Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.  Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press.  pp. 244-45.  Jefferson County.
CLARENCE DALLAM, of Louisville, was born in Henderson, on the 14th of April
1863, and his ancestral history is one of close connection with Kentucky
during its formative period and through the epoch of its later development.
His grandfather, Nathan Dallam, was one of the pioneers of the state,
emigrating from Maryland to Princeton, Kentucky, when much of the "dark and
bloody ground" was still in its primeval state, awaiting the awakening
touch of civilization.  He was married at Winchester, Kentucky, to Sarah
Hicks, a native of Virginia.  Their son, L. C. Dallam, father of our
subject, is a prominent citizen of Henderson.  He married Elizabeth
Henderson Soaper, daughter of William Soaper, a tobacconist of that city.
Through her mother, Mrs. Dallam was related to Colonel Richard Henderson,
the founder of the city which bears his name.  The Dallam family is also
connected by marriage with the Alves and the Calloways, who came from
North Carolina to Kentucky with Richard Henderson and the Transylvania
Company.  Francis Henry Dallam, an uncle of our subject, was one of the
most distinguished lawyers of the Henderson bar, and is represented
elsewhere in this volume.
     The early educational privileges which Clarence Dallam received
were supplemented by study in the Episcopal high school, of Alexandria,
Virginia, from 1881 to 1884, after which he entered the academic
department of the University of Virginia, taking a course in Greek and
Latin, and was graduated in the latter.  He then pursued a course in the
law department in the same institution, and was graduated in 1886 with
the degree of Bachelor of Law, which was taken in one year.  Admitted to
the bar and licensed to practice in Kentucky, Mr. Dallam opened an office
in Paducah in the fall of 1886, and in 1888 became associated in business
in that city with Henry Burnett, as a member of the law firm of Burnett &
Dallam, devoting his attention chiefly to corporation law, and represented
some of the largest corporations in western Kentucky.  This relation was
maintained until the 1st of February, 1897, when Mr. Dallam removed to
Louisville, seeking a field of labor in the state's metropolis, where his
abilities, which have already won him recognition as one of the
representative and enterprising young legal practitioners, may have a
broader range.
     On the 1st of June, 1893, Mr. Dallam married Miss Cantey McDowell
Venable, daughter of Colonel Charles S. Venable, who for many years was
professor of mathematics in the University of Virginia, and who served
through the war as a colonel on the staff of the brilliant commander of
the Confederate forces, General Robert E. Lee.  She is a granddaughter of
Governor James McDowell, of Virginia, who is of the same family as the
McDowells of Kentucky.  The first of the name to come to this state was
Samuel McDowell, who was prominently identified with the early settlement
and substantial development of the commonwealth.
     Mr. Dallam is a Democrat, but is not specially active in politics.
He belongs to the Episcopal church, and served as vestryman while in
Paducah.  In his profession he is an untiring worker, preparing his cases
with the utmost regard to the detail of fact and the law involved.  He
never loses sight of even the most minor point which may advance his
clients' interest, and at the same time gives full weight to the important
point upon which the decision finally turns.  His argument is incisive and
logical, his enunciation clear and decided and his delivery strong.  He
views his case from every possible standpoint, loses sight of no vantage
ground or of any available point of attack in an opponent's argument.  He
stoops to no questionable methods, is fair and just to the opposition,
and has the sincere respect of the members of the bar.  In manner he is
ever courteous and genial, his deportment at all times bespeaking the
character of the true gentleman.
Dallam Hicks Soaper Henderson Alve Calloway Burnett McDowell Venable
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Caldwell-KY Henderson-KY Clark-KY McCracken-KY VA MD NC

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