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James Thomson Davidson (Fayette County, Kentucky, bank clerk and notary public)

b. 1823-01-24 d. 1878-05-06

Fayette County, Kentucky, bank clerk and notary public. Washington, D.C., native. Married to Catherine “Kate” M. Hull Davidson. Father of Mary Eliza Davidson, Catherine “Kate” A. Davidson, Sarah J. Davidson, Jennie Davidson, Louis Davidson, Nannie Davidson, John H. Davidson, Laura A. Davidson, and Robert B. Davidson. Clerk in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Clerk of the Northern Bank of Kentucky in Fayette County in 1860. Clerk of the Northern Bank of Kentucky in Fayette County in 1862. Appointed as a notary public in Fayette County in 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 217A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 609.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 2, p. 425.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 2, p. 203B.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #3029.

"James Thomson Davidson (1823-1878)," Find A Grave, Memorial #99745168, accessed December 7, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99745168.

KYR-0001-031-0066.

Citation

Davidson, James Thomson. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210335 (November 12, 2026).

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