City: Nashville
Lurton, Horace Harmon, jurist; born Newport, Ky., 1844; son of Lycurgus L. and Sarah (Harmon) LURTON; graduated Cumberland University L.B. 1867, University of the South D.C.L. 1899; admitted to the bar in 1867; married Frances OWEN, September 1, 1867; Chancellor Sixth Division of Tennessee 1875-78, Justice of Supreme Court of Tennessee 1886-93, Chief Justice January to April, 1893; United States Circuit Judge Sixth Judicial Circuit, 1893-1910; Associate Justice Supreme Court of the United States since 1910; Professor of Constitutional 1898-1910 ad Dean of Constitutional Law 1898-1910, and Dean of Law Department, 1905-10, of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
