History of Boyle County Kentucky United States of America

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John Marshall Harlan, jurist, was born in Boyle county, Ky., June 1, 1833; son of the Hon. James (1800-1863) and Mary Harlan; and grandson of James Harlan. He was graduated from Centre college, Kentucky, in 1850, studied in the law department of Transylvania university, and was admitted to the bar in 1853. He was married Dec. 23, 1856, to Malvina F., daughter of John Shanklin of Evansville, Ind. In 1858 he was elected judge of the Franklin county court, holding the office one year. In 1859 he was nominated as the candidate of the Whig party for sentative in congress and failed of election by sixty-seven votes. The next year he was on the Bell and Everett electoral ticket in Kentucky, and following that election he removed to Louisville, in 1861, and became associated in the practice of law with the Hon. W. F. Bullock. When the civil war broke out he took an active part in the support of the Union cause. He raised the 10th Kentucky volunteer infantry, one of the regiments constituting the original division of Gen. George H. Thomas, and remained in active service in the field until the death of his father in February, 1863, when he resigned, his presence being required at home. At this time his nomination for brigadier-general was before the senate, but he was compelled to remain in civil life. He was attorney-general of Kentucky, 1863-67, and then resumed his law practice in Louisville. In 1871 and 1875 he was defeated as the Republican candidate for governor of Kentucky. He served as a member of the Louisiana commission in 1877, and on Nov. 29, 1877, was commissioned as associate justice of the U.S. supreme court, in place of David Davis, resigned. He was connected with the Columbian university, Washington, D.C., as professor of the constitutional jurisprudence, 1889-91; professor of public and private international law, 1890-91; and professor of the constitutional jurisprudence of the United States, of the law of domestic relations, of commercial paper and of torts after 1891. In 1892 he was appointed by President Harrison a member of the Bering Sea tribunal of arbitration. He received the degree of LL. D. from Bowdoin in 1883, and from Centre college, Kentucky, and the College of New Jersey in 1884.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Sallie Rochester Ford, author, was born at Rochester Springs, Mercer (Boyle) county, Ky., Oct. 1, 1828; daughter of Col. James H. and Domeretta (Pitts) Rochester; granddaughter of Col. John and Sallie Underwood (Lewis) Rochester of Danville, Ky., and a descendant of Nicholas Rochester, who emigrated from Kent county, England, to Westmoreland county, Va., in 1687. She was graduated from the Female seminary at Georgetown, Ky., in 1849. She was married to Samuel Howard Ford in 1855, and became associated with him in editing Ford's Christian Repository and Home Circle, and in 1900 still conducted the family department. She was president of the Woman's missionary society of the west in Missouri for some years, and also of the Missionary society of the south. She is the author of: Grace Truman (1857); Romance of Freemasonry; Mary Bunyan, the Dreamer's Blind Daughter (1859); Raids and Romance of Morgan and His Men (1864); Evangel Wiseman; Ernest Quest (1877); and The Inebriates.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Charles Euston Kincaid, journalist, was born in Boyle county, Ky., May 18, 1855; son of Capt. William Garnett and Elizabeth Frances (Banford) Kincaid, and grandson of John and Mary Garnett (Waggener) Kincaid and of James Crawford and Fanny Lawson (Evans) Branford. William Garnett Kincaid (born in Stanford, Ky., in 1820, died in Danville, Ky., in 1888) entered the U.S. Military academy in the class of 1843, but did not graduate; was graduated at the Transylvania university, LL.B., 1846; joined the 2d Kentucky regiment for service in the Mexican war as 1st lieutenant, was promoted captain and assistant quartermaster and was present at the battle of Buena Vista, and declined a consulship to Trieste offered by President Taylor. His son, Charles Euston Kincaid, was graduated from Centre college, Ky., A.B., 1878, A.M., 1881; was admitted to the bar in 1879; was editor of the Anderson County News, Lawrenceburg, Ky., 1878-81; judge, with county jurisdiction, 1879-80; a member of the state railroad commission, 1880-82; an editor of the Courier Journal, Louisville, Ky., 1882-83, and private secretary to Governor Knott, 1883-84. In 1884 he was appointed by Governor Knott to remove the remains of Joel T. Hart, the sculptor, from Florence, Italy, to Frankfort, Ky. He was private secretary to U.S. Senator Williams, 1884-85; Washington correspondent of the Louisville Times, San Francisco Examiner and New York Journal, 1885-87; consul agent at St. Helens, England, 1887, and clerk to the house committee on private land claims, 1888. In 1898 he was appointed U.S. revenue officer and in 1896 became a member of the editorial staff of the Cincinnati Enquirer, where he was engaged in 1901.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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