dade County, Missouri ,in 1S60, and has had six children. 413. A daughter, born February 4, 1861; died in infancy. 414. Alpha, born June 22, 1862. 415. Cora, born August 27, 1866. 416. Levina, born May 7, 1869. 417. Thomas A., born September 4, 1872. 418. Willie Lev/is, born January 31, 1885; died in infancy. No. 131. John W. Dale, son of Thomas and Levina (Goodpasture) Dale, married Martha Rountree, in December, 1867, and had two children. 419. Loney, who died at the age of six years. 420. Flora. GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 275 No. 132. Abraham B. Dale, son of Thomas and Levina (Good- pasture) Dale, was born in Overton County, Tennessee, and died in the Confederate service, at Little Rock, Arkansas, He was never married. No. 135. Mary M. Dale, daughter of Thomas and Levina (Good- pasture) Dale, married J. M. Rountree, in 1868, and has had seven children, live of whom are living, to-wit: 421. John T. 422. Clyde. 423. Charles. 424. Lee. 425. Lula. No. 137. Azariah Thomas Goodpasture, son of William B. and Martha Ann (Harville) Goodpasture, joined the Union Army in Illinois, and died in the service, unmarried. No. 138. Mary Margery Goodpasture, daughter of William B. and Martha Ann( Harville) Goodpasture, married Charles Jones, in 1863, and had six children.- Three died young. The others are: 426. Fanny. 427. Ida. 428. Nettie. No. 140. Andrew Seymour Goodpasture, of Auburn, Illinois, son cf William B. and Martha Ann (Harville) Goodpasture, mar- ried mary Jane Fletcher, April 2. 1868, and has three chil dren. 429. Nettie, born December 17, 1868. 430. Henry Fletcher, born December 15, 1870. 431. Andrew Ward, born August 6, 1874. 276 GENEALOGY OE THE No. 141. Lucy Dulcena Goodpasture, daughter of William B. and Martha Ann (Hai-ville) Goodpasture, married Jacob Waiters, in 1SC3 or 4, and lives in California. She has six childrer. The names of two of them are not known. 432. Willis. 433. Effie. 434. Nola. 435. Willia. No. 142. William Erastus Goodpasture, son of William B. and Martha Ann (Harville) Goodpasture, was twice married. By his second wife he had one child. 436. Marshall, born in 1871. No. 143. Philander Cass Goodpasture, son of William B. and Martha Ann (Harville) Goodpasture, married Ella Lowder- milk, in 1877, and has seven children living. 437. Lloyd. 438. Edith. 439. Curtis. 440. Minnie. 441. Bessie. 442. Effie. 443. Walter DeWitt Talmage. No. 146. Levi Dodds Goodspasture, son of William B. and Martha Ann (Harville) Goodpasture, married Martha Fletcher, in 1874, and has four living children. 444. Ida Pearl. 445. Delia Maud. 446. Nathan Clyde. 447. Beulah Myrle. No. 147. Jesse Fletcher Goodpasture, son of William B. and Adel- phia (Smith) Goodpasture, married Matilda Porterfield. in 1876, and has four children. GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 2^7 448. Byron May, born in 1877. 449. Lena, born in 1880. 450. Francis Liddell, born in 1881. 451. Jesse Lea, born in 1886. No. 148. J. Uillard Goodpasture, son of Abraham H. and Dulcena B. (Williams) Goodpasture, was born in Petersbui-g, Illinois. After attending the common schools, he spent a year at North Sangamon Academy, and six months it Lincoln University. In 1869 he moved to Holt County, Missojuri, and settled on the wild prairie, hauling the lumber to build his house a distance of 23 miles. The soil proved productive, and he now has one of the best grain and stock farms in the county. He moved to Maitland in 1893. Is a member of the school board, and of the County Court. He assisted in organizing the Nodaway Valley District Fair, for the counties of Nodaway, Andrew, Atchison and Holt, and served one year as its President. He is a director in the Farmer's Bank, of Maitland; a Mason and a member of the Methodist Church. He married Frances H. (1848- ), daughter of George M. (1827-1853), and Mariam A. (Flinn) Obanion (1827-1897), September 1, 1868, and has seven children. 452. Edwin R., born .luly 26, 1869. 453. Abraham H., born May 20, 1871. 454. Deedie A., born January 17, 1873. 455. Mary E. C, born July 31, 1875. 456. George B., born October 5, 1877. 457. Vrenna J., born August 31, 1881. 458. Ethel Frances, born January 26, 1885. No. 149. Hattie E. Goodpasture, daughter of Abraham H. and Dul- cena B. (Williams) Goodpasture, was born in Sangamon County, Illinois. She has been twice married, and has had four children. She married her first husband, W^. G. Web ster, August 17, 1875; and her second, James M. (1845- ), iyB GENEALOGY OF THE son af Rufus H. and Angeline F. (Matthews) Walker, Sep- tember 6, 1892. BY HER FIRST HUSBAND. 459. A son, born June 29, 1876; died in infancy. 460. Isabelle, born September 18, 1877. BY HER SECOND HUSBAND. 461. Rupert S., born September 11, 1893. 462. Frank L., born January 23, 1895. No. 150. Jacob Ridley Goodpasture, son of Abraham H. and Dul- cena B. (Williams) Goodpasture, was born in Sangamon County, Illinois, and moved thence to Hebron, Nebraska. He was twic«! married: first to Hannah Quaintance ( 1893), in December, 1884; and second, to Lizzie Gordon, seventh daughter of Joseph and Ruth A. Combs, July 21, 1896. He has had four children. BY HIS FIRST WIFE 463. Lee, born in September, 1885. 464. Gertrude, born in October, 1886. 465. Dillard, born in 1887. 466. George, born in 1890. No. 151. Tennessee G. Hinds, daughter of Claiborne and Elizabcih B. (Goodpasture) Hinds, married L. A. Mitchell, January 30, 1866, and had seven children. 467. Ollie, born December 22, 1866; died September 17. 1879. 468. Ella, born September 26, 1868. 469. Dillard C, born March 12, 1870. 470. Elbert A., born January 1, 1872. 471. Nancy E., born August 2. 1874. 472. John C, born September 19, 1876. 473. Allen L., born February 21, 1879; died October 6, 1879. GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 279 No. 152. John S. Hinds, son of Claiborne and Elizabeth B. (Good^ pasture) Hinds, married T. A. Jones, January 24, 1872, and has ten children. 