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Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky Lafayette Montgomery Flournoy (Paducah, Kentucky, attorney, banker, and entrepreneur) N00002782 1820-09-19 1900-06-14 Categories: People

Paducah, Kentucky, attorney, banker, and entrepreneur. Born in Powhatan County, Virginia. Married to Elizabeth C. Anderson Flournoy in 1850. Father of Richard C. A. Flournoy. Graduated from Cumberland College at Princeton, Kentucky, in 1840. Studied law with William P. Fowler. Admitted to the bar in 1841. Moved to Paducah, Kentucky, and opened practice. Attorney in Paducah from 1841 to 1849. Practiced with Judge James Campbell. Editor of the West Kentuckian in Paducah from 1844 to 1849. President of the Commercial Bank of Kentucky branch at Paducah from 1853 to 1870. President of the Paducah Gaslight Company. Established the Paducah and Nashville Telegraph Company extending from Paducah to Nashville, Tennessee, with J. W. Jones in 1856. President of the New Orleans and Ohio River Railroad Company in 1865.

Relationships Economic: Commercial Bank of Kentucky

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, 1st District, p. 62. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, Subdivision No. 112, p. 55. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 470. "An Act to Incorporate the Paducah and Nashville Telegraph Company," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges, State Printer, 1856), 96-98. John E. L. Robertson and Ann E. Robertson, Paducah Kentucky: A History (Charleston: The History Press, 2014). Find A Grave, "Lafayette Montgomery Flournoy (1820-1900)," Memorial #101813958, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101813958/lafayette-montgomery-flournoy (accessed March 20, 2018). James L Dallam (Paducah, Kentucky, bank cashier) N00001228 1809 1879 Categories: People

Paducah, Kentucky, bank cashier. Kentucky native. Married to Lottie S. Dallam. Father of Mariah Dallam, Samuel F. Dallam, Herbert Dallam, Lucy Dallam, Fanny Dallam, Isaac Dallam, Mary Dallam, Frank B. Dallam. Clerk of the Livingston County Court in 1850. Clerk of the Livingston Circuit Court in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Livingston County, Kentucky, in 1850. Cashier at the Commercial Bank of Kentucky at Paducah, Kentucky, from 1852 to 1870. Owned six enslaved persons in Paducah in 1860.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Economic: Commercial Bank of Kentucky Economic: Lafayette Montgomery Flournoy (Paducah, Kentucky, attorney, banker, and entrepreneur) Legal: Richard M. Haydock (Paducah, Kentucky, bookkeeper)

J. Smith Homans, Ed., The Bankers’ Magazine and Statistical Register (New York: J. Smith Homans, 1853), 479. J. Smith Homans, Ed., The Bankers’ Magazine and Statistical Register (New York: J. Smith Homans, 1861), 38. J. Smith Homans, Ed., The Bankers’ Magazine and Statistical Register (New York: J. Smith Homans, 1864), 19. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Livingston County, Smithland, p. 128. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Livingston County, Smithland. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, District No. 2, p. 122. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, District No. 2, p. 19. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, City of Paducah, Subdivision 112, p. 8-9. Find A Grave, "James L. Dallam (1809-1879)," Memorial #83941344, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83941344/james-l.-dallam (accessed March 7, 2018). Richard M. Haydock (Paducah, Kentucky, bookkeeper) N00010892 1830 1901 Categories: People

Paducah, Kentucky, bookkeeper. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Watts Haydock in Livingston County on October 26, 1852. Father of Kitty and William Haydock. Bookkeeper in Paducah in 1860.

Relationships Economic: Commercial Bank of Kentucky

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken, Paducah, p. 873. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Livingston County Marriages, Film #000318176, p. 102. Find A Grave, "Richard Martin Haydock (1830-1901)," Memorial #24971402. http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24971402 (accessed July 11, 2019). Paducah, Kentucky P00001227 Categories: Places

Seat of McCracken County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River and the Tennessee River.

37.0834, -88.6 John E. L. Robertson, "Paducah" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 705-706. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Paducah, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on September 4, 2019). Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). McCracken County, Kentucky P00000909 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Paducah. Located on the Ohio River and Tennessee River.

37.0834, -88.6 "Paducah, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 27, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 183. Commercial Bank of Kentucky O00008166 1852-01-02 Categories: Organizations

Located in Paducah, Kentucky. Incorporated by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1852. A branch bank opened in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1858.

Relationships Economic: George Washington Norton (Russellville, Kentucky, banker and financier) Legal: George Washington Norton (Russellville, Kentucky, banker and financier)

Acts of The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed at November Session, 1851 (Frankfort, KY: A.G. Hodes & Co. State Printers, 1852), 14. "Commercial Bank of Kentucky," Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), August 18, 1858, p. 2. Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky 1861-10-28 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": 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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L. M. Flournoy,..... President.

James L. Dallam,.... Cashier. CAPITAL $2,000,000.

Commercial Bank of Kentucky,

Paducah, Ky. 28th Octr 1861. Cashier, Dear Sir.

I have yours of the 23d instwith stated inclosures. You will please Send me by return mail my Commission as Notary for this (McCracken) County. I Enclose one Dollar Coml. Bk note to pay your fees for issuing Said Commission

Yrs Respectfully

R, M, Haydock

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McCracken

Notary R. M. Haydock AppdNov. 2. 1861