Otway Waddill

Birth Date

1822

Death Date

1901-12-19

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Madisonville, Kentucky, attorney. Trigg County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sarah E. Pary Waddill in May 1851. Married to Maria E. Pratt Waddill in April 1865. Father of Otway W. Waddill and Joseph C. Waddill. Attended Cumberland College. Admitted to the bar in 1846. Member of the Whig Party and Republican Party. Elder of the Hopkins County Christian Church in Hopkins County, Kentucky, from 1851. Attorney in Hopkins County from 1851 to 1855. Attorney in Hopkins County from 1863 to 1867. Partner in the law firm of Earle & Waddill, with John B. Earle, in Madisonville in 1852. Attorney in Madisonville in 1853. Attorney in Madisonville in 1856. Partner in the law firm of Arnold & Waddill, with John E. Arnold, in Madisonville in 1859. Attorney in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Madisonville in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 839.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 221B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 173A.
H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 426.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 700-701.
John Livingston, Law Register: Comprising the Lawyers in the United States: the State Record (New York: Office of the U.S. Law Magazine, 1852), 84.
John Livingston, Livingston's Law Register for 1853 (New York: Office of the U.S. Law Magazine, 1853), 105.
John Livingston, The Law Register: Comprising the Lawyers in the United States (New York: Davies and Roberts, 1856), 134.
John Livingston, Livingston's United States Law Register, and Official Directory (New York: John A. Gray, Printer and Stereotyper, 1859), 300.
"Otway Waddill (1822-1901)," Find A Grave, Memorial #111103469, accessed March 20, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111103469.

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