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Joseph Graves Chinn (Fayette Co, Kentucky, physician)

b. 1797-04-01 d. 1891-09-07

Fayette County, Kentucky, physician. Bourbon County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Ball Chinn. Married to Barbara G. Graves Chinn in Fayette County, Kentucky, on January 21, 1821. Father of William Chinn, Fannie Chinn, Addison Chinn, Anna Chinn, Hester Chinn, and Claudius Chinn. Married to Juretta W. Chinn. Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Served in the Kentucky Militia as first corporal from August 31, 1813, to November 8, 1813. Served on the Lexington City Council in Lexington, Kentucky, from 1834 to 1840. Physician in Lafayette County, Missouri, in 1850. Physician in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Missouri, Lafayette County, District 46, p. 145B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 92.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 4, p. 52.

Find A Grave, "Dr Joseph Graves Chinn (1797-1891)," Memorial #26044662, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26044662 (accessed May 19, 2020).

War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series M313, 102 rolls, Surname Range: Chi-Cla, Film #69.

J. Howard. Brown & Rossiter Johnson, The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Vol II (Boston: The Biographical Society, 1904), p. 191.

Citation

Chinn, Joseph Graves. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197866 (November 12, 2026).

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