Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.  Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press.  p. 257.  Jefferson County.

FRANK WILLIAM MORANCY, of Louisville, was born in Madison parish,
Louisiana, August 1, 1858.  His father, Francis E. Morancy, was a highly
educated man, a graduate in both law and medicine, yet his active business
life was spent as a cotton planter.  He was of French lineage, descended
from ancestry who settled originally at San Domingo.  The grandfather of
our subject was a child of nine years at the time of the insurrection in
San Domingo, in which nearly all the members of his family were killed.
He escaped from the island to the United States, where he was reared, and
afterward took up his residence in Mississippi.  There he made his home
until after the birth of Francis E. Morancy.  Removing thence to
Louisiana he became one of the extensive planters of that state.  The
mother of the subject of this sketch bore the maiden name of Bettie White
and was a native of Woodford county, Kentucky.  Her father was Zachariah
White, of Hanover county, Virginia, who in his youth came to Kentucky with
his father.  One of his brothers, Joseph White, was United States senator
from Florida and minister to France.  Another brother, Philip S. White,
as a lawyer and lecturer of note in Virginia.
     Frank William Morancy acquired his early education in the district
and private schools of Woodford county, Kentucky, and afterward entered
the St. Louis University, at St. Louis, Missouri.  He was graduated in the
law department of the University of Virginia with the degree of LL.B. in
June, 1882, and was honored with the office of judge of the moot court of
his class.  In October of the same year he was admitted to the bar at
Versailles, Kentucky, and entered upon the practice of his profession at
that place.  He served as city attorney for two terms and in August, 1885,
removed to Louisville.
     In 1892 he became associated with Hon. Charles S. Grubbs, formerly
of Logan county, Kentucky, and this partnership is still maintained, the
firm receiving a liberal patronage and ranking among the able lawyers of
the city, principally connected with chancery proceedings and insurance
litigation.  His political support is given the Democracy.  He is a close
student, methodical and accurate in the preparation of his cases, a
pleasant speaker, forcible and clear in judgment.

Morancy White Grubbs
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Woodford-KY Logan-KY Hanover-VA LA MS San_Domingo

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