History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. IV, p. 71,
Jefferson Co.

CHESLEY HUNTER SEARCY.  His fellow members of the Louisville bar and an
important share of the public know and appreciate the exceptional
abilities and the very able work performed by Mr. Searcy as a lawyer. 
He has been active in general practice for over fifteen years at
Louisville.  With his professional reputation secure Mr. Searcy has
given much time latterly [sic] to politics, not for himself but for the good
of his party, and was one of the leaders most prominent in republican
campaigns, both in 1919 and 1920.
     Mr. Searcy was born at Louisville, December 14, 1881, son of John
and Rosa (Colter) Searcy.  His father, who was born in Anderson County,
Kentucky, in 1844, enlisted as a youth in the Union army in the 58th
Indiana Infantry, and served with that regiment in all its campaigns and
battles, and when he was mustered out he was first lieutenant of his
company.  After the war he came to Louisville, and for a number of years
was in the wholesale grocery business.  He died in 1906.  John Searcy
was a republican and took an active part in the Masonic Order, being
affiliated with DeMolay Commandery of the Knights Templar.  He was a
member of the Christian Church.  Mrs. John Searcy is now past seventy,
having been born in Washington County, Kentucky, in 1850.  Chesley
Hunter is the fourth of her seven children, all living.  Chesley Hunter
Searcy was educated in the grammar and high schools of Louisville,
attended Vanderbilt University at Nashville, and in 1904 received his
law degree from the University of Louisville.  He acquired his first
knowledge of public men and legislative affairs while serving as a page
in the Kentucky State Legislature in 1896, at the age of fourteen.
     From 1915 to 1917 Mr. Searcy was chairman of the republican
organization of Louisville.  The splendid results secured in the
campaign of 1919 are largely credited to his effective labors as
chairman of the Republican State Central Committee.  In the spring of
1920 he was elected chairman of the State Central Committee and in July
of that year chairman of the Republican State Campaign Committee.
     In Masonry Mr. Searcy is affiliated with Excelsior Lodge No. 258,
F. and A. M., King Solomon Chapter No. 5, R.A. M., DeMolay Commandery
No. 12, K.T. Kosair Temple of the Mystic Shirne at Louisville,
Louisville Lodge No. 8 of the Elks, and is a member of the Sigma Chi
College fraternity of Vanderbilt.  He is also a member of the Pendennis
Club and the Pasttime Boat Club.
     February 16, 1906, he married Mary Lillia Black, a native of Henry
County, where her parents, Charles A. and Fannie (Seebolt) Black, also
were born.  Her mother is still living, Mrs. Searcy being her only
child.  Her father, who died April 1, 1913, at the age of fifty- five,
was a farmer in Henry County, a member of the Masonic fraternity and the
Christian Church, and in politics was first a democrat, but finally a
republican.

Black Colter Searcy Seebolt
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Anderson-KY Henry-KY Washington-KY

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