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James B. Lyne (Henderson County, Kentucky, resident and assistant clerk of the Kentucky House of Representatives)

b. 1832?

Henderson County, Kentucky, attorney and officeholder. Tennessee native. Son of Mary C. Lyne. Married to Mary A. Hopkins Lyne on April 24, 1860. Father of James Lyne. Married to Caroline Lyne. Father of Catharine Johnson Lyne. Resident of Henderson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in 1850. Attended Shelby College in Shelby County, Kentucky, 1852-1853. Resident of Henderson County in 1860. Household owned one enslaved person in 1860. Elected as the Assistant Clerk of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1861. Attorney in Henderson County in 1863.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Henderson, p. 270A-270B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 51.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 160B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Vigo County, Terre Haute Ward 2, p. 440A.

Catalogue of Shelby College, Shelbyville, KY.,1853 (Louisville, KY: Journal, 1853), 17.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Henderson County, KY, July 1863, p. 29.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Henderson County Marriages, Film #001944390, p. 71.

Indiana Death Certificates, 1900–2011, Indiana State Department of Health and Vital Records, Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, IN, Certificate #38533.

“Reported for the Journal,” Louisville Daily Journal(Louisville, KY), September 3, 1861, p. 3.

Citation

Lyne, James B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207679 (November 12, 2026).

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