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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-017-0071 MG3-430

James S. Whitaker (Shelby County, Kentucky, clerk.) N00002460 1785-10-28 1867-07-05 Categories: People

Shelby County, Kentucky, clerk, notary public, and police judge. Kentucky native. Married to Phoebe Helena Chiles Whitaker in Shelby County, Kentucky, on July 1, 1822. Father of B.T. Whitaker, Walter C. Whitaker, and Elizabeth E. Whitaker. Served in the 9th Regiment of the Kentucky Mounted Volunteers as a captain during the War of 1812. Clerk of the County Court in Shelby County in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1850. Police judge in Shelby County in 1860. Owned fifteen enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1860. Notary public in Shelby County in 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1, p. 314A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1, p. 237. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1, p. 274A. Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M602, Roll 0223. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Shelby County Marriages, Film 000259283. "James Sullivan Whitaker (1785-1867)," Find A Grave, Memorial 20649830, accessed October 27, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20649830. Shelby County, Kentucky P001013 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Shelbyville.

38.212, -85.2236 Ron D. Bryant, "Shelby County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 816. "Shelbyville County, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 30, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Note English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Jas S. Whitaker Notary Shelby Co

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Notary Public Confirmed Feby 11. 1861