HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis
Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, 
Vol. III, pp. 1279-80.   [Franklin County]

JAMES H. HAZELRIGG--Among that coterie of eminently distinguished men
whose possession serves to justify Frankfort in the pride she takes in
her citizenship no one occupies a firmer position than Judge James H.
Hazelrigg, former chief justice and member of the court of appeals of
Kentucky.  The achievements of this gentleman in his profession entitled
him to be reckoned as one of the ablest lawyers and jurist of the state,
and the influence of his personality is as potent and fine as his deeds
have been.  Public spirited and altruistic, and like most men of real
weight, unostentatious, plain and direct, he enjoys wide-spread popularity
and his friendship is valued by those fortunate enough to possess it as a
pearl of great price.  By many ties Judge Hazelrigg is bound to the South,
his ancestors for many generations having lived and died in Dixieland,
while he, himself, shouldered a musket at the age of fifteen and fought
through the last year of the Civil war with General John Morgan, of the
Confederate army.
     Judge James H. Hazelrigg was born upon a farm in Montgomery county,
Kentucky, December 6, 1848.  His parents were George and Elizabeth J.
(Greene) Hazelrigg.  His father and his grandfather, Dillard Hazelrigg,
both were natives of Bourbon county, Kentucky and passed through the
peculiar joys and hardships of the Blue Grass state pioneer.  Judge
Hazelrigg's mother was a Kentuckian also.  Her father's name was Thaddeus
Greene and his wife, who bore the maiden name of Mariah Kerr, was a native
of North Carolina.  When Judge Hazelrigg was but three years of age he had
the misfortune to lose his mother by death and he was taken and reared by
his grandfather Greene on a farm in Montgomery county.  As soon as he was
old enough he entered the common schools of his district and he also
attended the school at Stoney Point, and after gaining his rudimentary
education in this fashion he matriculated at what is now known as
Transylvania University, at Lexington, Kentucky, being graduated therefrom
with the class of 1871, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.  Subsequently
the degree of LL.B., was conferred upon him by both the Kentucky University
and the Central University.  His education was interrupted by the great
civil conflict, which placed the entire country in a state of disquiet and
alarm and made the usual process of life seem of secondary importance.
     In August, 1864, the boy who found the role of mere spectator to the
great national struggle galling in the extreme enlisted in the Confederate
army service, under the command of Colonel E. E. Clay, whose regiment was a
part of the forces of the famous General John Morgan.  He was present at
the surrender on May 2, 1865.  At the conclusion of the war he set about
completing his education, read law at Mt. Sterling and was admitted to
the bar in 1873.  He first hung out his shingle at Mt. Sterling and
although still a young man became city attorney of Mt. Sterling, which
honor was followed by that of his elevation to the office of county judge
of Montgomery county, which he held for over five years.  After a number
of years of activity in the profession of his choice, years distinguished
by constant advance and recognition, in November, 1892, he was elected
judge of the court of appeals of Kentucky.  For eight years he gave service
of an eminent character to the duties of this office, during which time,
from 1899 to 1900, he was chief justice of the state.  Since retiring
from the court of appeals Judge Hazelrigg has practiced law at Frankfort
and his achievements in a more private capacity have been befitting one
of his mental and more caliber.  He belongs to that political party whose
leaders find extreme gratification in referring to Judge Hazelrigg's
section of the United States as the "Solid South" and he has always lent
its measures and its representatives his most effective support.
Denominationally he is a member of the Christian church.
     Judge Hazelrigg was married on November 5, 1872, the lady to become
his wife and the mistress of his household being Miss Mattie Lauderman,
of Lexington, Kentucky, daughter of James H. Lauderman.  The following
children are the fruit of this union: May Hooker, now Mrs. C. P.
Chenault, of Frankfort; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Thomas A. Hall, of Frankfort;
Emily, who married F. C. Bradley and is now deceased; and Dyke Lauderman,
attorney-at-law, now associated in business with his father.  The latter
married the daughter of Colonel Charles E. Hoge, of Frankfort.

Hazelrigg Greene Kerr Lauderman Chenault Hall Bradley Hoge
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Montgomery-KY Bourbon-KY Lexington-Fayette-KY NC

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