474. Luvada, born February 11, 1873. 475. Mollie, born November 24, 1874. 476. Katie, born January 22, 1876. 477. Anna, born December, 16, 1880. 478. William, born December 9, 1882; died July 3, 1881. 479. Mary, born May 22, 1884. 480. Porter, born August 27, 1886. 481. Curtis, born November 16, 1888. 482. Bessie, born December 16, 1890. 483. Ruth, born December 28, 1892. No. 153. Martha F. Hinds, daughter of Claiborne and Elizabeth B. (Goodpasture) Hinds, married J. D. Johnson, July 10, iS6S, and has five children. 484. Dillard, born July 4, 1869; died February 8, 1870. 485. Ollie, born February 26, 1870. 486. Cora, born February 5, 1872. 487. Edward, born February 10, 1874. 488. Fletcher, born March 6, 1876. No. 155. Ova C. Hinds, daughter of Claiborne and Elizabeth B. (Goodpasture) Hinds, married L. A. Mitchell, the husband of her deceased sister, Tennessee, May 16, 1880, and has seven children. 489. William G., born February 22, 1881. 490. Emma D., born February 8, 1883. 491. Clara B., born January 1, 1885. 492. Lois E., born February 4, 1887. 493. Chester, born April 30, 1889. 494. Mabel, born February 21, 1892. 495. Baby, born July 10, 1897. 28o GENEALOGY OF THE No. 156. Isaiah Winburn Mitchell, son of Dennis C. and Margaret Ann (Goodpasture) Mitchell, was a successful farmer, near Livingston, Tennessee. He married Sophronie C. Winton, October 2, 1873, and had four children. 496. Mary Hettie, born August 11, 1874. 497. John Ridley, born September 26, 1877. 498. William Walter, born August 29, 1881. 499. Winburn Elmo, born July 28, 1884. No. 157. John M. D. Mitchell, son of Dennis C. and Margaret Ann (Goodpasture) Mitchell, of Livingston, Tennessee, thougr. he died in early manhood, achieved distinction at the bar, and was twice Attorney General of his district. He wa.^ never married. No. 1.58. Winburn A. Goodpasture, son of John G. and Catherine M. (Atkinson) Goodpasture, married Sue Keeton, of Over- ton County, Tennessee, October 28, 1873, and is now living in Gainesville, Texas. He has seven children. 500. Lizzie, born July 30, 1875. 501. Alvin Cullom, born August 24, 1877. 502. Kate, born September 18, 1879. 503. Albert Virgil, born September 19, 1881. 504. Nettie Lea, born August 28, 1883. 505. John, born September 14, 1887. 506. Alfred M. Keeton. born August 19, 1891. No. 159. Sallie M. Goodpasture, daughter of John G. and Catherine M. (Atkinson) Goodpasture, married Dr. Henry E. Hart (1852- ), son of H. W. and Laura (Young) Hart, a lead- ing physician of Carthage, Tennessee, October 18, 1874. and has three children. 507. Lucy Harris, born July 20, 1875. 508. Alexander Selkirk, born September 3, 1876. 509. Dewees Berry, born June 2, 1892. GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 281 No. 160. Josie Goodpasture, daughter of John G. and Catherine M. (Atkinson) Goodpasture, married John Sanford, of Carthage, Tennessee, in December, 1881, and subsequently moved to Paul's Valley, I. T., where they now reside. She has had two children. 510. Grace, born May 12, 1887; died in infancy. 510. Eva, born October 31, 1894. No. 161. Hettie Goodpasture, daughter of John G. and Catherine M. (Atkinson) Goodpasture, married B. F. Sanders, of Car- thage, Tennessee, in September, 1896, and now resides in that town. No. 162. John Ridley Goodpasture, son of Jefferson Dillard ard Sarah Jane (Dillen) Goodpasture, was born in Livingston, Tennessee; graduated at East Tennessee University in 1875, from which school he received the degi-ee of Master of Arts in 1882. While here he projected, and was one of the first editors of the University monthly, the first periodical ever published by the students of the University. In 1876, he was elected a member of the State Legislature, where he made much reputation as a State credit Democrat. In a public address in Columbia, in 1878, Hon. Wm. J. Sykv^ said of him: '"Permit me to say that the speeches made in the last Legislature by two of the rising young men of Tennessee, R. P. Frierson, of Bedford, and J. R. Good pasture, have not and cannot be answered by any of the opponents of State credit, no matter how venerable m age or how experienced in debate." In 1878, he was elected a member of the committee o« resolutions in the Demo- cratic State Convention, over Judge Jo. C. Guild, after both had been called upon, and publicly expressed their views on the issues of £he campaign. He entered upon the practice of the law, at Clarksville, in 1877, in partnership with his brother, A. V. Goodpasture, but in November, 1878, lie yielded to an inexorable impression to preach, and aban- 282 GENEALOGY OP THE donmg all purpose of achieving professional as well as political preferment, he entered the ministry of the Cumber- land Presbyterian, in which he has now labored for nearly twenty years. He has lately moved from Overton to David- son County, and is now living at Shwab, in that county, and is giving all his time to evangelistic work. He married Sallie A., daughter of Rev. John Lansden, on the 28th day of December, 1880, and has had eight children. 512. Ruth, born January 13, 1882; died April 30, 1890. 513. John Albert, born August S, 1883. 514. William Dillard, born October 23, 1885. 515. James Ridley, born September IG, 1887. 5H>. Hugh Lansden, born October 26, 1889. 517. Lurton, born December 24, 1891. 518. Frank, born July 15, 1893. 