Person

John Burton Thompson Daviess (Mercer County, Kentucky, student.)

b. 1842 d. 1881

Mercer County, Kentucky, student. Mercer County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Newton Daviess and Maria W. Thompson Daviess. Resident of Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1850. Student in Mercer County in 1860. Graduated from Kentucky University (University of Kentucky) on June 24, 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District No. 2, p. 286B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 34.

Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Kentucky University for the Session of 1870-71 (Lexington, KY: John P. Morton and Company, 1871), 28.

"Harrodsburg, July 31," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), August 2, 1881, p. 6.

"John Burton T. Daviess (1842-1881)," Find A Grave, Memorial #137966687, accessed June 9, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137966687/john-burton_t-daviess

Citation

Daviess, John Burton Thompson. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206631 (November 12, 2026).

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