Madison Conyers Johnson

Birth Date

1806-09-21

Death Date

1886-12-07

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, banker, and administrator. Scott County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Johnson and Elizabeth Payne Johnson. Married to Sallie Ann Clay Johnson on December 23, 1828. Graduate of Transylvania University in 1823. Studied law with Martin D. Hardin in Frankfort, Kentucky. Studied law with Robert Wickliffe. Graduate of the Law Department of Transylvania University in 1825. Admitted to the bar in 1825. Attorney in Lexington from 1828 to 1870. Director of the Northern Bank of Kentucky in Lexington from 1837 to 1858. Owned seven enslaved persons in Lexington in 1850. President of the Lexington Northern Bank of Kentucky from 1858 to 1878. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Stockholder and director of the Cincinnati, Lexington, and Louisville Railroad. President of the Law Department at the University of Kentucky in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1, p. 145B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1, p. 13 of 72 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward No. 1, p. 110.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward No. 1, p. 51-52.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward No. 1, p. 80.
H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 625-27.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 146-49.
Find A Grave, "Madison Conyers Johnson (1806-1886)," Memorial #82208004, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82208004/madison-conyers-johnson (accessed January 24, 2018).

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