Samuel Gill

Birth Date

1824-01-30

Death Date

1876-01-18

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and soldier. Kentucky native. Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1844. Veteran of the Mexican-American War. Assistant engineer of Louisville and Frankfort Railroad from 1847 to 1850. Assistant engineer of Lexington and Frankfort Railroad from 1847 to 1850. Superintendent of the Lexington and Frankfort Railroad from 1850 to 1872. Superintendent of the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad from 1855 to 1872. Commissioner of the Military Board of Kentucky from May 24, 1861, to March 15, 1862.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 4th Ward, p. 47.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), vii.
The Centennial of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, vol. II, (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1904), 248, 409.
Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, (Covington, Ky: Collins & Co., 1882), 90-91. "Appendix," Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society vol. 9, no. 26 (1911): 33.
George W. Cullum, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy, 3rd ed., vol. 2 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891), 193. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008972700

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