Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.  Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press.  p. 100.  Logan County.

ELIJAH HISE, chief justice of Kentucky from 1854 until 1856, was born in
Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1801, and died May 8, 1867.  He
obtained an excellent education and was a man of scholarly attainments,
remarkable for his rhetorical powers and with a natural talent for music
and the mathematical and mechanical sciences.  He was also extremely
fond of the drama and was one of the most popular delineators of the old
stage classics.  In 1822 he was graduated in the law department of
Transylvania University and entered upon the practice of his profession
at Russellville, where he rose to distinction as one of the first lawyers
of the country, and as the result of his extensive law business
accumulated a handsome fortune.  He was married October 8, 1832, to Miss
Elvira L. D. Stewart, daughter of William L. Stewart, of Russellville,
who aided in building the first cabin of that town.
     President Polk appointed Mr. Hise minister to Guatemala, in 1848,
and while residing in Central America his aid was solicited in the
affairs of that country, becoming prominent in what was known as the
"Hise treaty."  After two years' service in Guatemala, the Judge returned
home and was elected to a position on the bench of the court of appeals,
being one of the first judges elected under the constitution of 1849,
entering upon the discharge of his duties in May, 1851.  In August, 1854,
he became chief justice and served until 1856.  In 1866 he was elected
to represent his district in congress, and was re-elected, but died
before the assembling of that body.  In politics he was a Democrat; and,
his county and section having a large majority against his party, he
withstood the unequal contest with great pertinacity for many years.
When the revulsion came, brought about by the events of the civil war,
the party of which he had long been a leader in his section made him
their standard-bearer and through the remainder of his life he was
probably the most influential political leader in the state.  He was a
man of great independence of thought and action and as a popular speaker
was unsurpassed.  His great interest in the sad condition of the country,
as the result of the civil war, and his anxiety as to his ability to
bring it relief, weighed heavily upon his mind, and was probably the cause
of bringing about his untimely death.  Few men held a higher position in
the estimation of the public, and it seldom falls to the lot of any man to
be more deeply mourned at his death.

Hise Stewart
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Fayette-KY Allegheny-PA Guatemala

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