James Flanagan

Birth Date

1820-09-28

Death Date

1906-03-26

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Clark County, Kentucky, court clerk, editor, attorney, and notary public. Kentucky native. Son of Peter Flanagan and Ruth Flanagan. Married to Sarah "Susan" Wilson Flanagan on January 4, 1860. Father of George W. Flanagan. Clerk in Clark County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned eight enslaved people in Clark County in 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1857. Editor of the Winchester Chronicle in Clark County in 1858. Notary public in Clark County in 1859. Attorney in Clark County in 1860. County attorney in Clark County from 1862. Notary public in Clark County in 1861. Attorney in Clark County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 46B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 313.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, p. 872.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, p. 126A.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Clark County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 6.
Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), February 2, 1858.
”Clark County,” The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), August 9, 1862.
”Judge Jas. Flanagan of Clark Co.,” The Lexington Herald (Lexington, KY), July 23, 1905.
"James Flanagan (1820-1906)," Find A Grave, Memorial 25030151, accessed August 8, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25030151.
KYR-0001-017-0128.

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