Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

Judge Henry Pirtle, one of the ablest lawyers and jurists that ever
practiced at the Louisville bar, located in that city in 1826, from
Hartford, Ohio County, Ky., where he had been admitted to the bar some
five years before.  He was born in 1799, and was not yet thirty years old
when he came to Louisville, yet so quickly did his professional brethren
recognize his great abilities that with a few months he was unanimously
recommended to the Governor for the appointment of Circuit Judge.  He was
accordingly appointed, and again in 1846.  In 1850 he was appointed
chancellor of the Louisville Chancery Court, and appointed again in 1862.
He was for twenty-seven years professor of constitutional law, equity
and commercial law, in the law department of the University of Louisville.
He complied a Digest of the Decisions of the Kentucky Court of Appeals,
and was the author of a valuable historical introduction to the journal
of Gen. George Rogers Clark, published in Cincinnati some years ago, as a
number of the Ohio Valley Historical series.  He took no active part in
politics; his only office outside the judicial service was that of State
Senator, being elected in 1840, and serving one term.  His influence,
however, upon politics and legislation was great.  To a letter of his,
addressed to the Secretary of the United States Treasury, about 1850, its
attributed the building of the Marine hospitals at Louisville and elsewhere
on the Western waters.  He was an active promoter of historical, literary
and scientific societies, and was regarded as a walking encyclopedia.
He died March 28, 1880, aged eighty years.

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Hartford-Ohio-KY

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