Christopher David Chenault (1846 - 1925)

Born 22 May 1846 in Madison, Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Florence (Dillingham) Chenault — married 1 Aug 1872 in Madison, Kentucky, United States

Husband of Sarah Gibson (Humphreys) Chenault — married 30 Mar 1892 in Woodford, Kentucky, United States

Descendants

Died 24 Apr 1925 at age 78 in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Christopher Chenault is the descendant of a Huguenot emigrant.

This person was created through the import of LaBach Family TreeApril28_2011.ged on 05 May 2011.

Name

Name: Christopher David /Chenault/

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Page: Year: 1910; Census Place: Lexington Ward 3, Fayette, Kentucky; Roll: T624_474; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 22; Image: 364.

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Birth

Birth:

Date: 22 May 1846

Place: Madison Co., KY

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Death

Death:

Date: 24 Apr 1925

Place: Lexington, KY

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Residence

Residence:

Date: 1900

Place: Richmond, Madison, Kentucky

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Residence:

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Residence:

Date: 1920

Place: Lexington Ward 3, Fayette, Kentucky

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Residence:

Date: 1910

Place: Lexington Ward 3, Fayette, Kentucky

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Event

Event:

Type: census 1880

Date: 1880

Place: Madison Co., KY

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Note: Christopher David Chenault is listed on the 1880 Census for Madison

County, Kentucky, Richmond Precinct, page 355C as Kit Chenault,

Banker, age 34, with wife Florence, 24; daughter, Maggie, 7; son

Joseph, 5; daughter, Florida, 1; Roda Fife, female black, 20, cook;

Martha Hickman, female black, 25, nurse; Clay Pence, male black, 24,

listed as a C. Driver; William Irvine, male black, 20, listed as a

Common St; and John Irvine, male black, 15. All are born in Kentucky

as well as well as their parents.

Event:

Type: census 1920

Date: 1920

Place: Fayette Co., KY

Source:

Note: Christopher David Chenault was listed in the 1920 Census for Fayette

County, Kentucky as Christoper D. Chenault, a white male, age 73, and

his occupation was listed as farmer. Also listed was Sarah G. H.

Chenault, age 61. Both of them were born in Kentucky.

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• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6543368/christopher-david-chenault : accessed 19 February 2022), memorial page for Christopher David Chenault (22 May 1846–24 Apr 1925), Find a Grave Memorial ID 6543368, citing The Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA ; Maintained by Jeffrey James (contributor 47902931) .

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Note: The biography of Christopher David Chenault from History of Kentucky,

Vol. III, (S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1928) follows: Lexington is a

monument to the combined efforts of many men of determination,

enterprise and ability and in this classification belonged Christopher

David Chenault, who was long numbered among the city's leading

financiers. He was a railroad builder as well, and a recognized leader

in political circles of Kentucky. He was a man of resourceful nature,

varied talents and pronounced public spirit, and his was a successful

career in the highest sense of the term.

Mr. Chenault was born May 22, 1846, in Madison county, Kentucky, and

was a member of one of the oldest families of the south. He was a

descendant of Stephen Chenault, who was a follower of John Calvin and

owing to religious persecution left his home in southern France about

1700 in company with his wife. He was the founder of the family in

America and was one of the colony of two hundred Huguenots who

received from the colonial government of Virginia a grant of land in

Monikin Town, then in Powhattan county, but now included within the

boundaries of Goochland county. From that original seat they and

others of the same extraction have spread to all parts of the country,

winning respect and honor wherever they have gone. Among the children

of Stephen Chenault was Hugo, whose son, Hugo, Jr., married a Miss

Dabney or D'Aubigne. They were the parents of William Chenault, who

chose Elizabeth Mullins as his wife, and their son, William, Jr.,

married Susanna Phelps. They became the parents of Waller Chenault,

who was joined in wedlock to Talitha Harris, and to their union was

born a son, Christopher David Chenault. Talitha Harris was a daughter

of Overton and Nancy Harris. When Henry Clay made his famous speech on

home industries while a member of the United States senate he wore a

suit of jeans, fashioned for him by Nancy Harris. They were composed

of wool sheared from sheep presented to her by Senator Clay, and she

spun the wool, wove the cloth and made the suit.

When but five years old Mr. Chenault received instruction from

Governor McCullough, and his studies were continued under John L.

Waller at Green Hill Academy, a school located on the home farm and

built especially by his father, General C. M. Clay, Samuel Bennett and

Joseph Chenault for the education of their children. He was next

taught by William and Jason W. Chenault and completed his education at

Harrodsburg, Kentucky, at the age of fifteen. The Civil war was then

in progress and the battle of Richmond had been won by Kirby Smith.

Having resolved to enter the Confederate army as a member of

Chenault's Brigade, he went as far as Richmond at the time of the

retreat from Kentucky, but was persuaded by his brother, Captain Joe

Chenault, to return home and care for his mother and the fanlily of

six younger children. After the southern army retreated the federal

authorities ordered his arrest and, acting on information given him by

his cousin, John Bennett, Mr. Chenault left immediately for Ohio. He

completed a course in bookkeeping and banking at the Bartlett

Commercial College in Cincinnati and as soon as it was safe returned

home. He took charge of the books of Burton & Holloway, owners of a

large dry goods establishment in Richmond, but the work proved

uncongenial and he returned to the farm. He abandoned agricultural

pursuits in 1870 and entered the Madison National Bank at Richmond in

the capacity of bookkeeper. His worth was soon recognized and at the

end of two years he was promoted to the responsible position of

cashier, which he filled for about thirty years. In 1902 he brought

his family to Lexington and soon afterward became cashier of the

National Exchange Bank, which was subsequently merged with the Central

Bank. The new organization started with a capital of six hundred

thousand dollars and adopted the name of the Lexington Bank & Trust

Company, of which Mr. Chenault was chosen cashier. He gave to the

corporation the services of an expert and his connection with the

institution brought to it additional prestige. Subsequently the

business was consolidated with that of the Phoenix National Bank under

the style of the Phoenix Third National Bank, which is now one of the

largest and strongest financial institutions in the state.

On August 1, 1872, Mr. Chenault married Miss Florence Dillingham, who

died in February, 1890, leaving a family of four children: Margaret,

Joe, Florrie and Kittie. On March 30, 1892, Mr. Chenault was united in

marriage to Miss Sallie Gibson Humphreys, who is a member of one of

the first families of Woodford county, and resides in their attractive

home at 461 North Limestone street, Lexington.

Like most of his family, Mr. Chenault was a strong adherent of the

Baptist faith and for a number of years was superintendent of the

Sunday school of his church at Richmond, also acting as moderator of

the Tates Creek Association at the old Gilberts Creek church. In

politics he was a stalwart democrat and never wavered in his

allegiance to the party. He was chairman of the Madison county

democratic committee and during the entire term of Congressman James

B. McCreary was chairman of the eighth congressional district. He was

made financial commissioner of Madison county and was largely

instrumental in building the railroad from Paris to Livingston, also

the line from Versailles to Beattyville, becoming its president. He

was an executive of more than average capacity and about twenty years

of his life were devoted to the development of railroad facilities

that transformed Estill and Lee counties into two of the most

prosperous in the state. He gave his best efforts to every task that

he undertook and the spirit of progress actuated him at all points in

his career. He had the welfare of his community deeply at heart and

was ever ready to further plans for its improvement. He possessed that

high sense of honor which constitutes the vital essence of the

gentleman, and his death on April 23, 1925, deprived Lexington of one

of its most valuable and best loved citizens.

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