HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912.  Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1177-78. [Full page photograph of Mr. Cartmell included with this bio.]
[Jefferson County]

THOMAS RODMAN CARTMELL--Among the able practitioners at the Louisville bar
is numbered Thomas Rodman Cartmell, who was born on the old Rodman
homestead, the home of his maternal grandfather, on May 10, 1869, at a time
when his parents were residents of Union county, Kentucky.  The father of
our subject was the late John Van Cartmell, who was born in Bullitt county,
Kentucky, in 1830, the son of Henry Christ Cartmell, a native of Bullitt
county, living about twenty miles from Shepherdsville, Kentucky, where he
was a justice of the peace and a leading man, but he died early in life.
His father was Nathaniel Cartmell, a native of Winchester, in the
Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.  Henry Christ Cartmell married Mary Aud, a
Kentuckian by birth, who people came to Kentucky from Maryland.
     The mother of our subject was Annah Rodman, who was born in Oldham
county, Kentucky, in 1838, the daughter of the late Judge Thomas A.
Rodman, who for thirty years served as county judge of Oldham county.
Judge Rodman was a native of Oldham county, Kentucky, and was descended
from the old Quaker family of Rodmans, who settled originally in
Pennsylvania.  In 1849 John Van Cartmell, then a young man under twenty,
came to Louisville, but subsequently removed to Caseyville, Kentucky,
where he resided for a period of ten years, removing thence into Union
county, Kentucky, where for many years he was a prominent man, serving
two terms as deputy sheriff and one full term as sheriff of that county.
He became a capitalist, and returning to Louisville in the spring of 1883,
engaged in the wholesale tobacco business and so continued for a number
of years, but retired from active business before his death, which
occurred in Louisville July 31, 1889, his widow surviving him until
June 11, 1899.
     Thomas Rodman Cartmell was reared in Union county, Kentucky, and
attended the public schools in Union county.  Upon coming to Louisville
with his parents in 1885, he attended the Cincinnati schools for three
years, following this with a course at Rugby school in Louisville, then
the Louisville Law School, where he received his degree of B.L. and
finally supplemented this with a course in the law department of the
University of Virginia.  Mr. Cartmell, having thus equipped himself with
a thorough grounding in the requirements of his professional education,
began the practice of law in Louisville, in March, 1896, and so continued
until 1906, when he became connected with the legal department of the
Kentucky Title Company of Louisville.
     Mr. Cartmell's social tendencies find allegiance with the Masonic
fraternity, in which he is a past member of Daylight Lodge, No. 760,
F. & A. M.  He married Mrs. Nellie E. Melton, daughter of John Wagner,
of Harrison county, Indiana.

Cartmell Aud Rodman Melton Wagner
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Shepherdsville-Bullitt-KY Caseyville-Union-KY Harrison-IN OH VA PA

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