William Voltaire Loving

Birth Date

1803-03-22

Death Date

1888-09-08

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bowling Green, Kentucky, attorney, farmer, and politician. Nelson County, Virginia, native. Married to Amanda M. Graham Loving in January 1829. Father of A. Q. Loving, Hector V. Loving, Willie Loving, John A. Loving, and Laura Loving. Attended the University of Virginia. Admitted to the bar in 1829. Elected to the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1840. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1841 to 1844. Commonwealth's attorney for the 6th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1845 to 1849. Circuit judge for the 6th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1849 to 1850. Farmer in Warren County in 1850. Owned twenty-one enslaved persons in Warren County in 1850. Attorney in Bowling Green in 1860. Owned twenty-three enslaved persons in Warren County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 36A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 437.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green, District 1, p. 150.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 439B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green, p. 35A.
M. Secrist, Warren County, Kentucky: History Revealed Through Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Its Ancestors (n.p.: Lulu Press, Inc, 2013).
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati, OH: J. M. Armstrong and Company, 1878), p. 279.
"William Voltaire Loving (1803-1888)," Find A Grave, Memorial #40270159, accessed June 29, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40270159.

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