519. Hettie Rose, born June 9, 1895. No. 163. Albert Virgil Goodpasture, son of Jefferson Dillard and Sai'ah Jane (Dillen) Goodpasture, was born in Livingston, Tennessee; attended preparatory schools at Cookeville and New Middleton, and graduated at East Tennessee Univer- sity (University of Tennessee) in 1875, from which school he received the degree of Master of Arts, in 1882. In 1877, he graduated in the law department of Vanderbilt Univer- sity, and commenced the practice of his profession in Clarks- ville, Tennessee, July, 1877, in partnership with his brother, J. R. Goodpasture. His brother having abandoned the bar for the pulpit, in 1879 he became associated with Gen. Wm. A. Quarles and Hon. Wm. M. Daniel, in the well known law firm of Quarles, Daniel and Goodpasture. In 1884 and 1885, in connection with his brother, W. H. Goodpasture, he made two importations of Holstein-Friesian cattle from Holland. In 1888, he was elected a member of the House of Representatives in the General Assembly of Tennessee, and in 1890, a member of the Senate. He served on the Ways and Means Committee, in both of these bodies. In 1891, he resigned his seat in the Senate to accept the posi GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 283 tlon of Clerk of the Supreme Court, at Nashville, v/hlch position he held until 1897. He married Jennie Wilson, daughter of Stephen W. (1822-1887) and Martha L. (Wilson) Dawson (1825-1864), November 16, 1880. and has had six children. 520.Mattie Madge, born June 2, 1882. 521. William Dillard (twin), born May 21, 1884; died May 24, 1884. 522. Ridley Rose (twin), born May 21, 1884. 523. Ernest, born October 17, 1886. 524. Sarah Jane, born September 15, 1890. 525. Albert Virgil, born April 2, 1893. No. 164. William Henry Goodpasture, son of Jefferson Dillard and Sarah Jane (Dillen) Goodpasture, was born in Livingston, Tennessee. He received his literary education at Burritt College and Vanderbilt University, and graduated in the law department of the latter institution. He ranked higii in his college career, representing his society in the annual debate and oratorical contest, and also represented the Phi Delta Theta fraternity at the biennial meeting at Richmond, Virginia, in 1882. He visited all the countries of Europe, except Turkey and Russia, in 1883, and in 1884 and 1885, made two importations of Holstein-Fresian cattle from Hol- land, for the firm of A. V. & W. H. Goodpasture. He then joined his father in the importation of jack stock and Cleve- land Bay horses, making eight trips to Europe for that pur- pose. He projected, assisted in the organization, and be- came the first Secretary of the American Breeders' Associa- tion of Jacks and Jennets, and to his careful and intelligent work the success of this organization is mainly due. He published a valuable pamphlet on jack stock, and edited the first volume of the American Jack Stock Stud-Book. In 1S91, his brother, A. V. Goodpasture, was appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court, at Nashville, and he retired from the stock business to accept the place of Deputy Clerk, in his office, which position he held until 1897. He has nevei married. 284 GENEALOGY OF THE No. 167. Lucette Margery Goodpastui'e, daughter of Jefferson Dil- lard and Nannie (Young) Goodpasture, was born in Over ton County, Tennessee, and moved with her parents to Nashville in 1879. She was educated at Ward's Seminary. She married Joe M. Stewart, November 10, 1896. Her hus- band is the proprietor of the Stewart Pants Co., and Stewart Book and Music Co., of Nashville. They have one child. 526. Marjorie Goodpasture, born October 10, 1897. No. 168. Austin Young Goodpasture, son of Jefferson Dillard and Nannie (Young) Goodpasture, was born in Overton County, Tennessee, and moved with his parents to Nashville, in 1879, where he now resides, unmarried. No. 169. Mona Clark Goodpasture, daughter of Jefferson Dillard and Nannie (Young) Goodpastui'e, was born in Overton County, Tennessee, and moved with her parents to Nash- ville, in 1879. She was educated at the Nashville College for Young Ladies. She married Alexander R., son of Rev. Joseph B. Brwin, on the 2Sth day of April, 1896. Her hus- band is employed in the main office of the N., C. & St. L. Ry. They have one child. 527. Tennie Marie, born February 8, 1897. No. 170. Jefferson Dillard Goodpasture, was born in Overton County, Tennessee, and moved with his parents to Nash- ville, in 1879, where he now resides, engaged in the real estate business. No. 171. Avo Goodpasture, daughter of James M. and Ova (Arnold) Goodpasture, married Dr. J. F. Dyer, a leading physician of Cookevllle, Tennessee, June 10, 1894. No children. GOODPASTURK FAMILY. 285 No. 172. Mary Hettie Goodpasture, daughter of James M. and Ova (Arnold) Goodpasture, married A. W. Boyd, a prominent lawyer, formerly Clerk and Master, and at present State Senator, of Cookeville, Tennessee, December 15, 187S, and has had nine children. 528. Ernest Houston, born October 1, 1879. 529. Ova, born October 17, 1881. 530. Vallie, born May 31, 1883. 531. Allie, born December 26, 1884. 532. McDonnold Jeffei-son, born November 25, 1887; die-i September 11, 1888. 533. Margery, born February 22, 1890. 534. Grover Cleveland, born September 30, 1891. 535. Gretchen, born March 3, 1894. 536. Alvin Goodpasture, born October 16, 1895; died October 10. 1896. No. 173. John Bryan Goodpasture, son of James M. and Ova (Arnold) Goodpasture, lives in Cookeville, Tennessee, and is unmarried. No. 174. Sarah Margery Goodpasture, daughter of James M. and Ova (Arnold) Goodpasture, married B. H. Jared ( -189b), a most promising young lawyer of Cookeville, December 3, 1891, and has one child. 537. Eugene Franklin, born December 12, 1895. No. 176. Lou G. Goodpasture, daughter of Winburn W. and Martha Ann (Capps) Goodpasture, married C. M. Hensley, a minister in the Methodist Church, about 1880. They now live in Birmingham, Alabama, and have two children. 538. Ala M.. born in 1882. 539. Ethel, born in 1883. . , , . 286 GENEALOGY OF THE No. 177. Ala May Goodpasture, daughter of Winbuni W. and Martha Ann (Capps) Goodpasture, was never married. No. 178. Maggie L. Goodpasture, daughter of Winburn W. and Martha Ann (Capps) Goodpasture, married William G. Cur- rie, an estimable gentleman and an excellent lawyer, for- merly of Brownsville, but n.ow of Cookeville, Tennessee, about 1884. They have three children. 540. Loula May, born January 27, 1887. 