From: Sherri Hall [ldrbelties@earthlink.net]
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 10:49 PM
To: KY-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: [KYF] DEATH: N.R. Harper, 1921, Jefferson Co.

Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson
  <http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00005.html#0001143>

Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Jan. 31, 1921

State's First Negro Lawyer Dies, Aged 75
   Louisville, Ky., Jan. 31 -- N.R. Harper, 75, first negro admitted to the
Kentucky bar, and long a leader of his race, died of pneumonia.  He as
admitted to the bar in 1873.

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