'Lincoln' movie

Steven Spielberg film "Lincoln", which is currently the second-line audience across the country have a link to Henderson - although it is a bit fragile.

"This is a vague connection," said Hughs peasants, who is a direct descendant of George · H · Yeaman, a U.S. representative from Kentucky, who plays a key role in the film, which focuses on Abraham Lincoln's attempt to the passage of the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This is a prohibition of slavery.

"They do not have it, until you The Yeaman go into his ticket," said the farmer. "He knows, When Owensboro his constituents do not like it, he changed his vote."

Yeaman Democratic Party was defeated in the 1864 election, the country's first Republican President Lincoln, convinced that the "lame duck" members of Congress to vote his heart, and the abolition of slavery.

Lincoln is a good politician, the of his trick corral required number of votes. The amendment is agreed to by Houye Man was appointed minister by 1870, he served as Denmark. "They let him after Lincoln was killed," farmers.

Although this play is playing a young lawyer began to establish a practice here. Malcolm Yeaman, first president of the Henderson County Bar Association, the brother portrayed in the movie. He came to Henderson in March 1863, Brandenburg and a practicing lawyer for 63 years, it must be some form of local records.

"I just thought it was interesting, said local lawyer Chris Hopgood, who caught Yeaman's name while watching movies." We've got Malcolm Yeaman's portrait hanging in Faku Henderson County Justice Center.

He was elected president at the local bar, which was founded in 1912, until his death in 1927, was re-elected every year. He is a very successful corporate lawyer, and is repeatedly named as the name of a special judge, is now Kentucky Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court.

His brother almost exiled to Denmark, and later to New York and New Jersey, and enjoy a high degree of respect in Kentucky, Malcolm, Yeaman. He is the original edit Henderson Daily Gleaner predecessor, the National Bank of Henderson and Henderson woolen mill and as county attorney and school trustee, co-founder of.

"Although it is not an orator, his analysis and simple logic, his reason is more persuasive speeches fire, the Bar Association announced that:" in commemoration of the order of the Henderson Circuit Court after his death records.

"He drove straight to the heart of his claim, a cover, to escape the shelling. Trick he despised an excuse, because he made an untrue or dodge, but he was always polite and respectful litigation opponents."