1. Jeremiah Tilford Boyle was a successful lawyer and noted abolitionist.
15 Facts About Jeremiah Boyle
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Jeremiah Boyle served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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Jeremiah Boyle was the son of Judge and Chief Justice John Boyle, for whom Boyle County was named.
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Jeremiah Boyle then studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.
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Jeremiah Boyle became a successful lawyer in Harrodsburg and Danville.
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Jeremiah Boyle married Elizabeth Owsley Anderson of Garrard County and raised seven children.
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Jeremiah Boyle supported the Constitutional Union Party in the election of 1860.
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At the outbreak of the Civil War, Jeremiah Boyle raised a brigade of infantry for service in the Union Army.
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Jeremiah Boyle was commissioned as a brigadier general on November 19,1861.
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Jeremiah Boyle dispatched troops several times to combat incursions and cavalry raids by John Hunt Morgan.
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Jeremiah Boyle resigned in 1864 after his son, the Union Army's youngest colonel, Col.
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William O Jeremiah Boyle, was killed in action at the Battle of Marion in Tennessee.
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Jeremiah Boyle was president of the Evansville, Henderson and Nashville Railroad from 1866 until his death in 1871.
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Jeremiah Boyle traveled to Europe and secured French investors to back a project to expand narrow-gauge rail service in Kentucky.
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Jeremiah Boyle died on July 28,1871, in Louisville and was buried in Bellevue Cemetery in Danville.