George Brobston

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c1819

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"George Brobston" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00002506, (accessed December 27, 2024).

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Louisville, Kentucky, plumber and gas fitter. Virginia native. Married to Elizabeth Randall Brobston in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on June 30, 1842. Father of Daniel Brobston, Henry Brobston, Mary Brobston, Annie Brobston, George Brobston, and Louwela Brobston. Married to Emma J. Radway Brobston in Medina County, Ohio, on November 2, 1854. Father of Lizzie Brobston. Glass cutter in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Gas fitter in Louisville in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. Plumber in partnership with Thomas Williams in Williams & Company in Louisville in 1861. Plumber in Louisville in 1863. Plumber in Louisville in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 7, p. 346A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 4, p. 102.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 4, p. 271B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, County, Louisville, District 6, p. 586A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482707, p. 5.
Ohio Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Medina County Marriages, Film 000482707, p. 409.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Jefferson County, KY, July 1863, p. 21.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 42, 264.
Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 225.

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