John James Orr

Birth Date

1832-05-21

Death Date

1909-07-27

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Carroll County, Kentucky, attorney. Ghent, Kentucky, native. Son of John B. Orr and Eliza Scott Orr. Married Rowena Sanders Orr. Father of Emmett Orr and Felicia Orr. Attended law school at the University of Louisville. Admitted to the bar in 1857. Attorney in Ghent in 1860. County Attorney of the Carroll County Court in Carrollton, Kentucky, in 1862.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carroll County, Ghent Magistrate District District No. 1, p. 14; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carroll County, Carrollton, p. 5; "Judge Orr Dies at Carrollton," Louisville Courier-Journal July 28, 1909, p. 8; Find A Grave, "Judge John James Orr (1832 - 1909)," Memorial #22773786, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22773786 (accessed 7 May 2017).

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