Jacob Hawthorn

Birth Date

1816-05-12

Death Date

1886

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Campbell County, Kentucky, merchant and politician. Virginia native. Son of Robert Hawthorn and Mary Kiger Hawthorn. Married to Mary L. Southgate Hawthorn in 1842. Father of Ann Hawthorn, Virginia Hawthorn, Margaret Hawthorn, Mary Hawthorn, Emily Hawthorn, Richard Hawthorn, Jacob Hawthorn, Sarah Hawthorn, and William Hawthorn. Store clerk in Wheeling, Virginia, from 1826 to 1836. Resident of Kentucky in 1837. Partner with Richard Southgate in the mercantile firm of Southgate, Hawthorn & Co. from 1837 to 1857. Merchant in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1860. Member of the Whig Party. Member of the Republican Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Campbell County from 1862 to 1867.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 36.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 185.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 39.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. I (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 324.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, vo. II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), 111.
"Jacob Kiger Hawthorn (1816-1886)," Find A Grave, Memorial 89027020, accessed July 11, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89027020.

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