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Daniel E. Downing (Monroe County farmer and politician )

b. 1819?

Monroe County, Kentucky, farmer and politician. Married to Matilda Howard. Father of Catherine Downing, James Downing, Jane Downing, and William Downing. Farmer in Monroe County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Sheriff of Monroe County. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1853 to 1855 and 1859 to 1863. Owned three enslaved persons in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Monroe County, p. 436A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Monroe County, p. 17.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Monroe County, p. 69A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Monroe County, Precinct 2, p. 128B-129A.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1882), 630.
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Passed at the Session which was Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort, on Saturday the 31st of December, 1853, and ended Friday the 10th of March, 1854, vol. 1, (Frankfort: A. G. Hodges State Printer), 277-78.

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Downing, Daniel E.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212480 (November 12, 2026).

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