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James P. Harbeson (lawyer)

b. 1828? d. 1925-02-02

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Son of Ben Harbeson and Mary Paxton Harbeson. Graduate of Louisville Law School in the 1850s. Captain and Major in the 16th Kentucky Infantry of U.S. Army in 1861. Married to Mary E. Shreve Harbeson on June 21, 1866. Married to Alice Andrews Harbeson. Father of James P. Harbeson, Amy Ashton Harbeson, Mary D. Harbeson, Charles M. Harbeson, Robert Harbeson, and Ben Harbeson. Partner with Judge Thomas A. Marshall, in the law firm of Marshall & Harbeson in 1865. Judge of Louisville City Court in 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Thomas Marshall Green, Historic Families of Kentucky: With Special Reference to Stocks Immediately Derived from the Valley of Virginia; Tracing in Detail Their Various Genealogical Connexions and Illustrating from Historic Sources Their Influence Upon the Political and Social Development of Kentucky and the States of the South and West, (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1889), 110. Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), p. 337. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #000819623, Jefferson County Marriages, p. unknown. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994038, Henderson County Marriages, p. 1. Kentucky Wills and Probate Records (1774-1989) – Probate Records Vol. O-R (1886-1966), Fleming, p. 255. Find A Grave, “James P. Harbeson (1828-1925),” Memorial #121951448, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=121951448 (accessed June 5, 2017).

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Harbeson, James P.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211653 (November 12, 2026).

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