James Gillespie Birney, Jr.

James Gillespie Birney, Jr.

                                                  
Date of birth: Feb. 4, 1792                          
Date of death: Nov. 25, 1857

Birthplace: Danville, Kentucky
Place of death/burial: Perth Amboy, New Jersey / Williamsburg Cemetery, Groveland, New York

Hometown: Danville, KY

Residence: 1814-1818 Danville, KY; 1818-1832 Alabama; 1832-1835 Danville, KY; 1835-1837 Cincinnati, OH; 1837-1841 New York; 1841-1855; 1855-1857 New York

Life Events: 1816-1818 Kentucky House of Representatives
Married Agatha McDowell, Feb. 1, 1816; Married Elizabeth Potts Fitzhugh, 1840.

Education:  Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.; College of New Jersey (Princeton University), graduated 1810;\

Employment:  1814-1818, lawyer, Danville, KY; 1818-1832, lawyer, Alabama
  
Publications: published The Philanthropist, abolitionist weekly publication, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1836-

Letter on colonization, addressed to the Rev. Thornton J. Mills, corresponding secretary of the Kentucky Colonization Society, 1834

Mr. Birney's second letter. To the ministers and elders of the Presbyterian church in Kentucky, 1834

A Collection of valuable documents: being Birney's vindication of abolitionists, 1836

Correspondence, between the Hon. F. H. Elmore, one of the South Carolina delegation in Congress, and James G. Birney, one of the secretaries of the American anti-slavery society, 1838

Examination of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Strader, Gorman and Armstrong vs. Christopher Graham, delivered at its December term, 1850: concluding with an address to the free colored people, advising them to remove to Liberia, 1852

The American churches the bulwarks of American slavery, 1885

Letters of James Gillespie Birney, 1831-1857, 1938

Gender: male
Ethnicity: Caucasian