Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Franklin Co.

JUDGE LYSANDER HORD came to Frankfort to read law in 1835 with Gov. Charles
S. Morehead and Hon. Mason Brown.  He was born in Mason County, Ky.,
January 16, 1817, a son of Edward and Elizabeth (Benson) Hord, natives
respectively of Virginia and Bourbon County, Ky., of English extraction.
His rudimentary education was obtained in the common and private schools of
Mason and Clark Counties.  He afterward finished his education in Centre
and Augusta Colleges and began the practice of law at Frankfort, forming a
partnership first with Gov. James T. Morehead and afterward with S. F. J.
Trabne.  He is still in the practice of law at Frankfort, but alone.  He
was elected police judge of Frankfort in 1845, and afterward was elected
county judge and served six years.  In 1850 he was elected to represent
Franklin County in the Legislature, the first legislative body after the
adoption of the present State constitution.  He again represented the
county in 1879.  In 1877 he wrote and published in the Kentucky Yoeman a
series of articles on the improvement of the Kentucky River, and on the
management of the State penitentiary, which articles were embodied and
published in pamphlet form, and led to the transfer by the State to the
United States Government of the locks and dams which had been built by
the State on the Kentucky River, and to the rebuilding of the old locks
and dams by the Federal Government, and the extension of the slack water
navigation of that river.  His views as to the management of the
penitentiary were adopted by Gov. Blackburn and the Legislature in 1880,
of which the Judge was a member, and have resulted in a great improvement
in the management of that institution, both as to the comfort of the
prisoners and the finances of the State.  In 1839 he was married to Miss
Hannah Ann Price, a native of Frankfort, and a daughter of Richard Price
(deceased), a farmer of the county and a soldier in the war of 1812.  His
death occurred while in the service of the country.  The Judge has six
children living: Elizabeth, Edward, Upshaw, Lysander, Blandiana and Hannah.
The Judge is one of the oldest practicing attorneys in the county, and as
a judge is respected by the legal fraternity for his honesty and integrity.

Hord Morehead Brown Benson Trabne Price
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Mason-KY Bourbon-KY Clark-KY VA

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