HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis
Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912.  Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1163-64. [Jefferson Co.]

FREDERICK W. HARDWICK--One of the important factors of Louisville is the
W. T. Pyne Mill & Supply Company, and extensive enterprise that has brought
success not alone to the stockholders, but has also added to the general
prosperity by furnishing employment to many workmen and thus promoting
commercial activity.
     Frederick W. Hardwick is well known in business circles in Louisville
and, in fact, throughout a large portion of the state.  He is now the
president of the W. T. Pyne Mill & Supply Company, a mercantile enterprise
of importance.  His success in all his undertakings has been so marked that
his methods are of interest to the commercial world.  He has based his
business principles and actions upon strict adherence to the rules which
govern industry, economy and strict, unswerving integrity.  His enterprise
and progressive spirit have made him a first class business man in every
sense of the word, and he well deserves mention in this volume.
     Mr. Hardwick is a native of England, his birthplace having been at
Wakefield, on May 17, 1864, the son of Henry and Emma (Brittlebank)
Hardwick, both natives of England.  The Hardwick family came to the United
States in April, 1870, locating first at Clarkesville, Tennessee, from
which they later removed to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where the parents
now reside.
     The public schools and Ogden College, Bowling Green, furnished
Frederick W. Hardwick his education, but while at school and much against
the wishes of his parents, who wanted him to remain in school another
year and graduate, he, in 1878, took a position in a dry goods store in
Bowling Green, in which he continued to work until 1885, in which year he
came to Louisville and took a position as assistant bookkeeper for the
old New York Store.  He remained in this position for four years and next
took a position as bill clerk in the Ninth Street Tobacco Warehouse, where
a year later he was made cashier and which position he held for six years.
Mr. Hardwick's next position was with the Farmers' Tobacco Warehouse, as
cashier, where he was at the beginning of the Spanish-American war.  He
assisted in raising Company H, First Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and was
mustered into the service as second lieutenant of the company.  After
being mustered out of the service Mr. Hardwick returned to Louisville and
again went with the Farmers Tobacco Warehouse for a short time. In 1900
he became secretary of the W. T. Pyne Mill & Supply Company and in 1907
became president of that company.
     Mr. Hardwick is a thirty-third degree Mason.  He is a member of
Louisville Lodge, No. 400, F. & A. M., King Solomon Chapter, R.A.M. and is
past commander of De Molay Commandery, Knights Templars, an officer at
the Grand Commandery of Kentucky, a member of Kosair Temple, Ancient
Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and of the Grand Consistory of
Kentucky, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, of which he has been grand
registrar for ten years.  He is also a member of Cherokee Golf Club, the
Audubon Club and Post D., T.P.A.
     What Mr. Hardwick is to-day he has made himself, and by constant
exertion, associated with good judgment, he has raised himself to the
prominent position which he now holds having the friendship of many who
know him and the respect of all.  His life has been a series of advances,
in which he has always forged ahead and never retrograded, and in every
position which in his life he has been called upon to fill he has been
highly successful and few men have more devoted friends, while none excel
him in unselfish devotion to the worthy recipients of his confidence and
friendship.

Hardwick Brittlebank
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Bowling_Green-Warren-KY TN England

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