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Joseph Bryson Kinkead (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and US Navy midshipman)

b. 1822-10 d. 1892-04-05

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Versailles, Kentucky, native. Married to Lucy R. Short Kinkead in 1855. Father of Elizabeth Kinkead, Peyton S. Kinkead, Robert C. Kinkead, Mary C. Kinkead, Annie L. Kinkead, and Charles Kinkead. Served as midshipman in the United States Navy from 1841 to 1843. Practiced law in partnership with John Watson Barr. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Employed Annie Larkins, Margaret Highland, and Mary McMahon as domestic servants in Louisville in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860.

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Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 123.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 272B.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Enumeration District 128, p. 421.

“Aged Lawyer Dead: Joseph B. Kinkead,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), April 5, 1892, p. 6.

“Judge Joseph Bryson Kinkead (1822-1892)," Find A Grave, Memorial #89060560, accessed June 4, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89060560/joseph-bryson-kinkead.

Citation

Kinkead, Joseph Bryson. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210447 (November 12, 2026).

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