James William Patterson

Birth Date

1840-09-28

Death Date

1865-09-19

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Mercer County, Kentucky, student and carpenter. Kentucky native. Son of Benjamin Patterson and Mary Patterson. Attended school in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned three enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1850. Attended Kentucky University in Mercer County in 1859. Resident of Mercer County in 1860. Household owned three enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1860. Carpenter in Mercer County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 366A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 691.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 46B.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Mercer County, KY, August 1863, p. 22.
First Annual Announcement of Kentucky University, 1859, Louisville, Ky.: Morton and Griswold Printers, 1859, p. 32
"James W. Patterson (1840-1865)," Find A Grave, Memorial 59503857, accessed May 30, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59503857.

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