Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 474-476 [McCracken]

     JOHN WINSTEAD OGILVIE.  One of Paducah's most distinguished
citizens, who for many years was prominent in business and political
affairs of western Kentucky, was the late John Winstead Ogilvie, who
was born in Williamson county, Tennessee, December 28, 1825, and died
at Paducah, Kentucky, February 7, 1900.  He was of Scotch descent, and
the son of Lemuel and Elizabeth (Winstead) Ogilvie, both natives of
Tennessee.  He was reared on a farm, and the education he received in
those early days was rather limited, according to present day
standards.  In 1831 his father took the family to Calloway county,
Kentucky, and five years later to McCracken county, of that state,
where Lemuel Ogilvie passed away at the age of seventy-two years.
     Mr. Ogilvie was a farmer by occupation, and his last days were
spent on his fine place four miles out from the city of Paducah.  But
much of his life was spent in public service, and especially in the halls
of the state capital.  He was a Democrat, and it was on the
ticket of that party that he was chosen to represent the people on the
legislature in 1864, and for fourteen years was in the lower branch,
and re-elected for a second term.  At the time of his election, the
term of office having been changed by law, a long and a short term were
created, and by lot Mr. Ogilvie chose the long term.  He was an able
legislator, and a good debater and speaker, giving formidable
opposition or powerful support, according to his views on the matter
under discussion.
     In 1848 the Hon. Mr. Ogilvie was married to Miss Margaret
Griflith, a native of Kentucky.  By this union he had six children:
Virginia, William H., Nannie, Lemuel B., John W. and Benjamin T.  The
mother of this family died in 1862, at the age of thirty-four, and in
1868 Mr. Ogilvie married Miss Carrie Bell, who is a native of Tennessee
and is still living.  She was the mother of two children, David Bell
and Alpheus Hugh.  Mr. Ogilvie was a faithful member of the Methodist
church, and was honored in the fraternal fellowship of Masonry, and in
all the departments of life in which he was called to perform his part
[sic] his career was exemplary and one which reflects credit on his
descendants.
     Lemuel B. Ogilvie, the son of Hon. John Winstead Ogilvie by the
latter's first marriage, was born on a farm in McCracken county,
Kentucky, December 15, 1856.  He had a common school education, and
became a dry-goods clerk in Paducah; he remained in the employ of C. J.
Morton for seven years, and was then in the employ of W. H. Reicke &
Son, retail dry-goods, for three years.  In July, 1886, the retail
dry-goods firm of L. B. Ogilvie & Company was organized, the company
being
William M. Reicke.  The firm constructed a fine store building of four
stories, and here they carry on a large business in dry-goods, notions,
carpets, etc., ranking second to no other similar concern in this
section of Kentucky.
     Mr. Ogilvie was married in 1897 to Miss Elizabeth Temple Woolfolk,
of Paducah, and they have one child, Lemuel B., Jr.  Mr. Ogilvie is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, is a steward and otherwise
active in religious work.  

Ogilvie Winstead Griflith Bell Hugh Morton Reicke Woolfolk
=
Williamson-TN Calloway-KY

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