Kentucky Writes: Authors of the Bluegrass State: 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

Gender: male

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Publications:
published The Philanthropist, abolitionist weekly publication, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1836-

A Collection of valuable documents : being Birney's vindication of abolitionists - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 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 - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 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 remo - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 1852

Letter on colonization, addressed to the Rev. Thornton J. Mills, corresponding secretary of the Kentucky Colonization Society - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 1834

Letters of James Gillespie Birney, 1831-1857 - Birney, James G.

Publication Date: 1938

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

Publication Date: 1834