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Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky Alvin Duvall (Scott County, Kentucky, court of appeals judge) N00008230 1813-03-20 1891-11-17 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, court of appeals judge. Scott County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Alvin Duvall. Married to Virginia Hotlzclaw Duvall in Scott County, Kentucky, on February 8,1843. Father of Lizzie Duvall, Tommy Duvall, Johnny Duvall, Henry Duvall, Alvin Duvall, Jr., Virginia Duvall, Wilenia Duvall Sneed, Mary Stites Duvall, and Sally Duvall Greenhow. Graduated from Georgetown College in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky, in 1833. Graduated from the Law Department at Transylvania University in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1840. Practiced law in Scott County from 1840 to 1852. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Scott County in 1850. Judge of the 9th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1852 to 1856. Judge of the Court of Appeals of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1856 to 1864. Chief justice of the Court of Appeals from 1862 to 1864. Fled to Canada in 1864. Attorney in Georgetown, Scott County from 1864 to 1866.

Relationships Social: John L. Scott (Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 2, p. 793. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 151A. "The Dead Jurist," The Frankfort Roundabout (Frankfort, KY), November 21, 1891, p. 5. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 86. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume VI (New York: James T. White & Company, 1896), 14. "Alvin Duvall Sr. (1813-1891)," Find a Grave, Memorial 43161683, accessed January 22, 2018, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43161683. Joseph Martin Rogers (Jefferson County, Kentucky, student and notary public) N00014680 1839-07-14 1923-09-28 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, student and notary public. Fayette County, Kentucky, native. Son of B. F. Rogers and Mary Ann Coons Rogers Keyes. Married to Kate Gamble Rogers in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on December 17, 1863. Father of Bernard Rogers. Attended school in Fayette County in 1850. Household owned sixteen enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Attended school in Jefferson County in 1860. Graduate of the University of Louisville in Jefferson County. Household owned thirty-three enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1860. Attorney in Jefferson County in 1861. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1861.

Relationships Social: Alvin Duvall (Scott County, Kentucky, court of appeals judge) Social: Horatio Fleming Simrall (Jefferson County, KY, attorney and law professor, offered VP of prov govt) Social: William Fontaine Bullock (Louisville, KY, attorney & judge) Social: Henry Pirtle (Louisville)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 133A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 513. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 464. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 404B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 12, p. 580A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819617. The Lexington Herald, March 16, 1898, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78884578/. "Joseph Martin Rogers (1839-1928)," Find A Grave, Memorial 107542924, accessed June 3, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107542924. KYR-0001-017-0142. Georgetown, Kentucky P001838 Categories: Places

Seat of Scott County, Kentucky.

38.2098, -84.5588 “Georgetown,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 371. "Georgetown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky 1861-03-29 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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GeorgetownKy. March 29. '61

Mylong and intimate acquaintance with Joseph M Rogers Esqr enables me to say of him that he is a young gentleman of unquestionable integrity, of great purity of character, and whose strictly moral and upright deportment have always been such as to entitle him to the confidence and esteem of all who know him

I take pleasure in Commending him to the respect and kindness of any community amongst whom his future lot may be cast.

A. Duvall