George Washington Noel

Birth Date

1810-06-25

Death Date

1888-09

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkins County, Kentucky, physician and postmaster. Madisonville, Kentucky, native. Son of William Noel. Married to Emma Marshall Summers in Kentucky in 1832. Father of Cordelia H. Noel and William T. Noel. Student at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Graduate of the Kentucky School of Medicine in Louisville. Physician in Madisonville from 1837. Postmaster in Madisonville from 1840 to 1842. Physician in Hopkins County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Physician in Hopkins County in 1860. Household owned sixteen enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 168B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 716.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 834.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 221A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 172A.
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 691.

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