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CINCINNAT
EXPLANATION .- A difference of one minute in time (latitude of New York City) is equivalent to about nine and one-half miles in distance.
The figures opposite each city in the long or left-hand columns indicate the Minutes, or the Hours and Minutes, which the time at said city is slower (S) or faster (F) than the time of the four cities at the head of the several columns.
As this table is calculated for two points in Kentucky-Covington and Louisville-it will be easy, by referring to the Map, to calculate the time for any town in the State.
New York.
Cincinnati, O.
Covington, Ky., or
Louisville.
St. Louis.
New York.
Cincinnati, O.
Louisville.
St. Louis.
Albany, N. Y. is
011
43 F
47 F
1 06 F New Haven. ... is
04 F
46 F
50 F
1 19 F
Atchison, Kan ..
1 25 S
43 S
39 S
:20 S
New Orleans .....
1 04 S
22 S
18 S
01F
Baltimore, Md ..
10 S
32 F
36 F
55 F
New York City.
42 F
46 F |1 05 F
Boston, Mass.
12 F
54 F
58 F
1 17 F
Niagara Falls ... Norfolk, Va ..
09 S|
33 F
37 F 56 F
Cairo, Ill
1 00 S
18 S
14 S
05 F Omaha, Neb.
1 28 SI
46 S
42 SI
23 S
Charleston, S. C.
24 S
18 F
22 F
41 F
Paris, France .... Philadelphia.
05 S
37 F
41 F 1 00 F
Cincinnati, O ..
42 S
04 F
23 F!
Pittsburg, Pa.
24 S
18 F
22 F
41
Cleveland, O.
31 S
11 F
15 F
34 F
Portland, Oreg'n 3 16 8 2 34 S
1 11 S
29 S
25 S
06
Des Moines, Ia ..
1 19 S
37 S
33 S
14 S
Richmond, Va ...
14 S
28 F
32 F
51 F
Detroit, Mich ...
36 S
06 F
10 F
29 F| Sacramento, Cal 3 10 S 2 28 8 2 24 S 2 05 S
Evansville, Ind,
55 S
13 S
09 S
10 F
Salt Lake City .. 2 32 S 1 50 S 1 46 S 1 27 S Santa Fe, N. M. 2 08 1 22 S 1 03 S
Indianapolis.
48 S
06 S
02 S
17 F
Jackson, Miss ...
1 05 S
23 S
19 S
same| Savannah, Ga ...! 28 S
14 F
IS F
37 F
Jacksonville, Ill 1 05 S
23 S
19 S
samej
Springfield, III .. 1 02 S
20 S
16 S
03 F
Jefferson City ...
1 13 S
31'S
27 S
08 S St. Joseph, Mo ..
1 24 S
42 S
38 S
19 S
Kansas City, Mo
1 23 S
41 S
37 S
18 S|St. Louis, Mo ....
1 05 S
23 S
19 S
Lansing, Mich ..
42 S
same
04 F
23 FilSt. Paul, Minn .. 1 16 S
34 S
30 S
11 S
Leavenworth.
1 23 S
41 S
37 S
18 S
Terrellaute, Ind
54 S
12 S
08 S
11 F
London, Eng ....
4 56 F|5 38 F 5 42 F 6 01 F Toledo, Ohio .....
38 S
04 F
OS F
27 F
Louisville, Ky ..
46 S
04 8
19 Fl:Topeka, Kan. ... |1 27 S
45 S
41 8
22 S
Memphis, Tenn.
1 05 S
23 S
19 S
same
Vicksburg, Miss 1 07 S
25 8
21 £
02 S
Mobile, Ala ...
56 S
14 S
10 S . 09 F
Washington
12 S
30 F
34 F
53 F
Nashville, Tenn
51 S
09 S
05 S
14 F |Wheeling, W. Va
27 S
15 F
19 F
38 F
Newark, N. J ...
01 F
43 F
47 F 1 06 F||Wilm'gton, N.C.
14 S
28 F
32 F
51 F
..
