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James L. Caldwell (Judge Shelby Co Court)

b. 1825 d. 1882-11-22

Shelby County, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Montgomery County, Kentucky, native. Married to Mary L. Middleton Caldwell in Shelby County, Kentucky, on June 15, 1847. Father of Sarah "Sallie" Caldwell, Eugene Caldwell, Bettie V. Caldwell, Mary A. Caldwell, and Clarence Caldwell. Attended Bethel College in Russellville, Kentucky. Attended Bethany College in Bethany, Virginia. Attorney in Shelby County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County from 1851 to 1852 and from 1855 to 1856. Presiding Judge of the Shelby County Court from 1859 to 1871. Attorney and farmer in Shelby County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1860. Member of the Christian Church of Shelbyville in Shelbyville.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District No. 2, p. 369B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 2, p. 797.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 2, p. 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 2, p. 275B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, X County Marriages, Film 000259289.

"Judge James Lafayette Caldwell (1825 - 1882)," Find A Grave, Memorial #104690651, accessed September 28, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104690651.

W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 6th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 770.

Citation

Caldwell, James L.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206287 (November 12, 2026).

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