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Jonathan Davis (Spencer County, Kentucky, farmer, politician, and judge)

b. 1805-11-14 d. 1878-01-09

Spencer County, Kentucky, farmer, politician, and judge. Kentucky native. Married to Susan S. Davis. Father of James Davis, Ann Davis, Vincent Davis, William Davis, Sarah Davis, Mary Davis, and Hamlet Davis. Member of the Democratic Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Spencer County in 1851. Farmer in Spencer County in 1860. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in 1860. Judge of the Spencer County Court in 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Spencer County, District 1, p. 35; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Spencer County, District 1, p. 5; "Kentucky Legislature," The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), August 11, 1851, p. 3; "Spencer County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 840-42; Find A Grave, "Jonathan Davis (1805-1878)," Memorial #118749326, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=118749326&ref=acom (accessed March 31, 2017).

Citation

Davis, Jonathan. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209952 (November 12, 2026).

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