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

IRA JULIAN was born in Franklin County, Ky., July 5, 1846. His
grandfather, Charles Julian, came to Kentucky from Fredericksburg, Va., at
an early period in the history of the State, and settled near Bridgeport,
in Franklin County, where he engaged in farming pursuits and in general
business affairs. He was a man of great force of character had had occupied
positions of prominence and influence prior to leaving Virginia.  He
married a Miss Moore, of the latter State, a near relative of the poet, Tom
Moore, and had a family of eight children, equally divided in sex.  His son
John J. Julian, was graduated at Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.,
and afterward studied law in the office of Hon. John J. Crittenden at
Frankfort, with whom he afterward engaged in the practice of his
profession.  He enjoyed an excellent reputation at the bar, and was a man
of fine literary tastes and attainments; but his extreme modesty of
temperament and retiring disposition militated to some extent against his
success at the bar.  Toward the close of his life, which ended in 1874, he
devoted himself principally to agricultural pursuits, being at the same
time identified with many of the leading institutions of Franklin County,
and manifesting a spirit of great enterprise and progressiveness, although
uniformly declining public office and station. He married Emarine, daughter
of William Hawkins, formerly of Virginia, and later a representative farmer
of Franklin County, Ky.  Of the nine children born of the union five sons
survive, namely: St. John Julian, at present engaged in the newspaper
business at St. Louis; Ira Julian; William H. Julian, a practicing lawyer
at Frankfort, Ky.; Alexander Julian, Jr., also of Franklin County; and
Rev. Paph. Julian, a minister of the Christian Church and at present pastor
of the congregation at Warsaw, Ind.  Ira Julian received his preparatory
education at the district schools of Franklin County, and at the celebrated
school of B. B. Sayre, of Frankfort, and completed his academic court at
Centre College, Danville, Ky., at which institution he was graduated in the
class of 1869.  He at once entered upon the study of law at the Louisville
Law School, and after a two years' course of instruction was graduated in
1871 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws.  Immediately thereafter he began
the practice of his profession at Frankfort, where he has met with
continued success since, and where he is now recognized as one of the
leading young lawyers of the State.  Soon after commencing practice, he
was elected county attorney of Franklin County, and occupied that position
for four years, and for a time practiced in partnership with Col. John
Mason Brown, now of Louisville.  He enjoys a fine reputation as a man of
thorough education, broad culture, and of finished oratorical powers, his
services being in demand throughout the State both upon the political
rostrum and in the more cultured fields of literature and scholarship
in the various colleges of the State.  Politically he is a firm supporter
of Democratic principles; was one of the presidential electors for his
Congressional District on the Greeley ticket, and on that of Cleveland and
Hendricks, and represented Franklin County in the State Legislature during
the session of 1880-81 and 1883-84, serving as Chairman of the Committee
of Education, and that of Propositions and Grievances and as member of the
Judiciary Committee.  Mr. Julian is universally popular in Franklin
County, is possessed of a genial and companionable disposition, and is
held in general respect for his integrity and uprightness of character.

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