John Fowler Leavy

Birth Date

1815-12-08

Death Date

1891-05-05

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney and postal agent. Lexington, Kentucky, native. Attended Transylvania University in 1830. Married Margaret Trotter Leavy. Delegate from Franklin County, Kentucky, to the Friends of Emancipation in Kentucky convention in Frankfort in 1849. Attorney in Franklin County in 1850. Owned six enslaved people in Franklin County in 1850. Appointed Special Agent of the Post Office in 1851. Defaulted as special mail agent in 1853.

A Catalogue of The Officers and Students of Transylvania University (Lexington: J. G. Norwood, 1830), 14. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 110. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 880. Louisville Morning Courier, May 3, 1849, p. 1. Louisville Daily Courier, June 16, 1851, p. 2; September 15, 1851, p. 2; May 31, 1853, p. 3; January 5, 1854, p. 2. Louisville Courier-Journal, September 5, 1897, p. A8. Find A Grave, "John Fowler Leavy (1815 - 1891)," Memorial #38440418, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38440418 (accessed May 18, 2017).

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