Joseph Doniphan

Birth Date

1823-08-19

Death Date

1873-05-02

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Augusta, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and judge. Augusta native. Son of George Doniphan and Mary Doniphan. Married to Elizabeth A. Ward Doniphan on December 16, 1856. Father of Mary S. Doniphan, George Doniphan, and Christina Doniphan. Attended Augusta College in Augusta. Clerk employed by George Doniphan from 1839 to 1842. Admitted to the bar in 1848. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1849 to 1851. Attorney in Bracken County in 1850. Mayor of Augusta from 1852 to 1854. Attorney in Bracken County in 1860. Mayor of Augusta from 1860 to 1862. Judge of the 9th judicial district of Kentucky from 1862 to 1868.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Augusta, p. 452A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Augusta, p. 24.
"Joseph Doniphan" in The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool, eds. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009), 278.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1877), 772.
Find A Grave, "Joseph Doniphan (1823-1873)," Memorial #114273737, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114273737 (accessed November 29, 2018).

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