Hiram M'Elroy.
The gentleman whose name heads this brief but sincere sketch, claims an honorable and grand lineage. Noble and highly intelligent blood courses his veins. His father, Hiram McElroy, was one of the leading lawyers of this section of Kentucky, and in his day stood side by side with Dixon, Powell, McHenry, Cook and other brilliant legal luminaires. Mr. McElroy had few equals in his peculiar line of practice, and but few lawyers equaled him in the preparation and management of cases in which he felt a decided interest. No name is more highly connected than that of McElroy in a social, political or legal sense.
The subject of this sketch was born one mile from Morganfield, January 12, 1837. After attending the ordinary schools of the county of his nativity, he was sent to Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky., where he received the finishing touches of a first-class collegiate education. Our subject has always followed farming for a livelihood, and his success in life has proved the ability of the man. He was, and is to-day, a warm Southerner, devoted to the people of his section, and for this, several times during the War of the Rebellion, was made a political prisoner by the innumerable horde of jacklegs rushing through the country under the commission of "Colonels, Captains," etc. Before the war he was a Lieutenant Colonel of the Kentucky State Guards, a grand military organization under the command, discipline and instruction of General Simon Boliver Buckner, of the City of Louisville. This was an office of honor and one many men would have been glad to hold.
During the year 1874 he married Miss Carrie L. Walls, of New Orleans, a highly accomplished lady, who has borne him four children--three boys and one girl--to-wit: Courtney, Viola, Hiram and Caswell. Mr. McElroy has never been an office-seeker, but without any inclination on his part, or any evidence looking to a canvass, is to-day a magistrate of the county, having been elected without signifying a desire. He is the son of a noble sire, and one who served in the Senate and House of Representatives of his State for twenty-eight years. He owns three hundred and fifty acres of land, and enjoys life in the confident knowledge of peace and the enjoyment of a plenty.
[Source: "History of Union County, Kentucky." Evansville, Ind.: Courier Co., Printers, Binders and Engravers, 1886, pages 474-475]
The gentleman whose name heads this brief but sincere sketch, claims an honorable and grand lineage. Noble and highly intelligent blood courses his veins. His father, Hiram McElroy, was one of the leading lawyers of this section of Kentucky, and in his day stood side by side with Dixon, Powell, McHenry, Cook and other brilliant legal luminaires. Mr. McElroy had few equals in his peculiar line of practice, and but few lawyers equaled him in the preparation and management of cases in which he felt a decided interest. No name is more highly connected than that of McElroy in a social, political or legal sense.
The subject of this sketch was born one mile from Morganfield, January 12, 1837. After attending the ordinary schools of the county of his nativity, he was sent to Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky., where he received the finishing touches of a first-class collegiate education. Our subject has always followed farming for a livelihood, and his success in life has proved the ability of the man. He was, and is to-day, a warm Southerner, devoted to the people of his section, and for this, several times during the War of the Rebellion, was made a political prisoner by the innumerable horde of jacklegs rushing through the country under the commission of "Colonels, Captains," etc. Before the war he was a Lieutenant Colonel of the Kentucky State Guards, a grand military organization under the command, discipline and instruction of General Simon Boliver Buckner, of the City of Louisville. This was an office of honor and one many men would have been glad to hold.
During the year 1874 he married Miss Carrie L. Walls, of New Orleans, a highly accomplished lady, who has borne him four children--three boys and one girl--to-wit: Courtney, Viola, Hiram and Caswell. Mr. McElroy has never been an office-seeker, but without any inclination on his part, or any evidence looking to a canvass, is to-day a magistrate of the county, having been elected without signifying a desire. He is the son of a noble sire, and one who served in the Senate and House of Representatives of his State for twenty-eight years. He owns three hundred and fifty acres of land, and enjoys life in the confident knowledge of peace and the enjoyment of a plenty.
[Source: "History of Union County, Kentucky." Evansville, Ind.: Courier Co., Printers, Binders and Engravers, 1886, pages 474-475]
Hiram M'Elroy.
