Samuel Ira Munger Major, Jr.

Birth Date

1830-09-14

Death Date

1886-06-20

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Frankfort, Kentucky, editor and printer. Kentucky native. Married to Mary B. Scott Major in 1862. Law student in Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1850. Editor of The Yeoman newspaper in Frankfort from 1852 to 1886. Public printer for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1857 to 1860. Editor in Frankfort in 1860. Member of the Democratic party.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 72A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 241.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 552.
Carl E. Kramer and William B. Scott, Jr., Capital on the Kentucky (Frankfort, KY: Historic Frankfort, Inc., 1986), 143, 208.
"Samuel Ira Munger Major, Jr. (1830-1886)," Find A Grave, Memorial #69442533, accessed March 23, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69442533.

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