Thomas Prather Linthicum

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1807-01-06

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1874-07-30

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"Thomas Prather Linthicum" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00010279, (accessed May 3, 2024).

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Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and politician. Bardstown native. Attended St. Joseph’s College. Married to Elizabeth Malone Linthicum in Shelby County on November 24, 1830. Father of H. Josephine Linthicum. Student and law partner of Ben Hardin. County prosecutor in Nelson County. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1837. County attorney of Nelson County. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1848 to 1851. Owned eleven enslaved persons in 1850. Nelson County commissioner. Judge of the County Court of Nelson County. President of the Louisville and Bardstown Turnpike Association. Attorney in Nelson County in 1860. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in 1860. Household owned an additional three enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860. Deacon of the Bardstown Baptist Church.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 274A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 1
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 173.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 110A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, Film #000259285, p. 973.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 581-82.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1882), p. 645.
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Lineage Book, Washington, DC: NSDAR, 1891-1939, Vol 60: 1906, 264.

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