Quintus Quincy Quigley was born in Paris, Tennessee, in 1828. He was educated by tutors before entering Cumberland College in Princeton, Kentucky. He read law, was admitted to the bar in 1850, and established a thriving legal practice in Paducah....
Richard Hickman Menefee was born in Owingsville, Bath County, Kentucky, in 1809. He attended the public schools and graduated from Transylvania University, in Lexington, Kentucky. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1830 and commenced...
Richard T. Colston was born in 1850 in Bardstown, Kentucky. After service as a teenager in the Confederate forces, he attended the University of Kentucky, later transferring to the University of Chicago where he graduated in 1869 and took a...
Richard T. Petree was born in Todd County, Kentucky, in 1822. He was educated at an academy in Elkhorn, Kentucky, and read law under F.M. Bristow. He was admitted to the bar in 1848 and became a leading member of the Hopkinsville, Kentucky, bar. He...
Robert Armstrong Cochran was born in 1822, on French Creek, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. When he was three years of age his parents moved to Mercer County, Pennsylvania. He acquired his education in that part of Western Pennsylvania and at the...
Solomon P. Sharp was born in 1787 in Virginia. His family moved to Logan County in Kentucky shortly before the end of the century. Sharp was called to the bar in his early 20's, opening a legal practice first in Russellville, Kentucky, later in...
St. John Boyle was born in Danville, Kentucky, in 1847, son of General Jeremiah T. Boyle and grandson of Judge John Boyle, chief justice of Kentucky. He was educated in law at Harvard University, returning to Kentucky to practice law. He was a...
The plate arranges illustration of five natives of Kentucky that have sat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Included are John Marshall Harlan, John McKinley, Stephen F. Miller, Thomas Todd and Robert Trimble.
Thomas H. Hanks was born in 1823 near Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. He received a common school education, and at the age of twenty-four was elected to represent Anderson County in the Kentucky legislature. He was elected circuit clerk of Anderson County...
Thomas P. Hill was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky, in 1828. He was educated at St. Mary's College, near Lebanon, Kentucky, studied law with John Kincaid and was admitted to the bar in 1849. He centered his practice in Stanford, Kentucky, where he...
Thomas R. Gordon was born in 1854 in Owingsville, Kentucky. In 1890 he joined with University of Louisville graduate John C. Strother , a Trimble County native, to form the extremely successful partnership, Strother & Gordon. The firm had...
Thomas Speed was born in Bardstown, Kentucky, in 1841, and was educated at Centre and Hanover Colleges. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War. After the war Captain Speed studied law at the University of Michigan, and practiced in...
Thomas W. Bullitt was born at Oxmoor in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1838, a representative of one of Kentucky's oldest and most distinguished families. Raised on the family estate, he attended Centre College, graduating in 1858. He then went to...
W. C. P. Breckinridge was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1837. He was educated at Pisgah Academy in Woodford County, Kentucky, before attending Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, where he graduated in 1855. He received a law degree from the...
Watson A. Sudduth was born in Bath County, Kentucky in 1854. He graduated from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, in 1874, read law in the office of Andrews & Sudduth, and was admitted to practice in 1876. He grew a successful practice in...
Wilbur Fisk Browder was born in Clarksville, Tenn., in 1848, but was chiefly reared in Montgomery, Ala. When sixteen years old, he entered the Randolph Macon College, of Virginia, attending one year, before transferring to the University of...
Lawyers; Municipal officials; Legislators; Portraits
William C. G. Hobbs was born in St. Clair, Tenn., in 1864. He received his public school education in the schools of Lee County, Virginia, and Eastern Tennessee, after which he attended the Medical College of East Tennessee. Later, he dedicated to...
William Henry Wadsworth was born in Maysville, Kentucky, on July 4, 1821. He was educated at the Maysville Seminary, becoming a lifelong friend of Ulysses S. Grant, After study in Augusta College, he read law in the office of Payne & Waller and...
William J. Hendrick was born near Flemingsburg in 1855. He graduated Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, in 1873. He read law and was admitted to the Fleming County bar in 1870. In 1881, he was elected to the Kentucky legislature and he represented...
William LeRoy Dulaney was born in York, Ill., in 1838. He attended Centre College, graduating in1857. He read law under Judge W.V. Loving and was admitted to the bar in 1860. He served as city attorney of Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1860 but joined...
