<title type="main">James A. Grinstead to George W. Johnson

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November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society George W. Johnson Papers KYR-0003-092-0107 Folder 4

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky John Graves James (Lexington, Kentucky, planter and banker) N00008170 1797 1874 Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, planter and banker. Virginia native. Son of Daniel James and Nancy Ann Graves. Married to Anna Skinner James. Father of A. E. James, Richard James, David James, James P. James, and W. H. James. Planter in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850 and 1860. Owned thirty enslaved persons in 1850 and fifty in 1860. President of the Agricultural Deposit Bank of Lexington in 1856.

Relationships Economic: Agricultural Deposit Bank

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1, p. 162B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 2, p. 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1, p. 2. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, The Fifth Precinct, p. 9. "Agricultural Deposit Bank of Lexington," Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), December 1, 1856, p. 2. Find A Grave, "John Graves James (1797-1874)," Memorial #98876673, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98876673/john-graves-james (accessed January 3, 2018). James A. Grinstead (Fayette County, Kentucky, banker and horse breeder) N00008171 1809? 1886-10-09 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, banker and horse breeder. Kentucky native. Son of Robert Grinstead and Elizabeth Grinstead. Clerk of the old Bank of the United States Branch at Lexington, Kentucky. U.S. Pension Agent for Kentucky in the early 1830s. Owner and operator of Walnut Hill Stud in Lexington, starting in 1845. Cashier of the Northern Bank of Kentucky in Lexington. Cashier of the Agricultural Deposit Bank of Lexington from the late 1840s to 1860. Clerk of the Fayette County Clerk in 1850. Owned eight enslaved persons in 1850. Director of the Kentucky Association. Steward of the Saratoga Association in Saratoga, New York. Founding partner, with Thomas Bradley, of the private banking firm of Grinstead & Bradley in 1863.

Relationships Economic: John Graves James (Lexington, Kentucky, planter and banker) Economic: Agricultural Deposit Bank Economic: [unknown] Johnson (Stub)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1, p. 167A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1, p. 63. "Agricultural Deposit Bank of Lexington," Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), December 1, 1856, p. 2. Find A Grave, "James Grinstead (1809-1886)," Memorial #99343724, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99343724/james-grinstead (accessed January 3, 2018). Robert Peter, M.D., History of Fayette County, Kentucky (Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1882), 64, 154, 289, 354, 574. "Grinstead, James A.," WixiLex, Lexington History Museum, http://lexhistory.org/wikilex/grinstead-james (accessed on January 3, 2018). George Washington Johnson (Provisional Governor of Kentucky) N001002 1811-05-27 1862-04-08 Categories: People

First governor of the provisional Confederate government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Georgetown, Kentucky, native. Son of William Johnson and Betsy Payne Johnson. Married to Ann Viley Johnson on August 20, 1833. Father of Eliza Woolfolk Johnson, Willa Viley Johnson, Madison Conyers Johnson, Martha Lydia Johnson, Junius Ward Johnson, Warren Viley Johnson, Henry Viley Johnson, and Euclid Lane Johnson. Educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Practiced law in Georgetown, Kentucky. Planter in Scott County, Kentucky, and Helena, Arkansas. Member of the Democratic Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Scott County from 1838 to 1840. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Owned twenty-six enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. Member of the Southern Rights Party. First provisional Confederate governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from November 20, 1861, to April 8, 1862. Served as an aide to Confederate General John C. Breckinridge. Served in the 4th Kentucky Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private from April 6, 1862 to April 8, 1862. Died on April 8, 1862 from wounds sustained at the Battle of Shiloh.

Relationships Social: William P. Adcock (Trimble County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, p. 612. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, pp. 228A-B. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 168-69. Lowell H. Harrison, "Johnson, George, W." in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 473. Lowell H. Harrison, “George W. Johnson (1861-1862)” in Lowell H. Harrison, Ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 82-84. Jon L. Wakelyn, Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1971, 255. [unknown] Johnson (Stub) N00008346 Categories: People

Appears in a letter written from Lexington, Kentucky, between James A. Grinstead to George W. Johnson in 1861.

KYR-0003-092-0107 Lexington, Kentucky P001002 Categories: Places

Seat of Fayette County, Kentucky.

38.0406, -84.5037 John D. Wright, "Lexington (City)," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 549-51. "Lexington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Agricultural Deposit Bank O00008149 1856 1865? Categories: Organizations

Founded in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1856. Founding Director(s): John G. James (President), George W. Brand, John Norton, Oliver Farra, L. H. Chrisman, Dudley Portwood, Benjamin Tyler, James H. Hanna, Jesse Baker, Robert Young, Jordan Scott, Leslie Combs, William Simpson, Edwards Crosby, Silas P. Kenney, J. G. Kinnaird, A. Brand, Willa Viley and Sanders D. Bruce. Dissolved in 1865.

"Agricultural Deposit Bank of Lexington (1856-1865)*, Lexington History Museum website, (http://lexhistory.org/wikilex/agricultural-deposit-bank-lexington-1856-1865) (accessed 4 Aug 2017). Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1861-06-14 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.

J. G. JAMES, Pres't. J. A. GRINSTEAD, Cash'r

The Agricultural Deposit Bank Lexington June 14. 1861. G W Johnson Esq. Cashier, Dear Sir

Your favor of inst received with enclosures. ^W D Johnson's acceptance for $1497^ due & probated 12 Decr last of which you are drawer is still unadjusted

Respectfully Yours, James A Grinstead Cashier.

I enclose for collection.

J. A Grinstead Notice of non-payt of note -- June 14, 1861.

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