Person

John Baylis Earle (Hopkins County, KY, attorney and coal baron)

b. 1823-01-03 d. 1906-07-08

Hopkins County, Kentucky, attorney. Married to Sarah C. Woolfolk Earle. Father of Lucien Earle, Luella Earle, Kittie Earle, Portia Earle, and Augusta Earle. School teacher in 1843. Member of the Whig Party and Republican Party. Assessor of Muhlenburg County, Kentucky. Law student in Hopkins County under the direction of John Cook. Attorney and partner in the law firm of Earle & Waddill, with Otway Waddill, in Madisonville in 1852. Attorney in Madisonville in 1853 to 1859. County attorney for Hopkins County from 1855 to 1859. Attorney in Madisonville in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860. Founder of Southeast Kentucky Petroleum, Coal, Mining, and Transportation Company, with H. M. Van Arman and Thomas E. Young, in 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 641.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 212A.


The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 737-738.

"Deplored in Earlington: Death of Mr. John B. Earle, for Whom Town was Named," The Bee (Earlington, Ky.), July 12, 1906.

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, Livingston's Law Register: A Guide for Every Man of Business, and Hand-book of Useful Knowledge (New York: Office of the Monthly Law Magazein, 1854), 109.

John Livingston, Livingston's United States Law Register, and Official Directory (New York: John A. Gray, Printer and Stereotyper, 1859), 300.

"An Act to Incorporate the Southeast Kentucky Petroleum, Coal, Mining, and Transportation Company," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 534-535.

"John Baylis Earle (1823-1906)," Find A Grave, Memorial #129623940, accessed March 22, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129623940.

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Earle, John Baylis. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214889 (November 12, 2026).

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