1. Harry Innes was a Virginia lawyer and patriot during the American Revolutionary War who became a local judge and prosecutor as well as helped establish the state of Kentucky, before he accepted appointment as United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky and served until his death.
Harry Innes's father had graduated from Oxford University before emigrating from Scotland to the Virginia colony, and accepted a position as rector in Caroline County.
From 1776 to 1777, the local Virginia Committee of Safety employed Harry Innes to manage the militarily crucial Chiswell lead mines on the New River, in what was then Fincastle County, as well as to procure other necessary supplies for the Continental Army.
Harry Innes served as Attorney General for the District of Kentucky from 1784 to 1789, the year of his accepting the federal judicial posts and months before Virginia's legislature formally consented to creation of the new state.
Harry Innes was convinced that Kentucky's destiny lay in separation from Virginia.
Harry Innes joined the movement for immediate and unconditional separation from Virginia.
Harry Innes was a member of eight of these conventions and president of the first electoral college for the choice of governor and lieutenant governor under the first state constitution.
Concurrent with his service as a Judge and later as Attorney General, Harry Innes practiced law, farmed, speculated in land and raised a family.
Harry Innes became a trustee of Transylvania University and an honored charter member of the Political Club of Danville.
Harry Innes died in 1791, after giving birth to four daughters.
Harry Innes later married Mrs Ann Harris Shiell, widow of Dr Hugh Shiell.
On September 20,1816, Judge Harry Innes died in Frankfort, Kentucky, survived by his widow and several children and a stepdaughter.