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James Blackburn (Woodford County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1834

Woodford County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Henrietta Blackburn. Attended Transylvania University. Dueled Theophilus Steel in 1854 in Fayette County, Kentucky. Farmer in Woodford County in 1850 and 1870.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 1, p. 451A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Midway, p. 17.

Journal of the Regular Session of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, KY: James A. Hodges, 1876), p. 4.

John Winston Coleman and John Lyde Wilson, Famous Kentucky Duels (Lexington, KY: Henry Clay Press, 1969), p. 145.

Citation

Blackburn, James. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211052 (November 12, 2026).

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