John B. English

Birth Date

1807-03-20

Death Date

1891-05-14

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Owen County, Kentucky, physician and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth C. H. English. Father of Duval English and Jane English. Speculator in Owen County in 1850. Physician in Owen County in 1860. Owned eighteen enslaved persons in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, from Owen County, from 1863 to 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 1, p. 275; Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 1; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 2, p. 63; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 2, p. 9; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, New Liberty, p. 8; Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), p. 670; Find A Grave, "Dr. John Breckenridge English (1807-1891)," Memorial #25498148, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=25498148 (accessed April 21, 2017).

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