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John D. Young (Bath County, Kentucky, sheriff, farmer, and judge.)

b. 1823-09-22

Bath County, Kentucky, sheriff, farmer, and judge. Bath County, Kentucky, native. Married to Elizabeth M. Badger Young. Father of Leila Young, Thomas J. Young, Mattie Young, James Monroe Young, Ida W. Young, Elizabeth Young, Sarah Young, and Carrie Young. Sheriff of Bath County from 1843 to 1847. Farmer in Bath County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Owned Patina [Unknown] in Bath County in 1853. Judge of the Bath County Court from 1858 to 1862. Owned eight enslaved persons in Bath County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, p. 88B.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 74B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Sharpsburg Precinct, p. 76B.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994028, Bath County Births.

William Horatio Barnes, Biographies of Members of the House of Representatives of the Forty-Third Congress (Washington, D.C.: W.H Barnes & Co., 1875), 62.

Charles Lanman, Dictionary of the United States congress, and the General Government: Compiled as a Book of Reference for the American People, Fifth Edition (Hartford, CT: T. Belknap and H.E. Goodwin, 1868), 420.

The Reports of Committees of the House of Representatives for the First Session of the Fortieth Congress, 1867, Kentucky Election, Report No. 6 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1868), 36-55.

Citation

Young, John D.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197619 (November 12, 2026).

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