George W. Williams was born in 1814 on his fathers farm in Breckinridge County, Kentucky. He attended private schools in Louisville, and after a brief period teaching in Arkansas in 1838, he read law in the offices of a Louisville lawyer and was...
William Morgan Beckner was born in 1841 in Moorefield, in Nicholas County, Kentucky. He attended the schools of Bath and Fleming counties, before attending Centre College in Danville. He read law under Judge E. C. Phister and was admitted to the...
George Gilpin Perkins was born in Burlington, Kentucky, in 1839. His family moved to Covington, and he was educated in the city schools, at Shelby College, and at Belmont, Ohio. He studied law and was admitted to practice in 1863. In 1867, he...
Lyttleton Cooke was born in Virginia in 1831. He spent his childhood in boarding schools and academies until age 18 when he entered the law school of the University of Virginia. Involved in a duel, he left before graduation, and moved to St. Louis,...
Archibald Dixon was born in Caswell County, North Carolina, in 1802. He moved with his parents to Henderson, Kentucky, in 1805. Educated in the local schools, he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1824. He established a practice in Henderson....
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...
Henry Lane Stone was born in Bath County, Kentucky, near Sharpsburg, in 1842. After his father moved the family to Indiana, he attended the Indiana common schools and was also a student in an academy in Bainbridge, Indiana. After a period as a...
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...
John Franklin Hager was born in Floyd County, Kentucky, on March 16, 1853. His family moved to Ashland, Kentucky, in 1864, and he was educated in the public schools and at Ashlands Beech Grove Academy. He was admitted to the bar in 1873 and...
Frank William Morancy was born in Madison Parish, Louisiana, in 1858. His father Francis E. Morancy was a prosperous cotton planter who was also learned in both law and medicine. The family was descended from French settlers to the island of...
James W. Clay, was born in Henderson, Kentucky, in 1874. He received his education in the citys public schools, graduating from Henderson High School. He graduated from the Cumberland University Law School in 1892. Upon being admitted to the bar he...
John C. Strother was born in Trimble County, Kentucky, in 1846. He attended the common schools and read law under W. S. Pryor, chief justice of Kentucky, and Joseph Barbour, of the Kentucky superior court, and graduated the law department of the...
Map of Louisville, Kentucky, with neighborhoods Portland, West Louisville, Parkland, South Parkland, Clifton, Crescent Hill, Highlands, Audubon Park, Camp Taylor, Highland Park, Wilder Park, Beechmont, Oakdale, Southern Heights, and Jacobs Addition...
Map of Louisville, Kentucky, at a scale of 1600 feet per inch, with Jeffersonville and New Albany, Indiana visible north of the Ohio River. Includes railroads, electric car lines, parks & public grounds, cemeteries, public buildings, water...
Black-and-white map, 25.1 x 11.4 cm when folded, of Jefferson County, Kentucky, compiled and published by E. J. Coleman & Co. of 615 S. Second Street, Louisville, Ky. in 1943, "Publishers also of Coleman's Jefferson County Booklet,...
113 maps, plus legends and information about publishers Louisville Title Company, Inc. (a real estate insurance and mortgage company), representing the city of Louisville, Kentucky and surrounding county ca. 1913, with color coding for railroads,...
Huston Quinn, mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1921 until 1925, sitting on "mechanical horse" (metal structure with saddle-shaped seat, stirrups, and motor). Handwritten on bottom of mounted print: "R.G. Potter, Collection /...
Two men stand below a General Outdoor Advertising Company billboard for education -- there are drawings of four children's faces and the text ""What They Don't Know Will Hurt Them. They Must Have First-Rate Schools.""
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left: Two men in wide-brimmed hats guide rickshaw carried by donkeys at front and rear; children riding in horse-drawn sleigh; dog chasing man attempting to leap over fence; woman pointing out...
Lyda Messer Caudill (left, wearing a hat) poses with two men (including her father, William Messer, at right) and a young girl outside a church at Christy Creek in Rowan County, Kentucky. The young girl may be her daughter, Leona Margaret Caudill,...
