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James Larmon (Chicago, Illinois, dry goods merchant and real estate investor)

d. 1873-03-03

Chicago, Illinois, dry goods merchant and real estate investor. Kentucky native. Owner of a dry goods store in Paducah, Kentucky, in 1848. Owned three enslaved persons in Paducah in 1850. Owner of warehouses in Paducah and Chicago. Senior partner of James Larmon & Co. in Chicago, with branches in St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Arrested on November 14, 1864 in Chicago for conspiring with known members of the Order of Sons of Liberty to release prisoners from Camp Douglas, where he was imprisoned.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, McCraxcken County, Division 1, Paducah. "Death of James Larmon," Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Ill.), March 4, 1873, p. 3. "The 'Sons of Liberty: More 'Arbitrary' Arrests---The Grand Seignier of the Chicago Temple in custody His Confession---The Meeting of Sunday Night---All Ready," Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Ill.), November 16, 1864, p. 2. "More Developments," Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Ill.), November 16, 1864, p. 1. Aldred Theordore Andreas, History of Chicago from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, vol. 2 (Chicago: A. T. Andreas Company, 1885), 575.

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Larmon, James. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201627 (November 12, 2026).

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