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John C. Adams (Greenup County, Kentucky, judge and lawyer)

b. 1825?

Greenup County, Kentucky, judge and attorney. Ohio native. Son of Joseph Adams. Attorney in Knox County, Ohio, in 1850. Judge of the Greenup County Court in Greenup County, Kentucky, from 1858-1861. Attorney in Greenup County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Knox County, Monroe, p. 299A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States(1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, East Little Sandy, p. 839.

"An Act for the benefit of John C. Adams, judge of the Greenup quarterly court," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Frankfort, Ky: John B. Major and W. R. Hughes Public Printer, 1861, 1862, and 1863), 158.

Citation

Adams, John C.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212302 (November 12, 2026).

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