Eli H. Brown was born in Meade County, Kentucky, in 1841. He was educated at the academy of Hawesville, Kentucky, in Hancock County, He read law with George W. Williams and in 1862 joined the Hancock County bar. Brown was soon elected City Judge...
Lucius P. Little was born in Daviess County, Kentucky, in 1838 and served as district court judge in Owensboro from 1880 to 1893. He was the author of "Ben Hardin, His Times and Contemporaries" (1887). He died in 1918.
Bennett H. Young was born in Nicholasville, Kentucky, in 1843. He joined the Confederate army in 1861, served with John Hunt Morgan raiders. Captured in a 1863 raid in Ohio, he escaped to Canada where he organized a daring series of bank robberies...
Born in 1790 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, George Robertson attended Transylvania University until 1806 and was admitted to the bar in 1809. He served in the U.S. Congress from 1817 to 1821 and in Kentucky's legislature from 1822 to 1827, in 1848, and...
Belvard J. Peters was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, November 3, 1805. He attended Buck Pond Academy, in Woodford County, then Transylvania University, where he graduated in 1825. He read law under Chief Justice John Boyle, received a license...
William Lindsay was born 1835 in Virginia. He settled in Clinton in Hickman County, Kentucky, in 1854, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Clinton in 1858. Served as judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals 1870-1878 and as chief...
A native of Henry County, Kentucky, William S. Pryor was born near New Castle in 1824. He was admitted to the bar in 1844 and practiced in New Castle until he was elected circuit court judge in 1866. In 1871, he was appointed to a vacancy on 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...
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...
Adolphus E. Richards was born in Virginia in 1844. His education was interrupted by the Civil War, he served in the Confederate Army, where he rose to the rank of major before his twenty-first birthday. At the war's end, he returned to school,...
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...
Arrangement of photographs of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1897, including A. R. Burnam, George DuRelle, B.L.D. Guffy, James H. Hazelrigg, John H. Lewis, Thomas H. Paynter, and James D. White.
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.
