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James Artus (Maysville, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1790?

Maysville, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Harriet Artus. Veteran of the War of 1812. Insurance agent in Maysville in 1850. Farmer in Maysville in 1860.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville District 1, p. 95. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 155. Application for Pension, 1855, James Artus, War of 1812, https://www.fold3.com/image/322215728/?terms=James%20Artus. Edwin Porter Thompson, A Young People’s History of Kentucky for Schools and General Reading (St. Louis: A. R. Fleming Publishing Company, 1897), 197. John M. Trowbridge, “’To Meet the Men at Any Element:’ The Kentucky Militia in the Battle of Lake Erie,” Kentucky Ancestors: Genealogical Quarterly of the Kentucky Historical Society 42, no. 1 (2006): 4.

Citation

Artus, James. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201737 (November 12, 2026).

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