Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

JUDGE EMMET FIELD was born in this city October 28, 1841, and is a son of
William H. and Mary (Young) Field.  The former was born in Culpeper County,
Va., but came to Kentucky, and located at West Point.  He was a lawyer and
served in the State Senate under the old constitution; he died in 1861,
having removed to Missouri some ten years before.  The subject of this
sketch, Judge Field, was educated in Missouri, in Westminster College.  He
came to Louisville in 1864, and the next year graduated from the Louisville
Law School.  He commenced practice at Springfield, Ky., where he remained
two years, and then returned to Louisville, practicing law in the courts
here until 1886, when he was elected judge of the COurt of Common Pleas.
In 1884 he accepted the chair of "Pleadings" and "Law of Contracts" in the
Louisville Law School, which he has since held.  He was married, in 1869,
to Miss Sue McElroy, of Springfield, Ky.

Field Young McElroy
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Springfield-Washington-KY Culpeper-VA MO

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