Milton Jameson Durham

Birth Date

1824-05-16

Death Date

1911-02-12

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Boyle County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Martha J. Durham. Father of Lewis H. Durham, Ben J. Durham, James W. Durham, and Orna M. Durham. Graduate of Asbury University in Greencastle, Indiana, in 1844. Studied law with Joshua F. Bell. Graduate of Louisville Law School in 1850. Attorney in Boyle County in 1850. Attorney in Boyle County in 1860. Attorney in Danville, Kentucky, from 1862 to 1873.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2, p. 383B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Danville, p. 842.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Danville, p. 158A.
James Grant Wilson & John Fiske, eds., Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 2: Crane-Grimshaw (New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1887), 272.
"Milton Jameson Durham (1824-1911)," Find A Grave, Memorial #15723178, accessed September 11, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15723178.

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