541. Mattie Capps, born November 6, 1889. 542. Winburn Goodpasture, born July 21, 1893. No. 179. Elmo C. Goodpasture, son of Winburn W. and Martha Ann (Capps) Goodpasture, is a merchant in Cliattanooga, Tennessee. He has never married. No. 186. Elizabeth Goodpasture, daughter of Hamilton and Eleanor (Ellyson) Goodpasture, mariied John Ford ( -1857), in 1852, and had one child. She v/as married again to Samue^ M. Fancher ( -1863), March 3, 1858, and had two children. She was married a third time, to George W. Wilson, in January, 1873, and had three children. She lives in Pacific County, Washington. BY HER FIRST HUSBAND. 543. A son, who died at the age of two years. BY HER SECOND HUSBAND. • 544. Loyd Watson, born December, 1859. 545. Kate, born June 1, 1861; died June 7, 1872. BY HER THIRD HUSBAND. 546. Emerson J., born March 31, 1875. 547. Howard M., born July 29, 1878. 548. Olive Eleanor, born September 24, 1880. GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 287 No. 187. Andrew Jackson Goodpasture, of Bay Centre, Washington, son of Hamilton and Eleanor (BUyson) Goodpasture, mar- ried Rebecca Scanlan, at Indianola, Warren County, Iowa, in 1866, and died in 1888, from lung disease contracted in the war. No children. No. 188. William Hamilton Goodpasture, son of Hamilton and Eleanor (EUyson) Goodpasture, enlisted in the 13th Iowa Infantry Volunteers, in 1861, and was killed in front of Atlanta, Ga., August 9, 1864. No. 189. Abraham Goodpasture, son of Hamilton and Eleanor (Ellyson) Goodpasture, was born in Morgan County, Illinois; at the age of sixteen, moved to Kansas, and lived there two years; moved to Iowa, and in 1878, settled at Anita, Cass County; is a contractor and builder. He mar- ried Arazona Almira Bidlake, March 24, 1868, and has eight children. 549. Susan, born in 1869; died in September, 1878. 550. Myra, born in 1872; died in October, 1878. 551. Mary A., born in 1874. 552. Charles H., born in 1876. 553. Leonard R.. born in 1882. 554. Theodore B., born in 1884. 555. Mildred A., born in 1886. 556. Ellen G., born in 1892. No. 190. John Ellyson Goodpasture, of Bay Centre, Washington, son of Hamilton and Eleanor (Ellyson) Goodpasture, mar- ried Sarah Ann Shockley, at Summerset, Warren County, Iowa, in 1870, and has had four children — one boy and three girls. 557. G. Frank, born April 21, 1872. 558. Minnie Alma, born March 21, 1876; died June 13, 1895. 388 GENEALOGY OF THE 559. Alice May, born March 3, 1882. 560. Edith Madge, born May 5, 1888. No. 191. James P. Goodpasture, son of Hamilton and Eleanor (El- lyson) Goodpasture, was bom in Hamilton County, Illinois; lived a while in Kansas; moA-ed to Iowa in 1860; thence to Oregon in 1870; and thence to Bay Centre, Washington, in 1876. He has been twice married, first, to Edith R. Mat- thews ( -1885), in 1883; and, second, to Mrs. Delphia C. Sparks, in 1895. No children. No. 192. Martha Jane Goodpasture, daughter of Hamilton and Eleanor (Ellyson) Goodpasture, married Leonard M. Rhodes of Pacific County, Washington, in 1874, and died at Bay Centre, Washington, leaving two children. 561. Carl, born in 1875. 562. Elsie, born in 1879. No. 193. Thomas B. Goodpasture, of Sam's Valley, Jackson County, Oregon, son of Hamilton and Eleanor (Ellyson) Good pasture is a Methodist minister; married in 1876, and has had eight children. 563. A daughter, died at the age of ten years. 564. DeWitt, born in 1879. 565. Ernest, born in 1882. 566. Lloyd, born in 1884. 567. Waine, born in 1886. 568. Victor, born in 1890. 569. Ira, born in 1892. 570. John, born in 1894. No. 201. John J. Goodpasture, son of Francis M. and Lydia L. (Thomas) Goodpasture, married Lora Thompson, January 21, 1894, and has two children. 571. Benton Cordell, born April 9, 1895. 572. Ethel, born January 30, 1897. GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 289 No. 214. Lillie May Cooper, daughter of James and Sarah C. (Good- pasture) Cooper, married Charles Cooper, in September, 1895. FIFTH GENERATION. No. 217. Bertie J. Scott, daughter of John M. and Ellen W. W. (Goodpasture) Scott, married W. G. Pannil, February 14, 1888, and had one child. 573. Hallie Bell, born December 15, 1888. No. 218. Milton Scott, son of Jno. M. and Ellen W. W. (Good- pasture) Scott, married Libbie Smith, February 21, 1894, and has one child. 574. Walter Halph. No. 219. Mary Ellen Scott,daughter of John M. and Ellen W. W. (Goodpasture) Scott, married C. C. Killinger, February 2S, 1894, and has one child. 575. Hugh W. No. 225. Clarence Goodpasture, son of James L. and Mary (Hoof- nagle) Goodpasture, married Cordelia Akers, and has one child. 576. Josphine. No. 226. Anna Clyde Goodpasture, daughter of James L. and Mary (Hoofnagle) Goodpasture, married George Vandergrift, and has two children. 577. Glenna Lee, born January 22, 1892. 578. James Thomas, born December 26, 1895. 19 290 GENEALOGY OF THE No. 227. John Henry Snider, son of William and Mary Terrel (Sprinkle) Snider, married Mary E. Wolfe, November 22, 1866, and has one child. 579. Josephine, born September 15, 1871. No. 228. William Hamilton Snider, son of William and Mary Ter- rel (Sprinkle) Snider, married Ann Eliza Oakes, February 13, 1872. No. 229. Peter Terrel Snider, son of William and Mary Terrel (Sprinkle) Snider, married M. C. A. Killinger, February 11, 1872. No. 232. Martha E. C. Snider, daughter of William and Mary Ter- rel (Sprinkle) Snider, married George A. Groseclose. in January, 1874, and has three children. 580. Charles P., born October 26, 1875. 581. Mary E., born September 27, 1878. 582. Emma E., born September 20, 1881. No. 233. Lafayette McMullen Snider, son of William and M?ry Terrel (Sprinkle) Snider, is married and has three chil- dren. 583. Bertha Lee, born May 26, 1885. 584. Gracie Blanche, born February 23, 1889. 585. Maud May, November 15, 1890. No. 235. A. R. F. Snider, son of William and Mary Terrel (Sprink- le) Snider, married Cora V. Hankie, December 21, 1887, and has four children. 