Thomas Rodman

Birth Date

1823-08-10

Death Date

1900-12-21

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Henry County, Kentucky, dry goods merchant and entrepreneur. Henry County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Rodman and Patsy Force Rodman. Married to Sarah E. Thomasson Rodman in 1844. Father of Mary Rodman, James Rodman, Martha Rodman, and Hettie Rodman. Married to Julia Elizabeth Willoughby Rodman. Father of Willoughby Rodman, Henrietta Rodman, and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Rodman. Merchant in Henry County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Henry County in 1850. Founding commissioner of the Henry County Deposit Bank and the Henry County Mutual Insurance Company in 1858. Merchant in Henry County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Henry County in 1860. Merchant in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 1, p. 364A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, New Castle, pp. 242-243.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, New Castle, p. 198A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 151A.
"A Bill to incorporate the Henry County Deposit Bank," Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, Ky.: Kentucky Yeoman Office, Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1859), 252-255.
"An Act to Incorporate the Henry County Mutual Insurance Company," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges, Public Printer, 1858), 351-355.
"Life's Labor Done," _The Frankfort Roundabout (Frankfort, KY), December 22, 1900, p. 6.
Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Embracing Biographies of Many of the Prominent Men and Families of the State (Chicago: John M. Gresham Company, 1896), pp. 44-45.
"Thomas Rodman (1823-1900)," Find A Grave, Memorial 61104974, accessed July 15, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61104974.

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