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John Young Chambers (Caldwell County, Kentucky, tailor and grocer merchant)

b. 1822 d. 1872

Caldwell County, Kentucky, tailor and grocer. Native of Queens County, Ireland. Married to Amanda Melvina Rochester Chambers in Caldwell County, Kentucky, on February 1, 1854. Father of Fannie Chambers, James Chambers, Robert Lee Chambers, and Mary Chambers. Tailor in Caldwell County in 1850. Grocer in Princeton in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Princeton in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 346A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 110.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 218A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 508A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film #000546372, p. 137.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Union County Marriages, Film #000562185, p. 181.

Find A Grave, "John Y. Chambers (1822-1872)," Memorial #196590695, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196590695 (accessed March 5, 2021).

Citation

Chambers, John Young. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204099 (November 12, 2026).

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