Milton Jameson Durham

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1824-05-16

Death Date

1911-02-12

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"Milton Jameson Durham" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00017794, (accessed April 19, 2025).

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Boyle County, Kentucky, attorney. Boyle County, Kentucky, native. Son of Benjamin Durham and Margaret Robertson Durham. Married to Martha Jane Mitchell Durham in Boyle County, Kentucky, on June 15, 1850. Father of Louis H. Durham, Benjamin J. Durham, John B. Durham, James W. Durham, Ora Durham, and Robert Durham. Graduate of Asbury University (DePauw University) in Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana, in 1844. Graduate of University of Louisville Law School in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Boyle County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Boyle County in 1860. Appointed Circuit Court Judge in 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District No. 2, p. 383B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Danville, p. 2.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 156A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Danville, p. 158-158B.
Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #3331.
"Durham, Milton Jameson," Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. II, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (New York: Appleton, 1889), 292.
"Judge Durham Answers Call of His Maker," Lexington Leader (Lexington, KY), February 13, 1911, pp. 1, 7.
"Milton Jameson Durham (1824-1911)," Find A Grave, Memorial #15723178, accessed June 23, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15723178/milton-jameson-durham.
"John B. Durham (1854-1854)," Find A Grave, Memorial #40684860, accessed June 23, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40684860/john-b-durham.

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