William B. Harrison

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c1813

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"William B. Harrison" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00006730, (accessed May 2, 2024).

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Elkton, Kentucky, attorney. Virginia native. Married to Amanda Harrison. Father of Kelly J. Harrison, Laura Harrison, Eugene Harrison, Sarah Harrison, and Robert Harrison. Admitted to the bar in 1838. Attorney in Todd County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned fifteen enslaved persons in Todd County in 1850. Attorney in Elkton, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Todd County in 1860. Member of the convention of the provisional government held at Russellville in November 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 1, p. 233B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 1, p. 147.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, p. 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, p. 340A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 4, p. 5.
H. Charles Ulman, Lawyers’ Record and Official Register of the United States (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1972), p. 538.

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