Phil J and Anna Veith
From the Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky, published by the John M Gresman Company, Chicago-Philadelphia 1896,
page 387
PHIL J VEITH, Clerk of the Campbell County Court, Newport, was born in Newport, January 17, 1864. He received a good education in the public schools and after taking a business course in a commercial college, commenced bookkeeping for a planning mill when eighteen years of age. He remained with that firm nine years and in 1891 took charge of the Phil J Veith Planing Mill & Lumber Company of Newport, which employs about forty people. While the business is conducted in his name the firm is Stone & Veith. Very few young men have met with such signal success, and this is due in a large measure to his careful attention to business and well directed energy.
Although an active, pushing business man he has had time to look after politics on the Republican side and his party honored him with the lucrative office of clerk of the Campbell County Court in November 1894. He is an active member of a number of benevolent orders, including Knight Templars, Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows, and is one of the prominent members of the Newport Commercial Club, from all of which it may be inferred he is a busy man.
Mr. Veith and Annie Burke of Cincinnati were married in 1886 and have two children, Carl and Helen. Mr. Veith's father Frederick Veith was born in Germany in 1831 and came to the United States when eighteen years of age. After living in Cincinnati for two years he removed to Newport, where he engaged in the grocery business until the time of his death in 1885. He was a member and one of the organizers of St John's Lutheran Church in Newport. His wife, Catherine (Schmidt) Veith, who survives him, was born in Cincinnati in 1837 and is a faithful member of St John's Lutheran Church.
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Philip J Veith died in November 1934 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery on 24 November.