William Proctor Mellen

Birth Date

1814

Death Date

1873

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Cincinnati, Ohio, attorney, coal manufacturer, commissioner of deeds, port authority, and treasury agent. Massachusetts native. Father of William S. Mellen. Married to Isabella Mellen. Father of Malcom Mellen and Isabel Mellen. Married to Ellen S. Mellen. Father of Ellen S. Mellen and Charlotte Mellen. Attorney in Floyd County, Kentucky, in 1850. Coal manufacturer in Lawrence County in 1860. Appointed commissioner of deeds for Kentucky in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1861. Port authority in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1861. Treasury agent in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Floyd County, My District, p. 471A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 589.
F. & J. Rivers & George A. Bailey, The Congressional Globe and Appendix, Third Session Forty-First Congress: In Three Parts pt. 2 (Washington DC: Office of the Congressional Globe, 1871), 1026.
Find A Grave, "William Proctor Mellen (1814-1873)," Memorial #78996603, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78996603 (accessed September 25, 2018).
KYR-0001-017-0088.

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