Person

James Leach Brown (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk, constable, and real estate agent)

b. 1818-12-01 d. 1885-10-28

Louisville, Kentucky, clerk, constable, and real estate agent. Kentucky native. Son of John Brown and Lucretia Brown. Married to Mary F. Hampton Brown in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on August 31, 1843. Married to Mary Godfrey Brown in Jefferson County on December 24, 1854. Father of Emma A. Brown, Joseph R. Brown, and Sallie B. Brown. Clerk in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Constable in Louisville from 1851 to 1854. Constable in Louisville in 1860. Deputy constable in Louisville in 1861. Real estate agent in Louisville in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 7, p. 339B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 7, p. 480.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 9, p.249A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 005553516.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Marriages.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 12611.

"Vote for City Officers of Louisville, May 12, 1851," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), May 13, 1851,

"May Election," The Louisville Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY) , 26 April 1853.

"To the Polls! To The Polls!" _The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), May 7 1853, p. 3.

"Jefferson County Court," Louisville Daily Courier, (Louisville, KY), June 4, 1861, p. 1.

"Auction Sales: By James L. Brown." The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), November 29, 1865, p. 2.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 689-690.

"James Leach Brown Sr. (1818-1885)," Find A Grave, Memorial 143339262, accessed May 18, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143339262.

Citation

Brown, James Leach. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202736 (November 12, 2026).

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