Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-04-01
From the Cincinnati Commercially
The McDOWelIs and their Connexions
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James, second son OF Judge Samu
Mcdowell, born in 1850, entered the Re,
olutionary army when under sixtee
years of age, and put not his arms asiC
until victory had been won at Yori
town. He married Mary Lyle, daugE
ter of half sister of his mother, moved
Kentucky in 1854, and located near Ley
ington, as farmer. But 1872, whe
beyond the age for military servic,
found the blood of old Ephraim sti
coursing rapidly in his veins. With tw
of his sons, Samuel and John Lyle, b
volunteered, held the rank of CoIone
and vindicated the soldiery repute of tn
McDowells on more than one blood
battlefield in the Northwest. AT Mis-
sisseneway, at the head of his command
his horse was shot under him, and as a
Indian was about to shoot the Colone
himself, the savage fell dead from well
directed ball fired by his son Samuel
His son John Lyle, already mentione
as a gallant soldier of 1912, was tn
modest but courageous old Captain VIII,
died near Frankfort the other day, afte
q long and unstained life he married
Miss Vance, and was the father of th
McDowells who live On the Kentuck,
River, in Owen county, and of Majo
Harvey Mcdowell, of Cynthiana-tht
latter man who in feature as well a
impenetrability to. fear, possesses th'
| family traits in a remarkable degree, al
the soldiers who fought under him ii
the Confederate army will testify, ant
who has been conspicuous in both tn,
professions followed by SO many OF the
name-medicine and arms. The daugh
ters of Colonel James Mcdowell wer,
well known beauties in their day. Julie
married DR.. Dorsey, of Fleming Coun
ty, and was the mother of the wife O
Hon. L. w. Andrew, distinguished il
this State as lawyer, Congressman
Judge, and over and above all, as mar
incorruptibly honest and patriotic. The
oldest daughter, Isabella, married DIR
John P. Campbell, to whose persona.
and Intellectual character it is impossi-
BILE to do justice in sketch like this
He was the son of Robert Campbell, q
native of Scotland, who settled in Au-
gusta county, where his distinguished
and remarkable son was born in 1867
and moved with his family to Lexing.
ton in 1851. The wife of Robert Camp.
bell was a Wallace, lineal descendant
of the celebrated Scotch divine, Samuel
Rutherford, member Ofthe Westmins
ter Assembly, and one of the greatest OF
the writers of Calvinistic theology. He
had a worthy and illustrious inheritol
of his blood and religion in the wonder
full man, an imperfect account of whom
[ anu writing. The indications Of un-
common talents manifested in his youth
determined his father to give him lib
eral education. Hamilton and Me
Pheeters wore his teachers in Rock
hrfI D0iv r in, ",
the Pennsylvania Grammsr School, and
Archibald Scott in his native county o1
Augusta-all among the first men o1
their day. Nineteen years of age found
him the Principal of an Academy at
Williamsburg, n. c., student of medi'
cine and alf infidel. Fortunately his
doubts were of brief duration; he aban-
doned the practice Of medicine, gave
himself up unreservedly to the service
of his Master, and graduated at Hamp-
den Sidney in 1890; William Graham
and DIR. Moses Eoge were his instructors
in theology. He was licensed to preach
in 1902. He Immediately became the
associate pastor of DR.. Graham at Lex.
ingtoD, Oxford, New Monmouth and
Timber Ridge Churches, Virginia. Re
turning to Kentucky in 1875, his first
labOrs were at Smyrna and Flemings-
burg. His fame spread rapidly, and
soon Danville, Nicholasville, Cherry
Spring, Versailles, Lexington, Kentuc
ky, knew him as one of the most
eloquent Of the soldiers of the cross
His last work was done at Chilli
cothe, Ohio, where he died in 1914
at the age of At years, from exposure
while he was preaching. AS pulpit
orator DIR. Campbell has never had su.
perior, and few, if any, equals in tbs
West. He was thorough scholar, not
only in the ancient classics, but in
modern languages, and as a writer, his
style was chaste and elegant. His
scientific knowledge and attainmentE
were remarkable. His articles in refu-
tation of the elder Darwin have not beer
equaled by McCosh or any writer in re-
ply, to the present. AS a logician anG
controversialist, he was an opponent tt
be dreaded as theologian, he was pro
found and critical his eloquenca swept
ell before it. Old DR.. Louis Marshall
himself one of the first scholars ano
thinkers in the country, regarded hin
as the greatest intellect and most won
derful orator with whom he had evel
met. He united with the church under
Campbelps administration, and named
son after him. A similar estimate was
placed upon him by DIR. Dwight, by
John Breckenridge and by his relative
DR.. Archibald Alexander. A good eros.
this with the McDowells. A son of DR.
Campbell, John, is man of wealth
and prominence in Iowa. His only
daughter is the venerable widow of the
late Thomas J. Pickett, of Maysville, ,anC
DR.. Thomas E. Pickett, of Maysvilie, il
his grandson-a physician ofuncommo1
ability, man of science whose writings
have received high compliments in this
country and in. Europe; a finished
belles-lettres scholar, and most pungen
and adroit political writer. A good eros!
this of Campbell on the McDowell blood
DR.. Ephraim Mcdowell, of Mason coun
ty, was a son of Colonel James, and DR.
Lucien Mcdowell, who did good fight
ing in the Confederate army, of Flem
ing, is son Of DR.. Ephraim.
The third son Of Samuel Mcdowell
bore his own name. He married his dis
tant relative, Anna Irwin, and had l.
children. His son, John Adair, was
also soldier in the war of 1912, as aide
to Shelby, and participated in the battl
of the Thames. He John A. moved t.
Columbus, Ohio, in 1915, became sue
cessful lawyer, served as Prosecuting
Attorney, as a Representative in th'
Legislature, and at the time of his death
in 1928, was presiding Judge of his dis
triet. He married Lucy Good Startling
and the wife of john A. Smith, Con
gresham from the Hillshoro District, il
his daughter. This Samuel's second sol
was Abram Irwin Mcdowell, and he als'
was in the war of 1872, and afterward
moved to Columbus, O., where he Ions
occupied the positions of Clerk of tn
Supreme Court and other Courts, ant
was Mayor OF Columbus. He marriet
Eliza Selden Lord, and was the fathe
of General Irwin Mcdowell, of the Uni
ted States army of Colonel John Nc
Doweli, who commanded an Iowa regi
ment in the war; of Malcolm, also
Federal officer during the war; and O
Eliza, who married Major Bridgeman
of the United States army. The thir
son OF this Samuel and Anna Irwin wa
VIM. A. Mcdowell, of Louisville, VIII
married his distant relative, Maria Haw
kins Harvey, and was the father OF Mrs
Judge Ballard, of Louisville, and of Hen
ry Z. Mcdowell, Of Franklin county
who was an officer in the Federal arm y
and who married Anna, daughter of th
Colonel Henry Clay, who fell at Buen
Vista. Still another son of the secon
Samuel A IpyapHor ,,,orr;oJ n Ioprbf .