586. Gracie Pearl, born February 10, 1889. 587. Mattie E.. born October 4, 1890. 588. Lettie May, born May 28, 1893. 589. Alma Gay, born April 3, 1897. GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 29I No. 237. Mary Susana Levisa Snider, daughter of William and Mary Terrel (Sprinkle) Snider, married Albert S. Good- pasture, September 1, 1887. See No. 239. No. 238. Alice Virginia Snider, daughter of William and Mary Terrel (Sprinkle) Snider, married William P. Falke, Febru- ary 17, 1897. No. 239. Albert S. Goodpasture, son of William Hamilton and Mary E. (Curren) Goodpasture, married Mary Susana Levisa Snider, September 1, 1887, and has four children. 590. Leonia May, born September 23, 1888. 591. Archie S., born August 30, 1891. 592. Florence Alberta, born April 12, 1893. 593. Early Page, born February 8, 1895. No. 240. David W. Goodpasture, son of William Hamilton and Margaret E. (Winbarger) (Goodpasture, married Dora Kegley, and has three children. 594. Conley. 595. Everett. 596. Mary Gay. No. 241. Charles H. (Goodpasture, son of William Hamilton and Margaret E. (Winbarger) Goodpasture, married Gay Snider, and has had two children. 597. Selma Gay, born June 5, 1895; died June 14, 1896. 598. Hilda V.. born in May, 1897. No. 263. Mary L. Oarlock, daughter of John G. and Lucinda (Musick) Carlock, married Robert L. Sabin, June 20, 1877, and resides at Beatrice, Nebraska. She has five children, but the names of the youngest two are not known. 3^2 GKNEALOGY OF THE 599. Ralph M., born in 1878. . . 600. Robert L., born in 1880. 601. Mary Louise, born in 1883. No, 264. Richard L. Carlock, son of John G. and Lucinda (Mustek) Garlock, married Sallie M. Dunlap, January 15, 1879, and has one child. 602. Claud, born in 1881. No. 266. S. Gertrude Carlock, daughter of John G. and Lucinda (Musick) Carlock, married Harvey L. Kart, June 15, 1888, and resides in Bloomington, Illinois. She has two children. 603. Harvey L., born in 1891. 604. Alfred T., born in 1894. No. 272. Rosalie Carlock, daughter of Madison P. and Nancy E. (Judy) Carlock, married Thomas J. Mountjoy, and left -w - children. 605. Holton C. 606. Wayne B. No. 273. George W. Carlock, son of Madison P. and Nancy E. (Judy) Carlock, married Ella Martin, February 28, 1884, and resides in Omaha, Nebraska. He has four children. • 607. Frederick, born in 1884. 608. Maggie, born in 1886. 609. Clinton, born in 1889. 610. Helen, born in 1895. No. 274. John A. Carlock, son of Madison P. and Nancy E. (Judy) Carlock, married Clara Gordon, June 15, 1890, and has one child. 611. Colby C, born in 1892. GOODPASTURE FAMII^Y. 293 No. 275. Ida M. Carlock, daughter of Madison P. and Nancy B. (Judy) Carlock, married Jesse B. Jordan, October 2. 1891. and has had two children. 612. Cecil Marie, who died in infancy. 613. Jessie Hellene, born in 1894. No. 276. Horace L. Carlock. son of Madison P. and Nancy E. (Judy) Carlock, married Ollie Thompson, January 1, 1886, and has four children. 614. Ralph T. 615. Neva. 616. Cleon. 617. Holton. No. 277. Lyman J. Carlock, son of Madison P. and Nancy E. (Judy) Carlock, married Mabelle Riddle, September 1, 1893, and has one child. 618. Lael Marie, born in 1895. No. 279. Lina Gennette Carlock, daughter of Madison P. and Nancy E. (Judy) Carlock, married John W. Applegate, March 10, 1894, and has one child. 619. Grace Modelle, born in 1896. No. 285. Hattie Brown, daughter of Jacob M. and Nancy J. (Car- lock) Brown, married William Taylor, May 16, 1873, and resides in or near Little Rock, Arkansas. She has several children, whose names are not known. No. 287. Cora Brown, daughter of Jacob M. and Nancy J. (Car- lock) Brown, married James Bacon, June 16, 1892. N ■ further information. 294 GENBALOGY OF THE No. 288. Zepheniah Allen, son of William and Sarah (Carlock) Allen, married Belle Center, October 10, 1891, and resides ai Normal, Illinois. He has two children. 620. Lucille, born in 1893. 621. Mildred, born in 1895. No. 289. William P. Marley, son of William P. and Sarah (Caii^clt^ Marley, manned Nellie Bergen, November 15, 1890, and resides at Peoria, Illinois. He has two children. 622. Robert Cedric, born in 1891. 623. Lucette Marjorie, born in 1893. No. 291. Albert W. Gaddis, son of Benjamin and Mahala (Carlock) Gaddis, is married and has four children. No other in- formation. No. 316. William Thomas Dale, son of William Jackson and Leanna (Butler) Dale, lives in Clay County, Tennessee. He married Mollie Quarles ( -1897), in 1879, and has four children. 624. Robert. 625. Walter. 626. James. 627. A girl. No. 317. Martha Dale, daughter of William Jackson and Leanna (Butler) Dale, married Hugh Kyle, of Clay County, Ten- aessee, February 22, 1874, and has had five children. 628. Millard Jackson, born December 10, 1875. 629. Floyd, born August 30, 1877; died in 1880 or 1881. 630. Charles Lee, born April 30, 1880. 631. Frank, born in May, 1882. 632. Lizzie, bom in July, 1887. GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 295 No. 318. James Dale, son of William Jackson and Leanna (Butler) Dale, married MoUie Chandler, about 1887, and ha* children. No. 319. Jennie Le« Dale, daughter of William Jackson and Leanna (Butler) Dale, married Stephen S. Kirk (1852- ) July 28, 1878. They live in Dallas, Texas, and have four children. 633. Eula Dale, born July 13, 1881. 634. Annie Lola, born January 1, 1883. 635. Ralph Carl, born December 4, 1885. 636. Paul Toof, born January 14, 1888. No. 320. Martha Butler, daughter of L. B. and Elizabeth (Dale) Butler, mar-ried W. C. Bailey, about 1869, and has had six children. 637. A daughter. 638. Lizzie. 639. Benjamin. 640. Jennie, now dead. 641. James. 642. Allie. No. 321. Louisa Butler, daughter of L. B. and Elizabeth (Dale) Butler married Reuben Beck, of Butler's Landing, Ten- nessee, and has children. No. 323. Jane Ann Butler, daughter of L. B. and Elizabeth (Dale) Butler, mai-ried Amonett Kirkpatrick, in 1874, and has had one child. 