James L Dallam

Birth Date

1809

Death Date

1879

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Paducah, Kentucky, bank cashier. Kentucky native. Married to Lottie S. Dallam. Father of Mariah Dallam, Samuel F. Dallam, Herbert Dallam, Lucy Dallam, Fanny Dallam, Isaac Dallam, Mary Dallam, Frank B. Dallam. Clerk of the Livingston County Court in 1850. Clerk of the Livingston Circuit Court in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Livingston County, Kentucky, in 1850. Cashier at the Commercial Bank of Kentucky at Paducah, Kentucky, from 1852 to 1870. Owned six enslaved persons in Paducah in 1860.

J. Smith Homans, Ed., The Bankers’ Magazine and Statistical Register (New York: J. Smith Homans, 1853), 479. J. Smith Homans, Ed., The Bankers’ Magazine and Statistical Register (New York: J. Smith Homans, 1861), 38. J. Smith Homans, Ed., The Bankers’ Magazine and Statistical Register (New York: J. Smith Homans, 1864), 19. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Livingston County, Smithland, p. 128. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Livingston County, Smithland. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, District No. 2, p. 122. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, District No. 2, p. 19. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, City of Paducah, Subdivision 112, p. 8-9. Find A Grave, "James L. Dallam (1809-1879)," Memorial #83941344, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83941344/james-l.-dallam (accessed March 7, 2018).

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