Richard Taylor Jacob

Birth Date

1825-03-13

Death Date

1903-09-13

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Oldham County, Kentucky, farmer, politician, and soldier. Oldham County native. Son of John J. Jacob and Lucy Donald Robertson Jacob. Married to Sarah Benton Jacob on January 17, 1848. Father of Richard F. Jacob and Elizabeth B. Jacob. Married to Laura Wilson Jacob on June 15, 1865. Studied law under Nathaniel Wolfe in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1845 to 1846. Served in the United States Army as a captain during the U.S.-Mexican War. Farmer in Cooper County, Missouri, in 1850. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Cooper County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Oldham County from 1859 to 1863. Farmer in Oldham County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Oldham County in 1860. Presidential elector for John C. Breckinridge in 1860. Served in the 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from August 22, 1862 to August 21, 1863. Lieutenant governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky under Governor Thomas E. Bramlette from 1863 to 1867. Arrested in Kentucky for discouraging the enlistment of African Americans in the United States Colored Troops in November 1864. Exiled to Richmond, Virginia, from November 1864 to January 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Missouri, Cooper County, District 23, p. 128B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Missouri, Cooper County, District No. 23, p. 542.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, p. 913.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, p. 29.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 249-51.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0097.
Stephen G. Burbridge to Thomas E. Bramlette, November 12, 1864, The War of the Rebellion: A Complication of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 39, Part 3, (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892), 760-1.
Brad Asher, The Most Hated Man in Kentucky: The Lost Cause and the Legacy of Union General Stephen Burbridge (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2021), 116.
Thomas D. Clark, "Richard Taylor Jacob" in in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 462.
John E. Kleber, “Richard Taylor Jacob,” The Encyclopedia of Louisville, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000), 430.

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