Joshua A. Penton

Birth Date

c1817

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, merchant. New York native. Married to Catharine A Shrader Penton in Oldham County, Kentucky, on July 8, 1847. Father of John W. Penton, Isabella Penton, Hellena Penton, Kate Penton, Georgiana Penton, and Ida Penton. Farmer in Oldham County, in 1850. Owned a feed store in Louisville in 1860. Member of the convention of the provisional government held at Russellville, Kentucky, in November 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham, Division 1, p. 146A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 4, p. 77
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Oldham County Marriages, Film #000482448.

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