James G. Birney

ID: 505
This file appears in: James G. Birney Home

This portrait of James Birney was painted by Asa Park around 1820. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: James G. Birney Home

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #36 in Danville, Kentucky, notes the birthplace of abolitionist and nineteenth-century presidential candidate, James Gillespie Birney. Birney was born in Danville in 1792 to a…