643. Bedford, born in 1876; died in December, 1884. No. 325. John Butler, son of L. B. and Elizabeth (Dale) Butler, married a Miss Hampton, and resides at Butler's Landing, Tennessee. 296 GENEALOGY OF THE No. 326. Bettie Dale, daughter of Cleon E. and Frances P. (Cliism) Dale, married R. T. Peterman, of Celina, Tennessee, Octo- ber 4, 1880, and has had nine boys. 644. J. H., born August 11, 1881. 645. W. R., born Februaiy 4, 1883. 646. C. E., born November 26, 1885. 647. A. C, born April 8, 1887. 648. R. v., born March 27, 1889. 649. S. F., born January 6, 1891. 650. J. I., born February 18, 1S93. 651. G. B., born December 22, 1894. 652. H. B., born September 10, 1896. No. 327. Ann Dale, daughter of Cleon E. and Frances P. (Chism) Dale, married T. L. Meadows, in January, 1894. and has jne child. 653. Inez. No. 328. Andrew Dale, son of Cleon E. and Frances P. (Chism) Dale, married Lizzie Peterman, in 1882, and has seven chil- dren. 654. Tennie, born in 1883. 655. Cheatham. 656. R. T. No. 329. Bennett Dale, son of Cleon E. and Frances P. (Chism) Dale, married a Miss Moore, about 1889 or 1890. and has one child. 657. A girl. No. 335. Ada Dale, daughter of Cleon E. and Prances P. (Chism) Dale, married , December 25. 1896. No. 336. Russell Aubry Dale, son of Alfred Lafayette and Sallie (Butler) Dale, married a Miss Hinton. GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 297 No. 337. Jake Bennett Dale, s ;n of Alfred Lafayette; and Sallis Bennett, married Dr. J. E. Sidwell, in 1890, and hae two children. 663. A son. 664. A son. No. 361. Edgar Bennett, son of Jake C. and Dulcena (Dale) Ben- nett, married a Miss Maxwell, in 1895. No. 367. Amos Dillard Bates, son of William Iredell, and Majy Ann (Robertson) Batefe, married Florena Irene Seaton, Sep- tember 20. 1882, and has one child. 665. Charles R., born April 15. 1884. 293 GENEALOGY OF THE No. 368. Myra Josephine Bates, daughter of William Iredell and Mary Ann (Robertson) Bates, married James R. Guthrie September 27, 1882, and has four children. 666. Maude M., barn July 29, 1883. 667. Myrtle Irene, bom January 12, 1885. 668. Ethel Reaugh, born December 2, 1886. 669. James Ralph, born June 9, 1890. No. 369. Ida Frances Bates, daughter of William Iredell and Mary Ann (Robertson) Bates, married David Lee Meyers, Febiu- ary 6, 1889, and has two children. 670. Harry Robertson, born March 28, 1893. 671. Justin Tinsmore, born November 14, 1895. No. 370. Mary EfBe Bates, daughter of William Iredell and Mary Ann (Robertson) Bates, married James Anderson Mc.\nulty, April 16, 1885, and has two children. 672. Arthur Dean, bora January 10, 1886. 673. Grace Irene, born April 8, 1888. No. 371. William Eddy Bates, son of William Iredell and Mary Ann (Robertson) Bates, married Lillie Marshall, January 10. I88H, and has four children. 674. Bessie, born September 2, 1889. 675. Neva Don, born October 27, 1893. 676. Clarence Dillard, born May 3, 1895. 677. William Eddy, born February 4, 1887. No. 373. Joseph Marcus Bates, son of William Iredell and Majy Ann (Robertson) Bates, married Nora Earl, December 20, 1893. No children. No. 375. John Frankfin Downing, son of William and Mary Elzada (Bates) Downing, was twice married, first, to Seliua Tvowrey, GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 299 September 12, 1872; second, to Lillie M. Elliot, May 3, 1892. He has one child. BY HIS FIRST WIFE. 678. Albert W., bom September 19, 1875. No. 376. Joseph Henry Downing, son of William and Maiy Elzada (Bates) Downing, manied Anna Tipton, June 16, 1880, and has had two children. 679. Jessie, born August 2, 1893. 680. Robert, born August 8, 1896; died September 30, 1897. No. 377. Albert Rezin Downing, son of William and Mary Elzada (Bates) Downing, married Emma Strickler, April 11, 1888, and has one child. 681. William Strickler, born March 6, 1896. No. 378. Jessie Viola Downing, daughter of William and Mary Elzada (Bates) Etowning, married Mathew F. Smith, April 7, 1887, and has two children. 682. Ray Franklin, born January 14, 1889. 683. Henry Mathew, born January 18, 1895. No. 381. John E. Bates, son of Thomas J. and Leonora (Wilson) Bates, mai-ried Clara White, February 13, 1889, and has two children. 684. Harry W., born October 3, 1891. 685. J. Russell, born December 12, 1894. No. 382. Henson E. Bates, son of Thomas J. and Leonora (Wil- son) Bates, married Hattie Sawyer, June 6, 1890, and has two children. 686. Floyd Bailey, born March 8, 1891. 687. Esther Sawyer, born May 3, 1893. 300 GENEALOGY OF THE No. 383. Henry M. Bates, son of Thomas J. and Leonora (Wilson) Bates, married Mary Adams. November 28, 1888, and lias two children. 688. Myrl Meron, born December 5, 1889. 689. Charles Emmett, born October 20, 1891. No. 384. Carrie G. Bates, daughter of Thomas J. and Leonora. (Wilson) Bates, married Samuel McClintock, April 15, 1891. and has two children. 690. Carl Everett, born August 29, 1892. 691. Forrest Bates, born August 9, 1896. No. 388. George Latimer Bates, son of Madison C. and Emma (Latimer) Bates, is in West Central Africa, making scientific collections of birds, animals, flowers, and plants. No. 389. Eula Goodpasture Bates, daughter of Madison C. and Emma (Latimer) Bates, is a missionary in Hadgin. Turkey. No. 390. Mary Drumon Bates, daughter of Madison C. and Emma (Latimer) Bates, married A. I. Sargent, a dentist, of Hunt^ ington. West Virginia, June 24, 1896, and has one child. 692. Constance, born September 29, 1897. No. 393. Lizzie May Thomas, daughter of David R. and Margery- Josephine (Bates) Thomas, married Dr. H. H. Littlefield. November ?A. 1887, and has one child. 693. Eula Belle, born September 27, 1888. No. 394. Nancy Josephine Thomae.daughter of David R. and Mar- gery Josephine (Bates) Thomas, married Z. H. Sexton, September 23, 18S5, and had one child. 