The gentleman whose name heads this brief but sincere sketch, claims an honorable and grand lineage. Noble and highly intelligent blood courses his veins. His father, Hiram McElroy, was one of the leading lawyers of this section of Kentucky, and in his day stood side by side with Dixon, Powell, McHenry, Cook and other brilliant legal luminaires. Mr. McElroy had few equals in his peculiar line of practice, and but few lawyers equaled him in the preparation and management of cases in which he felt a decided interest. No name is more highly connected than that of McElroy in a social, political or legal sense.
The subject of this sketch was born one mile from Morganfield, January 12, 1837. After attending the ordinary schools of the county of his nativity, he was sent to Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky., where he received the finishing touches of a first-class collegiate education. Our subject has always followed farming for a livelihood, and his success in life has proved the ability of the man. He was, and is to-day, a warm Southerner, devoted to the people of his section, and for this, several times during the War of the Rebellion, was made a political prisoner by the innumerable horde of jacklegs rushing through the country under the commission of "Colonels, Captains," etc. Before the war he was a Lieutenant Colonel of the Kentucky State Guards, a grand military organization under the command, discipline and instruction of General Simon Boliver Buckner, of the City of Louisville. This was an office of honor and one many men would have been glad to hold.
During the year 1874 he married Miss Carrie L. Walls, of New Orleans, a highly accomplished lady, who has borne him four children--three boys and one girl--to-wit: Courtney, Viola, Hiram and Caswell. Mr. McElroy has never been an office-seeker, but without any inclination on his part, or any evidence looking to a canvass, is to-day a magistrate of the county, having been elected without signifying a desire. He is the son of a noble sire, and one who served in the Senate and House of Representatives of his State for twenty-eight years. He owns three hundred and fifty acres of land, and enjoys life in the confident knowledge of peace and the enjoyment of a plenty.
[Source: "History of Union County, Kentucky." Evansville, Ind.: Courier Co., Printers, Binders and Engravers, 1886, pages 474-475]
The gentleman whose name heads this brief but sincere sketch, claims an honorable and grand lineage. Noble and highly intelligent blood courses his veins. His father, Hiram McElroy, was one of the leading lawyers of this section of Kentucky, and in his day stood side by side with Dixon, Powell, McHenry, Cook and other brilliant legal luminaires. Mr. McElroy had few equals in his peculiar line of practice, and but few lawyers equaled him in the preparation and management of cases in which he felt a decided interest. No name is more highly connected than that of McElroy in a social, political or legal sense.
The subject of this sketch was born one mile from Morganfield, January 12, 1837. After attending the ordinary schools of the county of his nativity, he was sent to Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky., where he received the finishing touches of a first-class collegiate education. Our subject has always followed farming for a livelihood, and his success in life has proved the ability of the man. He was, and is to-day, a warm Southerner, devoted to the people of his section, and for this, several times during the War of the Rebellion, was made a political prisoner by the innumerable horde of jacklegs rushing through the country under the commission of "Colonels, Captains," etc. Before the war he was a Lieutenant Colonel of the Kentucky State Guards, a grand military organization under the command, discipline and instruction of General Simon Boliver Buckner, of the City of Louisville. This was an office of honor and one many men would have been glad to hold.
During the year 1874 he married Miss Carrie L. Walls, of New Orleans, a highly accomplished lady, who has borne him four children--three boys and one girl--to-wit: Courtney, Viola, Hiram and Caswell. Mr. McElroy has never been an office-seeker, but without any inclination on his part, or any evidence looking to a canvass, is to-day a magistrate of the county, having been elected without signifying a desire. He is the son of a noble sire, and one who served in the Senate and House of Representatives of his State for twenty-eight years. He owns three hundred and fifty acres of land, and enjoys life in the confident knowledge of peace and the enjoyment of a plenty.
[Source: "History of Union County, Kentucky." Evansville, Ind.: Courier Co., Printers, Binders and Engravers, 1886, pages 474-475]
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