To: KYF Subject: Dohoney.Robert.B.1834.Adair-Metcalfe.VA-TX.TN.ENG.BIOS Robert B. Dohoney b. September 14 1834 Adair-Metcalfe County KyArchives Biography Author: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886 JUDGE ROBERT B. DOHONEY was born in Adair County, Ky., September 14, 1834, and is the second of a family of nine children born to Payton and Polly (Hindman) Dohoney, both natives of Adair County., Ky., of Irish-English descent, born in August 1807, and Februry 28, 1812, respectively. Payton Dohoney received a very limited education in youth at the primitive schools of his native county. After attaining his majority he engaged in agricultural pursuits in his native county on his own account, and continued the same until 1875, when he left the farm and came to Edmonton, Metcalfe Co., Ky. The grandfather of Judge Dohoney Hezekiah R. Dohoney, was a native of Virginia, and immigrated to Adair County, Ky., when a young man, where he was among the early pioneers. Mrs. Dolly Dohoney's father, Robert Hindman, was also a native of Virginia. At an early day, he, together with his father, Alexander Hindman, immigrated to Adair County, Ky., where he entered and improved a farm. The fourth generation of the family are now living in the house which he erected. Judge Robert D. Dohoney received a good common school education in youth, and was employed constantly on the home farm until he was twenty-one years of age; he then took a special scientific and mathematical course of two years at Columbia High School. This he did upon his own resources, having secured the means by teaching; he also taught two years in the institution, occupying the chair of mathematics for one year. In September, 1859, he and his eldest brother, E. L.Dohoney, emigrated to Paris, Tex., where he taught school and read law with his brother for two years. There, also, in June, 1860, he was admitted to the bar. In the early part of 1861 he and his brother, with others, made a bold and determined fight against the ordinance of secession in Lamar County. This county was one of the only three in the State whose delegates held out against secession and refused to sign the ordinance to the last. In August, 1861, he left Texas under Jeff Davis' order for all Union men to leave the Confederacy within fourteen days, and returned to his native county, in Kentucky. In July, 1862, he came to Edmonton, where he entered upon the practice of law, and has since been so engaged. In 1863-64 he was United States provost-marshal for Metcalfe County. He was first appointed and afterward elected county attorney, which position he held for five years - from 1862 to 1867. In 1874 he was elected county judge of Metcalfe County, and held the office for over three years. His brother, E. L. Dohoney, is one of the prominent and leading attorneys of Texas, having served in the Senate of that State, and also in the convention that framed the present constitution of the State. Mr. Dohoney married, in Johnson County, Tex., July 21, 1865, Fannie E. Poindexter, a native of east Tennessee; she was born September 16, 1841, and is a daughter of Thomas C. and Nancy (White) Poindexter, both natives of Virginia, the former being descended from the Poindexters of England. Judge and Mrs. Dohoney were engaged to be married before the war, but were separated by the army lines for four years, only being able to hear from each other at long intervals. Mrs. Dohoney is a finished scholar and an accomplished lady, having taught for some five years in the high schools of the State of Texas. Their union has been blessed by four children - one son and three daughters, viz.: Robert Bruce, Lula (deceased), Angia and Fannie May. Judge Dohoney is independent in politics, not being identified with any of the political parties of the day, but is an active and earnest prohibitionist, and a leading and prominent citizen. Submitted by: Sandi Gorin http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/