20 S
22 F
26 F
45 F
5 05 F 5 47 F
5 51 F 6 10 F
Chicago, Ill ...
55 S
13 S
09 S
10 F|
29 F
Portland, Maine
15 F
57 F
1 01 F
1 20 F
Dayton, O ....
41 S
01 F
05 F
24 F
Quincy, Ill.
..
Hartford, Conn.
05 F
47 F
51 F
1 10 F
20 S
22 F
26 F
45 I
Buffalo, N. Y.
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11.53
11.24
O
SUMBUS
11. 14
LOUIS
11.18 ILL
0
AND
10.55 MO. ST. LOUIS
11.14 KY.
IV
CIK
·737-
-934-
11.5S
C.A.
MONTRE
11.26
-6010
-371-
-663-
-4.01-
LA.
WASHING - TON
N.Y.
185-
11.46
VA.
AMOND
12.24
MASS.
BOSTON
CHICAGO 90' IT
+482-
+431-
-236-
RICH
·VA
1-374-
+130-
12.08
HEWY
N.Y.
0.
Mn.
TIMORP
LING
.225-
XT
-401-
2
MON
650-
Covington, Ky., or
TIME AT
TIME AT
Columbus, O.
36 S
06 F
10 F
2 30 S 12 11 S
.
CHICAGO
BOSTON
VA.
AND
San Francisco ... 3 14 S 2 32 8 2 28 S 2 09 S
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soe. In 1820, he was re-elected to the senate, and served in that body till the 4th of March, 1825. Mr. Talbot's career in the senate is a part of the history of our common country, and the reports of the debates of that body bear ample proofs of his eloquence and patriotism. He died at Melrose, his residence near Frankfort, on the 21st of September, 1837.
Hon. HARRY INNES. The subject of this sketch was born in 1752, in Caroline county, Virginia. His father. the Rev. Robert Innes, of the Episcopal church, was a native of Scotland, and married Catharine Richards, of Va., by whom he had three sons, Robert, Harry, and James. The eldest was a physician, and Harry and James read law with Mr. Rose, of Va. Harry was a schoolmate of the late President Madison. James was attorney general of Virginia, and one of the most eloquent debaters in the convention which adopted the present constitution of the United States. During the administration of President Washington, he was deputed to Kentucky as a special envoy to explain to Governor Shelby and the legislature, the measures in progress by the government of the United States to secure the navigation of the Mississippi.
In 1776-7, whilst the lead mines became objects of national solicitude and pub- lie care for procuring a supply necessary to the revolutionary contest, the subject of this sketch was employed by the committee of public safety in Virginia, to superintend the working of Chipil's mines. His ability, zeal and fidelity in that employment, commanded the thanks of that committee. In 1779, he was elected by the legislature of Virginia a commissioner to hear and determine the claims to unpatented lands in the district including Abingdon. That duty he performed to public satisfaction. In 1783, he was elected by the legislature of Virginia, one of the judges of the supreme court for the district of Kentucky, and on the third day of November of that year, he entered upon the duties of his commission at Crow's station, near Danville, in conjunction with the Hon. Caleb Wallace and Samuel M'Dowell. In 1787, he was elected by the legislature of Virginia, at- torney general for the district of Kentucky, in the place of Walker Daniel, who fell a victim to the savage foe. In 1785, he entered upon the duties of that office, in which he continued until he was appointed, in 1787, judge of the court of the United States for the Kentucky district, the duties of which he discharged until his death, September, 1816.
