Caleb Stinson

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1810-01-11

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1865-07-24

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"Caleb Stinson" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00001148, (accessed April 16, 2024).

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Grayson County, Kentucky, politician. South Carolina native. Married to Lydia Ann Day Stinson. Father of Squire Stinson, Charles W. Stinson, Harriet Stinson Wilson, Amos Stinson, Lydia A. Stinson House, William J. Stinson, Austin Stinson, American Ann Stinson Crawford, and Debbie Stinson. Served as founding commissioner for the Caneyville and Cloverport Turnpike Road Company in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Grayson County in 1860. Represented Grayson County in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865. Assassinated by B. F. Dewees after giving a pro-amendment political speech in 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grayson County, p. 78. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Grayson County, p. 4. Christopher Phillips, The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), 295-296. "An Act to Incorporate the Caneyville and Cloverport Turnpike Road Company," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed, vol 2 (Frankfort: J. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 289. Lewis Collins, Collins’ Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Collins & Company, 1878), 293.
Find A Grave, "Caleb Stinson (January 11, 1810-July 24, 1865)," Memorial #23202291, https://findagrave.com/memorial/23202291, (accessed March 3, 2017).

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