History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 754.
[Nicholas County]  [Carlisle City and Precinct]

JUDGE CHARLES LYTLE, youngest son of Robert and Rebecca Maranda Lytle, was
born in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 26, 1847, during a temporary
residence of his parents at that place.  Robert Lytle, the father of our
subject of this sketch, was the oldest son of William Lytle, who emigrated
from the Highlands of Scotland and settled in Pennsylvania.  There he met
and married Lydia Thompson, only child of John and Lydia Thompson, who
emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland, when Lydia was only twelve years of
age.  They afterward located in Kentucky near the mouth of Bracken Creek,
in what is now Bracken County.  There Robert Lytle, the father of Judge
Lytle, was born, raised and married Rebecca Maranda, the oldest daughter
of Samuel and Polly Maranda, who had emigrated from the eastern shore of
Maryland, and located in Ohio, on the river, one mile west of where the
town of Higginsport now stands.  Samuel Miranda, the maternal, and
William Lytle, the paternal grandfather of Judge Lytle, were soldiers in
the war of 1812, and also in the Mexican war, and both were gun and
locksmiths by trade.  Robert Lytle's early life was spent in flat and
steamboating on the Ohio river.  He was the pilot of the first regular
packet that ran between Maysville and Cincinnati.  He was a thrifty river
trader in the early days of the flat and steamboating, but in 1845 had
the misfortune to wreck three boats, on that terrible wrecker of fortune
the Ohio river falls.  After this he quit the river and went into the
milling business, at Augusta, Ky., where he still resides, and within two
and one-half miles of the place where he was born, married and has lived
all his life.  The only education Judge Lytle received was such as could
be obtained at the common public schools in the town of Augusta (which
were not so well organized as at present) and one term at the Augusta
College.  He hired out and worked on a farm during the summer months and
attended school during the winter.  He studied law in Augusta, Ky., with
the late lamented Judge Joseph Doniphan and Francis L. Cleveland, who were
partners at that time; he would read and recite to these gentlemen during
the summer months, and in the winter taught a district school, after
obtaining his license to practice in March 1872, he spent the summer in the
office of Hon. John B. Clark, late Congressman from the 10th Congressional
District at Brookville, Bracken County; the following fall he taught a
district school in the southern portion of Bracken County, and in March
1873, located in Mt. Olivet, Ky., the county seat of Robertson County,
where he began to practice law in earnest; here he succeeded well, and soon
built up a lucrative practice, and by his honesty and straightforward
manner of doing business, gathered around him a host of staunch friends,
and in a very short time obtained the confidence of the people to such an
extent that he was twice appointed to the office of County Court Judge
over a very worthy competitor; he was married to Flora B. Wilson,
youngest daughter of Henry L. and Nancy Wilson of Mt. Olivet, in May,
1875, who died of consumption in June 1880; he was a candidate for
re-election to the Judgeship in 1876, at a time when Grangerism was on
the boom, and at its most formidable period in Kentucky; his opponent was
a wealthy farmer, and a master of one of the strongest Granges in the
county, and with the combined agencies of money and the organized strength
of the Grangers throughout the county, he was only defeated by one vote,
and that being his own; he voted for his opponent, and his opponent failed
to vote for him; as a judge, perhaps the youngest in the State, he was
regarded able and impartial, and managed the finances of the county with
great success; Mt. Olivet being a small town, he sought a broader field
for work, and located in Carlisle in 1878, where he practiced his
profession alone until July 1880; he formed a partnership with Judge W. P.
Rose, one of the oldest and most experience attorneys in that section of
the State; he was married again in 1881, to Fannie P. Nichols, an adopted
daughter of Dr. R. J. R. and Anna E. Tilton; he still retains a lucrative
practice in Robertson County, where he is deservedly popular; he is quite
a young man yet, and his friends predict for him a successful and
brilliant future.

Lytle Maranda Miranda Thompson Cleveland Doniphan Wilson Rose
Clark Tilton Nichols
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