James P. McGoodwin

Birth Date

c1830

Death Date

c1861

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Caldwell County, Kentucky, attorney. Caldwell County, Kentucky, native. Son of David W. McGoodwin and Susan C. B. D. Wigginton McGoodwin. Graduate of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, in 1849. Student in Caldwell County in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1850. Attorney in partnership with David W. McGoodwin in Princeton in 1860. Household owned seven enslaved persons in Princeton in 1860. Died in 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 280B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 816.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 116.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 218B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film #000851644, p. 20.
The Twelfth Triennial and Thirty-Sixth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Centre College at Danville, Kentucky, 1860 (Danville: Cincinnati Gazette Steam Print, 1860), 21.
Find A Grave, "James P. McGoodwin (1830-1861)," Memorial #191446918, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191446918 (accessed March 24, 2021).

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