Among the first Presbyterian ministers in the state were James McCready, William McGill, Samuel McAdoo, Henry Delaney, A. M. Bryan, William McGee, William McMahon and John Dunleavy; and among the first Methodist ministers were James O’Cull, William Burke, William McMahon and John and William McGee, all Irish enough in appearance to be staunch Catholics of the old Milesian type, and it is not unlikely their fathers may have been. Among those who distinguished themselves in the history of the state as legislators, soldiers or writers, were Wm. T. Barry, who was chief justice of the court of appeals in 1825; one of a commission to digest a plan of schools for common education; lieutenant-governor in 1820; member of the National House of Representatives in 1810‒’11; and in the United States Senate in 1814‒’16. Gen. John Adair held high command in the War of 1812‒’15; received the thanks of the Kentucky legislature for gallantry at New Orleans; was governor of Kentucky in 1820; in the National House of Representatives 1814‒’16, and had served in the United States Senate in 1805‒’06. John Rowan was secretary of state in 1804; Benjamin Logan was presidential elector in 1793, William Logan in 1809, and Robert Ewing, William Irvine, William Casey and William Logan in 1813. The indomitable Matthew Lyon who went from Vermont to Kentucky was again sent from Kentucky to congress in 1829‒’33‒’35, and his son, Chittenden Lyon, was there in 1827‒’35. Colonel Chittenden Lyon was a veritable giant in size, being considerably over six feet in height and weighing over 350 pounds. The admixture of Irish and Yankee blood in his make-up, if anything, increased the pugnacious spirit inherited from his father, who had married one of the Vermont Chittendens; and the stories told of his prowess as a wrestler and a boxer are countless. Being at one time a candidate for a public office, when the margin was close, he was approached by a political opponent, his rival in fisticuffs as well as in politics, and fully his equal in size and weight, and challenged to a boxing match, the condition being that the loser would vote for the winner. This Lyon agreed to, and they went at it, over 700 pounds of bone and muscle. After a severe contest the spectators interfered and it was declared a draw, Lyon, however, receiving his rival’s vote. Thomas Dougherty was clerk of the House of Representatives in 1815. Among native Kentuckians who served in Congress from other states were James B. Foley from Indiana, 1857‒’59; Willis A. Gorman from the same state, 1849‒’53, and also a major-general in the Civil War; Edward A. Hannegan from the same state, in 1855‒’57; and Cornelius L. L. Leary from Maryland. Among the noted military men of the Irish stock were Generals John Boyle, Adair, Croghan and Commander Prendergast.