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John A. Finn (Simpson County, KY, farmer & attorney)

b. 1822-11-07 d. 1885-07-19

Simpson County, Kentucky, farmer and attorney. Tennessee native. Married to Marie B. DuVal Finn in Robertson County, Tennessee, on January 28, 1845. Father of Mary C. Finn, Ella F. Finn, and John Finn. Married to M. Geraldine Moore Finn in Todd County on November 3, 1864. Farmer in Simpson County in 1850. Owned eight enslaved persons in Simpson County in 1850. Simpson County delegate to the Kentucky Democratic Convention in 1858. Attorney in Simpson County in 1860. Owned twenty-one enslaved persons in Simpson County in 1860. Delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the Third District of Kentucky for James Guthrie in 1860. Elector for Stephen A. Douglas in Kentucky's Third Congressional District in the presidential election of 1860. Attorney in Simpson County in 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 7A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 843, p. 1 of 24 of microfilm.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 136.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 307B, p. 26 of 27 of microfilm.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, Franklin, p. 8A.

Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002. Nashville, TN: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Robertson County, Dec 1878-Nov 1886: Marriages 5-8, p. 100, p. 88 of 942 of microfilm (accessed through Ancestry.com).

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Todd County Marriages, 1820-1886, Film #000367186, p. 345 of 503 of microfilm.

The Louisville Daily Courier, "Democratic Meeting in Simpson," December 1, 1858, p. 2.

The Louisville Daily Courier, "Guthrie Delegates Elected," January 10, 1860, p. 1.

The Louisville Daily Courier, "Official Vote of Kentucky," December 5, 1860, p. 1.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Kentucky, 3rd Congressional District, Simpson County, Vol. 3 of 3, February 1864, p. 53 of 176 of microfilm), (Accessed via ancestry.com on July 21, 2020).

Find A Grave, “John Abel Finn (1822-1885)," Memorial 23157552, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23157552 (accessed July 21, 2020).

Citation

Finn, John A.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196602 (November 12, 2026).

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