Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 11-13.  McCracken Co.  [Portrait,
frontispiece]

    COLONEL LORENZO D. HUSBANDS, one of the prominent citizens and
leading representatives of the bar of Paducah, Kentucky, was born in
Christian county, Kentucky, December 18, 1823, and is a son of Harmon
Husbands and a grandson of Robert Husbands.  Harmon Husbands was born
in Rowan county, North Carolina, in August, 1776, and settled in
Christian county, Kentucky, in 1805, becoming a pioneer farmer and
surveyor of that locality.  In 1826 he removed to Caldwell county,
Kentucky, and three years later to Crittenden county, and finally in
1834 to Ballard county, Kentucky, where he died in 1856, aged eighty
years.
    The Husbands family is of English descent, two brothers, William
and John, having, about 1700, emigrated from England to America.  One
possessed an aristocratic turn of mind and the other was of a plebeian
character, and from the latter our subject's branch of the family
descends.  These brothers first settled in Pennsylvania and later in
North Carolina at the forks of the Adkins [sic] River.  A great-uncle
of our subject later became a conspicuous character during the
Revolutionary period and figured in the Mecklenburg revolution, and he
and four others were sentenced to death, but he escaped to Western
Pennsylvania; there fought in battles with the Indians and later
returned to North Carolina.
     Harmon Husbands married Sarah Renshaw, also a native of North
Carolina, and a daughter of a farmer and pioneer of Port Royal,
Tennessee, who died in the latter state.  She lived to be eighty years
old and bore her husband nine children, five daughters and four sons,
all of whom are deceased except Mrs. Francis O. Lovelace, of Texas,
and Colonel Lorenzo D. Husbands.
     Colonel Husbands was reared on the farm, and his education was
limited to a few months spent each year in attendance on the local
schools of his father's neighborhood, but as he has always been a
student he has been able to supplement the meager education he then
received, and is now a well-read and thoroughly informed man upon
current events of a political, literary and scientific nature.  He
began reading law in 1847 with James B. Husbands, a brother, then
located in Paducah, and was admitted to the bar in 1849.  Through his
ability Mr. Husbands soon rose in his profession, and has long been a
leader at the bar.  In 1859 he was elected to the legislature, and
while there cast his vote against "armed neutrality."  Mr. Husbands
took no active part in the Civil war, and bears his title of colonel
only as an endearing title bestowed upon him by his friends.  His
first political office was that of county attorney, to which he was
elected in 1851, and served until 1855, when he was elected
commonwealth attorney.  After serving the legislature he never again
sought office until 1897, when he was elected judge of the circuit
court for the Second judicial district, and he is the present
incumbent of that office.  Throughout his long and useful life he has
been a Democrat.
     Judge Husbands was married first in 1851 to Hannah Singleton.
She was born in Hines [sic] county, Mississippi, in 1834, and died in 1856,
leaving one son, Gip.  In 1859 Judge Husbands married Mrs. Mary E.
Bullock, nee Cook, a daughter of John W. Cook, of Christian county,
Kentucky; her birth occurred in Princeton, Kentucky, and her education
was principally obtained in Bethel Female College, Hopkinsville.
Three children were born of this marriage, viz., Cook, Dow and Sallie,
all of whom have been given excellent educational advantages.

Husbands Renshaw Lovelace Singleton Bullock Cook
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McCracken-KY Christian-KY Rowan-NC Caldwell-KY Crittenden-KY
Ballard-KY PA TN TX MS

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