Law and legislation--Kentucky; Wills--Kentucky; Justice of the peace--Kentucky; Sheriffs--Kentucky
Littell's Statute Law of Kentucky, published from 1809-1819, has the first critically edited compilation of Kentucky statutes. It has long been recognized by lawyers as one of the founding documents of state law and by historians of early Kentucky...
John Graham Simrall was born in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1840. He graduated from Centre College at age 17, ranked second in his class. Too young to read law, his father placed him under the tutorship of Judge George Robertson, of Lexington, who...
Horatio W. Bruce was born in 1830 in Lewis County, Kentucky. He attended school in Lewis County and in Manchester, Ohio, and worked as a salesman and bookkeeper at a general store in Vanceburg, Kentucky. In 1850, he went to Flemingsburg, Kentucky,...
John S. Jackman was born in 1841 in Carroll County, Kentucky. His education took place in the county of his birth, but was interrupted when he joined the Confederate army, enrolling in the Ninth Kentucky Infantry of the First Kentucky Brigade. He...
Willis Overton Harris was born in 1847 in Powhatan County, Virginia. He entered Virginia Military Institute in 1863 and fought in the Civil War with VMI cadet corps until wars end, receiving an honorary degree in 1867. He attended University of...
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...
George Mosby Davison was born in Stanford, Kentucky in 1855. He attended the Stanford Academy and the Meyers Academy, read law and was admitted to the bar in 1879. He established a practice in Stanford, Kentucky. He served as collector of internal...
