Caleb M. Mathews

Birth Date

1810-10-29

Death Date

1891-06-08

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and trustee. Virginia native. Son of John Mathews and Sarah McDowell Mathews. Married to Frances L. Beazley Matthews in Woodford County, Kentucky, on January 2, 1838. Father of John W. Mathews, Joseph D. Mathews, Frank Mathews, Anna M. Mathews, and Sally Mathews. Graduate of Transylvania Law School in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1837. Trustee of Henry Academy and Henry Female College in New Castle, Kentucky. Attorney in Henry County in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 1, p. 82.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Woodford County Marriages, Film 000252320.
W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 6th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), p. 76.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 106.
"Caleb Moffett Mathews (1810-1891)," Find A Grave, Memorial 12271069, accessed August 1, 2018, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12271069.

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