History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922 Vol. 5, p. 503-04,
Bell Co.
ANDREW H. CARD has been concerned with the lumber business since
his early youth, has gained comprehensive and accurate knowledge of all
details of the manufacturing and distributing of lumber, and in his
independent operations he now holds a position of recognized precedence
and influence in connection with this line of industry in Southeastern
Kentucky. He is both a manufacturer of and dealer in lumber. In the
buying and selling of lumber he is the most extensive individual
operator in this section of Kentucky, and he maintains his residence and
executive business headquarters in the City of Pineville, country seat
of Bell County.
Mr. Card was born in Bedford County, Tennessee, October 13, 1873
and is a scion of a sterling pioneer family of that state, as becomes
evident when it is noted that his grandfather, Samuel Hughes Card, was
born in Smith County, Tennessee, in the year 1800. This native son
attained to patriarchal age and was a resident of Bedford County, that
state, at the time of his death in 1892. He established his home in
Bedford County in the year 1820, and there he became a prosperous farmer
and slaveholder, as well as a citizen of prominence and influence in
community affairs. There was solemnized his marriage to Miss Margaret
Neil, who was born in North Carolina in 1804, and who preceded him to
the life eternal by about three years, her death having occurred in
1889. The first representatives of the Card family in America came from
Scotland to this country and settled in the Colony of Maryland long
before the War of the Revolution. Member of the family in a later
generation settled as pioneers in North Carolina and Tennessee.
Andrew C. Card, father of him whose name introduces this review was
born in Bedford County, Tennessee, on the 25th of April 1844, was there
reared to manhood and there he was for a long term of years actively
identified with important business and industrial interests. He was a
merchant and lumber dealer, and also owned and operated saw mills. He
continued his activities as a man of large affairs in his native county
until 1893, when he removed to Scotsboro, Alabama, and in that locality
engaged extensively in the lumber business as a manufacturer and dealer.
He there owned and operated saw mills until his retirement from active
business, and he has since continued to maintain his home at Scotsboro.
He served as a Union soldier in the Civil war. He enlisted as a member
of Company D, Tenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, early in the year
1862, and his service covered a period of three years and four months,
as he continued in the army for some time after the close of active
hostilities. He took part in the battles of Murfreesboro, Nashville and
other important engagements. He personally recruited a company for the
service and was made captain of Company C, Fourth Tennessee Volunteer
Infantry, to which he was transferred from the regiment in which he
originally enlisted and with which he was identified at the close of the
war. His wife whose maiden name was Adorine Cleveland, was born at
Nashville, Tennessee, December 18, 1845, and in her native city her
death occurred in April, 1916. Of the children the eldest is Rena, who
is the wife of R.A. Coffey, a planter and live-stock dealer at
Scotsboro, Alabama, and a former banker; Izora the wife of William Card,
superintendent of a saw mill and lumber business at Tuscaloosa, Alabama;
Hugh Cleveland resides at Pineville, Kentucky, and is a successful
lumber jobber; Andrew H. of this sketch, was the next in order of birth;
Milton E. died at the age of three years in the city of Nashville.
Andrew H. Card attended the public schools of his native county
until he was thirteen years old, when he became a messenger boy in the
service of the Western Union Telegraph Co. At Nashville. He gained
two-year' active experience in this position, and he then entered the
employ of a lumber company at Tullahoma, Tennessee, his alliance with
this concern continuing five years, within which by his effective
service and the ability which he developed through self-discipline,
observation and close application he rose to the position of head
bookkeeper. For the ensuing nine year he was bookkeeper and sales
manager for J. Bates and Co., leading lumber jobbers in the City of
Nashville, and he then put his experience to good use by initiating
independent lumbering operations, with headquarters at Nashville. For
two years he operated saw mills at Stevenson, Alabama, and for the
ensuing two years he conduced similar operations at Hollywood, that
state. Thereafter he leased saw mills and continued operations under
this arrangement until 1910, when he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and
established a wholesale lumberyard. This he conducted three years, at
the expiration of which, in 1913, he came to Pineville, Kentucky, where
he has since continued successfully in business as a buyer and shipper
of lumber upon an extensive scale. For some time he operated saw mills
in Bell County, and he then transferred his mills to Harlan County,
where he is still operating the same effectively. At Wasioto, Bell
County, he owns and operates a planing mill, the products of which are
utilized by the retail trade. Mr. Card has been progressive and
resourceful as a business man, liberal and public spirited as a citizen
and he has so ordered his course as to command unqualified popular
confidence and good will. He is a staunch democrat and has been a
valued member of the City Council of Pineville since 1916. Both he and
his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and he is
serving as treasurer of the Pineville Church of this denomination. The
attractive and modern residence property which constitutes the family
home is situated on Virginia Avenue and is the center of much of the
representative social life of the community, with Mrs. Card as a
gracious and popular chatelaine. In the Masonic fraternity Mr. Card
maintains affiliations as here noted: Bell Lodge No. 691, Free and
Accepted Masons; Pineville Chapter No. 158, Royal Arch Masons; Pineville
Commandery No. 39, Knights Templars; Pineville Chapter No. 89 Order of
the Eastern Star; and Kosair Temple of the Mystic Shrine in the City of
Louisville. He holds membership also in the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of the Maccabees, and the
Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoos, a lumbermen's fraternity. In the World
war period he served a trustee of the Bell County Chapter of the Red
Cross, was a member of committees in charge of local drives in support
of the Government war loans, Savings Stamps, etc., and the liberality of
his personal subscriptions gave further evidence of his patriotic
stewardship
On the 16th of February, 1897, in the City of Nashville, Tennessee,
was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Card with Miss Elizabeth Chamberlin,
daughter of Colonel James and Della (Nichol) Chamberlin. Colonel
Chamberlin gained his military title through service as an officer in
the Union Army in the Civil war, and long held prestige as one of the
leading members of the Nashville bar. He finally retired from active
practice and continued his residence at Nashville until his death, his
widow being still a resident of that city. Elisabeth, eldest of the
children of Mr. and Mrs. Card, was graduated from the University of
Kentucky in 1920, with her degree of Bachelor of Arts, and the year 1921
finds her in successful service as a teacher in the public schools of
Puerto Rico; A.H. Card, Jr. born November 8, 1900 is a student in the
Kentucky State University; Hugh Cleveland, who was born October 11, 1903
and Harold Patterson, born August 9, 1905, are students in the Pineville
High School; and the youngest of the children is Nelle, born June 6,
1911, she being a pupil in the public schools of Pineville.
Nov 23 1944,Pineville Sun - Andrew Headley Card, 71 years old, died at
the homeof his son, Capt. Hugh Card, i Berea Tuesday night at 11 o'clock
after a brief illness. He had been in poor health for several years but
his condition was not regarded as critical. Mr. Card came toPineville
in 1913 and engaged in the lumber business. He was born in Shelbyville,
TN. He was one of the best known lumbermen in the state and was a
charter member of the Kiwanis Club here. He retired a few years ago and
moved to Berea in April, 1943. Survivors include his wife and four
children, Headley Card, Jr. Pineville; Mrs. R.V. Roberts, Fort
Lauderdale, FL; Capt Hugh Card, and Mrs. Clyde Thurman of Indianapolis.
Seven Grandchildren also survive. Funeral services will be held at the
Presbyterian Church Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by the
Rev. Benjamin Decamp of the Episcopal Church. Burial will be in the Odd
Fellows cemetery here.
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