James A. Grinstead

Birth Date

c1809

Death Date

1886-10-09

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Fayette County, Kentucky, banker and horse breeder. Kentucky native. Son of Robert Grinstead and Elizabeth Grinstead. Clerk of the old Bank of the United States Branch at Lexington, Kentucky. U.S. Pension Agent for Kentucky in the early 1830s. Owner and operator of Walnut Hill Stud in Lexington, starting in 1845. Cashier of the Northern Bank of Kentucky in Lexington. Cashier of the Agricultural Deposit Bank of Lexington from the late 1840s to 1860. Clerk of the Fayette County Clerk in 1850. Owned eight enslaved persons in 1850. Director of the Kentucky Association. Steward of the Saratoga Association in Saratoga, New York. Founding partner, with Thomas Bradley, of the private banking firm of Grinstead & Bradley in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1, p. 167A. 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. 1, p. 63. "Agricultural Deposit Bank of Lexington," Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), December 1, 1856, p. 2. Find A Grave, "James Grinstead (1809-1886)," Memorial #99343724, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99343724/james-grinstead (accessed January 3, 2018). Robert Peter, M.D., History of Fayette County, Kentucky (Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1882), 64, 154, 289, 354, 574. "Grinstead, James A.," WixiLex, Lexington History Museum, http://lexhistory.org/wikilex/grinstead-james (accessed on January 3, 2018).

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