Person

Leonard A. Spalding (Marion Co., KY, politician and retired merchant)

b. 1806 d. 1888

Marion County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Catherine Lancaster Spalding in Washington County in November 1830. Father of John L. Spalding. Married to Elizabeth M. Shadburne Spalding. Father of Martin J. Spalding, Mary P. Spalding, William R. Spalding, and Elizabeth Spalding. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Marion County in 1837. Engaged in commerce in Marion County in 1840. Farmer and merchant in Marion County in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in Marion County in 1850. Employed Frederick Merimee as a merchant in 1850. Merchant in Marion County in 1860. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in Marion County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District no. 1, p. 342A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District no. 1, p. 342A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, p. 619 (p. 9 of microfilm).
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, Lebanon, District 1, p. 546.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, Lebanon, p. 487B (p. 1 of microfilm).
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, Lebanon, p.74.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Washington County Marriages, Film #000241382, p. 12 of microfilm.
Find A Grave, "Leonard Augustine Spalding (1806-1888)," Memorial #103686081, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103686081 (accessed December 22, 2018).
Find A Grave, "Prudence Merimee Shadburne (1797-1872)," Memorial #54050574

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54050574 (accessed October 17, 2019).
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 539.

Citation

Spalding, Leonard A.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205015 (November 12, 2026).

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