Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.  Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press.  p. 105.  Harrison County.

JOHN TRIMBLE, judge of the "new" court of appeals, was born December 4,
1793, in Clark county, and died July 9, 1852, at Cynthiana, Kentucky. He
was a brother of Robert Trimble, judge of the United States district court
of Kentucky, and associate justice of the United States supreme court.
     When nineteen years of age John Trimble was secretary for Robert
Evans, governor of Indiana territory.  He studied law under the direction
of George Nichols, at Lexington, and practiced at Paris from 1807 to 1816.
Being appointed circuit judge he removed to Cynthiana.  On the 10th of
January, 1825, Governor Desha appointed him one of the associate justices
of the new court.  Assuming this office in the time of great excitement
and under the peculiar circumstances surrounding the creation of the
court, his actions and character were subjected to severe criticism and
partisan rancor.  He retained the office of judge of the new court until
the legislative act whereby it was established, was repealed.  He was a
member of the legislature in 1826, 1833 and 1935.  In 1836 he was
tendered but declined the position of judge of the United States district
court for Kentucky.
     Judge Trimble was an able lawyer and a man of excellent repute and
noble character.  Of the associates of Judge John Trimble while on the
bench of the new court of appeals, William T. Barry is noted elsewhere,
while of John Haggin and Benjamin W. Patton little is known.  Patton died
soon after being appointed, and Rezin H. Davidge was appointed, February
11, 1825, to the vacancy thus made.  There is no record of any of these
men after their retirement from the bench.  During the existence of the
new court seventy-two opinions were delivered, the first April 19, 1825,
and the last October 28, 1835.  Of these Judge Haggin delivered
twenty-seven, Judge Trimble seventeen, Judge Davidge fifteen and Chief
Justice Barry thirteen; and these are preserved in Monroe's Reports,
Vol. II.*

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*Other members of the court of appeals, to-wit, Thomas Todd, Robert
Trimble, John Boyle, Harry Innes, John Rowan, Thomas A. Marshall, S. S.
Nicholas, J. R. Underwood, William Owsley and Daniel Breck, together
with William T. Barry, R. H. Davidge and Joseph Haggin, of the "new
court," will be found elsewhere in this volume.

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Trimble Barry Haggin Evans Nichols Patton
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Clark-KY Fayette-KY Bourbon-KY

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