Denton Geoghegan

Birth Date

1824-04-23

Death Date

1869-11-16

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hardin County, Kentucky, physician. Kentucky native. Member of the Episcopal Church. Brick-mason in Mississippi from 1842 to 1844. Studied medicine in Elizabethtown under one of his brothers, Thomas D. Geoghegan. Graduated from the Louisville Medical College in 1846. Physician in West Point, Kentucky from 1846 to 1854. Physician in Elizabethtown from 1854 to 1869. Owned two enslaved persons in 1860. Household owned an additional seven enslaved persons in 1860.

Samuel Haycraft, A History of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and its Surroundings (Elizabethtown, Ky.: The Woman's Club of Elizabethtown, Ky., 1921 ), 129.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 1, p. 90.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, Elizabethtown District 1, p. 9.

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