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James Shipp Phelps (Christian County, Kentucky, farmer and merchant, and Louisville, Kentucky, tobacconist.)

b. 1828-03-08 d. 1913-08-19

Christian County, Kentucky, farmer and merchant, and Louisville, Kentucky, tobacconist. Christian County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Phelps and Katharine Shipp Phelps. Married to Mary Jane Glass Phelps in Christian County, Kentucky, on July 25, 1849. Father of John H. Phelps, James C. Phelps, Zack Phelps, and Laban Phelps. Resident of Christian County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned nineteen enslaved persons in Christian County in 1850. Merchant in partnership with Joseph K. Grant in Christian County in 1853. Farmer and merchant in Christian County in 1860. Employed F. Bashler as a gardener in Christian County in 1860. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Christian County in 1860. Manager of the Western Lunatic Asylum in Christian County from February 1861 to 1862. Resident of Louisville in 1862. Tobacconist in the firm of Phelps, Caldwell & Company in Louisville from 1862 to 1867.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 1, p. 486A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 573.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 261A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 11, p. 510B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Christian County Marriages, Film 001942963.

"James Shipp Phelps Will Be Buried To-Day," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), August 21, 1913, p. 7.

J. Stoddard Johnston, Memorial History of Louisville: From Its First Settlement to the Year 1896, vol. I (Chicago: American Biographical Publishing Co., 1896), 482-3.

KYR-0001-025-0068.

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Phelps, James Shipp. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197482 (November 12, 2026).

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