HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III, pp. 1164-65. [Full page photograph of Mr. Ramey included with bio.] [Jefferson Co.] HENRY SMITH RAMEY--There are comparatively few men who figure prominently in political, military or public life, and it is the men who daily concentrate their energies upon business interests that are the real force of a nation. They uphold the political and legal status and labor for the welfare and the building of the community in which their interests are centered. The growth and development of every city depends upon its industrial and commercial interests and the men who are its real promoters are they who stay at the head of its business interests, advancing general prosperity through well directed labor and at the same time winning individual success. To this class belongs Henry Smith Ramey, president of the Lampton, Crane & Ramey Company, manufacturers of paint and jobbers of glassware, at 809 W. Main street, Louisville. Mr. Ramey was born in Evansville, Indiana, on October 3, 1862, the son of Henry Ramey, an inventor and manufacturer of agricultural implements, who was a native of Carroll county, Kentucky, and for over forty years was engaged in business in Louisville, The grandfather was Henry Ramey of Carroll county, then Gallatin county, a farmer all his life and a descendent of the old Ramey (Remy) family of Virginia. Several of his brothers were Baptist ministers. The mother was Mary Waller Bowles, a native of Henrico county, Virginia, who was related to the Waller family of Baptist ministers, of which John L. Waller, the noted Kentucky Baptist minister, was a member. She was also related to the Bacon family, of which Nathaniel Bacon the noted Rebel, was a member. The grandfather was Lyddall Bowles, of Henrico county, Virginia, and his grandmother was Sallie Price of Kentucky. The early life of our subject's father was spent in Carroll county, Kentucky. He and his wife both died in Louisville. Henry Smith Ramey, was reared in Louisville from the time he was six months of age. He was educated in the Louisville public schools. He started in his business life by first accepting a position as bookkeeper with John H. Brand & Company, coffee and spice dealers, later he was cashier for several houses, and in 1893 became secretary, treasurer and general manager for the Lampton, Crane & Ramey Company, of which he was one of the organizers, and on the withdrawal of Mr. Lampton from active connection with the company in 1899, Mr. Ramey succeeded to the presidency. The city has benefited by interests which have been promoted by him aside from those of a strictly personal business character. Mr. Ramey was one of the founders of the Sterling Paint & Color Company of Louisville, organized in 1897, of which he is vice-president. He was one of the organizers of, and is vice-president of the Allen Motor Car Company of Fort Worth, Texas. He is also interested in and a director of other corporations. He is a member of the Board of Trade and Commercial Clubs, as well as the Tavern Club and the Louisville Country Club. His religious tendencies are with the Baptist faith. In citizenship Mr. Ramey stands for all that is progressive and beneficial, and in business life for all that is honorable. He has been to a great extent the architect of his own fortune and has builded wisely and well. A man of sound judgment, he never has arrived quickly at conclusions, but when once his mind is made up as to what is the right course nothing can deter him from pursuing it. He possess excellent executive and business ability, combined with a resistless energy and resolute purpose, and while he has gained a handsome competence he has never selfishly used this for his own interests only, but has done what he could to promote the welfare of the city and to ameliorate hard conditions of life for the unfortunate. He recognized fully man's obligation to his fellow men and throughout his life has been actuated by high and honorable principles. Ramey Remy Bowles Waller Bacon Price = Carroll-KY Gallatin-KY Henrico-VA TX IN http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jefferson/ramey.hs.txt