Horatio Fleming Simrall

Birth Date

1818-02-16

Death Date

1901-08-15

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and law professor. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Son of James Simrall and Rebecca Graham Simrall. Married Lydia Ann Newell Simrall in Mississippi on February 22, 1842. Father of Graham H. Simrall, James Simrall, Horatio F. Simrall, Joseph Simrall, and George B. N. Simrall. Attended Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana, from 1835 to 1836. Studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1838. Resident of Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi in 1839. Member of the Mississippi State Legislature from Wilkinson County from 1846 to 1848. Attorney in Wilkinson County in 1850. Law professor at the University of Louisville, in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky from 1857 to 1861. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Attorney in Louisville in 1861. Elected but never served as lieutenant governor of the Kentucky provisional government under George W. Johnson in 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Mississippi, Wilkinson County, p. 295A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 119.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 272B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Mississippi, Jackson County, Hinds, p. 746B.
Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 227.
Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, vol. 2, (Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1881), 772-775.
Find A Grave, "Judge Horatio Fleming Simrall (1818-1901)," Memorial 26780638, accessed May 14, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26780638.
G. Glenn Clift, Governors of Kentucky, 1792-1942 (Cynthiana, Ky: Hobson Press, 1942), 142-43.
Robert A. Powell, Kentucky Governors (Frankfort, KY, 1976), 116.

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