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James Stuart (Meade County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit court judge)

b. 1819-03-21 d. 1891-10-17

Meade County, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Hardin County, Kentucky, native. Son of Alexander L. Stuart and Jane Allen McLure Stuart. Married to Mary C. Farleigh Stuart. Father of Ellen Stuart, William A. Stuart, Charles C. Stuart, Alfred Allen Stuart, and Lettie L. Stuart. Studied law under John Allen. Admitted to the bar in Meade County, Kentucky, in 1838. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Meade County in 1848 and 1849. Attorney in Meade County in 1850. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Meade County in 1850. Judge of the 3rd Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1856 to 1867. Owned nine enslaved persons in Meade County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Kentucky District, p. 84.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Brandenburg, p. 380.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, p. 82A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Owensboro, Lower Town Precinct, p. 173B.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 289.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 355-59.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50.

History of Daviess County, Kentucky (Chicago, IL: Inter-state Publishing Company, 1883), p. 141-42.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), 599.

"Judge James Stuart (1819-1891)," Find A Grave, Memorial 76265733, accessed September 9, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76265733.

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Stuart, James. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199037 (November 12, 2026).

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