694. Josephine, died May 7, 1887. GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 301 No. 395. Edith Allegra Thomas, daughter of David R. and Margery Josephine (Bates) Thomas, married H. C. Smith December 7, 1892, and has one child. 695. Ethel Z., born September 30, 1893. No. 398. Lottie Maud Thomas, daughter of David R. and Margery Josephine (Bates) Thomas, married D. H. Flickwis, ?.Iarch 8, 1891, and has three children. 696. Josephine, born November 26. 1891. 697. Helen, born December 8, 1892. 698. Hallie N., born March 29, 1894. No. 407. Margaret Josephine Breese.daughter of Leland S. and Margaret Ann (Bates) Breese, married William Hugh 01m- Bted, August 8, 1894, and has one child. 699. Cordelia Browne, born May 12, 1895. No. 414. Alpha Dale, daughter of W. A. and Rebecca (Lewis) Dale, married L. K. Edge, in 1881, and has four children. 700. Howard. 701. Loy. 702. Ova. ] 703. Glaidest. No. 415. Cora Dale, daughter of W. A. and Rebecca (Lewis) Dale, married M. M. Martin, in 1884, and has four children. 704. Winburn. 705." Raymond. 706. Oliver. 707. A girl. No. 416. Levina Dale, daughter of W. A. and Rebecca (Lewis) Dale, married E. E. Rountree, in 1888, and has four chil- dren — three girls and a boy. 302 GKNEALOCiY OF THE 708. Jewell. 709. Willie. 710. Lucy. 711. Ward L. No. 417. Thomas A. Dale, son of W. A. and Rebecca (Lewis) Dale, married .Josephine Emerson, in February, 1895. and has one child. 712. Irene. No. 420. Flora Dale, daughter of John W. and Martha (Rountree) Dale, married a Mr. Ingram, and lives at Black Jack Grove, Texas. They have three children. No. 421. John T. Rountree, son of J. M. and Martha M. (Dale) Rountree, married Myrtle Pyle, and has one child. 713. Lawrence. No. 429. Nettie Goodpasture, daughter of Andrew S. and Mary Jane (Fletcher) Goodpasture. maiTied William Foster, and has one child. 714. Ivan. No. 430. Henry Fletcher Goodpastui'e, son of Andrew S. and Mary Jane (Fletcher) Goodpasture, married Amy Caldwell, December 25, 1894, and has one child. 715. Gladys Marie, born September 10, 1896. No. 413. Andrew Ward Goodpasture, son of Andrew S. and Mary Jane (Fletcher) Goodpasture, married Claudia Williamson, June 20, 1895. No. 436. Marshall Goodpasture, son of William E. Goodpasture married Pheby Chenney. GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 303 No. 452. Edwin R. GcwDdpastiire, son of J. Dillard and Frances H. (Obanion) Goodpasture, was born in Morgan County. Illinois, and moved with his father to Holt County, Missouri, where he is a progressive farmer, and an extensive breeder and feeder of live stock. He married Cora (1872- ), daughter of William and Elizabeth Shields, September 20, 1893, and has one child. 716. Clyde M., born June 20, 1894. No. 453. Abraham H. Goodpasture, son of J. Dillard and France* H. (Obanion) Goodpasture, was born in Holt County, Mis- souri, where he is an energetic and successful young farmer, a school director, and member of the Methodist Church. He married Josephine (1871- ), daughter of Robert and Lucinda Medsker, December 2, 1891. No. 454. Deedie A. Goodpasture, daughter of J. Dillard and Frances H. (Obanion) Goodpasture, was born in Holt County, Mis- souri, and educated at Cameron and St. Joseph. She mar ried James E. Weller, son of Ernest F. and Ruth Weller, September 16,1896. Her husband is cashier of the Farmers Bank, of Maitland, where they have a beautiful home. They have one child. ■ 717. Hiram Dillard, born September 22, 1897. No. 455. Mary E. C. Goodpasture, daughter of J. Dillai'd and Itances H. (Obanion) Goodpasture, was born In Holt County, Missouri, and was educated in the Maitland High School, where she graduated in 1895, and was valedictorian of her class. She is a member of the Methodist Church, in Maitland, Assistant Superintendent of its Sunday School, and President of its Epworth League. 304 GENKAI.OGY OF THK No. 456. George B. Goodpasture, son of J. Dillard and Frances H. (Obanion) Goodpasture, wes born in Holt County, Missouri, where he is enga.ged in farming and stock raising. He mar- ried. Grace M. (1876- ), daughter of William and Alice Niite, February 12, 1896. No. 457. Vrenna J. Goodpasture, daughter of J. Dillard and Frances H. (Obanion) Goodpasture, was bom in Holt County, Mis- souri, and is now in school at Maitland. No. 458. Ethel Frances Goodpasture,daughter of J. Dillard and Frances H. (Obanion) Goodpasture, was bom in Holt County, Missouri, and is now in school at Maitland. No. 460. Isabelle Webster, daughter of W. G. and Hattie E. (Good- pasture) Webster, was born in Sangamon County, Illinois, and graduated in the High School, at Petersburg, in 1895. No. 468. Ella MitcheH, daughter of L. A. and Tennessee G. (Hinds) Mitchell married F. C. Freeman, of Weakley County, Ten- nessee. No. 469. Dillard C. Mitchell, son of L. A. and Tennessee G. (Hinds) Mitchell, married Addie L. T^ng, of Robertson County, Ten- nessee. No. 471. Nancy E. Mitchell, daughter of L. A. and Tennessee G. (Hinds) Mitchell, married a Mr. Brown, of Texas. No. 474. Luvada Hinds, daughter of John S. and T. A. (Jones) Hinds, married D. W. Higglnbotham. of Mississippi. GOODPASTURE FAMILY. 