History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr, American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922 Vol. 5, p. 503-04, Bell Co. ANDREW H. CARD has been concerned with the lumber business since his early youth, has gained comprehensive and accurate knowledge of all details of the manufacturing and distributing of lumber, and in his independent operations he now holds a position of recognized precedence and influence in connection with this line of industry in Southeastern Kentucky. He is both a manufacturer of and dealer in lumber. In the buying and selling of lumber he is the most extensive individual operator in this section of Kentucky, and he maintains his residence and executive business headquarters in the City of Pineville, country seat of Bell County. Mr. Card was born in Bedford County, Tennessee, October 13, 1873 and is a scion of a sterling pioneer family of that state, as becomes evident when it is noted that his grandfather, Samuel Hughes Card, was born in Smith County, Tennessee, in the year 1800. This native sone attained to patriarchal age and was a resident of Bedford County, that state, at the time of his death in 1892. He established his home in Bedford County in the year 1820, and there he became a prosperous farmer and slaveholder, as well as a citizen of prominence and influence in community affairs. There was solemnized his marriage to Miss Margaret Neil, who was born in North Carolina in 1804, and who preceded him to the life eternal by about three years, her death having occurred in 1889. The first representatives of the Card family in America came from Scotland to this country and settled in the Colony of Maryland long before the War of the Revolution. Member of the family in a later generation settled as pioneers in North Carolina and Tennessee. Andrew C. Card, father of him whose name introduces this review was born in Bedford County, Tennessee, on the 25th of April 1844, was there reared to manhood and there he was for a long term of years actively identified with important business and industrial interests. He was a merchant and lumber dealer, and also owned and operated saw mills. He continued his activities as a man of large affairs in his native county until 1893, when he removed to Scotsboro, Alabama, and in that locality engaged extensively in the lumber business as a manufacturer and dealer. He there owned and operated saw mills until his retirement from active business, and he has since continued to maintain his home at Scotsboro. He served as a Union soldier in the Civil war. He enlisted as a member of Company D, Tenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, early in the year 1862, and his service covered a period of three years and four months, as he continued in the army for some time after the close of active hostilities. He took part in the battles of Murfreesboro, Nashville and other important engagements. He personally recruited a company for the service and was made captain of Company C, Fourth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, to which he was transferred from the regiment in which he originally enlisted and with which he was identified at the close of the war. His wife whose maiden name was Adorine Cleveland, was born at Nashville, Tennessee, December 18, 1845, and in her native city her death occurred in April, 1916. Of the children the eldest is Rana, who is the wife of R.A. Coffey, a planter and live-stock dealer at Scotsboro, Alabama, and a former banker; Izora is the wife of William Card, superintendent of a saw mill and lumber business at Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Hugh Cleveland resides at Pineville, Kentucky, and is a successful lumber jobber; Andrew H. of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Milton E. died at the age of three years in the city of Nashville. Andrew H. Card attended the public schools of his native county until he was thirteen years old, when he became a messenger boy in the service of the Western Union Telegraph Co. At Nashville. He gained two years' active experience in this position, and he then entered the employ of a lumber company at Tullahoma, Tennessee, his alliance with this concern continuing five years, within which by his effective service and the ability which he developed through self-discipline, observation and close application he rose to the position of head bookkeeper. For the ensuing nine year he was bookkeeper and sales manager for J. Bates and Co., leading lumber jobbers in the City of Nashville, and he then put his experience to good use by initiating independent lumbering operations, with headquarters at Nashville. For two years he operated saw mills at Stevenson, Alabama, and for the ensuing two years he conduced similar operations at Hollywood, that state. Thereafter he leased saw mills and continued operations under this arrangement until 1910, when he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and established a wholesale lumberyard. This he conducted three years, at the expiration of which, in 1913, he came to Pineville, Kentucky, where he has since continued successfully in business as a buyer and shipper of lumber upon an extensive scale. For some time he operated saw mills in Bell County, and he then transferred his mills to Harlan County, where he is still operating the same effectively. At Wasioto, Bell County, he owns and operates a planing mill, the products of which are utilized by the retail trade. Mr. Card has been progressive and resourceful as a business man, liberal and public spirited as a citizen and he has so ordered his course as to command unqualified popular confidence and good will. He is a staunch democrat and has been a valued member of the City Council of Pineville since 1916. Both he and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and he is serving as treasurer of the Pineville Church of this denomination. The attractive and modern residence property which constitutes the family home is situated on Virginia Avenue and is the center of much of the representative social life of the community, with Mrs. Card as a gracious and popular chatelaine. In the Masonic fraternity Mr. Card maintains affiliations as here noted: Bell Lodge No. 691, Free and Accepted Masons; Pineville Chapter No. 158, Royal Arch Masons; Pineville Commandery No. 39, Knights Templars; Pineville Chapter No. 89 Order of the Eastern Star; and Kosair Temple of the Mystic Shrine in the City of Louisville. He holds membership also in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of the Maccabees, and the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoos, a lumbermen's fraternity. In the World war period he served a trustee of the Bell County Chapter of the Red Cross, was a member of committees in charge of local drives in support of the Government war loans, Savings Stamps, etc., and the liberality of his personal subscriptions gave further evidence of his patriotic stewardship On the 16th of February, 1897, in the City of Nashville, Tennessee, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Card with Miss Elizabeth Chamberlin, daughter of Colonel James and Della (Nichol) Chamberlin. Colonel Chamberlin gained his military title through service as an officer in the Union Army in the Civil war, and long held prestige as one of the leading members of the Nashville bar. He finally retired from active practice and continued his residence at Nashville until his death, his widow being still a resident of that city. Elisabeth, eldest of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Card, was graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1920, with her degree of Bachelor of Arts, and the year 1921 finds her in successful service as a teacher in the public schools of Puerto Rico; A.H. Card, Jr. born November 8, 1900 is a student in the Kentucky State University; Hugh Cleveland, who was born October 11, 190 and Harold Patterson, born August 9, 1905, are students in the Pineville High School; and the youngest of the children is Nelle, born June 6, 1911, she being a pupil in the public schools of Pineville. Card Chamberlin Coffey Neil Cleveland Bates Nichol = TN NC AL OH Harlan-KY Puerto_Rico http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bell/card.ah.txt