Jackson McClain

Birth Date

1816-10-05

Death Date

1892-12-02

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Henderson County, Kentucky, planter and banker. Henderson County native. Son of James McClainMarried Maria L. Watson McClain in 1841. Father of Ann C. McClain. Farmer in Henderson County in 1850 and 1860. Owned forty-three enslaved persons in 1850 and seventy-three in 1860. Director of Farmer’s Bank. President of the Farmer’s Bank in 1862.

Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky (Henderson, KY: n.p., 1887), 813-814; Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 5, Indiana, Arnold-Woodson, (1936), p. 189-192, https://www.loc.gov/item/mesn050/ (accessed February 2, 2017); Find A Grave, "Col. Jackson McClain (1816-1892)," Memorial #85736278, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=85736278 (accessed July 28, 2017); Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1, p. 282; Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 2, p. 52; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 2, p. 17-18; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Upper Town, p. 20.

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