James H. G. Bush

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1818-07-12

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1866-05-23

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"James H. G. Bush" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00000474, (accessed April 25, 2024).

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Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, attorney, and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Julia A. Bush. Father of Richard H. C. Bush, Ellen "Lucy" K. Bush, Amanda E. Bush, John E. Bush, Laura B. Bush, Elizabeth Bush, and Malvina Bush. Farmer in Clark County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Clark County in 1850. Attorney in Clark County in 1860. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in 1860. Attorney in Clark County in 1863. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Clark County from 1861 to 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 1, p. 49B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 1, p. 928.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 1, pp. 19-20.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, LaRue County, Magnolia Precinct, p. 258B.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Clark County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 129.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky (Louisville, KY: Richard H. Collins, 1877), p. 130.
"James Harris Gentry Bush (1818-1886)," Find A Grave, Memorial 50571025, accessed February 23, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50571025.

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