Kenton County, KY - Bios:  Richardson, Robert Carter
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Robert Carter RICHARDSON 3492, Kenton Co. 

Surname: Richardson, Harrison, Robertson, Carlisle, Harris, Jefferson, Randolph

Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published by Lewis Publishing 
Company, Chicago. Reprinted by Southern Historical Press. pp. 727-28. Kenton County.

ROBERT CARTER RICHARDSON was born in Louisville, Kentucky, May 18, 1826, and died in Covington 
in 1896. He was one of the most prominent members of the Covington bar, honored by the profession 
and the public. With several of the most notable families of the nation, including the Harrisons, 
the Jeffersons, and the Randolphs, he was connected by the ties of blood. His parents were 
Samuel Q. RIchardson and Mary H. (Harrison) Richardson, and the former was a distinguished lawyer 
who, during his residence in Frankfort, enjoyed an extensive practice in the court of appeals. 
Robert C. Richardson was left an orphan at an early age, but acquired a good education and 
graduated in the academical department of Transylvania University in 1846. After reading law with 
Judge George Robertson, of Lexington, he was graduated in the law department of his alma mater 
in 1848 and was admitted to the bar in Lexington. In 1850 he removed to Covington, where for 
forty-six years he was engaged in the practice of his chosen profession, and during all that 
time he was regarded as one of the honorable and most capable members of the bar.