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James Rodman (Franklin County, Kentucky, and Christian County, Kentucky, physician and asylum superintendent)

b. 1829-03-06 d. 1902-01-10

Franklin County, Kentucky, and Christian County, Kentucky, physician and superintendent of Public mental health institutions. New Castle, Kentucky, native. Married to Henrietta Rodman. Father of Mary Rodman and Thomas Rodman. Graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Louisville in 1849. Physician in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1850. Superintendent of the Feeble-Minded Institute from 1861 to 1863. Superintendent of the Western Lunatic Asylum of Kentucky from 1863 to 1889.

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White

Bibliography

���Dr. James Rodman,��� The American Practitioner and News 33 no. 3 (February 1902): p. 113. William Henry Perrin, ed., Counties of Christian and Trigg, Kentucky. Historical and Biographical (Chicago, IL: F. A. Battey Publishing, 1884), p.197-99. Charles Mayfield Meacham, A History of Christian County Kentucky from Oxcart to Airplane (Nashville: Marshall & Bruce Co., 1930), p. 296-98. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 1, p. 78. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hamby Precinct, p. 33. Find A Grave, "Dr. James Rodman (1829-1902)," Memorial #89559618, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89559618&ref=acom (accessed September 22, 2017).

Citation

Rodman, James. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204827 (November 12, 2026).

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