James Artus

Birth Date

c1790

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Maysville, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Harriet Artus. Veteran of the War of 1812. Insurance agent in Maysville in 1850. Farmer in Maysville in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville District 1, p. 95. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 155. Application for Pension, 1855, James Artus, War of 1812, https://www.fold3.com/image/322215728/?terms=James%20Artus. Edwin Porter Thompson, A Young People’s History of Kentucky for Schools and General Reading (St. Louis: A. R. Fleming Publishing Company, 1897), 197. John M. Trowbridge, “’To Meet the Men at Any Element:’ The Kentucky Militia in the Battle of Lake Erie,” Kentucky Ancestors: Genealogical Quarterly of the Kentucky Historical Society 42, no. 1 (2006): 4.

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