Upon the erection of Kentucky into an independent state in 1792, he was offered, but declined, the office of chief justice. He was president of the first electoral college for the choice of governor and lieutenant governor under the first constitution. In April, 1790, he was authorized by the secretary of war, (General Knox.) to call out the scouts for the protection of the frontier ; and. in 1791, he was associated with Scott, Shelby, Logan and Brown, as a local board of war for the western country, to call out the militia on expeditions against the Indians, in conjunction with the commanding officer of the United States. and to apportion scouts through the exposed parts of the district. In all these responsible capacities the conduct of Judge Innes was without reproach, and raised him. most deservedly high, in the public esteem, and received the repeated thanks of General Washington for the discharge of high trusts. As a judge, he was patient to hear, diligent to investigate and impartial to decide. These quali- ties were especially requisite in his position as the sole judge, until 1807, of the court of the United States for the district of Kentucky, whose decisions were final, unless reversed by the supreme court of the United States.
As a neighbor, as an agriculturist, and as a polished gentleman in all the rela- tions of private and social life he was a model of his day and generation : and although his public career in the west, amidst its earliest difficulties, had always been one of high trust and confidence under all the changes of government, his conduct in reference to the efforts to secure the navigation of the Mississippi, was the subject of envenomed calumny at a subsequent period, when the peculiar condition of affairs in the early transactions in Kentucky was not fully appreci- ated. 'The proudest refutation of these misrepresentations, is found, however, in the repeated evidence of the approbation of Washington ; and the after intrigues attempted by Powers, as agent of the Spanish governor, but so promptly rejected by Innes and Nicholas, did not Impair the public confidence in their devotion to the freedom and happiness of their country, of which a satisfactory proof is atfor-
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ded in the refusal of Congress in 1808 to institute any measures for the impeachment of Judge Innes. The negotiations proposed by the Spanish agents, and listened to by the early patriots of Kentucky, had reference solely to commercial arrange- ments between the people occupying the same great valley. They occurred at a time when the Kentucky pioneers had, by personal exertion and peril, without aid from the mother state, conquered the forest and the roaming savage ; when neither Virginia nor the general government afforded them adequate protection, nor permitted them to exert their strength; and, yet, no serious design was ever entertained in Kentucky of separating from the Union or accepting the protec- tion of Spain. The favorable progress of the subsequent negotiations entered into by the general government, rendering private efforts to secure the navigation of the Mississippi unnecessary. a corresponding reply by Innes and Nicholas was sent to Powers, and particularly rejecting the tempting monied offers made by that agent. In the language of Judge Hall, one of the most profound and polished writers of the west: " The motives of these early patriots stand unim- peached. They were actuated only by a zeal for the public good, and their names will hereafter stand recorded in history among those which Kentucky will be proud to honor. She has reared many illustrious patriots, but none who have served her more faithfully through a period of extraordinary embarrassment and peril, than Brown, Innes and Nicholas."
Judge Innes married, in early life, a daughter of Colonel Callaway, of Bed- ford county, Virginia, by whom he had four daughters, two of whom survive. Shortly after his removal to Kentucky, (having lost his first wife), he intermar- ried with Mrs. Shields, by whom he had one child, the second Mrs. Crittenden, wife of the Hon. John J. Crittenden. The venerable relict of Judge Innes sur- vived to the age of eighty-seven-a noble specimen of the old school, in digni- fied courtesy and varied intelligence.
The Hon. THOMAS TODD, formerly chief justice of the State of Kentucky, and late one of the associate justices of the supreine court of the United States, was the youngest son of Richard Todd. He was born on the 23d of January, 1765, in the county of King and Queen, on York river, in the State of Virginia. His father was descended from one of the most respectable families in the colony. his ancestors being among the early emigrants from England. His mother was Eliz- abeth Richards. At the age of eighteen months, his father died, leaving a con- siderable estate, which, by the laws of primogeniture of that day, descended to the eldest son, William, afterwards high sheriff of Pittsylvania county in that State; it, however, was swallowed up by mortgages and debts inherited. In exerting herself to provide for the support and education of her orphan son, Mrs. Todd removed to Manchester, opposite to Richmond, and, by the pro- ceeds of a boarding house under her care and management, she was enabled to give, at her death in 1776, a handsome patrimony to her son, in the care of his guardian and her executor, Dr. Mckenzie, of that place. By the aid of his friends, Thomas Todd received a good English education, and advanced considerably in a knowledge of the Latin language, when his prospects were clouded by the unexpected embarrassments of his guardian, which terminated in the loss of the patrimony bequeathed him by his mother.
