History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr, American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. IV, p. 191-92, Jefferson County TYLER BARNETT. For upwards of seventy years the name Barnett has enjoyed enviable success in the legal profession of Kentucky. Throughout that time the late Judge Andrew Barnett and his son Tyler Barnett have brought learning, industry and abilities of a high order to the profession. Throughout the greater part of this period Louisville has been the home of these lawyers, and Tyler Barnett is still in active practice, maintaining offices in the Louisville Trust Building. The late Andrew Barnett was born in Green County, Kentucky, March 4, 1828, and died in February 1910. His grandfather, William Barnett, was a native of Ireland and a Colonial settler of North Carolina. He was a civil engineer by profession and came to Kentucky to represent and manage land holdings of Andrew Jackson in this state. The father of Judge Barnett was William Barnett of Greensburg, a farmer and trader. Andrew Barnett was liberally educated, attending Georgetown College in Kentucky, Harvard University and graduated from the Louisville Law School with the class of 1848. Among his school associates were John Logan and former Governor Oglesby of Illinois. He then practiced at Greensburg, later at Lebanon, was elected commonwealth attorney and subsequently removed to Louisville, where he engaged in a successful and extensive practice up to the time of his death. He was a loyal Fifty-five democrat in politics. He was at one time a witness in a celebrated "will case," the Mary Howard Preston will, a litigation involving a dispute between the Catholic and Protestant Churches. As a witness inquiry was made of him as if he were a church member. He said no, that he had read the Bible many times, but when it came to denominations and creeds he had no special allegiance, and in all his confusion in the various beliefs he took to the Big Woods. Andrew Barnett married Kate Frances Tyler, who was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, March 4, 1833, and died June 12, 1912. Her parents were Presley and Jane (Marmaduke) Tyler, and her grandfather was Moses Tyler, descended from Edward Tyler, who came from Wales. The children of Andrew Barnett and wife were two in number, Tyler, and Fannie, who died in 1906, the wife of R. M. Cunningham. Tyler Barnett was born near Jefferson town in Jefferson County, Kentucky, September 23, 1857, and was educated in the public schools of Louisville and the Louisville Law School with the class of 1879. He learned the routine of his profession in his father's office, and was actively associated with the elder Barnett until the latter's death. Another member of the firm for ten years was Judge Shackelford Miller. Mr. Barnett was selected by the bar to discharge the duties of the First Chancery District Court during the illness of Judge Miller. Judge Barnett is a democrat in politics. During the World war he was chairman of the Louisville Draft Board. On October 10, 1883, he married Miss Anna L. Schwartz, who died January 16, 1909. Of their three children Captain T. T. of the United States Regular Army, an electrical engineer by profession joined the Quartermaster's Corps and was in service at Bordeaux, France, was promoted to Lieutenant and captain and served abroad until the close of the war. The second son, Andrew, is a business man. Catherine is the wife of Dr. Lee D. Parsons, who was with the American Forces on the Mexican border, later a major in the Medical Corps overseas. Dr. and Mrs. Parsons have one son, Albro F. III Barnett Cunningham Marmaduke Parsons Schwartz Tyler Preston Miller = Ireland Green-KY NC Wales http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jefferson/barnett.t.txt