John Young Brown

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1835-06-28

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1904-01-11

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"John Young Brown" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00000815, (accessed April 20, 2024).

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Hardin County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Hardin County, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas Dudley Brown and Elizabeth (Young) Brown. Married Lucie Barbee Brown in 1857. Married to Rebecca Dixon Brown in 1860. Father of Elizabeth Cabell Brown, Archibald Dixon Brown, John Young Brown, Jr., Virginia Singleton Brown, Susan Dixon Brown, and Evelyn Brown. Resident of Hardin County in 1850. Household owned twelve enslaved persons in Hardin County in 1850. Graduated from Centre College in Boyd County, Kentucky, in 1855. Studied law and admitted to the bar in 1857. Practiced law in Hardin County and Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. Democratic member from the Fifth Congressional District of Kentucky of the United States House of Representatives from 1860 to 1861. Member of the Stephen A. Douglas National Committee in 1860. Attorney in Hardin County in 1860. Household owned six enslaved persons in Hardin County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, Northern District, p. 305A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (185), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 3, p. 91.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 3, p. 106A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, 3rd Ward City Henderson, p. 16.
Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, City of Henderson 2d Ward, p. 11.
“Brown, John Young,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed December 9, 2016, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000933.
“Brown, John Young,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 129-30.
“Ex-Gov. John Young Brown,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), January 12, 1904.
“Sleep: Of Dealth Fall Upon Hon. John Young Brown. . .,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), January 12, 1904.

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