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James W. Wilkins (Hopkins County, Kentucky, merchant)

b. 1801-11-15 d. 1885-02-28

Hopkins County, Kentucky, merchant. South Carolina native. Married to Eliza W. Wilkins. Father of Samuel M. Wilkins, Edward Wilkins, and Eliza W. Wilkins. Merchant in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860. Hopkins County commissioner of the common schools in 1853, 1859, and 1862.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 246.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 26.

"Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kentucky, for the Year 1859," (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 182.

"Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kentucky, for the Year 1854," (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1855), 55.

"Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kentucky, for the Year Ending December 31, 1861," (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 131.

Find A Grave, "James W. Wilkins (November 15, 1801-February 28, 1885)," Memorial #59860797, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59860797 (accessed on March 20, 2017).

Citation

Wilkins, James W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213377 (November 12, 2026).

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