William Seidner Giltner

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1827-05-18

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1921-12-15

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"William Seidner Giltner" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00004731, (accessed May 5, 2024).

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Henry County, Kentucky, minister, educator, and school administrator. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah E. Raines Giltner. Married to Mary E. Ogdon Duncan Giltner. Father of Annabel Giltner, Elizabeth Giltner, Leigh G. Giltner, William S. Giltner, Jr., and Johnnie Giltner. Graduate of Bethany College in West Virginia. Ordained a Christian minister in 1852. Charter member of the Eminence Independent Order of Odd-Fellows in 1858. Teacher and president of Eminence College from 1858 to 1893.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision No. 1, p. 141.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District of Eminence, p. 17.
Alvin F. Lewis, "History of Higher Education in Kentucky," United States Bureau of Education, Circular of Information No. 3, 1899 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899), 325-327.
“Eminence College,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 293.
"Giltner," The Bourbon News (Paris, Ky.), December 20, 1921.
Find A Grave, "William Sidner Giltner (May 18, 1827-December 15, 1921)," Memorial #28396690, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28396690 (accessed April 18, 2017).

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