Background
Spilman, Lewis Hopkins was born on March 8, 1860 in Covington, Kentucky, United States. Son of Review Jonathan Edwards (Doctor of Divinity) and Eliza (Taylor) S.
Spilman, Lewis Hopkins was born on March 8, 1860 in Covington, Kentucky, United States. Son of Review Jonathan Edwards (Doctor of Divinity) and Eliza (Taylor) S.
Central University, Richmond, Kentucky, 1875-1876. Read law under Judge Chancey South. Conger, Carmi, Illinois.
Admitted to bar at Springfield, Illinois, 1888. Admitted to Tennessee bar, practiced alone at Knoxville, Tennessee, except as member firm of Comfort & Spilman, 1890-1900, dissolved by death of partner. Admitted to practice Supreme Court of the United States, 1896.
Frequently served as special judge Circuit and Chancery Courts.
President Knoxville Board of Education.
Member firm of Comfort & Spilman, 1890-1900, dissolved by death of partner.
Married Lillian Swepson Saunders, June 24, 1896. Children: Lewis Saunders (deceased), Robert Redd, Lillian Saunders (Mistress Frank Catlett Howard), Samuel Taylor, Martha Anderson (Mistress Martin Ross Baker), Virginia Lee (Mistress Ben A. Batson).