History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. III, p. 36,
Rockcastle Co.

     ADEN G. LOVELL, M.D.  Rockcastle County has its due quota of able
and successful representatives of the medical profession, and he whose
name initiates this paragraph has long held prestige as one of the
leading physicians and surgeons of this county.  Save for an interval of
eighteen months passed in the City of Louisville, in 1896-97, he has
been continuously engaged in successful general practice at Mount
Vernon, the county seat since the year 1883.
     Doctor Lovell claims the fine old Hoosier state as the place of his
nativity, his birth having occurred at Springville, Lawrence County,
Indiana, on the 3rd of December, 1853.  His father, James Lovell, was
born in Virginia, in 1812, and the period of his boyhood and youth was
passed partly in the State of Tennessee and thereafter near Point
Burnside, Pulaski County, Kentucky.  His marriage was solemnized at
Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, and he and his young wife thereupon
established their home on a farm near Springville, Lawrence County, that
state, where in addition to his farm enterprise he was for some time a
successful teacher in the rural schools of the locality.  There his wife
died in 1858 and he remained on his farm during the ensuing three years
[sic], at the expiration of which, at the inception of the Civil war, he
enlisted in a regiment of Indiana volunteer infantry and went forth in
defense of the Union.  He had been at the front only a few months when
he was captured by the enemy and incarcerated in one of the Confederate
prisons of the South, where he was held a prisoner of war at the time of
his death, in 1862.  His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Cole, was born
near Bloomfield, Indiana, in 1815, a member of one of the early pioneer
families of that section, and her death occurred at Springville,
Indiana, October 12 1858.  Of the children the eldest was William, who
became a successful teacher in the schools of Indiana and whose death
occurred near the city of Vincennes, that state; James is a railroad man
and resides in Greene County, Indiana; George R. was engaged in the
retail mercantile business at Louisville, Kentucky, at the time of his
death; Isaac Jackson is a farmer in the vicinity of Winterset, Iowa;
Margaret became the wife of George W. Allen, a lumber dealer at
Vincennes, Indiana, and there the death of both occurred; Dr. Aden G.,
of this review, was the next in order of birth; and John was a farmer
near Winterset, Iowa, at the time of his death.
     Zachariah Lovell, grandfather of Doctor Lovell, was born in
Virginia, in 1778, and died in Martin County, Indiana, in 1861.  He
became a pioneer settler first in Tennessee, next near Point Burnside,
on the Cumberland River, Pulaski County, Kentucky, where he built a
flour and grist mill, operated by water power, and after maintaining
charge of the mill several years, he continued his pioneer course by
settling on a farm near Springville, Indiana, where he remained until he
retired from active labors and removed to Martin County, that state,
which was his place of residence at the time of his death.
     Rev. William I. Cole, maternal grandfather of Doctor Lovell, was
born in England in 1785, and his death occurred near Bloomfield,
Indiana, in 1871.  He was a young man when he settled in Lincoln County,
Kentucky, and from this state he volunteered for service in the War of
1812, in which he took part with his Kentucky regiment in the battle of
New Orleans, under Gen. Andrew Jackson.  He later was in service in
various Indian wars on the frontier, including the conflict with the
forces under the historic chieftain, Tecumseh, and finally he settled in
Greene County Indiana, where he became an influential pioneer.  He had
received a liberal education, became a clergy man of the Baptist Church,
and for many years he followed the work of the ministry in the pioneer
districts of Indiana.  He originally held the faith of the Democratic
party, as an ardent admirer of its great leader, Gen. Andrew Jackson,
but he transferred his allegiance to the Republican party at the time of
its organization.  He was influential in public affairs in the Hoosier
state, and served as county judge of Greene County, Indiana, from 1833
to 1837.
     Doctor Lovell was about five years old at the time of his mother's
death, and the death of his father occurred about three years later.  He
was reared to adult age on a farm in Lawrence County, Indiana, and his
early educational advantages were those of the public schools of the
locality and period.  His higher literary education was obtained in what
is now Valparaiso University, at Valparaiso, Indiana.  In preparation
for his chosen profession he entered the Louisville Medical College, now
the medical department of the University of Louisville, and in this
excellent Kentucky institution he was graduated as a member of the class
of 1883.  After receiving his degree of doctor of Medicine, he
established himself in general practice at Mount Vernon, judicial center
of Rockcastle County, Kentucky and this has been the stage of his
earnest and successful professional endeavors during the long
intervening years, save for eighteen months passed in practice in the
City of Louisville, as previously noted in this context.  For the past
twelve years, he has attended the Health Officers' Training School held
annually at Louisville, and thus has received most effective post
graduate work annually since the establishing of this school for health
officers of the various counties in the state.  The practice of Doctor
Lovell is of broad and representative order, indicative alike of his
professional ability and his unqualified personal popularity.  He owns
the building in which his office is situated, on Main Street, and also
his modern residence at the corner of Langdon Avenue and Lovell's Lane,
this home being represented not only in an attractive and commodious
house but also in beautiful surrounding grounds, six acres in area, with
the finest of shade trees, shrubbery and lawns.  The doctor owns also
what is known as the "Town Hill" of Mount Vernon, this comprising forty
acres, with an elevation of 1,535 feet above sea level.  This property
has been the subject of no little geological observation and
investigation, and it has coal deposits, as well as exceptionally fine
deposits of clay and limestone.
     Doctor Lovell is inflexible in his allegiance to the republican
party, and has been active and influential in public affairs in his home
city and county.  He had the distinction of being the first to serve as
county superintendent of schools for Rockcastle County, 1884-1888, and
after twenty-two years of faithful and specially efficient service as 
county health officer he resigned this position in 1921.  The doctor was 
one of the commissioners appointed to represent Kentucky at the national 
exposition held in the City of Nashville, Tennessee, and in 1904 similar
appointment came to him in connection with the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, held in the City of St. Louis.  In 1907 he represented the
Eighth Congressional District of Kentucky as a member of the executive
committee of the Kentucky State Development Association, in which he was
made chairman of the Mineral Development Committee.  He is a leading
member of the Christian Church at Mount Vernon and is serving as an
elder of the same, his wife likewise being a zealous member.
     The year 1921 finds Doctor Lovell in service as president of the
Rockcastle County Medical Society, and he is an active member also of
the Kentucky State Medical Society and the American Medical
Association.  During American participation in the late World war,
Doctor Lovell was examining surgeon for the Draft Board of Rockcastle
County, and he devoted much time and energy to this work, as well as to
other service in furthering the war activities of the Government.  He
aided loyally in the various drives in support of the Liberty Loans and
the sale of War Savings Stamps, and his personal contributions and
subscriptions were generous to the full limit of his financial powers.
     August 2, 1882, recorded the marriage of Doctor Lovell to Miss
Mollie L. Whittaker, daughter of the late Nathan and Sarah (Moore)
Whittaker, both of whom died in Mount Vernon, where the father was
successfully engaged in the mercantile business at the time of his
death, in 1863. M Doctor and Mrs. Lovell have two children: Leila May is
the wife of T.C. O'Marra, who is associated with the automobile business
at Mount Vernon; and Marguerite is the wife of R.H. Miller, of this
place.

Lovell Allen Cole Miller Moore O'Marra Whittaker
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Lawrence-IN Green-IN TN Pulaski-KY Lincoln-KY England VA

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