Person

Jackson McClain (Henderson County, Kentucky, planter and banker)

b. 1816-10-05 d. 1892-12-02

Henderson County, Kentucky, planter and banker. Henderson County native. Son of James McClainMarried Maria L. Watson McClain in 1841. Father of Ann C. McClain. Farmer in Henderson County in 1850 and 1860. Owned forty-three enslaved persons in 1850 and seventy-three in 1860. Director of Farmer’s Bank. President of the Farmer’s Bank in 1862.

Details

Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky (Henderson, KY: n.p., 1887), 813-814; Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 5, Indiana, Arnold-Woodson, (1936), p. 189-192, https://www.loc.gov/item/mesn050/ (accessed February 2, 2017); Find A Grave, "Col. Jackson McClain (1816-1892)," Memorial #85736278, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=85736278 (accessed July 28, 2017); Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1, p. 282; 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 2, p. 52; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 2, p. 17-18; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Upper Town, p. 20.

Citation

McClain, Jackson. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209180 (November 12, 2026).

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