History of Covington, (Kenton County) Kentucky United States of America

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Local History Notes:

COVINGTON, a flourishing city of Kenton county, Kentucky, situated on the Ohio river, opposite Cincinnati, and just below the mouth of the Licking river, which separates it from the city of Newport. It is built on a beautiful plain, several miles in extent, and regularly laid out in accordance with the plan of Cincinnati, of which it may be considered a suburb. The facilities of intercourse are such, that many persons reside here, whose places of business are in Cincinnati. Corington is connected with Lexington by a railroad about 90 miles long. A charter is also obtained for a railroad from this place to Louisville. It contains about 10 churches, 3 banks, a large city hall, 2 female academies, the Western Theological College, a richly endowed and flourishing institution, under the direction of the Baptists, and 3 newspaper offices. Here are manufactories of cotton, hemp, silk, and tobacco, a large rolling mill, and an extensive establishment for packing pork and beef. Pop. in 1853, about 13,000.

Biographies:

Jesse Grant Cramer, educator, was born at Covington, Ky., Aug..26, 1869; son of Michael John and Mary Frances (Grant) Cramer; grandson of Jesse R. and Hannah (Simpson) Grant; great-grandson of John and Sarah Simpson; and nephew of Gen. U.S. Grant. He studied at Boston university, 1885-86, and was graduated from the University of the city of New York in 1889, delivering the Latin salutatory. He attended Columbia college law school, 1889-91; was instructor in the French, German, Greek and Latin languages at the Flushing (L.I.) institute, 1891-92, and instructor at Short Hills, N.J., 1892-93. In 1894 he was appointed instructor in French and German in Lehigh university, and was a student of ancient languages at the University of Leipzig, 1897-99.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Duncan R. Campbell, clergyman, was born in Perthshire, Scotland, Aug. 14, 1814. He presided over a parish in Nottingham, England, for a time, and was later a Presbyterian missionary in London. In May, 1842, he came to the United States, and joined the Baptist church in Richmond, Va. In the fall of the same year he became pastor of the Leigh street church in Richmond, where he remained three years. He then preached for four years in Georgetown, Ky., and in 1850 became professor of Hebrew and biblical literature in the Covington (Ky.) theological seminary. From 1852 until the time of his death he was president of Georgetown college. He was given the degree of LL. D. He died at Covington. Ky., Aug. 16, 1865.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

William Lofland Dudley, chemist, was born in Covington, Ky., April 16, 1859; son of George Reed and Emma (Lofland) Dudley. His first American ancestor was Francis Dudley of Concord, Mass. (1640). He was graduated B.S. at the University of Cincinnati in 1880, and in the same year accepted the chair of chemistry and toxicol-ogy in Miami medical college, Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1886 he became professor of chemistry in Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Tenn., and subsequently became dean of the medical department. He was a commissioner of the Cincinnati industrial exposition, 1883-85, a director of the Ohio mechanics institute, 1884-86, and "director of affairs" of the Tennessee Centennial exposition (1897). He was elected a member of the leading scientific societies of the world. In 1889 he was chairman of the section of chemistry and vice-president of the American association for the advancement of science, and in 1898 a member of the council of the American chemical society. He discovered, in conjunction with John Holland of Cincinnati, a method of making castings of iridium by fusing the metal with phosphorus. Miami medical college conferred upon him the honorary degree of M.D. in 1885. He is the author of numerous contributions to scientific journals and of an article on iridium in "Mineral Resources of the United States, 1883-84."

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

William Insco Buchanan, diplomat, was born near Covington, Ky., Sept. 10, 1852, son of George Preston and Mary E. (Gibson) Buchanan. He removed to Indiana; served as engrossing clerk in the Indiana house of representatives 1874-75; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Piqua; Ohio, and Sioux City, Iowa, and became a Democratic member from Iowa of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1890; also chief of the department of agriculture of that exposition in 1890 and of the departments of livestock and forestry in 1891. He was U. S. minister to the Argentine Republic 1894-99, where he fixed the boundary line between Chili and Argentina in the Peruna de Atacama. He became director general of the Pan-American exposition of 1901 at Buffalo, N. Y. in 1899.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor