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- "Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, Wol fe Co":
William O. Mize was born in Independence, Mo., Sept 22, 1834, his father, John P. Mize was born in Irvine, Estill County, Kentucky abt 1818. He moved to Missouri in 1841 and located at Independence, where he engaged in the drug business, which he followed until his death in 1846. About 1841 he married Miss Marium Oldham, a daughter of Col., William Oldham of Madison County, Kentucky. She bore him only one child, viz: William O.
In 1847 our subject and his mother moved to Kentucky, where soon after the latter died. In Early life William O. attended the common Schools; he subsequently attended school at Millersburg, Kentucky, as well as a commercial college at Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1865 he engaged in the mercantile business at Hazel Green, Ky and in which business he continued until 1878. In 1879 he was elected in the State Senate from Wolfe, Morgan, Magoffin, Lee, Owsley, Powell, Johnson, Menifee and Breathitt Counties, serving one term.
Mr. Mize is a man of a great deal of natural ability as a writer and speaker, and has for many years been recognized as one of the leading men of Wolfe County. April 27, 1874 he married Miss Lou E. Cockrill, a daughter of McKinley and Emily (Trimble) Cockrill, of Hazel Green. She has born to him one child,, Carl. Mr. Mize is a member of the F & A.M. is a democrat and an elder in the Christian Church.
Elected Democrat State Senator in 1879 by majority vote: William with 1271 and D. Price with 649
A leading speaker, writer, and Elder of Wolfe County photo of home in Hazel Green in file.
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William Oldham Mize, a son of John A. Mize, married Luella Cockrell and was a merchant at Hazel Green, where he died, and enrolling clerk in the House of Representatives for several terms. He was a fine Christian gentleman and passed away at the age of sixty-five years at Hazel Green, where his son, Carl, lived. J. Greene Mize, the eldest son in the large family of Isaac Mize, the younger, was a leading merchant of Vaughn's Mill, Powell County. Another son, Samuel, was also a farmer in Estill County, and married Susan Mahill, and a third son, John W., was a resident of Vaughn's Mill.
1860: Wolfe County, Kentucky was formed from Breathitt, Morgan, Owsley, and Powell Counties. Records were lost in courthouse fires in 1886 and 1913. The county was named in honor of Nathaniel Wolfe, a noted lawyer and member of the Kentucky legislature during 1853- 55 and 1859-63.
During the Civil War, the Confederate government attempted unsuccessfully to change the county name to Zollicoffer to honor General Felix Zollicoffer who died at the Battle of Mill Springs in Kentucky.
Hazel Green Academy: During the spring of 1880, J. Taylor Day, William O. Mize and Green Berry Swango, three community leaders in Hazel Green, Kentucky, each contributed $500 to start an educational institution. Later in the year the Kentucky Senate passed a bill chartering Hazel Green Academy to provide elementary and secondary education to children throughout the mountain region of the state. A building was constructed during the summer, teachers were recruited and classes began in the fall.
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Hazel Green Academy was a school in the little village of Hazel Green , eastern Wolfe County , eastern Kentucky . It was established in 1880 by a Charter from the Kentucky Legislature. The bill was introduced by a Hazel Green citizen, Senator W.O. Mize . The Founders of the school were Mize and his wife, Hazel Green merchant, J. Taylor Day, and Green Berry Swango.
The first classes were held in the Hazel Green Masonic Hall, before a permanent school building was erected downtown in 1885. N. B. (Napoleon Bonaparte) Hays was the first principal. He was later the Attorney General of Kentucky.
At the invitation of the Founders, in 1886 , the Kentucky Christian Woman's Board of Missions (CWBM), a sisterhood of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), assumed operation of the financially ailing school. The magnitude of the undertaking as the "Kentucky Mountain Mission" caused the Kentucky Board to appeal to the National CWBM at Indianapolis for support. By 1919, the CWBM was enveloped in the new United Christian Missionary Society (UCMS) which sponsored the Academy.
The school closed its doors August 31 , 1983 . Its last Director was Dr. Robert "Sandy" Goodlett and the last Principal was Rev. Bob Dailey. Dailey was the principal, 1980-83. Before that he was the math and science teacher for two years.
In its earlier years, the Academy was called the "Athens of the West" and the "Mother Mountain School" as it preceded other private, missionary and public schools in its 20 county service area by several years.
Name: Mize, William Oldham
Date Of Death: August 20, 1915 Time: 8:00 PM
Place Of Death: Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Kentucky
Residence: Wolfe County, Kentucky
Gender: Male
Race: W
Age: 71
Marital Status: Married
Spouse: Mize, Lou Cockrell
Date Of Birth: September 22, 1843
Place Of Birth: Independence, Missouri
Mother's Name: Oldham, Mariam
Mother's Birthplace: Clark County, Kentucky
Father's Name: Mize, John A.
Father's Birthplace: Irvine, Kentucky
Cause Of Death: Unavailable
Hospital: None Listed
SS Number: None
Occupation: Retired Merchant
Funeral Home: Henry H. Hall, Winchester, Kentucky
Doctor: Taylor Center, MD, Hazel Green, Kentucky
Coroner: None Listed
Informant: Carl Mize, Hazel Green, Kentucky
Date Of Burial: August 22, 1915
Place Of Burial: Hazel Green Cemetery, Wolfe County, Kentucky
Date Recorded: Unavailable
Source Of Record: Kentucky Death Certificate
Certificate No.: 20842
Additional Comments:
Kentucky Death Certificate #20842 shows birth date for Wm. O. Mize as 22 Sep
1843; however, his tombstone at Hazel Green Cemetery shows his birth date as
22 Sep 1844.
Tombstone reads: William Oldham Mize
Sept 22, 1844
Aug 20, 1915
File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/wolfe/vitals/deaths/mize786gdt.txt
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