Doup, Daniel

Born: 1796-12-25 Hagerstown, Maryland

Died: 1872-09-22 Louisville, Kentucky

Flourished: Jefferson County, Kentucky

Daniel Doup was a War of 1812 veteran and farmer. Doup served as a private in Captain Thomas Quantrill's company of Maryland militia during the War of 1812. After the war, Doup moved to Kentucky, arriving sometime around 1817. In March 1818, he married Lydia Doup, with whom he had two children. Early in his married life Doup lived on a farm near New Albany, Indiana, but about 1820, he returned to Kentucky, purchasing a tract of land known as Strathmore, where he resided for the remainder of his life. In 1850, Doup was farming in Jefferson County, Kentucky, and owned seventeen enslaved persons. By 1860, he owned real property valued at $125,000 and had a personal estate of $25,000. Doup also owned nineteen enslaved persons.

War of 1812 Pension Applications, Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, RG 15, NARA Microfilm Publication M313, 102 rolls, National Archives, Washington, DC; Charles Kerr, ed., History of Kentucky, ed. by William Elsey Connelley and E. M. Coulter (Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1922), 5:628; Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, 22 March 1818, Jefferson County (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2016); U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Jefferson County, KY, 272; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedule, Jefferson County, KY, 974; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Jefferson County, KY, 191; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Jefferson County, KY, 21; Gravestone, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY.