George Canning Drane

Birth Date

1827-11-17

Death Date

1898-01-01

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge. Henry County, Kentucky, native. Son of Edward C. Drane and Judith Dupuy Drane. Married to Mary Shipman Drane in 1861. Father of Paul S. Drane. Graduated from the Law Department of the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1849. Partner with William S. Pryor in the law firm Pryor & Drane in Henry County in 1849. Resident of Henry County in 1850. Attorney in Henry County in 1860. Circuit judge of the Eighth Kentucky Judicial District from 1862 to 1868.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 1, p. 395B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, New Castle, p. 247.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 148B.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Henry County, KY, August, 1863, p. 221.
"Judge Drane Dead," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), January 2, 1898, p. 5.
"Henry County law and government," Henry County Local (New Castle, KY), December 9, 1998, p. 6.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 30-1.

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