History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. V. p. 70,
Jackson Co.

     ROY E. RADER.  A number of young men of exceptional initiative and
executive ability are enlisted in the directing of large and important
industrial and business enterprise centered about the Village of Bond,
Jackson County, and among the number is Mr. Rader, who is assistant
general manager of the Bond-Foley Lumber Company and vice president of
the Bond State Bank. Further interest attaches to his rise in the local
business field by reason of the fact that he is a native of Jackson
County and a representative of an honored and influential family of this
section of the state.  He was born at Annville, Jackson County, June 21,
1888, and his father, Dr. John E. Rader, who was born in Owsley County,
this state, in 1858.  In his native county Doctor Rader was reared to
the age of twenty years, and he then established his residence at
Annville, Jackson County.  After his graduation in the old Hospital
College of Medicine, at Louisville, he continued in the practice of his
profession at Annville until 1892, when he removed to Jackson, Breathitt
County, where, as a leading physician and surgeon of exceptional talent,
he continued in active general practice until 1894, when he met a tragic
death, at the hands of a cowardly assassin, who had consistently become
known as "Bad Tom" Smith.  This dastardly murderer expiated his crime
through legitimate legal action, and was handled by the authorities of
Breathitt County, the only man ever thus legally executed in that
county.  Doctor Rader was a man of fine character and he manifested his
personal and professional stewardship in his effective service to his
fellow men.  He was a democrat in political adherence, was affiliated
with the Masonic fraternity, and both he and his wife held membership in
the Baptist Church.  His wife, whose maiden name was Armina Bowling, was
born in Jackson County, in 1863, and this gracious woman likewise met a
tragic death, in 1899, when she was murdered by her second husband, who
then killed himself.  Of the children, Roy E., of this sketch was the
second in order of birth; the eldest, Oscar M. resides at Berea, Madison
County, and is a traveling salesman for the Belknap Hardware &
Manufacturing Company, of Louisville; Jessie is the wife of F. W. King,
a conductor on the line of the Rockcastle River Railroad, and they
reside at Bond.
     Roy E. Rader, who was but six years old at the time of his father's
death, was reared in Jackson County, to whose public schools he is
indebted for his youthful education.  Thereafter he was for four years a
student in the Kentucky University, at Lexington, and in 1912 he was
graduated in the Bryant & Stratton Business College in the City of
Louisville.  In the meanwhile, when eighteen years of age, he began
teaching in the rural schools, and he followed this vocation six years,
in Jackson and Rockcastle counties.  In 1912 he became a teacher of
bookkeeping and penmanship, as well as rapid calculation, in the Bryant
& Stratton Business College at Louisville, and he continued his
effective service in this capacity until 1914.  After about a year's
period of rest and recreation he entered the employ of the allied
corporations, the Bond-Foley Lumber Company and the Rockcastle River
Railway Company, and through faithful and able service he has won
advancement in this connection, as attested by the fact that he is now
assistant general manager of the lumber company and secretary and
treasurer of the railway company, besides being vice president of the
Bond State Bank.
     Mr. Rader is aligned with the ranks of the republican party.  He is
affiliated with Bond Lodge No. 105, Knights of Pythias, of which he is
past chancellor; and with Annville Council No. 190, Junior Order of the
United American Mechanics, of which he is a past counsellor.[sic]  He
took a vigorous part in the local war activities during the nation's
participation in the World war, and his individual subscriptions to the
Government bonds were most liberal and loyal.
     May 14, 1913, at Bond, recorded the marriage of Mr. Rader to Miss
Minerva Cornelius, daughter of Frank and Nancy (Edwards) Cornelius, the
father being now a prosperous farmer near Amelia, Ohio.  Mr. and Mrs.
Rader have four children, whose names and respective dates of birth are
here noted: Howard D., March 3, 1914; Vernon C. October 6, 1915; Lucille
Helen, September 11, 1918; and Fred P., March 5, 1921.
     Reverting to the ancestral history of Mr. Rader, it is to be
recorded that his grandfather, William Rader was born in Jackson County,
Kentucky in 1832, and died at Welchburg, Jackson County, Kentucky, in
1918, where he became a pioneer farmer and where he was for many years a
citizen of much prominence and influence.  He was a leader in the local
ranks of the democratic party, served at United States marshal in his
district, as well as county sheriff, and was a gallant soldier of the
Union in the Civil war.  He married Sallie Chesnut, who was born in 1833
and who passed her entire life in Kentucky, her death having occurred
shortly after that of her husband, in 1918. (Picture facing page)

Bowling Chesnut Cornelius Edwards King Rader
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Breathitt-KY Owsley-KY Madison-KY OH Rockcastle-KY

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