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James G. Haswell (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, attorney)

b. 1815-09-22 d. 1890

Breckinridge County, Kentucky, attorney. Providence, Rhode Island, native. Son of James Haswell and Hannah Knowles Haswell. Married to Miriam Taylor Haswell in 1842. Father of Theodore Haswell and Josephine Haswell. Married to Anna Bowden Haswell in 1854. Father of John Haswell. Married to Fannie Hull Bassett Haswell, in Seymour, Connecticut, in 1859. Father of Hattie Haswell and Lenny Haswell. Relocated with family to Ohio in 1816. Attended the common schools in Circleville, Ohio. Apprenticed as a saddler. Relocated to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1835, and then to Hardinsburg, Kentucky. Saddler in Breckinridge County from 1835 to 1854. Read law and admitted to the bar, in Breckinridge County, in 1854. Member of the Whig Party. Member of the Republican Party. Provost-marshal for Breckinridge County during the Civil War. United States commissioner in Breckinridge County.

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White

Bibliography

W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State (Louisville: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), 1062-1063. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge County, District 1, p. 113. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge County, Town of Hardinsburg, p. 2. Find A Grave, "James G. Haswell (1815-1890)," Memorial #86712207, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=86712207&ref=acom (accessed June 27, 2017).

Citation

Haswell, James G.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198822 (November 12, 2026).

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