James Blackburn

Birth Date

1834

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Woodford County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Henrietta Blackburn. Attended Transylvania University. Dueled Theophilus Steel in 1854 in Fayette County, Kentucky. Farmer in Woodford County in 1850 and 1870.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 1, p. 451A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Midway, p. 17.
Journal of the Regular Session of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, KY: James A. Hodges, 1876), p. 4.
John Winston Coleman and John Lyde Wilson, Famous Kentucky Duels (Lexington, KY: Henry Clay Press, 1969), p. 145.

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