William Ambrose Dudley

Birth Date

1824-06-09

Death Date

1870-03-19

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and university trustee. Kentucky native. Son of Benjamin W. Dudley. Married to Mary J. Dudley. Father of Benjamin Dudley Jr., William Dudley, and Mary Dudley. Graduate of Princeton College in 1842. Attorney in Fayette County from c1844 to 1860. President of the Louisville and Lexington Railway Company in 1850. Commissioner to Washington D.C. with Francis K. Hunt in 1861. Appointed quartermaster general of Kentucky on October 3, 1861. Secretary of the board of trustees of Transylvania University in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 192B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 350. Z. F. Smith, The History of Kentucky (Louisville: Courier-Journal Job Printing Company, 1892), 611-612. The Military Department of Kentucky, Military History of Kentucky (Frankfort: The State Journal, 1939), 95. Lexington History Museum, "Lexington and Frankfort Railroad", http://lexhistory.org/wikilex/lexington-frankfort-railroad, (accessed June 13, 2017). Find A Grave, "William Ambrose Dudley (1824-1870)," Memorial #8872034, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8872034 (accessed June 13, 2017). KYR-0001-009-0038.

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