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brevetted Captain and Major, and in August of this year
resigned his position in the army, and located in Cincinnati.
He was appointed Professor of Surgery in the Cincinnati
College of Medicine and Surgery for the sessions of i866
and 1867. This position he resigned in I867, to take that
of Professor of Chemistry in the Medical College of Ohio.
In I869 he was transferred to the Chair of Surgical Anatomy
in the same institution, which, he held until the regular
session of 1875-76, when he was appointed Professor of
Anatomy and Clinical Surgery. Dr. Conner is one of the
surgeons to the Good Samaritan and the Cincinnati Hospitals, and member of the American Medical Association,
the Ohio State Medical Society, Cincinnati Academy of
Medicine, Cincinnati Society of Natural History, Historicalts
and Philosophical Society of Ohio, corresponding member
of the Meigs and Mason County Medical Society and of the
Gynoecological Society, of Boston, Massachusetts.
State at that time, and thus virtually becoming Sheriff, he
discharged the dutiest of that office for a period of two years.
In 1833 lie entered upon the acin prati ace of his profession at N~icholasville, jessamine countyr, Kentucky, and
was thus prof ession ally engaged unt il I835, whe n he wa s
induced to remaove to Versailles, W~oodford county, Kentucky, on account of the devastatio n of the balth latter
place by the cholera. In Versailles, and i n partnership
sion with great success until Septemberi, I837, when he was
married to Eli za J. Trimble, of Hillsborough, Ohio, the only
daughter of ex-Govern o r Allen Terimble, d eceased; and
after marriage, having occupied the winuter of I837-38 in
studying the Ohio laws and dlecisions, he ",as admitted to
practise law in Ohio, at Batavia, Clermont county, Ohio, April IO, 1838, and admitted to practise in the Supreme Court
of the U nited States o the 2oth of Januay, 854 In the ure
latter part of i838 he settled in Cincinnati, and opened a
law office on Third street, where he remained until 842,
wh en, on account of his o wn hea lth a nd the health of his
family, he remo ved tort Hi llsborouge, Highlan d county,
Ohio, where hie has ever since resided, a nd has co lntinued th e practice of his profession. From this point as a
centre he has been engaged in a large circuit practice il
five surrounding counties also in the Circuit and District
Court of t he United States for Ohio, and i n t he Suprelme
Cour f tha tenife e of that State; in the reports of thi s c ourt his name
an d arguments appear, as cot noel fio m I 840 t o I876, as
many t imes, if not more, as a re the n umber of the vo lu mes
of the r eports. His greatest reputation in his profession has
b e en achieved as a labnd lawyer in the complex titles of the
Virgini a Mili tar y District, and as a crimi nal lawyer, id
which last capacity he has been e ngaged chiefly in the defence of those accused o f c rime from treason, including more
than twen ty-five cases of homicide, through the whole catalogu e of cniinal c aoffences. In his time he has appeared
before more th an thirty judges, of the various co urts, now
deceased. He is now Register in Bankrupt cy in his district, and ha s be en since i867, by the unanimous solicitation
of the bar of his whole district. He is still actively enga ged
in the practic e of his profession. In politics an old-line
Whig, in I84o he ardently supported General Harrison. In
1844 he took] an active and prominent part in fasvo r of Mr.
Clay, supported General Taylor, and in the last Whig Convenition at Baltimore, as a Delegate, urged the nomination
of General Scott. After the dissolution of the Whig party,
he sustained Bell and Everett; then, after the commencement of the war, he threw his influ en ce to the Republican
party, and throughout the wa r to ok, an active p ar t as one of
the military com-mitteemen of his State, in helping to sustain
the Union army. Since the war he has acted with the Republican party, and has been and still is a zealouts supporter
of President Grant. He has taken an active and liberal part
H-IOMPSON, JAMES HENRY, was born near
lI-arrodsbur,, Mercer county, Kentucky, Septem ber 27th, 1812. He was the third child in a
family of ten children, whose parents were John
B. Thompson and Nancy P. (Robards) Thomp son. His parents were both Virginians by birth,
and in the latter part of the last century immigrated to Kentucky with their parents, John Thompson and George
Robbards, who settled at the head-waters of Shawnee
Springs, on contiguous farms, and both of whoin were captains in the revolutionary army. The father of the subject
of this sketch followed through life the profession of law,
and achieved an enviable reputation as a legal practitioner
and as a local statesman in Kentucky; he died at an early
ace in 1832, leaving surviving him his wife, Nancy P.
Thompson, who died in February, I870. Janles Ht.
Thompson, on the father's side, was of English and Scotch
blood, and on the mother's side, of Welsh and Huguenot
blood. He is the brother of the late Hon. John B. Thompson, United States Senator from Kentucky, and Philip B.
Thompson, one of the leading spirits of the Harrodsburg,
Kentucky, bar. In his seventeenth year, being then well
advanced in the classics and mathematics, he assumed the
role of educator, and engaged in teaching school in jessamine county, Kentucky, which occupation engrossed his
attention for the ensuing three years; and through these
years his leisure hours were devoted to the reading of law
and general literature; and during the time of his teaching
he educated 0. Singleton, member of Congress from Mississippi, and Samuel H. Woodson, late member of Congress
from Missouri. On the 7th of April, 183I, after passing sutccessfully through the ordeal of an examination, he was admitted to the bar, and in the same year he became Sheriff
of jessamnine county, Kenltucky, Iby the purchase of the
office from the High Sheriff, according to the laws of the
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