Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, 1887 Bath County REUBEN GUDGELL, a native of Bath County, Ky., was born November 5, 1833, and is a son of Rezin and Elizabeth (Utterback) Gudgell. Rezin Gudgell was born in Bath County, Ky., in 1807; he was engaged in agricultural pursuits all his life, and moved to Macoupin County, Ill., in 1836, his death occurring two years later. His father was Andrew Gudgell, a native of Baltimore, Md., who emigrated to Kentucky in 1792 and settled in Bath County, in which county he was one of the first justices of the peace; he also served as sheriff one term. Mrs. Elizabeth Gudgell was born in Bourbon County, Ky., in 1813, died in 1846, and was a daughter of Reuben Utterback; the latter, a native of the same county, was a soldier in the war of 1812, under command of Col. Dick Johnson, and was killed at the battle of the Thames. Reuben Gudgell received a good common-school education, and at the age of seventeen entered the circuit clerk's office at Owingsville as deputy under John A. Turner, Jr., where he remained about three years. He then went to Frankfort, Ky., and entered the law school of Judge Thomas B. Monroe, where he graduated in June, 1855. He then opened a law office in Owingsville in partnership with Fred Rand, with whom he practiced one year. He then formed a partnership with J.M. Nesbitt, this firm continuing for over twenty-two years. In 1878 Mr. Gudgell was elected county attorney, when not being a candidate, serving four years. July 31, 1856, he married Elvessa Martin, of Fountain County, Ind., a daughter of Shelby and Deborah (Wallace) Martin. They are the parents of four children: Wallace S., Francis P., Oakalla Read and Howard C. Wallace S. was educated at Springfield, Ill., High School and at Columbia College, Kentucky. He read law under his father, and was admitted to the bar September 9, 1878; he practiced his profession one year independently, but has since been practicing with his father. They are the only Republican lawyers in Owingsville. Francis P. Gudgell, the second child of our subject, graduated from the medical department of the University of Louisville with high honors in 1881. He located at his home in Owingsville, and engaged in the practice of his profession three years, then he went to Moorefield, Ky., remaining there one year and then returning to Owingsville, where he has since resided. He married Carrie Hutchison, and two children have been born to them: Mary and Wallace. Oakalla R. Gudgell married Thomas A. Lee, of Kansas City, Mo., and has one child, Roscoe. Mr. Gudgell has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1854, and is now a member of Bath Lodge, No. 55, having been Worshipful Master and a representative in the Grand Lodge. He has also been chairman of the Republican County organization since the organization of the party in 1866, was Republican candidate for circuit judge in 1868 in the Thirteenth Judicial District, being defeated by John M. Elliott; was a delegate from the Ninth Congressional District to the Republican National Convention held in Cincinnati in 1876, and also to the National Republican Convention held in Chicago in 1880. Gudgell Utterback Johnson Turner Monroe Rand Nesbitt Martin Wallace Hutchison Lee Elliott = Macoupin-IL MD Bourbon-KY Fountain-IN MO Cook-IL OH http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bath/gudgell.r.txt