At a tender and unprotected age, he was again thrown upon the world to de- pend for his support, education and character, upon his own efforts. To these contingencies, which seemed at the time to be remediless misfortunes, may be traced that energy and enterprise which afterwards signalized his character. Du- ring the latter period of the revolutionary war, he served a tour of duty for six months as a substitute ; and often. in after life, referred to the incident as being the first money he ever earned. He was afterwards a member of the Manchester troop of cavalry, during the invasion of Virginia by Arnold and Philips. He was shortly afterwards invited by his relative, the late Harry Innes, of Kentucky, who was a cousin of his mother, to reside in his family, then in Bedford county. By his friendship at that early period-a friendship cemented by forty years of affectionate intercourse through life-he obtained a knowledge of surveying, and of the duties of a clerk. In 1785, Judge Innes visited Kentucky ; and having resolved to remove his family the following year, committed them to the care of his young friend, who arrived at Danville in the spring of 1786. Mr. Todd's
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pecuniary means were so limited, that, whilst residing in the family of Judge Innes at Danville, he was engaged during the day in teaching the daughters of his friend, and at night prosecuting the study of the law by fire-light.
This was an interesting period in the history of Kentucky. The people were actively engaged in measures to procure a separation from the parent State ; and such was the opinion entertained of his character for business. that he was cho- sen clerk of all the conventions held from that period until 1792, for the purpose of erecting the former into an independent member of the Union.
He commenced the practice of law very soon after he came to the State, and made his first effort at Madison old court-house. His horse, saddle and bridle, and thirty-seven and a half cents in money, constituted his whole means at the commencement of the court : at the close of the term, he had made enough to meet his current expenses, and returned to Danville with the bonds for two cows and calves, the ordinary fees of that day. The high judicial stations he after- wards occupied with such reputation to himself, and such benefit to the country, are a proud commentary on the spirit of our institutions ; and forin the noblest incentives to industry and perseverance in the prosecution of a profession.
Mr. Todd was appointed clerk of the federal court for the district of Kentucky, the duties of which he performed until the separation from Virginia, when he was appointed clerk of the court of appeals, under the new constitution. He held this office until December, 1801, when he was appointed by Governor Gar- rard fourth judge of the court of appeals ; an office created, it is believed, with the special object of adding some younger man to the bench, already filled by judges far advanced in life. In this station he continued until the resignation of Judge Muter, in 1806, when he was appointed, during the administration of Go- vernor Greenup, to be chief justice. During the session of Congress of 1806-7, the increase of business and of population in the western States, and the neces- sity of bringing into the supreme court some individual versed in the peculiar land law of those States, induced Congress to extend the judiciary system, by constituting Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio as the seventh circuit, and adding another member to the supreme court. In filling this new office, Mr. Jefferson adopted a mode somewhat different from that pursued in latter times. He re- quested each delegate from the States composing the circuit to communicate to him a nomination of their first and second choice. Judge Todd was the first or second upon the nomination of every delegate, although to some of them he was personally unknown. His appointment was the first intimation to him that he had been thought of for the office. In this high and arduous station he continued until his death, February 7th, 1826.
In 1788, he married Elizabeth Harris, a niece of William Stewart, from Penn- sylvania, an early adventurer to Kentucky, who fell in the battle of the Blue Licks. Five of their offspring, three sons and two daughters, arrived to maturity ; only two survived him, the youngest daughter and the second son, Colonel C. S. Todd, advantageously known as an officer of the late war, and as the first public agent of the United States in Colombia, South America. In 1811. Mrs. Todd died, and in 1812, Judge Todd married the widow of Major George Washington, a nephew of General Washington, and the youngest sister of Mrs. Madison, wife of the late president. He left one daughter and two sons by this marriage.
