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Belvard January Peters (Montgomery County, Kentucky, attorney)

b. 1805-11-03 d. 1899-09-18

Montgomery County, Kentucky, attorney. Fauquier County, Virginia native. Son of William Peters. Married to Elizabeth A. Farrow Peters on September 1, 1831. Father of Marion Peters. Graduate of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1825. Read law with John Boyle in Mercer County in 1827. Admitted to the bar in 1827. County attorney of Bath County from 1829 to 1836. County attorney of Montgomery County from 1836 to 1845. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Montgomery County from 1845 to 1846. Circuit Court clerk in Montgomery County from 1848 to 1851. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in Montgomery County in 1850. Attorney in Montgomery County in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Montgomery County in 1860. Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Frankfort from 1860 to 1876.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, District 1, p. 13B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, District 1, p. 110.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, p. 289.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, p. 82A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, Levee, p. 273A.

A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Transylvania University (Lexington, KY: n.p., 1825), 10.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 632.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 403-404.

Joseph Barbour, Kentucky Digest Embracing all the Reported Cases Decided by the Court of Appeals from its Organization to the Year 1878, (Louisville: John P. Morton & Company, 1878), p. v.

"Judge Belvard J. Peters (1805-1899)," Find A Grave, Memorial 84950216, accessed July 19, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84950216.

Citation

Peters, Belvard January. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211751 (November 12, 2026).

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