Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Compiled and
Published by the John M. Gresham Company, Chicago--Philadelphia, 1896, 
pp 3-4 [Henderson Co]

LUCIEN CLAY DALLAM, a retired merchant and banker of Henderson, son of
Nathan Smith and Sarah (Hicks) Dallam, was born in Princeton, Kentucky, May
17, 1829.  He went to school only a few years and in 1842, when only
thirteen years of age, went to work in the County Clerk's office in
Livingston County, and served one year as deputy, and returned to Princeton
and served four years there in a similar capacity.  He then began his
mercantile career in partnership with his brother, William J. Dallam, and
remained in Princeton until 1854, when they removed to Henderson.  The two
brothers were in partnership in the dry goods business in Princeton and
Henderson about eight years.  The firm dissolved in 1856 and Lucien C.
Dallam continued the business alone until 1859, when his brother-in-law,
Thomas Soaper, who had been clerking for him, was admitted into partnership.
This business relation continued under the most favorable auspices until
1876, when Mr. Soaper purchased the interest of Mr. Dallam and the latter
retired from mercantile pursuits.
     He was one of the chief organizers of the Henderson National Bank in
1865, which was opened for business in January, 1866, and Mr. Dallam was
elected president of that bank, a position which he held continuously until
February, 1892, when he resigned.  He is, however, still interested in the
bank, in which he is a leading stockholder.  This bank had an original
capital of $100,000, which has been increased several times until it has
been doubled, and has accumulated a surplus of $100,000.  Its average annual
dividends have been from ten to twelve per cent [sic], and the bank examiners
have pronounced it one of the best managed institutions of the kind in the
state.  It has never charged borrowers of small sums a larger per cent [sic]
than it charged its patrons of larger means.  Mr. Dallam was the leading
spirit in this bank for more than twenty six years, and its success was
largely due to his excellent judgment and ability as a financier.
     He was the first President of the Henderson Bridge Company; served many
years as chairman of the Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners of the City of
Henderson and also served in the City Council.  He is president of the
Henderson Humane Society, and was Senior Warden of St. Paul's Episcopal
Church for many years.  In all of his business, official and church
relations he has been governed by a wise and conservative policy and has
endeared himself to the people of Henderson.
     Mr. Dallam was married in 1855 to Elizabeth Soaper, daughter of William
Soaper and sister of Thomas and R. H. Soaper, sketches of both of whom will
be found in this work.
     The children of Lucien C. and Elizabeth (Soaper) Dallam are:  Susan
Henderson, wife of Henry Burnett of Paducah; Clarence, born April 14, 1863,
a graduate of the University of Virginia, class of 1886, now practicing law
in Paducah, married Canted McDowell Venable of Charlottesville, Virginia;
Charles Edward, born in 1865, graduate of the University of Virginia, class
of 1885, now assistant cashier of the Henderson National Bank; Elizabeth
Soaper, wife of George Wadsworth Cobb of Chicago, and Sarah Hicks, wife of
Muscoe Burnett of Paducah.
     Nathan Smith Dallam (father) was born in Harford County, Maryland,
December 19, 1782; married Sarah Hicks in 1807 at Winchester, Clark County,
Kentucky, at which place he was located for a time after leaving Maryland.
He soon removed to Hopkinsville, where he was clerk of the County and
Circuit Courts for many years, and also represented his county in the
legislature a number of terms; was a Whig and a personal friend of Henry
Clay; left Hopkinsville about 1825 and went to Princeton, then the "Athens
of the West," and held various official positions of honor and trust until
the time of his death, June 1, 1837.
     He had ten children, whose names were James Lawrence, Mary Frances,
Maria, Frances[sic] Henry, Jane Marian, Charles B., William J., Edward
Winston, Lucien Clay and Virginia Josephine, all of whom are deceased except
Lucien C. and Mrs. Mary Frances Duncan, a widow now eighty years of age.
     Sara Hicks (mother) was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1792.  Her
parents died, leaving her an orphan at a tender age and she came with her
guardian to Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, where she was married to
Nathan Smith Dallam in 1807.
     The original pioneer and ancestor of the Dallam family, Richard Dallam
(great-great-grandfather), came from Wales, England, in 1680, and married
Elizabeth Martin in Maryland, who was known in the colonial times as "Pretty
Bettie Martin."  Many interesting reminiscences of this remarkable woman are
still cherished by her descendants.  She lived to the advanced age of 114
years.  William Dallam, son of Richard Dallam and "Pretty Betty Martin"
Dallam, was the great grandfather.  Francis Matthews Dallam, who came to
Kentucky from Maryland and married Martha Cassandra Smith, was the
grandfather, and Nathan Smith Dallam, who married Sara Hicks, was the father
of the subject of this sketch, Lucien Clay Dallam of Henderson, Kentucky.

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