The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1903-03-25
NUMBER SO
SKETCH
Of Judge Thomas MetcaIfe,
Formerly of This Place.

On Wednesday, March 18th, in
San Antonio, Texas, Judge Thomas
Metcalfe, a former highly respect
ed citizen of this place died rather
unexpectedly, as his family and
friends were unaware of the seri-
business of his malady. Judge Met
calfe was born in Nicholas county.
his father was Mr.. Melville Met
calfe and he was named for his
grand father, a former Governor
of Kentucky (1828-32). He was
brought to this county when only
three years of age, having been
virtually adopted by Mr.. and Mrs.
Newton Congleton MRS. Congle
ton being his aunt) and was reared
in the family of that estimable
couple. After his graduation he
taught school awhile and prose-
cuted his legal studies under the
tutelAge of Judge William Moore
for many years Judge of this cir
cult, he was afterwards associated
with Judge Richard Apperson, Jr.,
In the practice of his profession,
and was for a time Judge of our
City Court. He was married to
Miss Mary A. Chiles, the daughter
of Col. Walter Chiles and sister of
our townsman, Mr.. L. T. Chiles, in
1863, and removed with his family
to Atchison, Kansas, in 1869, con-
tinuing the practice of his
profession in partnership with Sem
ator Jno. j. ingalls,. He removed
to ST.. Louis in 1877 and there be-
came acquainted with and inter
ested in Mr.. John Burroughs, who
had exhausted his resources in an
effort to perfect and put on the
market the Arithmometer that now
bears his name. 1t was owing to
the sympathy and material assis-
lance of Mr.. Metcalfe that the
completion and perfecting of that
wonderful machine was made pos
sible, and very naturally on the
organization of a company to man
ufacture and exploit it, Mr.. Met
calfe was made its president. He
retired from active practice of the
law several years ago and for the
past two years resided on his farm
in Illinois some 40 miles from St.
Louis.
Mr.. Metcalfe was an honored
member of the Masonic fraternity
and for many years a leader in the
councils of the Southern Metho-
dist church. He was an uncom-
promising Democrat of the old
school and though an orator of no
mean ability made no effort to Sc
cure political preferment, his tastes
being entirely alien to the intrigu-
ing methods of modern politics.
Mr.. Metcalfe is well remembered
by our older citizens who speak of
him in the most complimentary
terms as one of the men who lived
among US without reproach. He
was one of those steadfast friends
who could bear uncomplainingly HE
friends infrmities, genial, kind
hearted man, who dying bequeaths
to his family not only a compe-
tency, buta legacy of greater worth,
an untarnished name, blameless
record, for he ever believed that a
man should be upright rather than
be 6ept upright, aud like the fine
gentleman that he was he leaves
the world without having tasted of
lying or pretense of any sort, or of
wantonness or conceit, that which
was unseemly he did not, that
which was untrue he spoke not.
"The kindest man,
The best conditioned and unwearied spirit
In doing for his fellows
His remains were inferred in the
little cemetery at Kirkwood, Mo-,
on Sunday, March Is, 1908.
Cen Schuvlar Hamilton a olo.e