Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 1901,
reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical Society.

HON. H. Z. ALLPHIN.  The man who builds his monument in the hearts and
affections of young people builds well and wisely.  He builds permanently
and for the future and will be remembered and loved when others who have
builded differently are dead, buried and forgotten.
     Who is it of the younger generation that does not know the Hon. H. Z.
Allphin, of Holbrook, the giant of the Eagle Hills, both physically and
mentally.  By accident he was born in the Sucker State, his father with his
family having removed there for a short time just prior to his birth, and
shortly thereafter, believing that there was no place like "Old Kentucky,"
moved back to his "native heath," bringing the young Zebbidee with him.
This was in 1842, the young man Allphin having been born in the month of
September and on the 16th day of 1842.  His father was John F. Allphin and
his mother was Jane (Rucker) Allphin, both of whom were of an old line of
Virginia parentage.
     Uncle "Zeb" grew up on a farm, but from his earliest youth had an
inquiring disposition and an appetite for books and study that became
proverbial in the neighborhood as the years went by.  He attended the
common schools in the neighborhood where he was raised, and later, for
three long years, attended the High school at "Pin Hook", in this county.
He began life as a teacher in the common schools, and while still in his
youth the war of 1861-65 broke out in all of its horrors and hideousness,
and he joined his fortunes with the Federal forces as a high private in
"Uncle Sam's" navy.  He was soon promoted to the position of mate, and for
four long years served side by side with Thomas Brackett Reed, who later
became famous as "Tom" Reed, of Maine, the great Republican leader and
candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1896 against
William McKinley.  Reed was paymaster on the vessel of which Mr. Allphin
was the mate, and they were intimate and close together during all of these
years and yet keep up a desultory correspondence.
     The war over and its agonies ended young Allphin, still a boy but
"big of brain and strong of brawn," came back to Kentucky to take up the
serious burden of life.  He began as a farmer, but soon drifted into
school teaching, where his natural bent carried him, and for more than
thirty-six years has been the most prominent school teacher in Grant county.
He has taught in many places and many children, and there is not a child
of all of the hundreds who have been under his tutelage who does not love
"Uncle Zeb" and speak with delight of the days when they attended school
when he was the teacher.  Hundreds, yes thousands of Grant county boys and
girls have learned all that they know from him, and are proud of the fact.
Scattered over Grant county and Kentucky in many different states are the
boys and girls who have gathered their inspiration to fight the battles of
life from him.  More than forty doctors and half as many lawyers and
preachers have been his pupils, and he has sent them out into the world to
work and win their way better men and women and stronger to buffet the
breakers of life, because they had been taught by this rough, uncouth, but
educated citizen of our earlier days.  Should Mr. Allphin have a reunion of
all of his old pupils at his home on Eagle Creek some time it would be a
small army, and among those present would be many of prominence and note.
     For twenty years in this county he has served as Magistrate and has
been an exceptionally good one, painstaking, careful and close, but at the
same time liberal and just.  On the first day of last December he was
nominated by the Democrats of his district as their candidate for
Magistrate again this year, and he will have four years more to serve if
his health and life are spared, and the county and the people can well
congratulate themselves that their affairs will be in the hands of so good
a man and so worthy a citizen.
     Mr. Allphin first married Miss Lucinda Loomis, a daughter of our
worthy citizen, E. K. Loomis, of Stewartsville, and she dying some years
later, contracted a marriage with her sister, Miss Lucretia Loomis, who
is still living, his helpmeet and companion.  To the two marriages seven
children have been born, six of whom are now living.  W. L. Allphin,
Circuit Court Clerk of Grant county, John M. Allphin, a guard in the
penitentiary at Frankfort and a splendid young man of fine education and
brilliant future; Mrs. Carrie Piner, Winfield Scott Hancock; Miss Lou
Allphin and Albert Allphin.  Mr. Allphin has given all his children a
fine common school and high school education, and nearly all of them have
followed in their father's footsteps and have been teachers themselves.
     Uncle "Zeb" was built on a big plan and is today the largest man in
the county, six feet two inches, and big in proportion, weighing nearly
three hundred pounds.  He is an athlete, and first remembrance we have
of him as a boy is as a sprinter.  He could give all of the boys at
school a start of ten yards and beat them in a hundred and could walk the
best camel that ever trod the desert.
     Mr. Allphin is a member of the Baptist Church, a man of fine morals
and good habits.  He is an Odd Fellow and a Mason and a man of the highest
integrity.  All of his life he has been a Democrat, and his father and
family before him were Democrats.  His friends hope that many years of
usefulness, good health and strength are yet to his credit.

Allphin Rucker Loomis Piner Reed
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Franklin-KY VA ME

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