4 April 1904. Licensed to Practice Law. She is the Daughter of Attorney Wallace McGuire, of Jackson. The first woman in the mountain districts of Kentucky to be given a license to practice law is Miss Florence McGuire, of Jackson, Ky., daughter of Attorney Wallace McGuire. She was granted a license Saturday in the Morgan circuit court sitting at West Liberty. She is 23 years in age and intends to practice her profession in the courts of Eastern Kentucky. and... Jackson, which has been noted for its various celebrities in the last twelve months, has a new claim to notoriety. Its bar, which is regarded as the strongest in the mountains, is soon to be strengthened by the acquisition of a female lawyer. Miss Florence McGuire, daughter of Attorney W.W. McGuire, went to West Liberty this week to be examined in the Morgan Circuit Court for a law license. Miss McGuire is a bright handsome girl, twenty-three years old, and has been reading law in her fathers office ever since she was twenty. From Knott County Historical Society's - A Century Ago This Week. Does anyone have any further biographical and genealogical data on Florence McGuire?