John Baylor Temple

Birth Date

1815-12-30

Death Date

1886-05-27

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney, banker, state auditor, and commissioner. Logan County, Kentucky, native. Married to Susan M. Bibb Temple on November 7, 1843. Married to Katherine M. Fall Temple in Franklin County, Kentucky, on October 4, 1853. Married to Hannah Blandina Broadhead Temple on November 19, 1857. Father of Mary C. Temple, Blanche Temple, and Annie Temple. Studied law under Judge William V. Loving. Graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1836. Graduate of Transylvania University Law School in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1838. Attorney in Russellville from 1838 to 1848. Member of the Presbyterian Church. Resident of Frankfort. State Auditor of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Cashier of the Farmers' Bank of Kentucky from 1850 to 1867. Owned five enslaved persons in Frankfort in 1860. President of the Military Board of Kentucky from September 1861 and August 1862.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 1, p. 89.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 1, p. 23.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Ward 8, Louisville, p. 74-75.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994034, Franklin County Marriages, p. 2.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 581.
"John Baylor Temple (December 30, 1815-May 27, 1886)," Find A Grave, Memorial #64379164, accessed May 17, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64379164.

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