Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago. Reprinted by Southern Historical Press. p. 268. Jefferson County. CHARLES HANSFORD SHIELD, of Louisville, is one of Virginia's native sons, born in Fauquier county, on the 4th of November, 1857. To one of the most ancient English families he traces his ancestry, for representatives of the name followed their Norman leader, William the Conqueror, to England in 1066 and there established an ancestral home. Prior to the war of the Revolution the family was founded in America by those who left the "merrie isle" and took up their residence in Virginia. The grandparents of C. H. Shield were Charles H. and Susan (Walke) Shield, the former a commission merchant of Norfolk, Virginia. The father, Rev. Charles H. Shield, D. D., was a very prominent divine of the Protestant Episcopal church. He acquired a liberal education in William and Mary College, where he was graduated and entered upon his ministerial labors in Fauquier county, Virginia. His broad scholarship, superior oratorical ability, and his earnestness of purpose and godly life made him a strong and able preacher. He was rector of St. Andrews church, of Louisville, from 1870 until 1883, after which he retired from the active work of the ministry. He died in Baltimore, Maryland, on the 16th of January, 1894. His wife, Jane Cary Barton, belonged to one of the prominent old families of the south. She was a daughter of David W. Barton, of Winchester, Virginia, and on the maternal side was related to the Marshall family, of Virginia, her mother being Jane Cary Randolph Jones, whose connection with the Randolph and Cary families--two of the most influential and leading families in the state--is shown forth in her name. Charles Hansford Shield, of Louisville, spent the days of his youth in the state of his nativity and was provided with superior educational privileges to fit him for life's practical duties. He was graduated in the classical department of the University of Virginia in the class of 1878, after which he entered the law department and was graduated there in 1880. The same year Mr. Shield returned to Louisville, and entered the law office of Bullitt & Harris, where with one of the most prominent law firms of the state he gained that practical knowledge that has enabled him to secure a foremost place at the Louisville bar. In January, 1886, when Judge W. O. Harris was raised to the bench, Mr. Shield entered into partnership with Thomas W. Bullitt and the connection has since continued. Although he is known as a general practitioner, his attention is largely given to corporation cases, and he meets the intricate and involved questions of corporation law in a masterful way that shows he is fully competent to manage the interests entrusted to his care. Although his preference is for civil practice, he has, however, appeared for the defense or prosecution on some of the most noted criminal cases in connection with the Louisville courts. He is one who holds that purity in law practice is co-equal with legal learning, and he has the principle to emphasize it when occasion demands. Various interests of Louisville have claimed his attention, support, and wise direction, and he is now vice-president of the Louisville Warehouse & Transfer Company, president of the Kentucky Hotel Company, director of the Kentucky Guarantee Company, and attorney for the Kentucky Title Company. Thus, by his interest in various business enterprises, he has not only advanced individual prosperity, but has promoted the material welfare of this city. Mr. Shield was married December 27, 1887, to Miss Lizzie Vance, daughter of Hamilton Vance, of New Orleans, Louisiana, a cotton merchant of that city. They have two children--Margaret Johnston and Charles Hansford. Mr. Shield belongs to the Protestant Episcopal church, and is a vestryman of St. Andrews. His own honesty of life and loftiness of principle are manifest in his law practice. and he believes fully in maintaining the dignity of the bench and bar within rests the protection of human rights and liberties. Shield Walke Barton Randolph Cary Jones Bullitt Vance Marshall = Fauquier-VA LA England http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jefferson/shield.ch.txt