Francis B. Trussell

Birth Date

1827-09-29

Death Date

c1906

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Maysville, Kentucky, farmer and mayor. Lewis County, Kentucky native. Son of John Trussell and Rebecca Clancy Trussell. Married Ellen M. Robinson Trussell in 1864. Attended Richland Academy in Mason County, Kentucky. Farmer in Lewis County in 1850. Read law with Harrison Taylor in Maysville. Admitted to the bar in Maysville in September 1858. Mayor of Maysville from 1861 to 1864. Deputy Provost Marshal of the Ninth Congressional District of Kentucky. Commissioner of the Board of Enrollment in Mayesville and Greenup County, Kentucky, in 1865. Member of the Presbyterian Church.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, District No. 2, p. 159A. W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 8th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 996. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 111. KYR-0001-029-0371.

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