Preston Hopkins Leslie

Birth Date

1819-03-02

Death Date

1907-02-07

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Barren County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Monroe County, Kentucky, native. Married to Louisa Leslie. Father of Martha B. Leslie Winn, Bedford Leslie, Sarah E. Leslie, and Joseph Henry Leslie. Married to Mary A. Leslie. Father of Ann V. Leslie, Jerry B. Leslie, Evans Leslie, Isabell Leslie, and Robert Leslie. Attorney in Monroe County, Kentucky in 1850. Owned sixteen enslaved individuals in Monroe County in 1850. Elected member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Barren County in 1844. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Barren County from 1851 to 1855. Attorney in Glasgow from 1856 to 1867. Owned twenty-four enslaved individuals in Barren County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Monroe County, p. 380A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Monroe County.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 1, p. 891.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 1, p. 3.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Glasgow, p. 615B.
Find A Grave, "Preston Hopkins Leslie (Mar 2, 1819-Feb 7, 1907)," Memorial #7129703, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7129703 (accessed April 27, 2020).
"Gov. Leslie Dead at Eighty-Eight," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), February 8, 1907, pp. 1,3,6.

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