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Lafayette Montgomery Flournoy (Paducah, Kentucky, attorney, banker, and entrepreneur)

b. 1820-09-19 d. 1900-06-14

Paducah, Kentucky, attorney, banker, and entrepreneur. Born in Powhatan County, Virginia. Married to Elizabeth C. Anderson Flournoy in 1850. Father of Richard C. A. Flournoy. Graduated from Cumberland College at Princeton, Kentucky, in 1840. Studied law with William P. Fowler. Admitted to the bar in 1841. Moved to Paducah, Kentucky, and opened practice. Attorney in Paducah from 1841 to 1849. Practiced with Judge James Campbell. Editor of the West Kentuckian in Paducah from 1844 to 1849. President of the Commercial Bank of Kentucky branch at Paducah from 1853 to 1870. President of the Paducah Gaslight Company. Established the Paducah and Nashville Telegraph Company extending from Paducah to Nashville, Tennessee, with J. W. Jones in 1856. President of the New Orleans and Ohio River Railroad Company in 1865.

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Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, 1st District, p. 62. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, Subdivision No. 112, p. 55. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 470. "An Act to Incorporate the Paducah and Nashville Telegraph Company," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges, State Printer, 1856), 96-98. John E. L. Robertson and Ann E. Robertson, Paducah Kentucky: A History (Charleston: The History Press, 2014). Find A Grave, "Lafayette Montgomery Flournoy (1820-1900)," Memorial #101813958, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101813958/lafayette-montgomery-flournoy (accessed March 20, 2018).

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Flournoy, Lafayette Montgomery. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203040 (November 12, 2026).

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