History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 478. [Bourbon County] [Paris City and Precinct] PROF. W. H. LOCKHART, A.M., was born June 10, 1846, at Lexington, Ky. Henry Lockhart, his father, was a native of the north of Ireland, near Londonderry; came to America in 1807, with his father's family, and located at Newburg, New York, in 1826; he settled in Fayette County, and lived there as a farmer and trader until 1866, when he moved to Bourbon, where he has since resided. His mother, Sarah (Richardson) Lockhart, was a native of Fayette County, and daughter of Capt. Marquis Richardson and his wife, Henrietta Catlett, originally Virginians. His mother died Feb. 4, 1860, aged seventy-six years. He was raised in Lexington, attending the best schools of the place, and, finally completing his education in Transylvania University. In 1861, he was elected a Professor in Transylvania University, and continued to teach until 1867, when he was elected Principal of the Paris public school, and was re-elected for three years. He then opened the Paris "Classical Institute" of which he has been Principal and is successfully conducting at the present time. He has been closely identified with the educational interests of Bourbon County for fifteen years, having been elected School Commissioner in 1867, and re-elected since at the expiration of each term. He is at the present time serving as School Commissioner, his term expiring on November of this year. He has also been active in the educational work of the State, having served as Vice President and Secretary of the State Teachers' Association for a number of years, and selected by the committee on programme [sic] to prepare papers and deliver addresses on different educational subjects. Lockhart Richardson Catlett = Lexington-Fayette-KY VA NY Ireland http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bourbon/lockhart.wh.txt