James Kirkpatrick

Birth Date

c1816

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, policeman. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah Kirkpatrick. Father of Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, Alice R. Kirkpatrick, Sarah B. Kirkpatrick, and William R. Kirkpatrick. Day policeman in the 5th Ward in Louisville, Kentucky. Chief of police in Louisville from March 1856 to 1857.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 153-154.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 , ed. Henry Tanner, (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 141, 323.
Morton O. Childress, "Louisville Police Department" in The Encyclopedia of Louisville, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 506.

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