David Short Goodloe

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1811-11-03

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1881-06-02

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"David Short Goodloe" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00000275, (accessed May 3, 2024).

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Lexington, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, soldier, and university trustee. Kentucky, native. Married to Sally A. Clay Goodloe. Father of Speed S. Goodloe, W. Cassius Goodloe, David L. Goodloe, and Green Clay Goodloe. Farmer in Madison County, Kentucky. Deputy sheriff in Madison County, Kentucky under his father. Bookseller in Lexington in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in 1850. Served in the Kentucky State Militia, attaining the rank of major general. China merchant in Lexington in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in 1860. Appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as assessor in 1864. Chairman and member of the Union Executive Committee of Kentucky in 1865. Trustee of Transylvania University in 1865. Member of the Whig Party, Republican Party, and Union Party.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 214A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States _(1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 661.
_Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 596.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, 3rd Ward City of Lexington, p. 458B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 302B.
Find A Grave, "David Short Goodloe (1811-1881)," Memorial 99838034, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99838034 (accessed December 26, 2019).
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Madison County Marriages, 1786-1877, Film #000183302, p. 204.
LeRoy P. Graf, et al., eds., The Papers of Andrew Johnson: February 1866-July 1866, vol. 10 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1967), 434.
Robert Peter, “An Outline Sketch of the Blue Grass Region” in William Henry Perrin, ed., History of Fayette County, Kentucky (Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1882), 609.
“Union State Convention at Frankfort,” The Commonwealth (Frankfort, Ky.), January 6, 1865.
KYR-0002-022-0001.
KYR-0001-009-0038.

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