William Evans Arthur

Birth Date

1825-03-03

Death Date

1897-05-18

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney. Cincinnati, Ohio, native. Son of William Arthur and Eliza Parsons Arthur. Married to Adeliza “Ada” Southgate Arthur in 1855. Father of W. E. Arthur, Jr. Married to Ethalinda Southgate Arthur in 1861. Father of Sidney Arthur and Ada Arthur. Studied law under John White Stevenson and James T. Morehead. Admitted to the bar in 1850. Attorney in Covington in 1850. Commonwealth's attorney for the ninth judicial district of Kentucky from 1856 to 1862. Employed Sarah Gibbers and Mary Kirk as servants in Covington in 1860. Presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of Breckinridge and Lane in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 4, p. 263A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 4, p. 700.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 4, p. 257A.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll 994043: Kenton County Births.
“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. I (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 39.
E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities, vol. II (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), 997-9.
“In Linden Grove,” The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH), May 21, 1897, p. 7.
"William Evans Arthur (1825-1897)," Find A Grave, Memorial 7092733, accessed April 2, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7092733/william-evans-arthur.

KYR-0001-020-1486.
KYR-0001-021-0014.

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