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John Marshall Duke, Sr. (Mason County, Kentucky, physician)

b. 1811-10-29 d. 1883-02-25

Mason County, Kentucky, physician. Mason County, Kentucky, native. Son of Basil Duke and Charlotte Marshall Duke. Married to Hannah B. Morton Duke in Mason County, Kentucky, on October 25, 1834. Father of John Marshall Duke, Jr., Charles Duke, James Duke, Lewis Duke, Harry Duke, Mary Duke, and Basil Duke. Physician in Mason County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Mason County in 1850. Physician in Mason County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Mason County in 1860. Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, in 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, District 2, p. 105B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 755.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 313.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 5A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, District 3, p. 431B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film 000281842.

"Democratic Union State Convention," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 26 May 1864, p. 3.

"Death of Dr. John M. Duke," Evening Bulletin, (Maysville, KY), 26 Feb 1883, p. 3.

William M. Paxton, The Marshall Family; Or, a Genealogical Chart of the Descendants of John Marshall and Elizabeth Markham, His Wife, Sketches of Individuals and Notices of Families Connected with Them. (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Company, 1885), p. 181.

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Duke, John Marshall, Sr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214522 (November 12, 2026).

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