Jessamine-Madison-Estill County KyArchives Biographies.....Noland, Stephen 1818 - 1890
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Author: Bennett H. Young

Rev. Stephen Noland.

   This distinguished Methodist divine was born in Wayne county, Indiana, on the
13th of May, 1818. His ancestors came from Wales and settled in Virginia
twenty-five years before the war of the American Revolution. In his seventh
year, his mother died and he was brought to Kentucky, and made his home with his
grandparents. In 1834 he entered the clerk's office in Richmond, Ky., where he
remained five years, He used all his leisure moments for the study of law, and
was admitted to the bar in 1839. He began the practice of his profession in
Richmond, and shortly removed to Irvine, Estill county, Ky., and there he sought
licensure in the Methodist ministry. In 1839 he married a sister of the late
Samuel F. Miller, one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the
United States. Rev. Stephen Noland, who succeeded his father in the banking
business, was the second son-his other son, Samuel H. Noland, removed to Texas,
Stephen Noland made the race for Commonwealth's Attorney in the district, which
then embraced seven counties, against C. C. Rodgcrs, of Lexington, and defeated
him by a majority of 800 votes. While holding the office of Commonwealth
Attorney, he became a terror to evil-doers throughout the district, All sorts of
influences were brought to bear to defeat Mr. Noland, but they were without
avail. In 1854 he came to Nicholasville, and shortly afterwards assumed charge
of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. Notwithstanding the variety of his
occupations, he never gave up the preaching of the Gospel.

   The first bank in Nicholasville was organized by Mr., Noland in 1864, it was
known as the Bank of Noland, Wilmore & Co. .He was a man of great sagacity and
judgment in the conduct of his business; of wide benevolence and charitable
impulses, he has probably given away as much money in charity as any man who
ever lived in Jessamine. His second wife, Miss Virginia Brown, daughter of Thos.
J. Brown, who inherited the many excellent traits of her family, survived him.
He died on the 27th of January, 1890, after a lingering illness, and deeply
regretted by the entire community, among whom he spent the last forty years of
his life.


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Extracted from:

A HISTORY OF JESSAMINE COUNTY, KENTUCKY,
FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO 1898.
By BENNETT H. YOUNG,
PRESIDENT POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; MEMBER FILSON CLUB; MEMBER CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION, 1890; AUTHOR HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF KENTUCKY, OF "BATTLE OF
BLUE LICKS, ETC, ETC.

S. M. DUNCAN, ASSOCIATE AUTHOR.

Every brave and good life out of the past is a treasure which cannot  be
measured in money, and should be preserved with faithfullest care.

LOUISVILLE, KY.: COURIER-JOURNAL JOB PRINTING CO., 1898.


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