Mr. Todd possessed, in an eminent degree, the respect and esteem of his friends. His stability and dignity of character, united with manners peculiarly amiable, left a deep impression on all with whom he had intercourse. His deportment on the bench, as well as in the social circle, secured him universal veneration. The benevolence of his character was manifested in the patronage and support he extended to many indigent young friends and near relations, whole families of whom he advanced in life by his friendly influence and means. There is one incident of this sort, which, being connected in some degree with his official career, deserves to be mentioned.
In 1805-6, some influential members of the legislature of Kentucky prevailed on chief justice Muter to resign. upon an assurance of being allowed a pension during life. He had devoted his property and the prime of his days to his country in the revolutionary war, and was now in indigent circumstances and far advanced in life. The pension was granted by the legislature at the next session, but repealed at the second session after the grant. In the mean time Judge Todd had
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succeeded his old friend as chief justice ; and about the time the legislature repealed the pension, he was appointed a judge of the supreme court of the Uni- ted States, with a salary more than double that of the chief justice of Kentucky. He proposed to his friend Muter to come and reside with him, especially as a better adverse claim had deprived Muter of his home. The offer was accepted ; and Muter, who had commanded a ship of war during the revolution, with the rank of Colonel ; and who had, without reproach, presided in the civil tribunals of the State from its early settlement, spent the reinainder of his days upon the bounty of judge Todd. As a testimony of his gratitude and affection, Muter hav- ing no family, made Todd his heir and residuary legatee, though at the time his debts greatly exceeded his available means. But, as though heaven had decreed that an act so generous in an individual, when contrasted with the ingratitude of the State, should not go unrewarded even in this world, the revolutionary claims of Judge Muter have been acknowledged by congress, and the proceeds have descended to the widow and younger children of Judge Todd.
The land law of Kentucky, originally an act of the assembly of Virginia of 1789, forms a peculiar system, and has been established chiefly upon principles of law and equity contained in decisions of the appellate court. To this result the labors of Judge Todd eminently contributed, as well in the state court as in the supreme court of the United States. His opinions had a prevailing influence in the decisions of the state authorities ; and his decisions on the circuit were rarely reversed in the supreme court at Washington-an exalted tribunal, whose character is illustrated by the genius and attainments of Marshall, Story, Wash- ington and Trimble. He was cherished with peculiar regard by his associates in the state and national tribunals ; his judgment and acquaintance with the prin- ciples of the land law having, in one instance in particular, (the Holland com- pany of New York,) rescued the reputation of the supreme court from the effects of an erroneous decision, which, at one time, nearly all of the judges would have pronounced, against his advice.
Hon. AMOS KENDALL was born in Dunstable, Mass., Aug. 16, 1789, and died in Washington city, Nov. 12, 1869, aged 80 years. His education was quite limited until in his 17th year ; at 18 he entered Dartmouth college, and at 22 was graduated the, first in his class, notwithstanding he was absent much of the time, teaching, to support himself; studied law with W. B. Richardson, of Groton, afterwards chief justice of New Hampshire ; in the spring of 1814, emigrated to Lexington, Ky., walking the 64 miles from Maysville to Lexington ; as he did not succeed immediately at the law, again resorted to teaching, and became a private tutor in the family of Henry Clay ; remored to Georgetown, Scott co., was appointed postmaster, and edited the county newspaper-developing in the latter occupation such versatility, direct- 'ness, and strength as opened the way for his call to Frankfort, as one of the leading editors of the Argus of Western America ; he was an enthusiastic supporter of Gen. Jackson, by whom he was appointed 4th auditor of the treasury at Washington city, in 1829, and thus a member of what was styled in politics his " kitchen cabinet;" was a member of the cabinet as postmaster general of the United States, 1835-40, serving during the latter part of Gen. Jackson's and nearly all of Mr. Van Buren's terms; resigned in June, 1840, to aid in promoting Mr. Van Buren's re-election ; was tendered a foreign mission by President Polk, but declined; in 1845, assumed the entire man- agement of Professor Morse's interest in telegraph lines; was the author of "Life of Andrew Jackson, Private, Military, and Civil," begun in 1844, but still not completed at his death ; in 1865-67, made the tour of Europe, Egypt, and l'alestine. His liberality as a Christian, in the latter part of his life, when blessed with means, was very marked ; he gave $115,000 to the build- ing, in 1864, and when destroyed by fire in 1867, to the re-building of Cal- vary Baptist church in Washington city, $20,000 to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum there, of which he was the founder, and $25,000 to purchase lots and building for and endow two mission schools. During all his public life at Washington, he exercised his pen freely, and was accounted one of the ablest and most incisive political writers of his day.
