John Graves James

Birth Date

1797

Death Date

1874

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Lexington, Kentucky, planter and banker. Virginia native. Son of Daniel James and Nancy Ann Graves. Married to Anna Skinner James. Father of A. E. James, Richard James, David James, James P. James, and W. H. James. Planter in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850 and 1860. Owned thirty enslaved persons in 1850 and fifty in 1860. President of the Agricultural Deposit Bank of Lexington in 1856.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1, p. 162B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 2, p. 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1, p. 2. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, The Fifth Precinct, p. 9. "Agricultural Deposit Bank of Lexington," Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), December 1, 1856, p. 2. Find A Grave, "John Graves James (1797-1874)," Memorial #98876673, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98876673/john-graves-james (accessed January 3, 2018).

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