John Cleland Maxwell

Birth Date

1816-12-10

Death Date

1895-04-26

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Marion County, Kentucky, physician. Marion County, Kentucky, native. Son of Joseph Maxwell and Eunice Kitchell Stiles Maxwell. Married to Emily Howell Maxwell. Father of Emma Maxwell Howard. Married to Ellen P. Doneghy Maxwell. Graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Butler County, Ohio, in 1841. Physician in Marion County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Marion County in 1850. Physician in Marion County in 1860. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Marion County in 1860. Served as examining surgeon for the Fourth District of Kentucky on April 23, 1864 to 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, p. 342B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, Lebanon, p. 550.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, Lebanon, p. 488A.
Eighth Triennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Miami University, 1851, (Cincinnati, OH: T. Wrightson, 1851), p. 20.
Statistics, Medical and Anthropological, of the Provost-Marshall-General’s Bureau, Derived from Records of the Examination for Military Service in the Armies of the United States During the Late War of the Rebellion, vol. 1 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1875), pp. 370-371.
"Long Suffering Ended: Death of Dr. J.C. Maxwell of Lebanon," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), April 27, 1895, p. 1.
LaFayette Stiles Pence, A History of the Kentucky and Missouri Stiles: With a Sketch of New Jersey and Other Kindred (Lebanon, KY: W.T. Hawkins Book and Job Printer, 1896), pp. 6-7.
Deborah Shillo, "MAXWELL-HOWELL," in History of Marion County, Kentucky: Volume I, ed. The Marion County Historical Society, (New Hope, KY: St. Martin Porres Lay Dominican Community, 2001), 296.
"Dr. John C. Maxwell (1816-1895)," Find A Grave, Memorial #112711040, accessed May 17, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112711040/john-c.-maxwell.

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