John L. Smedley

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c1797

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c1883

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"John L. Smedley" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00012478, (accessed April 18, 2024).

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Mercer County, Kentucky, druggist. Pennsylvania native. Married to Martha O. "Patsy" Letcher Smedley in Mercer County, Kentucky on April 27, 1820. Father of Sarah Smedley, Charles Smedley, Elizabeth Smedley, Ann Smedley, Ovie Smedley, William F. Smedley, and Mariana Smedley Kyle. Druggist in Mercer County in 1850. Elected President of the Shelby Railroad Company in Shelbyville, Kentucky on April 8, 1852. Druggist in Mercer County, Kentucky in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1860. Elected Sergeant-at-arms of Kentucky House of Representatives c1861-c1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 369A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 694.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 47A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mercer County Marriages, Film #000191848, p. 724 of microfilm.
"Railroad Convention at Shelbyville,"The Louisville Daily Courier(Louisville, Ky.), April 10, 1852, p. 3.
Courier-Journal(Louisville, Ky.), August 14, 1863, p. 3.
The Frankfort Roundabout(Frankfort, Ky.), September 29, 1883, p. 1.

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