James Chenoweth
Full Name: James Quilbert Chenoweth
Date of birth: February 9, 1841
Date of death: June 20, 1909
Biographical Notes and Resources top
Biographical Sketches
- CHENOWETH, JAMES Q. (1841-1909).
Handbook of Texas Online.
- Biographical sketch, History of Fannin County, Texas. . . Chenowith was "a democrat of the bourbon school."
HeritageQuest Online.
- Biographical sketch, James Quilbert Chenoweth, "Field Officers of Kentucky CSA Units," p. 286-287. Birth date 2/9/1841 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Kentuckians in Gray, 2008.
- Biographical sketch, James Q. Chenoweth, p. 254.
Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83, 1883.
Military Service Notes
- Confederate States Army, Colonel, 15th Kentucky Cavalry. Military grave marker, James Q. Chenoweth (1834-1909), burial in Spring Hill Cemetery in Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky. Includes portraits, obituary from The Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Find a Grave.
- Confederate States Army. "Appointed colonel, September 6, 1864, and ordered to go behind Union lines in Kentucky and recruit a regiment. Raised Chenoweth's Kentucky Calvary, a unit in Gen. Adam Johnson's partisan brigade, and led this regiment to the end of the war."
Kentuckians in Gray, 2008.
Other Resources
Photographs
- Photograph.
J.Q. Chenoweth, 18th Legislature, State Preservation Board
- Photograph.
J.Q. Chenoweth, 17th Legislature, Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol
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