Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago. Reprinted by Southern Historical Press. pp. 727-28. Kenton County. ROBERT CARTER RICHARDSON was born in Louisville, Kentucky, May 18, 1826, and died in Covington in 1896. He was one of the most prominent members of the Covington bar, honored by the profession and the public. With several of the most notable families of the nation, including the Harrisons, the Jeffersons, and the Randolphs, he was connected by the ties of blood. His parents were Samuel Q. RIchardson and Mary H. (Harrison) Richardson, and the former was a distinguished lawyer, who, during his residence in Frankfort, enjoyed an extensive practice in the court of appeals. Robert C. Richardson was left an orphan at an early age, but acquired a good education and graduated in the academical department of Transylvania University in 1846. After reading law with Judge George Robertson, of Lexington, he was graduated in the law department of his alma mater in 1848 and was admitted to the bar in Lexington. In 1850 he removed to Covington, where for forty-six years he was engaged in the practice of his chosen profession, and during all that time he was regarded as one of the honorable and most capable members of the bar. He was a member of the legislature from Kenton county from 1855 until 1859; when he was succeeded by John G. Carlisle; was superintendent of public instruction from 1859 until 1863; registrar in bankruptcy from 1872 to 1883; and was prominently identified with the public affairs of his city, county and state and the national government during all of the years of a busy and useful life. He is also an author of distinction, and shortly before his death prepared the article on the court of appeals which appears in this volume. In 1859 Mr. Richardson married Miss Marie Louise Harris, daughter of Colonel Henry C. Harris, who was for fourteen years a member of the Kentucky house of representatives and senate. Mr. Richardson served for one year in the Mexican war, holding the rank of sergeant and acting sergeant-major for a time. During the Civil war he was uncompromising Union man and had command of two companies of home guards. The same patriotism and loyalty which permeated his ancestors marked his life, and he was ever faithful to his duties of citizenship. Richardson Harrison Robertson Carlisle Harris Jefferson Randolph = Jefferson-KY Franklin-KY Fayette-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/kenton/richardson.rc.txt