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WM. MURRAY, representative from Franklin county at the time the resolu- tions of 1798 passed the legislature, and who led the debate and recorded singly his vote against their passage, came to Kentucky several years before. He confined himself mainly to the asserted right on the part of a state to nullify an act of congress, taking the same view that Daniel Webster took, more than a third of a century later, in his reply to Robert Y. Hayne, in that most famous of all debates in the U. S. senate. Mr. Murray was a bold and eloquent man; his contemporaries never spoke of him but in terms of unqualified admiration. He was probably the most accomplished scholar among all the eminent men of Kentucky at that day-a lawyer of strength equal to conflicts with Geo. Nicholas, Jolin Breckinridge, and Henry Clay, and in the rare gift of eloquence he surpassed them. He emigrated to Natch- ez, Mississippi, about 1803, and died there, Aug. 9, 1805.
Chancellor GEORGE M. BIBB, born October 30th, 1776, in Prince Edward co., Va., was the son of Richard Bibb, an Episcopal clergyman of great learn- ing. His earliest recollections were of the struggle for American Independence, which began at his birth ; and he died just before the war for the independ- ence of his native state and the South had concentrated its unrecorded horrors around his birth-place. He was the last representative at the national capital of the "gentleman of the Old School ;" and refusing to give up the fashion of his early life for the pantaloons of the present day, the " tights" or "small clothes" were not even odd in the elegant old-time gentleman, but added to the popular respect and reverence for him.
Judge Bibb was well educated, a graduate of Hampden Sydney and also of William and Mary Colleges-and in his latter days was the oldest surviving graduate of each. Studying his profession with that distinguished lawyer, Richard Venable, he practiced in Virginia a short time, and removed to Lex- ington, Ky., in 1798. He attracted business by his legal acquirements, solid judgment, and cogent reasoning, and was soon numbered among the ablest and soundest in a state already prominent for great lawyers. He was ap- pointed by Gov. Greenup one of the judges of the court of appeals, Jan. 31, I808; and by Gov. Scott, its chief justice, May 30, 1809, but resigned in March, 1810; and again, by Gov. Desha, was appointed chief justice, for the second time, Jan. 5, 1827, but resigned Dec. 23, 1823.
Judge Bibb was twice elected to the U. S. senate (the third, of five Ken- tuckians who have enjoyed this distinction)-first in 1811, but resigned in 1814, and second in 1829, serving the full term of six years, to 1835. During the war of 1812, he, in the senate, and Win. Lowndes and John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, and Henry Clay, in the U. S. house of representatives, formed what was called the " War Mess " of the Madison administration- from having supported the war and the president with such great talent, vigor, and zeal. He settled in Frankfurt in 1516. From 1835 to lett, Judge Bibb heid the important position of chancellor of the Louisville chancery court; but resigned, to become U. S. secretary of the treasury in the cabinet of his old colleague in the U. S. senate, President Tyler, holding it to the close of . his presidential term, 1844 to March 4, 1845. Thenceforward, until his death, April 14, 1859, aged 83 years, he practiced law in the courts of the district of Columbia, most of the time in the position of chief clerk in the department of the U. S. attorney general, but really doing the duties now required of the assistant attorney general, un office established for the very labors performed by him.
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