Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.  Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press.  p. 55.  Montgomery County.

JAMES H. HAZELRIGG, of Mount Sterling, on whom has been conferred the
highest elective judicial honors within the gift of the people of
Kentucky, is a peer of the able members of the court of appeals in this
present year, 1897.  He represents one of Kentucky's oldest and most
honored families, and with a mind well stored with legal lore and a
character above reproach he has added new dignity to the family name.
     Born in Montgomery county, Kentucky, December, 6, 1848, he is a son
of George and Elizabeth (Greene) Hazelrigg.  His ancestral history is
one of close connection with the event of the rule of the "great commoner"
of England, and the line of descent can be traced back to Oliver Cromwell,
one of whose daughters became the wife of Lord Cleveland.  His grandson
Charles became the father of Annie Cleveland, wife of John Hazelrigg, a
native of Virginia, who founded the family in Kentucky in 1787.  His son,
Dillard Hazelrigg, the grandfather of the Judge, was born in Bourbon
county, Kentucky, and in 1834 removed to Montgomery county, where he
engaged in farming until his death in 1871, in the seventy-second year
of his age.  He was a prominent churchman, holding membership in the
Christian church, and took some interest in politics, voting the Whig
ticket until the war, when he became a Democrat.  George Hazelrigg was
born in Clark county, and in later years was a prominent and successful
farmer of Montgomery county, where he died in February, 1874, at the age
of fifty-four years.  He was a leading member of the Christian church,
and supported the Whig party until the war, when he affiliated with the
Union party and later voted the Republican ticket.  His wife was a native
of Montgomery county and died there at the early age of twenty-three.
     Until fifteen years of age Judge Hazelrigg remained on his maternal
grandfather's farm and during that period attended the district schools
through the winter months.  He was one of the boy soldiers of the civil
war.  When a youth of early sixteen he joined the Confederate army as
a private of Company D, Captain Bedford's company, of E. E. Clay's
battalion, and served in the ranks until the surrender of his regiment
at Mount Sterling in May, 1865.
     In 1867 Judge Hazelrigg became a student in the Kentucky University
in Lexington and was graduated in that institution in the class of 1871.
Returning to Mt. Sterling, he entered the office of Apperson & Reid as
a law student and was admitted to the bar in 1873.  The following year
he was elected city attorney of Mt. Sterling and held that office until
1882, when he was elected county judge for a four years' term.  In 1892
he was nominated by the Democratic party for the office of judge of the
court of appeals, and after a spirited contest in opposition to
ex-Chief Justice Holt, the nominee of the Republicans, he was elected in
November, of the same year.  Judge Hazelrigg is a staunch Democrat,
having always taken an active interest in the success of his party, and
having been for many years chairman of the Montgomery county executive
committee.
     In 1872 Judge Hazelrigg married Mattie Laudeman, daughter of James
H. Laudeman, of Lexington, and this union has been blessed with four
daughters and one son: May H., wife of Courtland Chenault, of Montgomery
county; Elizabeth G.; Emily D.; Dyke L.; and Hattie A., the last named
dying in infancy.
     The Judge is a member of the Christian church and a gentleman of
pleasing and courteous manners.  He has now been a member of the court
of appeals for four years and has fully demonstrated his ability to
handle the intricate problems which are presented to the court of last
resort.  The legal profession demands a high order of ability, and the
judiciary requires not only ability but a rare combination of talent,
learning, tact, patience and industry.  The successful lawyer and the
competent judge must be a man of well balanced intellect, thoroughly
familiar with the law and practice, of comprehensive general information,
possessed of an analytical mind and a self-control that will enable him
to lose his individuality, his personal feelings, his prejudices and
his peculiarities of disposition in the dignity, impartially, and equity
of the office to which life, property, right and liberty must look for
protection.  Possessing these qualifications, Judge Hazelrigg justly
merits the high honor which was conferred upon him by his election to
the court of appeals.

Hazelrigg Greene Laudeman Chenault Cromwell Cleveland Holt
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Bourbon-KY Clark-KY Fayette-KY VA

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