Person

James Kirkpatrick (Louisville, Ky, policeman & police chief)

b. 1816?

Louisville, Kentucky, policeman. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah Kirkpatrick. Father of Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, Alice R. Kirkpatrick, Sarah B. Kirkpatrick, and William R. Kirkpatrick. Day policeman in the 5th Ward in Louisville, Kentucky. Chief of police in Louisville from March 1856 to 1857.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 153-154.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 , ed. Henry Tanner, (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 141, 323.

Morton O. Childress, "Louisville Police Department" in The Encyclopedia of Louisville, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 506.

Citation

Kirkpatrick, James. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32215254 (November 12, 2026).

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