Background
William Littell was born in 1768 in New Jersey, United States but removed with his father when very young to the western part of Pennsylvania, where he remained, "it is believed, " until he emigrated to Kentucky about the year 1801.
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Political Transactions In And Concerning Kentucky: From The First Settlement Thereof, Until It Became An Independent State In June, 1792
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Cases Selected from the Decisions of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, not heretofore reported. Second Edition.
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A Digest Of The Statute Law Of Kentucky: Being A Collection Of All The Acts Of The General Assembly, Of A Public And Permanent Nature, From The ... English And Virginia Statutes, Yet In Force
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William Littell
Edit ProfileEducation
In "early life" he studied "Physics and Divinity" but later he went to study medicine and law. He received the degree of Doctor of Law from Transylvania University in 1810.
Career
Littell practised medicine for a short time at Mount Sterling, Kentucky. He gave up medicine for law and in 1805 he was engaged in the practice of law at Frankfort. He contracted with the state to publish the Statute Law of Kentucky. This work appeared in five volumes, 1809-1819. In 1806, however, before the first volume appeared, he published three books at Frankfort. The first was styled Epistles of William, Surnamed Littell, to the People of the Realm of Kentucky and consisted largely of satirical essays dealing with the prominent men of his time, the second was A Narrative of the Settlement of Kentucky, and the third the well-known and meritorious Political Transactions in and Concerning Kentucky.
From these adventures in politics and history he turned to the writing of law books, beginning in 1808 with his Principles of Law and Equity. There ensued a period of six years while he practised law and devoted himself to the compilation of his Statute Law, but in 1814 he had a relapse into frivolity with the publication of his Festoons of Fancy, Consisting of Compositions Amatory, Sentimental and Humorous in Verse and Prose. In 1822 he issued, in association with Jacob Swigert, A Digest of the Statute Law of Kentucky, in two volumes; and, in 1823-1824, Reports of Cases at Common Law and in Chancery, Decided by the Court of Appeals of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. In 1824 his last book appeared, Cases Selected from the Decisions of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky Not Hitherto Reported.
According to the tax lists he died possessed of some five thousand acres of land, but he was heavily in debt--probably as a penalty of authorship--and the General Assembly at its next session provided that his lands should be sold by a special official instead of at a forced sale.
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Political Transactions In And Concerning Kentucky: From The First Settlement Thereof, Until It Became An Independent State In June, 1792
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A Digest Of The Statute Law Of Kentucky: Being A Collection Of All The Acts Of The General Assembly, Of A Public And Permanent Nature, From The ... English And Virginia Statutes, Yet In Force
( This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923....)
- Festoons of Fancy
- Cases Selected from the Decisions of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, not heretofore reported. Second Edition.
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Political Transactions In And Concerning Kentucky: From The First Settlement Thereof, Until It Became An Independent State In June, 1792
Religion
Littell named a prominent Episcopal minister as one of the two guardians of his sons that indicates that he was not without respect for the clergy and the preface to his Statute Law indicates his religious belief.
Personality
A Kentucky historian writing from material no longer available characterizes him as a man of bad morals, of great eccentricity, and of no particular ability except as a land lawyer.
Connections
Littell was twice married; first, on January 22, 1816, to Martha Irwin McCracken, daughter of William Irwin of Fayette County and widow of Capt. Virgil McCracken of Woodford County. They had one son, William, who died August 30, 1824. After the death of his first wife, Littell married, December 9, 1823, Eliza P. Hickman, widow of Captain Paschal Hickman of Franklin County, who, with a son, survived him.