305 No. 475. MoUie Hinds, daughter of John S. and T. A. (Jones) Hinds, married M. M. Davie, of Mississippi. No. 496. Mary Hettie Mitchell, daughter of Isaiah W. and Sophi"o- nie C. (Winton) Mitchell, married B. L. Speck, of Livings- ton, Tennessee, January 10, 1895. INDEX. iKi Ajudalaemu Jacks, 326. Andalnsism Women, 150. Appendix, 243. Arnold, Capt. Jesse, Sketch of, 16. Atchison, Dr. T. A., Anecdotes of, 93. Baccariza, Seuor, Mentioned, 138. Baily, Francis, Mentioned, 10. Barcelona, 176. Barrett, Senator, Mentioned, 98. Barton, T. T., Sketch of, 22. Bate, Gen. W. B., Mentioned, 109. Bates, Joseph, Sketch of, 46. Bates, T. ¥., Sketch of, 53. Baxter, Nathaniel, Mentioned, 61. Bayard, Hon. Thomas F., Men- tioned, 109. Beaty, Tinker Dave, Noticed, 75. Benton, Thos. H., Mentioned, 62. Bransford, Thos. L., Quoted, 34. Bright, Jno. M., Quoted, 46. Brown, B. Q-ratz, Mentioned, 63. Brown, Daniel, Mentioned, 16, 26. Bruce, Blanche K. , Mentioned, 109. Bull Fight, 168. Campbell, L. R., Mentioned, 107, 110, 118, 121, 125. Carter, Mr., Mentioned, 95. Caruthers, Abraham, Sketch of, 45. Catalonian Jacks, 228. Charleston Convention, Tlie, No- ticed, 60. Christian, George, Noticed, 29. Courtois & Co., 193. Crockett, Bobt., Mentioned, 7. Cross, Edward, Noticed, 35. Crossa, Monsieur, Anecdotes of, 201. Cullom Family, The, Noticed, 33. Cullom, Alvin, Sketch of, 33. Cullom, Wm., Sketch of, 37. Curry, Hon. J. L. M., Mentioned, 109, 135. Democratic Convention, The Na- tional, Noticed, 63. Dickenson, John, Sketch of, 21. -Dillard, John L., Noticed, .53. Dillen, Jacob, Noticed, 59. Drury Lane Theater, 1"26. Hsk, Moses, Skbtch of, 18. Tiek, Mose-s Madison, College Story •T, 31. Gardenhire, F>. L., Sketch of, ;iO. Garrett, Elijah, Noticed, 47. Goodpasture Family, The, Noticed, 8; Genealogy, 245. Goodpasture, A.V. , Mentioned, 105. Goodpasture, James, Noticed, 9. Goodpasture, James M., Sketch of, 54. Goodpasture, Jefferson D., Birth and early life, 15 ; Goes for the mail, 22; Early recollections, 25; Enters .school, 28 ; Works on the farm, 27; Sees a Governor, 28: Goes into business, 39; Rescues his pigs, 30: In the debating so- ciety, 31 : Determines to study law, 33; "Singing geography," 42 ; Clerk and master, 44 : Enters Lebanon law school, 44; Writes Elijah Garrett's will, 47; As a trader, 52; Buns for Congress, 56; Marries, 58; At the Charles- ton Convention, 60; Delegate to the National Democratic Con- vention, 62 ; Elected to the State Senate, 63 ; Opposes conventional rate of interest, 63 ; Favors quad- riennial elections, 63 ; Chairman of investigating committee, 64: Bemoves to the country, 72; Ex- tract from letter, 72 ; Visited by a mysterious horseman, 73; Writes a pass, 73; Death of his mother, 74 ; Openin^of the courts after the war, 75, Hidden treas- ure, 77; Family afflictions, 77; Marries again, 78; Takes his boys to college, 79 ; Letter to his sons, 80 ; Moves to Nashville, a5 ; Builds a home, 87 ; Other building oper- ations, 88 ; The courts, 90 ; Opens a law office, 92; Has pneumonia, 93 ; Continues building, 95 ; Makes political speech, 97 ; His law practice, 98; Real estate pur- chases, 100 ; Characteristic Anec- dotes of, 101 ; Confidence of peo- ple in, 104; Determines to im- port jacks, 105; Leaves for New York, 108; Visits Washington and sees Congress, 108; Arrives in New York, 110 ; Sails for Liver- pool, 117 ; The stop in Liverpool, 131; Visits London, 135; Goes to Paris, 139; Visits Madrid and meets Amerioan minister. 135; 3o8 INDEX. Q-oes to Coi-dova, lotf; Searches for jacks, 139; Makes excursion to the country, 141 ; Secures a fast friend, 143; Sells jacks to Dr. Plumlee, 144; Describes Cor- dova in letter, 145; Gets lost in Malaga, 148 ; Describes trip from Malaga to London, 151 ; Describes sections of London, 155 ; Sails for home, 156; Describes storm at sea, 156; Arrival home, 159; Starts for second importation, 160 ; Writes of trip to New York, 161 ; Sails for London, 162 ; Writes of trip to Brighton, 162; Goes to Paris, 162; Trip to Barcelona, 1(33; Engages interpreter, 166; Scfs a bull fight, 168; Purchases jacks. 177; Goes to Marseilles, 180 ; Stops at Cettc and Almeria, 184; Jack losses, 185; Sails for Home, 186 ; Arrives at Brooklyn, 187; Tries lawsuit in Supreme Court, 188; Prepares for third importation, 189; Lands in Bor- deaux, 190; Visits French fairs, 191; Leaves for Pyrenees, 192; Drives over the mountains, 194 ; Leads jack from Bourg-Madame to Tarascon, 198; Sails for New York, 200; Visits Mexico, 205: Leaves to import horses, 210 ; Sees many attractions in London. 211 ; Purchases horses, 215 ; Makes another importation of jacks 217; Purchases around Lanne mazan, 219 ; Goes to Poitou and makes large purchases, 219 ; Vis its Toulouse, 221 ; Sails for home 222 ; Sickness and death, 238. Goodpasture, John, Settles on Buf- falo Creek, 12; Marries Margery Bryan, 12; Raises a family. 13 His character, 13. Goodpasture, John R., Mentioned 97,98. Goodpasture, Wm. H., Mentioned 72, 98, 105, 140, 142, 178, 203. Goodpasture, W. W., Mentioned 109. Great Eastern, ^Described, 195. Hart, Alfred, Mentioned, 108. Hickman, J. E., Sketch of, 78. Hilham, Laid out, 20. Hill, Capt. R. H., Mentioned, 107. Hinds Family, The, Noticed, 17. Houk, Judge L. C, Mentioned, 109. Huntsman, Adam, Noticed, 35. Jackson, R. P.. Mentioned. 107, 110. 117. 120. 127. j Lane, Parker, Anecdote of, 18. Logsdon, vs. The State, Noticed, fi4. I London, 125. j "Long Hunters,'" Mentioned, 6. I McHenrv, Jas. W., Noticed, 86. j Madrid, "133. j Majorca, 178. Majorca Jacks, 231. I Marchbanks Family, The. No- I ticed, 59. Marchbanks, A. J., Noticed, 34; i Sketch of, 43. I Maxey, Sam Bell, Sketch of, 112. I Michaux,F. A.,Cited, 6;Quoted,ll. Morgan, Speaker, Mentioned, 98. Mountain District, The, Noticed, 6. i Newspapers, Foreign. 119. I Old Union Meeting House, 31. I Overton County Established, 7. Overton, John. Noticed, 8. Palmer, W. B., Mentioned, 107. 110, 111, 118. Paris 130 Pike, 'Albert, Noticed, 60. Poitou Jacks, 238. Porter, Gov. Jas. D., Mentioned, iott. Plumlee, Dr. B. S., Mentioned, 144. Railroad Trains, Foreign, 124. Ridley, B. L., Sketch of, 43. Ripley, E. W., Quoted, 18. Roaring River, Described, 6. Ryan, Drs. John and Alvis. Men- tioned, 101. Savage, John H., Noticed, 57, 103. Sevier Family, The, Noticed, 24. Smith, Senator L. T. , Mentioned,98. Sutlierland, C. L., Mentioned, 218. Terry, John, Mentioned, 108, m, 129, 134, 158, 196. Totten Family, The, Noticed, 16. Troxdale vs. The State, Noticed, 6». Turney, Sam, Anecdotes of, 68. Twain", Mark. Noticed. 6«V Walker, Wm., Mentioned, 35. Waller, Gov., Mentioned, 128. Walton Road, Described, 10. Walton, Wm., Sketch of, 10. Williams, Sampson, Noticed, 6. Witchcraft, Trial for, 66. 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