Adam Rankin

Birth Date

1836

Death Date

1901

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Henderson County, Kentucky, court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of William Rankin and Frances Rankin. Resident of Henderson County in 1850. Household owned twelve enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1850. Clerk of the Henderson Circuit Court from 1862 to 1870.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Henderson, District 1, p. 270B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Henderson, Ward 3, p. 12.
William T. Samuels, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, 1866), p. 11.
William T. Samuels, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1867 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, 1867), p. 356.
D. Howard Smith, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1869 (Frankfort, KY: S. I. M. Major, 1869), p. 172.
D. Howard Smith, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1870 (Frankfort, KY: S. I. M. Major, 1871), p. 162.
"Adam Rankin (1836-1901)," Find A Grave, Memorial 70425188, accessed December 14, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70425188.
KYR-0001-029-0511.

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